Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1894 — Page 2

Democratic Press. DECA'IIK. IXD. Democratic Press < «».. - Publishers. THE NEWS RECORD. SUMMARY OF A WEEK’S HAPPENINGS. The Report of the National Strike Commission ProtniM*s to Be Interesting— Robbers Loot Every Store iu an Arkansas Town-Bloody Deed of Bandits. THE STRIKE COMMISSION. There Report Will Be Submitted to the President in a Few Days. Washington special: The National Sn ike Commission appointed by the President *3 investigate the great strike at Chicago, re-convened the other day in the office of Commissioner of Labor Wright. After the last meetings, the members of the commasio_. went to their homes to prepare sub-divisions of the report to be presented. This ha- been largely completed and the commission is now engaged in giving tinal shape to the report to the President. The sessions a>-e secret and no intimation is given as to the nature of the report. It is understood. however, that the inquiry will deal with the strike in such way as to matte the report one of the most valuable contributions to the literature of social problems made in recent years. It is said, also, that the important rulings recently made by Justice Harlan of the United States Supreme Court, in the Jenkins injunction case, are in line with the conclusions drawn from the Chicago outbreak as to the rights and limitations of strikers. The report will be submitted to President Cleveland soon after he returns, and it will remain for him to determine as to its publicity. Sacked a Village. Fort Smith Ark. special: Four men robbed every store and the postoffice in the village of Watova, a station on the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Kailroad. A hold-up atTallahala. six miles this side of Watova, was anticipated, but this did not take place. A po.~se of United States marshals have left for Gibson, where they will be oined by Indian police and others, when concentrated efforts will be made to capture the robbers who held up the train Saturday. A reign of terror prevails all along the line of the Kansas and Arkansas Valley road from Fort Gibson to Coffeeville, Kan. Clerks and merchants in all the towns go well armed. E irt b<piak«* in California. San Francisco special: Dispatches received in this city show that Southern ( alifornia was shaken by several earthquake shocks shortly after 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. At Los Angeles they were light and scarcely noticed, but at Oceanside, Santa Ana, Sandiego and other places the vibrations were more severe and drove people from the large building into the streets. Windows were broken and clocks stopped at Sandiego. and a telephone message received there from Campo, a small town on the Mexican boroer, says shocks were very severe but the damage was not serious. Mexican Brigands. A special from Tepetelan, Mexico, says: A band of brigands, led by the notorious outlaw, Julio Longoric, visited the ranch of Francisco Pertz, near the village of Jalostitlan, this district, and killed Mrs. Hertz and four employes of the ranch. Vincente Diaz, < aptain of the force of rural guards, started immediately in pursuit of the brigands, and advices have just been received here that the bandits were followed into the mountains and three of them captured, includingLongorio. Ail of them w ill be shot. Deed of a Crazy Woman. The residence of Silas Jones, a farmer living near Knoxville, lowa, burned. The remains of Jones and his wife were found in the ruins. The condition of the two bodies, together with surrounding circumstances, now leads to the belief in the community wnere they lived that the burning of the house and the death of Jones ana his wife were not accidental, but that Mrs. Jones, in an insane condition, murdered her husband and burned the house over them. A Fiend’s Work. Charles Wade, aged 25 years, committed i brutal assault on Florence Greer, 10 years old, of Paducah, Ky. He went to the girl’s home and found her alone. He then seized and dragged her into a room aud locked the door. Her screams were heat’d by a passerby and the brutal assailant was forced to open the door. The alarm was immediately given and in less than half an hour he was locked upin thecounty ail There is much excitement over the affair. Fire-Proof House Burned. The residence of Casimir Work, in Westwood, sev en miles from Cincinnati, was burned. Mr Werk. deeming the house fire-proof, shut tho room up and waited for the lire to burnout, refusing to admit the firemen. Instead, the whole house was soon destroyed and nothing was saved. Loss, *50,G00; insurance, *3,500. A 1- atai reek. zX north bound freight on the Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis railroad ran into a freight car on the main line near Olathe, Kansas. The engine and seven cars were wrecked. Fireman Steward of Kamas City, was buried beneath the engine anil killed. Engineer S. B. Smith of Kansas City, had his arm broken. A Terrible Explosion. A dispatch to the London Standard ■states that sixty-two persons lost their lives through the explosions in the Anina cohiery. Twenty-three of those who were rescued alive, have since died at the hospital. A Brakeman I at ally Crushed. J. M. Terry, a Lake Shore freight brakeman, was thrown between the cars at Kendallville, Ind., and fatally in ured, dying in an hour alter the accident.

