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Kg fUiuflealn 1 MM 9LYKE, Editor MM! PufclHktr. iLLiNoia THE WORK OF A FIEND. K*,} JOHN.» Ji'K IBBEN A MO /FAMILY POISONED. •*" >- - : i-^4 Icaormom Crowd* Attend the Fair WltH- V* K ont Special Attraction--Kansas Farmers ta Serious Trouble--Unusual Kcclest istical fttrt-Unle Borden at Home A^atu. Another Death from the I'oiswn. » MRS. CHARLES STEWART, daughter ^";-v ©f John McKibben, of St. Louis, who & 5 ' tiled Tuesday un^er circumstances indi­ cating that he had been ]H)isonod. also v#uccumbed Thursday afternoon. Mrs. r 3. C. Briggs, another daughter, is also (lick. Maud McKibben. who refused to 4bat of the fatal meal Friday, became ill *Iso and complained of the same symp- toms which resulted in the death of her ilather and sister. The meal in ques­ tion consisted of soup, boiled eabbage, canned corned beef, bread and but­ ler, and tfea. McKibben and his •wo daughters were the only ones %o partake of the dinner, which Maud baa assisted in preparing. Every­ thing was not as pleasant in the Mc- ' Kibben household as it should bo. as Mi'. McKibben and his wife lived apart and the daughter Maud had formerly had trouble with her mother. She then went to live with her father and •ister, Mrs. Stewart, and after her ar­ rival $175 was stolen, all the evidence Jointing to some one living in the ouse as being the culprit. MeKibben Was one of the best theatrical property handlers and manufacturers in the country. .He once worked at McVick- «r's and the Chicago Opera House and Biade the designs for ttie "* Veiled Prophets' parade. His latest work was * model of the basin of the Mississippi, showing the jetties, which is now on flprhihitirn at the World's Fair. Breaks the Record* FOS a plain, ordinary, no "special feature" day Thursday's attendance at Hie Fairwbroke the record, the paid ad­ missions footing up 127.272. The crowd started to the park early and kept go­ ing all day. Nearly 1013,000 people had passed the turnstiles by 3 o'clock and every train and cable ear added to the crowd. No special arrangements had been made, as •o large a crowd had not been ex­ pected, and for two or three hours tha transportation lines had more than they eou^l handle. The news of the ,rush was sent down town, and more trains and cars were at once put on. At 6 o'clock long lines of people were "waiting their turn to get folding chairs at the booths, and by 7 o'clock not a folding chair or a wheel chair could be lured on the grounds. w £^5*-' r"' 1 -• wf ' •W: se»3i ' 14*-" * Will Establish a National Hoard. IN New York,fct a special meeting of the Academy of.Medicine, the quaran­ tine committee appointed some months •go was authorized to take steps for the establishment of a national board «af health. T . , BREVITIES. *IfASWGNANT diphtheria is prevalent the northern part of Buffalo, N. Y. THE committee appointed by the iireditors of ex-Secretary Charles Pot­ ter propose to accept 50 cents on the 4ollar. FRANCIS SPIES, merchant and consul | iftf Honduras, committed suicide at his itesidence in New York by shooting !. ilimself through the head. < THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts <|ecides in a test case that sending a <Shild to a parochial school is a sufficient <&ompli&ice with the statutes. ROBERT E. PHILIPS and Arthur : Head, members of the Boston Chamber' t<if Commerce, were drowned in Charles River, at Newton, Mass., as the result Of a canoeing accident. • TUESDAY was,-with one exception (in 1J888), the hottest June day New York •City has experienced in twenty years, find fifteen people, two of whom died, .were prostrated by the heat. W V FOREST fires on the "Mesaba" range 1 ia Northern Minnesota have been quenched by heavy rains over a wide extent of country. Relief for the Me- •aba, fire sufferers is now being extend­ ed liberally. THE attorneys for Dr. T. Thatcher . "Crraves, who is awaiting a rehearing at ttenver, Colo., on the charge of poison­ ing Mrs. Barnaby, of Providence, R.T., §*>'j$iave applied to the Supreme Court for # writ of habeas corpus and ask that K, v. the Doctor be forever set free. jbltlon of his claims against the United States,for money advanced the Govorn ment as a public officer in California in the early days of 1849^50, a restraining order was issued by the Chancellor OT New Jersey, pending a settlement of claims which others had against Prioa for a portion of the money; and for dig* regard of this order the venerable ex- Governor spent Sunday in Hackensack Jail. W. P. DISERT, a Philadelphia burg­ lar, held 100 armed men at bay all night at Cheswick, Pa., and only sur­ rendered when fifty determined men burst open the doors of the bui lding he was in and overpowered him. For ten hours a steady fire was kept up on both sides, and when captured one of the robber's eyes had been shot out and his left arm was disabled by a bullet. Disert is supposed to have been implicated in fifty robberies in Western Pennsylvania uifring the last two weeks. He holds a prominent position in the main office of the Penn­ sylvania Railroad Company, at Phila­ delphia, and is generally known as a quiet, hard-working man. About, five weeks ago he began to act 8trHng|'elyr- and it is supposed his mind was af­ fected. AT New Bedford, Mass., Lizzie Bor­ den was acquitted of the charge of murder. It was just 4:30 o'clock Tues­ day when the spectators, who had kept their seats patiently during the retire­ ment of the jury, noticed a movement indicating their return. A moment later the twelve men filed into their seats and were polled. Miss Borden was asked to stand up, and the foreman was asked to return the verdict, which he announced "Not guilty." Then all the dignity and decorum of the court-room vanished. A cheer went up which might have been heard half a mile