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• f II :v.^- tJND THE GLOBE. Tr--h Intelligence from Evtqr P«rt of the Civilized World. rAn||i ud Domestic New*, Political W Ev**t% Feiwwel Feints, •\y, Holes, Etc. WRNBD ALIVE AT HOM& Btventeen Lives Lost ia a New York Tene- •Nt Death-Trap--Frightful Scenes Wit- SBVKKTEKN persons were burned to death in a New York tenement building, six others will die, and many received se- rioQR injuries. The house was a ram- shackle affair, hidden in the middle of the block, the only entrance to it being a narrow alleyway from the Bowery. In front of it was a four-story bnilding. Adjoining this is Harry Miner's People's Theater. In the rear of the burned bnild­ ing were two houses hemming it com­ pletely in. In this caged-in building lived about 150 people, iach of the six floors was occupied by a single family, the head of which was a tailor who made clothing for the cheap wholesale houses, •nd employed from fifteen to twenty men, women, and children, in addition to his own family, They were all Polish Jews, and employers and employed worked, ate, and slept in the crowded rooms of the dingy tenement. The flames gained very rapid headway, thus cutting off escape for all, and the most apalling scenes followed, the crackling of the flames mingling with the wild shrieks of despair of the unfor­ tunates. Many of the frightened inmates rushed down through the flames and es­ caped to the narrow courtyard with clothes ablaze and hands and bodies burned. The picture of charred remains of women, children, and men was such as to beggar description. The financial loss is plaoed at $25,000. | BUSINESS IMPROVING. Weekly Review of the Business Situation Throughout the Country. R. G. DCN JFC Co.'8 business review for the past week says: Business is a little better, and in aggregate volume is now fully equal to that of last year at this date. The iron and woolen trades have materially decreased, but business in groceries, lumber and farm products generally is large. Trade has improved in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Paul, Nashville, and Galveston, and is excellent in Omaha. In Detroit and St. Paul the lumber trade is es­ pecially mentioned as excellent, and in Pitts­ burg and Nashville larger transactions and better prices in iron have been noticed, with improvement also in charcoal iron in Detroit. Wool dealings are smaller than usual, and dry goods are not especially active. The speculative markets have been non-active. Wheat has risen 4 cents for the week with sales of 63,000,000 bushels in New York, and com 1 eent with sales of 16,000,000 bushels, and oats 2 cents. Hogs have risen 10 cents, lard 15 cents per 100 pounds, and pork 25 cents a Barrel, oil 1& cents, and cotton 22 cent* per 100 pounds, with sales of m,M>9 bales. Reports as to collections do not Improve and complaint s are common. The New York returns would indicate an excess of mer­ chandise import* over exports of about $13,000,- 000 for July, following 961,000,000 for the previous six months. The Treasury has taken in during tile last week 92,000,000 more than it has paid out, and the actual circulation of all kinds is about #5,000,000 less than it was a month ago. The settlement of the cable war and the ex­ cellent crap prospects have been usea to ad­ vance stocks about 62 cents per share, but West­ ern freight wan do not yet improve in spite of frequent hopeful reports. Business failures throughout the country during the last seven days numbered 216, as compared with SKI the previous week. ABOUND THE BASES. IftMrfneat Ball Clubs Competing for the Championship. THE following table shows the relative •tending -of the various clubs competing for the championship of the associations named: Woo. Lost. 28 31 32 40 44 41 47 49 Hew York.... Detroit S&w.;:::::::::::::: Boftoo. Pittsburgh. Washington Wsstara. BLPaal.... Des Koines 96 Omaha 87 Bioux City 13 Kansas City 31 Chteaoo 31 Milwaukee 32 Minneapolis.....25 .51 .. 47 .47 .............38 37 32 31 29 Won.Lost. | American. Won. Lost. 48 24|Bt. Louis 52 X 25; Brooklyn 52 -Z? j Athletic 48 14|C'incinnati 48 34. Baltimore 36 36; Cleveland 31 36- ix>uisviile....... 