St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 September 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA, j — CORNERED IN COREA. CHINESE TROOPS KILLING PONIES FOR FOOD. Foreign Employe# In Dockyards Discharged to Prevent News of Damage to Warships Leaking Out—Buckeye Incendiary Burns I p a Tow n. Guarding Japan’s Secrets. Shanghai advices report, that the Chinese forces are cornered in North- i ern Corea, without supplies, and are killing their ponies for foo l. A*!l the foreign employes in the Japanese dockyards have been dismissed. This was dyne in order that the extent of the injuries to the warships of the Japau^e navy shall not become known. The ■P ■w.yv. Y.ayg Yama Kan has been toe Wed at ’Nagasaki to undergo repairs of damage she has received. The dock fT rbwcl.v guarded, and no particulars in regard to her injuries are obtainable from the native papers. The Japanese force n >rth of Seoul is suffering from the effects of the rain. Much sickness is also reported to prevail in the Chinese i camp. It is rumored that 38.000 ( hinese troops are encam, ed on the north tank of the river Imchin, waiting for favorab e weather to attack the Japanese position a few miles *uth. It is reported on good local authority that the Mikado of Japan, accompanied by the Ministers of War and N a ice and his general staff, is proceeding to Heroshima, a point where the troops of Japan gather to embark. Ohio Town Burned. The little village of Dalton, 0.. was almost destroyed by tire. The fire originated in a stable, and while the direct cause of its origin is unknown, it is presumed that it was started by tramps who took quarters there for the night. The entire loss is estimated at $200,000. the heaviest loser being the Royal Insurance Company. The postoffice and its entire contents were included in the flames. The Canton. Massillon and Orrville Eire Departments were hastily summoned and responded, but their presence was of no avail, as sufficient water could not be procured to do any good. The citizens aie almost crazed over the loss of their business blocks and residences. All the telegraph wires wore burned down. AU German Lodges to Secele. The long threatened split in the Knights of Pythias was star ted at Indianapolis Monday night, when K< erner Lodge No. 6, composed solely of German members, by a unanimous vote seceded from the parent organization. This action is bei ause of the ritual, and it is understood will be followed by all the German lodges in the United States, which number about. 25.LUU , with Tn here u losin. The cows on the famous Borden farm, twelve miles from Newburg, are attacked with tubercu'osis. It is the largest and finest farm in the East and contains the Borden Condensery. Among the several hundred cows so far twenty have Icon discovered with the disease. BREVITIES, Perry, Ok., was visited by two waterspouts. In some of the streets water was waist deep. Julius Ai plehaus. aged 16. was killed and Willie Flick, aged 1), has since died of injuries, ami Engineer Crawford was badly hu t in a railroad accident near New (Irleans. 1 a. A man said to be ex-West Town Assessor Cantwell's son was shot and killed by Thomas Morgan, ba 1 tender in Brod’s saloon. Chicago. Tue day morning while robbing tiie saloon. The twenty- ighth national encampment of the G. A. R. was usheio i in on Monday, at Pittsburg, I'a ,by a monster naval parade on the Monongahela. There were 70,0(10 strangers in the city. The annual report of the Controller of the Currency -hows an increa e in the volume of busines's of th office the last fiscal year of $7-L(hD.( 0). Claims and acc Hints were settled involving over ^O.JOi’.OIO. In the case of J. C. O. Gorman, receiver of Seyim ur. Sabin X Co. vs. The Stillwater Minn. Union Depot and Trans'er Company, Judge Williston filed an order dismissing claims amounting to $354.3( 3. William M. Murray, aged 28, a clerk of the North British and Mercantile, was held in $16,000 bail at New York. H was charged with em- ■ _ ■ ——— " " ■ • •. > ■ i I’HOMIXV.xt religious circles seem to l>o agog over a new religion that, has found its way into st. 1 ouis. ‘salvation sanetiticati n and di - ine healing” is the designation of the faith as ann unced by the evangelist, Rev. J. G. Stewa t. Many parishioners of the leading churches of Louis are disciples of this new doctrine. The Republicans carried the day in the Maine election Monday, 37,0C0 majority being given the following ticket: Governor, Henry B. Cleaves; First Congressional District, T. B. Reed: Second Congressional District, Nelson Dingley: Third Congressional District. Seth L. Milliken: h ourth Congressional District Charles A. Boutelle. Four tickets were in the field. Treasurer T. T. Smith of Columbia County, Ark., is a defaulter. The amount of his shortage is not known. Probate Judge Charles W. Buckley of Montgomery, Ala., a delegate to the G. A. R. encampment, was taken lo a Pittsburg hospital suffering from typhoid fever. Japan is reported to have agreed to pay $750,000 indemnity for firing on the Kow Shung, which was carrying Chine-e troops and Hying the British flag when s: nk by the Mikado’s warships.

