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hsmmewsMSSMasuSM ygyqj.Wawwgsag "-3UoXjevcm t.'aiM i I RED CLOUD CHIEI A. C HOSMCII, Proprietor. RET CLOUD. - NEBRASKA. CURRENT COMMENT. It is reported from Berne, Switzer land, that Germany has revoked the recognition of Swiss neutrality. Fkost visited the low grounds about Galena, 111., on the morning of the 1st and damaged growing vegetation. Information from Vienna is to the effect that a secret treaty has been agreed to between Russia and Den mark. King Humbert suddenly closed the Italian Chamber on the 2d. This act -was believed to be the prelude to a general election. Articles of incorporation for a new air line road from Fort Wayne, Ind., to Chicago have been filed with the Indianapolis Secretary of State. The Royal Grants bill has passed the committee stage in the British House of Commons, all amendments being rejected by large majorities. 1hb lead mines in Nuevo Leon. Mexico, are shutting down, owing to the imposition by the United States Government of duties on lead ores. An order has been issued making men forty years old ineligible as letter carriers in non-civil-service towns. This limit does not apply to war -veterans. The President has turned over the papers applying for a pardon for E. L. Harper, who wrecked the Fidelity Bank, of Cincinnati, to the Attorney General for examination. Two children belonging to the wife of one of the locked-out miners died at Spring Valley, IH-, .the other day. The physician who attended them pro nounced it a clear case of starvation. It is reported that a syndicate of arealthy men, most of them Chicago ans, are making preparations to pipe natural gas from Indiana, where they have secured 60,000 acres of land, to Chicago. The customs authorities at Mont real, Can., have placed a seizure on the painting, "Jerusalem on the Day of the CruciGxion." on exhibition at the Cyclorama. The picture is valued at $25,000. The British Columbia River Gold Dredging Company has been registered in London with a capital of 40,000. in order to purchase Gibson's right to dredge for gold in forty-five miles of Frazer river. An American company is preparing to open extensive iron mines in the island of Cuba and is certain that they will be a grand success. The scheme includes a harbor and a breakwater near the mines. The Bancroft mills at Media. Pa., whoso product was handled by Lewis Bros. & Co., the bankrupt dry goods merchants of Philadelphia, have boon seized by the sheriff and advertised to be sold at auction. The work of tearing down the old State House at New Haven. Conn., commenced recently. About 5,000 per sons witnessed the demolition, many of whom expressed regrets at the dis appearance of so interesting a land mark. Consul-general Cardwell, of Cairo, Egypt, warns the State Depart ment that an extensive trade in Egyp tian rags with the United States is Tendered particularly dangerous by the prevalence of small-pox in Lower Egypt. Seneca Sevalin. who caused Mrs. Clara Belle McDonald's divorce from her husband, the son of the president of the Pacific Bank of San Francisco, and then robbed her of 120.000, has been sent to the California peniten tiary for ten years. The report that Queen Victoria was considering a trip to America has neither been denied nor affirmed. The fact that he Queen now is inclined toward visiting Ireland and that the rumored trip to America has not been denied, is creating much talk through out the Kingdom. However, nothing has been yet announced. There were two peculiar runaway -weddings celebrated at Chattanooga, Tenn., the other day. One of them was the marriage of William Lecroix, aged seventy-six years, and Louisa Bluck, only fourteen yeans old. In the other case the couple were Jackson Slevins, aged sixty-five, and Emma Haynes. sixteen years of age. They had never met until the day previous. All the parties were members of well known and highly respected families. The State Department is in receipt of an exhaustive report on Russian agriculture and the cereal trade from Charltoa H. Way. United States Consul-General at St Petersburg. He says the export of cereals from Russia . in the past two years shows an ab normal increase, due to three causes first, the enormous crop gathered from both the black lands aad arable prairies; second, $he depreciation of the paper rouble; and, third, the foolish practice of systems of "cor era" in the UnitedState& NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gleaned by Telegraph aad IfsJL PERSONAL AND FOLTTICAL. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs bas received a report fromlfalachl Krebs, .especial ageat of the laterior Depart ment to allot lands ia severalty to the In dians upon the Devil's lake reservation in Northern Dakota, announcing the refusal of the Indiana to receive the allotments as contemplated ia the General Allotment act of 1887. Governor Francis, of St Louie, re cently denied emphatically that he went to New York for the pnrpose of selling the Merchants' bridge to Jay Gould. Thk President has designated General McFeelytoact as Secretary of War dar ing the absence of Secretary Proctor. General Schoiield bas directed the commander of the division of the Pacific to take such action as may be necessary to protect settlers sear Calispeld, Wash ington Territory, from the Indian oat break threatened there. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, baa honored the requisition of the Gov ernor of South Carolina for Rev. E. F. Fiemoa, the colored preacher accused of a marder ia 1881. Sullivan, the pugilist, was arrested at New York oa the 81st on a requisition from the Governor of Mississippi, ap proved by the Governor of New Yorkv Secretary Tract has cabled Admiral Gherardi at St. Nicholas Mole, Hayti, to rescue three American sailors left or aa uninhabited guano island called Arenas Key. CAFTAnr L. DtrvAROE. who shot Con sular Agent V. F. M. 8tanwood at Ana- kade, Madagascar, last November, has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment The remains of General Lazare Carnot, grandfather of the President of the French Republic, have been exhumed at Magdeburg. Germany, where they were buried. They will be reiaterred in the Paris Pantheon. The body was found in a wonderful state of preservation. The United States Senate Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands in the West commenced its labors at 8t Paul, Minn., on the 1st Those present were Senators Stewart of Nevada, and Reagan, of Texas; Colonel Hinton, of the geological survey, and Major Powell. Evaristo Cabazo, President of Nica ragua, is dead. The island of Crete is reported to be in a state of anarchy as the result of the present uprising. The Emperor of Germany arrived at Dover, England, on the 1st. Lieutenant Tappenbeck, the African explorer, has fallen a victim to fever. In the Washington Territory Constitu tional convention the clause forbidding counties to grant subsidies for any pur pose whatever was adopted. The Shah of Persia visited Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in Paris and was much interested in the performance. Colonel Canaoat, sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate, who bad been in Alaska with a Senate committee, is ly ing quite ill in Montana. The President returned to Washington on the 1st. The Puyallup Indians, of Washington Territory, a tribe well advanced in educa tion and intelligence, have sent a memorial to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs asking for severalty. In a ukase the Czar of Russia has ap proved the late Coant Tolstoi's reform policy. England has annexed the Union and Phoenix groups of islands in the Pacific ocean. MISCELLANEOUS. The Journeymen Plumbers. Gas and Steam Fitters' Laborers' Union has de cided to sever its connection with the Knights of Labor. This means the deser tion of about 15,000 men from the ranks of that organization. A double execution took place at Louis ville, Ky., on the 31st Charles Dilger was banged for the murder of two police men and Harry Smart for the murder of a man and woman while going down the river in a boat Dilgers execution was bungled, the noose slipping, necessitating bis being dropped twice through the trap. Seven shipwrecked Norwegian tailors have been picked up by the steamer Niag ara and landed at Vera Cms, Mexico. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & D yon passenger train was wrecked at Oxford, O., on the night of the 31st Twelve or fourteen persons were killed aad injured. The Spanish Government has advised the Pope that in case be finds it necessary to leave Rome be should find asylum in Portugal. It is understood that the same advice has been given to the Pops by Austria. A harmless earthquake shock was felt in California on the morning of the 31st Da. G. M. Cantrell, physician of the Arkansas penitentiary, asserts that Jim Burrows, the Genoa train robber, died in the prison hospital October 5, 1888, of typho-malarial fever. - Lace of water caused a boiler explosion east of Fait field. III., the other day. One man was killed and two fatally injured. The "National Bureau of Engraving." of Philadelphia, a large lithographic printing establishment is hopelessly in volved. Its material has been ordered for sale. The Sierras and Milton stage was stopped by two highwaymen near Cooper olis. CaL Wells, Fargo & Co. 