Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. - " ■! ■ ' "" \ GEO. E. MARSHAfctrPsrtJtistfdv = RENSSELAER, —- ■ > IHIHANAr

PANIC ON A TROLLEY.

MANY NARROWLY ESCAPE BEING KILLED. Cap Crashes Into a Swiftly Moving. Passenger Train—Over Thirty Injured in New Orleans Accident—Fatal Creasing Collision in Ohio. Electric Car Takes a Pinnae. Electric ear No. 501, of the Western avenue line, at Chicago, took a wild plunge into a moving passenger train of the Burlington Road at'the 10th street crossing at 5:0(1 o'clock Monday evening. AftM the Collision there was not enough left of the street ear to make, kindling WBod, bill the passengers all' jumped in time to save themselves, and escaped with more or less severe injuries. The worst injury received was by Mrs. Hugo Miller, of West. Madison street, who had a sprained ankle. A curious feature of the affair is that a year ago the Burlington secured an injunction forbidding the street car company front using electricity in crossing its tracks, and until a few' days ago it had been using horses at that crossing. The injunction, however, was dissolved and tire trolley wires strung across the right of K ay. ■Accident at. n Ferry. At New Orleans thirty persons were injured and three others, it Js! feared, were drowned by the breaking down of the little iron bridge which leads from the Algiers ferry-house to the floating wharf, where the ferry-boat is accustomed to land. —It was nearly dusk when the aepident occurred. The waiting passengers crowded onto the bridge as soon as the ferry-boat was in sight. The boat, the Thomas Pickier, was also crowded. The engines were slowed down on approaching the wharf, and as usual the treat almost drifted to her landing. However, the stern of the vessel humped against the end of tire pontoon, and with a crash the iron span parted and a lunfor more frantic people were dumped into the water among the piling and drifting timbers. The men on the pontoon and those in the ferry-house did not wait a moment before they began to look toward assisting those in the water. "While hundreds of strong hands grasped every plank within reach on the pontoon and dashed them into the water for the unfortunates to cling (©•dozens devoted their efforts to pacifying the women and children ou the pontoon. - Four Men Kilted. East-bound accommodation No. 50 on the Panhandle Railroad crashed into a wagon at Miller’s: Station. Ohio, about 7:30 o’clock Monday morning, demolishing the vehicle and killihg the four occupants. Their names were: Edward Cogau, Samuel Cogan, Jr., Samuel Cogan, Sr., John Campbell. The bodies were horribly mangled. There is a sharp curve near the crossing and the engineer claims he did not see the wagon until too late to atop the train. The victims were residents of Youngstown, near Latrobe, Pa. Battle of "Words Only. The Fitzsimmons-Corbett fight will not come off after all, either at Hot Sprnigs or anywhere else. What Gov. Clarke has endeavored to accomplish was done Monday by the Florida Athletic Club when it declared the light off. Corbett and his manager wanted to postpone until the present excited opposition to the affair had d ied out, and a meeting could be arranged—on the quiet. Fitzsimmons objected to this, and declared for what he knew was impossible under the law. Each of the principles is already busy calling "the other coward and liar, and preparing for the stage tour which after all was the paramount 'and pre arranged object of the projected fight.

