Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. EEKSSSLAER, ' • INDIANA.

FINANCIERS AT WORK

MAKE HEAVY ADDITIONS TO THE GOLD RESERVE. Banka in Several Cities Join the Movement.— Itiaaatroua Floods in Ohio Cities—R. E. Lewis Heads the 1 Missouri Republican Nominations. More Gold Scntjo the Treasury. An official list made up Saturday of the contributions of gold to the treasury frortt the New York batiks shows a total of $17,245,000 from fifty institutions, it is not likely that any material additions will be made to the list until a falling away of the surplus shall demand it. Gold to the amount of $1,500,000 was turned into the sub-treasury Saturday. The gold reserve has risen to $108,000,000. It was the talk of Wall street that the program undertaken by the local bankers meets with the approval of the bankers abroad, particularly in Londdn. ,Conferences. it was said, were held in London for the purpose of perfecting arrangements to facilitate the carrying out of the policy determined upon here» It is said that the foreign bankers are prepared to furnish $50,000,000 in sterling exchange and $75,000,000 if necessary. Many Washouts Throughout Ohio. A flood at Springfield. <;>.. Friday destroyed property in the city to the value of $25,000 and crops in the county to the value of $75,000. Buck Creek, which flows through the city, 1 l>ecaine a raging torrent and washed the ballasting from the Big Four Railroad at the High street bridge for IQO feet, and also washed the abutments to the bridge. The Ohio Southern tracks were under water for miles and it was impossible to nun trains. The Grand Opera House foundation sunk l three inches, cracking the walls. Scores’ of families at the bottoms were rescued by boats and their gardens and household _ effects,destroyed or carried away. Snyder Park is damaged to. the amount of. $12,000. National League. Following i? the Standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: 3¥ L. , ■ •W. L. Cincinnati .. .59 2GPhiladelphio...37 43 Baltimore ...52 2(>Brooklvn ....37 44 Cleveland ...53 2ir>Vashingtou. 33 4-1 Chicago .....49 38New Y0rk...32 47 Pittsburg 44 3(>St. Louis. ... .24 57 Boston .'■■■. .42- 37IxniisvHle——57Western League. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 49 27Detroit .....38 39 St. Paul 47 31Milwaukee . .39 44 Minneapolis. 4$ 33G’nd Rapids.3o 50 Kansas City. 43 35Columbus ...25 <SO Missouri Republican Ticket. The following nominations were made by Missouri Republicans in State convention: For Governor, R. E. Lewis; Lieutenant Governor, A. C, Pettijohn; Supreme Judge, Rudolph Herschel; Railway and Warehouse Commissioner, Geo. N. Stile; Secretary of State, Wm. P. Freeman; State Auditor. John G. Bishop: State Treasurer, J. F. Gemelich; Attorney General, John Kennish: Electors-at-Large, Jos. B. Upton. Col. John B. Hale; Judge of St. Louis Court of Appeals. R. E. Rombauer; Judge of Kansas City Court of Appeals, James S. Botsford.

BREVITIES.

Henry Westendorf. a Cincinnati retail grocer, has made an assignment. Liabilities $35,000. The cause assigned is dull business. News of the death of Antonio Maceo, the Cuban leader, has been confirmed by an official dispatch from Havana. He was killed in an engagement with the Spanish forces. At Albany, N. Y., Superintendent of Insurance J. F. Pierce reported to the Attorney General the East River Mutual Insurance Corporation. Ixmg Island City, as an insolvent corporation. There is a deficit in the company's capital. stock of $115,188. The first shipment of California fruit this season, which aft-ived at Southampton Wednesday, was not of the quality that fetches the highest prices in the London market. The prices realized at the auction sale were very good, the best pears bringing 10s 6d and the lowest 4s 6d; average cases sold for (is to Bs. The plums were also too small, but realized 7s (id a crate of four boxes. At a campaign meeting at Florence. S. C., Judge Joseph 11. Earle, candidate for the United States Senate to succeed J. L. M. Irby, and Gov. John Gary Evans, who is a candidate for the same office, came to blows. Earle struck Evans first and Evans responded by’ a blow under the eye. They were quickly surrounded and separated. Several men had their hands on their pistols, but comparative quiet was restored ami Gov. Evans attempted to continue his speech amid much disorder. Elizabeth Baldy, an angular, sharp-fea-tured, middle-aged woman well known to the police of New York. Philadelphia and Baltimore, has be-en held to the criminal court at Baltimore. Md.. on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses, bne advertised extensively for girls wanting employment. She admitted that she had received $2 each from at least twelve victims feir whom she secured no employs tnent and who received a couple of papers in return for their money. Thej>oliee iielievc that she has victimized hundreds of poor girls. ‘lt is believed by the leaders of the Cleveland, 0., strike art the Brown hoisting works that terms of settlement between the men and company will be agreed upon, and that Work will be resumed nt once. Propositions have bee i made which are likely to be accepted, but the locked out men refuse to give the terms of the settlement. »’ The Freeman’s Journal of New York lias information from a trustworthy source that the pojie has given Cardinal Satolli his choice of returning to Rome or remaining in America, and that the apos l , tolic delegate has elected td rirftiain.

