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mmmsasm it III! tUTtt, iNfRftr ami NMisktr. itLiNora. HOM BOT1N HARD LU€K NM CAN'T LAND HIS WIFE •FRISCO. IN Jr* - • fe' Ma* VIM VM Greatly , Swiwimtte RvapporllM Fatal WlwlitMM people H»*« ft* ActlM. af Wi«- IK J'orney-- (thtabctcd f At WaAincKM. '/tiiM ttth, a «um <Mso«ik»to» «nsu«l vtnn uke free~coIna?« Mil was culled up. air. MePherson objected to«eon!>lderatlon o* the measure, though the (lai bei'oie it hud iHn fi*ed as tl«) order.. for the reason that •11 the Senators hud i»ot returned. A imr- tioi to recommit. tlx) blM io the Unsiicc Committee was pending wl.on the Senate •djourned. us was also an H mend men T to Mr. Stewart's sub tlaute. which woul I seem to confine the free-coinage privileges ot the Mil to the pwD.luct *of American mines after the bill becomes =a law. tonfeieneo nports on the naval, the District.. Md the aoricnltural appropriation btlla were agreed to; a joint resolu- tlon to criitwue 'the appropriations Cor the expenses of <h«i Government for pfteen flays of "the new flsoat year, was passed by both -hoa-i-* and sent to the Pres­ ident. In ths House, a fight ensued on, the proposition making »n appropriation for the entertainment of the G. <A. R. enramp- laWit. The report was sent back to < onfer- eace. Mr. Hatch. of Missouri, submitted the conference report on the agricultura l Appropriation bill, l'end.n.? action the Bouse adjourned. Sajn* tlic CHIBMB Olrl Mutt Go. Chinese'exclusion "law prevented Vhm Bot, a rich San Fianeiseo Chinese Merchant, fiom-landing his aristocratic little-footed wife. Bot's story was that lie met the girl In Marysville, Cal., five SMfcrs ago, and they be<atpe betrothed. er parents look her to China for proper education. A few inon hs ago fie reoe.ved word that she had reached the marriageable age. So ho returned and they were welded. He «atne back with his wife and her young «lster. His own papers wer.> all right, bat the custom house records had no amotion of the departure of his bride Are years ago, fo Judge Moriowdecided «he could not < nter tho country.' She was richly dressed, and had to be car- tied into ihe court-room, as she cannot walk without help. Wlicn f-he learned she had to return to < h tia the burst Into tears and refused to be comforted. Her husband sweirs 1 e will spend. a fortune appealing the casa to the Su- jjreme Court. , It IK HlrtWrTl ..in! rfdrllU, THE Prohibition i^s at Clncinnat IWtlowed the season's convention fash­ ion, making a .first-ballot nom nation for the Presidency. Gen. John Bidwell, an -old Cal fc rnia pioneer, a former Con­ gressman, t n I now a wealthy land­ owner of California, was the nominee by an unmistakable > majority, receiv­ ing 590 votes out of a to al vote of DM, 487 votes being necessary to a choice. The ; nomin it'op- was greeted With a deafeningdin of cheers and whis­ tles. Ihe oflcal l-eootd of the vote was •S follows: Bidwell, 590; Stewart, 179; Diemorcst, 13V. £r. J. «B. Crenfiil, of T&xas, was nominated tor Vice Pres - dent on the -second ballot, getting 41ft votes, nns mote thau enough to Win. At 2:1«> o'clock a. n>. Friday the convention adjourned sine die. \!f B« eiune IMnqrunted with the Wf»'. JOHN ANDERSON, SYPIO3ED TO B^ A tramp telegraph.op ratorfrom Memphis, tiought a pistol ^n a hardware s'ore at Laramie, Wyo., Thursday « vening. He threw a single cartridge into the cham­ ber, whirled it under the hamnfor, placed tile muzzle at his left breast t nd pulled the trigger. He bled profusely,, but will lhre. Anderson says that he simply be­ came disgusted with the West. WtkMMlB In Beapporionrd. THE Democratic apportionment bill came to its final pa-sage Thursday in botl} houses of tie Wisv on? n Legisla­ ture. It was passed in botii cases by a afcriet'y party vote--63 to 30 in the As­ sembly, 16 to 11 in tire Senate. TVII Kll'ed wt Gloucester. r A WINDKTOHM of cyclonic character f Jiruck Gloucester, N. J., from thesouth- t Thursday, doing great damage to iperty, killing two people and injur- several others severely. man, a cripple*, be h%tf-witt©d, shot down the mall Who had just pleaded, guilty to assaulting his ?slstor. He shot him from hie scat among the spectators overlooking the aiste as two court officers led the prisoner past him to tines pen. The bwl>et «truck the victim over tke heart and he*sl%>pe«t to the floor <k<*adv The man Who -was shot was Ma* CVergot, 18 years <old. The girl h>e had asssimlfed "was his sis- ter-in-law, Sarah Dlvin, aged la. The man who «hot: irftn was Edward Dlvln, Sarah's older 'hrdther A DISPATCH from Beading, Pa^ says a roofe <of 200 ?gathered at the Berks County jail'demanding that Pete Buo eari be delivered *o them to be hanged for the murder of Sister Hildab^ik -at Sat. Joseph Hospital. Bucoari was iit~ jured four months ago and'had been watched-m«or and nursed to -health by the good sister. Friday she gave milk to the patientssand did not fill Buccari's glass as fulhas the others. He gvowled and borrowed a knife from ^S< ott, tho Forepaugh -show tigt r tamer "who was so fearfully injured by a tiger May 4. Fecrctatty «ff State, to "B*^<^>%d J'atoes CJ, BlaiiHs, A confidential adviser of • t>.e Preskicwt says that the appointment will run <*>n3y until next March, even in 1 the e\«nt<of the President s re-ekction. Mr, Foster, whose diplomatic con­ nections with other governments are of • an exceedingly remunerat.ve charact r, ' is unwiilling io forego them for a longer ' time. Moreover, the other governments' would be unwilling to hold tho office of confidential adviser or counsel to their legations open for a longer time. By (promising, however, to pee that their interests are properly placed in compe- *ent hands he can relin juish them tem­ porarily, and upon resigning next March resume t he foreign positions which he is now Ailing; * THE niusio hall of Cincinnati, the Queen City, has been the scene of many a notable gathering that ha* left its im­ press upon the history of the State and of the country, l>ut nev« r has it held a more determined, earnest, and enthu­ siastic meeting