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GIRARDEAU . CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, SAttJRtUY, SEPTEMBER 12, a8i. BEN II. ADAMS, Publisher. VOL. XVI. NO. 14. .... . "' '',- At, a Va SNGsuumr. ATTORNEY AT LAV ; AND CITY RECORDER Offlea at Mom on Harmony StrMt, CAPS GIRARDEAU. . MO. & & HARRIS, Physician and Surgeon Office In tear or Trickey". Drug 9tore, oonMt f Independence and Spanish Street. Oapa nrrarMf.au. rwspecial attention glvea m ajuaperj nd Diseases of Female. H. A. ATHOLZ. ffeoiwtary Building and Lou Aasecfaftea. NOTARY PUBLIC. 8crctary Southeastern Plstrlot Mini RooMty. Office, Court-how. Do Tour Insurance Business Ins company wbow record In th Mil to uaranto for the future. InfUfWinlM HOME, OP KEW TORE. LEO DOYLB, Agent, No. S North Main Street, Cap Qlrarrtw. faveuri. apli N. WICIITERICn, Cape Girardeau, - Ma Agent for the following Reliable Companies : Trankltn Mutual, of fit. Lonla. Citizen' Insurance Company, St Lou It. Spring field lasurftaoe Compoar. Bprina eld. Mass. These aiv three of Itae bt and most rellabW ompanlrs In the country. dec.t, CONRAD KEMPE, Dealer la DIIY GOODS AND GROCERIES, New irooda received weekly. Groceries al ways frenh. store corner of Fountain aod toaivjony Street, dot.. CHRIST. KRUECER, BUTCHER. Shop oa Main street, one door sooth of tha frescott Houtie. Ail klnda of Fresh Meats and Sausage ai ways on band. Delivery wagon run evert morning. IJulyO. E. D. ENGELMAM, Dealer In Millinery, Dry Goods AND- GROCERIES. No. m Hanaoay Street, ? CAFE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI. r. W. VOGT. Dealen Id Stores aid Tinware, Independenea Street, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Kntlra new (took, the latest Unproved an beet Cooking and Heating c tores In the mar ket. All kind! of Job Work dons In the beat Banner and at moderate prioee. ROOFINC AND CUTTCRINC A peoialty and work guaranteed first -chea. ADOLPH LIST, Mechanical and Surgical ' ferns ail Undi of work la hit Uaa, and guar Bntees ail work done. OflBee at residence, oorner Harmony and Laorlmter Streets. EDW.S. LILLY Dealers ta HARDWARE, Iron and Steel, UfaM Vsm Be, Itc. Agents of ta. HAZARD POWDER COMPANY. Daaton aapplled at Wholesale Price. ST and 39 Mala Street, OAPB QIRARDHAtT. MO. " RIDER I WICHTERICH, DRUGGISTS ! North Main Strretv A rail aad anaxslils lineal Drag, PftMa Medicine, ., Pertamerr, Toilet Artitrie, Stoaeawiy, Vettaaa. Eta n not DENTIST Tiikt are now try irf te 'show that Christopher ColWrrib'us was a French man, or at least was born in Corsica tinder French government. " ' Iw the 11,000,000 letters that reached the dead-letter office last year, there was money amounting to 8,64'4 and checks and notes of the value of $1,47!. 8T1. Great (runs that require one thou sand pounds of powder am) carry a ball twelve miles are something of a terror. bnt they will do small amount of fighting. Rev. E. A. hit, t)l Fall River. Mass., has aiifnpd his name to 1,016 marriage certificates, lie boasts that no knot he ever made has been untied save or death. . . , . About 8.000 stars ere vistMa to the naked ,r.. hnihir Itiw. tm Ia tha megaitode The latest' calculations of the astronomer, put the entire number 01 Man at 14.000,000. The same day that Mrs. ex-Frcaldent l'olk died a letter was received nl the white house, of which she was mispress so many 'yean ago, directed lo her, "care of the white rrouse." I the Star 1610 there were born in this country James Russell Lowell, Charles A. Dana, Walt Whitman, Dr. Holland and Julia Ward Howe. That is the birth year of Quern Vfelm-iatiUo. A mas flshirur at Jersey, En)., was canpht by the rising tide, and a boat nan to be put out to rescue him. The next day the magistrate sentenced him to eight days' hard labor "for the trouble he had caused." Two nf.siARKABi.r. old Indies are Mrs. Hannah Eustis and Miss Sarah Barr, of WakeQcld, Mass. They are twin sisters, born in 1800, and are still. bright end tit active health. So (Trent is their resem blance in figure, voice Burl manner that one is frequently mistaken for the other. ' A GltOROlA man, in selecting the ten greatest men in history, has found nine of them as follows: Moses. St Paul, Julius I'wsar, Martin Luther, William the Silent, ShakespcRre, Cromwell; Peter the Great and Knpoletin. tiehtle men who are cnndidtfs tor the last place on the list will please send in their names early and avoid the rush. Tuk New York Journal of Commerce says it is safe to declare that the prob lem of how to get rich engrosses tho attention of one-t'nird of our popular tion, while the question of how to keep out of the poorhottse engrosses the at tention of the other two-thirds. A lib eral share of both classes are engaged in the stndv of how to keep out of jaiL A I'RoFFSsnri of the Paris academy of sciences has been making experiments which hare resulted in convincing him that the rabbit is of all living things the most capable of withstanding a very low temperature. Inclosed all night in a block of ice, a rabbit was found next day getting on very com fortably and evidently not aware of anything very peculiar in his circtim ctances. As experiment made at Montreal of completing a cable circuit to make a continuous line of eight t lions mil miles shows that electricity travels that dis tance in one and five hundredths sec onds whereas nerve force, which Is cal culated to travel only at the rate of a mile a minute, would have taken near ly a week to make the journey. These arc the calculations made in defense of electrical execution. There is nickel in the slot in Idaho to an abounding degree. Near Hope, in that state, a vein of the metal has been discovered which is seven feet wide and the ore assays very rich. Kickcl is worth seventy cents per pound