Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Miss Victoria Morosini, daughter of Jay Gould's financial adviser and broker, fled from Yonkers with Ernest Scbelling, a young coachman, whom her father had discharged. A kettle of varnish exploded in Cragin’s japan-works, in Brooklyn, by which one man was burned to a crisp and four others received fatal injuries. Ernest Schilling, the coachman, who eloped with the daughter cf Jay Gould's private secretary, is now found to be an impecunious German nobleman. The State Bank at Fort Edward, N. V., has closed its doors. The officers say that depositors will be paid in full as soon as the accounts are examined and adjusted. There were between twenty-five and thirty deaths from sunstroke in New York City on the 11th inst A Philadelphia Judge has ruled that the occupant of a house may cut telegraph or telephone wires if stretched over his roof without his permission. Persons interested in building a railway between New York and Boston, and making the traveling time between both cities three hours, held a meeting at Boston. It was stated that a double-track road could be built for $115,000,000. Stafford & Co., of Providence, yarn manufacturers, running mills in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, have made an assignment, with liabilities of $400,000. Thomas McKeon, a desperado of the oil regions, walked into a bank at Eldred, Pa., kept the cashier and teller quiet by moans of a cocked revolver, and walked out with $2,500 in currency. Robert Hoe, senior member of the wel -known printing press firm of R. Hoe & Co., died at New York, aged 74.

WESTERN.

The saloon-keepers of Youngstown, Ohio, detailed one of their number to keep open all night and submit to arrest. Money has already been raised to carry the case to the Supreme Court. The proposition of the Chicago Live Stock Exchange to practically demonstrate whether pleuro-pneumonia is contagious or not, by supplying ten head of healthy cattle and guaranteeing the expense of exposing them to the contagion said to exist among certain Illinois herds, was heartily indorsed, by the Omaha Live Stock Exchange. Near Delavan, Wis., Albert R. Tapping and Winifred C. Dewey, while out riding, were instantly killed at a railroad crossing. The young people were engaged to be married. Eau Claire (Wis.) dispatch: The flood ravages at Eau Claire are over. The highest mark registered was twenty-seven feet, being four feet higher than the flood of 1880. The current moved at the rate of eight miles an hour. The dams held out well except the one in the north fork of the Eau Claire. The Delis dam was crushed by the great pressure of 50,000,000 feet of logs. The loss in the immediate vicinity of Eau Claire is estimated at $500,000, and the entiro loss in the Chippewa Valley at $4,000,000. Half a million feet of logs broke from the boom near the Eddy mills and floated down stream. The booms on Paint Creek, a tributary of the Chippewa River, went out late last night, and the water in the Chippewa Elver rose rapidly. This, with the floating logs, carried away the upper bridge of the Wisconsin Central at Chippewa Falls, and also the lower bridge between there and this city. The Milwaukee and St. Paul bridge and all the city bridges here and tho city bridge at Chippewa Falls are all carried away. Every bridge on the Chippewa has gone out —five railroad bridges and five wagon bridges. In this city the loss is appalling. No satisfactory estimate can be made at this time. Jn and between Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire the loss will not fall short of $3,500,000, and it may greatly exceed that sum. In this city over two hundred houses havo been swept away. Only one life lost so far as heard from.

The Michigan wheat crop yields somewhat more than sixteen bushels per acre on the average. Oklahoma Payne and his confederates have been indictod by the United States Grand Jury at Wichita, Kan., and will be given a hearing at Topeka, Nov. 11. At Pierre, D. T., a block of thirtyfive buildings was destroyed by fire, the loss beiDg SIOO,OOO. It is estimated that the corn crop of lowa this year will be 300,000,000 bushels, the largest ever known in the Hawkeye State. Encouraging reports of the corn and potato crops have been received from several districts in Illinois and lowa. Frank Hutchings, the strangler, was hanged in Ban Francisco. Benjamin Johnson was executed at Cincinnati for complicity in the murder of a negro family, whose warm corpses were sold to a medical college for $45. An Indianapolis dispatch says of the ’Blaine-Sentinel libel suit: “Senator Harrison, Mr. Blaine’s leading counsel in the libel suit, unqualifiedly denies the statements of specials from here reporting him as saying he had proposed to the S entind attorneys to produce Mr. Blaine in court in person within a week provided the Sentinel wpuld agree io an immediate trial. Mr. Harrison says: ‘I had no interview with any one about it. When I was approached by reporters, 1 always said that I was not trying my case in the newspapers. I sold nothing of that kind. The present stay of proceedings in the suit is owing to Mr. Blaine's attorneys’ objections to the rule requiring Mr. Blaine to answer interrogatories propounded to Mr. Blaine by the defendant Mr. Shoemaker, publisher of The Sentinel, reprints his proposition that if Mr. Blaine will truthfully and without evasion answer the interrogatories, he will agree to submit the case to a Jury without further evidence or any argument. In the Blaine- Sentinel libel suit at Indianapolis, on the 13th inst, Judge Woods declined to rule that the plaintiff must answer the interrogatories submitted

by the defendants. Senator Harrison, however, stated that the questions would be abswered, but refused to state at what time.

