Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1888 — Page 3

NEWS OF THE WEEK..

The Chicago anarchists are organising again. , David T. Banker, United States Consul at Demarara, baa died there of yellow fever. Francis L Patton was unanimonsly elected President f Princeton College Thursday. Mrs. Mackin, the wife of the Chicago ballot-box staffer, has asked Governor a pardon for her husband. It is believed that the Union Labor party will have a Presidential candidate in the field despite the objections of Henry George to each a move. A rebellion against the K. of L. authorities among the employes of Block, Gerstle A Co., Cincinnati shoemakers, may lead to some exciting remits. Authentic reports prove that there were 149 deaths from the Dakota blizzard. The report that its number exceeded 1,000 is without foundation. A dispatch from Philadelphia, of Friday. says that George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, is an actual candidate for President on the Republican ticket. The Treasury Depatment has informed Mr. Lon Chew, a Portland (Ore.) merchant that his son can not be admitted to this country from Hong Kong, owing to the restriction act. Near Greenfield, N. H., Mrs. Ada, wife of Clarence 8. D. Bowen, deserted by her husband and on the verge of starvation, committed suicide. Bowen heard of it and immediately hung himself. Wm. Ham, a blacksmith, of Sullivan, 111., who makes good wages, but spends them for whisky, has been arrested for cruelty to his children (two boys and a girl), who were found almost frcz m to death. The K. of L. general executive board has beard from President Corbin. He declines to consider the railroad strike, but says that if the miners return to work they will get a fair and impartial hearing. The Chief of the Rhode Island police, E. F. Curtis, has made his first annual report to the Legislature. The showing for the working of prohibition is poorer than it was during the first year of the trial of the law. Miss Josie Holmes, exchange clerk of the Fidelity bank, Cincinnati, and who was sweet on Harper the wrecker of the bank, will be relieved of prosecution for her valuable services to the Government in the trial of Hopkins. Ameeting was held at the National Republican League in Washington, Sunday, in commemoration of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Speeches were made by Senator Cullom,Frederick Douglass, Simon Wolf and O. F. Worrell. United States customs officials captured on Tuesday night 125,000 worth of opium which was being smuggled across the boundary line at Redwood, N. Y. The smuggler and a livery stable keeper who accompanied him were arrested. A rema.kable revival, beginning with the week of prayer, has j ust closed at the Wilberforce (O.) College. Recitations were suspended and the days spent in fasting and prayer. All but two of the students are now professed Christians. John 0. Crowley, of Boston, a prominent lawyer and trustee of six estates went to Eurore in November. He is now reported a defaulter to the amount of $75,000. He stood high in society, of coursee His wife says she will make good all losses. A car on the Kansas City Cable L : ne broke its grip, Wednesday night, and ran down the Union Depot incline at a terrific rate, colliding with a cur at the bottom. Ten persons were injuredonly one fatally,that was Wood Russul), an employe of the railroad.— A pack ofcaged wolves escaped from Sanger’s circus, in London. Sunday. The elephants, camels, horses and other animals became mad with terror and were liberated with difficulty. The wolves were trapped in a stable, where they furiously devoured a horse already slain. Chairman Pearson, of the Illinois Live Stock Board, says the statements of Commissioner Colman regarding the prevalence of pleuro pneumonia among the cattle atChicago greatly misrepresented the facta. Only five, instead of 300 cattle, were exposed to the case of December 29 last. The legislative committee which has been investigating the condition of Kentucky’s famous Rowan county, returned to Frankfort, Friday morning. A very deplorable state of aflairs was found to exist, and it is probable that the county will either be abolished or transferred to another judicial district The Home Market Club of Boston gave a banquet,Thursday night, to Senator Sherman. The guest paid his respe ts to James Russell Lowell, particu- ' larly q toting Whittier’s lines on Webster in. Tchabod.” Hon. Wm. McKinley also spoke. Four hundred persons were present Timothy Herrick, chairman of the club, presided. The Dupont powder works at Wapwallopen, Pa., were blown up Friday. Four men were instantly killed and over forty persons were injured. The shock :w«8 the most- violent th at has ever been experienced in the Wyoming valley. Much damage was done inWapwallopen.

