People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

A son at Geo. Day’s last Friday. Corn for sale at Dexter & Cox's. Only one more week of our ten "ent offer. B>y your threshing coal at Dexter & Cox’s. Thomas Thompson is at Cameron Springs. Baby carriages at Williams’. All styles. R. C. Dowler is seriously sick with rheumatism. Try Roger’s bread, no better made, at Vick’s. Best grade of threshing coal at Dexter and Cox's. A daughter was born to Alton Padgett and wife last Sunday. For ' a good square meal or lunch go to Vick s. Dexter & Cox can sell you corn by the wagon load. Corn for sale at C. S. Baker's, 3 miles south of Mt. Ayr. 2-5 t A few watches and chains at a great bargain at Vick's. A daughter was born to Mrs. Mollie Payton last Friday. Fruits, the best the market affords, at Vick's. Price those laces at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Cheap. A trial trip of eight weeks for ten cents.

Mrs. Joseph Mitchell is having a severe spell of sickness. The McCormick binders and mowers at Isaac Glazebrook's. Subsci ptions taken for any paper or magazine at this office. Jim Frame, of Chicago, is visiting old,friends in Rensselaer. For a good smoke try the Crown Jewel cigar. Subscriptions for the Nonconformist taken at this office. Miss Ida Shriver,, of Goodland, is visiting relatives in Rensselaer. Lemonade, milk shakes, and ice cream at Vick’s “one horse restaurant.” Mrs. Kitty Cann is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hyland. Buy your threshing coal of 0. W. Coen, (successor of Coen & Paxton). F. L. Chilcote, of Albany, was visiting his wife and babies this week.

McCormick binder and mower extras lor sale by Isaac Glazebrook. Mrs. Caroline Martin has returned from her visit to Cincinnati. Closing out sale of summer stock of millinery at Mrs. Lecklider’s from now on. S. E. Quantick, of Englewood, is the guest of his daughter, Mrs Tpm Geer. Something new at Vick’s. Step in and see what a bargain you can get. • The normal is causing our town to be overrun with pretty young ladies. Try a sack of our White Lilly flour. W. R. Nowels & Son. Only one more week in which you can get the Pilot eight weeks for ten cents. Three stables and a wood house were burned at Monticello last Thursday. Misses Blanch and Grace Brown are the guests of their brother, Harry Brown. For Sale Cheap.—Two new first class Cottage organs. Enquire at Austin & Co.’s. Old settlers’ meeting will be held at Monticello the last Saturday in this month. Goods going atcost all through July and August at Mrs. Lecklider’s. 50 percent, off. —t

R. B. Hayes, of Hayes Grove, I Penn., is tlfe guest of County Clerk Coover and family. Go to M. & A. Meyer for your 'stylish millinery and dress-mak-ing. Rose and Dona Whapler, of Beloit, Kansas, are visiting numerous relatives in this county. Dr. Vaughn, of Winamac, has moved to Wheatfield and will practice medicine in that town. Misses Dora and AnnaCrazen, of Logansport, have been visiting J. C. Thrawls and family. Orders for job work or advertising in Wheatfield may be left at the drug store of Fendig & Co. G. S. Williamson, wife and daughter, of Beaver City, Neb., are visiting relatives in this vicinity. Mel Makeever was married in Denver, Colo., July 24th, to a young lady by the name of Clara A. Riley. Warren Washburn has resigned his situation as chair pusher at the exposition and is now at home. Lewis S. Alter, who is located at South Bend, Ind., as deputy county surveyor, is visiting his home in Jasper county. C. D Newels & Son have sold Ihe ■■ . amber and coal yard to Wal’.we Robinson, who has already taken possession. Even the Prohibitionists wouldn't seriously object if the railway rates were to take a drop or two occasionally. Harry Zimmerman, of Meadville, Pa., is taking advantage of Jhe duh season and is visiting his parents in Rensselaer. Jerry Ready, of Chicago, a plumber who worked on the first college, is back doing the plumbing for the new one. Charles Garvin, of Oregon, was visiting in Rensselaer this week. Twelve years ago he left Remington for Oregon. The C. & E. I. railroad has notified its employes that full pay will be allowed them during one week's visit to the fair. Two janitors will attend to the school building the next year. John Daugherty and Vermont Hawkins have been employed. For Rent.—A 36-room fine brick hotel at Rensselaer, Ind. For terms write or apply to C. D. Newels, Rensselaer, Ind. Advertised Letters: George Black, Charles S. Ferris, Mr. W. L. Jones, Miss Anna Lanser, Mr. J. K. Ray, Mies Cora Shrum.

