Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 August 1894 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOAXK, l'ublirfher. JASPEB. INDIANA. iiivm i'i i i jiiv iwii. nf mm ii!iii 4 D.u n l.i.hAsuv -3 jeurs of nge.died, 1 on the 5th, at orcester, Mass.. from , injuries received m n game of football , two daw-, Wfore. Skcubtahy Gubsuam, on the sth, notified acting Speaker MeCreary that tlie Kcpuhlic of Hawaii had Wen otlieiully recognized by the president. Thomas Achbson Dbnma.v, second Huron Denman. marshal and associate of the lord chief justice of Kurland, died in Herwick-on-Twced. on the 9th, aged SO. Fhom Jttlv 29 to Atnrust 4. 310 new cases of cholera sind M0 deaths were 1 casts oi tnoura sum tu. uns m . reported m St. Petersburg. In N arsaw, from July 22 to July 2, 1511 new 1 cases of cholera and sit deaths were reported. Tiik Consolidated Coal Co. of Fros burg, .Md.. on the Uth, notified all the miners who stuck to their posts, during the late nrOtriietod strike that thev will each receive nine months' rent and fuel free. CllIBK-Jt'sTlOB CosWBLL HBNNBTT of of the Kentucky court of appeals died i . .1... r..i. Ii. .i.i t ,H -t-s..'.- "- ..v. ......... have completed his first term of eight years in .January and had recently received nomination for re-election. Tub Yankee yacht Yig-ilant showed her heels in tine style to her Hritish competitors, oft" the Isle of Wight, on the uth. beating the Hritannia and Satanitn. the former bv nearlv eicht minutes and the latter nearly out of . . t hII?nt. j Piibsidbxt Clark of the Indianapolis (I ml.) American Hail way union lias disappeared from that city, and it devol....,1 ....I. ....I. .1..., 1,.. 1, I oped, on the ith. that he left to avoid . arrest for connection with an alleged t plot to blow up the Union station there. Slit EoWaish ttitHY, under secretary of the Hritish foreign otlice. denied in the house of commons, on the 1'th, the report that Jabe Spencer Halfour had Wen extradited from the Argentine republic upon the order of the federal court. TiiBhouse democratic caucus, on the 7th, lasted an hour and a half, and adjourned after deciding that the house conferees on the tariff bill should not be embarrassed by instructions of any character from their democratic associates. Tub Mexican government has modified the regulations relative to consular invoices so as to make the fees for certification two dollars for less than S10U invoices, four dollars for less than 1,000 and fifty cents for each $500 value above S 1,000. All Chinese in Anderson. Ind., it is Raid, have received ofliciul letters urging them to return to China to enlist in the national army. One has responded, and the other four say that they will as soon as they can dispose of their property. Tub secretary of the navy has received the annual report of the board of visitors to the naval academy, which contains nn unusual mi tuber of important recommendations for raising the standard of scholarship and perfecting the course. A papal encyclical, addressed to the Brazilian bishops, was published on the Cth. His holiness urges the bishops addressed to educate and enlighten the people with all the means at their command, ignorance leing the cause of the evils of the day. No appbai. has lKen made for Santo Caesario, the convicted murderer of President Carnot, and the titne for revision of judgment having passed, the documents were, on the 7th, sent to I'aris. The execution will take place probably about the '7th. P.Win Haiis, who drove coaches across the Alleghenies before the advent of the railroad, died at Portsmouth, O., on the Oth, aged !U. In his day he carried (Ten. .Jackson, Henry Clay, President William Henry Harrison and other distinguished statesmen. It was otlieially reported from TienTsin, on the ?tli, that the efforts of !reat Britain and Uussia to bring about a peaceful settlement of the disputes between China ami .lapan have failed. China is willing to pay an indemnity, but she refuses to surrender her suzerainty over Corea. AliofT 00 per cent, of the creditors of the Mambourg, Crockery and -Calcined Glass companies met with Assignee Fox and ex-Gov. Foster in l'ostoria, O., on the 7th, and decided to pay a cash dividend of 10 per cent, on the indebtedness of the Calcined and 15 percent, on the other two companies. Mns. M. FitB.vrii-.SiiKLDON, the African explores, arrived in New York

irom Liverpool on the steamship Au- (dein.) for governor bv about .0,000 marania on the 0th. She is to lecture at ! jority. and the entire democratic ticket Chautauqua, N. Y., on African sub- I hv varvintr majorities. The state leo-.