EASTERN. At Jersey City Bomhard Altenborgor was hanged for the murder of I Katie Rupp, whom he had promised to marry. Herr Most is to go on the stage and i will make his first appearance in “Die j Weber” at the New’ York Thalia Thoai ter on Oct. 8. Gen. George Stoneman, ex-Gov-ernor of California, died in Buffalo, at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Benjamin H. Williams. At Philadelphia, Pa., Leroy Smith, the 14-months old son of Banker Winfield Scott Smith, found a revolver, and while playing with it shot himself dead. George W. Stormont ami Thos. 11. Linas, 25 and 20 years of age respectively, have reached New York from ('leveland on a penniless journey around the world. James Coleman Drayton has instituted proceedings to secure a divorce from his wife. Charlotte Augusta Drayton, a daughter of William Astor, of the family of which John Jacob Astor was the founder. Mr. Drayton seeks a legal separation upon the statutory grounds Hallett Alsop Borrowe is named as the co-iespondent. It will be remembered that in March, 1892, at London, Mr. Drayton challenged Mr. Born we to fiirht a duel. The challenge was declined. Action has been brought in the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey, the first papers being filed at Trenton on Juno 27. The ranks of the striking New York garment workers were increased Tuesday morning by the addition of 500 men, representing the working forces of some fifty different sweat shops. This swells the t >tal number actually on strike now, according to leaders' estimates, to 7j oo men. The strikers now seem to be better organiz d oven. Twelve hundred new members have been enrolled in their union since Saturday, The strike affects 4,04)3 women and young girls also, who earn a scanty living in many of the Rivington anil Suffolk street sweat shops. These heartily favor the movement. The United Garment Workers met in the evening. It was learned that something like K 0 shops had clos ’d at the end of the day, and the men declare that if their demands are not acceded to all hands in every branch of the trade in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City will go out on a sympathetic strike. WESTERN. Cashier A. W. Dickerson, of the failed Cass County Bunk at Atlantic City, lowa, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for six years. E. F. Fisher, bookkeeper for the Anhauser Busch Brewing ( ompany at Oklahoma, killed himself because he could not abstain from drink. The case of A. W. Little, a prominent Kansas ( ity lawyer, for shooting and killing J. I*. Johnson, a lawyer, two years ago, has again been continued at Olat .c, Kan., this time till Nov. 22. Rev. J. J. Kennedy, President of Amity < 'H’s’gr, ngs, Neb., Thas been mysteriously missing f r a week He went to Omaha to b • gone twenty-four hours an 1 has not Iren seen since. E. Reed, superintendent and general manager of the Bob tail mine, near Central < ity, Colo , while bciti" drawn to the top of the shaft in company with W. h Forbes un i Edward B. Kirby, was knocked from the bucket and instantly kill d. Mr. Rc d fell a distance of L . feet, landing on the top of his head. Three incho- of rain fell te'twe- n '* o’clock ami midnight in Chicago M< n day night an inch an hour tho greatest precipitation, period of duration' c nsiderou. ever imt on record in the Chicago weather office. There have been longer storms and storms that did far more damage, but this visitation was the most energetic seen in twenty-five years in the city. In spite of the showers of Monday the forest fires in Northern Wisconsin burned Tuesday with renewed fury, destroying wholly or in part a number of towns. Bruce was wiped out, and Port Wing and S.n'-orn reported burning. Washburn, < danah and Spencer were threate ed. and the ined bands of tiro fighters. Man farm buildings and Egging camps «e e swept away, and some line- of railroads abandoned their trains on account of the dense smoke. Kerrick, a small town in Minnesota, was also surrounded by fires and the women and children we e -ent to West Superior for safety, Mrs. Mary Ellsworth. 