Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 51, Jasper, Dubois County, 30 August 1895 — Page 2

AVI-KKLY COURIER.

C. ÜOAXK, 1 übliche: JASPER. INDIANA. Tin: porte has again rejected the do" mand of the Powers that the proposed reforms in Armenia shall be under forofgn control. TiiKonicial statement of theassts of Ringen Hros, Genoa hankers who recently failed, shows them to be .3,500,OOU, The liabilities are 14.000,000. A c.uiugham was received at the department of .state, on the 10th. from Consul Jernigan at Shanghai, stating that cholera was not epidemic there. It was statetl at the treasury department, on the Si st, that the longdelayed World's Fair medals will be ready for delivery early in September. Ex-Gov. Mortui, of Connecticut, sustained a shock of apoplexy, on the moraine of the 22d, at his oßice in 2Cev Haven, and died shortly after 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Pall Mall Gazette, in an article treating of the Chinese outrages, says that Secretary Olney may W relied upon to take vigorous action in behalf of the Americans maltreated. Thk Argentine government has issued a decree in accepting the resignation of the minister to the United States, Senor Seeballos oshcially recognizing his services in behalf of his countrr. A mortgage for S7,000.000, from the Maryland Steel Co. to the Girard Life Insurance, Annuity and Trust Co., of Philadelphia, was filed for record in the clerk's ollice at Towson, Md., on the 20th. Mayor Crirns of Boston received a letter from President Cleveland, on the 19th, in which the president stated that he could not visit Roston during Knight Templar week, owing to previous engagements. It is alleged that Ainsworth R. Spofford, the venerable librarian of congress, is many thousands of dollars short in his accounts with the government, and that his financial affairs are in an inextricable tangle. Fifteen thousand German veterans of the Franco-Prussian war celebrated the anniversary of the battle of Gravelot, which was fought on August 1$, 1570. by a parade on the Teinpelhofer field at Herlin, on the 19th. The county board of Cook county. 111., at a special meeting, on the JTOih. resolved to begin at once an investigation into the management of the county institutions, covering charges of murder, boodling and appointment of criminals to oßice. The International Co-operative conpress was opened in the hall of the Society of Arts in London on the 19th. Earl Gray presided. In opening the congress the carl dwelt on the progress made by the co-operative movement throughout the world. There are no American Christians in that part of Turkey between Sassoun and Moosh, where Turkish officials are said to have driven the Christians out of their houses and given them to Knrds Most of those Christians are Turkish subjects. A statement of the condition of Oscar Wilde's finances, issued on the Cid, showed his liabilities tobe 3.591. with no available assets. He has been insolvent two years, his expenditures greatly exceeding his income of 2.000, derived from his literary and dramatic work. The London fc Northern Railway Co."s new fast train, which left Euston station, London, at S o'clock on the evening of the 20th, arrived at Aberdeen at 4:.1S o'clock on the following morning, having covered the distance of MO miles in the shortest time on record. A dispatch from Shanghai says: The Chinese soldiers at Tien-Tin "revolted, on the 21st, and assembled outside the irates of Li Hung Chang's palace, where ther raised a clamor for their arrears of pay. Later they made an attack upon the shops in the city, wrecking many of them and killing over 100 persons. ACCORDIXO to a report to the department of state by Minister Eugene Germain, at Zurich, the damage to vineyards in Italy by the Insect commonly known as the vine louse has been enormous. Since the appearance of the insect in that country it has totally ruined 2S2.529 acres of vineyards and injured lsfl,lft0 acres. Is her official trial, on the 20th, the new American line steamship St. Louis maintained an average speed of 22.3 knots per hour for over four hours, carrying the Stars and Stripe faster than any tiag had ever been carried through the English channel, made tiie outward run, with the at a speed of 23. 00 knots S. T. K. Pkimk. the crop expert, in a letter to a New York morning paper j of the 1'Oth, s-dd: "In twenty-live years' j experience I have never seen anything like the prospects of the growinir corn cropof lsl5. Under present conditions ! you can look for a harvest of over two thousnnd million (3,(M0.000.00Ci,kbsbcK of corn in the United States The now famous Holmes "castle," at Sixty-third and Wallace streets, Chicago, was attacked by fire believed to have been of incendiary origin at midnight of the ISth, ami was almost totally destroyed, together with whatever evidence it might yet have contained relative to the crimes committed there. Loss to building and tenants, about H'5,000.

