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rubber stamp, the First Comptroller will have to overhaul his regulations. As every man who has been so unfortunate as to have trie handling of government money knows, the Comptroller will not accept a voucher receipted with a rubber stamp, or anythin}? else than a duly authenticated autograph, ami if- the question had been submitted to him instead of the Attorney-gener-al for an opinion, he would doubtless have decided that such a method as has been adopted is illegal. Not lone ago a lot of pay-rolls came into the Comptroller’s ofi’. e, upon which appeared the name of a laborer. On some of the roii< he had signed it. while on others he had made his mark. Suspecting that this diserep nncy must conceal a grp,at fraud, the whole of the officer's accounts were suspended, and he was nottfi • i of the discovery. In reply, he wrote the Comptroller a very funny letter, in which he en -d attention to tbs fact that the vouchor? w r-> uniformly signed with a ~ross up to a certain date, and thereafter with the man’s sign t ire. ■•The solution of this solemn mystery" her, Med. ”1 that the man has been going to nigh: school, and has learned to write. THANKSGIVING. The I*r*-v. ip?;t Dcsignitios November 25 as a Bay of Thanksgiving ami Prayer. Washington. Oct. 31.—The following is President Cleveland's proclamation, designating Thursday, Nov. 23, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer:

“It has lone been the custom of the people of the United States, or. a day in each year especially set, apart for that purpose by their chief executive, to acknowledge the goodness and mercy of God. and to invoke Ills continued care and protection. In observance of such custom. I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart, Thursday, the 2.lth day of November instant, to be observed anu kept as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. On that day let all our people forego their accustomed erntdoymen’s and assemble in tneir usual places of worship, to give thunks to the Ruler of the Universe for our continued enjoyment of the blessings of a free government, for a renewal of business prosperity throughout our land, for the return which has rewarded the labor of those who till the soil, and for onr progress as a people in all that makes a nation great: and while we contemplate the infinite power of God in earthquake, flood ni} storm, let. the grateful hearts of ihose who have been shielded from harm through his mercy, be turned in sympathy and kindness toward those who have suffered through His visitations. “Hot us also, in the midst of our thanksgiving, remember the poor and needy with cheerful gifts and alms, so that cur services may, by deeds of charity, be made acceptable ia the sight of the Lord. “Id witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. . Done at -the city of Washington, this Ist day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thonsand eight hundred and eighty•<ix and of the independence of the United States /f America, the one hundred and eleventh. “Grover Cleveland. .“By the President: “T. F. Bayard, Secretary of State.” MINOR MATTERS. Proposed Change >n the Method of Paying for Railway Mali Service. Washington Special. The Second Assistant Postmaster-general recommends a change in the method of compensatmg railroads for carrying the mails. Under the present law railroads are paid according to the average daily weight of mail carried both ways. On account of the many incongruities under this method of pay, and the unsatisfactory method of adjusting the compensation, a change is recommended by the substitution of a space basis instead of a weight basis, that is, the compames to be paid for the amount of space which is necessary for the transportation and distribution of the mails. It is believed that this change will, without seriously affecting the present service, make a saving of about §BOO,OOO a year in the annual expenditure for railway mail service.

