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faimt Appeal,
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8T. PAUL, MNNESOTA.
CURRENT COMMENT.
DB. TANNER- member for Mid-Cork,
is goi ng to publish a novel called "Ger-
ald Grantley's Revenge." Ej,r
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MANUEL BAKREENT and wife of Mata-
moras, Mexico, recently celebrated the
eightieth anniversary of their wedding.
The husband is 10 2 and the wife 96/ r'
ONE of the wealthiest women in
Chicago is Mrs. Muncel Talcott, a
childless widow of three score years.
Her income is $50,000 per annum, and
of this sum she devotes $45,000 to lo-
cal charity.
I has been some time since the
American public has heard anything
about Louise Michel, the famous
Parisian agitator. I seems she has
been devoting herself to literary work
and will soon publish a volume dl poems
entitled "Les Oceaniennes."
Gov. AMES of Massachusetts gives
evidence of the fact the heated term has
arrived. recently said in a public
address, "The man who has wine regu-
larly upon his table is justly the subject
of widespread remark, and is not held
in the highest estimation by his fellow-
men
ME. RICHARD T. BOOTH, the tem
perance advocate, has returned to Bos-
ton from a seven-years' tour around
the world. I the course of his labors
he has induced more than a million
person sign the pledge. is about
to set out for another foreign cam-
paign.
AccoEDrNG to the Berlin Tageblatt
Bjornsterne Bjornson has renounced the
annual allowance paid him by the Norwe-
gian Government because the Storthing
disregarded his intercession in favor
a similar grant to the writer Alexander
Kjelland. I his letter to the Storth-
ing Bjornson said that the reasons for
disallowing Kjelland's claim held good
his own case also.
J. R. HUNTINGTON of Amesbury,
Mass., has decided to erect on the
public square of that town a heroic
statue of his maternal ancestor, Dr.
Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence. A
portrait of Dr. Bartlett by Trumbull
will furnish the sculptor, Karl Gerhardt,
his inspiration. Dr. Bartlett was the
first Governor of New Hampshire after
it became a State.
JOHN BROWN JR., son of the Har-
per's Ferry raider, is now 66 years old,
and is engaged in grape-growing on
Put-in-Bay Island, in Lake Erie.
is a Justice of the Peace of Put-in-Bay
Township, consisting of eight inhabited
islands in that part of the lake.
has for many years given much at-
tention to geology, particularly to the
evidences of glacial action as shown on
islands of Lake Erie and vicinity.
A WHITER in the New York Tribune
says: "I Ecclesiastes, Chap. ii.
Verse 8, Solomon says: I got me men
singers, and women singers, and musi-
cal instruments of all sorts and, be
hold, all was vanity and vexation of
spirit.' From this it is evident that
Solomon "came to grief" trying to
run a national opera company.
could manage 300 wives, 70 0 concu-
bines, and the Queen of Sheba, but the
opera was to much for him."
MRS. JAMES P. SCOT T, of Philadel-
phia, whose recent death in London has
caused such widespread regret, had
ma ny peculiar accomplishments. Sh
had a knowledge of the technicalities
of architecture, and the finest residence
in the Quaker city bears witness to her
taste and ability in this direction. She
was a thorough and practical house-
keeper, and was also an adept in the
dressmaker's art. Besides all this, she
danced well, rode magnificently, paint-
ed skillfully in water colors and was an
accomplished musician.
Ex-Gov. RICE of Massachusetts says
that "if the the Republican convention
deems it most advisable to select Mr.
Mr. Blaine as the stand-bearer again he
will carry the State just as he did be-
fore. I have no more doubt of that
than I have of my existence. Mr.
Blaine is not the favorite of Massachu-
chusetts for the nomination. never
was. Bu the is much stronger today
than he was before his previous nomi-
nation. Hi conduct of the campaign
and his dignified bearing since the ca
paign have won him the warm respect
of our people."
THE Buda-Pesth correspondent of
the New York Staats-Zeitung, a member
of the Hungarian Diet, thus speaks of
the Hungarian Premier: "The most
powerful man in the Empire is today
beyond any doubt Koloman Tisza, the
President of the Hungarian Ministry.
is for Hungary pretty much what
Cavour was wh en Ki ng Victor Em-
manuel said of him 'W have a con-
stitution, two Chambers, an Adminis-
tration, a ad a judiciary, and all this to-
gether is called Cavour.' Everything
in the Hungarian Empire put together
called Tisza*"
recommended, and the celebration in 1888
Dairymen at Elgin, Ills., have been
forced to succomb for the season. There
has been very little rain there since the 1st
of May. Pastures since then have been
shrinking, until now only the raw, coarse
slough grass affords a bite. The young
trees are stripped of leaves, and many
farmers are dependent entirely upon feed
ing from the rack. The supply of milk
shows an average decrease of 60 per cent.
This is below the winter rate of supply, as
the heat acts injuriously upon cattle. One
farmer offers to furnish his farm, one of the
best in the valley, stock, etc., and $1,000
cash, to some responsible man to run it and
pay expenses till March, 1S88.
Anvil firing and fire works were indulged
at Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday emng
over the anti-prohibition victory. A keg of
powder had been secured and one of the
boys was seated thereon, when some one
from the other side of the square fired a
rocket which struck the keg of powder,
causing a terrific explosion. The boy was
blown several feet in the air. He was
burned on every part of his body, and ex
pired Sunday morning. A boy of 6 years
was burned so badly that he died Sunday
afternoon. Three other boys were terribly
burned.
A colored woman named Anna Watkins
apparently died at Paducah, Ky., on Satur
day, and was prepared for the grave, and
all arrangements for the funeral made. As
theneiggbors were gathering for the sad
rights, the supposed corps astonished every
body by sitting up in her coffin. The as
sembled darkies fled in wild confusion, and
refused to return. Some white women
went to the house and assisted her, and
Anna has so far recovered as to be able to
participate in the emancipation celebration
Monday.