S. A. Hemphill, Thomas Burns, Wm. Neal and Jerry Healy attended the unveiling of the soldiers’ monument at Delphi last Friday. The normal began fast Monday with thirty-nine pupils. The instructors are Prof. Bohannon, J. F. Warren and Gaylord Chilcote. The Methodist choir has been improved by the addition of a violin and cornet, Miss McGowan playing the former and Mr. Wishard the latter. Jim Hemphill now has use for the small chair kind friends sent him recently. It’s a nine pound boy, born last Friday at Two Harbors, Minn. You can’t afford to borrow the Pilot each week when you can get it eight weeks for the small sum of ten cents. This offer expires next week. The citizens of Kentland are said to have raised $1,200 to pay a rain maker to bring rain. It took place Wednesday and is said to have been successful. Don’t you want the Pilot eight weeks for ten cents. If you do you should send in your money at once, as the offer will be - withdrawn next week. The commissioners will meet in special session Monday to take action on the Wakarusha ditch and proposed gravel road. A vigorous kick will be made on the ditch. J. L. Brady, a graduate of the Butler University, at Irvington, Ind., will succeed Bro. Utz as pastor of the Christian church. He is a single man and is highly recommended. He begins his pastoral labor here Oct. Ist.

Earnest W. Rettger, of Hunt ingburg. Ind., a graduate of the State Normal School and State University, has been employed as principal of the Rensselaer high schools, to succeed Harry O. Wise. Patronize those who want I your trade badly enough to ask for it through your paper. When the others want • your dollars they’ll let you know’. Keep an eye on our advertising columns. Do you intend to buy your hard coal early? If so see C. W. Coen before you place your order. He will give you the bekt grade at the price you pay for lower grade coal. Subjects at the Tabernacle next Sunday: Morning, “Training Children.” Evening. “Preparation for Life.” The evening sermon will be addressed mainly to the youngpeople. All are cordially invited. Frank O’Mera is home on a two months vacation at full pay. He is assistant engineer in the criminal court building at Chicago. The engineer, George Dolan, accompanied him home, but left Tuesday for Peru. It is said that if you cut a bunch of dog fennel and place on each head of your cabbage in your garden you will have no further trouble from the destructive cabbage-worm. The experiment is easily tried. W. A. McCurry and wife, of Goodland, were in to town Tuesday. This was Mr. McCurry’s first visit to Rensselaer foi’ sixteen years, and he expressed considerable surprise at the change which has taken place in the town.

The latest improved threshing machines cut their own bands, do their own feeding, stack their own straw, and load their own wheat. Under these new ar rangemen ts thresh mg becomes a pleasure and is not the dreaded job of old. If you enjoy startling climaxes, thrilling situations, clever specialties, good acting and grand l scenic effects, don’t fail to see the greatest of all railroad plays, hTbe Lightning Express,” at the Opera House, Friday evening, August 11th. A young lady who had been married a little over a year wrote to her matter of fact father, saying: “We have the dearest little cottage in the world, ornamented with the most charming little creepers you ever sav;.” The old man read the letter and exclaimed, “Twins, by thunder!” Wile Duvall is no longer landlord of the Nowels House, the business not proving a paying one. He has moved with" his family into the house just south of Dr. Alter's residence. It is not known who will be the next landlord. Mr. Duvall will follow his old business of draying.

A man named McDonnell is getting a new flying machine ready to launch in September. His workshop is just outside the World’s Fair grounds, and he is working at the concern just as if he had built air ships all his life and had no doubt of the thing navigating the air when he gets it done. Our offer of the Pilot eight weeks for ten cents will be continued next week only the offer expiring Saturday, August Bth. Many have taken advantage of this offer, but there are still some who do not receive the paper. If you wish to take advantage of this offer you should do So at once. The tramp was released from the work house Tuesday and Jerry Karsner completed his term Wednesday. The tramp lost no time in getting out of town. He said he thought there were but six '-work houses in the state, but has now* added another to his list. He is experienced stone breaker.