SOUTHERN.

Three coaches were thrown from the track of the Memphis and Charleston road near Corinth, Miss. Most of the seventy passengers received bruises, and a colored brakeman had his law broken. Toler, the Chief of Police at Hot Springs, having been apprised that bis life was in danger from a desperate man named Edward Hojrell, took a double-barreled shotgun and slew his enemy. The people of Arkansas City, Ark., lynched Matt Orton on suspicion of setting incendiary fires. Evans Allnut, a lawyer of some distinction, died suddenly In the Anchorage Insane Asylum, near Louisville, the result of injuries inflicted by attendants in the insti tution. Streams in the Petersburg (Va.) district are drying up because of the protraeted drought, and mills are doing les3 than half their usual work. The city of Petersburg is threatened with a water fafnine. Mormon missionaries named Willey and Humphrey, who were about to commence operations in Lancaster County, South Carolina, promptly accepted notice from the citizens to leave. Dallas (Tex.) dispatch: W. A. Taylor, the negro who attempted to outrage Mrs. Flippen, of this city, and who was first taken to Waxabachie for safe keeping, was captured from the sheriff, who was transferring him to the Waco Jail, by a body of armed men and hanged within a mile of this city. A private dispatch received in Louisville announces the arrival in Canada of Payne and Viley, Indicted for hypothecating false warehouse receipts.

WASHINGTON.

John Langster, a negro, escaped from the chain-gang at Washington, but Police Officer Fowler found him secreted in an outhouse. Another negro came to the aid of the fugitive, and both of them wrenched his pistol from the officer, whom Langster shot dead in the presence of a crowd who refused to help the murdered man. Langster, whea arrested, said God told him to kill Fowler. J. H. Squier, the insolvent Washington banker, killed himself by cutting his throat. Mr. Neal, the Solicitor of the Treasury, has determined to bring suit against the bondsmen of Capt. Howgate, the defaulting disbursing agent of tho Signal Service Bureau. Capt. Howgate, it is believed, is hidden not far from Washington. The InteriorDeparment lias orders to dispose of the reservation at Fort Sanders, Wyoming, and the barracks at Eaton Rouge, they being no longer useful to the army.

POLITICAL.

Congressional nominations: William McAdoo, Democrat, 7th New Jersey District; Sebastian Brown, Republican, 4th Maryland; Francis B. Hayes, Republican, sth Massachusetts; Jacob Gallinger, Republican, 2d New Hampshire; Gen. J. C. Black, Democrat, 15th Illinois; R. M. La Follette. Republican, 3d Wisconsin; B. F. Frederick, Democrat, sth Iowa; Poindexter Dunn, Democrat, Ist Arkansas; Wm, C. Jlaybury, Democrat, Ist Michigan; G. T. Gallagher, Republican, 4th Massachusetts; L. H. Weller, Democrat and Greenbacker, 4th Iowa; Carlton Hunt, Reform Democrat, Ist Louisiana; K. W. Armstrong, Republican, Washington Territory; George E. Adams, Republican, 4th Illinois ; J. W. Throckmorton, Democrat, sth Texas; C. P. Head, Democrat, Arizona Territory; E. J. Gay, Democrat, 3d Louisiana; J. S. Henderson, Democrat, 3d North Carolina; H. N. Bickle, Democrat, 7th Kansas; A. E. Wilson, Republican, sth Kentucky; R. P. Bland, Democrat, 11th Missouri; W. J. Nicholson, Greenback, 2d Kansas; D. R. Paige, Democrat, 20th Ohio; C. H. Allen, Republican, Bth Massachusetts; W. W. Rice, Republican, 10th Massachusetts; W. N. Norville, Republican, 7th Missouri; 8. E. Payne, Republican, 27th New York; J. P. Buck, Republican, lßt Connecticut; E. F. Stone, Republican, 7th Massachusetts; T. B. Needles, Republican, 18th Illinois; Herman Lehlback, Republican, 6th New Jersey; J. 8. George, Democrat, 2d New Hampshire; A. A. Carnahan, Democrat, sth Kansas; Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican, 6th Massachusetts; W. C. H. Pusey, Democrat, 9th Iowa; M. A. Hynes, Republican, Ist New Hampshire; J. A. Warder, Republican, sth Tennessee; J. W. Taylor, Democrat, Bth Tennessee; J. J. Lanihan, Democrat, 8d Iowa; James Buchanan, Republican, 2d New Jersey; O. B. Thomas, Republican, 7th Wisconsin; W. T. Shaw, Republican, 2d Iowa; Rev. A. N. Aicott, Prohibitionist, 4th Michigan; W. E. Gunby, Greenbackor, 2d Missouri; J. B. Rector, Republican, 10th Texas; L. F. MoKinney. Democrat, Ist New Hampshire; Zachary Taylor, Republican, 10th Tennessee; A. B. Irion, Democrat, Cth Louisiana; J, Floyd King and Charles J. Boatner, Democrats (owing to a split), sth Louisiana; L. B. Caswell, Jr., Republican, Ist Wisconsin; W. C. Edsell, Prohibitionist, sth Michigan.

