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Mt -; ?Si2 f BE BED CLOUD CHIEF. A. C. HOSMER, Publisher. RED CLOUD. NEBRASKA CURRENT COMMENT. Mexico's first linen mill has opened near the City of Mexico. been Fked Douglass has expressed him self favorably towards the projected granting of pensions to ex-slaves. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is expected to select the resting place in Richmond for her husband's remains some time in October. During the twenty-four hours ended at midnight of the 10th there were forty cases of heat prostration in New York city, all of which proved fataL The newspapers of Lima, Peru', con tain elaborate accounts of the removal of the remains of Francisco Pizzaro, who led the conquest of Peru, from a vault under the altar of the cathedral at Lima to the chapel of the viceroys in the same building. The remains were subjected to a careful examination and the body was found to bo admirably preserved. Stock in the proposed candidacy of Senator Gorman for the presidency had quite a boom among the politicians in Washington by reason of the fact that the Farmers' Alliance of Maryland in dorsed him with great unanimity for re election to the senate This, his friends claim, indicates that he would be ac ceptable to the alliance as the demo cratic presidential nominee. (I A. Fargo, one of the new senators of the Cherokee nation and a man of much influence, says he is in favor of selling the Cherokee strip at once. As soon as the Cherokee council convenes in November he will introduce a bill to sell the strip and immediately divide the proceeds among the people of the nation. A large number of the other members of the council have already promised to support this measure. The reports as to the relations be tween Chill and Bolivia growing out of the latter's recognition of the belliger ents, one of which reports was that Chill had declared war against Bolivia, are said to be untrue and the stories of cruel punishments inflicted by the gov ernment are pure inventions. The gov ernment simply arrests those who are supposed to be aiding and abetting the rebels and sends them to Iquique, the headquarters of the congressional party. The progress of the European sugar beet crop is slow. The continued wet and cold weather has seriously set back the development of the roots, especially in the low lying distriots, although the leaves aro luxuriant. Even with ex ceptionally fine weather in September it is doubtful whether the increased acreage will yield an increased pro duction. The present tests are on a level with those of 1888, when the final yield was twenty per cent, below the yield of 1800. The Chilian congressional envoys in Washington have received advices from Chili which they say confirm the state ments that President Kalmaceda had removed all the judges in the country and appointed other persons to their places. The judges removed include the chief justice of the supreme court and his six associate justices, the judges of the courts of appeal and all ttic dis trict judges. The envoys say this ac tion of Balmaceda is in direct defiance of article 105 of the constitution of Chili. Arrivals from the region of Sonora, CaL, on the Colorado river, report a most wonderful change in the topog raphy of the country. Many old land marks are obliterated, prominent nat ural objects are wiped off the face of the earth and new ones created in un expected places. Tho small stream four miles north of Lcrdo, which prior to the earthquake was l cadily forded, has become impassable. The Cocopah Indians predict another earthquake, liable to occur soon. They say natural signs indicate it. The grave situation created by the failure of the crops in Russia is causing the greatest apprehension in all circles. The Grashdanin declares that the local administrations will be unable to make provision for tho inhabitants of the dis tressed provinces by drawing upon the surplus of other provinces if the specu lators are allowed to export corn or if the artificial rise in corn is not checked The public demands that the govern ment immediately place a duty on rye. The Financial Messenger declares that it will be almost impossible for Russia to export corn this year. Mr. Sr-URGEON's faculty for remem bering names and faces is well known, but sometimes he makes a slip, and the following little anecdote shows his felicitous way of setting himself right on such occasions. Meeting recently a young student whom he had not seen for a year, he said: "Right glad to see you, Mr. Partridge." The student was of course immensely gratified to find that the great divine remembered him, but reminded the pastor that his name was not Partridge, but Patridge. "Oh, yes," quoth Mr. Spurgcon, "I must not make game of you any more." "It is going to bo a long time before the American product is admitted to Germany on an equal basis with their home meats," said P. D. Armour, of Chicago, who has just returned from abroad. "There is really something more involved than a matter of comity between the two nations. A national taste in the matter of meat eating is in volved. The Germans will eat their meats raw. For that reason I think that no meats will get into Germany except under German inspection. As for the favorable French legislation, that appears to have been hung up by the French senate." Lord Coleridge, chief justice of England, replying to a correspondent asking an opinion on the Bible passage "Swear not at all," and Christ's words "Let your words be yea or nay," says he has no doubt of the lawfulness of oaths on special occasions. God also swears by Himself. The precept of the Lord is like that giving a cloak as well as a coat or offering both cheeks to be smitten. It is to be taken as a state ment of principle, not as an order to be obeyed literally, irrespective of circum stances. The whole jurisprudence of Christian nations of nineteen hundred years has been based on oaths. Consular reports received at Wash ington on the 11th state that heavy rains have caused great havoc in the German empire and hold out no promise for average crops. In Austria-Hungary the cereal crops will this year be under the average, rye being the worst crop ever known. The crops of Spain will be at least 15 per cent under the average- The August condition of crops in FraBce are worse than in July, through X&zt.z heavy rams, xne rv wp iii-.v., .aceeaiBfriT ueutreub u .. w.. W$SHmm ksowB jvbeat and rye prices are ltSr-cc .. - i.