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fWralo ,E4R>r MM! PuWteher. ILLINOIS. THE WORLD OYERg #; liOSSOR OF THE IMPORTANT «©• CUBKENCES OP A "WAAEAC bis hMM •* EingblW IMttft Jiave ahumoriet. He h*8 returned the e, marking on the package the words "B. F. Butler." B» tpodna were highly valued by Mr. L<wtt, as the two small ones belonged to his mother and the large one to his wife. The Governor, however, laughs at the old Batter *tQiyt which the thief evidently remembered • ; WESTERN HAPPENINGS. That Do Happen--A Complete of IntereftUng Event* the -- Shoeklng AceMkWtef' Otber Topic*. • v*--- . ' THE STATE OF TFCADTT. Afllfkt Improvement Noticeable in the €tal- . eral Outlook. • * • " * v^WOTX & Co.'* weekly reviei* eftrade **5*v The business outlook lias, on the whole, im proved during the week, but the am important dry-goods commission liabilities of £4.000,000, occasioned quietude. Bu the general tenor of advices is encouraging. Crop prospects improve, with the probability of a large foreign demand; the apprehended financial diilicuHws do not yet arrive; the great industries seem to begetting a stronger position, and the railroad situation is at tha least no worse. All the cities except nine report larger bank clearings than a year ago. As' to tite dry-soo<i« f*iinr«. too, present reports bold out the hope that the liabilities will ultimately be fnlly met. Latest accounts indi­ cate a decided improvement in the wheat pros­ pect in Dakota and Minnesota, the yield being 'estimated at 80,000,000 bushels, against 68,000,- 800 last year. The foreign reports appear on thw whole to promise a larger demand than last jear. Cation reports are favorable, bnt the eoaotiuesB of the present supply sustains prices. There fieenis t'j be real and steady im­ provement in the eoin.i. ion of the great branches at Industry, although it is by no means such, as yet, as to clear away uncertainty. The de­ mand for iron in various forms has HO far in­ creased as to cause general stiffening of prices. The signs of improvtmeut in the woolen busi­ ness are less clear, but manufacturers have been buying more freely, and there has been some increase in the orders for goods. The con­ fidence ill a large fall trade is undiminished. *n» movement of cotton goods is fairly satis­ factory, and print cloths are a shade stronger. All accounts from interior cities indicate that business is fairly good for the season, though", there is, perhaps, a rather general feeling that the fall trade does not open quite as earlv or as briskly as had been hopi d. The failures during the week were, for the United States, 187; for Canada. 29 ; a total of '216, against a total of 208 the week previous. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 199 in the United Rates and 23 in Canada. SHOT BOTH BRIDE AND GROOTT. '"Ku; yt . . .' • ' HI* Own Life--Deed of a Rejected California Suitor. Ax elopement which occurred at Chico, CaL, a few days ago has cnlminated in a tragedy, Raymond Bierce, son of a San Francisco journalist, was to have married Miss Eva Adkins but two days before the wedding she eloped with a' friend of Bierce s named Hubbs. A week later Bierce met the couple at the house of the biide's mother and immediately opened fire npon Hubbs, who returned the fire. Four shots apiece were exchanged, when Hubbs ran out of the room, fierce then placed his revolver at Mrs. Hubbs' head and ftred, inflicting a severe but not danger­ ous wound. The disappointed man then Mew his brains out. Hubbs was seriously wounded in the abdomen and may not re­ cover. _____ . CIRCLING THE BASES. fjhi Various Ball Clubs Hut Ave Racing for the Pennant. . SeXiAxite stand lug of the base-ball teams that are working for the cham­ pionship of their respective associations Mas follows: national. V. It Boston 47 24 Hew York...43 28 Cleveland... 43 32 Fhilad* 42 32 Chicago 36 39 Pittsburg....30 43 Indiana?.. .*27 46 WMh'gtfn....a 46 f?e! American. W. .061 St. Louis....55 .fiCKV Brooklyn 50 .573;Baltimfore.. .43 .567 Cincinnati.. .44 .480! Athletic 40 .410 K'ns's City..31 .36U Columbus...30 .323! Louisville... 17 W. It 9c. j Interstate. W, I <7 SO .701 Springfield .38 .44 25 ,637fQnincy 88 138 32 . .542jl)&venport...S6 .32 35 .477; Peoria 35 ..31 38 .449;Burlington..31 Best Moines..26 37 .412iEvansville. .30 l..27 39 .409 • ..24 43 .358 > ' Minaeannllnf Stoaxoity..a INDIANS REFUSE TO SIGNL • Bs»*eadway Made Toward Opening the White '•* Earth Reservation. IT seems pretty certain that the great White Earth Beservatioh of 3,000,000 acres in Minnesota will not be opened this year. Commissioners Bice. Marty, wad Whiting are discouraged over the outlook. Alter suggesting many questions to the Commission in reference to the Nelson bill, the Indians took a decided stand against opening any portion of the White Earth Beservation to settlement. There have b'een several stormy sessions and the Indians are not in good humor, so that it will be a difll- oult task to secure their consent. The Commission has been in session at "White Earth ten days and as syei has^aefe --cured a signature. • v , J FLOODS IN CHINA. - tte Yellow River Out of Its Btaki A|tio~ Awful Loss of-Life. THE Yellow Biver, in China, has again burst its banks in Shantung, inundating aft immense extent of country. There is twelve feet of water throughout ten large governmental districts. The loss of life and property is incalculable. The Gov­ ernment authorities at Fekin are dis­ mayed. Owing to the incapacity of the local authorities, foreign engineering aid, in order to permanently repair the chan­ nel of the river, is considered imperative. WHIX<K Lieutenant Governor Moikel- john and W. H. Paton, a stockman, ware bathing in Cedar Biver, near Fullerton, Neb., the latter was drowned, and the Lieutenant Governor barely esoaped with his life. - , AN Albuquerque, N. M., dispatch says: Last Saturday three oattle and hone thieves, members of a notorious band of Mexicans who have committed many depredations in this city, were captured and imprisoned in a vacant house near Kelly, N. M. Last night a party of cow­ boys proceeded to ilie house where the assignment of thieves were imprisoned, overpowered on house, with the guard, and hanged the prisoners after so,1T1® 1 riddling their bodies with Bullets. J SECRETARY MOHLEE, of the Kansas i Board of Agriculture, states that the corn | crop will be unprecedented in extent | owing to recent rains, and that a drought ; now cap in no way injure it. A SPECIAII from Guthrie,* Oklahoma, says that the much-talked-of charter elec- j tion, which was prevented a week ago by | the Mayor, has finally taken place. No opposition was offered by the city admin­ istration and the charter was carried by . 