Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL, - - Pubushdl

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Directors of the suspended National Bank of New Jersey state that the capital is intact, and that the concern is ready to resume business when the requisite formalities have been complied with....A kettle of varnish in Cragin’s japan works at Brooklyn caught fire and extended, burning one man to a,crisp aifd fatally scalding four others. The fire resulting caused a damage of $3,000. The Edgar Thompson Steel Company, at Pittsburgh, last week notified the employes that unless they accepted a reduction in wages the mills would be closed. There is great distress in Pittsburgh because of the number of factories and mills now idle, and the appropriation for out-door relief is already exhlbsted, with six months yet to run.... The sugar-refining firm of Burger, Hurlbnt Livingston, -of- -New Yerkj lias made an assignment, giving preferences for about $120,000.... The Coroners es New York reported twenty-five sudden deaths caused by the excessive heat. The examiner of the New Brunswick (N. J.) Bank reports a surplus of $48,000; after deducting the $220,000 deficit of tne Cashier and President The failure is re-, ported of Stafford & Co., cotton-goods '■manufacturers of Providence and Fall Biver, with debts of $250,000 in the former pity alone ~ ■■■ Thomas McKeon, a desperado of the oil regions, walked into a bank at Eldred, Pa., kept the cashier and teller quiet by means of a cocked revolver, and walked out with $2,500 in currency... .Robert Hoe, senior- member of the well known printing press firm of R. Hoe & Co., died at New York, aged 74,

THE WEST. Near Lanark, 111., a passenger and an express train came in collision, wrecking both engines and several cars. In the express train were Sitting Bull and other Sioux Indians en route to Chicago, but all escaped uninjured, while only a few of the other travelers received slight bruises William Collison, a telegraph operator on duty in the Hocking Valley Mines, was mistaken for a striker engaged in tiring a hoppet, and was shot dead by one of the militiamen on guard. Eau Claire (Wis.) dispatch: The flood ravages at Eau Claire are over. The highest mark registered was twenty-seven feet, being four feet higher than the flood of 1880. The current moved at the rate of eight miles an hour. ’ The dams held out well except the one in the north fork of the Eau Claire. The Dells dam was crushed by the great pressure of 50,000,000 feet of logs, The loss in the immediate vicinity of Eau Claire is estimated at $500,000, .and the entire loss in the ' Chippewa Valley at $4,000,000. Half a million feet es logs broke from the booin nearthe Eddy mills and floated down stream. The booms on Paint Creek, a tributary of the Chippewa River, went out late last night, and the water in the Chippewa River rose rapidly. This, with the floating logs, carried away the upper bridge of the Wisconsin Central at Chippewa Falls, and also the lower bridge between there and this city. The Milwaukee and St. Paul bridge and all the city bridges here, and the city bridge at Chippewa Falls, are all carried away. Every bridge on the Chippewa has gone out—five railroad bridges and five wagonbridges. In this city the loss is appalling. No satisfactory estimate can be made at this time. In and between Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire the loss will not fall short of $3,500,000, and it may greatly exceed that sum. In this city over two hundred houses have been swept away. Only one life lost so far as heard from. A lad named; Montgomery went hunting with a friend at Stflineville, Ohio. Getting some distance away, he covered himself with leaves to have a joke. The sportsman heard the rustling, supposed it was caused by a pheasant, and emptied his shot-gun into the cunning fellowSieberling's flour mill at Akron, Ohio, was wrecked by lightning and wind, involving a loss of about $25,000. E. J. Salt & Co.’s woolen mill at Portsmouth, Ohio, was burned, involving $30,000 loss. A block of stores at Midland, Ontario, was consumed, the loss reaching $30,000. A SIOO,OOO fire occurred at Pierre, Dakota; the First National Bank Building and several stores were destroyed Benjamin Johnson, colored, was hanged at Cincinnati for complicity in the murder of Beverly Taylor, his wife, and their little §rl at Avondale, neat-that city. Frank etchings was hanged at San Francisco for murder... .J. O. Hatteman, engines and mill machinery at St. Louis, has made an assignment. . ! An Indianapolis dispatch says of the Blaine- Sentinel libel suit: “Senator Harrison, Mr. Blaine’s leading counsel in the libel suit, unqualifiedly denies the statements of specials from here reporting him as saying he had proposed to the Sentinel attorneys to give a bond to, produce Mr. Blaine in court in person within a week provided the Sentinel would agree to an immediate trial. Mr. Harrison says: ‘I had no interview with any one about it. When I was approached by reporters. I always said that I was not trying my case in the newspapers. I said nothing of that kind.’ The present stay of proceedings in the suit is owing to Mr. Blaine’s attorneys’ objections to the rule requiring Blaine to answer interrogatories propounded to Mr. Blaine by the defendant, Mr. Shoemaker, publisher of The Sentinel, reprints his proposition that, if Mr. Blaine will trruthfully and without evasion answer the interrogatories, he will agree to submit the case to a jury without further evidence or any argument. In the Blaine- Sentinel libel suit at Indianapolis, on the 13th inst J , Judge Woods declined to rule that the plaintiff must answer the interrogatories submitted by the defendants. Senator Harrison, however, stated that the questions would be answered, but refused to state at what time.

