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HERALD-ADVANCE.
W« W. DOWN IE, Editor and Vulilishof.
MlLBANK, s. D.
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
A Bil l, was reported iti the Senate on the
Wth to establish a limited telegraph ami postal i
.service. The turift bill was further iMsousseit
In the Hoiiitt' n bill «HH introduced to create
a commission to bo kuown as the United States
Commission of the World's n^re.ss of LUmr
to consist, of nine members to be appointed by
the President, whose duty it shall be to dis
cuss labor in ul) its phases. The sundry civil
appropriation bill was further considered.
IN the Senate an amendment was ottered on
the HOth ult. to the deficiency appropriation bill
to appropriate InO.-ViT for the relocation of the
frontier line between the ITniteU States and
Mexico A favoralilo report was made on the
bill to incorporate the Society of tile itcil Oros^.
The. tariff wan further discussed ..In the
House the conference report on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill was agreed to.
Tlii' Speaker announced the follow msr as a
committee to ImestiKate the ciiar-- s against
Commissioner RHIIW Messrs. Morrill, Saw
yer, Hinyser, Goodnight, and Martin.
Font pages of the tariff 14 i wen disposed of
in the Senate on ttie 3l.st ult. The conference
report on the District of Columbia appropria
tion hiU was agreed to In the House the day
was devote,i to discussing the sundry civil ap
propriat ion bill.
THK time of the Senate on the 1st \.as passed
in discussing the tariff hi I The House de- I
voted the entire day to the discussion of the
Striate, amendments to the sundry civil appro
priation M,|. At the evening session two pri
vate pi MMon lulls were passed.
DOMESTIC.
HKNBY BIVIN (colored) WAS bunged
at Scran ton, Miss., on the 2!tli for the
murder of a white sailor named Henry
Feig in April last.
I'HKSIDK.NT LLAITNISON sent. a message
to Gongress on the 'J!th calling atten
tion to the lottery evil and the neces
sity for legislation to prevent the use
of the United States mails.
TJIK constitutional amendment to aid
the world's fair was passed by the Illi
nois .Senate on the 2i)th. In the House
resolution declaring it to be the
sense of that body that tho world's fair
should be held on one site was defeat
ed, and a resolution was adopted declar
ing that it was beyond the province of
the Legislature to dictate to the directo
ry on the question of site.
RKV. DAVID I'I.VMH,his wife and three
Children, lost thoir lives by the burning
of their home at Cale, Ind., on the Stttb.
Incendiaries were said to have started
the fire.
THK
fertilizer manufacturing firm of
J. 15.
Tygert & Co., of Philadelphia,
failed on the 29th with assets of S348,
000 and liabilities of $317,00
us. On A UI.KS YOKK and her aged
mother, living at Bengies, Md., were
murdered oa the 29th. A man named
Meeks was accused of the crime.
Tine business part of Travers, Cal.,
was practically wiped out by fire on the
20th.
THE world's fair bill was passed by
the Illinois Senate on the Suth ult. and
the House adopted the resolution for a
constitutional amendment to raise
funds.
TIIE Commercial Gazette
A I,ocai, paper at Johnst
of Pitts­
burgh, Pa., celebrated its 104th anni
versary on the 29th. The paper was es
tabl ished by John Seull.July 21), 17NtS, and
printed on the first press brought west
of the Alleghany mountains.
AT Cleveland. (X, on the 29th Anton
Nowak, a tnoldcr, shot and killed his
wife and then blew his brains out.
IK Chicago on the 30th ult. there were
forty-six fire alarms.
FLAMES
ADVUI.S of the 30th ult. say that all
through New Mexico, Arizona and some
parts of Colorado, and also in old Mex
ico, no rain had fallen for months, thou
sands upon thousands of range cattle
were lying dead in the parched valleys 29th. aged 73 years,
and thousands more were dying for
want of water and grass.
HAII.-STONKH in the vicinity
A ToitNAno swept across New Hamp
shire frotn the northeast on the31st ult.
and wrought havoc in many places. No
lives were lost.
TIIIUTKKX book-makers were fined $600
each by Justice Prindiville in Chicago
on the 31st ult. for maintaining pool
rooms contrary to law.
A
k
THK Omaha (Net.) Republican, the
oldest paper in the city, suspended pub
lication on the 30ih ult.
TIIK business portion of Walnut, 111.,
was destroyed by fire on tho 31st ult.
Loss, $125,000 insurance, f40,0(M.
IN a jealous rage on the 31st ult. Jer
emiah Miller, living near Mechanics
burg, Pa., shot and killed his wife and
then took his own life. Nine children
were left orphans.
