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***• J,*-* a *. ^ ̂ ;.K5* •>;• •< KT^f^;^ •*^A £PP$f "? -V' • H 1®c!rnil flitintlcaln' I. WW ttTKE. EJWR SM PHIWIK, McHENRT, - - ILLINOIS. THE NEWS CONDENSED. •". THE EAST. - ELEVEN persons sustained serious in­ juries by an accident on the New York and New England Road, near Qninebaug, Con­ necticut. A passenger car and a smoker were thrown down an embankment of twenty feet. J. W. Phelps, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, received what mav prove a fatal cut on the right temple... .Silver has been discovered near Ritchie, W. Va., and prospectors are flocking to the mine. The last assay at one mine showed $300 of sil­ ver and $11 of lead to the ton An as­ signment to secure liabilities of $35,000 has been made by the Dunbar Coke Company of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. THE schedules in the assignment of Hatch & Foote, the New York brokers, who recently failed, have been made public. They show the liabilities to be $4,497,000, of which $3,548,900 are secured. The actual assets are $298,871, about one- fourth of the nominal assets.... The Sinking Fund Commissioaers of Essex County, New Jersey, are shown to be short $600,000 in their accounts, and proceed­ ings to recover the amount will be at once commenced .There have been heavy frosts in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut, and crops are damaged in many places. SOME citizens of Trenton, N. J., who favor cremation, have purchased a pottery- kiln at Pennington, and will transform it into an oven for burning bodies... .The Rev. John "W. Stmub. of the Bloomfield Catholic Church. Pittsburg, while crazed with disease, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. ON the Charter Oak track at Hartford, while the pacers Princess and George 6. were being exercised in different directions for the 2:17 race, both drivers pulled the same way. The animals went into the air and fell flat George G. died almost in­ stantly, and was buried in view of the as­ semblage. Princess received fatal injuries. The horses were valued at $5,000 each This year's hop crop in this country is esti­ mated to be about one-fourth short of the average. THE WEST. THOMPSON, in his unrivalled character of Joshua Whitcomb, the good- aatered, good-hearted New England farmer, is makfpg his regular anrnial tour of the West, and occupies the boards of McYick- «rs Theater, in Chicago, this week. For eight successive seasons, Mr. Thompson has appeared before the public in this ster­ ling play, and yet so great is its popularity «.... jg ^ gTemt a £o witness it as there introduction of rags... .John B. Dawson, a clerk in the Peusiou Bureau at "Washing­ ton, died Inst week. He weighed 438 pounds, and his body had to be placed in a grape arbor until a coffin could be made. THE gold reserve in the Treasury has increased to $120,000,000... .Judge George C. Lyon, of the Federal Court of' Missis­ sippi, died at Washington last week. THE Treasurer of the United States has forwarded to the Governor of Louisiana •free-school bonds of that State to the amount of $21,000, which were captured at Baton Rouge by Gen. Sheridan. POLITICAL. THB Missouri Greenbackers met in State Convention at Kansas City, adopted a plat­ form and nominated ex-Congressman Nicholas Ford for Governor. A resolution was adopted declaring it to be foi the best interests of the party not to make other nominations for State offices, leaving the matter to the Central Committee. The ac­ tion of the convention is understood to mean fusion with the Republicans, leaving with the latter party the nomination of the'remainder of the State ticket. AT a temperance camp meeting in a grove near Cuba, N» Y., St John and Daniel re­ ceived formal notice of their nomination for President and Vice President by the Prohibitionists.. . .David Preston, a well- known Detroit banker, in a public letter says he will accept the nomination of the Michigan Prohibitionists for Governor if tendered it. . PROF. KIRK, Superintendent of Schools of Woodford County, was nominated foi Congress by the Democrats of the North Illinois District Judge W. H. MeHenry was nominated by the Greenbackers and Democrats in the Seventh Iowa District (Kasson's) for the long term. E. R. Kreidler was named for the short term, to till the vacancy caused by Kasson's resignation. Congressman Yaple was renominated by the Democrats and Greenbackers of the Fourth Michigan District. The Republi­ cans nominated ex-Congressman Julius C. Burrows in the same district. B. F. Hall, of Burlington, was nominated by the Dem­ ocrats of the First Iowa District, and W. H. Neeee was nominated by the Democrats of the Eleventh Illinois District. CONGRESSIONAL nominations: J. C. Fitz­ gerald, Republican, Fifth Michigan Dis­ trict; I. L. Struble, Republican, Eleventh Iowa; W. J. Stone, Democrat, Twelfth Missouri; Isaac Stephenson, Republican, Ninth Wisconsin: Thomas Rhoddes. Pro­ hibitionist. Twentieth Ohio; H. G. Thayer (for long terrnt, John W. Reynolds • for short term*. Republicans, Thirteenth Indi­ ana: N. B. Eldredge. Greenbacker. Second Michigan; E. Barksdale, Seventh, and O.It- Singleton, Democrats, Fifth Mississippi; i W. C. Gates, Democrat Third Alabama; ; Joseph A. Scranton, Republican, Twelfth • Pennsylvania. j EDWIN D. BAILET, Secretary of the Na- ! tional Committee of the Ammerican party, j announces that Senator S. C. Pomeroy, j liie first year of its advent. j nominated for President will withdraw in j his thought that the value of theagri- I favor of St John The Illinois Green- . cultural products of California thi« year j ^>ac^ Convention, at Bloomington. nom- ; wfll be *sl.OW.flO0. About $56. mo'.OOO i'in*ted °f 5?r G°V" I ernor. and adopted a resolution authorizing j j the State Central Committee of the party to : fuse with any of the old parties which would • have entered into a secret alliance. The terms are understood to be that Germany will let France have her own way in China, and that France will not put any obstacle in the way of Germany if the latter nation should think proper to annex a portion of Holland. Both nations agree to help each other in pushing their colonial designs. The report of the al­ liance causes uneasiness in England.... Reports come from Sontay that a Chinese army 80,000 strong annihilated the French in Tonquin. It is semi-officially announced from Paris that Admiral Courbet will hold the island of Formosa until China pays the indemnity demanded... .Gen. Wolseloy his been appointed to the command of the ex-> pedition for the relief of Khartoum. The*- appointment was considered necessary ow­ ing to the report of Gen. Stephenson that the plan of campaign thus far pursued would end in disaster.... Richard Tweed, eldest son of the late William M. Tweed, of New York, died in a Paris mad-house?