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_* v v«y^. PSRllP'jfS • - ' ' T \ rg gflaiadealer ' .- I. VAN SLYKE, E«ter and PuMWwi ILLINOIS. McHENRY, ' ' 1 * < , *t> < * * v ' - •" / " , * , THE *KW8 COSDENSm THE EAST. ADAMS & ALLEN, dealers in woolens, of ptaw York, hare made an assignment The liabilities are estimated at $1-30,000..... •The Massachusetts Snpreme*Conrt has de- ided (hat the insurable interests of a wife bursting ,j** ' Accruing from the de;th of a husband are 4 * " * Ihot exempt from the claims of creditors. ( Two FIRE-DAMP explosions occurred in ^ < the sixth flat of the Youngstown Coke | Company's mine, near Union town, Pa., in -iX" 4i section where twenty-five men were at • f*$ Iwork. Windows for m les around were shattered, and flumes burst from all the openings. Six men were taken out--two tWo fatally injured, and two slightly, ^ ' Ibut it was impossible to attempt the rescue y« *>f the others. The wailing of the wives «nd children of the unfortunate^men is & described a< heartrending. £ ; A UNION TOWN (Pa.) dispatch says: "The '"worst fear touching the fate of the men who ||^f / Were imprisoned in the coal mine at "Youngstown, four miles from this place, by the explosion of fire-damp which took u * ̂ ' J>lace tiiere at 4 o'clock last evening has »jbeen fully confirmed. Six of the miners J'/ ' (.Were taken ont last evening soon after the disaster; two of them were dead ' sand two of the other four are so seriously injured that there is no hope of their re- ' , eovery.# This left from fourteen to eight- „ een men supposed to be still imprisoned in i the mini4. The exact number is not eer- lainjy known. The work of reaching these Jp'men'waB continued industriously through- ;pr' out the whole night, nnd by this morning J|? Ahe dead bodies of twelve of them had oeen brought out and delivered to their wp?. friends and relatives at the month of the . jpit. This makes fourteen dead in all, and, together with the four injured, accounts -•;«-for eighteen, or the whole number sup- jposed to be in the mine. The scenes at /the month of the pit as the disfigured ,L*!».fe«"%odies of the dral were brought to the sur- face and given into the hands of the wives ' * and relatives was distressing in the extreme, Sit 4'tand vividly recalled to mind the piteous 3* wails of the bereaved families who waited i,W~- lat the opening of the Leisenring mine last jiM, . i( February for the bodies which they knew were coming lifeless to them from the un- l|./ IK •compassionate bowels of the earth. It was v V * n sad spectacle, indeed, and moved to tears •many of hundreds who had been drawn to £•, the place bv the news cf the disaster." THE Armstrong oil well, near Butler, *at the rate of 190 barrels an ihour, and in twenty-four hours put 8,000 L/£-t . **4barrels in tank--beating all previous rec- P* ords. HALF A DOZEN stores and several dwell- ^**;fngs at Fayotte City, Pa., a mining town, # Jwere destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $50,000 ; insu,r»noe, $13.500 Horace *De]and, of Brookfield, N. H., aged 18 years, chained himself to a brash-heap, near his father's bouse, then set the brush on fire, and deliberately burned himself to | death. A gash was found on one side of his throat, made by a razor, which was found near by. A note was found directed ' to his parents, s tying he was tired of living. P® He gave no reason for the act, but it is ?)•" i thought to have been caused by unrequited £ ̂ ^ tow.- %.'r\ the west. * -> A UNITED STATES express package of $7,500 was cheeked in at the Youngstown, - 'Ohio, office, but was missing from the safe I* when the messenger for Pittsburgh was Hi? , >eady to receive his matter. No clew to the ' 'Otai'lms- -obteittwd^ charged with swindling. He p'eaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months in the Houee of Correction. His lawye r hopes to eiffdet his transfer to the insane asylum." DENVER dispatch: "Ramon have reached here of the lynching by vigilantes of a gang of seventeen cattle thieves captured while in camp on Rook Creek, in the Gore range of mountains, about twenty or thirty miles west of Georgetown. No particulars are at present obtainable and the report is thought to be exaggerated".... During the progress of a Democratic parade at Peoria. III., Edward Hammond was instantly killed and one C ark seriously aud probably fatally injured by the of a bomb. Hammond had the top of his head blown off.... George E. Hutchiuson, owner of gold and silver mines in the West, made an assign­ ment at Columbus, Ohio... .TheOhio State Dental Society, after a sessiou of two days at Columbus, fell to pieces from dissen­ sions. .. .Near Escondida, N. M., a band of masked men tired into a train, a woman be­ ing shot.,. .The public school building at Central City, Neb., was enti{^e4}^f«^>t^| by fin. •' *' "• •-I M rilK ftOlJTlV. G. W. HAZEXTIKE, from Jamestown, N. Y., who killed Mamie Thorpe in a dis­ reputable house in Baltimore, was eon- victed only of manslaughter, and will spend ten years in the penitentiary., W. CHEVES, editor of the Dawson Journal, Georgia, shot and killed Capt. T. H. Pickett, a young attorney, against whom he had a personal spite.... A woman named Johnson, residing in Calhoun County, West Virginia, poisoned two step-children and herself with arsenic. A SICKENING tragedy is reported from Babnn County, Georgia. Eugene Beck, a leading citizen, who has for years been ad­ dicted to strong drink, returned home and began quirreting with his wife. He drew a revolver and emptied five charges into her heart and head, the woman sinking dead at his feet. Miss Addie Bailey, his sister-in- law, who w s in an adjoining room, rushed out, when the remaining charge of the fiend's revolver was emptied into her henrt. The drunken wretch then laid down in stu­ por and fell asleep, from which he was awakened by officers who arrested him.... The dedication of a church for white peo­ ple at Farkerville, S. O., was disturbed by pistol shots by colored roughs. An officer named James Jlackwell, who attempted to arrest the offenders, was shot dead from behind a barricade.... George T. Jackson, President of the Enterprise Cot­ ton Factory, at Augusta. Ga., is a defaulter to the extent of $100,000. He has con­ fessed, and assumes all the responsibility. ... .AtLocust Point, McL, a Baltimore and Ohio freight locomotive exploded, killing the engineer and fireman. CHATTANOOGA dispatch: "Joseph, son of Gen. G. Dibrell, Congressman from this (the Third) district, was shot twice by Gus Gear. Onfe shot entered the breast, in­ flicting a fatal wound. ... The shooting oc­ curred at Sparta, Tenn. Dibrell attempted to separate Gear and a man named Hickcy, who were fighting.