and has never been found before in large quantities in this country, and the fact that the navy department has adopted nickel steel for armor makes the dis covery one of great importance "JsJrs Jo," the original of one of the characters in Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer," still lives in Hannibal, near where the scenes in the book are laid. He is now a tough old man of 75, and hauls trunks from the depot on a red express wagon drawn by a white horse. He has accumulated a modest fortune, owning twelve small dwelling-houses, but his clothes grow shabbier and more ragged every year. He has al ways been displeased with the notoriety Twain gave him. and considers himself I insulted when the subject -is mentioned, j Advices from Rome bring official intelligence that the provincial debts of Italy amount to f-J.9SO.500.000, or 103 for each inhabitant, while the na tional debt is nearly $4,000,000,000. In all. therefore, the obligations of Italy foot up about S7,000,0C0,000. In the meantime emigration continues and largely increases. This vast debt has been incurred by bankrupt Italy in part by the large sums paid to official sinecures, but mostly by the enormous amount of money wasted in keeping up an army and navy on a scale comport ing with those of the other members of the Dreibnnd. The English matron objects to the modern fashion of advertising infant foods by means of photographs of lightly-clad babies which have been reared upon them, because, forsooth, in future years when these infant girls, whose identity is established by the publica tion of their names beneath the por trait, become modest maidens, it will be embarrassing to have the young man of the future possess these portraits of the misses in shirts. Of course, the baby boys of to-day are assiduously collecting and preserving the portraits for future reference in case of meeting their originals. Is accordance with the decision ol the universal postal convention at Vienna, the post office department will issue a donble postal card for interna tional use. It consists of two parts, one for the original message and the other for' the reply. The cost of the card is four cents and it can be sent to any country in the postal anion, now including the Australian colonies. Hav ing adopted the double foreign card, we see no reason why the government should not adopt the improvement fur the domestic service. This wonld be more convenient thaa the "inclosed stamp for reply." ' Uncle Sam is not old, bnt the statis tics show that his taxable wealth foots up W2, 500, 000,000, and that is only bnt a fraction of his real wealth. - No won der the eyes of the world are on "old glory" as it floats over "the land of tha brave and the home of the free." Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FROM WASHINGTON, TBI exact population of the United State was (said by Superintendent. Port if to be 6''.fl22.2.'ift The statement of the fuiiilc debl showt thai the decrease of the bonded debt during the month of Amrhst amounted to Sl.Wl.SW. . ToA! cdsli in the treasury, f 7BiflC2,s47. t bl;!il, notice wai given by the uepartmcnt of agriculture that the order prohibiting the importation of hog products into Germany has been removed. A t'ttRsfe bureau bulletin showed that there were 45,233 persons confined irVthe penitentiaries of this country. The business failures in the United States during the seven davs ended on the 4th numbered 217, against 21 the preceding week and 203 Cor the eof-. responding week last year. THE EAST. it. A. CnAVtnkiis. a window glass manufacturer, of Pittsburgh, Pa., av signed, with liabilities exceeding $.V0, 000. James Pattos and his young son were burned to death in a fire whieh destroyed their home in Jihnstdtvil, Pa. JAt-dtt Raney. dealer in horses at MVerstown, Pa, failed for about 8250, 000. Spsas Tims fired a shotgun at two strange men who had entered her home at Monmouth, Pa, bnt missed them both and fatally hurt her little brother. RlfHAlin NASH, a Rending railroad engineer, was decapitated by some Ob struction beside the track while pass ing through Orerille, t'a. with tiishcad out of hlsrnb Window. Oeoroe it. Woods, aged 33 years, became entangled in the meshes of a balloon while it was making an ascent at Oswego, N. Y., and fell a distance of 100 feet, alighting on his head. Ten thousand people witnessed his terrible death. FnASK sportM-ft residing hear fioid Spring. N. Y.i shot aLd killed his father and brother while quarreling 'over pickle crops. J. W. Uri'ce was nominated for gov ernor at Albany, N. Y.. by the New York prohibitionists The resolutions declare against national banks and favor a tariff for revenue Only. (ir.oRclK Em.Ir Was drowned while bathing in Lake Gardner, Mass. James Higgins, a bystander, while attempt ing to save the boy. was also drowned. At Sodus. N. Y., Rev. J. H. Newton was struck on the hsad by a falling tent pole at the Free Methodist camp meeting and instantly killed. Dkmockats of Pennsylvania in state convention nominate-l Robert K. Wright, of Lehigh county, for auditor general and A. L. Tildert for treasurer. WEST AND SOUTH. The death of Mrs. Mary Salisbury occurred near Kellingham, Minn., aged 103. Her husband, 103 years, could not long survive. The couple had been married eighty years. By a collision of two steambarges on the Detroit river three persons were drowned and one of the vessels sunk. Despkraihies held up a train near Canon City. Col., and robbed the ex press car of S-I.BO). J. Y. Krowx was inaugurated gov ernor of Kentucky. It was decided that a tower would be erected at the World's Columbian Exposition to exceed 1, 100 feet in hcignt and to cost S2.000.000. At Chadron, O., Alonzo Knox and daughter were killed by a train dash ing into the