BREVITIES,

Auxt ro-Hwngnrian sugar refiners liffre formed a trust. • General Coxe.v is about to start a daily paper to boom his candidacy for Governor of Ohio., IjJighteen Foo-Choo rioters, convicted of murdering foreign missionaries, are to be put to death. At Uniontown, Ala., City Marshal Robert Britton was shot dead by Y. C. Metzger, a merchant. Prairie fires have caused great destruction in Finney, Greeley and Wichita Counties, Kansas. Thirty persons were drowned at Caliacuu. Lower California, by the storm which destroyed La Taz. Butler held it is a crime to send dunning letters in black envelopes. Bariiato’S sister-in-law, Miss Alice Holbrookes an actress now playing in New York City. She says the -Kaffir King’s”, real name is Bernard Isaacs. Burglars wrecked the safe of Hoge, Daly & Co.'s bank at Anaconda. MonL,with dynamite. The noise of the explosion aroused the town and led to their capture. The mine strike in the mountain region, extending front Johnstown, Pa., to Altoona, is not nearly so serious as reported. About one thousand men are out and at least four thousand are working. The 300 miners employed at the North Leavenworth, Kan.*coal shaft quff work end visited the Home River mines for the pnri>ose of inducing the miners atjhat place to quit. The North Leuven worth Company is paying SO cents a ton and the' Home Company 70 cents. The walk-out Is to foree the Home River Company to pay 80 cents. A general strike seems almost certain, as the Home River people •re not disposed to accede to the demands made. A serious fire at Millville. Minn., starting in A. J. Mucitlberg's blacksmithshop, destroyed the shop, Leonard’s store, Schmidt's Hotel and John Larson's dwelling. Albert Ilui'geson; employe of the machine shop, was huiwW to death. The postoffice building 'also burned, but the mail was sited. Loss, $4,000. > J. 8. Hacklcf, who claims credit for •(resting Frnker, the insurance swindler, will sue the insurance companies for the reward which be says was promised him. He threatens sensational disclosures if Ihl CMB fj| tried. '

EASTERN.

At Buffalo, X. Y’., Dr. C. S. Smith was elected president of tEeUnlon Veterans' " ——— —: —— At Rochester, N. - Y., the Rev. J. M. Fitzgerald and two of his servants were indicted for'arson. Pennsylvania millers will try tp induce Congress to retaliate upon foreign nations who havcfflTscntmualed agai hst ARieriyau flotir. —T-jr AT Buffalo, N. Y'., Dr:AhbreJ. Seymour, a woman physician of note, committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a train: ~r At Pittsburg, Pa., J. C. Schaefer Jr” a carriage manufacturer, committed suicide. He was short in his al*tt>unts president oftrhoan association. The battleship Indiana was given a preliminaryruii over tire.government course off the Massachusetts ebast. It made an average of 15.31 knots per hour. The blotter of the MacGowan's Pass Tavern Subpoficr* —Strifibn in Central Park, New York, bore Ibis entry Friday: "Arrested by Officer Michael J. Sweeney, Duke of Marlborough, 23 years old, resident ot England, no occupation, 'single; temporary residence, Pin za Hotel; charge, violation of park ordinance; reprimanded and discharged by Roundsman llyan.”' Thus briefly and officially is recorded the arrest of the young Duke of Marlborough, who is to wed Miss Cousuclo Vanderbilt. There is an ordinance which forbids wheelmen from riding faster than eight miles an hour in the park or from coasting down hills. The Duke did not know this when luTlnffig his feet over the han-dle-bar and went sliding down the road to 104th street Officer Sweney gave chase and overhauled the young: nobleman, informing him he was under arrest. At the station he was lectured and diseharged. - „

WESTERN.