CUE KENT TOPICS,

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Gen. Lotio Wmj.-ei r.v, the neiv commander-in-chief of the 1'ritish army, i a roteran of many wars, and for his successful services in the field has had homv-sand emoluments heaped upon him by the English government. He was born in ltn and entered the army as an ensign iu Convict .Na 30T in the Connecticut state prison died on the lsth. While iiying- wiapiaui .ises was present ami the convict gasped the Lord's Prayer after him. "Tell me who you are?" J said the chaplain, landing over the cot "No. came the reply, with the expiring breath; "I have a wife and , four children. Let my shame die with me. Con s 1 i e r a 11 t. v. interest was aroused in London, on the I7lb, by the issue of an emergency letter from the war ofiiee. ' signed by the principal medical officer of the home department, asking if. in . case of war. the cities would allow the use of the infirmaries for the mobilization of the army corps for home de-, fense. t John Cannon died, on the night of j the 17th, at his home in Selma, Ind., j at the advanced age of 55 years. He had lived in the county over fifty years. it is understood that the governmerit is behind 1 not less than po.OOOon ;Vrh a im? -'.lPP'. a ie Missouri river commission money j also delayed more than usuaL j AT a political meeting m Naples on the night of the 11 th. the throng of people that crowded the stairway leading to the meeting hall was so great .1. l.-t . , ; j MW",C wa1Hwr BTe way. ami many j anu xell to the iloor. ihree persons were killed outright, and fully thirty more were injureiL Ox the löth Judge Padghara, of Grand Haven, Mich., sentenced George Checsbro, the murderer of his grandmother. Mrs. Levi Pierce, to Jackson prison for the term of his natural life. Hr an explosion, on the 19th, at the artillery barracks at Toola. the capi tal of the government of that name in Russia, 300 persons are said to have been killed, including many ofiicers. A child of John Dill, of Huntington county. IncL, was very sick for several days. On the 17th it seemingly died, was laid .out and all arrangements made for the funeraL Hefore the time fixed upon arrived the child showed signs of life, and its body was weil rubU-d and wrapped up in warm fiannels. It soon becan to breathe, and, on the 19th. was declared to be in a fair way to get welL The Rank of Tacoma, Wash., formerly the Tacoma Trust and Savings Ca, made an assignment to its creditors on the 19th. The statement showed cash on hand. S. Total liabilities, S379.GO0. of which S2i9.000 is city funds. The French expedition that is marching oa Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, had reached Mcvatanana on the 17lh. The natives had secured a numberof Maxim jrnns which had arrived at Antananarivo. The steamer Concordia ran down the motor boat Heckman, on the lsth, near Falkenthal.Germany.on the Elbe j river, and seventeen persons were j drowned. Of eight members of a family named Laski, who were on board, j onlv Frau Laski was saved. i ifv the death of Daniel Polk, at Den- j ver. Col., on the 19th, a conspicuous figure was removed from the social and business life of that city. He was born in Shelby county, Ky., in IslG. : He was one of the I'olic family which settled in Maryland uvo centuries ago, and afterward scattered over Kentucky and other southern states Tun oldest Iowan yet discovered by the census bureau Ls Mrs. Lucy Alexander, colored.Hving at'ICeokuk, whose age Ls reported at 1 ID years She is a native of Virginia, and lives with her son, Thomas himself H years old. James Coonet, who was born in December, 179i, in County Wexford, Ireland, and who cam- to this country about thirty years ago, died at Can ton, Pa., on the 19th. Until within a week of his death he was able to assist in farm work. Ex-Associate Jr. stick. William Strong, of the United States supreme court, died at Lake Minnewaska. N. Y.. on the 19th. aged J7 years He was retired December 1, 1?0. Deceased had lone been a sufferer from a catarrhal affection, but the immediate cause of his death was a stroke of paralysis Tun X, p. m. Chicarro ,t West Michigan passenger train, east-bound from i Chicago, was held up by four highwaymen just south of New Richmond. . 1 Mich., on the evening of the t'Oth. Rut little booty was secured. A hagman was shot in the right groin while signaling and seriously injured. Thomas M. Gkadv, a former cashier of the First national bank at Marietta. Pa., was found guilty in the United States district court, at Philadephia. on the 3th. of embezzling the funds Of the institution and making false entries in the hank's books He was sentenced to seven years in the Kastern penitentiary and to pay a fine of

