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1%;^^ ,^:'4 ̂ V.^ .v . f^ + >.*.*. WS». ^.V.:^ ^' V..: • • ^ . .r-£;- U.v • ." :• . ' X ""M^' : - ' .I - i 1^ • • , V .- v- - . .,<. <i h * f" ^'. ',-, . • r. ' . * -<. *.%-Jtf . •» u - ,r *<Uv , H'. *% . ,; .<£;.>„, J., "? ,'i -* < *.$&'•,• le\ • :v . ̂ *»~. . **&•*» ** ! |§J(§|f!jrg l̂aindfiiln 1. VAN SLYKC. C« tar MS PublifhK. MCHENRY, ILLINOI& THE HEWS CONDENSER. PvT -- ni'^ o'. •*•"=="-•-"- THE KAMI? ~*\ AT an election held at Clinton, 1ST. T., to Uttermine whether water-works should be established in the place, twenty-two women who are taxpayers voted. Fifteen others offered ballots, but were not allowed to vote, as the Assessor left their names off the tax- ID11R....AU explosion of gas caused the destruction of the oil refinery of George Allen & Son, at Franklin, Pa., and ruined tire railway track!Jfor 100 yards. MRS. ANNA HEANKT, of New Haven, pleasantly chatted with a friend on a steamer by which she was going home from New York until the vessel had cleared the harbor. Then she jumped overboard and was drowned.... The banking-house of Matthew Morgan's Sons, in New York, has made an assign­ ment in consequence of the shrinkage of Values in railroad bonds. They were rated at $1,000,000, and the institution was founded fifty years ago. They own large amounts of real estate, including the New York Hotel. 1 AT the commencement dinner at Har­ vard College, President Eliot announced that only $125,000 had been donated during the vear... .The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher celebrated his seventy-first birthday at Peekskill, N. Y., surrounded by his grand- children and many of his friends. IN the Columbia-Harvard freshman boat ntoe at New London, Conn., the former crew beat the latter three lengths. Time-- Columbia, 9:43£; Harvard. 9:54. I THE WEST. JUDGE PNXSBRRT, who was terribly in­ jured on an Alton train in the riot at Brighton, III, two years ago, was awarded damages of $12,500 by a jury at Joliet Isaac B. Sharp, formerly Circuit Judge at "Wyandotte. Kan., killed himself with a revolver, because of ill-health 1he sire of Johnston, the fastest pacer in. the world, has been purchased by H. 8. Woodruff, of Janesville, Wis Alfred Vandecar. charged at Waupaca, Wis., with the murder of H. C. Mead, a banker, in October, 1882, has been released on his own (•cognizance. A LARGE natural gas deposit was struck In the Jefferson IronWorks at Steuben- ville, Ohio. The roar of the escaping gas could be heard for a quarter of a mile The strike in the Hocking Valley mines, in Ohio, against a reduction of wages, in­ cludes about five thousand men. JUDGE DBUXXOHD, of Chicago, has for­ warded his resignation to President Arthur, to take effect immediately... .Floods in the Elkhorn Valley, in California, have broken the levee and destroyed 7,000 acres of wheat. .... The Chicago League ball club, by a de- cision of Jadge Blodgett, will be allowed to use the grounds on the Lake Front until the close of the season, when it is enjoined from Occupying the tract. THE door of the jail at Vincennes, Ind., Has battered down with a rail by a party of flfty persons. Oliver Canfield, the mur­ derer of Mrs. Gherkin, was taken from his cell and hanged to a telegraph pole near the •oene of his crime. Canfield and his vic­ tim recently went to Yincennes from a fceighboring town, and she was awaiting a divorce in order to marry him. Coii. CHAS. R. JKNNIBON, who, during the war, commanded the Seventh Kan<m« Cavalry, died at Leavenworth, of consump­ tion, aged 50 years. IN San Francisco, William C. Milton lulled Albertana Anderson for refusing to many him, and then took his own life The Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Potter, President of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., has been elected Episcopal Bishop of the Dio­ cese of Nebraska The druggists of Marshall County, Iowa, have agreed to sell HO liquors, even on prescription, when the prohibitory law takes effect, because the Attorney General decided that they must take out permits. AN important murder trial has been con­ cluded at Lincoln, 111. The accused parties T-J. H. Hall, Belle Hall (his wife), and William Ferris--were charged with the killing of Farmer McMahon and his two hired men at Mount Pulaski, Logan County, several months ago. The jury found J. H. Hall guilty, and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment. William Ferris and Mrs. Hall were acquitted, but will be tried under indictments for killing Carter and Jlattheny. EDWABD LAKE, a young man well known in social circles in Minneapolis, killed him­ self with a revolver, leaving a note stating that for a year he had been insane At Biainerd, Minn.. John White, a jockey, while practicing for a race, was thrown from his horse against a tree, breaking his neck A bridge over the Wabash River at Logans- port, Ind., gave way, letting a Vandalia construction train into the water. Enpi- neer Grace and Fireman Scott were in­ stantly killed. One brakeman escaped, While another received fatal injuries. THE SOUT1 A TKZIKGBAM from Mouniainburg, Ark., states that Sheriff C. P. Chandler, of T.inn County, Kansas, who, with two deputies, bad been tracking Louis Wampler (the fiend wbo murdered the Anderson family of six persons near Pleasanton, Kan., some weeks •go), came upon Wampler in the mountains Hear that place. He fired two shots at the 8heriff ana then fled. The pursuers then gained npon him, and when within forty - yards Wampler placed a pistol at his own aead and fired, and died in a few minutes. The body was sent to Pleasanton. ACROSS tho Virginia line, opposite Rom- &ey, W. Va., a wood-chopper found $1,000 in gold concealcd in a hole in a tree. IKE LADDY, a negro 25 years old, who recently made three attempts to outrage White women at Whitnoy, Tex., and suc­ ceeded in one instance, was taken from jail -#t that place and lynched. The vigilantes •lso cut his cars off. ZENO T. YOUNG, editor of the Madison- Ville (Ky.) Times, fell from the second Story of his office and was fatally hurt. Hhe National field trials for sporting dogs will be held at Canton, Miss., beginning ypec. 8 next William Cox, of Danville, •W, in shooting at two men who were try­ ing to break into his