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1LLIN0I& fGS OF THE DAT i» V«nKihp fa Every Ol> tgjphere, ha Transmitted by , Telegraph. Political, Social, Financial; t Induitrial, Criminal and News. ELEVEN MEW RILLED. 'fto Sheriff and Four Deputies of Stevens Connty, Kansas, Slain *>y a Mob. THE county-scat war in Stevens Connty, Kansas, ha* broken oat afresh and lias resulted in the murder of John Cross, Sheriff of the connty; S. H. Hub­ bard, C. W. Eaton, H. Taney, and "Vl". H. Wilcox, all citizens of Woodsdale, and it is reported others, making eleven in all. The county was organized two years ago, and is occupied largely by hard charac­ ters. Hugoton was chosen the county seat by fraud, the Woodsdale people say, and the election result is in liti- Ktion. Bad blood has im existed twe«i the two towns. Constable C. E. Short, of Woodsdale, and two others attempted to arrest Sam Robinson •ad three other Hugo;on men in the neu­ tral strip. Sheriff Cross received a re­ quest for help from Short, and, with Hub­ bard, Eaton, Taney, and Wilcox, he start­ ed to render it. The party stopped at a ranch that night, and were there surpris­ ed in their sleep by thirty Hugoton men, headed by Robinson, who seized them, took away their arms, stood them up*in a load and shot them. The Governor has been appealed to for troops. More trou­ ble feared. BUSINESS MAKING MENT. IMPROVE. ' im. J* mm. mBSl' VM» M JMiflfroit'i "Cattle which was on th*«ar, one having bar lag broken. Other* • attained sprains and bruises. FIRB destroyed the coal-mining town of Roslyn, twenty-eight miles from El- lensborg, W. T., rendering the entire population of 1,500 tameless. About two hundred and fifty houses were burned, nothing being left bat the coal company's office and the depot. There was no insur­ ance. Loss, $500,000. A CORRESPONDENT at Standing Book agency telegraphs that the excitement on the reservation is intense A few Indians T,,,s: seem inclined to hear what the members * jj of the commission have to say, but tnost of the chiefs even refuse to take the cir­ culars printed in Sioux explaining the terms of the treaty. Only aDout 100 of the 1,100 Indian adults on the reservation | were absent. The commission propose to work quietly with small numbers at a tifiid. Ae argument of the Indians is that j the white men have already more land i than they use. JOHN F. ANDERSON went down a well near Johnson, Neb., for the purpose of cleaning it, and when near the bottom the walls began to eave in. He was drawn to within twenty-five feet of the top, when the well completely closed. Men went steadily at work trying to rescue him, but with little hope until several days after the incident, when h< pulled the bucket- rope and spoke to them. Hopes are en­ tertained of rescuing him. THE summer theater at Schneider's garden, fit. Louis, was destroyed by fire, after an opp*a performance, including the wardrobes of the entire company. NEAL COSTEIILO, a brakeman on the Frisco line, while helping a porter put three tramps off the platform of a car at Marshfield, Mo., was fatally shot by one of the trio. DURING a prayer-meeting at the Me­ ridian Street M. E. Church, at Indian­ apolis, Ind., Eugene Zenzius drank car­ bolic acid and died before medical as­ sistance could reach him. ' -sV-i K. G. Daa A Co.'s Weekly Review of the Con­ dition of Trade in the United States. B. G. DUN k Co.'s trade review fox* the part week says: Improvement continues. The collapse of the Western Iron Manufacturers' Association has set nearly all mills at work, and makes pig iron firmer, but bar iron weaker. Stocks have been strengthened by a decision arresting the enforce­ ment of the Iowa rates. Wars of rates do not cease, and interstate decisions on inany import­ ant cases are deferred. Net earning of eighty- two roads iu May showed a loss of 8.4 per cent., though theie gross earnings gained 6.4 per cent., and the gains in gross earnings for July have been less than half as large. Statements show that 2,428 miles of road have been placed in the hands of receivers during the hal year, with $153,650,000 bonds and stocks, against only 436 miles and $'28,300,000 bonds and stocks for the first half of last year. But the at erage price of stocks has risen about $1.40 per share, though less stroug of late. Reports of domestic trade are almost uniformly encoura.ing, for, though dullness yet prevails, improvement appears at many poiuts. The Treasury has taken in daring the past week S2,OUJ,000 mare money than it has paid out, but reports from all in­ terior points represent money in ample supply for all legitimate business, "with a general de­ ficiency of deuiun i. Once more the country closes a crop year with a surplus of over 51,000,- OQp bushels of wheat on hand unsold, and the latest reports indicate that the supply fores- port during the coming year will exceed 145,000,- MM bushels, exports for the last year having been less than 120,001,000 bushels. SOUTH. |p';; AROUND THE BASE& Frnhnt Ball Clubs Compettag for the Championship. THE following table shows the relative standing of the various clubs competing for the championship of the associations named: Leagua. Won. Ioat.1 Western. Won.Lo«l. Detroit <7 ttjgt. Paul 41 1» New York 46 2?:l>ea Moinea 33 24 30i<>maha 31 W 391 Milwaukee 31 92 38 Kansas City.....27 31 41iCirica«o at S3 44|Sionx City 9 13 4.r>| Minneapolis.... .84 35 Chicago 44 Boston ..36 Philadelphia....34 PHMmigD. B Indianapolis... .SB Washington H It A - A- • m ^American. Won. Lo«tJ Interstate Won.Lot* St. Jxrais 49 23|Oavenport 40 16 Brooklyn *J 2ftreoria 87 20 Cincinnati 40 ii8!Bloomington....!a6 24 Athletic cj a# | Baltimore. 33 4/| ,4 : .Louisville 28 471 f ? ' Cleveland 27 46i > ,i ^^WSBS City 23 491 7; ! jA SOUTHERN^TRAGEDY. J 1 Double Harder at Eden, Miss. ̂ AT Eden, Miss., a small town on the Yazoo River, a negro, Frank Guise, in­ sulted a member of the family of Mr. Ogert during his absence. On his return, Qgert got his shotgun and went in pursuit or Guise, Overtaking him on a road near the town he killed the negro. The dis­ charge of the gnu frightened Ogert's horse, and he was thrown to the ground near the scene of the killing. Two. ne­ groes, friends of Guise, attacked Ogert with axes, while he was down and com­ pletely severed his head from his body. She Will Not Hang. GOVERNOR HILL has commuted the sentence of Chiara Cignarale, the Italiain woman who assassinated her husband in Kew York, from death to imprisonment for life. NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS. teandnents to the Sundry Civil Appropria* tion BilL THE Senate again considered the fisheries trasty in open executive session the 27th, but it went over without action. The sundry civil appropriation bill was then considered. Among other amendments reported and agreed to were the following: Increasing ihe appropriation for repates of lighthouses, etc., from «3U0,000 to »3zj,000 ; increasing the appropriation for sal- ,,1'P))thoU6e-lieepere from $585X0) to •60J,000; increasing the appropriation for the lighting of rivers from *235,003 to $250 003 • inserting an item of $50,000 for ex- Cses of enforcing the alien contracts >r laws; inserting an item of $450,000 for ?