A meeting of the Tammany Hall General Committee, called fqr the purpose of determining what action should be taken in the pending Presidential contest, was held on the evening of Sept. 12. The hall was crowded with spectators. John Kelly called the meeting to order, and ex-Senator Foster was made Chairman. After dwelling upon the ancient history of Tammany Hall, how it has never swerved from Its allegiance to the Democratic party nor faltered in its support of the candidates nominated by and in the principles enunciated from the platform of the National Democratic Conventions, the report says that in respect to the candidates now before the Democracy of the nation: “We acquiesce in the will of the majority of the representatives of the party, although we telieve that will to have been unwisely expressed. There is but one alternative left to us—to Sever our connection with the Democratic party. This we cannot and will not do.” The address goo; on to criticise some of Gov. Cleveland’s v: logs, recounts the contests of the sachems i ■ past Presidential contests, and the harsh treatment in the Chicago convention, and concludes with the following: “ Resetoed , That we, the Democratic-republican General Committee of the city and county of New York, in Tammany Hall assembled, hereby ratify and indorse the nominations made by the National Democratic Convention held in Chicago on July 10, 1884—for President, Grover Cleveland, of New York; for Vice

j President, Thomas A. Hendricks, of In- ! dlana, and hereby pledge ourselves to an earnest and cordial supportof the candidates so nominated.” The reading of the resolui tion was followed with applause, mingled ! with hisses. Ex-Senator Grady in a speech . bitterly denounced Cleveland, and in closing ■ his remarks stated that he should support Benjamin F. Butler. Gen. Spinola advocated the adoption of the resolution in a strong speech. Wm. Bourke Cochran followed In an eloquent speech seconding the motion. The calling of the roll on the address and resolution was then proceeded with, and resulted in their adoption by an overwhelming majority. The vote stood—Blo yeas, 87 nays. On motion, the vote was made unanimous. The Democratic State Convention of Nebraska met at Omaha and agreed upon an alliance with the Anti-Monopolists. The platform Indorses the Chicago platform; denounces the school-land frauds in Nebraska permitted by the Republican administration; commends high license, but denounces prohibition; declares that corporate capital must keep its hands off the reserved rights of the people; that railroads must keep out of politics; that tho Legislature has the right to control railroads, and that railroads have no right to control the Legislature. The following Democrats were nominated on the State ticket: Governor, J. Sterling Morton: Treasurer. Daniel Clancy; Attorney General, C. S. Montgomery; Secretary of State, H. E. BonestelL The following AntiMonopolists were nominated: Lieutenant Governor L. C. Pase; Auditor, G. Beneke; Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, Nets Anderson; Superintendent Public Instruction, A. N. Dean; Hegent State University, D. P. Schoville. Two Democratic and three Butler electors were nominated. Tlie Colorado Republican State Convention, after a stormy session of four days, nominated Hon. Ben H. Eaton, of Weld County, for Governor; Peter Breen, of Leadville, for Lieutenant Governor; and J. G. Syms, of Denver, for Congress. There was great trouble in the convention over contesting delegations, and the contest was the bitterest in the Centennial State's political history. The Nebraska Prohibitionists met in State convention at Lincoln. J. G. Miller was nominated for Governor by acclamation, and H. H. Shedd, the Republican nominee, indorsed for Lieutenant Governor. Five St. John representative electors were also nominated. A dispatch from Portland, Me., says that nearly complete official returns of the Maine election show that the total vote was 140,436—the largest ever cast at any election except one. Roble received 77,779, against 58,070 cost for Redman, Democrat, and 2,147 cast for Eaton, Greonbacker. The constitutional liquor prohibitory amendment is adopted by a majority of over 40,000.

