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fUraleale: i. VAN SLYKE, EKItr and Publish* ILLINOIS. McHENRY, <r &vt IMPROVING. ANOTHER FATAL RAILROAD CRASH IN OHIO. Killed N*«r l'hlM(o, ni tfcm la Mmdai on tlw RtU-A K«rr7 iW at Kt*r«r»-tyBn, MM*., Agabi Vie- 2% Mad by a Disastrous Fire. BUSINESS GROWS ACTIVE. k 'iA Fine Crop Prospects Counteract the Mid' f summer Dullness. £/" / R. O. DCN & Ca'S weekly review of trade says: Business clearly grows somewhat more e, ' Jtttlve. though midsummer dullness is still $herule At Eastern cities there Is noticed %j( snore demand for manufactured goods with larger call for materials. At the West trade is enlivened by the large yield of %tnter wheat already harvested "and by j v' 4he bright outlook for other crops. At the j • • •outta, however. though the crop advices - ,'fcre also favorable, no improvement ap- }• " pears In business, which is duller tlian •i'w . .Iiseal even for the season and at some foints is pronounced quite unsatisfactory, m ports at New York have sharply de- '$>. • i.••'•lined since July, amounting to about §4,300,000, or 18 per cent, less than for the Cumo weeks last year. On the other hand, Exports of domestic products at this point 'ti '• Show an increase thus far in this month of Sin*3 ,323,000, or nearly 33 per cent in compaei- son with the same weeks last year. The •soney markets are generally in fair shape, And collections fair for the season. The i "business failures occurring throughout the Country during the last seven days number -"174, as compared with a total of 247 last Week. For the corresponding week of last a year the figures were 207. fyr- BASE-BALI* i«*nd ing of the Different Clubs According to the Latest Contests. FOLLOWING is a showing of the stand- - tog of each of the t^ams of the different Associations, ' VlttTIONAt. MAGUK ? - *.L ft. W. L. ||ew Tor Its..39 27 .691 PhUsdelp's-.si 96 QMcagos....42 SO .5S3; Brooklyn*...33 96 . Bostons M 32 .643,Pittsburgh. .29 40 (Sevelands. .83 3J .AUlCincinnatis.3) 43 & .445 .420 .408 barn on John 1\relic's farm was by lightning; and was entirely destroyed, bam wits va ued at $4,00(1. AT Pittsburg, Mass., Bracken's new brick block on North street was burned, Including Bent brothers' extensive car­ riage works and Canfield's hardware store, Farrell & Fahey's drug store, a millinek-y store and two other stores. The loss is expected to reach $100,000. AT Wilmington, Pel., Robert H. Pa- vis, a watchman at the Rockland Paper Mills of the Jessup & Moorfi Company, was ground to death in & large water- wboeL AT Jersey City, N. J.,'William Brtn- nan andhis wife were shot by Policeman John V, liyerson Brennan was killed outright His wife, a though able to walk to the city hospital, was mortally hurt Officer Ryerso.i claims that he had to use his pistol to save his own life. Ax explosion of dynAmits on board the steamship 6. R. Booth, at the Erie Basin, Brooklyn, two men were kilted. fend onr families from atarratiea property from depreciation and onr iieoy3e from contamination from the hordes of convict laborers being introduced in onr works, do hereby lies you to prevent their introduction and thus avoid bloodshed, which is sure to follow it their taking our livelihood from us is persisted in. Answer. The Governor and about 120 State sol­ diers in his command went to the mines ,at once. In a speech to an augry mob Governor Buchanan said that he was not there to discuss the convict lease law but to see that the law was not over­ ridden. The discharged miners are well armed and the outcome is doubtful. AT Louisville, Charles Thiele, aged 50, a well-to-do cigar dealer of that city, blew his brains out. He was jealous of his wife. fillSfSi FOREIGN GOSSIP. IT IS rumored at Rome that the local authorities of Catania, A city of Sicily, have violated the United States Consul­ ate at that place, and that the Consul has asked the officials at Washington to permit him to close his office and to place the archives under the protection of the German flag. IT is believed that the French Govern­ ment h&s decided to accede to the re­ quest of Hon. Whitelaw Reid, the I United States Minister, to remove the ! embargo upon American pork, as it is | known that the (lovcrnment lias agreed i to bring forward a bill modifying the j general customs tariff of May, 1881, and living the duty of 20 francs per 100 kilos on all salted pork, ham and bacon im­ ported from the United States. SIX VICTIMS. DREADFUL WORK OP A GRIP- CRAZED FARMER. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. THK Canadian Pacific steamer Atha­ basca, bound up. sunk the Pontiac. ore- lad ?n and bound down, just below Church's Landing, in the "Soo" River, Mich. The Athabasca arrived in port carrying the upper works of the Pontiac on her bow just struck The Pon­ tiac struck on the port bow and is at the bottom of the river. The wheelman of the Pontiac was badly injured. A FREIGHT on the Northern Pacific, while going over a trestle near Spokarte. crashed through. Michael Flaherty, thj fireman, was killed outright. Roadf? master Speer was fatally hurt and died soon after. The cars • were bailv Hihul weri called to order by State Chair- wrecked; two of them were loaded with ' man Norton. His introductory speech dealt chiefly with the McKinley bill, and accepted the challense voiced in the Re­ publican platform. He was followed by AlltnW. Thurman, who also assailed the McKinley measure. Roth speakers joined in expressing admiration for Mr. McKinley as an honest and able citizen, but assailed the wisdom of his judgment upon the tariff question. The majority report of the Com­ mittee on Resolutions, containing clauses favoring a graded Income tax and the free coinage of silver, was accepted. Th.' minor­ ity report differed only in these particulars. Ex-Congressman Follett, heading the Ham­ ilton County delegation, presented the / POLITICAL PORRIDGE. Cleveland, Ohio, (590 delegates Wftd-at the Democratic State Convention, horses and cattle, most of which were killed. \ ' THE preachers of Topcka, Ka.i., held a mass-meeting to take^wps to enforce the prohibition law. Resolutions were adopted, calling for the resignation of Probate Judge Ekkitts, who is charged with issuing too many druggists' licenses. The resolutions declare that several blocks of the city are devoted to drug | stores, which are In fa-t saloons. j AT Allegan, Mich., three daughters of i Harmon Calkins, aged 13, 12, and 11, j name of Lawrence T. Neal,*of Chilllcothe, AKEBICAH JgSOCIATIOV. W. L. »o. W. u 9a. Bostons 1 2> .671 Columbus...37 42 .488 fit.Louts 52 2' .64! Cincinnati*:3i 45 .480 ., Klttmords. .48 B> .