EASTERN.

Judge Lawrence, of New York, has signed an order committing Thomas Q. Reabrooke, the actor, to Ludlow street jail for contempt of court for failure to pay alimony of S4O a week and a counsel fee of S2OO to his wife. The bankers of New York got together Monday when they saw the ticker reeling off lower prices for stocks and arranged to protect the gold reserve. President Tappen of the Uallatln Bank was the leader in the movement The possibility of another bond bane was mentioned, but the general opinion was -tbere was enough jgoid on hand or In giglit provided the way

eonld be clearly seen to a 'rehabilitation of the country’s income to meet its outlay. Although no formal papers were drawn itjvas generally agreed by the heads of ffcn batiks that they w®uld furnish Coin up to S2.<MHI.OOO each and in the aggregate about $15.(MlO k OOO. Sub-Treas-urer Jordan is to be consulted, and upon his intimation the coin is needed Jt will be furnished, probably from' the stock which Manager Shores has in the storage vaults under the floors of the clearing house. The effect of this compact was at once felt in the storit’cexehange, and prices stiffened all along'the line.

WESTERN.

Mrs. Walter Hunter, of’Chicago, was struck by an electric car at Cleveland and badly hurt. A— Mrs. J.| H. Tolfree. who was Grover Cleveland’s secretary while he was Mayor, of Buffalo, committed suicide at Mojave. Cal., Monday night by drinking carbolic acid. It is supposed that she was temporarily insane. W. H. Hoit, a prominent Sioux City, lowa, photographer, who fired a shotgun Sunday night at six who, were shaking apples from a tree in front of his bouse, Wounding all of them’, Will be proceeded against both civilly and criminally. Hoit deciares that he thought the boys had left‘the tree and shot at a rabbit. Early Thursday-morning six shots-were heard at the residence of William T. Wiley, ladies' tailor and furrier at Cincinnati. When Wiley’s room was entered, Mrs. Wiley was.found bleeding from five bullet .wounds and her husband unconscious. with a bullet hole in the right temple. _The woman died on the way to the hospital? Wiley’s wound was superficial, the ball glancing off the skull. They have had frequent quarrels and were separated, bgt began to live together again about three months ago. Wiley says his wife shot him and he then seized the revolver and tired at her. He came from Louisville about fifteen years ago. Bob Heth, the outlaw, v.;ho, when pursued by a posse of farmers Sunday night, shot one of them, Charles Ford, whose house he had just robbed, and seriously Injured several others by blows from the butt end of a gun. was captured Tuesday night at Joplin. Mo. Ford and his posse brought Heth to bay in a cornfield Sunday night, and, covering him with a gun, ordered him to surrender. lie threw up his hands in token of submission, but when Ford stepped up to him lie reached for his revolver and fired the shot, taking effect -tn - Fordes—face.—-Tlum- he wrenchtaLthe., gun from a farmer, and wielding it as a club, knocked several of the men down and got away. TJie President has commuted to imprisonment for life the death sentences imposed upon three Texans-'-John C. Ball, Thomas 1 Davis, and Taylor Hick7mdn. They were to be hanged Sept. !. In the ease of Ball the I'residoht says that while he has been twice convicted of munler, tbe jmige and d istrict -attorney both urge the commutation on ' the grou'nd of the youth of the convict and for other reasons. Davis and Hickdifin are full-blooded Indian boys of 14 and 13 years, •respectively, without any appreciation of the enormity of the brutal and cold-blooded homicide committed by them, and in their cases also the judge and district attorney strongly urged the commutation. Gen. George W. Jones, the oldest surviving ex-L’nited States Senator, died Wednesday night at Dubuque, lowa, aged 92. He |>drii in Vincennes. Ind., on April 12. 1804. He gave Gov. Dodge valuable assistance in .the "Black Hawk war. In 1833 he was appointed a judge of the territory. He was nominated as congressional delegate for the very extensive Michigan territory, to which position he was almost unanimously reelected in 1837. 1:; 1840 Gen. Jones was appointed surveyor general, from which office he‘was removed by President W. H. Harrison. He was reappointed in 1845, but resigped in 1848 to-take his seat,as Senator for lowa, which place he held two terms. President Buchanan appointed Senator .loio-s nimis:er to. Bogot:i. in South America, whence he was recalled in 1861. Soon after his arrival in America he was placed as a prisoner of state in Fort Lafayette for writing a personal letter to his friend, Jefferson Davis. He remained several months in confinement, and upon being released took up his residence at Dubuque. Since the war he had lived a retired life.