FATAL FIKC. Four Children of Rev. Taylor Losr "heir Lives. Four grand-children of Rev. Wm. Ta lor. Methodist Missionary Bishop of Africa, perished in tne' elegant hcuse of their father. Rev. R. Taylor in South Nyack. N. Y. In addition one m;.n was so badly burned that he can scarcely recover and two others were seriously injured. .t was a little after 4 o'clock when Mrs. Taylor was awakened by the smell of smoke. She aroused her husband. '1 hey found the halls of their home tilled with smoke, the lire having evidently obtained great headway. From the first it was plain the house was doomed, while the condition of the inmates was almost beyond hope. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor succeeded in grouping their way through suffocating smoke to the open air. without having l een ab e to extend a helping hand to their six children or others of the household. People on the streets had seen the fire, and as Mr. and Mrs. Taylor emerged from the burning building the tire department arrived. The energies of all were directed toward the rescue of those who still remained in the doomed structure. The two elded of the Taylor children, Stewart and William, were aroused in time and. jumping from t.ie window of their chamber, were eaught without being seriously injured . Four other of the children perished. Besides the Taylor family there were in the house Michael Mulladey, a laborer, and two house decorators named Edward Linta and William Ruth. Ail three had been sleeping in the third story. When aroused, esea; e by the stairway was cut off, and they jumped for their lives. Mulladey was so badly hurt that he can scarcely recover." Ruth and Linta sustained serious injuries, but they will probably recover. THE TEXAS WAY. An Express Train Held Up anil Robbed. Fort Worth Tex. I special: The west-bound Texas aud Pacific through train tor California, leaving here at '4:05 a. m., was robbed about 12 o’clock Saturday. The robbers secured about $20,000 from the Pacific express company aud hut for their inability to open the safe of the Texas and Pacific coal company,, containing *20,000, in gold, would have made, a better haul. Four men did the deed. They came upon a section gang al out noon, covered them with Winchesters and forced them to spread the rails and flag the oncoming train. The engineer and fireman were then lined up with the section gang and guarded while two men entered the express ear and covered the messenger before he was aware of their presence. Messenger Marshall was ordered to open the safe i ontaining the money of the Texas and Pacific Coal Company. Telling them he could not do this, they seized a pick and ruined the combination, remarking, “If we can t get that money, those d —d miners at Thurber shan t.” The robbers fled southward and no trace of them has yet been secured. Rewards aggregating 1,010 have been offered for their arrest. The money secured was taken from the way safe. A Lil ELY CKANK. Refused *I.OOO, He Commences to Shoot. A crank entered Clinton Place bank. Astor Place, New York, and demanded *I,OOO from Paying Teller Hind. The teller told the crank to wait. As Hind turned away the crank fired a revolver point olank at him. The bullet flew by Hind’s head burying itself in the ad joining woodwork. The crank was seized and turned over to the police. The officials of the Clinton Place Bank a few aays ago received a postal card tromaman saying he would call in a few days for a thousand dollars. Saturaay he presented this draft: “Astor Place Bank, after date I promise to nay to the order of God Almighty the sum of *I,OOO when presented by Charles Freeman. Penalty if not forforfeited death.” On the back was written: “Notice: This draft of one thousand will t-e all 1 will claim from one bank. lam authorized by God to draw upon all banks to whatever amount I see fit and the penalty refused me means that 1 have the right to shoot the person dead that refuses, and by the power of Goa, no man can stay my hand.” HOSTILITIES