Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1896 — Page 2

B^fJemocrattcScnttnct ■e=s-1 1 : ~ .. —= - J. W. McEWRK, PuWl«hcr, RENSSELAER. - - - INDIANA.

FRENCHMEN FOOLED.

JOHNNY CRAPAUD FULL OF CALIFORNIA PRUNES. They Feed U* Oar Own Bogus Sardine* —Connecticut Yankee Completes a Tour of the World on a Wheel— Mjrutery of the Sea. Tit for Tat. The French people, who hare for so long imposed upon a credulous American public by shipping back to them as the finest of French products Maine herring jmd Southern cotton seed oil in the shape of sardines and olive oil, are now suffering from a counter imposition which is brought to light by United States Consul Germain at Zurich. In the course of a report to the State Department on the subject of American dried fruits in Switzerland, he speaks of the success that has Attended the introduction in France last season of California prunes and then following out the prospect thus opened up, be says that French receivers are arranging to have all such fruit packed in cases, similar :o those used in France, using French marks, so that the goods may be Hold to the retailer as French fruit. CIRCLES THE GLOBE. An Interesting Itinerary Pursued by a Connecticut Man. John J. Brough, a well-known merchant of Manchester, Conn., aged 45 vest's, has returned from a trip around the world, which consumed exactly a year. Mr. Brough traveled on a bicycle wherever possible. Of tlie GO,OOO miles covered by liim 40,000 were by water, 111.000 on his wheel, and the rest by railroad in different countries. Mr. Brough sailed from New York Aug. 17.181)5.' He was accompanied on his start by his brother-in-law, ■Cyrus I’. Forsyth, of Black Creek, Out. The two lauded at Queenstown, Ireland, and while on a tour of the island Mr. Forsyth fell from Iris bicyele anil received a compound fracture of his arm. Ilis companion proceeded alone. He visited Scotland, North and South Wales, and many places in England. From Ixmdon lie went by water to Dieppe, in France, then wheeling to Holland, Germany. At Frankfort lie won a fifty-mile bicycle race and with it a prize of SIOO. In Italy lie rode liis wheel from Home to Naples. At Constantinople lie was in prison for three nighls and two days for being without a passport. Eater he went to Sicily. From Sicily he went to Egypt. Eater he found himself in Arabia, and then made his way by Bombay to Calcutta, From the latter city he made a journey to the Strait settlements. Then to Itango, oil the Bnrinah, and op to China. From China lie went to Japan and overland to Yokohama. Sailing from that Japanese port he reached San Francisco.

TEN ARE p: 09ABLY LOST. Boat’s Crew of Bark Flora Stafford Is Missing. According to private advices received in Philadelphia ten men of the crew of tweu-ty-one men of the British bark Flora Stafford, which was burned at sea several weeks ago. perished. She sailed l'i;om .Newcastle, N. S. W., April 22, for Manila, with about 2,000 tons of coal, and on June 8, in latitude 0 north, longitude 1.1 east, she took fire, presumably throughspontaneous combustion. The' flames soon got beyond control, and flic'brew was compelled to take to the boats, (.'apt. Oscar Smith, a brother to Capt. Smith «if this city, took to one boat with ten men, and the mate with nine .others of the crew got in the second boat. Capt. Smith, with his ten men, succeeded in being slaved; but nothing has ever been heard from the chief mate and his crew. National League. Following is the standing of the clubs •f the National Baseball League: \V. E. AV. 1,. Baltimore .. ,t!8 2J)Brooklyn .. .44 53 Cincinnati.. .08 301'hiladelphia ,43 54 Cleveland . . .5!) 37New Y'ork . . .43 56 Chicago 59 42Washington . ,3G 59 Pittsburg . . .55 4261. Louis . . . .29 till Boston 53 44 Louisville . . .24 OS) Western League. Following is the standing of the clubs 4n the Western League: W. L. AY. L. Minneapolis ..01 38Ivnnsas City .53 47 Indianapolis .00 44Milwaukee . .49 58 St Paul 58 44CoInmbus . . .38 71 Detroit 50 43Gr’d Itapids . .30 72 An Office in Gotham, It is semi-ofliciallv announced that the National Democratic Committee has decided to lutve a branch headquarters at the Hoffman House, in New York. The force at the headquarters will, it is said, consist of two members of the executive or campaign committee, and several members of the national committee from the New England States. The headquarters in New York will be the distributing point for campaign literature in the East, »nd its importance will depend largely upon the result of the Maine election. Baron Von Zedwitz Kilted. Baron von Zedwitz, the German statesman. received fatal injuries Tuesday in a collision between Emperor AViliiam's yacht Meteor, and his own yacht, the Isolde, during the races off South Sea ■coast. The entire crew of the Baron's yacht was thrown overboard, but his was The only life lost.

