Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1890 — Page 2

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A TURBULENT WORLD.

IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE DAY. Foreign and Domestic Intelligence Transmitted by Wire—A Kaleidoscope of Interesting Occuriencos—Political, Criminal, Accidental, and Industrial. TERRIBLE POWDER EXPLOSION. Twelve People Kil'ed at the Dupont Mills, in Wilmington. Seven startling explosions in quick succession announced to Wilmington, Del., a disaster at the Dupont powder-works on the Brandywine. The whole section of the works known as the “upper yard” was a complete wreck, One of the magazines went off first, and the rolling and drying mills near by, set off by the concussion, followed in rapid succession. There were at least seven distinct successive explosions. Every building in the neighborhood was wrecked or unroofed. Tho force of the concussion even broke windows In some parts of Wilmington, four or five mik‘s away. Twelve men were killed and many seriously injured. The office of the Dupont Powder Company is a complete wreck, and six mills are in ruins. Several members of the Dupont firm were injured by falling walls and broken glass, but none of them seriously. The dead were all employes of the company and were In and about the mills that exploded. Sev; r»l workmen are missing and are believed u> have been blown Into fragments. The wounded received their Injuries among tho walls of their falling houses, and by broken glass and flying debris. The first explosion occurred in one of tho packing-mills where a workman named Grau was receiving a can of hexagonal powder to be shipped for the use of the United States Government In some way a spark communicated to the can and it blew up. Instantly the packing-mill exploded, and the other mills in the upper yards, seven or eight in number, followed suit at. intervals of less than one second. Immediately after the explosion a large building known us the located near the center of the village, took fire. It was a matter of life and death to the whole populatkm that this fire should be extinguished before it communicated with the powder the building contained, The Dupont fire brigade valiantly fought the flames which had caught the roof and succeeded in extinguishing them. Ilad the roof fallen in. It Is doubtful whether any man, woman, or child in the vicinity would have escaped death or serious injury. About fifty families arc rendered homeless by the disaster. The total loss will be at least $500,000. The shock of the explosion was plainly/felt in Philadelphia, Millville, N. J., Chester, Pa., and other points thirty to thirty-five miles distant.

I.OOKING FOE THE FIEND. London Police Expect Jack the Kipper to Co to Work Again, The Whitechapel scare in London has been thoroughly revived again. Everytxjdy Ts waiting now to hear of another murder. Very little heed was paid by the public to the three or four letters the ripper sent eat last week saying he was going to begin operations, but the police, evidently acting on information of which the public was kept in ignorance, have taken extraordinary precautions. Superintendent Arnold and the most experienced detectives are persuaded another horrible crime is about to be perpetrated. The police incline to the belief that the various post-cards and letters received of late emanated from the real murderer, and it is a mistake to regard ihem as a hoax. Patrols in W hitechapel have been completely reorganized since Sunday. In every possible instance the officers who were on duty at the time the former crimes were committed have been recalled to their old beats. These men are more likely than others to detect the presence of strangers. Every person whose appearance causes suspicion is shadowed by plain clothes men, who are got up in every style. If the suspicion is verified the party is politely conducted to the nearest police station to give an account of himself. _J