house, shot and killed )iis mother. COL. CASH, the South Carolina duelist, revenged himself on the people of Cheraw by removing the remains of his wife and f Jier handsome monument from the village jcemetery to his plantation.....The whole- 'Sjpale furniture stores of McCracken <fe Brew- -fcter, W. J. Tebault, and F. B. Christensen, : jjit New Orleans, with adjacent buildiugs, Were burned, resulting in damage of about $175,000. WAFKMINGTOK. providing for the forfeiture of the land giant of the Marquette, Houghton, and Ontonagon Road. GEN. WARD B. BURNETT, who graduated at West Point in 1832, and was known as a veteran of five wars, died in Washington. ELI H. MURRAY has been renominated as Governor of Utah, and John W. Meldrum as Surveyor General of Wyoming The Comptroller of the Currency has called for a statement of the condition of the national banks at the close of business on the 2(>th * *** _ " ' POLITICAL. THE Texas Democratic State Convention selected as delegates at large to Chicago, Gov. Hubbard, D. C. Gidding, Thomas J. Brown, and John P. Sr^'th. Before the declination of Mr. Tilden Z2*de known the delegates were instructed for the old ticket; but subsequently a resolution was passed allowing the representatives of the State in the national convention to act on their judgment THE committee appointed to notify Mr. Blaine of his nomination by the Republican National Convention for President waited on him in a body at his home in Augusta, where Gen. Henderson, Chairman pf the committee, made the address of no­ tification under an elm tree in the grounds surrounding Mr. Blaine's residence. In replying Mr. B'aine expressed the pro­ found gratitude which he felt for the great honor bestowed upon him. and promised a more formal acceptance at a future time. After the addresses the committee, with Mr. Blaine, were entertained at luncheon at the, house of Col. Osgood, a neighbor of Mr. Blaine, THE committee appointed by the Na­ tional Republican Convention to notify Mr. Blaine of his nomination for the Presi­ dency proceeded to his residence in Au­ gusta, and Gen. Henderson, Chairman of the committee, read the address. Mr. Blaine responded that the platform adopted at Chicago had his unqualified approval, and that he fully appreciated the responsi­ bility attached to his leadership. He was glid to me t in th * delegation many with whom he had shared the duties of public service. The committee were given a re­ ception at Portland in the evening. GEORGE W. STEELE was renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Eleventh District of Indiana after a close contest. Mr. Steele was elected last time by about 500 majority over Dailey (Dem.).... The Chic.igo.ins composing the Finance Committee for the National Democratic Convention have been offered all the tick­ ets they desire and a chance to audit the accounts of the convention. They insist upon supervising all contracts, in addition to having the seats numbered. GEN. LOGAN was notified at Washington, by the Convention Committee, of his nom­ ination for the Vice Presidency, and for­ mally accepted it as a trust reposed in him by the Republican party. THE official count in the Oregon election gives Herrmann, Republican, for Congress, 25,699 votes, to 23,652 for Myers, Demo­ crat. There were 11,223 votes for the woman's suffrage amendment, and 28,176 against it... .The Missouri Democratic Con­ vention elected John O'Day, Morrison Mun- ford, D. R. Francis, and Charles H. Man- sur delegates-at-large to. the Democratic National Convention. The delegates-at- large and the district delegates are under­ stood to be in favor of Cleveland for Presi­ dent. THE Indiana Democratic State Conven­ tion nominated Isaac P. Gray for Governor, and M. D. Manson for Lieutenant Gover­ nor The Ohio Democratic State Conven­ tion was held at Columbus. The platform adopted favors a tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the Government, so adjusted as to encourage productive inter­ ests at home, but not to create monopolies. THE Republican National Committee met in New York and elected B. F. Jones, of Pittsburgh, Chairman, and Samuel Fessen- den, of Connecticut, Secretary Gen. E. A. Perry has been nominated by the Flori­ da Democratic Convention for Governor. M. H. Mabry is the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor William Will­ iams, of Kosciusko County, was nominated for Congress at Michigan City., Ind., to succeed Major Calkins. Mr. Williams is at present United States Minister at Pan- guay. GEKEKAK. FLAMES sw4pt away the six-story shirt factory of Skelton Brothers & Co., in Mon­ treal. The falling walls crashed an ad­ joining hotel, causing the death of one man and severely injuring five others. The loss is estimated at $190,000.... At Toronto in a collision between two freight trains. Walls, a brakeman, and Tremeflion, a fireman, were killed. THE Quegn's Hotel at Port Arthur, Mani­ toba, was destroyed by an incendiary fire. William McPherson, a commercial traveler, of Winnipeg, was borned to death. THE aggregate of clearances in twenty- three of the leading clearing-houses of the United States during the last week, as com­ pared with the aggregate for the correspond­ ing week of last year, shows a decrease of 22.8 per cent. Outside of New York the decrease was 13 per cent. WILLIAM FITZSIMMORS, engineer of a Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago pas­ senger train, injured in a collision two years ago near Alliance. Ohio, was awarded $26 ,000 damages in the District Court at Youngs town, Ohio. SECTIONS of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio were swept by a wind and thunder storm, several persons being killed by lightning. Near Newcomerstown the hurricane uprooted trees and seriously damaged the growing grain An Ameri­ can has offered $250,000 to the heirs of Richard Wagner for the exclusive right to play "Parsifal." The offer was declined. . The supreme officers of the Knights of Honor have secured a charter in Missouri, and will locate the offices in the building at St. Louis formerly occupied by the United States customs authorities. TThey will cut loose from the Kentucky charter, and not permit the order to be ruled by the clique in Kentucky, backed up by its State courts. THE Trustees of the Garfield National Monument Association have decided upon the design for a monument. The first {)rize, $1,000, was given to George H. Kel-er, of Hartford, Conn.; the second prize, $750, to Charles F. and Julius A. Swein- ferth, of Cleveland; the third prize, $500. to Moffitt & Doyle, of New York. Thirty-uine horses perished A ma­ jority of th<s physicians of Toulon pro­ nounce the epidemic which ha« appear© in that city Asiatic choleia. Great pre- • autious are being taken by French offi­ cials to che^k the «prend of th" disease..,. O'Brien, th.