-i T TnrHath threat. -R5r,-JQ IBB Miwr - rv'fMidluuM BW BeeB amwu y - NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gleaned By Telegraph and Mali. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Sir Hector Langevin, of Ontario, has resigned from the ministry. Very Rev. Gilbert, Elliott, D. D., the well known English churchman, is dead. He was born in 1800, was ap pointed dean of Bristol in 1850 and held that office ever, since. James Russell Lowell was reported much worse on the 1 1th and the physi cians had littlo hope of his recovery. W. W. Armstrong, who it was claimed was the oldest living odd fellow in the United States, died at Salem, Ore., on the 11th, aged 89. He was initiated in to the order at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1854. The Swiss government has nearly completed the work of fortifying Mount St Gothard, thereby making it impossible for a hostile army to descend into Switzerland from that quarter. An ukase has just been issued by the Russian government prohibiting from August 27 the exportation from Russia of rye and rye meal of all kinds and brands. A dispatch on the 11th said that the Poles wore greatly excited over the possible erection of a monument by the Russian government to Count Mura vieff, known as the "Hangman of Poland." The Poles generally con strue it as a national insult James Russell Lowell, the well known contributor to literature, died at Cambridge, Mass., on the 12th. He was born February 22, 1819. George .Tones, editor of the New York Times, died at Poland Springs, Me., on the 12th. He overthrew the Tweed ring. TnE latest London advices from southeastern Africa tell of appalling barbarities by the Portuguese with a view of bringing the natives to sub jection. Rev. Dr. A. L. Lindslet, a professor in the Presbyterian theological school of Oakland, CaL, and one of the most prominent ministers on the Pacific coast is dead. The Maryland farmers' convention has indorsed Senator Gorman. A dispatch from Erie, Pa., says: Congressman Scott's condition slightly improved. Mr. Brand, physician, savs: "I am confident Ex- is his Mr. Scott will recover, though his recovery will be necessarily slow." Ex-Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, opposes the schemes of negro emigra tion to Liberia and says Bishop Turner is the only prominent colored man in this country-who advocates it Mr. Bruce says the American negroes are Americans. They are African in noth ing but their color. TnE Novosti, of St Petersburg, in an article on European politics, takes oc casion to review the course followed by the Salisbury government and says that if it is the policy of Great Britain to continue her prescntattitude toward France and Russia the peace of Europe will be guaranteed for a long time to come. Parties from the Chickasaw Nation say the Byrd party was victorious in the late election, having secured every member of the lower houso of the tribal legislature. The result means that the intruders must go and every white man on the expiration of his permit. Col. Frederick Phister, of New York, has been appointed adjutants general of the G. A. R. Henry C Miles has been appointed United States judge of the northern and southern districts of Mississippi Mrs. Sarah C. Polk, widow of James K. Polk, tenth president of the United States, died at Nashville, Tenn., on the 14th. The funeral services over the re mains of James Russell Lowell took place at Harvard university. Inter ment was in the family lot at Mount Auburn. MISCELLANEOUS. The prince of Wales opened the in ternational congress of hygela in Lon don on the 10th. There were 8,500 del egates present among them Pasteur and Koch. The present population of Iowa is 1,911,890 according to tho census re turns. This Is an increase of 289,281 in tho past ten yoars.' A roiler explosion occurred atChau niont In the department of Haute Marne, France, by which six persons were killed and four wcro so horribly burned that their lives were despaired of. The fourth annunl meeting of the American 6ocioty of microscopists began on the 1 1 th at Washington. A nisr-ATCH was received by Senator Farvvell at Chicago on the 1 lth from Prof. .Dyrcnfurth, at Midland, Tex., where he went to produce rainfall by the firing of dynamite in balloons sent up for that purpose. The experiment proved a complete success, rain falling copiously for several hours. The London press is unanimously of the opinion that Mr. Dillon has made a bold bid for the Irish leadership and that he will without doubt be success ful. Revenue officers have seized $9,000 worth of opium in Shasta, CaL, and broken up nine Chinese factories. A test was made on the 11th at Wil lett's Point N. Y., of a new electric torpedo boat which it is expected will be accepted by the government It is known as the Edison-Sims invention. The contract made with the govern ment calls for a speed of eighteen miles per hour. The test was pronounced successful and it was stated that the boat can travel at least twenty miles an hour. The Charleston has been ordered to Yokohoma and will leave August 18 for Shanghai, owing to missionary troubles at points along the Yang Tse Riang river. A squall on Long Island sound blew the supports of a steamer's deck down on which a large body of excursionists were enjoying themselves and fourteen people were killed and many others in jured. Enormous forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Toulon, France, and a great quantity of valuable timber has already been destroyed. Troops of sol diers and many sailors are employed in digging a trench around the burning section. It is announced that salaries must be cut and a number of employes dropped if