^It is understood he left little or no property A private letter to a gentleman in Des Moines from Ireland states that the crops in that country are the most promising since 1879, but that thousands or acres are lying in waste for want of labor to cultivate them The courts in Paris have imposed long terms of imprisonment and heavy fines upon the officers of the wrecked Bank of Lyons and Loire. worth of the product will be exported Thopaes Murphy, a mechanic living at Jack­ pot# Mich., who is in bad health, became excited the other night, and, thinking there were burglars in the house," attacked his wife with a pair of shears and stabbed her five times. She bled to death in ten min­ utes ... .Pollock. Wilson <£ Sons' establish­ ment at Sixth and Carr streets, Cincinnati, for the manufacture of saddlery hardware and chains, was destroyed by fire. Irrrss. $50,000. THE Webster Comity Bank of Marsh- field, Mo., has suspended, with liabilites of $40,000 and assets estimated at §15,000 to $25,000 The saw-mills of Little A Peck and G. W. Peck & Son, at Dninth, were burned, involving a loss of $100,000. WHEN the special train containing eighty Poles who were to take the place of the striking miners at Buchtel, Ohio, arrived at that place a mob of strikers congregated and assaulted the leaders of the imported party. A free fight followed, dur­ ing which an interpreter for the Poles was seriously injured and others re­ ceived bruises. The Governor ordered a body of militia to the scene of the troubles. W. R. Penick, a wholesale druggist at St Joseph, Mo., with liabilities of $75,000, has closed his store. MICHAEL GRIFFIN, of Des Moines, Iowa, who was fined $100 and costs, to be com­ mitted to jail until paid, was brought into court on a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the Justice could not imprison beyond thirty days, and that he had no jurisdiction. Judge Given decided that the Justice had jurisdiction, and that the costs were no part of the penalty. An appeal will be had to the Supreme Court CAPT. PAYNE, the Oklahoma adventurer, and seven of his associates were arrested at Rock Falls, Indian Territory, a few days •go by a United States officer. They were taken to Fort Scott, Kas., where they will probably be tried by court martial for dis­ obeying the instructions of the military au­ thorities A coachman at Minneapolis, named Peter Johnson, after taking a lady to visit a friend, walked out on the lawn and shot himself through the heart. TEN head of oattle were killed at Elm- hurst, HI., under the instructions of the State Veterinarian, Dr. Paaren. The post-mortem examination showed that the disease was pleuro-pneumonia of the moBt virulent type The Second National Bank at Xenia, Ohio, has closed its doors. The cashier, Mr. J. Ankejjy, engaged in grain transactions with a friend named Smart, and induced the bank to make large advances to his friend. give them seven Presidential electors The Greenbackers and Anti-Monopolists of Wisconsin met in convention at Milwaukee, nominated W. L. Utley for Governor, and placed a full electoral ticket in the field.... The Michigan Prohibitionists, in session at Detroit, nominated David Preston, a wealthy Detroit banker, for Governor. CE.'IERAL, fHE SOUTH. GEN. LEROY POPE WALKER, first Sec­ retary of War in Jefferson Davis' Confed­ erate Cabinet,'and who gave the order for firing on Fort Sumter, died at his home in Hnntsville, Ala., after a brief illness. Gen. Walker was President of the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1875, which framed the present constitution of the State. A FIRE in the stable of W. H. Wilson, at Cynthiana, Ky., resulted in the cremation of thirteen horses, the loss on stock and buildings being $50,000. Miss Laura Wil­ son ran through the flames, unlocked her father's safe, and secured his most valua­ ble papers. THE City Marshal of Bharpsburg, Ky., killed Dr. Daniel Henry for resisting ar­ rest A Deputy Sheriff at Hot Springs was compelled to shoot a horse-thief whom he was conveying to the State Penitentiary, •ad the Coroner's jury indorsed the act. A Louisville policeman fatally wounded a notorious footpad named John Lynch who was caught in the act of robbing a citizen. SAMUEL BOWMAN attempted to beet his Wife at Knoxville, Ky., with a broomstick because his breakfast was not ready in time. She seized a knife and stabbed him ; times, inflicting fatal wounds. THE Governor of Utah has written to the Governor of Tennessee, expressing tbanka for his attempt to vindicate the law in the murder of Mormon missionaries, and hoping that the assassins may be brought to judgment... .Bradstreet reports 208 failures in the United States the past week, against 264 for the preceding week. A MOB near Lincoln, Neb., took from the officers and hanged to a tree a Mexican charged with assaulting a girL He had been identified by his victim and made a full confession. Near Gatesville, Tex., the citizens took from the Sheriff and riddled with bullets an old man charged with burning some wheat-stacks and a thrasher. He was dragged from bed in his shirt and allowed five minutes for prayer. SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD, the Canadian Premier, denounces the project urged by the English cattlemen of Wyoming for the ship­ ment of the cattle from the territories to England via Canada. Sir John says the project is fraught with danger to the inter­ ests of Canadian fanners and stock-raisers. .... Congress is to be asked to retain the Greely relief boats for use as survey ves­ sels... .There were seventeen deaths from yellow fever at Havana last week. LIEUT. GREELT received and accepted an invitation from Capt Bedford Pim to be present at the meeting of the British Asso­ ciation at Montreal. M. de Lesseps the French engineer, in a letter from the French Geographical Society, congratulates Lieut Greely on his success, and expresses sym­ pathy at the loss of his comrades. Com­ mander Cheyne, of the British navy, has sent a congratulatory dispatoh direct to Greely. DR. SALMON, Chief of the National Ani­ mal Industry Bureau, is of opinion that pleuro-pneumonia can be checked in Illi­ nois if quarantine regulations are promptly applied, and if the animals are killed when the disease first attacks them.... During a storm off the Newfoundland coast