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km V EMU (-ADVANCE. Wtu. W IKJWNIK, Publisher. 1 riJlANK, SOFTII DAKOTA People must, eai broad and ih«* Luro pean wheat supply is going to be short There axe better times ahead. r«'ibrador, a cotmtry which ivp always •associate with arctic snowdrifts, ice b*rg*, «'tc, luu? 00* species of flowering pbtnt.s. ,r'J ferns and over 250 species ®f nxts^-s and lichens. Among American towns there are five (^iceros, three Tullys, six Catos. seven Ovids, six Virgils, nine Hork w, ten Milos, seven Hectors*, seven Sulcus, ten Platos, fiifeen Homers and fouj' Scipioa A stream near Tucson. Ariz., petrifies all soft substances thrown into it It is in the great Colorado potato beetle belt, and at the time of their migration thousand* of them strike the water and are converted iuto solid stone. Hie imperial canal of China to the longest in the world and greatest in jK)int of traffic. Its length is 2,1M wiUoe. and1 it connects forty one cities situated on its banks. It was com pleted in 1350, after 600 years spent in Mp construct iou. Among the peculiarities of Quakerism.i a correspondent points out Quakeresses are not allowed to wear gold orna ments or to have their ears pierced for earrings. iT a mother permitted her daughter to undergo this operation both mother and daughter would be "read •lit" of met'*ting. Death is terribly depressing in any form, but the item going 1be rounds of Mie press stating that half a dozen tourists were nearly frozen to death in a snow storm near Cheyenne, V» yo.. is not nearly so depressing as it might be voder leas torrid local atmospheric conditions. Another prize ngbter li is been killed la a "glove contest." The net loss to the world is not great, yet it would be a good plan to prosecute those who Witnessed the brutal performance. They are us amenable to the law as if they had stood by and applauded the per petration of any other sort of inu» The night that a mob broke into the Memphis jaii ami took therefrom and lynched a young negro the sheriff very oannily allowed himself to be knocked on the head, and so was not able to de fend his prisoner. He is now a candi date for re-election, and his considera tion in not shooting at the crowd of lynchers is his strongest campaign ma terial. *"in Temple Graves is tlio originator «t the idea of forming a state by act of congress which shall be known as a negro state, and where all good negroes will l»e expected to go. He thinks {he colored people will jump at the chance of having a state"of their own to run as they please, removed from the in fluence1 of white voters and politicians. Mr. Graves appears to be drifting into pretty deep water. Kezanlik is beyond all dispute the (Rweetest smelling place on earth. It lies on the upper Tundja, near the foot of the Hliipka pass, in a valley full of rose fields. Kezanlik is the chief seat •f the industry in attar of roses. It takes 20,0tX) of the roses that grow irr that valley to yield, by distillation, as much genuine attar or otto of roses as equals i» weight a 50-cent piece. Johnny ltebs, the sobriquet given by the soldiers of tlie Union army to Con fedorates timing the late war of the Rebellion, is said to have originated in a colloquy between pickets. The Con federate soldier objected to being dubbed by the Union soldier as a .John ny Bull in allusion to the countenance given by Great Britain to the cause of the seceding states, but submitted to Johnny lleb without protest. Hie British naval muuocu^ers have come to a successful close. The small fleet won the light by capturing the opposing fleet. This, however, is not the cause of the sigh of satisfaction that has swept over Great Britain at the announcement of the close of the sham battle. The manoeuvers were successful chiefly because none of the participating vessels came in collision. Since the Victoria disaster the friends of officials and seamen In