30 4U|Kansas City.....23 W-':- TO KEEP OUR TRADE. NMnge of a Resolution to Investigate the Canadian Pacific Road's Relations to the Traffic of the United State*-Work of the MB. CULLOM offered a resolution inthq Senate on the 3d instructing the Committee on Inter­ state Commerce to make full investigation into the relations of the Canadian railroads with the transportation across the continent of commerce which naturally belongs to the United States. The resolution instructed the Committee on Interstate Commerce to ascertain and report whether any United States railroad lines are owned, operated <* controlled by the Grand Trunk for the Cana­ dian Pacific or any other Canadian railroad ; also whether commerce originating in the United States is diverted from American to Canadian lines, to what extent and in what manner. Also whether any discrimination is practiced in the charges for tolls against American vessels in the We Hand and St. Lawrence Canals ; also to inquire into the question of the regulation of commerce carried on by railroad or water­ ways between the United States and Canada. The resolution was adopted, "Iter much discussion, without a division. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from Gov. Green of New Jersey, presenting to the Con­ gress, in the name of the btate ot New Jersev Statues of Richard S:ockton and Philip Kearney, to be placed in Statuary Hall in the Capitol. A resolution was adopted as-igning Tuesday, Aug. SI, for the consideration of a concurrent resolu­ tion accepting the statues and returning thanks to the State of New Jersey therefor. TTie bill loaning tents and equipage to Sam Reid Post, Grand Army of the Republic of Iowa, was favor­ ably reported to the House. Private business having then been dispense 1 with, the House went into committee of the whole on the de­ ficiency appropriation bill. The evening ses- •toMM^dg™ted to the consideration of ptiyato EAST. fev • K': " factory at Carlisle, Pa., sUB.IttSKfc %Mtti on a strike for two weeks ag&fost alt obnox­ ious foreman, have return^ work, the foreman having been dischttfed. GEN. J. R. SHALER, (Htaeral (Superin­ tendent of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, hjs stepped down and out, and the duties of the position will be filled by £. B. Thomas, Beoond Vice President of the Erie and lessee of the above road. AT Trenton, N. J., the Supreuae Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the local option high-licen6e law. THE will of the late Letitia McCnl lough, reliet of the tragedian, John McCnllough, has been admitted to pro­ bate in the office of the Register of Deeds at Philadelphia. The estate left by the testatrix is valued1 at $25,000. A clause in the will directs the trustee to take charge of the medals and jewels presented to her late husband, and give them to her grand daughter. Letitia, on airiving at her 25th year. In the event of her death be­ fore that age, and her son leaving no other children, the trustee is to deposit them in some public institution, where they may be forever preserved "in memory of my dear oonsort." DURING the first seven months of 1888 2$,352 more immigrant* arrived at Castle Garden than during the same period in 1887. THE funeral of Bartley Campbell took place at Pittsburgh, Pa., the pall-bearers being old newspaper associates of the dead playwright in that city. ISAAC N. PHELPS, a well-known Wall street operator, worth foom $15,000,000 to $20,000,000, is dead. the prfoe ever paid for* hone. FIFTT armed men visited the jail at Carthage, Tens., and took out W. H. Handler, who Sept. 17 killed J. B. Wor- uuua, a Deputy Sheriff. Hondley was awaiting trial. The Sheriff refusing to give tip the keys the mob with axes and crowbars broke into Handley's cell and took him across the river and hanged |>iin to a tree within sight of the jail. ' WEST. : WAr Department has received a telegram from the commanding officer at San Carlos, Arizona Territory, as follows: At the request of the acting Indian Agent, I sent Capt. Lee, Tenth Cavalry, with his troop and some scouts up San carlos to arrest three Indians reported intrenehtd in rocks. Lee found they hnd fled, and followed several trails, upon one of which they were found. The RCOU. s exchanged shots with "a small party said to be­ long to Cassadis' band and think they killed one Indian. About 5 p. m. six scouts and herders were attacked by a party of Indians fifteen miles from here. The scouts and herders fled. There may be serious trouble with the Indians. The bands are those of Cassadis and Chilchuana. storm visited St. Paul and several Peter The A SEVERE Minneapolis, Minn., unroofing houses and doing much damage. Swagart was killed by lightning. BARTLEY CAMPBELL, the well-known playwright, is dead. He died at Bloom-- ingdale asylum for the insane at New York. He passed away peacefully, and death was so sudden that his friends, k&d b*®11 hastily sent for, were not •hie to reach his bedside. Mr. Campbell nad been an inmate of the asylum for »early a year. , He was born in Allegheny * Citj, Pa., Aug. 12, 1843. • Ah 8-year-old daughter of William Bol- iafcd was burned to death by the explo- of a can of kerosene at Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Lizzie McLaughlin received fgtid injuries from a similar explosion. The residence of Mrs. McLaughlin