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I I RED CLOUD CfflEI A. O. HOSMEIt, Proprietor. BED CLOUD. - - - NEBRASKA CURRENT COMMENT. The venerable Nelson Dewey, the first Governor of Wisconsin, was re ported lying at the point of death at his home in Cassville. James Beggs, a well known me chanical engineer of New York, com mitted suicide recently. He showed symptoms of insanity. Dubuque, Iowa, was recently in vaded by swarms of Mormon" or sand flies. The insects had possession of the town for several days. Judge Gakdexshire, of the circuit court at Lafayette, Tenn., has charged the grand jury that a man is indicta ble for talking infidelity in public C. P. Huntington and the directors of the Brazil Mail Steamship Company have filed at New York a certificate stating that the (1,000,000 of stock is fully paid. The Chicago Board of Trade has adopted a resolution declaring against the recent decision of the court, but resolving to restore the market quota tions withdrawn May 31. The New York Graphic says that the National Democratic Committee still owes over $200,000 for campaign expenses, and that Messrs. Brice. Gor man and Scott have made up $120,000 of that sum. Chairman Abbott, of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., emphatically denied that his firm had reduced the price of steel plates $6 a ton or made any other cut whatever in the selling price of their products. The Cologne Gazette publishes a dispatch from St. Petersburg stating that the Czar has expressed the inten tion of meeting Emperor William on the German frontier. Tho Czar is averse to going to Berlin. Anita and Miriam Boggs, maiden sisters living in Jackson County, Va., committed suicide the other day by taking arsenic. They left a letter signed jointly saying that there was nothing in life for old maids and that they were tired of it. They were in fair circumstances, but had no rela tives living. The Civil-Service Commission has submitted its report in the case of Postmaster Blair, of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) post-office, who, it was charged, exacted political favors from his subordinates. The Commission finds the. charges not sustained and says that it had no authority to ex amine witnesses and make a thorough examination. TnE Massachusetts State police, on board the .steamer Nellie, recently overhauled the steamers Asterral and Sea Comet, 'of Newport, R. I., whose crews were fishing near West Island, in violation of Massachusetts law. The crews, numbering twenty-nine men, were arrested. The penalty is confiscation of the vessels and $200 fine for each man. Joe Friedman was grinding sausage at his meat market in Carbon, Wy. T., the other day, when William Miller, an employe of a rival establishment, entered. The visitor hinted that de ceased canine entered largely into the mixture. Friedman became crazy mad at once and without any warning rushed upon Miller, and with both hands sank a cleaver into his skull. TnE board of review and equaliza tion, of Minneapolis, Minn., came to the conclusion at a recent session that under the decision of Judge Seagrave Smith they could not assess tho wheat in store in the elevators. Under this decision, which was delivered in tne Eugene Wilson case, it was necessary for them to locate the 'ownership of the wheat on May 1. This they could not da The following is a statement of total pross postal receipts in tho chief West ern cities for the quarter ended June 30, 1889: Chicago, $696,623; St. Louis. $255,139; Cincinnati. $190,740; San Francisco. $169,672; Pittsburgh, $121, 638; Cleveland, $104,133; Detroit, $90. 743; Kansas City. $98,805; New Orleans. $86,123; Milwaukee, $87,043; Minneap olis, $73,065; St. Paul, $73,298; Louis ville. $72,060; Indianapolis, $49,749; Toledo. $36,547. The total of thirty leading cities in which the above are included are $5,402,706, and the aver age rate per cent, of increase over the tame quarter of 1888 is 8.5. A delegation of Creek Indians re ently called on Secretary Noble and argued for a per capita payment among the Creeks from their fund of a'aout $3,000,000 to meet the present needs of their people, who now num ber about 14,000. The Secretary ex pressed himself as favoring the pay ment provided it could be done by executive authority, but said "it was doubtful whether .any portion. of the principal eould be so paid without legislative action. The delegation, antkipatiag a decision that legisla tive action would be necessary, asked the Secretary for such indorsement as would enable tbem to borrow the money from capitalists, pending such action. This proposition, however, did not meet with the Secretary's approval. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gleaned by Telegraph and Matt. PERSONAL AND FOUTICAC Judge Tyneb, formerly Postmaster General and now Assistant Attorney-General of tba Post-office Department, was re ported critically ill with congestion of the liver. Br some hocus pocus or another New port, Ky., finds itself with four mayors. Miss Anna Kellt. daughter of Anthony Kelly, and James F. Blaine, of St. Paul, nephew of J. G. Blaine, were married at the Immaculate Conception Church at Minneapolis, Miaiu, recently. John L. Stone has been nominated by the Democrats for Governor of Missis sippi. Charles H. Bollman. of the National Fish Commission, died recently in the swamps of Southern Georgia while at work for the Government. Tns captain of the steamer Caroline Miller, which arrived at New York recent ly, declared that when he left all was quiet in Northern HaytL He denied that Legitime had enlisted female troops. A crank recently shot at the Emperor of Brazil at Bio de Janeiro without effect. The New York Express states that Archbishop Corrigan has been summoned to Rome to give an account of his admin istration of the New York diocese. The report of the Civil-Service Com mission on Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee, Wis., recommends his removal. Secretary Noble has issaed a peremp tory order to the agent at the Quapaw In dian agency in the northeastern part of the Territory to immediately remove from the reservation all the cattle unlawfully herded thereon. The Prohibitionists of Virginia have nominated a full State ticket, headed by Thomas E. Taylor, of Loudon County. The Egyptian Government has notified the French Government that the tatter's refusal to accept the conversion scheme will cost Egypt 200.000 yearly. The anniversary of the death of ex President Juarez was celebrated through out Mexico on the, 18ta by imposing dem onstrations of the Liberal party. In the capital there was an immense procession and considerable excitement among the people. A bitter factional feeling pre vailed and yells, "Death to Conservatism" and "Death to the clergy," were heard everywhere. There was no serious dis order. The Government printing office will is sue a publication entitled "State Papers of Grover Cleveland." edited by Lamont. It will consist of nil Cleveland's messages to Congress, vetoes and otherwise. Mas John A. Logan returned from Eu rope recently on the steamer Trave. M. Rouvier, the French Minister of Finance, has dismissed five treasurers general (collectors of inland revenue) for being active members of tho Boulaugerist party. The Tory candidate was elected in Marylebone, London, on the 19:n, receiv ing 2.570 votes to his opponent's 2.0S& R. G. Horr, of Michigan, has declined his appointment as Consul to Valparaiso, Chili. Ma. Parnell addressed 30.000 of his fol lowers at Edinburgh, on the 19th, and was received with great enthusiasm. East Guthrie. Ok- bad its first election on the lA.b, C38 votes being registered. T. H. Stockslager was elected mayor. Rumors were prevalent in Europe that the widow of the late Emperor William of Germany had joined the Catbolio Church. A Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says that the Government is disputing with-France the possession of Great Inagua, an island near Hayti. MISCELLANEOUS. The Bush House at Fresno, CaL, was burned the other morning. Several peo ple were seriously burned, but no lives were lost The stables were burned in cluding a number of horses. The loss was estimated at $40,000. Serious difficulties continue to be re ported from several towns in Oklahoma, caused by lot jumping, ejectments and ef forts to change the local governments. The troubles have their origin in the doubt prevalent that the authorities have no legality for any of their acts in fact, that there is no legal government for the Territory except the coercion of Federal troops. The demands of the engineers of the Pittsburgh & Western railroad for an ad vance in wages were acceded to and the threatened strike was abandoned. Shellrock, Iowa, has been destroyed by fire. A wins area of country in Prince George County, Va sunk the other day, creating much alarm. A lake formed, and as no stream existed in the vicinity, the sub sidence was credited to the action of a subterranean river. An epidemic of typhoid fever is re ported at Path Valley, near Chambers burg, Pa. The three-year-old child of Italian steamboat passengers and Henry Shelton, colored, who tried to save it, were drowned near Paducah, Ky.. recently. The great Illinois Steel Company has decided