of men and women than that which assembled under its big dome Wednesday morning. A score of The Itaiian sneaked after the young .year* have.j assed since the opponents Woman into the kitc hen and et ft>bed her three times. She died that night. The citiaens tried to lynch Buccari, but he *wa»removed to the county jjpl. "WESTERN." &CHWABACHER BROS.' large wholesale grocery and hardware store caught fire at Seattle, Wash., and is a total loss. : The Hotel Northern was also on lire ! and is 'considerably damaged. ' Dexter | Horton's new lank building, in course j of construction, and three brick blocks , were in danger but saved. The fire was confined to Schwabacher Bros.' build- • ing, which, with its contents, i6 valued J at nearly $5 0,000. The insurance is ' about $3(10,000. ^ A BAD accident has, occurro 1 on Fast Sixth street, Cincinnati. The locality j is a steep hillside upen- which cheap j houses ha\ e been built. Not long a?o a ; Bewcr broke underground, and iis leak­ age has so softened the <;arth that a huge landslide 500 leetwide has. si a ted. It moves slowly,but has already wrecked a half-dozen or mote hoises. It i-i threatening many more. Tl.e Building Inspector has ordered all families in its path to move out of lihair houses. The damages are already estimated at $40,000. GENKEAIJ JOHN H. STIBBS, the chief pension examiner in the Chicago dis­ trict, and District Attorney Milchrist hare just completed an investigation of a most remarkabla pension fraud and compelled the restoration of over $S,000 diverted from the rightful beneficiary. The most astonishing feature about the whole case is that the parties in interest are man and wife. The latter kept the pension money due her husband, who was insane, and for years he lived as a pauper in the insane asylums of the State. The wife is well connected and has achieved considerable fame in Iowa att a temperance lecturer. THE . play of "Margaret Fleming," which is now running at McVicker's Chicago Theater, is a true reflection of high thqught and purity of moral. It voices the love'of truth in art and free­ dom in life, and 4eals specifi:a.ly on the woman question. It is a play which created a sensation when lirstproluced, and its fame is still traveling over the theatrical world. The closing of the fourth act i* the supreme climax toward which the action moves from the first. Manager McVicker produces Mr. Heme's play with a cast of playeis that are able t*» mnder their parts with ability and correctness, and the accessories in the way of stage settings are all that can be desired. JESSE MUSSEB, who was supposed to have been hanged ^>y a m^b August 31" last, appeared upon the streets of his native town of Houstonia. Mo., Tues­ day. On the date mentioned two men entered the bank at Cardtr, and with drawn revolvers secured $P00 from the cashier. A posse was quickly organ­ ized. One of the men was overtaken, half the stolen moiey was found in his Possession, and he was hanged to a tree. 'he dead man was said fo be Jesse Musser, wao disappeared from his home three days before. After the burial the remains were disinterred tyy Musser's father and mother and recognized as their eon. Musser eaid on Tuesday that he had known all along of the sensation he was supposed to have caused and rather enioyed it, but preferred to keep quiet. He hafl been working near Gal- liam, Mo., as a farm hand. Who the man was who was lynched is now a complete mystery. of the legalization and the recognition of the liquor traffic, meeting together for the first time in the history of the movement, determined to dis­ play the cdurage of their convic­ tions and to place a Presidential ticket in the field. That was in tho World's Fair City in 1872, and in every succeeding Presidential cam­ paign they have nailed tl^eir colors to the masrt and battled at the polls in de- fenso'of their principles. Now, although feeling that. for many years to come theirs will be but little n.ore than u caupaign of education, they are strong­ er, more ynited, more hopeful of ulti­ mate success than tlioy have ever been since tho first days of the rational Pro­ hibition cause, and surely the beautiful convention hall never presented a more attractive--one might say enchanting-- appearance than it did Wednesday morning when the sun peeped through the stained-glass windows of its dome. INDUSTRIAL. NEWS NUGGETS. SOUTHERN. • - THE Marquis of Drogheda is dead, a) ^ 4pke age of 69 yea- s. ' THOMAS BATES, who murdered hia Wife in Bedford County, Tcnn., last /Jpriday, from ^ail at Shelby- V^lle, J^May morning, and lynched • Within of f$e piison. , •. SEX AT O B "11 E 1R said to have an­ nounced in Lima Tuesday that Con­ gressman Ben T. Cable, of Illinois, Would succeed him in the Chairmanship If the Democratic National Committee. V THE Grand Jury of Oratiue County, K. Y., has returned true bills against the village officers of PortJervs, charg­ ing them with criminal negligence in, S»t having prevented the recent lynoh-g of the negro, Bob Davis, •i A MEETING of the thirteen Arch­ bishops of the Fooaan Catholic Church la America will be held in New York in October, to discuss the school c uistion, as it has come lor ward in regard to the •o-called Faribault plan of Archbishop Ireland. A man named Su'livan presented a revolver at the head of the cashier of Ihe National Bank of Commerce in I>enver with a request for $5,000. The •ashier responded by taking a pistol from his drawer and firing at thewojld- be robber, who ran away and was (sub­ sequently captured. A. R. MCCHESNEY, of Sou'h Dakcta, and formerly State I ank Exam ner of si. ^ Jlew York, will probably succecl Mr. K 'Laoey as Controller of the Currency. Jb THE President has signed the joint rX fesolution of Congress m«k ng Oct. 21, (• 1892, the 40(th anniversary of the dis- covery of America, a general holiday. THE new bridge over the Kiver Leven, Hear Leslie, county of Fife. Scotland, tcollapsed on the removal of a scaffold ling erectel during the construction. A number of wor<dngmen wefre carricd * Hown and five drowned. Ice five, was EASTERN. PROF. CHARLES W. NUTTING of Ma lone, N. Y., a'nd Miss Mary Semple of Crawford County. Kansas, were mar­ ried in Fort Sci.