AN OLD POISON CASE. etectivcs Trying to Find Evidence to Connect a Prominent Detroiter with a Murder. A Detroit detective arrived in the city yesterday inorning. and is working on a case that at one tirnb attracted much attention. In IB7G there lived here a man and wife, considered very respectable people. There boarded with them a young man engaged in business, and who was quite a favorite in the family. In the latter part of May, 1876, the husband of the wife died very suddenly, and after his burial it was noised around that be had been poisoned by the boarder, between the wife and whom an affection had sprung up. So general did the rumors become that James Miller, then deputy coroner, had the body exhuued, and analysis made of the stomach, and it was discoverad that he had really died from the effects of poison. While the analysis was in progress the suspected mur'd erer and the dead man’s wife eloped, and all : fforts by the officer to Gnd them proved futile. Frank Wilson, now assistant foreman of the Sentinel, was chief of police at the time, and. after long search, gave up the hunt for the fugitives. It now appears that the parties went from here to Detroit, where they were married, and have since been living respectably, and the man is now a candidate for an important office in the county in which Detroit is situated The detective thinks he has secured sufficient evidence to bring them back here for trial, and will leave for home this morning to reveal "’hat no has learned. The man has been very prosperous in business since he located ir. Detroit, and for several years has figured as one of its leading citizens. When tho arrests ure made the names will be made public. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. On Friday night burglars blew open the safe ir ’he postoffice at Mt. Vernon, 0., obtaining about $2,000 in monov, stamps, etc. On the morning of Sept. 7, the dead body of ’<hn Johnson, a Swede, was found in a barn at 'hardon, O. Foul play was suspected, and lenry Bestor, Charles Bestor and George Colby, jr., who had been seen with Johnson, were arrested. On Saturday the grand jury returned an indictment against the three men for murder in the first degree. Or. Saturday Joseph Green, book-keeper of iV, 11. Metz Cos., of Louisville, was found lying n-ensible, with a fractured skull, at Fourteenth ind Lexington* streets. He bad been slungshotted and robbed of his clothes, money and valuables. He left the office for home at 9 ’o’clock Friday evenine. He will die. There is no clew to the perpetrator. At Mobile. Ala., Saturday night, burglars Groks open two safes, one being the safe of C. C. I’errill, a proraiuent general merchant. They . so opened the safe of Moses Frecnhead, the mbination being known to them. From the alter safe they abstracted SI,OOO. It is not known how much was taken from the other two, but at least as much more. Sam S. Payton was discharged from tho Jacket n. Mich., prison on Saturday, his sentence of ( yetrs for a Detroit burglary having expired. A special interest attaches to Payton, beenuso he is a eraadson of Commodore Perry, and is said, during his inearserntion, to have been left a fortune of $250,000. He has been employed as the prison physician’s book-keeper. William Cooper, of Port Austin, Mich , has ri .'eived a letter addressed to him hv his uncle, Joseph Ileit’n, who mysteriously disappeared from the steamer Alaska during her trip from -Gndusky to Detro.t,. on Tuesday. Its contents mute where bis will and other private papers could be found. Ileith left a fortune of $3,000,'JOO. It is a together unlikely that he committed suicide. It ia believed ho was robbed ind thrown into the lake. anwnwM—i whim i ■■■ ■■ •‘There are millions in it.” said a druggist vben asked about Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup; it is , fiicuit for mo to keep tip stock of same, it sells faster than I cun procure it. Price • > crctfc.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. One Man Killed and Another Fatally Hurt by a Premature Explosion—Suicide of a Despondent Man—Death of John Gavisk. ' INDIANA. Premature Explosion in a Mine—One Man Killed and Anolher Radiy Hurt. Special to the IndianaDolis Journal. Brazil, Oct. 31.—A fatal accident occurred yesterday at the new coal mine of Zeller & Sigler. six mile3 southeast of 'Brazil. Joseph Elliott and John Philiipps were trying to extract a charge of blasting powder which had failed to explode. When they had nearly reached the powder it became ignited, and exploded with terrific force, blowing both arms from the body of Elliott, from the effects of which be died a few hours after. Philiipps is badly injured and will hardly recover, but if he does he will probably be totally blind.

A Despondent Man Shoots Himself. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Union City, Oct. 31.—Last evening, about 8 o’clock. Harry Hartman, about twenty-two years of age, unmarried, and living with his father, Mr. Solomon Hartman, a well-to-do farmer, five miles southwest of this place, took from a bu reau drawer a revolver, aud left the house without attracting the attention of the family. Not returning, his friends became uneasy at his absence, and instituted a search, which continued all night without finding hirn This morning his body was found in a field, about half a mile from the house, with a bullethole in his temple and revolver by his side, in such condition as to leave no doubt of deliberate suicide. No cause is known for the act other than despondency on account of sickness. When a small boy he was afflicted with epilepsy, but of late vqars has been measurably clear of the malady. Lust w.i ter he spent in Florida, and the past summer in .vausas, seeking relief from threatened comsumption; but not finding it, he sought relief with 4 revolver. Death >f John Gavisk. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Evansville, Oct. 31.—John Gavisk, one of the pioneers of this city, died this morning of heart disease, in the seventy-third year of his age. Mr. Gavisk was at one time an extensive pork-packer here, but of late years has not been in business. He came to Evansville in 1839, from County Meath, Ireland, where he was born. He was the oldest Irish settler in the city, and a prominent Catholic. He w-as an uncle of Father Gavisk, a priest of Indianapolis. Minor Notes. At Elkhart Miss Melvina Wltaian was on Saturday awarded damages to the amount of $1,630 against the city, for injuries received by her in falling through a defective sidewalk. Abraham Harrington, one of the oldest citizens of Lafayette, died suddeuiy, Saturday night, of hemorrhage of the stomach and bowels. He had been a resident for fifty years. Henry Pape, book keeper for P. H. McCormick, contractor for the new insane asylum at Evansviile, died on Saturday, after an illness of nine days. Pape was a single man, twenty-six years of age, and resided with his parents at Columbus.