Comptroller of the Currency Trenholm
has called upon the National banks for a
report of their condition at the close of
business Aug. 1. The information embodied
in the report just called for is expected to
be particularly valuable as showing how the
banks are prepared to meet the approach
ing demands for funds to move the crops.
All banks that failed to send in reports
under tbe last call within the time specified
by law were fined, and the fines have been
collected and paid into the treasury.
Additional advices from the town of Mil
brook, Kan., which was struck by a
cyclone last Thursday evening, are to the
effect that the place was practically
demolished, 79 buildings, including hotels,
school houses, churches, stores and
residences being wholly or nearly des
troyen. The
losses_
EVENTS O THE WEEK. July there was a net decrease of 16.688,748
in the cash in the treasury and a net in
crease of $4,047,133 in the circulation. The
Domeatfo Hews decreas!ein the cash was main|y in gold cer-
The annual meeting of the Gathotio
and 4th. The treasurer's report showed a f18'
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Total itstamer's^on nf L^nited, f*WW/
States was he Philadelphia on the^rdl
Tbe
balance on hand of $503.43. A committee issued a call for a national convention at
of one from each subordinate union was 5mcimwttSept.lSiiext*^
chosen to attend Pope Leo's golden jubilee mu_ pi__4._ _r^v-_i _r 1 __
celebration. Bishop Kean, of Richmond, TJe Planters Mohthly, of Honolulu, estt-
delivered an eloquent address and re- mates the sugar crop of 1887 at between 90,-
ceivedavote of thanks from the conven- 000 and 100,000, tons as against 108,000'tons
tion. The report of the committee on last year. #_r j. %&,*..
resolutions, as adopted, is quite lengthy. __ *n#f M!~
Special reference is made to Ireland, and
foot up $68,0o0.
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The
people are in great distress and a relief iu
committee has been organized to solicit aid _W
dred upon freight to Houston or Galveston, m_e _~
Tex., while toother points in Texas much
nearer to San Francisco they charge $4. recent railway accident at St. Thomas,
Complainants are consequently compelled Ont., have returned a verdict that the
to ship to Houston or Galveston, tiiere to accident was due to the carelessness of the
be shipped back to destination. They ask officials and employes of the Grand Trunk
an investigation and relief. Railway
company.on
The imports of dry goods at the port of
New York last week amounted to $2,598,339,
of which $1,852,813 were entered for con
sumption and $745,496 were warehoused.
The amount withdrawn from warehouses
for the week was $624,167, making the total
amount thrown on the market $2,480,010.
At Detroit, Mich., Sam Woo, a Chinese
laundryman, brought suit for libel the
United States court against tbe Free Press,
claiming $10,000 damages. He alleges that
the Free Press falsely stated that he fought
sparrows in his establishment.
AtMarshfield, Athens Co., Ohio, Louis
Schmitt, known as "Rough on Rats"
Schmitt, aged 59, committed suicide Mon
day afternoon by shooting himself in the
forehead. This was his eighth attempt on
his life.
Secretary Fairchild has directed the
anticipation of the interest on the public
debt due on Sept. land Jan. L, with 2 per
cent rebate, and invited proposals for the
sale of 4% per cent bonds for the sinking
fund
Secretary Fairchild has received applica
tions for prepayment of interest on $5,269,-
250 of bonds, in accordance with his recent
circular offering to anticipate interest. The
interest will be paid on the the 15th inst.
Dr. E. Salton, chief of the bureau of
animal industry, has left Washington for
Delaware and Ulster counties, New York,
to personally investigate the outbreak of
contagious pieuro-pneumonia.
On Monday, at the navy department, bids
were opened for the construction of three
steel cruisers of about 4,000 tons disp'acu
ment, and two steel gunboats of about 1,700
tons displacement.
A statement prepared at the treasury de
partment shows that during the month of
wa
The demand for freight cars has increased slaughter. -____ __ ____
so rapidly within the past week that the __ 1
railroads cente-ring in Pittsburg, Pa., are Thm^day morning fire broke out in a
taxed beyond their capacity. ThePennsyl- cracker bakery at Baltimore, Md., and be-
vania company has requisitions for 1,000 fore its progress was stayed, a candy fac-
more cars west of Pittsburg than they can tory, two agricultural warehouses, two
furnish now that the coke strike is practi- grain commission houses and a book stoi-
cally settled this demand will be largely i were burned. Two firemen lost their lives,
creased. The same difficulty is experienced The loss on property destroyed exceeds
along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio rail- $500,000.
road and its branches. _. ._,
An incendiary fire at Evansville, Ind., on
The historic Lutheran church, the corner the 3rd destroyed 7,000,000 feet of lumber,
stone of which was laid in 1743, and stand- in3 lumber yards, a large warehonse con-
ing a mile from Strouchsburg, Berks Co., taining grain, general merchandise and
Pa., was struck by lightning Aug. 2, and tobacco, two dwellings, several stables and
burned, 'ihe edifice with organ and S. S. 15 cars of grain on the Peoria, Decatur &
library was worth $20,0u0. I was a land- E_ansville R. Loss $500,000, insurance
mark among the Lutheran churches in
a and the very first erected iAmericcountramong this
San Francisco, California, has been
indulging in the eastern luxury of a wheat
corner, and a close estimate as to losses
inflicted on the bull wheat clique by the
collapse of the corner make them between
$5,000,000 and $6,000,000, in addition to
which the clique is still holding and paying
storage on enormous quantities of wheat.
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TiiedecrgMeintheiiisfcionalban
distillers' and wholesale liquor Zeal
national protective association have
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of the semi-centennial anniversary of the N Y., on the 7th, the thermometer register-
signing of Father Mathew's pledge is ing 40.
specially urged. The election of officers __
resulteudi iun thv following:- President*, vue __v.