the nary are alarmed every time the ships steam around la close quarters. THE m:\vs in a nvtsiikll OICiKST OF T1IK. "KVS FROM AI.I CARTS OF Tift: WOKI.D, All Important Occurrence* t»f the Paul W«M»k, nnitpil Down and anitpd for Rfmllnj, Fr«m Home mid Altroati. Government officials are making no preparations for the reassembling of th international monetary conference. Dis solution of the Latiu T'nun would have no special effect, in this country. Col. Clfarlos \V. Johnson will prob ably remain as chief clerk of the sen ate until the first of next year at least. Vice President Stevenson requested Mr. Johnson's retention because of his knowledge of afialrs relating to the senate. It is probable that the Demo cratic senators will respect the request made by the vice president. On inquiry at the pension office it is learned that up to date there has been (.741! pensions suspend si which were granted under the act of June 27, 1KSK), the average being 170 daily. A large proportion of these cases, it is said, was suspend*1*! pending medical exam ination. PERSONAL. Zola proposes to take part in the con ference of journalists to be held lit London in September. Gen. Dodds sails from MarseiU Aug. .10 to again take command of t! French forces in Dahomey. W. K. Rogers, who was private secre tary to the late President. Hayes, died at Columbus, O., aged sixty-four. President Cleveland receives from ten to twenty letters a day containing re cipes for reducing his obesity. .Tames II. Sampson, a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, died at Galena, III., where lie had lived slice l.S!4. He was seventy years old. The young anarchist, Berkman, who attained notoriety about, a year ago by shooting II. C. Frick. is editing an an archistic paper from his prison cell. The pope lias directed the Catholic inhabitants of Naples not to fast on Fridays as long as the cholera pre vails. as the physical weakness result ing from fasting might increase the danger of contagion. Hugh O'Donnell, chairman of the famous advisory committee of the amal gamated workers during The Home stead riots, is now living in Chicago, where he is associate alitor of the Eight Hour Herald. Warren Bryant, for twenty-nine years president of the Buffalo Savings bank, is dead. During President Buchanan's administration he was collector of that port for two years, that being his ouly political office. Queen Victoria has now passed the record of Henry III., who rilled fifty six yea 1*8 and twenty- nine days, and has reigned longer than any English sovereign save George 111., who ruled from Oct. 25, 1700, to Jan. 29, ls_o fifty-nine years and ninety- seven days. John Davis of Benton county. Mo., jumped.off from a train on the Sedalia, Warsaw* & Southern railroad a mile from Mora, to ger. his hat, which had blown off. He goi the hat and ran to Mora and boarded the train before it left the station. Maj. Mellon of St. Louis, one of the chief promoters of the Confederate home at Higginsville. Mo., served dur ing the late war on the staff of seven teen different Confederate generals, and is well stocked with personal rem dnisoenues of his experience. CASUALTY. Sixteen tramps an* reported killed in a railroad accident in Illinois. Three young boys wen1 drowned in the lied Lake river at Grand Forks. 1'. J. Elliott, city treasurer of Great Falls, Mont., was drowned while bath ing. Bud Yanness and Lot Abraham, who were injured in a steam thresher acci dent at II end rick, Iowa, are dead. A son of Stephen Ilarners was drowned while bathing in Singer lake. .Mich. Tin village of Snow Hill, Md., burned. Only two stores and a few dwellings were saved. The loss Is about s.'