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PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record of the Week.
EASTERN.
Henry Bicknoll, a 15-year-old 6m of
J. A. Uickuell, of Portland, Me., hot his 13
year-old water Mattie dead, with a gun which
ho thought wa empty. Ho went insane over
the affair.
A loss of $30,000 was occasioned at
Allegheny City ly tho burning of the Union
fouudry, on Preblo avenue, ,
Malarial fever is epidemic at West
Elizabeth, To. There aro at present sixty
cae8, many of whom aro in a serious condi
tion. Capt. II. C. Chester, through whoso
heroism tho members of tho Hall Arctic expe
dition were naved, has just died at Noank,
Conn.
An alleged crank, calling himself
Nathan Schuler, wan arretted at Albany for
dogging tho footsteps of President Cleveland
and hovering about him. No wciponn, how
ever, were fonud on Sohuler, who protested
against his arrest, and said he d'-served a po.
litieal position aa ho was u poor man, and
wanted to better himself.
Colonel D. 11. Wright, an eminent
lawyer of Connee'icut, residing iuNew Haven,
and Dr. Alfred K. liurdy, a distinguished sur
geon of New York, aro numbered with the
dead.
A New York bootblack jumped from
the center sjmn of tho Brooklyn bridgo into
the East Kiver, a distance of 1'Jd feet, and waB
fished out of tho wat?r apparently uninjured
WESTERN.
Tho Nottingham Mock, on Euclid
avenue, Cleveland, occupied mainly by art
dealer', wa damaged by lire to tho amount of
$7.V'0n
A dispatch from Gratton, Wis., says
that a largo meteor fell recently on a farm
near that placx Tho meteor entered tho
ground for some distance, and it is proposed
to dig to it and secure it
Dispatches from numerous points in
Southern and Eastern Iowa say that only about
half a crop of wheat and oat is being harvest
ed Corn is in good condition, but need rain,
none having fallen for six weeks. Hay is
very light
(ireen's Opera House, at Cedar
rapid, Iowa, was burned, entailing a loss of
Complaints aro still coming in from
poiuts throughout tho Northwest uf tho injury
to grain by the doiifc-continued dry weathe r.
Corn is suffering most.
In tho anarchist trial at Chicago, tho
prosecution placed on the stand a (lerman car
penter named William Seligcr, who gave start
ling details as to tho manufacture of bombs in
his dwelling, and plainly unfolded to the pub
lic the plot to murder policemen at tho Hay
market Tho witness deseriled tho making of
tho bombs by Lingg (one of the defendants)
and others. Tho work M as fcruhed" the day
after tho McCormick factory riot and the day
of tiio Ilaymarket explosion. Half a dozen
persons aMiited. There was no conceal
ment among tho workmen as to the use
to which the explosives were to bo put
They wero to bo thrown at tho police.
In tho language of tho witness, they were
tho best fodder" for persons marked for
murder by tho Socialist. Eingg, though he
lmd been a resident of America only nine
months, was tho most violent advocate of
Socialistic "reform" by masnacre in this coun
try. Ho devoted all his spare time to tho
manufacture of bombs, specimens of which
were displayed in court to tho consternation
of nervous auditors. Some loaded bombs
were exhibited in tho court-room, but an
agreement was reached that they should to
taken to the lake hhoro and emptied At his
own request, Seligcr has of lata lxen locked
up in tho pohco station, to cscapa assassina
tion. Watermelons have been shipped to
Chicago in such quantities that commission
dealers can not realize enough on consign
ments from Florida to pay freight charges.
A large gra'n elevator at East Du
buque, I1L, owned by tho Illinois Central, and
used by the Diamond Jo Steamljoat Line, was
destroyed by fire. The loss is about M-VhM.
Frank Molloy, son of Mrs. Emma
Molloy, tho temperance evangelist, ami Mrs.
lloso Stern, daughter of Jacob Wile, of La
porte, Ind., were drowned in Vine Lake, near
Laporte, by the capsizing of a bn:if.
Joseph Henderson, a clothing mer
chant at Butte, Montana, was killed with a
shot-gun by a Nevada miner, who at once
committed suicide, Tho murderer claimed
that Henderson owed him S." ,KH
Tho financial troubles of Snider &
Hoole, of Chicago, led them to make an as
signment to Warren O. Tyler. An insider as
sorts that tho assets will irt bring over $l?.r,
000, and that tho firm owes about f:j.Vyi0.
Foote's Minstrel Carnival Concert
Company, which enjoys tho reputation of
ing the lost burnt-cork opera combination in
the country, opens a season at McVieker's
Theater, Chicago, this week. It includes
among others Schoolcraft and Coes, Hugh
I)ouherty, Sam Ievere, William Arlington,
Welch and Jiie. Howe and Ioyle, Soamon and
(lirard, Fox and Vau Auken, Iuncan, tie ven
triloquist, ami 'J homai Bixon. Tho orchestsa
comprises thirty instruments, and tho chorus
numbers s xty voic
SOUTHERN.