The dwelling of Rufus Lockwood, located near Lafayette, was fired on Friday night by an incendiary and entirely consumed. Oil was thrown on the house and then ignited. Nearly all the household goods were burned. Loss, $1,000; no insurance. Sanford Baker, a tenant farmer, residing near Lafayette, committed suicide, on Saturday, by shooting himsoif through the head. Despondency overall q/tncial difficulties caused him to take his life. He was forty-four years old, and leaves u widow and one child, a married daughter. ILLINOIS. An Assistant Veterinarian Called to Inspect Cattle Slek with Texas Fever. Decatur, Oct. 3t —Assistant State Veterinarian Reed has been called to Raymond, 111., to inspect 160 head of Cherokee cattle affected with Texas fever. Many native cattle have been exposed to the disease. Over sixty of an imported lot have died within a v.eek. Bri Mention. Tn the Fifty-ninth senatorial district. Earl Sherwood, Democratic nominee, has withdrawn on account of being charged with murder. At Windsor, on Saturday. Mrs. Rebecca Goddard, eighty-nine years old, was found iu her room dead. It is supposed she aied of heart disease, as she bad been subject to it for many years. Mrs. Goddard was one of the first settlers of Shelby county; was born in Virginia, near Richmond; came to Illinois in 1814, and had resided at Windsor ever since. At Springfield, on Saturdav, Judge Treat, of the Uuited States Court, pronounced sentence against a number of offenders, as follows: Jerry Gall cm pe, of Quincy, making and passing counterfeit coin, one year in the penitentiary; Cai Callahan and William Taylor, of Pana, same offense, one year each; Wm. A. Hughes, of Ullin, Union county, altering a pension certificate, two years. Mrs. Skinner, relict of the late Supremo Judge of Illinois, O. C. Skinner, died at Quincy, on Saturday, after a lingering illness. Mrs. Skinner's maiden name was Reed. She was the widow of Judge Colev when she married Judge Skinner. Judge Coley was one of the first judges of the Quincy circuit, having succeeded Stephen A. Douglas to the office when the circuit embraced much greater territory, but uot so many people as it does now. WonUl-He Lynchers Frustrated. Chicago, Oct. 31.—William Smith, a negro, arrested on Friday on suspicion of being the brute who assaulted and robbed Mrs. Mary Dolan and Mrs. Nora Moran. last Sunday night, uear Sixty-first and Hale streets was taken before the two women yesterday for identification. The women were on the second floor of the house on State street, near Sixty-second. Both identified the negro as their assailant, and while the interview was being held about twenty relatives and friends made a rush for the prisoner, rope in hand. Sergeant Wright and his officers were obliged to use their clubs freely in order to get away with their prisoner. The prisoner was taken to the county jail, it being thought best to remove him from the Hyde Park jail. The two women were brutally beaten by their assailant, and Miss Moran’s head is still bandaged. Stcmtnship News. New York, Oct. 31.—Arrived: Etruria, Egypt, from Liverpool; Anchoria, from Glasgow; La Gascoigne, from Havre. London, Nov. I.—The steamer Oregon, from Montreal for Liverpool, passed Moville Oct. 30; the Indiana, from Philadelphia, Oct. 20, arrived at Queenstown to-day. and proceeded for Liverpool; the Bohemia, from New York for Hamburg, passed Sciily to day; the Gellert, from New York for Hamburg, arrived at Plymouth: the Normandie, from New York for Havre, passed Lizard Point to-day: tho Bavarian, from New York for Liverpool, passed Kuieale to-day; the Prussian, from Boston, arrived at Glasgow; the Richmond Hill, from New York Oct. 17, arrived at London. A Reformer Withdraws. Richmond, Va., Oct. 22 —Wm. H. Mullen, reform candidate for Congress, has withdrawn in favor of George D. Wise. Great enthusiasm is felt by tho Democratic party, as they think Us action will certainly elect their nonuueo. Can’t Compete with Free Sugar. St. Louis, Oct. 31.—The St. Louia sugar refinery, the largest in the West, shut down last night and discharged about 125 of their ©in-

