Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 38, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 October 1895 — Page 6

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C. DOANK, Publisher. TAI INDIANA. Princt. Unxnv of Prussia, brother of the Herman emperor, has Wen appointed a rear-admiral In the Austrian anvy. lT.vtsrA.LV cold weather has succeeded the recent heated spell in F.ugluud. Frosts have prevailed in the midlands and snow in Scot hi ml. A imsT.vtch from Constantinople, on the 3d. said that it was onlcinlly announced that Lairaail Pasha iiad leen chosen to replace Said Pasha as grand vhier. Thkrk is imminent danger of a clash between French and German residents in Hogota. Colombia, owing to the eel ibration by the. latter of the victory of Sedan. SECKET.inv Carlisle has accepted an invitation to attend the banquet of the Ueform club at Boston on the O.U II ill .1 tI 1 -I,... 111; t lit ltj kuc uiiuwii'ai aircanu; at the feast. The public debt statement, issued on the 1st, shows a net decrease in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during September, of S1,S34,6$. Total cash in the treasury. S527.SS9.40s. Tub order appointing Gen. Nelson A. Miles to the command of the array was issued on the id. The same order assigned Gen. lluger to the command of the department of the east. The German government has received notification that China is ready to satisfy the claims of Germany growing out of the destruction of the German mission at Swatowbya Chinese mob. Repokts from Constantinople that Armenian prisoners taken in the late riots in that city were brutally murdered by their Turkish captors while on their way to prison were confirmed on the 3d. Tkeasvkv receipts for the month of September were S27.549.67S; expenditures, 524,320,4:1; receipts for the first three months of the fiscal year were 55,572.072. and expenditures, S93.459,735; net deficit, SS.SsJ.öSS. Ilr a provision adopted by the South Carolina constitutional convention at Columbia, on the 1st, divorces for any cause shall not be granted in that state, nor will decrees obtained in other states be recognized there. M. Lebas. French minister of commerce, announced, on the 1st, that a contract had been signed for laying a submarine cable between I.rest and New York and for a link between the French cable system and the Antilles, o Jt DGE Rouekt Croziek. of Leavenworth, Kas., died, on the 2d. of paralyBts. During his career he was associate and chief justice of the supreme court, l mieu Mates senator by ap pointment, and district judge for six teen years. Nearly ISOcitiesand towns of Pennsylvania and neighboring states were represented in the fireman's parade at Reading, Fa., on the 3d, in which it is estimated that 10..'.00 men took part, and which took five hours to pass a given point. The arrangements for the visit of Sir Julian Pauncefote. Hritish ambassador at Washington, to Ottawa. Ont, to confer with Premier Howell on the snbect of the award to Canadian sealers, is off, and no time has been fixed for his visit The investigation into the" circumstances of the fire on board the steamer Iona. on September lt, while on her way from Leith to London, by which six women and one child lost their lives, resulted, on the Sd, in a verdict charging the officers of the Tessel with negligence. M. M. White, president of the Fourth national bamt of Cincinnati, with his brother, F. T. White, a retired business man of New York city, has given $25,000 to Earlham college at Richmond, lud. The endowment is in honor of their father, the late .lohn T. "White, who was a life-long friend of the institution. The American liner St Louis ar rived at Southampton, on the 2d, from New York, after the remarkably fast passage of C days, 13 hours and 25 minutes, cutting her own record down about five hours, and failing by only two hours and thirty minutes to equal the record, which is held by the Hamburg-American liner Fucrst Uismarck. Disi'atciies stating that Secretary Olney had given Great Hritain ninety days in which to accede to arbitration in the Venezuelan boundary dispute, were, on the 3d, pronounced at the state department absurdities on their face. An ultimatum implies war if its conditions are not complied with, and congress alone has the right to declare war. Tm: bulk of the increase in Hritish revenue returns for the past six months, 2.003,000. was derived from the sale of revenue stamps, chiefly arising from the extraordinary development of stock exchange business and the promotion of new companies. Every department of the revenue serv ice showed an iucrcase, proving the existence of a solid improvement in trade. The second annual fair of the Oneida Agricultural society began at me reservation near lie re re, vis., on the 2d. The fair is exclusively man aged by the Indians, being the only exposition of the kind in this country. The exhibits were very creditable, and the programme of amusements very fine, the miudc being furnished by a band all the players in which are Oneida. Indian.