Martinelli the Man. Father Martlnelli has been appointed to ■succeed Cardinal Hatolli as apostolic deleB*te to the l'nited States. This fact has been contirnied by recent letters that Cuetlhaal Satoll' has received from the Vatican authorities. 1 Nat Goodwin Seeks a Divorce. Nat Goodwin, the actor, has at San Francisco commenced proceedings for a divorce from his wife, Goodwin. Jle charges her with habitual intemjiernnce. It is said that Goodwill and Max- , ine Elliott are to be married. Cabans Buy a Fast Steamer. The fast river steamer Unique. which has tween running between Fort Huron and ‘Detroit, has been sold to an agent of the Oaban Go-ribhiinent. ' It is intended td tarn her into.a blockade runner. Fatal Result of Collision. By the falling of a draw the caboosa Of a freight on the Ixmisville and Nashorflle Road, near Morris Station, Ky., was nhrawn down an embankment. Joshua Wright, a brakeman. was instantly kill *«. John Shieger, another htakemen, vm totally Injured. Levy Made oa a Hotel Dinner. Twenty-five guests waited half an hour i:, laagpr than* usual for their dinner at one rk,*k, Iwteis edpesda.y. A mm4m * few dohara in fayqr of A ® i?i

NEW KIND OF TELEGRAPH. Now Possible to lend Messages from Ship to Shore, T A description of a new electric telegraph has been forwarded to the Department of State by Robert Kirk, consul ;-.t Copenhagen. The apparatus was constructed by a young boatswain in the Danish navy, and makes it possible to communicate with a ship at a certain anchor ground without any direct line from the land. An electric battery is placed on the shore, with one pole in contact with water or moist earth, while the current from the other pole, through h telegraph key and a revolution interrupter, is conducted to a cable which is la*d out to the anchor ground and placed around the latter in a coil with a diameter of 1,000-1,200 feet. On board the ship at the anchor ground, or a short distance outside the coil, there is a small solenoid, with which a telephone is connected. When a message is sent from the land a bell sounds on the ship and the communication is sent by the telegraph key through the telephone instrument. The signals may be based on the Morse alphabet. The apparatus may also lx* so constructed that an answer can be sent from the ship.

DANGER OF AN ICE FAMINE. Stocks at St. Louis Running Low and Prices Are Advancing. St. Louis is seriously threatened with an ice famine. Prices have steadily advanced since the opening of the season, until now they are up to the highest point reached in the city for several years. This week there was an additional increase of $1.25 per ton to the trade, and another increase may he expected soon. The price to the trade now is $5 a ton, or more than double what it was at any time lust year. There are several reasons for this unusual increase in prices, but the principal one is that the stock of ice in nearly all of the local icehouses is almost exhausted. It lias already become necessary for the dealers to begin shipping in from remote northern points, and not a few of them have not been able to supply the demand. SLAIN BY THOUSANDS. Mohammedans Massacred in China by Imperial Orders. The steamer Empress of Japan brought mail advices from the orient as follows: The news from Kansu is that the famous Tung Fuhsiang, in obedience to the imperial command, has begun n massacre of all Mohammedans that he comes across. At Hsiuing-Fu he slew 3,000 business men and sold their wives and female children. Fears are entertained of a general rising, especially in Pintain-Fu and Haitien, which have hitherto remained faithful. 1' loods are doing terrible.damage in China. In uiatiy places entire towns and villages are submerged. All railroads have stopped running. Many deaths have taken place and hundreds of homeless men. women and children are starving to death.