} Irish ed tor who hts been making war on the Dublin Castle officials, says that (he articles which he published in his paper alleged to b_* libe'ons were privi­ leged. He refuse* (o pay the fine imposed on him for contempt of court, urging that his position as a, member of Parliament protects him.. .Andrew Lewis Riehter, an artist of Dresden, Saxony, is dead. CONTR ARY to treaty stipulations the Chi­ nese regulars, with urtillery, intrenched themselves at Langson. They attacked the French forces as the latter were on the march, killing seven and wounding forty- two. The French commander, on being re- enforped. routed the Chinese.. . .Hohn, a tailor, and a socialist leader, has been elect­ ed to the Danish Diet for Copenhagen.... The Irish Nationalists have agreed to levy a tax of 2 penee on their property and pay salaries to their members of Parliament.... Lord Carnarvon, a Whig Minister, has given notice in the British Lords of a motion censuring the Gladstone Government's Egyptian policy... .Official reports indicate that the French wine crop will be better this season than it has been for jseventeen jmrs. V •• ADDITIONAL NEWS. THE Arkansas Democrats in convention adopted a platform favoring public educa­ tion, inviting immigration, favoring re­ trenchment and reform, and a reduction of duties. Regret is expressed at the declina­ tion of Tilden, who is extolled as a patriot and statesman. MR. BURGE, a London 6tock-broker, committed suioide in his office on account of recent losses A Spanish revenue cutter seized a British steamer one mile outside the batteries at Gibraltar, and on releasing the vessel carried away her pas­ sengers as hostages. ... A seditious notice placarded at Donemile, County Cork, threatens to murder Lord Donerai'e. The notiee says "an end must come to Ross- morrisism and landlordism." It summons the Invincibles to meet to arrange for the removal of Lord Doneraile. MR. GAINON, an evangelist preacher, was killed by lightning while in bed at Win­ nipeg, Manitoba, recently... .There were 199 failures in the United States and Canada during last week, against 505 for the pre­ ceding week.... Eleven men were danger­ ously injured by the explosion of a boiler in a flour-mill at Stryker, Ohio. COL. GILBERT A. PIERCE, a Chicago journalist, has been nominated for Gover­ nor of Dakota by the President. Gov. Ordway was a candidate for reuomination, but his claims were not considered suffi­ ciently strong John H. Kinkvad, of Ne­ vada, has been nominated for Governor of Alaska. GEN. SHERIDAN and a party of friends visited Chicago to witness the inauguration of the Washington Park race-track. The meeting opened with stakes aggregating $87,000, and entries numberirg 1,095. At San Francisco, Gustave J. Lowengart, nephew of Samuel Seller, a merchant, blew out his brains while an offi­ cer was reading a warrant for his arrest on the charge of threatening his uncle's life, who refused to give him money for gam­ bling purposes. Doc WALKER was hanged at Texarkana for the mnrder of Lucas Grant.' Tw« thousand citizens were permitted to witness the execution. Six lives were lost by the sinking of the schooner Babcock near Barnegat, New Jer­ sey H. H. Bangs (the Bay State Casket Company) failed at Boston for $400,000. THE Senate, on June 27, passed a bill grant­ ing right of way through the Indian Territory tc the Southern Kansas Road A bill for tbe relief of William McGarralwn was reported adversely. Mr. Mitchell introduced a bill to. in­ corporate the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Hawley called attention to a fatae statement in a BI eet-h printed in the lievonl, th it Gen. Loi^an owned ho,0(w acres of lami. Th« houFe, by a vot« •f 124 to ] 14. table' th - bill to forfeit the "back­ bone" railroad land brant. The subje< t of print­ ing undelivered speeches in th - otticial r port of procevdmtrs led to some hot words and consid­ erable merriment. Adaptive Mimicry in Plants. An extremely curious Chinese plant, eailed the Hias-taa-tom-cliom, exists in the Flowery Empire. The name of this singular plant means that during sum­ mer it is a vegetable, bnt that in winter it becomes a worm. If it is observed closely at tfie latter end of September, nothing simulates better the eye of a yellow worm about fonr inches in length. The ap­ parent transformation takes place gradually, and one can see head, eyes, body, etc., in coarse of formation. * This plant IB extremely rare; it is to be met with in Thibet, and in the Em­ peror's garden at Pekin, where it is re­ served for medicinal purposes. The Chinese Bavants say it is a capital strengthening medicine. Attempts are being made to acclimatize it in 8outh Africa. WHAT, think yon, is the rose or lily the queen? the one "love" the other "purity." TEE MAEKET. .$ 7.00 . 6.UO . 4.00 . .96 FOREIGN. legislative appropriation bill, as re- by the Senate Committee, adds $1,- . 087,402 to the total agreed to by the House, making the aggregate $24,647,259. The Senate committee's estimate provides •Varies for 8, <59 employes, while the House «stiraates are for 8,202. THE Senate Committee on Public Lands msks a favorable report on the bill DELEGATES from every quarter of the globe are in attendance npon the Pan- Presbyterian Council at Belfast, Ireland. The floods in Bohemia are increasing and the inhabitants are in great distress. Three thousand loaves were sent from Crnciw for the relief of „ the more urgent cases of suffering. The English Court of Appeals decides that the proprietors of English gambling- bouses are liable to fine and imprisonment for permitting gambling in their places. It holds players innocent. Such was the effect of a judgment entered in what is known as the " baccarat" cases.... The case of George Johnson, who con­ fessed he took part in the Victoria Railway explosion, turns out to be a bold attempt to obtain money from the secret fund of the Police Department. ABXSTRONO'S omnibus factory at Bel­ fast, Ireland, has been destroyed by firs. .61 .37 16.50 6.75 6.75 6.00 6.00 6.35 4.6U .85 .54 •»1 M .61 •IS .18 .OS .03 .15 9 50 19.00 "*7 NEW YORK. REEVES lloos I'LOUB--Extra. WHEAT--No. 2Chicago. ' No. 2 Red............. COBN--No. 2 White OATS--White i'OBK--Mesa CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steer*. 