50 years old. has been lodged in jail at Jackson, Mo., fi r the murder of Henry Stiff, a blacksmith at Oriole and a neighbor of Mrs. Ell-worth Bad feeling existed j on account of certain charges against | Stiff and counter charges against a [ grown daughter of Mrs. Ellsworth Mrs. Flsworth, her son, Pre slv. and the daughter drove to the home of Stiff. Stiff was called out and without a word Mrs. K hworth b "gan firing on him at close range. Stiff ran, pursued by the woman and th* son. who also discharged the contents of his musket into Stiff’s back. Pressly Ellsworth has not been caught. Reports from the hop yards in the Willamette valley are of a very disc urag ng nature. With low prices for hops, the ravages of the louse and the rains, an 1 consequent black mold, the raisers have a very sorry time of it. The rains that have fallen since Sunday, it is claimed, have done great damage to the rij e and ripening crops. I Wherever the vines are infeste i by the parasites mold immediately sets in after being thoroughly saturated with i water. This has been the case, it is feared, with a great many yards. A , prominent P rtland, Ore., hop dealer re<eived a despatch from Woodburn, in Midland County, which says: “Nearly half of the hop yards in this section ! have been al andoned on account of the lice and mold.” A merchant from Gervais, in the same region, says a ’ ; great many of the yards around that . part of the country would not be pick- , fd. owing to lice and mold. There are intimations that the Minnesota State Senatorial Committee, which has for months been investigating the frauds against the State in the cutting of pine from s heol

lands will bo able to tonishing evidence not only the “timber pirates” have appropriate® millions of dollars’ worth of hinu.J belonging to the State, but that in tr< Ing to cover up their stealings tb.lr have started fires which have resultdT in the terrible loss of life and proneu® in 1 ine, Kanabec, Carlton, and oth.li’ counties in the pine belt. The char Jr is that the lumbermen have iir®o the lands which they have imprope® cleared to render measurement By stumpage impossible and thereby sMOf off any suits which the commisslKt might attempt to bring against theßb In one of the chief hotels in St Cl®)a scout, employed by the commisa^fc to ferret out. cases of lumber thievV on declared ho had secured sworn <>6, donee that millioni of foot of lun« vihad been stolen and that as soon u*»er hacj been cut the lumbermen had f it structed their employes to burn «in ground over and “to make a good cl®e job of it.” ■Kn W. C. Moloney, who, under I title of Moloney & Co., has been duct ing an alleged commission bust® 0 * 1 ' in South Water street, Chicago, > es!l arrested on warrants charging' W. a3 with defrauding farmers of wool ai to him for sale. The complainant®* lll C. M. llaxton and Robert Duff, of ham, lowa, who uro lowers to tU®!«. tent of LIFO and 760 pounds of wct«' r c electively, but it is thoughtA ttorney L. H. Craig, who has ha^Jhe ease in charge, that further 1^ ’»■» will show that fa mera all count i y have l oon vietiinizodA Kllo lono y' in April sent a c^Bihir letter to fat mera all over ' Q,) u . country asking for consignment s ,f wool and claiming to be able U from Hto 19 cents a pounds for it ^s this was considerably over the ml a,,. price, Mr. llaxton answered, add x' ' ing hi-- letter to No. 114 South M ® r street, the address < n Moloney letterheads. This b ought apr reply, urging him to send in hiA Xq at once, and offering him a comm] on any other business ho could gl the neighborhood. Moloney |K, I also sent llaxton ten wool sack^ K,. tag- on which were addressed to] loney A ( 0., No. 80 South VI street." Moloney had no office at c thtuNo. 111 or so South Water street, SOUTHERN. The first clearance for the seal Galveston Texas < ottou was ) The loss was •>, IW) bales. 