Mrs. Gerardy, who was sent from Starke county to the woman’s reformatory last March to serve a two years’ term for the killing of her husband, was transferred to the insane department of that institution a few days ago. She has been showing signs of mental derangement for some time, and recently has been quite violent and difficult to manage at intervals.

I. F. Alter and wife attended the funeralof Mrs. Alter’s father, C. Wilheim in Clinton county Monday. Mr. Wilhelm met his death last Saturday from a tree falling on him. The tree was burning and unexpectedly fell to the ground, and catching Mr. Wilhelm, crushed the life out of him.

Williams has a full line of goods at his store and can please you all in prices and styles.

An old tramp preacher was delivering sermons on the streets this week. This is his third or fourth trip to this vicinity. He preaches without price, pays his own expenses, and tramps all over the country. It is understood his home is in Illinois. He claims the present hard times and poor crops are owing to the wickedness of the people. The Miami county commissioners have made an order requiring all owners of traction engines previous to moving their machinery across a bridge to lay down a two-inch plank, upon which the wheels should run. Many bridges are badly damaged by the careless enginemen who drive the ponderous machines over the naked floors. For disregarding the injunction of Judge Stein ordering the Fair kept open on Sunday the World's Fair directors were fined for contempt. Lyman J. Gage, Charles Henrotin. Andrew McNally.Charles Hutchinson and W. D. Kerfoot were fined SI,OOO each; Director General Davis *250 and Victor F. Lawson SIOO. The Fair will remain open until the injunction is dissolved.

Charlie P. Hopkins, writing from Dickson, Tenn., and sending us three new subscribers, says: “The People’s Party is growing here rapidly.” How are you? Does money cramp you up there? Here business is almost ata stand still.” The same condition of affairs is existing in f Rensselaer, owing to the tightness of the money market and busy times among the farmers. LaPorte Star: The glory of the Walkerton huckleberry marsh has departed. Fire did its . perfect work among the bushes and it is not among the fringes of the great stamping ground that any berries arc found. In the days before the tire 3,000 boxes were picked and shipped in a day. The owners of the marsh have been looking over it with a view to draining it and converting it into a celery farm. , Chas. G. Yelm, the well known and popular traveling salesman, is honu* nursing two mashed feet and a severely bruised leg. He fell under a freight train at Rensselaer and narrowly escaped a silent interview with the coronor of Jasper county.—Lafayette Courier. If Yelm “fell under a train at Rensselaer” no one about the depot heard of it. A poor excuse is said to be bettor than none.

“A great play and a great company,” is what every ‘one says after seeing that greatest of -all railroad plays, “The Lightning Express. ” A genuine novelty is introduced in the railroad scene, and one that always holds the audience spellbound. The highest grade of specialties are introduced by clever singers, dancers and musical artists. Don’t fail to see the great play at the Opera House, Friday evening, August 11th.

A tramp was begging at a residence in towm Friday morning, and the grub not suiting his taste he “sassed” the lady of the house. Deputy Sheriff McColly lives right across the street and the lady told the tramp that by applying there he would be fed. He did so and was “run in” and furnished his breakfast at the jail. Afterward he was sentenced to the -work house for five days and put to work alongside Jerry Karsner breaking nigger heads. He seemed to be familiar with the work and could break two stones to Jerry’s one.

I During this exceedingly dry weather too much precaution cannot be taken to prevent fires which might prove very disastrous while the grass and nearly all vegetation is almost as dry as tinder. Parents and others having charge of children should be very careful about allowing them to play with fire or matches. One little match carelessly used might be the means of a very destructive conflagration. Old paper should also not be allowed to lay in heaps. Lookout for the windmill sharpers, who are finding many victims in neighboring counties. They sell a windmill agency territory for what appears' in the agreement signed by the victim to be a small price conditioned upon the sale of $125 worth of windmills, the same to be paid one year from date. By tearing off oiw> end of the agreement it turns out to be an ironclad promissory note, such as has been used with such telling effect in the past. Should a fire break out in Rensselaer at the present time, it would be a difficult mailer to check its progress, owing to the scarcity of water. The three fire cisterns built by the town board are nearly empty and the river and many wells are dry. An effort has been made to raise money to fill the cisterns but so far the attempt has been unsuccessful. To fill the three cisterns will only cost about S3O and property owners on Wash ington street should see that the amount is raised.

