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ttJB-JjB utttmi Tf .HMLCTmwf vwtwuyvaiai'yjaji lemv&mVi&yLmfrntttwrv&imw&Q'Si The Ohio Democrat. nniillM & W1IITK, Publishers, T-OUAN. t I OHIO. CURRENT TOPICS. Tint European war cloud looniB up one more Tim chestnut-boll Is getting to bo a groat chestnut. An oven hundrod fairs will bo hold In Iowa this fall. Tns tbeorlner Is now at work ton the earthquako problom. Pennsylvania nut coal Is worth $25 per ton in Doadwood, D. T. Loan SiMsnunr Is sold to bo tho worst dressed man In London. Hu.nihieds of bnby alligators nro sold as ladles pcti In Now York yoarly. Kino Ucmiicrt has erected a monument to Victor Hmanuol at Turin; cost, $200,000. It Is claimed that tho Washington Monu ment has settled four inches within a your. Tuisl'rlnccss of Wnlos has been nccuscd of enameling to proservo her beauty of faco. A single oyster opened tho othor day by a Fair liavou (Conn.) man contained 103 pearls. Honet-makino has becomo n profitable branch of industry among tho womon of Canada. A Tiunr onterod James McCarthy's room nt Marinette, Wis., and stolo his wedding clothes. TnE polico patrol wagons, In uso sorao years in Cincinnati, are about to.bo.trlod In New York. A BitOTliEit of Lydia Flnkham Is tho Pro hibition cundidato for Lieutenant Governor in Minnesota. A I'liiLAnELMiiA oyster dealer has a horsi that eats oysters on tho half sholl with ro markablo relish. At Fargo, in Dakota, good wives bowail becauso housemaids are not to bo had at ono dollar a day. A Disi'ATCH from Charleston says that the brlck-layors of that city havo advanced thoir wages to $0 a day. The prompt responso to Charleston's ap peal for assistance, from nil sections of the country, is extremely creditable. When tho Princo of Wales attended tho theater at Hamburg during bis recent visit, tho price of scats near his was doubled. The passage of the Suez canal is now mado in sixteen hours by tho aid of olectric lights, which make night travel possible. An Anarchist named Saam predicts that if tho Chicago murderers nro hanged 700,000 avengers will ariso from their blood. Mns. Yseult Dudley, who tried to "re move" O'Donovan Rosso, is still confined, although said to bo cured of her insanity. An Irishman atShoflleld has placed above Lord Frederick Cavendish's gravo a silvor tablet Inscribed "Born to Albion, sacrificed o Erin." Some romnrkable rock paintings and an unknown temple bavo been discovered In Ban Luis Obispo County, Cal. Thoy aro prehistoric. A mill at Harlan, Mich., was shut down because a fifty-pound catfish got into tho raco and closed tho gates, thus stopping the wator supply. Queen Victoiiia has become more cheer ful, it is said, sinco tho defeat of the noma rule bill, and has bought a now carriage to colebrato the ovent. The European Powers will now probnbly iterate and re-lternto thoir love for each othor until they aro quite ready to occupy all the territory thoy mean to gobble up. TnE last warrant for tho payment of Al nbama claims has been signed by Acting Secretary Fairchild, who has nfllxod his signature to 1,003 documents of this class. It is said there has been found a commer cial use for tho sparrow that it is an in distinguishable substitute for the reed bird as a table delicacy in second-class restaur ants. TnE Agricultural Dopartment has been testing a new pea, to bo eaten pod and all, like snap beans. It tastes like a combina tion of bean and poa, and is enormously productive. ANAitcnisT Parsons attributes his con viction to the newspapers. The attorney who advised him to surrender himself for trial is crotalnly entitled to some credit in the matter. A Hautfoiid baby that died the other day weighed less than three pounds, but its little body was placod in a burial cas ket and carried to tho grave in a little white hearse. An English physician says that mon shouldn't crop their hair short Hair, ha says, is a conductor of electricity to tho brain, and if the brain fails to get electric ity it Will soon soften. An Ingenious Maplewood (Mass.) boy sent up some lanterns on tho tail of his kito recently, and many of the inhabitants turned out to view what thoy supposed was a fine meteoric display. Five Chlncso stowaways wero found on a Pacific steamer at San Francisco the other day. They wero all young men, and had Kiven members of the crow from $100 to $200 to smuggle them ashore. Saratoga has a woman bill-poster, who bandlos tho broad sheets and the broad paste brush with the skill of an export. Bho is tho widow of a former bill-poster, and continues his business with onorgy. Some weeks ago. tho town of Lorio, Ari zona, contained 100 people and much valu able property. A cyclono visited it, and now there is not tho slightest sign loft thut indicates the prosonce of a once thriving sown. A kucaltttcs tree fifty feet from a well In Alameda County, California, bent two roots through the brick wall of the well fifteen feet below the surface and com pletely covered tho bottom with a mat ot fibers. The blue for furs presented by the Czni to the Sultan are described as two magnifi cent pieces, made up of tho finest skins and measuring each tbreo metres squaro. There value is reckoned at 150,030 roubles. Paper bed clothes are made at a factory in Now Jersey. Thoy are doubled shoots of tnauilla paper, strengthened with twine. They have a warmth preserving power far out of proportion to tuulr thickness and weight. The present cost, of operating tho rail roadsof the country with Btoam power Is in round numbers $502,000,000 per annum; but to carry on the saino amount of work with men and horses would cost tho country 11,303,500,000. Kino Geoiiob, a negro fifty years old, Is proviug a puzzle to some of tho most cele brated physicians in Boston. Hu bus two sets ot ribs and two hearts, und, appar ently, bas the power to suspend animation. A peculiar sand known as "squouklng and1' Is found at the bolting sprlug on the Ira Hill farm In Dayton, Me, When rubbod sr pressed In the hand It omits a succession of sounds which it would duty u tight fit ting door