-tt. Both are deaf and dumb. The gvoom is an instructor of "the Deaf aud Dumb Institute at Malone, N. Y. He is a brother of Congressman Nutting of New York. The bride has lor time been a member of the faculty of the school at Malone. The groom Is 64 years of age, the bride 30. AT New York, in the Court of Gen- • oral Sessions, Monday, In sight of the AN explosion of the Consumers' Works, in New Orleans, killed men. The proprietor, F. B. Lee, among the victims. THE remains of James K. Polk elev­ enth President of the I'nited States, are to be removed from Polk Place, Nashville, to Mount Olivet Cemetery. CHEYENNE and Arapahoe Indians con­ tinue to sulk over the allotment of lands, and at El Reno, Monday, re fused to accept the Government issue of beef. THREE negroes were shot to death at Spurges, Texas, Friday evening. They had confessed to having assaulted Mrp. Beasely and IKT daughter near that place the night before. ALL Southern Texa? reports copious rain. Thi3 insures both the cotton and corn crops in all Southern, Central and Eastern Texas. The rain was general for 200 miles in every direction from San Antonio. POLITICAL. AT Cleveland, Ohio, Friday after­ noon, two cars loaded with policemen were run out Euclid avenue' .to Lake View. When the strikers saw it they were furicus^ They hooted at Secre­ tary Beilstein, and attempted to drag hini from the car. The police then charged the crowd. A salpon-keeper named John Moody, and Edward Barber, a- striking conductor, were struck on the head. Moody was taken home, but Barber was locked up Af­ fairs looked serious for a while, but the men soon quieted down, and no more trouble was experienced--for the rea­ son, perhaps, that no more attempts were made to start cars. The East Cleveland people announce their deter­ mination to start cars, if possible, un­ der police protection. It is said, on good authority, that every line in the city will be tied up. FOREIGN. THE British Parliament was dissolved Tuesday. • AN outbreak of cholera at St. Peters­ burg is imminent. SEVERAL fires occurring simultaneous­ ly in Paris Tuesday n'ght are thought to have been set by Anarchists to affect the fate of Bavachol. PRINCESS MAROARET, sister of the German Emperer, has been betrothed to Prince Frederick Charles, eldest son of the Landgrave of Hesse. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY will confer the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Henry Irving, Sir Frederick Leighton, Alma Tadema, and the Bishop of Peter­ borough. THE police at Brussels, while trying to quiet a body of riotous socialists, were overpowered by the latter and were compelled to Call upon the military to restore order. IN an interview published in the Munich Zeitung, Prince Bismarck at­ tributes to pressure from Berlin the re­ fusal of Emperor Francis Joseph to grant him an audience. HENRY M. STANLEY has been un­ mercifully chaffed by his audiences in the course of his parliamentary canvass in North Lambeth. Mrs. Stanley is making speeches in her husband's be­ half. THE declarations of Prince ihsmarck against the government in his recent speeches and interviews, and the threat­ ening attitude of the government against him, have caused the greatest excitement in Germany. The incident is the principal subject of discussion in the German newspapers. IN GENERAL SIR CHARLES TUPPER, Canadian High Commissioner at the congress of British and Colonial Chambers of Con­ gress, in London, declared that "the oc­ topus America" was driving British trade from the Western hemisphere. IT is now settled that the poet Whit- tier will write the opening ode for the World's Fair. When the matter v^s first broached to the poet he was un­ able to give a definite answer, but im­ proved health will permit him to under­ take the work. The title is still a secret to every one except Mr. Whittier. MARKET REPORTS, IBA J. CHASE won the nomination for | OATH--No. 2.. 1 RYE--No. 2 CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime fs.so Hoos--Shipping Grades 3.50 SHEEP--Fair to Choice WHEAT--No. a Spring COBN--No. 2, new 4.00 .79 .50, Governor of Indiana at the hands cf the State convention, held in Fori Waynq. The nomination was made on the first ballot. Others on the ticket are: Lieu­ tenant Governor, Theodore P. Shock- ney, of Randolph County; Secretary of State, Aaron Jones, of St. Joseph; Au­ ditor of State, Jo'in W. Coons, of Marion; Treasurer of State, Fred J. Scholz, of Vanderburg; Attorney Gen­ eral, J. D. Ferrell, of La Grange. The platform heartily approves of the decla­ rations adopted at Minneapolis, de­ nounces the apportionment laws passed by the last Democratic General Assem­ bly, and declares that debt and Democ­ racy are synonymous terms with the taxpayers of Indiana. THE following ticket w&9 placed in nomination by the Iowa Republican State Convention at Des Moines Wednesday: Secretary of State W. M. M'FARLiANP Treasurer BYRON A. B15KHON Attorney General JOHN Y. STONE Auditor 1 C. O. M CARTHY Railroad Commissioner.. .GEO, W. PEKKINS Electora-at-lanre A- JS" CUMMINS Electors-at large , j MiL-l0x RKMLKY Every counly was represented, and Grand Opera Housp was con.fortabiy filled, but, ' compared with former years, there was not so great an as­ semblage of visitors. The Auditorium was elaborately decorated with the na­ tional colors and portraits of eminent men. In the rear of the stage was an immense canvass, with portraits of Harrison and lteid. and in the back­ ground was a representation of a merchant vessel plowing the sea. WASHINGTON dispatch: The Presi­ dent has sent to the Senate the nomina- JBdge, the jury, and the crowd, a youn? Uofe of Joh4l of Indiana, to HUTTE p.