SILVER ALMOST A DRUG. San Francisco Banks Decline to Receive It in Large Quantities. The agitation of the'financial question, which has resulted in sending gold up a fraction of 1 per cent above par in Now York, is causing San Francisco banks much trouble with people who wish to deposit silver and check out gold. Sooje of the banks refuse to take any considerable amount of silver on deposit. During the last two months the supply of gold chin in the San Francisco sub-treasury has decreased from about $15,000,000 to less than $9,000,000. The enormous shrinkage was one of the prime causes which stepped the redemption pt silver certificates in gold coin. Caused by a Cloudburst. Thursday morning the fast mail train hound eastward on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road dashed through a weak culvert near Otis, Ind., and the engineer and tiremau were instantly killed. The accident is one of the worst the Lake Shore has had in years, but fortunately the passengers on the train escaped injury. A washout, brought nbout by a heavy cloudburst, which suddenly struck that region Wednesday night, was .the cause of the. accident. The wrecked train was the fast mail for the east which leaves Chicago as 2:45 every morning, and Is known as No. 44. It does not, as a rule, carry many jiassengers this side of Cleveland. Those who were on board' were in the sleeper and coach at the rear. The train consisted of one of llic large nigines in use on the limited trains of the Lake Shore, two postal ears, a baggage car, day coach and Wagner sleeper. .All the cars with the exception of the day coach and the AA’agner sleeping car left the track, and for all those who were on the train it was an almost miraculous escape from the sudden death which the unfortunate engineer anil fireman iti the cab of the engine suffered. As it was the passengers were severely shaken up and their confusion, when they realized what had taken place, was great. Death came to James Griffin, the engineer, and Michael Roach, the fireman, almost instantly. \\ hen the crew and passengers on the train began a search for them with lanterns they found them at the side of the locomotive. Both were dead and their bodies were horribly mutilated, especially that of Grillin. Both of his legs were torn entirely from the body and were floating on the surface of the water in the pool. His chest was terribly crushed, and the remains are in such a condition ss to be almost unrecognizable.

Terrel’s Sharp Talk. The United states minister to Turkey, Alexander AV. Terrell, has demanded the immediate release of six Armenians, naturalized Americans, who are imprisoned at Aleppo. In so doing Mr. Terrell intimated that any further imprisonment of American citizens would not be tolerated. The State Department has received a dispatch from Minister Terrell saying that nine Armenians claiming to be naturalized Americans were arrested in Turkey. Six of them had passports, and on Minister Terrell’s demand they were immediately released, while investigation into the status of the other three are pending. Further than this the department has no details. It is not known in Washington whether or not Minister Terrell intimated to Turkey that the United States would not tolerate the further imprisonment of American citizens, meaning naturalized Armenians, but from the manner of the otlicials it is thought very likely that Mr. Terrell bus made such a statement’,' and that it meets with approval.,. What the nine men were arrested for the State Department does not know. Will Watoh the SoudaheAe War. , Uieut. Keuciim, of the regular army, at present, stationed, at, Fort Spelling, has been granted a lepvcvof absence and will at once proceed HV Egypt, where hk ex|»ects to join the British Soudanese expedition. It is his intention to join the Nile column. Dr. Nansen Has Returned. It is reported that Hr. Nanserictheanretie explorer, has arrived at Vardo Island, Norway, on. ,bqar4 the., steamer, AYindward, which .went to I'ranz Josef Land fn ( prder to ’ bring back the Jackson-Farnswbrth exdfedition. ‘ r -" ; < -■< b'Uil iron an Gploraflo Reps There are now in Colorado two Stole wmmjtteosoloiming torepfbient the publican party; “ahd two State conventions havfe been called—ode 'for'Sept. 1) •in Denver, hnd the''other' Sept. : SO in Colorado Springs. (

WANTED TO STRIKE THE KING. Oscar of Sweden Almost Assaulted by an Angry Laborer. A special cable to the New- York Journal from Berlin says that King Oscar of Gwedeu. while traveling through Norway, left the trqin at Stoeren. Most of the •lien on the station platform removed their hats. Several of, them, however, kept covered, and the King was in a great rage. He strode up to Ole Foste, a had kept his hat on, and knocked the head covering off. Foste lost his temper and started to attack the King, but ilia friends in the crowd held him back. Mdst of the men in the crowd ho had rPtooved their hats promptly put them on again. Opposed to Haziiur. President Cleveland, as commander-in-chief of the army, has put his foot down forcibly on the practice of hazing at AA'est Point Military Academy. Two cases of hazing have just been before him for consideration and in both he has approved the sentence of dismissal imposed by the court martial. Cadet Giles Bishop was found guilty recently of requiring Cadet C. J. Harris to stand on one foot in a constrained and painful position. Though in- pleaded not guilty before the court, he was convicted. In approving his dismissal f:oni the service of the United States President Cleveland says: “The offense of maltreating and abusing new cadets by upper class men is so mean and cowardly and so opposed to every trait that should characterize a gentleman and a true soldier, that severe punishment should not be necessary to its prevention. If. however, punishment must beYesort-<-d to to effect a discontinuance of this disgraceful practice I can do no less than to resist all appeals for clemency. 1 am determined in all cases of this description, when the proof is clear, to refuse relief to tnose cadets who, in violation of a wholesome regulation of the military academy, indulge in the brutal, cowardly treatment of beginners, cqmmonly culled hazing.” Since the famous case of ten years ago, when the ears of a colored cadet at AVcst Point were cut off, there have been no serious cases qf hazing. The cadets in their idleness this summer, however, have resorted again to hazing to occupy their time and several young men have been severely punished.

Split Up the Ticket. The Ottumwa, la., convention AA’cdnesday resulted in a fusion of the interests of (he parties represented, and the nomination of the following ticket: For eiec-tors-nt-large. Horace Boies, Gen. .Tamos B. AVeaver; district electors, A. F. Kulilemeier, Thomas Stapleton. C. AA'. Green, A. L. Kiinle, Louis Metzgar, Perry Engle, C. 0. Lumis, D. C. Bradley. J. J. Shea, J. B. Butler, F. F. Rose; Secretary of State, L. H. Karr; Auditor of State, G. W. Davis; Attorney General, AA’illiam D. Boies; Treasurer, Charles liuegniiz; Supreme judge, Senator Bolter; Railroad Commissioner (long term), Amos Steckol; Railroad Commissioner (short term), Thomas J. Denson. Hard to Got Into the Army. The tabulation of the enlistments in the United States army for July show that Capt. Palmer, in charge of the Chicago recruiting station, enlisted only twentyseven men out of 4.85 who. applied. The army standard has been raised until it is more difficult to enter it as a private, for the pay of sl4 a month and board, than it is to secure admission into any other department of the Government, since an applicant’s recommendations have to be certified to by two of more responsible citizens and a record for industry must be shown. The total enlistments during the month were 430 and the rejections 2,933. - - -• Entire Family Are Drowned. Thirty lives are reported lost by a cloudburst in Pine Creek Valley, Pa. The whole valley, eight, miles in length, is devastated. I)e Haven, a small town in AA'ildwood dll field, was swept by the mad rush of the flood and an. entire family named Appleton was drowned. How many were in the family is not known. ‘ " —“** J Wreck in Virginia. The F. F. A', train, limited, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, which left AVasliingfou at 11:57 p. • m.A Friday, ran info anopihi Stviteh at Ravens worth. Va., about 12:15 a. m. and four of the six Tnssenger coaches were badly, wrecked. Several Jives are reported lost, aud fifteen or twenty passengers injured. Supposed Murder of \V. F, Kvster. AV. F." Easier, a prominent' man of Chambersburg, Pa., was found dead in an alley at Lincoln, Neb., having been drugged and robtied. He left liis hotel early in the evening with a rough character. Eyster was a director of the B. and C. A'. R. R. Fred Vance and five women are held for the crime. Newspaper on a Railroad. The Burlington road is making arrangements to print a newspaper on one of its trains. The station agents will act as reporters and light, heat and power to run the typesetting machines will be obtained from the engine. M, Hanotaux and “Uncle Sam.” M. Hanotaux, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has announced to the French Cabinet that the United States has recognized the French annexation of Madagascar.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

.Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $5.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 54c to 55c; corn. No. 2,22 cto 2:{c; oats. No. 2,15 c to llic; rye, No. 2,20 cto 50c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 10c; eggs, fresh, 9o to 10c; new potatoes, per bushel. 20<to 30c; broom corn, common short to choice dwarf. $25 to SOO per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $5.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, $5.00 to $5.75: sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, 500 to 57c; corn. No. 2 while, 21c to 25c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 24t. SL Louis—Cattle, $5.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to s:i,so; wheat. No. 2,60 eto t ie; Corn. No. 2 yellow, 21c to 22c: oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; dve, No. 2,28 c to 29c. Cincinnati— Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $5.75: sheep, $2.50 to $5.75: wheat. No. 2,59 cto tile; corn. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 2tic; oats. No. 2 mixed; ltlc to 17c; rvc. No. 2,29 cto 51V; Detroit—Cattle, -$2.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to sheep, $2.00 to $5.75; ,»vheat. No. 2 red. tile,to li3c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 24c tp'2sc;.oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, 30c to 52e. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 02c tb 05c; corn. No, 2 yellow, 24e to 2tic; oats, No, 2 f whilT. iTertp Ufa 3, 30e to 32t,; ctover-s«*i, $4.& r ».Jf , - Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 54c to 50c; corn. No. 5,23 cto 24c; oats. No. 2 white;" 19»‘- to 2H-; No. 2. 500 to 34e; rye. No. 1,29 cto 51c; pork, mess' $15.00 to $0250. . ... Buffalor-tCatfle. $2.50 to $4.,7,5>,h0g5.‘ $5.00 to $5.75; sheep. $2.00 to wheat. No. 2 red, (i2c to 04c;. com. No. 2 yellow. 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 2<ic. New York—Cattle, $5.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3:00 td $4.25; sheep, $2.00 : tp s3.yo;. wheat, No. 2 red, G3c to 05c: corn. No. 2, 28c to 29c; oats. No- 5’ white, 20c to 22e; butter, dreamery, 12c to 17c; eggs, Western, 11c to 13c.

HOT SPELL BROKEN.

RAIN A LIFE SAVER TO SUFFERING HUMANITY. Lone Season of Terrible Heat Departs in a Thunder Storm—Victims in Many Cities—Men and Women Die in Their Tracks on the Streets. Awfnl Death Roll. The of the hot. wave has been broken. The breaking of this cast-iron backbone was accompanied by severe thunder storms, but it is broken. An urea of high pressure developed on the Oregon coast on Sunday night and crossed the Rocky Mountains in Montana with fair velocity. Monday nighs this high area was at Helena. The temperature there was 62 and the velocity of the wind thirty miles an hour. At (ju'appellc, in the Dominion, the temperature was 50, nnd at Havre, Mont., 56. There was rain in the Dakotas and Minnesota Tuesday,

HEAT PATIENT IN THE HOSPITAL.

nnd it reached northern Illinois and Chicago late Tuesday night. Out of the west there came a wind and rain. In an hour the rainfall was more than an inch. In half an hour the fall in temperature was 20 degrees. In that manner Chicago dismissed her hot wave and welcomed the coolness from Montana and AA'yornIng. When the rain came down upon the baking town it was after 6 o'clock. All day men at work had sweltered. Little

people and the old were faint. Some were dead, because the bnttle with them had been too harsh. Then the rain came. Winds blew it out of the west andjout of the north—kind winds—and it fell as unrestrained mercy out of heaven. Sick tinu prostrate ones found in its balms reprieve nnd pardon. Millions thanked God out of their hearts. The day had been oppressive. Mfcn and beast had fallen helpless as the mercury rose steadily, and many feared in midafternoon that the awfulness of Monday night might’have succession npt less terrible. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the mercury was but 1 degree below the maximum registration of twenty-four" hours before. At 4it was 91 degrees. At 6 it had peevishly fallen to 89 degrees. There seemed small voice for thanksgiving. Every hour had brought to the health department fresh lists of stricken

A STRICKEN HORSE.

people, new tales of the dead, added notifications that poor beasts had dropped in harness and demanded burial. Then- the bounty of the sky and the west wind pulled its purse strings wide and men and women breathed again. The slaughter was given pause. This is the record of the conqueror for the hottest three days • SUNDAY. New York ant Brooklyn 72 Philadelphia '..'. .' . 28 Baltimore !Ift Chicago |yg Small Illinois towns 9 Cincinnati 3 Small towns In Indiana 3 Small towns In Ohio | 3 Boston '..... 2 St. Louis o Pittsourg j Cleveland 2 I.otilaville 1 Memphis 1 San Antonio 1 Sioux City j MONDAY. ProsDeaths. tratlons. New York 69 205 Brooklyn 2X 90 New York suburbs 73 201 Chicago 20 91 St. Loots 11 Pittsburg 3 100 Hartford 3 New Haven 3 Boston 1 9 Cleveland 2 60 Toledo ....... 2 Providence 4 AA'asliiagtoa 6 Buffalo 2 Philadelphia 57 128 TUESDAY. ProsDeaths. tratlons. Greater New Y0hk,..........182 600 Boston 0.. .k 12 18 Philadelphia 18 00 Washington 3 Iff Baltimore 2 12 St. Louis 12 89 Indianapolis 1 3 Cincinnati 10 Cleveland 1 5 Louisville 3 17 Btllllvan, lud 7 15 Terre Haute, Ind 10 80 Chicago 8 84 Total , 265 794 The baking to which this continent has bean subjected is almost unprecedented

In the weather history of America. Every summer there are periods of six or seven days in which thertfemperature remains abnormally high* over small areas. But rarely if ever has the whole country borne continuous heat for so long a time. St Paul and Jacksonville, Fla., El Paso and Abilene, Pueblo and Green Bay suffered about equally, and the hot wave rolled mercilessly from, the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic ocean. The cumulative effects of the excessive temperature on the public health are marked in-the returns of sunstrokes turned in by the police and the observations of general mortality made by the health -department of largfc cities. Although the temperature in Chicago Tuesday a week ago was 94, the number of prostrations was small; jt grew on Wednesday with the mercury at 96; it was* still larger on Thursday when a maximum temperature of only 85 was recorded. Thence it mounted steadily to the extraordinary and appalling record for Sunday and Monday. New Yorkers Puffer, With the beginning of the seventh day of torrid heat New York city gave one great, gasping sigh and then submitted to a scorching that struck down men and women on the streets and in their homes, babies in their mothers’ arms, and children in their beds. Though the humidity was not so great as it has been, the mortality list aud the roll of those who fell prostrate were longer than ever. Men and women who had lived through six days of such awful heat could not withstand its cumulative effects. It is fair to say that hardly more than 80 per cent of thuse overcome had their cases reported to the police. Many were stricken down and went to their homes or were taken care of by friends, and of these the authorities know nothing.

RUIN LEFT BY WIND. Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and lows Swept by Storms. Michigan had a severe tussle with a storm Sunday night and Monday. A veritable cloudburst visited lonia. One storm struck the city at 11 o’clock and a second came two hours later. Complete prostration of telegraph and telephone wires resulted. No human victims

DEATH IN THE SUN.

were claimed in the city, but the property damage will reach fully 875,000. In the agricultural districts the storm seems to have been equally disastrous. From nearly every direction, of buildings blown down or unroofed, while hundreds of acres of fruit trees are torn up or broken down and the fruit destroyed. Corn is flat on the ground from the effect of the rain, hail and wind, while miles of fence will have to be rebuilt. The damage to the rural districts will aggregate many thousands of dollars. Loss of live stock especially promises to reach an astonishingly high figure. A loss of SIOO,OOO was occasioned by a terrific wind which swept over Saginaw early Monday morning, but human victims were claimed. The storm was accompanied by terrific lightning and a deluge of water. In some sections of lowa the wind almost amounted to a tornado. Immense trees were blown down, houses moved off their foundations and barns and outbuildings dismantled. Panic-stricken people rushed for enves, cellars and other places of refuge. At' Sandusky, 0., Jay Leonard nnd John Thomas, of Cheboygan, employed a dock, were struck by lightning while operating a saw aud instantly killed.

WEATHER CROP CONDITIONS.

Weekly Report of the Agricultural Department for Different States. The reperts as to the condition of the crops throughout the country and the general effect of the weather on the growth, cultivation and harvest of same made by the directors of the several climate and crop sections show that intense 'heat and lack of rain, conditions which characterized the preceding week in the Southern States, have.continued and have affected the principal crops in that section very unfavorably. While the week has been excessively warm throughout most of the country east of the Rocky Mountains, the injurious effects of the heat upon crops has been largely confined to the Southern States, and cotton is the crop which has suffered to the greatest extent. The cotton crop has deteriorated generally throughout the cotton belt. The intense heat and lack of moisture has caused premature opening of bolls and shedding, and in Arkansas on uplands, the plant is dying. Central and northern Texas and Oklahoma hot winds have seriously injured cotton and under the most favorable future conditions the crop m Texas will be below the average. The general condition of the crop is much in advance of the season. North Carolina reports that the first bale has been marketed In that State, earlier than ever known. Late corn has been injured to some extent by hot winds in portions of

Kansas and southwest Nebraska, and the crop is suffering from drought in the southern portion of Missouri nnd Illinois. Generally throughout tho-Soutliern States corn has not made good progress during the week, but in the great corn States of the central nnd northwest the crop is maturing rapidly under most favorable conditions, and much of the early planted'corn a's far north as lowa will be made by September 1, ov~sh

ANDERSON AS HE RODE BEHIND THE TRAIN.

earlier than uauaL The general condition of tobacco ia promising, although ripening too rapidly in portions of Tennessee and Kentucky. The crop is much in advance of the season and cutting is now in progress in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New England. Considerable plowing for fall seeding has been done, but the extremely warm weather of the past week has interrupted the wbrk. Light frosts occurred in eastern Idaho on the morning of the fifth, causing little or no damage.

LOSES BY THREE SECONDS.