Thomas J. Conaly, of Worcester, Mass.
vice-president, Rev. Thomas E. Walsh, of
Notre Dame college, Ind.: treasurer. Rev.
Philip J. Corrigan, of Fitehburg, Mass.
secretary Philip A. Nolan, of Philadelphia.
Rev. M. E. Murphy, of Stillwater', Minn.,
was elected provincial vice-president of the
Milwaukee district. The next meeting
will be held in Boston in August, 1888.
A synopsis of business transacted in the
general land office at Washington during
the week ending July 30 showed the total
number of acres of state and territorial
grants still pending to be 6,345,918 and 306
private claims are still undisposed of. Ap
plications for public lands within supposed
railroad grants. 8,605: railroad selections
pending involving 21,077,878 acres wagon
road selections pending involving 239,344
acres number of land grant railroads, 49,
involving 148,024,340 acres land grant
wagon roads 7, involving 3,276,583 acres
acres patented to July 30, 1,783,330 acres
separate cases pending by actual count,
68,606,405. Contested cases were disposed
of during the week ending July 30, leaving
12,696 cases undisposed of. Final homestead
entries pending July 80, leaving 12,696 cases
undisposed of. Final homestead entries
pending 10,579 cash entries, 24,646 fradu
Ient entry cases pending 3,530. Of the sev
eral appropriations made for the public
land service for the fiscal year ending June
30,1888, some $45,000 are available.
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Rev Upon the 8th, the majority against prohi
bition in Texas had crept up to 78,000.
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Crime* fgP^
The trial at Chicago, of the com-xttifoners
of Cook county and other officials, eleven
in all, under _m omnibus indictment for
conspiracy to defraud the county resulted
on Friday in the conviction of all the
defendants and the jury fixed the penalty
for seven of them at two years in the
penitentiary and a fine of $1,000 each, for
the others.
Charles McCard and Michael O'Hara,
farmers, living near Grand Rapids, Mich.,
have quarrelled for over a year about the
possession of a piece of land. McCard was
at his father's bouse, when O'Hara came
along with a shot gun on his shoulder,
which he has habitually carried since the
trouble. William McCard got a gun from
the house and Charles crept down to the
roadside and shot O'Hara, -dlling him in
stantly. The two McCards went to Grand
Rapids, Sunday, and gave themselves up.
About six weeks ago, Mrs. Beall, a farm
er's wife, was found dead at her home near
Eaton, Ohio, by her husband, upon his re
turn from town, having been shot twice and
her head nearly cut off. Mrs. Beall was left
at home that morning with her son John,
aged 13, who reported 3 tramps had visited
the house, and while he was asleep commit
ted the terrible crime. The boy has now
confessed that he killed his mother, being
angry at favoritism shown his sister, who
was taken to town by the father, he being
obliged to remain at home.
At Detroit, Mich., Ex-Mayor W. W.
Wheaton was assaulted and terribly beaten
in front of his own house by Herbert O.
Allen and two other men who are unknown.
Allen claims on Saturday morning Wheaton
insulted his wife by tapping her on the
shoulder, saying that he had long admired
her and that he would make a closer ac
quaintance profitable. Wheaton denies
that he ever saw the woman, or was at the
spot where the alleged insult was given.
He will prosecute his assailants, in which
case a very lively and sensational suit will
result. Mrs. Allen is a handsome Canadian
who was married to a sporting man named
Glen, was divorced from him, and after
procuring a separation made up with him
again. She is some 12 or 15 years older
than her belligerent husband.
All the members of the family of Richard
Woolfolk himself, his wife, his six children
and an aunt of Mrs. Woolfolk, were mur
dered Friday night by a son of the head of
the family by his first marriage, at the
Woolfolk farm 13 miles from Macon, Ga.
The nine victims of the murderous hand
of Thos. G. Woolfolk were buried Sunday.
Four thousand people were present at the
funeral, many of whom had followed the
eight hearses to Macon from the scene of
the tragedy, thirteen miles away. The pro
cession started from the Woolfo\k House at
6 o'clock Sunday morning and arrived at
Macon at 10 o'clock, followed by along line
of carriages and buggies, not one of which
contained a person bearing the name of the
victims. Mrs. Edwards, of Athens, Ga., a
sister of the murderer, arrived at Macon
Sunday morning. Her frantic grief brought
tears to the eyes of many. It was deemed
advisable to take the prisoner away from
Macon, so the sheriff quietly took him to
Atlanta. He will be kept there until his
trial begins.
Fires and Ci.raa.ltlM. t*
Clarksburg, W. Va., had a 25,000 fir on
the 4th.
Two hotels were burned, by incendiary
fire at Dunkirk, N. Y., on the 5th loss $75,-
000, insurance very small.
A passenger train was wrecked Thursday
afternoon near Greenwood Va., and the
baggage master killed and a dozen passen
gers injured.
-xri A Nashville, Tenn., the New Era flouring
8 were tofcillv dfirirmr_rf -_
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destr
for the families whose homes were swept JEPJSF* originating from a hot box
away. loss $60,000. insurance $32,000.
LiebBros. &Co., of San Francisco, com- Twenty-two buildings, embracing two
plain to the interstate commission that the squares of the village of Bowling Green,
Texas & Pacific and the Southern Pacific Wood county, Ohio, were destroyed by fire,
railroad companies charge $2,27 per nun- on the 4th, which
brokye
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S^^arrels^
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out in a bake
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nearly $100,00 0
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coinage the mints during July was
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the work done by her sons in the cause of $1,960,000, of whichs$800,000 was in standar,d
temperance is commended. The organiza* silver dollars.
tion of a cadet temperance corps is _m
reported at Wellsville
Spettigu-e committed a charge of man
Friday night Franklin, Pa., was visited
with a cyclone and the western part of the
city was inundated. A fifteen thousand
barrel tank of oil was struck by lightning
and set on fire, but fortunately controlled
or the largest oil works in the world would
havebeendestroyeJ. The damage bv fire
amounted to $20,000.