112 majority. The proposition to issue I $50,000 in bonds was also carried by a ' majority of 12 votes. | A FEW days ago a young. girl named ! Meyer became insane at the Salvation 1 Army meeting at Neenah, Wis., and the ! Salvationists were blamed as the cause of ; her insanity. A number of threats were j made against them by excited citizens • and Capt. Dallee of the army received a regulation White-Cap letter of warn- {ing for himself and his associates to | leave the city inside of six days or suffer the consequences. It was ; signed "Neenah White Caps." An- ! other White-Cap outrage occurred six j miles south of Brodhead, Wis. The victim was a wife-beater, a rich farmer named Perry Nelson., known as the strongest man in Southern Wisconsin. He had beaten his wife terribly of late. He was caught going home by a gang of White Caps, terribly beaten, and tarred and feathered. They then warned him to crive his wife $7,000 and leave the country in ten days, Or they would return and kill him. A PERU (Ind.) dispatch says: AtXenia, a village a few miles south of here, Jesse Overman shot and instantly killed his sweetheart. Miss Maggie Smith, daugh­ ter of a prominent physician. The shooting was done near the front steps of the doctor's residence. Overman has for the last two years been paying atten­ tion to Miss Smith. He was of a jealous nature. He called, as usual, and the ;ouple were out on the front pqreh. What was said is not known, but Over­ man suddenly drew a revolver on the girl and fired, when she ran screaming around the house, traversing it twice before fall­ ing flown, dyinfj from t.hft shot.. Over­ man then plaeed'the revolver to his head, firing with fatal results. Both parties were young, the man being 22 and the £irl 18. No cause >s assigned except lealousy. A PABTT of explorers have unearthed \ number of human skeletons buried in the chalk bluffs ten miles east of Yank­ ton, Dak., on the Nebraska side. Fifty skulls and 200 headless skeletons were found, which local physiciaus pronounce to be the remains of white people, chil- iren and adults. The indications are that they have been buried forty or fifty years. THB Minneapolis Directory has just been issued and contains 80,000 names, an increase of nearly 5,500 over 1888. Ac­ cording to the multiple used during the State census of 1885 the city of Minne­ apolis contains 235,000 people. This sstimate is confirmed by other statistics. Minneapolis cast 38,000 votes for Presi­ dent last November and has 19,000 school children enrolled upon her books. The taxable valuation of Minneapolis exceeds H 32,000,000. D. S. MCINTTBE, of Illinois, formerly a special examiner in the Pension Office, and George W. Carr, Jr., of Kansas-, for­ merly a principal examiner in the same office, have been reinstated under modi­ fied civil service rule 10. *e .679 .649 .573 .556 .547 .407 .375 .215 .521 .507 .436 fA L . ; Buildings at Cincinnati ' Burned Ar Cincinnati the Cincinnati Dry- dock buildings on Eastern avenue. In thf eastern part of the city, were con­ sumed by fire, together with a consider­ able quantity of lumber. The whole loss will reach $60,000, upon which the in­ surance is $40,000. Half an hour before the fire the watchman went through the .. Jatilding, and says there was no lira. Xhii gives reason to suspect arson/ Boulanrer Coining to America. LE SOIB reports that General Boulan- Mr has decided to leave London and goto Sew York, and that he has fears of being court-martialed. C'w EASTERN OCCURRENCE* " MICHAEII MCGBATK and hie wife, an ped couple, perished in their burning* dwelling near Franckville, Pa. The house was remote from any other, and help could not arrive in time for the res- j«l»e of the inmates. s PITTSBURGH steel manufacturers dis- • olaim all intention of selling out to En- tfish capitalists. They do not think En- glishmen care to invest $100,000,000 for 'W privilege of controlling America's |ron industries. NUMEROUS cases of swindling by ap- for relief at Johnstown, Pa., come to light, and several orders been stopped by the committee. According to the latest statistics, care* j fully compiled by the Board of Inquiry, Jlie number of lives lost in the devastat­ ed district is placed at about 6,000. ?-• A DISPATCH from Waterville, N. Y„ the defth at his summer resi- there of Charlemagne Tower of Philadelphia. Mr. Tower was in his 81st tel. year and his death w*s due to paralysis. * we leave#.four daughters and a son and «n enorttoufe fortune. THE burglar who stole ex-Gov. Long's 0 U ; SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. .TEE partial destruction of the excur­ sion steamer St. Nicholas occurred on the Savannah Biver, killing several persons and inflicting • serious injury on many others. The St. Nicholas was cariying 500 colored passengers, and when pass­ ing Tvbee railway bridge the boat was drawn by the current against the bridge with great force. The forward deck was crushed and torn into sprinters. Two women were killed instantly and thirty other persons seriously wounded. A panic ensued among those on board, and a scene of wild excitement followed. During the confusion several persons were knocked overboard, and one woman was drowned. Several of the persons in­ jured will die. A SAVANNAH (Ga.) dispatch says the negroes of Liberty County, Georgia, are in a state of excitement over the preach­ ings of a man named Bell, a pseudo 'Christ," who has been inciting the igno­ rant people of the county and telling them that he will lead them into the Promised Land of Canaan next month. Hundreds have left their farms and occupations to follow the false Christ. Bell was tried for lunacy and sent to an asylum. His successor, a negro named James, began preaching and telling the people that human sacrifice wasL demanded. Several days ago in a remote part of the county a woman who was one of J ames' followers slew a little child, her niece, jutting symbols on the head and body uid then throwing the body into a ditch. The woman was arrested and is in jail. The white people fear the violence of the sxcited negroes, who are crazed with BeU's and J ames' teachings. .