the national world's fair commission is to avoid a big deficit at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892. The estimates already prepared show an apparent deficiency of $23,240. Jim Corrett has deposited $1,000 with the New York World to fight any man above ground, Marquis of Queensbury rules, to a finish or a limited number of rounds. He prefers Slavin or MitchelL A special to the New York World from Saratoga gives an interview which it correspondent had with C C Shane, the wealthy fur merchant in which he said he had been informed by the agent of a satin and silk importing house that the importers in New York have raised $500,000 to defeat McKinlev. A terrible windstorm visited Keo kuk, la.; on the afternoon of the lSth. A Russian ukase has beea issued di recting the railroad officials thxoajrhoat the country to give precedence orer all other trains, passenger or freight to trains conveying grain supplies to the dittreceed provisoes! " In th demofraphyWirkkm of toe BTgieneecragTeMat Laadon Mr. Lay hew SflfJh, of AmericaT spoke cm the difficulty AerieBced ia the United States iB conseqaeBce of the large amount of undesirable pauper immigra tion. The senapntty of Manipur and the Tongale general were hanged at Man ipur, India, on the 13th for the murder of the British commissioners a few months ago. An immense crowd of natives was present at the exeouttea. Portugal has prohibited the im portation of wheat until the native crop has been consumed. There Is a great scarcity of money In all the lower Rio Grande section of Texas. There has been no rain to speak of for eighteen months and the ranchmen are all in debt aad the farm ers have been unable to raise enough for their actual needs of money and provisions, clothing, etc W. H. Woodward, having in charge the arrangements for bringing dele gates to the sovereign grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at St Louis, announces that all rail roads will transport members for one faro for the round trip. The world's convention of the Y. M. C A has been In convention at Amster dam, Holland. The miners of the Virgin ius at Ouray, Col., struck to Hie number of over 100 because the management re quired them to use lamps instead of candles in the workings, they claiming the smoke from the lamps made them sick. The large powder mMl at Kellogg, W. Va., was blown up by an accidental discharge of powder. Two lives were lost and many buildings destroyed. Just before the steamer Buffalo left Jamestown, N. Y., for the illuminated fleet display at Chautauqua a section of the deck, crowded with people, gave way, throwing about thirty persons in the water. A scene of excitement en sued, but by prompt action all were rescued alive. The sanitary and other arrangements of the mines at Briceville, Tenn., not being up to requirements orders have been issued to withdraw tho convicts instantly. Among those besmirched by tho Can adian scandals is Premier Mercier of Quebec. There was a free fight lasting sever al hours at a recent farmers' reunion at Pennsville, N. J. Tim Hopkins has decided to contest the will of his adopted mother, Mrs. Hopkins-Searlcs. Nearly all the salmon fishermen near Kodiak, Alaska, have struck be cause the canning factory owners re fused to take all the fish they could capture. Seven houses in Campo, near San Diego, CaL, were washed away by a cloudburst No lives were lost Ellsworth, Minn., has been ravaged by a windstorm. The town was left a wreck. An express on the Reading railroad collided with a freight at Egg Harbor City, N. J., on the 14th. Soveral pas sengers were injured, two probably fatally. The national land office officials warn colored men not to try to buy home steads in Oklahoma of alleged vendors. Hippolyte Gonzales, Ferrain Perez and Bonafacio Valdez, who were con victed of kidnaping, have been exe cuted at Havana, Cuba. The jury in the case of Dr. Baker, of Abington, Va., charged with the mur der of his wife, brought in a verdict of guilty. The verdict was largely on tho evidence of Miss Gilmer, a lady of so cial prominence, who confessed her criminal intimacy with the accused and declared he had admitted killing his wife. J. Finley Hoke, the noted forger from Peoria, 111., completed his five year sentence in the Jolict peniten tiary, .but was rearrested on a bench warrant instigated by the Merchants' national-' bank of Peoria. There arc nine indictments hanging over him, the bonds for which aggregate $57,000. Business fullures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended August 13 num bered 227, compared with 231 the pre vious week and 197 the corresponding week of last year. The rise of the price of grain prom ises splendid returns to Austrian grain exporters, and especially as the Balkan harvests promise to be excellent and sufficient for the Austrian home con sumption. Stills & Duhlmeler's furnituro factory, Cincinnati, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, 580,000. Mrs. Thomas B. Carruthers has been arrested at Rat Portage, Man., charged with having killed her hus band. The liabilities of Griffin &. Sons, corn factors, London, amounted to 1,000, 000. Unsecured creditors agreed to ac cept ten shillings in the pound. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. Rev. Dr. JonN Henry Hopkins, one of the most distinguished clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal church, is dead, aged 81. The largo paper warehouse of A. O. Elliott & Co., corner of Sixth and Jayne streets, Philadelphia, has been badly damaged by fire. Owing to the depression in the iron trade, operations at many of the prin cipal iron worKs in ine umneriana (Eng.) district have been suspended for some time and the inability of the workmen to procure employment is causing the most acute distress. Matsada Sorahichi, the noted Jap anese wrestler, died suddenly at New York recently. He was suffering from consumption. The European bourses during the week ended August 15 were depressed and dulL Two men were ki lied by a collision on the Union Pacific near Brighton, CoL A freight engine had "died," and while the train was standing on the track a special dashed into it Clearing house returns for the week ended August 15 showed an average de crease of 16.1 compared with the cor responding week of last year. In New York the decrease was 23.0. : - . Saranac lake 'club house, near Plattsburg, N. Y., has been destroyed by fire. Seventy-five guests lost nearly all their personal effects. The reports .of the discovery of ex tensive anthracite coal fields in Sonora, Mexico, are confirmed by ail rices' re ceived by the bureau of American re publics. - . .