jeet.s, and to arouse interest in her is'lature was claimed by the democrats, j scheme for the colonization of a large Miss Mahoaukt IIbnubiison, of Terre tract of territory in Kast Africa. j Haute. Intl., is the first women in Indi- " , , .'ana to make a century bicycle run. '

Aiiss M-siB MiBitMAN, laugiiter oi , Ilev. C. W. Sherman, left St. Louis, on the sth, to Wcome a missionary in Africa. She will sail for the Dark continent from New York city, tin the 15th, on the steamer Paris. Her elder sister, Hessie Sherman, has Ix-on doing missionary work for years in India. - ' ' Tub loss of sealers in the Arctic ocean is denied by the crew of the Howhead which arrived at San Francisco on the Mh. They say that the scaler Thomas is safe, and that the .schooner Sitywnnl, reported capsized or lost, with all hniwls, never lost a boat. They report the Fu-a t,afc at Hakodate

CUltREXT TOrTCS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

IN the senate, on the tin, tlilriy-seven private insnn Mils were taken from the e.ilciilar ni othrr mm -..ore iwl. llu. u,0t umwrtant ot which .is house bill to tubjert to suite taxation national hank notes nmt United States treasury notes. The bill declares the notes named ami irolil ami silver ntul other coin subject to taxation as money on liana or utitler deposit under the laws ot anv state or territory Tho house was not in M-ssionon the Ith. IN the -enate. on the Cth. Mr. Chandler's resolution to investigate the Dominion 'o.il Co. of Nova Sootl.i. und the substitute offered by Mr. Hill, were tho subjects of a lively debate ilurtni the morniiik hour, but went over without action. House bill providing for the Inspection of immigrants bv United states consul, with the substitute reported from the eotninlttee on immigration for the exclusion "" tk'iwrtatton of anarchists, was taken up. AI,er a ll,nlhV debate, the subtltuto was ll(,-reed to. with amendments, the bill passed am, conference asked ....In the house most of the day was spent in dlscussitu; thq conferl'nct" P" "' n Indian appropriation mil Without conclusive action, however, the house . adjourned. 1 In the senate, on the Tth. during a short and unimportant session, some half do.en bills t were passed, one of the preatcst public inter- j e:t belns a bill to facilitate the collection of ' state, county and municipal taxes from cor- I cZ ' bankruptcy hill was reported back from committee with amendments, and placed on the 1 calendar In the house, consideration of i the Indian appropriation bill was completed. the house recediin; from ilisacreement to sen-) amendment r,-l:itinir to tho ratification of tue treaties with the sileti. ankton-sioux I and Nex I'erces Indians for the purchase of portions of their reservations. Several sonnte j amendments to the tariff bill were agreed to. und quite a number of bills were passed. J In the senate, on the th. ponding definite I action by the tariff conferees, an utter indifference to all other matters of leglslution was I manifested. Some t5o.en bills were passed by unanimous consent, and the conference reiKtrt !tm luda.n uJ'PwprlaUoir bill was presented unit iiKxtt'u iu. .ur. mM juumiuieu 11 (tu posing a penalty bv tine and imtirisonment ujwn professional lobbyists In the house the resolutions providing for nn investigation of the charges against Judge Hicks of ha; Ing. when clerk, sequestered fees of the court, was agreed to. The action of the senate in substlugrevu tu. i nf tiiun u r f naie in uirii' ... ,.,. .,,,,., i,,,,,,.,.,!,,,, t,iii for Mr. stone's Mil providing for consular t m.sjHM'iion ; immigrants was non-coneurreti i In. and the mutter sent to conference. Joint resolution for the Investigation of the cfTriet of machinery on labor and appropriating JlO.HW i therefor was passed. j In the senate, on the Pth. among the private , bills iKieiI in the morning hour was house bill for the relief of Louis Pelham, who. during war times, under confiscation proceedings, paid !3.