Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 October 1894 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOANE, Publisher. JASPER. INDIANA. It is said that the very name Japanese" inspires terror in China wherever it is heard. Du. Lkyhkn, the Herlin physician summoned to Spula to treat the ezar. advises that the latter W sent to Livadin, Greece. It is reported that the Japanese have captured Kiu Lien Cheng, on the eastern side of the Yalu river, nearly opposite Wi Ju. Ai.r.F.nso.v Peiicy Hanks Sr. Mavk. fourteenth duke of Somerset, died in London, suddenly, on the 2d. lie was born December 22, 1S13. The British .Miners' federation of England has voted a donation of A.t..17. to the striking Scotch miners to enable the latter to carry on their fight against the masters. A special cable from Shanghai, on the 2d, says the emperor of China will very likely be dethroned in favor of Prince Knng's son, who will treat with the Japanese. Tiik department of state received n brief cablegram from Consul-Genoral Luther Short at Constantinople, on the 2d, announcing the appearance of cholera in thateitv. Sin JosKrii Kknki.s, the senior alderman, representing the Aldersgate ward of London, was tinally elected lord mayor of London by the aldermen of that city on the 3d. oxe hiximikii ash twknty-two awards of various classes were given to the United States ly the board of awards of the Antwerp exhibition, which was formally declared closed on the 2d. J. F. M.vrKJK. a resident of Chicago, while riding in the fox hunt of the Genesee (X. Y.) Hunt club, on the 3d, was thrown from his horse and badly bruised, but it is hoped not seriously injured. Chacnckv M. Dkpkw will W present it the laying of the corner-stone of the ornmercial Travelers' association's new hall at ltinghamton. X. Y.. on the uh. and will deliver the oration on that occasion. A blockade of the ports oi the is-. land of Madagascar was proclaimed by r ranee on the 3d. The resident general has gone to Tatnatave, instructed to take measures to protect the colonists in the event of war. The emperor of China attributes the recent defeats suffered by his forces to incompetency anil corruption, ami this fact has caused almost a panic in the palace, and has rendered the position of affairs in China extremely serious. Owixr, to 'delay of the printers in completing the forms, Mr. WiKon has extended the time until Oetoln-r 15 in which distillc-s may file additional warehousing Ixinds and rewarehousing bonds under the act of August 1st). Two iirxintED men in the Locust Point Md.) tin works were thrown out of work, on the ltt, and the mill shut down indefinitely. The men were offered a 20-per-cent. reduction to offset the cut in the tariff, but refused to accept it. News was received from Riviera, Hrazil, on the 1st. that fighting had broken out again in the province of Kin Grande doSul between the rebels and the government troops at fourdifferentpoints, and the insurgents were reported to be getting the letter of it. J. ban has decided to lloat a foreign loan, presumably for the purpose of prosecuting tin war against China, and a bill authorizing such action will K introduced in the imperial diet without delay. The amount of the loan to lo contracted is not known. The grand jury of the criminal court of the District of Columbia brought into court, on t!e 1st, an indictment against H. 0. Havemeycr and John K. Searles. of New York, and Allan Louis Seymour, of Seymour Hros. .t Young, brokers, of Washington city. The appointment of Prince Kung, the Chinese emperor's uncle, and the presidents of the foreign board of admiralty to act as co-directors with Li Hung Chang in the conduct of affairs is looked upon in Shanghai as partaking of the nature of a coup d'etat. JrnoE Vax Sickki., in the Union county (X. J.) court, on the 2d, charged the grand jury that the practice at church fairs of holding drawings for prizes is a violation of the law against lotteries, and as much an offense an race-track pool-selling and other gambling. Says a cable dispatch from Kio 5 nimbi do Sul, Hni7.il: Gen. Lima attacked Santa Ana, where the rebel force was concentrated, on the 2d, nnd after sis: hours' hard ilghtintr the rebels retreated to Cuihilla de Santa Ana, whence they will try to make their way into Uruguay. HAituX 1U.AKCA, Italian minister of foreign affairs, was in conference, on the 1st, nthis seat at Castel-a-Mare, with Herman Stump, the United States superintendent of immigration nnd the Americati consul at Naples with reference to the adoption of regulations for the protection of emigrants. O.v the night of the 3d there was a mass meeting of negro voters in Lexington, Ivy., to protest against the candidacy of Judge Denny. Jr., for congress on the republican ticket, who is alleged to have once said in a sieech that the colored voters were a millMono around the neck of the republican party.

CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS I2C BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

No Oiiinksk soldiers are now in Grea, all of theiu Winsr concentrated in the vicinity of Moukdeu and Chang; China. Hung ; JrnOK Jenkins famous strike inJ '""" " V": l"irr' lcu w im . - 11' peais aim me cause was remanucu with directions to strike out from the restraining order of the court the clause which aroused the country i when the order via issued and which resulted in the Hoatner investigating committee of congress. Jacob Zahnt, a 1 'I .lt. Mii,iiuuiu iD; contractor who built several World's fair build ings in Chicago and lost money on similar work at the Mid-Winter exposition, committed suicide in San Fran- i cisco, on the üsth, bv gas asphvxiation. Tub friends of Mrs. T. DeWitt Talmage were sunrise!, on the 1st, to learn that she had been at her home in Brooklyn for more than a fortnight, having returned from Europe on the steamship Xew York on SeptemWr 14. Mrs. Tal mage returned home sooner than originally intended because of sickness. Gkoboe ISkn vktt. an employe of the Cambria Iron Co.. of Johnstown. Pa.. was fatally burned by an explosion of cinder on the 1st. Charles Herrington was also burned by the same Hash, but will recover. Gov. MrKi.vx.EV of Ohio spoke in Su burl -an hall, St. Louis, on the night of the 1st. to as mam- thousands of 1st. to as many thousands of

eager listeners as the great structure the bus companv at Dubuque. Ia., rewould hold. and hundreds who turned home on the morning of the 3d thronged the open windows, while to find his wife lving dead on the tloor. thousands more who could neither see i he was dressed jut as he had left her nor hear the speaker, organized an over- the evening before. Heart trouble was tlow meeting outdoors. The governor's t,e suppo-ed cause, reception amounted to an ovation. j lv Mms rilBISTUAS lvift. of a well. Mi;s. Kki.va A. Lockwooi, the wo- known Waba-h lind. merchant, and a man s rights presidential candidate in ladv prminent in Women's Relief corns ls!.2. who. by a recent decision of the an,i Eastern Star work, died verv siidMrgmia court of appeals, is privileged denlvof heart iiu..is.. n tt, n.,.l

t to nruet'ee law in that state, arrived in I niehinond. on the 1st, toattendtosome I legal matters and qualify as an at-! torney Wfore the courts of the city. I The monthly treasury statement, i-; sued on the 1st. shows that on Septem- j

Oer -1, 1MM, the public debt. Jess cash at San Francisco from the orient, bringin the treasury, amounted to S;97.r,4G,-' jng Hon? Kong advices up to Septem-