She j S100 andeosts thde Ft-KNAfE "IP of the Edgar Tliorn1 son steel works (Carnegie's plant) at

j itestomer. near ISraduock. Pa., exploded. on the 20th, killing six men and lndly burning eijrht others not one ot those employed about the furmice escaping injury. Font carpenters who were trying to save a Northern Pacific bridge near Ciur rt'AIen-. WjisIl, on the 10th, were cut off by the flames and compelled to jump 13 feet to the bottom of the chasm, where they were dashed to pieces Advices from Honolulu, per steamer Australia, arrived at San Francisco on the 2lst, .stated that the Hawaiian legislature had granted a contract and exclusive franchise to 'A. S. Spalding to lay and operate a telegraphic cable from San Francisco to Honolulu, the vote in loth houses of the legislature beimr oractically unanimous

Tun bushiest xirtion of St KV.an. a small town nea.- Wot Rend. Vuv. wipe tout by tire n the Mh- Tim ' total loss U ??i.tM; insurance. t Many residences were burned and 1 eight business place destroyed. ' i:v a fire that" broke oat on the afternoon uf the !ilh. the laboratory of Johns Hopkins university, at Haiti- ' more. ML. ws completely flitted, and the building otherwise badly damaged. Tub preliminarr trial of Joha , Walker. J. !. Kodan. .M. I), W.U. Padgett and Thomas lliillips white

men. charred with lvncliiutr tue negro , preacher Robert Ifen neu, on July 4, took place at I-ake City, IIa., on the 50th. There was little evidence introduced against the accused, and ther were disehanred. Vkthk R. Hlenih-, of Ruffalo, N. Y., was, on the 21st, appointed grand receiver of the Ancient Order of United ' Workmen for the state of New York " to succeed the late John Hodge, of Luckport. The appointment was made by Dr. J. Armstrong, grand master workman o ,f tl.i. Tun temperature on Mount Washington. N. IL. went down to is degrees early on the afternoon of the 21st. Snow was falling and the mountain summits were white, suggestive of midwinter. lori Ekzel's promising 4-year-old sprinter Rap-a-Tap. dropped dead on the track at Saratoga. N. Y., on the 2!st- Heart disease is believed to have f Wtfn the News reached Seattle. Wash., on the IsL that the sealing schooner Walter had K.en WTl.cke off KodjaI . Iandand eighteen of the crew drowned. Ox the 21st the president issued an order extending the civil-service rules to include all printers and pressmen in 1 t,,e excclUjTe departments. Mir-s Mart Manning, youngest child of the late ex-Secretary of the Treasury Manning, was married in Albany, X. Y.. on the 21st, to Mr. Julius Cornelius Von der Oudermeulon. of The Hague. Holland. At the session of the supreme counf cil of the American Legion, held in Detroit, M:ch., on the 21st, the ritual j committee reported that no drafts of i rituals had been submitted and recom- ! mended, and that it was inexpedient J at the present time to make a in ch a ntres in secret work. The big fly wheel in the 10-inch mill at the Oliver iron and steel works in Pittsburgh, Pa., burst with terrific force on the 22 d. The mill was in fall operation at the time, but the employes injury.

miraculously escaped serious , oflicers will be William ShepanL lieuPieces of the wheel were , tenant colonel: John Sanders, adjutant;