'a safe was blown open, but foand to contain nothing. Seventy-five dollars taken from the pas sengers was all the robbers secured. The memorial commemorating the land ing of the Pilgrims was dedicated at Plymouth, Mass., oa the 1st The July sanitary reports to the Marine Hospital Service from Philadelphia and Chicago show that the latter leads the former in popoulation and is the second city ia the Union. The population is placed as follows: Chicago, 1,100,000; Philadelphia, 1,040.245. The Richmond (Vs.) railroad stables were struck by lightning the other day and burned. Sixty mules aad horses and seven street cars wero consumed. The New York Graphic is again in trouble. Reporters aad clerks are clamor ing for salaries. A syndicate, beaded by Steve B. Elkins, was supposed to own it The public debt statement, issued August 1, showed aa increase daring July of$l,017,3ia6L The caase of the increase was due principally to pension payments. There was a cloudburst at Watkins Glen, N. Y., on the 1st The Algerian, a merchant vessel, sank at Aultsville, Oat, the other day. The crew aad passengers were saved. The rainfall ia the Pennsylvania coal regions was very heavy recently aad a umber of collieries wars compelled to shut down. The streams were greatly swollen and the majority of the collieries in the Mahoning valley were drowned oat Five bandied striking Italiaa railroad laborers near Pittsburgh, Pa., receatly engaged ia a riot Two ware killed. Brow storms aad Icy rains prevail throughout Switzerland aad the streams are beyond their basks. Kansas City woa a ball game at Balti more on the 1st The Chicago world's fair committee held a meeting recently and elected Mayor Cregier president Two hundred representative men were present aad an executive committee was appointed. The Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company bas voluntarily increased the wages of its peddlers fifty-five cents a day. The treasure, footing up about $200,000, lost on the steamer Granada off the west ern coast of Mexico, has been recovered. It is reported that cattle are dying at the rate of forty or fifty a day from splenetic fever in the Texas Panhandle. W. J. Johnson & Co. leather dealers of Boston, have assigned with $55,000 direct and $170,000 contingent liabilities. The assets are said to be ample. Abraham Finkbone, aged twenty-six, accused of arson, hanged himself in the jail at Reading, Pa the other night The latest effort of Ives and Staynor, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail road manipulators, to secure release from the New York jail has failed. Eleven business houses in Fennville, Mich., wera destroyed by fire the other night causing 535.000 loss. A tramp's carelessness was the can. Two cases of giant powder exploded ia pit No. 6 at Marquette, Mich., recently. Two men and three boys were killed. Workmen succeeded ia opening the gate of the Feltville dam near Piainfield N. J., which had been closed for years with weeds, eta, and the threatened danger of a break of the embankment was passed. A passenger train left the rails on the South Park (CoL) railroad and fell down aa embankment The engineer was killed and the fireman was seriously hurt Sev eral passengers were injured. A cloudburst on the 1st did consider able damage at Watkins Glen. N. Y. A railroad deal was reported by the Chicago Times by which the Chicago & Alton would purchase or lease the old Kansas Pacific track to Cheyenne. It was aot thought likely, however, by the gen eral public that the Union Pacific would lose control of its terminal at Kansas City. Mandan, Dak., was devastated by fire on the afternoon of the 2d. Treasurer Coleman, recently default ing in Warren County, O., is $3,000 short. Rev. Sam Shaiife, a colored preacher, of Lebauon, Ky., ba been killed for liv ing with another man's wife. A quarrel over a hog worth $2 has caused an armed feud between the Smiths and Slusbers near Pineville, Ky. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended August 1 numbered 210, compared with 216 the previous week and 216 the corresponding week of last year. About a third of the coke workers of the Connellsvilie region in Pennsylvania are on a strike for higher Wages. The miners of Durham, Eng., have voted by a majority of one to accept the 10 per cent advance offered by the mine owners. News from Gunnison, Col., recently was that the Utes were off their reservation and were intimidating settlers. The price of "The Augelus" 580,630 francs has been paid to the French Min ister of Fine Arts, and Millet's picture will soon be brought to America. Several European artists expressed the opinion that the picture was any thing but the grand work of art as generally thought A south-bound train on the Delaware & Hudson went through an open switch at Kenwood Junction, N. Y., recently. Thomas Conniff, a passenger, was killed and five persons were more or less injured. Solicitor Scott, of the Pennsylvania road, denies that the company has insti tuted proceedings egainst the South Fork Fishing Club, of Pi.tsburgh. for damages caused by the Conemaugb fioeds. C M. Hull, editor of the Bolivar Coun ty Democrat at Rosed al a. Miss., was killed the other day by L. A. Weissinger, editor of the Bolivar County Review, at that place. The Review was lately establ isbed and the two editors had engaged in a bit ter personal warfare in their respective columns. AODITIOXAL DISPATC Gkncuai. Grenfell with hit Egyptian forces met the inveding dervishes at Toski on the 31, killing and wounding 1.500. including the chief, capturing 1,000 and driving the remainder into the desert Felix Piatt, the famous French Com munist, died at Paris on the 4th. The Black Diamond sealer, recently seized in the Behring sea, arrived at vic toria, B. C. on the 3d. The commander of the Rush put on a seaman with orders to tate ber to Sitka, but the captain of the Black Diamond toot no notice of his au thority and made for a British port Tub United States cruiser Boston, one f the Quest of the new ships, was rna pon a rock near Newport, R. L, recently tnd a hole knocked in her bottom. She was kept afloat by her water-tight com partments. Fred Allen and Marcna Howe, two of a pleasure boating party, were drowned the other afternoon near Pembroke, Mass. Henrt Beight was cut to pieces by a reaper near Fort Wayne, Ind., recently. Ait explosion occurred on the Grand Trunk railroad near Montreal on the night of the 3d. James Rogers, an express agent, was killed and a train of passen gers narrowlyescaped destruction. Many rumors existed that the explosion was the work of dynamiters bent upon destroying the Victoria bridge. John L Sullivan arrived at Jackson, Miss., on the 4th, where he received an ovation. Governor Lowry was indignant at the way in which the pugilist was re ceived. Clearing bouse returns for the weekend ed August 3 showed a decrease compared with t le corresponding week of lost year. In New York the decrease was 3.L At the Post-office Department it is learned that since March 4 last of 55 000 fourth class postmasters in tho United States nearly 13,000 changes have been made, and of this number 9,000 were re movals of Democratic officials and ap pointment of R-publican successors. The daily changes now average about 100. A collision on the Virginia Midland at Barleys caused the death of Fireman Fred A. Fox and serious injury of three others. Two other trainmen were missing, sap posed to be under the wreck. The Emperor of Germany bas conferred upon Queen Victoria the command of the First dragoon guards of Berlin aad upon the Duke of Cambridge the honorary colonelcy of a regiment of infantry. Prices were firm on the London Stock Exchange daring the week eaded August 3. American railroad securities were quiet and firm. At Berlin business was active and steady. The Paris Boars was quiet Panama shires not being quoted. The Connellsvilie coxe striae conunaea te spread. Fifty-ive oat of fifty-sevsa Diaata were banked. Nearly all of McClere &Ca's works war idle. The Standard aad Moorewood men, LM0, were also oat as were the 500 of Leisenaiag. The num ber of strikers was pat at 11,000. NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. State Assessment. The grand assessment roll of the State, just completed, shows that th-re are 10, 674.180 acres of improved Iaads ia the State, valued at $13,253,063 or an average value of $4.05 per acre; there are $13,557, 727 unimproved acres, valued at $3J.965, 656; improved lots in the various villages, towns and cities of the State valued at 28 27.292. and unimproved lots valued at 510.158 374. Then are 549.175 horses ia the State, valued at $9,754,497; 1 624.327 cattle, valued at $7,733,825; 46.576 mules aad asses, valaed at $003,407; 179253 sheep, valued at $106,268. and 1,323,962 hogs, valued at $1 502.412. The assessed valua tion of railroad systems is $29.674 i-29.21, and that of telegraph systems $181,555.20. This assessment it appears, only includes the miles of track or the railroad and telegraphic lines proper, for under the head of "other