**... The MarylandEpis- copal Convention at Baltimore elected as Bishop Dr. Paret, of Washington. WA8HI»6T€§ JUDGE GBESHAM, who was recently ap­ pointed Secretary of the Treasury by Presi­ dent Arthur, has been appointed to suc­ ceed Judge Drummond in the United States Circuit Court for the Chicago dis­ trict Mr. Hugh McCulloch will succeed Judge G res ham as Secretary oj. . tin#* Treasury. * /V^LITICAL. Bente & Co., picture-frame manufacturers at Cincinnati, made an assignment, owing $30,000. '•¥ Tlfit *liepul?licang of Chicagp organized a monster demonstration upon the oc­ casion of Mr. Blaine's visit to that city. The parade was a grand affair, the number MB. WIIIBURF. STOBY proprietor and CF torch-bearers being estimated at 15.000 Sri editor of the Chicago Times, died at his ' ' residence in that city, Oct 27. For several %:years past he was unable to take active part r ' ^ in the n auagement of the paper, owing to Is; <? v his failing and feeble health. Several years 'V 'ago he was stricken with paralysis, and from that time dat£d the gradual break-down if4? of his system. He was born in Salisbury, Vt, Dec. 19, 1819, and at an early age began the work of supporting • himself. His attendance at school ^ , " was limited by the facilities of a country district. As soon as the oppor- >'•* -.» tunity offered he entered a newspaper office ^ „v and fitted himse f as a compositor. He y .' came West in 1838, first settling at Laporte, •• Intl. His next experience in journalism ' S - was in Jackson, Mich. In 1853 he re- • • , moved to Detroit and connected himself " with the Free Press, of which he shortly ; became sole proprietor. In 1861 he dis- : posed of his paper, and, going, to Chi- " cago, bought the Times. Since that / . time his career has been one of unceasing activity. At all times he ( was bold and fearless in the expression of his opinions. His death takes from the ranks of journalism one of its greatest and S; most powerful writers....In a collision on the Wabash Railroad, near Taylorville, III., fourteen Italian immigrants were somewhat Beriously injured Col. Griffin Halstead, X. „ one of the pioneers of Butler Couuty, Ohio, ••j : the father of Murat Halstead, met his death by accident at a bridge. - MB. A. JEFFBY, of Hallville, 111., has a ^ 4 fc°8 which he claims weighs 1,400 pounds - , --the largest ever raised The Supreme o Court of Ohio has dechired the Scott liquor *' i "* lax law unconstitutional, the majority hold- gfiflf iV ing that the lien c ause is a license law.... , , The capsizing of fishing boats in the |; • Straits of Mackinaw and round there .'v?' resuted in the drowning of seven s5b, i_ persons within forly-eight hours K.' , The Sheriff is in possession of Harwood K ':" Bros. «fc Co.'s wholesale hardware estab- i P "* lishment at Bloomington, 111. The liabili- ? j. • ties reach $1( 0,000 The Governor of p.;/ Idaho reports that the funded debt of the g Territory has been practically wiped out; | "! that the population is 88,000. and that the people are entitled to the advantages of a || rv, State Govemment. Fire destroyed the six-story building %k :^ owned by C. E. Culver, at the corner of La l&r Salle avenue and Michigan street, Chicago. $/' ' The fire was caused by the explosion of ben- r sine on the first floor, and spread so rapidly • . that the occupants about one hun- died in number, had barely time jfe t to escape with their lives. Twenty-one 8'r'8 ^*<1 eighteen men escaped from the & * fifth story through the coolness and "sf,.'*, courage of James C irr, who subsequently $'• , j received fatal injuries by falling from the w fifth story. A dozen girls and an equal number of men escaped from the third ^ tf* story by means of a fire-escape on the La- ^ Salle avenue side of the building. Some of ' ' ' them fell from the escape into a sub-base- bj U' meat, a distance of twenty feet, and were . || iiriured. The loss is about $115,000 F. W. Duveruois, an insurance agent and pri I', t- vate banker at Detroit, disappeared two weeks ago. His wife has recently placed on record /fil deeds transferring to her" all his property. %b It now appears that he owes $4,000 to in- V Jif surance companies and $31,000 or more to ' * , depositors.... Near Long Creek, Oregon, a r,i" ' party of whites stole upon a band of In. W'S •' diars and shot and killed two braves. The feeling against the aborigines is intense among the whites, and an Indian outbreak . is threatened... .At Millersburg, Ohio, Mehler & McDowell, dry goods dealers, '"'W failed for $20,000, with equal assets. sW Y DETROIT dispatch: "Ex-Gov. Moses, of fVV, South Carolina, who is under arrest, y charged with swindling the Rev. Dr. Rex- ford, the Rev. Mr. Atterbury, and others, attempted -suicide by hanging himself in "•If ' his cell. He was cut down. Moses was anb»equenti7 brought into the Police Court Houm of Lords The French Govern­ ment has decided to send an additional force of 15»000 men to Tonquin. Owing to the menacing a^Htade of the Chinese, all the French consols in the com Arv have been ordeied to Shanghai... .The French people refuse to believe the revolts in regard to successful war operations in China, and the Government is pnbio reports of elaborate aratfons by Admirals Courbet and Lespes. .... The activity of the Socialists in Ger­ many in anticipation of coming elections his cmi*ed the Government to begin a cru­ sade against them, and tunny arrests of agi­ tators, and tho destruction of socialistic documents, are reported.... Samh Bern­ hardt is very ill from nervous prostration. .... Tho Russian authorities have arrested Lapatin, the Nihilist lender. Twenty stu­ dents were arrested in Wftntaw. THE result of the recent parliamentary elections in Germany is decidedly mixed. The result has been the return of thirteen Conservatives of the Center party, seven Socialists, six German Liberals, six Na­ tional Liberals, five Imperialists, four straight Conservatives, two People's-party men, one Guelph, and one Alsatian. In twenty-nine of the seventy-four districts there "must be a second ballot Cornwall and Kirwan, the Dublin Castle officials charged with unnatural crimes, have been acquitted in Dublin. PUBLIC LANDa of the Commissioner the General Land Office. EUROPEAN GRAIN. OUOE, prep- 1 ' 'mm to 20,000. The marchers were reviewed by Mr. Blaine and Gen. Logan from a balcony of the Grand Pacific Hotel Each of the candidates addressed a few remarks to the great multi­ tude that had gnthered in the streets. While the Republican parade was marching