Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 26 July 1895 — Page 2

HISTORY OF A WEEK.

THIS NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Political Religions. Social and Criminal Doings of the Whole World Carefully Condensed for Oar Headers The Ac cldent .Record. Frank Kelly, 24, was Amsterdam, N. T., while killed trying at to jump on a freight train. Jonas P. Jolinson, 43, wa3 run over and killed by a switch engine at Bloomington, III. Noah Garrett and the horse which he was riding: were killed by lightning near Owingsville, Ky. Frank Evans anC Joseph West, of Chicago, alleged burglars, escaped from jail at Mifflintown, Pa. The State Game Warden seized 120 Sill nets with four tons of fish at Cleveland, Ohio. The owners will be arTested. By the collision of two big Italian steamers, the Maria P aad the Octijie, In the bay of Genoa. 147 persons lost their lives. An immense coal combine, embracing property to the value of $500,000,000, is forming among producers in the south. The Shoshone and Bannock Indians threaten to go on the war path in Northwestern Idaho and Northwestern Wyoming to avenge the death of some of their braves, killed in conflict with the settlers. The managers of the Gould railway system are said to have entered upon a policy of extermination of the labor unions on its lines, and a big conflict is threatened. The Baptist convention closed at Baltimore Sunday night. It has been an unprecedented success. Smut has been discovered in North Dakota wheat and the yield may be cut several million bushels. James Bailey of Jefferson, O., was killed by the cars at a crossing in Ashtabula, O. William Phillipt. while swimming in the Chikaska, near Milan, Kan., was drowned. Eddie Bowen, 10 years old, was killed at North McGregor, Iowa, while riding on a freight car being switched. Sedgwick Saunders and Henry Clark were instantly killed at a grade crossing of the West Jersey road at Vineland, N. J. The 8-weeks-old child of F. Butz of 609 Sixth street, Milwaukee, was killed by falling from a baby carriage into a cellar way. J. J. Bell, a white miner, who had voted in nearly every state in the union, was killed in a iailroad wreck at Smith's Mines, Ala. Will Deiven, aged 22, a member of an Englewood camping party, accidentally shot himself at Davis station, Ind. He lived two hours. Jonas P. Johnson of Bloomington, III., was run over by a switch engine and so badly injured that he died soon after. He was a coal miner. Patrick Farion, foreman of the fence gang on the Nickel Plate road, was struck by a train near Ashtabula, Ohio., and probably fatally injured. Arthur Melcher, aged 22, the son of a well-known business man of Milwaukee, was drowned at Pewaukee lake, while bathing. The body was not recovered. George Foley of Ottawa, III., was struck by a train near La Salle and thrown into the canal. He died on the way to the hospital, one arm and a leg being cut off. Joseph Fogle was shot and fatally wounded by Gilbert Bowermaster at Ottawa, 111. Bowermaster was exhibiting a new revolver when it was accidentallydischarged. J. Fred Temple, a civil engineer in the employ of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf railway, was accidentally drowned while bathing in the reservoir at South McAllister, I. T. Nels Hocum of Chicago, connected with Heath & Milligan, was drowned in the Fox river at Ottawa, III., while bathing. He jumped from a high rock and landed upon his head in twenty inches of water. John Gallagher was stabbed and instantly killed by John Conway at Pittsburg, PaJ!jConway is in jail. Both men W3f' glassworkers. Op Burnett's dead body, riddled buckshot, was found lying in the road near Learned, Miss. He was a member of the McKee faction, which had a fatal encounter with the Terrell faction a week ago. Tom O'Hara and a man named Rewis were shot by Frank Shearer at Creston, Iowa. The men were at a dance and under the influence of liquor. Both will probably recover. A large building in tourse of erection , in Los Angeles, Cal., collapsed. Seven men buried in the ruins were extricated. Two were fatally injured. Arthur Melcher, a painter, 22, was drowned at Milwaukee. Wir A Are In Cincinnati Wednesday caused a loss of $200,000. Two firemen were killed and many injured by falling walls. Tazewell county, Illinois, was swept by a storm Thursday. Much damage to property was done, but no one is reported hurt. ' Congressman C. A. Towne and other Duluth, Minn., Republicans have formed a free silver club. President Cleveland says the report that he contemplates a trip to the Adirondack Mountains and would be there at the same time as ex-President Harrison is incorrect. ; At New London Wednesday five sailors on the torpedo-boat Ericsson were terribly scalded by a bursting steampipe while the boat was cruising in the harbor at 1 p. m. They were taken to the sailors' hospital and it is believed some of them will die. Robert J. paced a mile at Saginaw, Mich., in 2:03 Thursday. A freight train on the Sante Fe railroad, near Monument, Col., went through a bridge into a gulch, a drop of fifty feet. Three persona were killed, three fatally injured, and at least ten others badly hurt. The Puget Sound National Bank, Everett, Wash., has closed its doors. The liabilities are $55,000. The Lehigh Valley Company has placed through Brown R. Shipley & Co., of London. $6,000,000 5 per cent bonds guaranteed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. The price is said to be 105. The congress of religions opened at Toronto, Canada. Thursday, with a large attendance.