P. W. Chase, Sheriff of Concordia
Tarisli, Imisiana, is reported short ? -7, UK) in
his accounts.
Peter Sorrell, colored, assaulted
Mrs. I)ukes with a hatchet near LtiJiag, T x.
He was captured and jailed, and iu tho even
ing was riddled with bullets by a mob.
At (Iieensburg, Ky., Clem Bishop,
flgel 7, a backwonls doctor and preach
er, married h s ward, l!etta I'oston, whoso
age is but 9 years. U.shop obtained the
marriage license; by fraud
A war is in progress in the parish of
St. Martin, La., letween tho ofticrs of the
law and a I :id of dopc rado.-s, A colored
man nam d L)renzi Randal was shot by a
whito man name! Mils. A warrant for the
arrest of Mill was place! in the hands of
ofnvcrs. The po-ao came upon Mills and his
father-in-law, ono Sparks, and a fight ensued,
the result of which was that three of the offi
cer were killed and two wounded, Sparks
and Milk then took to the swamps. It is said
that Mills has with him some thirtocu half,
breed Indians and white.
The publio execution of Joseph
Jump drew to Gallatin, Ma, a crowd estimat
ed at 20,000 persons, most of them women and
children. The hangman at Fort Smith, Ark.,
swung off a white men and a negro for mur
ders committad In tho Indian Territory.
WASHINGTON.
Tho Socretary of the Treasury has
called 9 4,000,0J0 of 3 percent bonds, on which
interest will cease Sept 1.
Tho President has approveel tho bill
allowing tho construction of a bridgo across
the Mississippi River at Dubuque, Iowa,
Commodore D. 1. Ilarraony has
been elesignatod to act as Secretary of tho Navy
in the absenco of Socretary Whitney.
Tho President, accompanied by Sec
retaries Bayard and Whitney and Private Sec
retary Lamont, went to Albany last week to
participate in tho bicenteunial celebration of
tho founding of that city.
The total values of tho imports of
merchandise into tho United States during tho
twelve months ended Juno VA ISSrt, were
ItV-VW's and during tho preceding twelvo
mouths J577,.VJ7,329 an increaso of f 57,7:5 J, -
-77. Tho total values of tho exports of mer
chandise during tho twelvo months ended June
30, lssrt, were $t57.,45,'J72, and during tho
preceding twelvo mouths $74'J,1 84,755 a de
crease of SW,73,7Sl
lion. William Hunter, Second As
sistant Secretary of State, died at his residence
in Watshiugtou, last week, of old ago and gen
eral debility. Ho was si years old, and had
served continuously in tho Stata Department
for fifty-one years, having been appointed by
I'rci-ident Jackson.
POLITICAL.
Tho Vermont Prohibitionists' State
Convention at Middlebury put in nomination a
full ticket with Prof. II M. Suehy, o. Mid
dlebury College, at tho head for Governor.
Tho lirpublicans of Indiana will hold
their Statj convention Sept .
Tho Democrats of the Fifth Ohio
District renominated George II Seney for
Cmgres.
Tho Vermont Democrats, in conven
tion at Montpelier, nominated tho following
candidates for Stitj ofiices: For Governor,
S. 15. ShurtleDf, of Montpelier; Lieutenant
Governor, 1. M. Melelon, of Rutland; Treas
urer, Thomas H. Chubb, of Thetford; Secre
tary of Stat?, W. H. Rider, of Rristol; Auditor,
J. A. Wilder, of Windsor. Tho platform ex
presses satisfaction with the President's ad
ministration; favors such a revision of the
tariff that taxation tdiali not exceed tho needs
of the Government ; demands prot.'ctiejn for
elairy interests of tho State; eleclares in favor
ef a railway cmmision, new legislation reg
ulating tho liquor traffic, arbitration in labor
troubles, and a system of weekly payment;
denounces tho Republicans for insincerity on
the liquor question, and clones with a culegis
tio reference to Gladstone and 1'arnelL
Tho Second Iowa District Democrats
nominated Judge Walter I. Hayes, of Clintjn,
to succeed Congressman Murphy.
Tho following ticket was nominated
by the Arkansas Republican State Convention,
at Little Rock: Governor, Lafayette Gregg;
Secretary of State, A. H. Miller; Attorney
General, D. D. Leach; Treasurer, I Alt
heimer; Auditor, 1). R. Russell; Justice
of tho Supremo Ceuirt, O. D. Scott; Land
Commissioner, A. W. Stone, colored; Su
perintendent of Schools, A. H. Roles.
