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the time that Solomo

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THE

committee on public health

of the Massachusetts legislature is investigating several of the advertised cures for inebriety, with a view to adopting one of them for use in institutions supported by the State.

ABRAHAM KERULLA,

sionary now in this country, says that in Syria and also in Egypt, there is no open saloon, and very little iutoxicating drink is used, and if it is known that any one has once been drunk in his life, his evidence will not be accepted iu court.

CIIAUXCEY M. DEPEW

ANN SMALL,

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and Lillian

Russell sailed for Europe on the American liner Paris, on the 18th. Mr. Depew is a widower, and the famous actress is at present minus a husband. Newspaper correspondents are weaving many romantic webs for the twain who are not as yet one flesh.

a winsome widow ot

seventy hot summers recently sued' the celebrated John Smith, aged sixty, at Detroit, for broach of promise. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant, and thus again was ''love's bright dream" rudely scattered and budding hopes cast withering to the ground,

Osgood Journal "rises to ex

plain" a laughable typographical error in a recent issue. The errata occurred in a dry goods ad., and was written "Dimity cords". The "intelligent comp." set, it up "Divinity cards," and the edition proved unexpectedly popular. The dry goods firm "didn't care a cent."

artesian irrigation scheme for

western Kansas has failed to extensively materialize as yet, and settlers are reported to be constantly moving out from impending starvation. Drought in that section has been unusually severe, although wet weather and great floods have prevailed in some parts of the State.

IF you meet a bacillus consisting of a slender, short,, straight ligament, do not seek for an introduction, but avoid it it is the bacillus of the Chinese plague. Dr. Kitasato, the Japanese physician who discovered it, says it will hurt no one who is clean, but the one who is clean will not care to make its acquaintance. nevertheless.

is now possible to ride from the Battery at New York to Pelhamville for 15 cents, or less than one cent a mile. The rapid introduction of trolley systems has brought about S?i this result. The time required to make this little excursion is three hours each way. One may now travel hundreds of miles in the suburbs of New York city by trolley

lines and the routes arc being constautiy extended.

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bloomers are in vogue

with Chicago lady 'cyclists, and it is1 a finable offense to laugh at their appearance. Emanuel Engstrom ''smiled" out loud at Mrs. McCol-' lom at Lincoln Park, as the ladv sailed by arrayed different from Solomon in his glory, and Mrs. Mc. got even with him by causing his arrest. Engstrom paid $25 for his fun, which' was certainly an excessive assessment.

THE

warden of the Kansas peni

tentiary has two sons and two. daughters, and is said to regret that his family is limited to four children because he cannot keep all the salaries at his disposal in the family circle. His own salary is $2,500 a year, one son's $2,000, the other' $600 one daughter's $1,000, the other $600. Large families as a rulej are considered as a drawback to a' man's financial progress, but occasionally children can be worked in toi excellent advantage.

POSTMASTER HESING,

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ballot was fraudulently used and that at least 1,000 votes were openly bought and paid for. The scheme, as described, can not be worked successfully without the collusion ol election judges with the parties engineering the fraud, and the swindle is clumsy at best. It could not be worked by cither party in Indiana one hour without exposure by watchers of the party sought to be defrauded.

GEN. NEAT,

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MINNOW

of Chicago,

•is perfecting plans to utilize the street cars of that city for the locali mail service. Miniature mail cars are to be attached to the cable trains and mail stations will be established on the different routes. The street railway magnates are greatly pleased at the prospect, I ^cause in case of strikes and other labor troubles the fact that they are, transporting United States mail will -.prove a great protection t* tbeir •trains.

An- improbable story has been ^telegraphed from St. Paul stating' Hhat at the recent municipal elec lotions in that city the Australian

Dow, the veteran pro

hibitionists of Maine, in a recent interview at Boston, discussing the startling revelations made by the Lexow investigating committee ol the far reaching bribery and corruption among the New York police and other officials, said that the police of Portland, Me., were more corrupt, in comparison to the wealth and population, than those of New York. He stated that the pricepaid for protecting illegal saloons ranged from $40 to $100 per mouth. Even the courts are contaminated, according to Gen. Dow, and some Judges, if a conviction is secured under the prohibition law in their courts, will have the case placed on file, not to be called up unless on a special order by the court. 'Thai usuallv ends the ease.