CASUALTIES. Willie Worthley, aged S, was drowned in Lake Michigan at Michigan City while bathing. Jacob L. Horn back was drowned while fishing in the Sangamon river, near Athens, 111. He was 60 years old. Jacob Fink, aged 66, a farmer near Mill Creek, 111., was kicked in the breast by a mule and died of his injuries. William Hulten, a liveryman of Hannibal, Mo., fell from a train in the Indian territory, and was instantly killed. Ameal Gurry, a flagman on the Big Four at Grove Sidings, 111., sat down on the track and went to sleep. He was run over by a train and killed . The 14-year-old daughter of Charles Tenner, a Unicoi county. Tennessee farmer, was killed and his son fatally injured in a runaway accident. Duncan Cameron, aged 50, of Hills, boro. 111., while hauling sheaf oats fell from the load and was run over by his wagon. His death resulted in two hours. Hose cart No. IS of the Philadlephia department upset while going to a fire. J. S. Ryder was killed and Passmore Collins, William Murphy, Daniel O'Connell and John McGihnn severely injured. John Strinski, injured in the Ericsson acicdent, died at New London, Conn. Lightning struck the dry goods store of McGrath & Wilcox at Amboy, 111., setting it on Are and causing a loss of $10,000 Strlckley & Co.'s store and the residences of Lee Jones, J. P. Motherwell and John Markstrom, at Bingham, Utah, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $20,000, covered by insurance. Fire at Greenville, Tenn., destroyed the New York Rocket store, the jewelry house of Rosenbaum & Co., the hall of the Greenville bank and a small grocery store. Loss, $30,000; insurance, $10,000. A terrific cyclone swept over St. Clair, Mich., Thursday night, causing the death of three children and immense damage to property. The storm was also severe in Illinois and Iowa. Wenzel Dousbek, a farmer, was run down by a train at Gibson, Wis., and instantly killed. Ernest Brunswick, aged 7, stepped in front of a motor at Akron, Ohio, and was ground to death. David Wing was thrown from a carriage at Rockford, 111., breaking his back. He died soon afterward. The 5-year-old girl of Charles Johnson of Daggett, Mich., was burned to death. Her clothes caught fire. The 3-year old child of Wlllia m Wag-