Hom Thomas Updegraff, of McGregor, lowa, Republican congressman from his district, stopped off in Rensselaer Wednesday, on his way to Washington, where he expects to be at the opening of congress next Monday, He lived in Rensselaer in the 50’s and has distant relatives here. He says he is in favor of the repeal of the Sherman bill, but when asked what he w’ould have for a substitute said that was a Democratic affair and ho was not in it. He seemed to think tlifft partyism should be greater tlgm patriotism. The Tolleston Club case which Jias just ended after a long and severely fought legal battle will again drag its weary length through the Circuit Court. Assistant Attorney General Leon O. Bailey of Indianapolis, is in the city to-day, and has tiled motion and bond for a new trial under the statutory right. •Judge Gillett accordingly vacated the verdict m favor of the defendant, and the case will be tried at the October term. Attorney Kopelkc and Youclrn, of Crown Point, arc here to represent the club.—-Valparaiso Daily Star. The following is Hick's’ forecast for this month: A temporary abatement in heat after last storms in July will be {renewed <>n and about the 2nd and 3rd, with many threatening clouds. As we enter period Bth to 12th look for about the hottest spell of the summer. The same condition will exist for the reactionary days, 11th ans 15th. Stubborn heat, with much tendency to hard electric storms and heavy local rains, 19th to 23 rd. Cooler from 23rd to 27th, at which time warmer with storms. Month ends warm, with storms starting in the west. Many earthquake indications in August. Another divorce case has been tiled with the clerk of Jasper circuit court this week. Elhannen Hilton sues for a divorce from his wife Harriet J, and charges inhuman treatment. The plaintiff lives in Gillam township, but the whereabouts of his wife is not known. They were married on the 30th day of June, 1885, and separated in December of the same One child was born in April of the following year. Harriet was a woman of violent temper and made things fly when she got mad. She cursed and swore at her husband, called him obscene names and threatened to kill him by cutting his throat from ear to ear. She also locked him out of the house, so the complaint alleges. He will doubtless get his divorce. Send in ten cents and get the Pilot eight weeks.

| Miss Lulu Bunnell, of Wolcott, i visited Miss Ora Duvall during j the past. week. i' • • Will one of the three editors at Rensselaer please tell us what l dog-fennel will be worth after ■ the crop of their city is harves- | ted this fall. —Jack the Ripper. The Sentinel would refer Jack to the editors of the Republican i and Pilot, who advocated its cultivation, and to the City Dads, who engaged in its culture and are the rightful owners of the crop.—Sentinel. As Brother McEwen seems to think dog-fennel makes good cow feed, we understand the town board is considering the Feasibility of selling the crop to Uncle Jimmy to feed to his Jerseys next winter. They seem I to be partial to t his kind of feed. The Sentinel editor will be allowed to fix his own price. Unless you write or have printed upon your envelopes the number of days you wish them held, the postmaster will hereafter by a new ruling hold them thirty days instead of ten. As soon as the contract for envelope printing runs out, you can only have printing done at you.' | home office, as the government will stop printing addresses thereon, ay-.l thi - is right. The government hr. <.■» .oral right, to comp ‘I 11 ■ u . ■ county printer ;> <• it, in this maim,;. reform OUr Republic . is y;i|) please give cr. 'i. ' ;uo Hon. Owen Scott, , >1 »omington. who introduced the ‘ bill, an I pushed it through congress, cor reeling this wrong.—Paxtun (III.,) Register. F. B. Lyofi, of the California Herald, wrote up a local train robbery which never took place, in a highly sensational manner recently, as a joke, and mentioned several popular business men of his town as the perpe trators.. It. was meant as a joke and was taken us such by» the citizens of the town. In answer io a protest of Hie gentlemen whose names appeared in the article the llprald’ says: “We. cannot or do not see the influence of the good words or reports as published by the daily or weekly press* but if anything out of the ordinary or anything adverse to the public good we seo its effect advertised far and wide, as in the casein question. If i.lie press is capable of damaging, it is just as strong in doing goue. Its influence is unbounded. It perfheates all of the classes of society from tho. highest to the lowest. If its words do no. reach the eyes of everyone in the land it does reach their ears, evidence of which we find every' day.”