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Wed, Tön. 2 J 3 Fit -4 1 1 18 Sat, Tuüli ill J" 1 ! .( . H12It G 8 22 0 110 1ÖI17 2324: -Ir -nit) 1 rv. alt 'It 0 21 25 $27 28,20130131 it AtTTTTTTTTTTTTTtTTTTTTTVl CÜBKBXT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Moke tlian 200 head of cattle died in I western Kansas witiiin four days lately, poisoned by eating second-growth j sorghum. The crop of sorghum is very large in western Kansas, and the second growth is exceedingly rank. Many farmers turned their cattle into the : ..i.k . .... . s. .1....... ...1 .i....it. 1 . "v .ua vui ti. linn 11, .luu UC.UH IUI re..1. 12. . y every1 case. The treasury statement of receipts and expenditures, issued on the 1st, showed a surplus for the month of September of nearly SJ.000,000. In round figures the receipts were $27,500.000 and expenditures S24.50O.300. As compared with last September, the receipts were nearly 5,000.000 greater and expenditures S4.500.000 less. The horse drawing a carriage containing the chief mourners at the funeral of the child of Win. Laubaeh at Hiegelsville, Pa., on the 30th, ran away, collided with and upset the hearse, throwing the corpse out, wrecking the hearse and injuring the driver. 1 lie uninjured. Laubach family escaped The Oregon Improvement Co. will default its October interest, amounting toS310.4W). Constans Cl-kti.v, brother of the late ex-Gov. Curtin. died, on the 30th, at his home in Kellefonte, Pa. Edward Davis, a married man with six children, was arrested and placed in jail in Leavenworth, Kas., on the 29th, for making counterfeit money. In his house were found a quantity of the counterfeits and dies for making silver dollars, half dollars and quarters. The state department was advised, on the 30th, by Minister Den by, that Viceroy Liu of Sze-Chuen had been de graded by an imperial decree for his responsibility in the late anti-Chris nan riots in China. He is ordered to be deprived of his oillce and never again to be employed. Other officials were also punished. Ex-Senator Williaji Marone suffered a stroke of paralysis in Washington on 80th. Seciiktaky Uehdeiit left Washington for Alabama, on lite 2d, going south to denver several speeches on the currency question. Uev. G, M. Thorpe, pastor of the Evangelical church at Audubon, la., has decamped. He had been pastor of the church about two years, and was very popular. He borrowed all the money he could get and ran extensive bills. He left a letter which his wife found after he had been gone two days, saying that she would not hear from him again. The question of Sunday opening of the Atlanta exposition was settled by an overwhelming vote at the di rectors' meeting on the 30th. IL II. Cabannis, manager of the Atlanta Journal, moved that the grounds be opened and the midway closed on Sundays. CapL J. W. English moved that the whole matter be laid on the table. This was adopted by an overwhelming vote. As much of the population of Chica go as could find entrance to the audi toriums of Central music hall ami the Y. M. C. A buildings in that citv. on the night of the 30th. shouted itself 1 hoarse in approbation of a series of resolutions.in which the United States government is asked to recognize the Cubans as belligerents. In Washington city, on the 30th, im mediately preceding the discharge of the grand jury, a written recommendation was submitted to the court favoring the establishment of the whipping post in the District of Columbia for the punishment of wife-beaters and other petty criminals. The question as to whether or not a Chinese born on American soil is a citizen of the United States is to be tested in the courts. Wong Kim Ark arrived at San Francisco, rccenth, from China, demanding a lauding on the ground that he is a native of California. J he collector of the port, while admitting his nativity, refused him landing. I. IliiEV Horn, once an eminent law yer and politician and recently a min ister, was found dead in bed at Paducah. Ky., on the 30th. He had several times threatened suicide, but the verdictof the coroner's jury was that lloyd died of alcoholism. The Produce Cold-Storage exchange of Chicago, with liabilities of S500,000 and assets 8800,000, went into the hands of a receiver on the 1st. Charles M. Stratton was appointed by Judge ltrentano to net as receiver, and gave bond in 310,000. The company had been in unancial uitlJculiy lor some time. A novel feature of the Church con gress which opened at Norwich. En gland, on the 1st, will be the performance of the Oberammsgau Passion play, under the patronage of the bishop of Norwich, ltnch's passion music will be rendered during the performance of the play. J auks Davenport, a farmer, 50years old, and the father of ten children, was burned to death in the town lock up at Cleveland, Okla.. on the 30th. He was drunk, and had been locked up for disturbing the peace. George Hoi.hhook'h :f-ycar-old child. while playing near the homo of its parents in Letcher county, Ky., on the 2d, was stung by a yellow jacket just below the left knee. The Hmhswelled rapidly, and in ten minutes the little one was dead.