On Saturday, while Mrs. Owen Hale, liv
ing near Etna, Pa., was gone to carry her
husband's supper to a furnace where he
worked, one of her children poured some
coal oil into the stove, the can exploding
and burning the four children so seriously
that one died shortly after and the others
are not expected to recover.
Cincinnati, Ohio, had a cyclone touch
Friday afternoon, blowing down a barn
and house on Vine St, hill. Ih the latter,
eight men were at work, 6 carpenters and 2
masons the house was literally broken to
pieces and thrown down the hill in a heap
tbe carpenters were only slightly hurt, but
the two masons were mortally wounded.
At Tuscola, HI., the wife of James Haynes
was trampled to death by a mad bull, while
attempting to drive the bull out of the front
door yard. She fought the animal as long
as her strength held out, and as no one
came to her assistance her life was trampled
and gored ont before the eyes of her two
little children. She was shockingly man
gled.
During the 5th, fifty tons of rock fell in
the eastern end of the Cascade tunnel, in
Oregon, now building by the Northern
Pacific railroad, killing four men and
wounding several others. It is thought
none of the wounded will die. The men
claim that the contractors were careless
and did not timber the tunnel fast enough
to keep up with the boring.
Mrs. W. H. Lisle of Lansingburg, N Y.,
took the cars for Glens Fall. Tuesday
afternoon. When the train was slowing up
at Ft. Edward, she became suddenly ex
cited and threw one of her children off the
train and with another one in her arms
jumped off, only to be crushed to death
with her child, under the whee's. The
other child was pulled from the track in
time to save its life. t^*****
A East Saginaw, Michf, a1fcll_f$ast five
Wednesday evening fire started in the saw
null of Jno. G. Owen, of that city, and
ttoedifflnou8and 3,-
5W,(0 feet of lumber, bla_*_mith shop and
three salt drill houses were destroyed in
volying a loss of $137,000, with insurance of
$00,000.
Millbrook, Graham county, l-ansas, 20
miles from Kansas City, was almost de
stroyed about sundown Friday by a
swatehtj^d coming from slightly west of
north. The place contains -bout 500 in
habitants. Only one house or residence
escaped serious damage. One person, a
boy about 3 yean old, was killed, and about
25 were injured. Soma sustained broken
limbs, but only one of the injured is likely
to die. ThisisW. B. ICeithfleld, a furniture
dealer of Wakeny.
Politlea- and Penoiu_u
Attorney General Garland has gone to
Arkansas with his son and daughter. He
will return to Washington in about six
weeks.
The Texas election upon Prohibition transj
piredon the 4th the Prohibitionists admit
defeat by 15,000, and the anti-Prohibition
ists claim 50,000 majority.
At Syracuse, N. Y., Mrs. John Greenway,
widow of the wealthy brewer, has been
adjudged an habitual drunkard by a
sheriff's jury and as unable to take care of
her property. *gf
Miss Josie Holmes, a former clerk in the
Fidelity Bank at Cincinnati, who has been
held in custody nearly a month under a de
mand for $10,000 bail, has now been released
upon her own recognisance.
An elaborate and -handsome memorial
bound in Turkish morocco, and containing
the signatures of theAeads of the treasury
department and bureau officers, has been
sent to ex-Secretary Manning as a souvenir
of the sender's appreciation.
The Maryland Prohibitionists have put
the following State ticket in nomination:
For governor, Summerfield Baldwin, of
Baltimore for attorney general, James
Pollard, of Baltimore for comptroller,
Thomas E. Wright, of Cambridge
United States Consul Allen Francis, aged
73, residing at St. Thomas, Ont., who was
injured in the recent railroad accident at
that place died suddenly August 4, from the
effects of his injuries, the immediate cause
of death being paralysis of the heart. He
had been in the diplomatic service twenty
years.
J. C. Flood, one of the California mining
millionaire quartet of Mckay, oFair, Flood
and O'Brien, the most celebrated, perhaps,
of all the lucky Forty-niners, is lying proba
bly upon his death bed at Melno Park, his
residence near Ban Francisco. His danger
ous malady is an abscess in the head.
The consecration of Archdeacon Fink
ham, the new bishop of the diocese of Sas
katchewan, took place'in Holy Trinity
church, at Winnipeg, Man., last Sunday
morning. The services were very im
pressive, and were witnessed by a large
congregation. The bishops of Minnesota,
North Dakota, Qa'Appelle, Rupert's Land.
Moosonee, Athabasca, Huron, Ontario
and upwards of forty clergy were presen
Bishop Whipple of Monnr--^_
Sgwj^te--firt_a,n:_^_^ the evening
Senator Sherman of Ohio, enroute to
Alaska, reached Winnipeg. Man., Monday.
a^K'^s_""Vie membeLr of congress Amos Townsend,
The Democrats of Virginia held a state
convention Roanoke, on the 4th, the chief
object of which was to give an authorata
tive party expression upon the debt ques
tion, regarding which the following resolu
tion was adopted: FourthWe approve the
action of the last general assembly at its
extra session in 1887, in refusing to accept
the terms proposed by the bond-holders, in
connection with a settlement of the public
debt. The Democratic party will never
support or sanction any adjustment of the
debt which shall impose larger liability
upon the commonwealth than that recog
nized and provided for by the Riddleberger
bill and we pledge the party to enact all
laws necessary to render such a settlement
effective, final and decisive. The adminis
tration of President Cleveland was cordially
endorsed in the resolutions and speeches.
National aid to education and liberal
pensions were also approved.
