Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 47, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 July 1901 — Page 2

Weekly Courier.

no wi:. rni.ii-ii.-r. INDIANA. JASITTI. - .si i i 'llie (ierniau military .ml hoi it lea tit Pekia hav- inrufN lor the wtta drawal of iill QfftMl Hoop- ' l'eWin. except tlit' permanent establishment, early in Aupust. Ifrs, HUmore I'ctrovv, livinp on licund inland, four miles beton I.auting, la., found, on the lMli. a pearl weighing 1994 grains of t In sfam and Shape ol a chocolate drop. m 1 1 M Wfcca Um Bpwarth LeaiPM eonvoB lion opened ut Sun Franeiaco, on the 1Mb, there were 10,000 delegates in attendance, is.noo hailintr from poiutc eaat of the Rock mountalna. The internal ional 1'pvvorth I.eapue convention began at san Francisco n tin- 18th, arlta i raaord-brak1a attendance. Kverj hour of the day was tilled with interesting service. K. (I. Dun A Co. report business failjrai for the week ended the l'.'th.. a : in the I'nited States, against 2aT for the Correspond! Bg week last year und SI in i anada. against 27 last year. Northeastern Missouri stock raisers are arranpinp to ship their stock by tlit train load in the pra-ai district of northern Wisconsin in prcfernee to rushing theni to a summer market at a loss. The report oi Pt nsion Commissioner H. (Ia hvaiis shows tliat in the !;;-; fiscal j ear, endinp with J OS 30, the deaths an one- pensioners iiumlx r d J8.G82, or more than in the previous year. Iondon i snfferinp intensely fron, unusual heat. The city has not been rain-washed for weeks. Sunstroke, apoplexy ami heat prostrations are of frequent occurrence, and the hospitals are kept busy. The Reindlschc bank, in II uchlhaiie en-oii-the-Kuhr. Germany is in ditliCultlca, and the l'.erlin banks held a inetinp. on the l'.'th, to arrange to support it. The capital of the institution is lo.iMMi.ooo mark-. Tha si..te (i. partinent is fKrurit)i oat a plan whereby ilie valuable services of ( i 'isul-Ceneral Stowe, at t ape Town, may l. n mined while at the name time (Hol ling him an opportunity to make living waees. Postmaster-! icncrnl Smith, on the l?th, signed three orders covering the Contemplated reforms in second-clasa mail matter. No legitimate publication is luirred, bit the fakes will have to aiend their manners or quit. The lb.thscbildh notified If. Coquelin, on the lbth, that they held the number winning tht loo.ooo francs in the lottery, in aid of the Dramatic Art ist s' a -social io.i ofl'aris.and would donate the prie to the association. Adjt.-f'ien. Corbin explains his visit to the Philippines as designed to place him in better touch with the details of the situation and to further the (! -ire of the administration for grast economy in the army in the Philippines. i rnon New ton and Mi-s liraee Darip testified, at Kansas City, Mo., on the iTtli. that the story they told of the alleged assault and outrage was untrue; and two negroes came near heinp lvnched on the strength of the alb-pations. Two historic biiihiinps at Fort Leavenworth. Kas., known as Thomas and Mcl'lo r on halls, end which were built 75 years npo, were sold at auction, on the lfcth. for each. The hre to be torn down to make room for modern buildings. A New Orleans dispatch of the 19tt cm-: "The fact was developed to-day that it is the intention of the United States Steel eorpoiation to break th strike of steel wojkers in the Pitta burirh district by the employment ol southern ncproe-." (ireat l'.rifain has had no suet weather in many years as was experienced on the lth. The tempera ture reached US in the shade at sonn points. Numerous deaths and sun stroke-, ami some suicides re-ulted frt m the Intense boat. Third Assistant Postmaster (ienern Madden lias issued a circular notice to all postmasters