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CATTLE--Beat e.oo Fair. 6.60 Common. 8.75 HOWL.... is <9 9-00 & 6.76 & 6.50 (ft .07 1.00 .01 • ••m ji .88 .64 .32 .57 18.25 7.23 1.04 .61 .SO .56 1T.80 .09 .50 , .84 16.00 , .07 . 6.00 . 1.00 . .55 . .84 19.00 63 & .41 @17.00 & 7.25 (® 6.25 & 5.75 0 5.50 t<$ 6.76 9 6.V> .86 .65 .32 .65 .6:1 .19 .15 .<10 .115 .16 (9 3 W) @19.50 <£> .07* & .92 & .67 Vi 0 .33 i CHOLERA'S MARCH. Strong Foothold Gained by the Dreaded Soourge at 7oo> Ion, France. . A Filthy City and a Spreading Plague of People for 8afety. [Br cable from London.] An alarming outbreak of eholem has oo- enrred in Toulon, France. There have been fifty deaths since Saturday, and the rate of mortality has increased each day. A panic has Skfzed upon the people. Eight thousand persons have fled from the city and thousands of residents of the poorer quarters have been ousted from their homes and driven into the suburbs by the police and are now camping in the fields. The bodies of victims of the disease are buried in lartn trenches and covered with quicklime to hasten their decomposition. None have been buried in the regular cem­ eteries for fear of giving opportunity for the infection to .spread. Qreat terror is shown by the inhabitants of the surround­ ing country upon tjie approach of any of tha refugees from the city, lest they should carry with them the germ of the dreaded malady. A special from Paris says: The Ministry of Commerce has issued a notice that the cholera at Toulon is sporadic, and not Asiatic; that it is due to local infection and, therefore, confined to the place of its origin. At Marseilles there is a cholera scare. Or­ ders have been issued to bury immediately the corpses of cholera victims in deep trenches, which will be covered with chlo­ ride of lime. No bodies will be allo^d to be taken to the churches. la It Aalstior ' India is the home of Asiatic cholera, where it is known to have existed for cen­ turies. In 1817 a p riicnlai ly violent epi­ demic, which originated at Jessore, ravaged India for three yearn, and then spread to China on the east and Persia on the west. By 182J it had r ached Asia Minor and Si­ beria, and in 1830 it invaded Ilussia, ap­ pearing in Europe for the first t me. The next year it spread throughout all Europe, and eventually crossed the Atlantic to Am?iica. The year 1835 6aw it in North Africa, and during 1836-7 it continued to appear spasmodic,illy in various parts of Europe. In 1847 another epidemic visited Russia, Germany, England, and France, and like its predecessor it too crossed to America, whence it spread to the West Indies. In 1850 it again appeared in the East, reaching Europe in 1853, and again coming to the western continent, where its severity was ex­ ceedingly great. Finally, in 1865-G, the last visit of the plague was made to Europe, and this time, also, it found the Atlantic no obstacle to its western march. Fortunately, it was not so deadly on the last occasion as on the previous one. We see from thin brief statement that each time Europe has been visited by this scourge it has spread to America. Its course is not always the same, as sometimes it avoids countries that at others it visits, making its way into Eastern Europe at one time from Russia in ABU, and at another, after ravaging Arabia and Syria, invading Turkey and spreading from thence. Early in the month of June last year • mysterious disease made its appearance at Damietta, a town on the eastern arm of the Nile, neir the point where it enters the .Mediterranean. At first little or no notice was taken of its presence, as its ravages were chiefly confined to the rabble, but as the days went on it spread with such rapid­ ity that at last it commanded attention. An Investigation was thea set afootas the result .of which,the ̂ pidejpic was pronounced to be Asiatic cholera, and this opinion received official confirmation from the report of the Egyptian sanitary commission, published about the beginning of the last week in the month. No sooner was the decision of the commission made public than a panic set in, which was by no means allayed when the Egyptian medical chief at the place flat- co tradicted its members, and pro­ nounced the plague an ordinary fever of virulent type. People fled from the stricken town in hundreds, availing themselves of any and every means of transportation that would convey them to a place of safety. A sanitary cordon of Egyptian troops was drawn around Damietta after this, and, if not at once, at least a little later on, orders were issued to shoot fugitives who might pttempt to break through--a heartless pre­ caution that was subsequently adopted at other towns visited by the plague. The panic was not confined to the immediate ,scene of the outbreak, but spread all over Lower Egypt, and Europeans everywhere throughout the country made haste to get away. In Algeria the Governor prevented the annual caravan of Mecca pilgrims from setting out. By the beginning of July it was said tint, with the exception of a few devoted medical men, all Europeans had deserted the di lta towns aud villages. So numerous were the deaths that the bodies of the victims were hantilv buried under a few inches of s>tnd, whicn blown away by the wind, left them exposed to breed new diseases. At the end of this month--just two months from the appearance at Dami­ etta--16,000 persons had died. Prompt measures were taken by nearly all European states to guard against an in­ vasion of the plague, England being the sole exception. Nothing in the dispatches published lately indicates how the infection reached Toulon, its appearance there being, so far as is yet known, surrounded by as much mystery as the outbreak at Damiett*. . 