SOUTHERN.

The severest rainstorm known at Frankfort. Ky., in years was that of Monday night. The Gainey bridge, 2QO feet long, on the Louisville mid Nashville Railway, was washed away, stopping traffic on that branch of the road. Conway’s mills and houses, etc., on Benson Creek, were swept it way. People coming into town from every direction brought news of disaster from the heavy rain. A. J. Call and Nettie Call, his daughter, were killed in a shanty-boat six miles east of Huntington, W. Va. Lollie Call will also die and several small children are at the point or death. Etta Robins is in jail accused of the murders. Call and his daughter had their heads severed with an axe and all the children are slashed in a horrible manner. One woman leaped into the river and saved her life. The greatest excitement prevails. No cause is assigned for the deed. Charles Edge, of the Lexington, Ky., firm of Appleton & Edge, dry goods merchants, had a difficulty with Henry Appleton, son of his partner, .J. W, Appleton, and shot the young man twice, killing him instantly. Young Appleton was relieved from a clerkship in the store and abused Edge for having released him. He knocked Edge down, and the latter, upon regaining bis feet, sjiot Appleton twice through the breast. Edge immediately surrendered to the officers. Thomas B. Watts, aged 21, who has been working at a hay camp at Arcadia. Tex., has fallen heir through the death of an uncle to an estate near the heart of Jhe city of New York valued at.518,000,iHXI. His uncle. Thonias B. V\ atts, a bachelor, left his entire fortune without reservation "to his namesake. The-estate consists of money and real estate. Young Wqtts has a mother and brother who are deaf and dumb, and teach school in the deaf and dumb asylum of Virginia. He also has two sisters living iu Virginia and a brother in the Indian territory.

WASHINGTON.

Climate and Health, which has been A regular monthly publication of the weather bureau at Washington, has been discontinued because of doubt as to authority for the expenditures incident thereto under the last appropriation act. .With its discontinuance also have been ended the weekly collections of ibe sfatisticsf ’of mortality and morbidity and the voluntary services of a large corps of co-op* erating physicians and health officials. During the fiscal year just begun the bureau will prosecute a number of special climatological studies, the results of the researche® to bc* pnblished in special bulletins. Brig. Gen. Batcheldor, Quartermaster General of the army, will retire for age on July 27, and gossip Is lively concerning the personality of nls successor. It seniority is followed the next Quarter»naster General will be either Col. Bawtelle, on duty at New York, or Col. Ludington, who is in Chicago. Col, Sawtelle Is th* senior of the jyfi offi'tiprs, and bn

that account is regarded as paving a slight advantage over Col. Ludington. Col. bawtelle is a graduate of West Point, while Col, Ludington was appointed to the army from civil life. The first name 1 htfs but two years more of active service, while Co). Lfidingtou will not be; retired ■until r.io.’i.

FOREIGN.

Eugene Spullet, French politician, journalist and.author, is dead, aged 61. The Storthing of Norway has rejected the bill for fhe’retention of the temporary increase of the duties oil petroleum and sugar and for an imposition of a duty on meat. The House of Commons at London Wednesday considered in committeeclause 24 of the Irish land bill. Tha clause provides that in purchase transactions the land commission shall money in lieu of stock heretofore issued. Sir ThomasjEsmbnde (Parnellite) moved an amendment to continue the existing arrangement. E. F. Knox, anti-Parnell-ite; John Dillon, leader of the home rule party and member for East Mayo; T. M. Healy, anti-Parnellite; E- J." Sounder* soil, conservative; and John E. Redmond, Parnellite, supported the amendment. Both A. J. Balfouf, First Lord of the Treasury,, and Gerald Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, spoke in opposition to the amendment, which was carried by a vote of I>9 yeas to 86 nays. The result was greeted with cheers and laughter, mingled with derisive shouts of “Resign! ’ On motion of A. J. Balfour the whole of clause 24 was then withdrawn. Consul General Mclvbr at Kanagawa has forwarded to the State Department tables showing the foreign trade of Japan for 1895. The total value of exports was $68,093,662 and of imports $65,922,895. Of this amount the United States is credited with $27,554,7(54 for exports and $4,730,943 for imports. The customs duties collected were for exports, sl,159,281; imports. $2,1111,809; miscellaneous, $88,045, making a total of $3,409,135. During the year 1.863 steamers and' 1,005 sailing vessels entered the ports of Japan from foreign countries. Of these ninety-six were American, 987 British ahd 371 German. Forty-nine American steamfers and sailing 1 vessels were engage ed in the coastwise trade of Japan, against 761 British. 104 French and ISI German. Japan exported $1,423,895 gold and $12,499,970 silver bullion. Slm Unportial bullion to the value Of $525,20;> in gold and $2,470,5(58 in silver. Col. Rafael j?ere^y-Moraies r -ene-of-the_ ' sTjfnerirofTlie Cu in New, York Tuesday from Kingston, Jamaica. He was shot in the eye during a recent battle and cojnes to New York for surgical treatment. The reported death of Gen, Jose Maceo was in no way due to alleged dissensions with (Jen. Garcia,™ said Col. Morales. "When Gen. Garcia landed Gen, Maceo willingly turned over hi s comma nd an d mad e a- con g rat ula t ory speech to the army. He served 1 under Garcia inHlic-previous war and said that he was glad to do so again. Scarcely a day passes without an engagement in Eastern Cuba. Almost the whole province of Santiago de Cuba is now in the hands of the insurgents. The array has 1 fifteen pieces of field artillery manned almost entirely by Americans. We call it the Wilmington Battery! in remembrance of the assistance us by the citizens of Wilmington, Del. What the Cubans most need now is. 15,000 more rifltfe.”