-tOO, 0(H). The two children of Patrick Cum mings, aged i and 2, fell from a fifth story window at New York and were killed. Daniel Palmer was killed by a trac tion engine at EHingham, 111. He got his hand in some cogs and his body was drawn in and mutilated. Two Italians. Charley Tirro, aged 25. and Giovanni Di Seenza, aged 21, wore drowned near Detroit while bathing. James Smith, a lM-year-old boy. was drowned at Des-Chree Shos-Ka. by fall ing from the landing. Six miles of the Southern Pacific track is under water near Tucson, Ariz. Samuel Jones and Melville Lamb were drowned at Alton, 111., while swimming. John Riser was killed by an engine In the Illinois Central yards at Bloom ington, 111. By the explosion of the boiler of Mar shall Lumber company's planing mill at Marshall, Tex., Tommy Hill, aged thir teen Henry Suialley, aged sixteen Gus Saunders, a negro, all employes of the mill, were killed,- and Joe Bright, en glneer, and Joe Wallman were badly scalded. I vshixgton. It is said that William Ilornblower of New York will be a pointed to the United States supreme bench. Gen. Schotleld, who has been confined to his mom for the past week with an attack of rheumatism, is much im proved, and will n'sttrae his duties at the war department. While Fred Seiglin, lizzie Topei, Ernest Topel and .John Mahor were re turning to Brooklyn from K:isJ I York they-were struck by hgutmiu and Seigling and the girl were insh.nt jly killed. The others were severely shocked. I The picture frame stock of J. Df4** sou & Co. of Milwaukee was damag.Hl bv tire this morning to the extent ol j$tk,000. The stock is valued at lw(- I (00 and is insure*I for $7,000. the tire originated on the second floor and I Is supposed to have been caused by a I»ot of boiling glue, the workmen hav ing forgotten to extinguish the .amp under it. August, Carney and Soitfiia Sexm, each under 13 yetirs of awe. were bath ing in tlie river at Maiyville. Kan. None of them could swim. Hie Idlle girl waded our of her brothers went to her rescue. All sank together. When the remains were tak en from the river their arms wvi'u dasited around each other's necks. CRIMINAL. While the doors of the jail at Kiudlay, (., were open the prisoners made a break for liberty and all escaped. The McDonald l*oys are said to have I taken sso.ummi from the Pacific bank tat San Fram-jseo without *euri y. George Black antl John Smith quar reled near Tuscola, Hi-, over the affeo i tions of a girl. Smith shot Black dead. A Kansas City man, who refused to fc'lve, tiis name, was swindled out o* $7,500 by green goods men in New York. John Chew, employed in l. trrillard's stables at Monmouth Park. N. J.. was stabbed to death by S. P, Donovan, a fellow workman. A. K. Williams was killed and Sheriff Patterson wounded at Met try, Ark., v a negro who was being taken to '!. He will l.»e lynched if caught. horse thief named Harper attempt to escape from officers who had him i.i custody, and he was shot and fatally wounded. The body of John Phillips, a miner, was found in a pond near Hartshorne, I. T. Cuts on his head mdicate that the man had been murdered. Near Malvern. Ark.. F. Jones, a tramp, kilted Ed Ryan with a scythe. The mummer is being pursued, and, it is believed, will be lynched. John Englchart, Jr.. a railway police man. was shot by a tramp at Mansfield, O., his body falling on the railway track and being cut in two by a train that was passing. Gov. Atgi Id of Illinois lias commuted to ten years the sentence of John Rob inson, who was convicted in Henderson county in 18S7 of murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for mrtH u years, A dispute on the Smith farm, mat I Newark, Ohio, about the division ol certain wheat, resulted in the killing oi one man find the wounding of three others. FOREIGN. India is recovering from its financial flurry. Cholera is extinct in Alexandria, It aly. Ducret and Norton were convicied and sentenced to imprisonment in l'.'ris for complicity with the forgery of docu ments which, it was claimed, were stol en from the British embassy. The secretary-general of the eleventh iniernational medical convention, which was to be hold at Rome, Sept. _N, cables