ceiling special attention to the order promulgated makinp radical -)ianpes in the kind of pu hlicit ions i, Mowed admission at second class mail matter. a monster prayer meeting, led b Rev. F. Ilartoi Smith, the F.nplistt cvnnirelist. was lulu in one of tho imail paths at Omaha. Neb., on the eveninp of the 1' th. at which devout supplications Wer 4 made for rain to avert business annihilation iu the coi n belt. Secretary of the Navy Leaf has de ttded that the third volume of Maclay'i ßbrtory f the Bpettish-Aajericaa War, Which contains a scurrilous at taek upon bear Admiral Schley, shall not Ik- used as a text book at lln naval academy unless the obno.xiour lanpuae is expurgated. The aiory that Henry Smith Craven, graadaaa of tht lata RearAdmirnl (raven, I . B, . was rendered insane by hainp at tbf nsivul academy il nadered rtdtulooj by the fact that the vounp faatl never ent -ed the academy, although he passed the ex aminatious. lie toik sick. and. after esvernl leaves of absence, resiencd

CUB KEN T TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL fct. peterahnrg dlapatahvta ad 'he 17th. said that t oiint Tolstoi VU aallcring 1th gastric trouble, at Moscow, and his friends and relative had been summoned to his In-dside. the -hip Commodore T. Hi Alien, outward boundi with 0.000 aaaas ad oil for Hong KoOgi tool. lire ju-t outtnle Sandy Hook. . .1.. on the ISth. and will probnllv prov, u total loss. The crew and their belOOgiBgU were a v cd. Qeacrous rains fell, on the 17th, over tha grontOf portion of the corn belt of the southwest, thus averting a total failure of the corn crop anil patting new life into I lie past lire. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock loft Washington, on the night of the lsth. en route ti New l'.ruiisw ick for a season of salmon tbhinp. lie expacta to return about the middle it August. Secreiary Hay left W'ashinpton, on the 1-th, lor hi- lummor home at Newbury, N. ii.. when he will remain until autumn nnlaaa pressing busine- should Jcquire his rctui ea rlicr, Adjt.-li.n. Scott reports from Ha vana that Got.ilcn, Wood continues to improve. Hi- temperature wa normal on the 18th. The total registration of hoaaeseekers at IM BcttO, I ort Sill tad l.awton, Okie., 'ij to the morninp of the lsth. was D7.344. Naval Constructor G Uno re w ill visit Havana, shoitlv. to make a . ireful examination of tlie hip floating dry lock, which has been acquired bv the government b.v pnwehaea from Spain. A ayndktite of St. Louis capitalists is said to have In en n. l ined to develop the iron ore ticlds of Kentuckv. ßi.xty thousand acres ol land in Trip;: county have already bean acquired. The trial of Pol rt S. Koshurph. for the iillcLrd kiliinp of his sist-r May I Poaburgh, on August 30, 1900, afalrly gotten under way at Pittsfield, Ma-.. oil the IStb, Paria, on the it!i. recorded a temperature of --; P.ric.els, vi; Amsterdam. 72; Lisbon i w. Frosty weather prevailed iu the Austrian Alps. "Mongolia is now Kussia." savs u dlapnteh 'o the London Daily Express from St. Petersburg. Urge, a hinoac frontier station on the road to IVkin. nlout two hundred miles south of Kikbte, has been fortified ami ).'ar-ri-otu-d by Hussian infantry and Coasai ks. The "rieiit liner Ortnu. ('apt. Coail. from Sydney, N. s. w.. for London, which left Colombo, l ev loll. .Julie in iv cd oil' Olbr altar, on i he lsth, with '.wo cases of bubonic plapue on Lsiard. in tha course of an inquiry, eon-dtu-ted under oath, at Johättneeburg, various non-commissioned otlicers ai d men of the British army eottflrmed the statement that the Hoers shot the Pritish wounded at lak fontein. l-'rancis Truth, the "divine healer."' was again arrested at Denver. ( ol.. on the 18th, OB a warrant eharpiuphini with assault and hattcry. The