The Twelve Apostles, will for the present
direct the Mormon church, Wilford Wood
ruff being President thereof. It has been
thought by some that either George Q. Can
non or Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the
original Joseph, would assume the leader
ship. Woodruff is in the regular line of
succession, and his address assuming con
trol would indicate that there was to be no
departure from the order. Woodruff is
eighty years old, and a man of mediocre
ability. He has been hiding for two years,
and is still out of sight save to the faithful.
His presidency will not be as vigorous or
popular as would have been Cannon's or
Smith's. As a matter of course, the Mor
mons will accept him. It is not probable a
formal election will take place before next
April, if then. The apostles, with Taylor
at the head, ruled three years after Brigbam
Young's death before Taylor was chosen
president.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
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A severe earthquake shock throughout the
island of Cyprus was felt Sunday.
It is officially announced that the King of
Italy will not accept the resignation of the
ministry.
The women employed in the Imperial to
bacco factory at Stem, Austria, have gone
out on a strike. S !*,_
BarottvonSe_lo_|erT the Prussian envoy
to tha Vatican, ha&gone to Varzin, to visit
Prince Bismarck.
Cases of cholera are reported at Palermo,
Messina and Resinau. There were a number
of cases and several deaths in Malta.
Count de Juigne has decided to break up
his magnificent stud farm at Bois Ronand.
He will keep only a few steeplechasers.
The Standard invites the Unionists to
viewS with respectt future legislation With resnec -tO future leeid_.tin -a oll_1 nmnnmii_1
,irt
It is rumored thatPrince Ferdinand start
ed for Bulgaria monday with the intention
of formally abdicating the Bulgarian
throne. fc -i^was
John Bright has signed the Ame1fc_h
An American picture dealer at Paris has
recently expended 2,000,000 francs for
modern French pictures. The proceeds
from the Jury sale" ~f French pictures for
America amounted to 5,000,000 francs.
The returns issued by the London board
of trade show that the imports during the
month of .July jhave decreased J_490,000,
compared with Jnlv last year, and that ex
ports increased 700,000 compared witliother
William Purb, better known as "Fritz,"
the youth saspected of setting fire to the
New York Zeitung building, has been
arrested. He is believed to have started
toe six fires that have lately damaged the
building so greatly.
bequeathed $250,000 for tiw^beneflt of
employes. IBs son, Frederic-, has added
$125,000 to the mount for the_people of
Essen. The town council of Essen has
voted $15,000 for a statue of Erupp.
W. J. Stanley, living near Lampasas,
Texas, has been active in prosecuting horse
thieves. Monday night he was called out
of doors, on the pretence that his pasture
fence was down, and then shot from be^
hind, eight bullets taking effect He died
instantly.
The scene at the parting of the Emperors
on Monday at Gastein, was most touching.
Emperor William pressed the hand of
Emperor Francis Joseph and said: "By the
Almighty's leave, au revoir until next
year.7'
Emperor Francis Joseph replied:
"It is sure and certain." A this point
Emperor William was overcome with
emotion. He kissed Emperor Francis
Joseph again and again, and they finally
separated.
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Minneapolis prices prices are^ being
ior wheat at Waseca.
The examination at Mankato shows that
Louis C. Scherer, of New Ulm, is entitled
to the West Point cadetship and the judges
have named H. E. Smith as alternate. The
former is nineteen years old and the latter
seventeen. Mr. Scherer was alternate two
years ago.
It appears to be determined beyond any
peradventure that natural gas exists in
large quantities at Albert Lea some 10,000
acres have been leased upon which to sink
gas wells and a company formed, equipped
financially and scientifically, to thoroughly
test and develop the resources of the de
posit
The annual reunion of the soldiers, sailors
and marines of Fillmore county will be
held at Spring Valley,Minn., on Sept 8 and
9. Neighboring counties are expected and
the G. A. R. posts of Grand Meadow and
LeRoy have signified their intention to be
present. A sham battle is announced for
the evening of the 9th.
The bench show to be held in St. Paul
Sept. 13,14, 15 and 16 promises to be a
greater success than its most sanguine
friends' ever dreamed of. Entries are
pouring in from every part of the United
States and Canada. Men of Minnesota and
other Northwestern states are taking a
great deal of interest in the show.
Hon. F. J. Whitlock died at Belle Plaine,
July 29, after an illness of over six months
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companied the party. They proceeded
Alas-award Tuesday.
In the Utah election on the 2nd, out of 12
members of the council branch of the legis
lature the Gentiles elected two and perhaps
three, and out of 24 members of the lower
house they elected four. The returns ar
not all in. Thif is more than they have ever
done before, and they are well pleased, but
the Mormons are equally pleased to find
that, after all the schemes and efforts of
their enemies, so meagre results have been
achieved.
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Episcopal cemetery. He leaves a wife and
two children.
His party consists 01 Gen. Robinson, secre- bly fatally cut on Sunday by one of a partv
_2KRfc_-&^ _.l_h^l toughs, near Bass lake. JheTe
Martin Moffat son of a farmer was proba-
rwx ^.?__T_-. were 8 or ten in the S Paul party, and
with others, pursued the thieves and was
cut by one he captured, who thus got free.
The noted glove contest between Pat
Killen and Patsey Cardiff took place at the
Washington rink, Minneapolis, Friday even
ing, and after ten ronnds was decided a
draw, to the disappointment of the friends
of either champion. An immense audience
witnessed the contest, taking a lively in
terest the details, and the 5,000 spectators
were orderly and good natured in every
Tespect.
Three rather peculiar accidents occurred
at Faribault on Saturday Rev. F. D.
Hoskins, warden at Seabury Diviniiy
school, while sitting and conversing on the
veranda of that institution attempted to
move his chair and in doing so fell and
broke both bones of his left arm.