to go into the building of steel vessels for the lake commerce. The first seven clause of the Grace British bondholders' contract with Peru have been approved by the Chamber of Deputies of that country and the accept ance of the entire contract is now thought to be assured. Two men were killed and several fatally or seriously injured by an accident on the Lehigh Valley road near Shamokin. Fa., recently. Two runaway cars collding with a passenger train was the cause. Fifteen persons were more or less in jured by an accident on the Cairo & Vin cennes road near Mount Carmel. III., re cently. The train was demolished. A car jumping the track caused the accident. The Chicago Herald recently published a report that the Chicago & Alton rail road was in the market for sale and that it would probably pass into the bands of the Missouri Pacific or the Northwestern. The stable of the Lowell (Mass ) Horse Railroad Company was burned the other night with 120 horses. Thirty cars ana other contents were destroyed, The Hotel Belmont was damaged. The loss was $100,000. McDougall's clgar.shaped boat baa been launched at Dulutb, Mian. It will carry 100,000 bushels of grain. Fire in Columbus, O., the other morn ing did $75,000 damage to the Breyfogla building and the stock of occupant. Three firemen were injured. The rumor that Jay Gould was prepar ing to buy the Chicago & Alton was de clared to be a Wall street fake. The New York Times recently pub lished the outline of a scheme to consoli date on an immense scale several trunk railroad lines with a capital of $700,000. 000. The objective point woald be Boston, which the promoters iateaded to make the great metropolis of the contiaeat wita steamship liae eta A white convict named Wells, working on the railroad near Paris, Ky., was shot by a guard the other day while trying to escape. The Irish team won the Elcho challenge shield at Wimbledon with a score of l,fc9; the English, 1.684; Scotch. 1.626. The coal heavers of Superior, Wis., struck recently for fifty cents an hour, on which they were beaten in the spring. The Wabash railway car shops at But ler, lad., were destroyed by fire recently with several cars. Loss, $100,000. John Fitzpatrick, referee; Bud Renaud and Pat Duffy, managers of the excursion to the prize fight; E. B. Rich, owner of the fighting ground and Kilrain's host; J. W. Smith, Rich's clerk, who enter tained Sullivan before the fight; D. A. Gilbert, the bead carpenter; W. B. Gilbert, sawyer at the Rich mills, were arraigned at Purvis, Mint- on the 18th for participa tion in the late prize fight. A secret ballot was taken among the miner 3 of the Brazil (Ind.) region recently to determine whether they should resume work at the operators' terms. The prop osition was defeated. Two hundred houses were destroyed by fire at Constantinople the other day. Da.McDow, the slayer of Captain Daw son, at Charleston, 8. C, has been ex pelled from the South Carolina Medical Society. The Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin will demand $123,000 annuities and back dues which the Government owes them. Three men were killed by the bursting of a boiler at Stone's planing mill, Chi cago. The building was blown to atoms. Postmaster Grat, of Givin, Ala, was shot and killed recently by Burrows, the train robber, for sending to the dead let ter office a mask which Burrows claimed. At Denver. CoL, on the 18th warrants were issued for the arrest of Secretary of State Rice, Sheriff Webber and his part ner in the furniture firm of Graham & Webber, and Lawrence & Co., who sup plied the Assembly.and the State Printers, Collier & Co. all charged with conspiracy to defraud the State. Arsenic was placed in the food of tho four children of Joseph Hulter, a planter living near Star City. Ark., recently and three of them died. The criminal and his motive were unknown. CHURCniLL's mill at Alpena. Mich., was burned recently. The loss was $120,000; insurance, $30,000. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended July 18 numbered 208, compared with 205 the previous week and 228 the corresponding week last year. It was reported at New York on the 19th thatClaus Spreckles was in with the sugar trust. It was believed that the market was cornered and that a grand coup was meditated. A man supposed to be Jack the Ripper was arrested in the Whitechapel district on the morning of tho 20th. He had just killed a woman and bad the knife on his person with which he had committed the deed. The Little Kanawha valley in West Virginia was swept by a cloudburst on the night of the ISth. At Norristown several lives were lost. Charles F. Coleman, treasurer of Warren County, O., has been arrested, charged with einbezzlemen'. The National Educational Association adjourned at Nashville, Tenn., on the 19th to meet next year in St. Paul. Two Indians, White Horse and Black Eagle, were killed by lightning recently in their tepee at Standing Rock Agency, Dak. Pearce & Rtan, wholesale liquor deal ers, of Nashville. Tenn., have assigned. Liabilities $103,09; assets, $133,149. Chairman Walker, of the Inter-State Commerce 'Railway Association, has is sued a new decision restoring rates on bullion and ore from Pueblo and Denver to Missouri river points to the former basis of $5 and $4 respectively. McQuade. on trial for boodleism in the Broadway, New York, combine, has been acquitted. Judge Longenecker says that much valuable evidence against the men in dicted for the Cronin murder had been secured since the last grand jury. The new grand jury will not touch the case. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHER. KXL.a oacubs, colored, of Washington was drowned at Beach Havon, N. J., re cently while bathing. Mrs. Hogan, wife of the missing aero naut, believes her husband was drowned. The Washington Sunday Herald again reiterates tbe story that Blaine will retire from the Cabinet and says its Informa tion comes from the best authority, and fixes tbe date of bis resignation as Octo ber 1, so as to give tho President time to select a successor before the extra session of Congress. Clearing house returns for tbe week ended July 20 showed an average increase of 12.3 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the in crease was 13.5. The excursion steamer St Nicholas struck the Tybee railway bridge on the Savannah river on the night of the 20th Two men were killed and a woman was drowned. Many were injured, several fatally. A. L. Mohler. assistant general man ager of the Manitoba railway, predicts that the country tributary to the Mani toba lines will furnish for shipment at least 32,000,000 bushefs of wheat Secretary Ppoctor has been ap proached by several persons requesting him to take soaio action in the matter of Captain Arme?' accepting a gold medal sent by bis Pennsylvania admirers for pulling the nose of General Beaver. Tho Secretary has concluded not to interfere in the matter, over which he has no con trol. The register and receiver of the land office have decided tbe first claim contest in Oklahoma, finding that as all three contestants had violated the law relating to homesteaders, neither was entitled to the land. One was Deputy Marshal White, who was on the ground at noon in an official capacity, the second was a Santa Fe employe and the third was in the Chickasaw Nation at noon. The freedom of the city of Edinburgh was conferred upon Mr. Parnell on tbe 20th. A general strike Is threatened in the British lace trade. Count Julius Andrasst. formerly Im perial Prime Minister of Austria, is dead. Business was inactive on the London Exchange daring the week ended July SO. American and Canadian railroad securi ties were firm. Tbe German bourses were steady and prices were firm at Paris. The Havana sugar market was quiet The board of directors of the North Carolina insane asylum acquitted Dr. Grisson of the charges of immorality aad misappropriation of supplies. The reported arrest of Jack the Ripper far London turned out to be falsa Michael McGratr, and his wife, aa aged coaple, perished ia their burning dwelling: near Frackville, Pa, the other night The house was remote from aaj other aad help could not arrive ia time for the rescae of the inmates. ! NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. M. G. Maupen, a squaw man and des perado, was recently arrested at Spring view and jailed for many crimes commit ted in that vicinity. Tlio news of his ar rest soon spread, and at night a mob as sembled, broke into the jail and shot Maupin to death. His body was com pletely riddled with bullets. A storm on the 13th was unusually se vere and destructive in various parts of the State. At Loup City tbe rainfall was very heavy and the wind did considerable damage. In the vicinity of Palmer con siderable damage was done by hail and win d. At Greely Cen ter the rain was very heavy. Crops were damaged in tbe vi cinity of Clarks and the residence of R. R. Douglass struck by lightning. Two itiches of water fell at Platte Center and crops were damaged. At Oceola it was the worst storm of the season. AtOgal lata the wind was very heavy and a young man and ssveral horses were killed by lightning. At Ainsworth a number of buildings were struck by lightning. At Nebraska City it was "almost a cyclone" and