to outdo, Hit. Millioan and wire, of Princeton, III., while riding near that city, saw a mirage wbiob preseuied to view a broad river dotted with islands. This rlvor appeared to occupy the space where Princeton It, and to stretch further northward, CAUGHT IN A MINE. A Cavo-In of Sovoral Aoroa In a Pennsylvania Colllory, Whereby Several Men Aro Imprlioncit, Wltuao Tnte Is Unccrtnln. BcnANTON, Pa., Sept. 13. Tho Mnrvlno shaft Colliery of tho Dolnwnro and Hudson Caual Company was tho scono of an oxton slvo cnvo-In this morning, by which, It is feared, a number ot men havo lost thoir liven, how many it is lmpossiblo to say, the suppositions varying from six to nlno. Tkoro scorns to bo but little question of tho death of ono of them, an oldarly man mined John Hhafer. Following nro tho minion ot tho Injured: Henry Bhaofor, Thomas Henly, Jaboror; Joseph Ilendy, driver; Ucorgo Mnson, miner; Poter Kelly, timber boss, was struck on tho buck of thoheadand on tho shoulder by a falling rock. Kolly passed Joo Sliafcr, un oldorly man, at tho foot ot tho slope. Ho thinks tho rock which struck him struck Hhafer also. Thoro aro a number of other work men in tho Bhnft, whoso fato Is not known. Tho main road and tho straight rond, as thoy nro called, aro both blocked, nnd en tranco through them is as yet im possible. Thoro is a possibility of elfoeting an entranco to tha workings in tho rear of tho full by means of a heading, which runs cloni nrouiid tho twenty-llvo foot of tho cham ber, and mon am at work and will con tlnuu without cessation until an entrance is effected. By working three shafts, and spelling tho men ovcry three hours, It ii hoped to drill a holo through this twenty llvo feet ot conl by somo tlnio to-morrow, when, bv getting In tho rear of tho fall, II the missing men aro ullvo, thoy will nl most i-ertninly be found. Tho chances of a roscuu aro very slim. Seized for Smuggling. Halifax, N. S., Sept. 13. Tho American seiner, Moro Castto, Captain Joyce, wai seized at Port Mulgravo, last Saturday night, by Collector Doiirluott, for smug gling and otherwise violating tho customs laws. The detnlls nro not given. Tho Moro Castlo wus on her way liome from North Bay, with fort)- barrels of mackerel, and was lying at Port Mulgravo when soizod by tho Colloctor and men from tho eruisei Houlottc. Tho vossel Is owned by Cnptnin Nnuss, who is at Port Mulgravo with an other schooner owned by him, tho Belle A. N.I i o i Small Change. WAsniNOTON, Sopt. 13. Tho Treasury Dopartniont has of lato rocoived numerous demands for flvo-cont nickels nnd one-cent piecos. The number ottheso coins in cir culation falls far short of tho needs in the extenslvo small trado of tho couiitry. To moettheso demands, tho Secretary of the Treasury has issued a circular announcing that it flvo-cent and one-cent pieces will be forwarded from the Philadelphia mint In Bums of twonty dollars or multiples there of, upon orders, free of chargo for truns purtution to any point to be reached by the Adams Express Company. France Seizes English Vesssls. Paris, Sept. 13. Tho Fronch authori ties nt Havre havo just seized cloven En glish fishing boats for iufriuglug tho inter uuttonnl maritime und fisheries laws in the channel. London, Sept. 12. Sir J. Forguson, Under Foreign Secretary, stated in tho House ot Commons this uvening that the Government hud sent orders to Lord Lyons, the British Embassador at Paris, to use all possible elfoits to obtain tho release of the British fishing boats dotulued at Havre. Horrible Effect of a Misplaced Switch. Qcincv, III., Sept, 13. This evening ntS 'clock, as a freight train on the long line arrived within a mile of West (Juliiey, it wus thrown from tho track by a misplaced switch. Engineer McCarthy was caught beneath the uugino and crushed to deuth. Fireman Kuefu was so badly scalded that he died an hour lator. Leo Piggott, brake man, was also badly scalded, und will die. Tho blamo of tho accident has not been located. New Route to Europe. Winnipeg, Man., Sopt. 13. Captain Markham, K. N., who accompanied tha Alert on the oxpoditlon to Hudson's Bay, has arrived hero from Yulo Fuctory, hav ing travoled by the wiiy of Oxford House, Norqua House and Lako Winnipeg, to Sel kirk. Ho reports fuvorably of the route, und considers Hudson's Strait certainly uuvigahlo tor tour months, and in tome seasons for ilvo months iu the year. Telegraph Operator Murdered. Marshall, 111., Sept. 13. GoorgePowers, a tolograpb operator and agent of tho Vnn dulla railroad, stationod at a lonoly spot near hero, wus assassinated Saturduy night by some ono who flrod at him through tho window as ho was writing. Tho murdoier robbed his victim of a gold watch uud about $15 in money. Thoro is no clow to tho assassin. Blood hounds have been bent for ut Indianapolis and Uiiiey, HI. Fish and Ward. New York, Sopt. 13. Ford Ward's volco is heard from prison declaring that James D. Flsb lies whon ho says thut he (Ward) stole a bag full of Government bonds worth $1,500,000. Ho says Fish knows that the bag coutaiiiod railroad bonds, and that money was raised on thorn to mako good a deposit of 51,500,000 of city funds, which tha City Chamborlniu hud given notico that ho would withdraw from tho Marino Hank. Russia's Petroleum Industry Bankrupt. New York, Sept. 13. A largo petroleum brokerago firm have issuod n circular stat ing that tho British Consul ut Butouin re ported to his Government iu May that tho petroleum industry in Hussiu is on tho de cline, and that its chief promoters aro threatened with baiiruptcy. Thereport,It is asserted, was kopt secrot us long as possi ble by tho English Uovoruuiout. A Sharp Advance la Coffee. New York, Sopt. 12. Tho coffoo market to-day witnessed an unusual movomoiit. Prices for Wo coffee woro 40 to 45 points highnr than ou Saturday. Light receipts ut Hio and unusual European competition aro cited as causes for tho udvuuce. Snow-Fail. Isiipemino, Mich., Sept. 13, Snow fell bare yesterday. It was only a slight full Bud soon melted away. Tho Feather river has recontly been turned into a tunnol