£JfPee8,?.f collecting revenue from customs for j°™ ni. addition to the permanent appropriation • inserting an item of *8,000 for a flsh-culture station at Neosho, Mo., and of 85,(XK) for the °J the same; inserting an item of *10J,(»0 for the Burvey and relocation of the boundary line between the United States and Mexico west of the Rio Grande. A dozen private war-claim bills were passed by the Honae. On motion of Mr. Grain (Tex.i a biU ™ Passed authorizing the Brazos River Chan- Mi and Dock Company to improve the mouth of toe Brazos Kiver, Texas. On motion of Mr Hovey (Ind.) a bill was passed for the erection of a marine hospital at Evamville ultimate cost of #100,000. " ' private Ind., at an At the evening aes- peaskm bills war* fV "7 EAST. AT Pittsburgh, Captain Lewis Clark, convicted of selling liquor without licenses on the excursion steamer May­ flower, was fined $700, and sentenced to seven months' imprisonment in the County NttME SCHABP, pf Newburgh, N. Y., aged 13, was drowned in Quasslack Creek &broihfr?8Uh^.y0ndherdeptht° re°°™ FRANK ABDOKY, drayage contractor at Pittsburgh, Pa., has failed, with liabili­ ties, $90,000; assets, t20,000; and judg- menW aggregating f70,000 entered against M. M. KIBKMAK, of Chicago, has been elected President of the American Eail- road Accounting Officers at New York ft. Phillips^ Chicago, Secretary! ' *'• ' WESH A PASSENOEB train on the Cannon Fall* •branch of the Milwaukee Boad struck a «ow ten miles out of Red Wing, Minn., *nd three cars, including one passenger coach, went downa twenty-five foot em­ bankment. W. A. Clark, a canvas man, of Hurley, Wis., who was standing on the platform of a ear, was crushed to death THE grand jury of Crittenden County, Ark., which has been investigating the banishment of eighteen negroes by an armed organization has made its report, 6ays a Memphis dispatch. The result is the return of nearly forty indictments. The grand jury found that anonymoufe notes had been sent to a number of white men by negroes, giving the whites five days to leave the county. Upon receiving the threatening epistles the whites met, armed and escorted out of the county the negroes implicated. The grand jury succeeded in tracing the anonymous threats to the office of the County Clerk, David Ferguson, one pf the thirteen ne­ groes banished. JTte intention was to create a reign of terror and break the force of the prosecution. DR. ROBERTVILOBBIS, the distinguished writer and lecturer on Freemasonry, is lying at the point of death at La Grange Ky,, and all hopes of his recoveiy have been abandoned. News has been received of an attack made at Jackson, Miss., by Roderick LOWTV, nephew of Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, upon his wife who had left him because of his brutality. Mrs. Lowry was kicked and beaten severely and may not recover, while Lowry has so far escaped arrest. An effort made to suppress the facts. WASHINGTON. A WASHINGTON dispatch of Monday says: "The fear that Samuel J. Randall would in all probability not be able to again resume his seat in this Congress, and also that his physicians might forbid his ever again accepting a nomination to Eublic office, has within the past few days ecome a certainty. The long and honor­ able public career of this faithful servant of the people is definitely ended, for his physicians have discovered that he is suf­ fering from a cancer of the stomach, and they are forced to the conviction that it is incurable." POLITICS. Wisconsin State Convention of the Union Labor party met at Oshkosh; and placed in nomination the following ticket: ' or ueorgia have 8. |aa, a%hite lawyer of Ati«gi«^ for PBS8. rf, Kansas Republican State Conven Won met at Topeka. There were a num b«r of possible nominees for Governor, bill after several ballots L. V. Humphrey, of Independence, was chosen. He is a lawyer and banker, and has served Kan­ sas as Lieutenant Governor. Following istthe ticket: Iter Governor, L. V. Humphrey; for Associate Jnotloe. W. A. Johnson; for Lieutenant Cov­ entor, A. J. Felt; for Secretary of State, William Htggtni; lor Auditor, T. J. MoC&rthy; for Treas­ on*, Geone Hamilton; for Attorney General; Charles Kellogg. The platform indorses the platform and nominees of the Chicago convention; com­ mends the State administration; favors home rule for Ireland; declares for the home as against the saloon and demands U»e complete execution of the liquor laws in all parts of the State; denounces the Prohibition party; favors protection in every sense of the word; indorses the pension policy recommended by the Win- field encampment, and heartily indorses the course of Senators Ingalls and Plumb. THE National Conference of colored people met at Indianapolis, Ind. There was a large attendance from all parts of the coun^fcy. The following resolutions, reviewing the political conditions affect­ ing the negro and the promises made by President Cleveland touching the full en­ joyment of their rights, were adopted: Metolved, That we indorse the position taken by the St. Louis convention upon the tariff question. Resolvetl, That this conference of colored American citizens pledge themselves and their best efforts to secure the success of the Demo­ cratic party of the nation. A National Committee was chosen as follows: Arkansas, B. F. Adair; District of CoTrrmbia, B. B. Kobin6on: Illinois, W. T. Scott; Indiana, C. H. Shelton; Iowa, Charles Curtis; Kansas, Frank Boyd ; Kentucky, J. A. Boss ; Massachu­ setts, G. H. Plunnner; Michigan, G. H. Moore; Missouri, J. Milton Turner; New York, Henry F. Downey; Ohio, B. A. Jones ; South Carolina, T. J. Clemens; Tennessee, H. C. Smith; Vir­ ginia, & W. Fisher, W. T. Seett» JiWiMris, was elected Chairman. < r LABOR. For Governor--Dr. Powell of La Crosse. For Lieutenant Governor--N. £. Powell of Beaver Dam. " For Secretary of State--William Lockwood of Ripon. For Treasurer--Alfred ll&nnhaimer of Mani­ towoc. For Attorney General--T. A. Byan of Wauke­ sha. For Superintendent of Schools--E. B. Kx&cko- witzer. ~For Railpoed Commissioner--John E. Thomas oi Sheboygan Falls. For Insurance Commissioner--Rittnar Stevens of Green Lake. Electors-at-large--A. B. Severance of Milwau­ kee and John J. Kiedell of Sheboygan. Powell was a former Indian seout, and at one time traveled with Buffalo Bill's combination. He is known as "White Beaver," and has been Mayor of La Crosse, being elected on the Labor ticket. The convention indorsed the Cincinnati plat­ form. THE Minnesota Prohibition State con­ vention has nominated the following ticket: For .Governor--Hugh Harrison, of HennentA County. Secretary of State--Peter Thompson, of Nobles County. Treasurer--John H. Allen, of Fergus Falls Attorney-General--Charles F. Hh.nnr.,. of Duluth. A full electoral ticket was named and a platform adopted, one of the planks of which is: Resolved, That the announced intention of the Republican party to remove from tobacco and in­ toxicating beverages the internal-revenue taxes without abolishing the saloons, and for the pur­ pose of maintaining a high protective tariff uj>on articles of necessity