A. Nawacone. wife of the proprietor of the
Faribault Steam laundry, on Fourth street,
had her right hand drawn in between the
rolls of the ironing machine, badly crushing
and burning her wrist. A son of M.
Mathiew, while riding a velocipede on
Second street was thrown against a lamp
post, breaking his left shoulder.
Gov. McGill has appointed the following
additional members on the state board of
equalization:
Eleventh district -J. C. Cooley, Duluth.
Fourteenth districtHugh Thompson,
Fisher.
Fifteenth districtGeo. Whitney, Wa
dena.
Sixteenth district-R. J. Hall, Morris.
The appointments became necessary on
account of a change in the judicial districts
made by the last legislature, which made
the 11th, 14th and 15th from the old 11th and
the 16th from the old 12th. Mr. Thompson is
a reappointment, he having served one
of the old districts and being a member of
the present board.
WISCONSIN.
The Snow saw mill at Lakeville, Wis., will
probably be removed from that point.
A. J. McCann has about closed out his
lumber yard near Bloomer, Wis., and is
pulling the mill down.
The large warehouse at Black River Falls,
Wis., built by Mason & Ormsby, was
opened for business Friday.
The fifth annual meeting of the veterans
of the Twenty-eighth Wisconsin volunteers
will be held at Whitewater Sept. 7 and 8.
The Sherwood forest, 16 miles from
Neillsville has been damaged thousands of
dollars by fire. Saw mills, residences and
everything in the path of the fire were con
sumed.
A Green Bay, a beer vat in Raho's
brewery, containing 75 barrels of boiling
water, exploded Wednesday evening from
unknown cause, and six employes were
scalded to death.
The sudden death of Frank W. Bagley,i4a
respected and prominent farmer of the
town of Trenton, Dodge Co., shocked the
community and saddened a host of friends.
He dies, aged thirty-four years, of typhoid
fever, leaving a wife and four children.
The four daughters of Albert Singer of
Wheaton, Chippewa Co., died very sud
denly Saturday. They were taken violently
sick, two dying in a few minutes. In a
short time two more were taken sick and
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was called pronounced cholera morbus4
At Milwaukee, Monday evening! spon
taneous combustion in
the"
large rag
insurancshops of
of Peter Casselh caused a disastrous fire
tiiere
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peace memorial, together with 172 other ^SSSTlSi^SSS^^S^X
members of the house of commons, nine of +w -__- -_-__.
whom have consented to join the deputation
to be sent to America.
vestigat the taking of such risks
The twenty-third annual meeting of the
Turners' Society of Wisconsin will be held in
Wausau.Aug. 14 to 15 Three thousand active
turners are expected. Accomodation for
about three hundred has been secured in
private houses. Scheubert's Park has been
put in excellent shape and Polzer'8 garden
has been greatly improved for this occasion.
A Chicago, "Chet" Smith the dramatic
agent who was charged with sending girls
to disreputable concert halls at Hurley and
towns in the Wisconsin pineries,
under the pretense that the places were
respectable country theaters, has been sen
tenced to one year in the penitentiary. Wig
motion for a new trial was overruled.
At Milwaukee, Saturday afternoon a large
crowd of people gathered at Wolf & David
son's ship yard to witness tbe launch of a
new steam barge. A great many took sta-
_ifM_i c_ __ new swam Darge A great many took sta
Aixrea J-rapn, the German gun make turns on the deck of the Northwestern Coal
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During July there were 5 deaths and 11
births at Hastings, Dakota county.
Peter Beckman, a middle-aged farmer,
living near DasseL committed suicide by
cutting his throat He was unable to get
bis grain cut and became insane. Beck
man leaves a small family.
AtFridley, Wednesday night, during a
thunder storm hghtning struck a barn on
Maj. Fridley's farm destroying it and fifty
tons of hay, 300 bushols of oats, two lumber
wagons and some farming utensils. Loss,
$1,500 insurance $500.
Company and though warned that there
was some danger the crowd took the
chances rather than miss the sight. The
weight and the waves of the launch caused
the dock to give way and a hundred: or
more were thrown into the 'water. Of this
number four were drowned and thirteen
quite seriously injured. It is supposed that
others were more or leBsmjured but in the
confusiOELnp further reports came to general
notice. %&
DAKOTA.
On Monday while riding on a hand car,
between Everest, Dak., and Casselton, Mrs.
Fogreba, wife of Andrew Pogreba, road
master on the S Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba railroad, and her 1-year-old in
fant were thrown from the car and the in
fant instantly killed. s.jm
Henry Severn, a prosperous and highly
respected farmer living near Jamestown,
was struck by hghtning. Tuesday evening,
about ten miles northwest of Windsor
while putting up hay and instantly killed
Severn was on the stack when the bolt de
scended, knocking him to the ground.
Van Moore, a halfbreed horse thief, was
arrested atPierre, Monday, by Stock In
spector George Jackson. A organized
ang of horse thieves has been operating
etween Pierre and the Black Hills for two
years. Large numbers of horses and cattle
have been lost Moore has made a con
fession, implicating several others. Officers
are now on the trail, and expect to capture
the entire gang.
The second annual meeting of the Dakota
Pharmaceutical association was held at
Fargo, on the 2nd about 50druggists attend
ing. The officers elected for the coming
year were: A. B. Bennett, Devil's Lake,
president vice presidents, D. M. Holmes, of
Detroit, and Frederick Vogeli, of LaMoure
treasurer,E. C. Masey, of Fargo secretary,
H. C. Hassam, of Grafton executive com
mittee, F. S. Langdon, of Casselton _H. E.
White, of Jamestown H. M. Goss, of Wheat
land. A fine banquet was given the visitors
by the local druggists.
A Pierre telegram of Thursday says: A
heavy electrical storm passed over here last
night. A bolt of lightning struck the house
of Thomas Porter, one mile north of
Okoboji, Sully county, killing him in
stantly. He leaves a wife and three children.