RKI'OHT.S of the lilst ult. from Western
Kaunas say that the hot winds of the
past few days had burned up the corn
and that many fields would not yield a
single ear.
TIIK 31st ult was the hottest day in
Boston since 1885, the thermometer
registering »5 degrees in the shade.
New York also suffered severely from
the heat.
TIIK constitutional amendment grant
ing the city of Chicago the right to dington for Treasure
issue 85,000,000 in bonds in aid of the for Attorney-General
world's fair was passed by the Illinois
Legislature on the 31st ult, provided
the people voted in favor of the bond
ftsue.
I 1 i., on
the 31st ult. printed what it ciaif.-d
to be the first correct list of the vic
tims of the great flood, givinj the num
ber of the dead at 2.1S7, which loaves
over 200 bodies not yet recovei-ed.
Ir was reported on the 1st thai an En
plish syndicate had purchased for 83,
300,00:) thirty-three tableware gla-.s
factories in this country.
MILLIONS of cotton caterpillars had
on the 1st invaded the fields in the
vicinity of Austin, Tex., and were do
ing great damage.
A msr bli/./.ard struck Aber•:•- u v
D., on the 1st and lasted live .-• '.i n
minutes. When the wind subsided tiie
mercury stood at 105 degrees.
TIIK statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt
to be $1..*.S4
."32,Ot"41
cash in the treasury,
870S, I4.*i.!'."»i} debt less cash in treasury,
$S7ii, 3sji, 113. Decreaso durin -i
Mils. UKKSAU and her sister, Miss
Anderson, were drowned on the 1st
while bathing in the Niagara a
Youngs tow II. N. Y.
Tin. weather report on the Is* .if
Prof. Snow, of the State l'n versity of
Kansas, shows that but two Julys in
the past twenty-three years were
warmer than the one just closed.
1
ANIIKKW I):I I.I:\SKN entered the room
of Kmnia Anderson at New Mil ford,
Conn., on the 1st and cut her throat,
nearly severing her ht ad from tier body,
Her refusal to marry him was t,lit-cause.
Tin:census returns on the 1st gave
the population of Arizona (not includ
ing Indians) at 57,000.
Tin-: homing pigeon Dusky, owned
bv Fred Bowers, of Fall River, Mass.,
reached the hitter place from Owo-so,
Mich., on the 1st, 050 miles, in two and
three-quarter days, beating all previous
records.
THK Illinois Legislature adjourned
tine die on the 1st after passing the
world's fair bill by a vote of 131 to Mi.
The section providing for an eight-hour
day was stricken out, but a resolution
wrs adopted requesting the directors to
observe the eight-hour law. An amend
ment was also inserted in the bill pro
viding that, in case submerged lands re
claimed for fair purposes should ever
cease to be maintained as a public park,
then they shall revert to the State of
Illinois.
A ii aii. and wind-storm on the 1st at
Columbus, Ind.. unroofed houses and
destroyed many trees.
JrixiK KAKKK, of Chicago, ruled on
the 1st that the act of the Illinois Leg
islature authorizing pool-selling on
race tracks was illegal.
Tin- UK. were l!i9 business failures in
thes United States during the seven days
ended on the 1st, against 19U the pre
vious seven days.
WHILE walking on the railway track
near Magnolia, X. J., on the 1st Mr.
and Mrs. Charles 11. Toi-gue were strncK
I by a freight train and instantlv killed,
i They were from England and were
spending the season at a hotel in Mug
nolia.
A KiiiK among business houses on the
1st at Memphis, Tenn., caused a loss of
8300.00.),
A WIND-STORM on the 1st at Newport.
Kv.. wrecked several nouses and did
other damage.
DCIUM, A storm on the 1st at War
I wick. it. a house was blown out to
sea and a child killed.
THK stallion Duquesne,
Philip 11 icke, of New York.
at 850.00D, died on the 1st
farm near Paris, K.v.
1
estate.
of Cassel-
ton and Walburg, N. D., on tho 30th
ult. almost totally destroyed the crops
over large areas.
on the 30th ult. in E. E.
Ayer's lumber yard in Chicago caused a
loss of $ 150,001).
A
KIKK originating in
the Pew build­
ing at Seneca Falls, N. Y., at 3 o'clock
on the morning of the 30th ult. burned
over an area of nearly three acres, and
many of the best business buildings in
that village were wiped out, including
tho three newspaper offices. Loss, §700,
000.
ownid by
and valued
at a stock
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
S.vMi Ki, WINTXKY, one of tho founders
of the immense gla^s industries and the
town of Olassboro. N. Y., died on the
Ho leaves a vast
JOHN II. POWEKB, president of the
State Farmers' Alliance, was nominated
for (lovernor of Nebraska on the 21th
by the Independent People's State on
vrntion at Lincoln.