The platform renews tho nllegianco ef Arkan
sas Republicans to tho National Re-publican
party; elemanels maintaining tho system of
yrot:-ction to American industries; oppose tho
President's policy in vetoing peusion bills; lo
mands that tho uMic elomain be reserved to
actual settlers ; d -nounces tho Democratic party
in Arkansas for failing to keep pledges to tho
people; for permitting convict lalor to cemipete
with honest labor; for failure to punish embez
zlement in high plac, alluding especially to tho
Stato Tre asury dcfalcatiem; for failing to enact
pretper laws to prote-ct tho lalerer by giving
him cheap ami speedy remedy to collect his
ju.-t dues; demands a repeal of tho law en
abling e-onviet lalor to compete with hnnet
labor, and that convicts bi weirked within the
penitentiary walls; that tho people's rights bo
protected against illeg&l exactions ef railroads
and other monopolies with due re-gird to the
rights of these corporations, and to that end
favor the appointment of a railroad com
missioner; that tho free-school system Ik?
maintained, and denounces tho House of
Representatives for refusing to pass the Rlair
bill.
The delegates to tho Arkansas lle
pulliean Convention were fan ly elivided lo-twet-ri
Arthur, RIaine, and Logan in their pref
erence for Pr.sidcutial nominee.
THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.
Six men, members of tho Executive
Hoard ef tho local lodge of the Knights ef La
bor, have Won arrested at Wyandotte, Kan.,
charged with wrecking a train'on the morning
ef April 'S and causing the death erf two per
son. The atTair has caused great excitement
a i ong the Knights at Kansas City.
Tho Ohio Valley (J lass Works at
Bridgeport, Ohio, have Uo.i closed, owing to
lim.ncial difficulties.
Tho National Association of Pipo
Manufacturers nut a: Pittsburg, Pu., and re
affirmed the card of rates adopted in New
Yerk last montlu
The Pennsylvania Tube Works om
pany ef Pittdmrgh, Pa , employing several
hundrol men, has voluntarily advanced tho
wages of all the workmen 10 per ce-.nt.
Over 500 employes of the American
Tut and Iron Company of Middleton, Pa.,
liave struck for tho rot)r.itio:i of the wages of
ls3, the reinstiteme it of two elischargel em
ploye, and tin discharge of a time-keeper.
Tho Tara Rubber-Shoe Company, of
South Farmuigtem, Mass , liavj shut down in
eleliuitely for repairs, throwing 1,100 hands
emt ef work.
The Western Furniture Mnnufact
ureiV Asseciatii have agree 1 upon an ad-vane-e
in prices of not les than five per cont.,
to take effect Jan. 1 next
IYAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.
It is hinteel among railroad people,
says a Chicago dispatch, that tho pending
effort to bind the warring Western railroads
bids fair to le the greatest success of the ago.
The new arrangement include tho lumber
bufiuess, which has heretofore leen exclmbd,
and has formed a bona of contention, The
difficulties hare been so nearly harmonized by
mutual concessions among the parties inter
ested as to promise not only a strong combina
tion but a lasting peace. In that case it is not
Improbable that tho people of tho West will be
called upon to pay the expenses of the late war
in tho shape of higher freight rates.
liy the end of July tho track of the
Burlington A Northern Road will bo completed
from St Paul to Oregon, HL, S.VJ miles. The
road will not be opened for Chicago traffic
until September.
Sioux Fallo (Dakota) upecial: "A
largo and enthusiastic mooting wan held at the
oourt-houso hero to consider the proposition
of tho Manitoba Railroad Company to build
tho Duluth lino from Wilmar, Minn., into this
city. The necessary aid will bo given, and the
road will bo built into Sioux Falls before Jan
uary 1."
The Illinois Central Road has organ
ized an engiuoer corps to survey a direct routo
from Chicago to Freeport, to connect with ito
leased line to Dubuque, the track to bo reaely
for next season's traffic. Surveys will also bo
made to St. Paul and into tho lumber and iron
regions of Northern Wisconsin, with tho inten
tion of reaching Lako Superior.
In the Circuit Court at Springfield,
HL, tho suit against tho Illinois Central Rail
road Company for alleged unjust discrimina
tion in ruo matter of fares from Chicago to
Mattoou and Kankakeo was ended by tho jury
bringing in a verdict for a fine of $1,000
againwt tho company.
Tho managers of the coal railway
companies voted to mako tho price of stovo
coal, free on boarel iu New York harbor, f
per ton, and grato, egg, and chestnut J. 1.15,
tho advaneo to take effect immediately.
The Colorado Midland Railway Com
pany has just let contracts for grading its
roadleil from' Coloraelo Springs westward to
the Platte River. Tho roatl has been engaged
for some timo in grading between Lcadville
and Aspen, and tho announcement is now
made that contracts for grading be
tween tho crossing of tho Platto and Lead
villo will shortly bo made. Tho line, as
projected, extends through tho pans over tho
Harden divide, across tho rango constituting
tho western rim of South Park, and through
the Continental divide by means of a tunnel
t-V-iO feet long, tho la.-t two summits being
overcome near tho timber lino at an elevation
of 11, .100 feet above tho nea leved. The total
length of tho lino projected is about 240 mile's,
and tho estimated cetst about $,000,00).