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ployes. The oanse of closing is said to be the same as recently compelled the shotting down of several Eastern refineries—inability to compete with Sandwich Island raw sugar, which is admitted into the country free of import duties. Tho refinery is not closed permanently, but will start up should it prove that the new crop of Louisiana raw sugar can be purchased at prices which will yield a profit for refining. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, ) Office of the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, Nov. 1, la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four Honrs from 7 a. m. for Indiana—Fair, weather; slightly warmer. For Ohio, Indiana and Illinois—Fair weather; southerly winds; slightly warmer. For Eastern Michigan—Fair weather, followed by local rains in the northern portion; variable winds, generally southerly; slightly warmer. For Wisconsin —Fair weather, followed by local rains; variable winds, generally southerly; slightly cooler. For Western Michigan—Local rains; variable winds; slightly cooler. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Oct. 31. Time. j Bar. Ther. !Hum. Wind.[Weather 1 Rain. 6a. m... 30.37 34 89 icalm Clear 2p. M 30.24 68 27 j.S west Clear 10 p. m...;30.23 48 57 |Calm Clear Maximum temperature. 69; minimum temperature, 33. October—Monthly mean temperature, 55.3. Total rainfall, 1.20 inch. General Observations. War Department, ? Washington, Oct. 31, 10 p. m. 5 Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stationsw H “Is wj 3 £ =f S ceS.I ® 2 3 G. 5? STATIONS. I § ; e 2 fli m f • £ '• jTI • ; i ■ •• te • New York City 29.95 50 North Clear. Washington City... 30.02 53 Nwest ..... Fair. Vicksburg. Miss— 30.24 59 Calm I Clear. New Orleans. Ha... 130.23 5K S east* Clear. Shreveport, Da 30.23 57 S’east |Clear. Fort Smith, Ark... 30.12 58 S'east j Clear. Little Rock. Ark... 30.1 ft 51 Calm ; Clear. Galveston. Tex .30.21 j 66 East j Clear. Memphis. Tenn 50.21 51 Calm j Clear. Nashville. Tenn 30.24 48 West j Clear. Louisville. Ky 30.21; 52 Calm j 1 lazy. Indianapolis. Ind... 30.24 50 Calm j Clear. CincinnaC * 30.24 48 South Clear. Pittsburg. Pa .30.15 49 Nwest. Clear. Oswego; N. Y 30.03 ( 48 Swest Clear. Toledo. O 30.19, 51 West | Clear. Eseanaba. Mien 30 01 5 I Sonth! Cloudy. Marquette. Mich... |30.07 62 S west! Cloudy. Chicago. 11l 30.16 58 South -Clear. Milwaukee. Wis 30.11 55 South j. . Clear. Duluth. Minn 29.94 47 N’oasti Cloudy. St. Paul. Minn 129.89 63; S’east; Cloudy. IjaCrosse. Wis 30.04 60 South; ;Clear. Davenport, la 30 07 61 South Clear. Des Moines. Ia 29.97’ 62 Swest' Clear. Keokuk. 1a... joO.oß’ 57 S'east j Clear. Cairo. IU 30.24 50 S’east] 'Clear. Springfield. 11l 50.17 55 South! Clear. St. Louis. Mo 50.16; 63 Swest Clear. Lamar. Mo 30.13; 59 S west Clear. Leavenworth. Ivan. . 30.02 j 66 South Clear. Omaha. Neb 29.91 j 66 South Cloudy. Yankton. Dak ,29. . 9 64 South Cioudv.. Moore’nead. Minn. 29.81 53 North ..... Lt. rain. Bismarck. Dak 129.97! 45 North Cloudy. Fort Buford. Dak.. 129 9S| 36 Calm ! Clear. Ft-.Assiniboine.M. T j ! j ' Fort Custer. Mont.. 30.04, 43 Kwest . Cloudy. Deadwood. Date. I • i ; North Platte, Neb.. j 29.811 n i F.ast 1 Fair. Denver. Col : 29.07; 52 Swest Clear. W. Las Animas. C0ii29.67| 58 South J ;Clear. Dodge City. Kan.... 2D '1 60 S’east 1 . Clear. Fort Elliott Tex... ,20. '-V 62 S'east; Clear. Fort Sill. Ind. Ter.. 30.05! 61 S'east j Clear. Fort. Davis. Tex '29.921 63 Sw st Clear. El Paso. Tex :29.89! 67 Swest Clear. Salt. Lake City. T J.T129.9(4 36 West 1 .09Lt. rain.