was destroyed. DR. WINSLOW PIERCE died at his resi­ dence in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 69 years. He was twice the brother-in-law to the late Vice-President Hendricks, and was the life-long friend of Stephen A Doug­ las. He was a cousin of President Frank­ lin Pierce, and related bn his mother's eide to the Prescotts and Bancrofts. He jwent to California in 1849. Beturnidyto (Indiana in 1855 he married a sister of Mr. Hendricks. Some years after her death -he married another sister, in 1867. The ' died a few months ago; ̂ FIFTY female employes of the shoe velocity of the wind was sixty miles an hour. FREMONT EMMONS, the murderer of Bertha Schultz, aged 17, was hanged from a trestle bridge of the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway over the Buriing- ton and Missouri tracks, at Pawnee City, Neb. At the time of the murder fears were entertained of lynching, and Em­ mons was taken to Beatrice. He was taken back to Pawnee City for preliminary hearing and bound over to the District Court. His presence there inflamed the people and caused great excitement. Em­ mons was taken from jail by a masked mob, a rope placed aiound his neck, and he was forced to jump from the bridge. His neck was broken and he died without a struggle. AT Cincinnati John Tumsteur has been appointed receiver for H. C. Gilmour & Co., lessees of the Grand Hotel, whose assets are estimated at $125,000, and lia­ bilities at $200,000, with preferences $78,- 000. Later Lydia A. Potter, Mary C. Jones and Maria A. Potter filed a petition against the receiver and lessees, charging them with unlawfully occupying plaint­ iffs' property, the lot on which the hotel is situated. THE reports from Western Kansas to Kansas City commission men are not en­ couraging. A hot wind, a regular sirocco in fact, has been busy in the western por­ tion of the "Sunflower" State. The re­ sult is that the corn crop has been liter­ ally burned. This is the situation all west of Ellsworth, Great Bend, Lyons, and Chase. The crop will not come near up to expectations. THE Catholic Xevs of New York has received a telegram from Home stating that the Rev. Dr. John S. Foley, of St. Martin's Church, Baltimore, has been ap­ pointed Bishop of Detroit, Mich., to suc­ ceed Bishop BorgeBS, who resigned in April, 1887. The Catholic News has also been notified of the appointment of the Kev. J. Hennessy, of St. John's Church, St. Louis, as Bishop of the diocese of Wichita, Kan., to succeed the late Dr. O'Reilly, the first Bishop, who died be­ fore his consecration. DB. ERNEST WEISSENBERGEB, a pro­ fessor of Heidelberg University, who has been observing the gas wells at Findlay, Ohio, says the earth's crust is very thin there, that a temperature of 3,500 degrees exist 8,000 feet below the surface, and that the earth will before long burst out with volcanic eruptions. LITTLE &, CRAFT'S lumber-mill and dry-house at Evansville, Ind., have been destroyed by fire, together with about $5,000 worth of lumber. The^total loss is $35,000, partially insured. A SPECIAL from Wichita, Kan., says there is much uneasiness there over the condition of affairs in Stevens County. It is reported that Gen. Meyers, Captain Wallace and Attorney General Bradford are held prisoners at Hugotown. It is said that when they ordered the citizens to lay down their arms they were made prisoners until the ringleaders in the late battle with Woodsdale citizens could be spirited away. Threats have been made against Gen. Myers, and his friends are greatly alarmed. THE sixth annual convention of the National German Society for Physical Education, in session in Cleveland, elected the following officers: President, George Brosius, of Milwaukee; Vice-President, Henry fsuder, of Chicago; Secretary, Will­ iam Fleck, of Indianapolis; Assistant Sec­ retary, Richard Petroch, of Philadelphia. AT Blair, Neb., G. W. Fackler, engineer of a flour-mill, gave himself up to the au­ thorities, saying he had killed a man. On the previous evening three men had tried to rob the mill and Fackler had shot one, killing him instantly. AT the Iowa and Wisconsin coal mine, two miles west of Albia, Iowa, Michael Dial, an old miner, killed his own son Dick with a shotgun. The son was about 27 years old. It seems that there was a family row, and the father claims to have killed the son in self-defense. The father has a good reputation, J W. A. SOUTHWARD, accused of mis­ appropriating $300 belonging to the Chi­ cago Carriage and Cutter Company, was arrested in Hammond, Ind., bnt knocked the officer down and escaped. SOUTH, ON the Ohio Valley Railroad, between Henderson and Marion, Ky., ^Villiam Cardwell, James Nichols, and Sam Nunn all of BlackfoTd, Ky., indulged in a shoot ing scrape, the result