THK Alliance Union Labor party of
tho Second district of Nebraska nom­|
inated W. A. McKeigham for Congress
on the 29th. In the Tenth Missouri
district the Democrats nominated Sam
uel Hums in the Thirteenth Pennsyl
vania district James H. Keilly (Deru.)
was renominated, and in the Sixteenth
Ohio di-trict the Prohibitionists nom
inated J. J. Ashenhurst.
THK Republicans of North Dakota in
State convention on the 30th ult. at
Grand Forks nominated Captain IJurke
of Fargo for Governor, Roger Allen for
Lieutenant-Governor, and M. It John
son for Congress.
TUK following Congressional nomina
tions were made on the 30th ult.: Ne
braska, First district, W illiam J. Mrvan
(Dem.) C. II. Van Wyck (Ind.) Sec
ond, H. V. Harlan (Rep.). Arkansas.
Second district, Ii. Breckinridge
(Dem.) renominated Ohio, Nineteenth
district, E. 15. Taylor (Rep.) renomi
nated Missouri, Fourteenth district\
Robert II. Whitelaw (Dem ), to fill
the unexpired term of James P.
Walker, deceased, and Marshall Arnold
for the next regular term Fourth, K.
P. Wilson (l)eiu.) renominated. In
Maryland the Prohibitionists made the
following nominations: First district,
G. W. Covington Second, Edward llig
gins Third, W. J. H. Ulock Sixth, Mr.
Moulton.
Tin Tennessee Republicans met at
Nashville on the 30th ult. and nomi
nated Lewis T. Baxter for Governor and
W. M-^iith for Supreme Judge. The
1 platf.Vii indorses President Harrison's
ONK IHT.NDRKD years ago on the 31st Administration and the Federal elee
ult. the first mechanical patent was is- tion bill.
ftued by the Government. It wasgranted
to Samuel Hopkins for making pot and
peurl ashos. The total number of pat
ents issued during the century was 433,
432.
AT Lansing on the 30th ult the Mich
igan Prohibitionists nominated A. S.
Partridge for Governor. Henry A. Allen
for Lieutenant-Governor, E. S. Par
menter for Secretary of State. S.
Ives for Auditor-General. A. P. Cod-
James D. Aiisit
David ilov\ell fot
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
and Noah W. Cheevc* for Supreme
Judge.
Mns. SAU.Y BROWN, aged 105 years,
AT tit. Louis on the 31st ult the ther- died at Colchester, N. H., on the Sis',
mometer registered 100 degree*, the hot- ult She was the oldest person in tm
of the season. State.
HK Industrial party of Michigan,
composed of 'Union Lubur p,_'up.e,
i Jreenliackers. Knightsof Labor and the
Farmers' Alliance, met at Lansing on
1 the 31st ult. and nominated the follow
I ing ticket: For Governor, Eugene 11.
Itelden Lieutenant-Governor. John Me
Gregor: Secretary of State. William E.
Adams State Treasurer. H. E. Black
man Auditor. William W. (iraham At
torney-iieneral, A. A. Ellis Superin
tendent of Public Instruction. Charles
A. Lvtler Supreme Court Judge, O. J.
A' kinson.
Tin-: U"pub)ic in 1 igue clubs of New
Y.irk will hold State convention
at Saratoga on the 4th of September,
NOMINATIONS for Congress were mado
on the '.'.1st, ult. as follows: Illinois,
Tenth district, Joseph H. Itarnum (La
bor) Alihtma, Second district, H. A.
H"iberr. (l)em.) renominated: (reorgia,
i Second district, II Turner (Doin.
i nominated.
y,
257. Decrease since Jem? -SO,
IN90. $21,0iH.K22.
TIIK Union Cattle Company's feeding
plant at (iilmore. Neb., the largest
plant of tho kind in the world, was
burned on ttie 1st. Loss, S2UO.OOO.
lie publican S
a: Kaleigh
THK North C.v.
I ('.(invention wil.
gust 2s.
NATFIAS CIU'MI W!, F-' -GHT in IH
i Mexican war and who carried a mii- i-
during the 151 cknank struggle, diid
Greensburg. Ind., on the :ilst. ult., .u
'lie v'-ar his age.
FOREIGN.
I was reported on the -jitli tnat tin
Go\ernm- lit in the Argentine republic,
had suppressed the mutineers and that
they hud deposited their arms in
arsenal at Buenos Ayres. Peace id
been restored in that- city.