- , s- Three fatal balloon accidents oc curred recently. At Cincinnati, Miss Annie Harness fell-with her parachute closed and her body was broken to pieces. Near Syracuse, N. Y., James Buckingham fell with his parachute into Ongala lake and was drowned. At Tacoma. Wash., an aeroaaut named Johnson fell, from his balloon a dis tance of 2,000 feet There is absolutely no foundation for the reports that Jay Goald is se rioasly ill at the Soda Springs, IdahoT Lieut. Scrivkjt, theeommissioBer to Central America for the Latia-Aaser-icaa department reporta by cable that the roverBBreat of Salvador will erect its owb toildiac at Jacks Park. Chi- fcago- Tbjcbk was a destractive Ire at Nor folk, Va, receatly dariaf; i breakiar oat la the Xorfalk Ca'a WHia m Water street aieklT nraitfir. Thalaat rsante M NEBRASKA STATUE NEW& The crops In the vidBity of Carta are yielding a golden harvest Wheat tamed out from thirty-two to forty bushels per acre. Thb board of transportation has fixed the salaries of grain inspectors. The chiefs are to receive $2,000 and the deputies 11,200. A terrible storm passed over the aelghborhood in the vicinity of Hyan Bls on the 11th, Gardens and the corn crop were entirely destroyed in the path of the storm, which seemed to be about three miles in width. The attorneys of Ed. NeaL the mur derer, are making a last desperate ef fort to save the neck of their client They have filed in the supreme court a motion for a rehearing and with it a brief bristling with citations. Postmasters lately appointed in Ne braska: G. L. King at Benkelman, Dundy county, vice E. V. Moore, re signed; C Alton at Elmwood, vice A. W. Mayfield, resigned; L A. Royer at Hardy, Nuckolls county, vice W. J. Brooks, resigned; M. Robertson at Smyrna, Nuckolls county, vice H. S. Bottom, resigned. During a recent storm lightning struck a number of places at York. Ono bolt struck Mrs. Tcnney "while she was stooping down dipping water out of a barrel to water her flowers and tho lightning struck her on the hips and passed down one limb, tearing her dress and seriously shocking her. While it did not cause death it was a narrow es cape. While recently walling up a cistern at Nebraska City, Wallace Roach and Ed Shannon, bricklayers, were precip itated from a scaffold. The brick and mortar fell upon them and both men were painfully bruised and cut and were almost suffocated when taken out The fall was fully sixteen feet Roach, in addition to his bruises, sustained a broken leg. William Buruine, a brakeman, was taken to Lincoln with a badly broken leg as the result of an accident Dur ing the amputation that followed he died. A telegram was sent to his wife at Hastings, the receipt of which so shocked her that she died in an hour. He was about twenty-six years of age and she was twenty, and they had been married a little over a year. At Fremont the other day the wife of Nelson Lindell, a carpenter, was about to begin preparing supper and got the oil can to hasten the fire. When she poured tho oil in the stove an explosion followed. She was instantly wrapped in flames. She ran out doors and some passers by undertook to put out the fire which enveloped her person by throwing their coats over her. The woman was badly burned and died in a short time. She left a baby only ten days old. The house took fire and burned. The state relief commission has fin ished its roport for April, and the finan cial statement is as follows: Balance on hand, $57,716.75; received from W. C. T. U. Talmage, $50; from A. J. Sawyer, $7; from sale of bonds, S100.250; total $158,029.75. The disbursements were: For grain and potatoes, S70.921.7l; for provisions, etc., $12,794.44; for freight $8,511.09; for expressage, $1522.20; for coal, 254.20; for office expenses, $590.15; total, $09,893.79. Balance, May 1, $58, 629.9a During April 4,275 families re ceived provisions and 7,258 families re ceived grain. Under a new law the superintendent of public instruction is allowed an as sistant and Superintendent Goudy wishes to appointhis wife to the position but meets with much opposition. Mr. Goudy recently said to a reporter: "If tho governor can appoint his son to the best position in the executive office; the auditor can give his brother a desirable position under him, and the state treas urer do the same for his daughter, I do not see any reason why tho superin tendent of public instruction cannot appoint a relative as his assistant It is strange that one state official should be discriminated against in such a mat ter." The assessment returns from the sev eral counties show great variations in average values. The average on im proved property in Dawson is $1.34 per acre, in Box Butto SI. 37 and in Red Willow $1.40. Douglas has the highest average, $16.48, followed by Dakota, $9.67, and Sarpy, $8.20. On unimproved land Kimball is the lowest with an av crago of 96 cents per acre. Custer, Lin coln and Hooker are tied for second place at $1, and Cherry and Dundy fol low with Sl.lt Oddly enough Douglas county's unimproved realty averages higher than its improved, being $1&1& Sarpy is next highest with S6.55, fol lowed by Dakota with Sfl.13. Some miscreant recently attempted to wreck a passenger train between Teeumsch and Graf, by placing ties and stones on the track. The train was running at a high rate of speed, when the engineer saw a farmer standing in the middle of the track in a deep cut waving his handkerchief and motion ing with both hands for the train to stop. The engineer reversed and ap plied the air brakes, but it was impos