gley of Madison township, Indiana, fell into a pail of scalding water, dying soon after. Charles Poock, a painter at Portland, Ind., fell thirty feet off a building and alighted on a pile of tiles. His injuries are probably fatal. Alice Bank, colored, of Pittsburg, was so badly injured by a lamp explosion that she died in a few hours. She was burned almost to a crisp. W. P. Wagner, a member of the wholesale drug firm of Wagner & Wagner, of Indianapolis, was drowned while fishing at Fort Scott, Kas. He was on his wedding tour. John T. Ellis, the Newport correspondent who fell n the steps of the Hotel Thorndyke at Boston Tuesday, is dead. The Sampson Building in Dallas, Tex., which has been undergoing repairs, fell in burying a number of the workmen beneath the debris. The livery stables of Jesse Jones and Fisher & Ogden, West, Philadelphia, were burned. Loss, $30,000. Fire at San Francisco destroyed the house occupied by the Turkish consul, George Hall. Many valuable paintings were destroyed. Loss, $35,000. By a rear end collision near Peoria, 111., a young girl was killed and several passengers injured. CRIME. Sentence has been deferred in the case of John S. Collins, the negro who shot and killed Frederick Ohl, a Princeton student at Trenton, N. J. James L. Travers, colored, was hanged in the jail at Washington. Travers murdered Lena Gross, colored, last November. Burglars entered the home of Link Pitzel at Sunnydale, Kan., chloroformed Pitzel and his wife and left with $265 and a gold watch. Charles Morris of Cincinnati clerk at the Hotel Porter, Niagara Falls, has left the city, taking with him about $200 of his employer's funds. He was 27 years of age. J. A. McCullough, a wealthy planter living near Dallas, Tex., was murdered while asleep. An unknown assassin fired two charges from a shotgun through a window into his body. Detective Alfred E. Whitney left Hamilton, Ont., for Chicago, having in charge Cornelius J. Murphy, extradited on a charge of uttering forged checks. John G. Luck entered his wife's room at the Westminster hotel, Los Angeles, Cala., and finding her in bed, cot her throat. Her 3creams aroused other boarders, and Luck jumped to the ground from a window in the second story, severing his own windpipe before he leaped. Both are still alive. Chicago police have found charred bones, which are said to be the remains of Minnie Williams and her sister aid little Howard Pietzel, in the fire box of a stove in the house formerly occupied by H. H. Holmes, the insurance swindler and murderer. John W. Parker, a farmer, aged 3S, was shot by William Flynn near Meadsville, Ind. Flynn has fled. William Groff is being looked for by the Toledo, Ohio, police for shooting Frank Edwards in both legs. Burglars entered Sam Adler's residence at South Bend, Ind., and partook of a champagne supper. Several valuables are missing. At Atlanta, Ga., J. I. Smith, of Corsicana, Tex., tried to kill his wife and then 2 attempted suicide. They were married last Sunday. The skeleton of Luella Mabbitt, for whose supposed murder Omer Green, her lover, was lynched near Delphi. Ind., some six years ago, was discovered in an unused well near Green's house. It Is ten years since the crime was committed. Alonzo Meyers, 21 years old, shot and instantly killed his 16-year old wife and wounded Herbert Lindson, a friend of his wife, at Long Beach. Cal. He then shot himself and may die. Andrew Thomas, colored, accused of a brutal assault on an aged white woman near Moss Point, Miss., was taken from the train at Scran ton. Miss., and I lyncnea oy a mOD 01 iou men. a no uuuy I was riddled with bullet

FOREIGN, A newspaper at Colon says that whiU three children were walking on the banb of the River Orinoco they were seized by a huge water snake and carried tc the bottom of the river. The Canadian revenue cutter Petrel seized nets belonging to the fish tuga Eschbacher and McCarter, claiming they were set in Canadian waters. Tin! two boats hail from Erie, Pa. Chinese troops defeated a detachment of Japanese cavalry in Formosa, killing all but three. The Canadian government will insisj upon the British government removing the schedule against tho importation ol cattle unless slaughtered at port of debarkation. M. Stambuloff, late premier of Bulgaria has died from the results of wounds received at the hands of assassins. His death will bring on serious complications in the far east. The Baptist convention opened at Baltimore in a mammoth tent. Over 10,000 delegates are in attendance. Passengers on the Montreal express on a railraoad near Utica, N. Y.p were carried over a burning bridge, which fell immediately after the last car had passed. There were seventy-five passengers on the train.

MISCELLANEOUS. Cardinal Gibbons and Mgr. Foley have arrived at Cologne. The new addition of the American tinplate factory at Elwood, Ind., was opened, 250 men being employed. All labor and industrial organizations of Texas have been invited to meet in ' Joint session at Lampasas August 20. I The city council of Elyria, O., ordered ' a special election to authorize the issue ; of bonds for $100,000 to buy a new system of waterworks. By the will of A. N. Towne at San Francisco, Cala., all the property of the dead railroad man is left to his wife. A committee of representative Republicans of Buffalo began preliminary work to secure the national Republican convention for that city in 1896. The torpedo boat Cushing went to Coddington Cove, R. I., and made a shot with a new 18-inch "baby" Howell torpedo. It developed a speed of 29 knots. W. J. Buchanan has gone to Washington, D. C, to present the claim of the Missouri Shawnee Indians for $S50,000 for twenty square miles of land on the Mississippi river below St. Louis. The cattle firm of Clark & Plumb has filed a chattel mortgage in the office of the county clerk at Fort Worth, Tex., naming H. W. McKay of Oshkosh, Wis., as trustee, for the benefit of creditors. A. C. Leeds of New York has entered a bill of complaint against the International Cotton Press company of New Orleans for the foreclosure of a mortgage held against that company for $150,000. R. G. Dun & Co. report' trade in a satisfactory condition, though suffering from the usual midsummer dullness. The attendance at the congress of religions at Toronto, Canada, is very light and much disappointment is expressed. The Baptist young people, in session at Baltimore, Md., re-elected President Chapman. Other officers were also elected. A special meeting of the cabinet was hastily summoned at Washington Friday, for what purpose could not be ascertained. President and Mrs. Cleveland have decided to call their last baby "Marion." The Delaware peach crop is estimated at 1,500,000 baskets, worth $750,000 greater than it has been in ten years. It is believed at Washington the in jury sustained by the torpedo boat Ericcson on her speed run Wednesday consisted of the wrecking of the starboard engine. Fears are expressed thas repairs will consume a long period of time. Allen Jacqua, formerly a supervising examiner in the Pension Office, died at Washington. He was a brother-in-law of Minister Isaac P. Gray,, and leaves a widow and two daughters, one- o whom, is Mrs. Harry Birt, of Chicago. It is probable the wlredrawers' strike in Cleveland, O., will be settled sAon. LATEST MARKET REPORTS.. CHICAGO. Cattle Common to prime. $1.50' Hogs 3.25 Sheep Good to choice 1.25 Wheat No. 2 .63 Corn No. 2 .43 Oats .23 Rye 49 5i90' .65 . 44 .25- & .52. Eggs MM Potatoes New Per bu.... .75 Butter 07 BUFFALO. . .Su. .17 .72 O .51 .303 .46 .27 5.40 5.10 (35.40 .57 AO Ti C? .23 est -6s .47 & .23 .4S 3 .54 ??n.50 4.75 O .70 .49 .29 Q .17 .69 & .46 Wheat No. 2 red .57 Corn No. 2 yellow 50 Oats No. 2 white 30 PEORIA. Rye No. 2 45 Corn No. 3 white 43 Oats No. 2 white .2S ST. LOUIS. Cattle 2.75. Hoj.,3 4.75 Sheep 2.50 Wheat No. 2 red 64 Corn No. 2 .39 Oits No. 2 25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No 2 spring .65 Corn No. 3 46 Oats No. 3 white 27 Barley No. 2 .47 Rye No. 1 53 KANSAS CITY. Cattle 1.75 Hog3 4.i0 Sheep 2.00 NEW YORK. Wheat No. 2 red 68 Corn No. 2 47 Oats No. 2 27 Butter 11 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 67 Corn No. 2 mixed 45 Oats No. 2 mixed 24 INDIANA MYSTERY SOLVED. Body of I.ouella Mabbitt, Killed Ten Years Ago, Fount!. Frankfort. Ind., July 20. A discovery made yesterday of a skeleton of a woman in an old, abandoned well near Burlington, fifteen miles northeast of here, has created a tremenrlous sensation by reviving the greatest murder mystery in the history of Indiana. The body has been identified as t'sat of Miss Louella Mabbitt who mysteriously disappeared ten years ago, and for whose murder her lover, Omer, Green, was lynched.

FOR SILVER OR GOLD?

CHAMPIONS OF BOTH METALS IN DEBATE. Ex-Congressman Uorr mid YF. II. Harvey Defend their Respective Positions as to the Nei-cegslty for the Coinage of Silver. The great financial debate between the advocates of silver and gold began in earnest Tuesday when the two representatives of tiiese two financial schools, W. II. Harvey and Hon. lioswell G. Horr, met in the greatest and most novel forensic contest that has ever taken place in this country. Not since the great debate between Webster and Hayne, when Webster laid low the champion of State's rights, has there been such intense interest .nanifested in a debate. There were present in the art gallery of the Illinois Club the representative business men of the city, besides a large number from outside of Chicago. The audience numbered nearly 200. all men who were deeply interested int. the subject of finance. The judges elected were Hon H. G. Miller and Judge William A.. Vincent. President Thomas opened the meeting with a brief statement of its purpose and introduced Hon. W. G.. Miller, who read the rules agreed upon to govern the debate. Wednesday,. July l'7r Silver and gold again measured swords at the Illinois Club to-day, and the contest for supremasy in the discussion was a heated one. The number of people present was increased over Tuesday's7 attendance. The debate was spirited and interesting and the cross-fire of the two principals was a strong feature, that brought out many points that were THE HORR-HARVEY

