Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 25 October 1889 — Page 3

THE NEWS OFTHE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

Arizona is a candidate for Statehood. Fifty miners have resumed work in the Spring Valley (III.) mines.

There is a fight on at St. Louis between union and non-union undertakers. Pending a decision of the over-head wire controversy in New York, the city is in darkness.

A large gang of thieves, robbers and cutthroat gamblers are following the Wallace circus through Indiana.

Gen. John F. Hartranft, not many years since Governor of Pennsylvania, was buried at Norristown, Monday.

Frank Brown, living near Heading, •Mich., was called to the door Wednesday night by some one and shot dead. No clew.

Many cattle in the western part of Montana are reported to be dying for want of water and food. Hay costs §25 a ton. No rain has fallen for months.

Leading Eastern manufacturers of wire poods have entered into a combination to raise the price of their manufactures, especially those relating to household utensils.

Charles Sanders, a negro, who murdered a white man named Harr, in Clear Spring, Md., near Hagerstown, in a political quarrel two years ago, was captured at Pittsburg Thursday.

The South American delegates are becoming surfeited with much banquetting and have asked to be relieved fi*om so dissipation and late hours. The party proceeded to Detroit Wednesday night.

The new oil field discovered in Marion county, West Virginia, is attracting oil men from all parts of the country, and property is changing hands at fabulous prices. The oil is found at a depth of 2,000 feet.

Men engaged in sinking a shaft in a caisson two miles out in the lake at Chicago, Monday, opened a vein of natural gas. The gss ignited from the lamps of the men and five men were burned, two seriously.

It is proposed to form the temperance unions of Kansas, North and South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska into one central organization. Four of these States have prohibitory laws. Nebraska will vote on and carry the measure noxt year.

August Dulmage, a Canadian timber agent, who is wanted for stealing $C3,000, lias been located at St. Paul, Minn. In a talk with a reporter he admitted that £•20.000 of the money was taken from him by a Minneapolis woman. "Captain Kidd's Pets" is the name a gang of bad boys at Kansas City gave themselves. They were bound by bloodcurdling oaths, and their orders were written in blood from the arms of the young desperadoes. Many small fires are traced to their responsibility.

Mrs. Craig Tolliver. wife of the wellknown Kentucky desperado, has become insane. It is thought the killing of her husat Moorchead, Ivy., together with trouble with her two boys, is the cause. A few days ago both of the boys threw her to the "floor and beat her with their fists.

At the sheriff's sale at Helena, Mont., Wednesday of the North Montana Cattle -JCO., the cattle and horses brought $172,000.

This is the largest sale ever made under similar conditions in Montana. One hundred and twenty carloads will be shipped from Ft. Benton this week, for the St. Paul and Chicago markets.

The managers of the Chicago League Ball Club have followed the plan of the New Yorkers to protect the name from the Brotherhood players. Articles of incorporation were issued Thursday to the "Chicago League Ball Club" and the "Chicago Base Ball Club," both with the old managers as incorporators.

Wm. Waterman died at Grand Rapids, Wis., Thursday, aged 114 years. Ho was married twice. His first wife lived to the age of seventy-five. He married his second wife when he was in his hundredth year. She died a few years ago. He always used tobacco, but was temperate in his habits. While he used liquor to some extent, it was never to excess.

Emmet V. Rhodes, Cashier of the First National Bank of St. Paris O., pleaded guilty in the United States Court to the misappropriation of the bank funds. It was shown that there was no ultimate intention of defrauding the bank and that 1 be money was in a public-spirited effort *to advance the interests of his community.

The minimum sentence—five years in the penitentiary—was imposed. The fifth annual meeting of the com-mandery-in-chief of the military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States was held at Philwielphia Wednesday, in the hall of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. General Rutherford B. Hayes, the Commander-in-Chief, called the meeting to order. About forty delegates, representing the various commanderies, are in I attendance. General Hayes was unanimously re-elected Commander-in-Chief.

