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STv?. " <:.Ky\ , * 1 ' 0"S; •'•"•'•> f^ttrg flaiudcakr A. O. JtUPP, Publi.h*r. fccHENRY. - ILLINOIS. ®LEW THEM TO ATOMS UNION SAILORS EMPLOY DYNA- " MITE AT SAN FRANCIS*** Jjess-fflsHm BaatdlBehoiiM Blown Pp-Flw ' ' Men Are Dckd, One Will Scarcely Lite \ and iMthv la MlMtnf-HiMoaH Xnln Fatled. •; • *** : \ \ . ~ - - • *• ' * teunlered by » Bomb. i. AT San Francisco, six men were flown up with dynamite early Sunday looming on the water front. Two Wore killed outright, three died in the city receiving hospital after a few hours of agony horrible to witness, and (he sixth still lives, with the prospect of ultimate recovery, but no will be only a shattered apd broken wreck of a man. The explosion was the result of a de­ liberate and diabolical crime, meant to do far deadlier work than the snuffing OBt of five lives. It is charged directly to the Coast Seaman's Union, a strong and lawless organization that has ruled *Frisco's water front for four years and more. There is a rumor that seven men were in the party and that • the missing man was' blown to atoms, but no fragments of a Seventh body can be found. The scene of the'explosion was in front of John Cur- tin's sailors' boatding-house, 334 Main street, near Harrison, a wooden two- story structure. The Curtin house has for years been known as a non-union or Scab" sailors' boarding-house, and at­ tacks of more or less brutality have from time to time been made by union sailors both upon John Curtin and the men he housed. Train-Robbers Foiled. f *^THE Kansas City, St. Joe and Coun- * ' Bluffs Railroad foiled an attempt to rob one of its passenger trains, killed two of the bandits and captured three others at Francis, one and a half miles from St. Joseph, Mo. The officials of the road had been notified that the robbery of the road had been planned and they notified the police. When the train iMrrived in St. Joe a dummy train was made up and sixteen police officers, under command of the chief of police, P wore put aboard. In order to thorough­ ly deceive the robbers the train was made an exact duplicate of the regular train, and consisted of an engine and tender, an express and baggage car, and the usual ccach and Pullmans. When the dummy reached a point two miles north of St. Joseph the en­ gineer's attention "Waa ttrrcBtod oj a lighted ' lantern moving to and fro between the rails. He obeyed the signal, and six masked men surrounded the engine. One of the six mounted the engine, and, presenting one revolver at the engineer's head and another at the fireman's, held them is subjection while the other five men hastened to rob the express car. They Ordered the messenger to open the ddor, which he did forthwith.* Certain ProfTHi Toward Better R. G. DUN & CA'S Weekly Review •' ft Trade says: '"There is no looser only a miaerosoopical or sentimental improvement that cannot be measured. Some increase is seen both la production and in distribution of prod­ ucts. Trae. it is small as yet; but, after the worst financial blizzard for twenty years, it is not to be expected that ail XOads can be cleared in a day. But all conditions, except at Washington, favor gradual recovery. Business goes on in unquestioning confidence that the gen- oral desire of the people will in some way prevail. Money has become more abun­ dant and ea»y at 3 per cent, at New Fork OB call,and stagnant speculation fortunate­ ly favors greater freedom in commercial loans. Stocks and products are dull, without Mrlous fall la prices, the industries are rap- ttly rallying to make good the scarcity of •applies caused by weeks of inaction, the vitality of the demand for goods shows that the wonderful consuming power of the people, if lessened for a time, has not ceased, and the shrinkage la the record of commercial disease and mortality shows ^ogress toward health. Disaster at Bern. ' THE Haytian war vessel Alexandre Peitou sunk, Sept. 6, in the Gulf of Itf cxico, and -eighty men were drowned. Only one man e°"aped, -id "ays tho vessel sank without apparent cause, in • calm sea, while steaming at ordinary apeed. She had on board many distin- : guished men of the Haytian Republic, who were en route to San Domingo to negotiate a treaty. • KEW8 NUQOBTSW ' THE Oklahoma National Bank, of, Oklahoma City, Ok., which suspended ? gjj&yment July 19, 1893, has been per­ mitted to reopen its doors for business. J SECRETARY CARLISLE has just re­ ceived $800 which the sender says is the balance of $20,000 to repay $10,000, which he stole from the government iuring the war. ? PRANK LINDSCHMXDT. a prosperous merchant of Columbus, Ind., driven to desperation by two women, each of Whom wanted to marry him, chose death instead and shot himself. % . A-** agreement has been made by^the fluted States and Canadian govern- # ^ fnents and representatives of railway vlines for a joint inspection of immi­ grants coming through Canada to the IJnited States. S WM. PERRON, of Cincinnati, search- .. fi*ig for minerals in Crawford County, ' Indi&na. undertook to kiss Mrs. Cogs­ well, near Granteburg, while that lady *;^srae at the stove preparing dinner. "She emptied a saucepan of boiling soup jfull in his face and he will lose one eye '.-•Inconsequence, maybe both. *f3U£|k- THE Colima volcano, situated on the vlPacific coast, south of Guadalajara, jjblexico, is again in a State of eruption, Jf iutd the people living in the adjoining * . " valley and at the base of the mountains *at*e greatly alarmed. Total destruc- , C". .fitioB of the crops by ashes and lava is ^threatened. - . \ * AN indefinite rumor is circulating in {'k .