EXPECTED. The Japanese anti Chinese Armies Nearlug Each Other. Tien Tsin special: The Norwegian steamer I‘eik. from Shanghai, was recently overhauled and searched by the Japanese warship off the Sham Tung promontory. Nothing which could lie classed as contraband of war was found on board the Peik. The captain of the Norweigan steamer reports that he sighted a fleet of Japanese warships thirty miles off Taku The Chinese fleet which has been undergoing repairs at Port Arthur as a result of the naval fleet engagement fought off the mouth of the Yalu River last month, was ordered to leave that port. The Japanese Army is expected to cross the Yalu River at a point thirty miles northeast of Cheulang Cheng, where the Chinese Army headquarters is situated. General Sing is in command of the Chinese forces at that place. Attempted Train Wrecking:. McKeesport (Pa. > special: Dynamite was placed on the track of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Longrun bridge, and a serious wreck was narrowly averted. The stick of dynamite was tied to the rail. The Bissell accommodation encountered it The explosion damaged the track and tore off one of the front wheels of the locomotive. The passengers were badly frightened and somewhat shaken up, but no one was seriously injured. No motive can be assigned for the deed. It is believed, however, that the explosive was placed on the track to wreck the eastern expre-s train due at Longrun at the same time as the accommodation train, but the explosive being placed on the wrong track, the express train escaped an almost certain plunge over the high bridge. Soumls Fishv. Cassopolis Mich, special: Dr. A. B. Conklin, who has been missing from his home since the night of September 2. returned to the city the other night. He claims that he was abducted by two negroes on the night named, and that after being kept in close confinement in the house of some negroes some distance away from

here for two weeks, he w.s turned over to some white men whotraveled with him and kept him hid in the daytime. He was released last Tuesday in a strange localiity. and after walking for some time found himself in Cincinnati. The doctor’s clothes were not changed, but he was minus his mustache. He says he was rendered unconscious the night of his al>d ction and knows nothing of what has happened during the last six weeks. The Czar Dying St. Petersburg special: The Czar is at death's door and all members of the royal household are hurrying to his bedside. The bourse has been paralyzed. the dealers awaiting the cue from abroad. The commercial world is disturbed no less than the political world. St. Petersburg has not been so shaken with anxiety for years. The Official Journal, containing tho latest bulletin sent from Lavadia at 11 o'clock Thursday evening, was posted at the street corners throughout the city before midnight. It was read with intense interest by anxious crowds. The text is: "The condition of tho Emperor has changed markedly for the worse. General debility and weakness of the heart are increasing.” He can only last a day or two at best. Old .Man Frightfully Tortured. Olney 111. special: Clement Miller, aged 7-1. a bachelor living on his farm, was assaulted by three masked men. They ordered him to tell where his money was. He refused and they bound and beat him and put greased paper on his feet, limbs, and back, setting fire.toit.but he would not tellthem They then set fire to some greased paper on his face and beat him again, breaking three of his ribs and left arm. He became unconscious The theives ransacked everything about the place, but found no money. Some time after the old man returned to consciousness, and struggled to a neighbor living 400 yards distant. Since then he has been unconscious. A physician pronounces his case critical. Royal Arch Masons. The forty-ninth annual meeting of the grand chapter of Indiana Royal Arch Masons was held in the Masonic Temple at Indianapolis, and the following grand