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PEOPLE OF NOTE. IS®
Ths Wisconsin Dwnocratsnomlnate George
w. Peck for governor.
Mark H. Dunnell was renominated (or con*
grew by theBepnplicana of the first district
olMinneMta on the first ballot, securing 61
votostott for A. D. Gray of Fillmore County.
MINOR ACCIDENTS.
The list of victims of the Wilkesbarre (Pa.)
cyclone now numbers sixteen.
Fire has swept the Soukais forest in Al
gelre. Two villages were destroyed by the
broke ovt nt
enterpot for the noted Tokay wine, and the
whole town, with the exception of thirteen
houses, was destroyed.
William Higgins, a contractor, was parti
ally disemboweled while loading logs on a
car at Groandhouse, Minn., and will probably
die.
An epidemic of disastrous fires has occur
red in the frontier towns of Prussian Poland.
In all these fires have rendered 150 families
homeless.
At Sundridge, Ont., the Queen's hotel, to
gether with its contents, was burned. Two
men—Thomas Powers and Herbert Dayton
were burned to death, and two others were
badly burned.
Six persons were recently bitten by a mad
wolf near Moscow. Three of the victims
havo since died of hydrophobia. The other
three are under treatment by Pasteur of
Paris, and will probably recover.
The boiler of a locomotive on a freight
train on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
exploded near Mansfield, Ohio. ICngineer
Albert Graham nad Fireman Joseph Mur
phy were instantly killed and fifteen cars
of oil burned.
By the mistake of a druggist at Knoxville,
Tenn., John P. Smith, tho eleven-year-old
son of State Superintendent of Public In
struction P. M. SAit.h, and a boy named
Hut chins died from a dose of morphine, tak
en for quinine,
illielm Schmidt of Bloomer, AVis., was
found near that place, having been run over
by a train at night. Ho was still alive, al
though having laid there nil night with ono
leg smashed to a jelley. He expired the next
morning.
The hail stones that fell in recent thunder
Btorms in Connecticut were extraord innrily
large, and cut like flying shot. In one tem
pest along the sound they were simply lnis
hapen chuncks of ice. They tore corn into
tatters, and pierced the hide of cattle so
that blood followed the impact of each ice
ball.
A farmer named H. A. Smith was killed on
his place near Mulvauey, Kansas, by a mad
horse. Smith was tying up the brute when
it turned on him, seized him by the shoulder
and threw him down. Just then the bnrn
door closed, shutting off all means of escape,
and the horse viciously attacked the man,
biting, pawing and kicking, until Smith
seized a club and with it killed his horse. He
was so badly exhausted, however, that he
died shortly after being discovered, when he
hao just strength enough to tell of the fight.
While a Wisconsin Centeral engine with a
train often cars loaded with coal and eight
empties, was engaged in switching on the
docks of the Ohio Coal company at Ashland,
Wis., it ran off an open switch on to the ties.
The dock extends out into Chciiuamcgon bay
for a considerable distance and the ties are
on piles. The engine ran off the ties and into
the bay, being completely submerged. The
engineer and fireman jumped and were not
hurt, except the former sustained a slight
sprain of an ankle. Owing to the break in
the dock wrecking trains cannot get at tho
wreck and the engine will probably have to
be taken to pieces to be recovered.
While Frank Roberts was hunting (or his
calves about a mile and a half west of Ban
croft. Iowa, he was attacked by a wild and
ferocious animal. According to his account
the animal bore a resemblance to a panther.
The animal sprang upon him from a bunch
of weeds on the edge of an adjoining slough,
clearing ten feet at the first bound, knocking
him down and covering his whole face with
its enormous mouth, displaying at the same
time a liugli set of blunt yellow teeth. He
says the animal was about six feet long,
having short legs, built heavy in front, but
slim through the flank. Once he thought
the animal had him down !or the last tim e,
but fortunately he caught it by the loner
jaw with one hand and by a desperate effort
pushed liitn off and got on his feet again and
(•scaped.'
WAYS OF THE WICKED.
Seven Aldermen of Biddeford, Me., have
been arrested charged with election frauds in
recent local election.
Laura Shrope, fourteen years old, has been
arrested at Jersey City, N. J., and confesses
to have robbed her employer of money and
jewelry at lies Moines."
Near Goshen, Ind., Sam Wilson, a negro,
shot and killed Mrs. Mather, a widow, who
had refused to marry him. He then shot
and fatally wounded himself.
Henry Smith, aged twenty-tour a five-time
murderer, died of consumption in the Alaba
ma penitentiary, where he was awaiting the
result of an appeal from the death sentence.
Dr. Bahnson of Crookston is shot aud killed
by Horace Russell at Fisher. Russell accuses
the doctor of criminal intimacy with Mrs.
Russell.
Near Decatur, III., William Crawford killed
Mrs. Cal Mnthies, a married woman with
whom he was in love, and then cut his throat
with a razor. He cannot recover.
Scott Shoemaker, one of the best known
men in Westorit Pennsylvania, committed
suicide by shootiA while talking with a party
of friends at SAnton. It is thought there
was a woman iidp case.
A. C. Delano, the projector of the Octavia
Investment, Improvement and Insurance
company of St. Louis, is missing, and it is
said a number of business men have been
victimized.
Ace Madison, a farmer near Bowliug Green,
Ky.. shot and killed his sixteen-year-old
daughter. He bad previously attempted
her life. No cause
for the deed is known. He
may be lynched.
The burgomaster of Osterwoerck has been
convicted of forging an official document and
sentenced to along term of imprisonment.
For an esteemed lunctionary to be convicted
of a crime is so rare in Germany that the in
cident attracts much attention.
Charles S. Rainey, a civil engineer formerly
of Pittsburg, is illegally imprisoned in Sor
rado,State of Cliapez, Mexico. Some months
ago he had a dispute with someJUexicans and
he, in self-defense, drew a revolver, Ue has
since been in solitary confinement.