excavated at a point abovo Chico, Cal. Tho tunnel is largo enough to allow its entire vol umo to ilow through It, The bed of tho rivor for several miles has been drained perfectly dry by this method, and tho gravel at tho bottom is said to bo exceedingly ricli in frco gold. m A correspondent say. tho way to break large stones is to enclose them in a box marked "glass" and send tho box a fow hundred miles by rail, when tho stonos will certainly bo macada mized. Ho mentions tho lino ho pro poses to send tho box by. N. Y, Herald, M m m Acltlzon of Norwich, Conn., who rrcontly died had beun so mirulyy.ed for twelve years that ho could not movo a hand or speak. His only means of com munication was by having an nttteiid ant nm through tho alphabet, and lie would stop him at each letter ho want oil until tho word was spollod. Tim wlfo of a prominent morcliant at Kco Heights, J), T after a cross ex amination by attorneys as a witness Inn suit, bocamo hopelessly Insane, and has been tuken to the asylum, J I or hus band thinks of bringing unit against tho lawyers for damages, UNH AFP V LABRADOR. tovtnty Thousand Treple Itemlfcreri le tltuto liy the Failure nt the Fisheries. UALirAx, N. B., Sept. 12.-Alfred B. Mor. rlno, member ot tho Now Foundland Legis lature for Bonavlsta, now hero, says! '"The Labrador fisheries nro an ontlre failure. At their best thoy can afford but a hnro sub sistence Thirty thousand peoplo go from Now Foundland to Labrador for fish overy year. This year thoy havo not caught enough to pay the coH ot trans portation nnd supnlios. At least 20,000 moro peoplo nro dependent upon tho suc cess of tho nbovo-montloncd 30,000. Tin total falluro ot tho shore fisheries this year ronders 70,000 people dcstltuto, only 50,000 of thoso depending upon them be ing prepared to stand tho loss of a year's labor. Tho people havo barely enough for present necessities, and no means of earning a dollar. Tho only re lief to this picturo Is tho fact that tho po tato crop, tho only crop raised on tho island, Is turning out well, nnd will yield about a peck per bond of population." Mr. Morrino says! "This seems highly colored in viow of tho roccnt fabrication! ot starvation stories among tho Labra dor Esquimaux, but is tho plain English of actual facts und lnovitablo conse quences." A Child's Miraculous Escape. Cincinnati, Sopt. 12. Mr. nnd Mrs. Ed. Sclmltz, with their throo-yoar-old son, of Madison vlllo, cumo in Saturday ovonlng to sco tho Exposition, and passed tho night at tho rcsidcuco of Geo. Oroonwuld, on West Fourth stroot. Tho family occupy tho front rooms on tho third floor. This morn ing tho parents wont down to breakfast leaving tho boy uslocn. Tho little ono awoko nnd climbed out of tho front window to tho balcony. Then gotting upon tho Iron railing tho child lost his balance nnd toll to tho stono pavomont in front ot tho parlor win dows, a distauco of over thirty foot. A gentleman passing nt tho tlmo saw tho ac cident and nlarmed tho houso. Tho child was taken iu and the doctors summoned. Thoy could find no Injuries beyond n fow scratches on tho lower limbs. Tho escape was most miraculous, as the lowor balcony is only about threo fcot wide, and tho child could not hnvo missed tho iron railing mor than an inch. Stone Mountain to be Blown Up. Atlanta, Gn., Sept. 12. Wells four fee squaro aro boing sunk iu Stono Mountain Ono is four hundred foct up tho side ot th mountain and will bo thlrty-fivo feet deep. Tha other is seventy feet deep and six hundred feot up the mountain. Into tha former twelve tons of giant powder und into tho latter two car-loads will b dumped. These will bo blown up in short time, nnd it is expected that tho ro ports will bo equal to the earthquake shock. Stone Mountain is but fifteen milci from Atlanta. Citizens nro generally alarmed, as they bellevo such an oxplosios will bo sufiicieutly strong to roach tho city, El Coyote Routed. 6t. Louis, Mo., Sopt. 12. Tho Globe Democrat's Englo Pass, Tex., special says' Tho Mexican cavalry that wore dispatched nftcr El Coyote returned to Picdras Ncgras to-day. Thoy report that his mon dispersed and crossed tho ltlo Grnndo into Toxas be fore the troops could cutch them. This, it is supposed, will put an end to the revolu tion for tho present. There is, howovor, a strong feeling of disapproval of the present Government, which is silenced only by tho presenco of troops in largo num bers. Death from Lockjaw. Huntington, W.Va., Sept. 12. E. T. Mit chell, ono of Huntington's oldest and most respected citizens, died nt his homo iu West Huntington, at ton o'clock last night, from lockjaw. Mr. Mitchell hud a cancer ou his right baud that had almost destroyed thai member, and It bolng necessary to ampu tate it that operation was performed by local physicians on tho 2d inst. On the lOta ho was seizod with tho lockjaw, with the result as abovo stated. A Man Among Several. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 12. A wallet containing over 7,000, lost by Bank Runner llobeson, whllo riding on a street car, yes terday afternoon, was found in the road way by a teamster named John Gnllaghor, shortly after tho car passed by, and was returned to the bank Intact this afternoon. Gallagher's houostv was well rewarded. He bad kept tho wallet all night, nut know ing what to do with it until ho rond tho nowspupers this morning. Alexander's Abdication Final. Berlin, Sept. 12. Tho North German lazetta says there is no prospect of the re mtkronemont of Prince Alexander; thut oven if tho Sobrnnje ro elects Alexander the signers ottho Berlin treaty will hardly consent to his retern. It is not likely, tho Gazette adds, thut Hussla and England will come to an agreement very soon regarding tho throne ot Bulgaria. A Big Oil Strike in Michigan. Manistee, Mich., Sopt. 12. R. L. Peters yesterday struck oil at a depth ot 1,920 feot. Ho bad been drilling a salt well. Three or four thousand barrels flowed out In a short time before tho pipe was plugged. Experts say thoy havo seen wells in the East pro duce 4,000 barrols a day with