«• THE NATIONAL CAPITAL* SECRETARY NOBLE has issued an order iltfecting Dr. George Ewing and H. L. Bruce, of the Board of Pension Appeals, and Judge Frank L. Campbell, of the Assistant Attorney General's Office, Interior Department, as a committee to forthwith enter upon an investigation af all reratings of pensions as made by the Pension Bureau during the last twelve months, and especially those of pensioners in the Government service, with a view to ascertaining whether any sueh reratings have been made in viola­ tion of lew. ACROSS THE OCEAN. THE Navy Department has received a report from Admiral Gherardi, stationed at Port-au-Prince, dated July 10, in which Hippolyte was reported to be ad­ vancing upon Port-au-Prince and that upon the beginning of an attack a torce of marines would be landed from the ! United States ship in the harbor to pro- 1 tect the American representative and the | interests of American residents. The 1 Admiral also reported that Legitime had appealed to the American minister, Mr. Thoi -- - «l between th<irlat««iitt!^kt tiir •lopped. THE Spanish Government has forbidden any demonstrations calculated to encour­ age the Pope to go to Spain In the event of his leaving Rome. ADVICES from China state that during a recent fire at Su Chow, which burned ^fiercely for twenty-three hours, 87,000 dwellings were destroyed. Twelve hun­ dred persons perifthed in the flames and 400 were crushed to death during the panic that prevailed, while trying to es­ cape. One hundred nnd seventy thou­ sand people are without shelter, and they have been dying at the rate of 100 a day from want and exposure. The au­ thorities are soliciting help from the benevolent and providing assistance as rapidly as possible. IN the English House of Commons it has been agreed, by a vote of 230 to 70, to grant a lump sum of £600,000, or, as an alternate. <£20,000 annually, to build rail­ roads in Ireland. THE German Government has de­ nounced the treaty with Switzerland which regulates the settlement of foreigners in Switzerland and which expires at the end of 1800. The Pesther Lloyd asserts that Prince Bismarck's denouncement of the treaty is far from constituting a settlement of the controversy between the two coun­ tries. The paper says that some pro­ nounced action will probably be taken by Germany when Emperor William returns from his yachting tour, and the whole controversy will assume a new aspect. THE golden-wedding day of Mr. and and Mrs. Gladstone occurred on the 25th. The Queen telegraphed a congratulatory message to the distinguished couple, and j the Prince and Priiicess of Wales and | other members of the royal family sent j letters to them. The Prince of Wales also sent a gold inkstand to Mr. Gladstone. A number of Liberal ladies presented a por­ trait by Millais of Mr. Gladstone with his grandson. A large number of other presents were received. Mr. Gladstone rose early and attended morning servioe. The family took breakfast together at the James street residence of Mr. Gladstone. There was an immense number of callers during the day, among them being Mr. John Morley, Sir William Vernon Har- court, and the Earl of Aberdeen apd other Liberal peers. POLITICAL PORRIDGIFC AT Zanesville, Ohio, the Prohibition Convention nominated the following State ticket: Governor--Rev. J. B. Helwis of Springfield; ' J.ieutenant Governor--L. B, Tjogtui of Stark County; Supreme Judge--Gideon T. Stewart of Nor walk; Treasurer--]). M. Trowbridge of To­ ledo ; Attorney General--E. Jay Pinney of Ash­ tabula ; Board of Public Works--Harvey Clarke of Madison County; Clerk of Supreme Court-- F. 1). McKnight of Lawrcnce County. State Central Committee -- Dr. H. A. Westerville, Chairman ; B. S. Higley of Youngstown, Secre­ tary; end J. H. Haim of Columbus, Treasurer. FRESH AND NEWSY. THE goods and chattels of District As­ sembly 49 of New York City have been sold at auction. It is the last act in the drama of the disruption of the well- known and once powerful Knights of Labor organization. THE Amerioan fishing vessel, Mattie WinBhip, recently seized by the Canadian Goverament for illegal fishing, is for­ feited. Her owners offered $2,000 to the crown and the total expenses of the seizure, for her restoration. The offer will be accepted. NEWS from Ounalaska confirms the re­ cent reports of the loss of the three whal­ ing schooners, James A. Hamilton, Otter, and Annie. No trace of them has been seen in the Arctic, and it is generally be­ lieved that they are lost., The vessels carried about sixty officers and men. THE Attorney General has given th# Secretary of the Treasury an opinion to the effect that there is no legal objection to the transit through United States ter­ ritory of the Chinamen recently arrived at New Orleans from Cuba en route to China via San Francisco. THE Wholesale Grocers' Association of the United States is about oompleted. Ninety per cent, of the wholesale dealers of the country are members. The object of the association is mutual protection and to compel manufacturers to divide profits with them on certain goods whioh they now handle without profit. THE following