-Choice Creamery;.".". CHEESE--Full Cream, flatu EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--New, per brl INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping Hoos--Choice lilicht SHEEP--Common to Prime WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBS--No. 1 White OATS--No. 2 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Hoos WHEAT--No. 2 Red.... COKN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2. RXE--NO. % CINCINNATI. CATTLE Hoos SHEEP \ ' WHEAT--NO. 2 RED COBN--NO. 2 OATS--NO. 2 MIXED " "" DETROIT.' CATTTLE HOGS SHEEP . WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 COBN--No. 2 White OATS--No. a White CLOVEB SEED BUFFALO. * BEEP CATTLE--Com. to Prime.„ HOos--Best tirade* WHEAT--No. 1 Hard COBN--No. z. MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 White RYE--No. 1 BABLEY--NO. 2 POBK--Mesa NEW YORK. * CATTLE HOGS SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--No. 2 OATS--Mixed Western BUTTEB--Creamery POMK--Old Mens & 6.00 6.60 & 6.35 & .SO &' .83 .3S$ .70HJ@) .71% .19 & .20 .00 & .01*14 .15}$ 8.26 & 3.00 3.25 8.50 8.00 .7tf .49 .34 3.00 3.50 .. , .43 (<« .. .30 @ .77 <£» & 4.50 & 6.36 & 6.00 & .00 & .61 & .35 <3 4.60 5.25 i.7« .44 .81 .IS 3.00 3.00 4.00 .81 .49 .34 8.00 3.00 3.00 FOSTER'S FORECASTS, TO tak» W^INE* PLA^B. WHAT WE MAY EXPECT IN THE WAY OF WEATHEFT. A Storm Wave Will Cran the Great Cratral Yattojr* from Jaljr IS to 14, Reaching tho Eastern State* About tho lfttl). .*6>4@ .36 & 4.60 6.50 & 6.60 (4 .88 (S> .61 <3 .33 @ 4.69 <$ 6.00 <£ 4.75 .48& .37 .85Vt@ .8C* .61 .36 7.10 .49 .34 6.90 4,00 4.00 -6S .54 .76 .46 .36 .78 io!ao 3.50 3.00 4.50 .91 .69 .37 .10 lv.73 ® 6.00 <& 6.60 l<$ .90 & .66 & .77 M .36 .19 & .61 @11.33 # & 5.00 & 5.76 & 6.00 C» .V* (A .61 JO V9 .21 <gli.W Mct*nroloirtc*l Matter*. My last bulletin gave fc recasts of the storm waves to cross the continent from June 30 to July 4 and July 6 to 10, and the next will reach the Pacific coast about tho 10th, cross the Western mountains by close of the 11th, the great central vail ys from 12th to lith end the Eastern States about the lith. The palh of this storm will be well to the north, vory h >t wemlier south of it along the middle and southern latitudes, and it will ba at its greatest force lrom 13th to ICth, after passing east of the Mississippi. A wave of ccoUr and refreshing weather will move eastward, crossing the Western mountains about the 13th, the great central valleys about the 15th, and the Eastern States about the 17th Tho 1892 cljrou'h, which made its ap­ pearance in s£ ois during April and May, will have spread to about* its greatest dimensions by the loth of July, and a fa r estimate may then be made as to what will be the efTcct on ercps. Tho turning point of tho drouth w.ll be about the middle of July, but many j laces will not be relieved t.ll -late 111 August. I have no reason to change my esti­ mate, made in 1891, that our greatest crops will be found i.long arid north of the fortieth patallel, whrle many local crop failure* will ba found in the south­ ern part of the .United States. Coun­ ties of more than 2,00f> feet elevation were not generally included among those where ciops would fail. Vegetation an«i Coal. Newberry, the geologist, says that qtiiie a number of foreign boulders and other transported rock are found in the coal veins of Ohio. These boulders, in order to be in the coal vein, must have been deposited there while it was form­ ing. How could these numerous fof- eign rocks get into a coal vein being formed of vegetable decay." * The only means by which foreign boulders an 1 other rock are transported Is in deep water by ice or loots of trees, and to have this deep water and the forming coal vein at the same time is an impossibility. To form coal from vegetation thcr 5 must be dry or swamp land afterward covered with water, and wilh these conditions the boulders are found on the top of the coal veins. But, as Newberry says, there are nu­ merous ca?es where these rjeks that have come lcinf|!journeys ai\) found im­ bedded in the coal vein, completely im­ mersed in coal. Remember that these coal-imbedded boulders are not otherwise fo.ind in the vicinity of the coal veins, but are gen­ erally recognized as belonging to rock formations that lie hundreds of miles away to the northward. iNow let some advocate give, if he c an, any reasonable means by which these lo. eign stontsgot to the forming coal-beds while vegefa- tion was growing. Evidently this proves that the coal veins were la d clown in deep water, where coal-proJueing vegetation can­ not grow, and indicates that otr coal- beds came fiom sources similar to those from whence are the otaer formations of the earth. Prof. Vail says that a boulder weigh­ ing 20J pounds, found in the middle of a coal seam, is now in the museum at Columbus, Ohio, and is an irrefutable evidence that the coal vein from which it was taken finished its formation after the boulder fell into it and that foreign boulders thus imbedded are oiten found at Nelsonville and Carbond*ie, Ohio. Numerous instances are known whore clay seams no thicker than a knife blade are fo ind parting two c oal veins, no vegetable fossils in the clay and a foot more of coal above this clay seam. How could the vegetation exist to form these heavy coal veins above that thin as paper clay seam? Is it not far more reasonable that the coal fell from above into the sea, and after a portion of it settled, a great river, at its flood, muddied the water, the clay quickly setting on the first coal vein and after that the carbon that still floated in the waters settled on the clay ocean? Carbon forms in the stove-pipe or the chimney from smoke, because the oxy­ gen of the atmosphere does no; reach the smoke in sufficient quantity to com­ bine with it and form carbonic acid gas. But the greater portion c f the carbon which is carried up in the form of smoke forms the gas by uniting with oxygen. This carbonic acid gas is the food of plant life, and although it is not combustible--will not Lurn--it fur­ nishes the carbon of vegetable growth, and is the substance of vegetation which gives its fuel properties. Carbonic acid gas also unites with, or dissolves in water, in the proportion of 2 volumes of gas to 3 of water. There are, therefore, two ways by which car­ bon in the atmosphere