9 Stephen B. Elkins. ex-Seer t py of War, is seriously ill with erysl at hi- home in Eskins, W. Ya. i speni Holder, of Danton, ’0 j who was indicted twenty-three ; s ago for murder, has given himMl ' p. The investigation into the lym j jg of six nogr< cs near Millington, Is । y, I- I i-ing ptishod with vigor. * * he Grand Jury have returned five ii ijetmenU ami more will follow. Stephen Giles, 60 years o 5 llof KirkintmsviHe. Ky,, married a I* I'*" old girl. A crowd of young mt a five them a "rharha i.” Giles shot Wto the crowd and one man will dio. | j Gov, Turner intends to m^ e it warm for the incmbersof the mol who lynched the six alleged negro i ern- , diaries at Millington. Tenn. 1113. Millington lynchers must era sight : to us’ice ’ he said. In an angry woice. “and 1 will begin a thorough invAtiga- j tioa at once. I will assist the Me|nphi< | authorit in every way posidlle by ' offering large rewards, and employing det efive* to rm. down the who committed the crime n.ainst elv ation. Sm h outrages a- the Mlilit gouj affair an a disgrace to any eomniu ill , , and an example must he made ol the savage^ who <-om|M*sod the mob ” A r Na ogd cb.es, Texas, LI mry Watson ice nt y married a Mis- Hummors, Imt his t eatment of his wife । was so brutal her fam ly remonstrated. He - nt word to his father-in-law that he wa- going t > kill him. Two ions remained at the house to protect the I old gentleman, while Jes-e and!Joe! Summers went to Wat-on‘s and began ■ reasoning with him. but he drew his ; I knife, disemboweled Jesse and began ha king him to pieces. Joe Summers | lout -ix bulb t • m Wat->n but not be- । fore he had been fatallv stabbed intho I region of the heart. VVatson is dead and there is no hop.- for the Summers ’ b >ys. A sensational tragedy occurred 1 near Dykvsville, 1.a., a small town jr.st across the Ar ansa- state lin • Thursday elintoa Thomp- n. a farmer, had a fine melon crop which has been • a feast to the Imys in the neighboriho kl. Tho raids of the boys bei came so frequent that the o’d man deci led to put a stop to the depredations. Ho put poison in some of the finest melons, and : awaited the result . Thursday morn- | ing his son Felix. George Bridges, a ■ neigh bur’s son, and a man named I Jacob Muir, were ound dead in the ‘ patch. The neighbor whose son was among the victims was the iir-t to d.»6- ■ । cover the dead bodies, and ca fed j Thompson out to show him the corjles. I When Bridges learned that Thomp j had poisoned tho and cau»"i I the (Rath of his «nn. Ee drew his re-. ' v<>!’. er ami -hot him dea i m his tracks. 1 The murderer e-caped. I POLITICAL. Senator Joni s, of Nevada, is c r in a letter announcing himself a For . list. “ 1 Arkansas D mocrats claim t»e election of their State ticket by 3() . majority. South Dakota Democrats have nominated James A. Ward, of Pierre for Governor. Alexander Fulton, of Dover, has been nominated for Congress by De’a- ! ware Populists. ’ a iN the Colorado Pop u i st State Conxenti in at Pueblo, the following ticket was named: Governor Dwtcw w. Lieutenant Governor s W HnAy rE Auditor g”-HAUMox Treasurer H , • L IJ «COLX T-. +1 ,w. "■■■■•■ Casmebo Basel* ix the \v isconsm Democratic State Convention Thur-day, at Milwaukee Gov. G. o. W. Peck was renominated on the third ballot. Following R t’e ticket complete. e Governor „ ur Lieutenant Governor’.. Secretary of State t j r„n T1 ln„? State Treasurer ” ’’’jn'iS ll ® Attoraev General a’,, no. nner Superintendent of Publlo instru^^ 0 . G DOr Raliro^Oommls 9 ToneZ’.7.:Geor K o V d Insurance Commissioner OR Skaar The lowa Populist State convention

a * D ® 3 Moin es Tuesday and a ' iuh State ticket nominat'd The at'“'V Wdologato, ; An address has been i-sued to the pe >p.e of Kansas, signed by J. H Latorop, W. TI. Benningto i and others, nnHU^.[ Or f^anization of a new the VnH y lhut State > l, ased on the ituitery and referendum system. ■V? P ^ C ^ S aro ?