The satchel containing $120,000 securities of the defunct Fort Scott Bank, lost Jiy__Bnnk Examiner Broidcnthal, of Kansas, was found in a railroad car at DenWCr. " =" AtoUpper Stone Lick-Creek, near Milford, Ohio, a surveyor found a prehistoric cemetery containing thousands of graves. Spearheads and many unusual trinkets were in them. -,-P,ecailiar_m.e.LfiorQlogical-co-nilltions„,.pi 5 e'-“ vailed in the Northwest Friday. In Aorta Dakota the first snow of the season fell, and in South Dakota, and Minnesota higli winds and sand and dust blizzards prevailed. Dan E. Young, an old citizen and prominent politician of Folsom, N. M., was murdered in Oak Canon. He hod been shot from behind and was badly bruised on the head. It is thought the whitecaps, some of whom he had exposed, are connected with the murder. 'Lem Gammon, postmaster and general storekeeper, at Raniah, Colo., was bound and gagged by four masked men, who robbed the store and postoliiee of S2OO in cash, a quantity of stamps and other valuables. The sheriff and posse are trying to track the robbers with blodhounds. Meredith Mahan and Francis M. Chilton, of Shannon County, Mo., were found in their room at the Ridgeway Hotel, St. Louis, the former dead and the latter unconscious and dying from suffocation by gas. The men were well-known stock raisers. It is supposed to be a ease' of blowing out the gas. Developments in the cased f Defaulting Cashier J. It, Colean, of the Fort Scott, Ivan., State Bank, shows his shortage to be $50,000 instead of $23,000, as at first -supposed,—Vice- President Stewart savs ; that Colean literally gutted the reserve fund, realizing on $20,000 of the best Sucurities held by St. Louis, Now Y'ork and Kansas City banks. At Denver Rev. Frauk Hyatt Smith, of Cambridge, Mass., appeared before’ United States Commissioner Capron and gave bonds for his appearance at Boston to answer the charge of sending defamatory letters through the mails to members of his congregation Mr. Smith says "the charge is unfounded. He will return to Boston to face his accusers. Bud ford Overton was to have been hanged Friday for the double murder of Gus l.oed, an old peddler, and his wife. As it was to be the first legal hanging that ever took place in Harlan County the event was looked forward to witli great eagerness by thousands who expected to See the execution. Orders came in fast for reports of the execution, but the event was indefinitely postponed by the escape of Overton. At Ceylon, Ind., the pay ear on the Grand Rapids and Indiuha Railroad was wrecked Friday and three men killed and several badly injured. A gang of bridge workers had pushed their ear on a sw’itch to let the pay car pass; but neglected to close the switch and the train, running fifty miles an hour, dashed into them. The pay car and engine were wrecked. Physicians from Decatur and a wreck traih went to the scene. Two of the dead Fire broke out in the main hoisting slope of the Oregon Improvement Company's mine, at Franklin, Wadi., causing the deatii of John 11. Glover, S'. W. Smalley, John Adams tpid James Stafford. The accident was caused by August Johnson. who dropped his lamp, setting fire to a gas feeder. Instead of throwing a shovelful of dirt to put it out, he ran dawn the slope to get the pit foreman. While he was bringing help the timbers caught fire. Finding that thqfinmes could not be extinguished, the four men named voluntered to go down and close a door between 'the main and auxiliary slopes. It is supposed they never reached t)je bottom alive, but the bodies have not been recovered. Terror pefVnded the ranks of West Side thugs and robbers at Chicago Friday night. All day long Inspector Shea's men had been gathering them in, and when the shades of night had fallen those who escaped the net sought their hiding places and remained there. As one West Side citizen remarked after gazing down Hnlstecl and Madison streets: “A fellow could tire a cannon ball down the sidewalk and not hit a person.’! It was the-quietest night for-years up to 12 o'clock. Thestreets seemed to be almost deserted. From early morning until lute in the evening the Desplatnes street wagon TOTBtOTcI throughout the district, bringing in its load of victims. It was a grand "cleaning up” and one of the most thorough ever ■made in the city. The books of the station showed the names of forty suspects and thirty more whose names were not booked were below. Potatoes are cheaper now than they have been within tlie-memory of the oldest dealers in Chicago’s .South - Water, street. Car lots on track tJ the choicest varieties are selling at 23 to 24 cents a ... . . • - i 'll

• —■ i - . ~• y bushel, and any amount of fair stock is going at 17 to 20 cents a bushel. Even at these low prices there is little demand, and the railway track;} within the Chicago ' —yards- - are- glutted. The Chieagonnd Northwestern has notified its agents at country stations not to receive any more pofatoelTtill “further notice. Minnesota and Wisconsin have more potatoes than they need. In Minnesota many farmers are leaving then) to rot in the ground, nsthey are not worth digging*. On Minnesota farms as choice and fair-skinned potatoes r.s a farmer woulcj care to see are selling at 3to 10 cents a bushel. In Wisconsin thousands of bushels are buried in improvised cellars m thp Fields atoaiting shipment. lowa has a big crop, but the quality is poor. Michigan also lias;a - lccrge .yieM :iff-gOod-:qiialit,v. Chief of Police Badenoch, of Chicago, lias instructed Inspector Schaack to clean out the gang of thugs and burglars that have kept the residents of the North Side and Lake View in continual terror for several months past, “Clean them out if it is necessary to dq gq_at the point of revolvers,” said the Chief, thoroughly-an-gry at the numerous robberies report od from this territory and the apparent inability of the police to cope with the criminals that have practically taken possos- - sion of it: Inspector Sclia aok ret urne d to his bailiwick and immediately laid plans to run fire gang out of the city. He visited Capt. Schuettler, of the Lake View police, and informed him that arrests, not excuses, must, be made to prevent the wholesale raids by the thieves. The fatal shooting of Charles M. Collins, of 112 Xigel street, by a burglar Wednesday night stirred the Chief to determined action. Collins was attacked in his own house by burglars who were searching for valuables, and fell to the floor wounded in three places. The crime was a bold one, planned and executed by desperate thieves, who came armed and ready to commit murder in order to carry out Their attack. But bold as was the raid, it is only one of many within the last few months that have kept the people living north of the river wondering what the robbers will do next. The desperate liold-up of the Evanston trolley-car two weeks ago, was one of the exploits of the band of robbers.

WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland will not begin the preparat-HTii ot ins annual message to Con ” gress until aftijT he returns from the Atlantft.exposition. Mr. Cleveland a Cabinet officers hint that the forthcoming message will be the most important state paper ever launched by the President. Questions of a foreign policy will for the first time be given first prominence, it is said. The message in this respect will be so firm and aggressive in tone as to leave no future doubt of Mr. Cleveland’s devotion to a firm foreign policy. The financial question will be thoroughly discussed and the recommendation for a retirement of greenback currency will be renewed. Some suggestionTvill be put forth for legislation to increase the revenues $30,000,000 to $50,000,000, but the President is not satisfied in his own mind yet, it is said, where this extra tax can be most advantageously laid. A Washington dispatch says: President Cleveland’s annual message to Congress, the preparation of which will soon engage his attention, will be a most noteworthy state paper. It will be more sensational and perhaps of far greater importance than the -famous tariff message of IBS?;-"wiiieh: many " obaWfis think. , changed the history of parties in this country. The principal feature of the forthcoming message, will be the discussion of the foreign relations. It is well known that the. President is eager for a reply from Great Britain concerning this . country’s vigorous-representation in favor Of arbitration in Venezuela, and he wants this reply before the meeting of Congress If lie can get it. More important even than these immediate questions, considering the future of the United States, is the policy of over-sea enterprise which the President is expected to foreshadow in his message. If the expectations of certain of Mr. Cleveland’s confidential friends are realized, he will say to Congress and the .country that the time has come for a new American policy, a policy of aggressiveness, both political and commercial, beyond this country’s coast lines. A Washington correspondent says: President Cleveland looks like an athlete in the pink of condition. The flabbiness of fat, dullness of eyes and heaviness -of movements that gave his watchful friends grave concern last spring have given place to a glow of fine health and an elasticity of step that tell the whole story of complete restoration of physical vigor. His real condition four months ago was such as to occasion serious apprehensions. There were aggravated symptoms of heart and kidney troubles, and he was threatened with a physical breakdown. His physicians, Drs. Bryant and O’Riley, ordered him one of Washington and directed him to spend a long summer in the open air regardless of the weather. The. prescription was most welcome, and from June to the middle of October the President put in every hour he could spare from official duties fishing, huntthe President returns to Washington apparently a well man. His cheeks are brown as mahogany and his flesh hard as iron. He steps off nicely, his eyes sparkle with buoyant spirits, ajid he is bright as a new dollar. [j

FOREIGN.

Fifty Armenians are reported to have beeii killed by n Moslem mob at Akhissar, Adiu. An unconfirmed report that Dr. von Boettieher, the German Imperial Minister of the Interior, had resigned was in . circulation in Berlin. . The British bark Sharpshooter, ('apt. Watts, which left Kanin, Chili, July 1 for San Francisco with 700 tons of nitrate, struck a hurricane Aug. 9 in latitude 11 degrees north. She was partially dismantled and drifted for sixty-four days, Russia at present is inclined to allow Japan a free hand in Corea inVonneetion with tlic'present outbreaks. As a sign of pacific intentions the Governor of the Amoor, Gen. > Doukhovsky, has been grnnted leave of absence to come to St. Petersburg. A dispatch to the Paris Journal from " Metz says that while the Emperor and Empress of Germany wore on their way to the cathedral there some person,shouted from a window, “Vive La Frafico.” It is added that several arrests were made in consequence of this demonstration. The Spanish Government has acceded to the request of Secretary Oluey, it is stated, by a very high authority, and has restored diplomatic functions to Consul General Williams at Havana. The Spanish Government explains that the suspension order was issued from the Governor ■k' . ;