in the ordinary use, will re­ sult in cheap whisky and tobacco and high-priced clothing, and is opposed to the best interests of the people. Several hundred adherents of the cause, each carrying a new broom decorated with a white bow, joined in the parade in the evening. HON. G. W. DOBGAN has been renom­ inated for Congress by the Democrats af Florence, S. C. JAMKS LO.VE of Liberty County, a rich, and very popular man, has been nomin­ ated for Congress by the Republicans of the Third District of Missouri. THE democrats of the Seventh Con­ gressional District of Illinois have nom­ inated Owen Lovejoy, of Princeton, for Congress. The Prohibitionists of the Tenth District of Illinois have nominated for Congress Judge J. H. Sedgwick, of Peoria. G. W. Blewett, of Viacennee, has been nominated for Congress by the Prohibitionists of the Second Indiana Congressional District. * THE Democrats of the Fourth Congres­ sional District of West Virginia have nominated J. M. Jackson of Parkersburg, for Congress. The Second District Dem­ ocrats, at Piedmont, renominated W. A. Wilson for Congress by acclamation. THE Democrats of the Eighteenth Illi­ nois District, in convention at Alton, nom­ inated A. W. Hope for Congress. H. CLAY EVANS, of Chattanooga, has been nominated for; Congress by the Re publicans of the Third District of Ten nessee. THE Democrats of the Seventh District of Virginia have renominated CoL O'Fer tell of Winchester for Congress. THE Republican Committee of the Fifth AT the joint convention of the railroad employes' brotherhoods, held in St. Joe, Mo., very little was done relating to a set­ tlement of the Burlington difficulties. War to the knife will be made on the system. The following resolution was unanimous­ ly adopted: Resolved, That the meeting heartily Indorses the action taken by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy men in refusing to declare the strike off on the conditions offered. The conditions referred to are: That no men shall be blacklisted; that the company shall take back such men and as many as it may elect; ihat for the next two years the company shall employ the late strikers in prefer­ ence to other men, and that it shall give letters of recommendation to such men as it cannot give employment. 'J he organization claims to have plenty of funds to carry on the strike indefinite­ ly. The federation plan was indorsed by the meeting and it is quite certain that in less than four months the scheme will be in force. Each of the four brotherhoods will hold conventions as follows to con­ sider the matter: Brotherhood of Engineers, at Richmond in Oc­ tober ; Brotherhood of Firemen, at Atlanta, Git., in September; the switchmen, at St. Louis, in September; Brotherhood of Brakemen, as Co­ lumbus, Ohio, in Octobe'. The first convention will adopt a federation clause in its constitution which wil) be accepted by the other conventions at their meeting, and when this work is accom­ plished a grand advisory board will be estab­ lished, to be made up of delegates -from the four organizations. It will be the business of the b#brd to handle all difficulties. GENERAL. Tax Skena River revolt continue* to cause the greatest excitement. The milita at Winnipeg is prepared to start for the scene of the outbreak on short notice. A messenger fiom Hazleton says when he escaped the Indians were still laying siege to Hudson's Boy fort, where all the white population are gathered. The garrison, he says, could not hold out much longer, and he fears the troops now on the way will not arrive in time. THEBE was great rejoicing at Marion, Ind., over the signing of the bill by the President for a National Soldiers' Home, to be located at that place. A pyrotech­ nic display and a serenade to Major Steele, who was instrumental in having the bill passed, were among the features. The Department of Agriculture, in its last weekly crop report, says: "The weather during the week has been favor­ able for the growing crops in the wheat and corn regions of the Northwest. The recent heavy rains, followed by an excess of sunshine, have greatly improved the condition of corn and oats, which are generally reported in excellent condition, but more rain is needed in por­ tions of Michigan for these crops. Reports from Kansas indicate that crops have been considerably damaged by hail. Reports from Kentucky, Tennes­ see, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi show that the crop condition^ have been improved by the favorable weather during the last week." A Minneapolis dispatch reports that "Crop prospects throughout the Northwest have seldom been more favorable at this season than at present. More than an average yield of the best grade of wheat is all but secured. The hay crops in all parts of the State and Dakota is claimed to be enormous, and is being secured in most sections in good condition." IT is reported from San Francisco that Fanny Davenport, who was divorced from Edward Price, has married Edward Mc­ Dowell, her leading man. » 6.80 <3 8.73 @ 5.00 <<S 6.75 <gi 5.oo <$ & .47 .31 .46 .19 *5 .16 •oejt .10 .55 .35 .55 .57 18.50 .80 .40 .SO .79 .46 m .36 & .57 m . s\-i @14.00 & e ;. ft . . . . . s Mm MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATfU--Choice to Prime Steers.* 5.75 Good 5.00 Common ' 4.00 Hoos--Shipping Grades 5.50 HHEKP 3.50 WHKAT--No. 2 lied 81 CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 ,80 RVE--No. 2 45 BUTTKB--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy 19' <$ CHEKSK--Full Cream, flat. 08 gg EGOS--Fresh 15 @ POTATOES--New, per bu..... so @ POBK--Mess 18.25 ©14.00 MILWAUKEE. W HEAT--Cash 7614@ CORK--No. 3 45 m OATS--No. 2 White Rye--No. 1 BARLET--NO. S...;. POUK--Mess CINCINNATI WHEAT--No. 2 Bed Comv--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 MUid HOGS _ ST. LOUIS. W«*T-MO< 8, Coaji--No. 2 44 OATS--No. 2 AS RTK 45 BABLKT POM--Mess 14,25 NEW YORK. CATTLE..... Hoos SHFCEF WHEAT--No. 2 Bea COB*--No. 2. OATS--White POBK--New Mess.... DETROIT. CATTLE Hoos. SHEKP WHEAT--Ko. 1 White CORK--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE 4,00 Hoos.....,., 5,50 SHEEP. ...» 3.50 LAMBS., 409 BUFFALO. CATTLE..... Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed W. Cow--No. 8 EAST LIBERTY. CATTX*--Prime Fair Common., JHOG8 . • *•'•••••-* '»•< SHEEP.,*. LAMBS.............. .83)4 .47 0C!75 •TO* & .45 & .20>£ & .45)6 & .85 @14.75 4.5) & 6.00 «.U0 & 7.00 <9 5.50 & ,U3 » .58 <9 .48 (A 15.25 3.50 .91 .56 .44 14.75 3.50 5.0) 3.0) .92 .475*0 .87^® @ 5.2-. & 6.25 <9 3.75 (9 .9**4 .48 .3d & 5.00 & 6.50 & 5.00 0 5.25 4.50 WH.iS 5.25 6.00 4.25 <s> 5.00 .U # .92 •M)*® .63)4 • • * Si A • * 'Al i i u 44>.' @ 5.75 (9 5.00 9 4.00 Prttfcfeht Cleveland T«Hs Con- gross What the Commis­ sion Is Doing. He taflaki Ike People Hare Casse to CMfratalat«d on regg Made. President ClefVland sent the following message to Congress on the 23d of*July: Pursuant to the sec; n l section of ChaptSt 27 of the laws of lfc83, entitled, "An act to regplate aid improve the ciYil service of the united States," 1 herewith transmit the fourth report of the United States Civil Service Commission, covering that petlod between the 16th diy of January, 1880, and the 1st day of July, 1*7. While this report has special reference to the operations of tSs commission during the period above mentioned, it contains, with its accom­ panying appendices, much valuable information concerning the taeeption of civil service reform and its growth and progress which cannot fail to be interesting and instructive to all who desire improvement in administrative methods. Dur­ ing the time • covered by the report, 15,852 persons were eixamiued for admission in the classifl.d civil service of the Government in all its branches, of whom 10,746 passed the ex­ amination and ^aBS failed. Of those who passed the examination 2,977 were applicants for admis­ sion to the departmental Bervice at Washington, 2,547 were examined for admission to the cus­ toms service, and 5,222 for admission to the post­ al ser vSca. During the same period 547 appoint­ ment s were made irom the eligible lists to the department service, C41 to the customs service and 3,254 to the postal service. Concerning separations from the classified service the report only informs us of such as have occurred among employes in the public service who had been appointed from eligible lists under civil-service rules. When these rules took effect they did not apply to the per­ sons then in the service, comprising a full com­ plement of employes, who obtained their positions independently of the now law. The commission has ho record of the senarati ns in this numerous class, and the discrepancy apparent in the report between the number of appoint­ ments made in the respective branches of the service from the lists of the commission and the small number Of separations mentioned, is, to a great extent, accounted for by vacancies, of which no rip rt was made to the commis­ sion, occurring among those who held their places without examination and certification, whicfe vacancies were filled by appointment from the eligible lists. In the departmental service there occurred between the 16th day of January, 1886, and the 3Jth day of June, 1887, among the employes ap- ,pointed from the eligible lists under civil service 'rules, 17 removals, 36 resignations and 5 deaths. This does not Include 14 separations in the grade of special pension examiners, 4 by remo­ val, 5 by resignation, and 5 by death. In the classified customs and postal service the number of separations among those who re­ ceived absolute appointments under the civil service rules are given for the period between the first day of January, 188.i, and the 80th day of June, 1887. It appears that such separations in the customs service for the time mentioned, embraced twenty-one removals, five deaths and eighteen resignations, and in the postal service .256 removals, 23 deaths and 469 resignations. More than a year has passed since the expira­ tion of the period covered by the report of the commission. Within the time which has thus elapsed many important changes liave taken place in the furtherance of a retorm in our civil service. The rale and regulations governing the violations of the law upon the subject have been completely remodeled in such manner as to render the en­ forcement of the statute more effective and greatly increase its usefulness. Among other things, the scope of examinations pre­ scribed for those who seek to enter the classi­ fied se vioe has been better defined and made more practi al; the number of names to be cer­ tified from the eligible lis s to the appointing officers from which a selection is made has been reduced from four to three; the maximum limitation of the age of persons see .- ing entrance to the classified serv­ ice to 45 years has been changed, and reasonable provision has been made for- the transfer of employes from one department to another in proper cases. A plan has also been devised providing for the examination of appli­ cants for promotion in the service, which, when in full operation, will eliminate all chance of favoritism in the advancement of employes, by making promotion a reward of merit and faith-' ful discharge of duty. Until within a few weeks there was no uni­ form classification of employes in the different executive departments of the Government. As a result of tms condition, in some of the depart­ ments positions could be obtained without civil service examinations, because they were not w.thin the classification of such de­ partment, while in other departments an examination and certification were necessary to obtain positions of the same grade, because such positions were embraced in the cUssiiloatiotis applicable to theso departments. The exception of laborers, watchmen and mes­ sengers from examination and classification gave opportunity, in the absence of any rule guarding against it, for the employ­ ment, free from civil-service restrictions, of persons unde r these designations, who were immediately detailed to do clerical work. All this hasbeen obviated by the application to all the departments of an extended and uniform classification, embracing, grades of employes not heretofore included, and by the adoption oi rule prohibiting the detail of laborers, watch­ men, or messengers to clerical duty. The path of eivil-service reform has not at all times been pleasant r.or easy, the scope and purpose of the reform having been much mis­ apprehended ; and this:has not only given rise to strong opposition, but has lei to its invoca­ tion by Its fritnda to compass objects not in the least related to it. Thus artisans of the patronage system ave naturally condemned it. Those whe do not understand its meaning either mistrust it, or, when disappointed, because, inite present stage it is not applied to every real or imaginary ill, accuse this Administration, charged with its enforcement, with faithlessness to civil-service reform. Its importance has frequently been under-estimated, and the support of good men has thus been lost by their lock of interest in its success. Besides all these difficulties, those responsible for the ad­ ministration of the Government in its executive branches have been, and still are, often annoyed bv the disloyalty to the service and the insolence of employes who remain in places as the bene­ ficiaries and the relics or reminders of the vic­ ious system of appointment which civil service reform was intended to displace. And yet these are but the incidents of an ad­ vance movement which is radical and far-reach­ ing. The people are, notwithstanding, to be congratulated upon the progress which has been made, and upon the firm, practical, and sensible foundation upon which this relorm now rests. With a continuance of the intelligent fidelity which has hitherto characterized the work of the commission, with a continuation and in­ crease of the favor and liberality which have lately been evinced by the Congress in the proper equipment of the commission for its work, with a firm but conservative and reasonable support of the reform by all its friends, and with the disappearance of op­ position which must inevitably follow its better understanding, the execution of the civil Bervice law cannot fail to ultimately