Within a year thcro will bo in opera
tion seven trunk lines from Chicago to St.
Paul, as follows: St Paul, Northwestern,
Rock Island, Minnesota and Northwestern,
Rurlington ami Northern, Wisconsin Central,
ami Illinois Central A pretty formidablo list,
but believers in tho resources of that section
claim that there is room for all.
MISCELLANEOUS.
George II. Bates, of Delawaro, a
personal friend of Secretary Rayard has
started for San Francisco, on a secret mission
to the Samoan Islands, where he w ill meet rep
resentatives of European powers.
Almon P. Thompson, tho bank
wrecker, of St Louis, lias bee-n en in tho
street at Montreal It is stated that his father
and brother will pay tho receiver tho full
amount purloined by the fugitive.
Mexican troops and Yaqui Imlians
fought a battle near Medai.o, the Mexicans los
ing t ;n men killed ami twenty woundo I Forty
of the savages were slain and twenty taken
prisonory, who were immediately shot
A lad named P. A. Schell, in order
to ses his dyin mother, rode on a truck of tho
limited express, which mado but two stops le
tween Fort Wayne and Pittsburgh, :rj0 miles.
Such a elespcrata adventure resulted in his be
ing given a bath, breakfast, and sufficient
money to continue his journey to Washington.
Business failures in tho United States
and Canada last week numlx-red 1S4, against
IX tho previous we-ek. Failures in tho East
ern, Southern, and Middle States are light, and
about half tho casualties aro reported from tho
West ami tho Pacific coant Hrmfrtref Vh re
peats very general continuance in tho season
ably activo distribution of merchandise,
with Konio exceptions. At most of
the larger distributing points a fair
massortment trado is reported,, but a de
clino is noted at New Orleans, Dallas,
Rurlington, Iowa, and Kansas City, with no
signs of early activity in merchandise linos at
Pittsburgh. Iu tho Southwest and West tho
drought is largely responsible for tho check to
business, anil at towns in a portion of tho re
gion indicated mercantile collections have
becomo less prompt At others, notably
Omaha, retail elealers' stocks aro known
to have been very much reduced whilo
awaiting tho results of harvesting, and
wholesale elealers anticipate an activo trado
in tho early autumn. At St Iiuis merchants
report that rains havo checked tho drought
in Missouri. Manufacturers are buying wool
with moro freedom at se-aloard points and at
Chicago. Prices are steady and so near tho
import. ng point that an advanco may induce
imports ef foreign. Tho movement of cotton
gods continues fair; some makes aro ex
hausted, and pricai aro higher, notably in
print cloths.
FOREIGN.
Tho British Cabinet, at a meeting in
Indoii on the '.'Jth of July, decided to im
mediate ly place their resignations in tho hands
of tho Queen, and a message containing tho
formal resignations was sent to tho Que en at
Osbeirue. After tho Cabinet meeting Mr.
Gladstono gave a reception in tho eouncil
hall to a number of his friends, including
Rarou Wolverbm, Iord Granville, Lord Roso
lory, Raron Monson, and Arnold Morley. Mr.
Gladstono referred in despondent terms to his
staying powers, saying that ho would 1 un
able to fight in the faco of an embittered
Parliament; he would dr his beat, but ho
urged his followers to preparo to roly upon
other leaders.
Two hundred anti-royalist rioters
havo be-cn arrested in Marseilles, Franca Ten
persons were wounded during tho cemflict
on tho ninht of July 20.
. At a meeting held at Lima, Peru, it
was resolved to petition tho Government toex
lel tho Jesuits from tho country.
United Ireland, Mr. Parnell's organ,
commenting on tho political situation, says:
"Tho Marquis of Salisbury will bo compelled
ere long to prodnco his manacle. During the
last year tho Irish p?ople havo submittal to
the bitterest privations and extortions patient
ly. Tho judicial rents are becoming daily
moro unbearable. It is absolutely hopolens to
expect any redres fro:n an English Parlia
ment It is not in human natura for the Irish
tenantry to longer refrain from helping them
gclTea. Landlords will fight for their rcaiJ
with fire, sword, or crowbar, thus obliging
Lord Salisbury tj pray Parliament to assist
tho landlord by some new-fanglod coercion
act Then wdl conn the tug of war.
In the celebrated Crawford-Dilke
case iu Loudon the jury found that Mrs. Craw
ford had been guilty of improper conduct with
Sir Charles and that tier hutband is entitled to
a divorce.
The special train conveying tho co
lonial oftlcia s now iu Loiulon to a grand naval
review at Portsmouth was derailed in transit
Twelve prominent ersons received serious
injuries. ,
LATER NEWS ITEMS.
The great rolling-mill Mriko at Phil
adelphia, involving over 1,&W xnou, has been
settled.