General’s office at Havana through a misapprehension. sDispatches received at Hong Kong from the Island of Formosa announce that Takao, on the west eoast-of that island* 1 was captured Wednesday by the Japanese. The dispatches also state that the Japanese intend to bombard Tai-Wan-Fu, the Chinese capital of the island. That city is held by the Black Flag leador, who refuses to surrender uneonditibn"allr-. and heavy fighting is expected. Tokio, Japan, dispatch: The complicity of the Soshi in the attack upon the imperial palace ntCqreS and the murder of the Queen is confirmed, but the extent of the connivance is as yet unknown. An imperial decree has been issued forbid-ding-all Japanese to special permission. A high oflicej of the Foreign Department has been dispatched to Corea to expedite the Inquiry into the’ circumstances of the attack upon the palace. An explosion occurred Wednesday on a steamship at Kting l’ai, near Kin Chow. The StelilnsTnpwas - toaded With troops, and it is reported that GOO of them were killed. The troops were probably Japanese soldiers leaving Chinese territory, as. insisted upon by Russia, and France. Kin Chow, of Ivin Chow Foo, is a large and populous city- in the Province of “Hoo Per —It is rightly- regarded as one of the keys of the Chinese Empire. Its site on the left bank of the Ytong Tse Iviang, about 800 miles from its debouchment into the Yellow Sea at Shanghai, makes it a great mart of commerce;'* Additional advices receivedat, Shanghai from Ivin-Chow, near which plpee, on Wednesday last, the steamship Kun-Pai was destroyed by an explosion which sank her in shallow water, confirm the dispatch which stated that the loss of life was believed to, be Very great.'tit is now announced that the explosion occurred in the -fore part of the Kun-Pai, which vessel was loaded with troops. The explosion, the cause of which is unknown, completely wrecked the forward portionof the steamship, and only twenty-four persons of those bn board pf her were saved.

IN GENERAL

““At Ottawa, Oaf., an order lias beeaissued for opening the Canadian eanalsjm Sundays during the remainder of the sea-.. son. - - ■ 1 ■■ "~ . -The rcvision of The Bible hastoecn'T'otn--1 ileted, including the apocrypha, upon which the revisers have been engaged since 18S1. In Ontario tons of grapes are going to waste because of the excessive ra&s of the Western railroads, The Interstate Commerce Commission has been nppealed so. The committee appointed by the Chicago mass meetings on September 30, which were held to .express sympathy with the Cubans, has issued an appeal that similar meetings be held throughout the Union not later than Oct. 31, and wherever practicable on that day, in 6rder that the movement may,_ derive the benefit Of such simultaneous action as adding to its impressiveness. An American vessel, the Parthia, Captain. Carter, Bath, Me., bound from Liver--pobl -for San Francisco with a cargo of' coal, was burned at sea four hundred miles off the south coast of Chili. The crew took refuge in the boats, one of which, that under the charge of the see.yud milt?, witty -imW,, a?si on board, reached Valparaiso, Chili. The other boats have not yet been heard from. Obituary—At Elgin, 111., Henry Olney Billings, of Chicago, 45; at Rochelle, 111., William Delaney,"of Chicago; at Cauastota, N. Y\, Commodore de Grasse Livingstone. .65: at~~Janesville. Wis., Richard O'Donnell, at one time a Chicago man; at Saginaw, Mien., Henry Nieqstedt, Jr., G 9; at Adrian, Mich., Dewitt C. Clark; at Chesterton, Ind., John G. , Coulter; at Rockford, 111., Elikam Norton, 05; at Franklin, Ind., Elba Depue; at Bloomsburg, Pa., Judge William Elwell, 87. ’ —_* ; i ' —;— Superintendent Dfiffield, of the coqst and geodetic survey, has been informed that the Alaska field parties have concluded the season’s work and are now on Mary’s Island waiting to be picked up and brought to San Francisco. The work last season consisted of the locating of Mount St. Elias as on the boundary between the two countries. Next season the more delieate work will be begun of running the line between these two pomtu?--England claims much more than the United States concedes as to this boundary. The surveys so far made tend to confirm the contentions of this country. General Duftield says there is no longer any doubt that all of the Yukon River basin below the mouth of Forty-Mile Creek is American territory, which includes the gold field of that stream as far as opened.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $9.73 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $1.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, s!£c to tile; to 19c; rye, Ao. 2,39 c to 40c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 18c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom com, common growth to choice green hurl, 2Vic to 4%c per pound. Indianapolis-—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,03 cto 05c; corn, No. 1 white, 29c to 3JLc; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs,. $3.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 02c to 03c;' corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,30 c to 38c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $3.50 to $5-00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,07 cto 08c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; onts, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 40c. J Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 05c to 00c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 42c to 43c. Toledo?-Wheat, No. 2 red, 07c to 08c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white. 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,42 cto 44c. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 08c to 09c; corn, No. ? Ycftavr. SOc ttf 37et> oats} No. 2 white, 23c to :>sc. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 57c to 59c: e<irn, ! No. 3,30 cto 31c; oats, No.' 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley, No. 2, 40 cto 42c; rye, No. 1, 39 cto 41c; pork, mess. $8.25 to $8.75., j , Nimy York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $-1.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 08c to 69c; corn, No. 2, 38c to 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 10c to 24c: eggs, Western. 18c to 21c. - j o A.' i T* l . : ,' ift

HALF MILLION LOSS.

NEV\f ORLEANS HAS A DESTRUCT- , IVE BLAZE. Incendiary Started It to Get an Insign ificant Insnrance-Little Ohio Town Nearly Wiped Out—Minneapolia Sawmill Goea Up in Flame a. 232: * * One Thousand Homeless. r That portion of the city of New Orleans, La., known as Algiers, was almost wiped out by flames Sunday morn-' -dngV.caiiSinga loss of "from $350,000 to $500,000, and rendering 1,000 persons homeless. An immense crowd went across to Algiers at night to look at the ruins. They were packed so densely on the wharf awaiting the ferry that it, gave way, and over sixty persons, including . many women and children* were precipitated into the river They were all rescued, but several sustained, broken limbs and internal injuries. The fire started a few minutes after midnight in the shanty occupied by Paul Buffin. Six fires have started in this place before the present. one, and the facts surrounding this one indicated Ire started it for the insurance. He bought six gallons of coal oil Saturday, and those Avho at first responded to the alarm claim they plainly smelled the burning oiL The house burned as though it had been saturated by oil. So plain did the citizens consider his guilt that! they made an effort to lynch him, and a strong cordon of police was all that saved him. The fire wiped out nine squares, or 197 houses. Blanchester, Ohio, Nearly Destroyed. Fire started in Burke’s livery stable at -Blanchester, Ohio, Friday afternoon and. burned until 7 o’clock, when it had wiped out the whole business portion of the town, five squares, bounded by Center, Short, Grove and Broadway streets and the Baltmore and Ohio Southwestern -Railway. A high wind prevailed and spread the flames likuto prairie fire before a galdf^The - iiiWTtopaftments otl Loveland, Lynchburg and Hillsboro responded’ to a call for help, but~wero of little avail because of the total lack of firocisterns and the great scarcity of water. -The flames dhl us thc^r j plogß( l d'Tmfl~~Oiriy stopped when the wind went' down and ' the fuel burned out. The'result was the j destruction of thirty-seven b us * nesa houses and their contents, twelve dwellings and contents, two* churches, two 1 secret society lodge rooms, and the post- j office. How the fire started has not been ' explained. Tire Mayor swore in 150 spe- • cial police to watch the salvage. The total loss is variously estimated at from $150,DQO to $250,000. Many families are homeless, and many mechanics and shopkeepers lost their all. ______ b Big Xavymill Burned. The sawmill of Elf. Backus & Co., at: Minneapolis, Minn., was destroyed by fire.; Friday evening. The loss will be $125,000 anil 400 men are thrown our of employ—inent. The mill shut down at’ G o’clock, but had considerable lumber to saw andj as a general thing has been running night and day. There was considerable lumber around the mill, but it was all saved in spite of a fierce wind. The mill contained four engines and lour boilers, and all are destroyed with the exception of perhaps one engine. Seventy-five men were employed in the-mill and 325 in the yards. The work of rebuilding will be commenced immediately, as there was SIOO,OOO insurance on the property, and Tittle trouble is expected in adjusting the toss. TFfie mill was built tet» years agm