crop estimate is com­ piled by Col. G. D. Rogers, of Minne­ apolis, editor of the Market Record and one of th'e most reliable crop statisticians in the Northwest: The maturing grain in th<! spring wheat sections has progressed enough toward maturity so that it is possible to form something like a fair esti­ mate of the yield. That it will amount to more than was commonly figured a few weeks ago there is not the least doubt. The greatest trouble is in arriving at approximations of acreage that are below average, atid above av­ erage. It will be about fair to offset the In­ crease in acreage with the amount plowed up and that not plowed up that will not be cut* leaving thr acreage about, the same as last year. If Minnesota gets fifteen bushels, which many think not too high, the total would be some 47,000,000 bushels, and for both Dakotas eight bushels may not be too high, or a round-up of 85,000,000, making 80,000,(i0j b ahels for both. The last crop, while called 60,000,000, the total was more than 70,0C0,0tW bushels, perhaps not be­ low <j,000,090 bushels of all sorts. It is quite gen­ erally conceded that the promise is for some 10,000,000 bushels more than a year ago, which concession, if correct, would indicate 80,000,000 to Ki,000,000 buBhels thit year. Cutting is get­ ting quite general in the South and will be so ia the North next week, although a great deal in the South is not ripe enough now 'and much will not be in the North next week. So far very little shrunken wheat has been discovered, Irat Borne is in a stage that might be affected yet. MARKET BEFOBXa. m FD-BUSSF DKSTRUCTKm BY WATKM XH THX . ;*,r' KANAWHA VAIXBT. ; 2.50 4.00 3.00 .41 :u .07 .u .30 11.00 .80 .36 38 CHICAGO. CATTI-A--Prime . .$ 4.25 Good 3.50 Common Hoos--Packing Grades SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed. CoiiN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 KYE--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery CHEESE--Full Cream, flats EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--Choice new, per bu.. POBK--Mess MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash CORN--NO. 3 OATS--No. 2 White KYE--No. 1 BARLKY--No. 2 .......IS,'..., POHK--Mess,., " DETROIT. CATTLE. .... HOGS... ...... I SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red.. COHN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--Cash OATS--Cash NEW YORK. CATTLB HOGH SHEEP.... WnEA-t-No. 2Red.. CORK--No. 2 OATS--Mixed Western.... PORK--New Mesa ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Hoos WHEAT-NO. 2 Bed. CoitN--No. 2 OATS BYE--No. a... INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLB... Hoos BHEKP LAMBS... „ CINCINNATI. Hoos..,.,,,-. WHEAT--No. 2Bed............... CORN--No. 2 - OATS--No. 2 Mixed.. RYE--No. 2 ;82}£@ .86 & " ® 0 <g 4.50 & 4.00 & 3.50 & 4.75 & 5.00 .88 .37 .28* .16 .07« .life .88 &J1.9S & .81 & .87 & .20 .48 .60 <9 .61 11.00 <911.28 8.00 & 4.00 4.00 & 5.00 8.25 ® 4.00 .86 & .88 .86 & .87 0 .80 .81 & .84 .88 0 .89 .80 0 .27 An W«« or Wafari h Parts of West Virginia and Ohio--Wlde- *pve«l toss of Life and Property by the 2ia«inff Streams. A Parkersburg (W. Va.) dispatch says: The storm along the valley of the Little Kanawha was one of terrible violence, and the rush of water down the channel of the river and over the lowlands bordering it was unprecedented in its suddenness and about as large in volume as ever haforo known, it is feared drownings have been numerous in the narrow valleys upstream along the tributaries of the river. The storm extended across the Ohio, and rail­ road crops OB and by 'i o'clock in the morning the river had jumped up twenty feet, and at day­ light the scene presented alone the channel, in front of this city was a a alarming one. The entire surface of the stream was covered with a tangled mass of logs, barns, fragments of houses, and rafts of valuable timber About 6-o'clock Mrs. Isaiah Tucker went to the door of her boat house opposite this city to view the wreck-covered river. As she stepped upon the deck a huge raft of logs struck the boat and she was tossed into the water and never rose. She left a family of five children in the boaty who were saved. Another shanty boat said to contain three women, passed the city about daylight. A short distance below it was overturned and all were drowned. The Ohio Biver railroad is broken iat Harris Ferry, the Baltimore & Ohio at Kanawha Station, and the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore at Londonderry. Many luml er firms have lost about all their summer cut of logs, and thousands of acres of crops are totally destroyed. De­ tails of losses are constantly coming In and the aggregate damage will exceed $100,- 000. Above the destruction was still greater. Big Tygart valley is completely ruined. The big mill near its mouth went out and took the Tygart bridge with it. In tha valley all the fences, crops, and live stock were lost. At Chesterville, a small town about ten miles above, half the residences were carried off bodily and left in corn fields. In Clay district a fine church and three dwellings were wrecked. About noon information was received that the steamer Oneida had been wrecked and sunk at Enterprise, above. Still later a report came that the steamer S. C. Mar­ tin was sunk at Burning Springs. The Little Tygart is also reported completely ruined. Heatherington's store, Capt. Spencer's residence, C. P. Cooper's resi­ dence, and that of J. W. Smith are com­ pletely demolished, but no lives are re­ ported lost as yet. The worst story of all comes from Mor- ristown, a small village near the head of Tucker creek, where the cloud burst con­ centrated in all its fury, coming down dn the village and totally destroying it, to­ gether with many of. its people. The first report gave the loss of life at eleven, but later news seems to fix the loss at ia greater number. The houses of the citizens are said to have been picked up and hurled against each other in such short space of time