oi.. an increase lortne montn or Septetnber of 3.052.701. J HEint von mdeki.ex-vachteh, I'rus- i siau minister to Hambure-. and Herr potsdorf, editor of the Kladderadatsch. 1 nave been condemned to four months' ; imprisonment in a fortress for fighting a h,t'1Mns. Meiuix, the wife of Hon. Joseph Medill. editor of the Chicago Tribune, j died at Ehnhurst, 111., on the 1st. ItBfonTS received by the director of the mint show that during the month ; of September the coinage of gold at the various mints amounted to .".0,08R.092. and of silver ?,7tVJ.370. of which S072,2X) were standard silver dollars. Ox the 1st X. A. Crawford, of Fairville. X. F.. was found in bed with his head cut otT. The murder was committed by a young Englishman named Itrinton. who is insane- IJrinton split Crawford's head with an ax while the latter was sleep11?S. IS. Lyon, postmaster at Vanatta, 0., was assaulted and robbed, on the night of the 1st, by two masked men, at a lonely point on the road from Newark toVanatta. Sixtv-bight persons who were convicted at Lucra. Italy, of belonging to the Maliavita, a criminal association, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from five to ten years. Ax imperial edict has been issued in China appointing Gen. iung, formerly in command at Port Arthur, generalissimo of the valorous Pci-Yang army corps, now in Manchuria, and corn-inander-in-chief of the Manchn levies, except those of the Kirin division, which are commanded by a Tartargeneral. The Farmers national congress, composed of delegates from forty states, began its annual meeting in Parkersburg. W. Va., on thh 2nd. to remain in session the remainder of the week. About 200 delegates were present at the opening session and many others arrivedduring the first day. The Japanese are moving north from Ping Yang. They reported, on the 2d, that they had not sighted the enemy, but had found a large quantity of arms and ammunition abandoned by the Chinese, many of whom had Wen killed by the Coreans. Tin: wreck of the Kussian ironclad Kousalka, which was lost in the Baltic ! sea last year, has Wen located south of thu Isle of Wastertokan, Finland, in ' twenty fathoms of water. Twelve ofli- j cers and 1G" men went down with her. Hut little hope is entertained of raising the vessel. 1 Thomas Hji.by and John Wilson, members of an organized gang of men . who have for months Wen systemati-' cally robbing the Lake Shore freight cars in the vicinity oi South Henu. Ind., were arrested on the 3d. Fifty re arrsic-'i im wie .in. nur ' clothing and other stolen .re found in their possession. ; suits of goods were Asthk .Southernd'acific narrow gauge train was crossing the Oakland tCaL.j estuary, on the night of the 2d, a car jumped the track and went into the water, taking with it nltout sixteen people. Two persons were killed and several Injured. morning. The Paris Figaro says t.:e ,. Hovas ' ! uu"bcr only 7,(K)0 are effectively armed. ,

The patrol has Wen withdrawn from ship o the Ii w se ,k,1 ..V V V , the streets of Kio Janeiro except the ' sitv of MiSiÄn ofwK ' usual number in time of peace, which I uate "u,,'jan-of c gradis now completely restored. Twi-vtv i., , Gov. Mc KtNi KY arrived at EmrianincemHarr ir $ Kas., shortly In-fore mnm ,ntLM.1V..Pl.u:JkTB.l,,,',

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. -ft - '"- 1'i.imi eiiaiieiiire to iJr. I.'ivli.f f., ...... i of Madagascar by the French. j series Ä games 'f., Z cl, Ä A Hi-Nimn, AXl, nrtv tosax Failcbes i the United S ates for men have Wen gathered at Pekin for 'the week ended the r.th wcii 10