may return to solids of the earth; one through vegeta­ tion and one through water. Chemists tell us that there is now about one part of carbonic acid gas in our atmosphere to 2-5,000 parts Ot other matter. The smoke that constantly rises from all kinds of fires, including volcanoes, saturates our atmosphere with carbon, and we kuow that a portion of this comes back to solid earth through vegetation. But does any part of it change back to carbon in any other way? Tens of thousands of lakes in North America and Northern Europe have their bottoms covered with carbon mud. Many of these lakes have been drained aud the blac't mud at their bottoms is lound to I e very similar to kennel coal. As a rule these ponds have no vegetation, and therefore this carbon mud cjuld not have come from vegetable decay. It must have been, iu the long ages, pre­ cipitated from the atmosphere, and as evidence of-this the 1 act that carbon is acid gas readily unites with water has has an important bearing. Another pertinent fact is that where peat is found it is underlaid by this same black carbon mud that we find at the bottom of lakes, and this is strong evidence that this carbon mud was first la d "down, and from it originated tho vegetation that forms our peat beds. Take fresh soot from the stove-pipe, submit H to heate I steam vapors, place it in a vessel of water where light can reach it, and you will eee vegetat on spring up, propa ..ate their kind, and die, and herein we have strong evidence that the carbon produces the vegeta­ tion, instead of vegetation producing the carbon. Is it, therefore, not more reasonable to affirm tlia$ peat moss originates from1 the carbon mud found in the bottom of our lakes than that the reverse is true? To utterly overthrow the accepted theory of the origin of coal, all that is le iessajy is to show how the carbon lould have reached and remained for a' time suspended in our atmosphere with­ out destroying all animal and vegetablo life, and this I will endeavor to do when I am done with the negative side of the subject and proceed to the discussion of Its affirmative. Copyrighted 1892, by W. T. Foster. the a John H. Foiit« of Indiana Named fbt >wret»ry or State. John W. Foster of In liana is to be Sec­ retary of State. The Senate in execu­ tive session has |conttr.ntd the nomina­ tion made by the President. John Wats Foster was bo: in Indiana, March it, 1H3H. He was graduated at the # < \ Indiana State 13 q I v.' rsity in 115:, cn l after a year in the Har- v. rd law sc. hool was admitted to {fee bar and began Jinx w. FCSIER. 'practice of law In Evansvillc. In I861 he entered the Union army as Major of tho Twenty- firth Indiana Jn'antry. He was suc­ cessively promoted to Lieutenant Colo­ nel and Colonel. During his entire mil­ itary servic e he was connected with the Western armies of ( rant and Sherman. "After the war he became editor of tho Evansville Ta'ly Journal and in 1869 was appointed postmaster of that^ity. Four years later he was sent to Mexico by President Grant as I nited States Vlin'ster, and in It,80 was reappointed by President Hf\yes^ The same year he was transfer; cd toBussia, which mission he held about a year. He then resigned and returned home to attend to private business. Ho settled down in Wash­ ing on, giving his attention cmwy ic practicing in International coses and acting as counsel for foreign legations before c ourts or commissiors. Ml*. Foster was appointed Minister to Spain by President Arthur and served two years, when he lesigned and re­ turned to the United States. While in Spain he had negotiated an important commercial treaty which was strongly opposed in the Senate and finally re­ jected by that body. It was withdrawn by President Cleveland for reconsidera­ tion. Foster returned to Spain to nego­ tiate for a modified treaty, but his mis­ sion was a failure. He has for fome time been acting as diplomatic attorney for the Department of State. UP GOES THE PRICE OP COAL. fe'a'.ea Agents Mee* an<L Decide to Advance Their Kate*. New York sp^c'al* Coal prices were advanced sharply on Thursday. A sub­ stantial ihcrease had geneially been looked for, lu; the advance decided up­ on in the cases of come sizes of coal was greater than had been prophesied. The Eastern sales agents ot the anthracite companies met at the Central Building, on Liberty street, and decided to raise rates as follows: On chestnut and stove sizes, 35 cents a ton; egg, 30 cents; grate, 15 cents. These advances are from the figures of the June schedule. The new prices take effect immediately Quotations for July, 18 JO, 1891, and 189'2/+ are shown In this table, whi h gives pretty good evidence of the workings of the ccal combination: Kind. issm. i«stl. Orate *3.65 fa.65 Ekk 3.76 3.85 Stove 4.00 4.05 Chestnut M.C5 3.75 The production for July was fixed at 3,£00,000 tons. The actual production in July, 1891, was 3,701,339 tons; in July, 1890, 3,310,071* tons, and in July, 1889, 3,627,522 tons. Th 5 Western sales agents aho held a meeting and dec ded upon an advance in price of 25 cents a ton on all sizes. 1892. *3.90 4.30 4.50 4.40 Increase. 25 cents 3T> cents 45 cents 65 cents NOT EVEN A POSTAGE STAMP LEFT. World'* Columbian Comin Union Hasn't a Cent lteinalnlne In It* Treasury. The World's Columbian Commission is now without even a postage stamp. Every dollar of the appropriation of $59,- 500 has been exhausted and hecretary Dickinson hasn't enough money left to pay tho stationery expenses of his office, unless he goes into his own pocket. Director General Davis has not drawn his salary for several months. Colonel Dickinson has gone without pay for the same period in order that the clerks in his office could draw their salaries in full. They have been paid to June 1, and, even in case a de- liciency bid is passed, will get no more money until early in August. But few members of the national board who at­ tended the April session have received the money they advanced for railroad fare and hotel expenses. Wednesday night tho last postage stamp in Secre­ tary Dickinson's office