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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Somona, Cal., was nearly wiped out of existence by fire, Wednesday. St. Louis is boycotting its Chinese laundries, of which there are hundreds.

Collector Taudy H. Iviee, of *St. Joseph, Mo., is short $36,000 in his accounts. Three girls at Wichita, Kan., cowhided a man who traduced their character. taenry Shaw, the St. Louis philanthro--Mst, proprietor of Shaw's Gardens, died, Sunday. pi A plot to blow up the Michigan State '!.-ison at Jackson and release 800 prisoners 'as frustrated Monday.

The Speakership contest will be between tlcKinley, of Ohio, and Reed, of Maine, vith the chances in Reed's favor.

The indications are that the Legislative ©mmittee on the West Virginia^Governorship will report in favor of Fleming. Democrat.

A combination is being formed to control all the coa-l property along the Mononga hela River, with scarcely a doubt of the success of the scheme.

Barn urn & Bailey's show was wrecked at Potsdam, N. Y., Friday. Thirty ring horses and two camels were killed. Loss, $40,000. Accident causcd by a broken axle.

Alexander Cunningham died at Jackson ville, 111., Wednesday. He was a native of Scotland, and when a young man was for several years a coachman for Sir Walter Scott.

Joseph Russell, a 16-year-old lad, jumped from the Cincinnati Southern railroad bridge into the Ohio River, a distance of 101 feet, at Cincinnati, Sunday, and was not injured.

A negro riot occurred at Jordanbrook, Ark. Monday. Four men arc known to have been killed and many others injured. The trouble arose through the distribution of whisky at a jamboree.

Judge Henry C. Whitman, a gentleman well known by Henry Clay, Thomas E\ving, Edwin M. Stanton, Allen G. Tburman and the legal lights of his day, died at Cincinnati Wednesday.

Homestead entries were made for the last two months in Cullman county, Ala., for over (3,000 acres. At this rate there will be no farm land left in the State for this purpose for over a year longer.

The United States Fish Commission has discovered the grayling in the Gallatin River, in the Yellowstone Park, which makes the fourth place whore it is known to exist. This is regarded as a valuable discovery.

Four tramps arrested at Moberly, Mo., for vagrancy were sold at public auction Monday. Two went for $2 a head for four months and another for 75 cents. The fourth could And no purchaser and he was returned to jail.

Fire caused a loss of $150,000 in a Kansas City packing house, Sunday. Other fires: The oat-meal mill of David Oliver,at Joliet, HI. loss, $62,000. The warehouse of the Joseph Hibner Sash, Door and Blind Factory at St. Louis loss $S0,000.

A terrible accident occurred on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near Parkersburg, W. Va., cFriday. Conflicting telegrams raused a collision of a passenger and a special train bearing road officials. Three men weife killed and twelve injured.

Fire at Port Costa, a great grain center in Lower California, Monday, did $600,000 iamage to McNear's warehouse, containing 7,000 tons of grain, the American ship Armenia, the British ships Honowaur and Kenilworth. Total insurance, $87,000.

The total value of exports from the United States for the seven months of 1SS9 finding July 31 was $413,931,223, against $356,266,S19 for the corresponding period last yeai\ The value of imports for the same period was $463,117,223 and $431,999,473.

El Rio Rey, the unbeaten pride of California, captured the great Eclipse Stakes at Morris Park Sunday, winning easily from fourteen of the best youngsters in training. His owner asks $50,000 for him, and he is undoubtedly the best two-year-old now on the American turf.

The daughter of Joaquin Miller, the "Poet of the Sierras," is appearing in a cheap museum in Kansas City to support herself and child. She married against her father's will, and later was deserted by her husband. Her father has grown rich since her marriage, but has never relented toward his daughter.

An explosion caused the destruction of the oil refinery of A. D. Miller at Pittsburg, Pa., at 3 a. m. Wednesday. The cause of the explosion is not and probably never will be known. The flames from the explosion fired thousands of barrels of oil, and the building and contents were totally consumed. The engineer lost his life and the night watchman was badly injured. The monetary loss is $225,000.