hurled In all directions wrecking the rolls and engines and damaging the I whole mill. 1 The town of Coin, in the province of Malaga, Spain, was shaken by an earthquake, on the 22d, which lasted twenty-five seconds. The damage done to buildings is very serious. At 3 o'clock oa the morning of the 21st the Grand Rockland hotel at Congers X. Y.. was destroyed by fire, with all its contents. The building cost SC-'MWO and the furniture SIS.OOO. It was announced in Madrid, on the S'Jd. that 25.000 fresh troops will embark for Cuba in November. Since the outbreasc of cholera in Japan there have been Sä, 000 eases and 1G,000 deaths IN an Indian camp 50 miles from Maniwaki village, on the borderland of the great northern forests of the Upper Gatineau. an Indian named Francois beat his 10-year-old daughter to death. The provincial authorities have the case In hand. LATH NEWS ITEMS 1 HE Cninese s?overnnwnt. hn arw pointed the formerly disrraced Liu. 1 .f.:. ... .11 , . . i .1 u yeuerauy resraraeu as me actual originator of the Cheng-T11 riots imperial high commissioner to investi gate me circumstances which led to j JuiureaK anu me tacts connected with the outrages themselves "Nisii" Dcgax, proprietor of the American house, in Pittsburgh. Pa., was assaulted by a gang of toughs and robbed of in cash on an Allegheny Valley railroad train on the night of the -"L Four of the robbers were captured, but the fifth made his escpe, carrying o2 the plunder. The Lloyds committee commuicated with the London board of trade, on the d. urging that the government send a representative to Washington to arrange with the United States government a joint scheme to destroy derelicts especially in the North Atlantic Axoxo the passengers returning from Alaska by the steamer Queen, which touched at Vancouver. It C. on th 22d, was Vice-President Steveasoa. acf ....... n. t. i.s. . 1 .1 t f W. W, and J. C. Stevenson, and his wife and two daughters M. Cambon, the French ambassador to Turkey, had an interview with the sultan, on the S&L and strongly urged his majesty to accept the proposals of the powers in regard to the administration of affairs in Armenia. The Madrid authorities deny that the prevalent risings in Spain have a republican tendency, but the government Is nevertheless, taking the strictest precautions against further diturbanceMits. Iaikx PmtKixs was arrested in Minneapolis Minn, on the on a harge of having killed herslster, Mrs Lola Hawkins by setting her oa fire, on the Uth. for the sake of $7,0 life insurance. The schooner Wanderer, which put in at Sand Reach, Mich., on the 22d. rejiorted the loss of her captain. Alexander S pence, and a seaman named James Ifcxly, during a vrere irale. Tin; French steamer Charibon, which arrived at Marseilles on the 2Sd, from Chine, waters, reported Tonquin infested with pirates, who constantly harass the French troops. KAlLrnr.s lor the week ended on the SSd were: For the United States 522, against 231 for the corresponding week last year, aad fo: Canada 43, against 3S iast year. The First national bank of Franklin, 0.. closed Its doors oa thu 23d.

1X1HAXA STATK NEWS. John Wuuav nable barned i the heart of the lwistnes center of Muncie late the other night. Two Txloable horses a carriage, baggy aad a large quantity of grain were burned. A dozen big business blocks were in danger, and the electric light supply to scores of bssiaes. houses wa cut on". There was no insurance.

Hefore the fire was subdued the Calvert sisters business bloek oa High street was on fire. It was occupied by Franklin .t Mahoney. proprietors, of the York town flour mills as as exchange depot. Two feoases and a lot o flour aad 1.500 dozen egjrs. with two horses owaed by Chas. Haxton, of Rochester. IntL, burned. The High street theater was badly scorched. The police fear the firewere started by robbers attracted there to the fair. A. C. DtN.W. aged 40, was found hanging to a tree in the woods, tea miles southwest of Winchester. Waeaw has a revival. Fccr yoenc women are holding- it. That Hi wood counterfeiters'" gang is iaid to be at work arain. Vincent M vsLCV.who claims close kinship with the late Gen. Mosley, of Virginia, was arrested at Kyana. upos a charge of child mercer aad was jailed. Tin: Hancock .t Conkle mice at Farnsworth has conceded the demaads of the miners and resnased work the other morning at the ) cents scale. C W. H citing en. a Kir Four freirh conductor, had a 40 suit of clothes stolen from his caboose while it was standing on a sidetrack at Crawfords-ville-A hot at Crawfordsville bosght a horse for 5 cents at a sale aad sold the ' animal to the readering- factory for ti cents ? A child of John Dili, of Rock Creek township, Huntington county, was very sick for soase time. The other day it seemingly died. The child was iaid out and all arrangements , perfected for the funeral and buriaL Refore the time arrived for the f nneral to occur the child showed signs of life- Its body was well rubbed and wrapped up ia warm flannels It soon began to breathe and is cow in a fair way to ret welL Tim old soldiers of Grant county have elected William Feighner. colonel of a battalion which will go to the j national encampment of at Iwouisrille. All the the G. A. R. nosts in the i county will be renresented. The other .iosen t.uran. Quartermaster. Tiik Seventieth Indiana, G-n. HarI rison's old reriaseat. held its annual re-union at Itelhany park, Indianapolis a few days ago. but Gen. Harrison was not present, not having returned from the east. Solomon Wilson, of Wabash, general manager of the Wabash School Furnishing Co. of that city, has purchased the Suman block, one o: the largest in Anderson, for $42.0ja The property was recently sold to K. C Ilaworth, of Liberty, who will soon remove a large implement factory frjm Liberty to Anderson. At Portland Mrs Trent Conlson took 30 drops of belladonna by mistake. She may recover. M.OV building associations have failed to make their reports to the state auditor, as required by law, aad this oflicial is now sending oat copies of the law bearing oa the question, with the information that losger delay will subject the deliaqtsest associations to a fine of 100. An Eikhart florist has succeed ia producing- a perfect?- black pansy. William F. Gb.it, Maacie, has fallen ) heir to SK.t) bv the death of a coasin. FaR34EK near Anderson are haulingwater for miles in order to save stock. Dr. C. C LoriEK. widely known as Dr. Wau-A-Toh. the creat Indian doctor, is dead at Columbus He was bora and reared in Rush county, and entered the army at the are of IX first serving in the Ninth and then the Thirteenth Indiana mriment. The body was taken to Hancock county for bcriaL PoKTLANrs new oiler is snoatiag ISC barrels daily. Mk. and Mrs Wj. Mmni V. pioneers of Elkhart, celebrated the fiftieth isniversity dar. their redd ingr the other Thk Niaetceth infantry will hold its annual reunion oa Acgast ??, at Unioa City. Geo. Wkat, of Rrowa county, was &ö years old on his last birthdav. He has been married three times his last wife being S3 year old. and his youngest child being less than 2 years old. Thk state board of tax commissioners have finished the work of equalizing the appraisement of real estate and improvements and as a result the assessment in SO per cent, and more of the counties is increased. Postmaster appointed. John Rilner. Sexton, Rush county, vice Miss A. Hanson, resigned, and J. K. Carson. Tower, Crawford county, vice W. II 3Ierri resigned. Richmond business men are pushing the electric line project to Conners ville and Liberty. Doos without tags are being put in the pound at KvansvtUe, and it costs S3 to have them liberated. Kioiiteen republicans are making a hot fisht for the position of school superintendent of Rartkolotaew county. A xi.etsn of the Antrim heirs of the vicinity of EI wood was held at Frankton to take steps to secure their share of the S75.C01.WX There is ome talk of employing ex-President Hsrrison to look after their interests. ,1 " i; i;iiis.i superintenitent o the Flint KJass works at Dunkirk, cd a somnambulist, got out of bed the other morning, walked through a second-story window and fell to the ground, lie was badly hart. A rorrv of Vinccnnes ladies aad gentlemen left that cVy. the other day, for a tour across the state and back in carriages They will camp oat at sight.

UNREQUITED LOVE .!.! for th- Umlhst ML Chmrü rwiii r;- ituri-M r i.ifc t r.rrmt HHrn h Kmallmt U Hot It H la Im Kr;-.ll- b.I AIm In Oil MM HHi-WrlJ,4.lM1h, DrUWrttrlr l-4 h lo- M. St. It I, Aug-. 2X Miss Charlie -lebis e-mmutted suicide Wednesday

night by drinking- a battle of prassic t acid at her home. 322i Lucas avenue. ' Her dead bwv was found in her room resterdav morniuir- The cause of the iced wa unrequited hive, f Mis Fields was 22 years old and a .ypewriler, employed by the Tilden Jhemteal Co. at 171? Olive street. She '.sent home from work apparently ia ;he best of spirits. (There was no iatimation from her Toaduct that she wat ever downcast, itthough in her heart a deep grief was nawing. She complained of feeling j lomewhut tired and after bidding- her mother and sister good sight, she repaired to her rooat. Nothing more va-s heard of her that eveaiag. Yesterday mormag the other metn- , foers of the family weat to the breakfast table, but Miss Fields did aot appear. They thought she must have I averslept and little Robert Miller, the ?irls 7-year-old nephew, was sent to her rooru to awaken her. ! Running up stairs the tittle fellow turned the knob of his aunt's room, which was ia the rear of the house on the second floor. The door was un locked aad the bov entered. i seated on a chair. Her head was hang iag oat of the open window. Both arms were stretched OHt above her head aad coald have beeH seea from the back yard below. The boy thought she was merely dozing, for she was fally dressed. He iagiaed then that she mast have arisen early aad sat down to await the breakfast hour. He did aot notice that the bed had not been disarranged. Ills idea was to frighten her ia fa a. "Auntie," he exclaiaied. as he seized her by the arm. "wake up. The woman did not stir. The boy nulled at her arm and it fell back life- , less on the window sill. j "Wake ap. auntie, wake upr called ; the boy again, and he shook the womaa's band. j Hut she was deaiL 1 Sergeant W illiatas, of the third district, arrived aad began an investigation, lie found that it was a plain ?ase of suicide. On the .floor bv the

Jead girl's side lar an eraptv viaL It i hae h.V two leading-companies ha had contained pruvs-c acid, bat was ' advanced the price of Itessemrr drained almost to the last drop. On Jent 38,1 a ncw combination h the bcrean was a note to the dead J racd galvanized barbed wire to St..-

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bear. Forgive and forget me if vou ! J,lraDCe prices Ls expected Oth t - .t prices are unchanged, and the ne

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now. Io not search for a reason, as you will find none. I am simply tired of living in total darkness aad can not

see a stark of lirht in the future. You I oW orders again exceed those of

cannot realize what it is to be friend- previous year for the month thus ft, less in this wide, wide world. If vou nd Jet almost in every branch t

have anything to spend par mv debts nen orders are very scanty, a.thoit. I am not entitled todeceat burial. P of ljoot antl hocs- of leatl

FELL AT HIS POST.

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f oa a Rkrr-Thrbnot th tretiv ana me quotations lor print ciotns : j ami Ep. a shade lower then indicated a we Grand Rapids 51 ich., Aag. 22. De- ago. ! tective Powers was shot :a the head Sales of wool are again smaller tb while arresting twoof the train robber J in ij, and for the month thus f who held up the Chicago .t West Mich-1 have leen lsS47.200 pounds, of xvhi , Igan passenrer train Taesday night ; a.121,300 were domestic, against 1 , near New Richmond, in a smoker ol öTi.950 last vear. of which ItUK.'

j the 10:t0 aorth-boaad Grand Rapids aad Indiana train tonight. Word was sent to the police headquarters to-night that two men got aboard a Lake Shore traia at lUvcr sta

tion this morning and came to this ,rrn markets. No marked change a city. The two strange mer were spot- pea jn lBe demand for woolen roci

ted oa the outgoing train this eveain;r. for all trains had le-n under surveillance for the two suspects As the detective was eoinjj through the traia, and as he entered t';e smoker, he saw two men who tallied with the descrip tion given- " He irrab!ed one. and at the same time blew his whistle for aid, as other f ; ofiicers were aboard going through i other cars The moment he blew his whistle one of them drew a revolver and shot him through the head and he fell to the car floor. As the other otfi- : cers rushed in. in response to the , whistle, the two men tied and jumped from the train, and escaped in the t darkness t The whole detective force was at i once called out and every available ' officer was detailed, and the conntrv j is being scoured for the wo desperai (Ir-rs Itetective Powers " was removed to the Itutterworth hospital, where he 'Hcd in a short time. THE TRAIN ROBBERS. A Hnrw snpp.rl to Have IWn Vmeii by the Train Kontier fosntl. Fennville. Mich.. Aug. 23. Wednesday morning- Edward Dagsrett found a strange hors. loise in hi liarn. tire miles southeast of here, covered with sweet and marks of harness, but no buggy or harness can be found. The detectives l;lieve the robbers stole him ami drove to the place of the rolWry, their drove until the horse gave out. Four express officials arc here at work. They now admit that the sfe held four packages of money, but will aot give the amounts A YOUNG HERO, Tlilrtr Yarw of Ac-, Kr4?sr Child from a lltarnlnc Krn. t'nxESnv I1L, Aug. 23. The .Vy earold son of Mr. and Mrs Harry HtitsiU. 4 miles west of this city, narrowly escaped cremation in a bsrniag barn Wednesday. George Smith. 13 years old. rescued the child, aad was burned badly a lout the hands The Hntsill child may live, bat it is is a critical coadiltoR. He was at play ia the barn when it casght ire. The building and coat eats were entirely consumed. Twa horses were baraed to death.