that no cbanca to escape was given the people. Among those lost at Morristown are Jake Kiger, his brothers Joseph and Thomas, a man named Bailey, Orville West, wife, and child. The body of a man believed to be another Morris- town victim was found on the Richardson farm. At Pill Brush all bridges and culverts are washed away and it is impossible to reach or communicate with that point, or any other on upper waters. It is impos­ sible now to enumerate the loss even here,' as the river is still rising and tearing everything loose.. * _ A family boat containing three or four persons went out during the night, and it is believed all are lost, as last seen of thein was when a woman held up a child in her arms and beckoned for assistance as the house disappeared in the flood. LATER--A freight tram on the Ohio River railroad broke through a trestle at Harris' Ferry, completely wrecking the train and fatally injuring William Nep­ tune, an employe. The wreck was caused by a heavy washout. The Baltimore. & Ohio train, delayed by washouts at Kan­ awha station, has just been reported. Lock No. 1 above the city on the Little Kanawha has given way before the flood. Advicas from Ohio show that heavy rains fell in many places. A cloud-burst is re­ ported at Lancaster, which caused a big washout on the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo railway. 4t Logan, Ohio, heavy rain caused much damage tocrops. Light­ ning struck a house in the little village of Georgesville/ in Franklin county, and set it on fire and burned half the town. At Marysville, Ohio, great damage was done. Lightning struck the'electric-light works, ruined a dynamo, and put out the lights of the town. -• THE SALT TRUST ORGANIZED. Articles of Incorporation Have Been Filed at Albanv.-N. Y. ABBANY, N. Y., July 21.--The Northern American Salt company has filed articles of incorporation in the Secretary of State's office. Franklin Woodruff. Horace K. Thurber, William A. Hazard, and Charles F. Burger are the incorporators, with a capital of $11,000,000, divided into 220,000 shares of $50 each. They state that they are to manufacture and sell salt and salt products in their various ramifi­ cations. The principal part of their busi­ ness will be located in Warsaw, N. Y., but they will also carry on their business in the following places: Meigs and Tuscarawas counties; Ohio; Mason county, West Vir­ ginia; Reno and Rice counties, Kansas; Hidalgo county, Texas; St. Clair, Huron,. Saginaw, Ray, and Iosco counties, Michi­ gan. The following thirteen trustees, who will manage the concerns of the company for the first year, are named: Wellington R. Burt, Franklin Woodruff, Horace K. Thurber, William A. Hazard, John Can- field, William 6. Conklin, Albert R. Boardman, Jay Morton, Eichard T. Wil­ son, Henry W. Cannon, Charles F. Burger, Lord Thurlow and Joseph Verdin. Charles F. Buiger and H. Aplington were in Albany to-day and paid the com­ pany's organization tax, amounting to $18,75'). This is the third largest organi­ sation tax ever received by the State. fhtt Irksot>t« Bostrictions to Wlildi flM/ Are Stttatjeetad. TheHindo woman travel as lightly as the men, but the two sexes are never put into the same car/}. There are closed cars on all of the trains lor high eaate Hindoo women, and these have j windows of blue glass in the first and second classes which permit the women to look out, but which prevent the men , from looking in. These women come i to the depot in closed chairs, as they go , to the train they pull their shawls about i their faces, though their ankles and j calves, covered with gold or silver bracelets, often show. In some of the oars the windows of the women's com­ partments are so fixed with shut­ ters that there can be no look­ ing out, and in the train which tained Hindoo women, who, as they rode up the Himalaya Mountains through the finest scenery in the world, were thus shut in the stuffy darkness of this tent-like car, saw no more of the grandeiir of the nation about them than they would have seen had they been tied up in so many leather bags and sent along as mail. % One of the greatest roads in India is the East Indian Railway. This railway has a curious method of investing a per­ centage of the wages which it pays its hands, which is found to work- both to the advantage of the railway and the employes. Wages are very low in , In­ dia, but through this method many of, the employes have become rich. All of the hands who receive over 30 rupees, or $10 a month, have to pay 2 per cent, of their earnings into a cer­ tain fund. They can pay as mufeh more than 2 per cent, as they please. The road receives the money, pays interest on it, and upon their leaving the service honorably, gives them back double the amount they have paid in with interest. This seems incredible, but I am assured it is so. An English clergyman told me that he knew a railroad employe who went in at $10 a month and who will soon take.out $5,000. This method was entered into at the time the rail­ road was built. The ^managers were hard up for capital, and they wished to bind their,hands to them. The com­ pany is now prosperous and it keeps up the same system.