of a disagreement. Nichols shot Cardwell, and Nunn, in tarn, shot at Nichols. The latter turned and shot Nunn and jumped from the train and has since been missing. Cardwell was fatally shot. Nunn is dead. A LARGE crowd of prominent tnrfmen from all over the country attended the sale of Bell Boy at T. C. Jefferson's farm, near Lexington, Ky. The animal was sold POLITICS. THJI consolidated Greenback and Unit­ ed Labor party of the Seventh Congres­ sional District of Indiana have renomi­ nated James Buc&anan of Indianapolis for Congress. THB Republicans of the Eighth Con­ gressional District of Indiana, in conven­ tion at Terre Haute, unanimously renom­ inated James T. Johnson for Congress, and the Republicans of the Twelfth Con­ gressional District, in convention at Fort Wavne, renominated Capt. James B. White by acclamation. THE Democrats of the Fifth District of Kansas, in convention at Clay Center, nominated Dr. N. D. Tobey for Congress. THE Republican Congressional Conven­ tion of the Second district of Florida, at Ocala, have nominated Fifed S. Good­ rich, of DeLand. THE Union Labor party of the Ninth District of Iowa, at Des Moines, have nominated J. L. Severign for Congress. JOHN T. HEARD, Congressman from the Marshall (Mo.) district, has been re­ nominated. THE Republican State Convention of Florida, held at Ocala, nominated /Prof. Stone of Sanford for Commissioner of Public Instruction, Charles Lewis of Fernandina for Comptroller, John Esan of Pensacola for Attorney General, John P. Althorpe of Tallahassee for Commis­ sioner of Agriculture, and F. M. Randall of Jacksonville, J. F. Goss of Gaines­ ville, and Charles Swayne of Kissime for the Supreme Court bench. THE Seventh District Republicans of Indiana have nominated Thomas E. Chandler, of Marion County, for Con­ gress. * THE Illinois Democratic Convention for the Twentieth District met at Mur- physboro. The Hon. A. T. Robinson, of Union County, was unanimously nomi­ nated for member of Congress. THE Prohibition Congressional Con­ vention of the Second District of Ne­ braska have nominated the Rev. George Scott, of Saline County. THE Republicans of the Sixteenth Ohio District have nominated £. L. Ty barker for Congress. FOREIGN. THE French ciops have been disastrous­ ly affected by the weather. According to the returns the yield will- probably be 35,000,000 hectolitres short. THE strike of navvies continues to spread. Socialist leaders have placed themselves at the head of the movement, and are urging the strikers to take violent measures. IT is reported that a French naval officer has been arrested at Kiel on the charge of being a spy. THE Local Government bill has passed the second reading in the English House of Lords. THE circulation of reports that France intends to seize Tripoli has brought forth a note from 1 semi-official source, which says the repoits are regarded in Govern­ ment circles as a mask to cover the de­ signs of Italy, whose increase of arma­ ment is due to the fact that she has Tripoli4n view. ^OENERAL, fit following summary of the crop re­ port appears in the last issue of the Farmer's Review, of Chicago: A summary of the crop reports received from our correspondents this week furnishes interest­ ing information relative to the estimated yield of spring wheat, the estimated vield of oats, the average condition of the corn crop, and the ac­ tual yield of hay in the different States. It is as follows: Illinois--Estimated yield of spring wheat, 15 5-7 bushels ; estimated yield of oats, 83V. bushels ; condition of com crop, 103 percent, as compared with average; yield of hay, average, 1 ii-f) tons per acre. Wisconsin--Spring wheat, 14 bushels; oats, if.) bushels; condition of coin, per cent.; hay yield, I 4-5 tons. Indiana- Oats, 33 bushels ; condition of corn, 104 per cent. ; hay yield, 1.0b tons. Michigan -Spring wheat. 13!B bushels ; oats, H'2 bushels; condition of corn, 83 per cent.; hay yield, 1 2-5 tons. Ohio--Oata, 33% bushels ; condition of com, 102 per cent. ; hay yield, 1}$ toriB. Missouri- Oats, 34 bushels; con­ dition of corn, 99 per cent.; hay yield, IV; tons. Iowa--Spring wheat, 13bushels; oats, 34*bush­ els ; condition of corn, Sib per cent.; hay yield, 1 )<2 tons. Minnesota-- Hpring wheat, 13 bushels; oats, 37 bushels; condition of corn, 91% per cent.; hay yield, 1 '.j tons. Kansas--Spring wheat, 16 bushels ; oats, 33^2 bushels ; condition of corn, 10) per cent.; hay yield, l1.. tons. Ne­ braska--Spring wheat, 15 bushels; oats, bushels ; condition of corn, 97 per eent.; hay yield, 1.9 tons. There are complaints of rust in wheat in some districts, while oats are badly laid out in others. Rain is needed for corn and potatoes. A PARIH special says that at a meeting of the shareholders of the Panama Canal Company M. De Lesseps promised, 6n be- hnlf of the directors, that the canal would be opened in 18U0. The report presented by M. De Lesseps was r.pproved amid cries of "Vive De Lesseps." MARKET REPORT& , CHICAGO. cam,*--Choice to l'r.ine Steers, t 5.75 . 