carriage in which they were riding. The state board of equalisation of Indiana gives the grand total valuation of all property in the state at S041,- 11,211. as against 5782.872,120 in 1890. The death of Rev. J. It. L. Soule, D. I)., Ph. D of Highland Park, 11L, oc curred at the residence of his son in Chicago, aged 79 years. Rohert WiEi.ASn, a wealthy brewer of San Francisco who was at Dayton, O., on a visit- was found d?ad in his room with two bullet holes in his head. Thomas Kesseai.y, of Dubuque, la. was made heir to an estate valued at 51.000.000 by the death of an uncle at j Newark, Jf. J. Kenncaly was a miner. Flakes in the business portion of Willows, Cat., did damage to the extent of $150,000; rartly insurciL I Rasditr robbed a railroad train at' Del Rio, Tex., of several thousand dol lars. The World's Columbian directory's executive committee unanimously com municated to the commission an ex pression that the government be asked to loan S5.000.000 to the fair on the se curity of the first gate receipts. Mrs. S. H. Cook, who has been act ing as secretary of the lady managers of the world's fair since the removal of Miss Couzins, was formally elected to fill that position. Peter Resfrow was sentenced at Springfield, Mo., to hang Friday. Octo ber 8. He murdered Deputy Sheriff Don-is in Texas county July 18. 1888. At The Dalles, Ore., fire destroyed property worth S300.000. The remains of Alexander Breller- work, who was buried at Dubuque, I nineteen years ago, was exhumed for removal and found to be perfectly pre served, although not petrified. Even the grave clothes showed no signs of decay. Aroi'mest by the American Sunday school union in favor of closing the world's fair on Sundays were made before the national commission and the board of lady managers. No action was taken. William Ai.lex, the negro who shot and fatally wounded Marshal Myrs, before being lynched by a Georgia moo prayed that God would destroy the world and blot out humanity. The dynamite factory of F. H. Rey nolds A Co., at White Pigeon, Mich., containing twenty tons of dynamite exploded, and sixteen workmen were killed. Tex thousand people from all prom inent points celebrated "watermelon day," the festival of the Arkansas val ley, at Rocky Ford, CoL Monuments erected by the state of Illinois on the battlefield of Gettysburg to the Eighth and Twelfth Illinois cavalry were formally dedicated with solemn services. It was said that heavy frosts killed corn and all other vegetation in some sections of Iowa on the night of the 3d. The stables of Dr. N. P. Valerius A Co., at Watertown, Wis., were burned, together with thirty-two head of regis tered stallions. The Georgia legislature passed -a bill disqualifying physicians addicted to drink from the practice of their profession, Near Magnolia, Ark., four person were killed by lightning during a storm which struck Via house of John Couch ffi and John Felilcr were sen tenced to be hanged Friday, October ft at Rush, Tex., for t' miifjf til Vohnfe TtWitibsotit the tathcr-iri-iaw tit iotin Feider. , ...... The total valuation 5f real estate of Indiana wis feiaccd at Sl,096,003,00d; H;raiust 000,000 last year; 'T v 1 ' . tA i . 11 1. X tit, luuunwnii ts-f uu,iKc " were totally destroyed by fire, includ soveral bridges nearly ready for ship ment, throwing 250 m.n cut of em ployment, Frank Danforth, a wife murderer, was hanged at Augusta, Ga,, and Wil liam Hulling, another wife murderer, paid the penalty of his crime at Savan nah, Mo. Shortly before his execution Bulling attempted self-destruction by shooting himself ttttee in the breast With a rPVblvef tvtliqrl tf 9 sdid to have been givcti hltn by his spiritual adviser. EtrKi'.t Accountants who examined the books of Martin Mower, president of the St Croix boom corporation at Stillwater, Minn., who died some time since, found that he was short $26, 701.78 in his accounts. The valuation of the famous trotter, Axtell, was crf by tb MJ Zominiv sioner of Indianapolis at $15,930. The horse was sold in Chicago recently for $105,000. United States cavalry began to drive intruders from the Iowa aud Sac and Fox reservations. J. II. Dunham (colored), of Ken tucky, at present United Slates enusul at Sad Domingn, Was Appointed by the presidrtit minister resident and consul general to llayti Heavy frosts ofl the night Bf the 3d destroyed tile torn crop's in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Tjie American fat and live stock show will be held in the exposition building in Chicago November 11-21, inclusive. The aggregate premiums would be limited to S10.000. Harrison Murray, a colored out law, was shot and killed near Archer, Fla.i by Hardy Early, a negro lad 17 years oltl The death of Capt James Franklin, a noted horse breeder, occurred at Gal latin, Tcnn., aged 45 years. A arrAM yacht owned by J. Eggles ton, of Boston, and valued at 8100.000. was wrecked on the rocks off the New foundland ooast. Tub assistant principal of the Ei,gl tvbod high school at Chicago, O. O. Lyon, was kille.t by a Chicago & West ern Indiana train while crossing the track a Foun sold'ers Corporal Offerson, J. O'Keefe, J. Brown and Patrick Hogan belonging to Company H, Fourth in fantry, were drowned while out boat ing on Lake Coeur d'Alene, near Spokane Falls. Wash. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The British steamer Dunsmurry wa struck by a tornado oft the coa.t of Halifax, N. S., sinking the vessel and drowning eight of the crew. The marriage of Miss Mary Lincoln, daughter of United States Minister Robert T. Lincoln, to Charles B. Isham, of Chicago, took place in London. A schooner was wrecked on the reefs near the Hawaiian islands and twelve persons were drowned. It was announced that the prince of Wales and Emperor William of Ger many would attend the world's fair at Chicago. Fire destroyed the btreele stables at Ayr, Scotland, and nine valuable race horses perished in tha flames. The twentv-first anniversary of the battle of Sedan was celebrated through out Germany. All the women removed their cor sets and burned then at a Free Metho dist meeting in Kingston, Ont, saying that they "would die as God made them." Emicrasts from the United King dom to America during the last eight month- -lumbered 109,051,an increase of 3.000 over the same period of 189J. Of these 41,578 were from Ireland. Brio. Gen. Wild, late of Brookline, Mass., died at Mcdcllin, Columbia, South America A motion of want of confidence in the Canadian government was defeated in the parliament by a vote of IK) to 81 LATER. A delegation of twenty-six prom inent citizens of Augusta, Ga, left that city, on the 7th, for a tour of the north and east, the route including a visit t3 New York, Boston, Lynn, Low ell, Fall River and other manufactur ing centers. The object of the trip is to extend to the various boards of trade invitations to attend the Augusta expo sition in November. They will also visit Montreal and probably Toronto. The German authorities have cap tured eight anarchists at Stuttgart, and have caused them to be taken to Berlin for trial. The spread of anarch ism in the German countries is creating no little anxiety, and the officers have been requested to make special investi gation as to the extent of the evil and whether any concerted motive ani mates the anarchists. Sknor Lazcano. the Chilian minis ter, on the 7th, officially informed the state department that he will be ab sent from Washington for some time, and that in his absence he has desig nated Senor Jorge, secretary of the le gation, as charge d'affaires. Labor day was generally celebrated by the working people of the United States and Canada on the Tth. Parades, picnics, s peech-making, ' sports and games, and in some places balls at night, occupied the hours. Comptroller Lacet has sent a cir cular letter to banks holding 4 J4" per cent, bonds, notifying them that they are no longer available as a basis fot circulation, the interest having ceased. The annual congress of the British trades unions opened at Newcastle, on the 7th, with 500 delegates present Thomas Bert, M. P., a prominent labor leader, was chosen-president. The interstate exposition opened at Toledo on the 7th. This is the succes sor of the old Tristate Fair association, which bad been in existence for twenty five years. The correspondent at Vienna of the Paris Figaro telegraphs that Austria will reply to the Turco-Rnssian con vention by annexing Bosnia to her do minions Emil Treatel, of Berlin, who lost several million marks -in corn specula tion in 1889, and recently failed for 70, 000 marks, committed suicide on the 7th. The stock of the Hamburg-A raerican Steamship Co. has advanced seven points since the removal of the prohibi tion on American pork. Dr. Hoist, a Prussian magistrate, fell over a precipice on the 7th. and wga killed. MISSOURI STATE NEWS. ' maeoarTe WorM'a Fair lt- A Ch'cago special to the Globe-Democrat contains the following information In regard to Missouri and the World's fnifi ilitlaurl men; have redipli to be d'.isHtli- fled with the sue jultsleatra to tlut itsto tor jttuhlldtng at Ujfc lvijrU fair.. In the oH-Inatasala-uuient of space Kdutjickv. a italS that lb. no way rompari. with MIssonrL was (ivqn a prominent place beside New York; ?' hlle, ktlseonrl was re.iekatud to the rear, hie wae oblcctfed to Lv the commlaaiohcra Iroiu the latter atabvaad the exposition. (ll rtoA aereed that ibe sites lor the build in, of the two states efaoald be changed, il laeouri taking that of Kentucky. This was apparently eettled until a ehort time ago when Col. Ut-Kenzle, of the Kentucky com mission, put la a vigorous objection. Then the directors, ending themselves in a bole mnch deeper than a well, changed aboot, and, prving no attention to the legitimate demands of Mlsaourii ret anted to the former award, and tueMlslotif inns will have to fake K bac lent. They dH not like iii. and the Sb.mfftimiorier. from 5lls9orirl ddnotheal (ate b any so. Thomas B. Biillene, ct Kansas City, who im aUcmlingthncommiasion meet ing here now, expressed himself very strong ly oa the eut-Jt-ct, declaring tliat the Just claims of Missouri bad been disregarded. Ex-Congressman Frank, of St Louis, a member of the Missouri commission, when seen, said that he was sure the Ch'ce anthoriti". wonld afford relief to the Missouri delegation when the case was presented to them in the true light He intimated that the Missouri commissioners would present them selves in a body before the World's fair commissioners in Chicago at no distant date, and bring such pressure to bear that their request could not be refused. CHnrfenin the tlnok CoiriMlMlna. Ata reefcrit rneelingof Typographical tiriloh No. 8, of St. -Louis, resolutions tvere adoptee1 condemning the Missouri school book commissidn. The resolutions state that inasmuch as tile commission baa recently awarded the contract for supplying the state publle schools with text books to book combina tions located in other states, thereby caus ing the withdrawal of millions of dollars from the community; that there wore other lower bidder, tor the contract, among them aeveral Missouri bo:k publishing eomps' hiesi Whose bids were rejected because of an hnwarrantfej cHnditloti placed oil the bid tiers by the commission, requiring them tb redeem books in the hands of the book sellers; that the commission has refused to make public the bids of other competitors, so that the people may be Informed as to whieh bids were the lowest and be satisfied that the contract was let to the best