through the streets shouting for Blaine and Logan, a great gathering of Democrats were listening to Daniel Mc- Sweeney and Mrs. Parnell in Battery D. Armory ... The Cleveland and Hendricks business men of New York had a monster parade, in which there were support­ ers from the Stock, Produce, Cotton. Coffee, Mercantile, Petroleum, Mining, Maritime, Real Estate, Metal, Wine and Distillers', atid the Builders' Exchanges, besides the down town merchants, lower Wall street. West and East Side merchants, Wall street elerks, jewelers, Columbia College, 'longshoremen and stevedores, and, 5,000 dry-goods men. The total number of men in the parade was not far from 20,000.... Mr. Logan addressed an audience of 20,000 Republicans at Bloomington Gov. Hfndricks spoke at Evansville, Ind., to a crowd estimated at 30,000 persons. The torchlight parade was six miles in length. .. .A Democratic demonstration took the form of a barb» cue at Grand Rapids, Mich., where Senator Pendleton, Gen. Itosecrang, ai^d Gov. Begole entertained the people. CSENEKAL. • A STEAUEB which arrived at San Fran­ cisco from Guaymas, Mexico, the other day, brought news of disastrous storms on thci coast of Lower California. The steamer Estado de Sonora, which left Mazatlnn, Sept. 29, with nineteen passengers and a crew of thirty-eight, is believed to be lost with all on board. The American Bchooner Dora is also believed to be lost Another storm occurred Oct. 7, and continued three days. Twenty houses at Cape St. Lucas were destroyed, a great number of cattle killed, and nine Mexican coasters lost. Each had from three to five persons on board, Rnd all perished except­ ing one sailor and one boy. The storm was the most violent ever seen in that re­ gion. THE Woman's Home Missionary Society held its fifth annual meeting at Boston, an increase in finances and number of mis­ sionaries being reported. The old board was re-elected, and Mrs. C. R. Bliss, of Chicago, was added to the Vice Presidents. .... The Association for the Advancement of Women met at Baltimore, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the President, delivering the opening address. DB. CABVEB'S visit with his company of cowboys to Hamilton, Ont, set all the small boys lassoing. The result is that a small boy named John Carey was lassoed by his companions and dragged along the ground for some distance, receiving such injuries that he died soon after John McC'ormick, who ran away from the jail yard at Winnipeg, but was recaptured, was ordered by the Attorney General of Mani­ toba to be flogged. He was stripped to the waist in a snow-storm before his fellow, prisoners, and given twelve lashes. VOMEIOIF." THE condition of affairs at Cairo is re­ ported as deplorable. The preparations for the Nile expedition haYe caused wild and reckless expenditures, and affairs, both civil and military; are careless and extrava­ gant Scores of British officers are loung­ ing about hotels, awaiting orders, and incuiring heavy bills A procession of near.y one hundred thousand persons marched through the streets in the vicinity of Hyde Park, London, wi;h flags and banners, calling for the abolition of the ADDITIONAL IfEWf. * , . IN » political fight at Klein's tavern, Co­ lumbia County, Pennsylvania, two men were fatally stabbed by James D. Keller, who was lodged in jail... .A fall of rook in a mine near Centralia, Pa., killed three Hungarians. WM. MITCIIELIJ, of Chicago, struck a vein of gas north of Wheeling, W. Va., which will net him between £500,000 and $1,000,0(10. THE Pope has cabled to Trenton, N. J., asking Bishap O'Farrell if he made a state­ ment that the Holy Father expressed the hope that Ireland might soon become inde­ pendent of England. A Washington telegram says: Secretary McCulloch visited the Treasury Depart­ ment this morning and was qualified in the presence of ex-Secretary Gresham and a few others. The oath of office was administered by J. N. Fitzpat- rick, of i he appointment division. Secre­ tary McCul och has received a large number of congratulatory letters and tele­ grams from ad paits of the country and sever.il from ab -oad. He wishes to make public announcement of his gratitude for the kind wishes of his friends, and to say that, owing to the pressure of business demanding his attention it will be impos­ sible for him to make acknowledgments to his correspondents individually. The heads of business and the chiefs of division were formally presented to the new Secre­ tary at noon. THEBE were 205 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet's during the week, as compared with 234 in the preced­ ing week, and with 195, 154. and 135 re­ spectively in the corresponding weeks of 1883, 1882, and 1881. About 81 per cent, were those traders whose capital was less thau $5,000. Canada had thirty-one, an increase of thirty-two. Attorney General Miller was hanged iu effigy at Winnipeg, Manitoba, for ordering the flogging of a prisoner who ep^aped from jail. Miller would have . been publicly scourged had he ndt concealed himself, and Premier /Norquay was made to promise tlWtt he would consider the ques­ tion of dismissing Miller The Associa­ tion * jc the Advancement of "Women, in ^e^sion at Baltimore, re-elected Mrs. Julia Ward Howe President for the ensuing year. ... .The hanguian on Friday closed the ca­ reers of Albei t and Charles Goodman, of St. Bernard parish, Louisiana, and Isaac Fain, of Kingston, Tenn. IN the case against Connelly at Salt Lake City for bigamy, the Judge instructed the jury to find a verdict of not guilty. Prose­ cuting counsel stated it as his firm belief that some of the witnesses had perjured themselves, in which the Judge concurred, the testimony being entirely different from what was given before the Grand Jury.... Detective Palmer, of Chicago, secured from a burglar a letter of introduction to his ac- compilce, Charles Steele. On the person of the latter were found 100 skeleton keys, and in his house stolen property worth $800 was secured.... N»ar Westminster, Ohio, Ben Heffner, a fanner, shot his wife dead and attempted to kill his sou, daughter, and daughter-in- law. His sanity is being tested by physi­ cians at Cincinnati... .Two police lieuten­ ants and two patrolmen have been indicted by the United States Grand Jury at Cin­ cinnati for preventing qualified persons from votii g... .A clerk in the office of the Cleveland Herald was called out by a man iu a Carriage, while his confederate took $500 in currency from the cash-drawer. A LETTER dated from Nassau, N. P., dited Oct. 24. says: The hurricane which swept the easterly part of the Bahamas, from th; 10th to the Kith inst., caused con- si lerable damage on land and sea. A num­ ber of vessels engaged in sponging and intcr-insular commerce are known to be lot-t. The Americ.in schooner Jonathan Knight, from Philadelphia for New Or­ leans, with coal, was driven upon a reef at Palmetta point, Eleuthera, at midnight on the 15th and became a total wreck. Only two of her crew were saved. Capt. Malloy and son, the steward, and three seamen were drowned. The schooner San Bias, a Baltimore trader, was lost,together with the crew. THE MARKETS. KEW YORK. BEEVBS Hoos FIJOUH--Extra. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring. No. 2 Red CO'IK -No. 2 OATH--White POBK--New Mesa CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers. CJood Shipping Common to Fatr Hoas FLOUR--Fancy White Winter Ex. Good to Choice Spring.. WHEAT--No. 2 8prinv No. 2 lied Winter. COBS--No. 2 . OATH--NO. 2 RYE--\'O. 2 BAULEV-- NO. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream...... Bkimmed FLAT...!^IJJ Eoos--Frenh POTATOES--New, per bu.. . POBK--Meas LAKD TOLEDO. " WHEAT--No. 2 Red Cons--No. 2 OATS--No. a.. MILWAUKEE; WHEAT--No. 2 COBN--No. 2 " OATS--No. 3 BAKLEY--NO. S.,.. .I.'** PORK--Mess LAKD ST. LOUIS." WHEAT--No. 0 COBN--M xed ' ATS--Mixed RYE PORK--Mess " ur _ CINCINNATI WHEAT--No. 3 Bed CORVJ. OATS--Mixed " PORK--MEW LARD DETROIT. FLOUR . WHEAT--No. I White. CORN--Mixed OATS--No. 2 Mixed. POR»--New Mens INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red, New. CoiiN--Mixed OATS--Mixed EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Best Fair Common Hoos.. 8MSBP The Commissioner of the General Land y« a Washington dispatch, has submitted his report of the operntiotu of the office for the fiscal year endeft June 30, 1884. The sales, entries, and seleii^nlls of Eublic lands embraced 26,834,041 acres; ndiau lands, 697,129 acres; total, 27,531,- 170 acres--an increase over the year 1883 of 8,101,137 acres, and over 1882 of 13,222,003 acres. The receipts from the disposals of public lands were $11,840,993; from Indian lands, $938,137; total. $12,779,100--an in­ crease over 18fft of $1,073,364. and an in­ crease over 1882 of $1,392,750, to which is to be added $10,275 received for certified copies of records, making the total receipts for the year $12,789,405. The total number of entries and filings was 286,812, aggregating 4",625,000 acres, an increase over ih9 preceding year of 60,724. The number of entries approved for patenting under the pre-emption apd other laws was 60,276, an increase over the previous year of 6,429. The agricultural patents numbered 51,337, an increase of 8o5 over the preceding year. The number of private cash entries was 9,894, and 3,206,- 095 acres were sold under the pre-emption law, an increase of 920.385 acres over the preceding year. The receipts from cash sales were $10,302,582, an average of over $1.32 per acre; 3,118 tracts of land, embracing 200,002 acres, were sold at pub­ lic sale at an average of $2.94 per acre. The Commissioner renews bis recom­ mendation that the pre-emption law be re­ pealed, and deems if important that the homestead law be amended so as to require proof of actual residence and improvement for two years, before a homestead entry may be committed to cash payme'ut. He recommends the repeal of the timber cult­ ure act, the act providing that lands covered by relinquishments shall be subject to entry immediately upon cancellation at the local office, the desert land law and the timber and stone land act. There were 1,076 miles of railroad con­ structed during the year under the varions grants. The Commissioner suggests that a commission be appointed to examine and decide upon unsettled private land claims in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, and recommends the re-estdblishnient of the bouridafy line between Colorado and Utah, and the survey of the boundary line be- tween Dakota and Montana and in Yellow® stone Park. Thirty-two cases of illegal fencing of public lands have have been reported, the area inclosed aggregating 4,431,980 acres. Twelve cases have been acted upou and suits recommended to compel tha removal of the fences. A very large number of complaints remain uninvestigated for want of facilities. The Commissioner says that the portion of the pnblic lands still remain­ ing should be economized for the use of actual settlers only. An act reserving the public lands, except mineral and timber reserves, for entry under the homestead law, with amendments to prevent Evasion of its wise restrictions, would be a mteasure meeting this end. J In conclusion, the Commissioner points out the necessity for the immediate adop­ tion of some measure by which the natural forests may be preserved at the headwaters of important rivers and their tributaries, and in such other situations where their preservation is expedient for c'imatic effect and other good reasons of utility. He says there is no good reason why lands worth from $25 to $100 per acre for timber should be sold for $1.25 aud $2.50 per acre as at present, and he favors the withdrawal from sale or entry, under existing laws of all distinctively timber lands of the United States, until examination and appraisement can be mads. After examina­ tion permanent timber reserves should be established where deemed desirable, and provision made for the sale at not less than the appraised valjae of the remainder. Some Fact* and Figures About the Pension Bureau. At the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861 the total number of persons on the pension soils, including revolutionary pen­ sioners, was 10,772, and the nggregate amount required to pay these pensioners was $1,034,600. In 1862 there were added 1,884 names, and notwithstanding this addition at the close of that year there were but 8,159 names on the roll. This is explained by the faot that a large proportion of those on the pension lists prior to the rebellion took part in se­ cession and were dropped from the pension rolls. The report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 18(14, shows the effect of the war of the rebellion on the pension rolls, the payment for that year rising to $4,985,474. From 1864 to the present time there has 1 een a steady increase on the rolls; the total number, according to the last official report, being 303,658. The amount of rnone? paid to pensioners in 1863 was $1,025,140, and in 1883 it was $60,431,973. Points Concerning the and G-zain Markets of V tiie Old World. e monthly report of the Com ml of Agriculture, says a Washington telegram, contains some interesting facts concerning