4 . 5 0 .* 8.50 . 6.(0 . 3.25 Good Common HOGS--Shipping ttrades. HBKKP WHEAT--No. 2 Red Cons--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 It YE--No. 2 BCTTKB--Choice Creamery...... Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, Hat F.<ios--Fresh. POTATOES--New, per bu 1'ORK--MEBS MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash CORN--No. a OAT»~NO. 2 White KYK--NO. 1. • ITARLKY -- No. 2 l'oita-- Mesa ... CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. % Red CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Mixed HOGS hi. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Conn--Not 2 OATS--No. 2. IIYF.-Nb. 3. Baulky POBK--Mesa NKW YORK. CATTLE Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 tt?4 " COKU --No. 2 OATB-White rofiK--New Mess • {DETROIT. CATTLB I Iloos SHEEP WHEAT--No. 1 White COKN--No. 2 Yellow OATS-No. t White INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE HOGS *HEEP. LAMES..,,. BUFFALO." CATTLR£*V. hoos....^. SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORK--No. 2 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Prime Fair Common... * Hoot..... .47 .28 & .46 & M .14?2<3I .06 & .14 .40 & » 6.25 5.75 (S 4.50 ® 6.75 & 4.30 .815 .48 .28*4 .47 .18 .15)4 .08 .15 .45 14.50 muM .79%<& .80 .45 & .46% .66 <£2 .58 .68 & .00 14.60 015.00 .83 @ .84 .4«>u(9 .47% .33 (ft .83% 6.60 & 7.00 .83 & .84 .49 <9 .44 .23 & JU .42%<4 .43% .75 & .85 14.75 @15.25 4.00 6.25 4.00 .SO A7 .42 14.75 8.S0 6.00 8.00 .88 .46 .VI 4.01 6.25 8.90 4.00 4.S0 5.£> .62: & 6.00 & 7.00 5.50 & .98 & .57% & .50 <915.26 & 5.2S & 6.50 <0 3.50 & .80 (9 .47 & .38 0 6.00 & 6.75 0 4.75 & 5.00 & 6.28 @ 6.0J m 5.00 .03% .53% Lamm. ;;3&« wf#* iV* ^ V » &•< U "Hi f e 1 1 1 ' k I S l t i • ! • ' U " • * " ' ' j , ' * • J . . . m 6.25 & 5.75 4.60 <4 5.00 8.60 & 4.25 &3S & 7.00 4.S6 #6.00 M0 •e.* CONMCllCCT IPROHIBl Th«y NalijftJrtfe a Stat* Ticket Suffrage. ? : > < • ' ,>*-<• '«u» YabUe Dsbt Qreatly Hew Jeney High Lloenw, Etc., Etc. tbonvveiicut State Profeibitkm C«J- vention met at' Hartford, and the Rev. C. E. Northmp was elected Chairman. In his address he said he waB convinced that the prohibition amendment in Rhode Island would never be enforced. "It is of no use to attempt a reform of this kind through either of the old parties. The Prohibition party has now taken i ts posi­ tion on solid ground,and will make no com­ promise. " Mr. Northrup was heartily np- §landed. The pLitform declares for prohi-itionof the manufacture and sale of alco­ holic liquors as a beverage by statutory arid constitutional enactments enforced by a prohibition party; will declare for a tariff so adjusted As to be for the best interests of all; for civil service reform; for uni­ form divorce laws; for the Australian bal­ lot; for settlement of labor troubles by arbitration; for a revision of the pension laws in justice to the soldiers, and -will appeal to all voters to unite with the party. Four hundred and fourteen dele­ gates were present. The Hon. T. C. Rich­ mond, of Wisconsin, spoke, and a collec­ tion was taken up, and over $2,000 sub­ scribed. The Committee on Resolutions split " on woman suffrage, and two reports were made. The majority re­ port ignored the subject, while the minority favored some expression. The minority was laid on the table. The majority report was then amended so as to indorse the Indianapolis platform, fa­ voring woman suffrage. A plank was added demanding the abolition <of the in­ ternal-revenue tax on liquors by im­ mediate prohibition of the traffic, and the majority report was unanimously adopted. The State ticket was then nominated as follows: Governor, Hiram Camp, of New Haven; Lieutenant Governor, Xafhan Babcock, of Stonington; Secretary of State, Theodore L. Pea^e, of Enfield; Treasnrer, George W. Keis, of Norwich; Comptroller, Edward Manchester, of Wiu- sted. Electors-at-large and district elec­ tors were then chosen, and the convention adjourned. ' PUBLIC DKBT STATEMENT The Country'* Debt Red ace ti 84,137,298 Daring; tlie La«t Month. The following is the debt statement for the month of July: " ':t IKTKREST-BKARINO DEBT. Bonds at4!-j percent • 221,350 Bonds at 4 per cent 713.738,2)1 Refunding certificate* at 4 par cent. 134,i<8J Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,0(11 Pacific railroad bonds at 6 par cent. C4,(.'23,51-2 Principal Interest......... *1,014,138,142 6,416,544 Total. t. .§1,020,55',680 DKBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE - IUIDUII, • Principal. 