° be oPublished ail X hß Stat ® “ nd YOters not in accord with any ot the old parties will Le asked to c ill and identify themselves with the new urganiza ion, the name of which is to be determined by ponulur vote. 11 foreign, 1 i Is stated that the young Duke ot Marlborough has recently paid a visit to Danestield, and gossip i 8 r if e j n London and Paris as to the p .seibility of a marriage being arranged between him and the eldest Miss Vanderbilt who is now a pretty g.rl of nearly IS. ’ A dispa 11 h fr< m \ ienna says that a letter received in that city from st. Petersburg says that the Czar’s pv? ent illness excites publlo attention us much 611 his iilnes i seven months ugo, when a eutastrophe was expected That bo much mystery is made of the Character of hR vemplaint is considered extraordinary. The Czar went to Bialowurz when everything had been prepared f r his receition at Rpala. His Majesty usually objects to medical treat tn mt, but he is now accompanied by Dr. Zacchurin. The liturgy read in the chinches on Sundays now contains a passage referring to tho ( zar’s health, which was added last January when lie was very ill. IN GENERAL The first clearance of cotton for this season lias U'en made to a foreign port. The Sierra Line Steamer Meria i cleared at Galvest m, Tex , Wcdne-dav, for Llverpo 1 with 6.100 bales of cotton, valued at $227,248. Tin l’nion Pacific Railroad has issued a notice to all employes to ate stain from any partieip ition in polities, the discus-ion of any subject tending to that direction tedng prohibit 'd. Ail men not willing to keep out of p >lities are requested to resign The cliiteof the National ami Westj ern Leagues stand as follows in the championship race: M 11. X Al. I EAGL E. Tor Per _ , W. L. cent J W. L. cent. Raltlaere H se .mi Pttteburg .M M is? Naw York TS 40 .fti Chicago m to .43', t 40 - , '4» Cino'.nnatl fO ft .457 Pail drip lafifl w .toil kt. I.outx G 70 40-1 nrookhn. JJ .?4S Wauhlugt'n4o “7 .nil Cleveland. > .>3 .373 LouUvlUe 33 HI 2x7 WBHtar.S LBAOUX. . l‘rr l’ar W. L. cent. W. 1,, cent. Sioux City M .« 7 Gr’d R’p!dßV4 to 4’4 KanAeu i ’v.m 47 ’ha 1 ndi'n'p ile 50 .442 Minne puur] 4D ,tov Detroit 47 04 .433 Toledo Je 81 .t«3 Milwaukee 43 :317 The fishing schooner Rigel, o' Gloucester, Mass., Captain George W. Dixon, has just arrived in North Sidney, N. 8., with the pa-sengers and stow of the steamship .Miranda, which | lo t New York July 7, carrying Dr. j ( o ik'- party for Arctic • xp oration, i ^ ter making repairs at st. John’s. J r amigo received by i Collision wi h an iceberg oil Belle I Isle July 17, the Miranda made a j second attempt to reach Greenland. sailii g on July 27. Rea y fogs ’ and ice imped* d the r progress, and she made hurlmr at Sukkcr Toppan, Greenland, Aug. 7. Sh > started for I Holstcnborg Aug. 9 and -truck a sunkien rock outside tho harbor. T e Miranda wa- not considered tit t > return : to St, John s with her passengers. A । relief party set out from Sukker Top- ' pivi to Hol-ten 1 -Tg. 1,0 miles distant, ; with tire Esquimaux in an oj>en sail- | b at. for a—ista co. The schooner j Rigd wa- met by chance, and ('apt. I Dixon generousl v" responded t > the apj j'eii <>f th- oxidorer- and returned to I Sukker Toppan with the Miranda’s party. < apt. Ea-re l of the Miranda i arranged with • apt. Dixon that his । company should i>a. S4JW> for carryi ing the passengers home, and the pasi s >tuers and Khkl we e transferred to : the Rigel, an 1 the Miranda then startted for Labrador with the l igcl lin tow. An- 21, about midI night, while about 100 miles out. | the Miranda sent up signa's of distress. En rmous oc an -wells from a distant storm caused her water tank t ibu st and the ve--el began to fill. I (’apt. Farrell was obliged to abandon > hisship. Th? c ew and officers we to ; transferred at daylight. Aug. 23, to the Rigel and the Miranda was left to her fate. Ninety- ne persons were crowded into the IvigiTs cabin ar d hold. MARKET REPORTS. CHIC IGO. Cattle-Common to Prime.... $3 60 i? 6 aoo Hogs Sbippicg Gradss 4 (0 6 75 i Sheep—fair to Choice 2 03 3 75 ■ Wheat No. 2 Red 4 r 5 i Coin—No. 2 fB ' * Oats—No. 2 -9 3 I Rte N,. 47 ■. - 4- ;■ I Ritiev Choice < reaniery i 3 -> to s' .er Lu 70 so INDIANAPOLIS. i Cattle— Shipping - -st 5 £0 1 Hogs—Choice Light 400 eSO sheep—Common to Prime 2 CO @ 3 2a WHEVI No. 2 Red 49 <IS 494; Cobx-No. 2 White £0 56^ Oats-No. 2 White . 82 & 33 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3co 3 £o Hogs 3 oj 6 so Wheat No. 2 Red Cobn-No. 2 56 ® '7 Oats—No. 2 31 82 Rye—No. 2 w & ia CINCINNATI. CATTLE 2 50 ® 4 75 HogV 4 00 (£6.0 5HEEP..'...'.:'..’.:." 