The shock was distinctly felt at Wilkeebarre, twenty miles distant The Federated Miners’ Association met at Pittsburg Friday and agreed that the scale of prices paid for mining coal from May 1 to November 1, 1888, shall be five cents above the scale base adopted previously,-and for one year from Nov. 1, 1888, 10 cents above the basis. The association will meet in Indianapolis in February, 1889. The Sugar Trust has compelled an importer to accept a price for a cargo of sugar that nets him a loss of one-half a cent on the pound. It is stated on the street that the Trust has issued a fifteen million dollar mortgage on the plants put into the combination by the members, thus leaving the 160,000,000 of certificates clear for purposes of profit The Kings County Democratic Club held a banquet in Brooklyn, Thursday night in commemoration of the birthday of Samuel J. Tilden. Among those prerent were Governor Hill, of New York; ex-Governor Abbott, of New Jersey; Wm. F ftwretary of the Interior; Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania; and ex-Governor Hoadly, of Ohio. Two men were digging up some dynamite which had been buried to protect it until wanted to use in a gas well near Bellevue, 0., Friday, when one of them struck the explosive material with his pick. The explosion instantly killed the two men and caused such a shock as to suggest an earthquake at Tiffin, bandusky, Put-in-Bay, and other points in that locality. The sub-committee of the Republican committee met at Chicano Friday and elected General Fitzsimmons,of Chicago, sergeant at arms of the National Con vention. The Grand Pacific was selected as the permanept headquarters of the National committee. About noon the sub-committee took a look at the Auditorium building, and were apparently satisfied that the vast edifice would be ready for the convention. It is proposed to limit the attendance at any onesession to B,COO. The Jury, in the case of Mrs. Sarah J. Robinson, of Boston the alleged wholesale poisoner. Saturday morning rendered a verdict of murder in the first degree. In this trial she was charged with the murder of Prince Arthur Freeman, her nephew. Mrs. Robinson had previously been tried on the charge o. ki ling her son and daughter, but the jury disagreed. The incentives to all the crimes of which she is charged was alleged to be the securing of the life insurance of her victims. rOKKION. Sweden hasJmposed import duties on cereals. All vessels in the Italian navy are under orders prepare for service. Mr. Gladstone arrived at Dover from his continental trip, Wednesday, and was cordially received. Governor-General Lansdowne will leave Canada in March, and Lord Stanley will immediately succeed him. The Swiss Biindsrath has decided to in future exercise its right to control inquiries in case of political offenses. The police tj ologized to Mr. O’Brien for his arrest, 'o at he declined to accept their explanation, and threatens to bring an actii.n against the authorities. Parliament opened, Monday. The "Queen’s speech” is of the perfunctory charecter. It represents that the measures enacted for Ireland have been carried into effect with satisf&c ory results. There has been no improvement in the condition of agriculture. The operation of tracheotomy was successfully performed on Crown Prince William Thursoay. His condition had become such that the operation could not be delayed. He breathed with great difficulty, but is progressing well. It is believed the end is approaching.

TROOPS IN IRELAND.

An Army ot Nearly Thirty Thousand There. Philadelphia Ledger. Ireland always absorbs a very large poition of the military forces at home, and jost now there are some 200 more troops there than twelve months ago. Prince Edward of Baxe-Weiinar has command of about 27,300 officers and men, with 3,000 horses and 60 guns, the whole being divided into three com* mands. In the Belfast district, under Major General Wiseman-Clarke, there are 4,300 officers and men, and 450 horses, constituting a regiment of cavalry, 300 artillerymen, four battalions and three depots of infantry, and a proportion of departmental troops. In the Dublin district there are about 14,000 men, 2,000 horses and 28 field guns, forming three regiment of cavalry, six batteres of artillery, three engineer companies, fourteen battalions and three depots of infantry, eight companies of the commissariat and transport corps, and two divisions of the medical staff. In the Cork District, where Major General Stevenson commands there are two cavalry regiments, seven batteries of artillery, an engineer company, eight battalions and two depota.of infantry ad a few departmental troops, making up altogether B,Boo’officers and men with 1,100 horses and 24 field guns. The present total of troops in Ireland is thenearest approachtothe 30,000, which is the highest reeord of recent years. Mrs: VlrgiifiaHansbhhMbeeh elected to her third term as State Librarian of Kentucky.