FAMILIAR FACES SEEN AT THE SESSIONS4 IN THE ILLINOIS CLUB.

bidden beneath the surface. In the course of his remarks Mr. Horr attacked Mr. Harvey's position on the law of 1873, and also indirectly accused him of misrepresentation in regard to the legal, tender laws and quotations made in Coin's book. Mr. Harvey refuted the charges, and said that a man is not guilty of misrepresentation every time he is charged. In his defense of the law previous to 1S73 and his attack of the demonetization act of that year, in reply to Mr. Horr's charges that there were no good' grounds for the statement that England conceived and concocted the scheme. Mr. Harvey said that reasoning by induction will invariably locate a criminal better than uncertain evidence and that he assumed that the people mostly benefited by the passage of the act of 1S73, especially after a conference of the nature of the one held in Paris in 1867, would be the ones to whom the scheme could be safely traced, and that this people were the money-lenders of England. Among the prominent people present were Gen. A. J; Warner who accepted a seat on. the-platform. Mr. Warner is president of the Bimetallic League. Judge A. W. Rucker, a well-known Jurist of Colorado; Anton Wolcott, of Nashville. Tenn., and Senator Pettlr grew,, of. South. Dakota, were also present. Thursday. Jrty 18. The discussion yesterday in the coinage debate was mainly on the congressional legislation in the '70's oa the silver questtlon. At the outBet Mr. Harvey started, to establish. "the crime of 1S73,." and his statements regarding, the maianer In which the bill was passed were- startling. He arraigned the- nation's congress for selling the nation's birthright; he branded the statesmen who did the work, of 1873 as corrupted, and was stopped only long enough to say that before concluding he would show convincing authority. After an indictment against the promotors of the gold standard, which found that the bill which demonetized silver was not the bill which was read In the house, he passed on to a review of European political crime. He ended with the assurance that documents he would show were good for his every statement. Mr. Horr in vigorous language contradicted the assertions of Mr. Harvey, and declared that there was no evidence )f corruption of congress concerning the passage of the act demonetizing sliver. There was a battle royal an this topic, and the two champions won frequent applause. At the conclusion of the arguments of the speakers a number of questions ivere submitted by members of the audl?nee and answered by Messrs. Horr and Harvey. The session ended shortly after 1 o'clock. At the request of Mr. Horr the debate will be suspended to-day and resumed at 1 o'clock Saturday afternooon. More Troops for Campos. Madrid, July 20. Six additional batteries of artillery will be sent to Cuba during the present month, and during the month of September re-enforcements to the number of 30,000 troops will be dispatched to the Island umlt-r ihc command of Generals Tola and Vij i.

UNITED FOR EXISTENCE. Texas Labor Organizations Vat Th-em-selvcs on Record. Dallas, Tex., July 20. The State Federation of Labor, the Federated Trades of Texas and the State Farmers' Alliance have amalgamated, to all intents and purposes, and a joint call has been issued for a meeting of the three organizations In Lampasas, Tex., at Lampasas Springs, Tuesday, Aug. 20. The call closes as follows: "Recent decisions of the court and recent action by the authorities have put the very existence of labor organizations in great jeopardy, and If these decisions and actions are allowed to pass unchallenged the right to organize is logically denied. Tt is no exaggeration to say that never in the history of the nation have so many and so grave issues confronted organized labor as now, and never was united, Intelligent action so imperative."