A Japaxfse fleet of seventeen ship

I now blocking the gulf of lVehili. French troops are massing in ToB' quin. Tub twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the lea nessee convened at Council HhitTs, la. on the Sd. Tub Japanese minister of tiuance has omcinllv made known that the war will not be allowed to interrupt the in , quentlv railway construction is to proV"4 I'iVt V ill VII.- W4 tlU Vvigor as m peace ful times. The minister has arranged that the treasury shall keep separate accounts of the war expenses and those for internal improvements, in orderthat the former mav not overshadow the latter. ' Till- l..'im n' Win L'S.ir f. 1 1 - " n.Mive miles north of Leban m. Ind.. became frightened, on the 3d, and ran away. Iii wife jumped from the ear riage and received injuries from which she died in about an hour. The team ran into a fence, throwing Mr. King out and indicting internal injuries j from which he will die. Mit.. ItBKMAX OEI.BICHS, of ew York, who was Miss Theresa Fair in the days of her residence in San Francisco, has celebrated her twenty-fifth birthday, and consequently the first large slice of devised property is aWuit to be cut from the estate of the late Mrs. Theresa Fair. It will amount to something like SI, 309. COO. Ox the 3d the death of .Mrs. Minerva l'race Norton, wife of Kev. S. Norton, occurred at Kcloit. Wis., after a lingering illness. She was the cousin and early companion of Frances Willard, and author of "A Great Mother," A . True TeacherandotheriK)nularlKH)ks, i;eo. Moore, nurht uirint.nri.nt of ..: Gen. Gbanvii.i.e M. Dodge, of Iowa. :vas chosen president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, in session at Council KluiTs. Ia. O.v the 4th the steamer Gaelic arrived ber 12 and Yokohama to SeptemWr21. Tub Hritish steamer Kellona, Wund from Hiosofor Hamburir. was wrecked !. !,. .i... -i.; ,ng the land in safety, but the vessel was a total loss. Ox the 3d a tiurry of snow fell at Elgin. III. Ox the 4th the bciler connected with the pile driver on the Louisville and JelTersonville bridge exploded, and five persons were badly injured, anion" them two engineers, who were thought to be fatally hurt. On the nisht of the 3d three Chinese gambling houses on "the levee"' in Chicago were raided and over fifty Chinese arrested. Do Chow, a laundryman, is supposed to have Wtrayed them in revenge. Ox the 4th the Elwood (Ind.) windowglass factory, the last in that city to resume, started up with a full force of hands. Ox the 3d Mrs. Mary Strickler. assistant principal in the Osceola pnblia school in Pittsburgh. Pa., committed suicide by hanging, while temporarily insane, the result of sickness. LATE NEWS ITEMS. i'kksipknt .lonx i i.EvnntDOE, exgovernor of Illinois: Vice-President F. D. Arnold and Secretary-Treasurer S. M. Hiddison. of the State Mutual Life Insurance Co., were taken Wfore I nited States Commissioner Hoyne. in Chicago, on the .1th, charged with violating the postal laws by running a lottery scheme, awl were released on bail. 1 HE sixty-fifth semi-annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Duy Saints, better known as the Mormon church, opened in Salt Iake. Utah, on the r.th. with a laree attendance from all parts of Utah and surrounding states and territories, anil delegations from Canada and Mexico. The steamer Orinoco, which arrived ii. iwk, uu me -nil. oroiignt as passengers from Hermuda CanL W. H. i- t , . . . . rories.inu leu men, me crew of the , : l. i - . ... .nun iu.iu uurK ivioemarie. wnicn was j burned at sea September Is, her cargo I ll i 1 hlfinr (..!.. 7-. I... ... rtitAHL o.ktt t.. .-.. Ox the r.th the Territor al supreme conn oi .ew .Mexico oruereit the receivers for the Atlantic Pacific road to reinstate Conductor S. I). Hemlv who was discharged for Wing a memoer oi me American Kail way union. Db. KoiiKiir Hamilton, proprietor of Hamilton's medical institute in Saratoga, N. Y., died on the .,th. He waelected an alderman of Chicago, in Isj4, and during a vacancy in the office was for a time acting mayor. Tin: civil marriage of Miss F.HzaWth Sperry, of San Francisco, to Prince Andre Poiniatowski. took nine,. m... .tl, ;,i... .u ' v fi lhe maVor Grilling the eeremonv Im: campaign in the Twentv-Krst Ohm congressional district is to be enlivened by a joint debate Wtween the and T. I. K. ISurton. ! Pnor. HiTcni.vs.of the Cornell law ( sen., nas accepted a call to the den ' '";. ie ex-eliampion chess .layer of the ivorld. lias issued a fT-imst 45 last year Canada,