REPORTS HAVE BEEN EXAGtiEKATED Ireland’s Potato Crop by No means a Total Failure. The potato crop failure in the congested districts lying to the not-thwest, west, and southwest coasts of Ireland is’conjplete, but in other parts the crop is about an average one, and other crops are entirely satisfactory. Irish editors are surprised at the American subscriptions. The reports sent to America have been exaggerated. There is plenty of work for laborers. People who have been relieved so often naturally look for money and become totally demoralized. Mr. J. N. Franks, Irish Land Commissioner, says it is not a mode of relief to lift 100 Irishmen out and plant them elsewhere. The Local Government Board in Dublin expresses the belief that it can cope with the question unaided. The Conductor Acquitted. At Buffalo, ex-Conductor Houtaling has been acquitted of the charge of manslaughter. Ho was in charge of the Lake Shore train, wrecked near Bay View, in which six persons lost their lives. Destructive Prairie Fires. Prairie fires in Morton County, North Dakota, destroyed property valued at §IOO,OOO. A herd of 500 cattle was burned. Many farmers were rendered destitute. Confessed His Guilt. W. H. Crawford, under Indictment at Decatur, 111., for. the murder of Mrs. Col. Mathias, has confessed his guilt to the State’s Attorney. A Circus Tralii Wrecked. Sells Brothers’ circus train was wrecked at Latour, Ark. Three horses were killed and an elephant badly injured. Interest on Government Bonds. The prepayment of interest on Government bonds to date umounts to $10,912,274. An Indian as a Grand Juror. John Eastman, u full-blooded Sioux ludian and chief of the l-'huidrcuu tribe, is a member of the Grand Jury in the United States Court at Sioux Falls, S. D. This is the first instance on record of an Indian •erring as a Grand Juror. Committed Ten Murders. In the Houston County (Ga.) Superior Court, at Perry, Thomas G. Woolfolk was a second time sentenced to lie banged Oct. for the murder of ten members of his father’s faml'y in Bibb County in Au*u»t. 1887.

KND OF A LONG SK'SION. its Work Done, the National Congress Adjourn. sine Die. Both houses of Congress adjourned sine lie Oct. 1, after transacting urgent business , ind sending a joint committee to ascertain that the President had no other business to )resent. The Vice President laid before i .be Senate three veto messages from the j President, two on hills referring to the j Dcurt. of Claims (the claims of Charles P. Chouteau and of the Portland Company of Portland, Me.), and tho third on the bill to jrohibit book-making and pool-selling In die District of Columbia for the purpose if gambling. The President's objection o the latter bill is that it does not prohibit x>ok-making and pool-selling, but, on the tontrary, permits it in ihecaseof the Washngton Jockey Club and of other clubs owning race tracks. If that form of gambling iras to be prohibited (as the President thinks ,t should be) the prohibition should apply to all persons and all places. The three messages were laid on the table. In his prayer the Chaplain of the House referred to the approaching end of the session and invoked the divine blessing upon the mernoers during the vacation. Mr. McKinley (Ohio), chairman of the committee appointed to wait upon the President, tnnounced that the President had no further gommunication to make, and the House then look a recess. During the recess nearly all the members left the hall to make preparations for thjeir departure from the city, and alien the Speaker reconvened the House that official looked down upon a vast array >f empty seats. He merely Said that, acgording to the concurrent resolution, he deglared the first session of- the Fifty-first Congress adjourned without day. PRICES ARE OX THE JUMP. The General Average Is 6 Per Cent. Higher than a Year Ago. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade lays: Never before has there been In any month so great an increase in the circulation or so large a payment of public debt as in the month Just closed. Domestic trade is improving in all directions, and at least for the time t here is also improvement in experts, which now show for the last month a gain of 7 per cent, over last year at New York. The actual payments through clearinghouses outside New York were, In September, 16J4 per cent, greater than last year. This is partially due to higher prices, for the general averugeot commodities lias risen 1 per cent, during the last week and has been over 6 per cent, above last year for tho last month. Chicago notes, besides heavy receipts of grain, meats, and cattle, a larger trade in dry goods than last year, with prompt collections. and the same in boots and shoes, and a larger trade but not so prompt collections in clothing. St, Louis notes unusual activity in all lines, with the dry goods trade exceeding any previous years. The details given show that in all part, of the country”an<l in all important branches of business there is phenomenal activity, and nevertheless there is comparative freedom from speculative excitement or disturbances. The general soundness of trade is Shown by the reports of failures, which for the third quarter of 1890 were smaller in number and amount of liabilities than for the same quarter of 1889, though in Canada rather larger in both respects.