Of the many attractions on th? Midway at the World's Fair none are more worthy of mention than, the Moorish Palace, it is located just east of th.) Ferris wheel and will be known oy the great blue dome outlined against the .sky. Among the many features in the Moorish Palace are the Moorish castle, the Moorish palmgarden, the Moorish and magic maze, the Moorish harem, the Moorish execution, the devil’s cave (of course you will not be there in 1993), the room of 1,009 reflections (slop a moment and imagine 1,009 people like yoursul. standing around you), the bottomless well, the original guilotine on which Marie Antoinette was beheaded. The execution ; s represented just as it occurred. Visitors should not overlook the optical illusion theatre. It consists of three acts and is certainly wonderful. The laws of nature seem to be defied. In the second act you see the red blood rush into thfe features of a marble statue and a beautiful woman greets your eye. In the Panopticon is a treat for all' Caston Bros., of Berlin, the greatest artists in wax in the world, are the authors of a collection costing $250,009. The uniforms of some of the great generals and rulers of the world cost over §2.530 each. Music is furnished by the Royal Roumanian Band and singingcan be heard in ten different languages, which alone is worth the admission price of 25 cents, which will take you through all of the Moorish Palace. None of our citizens visiting thesFair should miss this attraction. Smoke the Mendoza cigar.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. THE forty-seventh anniversary of Liberian independence was celebrated by the dedication of that country’s pavillion on the world's fair grounds. BANK failures were reported as follows: Oregon national at Portland, Ore., Farmers’ at Mount Sterling, Ky., First national at Middlesboro, Ky., Traders' at Mount Sterling, Ky., Bank of Sparta and M. A. Thayer & Co.'s bank at Sparta, Wis., First national and Montana national at Helena, Mont., and the National granite state bank at Exeter, N. H. SEVEN lives were lost and great damage to property was done at Pueblo, Col., by floods. Houses were swept away by the torrent. AS a result of the war against liquor dealers in Brooklyn, Ind., George Moss’ saloon was demolished by dynamite. Moss defied the people. NINE of the largest lead mines at Aurora, Mo., closed down to await developments. MORE than 1,000 men were thrown out of employment by the closing of the Strange silk mills at Paterson, N. J. FLAMES destroyed thirty-four buildings in the business portion of Fifield, Wis., the loss being $200,000. JEWELRY manufacturers in Plainville, North Attleboro and Attleboro, Mass., have closed their shops, throwing 3,000 persons out of work. NANNIE HOYT, of Topeka, Kan., 10 years old, was arrested in Sioux City, Ia., for stealing a horse and buggy. She traveled 200 miles before being captured. THE mercantile houses of Neal Currie at Tracy and Currie, Minn., were closed, the liabilities being $100,000. WILLIAM MARLOTT, an Indianapolis letter carrier, has commenced suit against the government to test the legality of the eight-hour law. THE American Tube & Iron company of Pittsburgh, Pa., was placed in a receiver’s hands with liabilities of $1,250,000; assets, $2,700,000. A HEAVY fall of snow occurred in Brewster county, Tex. THE Wilmington (Del.) Dental Manufacturing company went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $200,000. W. H. IRVING, of Boston, committed suicide in Chicago by filling his mouth with powder and applying a match. He left a note saying he was tired of life. WILLIAM G. TAYLOR was electrocuted at Auburn, N. Y., for killing Solomon Johnson, a fellow convict in Auburn prison, on September 20 last. THE Goodwin pants factory at Evansville, Ind., was burned, the loss being $100,000. O. D. TAYLOR, manager of the InterState Investment company at the Dalles, Ore., was arrested on the charge of embezzling $500,00. S. H. MORRISON, an extensive lumber merchant in Philadelphia, failed for $100,000. SCHOOL elections were held in all of the country districts in Kansas and the woman vote showed an increase of 100 per cent. THERE were 386 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 28th. In the week preceding there were 467, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 171.