poorer pros pect at first than this well. The oil is of the best grade. m Grant's Land Concession Forfeited. City of Mexico, Sept. 12. The conces sion granted to General Grant's Southorn Mexican railway for waste lands in the States of Vora Cruz, Pueblo, Oaxila and Chipas, was to-day officially declared for feited. Tho railway concession had a long time bluco been forfeited. Try Him With a Cannon. Sparta, Ga., Sept. 12. Last night, in Olxio, several negroes got into a fight. Mnnsflold Horton shot Wash Carnos. Tho pistol ball struck Barnes diroctly in tho forehead, but llndtu? his skull impenetra ble, it glanced off, leaving only a slight tear. Singular Accident to a Ball Player. Hillsdale, Mich., Sept. 12. John Yoag ly, pitcher for a picked nine, threw n ball with such force to-day as to break his arm bntwoen tho olbow and shoulder. A Lively Base Ball Game. Rummeuvillk, Mo., Sept. 12. A gnmo of base ball bore ytstenluy resulted in the shooting of throe ot the participant). Prof, Gurney Dead. Salem, Mass,, Sept. 12. Prof. Gurnoy, of Harvard College.dicd atBovorly this morn ing, of heart disease. Murderer Dies of Voluntary Starvation. Baltimore, Sopt. 12. Henry Myers, who murdered his con about two months ngo, died in the city jail to-day of starvation. Two weeks ago, Myers apparently mado up his mind that ha would never bo tried for his crime, uud sot about starving ulmsolf to denth. Since that tlmo he has refused nil nourishment, ,nd this morning ho was over Mine by syncope, and died at 0 o'clock. Faithful Employes Rewarded. New York, Sopt. 12. The Western As sociated Presi tnd tho New York Associated Press have suit tliOOusnglttto tho Charles ton ropnrterj who stood by their posts aud uont out tho ill st full and accurate reports of tha earthquake. A Pleasure Boat Capsizes. New York, Sept. 13. Tho sloop yacht tfurlba Moun, of tho Columbia Yueut Stub, cupsUod Iu u squall on the North rlvor, ueur Sbadysldo, this atturnoou. A pleasure purty of fifteen persous un board wero thrown Into tho rlvor, Tho polko patrol boat, which fortunately happened to be near, went to the rescue mid surod nil hands. i Iowa Druggist Fined for Selling Liquor. Chestqs, Ia,, Sept. 13.-0, V. Haltz tclmer, a promiueut druggist, bas boeu found guilty on thirty separate counts of telling iiitoxicbtliig liquors In vlolutlon of the pharmacy law. uud lined 1.500 and costs, ROMANCE OF THE WAR, Tha End of Which Id Arrost for Embozzlomont. Stolen Trrnimro Hurled Near New Or leansAfter Three Weeks of Dig ging the Holillrr Who Ba he Hurled It Is Arrested for De caption. Nrw Oiii.rans, La., Sopt. 10. Dr. George J. Adams, of Massachusetts, was arrested hero to-day charged withombezztomontby a number ot porsous whom he defrauded out of lnonoy to search for a biddon treas uro. Adams claims to havo bcen a prac ticing physician Iu Massachusetts when tho war broko out. Ho shotildorcd a mus ket and joined Company A, Sovontoonth Massachusetts Volunteers. A portion of tho command camo with Butler to Now Orleans. In n foraging expedition threo soldiers of tho regiment entered n dwell ing on tho Magnolia plantation, twonty miles nbovo Now Orleans, on tho right bunk of tho rlvor, and carriod off somo :X),000 in gold and silvor $1,800 of it In silver halt dollars. $1,000 In dollars, and tho remainder In gold. Bolng afraid to outer tho city with so much money, on reaching a pecan grove about half a mllo from tho locks at tho canal opposlto Greenville, thoy solocted a tree, prominent for Its sizo nnd somo peculiarities about Its appoaranco which mado It conspicuous. At tho foot of this trco thoy burled tho money and then took bearlngSjono of tho party Doing a civil onglnoer. Each of tho throo men woro furnished with a copy of this, and the marauders returned to Now Orleans, In tending to return nftor tho war and recover tho monoy. His two com panions were killed nnd Adams was desperately wounded soon nftor. Adams was taken to a Northern hospital, and left it paralyzed and helpless. Whon ho recovered tho uso of his limbs, on)' a month ngo, he returned to Now Orleans and at once began to search for his treas ure. Ho found to his dismay that all tho old pecan trees had been cut down and only tho young ones loft, and wis conse quently uuablo to recoznlze tho treo uudor which tho treasure was buried. Ho dovot cd himself, howovor. for throo weeks in delving for it. A few days ngo ho took several othor parties into partnership with him, who advanced a bettor outfit for sur veying tho land nnd digging for the money; but as he bas unearthed no treasure his partners had him arrested to-duy. AN EXCEPTIONAL, WOMAN. Hiring Men to Assasslnata a Mull Who I'erslstcntlr Admired Her. PniLADKLMiiA, Sept. 10. A man named George EbniB yesterday made affidavit be for a magistrate that ho had been offered t,"0 by Mrs. Barbara Pressman, a widow, to murder a mnn named Frank Glassmlre, and that William Conrad and William Gardner had tried to porsuado him to com mit tho deed. Mrs. Pressman and Courud were arrested, aud at a hearing to-day tho former wus hold in $1,800 bail for conspir acy to murder, and Conrad In ?S00 as nn accomplice. Ehms was placed under $1,000 bail as a witness. A warrant has been is sued for Gardner's arrest. Ehms stutos thut Mi-s. Pressman dosired to got rid of Glassmtro becauso bo forced his attentions upon her, and his persistent protestations of admlrution woro distasteful to bor. Mysterious Poisoning. Decatur, III., Sept 10. About fifty peo ple woro mysteriously poisoned at a coun try wedding about flvo miles west of hero Wednesdny night, and yesterday all the available physicians were hard nt work at tending the afflicted persons, who aro retching and vomiting violently. Thomas W. Jacobs and Miss Alice Glasgow were married nt the house of tho bride's father. Supper was served, nnd included chicken sulad and boiled chicken, and all ato heartily. An hour later the bride and groom wore taken sick, manifest ing symptoms of having boen poisoned. Part of the company had left, but those re maining were taken sick, doubling