At a picnic near Weather!ord, Texas,
Henry Erwin, the son and main support of
a widow, was set upon by the three druuken
Brbwley brothers and so badly beaten and
stabbed that he died the next day. Ths
murderers escaped.
J. C. Schwass, a patient in the Sacred
Heart hospital at Spokane Falls, Wash.,
threw himself from a third-story window,
and died fifteen minutes later. He entered
y- ths hospital recently, and apparently bis
only trouble was a slight attack of fever,
vi He was rational, and showsd no signs of be
*ing delirious. Daring the night when, the
night watchman passed through ths ward he
was sleeping, but aeon after they heard the
wiudow raise and a moment later heard him
Mrs. Josephine Gurley.who abducted Annie
jr'^$|«fBsdmondf at Chicago,
:-Avt
for which she was sent
^V^to ths penitentiary for five years, now gives
the public a confession wherein she says she
stolsthechiid at the bidding of her husband,
who, in torn, wished to fbrtber a vindictive
plan of..png Mrs. Annie. Allen, a woman of
nomm,
wits on latiMte tni iirli
Indoding NiUU^A Mfi fef winss «o»
tracted at Mrs. Allen's house remained
unpaid and MM. .Allen becoming spitefat,
planned, with the aid of GnHer. the litUs
girl's abduction,
conflagration. the anti-Jewich edicts will be promulgated in
A firs krnba nnt •.+ «. Kuseia in October, with a supplement justl-
PROM FOREIGN SHORES.
Rassia has presented a vessel of 1,900 tons,
to Montenegro.
Cholera is spreading in the city o( Toledo,
Spain. Thirteen cases and five deaths are
reported.
Lord Saliebnry, replying to the porte's
note, says that the time is not ripe to evacu
ate Egypt.
The number of coal miners on a strike in
the Itorinage district, France, is 16,700, and
the movement in still spreading. The strik
ers are becoming very disorderly.
Despite the foreign protests on the subject
Tokay, Austria, the fying the measure of repressive severity. The
latter is intended to satis foreign opinion.
Many cases of ordinary cholera and of low
forms of fever are reported in the districts of
Ireland affected by the failure of the potato
crop. The medical officer of Clonakilty re
ports 3,000 cases in which starvation will
occur unless relief speedily arrives.
A big socialist conspiracy has been un
earthed in Rome. Concealed in thehouses of
workingmen the police have found bombs
charged with powder und dynamite, as well
as republican flags and correspondence of a
dangerous character with foreign socialists.
The British newspapers have taken advan
tage of the passage of the meat inspection
bill nt Washington to renew the clamor
aguinst Americau beef. The new measure is
denounced as an unwise and ungracious
attempt to forceexports. It is declared thnt
the inspection provided lor will not be ac
cepted us satisfactory, and the prediction is
made that bad results will certainly follow.
The British war ship Buzzard arrived at
Halifax from Jamaica'with yellow fever on
board, having been ordered to Halifax on
account of the fever breaking out among
the crew. There were nineteen cases on
board at one time, and one of the vic
tims died at Port Royal and was buried
thcro. All the others have recovered except
five.
HERE AND THERE.
Burlingame, the Farmers' alliance
I'Miididnte for attorney general of Minnesota
withdraws.
•Mr.
Advices from Samoa state that the consuls
nt Apia have issued a proclamation in which
theywarn the natives against: entering into
any intrigues to replace King Matnufa.
The deputy minister of agriculture of
Canada declares that Asiatic cholera will
certainly visit Canada next year. He will
establish iiunranstine station.
Representative Jones, a prominent builder
and railroad contractor of Knoxville, Tenn.,
I has assigned. His liabilities are $100,000
and assets $80,0 00.
The Duluth & Winnipeg Railroad company
has a squabble with the Indian bureau over
the question of building its line through the
Winnebngoshish reservation.
I Proprietors of Fall River. (Mass. print
I mills have signed an agreement not to sell
I print cloths under 3 5-10 cents during Sep
I tember. The price advanced rapidly to that
point.
Robert T. Lincoln, United States minister
I to Great Britain, emphatically denies the
truth of those reports which represent him
ns contemplating the tendering of his resig
nation.
The military maneuvers at Montichiari,
Italy, with smokeless powder, wore a great
success. The batteries of artillery fired half
an hour without their presence being dis
covered.
Advices from the New Hebrides island state
that the natives of Amba island massacred
the crew of a German labor vessel. A French
war ship subsequently shelled the village on
the island.
The announcement has been made that
Baron Largerfclt.'vice president of the Jeffer
son Iron works at Steubenville, Ohio, has
issuedandsoldfraudulentstock certificates of
the company to the amount of $20,000 or
more. The baron was German vice consul
at Pittsburg.
Dr. Joel E. Justin made another experi
ment of firing dynamite shells from a com
mon cannon at Cyracuse N. Y., resulting
like a previous experiment.—the caunon,
weighing 30,000 pounds, being blown to
pieces. Filty people were within twenty
yards of the gun, but no one was injured.
The cholera, which the farmers of Iowa had
hopes would not again infest their hogs, has
broken out in the south part of Cerro Gordo
county and during past few days William
Winter has lost over f1,000 worth. Those
who know say it is the genuine cholera, the
same which lias before proved such a loss to
the farmers of Northern Iowa.
One of the most unique conventions ever
held in New York, is now in session. It was
a gathering for mutual benefits and discus
sion of instructors of deal mutes, represent
ing seventy-three institutions scattered
throughout the country. France, Italy,
.Spain and other countries were represented
by proxy.
Inspector General Dumont has received the
report of Local Inspectors Knapp and Yea
ger, who investigated thecase of the steamer
Sea Wing, which capsized in Lake Pepin in
July with such fatal results. After survey
ing the evidence, they say that they are sat
isfied that nothing could have been done to'
save the steamer after the squall struck her,
owing to its sudden and violent characte r.