Proceedings Against illegal Insurance Companies. Cincinnati. Oct. 31. —State Insurance Com missioner Reinmnnd has begun the prosecution of persons “operating for insurance companies not licensed and authorized to do business in the State of Ohio.” "These companies could not bo admitted to the State legally, on account of insufficient capital and assets. The warrants so far sworn out include the names of Louis F. Runic. Alfred R. Page, Walter S. Baker and E. G. Warm an. Tho Locomotive Fngineers. Long Island City. L. 1., Oct. 31. — Two hundred and fifty of the delegates to the national convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, with their wives, visited Rockaway Beach on a special train this afternoon. They were the guests of Austin Corbin, president of the Long Island Railway Company. Division, No. 269. composed of engineers employed on the Long Island railroad, escorted the delegates. The party returned to New York this evening. Obitumy. Boston. Ocf. 31.—Commander B. F. Chandler, civil engineer. United States navy, retired, died to day at. Onset. Mass., of apoplexy. He was seventy years old. and had been connected with the navy-yards ni Charlestown, Portsmouth and New Loudon. Tho funeral will be at Waverly, Mass. Failure of h Vinegar Manufacturer. Chicago. Oct. 31.—Benjamin F. Hadauck, a vinegar manufacturer, filed a voluntary assignment with the countyclerk, yesterday, to Manly F. Tooker. There was no schedule filed. Tho liabilities are estimated at $34,000; assets, $29,000. Cleveland’s Campaign Contribution. New York.'Oct. 31.—At Democratic State headquarters, to night. Chairman Pottchel said he had received SSOO from President Cleveland for the campaign fund, and a like sum from Gov. Hill. ' The Blaine Boom. Washington Special to N Y. Commercial Advertiser. The Blaine boom attracts less attention than it did a week ago. It. is thought that the Maine statesman has said about all he has to say. and that henceforth he ■will have to repeat himself. His four points are simply the tariff, an aggressive foreign policy, the question of suffrage at the South and “personal magnetism.” He has rung the changes on these so long that it is believed the people are gettine tired of them, or will soon begin to do so. The question is beginning to present itself in certain quarters as to whether Mr. Blaine may not have entered the field too early, and whether he can hold out untill 1888 on such a slender stock of provisions. The enthusiasm which attends his steps now is undoubtedly genuine, but will it last 4 His friends think it will, but there are many who think otherwise. If it should continue unabated until 18S8. the party would be absolutely forced to renominate him; but there are a great many Republicans, not distinctly unfriendly to Mr. Blaine, either, who think that Mr. Sherman would be a stronger and safer candidate, and, moreover, that in less than a year from now he will develop a popularity far greater than he now possesses and more nearly commensurate with that which Mr. Blaine apparently enjoys. As for Mr. Edmunds, his name seems to have been dropped from the rolls, and it is very seldom that one hears him spoken of nowadays in connection with the presidency. His course in the campaign of 1884, and later, in regard to President Cleveland’s appointments, seems to have weakened him beyond recovery. Ho will be as strong in the party councils, however, as ever. The Republicans may not like some of Mr. Edmunds’s acts and methods, but they cannot get along very well without his braius. “Liberty’s” Poet. Philadelphia Record. The poets fail when they have a set task to do. Not until some home-returning wanderer shall catch the gleam of Liberty’s torch a3 he approaches his native land will the poem be written that will do justice to Bartholdi’s conception. In this way the statue grew in the mind of the sculptor; and iu this way, some day, commemorative verse will grow, noble as the theme which inspires it. The most perfect modern remedy known for the cure of rheumatism is St. Jacobs Oil.