from Genoa that the congress has be.»j» postponed to April. lS'.M. M. Pavie. the French minister r- si (lent, returned to his post in Bangkok, Siam. The Paknam forts fired a salnto of thirteen guns as the warship Ahni ette, bearing the minister, passed urf the river. The ATouette rwpomled. Cholera has broken out in the Harris son of Soolina. says a Bucharest advice. It is officially announced that twenty two cases of cholera and thirteen The international Socialist congr. Se in its session at Zurich, recently, ap proved the establishment of an eight hour working day. The delegates •agreed to agitate f«„- the holding of asi interstate congress to settle the ques tion. Fire broke out recently in a tlmlier yard adjoining the Mersey docks, on the boundary between Liverpool and Boo tie. Timber and other nrouerfy eoveriug three acres were destromi The loss is $:!(Kt,000. The direction of the wind was away from the river to which fact was due the safetv of the shipping. (JENKTIAL. ^^Gas has been struck at Stronghurst, rllie FIKE IS 311-VNK Vl'OLlS I,tMRKR YARD*. FACTOK1K* RKSIDEM'KS Bt"RM5I». Minr eapolis, Aug. depth tfid Uei* 14, any lost Vienna Enamel works at Ches terton, Ind., shut down, throwng out of employment 1H0 men. Directors of the I,chigh Valley road have dissolved the lease to the Readme company because of default on bills due. Citizens of Allegheny City, Pa., have commenced a vigorous erusade against questionable bouses. White Caps took Mrs. Elijah Dalton of Borden, Ind., from the home of her husband and administered a whippina with hickory switches. An extra session of the Illinois legis lature may be held to arrange a plan for the employment of the idle men now in the state. Snowdrifts a foot deep were found along the line of the Haverhill and Aniesbury road on the hillsides of Mnesbury, Mass. The differences between the Ameican tinplate factory and the Welsh work men at Elwood, Ind., who have ben out on a strike, have been satisfactorily ad* justed and work will be resumed. -Two million dol lars* worth of property went up in names yesterday. Over 200 houses are burned and at least 1,500 persons are render.Ml homeless. It was a linh* aftei l" o'clock when the watchman saw a small blaze on the river side of J. B- larke & Co.'s box factory on the south end of Nicollet island at the head of St. Anthony falls. An alarm, qaicklj followed by a second and third, was turned in. but by the time the department arrived the fames, fanned by a fori- us south wind, had gained such headway dim all the firiv men could Jo ws.s to turn their..attention to adjoining property. Nearly all the structure* in this vicinity were of wotnl, dry as finder, and made splendid luel for the flames. Clarke's box factory was deemed f'ore even a stream of water was thrown upon it. Next to it n the north was I chart's wagon works and the Cedar Lake ice houses, which were wiped out of existence. Further north were Lintges & Cotmell's boiler works, ami here the heaviest loss on the island took place. This firm had a stock val ued at over $54MKXt and not a cent of in sm'i.nce. The other losers are fairly w"11 insured. While this fire was at its height a spark carried high iu the nir alights! on oh. island, nearly half a mile away above the lire on Nicollet avenue. This island is occupied as a wood yard by the lumber firm of Nelson. Tenney & Co. No ono noticed the spark fa 1L hut the whole island was soon ahhizc. it was this spark that caused the greatest loss. Quickly jumping across the small space of water separating ihe inland from the mainland the flatties gained a footing iu Nebon, Tenuey & Co.'s lumber yard, where there were piled some 10.tHH.UHK feet of lumber. The fire worked through this yard and into that of E. W. Backus & Co.. adjoining. Beyond the lumber y.ird were the two mills belonging to E. W. Backus & C-o. Of these nothing re main except, the smoke stacks and a *aas* of