IN GENERAL

Harriet Beecher "Stowe aleft an estate valued at $42,353. Obituary—At Deadwood, S. D., General Andrew R. Z. Dawson, 61; at Pqttsville, I’a., General Joshua -K, Siegfried, 64; at Tamaroa, 111., J. S. Winthrop, Along the Northern Rajiway. between Whatcom and, Goshen, bush fires have burned many barns, fences and railroad ties. At Vancouver Wednesday night there were two fires, and a house and steamer were burned. Unless rain, comes soon large tracts of timber along tlie Fra"Ser rn'<T“w ill "be destroy ed. Den se s moke has settled down.over'iiie seaport towns, aiid.it is. with the greatest difficulty navivation can be carried on. It. is believed that several miners have perished in the. vicinity of Spokane, The barkentine Herbert Fuller, Capt. Nash, from Boston July 3 for Rosario, put into Halifax Tuesday morning, flying the stars and-stripes at half-mast with a black flag immediately beneath. This is the signal for ‘’mutiny on board!’’ When the Fuller was boarded it was learned that murder had been added to mutiny, and that (’apt. Nash, his wife Laura, and Second Officer Banberry had been killed in their bunks while asleep. The murders had been committed with an ax. The rooms in which the victims lay were covered with blood, showing that a severe struggle had taken place, and the bodies were horribly mutilated. The cook. Jonathan Sheere of Rosario, suspected (he mate. Thpipas Brown, and succeeded in placing the latter in irons, and he aftefward ironed the man who was at the wheel at the time the murder was committed. Upon arriving all on board the vessel, including Frank Monch, of ’ Boston, who was a passenger, were placetj under arrest. The United States consul telegraphed to Washington for instructions, pending the receipt of which be has enjoinesVaU cdnnectbd with the affair to maintain the strictest silence.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 55c to 57c; corn. No. 2,25 cto 26c; oats, No. 2,17 c to 18c; rye, Nt). 2,30 eto 31c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 11c; new potatoes, per bushel. 25c to 40e; broom corn, common to choice, $25 to SSO per ton. Indianapolis —Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common, to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2,53 c to 54c; corn. No. 1 white, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c. , St. Louis—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75: wheat, No. 2. 56c to 57c; corn. No. 2 yellow. "23c to 24c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c. to 20c; rye, Nc. 2. 2se to 30c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; nog*. $3.00 to $2.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2.,55c to 59c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 28c to 30c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 18c to 2(h'; rye. No. 2. 26c to 2Se. ■ Detroit -Cattle. S2J>O to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75: wheat. No. 2 red, 60c to 61c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats. No. 2 white. 21c to 22e: rye. 31c“to 32c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red. 61c to 62c; corn. No * 2 yellow. 26c to 2.8 c; oats. No. 2 white, 17e to 19c: rye. No. 2,31 c, to 33c; clover seed. $4.35 to $4.45. Milwaukee—Wheat.) No. 2 spring. 55c to 57<‘r corn. No. 3. 26c to 28c; oats. No. 2 white. 19c to 21c; barley. No. 2. 30c to 32c: rye, -No. 1,31 cto 32c; pork, mess. $6-00 to $6.50. , Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.tK) to $4.00; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 63c to 66c: corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c "to 24c. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 62c to (54c; corn. No. 2, 31c, to 32c; oats. No. 2 "white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 11c to 16c; eggs, Westerm llc to J4c. ,' —r— —

KILLED ON THE FARM.