fifteen fishing smacks were lost at Outer Cove, the schooners Petrel and Elizabeth were sunk in White Bay, and a fishing smack with four men and two lady passen­ gers was lost off Cape Broyle William Norris, a schoolmaster at Markdale, Ont., shot his first assistant, Miss Ford, in the school-room, inflicting a fatal wound. Nor­ ris then shot himself dead. Ais WASliOtiTOn. I Treasury Department has issued or- i to Collectors of Customs that hereafter when a vessel carrying rags arrives at any portit shall be the duty of the importer to "uce positive evidence that the cargo is i a non-infecu u jjori, is free from m ott disease. The difficulty of pro ; such evidence virtually prevents the ADDITIONAL HEWS. THE Chicago Tribune prints extensive reports of the condition of the corn crop in Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. The reports indicate a magnificent corn crop for 1884. * The reports are especially gratifying from Kansas and Nebraska, where the acreage in corn has been largely in­ creased, while the prospects are of the brightest. According to the returns, nothing but early frosts can inter­ fere with a bountiful harvest The Governor of Montana sent a special agent to investigate the reports of starv­ ation among tho Piegans. It was found that in a band of 2,00(1 the deaths for lack of food avenged one per day. The Gover­ nor has urged the Secretary of the Interior to is>ue full rations to the sufferers until Congress can take action. A RAILROAD car attached to ir circus train caught fire near Greeley, Colo. Seven­ ty-five men were sleeping in the car at the time. . Ten men perished, and several oth­ ers were badly scorched. A dispatch from Denver gives the following particulars of the accident: "At 11 o'clock last night the train belonging to the Anglo-American cir­ cus. Mr. Orton proprietor, left Fort Collins for Golden via the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Road. Forty minutes later, when near Greeley, the sleeping-car, in which seventy-five men, employed as roust- abi'Uts in the circus, were asleep, caught fire and was wholly consumed. Ten men perished and two more were seriously and five slightly burned. The fire was commu­ nicated from an open torch with which the car was lighted to a quantity of gasoline which was being carried in the same car, causing an explosion.".... Evansville, Ind., was visited by a terrific wind, rain, and hail storm, lasting over an hour. The steamer Silverthorne, with steam up, had her chimneys blown over­ board. The Josiali Throop was badly wrecked. Many houses were demol­ ished. and roofs and chimneys blown off. The steamer Belmont was lost in the hurri­ cane below Evansville, and ten or fifteen persons were drowned. Among the lost are Capt. John Smith, E. C. Roach and son, Miss Laura Lyon and sister, Sallie Bryant and mother, and others unknown. The boat was valued at $15,000. BERRY JOHNSON (colored) for the murder of his wife was hanged at Shreveport, La. Schip Holly, a negro who murdered Luther Seely, a young white man, in January, was hanged at Tuscola, Ala. The local mili­ tary were at the jail. Josh Berryman (col­ ored) was hanged at Natchitoches, La., for the murder of Scott Carter (colored). Willie Williams, alias French, was hanged at Franklin, La., for the murder of Will­ iam Burgess Feb. 3. As the black cap was drawn Williams shouted: "O, God! save me! O, God! save me!" IT now appears that there was no founda­ tion for the report of the defeat of the French forces in Tonquin. Gen. Millot, the French commander in that province, has telegraphed to Paris that he awaits the advance of the Celestials with impatience. ..... A corps of veteran soldiers is being or­ ganized in Germany for service abroad, This is in accordance with the policy of Bismarck's colonial extension.... A movement has been inaugurated in Spain in favor of the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope... . .Frauds amounting to £80,000 have been discovered in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance. Foreign of­ ficials of high stand ng are implicated A steamer from Marseilles, with two cholera cases on board, arrived off Cardiff, Wales. It was quarantined Judge Taft, the American Minister to Russia, has arrived at St. Petersburg. He succe?ds the late Judge Hunt. GEORGE FORD, of South Bend, was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Thirteenth Indiana District. Con­ gressman Harry Libltey has been renomi­ nated by the Republicans of the Second Virginia District. Duff Green was nominated by the Republicans of Eighth Virginia District. R. the P. A. Morris was nominated by the Re­ publicans of the Sixth Virginia District, and R. M. Mayo by the Republicans of the First Virginia District Gov. Waller, of Connecticut, has written to the Chairman of the State Democratic Committee declin­ ing to be a candidate for re-election. THE MAEKEZ FOREIGN. known Minister BARON AMPTHILL, better Lord Odo Russell, British Berlin, is dead. He had been one of the most conspicuous of English diplomats for twenty years. He was born at Florence Feb. 20, 1829. His father was Minister to Berlin at one time, and was a dis­ tinguished officer of the British army The Mark Lane Express in its weekly re­ view of the British grain trade says: "Rates for wheat declining. The finest wheat com­ mands from 34s to 3Gs, and white wheat 38s per quarter. Such prices never before oc­ curred in this country." Spain is taking precautions against a new revolt by Zorilla. The Portuguese authorities have * arrested several prominent citizens of Lisbon for utterances classed as disloyal. THE Parisian journals of all shades of opinion angrily resent the strictures of the London press on Admiral Courbet's con­ duct at Foo Chow, and remind them that they approved of Admiral Seymour's shell­ ing Alexandria after the Egyptians had shown the white flag. Paul de Cassagnac advocates a withdrawal from any and every alliance with Eftgland and the* adop­ tion of friendly relations with Germany. Paris dispatches state that after Admiral Courbet has destroyed the forts on the Nin River, between the arsenal and the river's mouth, he will join Admiral Lespes tfefore Ke Lung, and arrange for the occupation of that place An earthquake shock lasting thirty seconds was felt in the Island of Jer­ sey, in the English Channel. There was no damage. IT is reported that Germany and France NEW YORK. BEEVES HIXIS . ...... KLOUK--Extra. WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago. No. 2 Red Coisx--No. i . 4 OAT-i--Whit" PORK--New Mesa CHICAGO.'"" BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers. Good Shipping Common to Fair.. HOGS t LOCK-- L-ancy White' winter Ex Ooo<l to Choice Spring WHEAT-NO. 2Spring No. 2 Red Winter. COIIN--No. 2 ) OATS--No. 2 HYE--No. 2 liAHLEY--No. 2 .7.7.7. BUTTEU--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy ... CHEESE--Full Cream Kkbnmed Flat......;.. Boos--Fresh.;... ...* POTATOES-- New, per bu .. PORK--Mess LARD - TOLEDO."" WHEAT--No. 3 Bed CORN--N'o. A OATS--No. 2 .MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 3 CORN -NO.I ••••<• OATS--No. 2 , BARLEY--No. 2 Bprln*......" PORK--Mens LAUI> ST. LOUIS." WHEAT--No. A CORN--Mixed OAT.-4--NO. 2 BY* PORK--Mew CINC1NNATL WrttAT--No. 2 Bed CORN OATS--Mixed v.. PORK--Mew LARD DETROIT. FLOUB WHEAT--No L White CORN -Mixed OATS--No. 2 Mixed PORK--New Meat* INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red, New CORN--Mixed OATS--Mixed EAST LIBERTY. CATTUC--Beat Fair Common................ Hoos (6.00 6.75 6.00 .85 .m .r.2 .36 17.75 6.75 6.00 «.0» fi.OO 4. %'t 3.75 .77 .HI .52 .24 .55 .62 .19 .15 .01) .05 .13 .40 27.00 @ 7.00 & 6.75 & 6.25 «a .87 <o> .91ft <3 .63 & .42 @18.25 & 7.25 & (1.50 ($ 5.50 & C.75 VH 4.73 <ri! 4.25 .7S .82 v". .r>3 & .23 e« .57 @ .<M <a .20 (<$ .17 «8 .10 & .03 <<« .14 ('?' .45 <3> 27.50 .07 .07% .80 .55 .25 .77 .54 .2tl .60 17.00 7.25 .81 .80 18. U0 (at ,82 «9 .67 & .27 & .7B & .55 («• .30 & .62 p«17.50 & 7.75 .82 .40 ® .27 (4 .52 @19.00 »®V FUSION .IN ILLINOIS.' Meeting of the Greenback Anti-Monopoly State Convention. Hetoniii Republicans an Prohibitionists nominate Tickets. Greenbackers of Wisconsin j&nd Texas Meet and Choos Candidates. The Greenback Anti-Monopoly State Convention of Illinois was held at Blooxn- ington on the 27th of August. A. J. Streeter was elected Chairman, and E- Eaton was made Secretary. At the outset a Committee on Resolutions was appointed and"* reported the following: Jri'tl, That the People's party of the State of Illinois, in convention assembled, do Indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles adopted in notional convention at Indianapolis, May 18H4, and pledge ourselves to use every honorable endeavor to elect our standard- bearers, Butler and West, for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. A motion was made to proceed to the nomination of candidates for State officers. To this an amendment was offered by Ful- lenwider th»t the question he referred to the State Central Committee. This pro­ duced a good deal of confusion, during which a proposition was made for a fusion with either of .the old parties on the electoral ticket, but all the motions were laid, upon the table, and the electoral ticket was nom­ inated. Then the bid question of fusion* was brought up again Try E. H. Baldwin, who moved to refer the question of with­ drawing a portion of the electors and fusion with th i Democratic party to the State Cen­ tral Comihiittse. An amendment was of- feied, demanding not less than eleven But­ ler electors on the fusion ticket. After further discussion Judge Barber offered an amendment to the motion pro­ viding for fusion which declared that no less than seven electors be accepted as the basis of a trade, and that was adopted by a vote of 52 to 35. The effect of this amendment is to allow the State Commit­ tee to withdraw all the electors except seven and put on Democratic electors, provided the Democratic committee will place the seven Butler electors on their ticket. This question having been settled, an­ other effort was made to refer the matter of putting a State People's party ticket in the field to the State Central Committee, but that was defeated, and the following were put in nomination: Governor, Jesse Har­ per. of Danville; Lieutenant Governor, H. C. Vanderwater, of Shelbyville: Secretary of State, E. H. Baldwin, of Joliet; State Auditor, E. F. Beeves, of Elgin; Attorney General, John M. Given, of EfHngham; State Treasurer, J. B. Clark, of Chicago. Following is the electoral ticket nom­ inated, one from each Congressional dis­ trict and two at large: First District--John Hickey. Second--E. C. Callahan. Third--Soren Peterson. Fourth--William Floto. Seventh--Simon Elliott. Eighth--Francis M. Plumb. Ninth--C. Ci Strawn. Tenth--Joseph S. Barnnm. Eleventh--J. D. Bennett. Twelfth--Frank M. Grimes. Thirteenth--Henry M. Miller. Fourteenth--James Freeman. Fifteenth--Emil H. Langham. Sixteenth--Henry Vanderwater. Seventeenth--Benj. F. Banning. The electoi-s in the Fifth, Sixth, Eight­ eenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Districts will be named by the State Central Com­ mittee. S. F. Norton, of Chicago, and O. W. Barnard,, of Kgpkakeg, are ,electors-at- large. , The following State Central Committee was elected: J. B. Clark, J. M. Foley, B. W. Goodhue, William W. Weaver, all of Chicago; John J. Pratt, of Cambridge; William Watkins, of Joliet: T. R. Wiley, of Gibson; W. F. Bandolph, of Canton; A. J. Streeter, of New Windsor; T. S. Kuowles, of Petersburg; Z. Waters, of Bloomiugton; C. B. Fenton, of Danville; Brooks Barlow, of Robinson; J. H. White, of Shelbyville; R. B. Rotherford, of Kininundy, and J. J. Evans, of Mount Vernon. Wisconsin Greenbackers. The Greenbackers and Anti-Monopolists of Wisconsin met in joint convention at Milwaukee, about 100 delegates being in at­ tendance. "The People's party of Wiscon­ sin" was the name adopted for the fusion. A resolution pledging hearty support to Butler and West was adopted. Full State and electoral tickets were nominated. The former was as follows: Governor, W. L. Utley, Racine; Lieutenant Governor, Milan Ford, Oshkosh; Secretary of State, G. W. Jones, West Bend; Treasurer, Theodore Shnnian. Prairie du Chien; Attorney Gen­ eral, M. W. Stevens, Green Lake County; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. H. S. Browne, Milwaukee; Railroad Com­ missioner, John Kiefer, Wansau; Insur­ ance Commissioner, J. B. Russell, Neenah. The following were chosen electors: At large, Reuben May, of Vernon County, and Henry Smith, of Milwaukee; First District, Allen Stetson; Second, Lorenzo Merrill; Third, E. W. Dwight; Fourth, Theodore Fritz; Fifth, Edward McGraw; Seventh, John Wilcox; Eighth, George Will; Ninth, R. E. Parcher. i NATIONAL LABOR PARTY. «* .80 .53 .96 18.50 .07%@ .08 & .82 @ .55 <® .vm ®19.00 6.50 .82 .54 .26 18.50 .77 .51 & 6.00 & .83 & .55 & .28 @10.00 & .79 .53 Nebraska Republicans. There were 436 delegates in attendance at the Republican State Convention, which met at Omaha. C. H. Gere, of the Lincoln Journal, was chosen Chairman. Presi­ dential electors were nominated as follows: Charles H. Dewey, of Douglas; Henry Sprick, of Washington; S. C. Smith, of Gage; A. L. Burr, of Harlan; and John Mackin, of Greeley--five in all. The fol­ lowing State ticket was chosen: Governor, James E. Dawes (renominated); Lieutenant Governor, H. H. Shedd; Secretary of State, Ed Roggen; Treasurer. Charles H. Willard; Auditor, H. H. Babcock; Superintendent of Education, W. W. Jones; Attorney General, W. Leese; Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, James Scott; Chairmin State Central Committee. Caspar E. Yost. lUclilgan Prohibitionists. The Michigan State Prohibition Conven­ tion met at Lansing, Aug. 27. The morn­ ing was taken up in effecting a temporary organization and in appoint in ; committees. In the afternoon resolutions *-ere a dopted declaring against fusion. 