The miners employed by tho new
coal-mining syndicate which ejeratcs a ma
jority of tho mine in Southern Illinois met in
East St Iouis last week, and decided to de
mand two cents a bushel top weight In case
tho demand is refused they will strike.
Live stock in Montana is reported in
excellent condition. During tho season thero
will be shipments East of lil.OOO head of cat
tle, 100,0W sheep, and 10,000 horses.
Tho citizens of Daviess County, In
diana, aro iudignaut at tho return from Can
ada ef Charle s If. Rrowu and Jehn Grimsby,
absconding township trustees, who declare
their iutoution to remain. Rrowu issued
fraudulent warrants to the amount of $KT,000.
A terrible story of tho sufferings
from famine of tho fishermen and natives of
Labrador and Newfoundland is telegraphed
from St Johns. Co d and hunger havo elono
their work so e ffectually in some districts that
half the population has lo -n swept away.
Advices from tho far Southwest re
port that intense excitement existed at El Pao
over tho Cutting imprisonment affair. The
Mexicans were massing troops at Paso elel
Nerte fully prcparod to elo battle at a moment's
notice. Thero was a largo boely of United
State's troops at El Paso, and m io aro going
there-. Edito.- Cutting was tt'll in prison, and
it was said that an attempt would bo nude to
execute him.
Tho contest for tho base-ball cham
pionship am-mg tint clubs composing tho Na
tional league is a hot emc. Detredt lias won
M game's; Chicago, 4t; New York, 4'.'; Phila
delphia, Roston, St Iiouis, Kansas City, and
Washington follow with gamtM won in tho or
der named. The St Louis team of the Amer
ican Association leads in the race for the pen
nant Tho leaders in the revolutionary
movement in Tamaulipa, Mexico, havo been
badly elefeated near the Sabinas Mouutains.
The loss ;h not given.
The Knights of Labor of tho Second
Iowa Coiigre-sionat District havo nominated T.
L. O'Mcara as their candidatj for Congress.
Judge-Advocate J. J. McGarry of
District Assembly No. 101, Knights ef Labor,
has been nominated to conte-st tho Ninth
Mis-ouri Congressional District against Mr.
Glover, tho present Congressman. Fivo
thousand five hundred Knights in the elistrict
have pledged themselves to vote for tho judgo
advocatc. Tho total number of voters in tho
district is about 17,r(Ki.
Tho Chicago and St. Louis Boad is
being extended southward from lVkin to
Springfield, wdie-r-j it will connect with a link
le ading to the great bridge. Ry September an
other through lino to tho Missouri River will
bo in f)peration.
Upon his arrival in London Lord
Salisbury was met by a great crowel who wel
comed him with hearty che-ers. Ho called
upon Lord Hartington and held an hour's
confi rence with him. Lord Hartington
promised Lord Salisbury a hearty support,
but elee'.inod to join tho Conservative Govern
ment Iml Salisbury subsequently started
for Osliorne to receive tho Queen's command
to form a government
Thk sundry civil appropriation bill, with tho
fdhcr ce rtificute amendme-nt, passed thi Senate
on July 21. The amendment reads as follows:
"And the Secretary of tliH Treasury I hereby
authorized and required to issue silver certifi
cates in tleiioiniiiHtioiiH ef $1. $2, ui.d 5; and
the silver eertillcutes liere'n authorized
Bhall le receivable, redeemable, and pay
able in like manner and for like purjHmes
as is provided for silver certifiers by tho
ac t of Feb. '2s, 17, entitled 'An act to anthe r
Izo the coinage of the ttiiiilnrl hilver dol
lar and to rehtore its leal-tendcr character pro
vided. That uid denomination of SI, 2, and $5
may be isbued in lieu of diver certificates of
lar).''r denominations in tho Treasury, and to
that extent said certificate's ef larger denomina
tions thali bo canceled and destroyed." The
Hon ho en' IteproKentativea pasKeMl a naval appro
priation bill amounting to s,,4i),000, and the
sundry civil appropriation bill.
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OONGBESSIONAL.
Work of the Oenato and tho House
of Representative!.
TnE oleomargarine bill, with an amendment
reducing the tax on the product from fivo to two
cents a iuud, passed the Senate July 30, by a
vote of 37 to 24. All those voting for the bill
were Itepublicani except two Fayne, of Ohio,
and Cockrell, of Missouri. The twenty-four
votes against the measure were all cast by
Dcinecratic Senators. Henry P. Henderson, of
'.Michigan, was nominated by the President to
be -Associate Justioe of the Supreme Court of
Utah. The President aUo nominated these post
masters : W. H. Howser, Warnaw, Ind. ; Jred
erick II. Hates, KlmLuret, 111.; William H.
Loom is, Slmwneetown, 111. ; Emanuel M. Funk,
Manning, Iowa; Isaac D. Toll, 1'etoHkey, Mich. ;
Otis O. King, Kenosha, Wis.; Willium A. Mc
Allister, Vinton, Iowa, The House of Kepre
sentatives, in committee of the whole, rejected
amendments to the river and harbor bill strik
ing emt tne Hennepin Canal clause and taking
the charge of the MisdsHippi lUver improve
ment out of the hands of the Mississippi Kiver
Commission.