A STARTLING RECORD OF TERRIBLE CASUALTIES. 0 • X Dangers Attending Life on a Farm Seem Greater than Those Surrounding Wofk on the Railroad or in a Powder Mill. ~~~ • I Die in the Hayfield. Fatalities, mishaps and odd' incidents have always seemed to attend unduly the | gathering of the hay crop, says a Western I New York correspondent of the New; York Sun, but they seem to have been unusually numerous in their occurrence this season. Following is the record of the hayfield in this -respect .for but little more than a week in Chautauqua and adjacent counties alone: Russell Waterhouse, aged 77, a leading farmer of Arkwright,, Chautauqua County, was helping his son Thomas in the hayfield. They were loading hay, The' eldeg Waternouse stboa on the top of the load, distributing the hay as his son pitched it up. A thunder storm was coming, Up, ano this was the lust load to lie hauled in. Suddenly a terrific clap of-tliundei' broke so sharp and near that it frightened the horses. They sprang forward, jerking the wagon so that Farmer Waterhouse was thrown from the t° the ground. He struck on his head. His Yfcek was broken and he died instantly. Farmer Thomas Reynolds needed help one day last week to gather a field of haybefore it was damaged bj- a coming storm, on his farm at Sullivan, Pa. Some men were engaged on another part of his farm in a job of sawing with a portable sawmill. He sent his son to request the men to suspend their work at the mill and hasten <J«wn to help with the hay. One of the operators at the mill, Fred Holcomb, aged 21, in his hurry to respond to the call, stumbled and fell in front of

DIGGING IN THE RUINS AT KAMAISIII.

the saw. Befofe he could regain his feet or the bystanders could aid him he was cut to pieces by the saw, his head, an arm, and both legs being severed from his body. . ' Two fatal accidents occurred on the Brush farm, near Darien Centre. John Schrader, the hired num. fell from a load of hay with his pitchfork in his hand. In some way he fell on the tines, which passed through his body. He lived but a short time. Before the news of this casualty reached the owner of the i farm he was mowing hay in his orchard with a mowing machine. His 12-year-old' son was near by. Farmer Brush called to him to come and hold up the low-hang-ing bough of a tree so lie could drive under it. The boy held it up. but stood so close that as the machine passed him the knives an that end of the cutter bar struck him, cutting off both his feet at the ankle. Hecßeil thtx-e hours later. Ethel Rice, aged 9, was watching her brother. John, run a mowing machine in a field near the house. John stopped the horses where she stood, dismounted from the machine, and told Ethel-to hand him the wrench, which lay near. The little girl got the wrench, and stepped up near the machine, getting between the ciitting forks, and handed it to her brother. As he was reaching for it the horses started. The quickly shifting knives caught the child and cut off both her legs near the knees. At Bedford, Pa., on Thursday, Joseph Bell, aged 73, was at work in his hay field. Levi Shay was driving by- and stopped to talk to Farmer Bell, who walked over to the fence. "Might better let your hay rot down in the field.” said Shay. “It won’t bring $3 a ton the way this country is being run.” “Three dollars a ton!” exclaimed Farmer Bell, excitedly. “Why. that would drive us to the poorhonse.” “Certainly it would, and it will,” declared Shay. Farmer Bell stood with. a disturbed look on his face a moment, staggered forward and fell heavily to the ground. Shay, supposing Bell nad fainted from effects Of the heat, jumped from his wagon to help him, but the farmer was dead. Awful Work of Yellow Jackets. George Ring, a hired man on farm of Williaip Smith, his father-in-law, near Alton, was riding a mowing machine one .day last week, when one of the horses stepped in a yellow jacket's nest. Instantly the irritable occupants of the nest came out ip a swarm anud -stung the horses, which, frenzied with the pain of the poisonous stingers, ran away. Ring was thrown from his seat on the mower, and although he fortunately fell out of the way of the knives, he struck a spot where a patch of elder brush had been cut, at the edge of the field, leaving stiff, sharp butts standing. When other men working in the field hurried to his aid they found him impaled on the stubbles, one having been Jtereed through the fleshy part of bis l<ffr thigh and one through his right shoulder. One ear was torn from bis head, his lower jaw was broken, and his ■ body badly lacerated by the jagged elder stubble. The full extent of Ring’s injuries was not known nor could he be extricated from his awful situation for ten minutes after the arrival of the men. A horde of yellow jackets which followed him as he was thrown from the machine, were stinging him fiercely on every bit of flesh exposed, and had to Ite fought away' and killed liefore the men could rescue the unfortunate Ring, who was unconscious and uttering heartrending cries of agony. His rescuers were terribly stung by the yellow jackets before they couhl’get Ring away. He was carried to the farm house. It is thought that, not withstanding his frightful he will recover. « The frenzied horses, crazed by the stinging of the yellow jackets, dashed madly acrqss the field and in among a group of young chestnut trees. There the mowing machine was smashed to pieces. Along the edge of the field opposite the one where Ring was thrown and ten feet below it runs Cutler (jreek. The horses, freed from the machine, ran straight for that side of the field, and plunged down the steep bank into the credit. The water is wide and deep at that

spot, and, handicapped, by their harness and being hitched jogether, both horses were drowned. It is probable that they would have h'ad to be killed at any rate, for they had been blinded by the stinging of the yellow jackets, and their bodies were swollen to an .immense size by ’.be poison. .