MR. BLAINE DECLINES.

He Refuses to Become a Candidate lor the Republican Nomination. Chairman Joao, ot the National Committee, Mak«« Hia hatter of Kefoaal Public—The Plumed Knight’d Beasooa. Mr. B. F. Jones, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, has received a letter from Mr. Blaine declining to allow his name to be presented to the National Republican convention as a candidate for the Presidential homination. The following is Mr. Blaine’s letter in full: f Florence, Italy, January 25, 1888. B. F. Jones, E<q., Chairman of the National Republican Committee: Sir—l wish through yon to state to the members of the Republican party that my name will not be presented to the National Convention, called to assemble in Chicago in Jane next for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States. I am constrained to this decision by considerations entirely personal to myself, of which ;. on were advised more thanayear ago. Bat I can rot make the announcement without giving ex pression to my deep sense of gratitude to the many thousands of my countrymen who have sustained me so long and so cordially, that their feeling has seemed to go beyond the ordinary political adherence of fellow partisans,and to partake somewhat of the nature of personal attachment. For this most generous loyalty of friendship I can make no adequate return, but I shall carry the memory of it while life lasts. Nor can I refrain from congratulating the Republican party upon the cheering prospects which distinguish the opening of the National codtest of 1838 as compared witn that of 1884. In 1882 the Republican party throughout the Union met with a disastrous defeat. Ten, States that had supported Garfield and Arthur in the election of 1880 were carried by the Democrats either by ma'orities or pluralities. The Republican loss in the Northern elections, cotnpar ed with the preceding National election, exceeded half a million votes and the electoral votes of the Union divided on the basis of the result of 1882 gave to the Democrats over three hundred electors out of a total of four hundred and one. There was a partial reaction in favor of the Republicans in the elections of 1883 but the Democrats still held possession of seven Northern States and on the basis of the year’s contest could show more than one hundred majority in the electoral college of the whole country. But against the dircouragement naturally following the adverse elections of these two years, the spirit of the Republican party in the National contest of 1884 rose high, and the Republican masses entered into the campaign with such energy that the finaL result depended on the vote of a single State,and that State was carried by the Democratic party by a plurality so small that it represented less than one-eleventh of one per cent of the entire vote. The change of a single vote in every 2,000 ot the total poll would have given the Stateto the Rspublicans, though only tw o years before, the Democratic plurality exceeded 192,000. The elections of 1886 and 1887 have demonstrated growing strength in the Republican ranks. Seldom in our political history has a party defeated in a National election rallied immediately with such vigor as have the Republicans since 1884. No comparison is possible between the spirit of the party in 1882-3 and its spirit in 1886- 7. The two periods present simply a contrast—the one of general depression, the other of enthusiastic revival. Should the party gain in the results of 1888, over those of 1886 7, in anything like the proportion of the gain of 1884 over 1882-3, it would secure one of the most remarkable victories of its entire existence. But victory does not depend on so large a ratio of increase; the party has only to maintain relatively its gain of 1886-7 or give to its national candidates every northern State but one, with a far better prospect of carrying that one than it has had for the past six years. Another feature of the political situation should inspire Republicans with irresistible strength. The present Na tional administration was elected with, if not upon, the repeated assertions of its leading supporters in ezery protection State that no issue on the tariff was involved. However earnestly Republi cans urged that question as the one of controlling importance in the campaign, they were met by the Democratic leaders and journals with persistent evasion, concealment and denial. That resource the President has fortunately removed. The issue which the Republicans maintained and tbe Democrats avoided ’in 1884, has been prominently and specifically brought forward by the Democratic President, and cannot be hidden ont of sight in 1888. The country is now in the enjoy merit of an industrial system which in a quarter of century has assured a larger national growth, a more rapid accumulation and a broader distribution of wealth than were ever before known to history. - The American people will now openly and formally ask to decide whether this system shall be recklessly abandoned and a new trial be made of an old experiment which has unnormallyledtoNMlonatembArrafflfmentand widespread individual distrees. On (the result of such an issue,