The wheat stacks of F. A. Sutherland were
also struck and burned. Harry Sanders,
assistant cashier of the Citizens' bank, fell
from his bicycle last night and had a
narrow escape from death. He lay un
conscious 10 hours. The Farmers' Alliance
of Dakota will make Pierre their head
quarters.
The Methodist church at Milbank, Grant
Co., has been undergoing extensive repairs
and improvements, and was reopened to
the public last Sunday. The society can
now safely say they have the handsomest
church in Dakota. Milbank is fortunate in
having two of the finest churches in Dakota,
the Congregational Church being also the
most substantial building used for that pur
pose, but architecturally there is no attempt
at display. Milbank is also fortunate in
having Christian ministers that stand as
peers to any in the West. Rev. W. H. Jor
dan is now completing his second year with
the church there, and has done a grand work
and has the respect and love of the com
munity. Rev. R. H. Battey has recently
accepted a call to the Congregational
church, and has made a fine impression.
Rev. J. Engdahl is doing a good work
among the Scandinavians, and is a man
who would wield a great influence in any
community.
IOWA.
A picnic of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers was held on Friday at Lake
Monowa, near Council Bluffs, and while 30
of the party were on a small steamer on the
lake, a sudden squall came up, the boat was
capsized and five of the excursionists
were drowned.
Register Porter of the United States land
office at Des Moines has been instructed by
Land Commissioner Sparks to open to en
try the 26,000 ceres of land unearned by the
St. Paul & Sioux City road and which re
verted to the government last January.
The lands have been dispute since 1864.
R. Greene, of Stone City, laboring under
the delusion that some one was following
him with malicious intent asked to be
placed in a cell at the station house at
Cedar Rapids, Wednesday night. He was
accordingly locked up. At 5 o'clock
Thursdaymorninghe shot his brains out
while in his cell. He was a widower forty
years of age.
Fulton, fourteen miles west of Davenport,
is in a great state of commotion over the
apparent discovery of natural gas on a
farm in that township. A farmer named
George D. Baker, while attempting to
deepen a twelve-foot well which was be
coming dry, reached a subterranean com
motion at thirty-five feet, and the air be
came impregnated with gas.
It is announced at Des Moines that Hon.
John W Akers, state superintendent of
public instruction, has withdrawn from the
field as a candidate for renomination. He
has served three terms, and doubtless could
have been renominated by the Republican
state convention had he remained in the
field. His withdrawal will probably lead
to the nomination of Prof. Fellows, of Iowa
City.
Dainty Articles for Feminine Wear.
The other day a fashionable store in
Philadelphia devoted the whole of one
of its windows to the latest fads in
feminine hose. Imagine a scarlet silk
stocking with a black-beaded serpent
twisting around its entire length, with
the reptile's head resting on the instep!
Another pair of light blue with pink
moss rosebuds embroidered all over
yellow silk hose with butterflies of nat
ural size in all the colors of the rain
bow white silk hose, with beaded stars
and those of black silk with the instep
composed of the richest white lace a
pair of pale green hose with simulated
pink ribbon bows up the front. There
were handsome black silk hose with
red lobsters embroidered on the instep,
while others had a big green frog wit
bead eyes, with his opera hat on all
ready to "g a-wooing." Since the
washable knitting silk has been manu
factured many girls have revived an al
mo st -lost art," that of knitting their
own stockings. I is pretty and con
venient fancy-work. They wear better
than those made by machinery and are
much less expensive. Some of those
described above cost $2 0 a pair. A
young lady now at Cape May'has just
completed a pair of black silk stockings
embroidered with pink rosebuds. They
are durable enough to last a lifetime.
Sixty Thousand Belies.
Shang-le, or precious relics of Buddha,
are so abundant that only a miracle
could explain their number. Dr Med
hurst throws some light on their history.
According to the Buddhists there are 84,-
000 pores in a man 's body, and therefore
he leaves behind im 84,000 particles of
miserable dust in the course of transmi
gration. Buddha bad also 84,000 pores
in his body, but by his resistance to evil
ho was enabled to perfect 84,000 relics
through them, for and which eight Kings
contended. A good wi se King named
Ayuka arose, ho built 84,000 pagodas
to cover these 84.000 relics. These rebes
stall remain, but can only be seen by the
faithful. A good Buddhis tcan some
times discern one of these relics illumi
nated with brilliant colors and as big as
a cartwheel when unbelievers are unable
to see anything at tiXLAU the Tear
Around.
IT PROMISES TO BIS GREAT.
The 8tte Fair Wnich Will Open at Ham*
line inl-ttlelfo-e T__u_
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Mones Coming From States All Over
UnionOther live Stock Exhibi
tion- Promised.
Improvements That Are Well Under Way
at the Grounds-droops In th*
ii? Sham Battle.
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Conversation by a reporter with Hon. W
R. Merriam, president of the state fair asso
ciation developed the fact that the interest
taken in the coming state fair, which opens
Sept 9 and continues until Sept. 17, is con
sidered phenomenal, audit is not confined
to J-innesota alone. The famous horse
owners, large stock breeders and big
machinery men of other states manifest a
degree of interest whichseemsto be peculiar
to the present year. Of course the big racing
purses have much to do with it. The purses
aggregate $18,000, and in addition the
purses of the Minnesota Breeders' associa
tion, witch have not yet been decided
upon, will probably make the amount of
money to be hung up about $20,000.
AMONG THEFraB STUDS.
Outside of the races there is to be the beef
horse exhibit ever witnessed at any state
fair. Leonard Johnson, of East Castle Bock,
who is just now returning from France, wOl
show seventy-five imported full-blood Per
cheronsand French coach horses. He will
have a full stud of fifty, and will occupy
one entire barn and part of another.
the way, the French coach horses are an in*
novation, due somewhat to a suggestion of
Gov. McGill. Galbraith Bros., of Janesville,
Wis., will have a fine string of horses, in
cluding some Shetlands. Midway park,
Lake Elysian, George E. Case of St. Peter
Col. Wilson, of Abdallah park, Kentucky,
John Waters and other notable horsemen
will do themselves proud.