Two uns were killed niul several

wounded in New York city, on I ' t by the breaking of n derrick, causing a heavy iron Wain which they were lulsting to fail upon them. Tiik czar gave an audience, on tlio -'th, to Count von Moltke, aldo-de-cauip to thoCierman emperor, who was t'u' Ivarcr of an autographic letter frmi the kaiser. Wv Co.s.vons, captain of the sehoiner Southwest, lying at -Marquette, Mich., for shelter from the storm, www drowned in iliat liarbor on the 1st. Kino Ui'miikkt, learning that Queen Victoria is desirous of visitlmr Naples, has placed the palucc of Capo di Monte at her disposal. A dispatch from Cape Town, on the 2d, said that llishop .Maples, of Xyassalami, and Uuv. Joseph Williams, a missionary, were drowned in Lake Nyassa, on Septemlior 12, and that Kev. Mr. Atlay, a missionary, was recently murdered on the Zambesi river by natives. O.v the 2d Mrs. Lanjrtrv made a formal demand upon the Union bank of ; London for the sum of 40.000. tlie value of the jewels she deposited with the bank, which were subsequently surrendered by the bank to a stranger upon his presentation of a forged order. Kev. Wtt.i.iAJi K. Hinshaw, pastor of the leading Methodist church in Iielleville, Ind., was convicted, on the 2d, of murder in the second degree for the killing of his wife, and his punishment was assessed at imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. The F.dward McGhee school for girls, at Woodville, Miss., one of the finest institutions in the south, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 1st. The inmates were rescued through the windows with much ditlieulty. I!uu..-Gkn. O. M. Fob, colonel of engineers of the northwest district, died f al his residence in Detroit, Mich., on the 2d. aged 13. The immediate cause of death was erysipelas. Tiik United States cruiser Itrooklyn was successfully launched at Cramps' shipyard, Philadelphia, on the 2d. The prevalence of icebergs in the South Atlantic and Pacitie oceans is Incoming serious. Cold weather is the rule, and ships are frequently frozen up aloft so that the manning of the yards is an impossibility. The condition of Gen. Mahone, on the 3d, remained practically unchanged. His physicians said there was nothing on which to base any hope for the sufferer's of recoverj". , Dr. Elliott F. Roger, of Chicago, formerly of Worcester, Mass., instruc tor in chemistry at Harvard, was found dead in the laboratory of that institution on the 2d. Mantel Romero Urnto. secretary of the interior and father-in-law of President Diaz, died in the City of Mexico, on the 3d. from blood poisoning. Hauuv WmrJiiT, the veteran baseball manager, died at Atlantic City, N J., on the 3d. Fire, on the Ml, destroyed the cotton mill plant of the Warren (R. I.J Manufacturing- Co., causing a loss ol over SI, 000,000, and throwing l.COO employes out of work. It is said the disaster practically destroys the town. ! Aitkr leaving the army hospital at Fort Sheridan, III., where he had been getting rid of the effects of his last spree, on the 3d, First Lieut. Pague fired three shots at Col. R. E. A. Crofton, commandant of the post, the last shot inflicting a painful though not serious wound in the abdomen of the officer. The lieutenant was seized be fore he could fire again. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The attorneys for Rev. Hinshaw, the cmvieted wife-murderer, have decided to carry the case to the supreme court if they do not get a new trial in Danville, Ind. Detectives working on the ca-e aro said to have struck a trail at Sheridan, Ind., where they have two men under suspicion us being the bur glar- who kill Mrs. Hinshaw. The Paris Figaro asserts that the French government, finding itelf with out ready money to carry on the cam paign in Madagascar, withdrew 20,O'VJ.OUO francs in rentes from the Des Depots and renlizeU that amount from the securities on the bourse. The ef- j feet of this action was a decline in 3 per-ceuts. Seckktahy Lamont directed, ns a mark of respect, that the United States lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., one of