was put on a let­ ter to Secretary Foster, informing him of tho condition of the National Com­ mission's finances. DOINGS OF CONG RE S& MEASURES CONSIDERED AND . , ACTED UPON. UNLUCKY IS9g At tfeo Nation's Capital-What I» Done by tho Senate and House--Old Matters Disposed or and New Ones Con­ sidered. The Senate and House. The STth, Senator Stewar^ -lntroJucad a stt' stltnte for his tree cotiia^e bllL The genera} deficiency appropriation "bill was passed by the House No action b3- yond fv dlscus«lo:\ of t'10 auti-optIon bill took place in tho Sen.ita In the House, the 28th, Mr. C-irter srok9 at length against ihe Hatch bilL Repre­ sentative Pierce of T«*nnes«e"j Introduced in tho HI-USJ a free c.iInaKe bill identical with the silver coinage bill pending in the Senate aa modified by Senator Stewart's amendment. Much work lookln? tow«rd adjournment , wm accomplished by the House. Senators Hale and Vest had a lively lolltlcHl argument in the Senate. Between July 15 and 20 1s the day set by business men for a probable adlournn^nt In tho House, tho £9th. the Indian ap­ propriation bill, on which an agreement had been reached, was again sent to con­ ference. A coupler of hours were consum­ ed in the consideration of a bill amend­ atory of the timber culture repeal act, lmt it vas withdrawn without action. Mr. Hatch of Missouri. Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, reported back to tho House the agricultural appropria­ tion bill, with ihe Senate amendments thereto, and asked that tho Senate amend­ ment (increasing) be noii-concurred'ln aud a conference ordered. :jiiia was ufsrcvu iu. An attempt to V.rlnpr up the tin-plate bill failed, and House adjourned. In the Senate there were two executive Sessions held, the feature of which was the confirmation of Secretary John W. Foster's nomination. The Postoffico Appropriation bill was taken up and passed. The Legislative, Execu­ tive, and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken up. the question being on the amend­ ment as to tho Utah Commis Ion.. The amendment was agreed1 to--yeas, 28; nays. 24. The salaries of the five Commissioners were fixed at 82,000 each. Mr. Carey offered another amendment that any such Commissioners who may hereafter be appointed frhall te residents of the Territory of Utah. Agreed to. The Pen­ sion Appropriation bill was then taken up. The only Important amendment recom­ mended by the Committee on Appropria­ tions IS one increasing from ?133,048,3fiG to (141,956,000 the appropriation for invalids', widows', and orphans' pensions. . After a long debate the committee amendments were agreed to and the bill passed. The Senate<sblll for the relief of settlers upon certain lands in the States of South and North Dakota was passed. On the Diamond. Following la a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different assocla- tloust NATIONAL LKAGUE. W. L S?c. .714 .(,23 .623 Boston ..45 Philadelp'ia.38 Brooklyn. ...38 Cincinnati. .34 .Cleveland. :.83 Pittsburg . .30 .567 .559 .469 w. Washington 2'.» Chicago 27 New York... .27 Kt. Louis... .25 Louisville. ..24 Baltimore.. .16 L. tfc. 33 .468 31' .466 34 .443 w. Columbus. ..40 Milwaukee. .28 Omaha..., ..35 Toledo 23 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. tfc. .70*. •B'.tC .510 w. Kansas Ctty.25 Minneap'lis.r.i Ft. Wayne.. 1!» .500 Indian'p'lis.ll .403 .387 .358 $0. .481 .476 .433 .362 ILLINOIS-IOWA LEAGUE. (NEW BEBIEB.) W. L. \9c. | W. L. $c. Terre Haute. 8 3 .727!Jacksonville 6 6 .600 R. I.-Mollne. 6 4 ,5b6|Jollet 5 6 .4ftfi Evansviile.. 6 6 .545 Aurora. 4 8- .333 Rockford.... 4 4 .8001 WISCONSIN-MICHIGAN LEAGUE. W. L. 1?C.| W. L. Oshkosh » 6 .C43 Ish.-Nesr.... .12 10 Marquette ..13 8 .coo Marinette... 7 l:t Menominee .13 8 .600iGreen Bay.. 6 14 OUTLOOK FOR CROPS. Vc. .645 .350 .300 FELL TO THEIR DEATH. I'rlKcllla'M Family. Mrs. Prfscilla Scroggins, of Georgia, who is said to be 115 years old, has 1,274 tesccndants living, of whom, 250 are great-grandchildren. .V Parly of Aeronauts Precipitated 1o 1 le Ground. , A frightful accident occurred at the Crystal Palace, London. A piece being given at the palace lately is called "The Tragic Episode," but Wednesday tho audicnce witnessed a real and terrible tragedy. Captain Dale, tho well-known aeronaut, was to give a balloon exhibi­ tion in the presence of thousands of Sunday school holiday seekers. The cap­ tain invited any who deBirod to accom­ pany him on his voyage in the air. Sev­ eral volunteered and the balloon started on its upward Wight, the great multitude, largely composed of children, watch'ng it with wondering gaze. Suddenly the balloon burst, and a cry of terror arose from the audience as the balloon col­ lapsed with a noise as of the discharge of a huge cannon. The aeronaut fell to the ground dead, and three of the pas­ sengers were seriously injured. Soldiers to Open the Fair. Fifteen thousand soldiers in blue uni­ forms are coming to Chicago next Oc­ tober to take part in the c eremonies of dedicating the World's Fair .buildings, says a Chicago dispatch. They will be here four days at least, under command of Gen. Nelson A. Miles. The South Park Commissioners have refused to allow the soldiers to camp in Washing­ ton Park, and Gen. Miles has been wor­ rying fo:- several weeks to know where he would send them. Yesterday it was decided that the troops should spread their blankets in three of tho big build­ ings at Jackson Park. The infantry will go in camp in tho Electricity and Mines and Mining Pullding. Sheds will be built for the horses. Tho dedi­ catory ceremonies, un'ess the date is changed, will extend from Oct. 11 to Oct. 18. V«rtnl I'aoket. IT is best to save all egg shells to set­ tle coffee. KEEPING a pan of water in tho oven will prexent fowl from scorching. PEARL knife handles should be rubbed with a salt rag dipped in line table salt, then polished with leather. FINOEK marks may be romoved from varnished furniture by rubbing well with a very little sweet oil upon a soft rag. NEVER omit regular bathing, for un­ less the skin is in regular cond tion the cold will close the pores and lavor con-, gestion or other diseases. IT is said that if the woodwork in the kitchen is kept constantly scrubbed with water in which potash has been dissolved, roaches and ants will spodily disappear. COMBINO and rubbing the scalp of the head with the hand dr%w8 the blood up to the surface of tho head, and not only relieves the pain at times, but adds new fetiength to the ha r. Report on, the Condition of Wheat. Oats and Fruit. The following, made up from the re­ ports of its numerous correspondents, appears in the Farmers' Beview of this week: Spring Wheat. In Illinois all of the spring wlnat is in fair to good condition, mostly good. Thi same is true of Michigan. Kansas, Iowa. Wlscocs n, Minnesota, and the Dakotae. In Nebraska only nin? per cent, of the correspondents report good, one-liHlf of thj remainder reporting fair, and the rett poor. Oats. •* In Illinois oats are reported in fair to good condition, with the exception of about 'io per cent, of the correspondents who report poor. Indiana gives a still better report, only about 7 per cent, of the correspondents giving the outlook as bad. In Ohio only 1G per cent, re­ port poor, and in Michigan onlv 12 per cent. In Kentucky the outlook Is very favorable, two counties only reporting a bad stand. In Mis­ souri the stand is good, but not i^o favorable as in the States mentioned. About CO per cent, of the correspondents report the crop in good con­ dition; 20 per cent, in fair condition, and the others report the stand as light. The outlook in Kansas is slightly below that of Missouri, 50 per cent, reporting good; 30 per cent, fair and 20 cent. poor. Nebraska again drops below Kansas, 15 per cent, of the correspondents only reporting good; 32 per cent, fair, and the rest poor. In Iowa a little less than one-tlilrd re­ port the crop In good condition, and the rest report fair, with one exception. In Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas the crop is in fine shape as a general thing and in many counties the crop will be above the average. Only two counties in the three Htates report poor. Winter Wheat. In Illinois winter wheat Is generally in fine shape. Two-thirds of the counties report the crop an average or above, all of the others re­ porting fair. The same Is true of Indiana and Ohio, with the exception of about 12 per cent, in the two States that report poor. Only one in ten of the correspondents In Michigan report poor, the others fair to good. In Kentucky the crop is especially fine, while in Missouri only fifteen per cent, report the outlook as bad. In 60 per cent of the counties the crop will be an aver­ age* or above. In Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa the crop is reported at from fair to above an In Wisconsin 40 fe or above. >orted at fro P1 -crop an average or above, the same number re- average. per cent, report the port fair, and the remainder poor. What little winter wheat there Is in Minnesota is in poor condition, with few exceptions. Fruit. The prospects for fruit in Illinois are very poor. Not over 6 per cent, of the correspon­ dents report the outlook good. About 27 per cent, report a fair outlook for most kinds, but all of the others report the prospects as very bad, and in some counties the fruit crop is al­ most a failure. The same conditions prevail in Indiana and Ohio. In Michigan less than one-third report the fruit crop an aver­ age or above; an equal number report it from 5 to 25 per cent, below an arverage, and tho others report poor. In Ken­ tucky one-fifth of the correspondents report the condition as good; 85 per cent, report fair, the others poor. In Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska the prospects are very poor, very few of the correspondents reporting the crop an average or above. In Iowa the condition of fruit shows creat variation, the outlook In 38 ;r cent, of the counties being good, and in a number beta* very poor; in the others fair. In Wisconsin and the Dakotas the out­ look is good generally, while in Minnesota it is in fair to good condition in three-fonrths of the counties. per like CROPS HELP TRADE. The Improvement or the Week Has Been Marked. R. G. Dun's weekly review of trade says: Another week has blessed the country with great improvement in the growing crops. In wheat so great a c han ge of condition appears that men begin to question whether the yield this year will not c losely approximate the unprecedented crop of Itwl. For other grain and cotton the outlook is de­ cidedly better and there is reason now to hope for highly Isatisfac- tofy results from the year's agriculture. In consequence there is stronger trade throughout the country, especially at Western centers of distribution. The improvement ife less marked at the South, owing to tho low price of cotton and continued high water in some re­ gions. The one point of anxiety in regard" to the wage dispute in tho iron manufacture operates for the present to cause increased trade, while in other great industries the situation is clearly more favorable than usual. Atchiseu Globe I'rovertM. MOST men do their hardest wo^k in looking for an excuse to loaf. A MAN can't lover a woman he doe* not trust; women love men every day they can't trust. Tha Most Disastrous Tear the tall States Has Kver Kaowa. If the remaining six month of this4 year shall duplicate or even approxi-'".'-/^ mate to the record of disasters which*1 -' have occurred in the first six the year • 1892 will be set down as the most fataT'^v4^ to life in the United States that has ever * , V been known. Fires, floods, explosions, 5 mine casualties, cyclones, wind-storms, lightning--all the elemental forces in-, 7^* deed seem to have combined with human' J rr'.C igeneicB to destroy life, and to present r an aggregate of great disasters in eom-k- pari son with which ordinarily terrible evenis stem to lose their significance or: - attract personal attention only. Since January 1 there have been four , destructive wind 6torms, killing nearly . 