officers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand High Priest. Joseph A. Manning of Michigan City; Deputy Grand High Priest: Henry AV. Mordhurst of Fort Wayne: < Jrand King, John E. Redmond of Ixigansport: Grand Scribe, Robert A. Woods of Princeton: Grand Treasurer, Martin H. Rice of Indianapolis: Grand Secretary, William H. Smythe of Indianapolis: Grand Captain of the Host, Manuel M. Fisher of Mishawaka: Grand Royal Arch Captain. George S. Jones of Covington. Terrible Fate of a Child. A shocking accident happened about two and a half miles northcast of Goblesville, Ind. A little 3-years-old son of Elmer Kates was playing around the table and. grabbing hold of the cloth, pulled the lamp oft. It exploded and the oil ran all over the child, and in an instant his clothes were in flames. The tire was extinguished as soon as possible, but not before the child was burned beyond recovery. His screams of agony were terrible an? in a short time after the accident he expired. Bigger Army Wanted. Adjutant General Ruggles has made a separate report to General Schofield, commanding the army, in which is a recommendation that the enlisted strength of the army be increased to 30,000 men, so as give a maximum of 25,000 as to the regimental fighting force. This maximum, he says, will enable the Government to reorganize its artillery into seven regiments for coast defense and field artillery, and its infantry into three battalion' regiments without interfering with the strength of the cavalry. A Human Brute. AVill T. Martin, a farmer residing in Clark County, Miss., murdered his infant child because it cried. When the news of the crime spread the neighbors became enraged and formed a mob to lynch the brute. Martin fled to tne swamps, being pursued by several hundred resolute farmers with shot guns and Winchesters. Martin is a notorious desperado. He has served in the Mississippi penitentiary for lynching a negro near Sandersville. Miss Pollard’s Case, Washington special: The Breckin-ridge-Pollard case is now formally’ out of court, the notice of appeal given byCol. Breckinridge at the close of the trial having been docketed and dismissed on motion of Calderon Carlisle, Miss Pollard's counsil. This ends the ease with a judgment for *15,000 standing in Miss Holland's favor against Col. Breckinridge. Col. Breckinridge is not known to have any property which can be attached to satisfy it. A Fiery Monster. In the. Citizen's Gas Field, near Fountaintown, Ina., the company’s twenty-fifth well had been bored to a depth of übO feet, when a tremendous volume of gas had been struck. It was accidentally ignited, and the flames leaped forty feet in the air, burning the derrick, machinery, and licking the clotnlng. hair, and flesh from the six persons engaged in the work. So far all efforts to extinguish the fire have been fruitless. Mask Robbers. Parsons Kan.■ snecial: The Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 223, on the Kansas and Arkansas Valley branch, was held up by four or five masked men at Coretta siding, seven miles east of Wagoner, I. T. An empty car was placed on the main track and the train struck it The robbers commenced a terrible onslaught, and four or five persons were shot. The reports are meager. A Chinese Victory. A dispatch received from Shanghai says that according to Chinese advices a severe battle has been fought on the lower portion of the Yalu River. The Japanese are said to have crossed the ri- er an I to have attacked the Chinese, but it is reported that after fierce fighting the Japanese were repulsed. Both sides are said to have lost heavily. rh<*.r II omp Thirty-five blind unfortunates who were comfortably housed under the care of the State of Ohio, at the little town of Iberia, six miles south of