sible to stop the train in so short a space and the engine crashed into the obstruction at a rate of about twenty miles an hour. Fortunately the ties that had been placed on the track were so rotten that they broke easily and to gether with the rock piled on top of them were thrown to one side by the cow-catcher without derailing the en gine. The passengers were given a severe shaking up, but no one was in jured. Guy C Barton, president of the Omaha and Grant smelter, was recently arrested charged with violating the eight-hour law. He will probably re ceive a jail sentence, and will then ap ply to the supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the law is unconstitntionaL This will be made a test case. The other evening Christian Chris tiansen, a Dane, was found dead by the side of the road south of the Elkhorn river at O'NeilL It is supposed that he fell forward out of the wagon and either died from the injury thus sus tained or from heart disease. He was seventy years old. Isaac Simmons has been bound over for trial at Lexington for arson. Trouble with his wife, with whom he has not lived for some time, caused him to set fire to his father-in-law's house it is alleged. During July 8,995 barrels of oil were inspected in Nebraska. Of that amount 5,946 barrels were gasoline aad oaly 2,049 illuminating oIL The $15000 fund for paying boaaties on wolf scalps has been exhausted. A fxytng rumor has reached Liacola of trouble' at Geneva over the material used in 'the construction of the reform school for girls. Mas. James Shobtbu, wife of a farmer living four miles aorta west of Steele City, was badly burned the other day while tryiar.to start a are with keroseae. The cam exploded, scatter ing oil all over her: She died aext day. Tax trial at Colambae of Charles Smith, arrested for striking Mrs. J. P. Abts while Be was ander the iafaeavee of Uqaor. resmltei ia Sssith tela bosad over to the district coart The charge Is assault with iateat to do great Bodily iajary. Tax farm of Jaly DEATH OF MRS. POLK. Agwi wuuw rrmMi relB rasses Away. Nasbvills, Tens., Aug. li Sar rousded by a few loviag fi lends aad relatives, Mrs. Jamas K. Polk, relict of the tenth president of the United States, died at 7:30 o'clock yesterday mora lag, peacefully and quietly, in the full possession of her natural faculties. Mrs. Polk was in perfect health until last Wednesday evening, when on re turning from a short drive she waa taken suddenly ilL She never rallied. Had she lived until September 4, next, she would have been eighteen years beyond the allotted time of three score and ten. The cause of her death was simply exhaustion resulting from old age. Mrs. Polk was, before her marri age, Miss Sarah Childress. She was born near Murfreesboro, Rutherford county, Tenn., September 4, 1803, and was the daughter of Joel and Elizabeth Child ress. Her father, a farmer in easy cir cumstances, sent her to the Moravian institute at Salem, N. C., where she was educated. On returning home she married Mr. Polk, who was then a member of the legislature of Tennessee. The following year he was elected to congress, and during his fourteen ses sions in Washington Mrs. Polk's courte ous manners, sound judgment and many attainments gave her a high place in society. On her return to Washington as tho wife of the president Mrs. Polk devoted herself entirely to her duties. She held weekly receptions and abolLshed the custom of giving refreshments to the guests. She also forbade dancing, as out of keeping with the character of these entertainments. In spite of her reforms Mrs. Polk was extremely popu lar. "Madam," said a prominent South Carolinian, at one of her receptions, "there Ls a woe pronounced againstyou in the Bible." On her inquiring his meaning, he added: "The Bible says: "Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you.' " Mrs. Polk became a communicant of the Presbyterian church in 1834, and maintained her connection with that denomination to the last After the death of her husband she resided in Nashville, in "Polk place." POWDER MILL GONE. Terrific Exploalon, Cauln the Death of ttevera! Workmen. Huntinoton, W. Va., Aug. 15. Yes terday morning about 8:30 o'clock, the powder factory in the Ohio river at Kellogg, W. Va., four miles Ih1ov Huntington, blew up from some un known causo. The explosion wih in the glazing mill building which was about twenty-five feet square and two stories higli. There were about two tons of powder in it The main mill building and in which great quantities of powder are stored was not affected. The noise of the explosion was heard twenty-five miles away and its force was so great as to literally annihilate the building. Pieces of timber were thrown across the river in Ohio. A piece of iron weighing over a ton was picked up and tossed through the nir 300 yards and buried deep in thu ground. Workmen were iust going to work in the large mill but had not yet entered it In the glazing mill at the time of the explosion were two workmen, John Baylcss and Timothy Cooncy. Only unrecognizable fragments of their bodies can be found, and two buckets full of shreds of human flesh have been gathered. George Wells, who was in a house 300 yards away, had his nkull broken by a fragment of iron which whirled through the window of the house. He is in a dying condition. I). M. Parks, Charles Knowly and John Shauster, workmen in the big mill, who were standing 400 yards away, were torribly injured by flying missiles that black ened the air. A few others are slightly hurt What caused the explosion no one is living that can tell. Moro than 1,000 people have been drawn by curiosity to tho scene. Archie Livingston, the superintendent was standing right by the mill when it was blown to atoms and ho escaped unscathed. The family of John W. Bayless, one of tho victim is inconsolable. One of his daughters is at the point of death from grief. DOLLAR WHEAT. Chicago Italia Kun Wheat Up to High Water Mark. ' Chicago. Aug. 15. There was an other wild day in the wheat pit on the board of trade, prices going up and down over a very wide