much injury was done to buildings,and at Chapman lightning struck the house of Oscar May. killing his little daughter, who was in bed at the time. Ox a farm near Aurora the other day William Barrett was shot and killed by Henry Thornhill. a tough character. Thornhill was evidently a favorite of Mrs. Barrett and when the husband returned home and found bis wife and Thornhill making too free with his house he was naturally indignant A quarrel and the murder was the result It was with diffi culty that tbe people could be kept from lynching the murderer. It is stated that the Attorney-General has ordered tbe prosecution of John Calhoun, late deputy collector at Omaha, upon the charge of criminal embezzlement The special agent's report showed that for months prior to the turning over ot the collector's office to Mr. Peters, the deputy coll eel or had been systematically pocket ing money forwarded for stamps, making no returns for the same. The amount of tho defalcation so far as footed up amounts to between $0,000 and $7,000. Collector Calhoun raadegood to the Government ihi amount of his son's defalcation, but it was said this would not save him from prose cution. A valuable watch was accidentally dropped into an old water closet vault at Lincoln the other day and workmen were employed to dig a pit adjacent in order to drain it off and secure the watch. The work had progressed nearly to completion when the pick broke into an old unkuown sewer. A volume of sewer gas rushed out into tho face of tho workman who was nearest, and ho was overcome almost at once. A companion sprang to bis assist ance and was quickly overcome by the fatal gus. Others followed until seven in all were affected, and four of them died from tho effects of tbe gas. The victims were Frank Maloney, A. Kinsley, John Cleary and James Crawford. The two latter left families. The recent discovery of -several cases of small-pox in Dodge County created much excitement "Kid" Hawkins, the gambler who killed Frank Fnusler at Hastings but was acquit ted on a technicality, has been warned by letter to leave tbe city. The roller mills at Fullerton were com pletely wrecked bv tbe recent storm, the loss being about $15,000. During a late heavy rain and thunder storm at Cbapman the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar May was struck by lightning while in bed and killed. A little brother, three years old, lay in the same bed and was unharmed. While the storm was in progress Mrs. May went into the chamber where tbe children were, and supposing tbem asleep did not discover tbe little girl's death until morn ing. The barn of Jared Harriet a farmer re siding near Harvard, was recently struck by lightning and destroyed, together with seven bead of horsos. Loss, $1,700. Dur ing the same storm the farm buildings of Robert Patterson, near Crete, were struck and bis house, barn, crib and 1,500 bushels of corn destroyed. Imperial suffered from its first fire the other morning, the store of Thomas Mer cer being destroyed, entailing a loss of $0,500. The records of the county judge and sheriff were in tbe building and were lost William Carson, colored, recently con victed of muriler in tbe first degree for killing Chauncey Wert, white, at a dance in Beatrice on May 1, was taken into court the other day and sentenced to be banged on November 1. His attorneys filed a motion for a stay of execution, and will appeal to tho Supreme Court The dead body of an unknown man was found in the bushes near tbe railroad track a mile east or Grafton about two o'clock the other afternoon. There was a bullet hole in the side of his head, and the indications were be bad committed sui cide. There were no papers on tbe body by which he could bo identified. Mrs. John E. Gordon, of Grant town ship, Cuming County, has tried her band at silk culture with a large degree of suc cess. She has 10,000 cocoons ready for shipment as the result of her season's work. According to tbe Atkinson Graphic a wild animal of some kind, that has been described as about the size of a large wolf, with head and tail like a cat has lately ben worrying tbe folks down in Green Valley township, Holt County. Not long ago a boy was attacked and se verely bitten by tbe animal, while several person, who were unarmed, have been chased and had narrow escapes from its terrible claws and teeth. The monster has been shot at several times, but with no apparent effect The supervisors of Seward County have offered a reward of $500 each for the ar rest and conviction of tbe murderers of the Leavitt children. It is said that a Hastings man lost some money on the defeat