Tin- steamer Mischief which arrived
at Victoria. 11 C., on the \.".)th with over
i 13.(1(10 seal skins reported that, tho
catch this year was the best ever known.
A R\III.KOIT of tiie 3iith ult. from
Buenos A res stated that quiet was re
'stored then? and that the leai' is ..•"
I revolution had accepted the G.j\.-rn
i merit's terms.
A I'li.vsK issued on the :'0'h ult
St Petersburg forbids further work
.Protestant missionaries, especially :I
Western Russia.
i GI:K\T damage t.a
1
Buenos Ayres indicated iiat pi--.ee had
i been re-cstaHished in the Argen'ine
i republic. During the insurrection tho
fleet bombarded the city. One thou
sand men were said to have been killed
and ft.000 injured during the progress of
the hostilities.
1 AN American named Hargan shot anu
1 killed three persons in London on the
31st ult. and w s afterward fatally in
jured by an excited mob.
I AIIVK KS of the 1st say that people
i were dying of starvation in the Sou.Ian
at the rate of 100 dailv.
AnvirK* of the 1st say ih.v the -vol|
in San Salvador had a -I by
the Government troops under General
I Ezeta, and that General Ilivas. tiie lead
er of the revolt, had been captured and
publicly shot
AT a crossing in Toronto, Ont., Pat.
rick D"„nev and two Lo.
a
LATER NEWS.
SK.VATOII PLI'MII offered a resolution
in the United States Senate on tho 2d
for the removal of General Grant's body
i to Arlington National Cemetery at
Washington. The credentials of Ed
I ward D. White as Senator *rom the
State of Louisiana for a full term be
ginning March 4, I MM (to succeed Sena
tor Eustis), were presented. The tariff
bill was furtherdiscussed. In the House
the consideration oT the. Senate amend
ment to the sundry civil appropriation
bill was resumed.
ANDTIIKIC plot against the life of the
Czar of Russia was unearthed at St.
Petersburg on the 2d. Many arrests
were made, and two officers of hi^h
rank in the Russian army who were
implicated committed suicide rather
than face the cousequeneus of dis
covery.
FIHK broke out in a hotel at Farina,
111., on the 3d, and before tho flamos
could be extinguished two business
blocks were destroyed. Loss. SOi.OOO.
MRS. WAI.KKII, wife ol a fanner living
near Benton, 111., took carbolic acid on
the 2d and died almost instantly. De
spondency and poverty were the causes.
WHII.K the friends of Martha Davis,
of Brooklyn. N. Y., were preparing her
body for burial on the 2.1 she showed
signs of life and in a few hours after
was in a fair way to recovery.
Two I'ASSI-:X(.KUS were killed and a
numberof others seriously injured by
the collision of two passenger trains
near Redmond, Ind., on the 3d.
STARVATION and pr de caused the
death of Spencer F. Pritchard. author
and actor, at New York on the 2d.
JOHN I). PUI.SK, one of the oldest and
best-known residents of Warren, Ind.,
died on tho 3d, aged 81. He had been a
resident of tho county for tif ty-three
years.
W. A. BOONK, a colored preacher of
Gordon County, Ga., put rat poison in
the food of a colored family of ten per
sons named Lai ley on the 3d, and suc
ceeded in killing three of its members.
ENUINKKU SAM MOOUK and Fireman
Charles Lanahan wore instantly killed
near Oakdaie, Ky.. on the 4th by a train
falling do,vn an embankment.
Foil the week ended on the 2d the
percentages of the base-ball clubs in
tiie Players' League were: Boston,
Brooklyn, .573 New York. 5.V.) Phila
delphia. .558 Chicago, .53tt Pittsburgh,
4-"0 Clevelan I, .425 Buffalo, .204). The
clubs in the National League huik1:
Philadelphia, .liftt Brooklyn, .H5H Bos
ton. .«J32 Cincinnati. -5'5 Chicago,
.518 New York, .425 Cleveland, .2S'J
Pittsburgh, .217
Till-: TWO DAKOT.VS.
ORIGINAL PACKAGES.
& N«'w Om-stiou Wliii-li, if Sustained,
Will Hn Great I fit
iiiii'lmiof.
Judge Ilanev, of the Chamberlain
(S. D.) district, has sustained bis tcni
porary injunction closing original pack
uge leiust's in that" city. Tie- grounds
riven are that, the enabling act ad
mitring South Dakota to State
hood authorized the enactment of
the prohibition clause in the State
.••institution. Such enabling act hav
ing been passed by Congress stibse
'.{Uent to the passage of the inter
Slate commerce law. therefore the pro
hihition amen Intent has received the
sanction of Congress and the Supri me
Court decision does not, therefore, ap
ply to South Dakota. This brings up a
new question, which will be carried up, i
and which, if sustained, will be of great
importan
,-
-n caused "'i
i the 301h ult. by the owrllo.* of tiie Sai
zach river in France, and many persons
along the line of the river had been
drowned and their houses destroyed,
i Tin Russian Government on the soth
I ult, ordered the application of edicts
against the .Tews which would drive
1,000,0:10 of that race from the country.