The first train on the new Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville railroad was wrecked, Thursday, at Flat Creek Gap. Of the fifty-six invited passengers on board three were killed and forty-eight injured. The killed are Judge George Andrews, the leading attorney of East Tennessee S. T. Powers, a leading merchant of Knoxville, and Alex. Reeder, a prominent politician. The train left the track at a crossing, a part of it falling through a trestle.

The water hi the rivers is getting very low at Johnstown, Pa., and, as a consequence a great deal of pestilence-breeding matter is being exposed. The stench along the river bank is becoming unbearable,and especially along the point and near the stone bridge are the odors very nauseating. There are quite likely many dead bodies in the sand along the banks and also in the bottom of tho river. The body of a child was taken out of the sand near the stone bridge Monday.

Alone highwayman attempted to rob the stage that runs between Gogebic and Gogebic lake, Mich., Monday. He ordered tho four to "shell out." One of them went down in his pockets but instead of bring-

treated like dogs men are strung up until they swoon from weakness that brutal sergeants deem no cruelty too severe: relates how an insane man was heartlessly tortured, while common soldiers are imprisoned at the whim of their superiors. It is also charged in the expose that in the guard house, where prisoners are packed in an enclosure 20x40 feet, the sanitary condition is terrible. There are no provisions for the ordinary calls of nature, and the place becomes a breeder of pestilence. The prisoners are kept from sleep by vermin, and their surroundings arc all revolting in the extreme.

The Fourth Auditor of the Treasury has transmitted to the First Comptroller a letter received by him from Andrew J. Whitaker, of Carpentersville, 111., in which the writer says he has seen in a Chicago newspaper a notice of liis appointment as Deputy Fourth Auditor, and begs leave to accept the office with thanks. Andrew J. Whitaker, of Illiuois, was duly appointed to that office about two weeks ago, and a gentleman who claims to be from Illinois, who recently engaged in business in Washington, appeared a week ago. qualified, and began the discharge of the duties of Deputy Audi or. The Fourth Auditor has sent the letter of the second Andrew o. Wbitaker to the First Comptroller to determine who is entitled to the place.

A train bearing veterans to the Milwaukee encampment was wrecked at Kinsman, 111., Monday. In all fifty persons were hurt, though none were killed outright. The accident was caused by the chair car, the third from the engine, jumping from the track. It was ditched instantly, taking with it the three sleepers behind. A rail was found projecting through the bottom of the chair car and coming out the side about three feet from the bottom. A man who was hunting in a field near by and saw the accident said the chair car jumped fully ten feet high and landed in the ditch over 100 feet from where it left the track. The car was full of passengers, every seat being occupied, and the scene which ensued was entensely exciting.

FOREIGN.

It is authoritively announced that Prin cess Victoria of Wales is engaged to the hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Laugen-burg.

Mrs. Maybricli, the Liverpool murderess, was notified, Friday, of the commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment. An effort is being made to secure her pardon.

Forty-five thousand striking dock laborers paraded the streets of London, Sunday. The demonstration was orderly, and much sympathy for the strikers was created.

The war in Hayti is over, Legitime having surrendered Port-au-Prince to Hyppolite, the northern rebel, and left the country. A riot in the city is feared, however, between the late opposing forces.

Dispatches from Egypt say that a famine-' prevails at Khartoum, Kassal, Tokar and other river towns. The survivors are said to be feeding upon the bodies of the dead. About twenty deaths from starvation daily are reported at Tokar.

The strike of the London dock laborers is spreading. One thousand men employed on the commercial docks joined the strikers Thursday. The socialists are trying to lead the movement and the red flag is being displayed. Thirty thousand dock men marched through the city Thursday. They were quite orderly and made no outward demonstrations.

Some of the more belligerent Tories are making no end of trouble for Lord Salisbury and his government by their absurd demands for reprisals against the United States for the seizure of the Canadian sealers in the Behring sea. They want to know what's the use of having a great big navy if it is not to be used when the British flag is insulted. Some of the stanchest supporters of the government hitherto are loudest in their denunciation of what they call Lord Salisbury's milk-and-water policy toward the United States. It is not likely, however, that the Cabinet will allow themselves to be influenced by this pressure from their own supporters, strong as it is.

STATE CONVENTIONS.

Gen. Mahone Unanimously Nominated for Governor of Virginia.