range without any apparently sufficient cause. Tho bulls and bears were all on the grid iron, but the advocates of higher prices had the best of the situation and Im proved their opportunities to the extent of ultimately carrying prices to a point 4?)f cents above the closing figures the day before, and the close was 4 li cents higher. The bulls' long-delayed pre diction of dollar wheat was finally ver ified and they hailed the big round fig ure with a mighty shout This oc curred close to the end of the session and was the culmination of a rapid ad vance of 2J cent. No effort was made to put it higher and it was doubt less put to that figure for its moral ef fect Corn was strong but unsettled, though not showing as much strength as wheat Shorts were nervous over the advance in the wheat pit but it was difficult to buy owing to the scarcity of offerings. A DaageroBa Ducking. Jamestown. N. Y., Aug. 15. Just before the steamer Buffalo left for the illuminated fleet display at Chautauqua last evening a section of the deck, crowded with people, gave way, throw ing about thirty persons in the water. A scene of excitement ensued, but by prom pt action all were rescued alive. eang- I!ott Choae. Knoxyille, Tenn., Aug. 15. The re publican congressional committee met yesterday and canvassed the returns of Saturdays election. Ihe ofncial fig ures are: Honk, 15,265; Woodruff, 6,057; Hoak's majority, 9,228. OflMal AsrieaUaral CkesaUta. Washington, Aug. 15. The conven tion of the official agricultural chemist met here with a large attendance of members. President H. C Caldwell read an address, which was followed by a report from the secretary, H. M. Wiley. The remainder of the session was takea up by the discussion of routine affairs. lacrnHa WW X O ! Rarof. Atchison. Kaa.. Aug: 15. Hon. John J. Iagalls has definitely deckled not to go to Earope at present It is said that he is busy, whea aot making speeches. working oa a political book. lliml Arrivals ta London. Aug. 15. Maea has aeea said receatly eoaeeraiag the grest number of foreigners who are alleged to he arriviag ia England, it being held by many that the reported issax was dae to the exodas of Jews from Easaia. Aaeffeial report issued to-day oa the immigratioaaariaf the meathof Jaly shows that the aamber of foreigaers aaterlaff Eaglaad deriar that moata to 1.8. The of the lathe is thaa Mm tiase HIS WORK ENDED. LaweM. raw, rstrte AfUr a Vmmg a4 rrat V W HmisB to m OaspHesUaa a Alia! Brief Sketch at Mia KrtlUMt Career. BorroN. Mass., Aug. IX James Rus sell Lowell died at 2: 19 o'clock yesterday moralBg. His death waa caused by aa affection of the liver together with other ailments incidental to his ad vanced age. Mr. Lowell passed away at his home, Elmwood. in Cambridge, wherr he was born. Almost to the lat he was a hard, although erratic, worker. He had aot been seen as often in society lately as formerly, but up to five years ago he seemed in robust health. BioaairBic&i. Jaraea Eull Lovall waa bora ia Cam bridge, 3faaa February n, I91S. Tb pot was 4aealal from as Engltab family who MtUad la Saw England la tho year or 11 Ilia grandfather was made a Judg by Wash ington after having saslsted In framing th constitution of 3fasaehuatta In lta lie moved the Inaertloa la the bill of rlgbU ol that atats of the claaae that "All men are bors free and equal." and earned great emi nence aa a lawyer. The family of the Lowella gave Ita namo to the city of Lowe!!. The deceaaed waa the too of Charlea Low. elL aad In genius and character waa the hereditary reprctcntatlve of the hert and hralas that founded Sew England, lis was JAMES KC8SELL LOWELL. the youngeat of five children. From both parenta were tranamtttad high Intelligence, aound principle and right Ideal, but the poetle and Imaginative faculty came from the leather. Ilia birthplace was tho old tory mansion now called -Klmwood." a largo three atory square, wooden home In the early colonial style, altuated In apaclnua grounda, surrounded by magnificent etnif and plnea planted by bla father, with an outlook on the Charlr river. Lowell waa fitted for college by William Well who tai the senior of the Arm that published th aeries of Wells A Lilly classic. He entered Harvard in hlo sixteenth year and was Kraduated In l-W. Ill first piihllnhod literary production, iiiilf probably some poema of Harvarillnna." which ho edltnt In 1M7-8, wa his noted claa poem. cotnpofd under peculiar circumstances. At the time of wrltliiK t tho collcglutu senior waa undergoing a brief period of rustication at Concord, In consequence ol Inattention to hi toit book. Hi force 1 sojourn in tills Arcadia of cholarhlp nnd reform brought htm Into relationship with the triiuicndutallt. who in that dar were in th habit of gathering at tho home of KmiT'on. with whom thou begun that frleudih p whtcli. dt-tpitn the playful snlllrs of tho younger port In hi earlier writing, only terminated with the death of thn eldf r. The young satirist saw the httmorotu aide of thn social movements of the day, and tho claai poem, a;ltitlllat. Ing with wit. attacked the abolitionist. Carlylo, Kmeraon and tranaccndentallst. In tho law school of Harvard Iwolt received the degree of LL II and was admitted to the bar In Itjlu, Tito only record of the practice of his profeaalon I found In a story entitled "My First Client." published In the Huston Miscellany. Henceforth he gave himself en tirely to literature. In 111 a volume ol poem, written under thn Influence of afire tlon for a woman of genius who became hi wife, wjs published under the title of 'A Ycar'a Life." The volume waa ncTcr republished, and ol the aeventy poema only a small part hav been deeuird worthy of reprinting by the author. HI marriage to the woman who Inspired these poema took place In 1H4. Maria White wa an ardent abolitionist, and no doubt her Influnnce assisted In turning his thoJghta to the serious side of that cause to which he rendered Immortal service. To understand Lowell'a character It li necessary to remember that he was not only a poet, a scholar and a humorist, but alwayi a conservative and a critic