*8 LoutavfUes ,2> 54 .m$ Ittfledelp'B. .38 J8 .500 VVashlngt'ns25 48 .942 * WKBTKRN ASSOCIATION. W. u 90. W. I|. ye. Omahas 43 2/ ,6i4 Kineas C'ys.36 39 ,480 lfnwankeea.45 31 .• 00 Sioux City*.-3 3"> .458 lincolns. ...*0 83 .543 Denvers.... .31 41 .431 *KiMi6W6li»41 «S .S33,DnIathg 25 50 .933 ATJS HER OWN CHILDREN. jarful Story of Suffering and Privation in the j^ng^orests °* Minnesota. ' A FISHING PARTY from Pino Lake Minn., has just returned from the pins forests of Snake River, bringing w[th •ttern a wild woman and her i£-year-o!d daughter The daughter tellsj, story of terrible lly was eaten by woives las$ while drunk. Since that time they have had no food in their humble cabin. Tho 4hree younger children died of starva­ tion. and were cooked and eaten one by one by the mother and eldest daughter. Hie mother's mind finally gave way, and she is now a raving maniac. NINE KILLES, tdX§Y INJURED. ift's Refrigerator Train Crashes Into' a Work Train Hear Kenton, Ohio, TELEPHONE message received at nfff, ^tllo, from Kenton says there was a bad wreck on the Chicago and sErie Railroad at Hepburn, a station five gvj- Biles east of Kenton. Swift's refrigera- yi'* tor meat train, east bound, running fe? special, ran into the work train palling ' Into a s iding, killing nine laborers and |t>. Injuring many others. Both locomotives fjp Were in ruins, with ten or twelve cars. II : The telegraph wires along the Erie are p* down east of Kenton and west of |||y Marion, and further details could not "lie learned.- . - || \u Lynn Badly Scorched. fc | * Two OF the finest business blocks in ^ 4 <v Lynn, Mass., are in ruins and a third ' f fcadly damaged, as the result of a fire. 8pfH:' When the fire started every one thought §V Lynn was to have a repetition of its |T-; •! ttemorable experience of November, 1889. It originated in the same district i | • «s the former fire, and for a time threat- fe* " ened to sweep in the same direction. It |'/v "j) is estimated that the loss on the two p ' blocks destroyed and that of the Currier |^\ H • Block, partially burned, together with y.f P'! ten'8, will reach nearly $300,000. Jy On a Wire Over the Whirlpool, "T 1 SAMUEL J. DIXON of Toronto, Ont., I < ^ ' walked across the Niagara (iorge over ' C4, *he whirlpool rapids on a three-fourths I' 1 s >• $nch wire cable. The trip was first made | \ trom the Canadian to the American ^ , Chore, and after a short rest he walked Cv ' 'l 1 '<put » distance and performed some diffi- fr,":1 tult gymnastic feats. He afterward -/ , < \-v |>erformod th© same feats near the Cana- k ' » ^ > dian shore. Over 5,OQ3 persons wit- tf " f. • I tiessea the feat • - ^ z rz - <o ' "t Killed at a, Crossing. '-F AT Kensington, 111., two persons ware ; burled into eternity and a third so badly ;/f - . , injured tnat his life is despaired of by a f?, , fswift south-bound passenger train on the g3^:;;:';'|;s.^gpanhandle Road striking their buggy! dead are: Miss Eliza Haiser, aged m years; Milean Haiser, aged ll years. '$7 ^ • The injured; Lawrence Haiser, aged 14 ;tst I, ^eara- ••• • ----- W* ' F, j/1" ,1ptled in a Wreck. A LOGGING train on Lake Valley Rail- **'* 1roa^ wa<' at a lumber camp on l; fif"" Lake Tahoe, Nev. Three men were M - h-®nd Fred Johnson, engineer, and vf? p Charles Forbes are both badly hurt. j i ; N o t a C h i l d B o r n i n N i n e Y e a r s . | <« AT Birmingham, Conn., the discovery # was made that not a child had been pv,r born in the White Hills School District : J? ,n nine years> and that the youngest ; v ';* > child attending school is 9 years old. The population is about 500 persons, and soon the school will have to be abandoned. - Death of Vice Consul Edgar Marvin. EDGAB MARVIN, United States Vice Consul at Victoria, B. C., died there, aged 67 years. He wag a native of New York, and yent tt^Eifctoria in 1862. were riding in a wagon when tbe horses ran away, throwing the two oldest out The youngest was draggea sixty rods. The oldest was picked up unconscious. The other was badly bruised. The doc­ tors think thenyoungest girl will die. THE 5-year old sou of John Richey, of Albany, Ind., was smothered to death in a wheat-bin. The boy was playing in an elevator while wheat was being loaded into a car and was sucked into the chute. » AT Fort Scott, Kan., as the Missouri Pacific train from Kansas City started west to Wichita and stopped at the Mis­ souri, Kansas and Texas crossing, a freight train on the latter roal struck the Missouri Pacific chair-car, knocked it. off the rear trucks, and turned it on its sides. The loc omotive of the freight train was derailed and badly smashed, . Ten £ersong we e severely hwrt. X. FREIGHT "Itai'u coming down tile Pass on the Colorado Midlaud when the brakes refused to work and the j train dashed down the mountain. At! the first curve it jumped the trtck, j piling the whole train up in one mass, i Engineer James Morris and. Fireman • James Wilson were insfnnt'y killed. ] AT Denver a terrible explosion" oc-' corFed in the works of the Consolidated 'Electric Company, by which five men were l>adly bvrned. The men were pre­ paring a blast, when one of them tried to open a keg of powder with a pick. T£W« will