4..^.. 2.478,665 IintereBt..»...,,.........v........... 107,925 •: v '^4 A Total.....;:*... ....f "v 2049,590 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes.* 3'<5,787,853 Certificates of deposit li,203,0 0 t3old certificates 131,95^,112 Silver certificates v..... 2J3,660,C79 Fractional currency (less SB,375,934, ; estimated as lost or destroyed).... . 6,922,043 Principal... < .......* 704,505,257 W. TOTAL DEBT, ' Principal «1,721,122,005 Interest ' 6,584,469 Total .$1,727,706,534 Lege cosh items available . for reduction" of debt.. .$38^,909,641" Less reserve held for re- ' demption <jf""Cteite(J States notes 100,0)0,000 4 Total debt less available cash Items $1,217,796,893 Net cash in the Treasury 103,349,635 Debt less cash in Treasury Ang. 1, 1883 $1,181,447,?53 Debt less cash in Treasury July 1, 1888 1,166,584,656 Decrease of debt during the month . . $ 4 ,137,298 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1888. 4,137,293 CASH IN TREASURY AVAILABLE FOB REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actu­ ally outstanding $ 131,959,112 Silver held for silver certivicates act­ ually outstanding 203,683,673 U. S. nates held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding.... .V 16,206,000 Cash held for matured debt and in* terest unpaid .1. 9,003,135 Fractional currency. 1,715 Total available for reduction of debt $ 359,909,641 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12,1882.$ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of debt: Fractional silver ooin...... .* .. ...... .$ 26,034,462 Minor coin , 133,753 Total j( *..» . *... .$ '26,168,215 Certificates held as cash 53,695,974 Net cash balance on hand 106,349,535 Total cash in Treasury as shown by Treasurer's general account.* 646,123,365 HIGH LICENSE IN NEW JERSEY. Grounds Upon Which the New Law Is Pronounced Constitutional. The Court of Errors at Trenton, N. J., has declared the High-License Local Op­ tion Law passed by the Legislature last winter constitutional. Justice Van Sickle wrote the opinion. The high license feature of the law was declared valid by a unanimous vote, but the court was divided on the local option feature, the vote stand­ ing 8 to 7 in favor of its constitutionality. The court upholds the classification of licenses defined in the act on the ground that the basis is a substantial one, and beyond all question as to its legality. In discussing the local option branch of the law the court said that there was no express provision in the Constitution that legislative power should not be delegated. The mode prescribed by the Inn and Tavern act for granting licenses has been declared valid; that the Legislature has a right to grant to municipal corporations the power to regulate**and prohibit the sale of liquor; and the Legislature has power to pass a prohibitory law. The conclusion is inevitable that there is no unlawful delegation of power in this case. The court further argues that there is no difference in the principle of the old law and the new one, because the old law pre­ scribes that twelve free holders must recommend a license, while the new one leaves the question to a majority of the people of the county. The opinion de­ clares the law unquestionably a general law, and in conclusion declares valid and constitutional that part of the act which relates to the ordering of an election. OEM. SHERIDAN IMPROVING. Br. O'Reilly Notes the Chan yea the Lut Pew Weeks Have Wrought. Dr. O'Keilly has issued the following encouraging bulletin at Nonquitt, under date of Aug. 1: Gen. Sheridan was last seen by me the after­ noon of July 7, the day after the disembarkation from the Swatara. On resuming to-day my duty as attending physician I note the following Changes which have occurred since the date named: The General's whole appearance is better and his color more natural. Hia •yes are brighter and have more ex­ pression. His face is fuller, and, judging from this and the contour of his limbs, he has gained in -weight. His pulse is 93, of apod volume and tension, and perfectly regular. His respiration has increased in depth and evenness. He ia taking more food and his dietary has been greatly anla^ged. His cough Is easier and less frequent. Hla mind is more ao- tive and his perception deafer and his nervous and muscular system mor# decidedly able to resist fatigue. To sum up, these observations indicate improvement in all Gen. Hheridfiai'a functions. The change has been so gradual as to to hardly perceptible from 'day to day, but in a pasted of UDN weeks the gain is manifest. ; KOBEBT O'RsnxT. Work of tin •nd Hwn ofRtp. In sundry otvil aervloe appropriation bill lis thsprinaipaIi3picinthe 8«n4teonthe«tiii the psndtng question being ©n tite parsg aphs relating to tbe new Mteary Building at Wash- ingun, which, soooeding to variona of the original MIL Is to cost between $M)J0,0U0 and $5,005,000, ani will meet ail requirements lor fifteen or jMoty jrean. vtm anundment aaaspension ciflcatioaa " .