Galion, »re wandering ‘ only the roof of a deserted keep the frost off their meagerly cIM bodies. The State Working Homek tne Blind was totally destroyed by nre. NICHOLAS IL Up Will Be the New Czar of Ru*«la Berlin special: The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Tageblatt firms that all preparations in the capital point to the success on of tne Czarewitch, Nicholas. He savs t bathe war office holds in readiness tae standards of Nicholas 11. ‘•The czarewitch’s marriage with the Princess Alix of Hesse, ’he m • will De hastened in view of the law, declared by Emj eror Paul 1. that no unmarried heir should succeed to the throne. Should the c/arewitcn be childless upon ascending the throne, the Grand Duke Michael, his younger brother, would be declared the heir presumptive. ” Attempt to Wreck a Train. An attempt was made to wreck the late train on the Alton road two miles , east of Sag Bridge, I'l. Fortunately the attempt was a failure, tor there were almut 300 passengers on board. Ties had been placed along the track just inside the rails, 3he engine pilot struck them in such a manner they were thrown off the track It is believed by some ti e obstruction was placed on the track by tramps. The officials of the road were at once notitled and detectives have been sent to investigate. A Terrible Affair. John Waldz, an old resident of Cam- ' bridge City. Ind., shot himself and his 3-year-old son and both will die. Family trouble is given as the cause of the act. In each case the bullet pierced 1 the abdomen. Husband and wife have been separated for two weeks and she has been staying with relatives. She arrived, however, at the bedside of the dying ones within a few minutes after the deed had been done. The affair has created unusual excitement. . Another Iniestmeui Company Stopped. A special from Jackson, Miss., says: j The Postortice Department has de- ( dared the Mississippi Co-operative , Loan and Investment Company of this city a lottery, and that it cannot use . the mails. William Henry, Adjutant ' General of the State, is President of , the concern, and it has been doing a , land-office business for six months. New Base Ball League. There will be another baseball r league bidding for public patronage t next summer. Cities admitted to mem- c bership were New York, Brooklyn, , Philadelphia. Washington. Chicago, i Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee. Appli- , cation for membership was received from Buffalo. Detroit. St. Louis. Cincinnati, Providence, and Columbus. Fire Near Akron. Ohio. A special from Akron, Ohio, says: For forty-eight hours a fierce tire has been raging west of this city. It started in a swamp but has spread into the highlandsand 7ou acres of timber and farming land has been burned over. The damage already done will amount to *45.000. Burned Alive. The residence of Sylvester Yeagle, near Carlisle. Ohio.’was struck by lightning and entirely consumed bv fire. It is thought tha’t Mrs. Yeagle and two children were instantly killed and their bodies consumed by the flames, as they cannot be found. Shot by a Tramp. Cassius Heppler, 14 years old. was shot by a tramp in the shoulder at Elkhart. Ind. The boy was left at home while his parents went to church. The tramp ransacked the house and escaped. The boy will recover. The Indiana Tax Law. The United States Supreme Court has refused a hearing of the Indiana railroa 1 tax cases decided at the last term of the court. The cases involved the legality of the Indiana railroad tax law. Twenty Millions Missed. Irregularities in the Bank of Brazil, involving 820,000,000 have been discovered. They occurred during the recent revolution. Victim Number Five Dead. Theodore Ammerman, the fifth victim of the rioting at Washington Court House, Ohio, has died. Killed by a Fall. Rev. J. S. Sellers of South Marion. Ind., fell off a load of hay and was instantly killed. THE MARKETS. „ „ CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... L 75 it? B ->s Grades , oo 5 50 Sheep-J air to Choice 200 ,4 3 50 - f! ft™-^-.. 