die. J. M. RICHARDSON, » young attorney of Davenport, Iowa, tfas held to the Grand Jury on a charge of perjury. He obtained a judgment against persons on whom he swore he had served notice of suit, but they swear that no notiqe was given. THIEVES entered Strassheim & Jaeger's wholesale grocery store, at Chicago, blew open the safe and stole from it $ J0'J in money and about 3150 worth of jew­ elry. A TERBTBLE storm of wind and rain struck West Superior, Wis Several small buildings were blown down, but at one spot the storm left appalling proof of its deadly force. A large three- story frame structure, near the barge works. partly completed, was blown down on the heads of about twenty workingmen and a score of other people who gathered within its limits for protection. It was with the utmost difficulty that the un­ dertaking of getting at the real extent of the disaster was prosecuted. A pair of corpses dragged from the ruins dis­ pelled the faint hope that no life had been sacrificed outright. Rescuers were hindered and the misery of the wounded doubly intensified by watersoaked gar­ ments. The building is a complete wreck, In spite of the pouring rain the visitors at the scene rushed in and as­ sisted the firemen in the cause of rescue. Men in all professions and walks of life stood shoulder to shoulder and worked with only the thought of humanity's sake. JTive were killed outright and ten injured. AT Liberty, Mo., two negroes named James Bones and. James Diggs were as candidate for Governor. He was fol­ lowed by S. D. Dodge, of Cleveland, who named Virgil P. Kline, of Cuyahogo Coun­ ty. Gen. Michael Ryan, of 'Cincinnati, then presented the name of Gov. James E. Campbell, and a ballot immediately fol­ lowed with this result. Campbell S03 7-16 Neal iat 946 Kline 56 Congressman T. L. Johntion 1 After Gov. Campbell's speech of accept­ ance, ex-Congressman Yoder, of Lima, named W. V. Marquis for Lieutenant Gov­ ernor, and he was choscn by acclamation. The completed ticket is given. i Governor JAMES E. CAMPBELIJ Lieutenant-Governor.... W. V. MARQUIS Auditor of State T, E. PFCKINBAUGH Treasurer of State C. F. ACKERXAN Attorney-General JOHN P. BAILEY Judge of Supreme Court... .GUSTAWH H. WALD Commissioner of Schools.. .CHARLES C. MILLER Member Board of Public WorkB... J. MCNAMAKI Food and Dairy Commissioner... .H. S. TBVJCBO FRESH AND NEWSY, THREE desert#Pii are reported from tho United States steamship Boston and five frorti the United States ' steamship At­ lanta. Two of them registered at a Boston hotel. r'TMliey were found uncon­ scious from escaping gas. Both will die. * • THE Collector of Customs at Victoria informs the department of the seizure | near that point of the sloop Flora, of Seattle. Wash., for neglecting to report inward. A fine Of £400 was imposed. The Captain, Alfred Zetterman, said that he was about to take eighteen Chinamen into the United States. He was given thirty days in which to pay the fine, at the end of which time, if the line is not paid, the vessel will be con­ fiscated and sold to the highest bidder. THE greatest conflagration Montreal has witnessed for years began in the great lumber yard of Prefontaine, Brosseau «fc Co. and spread with tre­ mendous rapidity. For fourteen hours the firemen fought desperately. A num­ ber are reported bad'y burned and some fatalities are ^ feared. Hundreds of thousauds of dollars' worth of property was consumed. IVTHUDEBS or citizens of the Indian Territory who can not show proper per mits are being dumped on th-j Texas border at the rate of from 25 U> 120 daily. THE Howell Lumber Company has already decided upon its plan of pro­ cedure under the financial distress which has overtaken it. The first shock of the mammoth failure, which swept east from Kansas, striking the Chicago end of the business like a tornado, bein^over, the management of the company Js collect­ ing its entire strength to mak& an effort to tide over the storm that threatens to wipe the firm out of existence. They must raise $200,000. THE following telegrams have been | received from Iquique, by Don Pedro ; Montt, the representative of t^ie Chilian ' insurgent party, at Washington: "There i has been no batt'e in Coquinbo. The j only combat that has taken place has j been between our vanguard and the ! rear guard of the Dictator's army to the j south of Vallenar, in tho valley of Hu- I asco. In the combat the troops of the i Dictator fled. Our troops occupy the A Motlwr u < Four Children KlU*d--I*- dkmtton* that th« Husband and Father WM 11M Perpetrator ot the AwrTol Deed-- Probably (n«a <e from the Grip. Mrs. Dr. Allen, of Beatrice, went to Ellis, Neb., on a visit to her brother, John H. Puterbaugh, who lived a mile and a half routh of town. She was driven to the farm by Louis Perling and knocked at the door, but recoiving no response entered the house, the door not being locked. As she entered she saw her brother on the floor near the door, and supposed he was asleep. She spoke to him, but there being no response, she looked more closely, and saw blood on her brother's ghastly face. Mrs. Allen called Per lng in, who ma<)$ an investi­ gate n, and found a horrible state of affairs. On a bed in the room in which the husband and father lay was the mother with a bullet through her head. In bed with her was a 2-year-old babe, also shot through the bead. On a lounge in tho room lay a lad of 10 years dead, shot through the head. In the room above was another bed occupied by two young girls, one 13 and one 15, both dead with bullet-holes in their heads. The dead are John Puterbaugh, his wife, and four children. How they met their terrible fate is as yet not known, only by surmise. The general belief is that the terrible aeed was the work of the husband and father. The motive is not known, as Puterbaugh was a peace­ able man in comfortable circumstances, and it is believed no trouble existed in the family. It seems certain