I TIIK post-office authorities in Paris on
the 30th ult. discovered that over 125.
000 francs hau been stolen from a reg
istered mail-bag, which had been cul in
transit.
HI 8 of the "1st from
e to ail of the new S*a'.es
which have adopted prohibition.
1
CENSUS IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
OtHcial Kelunis Give tlir Stat* a I'opu
latiiin ol ::.-0,00i).
Tie- oiVicial census returns of South Da
kota give the State about 350.ooo people.
The population in round numbers of i
each of the principal cities, with that
of the county in wnich each is located,
is as folloAs: Sioux Falls. 12,ooo. Min
•lehaiia Coiintv, 22.0ii): Yankton. 3.7-tO,
Yankton County, lo.ftoti: I'ierre, 3,200.
Hughes Count v. ft.iiiiu A berdi-en, 3,1
so.
•Brown Count \. 17.000: Huron. 3,100,
Bea-lli
1
Coun".. o,o00: Watertown,
2.7oo roiling!.in i .Mintv, 7,ou) Mi' -h
e!i. .'.3)0, Davidson Coiinty. 5.500.
A Town ui tho Tramp. i
The Sherman (S. D.) town site boom
ers are again in hot w iter. '1 his towi:
was the first, to he located on the Sioux
•eservation. Tho.se boomers located on
Indian land and were driven off by
I'nited
States troops. They removed
their buildings a short distance avvav*
'o what they suppused was imbiic land,
hut a pan./ of Government surveyors.
who are engaged in surveying tin- land
in that vicinity, find that, the i uihling*
were not moved far enough away, and
are s ill on Inlianlarid. It was proh
able that the town would bo compelled
to move ot.ee more. i
llnrve.t Tlina.
From all points in South Dakota
comes the cry of an abundant and boun
tif ul harvest. Wheat, is excellent, ha d.
I dump and of a No. 1 qua.ity. Oats!
runs in the placs seventy to eight v
bushels to the acre, with a high grade
and a stand of five feet in many fields. I
Corn is king, towering up ten feet in
some instancs. The tassels are out i
and the crop is far beyond what it was
last, year, or tiu'ee years bick for t' at
matter There is general rejoici-ig over
the condition of crops and ,i:-i:iess is
picking up everywhere.
t'liiirscl wli.i
named Mc-
Laughlin and McNeil were kiiiei i.y a
train on the 1st.
NINK I IIOI"S.\NJ acres of rice and cot
ton land in the province of Gerbieh.
Egypt, were covered with an inih.w of
salt water on the 1st, and the a rowing
«rop.S tliei'eon were destroyed.
L. K. L'»e, proiirietor of the Vallev
Springs roller mills at Sioux Falls. D.I
was recently Itoun I over for embe/zU- I
ment. Lee had b. en for years doing a
wholesale business in the way «»f storing
grain i. ml giving for the same teceipts.
i he grain in some cases had been de
m.itide.l but had not been forth'-omm -.
Instance after instan.-e was coning t.
the .surface whet'. he had sold the grain
re-'ei ved and poi'keted the receipts
Sp. isuion on the board of trade was
san.i in fie lie ii[,i
I.h-vul.irs ill smith ikiti
The prospect., for large crops thr' i i
out South D.kota has pro.-nju.-'d !,
r.iilroal commissioners of le state t.o
give attention to elevator privileges. A
number of elevator privileges have
been asked and t'"adily granted hv
railroad anil elevator c.ompatiies. par
ticularly aloig the Chicago & North
western lines. The commission has
also taken steps for the building of
switches and tracks at p,nts where
connections with the Gr»:it Nortm-rn
lino and other roads are de.sirable.
Kctiirn,-.| I'art or tho Muni?,
Governor Mellette has returned the
i Chicago subscribers 10 pi cent, of li.e
money sent, him a few tm nths airo from
June, and its use for thill, purpose was I
found to be unnecessary, '-the certain
tv of an abundant crop''enabling the
I farmers of tiiat State to help them- i
selves.