2 ’ % Rin AO, t, . Butter—Choice Creamery 23 its 23W luggs—Fresh Potatoes—Car-lots, per bu. 60 rt to INDIANAPOLIS ® 1 11 -*“ slll l , I‘OR 3 08 '<,s 75 Hous—Choloe Light 4... ’ 54, bhebp—< ommon to Prime 2 00 -i so Wheat-No. sited ® Cobs-No. 2 White ’ m S Oats-No. j White 33 „ ST. LOUis. nt T l LK 3 °‘ l 9• 75 WHB b AT-No.'2 Red : 3 2 t’J? I | « RVE - S °- 2 CINCINNATI/ S « 5 s 5” Corn—No. 2 Mixed s 2 S ss OATS—No. 2 Mixed qa r DETROIT. M Ho” LK 2 50 ia 4 w Sheep' ‘ 00 « » » iwhiie'.'.:.'.'.:'.'.:: Cobs—No. 2 Yellow sn , 4 zogj Oats-No. 2 White /.'.j « 3 „ TOLEDO. Wheat-No. 2 Red 51 ,a « Cobs-No. 2 Yellow 6 q .? Oats-No. 2 White V buffalo. Wheat—No. 1 White f 8 X £ 6 6 6 5 * oats-n 0.2 white...:::::::/:: « | ... x . MILWAUKEE. * Co" "s' 2 Spnng 65 Oats-No. j White/:.'.': 31 S 3P4 2 ® “ PORK-Mmr 50 ‘ NEW YORK. 12 25 75 Sheep s - o <a 5 75 WHEAT-LNmi'Red/// 2 {J® 3 •’ Cobs-No. 2.... r 2 2* Oats-White Westm///// « £ 2* BUTTEB-Creamery ~ ‘ J? Eoos-Weetern. „ ®

FIKE UPON THE MOB. OH fO SOLDIERS SHOO^ c IHT ° WOULD-BE LYNCHERS. or About Wkfear. House. Ohlo-CltUens. Lwcer » Nezro, Storm Ureak on Three Rilled and M»ny Hurt. At Wa-’. three men were killed and a -* dozen injured, some fatally, militia, in the endeavor to keep mobs from lynching William Polby, colo.-em Dolby"as-aulted Mrs. Mary C. 1 oyd, , aired 55, at Parrott.- station a ween ago, and wa- captured at Delaware. Ohio, and brought int. court; at V. a«h- < ington Court House. He pleaded gun y and was sentenced to twe. ty ysars tn tho penitentiary. An angry mob gathered about the jail after Dolby had been identified by his victim, and Sheriff Cook called to his assist.nice the local militia company. This action in reared the fury against 1 olby. and Gov. McKinley was appealed to for additional assistance and troops from Columbus were sent, Col. Coit in command. . , The mob surrounding the jail and court house attempted to take Itolby from the officers when removed Ire-m the jail to the court house for tri.i.. but wee kept at bay by the free use of baronet- and clubbed guns. « hen brought to the court house Dolbybroke down. While Bringing him from tht .ail the mob charged and alm -t succeeded in getting him. Henry Kirk, the brother-in law ■ f the assaulted woman, was knocked down the steps and badly bruised. .Another man . was I avoneteil through the finger, while a bayonet was thrust through ! the clothes of another. Deputies, with j revolvers drawn, guarded the prisoner in the court room. Dolby cried like a babv and kept ! looking around for help. Soldiers wer marched in to keep th.- crowd quiet. After the sentence the prisoner wa taken to the grand jury room. A mob gathered about the Court House, and it was impossible to get the p isoner through to take him to the train. The officers weie powerless to 1 get Dolby from the Court House to the jail or to the train, and Sheriff Cook wi e l the Governor to sen 1 more troops. The mob grew rapidly in numbers and desperation. Col. Coit. ma .ea speech, asking the crowd to disperse, but it was received with jeers. The prisoner was prostrate from fear and lay crying and moaning ail the time. litiar-ls Fire Cpon the Mob. The mob kept Dolby and his guards prisoner- in the courthouse until fi p. m. and then made an attack. The militia repelled them without firing at first, lut at H:45 p. tn the southdoor wa-forced open, i his door opens upon the street, whieh was filled with men. women, and children. The detachment of the guards finallv fired on the attacking party. None of the latter was hurt, but a dozen or more persons in the street were struck, two , tilled cutright and five more were fatally wounded, one having since died. The wounded were all hurriedly removed from the scene bv friends. T.e pe-pie were frenzied and threatened to dynamite the court house. Additional troops were ordered front Cincinnati,' Columbus. Chillicothe, and other points. BOMB AT AN IRISH MEETING. Dastardly Attempt tu Blow I p the Blake Reception in New York. The reception given by the Irish National Federation to IM ward Blake, M. i P., at the Izenox Lyceum, in New York was productive of some results never ' dreamed of by its originators. In the heart ot the meeting, aud while all eyes were turned upon Mr. Blake a- e stood upon the platform delivering n n « of his most impres-ive steeehes a stbUtlv built, frowsily dressed man walked swiftly around the back of the front tier of boxes until he reached the last one nearest the platform and hi' th hand O h th€ !