1 voring woman suffrage, and claiming thn' .he Republicans were unable to grapple with the liquor ques­ tion. Candidates were then nominated as follows: Governor, David Preston; Lieu­ tenant Governor, Alonzo Sherwood; Treas­ urer, A. B. Cheney; Secretary of State, Zachariah Chase; Auditor General, O. E. Downing; Commissioner State Land Office, Barcus; Attorney General, J. H. Fatem; Superintendent Public Instruction, Joseph B. Steeve; member Board of Education, Isaic W. Muckeever; electors-at-large, the Rev. John Russell and Prof. Samuel Dickie. Texas Greenbacker*. The State Greenback Convention of Texas met at Waco. It was decided that a full Butler-West electoral ticket be put in the field. The platform opposes leases of public or school lands in larger tracts than <»40 acres; favors the policy of selling school lands in small tracts on long time; and advocates the regulation of railroad freights. Nominations for State officers ^ were made. It is generally understood that .24 (3 .23 ' the Greenbackers will support G. Washing­ ton Jones, Independent candidate for Gov­ ernor. ONE young dude at Long Branch buys • new cane every morning. 6.25 6.75 4.25 0.50 3.73 6.75 & 6.25 C'. 4.73 @ 7.00 & 4.50 Iti Members Given Leave to Ohooee Bt> 7 " tween the Republicans «od y * Democrats, * ; (New York dispatch.] A meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Labor party was held this afternoon at No. 42 Duane street. Mr. Wilson S. Wolf presided. It was reported by the Committee on Legislation that tne principles desired by the National Labor party had been incorporated in both the Republican and Democratic platforms, and the following resolution presented by it was adopted: WHEBEAH, The Republican and Democratic National Conventions have inserted in their platforms the principles and policy of the Na­ tional Labor party as adopted at Philadelphia Jan. 12, 1884; and WHEREAS, This action insures to the working classes a fair consideration of the evils that affect their condition and needed legislation In their Interests; and WHEREAH, The Greenback and Anti-Monopoly party refused to adoDt a plank for the protec­ tion of American labor, and has now, as in the past, opposed all measures for the benefit of the workingmen that would increase their pay or shorten their honrs of labor, and at heart are for free trade, long hours, cheap men and women, and low wattes, Jiesohed, That we repudiate the effort now being made to commit the Labor party to the support of a third -party candidate, and recom­ mend all workingmen to cast their votes for the candidates of the regular party that in their opinion best represents their interests, as the surest and best method of securing speeuy leg­ islation in the interests of the working classis. Resolved, That we recommend co-operation in each and every legislative district with one of the regular parties for the eleetion of men pledged to legislate in the Interests of working classes, and we will oppose all efforts made to make our movement a class movement to wage war upon other classes of society or upon can- fUilatiiia »f bbe fiepublican or Democratic party. V •. • .7 • w. R. A. CABBET, •• ' • W. S. WOLF, v - ̂ ' JAMES A. THOMPSON, JOHN OAVANAOH, * > G. D. LENNON, . Committee on Legislation. It was nrged by members of the commit­ tee that these efforts should be pnt for­ ward in district and county organizations. ECONOMY INTHE CAMPAIGN. Democrats Poorer than Ever, and Repub­ licans Holding Tight to Their Purges. [Washington telegram.] There has been no campaign since Ante­ bellum days that has been conducted on snch rigorously economical principles as that upon which both parties are now en­ tering. The Democratic party, always poor, seems poorer than ever, and a visit to their headquarters in this oity would convince one of that fact after a brief chat with the attaches. It is diffi­ cult even to secure money for postage stamps and other incidental expenses. It is almost as bad at the Re­ publican headquarters. The Government clerks, under the stimulus of public opin­ ion, have become very independent, and in the majority of cases flatly refuse to con­ tribute a cent The assessments from this source alone in former years have netted the Republicans not less than $100,000. This year it will not equal one-tenth of that sum. From all over the country come reports of indifference on the part of leading Republicans whose liberality hitherto lias been the boast and pride of the party. Charles Foster is quoted as saying that he will not furnish a penny of aid. His is not the only case of this nature. In 1876, when the country was passing through m period of commercial depression far greater than that which exists at present, there were funds in abuudmce on both sides. Then money was counted out by the fifties and hutidreds; to-day it is doled out in ones and twos. It is difficult to assign a reason for this cause, unless it be that the busi­ ness men of the country feel satisfied that things will drift along in about the nsual fashion, no matter whether the Republi­ cans or Democrats are successful. VAST THEFTS OF LAND, XKlfty Million Acrcg of tho Pnblio Domain Stolen. A Commissioner of the General Land Of­ fice, who was sent to Colorado some time ago to investigate complaints made by set­ ters against cattle companies that they had illegally fenced in public lands and had obtu ned occupation of large tracts by fraudulent entry, has made a report fully sustaining the settlers. Eight charges have been made against the Prairie Cattle Com­ pany. composed of Scotchmen. Tracts of 100 square miles, twenty-five square miles, seventy-five square miles, and sixteen square miles have been illegally fenced in by that corporation. It is believed that the cattle companies have