VICTIMS OF THE SEA.

■ — 3 r ' Thirty Thousand People Drowned by the Tidal Wave in Japan. Thirty thousand souls hurtled to eternity,; thirty thousand lives blotted out in five minutes; probably the' same, numltor of emaciated sufferers stalking hungryeyed ajtout the ruins of their former homes—that, briefly.. is the story of the great wave that swept up from the sea and engulfed the coast of the island of Yez.o, Jap.wi. Following is the summary of the results of the disaster: Iwate —25.413 deaths, 1.244 wounded. 5,<»3(.l houses swept a way or destroyed. Miyagi—2,337 deaths, 505 .wounded. 68S houses swept away or destroyed. Aomori —346 deaths, 243 wounded, 484 houses swept away er destroyed. Totals—2B,4l6 deaths, 1.1192 wounded. (>,202 houses swept away 1 or destroyed. ()t various towns and villages’’that were visited by the caUirhity Kiimaisb: and Taro suffered most. In the formes 4.700 out of 6.337 people were drowned, while in the latter 2,655 out of 3.747 were killed. it was shortly before 8 o’clock on the night of .Monday, June 15, that dwellers near the coast heard a strange sound that came out from the sea, swelling on the calm evening air. The 1 dreaded tsunami (sea wave) was not altogether new to Bomb of those who were so soon to become its victims. But it is asserted that the people were exceedingly sldw to realize the immensity of the danger that threatened them. “Tsunami!” cried a terrorstricken fisherman, and “Tsunami!” passed the echoing wail swiftly from man to man ujrffl the silent fishing hamlets rang with the cry. Mad with terror, that 1 lent speed to their flying feet, the dwellers

forsook their frail, thatched huts, and rushed for the bluffs {opping the sleeping villages. 1 Some of the first to flee gained places of safety,saw’the phosphorescent waters clamor and toss timbers and human beings almost at their feet, and heard them sullenly, relreat, with, their ghastly burden. Others caught by the sea and beaten most cruelly by the debris which it bore on its crest were yet left behind when it withdrew. Blit by far the fiiost were swallowed up and their poor bodies are now only being thrown back on land. The town of Kamaisni, situated a few miles from the iron mines of that name, was almost wiped out, only a few bouses standing on high ground behind the town being spared. In this town 4,700 persons, out of a total population of 6,557, lost their lives; 500 were injured; 1,080 out of 1,213 houses were destroyed. Taro was -a--vfflage..-.0t....2,500_.,.p0pu1atj0n, _Tliree Hundred persons escaped from the catastrophe. At this point the wave appears to have been most destructive; some of the survivors declare it to have been eighty feet high, and the marks left oh the rising grounds show it to have been

SHIZUKAW AFTER THE WAVE PASSED OVER IT.

of such a height that it is a marvel any human beings survive. The loss of life would have been greater, but for the fact that over a hundred of the Taro fishermen were at sea and knew naught of the disaster till they returned. Owing to the destruction of the telegraph lines along the coast it was not till late next morning that news of the catastrophe began to spread, and for three days, it was all but impossible tdafford official aid to the survivors. Meanwhile the weather had grown warmer. Decomposition of the bodies had set in and it began to be a dreadful experience to venture in the vicinity of those spots where formerly there had been human habitations. But. worse than the awful scenes to which one could never become accustomed, in passing near the ruined houses was the spectacle of groups of swollen once-human forms rocking to and fro bn the sea almost within reach of the shore, while on the bench itself other similar awful objects were rolled over and over in rows by each succeeding wave as it reached the strand. There can be no exaggeration of this frightful calamity or of the never-to-be forgotten scenes that have followed and are yet coming in i|s wake. It has been found extremely

BUINS IN ODACHI.

difficult to secure laborers to assist in locating, recovering aud.decently interring the dead, ami the gravest fears are entertained that disease will be bred by the presence of so many decaying bodies. It would lie idle to discuss the causes ot this extraordinary visitation. It may have originated in some tremendous volcanic outburst far away in* the Pacific oedti'n, or it may have been* caused by a displacement of the ocean bed£k the hither edge of the Tuscarora D<4*p, which was discovered by'Admiral Belknap -tn the 'ftscarora, and stretches a mighty abyss, live and one-third miles deep, off the Japan coast yea “waves have invaded Japan before, but never-with aUeh disas-

trona results.- It is well within the memory 6f those still alive thpt in 1854 the harbor of Shimoda was visited by three 'iruge'v'aves.'whieh -destroyed many, lives and much shipping,;Jedv'ing thg Russian frigate l*iana a total wreck. Moreover; -smhlb •brought little dCsWicfion, was experience I in parts <!’ lift very regions that ha'fF r.ow been devastated. >- 'T!:e Emperor and Empress promptly g'avCi 14.990 yen, to be devoted' to the relief us the sufferers, and. foreigners and Japanese are subscribing to funds started for a similar, purpose.