THE SOUTH. It has developed at Louisville that the cotton factors, Payne, Viley & Co., who failed a few days ago, had been swindling the banks by hypothecating warehouse receipts for goods which they did not possess. These swindling operations have been carried on for two years, and the stealings are said to amount to $144,000, the United States Bank of New York being victimized for $67,500 ' and Louisville banks for the remainder.... I The Lincoln Savings Bank, at Fayetteville, !

Tenn., has suspended. The assets are said to be $200,000, and deposits about SIOO,OOO. The latter will all be pnid, it is said, and the stockholders will receive but 50 per- cent... .Oklahoma Pavne was released on SI,OOO bail at Fort Smith, Ark., and seven of his followers were set free. Evan AllNutt, a lawyer, died at the Anchorage Asylum at Louisville, from the effects of injuries inflicted by the guards of the institution and from lack of medical attention. The guards who beat Mr. Allnutt have fled.... Two convicts were beaten to death at the water-works reservoir, near Lexington. Ky.. by their guards. The last spike on the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Road was driven on the 11th inst., at a point about 100 miles south of Memphis. WILLIAM Vales, a street railroad watchman at Augusta, Ga., was murdered the other night, and the body saturated with uil’ set on fire, and partlyconsuined. A desk in the office was robbed of S3B. The intent of the murderers was to destroy the building by fire, but Vales’ blood quenched the flames. The citizens of Hot Springs will present their claims for the Soldiers’ Home to be erected west of the Mississippi at a cost of $250,000. The three' existing institutions are in the cold belt, and the soft climate of Arkansas will urged for all it~is~wOrtlE

UiSIHN</rOA. A policeman in Washington, named Fowler, was shot dead with his own revolver by a colored member of the chaingang, named John Langster. J. H. SqlTeß, a Washington, D. C., banker, WllcFfailedToine time ago, committed suicide bycutting his throat with a penknife.