NEWS NUGGETS.

i During a hurricane at Ancona, Italy, a fishing smack foundered and twelve fish- ; errnen were drowned. It is feared other disasters to shipping have occurred. Five women who had been attending a Dunkard meeting at Ottawa, Kan., were thrown from a carriage by runaway horses. All were seriously and one fatally injured. By the explosion of a boiler in a sawmill near Paris, Texas, George Johnson, the colored engineer, was torn to fragments. Two farmers standing near were fatally hurt. A pardon has been granted by the President to ■ George* 51. Van Leuven, sentenced in lowa to imprisonment for two years and SI,OOO fine for violation of the pension laws. A brutal murder occurred in Grant County, South Dakota. Frank Kaatsitz, a German, went home about 4 p. in». in an intoxicated condition, and quarreled with his wife and kicked her to death. At Cambridge, Mass., the old Louisburg cross was stolen from the entrance to the library at Harvard. It is 150 years old and was brought back by troops after the capture of Louisburg. Students are suspected. left Kanin, Chile, on July 1 for San Francisco, struck a hprrieane on Aug. 9 in latitude 11 degrees north. It was partly dismantled and drifted for sixty-four days. It was Friday towed iotq Guaymns, Mexico, by the Mexican steamer Oaxaca, just as it was about to strike on the rocks. The crew suffered severely fnpm lack of water. Uncle Sam’s battleship Indiana covered one stretch of six miles Friday at a sustained speed of 10.34 knots. Its average speed for four hours, covering a distance of sixty-two knots, was 15.01 knots an hour. After four hours’ continuous work it was touched up a bit and recit'd off two miles at a 17-knot clip. The Indiana is the most powerful boat of its class afloat. Uncle Sam’s navy officials were delighted with its performance. There were eight fatal casualties at Milwaukee Friday. The worsLof the accidents was at No. 828 7th nvenuo, where three men were asphyxiated in a well. Morris Schoenliolz, the oonviiffcd New York firebug, was sentenced to forly-eight years in State’s prism*.. Scboeuholz broke down and was led from the court weeping. v f Missionaries expelled from Cqzco by the Prefect have presented, through the British Minister, a claim against Peru for damages. They claim that their expulsion was in violation of the Constitution and of the treaty with Great Britaiu. During a row at a colored cake walk near Moorestown, N. J.,‘ James Haggerty, a North Carolina negro, shot Charles AlcKim, Mrs. Silas Weasels, George 1 Whittaker and Charles Wimnn, none of whom •re expected to recover. Some one then shot Haggerty in the back. His wound io, considered mortal. <0 • ~’ v « ‘ V, » \ ■/. <‘rr »

GOOD CROP REPORTS.

FIFTY THOUSAND CORRESPONDENTS BEING ORGANIZED* The Agr'cultnraX Department En* ' The Agent Receives Only Depart* ! merit Documents in Compensation; Improvinsc the Service. Washington correspondence:

Henry a. robinson. The chief statistician of the Agricultural Depart ment, is engaged in the gigantic task of gNV organizing a corps of .50,000 correspondents throughout the agricultural di c - sjaa- trices, partlcularlyTn the West and South. corps will be twice as great as the . standing army of the United States, near9f**sr£ly one-half as great if 11 I(’) as nfiAtra force I! [I ;• in all of the Statei; ** and Territories, oue-

| twelfth of 1 per cent, o.f the population of j the United States, fifteen times as great as the whole corps of first, second and third class postmasters in the govern- ; ment service, to whom nearly $6,000,000 paid every year. And the work of this corps of correspondents will be performed without any cost to the government, except what is represented by the value of some crop pamphlets which are distrihuted by the Secretary of Agriculture every month. .. This woik-of organizing is the result of the meeting at Washington lust spring of tke representatives of commercial bodies—from all parts of the United States to protest against the system under which the information about’the crops was collected. The chief occupatiph of the statistician of the Agricultural Department is the preparation of statistics showing the condition of the growing crops. Bulletins containing this information are published -ey-ery.iaont-h. They-are awaited ouxtotts* — ly by all the people who are interested ip cotton or cereals. They are of chief infer- ; est to the speculators in grain and cotton, ! because if the government report shows 1 a good condition of the growing crops, the prices of grain for future de'.ivtry are likely • to go down; and if the government report ! shows a bad condition of the crops, or a - ' decrease in the acreage-planted, the price- ; is likely to go up. Whatever the eharac- : ter of the report, there is one class of men dissatisfied With'it; and never a mopth passes that the statistical! is not denounced by the speculators as unfair or stupid or corrupt. Mr. Robinson’s predecessor, Prof. Dodge, had This experience, and it was the persistent attacks : of the speculators and the dealers in grain in the large cities that brought about his retirement from the department. Mr. Robinson is. having a similar experience* and it is making his hair gray. Weakness i>c the Old System. Under the old system of making up the monthly crop report, returns were received at the statistician’s office ’from ; each agricultural county. In each of these counties were four correspondents. . One of these waa designated the chief ! corresnondept. and to this one the other three sent their reports of the crop conditions on » day fixed. These three reports the chief correspondent combined with his own, and he made a report to the Department of Agriculture on the crop Conditions of his county. There were (and there are now, for that matter) 10,000 pf these toorrespondeiits, of whom 2,soojsent reports to the department. In addition te these correspondents, there ia ! another corps which is intended to bo : just as large, which is organized in each State under the supervision of a State agent, who receives a salary from the government. This salary may he anything from S4OO to $1,200 a year. The amount is supposed to be proportioned to the work. Mr. Robinson tells me that the division of salaries has not been entirely fair in the past, and that there is to be a reorganization of these State agencies some time In the near future. These State agents appoint their correspondents in each county, who are independent of the agents reporting direct to the department. The reports of their agents are made to them direct, and then each State agent assembles the reports which come to him and makes up a general report of crop conditions in the State to send to Washington. The two sets of correspondents are expected to be a check on each other. If there is any discrepancy between the reports of one and the reports of tire other, the statistician investigates through a special agent, and learns which set of correspondent s is wrong. When the representatives of the commercial bodies met here the statistician went over the subject of the reports with consideration he cnine to tire conclusion that he was not raking the country carefully enough for his crop fact's. So he determined to multiply the number of the department's direct correspondents by five. Instead of having four correspondents to a county, he determined to have one to each township. The question was how to get at the right men. Mr. Robinson decided to write to the county clerks, as men likely to know the most available correspondents. So lie selected -twenty-one States, in which from twothirds to nine-tenths of the gruin crops are raised, and sent circular letters to the county clerks, asking them to send the names of men, two in each township, who might be willing to act as the department’s correspondents, and who would be competent to make crop estimates. With each circular was inclosed a franked envelope for reply. This correspondence has involved no little labor. Most of the county clerks have replied promptly, biit a great many have not replied at all,, and it has been necessary to address these again. In all, there are nbont 2,500 county clerks to hear from, but the department has not entered into correspondence with all of them at once. For, when the county clerk replfes.Tt is necessary /it the statistician to address circular letters to twenty men fbore or less in the county; and when these twenty men have replied, to send circular* to t)ao alternates, in case th* men first addressed refuse to serve. Harvard University began its 258th year with increased attendance in all departments and the prospects of another prosperous year. The students have been pouring into Cambridge during the past week and the old college yard has shsken offjita summer lethsrgy snd become sll I hustle snd activity once more. t