HARDY CALDWELL, of Middle Fork, Ky., killed himself and wife. Domestic trouble was the cause. AT the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 28th aggregated $887,988,509, against $979,445,234 the previous week. The decrease as compared with the corresponding week of 1892, was 10.7. RAY EARL, 80 years old, started to walk to Chicago from New London, Conn., a distance of 950 miles, on a wager of $100 that he can cover the distance in forty-two days. HENRY MILLER (colored) was hanged at Dallas, Tex., for the murder of Policeman Drewer; Alexander Brown (colored) was executed at Bastrop, Tex., for wife-murder, and Ida Hiers (colored) was hanged at Waterloo, S. C. for the murder of her half-brother. A NEGRO named Isaac Harper was lynched by a mob at Calera, Va., for assault on a white woman. FIRE in the Union Indurated Fiber company’s works at Lockport, N. Y., destroyed the entire plant. Loss, $100,000. HALF of Wakeman, O., a town with a population of 600, was destroyed by fire. LOUIS IRIG of Chadron, Neb., died after a continuous sleep of three months, caused by exposure to a violent snowstorm. TRADE at all points was reported to be restricted, but the outlook was more hopeful. THE statistician of the interstate commerce commission says railways of the United States are gradually being amalgamated into a comprehensive system. IN Mobile, Ala., Bolivar Hudson, a man 69 years old, was convicted of a murder committed twenty-four years ago and given a sentence of five years. BY the explosion of a pot of varnish which was boiling in a Pittsburgh saloon Joseph Hussell and Maggie Mitchell were killed and three others were injured. IN a criminal courtroom at Russelville, Ala., Clark Richardson cut the throat of John Ligon. Testimony in a divorce case started the fatal quarrel. TWO THOUSAND men were thrown out of employment by the suspension of all work at the Vermillion mines in Minnesota. J. F. BRENNAN, an ex-convict, and “Broncho Jim” have been arrested at Denver as leaders of the mob that lynched Arata, the murderer.

BANK failures were reported as follows: First national at Great Falls, Mont, First national at Middlesboro, Ky., Farmers and Merchants at Covington, Ind., German-American at Port Washington, Wis., Seymour’s bank at Chippewa Falls, Wis., C. W. Chopin & Co.’s bank at Stanton, Mich., and the Union Banking company at Portland, Ore. THE villages of Prentice and Medford, in Wisconsin, were almost entirely swept away by forest fires. THE exports of wheat from all United States ports for the week ended on the 28th show a total of 4,363,000 bushels, against 5,077,000 bushels the previous week. PATRICK McVILLA, sexton of a Catholic cemetery at Paterson, N. J., lighted his pipe and threw the match into the grass. The fire which ensued swept the cemetery and marred the headstones. BY a wreck on the Pennsylvania road at Indianapolis six persons were seriously injured. CARTER'S mill at Ludington, Mich,, including a large amount of lumber and shingles, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $125,000. WILLIAM WASHINGTON, of York, Pa., dropped dead while beating his wife. THE percentages ot the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 29th were as follows: Boston, .663; Philadelphia, .628; Pittsburgh, .590; Cleveland. .569; Brooklyn, .513; New York, .474; Cincinnati, .468; St. Louis, .468; Chicago, .429; Baltimore. .423; Washington, .397; Louisville, .362. WHILE laboring under great excitement Emma Lindsay, of Jeffersonville, Ind., was suddenly stricken dumb and later became totally blind. BANK failures were reported as follows: First national at Kankakee, Ill.; Dollar savings bank at Youngstown, O.; Citizens’ Savings and Loan association at Akron, O.; Commercial national, Ainsworth national and Portland savings banks at Portland, Ore.; Commercial at Eau Claire, Wis.; Savings at Baraboo, Wis.; First national at Ashland, Wis.; Exchange at Nunda, Ill., and the Commercial at Eau Claire, Wis. CLARK H. BUFORD and Miss Fannie Sudlow, prominent young people of Rock Island, Ill., were drowned while bathing in the river near Rock Island. FOURTEEN persons were arrested charged with the murder on July 17 of S. P. Bradshaw at Kingston. Ill. MRS. LUCILLE RODNEY arrived in Chicago from Galveston, Tex., having walked the entire distance, 1,346 miles, for a $5,000 wager. She left Galveston May 16. ABRAM FARDON, teller of the First national bank of Paterson, N. J., confessed that he stole $10,650. THE fire which had been burning for three days through the cranberry bogs near Egg Harbor, N. J., was checked by rain. The damage was $250,000. THE wholesale drug house of L. H. Harris in Pittsburgh was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $100,000. WILL THOMPSON and Tom Preston, negro boys, were tortured to death by a mob at Gaston, S. C. They were guilty of criminal assault THE Waltham (Mass.) watch factory, second largest of its kind in the world, closed down for an indefinite time.