BIG FIBE AND LOSS OF LIFE. Destruction of One of Chicago’s Huge Six-Story Business Structures. Six Members of the Insurance Patrol Buried Under the Debris from the Falling Walls —One Man Killed and Others Hurt. Chicago, 6ct. 31.—A conflagration causing the loss of nearly a quarter of a million of dollars and probably several lives occurred in the Knight & Leonard six-story building, 109 and 111 East Madison 6treet, between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning. The inmates of the dozens of gambling-houses iu the vicinity were unaware of the fire at the outset, and it made such rapid way that none had stirred from the tables until the lives of most of them were imperiled. Then a wild stampede ensued. The proprietors hurried their gold and greenbacks into satchels, others shoveled ivory chips into bags, a few rushed down stairs loaded with roulette wheels, faro-tables and gambling paraphernalia ofall descriptions. But these were the exceptions. The majority—dealers, lookouts and players—rose together and came tearing out of the buildings, many hatloss and coatless and all frightened. After an hour's work by the firemen the flames were under comparative control. At this time six men of the insurance patrol were in the building, slinging tarpar.iins over the stock of the Goodyear Rubber Company. Suddenly there was a terrible crash, followed by a dense wave of smoko and sparks, which pushed out into the street. The roof and top floor had fallen through to the basement, burying the men of the insurance oatrol in the ruins. A moment after the crash a detachment of firemen and insurance patrolmen, led by Chief Sweenie, rushed to the rescue. The cries of the imprisoned men could be heard above the din. Ilardiy were the rescuers at work chopping and tearing away the fallen debris when there was another crash, and a heavy pi ce of machinery fell from the third floor. It was so far back in the building that no one was hurt, and the rescuers continued manfully without a stop. George Furnet was the first man out. He came up through a hole which had been made in the sidewalk lights over the basement. lie was only slightly injured. Wm. Darby also managed to crawl out of the ruins with only slight injuries. The roscuing party found "Captain Hume pinned down under a fallen beam and wedged in between two boxes of goods. He was carried out with both legs crushed and the left foot turned completely around. P. L. Mullins was dragged from under two heavy beams. He was fearfully cut about the head and body. Gus Boergemeuke was being held down by a heavy piece of printing machinery, so that all efforts to release him seemed useless. The imprisoned man clutched convulsively at the iron bars and wheels, begging his comrades to kill him, as they could not get him out. The sower of the basement had become choked up, and the immense amount of water thrown into the building was rapidly rising under Bcergemenke, while flames were gradually oating their way toward him. Chief Sweenie ordered an engine detached from a fire plug and set. to work pumping the basement of the floods from the other engines, whose efforts were redoubled against the fire. The waters had just reached Bcergemenke’s chin, when they becan to godown and the flampscommenced t# recede. With tho aid of jacksercws the machinery was at last raised, and Boereemenke, who for nearly three-quarters of an hour had given himself up for lost, was carried to the hospital. One of his legs is broken and an arm is shattered, but it is thought he will live. C. Papmeau, aged thirty, could not be found, aud alter a long search was given up for lost. It was not until eleven hours after that his body was found. Jn the recovery ot the corpse another fireman was fatally injured and a patrolman seriously wounded.

The fire ami tho fall of the roof damaged n>any telephone ami telegraph wires. Gauss of linemen wore sent to the roofs of adjoining buildings to straighten the tangled mass. They wero requested to wait untii ttie firemen had found f’apineau's body, hut the wire-workers did not comply. While pulling a heavy cable over a wall, a piece of jagged iron cornice was dislodged. It fell to the basementand struck fireman Michael McGovern. The sharp iron struck him in the small of the back, and while bis companions picked him up policemen hurried to the roof and intercepted the linemen. While helping to carry out the wounded man, William Cornell, of the insurance patrol, fell through a hole in the broken sidewalk, and was so seriously injured that fie had to be taken to the hospital. McGovern was horribly mangled by the cornice, and is dying. Eighteen of the line-men were put under arrest, but afterwards released, telegraph officials becoming their sureties. The building was occupied by a number of large firms. The Goodyear Rubber Company had the basement and first floor of Nos. 105 and 107. Their stoe\; was valued at $100,000: insured for $02,000. The company’s loss is $50,000. Salisbury & Cline, agents for the Goodyear Manufacturing Company, Boston Belting Company, Gossamer Rubber Clothing Company and James Davis & Cos. had the basement and first floor of No. 109. Their $150,000 stock is damaged $30,000; insured for SOO,OOO. Knight & Leonard, printers, on the upper floors, lose about $50,000; insurance, $46,000. Wm. Wilson Cos., book-binders and publishers, lose $30,000, and have but $13,000 insurance. C. M. Magill’s printing establishment is damaged $4,000; fully insured. R. G. Badeau & Cos., publishers, and the Derby Paper Compnny also have small losses. The building is owned by Judge L. C. P. Freer, whose loss is about $35,000; believed to be fully insured. Other Fires. LtTTt.K Rook, Ark., Oct. 31.