The Virginia Republicans met at Norfolk, Thursday. Geo. E. Bowden was made permanent Chairman and Asa Rogers Secretary. Gen. Wm. Mahone was nominated for Governor by acclamation. A full ticket was placed in the field. Gen. Mahone accepted the nomination.

The platform, among other things, says: "The Republicans of Virginia reaffirm their devotion to the National Republican party and its principles, with their earnest approval of its policy of a protective tariff which favors and renders necessary the repeal of existing onerous war taxes on tobacco and fruit brandies, and whereby American labor is secured its best rewards and American production its best markets."

North Dakota Republicans, Thursday, nominated John Miller for Governor, and a full State ticket.

The platform was adopted with cheers. It reaffirms the national platform of the last campaign glorifies the Republican party as the party that has secured for the emigrant his homestead, and advocates the moral and material welfare of tho Nation recognizes agriculture as the portion of the State, and declares against the encroachments of corporations on the rights of tho farmers is uncompromisingly in favor of American system of protection fovors lib{bash, eral pensions to veteran soldiers who have been honorably discharged declares sympathy with all movements in favor of temperance demands the careful guarding of the public school lands, and indorses the submission by the constitutional conven-

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the cheek and leg. Another passenger was hit in the hip and pitched out of the Montana Republicans, Thursday, nomcoach, which had been started. The rob- jnated T. H. Power for Governor, and a ber robbed him of all his valuables. The fun state ticket. wounded man was fatally injured. I —1

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch makes se- I Nebraska Prohibitionists, Thursday, rious charges against the National barracks nominated L. P. Wighton for Supreme at that place. It alleges that recruits are Judge, 'i nV-.vf-MSte^aSaseSi-" .-v.. -Vof'Vr

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INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A gas well with a tremendous output has been struck on the Ridgeway farm, at Amboy.

A very fine soldier's monument, the gift of Silas Baldwin, was unveiled at Elkhart, Friday.

Porter county employs 12S school teach-

Incendiaries burned the $2,400 barn of John B. Buth, near Seymour, Sunday night, with all his agricultural implements.

A Valparaiso book-seller has a quantity of the new Indiana official 6chool-books, which he will sell below the contract price.

Hon. Bayless Hanna, ex-Minister to Buenos Ayers, S. A., arrived at Crawfordsville, his home, from his post of duty, Monday night.

Jacob C. Walker, of St. Joe county, while removing stumps on his farm by the use of giant powder, was killed, Friday, by a flying fragment.

Albert Smith, aged eighteen, near Elkhart, while engaged in leveling a field Tuesday, fell under the float and was crushed to death.

James Dickey, of Valparaiso, Friday, stabbed John Smith because the latter refused to treat him in a saloon. He was arrested for attempted murder.

There is a sunflower stalk growing on the Albert Farm, near Ft. Branch, which is two and one-half inches in diameter, ten

Mrs. Wilson Pierce, near Hartford City, attempted suicide Monday night, by reason of grief over the course of a wayward sou. The latter stabbed a companion, and it cost a fine farm to compromise the cose.

David M. Dunn, formerly of Indiana, and Consul General at Valparaiso, died on Thursday, at Washington. Mr. Dunn was a brother of the late William McKceDunn, for many years Judge Advocate General.

The State shoe factory connected with the Prison South will turn out $13,000 in manufactured material this month, and the Warden estimates that the business can be conducted with a handsome profit.

The Seventieth Indiana (Harrison's) regiment held its annual reunion at Indianapolis, Friday, with 250 of its members in attendance. President Harrison was present and the greetings of the General and privates was very cordial.

While squirrel hunting, late Friday even ing, John Miller, of Vallonia, Jackson county, aged twenty-one years was shot through the head and instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of his younger brother.

William McClintic, a farmer of Bartholomew county, caught for $4,000 by threecard swindlers, is reported to have been again victimized, this time by an Englishman claiming to be dealing in smuggled goods, who sold him for $40 what might have been purchased for $2.

Misses Susie Bushfield and Lou Diggs made an attempt to elope from Shelbyville with Tom Doran, but Miss Bushfield's brother appeared on the sccne just in time to pull his sister off of the train, at which Doran hid, and the other girl concluded she didn't want to elope alone, and also got off.