twisted niachiuety and charred tin»tw rs. J. B. Chattemoii's cedar post mdl went the way of the others, as did the sash and door factories of Fulton & Libbey and J. F. Wilcox & Co. At the eorner of Marshall street and Thirteenth avenue northeast stood the mammoth bit^ ci of the Minneapolis Brewing company. This, it seemed, must surely g, but at this time the wind changed, and, although the brewery was surround ed by wooden buildiugs, it was saved, and this was the only structure be tween Sixth avenue and Thirteenth ave nue northeast, ami lroin the river hack to Marshall street, a distance of three blocks, that escaped the fire. The change in the direction „f the wind imptrriled the lumber yards and mills on the west side of the river, and they were almost at the uier-y of the fivin sparks and ember*. The firemen w.-r^ powerless to re .!cr any assist' ,,,, e fo.- to reach the Plymouth or Twentieth avenue north bridge* it v.-...ild have he.-u nect j.,sary to pass through a bridges, too. were ..n fire. some apparatus cm,hi deaths have boon reported at Naples and se ei, new eases and one death in Rome in one day recently. «'wilcS & furnace. The l„d nothing to do but hope f(lL- there w.m b(M m„5l a dellH)r of three miles and reach the fire. The ..In. Ploycs in the yard,, however, had not Wi, idle. They stret.lud lines of hose and any spark that funnd a fooling across the river was promptly vpn-l.-h^l. Along tin east bank of the river were located th. mills and lumber yar.i* which were burned, while east of them were locate.! inany stores and residepccs. m,„ Clarke's box Tjjeut\ $50,(M«) insuu.d rilomas Sjltnn. dead ftn n,,': 4KD "I hi* Amounts to Two MilHQ** Dollar* and Fifteen Hundred f'« p]«- %re Home1e»»-8ever»l Mire* Prolin l»I I.oxf. ,1 them were wooden str. ci eraly omipi.-d by the employes of 'ho nnlls and laboring men. ur,v TS hm^h(,hl offu-ts which they st*1 eked piles over which they stood gvard to prevent their being "carried away by thieves. About 0 o'clock hOi jumped the river ,OCK •liiiijrpr Fortuiiulelv the nam!.s W( liisv niiriit- nr "e In S1* pt in the open :nr ir.wtL*,*"' "°iy about 10.IXXUMM! f,.lt ,!n °0' Iin.',:ahl-vl,'u'^MJloMUA! nn.l l,'„i C!0SS lH about $HHk¥l/ and Fulton V jihw T° Th, lotting Minneapolis Brewi^l aXdi2 injured. debris. R-ve'ral yeaM excu luent. Several tiot fatally. 1 on,' v °f c*1I8e^ f^»»I Joost normal. Foj? i m.., tobcr, lie May. 4'J ls-r, 255-«e bid May aii-i St. Pa,.! a„k. IN^hcrn, 5fM-2c N{ .V^, FIFTY KlhLKD l!oti.l« t.v. Aug. 14. TV riots 'ke out this ,iiy few-day,.., extending up to \\„. SHOT MIS SISTER Batesville. Ind., Auu*. 11. Mis- 1j0U.-«| Sehrader. twcntv-thrce years old, ha*i: f'Ceu in Indianapolis t"«»r -onie 1 »i visiting her father near 1 his town. Th: afternoon she and her brather Wiliisn U( re idling a neighbor. The I 1 a! loaded Williams' revolver without having explaine*] to joiiug Schradt-r. ar he. thinking it was empty, onik if up ai' play fully .suapptNi it iu hi- sister's fae the gun went off and crashed throBf:. her brain. PFAITKNT1 Al!Y AM" IIV*'KOli Wateriown, S. 1).. Am:. 14. \\illi#e B. t'hurch ami Aggie Hob rg w.-rc brttin-. o\er to the circuit court in Jp5u0 e,iTh fl' the «-barge of criminal intimacy. Mr* Church came from Mim-capoH*. wh^ri shc has bwi for some time, and found her husband in company with the Hollw? girl. She tracked them to the girl's roott a o'( loch them. rr MAltKiis" Cincavo. ,\ng. 14 o beeves, $4.H0M5.ir, Burlington 1 o(el, and ah«it 1 tlie pidic« eiitcred and Chattanooga. They were *"",000, Lac, ,lle and the loss will be a bo u wei! insured. o„ All T,1° l«ra' tory Is »'"tiimiud by bremett The b,dv were slightly It is reported-that several lost, hut the rumors hu, 1,Ws n°! the Were injured, 1)KN8B,POnT London. |.i ,lu\ -hanml'JlsT, U'f C0Ver«d "I' to noon Sunday s?rd,ay Dl*bt li'-nicnon in the month Vf a a pbe" gl,Ht «float were kept goinii al- ftshore and steamboat Ville de L""'Wsa»«y. The lover andT*1$?in* •»r* unknoM-n sie M,ior to-d/" r"'1 witfa vcsyP| disapp, 'V n,' «n and it is lie|iei'i from nonMy damaged. Wfts not «. IS a,, le- •4.75 medium, i-v .!.50 cows. Si.2."),1 a. ii' ruugh, Jp4.25a4.tiU ii ixwi^ V' J?