MISCELLANEOUS. The seed-leaf tobacco crop now being harvested throughout the country is said to be the best and heaviest for many years, Andrew D, White, of Cornell University, has been elected President of the American Historical Association. Sitting Bull and several of his followers have been taken to New York by Colonel Allen, under a permit from Secretary Teller. Four students in the St. Catherines collegiate institute were drowned in the Welland canal. The first ten days of September were productive of unusually torrid weather throughout the entire country. The mercury at New York on the 10th of the month rose to 98 degrees. Nine deaths occurred at Bellevue Hospital from the heat, and the street car lines were almost compelled to stop operations. At Chicago and other points in the West it ranged from 88 to 92. At Philadelphia there was intense suffering among the animals at the fair, and fancy poultry died dn large numbers. The Wabash receivers have decided to substitute Pullman sleepers for Wagner’s on all the branches of the system. The lowa Penitentiary was threatened by a Are which consumed a planingmill and lumberyard at Fort Madison, but the flames were suppressed, with a loss of $30,000. Slemmer’s oil refinery at Morristown, Pa., Wilder & Co.’s mills at Ashland, N. H., and George Cook’s ancient grist-mill at Bridgeport, Conn., were also burned. The English committee sent over to investigate the condition of the Erie Road reports immediate liabilities of $4,477,316, which should immediately be raised on available securities, such being a condition of the acceptance of the Presidency by John King, Jr. The company’s credit was broken by the Grant & Ward swindle. The London journals are vigorous in condemning the recommendations of the experts.

FOREIGN.

Lord Duffer in has been appointed Viceroy of India, to succeed the Marquis of Ripon, resigned. During the first eight months of this year 112,612 immigrants entered Canada. Of these 48,275 passed through to the United States. Gen. Wolseley, in a communication to the British Government, says it is his intention to adhere to the Nile route In the expedition to Khartoum. The Emperors of Russia, Germany, and Austria are soon to meet at a castle near Nattawitz, in Russian Siberia. Prinoo Bismarck and M. do Giers will be present. The Australian cricketers cleared £7OO per man by their tour in Great Britain. Cholera is dying out in Spain, owing to the vigilant quarantine regulations of the medical authorities. Information has reached Canton, China, of a frightful Inundation in the province of Kiangsi. The news was dated from King-Tak, chief center of the pottery manufacture, and one of the four great markets of the empire. The floods lasted four days, and the entire country was submerged to a depth of sixty feet, whole towns being swept away. It is believed that fully 70,000 persons have perished. It was feared that pestilence would follow. Queen Victoria has sent a letter of condolence to the Queen of Italy in reference to the recent outbroak of cholera at Naples. * A second order for 500,000 pounds of compressed beef for the British expedition to Khartoum has been given to a Chicago firm. King Humbert is now the idol of Italy, on account of his visits to the cholera-

infected slum* of Naples. The people admire his courage and praiße hia thoughtfulness and zeal in behalf of his people. Wherever he goes he is received by the people moat cordially. In speaking of the Kbartons expedition, the London Army and Navy OazeUt says the boats ordered by the Government for the navigation of the Nile are useless. Orders issued in Cairo point to the use of the desert route from Debbeh to Khartoum in case the Nile route fails, 30,000 camels having already been purchased for that purpose.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Garfield Monument Committee for New York have reported to Gov. Cleveland that the total amount collected in the State amounts to $9,629.22. The Attorney General of New Jersey, having been asked for an opinion, declares national bank officials eligible on an electoral ticket, they not being officials of the United States. Recent frosts have done much injury to the crops in Nova Scotia. L. P. Herbert, cashier of a bank at Hyaclnthe, near Montreal, fled to New York with 550,000, and is being pursued by detee. fives. The cemetery at Conyers, Ga., was invaded at night, the graves desecrated and monuments wrecked. The Methodist Episcopal Church was also set on fire and was destroyed. The perpetrator, Tom Marston, who also tried to burn the town, was followed and shot, but averrel that God commanded him to commit the outrages. The Canadian voyageurs who are to do duty on the Nile in connection with the British expedition to relieve Gordon have sailed from Quebec. At Warsaw the Czar of Russia pardoned forty-two Nihilists who had been sentenced to exile in Siberia, and commuted the sentences of seventy-three others. A gale during a performance leveled Barrett’s circus and menagerie tents at Winona, Minn., a few persons receiving severe injuries. The animals were not excited, and there was no panic. By the explosion of the boilers of the Volcell, Rossie & Zudiker wagon manufactory at Morton, Tazewell County, UL, two persons wore Instantly killed and four others badly injured. Christopher Mann celebrated his 110th birthday Sept. 13, near Independence, Mo. He is the father of twenty-eight children, and* has always used tobacco and whisky, but never wore spectacles. N. C. Thompson, who for twentyfive years has been one of the leaders in business circles at Rockford, 111., has suspended payment at his banking house, but claims that the manufacturing company bearing his name will be in no way involved. His liabilities are said to be fully 5650,030. He holds large amounts of notes given by farmers for agricultural implements, his assets being estimated at 5815,000. The boiler of a cotton compress at Eufaula, Ala., exploded with such force as to shake the town. The building went to fragments, and four employes were killed. The Methodst Episcopal Conference at Lansing, Mich., rejocted the report of the committee pledging members to support Prohibition candidates, and adopted a resolution which permi's voting as conscience may dictate. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of OddFellows was in session at Minneapolis last week. Grand Sire Leech congratulated the order on its prosperity, showing an increase of four grand lodges, 189 subordinate lodges, and 11,815 in lodge membership during the* year. The total relief reached was 52,015,833.52, and th£ revenue is 55,350,041.47. In view of the heavy expense, the Grand Sire lecommends biennial sessions of the Sovereign Lodge, Instead of annual meetings as at present.