POLITICAL. Wisconsin, Nicholas D. Fratt was nominated for Governor, A. C’. .Parkinson for Lieutenant Governor, and Hugh Gallagher for Secretary of State. Resolutions were adopted for the semi-annual examination of State banks and demanding the abolition of the prison-contract,system. The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts, to the number of six hundred, gathered in Boston, and nominated President Seelye, of Amherst College, for Governor, and Henry Faxon -for Lieutenant-Governor. Both are Independent Republicans. The Greenbackers of Connecticut nominated James L. Curtis for Governor, and adopted resolutions for a secret ballot and against prison labor. Larkin D. ’Mason was nominated by the Prohibitionists for Governor of New Hampshire. He is 73 years o f age and was one of the founders of the Republican party. The Democrats of New_ Hampshire nominated John M. Hill for Governor. After two days’ deliberation the Nebraska State Committee of Anti-Monopolists and Greenbackers agreed to fuse with the Democrats The miners on strike in the Hocking Valley of Ohio, who have always been Republicans on the tariff issue, are organizing Butler and West clubs, and to go over bodily.,. .The material of the Kansas Prohibitionist, the St, John organ at Leavenworth, has been seized for debt. Nomi nations for Congress were made by the different parties during the week as follows: ■William McAdoo, Democrat, 7th New Jersey District; Sebastian Brown, Republican, 4th Maryland; Francis B. Hayes, Republican, sth Massachusetts; Jacob Gallinger, Republican, 2d New Hampshire; Gen. J. C. Black, Democrat, 15th Illinois; R. M. La Follette, Republican, 3d Wisconsin; B. F. Frederick, Democrat, oth'lowa; Poindexter f Dunn, Democrat, Ist Arkansas; WnirC. May bury, Democrat, Ist Michigan; C. T, Gallagher, Republican, 4th Massachusetts; L. H, Weller, Democrat and Greenbacker, 4th Iowa; Carlton Hunt, Reform Democrat, Ist Louisiana:: K. W. Armstrong, Republican, Washington Territory: George E. Adams, Republican, 4th Illinois; J. W. Throckmorton, Democrat, sth Texas; C. P. Head, Democrat, Arizona Territory; E. J. Gay, Democrat, 3d Louisiana; J. S. Henderson, Democrat, 3d North Carolina; H. N. Bickie, Democrat, 7th Kansas; A, E. Wilson, Republican, sth Kentucky ; R, B - ’ Rland, Democrat, 11th Missouri; W. J. Nicholson, Greenback, 2d Kansas; D. R. Paige, Democrat, 20th Ohio; C. H. Allen, Republican, Bth Massachusetts; W. W. Rice.TtepubHcan, 10th Massachusetts; W. N. Norville. Republican, 7th Missouil; 8. E. Payne, Republican, 27th New York; J. P. Buck. Republican, Ist Connecticut: E. F. Stone, Republican, 7th Massachusetts; T. B. Needles, Republican, 18th Illinois; Hernan Lehlbach, Republican, f>th New Jersey; J. 8. George, Democrat, 2d New Hampshire; A. A. Carnahan, Democrat, sth Kansas; Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican. 6th Massachusetts; W. C. Pussy, Democrat, 9th Iowa; M. A. Hynes, Republican, Ist New . Hampshire; J. A. Warder, Republican, sth Tennessee: J. AV. Taylor, Democrat, Sth Tennessee; J. J. ' Lanihan, Democrat, 3d Iowa; James Buchanan, Republican, 2d New Jersey : O. B. Thomas;Republican, 7th Wisconsin; W, T. Shaw, Republican, 2d Iowa; Rev. A. N. Alcott, Prohibitionist, 4th Michigan: W. E. Gunby, Greenbackei, 2d Missouri; J. F. Jordan, Greenbacker, 3d Missouri; J. B. Rector, Republican, 10th Texas; L. F. McKinney Hampsltire; Zachary Taylor, Republican, loth Tennessee: A. B. Irion,Democrat,6th Louisiana; J. Floyd King and Charles J. Boatner, Democrats towing to a split), sth Louisiana; L. B. Caswell, Jr., Republican. Ist Wisconsin; W. C. Edsell, Prohibitionist, sth Michigan. A meeting of the Tammany Hall General Committee, called for the purpose of determining what action should be taken in the pending Presidential contest, was held on the evening of Sept. 12. The hall was crowded with spectators. John Kelly called, the meeting to order, and ex-Senator Foster was made Chairman, After dwelling upon the ancient history of Tammany Hall, how it has never swerved from its allegiance to the Democratic party nor faltered in its support of the candidates nominated and in the principles enunciated, from the platform of the National Democratic Conventions, the report says that iu respect to the candidates now before the Democracy of the nation: "We acquiesce in the will.of the majority of the representatives of the party, although we believe that will to have been unwisely expressed. There is but one alternative left to us—to sever our connection with the Democratic party.' This we cannot and will not do.” The • address goes on to criticise some of Gov. Cleveland’s vetoes, recounts the contests of the sachems in past Presidential contests, and the harsh ‘treatment in the Chicago convention,, and concludes*with the following: "Resolved, That we, the Democratic-republican General Committee of the city and county of New York, in Tammany Hall assembled, hereby ratify and indorse the nominations made by the National Democratic Convention held in Chicago on July 10, 1884—for President, Grover Cleveland, of New York; for Vice President. Thos. A. Hendricks, of Indiana—and hereby pledge ourselves to an earnest and cordial support of the candidates so nominated. ” The reading of the resolutions was followed with great applause, mingled with hisses, Ex-Senator Grady, in a speech bitterly denounced Cleveland, and in closing his remarks stated that he should support Benjamin F. Butler., Gen. Sj)lnola advocated the adoption of the resolution in a strong speech. Wm., Burke Cochran followed in an eloquent speech seconding the motion. The calling of the rolj on the address and resolution was then, proceeded with' and sulted in their adoption by an overwhelm-

ing majority. The vote stood—Blo yeas, 87 nays. * tin motion, the vote was made unanimous. , The Democratic State Convention of Nebraska met at Omaha and agreed upon an alliance with tbo‘ Anti-Monopolists, .The platform indorses the Chicago platform; denounces the school-land frauds in Nebraska permitted by the Republican administration; commends high license, but denounces prohibition; declares that corporate capital must keep its hands off the reserved rights of the people; that railroads must keep out of politics: th it the Legislature has the right to control railro ds, and that railroads have no right to control the Legislature. The following Democrats were nominated ,on the State ticket: Governor, J. Sterling Morton; Treasurer, Daniel Clancy; Attorney Genend, C. S. Montgomery; Secretary of State, H. E. Bonestell. Th a following Anti-Monopolists were nominated: Lieutenant L. C. Pase; Auditor, G. Beneke; Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, Nels Anderson; Superintendent Public Instruction, A. N. Bean; Regent State University, D. P. Schoville. Two Democratic and three Butler electors were nominated.,.. The Colorado Republican State,Convention, after a stormy session of four days, nominated Hon. Ben H. Eaton, of‘ Weld County, for Governor; Peter Breen, of Leadville, fwr Lieutenant Governor: and J. Gt Syms. of-Denver,-for Congress. There was great trouble in the convention over contesting delegations, and the contest- was the bitterest in- theCentennial State’s political history. ... The Nebraska Prohibitionists met instate convention at Lincoln, J. G. Miller was nominated for Governor by acclamation, and H. H. Shedd, the Republican nominee, indorsed for Lieutenant Governor. Five St. John representative, electors were also nominated .... A dispatch from Port--land, Me., says that complete official roturns of the Maine -election show that-the_ total vote was 140,436—the largest ever cast at any election savec>one. Robie received 77,779, against 58,070 cast for Redman, Democrat, and 3,147 east for Eaton. Green-'-backer. The constitutional liquor prohib-_ itory amendment is adopted by a majority es over 40,000, ■