86 66 ($ .35 (4 .69 018.76 & 7.60 & 1.06 «§ .62 TF* .32 & .67 ^18.00 @ 1.00 & .67 & .36 016.50 & .07^ 0 6.75 @ 1.01 .67 & .85 @19.60 0 .9# 0 .62 0 -32 H 6.80 0 6.28 0 4.28 0 6.76 0 4.2# REGULATORS' WORK. Canfield, the Slayer of Gherkin, Lynched at Vir cennes, Ind. Taken from JaO In the Dead of "'rftrrppid Hanged to a Tele- . graph Pale. Night {Vincennee (Ind.) telegram.1 . The threats made last evening by angry citizens to summarily punish Oliver Can- field, the young miscreant who shot Mrs. Mollie Gherkin last Tuesday night, were not idle ones. As the hour-) went by the knots of /men who stood talking quietly at the stre/t corners were gradually re-en­ forced until several hundred were gathered in the vipinity of the jail. There was no loud talking «r noisy disp'ay of any kind, but the grim, set features of those who had as­ sembled tovavenge the murdered woman boded ill forUhe unhappy wret 'h who cow­ ered in his£ell, fully alive to all that was transpiring/atul to the dreadful hopeless­ ness of his|oase. At midnight the avengers, a bodv some fifty etrcm, composed of tho best citizens, ipoved throuih the inky darkness toward the tail. £^jjiie stout doors were quickly ^sbnjt^pen with a piece of railroad iron thaw^^^een brought from the track for the pillpse. Meeting with no resistance, the avengers rush don to Canfield's cell, the door of which was battered down with three or four blows of the ram. The pris­ oner cowered down in a corner ana at­ tempted to pray, but wan roughly bidden to f>repare to come out. Trembling in every imb, and with features ghostlike in their sickly pallor, he complied, and was marched slowly between the two masked leaders out of the jail into the open air. The first proposition made on the outside of the jail yard being reached, was that Can- field should be strung up then and there, but, with strange persistency, he pleaded to be put to death on the same spot where his hepless sweetheart met her late at his hands. His proposition was received with deafening yells of approval by the crowd, and he was rushed off to a convenient tele­ graph pole within a stone's throw of the murder. A stout rope was slung over the lower cross-ties, a noose made, and the vic­ tim placed in position. His aspect was pitiable but it called forth no ex­ pression of mercy or sympathy from the determined men around him, and he was told if he had any­ thing to say to say it quickly. He faltered forth that he was guilty, and was sorry he killed the woman. He begged that his mother be told that he tried to be recon­ ciled to the Almighty, but that he should never go to heaven. He was given a min­ ute to say his prayers, but he had by this time Bunk so low that he could scarcely be roused. The rope was soon adjusted around bis neck, and, amid the applause of the crowd, he was drawn to a height of ten feet and left to hang. There was scarcely a struggle perceptible, but the victim prob­ ably Lived thirty minutes. A card was pinned to his coat requesting the Coroner to leave the body hanging until 12 o'clock to-day. No resistance whatever was made by the jail officials. The Sheriff merely refused to deliver up the keys of the jail when re­ quested quietly to do so, but after the doors had been battered down the lynchers were not interfered witb. The crime for which Canfield suffered his terrible punishment was committed last Tuesday night. He had been paying marked attentions for a year past to Mrs. Mollie Gerkin.a beautiful widow. Canfield wished her to marry him, but as a divorce suit was pending between the woman and her hus­ band, she was unable to comply. A week ago last Friday Canfield and the woman came to Yincennes from Washington, Ind. She obtained work in a boarding-house, while he spent his time in idly loafing about. Tuesday evening he called at the house where she was staying and requested his Bweetheart to take a walk with him. She complied with apparent willingness, and the two strolled down Main street and turned in the direction of the bridge. Sud­ denly, without a moment's warning, Can- field threw his arms around Mrs. Gherkin's neck and kissed her. At the same moment he drew a revolver from his pocket and sent a bullet crashing into the marble fore­ head that rested lovingly and confidingly on his shoulder. His victim sank to the earth without a groan, but not satis­ fied with the result of his devilish work he fired < four more shots at her as she lay prostrate on the ground. A great crowd gathered and in the excitement Canfield escaped. He fled to Washington and went to his sister's house, telling hei what he had done, at the same time hand­ ing her a knife and revolver. These his sis­ ter threw into a vault. The murderer spent the night hidden in the woods near his mother's house, and was captured early Thursday morning by the officers, who had followed closely on his heels. Brought back to Yincennes, he refused to give any motive for his deed, but declared that he W£s sober and rational at tbe time of its commission. Canfield was but 22 years of age. He was known as a hard character, and had spent most of his time working in eoal mines. Mrs. Gherkin died yesterday morning, and the plans for lynching her murderer were immediately consummated. POLITICAL GATHERINGS Hew York Delegates to Vote as a Unit ̂ in the Hataenal Democratio CoHTention. A I Indiana BepnbltcanR Nomfnata W. H.CalUae*r Governor. Gen- Twenty-Are Structures Burned. [Shenandoah (Pa.) telegram.] Twenty-five houses, all occupied by Hun­ garian and Polish laborers in the mines, were swept away by fire to-day, and their occupants, nearly three hundred men, women end children, are in the streets homeless to-night. The fire started in a block of tenements owned by M. D. Ma- lone. A strong wind was blowing, and it lookod as if the great conflagiation of last November, which left 400 families home­ less, would be repeated. Before the fire department could get into working order Malone's house was enveloped in flames. The firemen worked hard against the disadvantage of a poor water supply. In less than an hour fifteen dwellings were totally destroyed. These houses were all new, and were built for the accommodation of Hungarians and Poles. There were al­ together about