FLOCK AT MINNEAPOLIS. The Output of Hie Week Shows a Slight Improvement. The Northwestern Miller, of Minneapolis, says: The mills improved a trifle on the amount of flour got out last week. The aggregate output for the week was 170,250 barrels, averaging 28,375 barrels daily, against 1b4,540 barrels the week tiefore, 101,500 barrels for the corresponding time in 1881#, and 175,100 barrels in 1888. One less mill Is running this week, and though only of 350 barrels capacity the tendency in the face of ligtit sales of flour is in the direction of curtailment. There were eighteen mills in the operative list Wednesday, and they were getting out over 28,000 barre.s per day. Freight rates eastward are this week advanced 4 cents per barrel, and a desire to get considerable flour shipped before the new rate takes effect prompts part of the present activity. There is little life to the flour market, and unless the demand Improves soon more or less shutting down will occur, as the mills are about all caught up on orders. The sales of the last week have been of a scattering, small-lot kind and fell a good deal short of the manufacture. Prices are generally lower and considerable effort is made to sell. Parties who were 15&20 cents higher than the lowest a week ago have ieduced their figures nearly that much, and quotations came nearer being uniform than Is often the ease,

THE WHEAT CHOP OF 1890. Considerably llrlow Tint of Last Year— The Visible Supply. The relative smallness of the wheat crop of the United States this year is beginning to tell on the visible supply. The sum of stocks at principal points of accumulation is now only 10,800.000 bushels, the same being 48.0 per cent, of the average for the five years last preceding at this date. After making allowances for the difference in quantities in private elevators at the principal cities, the total now will scarcely be more than half the average of the five years ending’ with 1889. and about one-third of the stock in 1880. The crop of spring wheat in the Northwest is moving with moderate fretdoni, but the outflow of winter wheat has been disappointing, even to many who recognized the fact that the yield was jnuch loss than that of 1889. The smaller surplus in the hands of farmers to begin with was taken so eagerly by interior millers as to disprove the claim of considerable reserves from the crop of last year. If there were a large demand for export It would develop the fact that wheat Is really scarce. Of course the crop of the present year is far from being usod up, but the farmer ; who can hold what they have for higher price; are evidently disposed to do so, and these may yet prove themselves to bo masters of the situation In establishing the scale of quoted values for the last half of the crop year. CANADIAN CATTLE~BAKBED OUT. Detained at Dundee Because Tliev Are Believed to Be infected with FleuroPneumiinis. The Canadian cattle trade received a shock when it became known that the live cargo of the steamer Norse King had been detained at Dundee, owing to the fact that pleuro-pneumonia had been discovered among the cattle. The reason for the shock wiil be apparent when it is pointed < ut that Canada lias privileges in shipping live cattle to Great Britain which arc estimated to bo worth a cent a pound, or over 51.000,000 a year, to the Canadian ' farmer. Those interested in the trade believe that the suspicions of the Dundee inspector will bo proved to be without foundation. PENSION COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. What the Government Is Paying Out Annually to the Old Soldiers. The annuul report of Commissioner Green B. Baum, of the Pension Bureau, shows that there were at the end of the last fiscal year 537.944 pensioners borne upon the rolls and classified as follows: Army invalid pensioners, 392,809; army widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, 104,450; navy invalid pensioners, 5,274; navy widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, 5,460; survivors of the war of 1812. 413; widows of soldiers of the war of 1812, 8,610; survivors of the Mexican war, 17.128; widows of soldiers of the Mexican war, 6,764. Total, 537,944. There were 66,6.37 original claims allowed during the year, being 14,716