The National Prison Association of the United States met—at Saratoga last week. Ex-President Hayes was chosen Chairman. A number of interesting papers were read. The tobacco crop of the United States is now nearly harvested. It is reported to be the best in quantity and quality that has been raised for years. The crop has been a comparative failure in the tobacco counties of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois... .Fivehundred Mormon immigrants were brought to New York by the steamer Wyoming from Liverpool. The immigrants are of the agricultural and mechanical classes.... Wednesday, Sept. 10, was the hottest day of the season in the Atlantic States. There were about fifteen deaths from sunstroke at New York, and’seven at Philadelphia. The animals at the State Fair in the latter city suffered terribly.. The heat was so intense at Pittsburgh that the schools were dismissed. The iron-workers suffered terribly,, and there were many cases of prostration. Alfred G. Isaacson, of Montreal, has absconded, and is a defaulter for a large -amount, fhfi-fnnds having been intrusted to him for investment... .Four students of the Collegiate Institute at St. Catharines, Ont., were drowned iu the canal near Port Dalhousie. Business failures for the week numbered 180, against 178 the previous week, and 13G in the corresponding week of 1883. .... Bradstreets’ report of the condition of trade notes a general improvement, arising from the demand tor autumn goods. Jay Gould writes that to pay the taxes, fixed and sinking-fund charges, the amount due the Government, and a 7 per cent, dividend, requires from the Union Pacific Railroad $950,000 net per month. Up to Jan 1. this year, the road sold 2,425,098 acres of land, equal to $7,421,928... .Near White Cloud, Mich., McLane’s sawmill, twenty houses occupied by emhpteyesr‘—and——million— feet of lumber were destroyed by fire A heavy loss was sustained at Oronago, Missouri, by the burning of the Granby Mining and Smelting Works.. The army--worm has destroyed entire fields of rye in Douglas and Leavenworth Counties, Kansas, and is threatening the young winter wheat. ;.. .Between Capes Race and Freels, Newfoundland, 315 icebergs are drifting southward.

ioiuik-jx. There were 721 fresh cases of cholera in the city of Naples on the 10th inst., and 250 deaths. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, up to the above date, 1,100 bodies had been buried in the cholera section of the Naples cemetery. “ A cable dispatch of. the 12th inst; from Naples says of the cholera ravages: The dreadful epidemic increases hourly in the ferocity of its ravages. King Humbert was yesterday prevented from visiting the poorer quarters of the city. During the last twenty-four hours there have been reported in this city 966 fresh cases and 32S - deaths from cholera. In other parts of the province, in the same period, there have been 19 fresh cases and 11 deaths. At Avelliuo, 3 fresh cases and 2 deaths: at Bergamo, 11 fresh cases and 9 deaths: at CampobaSso, 3 fresh cases and 2 deaths; at Caserta, 13 fresh cases and 6 deaths; at Cremona, 2 fresh cases and 3 deaths: at Cuneo, 12 fresh cases and 10 deaths; at Genoa, 36 fresh cases and 21 deaths; at La Spezia. 26 fresh case and 17 deaths; qt Carrara, 9 fresh cases and 2 deaths; at Reggio, 2 fresh and 1 death; at Novara, Potenza, and Salerno, 1 death in each place,., .It is reported that the French have captured Mahonora, in Madagascar, south of Tamatave. King Humbert of Italy seems io be a prince among kings. He-has already” contributed $60,000 for the relief of the cholera sufferers in Italy, and, moreover, he has gone arqong the patients cheering and comforting them... .There are now 19,06'0 French soldiers in Tonquin. San Francisco dispatch: “TheiSan Pablo arrived this evening with Hong Kong dates to Aug. 14, and Yokohama to Aug. 30. Information had reached Canton of a frightful inundation in the Kiang-Sai province. The news was dated from King Tak, the chief center of pottery manufacture and one, of the fourgreat markets of the empire. The floods lasted four days, and the entire country was submerged to a depth of sixty feet. Whole towns were swept away. It is believed fully seventy thousand persons perished, and it was feared pestilence would follow.” A very bad spirit is manifested by the European continental press toward England. The French newspapers daily denounce the British, the Russian journals