The Court House at Corydon which was built in 1811, and used as the Capitol of the Indiana territory from 1813 to 1816, and thence till 1825 as the State Capitol, has a new roof and is repainted. It is a stone building, forty feet square and twelve feet to the ceiling, with one room down stairs and three above.

Early Monday morning Spaulding & Bro., two mile3 west of Montpelier, lost their barn by fire. It was the largest barn in Wells or Blackford counties. It contained 150 tons of hay, 3,000 bushels of corn, 700 bushels of wheat, one fine bull, wagon, hay baler, and harness. The cause of the fire is unknown. The loss is $8,000 insured for $5,S00.

While the nine-year-old daughter of Henry Yeai'ling, of Tipton county, was playing near a drove of hogs, something frightened the animals, and they were stampeded. In the rush the girl was knocked down and a hog weighing nearly three hundred pounds stepped into her mouth, breaking the jaw and knocking out nearly all her teeth.

An old daybook belonging to William C. Shelters has been unearthed at New Albany, covering business transactions between 1808 and 1837. In 1810 brick was shown to have been worth $2.50 to $3 per thousand coffee 37J£ cents per pound cotton goods 27cents per yard whisky 25 cents per quart, while a day's work called for 50 cents, and making a pair of shoes was worth 75 cents.

The cells of the 700 convicts in the Northern Indiana penitentiary at Michigan City will be illuminated with electricity after Sept. 1. The Board of Directors have adopted the incandescent system. Every cell will have one lamp. The convicts have heretofore been allowed candles, but under the new method of illuminating the officers will have the assurance that all lights are extinguished on time.

Friday evening there arrived at Whito's Indiana Manual Labor Institute, near Waa consignment of Indian children, I under the charge of Mrs. Joseph Pleas, I direct from the Qua Paw Agency, in the

Indian Territory. They represent the following tribes: Modocs,Seneca,Wyandotte, Qua Paw, Miami, Peoria, Ottawa and Shawnee. Some are the children of famous chieftains. They will receive an education, including manual training, and a thorough knowledge of farm work at Gov ornment expense.

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parties to whom the clothing was sold oi given by the thieves, he afterward removfrom Fort Wayne. Employes on the gas

There is no sign of a break in the Brazil trenches by the Fort Wayne Gas Company strike. Jennings county is solid for the new school books.

are understood to have purchased the clothing, and there is great fear that the disease will be spread in every direction. The health officers of Fort Wayne are being severely condemned for failing to destroy the clothing.

At Moore's Hill, a force of men were threshing farmer John Hawkswell's grain and when finishing a large stack of wheal suddenly discovered a den of copper-head

ers. Their salaries last year amounted to snakes among the rails upon which the $35,062.6$. stack was built. The place was literallv Southern Indiana's peach crop is proving very light, but there is an abundance of other fruit.

The Miami County Sentinel, in a column article last week, traces out the career of the present wife of ex-Governor Tabor, of Colorado, and by data and the oldest in-

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Miss Phoebe Bennett, of Elkhart, died Monday night of over-exertion and tight lacing. She attended a G. A. R. ball and danced continuously for^two hours and more.

young and handsome maiden in that city, with the name of Miss Cora Manger. She was a general favorite, and from her many suitors she chose J. Smith then editing the Peru Olio, long since gone, and they married. Their married life was unpleasant, and she left him, going West, where she met the ex-Governor. Their troubles since then ai*e well-known. Smith migrated to Arkansas, where he still resides. He has represented his district in Congres? several times.

The Indiana School Book Company announces that C. M. Barnes, of Chicago, has agreed to take all school books displaced by the new ones at the following exchange prices: 1st reader, 5c 2d, ,7c 3d, 9c 4th, 11c 5th, 15c elementary arithmetic, 7c complete arithmetic 11c elementary geography, 11c complete geography, 25c (except Indiana editions or suctt as have a special chapter on Indiana and not of any other State). Or to make following changes: The old 1st reader and 5c for the new first reader, the old 2d and 8c for the new»second the old 3d and 16c for the new 3d the old 4th and 19c for the new 4th the old 5th and 25c for the new 5th, the old elementary arithmetic and 28c buys the new the the old complete arithmetic and 34c buys the new the old elementary geography and 19c buys the new, and the old complete geography and 50c buys the new (excjgpt-Indiana editions.) The agents of C. M. Barnes will communicate personally or by letter with the various County Superintendents and other school officials within a few days to perfect arrangements for collecting, boxing, shipping, and paying for tha second-hand books.