the crops and gniin markets of Europe. It seems that stagnation and depression in prices r.re acitating the farmers of Europe as well as of 'this country. There is little if any profit to the farmers, and it is be­ lieved that the inevitable rem.t will be a reduction in the acreage of wheat next season. The crops have been unnsually large, and the abundance there, as well as el-owhere, has furnished a supply almost unprecedented, and vastly in excess of the demand. The disheartening price which all grain is now blinking is even a severer blow to the farmers than the b id crops of previous years, and coming when their re­ sources are pressed to the utmost, the future is looked forward to with dismay. _ The papers are teeming with farm statis­ tics showing the cost of raising grain per acre and the resulting mc ney returns in the markets.' Average., English wheat brings $1.03 per bushel, which is less than it can be raised for in that country. A year ago, when the average was 20 per cent, higher, it was said there was more money to be made with average crops at that price, and now as the reductions in rent have not kept pace with the falling markets the amount of loss per acre is the only question. A writer from Great Britain estimates the wheat yield of that country for the present year at over 74,000,000 bushels. He esti­ mates the requirements of the 36,000,000 of people to be fed at over 300,000,000 bdih- els, of which 74,000,000 bushels ore sup­ plied at home, leaving 126,000,000 to be imported from foreign countries. About this amount was imported last year. The writer continues: "The stock of foreign wheat in the warehouses on Sept. 1, 1883, was known to be enormous, and this stock has probably been reduced. The total price of wheat during the past year has also caused a larger proportion of home­ grown wheat to be consumed by stock, and the still lower prices which are likely to prevail during the coming year will tend to increase the consumption. The imports of foreign wheat during each year do not, therefore, at the present time supply so re­ liable a measure of the annual require­ ments as w«:s the case formerly, when the stock of foreign wheat had not assumed such gigantic proportions." This condition of the grain market in Europe, which draws so heavily from our supply, it is believed, will result in a large reduction in the acreage in this country next year. With an increased foreign de­ mand and a smaller supply, the price of cereals would be raised, a movement of the crops would become more active, and a better condition of things generally is pre­ dicted for next year. THE INDIANS. Synopsis of the Report of the Com­ missioner. tfl.00 & 7.00 4.50 @5.50 3.00 4.00 .83 & .85 ,H5 (rt .87 .55 & .66 .34 (3) .86 16.50 (£17.00 7.00 & 7.5<1 C.00 (fl! 6.50 4.0:) <<>l 5.00 4.5') @1 5.00 4.2> <4 4.75 4.00 <9 4.50 .74 l«J .75 .75 & .77 .41 i<9 .42 . .25 .26 . .50 & .52 .02 ,<e .IM .26 & .28 .20 <& .23 .12 <t0 .13% .OS .0!t .21 m 2i .33 ® .38 15.50 P16.00 .OT « .0714 . .71 ® .72 .50 & .61 . .35 <& .27 . .78 @ .74 . .44 .48 . .26 & .28 . .55 & .56 . 15.00 @13.50 . &75 & 7.25 .76 & .77 . .» & .41 . .26 ® .27 . .60 & .62 . 15.00 (315.50 . .77 & .79 . .49 W .51 . .27 @ .28 . 15.00 (415.50 . 06J4cr5 .07/4 Stabbed in a Ball-Room. , [Wheeling (W. Va.) speciaLl A bloody murder occurred at an esrly hour this morning at/Martin's Ferry, just opposite this city, yft dance was in prog­ ress, and Bentalnin Frazier and George Bleubach claimed ttie hand of a girl for a waltz. ( Th$£ quarrel was mad» intense by ah ola \ feud. Bleubach took the girl, >riio threw herself be­ tween them, when\ Frazier drew a huge knife, and, reaching over the girl, made a lunge at his opponent, inflicting a fatal wound. Bluebach fell, and Frazier, throw­ ing the girl aside, buried the blade in his enemy's body. Others then interfered, and the dying man was borne out. Two officers, it is said, saw the affair, but did not venture to interfere. The murderer went on with the dauce for two hours, and then came to this city, and is somewhere here secreted, Bluebach died to-night. r.50 .7T 44 .28 18.00 M .40 .38 6.00 6.50 4.00 8.00 4.80 & 0.00 & .78 .45 0 .29 <018.60 .75 .43 .20 ^Hanged by a Mob. R ffankton (Dakota) special.} At St Helena, Neb., twelve miles from here, John Phillips, Postmaster, and Dep­ uty Sheriff of Cedar Counly, went up into the country to arrest a man charged with incendiarism. The man resisted and fled. The Sheriff overtook him, wh>m he was shot by the fleeing man with fatal results, and another who had come to the Sheriff's aid was also wounded. The citizens of St. Helena, when this was known, turned out en masse and brought the prisoner into town and lynched him. Poisoned Her Children and Herself. [Wheeling (W. Va.) dispatch.] A terrible tragedy is reported from Cal­ houn County. Mrs. Johnson, wlile labor ing uuder a fit of temporary insanity, poisoned herself and two of her itep-chil­ dren with arsenic. The poison vas mixed with sugar. One of the children refused to eat, but she succeeded iu inducing the others to partake of the compotnd, and they died in a few minutes. Mrs. Johnson then swallowed some of the mixture her­ self and soon died. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in his annual report, says the progress of the Indians toward civilization is most en­ couraging, and that i.t is fair to presume that in the near future they will be no longer a burden but a help to the Govern­ ment. He states that the Indians' appro­ priation is too sina 1, and urges the neces­ sity of passing an appropriation bi'l early in the session. Congress is urged to pass a stringent law prohibiting the sale of arms aud ammunition to Indians, and to en­ force the law forbiddiug the sale of liquor to them. Touching the removal of tho Crow Indians, in Montana, it is stated that it has thus been made possible to add to- the public domain at least 3,000,- 000 acres tof the Reservation, leaving still all the land necessary for the use and occu- paucv of this tribe of Indians. If these 3.0C0,000 are so d sposed of as to give the Crows Bome benefit from the proceeds thereof, they will no longer require any aid from the Government, and thus one fac­ tor of the Indian problem will have been solved, and an example and incentive given other tribes of Indians to do likewise. Great good has resulted from the estab­ lishment of courts for the trial of Indian offenses, and an appropriation of $50,000 is asked to pay the salaries of judges. The Commissioner calls attention to the neces­ sity of establishing a United States court in Indian Territory, and recom­ mends that the bill pending before Con­ gress. to prevent timber depredations in that Territory, be made to include coal and other minerals. A more liberal compensa­ tion is -asked for the Indian police, and their efficiency is warmly commended. School work is reviewed at length, its great value demonstrated, and the necessity shown for the expenditure of a much greater amount of money in this direction. Attention is called to the fact that Congress granted a right of way through Indian Ter­ ritory to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe IU id the Kansas Southern Railroads, and the statement is made that the Indians consider this a violation of treaty obligations. The Commissioner refers to the invasion of the Indian Territory by Payne and others, and says there is no possible excuse for these repeated lawless invasions. The lands are not public lands iu any sense as yet. what­ ever disposition may be made of them hereafter. It is manifest that, without the passage of some stringent law, intruders can only be kept out by the troops, and should they at any time be temporarily withdrawn for any purpose, the Territory would be rapidly overrun. The Commis­ sioner indorses the report of the commis­ sion to review the award of damages of $36,000 to the Indians, on account of the construction of reservoirs at the head­ waters of the Mississippi, and says no one c in compute what evil consequences may arise should Congress ignore its duty to these Indians by a failure to make appro- pratious to carry out the terms of the ; '•award. , Death of a Holed Miser* [Baltimore telepram.] • William J. Hardy, the aged and wealthy miser of Somerset County, Md., died sud­ denly to-day at his home, aged 79 years. Deceased was very eccentric, and had no living creature for a companion. He lived all alone in abject poverty, though worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. A few months ago the court declared him insane, and appointed a guardian for hJs estate. The supposition is that thousands of dol- lai s are buried on his premises. Several months ago he was robbed of $6,000 in cash. Deceased's relatives all reside in the West & «.so <& 8.00 (<4 4.60 a 8.50 0 8.0* MBS. A. H. REED, of Oshkoth, Ifis., has beglS suit agninst the Central Wiscon­ sin Railroad for $10,000 damages, for inju­ ries received by her husband a y*ar ago, from his team taking fright at Mme. Modjeska's private car, which blocked the street crossing. MAJ. MOORE, in command of tht Salva­ tion Army in this country, with headquar­ ters at Brooklyn, has been ordertd dis­ placed by Gen. Booth, Commander-in Chief, bit the Major refuses to give up his command, and there is mutiny in the ranks. MR. FHELINGHUYBEN denies the story that his daughter is to wed the President DEATH OF W. F. STOREY. A Long, Erentfttl, and Laborious Editorial Career Brought - to an Vn •> a ly Calm and Peaceful Close a Stormy and Checkered Existence. CLIPPINGS. Gov. BUTLEB does not travel on Son- day. IHE dentist to the oonrt .of Italy is an American. SACRAMENTO is shipping sweet potatoes to Montana. MME. GERSTEB, ill with rheumatism ot the thro.it, has canceled all her engage­ ments. PRESIDENT DARLING, of Hamilton Col­ lege, has been elected a member of the Vic oria Institute and Philosophical Society of Great Britain. IN Cleveland John T. Raymond adver­ tised a grand parade of "the new party," and in the evening hired 100 small boys to march through the streets with torches and transparencies, on which was inscribed: "Vote for John T. Raymond for Congress." The streets were crowded that night to see the parade, and the theater was packed all week. LIBCT. G RE ELY has leased a house < street, Washington, for the winter. Wilbur F. Storey, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Ttnit'g, (tied at his rest enee o i Prairie avenue. In that city, oa the 27th of ctober. His death was not unexp' cted, as' it h&i bcconie generally known thut nis phvpir&l gvsteni was wriously impaired and hts min.t shattered. For some time b tofc his do: th his mind was en­ tirely powerless . nd iti' ctivi', an , the only evi­ dence otlie remain m/was shown in respira­ tion aud by his jiulse, both ot which were taint. His popping away was i ainl' Ra. \ ilbur F. fctorey was one of the best and most widely kn. wn residents of Cuicngo His reputation as a journalist ranked anions the foremost. hen in his v gor he was rad ca' and a. pres^ive, and at the sam-' time corn; rehensive and well poised. Th se - ua ities Wf re reflected in the great newspaper which he edited so ably and successfully for so manv vears He had qualities which <<rew to him manv stronir and faithful friends, and attne game tim • made lihn bi.teren mtes. H.s influence, and thsit of the hen hew* actively at its head and shaped and enforc d its policy, were very great. But few. if any. Journalists in this country have wielded a wider or more po ent influ n> e. trom the Chicago htulu A--»'.N we clean the following bioKraphical sketch of the deceased journalist • Mr Storev was born Dec. is), \si <, in Salis­ bury, Vt. His family was of the same stock as ttiat of the celebrated jurist. He passed the first ten years ot his 11 eon his father's farm, attendjuir a country school in the winter only. When he was 12 years old, his fattier having mo ed to Middlebury, he entered the ottios of the Middlebury Frrss I'VPSX, to learn the printing business. He remained there until he was 17, with the exception of one winter, dur­ ing which he attended school. At 17 lie had saved $17, and with tiiis small amount, added to fio which his mother gave hiro, he went to New York to begin life for himself. As a youth he was said to be quiet, retiring, and indus­ trious, snd rather averse to society. In New York he worked as a compositor on the Journal of Com mrrcr for a year and a half and then came West * to I^a- Porte, Ind., where he established a Democratic paper, he undertaking the mechanical part of its management and the celebrated Ned Hannegan a tt rward United States Senator, beim; editor. 