BETWEEN TWO FIRES. Cattle 51 civ Warned' to Take Cattle Oat of Mexico. EI Paso. Tex., July 20. The customs collector at Palomas, Mexico, opposite Deming, N. M., has Issued an order to the effect that citizens of the United States who have- cattle In the Palomas district for exportation must take such cattle out of that country within fifteen days, and failure' to do so will result in the confiscation- of the cattle by the Mexican government. This places a number of stockmen In this city, St. Louis, and Kansas City between two fires. They bought- cattle in Mexico last winter, expecting to graze them in Texas during the summer, but the United States quarantined against all Mexican cattle except those for immediate slaughter. So the buyers cannot bring their cattle over to this country,, and if they remain in Mexico they are to be confiscated. DEBATE AT CHICAGO. HAS A NARROW,' ESCAPE. Presence-of Mind of an. Engineer -Save Many Lives Utica,. N: Y:, July 20.The passengers on the Montreal. express on the Adirondack and St. Lawrence railroad; had a thrilling experience yesterday, afternoon. As the train rounded a curve on a heavy down-grade seven miles above the Fulton chain, of lakes the engineer, William Brassell: of. Utica, saw 500 feet in. front of him a trestle a quarter of a mile long enveloped in flames. The flames were shooting twenty feet above the track. Ii was Impossible to stop the train: before the trestle was reached. With lightning-like decision the engineer threw the throttle wide open. The train, rushed swaying through the flames and" stopped safe on. the other side of the structure. Before it came to a: standstill the burning trestle fell in a. heap of ruins on the rocks fifty feet below. There were seventy-five passengers on the train, but the train passed1, tiie trestle before they fairly realized' their danger. The flames shut off the view from, the car. windows as they went over;. Robert Ji!- Fast Mile. Saginaw.,, Mich..,. July 20. Yesterday Robert I., went, an, exhibition, mile paced: by a runner... The track, was fully a. secoad. and a half slow and a strong, wind: was blowing. The first quarter was made in, Qr.SX,. half in-1:02, threequarters in l:32Vk and the full mile Irv 2.:03 the-fastest mile-ever made so early in the season,, and by a second the fastest, mfle made this year; also the fastest mile- made La the- state. The tittle black pacer,. Directly, then went a mile to bead. hl reeorcf of 2:07,. He got away oa the second score and reached the quarter lit 0r3. the half In VMXA, the threequarters 1 1:36. the mfle in 2:07V2. being the state record 4for 3-year olds. Miners' Scale Settled In infinitely. Joltet, IU., July 20. The adjourned meeting between the mine-owners and miners of Illinois was held here yesterday. Patrick McBride, Secretary of the United Mineworkers of America, was present, and also James O'Connor. President of the State association. Representatives of the operators in the La Salle. Streator and Wilmington districts were in attendance. They represent also a soft soal association including the three districts. Resolutions were passed which settle the wage question indefinitely. They are to the effect that any reduction in tne mining scale of Northern Illinois be postponed until after the next meeting of the joint board. To Lodge the Veterans. Louisville, July 0. It is now calculated that between the tents in Cherokee and its two sister parks and the schoolhouses and other public buildings that will be turned into dormitories free sleeping accommodations can be furnished to between twenty and twenty-five thousand Grand Army veterans at the coming encampment. Ever veteran expecting to avail himself of the free accommodations will be expected to come supplied with a pillow and the necessary blankets for floor and body cover! -.-.3-. A Inrs at' tendance is expected.

THE TTTAD'E REVIEW.