Holzhay, the bandit of the Northern
woods, made another unsuccessful attempt
to commit suicide in the prison at Mar
quette, Mich. He was found lying in his cell
in an unconscious condition from loss of
blood, he having severed the arteries of his
wrist with a sliver ol tin, secured from a slop
bucket. His scalp and the top of his head
was also reduced to a pulp from attempts
to dash out his brains on the prison walls.
Holzhay now lies in a straight-jacket.
A large negro state convention, with dele
gates from many counties, met at Raleigh,
N. C. and was addressed by the negro lead
ers of the state. They spoke against the
Democrats and demanded recognition by tho
Republicans. Resolutions were adopted en
dorsing President Harrison's administration,
tho Blair bill and the federal elections bill,
and protesting against local grievances in the
state, the jury system, the state election law
and demanding more political recognition.
Political Movements.
The Republicans of South Dakota have
nominated the following ticket: Congress
men— Maj. John A. Pickler und John 11.
Gamble. Governor Arthur C. Mellette.
Lieutenant Governor—Geo. A. Hoffman.
Secretary of State—A. O. Ringsrud. Treasur
er—W. W. Taylor. Attorney General-Rob
ert Dollard. Superintendent of Public In
struction—
Cortex Snlmon.—Commissioner of
Schools and Public Lands—Thomas H. Ruth.
Commissioner of Labor und Statistics—11. A*
Smith.
The Wisconsin democratic nominees are
these: George W. Peck, for governor
Thomas Cunningham, of Cluppewa Falls :or
secretary ol state John Hunner, of Eau
Claire, for state treasurer, and J. L. O'Con
ner, of Madison, lor attorney-general O E
Wells, of Kankanna, for superintendent oi
public instruction. Wm. Root, ol Sheboy
gan, for insurance commissioner by acclama
tion, and Thomas Thompson, of Eau Claire,
lor railroad commissioner.
For member of congress, Capt. W. H. Har
rleVn Honston county. This is ths way
the ballot of the democratic voters of the
First congressional district of Minnesota
will read at the coming election, that gentle
man having been selected to ran against
Mark H. Dunnell.
A Heroic Aot.
Oticaoo Times: Jack—I say, old boy Tom
Innesly has disgraced his set. He was fined In a
police court yesterday.
paries—What for? Too much wine?
Jack—No: be kissed a 8t. Louis girl.
Charles—WhatT And they fiuedhim?
congress ought to vote him a
bravery.- -.vS'r-
Accident to a Cable
Train in a Chicago
^Tunnel!
Frank Netzger of St Paul
Thrown nnderthe Wheels
and Mangled.
CHICAOO, Aug. 29.—A life was lost in a
cable car accident in the Washington street
tunnel to-day. Many people had narrow
escapes from instant death and had it not
been for the heroism of several male pass
engers three or four women would have
been killed or mangled against the fagged
sides of tho tunnel. The accident was
caused by the gripman plunging his train
headlong into a runaway train that was
coming at full speed down the opposite in
cline. Frank Netzger, an express agent of
St. Paul, was, with his wife, on the grip
and, as everybody who could jumped to es
cape the impending danger, Netzger was
thrown under the wheels of the train and
mangled to death. Other. persons were
more or less hurt and shaken up and a halt
dozen women fainted. This was the last of
four accidents that occurrcd on the Yerkes
system during the day, and tho council is
to be appealed to to pass such restrictions
as will ensure safety on the line or tie up
the system until its running arrangements
are perfected.
rossrnr,Y FRANK NETZKR.
The St. Paul directory gives no such name as
Frank Metzger, nor any one named Metzger en
gaged in the railway express business. There is,
however, a Frack B. Netzer, who is a messenger
for the American Express company and runs
between St. Paul aud Chicago. It is feared that
he is the oue meant by the foregoing message.
He resided with his family at 205 East Four
teenth street until recently. It could not be
learned lust night where he had removed to.
Mr. Netzer litis worked off and on for tho
American Express company for the past six
tein_years. For three years or more and up to
1SS7 or 1888 he was a fruit and gen
eral commission merchant in Stillwater,
lie is well known in St. Paul, Stillwater. Minne
apolis. Fargo, and generally throughout Minne
sota and the Dakotas. He is a mini of thirty
live years past, has a wife, and a daughter ten
years old.
SWII'T ItETKIISUTION*.
Atrocious Murder or a Merchant and
Lynching of tho Murderer.
LKXIMSTOS, MO., Aug. 29.—An atrocious
murder, the escape of the murderer, his ar
rest, confession of the crime and subse
quent lynching are the elements of a
double tragedy that was enacted at May
view, ten miles south of here, to-day. Sher
iff Mitchell recciv. a telegram from May
view stating that H. F. Parker, a merchant
of that place, had been murdered. The
sheriff and two deputies started lor the
scene of the crime. Lpon their arrival they
went directly to Parker's store, where a
ghastly sight met their gaze. In a pool of
blood, behind the counter on the floor,
with the head nearly severed from the
body, lay the body of the dead man. Tho
instrument used was plainly a revolver.
The motive lor the crime was most likely
money, for the cash drawer was rilled, and
an examination of the clothes of I'arker,
who was a widower and slept in a room
hack ol the store, showed that the pockets
had been turned inside out. Forty dollars
in cash and a gold watch was found, which
would suggest that themurdcrer was fright
ened awav before his object was accom
plished. Dr. McDonald arrived from May
view to-night and stated that anegro named
Wi Ilium Waiters had been arrested by Con
stable Thomas Chinn for the murder ol
I'arker, had confessed his crime and was
hanged from the branch of a tree by a mob.
KOW ON A 11 AFTER.
A Roustabout Sues a I'llot for rersohal
Damages.
CLINTON, Iowa, Special Telegram, Aug.