the. important works constructed un der the supervision of the late Gen. Poe, be closed from 2 until 5 o'clock, on the 5th, the hours of his funeral. Estimates made by correspondents of the Louisville warehouses of the loss to the tobacco crop by the recent frosts plnce it at from 10,000 to 30,000 hogsheads. The lowestdainage put by any warehouseman is 10 percent., and the highest 20 to 25 per cent CiiitisroiMiEit Roiiekts, aged 81 years, and Mrs. Eliza Jane Williams, aged 50 years, were tnurried by a justice of the peace at Columbus, Ind., on the 4th. it being the third matrimonial venture for the bride and the second for the groom. At tho mectingof the Episcopal council in Minneapolis, Minn., on the 4th, a resolution was adopted thanking the governor and legislature of Texas for its action in preventing the CorbettKitzsiiumons prize fight The world's champion shot-putter, John .McPherson, fell from one of the lower gates at the new look at jault Ste. Marie, Mich., on the 4th, to the lock lloor, a distance of forty-six feet, and was fatally injured. pRKMir.H Cuisi'i celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday anniversary with Iiis family in Naples on the 4th. He received a lu. te number of congratulatory messages, including one from King Humbert. The Secoio Romann and other Roman newspapers assert that a marriage has been arranged between the prince of Naples, crown prince of Italy, and one of the daughters of the prince of Montenegro. The Hritish parliament was, on tha 4th, further prorogued until December 23.

IXDIAXA STATE NEWS.

At Union City Rert Morris died at 4 o'clock the other morning from tiu result of injuries received in n rutmwav. lie was a well to do ; ounvr man, and is tili third child of Mr. and Mrs, Morris who has died from accident Ptr.K the other afternoon, destroyed the Arnold hotel nt Milford. l.ov, Sil. Cxi; insured for 1,200 in the Ohio .Mutual. Oi.tvi.r. O'Nr.il.i. fell into a vat of boiling lard in Jones Ai Sons' slaughter house in Wabash, r d was fatally bcalded, C. E. Fisher was fined 21 .V. nt Elkhart for throwing an nppie, which struck and seriously injured a young woman. Sanitarian Wvnn litis made an expert examination of a portion of the remains found in the Holmes "castle" at Irvington. He finds that the portion is probably the lungs of Howard Peitzel. O.v tho application of local stockholders the oilices of the Indiana Telephone Construction Co., with headquar ters at Frankfort, were placed in the hands of a receiver, Charles W. Fish, of Elkhart. The block coal operators and miners of tho district met at Itrajtil, a few days ago, to arrange a new schedule of mining rates. The operators granted the miners' demand of seventycents per ton, and work will bo resumed nt once. A prominent operator said that j 'the advance was granted the miners in the face of a rumor that the Ohio and Indiana operators would not grant an1 increase to the miners, and that a ; strike would be called in those states and probably several others soon. At Point Isabel, fifteen miles southeast of Wabash, tnere is a war on in regard to the maragement of the school which threatens to disrupt tho community. J. H. Salvers, the principal, desired to admit to the schools children from other districts but the patrons objected strenuously, and such ill-feeling was bred that Salvers was forced to resign, Frank Sherwin being appointed in his place. Sherwin was not popular at Point Isabel, and a boycott was begun on the school. Tho citizens resolved to contribute enough to hire a hall and pay the services of a first class instructor during the school year unless Sherwin is withdrawn. Nine trunks and all the baggage be- ; longing to the colored people who held : a camp meeting in the fair grounds at Huntington recently, were the other day attached for debts. Chari.es Wii.so.v, who is wantetl at Huntington ou a charge of forging a check for S0 on James R. Stack, was captured at Warsaw. Montgomery horsethief detective association met at Crawfordsville and elected otlicers. A strong How of gas was struck at Oldenburg' while