—Des Arc was yesterday visited by a fire, which destroyed property to the value of $150,000: about one third covered by insurance. The stores and stocks of R. C. McCauley & Cos., Wiat & Bethel, Judson & Ward. T. H. Stubbs. J. 11. McEwan and J. J. Baugh were destroyed. Yates <fc Bro.’s stock was also damaged. The office of the Des Arc Citizen, the office of the county treasurer and the Methodist and Baptist churches are in ruins. The origin of the fire is unknown. Pittsburg, Oct 31. —A fire, at 3 o’clock this morning, damaged Marshall’s foundry and construction works to the extent of $25,000. The fire started in the foundry department, and is believed to have been caused by sparks from the ovens. The loss is fully covered by insurance. Westfield, N. J., Oct. 31.— The Spiritualists’ Home, about three miles from here, belonging to George H. Perrine, of New York, and in which the annual summer meetings of the Spiritualists are held, was burned to the ground to-night. The loss is quite heavy. Ennis Tex., Oct 31.—A fire of unknown oriein occurred in the heart of the business portion of this place this morning, burning three buildings. Loss, $25,000; insurance, SB,OOO. Mr. Gold burg, a merchant, was burned to death trying to save his money. Hamilton, Ont., Oct. 31.— The Insane Asylum here was damaged by fire, this afternoon, to the extent of $50,000. Tho inmates got out of the building without any casualty. A Pacific Outlook. Philadelphia Times, A sweet and restful calm, like that which covers the walks of private life, is hovering dangerously near tho federal officials who are saving the country on the stump. A Hallowe’en Reminiscence. Pittsburg Chronicle. The young lady who is anxious to ascertain the name of her future husband is to fill her mouth with water after it has become dark on Hallow Eve and sally forth in the darkness. The first name she hears after leaving her domocile is the name of her future husband. A certain youne lady in the East Eud tried this scheme last Hallow Eve And sallied forth with her peachy cheeks unduly extended with a huge mouthful of water. She had not gone ten steps before she rau plump into a young gentleman and gave him the benefit cf the water. “Great Jehoshaphatl” was the astonished remark.

Apologies led to aeauaintance, acquaintance to friendship, friendship to love and love to mai riage.- She gets even with the tradition sometimes, however, by calling her husband “Great Jehoshaphat.” YESTERDAY’S SECOND EDITION. [The following items of nows appeared in our Second Edition of Sunday:] Russia Showing Ifor Hand. London, Oct. 30.—General Kaulbars has issued an ultimatum to the Bulgarian government. He complains thai Russians in Bulgaria are maltreated and terrorized, And says that if in three days he does not receive a satisfactory answer to this ultimatum, he will rupture his lelations with the regency and leave Sofia, taking with him the whole personnel of the Russian consulate. The government has sent & circular to the various prefects, commanding them to adopt stringent measures for the protection of Russians, A copy of the circular was sent to General Kaulbars, with a request that he furnish the names of the Russians who. he alleged, had been molested. The Bulgarian government has ordered that the Russian language shall no longer be tanght in the public schools of Bulgaria, but that the German language shall be taught instead. . Lieutenant-colonel Filoff, the commander at Rusthenk, who. at the instance of General Kaulbars. telegraphed to the government demanding tho release of those persons concerned in the deposition of Prince Alexander, has been senteneed to one month’s imprisonment, and has been deprived of his command. Increased fear is manifested in political circles at Pesth that Austria will not acquiesce in action on tho f art of Russia. In the event of the occupation of Bulgaria by Russia, tho Bulgarian government will make the maintenance of Prime Minister Tisza’s policy, as announced in the Diet, a Cabinet question. All the Bulgarian Ministers, except M. Nicolaieff, Minister of War, have arrived at Tirnova to attend the meeting of the Sobranje, to elect a successor to Prince Alexander. M. Karavoloft has stated that he will not attend the meeting. The Sobranje will open to-morrow. It is believed that ten days will be occupied in verifying the election of Deputies. The Ministry will abandon the idea of sending a deputation to the powers to explain the Bulgarian situation. Brother and Sister Brutally Murdered. Louisville, Oct. 30.—News of a horrible crime comes from the neighborhood of Monticello, Ky., where a brother and sister were brutallv murdered. Grand Prewitt went to the house where Jarvis Buck, his sister and her little son lived. After supper, on Tuesday night, he enticed Buck into the mountain, where he and two men named Jim Jones and Bill Simpson, killed Buck, whose head was almost severed from his lacerated body. Prewitt and Jones then went to the house, and seizing the woman, cut her throat from ear to ear and crushed her skull with the washboard. The boy escaped and gave the alarm. A posse pursued and caught Prewitt, who confessed the crime and said he had been hired to do the murder by Jones. Buck had sold a horse, and the object was robbery. The three men are under arrest, and there is great excitement over the affair. Cabinet Crisis in Hawaii. San Francisco, Oct. 30. —The steamer Mariposa, which arrived from Sydney and Honolulu today, brings news of the resignation of the Hawaiian Cabinet and the appointment of anew Cabinet, as follows: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Premier, Walter Murray Gibson: Minister of the Interior, Luther Aholo; Minister of Finance, Paul P. Kanoa; Attorney-gen-eral. John L. Kanluko. The resignation of the old Cabinet was due to' the defeat, on the 13th, of the Ministry’s amendment to tho bills securing a two-million-dollar loan recently authorized oy the Hawaiian Legislature. The effect of the amendment was to secure payment of $700,000 previously loaned the government by Claus Spreckles. Owing to this action of the Legislature, Claus Spreckles has returned all hi3 decorations to King Kalakaua.