The principal argument of the Indiana block coal operators in their demand for a 15 cent reduction, and in their refusal to arbitrate is the condition of the market. They once proposed to open their books and show that their earnings had not exceeded a fraction over 6 per cent, for the last year. The miners have been incredulous. President H. H. Porter, of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road, whose Chicago and Indiana coal divisiom reaches Brazil, has written along letter addressed to the Brazil Block Coal Company miners, in which he offers free transportation to a committee who may be appointed to visit Chicago to investigate the markets. The letter says the Brazil Block Coal Company has paid no dividends on its stock, whose market value has depreciated 40 per cent, in the past three years. He foresees that the outcome of the strike must bring more hardship to the miners than they realize. It is thought a committee will be appointed on Tuesday. The railroad has lost heavily from the strike, as traffic has been suspended for four months past. The operators have also lost heavily, and it is rumored that the mines will be started soon by imported miners if not otherwise.

A TOWN OF DEATH.

Moscow, Ohio, Visited by a Scourge of Diphtheria—A Great mortality.

I About one month ago the pest house at Jack Lewis (colored), James Nolan and Fort Wayne was entered by thieves and a Ferdinand Carolin—were hanged in the

Dr. Probst, of the Ohio State Board of Health, has just returned to Columbus from the terribly scourged village of Moscow, a place of 600 inhabitants, on the banks of the Ohio River. There are sev-enty-six cases of diphtheria, sixty-four children and twelve adults. There have been twelve deaths up to date, and before the week is over the doctor thinks there will be that many more. The village is up on the hills and is scattered along for about three-fourths of a mile. There is plenty of pure air, and it ought to be a healthy place, but the sanitary conditions are awful the hogpens and outhouses have not been cleaned for years, and the stench is terrible in many parts of the town.

Fathers and mothers are flying with their children for their lives, and in this way the disease will undoubtedly be carried to other places. The three doctors of Moscow are working night and day, on« of them having forty cases.

Death frequently results from blood poisoning when the patient is apparently convalescing, sometimes an hour after the child is up walking around. A Board of Health has been organized at Moscow and the town «is now being cleaned.

quantity of clothing was taken which yard of the Tombs prison, New York, Frihad been used by small-pox patients. Re- day, at 6:55 a. m. Carolin murdered his cently small pox made its appearanco in a mistress, Lewis murdered Alice Jackson, family of Swedes at Menominee, Wis., and James Nolan murdered his mistress, and it is claimed that the father was one of the Packenham his wife.

A Quadruple Hanging:

Four murderers—Patrick Paokenham,

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alive with them. Little ones wriggled about on the table of the machine, having been carried up on the bundles of wheat. When the true nature of the reptiles was made known their was a lively stampede from the place. The men armed themselves with hoes and other handy utensils, and waged a war of extermination.

The Book Committee of the M. E. Church will meet at Cincinnati, Sept. 3, to select an editor for the Western Christian Advocate. The name of Rev. B. F. Rawlins, D. D., of Spencer, is favorably mentioned for the position and the indications are that he will be the unanimous choice of Indiana for the place. The Western Advocate has its largest circulation in this State, and yet the editorship of the paper has heretofore been given to Ohio, with a single exception for a brief period. It is therefore reasonable to hope that the wishes of Indiana will be duly respected in the present instance and that Dr. Rawlins will be the successful man.

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MORE SEALERS SEIZED.

The Steamer Rush Captures Several Illegal Vessels and Sends Them to Silks.