The iron horse has penetrated to all parts of the world. His snort has been heard in every State and Territory of the United States, save Alaska; in Mexico, and most of the Central American States; in every country of South America; in all the divisions of Australia ; in Algeria, Cape Colony, Egypt, Natal, and Tunis, in Africa; in all the countries of Asia save Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, and Beloochistan; and throughout all Europe. It is only seventy years since the first locomotive was built.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $6.50 @ 7.00 Hoos , 6.75 @6.50 1 lour —Extra 6.00 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring .82 @ .83 No. 2 Red 86 @ .88 Corn—No. a 62 @ .63 Oats—White as @ .42 Pork—New Mess 17.00 @17.50 CHICAGO.Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 @ 7.25 Good Shipping 6.00 @ 6.50 Common to Fair 4.5 ) @ 5.50 Hoos 5.75 @6.50' Flour—Fancy W.hite Winter Ex 4.25 @4.75 Good to Choice Spring. 4.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 75 @ .76 No. 2 Red Winter.,,... :77 @ .79 Corn—No. 2 53 @ .55 Oats —No. 2 24 @ .25 Rye—No. 2 63 @ .55 Barley—No. 2.. 65 @ .67 Butter—Choice Creamery 22 @ .24 Fine Dairy .16 @ .18 Cheese—Full Cream 09 @ .10 Skimmed Flat 05 @ .06 Egos—Fresh 14 @ .15 Potatoes—New, per bu 23 @ .30 Pork—Mess 16. 50 @17.00 Lard 07 @ .0754 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 77 @ .78% Corn—No. 2 54 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 26 @ .27 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 73 @ .74 Corn -No. 2 55 @ .56 Oats —No. 2 28 @ .29 Barley—No. 2 Spring 60 @ .62 Pork—Mess 16.2> @16.75 Lard 7.00 @ 7.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 76 @ .77% Corn—Mixed 47 @ .48 Oats —No. 2 26 @ 27 Pork—Mess 16.60 @16.50 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 79 @ .80 Corn .• 63 @ .55 Oats—Mixed 27 @ .28 Pork—Mess 16.50 @17.00 Lard , 07 @ .07% „ DETROIT. Flour... 5.25 @5.75 Wheat—No 1 White 79 @ .80 Corn—Mixed 53 @ .54 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 27 @ .30 Pork—New Mess 18,00 @18.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red, New 74 @ .76 Corn—Mixed 51 @ .53 Oats—Mixed 26 @ 27 _ T EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.23 @ 6.75 Fair 5.75 @ 6.25 Common /. 4.23 @ 4.75 Hoos 6.00 @ 6.50 Sheep 3.75 @ 4 . 60

A WHIRLING DESTROYER.