of Jake Kilrain and has become crazy in apnsequence. The trustees of thoFlattsmouth Presby terian Church have adopted plans for a new structure to cost $15,000. Nineteen cars of the finest cattle ever fed in Saline County were shipped from Dorchester tbe other day. They averaged about 1,500 pounds per head. The report wa recently current that Jeff Wagner, a wealthy young cattleman, had been lynched by vigilantes ia North western Nebraska. Atr eight-year-old son of Frank Lacia,of Covington, while playing near tbe rail road track at that place tbe other day, was struck by an engine aad fatally in jured. F. P. Alexander, of Tecamsen, has a saddle which has beea ia his family 103 years aad is still ia active ase, the only thing new about it being a girth. H. W. Shelton, aa old soldier residing three miles from PlatUmoatb, died re cently while sitting ia his chair,-or heart failure. He leaves a wife aad large fam ily of children, j RIVER DISASTER. An Excursion Steamer Strikes I Bridge on the Savannah. Rivor. Several Persons Killed and Inju Worse Iteport From the Ksnanhs Valley llnroting of Another Dam Etc. Charleston, S. C, July 22 Informa tion has reached here of the partial de struction of the excursion steamer St. Nicholas Saturday night on tbe Savannah river, killing several persons and serious ly injuring many others. The St Nicho las was carrying five hundred colored passenger., and when passing the Tybee railway bridge the beat was driven by the curreut against the bridge with great force. The forward deck was crushed and torn to splin ters. Two men were killed instantly and thirty other persons were seriously wounded. A panic ensued anion ir those on board and a scene of wild excitement followed. During the confusion several persons were knocked overboard and one woman was drowned. Several of the persons injured wilt die. The coroner's jury holds tbe railroad company responsi ble for tbe disaster as tbe draw had not been raised and there was no signal dis played as required by law. THE KANAWHA VALI.ET. Parkersruro, W. Va., July 22. News has been received from all parts of Wood and Wirt Counties and the afil-ction proves to be far worse than was at first dreamed of. Tbe county commissioners estimate that tbe loss ia this county alone will reach $500,000. A telephone message from Elizabeth says that the village of Norristown is entirely destroyed. Eight dwelling houses, two stores, the Bapti-t Church, the to bacco packing house and other buildings are gone. Seven lives were lost on Tucker creek. They are: Orville Vest wife and two children; John Daily, Roy Kiger, bis wife, and one unknown person. Urville nest, whose fnmny were drowned, made a heroic effort to savo them. He floated with them four miles down Tucker croek trying to get them to shore, but they were carried away from him. James Roberts, whose mother was drowned, tried to save her by carrying her from a llonting houe to shore, but bo fell and she was swept away. Ho had al readv saved two small children. Navieation will be suspended for a good while, becnu-o of the break in lock No. 1 on Little Kanawha, and up the river peo ple will have no communication with the outside world. The following is a complete list of the drowned so far as known, though it is thought that tbe death list will be much larger when the districts now cut off from tbe outside world are heard from: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Black, Mrs. Thomas Hughes and four children, EdBcz, Mrs. Isaac Rob-rts, Mrs. Orville West and two children, John Bailey, Roy Kiger, Mrs. Roy KigT, Mrs. Isaac Tucker and a niaa whose name can not be ascertained. A DAK HURSTS. Lancaster, O., July 22. One of the most disastrous storms ever known in Hocking valley culminated yesterday in the breaking of Sharp's dam at Sugar Grove, on the Hocking canal, which held in store a large body of water that sap plied the lower levels of the cannL The heavy rains had tilled the reservoir to the banks, when suddenly tbe dam gave way and with a mighty roar tho sea of water went out through tbe valley, taking with it every movable object For twenty miles the soil was plowed up and trees, fences, crops and hundreds of head of live stock were swept away. No lives were lost because the people hat taken warning and because the bouses are situated on the bluffs that overlook the valley. But the canal for miles is a wreck, and thousands of feet of railroad track are washed away. Roads and bridges are annihilated, aad the whole valley for miles looks like a dry wafer course. Competent judges place the loss in the hundreds of thousands. two victims or foul