fraudulently posseKsed themselves of nearly (i.O'KI,(IdO acres of pflblic lands in Colorado alone within the last live years. In New Mexico it is asserted that 90 per cent, of the lands held by the cattlemen have been ille­ gally inclosed; in Dakota 75 per cent, are fraudulent. Investigation proves th it in Arkansas there have been 10 fraudulent en­ tries, in Dakota 460, in Colorado 280 (em­ bracing 2,800,000 acres), in New Mexico 827 (embracing 1,500,000 acres), in Minnesota 311, in Wash­ ington Territory 109, in Idaho .92, in Nebraska 170 (embracing 300.000 acres), in Montana 24, in Wyoming 24 (embracing 250,000 acres), in Alabama 153, and in Kan­ sas the fraudulent entries embrace 600,000 acres. Over 3,000 complaints remain to be investigated. A large percentage of those who have made fraudulent entries and who have illegally inolosed these large tracts of the pnblic domain are English and Scotch capitalists. The Fearful Leap of a Dreamer* [Louisville (Ky.) special.] ( Samuel Thompson, a wealthy planter from Georgia, and his son Robert, left Louisville for St. Lonis in a sleeper. There were not many passengers on the train, and at ipidnight all of them were sound asleep. The train was speeding along at the rate of forty miles an hour, when all at once the sleeping-car porter heard a wild scream, which came seemingly from the for­ ward platform of the crach. He in­ formed the conductor, and an immediate search of the sleeper was made, result ing in the discovery that the berth of young Robert Thompson was empty. The train was stopped, and the father of the young man, together with the brakeman, walked back about four mile's, when they found young Thompson sittiug on a cross-tie pain­ fully cut and bruised. He said he had been dreaming of a swimming tournament, and, imagining himself ou a spring-board in a natatorium, had walked to the platform and plunged off. Fortunately, the train was running through a level country, and his leap did not result seriously. Heavy Bank Robbery. [8t. Paul (Minn.) special.] The People's Bank was most adroitly and successfully robbed some time between Saturday night and Monday morning. Eddie Mason, a young fellow of St. Paul, who has been in the bonk liardly six weeks, and who went in to learn the business, has disappeared. He is but 1(1 years old. The robbery was not even suspected until Mon­ day morning, when upon opening the vault and the inside safe it was discovered that be­ tween $5,000 and $10,(l0 ( had been stolen, the exact sum not being learned. The out­ er vault-door and lock were all right, se­ curely locked, and bearing no evidencee of interference. Mr. Rittenhouse, cashier of the bank, opened the vault, the inside doors, and finally the inside safe before discover­ ing that there was anything wrong. Then the loss was apparent. Nearly $10,000 was missing. This was the first and only clew. Nothing has yet been discovered of the whereabouts of young Mason. JOHN BRIGHT says the present is a peril­ ous crisis in the history of England. EDISON is still enthusiastic over the proi? pects for electric railroading. WHOLESALE HYDROPHOBIC -two Negroes on an Alabama Plantation Said to Be Affected-- ^ Widespread Terror Ifoistiy [Eufaula (Ala.) telegram.] > ie are greatly excited in this section over the wholesale spread of pronounced hydrophobia on the plantation of Punch Doughtie, the freaks of whose mad mule were telegraphed day before yesterday. Dr. E. B. Johnson has just returned from the Doughtie plantation, where he had been summoned to attend the sudden sickness. He found thirty-two persons suffering with a disease which he at once pronounced to be hydrophobia in a mild form. All are negroes. Three of them are very sick-- one in delirium and so low that the Doctor says he is liable to die at any time. Over three weeks ago a hog bitten f>y a dog died on Doughtie s plantation, and the carcass was given to the negroes to make soap-grease. Instead of using it for this purpose, however, thirty-two negroes on the place and in its vicinity ate fresh pork, with the result stated. Mr. Doughtie says that July 15 one of his dogs went mad and bit a mule and several hogs. Aug. 13 the first hog died and was eaten by the negroes as stated. Two more died Aug. 13, one on the 22dand one on the 27th, and all were eaten except the last, by which time the disease had ap­ peared. The mule first exhibited symp­ toms of madness on the nineteenth day after being bitten. Eleven days after the first hog was eaten ten of the parties were token sick. Two days ago another dog was discovered to be mad and was killed after having bitten another mule. The first dog that went mad disappeared, and the whole neighborhood is in terror lest he went among the stock--cattle and hogs---through­ out the county before dying, if he is yet dead. A f e w days ago when the symptoms broke out in a mule, Mr. Doughtie rode out, at the request of a field hand, to inspect the con­ dition of the animal. On reaching the pasture where a dozen mules were the ani­ mal Mr. Doughtie was riding neighed, which attracted the attention of the other animals, and the sick one particularly, which immediately rushed on the mule and rider and seized the saddle of the animal with his teeth. ^ Mr» Doughtie dismounted and succeeded in loosening the mad mule's hold, but no sooner was this done than the infiuriated beast turned upon his owner, who fled for his life, pursued by the mule. There was a desperate race of a quarter of a mile through undergrowth, and Mr. Doughtie only saved himself by dodg­ ing around saplings. A small stretch of clearing intervened between the woods and the house, and the terrified man took a life . and death chonce on making it. Before J leaving the woods the mule had bitten a ! piece of Mr. Doughtie's coat, and, while maneuvering around the tree, the animal bit himself savagely in several places, tear­ ing out a mouthful of flesh each time. The race for the house was a close one. and just as Mr. Doughtie reached the top of the fence the mule overtook him on a dead run, but instead of reaching his victim, struck his head against a fence-post in a wild rush and was knocked senseless. The mnle was afterward killed by Mr. Dough­ tie. It is now reported that the whole herd of mules are affected, and will doubtless spread the disease among other animals in tne neighborhood. The community is at a loss bow to arrest the disease. THE PROHIBITIONISTS. St Join and Daniel Offldallj Notified 9f Their Nomiaation Iter the Presidential Ofiees. Thsy Hoept the Trust, and Leave Issue with tho Almighty--The