fairly presented to the popular j ndgmeat there is no room to doub\ One thing is necessary to assure suc-cess-com plete harmony and cordial cooperation on the part of all Republicans —on the part both of those who aspire to lead and of those who are eager to follow. The duty is not one merely of honorable devotion to the party, whose record and whose aims are alike great, but it is one demanded by the instinct of self-interest and by the still higher promptings of patriotism. A closer observation of the conditions of life among tbe older nations gives one a more intense desire that the American people shall make no mistake in choosing the policy which inspires labor with nope and cro'wna it with dignity, which gives safety to capital and protects its increase, which seen res political power to every citizen, comfort, and culture to every home. To this end not less earnestly and more directly as a private citizen than as a public candidate, I shall devote myself with the confident belief that the administration of the government will be restored to tbe party which has demonstrated ths purpose and the power to wield it for the unity and tbe honor of the Republic,for the prosperity and progess of the people I am, very sincerely yours,

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

The Senate, on theßth, adopted a resolution calling for information relative to tbe organization of the dominion of Canada. The bill appropriating <11,200,000 for the erection of a public building at Kansas City was passed. The bill for the relief of importers of animals for breeding purposes in certain cases was passed. It directs the Secretary of tbe Treasury to omit all duties upon importation of animals for breeding purposes, whether imported for the importer’s own use or for sale, and provides that the fact ot such importation shall be a sufficit nt defense in any impending action. The bill to enable the State of Colorado to select indemnity school lands was passed, as was, also, the bill to authorize the Choctaw coal and iron company to construct and operate a railroad through the Indian Territory. In executive session Riddleberger became obstreperous and was suppressed by the Sergeant at Arms. The House passed the bill making bills of lading conclusive evidence in certain cases. Tiilthan, Stone, Chapman, Anderson and Parker were appointed a committee on the existing labor troubles in Pennsylvania. In the Senate, on the 9th. a resolution for the disposition of undistributed public documents called forth from Vest an arraignment of the policy of printing everything in the manner in vogue by tbe government. The;resolution was adopted. Riddleberger's resolution for amending the rules so as to allow the British extradition treaty to be considered in open session was reached in regular order. Riddleberger explained that the British liou’s tail had been twisted by a vote of 23.t0 21, the passage of the resolution was no longer necessary. Hawley and others called the Virginian to order, and he sat down, remarking as he did so that he supposed he h..d a right to say so much, and that he did not like to be called to order every time he rose. Riddleberger’s allusion was to a vote in secret session last night, by which consideration of the treaty was postponed to next December. The resolution oftered by Mr. Plumb, calling on the Secretary of War for information as to why adequate care is not taken of the military cemetery at Mound City, Kan., was adopted, as was also a resolution offered by Mr. Plumb. eMllnfdn ftfr'SecSetary of the interior for information as to charges made by registers and receivers of land officers for reducing test!mony to writ ing, A joint resolution providing for the erection of a statue to the late Spencer F. Baird, appropriating 115,003, was passed. An unimportant bill was passed, and a discussion on public buildings occupied the remainder of the day. Adjourned until Monday.