20.—Wednesday night, shortly after the
steamer J. W. Van Sant left the village of
Le Claire, Iowa, for the north, John O'Con
nors, second pilot of the boat, it is alleged,
made a murderous assault upon Francis
McMahon, a roustabout, using him up bad
ly. O'Connors fired several shots at McMa
hon, who made his escape from the boat
and made his way to his home at Fulton,
III., where lie has been confined to his bed
since. The affair has been carefully sup
pressed until to-day, when McMahon,
through his attorneys at Lyons, commenced
suit against O'Connors for $10,000 damages.
O'Connors is said to be wealthy. It is al
leged that the crew of the Van Sunt on the
evening in question were intoxicated, with
the exception of McMahon, who does not
drink. The latter is reported very ill, in
fact it is doubtful if lie lecovcrs. Should he
live and the case come to trial, some sensa
tional features will be developed.
CUT HIS VICTIM'S TilItOAT.
Horrible Butchery of an Old Man in
Missouri.
HIGGINSVILLE, Mo., Aug. 20.—A horrible
murder occurrcd here to-night that will
probably result in the lynching of the mur
derer. S. A. Higgins, aged eighty, a mem
ber of the family alter which this town was
named, was stabbed to death by William
Feltz. Mr. Higgins was gatekeeper at the
fair to-day and had some difficulty with
Feltz, who was driver for Doolcy & Sons'
livery stable. Higgins had Feltz ejectcd
from the grounds. Feltz went to lliggins'
boarding house and renewed the quarrel
with him. During theail'ray that followed
Feltz used a knife und stabbed Higiiins four
times in the breast. Alter the latter had
fallen to the ground mortally wounded
Feltz completed the butchery by cutting
his victims throat lrom ear to car. He es
caped. A posse was formed to capture him
and is still engaged in the search. If the
murderer is caught lie will doubtless be
lynched.
l'ork and Art.
PARIS, Aug. 29.—Le Paris prints the fol
lowing:
The negotiations between France aud the
United States relative to the American tariff arc
approaching a lavorable conclusion. The Wash
ington government will remove the duty on
works of French art aud France will remove the
prohibition against Americau pork.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Members of the
senate finance committee know nothing
about the negotiations alluded to by Le
Paris. Mr. Sherman stated that the finance
commutes would probably recommend
that, the duty be removed from works of art
from all foreign countries, but would have
no relation to the action of the French gov
ernment against American pork.
Construction Stopped.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Aug. 29.
—A. telegram was received to-day from
Agent Schuler ai the White Earth agency
that tho Duluth & Winnipeg had stopped
work of construction through the Winne
bagoshish reservation. The company, it is
said, would hasten to file maps showing
precisely what lands were wanted for right
of way and station purposes, that the sec
retary of the interior might fix the com
pensation to be paid. The secretary has
requested the bureau officers who wilrhave
charge of details here to attend to the work
as soon as possible, that the company's
men may not remain idle longer than is
necessary in carrying out the law.
Swallowed Morphine.
CHICAGO, Special.—Jennie Eddy, a bur
lesque actress, under engagement with the
Bluebeard company, took morphine with
suicidal intent last night. She was in a res
taurant with Eddie Foy and two other of
her acquaintances, and suddenlyswallowed
the contents of a a bottle of morphine.
A physician was called and by daylight he
had his patient in a setni-conscious condi
tion. She will probably recover. The
cause of her attempt at suicide is thought
to be a notice she had received from the
manager of the company stating that her
rehearsal work was unsatisfactory and that
unless she could do better he would have to
cancel the engagement.
i-fiotoiic
van, one of the state commissioners of afbl
tration, called
upon Mr.
Webb
Toueey to-day,
and
At the
8opt.
Grand Central depot,
and remained closeted with them for half an
hour. Subsequently he refused to talk about
his call. Neither would Mr. Webb say any
thing that would throw light upon the
matter. The claim of the Knights relative
totbeiuabilityoftheroad to handle any
more freight was flatly contradicted by Mr.
Webb, who said that yesterday 100 freight
trains were moved, consisting of 4,179 load
ed cars and 1,689 empty cars, while at Buf
falo and Albany 1,167 cars were inter
changed. Mr. Powderly when shown thif
statement said it was not so.
FIRED AT OFFICERS.
BUFFALO. Aug. 29.—A non-union switch
man named Alexander R. Hamilton, new
ly employed by-the Central railroad, fired
a revolver from the cab of an engine at two
police officers, who promptly arrested him.
The case was put over till Tuesday.
It was learned to-day that the striking
switchmen had telegraphed to General
Superintendent Toucey at New York asking
lum to grant them a conference to settle
the present difficulties. So far as learned
no answer lias been received. There lias
been no trouble of any kind to-day.
DELIVERING FREIGHT TO THE CENTRAL,
PITTSBURG, Aug. 29.—The Pennsylvania
Railroad company and the Pennsylvania
company are now delivering freight to tho
New York Central. These roads refused
freight lrom the New York Central points
for some time alter the inauguration of the
strike on the ground that it could not be
handled without delay. The factthat.these
roads are again receiving and forwarding
cars to the Central is an indication that this
road is handling freight without much dc
lay.
AN OLD-TIMER.
Claims for Laud In Yellowstone Park
Settled Upon Twenty Tears Ago.
WASHINGTON, Spccial Telegram, Aug. 29.
""Henry R. Harr of Red Lodge, Mont., has
sent a statement to both houses of congress
aslung that he bo paid for a tract of land
in the Yellowstone Park which he claims
to have settled on in 1871 before the park
was set aside for park purposes.
Mr. Ilarr has an interesting story. He
says he went to the park from Bozeman
and settled seventy miles from any neigh
bors. His home was near tho Mammoth
Hot Spring, which lie says he discovered
and named.
