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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

The salt trust has a capital of $11, COO,000. The salt trust will go into operation in October.

Ytllow fever has made its appearance at Colon. At Atlanta, Ga., Jake Morris laughed himself to death.

A genuine case of leprosy has been discovered in New Orleans. At Cheyenne River Agency the Sioux Commissioners met with violent opposition Thursday.

A paper trust has been formed in Lon* don and paper is expected to advance 2 per cent. at once. ... A boiler exploded at Washington, C.

H. Ohio Friday, killing two men and injuring many others.

Champion Sullivan arrived in New York, Friday, still drunk. He immedi- .. atety went into hiding.

Wm. McKellop, a wealthy gentlemen ol Lansing, Mich., was workea for $4,000 bv a gold-brick swindler.

Dr. McDow, Captain Dawson's slayer, was expelled from the South Carolina 1 Medical Society Thursday.

The hay crop is a total failure in Dakota. The indications now are that a half crop of wheat will be realized.

All branches of business were BUS* pended at Cincinnati, Sunday, on account of retaliation by saloon keepers.

Three hundred employes in the silk mills at Paterson, N. J., have struck against a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages.

General Mahone says tb Virginia Republican factions have buried the hatchet so deep that the handle is sticking out in China.

A Company was organized in London Friday, in the nature of a trust, for the pun hase of the principal brick yards of the United States.

Bab Younger, the Missouri outlaw, in prison at Stillwater, Minn., has been refuged a pardon, though in the lasl stages of consumption.

The Governor of Wisconsin has been compelled to send trocp.3 to West Superior, where the ore miners, who are on a strike, are acting badly. "Rustler" James Averill and '"cattle queen" Kate Maxwell, a disreputable character living with Averill, were hanged in Carbon county, Wy. T., Tuesday, for cattle stealing.

Four Gainesville, Ga., boys conspired to rob a bank, intending to intimidate the cashier with a revolver. One of them turned informer, and they were captured by the police.

The cotton crop alone the Colo/ada River, in Texas, has been damaged, hall a million dollars. At Columbus the river is thirty-one feet high. Several lives are said to have been lost.

Mrs. Mary Pillow, widow of the Confederate General, filed a bill for $100,000 damages for defamation of character in the Circuit Court at Memphis, Tenn., Wednesday, against Col. Clay King.

A young son of Henry Lindsay (colored), of Georgia, after witnessing a hanging was so impressed that he went home and broke his neck at the end of a rope which he tied to a fence post.

Mrs. Mary Robins, aged ninety years, died Sunday at Sharon, Pa. She was never inside of a postoffice or on a railroad train during her life. She had nursed Gen. Hancock when he was an infant.

The New York Graphic says that the National Democratic Committee still owes over $200,000 for campaign expenses and that Messrs. Brice, Gorman and Scott have made up $120,000 of that sum.

A delegate to the Montana Constitutional Convention read a communication. Saturday, from New York, requesting that the new State be called Jefferson. in honor of the spostle of Democracy.

A frightful accident occurred on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, a mile ea3t of Shamokin, Pa., Wednesday evening, by two runaway cars colliding with a passenger train. One man was killed and several wonnded.

The New Jersey Prohibition State Convention Fridav chose Courtland Parker chairman, and adopted a platform declaring against any fusing or compromise. Hon. George Lamont was nominated for Governor.

Gov. Lowry, of Mississippi, through his Attorney General, has filed suit against the Northeastern Railroad, asking for forfeiture of its charter in the State of Mississippi because the road aided and abetted the Sullivan and Kilrain prize fight.

A epecial from Wareham, Mass., says: Ex-President Grover Cleveland will probably spend a week or more in the contemplative pastime of angling. He left here at 10:29 Wednesday on his way to Sapnmore, where, as the guest of Mr. Johu Knowlton, he will acquire a healthy tau, and probably additional laurels as the lander of big fish.

Mrs. Mary Ann Schaub, an aged German lady of Nashville, died of old age, and her will was probated Saturday. She had accumulated property valued at $6,000. and this she leaves in trust to two of her favorite dosrs. A young lady is made second beneficiary on condition that she will live in the house and care for these dogs. The dogs are the commonest kind of curs. & A dispatch from Grafton, Dak., says:

Crops in the Canadian Northwest and along the Dakota line are in bad shape. Farmers are almost destitute, and some instances are reported where they were subsisting on field mice and gophers. In the Canalian Northwest the crops are nil. A party of emigrants from the ttoures country was met Thursday on the boundary line. They had traveled 800 miles through a well settled country on the Canadian side without seeing a fair crop, and say a great many settlers are leaving.