FULL BINS FOR FARMERS.

Country's Corn Crop Promises to Eqdal that of East Year. Information regarding the growing corn crop lias been received at the De p.irtmvnt of Agriculture in Washington. There is evqry indication now that the crop of the country will equal the enormous crop of last year, which was 2,151.13!f,W(X) bushels. That was. the largest crop the. United. States has produced! for many years. The crop of 1894 had only been 1,212,000,000 bushels, and it whs but a trifle more in 1893 and 1892. In 18(11 it reached beyond* 2,060,000,000 bus’heis. ‘ The extent of the corn croy of.the United States 'till*;' fcjirig. about 1.000.00 A acres less than it was hist year. Thep it was 82.090.00(1 acres. In 1894 it was only 76.(100.0110. The average acreage in the iirineipal corn States is reported :rs follows for-the twer years: , . 1896. 1895. Ohio ;.. . ,lbq 104 .Michigan .' 106 106 Indiana 103 104 Illinois .. 1(« 105 lowa Iff 106* Missouri .......: ~. 99 ' 107 Kansas 105 117 Nebraska 7 102 107 Toxas S 3 112 Tennessee 94 107 Kentm-.ky ................ Iff 102 Tile pilieia! method of the Government for eommhnlcAting the state of growing crops to the public is to take a basis of 100 as a reasonable standard of excellence. Averages in excess are exceptionally good, and averages Ipelow 100 become less encouraging the lower they go. With this explanation the statements of the officials, of the Agricultural Department ■cOme plain to those outside the Board of Trade. The reports received justify the following estimates of the average condition of the crop in the leading corn Static which are given alongside the avdrages for .July, 1893: -- * ; • .7777TSSZZ 1895. Ohio ..'... . tW ' 91 Michigan 106 91 Indiana ...11l 95 Illinois 9.8 92 lowa ................ 94 105 Kentucky ................ 97 - 96 Missouri ....................... 'Bl 109 'Ksnsu-;.. 102 104 Nebraska 103 95 Tmsh .... 93 118 Tennessee 90 98 For the .entire country the present average is 92.4. against 99.3 in .Inly. IS'.Ti. : The condition of the entire (p’op of winter wheat tlfroug'hopt the. I mTeiF'Stiltes | is 75.6. against 65.8 in July, 1895, dis; tributed as follows: • , 1896. 1595. New York , 70 78 Pennsylvania 70 88, Kentucky ..................... 64 85 Ohio - 50 60 Michigan 73 69 Indiana 1. 66 » 52 ■lllinois SO -- 50 Missouri 75 68 Kansas 75 42 Califoriria ..... ...........I'oo .• .82 Oregon 95 95 Washington 100 ' 93 The reports received by the department in a general way on ail crops are: encouraging. This ought to be a prosperous year for farmers in most sections qf the country, unless some great calamity befails the harvest. Generally poor condition of fruit throughout the country is announced in the agricultural report; Apples declined in condition from 71 to 64.6 during June. The peach crop promises to be of medium proportions. During the past month a fall of 12.9 points has taken place, leaving the general average now 51.5.

LINCOLN’S OVATION TO BRYAN.

Big Demonstration in His Home Town —Reception at the State House. Amidst an uproar of booming cannon, pealing church bells; screaming steam

whistles and the shouts of 20,(XX) people, Wm. J. Bryan, the Democratic nominee for President, entered Lincoln, the capital city of Nebraska, his home. It was an ovation the like of which the people ot that part of the country never before witnessed. Half the people of the city, men, women ami children, were at the depot to welcome him home. It was a nonpartisan reception, for both Democrats and Republicans participated in it. The Mayor of the city, the City Council and distinguished citizens of every political belief were at the train. As far as the eye could roach were thronged streets, crowded windows and enthusiastic shouters on the roofs of the houses. There were bands of music, men carrying banners with mottoes complimentary to the Democratic leader and flags and bunting hung from the fronts of the business houses and dwellings. Even the newsboys .-crying tile evening papers wore Bryan caps and thousands of people blew tin horns or rang cow bells. When the reception was over Mr. Bryan went tp a platform erected at the north end of the State House, where he addressed what is said to have been the largest congregation of people ever assembled in Lincoln.

Told in a Few Lines.