No man wai more thoroughly Imtnod than he with the fundamental principles of American democ racya democracy without dcmagogltm; no man more Jealous than hoof theuntarnlshed reputation of Atnerloa In politics and lltera ture: no man more quick to see any depart tire from the high Ideal of the republic, and ills flaming pen was turned to attack what ever assailed this Ideal at one time slav ery, at another tltno vicious political methods threatening the purity of demo cratlc society Ills radicalism was always conservative, hie criticism always construe live. Lowell and his wlfo were regular con tributors to the Liberty Hell, and hla name appeared In 1S4I in the Anti-Slavery "land ard as corresponding editor. In this paper from ISO to V his poems during that period mostly appeared. Later the Boston Courier was the vchlclo of hi productions, and In Ita columns the drat series of the "Illglow Papers" waa given to the public, beginning In the Issue for June. ISsA and ending In 14. In 1943 he undertook the editing of the Pioneer, a literary and critical magaclne. Only three numbers were published, the venture falling through financial disaster to the publsherm. In this magazine was begun a series of essays on the poets and dramat ists, which afterward formed the material for "Conversations With Some of the Old Poets." In 14 came a volume of vcre contalnlng-A Legsnd of Ilrlttany." with thirty-three miscellaneous poems and thirty seven sonnet. These were followed In IMS by "The Vision or Sir Laun fal," one J the most exquisite productions of hla genius, a poem fonnded on the legend of the Holy Grail, which Is said to have been composed In a sort of frenzy in about forty-eight hours, during which the poet scarcely ate or slept. In 177 Mr. Lowell was appointed by Presi dent Hayes to the Spanish mission, from which be was transferred to the conrt of St. James. In 1W1 Lowell was deputed as minister to England and. until recalled by President Cleveland, he was our representative at ft. James. Lowell's f mt wife died In P&L He married a second time In 1S? Mis Donlsp, of Port land. Me., and who died In IMS. Crops In Good Shape. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 13. The cotton crop outlook in Texas and the Indian I t-eitiir J trrr nmmitinp. The aCTO- age is fully 10 per cent, larger than last year, and the condition about 15 p cent, better. The crop is ten days late. The corn crop is made and sbandant in north and east Texas with enough to supply home consumotion a a rale in other portions of the state. The acre age is in excess of last year. Corn and other crops in Brewster county In the Rio Grande valley of west central Texas were totally destroyed by grasshopper. Sugar and hay prospect are favorable. A awlaJ . St. Paul. Mltx.. Aug. IS. The Daily News yesterday afternoon published as elaborate statement showing that tt ha positive information that the so-called Isold-your-wheat- Farmer's Allisaoc eircHlar was gotten up by Minneapolis speculators and that all expenses are being paid by that crowd. A stranger was imported to handle the alliance men aad get them to father the Hove MBt. The syndicate have ,9aa,eee of old wlwat to unload aad if they can tmll the market aad mnload they will thes let it slump to buy ia the aew crop at reduced prices, BTwM-i rar Ckjcaso, Ac- 13. Chief Eaia?r Gottlieb, of the world's fair, astoakhe1 the officials of the bxbos I tioa fey tea deriaff ha resigaaU t Mob Bay crrealB TJaatasI preesatioa were takes hy the directors to keep the act ef Mr. GotUSefe'a realaatlo freest the Bah lic. Mr. GottlieVs rasJcBstaOB h the rasmlt of a leac series of saiaosiirr-Usat(afi with Chief of CesastreetksB Bbtbbsbi Beth ef strear eeasictkiBav Obi it f the aBBB aasjocxaai ataoers Mm iSi temv Ear ' UYINQ WOMEN. Mow ta Cklasaa tm AwatrmNa WtVtMsw A Chinaman living la AiraUa, when aaxkms to have a wife of his wa aa tion, send a letter Ut aa ageat ia Hoag Kong, written in some such term as these: "I want a wife She st be makiea under twenty yt an of age. a4 mat not have left her father' hoa. She rant also have never read a book, aad her eyelahe muat half aa inch in length. Her teeth taut b a spark ling as the pearls of Ceylon. Her breath must be like unto the acenU of the magnlSceat odorous groves of Java. and her attire must be from the Jlkrn weavers, of Ka-la-Ching. which ar oa the banka of the greatest rlrrr in the world the crer-flowlng Y8gUe-Kl-ang." The price of a Chinese woman, dellv erc! In Sydney, U thirty-eight pounds but two Chlnesxi women only eot fifty two pound, therefore the Chine Im port the women In couples. The Import er never 5co hU women before they arrive, and then he generally select tho besA looking one. The other la shown around to a number of wrllU do Chinese, and after they have lnpeet cd her ahe U submitted to what may be called public auction. The writer happened to be present at one of these vslcv A young girl, aged about ten. was offered, and. after some spirited bidding, purchased by a wealthy Chinese nhopkeeper, whose place of b ine U one of the leading towns of New South Wale, for one hundred and twen ty poundv The melancholy aspect of the girl as she weut away In company of tho man who had purchased her was deplorable in the extreme ShcQie Id (Eng.) Telegraph. theTlaziest MAN. Too Indolent to l.te and Mr Illed t Ktertlno. "Kemcmber ltllklnar he asked after they had exchanged grectinjr and got ten down to reminiscence of the daya when they were boy. "Lazy Hilkins?" a-krd the other. "The Mine." Hilklns tho boy who was too laiy to cry when his father licked him?" "That's the one." "Afterwards became labor agitator or something of that sort?" "Yes." 0, yes, I remember him. He wa always kicking." "Always. Hut he's happy now." "You don't mean It! What's happened to him?" "He's dead." The other llfftircd on the mntter for a minute nnd then said: "I'm. well, I don't know about hla lnlng happy Seems to mo you're, tak ing a good deal for granted. You don't know where ho'a gone." "That make no difference," wa tho j reply. "He doesn't have to work for his living in cither