more original claims than store allowed during the fiscal year 1880. and 6,385 more than were allowed during the fiscal year 1888. The amount of the first pay* ments In these 66,637 original cases amounted to $32,478.0*1, being $11,936.403 more than the first payments on the original claims allowed during the fiscal year 1889, and $10,179,225 more than the first payments on the original claims allowed during the fiscal year 1888. There were 20,038 pensioners unpaid at tho close of the fiscal year who were entitled to receive $4,357,347, which has since been paidfrom the appropriation for pensions for the fiscal year 1801. RECIPROCITY TREATIES. They Will Follow as a Result of tlie Tariff Bill The “unofficial” hint from the State Department that Senator Carlisle was wrong in saying advantage would, not tie taken of the reciprocity amendment in the tariff bill has caused something of a flutter among the Latin-American legations. It is a clear reminder that any country which , hopes to get the benefit of free-sugar entry into the United States without giving a reciprocal market to tills country will be disappointed. There is reason to believe that at the short session the Senate may have a chance to begin on t)i« subject by ratifying two or three treaties. One is at.most certajn to be inaugurated with Brazil, while in spite of disclaimers Mexico is anx- ‘ ious for better commercial relations. The fear that a new treaty would meet tiic fate of the < ne negotiated by Gen. Grant and.be made Inoperative by the failure of the House to legislate no longer exists. If one or two of the Fan-American countries make the start, their neighbors won’t be able to bold back, because the power given the President to reimpose the sugar and other duties would have to tc exercised in justice to the countries which did offer treaties. CONTENT WITH ONE WIFE. Mormons Announce that They Will Give Up Polygamy. At the general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint-;, at Salt Lake City, the official declaration of President Milford Woodruff forbidding in future any marriages in violation of the laws of the land was read and the congregation, numbering nearly 10,000 persons, including tiie apostles, Bishops, and leading elders of the church, by unanimous vote, recognized the authority of the President to issue the manifesto and acceple 1 it ns authoritative and binding. When the result was announced, George Q. Cannon, of the | First Presidency, said tho step was an act of acls; that President Woodruff had gone into an executive session with the Almighty, and the result of the season of prayer was followed by the pronunciamento of Sept. 21. He. (Cannon) was sorry it had to be taken. Ho had lived in polygamy because ho- beiieved it was right and was an ordinance of God. Men had suffered for it. Over 800 had been confined in the penitentiary for the offense; but it is no use fighting 60,000,090 people on this subject. The Lord would hold the nation responsible for depriving citltens of the right, to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience.

ONE MINUTE SERMONS. That Is the Kind Now Being Indulged In by Ur. Parker. Dr. Parker, the well-known Congregationailst preacher at the City Temple, London. lias a perfect genius forgetting himself talked about. He is now delivering a series of sermons lasting exactly sixty seconds each, by way of strong contrast with his brother divines. Sunday he devoted the whole sixty seconds to the subject of sacramental wine, and lie managed to get in 100 words l ofoye time was called. “It is high time,” he said, “that intoxicating wine was banished from the sacramental service. It lias driven jnon to long-aban-doned habits of intemperance, and 1 am also opposed to the use of the vile concoctions by which, in some instances-, intoxicating wine has been displaced.” ' This objection t > the makeshifts of the extreme teetotalers is not surprising, as a certain pastor is credited with the employment of zoedone for the purpose. The preacher concluded his oration by declaring himself in favor of plain water, adding there were not two sides to the question, but only one —namely: that adopted by himself. WHAT THE ALLIANCE 18 DOING. Advancing Money to Southern Farmers on 'i lioir Cotton. General Manager Gaither, of the Farmers’ Alliance Exchange, in Montgomery, Ala., is proceeding in a painstaking, methodical way to advance the farmers money on their cotton in Alabama. He has the money to advance to the farmers $35 per bale on 500,000 bales, and says that all he asks is that the farmers hold Iheir cotton for his agents. John B. Harris, manager of the cotton department of the exchange, states that he Is daily receiving mere letters than he can answer fioai farmers desiring advances on their (oiton, and .adds: “I wish to say to all Affiance men, when you have some to sell, get it in lots of 100 (o 1,000 bales, and while you are buikingit place i; where there is a railroad station agent and tell this station agent to write his general freight agent and give you the through rat; on the cotton from the particular slation to Liverpool.”