He did not know that congress wastliinlc
in of setting aside this great tract lor a park
until alter the act was passed or he would
have protested. The act. he thinks, was
put through in a hurry. He believes lie
had rights there which the government was
bound to respect and believes he has valid
claim on land which he would now not
sell for £")0,000. Accordingly he wants con
gress to do him justice.
BUTTKUWOUTII COMING.
Ohio's Congressman Decides to Visit
the Northwestern States.
WASHIN( TON. Special Telegram, Aug. 29.
Hon. Ben Butterworth, member of congress
from Ohio and secretary of the world's lair
commission, is to visit the Northwest, and
Oct. 11 will formally open the Northwest
ern exposition at Spokane Falls with an
address.
This decision was reached to-day after an
emphatic invitation from Representative
Wilson of Washington. The exposition
includes Montana, Idaho, Oregon and
Washington as its lists of contributors, and
Mr. Wilson assured Mr. llutterworth that
he would get information which would be
valuable for the world's fair. The people
of tho far West will, it is safe to say, con
gratulate themselves that so eminent a man
is to look them over and address them.
Mr. Butterworth will stop at other cities
and make study of the country from St,
Paul to the coast.
IIAltVAUD VS. YALE.
The Blue to the Front in the National
Tennis Tournament.
NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 29.—There was a
large attendance at the national lawn ten
nis tournament to-day. The matches for
the day were those of the second round.
C. Holiart met M. G. Chaee, Hobart win
ning three sets and Cliacc taking nine
games. W. H. Knapp and M. D. Smith
were brought together in this round. Knapp
needed but three sets to win, and the last of
these he took love. Of the matches that
between P. S. Sears and B. P. Huntington,
Jr., attracted the most interest. The game
was stubbornly contested. The score went
up slowly to 3 all. then to 4 all, and finally
to 5 all. In the last game the points went
from deuce to vantage and back again sev
eral times. Huntington's victory was
greeted with applause. H. G. Hall de
feated Hugh Tallant after playing threo
sets. The scores were low.
ALLIANCK MAN CHOSEN.
Farmers, Aided by Democrats, Control
the Oklahoma Legislature.
GUTHRIE, I. T., Aug. 29.—The Farmers'
alliance and Democrats, aided by three
Republicans from Oklahoma City, succeed
ed to-day in organizing both branches of
the legislature. Hr. Gardcnpire, an alli
ance member from Stillwater, was made
president of the council, and W. A. Dan
iels, an alliancc member from Canadian
county, and a former resident of Iowa, was
selected speaker of the house.
The Oklahoma City Republicans who
voted for the alliancc men and gave them
the majority, claimed that they did so be
cause of promises to favor Oklahoma City
as the capital in exchange lor votes for
speaker.
KILLED BY THE CURRENT.
Instant Death cf Two Men Who Stepped
on an Electric Light Wire.
WIIEEELINO, W. Va., Aug. 29.—To-night
a colored man named Joe Solomon, em
ployed in the Wheeling Terminal Railway
company's tunnel, now in course of con
struction, stepped on the wire which sup
plies the current to the arc electric lights
used in the tunnel headings and was in
stantly killed. An Italian, who is known
only by liis contract number, stepped on
the same wire just as Solomon fell and was
also instadtly killed. Two other men were
shocked in taking the corpses from the
wire. Both men wore thick-soled leather
boots, and neither body was burned nor
mangled in any way.
Caswell Ketired.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 29.—The deadlock in
the First congressional district Republican
convention at Clinton Junction ended to
day on the eighty-first ballot in the nom
ination of H. A. Cooper of Racine. This
retires Representative Caswell, who has
been in congress fourteen years.
No Republican Convention.
OCALA, Fla., Aug. !9.—There will ba no
convention of Florida Republicans this
year. The state central committee yester
day put in nomination for controller L. D.
Ball, and foi supreme court judge J.
Challe-
8oc^Vleg Vice.
LONDON, Specif—The scandal recently
unearthed in Wurttmburg grows more seri
ous as further developments are made. The
police nave verified the existence of numer
ous societies formed for the purpose of mu
tual indulgence in all forms'of the grossest
v'ce.
a.nd
Hundreds of rkrests have been made,
public feeling atltuttgart is greatly ex
cited. The king re:uPll to stifle the investi
gation, despite the lat pressure brought
to bear upon him oywle friends of the ac
cused.
The
FSKLLIM
Fatal.
FRAZEE CITY, STJ iiirXclegraiu.—Gotlieb
Barr, ags sixty-ei'vi.
merchants of th
effects of a fall fri
[er of Barr Bros.,
died from the
ion.
her lor
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fitTe Been Doing tta
f^fhyjt'Week.^f:
SENATE.
The senate d«voted the day to enlogiM of
the late Senator Beck and adopted resolu
tions upon hi* death. The most notable ad*
drsse was that of Senator Ingalls.
The amendment to the tariff bill placing
twine on the free liet may pass the senate!
me Northwestern senators will nearly all
favor it, and either in speeches or votes
support it This amendment already has
the outspoken support of Senators Davis
ft "sshburn of Minnesota. Casey of
North Dakota and Spooner of Wisconsin.
HOUSE.
house debated at great length the bill
defining lard. Mr. Hayes of Iowa moved to
amend by striking out all aftor the first
section, defining lard, and inserting the pro
visions of the Paddock bill.
A third reading and engrossment of the
bill was ordered by a vote of 117 to 77, and
subsequently, after motions to reconsider
and commit to the committee with instruc
tions had been defeated, the vote on the pass
age of the bill stood: Yeas, 11 nays, 46—
no quorum. The bill will come up for final
passage again.
SENATE.
Senator Piatt laid before the senate a let
ter from the secretary of the interior, trans
mitting a telegram from Special Land In
spector Newham concerning the destitution
in Oklahoma.
The senate committee on postal affairs de
cided to make the bill to extend the free de
livery system apply to cities of 5,000 inhab
itants, or to cities where the postal receipts
amouatto |5,000.