drilling for water at a depth of 200 feet Anew hog disease has broken out in Tipton county, and good, fat hogs arc dying in great numbers. A IIcntixoton man is said to have a beard 53 inches long. Jackson Amos, of Shelbvville, while handling timber in Morgan county. fell j through a bridge with his team. Roth legs were broken. SHERirr Dan McKaiian, of Wabash county, found two large iron bars concealed in the berth of a prisoner in tho county jail. The bars were passed in through the windows by friends of some of the prisoners to facilitate a jail delivery. Rkv. Nathan Caluwkm. McDii.i. will have completed his forty-third year as xastor of the United Urethren Church, at Richland, Rush county, in November. He is now seventy-one years old, but continues in the active discharge of his duties as pastor. He has been married three times. ' A. J. IIl.N'KEEV, aged sixty-four, a patient in the Central hospital for the insane, at Indianapolis, committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel. The Union Shoe Co., a large eastern manufacturing concern, will locate a shoo factory at Wcllsboro, near Laportc, that will give employment to four hundred men. Ohio capitalists arc booming Wcllsboro as the coming Birmingham of Indiana, and have al rca,iy ioeat(:d ft lar(;c number of indus tries. In the circuit court at Crown Point Judge Shirley has rendered his decis ion against the Lakeside Jockev club, which knocks out racing at the old Roby track until April 15. The new Sheffield track is running, but it is understood that Gov. Matthews will stop it in a day or so. Five Putnam county people wcro fined S5 each on pleas of guilty to having caught fish with a seine. Grandma Mercrr, living five miles northwest of Edon, has just celebrated her 100th birthday. Tub Indianapolis Commercial club committee on city interests favors a S5O.00O appropriation for parks. William T. Pinner, superintendent of the New Albany CetnentCo. dropped dad at Haussdale, near Sellersburg. The post oflice at How, Jefferson county, has been discontinued. Mail goes to Rig Creek. Tiik 3-yenr-old daughter of M. G. Wilson, of Wolcott, fell under tho wheels of a heavily loaded wagon and was crushed to dcui. A trip to the Atlnnta exposition is being planned for the Anderson schools. It is thought that from 300 to 500 will go. Mu.veii: colored citizens celebrated Emancipation day anniversary a few days ago. Tiik 2-year-old daughter of II. M. Raldwin, living near Summit, drank the contents of a bottle which contained poison, and can not recover. Tub residence of John A. Kers, a well-known farmer, living twelve miles southwest of Ft Wayne, was entered by three burglars between 1 and t o'clock the other morning. He and his wife were bound and gagged and the house ransacked, the robbers securing 340 in gold, a gold watch and chain and other articles of value. Noclme to the robbers.

SHOT AT HIS COLONEL.

Nurrow i:.rinnr I ln ('mum unlit nt of Kurt Mit-rltlioi from l In IlmUM "Fun A.ikIi -I trctl al Tliri-K TIiiii-h iiikI Vimiii(I-(I Wlilli' Itt-viuwhii; I - r.ir.iiln li i YotlliC Itii'iili'lutill .lii,t Out of Ilin Humpilul AftiTu Stri, Ciiu.v(ii), Oct. 4. Col. K, K. A. Crof ton, of the United States army, was shot and wounded yesterday uftenioon nt Fort .Sheridan by First Lieut. S. I) Pague. At 4 o'clock, while the colonel was reviewing dress parado LieuL Pague, who hail been confined in the hospital, came upon thu grounds and deliberately tired three shots ut his superior olllcer The first shot went wide of its mark, the second went through the colonel's coat and the third grazed his abdomen. Pague was disarmed before lie could fire again. As soon as Lieut, I'aguo was subdued an ambulance was called to re move the wounded colonel, and Pague was escorted to the guardhouse, where he was closely watched. Why the young lieutenant should have, attempted to take the life of his colonel seems to be .something of a mystery, though it is known tliut he is hardly responsible for Iiis actions. It appears that he has lately been drinking heavily, and was yesterday in tlie army hospital getting