Mysterious Murder at Detroit. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 30.—Late last night, while a man and woman were talking together on Jefferson avonue, a stranger stepped up and called for help to remove the body of a dead man. which, he said, he had found on the street. The dead man proved to be the husband of the woman, who said his name was Wm. L. Stewart, and that they had recently come to Detroit, where her husband was seeking work. It was thought he died from heart disease, but a postmortem to-day reveals the fact that death resulted from a small wound in the chest, which extended to the heart, causing internal hemorrhage. The wound seems to have been made by some such fhstrument as a Spanish stilleto. Who did the stabbing is unknown. The woman, who claims to be the murdered man’s wife, is known to be Lottie Frank, an actress, formerly of Buffalo. Miss Stager’s English Lord. New York, Oct. 30.—The engagement is announced to day of Miss Ellen Sprague Stager, youngest daughter of the late Gen. Anson Stager, of Chicago, to Lord James Arthur Wellington Foley Butler, brother and heir presumptive of the Marquis of Ormond in the peerage of Ireland, and Baron Ormond in the peerage of the United Kingdom. The brideelect is vorv j-oung. not quite twenty, quite handsome and very accomplished. Miss Stager met Lord Butler at a ball given in her honor while in London. Serioug Illness of Rosina Vokes. Chicago, Oct. 30.— Miss Rosina Vokes, who was taken suddenly ill while on the stage at Hoolev’s Theater, last Tuesday night, and who was supposed to have entirely recovered, made her reappearance in the “School-mistress” to-night, but had scarcely stepped upon the stage when she was obliged to retire. She was seized with the heart trouble that caused her first illness. She had to be carried to a carriage and taken to her hotel. It is feared that she will not be able to act for some time. Henry George’s Supporters. New York, Oct. 30.—The labor organizations of the city who indorse the nomination of Henry George for -Mayor had a parade do-night. It is estimated that over 45,000 men were in line. The police reserves were ail held in the stations in anticipation of any troubles that might occur, but none occurred. The procession marched in files of ten, and was two hours and a half in passing a given point. Henry George reviewed the parade in Union square. It rainod heavily during the march. The Locomotive Brotherhood. New York, Oct. 30. —The convention of the Broth erhood of Locomotive Engineers to-day discussed tho report of the insurance committee. Several clauses wero adopted. The $3,000 life and accident policies were divided into two policies of $1,500 each, the assessments to be fifty cents for each death on a policy of $1,500. Another clause limits the ago in taking risks to forty-five years, and only to members then. The change will go into effect May 1, 1887. Heavy Verdict Against a Railway Company. Trenton. N. J.. Oct. 30.—The jury in the case of Thomas J. Laughlin, of Newark, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for damages for the killing of his wife, rendered a verdict to-day awarding Laughlin $15,000 damages. Volcanic Kruption in Friendly Islands. SAN Francisco, Oct. 30—Intelligence has been received at Auckland, N. S. W., that on Sept. 31 seven native villages were destroyed by a volcanic eruption on tho island of Niafu, in the Tonga group of the Friendly Islands. The whoie island has been devastated by volcanic deposits. White island, in the Bay of Plenty, is in a state of active eruption. A vast column of smoke is ascending from the island to a height of a thousand feet. Rumored Arrest of Noold. Chicago, Oct. 30.—A cable dispatch just received announced that Noold, the absconding manager of Ferguson & Cos., packers, had been arrested in London, but was released !>ecause ho could not be held for the extradition. Tho news could not be confirmed. *4KIH c POWDER Absolutely Pure. Thlspowder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and whnlesomenoßd. More economical than theordinary kinds, and cannot bo sold in comnetition with tho inultitud6oflow-leHt,BU<>rt-w**ight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. noYALIiAKI.NO FOIVDEB CO.. 100 Wall Street. B. Y.

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