Found I-Ii* Ml 1,- Vilvcrt sin
Miss Belle Ross, of Pittsburgh, Pa., i
arrived at Jamestown. N. !»., the other!
morning and w s i tried to Samuel:
i McDowttll, tif New Rock ford. Neither
had seen the other before. Tho union
i was eflee.ted through a Chicago matri- I
monial journal in which McDowell in-I
sorted a personal to which Miss Ross
replied. This is McDowell s six mat-!
rimonial venture.
Moo Pii'w* ItciiK.
1
he assessed railroad property in
South Dakota a.nou its to Sl-),ou) ooo. i
A local branch of the enforcement I
league organ zed at Yankton. S. I)., 1
with only a few charter in embers.
Tne crop outlook in Brookings Countj 1
promises a yiehl of percent, in wheat
and flax and 100 per cent, in corn, oats
and potatoes.
Messrs. Hutchinson, Herndon A* Joy,
of Lakota, N, D., recently pure.based in
Montana 7.0)0 sheep and will engage in
sheep raising on a large scale. They
have secured several large tracts of
land for pasturage purposes.
Brule ount.v (S, 1).) citizens are cir
culating a petition asking Congress to
appropriate a sum of money sufficient to
bore artesian wells for the purpose oi
irrigation in that county.
Neil Johnson, a l.r)-year old Dell Rap.
ids boy, challenges any boy under Hi
years of age in South Dakota to run a
100-yard foot race for ,*25 a side and the I
championship of the State.
Corporal I'r ncis of Company B,
Tweitth regiment, while bathing in the
Missouri river at l"o Pierre? S. D..
Sunday evening, got beyond his depth I
and was drowned before tho eyes of his
brother soldiers. Francis was from
liopp Ind i
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Awlilent* I" Imliann, Missouri ami K«n
tHvky. Involvein a Total lam* N« v«.n
lavi's, ami liijiiri«» to a Mmuber of I'er
»oim.
BKPKOISD. Ind.. Aug I Passenger
t-ain No. 3, that left Chu a-o Saturday
night in charge of Cimductor Peter Mc
Donald, and passenger train No. ii, that
left Louisville Sunday morning, col
lided seven miles north of hero
at 10:25. killing the engineer and
fireman on tiie south-bound train.
Both engines are a total wreck,
and the postal-car and express
car on No. 3 telescoped the baggage-car
and parlor-car of No. li. Fortunately
the pas.sengevs were not injured. The
following were killed: Arthur Hurries,
engineer No. 3, residence New Albany,
and tit urge Cole, his fireman, residence
New Albany. Tiie injured are:
Hob Muir, enclnccr train No. IV residence
New Albany: (i -iirsic Smith. Ii is lircoiun, resi
lience l.ntaycttc Frank MhicUwei). express
inessciiiter train No. James Ti'for.i, pe
tal clerk, residence New Albany, ie^'
broken. skull fractured. crushed in
breast, can nut live, his father and
mother live at lit'dford K. F. tteni. of the
Motion, cut in forehead Frar.k Suanks. buck
hurt: K.ri Mnir. sen of the en^inee.-,. head and
face cut: ,1. IV Smlie. p, Mai clerk on train No.
IV leji in nisei: .1. W Jciiuin^s. poiter par.or
car. leg and hip crushed.
1' is one of the worst wrecks that ever
--.rred here. Train No. was in
ci .ige of Conductor John Bills, and
passed hero on time, while the train
from the north was six hours late when
they struck. Conductor McDonald said
he and his engineer agreed to side
track at Guthrie, a small station three
miles north of where the collision oc
curred, for the north-bound train. Ho
then fell asleep, n is said, and did not
awake until they struck. All the in
jured were brought here. John Tilford
ordered the she.-ilf to arrest McDonald,
t-hf» excitement was so great here for a
time.
I III:I I l.os I in 11: ini
Qi ixi lii., Aug. 4 I ue excursion
train which started from Gtlmore,
eighty miles southeast of Hannibal, on
th' Hannibal A St. Louis Short line,
early Friday morning met with a ter
rible accident at the Hannibal 1'nion
depot shortly before noon. Tho
train comprised four coaches which
were well tilled with ex'-nrs'ioni-Ms
gathered along tiie route, and all were
bound for Hannibal to see the Sells
Barrett circus. The yardnuster had
not been advised of the arrival of tho
special, and just as the train was
rounding the curve at the south
end of the depot, a switch-engine came
from the yards on the north at a fast
rate of speed. The two trains met in tho
depot with a great crash. When
the engines came together the
old baggage-car folded up as if
made of card-board, instantly kill
ing Frank Porter, J. E. Sommers
and Ilanev Loehter (coloredj, of New
London, and breaking both legs of
Hrakeman Robert Rrother. of Hannibal.