air. Horart, lnd July i2. About seven o'clock yesterday morning on the farm of Henry Hermann, about three miles west of here, a farm band descended into a well to take out some meat which had fallen in, but was overcome by foul arr and fell in tbe water. Michael Hefner, a neighbor who was present, descended on a rope to help him out and he was over come and fell to the bottom of tbe well, which was forty-two feet deep. Tbe bodies were not taken out until two o'clock in the afternoon. a steamship's warm voyage. New York, July 21. The steamship Hawkhurst, Captain Robinson, arrive here yesterday from a Brazilian port. On her outward trip from New York she had a terrible experience. Her cargo, consist ing of 200 barrels of oil and a quantity of tow, caught fire and her crew tried to de sert The captain, however, compelled them to remain on the vessel and success fully made the run of 2,330 miles with the fire smoldering in ber hold. The Emperor of Brazil presented the captain with a number of tokens of his esteem because cf bis bravery. HORRIBLE DEATH OF A TRAVELER. Hartford. Conn., July 2i At South ington last night Charles Degnan tried to board a freight train while in raotio:i. but his feet caught in the step of the caboose and he fell backward, his foot wedging so as to hold him. and he was dragged in this way a quarter of a mile before he was dis covered. His head was mashed to a jelly, one arm torn to shreds and brains and blood spattered along the track for a con siderable distance. m Earthquake ia Trauma. Memphis. Tenn.. July 2L AtC:32 o'clock Friday evening a slight shock of earth quake rattled crockery and glassware on shelves. Two severe shocks were felt at Covington, Tenn.. thirty-five miles north of Memphis, each shock lasting several seconds. The wildest confusion prevailed. Houses were abandoned and the streets filled with frightened people. A third but lighter shock was felt there about 7:15. m Boalanger's Latest Boulaaxer. London, July 2L General Boulsnier has Usned a manifesto in which he de clares that the law against multiple can didates in France is a blow against uni versal suffrage. The measure, however, he says, will not prevent tbe nation mak ing known its sovereign wilL He contin ues: "As a protest against this odious violation of law the national committee has decided that I shall present myself as' candidate for the Councils-General ia eighty cantons. The verdict of the 'peo ple of those cantons will be the prelude te the grander rriampa that is near at hand. Before pag the 'gang that now dishonors the country will be pitilessly put away aad iateraal peace restored." THE TRUST ANACONDA. Less Swectues ami .lliiro Money t Ite Squeezed Out r Sutrar A Combine to Advatioe the lrice of .Halt. New York. July 20. A belief that the vast quantities of refined sugar that liavo been piled up in the big storage w.ire houes along the Brooklyn wuter front daring the past two years has been cor raled with the view of a sipioeze bv the managers of the sugar trust has found many supporters in financial circle. Though for some time past the piling up of the commodity was generally known, it was supposed to be owing to a scarcity of room in the refining buildings. Tiie Haveraeyer & Elder. Huvemeyer & Mathieson and AVecber companies the apparent controlling spirits of the trusty wert the most extuiiMve storers. ' On the Stock Exchange the opinion pre vailed that tbe trust had been engineering a corner in sugar and that ere long the price of the refined articlo would bo sent ap like a rocket The wholesale grocery houses and other consumers of tbe article in this city evidently anticipated this movement on tbe part of the trust, and for months past every available inch of storeroom in tho big grocery homes on the West side has been utilized for storing sugar, and many ot the public ware houses heretofore at this season of the year filled with the winter supply of canned goods have been engaged by the wholesalers for sugar storage. - On the other hand Wall street sugar brokers those who will talk on the sub ject hold that the trust has stored the sugar because there is no market for it. The prices have struck bottom and refin ers can realize no profit on their manu facture. It has been suggested that possibly the sugar has been accumulated to undermine Claus Sprockets when he got his Philadel phia beet proiuct refinery in operation; that it was the intention to swamp the market with tbe genuine article at a low price as soon as Spreckels should turn out his first cargo. In answer to this theory a member ot one of the most prominent sugar concerns in Wall street, but