thai the terrible crime was committed by Puterbaugh. By his side, tinder his arm, lay a 32-caliber six- chambered revolver with all tbe cham­ bers empty. The scene in the house was a horrible one and made the strongest hearted turn away., The faces of the dead, though covered with blood, were calm as though sleeping. No signs of fear were portrayed on any of them, and no evi­ dence of a struggle were seen any­ where. All seemed to have been killed while sleeping, and a'l were shot directly through the skull In every case the pistol was placed close to the head, as powder stains were visible upon the pil­ lows or bed clothing. Puterbaugh was not a drinking man and had the reputation of being an hon­ est and peaceable citizen. He suffered from grip last spring and since then has not been in the best of health, frequently complaining of a pain in his head. He was a man about 38 or 40 years of age, and his wife was a year or two younger. The murdered children were as follows: Carrie, 15 years; Mabel, 13 years; Charles, 10 years: Ralph, 2 years. Ono son, Allen, 17 years of age, survives. He was away from hr>mo at work. Puterbaugh was in Beatrice a few days ago and is said to'liave then pur- chsjscd tjho revolver with which the ter­ rible deed w'as committed. In the barn near the house wer.> the two mules and three horseu. Hitchoi to a "wagon in front of the barn were two more horses, and in the field a number of cows. The house was farly well furnished for a farm house, and in the cupboard was an abundance of good food. Puter­ baugh owned 240 acres of land, which lie purchased in March last from A. Wisnell, of Beatrice. He was liked by all who knew him there and at his former homo in Diller. CYCIME AT SUPERIOR.1'AVALANCHE OF EARTH. FIVE occupy taken by a party of unknown men and whole province of Atacama." EA8TB^« OCCURRENCES. RftAR Butler, Pa., John Mininger drove up to his brother Adam's hopse and said he intended feeding his horse in the barn. Adam remonstrated, and an old feud of ten years' standing was revived. Adam drew a revolver and shot John five times, one lodging just above the heart WEST CHESTER, Pa., was visited by the most terrific thunder storm of the sea­ son. Two Italians--Nicolo Valarlo and Donarto Con to--working on the Len&pe fcranch of the electric railway, were struck and instantly killed. The large I d« & &•" 1 given a severe whipping for thieving. WHILE suffering from despondency, Mrs. Sarah Blood, the wife of a Chica­ go railroad man, took a dose of rat, poison grid djod. A r tldon, Iowa, an office building, a dry goods store, barber shop, boot and shoe store, th« Eldon Graphic, and two millinery stores were burned in an in cendiary fire. Loss, 30,000; insurance, 820,000. There is no trace of the Incen­ diaries. 80UTHERN INCIDENTS. IN a free fight at a Louisville beer garden, in which twenty-five men par­ ticipated, Ad. Shane was fatally stabbed. Tom Harrington and five others have been arrested for the stabbing. JUDGE J. A. WABDEB, of Chattanooga, Tenn., under indictment for the murder of his son-in-law. committed suicide by blowing out his brairfe. Since the death of his son-in-law, tbe result of a family quarrel, Judge Warder has been attacked with melancholia. Since his release from confinement he has been residing on Lookout Mountain with his wife and mother. He secured a pistol in Chattanooga: after saying his prayers in the presence of his mother he bade her an affectionate good-bv, placed a revolver at his tem­ ple and fired Mr. Warder, before the tragedy in which be killed his son-in- law, was one of the most prominent Re­ publican politicians in the State. He served for a time on tbe Supreme Bench of the State. THE following message was received at tbe Tennessee State capital from Coal Creek, Tenn., the scene of trouble between discharged miners and convicts who had been sent there to take their places: To (Sov. Buchanan, Nashville: VTe, tbe miners, farmers, merchants, and property-holders of Bricevllle apd . Coal Creek and vicinity, assembled to the num­ ber of 500, who have come together to de- 8.50 8.50 BfAKKJCT tUCPUKIH, CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common toPrlmo,;.. 4 Hoos--Shipping Grade*. SHEEP........ .TT WHKAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2. OATS--No. 2 UTE--No. 2 Bt'TTKit--Choice Creamery CHKEBE--Full Cream, flats EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--New, per brl INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Sblppin;,' HOGS--Choice Ijight, SUKEP--Comiaou ti Prime...... WBE>AT-NO. % KED CORN--No. 1 White OATS--No. 2 White ST. LCU1& CATTLE Hoos WHEAT--No. 2 Bed. Co as--No. a OATB--No. 'i. POBEL--Mess. CINCINNATI. CATTLE. Boos SREIP.... WHEAT--No. 2 Bed.... CORN--No. a., OA-IS--No. 2 Mixed ... DETROIT. CATTLE. Boos BHEXP WHEAT-NO: S Bed CORN--No. A Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT--New Coa»--Cash OATS--No. 9 White CLOVER SEED... ; BUFFALO. BEEF CATTLE........ LIVE Hoob SHEEP WHEAT--No. 1 Herd CORN--No. 2 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring . CORN--No. 8 OATS--No. 2 White.. UTE--No. 1 BARLEY--NO. 1...... PORK--Mess. NEW YORK. CATTLE ...., HOOJ. SHEEP WHEAT--NO.2 Red... CORN--No. 2. OATB--Mixed Western v. B err KB--Creamery @ 6.75 @ 5.00 & 4.50 & .86)4 & M 0 .41 8.50 t 4.50 fl .ta <! .S6^4 m 5.23 .44* & 5.79 <0 5.73 #5.23 <0 1.18 # .07 KILLED AND MANY SE­ RIOUSLY INJURED. PORK--New Maes... ..12.00 3.90 @ '•.23 4.00 <§> 6 50 4.25 & 5.J0 -97 % - & .74 .47 18 i.sn < .72 .42 .14 Tbe Electrtc Chair. Many States will follow New York's example within the next few years.-- Min neapoli# 'lYlb u nc. So far as preventing publicity in the pr^ss is concerned, the law seems to be a failure. P<erb«tpp it would be more exact to say that those who are charged with the execution of the law talk too much.