A DANGEROUS crank recently visited President Cleveland, and secured a private interview. As soon as they were alone the man devel oped violent symptoms. Mr. Cleveland at once summoned assistance and the visitor was removed. The crank's name was Gooding, aud we are sorry to say he hails from Indiana. The possibility of danger frorc just such individuals was so forcibly impressed on the President's mind that he was much upset, and it was several days before he recovered his usual equaninrity. The danger, tc which prominent personages are exposed can easily be imagined, and is all the more burdensome and oppressive to high officials because nc adequate provision can be made tc guard against such attacks. Mayor •Harrison and Carnot, Garfield and Lincoln, all perished in this wav, and it is to bo feared that the world is destined to see a repetition ol these horrible crimes.

buckets are now made in

the form of an oblong solid glass globe with perforated tin ends. They are highly ornamental, and will serve as bric-a-brac when not in use for the purpose for which they are manufactured. When the dudish fisherman gets fitted out with one of these ornaments, and an aluminum rod. and a six-dollar nickel or gold-mounted reel, and a $2.5(3 silk line, and $20 canvas fishing suit, and $5 pair of rubber hip boots, and an ornamental fish basket attached to his ornamental person by an or namental leather sash, he is a sight to behold, and may be an addition ta the artistic merits of any landscape he favors with his beautiful presence,' but the bare-legged small boy with a four-foot hickory pole and a ten-cent cotton line and penny hook will yank out ten fish to his one. Civilization is a great thing, but iu don't count with black bass.

Demanding His Rights.

Chicago Tribune.

"Prisoner," said the judge, "have you any counsel?" "I haven't, your honor," answered the man on trial for stealing a ham. "I haven't got any money." "Then the court will appoint Mr. Leggy to defend you."

The prisoner looked at the skinny, squint-eyed, stoop-shouldered pettifogger pointed out by the court, and rose to enter a protest. "Judge," he said, "I am entitled, accordin' to law, to a trial by a jury of mv peers, ain't I?" "You are," replied the court. "Then, your honor," rejoined the prisoner, drawing a shiny coat sleeve across his nose, "I think I ought to have a lawyer of the same kind."

Cost of Our Indian Wars. Mow York Times. Beginning with the Fourth of July, 1776, the War and Indian Departments together have expended in the neighborhood of $1,000,000,000 in the settlement of I ndian disputes, and the sacrifice of human life in connection with the various rebellions, massacres and uprisings has been more appalling and even more costly than the vast outlay of funds above quoted. One thousand million dollars is an enormous sum of money. The foreign wars we have been engaged in, bulked in a lump, nowhere approach the Indian outlay

The Candidate's Position. "The man who attempts to stand on his dignity," said the man with the hay colored waistcoat, "won't amount to much when he gets into a political campaign." "No," said the man with the new straw hat, "he will do about as well as the fellow who attempts to run on his merits." "Correct," Said the man with the yellow shoes. "The only stand a man can take when he is running for office is to lie on general principles."

MEWS OF THE WEEK

A new mint will be built at Philadelphia. The treasury gold reserve is down to f52.820,589.

Ex-Gov. Blair, of Michigan, died at Jackson, Aug. 5. Gold shipments to Europe, Saturday, iraounjed to $1,750,000. 2 Scranton, Pa., postoffice was robbed of 5S,000 in stamps, Saturday.

Grasshoppers are eating up crops in Shelby county. Tennessee. Farmer Citv, 111., was devastated by a are. Aug. 4. Loss in excess of $30,000.

Of the 938 deaths in New York last .veek, fifty-one were due directly to the lieat. ...

Chinese in large numbers are leaving fsew York for the mother country to fight the Japs.

Queen Lil's representatives have boon riven a cold shoulder by Secretary aresham.

Said that a big Baltimore distillery has been caught with 1G0.000 gallons of .vatered liquors.

The big suit against the Pacific, railroads will be dismissed by order of Attorney General Olney.