advan tage to the publle; that as citizens and tax payers the action of the commissioners In hot maklttg public the bids and hampering ihecontesntnts with restrictions not a part of the law is condemned, and that as print ers the nwarding of the contract away from home, thereby preventing the establishment in Missouri of an industry that would af ford employment to hundreds in this and allied trades, fa denounced. In conclusion all citizens and working people are asked U condemn the decision. Large wheat Receipts. A grent many St. Louis wheat men any tfiat this year's erop hasn't begun to move yett that farmers are holding off waiting for better prices. If this is true the crop will go above the esti mate. Commenting oil the above, the Globe-Democrat says: While it may be true that farmers are not shipping the bulk of their wheat to market, it is a fact, nevertheless, that the receipts at ft. Louis for tile month of August were the heaviest for one mouth in tho history of the city. The receipta amounted to 5.194.505 bushels. This is an Increaac of 3.03 '..013 busb elr over tbe receipts of August last year, and 2,5tiS,st9 bushels above July thle year. The licavieat receipta in any previoua month were those of July, Ikw, when tile amount Was 4,471.270 bushels. The receipts for July and August this year, or lor the two months since the new crop began to be received, were 8,Rtt.4ftl bushels. This exceeds any pre vious two months by 1,06.1,283 bushels, the heaviest two mouths on record being July and Augnst. ls"2, when 7.759.US bushels were the receipts. The receipts lor the same two months last year wero 4,645,352 bushels. The shipment, for the past two months have also been heavy, and amounted to &,133,ft)t bushels. Itlg Barna Burned. The immense barns of A. B. Mat thews, at Little Blue station, Jackson county, caught fire the other night, and were destroyed. The loss is estimated at 818,000. All the stock except one fine cow was saved, but nothing else Farm implements, buggies, harness and seventy tons of hay were destroyed. The buildings were very fine and hand some, with all modern conveniences. Engines from Kansas City were sent down, but could save nothing. The fire is supposed to have been the work of in cendiaries. Stat. Treaaarer's Report State Treasurer Stephens monthly report for August, as filed with Gov. Francis, shows a balance in the treas ury at the close of business August 81, of 8347,770.71; receipts during August, 8130,496.90; disbursements during Au gust, 81,108.004.72; earnings of the peni tentiary in July reported in August, 816,448.81. Included in the above dis bursements was 8868,259.69 school money. Reduction of the bonded debt during August, 8100,000. Missouri Tax Keeelpta. Secretary of State Lesuenr reports receipts by the department of state for August, 1891, as follows: Notaries public $ H20 r) Miscellaneous fees 880 10 Corporation lax, foreign 4.350 00 Corporation tax, domestic 5,960 00 I 11,010 00 .1105.145 St . fil.915 35 ot,va so .. 56,'J135 Total Receipts for a months In imi Receipts for s months In 1H90 Recef pta for 8 months In 1041 Receipts for months in IS88 Slcknes. and Poverty. Frank Stroud, aged 22, committed snicide near his father's house in Ne vada. He shot himself through the head with a rifle, using a stick to spring the trigger. Sickness and poverty are supposed to have been the causes. Mangled by a Urlp-Car. Willie, 13-year-o!d son of Lorenz Frank, was perhaps fatally injured by being ran over by a grip-car in St, Louis. No one to blame bnt the boy. Tb. St. Louis Poet Office. The sale ef stamps at the St. Lonis post office for July and August were 9 per cent greater than for the corre sponding months of 1891. Bad lavXIU fire. The St Louis saw-mill, located in St Lonis, was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Loss, $30,000, and 100 men and boys thrown ont of work. a Womaa I .eligible. The Barton county court holds that a woman is ineligible to the office of su perintendent ot schools. This deprives Mrs. Essex of the office. Math Caused by a Cmrto.nele. Jndge W. B. Sanford, recorder of St Joseph, died tbe other day from the ef fects of a carbuncle on the back of bis Beck. He was 5s. Om a gataea Chmrf. "Slick" Lighter and Elmer Tborn berry, young men, were arrested at Be d alia on a charge of aiding prisoner to ascJpetQB Jail. A- PUZZLED COMMUNif f; Yfce People of 9avaaskafs, Hon. Trwxaflef -ftjeasaelva. to Asii.aas fet ta. Posacaateai of 'a I'isUil by Murderer Balling,. "T which He Kearly Cheated tb. Callows ad Barely Misawd Addl.g Another Max. de His Aeeoaat, . ...... - SAVAAtf, Mft, 8ep A Thfeeom. mirditv has not jrtrt recovered froth lh stocking series wif rjessed trj (h Jail f ard yesterday" frtif in tH exeentfbn ox Lonis Bulling: The question id every one's Hps is who gave the murderer the pistol by wean's of which he came sd near tarrying iiul tils' oft-uttered boast that be would never grace a scaffold: This question has not yet been satis-' factorily enswered. The immediate ar rest of tbe clergyman who was with Bulling when the shots were fired, leads, of course, to the belief that the sheriff had good grounds for his action. Bnt aside frent this nothing is known thai will gd toward fasteriiria the act upon him. Many people believe the weapon was given1 Hulling by the man who has been most intimate with hirn rinm his last confinement here. This man's fiartfe is Harriman. an inmate of the jaiL held for passing bogus coin. He has been treated aa a "trusty," and for some time has acted as errand messengei tor the wife mnrderer. Harriman, of course, denies ali knowledge fl how or where the pistol was obtained. Sb the case reses at present The sheriff and other jail officials refuse to tell what information they have in