--ImlUmapoII# Journal. Those electrocutions in New York ap­ pear to have been entirely successful in removing from this life the four con­ demned murderers. Electrocution is probably more merciful than hanging.-- Vaifton Times. If we must have capital punishment it is possible the new method is prefera­ ble to the old, but the people are en­ titled to know whether that is so or not, ana they never could know If the press gag clause of the law were respected and observed.--Roch&tUr Herald. It will undoubtedly bo many years be­ fore the electric death is adopted In the other capital punishment States of the Union, and perhaps before it is gen­ erally adopted there may be simpler, although probably no less painful, meth­ ods of execution.--Detroit Free Press. On the whole, there is every reason for tbe opinion that electrical execution of crimina s is a distinct advancc of civili­ zation. The only respect in Which the new l'aw is a failuie is in its atteirpt to prevmt^the press of the United States from Riving the news with regard to that important change.--Pittsburg Dispatch. Evidently the electrical process of killing is more humane than hanging, although It Is barbaious enough, heaven knows. Capital punishment is a hideous and an awful thing, and it seems a safe prediction that twenty-five years hence it will not be ) racticed in any form by any people pretending to civilization.-- lndUtnap tlis Sentinel- It does not need a careful reading of the official story to convince any one that the attcmot to regulate by law the sensationalism in reports of execution® is a farce, and that the regulation can not be repealed too soon. Apparently executions by electricity comply with all the requirements of a humane law, but the ollicial report must bo filed away with other unsuccessful experi­ ments.--Tro;/ 'J lines. There are differences of opinion as to the deterrent influences of tho death penalty on evil-doer9. but there Is no room at all for donht that while this penalty lomains in vogue the clectrical system of inflicting it has many and con­ spicuous advantages over all other meth ods yet devised.--St. Louis Globe-Demo­ crat. It does not make much difference whether murderers are hanged by the neck until they are dead or whether they are put to death by electricity. The thing is to kill them, and that swiftly,--Cincinnati CommcrcUil-Gazetie. "Electrocution" draws the just con­ demnation of the New ^ork Times. "Electrothany," which the Press was first to propose a year ago. is tbe best form^yet suggested". It is philological!? accurate; it has analogies in cither words, such as euthanasia, and its meaning is perfectly clear, and the verb "dec- trothanize" can be deriv< d from it in ac­ cordance with sound usage.--Philadel­ phia Press. The only feature of tbe affair which merits condemnation is that provision of tbe law which prohib ts the newspapers from publishing any of the details of the •execution, and which excludes reoresent- atives of the press from witnessing tbe official killing. Whrn the New York Legislature again assembles it will strike that silly provision from the law.---Cin­ cinnati Enquire. The success of the executions by elec­ tricity at Sing Sing will probably have the effect of silencing the objections to the law providing for this method of taking off criminals. That it is more humane than hanging Is practically cer­ tain, and it is probable that for a time at least ft will have a more terrorizing effect upon the imaginations of crlm inaU.--st. Louie Republic As Storm teveM s Betel IK WMfh Scores Had Sought Shelter--Tbe Seen* One of Wild Excitement--Every, otty Worked at Ko«cu«. A wind storm of terrific violence swept over West Superior, Wis , carry­ ing death and destruction In its path. The wind was accompanied by pouring rain, and the air was heavily charged with electricity. The storm lasted only about thirty minutes, but during that period many thousands of dollars of damage was done, besides the loss of at least five lives and the visiting of terrible injuries upon many parties. During the progress of the storm an alarm of fire was turned in from the Fifth Ward, and the department re eponded to find tbe new large three- story frame hotel on Third street, near Lamborn avenue, a mass of rnins. The structure had blown down and the cry went from a hundred excited individuals that the wreck was the tomb of many men. Tho news flashed over the city with startling rapidity. Hacks and drays containing their loads flew to the scene of the disaster. Meantime the rain was falling in torrents and thunder was crashing like artillery. In spite of the pouring rain, the vis­ itors at the scene rushed in and a<si*ted the firemen in the cause of rescue. Men of ali professions and walks of life stood shoulder to shoulder and worked with only the thought of humanity's sake, fresh men taking the places of those who gave up through fatigue. Fully 3,000 peoplb were at the ruins. Tho dead were: John Laur, married, aged 36 years; Charles Lucius, single, 24 years; Herman Pausscy, single, 2tt years; unknown man, about 35 years of age; John Schofiold, (;ied from injuries received in ba^k and broken limbs. Among the more seriously injured are: John Brown, broken legs; John Long, internal injuries, it is thought he will die; William Semule, Dick Clark and others were injured more or less se­ riously. Drs. Connor and Wylte did excellent work in the matter of caring for the in­ jured and providing for their conveyance to St Francis Hospital. The assistant chief of the fire depart­ ment sustained a broken leg during the work of rescue. While a rope wa3 straining on a mass of broken frame­ work, the crib-work to which it was at­ tached parted and struck him. A scene of intense excitement reigned. Men worked with desperation, and many a good suit of clothing was gladly sacri­ ficed to the work" of rescued" It was pitiful, too. Women ran about regardless of rain aud mud, wringing their hands and crying, filled with the terrible fear that their husbands or brothers had been buried In the ruins. An eye-witness to the disaster say.-* he saw a crew of workmen run in the build­ ing to seek shelter from tho storm. Fully thirty or forty men must have been inside. They were distributed over all the floor. It appears that the men on tho third floor toak the warning first {ind \yere seen to jump and get away in safety! This disaster was the central feature, but much damage was done in all direc­ tions. The steel hoisting and conveying apparatus employed by Silver Creek and Morris and Ohio Coal Companies was badly damaged, how much cannot be ascertained at present, but it will bo very costly and delay the handling of coal from vessels. Experts havo been telegraphed for to conic on from Cleve­ land at once to repair the damage. A large frame building was blown down at the corner of Third and Lower streets, Sonth Superior, and the steel plant reports a number of buildings leveled, but no casualties. Lightning playod havoc with the Fisher Hotel, the Unitarian Church, the Union Depot, and other buildings, but no serious tire resulted. Had one broken out it would have found the city prac­ tically helpl ss. DUO HIS OWN CRAVE. A Ca Ifaroia Miner's Strange Death In a Canyo'i Near the Snow Line. The Sheriff of Fresno County, Cali­ fornia, started into the mountains in quest of two murderers. In a lonely canyon, the approach to which was al: most inaccessible, be found a complete set of miners' tools, and upon further search the body of a man was found in an open grave, which was cut into the solid granite rock. Beside the grave was a note written in lead pencil, which read: "My name is Dave Meneer; 1 have lived like a devil, but Kill die like a man. Nov. 20." The body wus cov­ ered with transparent ico eighteen inches deep, which filled the grave. It is supposed that the miner, crazed by loneliness and disappointment, had dug the grave, laid himself, in it, and draw­ ing across his body a slab of granite, which still rested there, was drowned by the water which trickled into the ex­ cavation. The body was well preserved by the Ice around it, which had not thawed since last fall. Not Such Bit Crops Alter A'l. President Frank McGrath, of the Kansas Farmers' Alliance, says tho es­ timates of Secretauy Mohlor of the wheal crop of Kansas are altogether too high. From reports received by him from nearly every county in the State he es­ timates that the yield will not exceed (50,0( 0,000 bushels, and possibly not more than 55,C00,000. Mr. McGrath's reports indicate that the corn crop will be un­ usually largo. v Miss MARGARET SMITH'S lately deter­ mined claim for £20,000 against the es­ tate of the deceased Mr. Park, of Lon­ don, alrr.ostr rivaled the baccarat case. Miss ^mith was described as "an Irish lady'of gentle birth, good education and considerable attainments " Mr. Park died four years ago, aged 82, leaving £100,000. Thereupon Miss Smith pro­ duced a contract which bound Mr. Park to pay her i'30,000 If she succeeded in marrying his son John. Twenty thou­ sand pounds were guaranteed to her in dasc of failure. The trial showed that Miss Smith was possessed of a passion for litigations. She bad had fifteen of them for all sorts of purposes. In this case she swore that young Park had asked her to marry him, and had given her a ring, all of which the young man denied, and at last Miss Smith lost her case. THOMAS MARSHALL and Fred Grace, of Newcastle, Pa., were out hunting frogs the other day and captured a crea ture not described in tho books. It is a frog with wings rind a tall something like a fantail pigeon It weighs exactly nine ounces. The wings are compo-e«l of elastic-like skin, and when stretched out measured nine inches from tip to tip. When the frog bird Is in the water the wings and tall fit closely to the body and are hardly noticeable* A HOUSE cat belonging to J. C. Barry, of Pine Hill, Fla., caught a large rabbit the other night and dragged it to the house and into the kitchen, where the cat had a lot of kittens to feed. The cat was followed by a huge rattlesnake, who colle.l himself up by the stove, probably wa'ting for a share of the rab- btt, but'the ratt'e attracted the attention of the family, and hl's snakeshlp was quickly dispatched. NORTH DAKOTA THE 8CENB OP VIOLENT STORMS. Murders and Suicides la Mloioafi-flhlo ' ocl#tjr Girf* 1'lttd Fan In Base-Ball--A Pennsylvania Village In Danger of Betas Swallowed Up. A dispatch from Nanaimo^ B. G, lays: The steamor Princess Louisa, from Skeena, brings news of a terrible landslide on the banks of the Skeena Elver, resulting in the death of one woman and about forty Indians. Those residing near the Northern Pacific Can­ nery at Skeena River hearl a great rushing noise in the direction of the high, steep mountain at the back of the can­ nery. In a moment an avalanche of rocks and earth and trees was upon the doomed settlement carrying everything before it into the slongh close by the can­ nery. The occupants of the houses I ad time to get outside the buildings, but before they could escape from the ad­ vancing column of debris, they were caught and carried along at a fearful velocity. In all nine houses and their occupants were destroyed, including the mess-house and residence of the fore­ man of the cannery. In the mess-room was the young Swedish wife of the fore­ man. She was carried along in the mad and deadly current, and dashed to deaih hundreds of feet below. Indians claim that among those destroyed were about forty Indians of the Port Simpson, Sftka, Motlakahla, and Kitimiat tribes. Two days after the slide thirteen bodies of the Indians were recovered. The body of the foreman's wife has not yet been found, but there is not the slightest hope for any living thing within the range of the terrible slide of bowlders, trees, and earth. The slide just missed the can­ nery building about two feet. Had the slide struck the, cannery or occurred half an hour earlier, the death roll would have reached into the hundreds. It had been raining in torrents for the previous four days, and it is thought that the accumulation of water in the ravines on the mountain side broke away, carrying death and destruction with it. The Indians are greatly excited over the disaster, and are mourning bit- t.'rly for their dead. ' TTOAAS STOP THE THAIN?. Bart Washouts Reported In North Dakota --UBina?e In City and Country. Specials fiom various points in -North Dakota report heavy rains for forty- eight hours, which havefc caused irany wash juts on the railroads and much de­ struction to property. Between 300 and 400 west-bound pas­ sengers on the Northern Pacific were stopped at Marie an, N. D Tremendous rains washed out a lar. e number of small bridges and culvcris and track west of this point All tho bridges that are gono are sn ail ones those of the Heart River be'ng all intact. The Heart River is running bank full, and is rising. In Mandan most of the side­ walks wero lifted and scattered along the street. Numbers of cellars are fu'l, and a good deal of damage done. The rain extouded from west of Medora to Jamestown and poured in torrents for several hours. This supposed arid're­ gion has enough rain now to insuro a bounteous crop. At Dickinson, N. D., the rain was worsa than at first supposed. Crews of track repairers are working both east and west repairing heavy washouts Westbound passengers were delayed forty-eight hours. S reams are rising rapidly and it has commenced to rain again. Farmers will sustain damages from lodged grain. MURDERS AND 8UICIDE8. Jealous Ex-Policeman'* Cruel need- Double Iragedy on tbe Road from ( h'trch. Ex-Policeman Crowley, of Kansas City. Mo., who has been married only siv months, shot and killed his wife, ol whom he was insanely jealous. He then turned tbe weapon OB himself, but in­ flicted only a scalp wound. Running down to tho kitchen, Crowley snatchcd up a carving knife and attempted to cut his tbroat, but made only slight gashes. Crowley, fearing violence from tho large crowd attracted by the disturbance, ran up the street, the crowd pursuing him crying "lynch him, hang him," and throwing rocks and other missiles at him. He wa* protected by the police with drawn revolvers. Crowley's inju­ ries are not serious. Murder and self-slaughter were com­ mitted at Toos, ninf: miles southwest oi St. Louis, Mo. Frand Bacleman, the teacher of the Catholic church, and Joseph I rank were coming from mass at 9 o clock when Frank fired at Bacle- man with a revolver The bullet took effect hut did not kill, but the secoud shot did. Frank then, In the presence of a hundred or more people, turned the revolver against himself and took his own life. Had he not done so he would have been lynched. No reason can b.' assigned for the deed. TBE EARTH PELL IN. Disaster at an Old Mine In Pennsylvania-- A Village in Peril. A disastrous cave-in occurred at the old slope of the Kingston Coal Company, near Larkeville, five miles from Wilkes- barro, Pa., and the Inhabitants of Larke­ ville, which is built directly over the mine, were in great fear of their lives and property'. The cave was caused by the snapping of the old timbers in the slope directly under the fan house, where the surface sank so suddenly that the upward rush of airlifted tho roof^ofl the fan house, depositing it within a hundred feet of the opening. For hun dredsof feet in all directions the sur aca is covered with large seams and craci<s, some of them a foot wide, and extending down into the workings. A number oi houses in the vicinity were damaged. A dozen men were at work in the mines at the time, but they all escaped through a second opening. BELLES AT THE BAT. Society Girls' Play Ba«e-Ball, w'th a Preacher Acting: as Ump ire. The society girls at Washington,.Ohio, have dropped the tennis racquet and taken up the baso-ball bat An exciting and amusing game was played between a nine they have just organized and a picked nine of the society young men. The Rev. S. B. Alderson, D. D., a prom­ inent Presbyterian ministerof the pla.-e, and an enthusiast on base-ball, stood behind the bat as umpire, and dodged the foul tips with great agility. Tbe >'oung men plaTod left-handed, so as to give the girls a fair chance. The score score 3tood 22 to 17 In favor of tbe young men. The girls say they will not play in public or travel. They belong to the best families. . Hannibal Hamlin. HE took things seriously, as does every man whose c areer has been a battle, but he had withal a grim humor which occa­ sioned almost as many characteristic anecdotes of him as are related of th® immortal man-with whom his namo is to live in history.--Pittsburg Times. THK present generation hardly knew of him except historically. Many will remember, however, seoing him on his visit to the West and this city a few years ago. He was a genial, old-school centleman, and his departure will recall a period of the eouutry's history of which there are no prominent survivors. --St. Paul Globe. Cheer* Iter the Tomboy. The Tomboy has never been regard** :•' S a» ptftioolttrQr the representative of fashion. Bet ways are not the laogniA ways that w® have been taught are ©s-! ^ Mntial to obtain recognition for her ast- fif', asocial "awell;" but there i3 no doubfc ' 1 m healthy minds that one day of torn- * boydom is worth years cf fashionable^ t £ languor. Without guiltiness of mannish, r vanity a man may set down the trorld ' • "• known truth that the dearest object fa woman's life is man's approval and miration--even as the dearest boon of ' man is woman's approval aud admits **""**' tion. Perhaps meu endure men in ^ •«' * > more tolerant and catholic smrit tham - that which animates woman in her re- -- Nations to woman. But having asrreecti ^ that the approval and admiration ofK :< I man as an institution is the chief felicity' 