$• "Washington that the Philadelphia £h:}i mint people have discovered another shortage in a vault supposed to contain $60,000,000 of either gold or silver. Superintendent Bosbyshell denies the EAST: derbilt in trust for herself and that he also owes her $24,486 as balance of sal­ ary Keene admits that he received the $100,000 from Vanderbilt, but says it was a loan to himself, and denies that he owes Mrs. Rankin any sum. "WESTERN. 3. JACOBS, BERNHEIM &€&.,«loth- ing dealers at St. Louis, have Sled chat­ tel mortgages aggregating $187,317. LATE reports say that detectives seem to be all at sea regarding the Mineral Range train robbery. Not only have they failed to recover any of the stolen money, but they have bsen compelled to release ten or the fifteen Dersons arrested on suspicion. LIGHT rains and a change of winds have checked the forest fires in Cen­ tral Wisconsin, but in the northern pprt of the State about Ashland and Superior, the change of wind has driven the fires toward these cities, causing heavy damages and some loss of life. AT the grounds of the Cincinnati Base-Ball Club, before a game with the Baltimores, Louis Rapp, the assistant ground keeper, and Rosa Smith were married in the presence of 2.200 spec­ tators, who cheejed the pair lustily; and their presents included a set of furniture, tickets to the World's Fair, and a purse of $80. ARTICLES of incorporation of the Chicago, Sioux City and Bismarck Railroad Company were filed in the office of the Secretary of State at Springfield, 111. It is proposed to con­ struct a railroad from Chicago to Sioux City, Iowa; thence through South Dakota via the Blue Blanket1 valley to the city of Bismarck, N. D. ! The principal office is to be maintained In Chicago, and the capital stock is - $1,COO,00,'. < < IOWA began her celebration at the World's Pair grounds Wednesday in a shower of rain, but the enthusi- j asm of Hawkeye State citizens could! not be dampened by the ele- • ments. The dav was a round of parades, drills, band music and a reception, ending at night with a magnificent display of fireworks. The State building was the Mecca for 10,000 loyal residents of America's own corn producing empire, and great as the host was, it was but the advance guard of the incoming throng Thurs­ day. WASHINGTON. THE Federal elections repeal bill has been reported to the House of Repre­ sentatives and placed on the calendar. THE. House Committee on Rules de­ cided ' tiiat the Tucker bill to repeal the Federal election laws should bo taken up for consideration, and that the vote on the passage of the bill and pending amendments should be taken alter twelve days had teen allowed for debate. This order was agreed upon by the majority of the members. THE President is angry, and the Sen­ ators are the cause. Mr. Cleveland, according to a Washington correspond- snt, believes that patience has now leased to.be a virtue, and that the time has arrived to settle the question physically. This will be done by a con­ tinuous session unless the antis in a very few days permit a vote. In his speech at the Centennial celebration there was a sentence the significance of which was lost to all but a few within the sound of his voice. As he reached the sentence ho turned abruptly from the crowd in front and faced the Senators. His face was very stern. He said: "If representa­ tives whohere assemble to make laws for their fellow countrymen forget the duty of broad and disinterested patriotism, and legislate in prejudice and passion, or in behalf of sectional and selfish in­ terests, the time when the corner-stone of our Capitol was laid and the circum­ stances surrounding it will not be worth commemorating." He paused for an instant as he finished. Those who had heard him applauded, and then he faced the crowd again and finished his speech. IN GENERA1* """' ' EASTERN companies decline to RE* new their mortgages on Kansas farms, giving as a reason the antagonistic at­ titude of the State Legislature toward them. LAKE SEKUX&^Y, which was boycot­ ts1 by the Presbyterian General As-* seinbly because it sustained Professor H. P. Smith, is likely to close its doors. When the collegiate season opened last Thursday but four students pre­ sented themselves. IN a decree issued by President Rod­ riguez of Costa Rica, extending am­ nesty, guaranteeing rights, etc., is a qualifying clause declaring explicitly that the government of Costa Kica re­ serves the right to extradite Francis Henry Weeks, the absconding em­ bezzler. FOLLOWING is the standing of the clubs of the National League: w. u *c.i w. h. Vc. Boston*. ...83 39 .cnoiCincinnati*.68 6t .48# Pittshutus.. 74 48 .607! li&iisrnoref..66 M .453 Philadelphia,70 62 574 Chtcaeos 64 70 486 Cleveland*. .68 63 .06S:8t. Louis 53 71 .427 New Yorks. .67 67 640 Louisvilles..48 7i 403 Brooklyn*..