Pittsburg is making elaborate preparations for the entertainment of the G. A. R. grand encampment.

Mayor Hopkins refused the American Railway Union permission to parade as a reception to President Debs.

Incomplete returns of the election in Tennessee. Aug. 2, indicate a Democratic majority of 15,000 on alight vote.

The Pullman company has refused to mploy any labor agitators. The works have resumed with a limited force.

The sealing schooner Bowhead, thirtysix days from Hakodat, arrived at San Francisco with a catch of 1.404 skins.

The farm house of S. Ostenson near Dover. Minn., burned Aug. G. Mr. Ostenson and four children were cremated.

Henry Dohme shot and killed his wife it Chicago and fatally wounded himself Jealousy is said to have caused the crime.

Bill Tequaney, an Indian, while lodged in jail for the night at Koslyn, Wash., 5et fire to his cell and was burned to a irisp.

The suits of the United States against the Southern Pacific railroad have been dismissed, by order of Attorney-General Olney.

Farmers in the neighborhood of Yankton, S. D., have succeoded in causing rain by explosions, and have saved their irops. 4 Pawnee Bill's Wild West show at Antwerp, has proved a failure, and his Indians have returned to this country in distress.

The Slavick coke burners of Pennsylvania will form a colony in Arkansas. Fifty thousand acres of land have already been purchased,

Raymond Leiiner, of Danburv. Conn., the father of twenty-riine children, twenty-three of whom are living, hanged himself Aug. 4:

Gov. McKinlev and Gov. Rich, of Michigan, are making a tour of the Northern lakes, and have received much attention at several cities en route.

The residence of George Johnson, of Lodi, S. D., was destroyed by fire Aug. 5, Two sons, aged fourteen and twenty, lost their lives in the flames.

Word has been received that the vessel of the Wellman Arctic expedition has been lost, but the crew esfeaped and is now making its way northward.

The Senate committee investigating the sugar trust have brought in a report stating that there was no evidence to sustain the charges made against Senators.

Friends of Colonel Breckinridge have polled the Ashland district and claim he will be nominated by a vote which will equal that of his opponents combined.

Elbridge Walker, of Newton. Mass.. died from the blood poisoning that followed the removal of a pimple by a barber who shaved him in a careless manner. '•Gen." Goxey has appealed to Congress, through the press, for aid for his four hundred starving followers until supplies now en route, as he claims, -can reach them.

W. II. Hale, of "Gun Wa" Chinese medicine fame, was again found guilty by a jury at Denver, Aug, 1. lie was charged with using the mails with intent to defraud.

The missing cask of $50,000 in gold, stolen in transit from Havre to Paris, was found concealed in a pile of coal at Havre, on the 1st. There is still no trace of the thieves.

State Auditor Gore, in turning the affairs of the Illinois Building and Loan association over to the attorney general,said that its methods were deceptive, if not, indeed, fraudulent.

At the West Side ball park, Chicago, Sunday, afire started in the grand stand from the carelessness of a cigarette smoknr. A panic ensued and many people were painfully injured.

Secretary Smiley, of the Minnesota Democratic Stato Central Committee, has resigned because tho Committee declined to indorse the President and stand by the platform of the party,

Rob Roy and Frank Egan, two of the Morrillton band of boy bandits, have been captured eight miles below little Rock, Ark., heading for New Orleans, in a house boat loaded with plunder.

Corn sold at 5Lc on tho Chicago Board of Trade, Aug. 2. Wheat, No. 2 hard, brought only 50)£e. This is only the second time in thirty-two years that corn was quoted higher than wheat.

Capt. Thomas Fullerton, Republican nominee for Congress in the Eleventh Illinois District, died suddenly from heart disease at Fairbury, 111., Aug. 2. Capt. Fullerton\s homo was at Ottawa.

Ghouls attempted to rob tho grave of Andrew Jackson at ''The Hermitage," twelve miles from Nashville, Tenn.. Wednesday night, but were frightened away before accomplishing their object.