Wednesday the steamer Olympian arrived at Victoria, B. C., from Port Townsend, with Captain Alger, of the American

sealing schooner Allie L. Alger, and one of his hunters. Both are fresh from Behring Sea, and they brought news of importance with them. The Captain, who was interviewed immediately on arrival, said: "On the 30th of July wc were in Behring Sea,as nearly as we can judge, about fifty miles west of St. Paul, when we sighted the cutter Rush steaming up to us on our quarter. We at once hove to. Some minutes afterwards a boat put off from the Rush and Lieutenant Tuttle boarded her. He asked for my papers, which I at once handed him, and after perusing them he proceeded with two men to search the ship. He did not find anything, however, though that is not to say there was nothing to find aboard. After coming up out of the hold, when he had 6nished searching the ship, I said to him: 'Well, what luck have you had in the search?' "He said: 'I will tell you. On the 11th of July we captured the Black Diamond and dispatched her to Sitka, with a man on board to take charge of her. On the 23d of July we sighted the schooner Minnie. Her owner, Captain Jacobson, was aboard at the time, and she had 843 seals. We took possession of her and dispatched her to Sitka, also. Yesterday (July 29) we boi'e down on the Pathfinder, and found 800 sealskins aboard of hex*. We put another man aboard her, and ordered her off to Sitka, as well. Last week we boarded both the Arcland and the Theresa. They also had some skins aboard, but we let them go, as they had been too long caught, but ordered them out of the sea.' "After telling me this the Lieutenant told me I had better get out of the sea at once, and he was then pulled abroad the steamer, which headod for the east. We then set sail for the south, and arrived, on Monday, at Neah bay. I then left my schooner there, and came up from Cape Flattery to Port Townsend. I caught the Olympian, and just reached Victoria. My schooner will, I expect, be on the road to Seattle now. I leave here on the Olympian to rejoin her to-day."

The American sealing schooner James G. Swan was seized in Behring sea, on July 30, with 225 head of seals on board, by the government revenue cutter Richard Rush. The vessel's documents, fire-arms and skins were taken aboard the Rush, and she was ordered to Sitka, Alaska, to be turned over to the American authorities. The captain being without charts and unacquainted with the Alaskan coast, came to Port Townsend and surrendered his vessel to the collector of customs. There are between forty and fifty vessels now in Behring sea. The Rush seized the British schooner, Ennetta, with six hundred skins, July 81. The seizure of the Pathfinder and Minnie was confirmed. The Pathfinder was the only vessel placed in charge of American officers, except the Black Diamond

BEWARE OF BAD MEAT. A

Story of General Interest from the Cattle Lands.

Reliable news of the greatest importance to cattlemen in all sections of the United States comes from the southern lino of Kansas and the pasture lands of Indian Territory. There has been for some time a suspicion among cattle dealers that the herds of native and Texas cattle which range in the Territory were afflicted with Texas fever, but nothing definite could be learned. A man named William Johnson has just returned from a trip to Oklahoma, and passed through the country where the herds are pastured. As he made the trip on horseback he was able to thoroughly investigate the trouble.

He says that not only are the natives afflicted, but the thorough Texans are dying by hundreds in the pastures south of Arkansas City. The symptoms are exactly the same as Texas fever, but thorough Texans have never been known to die of the disease before. He says cattle are being shipped to market from pastures where carcases are lying in hundreds, and of the same brands as those shipped, and that they are considered good enough for canners1 stock, and "everything goes." A colored man who bought 230 head of good natives and had them in a pasture with thorough Texans has already lost over half of his herd and the rest are dying rapidly.

This incident is repeated from several pastures and cattlemen are becoming much alarmed. Among cattle raisers it is a prevalent belief that the disease is not Texas fever but something even more serious. It is said the managers of the Kansas City Stock Yards will take immediate action upon the matter and try to prevent the shipping of the cattle from points where the disease is raging..

A RAILWAY DISASTER.

The Erie Road the Scene of a Bad Accident ..•Twenty Uvea toil.

AScranton, Pa., dispatch says: A terri ble railway disaster is reported from Big Flats, between Waverly and Elmira on the Erie Road. A Lehigh Valley freight train was run into by two closely following sections of the Erie freight, and the whole mass of wreckage was plunged into by an Erie passenger train running forty miles an hour.

The engineer and fireman of the passenger train were killed outright. The wreckage caught fire and a number of passengers were killed, burned to death or badly injured. The report plaoes the number of lives lost at not less than twenty.

Boston Transcript: The lamentation is heard almost everywhere that BO few boys graduate from the high school but then boys' time is precious, and they can not so well as girls was*e in learning so many thiols that are not so with regard to things of which no one has any certain knowledge. The high school i3 a great institution, but spreads out its educational varnish BO thin that the original ignoramus is easily discernible beneath it.