amiimm experience tbm Usual BMd--innmtr Bull. New York, July 22. RX- G. Dun & Coin weekly review of business says: "The week's- news I aot entirely encouraging, but hat is- a'ffl the more nat i ural because there' are signs of midsum mer dullness; Wheat prospects are not. quite so good as last week. The exports of gold and ttie- less favorable treasury returns for July are not unexpected and mean: nothing: as to coming business. There is a perceptible decrease in the demand for most manufactured products and the actual distribution to consumers naturally lessens In midsummer. Much at tbo-recent buying was to anticipate a rise in prices and such purchases fall off when prices have risen. There are still: numerous advances in wagss butf strikes grow more numerous and important,. "In part because business was unus--ually large in the- first, half of July, a quiet tone meets- reasonable expectations. The heavy bank failure at Montreal does not-affect financiers here and' is passing there- with less disturbancethan was feared. "Gold exports for the-middle of July, when crops are beginning to move, if not meant ,to affect, stocks, can at all' events have only a speculative influence. "Wheat has declined' 2? cents for September, corn lVa cents, cotton cent for September. Western, receipts of wheat not half of last year's; cause, disappointment at prices, while exports fof the week about.a quarter of last year's, and for three weeks only 2,829,028 bushels, flour included,, as against 7,046,267 bushels last year, show that foreign dealers -are not- regarding the situation with anxiety. Nor do British accounts; indicate any anxiety about cotton, while efforts are reported by some of the American mills to sell part of the stocktaken months ago, which apparently exceed their needs for tMe year. If unfavorable to some speculators, there arc cheering indications, for it is better-to have fair crops than1 to get: high prices for what remains. "The strike of several thousand miners -In the Marquette region may have important' consequences. Producers1- of" nonBessemer ore Have sold largely, for .the future at prices so lbw that- they, cannot-add to cost of "production, and1 other mines in- the Northwest: may be affected. Minor- metals are stronger,wlth sales of 4,000,000 pounds copper upto 11 cents for lake, and tin-very firm . In spite of a large visible supply.. "Wool advanced in the first half-of"" July an average of 1 cent for 104 quotations of domestic by Coates & Bros;, of Philadelphia, and is now 7" per ' cent higher than a year ago. Sales naturallylessen, being 77980,000 pounds for the week against an average of over-13,000,-000 pounds for each of the two previous weeks, but prices are sustained' by Ger--man and French buying in the London market. Cotton mills contihue to -enjoy a largo business-and" several' have advanced wages this week, but some strikes-of considerable importance arethreatened or- in progress. The-- weaker tone for the material does not: as- yet affect-the prices-of goods. "Failures for the week have been-256". in the United States, against 236 last, year, and 39 in Canada, against: 44:- last: year.'.' FATAL. TRAIN WRECK'.. One-Killed, and Several Hart In. a Boar.End Collision.. Peoria! HI.'. July 20.T-A.disastrousraiW-road wreck occurred between, this city and Eekin last evening at 9:30 o'elock,. which resulted in the death of. Martha Wright:of .Eureka and the serious injuz-y of several, others. The wreck, was oc. casioned by the washouts on the Peoria, and Pekin Union: tracks, wbich lle closeto the river. The dead: WRIGHT, MARTHA, Eureka; 111.. The injured are: Cohen. J. H., New York; severely cut; on head: and face. Fisher, Fries, Peoria, head" cut, shoulder.-broken.. Mooney,. Andrew, Peoria, deputy U: Si marshal,, head cut and back strained. Vorls,. Edward, Peoria, soirof Deputy Uliited: States Marshal VoriS, Injured about back and head, may die. At- least half a dozem more were slightly injured, but not enough so tobe taken- to the hospital. AsssiStance was sent from both ePorla? and Pekln and1 the dead and injured1 brought to Peoria for-the night. The-wreck; created the" greatest excitement heir, everyone havih-g- expected something: of thekind' to- occur, owing to t very uncertain! eonxiltion of all tracks "Cyitrg along tile river on account of the-recent floods. The- BiSr Four passenger train due at Peoria at T:S9 o'clock left Peltta at 6:55 eleveni minutes late, and rart slowly on account of the washouts; At four mile this side of Pekin the train stopped, the track being undermined?. A Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis passenger train came-u-p a few minutes tater and stopped within 500 feet of the Btg Four train. A freight which left Pekin a few minutes after the Big Four train was the causeof the wreck. It came- at a high rate off speed and dashed around a curve and! struck into the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis passenger, telescoping one coach, while two grain cars of the freight were pushed on either side of the passenger. At the same time the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis engineer opened his tl-ot-tle and pulled away from the freight in the hope of lessening the force. This threw the coach into the ditch and the greatest consternation ensued. Was on a Murderous Rampage. Zanesvilte, Ohio, July 20. Henry Stenecke. one of the most prominent residents of Cambridge, entered his home yesterday afternoon armed with a revolver and fired two shots at his wife, one of which inflicted a flesh wound. He also fired several shots at his three children, none of which took effect. Stenecke then sent a bullet into his own head, killing himself instantly. agriculturists Elect Officers. Denver, Colo., July 20. The Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experimental Stations, which is holding its ninth annual convention in this city, elected S. W. Johnson, Connecticut, president. Other officers were Also elected. Minneapolis was chosen as the place for the next meeting. Macedonian Insurgents Triumph. Kustendjl. Roumanla, July 20. The whole of the Malesh district of Macedonia north of Strumintza is in the bands of the Insurgents. The bridges across the river Struma have been da molished.