OUlt NEW TARIFF LAWS. They Afford the Europeans Much Fowl for Thought. The Spanish Cabinet, in view of the new United States tariff law, has decided to suspend the application of the new Cnban tariff until a satisfactory reply has been received from America to representations which the Spanish Minister has been in* structed to make to the United States Government The Austrian newspapers are full of angry articles on the new American tariff, which receives more downright abuse than genuine criticism. The Government is trying to allay the excitement over the measure. The Minister of Commerce, address n; a deputation, frankly declared that he was unable to exercise pressure in 'Washington because the American imports into Austra were so small, but he promised to try to induce President Harrison to grant facilities for the mother-of-pearl industries. The Rev. Do Fonl Released. The Rev. A. M. De Ford, charged with passing raised bills, has been released from the County Jail at Milwaukee on 82.000 bail, furnished by Rol.ert McMillan, the t)3hkosh millionaire, who is the father of the Methodist Church in Wisconsin. The reverend clergyman left for his home at Hortouville, accompanied by his wife. As the pulpit of the Hoitonvillo church has been filled since the Rev. De Ford’s imprisonment, he will have to seek other employment, at least until his trial, when, it is said, he will plead guilty and receive his sentence. Attacked by Highbinders. While Dong Gong and wife, of San Francisco, were passing to their home. No. 745 Washington street, when at the corner of Washington and Dupont streets they were assaulted by a large gang of highbinders, who made a desperate attempt to kill Gong and kidnap his life partneh The husband, who defend*" 1 Mrs. Gong nobly, was shot In

the wrist by the attacking party, but Policeman Linsky. attracted by the shooting, came up and the highbinders disappeared. Sergeant and Corporal Shot. The Mexican Sergeant and Corporal who were sentenced to death for murdering the commander of the custom-house guard were shot in view of the whole garrison. The former bore up bravely, but the latter showed signs of weakening as he was led out to meet his doom, at the City of Mexico. Fell Half a Mile. J. n. Kaiser, an aeronaut, rnado a balloon ascension at Louisville. Ky., and when half a mile high dropped from his air-ship, intending to use a parachute in his descent, but he was enable to open it until just before reaching the ground, which he struck heavlly, receiving fatal injuries. The Railroad Must Fay. A jury in the case of Whelan, administrator vs. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, at lowa City, lowa, returned a verdict for $10,090 damages for the death of William Doyle, a section hand, killed in 1888 by the open door of a passing car. Don't Like the Mas ins. A circular was read in the Catholic churches of the Covington (Ky.) diocese stating that the church's objections to secret societies would not be insisted upon with reference to any exept the Masons. A Convict's Clever Ruse. Bill Howard, under senlence of death for murder, escaped from the jail in Greenville, 8. C.. by donning libs wife’s clothing, she having been permitted to spend the night with him. Visible Wheat Supply. The Chicago estimate of the visible wheat supply shows an increase for the last week of 250,000 bushels. This makes the total 17.059,000 bushels, against 18,849,000 bushels one year ago. The Preacher Must Pay Up. The jury in the breach-of-promisc case of Annie llusuboe against the Rex'. Peter Roberts, brought at Scranton, Pa., returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $3,000. She sued for 50,000. Suing the Saloonkeepers. At Cedar Rapids, lowa, Mrs. Asa Keogh has sued three saloonkeepers and the owners of the property on which the saloons were located, for $2,000 damages each for selling liquor to her husband. Railroad Wreck. A passenger and a freight train on the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railroad collided at Anderson, Ind.. causing a loss to property of $25,000. No one was hurt. An Affray at St. Louis. One policeman was shot dead, another was cut to pieces, and a negro was fatally wounded in a St. Louis dive which the officers had entered to quell a disturbance. An Advance in Prices. Chicago dry goods merchants anti tailors announce a rise in ail lines of merchandise, owing to the passage of the McKinley tariff bill.

Wouldn’t Answer Questions. Three farmers near Danville, 111., were bound over to the United State's Court for refusing to answer the questions of census enumerators. No More Indians in the Show Business. Acting Indian Commissioner Belt instructed the.agents of the various tribes to allow no more Indians to engage in the “Wild West” show business. Making Beet Sugar in Nebraska. The Oxnard Beet Sugar Company began operations at Grand Island. Neb., and in twenty-four hours turned out 300 barrels of refined Sugar ready f. r market. Gave Himself Up. Naihan P. Pinckney, who robbed the Michigan Southern Kailway of a large sum while in the roud’s employ at Grand Rapids, Mich., surrendered to the Alton (III.) police. Gold Medal for Hewitt. At the Iron Congress, at New York, cxMayor Hewitt was presented with the Bes semer gold medal. The Lyman Holly statue in Washington Square was also unveiled. Clarkson W T ili Go to China. It is anriounced by a Washington newspaper that ex-First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson will be appointed Minister to China. Want to See the President. Kansas City is making efforts to have President Harrison pay her a visit on hit Western trip. Railway Building in 1890. During the first nine months of 1890 there have been 3,782 miles of new roads added to the railway mileage of the United States. Too Much Interest in Polities. In a shooting affray growing out of politics at Livingston, Tex., one man was killed and three fatally injured. A Very Old Negress. The death of a negress whose age was 12£ years is reported from Antonio de Lot Barios, Cuba. The French Fr-tender in New York. The Comte de Paris has arrived in New York. He was met by old army comrades