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WHAT A CLOUD-BURST IS.

A Lake of Water Actually Suspended in Mid-Air. The phenomena of a cloud-hurst, which can only occur in tornado or whirlwind, aro. not generally understood, says the New York Herald. The whirl in which it is not a very broad and shallow disk but a tall, columnar mass of rotating air, similar to that in which the Atlantic waterspout or the pilar-like dust-storm of India is generated. While this traveling arterial pillar, perhaps a few hundred yards in diameter, is rapidly gyrating the centrifugal force, as Prof. Farrel has shown, acts as a barrier to prevent the flow of external air from all sides into its interior except at or near thj base of the pillar. There friction with the earth retards the gyrations and allows the air to rush in below and escape upward through tho flue-like interior as powerful ascending currents.

The phenomenon, however, will not be attended by terrific floods unless the atmostpliere is densely stored with water vapor, as it was Tuesday in the Cayadutta valley. When such is tht3 case the violent ascending currents Suddenly lift the vapor above the level at which they were previously lloaUng and hurl them aloft into rarefied and cold regions of the atmosphere, where their vapor is instantly condensed into many tons of water. Could the water fall as fast as condensed it would be comparatively harmless. But the continuous uprushing currents support this mass of water at the high level and as their own vast volumes of vapor rising are condensed they add to the water already accumulated thousands of feet above the e.irtifs surface—making, so to speak, a lake in high air.

As the whirlwind weakens or pa^es from beneath this vast body of water, which its ascending currents have generated and upheld in the upper story of the atmosphere, the aqueous mass, no longer supported, drops with ever increasing gravitational force to the ii'th. In severe cloud-bursts the water does not fall as rain, but in sheets and streams, sometime.-, unbroken for many seconds. The: cloudburst of 187:3 at Hollidaysburg. l'a.» excavated many holes in the ground, varying from twenty-five to thirty feet deep. In a similar but milder storm which visited Boulogne last May_ Insures were cut in the ground eight feet deep and openings made large enough to ingulf a horse and cart.

raters wm Wet Assure Pure Water. As a result of the recent official ifc restigations on the subject of the e8» lacy of lllters and other means employed to purify di'inkmg wator, it is found that boilinir sterilizes water and within thirty minutes will have killed harmful bacteria. Drugs and other agents acting chemically, if used in amounts which are commonly safe, do not sterilize water. The prolonged heat which water undergoes in the usual process o! distillation destroys all germs which may be in the water undergoing the process. Ordinarily ^filters, even ii satisfactory as strainers, fail to remove all bacteria from drinking water, So far from lessening the number in the original water, the filtering substance may allow a more rapid multiplication than these micro-organisms would certainly undergo in the "nfiltered water on standing and the germs of disease, even if held back by the filtering substance, may be harbored in all filters. The fluer the substance through which the water passes, and the lower the pressure, the more perfect is the actioo of the filter in holding back the bacteria. Of all the substances thus far furnished for domestic filters, porous rebaked porcelain,carefully selected, has been found the best. A bad water filtered is less desirable than a pure water in its natural state. When, therefore, Alteration is employed, because of its real danger of infection, the filtered water should, as a rule, be furthermore boiied, sis the entire abience of sedintent and cloudiness does not insure that the bacteria of disease may not have made their way through Uie filter.—Pittsburf Disoatch.

THE MARKETS. N 1)1 AN Ai'OI.IS, Aug. $, 1SS0. (i It A IN.

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Indianapolis-

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Chicago

Minneapolis Minneapolis

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Chicago

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Cincinnati 2 r'd 75 :i5 20'^ 41

St. Louis 2 r'd 75 '-2 31'» 18 40

New York I r'l •It 25

Baltimore 26 50

Philadelphia. 2 r'd 83 :i 43 •KH Clover

Toledo 80 3GVo 4 fcf

Detroit 1 wh S3'i 22

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Hens per liooaters Turkeys. Feathors

Eggs 1 I iutter,'creamer v20c Fancy dairy 1-c Choice country.. .!c

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35c

MISCKI.l.ANKOl'S.

Wool.—Fine merino, washed unwashed medium... very coarse

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