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INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Frkdebick Kiii.k, a Ft. Wayne cobtractor, was struck by u Pennsylvania passenger train at Ft. Wayne, the othtr morniuir. and instantly killed. He was a wealthy and nromitieiit business man. I.v a street ear and sprinkling cart collision at Kokomo. 15. K. Deloii, tho ilriver. was eomnletelv scalped, as thnue-h with a knlte. His skull was also fractured. A law and order league is being formed at Valparaiso. Ll.vro.v claims to have the best lwind in the southern part of the state. A movement is on fiHitto keep minors off the street at ulparaiso after ti o'clock at night. Uxiox City had a circus parade and biir tire at the same time, the other day. riiE Christian Kudeavor societies at Jcffersonville are advocating the ques tion of a "good citizenship league." A MEitciiA.VT of Chesterton seta trap gun for burglars and then thoughtless Iv ran into it himself. His legs were nearly shot off. Wesley Aia.msoX, a wealthy farmer. residing two miles west of Hra.il, is strictly opposed to depositing money in banks. Some time since he placed a roll of greenbacks, aggregating nearly $200, in the stove. His wife, unaware of the whereabouts of the money, built a tire in the stove, the other night, and the greenbacks served as kindling. The Fowler Holt works, Anderson. which has been shut down for two years, resumed operations, a few days ago. and is now going at lull olast. Two hundred and fifty men are being mployed. Gkobok Film. German, aged thirtyfive, living at Haubstadt, twelve miles east of Princeton, committed suicide. taking' rat noison. The death of his wife recently caused temporary insan ity. Ax unknown woman threw a baby from a train near Crown Point. The infant was killed. Hexuv I)KMitEi:ni:B was the other day appointed postmaster at Stewarts ville, i'osev county, vice . P. Kobb, resigned. Wm. Mitchell, a young man of Sey mour, was killed on the Hig Four rail road at Carbon, while trying to jump on a moving train. Ax effort is being made to locate a new telephone exchange at Goshen and at Elkhart. Mils. Peter Kiseb. while attending the Huntington fair, lost her pocketbook. It contained SI. (KM). Mimu.EiiritY will put up Sl.'.OOO for the extension of the Goshen electric railway to that place. At Farmland a voung man named S'einans is dying from a fracture of the skull indicted by highwaymen. At Kendallville a fruit grower raised a peach that measured lu's inches in circumference and weighed 1.1 ounces, Tu EUE has been completed in Indian apolis the organization of the American Association of Physicians and Sur geons. The association is to be com posed of state organizations bearing the same name. A moxkey got away from one of the shows at the Huntington fair and ran into the dining hall while dinner was Wing served. The women screamed and jumped on chairs and tables, creating excitement enough to hist for a month. Am. the gambling joints at Anderson have closed. At Shelbyviue wheat is selling at 4.' cents and corn at M cents. At Indianapolis, the other morning. while a fine horse Wlonging to Messrs. Hursett .t Hogwood, was being driven across the street-car tracks, a live wire dropped down on the horse's back. The animal stopped instantly, quivered a second and sank to the pavement, while there was a stench of burning ilesh and flashes of vivid light danced over its body. Death was instantan eous. The driver was uninjured. At.BEBT W.U.I.E, employed in the Vancamp packing house, Indianapolis, :he other night, attempted to repair a small drainage pipe, during which he leaned over a two-inch line of shaftinir, A protruding Wit caught his clothing and he was whipped around the shaft until he was literally but slow-ly beaten to death. Hokskiiack riding is a fad at Connersville. A TELEPHONE system may W put in t Greeneastle. A Two-riiorsAxn-KooTgas well is Wing bored at Richmond. The opening services of the fortythird session of the Southeast Indiana conference took place at the First Methodist church. Shelbyville. Rev. J. M. Freeman, of New York city, delivering the address. Wkiiiel. a young musician, was killed by an elevator at Kichmond. A militia company and a football team are jossibilitics at Huntington AT.Martinsville the S-months-old child of AlWrt Thomas bled to death from aslightctit In its mouth. The Knights of Pythias, of Mont gomery county, held a grand celebra tion and harvest picnic in Crawfordsville. The woolen mills owned by Aaron Miller, at Goshen, burned early the other morning. Loss, 511,000; insurance, SS.OOO. Cause unknown. Joseph Wkiiiel. an employe of the Star Piano Co.. Kichmond, was crushed to death the other afternoon bv the elevator. At Goshen Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Porlcy celebrated their fiftieth wed ding anniversary. Their :o years of wedded life have been passed in this city. The fact was developed nt Kichmond that an attempt wan made the other night to assassinate John T. Xorris, the Springfield detective. GitKnoiiv and Turner, the cold-brick artists, who have bunkoed citizens of the central states out of over S100.000 in the past year, turned a S.1.O00 trick at Logansport the other day. Their victim was a farmer named Moss. De tectives arc on the trail of the swin