Towns in Minnesota and Wisconsin Laid Waste by a Furious Cyclone. Several Persons Injured, n Few Killed Outright, and Valuable. Property Rained. The towns of Clayton and Clear Lake. Wls.. and White Bear Lake, Minn., were recently swept by a destructive tornado, the particulars of which, as telegraphed from St Paul, are given below: Great devastation was wrought at Clear Lake. The greater portion of the town Is in ruins, and three lives were lost. The scene after th- storm passed over was terrible in the extreme. Men, women, and children were running about in a perfect frenzy of excitement and fear. Here and there people could be seen coming out of their cellars almost paralyzed with fear, 'l-he strongest mmi was as a little child, for no human power could have resisted the cyclone's terrible force. One house, a brick veneer, was taken from its foundation and turned completely round, while the bricks were felled from the wood as if sliced off. A large barn was blown away, leaving the floor and mangers, with the horses peacefully eating their supper. A little child was taken in the arms of the tempest and landed in the branches of a tree but slightly injured. One large frame house was blown completely out of sight. Not one particle of the house or furniture could be tound, though search for a mile was made in the track of the storm. The family had, fortunately, taken refuge in the cellar. Many families are lett destitute—not a vestige of their worldly possessions remaining. Those killed at Clear Lake were Mrs. Peleg Burdick, wife of the Postmaster, and two young men, William Cavanaugh and A. H. Sanderson. Walter Briggs was also badly injured and two Scandinavian children so seriously that they cannot survive. Bill Nye, the humorist, had his left leg broken below the knee. He was at Clear Lake visiting his brother. District Attorney Nye. They were out In the country for a drive in the midst of a dense forest, and seeing the storm coming on, were driving as rapidly as possible to escape its fury, when both gentlemen were thrown out. The road was so thickly strewn with fallen trees that it was impossible to reach him with a team, and he was obliged to lie on the wet ground in the drenching rain for two hours, until men could be summoned from Clear Lake to carry him in. He was taken to Hudson. A tract of country twenty miles in width, from southwest to northeast, passing just- north of Stillwater, was swept by the cyclone. Everything was swept away. The clouds were of the indescribable green color known to all who ever witnessed a cyclone. Almost every house in Marine Mills, twelve miles north of Stillwater, was more or less injured. Several persons were injured, and there were many hair-breadth escapes. Wherever the storm Bwept through the country, houses, barns, and fences disappeared like chaff. Almost every building in Marine was blown down or more or less damaged. At White Bear Lake scores of huge trees were blown down and many houses suffered serious damage. Most of the windows were blown in. Boat-houses were wrecked and the boats blown in all directions. Near Hudson, Wis., half a dozen houses were leveled. Horses and cattle were blown against barb-wire fences and badly lacerated. At Grant twenty-five houses were demolished, and in the Hudson Prairie district six dwellings were torn to pieces, and one person killed. The loss In crops, barns, and outhouses is very heavy.

CONDITION OF THE CROPS.

The September Report of the National Agricultural Bureau a Favorable One. Quality and Quantity Above the AverageGood Prospects of Export Demand. Following is the national crop report for September, as telegraphed trom Washington: The condition of cotton on the Ist es September was lower than on August Ist, by reason of drought, which has been severest in Texas, yet felt in every State east and north to North Carolina. State averages are: Virginia, 89; North Carolina, 90; South Carolina, 87; Georgia, 86; Florida, 88; Alabama, 84; Mississippi, 83; Louisiana, 84; Texas, 72; Arkansas, 83; Tennesse, 90. Tne production of winter wheat is above the average, and generally of good quality except where injured by sproutingin shock. The rate of yield is not from an average thirteen bushels per acre. The reports of the harvest of spring wheat are not yet complete, and the product can not be precisely indicated. It is probable, from the reported condition of the crop already harvested and thrashed, that the aggregate will vary little from 510, 000,000 bushels. Reports of much higher figures are sensational and misleading and utterly unworthy of credence. The general average condition when harvested is 98, against 83 last year. The condition is almost identical with that reported ir\ September, 1879 (the census crop), which yielded thirteen bushels per acre. The wheat States in highest condition are California. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Oregon. These, with some of minor production, show figures higher than toe general average, lowa, Nebraska, and Kansas standing 98, Ohio and Michigan at 90, Indiana at 94, and Illinois atßo. The Eastern and Southern States range from 81 in Mississippi to 103 in Maine. The corn crop is in better condition than in any September since 1880. The general average is 91. It was 84 last September, 83 in 1832, and 60 in 1881. It promises to produce an average yield of 26 bushels for the entire breadth, or not less than 1,800,000,000 bushels. It will make the largest aggregate quantity ever reported in the history of the crop. The oats crop averages a yield per acre about the same as corn, and makes an aggregate exceeding 500,000,000 bushels. Its condition when harvested was 95, which is lower than for the two previous years, but higher than for prior years since 1878. Bar’.ey averages 97, against 100 last ye r, and 95 in 1882. It will average about twenty-two bushels per acre. The general average for rye is 96, and for buckwheat 93, which indicates a medium crop, about twelve bushels per acre. The condition of potatoes averages 91, against 95 last year. It will be an abundant crop, but not so large as last. The condition of tobacco is higher than in September of any year since 1877. It averages 94, instead of SO last September. The London agent' ot the department cables, as the result of statistical investigations, that the year will not be one of superabundance; that European wheat, though above the average in product, will be less than the aggregate of 1882. European Importing countries need 260,000,000 bushels above their production. European countries exporting can supply 80,000,000, leaving 180,000,000 bushels to be obtained from other continents. Stocks are not excessive. There is increased consumption of wheat, and it is the general opinion that lowest prices have been reached. Potatoes and rye are less abundant than last year.