twenty-five familes in these houses, keeping boarders. Tbe whole num­ ber of occupants was about two hundred. The Polish and Hungarian women were al­ most frantic with fright, and it was with tbe greatest difficulty that many were rescued from danger by the firemen. One Hungarian woman cried bitterly over the loss of her child. One Polish woman had her arm burned nearly off. The houses were built as a speculation, and were put up in a flimsy manner. The roofs of these houses were mostly all covered with a tar roofing, and the fire was caused by a spark from a loco­ motive running on ih > Lehigh Valley Rail­ road, which alighted on one of these roofs. The losses of the families are estimated at over $5,000, as the fire spread so rapidly th it nothing could be saved. The loss to property-owners will not exceed $10,000. The entire town is in the wildest confusion to-night. Suicide of a Broker. (Special dispatch from New Yock.1 J. W. Burnham, a partner in the Wall street firm of Hotchkiss k Burnham, which went down in the panic caused by the fail- are of Ferdinand Ward, but which had re­ sumed, shot himself in his home at Yonk- ers. Mr. Burnham brooded over his mis­ fortune, and his despondency is supposed to nave driven him to suicide. Mr. Burn­ ham came to this city twelve years ago from Connecticut, and was the capitalist of the firm. He was a member of the Stock, Cotton, and New York Mining Exchanges. Tha firm of Hotchkiss A Burnham gained con­ siderable notoii ;ty in the blind pool of the American District Telegraph, of which Gov. Cornell and others of high standing were members. Mr. Burnham had been acting strangely for the past few weeks, anc,l ex­ hibited signs of great mental depression. W. H. Kinnan, his brother-in-law, at whose house he was stopping, stated he had not been iu his right mind since the failure cf his firm. "He came here with his wife and child on June 1," said Mr. Kinnan. "After supper last night he and I sat on the piazza talking, but his conversation was so incoherent that I finally told him he had better go to bed. He did BO about 10 o'clock. His wife did not notice anything special, but this morning he awoke shortly after 7 o'clock aud kissed her over and over again. She went into the bath­ room to get a pitcher of water for him and when she returned he was on his knees in prayer. Her mother called her into the next room, and while she was there she heard a pistol shot. She ran back into the room and there found her husband lying on the floor by the bedside with a revolver clasped in his band. He had shot himself in the right temple. He lived for about twenty minutes, but never spoke or re­ covered consciousness. THK Aldiich family, which will soon hold • convention at S iratogn, includes Senator A'dricli. of Rhode Island, and three judges, respectively of California, Georgia, and Massachusetts. Ax Englishman has written a three-vol­ ume work on the danger of yawning. Nihilists Assassinate a Russian Officer. A cable dispatch from St. Petersburg says: At Odessa Capt. Gerdzey, a promi­ nent officer of the gendarmes, has been as­ sassinated. His body was found with a bullet hole in the temple and a dagger sticking in his heart. A note pinned to the coat left no doubt that the murder was the work of N hilists. Capt. Gerdzey was a capable, courageous official, and specially devoted himself to grappling with Nihilism. He thus incurred the bitterest hatred of the members of that body. The murder has produced a sensation in Bussia equal to that occasioned by -the assassination at Lieut. Col. Sudeikin. SHAWHBBTOWX, 111., is the first place in the West to report wheat cutting. Xew York Democrats. The New York State Democratio Conven­ tion met at Saratoga, and was called to order by Chairman Manning. He named William E. Smith, of Clinton County, for temporary Chairman. In his speech an incidental mention of the name of Hancock brought on a storm of applause. Further on he mentioned the name of Tilden and the cheers were beyond control. In the roll call of delegates, when New Yoik was reached, Col. Fellows an­ nounced that it had been agreed to equalize the representation by giving the County Democracy and Tammany each thirty-one and Irving Hall ten. A resolution to this effect was unanimously adopted, and the convention took a recess until evening. The evening session of the convention was called to order at 9:15 by Chairman William E. Smith, and the report of the committee on contested seats was adopted. The committee on permanent organization reported in favor of a continuation of the temporary officers of the convention. Mr. Smith's name waB greeted with applause. A delegate from each Congressional dis­ trict was named as Vice President and one as Secretary. The report was adopted. Nelson J. Wateibury, of New York, an­ nounced that the report of the Committee on Resolu;ions was unanimous, aud that in the national convention not one word of division would be heard, except an expres­ sion of opinion as to who would be the btist candidate for the Presidency. He went on to point out the necessity of a candidate whose name will be a gu iranty of reform. He glanced at the platforms of 1874, 1876, and 1880, and said the resolu­ tions embodied therein were applicable to the situation of to-day; that on the latter platform the Governor of this State was elected, an event which brought forth ex­ cellent results, and that the chief points of these platforms were retained in the pres­ ent declaration of principles. Mr. Waterbury then read the platform, as follows: Resolved, That the Democracy of the State of New York, aseemb ed to appoint its dele­ gates to the national convention of the party, commits to those dole^aies, in association with the representatives ot the party from other States, the general declaration of Dem­ ocratic principles upon national issues, at the same time recognizing that no issue can be more important than the election of a President of the I nited States whose char­ acter and public refutation shall give to the whole people the assurance of an honest, im­ partial and eU cient administration of the laws, without suspicion of personal ends or private interests. Ue*olv(<t, That this convention adopts and affirms tbe resolutions of the conventions of the party in 1874, 1876, and 1882, to Which the people of the State have given hearty ap­ proval; that it recognizes the duty of the Legislature to respect the popular vote in 1*83 for the » bolition of the contract system of labor in the prisons, and that it heartily c mmends anew the efficient and upright ad­ ministration of Gov. Cleveland. he olved, 'that the delegates to the Demo­ cratic National Convention to be appointed are hereby instructed to enter that conven­ tion as a unit and to act and vote as a unit in accordance with the will of the majority of the members thereof; every delegate, or alternate occupying place of delegate, to be bound by this rule, and In case of the at> sence of both the delegate and alternate from any district the vacancy to be tilled by a vote of the majority of the delegation. The reading of the resolutions was inter­ rupted by frequent applause and cheers for Cleveland and counter cheers for Flower. The resolutions were unanimously passed. Judges Andrews and Rappallo, of the Court of Appeals, were renominated to those positions with great enthusiasm. The following are the Congressional district deleg ites to Chicago: First, Benjamin Downing; Second, Felix Campbell; Third, W. C. Kingby; Fourth, Henry J. Cullen; Fifth, Archibald Bliss; Sixth, M. C. Murphy; Seventh, Abram S. Hewitt; Eighth, Michael Norton; Ninth, John Keenan: Tenth, Hubert O. Thomson; Eleventh, John Kelly; Twelfth, W. C. Whitney; Thirteenth, Andrew J. White; Fourteenth, William Stahlnecker; Fif­ teenth, Peter Ward; Sixteenth, S. J. Tilden, Jr.; Seventeenth, A. B.Parker; Eighteenth, Edward Murphy, Jr.; Nineteenth, A. Bleecker Banks; Twentieth, J. W. Green; Twenty-first, Smith M. Weed Twenty-second, Daniel Majors; Twen­ ty-third, James Stephens; Twenty- fourth. Stephen L. Moyhan; Twenty-fifth, H. J. Mowery; Twenty-sixth, Elliott Dan- forth; Twenty-seventh, H. D. Brewster; Twenty-eighth, E. K. Apgar; Twenty-ninth, John Flanigan; Thirtieth, William Purcell; Thirty-first, James A. Hanlon; Thirty-sec- ond, Solomon Scheu; Thirty-third, John M. Wiley; Thirty-fourth, Charles D. Mur­ ray. After the appointment of the State Com­ mittee and of electors the convention ad­ journed sine die. Indiana Republicans. The Indiana Republican State Conven­ tion met at Indianapolis, and was called to order by John Overmeyer, Chairman of the State Central Committee. After prayer, Stanton J. Peelle was elected permanent President and W. A. B. Roberts, of Sulli­ van, Secretary. Nominations for Governor were made the first thing in order, the Com­ mittee on Resolutions not being able to re­ port. W. H. Calkins of LaPorte, Col. W. W. Dudley o£ Wajne, aud Geu. John P. C. Shanks of Jay were named. The name of Postmaster General Gresham was not pre­ sented. Before the balloting commenced R. W. Thomson, from the committee, reported the platform, which is as follows: Tbe Bepublicans of Indiana, in State con­ vention ascent bled, ratify and adopt tbe plat­ form of the recent National Hepublican Convention at Chicago as a comprehensive and sullicient declaration of their l'aith and purposes in respect to all questions of na­ tional scope and character, and they ratify and approve the nomination of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan lor the offices of President aud Vice President of the I'nited States, and pledge to them the united and earnest support of the Republican party of Indiana. [The remaining planks are of local im­ portance.} W. Cumback, in a brief speech, protested against the backward step of the Republican party upon the temperance question, con­ tenting himself with that protest, inasmuch as the convention had determined that no amendments or substitutes could either be read or debated, but must be referred at once to the committee. The platform was adopted, with a num­ ber of scattering negative votes. Mr. Calkins was nominated for Governor on the first ballot, receiving 594 votes, Dud­ ley 512, Shanks 48, and Thompson 1. The nomination was made unanimous on motion of Wayne County; seconded by Gen. Shanks. The State ticket was com­ pleted as follows: Lieutenant Governor, Eugene Bundy, of Henry County; Secretary of State, Robert Mitchell, of Gibson; Auditor. Bruce Carr, of Orange; Treasurer, R. R. Shiel, of Marion; Attorney General, W. C. Wilson, of Tippecanoe, Superin­ tendent of Public Instruction, B. C. Hobbs, of Parke; Reporter of Supreme Court, W. M. Hoggitt, of Warrick; Judge of Supreme Court for the Fifth District, B. P. Ham­ mond, of Jasper. CONGRESSMAN OCHILTREE is pushing a scheme in the House of Representatives bv which it iB proposed to appropriate $*7,000,000 for the improvement of Galves­ ton harbor in accordance with Capt. Eads' plans. SABAH BERNHARDT is engaged--for seven years at the Porte 8t Martin Theater. THE WORK OF CONGRESS, Being Bone bj the fiatioail Legislature, ' Jtl&A iSf the Chair laid' before the Sear ate a bill amendia# the Thnrman act relative to the Paofflo railroads. Mr. Van Wvck desired that this bill be referred to the Committee an labile Lands rather than to the Committee en Judiciary. It wait with some Hiirpnse that he had for the first time learn ed from the public press that the Jodic-ia y Committee had resolved, no. to a < on any bill of thin kind this session. Mr. Hear said the Sena* or from Nebraska waa wholly mistaken (of cour«e unlatemi nally) as to the action of th» Judiciary Committee. Mr. VanWyek insisted that for twenty yeare the railroads had controlled the Government* as shown, in his > plnii rn, by the operations of the liana Dei srtment, the opinions of the At­ torney Generals, and some of the opinions of ttie Supreme Court. Mr. Garland said the epj- clal matter referred to by the press waa differ­ ent matter to that covered t>y the bill from the House. After some lurther discussion, Mr. Van Wyck withdrew his mot.io i to refer the bill to the Committee on Publx Lands, and ™ .WMg referred to the Committee on Ju­ diciary. In the Hon e, the electoral count- hill wse taken up, and Mr. Hart addressed the house in favor ot the Seaate measure Mr. Par­ ker made a constitutional argument against the Eaton bill. Mr. Springer avored the Eaton bill, asserting that it was safer to leave the deci­ sion of a disputed Pies dmial election to a Joint convention and the House than to a returning board or a committee which might be provided 1? ony p,lters spoke in support uf the Senate bill. The previous question was or­ dered upon the b 11 and amendments, but no further action was taken. IN the Senate June 23, • resolution wis adopted for an investigation into the recent de­ falcations in the depar mentR, by the committee on expenditures of public money. After pro­ longed debate on the Mexican pension bilL the amendment of Mr. Ingalls, to extend the time in which to fill applications for arrears, was lost by 'if, to 27. In the House, a bill watt introduced to author­ ise the funding of the entire bonded deot in 2 per cent, bonds running fifty years. The Sun­ dry Appropriation bill was passed, under it sus­ pension of the rules, amended in s.