COMMERCIAL RE" Hf I J ,1h;h, Ttun UrwIUrtt M" I I nun,,! .... In July -. n .IHir Orr-I, T,k- Tn,t,. " llrr..r r..rrSB IBl,H. ' , ' r an ...... ... . urrn.iHC r.,WPr iaUurrs Vrw V.ki,,.. . . ... 111 ;. t; ,y . mi-ir ecMiy review lt Issued today, say; The volume of business shri is usual in August, and the shrmL, seems rather Innrer than , cause transactions in Julv w v what inflated for that month r settlement of wages in the lh, glass works foreshadows Mut i-i".s BUil I... . . - . . ' ' wrici wurKers aiHii; Pni; (lelplua, by propo,in to ace em ;... k-c aner epiemoer It), briset ranks of the employers, so that nPar - cvhh'hku ut an advance .f - . rr't , . . ' ccnu on luurstiay. 1 lie strili ciotmng workers progress toward a season of better the empldj-cs The price of wheat has fa . . .1....: . t , iuriiiR me weeK. reeiv . r . . rr.1 1 . 'utuuii 111 Aiiursuay, in spit- t efforts to hold back supply, fa farms and to encourage l,llvia Wheat onght to go abroad Wy : present prices but Atlantic expiri fiour included, have been onlv !.xv 502 bushels for the week, ajjiia ;,'J91.7ö last year, and for four vre', only 4,315.032 bushels, against !. 147 last year. Impressive strs short crons abroad b:ir. Iitl..

DUN'S

Oxer by the Iwtniow he saw hs auat in Uie nresence of such a r......... C.

j, the abstention for foreign purdta Jiun- uiuru riiccuvc mail ttl - wit holding of wheat by western farmer Naturally 57-cent wheat of the Paci" roast still goes forward freely in 3f the Atlantic supplies Corn has also declined i cn while pork and lard, with accustom inconsistency, rise a shade as era ii 'lines Cotton has advanced a fraction 7.75 cents without any definite chan. in crop prospects, and as usual their, mense volume of stocks carried ne in mills and commercial Han l-, he and abroad, about ZJ.OOO.Ww bal American, is by most traders not a predated. It is a relief to turn to the creat i dustrics in which the enormous rde placed some weeks or months a; cause phenomenal activity for ti season. In iron, notwithstamlir some uneasir.ess because the -Up has greatly increased, hearr pt

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orders for iron and steel products a: not at present larjre. . j In boots and shoes the shipments ai and also hides, are very tiriniy ma tained. In cotton goods the demand is rati

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were domestic, and S,311.1Ö0 in t same week of ltW. of which 17.0..? were domestic. Hut the speculati buyers still hold prices very stifiy. ai are supported by the strentrtli in fr but there is increasing apprehendshown by agents regarding the exte sive sales of foreign woolens the prv eat season. Failure for two weeks of An?u show liabilities amounting to j 507, of which Sl,Sls.S7ä were of man facturinir and S1.SS7.23j of tradit concerns In the same week last ye the amount of liabilities reached alio S3w If 5.415, of which S1.5?l.3 were manufacturing and Sl,t-'!9.";74 were trading concern?. Failures for the week have been ' in the United States against 231 la year, and 1! in Canada against 53 ia vear. INTERNAL REVENUE. Heavy ratline Off In Keeelptu from .fa Last Year. Washington, Aug. 24. The rctur of the internal revenue receipts f July, the first month of the ciirre fiscal year, have leen compiled. T total 'receipts were SI3,575öö. a i: crease as compared with July. I9'Sll.079,231. This large difference ia counted for by the fact that in Jul 1551. great quantities of whiskv we taken out of bond to escape pay me of the increased tax which was i' posed by the new tariff bill. The sources from which the July i ceipts of 155 were received wer Spirits 57. 10'.. 755, a decrease, as co pared with .July, 1551, of Sl",31.0 tolacco. S2, 02 1,075, an increase $221,145: fermented liquors, $a.i".7an increase of SI 11,130; oleomargarir. $155.517, a decrease of SIS.riW: miclaneous sources. $27.155. an increase $17,331. IN STATU QUO. Ihe Ireland Itnilillne Collajwe lnqu Sinp mle.l. New Yoiik. Aug. 24. The inqm into the death of the fifteen wor'tni who lost their lives through the a lapse of the Ireland building on We Hroadway and West Tliinl streets w suspended yesterday morning in onl to allow the coroner's jury to visit t! rains A force of men was ready the building to dig up the central pi and expose the stone and concrete the fondation for examination by tl Jury.