There were 393 new cases of cholera in Egypt in two days and 338 deaths from that disease, including those of three British soldiers at Wady-Haifa. “ James Gritlin, 12 years old, stabbed and killed his lli-yenr-old brother, Joseph Griffin, with a pocketknife at New York during a quarrel over the possession of a baseball mask. A rumor is current in railroad circles that Collis I’. Huntington and the Southern Pacific people have a hand in the new government ot the .Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. An expert counterfeiter is now hr the city lockup at St. I’nul. His real name is Richard Munroe, alias Charles Smith, alias “Whiskers,” a reformed ex-convict, who has been for some months under the eye of Hastings H. Hart, secretary of the Minnesota State Board of Corrections and Charities. Mrs. Louise Foltz, wife of Richard D. Foltz, committed suicide at Newcastle, Pa., by taking laudanum. Mr. Foltz then made a desperate attempt to kill himself, bjjt was prevented. Mrs. Foltz was a sister of James J. Davidson, Republican candidate for Congress. Her brother married a daughter' of Senator Quay. . r 1 — x—— ■ . . —— - ■ ■ •_ I

GOOD ROADS

Snow Shoes. They are worn to prevent the ( traveler from sinking into the soft surface of the snow. If teamsters could prevent the sinking of their wagons by wide tires, and thus haul double the load in all cases, they would at once adopt the broad tread. The trouble is, however, that most roads will hold up tile narrow tire for a time, and as the road doesn’t belong to the drivers, the evil is perpetuated until the wheelmen eotne along and Institute legislation. The Way to Vote. The Good Roads Club, of Atlanta, Ga., has instructed its secretary to write to all candidates for the position of county commissioners, asking that they forward the club-.a written statement of their views in regard to roads. And why not? What are commissioners for? The position is not a particularly ornate one and hence it should be of some practical use to the public. -A good system of highyvays throughout a county would be of more real benefit than anything else commissioners could propose. Voters have a right to know a man’s ideas concerning this important question before putting him into an office he is not calculated to properly fill. Don’t buy a pig in a poke. Don’t vote for anyone who isn’t willing to do all he chn, within reason, to Jift his community out of the mud. makegoml ballast wlienpropverly utilized. Just Think!

Oh, think of the farmers who come and g‘> . ' Through a sorry road like this! And think of the grief they needs must know, And the good roads’ joys they miss! And think of the poor dumb brutes that reel Through the mud till they faint and fall! And think of the cyclers who cannot wheel, On a road like this, nt nil.

A Rat’s Fondness fOr Sparrows.

A rat that catches and eats birds is the latest novelty on the West Side. Under a sidewalk at 12th and Loomis streets lives a rat.' From tlie size of the rodent and his gray'hair whiskers it isT evidently an old resident in the* enighborhood. Unlike some other rats, it does not depend on “rtreese and bread for his living, but prefers tv nice, juicy sparrow. On the corner stands a building occupied as a saloon, and in front of the saloon is a watering trough, where teamsters allow their horses to slake their thirst. The teamsters also find the place a very convenient one to feed their horses while they sample,the proprietor’s free lunch and lager beer. As a result the pavement is thickly strewn with oats pushed out of the feeding sacks by the hungry horses. An army of sparrows has been attracted to the place, and eqch morning the pavement is covered with the little fellows eating their breakfast. The rat, having cultivated a taste for sparrows, now has one for breakfast every day. Ilaugers-on around the place have come to watch the maneuvers of the rat every morning. Soon after daylight,the.sparrows make their appearance, and the rat slyly crawls out of its hole. After looking around to see that the coast Is clear, she rat selects a plump sparrow, and while the little bird is busy tilling Its crop the rat makes a spring and secures its prey. The bird is dragged under the sidewalk, and nothing more is seen of the rat until the following morning, when he comes out for a fresh victim. So expert has the rat become that those who have seen it say it-can catch and kill a bird as cleverly as a cat.—Chicago Chronicle.

Rattlesnake Skin Necktie.

A necktie made of the shin of a rattlesnake and with eight rattles left on was discovered in a paper box as it was passing through the mailing department of the genera,! postofllce yesterday morning. It was addressed to A, Vonnegut, Munster, Germany, and one of the clerks peeped into the box to see if the contents were of a class that could legally be sent through the mails across the sea. The supposed •-/ sender is F. J. Vonnegut, of 323 Smith street, but the city -directory does not contain any such name. The postofllce officials ruled that it contained goods of a salable value, .and could not be sent through the mails unless properly sealed and postage at the rate of 5 cents a half-ounce paid. Unless the sender reads about the_detention of his novel present, and calls at the postofllce and pays more money, his German brother in the Fatherland will probably not have the pleasure of wearing this strictly unique specimen of American ingenuity in haberdashery.—New York Tribune.

A Brnte.

Mrs. Peck—What do you sit there reading for, when I am trying to think of a word? Should I say ••disillusioned” or “disillusionized?" Mr. N. Peck—l dunno. Just say “married,” and let it go. at that.—San Fran«lsco Argus- . .