-l 70a." shiping hea\y Wi 'ghts, $5.25a5.: n likT R.NIJ «8.Wrt5,"t .''"•""i 1C WV,. 6.. o-Sc Sept ember, r,t ss.r the V.r»— l*0«' «f «lu" JtrP no'1 n \rKu k, 7 Ayg. 1ft- i#0' rLrtlv 4,. Uii 1. of frienil" 1 The 'h,,r Th 14 -'UosswJ^ quality fair yards cleared w rs. Cattle- Prime sU'^rs b,s each that the uotify toission to that siott v ko,»1 i •I'ders, $2. Minneapolis, Aug. 1 asUoW 1 ratio svdoptea i. Wheat i41 ch^l at 57r8c S,.p,,mbor .W»C- highest, 57 7-S", h.wosj ,yK 57 5-Hc December .p,vllt,V ,/I, highest, »i5c lowest. tjjiVV 04 7-Sc. On track No hern, 59 l-2c 1 2c .ictts Tin" we ha til v tfdt the 1|U1 4( ^ned. f, !'?f, ,re to draft ,2 take proper a^freedi*'^ J,ri.Ml,lt ti than fifty jiersons are ki.owu Ih ch killed, and many huvH,«.n«» Further reinforcements (1f (..iva, v L,f infantry have arrived from PrJ are bivouacking in ihe queen has sent a 'eh.vr im i„ i^j n governor of Homhav. on account of the riots. Tl:.- n,.w^, refer to the trouble in luild i-n-.).,! ploro the fad that by a vt)le .: all proper 1 ,mmi"^ Pr ,s:us 11a »ied Hinckley. 1 Hrvan an" u of the 4,led to th' ,4 every I« at the P* v was decidi I- tn«ns"^w celhil out earlier. s 1' I 'ROTS, Aug. 14.-Twft, at Hoffman TWO MOHE Quarantine, S. I.. pets were isolated early tltw morning, th" lough weafl.ev in the l..\\-r Knv not removed to Swinehurn hospital! To C' oh ra paiieuts. t-!: oati.-nN rior !«•.' cholera, 30 convah-M-em. It', Heffman island, 20. All .»f the pat a-e ill-proving. The disease is i Pre was a those wh the attitude in his »,,ssi: the platf' o defiui and whe1 just as u ailed toget senate w ,t.4 adjourt was mad .md the y,.d by Mr. l,e» on ,i?fORr mjj" character. I wo nior^ ^nurses \per? to Swinebnrne ishnit1 to'dny. Tup st ei- Hulda arrived to-ihi fmrn on board were well C'lIOLFKA IN HVSSIA. London, Aug. 14. Official rvtunisth a great increase of .h..). jn Kb during the last we»k. Th» fi^nrw fo- the provineet. are as !..lic»\v: PoJ^.i 484 cases, 175 death*-. Oreal, :127 et-» lit* deaths lion Hegion, ,*io4 cases, deaths KiefT, 2!) cases, death* Gi no, 110 cases, 27 deaths' Nij ni Non| 2)t rises, 102 deaths lvhrio:t, ftt IS deaths: Varoslv, .'IS ca-es, 15 Hi-atbl Kazan, .'}! ca«s, 15 deaths: Mn-ii-ow. i« itflmling Moscow ity, 27 ci.s--. hbC deaths. Aye arr.'*twi- FOUR rntOWVFD 'ii cinnati, Aug. 14. A -l^tal fr® Chattanooga rejtorts the drowning the Tennes-ce river to-day of Charles l{ e and Mrs. Ueorgc Cincinnati, anl Mrs. flief "f Mrs. Wagner and ~bild f' on a jd#««iTe •'Xcursion in a naphtha launch. Th« di( w ning occurred in an attempt to tiaM* fer passengers from the launch to to* b'lrge. KlLLEIl BY A CYCIjONK. Winona, Kan., Aug, 14.- A eydon« tl.e northern part of Logan comity y** tcrday destroyed a larue amount of farm proi»erty. Tlie house of W J«»ckson was demolished and W® chihireu killed. -.THOMAS' TBIAL. Fond du Wis., Aug. 14,-The limiuary examination of Fred Thorn"' v as again adjourned until Aug. 1» large crowd had assembled at the ei trance, but there was no attempt violetuv. PUOF. SMTTir NOW. Charles City, Iowa, Aug. 14 W. Smith of this city, has been elwte to the chair of histology and pathology at the Iowa State Agricultural eeHsf® Ames. UW WATER AND HARD TIMES Stillwater, Minn., Aug. 14. Il^anSe 01 low water in the St. Croix and the Pre6" ent financial depression HX» men laid uff at the boom to-day. About »V Ooo.ooo feet of logs are left to through. Kl'UOLAKY AT AHFUPLflN Aberdeen, S. D., Aug. 14.- Nasser Auibuel's butcher shop was entered an a small amount of money fallen. due. FIFTY 1'FJiSONS DROWNS Vienna, Aug. 14.- A cloud burtf havoc in the Kmpereis district in H«a* Kary to-day. Fifty persons and uia'o ht ail of cattle were drowned.