> r scetliu ® arch, in his hana he carried an old buikv green gingham umbrella, which fie seemed to hold with peculiar tender ness Outside the box he stopped i hesitated a moment, and then erto- ' hl’X aCh TL r e W a — n 6 a D rest minute” lhe ° W in a it might have been a minute or tw„ ' later when a sharp erv fromTkz en in the box. resounding through the house, startled everyone from g 7<seats and stopped the'sjeake. aATI same moment thorp i * ‘ •‘ l ® Os flame the shriek of ’’Fire” and tho ‘■' . neous movement of a \ Bl ® ,ltacreatures to the do >r b. P anlc -‘ricken turned Patrolmat > Liflev nol ’ the box, violently can2ino- U lnto thing with his feet ihilt V” some " j Mr. Blase rang vXSXX 0 '- 0 ? o'- 0 '-’ 0 ' ng caning on bis audionre u> ' their seats “Ti o R UiUU<e to keep; back.” crLd Jose ,C' Ut . Com ‘ when the flame had w O n e an h d ® disappeared. e ~ tile smoke As Lilley stooped to ... .. cavuihg name he«aw k-b fragments of the umbrl'i aTn ° ng th * 3 Stout tulle or bottle “ b ™, la » ”mall, eight inche-long aD d tw^in 1 Was ference, and capped wi h a ? Cl - curn ’ gelatin The tube wt filUd' 6 "- 0 ? of white liquid, which tht ■ Wl:h & nitric acid. Attached e thin “ U had been a piece of • n -'f eia tiu away. 1 of !u se half burned MUST irdPORT WHSAT. European Crop The K” CountrlAw Sh<>rt 1 ihe condition nf tk ** ■ for 1-4 is given i n e t h' O P sos Europe report of the -tati tietan ( " rthc °tting cultural Departm n t so A S»- > estimated wheat i lO Stober. The to .M35,4i0 h amount against a re--, lr J„ htot «r bushels , ' O/.000 bu 5 6 h’el B ar T h : U h? ,ion 0{ Witries was follows; harvest by counProduc- On-. Lulled Kingdom. ‘‘ on - »B. » Fiance u JLWI.DW 4 u °, n - bu - Germany 3i3.4ii<.„ .7* Spain andi>(‘ f ■ "-'’■■.oe Italy... K,-. Austria-Hnn' e arv "■ 'XI Bulgaria . KOo-nn <j.uio Busßia J?-WO.OOO Holland ... Denn ark. s 'lK-.0.g AWMiOo Klves 11 Kooo,ooo biuhui,

the appreiimato re übsm. » f < *broa4. < «iar to unfavorable hat--. e-t . ern? a small part of the w *‘* Great Britain is fit or milLng !u ? i po-es. The oat crop is c< n-id,. ri ,/„ cellenL There H ai-out 2,47 ,• ,s l u ,v lels’.-f last year's wheat ere i n .' ' I hand». The amount nece-arv to' ta imported to meet alideinau:- wi; / • abcmt I'’’.-'"bushe a ; ■<.» 4 ;,l>X) bushels a week. Official e-ti • m .te’s of the crop just gath.-r. ,1 / ! France show the quantity of wheat in , x .... of the aveia.e The i make- France practically inde[«nd ei ., c f outside supplies, but some w : will probably be imported. The w ; . a t crop in Koumania is the small -t f,,J five vears. the rye crop falls bt /, that of last year, and the yield of ; , ap . i lev and oats ler acre is the 1 >wn. t five vears. There was about ha.f a cropot corn. Germany wheat shows a fallins ! off in quantity and quality from year and the |K tatocrop is ver disan. pointing. Ihe Austrian wheat c: extoctol to measureso,(iw,i o ibu-l. s. Barley and oats ha. e an average ■, i- J but corn dqes not promises so’ well Italian grain is reported excellent in ,u. itv. The coin ere . dan.ag -. v drought, is looked upon as lost in many districts, lelgian wheat ha v- til under very unfavorable conditions j, inured in quality. Hungnr.'s wheat fields yielded liii,>’*<>,• AMJ bu-hels n e , ~;, ■. a ,’• > hi: and corn. Go,< :Oi.i«iO. Tie rs is an average rye crop in Austria, except in quality, whieh is deeme 1 p<> > r . In a-sla the a proaching comple tou --- . ■ , open up t*> voiuniwiC ’ h new Held, and "a iid< and vigorous competitor,” -ays the -tati.stie.au. “will before long t* found in the markets o f Europe.” a-an enormous quantity o.' fertile laid will b> brought under cultivation by the