indulge' in very serious threats, and the Ge man press eulogizes Bismarck for his colonization policy, which is avowedly hostile to England... ;The British Government has shipped to Egypt 1,600 pounds of dynamite, with which to force a passage for boats through the eatinacts or the Nile. The opinion-is'expressell by the Army and Kavy Gazette that the boats ordered for the expedition are fit only foY firewood At a French Cabinet council the Prime Minister stated that China had not declared war. Admiral Courbet was instructed to resume operations at once, and cablegrams show that he has since sailed northward from Matson with his entire fleet

ADDITIONAL NEWS. The Attorney General of New Jersey has given an opinion that bank presidents and cashiers may serve on the electoral ticket, being simply officers of private corporations, and not United States officials. I A rebellious disposition is being again manifested in the Turkisoh provinces adjoining Greece. A force of 1,000 Turkish troops has been ordered to the frontier. ... The Italian cities report 280 deaths from cholera, Sept. 13, with 750 fresh cases. Clearing House exchanges the past week — $633,831,406—were $50,724,758 less than for the preceding week, and when ompared with the corresponding period in j 1883 show a decline of 37.7 per cent....: Five inches of show fell in Spring Hill and | two inches at Truro, N. S., on the 12th inst i i By the explosion of the boiler iu the . * Central Railroad compress at Eufaula, Ala., I four men were killed and several wounded, ten fatally. The compress and about 400 bales of cotton were destroyed, the loss reaching SIOO,OOO. There are fears that a number of bodies will be found in the ruins. N. C. tAimpson’s bank at Rockford, HL, his suspended. The liabilities are said to be about $750,000. Mr. Thompson j professes to think tha# if he is given time to realize on his property he will be able to jray his creditors in full. The failure is said to be due to inability to collect for agricultural implements sent out from the Thompson Manufacturing Company of Rockford... .The boilers in a steam flour mill and cider factory at Morton, Tazewell County, HL, exploded, five persons losing their lives and half a dozen others be- ; ing fatally hurt or scalded. The disaster was caused by the engineer’s carelessness. The financial loss is placed at $10,600 Oliver Dalrymple, who expects to thrash out 600,000 bushels of wheat on his Dakota farm, has arranged to ship it to Buffalo by lake from Duluth, and has secured storage in the former city.... Frank Jones, who created a commotion with his rifle at Wei- j lington, Kan., was taken from jail and hanged from a gang-plank in the courthouse building. The Methodist Episcopal Conference at Lansing. Mich., rejected the report of the committee pledging members to support Prohibition candidates, and adpted a resolution which permits voting as conscience f may dictate. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of OddFellows was in -session at Minneapolis last week. Grand Sire Leech congratulated the order on its prosperity, showing an increase of four grand lodges, 189 subordi_nate lodges, and 11,875 in lodge memberships during the ’year. The total relief reached $2,015,832.52,.and the revenue is $5,350,041.47. In view of the heavy expense, the Grand Sire recommends biennial sessions of the Sovereign Lodge, instead of annual meetings, as at present.

The Duties of a Servant.

"Mamma,” exclaimed a little girl, running into the bouse, “me and Willie wanted nurse to sit down and let us puor sand in her back, and she wouldn’t.” “Certainly not. She did quite right.” “Well, that’s what you told her she was to do when she first came.” “I told her she was to let you and "Willie pour sand down her back ?” “Not exactly that mamma; but you told hes she was to mind the children.” —New York Sun. Most fathers know by this time that a diamond pin, a brown-stone house, or even the highesttest of respectability—an English dog-cart—are not guarantees that a man will be a good husband; yet a large majority of marriages are made because of similar superficialities. Freeman’s Journal. It is better to strew the flowers in I the pathway of those we love to-day. The dead cannot enjoy their perfume and color.— Freeman’s Journal.

THE MARKET.

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A WHIRLING DESTROYER.