(i for a 7l note ot a party In Kentucky upposed to be disloyal. The confiscation proceedings afterwards being set aside. Pelham was out the ct.uOhe had paid the United States j marshal. The bill passed was to reimburse i him... In the house Mr. Bauteile criticised j theiulmfnlstrntion's Hawaiian policy. The bill j to increase the 'efficiency of the militia was taken up. and gave rUe to a discussion In j which the recent riots in Chicago and the employmentof federal troops by the president were niscusto. private claims unis were passed. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Dk Witt McDowell, a prominent merchant of Arkansas City, Kas., was seriously injured, on the night of the 5th. by the sudden closing of a folding bed upon which he was sleeping. Doctors pronounced hi.s recovery improbable. MoitB unsatisfactory than ever," was the way Senator Gorman described the situation in the tariff conference on the night of the Gth. "The house conferees," said he, "will do nothing. They will not come to an agreement. They will not even agree to report a disagreement. We are going to give them just forty-eight hours more to do one thing or the other. If they still hold out we will try to cut the Gordian knot." Tub grand stand at the Philadelphia baseball grounds was burned on the Cth. It whs one of the best arranged and most costly in the country, and its destruction entails a loss approximating $50.000. ViCBitov Li IIcnu Chaxo expresses the opinion that the Hritish goverment will claim compensation for the relatives of the victims of the sunken transport Kow-Shung, and also for the owners of the cargo, who were under the protection of the Hritish Hag when the Kow-Shung was sunk. Li Hung Chang estimates-the indemnity due to China from Japan on account of the Kow-Shung affair at ,500,000. Patti Kosa (Mrs. .lohn W, Dunne), the well-known sotibrette actress died in New York city, on the 5th. as the result of an operation for a severe form of appendicitis. Tub president, on the (Hit, nominated Judge Amos M. Thayer, of St. Louis, to be judge for the Kightli judicial circuit (newly created); IL S. Prie.'t. of Missouri, to Ikj district judge for the eastern district of Missouri, and James I). Porter, of Tennessee, to le district judge for the eastern and middle districts of Tennessee. KmvAito Wbiul, of Chicago, was ar rested in New York city, on the 7th. J charged with embezzlement. He was secretary of a Chicago building and loan association and absconded with S.'..700. Tub sealer Viva arrived at Victoria, H. C, on the (1th. twenty-six days j from Hakodat, with tSl.OOO skirts ! aboard, the catch of eighteen Victoria schooners. I'i to the morning of the 7th returns received from the Alabama election would indicate the election of Oates slu, c(Mnniet,.,i n hundred miles on n. wheel within the nrescrilh'd time of sixteen hours allowed by the Century i Uoad club. Her actual riding time was j nine hours and forty-five minutes. j JfiHiB C.uiimibll held Adjt.-Gen. ; Tarsney in contempt of court at Colo- . ratio Springs, Col., on the 7th, and ! fined him S50 for ignoring the summons ,' to appear before the grand jury sitting to inquire into the tf.r-and-fea titer case. Du. Ur.MAX, tho NScaraguan minis- j tcr, received a telegram from Managua, i on the 7tli. officially announcing that ' the town of Minefields, on the Mosquito , coast, hail been taken by the -icarn j guun ii nn v.