fei The House passed a Senate bill to relinquish thi interests of the United States on certain lands in Oaage, County, Kansas. Also, a bill to discontinue the coinage of the three cent piece. Also, a bill to promote agriculture. It provides that such portions ot tbe consular reports as refer to agricultural matters shall be transmitted to the Commissioner of Agriculture for embodiment in his reports. Alto, a bill amending the laws regulating fees for exemplifications of land patents. A bill requiring subsidized railroads to maintain and operate separate telegraph lines, created extended discussion, but without action on its passage. The bill is called forth by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, whose charters require this of them, but both have entered into contract with the Western Union Telegraph Company instead. In tbe House, on the 10th, the Senate bill granting right of way to the Choctaw coal and iron company for a railroad through the Indian Territory was passed. The resolution dirt cling the Postmaster general to inquire into and report the cause and foundation for the grievances complained of in a Kansas newspaper regarding the Western mail service, and also to inform the House whether the almost universal complaint prevailin’ in tbe West against the present unsatisfactory mail service results from the employment of inexperienced and incapable or insufficient appropriations. Was adopted. After considering private bills the House adjourned until Monday. In the Senate, on tbe 13th, Mr. Riddleberger’s fight against secret sessions in general and against the British extradition treaty in particular was recognized in the shape of a large and very handsome floral harp placed on his desk by tbe Irish society calh d the Clan-na-Gael. The resolution in regard to the inefficiency in the postal department was taken up and Reagan defended the administration. The following bills were passed: Appropriating StOO.oOCO for the construction of a public buildiug at Portland,, Orc.; relating to lands ip Colorado, lately occupied by ihe Uncompahgre and White-river Ute Indians ;-for the relief of A. B Norton, postmaster Dallas, Tex. Voorhees defended the action of the committee relative to the .erection of the library building In reply to recent remarks by Plumb, cbargtng extravagance and incompetency. In the Honse, thebill punishing the advertising of lottery ticket in the District of Columbia w«b referred to the judiciary committee, after debate, by ayes 117, nays 115. A bill was passed to prohibit any person in Washington or Georgetown from making books or pools un the result of any races or any game of base ball. A resolution, was adopted calling upon the Treasury Depart meet for information relative to the refusal of the Canadian authorities to allow American vessels when in distress to enter Canadian canals or waters.

A Lesson in Poke.

Texas Siftings. Uncle Raatus—“Ye see, Sammy, three ob a kind will beat any, two pairs.’’ Sammy—“ Yea, uncle, but whatyo’ do When five ob a kind turn up?” -Uncle Raatu»—l‘J. lhink. Chile, dat would be a good time fo’ ye to bab your razor kinder handy."

JAMAS G. BLAINE.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A steam creamery will soon be erected at Seymour. / Shelbyville will make another attemt to get gas. ► Cholera is fast killing hogs at Lewisville. Mart Reynolds and William hall Trave lost nearly tjreir entire stock. Arcadia has but, two saloons, whose license will soon expire, and the citizens are making a strong fight against renewal ' About one-third of the regular force of employes at the Jeffersonville Oar W orks have been laid off on account of the completion of various contracts. White Capo visited the house of Thomas Brashears, in Lower Albany, Tuesday night, but owing to the pleadings of his wife be was let off. Brashears had been .whipping his wife. The bundle of switches was left as a warning. The boiler of a traction engine on the farm of John Spence, in Wabash county, exploded, Friday, and J. T. Smith and Joel Hale were instantly killed. Several bystanders were injured. The accident was caused by pumping cold water into the super-heated boiler. If a writ of eiror is granted in the Coy-Bernhamer case, Senator Voorhees, Senator Turpie, ex-Senator McDonald and Mr. Bynum will make the argument before the Supreme Court. Indiana men at Washington, think Coy and Bernhamer will go free on tbe ground of non-juriadiction. The Fort Wayne bricklayers, or so many of them -aa have been lately employed, quit work Tuesday, and the Bricklayers’ Union, of which they are .all members, served notice upon the bosses and contractors that they would not resume work until concessions had been granted them. They demand 38 cents an hour for nine hours’ work and full payment of wages everv week. Dr. E. H.Pritchard.Stare Veterinarian,