Towns in Minnesota ans Wisl consin Laid Waste by a Furious Cyclone. Several Persons Injured, a Few Killed Outright, and Valuable Prop- ’ erty Ruined. The towns of Clayton and Clear Lake, Wis., and White Bear Lake, Minn., were recently swept by a destructive tornado, the particulars of which, as telegraphed from St Paul, are given below; Great devastation was wrought at Clear Lake. The greater portion of the town is in ruins, and three lives were lost. The scene after th.- storm passed over was terrible in the extreme. Men, women, and children were running about in a pertect frenzy of excitement and fear. Here and there people could be seen coming out of their cellars almost paralyzed with fear. The strongest man was as a little child, for no human power could have resisted the cyclone’s terrible force. One house, a brick veneer, was taken from its foundation and turned ccftnpletely round, while the bricks were felled from the wood as if sliced off. A large barn was blown away, leaving the floor and mangers, with the horses peacefully eating their Sapper. .X little child was taken in the arms of the tempest and landed in the branches of a tree but slightly injured. One large frame house was blown completely out of sight. Not one particle of the house or furniture could be iound, though seaieh for a mile was made in the track of the storm. The family had, fortunately, taken refuge in the cellar. Many families are lett destttn re—not a vestige of their w orldly possessions remaining. Those killed at Clear Lake were Mrs. Peleg Burdick, wife of the Postmaster, and two young men, William Cavanaugh and A. H. Sanderson. Walter Briggs was also badly injured and two Scandinavian children so seriously that they cannot survive. Bill Nye, the humorist, had his left leg broken below the knee. He was at Clear Lake visiting his brother, District Attorney Nye. They were out in the country for a drive in the midst of a dense forest, and seeing the storm coming on, were driving as rapidly as possible to escape its fury, when both gentlemen were thrown out. The road was so thickly strewn with fallen trees that it wasrtnirosstbtßto Teach him with a team, and he was obliged to lie on the wet ground in the drenching rain for two hours, until men could be summoned from Clear Lake to carrj’ him in. He was taken to Hudson. A tract of country twenty miles in width, from southwest to northeast, passing just north of Stillwater, was swept by the cyclone. Everything was swept away. The clouds were of the indescribable green color known to all who ever witnessed a cyclone. Almost every house in Marine Mills, twelve miles north of Stillwater, was more or less injured. Several persons were injured, and there were many hair-breadth escapes. Wherever the storm swept through the country, houses; barns, and fences disappeared like chaff. Almost every building in Marine was blown down or more or less damaged. At White Bear Lake scores of huge trees were blown down and many houses suffered serious damage. Most of the windows w*ere blown in. Boat-houses were wrecked and the boats blown in all directions. Near Hudson, Wis., half a dozen houses were leveled. Horses and cattle were blown against barb-wire fences and badly lacerated. At Grant twenty-five houses were demolished, and in the Hudson Prairie district six dwellings were torn to pieces, and one person killed. The loss iu crops, barns, and outhouses is very heavy.

CONDITION OF THE CROPS.

The September Beport of the Nationah Agricultural Bureau a Favorable One. Quality and Quantity Above the AverageGood Prospects of Export Demand. Following is the national crop report for September, as telegraphed from Washington: The condition of cotton on the Ist of September was lower than on August Ist, by reason of drought, which has been severest in Texas, yet felt in every Stateeast and north to North Carolina. State averages are: Virginia, 89; North Carolina, 90; South Carolina, 87; Georgia, 86; Florida, 88; Alabama, 84; Mississippi, 83; Louisiana, 84; Texas, 72; Arkansas, 83; Tennesse, 90. The production of winter wheat is above the average, and generally of good quality except where"injured by sprouting in shock. The rate of yield is not from an average thirteen bushels per acre. The reports of the harvest of spring wheat are not yet complete, and the product can not be precisely indicated. It is probable, from the reported condition of the crop already harvested and thrashed, that the aggregate will vary little from 5i0,000,0u0 bushels. Reports of much higher figures are sensational and misleading and utterly unworthy of credence. The general average condition when harvested is 98, against 83 last year. The condition is almost identical with that reported in September, 1879 (the census crop), which yielded thirteen bushels per acre. The wheat States in highest condition are California. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Oregon. These, witli some of minor production, show figures higher than tiie general average, lowa, Nebraska, and Kansas standing at 98. Ohio and Michigan at 96, Indiana at 94, and Illinois at 80. TlieT7astern and Southern States range from 81 in Mississippi to 103 in Maine. The corn crop is in better condition than in any September since 1880. The general average is 94. It was 84 last September, 83 in 1832, and 60 in 1881. It promises to produce an average yield of 26 bushels for the entire breadth, or not less than 1,800,000,01 o bushels It will make the largest aggregate quantity ever reported in thehistorvpf the crop. -i-—. —— ThcfoatJuiop averages a yield per acre about thS Same as corn, and makes an aggregate exceeding 500,000,000 bushels. Its condition when harvested was 95, which is lower than for the two previous years, but higher than for prior years since 1878. Barley averages 97, against 100 last ye r, and 95 in 1882. It wall average about twenty-two bushels per acre. The general average for rye is 96, and‘for buckwheat 93, ‘which indicates a medium crop, about twelve bushels per acre. The condition of potatoes averages 91, against 95 last year. It will be an abundant crop, but not so large as last. The condition of tobacco is higher than In September of any year since 1877. It averages 94. instead of so last September. The Loudon agent of the department cables, as the result of statistical investigations, that the year "Will not be one of superabundance; that European wheat, though above the average in .product, will be less than the aggregate of IftSh Europcan importing conntries need 26'1,000,000 bushels above their production. European countries exporting can supply 80,000.000, leaving 189,000,000 bushels to be obtained from other continents. Stocks are not excessive. There is increased consumption of wheat, and it is the gen >ral opinion that lowest prices have been reached. Potatoes and rye are Uss abundant than last year.