A PACIFIC Express wagon was held up on the streets of Wichita, Kan., by three negroes and robbed of $7,500. WALTER SANGER clipped five seconds from the world’s mile record in a bicycle race at Milwaukee, covering the ground in 2:08 4-5. IT was claimed that employes of the Northwestern Pacific Elevator company of Minnesota had issued forged duplicate grain certificates and victimized seventy-three New England banks to the extent of $1,500,000. THE Sayles Woolen Mill company at Killingly, Conn., with a capital stock of $1,000,000, made an assignment. GEORGE G. THORNBURG and Charles Asche have brought suit in the Pittsburgh courts for divorce from the same woman. IN accordance with the order of the council of administration the gates of the world’s fair were opened on Sunday. The attendance proved to be the smallest of any day since the fair begun, but 18,637 persons paying for admission. JAMES and Bud Roche, brothers, were shot down without warning by unknown assassins at Groveton, Tex. NINETEEN white cappers were sentenced at Birmingham, Ala., for deeds committed in Cherokee and Clebourne counties. Some got four and others six years. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 31st ult. was: Wheat, 59,350,000 bushels; corn, 8,022,000 bushels; oats, 1,702,000 bushels; rye, 294,000 bushels; barley, 359,000 bushels.

BANK failures were reported as follows: First national at Portland, Ore., First national at The Dalles, Ore., Pendleton savings at Pendleton, Ore., Bellingham Bay national at Whatcom, Wash., Springfield savings at Springfield, Mo., Akron savings at Akron, O., private bank of A. Daniels & Co. at Cedar Rapids, Ia., private bank of J. W. Case at Astoria, Ore., and Park national at Livingston, Mont. THE two children of Farmer Langrain, living near Olga, N. D., were burned to death and Langrain and wife badly injured. Kerosene was used to start a fire. GEORGE W. SMITH, a well-known contractor at Rhinelander, Wis., shot and killed his wife and then took his own life. Jealousy was the cause. HANDY KAIGLER, the third and last of the negroes who assaulted the young wife of Archie Sightler at Gaston, S. C., was lynched by a mob. THE Philadelphia Packing & Provision company went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of over $200,000. A BARN on the farm of James Bunton near La Porte, Ind., was burned, and nine horses and a tramp perished in the flames. THE loss by fire in the United States during the week ended July 29 was $2,835,000, against $1,888,375 during the same time last year. THE Amoskeag mills at Manchester, N. H.. closed down, throwing 8,000 persons out of employment.