AFTER CARTER HARRISON’S LIFE.

An Irate Citizen of Lincoln, 111., Goes Gunning; for the Mayor. Carter Harrison met with a singular experience in this city this evening. At a pressing invitation of the Democrats of this place he came here from Mount Pulaski, and took up his quarters at the Commercial House, where he held an informal reception. Among the callers was Col. J. M. Hough, formerly of Chicago, and a bitter Republican partisan, who wanted to bet Carter he would not be elected. The Colonel pressed his offers to bet, and at last became personal and was removed from the room. He went home, changed his coat, and took his six-shooter with him, intending to interview Carter Harrison again. Before he gained admission he was arrested and placed in the calaboose. The greatest excitement prevailed, as the Colonel is a man of wealth and standing in the community. Friends secured his release, and all is serene again.

Deadly weapons are taken from men who carry them into one of Galveston’s gambling and drinking houses, an employe gives checks for them, and they ore returned on their owner’s departure. Cincinnati is to have an odd monument, in the form of a ruin, built from the broken pillars and fragments of the Court House burned during the riot. Complaint is made of too much gambling on Atlantic steamers. Mr. St. John has a son in the Land Office at Washington.

CANDIDATES AND PLATFORMS.

Republican!, Democrat*, Greenbackerd and Prohibitionist! in j Council. I M They Hold Conventions in SereraH States, Nominate Tickets and || Pass Resolutions. I Wisconsin Democrats. II The Wisconsin Democratic State CouTentiotxl met at Madison, and was called to order by Drll W. A. Anderson, Chairman of the State Centra*! Committee. A. S. Ritchie, of Racine, was maddl temporary Chairman. The u-ual committees! were appointed, and pending their action tha| convention took a recess. On reassembling! I John W. Cary, es Milwaukee, was elected pewl manent Chairman. On assuming his duties hal arraigned the Republican party- and the record I of James G. Blaine. Hon. Nicholas * DJI Fratt, of Racine, was nominated for Governor! I by acclamation. The remainder of the ticieqN was completed as follows: Lieutenant Govern-41 or, A. C. Parkinson, Columbia; Secretary onl State, Hugh Gallagher, Lafayette; Treasurerjl Frank Falk, Milwaukee: Attorney Generali! George W. Silverthom, Marathon; Comnds-B sioner of Insurance, Ole S. Holum, Dane; Rail-fl road Commissioner, Conrad Krez, SheboyganJl I'he following platform was adopted: J| Whekeas, The corporate partnership, andH personal banks in this State receiving deposits® and transacting other business pertaining toll banking exceed 130, a larger number than then national banks therein, and -I WntBEAS, Within the one year last past sev-n eral hundred thousand dollars have been worsen than stolen by banks organized by the laws odl this State, and by pilvate associations andH bankers, causing great distress to many de-fl positors, who, in most instances, are personsn not familiar with the securities of banking in-|| stitut ong, and some of the least of those bankßjl would have been closed np before they had obtained such deposits bad an examination of their condition been made by a competent per* son; therefore, i h‘esolved, That for the protection of those who deposit their money in corporate, partnership, or private banks, in behalf of sound and legitimate banks and bankers who are brought into disrepute by shysters assuming their name, and in the interest of the whole people, we demand that the next Legislature pass a law providing for the examination of each of such banks at least once every six months, by a competent person, and prescribing rules and regulations therefore. » Hesolved , That we hold that it is unjust to place the labor ot prison convicts in competition with the other manufacturing industries of the State, and demand that the prison contract system be abolished. Hesolved, That wc are opposed to the further* sale of public lands suitable for agricultural purposes, except to actual settlers. : Hesolved, That we recognize the right and the duty of society to guard and protect itself by proper and suitable legislation against teeevils resulting from the excessive use of intoxicating liquors; but we do not believe in' sumptuary laws, prohibition, or an equivalent measure, to be either adapted to the end or promotive of a higher standard of morality. Ott the contrary, we hold. With Gov. Cleveland, that such legislation would be unwise and vexatious.