AFTER CARTER HARRISON’S LIFE.

An Irate Citizen of Lincoln, 111., Goes Gunning for the Mayor. Carter Harrison met with a singular experience in this city this evening. At a pressing invitation of the Democrats of this place he came here from Mount Pulaski, and took up his quarters at the Commercial House, where he held an informal reception. Among the callers was Col. J. M. Hough, formerly of Chicago, and a bitter Republic m partisan, who wanted to bet Carter he would not be elected. The Colonel pressed his offers to bet, and at last became personal and was removed from the room. He went home, changed his coat, and took his six-shooter with him, intending to interview Carter itarrison again, Before he gained admission he was arrested and placed in the calaboose. The greatest excitement prevailed, as the Colonel is a man of wealth and standing in the community. Friends secured his release, and all is serene again. Deadly weapons are taken from men who carry them into one of Galveston’s gambling and drinking houses, an employe gives checks for them, and they are returned on their owner’s departure. Cincinnati is to have an odd monument, in the form of a ruin, built from the broken pillars and fragments of toe Court House burned during the riot. doMTLATNT is made of too much gambling on Atlantic steamers. Mr. St. John has a son in . the Land Office at Washington.

CANDIDATES AND PLATFORMS.

Republicans, Democrats, Greenbackers and Prohibitionists in Council. They Hold Conventions in Several States, Nominate Tickets and I’ass Resolutions. Wisconsin Democrats. The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention met at Madison, and was called to order by Dr. W. A. Anderson, Chairman of the State Central Committee. A. 8. Ritchie, of Racine, was made temporary Chairman. The u-ual committees were appointed, and pending their action the convention took a recess. On reassembling, Joun W. Caty, es Milwaukee, was elected permanent Chairman. On assuming his duties he arraigned the Republican party and the record of James G. Blaine. Hon. Nicholas D. Fratt, of Racine, was nominated for Governor by acclamation. The remainder of the ticket was completed as follows: Lieutenant Governor, A. C. Parkinson, Columbia; Secretary of State, Hugh Gallagher, Lafayette; Treasurer, Frank Falk. Milwaukee: Attorney General, George W. Silverthorn, Marathon; Commissioner of Insurance, Ole S. Holum, Dane; Railroad Commissioner, Conrad Krez, Sheboygan. The following platform was adopted: WHEREAS, The corporate partnership, and personal banks in this State receiving deposits and transacting other business pertaining to banking exceed 130, a larger number than the national banks therein, and Whi reas. Within the one year last past several hundred thousand dollars have been worse than stolen by banks organized by the laws of this State, and by private associations and bankers, causing great distress to many depositors, who, inmost instances, are persons not familiar with the securities of banking institut.ons, and some of the least of those banks would have been closed up before they had obtained such deposits had an examination of their condition been made by a competent person; therefore, A'esotced,. That for the protectioii-of those ; who deposit their money in corporate, partnership, or private banks, in behalf, of sound and legitimate banks and bankers wl.o are brought into disrepute by shysters assuming their name, and in the interest of the whole p.ople, we demand that the next Legislature pass a»law providing for the examination of each of such banks at least once every six months, by a competent person, and pre seriking rulesand regulations therefore. IZesoZp'ed, That we hold that it is unjust to place the labor of prison convicts in. competition with the other manufacturing industries of the State, and demand that the prison contract system be abolished. Pesolved, That we are opposed to the further sale of public lands suitable for agricultural purposes, except to actual settlers. UeSolve.d, That we recognize the right and the duty of society to guard and protect itself by proper and suitable legislation against the evils resulting from the excessive use of intoxicating liquors; but we do not believe in sumptuary laws, prohibition, or an equivalent measure, to be either adapted to the end or promotive of a higher standard of morality. On the contrary, we hold, with Gov. Cleveland, that such legislation would be unwise and vexatious. -~r~~ —