answer the hopes in which it had its origin. > . GBOVER CLIEVBUSDI' EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 23, 16^8. Mews Naj^et*. ' 4 Two MEN in Arkansas drank by mistake .some wine poisoned with arsenic to kill flies. Both are dead. A _ NEW YORK liquor-dealer died oi lockjaw caused by a blow on his nose. 8AM JONES is conducting a camp-meet­ ing at Bluff Park, Iowa. A MAN in BinghamtOQ, New York, has just awakened after a two-years' sleep. JOHN L. SULLIVAN has bought the cir­ cus he was traveling with and will run it himself. THE corn area in Illinois has in­ creased, and the com crop is looking well. A SEA-REBPENT has been discovered in the St. Lawrence River just off oue of the Thousand Islands/ IT is authoritatively denied that Con­ gressman Kaudall has a cancer of tht stomach. He is improving. IN a free fight over the enforcement ol prohibition at Hnil tn Couit House, Ky., nve men were wounded. THE condition of grain crops in Iowa, as reported by the Secretary of the State .Agiicultural Society, is prime. A BKACE of skilled counterfeiters have been arrested at Pittsburgh with $13,00C in spurious greenbacks on their persons. THE Treasury Department has issued B new $20 certificate. On its faoe in the center i* a vignette of the late Danfol Manning. REDACTION of hours of labor and equally of wapes ha? caused a general strike among the section men on the Santa Fe system. A PETITION has been circulated among New York workingmen asking the Presi­ dent to remove Postmaster Pearson foi defying the eight-hour law. IT is said that Pinkerton detectives have been employed by nearly all the large railroads of the country and have worked their way into the labor organizations. , ! • ; s . J ,» '•* .-o yv . #>* NATIONAL (ML ' What la Bofa^ Heee by th« National " Legislature. |K the Senate the bill to wimlnne the Kosttors of the rmcdaMa's Bank was discussed and passed the ttst. » agproprlatea 91,000,00a. SS«S ;£,̂ ass2̂ n3,sf,is!sr?s&,£ open executive seesion. The %nal vot• on the Mills tariff bill was taken bv uS House and the hill passed. l%i« majority tor tha bill waa 19, the total vote being Ml. when an occasional member voted apparently against bis political faith, the announcement waa uproari­ ously received by (he Side favored. When the throughout ttw chamber. A dozen members leaped totheir feet, waving bandanas and Hags. Messrs. Bliss, Merriman, and Oreenman of New York, and Bowden ofl^.ylvania, Democn»!u voted against the bill. Messrs. Fitch of New York, Nelson of Minnesota, and Brower of North Carolina, RepublioansVvoted its p " kins >rth Carolina, RepublioansVvoted Jnfovof of i passage. Messrs. Andarson of lowa ltop- tis of Virginia* and Smith of Wisconsin, inde­ pendents, voted for the bill. The following nZirs were aimounced: Beadall with Hnay, 'WeatVir- ginia; Heistand, Pennsylvania, wun Whiting Michigan; Belmont, New York, with Davenport' New York; Perry, Bouth Carolina, with Bpdoner' Khode Island; £Uover, Missouri, with Brown Indiana; Granger, Connecticut, with Wood burn, Nevada. Before the vote was taken the long de­ bate on the hill was closed by Mr. Mills. Ifaj. McKinley demanded a separate vote An the cotton-tie amendment, but the Republicans re­ fused to follow his lead, and the amendment stood. It puts on the free list steel and iron hoops used for baling hay and hooping buakets. The original bill admitted free of duty steel and iron hoops used fPr baling cotton, but left a tar­ iff on the same material used for baling hay and hooping buckets. THE conference report on the river and harbor bill was presented and agreed to .by the Senate on the 23d. The Senate then proceeded to con­ sider the fisheries treaty in open executive ses­ sion, and was addrosred by Mr. Dawes and Mr Stewart in opposition to its ratification. After which the House bill for the relief of i he South­ ern Illinois Normal University was passed, and the Senate adjourned. In the House Mr. Crisp (Ga.) ea led up and the House passed the Senate bill to perfect tho quarantine service <f the United States. Representative Springer (111.) introduc d a bill to tax the products of trusts. It provides that, in addition to the taxeB already imposed upon any product manufactured by trusts, there Shall be imposed an internal-revenue tax of 40 percent., and that no drawbacks shall be al­ lowed on any such goods when exported. The House conferrees on the Anderson bill requiring the Pacific railroads to maintain and operate their own telegraph line agreed to the Senate amendments. These eliminate the requirement that the roads shall construct „ the lines and leave the manner of acquirement open to ihe discretion of the companies. The report was agreed to by the House. IN the Senate the resolution to print 6,000 ad­ ditional copies of the report of the Senate Com­ mittee on Pensions on the subject of vetoed pension bills was taken up on the 24th, the question being on Mr. Cockrell's amend­ ment to print 100,000 copies of Presi­ dential votes in the last and present Congresses. After considerable discussion, the matter was allowed to pass over without action; and Mr. Sherman, from the Com­ mittee on Finance, reported an amendment to the Bundry civil bill, to incorporate in it a pro­ vision to refund the direct tax. deferred to the Committee on Appropriations. l|ie Senate then proceeded to the consid ration of the naval ap­ propriation bill, and after the adoption of sev­ eral amendments adjourned. In the House the Senate bill was passed 'appropriating $20.1,000 for the erection of a public building in Chicago to be used as an appraiser's warehouse. The Senate bill prohibiting the transmission through the mails in transparent envelopes of matter which would be prohibited, if printed or written on the outside of the envelope was passed. A bill to forfeit the lands in Minnesota granted to the Hastings Dakota Railroad Company was passed. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Oklahoma bill, but adjourned without action. TAS Senate resumed efuaideration of the naval appropriation bill the 35th, the pending question being on the amendment sti Iking out of the bill the item for the expense of a com­ mission to locate a navy yard and docks on the Gulf coast. The provision was retained In the bill, modified, and the bil1, passed. The Sen­ ate bill appropriating $75,000 for a pub­ lic building at Alltntowii, Pa., was passed. The Allentown bill vetoed by the President appropriated $100,000. The Bdnate then pro­ ceeded to pass the private {tension bills on the calendar and disposed of all of them--127--in fifty minutes. Senator Spooner reported favorably a bill to appropriate $100,000 for a public building at Muskegon, Mich. In the House the Senate bill for the holding of terms of the United States District Court at Salina, Kan.,, was passed. The House took up and eonsidered a bill to establish a United States land court and to pro­ vide tor a judicial investigation and .settlement of private land claims in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico and the State of Col­ orado. • It establishes a United States land court, to consist of a chief jUBticeand