The House pension committee has recommended that a pension of $12 a month be granted to Sharp Nose, an Arraphoe chief, for services as a scout iu the Big Horn mountains extending over many years. 5 The Florida Democratic State convention met at Jacksonville, Aug. 2, and nominated a candidate forjudge of the Supreme Court. The platform indorses the policy of President Cleveland and condemns the inaction and course of the Senate.

The entire Democratic ticket was elocted in Alabama, Aug. 6. Incomplete returns indicate Democratic gains. Oatas

for Governor will have a majority of 30,000 to 50.000 over Kolb the fusion candidate. The legislature will be Democratic by asafe majority.

A dispatch to the New York World from Colon, Columbia, Aug. 5, states that there has been hard fighting at the Bluefields bluffs, in the Mosquito Territory, between British troops and the Indians. No decisive advantage was gained by either side.

The Democratic tariff conferees were in session at the Capitol, Sunday, but no agreement was reached. The Senate and House members respectively stubbornly held out for their respective bills. It was predicted by members that a report of agreement or disagreement would be made within three days.

An attempt was made to assassinate Adj. Gen. Tarsney, of Colorado, in the Union Depot at Kansas Citv, Friday night. Gen. Tarsney was in Kansas City to secure the arrest of one .T. 11. Wilson, who is alleged to be one of the gang engaged in the recent tar and feather outrage.

Detectives have made a big haul of counterfeiters at Bethel, Corn. Thousands of dollars in spurious bank notes, plates, ii:k and fibrous paper were secured. The press has not been found Three arrests have been made, but it is hoped that the balance of the gang will be corralled.

Judge Joseph Holt, at one time Judge Advocate General of the Army and Acting Secretary of War, died at Washington, Aug. 1. He was appointed to the position of Judge Advocate General of tho Army by President Lincoln in 1802. and was a conspicuous figure at the capital during the war and for some years afterward.

Game Warden Gallicatte, of Colorado, has been notified that as usual at this season of the year a band of one hundred Navajos from Utah are ruthlessly slaughtering deer for their hides in the western part of Montrose county. As the Indians are off their reservation they are subject to civil law and deputies have been sent to arrest them.

The graphic account of tho cruel religious "rites'' of the "penitents"—a fanatical sect existing in New Mexico—recently published in Harper's Weekly with illustrations, was reproduced in tho Taos Valley (N. M.,) Herald and Miner. The office was mobbed by a band of supposed "penitents," and tho editor, C. E. Griffith, was badly used up. He arrived at Tres Piedras, N. M.. Aug. in a pitiable condition, having walked forty miles.

The Vigilant vanquished two of the best English yachts in the regatta at ('owes, Isle of Wight, Aug. 6. George Gould, Howard Gould and Lord Dun raven were on board the Vigilant during the race. Emperor Willianf of Germany witnessed the race from the royal yachs JTohenzollern and afterward visited Queen Victoria at Osborng.

An attempt was made to "hold np" a 'Frisco train thirty miles out from S.t. Louis, Thursday night, by &ne masked robber. The express messenger prove 1 game and tired on the intruder and in return was wounded in the shoulder and hand. The bandit then escaped. Tho train then proceeded a short distance when a terrific explosion took place, supposed to have been caused by dynamite. The engine was damaged, but nobody wa hurt.

The Iowa Democratic State convention convened at Des Moines, Aug. 1. Ex-Gov. Boies was made permanent chairman. On taking tho chair Gov. Boies made a lengthy address, in which he said that a crisis had been reached in the history of the Democratic party, and claimed that the party was committed to a revenue tariff and to equal-and unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver. He condemned sympathy strikes in strong language. A State ticket was nominated, headed by II. H. Dale for Secretary of State. The platform reaflirms the National platform of 1802. and fully endorses Cleveland's administration.

A statement issued by tho Controller of the Currency shows the total amount of national bank notes outstanding to be §207,445, 4S(), an increase in total circulation for the month of 6180,182, and for the year of 1823,789,500. The amount of circulation outstanding against bonds is S1S1,055,934, an increase for the month of S-1S7.-35!) and for the year of $17,834,441. The amount of lawful money on deposit to secure circulation is shown to be ?2dvi89.555, a decrease of 9301,108 for the month and an increaso for the year of £5,954,928. The amount of United States registered bonds on deposit to secure circulation notes is 5202,281,000, and they secure public deposits of $14,^2 ,000.