-- Cor. New York World. Himalayan Women. On the slopes of the Himalayas there are many curious tribes, says a corre­ spondent of the Denver Republican. Some of the tribes near Darjeeling reckon a journey by the number of quids of tobacco which they chew upon the way, and some of the most gorgeous specimens of Hindoo jewelry I have seen I saw on the women of the Hima­ layas. I remember one mountain pink who had fifty rupees strong around her neck, and whose limbs were loaded down with silver. She had gold plates twice the diameter of a silver dollar upon iier ears, and her mouth was covered a flat gold nose ring. Some of these Himalaya tribes have one wile to four men and polyandry i-i common. Here at Bombay are the prettiest women of India. They are the parsees. With delicate, olive brown skins, they are tall and well shaped, have beautiful eyes and fine intellectual faces. They dress in silks of the most deli­ cate colors, and the dress seems to con­ sist of one large piece of silk, which is wound around the waist and then car- up over the body and the top of the head, so that the face looks out, and the whole haags in a beautiful drapery. Many of them, I note, have silk stock­ ings and slippers to match the color of their dresses, and they are the brightest and prettiest women I have seen. The parsees are sun worshipers. There are only about seventy thousand of them in India, and fifty thousand of these are in Bombav. The men dress iu long, preacher-like clothes of black, with hats shaped like coal scuttles, and they are very fine-looking. ^Fheir dress, when not in business, is often of the whitest of linen coats and shirts. They are the best business men in the world. They own millions of dollars worth of property here in Bom­ bay and are largely interested in the trade of India. They are more akin to the Christians than the Hindoos in their methods of living. They believe in spending their money, dwell in good houses, and drive about in fine car­ riages. They are charitable as well as rich, and some of the finest of the pub­ lic buildings of Bombay have beeu built by them. They are of Persian descent, aud have temples in whieh burn the sacred fire of Zoroaster. 880 4.50 8.S0 .87 .45 .96 12.50 4.75 & 5.35 © 5.9S ® .88 <3 .50 # .98 #13.00 8.50 4.00 .72 (9 4.38 & 4.78 & .78 J3V2® .84 .S3 & .94 .40 & .41 8.76 ® 4.38 4.25 & 4.75 4.00 & 4.80 4.00 & 5.80 MssBaohufwtts) silverware recently Thompson, to meet Hippolyte and en 8.75 0 4.78 ,63 & .83% JB <3 .39)6 .96 & ,26ft KYE--No. 2 .47 & .49 PORK.--Moss 11.50 <912.00 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE-Good 8.75 0 4.98 Medium 9.75 A 3.80 n JButchars' 3.00 # 3.00 Hoos.. Hoos..,..,. 440 0 4.60 Sheep......^ 9.60 # 4.09 I*.***.,., »M & U$ THREATENED WITH FAMINE. JTarmcrs In the Canadian Northwest Sub­ sisting on Field Mice and Gophers. GRAFTON, D. T., July 22 --Crops in the Canadian northwest and along the Dakota line are in bad shape. Farmers are al-" most destitute, and some instances are re­ ported where they are subsisting on field mice and gopher.-. In the Canadian north­ west proper the crops are nil. A party of emigrants from the Souris„ country were met yesterday at the boundary line. They had traveled 800 miles through a well settled country on the Canadian side with­ out seeing a fair crop, and say a great many settlers are leav­ ing their land to drive their cattle to timbered country on this side. Some families looked famine stricken and had eaten nothing but potatoes and turnips for some months. They were afflicted with scurvy and were sacrificing themselves to save their cattle. At one place northwest from Turtle mountain a family of English emigrants, who were traveling back to the mountains, had killed and were eating a young colt, The suffering in that isolated region will be awful, and thorn who have means will leave in such numbers as to depopulate that section. f • .•» .i.rf l ' 4-1 'lawK. * V. ' WAV'" v** "-^1 '9&.W; rlr An Embrace Full of Meaning. He had been going it strong, aud he had come out of the last spell with vague hallucinations of a most unpleas­ ant kind. He did not tell any body, but he feared it might be true. Where- ever he went he always seemed to have another man with him. He dared not ask anybody, and he could never feel quite sure whether this was the result of drinking or an actual fact. He never spoke to this man who was with him, but he felt he was there. On the street, in the house, everywhere this fellow was by his side. A hundred times he felt like making a break to discover the truth. It was getting serious when he stepped on to a car to go home. This man sat down beside him. He kept looking down sideways at him, but he did not want, if there was nobody there, to give himself away to the other passengers. The conductor came along. He handed him a dime. The con­ ductor. from foroe of habit, said as he raised his bell punch: "Two, sir?" Without a word the passenger rose and threw his arms around his neck. The conductor does not know to this day what his affectionate embrace meant -- San Francisco Chronicle., • Retarti of an Escaped Convict A rapid knocking upon the outside door of the guard-house of a convict camp near Atlanta, Ga., at 10 o'clock the other night was an unusual sound and aroused the guard and prisoners. "Who's that?" called the guard. "It's me, an escaped convict." The door Was opened and there stood a young white man who had escaped from the camp a year ago when a storm blew down the prison. He was invited in and was soon asleep with the usual chains about his feet. The captain of the camp tells,' the following story: "That convict stated to the guard that ho found life a burden, dodging officers and fearing to look a man in the face. While running around he had nearly starved to death and had DO clothes to wear during the winter. He preferred the convict camp to the life had been leading. He is now hard a^ work, and there is no bet- ter behaved oonvict in the camp." AH' Intetwstbifc Maooverjr In tike ««rr» Madtw Mountain*. A Mexican aawtaMogist, geno Marghtoe, has ree mtly made an intei esting discovery of nawurallTTiiummifie. human bodies in a oavejf 1 in the Si©rr Madre Mountains. The cavern is of natural Origin, and lies at the hight c> about 7,000 feet above the sea. Th mouth of the opening had been artifi cially closed with sun-dried bricks am etonea, so contrived as not only to clos but to conceal the entrance. In th cave the desiccated remains of four hu man bodies were found, apparently al members of one family, the fathel mother, a boy, and a girl. The bodie were in the position so commonly give' to the dead by American Indians; the were in a sitting posture, the hand crossed over the breast, and "the hea< iuclined forward toward the knees. They all were placed with their face