A ruKioiiT train on the West Jersey railroad was held tip, at i o'clock on thu morning of the 7th, at May's Lauding. N. J., by a band of twenty-live Coxeyites under Carl Hrmvie. The "IioIkk's" stubbornly fought the train crew, but were finally sulnlued. Tin: jHipe received H0 pilgrims from the I'nited States on the 7th. There were no speeches, Thu Americans attended mass celebrated by his holiness. William Hban, a farmer living near (mud Kapids, ()., was instantly killed, on the 7th, by a bumble-bee stinging him on the neck. Tin: Sioux City (la.) Telephone Co. has applied for a franchise. It is making a duplicate of the Hell instrument, which it sells outright. The company will not operate a central exchange for some time, but will put up wires which will be leaded to patrons. Davb Van Lkw and C. C. Ames, painters, fell 10 feet with a scaffolding, on the Sth, while painting a sign on the Duncombc house at Fort Dodge, la. Van Lew was fatally injured, but Ames may live. Tiik viceroy of Kwang Tung. China, has engaged 5.000 ltlaek Flags tr strengthen the fortifications and river defense in the north of Canton. Hauiiv A. (Jauoxki:, cashier of the Second national bank of AHoona, Pa., has disappeared in company with a Mrs. Cordon, to whom Gardner has been so attentive during the past year as to excite much unfavorable comment. A director of the bank is authority for the statement that Gardner has also taken with him a large sum of money belonging to the bank. In speaking of the probabilities oi the pending war between Japan and China an ofticinl of the Japanese legation recalled the fact that the season of the monsoon and the typhoon is rapidly approaching. The presence of the former is not regarded as a menace to sea maneuvering, but fear is felt for the latter. Last March A.-II. Hatlift" killed Andrew Thompson at Scwell, W. Va., and escaped. The authorities offered a reward of S2(K) for his arrest and the citizens added 550. On the Sth the police at Charleston, W. Va.. received a telegram from the marshal of Pittsburg. Kas., saying that Hatlift" was in jail there. II. Wksxuk was shot and killed by his father-in-law, Jas. Livingston, at the hitter's home in Lebanon. Ind.. on the night of the th. Wesner is a son of Lawyer C. W. Wesner, who was killed by J. C. Hrown in the court-room at Danville a year ago last May. TmtBB iir.viuiK miners at Mystic, la., went out on a strike, on the sth, because the company insisted on holding back two or three days' wages when paying their men every two weeks. Hbimibsbntativk Huva of Nebraska, has a petition bearing 10,000 signatures for an investigation of the cour.sc taken by Atty.-Gen. Olney during the recent strike looking to his Lupcachment. Tin: police have discovered in Home a revolutionary band who correspond regularly with foreign anarchists. Society women have acted as go-betweens for the correspondents in order that the suspicions of the police might not le aroused. On the night of the Hth the eastltoitnd Oklahoma sind Texas express on the Kock Island road plunged through an overhead bridge, 50 feet high, ."5 miles south of Lincoln. Neb., into a creek, killing eight persons anil wounding many others. Five of the victim! were burned to death in the wreck.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. l.v the senate, on the 10th. Mr. Hih caused a lively discussion by ottering a resohition. which was rejected, directing the senate conferees to report progress on the tariff bill. Mr, Harris, one of the alternate conferees on the part of the senate, made a statement of the status of the bill. Mr. Chandler offered a resolution (which went over looking to an investigation of the recent election in Alabama, and whether it resulted ii the choieeofalegislaturcentitled toeioose a United States senator. Ih the house the session was almost wholly taken up tith consideration of the first conference report on the sundry civil appropriation i bill. Discussion of the public land question occupied the rest of the day. O.v July 17 thirty-seven Hritish marines crossed the line of defense adopted by the .larcnese commander near Seoul. Corea. They were renmstrated with, and there was a slight collision. The