Albert Bulow was hanged at 1.48 a. m. Friday at Little Falls, Minn., in accordance with the new Minnesota law, which prescribes that executions shall take place between the hours of 1 and 4 a.m. The law limits the number of parsons who shall witness the execution

and there were only thirteen persons inside the inclosure when the drop fell. Bulmv metdoanh bravely, and made no confession. The law provides that newspapers shall publish only the bare announcement of hangings, but all the Minneapolis end St. Paul papers contain full details of Bulow's execution.

A special from Atlanta says: A month has passed since John Pickttt expiated

the crime of murder on the gallows. The memory of the event has been reawakened in a remarkable manner. A report comes from Sumpter county that Pickett is still alive ana living in that portion of the State that after the hang ing his body was taken in charge by friends, who worked successfully at resuscitation. The story has created a good deal of interest in this city, for il Pickett is still alive and can be apprehended, the question is whether he can be hanged again.

Sunday in Williams county, Ohio, Hiram Hoadly, a prominent and wealthy farmer, shot his wife, her father, and killed himself. His wife had gone to her father's to live and had sued for divorce. Saturday night Hoadley armed himself with three revolvers and asked admittance to his father-in law's residence, which was denied. He secreted himself behind a wood pile until morning, and when his wife appeared shot her three times in the head and five times in the breast. Her father came to the rescue and was shot three times by Hoadley, who then shot himself twice in the head.

Another county seat war is threatened in Garfield county, Kansas. The bitterest feeling exists between the towns of Ravenna and Eminence, and a collision is probable. The Supreme Court decided a few days ago that Eminence is tke legal county seat of Garfield county, which makes it necessary to remove the county records from Ravenna, where the capital has been located for three years. The Ravenna people propose to resist the removal ana ask for a new trial. Eminence is determined to have the county records. The records are now guarded in the court house at Ravenna, and the citizens have organized to prevent any attack.

FOREIGN.

Parnell was enthusiastically received by 70,000 people at Edinburg, Saturday. News received July 23, from Portfau Prince, July 11, is to the effect that Hippolyte had been repeatedly repulsed and had retired several miles from the city to recuperate.

The Emperor of Brazil attended a theatrical performance in Rio de aneiro, Tuesday night. As His Majesty was leaving the theater at the conclusion of the performance a Portuguese fired a shot from a revolver at him. The bullet, however, missed the Emperor and he sustained no injury whatever. The would-be assassin was taken into custody.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Civil Service Commission has submitted to the Postmaster General a report upon the condition and management of the postoffice at Grand Rapids, Mich. "In the course of the recent examination by the Civil Service Commission into the condition and management of the postoffice at Grand Rapids, Mich., and in so far as it is affected by the provisions of the civil service act, certain charges were made against the postmaster, Mr. Blair, and against the then chief clerk of the railway mail service, Mr. F. A. Hudson. 'the charges backed up sworn affidavits, and are of such a nature that the Com* mission, in view of a lack of power to subpena witnesses and administer oaths, deem it proper to turn the whole matter over to the Postoffice Department.

The only affidavit affecting Mr. Blair is that of McConville, which asserts that Mr. Blair was present in the Government building, at Grand Rapids, one day in October, 1888, and assisted the clerk, Hudson, in attempting to extort from John McConville a contribution of money for political purposes. On this point the affidavit is unsupported by any others, while it is explicitly contradicted by the affidavits of both Mr. Blair and Mr. Hudson, and the Commissioners do not consider that in itself it is sufficient to warrant theii asking any action to be taken thereon. But in the case of Mr. Hudson, all seven affidavits charge him with having collected or attempted to collect money for political purposes from Government employes,

The affidavits of L, K. Salisbury and Geo. J. Ergenzeigner set forth that, at Hudson's request, they paid him money for campaign purposes in the Government building, at Grand Rapids, last fall they also set forth that, at his request, thev wrote him letters, about June 10,1889, stating that they had not been asked to make, and had not made, such contribution. Ergenzeigner states that he wrote the letter for fear of losing his place, while Salisbury asserts that he wrote his from motives of friendship.

If the assertions contained in these affidavits are not disproved or explained by other evidence, the commissioners believe that they warrant Mr. Hudson's indictment under sections 11,12, 13,14 15 of the civil service act. But Mr. Hudson has submitted, together with his affidavit, denying specifically all the charges, the affidavit of the Chairman of the Local Democratic Party Organization, denying that Mr. Hudson turned over such sums as were alleged, and also copies of letters from Mr. Ergenzeigner and Salisbury, denying the very facts they set forth in their affidavits, as well as letters and other matter tending to shew the bad character or the improper animus of the other men, who make affidavits against him.

If Mr. Hudson is guilty he should be prosecuted if he is not guilty, then the men swearing falsely against him should themselves be prosecuted for entering into a peculiarly infamous conspiracy to blacken his character.

The Mahone and anti-Mahone factions of the Virginia Republicans, it is an nounced, have been harmonized by committee of the National Republican Committee and the white dove of peace is to float peacefully over their delibera tions in the coming State convention.

The President has appointed M. M. Hurley, of New Albany, Ind., to be Third Auditor of the Treasury, to .succeed John S. Williams, of Lafayette.

Ex-Congressman Horr, of Michigan, positively declines the Consulship to Valparaiso, which appointment was tendered some weeks ago.

Commissioner Tanner proposes to de mand, it is said, an investigation of his office under his and previous adminis trations.

It must very hard for a funny actor to keep up the spirit of his part when during the whole performance he sees his audience sitting in tiers.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Corydon has passed a cow ordinance. Channel coal of good quality has been vound at Seymour.

Major Doxey has contracted to pipe natural gas to Rushville. White Caps severely lashed Ea. Loftus, near Pittsboro Monday night.

Indianapolis prohibitionists^ will meet Aug. 9 to nominate a city ticket. The Indiana militia, numbering 1,600, went into camp at Indianapolis July 22, for one week.

It is claimed that five hundred residences are needed in Anderson to supply the demand.

Farmers living along creeks in Montgomerv county are posting their lands against fishermen.

Melons, ene of the staples of Jackson county, will be late, but the crop will be good in quantity and quality.

The Miami county butchers have organized to fight the new inspection law requiring cattle on the hoof to be inspected at their expense.

Wolf Lake has a curiosity in the way of a ball nine, the young men composing the club being all of one name (Hile), and putting up a good game.

Joe Stvltz, in jail at New Albany, awaiting trial on a charge of subornation of perj ury, was serenaded by a band of Louisville (Ky.) musicians the other night.

Through the carlessness of a neighbor, who emptied his pipe near the stacks, the entire wheat crop of Samuel Windall, in Harrison county, was destroyed by fire.

The busines men of Monroeville are still continuing the boycott inaugurated against Hugh Stewart, recently appointed postmaster, and an inspector is there, looking over the field.

A gang of White- Caps, in which some women were included, at Rochester, on Wednesday night, assaulted Mrs. Wm. Piatt, and other parties in the neighborhood were threatened.

John Glenn, aged twelve, of Lebanon, pointed a gun loaded with buckshot at Lewis Smith, aged twenty-two, and an accidental discharge of the weapon fatally wounded Smith in the bowels.

The Danville Normal School nas a class in civil engineering which is called the "J" class, because that letter figures largely in the names of the members, who are J. Obear, J. Beeler, Pruitt, J. Worsham and J. McGaw.

Hon. Rufus Magee, ex-Minister to Norway and Sweden, returned to Logansport on Saturday, and in the evening he was given a reception at the Cpera House by his friends, irrespective of politics. Hon. G. N. Fitch presided.

Adjutant General Ruckle has done for the Indiana militia what men with powerful influence couldn't do for the Grand Army of the Republic—he has secured a one-cent rate for the round trip for all the militiamen of the State who attend the State encampment.

George Weaver, a farmer, near Avilla has discovered that his oats is largely marked with the letter "B," which is found on the bright side of the blade, and is plainly perceptible to the touch as well as sight. His superstitious neighbors imagine that a bloody time is foretold.

The contract for the construction of the new sewer from the Northern Penitentiary to Lake Michigan was let Tuesdav, an Elkhart firm securing the work. The contract price is a little over $9,000. The Legislature appropriated $10,000 with which to make the improvement.

A snake 22 feet and 10J inches long, which has been terrifying the people of Warrick county for several weeks, and which has destroyed many sheep and pigs, was killed last week. It was shipped to Indianapolis^ to be stuffed. It is an anaconda, and is supposed to have escaped from a circus.

Lead ore has been found in large quantities near Vincennes. An analy8! by President Bryant, of Vincennes University, assisted by two chemists, shows 95 per cent, of pure lead. Mr. Anderson says that there are millions of tons, within easy access, but be refuses to tell the exact location.

The secret ballot which was taken among the miners in Clay county, to determine whether the strike should end or be continued, was finished Friday night, and the indications point to a decisive defeat for those not wishing longer to keep up the struggle, It is claimed that the proposition to go to work will be beaten four to one.

The oat harvest in this part of Indiana will be over this week. The crop iB a fair one. Wheat has panned out far better than was expected. The green louse did little damage. The rains have done no material harm to the grain the shock. Corn is going to make a big crop. Indiana is "all right."—Indianapolis News.

WRECK ON THE BIG FOUR.

A startling wreck occured on the Big Four road at New Point, near Greensburg late Thursday night. A freight train met with an accident a few miles south of Greensburg. One car and a caboose had to be left, while the engine and train proceeded, intending to telegraph for and secure aid. When the freight train had gone a short distance it passed over an ugly bit of road, and then the engineer discovered that his train had broken in two. They were on along down grade and the wild cars be hind were going at a great speed when he discovered what had occurred. The only thing for him to do was to open the throttle wide and keep out of the way of the flying cars pursuing him. The nearest place where he thought it

ossible to find safety was Batesville. he could gain on the cars behind sufficiently to give him time to get into a switch at Batesville, they could be thrown from the track and the danger averted. The engineer also realised that the express train was about due at Batesville. Here was a section of train with certain disaster if it slacked its speed, and still more terrible destruction ahead unless it could win in its race with the express train to reach Batesville. But fate was against the engineer. The express reached Batesville and passed on westward with no premonition of danger. A few miles ont the trains met, both running at terrific speed. Then when confusion and ruin were supreme and the cries of scared people and the hiss of escaping steam filled the air, that portion of the freignt train which was coming down the grade at lightning speed, of its own momentum, dashed into the heaped up

wreckage. It is perhaps the worst die* aster which ever befell the Big Four road. The destruction of cars and engines and track is great. As soon as the news of the calamity could be taken to a telegraph office, officers of the road were notified and a force of wreckers and physicians from Indianapolis was sent to the scene. No passengers were injured. The only person killed was a tramp, who was riding on the front of the mail car. He was horribly mangled. Fred G. Ketchum, a postal clerk, was crushed about the chest and abdomen and badly injured. The engineers and firemen jumped.

THE STATE CAPITAL.

The Republican State Central Committee met at Indianapolis, Friday, with a full attendance of the committee and many party workers of the State. United States Treasurer Huston submitted his resignation, as did also Commissioner of the District of Columbia Ransdell as Vice Chairman, Postmaster Wallace as Treasurer and Money Receiver Dillie as 8wretary. The resignations were accepted, and in a series of resolutions Mr. Huston was profusely thanked and endorsed. The election to fill the vacancies resulted in the unanimous selection of Attorney General Micheneraa Chairman. Mr. Michener made a brief speech promising his Jbest energy, and unalterable devotion to the interests of the party. Mr. R. Sulzer, of Madison was also unanimously elected Vice Chairman, Three candidates, F. R. Millikan, of New Castle, W. H. Smith, of Indianapolis and W. R. McClelland, of Danville, were nominated for Secretary. Mr. Millikan was elected on the first ballot Joseph I. Irwin, of Columbus, was unaminously elected Treas urer. The following resolution was adopted:

Whereas, The Republican State Central Committee, hi session assembled at Indianapolis July 19, 1889. take this opportunity to express its unqualified indorsement of the adminstration of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States.

Resolved, That we regard President Harrison as a safe, wise and earnest executive, who will bring to the whole people an administration of public affairs that will reflect unquestioned credit to the great party which he represents, and at tne same time add honor and destincton to the nation.

The Committee then adjourned. Leading members of the party in interviews published in the Journal express fullest confidence and satisfaction in the adminstration of President Harrison. n-

By reason of the inability of the various counties to loan all the moneys secured through the new school-bond loan, the people willreallv lose $117,000, for the interest to the State must be paid.

General M. D. Manson will be one of the speakers at the monument corner stone laying. The many other gentlemen of distinction invited to be present and make speeches have not yet been heard from, but it is thought they will all accept. The Sons of Veterans of Ohio ana Kentucky have accepted an invitation to be here, and other organizations from outside the State are expected to join the parade. There is every promise of a one cent rate for ticket*, coming on the 21st and 22d of August and good returning on the 22d and 23d.

Tons of Batter.

New York City is surfeited with butter. There are now 13,000,000 pounds stored away in that city and vicinity and the supply is increasing at the rate of 3,000,000 pounds per week.

The end is not yet, for the country reports plenty of good feed and the cows are in a prosperous condition. The export trade, although pretty satisfactory, is not what it should be, and one merchant hinted that the small amount of butter exported was, in a certain measure, due to dishonesty on the part of some exporters. Vile, adulterated stuff has been shipped to Europe and sold as genuine American butter. The consumers were not slow in finding out the imposition, and the result was a prejudice against American butter. European dealers turned their eyes to other countries for their supply. It is true that most of the fine trable butter remains in this country, and most inferior grades and butter whose flavor has been affected are shipped to Europe, where they are skillfully doctored and improved. The average quantity exported from New York each week has been about 500,000 packages at this season of the year. During the past six days 850,C00 pounds were exported.

Preparing to Ship in Their Paupers.

The English poor authorities are making arrangements to send over to the United States 250 Irish families,who are unable to support themselves in the old country, and who are consequently liable to become a burden upon the public exchequer. This was the intelligence imparted in an affidavit made at Castle Garden Friday by Thomas Shea, whose son, John, and a daughter, Mary, arrived on the Anchor Line steamer, City of Rome. Mr. Shea, who is a stalwart Irishman with bushy,red whiskers, freely acknowledged that the passages of himself and son were paid by the poor authorities, and that £3 in English money had been given him for traveling expenses. Shea's glory is that he lived in the town of Tralee, County of Kerry, Ireland, and was a laborer in a stone quarry. Wages at the best of times, he says, were not more than three shillings Eer day, and before leaving he earned iess than one shilling. He had hardly money at times, as he expressed it, "to buy a ha-penny doock" (duck), and there were hundreds around him worse off.

Locomotive Explode*.

A frightful explosion occurred Tuesday on the Union Pacific Railway, three miles west of Topeka, Kan. The switch engine employed in the yards there was hauling a train of cars to a point where the track was being repaired. Just as it was slowing up, the boiler of the engine exploded with terrible force, scattering it into fragments for a

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tance of several hundred yards. Fireman James Dutton was fatally,injured, and Engineer R. T. Seacord received injuries which will probably prove fatal. Trainmen on the cars also received serious injuries. The track was torn up for a

distance of 150 feet,

and the cars were scattered promiscuously about

JACK THE RIPPER.

Another Mysterious Murder of a Woman at Whitcchapel.

One more in the series of mysterious murders occurred at Whitechapel, London, Wednesday night. This time the woman's body was scarcely cold when she was discovered. The warm blood was flowing from the gashes in her body. A policeman was stalking about within fifty yards of the spot. L:ghts were moving in the windows of the adjacent tenement houses, but the murderer did his work

swiftly and silently that no

one heard the victim's cry. After holding the inquest on the body, the police appear to be as hopelessly in the dark as ever, and to have as little prospect of catching the criminal as when the first of the murdered women was found bleeding in the street.

In the matter of details this murder differs very little from the others. It is true that there are no such revolting mutilations but everything goes to show that this is simply because the a eaesin had been interrupted in his work, being frightened by a drunken peddler, who had stopped to wrangle with the policeman on the beat.

A correspondent saw the body of the victim in the mortuary. The throat was cut in the same manner as in the case of the Berner street woman, by plunging a knife just under the left ear and cutting towards the right ear sufficiently to completely sever the wind pipe. The woman probably never had time to utter a cry. The only other wound on the body was a deep cut in the stomach, extending from the waist to the pit of the abdomen. The intestines were not disturbed.

The woman's name was Alice McKeczie, and, as in the case of Jack the Ripper's other victims, she was one of those unfortunate creatures who find their living on the streets. The correspondent talked to two women who saw her at 11:30 last night. She was sober then. At 12:30 when all the public houses were closed by law, barkeeper of a "pub" situated a qu.iter of a mile from the scene of the murder says that he turned her into the streets hecauee she had been drinking some, but was not actually drunk. Making her way home the woman turned into Commercial street—the exact region where most of the murders had been committed. Iaaac Lewis, who claims to be the first civilian who saw the body after the murder, watched it while the policeman went for assistance. He says that the blood was still spurting from the throat when the woman was found, indicating that the heart had not ceased to beat The clothes were all crushed upon the chest of the body and the legs were nude. There were blood marks on the face and on the left thigh, as if a hand covered with blood had been placed there to hold the woman down. Letters had been recently received from Jack the Ripper stating he would begin his murderous operations in the near future, but no attention was given to them.

An Englishman wa? arrested Friday on the charge of having murdered the woman whose body was found Tuesday morning in Caetle alley, Whitechapel. Aiter been taken into custody the prisoner confessed that he had killed the woman.

The man arrested turns out to be lunatic. _____________ A Formidable Alliance.

A Chicago paper says: A circular has been issued that bears the signatures of the chief officers of the principal labor organizations of the United States: T. V. Powderly, General Master Workman, and John W. Hayes, General Secretary of Knights of Labor Samuel Gompers, President of the Federation of Labor, W. N. Sargent, Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and others. The locomotive engineers, through P. M. Arthur, true to their principle of excluBiveness and antagonism to other labor organizations, have kept out of this concerted action of the others, and thereby hightened the bitter feeling existing against them among other trades.

The circular is the outcome of a conference held some time ago in Philadelphia, the object being the formation of an alliance between tie organizations represented by the signatures. It has been issued privately to the organizations and is not supposed to be known to the public. If the alliance is realized it will be by far the most formidable labor organization that ever existed in the United States or elsewhere. The circular calls upon all organizations of labor to strengthen and solidify their ranks to the nltimate end of bringing within their membership every man and woman in America who toiis.

A convention of delegates is to be called if the various organizations ap-

Seviaing

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Paul's Pen.

Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee, when learning of the Civil Service Commissioner's report wrote a letter to the President in which he says: "Young Mr. Roosevelt is seeking notoriety, and I ttiink he will get all he wants before this thing is over with. The document just promulgated is the most disreputable and foolish lot of misrepresentations and falsehoods 1 have ever seen put together, and the work is done in the most bungling manner. The Commissioners came here not to invettigate but to condemn, and Mr.

Roosevelt endeavors to convict me of having violated the law in matters belonging purely to the Examining Board by making me responsible lor Shialy clerical errors. The whole report woul 1 foe a farce if it were not malicious."

The Republican Tariff 15111.

The influential Republicans in New York, Saturday, and Senator Gorman on the other side of the fence, had news that the President had certainly determined to call an extra session of Congress in November. It came to them very straight, and they believed it. Some of them went so far as to say that the date had been fixed for November 1, but others thought a later day would be set. The Senate Republican tariff bill of last fall will, it is said, be the main business before the extra session. The House has now three Republican majority, and more Republicans are expecteu from the new States. It is stated that even effort will be made to push the bill through the House and the Senate meto have it in full operation by 1 nest

Counterfeiter* Arrested.

Major Thomas B. Carter, Chief of the United States service for Indiana, Captain E. Abbott and seven other secret service officers had a lively fight with counterfeiters whom they were trying to irrest in a hotel at Dayton, O., Wedneslay night One officer and one counterfeiter were severely wounded. The )fficers with drawn revolvers approached he hotel from different directions and surrounded the building. Captain Abbott entered to make the arrests, when .he principal counterfeiter escaped out he back way, and a running fight icross the fields ensued, in which many •ihots were exchanged. Officer S. A. Downella, of Virginia, was shot twice jn the right side of the head, one ball ollowing the skull to the .back of the neck. The counterfeiter was wounded in the left ribs, near the heart, but how neriously can't be said, as he either got ^way entirely or is lying in a large oats ield near the Soldiers' Home. Mounted officers are now scouring the country. Nearly fifty thousand dollars in tenlollar counterfeit bills have already oeen discovered in the hotel with the plates, inks, etc.. and the search is not ended. Nelson Driggs, proprietor of tbe hotel, is eighty years old. He is a noted counterfeiter,'and has served several terms in various penitentiaries for making and shoving the queer. He is now in irons, and his wife and others are under arrest All that vicinity is picketed by armed officers.

A Virginia Cloud Iluritt.

A cloud burst at Parkersburg, W. Va, Friday, filled the Little Kanawha to overflowing and flooded the country. Immense damage was done, many buildings, bridges and mills being carried away. Many boats were sunk. Big Tygart valley is completely ruined. The big mill near its mouth went out and took the Tygart bridge with it. In the valley all tne fences, crops and much live stock was lost. At Chesterville half the residences were carried off bodily and left in corn fields. In Clay district, a fine church and three dwellings were wrecked. The steamer O'Neida was wrecked and sunk at Entei prise. The stei mer C. C. Martin W»P sunk at Burning Springs. Tae Little Tvgart is also reported complete'} ruined. The worst story of all comes from Morristown, where the cloud-burst concentrated all its fury, coming down on the village about midnight and totally destroying it, together with many of its people. The loss of life i* eleven. Tiie houses of the citizens ar» said to have been picked up and hured against each other in such short space time that no chance to escape was gh en the peopl*.

Cars Run with Sails. A Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Telegraph was recently looking at some models in the National Museum of curious cars used in the early days of railroading in this country, when Mr. Watkins, the curator, pointed out one particular one that had a mast and sail. Experiments with such cars were made on the Baltimore & Ohio road and on the South Carolina road. It was then a serious question whether the motive power on railroad# would be sail, horse or steam. The steam locomotive was still looked up on as an experiment. Sail caru are used to-day on a guano railroad on the island of Maiden, in the south Pacific. They are, in fact, used nearer home than that, for railroad men at Barnegat beach, when the wind is favorable, frequent.'-y ride over the road on construction cars—sloopriggid. "The wind has a good deal to do with railroading even to-day," Mr. Watkins said. If you go to the bureau of intelligence at the Broad street station, Philadelphia, and ask whether some train, say from New York, is likely to be on time, you may be informed that it is likely to be four or five minutes late, because there is a strong wind from the west. Winds make considerable difference in the running time of trains.

A Toil?h World for Women. Flossie is 6 years old. "Mamma," she asked one day, "if I get married will I have to have a husband like pa?" "Yes," replied the mother, with an amused smile.

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"And if I don't get married will I have to be an old maid, like Aunt Kate?" "Yes." "Mamma,"—After a pause—"it's a tough world for us women, ain't it."— Bingham ton Republican.

"WTiere They Are.

Social Philosopher—"Fifty years ago our statesmen and orators loomed up among the first in the world. Where are they now?"

Able Kditor—"In the newspaper offices."—.New Yorlv Weekly.

f_ TBE MARKETS.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 24. 1889.

,'2 GRAIN.

Wheat— CornNo. 2 Red 83 No. 1 White......37 No. 3 Red 80 No. 2 Yellow £6

Hay, timothy ..12.50 Bran* 8.25 Clovei seed......4.45

Oats, White 27

CAT^LB—Good to choice 3.85(^4.00 Choice heifera-... 2.75( Common to medium 2.50( Good to choice cows 2.00( HOGS—Heavy 4.30{ Light 4.45(_ Mixed [email protected] Pigs 4.50(gM.f5 SHBKF—Good to choice «[email protected] Fair to medium. [email protected] •GCrS, BtJTTKR, POULTRY. TfyffiL. 10c Hens per tt 9e Butter,creamery 16c I Roosters ~3c Fancy country... 8c I Turkeys 1G« Choice country.. 5c WOOL—Fine merino, washed 33038 unwashed med 20@2S very coaree 17(3*18

Sugar cured ham 12 Bacon clear sides 11 Feathers, goose 34

Chicago.

Wheat (July) 80 I Pork 11.57 Corn 3d I Lard 6.40 Qate 22 I Riba.......~ 6.85