The bankruptcy bill will be reported to the
senate favorably with certain amendments.
It is understood that an effort will be made
to pass tho bill at this sessionof congress.
HOUSE.
An agreement hasbcen finally reached by
the sundry civil bill conlerrecs upon the par
agraphs relating to tho irrigation and
public land surveys, the sole subject of dis
pute between the two houses for several
weeks. For the survey of the public lands,
tho house appropriated ¥200,000 the senate
increased the amount to $000,000. The
eonfcrrecs fixed it at $425,000.
Mr. O'Neill of Pennsylvania announced the
Kiidden death of his colleague, I.ewis F. Wat
son in a feeling manner, and offered suitable
resolutions, which were adopted. After the
nppointment of a Amoral committee the
bouse adjourned as a mark of respect, to tho
memory ol tho deceased.
SENATE.
Tho senate by unanimous consent iigreed
to the proposition of Mr. Aldrieli in regard
to closing debate on tho tarrif bill and taking
vote on the measure Sept. 8.
Tho tariff bill was then takeu up, tho
question being on the lead paragraph.
Senator Plumb informed tho senate that
ho proposed to submit an amendment to the
tariff bill to place white pine lumber on the
free iist, and lie indicated that he would have
something to say in favor of that proposi
tion.
HO USE.
Representative B. II. Taylor of Ohio, from
the committee on judiciary, renorted to the
house a bill amending section '5515, Revised
Stututes. relating to misconduct of officers
of elections and costodians of ballots at con
gressional elections. The object is to pre
vent post-election frauds, which, it is said,
under existing law may be committed at will,
and for any violation of which the United
States is powerless to prosecute or protect
the rights of citizens who may be candidates
for congress. It provides a penalty for any
alternations of ballots and returns after an
election has been held.
SENATE.
Mr Davis of Minnesota, mads a speech up
on the tariff and reciprocity.
The resolution heretofore offered by Mr.
Plumb, instructing the committee on rules
to issue such orders as will wholly prevent
the sale of spirituous, vinous and malt li
quors in the senate wing of the capitol, was
taken up. discussod and referred to its com
mittee on rules.
UOUSE.
There was a fight with bare knuckles on
the floor of the house. Two or three con
gressmen called each other liars, and applied
other epithets to each other.
Wilson of Washington and Beckwith of
New Jersey were the combatants, while Cannon
and Mason ol Illinois, Williams of Ohio and
Lehlbackof New Jersey were "in in." It came
during the height of the filibustering on the
compound lard bill.
Beckwith took exception to a remark mude
by Mr. Wilson and called the Washington
congressman a vile name. Wilson resented
thiBjnrithablow. Beckwith struck at Wilson,
but did not reach him. Williams ol Ohio
tried to draw Beckwith away and Beckwith
turucdtoscrapwithhim. Then the sergeant
at-arms' deputy brought the maces from
their places abovo the desk, and bofore the
rods and the eagle the fight stopped. It was
several minutes before order was restored.
SENATE.
The tariff bill was taken up. Mr. Aldrich,
from the finance committee, gave notice of
two amendments he would offer to the bill,
and which were read for information. One of
them is a reciprocity amendment.
Senator Davis introduced an amendment
to the tariff bill providing that, binding twine
manufactured in whole or in part from Isle
of Tainpico fiber, jute, jute butts, manilla,
sisal grass or sunn, shall be admitted free of
duty.
HOUSE.
The decision of the speaker as to the lard
bill was mistiiined (1.10 to 36 and the bill
was passed (120 to .'11 ), the clerk counting
a quorum. After further personal explana
tions in regard to the Cannon resolution
directed against the filibusterers. the eight
hour law ciaim bill was taken up and dis
cussed to the end of the morning hour. A
bill to constitute the hour of a day's work
for laborers and mechanics on government
work was amended and passed.
Mr. McSwat's Mistake.
Chicago Tribune: "Billiger!"
The voice of Mrs. McSwat had a high
pitched, first-quality-of-qucensware ring
about it.
"Well, my dear?"
Mr. McSwat spoke in a rising-inflection,
what-the-deuce has she-caught-on-to-now
sort of a tone.
"I haven't heard from Auntie Kittery in
reply to the letter 1 wrote her four days
ago/'
••Haven't you, Lobelia?"
"No, sir. I haven't."
"Was—was it four davs ago, Lobelia?"
"It was, sir."
"There wasn't—er—ah—anything impor
tant in the letter, was there? inquire! Mr.
McSwat, with a rather lame attempt to ap
pear surprised and sympathetic.
^"You know there was, Billiger McSwat!
You know it contained an invitation to
Auntie to come and spend a month or two
with us this summer.
"Why, so it did, Lobelia so it did. I re
member now, you spoke of it at the time."
"Well, what have you got to say about it?"
"Why—er—I think it strange she hasn't
answered yet."
"O! you do, do you? Don't you know
why she hasn't?"
"H—how should I know?"
"Ha! I don't need any other evidence
that you know than your guilty, sneaking
look at this moment.''
"Madam, what do you mean?"
"Oh, don't pretend innocence. I gave
you that letter to mail for me lour days
ago. You haven't forgotten it—you know
you haven't. I handed you another letter
at the same time. One was to Auntie lot
tery and the other was to the publisher of a
fashion magazine. You promised to mail
them both as soon as you got down town.
You haven't forgotten that, have you?"
"N-no."
"I thought not. The letter to the pub
lisher was in a white envelope and the let
ter to auntie was in the green one, and—"
"What!" exclaimed Mr. McSwat, his legs
giving way under him. "Are you sure it
was in a green envelope?"
•'I am.
"Then you'll get an answer, Lobelia," he
said, with a groan. •'I thought the white
one was for her. I mailed the green one
without looking at it!"
Mr. McSwat got up, put on his hat. went
out into the darkness, and in the seclusion
of his own back yard he kicked himself fo*
the next halt hour.