up and vomiting. It bus been learned that the chickens for the snlad woro cooked aud salted in a big copper kottle. It is supposed tho suit caused tuo metal to corrode and mix with tho chicken. The people are all quito sick yet, but the doctors do not ap prehend the fatal termination of any of tuo cases. ' . Austria Remonstrates. London, Sopt. 10. Tho Berlin TagbUitt says that the Austrian Government has sent a diplomatic note to St. Petersburg remonstrating against tho sending ot any Russian official to Bulgaria. It Is reported that Princo Henry of Battonburg, who is on his way to Durmstadt. brings with him a lotter from Queen Victoria, inviting Alexander to visit Balmoral. The mili tary authorities at Sofia havo ordorod tho release of all who were arrested for taklug part in the revolution. Russia has offered to guarantee a Bulgarian loan of 10,000,000 roubles. Is It Cholera? Taunton, Mass., Sept. 10. A singular case is puzzling the doctors hero. Miss Minnie Clark was taken suddenly ill on Tuesday night and diod Wednesday night. Tho symptoms were somewhat puzzling, und attar her death, Dr. Jones, of the State Board of Health, was called In. Ho Is in doubt, but says If there was a single case of Asiatic cholera anywhere about, he should call this a cenuino case. In the meantime ho will sco that overy precau tionary measure is lauen in case it snouiu bo cholera. Fool, Revolver and a Funeral, Reading, Pa., Sopt. 10- To-day John Bachmau, aged sixteen, playfully pointed a revolver, ut bis brother Francis, aged eighteen, snapping it sovoral times, when a cartridge was oxploded, the bull striking Francis just below the eye, and Inflicting a mortal wouud. Ho did not known it was loaded. A Boy's Awful Fate. BuTTlt, Mont., Sept. 10. John Hober, aged sixteen years, a tool packer, attempt ed to jump across a shaft in tho Alico mine yesterday. Ho struck his head ou a cross bar and foil down tho shaft a distance of 817 feet. Tho body was terribly mutilated and the hoad smashed flat. Decrease In Business Failures. Nnw York, Sept. 10. A woekly report of busiuess failures show them tower in nvory section ot tho United States, but in Cuuudn fully up to tho avorugo. i m m A Drunken Man Kills His Own Son. Lowui.l, Mass., Sopt. 10. John Shay, In a drunken quarrel with anothor man to night, threw a brick at him, but hit his own son, tour years old, on the head, crush ing tho skull. Ho was arrested. Killed by a Stroke of Lightning. WATEiirow.v, N. Y Sopt. 10, Edwin Potts, jr., aged 21, w Instantly killed and his sister badly stunned to-dav by light ning, which stiuek thoir father's house. Kllleu by An Exp'oilon. London, Sopt. 10. Uy an explosion iu a colllory near Bristol to-day, seven porsous woro killed uud ten Injured. A Despondent Mother. Chicaqo, Sept. 10. Mrs. Frank Comfor, a willow twuuty-flve years old, mads a desperate and perhaps successful attempt thib afternoon to end the lives of hor two children, ugod respectively two years and suvren months, aud herself, by corrosive subllmato, Since tho woman's husband died, about u year ago, she has had several fits ot melancholia. ,ii mm ii Christians Murdered. Paris, Sept. 10. Thu Unlvera publishes telegram from the UUhop at Touquiu say ing that suvon hundred Christians hare been mussacrod ami forty vllluges burnod lu the Province of Mnnhou, and that nine thoumnd Christians uro pcrlsulnjr of huu-Br. SEEKING THE SOUTH POLE. A. Scientific ISrltliilicr Who Wants nn Ex. ppdltlon to Start ut Once. London, Bopt. U. Mr. Murray, speaking boforo tho British Association, ndvocatocl n largo schomo for Antartio oxplorntlon. lie said that It tho Australian Governments could bo Inducod to voto $50,000 each and Parliament $75,000 towards tho outfit of nn Antarticoxpcdltion tho success of tho un dertakiiic would bo nssured. Tho colonies might follow tho oxamplo ot Australia, and this would bo tho first groat Btop In imperial federation. Mr. Murray then went on to givo nn nccount of tho Anturtlo circle, which ho snld might bo said to bo covorod with a white shroud of snow nnd Ico. which had hitherto prevented nny de tailed examination of eithortho solid land or tho ocean wntors. Five expeditions, said Mr. Marrny, bnd been dispatched from England and othor countries to ox Dlore tho Antartio Continont, but only that of Sir Jnmos Ross had boon especially fitted for tho work, nnd only ho and Wilkes bud got within tho Antartio circlo, and Ross has expressed tho opinion that had it boon posslblo to find a plnco of security upon tho coast for the wintering, tho In terior might have been explored with sleds and tho Southorn Polo ronchod. Tho Ant nrtic land had a groat interest to us from tho scientific questions connectod with tho icecap nnd iceberg. Tho Ico cap In tho Southern Hainlspuoro might be sovoral miles In thickness near tho polo, and it was in connection with this that somo of tho most Interesting scientific investigations were requlrod to be mado. AN AWFUL RECORD. nundreds of Peoplo Dying Dally from Cholera In Corca. San Francisco, Cal., Sopt. 0. A lottor to the Bulletin from Seoul, Coroa, datod August 2, states that deaths from Asiatic cholera from July 15 to 25 numborod 11,140. Sinco then from 207 to 4S7 persons havo died dally. Collins could not be obtained nnd tho bodios were wrapped in sacking. Iu many plnccs dogs nnd vultures had scratched away tho light covoriug of oarth and devoured tho bodios. The Government Buildings at Charleston. Washington, D. C, Sopt. 9. Tho follow ing tolegram was to-day received by Su pervising Architect Boll, of tho Treasury Department, from Inspector Spelr, who was sent to Charleston, S. C. to Inspect the Government buildings: "Tho post-office is damaged boyond repair, it will havo to havo the roof supported and walls propped up so as to enablo business to.contiuuo with safety to lifo, and until another building can bo obtained. Tho Club-houso is a complcto ruin, and will havo to have tho walls endaugorlng lifo taken down. Tho Custom-houso is badly damaged. The gables and portico ceiling will havo to bo taken