compiaiuant is Mis- I. more Klma I. add, a former j.atient. a Shanghai dispatch to the London Globe, dated July 17, confirms previous reports of the risinp of the Ifang Taa river, ami says millions of acres of laud are under Water, and tha' the city f Haakon is threat filed. The supreme tent Kniphts of the Maccabees has decided that all old menilers must be rerated on the same plan as new members at the ape at which they joined the order. A bulletin issued by the census office shows that there has been a decrease of the Chinscs population in the I'nited State- -inee 1890 of 17,675, the number now here being 89800, Francis Schlatter, known us a "divine healer." was arrested on eompinint of the Central Unioa mission authorities, at Washington, on the 18th, for creating a disturbance in the rooms of the mission. He was charged with vagrancy. (lor, Hill of Maine has designated Mi Mary Preble Anderson, of Portland, to christen the new i'nited State battle-hip Maine. Which is lieinir bitdt by the ramps a: Philadelphia. The hent iu London, on ihe 18th, exceeded all previous words of the season, the official record Ix-inp s? decrees. The entire absence of any

hreeae added to tha discomfort of the heat. Arthur Orr, builder of the r-oininp presses used for many yerfrs in thI'nited Stale: mints iu Philadelphia, Canton ( ity. San Franci-co and New Orleans, died at his summer home at Morristown, N. ., on tin- ltb. aped M, The fee tare of the ßpworth League BWetlaga at San Francisco, on the PJtb, was missionnrv work, the day winding up with a great niseionary moMM naating at llechantea' pavilion, t which addresses we re made bv see eral prominent ministen of th United States and ( snada, W. ( lav ton Pickenglll, Pritis'i BOB sul general for the Ps nie coast Hates and territories, died, on the 19th, at a sanitarium in Alameda, ' al.. to which he was conveyed a few dayi before suffering from malarial troubles. After beinp robbed on a Choctaw train, returning from pi Reno, Okla., on the 19th, eeompanted bj ins wife and daughter, R, I!. Smith, an aged man from Honham, Ifx., dropped dead in a crow d d COBCh. Kansas farmers are plowinp up their ruined corn fleldl preparatory to sowinp wheat and alfalfa Ut Btahe pasture field for stock iu the full and Inter

t'avc d Kons' shoe f sctor) at UttSB 'n, i n ind, i" r d. on ib t fits, hitolving loss of fl 100,099, A work tram on the CothVBl I'el broke in two, tluc miles north Ol Texaikana, Ark., 0B the nicht of tin 19th, and of the :0c laborer! who wer on hoard 10 weic more or less injured Mis. 1 i-qnhart Lee, of t'hieapo, hat accepted lh shall ot pa rlla me star lav. ail addition to the Allied W'oul nu's club of the I niveiMty of t'alifor nia. established i- Mi-. P, A. Hearst The Btuwicipality ol Herlin lias received 1,309,000 marks, for Im iu v olent purposes, under the will of Dr. tieorp Verling. tha composeri who died at Weiabadea last paonth. Hob, i t Polar r N estcott, the head o: the Wcitcott Ex pre SI Co.. and father in-law of former t apt. (bei lin M.Par ter, i'nited state- cngineors, died and deals at Rlehnekl Sprinps, .. v., or the 19th. Lord Kitchener has commuted tin sentence of death passed upon .1 lioet pi s r- (0 penal servitude for life ic Bermuda. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The fifth lnlemntfoTinl Fpworth Leapue convention closed at San Francisco, on the Bight of tho -1st, with rousing nie tuns in the Mechanics' pavilion, the Alliainbra theater, the Metropolitan temple and the First Presbyterian ehurch. The day had been tilled with ineetiiiüs all over tho city charm teriaad b) great religions enthusiasm. The yacht Venetxis, which cspsised and sank, in Long Island sound, on the I9thi has been raised ami the bodies of the Misses Ada BUaOheth ami Annette Col burn. who were drowned, with their father and two of the crew, found in the cabin. Th" other bodies weic, at last accounta, still mlasing, A Carriage vvas struck by the Montreal express, on tht Most on & Maine railroad, at Libanon . H.. on the morning ol the Slat, and .lames i load win. of Hinsdale, Mass.: William Thurston, oi Percy. . H.: Thomas Iturns, of Winoski, t.. and Eddie lie Ca be, of Lebanon, were instantly killed, Director-General Bochaaas ol tha Pan-Ann ; n an exposition at Buffalo mis that under no circumstances will he consent to 1 ecoliie officially connected with the St. Louis World's fair, Mr. Burhanna is viaiting at Bt. Louis, ami is rBthuaisstic over the prospects lor the fair in 1903, It is freely predicted that when tha drawingl Por the 12,000 claims in the Oklahoma Indian reservations shall have been accomplished a serious condition will develop Rmong the disappointed ones, v ho win be largelj in the majority . Reports from many points in the central WeOt, on the 'lst. indicated that record-brea kin " teuiperatur s prevailed cverv v. here, varvinp from 100 to HQ degrtea. The intense heat was prodtutivi ol m.ich sufferinp. The distliet court at Fort Scott, Kas., as the result oi ev idence secured bv several ministers and church members, has ordered all the saloons in the town closed, BBd the order has been obeyed. The Kills Glenn n.ytery promises to be solved toon, by tin production in court, al Parhersbnrg, w. a.. of the real Elben tilttiii. Seeretarj boot ha- returned to IVaUhingtOfl trom hi- tour of insj.eelion ot sjiny post- in the midtllu vvcaU s the reanlt of eonfereneea lie tween Adi't.-iien. Corbtu and Gen, Chaffee, at Manila, iiimi' ious reforins in nrilltary admin 1st ration, In the line of economy, have beea agreed um. which vviii lx- )ut into operation as rapidly as circumstances will admit. The d raying business of Bon Pram ei-eo was brought to a practical standstill, on tin- Md, by the strike of nearly a thousand teamsters. There is o congestion of freight on tha docks, which is being continually added to by incoming steamers. BignoT I lis pi, the Italian statsman. was reported t on the Md, a- in a state of exhaustion, at Naples. The members of hi- family and some of his more intimate friends were summoned, ns it was feared the end vvas not fnr off. A Hcrlin dispatch of the '.'.'d reports continued heat, with many violent thunderstorm. l'.erlin had a cloudburst, on the 89d, with hail ami a whirlwind, tireat damage had been to crops in the v a I lev of the Fulda by hail.

Wiiiinni Brooks, a negro, sio.t and morialiv wounded Chie f -of Pol ice billy of Flkins. w. a., winic resisting arrant aa the ltd, aad a asob took Itrooks from the sheriff's posse and hanged blra ton tree In the city park. Application has been made by basilic--nu n of Kansas ( ity to have the headquarters of ihe departasent f tin- Missouri removed from Omaha. ha Kansas ( ity. The matter i- under ad-vi-einent at the war dep -t men t . The transport McClellaa, carrying the asembers of i be ronjB reastonal del egatton, who are golag to cxamlna into the general administration of affairs in the Philippine -. arrived at tiibraltar on the 3U, The cruiser San Kram iscf. which has beea nntlergolng repair- at the Norfolk navy vard. will lie placed in commission October I, and will proUibty be smigned to the South Atlantisquadron as RBgnhlp. OfAciatl of the department of jam tlea were in conference with Beere tary of War Hoot. SB the Md, in repaid to tin- preparations for tin- Bros CCUtiofl of Neelv, at Havana, for the. ( aha n pasta i fronds. The treasury employes, at Washington, who place the seals ami miniben on note- ,,f th , 'led Slate-. (n tin- ltd, reached the . itmhtff KHi.lKHl,99fJ on th,. i r.ilver certit, ,.te, aarhM of 11)9.

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News by Telegraph from Vuriouo Towns in Indiana. reel Two i.ive. Indianapolis, Ind., July It. -Two young men were killed, a third daagerously injured and two oth.TH badlv hurt while plavinp craps in the shadow of a lox car on a -witch of the Unioa Hack-. n engine shunted a train lata the other end of the -witch and tin- impact drove the car behind which tiny were playing over the gamblers, William VYestllag vvas killed outright, Harry Ärmst rader suffered tin- loos of both lev- and an arm and died shortly nfter: Pap Pierson had both arms and one foot mashed and is iu a very precarious condition; John Vnderson was badly cut ami brui-ed about IBB head, and John Mcliraw lost one finger. AH were betweea i and at year of ape. Ptspfwlnat si Weniih. Rvanaville, Ind., July 23. Posey count) lias an Andrew ( arnepie in the person i '' ' Wilkin-on. s wealth) real estate ovcner. Mr. Wilkinson i a gTCBt adniirr of Carnegie, ami like him has decided to dispose of hi- wealth before he die. A few days BgO he deeded land anil other properties valued al 9109,000 IB the trustees of the t'hristian ehurch at ( ynthiana. He al-o gave valuable property t the trustees of tho kf creme college, near Bullivan, lb' lias announced that hi- will pive away all his wealth before his death. BncoccOs ni Last. Wahnah, Ind, duly lt. v ' fot, for mans vein-- postmaster at slier, IS miles -outhwi-st of Wabash, has at las? succeeded iu breaking avvaV from that post of tru-t and prokl nfir a struggle that has covered n decade. Mr. Fox ncv.-r s..uclit the office it vvas an honor ibru-t upon him and ihe reason he ha- not relinquished it long before la that no one CISC would BSSUSUe the burden. The position pays 10 cent - ii dav . Mr. Fox is .". years old. and -a.v- To- began resigning 29 yenrs ago. Tha office has been abollshedi Until 111, ..ice s,. Voiiie. Laporte, Ind., Jul) .lohn Poach Boh at the last term of the l.aporte circuit court was granted a divorce from his wife, who In charged bad pone to Chicago to live with Waller fiudneyke, and within three minuter, after the judge had Rigned Ihe decree Posehach -vas an sppHeanl in the clerk's offtct for a liceii-e to wed Minnie Lempke. The marriage wa retebrated at Otis, thil eounty. A Chicago attorney has been in tin- Ity for the purpose f instituting legal proceedings to hart (he dlruree set aside, H i mi m- IweenCtoo Richmond, imi.. Jury St. -Ideut, Graydon, formerly an Indiana man. ha- invented a turbine that is highly commended by cooapetent Rnglisl authorities. They say it 1 1 i ihl- Im nrovement over the Parsons turbine. Grardon is now a resident of London. He saw 1". years' serrlce In the Amerieaa navy, realgnitut lo aceept n large eontracl for the Chinese gov ernment. When he inlahed that he took up his re-idenec in London. Iraasrees Peeerlotlnn. Or.-hen. Ind.. JÄy -2. a lelcgraBi received from Boston gives a detailed description of Mi-- Hertha A. Melllsh, who disappeared from Mount Holyoki college, South Hadley, M i--, soars t ine apo. which agree in every re pect with the present sppearaBce "f the 10-year-old Irene Canning, STBOSi mysterious apnearnnce her ami ex tr.ivajant claim a- to being an helresi have baffled the local suthorl tie. UeorSl I'ri.ni. Terre Haute. Ind., .Inly nig!, vv ho escaped from of the Woods, the mOt hi the sisters of Providence M Sister -t. Mary's home of ha vv rit ten to tlie iider superior of her arrival at her old home, near HavaOBB, ill. Bhe hat been away from home for l'J years, since she was II y ears of Bge.i eie of IbS vovv of tlie order i that : -i-ter mii-t .vet return to her borne. I'reiuM i ruin O'eeefceO. Laporte, Ind . Jul) it. The imritiiiLr of an air hose on a WCSt-bOlind freight wrecked a doen cars ami blocked the main tracks of the Pake shore road for eight hours, entailing a loss of I1&999. series Dolea of Elkhart, brakeman, was imprisoned in the wreckage for an hour, and as a result of injuries received ma) not recover. Ml. I. to Kill. Flora. Ind.. .Inly St s n result, it is thought, of his vigorous campaign against the use of cigarettes an attempt was made to assassinate Thomas ( ollins. the town niar-hal. As he was patrolling the husinCM district a shot was tired at him f roin across the -treet. He hurried across the street, but the would-be assanRin h.ld escaped. t hum c I ,-n leal. IndlBBBpoIls, Ind.. July 22. Gor. Purli n, in a letter to the -'ate department in Wa-hinpton, denie the printed chatges that repri nentetivei of 'he Tiaiian government were refused rpaesd to the Italian KUbjcCts injured in the recent wreck on ihe W":iha-h railroad at tii'-. Ind.. who were treated at the railroad eompoBy' hospital at Peru Killed Herself. IB ports, Ind.. July n, Mr-. Alice Bmith, aged 24 yeare, committed xui cide by takiiip pari- preen. SLe died in Intense aony.

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The Fervent Heat Seems to Gather Strength With Each Succeeding Day. CENTURY MARK AGAIN LEFT BEHIND. HinMurli llllools, Iowa, Kemsns, acoetmO, Ineltona "1 ttnvle Iptaees i ceveeod 9 iosia.st -iieniii hihi Peasstrattoos Banaiea 11 ii. St. I oiiis, .Inly '-'lb Monday will (,0 011 record as the hottest day in Bt, Louis up lo date. At II o'clock the mercury stood at 103 degree! on top of the federal building, and enselimblng at the rata j two dig loan an hour. At noon it registered 105 degrees, .1,,' gradual); 'i !": u official thermometer, while street i t sdlnga showed as high as 110. The beat bell covers a radius at oiltld I,,,.,- of ion miles. St. bonis is almost the central point, .'Itout three oVloelc in the afternoon St. Houisans experienced a veritable hot wave. Is Sting -vcr.il minutest, it seemed as though tac loors of the nether regions had been tbrnvvii open and a hot blast einiMcd tiiat seemed to almost blister everything it came in contact with. As on Bunday. nicht broughl little relief, sind sleep was rlinost out of the i ICS Hon. 'I he protracted hot spell I having a depressing effect, and Biueh 111 i.e-s. especially among the Bgcd, is renulting. AT KAXBAB i 1 1 1'. Toe Havttesl IVesthef Beer Known iiie fatolltlea Rsooetsa. Kansas City, Mo.. July 2 . A VOri table hot blast lit-in 1 1 scorched this city Monday, breaking ail heni rec ord in the hiatorj tf the local weather bureau. Sunday, Kans-is ( Ityans experienced tin- bottesi veather ever hiaivvn here. the pov ern incut tlierftiointer reaching i" ami rennslning nheva the iu9 mark for seven eon aecutiva hours. Two doen prostrations, nine fatally. WBS the result. Monday, at o'clock the bureau thermometer at tin- higheet point in the city, showed IOC degreed, while thermometers In the business dlatrjci n the streets reached as high as i'. The thermometer, at 8 a. mH reLrist red 90. was 1 1 at noon, and at 3 j. in. broke the record at 104.9. Hardly a breath of air stirred. The sufferinp was Intense, especially among persona compelled to worh out ioi ami in ihe poor districts in the bottoms. Sevtyi deaths from prostrations were reported during the diy in Kansas City. Mo., and Kansas City. Kas., and over thirty pie, overcome liy the heat, were treated. Th'S maker, n total dead lor the two day f In. Most of the victims were elderly people. The higheet previous tempern tare in history of the Kansas City weather bureau wa 108, in August, 1999, bul it only remained miir that poial fur one day. Monday was the thirty-second in Rueeeaahm on which the tempera ture hn averaged above 90 degrees, Snd the fifteenth in that lime lhat the thermometer has pone above 100, i w.i ii, -miIi. ui Irgotla. Sedalin, Mo.. July 83, There have beCB two deaths from the heat here. The government record of tempera ture, Monday, showed 96 degrees. lor I. or mi l tie 1 i, iiiinl. Jefferson ( ity. Mo.. July Monday was cipial to last Friday as 'he hottest day of the season, ihe ,'ovrim. cut thermometer standing at 1 14. Hoi TIMBI l low . II,- Viol lie Idi th- MinhM TeuperBiaee in n Mtstwei . Des Moines, In.. July 23 The cot ernnsent t hermometer registered I9B degrees here at 3:30 Monday after norm, the highest official record In Ihe history of Dee Moines. Two den!h from the heat and Bumerons prost rslloni vvere reported. According to reports to Director Bage, f tin- crop bureau, ami to local grala mea, the pa- fest lavs ha . beCB disastrous to loWS corn. eV Mit III localities which have bad rain recently. los ni K ekele. Rrokoh, la.. July 2.;. -The vve.ilher bureau recorded 109 degrees of he it In re Monday, it being the lixth llsjf T temperatures above KM ami ihe 1 birty - cofld of above 99. All reports Indicate that com is hemp srroi'-ly toilnaped. il M..U I II,-. Sioux City, la.. July 2.1. The niaxir. iiii, temperature here. .Monday, vvas 10.,, three degress below .Sunday's M'uxitnuro. 94 oll him. i KAKBAI. 'i bree n-mii and tn raasUoeiaai lli-Mi r I -il nt Tope U II. Topeka, Kss., July 83. Three defalk nnd ten pronirationa form Monday'i reeoril of the heat iu TopcKa. The thermometer registersd 109 as it maximum, it hm bona three degrees h rher dniing the beaten eason, bul tlie humid air n ude the day the most ppreaalrs of the year. Most of the netive Work was Rtoppad for the day. 'I he Kntisim river is very low, but Ihe supply of wHter in the city mains in ns yet plentiful. At Emwraitoj the itaia alforaiti raparted the heal record for Rons Bgaia broken. wUh the inereurv nt 10C.5 dctfrein, the hiyhent in J4 years.

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baaronworth, Kas Jalj At i ..rt Leaven worth. Monthly, the w, ., bureau Ibcrtuomete r regia te red depri-M. as apainst 101 on Suudsy, i apt It, 11. Alien, post adjutant . prostra led by t he heat, while desk in the afternoon, aud taken tu hi- home. 1'ive other pOBtrat-ioui wire reported, Ho llatos iini-iii,.iii. Sylvan (iruve, Kas., July 2;. 1 1,, beat. Sunday, was the most terrific uf the seiison. The t berinoineter i, tered nml BsniBtained ni from ten until four o'clock. Monday morniiii', at eight e'eloeh it registered 10';, 1 1,, druupbt slill emit iu ins, with no -of aba l einen t . I M oMi on I hi.i: IT OH tu . loiiiht iii-mii. nml i-'mir leesteallwa Hie Oara Iteeiiril. Omaha i Neb., July 2't. The Breather conditions, Monday, continued ot most uncomfortable nature. 1 1.,. temperature at t a. m. registered -und at noon the 199 mark wa- reaehiil, with KM at 4 p. 111., only eight -teilt hi of a degree below Hunday'a high record of the dav. At ." p. in. a refresh, lag breee came up ami afforded sou,u hli'ht measure of relief. ALL RK4 OHDa BROKEN. spr Inu llelil. III.. Moiwetl 1117. ill iiiitiieoi i.vi-r ReeaHlesI There, Springfield, III., duly 2::. n heal records in Sprinpfteld were broki it, Monday, when, for three hour-, tj ,. merenry in the government thermometer stood at I9T, tin- highest ever re corded. Thermometers on the street level repislered as liih as 1 in in the shade. There were several BTOStrs tionv. Director (Juthrie f the local Weather bureau states that rei from all over the state Indicate !' ihe corn is withstanding the hcut Btl( drought remarkably well. IMII Wll t il IIIM; it. I II, Uli IUI pol Im Una Ike llolleal Ilm um it.