%xrsz^gnJitgris aprovision y^aq f ' specifics lieu of it _ the construction of the buUdixbT anfler ,. the _ supervision of the Chief of £ngineers of the army, and for the abolition of all contracts' made for the oonstarobtion of the building. A large number of minor amendments were reported and agreed to, and the Mil went over. A bill granting right at way for a rapid transit railway through the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth was reported and placed on the calendar. On the motion of Senator Cullom the Senate took ' up and passed the House bill to reimburse Caroline T. Cockle, executrix of Washington Cookie, Postmaster of Peoria, 111., in 1&B4, for $199.80 expended by him for lighting purposes in said office. The Senate agreed to committee amendments to the sundry civil bill civinx $34.- 744 for a hospital building at Book IslandArsen- al, III., and $900,000 for repairs to dikes and em­ bankments ot the water pool, and for dredging and scouring out mud at the same place. The House was occupied with a lengthy discussion in relation to the admission into the Union of Washington Territory. AN amendment to the sundry-civil bill, ap­ propriating $250,000 for the purpose of in­ vestigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be re­ deemed by irrigating was offered in the Senate the 30th by Mr. Bowen. By arid lands ia meant all land that i s |non - product! ve without ir­ rigation, and this classification embraces the eastern portions of California, Oregon, Washing­ ton Territory, and nearly the whole of Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colo­ rado, Wyoming, and Montana, while west­ ern portions of Dakota, Nebraska, Kan­ sas, and Texas are, in some seasons, seri­ ously affected by drought. The amendment with the following amendment was agreed to : "And all the lands which may ba designated for reservoirs and canals for irrigation shall be re­ served as the property of the United States and shall not. be subject to entry or settlement until hereafter provided for by law." The nomination of Surveyor-General Irish, of Nevada, was again before the Senate in secret session. The Housa Committee on Manufactures submitted its report on the trust investigation, and it was or­ dered printed. The committee savs it has been unable to complete its investigation, which >"»» been mainly devoted to the sugar and Standard oil trusts. The House devoted considerable time to the consideration of the deficiency ap­ propriation bill in committee of the whole. The only amendment was one appropriating $120,000 for the completion of the Port Town send fW. T.) public building. WHEN the Senate reSumed Consideration of the sundry civil bill the 31st, Mr.-Beck made the point of order on Mr. Bpooner's amendment ap­ propriating $75,000 for a public building at Atchi­ son, Has., that the Senate had no right to attach Sublic appropriations to the biil. After a long iscussion the point of order was withdrawn by Mr. Beck and a yea and nay vote taken on the proposition itself as a test qcestion af­ fecting all the other public buildings. The amendment was rejected--yeas, 'll • cays, 23. An amendment was agreed to appropriating $3,017 to repay the city Of Omaha for paving the Court Houso and Post- ofllce ; also one providing thai no part of the ap­ propriations in the bill shall be used in the in­ vestigation of any case or in the prosecution oi any person in the mining region for cutting for mining or domestic purposes any short or scrub­ by timber unfit to be sawed or hewed into lumber of commercial value. The Senate agreed to Mr. Hoar's resolution provid­ ing for the appointment of a committee of five Senators to investigate the relations of commerce and trade between the United States and the British North American p3ssessions, in­ cluding the effect upon the commerce and car­ rying trade of the United States of the Cana liau system of railways and canals, and the prospect of the displacement of any existing industries of the United i-tales by industries established there ; also; whether the obligations of existing treaties and of international law are and have been observed by such dependencies toward the «• p'e of tfcie United StateB, and as to the num­ ber, amount, and character of existing claims acainst Great Britain by reason of the violation of such obligations toward the people of the United States in such dependencies. The House postponed consideration of the deficiency bill and went into committee of the whole on the Senate amendments to the