WHEAT PRODUCTION, * • -• a • • Estimate of the Crop of 1884--In. crease Over 1883,130,000,000 Bushels. [Milwaukee dispatoh.] S. W. Tallmadge presents the following figures as a final estimate of the wheat crop of the United States for 1884. The figures are based on official reports made within a few days by the State Agricultural Depart­ ments and Statistical Agents of the differ­ ent States and Territories. The report shows that the total production of winter wheat is 380,000,000 bushels, and the total of spring wheat is 150,000,000 bushels; total winter and spring, 530,000,000 bushels. This makes the total yield of the country fully 25,000,000 bushels more than ever before produced, 130,000,000 more than last year's crop, and 80,000,000 more than the average crop for the last five years. The departments all agree in re­ porting the quality as superior, and, where it has been thrashed, they say the yield has more than met their calculations. This ap­ plies especially to the spring wheat sections of Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The quality of spring wheat was never better. The spring whe it har­ vest has been late, but the weather has been most favorable, and grain is being cared for in excellent condition. The following figures are given as to spring wheat: State. Bushels. I State. Bushels. Minnesota.... i'/joo.uuo.Wisconsin.... 21,000,000 Iowa 32,000,0(»| J"'ebraska..... 81,ouo,ooo Total spring Dakota 26,ooo,oool wheat 150.000.000 The following is the winter-wheat esti­ mate : State. Bushels.! State. Bushels. Kansas 48,(KK),0(ii> New Jersey. „ v>,<100,000 California 46,000,000 Utah 2,000.000 Ohio 35,200,000 Arkansas 1,600,000 Indiana sfi.ooo.ono'Alabama. 1,500,000 Missouri »i,0(H),000; Delaware 1,000,000 Illinois 38,000,000 New Mexico.. 1,000,000 Michigan 22,50 y>oo.Montana 1,000,000 Pennsylvania 22,.TOO,000 Idaho 1,000,000 Oregon 15,000,00 >;Maine #00,000 New York.... M,ooo,ooo!Arizona. 500,000 Kentucky.... 12,0,0,000 Misslssipi 600,000 Maryland.... 9,000,0001 Vermont. 500,000 Tennessee.... J>,ooo,ooo N. Hampshire 200,000 Virginia 7,000,000 Nevada 200,000 N. Carolina .. fi.ooo.ooo Wyoming.... 300,000 Texas 6,ooe.ooo Connecticut.. 48,000 W. Virginia.. <1,000,000 Mawsachuseta 25,000 Georgia 4,000,000 Louisiana 25,000 Waslilntrton.. 4,000,000 Florida 10,000 Colorado...... 3,000,000, lUwUe Island. 1,000 8. Carolina... 2,000,000) Total winter. .880,000.000 Total winter and spring. 630,000,000 MYSTERIOUS MURDER. The Supposed Assassin Attempts 8uicide. [St. Louis special.] News of a terrible tragedy comes from O'Fallon, 111., a town on the Ohio and Mississippi, seventeen miles northeast of St. Louis. Persons visiting the home of Mrs. McCormick, a relative of the Hon. J. H. Van Court, member of the Illinois Leg­ islature, found all quiet there this after­ noon, and, suspecting something wrong, went out in tne yard in the rear of the premises and there found the dead body (f Mrs. McCormick. Her clothing" had been torn from her in shreds, and her brains had been literally battered out with an ax lying by her side. After a further investigation of the prem­ ises the dead body of a Norwegian servant girl was discovered, who, from appearances, had murdered her mistress and then com­ mitted suicide by poisoning. Bloody marks were discovered on her hands and arms, and her dress was also stained with blood. It is thought that the two quarreled, and that in a fit of passion the girl picked up the ax, which was lying near, and battered out the brains of her mistress. There is intense excitement in O'Fallon to-night, as Mrs. McCormick belonged to one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the county. The Coroner's inquest will be held in the morning, when further facts mayflM de­ veloped. T. C. SCHNEIDER, of Baltimore, has just finished a new micrometer, to measure the wave length of liuht. It is said to be the finest instrument of the kind in the world. THE red flannel shirt which, tied to an oar, was used as a distress signal by the Greely party in the arctic regions, will be on exhibition at the Cincinnati Exposition. THEODOBE WAIJBONI) has arranged to write the life of Dean Stanley. •J [Cuba (N. T.) speetsL] , A wtmibition camp meeting, to1 days, is in progress at the circuit grounds, a grove two miles from this village. Th# principal leaders and speakers of the Prohi­ bition movement are in attendance. An audi­ ence of 3,000 is in attendanoe. The exer­ cises this morning opened with music and prayer, after which Prof. Dickey, Chair­ man of the Notification Committee, ad­ dressed the candidates, John P. St. John and William Daniel, as follows: GENTLEMEN: I am to speak for the commit­ tee representing here to-day the national con- ventlon or the Prohibition party, recently ill session at Pittsburgh, in harmony with politi* cal usages, and in keeping with the Ui^nitv an<| importance of the hitth position in which \v« shall endeavor to place you, we an- here lor th# purpose of notifying you, in this official and formal manner, of your selection as can­ didates of the National Prohibition part#" for the positions resijectively of President and Vice President of the United States The convention which thus honored itselE by so wise selections was no ordinary^* gathering. Men were there bowed under the weight of many years, who a generation ago met in the same hall to organize tor victory in what seemed to gome a hopeless cause, the battle against that other slavery. Young men weri there with the ardor of youth and the devotion of heroes; women were there--Frances Willard' and Mary Wood bridge, and Mrs. Burt and Mar# * Lathrop and Esther Hugh--representatives 01 , the best brain and heart of American woman-; hood. It was a convention of earnest men and pure women, who were there to express the opin* ' Ion that the Government ought to be a govern­ ment of the people and by the people, and not a government of the saloon and by the saloon and for the saloon. It was a convention representing a powerful constituency from all parts of our land, a con­ stituency composed of citizens grown tired of the spectacle of two old political parties rivaling each other in their eagerness to serve the liquor traffic, going down upon their faces in the dust before the Moloch of men, and crying out, in the- language of Scripture: "Am 1 not'thine ass ujiott which thou hast ridden?" I need not assure you, the Prohibition party will give" you a most ardent support. We may not succeed in electin# you to the high positions for which you have- been named, but we shall enjov the proud satisfaction