IT was estimated that 150,000 men in Chicago were out of employment. THE Cleveland (O.) Rolling Mill company closed its plate, wire and rod mills and steel works, throwing 3,000 men out of employment WILLIAM NONEMACHER, a farmer living near Antigo, Wis., killed his wife and three children and then made an unsuccessful attempt to take his own life. Poverty was the cause. BUYER, REICH & CO., wholesale dealers in fancy goods at San Francisco, suffered a loss of $100,000 by fire. THE Eagle machine works at Indianapolis were placed in the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $100,000. PRAIRIE fires swept over a vast portion of country in Oklahoma territory, doing immense damage. ROBERT P. PORTER, ex-superintendent of the census, has resumed control of the New York Daily Press. STRIKING lumber-shovers at Ashland, Wis., attacked the men who had taken their places and injured them terribly with clubs. THE president appointed Charles B. Morton, of Maine, fourth auditor of the treasury, vice John K. Lynch, of Mississippi, resigned. THE Missouri national bank at Kansas City that failed recently has resumed business. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. GEN. GEORGE W. MORGAN, of Mount Vernon, O., the only surviving general of the Mexican war, died at Fortress Monroe, Va., where he had gone for his health. NANCY QUINBY LAWWILL died at Columbus, O., aged 100 years. W. S. MELLEN, general manager of the Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Central roads, died at Victoria, B C., of heart paralysis. AT the Logan county poor farm near Lincoln, Ill., Grandma Hernon died at the age of 103 years and 5 months. DONALD McNAUGHTON, executive officer of the New York state board, died at the New York state building on the world’s fair grounds, aged 63 years. JOHN STEPHENSON, the famous car builder and builder of the first street car, died at his home near New Rochelle, N. Y., aged 84 years.

FOREIGN. THE steamer Pearl ran into and sunk the steamer Archibald Finney off North Bock, Ireland, and seven persons on the Finney were drowned. A NEW annexation treaty has been drafted by the new provisional government of Hawaii for submission to the United States. IN the British house of commons a hand to hand fight took place over the home rule question and many disgraceful scenes were enacted. IN a spirit of retaliation Germany has decided to put an additional 50 per cent. tax on Russian products imported into Germany. A FIRE which started in Bercy, a suburb of Paris, destroyed thirty houses and did damage to the extent of 4,000,000 francs. KARL SMETANA, a convict at Prague, has confessed to a murder for which John Olkowski is serving a twelve-year sentence in Pennsylvania. ENGLISH coal miners to the number of 350,000 went on a strike, by order of the Miners’ federation in London. THE Siamese government has accepted all the terms of the French ultimatum in order to prevent war. RADICALS have commenced a revolutionary movement in Buenos Ayres and fighting had taken place in twenty towns. THE ravages of cholera in ports of Russia where the disease is now epidemic show a marked increase. LATER. THE public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the debt increased $4,263,973 during the month of July. The cash in the treasury was $681,756,908. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $843,233,449. EMANCIPATION day was observed at various points by the negroes of the United States. THE government receipts for the month of July were $30,905,776.19 and the expenditures $39,675,886.60. In June the receipts were $30,983,921.85 and the expenditures $29,266,451.30. TWO CABINS occupied by Chinese miner in the Taryall gulch in Colorado were burned by white miners and eight Chinese perished in the flames. THE advocates of free coinage of silver met in convention in Chicago with 810 delegates representing forty-two states and territories. A. W. Thurman, of Ohio, presided.

FIVE men were killed and four injured. two fatally, by the explosion of a thrashing engine at the farm of Louis Pierson near Homer, O. The coinage executed at the United States mints during July was very light, being only 2,165,500 pieces, of the value of $391,900. THREE burglars entered the offices of the Newspaper Union in Chicago, bound the watchmen and robbed the safe of $15,000 in notes and $100 in cash. HENRY REYNOLDS, a negro, was lynched near Montgomery, Tex., for murdering a man named Marsh, assaulting his wife and mutilating their two children. THE doors were closed of the Nickel savings bank at Charleston. S. C., the Seven Corners bank at St. Paul, Minn., and the Safety Deposit & Trust company at Denver, Col. THE total amount of national bank notes outstanding on the 1st was $183,655,920, an increase of $5,041,385 during July. WILLIAM BEDECK, a farmer living near Rushville, Mo., paid $4,000 for green paper. He thought he had $15,000 in counterfeit greenbacks. THE 10-year-old son of Charles Johnson, of Arlington, Neb., deliberately murdered his 8-year-old sister by shooting her. THE fall of pork from $19.25 to $10.50 per barrel caused the failure in Chicago of six big board of trade firms. They are: John Cudahy, E. W. Bailey & Co., Wright & Haughey, A. Helmholz & Co., J. G. Steever & Co. and the North American Provision company. The total liabilities were about $4,000,000