Except oti Ttvo Roads—Official Action ol a A

By the action of the Chicago local unions of tho American Railway Union the strike has!been declared off upon all lines in that city with the exception of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Sanu: Fe roads. This determination was taken at a mass meeting of railroad' men held Sunday, and is the result of a secret session of the representatives from each local union, the question being decided by ballot.

Peculiarity of Sunstroke.

Philadelphia Record.

"A peculiar phase of a sunstroke,' said one of Philadelphia's most eminent physicians, "is that its subject does not succumb to the attack till some hours after it occurs. The only explanation medical science can give is that a sunstroke consists in a disintegration of the blood corpuscles and considerable time elapses before the disintegrated blood reaches the little nerve center in the brain which acts as a governor on the heat system of the body. The flow of the blood flnallv paralyzes the heat center and the heat runs riot, raising the temperature of the body to a fearful hight within a few minutes. As an instance of heat prostration the doctor cited the statistics of the British army in India, where the great "majority of sunstrokes take effect between 7 and 9 o'clock in the evening.

Forty acres of lumber yards "were burned over at Chicago, Wednesday night. Loss .*1,500,OOfc ».

IRMJU STATE MS.

Goshen is to have a park'. Wayne county owes-$15)5.000. Muncio has a one-legged bic\ clist. An Evansville negro is turning white., Farmland reports a damaging drought. Pink-eye is affecting cattle in Ray township. Morcan county.

Frost was reported from Wabash Columbus, Saturday night, Aug. -1. August Keel, living near Jonesvillr threshed over (5,100 bushels of wheat. extensive cave is supposed to exist in the Blackford-Wells county oil district.

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It is reported that the grape crop in New Albany neighborhood is almost a failure.

Wayne county voted, Saturday, against buying the remaining toll roads in that county.

Loroy Wright, an employe of the street railway at Muncie, was killed by a "live" wire, Aug. 2.

South Bend police last year arrested thirty-one persons who were under fourteen years of age.

The tin-stamping works of Ball Bros., fruit-jar manufacturers of Muncie. have resumed operations.

Canada thistles have appeared in "tinnorthern part of the State, and fanners are greatly annoyed.

The Republican congressional convention at Greensburg, Aug. 2,' nominated James E. Watson, (.if Rush county. 5Charles, son of William A. Gregory, near Monrovia, was terribly hurt by a horse rearing back and ailing on him.

White Caps visited Meredith Stanley's house near Anderson, Monday night, and destroyed his threshing machine and engine.

Elisha Johns, an old veteran of Elkhart, has been awarded a medal for gallantry displayed at the siege of Vicksburg.

The big engine in the American wire nail works at Anderson exploded, Friday. The escape of SCO workmen from serious injury was miraculous.

J. W. Rittenhouse, convicted of counterfeiting, and who escaped from the Prison South twelve years ago, was recently captured in Texas.

Tillie Scbran, of Richmond, aged seven teen, was instantly killed by a fall from a parachute at Anderson, Aug. 1., It was her first effort as an a'reonaut.

Abraham Smith, a stock" raiser of Tipton county, was killed by being kicked on the head by a horse. An elder brother met death in a similar wav one year ago.

The building at Fort Wayne tenanted by Miller, junk dealer Drier, druggist: Ward, chinaware dealer, and Rash, seed merchant, was wrecked by fire. Loss, 510.000. I

The old question of "worshiping God bj£. machinery" is up again in the Christian church at Odon. Some of th«i members, say the organ must go and others say it shall not.

The report that Graham Earlt actor, has been placed in a Laporte sant tarium is denied by .Mr. Earie himself. The actor i.s now at liooperstown, ill., in good health.

Bedford has a young man who "muchly" bow-legged and he takes a ••iVio'eighth 'husband waV

board with him to place on his lap when he visits bis girl, to prevent her from falling through.

Superintendent McWhinney, of the Marion electric street railway, is sanguine that in a comparatively short time Anderson, Marion and Indianapolis will bs connected by an electric line.

Miss Grace Cohee, of Bartholomew county, who was accidentally shot by Dr. C. II. Beck, her betrothed husband, died of her wound. I)r. Reck is under S3.003 bonds, but he is not believed to be criminally liable. 2 Messrs. Tabor & Co., of Argos, who are also interested in banking adventures at Mcntone and Silver Lake, have offered to invest $25,000 in a venture at North 'Manchester, as the successors of the defunct First Natioual bank.

Dr. Geo. C. Brannon, of Hammond, was called out late, Friday night, to make* a call on a man who was said to have been shot. Brannon has not since been seen. The case is similar to the celebrated Cronin mystery at Chicago.

The most disastrous fire in the history of Marion visited that place Ansr. 5. Sweetzer & Co. and Mark, Burge it Co.. suffer the heaviest loss. Fifteen other business firms, were burned out. Total loss, §01,800 insurance' $25,035.

All the employes of the Diamond Plate Glass Company at Kokonio who were members of the Indiana militia on duty at Hammond, have been notified by the company that they will receive half-pay for the time marked by their absence.

The families of C.Stewart and Curt Hair, of Columbus, are camping near that city, Saturday Hair thought his wife was too intimate with Stewart and he attacked him with a butcher knife, latally cutting him. Hair was arrested.

A sensation was created in Brazil, Fri•day, by the C. & E railroad announcing that its shops would bo removed to Momence, 111. The citizens say they will bring suit for $.'0,000 against the company for the subsidy given the road when the shops were built.

The other night a Rensselaer man dreamed that in a hole under a stump he would find a fur collar that had been stolen from his house lit found thestump and, reaching in. felt a furry object which he pulled out. lie now lives in tho woods trving to get the skunk odor off of himself.

John Cullen. of Kokomo, under treatment for a cancerous growth of the tongue, which required the amputation of that member, deliberately starved himself to death, rather than undergo further torture. He was eighty-one years old, and one of the builders of tho old Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago railway.

Ernest Aylesworth, of Valparaiso, died from the effects of excessive cigarette smoking. On the day preceding his death he purchased four boxes of cigarettes, 'nearly all of which ho smoked before retiring. The next morning at tho breakfast hour he was found to be unconscious, and he died before relief could be afforded.

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Wayne people have located cottages, aiid for several hours the campers were put to! the liveliest exertion to save their property. The trees, shrubs and undergrowth were dry as tinder and burned fiercely Several ladies were badly prostrated by the excitement incident to fighting the fire. ^Domestic differences between Mr, and 5 Mrs. Ed Smith, of Frankfort, culminated in violence, the husband throwing his? wife down and attempting to choke her. I The struggle aroused the neighbors,which caused Mr. Smith to leave the house. Released front his grasp. Mrs. Smith armed herself with a revolver, and wheu Mr. Smith came iu view at. the window she sent a bullet through his leg.

J. P. Dunn, of Indianapolis, has appealed from the decision of the county board of review fixing the assessments of the Indianapolis w»ter company, street, railway company and the two gas com pa- S nies, which, lie a!!eg s. are too low. Mr. Dunn claims that individual assessments have been placed at from 70 to 100 per cent, of true value, and holds that the same rule should apply to corporations,

Eugene Debs arrived at Chicago from Tern Haute, Aug. 1. In an interview he said:*T will never again be connected with any strike organization. This strike has developed the fact that the sentiment of tlie people of the country is against strikes, and that the Government stands ready to put down such movements at the point of the, bayonet. I shall hereafter advise all workinginen to seek redress by the 1 allot."

All the mines are running full-hand, at Clinton aiul about one hundred car loads of cjal are being shipped daily. Entrydriving is being pushed day and night to make room for more miners. Fully l,(X miners who wen idle a short time ago are again at work, and are. apparently, contented. The streets of Clinton are nightly crowded with miners ami members of their families making purchases, and Clinton ha« once more that appearance of life and bustle which characterized it previous to the strike. I At Brazil. An?. 5. David Wilson and

Henry Wright, of Attica, were attacked and horribly beaten by a mob. Wilson I will die and Wright is seriously injured, The men had conn to Brazil to work on the C. it E. 1. fl. It. and the outrage is supposed to have been perpetrated by strikers. U. S. Marshal Hawkins was telegraphed for and arrived in the afternoon. Mr. Hawkins appointed five of the most prominent business men as deputy marshals. A committee was appointed: to raise ^.500 to prosecute lawbreakers.

There is great, excitement. I .Mrs, Dr. Spencer, of Bourbon, recently married her eleventh husband. .She is forty-four years ojd. She- was a bride at fifteen, and it WQS ten years before her first marriage proved a failure. She separated from her/second and- third bus- I .'.bands. Hi fourth marriage was romantic. A convict at Joliet won her love and j1(. she secured his", pardon" and married him. j. u-0e lived but a short time. A fifth and h&ain a sixth husband was chosen from a number of suitors. She married a seventh husband, and there was a- charge of bigamy, but it was disproven, and she was given a divorce, on statutory grounds. the fruit of a 'matrimonial advertisement. He met with death bv accident. One child resulted from the ninth union, and then her husand disappeared. The tenth alliance was with Dr. Spencer, a venerable physician. which union was terminated by his sudden death.

THE EASTERN WAIL

Progress of "^Hostilities Between China and Japan.

Formal 1 }eel:iration of War—Several Kngii4?ei»ipnts—Notes.

A Shanghai cable, July 31, savs: Another battle between the Chinese! and Japanese fleets was fought, yesterday. After a fierce fight the Chinese! armored battlo t-hip Chen Yuen was sunk, and two Chinese cruisers. Chili-Yuen and Ching-Yuen, built by the Armstrongs at Elswick, were captured by the Japanese. It is reported that tho steel protected cruiser Foo Chin was also destroyed. The Chinese fleet car--ried about 1,(J00 men, most of whom were drowned. Among the, killed were two Ger:nan officers attached to the Chen-Yuen, it is ofiieially announced that Russia, desiring a settlement of the war between China and .lapan. will act in complete accord with Great Britain in an effort to SGcure an immediate solution of the difficulty. Failing in this Russia will not allow any power to take even partial possession of Korea.

The Japanese legation at Washington. AUK. 3, received official notification of a battie between the Japanese and Chinese land forces in Corea. July :20th Japanese troops marched against a Chinese force entrenched at Shan Yueng. A battle ensued and after heavy fighting the Chinese were put completely to rout and a large number of prisoners and munitions of war were captured by the Japanese. On the morning of.the 20th the Japanese proceeded to march against Gasan, Shan Yueng is situated between Seoul and Gasan, where the fight between the Jap- §j anese and Chinese resulting in the loss of 2,000 Japanese is reported to have oc- I curred. All tho great powers have ordered cruisers to proceed to the far East to protect the interests of their respective governments.

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detective at Fort Wayne to look

after losses in its paint department, and the detectivo traced missing goods to the possession of William Q. Hochstetter, who had been in the employ of the company as

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who is worth nearly $20,000. Fire broke out in a strip of woods at Some 'City in whloh a t^umber of Fort

commander-in-chief of the Korean army is an American.and a Chicago man at that—Major Dye. He is a graduate of West Point and served on the Union side during the rebellion. At the close of tho war he turned

Chicago, where he had inherited

some property, and went into business, 8 but it seems that the great lire of 1871 swept away whatever he had, and in 187U ho went to Egypt with several of his former comrades to take service under the Khedive. Gen. Stone, an American, was commander-in-chief of the Egyptian army. Major Dye was a member of his staff and for a time acted as adjutantgeneral. In 1870 Major l)ye returped to Washington and became chief of police. The Korean embassy subsequently engaged him to go to that country to introduce modern military methods and he at last became commander of the Korean army and has retained the position.

Hundreds of letters arc received daily bv tho Japanese embassy at Washington tendering service to the Japanese government. All aro declined. It is a penal of* fense for Americans to serve either in tho Chinese or Japanese service wnilo the two nations are at war. so the latter government can not under any circumstances accept the offers.

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