dlers.

A CARNIVAL OF FIRE.

Nil Men Kitted itiul Ten lujiiml ut a Fir la li-trnll. -MU h. Hui Uliniiiiiiii, Y. Vi. Ilmlly . ur. luMl Tli lli iuitlful V. M. V A. llullilliiK at Nuilnlllc, Trim., Iliiracil The Ummer l.lliritrv and I'IIi-k Went Willi Ii III Tollmen Fire A Xelim.l.H Aoyliim llitimticfil. 1) et bo it, Mich., Oct. rt. Fire nt7;4I u, m. completely gutted Keeiian .v. Julia's furniture store at Nos. 213,21. und 217 Woodward avenue, entailing n loss of $0,OO0 on stock and $2.1,000 01' the building. The tire started in tlit boiler-room and shot up the freight elevator sliaf I, obtaining such headway that the firemen were unable to wivt any portion of the building or con tents. At 0:1.1 the front wall of the building fell out, and six men wen killed and ten injured, all but twt Wing firemen. The list of killed and injured is u follows: THE HEAD, Lieut. Michael H. Dontighue, ol Chemical No. 1. Kichard Dely. pipeuiau, engine No U .lohn V. Pagel. pipeiuan, No. 0. .Martin Hull, pipemun, No. !. Julie G. Cuinmings, truck Xo. 1. Frederick A. llussey, a spectator. the ixjimjeo: I-red Draheim. engine No. S: badlv Injured. L. K. Stevens, chemical No. 1: badlv injured. Michael C. Gray, badly hurt about head and body. Lieut. Patrick (VKourke, engine Xo. s; badly injured. F, E. Stocks, pipemun, engine No. S. hartholutucw Tronin, piiieuiaii, en gine Xo. . John 15. Xewell, truck Xo. 2. Leslie K. .MeKlmurray, fireman. Thomas Gurry, fireman. Henry I'errig, spectator. Xone of the hist six named are badly injured. The tloors of the building' fell in at 't'.-i ... ...I (!,.......,( .....I It. . . . ... ii..t hihi uu- ii i'ih tiuu hui iit;ii iniuiediatelv coll apsed. The men of Engine Company X:. 0. Chemical No. 1 and Truck No. 2 were workinir in the windows and doors of the ground tloor tu front. In the rear the men oi r.ngine i ompanv .no. h were playing on the fire from a bridu that spanned the alley. The men were working close to the rear walls. aim wnen iney collapsed tliev were completely imbedded in the debris. Every man m the company, except the captain, was more or less injured, and v rederiek I.ussev, who was standing ieiieath the bridge, was killed. The work of rescue was immediate ly lvL'un and in fifteen minutes the men who had been working in the al ley had been taken out. The firemen working in the front of the building did not fare so well, how ever. v hen the hrst crack of the fall ing floors was heard, the men started to run, but the walls came down on them so swiftly that all were buried under tons of brick and mortar. The walls did not fall outside of the middle of the sidewalk, and the last brick had scarcely touched the walk before the work of