The four men were standin? on the
platform of u.-cach nev. t-. !,•• bag
gage-ear.
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STHI'i l\ II* A I.A li-s 1.1 UK.
OAKDAI.K, Ky.. Aug. -i. -A train on
the Cincinnati Southern while coming
around a curve two miles north of here,
struck a land-slide and the engine and
three coaches were thrown down an em
bankment and are now in Lmery river.
Lnginoer Sam Moore and Fireman
Charles Lanahan wore instantly killed.
THE STORM-KING.
It*' *H't. li» II s Work In th«» Norltinpiit
Miieli LMIUHX* Caused liy Wind and
Halt.
CHICAOO, Aug. 4. -Several localities
in the North v. est. \wie v: -1 by vio
lent wind-storms, accompanied by hail,
yesterday, the greatest damage be in
reported from N\.w Richland.
Minn., where the loss is estimated at
from £75.000 to ?150,0u0. A section
of country forty miles long and ten
miles wide was di vastated. All the
uncut grain was destnuod by hail. Tiie
windows on th» west and north sides of
every building in the village were
shattered. Hogs and hundreds ol
chickens were killed. In some in
stances the pieces of ice were driven
with such force as to pierce the roofs of
buildings.
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that city for the relief of drought suf-j
ft-rers in South Dakota. He says that
per centage was reserved to relieve
pressing wants during the month
ol
At Moux Falls. S. D., the wind at
tained a velocity of sixty-five miles an
hour, and hail-stones eight inches in
circumference weighing two pounds fell
wilh tremendous force. Thousands of
panes of glass were destroyed and many
buildings were otherwi.se injured. Trees
and shrubbery suffered severely. A
son of Banker Avery was struck by a
hailstone and rendered unconscious,
but he was not dangerously hurt,. The
loss in Sioux Falls is estimated at. Jt.su,.
0 i0. I he .storm in this region was con
fined to a smal 1 area, and the damage
to crops is inconsiderable.
At Hammond, Ind., the damage was
great. Huge trees were torn up by the
roots and carried away, fences wero
swept out of existence, orchards oblit
erated and every thing in the path of
the tempest destroyed. The rotary ve
locity of the wind was terrific and it
progressed forward at the rate of
sixty miles an hour. The west wing of
the building leased by the Chicago Axe
Company was blown over and is com
pletely destroyed. The roofof the Luth
eran church was badly damaged
by a falling chimney. The ice
house at Wolf Lake, owned by
the G. H. Hammond Company,
two miles from here, was lifted
from its foundation and destroyed, anil
it is reported that several people who
Bought shelter there were killed and in
jured. A man named Fisher was struck
by the il.ving timber and had hia leg
broken and is internally injured.
SWEPT
BY
FLAMES.
The Town I»f Fariin, m.. Has a Narrow
Kscupe froui Total Instruction by
1*AI£IXA. 111., Aug. 4.—Fire broko
out, in the Farina Hotel Friday night,
and before getting it under con
trol destroyed two blocks of the busi
ness center of the town, including
the Farina Hotel, Broom's Hotel,
Swiuer's Opera House, Masonic Hall
and twelve stores, with most of tho
stocks. Loss between $40,000 and SOo,
000 insurance about $7,000. A heavy
rain alone made it possible to save tho
town
MISCELLANEOUS
—Sixty thousand blue .rums,
been planted this year on
Mk
wns year on om
rap
Los Angeles County, Calir
ornia
A prisoner who esc
:iwi
Tattnall County, Fla., jail rp.-c,,!?
a note for the sheriff, saying
innocent, but that he would
October to stand trial, and
'fill
¥'tisoi.
ow
acquitted.
—-New Orleans brokers have te -A
PTold pieces frozen into cakesof
ice and then brought around to the
change by a boy. The e
i
k,.
s a e
in the sun, and the last eold'n^
melt out takes all the others it'-
quite
il)4
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exciting as a horse ra.-c C!"
beats penny-ante way into u,c'
woods. Detroit Free l'i'eSS.
1
lhe Hartford 'limes says that
piece of pine woods, in an unfrH]W-..
part of the rocky eastern hill u.*.
Union, on the northern border of a'
State, in Tolland County, i« ii\«iU5rt
Indians left it but that single a,-*,,
two is said to bo the only piece of o'.
inal woods now left in onnei iicu't
I --The unique barometer lm-jrovia
by a Belfast sea captain—and held)'
him to be as accurate as the snnstetne
sive instrument- -consist,
ltf a
of white pine with a number
0f
Jo,
i pieces upon lU This is hun
7 a u
the wall of a building, and the .•nnV.'i
the strip bulges out when dun-pwM:
is approaching and sinks in during
weather.