property," wbicb takes in all miscellaneous matter, an assessed value is placed at $L 422,398. The taxable valuation of tho property of the State foots up $182,763538.41 for the current year; for 18S8 it tooted up $176.012,82a45. This shows an increae in the valuation in one year of $6.750,7u7.8X The total levy, for the current year is $1 19?,00&27. while in 188S the levy was $1.35,887.79, or a de crease Of $133,879 52. MIscellaneoBa. Thomas Tatom. while working at a well at Elsie, was struck on the'back of the head by the crank of a windlass and almost instantly killed. Tatum was among the most prominent men ia the sastern part of Keith County. The other night a man named McCoy, the keeper of a saloon at Roseland, and A. M. Heagan, became involved ia a war ot words, when McCoy drew a knife and stabbed Hengen in the abdomen, resulting fatally. The six-year-old son of W.J. Benjamin, a farmer living on the reservation two miles from Pender, was recently murdered bv.a Winnebago Indian. The boy with his two brothers was after their cattle, which were pastured near their home, when a wagon containing three Indians cam up and one of the red devils fired five or six shots at the boy, one shot hit ting the child in the forehead. He was assisted to his home by his brothers. His mother, who was visiting at a neighbor's, was sent for, but before she arrived the boy became unconscious and soon died. The Indians were arrested and there was much excitement in the locality. The block owned by the Nebraska Loan and Trust Company at Hastings, and oc- jcupied by the Gazette Publishing Com pany, the Pathfinder, Vail and Green, boots and shoe-; Frank Hoi lings worth, dry goods, and Ellis, grocer, was recently destroyed by fire. The loss was $59,000. Habrt Moore, a lad of twelve years, son of H. C Moore, a carpenter of Fair mount disappeared the other night and with him went $200 belonging to bis father, and which was concealed in the parental bed-room. The other morning tbe family of Frank Kos, of Plattsmoutb. were start' ed by bearing two pistol shots fired in quick suc cession in an upstairs bed-room. Otto, the nineteen-year-ol 1 son, rushed to the room and found bis aged father sitting be side the bed in a pool of blood with a smoking revolver in bis band. As the son entered the door the father pointed the revolver at bim and told him to leave or be would kill bim. The boy had scarcely reached the foot of tbe stairs when Kos fired again and killed himself instantly. He was eighty-two years old and had been considered slightly demented for some time. Until lately he bud worked at bis trade, painting, in tbe B. & 1L shops. The other evening Mis McMulIen, a gue-t at the Creston Hotel, in Creston, started from ber room to ber brother's. Mistaking tbe stairs for the room, she fell he full length of tho stairs, injuring her spine and also causing internal injuries, which it was thought would prove fatal. Claims amounting to over $1,000 have been tiled with the board of supervisors of Antelope County for the pursuit and cap ture of Nick Foley, the murderer who met his death at the bands of a mob, but the matter has been laid over. gR- McDonald, living near Deloit wi'l be 103 years old in August He is bale and hearty and in the last forty years has not misled a dozen meals. His father lived to be 117 years old. The contract has been let to build ten miles of electric railway in the city of Kearney. Tbe road is to Le in operation by January 1. 1690. A new aad somewhat serious cattle disease recently broke ont in two or three herds near Lincoln and bffld all efforts to relieve it The disease begins by a swelling of the eyes, which become so thoroughly inflamed that blindness follows in a few days. Tbe gatherings break, leaving a small round pimple on the eyeball and the beast is totally blind. A fever accompanies the disease and the milk of the cow is unfit for use. John Johnson, a member of the firm of Burns & Johnson, implement dealers of Creigbton, was riding into town the other morning and had in the buggy with him a shotgun and a little boy about six years old, when the boy accidentally touch-id the hammer of the gun with his foot and discharged it The charge entered John son's right side, broke one rib and passed through and out at the back. The doctors said there was small chance of his recov ery. r?ETH Needles, aged twenty-three, and Pago Moore, aged fourteen, were recently wrestling at Hayes Center, when Moore threw Needles on his back and head. At the time Needles struck the ground be be came unconscious and died within two hours. Mrs. Catharine Evkrs