down." Boiling Water Used on Evioters. London, Sept. 9. Twenty-ono prisoners were remanded at Waterford yeBtorday, charged with pouring boiling water mixed with limo upon tho heads of the polico aud bailiffs, and tho town of Clanricarde isiua fever of excitement. Men are flocking in from all parts of tho country, each carrying a stout stick, und many having othor weap ons concealed in places easy of access, iu readiness for defense incase of an attack by the police, and possibly for offensive use should tho increasing excitement cul minate in an assault upon tho officers of tho law and their aids and sympathizers. Glider Going North. CnicAao, Sopt. 9. Tho Times Winnipeg, (Man.)specialsays: "Colonel Glider started this ovenlng for York Factory, having been detained wniting for the Hudson Bay steamor, upon which he sails to-morrow morning from Solkirk to Norway Houso. While bore ho purchased a Flu's outfit and a couplo of woodon sledges, oighteon feel long and four wide. Thoy aro mado cm tlrely of wood nnd nftcr tho Siberian pat tern. Thoy aro bound tocretlier with withes, and will stand an enormous amount ol rough usage. m Victoria Schilling In a Convent. New York, Sept. 9. Ex-State Sonatot John K. Kiernan, a well-known Wal1 street financial nowsman, who is an in timate friend of theMoroslni family, states that Mrs. Victoria Schilling Is in tho Ursu Hue Convent, at Montreal, and that the reconciliation between hor and hor father was brought about by his Intervention. Mexican Revolutionists. Citt of Mexico, Sept. 9. Thore ore a thousand well-mounted revolutionists in Tamaulipas County, Mexico, who are ready 'to win victory or light to the death. Thoy are rebels ugulnst the general Government, and no quarter will bo given them if cap tured. i m m Beating the Bicycle Record. Hartford, Conn., Sept. 9. At tho bicy cle tournament here to-day tho ono-mlle handicap professional race was won by F. Wood, of England, in 2:83, boating Hen dee's record of 3:M, and beating the best time over made in a race. ' Smothered to Death in a Wheat Bin. Jacksonville, III., Sept. 9. Two boys named Charles Spain and Everett Ellis, aged 11 and 13 respectively, were smothered to death this morning while playing in a wheat bin, from which tho grain was being drawn. Cholera In Italy. Rome, Sopt. 9. Cholera returns for Italy: Torre Doll Annunzlata, 100 new cases, 8 deaths; Putignano; IS cases, 10-deaths; Ravenna, 10 cases, 3 deaths; Ferrnra, 20 cases, 8 deaths; other districts, 23 cases, IU deaths. Afraid of Earthquakes. Charleston, S. C, Sept. 9. Between throe aud four thousand people havo left the city permanently. Threo slight shocks of earthquake wero felt at Summorvllla to-day. Canada Dealing With American Thieves. Hamilton, Ont., Sept. 9. Edward Myers, of St. Louis, who stole $2,500 from bis em ployer and fled hero, was to-day sentonend to six months' Imprisonment for bringing stolon monoy Into Canada. Hope to Save the Town. Havana, Sopt. 9. Owing to the active efforts to chock the riso ot tho flood at Col badolagua, hope is now ontortalned ot sav ing the town, although It is still in great danger. An American Schooner Seized. Halifax, Sopt. 9, Tho Provincotown, Mass., schooner Pearl Nelson was solzed at Arlcbat yesterday for violating tho Cus toms law by communicating with tho shore before entering at Customs. A Great Drought In Illinois. Tolono, III., Sopt. 0. Tho drought In this locality Is getting to bo a serious mat ter. Several weeks ago the wolls begau falling, aud now a large part of thorn aro dry. Every stream and poud in tho coun try about hero, excepting only the Kaskas kla ou tho west and Embarras ou the east, is as dry as a powder-house. For throo months tho ground has not been wot two inches doep by rain. Unloss there is a copious full soon thoro will bo absolutely no water to bo had except from tho fow tubular wells about the country, i m Geronlmo Goes to Florida. Wabhinoton, Bopt. O.-Goronlmo, Nntcboj and tho rest ot tho Apacho baud will be taken as prisoners to Fort Marlon, Florida m i i i Spain as a Mutual Friend. Wabhinoton, Sept. 0. It now appears that Hputn promptly otforod its friendly sorvices to mediate between this country nnd Mexico tu nny differences which might grow out of the Cutting caso. The offer camo on the 25th of August, mid wus made both to thu United States and to Mexico, hi n i i i Shot His Baby Brother. Moawuqua, III., Sopt. 9. At Stoning ton, twelve miles west of bore, Joseph Chesbro. aged ten years, accidentally shot bis brother Eur), ugod four years, inflict ing n inortul wound. The boys wero play ing in u bnymow. where they found a re volver that bad been stolon from u Stou Imitou store, wbeu tho accldout ocoumul. STATE NEWS ITEMS. JtitN At.tTim Is tho name of a thrifty farmer of Bucks Township, Tuscarawas County. As is customary among many farmers of that section, Mr. Alptor pro posed to glvo n big dlnnor tho day ho threshed his grain. In order to bavo vnrloty ot meats ho telegraphed to Canton for a $1.50 worth of bologna sausngo and pudding to tho amount of fifty conts. It seems thcro was nn extra operator on duty nt Baltic whon tho mossago wus sent. Im agine tho Riirprlso of Mr. Alptor whon ho rocoived by express 150 pounds of sausago nnd fifty pounds of pudding. Tho oporator had mado a ludicrous blunder. It will bo a cold day when Farmer Alptor gets awny with all that bologna and pudding. A niACTloAL joko, that is likely to result fatally, was perpetrated at tho Clovolaud Theator tho other night. While tho play, "Lights o' London," was in progross, a young woman handed n noto to tho mana ger of tho theater, with the request that It be read from tho stage. Tho billet con tained tho Intolligcnco that tho mother of ono of tho nudltors, Nathan Stnrk, was lying at tho point of death, nnd that tho young man would havo to mako harto if ho would sco his paront nllvo. Stars: Im mediately started for homo, and on arriv ing thcro found hU mother allvo and well. Tho reaction of tho shoqk was so groat that tho young man was prostrated and on tho 11th was in a