away through the open windows and there was no attempt to check it. TTie stately Justices looked straight ahead at the bare walls during the tremendous excitement, which lasted fully a minute. Miss Bordon's head went down upon the rail in front of her and tears came where thev had refused to come for many a long day. frame ISuiWingi'Wfete tie&dl&totL lives were lost. No WESTERN. • ' V ' - liTZZTR BORDEN and her sister Emma 'y. ' - kave fully resumed their residence and I their church and social relations in ^ j.ilTall River, Mass., occupying the old * ' homestead. The Borden estate is about V. §300,000, and the young ladies are sole v y ' Ixeirs. The co6t of Miss Lizzie's de- 'y -1 '-fens© is put at $50,000. F. . \ BISHOP BONACUM, of Lincoln, Neb., -Jb undergoing ecclesiastical trial at /- iDmalia, for malfeasance in office, the court being ordered by Mgr. Satolli , ̂ femd constituted with Bishop Hennessy, ?|/: l%f Dubuque, pnesiding. The 'proceed- . , Ing is one never before known in the • Catholic Church in America. " 5 SIXTY Kansas farmers, representing ^ ( 30,000 acres of improved lands, bought I,'.4"" '.'at the Missouri, Kansas and Texas ll' - 'Railway and affected by the Govorn- gg y " jtnent suit to forfeit the company's W ' ' -grant, met at Abilen'e Thursday and lis ^- engaged counsel to defend their inter- |gj, eats. Should their land titles be lost it will sweep away the savings of twenty years for most of them. THE liabilities of the failed Plankin- ; ton Bank at Milwaukee are $1,430,343 . and the assets $1,846,851. • • The Minneapolis fire ^department is accused of wholesale plundering at fires by the report of the grand jury. Othpr ||B city officials are implicated. ||Vv WILLIAM PLANKINTON, of Milwau- | * , kee, purchased at sheriff sale, for,$125,- 000, the stock of goods in the Grand avenue stare of Frank A. Lappen & Co., |f§« and while the Grand Jury is still in- K vestigating the Lappen failure Mr. "jfey Lappen remainf; out of the State. [J ' EASTERN. pfc , Ki A#PW3rAt< train on the Bay Ridge M branch of the Long Island Railroad, IT with 800 passengers returning from W ' Sheepshead Bay hist after the Suburb- M| an race was run Tuesday evening, was ( derailed at the mouth of the tunnel ,|||| under the Parkway boulevard at Park- fc' ville. Ten persons are already dead, and the list will undoubtedly lie added SgSi to because all the Brooklyn hospitals , ,,.. are filled with the injured, most of ^ them grievously hurt. if:-' iSit-Gd». M. PRICE, of New jf; , Jersey, Jfraving at/ last obtained reoog- rji,. : NEARLY every town and mining camp on the Mesaba range, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, has suf­ fered from forest fires, and thousands of persons are made homeless. There has been no loss of life reported, but the property loss will, it is said, amount to $1,000,000. JOHN THORNLY fell one hundred feet from a scaffolding in the Manufactures Building at the World's Fair and was instantly killed. Thornly was one of a gang of painters engaged on the inte­ rior of the building, and while busy with his work lost his balance and fell from the scaffold with fatal result. GEORGE SMITH, an inmate of the in­ sane asylum at Dayton, Ohio, was mur­ dered by some one unknown. It is claimed by ' ̂ he officials of the institu­ tion that the \deed was committed by another patient. Two of the more ra­ tional inmates f state that Smith was killed by attendants of the institution. FIRE destroj^d the" J. Q. Adams Building, northwest corner of Wabash avenue and Congress street, Chicago, Sunday morning, and smoldered far into the night. Careful figures place the total loss at $381,450 and the in­ surance at $311,500. The principal loser is O. W. Richardson & Co., exclu­ sive carpet dealers on stock, and J. Q. Adams on the building. A HORSE and buggy with two occu- pants fell into the open draw of the Polk street bridge, Chicago, at 8:30 o'clock Friday night. One of them, Albert Illenfeld, 12 years old, was drowned. The other, Dr. William Evatt, was fished out uninjured. The Doctor was driving west on the east siide of the approach. He claims that the electric light was out and that he did not see the bridge turning. John Marek, the bridge-tender, declared that he had turned the bridge too far to stop and yelled to the driver of the buggy to stop. THE towns of Virginia and Mountain Iron, Minn., on the Duluth, Mesaba and Northern Road, have been destroyed by forest fires. The towns of Mesaba, Biwabik, and Merritt, on the Duluth and Iron Range, have been par­ tially destroyed. The villages were all mining towns and all have been erected within the last year, since the new range was opened up. The buildings in all were hurriedly erected frame structures and burned like tin­ der. The towns lie along in nearly a straight line and the forest fires burn­ ing at right angles to this line reached the towns at nearly the same time. GRATIFIED with the attendance in the past and wishing to accommodate the people who desired to visit the Ex­ position evenings, the Council of Ad­ ministration have decided to keep the World's Fair open every night here­ after. Hitherto the Exposition has been opened Tuesday, Thursday, Sat- urday, and Sunday nights only. The council in its order says: "It will be ex­ pected that visitors will promptly leave the buildings at 10 o'clock, and also promptly leave the grounds at 11 o'clock; and in order to facilitate their exit from the grounds it is ordered that promptly at 11 o'clock each evening the wagon gates at the several exits shall be opened for purposes of exit; and it is further ordered that while the Ex­ position will be open every evening of the week, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sat­ urday evenings shall nevertheless Be regarded as special evenings and char­ acterized by special features of attrac­ tion and entertainment." - WASHINGTON; -O f : - number postmasters appointed Friday was 114, of which thirty-six were to fill vacan­ cies caused by resignations and death. THE Comptroller of the Currency at Washington Ib^ais iis$m5^ : a^^ call on the stockholders of the defunct Capital Na­ tional Bank at Lincoln, Neb., for a full assessment of $100 on each share. In this way $300,000 will be realized. THE coroner's' jury at Washington has returned a verdict holding Fred­ erick C. Ainsworth, ill charge of the building; William G„ Covert, the su­ perintendent; Francis Sasse, the engi­ neer; and George W. Dant, the con­ tractor, responsible for the Ford Thea­ ter oollapee._ FOREIGN. IT is believed in Paris that the con- -ditidn of President Carnot is muoh more serious than is stated in the official re­ port regarding his illness. Of 215 members of the German Reichstag known to have been elected June 15, 101 will vote for the army bill and 114 against it; and new elections will be required for a balance of some 182 members, giving the Government great hopes of success in the outcome, the strength of the opposition being now, it is thought, practically meas­ ured, A GOVERNMENT powder magazine a few miles from Athens, Greece, ex­ ploded Friday. Twenty persons, in- oluding officers and soldiers, were killed, and great damage was done to surrounding property. The Crown Prince went to the scene to aid the sufferers. The loss is estimated at 3,000,000 francs. The magazine wee located at.Scaramanga. PATRICK A. COLLINS, American Consul General at London, has had a conference with a number of shipown­ ers and rag importers in regard to the measures to be taken by them to pre­ vent the introduction of cholera to the United States. The shipowners and the dealers promises that they would take every possible precaution against the goods carried or shipped by them being infected with cholera germs. IN GENERAL Phlladelp'la.'J8 Brooklyn 28 Boston......39 Pittsburg.. .2# C l e v e l a n d . . ' Htvr York...23 DR. EDWARD E. VINCENT, of Spring­ field, 111., goes with the-feary Arctic expedition. THE steamer Falcon sailed' from St. Johns, N. F., to Philadelphia to take the Peary expedition to Greenland. It carries coal and provisions for the whole party for eighteen months. FOLLOWING is the standing of the clubs of the Rational League: w. L. IPC. I W. L. 9C. 15 .#8#l Baltimore .. 23 as .600 16 .636i Washington 91 • 23 417 17 .630 Cincinnati..20 'J5 *44 20 .656 CUitca*Q.....18 2i .420 19 .613 St. Lronip...M 24 .4ft 23 .fioo! Louisville.. 7 28 .200 QUEEN LIL*UOKALANI of Hawaii has made a proposition to the United States to relinquish her claims to the throne for a cash consideration and has made Paul Neumann her agent to conduct the negotiations. The provisional govern­ ment has hoisted the national flag over the palace at Honolulu and taken for­ mal possession of the building. THIRTY years ago Tuesday West Virginia was admitted to the Union. The anniversary was celebrated at the World's Fair grounds by the dedicatiori of the State Building--a typical South­ ern homestead--which was opened to the public at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The building was presented to the Gov­ ernor's representative by President W. N. Chancellor, of the Board of World's Fair Managers,'and accented by Gen7 J. W. St. Clair, who made the address of the day in behalf of his State. FROM Oct. 20 to Oct. 24 there will be a reunion of all veterans, regardless of what army they fought in, at the World's Fair grounds. These days have been set apart by the Committee on Ceremonies and the Council of Ad­ ministration as "Veterans' days" and it is expected that during that week fully 50,000 old soldiers will be in attendance. Addresses will be. each of these days bv prominent gentlemen of ^both Federal and Confederate armies and special features in fireworks will be added for the veterans. R. G. DUN & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Concerted action by the banks of New York has changed the situation materially. More failures and a tremendous drain of money to the West had such an effect here that the b&aks were unanimous In deciding upon the Uaue of clearing-house certifi­ cates. Much increased accommodations foi the business community are expected to result, and doubtless will unless specula­ tion is stimulated to absorb all the increase In available resources through undue'pref­ erence for marketable securities o«*e»' other asset* The weakness of banks at many Western points continues; the wide-spread stringency is having a serious effect upon merchants and manufacturers who are in no way concerned with speculative opera­ tions. A sharp fall in foreign exchange re­ moves the chance of gold export at pres­ ent. but it is dufc to foreign purchases of securities rather than to a change la trade balances. MARKET REPORTS. SOUTHERN. THE Kentucky House defeated a bill to move the capital to Louisville. The fight for removal has been going on for many years, but this result is final, made so by the Constitution. RAFAEL IZEAZABAL, Lieutenant Gov­ ernor of Sonora, Mexico, has been ar­ rested at Guaymas on the charge of em­ bezzlement cf public money, and of illegal proceedings in the discharge of official duties. SOUTH GEORGIA was swept by a furi­ ous rain and wind storm Thursday afternoon. Many houses were blown down at Valdosta and Thomasville. At Valdosta the fire department bell tow­ ers and a Baptist church were badly damaged. A HEAVY storm struck Laredo, Tex., at 1 o'clock Friday morning, with an electric display that made the city as light as day for more than an hour. It was almost a genuine cyclone, being about two hundred yards wiue, ana skirting the northwestern part of the city. Roofs of some small houses on the line of the International and Great Northern Railroad track, about two miles out of the city proper, were blown away and great trees uprooted. A freight car was blown about sixty feet out on the prairie. The Laredo cotton ffin ana mill and two large sheds in the umber yard of George Pfeiffer & Co. were unroofed. The gale then struck the Laredo Seminary, blowing down a windmill, and from there it struck the Mexican side of the river and small CHICAGO. CATTLB--Common to Prime.... | HOGS--Shipping Grades ^SHERF-- Fair to Choice WHEAT--No. 2 Spring CoBN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 RTE--NO. 2 BUTTEB-- Choice Creamery BOGS--Fresh POTATOES--Old. perbn INDIAN APOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping Hoos--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to Prime WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 White OATS--No. 2 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Hoos WHEAT--No.2 Bed!!".!".!!!,'.".'" COBN--No. 2. OATS--No. a I" R*K-No. 2 . CINCINNATI CATTLE Hooa SHEEP WHEATS-NO. 2 Red....'.".'. COBN--No. 2 " " OATS--No. 2 Mixed....! Rxs--No. 2 DETROlf."', CATTLE Hoos " SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White _ TOLEDO. * WHEAT--No. 2 COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White YK BifttXtol" CATTLE--Common to Prime... Hoos--Beet Grades WHEAT--No. 1 Northern........ No. 2 Red «...;. MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Sprtng . . COBN--No. 3.. & 8 75 & 6 TB & 6 00 «S & 66 *1 42^ 80 & 81 62 & 64 3 60 @ 5 60 4 Of & 7 26 67** & 68 WJ6© 7034 OATS--No. A White.. RTE--No. l BABLET--No. a POBK--Hess., NEW Y'DFTFC' CATTLE..... HOGS. ....... SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bedi. COBN--No. 2 OATS--Mixed Western.......... BUTTEB--Creamery POBK--New Mess 8 80 & 6 00 8 00 ® 7 76 8 00 I® 6 00 78 <& 74 61 & 62 #7 & 40 17 & 21 19 76 020 i> KILLED IK A WRECK. RACE TRACK TRAIN MEETS J0 ACCIDENT. Four Coaches of a Manhattan Beach Spe­ cial Derailed Near A Tunnel--Nine LIVM Crashed Oat and Many Pmew Ait lB* JoNd. I ' Ground to Death. Four passenger cars of a train of six cars were derailed 200 feet east of the Parkville tunnel, on the Manhattan Beach branch of the Long Island Rail­ road, at 5:15jo'clock Tuesday afternoon. Nine persons were killed, and so far as is known, at least half a hundred per­ sons were injured. Several of those injured, according to the doctors who attended them, will probably die. The killed are: ' " 1 ' CUDLY. ,T. ROBEBT, Ne' , DALY, PATRICK A., DMCNI1 the Third District Civil Conrt in Btookly*. FINLAY, JOHN. HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM B., New York; crashed to death. • 1 JOHNSOK, J-BITZ E., New York; both legs fractured and body bruised. Died at Soney Hospital. • v . MCGONNIOIII, J., of "Philadelphia. «SHe4 at hospital. •. .j <si' ' PRJNGLE.H. 8., New York..' QUJTFBY, Utiea, N. Y., died on Way to hos­ pital. SPINE, HEKBY J., city marshal at Jefferson Market Police Court, New York. The train was composed of a Pullman car and five excursion cars, steps run­ ning along the sides. When the train started from the Sheepshead Bay race track Capt. James Sarvie, of the police force on duty at the track, and some of his. men, warned the passengers not to ride upon the Bteps; that they might be thrown off on turning a curve. The Captain's injunction was not. regarded. Every seat was taken, and men and women crowded between the seats on the platforms and steps. The track is double, but In the tunnel the two tracks come together on a single trestle. To the south of the tunnel about one hun­ dred yards is a dead switch. This Bwitch is operated from a tower on the west side of the tunnel. . This switch consists of two lengths of rails? and was intended for use in preventing a collision. Should .the switch tender eee that two trains were likely to col­ lide in the tunnel he could throw the west-bound train from the track ihtjp the ditch by means of the dead switch. " Switchman Was Asleep. Switchman P. S. McGarry, 21 years old, was" in charge of the switch tow,er when the accident occurred. A youth with a bicycle said that as the train approached the switch tender started up from a sleep and pulled a lever, and the rumble and*Jar of the four derailed cars was heard. There is a ditch on the right-hand side of the track, and the embankment rises abruptly at an angle of about 50 degrees. The men who sat on the steps at the right-hand side of the cars were jammed against the earth and their feet and legs were caught un­ der the steps. Engineer Barker felt the iar and applied the brakes and shut off steam, but the engine was on the other side of the tunnel when it stopped. The first three cars traveled about 150 yards from the switch before they Stopped. The last three cars broke from the first car and stopped wedged up against the embankment. All along the sides were men held fast by their feet and legs under the broken steps and under the wheels. The third car remained half upon the trestle, the rear of it swinging around against the side of the tunnel, and thumped against the brick walls. Steam escaped from the broken pipes. The passengers of the last three cars who were unhurt sprang to the assistance of the men held under the steps and wheels. The passengers stood upon the side of the embankment and putting their hands up against the side of the cars lifted them after many unsuccessful attempts and pulled the pinioned and suffering out. When the car was lifted one man drew out his legs. „ The feet were cut off, but they hung by shreds of fleSh and clothing. Women fainted and men Became panic-stricken and trampled them and the children under their feet in their mad flight for safety. When the train finally stopped the cool- headed immediately began to render assistance to the wounded who lay along the track, and the, injured were gathered up and stretched out upon the grass on the embankment. The phy­ sicians that were arriving attended to their wounds as best" they could. One hundred persons, it is said, found upon til is green plot a temporary hospital. 'Switch Operator P. S. McGarry was arrested and ^baken to Gravesend. A reporter talked with Operator Mc- parry after his arrest. He assured the reporter the signals and switches were all right a moment before the crash, and he could not account for the mis­ hap, and was as much in, the dark as anyone else. LIZZIE BORDEN IS FREE. F LIZZIE BOBDEIF. ed. Restless tftritaMSd taking part In tlie formalities The judge* ̂ nodded briefly, and in three minutes Miss Borden was free. Then Chief Justice Mason stepped down from his bench, and,reaching out both hands toward Lizzie Borden, he grasped her right hand and said: "Miss Borden, your trial was a fair one; youraoquittal a just verdict. Let me congratulate you." Judges Dewey and JBlodgett shook hands with Lizzie. She walked out of.the court-room with no deputy sheriff at her side, entered her oarriage and was driven to the Old Colony depot, whertf she took a train for her home at Fall River. Storjr of the Crime. The murder of Andrew J. Borden and. his wife, Mrs. Abbie D. Borden.'is among the most atrocious crimes in the history of the country. Mr. Borden was a wealthy business man of Fall River, Mass. Hi* first wife, the mother of his two daughters, Uzzic and Kmina,died over twenty years ago. and Mr. Borden married again. On the morning of the tragedy, An«r. 4, 1«92, there were five persons in the Borden homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Borden, Lizzie, the servant girl, Bridget Sullivan, and Lizzie's un­ cle. John V. Morse, a brother of the first Mrs. Borden. Mr. Mor.se at !) o'clock parted from Mr. and Mrs. Borden, receiving the parting in­ junction from the latter: "Be BHFC, John, and be hack for dinner." At 10 o'clock Mr. Borden qnitt.pd ths boiiM. rpi nrnftig Jinm? "bo'Jt 10:20. Bridget Hullivan admitted him by the front door and says that after a few moments Mr. Borden sat down in the sitting-room. A few minutes later Lizzie came through the sit­ ting-room into the dining-room with an iron­ ing board in hands. During this time Maggie did not know where Mrn. Borden was. Lizzie had toid her that Mrs. Borden had gone out. At 10:55 Maggie went up-stairs to lie down and had been there only ten or fifteen minutes when Lizzie called her. Bhe hurried down and Lizzie told her that her father was dead and ordered her to summon Dr. Bo wen, who lived within hailing distance of the Borden house. Dr. Borden And two othernelghbors. MTB. Ens- sell and Mrs. Churchill, hurried over to the Borden house and stood speechless over the horribly mutilated body ot Mr. Borden. The body lay on a couch in the sitting-room, with eleven gaping wounds in the head throush which the blood was OOB- ing. The left side of the face and head was hacked and chopped, the jaw was split open, and one eye rested on the cheek. From the scene of horror the spectators turned, and one of them inquired about Mrs. liorden. "I think I heard her come in," was the reply of Lizzie, and two of the visitors went upstairs to her bedroom. There, lying face downward on the floor, the body or Mrs. Borden was fonnd. Thirteen deep wounds disfigured iier head, and a long cut laid open the left ch^k bone. She had been hacked as a woodsman'would chop a tree. With the exception of what Lizzie Borden herself tells, this is in substance all that Is known of the doings of those in the Borden house at the time of the murder. - Lizzie was arrested charged with the murder, and has been acquitted. • CROP CONDITIONS IMPROVING. Reports The Accused Sinks Insensible When the Verdict Is Announced. ' Lizzie Borden, charged with the murder of her father and stepmother at Fall River, Mass., has been acquit- ~ ted in "the New Bed­ ford court, and it took the jury just one hour and thirty minutes to reach that conclusion. The trial, from the beginning, has been of unusual interest, and the scene in the oourt-room while the jurv was being polled and was announcing its verdict was an im- pressive one. The court-room was pack- spectators drew their watches and consulted them, and little knots discussed the probable result of the jurors' deliberation. Suddenly, amid the hum of conversation, the door through which the jurors must come opened. Perfect quiet reigned. Slowly the jurors filed to their box and resumed the seats they had vacated when retiring. The clerk broke the silence with the poll of the jury, followed by the custom­ ary question as to whether they had agreed upon a verdict. "We have," calmly and clearly came the reply from Foreman Richards, Then followed a few seconds of awful suspense, while the assemblage leaned forward and listened to the next ques­ tion. " "Gentlemen, what say you? Is the prisoner guilty or not guilty?" "Not guilty.- For sixty seconds there was not a sound. Then the crowd of a thousand men and women broke into a cry of joy and approval that told the waiting thousands about the courthouse that Lizzie was a free woman. Lizzie had4 s,tood while the foreman spoke. When he had finished she started, stepped forward, put out her arms as if she would throw them about the neck of Mr. Richards, and then sank to the floor lifeless. The multitude swept from the room in a minute, and there were left only the judges, the jury, the law­ yers, Lizzie Borden, her sister Emma and uncle, John V. Morse. Restora­ tives itere applied to, the unconscious woman. In ten minutes she was re­ stored, but apparently oblivious to any of her surroundings. This condition continued half an hour, during whioh the three judges patiently sat in their places and waited. An attending phy- Complled by the Government Show a Good Outlook. The Washington weather crpp,bulle­ tin reports indicate that the west por­ tion of the cotton region, extending from Alabama to Texas, has been fa­ vored with fine weather, and crops in this region have been improved, al­ though in eastern Texas cotton has been injured by wet weather. Sugar and rice plantations in some portions of eastern Louisiana are being flooded, owing to recent breaks in levees. Gen­ erally the weather has beeft more favorable throughout the South, where crop conditions have improved. The harvesting of wheat is progressing as far north as Central Illinois, Indiana, Kansas' and Ohio, and the recent warm weather hafe produced normal seasonal conditions throughout the central val­ leys, but the season is retarded by fvom ten to twenty days in the north­ west and on the Pacific coast. Special telegraphic reports: New England--Rain very heavy; beneficial to all crops, but more needed. Louisiana--Generally favorable week for cane, cotton and rice; crops somewhat grassy and need a week or more of dry weather. Illinois--Condition favorable; oats and wheat maturing rapidly. Indiana--Cora «powing rapidly and fields clean; wheat maturing fast; clover yields a good crop; oats, rye and grasses nearly ready to cut. Ohio--Clover harvest progressed under fa­ vorable conditions; oats and rye doing well; rain needed. Michigan--Wheat improving, though a light crop; pastures and grasses, potatoes, small grains, fruits and berries are in prime condi­ tion. Wisconsin--Hay, corn and potatoes growing rapidly under high temperature. « Minnesota--Bain badly needed; wheat and oats doing fairly well; fruit prospects below the average. Iowa--Corn has made rapid growth; oats and other small grain have made good progress. North Dakota--Copious showers tne latter part of the week revived all grain, whioh ia now in fine condition. South Dakota--Small grain suffering; corn doing excellently; rain needed badly. Nebraska--Corn has made rapid growth and is in excellent condition; small grata matur­ ing rapidly. Kansas--Bain fall unequally distributed, but very good for all crops in eastern counties; un­ favorable in the west. Colorado--Irrigated crops in good condition; native grass short; rain badly needed. Washington--Favorable week In the eastern but unfavorable in the western ,portlon; Wheat and other Main thriving. California--Grain crop is below the average; hops rapidly vining; sugar beets doing well, promising a large yield; good prospect for Deans; fruit prospects favorable. How the World Wags* , - Miss LOUISE ESTLING committed siicide at Sedalia, Mo., by hanging. PHILIP GRAVER, a wealthy citizen of Allegheny City, Pa., committed suicide by shooting. TILMAN MCGILLUM was found mur­ dered at Homer, Ind. Five bullets had entered his body. BY raising $75,000, Yankton College has secured the $25,000 gift of D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago. THE Canadian Pacific Is shut out of St. Paul by the refusal of the Great North­ ern to honor its tickets. HIRAM BOWLING, aged 76, and par­ tially deaf, was killed by the limited mail at Van Wert, Ohio. Two TRAINKEN- were injured in a collision between^ mixed train and a wild engine at NoVwalk, Conn. IN a row at Indian Creek, Ky., Sol Osbora, a desperado^ used a rifle, and at one shot killed Job Short and Jim Mullins. LOUISE DABROSKY, aged 6, fired her father's barn at Bay City, Mich., while playing with matches, and was burned to death. THE Pope's encyclical on the school question has been received by Cardinal Gibbons. Its contents are awaited with interest by the clergy. C. W. MOSHER, ex-president of the wrecked Capital National Bank of Lin­ coln, Neb., pleaded guilty to falsifying the records and books. THROUGH an error > of government surveyors, a strip of Texas land em­ bracing 75,000 acres was included with­ in the boundaries of Oklahoma. AN attempt of Kansas Farmers' Alli­ ances to regulate wages of farm hands was frustrated by threats of prosecu­ tion under the anti-trust law. As A result of a quarrel of longstand­ ing over a line fence, William Kuyken- dall, a Missouri farmer, killed W. H. Smith and then shot himself. B L A M E S F O U R M E N . CORONER'S VERDICT IN THB FORD THEATER CASE. Colonel Alnftworth, Contractor TH>ntt Bn- porlntcBdgot Covert tsd XBtagfnMr BAM# Held OttUty of Criminal X«rllgeno«-- Warrants Issued for Their Arrest. - Fixed the Blame. The coronerjury in Washingtor Investigating the Ford's theater flTnaw- ter brought in a verdict holding Colonel F. C, Ainsworth, Contractor George W. Dant, Superintendent Covert, and Engineer Sasse responsible for the deaths of the victims by reason of criminal negligence on their part. The jury was out nearly two hours. The verdict recites the death of Frederick B. Loftus, upon whose body the inquest was held, from wounds by nim received on his body and head by reason of the falling of a portion of the floors of the first, second and third stories of the building known as Ford's theater building, then used by the United Stetes government for the record and CLEARING AWAY THE RC111 pension division of the war department, and while Baid building was sa occupied the cellar thereof was being exoavated and enlarged by one George W. Dant for the purpose of accommodating an electric light plant for use in said building. The fiading further refers to the ab­ sence of shoring or other means to protect the building during the process of excavation, by reason of which one cf tho picrS fell, causing the fall of the floors and the consequent crushing and killing. The jurors further say that the fallftre of the Government to pro­ vide for skilled superintendence of the work of repairing its buildings in charge of the War Department is un­ businesslike and reprehensible. They believe such superintendence might have averted the theater catastrophe. An oppressive silence followed the reading of the verdict. Warrants were issued for the arrest of the men named. TOWNS SWEPT BY FIRE. Tralnload of Half-starved Refugees Arrive at Duluth. Reports via Duluth from the sceneof Sunday night's conflagrations add to the horrors of the early stories. Noth­ ing but ashes is left to mark the spots where stood the thriving towns of Vir­ ginia and Iron Mountain, while the greater portion of Mesaba, Biwabik, and Merritt are in ruins. The whole section of country in the vicinity of these towns has been the scene of forest fires for the last three weeks, but no danger was apprehended. Sunday night, however, the flames gathered in upon the "doomed communities, and the frame buildings melted" away before the blast like tinder. Thousands are left without food or shelter of any kind--few saving anything of their be­ longings. The money loss may reach $1,000,000, though it is difficult to estimate the figures from present de-, tails. The first train bearing the ref­ ugees from the range, carrying 250 people, mostly women and children, arrived in Duluth at 1:30 in the morn-, ing, and the wearied and* hungry pas­ sengers hurried from the coaches to the baggage-rooms, where elaborate: lunches were spread. Of all the crowd the greater portion were penniless, de­ pendent absolutely upon what charity might be offered. Few had saved any­ thing beyond the most meager effects, and for the whole trainload there was but one trunk. Advices from Virginia are to the effect that only ten houses escaped the flames. Virginia was a village of 3,500 people, with all that goes to make a thriving town. The city was just com­ pleting an elaborate electric plant and this, too, is a total loss. Merritt and Mesaba are completely cleaned out, not a house remaining. There are numer­ ous fatalities and injuries reported, but no deaths have as yet been verified. Forest Fires Everywhere. Ashland dispatches say that forest fires are raging everywhere in northern Wisconsin and have done great damage to standing timber. No rain has fallen for over a month and the fires run through the woods with almost irresis­ tible rapidity. Iron River, a lumbering town, was saved by strenuous efforts. Only one school house and six dwellings were destroyed. At last accounts the fire was approaching from the west and the town is again threatened. The village of Sanborn was wiped out, every building being destroyed. A* Moquah Jo^n Meagher, a prominent citizen, was burned to death while fighting the fire, which destroyed his homestead. "Many other fatalities are rumored, but particulars are meager. As everything is dry and hot the worst is feared. Two children, names not known, were burned to death at San­ born. The Northern Pacific bridge at Minersville is gone and a bridge 300 feet long on the south shoro at Sanborn was destroyed. Many freight car^ are destroyed.' The total property loss is in the millions. IN ; MMk MAYOR BOWE, of Fredericksburg, Va., has extended an invitation to the Society of the Army of the Potomac to hold their reunion next year in that city. . A MOB at Sioux City had nearly lynched John Olmar when he was res­ cued by the police. He had forcibly entered many dwellings and acted in­ decently. THE suicide of Franklin B. Daniels, of the Boston wholesale clothing firm of Daniels & Smith, precipitated the failure of the concern. The liabilities are $150,000. THE Cerneau Northern Jurisdiction Masonic litigation pending for some time in the Ohio Supreme Court has been dropped, the seven Cerneau Ma­ sons who were pushing it asking that it be dismissed. Overflow of News. a riot at Edgerton, Ohio, Louis Boyer and Hugh Coye, saloonkeepers, were killed. * PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will act as arbitrator in the Brazil-Argentine I boundary dispute. I PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued i an order assigning army officers to act j as Indian Agents. A REORGANIZATION of the Kansas State forces in the interest of. the Pop­ ulists is being madu. SENATOR STANFORD, of California, is said to oontemplate resigning his ' seat because of increasing physical in- i firmities. DURING the recent freshets in the ' Ohio and Kentucky Rivers at Borden, ! Ind., there was washed from the banks | of the latter stream a mastodon skull i perfectly preserved. A PORTION of Schneidumehul, a i manufacturing town of Prussia, ̂ is i sinking in consequence of the boring I of an artesian well. The inhabitants i'of the district are in danger. H. W. STONE, of St. Louis, Mo., will row an aluminum single shell in Chi­ cago,'accompanied by Capt. Roessler of the Western and Lieut. W. C. Mason of the Modocs, who will use an alumi­ num double, scull. DEATH IN THE SEVEN KILLED IN A €IRCO* TENT. :x V- Downs of Others Are Knoolwd BeMeMp* aad Soma Terribly Injured by the FM«y Stream and the Sabeecpteat Pulfl the Audience. lightning's Awful Work. A terrific thunderstorm raged in tin vicinity of River Falls, Wis., Wednes­ day afternoon. Rain fell in Bheets ana great floods of water formed almost in an instant in the streets. Ringling's circus was showing in the edge of ft grove about a quarter of a mile from the center of the town. The circus proper had just finished its pe rform- ance, and, as the concert was about to begin, a number of people who did nob care to attend the latter were making their way through the menagerie t^nii^ when a terrific bolt of lightning struolD one of the center poles of the menag­ erie tents, and more than fifty peK>pIai were prostrated. Seven were killed) instantly, and others were injured by the shock. The scene ot consternation whioh followed when the survivors realized the extent Of the fatality surpasses description,! when men and women surged toward the scene, and it was only by the exer­ cise of rare presence of mind on the part of Messrs. Ringling and their emi ployes that a serious and probably to­ tal stampede was averted. The Ring- Lings did everything possible to allevi­ ate the sufferings of the injured.] Bough oanvasmen, stake drivers, and animal attendants vied with one another in their attentions to the. wounded. Stretched on the ground were four full- grown men and three boys, all dead, and as soon as anything like orde* could be restored they were recognized as follows: The Dead. : ALDBIDG®, CCBTIS. 14 years old. DEAN, O. A., married, farmer, KinnHrlnnlcilf Township. GiENBEMXzsa, J. A., married. Town Clerk of Oak Grove. GLEOTXENNIN G, LESLIE, 13 years old. a son Of J A. Glemleniiing. MAPJEB. CR. A TIKJ married, a farmer of Clifton Township. RETNOXIDS, EUGENE, unmarried, carpenter. CHABXEB. ia years old, a son ot Wal- The bodies of the dead were taken to the village engine house. Some of the bodies were badly scorched, but the majority presented no external evi­ dence of the shock. Death was abso­ lutely ir t̂a t̂anccus in all cases except that of young Dean. Brute and Human Terror. The effect of the shock was terriflo For a moment after the echoes of the Crash subsided there was an instant of ominous and intense silenoe, more pain­ ful and impressive than the loudest peals of thunder. Every occupant of the great canvas--bird, brute and human-- was gasping with expectant horror. The shriek of a woman was the first sound to break the tense and terrible stillness, which, though but momentary, seemed prolonged beyond endurance. Then a little girl caught sight of the black­ ened face of one of the dead boys--her cousin--who had brought her to the circus and bought her the bag of pea­ nuts and the bat- of candy which she Btill clutched in her chubby palms. Instantly she became a palpitant cen­ ter of terror. Her incoherent screams, horrible beyond description, seemed to awaken every occupant of the tent from a state of somnolence to a vivid but confused realization that some­ thing &wful had befallen them. A score of women started from their seats in the higher portions of the amphitheater, and would have crushed those below them, or fallen headlong, had not the press agent of the show stepped into the ring and commanded them to sit down. It was a timely, clear-headed act which no doubt avert­ ed a serious panic. His example waa quickly followed by various men throughout the audience. The next moment, however, all was- confusion again. Such a roar as few , have ever heard from, the mouth of a lion outsideuof his native den was sent forth by the king of the cage. He was joined by his entire family, and the terrible din was taken up by the tigers, the hyenas, and apparently by every beast in the large menagerie. STANFORD IS DEAD. Heart Failure Causes the Demise ot tin " California Senator. The death of Senator Leland Stan­ ford, the most noted of Californians Of the present day, occurred at his mag­ nificent Palo Alto residence Tuesday night. For many months his corpu­ lency had increased so rapidly that it was with th e utmost difficulty that ho could walk. He was warned some time- ago that he must enter upon the most severe treatment 'Or invite the most serious results from a neglect to do so. But he shrank from beginning such & course apd, delayed it from month to month until about six weeks ago, " ffrhen he > suffered him­ self to be subjected to a most- rigid course of dieting. From that time until hife death he wks allowed to par­ take of nothirig but Chopped meat and hot water. He was much encouraged by the results of this heroic treatment- and began to hope that it would not be long before he might again return to hi® public and philanthropic enterprises. • Within a few days of his death, how­ ever, a stiffness of his joints and in­ creasing weakness warned, him that his hopes of recovery might prove de­ ceptive. During the afternoon of the last day of his life he ordered up his carriage, was driven about his stock farm, re­ tiring at about 10:15 in the evening. At 12 o'clock the household was aroused by the Senator's valet, who had gone to the Senator's chamber and found him fast in the quiet slumber of death. Heart failure is given as the direot cause of his death. Senator Stanford was born in Water- vliet, Albany County, N. Y., March 9* 1824. He was admitted to the bar and , began the practice of law at Port Washington, Wis., 1849. He was mar­ ried to Jane Lathrop at Albany, N. Y., 1850. He removed to California anfl engaged in mining in 1852. In 1860 he was a delegate to the National Repub­ lican Convention that nominated for President Abraham Lincoln, of whose nomination he was an earnest advocate. He was elected Governor of California in 1861, elected President of thet (Central Pacific Railroad Company in 1871 and elected United States senator from California in 1885 and re­ elected in 1891. He was one of the mil­ lionaires of the Pacific slope and a man of great benevolence. His son died & few years ago, and in his memory the senator endowed with $20,000,000 the great California school which is known as the Leland Stanford Jr. university. Ex-President Harrisoif , has accepted the law chair' of the school, which was offered him after the expiration of his term of office. Senator Stanford was better known as a horse­ man than either a politician or million* aire. His fancy for horses was a prom­ inent feature in his character from boyhood, and nothing was ever allowed to stand in the way of its gratification. THE body of an unknown murdered man was found in the river at Topeka, Kan., a stone being attached to his body by a surveyor's chain.