of knowing that our candidate# were the only candidates, and our party was th# only party, that ought to have succeeded. And now, gentlemen. In the name of the noblest manhood and the purest womanhood of America, I invoke the blessing of Almighty God to rest upon you, and may that divine power which rules and overrules in the affairs of na- • tions and of men vouchsafe unto you sucl| measure of streugth. and courage, and wisdom as shall enable you to bear well the burdeni which the National Prohibition party, with su­ preme confidence, now lays uron you. Gov. St. John replied as follows: Mr Chairman and Members of Committee: In receiving this formal notice of my nomina­ tion for the highest office within the gift of the people by the national convention of the Pro­ hibition party, permit me, notwithstanding the distinction was neither sought nor desired by me, to assure you, in view of the unanimity with which it was given, of my high appreciation of the creat honor it confers. There are mor# political parties in the field to-day than there are political issues. Upon the great question as to what shall be done with the traffic of intoxi­ cating liquors as a beverage, both the Demo­ cratic and Republican parcies are united in favor of making the traffic permanent, while *lie Pro­ hibitionists demand that it be forever placed under the condemnation of the laws of the land. Thus an issue is clearly made, and I think it the only one to-day that really retches the heart and conscience of the citizens. Upon this issue we go to the people, the source of all po­ litical power. Let us appeal to reason rather than to prejudice. Let those resort to personal abuse and scandal who have nothing better to uphold their cause. The Prohibition party is not organizing as a mere threat or menace. It is the outgrowth of a rapidly increasing crystal­ lized sentiment against the great evil of the age: an evil that the old parties dare not attack, but against whicu the. young party of the people, in defens# of the homes of the nation, has entered upon % . warfare that shall never cease so long as the tiatf of our country waves its protecting folds ove# legalized dram-shops. In this struggle let us ever remember we are accountable to God; thai our dnty to Him is paramount to our allegiance to any political party; that political ties will' never in His sight excuse a ballot for anv party that docs not stand up fearlessly for the right. The home will have nothing to fear it the peo­ ple vote as they pray. Mr. Daniel followed, and said: Mr. Chairman and members of the oemmitteet I am profoundly gratified for the honor con­ ferred upon me by selecting me as one of the- standard bearers of this great reform move­ ment. I accept the nomination for the office of Vice President, and expect to do so more formally by letter hereafter, knowing well that it is one of responsibility and involving no little of per­ sonal sacrifice; and I appreciate this honor not merely as a personal one but as a token of the appreciation by the convention of the earnest, solid prohibition work that has been done ia my native State of Maryland within the few . years past. 1 also appreciate it as an indi­ cation and desire of our brethren of the great North and West to obliterate all sectional party lines and build uj> a grand Union party com­ posed of the best elements on boih sides of the line in arrav against the worst, the representa­ tives of protection to homes wan inu' against the saloons. This disposition is the more clearly evinced from the fact that I am the first person selected since the war from a Southern State as a candidate for a national position, and I trust this action will be the harbinger of that reign of harmony, good-will, and unity throughout the land which a poet has described as The union of lakes, the union of lands. The union of States none can sever; The union of hearts, the union of hands, And the tlagof our Union forever. Whatever may be the result of this effort, so far as the precise number of votes polled is con­ cerned, I beiieve the agitation will be of im­ mense advantage to the cause and the country; I believe the result will be to rivet the earnest, thoughtful attention of the American people upon this liquor traffic, this gigantic crime of . crimes, so as to cause the speedy adoption of such measures as will greatly hasten its over- throwJ The duty of the hour is to crystallize and organize prohibition sentiment. We have already entered Into political action, and thus having a standard to which we can rally, we shall more rapidly form whatever else of senti­ ment that may be needed than in any other way. I have to say in conclusion that I shall do all in my pewer now and henceforth to bear onward this Prohibition standard. The following was the Committee of No­ tification : Prof. Samuel Dickey, of Mich­ igan, Chairman; Judge James Black, Penn­ sylvania; Prof. A. A. Hopkins, New York; D. Shelton, Kansas; the Kev. John Kus-. sell, Michigan; Miss Frances Willard, Illi­ nois; the Hon. S. D. Hastings, Wisconsin; George R. Scott, New York; Miss Mary Wooabridge, Ohio; the Hon. J. T. Turner, of Alabama. Mysterious Murder of Four Persons* [Bradford (Pa.) telegram.] At Tall Creek, Clearfield County, Pa., an unknown person entered a boarding house where four people were asleep, the proprie­ tor and his wife and another married cou­ ple. The first attack was made on the pro­ prietor and his wife, the latter being killed. The assailant found $400 concealed in the bed and bedding, but missed $800 sewed in the bed quilt. Passing into the next room, he broke the skulls of the other couple, but found no money. The first woman struck died almost instantly; the other three, at last accounts, were still living, wish no. hopes of recovery. THIS AND THAT. NOBWAT is the only place in Europe where ice water is placed in the railway cars. IT has been discovered that many of London's famous meat pies are made or the flesh of dead horses. A GEORGIA man killed his sweetheart and then poisoned the melon patch in order to get rid of the rest of the family. A SHABK eight and a half feet long and weighing 408 pounds was caught in thd North River at New York recently. * COMBINATION salads are the latest. They are made of a "little of everything," and nobody wants to be helped a second time. SHAKES are reported to be ascending the Hudson River in unusual numbers. An Albany paper thinks they are after the small boys who bathe from the wharves of that city. THE Mormons are systematically eolonli* ing Oneida County, Idaho Territory.