200 300 WHEAT No 2 Red -1 62 Cohn—No. 2 Mixed 68 63 OITS—No. 2 Mixed 31 »3> 3Bye—No. 2 47 ® 48 DETROIT. r . TTIF 250 nt 4 50 ho«s 400 <?6oo I qHFKp 2 00 35 3 25 WheatLn’6. 1 White 55 ® 56 Corn—No. 2 Ye low 58-$ O4is —No. 2 White 32-..<25 33 2 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Bed 53 e5 54 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 50 <iS 66 2 Oats—No. 2 White 32 c? Rye—No. 2 4, 48 K BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 White 60 <3l 60'2 No. 2 Red 56 & 57 Corn-No 2 Yellow 63 <9 6314 Oits—No. 2 White 35 *• MILWAUKEE. L ■! X'J. 2 . COBN -No. 3 f6W W 56 Oats-No. 2 White 33 Barley-No. 2 Rye-No. 43 “ NEW'YORk:’ Sheep 2 00 3 7 5 WHEAT—No. 2 Red *9 60 CoBN—NO. 2 66 @ 67 Oats—Mixed Western 84 8o Butter— Creamery 4 ' Eggs—State 1< @ W

ROYAL LIFE IS ENDED death of one of the famous BOURBONS. Released from Prison a Penniless ManSchool Bondi Declared Invalid—Life Insurance Company in Trouble—Four Lives Lost in a Tenement Fire. Comte de Paris Dead. I he C mito do Paris died an exile at Stowe House, hi, London residence, early Saturday morning. Louis Albert I’hilippo d Orleam, tho Comte de Paris, was tho son of the lato Duc d’Or cans and grandson of tho lato Louis Philippe,* King of the French. Ho was born in l’aris Aug. 24, 1838. Ho was only 10 years o'd when tho rovoh tion of February, broko out. and accompanied by his heroic j mother, the lato Duchess d’Or'eans, he witnessed tho stormy scene in tho French ('hambers which followed t at ev«-nt. Hovvuso matd in < laromont, in Englund, ly his mother, who died there Mav is, IKSS.

Urrrked tlin The St. Pa il express on the Chicag > and Noithwestcrn,which left the Wells ' street depot, Chicago, at. < 30 o'clock 1 Sunday night, was wrecked one hour later between Barrington and Cary by ' colliding with three coal cars said to have Ixien blown on tho main Lack by a min ature cyclone which was sweeping acto s the country. General sujorintende .t S. San) orn wa- badly injur, d, the li eman was ki led, and two employes and two passengers were hurt. NEWS NUGGETS. Noel Maison was hanged in I'ittsburg for wife murder A St. Louis boy -wallowed a green fly while laughing and died shortly after in great agony. The Metropolitan Trac ion Company at New York is ab mt t) aban ion tho cable and sub titute the ; n lerground elee ric system Mrs. M. a. Hunt, of Ter o Haute, Ind., recently released from an insane a ylum as < ured, trio i to hang herself. Her husband recently committed suicide. T h: fir-t sale at Cincinnati of bonded whisky to be taken out of payment of tiio new lax las been reported. It is a lot of 5,5 U barrels spring of 1^92 and 1>93. At I-all River ami New Bedforl indieatii ns are that a majority of the striking mill operators will resent the j reductions in wages until <old weather at least. N 'l l. Maisson wa- hanged at Pittsburgh, Pa., for the murder of August Raes and his wife, S >phi:t Rae-, near tho v Hage of Calamity, the night of So; t. 25, I NW. The H mgarian wheat crop is reported to lo from 15 to 26 percent, less than last year. A short crop L re-। ported of rye. and but on -third of a crop of corn Barley i- a cood crop. The G'assworker’s Uulou and tho , bottle numufa turers have failed to agree on a scale at their Pittsburg meeting. The men refused to accede to a 15 per ce t. reduction demanded. Horai i: I/mmis, who murdered his cou-in, James ( regory, near Kokomo while the latter vas up at midnight administering medicine to the assassins sick mother, has been ordered taken t > the insane asylum. Al Kuimu a-ka Cue., four lives wero lost in a ire in the hou e of Favid St. Pierre. The violence o' the ; wind carrie i tho i’ames t > the adjoining houses, three of which were conMimed. Tho victims woe David St. Pierre, Dame \ eiive. Thadee Pardis and Abraham i a Point. The body o All n Brockaway. a rich farm !