The reiorts In the Tayne election case came
up in the Senate for consideration ou July 21.
Senator Pugh, in advocacy of tho position taken
by himself, Benaton Saulsbury, Vance, and
Eustia. contended that there had been no ex
press belief or suspicion on the part of any
member of the committee to the effect that Mr.
Payne was connected in the remotest degree
with anything wrong, criminal, or immoral In
his electien, und that no further investigation
ef the charges should bo made. Senator
Hoar presented the views of himself and
Senator Frye. He argued that such an
investigation was elue to Senator Payne, and
contendei that the charges were made by in
dividual and bodies of suflicient weight to
compel the Senate to investigate them. Sena
tor i.o'an took the floor to reply to the argu
ment of Senator Hoar and to sustain the views
expressed in the repeirt signed by himself and
Mertkrs. Teller and Evart. Senator Logan
ejuotod from the Cincinnati Commercial (iazttte
an article against himself and Senators Evarts
and Teller, speaking et Mr. Evurts us a repre
sentative of ceial oil in the Senate, and saying
that Teller was net w orth talking abeiut. Con
tinuing, he read frtm another extract a state
ment that Senator Camden, "wheme intimate
relations to the Standard Oil Oompany are well
known." had telegraphed to prominent Demo
crats that only six niere votes were vs anted to
carry the Senate, and that they were prepared
to pay $50,U0J each for them, ami said : "I say
thut any man who will publish such an in
fum ms slander and such a villainous lie as that
uin honorable members of his own party is
unworthy of recegnition anywhere." Senator
Logan tin n detailed the course of tho
Ohio Jjegitdaturo in electing Senator Payne,
and afterward in investigating the charges
against its own members. Thero was
not, said the Senator, in the evidence taken be
fore tho committee of the Ohio Legislature one
single iota of te stimony implicating Mr. Payne,
directly er indirectly. Senator Telle r tCel.) next
took the lloor and said ho was not
on trial. Ho hud no defense to make
either to th jwojilo of Ohio or onv other
Stut Tho committee had kept hteadily and
truthfully in tho line of the i n cedents. Tho
State of Ohio had made no demand f tho Sen
ate. What had newspaper clamor to do with
tho ejuestion when it came to tho American Sen
ate' Ho believed the Ohio newspaper con
vention was called for tho purjtfibo ef com
pelling recreant Ilepublicaus to forswear
themselves and perjure themselves in the in
terest of iolitical success. In the Hout-e Mr.
Morrison's concurrent resolution, rejiorte-d from
the Ways and Means Committee, providing fer
tho adjournment ef Congress en July 2b, after
being uppose-d by Mr. Keagnn, Mr. Weaver, Mr.
Hayno, Mr. Hepburn, and Mr. Willis, was
pussed by a vete ef 145 to 30. Then a fctruggle
arose for priority of consideration between tho
interstate comme rce and the Northern Pacific
forfeiture bills, which wa resolved yeas 142,
nays VJ in favor ef the former.
The Payne election caso was tho subject of
another debate in tho Senate on July 22. Sen
ator Teller said, in regard to the resolutions
presented by the Ohio editors and the extracts
from the Democratic papers eleclaring their
epinion that the election was procured by
corruption, that it wan an attempt to
compel by a convention of peditical ed
itors the determination of aioliticul fjuestion.
Senator Sherman said he roo to perform tho
mot disagreeable eluty of his life. He lmd
known his colleague (Paynei tdneo he had ar
rived at the ago of inanhend, and ho believed
that, whatever corruption bad occurred iu the
prex-css of tho election, no knowledge of such
corruption wu brought to his colleague. Ho
believed oImj that if the investigation wero
granted his colleague's honor would not
be touche-d by the testimony that
would be produced. There was a gen
eral belief in tho State of Ohio that
the election of his colleague mot with his
knowledge) hud been accomplished through
gross fraud and bribery. Whether or net sutli
cient evidence had bee-n laid before tho commit
teo of the Senate it w as for the Senate to say.
Hut certainly sufficient evidence had been sent
here tj 1'at tho question en its inquiry.
Senator Frye, in supporting tho minority re
ort, said tho question w as whether brib. ry and
corruption had ix-en usd, an I not w hether the
Senator from Ohio had himself been a partici
pant iu it. Hills for public building i-t Clarks
burg, W. Va. ; Springfield, Mo., and Nebraska
City, Neb., were passed by the Senat -. In tho
House ef Itepresciituti ves Mr. Hatch iMo.l, from
tho Committee on Agriculture, related tho
oleomargarine bill, with Senate amendment,
and with a recommendation that thoy be non
concurred in. It was referred to the committee
of tho wherio.