returned Wednesday from Spartansburg, Randolph county, where, upon the farm of E. L. Anderson, he found seven horses that were sick with glanders. The disease is incurable, and he ordered them quarantined. That is they will either have to be killed or kept on the farm, and no other horses brought upon the premier s. The disease was brought there three years ago by a pony from Illinois. Three horses have aiready died there from the disease. A disease among horses, heretofore unknown to veterinary surgeons, has made its appearance in Grant county. Nathan Stevens reports the Joss of three horses by this malady, and others in the locality have been attacked. Tbe disease, from the best information to be gained, is similar to tonsilitis < r diphtheria as it attacks the human family. The throat of the horse becomes sore and ulcerated, swells greatly and death results from strangulation. The same disease has broken out in . several localities in Madison county. Patents were issued to Indianians as follows: Beavers, Jeremiah V., Mcunt Summit, line-holder; Hill, James, Wilkesbarxe, Pa., assignor to I. & L. Pump Company, Goshen, step-ladder, Jones, Geo. 8., Laconia, combined sawfiler, gauge and gammer; King, James Sandusky, wire fence; Looker, Wm. C., and J. Newlove, Union Mills, plumb level; Lynn, Mirabeau N., Rising Sun, assignor to Lynn Engine Company. Dayton, 0., steam boilei; Moore, William, Moony, saw file adjusting weight; Rariden, Francis M., Waynetown, assignor of one-half to A. R. Heath, Covington, car coupling; Shuman, Grant W., Lake Station, harvester; Straughn, Alanson W., Lincolnville, straw-stacker. ■ The Bureau of has ascertained that the corn crop of the last year averaged 21 6 bushels to the acre. By comparing this with the average crops reported by other States, it is found that Indiana did not suffer to a greater extent than her neighbors. By such a comparison it isalso shown that Indiana is one of the best corn States in the country. The following tab.e gives the total product and average yield per acre of corn in Indiana and in the United States for the past seven years INDIANA. UNITED STATES. Year. Product. Average. Product. Average. 1880 .. 87,603,739 29 72 1,717,434,513 27.6 1881.. 70,687 075 23 12 1.194 616,100 18 6 1882.. .797 34 89 1,617,025,100 24.6 1883.. 89,690,797 .28 52 1,551,196,895 22.7 18-4... 89,15X799 35 22 1,795,528,000 25.8 1585.. 25 82 1,936,176,000 26.6 1586.. 33 51 1,665,441,000 22 0 1887.. 70,017,604 21 60 1,45 ,161,000 20.1 One of the most shocking tragedies ever enacted in Boone county took place at Mechanicsburg, Boone county, at 9 o’olock Friday night, resulting in the death of two men and the serious wounding of a young lady. At the hour named John Buttery went to the residence of his step mother, Mrs, M. A. Buttery, where he found Frank Moore and his step sister, Etta McMullen. Almost without warning he opened fire on them with a revolver, the first shot striking Moore in the back just under the left shoulder blade. Moore jumped up and starlet! out of the house, when a second shot was fired. A third shot was fired at Miss Buttery, striking her in the neck behind the ear, making a serious but not fatal wound, and felling her to the floor. The murderer then ran into the kitchen and, placing the muzzle of the revolver behind the right ear, sent a bullet through hie brain. The girl soon recovered eonsciousDees, and gave the alarm. When the people gat hired they found young Moore in the yard, dead. Battery survived but a few minutes. Moore and Mias McMullen, who were

both estimable young people, were to have been married within a month. Buttery was deeply in love with his step sister, and wanted to marry her, and jealousy and revenge,beyond doubt, wpre the cause of the deed. He was a bad character, anl had only a few months ago been prosecuted by his mother-in-law and sister in-law for theft. It is now thought his purpose was to kill the mother-in-law also, who escaped only by being away from home. Buttery left Mechanicsburg atd,ut .two mouths ago for some of his mi aniesa and returned only Friday, no doubt, for the purpose of committing the murder. His suicide was an after-coneideration, as it is said that after the sister-in-law was shot he took |4 from her pocket. A terriffic explosion of natural gas occurred at Anderson, Tuesday morning at 7 o’clock, at the residence of Thomas M. Norton, causing the death of F. C. Rogers, injuries to several of the Norton family, and the partial destruction of the building. The residence of Mr. Norton was a substantial brick cottage, one and one-half stories in height. The front room below is cut off from the other part of the house by a hall. This room was occupied by Mr. Rogers as a sleeping-room, the Norton family using the remainder of the house. The room immediately over the room occupied by Mr. Regers was the sleeping apartment of Miss Bessie Rogers, aged about eighteen," and her younger sister, Ollie. Mrs. Norton arose as usual and proceeded about her houeehold duties. A few minutes before 7 o’clock Mrs. Norton knocked at the door of Mr. Rogers’s room and said to him that she would come in and light the fire. She went to the kitchen and lighted a piece of paper and went back and opened the door. An explosion instantly followed, blowing the wails of the front part of the house completely off the foundations, and causing the ceiling and floor of the room above to fall. Mrs. Norton was blown across the hall, and was severely burned about the face, bands and neck. The force of the concussion and the falling building crushed Mr. Rogers and caused instant death. Miss Bessie Norton, who was in the room overhead, was thrown from her bed and fell with the falling floor of her room, but escaped with slight bruises. Her sister had just left the room, and was' uninjured. Mr. Norton was considerably burned, but is able to be about The building is badly wrecked, and the loss on building and furniture will be about $2,000. Mr. Rogers was a widower, witbout children. Various theories are advanced as to the explosion. Some think it was caused by defective fittings at the stove, others that the gas escaping from the street mains had been drawn into the cellar and then escaped to the house, while others claim that the explosion was caused by the escape of artificial gas.