Missouri Republicans. Chairman William Warner, of the State Central Committee, called the Missouri Republican State Convention to order at Jefferson City. He said the work in hand was to deliver the State from the Frank James Democracy. Judge Wagner, of St. Louis, was made temporary Chairman. On taking thegshair ho eulogized the work of the Chicago convention. In regard to the Missouri administration he said; “Assassina-. tion has been connived at by high officers, outlaws have been protected in their outlawry, and the criminal laws have been made a farce by the exercise of the pardoning power in favor of men who nave violated the laws merely because they were friends of officials.” The organization of the convention was completed by the appointment of the usual committees, and one special committee was delegated to con-ider the question of uniting with all the political elements of the State that are opposed to the Democratic party. Pending committee action, Gen. D. P. Grier, of St. Louis, was made permanent Chairman, and F. W. Moot, of St. Louis, Secretary. Gen. Grier made a speech, arraigning the Democratic party for its abuse* in the State Government of Missouri. A platform was adopted indorsing President Arthur’s - administration and tho action of the Chicago convention, and indicting the Democracy of Missouri for ignoring the Union element of the State when the Republican party had removed every disability growing out of the rebellion.It charges the.depredations of the Jesse James faction to the Democracy. The platform demands the restraint of corporations, the reform of the convict labor system, and extols the record of the Republicans. The conference commttee representing the anti-Democratic elements that were present reported at length, naming Nicholas Ford, of Buchanan County, for Governor. The ticket was completed as follows: Lieutenant Governor. H. M. Starkoff, St. Louis; Treasurer, J. C. Thompson, Sedalia; Auditor, Jacob Sands. Adair; Attorney General, David Murphy, St. Louis; Judge of "the Supreme Court, David Wagner.

Massachusetts Prohibitionists. - The State Prohibitory Convention of Massachusetts met in Tremont Temple, Boston, Chas. Almy, of New Bedford, presiding. There were--536 delegates present. President Seelye, of Amherst College, was nominated for Governor by acclamation, Henry H. Faxon for LieutenantGovernor, Geo. Kempton for Secretary of State, C. B. Knight for Treasurer and Receiver Genera), Samuel M. Fairfield Tor Attorney General, and William W. Herman for Auditor. A number of large contributions to the campaign fund were received. The platform adopted declares that there is a pressing need of mixing more religion with-politics; that no more party questions are in order until the enemy which insists on. full liberty to degrade ns and aspires to govern us is stamped out; that the liquor traffic instinctively dreads the ballot in the hands of women; that the Prohibition pasty cordially welcomes it; and that the dodging of the voteuponthe constitutional amendment by JamesG. Blaine at the recent Maine election proves him to be an eminently fit exponent of the cowardly position of his party on the question of prohibition. A telegram was sent congratulating the Prohibitionists of Maine npon their victory. An unsuccessful attempt was made to secure the> adoption of a resolution favoring woman-suf-frage. New Hampshire Democrats. H. O. Kent was made Chairman of the Demor cratic State Convention, which met at ConcordAfter nominating John M. Hill for Governor, and a Presidential ticket, the following platform was adopted; Resolved, That we fully indorse the platform of the National Democratic Convention which nominated Cleveland and Hendricks,and that wer most cordially and heartily ratify the nomination of Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks for President and Vice President. Resolved, That the laboring people have the right to demand reasonable limitation of the hours of labor, careful protection of the rights and health of laboring women and children, and! full relief of their wages from trustee process. Resolved, That the purchasing of nominations and elections which has characterized the action of the Republican leaders in this State lias given to New Hampshire a reputation for bribery and corruption which is a reproach toevery honest citizen, and in behalf of common, honesty we demand that the auction sale of public offices shall cease, and that the maklntr of merchandise of our voting population shall be punished as a crime by perpetual disfranchisement

Now Hampshire Prohibitionists. Rev. O. H. Shinn was made Chairman of theNew Hampshire Prohibitionist State Convention, which met here to-day. Larkin D. Mason, of Tamworth, ‘was nominated for Governor. . The convention adopted a platform arraigning the Republican and Democratic parties for their' position on the temperance question, urging the formation of clubs in every town, and pledging undivided and unqualified support to St, John and Daniel. - Nebraska Gr eenbackers. The Nebraska Anti-Monopolist and Greenback State cnventions coonvened at Lmcoln, combined as one organization, and then agreed tomake a fusion electoral and State ticket with the Democrats. No nominations were made, but half a dozen names for each place on tho ticket were seleoted and a committee appointed to present them to the Democratic State Convention. The body then adjourned.

The St. Joseph Gazette charges Mrs. Belva Lockwood with riding a bicycle. This is the worst campaign slander of the season. Impure water has killed sixteen people at Ashland, Pa.