toward the East, and were shrouded ii burial garments. In article concerning these rembim n a recent number of Nature the writer assumes tha^ the preservation of thi bodies Was due to the peculiarly higi and dry atmosphere of the Southeri clime and elevated level. In this con elusion he is mistaken, for the reasoi that, in one case of a human body, dis­ covered about fifteen years ago, in e cavern near the Natural Cave in Ken­ tucky, a similar natural desiccation had taken place. The remains were those of a child of 12 or 14 years cf age. The unfortunate creature had evidently beei lost in the cavern, and had wandered until starvation brought about death. The position of the body was that oi perfect repose, showing that the sleej of exhaustion had passed into the res', of death. In this case, as in that of the remains found by Senor Marghiere, the integument was well preserved, there being no trace of decay in any part ol the form; even something of tlys ex­ pression of the face remained despite the emaciated look given by the process of desiccation. Wherever the circumstances of burial are such as would be afforded by any caverns in this country, where the ac­ cess of the germs which conduct the fermentative process of decay is pre vented, and where the air has an ordi­ nary dryness, a like process of mummi­ fication would certainly ensue. It thus seems probable that the Egyptians took an unnecessary amount of pains to pre­ serve their dead in the mummified con­ dition. In their dry climate the same end could have been attained by much simpler processes^ As far as the pre­ servation of form is concerned these mummies of Mexico or Kentucky are bodies, as well preserved as any of those from Egyptian burial places. A Good Story Spoiled. "No," said Mark Twain, as he sat in his room at the Murry Hill Hotel, and dreamily watched the smoke from the pipe which he was puffing. "No; I would not say that it was the best thing that I ever wrote, but I remember that I was pretty proud of it at the time, and A^as decidedly disappointed when it didn't come out the next day. I didn't know until you told me that the story had ever reached this part of the coun­ try^ But you haven't got it quite right; it was a fool of a compositor who ruined the story. Poor devil! I suppose he is dead pow, and it doesn't matter what we say of Jiis stupidity. But he was certainly an awful fool. "It happened when I was a reporter on the Virginia City Enterprise. I was assigned to report a dinner given by a party of some of the most notoriously hard driukers in town, and Virginia City was not supporting many temperance unions at that time. Everybody knew that the dinner was going to resolve it­ self into a glorious drunk, and the re­ sult proved that everybody was right. Of course I didn't want to be too hard on the boys in reporting their dinner, and yet, as a truthful reporter, I had to give the public to understand just what had taken place there. In a happy mo­ ment I conceived the idea of conveying this information in a delicate way with­ out really saying that all hands were drunk. My plan was to begin my re­ port iu the regular cut-and-dried way. After giving a few sentences in this way I grew a little more careless in style. Gradually I became more and more- mixed up in my language, until at last the words were written without any real or apparent connection with each other I tried my best to give the reader the idea that as I wrote the report I got more and more intoxicated, until I wound up in a stupidly drunken condi­ tion. I was greatly interested in carry­ ing out this plan as well and naturally as I could, when, after an hour's hard work, the report was finished, I felt I had written the very funniest thing that had ever appeared in that paper. The copy went out without being read and the first part of it was set up just as 1 had written it. "The fool compositor got hold of the last part, and of course couldn't make head or tail of it. Instead of setting it up as he found it, and leaving the rest to the proof reader or editor, he made up his mind that I ' had really been drunk when I wrote it. He was a kind- hearted man, and he never liked to see one of the boys in trouble. So he calmly proceeded to change my copy aud put in little connecting words, so as to make sense of it. It was all done with the kindest intention-in the world. He did not want to see me discharged for being drunk. Then he destroyed my copy so that it couldn't be brought in evidence of my guilt. "I wouldn't care to say how fearfully disappointed I was when I picked up., the Enterprise the next day and looked for mv funny report. It was as coldly stupid as a ten-year-old patent office re­ port. I wept scalding tears and left the office. On the street I met the compos­ itor who had taken such pains to fix my story for me. He looked so happy when lie told me how he had been the means of keeping me out of trouble with the managers of the paper that I hadn't the heart to tell him what a fool he actually was. I was sorry afterwards that I didn't do so, however, for I dis­ covered that for years he told the story of how he saved me from disgrace in half the newspaper offices west of the Mississippi river. He was an old mail, and so I think he must be dead by this time. If he isn't he is probably telling his version of the story yet." Warranted to Wear. Joblot--See here, Isaacs, I thought you said you would warrant these trous­ ers to wear. Isaacs--So I did. - Joblot--Well, look at them, I've only worn them two weeks arid you can see. through "the cloth. Isaacs--I warranted them ,to wear; didn't I? Joblot--Of course you did, ~ Isaacs--Villi, ain't dey WOBB ? Wot'a der madder mit you ?