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Pritno $ 3.25 @ 5.25 Hogs —Shipping Grades 4.99 @4.75 Sheep. 3JX) an 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red .90 @ .07 Corn—No. 2 .43 @ .49 Oats—No. 2 38 (g) 33 ItYE—No. 2 59 @ oo Butter—Choice Creamery 20 @ .23 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 08 @ .09 Eggs—Fresh 17 burs .18b, Potatoes^-Western, per bu... . .08 ® 75* INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle-Shipping 3.50, @ 5.00 Hogs—Choice Light, 3.00 <g> 4.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.50 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 as 9714 Cohn—No. 1 White ...' .’ .40 sfl 30" Oats—No. 2 White .40 @ '4l ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs.. 4.00 @4.50 Wbeat—No. 2 Red...., 98!A3> 99 b Corn—No. 2 48V> <S ’.49'“ Oats— No. 2 @ .33 Rye—No. 2.... 53 @ .91 _ CINCINNATI. 0att1e..,.. 2.00 @ 4.25 " OG3 3.00 @ 4.50 “ BEEP 3.0 J @ 5.0.) Wheat—No. 2 lied 99 un gju Corn— No. 2 53 ' Oats—No. 2 Mixed 41b(@- .42)4 . MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 94. @ .95 Cohn—No. 3 48)4 u) 40b Oats—No. 2 Wi'bito .34 @ '3s'" Barley—No. 2 c'j @ icß Rye—No. 1 @ 04 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 J OGs . 3.00 & 4.75 Sheep..... 3 .00 @4.73 Wheat—No. 2 Red 07)A@ ,98b Corn—No. 2 Yellow 50 50b Oais—No. 2 White 49 as ‘44 ' „„ TOLEDO. HKAT .. .08 @ .93b Corn—Cash @ 599 Oats—No. 2 White 39 «a 49 ' „ BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to l’rin e 3.50 & 4.50 Hogs -Medium and Heavy 4.2', its 5^93 Wheat—No. 1 Hard @ jos Corn—No. 2 52J$@ .’53 EAST LIHEHTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 @4 75 Hogs—Light t 3,59 @ .4.75, sheep—Medium to Good 4.25 trt 5.25 Lamb s 4.50 <9 5.75 NEW YORK. Cattle s.OO @ 5 03 J* GGa 4.25 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red jn» lb, Oak-No. 2 White *£ g

SOME PARTY LEADERS.

HomlneM for Governor in Various States* James M. Turner, tfie Republican nominee for Governor of Michigan, was born In Lansing in 1850. He wa« edu-

eated in the commonschool at Lansing, and finished his rudimentary training with a course in the academy at Cazeno--1 via, N. Y. Showing early in life an aptitude for ■“business, he found emkpioyment when but 16 years of age in a country store. He remained two years there and then en-

JAS M. TURNER.

tered tho land office of the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad. Ho was given charge of surveys and the examination of lands. In 1876 he was elected to fthe Michigan Legislature, where he served one term. He was the first paymaster of the lonia and Lansing Road. He is now President of the State Agricultural Society, and Mayor of Lansing. E. B. Winans, the Democratic opponent of Mr. Turner in the race for gubernatorial honors in Michigan, was

born in New York State, 64 years ago, moved to Michigan in 1834, and was educated in the district schools and at college. He had the gold fever in 1850, and went to California in a wagon. He mined foreight years, r e-; turned and bought a farm near the little town of