regard to the matter. Bulling' s remains were buried in the potter's field, and the funeral procession was by far the largest which ever en tered the lnelostire where are bnrird the indigent and unclaimed dcadi hTARST'ShPVlS. A Two Mtlflori Dollar Sfrriettrre d be) Krected la Waahlngtoa by tv. it. fiearsi as Headquarters for th. Buay Bee. of th. Fees, and th. Indian Ilepredatlo. Claim. Bareaau Washinoton, Sept 7. W. B. Hearst, proprietor of the San Francisco Exam iner, contemplates erecting here, in the vicinity of Newspaper row, a commo dious Structure: which Will cost nearly two million dollars. It will be named tbe "Examiner" building, dnd Will be designed and built with a view to accommodating press associations and newspaper correspondents, with rooms specially adapted to their business wants, and will be the headqua iters of the correspondents in Washington. The "Examiner" Indian depr-edation and claims bureau will also bt located in this building. Mr. Hearst is now in the east, having recently come from the Pacific coast, stopping at Chicago, St Louij, Cleve land, New York and Soston, w here he is negotiating with a number of the journals to join the San Francisco "Ex aminer," the Omaha Bee and St Paul l'ionecr-l'ress In the prose cution of Indian depredation claims against the government The originator . of the idea of a combination of leading journals to prosecute these claims was the late Senator Hearst, and MK Hearst, id establishing this gigantic claims bu reau, is carrying out a long-cherished scheme of his father, tbe California senator, which ended in full frui tion by the hill passed by the last con gress transferring Indian depredation claims from the interior department to the United States court of claims. A FEARFUL FATE. 4 Nine-Year-Old Boy Literally Chewed to Death by Hli Feroeloua .Hulls', at Wheeling, XT. Ta Flv. ot th. II rates Killed. Wheeling, W. Vs, Sept 7. Edward Gillis, 9 years old, had a horrible and fatal experience in this city Saturday evening. Young Gillis was playing in the street and near at hand was a dog kennel in which were confined six huge English mastiffs. While playing Gillis began teasing the dogs, and they be came fearfully enraged. One of the dogs broke down the door, and the six ferocious brutes made an attack on the boy. He was knocked down at the first onslangh,and all the dogs began biting and chewing him. Policeman James Carney, assisted by Wm. Robinson, armed with revolvers and crow bars, finally reached the in furiated animals, but it was impossi ble to make them loosen their holds, and Carney shot five of the dogs dead while they were still chewing and bit ing their victim. The sixth brute es caped. Carney himself was severely bitten. Gillis' wounds are terrible; his eyes, ears and nose were literally bit ten out and his body has no fewer than sixty wounds. The dogs that were killed were valued at 8100 each. A SWEEPING INVITATION. Every Civil and Military Organisation ta th. United State. Invited to the Un veiling of tbe Crant Statu. In Chicago. Chicago, Sept 6. Every civil and military organization in the United States is to be invited to participate in the exercises attending the unveiling of the Grant statue in Lincoln park. The event is to take place October 8, and, according to the executive com mittee of the monument association,' which met yesterday in the opera house building with the trustees, the occasion is to take the character of a national demonstration. As it will be impossible to issue separate invitations to all the civil and military organiza tional general invitation will be issued through the press. At yesterdsy's meeting Geo. H. Heaford announced that half rates hsd been secured on the western, north western and southwestern and some of tbe Ohio river linea Fewrfol Accident to a Marin. Dlvvr. MrfKEGON, Mich., Sept 7. A horri ble accident occurred to Abe Sanquist, a marine diver, who was at work on tbe government piers here Saturday. While in 25 feet of water the air tube broke, and he was without life-line or signal cord. He managed to crawl to the surface on a ladder and was taken from the water. His head and shoul ders within the helmet and cape were congested and blood was gashing from his eyes, ears and nose. He became unconscious after reaching the surface, and now lies in a critical condition. Brazil at th World's Fair. Washington, Sept 7. Lieut Saw yer, World's fair commissioner to Brazil, reports that on bis visit to Xla ranhao, Brazil, he was received by the government and other officials with great cordiality, and received their active support and co-operation. The government called a public meeting of citizens in the theater at Maranhao, at whieh Lieut. Sawyer explained the ob jects and scope of the expoaitloa, ana committees were appointed to prepare memorials to the state legislature lor an appropriation sufficient to seegt complete exhibit of its rtwtireae. THE COTTON OUTa.o3 Bad Weather, IMt Werana 1 aad Bast IMst Marie Dauu th sXtaa Crop A. Fstlaaated Low of frsns. Tina, tj to Forty For Cms. w th MerH.F Fatlaaatos f the Total XMd far tta Saasoa, aad Still Losing. ST. Lot Is, Sept . ThedlobeTJeno erat, eummarizing the reports of its special eortesponoests ia the cotton region, say s: . - ''The cotton repVJrt from WrTesvyJtidV eriU this week ar ever! less favorable than those of lafc The? vary Onljr M the estimated amount ttt damage don and in the eanscs of the damageV In? one seetton worms, in another rust, ill others wet weatter, cold weather or drought and in some wdf am rust and bad weather combined have fJIsyeaJ havoc with the crop, j Few and far between are the reports that may be considered at all favor able. The weather appears to have Weft the? principal dt-strttetiv agent In the MIMnippT