Priest Discovers a Mighty Explosive.

Chicago Tribune. Bev. Father Donahue, the Catholic priest at Charleston, 111., has just made a new discovery that is far superior to any that he has yet made. He calls it Latofer Quate, and in effect it resembles the Russian lectover, the most effective explosive known to science. He claims that, if anytbii g, it is far. superior and more deadly. It is put up in fuses, and is made from pine gum. Mr. Donahue has been appointed a Lieutenant in the French army on account of his previous discovery, and yesterday he received a gold medal, handsomely engraved, from the Mt x'can Government, who desire to secure his services. He claims that with this last discovery gunpowder can he made more cheaply, and the new com* i pound will be substituted for it in time.

A Policy That Won.

Three years ago the two Draper sisters, who owned -a little farm about eighteen miles from Boston, gave up school teaching to see what they could make from their land. They started out with the idea of selling nothing but the very best products of their farm,and to make what they did sell appear to the best advantage. They began with fowls and eggs, and stamped each egg with date of its laying. They never made a misstatement, and now they are making money, for they can get double the market rates for moat articles they offer for sale.

THE MARKETS.

lanururoLß February 14, IWB. ■ eaaiN. Wheat. No. 2 Med.. 64 I Com, No. 2 White, 62 No. 8 Med... 83% | No. 2 Yellow, 49 No. 2 8ed...53 | Oats, No. 3 White... 2:44 Wagon wheatß4 I Rye......—.——14 LIVI STOCK. Canu—Extra choice 5teen—..4.75*5.00 uood to choice steers........ _a.25m.7j Extra choice heitets.._.3.ooaß.3> Good to cnoike heifers2.2s*2.7s Good to choice c0w5—.2.8'1*3.15 Hoee—Heavy packing and shippings.Bo*s.4s Light and mixed packings. 2 *5.30 Pigs and heavy r0ugh5....3.75*4.60 Bhkxt Extra choice... »*»***—« ..—_4.75M.8S Good to choice... 4.20b4. /o BOOS, BVTrKK, POULTBY. ggs.-61 I Poultry,hens per lb 7% utter, creamery ...25c I Boosters.™ 4 fancy country.—-18c I Turkeys...—7% choice country...l4c 1 .. —, MISCKLLANBOttB. Wool—Fine merino, tub warned......_—3si3Bc' ** <to unvalued. med—— 3 a 34c “ • veiy course..... ......14>ti2o w.. choice .imoiJL.yi.7s ougar cured ham 1 13c 8rau—.....6-5 1 Bacon ciearsi-tes iOC Floor, patent...! 4Ua» 65 ( Feather-, prime voo« u c Extra tancv ....» Jue- 10 -iovet -ec .. 4.25 Chicago. Wheat (Feb.)—76. I 1 0rx.._....14.05 Oom “ ...—47 I Lard...— Oats “ 81%|tnos..— -7.4 U un «nrg. Cattle —Fancy 3 00a.5 W Lixh' ...5.wa5.30 C0w5...... I.MJaS.OO “Rjughpack Al 0*5.40 5t0cker5......2.10*3.5 Mixed packing-fc strip Sheer.... 8.50 a ui lug ..sa\M> Family fllur, 3 40*T73rwtei.t FT: com. f 2; oats. 8 ; rye, 69; pork, KOO; lard, 7.86; short rib*. 7.7 c; butter cieamery 2'.*27; eggs le: