Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Page 2

• •THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. BEWBBBI.AIB, • ■>' INDIAWA.

YACHT IS RUN DOWN.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. • . -*ir- ■ .. ...«•:. .. . ,>... , - Bnicide of a War Department Clerk— Probably Fatal Shooting of a Chicago Board of Trade Man —Thief Borrows Labor’s Livery. - : Steamer Sinks a Pleaeore Yacht. The sloop yacht Adelaide, owned by Robert W. Inman Jr., the cotton broker, while cruising off Norton’s Point Mon-, day night was run into by the iron steamboat Perseus. Eight persons, ineludlng: the Crew, were drowned. Of these two were rescued by the steamer’s crew; three who went into the water are said to have been picked up by an unknown schoonee, and the others are supposed to be aboard the yacht. Besides the fact of the collision itself it showed a shocking state of affairs regarding the steamer, as it was necessary to cut the lifeboats from their fastennigs before they could be lowered into the water. The yacht had the right of way. There was no need of tl collision between it and the steamer, and no excuse for one. Capt. Hulse, of the steamer Perseus saw the danger, but it was too late to avoid collision. He liad the engines reversed and the steamer was under but little headway when her sharp nose Btruck the Adelaide just forward of amidships.

Thief’s Clever Dodge. A dastardly attempt to pervert the Chicago Civic Federation’s street-cleaning brigade into a machine for the protection of crime was made Monday. It was Joe Mason, sneak thief and pickpocket, who had the brazen effrontery. lie had tried and Adams streets, and for some unaccountable reason a policeman was there. Detective Sergeant O’Neil chased Mason to Clark and Madison streets, where the hardened erimiual, dodging around a corner, bribed a street sweeper to give him his broom and began sweeping the street. O’Neil on coming up was mystified for a moment by the complete disappearance of his man, but discovered and arrested him in a moment. Mason had made the mistake ~of working fastand "hard, and his diligence gave him away; He was fined $lO and costs by Justice Richardson. W. W. Kittell Kills Himself. W. W. Kittell, an attache of the war department at Washington, shot and killed hfttiself in his room at the Hotel Willey in Pittsburg Monday morning. A note to the proprietor said nobody would claim his remains. The only other writing found on the body was a scrap of paper on which was written in a feminine hand: “I hereby prdmise that I will never nsk you to take me anywhere. Q. A. Wylie.” An express money order receipt -for SIOO, the order being payable to G. W. Kittell, at Bartone, Fla., furnished the.only definite dew to the whereabouts of the suicide's friends. Kittell was about thirty years of age and well dressed. Kittell was appointed clerk in the record and pension devision of the war department from Nebraska in 1891. He was on a week’s leave of absence. It was understood that he was soon to be married. C. H. Blackman Shot. Members of the Chicago Board of Trade and a host of old friends and acquaintances were shocked Monday by the news that Carlos H. Blackman had been accidentally and probably fatully shot at Block Island, R. L Mr. Blackman was one of the oldest traders on the board. The shooting was done Saturday evening by Charllie Bascom, of St. Louis, 17 years old. Young Bascom fired at a target and the bullet struck Mr. Blackman in the abdomen. The steamer Ocean View was dispatched to the mainland and soon returned with Drs. Bull and Brewer, of New York. They did all that was possible for the sufferer, but expressed the fear that the wound would prove fatal. The bullet was located in the lives'. '

BREVITIES.

Bandits who held up Wiliam Lee, a Liberty, Ind., farmer, got 22 cents for their trouble. Miss Annie Sandritter died at Leavenworth from a spider bite. She was bitten on the lip and blood poisoning set in. In a fight with the Christian gang of outlaws near Purcell, I. T., United States Marshal Jake Hooker was shot and mortally wounded and Bob Christian shot, but how serious his injuries are cannot be determined. The gang escaped. The Denver police have been notified of the arrest of Elmer Loescher, the missing engineer of the Gumry Hotel, at Antonito, iu the southwestern part of the State. It is alleged he admits he alone is responsible for the disaster by which twenty-two lives were sacrificed. Obituary—At North Andover, Mass., H. O. Houghton, Sr., head of the Boston publishing house of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 70; at Dubuque, lowu, Mrs. Adeline Stetson, an old-time actress, 07; at Edgewood, 111., Itobert L. Jennings, of Milwaukee; ut Detroit, James L. Edson, 05; at Indianapolis, Thomas Barnitt, 80. The Great Northern overland passenger train, which left Seattle, Wash., at 7:10 o’clock Sunday night, ran into a landslide fifteen miles from Richmond Beach. The engine and tender were ditched and the fore trucks of the bag-gage-car left the track. Engineer Neal McKinley was killed. The train had many passengers, and McKinley, in the face of danger, stood at his post and succeeded in saving the lives of those he piloted only to be horribly mangled himself. t-- -4-y Three children of Henry Johnson, colored, living near Mexia, Texas, were burned to death Sunday night while their parents were at church. While counting his honrd of $5,000 at Hamilton, Ala., Ben Stillman upset a lamp, which, exploding, set fire to the house and the money and cabin were consumed. D. W. Knoll, a traveling insurance Agent, cut his threat at the home of a friend in Cleveland, Ohio. Probate Judge White decided at Cleveland that Will J. McConnell, the wellluown temperance lecturer, la insane.

EASTERN.

A heavy frost, destructive *©-crops and fruits, visited Southwestern Pennsylvania Thursday night. The Grand Union Hotel a t Congers;'Nr Y., caught fire and,, with its eoutents, was totally destroyed. Loss, $85,000. The Ingrain Carpet Weavers, of Philadelphia, who Went strike .. .several weeks ago for an increase of 7 per cent, in wages, have won the tight. Forest fires are raging in Southern New Jersey. Hundreds of miles have already been burned over, houses and live stock consumed, and it is feared there has been considerable loss of life. The American Spirits Manufacturing Company, the reorganized whisky trust, filed a certificate of incorporation •at Albany, X. Y„ paying therefor a tax of $43,750. The company’s capital is placed at $35,000,000, of which $2Si00llj)00 Is common and $7,000,000 preferred stock. A man giving the name of Henry Lindlinger, of Chicago, bound for New York, apparently, about thirty years of age, was taken in custody by. the conductor of a West Shore train shortly after leaving Buffalo. When sitting in his seat he Suddenly threw his pocketbook and satchel through a car window, and "grabbed the satchels of Several other passengers and treated them in like manner. An explosion at furnace 11. of the Carnegie Steel Company, nt Braddock, Pa., at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning killed six men, injured ten more and destroyed $30,000 worth of property. Five of the injured will die. All of the killed and injured were Hungarians, except James Harrison, the foreman. The explosion was due to a “hang” in the furnace, which suddenly loosened and dropped into the molten metal below, generating an immense quantity of gas so suddenly that it could not escape by the ordinary means and the explosion followed. The terrible Joss of life was due to a peculiar cause A few minutes before the explosion occurred one of the top fillers dumped a barrow of material into the bell of the furnace, which he had forgotten to raise. This clogged the top of the' furnace and prevented the gas escaping. A gang of sixteen men, in charge of James Harrison, was sent at once to the top to remove the obstruction. All were closely crowded around the bell of the furnace removing the material when there was a terrific explosion and men, barrow, tools and material were hurled in all directions. Flames, deadly gases and sawke belched from the furnace-top, and then men fell as if shot. Only one man was killed instantly.

WESTERN.

A bad wreck is said to have occurred on the- Baltimore .and Ohio -Southwestern Road, about sixty miles from Jeffersonville, Ind., Monday morning. Four passengers and the engineer are reported killed. The number of bodies so tar found in the ruins of the Guuirv Hotel at Denver is twenty-two. Two of these have not been fully identified.' The last one re : covered may be the body of William D. Dodds, of Albany, N. Y., some of whose personal effects were found’in the ruins. Charles It. Bishop, first vice president >f the Bank of California, in San Franlisco, has contributed SBOO,OOO to schools ind societies in the Hawaiian Islands. The money is to be used to promote the nterosts of a number of institutions sus:ained by the late Mrs. Bishop during her ifetime. Thomas Wiekersham, a young Salina, [van,, business man, has brought suit for {5,000 damages against A iss Cora Ahart lor breach of promise. Wickersliam al-leges-that Miss Aliart, in February, 1894, promised to marry him, but later spurned lis attentions. She has, the petition furIher alleges, given him up for “a liausome Jtranger, supposed to be a ranchowner from Colorado.”'

A troop of cavalry Las been sen't to the [lorn Basin country, Arizona Territory, in pursuit of a band of Indian outlaws who have been committing depredations in that region for several mouths. A squaw arrived at Wilcqx who says she was captured by the band, who murdered her mother, and forced her and her papoose to accompany them. She finally escaped, and rode day until she arrived to report the matter to the authorities. Several other murders are said to have been committed by the outlaws. Union Pacific No. S overland flyer, due n Omaha Wednesday morning at 10:25, vas held up by 'highwaymen at some toiut between Brady Island and Gotheuturg, Neb. The train left North Platte .t 11 o’clock Monday night. The engine vas cut off by the bandits and sent forward while they looted the train. The iugine went on to Gothenburg for assistince. The robbers blew up the express :ar with dynamite. While they were ising the engineer to get the express car ►pen the fireman ran off with the eugine •o Gothenburg for assistance. The coun;ry in the vicinity of the holdup is fairly well settled. All were heavily armed and a conflict is probable. Two boys, a young girl and a man were drowned in Lake at Chicago Monday. They were: Arthur H. Butler, 11) years old; Walter Butler, 17 years old; Florence Millard, 13 years old; Thos. Walsh, 35 years old. The Butler brothers went in swimming and Walter was carried beyond his depth by the undertow. Arthur tried to save him and both were lost. Florence Millard, daughter of William Millard, went in bathing with Grace Mihill, 17 yenrs old, and a sister of Miss Mihill, aged 0. The waves carried them beyond their depth. George Brown and Ilnrry Duck managed to rescue the Mihill girls. Thomas Walsh was drowned while bathing.

Fallowing is the ticket nominated by the Ohio State Democratic convention at Springfield Wednesday: Governor... James E. Campbell Lieutenant Governor... .John B. Penslee State Auditor James W. Knott State Treasurer William B. Sholer Supreme Judge William T. Mooney Attorney General. .George A. Fairbanks Member of the Board of Public Works Harry B. Keefer Clerk of the Supreme Court. ■ J. W. Cruiksliank The convention, by n vote of 525 to 270, reaffirmed the financial plank of the Democratic national convention of 1802 and in dorsed the administration of Prcßidcut Cleveland and the course iu the Senate of Calvin S. Brice.

Milton C. Merrill, night ynrdnnuster of the Chicugo, Burlington and Quincy Uuilroad at Chicago, by his own desiierute act Monday night dissolved the injunction that Judge Chctlain granted his wife restraining him from marrying auy other woman or pretending to do so. He turned on the gas in his room and died by asphyxiation. Most novel, indeed, was the prayer of the petitioner, Mrs. Minnie Merrill, ao Id valid, who asked the court to

enjoin Mr. Merrill from making good his threat to marry Mary Beeticb, and the gossips of the corridors of the County Building had scarcely ceased discussing the court’s temporary restraining order granted on the petition when the news of therdefendant’s effective plan to escape service was brought to theip. Fire burned over a dozen blocks in Milwaukee Thursday and destroyed property worth $382,000. It started on the river -front at the Water street bridge and before it was stopped it had burned a swath front one to three blocks wide to Sixth street. A stiff breeze served to fan the flames and sent them traveling west over the yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad G om l’ an > r with startling rapidity, destroying in their path the - freight warehouses of railroad and steamship companies, valuable freight in' storage and railway cars. For four hours al) the fire apparatus, firemen and employes of the railroad company in the city fought the progress of the flames before they were under control. When the fighters .finished work at night two companies of firemen were left to guard half a square mile of glowing embers. During the exciting scenes incident to fire-fighting a boy was run oyer by a fire engine and killed.

A peculiar will contest which revealed the mysterious life of Morris Goldberg, a capitalist,-who led a hermit-like life in hills of East Oakland, Cal., has been abandoned. Goldberg became afflicted with a throat disease a year ago and on account of his inability to swallow was threatened with death by starvation. As his condition became more serious the old man’s desire to live became more intense, and he offered his physician $225- for every day they should keep him alive. A tube was inserted into Goldberg's stomach, through which nourishment was forced, and by this means he was kept alive forty days, incurring a doctor’s bill in the meantime of $9,000. When his will was filed for probate, in which an estate valued at $200,000 was disposed of, Miss Gutte Simsen,. a niece, of Philadelphia, filed a protest. Miss Simsen has at last consented to compromise the case for SB,OOO, and will return to Philadelphia in a few days.

SOUTHERN.

Two negro children on the Searles ranch, nine miles from Bryan, Texas, were attempting to start a fire with kerosene when the can exploded and both were_ burned to death. At Pine Bluff, Ark., Jesse Isborg, colored, who became crazed by religion at a revival meeting and kept up his prayers all night, shot his landlady, Mandy Walker, four times at the breakfast table, fatally wounding her. He then blew his own brains out. The steamer John D. Scully; one of the oldest crafts plying southern waters, was destroyecLby fire while tied to the bank at Carrollton, La. She was owned by Captain M. N. Wood, an old-timer, well known in river circles, and was usually run as an independent packet during the busy season in the tributaries and bayous of the Mississippi River. The Shoaily Bend vendetta of Montgomery County, Ark., is charged with having added atfother murder to its list. The body of a prominent doctor, J. H. Brooks, was found partially eaten by hogs and riddled with buckshot. About one month ago a prominent farmer named Redwine was foully assassinated while at work in his field. Dr. Brooks, it is said, denounced the murder l as a blot upon the. community, and asserted tfcat its perpetrator must be run down. He declared that he would see that the next grand jury thoroughly investigated it. It is supposed that he Was assassinated to prevent him doing this. John Wester Hardin, the terror of the Mexican border, .was shot and killed in the Acme saloon in El Paso, Texas, by Constable John Sellman. Sellman’s son, who is on the police force, arrested a female friend of Hardin a few days ago, and Hardin threatened to run Sellman out of the town. Monday night Sellman walked into the saloon with a friend. Hardin was inside, and when lie saw Sellman he threw his hand to his hip pocket. In an instant Sellnmn’s gun was out and a ball went crashing through Hardin’s brain. Hardin had in his lifetime killed nine men and served eighteen years in prison for one of his murders. While in prison at Hunterville, Texas, he studied law and was admitted to the bar on his release nearly two years ago. Several months ago lie held up a faro game in El Paso. Sellman is the officer who killed the notorious Bass, outlaw, a year ago.

WASHINGTON.

The President has signed an order extending the classified service to include all printers and pressmen employed in the various executive departments. •The official statement of the assets of Bingen Bros., bankers, of Genoa, Italy, who recently failed, shows them to be £2,500,000. The liabilities are £14,000,000. Secretary Carlisle has forwarded to the President the report of William E. Meyers, expert treasury accountaut, in the case of Ainsworth R. Spofford, librarian of Congress. The Secretary recommends that Spofford be removed and that proper steps be taken to recover the full amount of the deficit. The expenditures of the government for the first two-thirds of the present month exceeded the receipts by $7,000,202, but only $1,250,000 remains to be paid on account of pensions, and the treasury officials estimate that the deficit will be reduced during the next ten days ta about $5,000,000. The excess of expenditures over receipts last month was $8,478,800. The ••hottest’’ man iu Washington is Nathaniel Paige, principal counsel for the claimants iu the celebrated Mora case, just forced to a final settlement. As a part owner of tho $1,500,000 claim it would seem that Mr. Paige should be wreathed in smiles Instead of clouded with frowns, but he, has a grievance. The larger part of bis contingent fee was dependent upon the payment of the interest, amounting to something like $650,000, and the waiving of that part of the claim shuts him out of over SIOO,OOO. Nb wonder he is angry, Joy he lias been putting in most of his time for seven or eight yenrs in the case. It transpires that the Mora family—-father and children - will not benefit largely by the payment of the claim, most of it having been assigned around among capitalists and lawyers.

FOREIGN.

The Hawaiian congress has ratified the cable contract made by President Dole with 'A. 8. Spaulding, who will ask the next congress for in annual subsidy of $250,000. , > The Chinese officials at Ku Cheng have positively refused to allow the American Consul, J. C. Hixson, and the British (Jon-

■ul, R. W. Mansfield, opportunity to Investigate the massacre of missionaries: there. The Paraguay Government has signed an agreement for the settlement of the foreign debt.- From January next it pays interest at the rate of 5 per cent., which will be increased one-half per cent, every three years until 1908, when 3 per cent, will be paid until the extinction of the debt. A Singapore letter to the London Times says that consequent upon thedegislative retention of the silver guilder at the old value, which is about double the intrinsic value in the Netherlands, coining factories' Ifave been established in China, and the -export of guilders thence yields a handsome profit. It is estimated that two million of such counterfeit coins are already in circulation and the evil already threatens to increase.

Another outrage has been committed near Foo Cbow, China. The American mission has been attacked by a large and infuriated mob armed with various weapons The chapel and school were wrecked and four native scholars were fatally wounded, while the foreign teacher escaped. There is a strong antiforeign feeling in Foo Chow, which is spreading among the populace, who are parading with cries of “Drive- out-the foreign devils.” The navy department has been informed by Commander Perry of his action in not saluting the French flag at Tamatave. His course meets the approval of the department. Tamatave is not a French port. Consul Wetter, who represents the United States, is credited to Madagascar, and in the official register of the State Department the representatives of the United States in Madagascar are not listed under the head of France, but of Madagascar.

IN GENERAL

A committee of the British Board o. Trade is considering the advisability of sending a representative to Washington to arrange a joint scheme to destroy floating derelicts, especially in the North Atlantic. —lt has been arranged that President Cleveland will touch the button at Gray Gabies on Sept. lSuncHsct in motion the machinery and unfurl the flag at the Cotton States International Exposition Buildings at Atlanta, Ga. The principal :ffldross of the opening day will be delivered by an orator of national reputation, whose name is not yet made public. Owing to the low price of horses incident to the general use of bicycles and electric power, large shipments of horses are being made from Baltimore to European markets. The Johnson Line has made five shipments to Antwerp-and Havre. The steamship lines say this promises to compensate them for the falling off of cattle exports, owing to the foreign exclusion o,f American cattle. Knights Templar rates to Boston from Chicago went to smash. Tickets were offered on the street Thursday as low as $lO for the round trip. All the Eastern roads threw restrictions of every kind to the wind and practically did ail the seaboard business on the basis of one fare for the round trip over their own counters; but the brokers did much better for purchasers and sold tickets at whatever they could get for them. There could be no doubt about the acceptance of the tickets, because the roads did away with even the signature requirement and all tickets were good- for- -bearer. -.lt. ia..hard.. lft.Jaiagine, how any traffic could be more demoralized. It was many times worse than it was during the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor gathering.

The following is tlie standing of the clubs in the National League: Per

P. W. L. cent. Baltimore 07 02 35 .030 Cleveland 106 67 39 .632 Pittsburg ......102 59 43 .578 Boston 08 55 43 -00 l Philadelphia ... 00 55 44 .556 Brooklyn 100 55 45 .sno Chicago 103 56 47 .544 Cincinnati 08 53 45 .541 New York 100 51 40 .510 Washington .... 94 31 63 .330 St. Louis 103 32 71 -311 Louisville 98 23 75 .235 WESTERN T.EAGER. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ... 99 65 94 .657 Kansas City. .. .102 60 42 " .588 St. Paul 99 57 42 .576 Milwaukee 102 51 51 .500 Minneapolis ....100 49 51 .400 Terre Haute.. . .102 44 58 .431 Detroit .100 44 65 .404 Grand Rapids. .103 34 69 .830

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $2.75 to SG.OO; hogs, shipping grades, SB.OO to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $2.75; wheat, No. 2 ml, 02c to 08c; corn. No. 2,87 cto 89c; outs, No. 2. 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2. 42c to 44c; butter, choice creamery. 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 18c; potatoes, new, per bushel, 85c to 45c; broom corn, common growth to tine brush. 2c to s^4c per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, SB.OO to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $8.50; wheat, No. 2,01 cto 68c-; corn, No. 1 white, 30c to BSc; oats, No. 3 white, 28c to 27c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2. red, G3c to 04c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2,40 c to 41c. Cincinnati—Cuttle. $3.50 to $5.50; hog* $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00: wheat, No. 2,00 cto 07c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24a; rye, No. 2,44 cto 40c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 rod, 04c to OCc; corn. No. 2 yellow, 39c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, 43c to 44c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 39c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye. No. 2,44 cto 40c. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $0.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 09c to 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 28c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 01c corn, No. 3,37 cto 39c; oats. No. 2 22c to 23c; barley. No. 2,43 cto 45c; rye, No. 1,44 cto 40c; pork, mess, $9.25 to $9.75. T»ew York—Cattle, $3.00 to $G.25; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 07c to 08c; corn, No. 2, 44c to 45e; outs, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western, 13c to 15c.

PANIC ON A STEAMED.

TOLEDO EXCURSIONISTS IN A COLLISION. Figures from Abroad on the Wheat Crop—Welcome Bain Vlsite a Wide Area—Rothschild’s Life AttemptedTwenty Gnns Bring Death. i_ Seven Badly Hnrt. About 9 o’clock Saturday evening the passenger steamer City of Toledo was returning to Toledo from her regular trip tor'-put-in-Bay and encountered the schooner Magdalen Dowling in tow of the tug Butler in the straight channel just off Presque Isle. As the City of Toledo was coming in she signaled to the schooner to take the port side. •’The signals were apparently understood, for the tug at once commenced to sheer off, but in doing so gave the schooner a momentum which carried-her onto a bank of mud just ns the steamer was abreast of her. She suddenly slid off the bank and veered into the City of Toledo, her jibboom striking the passenger steamer just forward of her gangway. About fifty feet of her upper works were torn away. As soon as the collision occurred a panic reigned on board, the men acting like insane persons, mist of them taking three or four life preservers and refusing to give them up. The officers used every endeavor to quiet the passengers, assuring them that there was no danger of the boat going down, and after a few minutes succeeded in restoring order. The schooner was pulled away from the wreck and the debris cleared away. It was found that seven persons had been seriously injured, while at least fifty rdbeived severe cuts and bruises. A great many of the people were sitting directly beneath the boom when it was pushed through the vessel

Dun’s Trade Review. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of irado says: The volume of business shrank, as is natural in August, and the shrinkage seems rather larger than usual, because transacting iu July were somewhat inflated for unit month. Some industries did more than ever before in August, and the prospect for fall trade is good in others, although much depends on the crops, and the outcome is less clear than speculators-on-eithcr side are-dis—-posed to admit. Industrial troubles have not entirely ceased, but have become much less threatening. Big Shortage in the Wheat Crop. The Hungarian Minister of Agriculture announces as a result data obtained from Consuls and specialists, that the World’s wheat crop for 1895 is as follows: The total production in countries which import wheat is estimated at 749,022,000 bushels. In countries which export the total production is 1,051,701,000 bushels. The Minister also amends the estimate of the crop of 1894 so as to make the total in that year 2,032,730,000 bushels, showing the crop of 1895 is 232,000,000 bushels less than that of 1894; Drought Broken by Heavy Rains. The drought in the Northwest, which was becoming serious, was broken Friday night by general rains. In Central and Western Illinois and in some portions of lowa crops were suffering severely for lack of rain. The corn crop of Central Illinois has been so much affected that it is doubtful if the rain will bring up the average to estimates of three weeks ago.

Three Die by Fire. The Air Line Hotel, at Air Line Junction, near Toledo, Ohio, burned late Friday night. Nearly all the guests escaped with only their nightclothes. Timothy McCarthy hailed from Hillsdale. He was taken from the building soon after tlie arrival of the department, badly burned, and died before reaching the ground. The names of the two others are not known. 'The loss will be $25,000. — Bows to UUclc Sam. It is s*mi-officially announced that the French Government has granted the request of United States Ambassador Eustis to allow a representative of tlie United States Embassy to visit John L. Waller iu his prison under the usual prison regulations. It is stated, however, no further steps can be taken until the papers in the case arrive.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Grace Newman, 20 years old* pretty and stylishly dressed, leaped from a ferryboat at Detroit and was drowned. The whole south side of the Osceola, Neb., square was burned, with the exception of the Osceola Bank. The loss is over $50,000, with less than $5,000 insurance The Stromsburg and Shelby fire companies were culled and responded. Laura Jackson Arnold, aged 70 years, sister of “Stonewall” Jackson, and residing at Columbus, Ohio, left Friday to attend the reunion at Buckannon of the Fifth West Virginia Union Cavalry, of which she is the “mother,” having becti a Union woman during the war. Allen Wilson, a negro at Watongn, Ok., drank twenty glasses of gin in less than thirty minutes, staggered home and died in a few hours. He drank the liquor in Andrew Hank’s saloon, a crowd of interested spectators paying for the drinks for the fun of seeing them drank so fast. A serious attempt has been made upon the life of Buron Alphonse de liothschild at Paris. A large and heavy envelope was received at the bank Saturday addressed to the Bnron, and was opened by M. Zudkovitz, the confidential clerk of the banker. Just ns the clerk opened the envelope it exploded with great force. It tore obt his right eye and blew off some of his fingers. Frank A. Iteed, o prominent citizen of Alexandria, Va„ shot and killed himself at his home. The cause of the deed is not known.

An attempt was made to blow up a Northern Pacific train near Butte, Mont., by placing a dynamite in a frog. The last eur was shuttered, but no one hurt. Thomas J. Thornton has been sentenced to be hanged ut Fort Smith, Ark., Oct. 9, for murder. It is said six people will corroborate Durrnut’s alibi statement in Ilia trial for murder at San Francisco, Cal. • i John T. Jones, James Henry end Henry Piper were indicted at Carson, Nev., for the mint shortage'discovered Inst April. The Medical Society of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Jhna secured evidence and will prosecute a score of quack doctors, practicing in Pittsburg and vicinity. i

CAMPBELL IS NAMED.

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF OHIO. All the Nominations Are Mads by Ac* clamation—Free Silver Is Beaten — Cleveland’s Administration Enthusiastically Indorsed—Brice on Top, Buckeye Democratic Ticket. Governor James B. Campbell Lieutenant Governor. .John B. Feasle®State Auditor .James W. Knott State Treasurer William B. Sholer Supreme Judge........ William T. Mooney Attorney General George A. Fairbanks Member Board Public Works. .H. B. Keefer Clerk of Supreme Court...J. W. Crulkshank The Ohio Democratic State convention nominated James E. Campbell for Governor by acclamation. It was done with a whoop and a yell and while Mr. Campbell was on his feet trying to persuade thebody to select Judge Feck, of Cincinnati. The convention also, by a vote of 525 to