tetley states the Coki weather of last ttek has continued, turning yellow tbe fields lilaf ton day. ago were fresh and green and causing serious staid incf. In the southeastern states it was the wet tt eatbar and in Texas the lack of rain that did Mw mis chief. The boll worms are now airMs omnipresent, and have greatly assisted the wasther in reducing the crop pros pects, tthll" tint has been an important auxiliary. The' fhV favorable report from Texas states thai the' Jlrtd for that particular section will equal last jfaf Si Reports to this effect come from fire) points in that state. But the great ma jority estimate a decrease in the pros pective yield ranging all the way from 15 to 60 per cent Several correspond ents say tho yield has been cnt short fully one-half daring the lost two weeks by the dronglit and worms. In Louis iana considerable of the ton crop and some of the middle crop is said to have been lost by shedding. The rust has done great damage, and some destruc tion by worms is reported. The sudden manges in the weather from wet to dry, and from hot to chilly, are responsible for the shedding. The loss is placed at from 20 to 40 per cent The average damage In Mississippi is probably not ander 20 per cent The most favorable report places it at 19, while the majority of the correspondents est imate the dam age done at from 30 to 50 per cent M is sissippi. indeed, seems to have suffered more, taking the state as a whole, than any other state. Tbe cold weather, rust and worms are the evils against which the crop has played a losing game. The reports from Arkansas are not all unfavorable, strictly speaking, but they are less favorable than former ly. Pine Bluff reports the middle crop almost entirely destroyed, but says the crop in that section will be within S or 10 per cent of that of last year. The other points in that state report loss, more or less serior.s. from worms, shedding and rust tne cool weather being mainly responsi ble for the damage. In lennea see the chilly weather has turned the plant brown and caused considerable shedding, and the same agency has changed the conditions In northern Alabama, which last week sent In good reports. This week rust and shedding have materially reduced the crop pros pects in that section, while in the southern part ot the state the drought has reduced the estimates fully 25 per cent The outlook in Georgia, the Car olinas and Florida is no more encourag ing, the reports from those states all being unfavorable." THE CIRCULATION. United State. Treasury Figure. Showing th. Circulation at th. Various Kind, of Monoy for Thirty 1'enra. Washington, Sept 6. Secretary Fos ter, in response to many inquiries from different sections of the country, has prepared a statement showing the amounts of various kinds of money in circulation in the United States during the past thirty years. Tables accom panying the statement show the amounts of money in the United States, in the treasury and the amount pe capita in circulation from 1800 to 1891, inclusive. The amount in circulation at the date . specified and the per capita circulation is shown in the subjoined table: IA m o u n t in C.rcu litt on. I 0 1 4.15.417.212 ll 4'M, 12 K3I. 97,744 IM 9 ..391,03 IHil... W9.S4I.478 i,3 7i4,-(,9ra IHnr. h7J,4KB.H4 1WS7 CAi9:4 in s sw,iia.nni S9 Oil 2,-91 ts-il 7 ,512,794 ;S71 71 .SW. 05 18Ti 738JW.549 IS73 7SI,I IS71 ,7tt,'-HsV ill l.5 ;il.ldj(47 1876 5k7 .a 1877 7ZI.3I4.8S.I 11.70 729,l:l.stl 1X 81S.6I.D .W). 97382,228 ISM 1.114X18,119 IWIJ I.174.2I.11J I ma 1,23 ,- 1 l,'.'4A,96 188.1 I zi.sm.Rr. ISSi 1,252,70.52 8H7 Ii;,5a9.l43 ;8- 12 IW37 1H89 1 ,361.' 49 1891 I.429.25I.17 :w9l ;.u67Ai tion ps Capita. lis n 13 94 lu H 17 (I 19 7 M 57 18 99 18 24 15 39 17 0)1 17 59 1) IS 18 19 18 '4 18 IS 17 IS 16 12 Vt M 15 n H 73 19 41 21 71 22 7 22 91 22 a 2 -2 21 8J 22 45 22 8J 22 a 22 32 23 Snleld. of a Lovolora Taata. Lincoln, Neb, Sept . Fred A. Eichler, of Chicago, whose parents live at 40 Alexander street this city, was found dead in his bed at six o'clock last evening, with indications that the unfortunate man was despondent over a love affair, and committed snicide by taking morphine. He left a letter ad dressed to his sweetheart in this city. Sceiwtary Praetor, saceaaanr. Washington, Sept 7. Privste ad vices received here state that Senator Hawley, cf Connecticut has been of fered the var office, to succeed Seo retary I'toctcr. Gen. Hawley is at Cape Moy conferring with President Harriaoa about the matter. Friends of the senator who are familiar with Connecticut politics, and who regard his chances for recomination.aa against Gov. Bnlkeley, and re-election to the United States senate for the term be ginning in 1893, think it very probable that he will accept the offer and be the next secretary of war. rropoeed strike of CoUred Cottosi rtrkera. Galveston, Tex., Sept 7. It is said that the colored cotton pickers have or ganised aad that they have agreed not to pick cotton after September 10 for less than one dollar per 100 pounds and board. This organization has been per fected through the colored alliance, and now numbers 500,000 members . with thousands being added every day throughout tbe southern states, A secret circular has been mailed to every sub-alliance throng boat Jh cotton belt, setting the date when tb strike will be simuJtaJiualT layicmte- FREE DEUVEBY EXTENSION. KaalHaill af the aVspsias asi tka - Yfxartti&Km. Sept. -. Postntaaeer. General Wanaaaaber was very, imHer nant yesterday, wkasa he learned that ' daring; bin abeeaee'ra vacation an 1U- . informed clerk in one of tb bureaus of the post office department had fvenf amt false faforaaatkm to tbe f.