'J his enterprise did not succeed, an J Mr. Story Surchased a drug store. Failing in this, «lso, e established a Democratic papt-r in Misha- waka called the Tocsin. After editing it a year and a halt he went to Jackson, Mich., and stud­ ied law tor two years. At the end of that time he started the Jackson 1'atrtoi, and < onducted it with such ability that lie pushed to th-i wall the Democratic paper already in existenc? there. After editing the I'atnol a year and a halt, he was appointed Postn aster by I're-ident Polk and held the office until depose ! by President Taylor. Having sold his paper when he bee me Postmaster, he was again without an occupation. Soon he went again into the drug business, and dealt also in grocer­ ies, books, and stationery. While in Jackson he took an active part iu p litics, and in 1850 was elected a member of the constitutional conven­ tion of Michigan by a large major.ty over Aus­ tin Ulair. Having an opportunity to acquire an interest in the Detroit h'rre t'rrxs he availed himself of it, and in ln5;t removed to Detroit Before long h? became half owner and subse­ quently sole owner of the paper. When he went to Detroit the Fret' Pre;ss was a fecb e organ with almost no circulation or influence. In eight years Mr. Storey paid for the entire concern, saved about and made the pa er the most able, prosperous, and influential Democratic or­ gan in the Wesf. For the first six years Mr. Storey did all the editorial work on the paper and during the next two years had but a single assistant. He was always tlie first to reach the ottice in the morning and the last to leave it at night. Hto remarkable success was due not alone to his ability as a journalis', intellectually speaking, but to untiring industry. It was not unusual for Mr. Storey to remain at his office until the paper went to press, at 4 o'clock in the morning, and then to return at 8 o'clock to re­ sume his labor. In 1861 Mr. Storey realized that he had built up the Free Press to the limit of prosperity which its field permitted, and his ambition urged him to something of larger scope ;>nd dimensions. After hesitation between Chicago and several other cities, he decided to come to this growing commercial center of ihe West. At th*it time the Chicago had de­ teriorated from being the influential or­ gan of Stephen A. Douglas to a paper of almost no influence or standing, and with a circulation less than ) ,20o. Mr. Storey bought the paper and at on'e began the workof making i the influential journal it subsequently bccame. He i racticed the same industry and wonderful application, and exerVd the same remarkable journalistic ability by tho exercise of which he had gained success in Detroit. The rebellion had just begun and, the time was one of great political excitement Mr. Storey sent out nu­ merous special • oriesi ondents with the different armies, used the telegraph most liberally, and the Times had always the freshest war news, often outstripping Its contemporaries In the completeness and accuracy of its accounts of battles and operations at the front. The atti­ tude which the paper tcolc editorially during the exciting times of the rebellion was such as to give the paper an enormous cir­ culation. Mr. Storey was accounted a rank copperhead and ardent rebel sym­ pathizer, and shaped the policy of his paper accordingly. Numerous threats against his life were made by exasporatei Unionists, and onoe the Times was suppressed for a lew days bjr military order Whatever else may be said of the course of the Tunes at that t mc, it cer­ tainly was such as was best calculated to In­ crease its reputation and circulation. The pa­ per grew very rapidly into one of the greatest journals of the West, and Mr. Storey was obliged again and again to increase its publish­ ing faci ities. Ti e financial success of the paper was great, and Mr. Storey, as was often said, had more money than he knew what to do with. In 18f>7 the Tunes building cm Dearborn street was built by Mr. Storey. This was burned in the great fire of 1871, aft r which Mr. Storey built the existing Times building at the corner of Fifth avenue and Washington street. For the past six or seven years Mr. Storey has done but comparatively little in the matter of editing the Times. The strain of hard work and close application began to tell upon his sys­ tem, and he was obliged to relax his labor. In the spring of isai he took a European trip in hopes of regaining his health. While abroad he suffered a paralytic stroke, and was almost im­ mediately brought bome. He grew better, and undertook to do editorial work again It was apparent, however, that the vigor of his mind was gone. Subsequently he spent per ods of greater or less length at Green Lake. Wis., Hot Springs, and other health resorts. During last winter he was in Philadelphia undergoing niedi- cal treatment. From there he returned last spring in a partially demented and physically weak condition. It has been more than two years since he did any editorial work on the Tiities, and since his return from lhiladelphia he has not b en at the oil-ce. One of the strange ambitions of Mr. wtorey s declining years was to crei t for himself a mag­ nificent residence, of proportions and cleganco so great as to entitle it to be called a palace. As is well known, he entered upon this undertak­ ing some years ago, and the mammoth white marble ed tlce, still unfinished, though having eaten up hundreds of thousands of dollars in its construction, remains down on v incenues avenue to testily to his strange desire. In personal appearance Mr. Storey was tall and alwavs neatly attired. His hair was abund­ ant and snowy white-. His forehead was high and his hazel eves clear anil bright. As a jour­ nalist Mr. Storey had a clear, com ise, and very forcible style. He was more of a paragraphist tha i es.-ayi^t. In his ed.torials he often re­ peated tlie j rominent idea arain and again, each time with verbiage so forcible yet different that th- effect was like that of the repeated "lows of a bat; ering ram. as many who have felt the force of them can testify, kven his enemies, and they were many. a.test to bis remarkable ability as a journalist. GEM. HANCOCK. How He Received the News of His DHe«t for the Presidency. [Washington telegram.] Capt. Burritt, of the Sunday Herald, relates the story of the manner in which Gen. Hancock received the news of his de­ feat, four years ago: His wife, who told the story to the writer, says that on the night of the election he went to bed at 7 o'clock, utterly worn out Wheu she begged him not to retire so early, as there would probably be some one who would want to see him that niglit, he euid, emphatically: "I cannot sec any one to-night; I am so tired that I must go to bed at once. So he retired aud slept so soundly that when his wife, who stayed np to hear the news, went to bed she didn t disturb him, nor did he awake until 5 o clock next morning, when Mrs. Hancock, having a coughing spell, he roused enough to ask her if she had any news. She said she had, and added, "It's a Waterloo for you." "All right," he answered, and turning over was soon sound asleep again. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. --The real estate tmde of Chicago dar­ ing the past week amonnted to $694,427. --Thomas Mnguire, a well-known jour­ nalist of New England, (fled lately in Chi-f -"j. cago. --The exploeion at the blast furnace otL. j the Joliet Steel Company's works caused?:r ? damage of $20,000. g.- ^ --Edna Allen, a little girl, was shockingly ' mutilated by hogs, in Harristown Town­ ship, Macon County. Bhe will prpbably - . 1 ",e- . 'y --Mrs. Maria Krause has sued John*- Boetcher, of Jefferson, for $5,000 damages; 2 for injuries she received in June, 1881, ' from Boetcher*s bull-dog. :: --At Edwardsville, William Felix Henry- for the murder of Henry ROSB and Henry Depugh, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree, with the penalty of death by hanging. --James Springer, night yard-master at - the Rock Island and Peoria yard in Rock, Island, was kited on Sunday night. His" foot caught in a frog,'and he was crushed, by the cars. --According to the Sycamore Republican* Sylvanms Ho comb, at 82 years of age, reads the finest print without the aid of glasses. Twenty-live years ago he could: not read the coarsest print without them. --Archbishop Fcehan, of Chicago, has . purchased eighty acres of ground for a. .• Catholic cemetery, near Washington Heights, at a cost of f44,£3^. l$%iU be known as Mount Olivet. •--Eliza HOIK ibeig has sued the Northwestern Railway Company for $5,000 damages for the destruction of her cottage at Palatine, by a lo. omotive running from the track, and plunging through it, in July, 1883. --The handsome and spacious hall pre­ sented to the Chicago Theological Seminary by the late Cyrus H. McCorinick, was formally handed over last week by a son of the giver. Its cost was $80,000, exclusive of furniture --James Colinan, the murderer of Hu­ bert G. Nichols, on the 22d of June last, was found guilty of manslaughter in the- Criminal Court of Cook County, and sen­ tenced to five years in the penitentiary. This is considered an easy sentence. --Some of tho preachers of the gospel in Chicago get a snug solaiyof $5,000 a. year, while Major Cole, one of the most useful of the profession, earns his living by his pencil nnd preaches for nothing, and said, at a meeting at Farwell Hall, that, if $1 would buy the whole of Chicago, he had not that much money. --The body of William Phelps, a painter of Sycamore, was found on lha Northwest­ ern track at Cortland by Joseph Happei- berger and Charles Brown, residents of Sycamore, yrhile returning from the barbe­ cue at DeKalb. The head was entirely separated from the body, and found lying a few feet off. The deceased was 50 years old. --The new Western Indiana depot on Polk street, between Third .and Fourth avenues, Chicago, will hereafter be known as "Dearborn Station," that name hiving been conferred on it by the directors, in memory cf Fort Dearborn and because the- stiueture is located at the foot of Dearborn "• street, the tower facing that street. The new depot is now nearly completed, and it is among tfce finest depots in the West. The tower is higher than any other in the city, with the exception of the new Board of Trade tower. State Charities. The financial record of the State char­ itable institutions for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1884, is promulgated by th3 State Board of Charities, in a circular which shows that at an expense of $3911,527.27 the following institutions were maintained for three months : Northern Insane Hos­ pital, Elgin; Eastern Insane Hospital, Kankakee ; Central Insane Hospital, Jack­ sonville ; Southern Insane Hospital, Anna; Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Jack­ sonville ; Institution for the Blind, Jack­ sonville ; Asylum for tho Feoble-m'nded, Lincoln ; Soldiers' Orphaus' Home, Bloom­ ington ; Charitable Eye and Ear Iufinnary, Chicago; State Reform School, Pontiac. The expenses are classified as follows : $S8,111.IT 4",'m72 J-.S00.14 -\453.28 10,ll76.0."> • *,073.61 6C.1.30 Attendance. Food Clothing, bedding, etc.. Laundry supplies....... Fuel Light - Water. IT has been proposed to furnish the railroads with grain cars bnilt entirely of steel. It is said that more grain can be carried with less wear and tear. ONE of the daughters of Henry W ads- worth Longfellow is eng>tsed to be married to Mr. Thorpe, brother of Mrs. Ole Bull. j THE Metropolitan Railroad in London ' runs 1,211 trains a day. f.K' si.. V .< * tv. - Medicine and medicinal supplies l,96:>.7<.> Freight and transportation........;... . 7,175.93 Postage aud telegrnphing.............. • 1,226.02 llcoks and stationery 2,S1*.»K Printing and advertising SB7.flr» MUMI- and amusements ..... 753.51 Instruments and apparatus •JK'.O.'. Household expenses 2,074.00 Furniture I4,it67.0u Building, repairs, etc L. 184,V7:Ut', Tools > 218.HH Machinery, etc 6,<WC.10 Farm, garden, stock,.and grounds.,.. 8,191.'.tr. Heal estate 3f> oo Legal expanse" I0.no Shop expenses 388.53 Burinl expense* 1S7.50 Expenses not classified........... 313.57 To' at:.....'. f «>C,527.27 The footings show the following com­ parison of expenses: Northern Insane Hospital., $"0,091.92 Kastern Insane Hospital HS4.109.5s Central Insane Hospital |7,55S.6.% Southern ln«ane Hospital 86,541. Institution tor the Deaf and Dumb... 8S,'.»7S.oi Institution for th-;TOind »',557.l" Asylum for F^eeble-Mli.ded 15,193.17 fc'oidioi-S' Orphans'Home. 12,2H4.BS Charitable hye an(J_J>ra*-l»tlfm3kry.... «,502.34 Stats Reform School '. .X.... 12,5<:<J.O^ Total I • • • .$<90,527.27 The number of inmates avemgedt 3,323.02, and the average per capita for board was $92, for an aggregate number of days' board furnished of 305,721. The appropriation account shows that there remained in the treasury on July 1, $1,432,133.67 of the appropriations of 1883 not drawn, and that $390,022.81 of this was drown during the quarter, leaving a balance not drawn Sept. 30 of $1,042,110.86. The average cost per capita for taking care of the inmates at the various institu­ tions makes an interesting comparative statement. It is as follows: Northern In­ sane Hospital, Elgin. $46.80; Eastern In­ sane Hospital, Kankakee, $19.70; Central Insane Hospital, Jacksonville, $42.88; Southern Insane Hospital, Anna, $40; In­ stitution for the Deaf and Dumb, Jackson­ ville, $301.05; Institution for the Blind, Jacksonville, $320.70; Asylum for the Feeble-minded, Lincoln, $50.70; Soldiers' Orphans' Home, Bloomington, $45.21; Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago, $55; State Reform School, Pontiac, $38.4fc. --Frederick B. Dutcher, sr. old resident of Amboy, died suddenly. f-J