200 persons, viz.: April 1, Missouri and' ? Kansas, 75; May, 16, Texas, 15; Mayf , C 27, Wellington, Kan., 53; June 16, South-r era Minnesota, 50. In the same period: ; there have been four great floods, viz.: April 11, Tombigbee River, 2o0; May 18, , Sioux (City, Iowa, 35; May 20, Lowcif Mississippi, 36; June 5, fire and flood, Oil Creek, Pa., 19J. There also have' been four mining disasters, viz.: Jan. 7, McAllester, I. T., 65; April 20, Miners- ville, Pa., 12; May 10, Boslyn, Wash.,.;. 44; May 14, Butte, Monf., 11. Three^"*** T{ fires have been unusually disastrous^ to life, viz.: Jan. 21, Indianapolis!...^: Surgical Institute, 19; Feb. 7, Ho-r ? ^ tel Boyal, New York} 30; Aprils "' 28, theater, Philadelphia, 12. Besldesi - V; these there wero on March 21 an plosion at Jordan, Mich., by which 105^; lives were lost; June 13, the explosion.. at the Mare Island. Navy Yard -which*: killed 15; and June 15, the fall of thef bridge over Licking River by which 32; lives were sacrificed. These are the- principal disasters of the year thus far,, and they involve an aggregate of 960' lives. Adding to this total the Sum of losses by minor accidents as reported; . in the newspapers, we have the follow­ ing sad and unusual record: By fire. &76; by drowning, 1,364; by explosions^ 313, by falling structures of various- kinds, 267; by mine disasters, 308; by wind storms, 340; and by lightning, 120; grand total, 3,588. The total loss of life by these causes during: the whole of last year--and 1891 was one of the most destructive years on record--was 5,762. So it is evident that 1892 will far surpass it» predecessor. It is a sad and appalling record, this, of great disasters following, so closely upon each other's heeis. It recalls the days of the war, when one took up the morn­ ing paper only to Bead the list of killed and wounded in; the pnevious day's bat­ tle, and with the- same result then a& uow, viz., that the gneat battles so over­ shadowed the- Bmailer cues that little attention 'was 911 kt to the latter. So- now the great cataclysms so far eclipse- the smaller ones that the latter, though they would be- considered as shocking, and exceptional in any ordinary timer are now hardly an hour's wonder. FAIK DATE CHANGED. The Fnttnrinary Celebration Will I'rob- protarMy Be Held Oct. SI Instead ot 12. Washington dispatch1: Perry Belmont, of New York, reached Washington from, Chicago, where he had been to attend (he conference regarding changing the date for the inauguration exercises of Iho World'Sf Fair next October. The differences between New York and Chi­ cago over the date upon which th© two- cities will celebrate the 400th .anniver­ sary of the discovery of America were amicably adjusted at tho conference, and the two celebrations will not con­ flict in any way, '•> , Messrs. Belmont, B„ B. Roosevelt and Secrelary Wail, of the New York Citi­ zens' Committee of 100, and the Eoard of Control of the Columbian Exposition were parties to an agreement drawn up by Director General Davis and Mr. Bel­ mont, by the terms of which the officers and others interested in the Chicago celebration will make no opposition to the efforts of the New York gentlemen to secure the passage of a joint resolu­ tion by Congress changing from Oct. 12 to Oct. 21 the date on which the anni­ versary exercises at Chicago shall take place. The celebration at Now York city, which will include tho naval display of all nations, is fixed for Oct. 12, and that day has been declared a legal holiday by the Legislature of New York. It Was out of this conflict of dates with the Chicago celebration that grew the controversy which has been raging for some weeks, and which threatened to seriously interfere with the su cess of the events in loth cities. But by this compromise those interested believe that the interest in the two will be heightened and their success increased. Where Thev Cited to Be. SENATOR QTJAV was once a roving photographer. JAY COOKE was a confidential clerk in. a Philadelphia banking house at 18 and a member of the firm at 21. Gov. CHASE of Indiana was formerly a minister of the Campbellite Churchy and still preaches occasionally. COXAN DOYLE, the Fnglish novelist, was formerly a doctor, but has given up his practice since he beeame a success­ ful author. GEORGE JACOB SCHWEINPURTH, th» false messiah of Rockford, III., was formerly a minister of the Methoii&t Episcopal Church. PATRICK A. COLLINS earned th« money to carry him through co lege by working in a shoe factory. Ho is now the leader of the Boston bar. EVERETT ST. JOHN, general manages Of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pi^cfiia Railroad, began as a ticket clerk at $30 a month, and has climbed in succession every round of the railroad ladder. WANHOPE LYNN, of New York City, who has just been appointed % civil jus­ tice by Gov. Flower, began life as ii tool-maker. He commenced tho study of law while following this vacation. SECEETARY RUSK was for many years a stage driver, and owned a stage line in Wisconsin when he was first, elected to Congress. He is fond now of relat­ ing incidents of this portion of his life. Current Motes. THE biggest income in Germany is that of Herr Krupp, the cannon maker. THERE are twenty Representatives in Congress who are under 36 years of age. BARBERS gamble with the money earned by shaving dead men. It brings luck, they say. IT is stated that Mr. Edison employs 200 women in the more delicate details of his electrical inventions. THE poet Burns spelled his name Burness (his family name) until the, publication of his poems, in 1786. ' Ir is estimated that thefo are less than 10,000 papers In the Japanese em­ pire, with its population of 237,000,000. THE people upon tho two continents, of Ncrth and South America, without- the Arctic regions, are only eight to! the square mile. THERE will be a building at the; World's Fair where a Woman can leave; her baby and get a check for it while\ she sees the show. » ' ITALIAN titles are not very expensive.' That of prince costs only $13,000; that; of duke $10,Op(>; marquis, $8,'00; count,: $5,000; viscoun^Qr-baroa, $4,000. J