Hamburg, and has lived there ever since. Mr. Winans is a practical farmer and a thorough granger. He may be seen any day with his overalls rolled to the top of his old boots busy at some agricultural work. He has served two terms in Congress. Hon. Eugene Henry Bolden, who has been placed in nomination for Governor by the new Industrial party of Michi-

gan, was born fifty years ago on a farm In H'anover, eight miles from Jackson, Mich., and educated at the Michigan Central College,of Springport. In 1886, while ,a member of the Legislature, he was made Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Bridges and had charge of the revision

E. H. BELDEN.

of the highway laws. Mr. Belden is at present a hardware merchant in Jackson. Governor William D. Hoard, at the recent Republican State Convention in Wisconsin, was chosen by acclamation as

The candidate of his liarty for a second term, and he is now engaged in a lively contest with George W. Peck for the Chief Magistracy of the Badger State. Gov. Hoard is about, 60 years old. He served with gallantry In the civil war, and at the close of that struggle sot-

tied down as a farmer, at which he has been eminently successful. Ho is also editor of Hoard’s Dairyman , the leading journal of the Northwest devoted to the dairy interest. George W. Pock, the nominee of the Democrats for Governor of Wisconsin, was raised in the Badger State, and is

about 50 years old. Ho is a practical pi inter, having served his apprenticeship in the office of the old LaCrosse Democrat, under Brick Pomeroy. He served witli credit in the army, •and after the close of the war edited a news- • paper in LaCrosse. Subsequently, about 1875, ho established in that

GEORGE W. PECK.

v city Peck's Sun, which he removed to Milwaukee two or three years later. It was his weekly humorous sketches of “The Bad Boy and His Pa” that brought him first into public notice. His paper reached an enormous circulation, and money poured into his coffers in a golden stream that fairly dazzled tie eyes of the successful humorist. Personally George Peck is one of the most popular of men. . A year

ago he was elected Mayor of Milwaukee. , In Delaware the Republican nominee for Governor is Harry A. Richardson,the yrfungest man upon whom such an honor has ever" been conferred by I either party of the little commonwealth. He is a native of Car.iden,

HARRY A. RICHARDSON.

Del., and was born thirty-seven years ago. The present is his first appearance

W. J. HORTHEN.

1. Mr. Northcn is a man of accomplishments and wealth, somewhat past the prime of life, but still vigorous and able to endure Ihe tatigues of a campaign.

There may come to you some time a crisis in life when your faith is in total eclipse, when the heavens hang in blackness of darkness above you. In such a crisis remember that it is better to be honest thau dishonest; better to be pure than to be corrupt, to be courageous than cowardly, to be loving and sweet of spirit than to be embittered ai*d to hate, better to hope than to despair.— F. W. Robertson, from Bem\on in Westminster Jbbey. A battling game—dice. J

E. B. WINANS.

W. D. HOARD.

in the political arena. He is in business with his father at Dover, and has the reputation of being wealthy. The Democratic gubernator i a 1 nominee in Georgia was Hon. W.J. i Northen, who was chosen without opposition at the State election held Wednesday, Oct.

THIRTY-NINE STATES

WILL HOLD ELECTIONS ON THE 4TH PROXIMO. Congressmen to Be Chosen in All of Them, While a Few Will Ballot for Governor and Members of the Legislature— List of the States. Elections will be held on Tuesday, the 4th of November, in the following States: Alabama will elect eight Congressmen.Arkansas will elect five Congressmen.. California will elect State officers,. Legislature, and six Congressmen. Colorado will elect State officers, Legislature, and one Congressman. Connecticut will elect State Legislature, and four Congressmen. Delaware will elect Governor, Legislature, and one Congressman. Florida will elect Supreme Court Justice, Controller, Legislature, and two Congressmen. Georgia will elect State officers and Legislature October 1, and vote upon two proposed amendments to the constitution of the State, one extending the* benefits of State pension to- widows of Confederate soldiers and the other allowing the reading and reference of bills bytitle, when introduced; will elect tern Congressman November 4. Illinois will elect State Treasurer,. Superintendent of Public Instruction,. Legislature, and twenty Congressmen. Indiana will elect minor State officers, Legislature, and thirteen Congressmen.. lowa will elect minor State officers andi eleven Congressmen. Kansas will elect State officers, Legislature, seven Congressmen, and voteupon two proposed amendments to the* State constitution. One of the amendments increases the number of Supreme Court Judges from three to seven andi the other lengthens the biennial session, of the Legislature to ninety days and provides for the pay and mileage of members. \