--* Chicago America. % OroviDi prefere*ii|'|lilSlw We Cata Make How did tf eofce aboulf , f»$ quastiJn now asked in rifptrd to fhmiifiilayi at " a popular writer. Tha tanta qiiestkm was asked five years ago when a society man in Boston married a sensible home body, some five years his senior. The croakers croked well, and decided that it was an unfortunate affair or -would tarn out to be in the end. George Eliot savs that this love of "finding out how it came about" is due to "an excess oi poetry or stupidity." I don't know as ^ that is just fair, but I do think when • marriage is contrary to established rule* croakers are stupid, and fortunately are often in the . wrong in their prophecy, says a writer in Good Housekeeping. It is written that when marriage was about to take place Kjng James used to ask, "What is the wo- rvj on'o sifikdo!!! fi,ndi her fsirnsss days of "infatuations" are now giving place to a keen outlook to the direction of personal comfort; makdom and fair­ ness stand one side and the question to be answered first, will this woman make my home restful to me, and will she live on what I can earn ? Subtle has been the process that has led to this gradual change, but a change has coma The brilliant society man referred to is now a regular stay-at-home, for the simple reason his home is as perfect as a home can be made to be. The sun­ niest, brightest room in the house is his sanctum; here are his favorite books, pictures be likes, the latest magazines, leaves cut, and no end of pipes. When the train whistles into the depot, in which is this fortunate man, a fire is started on the low hearth to make the room cheerful although the warmth if not needed. To this room he brings his friends, and here husband and wife sit when alone. Everything that will help his wife to make home a means of grace she reads, on her table are always to be found books and magazines that talk oi the higher life of the home. I mean good cooking when I say higher life; a hitherto much neglected part of re­ ligion. This- man, formerfy out every evening, rarely goes to theater or opera, party or ball, because his home has greater attractions, and he is really now so sensible, well-informed, and amount­ ing to someting that his friends are re­ joiced that the seemingly incongruous marriage came about. When I was asked what I considered the reason of this transformation, I an­ swered: "Clean, well-aired rooms, good food, and a wife who is more anxious to be what a German writer calls 'a serene house-wife,' than to keep her weather- eye out to see if she will evet get rights?--and vote." Badgering an Insurance Agent. : Bob Kenworth is a tall man, upward of six feet high, but he looks as>if he was not long for this world. He is hollow-chested, and so thin that he looks very much as if he had not had anything to eat since the war. , When he passes along the streets the under­ takers come out and cast a long, linger­ ing glance at him, and no wonder, for he has been inspiring them with hopes that have never been realized for the last twenty years. He has, morever, a hacking cough that ha3 the genuine graveyard ring in it. , Not long ago, it occurred to him that it would be a good idea to have his life insured. He had previously experienced some surprise that he had never suf­ fered from the importunity of life in­ surance agents. To his surprise he dis­ covered that the companies were afraid to take any risks on his life, that he was^. a bad subject, as his death might occur at any time. Being of a somewhat humorous turn of mind, Bob made it a practice from that time on to worry life insurance agents on every possible oc­ casion. ' Not long since he tackled one at ail Austin hotel, where all this is supposed to have occurred. The agent repre­ sented an influential New York com­ pany. Introducing himself, Bob said: "I just heard of your arrival and I hurried over to see you. For some time past I.have been wanting to get my life insured in some good company, and yours is first-class." The agent gazed at the living anatomy before him and was somewhat embar­ rassed. He hemmed and hawed a few times and said, hesitatingly, that he was only taking first-class risks, and that his visitor seemed to-be rather feeble. "Yes," said Bob, "I know I look con­ sumptive, but I've looked this way all my life, and I ain't dead yet. My grandparents are living yet, and are both upward of ninety years of age. The old man can thread a needle without matches--I mean without glasses. I'm good for a hundred, myself." The agent shook his Bead in a de­ precatory sort of way. "I never get drunk, or commit sui­ cide, and have the digestive powers oi an anaconda," continued Bob, persua­ sively. "I don't care to insure your life," said • the agent, with increasing firmness. , "That's what all these agents say when I talk to them, but I am offering speoial inducements. It is a sacred duty you owe your company to insure my life. You may die before night, and then you will regret having refused my offer. If the company hears of it they will dock your salary." "Excuse me, I have a business en­ gagement," said the agent trying to get away; but Bob reached out a skeleton hand and detained him, saying: "I have been vaccinated several times and it took each time. Besides I am a man of influence here, and if you suc­ ceed in insuring me there's no telling how many other prominent citizens of Austin you will capture. In the lan­ guage of the poet: 'Secure the shadow ere the substance fades away.'" "I'm too busy to listen to you." " "I don't wish to bore you," replied Bob, "so I will call again later in the day, when we will talk the whole mat­ ter over. There are other agents who want to insure me, but I prefer your company." The suffering agent rushed out of the hotel, and Bob sank into a chair and laughed until the tears rolled down his hollow cheeks.--Texas Siftings. What It Is Now. "What was it," asked the Sunday- school teacher, "that first caused the downfall of man ?" / . - "The forbidden fruit," wplied fc* class iu concert, j "That's right." j "And now what kind of fruit was iff There was. a silent pauso, and then offspring of a newspaper fuliny man spoke up: "I don't know what it was then, but if s a chestnut now."--Merchant 2"ra»- eler. .