marines forced their way through, however, in order to go on duty to protect the Hritish legation in Seoul. They were not subsequently molested. Tub awful wreck on the Hock Island passenger train, near Lircoln. Neb., on the ttth, was the work of train wreckers, and the company promptly ottered a reward of $1,000 for the apprehension of -he perpetrators. Tiik Moline (111.) Plow Co.. on the 10th. closed down its entire shop, throwing 'i75 men out of work. A sympathetic strike was feared by the otfieers, and the shut-down was to avoid trouble. Tin: returns to the statistical bureau of the agricultural department for the month of August makes the condition of cotton HI.S, an increase of points over tin July condition. Tin: steamship City of Peking arrived at San Franciso, on the 10th. from Wong Kong, via Yokohama. War had not been declared when she sailed. O.v the 10th the employes at the South Omaha (Xeb.) packing houses resumed work under protection of the militia, at whose approach the strikers dispersed. W.u. P. I.KB cashier of the Canadian KxprcssCo., left Toronto, Ont, on the 10th, owing to the discovery of a shortage in his accounts of Sl.MW. Tiik American church at Shea-Lit Lung, China, was totally destroyed during recent anti-missionary riots. (BOH0B M. Pcli.ma.v arrived In Chicago, on the loth, from New York.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. John Ct i.i.iv, of Kokouso. reduced to nVsporntion by a cancer, Mticidcd by slowly starving himself. As alleged plot by strikers to blot up the Union depot at Indianapolis has been exposed. At Noblesville. Pat MeCowan lost both feet while trying to board a moving train. W. C. Matiibw.h was permanently disabled in a peculiar manner at limit' ington. While holding a board which another man was chopping, the ax slipped from the handle ami cut both Ids hands nearly oft. They may haveto be amputated. II ox. JosBi'ii Giiav was nominated at Logansport for joint representative by the democrats of Cass and Miami counties. Kbi'OHTS to the weather bureau in Indiana show that corn has been severely hurt by the long-continued drought. At South 1'end the police last year arrested .11 persons who were under 11 years of age. A company has been organized at Tipton with $50,000 capital, to establish a national bank. Kx-Mi.mstbi: S. F. CiiANni-Bi! was shot in the shoulder by Lon. Davis, a brother-in-law at Noblesville. while trying to kidnap his child. CiiAist.BS Hkxo, a merchant policeman of Indianapolis, is nnder arrest for passinga counterfeit two dtdlar silver certificate. Tin: electric lights on the streets of Ft. Wayne have been turned oft' for lack of funds. At South Pond David F. Woolmnn, an ex-eontractor. blew out his brains. Cause not known. Tub Merchants and the Meridian national bank, of Indianapolis, may consolidate. Waltbk Hbanhox, of Anderson, is the owner of amall pup that is a natural curiosity. It was born about a mouth ago. and has only two legs instead of four. There is no sign of front legs, the breast of the dog being perfectly smooth and symmetrical. The pup walks on its hind legs after the style of a kangaroo, anil gets about with apparent ease. HiciiMoxo wants a large grain elevator. TitBitB are 1,500 men in Richmond out of work. At Iliclunond coaching parties are all the rage. Tub baseball fever has struck- Tipton. Mtw'cn: has a one-legged bicj'cle rider. At Portland. Hertha Heatly. while riding from the field on a mower, fell tinder the wheels and was crushed to death. She was 0" years old. Dax GltBB.v was held in $300 bond in Justice of the Peace Thurston's court, at Seymour for cutting with intent to kill Pat Horan. W.M lloa ax. of Fayette county, is insane over schemes for running a threshing machine. He fired up an engine at midnight the other night and was prepared to thresh alone when arrested. Tub barn of Abram Miller, in Wabash county, was struck by lightning the other night and destroyed, together with live hundred bushels of wheat, over five hundred bushels of oats and all the owner's vehicles and implements. Loss. $.l.00rt; insurance. S1.500, in the Ohio Farmers. Wixchkstbi! voted in favor of water works the other dav bv a small major U.V. Tub old Sixteenth regiment will hold its eighth annual reunion at Pendleton September Is. Loxo Loxo and Wong Long, two Chinese laundrymen of Klkhart. have left for their native land to enlist in the emperor's army. A vai.i'aiii.k yearling Wilkes colt, owned by James Morehouse, of Mttncie. fell and broke its neck while being broken to a cart. At Shelbyville. Isaac Hendricks the other morning opened his front door and found a basket with a little girl baby in it. The foundling was taken to the orphans home. A fiikak has been discovered at Kvansville, in the person of a eolored man aged forty-five, who is gradually turning white. Tiif! fourteen-year-old son of Wharfmaster Cox. of Vevay. was drowned in the Ohio, the other afternoon while bathing. At Kockport fire the other morning destroyed Anderson drug store. Dr. Da Hey "s ofiice and Mason A; Payton's law ofiice. Loss $10,HK), partly insured. Tub sixteenth annual re-union of the Tenth regiment, Indiana infantry, will Int held at Lebanon, on Wednesday, September 12. Lapohtk is overrun witli hobos. Tiibiib is danger of a water famine at Anderson. WoitK on the new courthouse at Monticcllo has begun. A iioitsB-uAnisi! canning factory will be established at Goshen. tfoii.v Spaxglku. farmer, residing two miles north of Decatur, was gored to death by a vicious bull, the other afternoon. AT Shelbyville Miss Klizabeth Spurlin ran a needle into her foot and died of lockjaw. Mbmhkbs of the Klkhart militia who lost their situations while on strike duty, now call upon the people for employment. I. making her first balloon ascension In Anderson, the other evening. Tillie Salwrn. of Richmond, fell from the parachute, which did not work, and was dashed to death on the river bank. Miss Sa hern's brother had make three !censlons of late and it was his feats that the unfortunate girl admired and tried to imitate. Her brother had pleaded with her not to do it. TUB barn of Jacob Sinkle, near f agro, Wabash county, was struck by lightning mid entirely destroyed. Los, $2,(XK): insurance, $1,350. A Nbw Yoiik man is in Klkhart looking up a location for the manufacture of cotton sweep.

DNN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW. The Continued I'neerlaliit y MhmH TitritT l.rglsliOluii I iipleasiinlly A If rets Itiisllies.. Unklug 1're-fiit Indication mill Coiiilitloiin at ('iiiup:ratlel' Little Vitlile -The i:h.ltislloii of SloeltH ("rentes Some Itnslite.H AitHlly. Ni:w Yoitu. Aug;. ILIL G. Dun . Co.s weekly review of trade, issued today, says: With changes overy hour in the prospects about the tu rift, and a decision expected everyday, business has unpleasantly resembling gambling. Orders and parch uses have been largely based upon Individual opinions regarding the legislative outcome, and a vast amount of busiiicss has been deferred because the decision was yet in the future. The accumulating demand which has stimulated trading and manufacturing within the past week or two represents, to a great extent, needs which have been postponed waiting for a settlement, but can be postponed no longer. Thus, both the rush of deferred business in many lines and the scantiness of new orders reaching into the future retlcct an unnatural state of things which cannot be expected to continue, and. wnile the volume of business is larger than tlu existing condition of uncertainty warrants, it is, in a sense, but a shadow of the larger business which should come with a removal of the prevailing uncertainty. In such circumstances the present indications and conditions are of comparatively little value, but the startling advance in corn discloses a general belief that the injury to this most important crop has Wen so great as to affect materially the traffic of railroads, the demand for manufactured products and the cost of meats for the coming year. Unless the markets deceive and are entirely deceived, the country has to face a real calamity in the loss of something like .'.(KMfJO.Ooii buvbels of corn, which consumers have to share through the advance of 11 cents in two weeks, and 0 cents since Friday of last week. Neither official or unofficial statements as yet preclude the hope that the loss mav prove less serious.

Hut at current prices 1,500.000,000 bush els would cost as much as -J.0 00. 000.000 would have cost a fortnight ago. Wheat has risen :!'s cents in the fortnight and 2", cents during the week, although western receipts have been 5.22:5, 12-s bushels, against :s.UJ2,iHl last year. Atlantic exports are a little stronger, as is natural. Cotton has twice risen and again declined a sixteenth, with increasing prospects of a very large yield, closing without change for the week. Gold exports have practically ceased, for a time, with the settlements for most of the OOO.OiHi.OOO pounds of sugar imported within the past two months, and treasury officials are more hopeful. countiiiL" upon larger receipts on account of whisk'. Low as the gold reserve is, there appears a slight gain, and with cessation of gold exports, the improvement should be considerable during the fall. Whether under old or new duties, imports and customs revenues will naturally le large for some time after a decision on the tariff question. There has appeared of late some demand for gold from many interior banks, not in large amounts, but in the aggregate enough to indicate some nervousness of feeling. The volume of commercial loans is increasing, though moderately, but in manufacturing paper less increase appears than might have been expected. The business in boots and shoes is strong and healthy: though conspicuously confined to medium ami lowpriced articles, such as 75 cent shoe for men and 55 to 0 cents for women's wear: but shipments from Huston have Wen. in two weeks, li'0,iV.t cases, against I22.s2i last year. People cannot no naked, even if congress is slow. Demands for textile goods clearly represent exhaustion of stocks and continuing needs for consumption in the main, though there has sprung up quite a speculative business on the possible failure of tariff legislation. Lower prices in some cotton goods have encouraged larger operations, and the proposed reduction of wages at Fall Hiver is now announced, as yet without clear indication whether it is to le followed by a strike. Woolens for winter go as lefore. and the opening of spring goods discloses a decline of about 12.' cents in the average from last year's prices, but the goods arc not urged by makers nor hungrily bought by buyers'. The sales of wool would have been larger, according to reports from the different markets, if there had lieen sufficient stocks available, but they amounted to 7,0';j. 100 pounds at the three eastern markets, against 0,220,700 pounds two years ago. Country holders of wool do not at present appear to lie anxious to let somebody else speculate on its price, und are said to be keeping back supplies quite generally, although receipts at Chicago were 4.0W.051 pounds for the week, against l,l'-'7.0.r,.i for the same week last year. Failures for thu five weeks ending August I, showed liabilities of $1 LI 1 1, -7 HI. of which $5.r'i'i.5IH were of manufacturing, and$.',i-0,2l7 of trading con cerns. The failures during the past week have Wen 251 in the United States, against .'!'. last year, and 51 in Canada, against 25 last year. DROPPED TO DEATH. Another I'emsile Armti tut .Mrrt tlielVtim I-nle. Nashvillb. Tenn..Aug. U. Madame Loula Handle, an aeronaut of Detroit, Mich., was killed here this afternoon while making an ascension from Glendale nark. The lady had been making daily us cetisions at Glendalc park, a populai resort, and had met with several narrow escapes. Yesterday she cut loose her parachute while at a great height and bnlged in a tree, from which she fell aud broke her neck.