Missouri Republicans. Chairman William Warner, of the State Central Committee, called the Missouri Republican State Convention to order at Jefferson City. He said the work in hand was to deliver the State from the Frank J lime.s Democracy. Judge Wagner, of St. Louis, was made temporary Chairman. On taking the chair he eulogized the work of the Chicago convention. In regard to the Missouri administration he said: "Assassination has been connived at by high officers, outlaws have been protected in their outlawry, and the criminal laws have been made a farce by the exercise of the pardoning power in-tavor of men who have violated the laws merely because they ~ were friends of officials." The organization of the convention was completed by the appointment of the usual committees, and one special committee was delegated to con ider the question of uniting with all the political elements of the State that are opposed to the Democratie party. Pending conunittr e action, Gen. D. P. Grier, of St. Louis, was made permanent Chairman, and F. W. Moot, of St. Louis, Secretary. Gen. Grier made a speech, arraigning the Democratic party for its abuses in the State Government of Missouri. A platform was adopted indorsing President Arthur’s administration and the action of the Chicago convention, and indicting the Democracy Of Missoui i fur ignoring the Union element of the State when the Republican party had removed every disability growing out of the rebellion. It charges the depredations of the Jesse James faction to the Democracy. The platform demands the restraint of corporations, tile reform of the convict labor system, and extols the record of the Republicans. The conference commttee representing the anti-Democratic elements that were present reported at length, naming Nicholas Ford, of Buchanan County, for Governor. The ticket was completed as follows: Lieutenant Governor, H. M. Starkoff, St. Louis; Treasurer, J. C. Thompson, Sedalia; Auditor, Jacob Sands, Adair; Attorney General, David Murphy, St. Louis; Judge of the Supreme Court, David. Wagner. Massachusetts Prohibitionists. The State Prohibitory Convention of Massachusetts met in Tremont Temple, Boston, Chas. Almy, of New Bedford, presiding. There were 586 delegates present. President Seelye, of Amherst College, was nominated for Governor by acclamation, Henry H. Faxon for Lieutenant Governor, Geo. Kempton for Secretary of State, C. B. Knight for Treasurer and Receiver General. Samuel M. Fairfield for Attorney General, and William W. Herman for A dltor. A number of large contributions to the campaign fund were received. The platform adopted declares that there Is a pressing need of mixing more religion with politics; that no more party questions are in order until the enemy which insists on full liberty to degrade us and aspires to govern us is stamped out; that the liquor traffic instinctively dreads the ballot in the hands of women; that the Prohibition party cordially welcomesit; and that the dodging of the vote upon the constitutional amendment by Jaines G. Blaine at the recent Maine election proves him to be an eminently fit exponent of the cowardly position ot his party on too question ot prohibition. ‘ A telegram was sent congratulating the Prohibitionists of Maine upon their victory. An unsuccessful attempt was made to secure the adoption of a resolution favoring woman-suf-frage. ■ ■ New Hampshire Democrats. 11. O. Kent was made Chairman of the Democratic State Convention, which met at Concord. After noffiinatmg John M. Hill for Governor, and alTesidential ticket, the following .platform was adopted: Jlesotrecl, That we fully indorse the platform of the National Democratic Convention which nominated Cleveland and Hendricks,and that we most cordially and heartily ratify the nomination of Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks for President and Vice President. Jteeoiveil, That the laboring people have the right to demand reasonable limitation of the hours of labor, caretnl protection of the rights and health of tailoring women an I children, and full relief of their wages from trustee process. Itesolferl, That the purchasing of nominations and elections which has characterized the action of the Republican leaders in this State has given to New Hampshire a reputation for bribery and corruption which is a reproach to every honest citizen, and in behalf of common Jionesty we demand that the auction sale of publicioffices shall cease, and that the making ot merchandise of our voting population shall be punished as a crime by perpetual disfranchisement. , New Hampshire Prohibitionists. Rev. O. H. Shinn was made Chairman of the New Hampshire Prohibitionist State Convention, which met here to-day. Larkin D. Mason, of Tamworth, was nominated for Governor. The convention adopted a platform arraigning the Republican and Democratic parties for their position on the temperance question, urging the formation of clubs in every town, and pledging undivided and unqualified support to St. John and Daniel. Nebraska Greenbackers. The Nebraska Anti-Monopolist and Greenback State enventions coonvened at Lincoln, combined as one organization, and then agreed to make a fusion electoral State ticket with the Democrats. No nominations were made, but half a dozen names tor each place on the ticket were selected and a committee appointed to present them to the Democratic State Convention. The body then adjourned. The St. Joseph Gazette' charges 0 Mrs. Belva Lockwood with riding a bicycle. This is the campaign slander of the season. Impure water has killed eixtegn people at Ashland, Pa.