&
A
it
caption tendered by the Italn rallef
committee In London, giving
count of bit terrible Journey through
the heart of the tropical forest.
"D»y after day, week after week,
from aawn of morning to near eve,
with noon interval of rest, we are
urged on nnrestingljr. Step by step
we gain our miles, and penetrate
deeper and deeper into that strange
conservatory of nature, the Inner
womb of a true tropical forest. The
warm vapors rise from it as from a
great fermenting Tat, until so dense
are the exhalations in a few days that
only the flaming bolt can let in the
sunlight on that impervious and end
less foliage above onr heads. After a
month's unbroken march we halt for
rest, and for the first time attempt to
question natives who have hitherto art
fully elude our efforts to gain intelli
gence. We ask them if they know of
any grass land lying east, north, or
south of their district, and they reply
in the negativo in a manner that seems
to imply that we must be strange
creatures to suppose that it would be
possible for any world to exist save
this illimitable forest world. Taking
a grass blade from the river bank—
for only a few straggling blades can be
found—we hold it up to view. 'What,
no field—no limitea stretch of land
with something like this growing?'
'No,' they reply, shaking their heads,
compassionately pitying our absurd
questions. 'All like this,' and they
wave their hands sweepingly to illus
trate that all the world was alike, noth
ing but trees, trees, and trees!1 Great
trees rising as high as arrows shot
toward the sky, uniting their crowns,
interlacing their branches, pressing
and crowding one against the other un
til sunbeam nor shaft of light may
penetrate it.
"No sooner are these words heard
by our men than their imaginations
conceive the forest under the most op
pressive and forbidding aspect. Hither
to it had been a tract of laud of un
certain extent, growing trees, which a
few weeks' march would enable us to
pierce through, a mere pleasant varia
tion of the experiences of an African
journey-maker but a month had al
ready elapsed, and they now heard
with their own ears that the forest was
without end. The little religion they
know was nothing more than legend
ary lore, and in their memories there
dimly floated a story of a land that
grew darker and darker as you travel
ed toward the eud of the world, and
drew nearer to the place where a great
serpent lay supine and coiled around
the whole earth. Ah, then, the ancients
must have referred to this, where the
light is so ghastly, where the woods
are cDdless, and are so still and solemn
and gray, to this oppressive loneliness,
amid so much life, which is so chilling
to the poor, distressed heart! And
the horror grows darker with their
fancies, the cold of the early morning,
the comfortless gray of the dawn, the
dead white mist, the ever-dripping
tears of the dew, the deluging rains,
appalling thunder-bursts and the rolling
echoes, and the wonderful play of the
dazzling lightning. And when the
night comes with its thick palpable
darkness, and they cuddle in their
damp huts, and they hear the tempest
overhead, the howling of the wild
winds, the grinding and groaning of
storm-tossed trees, the dread sounds of
the
f?
kKKHi* ._
falling giants, and the shock of the
trembling earth, which sends their
hearts with titful leaps to their throats,
aud a roaring and a rushing as of a
mad overwhelming sea—oh! then the
horror is intensified.
"It may be that the next morning,
when they hear the shrill sounds of the
whistle and the officers' voices ring out
in the dawn, and the blare of the
trumpet is heard, and there is stir and
tumult of preparation, and action,
that the morbid thoughts of the night
and memories of terrible dreams will
be effaced for a time but when the
march has begun once again, and the
files are slowly moving through the
woods, they renew their morbid
broodings and ask themselves, 'How
long is this to last? Is the joy of life
to end thus? Must we jog on day
after day in this cheerless gloom and
this joyless darkness, until we stagger
and fall, and rot among the toads?
Then they disappear into the woods by
twos and threes and sixes, and after
the caravan has passed return by the
trail, some to reach Yambuya and up
set the young oflicers by their talcs of
woe and war, some to fall sobbing
under a spear thrust, some to wander
and stray iu the dark mazes of the
woods hopelessly lost, and some to be
carved for the cannibal feast. And
those who remain, compelled to it by
fears of greater dangers, mechanically
march on, a prey to dread and weak
ness, the scratch of a thorn, the punct
ure of a pointed cane, the bite of an
ant, or the sting of a wasp. The
smallest thing serves to start an ulcer,
which presently becomes virulent and
eats its way to the bone, and the man
dies. These sores rage like an epi
demic. and dozens are sufferers. Then
the recklessness with which the men
eat up their stores of provisions! What
might have lasted ten days is eaten up
in two or three, and they starve the
rest of the time, for the spaces between
the banana plantations may be only a
day's march, but they may be twenty
days. But it requires a calamity to
teach blacks as well as whites how to
live."
Cultivating Sugar Beets.
The following instructions have been
prepared by the Chemical Divisions of
the United States Department of Agri
culture, which has direct charge of the
sugar iuterest.for the guidance of those
who propose to experiment the present
season with the sugar beets. A copy
of these instructions was enclosed with
every package of sugar beet seed sent
out:
Soil—The soil should bo well drained
and with a good exposure to the light.
It should be of loose texture, easily
pulverized and of average fertility.
Fertilizing Barn yard manure
should not be applied immediately be
fore planting, but if the soil has re
ceived a dressing of well-rotted manure
the previous autumn, which has been
weir plowed in and left over winter, it
may be of advantage. If fertilizers are
employed, superphosphates of lime,
containing from 10 to 15 per cent of
available phosphoric acid, may be used
at the rate of 250 to 300 pounds per
acre if nitrogen is employed it should
be only in moderate quantities and
best in the form of nirate of soda at
the rate of 100 to 150 pounds per acre
potash may be supplied in the form of
kainite at the rate of 200 to 400 pounds
per acre, or a high grade sulphate at
the rate of 50 to 100 pounds per acre.
It is probable that in most soils where
experiments are made this- year no
fertilizers of any kind will be usedAand
~r
to
In lata fertile soils fill 1
tho depth of eight or nine.
subsoil to thr depth of fbiil
inohes. The land should bt
IT
harrowed and ndnced t»»)
dltion of tilth before planting^
Planting—For small patehet
can b* pnt in by hand. f«P_
fields drills can be prorided. if
eral.the rows should be els'
apart and the seed planted so
one for about every thrwr
When the beets begin t» .shrii^
leaves they should be thinned so
will stand at a distance trooi abH
nine inches apart in the rows, a
ing to the fertility of the soil,
regular thinning of the beets is
lutely necessary to secure a high su_
content, and it should be completed!]
fore they show six leaves. Tn
fertile soils the beets should lka
closer together, while in less fa
ones they should be further apart.
object, in all cases, should be to growth
a beet which will average about oMr
pound in weight after it is cleaned
topped.
Cultivation.—It is best to have
beets cultivated flat and not planted
ridges. Any method of cultintio^S
which will keep out the weeds and.1",
keep the ground thoroughly stirredfiX^lf
icient. It is important
the hoe should be used, especially nt,
the time of thinning, and, to seouife,
good results, this method of
cultiTation-
should not be neglected. The cultiT»^
tion of beets should be continued abont
the same time as for ordinary ore
and they should be laid by when
leaves begin to thoroughly cover tta^l
ground.
If beets are planted in small patehfp-f"'
they should bo in such a position as not'
to be shaded by other growing crops^
especially corn, as the tree exposure to
sunlight is absolutely necessary to pro*
duces a beet containing a maximu-^
percentage of sugar.
Further instruction in regard to har*
vesting and manufacturing the beets
will be contained iu Bulletin No. 27,
which will soou be issued and sent to
each one who has requested a package
of beet seed, or who may hereafter aslt
for it.
Sweetheart Robin. fH
Interlocked boughs of the hawthorn hedge.
How barely you brown twigs gllctenl
Wliatl havo you blossoms forgotten
pledge?
Is it not May-time? Listen 1
Whispering over and over?].
1
Surely I heard a bluebird 6lng, Si
Ana smelt the breath of the clover.
J,
[What is the word he was whispering-^
Daffadowndilly, how late thou art,.
Thou springtime's earliest corner!
The gladness of summer is In my heart,
And on my cheek there is summer.
Thrilling me through at the bluebirds' calL
As the sun when it kisses the oloverl ,.
Gainst my cheek did a sunbeam (all?
Ah 1 why was be bending over?]
Petals of white from the hawthorn tre
Over the lush grass blowing
Li»rht is my heart as your breezes be—
Why surely it can not be snowing!
A moment ago the dream-soft skies
Arched above fields of clover 1
(.Why did he look me so full In the eyes?
And why did my head droop over?]
I know that I heard a bluebird's call
[That word for a whole heart's husnlngll
I
knew that I felt a sunbeam fall:
[Ah. what on my cbeek was brushing?]
The sky showed never a sign of rain
[His eyes—he was bending over!]
And I know, though 1 walked in a winter laMh.
I smelt the breath of the clover!
—Harper's Magaslna.
A Story by Dumas the- Elder.. 1
Eord
Dumas the elder often laughed at
English stiffness and reserve. One of
his stories was this:
"One day Victor Hugo and I were
invited to dine with the Duke of Du
cazes. Among the guests were Lord"
and Lady Palmerston—of course this
happened before the February revolu
tion. At midnight tea was handed
around. Victor Hugo and I were sit
ting side by side, chatting merrily.
Lord and Lady Palmerston had ar
rived very late, and there had, conse
quently, been no opportunity to in
troduce us before dinner. After din
ner, it seems, it was forgoteu. English
customs, consequently, did. not allow
us to be addressed by the illustrious
couple. All at once young Decazes
came up to us and said,
"My dear Dumas, Lord Palmerston *.
begs you will leave a chair free be
tween you and Victor Hugo.'
"I hastened to do as he wished. We
moved away from each other, and
laced a chair between us. Thereupon
Palmerston entered, holding the
hand of his wife, led her up to us and
invited her to sit down on the empt
chair—all this without saying a won
'My lady,' he said to his wife, ,w
•what time have you?'
'•She looked at her watch and an- -iP
swered:
'Thirty-live past 12.'
'Well, then, 'said the
ister, 'remember well that t"5
ZWi'.
•eat min
a a
thirty-live miuutes past 12 vou were
sitting between Alexander Dumas and
Victor Hugo—an honor which you. will
probably never enjoy again in you
lifetime.'
"Then he offered his arm again to
his wife, and took her back to fier seat
without saying a word to us,, because
we had not been presented."
Consumption of Horseflesh llk Paria
"One of the features of Parisian lift
that interested me a good deal wheal
was at the World's Exposition last
year," said aNew Yorker the other day,
"was the consumption of horseflesh) 6]
the poor. I noticed it first among th|
street gamins„ who ate it with evident
gusto iu the shape of sandwiches, pur
chascd from street vend
animals killed, I believ^4re free tnq
acute disease, and arfe simply honei1
that are worn out the service of eab
men, street-car companies, etc.,
are bought cheap and fattened op fail
before slaughter. I tasted seme of
•M
11j\.»Cr!
i.
i1--
f"
meat myself at a cheap restaurant,
probably I should have liked It if II
not known what it was. My pni
however, was so great that eovue
finish it, but called in an urehin
the street and watched him fill
hungry little interior with it
twinkling."—N. Y. Tribune.
Race Color.
A professor of Johns Hopkins
versitv has an original theory u~
count for race color. He attrifc
the color of the negro to the defio
of oxygen iu the warm air he
breathed. This causes a weaker
piration and a deposit of carbon
made under the skin, just as aching
with a defective draft is chokedt
soot.
1 glass has been
produced in Germany. Bosidos
for the manufacture of bottles,
and vases of various kiuthk It
cable in photography mnd'ta^J
tnd opticians'T"