The annual convention of the Street Railway Presidents of the United States was opened at Minneapolis, Wednesday. About one hundred delegates were in attendance. The report of the Executiva Committee in regard to the K. of L. Association says: "The association year now closed has seen an almost total collapse of the organization known as the K. of L., so far, at least, as that portion is concerned which attempted to dominate street railway companies. Starting in with the manifest determination of making a frightful example of one of the members of this association—the Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company, of Brooklyn—a strike was declared on all of the company's lines. Before its conclusion it was accompanied with riot, bloodshed and even murder. This strike soon extended to New York, taking in every line in that city over which the K. of L. had any control, and thence westward took its way until it reached the city where we now are. The death knell of the organization of tho K. of L. has been sounded because it has shown its unw'orthiness to live, by reason of the crime committed in its name under £he direction of its leaders."

Seven survivors of the steamship Earnmoor, whose loss was reported in these columns three weeks ago, arrived in Phil adelphia, Monday. The survivors had suffered the horrors of hunger in the greatest extreme. One of them says: "We man

aged to pick up seaweed* which gave us a little nutriment, and on the third day a flying fish was caught. This was immediately cut up into a portion for each man, and devoured. We also captured a sea bat ana sucked its blood, and then ate its flesh after it had dried in the sun. The first man to die was a seaman named Wm. Robinson, and the second was the third engineer, Thomas Hunt. One night while we were all asleep except a German fireman named Flagg, who was on watch, he suddenly became insane and jumped overboard. We were too weak to save him. We were without a compass, and steered by the sun by day and the stars by night. Eleven vessels passed us. One, a British bark, we are certain saw us, and deliberately left us to our fate. When 300 miles off Hatteras we were picked up by a schooncr. I can rot describe in words our joy at the sight of this deliverance. We were so weak that we had to be lifted up on the vessel's deck, and one of our men, Ed Johnson, a Norwegian, fell overboard and was drowned."

The Socialist Labor party brought its convention to a close, Thursday morning, at Chicago, and the delegates went in a body to Waldheim to decorate the graves of the martyrs. Before adjourning they passed a resolution declaring that tho persons who hissed the American flag during the meeting held on Sunday, were either fools or police spies, and hissed only to give the capitalistic press another opportunity to vent its spite against Socialists and socialism. Brooklyn was selected as the seat for the noxt executive committee, Boston a3 the seat for the appeal board, and New York as the seat for the party organ. The convention did not select the time or place for the next convention. The delegates went to Waldheim on the cars. They hung red flowers and white flowers tied with red ribbon upon the Anarchist monument.

FOREIGN.

The King of Portugal, who has been ill for some time, died Saturday. Italy is buying horses in Germany and England for tho use of her army.

It is believed by M. Remen that the Pope will soon be forced to abandon Rome. The Czar and his family have donated 400,0C0 rubles for the sufferers by famine in Montenegro.

The cholera is still raging in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates. During the past three months there have been 7,000 deaths from the disease.

A cable to the Maritime Exchange Thursday announced that Hippolyte has been unanimously elected President of Hayti. In all ninety-one votes were cast at the election.

The employes of the London tramway companies, whose working hours were recently reduced by the voluntary action of their employers, now threaten to inaugurate a general strike if their wages are not increased.

An explosion occurred in the Bentilee colliery at London, County of Stafford, England, at an early hour Wednesday morning. Seventy miners were in the pit at the time of the accident, only eleven of whom are alive.

The provincial government has contributed a large quantity of provisions and goods for the relief of the starving Labradorians at Point Esquimaux, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Five hundred barrels of flour were sent, Monday, by steamers.

The Regents offered ex-Queen Natalia of Servia a large sum of money provided she would accept their proposed conditions and depart from Servia. The exQueen indignantly refused the offer, saying that she considered the proposal an insult.

The Paris Temps, in a resume of the financial results of the exposition, says that before its close the number of people who will have visited the great show will reach 26,000,000, and will, in all probability, exceed that figure. Refei*ring to the proposed world's fair in America, in!892, the Temps says it is by no means as certain as it seemed a month ago that the Americans will select New York for the location of their exposition, as Chicago i& making strenuous efforts to secure it. Commenting on the availability of Chicago, as compared with New York, the Temps says: "We wonder^how many of the Chicagoans who crossed the ocean to visit the exposition in the first city of France would have taken the same trouble if tho show had been held in Lyons, our second city of importance?"