precarious condition. It Is supposed tho perpetrator of tho trick was prompted by jealousy. Detectlvos aro at work upon tho caso. Fiftt wedding guests nt Mt. Vernon bo camo deathly sick and woro soized with vomiting. All, however, recovered. The trouble Is attributable to ico cream. A convention of machinists and black smiths will bo hold in Cincinnati on tho 8th of November next, for tho organization of a National Machinists and Blacksmiths Association. The Bollalrc, Zancsvlllo and Cincinnati Railroad Co. nro building qulto extensive machine shops at Mill Run Station, near Zancsvlllo. Ciias. Kessi.er leaped from an oxprcss train under full speed at Allentown, Allen County, and .was instantly killed. A saw-mill boiler exploded near Enon, Injuring threo brothers, John, George and Charles Johnson, two of them dangorously. Mrs. Coorrn, wifo of C. G. Cooper, lend ing proprietor of tho Mt. Vernon Iron works, fatally shot herself a fow days ago. Kho has been an Invalid for some time. The Department of Agrlculturo Scptcm oor crop report shows that tho threshing of winter whoat in tho Ohio Valley gives a bettor return than was expected at har vest. A fire In an Elm street (Cincinnati) horse car, the other ovoning, causod by lamp ex plosion, resulted In quite a panic. Two passengers woro severely burnod. James Crooks' team was struck by nn engine whilo crossing tho railroad near Mansfield. Ono of his horses was killed and Mr. Crooks himself was badly injured. Robert Sands went into the Pan Handle telegraph oillce nt Piqun, and drank some muriatic acid from a bottle which ho thought contained whisky. A prompt emetic saved his life, but his mouth and in ternal arrangements woro badly burned. John Field, of Logan, was caught be tween tho cars at Now Straltsvillo and fatally crushed; aged twonty-one. The south end of Hocking County, in the vicinity or Lnurelville, wob visited by a heavy wind-storm tho other afternoon, during which a child wus killed and a wo man had a collarbone broken. Spencer, son of James F. Joy, residing near Germantown, was kicked by a horse and very seriously injured, his jaw bolng fractured and arm broken. Erastub Buttles, a stone-mason, living at Unlontown, near Zanesvllle, bad occa sion to use dynamite recently. Ho kept it in a jug in his smoke-house. Tho other day his nine-yoar-old son got hold of it, and in changing it from ono jug to another caused an explosion. Tho building was blown to pieces, and tho child hurled into tho uir and blown several rods away. His injuries ro thought to be fatal. John and Jacob Gehiro, slate roofers, fell thii ty-fivo feet, near Tiffin, by tho foot scaffold on n building on which they wero working giving way. John received fatal injuries. Tiffin has a new three hundred barrel oil woll. The well Is 1,040 foot doep. John M. Wise, an aged enrtman, was found drowned in Wolf creek, Dayton, n few days since. It is supposed the old man suicided. Andrew Jameson and his son Clydo. with horse mid buggy, endeavored to cross the track of tho New York, Pennsylvania and OWo railroad, near Ontario, ahead of a passenger train. The engine struck the buggy. Mr. Jameson received internal in juries, aud his recovery is doubtful. Clyde oscape with a few bruises. The immouse rain-water tanks In the roof of tho Stato Houso are bolng cleaned tho first time, it is said, since the State Houso was built There are two of them, one over each of the entrances, east and west. They will hold 1,000 gallons each, and the workmen say tho mud on tho bolton measured twelve inchos doep. Cincinnati has nn earthquake house. It stands on tho cast side of Pike street, and now shelters David SInton, the venorablo millionaire, and Charles Taft, bis son-in-law, and their family. Report has It that the bouse was built In 1815, by Martin Baum, who still retained a vivid recollec tion of the em thquakes of 1811 and 1812. He believed that thcro would be future de velopments of the same dreud and myste rious subterranean influences, and he built in that belief. The bouse is a pne-story structure of great superficial dimensions; the walls aro of cubto dimensions sufficient to sustain at least a hundrod times their present woight, and iron girders and stout .iron braces iu every corner, render the building proof against the lateral raove inents, which were tho most destructive feature of tho carthquuko ot 1811. John Fiant, employed at tho saw-mill of Newhouso, Sprout & Co., In tho wostern part of Fostoria, was instantly killed tho othor morning. Ho was assisting to movo a boavy log from n wagon to tho sawmill car, whou It slipped and rolled completely over his body, crushing out bis lifo in a second. His head wus badly manglod. Tho deceased was thirty-two yours old, and tho only support of his widowed mother uud grandmother. Major William McKinley, in., was re nomiuuted for Congress by tho Republi cans of tho Eighteenth Ohio Dlsirlcfi at Salem, One hundrod and thirty-six answered to the roll-call at the reunion of the Thirty sixth O. V. I. Iu Jaokson, a fow days ago. Tins body of an unknown man was found In a bay-loft in Emerson Hazcn's barn, near Cburdon, the other afternoon. About a foot of hay was packed tightly ovor tho body, which was badly decomposed and un recognizable from decomposition, It Is sup posed to bo John Jackson, a carpoutor and jollier, who had been working at vurious pluces in the county for several yours. Ho was about thirty-live yours of ago. At tho Cincinnati M, E, Conference the othor day, Bishop Walden announced 0,781 converts In tho Cluclunutl District during tho last year. Thr Domooraoy of the Seventh Ohio District renominated Honorable Jumes El Campbell for Congress, THE DAIRY. -Bad slongh wator wljl mako milk that contains fonnontlvo organisms ttml that la llnblo to tlooay. Mado Into butter or ohocso. tho latlor will not keep. Seo that tho cows ilonotqtionch thoir thirst In barn-yartl pools. Farm, Field and Stockman. Whllo milk Is standing for cream to rlso, tho purity of tho crenm, antl consequently the lino flavor and koop Ing of tho