Mr. Hoar's resolution for an investigation of
the election of Mr. Payne was defeated in the
Senate on July 23, the veto standing yeas 17,
nays 44. Iu discussing tho Payne case, Mr.
Hawley (Conn.) argued in favor of an investiga
tion. Ho said the elemaud for it was not a mat
ter of rumors or of newspapers, but it was a
great outcry from an outraged people, if there
were any truth what3ver in theso declarations
from the legislature ami from the Demo
cratic papers. He certainly could not see
how, in justice and dealing with tho
question ou broad considerations, the Senate
could refuse to order an investigation. Senator
Evarts (New Yerkt closed tho debate in an argu
ment against further investigation. It was not
to bo doubted, he said, that thi Senate w as
master ef tho question present-d, ami was un
der no law er restraint, except that imiosed by
the Constitution. Hut, by tho same reasons, the
scojkj ainl boundary of tho Senate's mastery and
duty wero limited and fixed by the same firm
iustru'.-tions of the Constitution. The Senate
hud no powe r and no right to investigate tho
conduct of eii ' olitical party at the request of
another. It hud no power t' 'investigate the elis
cords of a party at the reque st or invitation of a
faction e.f that party. It had no iower to meas
ure, to estimate, any right or wrong that did not
teiucb tho ext. mt and authority and sceipe and re
sult that was measure-d to it by the Constitu
tion. While the Senate, continued Senator Ev
arts. should have great deferenco for a great
Stato of :i,ooo,o(K of people, no constitutional
distinction ceuld be drawn between such a
Stato and ono the size of KIhmIo Island or
Delawaro. He then queried Senator Pay no's
letter to the Chairman of the Ohio Legislative
Committee, inviting and challenging tho
most thorough and rigid scrutiny, and offer
ing for insiM-ction his private ceirreie'iid
enro and looks of accounts, and Chairman
Cowgill s reply that if the re was any testi
mony tending to Inculpate h'm (Payne) In
any elegree with anv questionable transac
tion his request would le acceded to. Ceiuld
any person, ho asked, require a metre e-ariy,
a moro prompt, a more universal preqosition
fren the Senator? The fact that the
Ohio Legislative Committee did not call on
Mr. Tayne w as a proof that it did not consider
thero was anything before It which re
quired his cxamtnatiem. It was elear
that from ono end of Obio to the other, in
all the agitation of the subject, no imputa
tion had touche d tho Se nator. He was ruht,
then, in saying that the Senate must discard
that view ef the matter from its consideration.
The oleomargarine bill, as amended by tho
Senate, passed tho House of Representatives by
174 yeas to (5 nays.
Tun Frince of Monaco and tho
French Admiralty are perfecting a
Rchemo for determining tho direction
and force of tho Gulf stream by means
of numbered floats, which will bo
launched at intervals with a request
that finders report the timo and posi
tion of picking them up.
(loon sense is a gooel thing to fiddle
on, but the trouble is only the minority
of people appear to do much riddling.
Nevada' fishing inhibition begins in
April and ends with .'September.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
The Decline In the Condition of
Spring Wheat aa Compared with
Last Tear.
Winter Wheat Area Yield . of OaN
and Barley Loner Illinois
Corn Prospects.
A supple mental crop statement issued
by the Agricultural department nt Wash
ington says that the increase in the corn
nrea in seven years has been about '20 per
cent., and the present area is about 75,000,
000 acres. Tne increase is rapid in the
more recently settled Western States.
Settles find the demanel for wheat fixed
and little variable, except that the world'
supply affects the demand everywhere,
while the demand for corn is elastic, and
miy be doubled with prices sufficiently
low. Wheat is the snort of speculators,
while corn has seldom been cornered.
Of spring 'wheat the report 6ays:
The condition of Hpring wheat has declined
from 9S.5 in June to bii.'i, in conseejuenee e.f high
teiuperaturt. drying winds, and want e.f rain.
Lam year the average condition was tw iu July,
and In conseouence of high temieraturo at a.
critical period, fell to bG at the time of harvest
ing. The apparent depreciation in June is 15
joints, but it would be a serious errer to apply
that reduction to the 145,000,000 bushels of pring
w heat harvested, which representee! a condition
of Ni at harvesting only 3 points above the
present condition. Should there be no further
reduction the present condition should insure
about nu.OOJ.OXJ bushels. The loss of vitality bo
early In the season exiles the crop to further
injuries bv the heats of Jrly and August, and
renders it highly probable that the average con
dition at harvest may be still lower. Witij favor
ablo weather In July and August Increased con
dition may be maintained, though the chance s
are confessedly against it.
Making allowance for this rabability, a judi
cious and reasonable interpretation of the July
report of winter and spring wheat would show
a prosjK ct for an increase ef about fci.Ooo.OOO
huhhels alovo the olhcial estimate for 1883. The
threshing of winter wheat and the meteorologi
cal conditions of the next two months may easily
add 10,(kjo,(XX) to these figures, or subtract quite
as largo an amount.