railroad. FEEDING WHEAT. Bepoet Ly th* Kvuvu ILtarJ nt lure N.y. It 1« Itarlilr.llr Profttsble. armors can not fall tc be inte e-ted in an elaborate and able report j«t published by the Kansas State Board ot Agriculture on th- advantages and disadvantages of wheat a-a :<•<•: fir farm animals. The conclusi nr- a hed is that, at the present price < f w neat, there is decided profit to be galne . in feeding wheat instead of corn In order to get at the truth in this late phase of the cheap-wheat prob lem, the Secreta-y of the Kansas stn* Board of Agriculture recently -ent carefully prepared list of questi >ns to i.Ouo wheat growers, stock growers, feeders and dairymen, and after editing the replies found himself in poe. ses-ionof verv useful contribut.ons on the subject. From the Answer- *wd estimates of these observ ant and practical men he C‘>mpiled the following interesting conclusion.: ms the 24,NN,52 > bushels of winter and spring wheat raised in Kansas in 1-UJ tfiere has been use! a- f.-, ffarm anima s 4.u51i,323 bushels. .4 per cent. When fed whole, especially t<> hogs, ’.5 pc cent, of the wheat grains are swallowed unmasticati- and go through the animal undige-t . a shameful waste. Yet three-fourth-u! the men reporting, representing fifty co .titles, stale that, p und f< r po ind, wheat is superior to shelled ■ rn for fattening hogs—even with the one-fourth wasto This sujori- r yis estimated v* io.isly at from to r cent., the average pla ing the sii]ieriority of wheat over corn at 1 percent. , As to how much live pork mav be expected as a fair return per bushe '' wheat fed to hogs, the average of ail the answers is eleven pound-. It is also of interest to note that the es: of i raising a bushel of wheat in Kai -as ranges from Mi cents, where an a- re I yields only 10 bushels, down t- Ji cent- where an acre yields 35 bushels. The Secretary sums up his coi.clusions thus: Under existing cond ti -ns wheat has be ome a very unusual aud important factor iu the grain feeding of all classes of fa m stock. It is superior to corn in produ ing healths .1. well-balanced growth in young anima!.. Mixed with corn, oats or bran, H a much superior to either an -i. r working horses. Fed to cows it is far and away ahead of corn as a milx i roducer. tor swine it gives gen r us results, but is used at a disadva a e when fed whole, especially without soaking, For attle the dear wheat is rather too carbona-eous unless mixed with corn or oil cake. WANT TO BE GOVERNORS Mm Who Seek lli E h Honora at the H indt of the PeopleErnest < adv, whi m the Dem x'rats m Uonneeticut have chosen a- their leader in th gubernatorial c >nte*t, is

the present Lieutenant (.overnor. He is a prominent Free Ma? m, a Grand Army man on the strength o< service i n th ß navy during the civil war, a wealthy manufacturer and leading citizen of Hartford. He was born Sept, s, is pi : at Stafford Tolland 1 ' 1- fa-' , cn nine years old. and there, aiter supixu-ted him-

B2>’KST CADY.

wm by bis own labor His education hub : ' tke winter terms of the R± 001 r r > Since h « ha ~ h* urere oi I’' * ra,t v ‘ ady. manufac?Harts ’kam-boiler appliance- at wirV eUt€naDt Governor on tM The u „ on B ' Mori ’ i 8 ernor of \ p , üblk ’ an nominee for Gcv- : Grwn<~. te ’ acll . uset ts. Frederick T. was born in England in

1842. Early in the ■’iOb his family came to the United State’-, and settled in Low- \ ell. Mass., where the | subject of this sket h entered the public ; schools. In is'-1 he a entered Harvard 1 ol- | lege, out throe ears Vater was obliged to J leave because of the death of his father, which left him th® main support of his * moth An urtrl

•’ r ’GBEES HALGII

" ters. he mother and six - "' admitted ti, l ! 10 onl » son - ! ' c was ; e "*l citv offi h ° bar in l-<'s; held -er- » i the SuteT’* and in I*Bs entered : He alj ™ P^ n ; e of Ropre entative* ere>-. n,, j odln the Fifty-first < <’?' his state 3 a ver y Popular man m o i '’wentv NCE ' to a - B.to be inno« n ® pted mur< ler, jis now £■ d