with no affiliations with the trustr said: "Whatever the object ot storini; this sugar is it is liuost certain that Spreckels has a hand in it. His alleged enmity to tho sugar trust is all moon shine. No one on the inside supposes tor an instant that ho is going to fight a corporation with .'0,000.000. He is with tho trust hand and glove. Ho's too smart a business man to fi;;lit ngainst it." THE SALT TKl'ST. Alrant. N. Y.. Julv 21. The North American Salt Company tiled articles ol incorporation in tho Secrotary of State'. ofiice yesterday. Franklin AVoodruU". Horace K. Thurbor. W. A. Hazard and Charles F. Burger, are the incorporator-., with a capital of jJII.OOO.COO, divided intc 275,000 shares of -'a esc'i. They state that they are to manufacture and jell salt and its products The principal part of their business will be in War saw, N. Y., but they will also carry on th'ir business in the following places. Meigs anil Tuscarawas Counties, Ohio; Mason County, W. Va. ; Reno and Rice Counties. Tex; St Clair, Huron, Saginaw, Bay and Iosco Counties, Mich. The following thirteen trustees, who shall man ace the concerns of the company for the first year, are named: Wellington Burt, Franklin AVoodruff. H. K. Thurber, William A. Hazard. John Canfield, Wil liam S. Conkliiu Albert Boardman, Jay Morton. Richard L. Wilson, Henry W. Cannon. Charles F. Burner. Right Hon. Lord Thurlow and Joseph Verdin. A FURIOUS FLOOD. Destruction In the Little Kanawha Valley f Live Lost at Nurristown. IV. Va. Parkersburg. W. Vo., July 20. The greatest disaster which has ever befallen the little Kanawha valley came Thursday night in tho shupe of a terrible cloudburst which completely flooded the country, de stroying many lives, carrying otf thou sands of dollars in property and ruining crops for miles. The deluge fell here about dusk and con tinued to fall in torrents, doing much damage in the city. The worst of the storm struck the lower side of tho Kan awha, filling the small tributaries from bank to bank and ending in th-j worst flood in the recollection of the oldest in habitants. Ia three hoars tbe Kanawha rose six feet and ran out with such veloc ity that it carried every thing before it At this point thousands of logs and a number of boats went out or were sunk, and Mrs. Isaac Tucker, Martin Lawless and an unknown man were drowned. Above the destruction was still greater. Hig Tygart valley is ruined. A big mill near its mouth went out and took Tygart bridge with it Fences and crops and much live stock were lost. At Est-rville. fifteen miles above, half a dozen residences were carried off bodily and left in corn fields. In Clay the fine church and three dwell ings were wrecked. Several steamers on the rivor were wrecked. Tbe worst story of all comes from Nor ristown, a small village near th head of Tacker creek, where the cloudburst con centrated, coming down about midnight and totally destroying it with many of its people. The first report fixed the loss at eleven, but later news seems to fix tbe loss at a greater number. Houses are said to bave been picked up and hurled against each other in such short space of time that no chance ot escape was given tbe people. Among thoso dead at Norristown are: Jake Kiger, his brothers. Joseph and Thomas, a man named Bailey, UrrviIIe Wet nnd child. At Pill Brush all the bridges and cul verts are washed away and it is impos sible to reach or communicate with that point or any other upon the upper wat-rs. It is impossible now to enumerate the loss even here, as the river is still rising. A family boat containing three or four ier sons went out during tbe night and it is believed all are lost War oa President Corbin. Reading, Pa July 20. The Trade and Labor Council has declared war on Presi dent Corbin, of the Reading Company, on account of his recent order excluding members of labor organizations from em ployment The council appeal to all la bor organizations to fisbt the company. m RaclflC to Chicago. Kansas Citt, Ma, July 20. The r.ew rate schedules of the Western Freight As sociation and Chicago & Alton railway, reducing the rate oa cattle from this point to Chicago to 22 cents a hundred pounds, weatiate effect at twelve o'cok Tharsday night At just 12:01 o'clock the employes at the stock yards began leading the first cattle that were to be shipped under the" new rates. There were seveaty carloais in a II, divided among the Chicago, MHwaube- & St Paal, 8aata Fe, Haaaibal & St. Joseph, Chicago Alton aad Wabash railroads. The trains started were all racing bard to saake the Saturday mora tag awrket at Chicago. 4 A aMmnMeaaMOMtMasTrarasagUEK 5af