E. O. Anderson Fails to Ride ■ Mile in a Minute. But for an accident Cyclist E. O. Anderson would have made a mile in one minute in the recent race behind the Bluff line engine at Alton, 111. When within 500 feet of the finish he was close behind the

CYCLIST E. E. ANDERSON.

coach, which was'’moving at just sixty miles an hour. At that distance from the finish Anderson thought he heard, amid the roar of the train and rushing wind, the torpedo that was to announce that the run was ended. He slowed down, then, seeing his mistake, again spurted. But he had lost three seconds. The train covered the ground in something better than a sixty-mile gait, but the rider came short just sufficiently to miss by threp seconds hip wager to cover the mile in one minute. However, he demonstrated the fact that a bicycle can oe put over ground a great deal faster than anyone has ever before thought of doing, and thereby earned the laudation of wheeling enthusiasts everywhere. A great cheer wont up from the throng, when the result was announced. The first half mile was covered at the rate of sixty-two'miles an hour. In this trial Anderson ’ used a wheel geared to 130 inches. It covered about 40 feet to one revolution of-the pedals. To .cover the 5,280 feet inside of 60 seconds lie was required to make about two eftid one-half revolutions of each pedal h second. The great drawback.that stands in the way of making a mile a minute in the open air on a bicycle is the wind resistance. Gould this be overcome it would be possible to ride a mile in 30 seconds, provided the rider could revolve the pedals rapidly enough. The “home trainers’’ now in use in bicycle academies have shown that it is possible for a rider to revolve his feet or make the muscles of his leg net three times a second and cover a mile in “from 40 to 50 seconds. The distance is accurately measured on the “home trainer" and it is beyond that where' a rider is putting forth his best effort in a dead calm on a “homo trainer” he can revolve the rollers so as to register a mile in 15 seconds less than a minute.

MURRAY HILL BANK CLOSED.

Well-Known New York Institution in Ffnancinl Distress. The Murray Hill Bank of New York is closed pending an examination of the condition of its affairs. The Murray Hill Bank was organized'in 1870. It has been regarded as one of the strongest of the uptown institutions. It is understood that there v* due its 1,700 depositors *about $1,230,000. The customers of the bank were chiefly local tradesmen. The capital of the bank was 8100,000. The deposits of the bank have fallen off $250,000 in the last few months. Three hundred thousand dollars of the available $572,000. which is the outside available assets, is hypothecated to secure the clearing house and another loau on the outside of $50,000. The Security Bank of Duluth, capital SIOO,OOO, one of the leading banks of the city, closed its doors Tuesday morning. Heavy withdrawals of depositors and the impossibility of making speedy collections arc given as the cause. With SSOO in their vaults, against deposits of $115,000, Louis D. Taylor & Co., private bankers of Chicago, suspended business. The Equitable Trust Company was appointed receiver. At least 800 persons, most of whom are small tradesmen, were depositors in the bank.

FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK CITY.

Three and Possibly More Burned to Death in View of Their Frienda. At least three persons and possibly others were burned, to death in a fire that destroyed a six-story brick building at 465 Greenwich street, New York. Several persons were overcome by the smoke and heat and hurt- by jumping, and two of them are expected to die. It is said that had there been more than one fire escape to the building the chances are that the loss of life' would have been averted. It was only last Saturday that the owner of the building was notified that more fire escapes must be put up, as the single one would prove inadequate in case of fire. This horror proved the truthfulness of the prediction. A terrible conflagration broke out In Norfolk, Ya., destroying the Atlantic sawmills. the Old Dominion’s guana factory and the Merritt wrecking warehouse and the docks. The heat .was terrible, and no less than twenty-five firemen were stricken down at their post of duty and removed to the hospital and their homes. The total loss will reach nearly SIOO,OOO. The

cause of the fire is unknown. At Anamosa, lowai a fire started in the in the cellar of the lowa prison dining room. The tire was soon beyond control. The entire entry building was destroyed, including the large library of 8,000 volumes, the tailor shop, diuiug room and chapel. The Defnperatlc national headquarters will nrvy'Xi'lf he at Washington.

BRYAN IS NOTIFIED.

THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE ACCEPTS. Immense Gathering in Madiaon t'qua re Garden—Candidate Talks for Two Hours-Makea the Effort of Hia Life—Bewail la Likewise Informed. Democratic Candidates Accept. William Jennings Bryan formally acrepted the Democratic presidential nomination St Madison Square Garden, in New York, Wednesday night. Mr. Bryan’s run across country had played havoc with his voice. He had gone to bed the night previous with a well-developed attack of laryngitis and had been confined to his room under the‘doctor's care all of Wednesday. It was at first feared that he would Dot be able to speak at all. Mr. Bryan, for the most part, made no effort to deal in oratory, but confined himself to the reading of a carefully prepared address, from whose text he did not vary, as from his manuscript he only now nnd then lifted his eyes. It was a scene to inspire an orator. Madison Square Garden is a beautiful auditorium with its shallow galleries, its great tiers of boxes at the rounded ends of the hall, its low roof studded with electric lights. Eighteen thousand , people had assembled in the big place at S o’clock. Every one of the 8,500 seats was occupied, and 10,000 persons stood in the open spaces at the ends of the hall. These people had assembled with a huge stock of good nature, and perhaps one in five # of them came with genuine enthusiasm in his heart. All were there to greet one upon \vh6m the mantle of fume had dramatically fallen. Aside from the members of the National Notification Committee, the prominent Democrats who honored the occasion with their presence hailed principally from the West and South. Senators Jones and Stewart occupied conspicuous seats. Senators Roach of North Dakota, Blanchard of Louisiana, Pasco of Florida and Blackburn of Kentucky were in the rear of the platform, as were Representatives Livingston of Georgia and Richardson of Tennessee, ex-Representative George Fred Williams of Massachusetts, A. ,T. Warner of Ohio, Col. Joseph Rickey of St. Louis, Richard F. Bland, Col. Richard Bright, ex-Gov. Hogg of Texas, Banker Creighton of Omaha and Henry Clay. Suizer of New York. - -. The big hall filled early, not without much confusion at the entrances. When the crowd saw-.V’Silver Dick”-Blaud it set tip a shout, which was as nothing to the

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cheers which greeted Mrs. Bryan when she came in with Mr. St. John and took a seat near the platform. “She’s all right!” shouted one enthusiast, at which the people laughed aud cheered again. Presently a lusty shout near the main enlrance, which was taken up aud rolled to the far ends of the big hall, announced the arrival of the hero of the hour. After Mr. Bryan had worked to the front of the platform and smiled and bowed to the audience, which cheered hint for fully a minute, Mr. Jones, chairman of the national committee, introduced Elliott Danforth of New York as chairman of the meeting. Mr. Danforth merely welcomed the strangers who were within the gates of New York, and presented Gov. Stone of Missouri, the chairman of the notification committee. He spoke for twenty-five minutes aud at the conclusion turned and placed in Mr. Bryants Lands a big roll of parchment, on which had been engrossed the official notification of the Chicago nomination. Mr. Bryan bowed and smiled, while the audience rose to its feet and cheered. The band played, and an enthusiast excitedly waved an American flag over Mr. Bryun’s head Chairman Danforth’s introduction of Mr. Bryan was followed by an uproarious demonstration, which continued persistently for several minutes. Bryan himself waved his hand deprecatingly, but the enthusiastic ones went on with their shouting. Chairman Danforth rapped with his gavel, but in reply a man in one of the boxes waved a chair out over the heads of the people below and called for three cheers for. Bryan. Chairman Jones appealed for order, and another Tammanyite distinguished himself by calling for three cheers and a tiger. Finally those who wanted to hear what Mr. Bryan had to say hissed the ones who wanted to hear the sound of their own voices, and then order was restored. Mr. Bryan began reading his manuscript. It was painfully evident, however. that the candidate was not himself. Mr. Bi'yan spoke for one hour and fifty minutes, and the hands of the clock pointed to 10:35 when he finished the peroration addressed ,to the citizens of New York. The terrific heat had made the upper galleries almost unendurable, and before Mr. Bryan had finished a majority of their oeapants had defiled through the doors. Candidate .Sewall was very heartily cheered when he stepped forward after he, .with “Silver Diok” Bland and other leaders on the stage, had grasped Mr. Bryan’s hand in congratulation. Mr. Sewall wore a black frock coat buttoned tightly about his breast. Ho was handed the formal notification of his nomination by Senator -Tones, Mr. Sewall makes no pretensions to oratorical ability, and, hlthough hlft voice might fill an ordinary hall, it was hardly equal to Madison Square Garden, with hundreds tramping about the floor. His words were few. and at 10:51 Chairman Danforth declared the meeting adjourned.

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The fertilizing works of Daniel Baugh & Sons at Philadelphia were damaged by fire to the extent of $125,000. Annie Both, 23 yfufs old, was found dead in bed at New Yoyk/ivith her throat cut from ear to ear In her room. The police believe the woman was mtltdered. Mail Carrier Hompmcier, whose stage was reported fobbed by -outlaces between Okeuee and Lacey,. lias confessed he committed the crime himself. Hempmeier is 17 years old. Harvey Allender shot nnd killed Miss Wally Fielner and V, Crosse*, te at San Jose. Cal., nnd then attempted to kill himself, biit failed. • peenrred iu a crowded street iunf..ereat<ki In-' tense excitement. Allendet was in lov* with the woman.