• living near Rulo. Mo., was found in some timber on his and. He had been missing for several days. A bullet in hi- brain, which onto:el the l a -k of the head, confirms a theory of were missing from his clothes. The Mutual Benefit Lite Ass cia’ion of America, whose principal office is at No. L 71 roadway, New York, is ins Ivcnt, and it- affair- a e lo b ■ w< und up. The association has policies < utstanding the face value of which is something like $10,(1 syi i<. There are un aid deat i claim aggregating $:0),o -';.:o of which the association conte ts. George F. Work, the Philadelphia banker and financier who was -entem ed n February, P >l, to serve four years in the ] cnitentiaiy f< r fraudulently tak ng and coiifl c:u ng bank seem itie . wa- re’ea ed I riday. having re - iv <l. und-’r t!ie <• mm. tation law f..." _o d b rt-ir. tiie b<- : .<j it of -ix in nt hs’ 1 i .'i e. The i-x-ba .ker declares , he ha- not a (foliar in tin- world and U; st get to w< rk to supp rt himself and family. At Sioux City, a., in the case ot John sh iw against the Riverside i School I istrict of I yon County, in

which Shaw sued for the face of I'.- ' 0 0 worth of loads, Judge Shiras, of the United states Court, declared the is-ue invalid I ecause the bonds were issue 1 at a time the debt of the district ex ee led the limitation fixed by aw. This deci ion invalidates $72?000 of bonds issue 1 by this district and full/ slooj 00 worth ; ssued by other Lyon County school districts. Another outrage has been committed on Americans by the seizure of a launch by the Mosquito dictators at Bluefields. Carl von Wintzingerode has been recognized as Consul of Germany at Portland. Oregon, for the States of Oiegon and Idaho. The family cf James Strine, of Dun- • dee, ind.. were all made ill, and an : analy.-is < f the water in their well showed it to bo impregnated with arsenic. Strine suspects an enemy of an attempt to murder. POSTOFEICE inspectors have arrested A. L. Naples at Mulberry, Kan., for violating the green goods law. Henry Hall, a farmer of Meeker's Grove, 111., was I’eeced la t week by lightning-rod sharps, and the expori- ! enc?, so preyed on his mind that he be- j came sick and died.

RAIN BADLY NEEDED. Fall Plowing Retarded Owing to Bakett Condition of the SoiL Reports as to the condition of crops throughout the country and the general influence of weather on growth, cultivation, and harvest were made by the directors of the different State weather services of the United States Weather Bureau. The reports receive I by telegraph at Chicago are as follows: Illinois—Temperature above normal, sunshine normal; rainfall below and badly disturbed. Where rain fell ihe previous vveek corn and pastures much Improved. Mowing being pushed in central and southern, but retarded In northern portion. Some seeding already done. Indiana —No rain. Corn maturing slowly, clover hullin’ continues to show a good yield; plowing retarded, ground too dry and hard; stock is being fed and water । scarce. ■ Wisconsin—The driest week of the season. Late reports indicate general rainr , in northern portion, retarding forest fires, - and the smoke has cleared. Corn ripening , | fast. Too dry for fail plowing. Potato 5 ; prospect Improved slightly. t, I Minnesota.—Warm and dry. In eastcen- _ tral portion crops In many places have j been destroys i by forest ures. Corn harvesting begun, yield light. Kot affecting

potatoes In southwest'sectiona Thrashing in progress. Fall plowing retarded Ly drought Kain nee led. eJ,Ia a C -E ? t, ’ e ' no dr °u«ht conditions mltirr, ^.l y Bhow y rs - ‘ orn near safety line y * ""-'■'K *ov toaua’ K n< rai tn nearly all parts of the Hala outh Dakota- Excessive temperature with cool nights. No precipitation and high > winds, injurious to all crops in eastern i section. 'I hrashhig progressing, yield showing lighter than expected. Everything suffering for want of rain. North Lakota—Thrashing going on as rapidly as possible. Corn maturing fasti and will be a good crop, but only a small amount was planted. Kansas —Good rains from Barber to Doniphan counties, with heavy rains from Barber to Sedgwick counties, benefiting orchards and pastures; elsewhere stock water diminishing, orchards and pastures failing. Nebraska—Very little change in the ?rop conditions. Pastures very short, and little plowing dona Showers general the last days of the week. Oklahoma—Driest week of the’ season. Cotton picking progressing