rid of the effects of his last spree. The affair lias caused great excitement at Fort Sheridan, and thu escape of Col. Croftou, who is the coininunilant at the post, from death is considered miraculous. Tlie won ml received by the officer is painful, though not thought to be serious. A MILLION-DOLLAR FIRE IJ-troy. tho l'liiiit of tlirt Wnrrnii (It. I.) Cotton Milln slxu-fii Ituiulriit J.iiipUty Thrown Out or Work. Providk.vci:, R. I., Oct. 4. One of the most destructive fires that has occurred in this state in many years last evening destroyed the building-s constituting the mills of the Warren Manufacturing Co.. at Warren, male . , .'. . . . . mg line sheetings and shirtings, and causing a loss tu over &l,oou,ooo. Just how the lire started is not known yet, but nn explosion is suid to have" occurred In tlie engine room. The fire broke out at 7 o'clock and before the Warren fire department could get water enough the mill was blazing fiercely. Aid was telephoned for and two steamers were sent from here. The mill buildings, including warehouses, were totally destroyed and u lumber yard adjoining was badly scorched, as were the company's tenements. The disaster will throw about 1.G0U people out of employment. Insurance su far as known is as follows: Mills and machinery, äd50,ÜÜO; tenements, SIOO.OOU; warehouse and contents, not known. The towu ispractically ruined by tho lire. THE BATTLE OVER Ami tlni Victory Wim Prlit Fl cht I nie I ilnrrnl from Tt-Xit Soil. j Austin. Tex.. Oct. 4. The trreat prize-fight legislation question is over with and the auti-prizo-tizli t bill. which was passed by both houses Wednesday, was sent to the governor j last, evenincr bv thu st-natu and lit last evening signed it at .' ociociiunu ills now a law. This eil'ectually settles the question that has been agitating the state for two months past and everybody is glad it is over with. Gov. Culberson has received many congratulatory telegrams from every .section, and lie says he feels very proud of the way the leg' islature has bucked him up in the matter. The representatives say that private information to them from their homes gives evidence that in voting to quarantine prize-fighting from Texas soil they have done that which meets universal approval. The excitement being over now, the hotel lobbies are clear. The legislature will adjourn siiiu die Monday, and will in the meantime consider some bills purely of a local nature. Atiotlii-r Knock - Out for tlio l'rlzuII Klitern. C1.EVKI.A.V1, 0., Oct. 4. Mayor K. K. Mclvisson refused yesterday to grant a permit to the Cleveland Athletic club for the sparring match between John L. Stillifan and Paddy Ilyan, whicli was to have occurred at the club rooms Saturday night. In his reply to Manager W. 11. Dahler, the mayor bays: "An exhibition in which professionals of thu reputation of Sullivan figure should be discouraged in every possible way und 1 am therefore compelled to refuse your request." FIRE AT A FAIR. Four Hundred lrt of llora llnrna lluriiecJ A Number of VhIuhIiIo llnrari Klllril. Ci.evki.a.vi), 0., Oct. 4. A special to the Press from ivcudullvillc, Ind., says: At noon yesterday, while 20,01)0 people were ou the grounds of the Northern Indiana fair, tlie horse barns were discovered to be on fire. It took hard work by the people atid the lire department to prereut the grounds being swept clear of buildings. Four hundred feet of bams were burned und a number of valuable horses killed. Urent excitement prevailed., tiov. Matthews was present during the conflagration. The total loss was about S10.00O. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER Instantly Kllleit nt Kimnan City lljr FallliiK from a Cur. Kansas Citv, AI . , Oct 4. Mra. Louisa Jobe, of Clarksburg, Mo., and her daughter, Mrs. A. 11. McClcod, of Kansas City, Kau., wore killed in this city lust night by falling from tho steps of an elevated electric car. The ear from whicli they fell wee overcrowed with passengers and the old lady lost her balance and fell, dragging her companion with her. lioth wotnea were killed aliaoet ia tautly.

DUN'53 COMMERCIAL REVIEW Covt'ilni: Truiiim-iliim for Ilm Third (Juurtoruf 1KU,1,iimI t niiiii4rliMiH with. it Iut Vi'iil- AmiiiiUIiIiii; lliiiriiM'llli.-lil Iii onm llruiulii , 'IIiimikIi Ith u liilllm; O IT In Other Willed IkiIiOii llniiiili. or lutlintiry IW-iilu to 1-Vnl. Nnv York, Oct. 5. R. (5. Dun &. Co. lu their weekly review of trade- issued to-day say: Commercial failures in tho third tpiurterof 161)5 were ti.7'.i. with liabilitios of 032,107,171, averaging Sil, 521 per linn, against SI0.02H last year, about I', percent, more. Highly important comparisons of prices tills week shov.- about October 3 the lowest rangu over known for wholesale pricon of all commodities. Under thu appropriate headings are given details of the different products with their cause, tho most important being thu unprecedented cron

of com ami outs, a larger crop of wheat than fal.su representations led tlie worltl to expect, an enormous du. maud for iimnufacturod goods to replenish depleted stocks when prices beran to raise, mid a decrease in yield of cotton. The cotton market has mounted above "cents mid holds, in spite of residing, but ns the crop is kite und quite largely hehl back, does not yet feel thu inlluuncu of tlie receipts natural at tliis date. Wheat is a shadu weaker, while western receipts have been (1,550, I'M bushels, against 4,487.101 last year, while Atlantic exports have been only l.ortS,170 bushels, against 2,701, IS!) last year. lieports from other cities nt the end of the quarter are highly cheering in facts recorded, and reflects a hopeful spirit. I ley ond question tho quarter has shown astonishing improvement in some branches, and retail distribution has generally been good, though not commensurate with speculative wholu. sale purchases, as prices were rising. Hence there is a marked decrease in buying, which .some brunches of industry begiii to feel. Railroad earnings for nine months are analyzed on another page, showing ly classes of roads the gain or loss j each month compared with 18ÜI and 1S.1', every month showing some ag K Jii.in; K1" nur j not i chl,sses. gregate gain this year over 180 , though Compared with 1802, all classes fall beyond eaeli month. September show's a gain of ".ft percent over last year, but a loss of 12.2 cent, compared with 1892. per The Pennsylvania has ordered 10,000 tons of steel rails, and other roads fc5,OO0, but the steel makers having bought their pig, Ilessemgr is lower, und also ray forge, und the demand for finished product is decidedly smaller, so that the average of iron prices turns downward for the first time since February. Coke workers gain ß per cent, more wag-es, and coke is raised IS to 3,' per cent. The market is strong'or witii heavy demands from the interior. All fears of g;old exports have ceased. LIVED BEYOND HIS MEANS Anil Xtur Mml Mf-i-t ii Cliiinro of Ktulx-s-zUtiiient. CmcAfio, Oct. ft. Harry J. h. .Martin, railroad toller for toe Commercial na- ' Uonal bank of Chicago, was placed ! under arrest by United States Deputy .Marshal Allan last night, on the charge of embezzlement. The young man, who was married only two years ago, has wealthy relatives in Douglas, Mich., who it is said, will help him out of his ditlieulty. The first known of the shortage was when Hank Kxamiuer Mclvean began counting funds for certain accounts whicli he had not examined for some time, and in which tho embezzlement was found to have existed for a period of nearly four years. In three days it was learned the shortage amounted to S1.5O0 ami was still growing. Tho American Surety Co. of Suw York is on Martin's bond for S.",O00, Martin is now in the custody of the deputy marshal, where he will remain until taken before United States Commissioner Foote to-day. Young Martin has a pleasant Imme on Jackson boulevard, where he has lived since he was married. It is said the young man lived beyond his mentis, ns it is known hia habits were of the best NOT A' CANDIDATE Ki-Sf-rrnlnry Whitney fnyn II In .Not a Cniiillilntn fur the I'rcililr hcjt Chicago, Oct 5. A Washington special to an evening paper says: ICx-Secretary Whitney, when his iiaino was suggested for the presidency by a southern democratic senator one day this week, saitl: "Your kind mention of my name in connection with the presidency isvery gratifying, but I have no desire to be considered a candidate. In fact, I shall not bceoaie a candidate, and if I thought it should become necessary for me to make a public statement to that effect I would do so in the daily press. The democratic party does not lack for men of ability and statesmanship from whom to select a leader. Whenever tlie party gets together and its now somewhat discordant elements are unified on a general policy then the right man will, spring up to lead the way to victory." Tho southerner camu back from New York and repeated what Mr. Whitney said to him. 1 1 created some Biirpri.su and comment here, where Whitney has been put down as foremost in tho list of active aspirants for the democratic nomination. IN IMITATION OF CULBERSON Uov. llrown of Kc-ntiickjr Takm Mciuurea to Ntnpn I'rltn Flclit. Louisville, Ky., Oct. ft. (low llrown lias stopped the Murphy-Uritlln light. Ho arrived in Louisville yesterday morning and met .Mayor Tyler by appointment, lie explained tlie terms under which the men wem to meet. The mayor then assured htm that tho fight will not be allowed to take place. Hill Thompson, tlie manager of the affair, will test the right of the authorities to stop tho "go," which ha Mya, is not a prise-fight.