Tho winter-wheat area already assures nearly
enough for homo consumption and seed. TLo
averago exportation ef wheat and flour for the
last nve ye ars has been 110.000,001) bushels. The
present expectation favors a product nearly suf
ficient for this rate of exiwrtation, in addition to
consumption. The exerts of the last year are
some million bushels less than this average.
Tho surplus will probably bo ample, therefore,
for any foreign demand likely to arise.
The distribution of the last year is as
follows:
Estimated consumption, food, 271,000.000;
seed. 51,474HX). Exports from preliminary state
ment, '..,. V -.,020. Total. 4 10,071, 5'JU. Crop of
1HS., 357.1 P2.0KI. Drawn from crop ef 1km, 5s,
950,520. The visible supply has been decreased
eluring the year alut la.ooo.UK) bushels, leaving
about 4f..ooo.ox) bushels to cemie from the sur
plus iu tho hands of the runners.
Tho condition of eats is lower than in any
former July report sinco 1879, when the yield
averaged 25 bushels per acre. The present con
dition is bH.8 against K7 in July of that year.
Tho average of rye is 95.0 against K7 last
year. The condition of barley averages ff'J.7
ngain6t 92 last July and 'JH in July of tfce previ
ous year,
DEATH'S CKAS1I.
Seven Persons Lose Their Lives Near
Columbia, Teim., in a Fearful
Kailroad Collision.
A Number of Italians Maimed or Killed
Near Bridgeport, Conn., in a
Similar Disaster.
Nashvillo (Tenn.) special.
A special engine coming north collideel
with the regular train on the Louisville ami
Nashville ltuilroad near Duck Iiiver. forty
tight miles south of Nashville, and seven
men wero instantly killed. The collision
occurred in a deep cut with a sharp curve,
making it impossible to see each other.
I'.oth engines are a total wreck. The fol
lowing is a list of the killed: Henry Lau
man, engineer of the accommodation train;
liobett Urowu, fireman of the accommoela
tiou train; Thad lleech, engineer of engine
No. oTJ; Pat King, fireman of engine
No. 51'J; Memroe Wilson, bnggagemaster;
A. P. Robertson, of Louisulle, Ky., a
passenger nsrent, formerly a ticket agent of
the Louisville t Nashville Uoad at Nash
ville; Henry Whittemcr. There were only
two passengers injured. The sight is most
horrible, the bodies b-ing torn to pieces
and scalelt'd by the escaping steam. As
soon as the terrible news reached Columbia
every available conveyance that coulel be
secured was tn route to the accident.
There w ere between fifteen anel twenty pas
sengers in the ladies' coach, who were unin
jured. Engine 519 exploeled. throwing the tender
loO feet. ltobeiton was instantly killed,
being elisemboweleel by a piece of iron.
Henry Wh'ttemer was found with a fag in
his hand, wedgeel between the locomotive
and the sido of the cut. The train was
running at a speed of forty miles an hour
nt the time of the collision.
Fatal Hallway Disaster In Connecticut.
lUridgeport (Ct.) dispatch.
The Boston express on the New Haven
road, which left New York at 11 a. m.t col
lided to-day with a gravel train on which a
large number of Italian laborers were rid
imr. Thero is but one track at the place
where the nccident occurred. .The gravel
train had the right of way, and the signal
was set accordingly. The engineer of the
express failed to observe the signal.
Ephraim Slayback, engineer of the express,
jumped to the ground and received serious
injuries. The fireman also jumped, but
escaped injury. Two Italians, one named
Michael Ross, were killed and six were se
riously hurt. One had his skull crushed
in, and it is thought he will die. All were
more or less hurt internally. Slayback
was arrested on a charge of manslaughter.
F1UE LOSSES.
The Wig Figures for the Last Six Months.
The extraordinary losses by fire in this
country during the last six months are le
ginning to attract attention. The total
losses, where the pron rty in each case was
valued at 100,000 and upward, amount to
S22.VUJ.000, divided as follows: January,
$0,787,000; February, $1,533,000; March.
$5,414,000; April, $2,857,000; May, $1,
810,000; June, $1,705,000; July (to elate)
$1,955,000 the aggregate representing two
fifths of the entire losses by latge and small
tires for the first six months, which are esti
mated at $53,900,000. or $3,000,000 in ex
cess of the losses duiing the same period of
last year.
M. DcrASSE heads a movement in Taris
to raise a 2,000,000 franc monument com
memorative of the French Revolution.
The monument is to be on the ruins of the
Tuileries.
Generai, CrsTEit's widow went to see
Buffalo Pill's Wild WTcst at StAten Island
the other day, and had a Ulk with Mr.
Cody, and was much pleased with the
show.
Martin IIollowat, brother of the most
famous man of pills ever known on this
pill-shaped world, is to be made a knight
by the British Queen.
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