rapidly; yield very good. Pastures drying up. 801 l worms slightly damaging cotton in southwest portion. Plowing retarded. Ohio—Except local rains in southern portion, the conditions are practically unchanged since last week. Corn is about ready to cut, but a great deal has been already cut for fodder. Tobacco has improved and Is being cut and housed; early planting yields well. Missouri—Good showers in some locaUties. but week generally clear and dW. Corn-cutting becoming general, about t thirds of average crop for State Fall plowing progressing slowly; pastures dry. water scarce. Michigan—Temperature and sunshine normal, rainfall below; there has been no let up on drought during past week, and large percentage of corn now past redemption. Late potatoes and pastures can ye» be helped. LABOR'S OWN DAY. How It Was Observed This Year In Many of the Large Cities. In the summer of 1882, Matthew Maguire, Secretary of the Central Labor Union, of Paterson, N. J., introduced a motion at one of the meetings of the union that the various bodies represented there should hold a joint demonstration and picnic instead of the separate assembly picnics that had^ 1 heretofore been the vogue, and sug-‘ gested that this combined labor outing' occur on the first Monday in September. The resolution met with favor, and the first Monday in September of each year was set aside as “labor ho’iday. ” The second demonst ation—lßß3 —wai a grand success. Thirty thousand people were in line but the celebration up to this time was confined to New York City. In the following year the mo. ement had extended to twenty prominent cities of the United States, and T^ saw the observance of Labor Day advance with still more rapid strides, until now it reaches all the new centers of industrial development in the South as well as the North, and every prominent city in the United States has its Labor Lay. This year the day was generally observed. In Chicago labor marched through the streets with its trousers turned up, and with little rills of water running down the back of its neck. Over 7.100 union workmen splashed through the mid to celebrate Labor Day, undeterred by the heaviest down* pour in over two months In New York labor made an imposing demonstration. Not la • trom 20.06 » men. representing all the tr. des unions, were in line. The h liday was celebrated throughout all New Fngland. Business xvas gen rally suspended. In all the cities a wealth of entertainment was offered, and all day th" streets were alive with bands of music and processions. In Boston over 15,000 <ve:e in line. A Toronto dispatch says that for the first time in the history of the Dominion Labor Day was celebrated by a general suspension of business in different cities and toivn^ throughout Canada. At Omaha 'O.OOO people } articipated in tho celebration. T. ir.y thousand representative < of Nebraska labor unions rrere in the procession. There were 2, ‘0 i m n in line in the Labor Day parale at Milwaukeethey marched through a drenching rain torm. The celebration of the day by the organized workingmen of Indianapolis did not attract s • much attention as it had for several years

past. CONDITION OF NATIONAL BANKS Encouraging Reports Brought Out by the Call of the Comptroller. A summary of the reports of ths 3,770 national banks in the United States, unaer the recent call of the Comptroller of the Currency, shows on July IS, 1894. aggregates as follows: Leans and discoun s, $1,933,589,352: gold coin in reserve, $125,051,677; gold treasury certificates, $40.51'0,490; silver dollars, $7,016,489; total specie In reserve, $250,670,652. Sur ivs fund undivided profits, less ex- enscs and taxes paid, $^4,569,2h4; dividends un. aid, $2,583.504; individual dei oAts, $1,677,801,200. Sparks from the Wires. Constable John Cratsley was fatally shot by burglars at Warren, Ohio. The British bark Glencairn, which stranded near Portland, Ore., was towed oT Minneapolis lumbermen met and discussed a proposal to ad van e prices 50 cents a thousand. Three armed men held up th’ asJ sistant postmaster at University ITaceJ Nob., and looted the office of its valJ uables.