THE MARKETS.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 24,1889. GltAIN. Wheat. Corn. Oats. Rye

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Indianapolis,.'2 r'd 78

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3r'd 7S 2ye 31%

Minneapolis 80 Minneapolis 80

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Chicago 2 r'd 80 31 19 Cincinnati 2 r'd 80 34 22 45 St. Louis 2 r'd 78% 18 89 New York 2 r'd 85% 40 26 Baltimore 83 40 28 83 Philadelphia. 2 r'd 83% 40% 27 Clover Philadelphia. 2 r'd 83%

Seed

82% 34 21% 3 55

Detroit 1 wh 81% 83% 22

LIVE STOCK.

CATTLE—Export grades [email protected] Good to choice shippers [email protected] Common to medium shippers 2.85(^3.25 Stockers, 500 to 850 lb •.... [email protected] Good to choice heifers 2.25(^2.75 Common to medium heifers [email protected] Good to choice cows 2.25®2.60 Fair to medium cows [email protected] Hoos—Heavy [email protected] Light 4.30(^4.45 Mixed [email protected] Heavy roughs [email protected] SHEEP—Good to choice. 4.10(2)4.40 Fair to medium [email protected] Common [email protected] Lambs, good to choice [email protected] Common to medium [email protected] Bucks, per head [email protected]

MISCELLANEOUS. Indianapolis Chicago I Ciminatti. 10 75 10 50 11 t»0

Lard 6 12 6 10 6 10 Ribs 2 5 10 4 60 •GGS BUTTER, PQCLTKY. Eggs 18c Butter, creamery24c Fancy dairy 15c Choice country... 12c

Hens per ft 8c Roosters 3o Turkeys 9c Feathers .. 35c

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Superintendent Porter, of the census, has had a conference with the special agents in charge of the collection of statistics of cotton, wool, and worsted,and silks, and mixed textiles. The desire is to secure abetter classification and a more complete collection of such statistics. The list of manufactories in the United States is complete now, and show a total of 5,218. The most noticeable thing about the figui'es is the increase in the number of mills in the South. They have more than doubled since 1SS0. Another notable thing is that, where there were 1,000 cotton-mills in the United States in 1SS0, 1,477 have already been reported.

The controversy over the dismissal of Tanner as Commissioner of Pensions is causing a war of words between That gentleman and others which is growing constantly in virulence. The latest is the making public, Saturday, of a letter written by Secretary Noble, July 24, in which the position of the administration and the relation the commissionership bears to the jurisdiction of the Interior Department. This will be followed very soon by the entire report of the board appointed to investigate Tanner's administration.

Immediately upon his return to China, Mr. Koo, of the Chinese Legation at Washington, will be married to a young woman whom he has never seen, but whom his parents have selected for him. One of the remarkable features of the marriage ceremony of that country is that the bride and bridegroom are forced to sit back to back for three or four hours in solemn silence on a board table, during which strange programme the woman is so heavily veiled that even the most ardent gaze of her legal partner would fail to distinguish her features. At the conclusion of the curiously intricate ceremonies the crowning stroke is the spiriting away of the bride by her relatives, who for days thereafter keep her in the closest seclusion away from her husband. He during that period can neither see nor speak to her.

The Department of War has taken a practical step toward avoiding desertions in the army. It is no more nor less than the good old Methodist plan of taking recruits on probation. The latest order provides that there shall be an interval of six days between the day of enlistment and the day of taking the oath.

The annual report of the Pension Bureau was maae public Saturday. There were at the close of the year 4S9,729 pensioners. There were added to the rolls during the year names of 51,921 new pensioners, and the names of 1,754, whose pensions have been previously dropped, were restored to the rolls, making an aggregate of 53,675 pensioners added during the year. Sixteen thousand five hundred and seven pensioners were dropped from the rolls for various causes, leaving a net increase to the rolls of 37,168 names. The average annual value of each pension at the close of the year is shown to have been $131.18. The aggregate annual value of pensions is $64,246,552.36. The amount paid for pensions during the year was 188,275, 113.28. The total amount disbursed by the agents for all purposes was $S9,131,968.44 amount paid as fees to attorneys, §1,363,583.47. There was a disbursement of §14,515.72 for the payment of the arrears of pensions in cases where the original pension was granted prior to Jan. 25,1879, and the date of commencement of pension was subsequent to discharge or death. In the aggregate, 1,248,146 pension claims have been filed since 1S61, and that in the same period 789,121 have been allowed. The amount disbursed on account of pensions since 18S1 has been $1,052,218,413.17. The issue of certificates during the year shows a grand total of 145,298. Of this number 51,921 were original certificates. The report shows that at the close of the year there were pending ar.d un allowed 479,000 claims of all clashes.

In an address before the Boys and Girls' National Home Association at Washington, Friday, Mr. Alexander Hogeland, President of the association, made the startling statement that there were 60,000 boy tramps in the United States. He advocated the establishment of a resintration system by which boy tramps might be found and sent to farmers who were willing to emp'oy them.

Western sportsmen who delight to hanthe rod and reel and search for the finny tribe should come to Washington. The water mains hereabouts are tilling up with eels. In some places along the Chesapeake & Ohio canal, in the District, there are so many eels that they interfere with the working of the locks, and the wheels in some of the old-fashioned water mills in streams hereabouts are reported to be clogged up now and then by this long, slippery and slimy species of fish. At the last session of the Maryland Legislature a bill was passed providing for the extermination of eels in the Wycomico river, and the sum of $5,000 was appropriated for the purpose. The State Fish Commissioners were instructed to expend the sum, and report the result of their labors. Their work has been well done, but they say the nuisance has not been abated. The money was expended in bounties, 2 cents being paid for each eel delivered to any of the six inspectors distributed along the river. The enormous number of 70,000 eels were captured and paid for, and Mr. Teadvine, one of the commissioners, says there are more eels in the Wycomico river to-day than when he began his work of exterminate n. They are any way in length from two feet to one inch.

Louis Wolf Rey, the Governor of Arizona, Tuesday submitted his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. Concerning the Mormons, the Governor says:"Arizonahad a law disenfranchising all who practiced, taught or encouraged polyg amy. The first legislative act signed by my late predecessor was the repeal of that act. I request and urge that Congress repeal the repealing act, and re-establish the above Territorial law. Politically the Mormons seem to have adopted the plan of sending colonies of "stakes" to the surrounding Territories in sufficient numbers

to form a balance of power between the wo political parties. They are willing to trade with either, but remain true only so long as the interests of the church are best served. The church is their law, and all other law is subservient to the orders ol the church. The Mormons in this Territory number about S,000." The total taxable property of the Territory is given at $50,575,692. The total territorial, county and city indebtedness is about §2,902,910. George L. Shoupe, the Governor of Idaho Territory, also filed his annual report with the Secretary of the Interior Tuesday. All the qualifications necessary to statehood are claimed. Polygamy is practiced secretly to a limited extent. The population is put at 113,777, of which 25,000 are Mormons.

WATTERSON MAKES A SPEECH.

The National Board of Trade, in session at Louisville, was addressed, Friday, by Henry Watterson. Of money matters, he said: "What are you going to do for a banking system when there are no more bonds to build on? Some ten years ago I ventured to propose that we reduce the National debt to a thousand million and then that, for a fiscal basis, we fund these thousand millions at a low rate of interest,and make the debt thus reduced perpetual. Everybody laughed at me. Some said I was crazy others insisted that I was simply a fool. But I am more than ever porsuaded of the truth and force of my suggestion, because, to say nothing of the banks and the future of our banking system,we ought to have some fixed securities for the small holders, which can neither be swallowed up by a deluge of watered stock nor be able to run away to Canada."

Mr. Watterson next took up the tariff, and among other thi-ngs said: "I have never believed that we shall have free trade in this country until the manufacturers themselves lead the free trade movement. That this is only a question of time, I have always believed. But, meanwhile, here is a system of taxation devised exclusively for war purposes, yet outlasting those purposes a quarter of a century, and as surely as somebody proposes to put it on a peace footing, somebody else starts up and says that, being about all that survives of the war, we ought to hold it sacred and keep it as a relic. Well, it is a relic, sure enough, for war is barbarism, and there is not a doubt that the war tariff is a relic of barbarism. For my part I can live under any kind of tariff that the rest can and care as little for expenses, too, for in my day I have paid as high as $500 for a pair of boots and $5 for a glass of water seasoned with nutmeg—in Confederate money but, really, it does seem to me that at the moment when our public men are cozening their wits to find tho means of spending the excess of revenue the tariff yields us, it is about time that we consider whether it would not be better to save more and spend less."

Of the pension position Mr. Watterson says: "We have a pension list that costs us nearly as much as the costliest standing army in Europe, and still the cry comes up for more. I have been fighting this with all my might and main, and have had for my pains the charge very freely made that the motive of my opposition is hatred of the Northern soldier. Gentlemen, this intimation would be laughable if it were not detestable. It is this circumstance and the feeling of brotherhood in all that concerns the North which lies here, that has emboldened me to speak very plainly of the wasting of money and the corruption of morals involved in this pension business. If a stop be not put to it, that which began in national indulgence will end in national disgrace."

WILL CUBA BE ABSORBED?

Suggestion that the Atlantic Islands May Become American States—Work for minister Douglass.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says: Since I sent you the inside explanation of the circumstances and motives that led to the Hawaiian treaty, or other developments of what dip lomatic connoisseurs term the "blanket policy" of the State Department arc pushing their way to the front.

The diplomatic powers of Mr. Frederick Douglass are not to lie in the innocuous desuetude of a short residence at Port-au Prince. Should he show that he is not intolerable to the dusky autocrats of Hayti. his powers are to be put to the proof in an attempt to convince President Hippolyte that a surrender of the control of the foreign relations of the black republic to the Department of State at Washington will be greatly conducive to the security and prosperity of that country.

A guarantee of the autonomy of the islland is to be had from the United States upon the terms above indicated, coupled with the concession of naval privelges and a right to land troops in the discretion of the proper American authority to repel invasion or insui'e domestic tranquility. Should Hayti prove tolerant of the seductive suggestion, Mr. Douglass is expected to extend the sphere of his influence to San Domingo. He will do so, even if Hippolyte and his Cabinet should take the other course with a view to applying moral pressure npon the larger community by stamping, if possible, the character of proteges of the United States upon the Spanish speaking section of the island.

As the "blanket policy" would be like a blanket with a hole in it unloss Cuba should be brought into the line of ultimate absorbtion, Minister Palmer is stated to have had assigned to him a peculiarly delicate task. He is to use his unofficial good offices at Madrid to drop in the minds of the Dons and Grandees of the Spanish Capital an occasional hint that Spain would be well out of Cuba and Cuba would do well out of Spain.

In the delicate and non-committal way indicated he will occasionally suggest that nothing could be friendlier or wiser or nearly so advantageous all around than to prepare to come into alignment with Mr. Blaine's comprehensive American policy for the Amerioan Continent and hasten the slow but eextain march of manifest destiny.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A red coon has been captured in Steuben •Ounty. Kirkland & Son's Chair Factory, at Pierceton, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $8,000.

Isom Copeland, of Greensboro, who is ninety-two years old, took his first trip on the railroad cars, last week.

During the present year 417 visitors have been shown through the Prison South and in this way a snrplus library fund of $1,400 has accumulated.

Perry Wolfe, aged thirteen, of Corydon, was attacked by a bull dog owned by Isaac Mauck, and so badly mangled lhat his death is anticipated. "White Caps" are again committing outrages in Perry county, and are charged with burning barns, killing stock, and threatening citizens with violence.

William H. Anderson, of Delawai'e county, has a goose covered with long liver-colored and white hair instead of feathers. He will send it to the Smithsonian Institute.

Dr. Charles L. Thomas, the remaining Democratic member of the Pension Board at Logansport, has been removed, and he is succeeded by Dr. J. M. Justice. The latter served on the board for twenty years previous to Cleveland's election.

A large barn of the farm of John M.Henderlider, near Medora, Jackson county, was burned Sunday night, with its contents, including 1,400 bushels of wheat and oats.

Loss,

$4,000 insured for 2,500. The

fl^e was the work of tramps. Six days, ending Saturday, of the grand Union Temperance Jubilee in Peru, under the leadership of Francis Murphy, Sr., shows signers of nearly 1,500 pledges. The greatest interest is being manifested, and the success is phenomenal.

Last Saturday it is estimated that there were four hundred car loads of apples along the line of tho Lake Shore road, between Ft. Wayne and Hillsdale, awaiting shipmen j. The demand for cars in which to load apples and potatoes in that section is unprecedented..

A letter to tho State Board of Health says an acute case of glanders has been discovered near Shelbyville. The veteriuary surgeon who sent the communication assures the board that he has an intimate "knolege" of the disease 'mentioned, and has taken the precautions necessai'y in the "mater." I There are no negroes in Washington county. There was a colony of about 100 negroes near Salem, but in 1S85, they were driven from the county by proscription and whitecapism. Even to this day publie sentiment is against them and they are allowed no peace if they enter the county with an idea of settlement.

Wednesday morning a meeting of prominent temperance men was held at Indianapolis to consult on adopting some plan to sarry on a non-partisan campaign against I liquor. About twenty of the most prominent temperance advocates from different parts of the State were present. No forI mal organization was effected.

Dr. J. N. Hurty has completed his analy sis of the mineral waters recently sent from Spencer, Ind., and the result is that Spencer and Martinsville will make mouths at each other for all time to come. The Spencer water is similar in many respects to the Martinsville fluid, but contains more mineral ingredients.

Extensive fires are prevailing in the Littie River Ditch District, west of Fort Wayne, resulting in burning over hundreds of acres of land and destroying miles of fences. Prairie land reclaimed by the ditch has burned to*tlie depth of three feet and more, ruining its value at the present time for agricultural and grazingpurposes.

M. R. Skinner, a prosperous citizen of Lawrenceburg, but suffering with lung trouble, reached Cincinnati Tuesday on his return from Flcrida, accompanied by his physician and family. While the party was walkings through the depot, preparatory to taking the train for Lawrenceburg, Skinner slipped from the supporting arms of his wife, dropped^to the floor and died almost instantly. He had been an invalid for years.

There was a serious wreck on the Indiana Midland Railroad, four1 miles out from Lebanon, Boone county, Wednesday morning between 6 and 7 o'clock. The construction train collided with a freight car that had been left on a switch too near the main track. The locomotive of the train and several cars wore derailed, and James Moon, a brakeman, was instantly killeu. Two other train hands, whose names could not be ascertained suffered broken limbs and three or four other employes were slightly hurt. The accident was the fault of the freight crew which failed to set tho freight car far enough in on the side track.

John Sage, of Blackford county, a life prisoner at Michigan City, has secured a new trial, and he] has been transferred to Grant county, where his first conviction was had. Sage is accused of influencing a woman to whom he w^as betrothed to fiist murder her child before he would enter the marriage relation, and M"s. Sage is now a life prisoner in the Female Reformatory. After her conviction, and while no suspicion attached te Sage, he began divorce proceedings, intending to remarry another woman, and this influenced Mrs. Sage to a confession, in which his connection with the murder of the child was brought out.

Matthew Brandenburg, an old resident of Crawfordsville, has established his claim to an estate in Germany, and will receive $30,000 as his portion. His father was a German nobleman, and had his estate confiscated by the crown, but after his death it was restored. Matthew Brandenburg and a brother came to America many years ago, but did not hear of their good luck until about a year ago. The money is in tho German Treasury, and there is but little doubt but that Mr. Brandenburg will receive the $300,000. The entire estate is valued at $11,000,000. Mr. Brandenburg has followed the profession of an engineer.

Judge Irvin, of the Marion County Criminal Court, rendered a decision, Wednesday, to tho effect that the dressed beef act of the last Legislature is uncon stitutional, and directed that an entry be made discharging Philip Klein, of the Chicago Difesscd Beef Company, against

Whom the proceedings were brought. The prosecution was by information charging the defendant with selling for human fooda quantity of dressed beef in Indianapolis which had not been inspected alive that city, the animals from which it came having been slaughtered at Chicago. The pror ccedings were instituted with the ui.der standing that the case should be pressed to the Supreme Court, with a view of test-, ing the constitutionality of the law.

The boiler in the saw-mill of R. J. Walton & Co., at Anderson, exploded at 10:10 Saturday morning with fearful results, There were eight men in and around the mill at the time, and how they escaped-.-, without instant death is remarkable. Thebuiluing and mill is a total wreck. Pieces of the boiler were thrown 150 feet away to the south of the mill. The following is the list of the men who were more or less, hurt by the explosion: Walter Wingate badly hurt, and will probably die Samuel Cook, wounded in the back of the head Horace Koontz, Pendleton, mortally, wounded and is dying W. II. Rambler, of New Columbus, fearfully wounded, but will recover William Stanley, engineer, slightly wounded Levy Denny and Al Stanley, slight wounds.

William Bragg and wife, near Swcctser, are members of the Church of Christ, or the Holiness Band, and several days ago, while milking the cow, Mrs. Bragg was kicked and the larger bone of her leg was broken near the knee joint.:" Neighbors of the same faith were immediately called, and a cure was attempted by "laying on of hands," and the next day, with the aid of a crutch, Mrs. Bragg was up, attending to her household duties. Afterward, however, her condition grew worse, and the limb was swollen to enormous proportions, while the sufferings cf the woman are terrible. She continues, however, to depend upon the faith cure, and will not submit to the offices of a surgeon. Last summer her husband accidentally run a self-binder needle through his hand. He also depended upon faith cure, but the injury ivsi.ilt.ed in leaving him crippled.

POLITICAL NOTES.

A

late

dispatch says: There is but little

prospect that the political situation in 2»tontana will see any change for several days. The count in all counties is completed, and it is

not

thought tkat any other .contests

beside

the one in Silver Bow county will be made. As the Legislature now stands, counting the Silver Bow delegation, as returned by the judges of election, the Democrats have a majority on joint ballot of three, with one seat a tie. Should the action of the canvassing board in throwing out the Lunnel precinct be upheld by the courts, the Republicans will gain four

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members of the Silver Bow delegation and have a majority on joint ballot of five. The hearing of the contest case is set for November 7.

Mr. Amos J. Cummings was nominated by the Tammany Democrats of the Ninth jfew York Congressional District to fill the vacancy in the next Congress caused by the death of Hon. S. S. Cox.

The South Dakota Legislature met in. both branches, Wednesday, and elected Pettigrew and Moody to represent the State in the United States Senate. The 1 Legislature in joint session will formally ratify the action of both branches, and adjourn until January. A resolution and memorial as follows was passed by both houses unanimously, no other business being transacted: "Resolved. That the

Senators and Representatives of the State of South Dakota in the Congress of the United States are hereby requested to urge the passage of a bill by Congress, at the earliest date possible, providing an appropriation for the purpose of making necessary surveys, and of boring experiI mental artesian wells so as to determine the feasibility and practicability of artesian irrigation, preparatory to the establishment of a system of irrigation of the

State."

Congressman Cheadle, of Indiana, charges that the Democrats of Danville, Va., a city of 12,000, refused te rent a place of any kind for Republican speaking.

Governor Foraker is reported quite ill, and has canceled his political engagements for a week.

The Greenback party of New York held a convention, Monday, and nominated the following ticket: For Secretary of State, Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of EUnira .Comptroller, John B. Sullivan, ol Westchester Treasurer, Joseph Madison Hall, of Hamilton Attorney-general, Joseph

Wright, of Weedsport.

A LETTER FROM MR. CLEVELAN

The first general assembly of the Democratic societies of Pennsylvania began, Wednesday, at Philadelphia. Over seven hundred delegates, representing Democratic

clubs

in all parts of the State, were in

attendance. President Chauneey 1*. Black called the convention to order, after which a letter from ex-President Cleveland was read. After expressing regrets at being unable to ^attend, Mr. ^Cleveland says: "My estimate of the value of these Democratic societies as agents for the instruction of the people upon political topics and for the accomplishment of legitimate political work is well known, and there never was a time when, in the interest of good government and national prosperity, they were more needed. The condition of political affairs are such that the attention of all true Democrats should be directed to tho enforcement of the distinctive principles of the party, and, in my opinion, this Jis no time for the search after make-shifts and temporary expedients. We, as a party,'are fairly en^ listed in the cause of the people, and patriotism, duty and party succoss require that we should be consistent and steadfast. AL personal and selfish aims should be subordinated. I confidently expect that in the work we have in hand our Democratic societies will exhibit an efficiency which will be gratefully acknowledged by all who have at heart the welfare and prosperity of the American people.