The races will be in connection with the
Southern Minnesota fair meeting, which
closes in time to accommodate the state fair.
McGrath, Sherwood and all the Minnesota
breeders will contribute, and the Cosgrove
Live Stock company will back up their big
herd of Hereford cattle with a little stud ol
Hambletonians and a majestic Norman
stallion.
THE CATTLE SHOW.
In the cattle line there are to be from
twelve to 15 exhibitors of Herefords, and
still more of Sporthorns, Holsteins, and
Jerseys. The herd premiums are the largest
ever offered, as high as $0 for best beef
breeds and best milk breeds, and the Ho_-
Btem-Friesian association of America has
come forward with an additional $200 in
each class, to be given to the winning herd,
providing it is composed of Holstein-Fries
lans. The American Jersey Cattle club of
Broadway, New York, offers, through itsj
secretary, Wicks, a premium of $100 for the[
best herd of Jerseys raised in the state.
Overton Lee, of Nashville, Tenn., is going
to bring up his fine herd of Sussex cattle, a
new thing here. Another new breed in the
West, which is to be here, is the American
Holderness herd of T. A. Cole, of Saulville,]
N. He has been forty years bringing
them to perfect on by successful inbreed
ing.oThey area reproduction of the now ex
tinct Yorkshire Holderness breed of Eng
land. G. A Baker & Sons. Hustesford,
Wis., are to show a fine herd of Devonshires.
J. J. Hill has promised to exhibit several1
very fat grade steers, which will probably
be Angus, and he will show how they were
fattened. Then he will have them kiued on
the grounds and the beef hung up.
Supt. Busbnell, of the machinery depart
ment, is flooded with correspondence from
all over the country. A the fan* grounds
a large carriage building is now going up at
a cost of $4,000. It will be 15_ feet long by
60 wide, inclosed and sky-lighted. Although
space has not yet been assigned, the
machinery department promises to be so
full that one large manufacturer, T. G.
Mandt, of Stoughton, Wis., :has applied for
space for a mammoth tent, 150x60 feet, on
the grounds.
The main hall will be something grand in
fabrics ii the correspondence which is being
received is any indication. Superintendent
Larpenteur, of the art department, and by
the way, this is to be one of the most im
portant and attractive features of the
annual display, is arranging for tbe best
Sfew
aintings of the private galleries of Boston,
York, Philadelphia and other Eastern
cities, and such art connoiseurs as J. J.1
Hill and W. R. Merriam, of this city, and
the Pillsburys of Minneapolis, have given
him carte blanche to select from their
prized collections.
But Secretary Hoard says it is to be not
only a great combination exhibit of speed,
stock raising, art, machinery and manu
facturers, for the raili oads have taken a
hand, and in addition to giving a 1)4 cent
per mile rate for the fair, their agents are
busy on every line that radiates from _t
Paul and Minneapolis, gathering up an ar
ray of the agricultural productions of the
fertile regions their several lines traverse.
GRAND MHJTABT DISP__T.
The grand finale of the fair is to be the
great sham battle on the last afternoon,
when the grounds are all cleared, to be
fought by the G. A. B~ and the state and
visiting militia. There will be fourteen
pieces of artillery, two troops of cavalry,
two batteries of light artillery and infantry
numbering 4,000 men. Battery F. Fourth
United States artillery, will give an ex
hibition drill. Invitations have been sent
to Grand Army posts of Minnesota, Wis
consin, Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Illinois,
Indiana and many other states. This
feature alone is expected to sell 60,000
tickets.
Another feature to be mentioned is the
proposed band tournament, in which all the
bands of the state are expected to take part,
St. Paul and Minneapolis bands being
barred. The society offers a premium of
$600 for this. Each day the combined
bands of Seibert and Danz will fill the air
with music. This will place the cream of
St. Paul and Minneapolis musicians pro
fessionally upon the ground. The streets of
both cities are to be -luminated during: the
fair.
THE MARKETS.
Bt. Paul August 6.
-RAIN-
Wheat, No. 1 Hard $ 72
Wheat,No. 1 Northern.... 71
Wheat. No. 2 Northern.... 70
Corn, No. 2 35
Oats, No. 2 Mixed new.... 25
Oats, No. 2 White old 28
Barley, No. 2 59
Bye, No. 2 42
Flax Seed $ 95
Baled Hay, upland 5 00
Baled Hay, timothy 11 0J
PROVISIONS
Flour, patent $4 25
Flour, straights 415
Flour, bakers 8 40
Butter, creamery is
Butter, dairy 12
Cheese 12
Eggs, fresh I2t
Potatoes new 60'
Dressed Beef, steers 3(
Hams. 9
Veal 5 6
LIVE STOCK
Steers 2 50
Hogs 4 00
Sheep 3 25
Minneapolis August 6.
WHEAT
No. 1 Hard $ 71
No. 1 Northern 70
No. 2 Northern 68
FLOUR
Patentin sacks $420
Patent in barrels 445
Patent at New England
points. 4 95 5 10
Patent at N. Y. and Penn.,
points 4 90
Bakers A. 3 40
Chicago, August 6
GRAIN
r. Wheat, cash 66
Corn cash
A-
713
701
440
440
K,.. 33
Oats, cwh _4vj
FlaxSeed,casn 105
M--3SPORK ..13 00
LIVE STOCK
Cattle,. $29Q
Hogs .....5 00
Sho 8 10
Jf Milwaukee, August 6.
WHEAT. No. 1, Hard, Cash 68 68^