—According to the Oolognn (iaiw
tho German doctor Alarms, n"t.,rio':s''
his advocacy of vegeterian diet, has:
come a pervert, and has returned to
mixed diet of flesh and M-gntahle f*
He owns that one fact overturn,d
hs theoretical preaching, that a!:
i having been a vegetarian for a nuT.'r
of years he suddenly observed tha
arteries began to show signs of dcgeni
ation.
I While one trape/.e performer
holding another with his teeth faswn
into a belt at San Antonia hismuis
gave way at tho roots and his
panion fell a distance of twentr-J
feet to the tloor and was badly in urc
Hereafter councils will not permiti-j
exhibitions unless the roots of tlwt
pe/.ist's teeth protrude through r.bo ba
of his neck and are securely clinched.
Norristown Herald.
—Gentlemen whose wives are out
town should carefully inspect the "p
sona!" columns of tieivspapu rs hoy s.
to their better halves. The W.i^hingt
Star recently contained a "[.ersotu.
Btating that a gentleman whose w
was away for the summer wished
meet a discreet. lively voun? lady
accompany him to places of aintiseme
The result was the sudden return of
least five Washington la lies wfuse
bands bad been left, behind.
"Talk about men not heinir ham
fiends," said a bright woman in ados
town otlico. "Why. a man started a si:
store in Nassau street ia-t jear. a
business was so poor tho iirst
ft
months that he got discouraged. Hut
filled his windows with si^ns sayi
that he was soiling our at an t-r-i'-o
aocount of going out fe^iae^. a
his doors with placards, "Tais store
let,,'and then he put the prices,f i.
his stock up ten per (tent, higher th
they liad been before and waited. 1
side of two weeks he was doing the
pest business of any man in his tine
tho street, and at the end of thr
months, w lien ho took down 'hesijt
he had made enough extra profit to
his goods down, too, to regular pne
again. Ho is there yet. and has a p*
nianentlv established business All I
customer* were men. Vou couldn't cat
women that way." N. V. Sun.
—The West hester, I'a.. News te
of a fierce battle between two bll
blooded stallions at Milfeid Mil
owned by Michael Murphy. They
i loose from their attendant and at ou
began a tight. They kicked, tore ea
other with their teeth and pawed o
another at a terrible rate. Mr. .Murpt
i with tho assistance of several men.
unable to part hem. They were driv
from the ra'o course into the tiel Is a
from there into the public, roads, a
i went in the direction of Glen Moore ai
continued fighting each other like
i couple of bulldogs. They were follow
by several men with whips, forks. et
I but with all thoir efforts they could n
part them. Finally one pot the but'
of the other by pawing him down at
they were parted, but, not until d"
i wero nearly exhausted and had intlt 't'
serious wounds in their flesh.
'H(
fought for a distance of three miles.
hundreds of people turned out to wi
tless the bloody encounter.
Tim F«vorltf) Nnwupupiir IUIHN
The word "Gazette'' seems to liai
been a favorite name for newspaper
from tho earliest times down. The 8^
newspaper in the world, printed at N'
•rein burp in 1457, was given this nam'
In our own country the name was ver.
common in connection with the earl
history of journalism. The first perma
nent newspaper in tho colonies was t-br
Hoston News Letter, the second heif
tho Boston Ga/.ette, which
appiare
December'Jl, 1711). Six years later
York's first paper, called the New V"*"
(iazette, was established. This saO'
name was also given *o the first p»Pe,s
started in the following States
land, in 17'iS Rhode Island, in t":i
Soutli arolina. in Virginia. i'
1711(5 Connecticut.in 1T57 North aroliti6
in 1755 and New Hampshire, in I
Printer's Ink.
I faitig- Meat In Hummer.
Tho following is an extract from
lecture by J. 11. Kellogg. M. D.. of
tie Creek Sanitarum: The use of beef
steak or any other kind of meat in b°
weather is much to be deplored, am:
thousands of people make
i
tlien,5t''ve"
sick in consequence. Meat decoiiiiH,-*e
very readily outside or inside the boaf
i and it is ditlicult to secure that whitfb i1"
in tho best possible condition. At tbis
I season of the year we have an abtindaIjCH
of fresh fruits and succulent vegetables
and these together with grains and n»_
make up a diet more wholesome-*
onaiUtti 0#aii foods from
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I less heating than one in whh'h n
s
food enters. Meat-eating also promote^
nervousness, and I am convinced fro®
tb»"
i long experience and observation
tho majority of people would be a S""
deal bettor off in hot weather if
tbey
their lii****?'