1 j" : of women, it becomes important 1 Y'j ^ women to know how to inspire thot sentiments in man. They may prao- tic® all the clever artifice of coquetrv, ' employ all the appliauces ever devised * for "adorning" their persons, and exer- -2 cise their womanly diplomacy to com- . \ paratively little purpose if they are'1 ' * feeble in body, languid in action, and of sluggish blood. In such case man may- pity them but ha cannot admire them. " On the other hand, the Tomboy, whom Ir most women recoil from with little' *1 shrieks of horror, becomes tbe woman whose presence is a delight to men; ; whose joyous health and bubbling spirits and unconquerable cheerfulness brightens her world to the farthest horizon. She is not only an inspiring companion, but a living, breathing, w . glorious incarnation of Gesundheit--*," > most beneficent tonic. To look upon ^ her is to feel the highest beauty of liv- ^ ing, and to be mnch in her society is to"'^ yield unto her the approval and ad- miration that is dearer to the average. woman than even" her powder rag. When sensible men meet * grown-up Tomboy and take involuntary note of her royal mieu, her elastic tread, her lithe movements, her relish of the free air and of beefsteak, they hasten to lay at her feet their loyal admiration. They quickly understand that she is no moaning drone, whose happiness con­ sists in misery, but oue of themselves, : so to say, ready to front the responsi­ bilities of life, with joy that she haa . found the world a theater of action. Such a woman is man's exemplar and prod. In her presence supineness or Whisper would make him ashamed. "In her track will be sound philosophy; in her thou&rht boldness and originality; in her heart Heaven's purity; and the world is better that she lives iu it." Let us have more Tomboys.--Free Press. Dangers of Foreign Travel. Frances E. Willard, writing to the Golden Rule, on the formative influ­ ences in her life, sums up the effect of travel abroad on her young life as fol­ lows, and there is a good deal in it to think about: 'In the two years and a half invested in foreign travel, and in the study of foreign languages and the fine arts as to their history and meaning, I was con­ scious of strong renewing iu things of the intellect rather than of the heart and BOUI. A young person goes abroad at the expense of all that is best. He climbs into the upper story, a-id pulla the ladder after him. He is apt to be­ come careless of the good habits formed in childhood. To learn the langnage he must go to to the theater, 'where it is spoken in its purity.' Everybody * tells bim that, and he is quite willing to be told. In order to see certain gal­ leries and famous objects he is apt to deflect his steps from the path of recti­ tude concerning the strictest observance . of the Sabbath. He is constantly warned that in order not to contract dis­ ease he must drink beer and wine. He is very likely to be surrounded by Americans who are practically expatri­ ated in their sympathies. They have lived abroad so long that gravitation has set the other way. They are fonder of the Old World than the New. All of its charms are vivid to their fancy, while the defects of their own country stand out in bold relief. It does not seem to me the best or wisest thing for one to go abroad until his character and pur­ suits in life are settled. Until 30 years of age an American should be in Amer­ ica. At least in my ca-e this is true. While the formative influences of European and Oriental travel were in­ valuable, I do not think I was as hu­ manitarian, as patriotic, or as religious when I came home as when I went abroad." Mr. Depew's Unprepared Flights* Mr. Depew prepares his speeches and commits them to memory before their delivery. He never so much as use* a note to refresh his memory. But he seldom fails to say something which is not in his "advance copy." One of the best climaxes in his Galena speech was on Napoleon, which did not appear in the oration as he wrote it. The most humorous thing he said was not in his printed address. He had been telling his audience tl^at in, a thousand years from now only two 'triten of this epoch would be rememberedNu-Liuooln and Grant. There was a sweep of distance and altitude in the thought which made his listeners stand almost breathless. The orator evidently thought he had carried them too far from the earth and after a short stop he added, "That's bad for us." The crowd caught the wit and gave him a hurrah mingled with laughter. Mr. Depew laughed himself and concluded to give them more. "However," he continued, "it behoove* us to keep on and get there just the same," which caused another storm of laughter to break over the scene. The various railroads passing through Ga­ lena ran excursion trains ou the occa­ sion 8 of the unveiling of the Grant statue. Every road flooded the coun­ try with posters announcing half rates and other attractions. One of the roads . out in Iowa had intrusted the advertis­ ing of the occasion to one of its tack- hammer men who had made a conspicu­ ous line on his poster as follows: "Be sure and go and hear the Great Chancy Depew." She Had Plenty. An old dame riding home along Cockeozie Sands, pretty bowsy, fell off the pillion, and her husband, being in good order also, did not miss her till he came to Prestompans. He instantly returned with some neighbors and found the good woman seated amidst the ad­ vancing tide, which began to rise, with her lips ejaculating to her cummers, who 9he supposed were still pressing her to another cup, "Nae ae drap mair, I thank you kindly." Not a Success. A man in Iowa invented a safety brake to stop a runaway horse. He "tried if on his peaceful animal and scared it so it ran away, threw the iuventor out. smashed the buggy into kindling wood, and hasn't been seen (since. He saya now he will give the invention to any man who will return his horse. * I- jf