rescue in front Wgan. 1 lie first body recovered was that of Lieut. Donairhue. Then the bodies of Pagel, Dely, Cnminings and Hall were taken out m succession. M ichael !rav was badly injured, as was also K. VI. Stevens. Ietriirtlve Fire at ltiirkhtniiin, Vt. Vn IIITKIIA.VXON, .a.. Oct. C,. Just after midnight fire started in the Kid dy furniture building on Main street. I!y2a. m. the Kiddy building. Stockert's feed store. White's, Carver Ä- Dm, hardware store, and half a dozen frame uweuings aiong .Main street were in ruins. In half an hour more, Pifer's -1 H i ... . drug store and two big three-story blocks opposite were in ilames. Hv menus of assistance from Weston, at y o elock the fire was under control. TWENTY HOfSES lll'BNKI). Twenty houses, including all on both sides of Mam street from K. C. Fnrnsworth's building to the Dr. J. W. Hrown block, were burned out. The origin of the fire is thought to have Wen incendiary. Theloss is aWut SSO,OOOfinsurance less than half. While the fire was in progress Frank Neely was shot, while standing in the alley, by parties unknown, and seriously injured. The Y. M. (,'. A. lliilldliiK nt Nitidis (III Itiirned. Nashville, I cnn., 'ct. u. Fire at an early Hour destroyed the i, M. t. A. building in this city. It was a beau tiful structure, built of rough stone and valued at SUKX). The 1 tanner ed itorial rooms, which were temporarily located in the fourth-story of the build ing, were burned, together with THE BILKS AM LIIIHA BY Ol" TIIK I'AI'Klt. The ltanner would soon have moved into a new building erected on the site of where it was burned out a vear ago. The composing room, press room and business otlice of the paper is in in adjacent building nntl were not burned. The insurance on the V. M. ('. A. building is only 820,000. A IllK Toh.ireo Smoke. L. "ca steh, Pa.. Oct. rt. The brich warehouseof John De Haven, at Honeybrook, was destroyed by fire earlv this morning with iMl eases of leaf tobacco. Loss, S.'lO.OiiO; partially insured. Fire In a Neltritvkit Anyluni. IIastinoh. Neb.. Oct. ti. Fire did sev eral thousand dollars damage to thu state asylum, and created a panic In u lncli a number of the inmates wen Injured. A JOINT DEBATE Will Mitke Tiling Interest Iiir In Hie Tweii. tj-Hrst Ohio IMMrlrt. Clevkla.no. Oct. rt. At a conference in the office of Virgil P. KPne, one ol the most prominent democrats In the state, a series of joint debates be tween Tom L. Johnson und T, T. K. Hurton, opposing congressional candi dates in the Twenty-first district, was arranged. There will be four debute in as tunny sections of the district Johnson issued the challenge and wai obliged to allow Horton to di Mate a) thu term.

DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

Whrrtt mill Ciiiioii Itmrli the l.owcut Trier Ever Known anil I'urrliitae iif Other I'rodurU lire Kent riet ril :i Nuturttl ('oiieiit'ii('e Itnllnutd mill Trutt Stuck l.ntver, with Other Industrie l'iilrly HoldliiK Their Own. Xkw Yohk, Oct. I1.--K. (i. Dun t Co."s weekly review of trade, Issued today, says: Tho lowest prices ever known for wheat and cotton necessarily imply somewhat restricted consumption of other products. With the chief money crops of the west and south sinking in value, it is not strange that purchases of mtiiiiifactiired products are smaller than wase.vpected. Wheat has touched the lowest point ever known for options, and cotton the lowest ever known in any form with the present classification, and the accumulation of stocks in both products is discouraging to purchasers for an advance. Producers are compelled to sell at prices Mow the ordinary cost of raising crop-., ami in some western states there is also a lamentable failure of the corn crop. I n der the circumstances it would W- very strange if the demand for manufactured products should lie quite as large as in other years. Wheat sutlers most from accumulation of stocks in sight, which are far Wyoud what is usually expected for the season, and the exports in September were unusually small. For the first week of Octobi-r Atlantic exports were l.(f.7,:572 bushels against sTsl.TIO last year, and western receipts were only 4.iii;.rt0(iliushels against O.no,r.s7 last year, and these figures give some encouragement, but have littl. inlluonce in view of the unusual visible supply. The price for cash wheat is a small fraction higher for the week. Hörle products are weak in to'ic. though only lard is ptotab!y lower. Cotton i one-eighth lower, the cash price Wing the lowest known for fortv-live years, and, considering the difference in classification, it is perhaps lower than at any time since und estimates that the crop is more than 10.000,000 bales arc more commonly credited now than estimates of s,.100,00(l bales were two months ago. The condition of the Industries is in some resH!cts more satisfactory. Evidently there is a larger demand for iron products than there was a month ago. through the increase in output has been somewhat greater than the increase in.the demand, so that prices steadily tend downward. The boot and shoe trade continues to deliver more goods than in any previous year, as it did in ScptomWr, and most of the works still have orders for one or two months ahead, although mainly for low or medium-priced goods. The new demand in dry goods is not ns large as it has been, anil in spring gtxwls the market is called remarkably dull, though there is relatively a good deal doing in current orders for the fall trade. Cotton print cloths are a shade stronger, as the news from Fall Hirer regarding the duration of the strike is less encouraging: but for other giods the market is slow, as might be e.vih'Ctet! in view of the heavy decline in the raw material. Woolens are less active, and. while there are numerous small orders for fall goods, the demand for spring floods is as yet not more than aWiut three-quarters of the ordinary quan tity, ami mainly limited to the cheaper grades. In thee the domestic pro ducers appear to be meeting foreign competition quite satisfactorily. Sales of wool for the week have been Ä.Wii.i.lO pounds, against n.ü72,IO'i two years ago, anil for five weeks ending OctoWr 2 sales were 2 l,27t,WK) pounds, against 17,130. 17.1 last year, and 37,332, 000 in lSU'J. The volume of domestic trade indi cated by the exchanges nt the princi pal clearing houses is ll.S per cent. larger than a year ago, but in compar ison with 1S'.2 shows a decrease of 23. S percent. Railroad earnings thus fnr reported for the month of Septem Wr are 0.7 per cent, less than in ls02, the loss being rather greater in the latter than in the earlier weeks of the month. In the money market more commer cial paper is coming into sight, though on the whole the market is bv no means encouraging, nnd good singlename paper has been placed ut :t per cent., the lowest on record. The revenue of the treasury for the first month under the new lawis about 82,000,000 less than for the same month Inst year, and there is n feeling that for some months to come, with scarcely my imports of sugar or receipts from the whisky tax the effects of the new law will not be fairly shown. Commercial failures In the third quarter of ISO! have involved liabili ties of S29,:;tU,l'.3, exclusive of banking institutions nnd railroads, against 8S2,4'0,W1 reported a year ago for the same quarter, and for nine months of 1SIM the liabilities have Wen SHil.O'.M,.102, against S23l,33l.2t;.l last year. The manufacturing liabilities were 812,231, MI2, against 82:i,'i0.1,sdl reported a vear ago, und in trading S14,HU,230 for the quarter, against SIS,? 11,170 a year ago. For the month of September the lia bilities have been smaller than in other months this year, only 5,S'J7,124 of which $i,l04,:i73 were of manufac turing and $3,tl.lO,OW of trading con cerns. The failures during the past week have W-en 210 In the United States against JWO last year, and :tl in Canada against 1.1 last year. Cnnnillitii Xnturitt (Inn I'rcr. W.vsiiinoton, Oct. (. The Importa tion of natural gas from Canada into the United States Is assuming such proportions on the northern frontier as to call serious attention to the rivalry thus occasioned Wtween Canadian and American companies. The treasury department nt Hrst placed a duty of 20 per cent- nd vnlorein upon it as a mineral product, Subsequently this was reduced to 10 per cent., and the latest ruling on the subject by the treasury department is that the Cana dian gas Is free as nn utiemiutcrtcd unmanufactured article-