-eee that the free Atiivery exptt intents are lot a snoeess. He eaoaed an examination of toe kteat rwports from these experi ments t be made and found that they succeeded bewowd his moat saarain expectations, add - in a way ate tert to confound tho -critic of tho experiment. It- Is already aa estah-.. liabed fact that th increased re-van ao . in those offices where tb free deUverr , experiments is on trial almost pays for the Increased expenditure,- aad it is hoped by jadicTkraa maaagement that in tbe avers the experiment will en tirely" pay for itself, as some of tho offices fflov) than do now. Mr. Wana maker bos it definitely In 'mind to pre-, sent to the next coUgreme a scheme by' which, when a given sum la asked for -free dVltvery tn a given community, tha sum being: caJcralated on the aiea to be served, the population and other each itma, it ts almost a mathematical certainty that a sam almost if not quite as large wDl be added to the net earnings of the office in question. Even if the free delivery does not quite pay for itself, it ia likely that the postmaster-gen oral will ask congress to consider the question whether the rural districts of the coun try may not properly expect thia slight contribution to their postal facilities where, in so many quarters, they have np to the present time been considered so limited. TENNESSEE CONVICTS. A PropMUloa to Repeal tha Pistal Caa VI Leasee Law aad BaUaMtat AaattMT aad Mm Liberal Oa Metaled by tts Lsssssa at tit PanlMtaary. Nashviixji, Tenn., Sept ft The sen ate met yesterday asorning and ad journed in observance of Labor day immediately after Mr. Penland's bill to repeal the convict -lease law hsd been offered. The Tennessee Coal. Iron 4 Railroad Co., the lessee of tha penitentiary, will to-day, through the chairman of the penitentiary com mittee of .the legislature, sub mit a proposition to cancel the present contract and make a new one. According to aathentie informa tion the lessees agree in this proposition to pay 81 per diem for the labor of each convict the state to feed and clothe the convicts and bear the expense of transporting them to and from the main prison. The lessee propose to employ all able-bodied convict at tho mines in Marion, Bledsoe and Se quatchie counties only. They offer to erect a new prison by convict labor at a cost of several hundred thou sand dollars and confine within Ha walls all convicts who are not strong enough todig coal The new prison is to be bnilt at the head of Sequatchie valley, under the direction of the state architect and 500 acres of ground sur rounding will be given to the state, the ground to be worked by the partially disabled convicts. CIRCULAR TO BANKERS. Circular Seat Oat by Casptraltar Leees- J, muring ssaaaesw taste aw mmm m nau Per ceat. ar. No Laager Available aa Severity for Clraalatloa. V , iin.fi-mv Sent 8 fomntmller Lacey haa sent a circular letter to hnnlr. hnldino1 4V rkr cent bonds aa a basis for circulation, in which he says: "Yon are respectfully advised that the 4H per cent bonds, loan ot July 14, lf70, and January 30, 1871, now held in trust by the treasurer nt fti. TTniteH States aa BeeuritT for the outstanding circulation of your bank, have been called for redemption, as shown by the secretary's circulars of June S and September 3, 1891, copies of which I inclose herewith. To will obnerve that the interest ha 1 m. - - : Vw.Fvla . therebw rendering them under the law, no longer available a security zor uw .inl.;nn national banks, as onlw Interest-bearing bonds can be so held. Therefore, it becomes necessary was wnn annatitnta at haaat the minimum amount of other bonds without delay." The circular also contains insvucuou to the banks desiring to sell, redeem or extend their bonds. - CREATED A SENSATION. A KSUv f HoUaad. who Tkawa Ufa No Lage Worth Uvtag, caaaaaita Soldo, by Meaa f a Dvawaalt Bean 8A5 Francisco, Sept 8. F. L. Oaroll registered at the Preeeott house yester day morning as Wm. F. De Young, of Fresno. Shortly afterward an explo sion, which shook bnildings in tb neighborhood, attracted attention to his room and it was found he had com mitted snicide by exploding a dynamite bomb, ilia remains were scattered all over the room and one of his arms was found in the street The windows and plastering were broken. Deceased had been working on a fruit farm near Fresno. He tld a number of persons here that he in tended taking his life as he wanted to create a sensation for tbe newspapers. bnt in a note to the coroner giving bis aire aa 45. and birthplace as Holland, be says he committed suvcide because Hf was not worth living. Bloobtinotox. HI., Sept 8. Tester day morning Dr. C E. Ballard, a mem i - . mMmimml familv at Savbrook. shot and killed Miss Bertha I son and then killed himself. He had been en tn tha I adv. and on Saturday took ont a license to marry her. 8 he changed her mind ounoayaira reiusra to marry him. Yesterday morning be made a final appeal, and being refused shot her through the heart He thea shot himself three times in the breast and once in the head, and died in afew momenta. He was SO years old. Mrs, I son's is nearly dead with griet rk to. ran la. Washington, Sept 8--The depart ment of state telegraphed to Minister Egan on September 4. that if a govern ment acceptable to the people had been formed by the congressional party bo should recotjniz It and open eommaai catioo with He- bead. Yesterday tb tlepai-tmen received a telegram from Mr. Egaa stating that a piOTisional government bad been establiabed on the 4th last with -org Mount tb president which was tmlvswaally ae F rTL-.v l. .deaths (Mr. j Kgan) waa in very erdia txnxiraica. tin with t aTasrlmaaaaa Warfe a tts. Balsaslna af th Fras Pastel BHisii Saliaa ski. a kt ta Mav Bssa. ear ta AvawatravSw. esaafal, aad Bxrssdl.g Us raatniaaf ' OaarraF. Jatlatpatlasaa - rru :.:,. - : j HI !'- !, 1, A r-T