two asso­ ciate jus ices appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of ihe Senate. Arizona was exempted from the>%iU as it passed. The House then went .into committee of tha whole on the Oklahoma bill. No gentleman was prepared to proceed with the discussion, and a recess was had. The evening session was void of business. ' \ THE Senate resumed the consideration of the army appropriation bill, jfcne 2Gtb, the pending question being on the amendment offered by Mr. Hawley appropriating $750,000 for an armory and gun factory at the 'Watervli^t arsenal New York; $5,0()0,0.)0 for the purchase of steel for high-power 1 coast-defense guns; $50J,000 for the purchase of sub­ marine mines, and $100,000 for submarine con­ trollable torpedoes. Tho Senate adopted (21 to 16) Mr. Hawley's amendment, and the bill was passed. The Senate then proceeded to consider the fisheries treaty in open executive session, no action b -ing taken. Two Presidential vetoes were read and referred, and the Senate ad­ journed. In committee of tho whole the House resumed consideration of the Oklahoma bill. After discussion tho bill was read by paragraphs and an amendment adopted that after Oklahoma had been organized five years, all officers ap­ pointed by tne President should be aejkfpiied from residents of the Territory. j Hints to Young Scribblers. In writing with a lead pencil care should be taken not to dip the pen too deeply in the mucilage bottle. * A very convenient article for young writers is a blank memorandum book in which to jot down the sums of money you receive for your articles. A small one will do. The greatest care should be taken in selecting copy papers. Some editors prefer a cream-tinted note paper, scent­ ed, with a beaten gold finish for poems and heavy ragged edge linen for love stories. This is when you commence to write. Later on the reverse of wall paper and the ba£ks of old envelopes will do. In case yon desire your MS. returned, it is well to insert a hint to that effect in your letter; otherwise the editor: is apt to accent it against his better judg­ ment. ' If yon send a manuscript to a maga­ zine and it is not* published in eight years you are at liberty to write to the editor about it. In such cases postage should be prepaid. In commencing a serial story care should be taken not to give the readei too much of an idea in the first chapter of what you are going to write about. A good method of disposing of MSS. which have been found unavailable by numerous editors is to offer them, with­ out hinting at their previous Injection, to the rag man. to be paid for at hi« regute#ates. ' ^ I SS K • Y/' ,|-|: At the A««4e»yij^:-. v. Young artist (to friend)--Ciiarley, do you see that lady and gentleman who are looking at my picture and talking in such low, earnest tones? .Friend:--Yes. Young artist--I wish yon would saunter carelessly by and find out what they are saying. It looks like busi­ ness. Friend (after sauntering carelessly by)--She is blowing him up, Gus, for taking off his flannels so soon.--New York 8un. Character In Handwriting. "Who is this J. Watson. Albans, Mr. Greenedge ? He asks for a consign­ ment on thirty days' credit." • "Never heard of him, Mr. Magnate; but he can't amount to much. His sig­ nature at the end of his letter is too legible for a wan of >any importance." Jaftge Brewer, in the UilM States Coart la'Leave*w«ri% ltk« , <„ an Impertaat Hecfcte*. f Injunction Against Iowa Commissioners (fcntinued--Mart Show froDoiad Bates Unnasonabi* - •' • - JLeavenworth (Kan.) spatial telegram.] About three weeks ago the Northwestern Railroad Company applied to Judge Brewer, of the Eighth Circuit, for an in­ junction to restrain the Bailroad Commis­ sioners of Iowa from enforcing a schedule of transportation rates which it had «nw4ft under the authority of the Iowa Legisla­ ture, on the grounds that the rates were so low that they would bankrupt the road and that the Legislature can not delegate its power of fixing rates. A temporary injunction was granted and an explana­ tory hearing was had at Leavenworth, Kan. Judge Brewer has made a decision which continues the temporary injunction. The decision says: The first question considered was titils: whether a suit against the Bailroad Commis­ sioners to enjoin them from putting in foroe a schedule of rates was a suit against the State within the purview of the eleventh amendment and therefore one of which the Federal Court could not take jurisdiction. Chief Justice Marshall had ruled that unless the State was named as a party it was not a suit against the State, but the Supreme Court has adopted a more liberal view, and holds that if, although not named in the record, the St te is the real party in interest, and against whom j moment wi 1 operate, it is to be considered as a suit against the State. Apply­ ing this rule, .Ju<lge Brewer holds that the State is not a party to this suit; that it is not the real party in inter , st, the one to be affected by the judgment and upon whom it w 11 operate, the real parties being the railioad companies on the one side mid the shippers on the other, and that the State lias only that remote imereBt whicu springs from the «eneral welfare of the people. T® <luestion considered was this: Can the Legislature delegate power to Ax rates to a railroad commission, no such c inmission be recognized by the Constitution? The Supreme Court has held that the power to fix rates is a legislative power, and it is generally true that the Legislature cannot delegate its powers to another body. Notwithstanding this Judge Brewer declines to hold that the delegation is unconstitutional for several reasons, the prin­ cipal ones being these : An act will not be de­ clared unconstitutional unless clearly so. There is no inherent vice in delegating such power to a commission, the vital question being with both carrier and shipper that the rates pre­ scribed be fair and reasonable and not by what body they shall be put in force. It is a question for the final determination of the Supreme Court of the State, and, therefore, the Federal Courts shouldtnoU anticipate its decision. Courts of Bister States have sustained similar delegation of power, and, therefore, there is a probability that this will be sustained by the Supreme Court of Iowa. , The third principal question is whether the Legislature has unlimited power in the matter hxmg rates either by its own action or through the agency of railroad commissioners, and this question is answered in the negative. Judge Brewer holds that the Legislature canno fix rates so low as not to furnish some compensa­ tion to the ra iroad company •""* revenues suf­ ficient to meet first, the cost of service; second, the fixed charges by way of interest; and, third, something, however small, in the way of dividend. He further holds that while from the volume of the testimony offered upon this application it is not clearly established that tne schedule prepared by the defendants will fall of pro- ducing compensation, yet there is a probability that it will, and therefore a preliminary injunc­ tion is appropriate until there can be a full and final inquiry in reference to the publication of notice and the going into eflect ofthe schedule. He holds that, whatever might be the case as to the other railroad companies, the four companies who had corresponded with the board have a right to insist that no publication was complete and no schedule in force at tha time the restraining order was served. Henee this complainant is not late with it application and a preliminary in­ junction is ordered. The question not yet being settled that the rates of the Commissioners are rea­ sonable in the sense that Judge Brewer used the word the injunction is continued for further hearing on that point. It is expected that sixty dayB at least will be required to furnish such testimony. ^ 1 OPINIONS OF BUSINESS MElC' ' ' TheNature of the Decision Camel Little SsrprlM at Iawjt'a Capltel. [Des Moines (Iowa) special] Ihe decision of Judge Brewer granting temporary injunction against the Bailroad Commissioners did not cause much sur­ prise in Des Moines. Gov. Larrabee said: This is about what I expected. I had thought for some time that Judge Brewer would proba- bly grant the injunction, and I think that he prefers to have the question of the reasonable­ ness of the rates come up before Justice Miller, who, it is expected, will preside at the hearing in Des Moines Aug. 5. Other prominent men interviewed said they thought Judge Brewster had taken the strongest position possible in granting his injunction on the ground of the ques­ tion as to the reasonableness of the rates. They said the law could not compel any­ body to do business at a loss, and that'it was no more than fair that a full oppor­ tunity should be given to show that the present rates were unreasonable. On the whole, public -sentiment sustains Judge Brewer, regarding his decision in the light of a suspensioVof judgment for the present rather than a victory either for the railroads or for the Commission­ ers. WILLIAM B. FRAXSUIR. Commissioner General to Repreaent the United States at tho Farts of 1880. [New York special] William B. Franklin has qualified as Commissioner General to represent the United States at the Paris Exhibition of 1889. His office is at No. 35 Wall street,New York. Notification has been given by the Department of State to the Governors of the several States and Territories that their people may assist in the proper representation of the products Of our in­ dustries and national resources. The several executive departments of the Government have also been requested to take such measures as may be necessary for an exhibit from each of them. The Commission has received official com­ munications, pamphlets and circulars fiom the French authorities, and will, as soon as possible, invite applications for space for American exhibitors. The Ex­ position will open May 5, 1889. William Buel Franklin was born in York, Pa., on Feb. "27,1823. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at the head of his class in 184.H. Among the members of his class was Ulysses S. Grant. He served in the topograph­ ical engineers until the outbreak of the civil war, being attached to the staff of Gen. Taylor as a topographical engineer during the Mexican war. At the beginning of the civil war he was stationed in Washing­ ton in charge of the construction of the Capitol, the Treasury Department, and the gen­ eral postoffice. He was appointed Colonel of the Twelfth Infantry in May, 1G61, and Brigadier General of Voluntaera on May 17, M61, and Major General of Volunteers July 4, 1862. He received the brevet of Brigadier General iu the regular army on June 30,186it, for lile gallant conduct in the battles before Richmond, and of Major Gen­ eral March 13,1MS5, for services during the re­ bellion. He commnnded a brigade in Heintzelman s Division at Bull Run. He commanded the Sixth Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac during the year lwa. He was in most of the battles on the penins ula--Yorktown, West Point, White Oak Bridge, Savage's Station, Malvern Hill, and Harrison's Landing. He was engaged in the bat­ tle of Antietam. on Sept. 17, PJo-Z, and at the battle of Fredericksburg he commanded the left grand division, consisting of his own corps, the Slxtn and the First Corps. Gene al Bumside com­ plained thac Franklin did not obey his orders in this battle, and removed him for insubordina­ tion. The failure < f the President to approve the order of the removal led to Burnside's resig­ nation of his command. Franklin returned to active service on Aug. 1 >, 1863, and was assigned to the Nineteenth Army Corps. He took part in the Hed River expedition of 1(#H, and was wounded in the battle of Sabine Cross­ roads on April 8, 18(54. On April 29 he was obliged to leave the army on account of illness until Dec. 2. During his leave of absence he was captured by the Confederates on July II, MM, while riding on the Philadelphia aiid Baltimore Railroad, but c scaped next day. He resigned flrom the regular r.rmy March 1;>, 1886, and has since been connected with the Colt Fire­ arms Manufacturing Company at Hartford, Cona., as Vice President aud Manager. He had ohaago or the construction of the new State HonM At Hartford, was Htat# Cornxnisaiozier of t3» Centennial Exposition of 1876, and waa Ad­ jutant General of Connecticut in 1W7 1878. A Chat with Praaidrat Spalding--Ha; - , Think* Ghieag* Will Win th* \ d • t;?' Preparations for the Trip to i«- trtlia--Otfcer Affair* oTtko . ..v V«n FiebL •' [CHICAGO CORRESPONDED?C*.] Chicago has played Its long-anticipated serieo of games with Detroit upon the la ter's own grounds, and although it yielded to the Wolver­ ines the lead in the pennant rase tor a sing]* day, it left there finally atill la front of all Its rivals. It was hard work, however, and the lead now held by Anson is such a slight one as to make Chicago's position in the race anything but secure. "Dont you fe >1 Just a little shaky over the> situation** asked your correspondent of Presi­ dent Spakttos to-day "Shaky?" aofwnilth* bead of **««» nossfble Den uant winners of IMS; "why, pshaw (my dear sir, nave seen too many league championships won. and lost to feet worried over the result at thia stage a4 the race. Why, the fun has just com­ menced." 'but how ft going to endf* ^ in T ,T , only way it can end. Chicago '"•"hampioostaip without a doubt." What makes you think so?" - JTrfJ?'.1'Imply beeaupa there Is nothing in thfr field that can stay with us," ^ "Detroit seems to be soaking » pretty good stagger at it--Oon't yon thittkr "Now, see here: than has not to and there has got to be atUr<folab to be a second In the rae• just as well as a first, hasn't there? Well, naV urally, tbe best organised and the beat managed teams will come to the top >n the championsnii> struggle, ondalthough Chicago has beecfttolding first pl&co right along, ithubadtho oestte&uifr m the country to fig. t in its efforts to do so. Some people seem to think the Chicago team should have started right i when it took tho lead some weeks ago aud have galloped away from the field without an eflort or a set-back. Now how ridiculous. The New York and De­ troit teamB to- ay contain some of the oldest- most capable, and most experienced ball-playera in the bueine B. They have shown themselves capable of puttiiig up just as good a game of ball as Chicago puts up, and, althoug t I confi- dently believe we will beat these teams out. there will be no walkover recorded in the Leecue pennant race this year. "^e Chicago team as now organized," contin­ ued Mr Spalding, "is superior to any team in the country, in my opinion, in baBe-running and neiaing. it has made some costly errors at- times, to be sure, but no team ever existed that has not done the same thing. In batting strength we are Aual to any one of eur rivals. New York, has as its mainstays, Keefe, Welch, O Rourko and Swing; Detroit has Conway, Getzein, Ben­ nett, and Ganzell; and Chicago has Van Haltren Baldwin, Krock, Flint, Farrell, Daly, and Dar­ ling. Not one of Chicago's pitchers or back-stops is deteriorating. On the contrary, they aro improving with each week of the season, and, barring some unexpected Bories of accidents and misfortune, Chicago will finish the season with the best drilled and must effective team of ball­ players in the race. In one thing only has the Chicago team shown itself weaker than the Detroit and New York teams. That is in bat­ ting. They have not for the pasu three weeks be .-ii hitting the ball as successfully as their two most formidable opponents have done, and to that fact alone I dttnbute the near approach of Detroit and New York to the lead in the race. These attacks of--well, lethargy, I may say, with the bat are of common occurrence in a ball team, but they.are just as sure to pass away as they are to occur. I expect to see thehoni9 team pick up very shortly in batting, and when, it begins to hit the ball as I know it is fully ca­ pable of doing, thase who have been avserting that the boys had started down a toboggan slide in the League race will begin to see wherein the Chicago team is superior--as a whole--to any of the teams now fighting it for the pennant." "What, in your opinion, is the matter with Clark son ana Kelly this year? Their glory ae ball-players seems decidedly upon the wane." " YOB, but it is through no lack of ability. IU venture to say that they could rejoin the Chica­ go Club, and under Anson's captaincy and with the support they would receive from the Chicago fielders, play as good a battery game as they ever played. There is such a thing, you know, ae spoiling a good player." "Have you signed the players you tikpectto take to Australia with you this fall?" "About half of them. Nearly all of the Chi­ cago plkyers will go, and, under the name of "Ihe Chlcagos' will play a picked team selected from the ranks of the League and Association, to be known as 'The All-American Team.' Mr. Lynch, who is associated with me in the trip, i» working hard in perfecting our arrangements, and in due time the plans of the trip in detail will be given the public. I am receiving letters of inquiry almost daily from people who want to gratify their desire for an Australian trip by ac­ companying the teams, and it looks very much as though America would be well represented when we land at Sydney. Mr. Lynch is arrang­ ing for special rates from here to Sydney and re­ turn, so that those who wish to do so will prob­ ably be enabled to make the trip under a com­ paratively small outlay and most favorable con­ ditions." DIAMOND GOSSIP. Van Haltren and Farrell are doing good work. The Massachusetts boy was a great "find" for Chicago. George Gore is playing good bail for New York now. His bad work in the first part of the sea­ son has been amply " squared" by his recent good work. "Smiling Mickey" Welsh is having a hard time in the box lately. The oppoaing batsmen like bin delivery aB much as the New York Club did hi» umpiring. A. G. Spalding pitched in a game, last Satur­ day, played between fWo teams representing the* houses of A. G. Spalding & Bros, and the West­ ern Arms Company. Two thousand people were- present, and tue game netted 9810, which was presented to the woman's Hospital of Chicago Sam G. Morton, President of the Western As­ sociation, denies that there ie any danger of that organization going to pieces. "One or two cor­ respondents," says Sam, "have been croaking about the approaching disbandment of onr teams, and have stated that the Chicago Club in particular was in a financial pickle from which it could never escape, lnat is false. Our teams are now enjoying excellent weather--something we did not enjoy during the first weeks of the season, and the attendance at the games at all points has increased so steadily that the teams ara now beginning to be self-supporting, and promise b fore tha cea60D closes 10 be investments that many would like to .put their money into. The prohibition of Sunday gam* s at Minneapolis has without doubt crippled Minneapolis badly, but Gooding writes me that he can eae his way clear, ana that he is confident of staying in the Association. Spa.-ding's Australian trip is assured. The* steamer Alameda has been chartered for the exclusive use of the party, which will, it is ex­ pected, number about 2J0. The lithographing and printing is already done. Charley Brynan, of the Chicago Club, baa been released to the St. Paul (Western Associa­ tion! Club, the amount of the release money being $1,000. HARHY PALMES. i - So Frightened. .• &iroman weighing about 215 pounds plunged wildly around in a frightfully dangerous manner on a crowded street the other day. She was evidently looking for some one, for she breath­ lessly gasped out: "Charles! Oh, Charles! Where has* he gone ? Oh, Charles!" [ .Charles had been carried forward by the crowd, and when he stopped a lamp-post had hidden him from view. When the big woman saw him die plunged forward, fell heavily on his thirteen-inch chest, crushing him: against the lamp-post, and sobbed out i "Oh--Charley-- my -- own -- dear -- husband! I lost sight of you and I was; so badly frightened at finding myself) alon9 in this crowd! You musn't let yourself be carried away from your lit­ tle girly again! You know how timid I am! I'm so easily frightened--foolish child that I am!"--Detroit Free Pre*8- Wine from Rose Leaves. Says & lady of this city, who is a good housekeeper: "I visited a friend recently, and she gave me a glass of wine. It was of a pale-amber tint, and' had all the sparkle and delicacy and fla­ vor of champagne, and when opened popped loudly. It was effective, though mild as a stimulant, and I thought it very fine. I asked what variety of, grape it was made from, and my friend told me that it was made of rose leaves. 'Take the freshly picked leaves,' die said, 'and put into a jar alternately a. layer of leaves and sugar, and pour over all a little cold water. In four days strain, let stand a week, and then bottle for use.' The wine is a delight­ ful beverage."--Atlanta Journal. Fell from a Scaffold. Viator (to Montana widow)*--And. ton say your husband met hia death by falling off a scaffold? Montana widow--Yes; poor JOJIAI . Visitor--How far did he fallt i Montana widow--Er--oh, the fall, was about three feet, I thfafr,-- mz- ? ,i m- / 'V ________ t