-veral ro- m*ccts. The clause which cuts oft the power of members to print speeches In the Record not actually delivered was struck out. THE Senate, June 24, passed the Mexican pension bill, with an amendment that no per­ son shall be entitled to more than one pension, at a time, and the House bill to authorize tbe- appointment of two additional Justices of toe Supreme Court for £)akota and one for Washing­ ton Territory. In the House ot Representatives,a bill was passed to repeal the pre-emption and timber-culture laws, with an amendment that agricultn-al lands shall hereafter be reserved tor actual settlers under the home»tead law. The House el' ctoral-eount bill was passed, as was also the Senate bill to eive an annual vaca­ tion of fifteen days to each letter-carrier. THE Senate, on June 25, spent the day on- the legislative appropriation bill, and struck out- the clause directing the consolidation of cus­ toms districts. The House of Representativea admitted James R. Chalmers for the Second District of Miesisstpi i, a resolution to declare- the election void being v oted down liy 56 to 161. Bills were passed to authorize the establishment of a branch Soldiers' Home in the West, and giving permission for a home railway on the island and bridges at Rock Island. THE Senate, on the 26th, passed the leqrfsla> tlve appropriation bill, with an amendment that all reports In the Record shall t>e an accurate- transcript of the proceedings and debates. The House passed a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across tbe Missouri liiver at White Cloud, Kan. Bills were reported to pension the surviving officers and men of the Tippecanoe campaign, and for disposing of the Cherokee reservation In Kansas. The Indiana Way. A' minister, residing in a town in In­ diana, was hurriedly sent for one day to conduct the services over the re­ mains of a farmer to be buried from, his home in the oonntry. In the hurry and excitement, added to the fact that his buggy broke down on the trip, tha- good man arrived at the last moment. Without waiting to hold any extended conversation with the friends of the deceased, he led in singing a hymn, and then began: "Death comes to alL Though the- deceased was stricken down in the- bloom of life, she " "It was tbe old man," whispered on* .of the friends at the minister's elbow. "Although in the prime of life, he- knew that death was liable to come at " "He wasn't in his prime, but was seventy years old," whispered the friend. "Although he was an old man," re­ sumed the clergyman, after swallowing a lump in his throat, "he will be greatly missed by his large circle of friends and relations. Death * "Didn't have a friend or relation ex- pept the old woman," put in the man. ' "Although, as I said, he may not be missed in his home," said tbe now thoroughly embarrassed minister, "his church will sadly realize the vacancy. He joined the Baptist Church at jp early " • "Always trained with the Metho­ dists !" whispered the friend. "He joined the Methodist Church years ago, and has ever been an ex "Only jined ast winter!" "He was a good man," observed the clergyman with a great effort. "He died full of faith that he " "He isn't dead at all -- he's only in a trance!" yelled one of the crowd nearest the coffin, and the next moment the old man sat up on end, looked around for a minute, and then called out: "Must be mighty near time to feed them hogs; somebody bring my breeches and boots." Lawyers and Editors. If I should charge the Pre** in the- same proportion that lawyers charge- for their time I should get al>out $1,000 for this letter. Hers is a case: Mr. Z. L. White (as lovely a fellow as ever wrote a paragraph), now the editor of the Providence Press, and I were asso­ ciated as correspondents of the Xew York Tribune. The Alabama treaty, on whose provisions two continents hung breathlessly, had been signed and sent to the Senate. This was many years ago. A copy came to us as legiti­ mately as any piece of news comes into- the Press office, but it happened so that w« could not tell where it came from. We were brought before the Senate and sent to a committee, and we refused to tell where the treaty, as printed in the Tribune, came from. We were locked up for about; a fortnight. The great public was with us, and we had more applications for our autographs than we could pay postage on, and we had cases, of wine, ca*es of brandy, demijohns of whisky, boxes of cigars, woodcock, ter­ rapin, canvas-backs, flowers, and such things galore, Senators came to our rooms for drinlA and lunches, and the- whole thing from beginning to end was a great joke. But--and here comes the point--we were, of course, released by a tremendous majority of the Sen­ ate, but there were certain legal points, to be disposed of. We had been in­ dicted for disrespect to the Senate, or something of the kind. We engaged a lawyer, and he went into court and asked that our indictment be quashed. That was all, and the indictment waa quashed. How much, Mr. Editor, d& you think he charged for that five min­ utes' work ? He charged and I paid him $500 for that job, and I have hia name on my check to show it. Sup­ pose a newspaper man had taken $5001 Well, you know what Pistol said when he was compelled to eat the garlic,*-- H. J. Ramsdell. Ewifv, if surrounded on all sides the brightness of another** prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a cir­ cle of Hre, Wiiistifig itseii to death.-- Colkm.