-enrii These, Indlnnapolla, Ind.. July 23. Monday c as the hottest day on record in Indianapolis, The official record 109 at two o'clock in the afternoon, t the same hour thermometers ah the business streets recorded 1'" ami 112. There were two deaths mid Ihre pros! mtionS from heat. At t lie camp of the Indiana national 1 guard all drills were luspendetl. v ty men were overcome during t in- dm but all rapidly recovered, wiih the exoeptlon of seven, who are in tin- bri gade hospital. Many animals wen stricken, ami livery men are refusing to hire horses. All PvevtoOS Itcoirila KetlpafMl Cincinnati, July S3. All prevkim heat record- here were eclipsed. Mi day. when the Official gOVCTTinii I Ihermometer at the office of the weather bureau reached 109 degree at 3: SO in the afternoon, and remained there for almut an hour, forInnately the humidity at that tints repislered only 99, and there vvere but few prost rational THE F0SBURG MURDJiR CASE. .tum- I'otlnirit, nil,-. I i it W Udell b thp lro, e,n l.oi, I renlek m l.ooil I in , r,- Inn . nttefleld, Mass., July 13. -Li no I fosburgk was called, Monday, a n witness for the prosecution in the trial of his brother. Kotiert S. Pes burgh, for the murder of their I -ter. May Fosburp. The summons Mrs a -a. i. leu ami startling one, delivered as it was by District Attorney Hammond, who bad taken no part in th examination of witnesses. The young Yale graduate made an interesting figure on tin- stand, and his testimony was ii'mvt and conclusive, it apparently left no doubt that hi ,v plannt ion of the ren-ou why h- llid not know that burplars had been In the house and killed his beautiful - - ter. v;is truthful ami itraJghtforwi i i His testimony greatly increased faith of the defense in the tlltiiu acquittal of his brother. James na slightly nervous, however, nml thin was noticeable when any reference was made to the death of his sister or to the hcanty attire of the meal' ben of the family on the nigh I of the t ragedy. The expected attempt of the governmeat to delve into the question "f family ipiarrcN did not materialise, and . latins Posburgh'l explanation nf his attempt to pet a number of doctoral his return to the death chamber and his ministration to hi parents, created a favorable Impression in the minds of all who listened to him. THE GUNBOAT CONCORD. Mtlsineteri Beaaens fr ates Ueno without Qt Bless gleoo Ihe nv lie pit rl me ii I . Washington, July 2i. The report of Lieutenant-Commander Minett, of the gVnbOat Concord, as to Ihe ireumatnncei which bexmght that ship back from laska without orders w.f m-ceived al the navy d'partiiieul M"iiday. The ofheer says that Commnmler KnoX, Who was in command of the vessel at the lime she went north, was Inken seriously ill, and had to relinttlih command. There was uu means of lending him back or ol l Ing him iu a place where suitable t lention could ba given him. Under the circumstances it was deemed i sentlal thai tha ship should cany the sick afftoer, The department ass accepted this cxpla nation as Ittfficlent, Doalhbisalla-i wind Merm. N'aplcH. Tex., July 2.1 A severe wind atorm wrought much dams ' here early Monday. Nevi-ral small bulldhhgn were blown down. Hen; liryaut was crushed to death.