<* 60 .612> W*»higfn«.4G m M A PHILADELPHIA concern imported last year a number of lacemakers, who came as fir^t-class cabin passengers, in order to avoid examination as sus pecttd immigrants. Now the girls are out of work during a shut-down, and axe glad to inform against their im porter in order to be sent back to En­ gland free. JAMES R. KEENE is defendant in two suits involving $260,000 brought at New York by Mrs. Minnie C. Rankin. Mrs, claims that in 1884 Keene re' •100,000 from William H. Van- f-J ' • ' 'f '• • ~~ f' ' <V « wmmM THE 1AII CLEVENPkoPLEklLL^bo>4t HE WABASH. West-Bound Chicago Express Crashes Into m Freight--Frightful Scene" Among the Dead and Dyln*--Over a Bfcewe Aro In­ jured. DM to Mistake In Orders. In a frightful collision between a freight train and th4 Toronto and Mon­ treal express on the Wabash Railroad at Kingsbury, Ind., eleven persons lost their lives and a score of others were injured, many of them fatally. The freight was on a siding west of the depot and was bound east. The first section of the express train passed by on the main track at 5:25 a. m. It is said that the brakeman, sup­ posing that the freight would now move, ran back to open the switch. Before the cars had begun to move the second section of the fast express came west at the rate of fifty-five miles an tour, and befote tha brakeman could turn the switch dashed into the side track and collided with the freight train. There was a terrific crash, a sound of grinding glass and splintered wood as the heavy vestibuled train crashed into the train ahead, Above the roar of o;c'iping steam and the din and confusion could plainly be heard the shrieks and groans of waunded and dying buried beneath a mountain began to sink the vessel wattrely under water. One sailor, as the ship M,nk UJtySer him, snatched a pair of owto M>ifii the life boat and threw him­ self into the water. He caught a Elank as it floated by and looked around, ut not a man arose from the swirling waters which engulfed the warship. The sailor drifted for thirty-six hours on the plank with nothing to eat or drink, and when picked up he was al­ most exhausted. The place where he was picked up was fifty miles south­ east of Port Piment. For a long time the cast-away was unconscious after he was taken aboard, and cculd not speak. Brandy was administered and after a hard fight he rallied a little. When he was able to speak he told a terrible story. He was one of the sailors of the Alexandre Petion. The sailor said the war ship went down head foremost in the waves, without the slightest warn­ ing add that all on board but himself were drowned. The lost -vessel was one of the mitra­ illeuse type of cruisers so popular in the southern republics. It had just been put in commission and was sup­ posedly in perfect condition. FALLING OFF IN PENSIONS. Commissioner Loehren Flies His Annoal Report to the Secretary of Interior. Washington dispatch: Pension Com­ missioner Lochren submitted his an­ nual report to the Secretary of the In­ terior Friday. Tho document shows that the number of pensioners on >the roll of the bureau is 066,012, with a net increase of 89,944 during the last year. During the year 24,715 claims for in­ crease of pension and 31,990 for addi- h REMOVING THE DEAD AND INJURED. of debris.* The erath was heard by the station agent, who instantly ditined the cause and alarmed the town. Re­ lief parties immediately started for the scene, carrying improvised couches, blankets, liniment, etc. Wagons, buggies, and every imaginable vehicle were pressed into service. All the physicians in town were notified and hurried toward.the wreck. Neighbor­ ing towns ana villages were called up­ on for assistance, and responded with food, medicine^ defiling and physi­ cians. Scene at the Wreck. The scene at the wreck was some­ thing fearful, and the first relief par­ ties reaching the ground stood horror- stricken, appalled by the awful sight. The wrecked train had telescoped the freight and the rear cars of the passen­ ger had telescoped each other. Piled up in great confusion part of the wreckage had caught fire and the shrieks of the injured and dying as this latest horror presented itself aroused the spectators from their lethargy. Strong and'willing hands went to work at once to extinguish the fire. This horror being averted for the time be­ ing, sturdy .arms wielded axes and crowbars clearing away the wreckage, and the work of rescue began. As quickly as it could be done, the broken beams and twisted irons of the telescoped cars were pulled apart, and from beneath them the victims of the catastrophe were lifted. Within a short time fifteen bodies mangled and dead were lying on the browned grass near the wreck, and a score or more of injured had been carried to the near­ est farmhoases, where they were at- tional pension under the act of .June 27, 1890, were allowed, while 115,221 claims were rejected. Claims pending consid­ eration July 7 numbered 71,150. The amount of money paid for pensions dur­ ing the year was $15(5,140,467. Bal­ ance at the close of the year was $2,437,371. The appropriation for the next fiscal year, Commissioner Loch­ ren says, will be ample, and the esti­ mates for the fiscal year 1895 amount to $162,631,570. Regarding these esti­ mates, Commissioner Lochren says they ware based wholly en the expe­ rience of former year.-*. The year 1895 is the thirtieth after the close of the civil war. The pension roll will by that time have reached its limit ana begin ti decrease. The falling off in the presentation of new claims appears from the fact, shown by the last report, that there r. ere on Oct. 12, 1892, 788,- 061 claims pending in the bureau, while July ^ 7, 1893, the number of claims pending had been reduced to 711,150. ' It is apparent, therefore, that the fil­ ing of new claims and claims for in­ crease has ceased to exceed the number of cases disposed of by the work ol the bureau. , CENSURES THE COMPANY. 9 5 W & e 75 4 CO 8d 41 30 47 27 70 @ 4 76 & 6 60 m 8 50 & 62* ® 42 & IS 00 @6 75 & 63 >6 <$ 40^ & 27 a 49 MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime (3 2S HOGS--Bbippiv/ Grades..« 8 75 SHEEP--Fair to Choice 2 25 WHEAT-No. A Spring 67 CORK--No. 2 40 OATR--No. A 29 & BYK-- NO. 1 45 BUTTEB--Choice Creamery Eoos--Fresh I5J$<# POTATOES--New, per bn 60 & INDIANAPOLIS. BATTLE--Shipping 8 00 Hotifl--Choice Light 4 00 SHEEP--Common to Prime 3 CO WHEAT--No. 2 lied 62 COBK--No. 2 White 41 OATS--No. 2 White 2936 ST. LOUIS. UATTLK 8 00 HOGB 6 po WHEAT^NO. 1 Red ' as CORN--No. 2 40 OATS--No. 2... 26 UTE-- No.a.. 47 CINCINNATI. BATTLE... » 00 "iOCM* 8 00 SHEEP 3 <0 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed... COBN--No. 'I...- OATS--No. 2 Mixed KYE--Sa a...... DETROIT. TATTLE. 300 loon 300 KHEEP.......... 8 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed 71 @ COBX--NO. 2 41&<« OATS--No. % White 32 ® TOLEDO. ' > WHEAT--No. 1 Red Vt COBN--NO. 2 Yellow 4TFE@ OATS--No. 2 White 28 liVE--No. 2 48 & BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Spring... 73 @ COBN--No. 2 44 m OATS--No. 2 White BYE--No. 3 EO @ MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--'No. 2 Spring MFEIA COBH--No. 8 40 @ OATS--No. 2 White 29 OT BYE--No. L 49 @ "3AKLEY--No. 2 66 FT I'ORK--New Mem 16 50 MEW YOBK. 3AT1XE 8 00 "loos ; 8 26 SHEEP » 25 WHEAT--Wo. 1 Red 78 CORN--NO. 2....... 49 OATS--Mixed Western 88 UTTEB--Creamery 90 ® 4 60 @ 7 00 & 4 00 623$«« C3H 43)6 28 <3 29 49 & 51 4 50 6 00 3 f.0 72 44)* 33 CR 4454 2a 4» 74 47 3536 52 05H (9 41 OT SCI @ M @ 57 @17 00 & 6 25 & 7 00 <4 4 00 t<9 7356 @ 50 @ 83 & 2ft MMW * R THE WBBCK OCCURBKU tended to by physicians from Laporte and other close-by towns. All the horrors incident on fatal rail­ road accidents were here in most hid­ eous aspect. For a time the Work of relief was necessarily slow, and the moans and cries of the injured could be heard in the clear morning air even over the hiss of escaping steam and the blows of the axes and hammers plied on the ruins of the cars in the effort to release the unfortunates who were still pinned beneath the wreck. The spectacle presented by the dead and dying, as they lay in rows libe soldiers cut down by a volley of musketry fired at short range, was fearful. Strong men from the neighboring farm* could not endure the sight land turned away sick. Relief trains were started from Chi­ cago and St. Louis at an early hour, and when they arrived such of the in­ jured as were in a condition to be re­ moved were taken on to Chicago. WENT DOWN WITHOUT WARNING. Verdict of the Coroner'* Jury In the Hat­ ter of the Manteno Disaster. The coroner's verdict, rendered over the causes of the Manteno (111.) rail­ road disaster, reads as follows: We do find that David Jackson and others came to their deaths at Manteno, Sept. 18,1898, while riding aa passengers on the first section of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Hallway qn the Illinois Contra! tracks by beiu* run into by tho aeeond section, said second section bei".-J in "barge of Confinct"- Charles M. Eden and Engineer Thomas Ames, and we do further find that Thomas Ames engineer of the SCCOUD SECTION of said trai n No. 45, and Orviile Duncan, flagman on the first scctlon of said Ui»in No. in, WERE then and there guilty of criminal carelessness in the discharge of their dat'OS as engineer and flagman of said trains, thereby causing the death of David Jackson and others, and we recommend that the said Thomas Ames and Orviile Duncan be held to answer for such un­ lawful killing;. We further believe that Con­ ductor W. B. Tyner, of the first section of train 45, and William Bampetl, engineer of said train, were KUllty of trross carelessness in the discharge of their duties as conductor and en­ gineer of said train. WE further believe that the Illinois Central Railroad Company is guilty of (ross negligence in not providing proper signal^and telegraph stations for lo­ cating passenger trains while running be­ tween Homewood, 111., and Kankakee, 111., on said road." MNDITSBEATEN OIT. ATTEMPTED ROBBERY ^ EXPRESS TRAIN. MM Mew Orleans limited Stopped Kear Cen- tndi*, fiL--Engineer, llMua and Con­ ductor Shot and One ftobber Mo Money Secured* Robbers Are Captured. The New Orleans limited train on the Illinois Central Road was held up shortly after 11 o'clock the other even­ ing just outside Centralia, 111., and in the battle which followed between the three robbers and the train hands one of the robbers was wounded and three of the train crew were badly hurt. The thieves got nothing in the way of booty. There were seven well-filled coache9on the train and a combined baggage express car. When the train pulled out from the platform the robbers climbed upon the blind baggage and thence to the top cf the express car and remained there until the train reached the ccal shaft, three-quarters of a mile south of the station. At this point one of the robbers leaped upon the tender and began firing at Ben Young, the engineer.' Young mistook the shooting at first for a torpedo alarm and reversed his engine. The third shot, however, Btruck him in the back and seriously cripple! him. The rob­ bers then turr^d their attention to Fireman Charles McDowell and wounded him slightly in the chin with the next shot, and the two men closed. In the scuffle which en­ sued the fireman struck the robber on the head with a monkey-wreach and knocked him from the train. The robber fled south toward the coal mine, and was headed off there by the nigh^ watchman and forced to return. He fell exhausted to the ground before he reached the train and was taken in charre by the crowd and hurried off to the city jail. He-gave his name as William JOUQP, of Kansas City. The train was backed up to the sta­ tion, a new crew put in charge, and sent on its destination. The whole city was aroused this time by th3 ringing of fire-bells, and Jones, the captured bandit, was threatened with lynching unless he made a full ccnfession. Jones made a full confession. He said his accomplice s were O'Dwyer. Hard­ ing, and Nichols. He aleo impli­ cated a man by the name of Marion, from DuQuoin, who, he claimed, was not with the gang at the time ox the robbery. All Sour men are ufider ar­ rest, three at Centralia and. one at Odin. RAIN CAME TOO LATE. MfasMdCppt %xtei naive Mjwterloos Fonndering of the Haytian War Ship Alexandre Petion. The suddenness and completeness of the disaster to the Haytian man-of-war Alexandre Petion, which went down in the Gulf of Mexico with ninety souls on board, makes theaffair most myste­ rious, and it is probable that the real cause of the wrecking of the ship will never be known. According to the testimony of the sole survivor there was absolutely no warning. Neither collision with another vessel, submerg­ ed coral reef, nor storm can account for the occurrence. The day was fair, the wind was nothing more than a gentle breeze, and the passengers were enjoying- themselves in the cabin. Sud­ denly the vessel began to sink. The of­ ficer on the watch ordered the men to pass the word in the cabins and the forecastle to reach the deck as quickly as possible and jump overboard. It was already too late. There was terrible confusion in the cabin as the panic- stricken passengers struggled to reach the deck, blocking the passage way as they did so an l preventing one another from escaping from what was destined to be their tomb. For only a moment the awful struggle lasted. In one min- ute and a half from the time when she :w.4 VIOLENCE ON THE STRIP. Outraged Bottler* Defend Their Right* and Create a Riot. A riot occurred at the land office at Perry, O. T., and it was necessary to call out the soldiers ta restore order, Deputy marshals have been selling places at the head of the line for $60 to sharks who would file on claims of hon­ est settlers who were further back in line, in hope of securing blood money for them. This caused the people in line to rebel, and they threatened to burn the office if they were not treated fairly in the future. Special agents have arrived from Washington to ex­ amine into affairs at the land office, as charges of bribery have been preferred against some officials. Death In a Tenement-Mouse Fire. There was a panic, one death, and a 'number of narrow escapes from death among the tenants in the five-story tenement 493 West 54th street, New York, which caught fire about two o'clock in the morning. The house is in a row of four tenements, and is oc­ cupied by twenty families. When the tenants were aroused the stairway was ablaze, and escape this way was cut off. Telegraphic Clicks. CHOLERA still prevails at Cairo. THE Pope may establish a holy BOO in Spain. RUSSIA has refused to make a new loan t i France. UNEMPLOYED men at Omaha are be­ coming riotous. THE government of India is raising money on debentures. THE Glasgow Iron Company, of Potts- town, Pa., has resumed. THERE were 2,352 suicides in the German army the past year. DETECTIVES are still in the dark as to the Indiana train robbers. NET earnings of the. Nickel Plate for the year ending- June 30 wcro $1,320,- 757.. . '*• West of the 8 till Suffering. ' The weekly crop report of the Weather Bureau says that, except in the northwestern border States, but little rain fell during the week to the west of the Mississippi, and, as during the previous \^eek, there are extensive areas over which there has been no rain whatever. In the Ohio valley and Atlantic coast States the rains have greatly improve I pastures, and have put the ground in good condition for fall plowing, whicn is progressing rapidly in the States named, fall seed­ ing being about completed in New Jer­ sey and New York. In Northern Wis­ consin, Missouri, Arkarsis, and Ne­ braska but little fall plowing ha^ yet been done, owing to the dry and baked condition of the ground, and seeding is delayed in consequence. Reports by States are as follows: New England--Frosts have done damage In exposed places, but have not been general; corn and potatoes below average; pastnrage good. Mississippi--Warm days and cool nights fa­ vorable to cotton, but does not offset last week's rain and continued ravages of worms; picking uninterrupted; corn mostly nathered; ordinary crop: turnips, peas, and potatoes good; pastures improved. Texas--Drought seyere. except over the east coast; cotton is opening and being rapidly picked; that planted late is opening prema­ turely; no chance for top crop in many parts of Btate, as the plant is dyinz; the yield per acre, as generally reported, is about one-third of a bale. Tennessee--Tobacco good in northeast. In middle and north it is making new growth; crop will be good if not injured by early frost; rains damaged some cotton; Irish po atoes, turnipK and pastures inproving. Kentucky--Badly distributed rain the first part of the week was of great benefit to late fobnoco, pastures and gardens; cntting of corn And fall piowing is progressing. Missouri--Little plowing or seeding done yet; corn practically safe from frost, bat maturing too rapidly. Illinois--Rainfall below the averajre and badly distributed; frout in Jo Daviosn and I)n- f>ag€ Counties the 17th; corn generally safe i'om itou vund i:, arlng rapidly, much being c -t; plowing and seeding progressing in south­ ern portion, elsewhere retarded; raiu badiy OhLj --E aina"ailedvcuul ition i.ndadvanoed fall plowing: seeding over in many counties, In others still retarded by drought; com cat­ ting well advanced; buckwheat, turnips and millet luiproved: early sovvu wheat coming up. Michigan--Rains early part of the week iiiaeti! improved pasture, meadow lands and grapes; com all cut; fall seeding and plowing under way in most counties. Wisconsin--Forest fires in north part of State, probable damage #5,000,000; drought on- broken and Ufctlu £ai! seeding yet; corn no bet­ ter than expected, nearly average yield; husk­ ing begun; potatoes, light crop. •Minnesota--Staple crops nearly all harvest­ ed; frosts Saturday morning slightly injured cor a, liar and potatoes; high winds the latter part of the week damaged some grain; plow­ ing resumed. Iowa--Little more than a trace of rainfall in the Btate; corn practically safe, the average yield is considerably above last year. North Dakota--Bain in the eastern and northern portions of benefit to fall plowing, but more needed; high winds nearly all week retarded thrashing; storm on the lath caused much damage in the southeast section; slight damage te gardens by frost, bouth Dakota--Frost on the 14th killed vines In east portion; corn beyond frost damage; good weather for thrashing' and f»r hardening corn; crop season about closed. Nebraska--Drought continues: corn ripening too fast, with slight falling off in orops; pas­ tures dried up; fall plowing suspended. Kansas--Hot, cloudless, rainless week, dam­ aging pastures, late corn and uncut fodder; •water falling; wheat sowing delayed by drought. Washington--Harvesting and thrashing in progress; hop picking began; gardens and pas­ tures improved. Oregon--Fair warm weather the past week promoted hop-picking; rain of previous week benefited vegetables, corn and potatoes. Hop-picking nearly completed, quality good and average yield; frost In mountain counties injured garden truclu California- with quality go fruit-drying and. raisin-curing much retarded by abnormal amount of moisture In the air" dteacbing dews at night. * Currencies Condensed. "PRINCE BISMAECK is improving. PEACE prevails in Nicaragua again. CHOLERA continues to spread in Eng­ land. SMALLPOX has broken out in New York. THE net gold in the treasury is $97,- 038,094. MICHIGAN sawmills are resuming operations. FIRE at Louisville, Ky., caused a loss of $25,000. ANNIE LATEK was killed by a switch engine at Chicago. A LIBERAL ticket will be placed in tne field, in Colorado. THE hop crop of Washington is esti­ mated at 50,000 bales. • THE two bridge companies at St. Louis have consolidated. THE Mexican boundary dispute hae been satisfactorily settled. JOHN S. BARNS ran a hundred yards at St: Paul in 9 3-5 seconds. THE Ainsworth National Bank ol Portland, Ore., has resumed. W. F. SMITH has been arrwted at charged _ TWK abort Work Made of the Me--ba Baa** Robbers. The whole of the *70,000 taken bj the Mesaba Range, Mioh., train robbers has been recovered. When the rob­ bers had secured their booty they were smart enough to know that it wag Impossible successfully to secrete the !gold anywhere on the Kevreoaaw Pen­ insula. It was equally dangerous to keep it on their persons. One of the gang went to Houghton, dressed as a miner, and for a consideration of 50 cents, it is said, induced a baggageman to check his trunk through. It is not known the bagg ag eman was aware of the contents of the trunk, but a spe­ cial train soon followed with officers, and the booty was overtaken on the road quite a distance from Houghton. Liberty, a fireman on the Duluth Road, was arrested on suspicion ol being a party to the conspiracy. He made every effort to get away, but without aval" Another fireman on the road is also in custody. The other men now under arrest for the daring, train robbery are John King, the Cornish wrestler; Jack Chel- lew, said to be the keeper of a dis­ reputable place in Ishpeming; John Kehoe, a Red Jacket saloon-keeper; John Quinlan, and a stranger named Butler from Marquette. A strong clew is that some women saw a horse tied near the scene of the robbery that tallied with the description of a horse hired by King earlier in the day. In addition, Chellew, King, and Kehoe left Hancock earlv in the morning and returned to town from the direction of the robbery shortly after it was com­ mitted. The robbery was one of the slickest jobs in the annals of criminal history. The robbers knew that $30,000 fur­ nished by the Superior Savings Bank, of Hancock, and $40,000 furnished by the First National Bank, of Houghton, was on the express car, designed for the payment of Calumet and Hecla miners. If they had been still wiser they could have obtained $40,000 more, which a messenger from the First National at Hancock, carried in a hand-sachel. Boston is about five miles south of Calumet. It is a flag station. When the engineer, Nick Schuler, saw a man vigorously signaling from the depot platform, he stopped the train as a matter of course Scarcely had he done so when the supposed agent went inside, donned a mask and in a jiffy jumped into the cab, drawing his re­ volver and firing a shot in the air. Then he told the engineer to stand aside. He would run the "d d ma­ chine." The fireman, thinking an escaped lunatic was on board, ran along the Bide of the locomotive, but three shots In uncomfortable proximity to his head ied him to stop in his mad career and return to the cab. All this time Messenger D. W. Ho- gan sat in the express car making out bills. The door was suddenly broken down by a sledge, falling with a crash, and when the startled man found him­ self looking into the barrels of an ugly bulldog revolver he didn't stop to argue. His hands soon pointed heaven­ ward, wh'ile a man extracted his re­ volver from a pocket and told him to produce his key. Hogan made a feint. This didn't go. The key was produced instanter, and the robbers departed with the swag. Meanwhile the baggageman, who sal in another part of the car, was discon­ solately studying the barrels of another gun. Two shots were fired by the robber; when they left the car. This was 1. signal to start the train again. The highwayman with the boodle waved hit hands derisively at the now frightened passengers as the train moved away. So little time was taken up with tlu work that the train was but five minutes late when it reached Calumet. The robbers threw away their masks and also the express messenger's re­ volver. These were afterwards found. The men probably were anxious to leave nothing on their persons to in­ criminate them. It now transpires that the robbers had prepared to derail the train, but hadn't time to complete the job or were disturbed. Telegraphic Clicks. THE Lehigh Company passed its divi­ dend. A DESTRUCTIVE hail-storm visited the vicinity of Ada, Minn. x THE United States warship Yankton has arrived at Valparaiso, Chili. MCCLURE, th.c train robber, escaped irom the Nebraska penitentiary. FATHER J. J. CONNOLLY, of St. Louis, has boon jaado Vicar General of that diocese. CONTRACTOR L. M. LOSS Jell down the. hatchway of a scow at Alton, 111., and was killed. THE New York Casino Theater has been leased by Canary & Lederer for TT38,000 a year. THE Western Union Telegraph Com­ pany has declared a quarterly dividend of li per cent. DAVID J. MACKEY has been elected president of the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad. THE Ceylon Planters' Tea Company failed at New York. The company has •1,000,000 capital. ROBBERS pillage^ the village of Dal- ton, Ohio, and one of the'gang assault­ ed a yoang woman. SCHWEINFURTH, who calls himself the modern Christ, has btartad a milk route at Rockford, 111. GEORGE LA LIBERTE, a fireman, has been arrested as one of the robbersof the Mineral Range train. GOLD to the amount of £1,500,000 (about $7,500,030) is now on the way from Australia to London. EMPEROR WILLIAM desires to have Alsace-Lorraine incorporated in the Grand Duchy of Baden, it is said. FEARS are felt for the safety of the Valkyrie. The English yacht left (jueenstown for America Aug, 23, ALBERT MASON, of Columbus, O., oity meat inspector, was thrown from nis buggj by a runaway and killed. KENNETT BLAKE shot aud, filled William Rewley at Portsmouth, Ohio, He declared he was glad he did it and fled. As A result of an old feud at Benton, Ala., James Miller shot and killed E. E. Curtis. Both were prominent mer­ chants. DURING a drunken quarrel among some printers at Pittsburg William Cunningham, 40 years old, was fatally kicked. COLLECTOR J. W. REICKLEY of the Indianapolis Gas Company has abscond­ ed, taking a large amount of the con­ cern's cash. A, BOAT from the sealing schooner Arctic was lost in Behring sea and six men perished. Tho Walter L. Rich lest a boat and three men. THOUSANDS are pouring into Guens to see the maneuvers of the Austro- Hunsrarian army. Emperor Franz Josef is already there. SAMUEL LAMB, ex-Sheriff of the In* diana Supreme Court, and for several years in the United States detective servioe, dropped dead at Richmond, SENATOR VOORHCE8 AGREES TO[ A COMPROMISE. ^ Ww rwUfcal Kwaiw May man* tiM Xssae--Senate fienioni to Be lengthened! < --Antl-SUYerlten Still righting for Delay -Xbab flaa Outlined. , ' ~ % c : I *: : - *1 \ 'Another Week of Vim ' WiNMlliiliii oorreapoadence: , ;4,, $ A TRUCE TtetwaenV ' \i /\ the silver and a ntl- < .silver element^4: of the Senate haa*/vi^ . ^ unexpectedly been. V" 14 £• a r r a n g e d . I t i s n o t * . ' ̂ ^ by any means final settlement oft * the question, yet it ;' - -4 bring i the two ele- j' ments together in a J - j| formal agreement"' for the first time ' , . this session. By the - / ̂ iiHiwiWW terms of tho agree-' * ment the daily hes-fu'.^C fleions of the Senate!' ]• f r< tillil1 I! !1 and after nextt ; < . B '» Monday are to be- gin at 11 a. m. and end at o p. m. This' adds an hour to each end of the regu-, lar daily sessions. The new crder ofjb ' ? 4- things is regarded as a most signitkr"' ! cant concession on the part of Voorhee3. It is mainly important in; • | assuring the silver Senators that they s' V need not trouble themselves over the-' fear of all-night sessions in the n?aF/w'- . si- future. Voorhees had threatened night' " and day sessions, and the silver men had defied nim to adopt such a course. No exact time is eet for terminating ' the agreement, but the general under­ standing among Senators is that the II to 6 o'clock session will be continued at least a week, at the end of which time the agreement may be continued. The silver men are jubilant. They say aJ that they have nothing to lose and/ ! t >] everything to gain by it. They are^ " fighting for time, and this give j tliem----^.^' the calm assurance of at least anothei .-AV week without any dangor of beirg , crowded by all-night sessions. Senator^ _ w _ Jones (Ark.), a silver man, and Senator J! Faulkner (W. Va.), an administration 1 : Senator who is very anxious to secure / -• V -i a compromise, planned the agreement. " It was hardly expected that Mr. Voor- ^ " 4 hees would take to it kindly, but h« was so worn out over tho struggles of the last three weeks that he readily assented to the truce. But the interesting and almost sen­ sational rumor is current in the Capitolj that Vice President Stevenson had de^^: termined to take the bull by the horng^V * <' when the proper time shall come to fed cure action, and had agreed to seizel some opportunity in the progress of th consideration of the repeal bill fo putting a motion for a vote. Dili gen inquiry fails to thoroughly establish theff; truth of this rumor. Vice President!; Stevenson, when appealed to by a c respondent, said simply that his duty and hi6 whole duty was to enforce the rules of the Senate, and, while he might wish the rules were different and more in the direction of action and progress, he had had no hand in the making of the rules and no power to change them. He had given no as­ surance to anyone what he would do beyond this. It is known, nevertheless, that Sena­ tors friendly to repeal have often been in frequent conve rsation with Mr. Ste­ venson concerning the rules. There ore Senators who argute that, under the rules of the Senate, it is in the power of the presiding officer to put a motion for a vote, and that in doing so the only law or rule violated will be the - unwritteh or traditional law of the * Senate that debate cannot be cut off by a motion. The right to continuous de­ bate is not a constitutional right, and it is not a right that finds a warrant or grotection in the written rules of ike enate--it is wholly traditional. r Routine Proceeding .̂ Tlie cloture proposition was the subject ot discussion until 2 o'clock in the Senate Friday, when the repeal bill, being the un­ finished business, was taken up. Mr. Mc- Pbersot. gave notice that after Mr. Turpie. shall have spoken on the resolution he should Insist that it go to the calender,' whence it would take affirmative action to cet' it before the Senate. Senator Piatt, Its author, desires its reference to the Committee on Rules. The oppo-. ... ... oents of repeal occupied the day--> Senators Wolcott and 'letter of. Colored in the morning against a change of rules and incidentally against repoal. and J a tor 8 George of Ml^s's-ilrpl. iT:?jjp*>rousrli off- North Dakota, nnl Stewart of Nevada®* against the repeal of the purchasing*, clauses of the silver act. There was a marked failing off in the attendance at the House, and no business of importance was transacted. Quite a row occurred . over a resolution for the appointment of an assistant clerk for the Committee on Claims, presided over by Mr. Bunn. The House adjourned without disposing of the question. In the Senate Saturday the cloture reso­ lution was takan up and Mr. Turpie ar­ gued against Its ad opt'on. Cloture, de­ clared Mr. Turpie. would not diminish the > real power of the minority. Members of the Eenate sublected to force and duress come back no lonster in the minority, but in the majority. A vote by force was not a vote; a vote by compulsion was not a free act. »nd yet the flrstdeflnltion of a vote was volition, the expression of wilL The very highest functions in a free irov- ernment were not compulsory and could not ba made so. In the present condition there was no reason for the adoption of the cloture or for *he invocation of what may be called constitu­ tional obstruction. This was not the last congress and the people had ample remedy for the error of a majorliy if such should be the CH6e. The timo in the House was taken up by unimportant reports, then ^ Mr. Talbert of Maryland callel up|& the bill «remitting $30,000 la penalties!" to the builders.of the dynamite crulserj- v.** ) Vesuvius. Mr. Cummings. chairman of the naval affairs committee, supported the bill. Mr. Sayers, chairman of the appropriations committee, opposed tho bill. The bill fin­ ally went over without action, and ihe House proceeded to the consideration of the printing bill. Pending action on the bill tbs House adjourned. m EeM&trldtlM. BARCLAY, author of the Argenis, in his leisure hours was a florist. SCALIGER could not drink milk and would not sit at a table where it was. DISIDERIUS ERASMUS was always thrown into a fever by tbe smell of flsn. THOMAS CARLISLE'S most congenial recreation was smoking in his garden. GLADSTONE is fond of wood-cutting, and often amuses himself in this way. BALZAC, when not at work on his novels, entertained himself sketching. HENRY VII.. of England, had th« reputation of being an inveterate miser. FREDERICK THE GREAT was a musi­ cian and devoted much time to the flute.. IVAN THE GREAT was fond of tortur­ ing animals and seeing their blood run. JOHN WESLEY never took any form of dive. sion, but utilized every moment. NAPOLEON'S favorite dainty war blood pudding made with plenty of tal­ low. SCALIGER'S brother' was always LK able to convulsions at the sight of s lily. • ? NEANDER, the church historian^ wrote for many jears with the samf "••fj • ' \ < - J MX'i' J ** • -'<3 A1 -..-i ; '/V' *£ <&* ;