THE WAR IN COREA. late A'hlee iVr Sl.-u.in-r t'lty of IM,!.... I he Inltl! Nklriul.li f J. v,,r T. s'i ,t IUI. Aml.itl.ui ,,f . -;iinl)- r t he 0,.e ItiM-Ueil hy ICtisnluii 1-roiiilM-. of As,-I-Miiee.su the Holtum f the Trouhlr. Sax Fiian is( o, Aug. n. The steam ship City of Peking arrived yesterday morning from I long Kong, via Yokohama. Most of the news brought by t, Peking conn's from Japanese sources. In a telegram from Seoul, under date of July',';, t is made to appear that the Japanese minister brought great pressure to bear on the Corettn government for the withdrawal of the Chinese troops from Asan, asserting that, as Corea had Wen declared a free state, the Chinese troops should be sent out of country; otherwise. Japan could nut rely on the good faith of the Corean government. The Japanese minister urged, in addition to the withdrawal of the Chinese troops from Asan, that Corea decline to send - initially an ambassador to China, as had been the custom. The Japanese government received the following communication from its ministcivit Seoul under date of July 22: "The Corean government 'has refused to accept the proposals, ((f the Japanese government, and as it iloes not appear likely that it will reconsider the matter, it is unavoidably necessary to malte frosh'proptsitson, and thorough preparations have now been made. "Tin- Coreans requested the Japanese minister to withdraw the Japanese troops from the country, and also the proposals made by the Japanese government to the Corean government, on the ground that if Corea adopt Japan's pnqwisals oilier powers will dispute's forces to the kingdom und make similar demands, thereby embarrassing as well us forcing the Corean govern tin m to do their bidding. Corea will make the various internal reforms only after the departure of the Japanese troops from Corea. Corea is undoubtedly instigated by China in thiscour.se."' TUB STOItV oi' TUB BXCofNTITl:. Hetween the Japanese and Corean troops before the. palace at Seoul i related as follows in the Japan Gazette of July 21: "Yesterday morning there was a skirmish between Japanese and Corean troops outside the royal palace at s o'clock, and the Corean troops, ottering resistance, there was a light for twenty minutes, after which the Coreans were distierscd, aud fifty of their

arms fell into the Japanese troops' hands." AXOTMBIt Another a fror xt accou.it or TUB of the skiuuisii. .skirmish brought by the City of Peking is as follows: "The Corean government having given a mo.st insolent reply to the minister's sec nd demand, the ministersaw the futility of any longer negotiating with the Corean officials, and intended to go this morning to the palace to communicate directly with the king. Hcfore this the king resolved to call to his aid Iiis father, Tai In Kun. and seek his counsel on the present condition of the country. On this being communicated to the king's father he hesitated, as he feared the P.in family would, on hearing of this, prevent him by violence from going to the palace. The king was at length obliged to ask the Japanese minister for an escort of Japanese troops for Tai In Kun. Minister Oriori sent an escort to Tai In Kun, and at s o'clock Corean troops, under the Hin family instructions, fired upon the Japanese troops, who fired back. The fight ceased in about twenty minir.es. In Kun went to the castle in safety with Mr. Ortori. They had an audience, with the king, who backed the minister ir. connection with his demands, and assured him he had no intention of rejecting them. Tai In Kun was appointed at the head of the governmciji. lie will remain at present in the palace. The Hin family, which is at the bottom of the present trouble, through its selfish ambition, will lose its power, as Tai In Kun is known to be its enemy." STILL ANOTIIBtt ACVOf.VT. Another account says: "To Mr. Ortori's second demand the Corean government returned an insolent reply, and the castle showed signs of great disturbance. The minister placed himself under escort of Japanese troops, and was going to the royal palace when the Corean troops fired at him. The Japanese troops responded, and the fight was over in twenty minutes, when the minister went to the palace." The announcement is made in a dispatch from Seoul that the Hag of the czar isjllying from the island of Getsubito. The Russian minister has acceded to the request of the queen of Corea and her relatives the Hin family, to give her protection in case of emergency. .(Hpiinei- Upturning Home. Loxnox, Aug. 10. A dispatch from Paris says that the Mikado's cousin. Prince Koinatzu, who has been studying maritime forts in Kit rope, lias left Paris for Havre, en route to Japan, returning by way of the United States. Filty Japanese officers who have been studying in France have started for home. 31 re hl UK oii(rmil. London. Aug. 11. -The Times correspondent at Shang-Ilai says that 12, 000 Japanese- from Frusan and 8.000 from Gensan are marching on Seoul. The .lupmirie Alt tick WVMIiil-WVI. r London, Aug. ll.-The Shanghai correspondent of the Central Ncwv says: 'Düring the absence of the Chinese licet the Japanese attacked the Chinese at Wei-Hai-Wei on Thursday They were repulsed. A llonhle-l'inletl New lnors!ilp. London. Aug. 10.-Tl.e Shanghni correspondent of the Central New says that the telegraph line in ( orca i controlled by the Japanese intheso.ttli and by the Chinese in the north. that both the Japanese and the hilled refuse to transmit, news dispatcher

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