place, and he'll stand i tli.. tlivnmfortA kll rL'hL" Chicago Tribune. The e Nymph. First Seashore Maiden 1 can swim beautifully now. Can you? Second Seashore Maiden No, but I will bet you a box of candy that I can drown quicker than you. Munaey's Weekly. Ieath and Tme Aro not surer than the fact that if vou sre constipated, tho most efficient, u well a the least painful lasatlve, I Hosteller' Htom aoh Hitters, gentlo and thorough, not vio lent nml weakening like, a drastic cathartic. Together with the bowels, th liver and stomach aro rrguUted and Invigorated by this genial reformer, which also subjugate ninlarla. rheumatism, nnirulgls, nervous ness and disorder of tho kidney. l'tortg who wear tight she may not t!to thn prtxo at a rake walk, but they often seen ro tho bun i o. bunion. Washington Hatchet Ixri'KC lllood 1 the primary csu of the majority of dicac to which tho human family Is subject. The blood In passing through the system visit every portion n? th body If pure, carrying strength and vitality; If impure, tfien and death. Blood poisoning (a mot dangerotia Prickly Ash Hitter will render tho Ut Impossible, and will reflate the s; teui so tht health will bo a stiro result. TitRtnannho want the earth need not expect to get It without advertising. Indl anspolla Journ-L A rieaelna; n Of health snd strength renewed snd of and comfort follows tho use of Hyrup of FJg, as It sets In harmony with naturs to effectually cleanse thoavatem when costive or bilious. For sain In ioc and 11.00 bottles by all loading drug-gist. A xvaio dealer sdverttsas "The Hmoker's rVng " A spit tunc, probsbly. Koetm Commercial Bulletin Trksr Is one remedy tbst has saved many sdQblllUlcd.blo-jd poisoned mortal loallfe of happy usolulness and robust health. It will save j ou If you will give it a trial It is Hr John Hull Hareaperlll. Any medi cine dealer will aupply you. You do your self injustice It you fall to use it. Ira woman would chance her seg. what would be her religion t Fho would be a ho then, of con ran. .Vidlonsl Weekly. Au. cases of weak or tame back, backache, rheumatism, wlil find relief tf wearing one of Carter Hmart Weed sad itellsdonss HackachePlsslcrs. Price X cents. Try then. Tni la verr well put remarked the editor, as be dropped Iho twai into the wastebaskai. Waaiitngton rtar rugL next thkla often prodoca s rah, reraorsble with (Jlcon aHuipburHosp. IliU'a Hslr aad Whisker Dj, :o eats Tns msn who occuple xbt front ,' rot slwsys tM most advsnrl thlaker. Colatnbu Post. No KCMXDT ha save,! sarje filf dren's lives at Vr Hall Worm lAcstroyrra. They never fall and ch.Wrvo like them u. , It tatcs asasuaily rod ewlnnorr Bowsdsys to Boat s ajJfvUw Mru- Hist, easiest to v,". s.d cfcept Fi .. i rLrfii Brdruurrsi. c timiriii - - THE GENERAL MARKETS. K-"A CATTLE BJpp!nf errr. . it. I 4 irt m s in jm Itsusmf t-tr XsliT Wl llOC,Oorl Ut ettficm JSo. J BatI. - . OORS o,I OAT So.1 BTC-Xo. J - rLOL'K rat-t. pT e Tttcj HAT-RJ1 BCTTTJt Ca-t crr7 . CHCaC rU Hi; Ctoof BACOX Utan ... - Stko-afcJcrs .... , LAK1 . . -- rOTATOtS. Hi m sse ?Mw 37 7f M 3 X I lb 17 j rr ts h a -. Vi r T. IfXTUL CATTlX-fcr? . ... ? BaWlxrtV St.-. 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"HesHa sad rsBri oa America's OrssV est K4!re4" 1 tss UU ef a asarwlsg tit tle v4ss ed hr U Pa PlrV sat0fUHt5w York Central Ha4ft Rlvrr rsllrw4. with sw sad sttracwva fesure-s mMd U the p-aBWesile ef fenasr Tse rroe:iaj,''' I 8a vlw of taat -bleslroclar, t Wss&lsgtos riti4fmerf U Harkmi, hut last I merri? a Mai ef ta fceaatirs tt follow 5o es who g!es jrer the fcook ca fall lo gvt a nmpr1; slvhaef lh wealth sfwewt J tarwsga walch Ihe rosd p. lUt ,, vaJub Ufrat tnatl jHewaUrsT sheared ihrosgfcoui the two la rwgsrd to the VotU sad bor41a !. t prwew cf essrd. t frv. lh d$ce t 9 Neeieurslea. sod. la word, sll Us thsl nasally faqulrta pr. taesaaf ' War 1st. csa polWr lain of desirtsg ta lars, Cotlc ef thWok wll b farwsrdast Tr io say a.Mrr upon rwelpl of l pctugo by (Jeunr H. taW, Oerl -eagrr Ag Oraad CtrJ 8ty w lseagr AgvaV, t'hJcago. It I no weJr tal th prtc ciktss can be! of lrg" crcv ' & everything la by tb peva. - HaJUaaorw Acceri-n Ta OwJy Oa Kr Prtatv-C Cm. T FT4 th w.rur Keh wees, s dlffrreat 3 tseh dttpUy Is published in th prr. Tbwrv sx ao two wrd silk) to either a.1 rteept t)a sront This word wlU bv fniR. la th ad fr Dr. ltartera Iron Toe. to, Uttie Uvr HM sad Wild Cherry lllturv Lk for - Crat" tra.li mark. Head the avL car'nHy and wbeo you find the word. nd It U thew and they will return vou a txu, buUfal ittb Tpb. sad aaatple frt Tsa spoon crsj jrvsvleai th watawtef ?! It lake eu'r two W make a fuu aL llesten llerald Vkis In the Side nerty al waj eome frets Sdisordered liver and I procnpUy reJtvsl by Carter s LtlUsUvcr PUla !Aa't forget UU. Hcxoai is the summer landlord's day ef wret IUsUm Tranaf rtpt. Tht tmoUfM it the iA in pill, other thing leing cmal. Hut, with lr, IVrec's Pleasant 1V lets, nothing oUe ij etjual. They're tho Ixvd, not only because they're tho MJiallest, and the oasirst to take hut Invauso they tlo tnorr good. They cleanse nnd rruUto the liver, stomach ami IhmN m a way tho huge, ohl- fahionrl pill doesn't dream of. Think of trying to nrju UiU tho system with the ordinary pill. It's only fjiHxl for upsetting tu The" arr miM anl grnllehut thorough and rfTrctiv no pain no griping. Onrhttlv Juliet for a lata, tive thre for a cathartic. Tho boat Liver Pill known. S,ick Head ache, Hlliou Headache, intlpa tion, Indigestion, Milioti AtUtiks and all derangement of tho liver, stomach and iMiwel are prevented, relieved and cured Put up in ealed ial - a jwrfecl vest-pocket remedy, always conven ient, fre.ih and reliable. They're the rioixjf pill you can Imv for they'rt! ymtrttntted to giro satisfaction, or your money is re turned. It' a plan peculiar to Dr. Pierce, medicine. You pay only for the good tow. get. Can you ask more? "August Flower J For Dynpepsln. A. llcllangcr, Propr.. Stove Foun dry. Montagny, QucIkc, writes " I have umI August Flower for I)y pepsia. It gave mc great relief. 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