buttor, will bo Injured If tho .surfneo of tho cream is exposed freely jto nlr much warmer than tho croam. American Dairyman. It hat boon demonstrated that tho produco of ono aero of Hold corn that 'was rlponctl enough to maturo tho kernels into morcnantablo corn and fed to threo Jorsoy cows, mado 234 Iiounds of buttor. It was dono on tho Ixporimontal Farm, Madison. Wis. Western Rural. Prof. Law, of Comoll University, examined tho milk from cows that had access to wator from stagnant pools and found It full of living organisms. Tho cows wero In a fovorlsh condition . owing to their blood bolng charged with this living anlmalculic. Look to tho drinking wator of your cows. Do not water from stagnant pools. Farm nnd Fireside. Thcro is a qualitative tost for but rtor, so simple that any housowlfo can put it Into successful nractioo. A clean Jiioco of white papor is smcarod with a ittlo of tho suspected buttor. Tho paper is then rolled and sot on firo. If tho butter is pure tho smoll of tho burning paper Is very pleasant; but tho odor is distinctly tallowy if tho "buttor" Is mado up wholly or in part of animal fats. Farmer's Magazine. Doop cans for milk may bo used In cool weather in an ordinary collar, but for tho hot months thoro must bo cither an abundant supply of cold water or of ice. A running spring, though a convonionco, is not a necessity, for a woll that will furnish an unlimited sup ply of water with a good pump will answer as well. If tho dairyman puts up his own ico he will find it cheap and less trouble and moro satisfactory than water. Montreal Witness. Crooks of buttor to bo kept for sov oral months should ncvor bo placod up on tho collar bottom. This causes two degrees of temperature in tho crock, - . which will bo at tho oxponso of tho ' quality of the buttor noartho top. The crocks will keep their contents far bet tor if placed at least a foot from the cellar bottom, upon a bench and a thick woolon cloth thrown over it. U. 8. Dairyman. Dairymon should romember that a well-fed cow is a different animal In many rospocts from a thin cow. And this difference is novcr more apparent or important than at tho tiroo of call ing. A cow in a poor condition needs rest for two or throe months, and thero is littlo danger of inflammation of the uddor unloss sho is highly fed. But a cow that has been kept in a high con dition is no doubt safer if milked nil the time till sho calves. If tho milking Is stopped whilo sho Is giving a good flow, it makes a chango in tho system which, addod to tho increasing inflammation resulting from her condition, is apt to mako trouble and end in milk fovcr. U. S. Dairyman. SWEET CREAM. Does It Make Moro ami Better Cutter Tlimt the Sonr Article. It seems that wo still have somo dai rymon who claim that swoct croam, whon properly "ripened" will yield as much buttor as sour cream. I can hardly understand how, in warm weather, cream can bo properly ripened Ijoforo acidification sets in. Marked and expensive improvements in tho creameries of this country would bo necessary to carry out this theory. It is quito generally admitted that sweot-croam buttor lacks tho kcoping qualities. Whilo in experimental work 1 mado a preliminary oxperimont on this point and havo not since had an opportunity to verify it. 1 took equal quantities of sweet and sour cream .from tho same milk. The crenm was divided into two equal parts while sweet and one part churned im mediately and tho other retained until it had properly acidified. In temperature of churning, thor oughness in washing, working and salting, the work was exactly the same. Both samples of butter wero placed in a wcll-mado and well-iced charcoal re frigerator and examined at tho expira tion of about ono month. Tho sweet )crcara butter at this time was quite in iforior to the sour-cream butter. At tho expiration of two months tho sweet cream butter was tho best, tho sour cream buttor having made moro rapid 'changes in quality than tho sweet-cream buttor. I know of no scientific experi ments that throw any light on this subject. If the results hero obtained aro scientifically exact, it may bo that, notwithstanding thoro is a loss in tho quantity of butter by churning swoot .cronni, tho long-timo kcoping qualities may enablo tho lioldor to realizo enough more for his buttor to warrant the practico of churning it sweet in Juno lor July. Wo seldom hear of scien jtifically exact experiments being made by proprietors of creameries. Like 'farmers, tiioy havo littlo timo for such work. Thoro havo boon, and aro no doubt to-day, times when they would realize twenty dollars a day "for the timo givon to tho investigation of some questions concerning tho caro of milk and cream. W.o aro positivo of tho fact that sweet cream from milk set thirty-six hours will yield three to 12 per cunt, less buttor than sour croam from tho same milk. 1 omit now tho dltlicult question con corning tho so-called ripening procoss. Wo know also thut sweet nnd sour cream mixed yield less by about livo to six pounds of buttor to overy one hun dred churned than whon churned sepa rately. Itsooma absolutely nocessary to call tho attention of somo mon to those vory Important ideas, notwith standing tho wldo oirculutlon tho agrl onltural press has given thorn. Tho proprietor ought not to allow swoot and sour cronm, mixod at six o'clock a. m., to bo ohurnod in ono or two hours. It ought to stand until ono o'clock p. in., anyway. Inm not positivo that tho mixturo will at any time yioldtho same por cent, that it would had it not beou mixed. To summarlzo tho exact results I ob tained in churning: First, swoot and sour croam mixod and allowed to stand twonty-four hours In winter yields Ilvo to sovon por oont moro buttor than whon churned Immediately prpbably six to ten hours standing, in summor Will havo tho sumo ollbot In developing suillolont aoldlty; hoooiiiI, sour oreum ylolda eight to twelve per cent, more buttor than sweot oreum of tho samo quality at tho outset, Cor. 8t, Paul Farmer. Farwoll. I). 0,. has had Its name I changed to Havelstiiko, t