Kentucky will elect eleven Congressmen. Louisiana will elect six Congressmen.. Maryland will elect six Congressmen.. Massachusetts will elect State officers,. Legislature and twelve Congressmen. Michigan will elect State officers,. Legislature and eleven Congressmen. Minnesota will elect State officers,. Legislature and five Congressmen. Mississippi will elect seven Congressmen. Missouri will elect minor State officers,. Legislature and fourteen Congressmen. Montana will elect Legislature and oneCongrcssman. Nebraska will elect State officers, Legislature and three Congressmen and vote upon four proposed amendments to the ■ State constitution. These amendments* relate to prohibition and high license,, provide for five Supreme Judges and increase the Judges’ salaries. Nevada will elect State officers, Legislature and one Congressman. New Hampshire will elect Governor,. Legislature and two Congressmen, New Jersey will elect Legislature and; seven Congressmen. New York will elect Judge of the Court of Appeals, two Judges of the Supreme Court, Assembly, and thirty-four Congressmen. North Carolina will elect Chief and Associate Judge of the Supreme Court,.. Legislature and nine Congressmen. North Dakota will elect State officers,. Legislature and one Congressman. Ohio will elect minor State officers and twenty-one Congressmen. Pennsylvania will elect State officers,. Legislaturbijifid twenty-eight Congressmen. Rhode Island will elect two Congressmen.

South Carolina will elect State officers,. Legislature, and seven Congressmen. South Dakota will elect State officers,. Legislature, and twd Congressmen. Tennessee will elect Governor, Legislature, and ten Congressmen. Texas will elect State officers, Legislature and eleven Congressmen, and vote upon two proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State. One of the amendments relates to the State tax and' the other authorizes the Legislature tc create a commission to regulate railroad; traffic. Virginia will elect ten Congressmen. Washington will elect a Legislature and one Congressman. West Virginia will elect Judge of the Court of Appeals, Legislature and four Congressmen. Wisconsin will elect State officers, Legislature, and nine Congressmen.

The Tomb of Eve.

The Arabs claim that Eve’s tomb is at Jiddan, the seaport of Mecca, says the St. Louis Republic. The temple, with a palm growing out of the solid* stone roof (a curiosity which is of itself the wonder of the Orient), is supposed to mark the last resting place of the first woman. According to Arabian* tradition Eve measured over 200 feet in height, which strangely coincides with an account of our first parents written by a member of the French* Academy of Sciences a few years ago, who also claimed a height of over 20C feet for both of the tenants of the Gan den of Eden. Eve’s tomb, which is in a graveyard surrounded bv high white walls,* and which has not been opened for a single interment for over a thousand years, is the shrine of thousands of devoted Ismaelians who make a pilgrimage to the spot once every seven years. It is hemmed in on all sides by the tombs of departed sheiks and other worthies who have lived out their days in that region of scorching sun and burning sands. Once each year, on June 3, which is, according to Arab legends, the anniversary of ihe death of Abel, the doors of the temple which form a. canopy over the supposed tomb of our first mother remain open all night, in spite of the keeper’s effort to close them. Terrible crie3 of anguish are said to emit from them, as though the memory of the first known tragedy still haunted the remains which blind superstition believes to be deposited there.

It has been noticed that liability to cancer diminishes fiom abont fortyfive to fifty-five onward, and that after seventy there is little to fear from this disease. Only one centenarian is known to have died from it.

French physiologists have found* that alcohol produces the sameeffects—including a derangement similar to delirium tremens—ou dogs as on man.

Society is like atmospheric air, th* higher we go, the lighter it beoomes.