C. S. BRICE.

had the floor when he was interrupted by Dr. James A. Norton, who presented a motion to suspend the rules and nominate James E. Campbell by acclamation. Mr. Campbell protested and raised points of order amid the wildest scenes of cheering and yelling for Campbell. Campbell said he had run for Congress three times in & Republican district and twice for Governor in a Republican State, till he wasdepleted financially and otherwise unable to make the race. He insisted on the nomination of Judge Feck or some other good Democrat who could make a good race and afford to make itSeconds of the nomination of Campbell! rolled in. Chairman Brice ruled that the.

JAME E. CAMPBELL.

motion of Dr. Norton to suspend the rule* and nominate Mr. Campbell was in order. M. E. Ingalls, who had previously opposed Campbell, made a strong plea for him as the winner. The motion of DrNorton was put and carried with a great whirl of enthusiasm and Chairman Bricedeclared Mr. Campbell the nominee for Governor. The ticket was completed as* above by acclamation. Platform Adopted. The Democratic party of Ohio, In convention assembled, points with satisfaction and; pride to the wisdom of tho action of that party in the last two years and the results accomplished according to Its promises, to-wlt: The repeal of the Republican legislation, known as the Sherman law, the un-Ameri-can Federal election law, and the McKinley law, from which repeals has resulted returning prosperity to the country to such am extent that even the Republicans are obliged: to recognize the same. We congratulate President Cleveland that Ills efforts In favor of the repeal of thesevicious laws and the upholding of the credit of the country hnve been successful. We congratulate our Senator, the Hon. Calvin S. Brice, for the earnest and effective support he has given to the President In these matters. When we consider the fact that the Democratic party received from tho Republican* In 1892 a bankrupt treasury, that It Inherited from them the vicious currency and tariff laws which had prepared and finally produced the panic of 1593, we insist that It Is entitled to the thanks of the people for th* courage with which It has attacked and repealed these laws. We reaffirm the following portion of the seventh plank of the platform of the last National Democratic Convention. “We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must bo of equal Intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted by international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the eo.ual power of every dollar at all times In the payment of debts; and we demand that the paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable In such coin. Wo insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of farmer* and the laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and fluctuating currency.” We call the attention of the people to the methods and practices If bosslsm by which, the Republican party In this State lias bees., managed In the last few years, and for examples point to Its history In Hamilton county and to the final culmination of the same In the Zanesville convention, and we ask the peoplc by their votes this fall to put their condemnation on such practices. We denounce the Inst Legislature as corrupt aud unworthy of the confidence of the people, and we submit to the voters whetherthey wish to perpetuate this condition of affairs by placing the Republicans again in power. We view with alarm the large Increase ofIndebtedness throughout the State by counties and municipalities, ns authorized by the last Legislature, and tpe Increase In the last few yenrs In the tax rate, and we demandeconomy In expenditure and conservatismIn the Increase of debt.

Harry Birdsell, at Greensburg, Ind., In. a fit of anger stabbed his father, W. L. Birdsell. The wound may prove fatai. There was no known trouble between them. It is thought the young man hasbeen losing his mind for some time. Ex-Supreme Court Justice Strong has had a stroke of paralysis which affects, the left side of the body. He has also had a relapse of the catarrhal fever, is very weak and at present unconscious. He isat Lake Minnewnska, N. Y. Tom Wilbur, aged 91, committed sutcida at Norwich, Conn., by severing his jugular vein with a razor. He was a wellknown quarryman. Robert Ralston, bookkeeper Idfr th*. Samuel Woodslde Company, of Clridn--aati, in shert in his accounts $20,000. (

270, reaffirmed the financial plank of the Democratic national convention of 1892 and indorsed the administration of President Cleveland and the coursein the Senate of Calvin S. Brice. The nomination of Campbell was made in spite of his most earnest protests. He