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iHit l^ejniblicaik WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN. The death is announced of the Mar quis Dan Murphy of California. The title, which was bestowed by the Pope, is hereditary, and there is doubtless a Murphy left to perpetuate the distinc tion. But is a “Marquis” Murphy al so an American citizen ? A bank director writes to the New York Tribune, suggesting that all in stitutions which employ, paying tellers and other persons tempted to embez zle, should keep photographs of them on hand, ready to be turned over to detectives the moment the guilty men start for Canada. There does not seem to be much ap prehension of a visitation of the chol era, this year, as was at one time en tertained. It is raging, however, in Spain, and it may be that we will have a visitation before the summer is over. At any rate it is a good thing to clean up and keep clean. The court of claims at Washington has decided that the North Carolina Cherokees have no right to the mon eys, stocks, proceeds of lands, or funds held in trust by the United States for the Cherokee Nation. The court de clares that the status of the Cherokee Nation is such that the United States cannot interfere with it or take away its vested rights. The pension appropriation act, passed by the last congress, and which becomes operative on July 1, provides that after that date no vacancies oc curring in the clerical force of the pen sion bureau shall be filled by appoint - ment or promotion until the numeri cal force, as it now exists, shall be re duced 150. This practically directs a reduction of the present force, and, after July 1, further appointment to the pension bureau cannot be made for at least one year. There is an insect known as the elm-tree beetle that has quite general ly attacked the elm trees of our East ern States. The United States Agri cultural Department has issued a re port on the habits of the insect and the most effective means of protecting the foliage of the elm against its rav ages. The eggs are deposited on the under side of the leaves in groups, and the larvae subsist on the leaves for about two weeks, when they fall to the earth and change to pupa?. But there are several generations each year, and the trees are liable to their rav ages from May to August. Several modes of extirminating them have been experimented with. The one rec ommended as the most simple and satisfactory is to syringe the trees with Paris green or London purple, the latter being preferred as less in jurious to the trees. Three-fourths of a pound of the poison and three quarts of flour to a barrel of water will make the mixture of sufficient strength. A convict in a Pennsylvania peni tentiary killed his keeper, and his counsel, in default of any better plea, tried to save him from the gallows by the claim that he was of unsound mind. There was evidence enough that the man was not in a perfectly normal mental condition when he committed the murder, and experts were ready to testify that he ought not to be held responsible. But the court ruled that “mere moral obliqui ty of perception” should not protect a person from punishment for a delib erate act, and that “moral insanity” is not a sufficient defense unless it be shown that it is potent enough to “subjugate the intellect, control the will, and render it impossible to do otherwise than yield.” In other words, a man may labor under delu sion, hallucination or partial insanity, yet if he understands the nature of his act and knows that it is wrong, he must be held responsible. How the conquerors of one genera tion become the victims of the next! Says the New York Times; No more need our Western farmers blanch and tremble before the multitudinous grass hopper. Nay, we ought now rather to hail his approach, to sigh for his coming. For here comes Prof. Riley of Washington and proclaims that your grasshopper is not only a long neglected edible, but a forgotten dainty, a delicate, toothsome morsel capable of being saute in hot fat to brownness and crispness, or stewed in milk, like the gelatinous oyster. Let him—not Prof. Riley, but the grasshopper— come, then! Armed with nature’s own weapons we will turn out to the fray. What matter if he eat our wheat fields to-day if we with vengeful consuming jaw devour him to-morrow. Vast possibilities open before us. If he proves so delicious a morsel fresh, why should he not be good salted or pickled, or canned, or packed in oil like a sardine? Verily the world moves; there is hope for progress still. Nature is a grand conservator. As the lobsters and shrimp disappear, the grasshopper may skip in to supply their place, and thus the equilibrium of nature be preserved. NEWS IN BRIEF. French Cholera Quarantine. Owing to the presence of cholera in Spain the French authorities have ordered all arrivals from that country quarantined for three days. A Mexican Mine Explosion. A silver mine with an unpronouncablc name, near Zacatecas, Mexico, was totally wrecked, on the 11th, by the accidental ex plosion of 500 (.uses of giant powder. Ten men were killed outright and a large num ber injured. The New Ministry. The announcement was made in the Brit ish Parliament on the 12th that the Queen had accepted the resignation of the Glad stone cabinet, and that Lord Salisbury, leader of the opposition, had been called upon to form anew one. An Important Decision. The Ohio supreme court rendered a de cision on the 9th to the effect that money paid by saloonists under the Scott law, previous to date when it was declared un constitutional, cannot be legally returned to them. The amount involved is about §2,000,000. It Was Fate. Recently, the husband of Mrs. Mary Krechner, of Erie, Pa., met a violent death. The hearse conveying the body to the ceme tery ran over and killed her only child. She was about returning to her father in Ger many, when she received news of his death by drowning. On the 13th inst. she com mitted suicide. Everybody Out. Owing to the defeat of the budget offered by the Gladstone misistry in Parliament, that gentleman announced in the House of Commons on the night of the 9th that it ha and been deemed ad visable that the present cabinet cease to hold the reins of govern ment. The resignations have been forward ed to the Queen. Train Wreckers. News reached this country on the Bth of a terrible railway accident nearKostoff, on the River Don, in Russia. A bar of iron was placed across the track by robbers and a passenger train thrown from the track and demolished. The number of killed and wounded is reported at seventy. The rob bers, who were waiting for the smash-up, then plundered the train, no resistance being offered. Damaged by Wind and Rain. Considerable damage was caused in lowa by a heavy storm on the night of the 12th. At Pulaski four persons were instantly killed and two fatally hurt. Numerous personal injuries are reported from other points. Scores of buildings were wrecked by the wind and lightning. Trains were blown from the tracks and several bridges were destroyed. Towns and villages were flooded, and many miles of railroad track submerged. Considerable damage was inflicted upon growing crops. A Destructive Waterspout. A dispatch from El Paso, Tex., under date of the Bth, says: “Yesterday a water spout burst on the mountains about eight miles from Lagos, Mex., near the dividing line of the states of Guanajuato and Jali seo. Immense quantities of water swept down the mountains, and left desolation and ruin in their wake. Already 100 lives are reported lost and the list is being con stantly swelled. A large number of houses were swept away and the surviving occu pants rendered homeless.” Outlaws Captured. News received from La Fayette County, Ark., announces that Sheriff Coney arid posse have surrounded and captured a band of desperadoes who, for a long time, have been operating in that and adjoining counties. Members of the gang murdered a negro named Richards, recently, throwing his body in Red River, where it was subse quently found. Other persons were robbed and killed. Two of the outlaws are re ported to have been killed by the posse, and it is expected that those captured will be taken from the officers and lynched. Suspected of .Being Dead. The St. Petersburg Novosti (newspaper) reaffirms its statement that the Ameer of Afghanistan is dead. It says rumors are being received continually both from the Caucasus and the Afghan frontier of the as sassination of the Ameer. The Novosti adds that the people of Afghanistan are in a state of great excitement, the rumors of the death of the Ameer having reached them, followed by the other rumor that Ayoub Khan, a former ameer, now in Per sia, will take the place of the murdered ameer through the machinations of Russia. A Possible Canard. A dispatch from Cairo, under date of the 9th, says: “Some excitement has been cre ated here among the English officials and residents by the arrival of a Coptic mer chant from Khartoum. He states that he witnessed the capture of Khartoum, and that immediately after the massacre of the garrison the Mahdi demanded the head of Gen. Gordon for a trophy; but his warriors produced the head of the Austrian consul, Mr. Hansal. When the mistake was dis covered, a second search was made for Gen. Gordon, but the Mahdi’s followers were un able to find any trace of the hero of Kh ir toum. They found several other Europeans, but no other documents were found on their clothes to show that either of them was Gen. Gordon. The Copt says that it is possible that Gen. Gordon, seeing that all was lost, escaped south.” A Court-house Wreck. At Thiers, a town in the Department of Puy-de-Dome, France, a murder trial had been in progress for some days. On the 10th, the last day of the trial, the court house was crowded with men and women anxious to witness theclosingscenes. When the people were leaving, immediately after the adjournment of the court, and were jammed upon the stone stairway leading to the street, the lofty staircase fell. The scene that followed was appalling. Immense masonry from above crashed down upon struggling people below, grinding through their flesh and bones and maiming and mutilating them in a horrible manner. The crash of the falling staircase and the shrieks of the people lying helpless in the ruins caused a panic in the court-room, and there was a rush for the now wrecked exit. Those who were in front were unable to withstand the pressure from behind, and were hurled down upon the men and women crushed in the fall of the staircase, and whom the people in the street were already striving to rescue. When, at length, the panic had exhausted itself, and the immense stone steps of the fallen staircase had been removed, twenty-four persons were taken from the ruins dead. The injured numbered not less than IG3, and many of these will die of their injuries. Deeds of Blood. David Anderson, a Norwegian carpenter, while temporarily insane, committed suicide at Chicago on the 13th, by cutting his throat. telegrams received by the war depart ment confirm the reports of an attack by Apaches upon Lawton’s camp, near Gauda loupe Canyon, in which five soldiers were killed. A mob at Osgood 0., shot and killed Turner Graham and wife, colored, who made themselves obnoxious by drunkenness and quarreling. A desperate street fight took place in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 141 h, between a procession of clericals and a mob of roughs. Knives, clubs and stones were freely used. One man was killed and a number wounded. There has been a renewal of agrarian out rages in Ireland. A farmer was killed on the 14th in Millstreet, County Cork, his skull being smashed. On the same day a. farm laborer was shot near Tipperary but not fatally. A party of men got into a row in the saloon of Louis Klipfel, on South Clark Street, Chicago, on the morningof the 10th, and one of them, named Shank, knocked the proprietor down, whereupon the latter shot Shank dead. A saloon-keeper, at Newport, ILL, named Joseph Renson, while suffering from de lirium tremens on the 10th, went into his cellar and threw a lighted match into a keg of gunpowder. Renson was killed and the building totally wrecked. At Bonham, Tex., early on the morning of the Bth, a mob of 100 masked men sur rounded the jail, took out Eli and Sam Dyer, brothers, and hung them to a tree in sight of the jail. The two men were desper adoes of the first water, being accused of a number of murders. The trial of a couple of men charged with murder at Pine Level, Fla., resulted in the discovery of a regularly organized band of assassins, under the title of a vigilance committee. At London, Ont., on the Sth, Mrs. Mary Ann Simmons refused to give her husband money to buy whisky when he drew a knife and stabbed her in the breast, killing her instantly. Simmons was arrested. Smoke. At the Dorrance shaft of the Lehigh Val ley Coal Company, on the night of the 13th, a miner’s lamp set fire to a gas blower, and a conflagration ensued which necessitated the flooding of the mine. No lives were lost, but 200 men were temporarily thrown out of work. A fire at Wesson, Miss., on the 14th, which started in the Masonic Hall, caused a loss of about $35,000. The mill of the S. Y. Beach Paper Com pany at Seymour, Conn., burned on the 14th. Loss SIB,OOO. Fire broke out in the Indian museum an nex of the International Exhibition of In ventions, London, on the 12th. The museum was filled with exhibits of the hand icraft of natives of India, mostly very in flammable, and notwithstanding the efforts of fifty engines the entire exhibit was de stroyed. The loss in dollars cannot bo es timated. The Randleman cotton factory, in Ran dolph County, N, C., burned on the 12th. Loss, $150,000. The steamer Joe Fleming burned at Princeton, 111., on the 12th. Loss, $30,000. A fire at St. Cesaire, Quebec, on the night of the 9th, destroyed Senator Chaffee’s res idence and a number of other buildings. Loss $150,000. Chinatown, San Francisco’s suburb, was the scene of a $05,000 fire on the night of the 10th. The Chinese theater was de stroyed. Fire on Frankfort Street, New York, on the 10th destroyed propertv valued at $45,000. Two stores on Canal Street, New Orleans, were destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. and several others damaged. Loss, $50,000. Fire which began in the tin and sheet iron factory of John A. Smith, Syracuse, N. Y., on the 9th inst., destroyed property to the value of about SIOO,OOO, Minor Mention. The brakemen on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, to the number of about 300, re fused to work on the 13th, on account of a reduction of the force, making it necessary that two men should do the work of three. Only one train was sent out of Newark dur ing the day. Jacob M, Smith, an old resident of Atchi son, Kansas, having been arrested on the charge of tiring his own pork-packing estab lishment, confessed his guilt. His object was to secure money from the insurance and railroad companies. The entire Chinese collection at the New Orleans Exposition has been presented to the University of Michigan. President Angell, of the university, was minister to China several years ago. A construction train on the Cincinnati Southern Road was thrown from the track on the night of the 11th, two .nilet north of New River bridge, 0., by striking a cow. The caboose and seven cars were ditched. Five laborers were killed, and Foreman O’Donnell and ten or eleven others were in jured. There Avere 185 business failures in the United States for the Aveek ending on the 12th. Lewis Cooley, an insane prisoner at Joliet, died on the 12th of starvation. He had refused all food for several days. Gen. Sparks, United States Land Com missioner, issued an order forfeiting the bulk of the notorious MaxAvell land grant. This act opens up about 1,500,000 acres of land to public entry. Reports continue to come in of further earthquake shocks in the Vale of Cashmere. The towns of Berramulla and Sopur have been utterly ruined, and 400 persons killed. Many cattle and sheep have also been killed. By the caving of a railroad tunnel on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, near New River, Tenn., a construction train was crushed and six persons killed and twenty wounded. Later returns from the scene of the recent destructive waterspout in Mexico, make the loss of life and property much greater than first reported. Over 200 lives were lost in the Lagos district, and in Guanjuato the damage to property is estimated at |3OO, 000. The remains of the late Alexander H. Stephens were taken from the vault at At lanta, Ga., on the 10th, and interred with appropriate ceremonies near his old home in Crawfordsville. The statue to Darwin, the scientist, was unveiled in the Museum of Natural History, London, on the 9th, Prof. Huxley de livered the principal address. Superintendent of Police Walling, of New York, tendered his resignation on the 9th, to avoid being retired on a pension, under a law recently passed by the legislature. Montreal has a small pox epidemic. Fif teen cases were reported within two* days last week, and the medical authorities de clare the disease to be epidemic in the city. The cloud which hangs over the Western iron trade has lifted a little. The pro prietors of the Union Rolling Mill, Chicago, signed the Amalgamated scale, on the Sth inst.,and 350 men went to work the follow ing day. Standing of the Base Ball Clubs. The tables below give the standing of the various clubs in the different leagues on the 13 th inst: WESTERN LEAGTTE. Won. Lost. Won Lost Milwaukee 19 12 Cleveland j V 6 Indianapolis..ls 4 Toledo 0 18 Kansas City..lo 11 Ke0kuk......... 2 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE, m,- WO o n o , Won. Lost, Chicago 22 6 Buffalo 9 17 New York 22 5 Boston 917 Providence....lß 8 St. L0ui5.....” 8 19 Philadelphia..l6 13 Detroit 5 24 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won. Lost. Won. Lost. St. Louis 28 9 Baltimore 15 22 Pittsburg 24 15 Athletic [il6 22 Cincinnati 22 17 Brooklyn ~14 22 Louisville 16 19 Metropolitan. 13 24 HAIL, WIND AND RAIN. The Southern anti Western Portions of Wisconsin Visited by a Terrific Hail storm Windows Smashed, Hoofs Blown Oft’ and Cattle Killed—Many People Rendered Homeless. Shortly before noon on the 7th, a violent storm of wind and rain and hail, coming from the Northwest, struck the Southern Minnesota Rail road at Ramsey, 100 miles west of La Crosse, traveled along the road fifty miles, then southerly across Caledonia, New Albin, la., to Victory, Vernon County, Wis., and thence into the state, gradually expending its force. In the various towns on the Southern Minnesota Road no great damage was done by wind, but from the hail the damage was very severe, the extent of which may be seen from the fact that three car-loads of window glass were ordered by telegraphthefollowingday. Some fields of grain look as if they had been newly harrowed, not a green thing being visible. In others the grain is beaten to the ground, but will recover. Nearly all the fruit in the narrow belt of the storm is destroyed. At Spring Valley a hail stone was picked up weighing 1 0 ounces and 15 inches in diameter. At Caledonia hail fell in solid masses,breaking all the windows exposed, beating down fruit trees, gar dens and ail growing crops, doing very serious damage. At New Albin the schoolhouse, a frame building, two stories high, was demolished. It cost $4,000. The elevator was piled in a mass of wreckage upon the main track of the railroad. Seven residences were totally wrecked, twenty unroofed and many others moved from theirfounda tions. Four children were severely bruised, but no deaths have been re ported. As showing the fury of the storm, it is mentioned that boards were driven by the wind completely through the walls of buildings as though fired from a cannon. In Richland County wheat, oats, corn and every growing vegetation w’ere literally pulverized and driven into the ground. Hail-stones fell that by actual measurement were six inches in circumference. Many sheep, hogs and calves were killed, and cattle and hogs badly bruised by the falling hail. Roofs of buildings were splintered and shattered so that reshingling will be necessary. In many instances the hail-storm went clear through roofs. Thousands of lights of glass on the sides of the buildings exposed to the storm were broken. The storm raged with great fury for over hour, and at its cessation the hail covered the ground in many places to the depth of several inches. The wind also did great damage by unroofing buildings, uprooting trees and destroying timber. Lightning struck and burned a house in the town of Rockbridge. None of the occupants were injured. It is im possible to estimate the amount of the damage done throughout the county, but it is gi eat. At Victory, Vernon County, a little town on the Mississippi River, the damage was most severe. The storm reached that place at 1:35 p. m. A re port from there says: “ One fierce windstorm came from the northeast and another from the southwest, and at once the town was enveloped in thick darkness. Lurid flashes of electricity, coming from all directions, would for an instant swallow up the gloom, and then the darkness was made more terrible by the roaring of the wind, and the crashing of falling buildings would intervene. The storm lasted only about thirty minutes, and the return of sunlight re vealed a terrible state of affairs to the people who emerged from their cellars, where they had taken refuge. Their eyes beheld fifty buildings in a heap of ruins, dashed to pieces and tangled in a mass of debris. Trees two feet in diameter were torn up by the roots. Not a house wholly escaped damage, and barges and boats along the river bank were sunk like egg shells.” The principal losers are; G. C. Clark, gro ceries and dry goods, roof torn off, windows blown in and stock destroyed by water or blown away, and house wrecked and twisted so as to be worth less. The big stone warehouse, belong ing to Mrs. Cook, of Lyons, is badly wrecked. A hotel was blown down and the bedding scattered over the country for a mile. There are some 100 families without shelter of their own. Considerable damage is reported from other counties in the southern and western parts of the state. A BALTIMORE SEXSATIOX. The Mysterious Death of a Young Lady to be Investigated. Baltimore, Md., June 11.—Anna Wills, aged 19 years, died here last week under suspicious circumstances and it is now thought that she was poisoned. She had been visited sever al times by Mrs. Elizabeth Bean and the latter claimed the girl’s effects soon after she died, showing a document naming her as the dead girls benefi ciary. Mrs. Bean’s name had previous ly figured in various courts of this city as defendant in suits instituted to set aside deeds of trust in her favor made by parties without being rel atives who had known Mrs. Bean only a short time before they expired. It is rumored that Miss Wills was soon to have come into possession of $27,- 000. The police ha/ve seized all the effects of Miss Wills that they could find in Mrs. Bean’s possession, but a large amount of money and clothing is still missing. The case is being in vestigated. GREATJLY ENCOURAGED. Four Firms Sign the Amalgamated Scale this Week. Pittsburg, Pa., June .9—The new developments in the iron strike to-day were all favorable to the strikers. Two more firms have signed the scale and the Sligo mills in this city, which were started with non-union men yes terday, are idle to-day, the firm not being "able to secure enough men to keep them in operation. The iEtna mill, which the owners confidently ex pected to have running non-union this week is still closed down, but it is claimed will be in operation to-mor row. The additional signatures to the Amalgamated scale were; The Standard Iron and Nai! Company, of Clifton, W. Va., employing 500 men, and the Reeves Iron Company, of Canal Dover, 0., employing 400 men. So far this week, four firms have signed the scale, and the strikers are greatly encouraged. nxEcvrjsj} nv vigslaxtks. Two Desperados Ifam-orl 7>y a Mob at jßoithniM, Texas. Bonham, Tex., June O. — A lynching occurred here about 8 o’clock yester day morning. At the hour named the jailer of the county w r as awakened by someone rapping gently at the front door. Hearing no unusual commotion outside, the jailer opened the door, and was surprised to find ovef 100 masked men standing before him. As he opened the door the leader of the mob grabbed him, and thus they gained entrance. Once inside the jail the mob had the jailer at their mercy. Under the influence of a couple of six-shooters the jailer gave up his keys. Proceeding to the cells oc cupied by Sam Dyer and his brother Eli Dyer, white men, the murderers of Sheriff Ragsdale and Demity Sheriff Buchanan, of this county, the vigi lantes identified their men and then stuffed the prisoners’ mouths with pocket handkerchiefs, and tied their hands. They then hurried them out side, where the main body of the mob stood. The jailer says scarcely a word was spoken during this proceeding. With 1 he prisoners at the head of the column, the vigilantes marched to a spot only 300 yards from the jail, where the leader gave the order, “Halt, Texans!” Under the boughs of an oak tree dangled two ropes. The handkerchiefs were removed from the months of the doomed men, and the leader of the mob asked them if they wanted to pray, or had anything to say, Sam Dyer begged piteously for his life and fell on his knees, moaning and w’eeping. He said he had been a very bad man but that Eli had kilh and both Ragsdale and Buchanan. Eli maintained a bold front, and would say nothing except “It’s no use.” Neither would pray. The prelimina ries over, two large men came forward. Each raised one of the murderers from the ground while the noose was being adjusted, and then they simul taneously let go, and the des peradoes were kicking and struggling in the air. They died from strangula tion. When the bodies were found, this morning, they almost touched the ground. The mob quietly dispersed. The coroner took possession of the bodies and laid them out in the court house, where perhaps 2,000 people viewed them to-day. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was: “Death by strangulation at the hands of parties unknown.” An uncle of the murderers came into town, this evening, and took the bodies home. The crime for which they were lynched was committed on May 10 last. For two years Eli Dj’er had i been the head of a gang of about| twenty cattle thieves. Sheriff Rags dale, with Deputy Buchanan, at the head of a posse, learned that a por tion of the gang were some nine miles south of town, rendezvoused in a small house. Arriving at the spot. Ragsdale and Buchanan approached the house, leaving the posse behind. As they reached the door the gPing dis covered them, and Eli raised his rifle ! and killed Ragsdale at the first shot. 1 Buchanan was mortally wounded, and I died the next day. Eli was also wounded by a shot from Buchanan’s pistol, Sam Dyer escaped at the time, and fully 500 men were hunting him for several days. He was finally found hiding under a corn-crib. It YS TE RIO US 01S€ OVER Y. A Brown Pocket-Book Stuffed With Wealth Exhumed in Texas. Fort Worth, Tex., June 12—In ex cavating, yesterday, workmen ex humed an old brown pocket-book in a good state of preservation which con tained papers covering transactions aggregating nearly SIOO,OOO. Among the contents are certificates of deposit in the Waco National Bank and Hill County National Bank amounting to several thousand dollars, also a. promissory note, canceled, aggregat ing over SIO,OOO. Besides these were bills of exchange amountingto $3,000. The certificates of deposit are in favor of A. Treadwell. The bills of exchange are also drawn in his favor. Tread well is a prominent cattleman of this (Hill) county, and at the time of los ing or being robbed of his pocket-book was on his way to attend a cattlemen’s convention at St. Louis, for among the contents of the pocket-book is a round-trip ticket issued by the Missouri Pacific, and dated November 30 last, and used only as far as Fort Worth. The find is shrouded in mystery. If Treadwell had lost such a valuable package, the query is, why was the matter never re ported to the police? The pocket book had certainly been buried. Ten thousand dollars could easily be real ized on the certificates and bills, and experts x>ronounce them genuine. Tele grams have been sent Treadwell. EXCITING BURGLARY . A Detroit Judge Engages in a Fusilade with a Thief, Detroit, Mich., June 11. —At 2 o’clock this morning the house of Judge Henry B. Brown, of the United States circuit court, was burglarized. The Judge and wife were awakened to find a masked burglar with revolver and dark lantern beside the bed, who, by threats, kept them quiet while he secured money and jewelry in all amounting to S7OO or SBOO. While the burglar was going through a dress ing case the Judge secured his revolver and fired, the shot being returned but neither shot took effect. The robber then ran down stairs pursued by the Judge, both firing, but the burglar finally escaped through a window, so far as known being uninjured. A valuable bit of knowledge is that bent whalebones can be restored and used again by simply soaking in water a few hours, then drying them. AJfIJHI CA X Si AXSi f? US. Programme of the Next Convention at Chicago. Nkw \ ork, June 12.—The next con \ en. ion Gi the American Bankers’ As sociation x\ ili he held at Chicaco Sen (ember 23 and 24. It, i ,l,&d to make tne discussions this year practi cnh the addresses brief and the reso lutions fruitful of good results. The coming convention has already elicited an extensive correspondence, and im portant topics have been suggested Prominent upon the list are the silver problem and its labor aspects with the remedial expedients, and the fun damental conditions of final adjust-- ment or temporary solution; ’ the causes and control of panics, the safeguards against los’ses by defal cation; the decline in the rate of j interest, with its effects on the 1 banks and business of the country; the basis of bank circulation; the re cent and prospective floatations in the metallic reserve of the treasury; the I practical means of sound bankruptcy ! legislation; the strength and the weak ; ness of the banking system at present, | as compared with former periods, for the statistics and indications of clear ing house movements throughout the country. The headquarters of the ex ecutive council will be at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and on Wednesday evening, September 23, from 7 to 9 ; p. m., the usual reception will be held, ! all the delegates being invited to be , presented to the President and execn- I live council. ™ sojji rnx ceu em oxies. Funeral of Archbishop Kourget at Mon treal To-day. Montreal, June 12. — 1 tis estimated that at least 10,000 people were in the i Church of Notre Dame this morning. The ceremony was most impressive. The dead Archbishop lay in a magnifi cent coffin, his head resting on a pillow of satin slightly raised so that his features were exposed to the gaze of the faithful thousands. His" mitre, i stole and cross lay at his feet. The j whole was elevated on a magnificent I catafalque surrounded by hundreds of ! lighted tapers. Throughout the night I members of the adoration nocturn re ; mained with the body reciting prayers ! for the dead. Punctually at 0 o'clock the services were begun. The officiat ing clergymen were Bishop Will iams, of Boston, Bishop Wadham, of Ogdensburg, Bishop Fabre, of Mon treal, and Bishop Duhamel, of Otta wa. Archbishop Tache, of Winnipeg, preached the sermon. After the serv ice at Notre Dame the funeral proces sion formed and proceeded to the Church of Notre Dame de Pite. where the remains of Mgr. Lartigue, the first bishop of Montreal, had fiiin. These were exhumed yesterday and have ever since been exposed to the adora tion of thousands. The procession, headed by two hearses, containing the bodies of the Archbishop and Bishop, then wended its way to St. Peter’s Cathedral, where another im- Xjosing ceremony rook place, after which the remains of the two;bishops were laid to rest within the same vault. The streets through which the procession passed were heavily draped in black and gold, the pontifical col ors. The city is crowded with vis tors. IXTEU-STATE COJiJUJEXCE. The Select Senate Committee at Vr'ork in Chicago. Chicago, 111., June 12. — The United States Senate select committee on in ter-state commerce began a session here this forenoon. Senators Cullom. Harris and Platt were present on be half of the committee. John I. Rina ker, president of the state railway commission, was before the commit tee, and favored the appointment of a federal commission, but was opposed to the proposition of permit ting railways to charge less for a long than for a short haul. He believed in requiring that rates should be given publicity. He thought any law pre scribing rates should be elastic rather than specific. Marshall Field believed in a government commission, but thought it should devote its attentions more to new roads than old estab lished ones. He believed in legalizing pool contracts, and believed that rail way pools wereabenefitto merchants, E. C. Lewis, another member of the Illinois Railway Commission, believed in a federal commission to work in conjunction with the state commis sions. How Cyrus Field Does Business. Most people have an idea that Cyrus W. Field is a rich stock operator. This idea has been made more general of late by his great effort to ad vance Manhattan. Field is not an ac tive speculator at all. His plan is en tirely different from Gould's. He buys a lot of stock outright, and then booms it to sell it outright. Ido not think he has ever been a bear in the ordinary sense. He has not made 'a practice of selling stocks short to se cure the profits of that side of the market. He has, however, been known to employ means to depress the price in order to buy a stock and then hold it for the subsequent rise. Field is not an enormously wealthy man. On paper his fortune foots up something like $3,000,000. His personal char acteristics are striking. He likes to shake hands with one finder, and if he particularly wants to impress per son with something, he will throw his arm around the person’s neck and be gin. “Now, my dear Christian friend.” He has a reputation in the “street” for slamming office doors. On enter ing an office he will give the door a slam that threatens to shiver the glass, if there is a pane in it, and on leaving the office he will give the door a second slam that nearly pulls the screws out of the hinges. In the Duraznilla hacienda, ITes dis trict, Mexico, a horrible crime was perpetrated recently. Four unknown parties secured Eduardo Arvizu, ad ministrator of the hacienda, and pro ceeded to hang him. When they con sidered him dead they cut him down and proceeded to mutilate him. He survived and was succored, though he is still in a very critical condition