committed sui cide by hanging near Millard recently. She baa brooded over self-destruction un til it became a mania. Six years ago she made an unsuccessful attempt to drown herself, and since that time has been sub ject quite often to morose and apparently insane spells. She left a letter to her hus band sayiag she could aot help it, to take care of their two children, aad to forgive her. While chasing a calf tbe other day, farmer named Shultz. living near Stock ville, was pitched headlong from his horse aad killed. Will Bobxannov dropped dead iaa pbo tograph gallery at Omaha the other day and the mother was so overcome with grief over the death of ber boy that she attempted to take her own life with poison bat was prevented by parties present Chace Couirrr has no bonded indebted aess aad the farmers are almost a Bait agalast bonding the county for any par- The flax crop around Sterling is being threshed aad yields from elevea to four teen bushels of seed t the acre. Thk Ulysses school boas has been sold, aad will b converted into a hotel. A stock company hi being formed . operate the Norfolk feaadry to its fall -peejtTt TJiAIN BOBBEBS. Masked Hen Hold Up the Fort Worth & Denver MalL They Are rolled la Obtaining Mae Booty Two Bold Men Rob a Trala "er Kansas City. Fort Worth. Tex., Aug. 5. At twe o'clock yesterday morning six masked men stopped the Fort Worth & Denver mail and express, southbound, between Cheyenne water tank and Tascosa aad three men got on tbe locomotive and com pelled the engineer to pull away from the passenger coaches, which had been de tached by tbe robbers aad left under guard of the other three. After going half a mile the robbers com pelled the engineer to get off the locomo tive and bring a pick to force opea th door of the express car. Express Messenger Marsh, seeing what was up. closed the doors of his car and pi ed up trunks against them aad then put out tbe lights in the car after be bad secreted all tbe express packages bat tbrea Tbe robbers coming to the car ordered Marsh to open it aad fired into it. The engineer hammered away with his pick until he got the door partly opened, when a torch was pushed into the opening and a revolver poked in and pointed at Marsh, who was told to open up or be killed. Marsh opened and three packages were stolen, but the Pacific Express Company people say that very tittle money was se cured. The robbers then went to th mail car and compelled Routs Agent Wolcott to open hi-car. He bad hidden all his regis tered matter, but one letter, under a sack and turned hi lights out. The robbers got the one package and then opened mail pouches and scattered the contents over the floor. All the robbers were masked. After doing tbe work they ordered the en gineer to put out tile torch and pall oat when they left The authorities in the several neighbor ing counties were notified ami are in pur suit. It is said that tbe total amount qtolon is less than $2,000. Tho robbers fired twenty or twenty-five shots into tbe mail and express cars. The passengers were groatly frightened, but not one of them was molested in any way, though money and j-welry ware hid in abort order. Cheyenne is 375 miles northwest from Fort Worth. TRAIN ROBBERS NEAR KANSAS C1TV. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 5. Two men who wore red and white handkerchief over their faces as ma-ks held up and robl-eJ passenger train No. 4 on the Wa bash railway four miles east of Harlem at 8:35 o'clock Saturdav night They se cured $175 and two gold watches and wonld have secured a great deal more but tbey were frightened lrora the train by a nervy conductor before they succeeded in their operations. The men were medium sized and both wore dark clothing and sloucb hats. Tbey were between twenty two and twenty-fivd years of age. and were loud and profane ia their demands for money. W. H. Bonnell, special agent of the road, sat in the smoking car of the train and was notified by Conductor James R-ach that the rear coach had been gone through Dy roooers. no at once cut tue engine loose and returned as far as Harlem where be notified Deputy Sheriff Tom' in son and they began a search for tbe men but were uot successful in getting -ight of them. The train pulled out from this citv at 8:20 o'clock and registered its time at Har lem at 8:35 o'clock. Two men boarded tbe rear conch at the Harlem bridge and as soon asH irlem was passed awoke passen gers with the demand. 'Throw up your I band." It took them about ten minutes to "invoice" the nine passengers who were in the coach. They left tho rear coach to ra'd tbe next one front and met Conductor Reach on the front platform. "Throw up yonr hands" they command- j ed. The conductor thought that they were railway acquaintances and laughing at them started :o pass oa. They com manded again, and taking in the situation be struck one of them with bis lantern. i The other robber shot twice at R-acti and both then jumped from the train. Reach threw his lantern, after them and about this time one of the passengers pulled the I bell-cord and tbe train was stopped. ' Special Agent Bonnell detached th en gine from tbe train and started back tc this city. In company with Depu'y Sher iff Tomlinson. of Clay County, he kept watch at the Hannibal bridge and scoured the country about Harlem until three o'clock yesterday morning, when he re ported tbe robbery to the Central policn station and left a descriptioa of the two men. Th train consisted of a ba;gege car, two through sleepers on tbe Iowa Cen tral, coaches wbxb are switched off at Moberly, and the car sleeper that was robbed. t When the men left the traia they took to a wagon road and disappeared in tbe darkness. Nothing baa since been beard of them. m m Starred to Ietb. Spring Vallet, 111., Aug. 4. The wife of one of tbe locked-out miners here was ordered by tbe physician in attendance on her twins who were slowly starving to death, to eat a sufficiency of the right kind of food so that she could nourish her offspring, but being in the poore-t cir cumstances and living off such charity as was given by tbe relief committee here, she was unable to get the proper food and the babies died. Tnat ucu a thing should occur in the midst of this beautiful, fertile region, teeming with aa abundant har vest is bard to believe. And yet the father of these twins was oaly striking to prevent tbe mine owners from catting his wages almost to tbe starvation point Kacs aad Small-Pox. Washington. Aug. 4. Coasul-General Cardwell. of Cairo, Ezypr, warns the State Dpartmeat that aa extensive trade in Krvntian ran with thm TTnitl Riim is rendered particularly daageroas by the I prevalence of small-pox in Lower Egypt I mam Aa Ice Tract. Indianapolis, lad, Aag. 4. Th ic trust, which has kept prices up to 140 per coat, more than was charged last year, has collapsed. On of th dealers refased to agree to a proposition te fore prices higher aad withdrew. H has reduced prices nearly 50 per coat Th public will now get th beaeflt of same dssperat cas ting. Th Mraatala FMhb Lexington. Ky., Aug. 4. Harry Farrall aad two other men. who were arrested charged with the marder of John A. Rose th leader of the Res fae.ioas lathe Powell Coaaty rac war, hav rnnfiand. Troub-: ia the moaatales is feared, VISITING HIS GRANDMA. Emperor William f Gernmnr on z Vi-il t Ilia Koval tlrauUma, yuc-ii Virtnri.t Who Kl4r! film on Itotli Ctivrks A "Thuntlrrins" Itrcrptluii. Loxdo.v, Aug. 2. Acc'inlin? to pro gramme the Princo of Wale. If ft Ports mouth, harbor in bis yaclit, the 0-,born at half-past twelve o'clock to-day, ami proceeded outside the Solout to await tiio arrival of tho Emperor of Germany on board tho imperial yacht Hohen zollern. As tho yacht steamed out t the harbor she was saluted by tin guns on shore and on the war vessels. Shortly before the departure of the royal yacht the Gorman squadrou was sighted steaming toward Portsmouth, aud pilot were immediately dispatched to tako charge of their moveuieuts. The weather at Portsmouth is superb, tho bright sun shine being tempered by a cooling breeze. Every thing has bceu put in readiness for tho arrival of tho German Emperor, aud tho crowd which are constantly arriving by every availa ble means by far surpass in numbers tho attendance which has marked any previ ous Spithead maneuvers. The enormous government flotilla and numerous private craft as well as all available space on shore are packed with sight-seers. RECEPTION AND LANDING OF THE KAI3KR. The spectacle attracted to the shoro of the Solent hundrods of th ousauds oi peo ple, while the water was literally covered with every conceivable form of craft bearing sight-seers, most of which, as did all of the war vessels and transat lantic linors, serving as excursion steam ers, displayed the German flag. As the yacht Osborne approachod th Hohenzollern, the Prince of Wales sig naled his greeting to the Kai-er, to which the lstter responded. Tho Ojborno then accompanied the Hohenzollern with her escort througli the lint" of war vessel drawn in 44parndo" to rec v her. Every vessel, both German and English, was iu holiday attire, and the spectacle as the Gorman fleet steamed slow ly through tho narrow ailso left between the gaily-decked war-ships tha flower of the British navy was impos ing in the extreme. As the imperial yacht passed each ship she was saluted by loud huzzas from tho tars spread out upon the yards or ranged upon the decks, followed by tha booming of tho ship-; guns which shot out their tongue of flames again and again until the Hohenzollern was hid'eti by tho smoke. Then other voices took up tho welcoming huzzas and other ciuuon boomed forth thunderous greetings. Through this gauntlet of fire ami sni'!co the Hohenzollern passed with the irou clads Deutschland. Kaiser Prcuser and Friedsrich Der Grosse aud tho frigate Zeiten in her wake. Off Cowe Admiral Sir Edward Coiutnerell went u board tho Hohenzollern while Yico-Admiral Baird and tho other flag officers. with General Sir L. S. Smith, awaited tho Kaiser's landing at Trinity pier. Hero he disembarked and proceeded t Os borne, where he was welcomed by hi grandmother, tho Queen. The Emperor will diuo with the Qjeen this evening. At the conclusion of tho naval display? at Spithead, Emperor William will leave for Aldershot to witness the military re view, arriving there on Wedued iy. II will return to Osborne in tho evening to pay a farewell visit to the Queen, and will rejoin his fleet on the following day for his homward voyage. Tho Emperor's proposed visit to tho Sultan occasions considerable uneasiness iu at. Petersburg, whero the reuorts ii immense war preparations on the par Turkey have already hail the effect quickening Russian sensibilities. Unl leW some satisfactory explanation is given Turkey of her warlike attitude, i: is ex tremely doubtful if Emperor William will care to assume the rlk of offending tho Czar by visiting Constantinople at tlii time. KISSED THE KAISER. London. Aug. 3. Tho Queen, in re ceiving tho Emperor of Germany at Os borne yesterday, did so with every dem onstration of affection, kissing him oa both cheek. Last night the vessels of both the English and Gerniin fleets off Cowes and Osborne wore brilliantly il luminated, and the effect as viewed from the shore was magniticeut. IN THE DOMINION Th Canadians ladicannl Over the Sets ore of Their Srulors by the Uuitri! States Canada Military Strength Ke IIrIoba Trouble. Ottawa, Ont, Aug. 3. Tho dullness ia official circles has been dispeled by tho recent news of the seizure of a British vessel in Behring sex. Tbe excitement occasioned by tbe affair is intense. Tho Canadians are slow to understand why the American Government should not entertain the same opinion regarding in ternational laws and the three-mile limit oa the Pacific as well as on the Atlantic coast The authorities here still continue to discuss tbe American pretensions as to exclusive iurisdictioa iu Behring sea, At present the Governor-General is ia direct communication with the British. Government which favors a cautious policy. The Canadian Government is in dignant over repeated seizures on the high seas, and has asked Eagland ia plain language to protect their interests. The effect of a refusal to sacrifice impe rial interests for a domestic one is hard to determine. The press of Canada is a unit in de nouncing tho seizures. Of course, no body thinks of going to war. The disputa has directed attention to Canada's mil itary Ptrengtb. The active military force exceeCs 36.000 men. Oa the basis of the last census, Canada caa put 1,500,000 men in the field. The anti-Jesuit agitation is a domestic quarrel, which tends to estrange Catho lics and Protestaats. The opposition of the latter to the incorporation of the Jesuits is not diminishing. It has placed the government in an awkward position, especially after the unqualified support of the government policy last session. Six hundred Protestant petitions, signed by fifty-five thousand Canadians, asking for the disallowance of the Jusuit bill of incorporation were presented to tha Governor-General at Quebec yesterday. Inereasd Activity at the Front. Cairo. Aug. 3. Advices from Toski bring news of increased activity at the front General Grenfell reconnoitered the dervish camp, when the dervishes fell upon the Egyptian cavalry in force and killed twenty-seven of their num ber, forcing the remainder of the detach ment to withdraw. Later, Lieutenant Dagaillar attacked the dervish position in front of the village of Masmas, and drove the enemy from the field, when they left fifteen dead behind them. Deserters are coming ia to the Egyptian camp in large numbers. They report that the dervish leader, Wad-el-H'Jumi. is de termined to fight to the last A battle ia expected soon. i ss 35BgSmrw ii m rrfwrirrrrT -Hf- -WTrffl I