axmy appropriation bilL SENATOR PUOH presented to the Senate the 1st the minority report in the case of the Jackson (Miss.) election investigation. The report is signed by Senators Pugh, Coke, Vest, and Gerrge. The minority saya^the hearings were held with closed doors and in Washington, more than one thousand miles lroin the locality of the transaction. Hence the members of the .committee had no opportunity of examining the great mass of witnesses who were on the ground. "How unsatisfactory and misleading such a course is," says the report, "will be evi­ dent to those who carefully examine the re­ ported evidence." A lengthy discussion was nad in relation to Mr. Call a amendment to the sundry civil bill appropriating $10,0JD lor the re­ covery of property of the late Confederate States, now held in adverse possession, to the govern­ ment. The bill waa tabled. The bill was then reported back to the Senate and passed, all the amendments t eing concurred in except that ap­ propriating $S50,00U for the widow of Prof. Baird. Among the House bills taken up by unanimous consent und passed by tike Senate were the fo.lowing: For a public build­ ing at Jackson, Mich., witn an amend­ ment increasing the appropriation from $£0,tH)0 to ^75,000; to authorise the Winona and Southwestern Kailway Company to build a bridge across t he Mississippi at Winona, Minn.; to pro­ tect purchasers of lands lying in tbe vicini.y of Denvir, Col., h retofore withdrawn by the exec­ utive department of the Government as lying within the limits of certain raitroad grants and afterward heid to lie without such limits ; to pro­ vide for the disposal of the Fort Wallace mili­ tary reservation in Kansas. The House in com­ mittee of the whole voted to non-concur in the Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill and to ask for a conference. The action of the Committee, as far as the minor amend­ ments were concerned, was Indorsed by the full house. * AFTER the transaction of some routine busi­ ness the Senate, the 2d, by a strictly party vote, determined to take up ttae fisheries treaty, the question being on Mr. Morgan's motion to post­ pone its further consideration till December next, and a lengthy and heated debate followed. The following bills were taken from the calen­ dar aud passed by the Kenate: The House bill establishing a :<litknil aids to navigation at the mouth of th« Mississippi River; the Sen­ ate bill providing for an additional Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming. Senator Dawes introduced a bill to ratify the agreement made by the Northwestern Indian Commission with tbo Oceur d'Alene tribe of Indians in Idaho. After somo routine work the House went into committee of the whole on the deficiency appropriation bill. Speaking to a formal amendment, Mr. Hovey of Indiana precipitated a long political debate by some criticism of Mr, Matson's (etch published in the H'<ord, but not delivered. This led to a long debate as to the relative claims of the parties to the title of "The Soldier's Friend," andtherrbel fag incident came in for a share of attention. The consideration of the bill was thin resumed aad lor some time ran smoothly until Mr. Dockery of Missouri precipitated a bri' f tariff debate by a few remarks on the sub- je?t of the surplus. After a short discussion the committee arose. Tne House voted to non-con­ cur in the Senate amendment 9 to tlit' army. &P" piopristion bill and ordered a conference ' - That Settled Hen. Herbert-Underwood is a very bright Boston newspaper man, and he is, not­ withstanding, an ornament to society. Last evening he called on a young woman, and the young woman's small sister, who admires Herbert, was also present for a while. "It's fanny about you," said the kid, looking at him sympathetically. "What is?" inquired Herbert, grace­ fully. " Why, because you live in Boston and don't know beans." "Ah, but, little one, I do, and so does every true Bostonian. We all know them [but to love them." And Herbert's poetic soul beamed from his eyes upon the little sister's big sister. "That's what I thought," continued the kid, "but when I told something to sister about you this afternoon, she turned up her nose and said: 'Bats! Herbert Underwood don't know beans when the bag is open.'" After that the little sister did not re­ main in the parlor. Man's Inhumanity to "I hate that man !" exclaimed Mrs. Ujppercea, "I'd like to make his life miserable!" "Tell you what," said her husband, warmly, "111 send the wretch an invi­ tation to your musicals,7- Wo'll tortur® him S"--Burdette. *« ^ ON 1 iiWfci.i.1 "BUttkey" Kokgan, tte 1FF0LD. of Dcteo- : ,J ! Si.- ' -<"i. " One of the Most Desperate CrfaKfaals in the United States--A fIfeHeh * if His Career [Columbus (Ohio) spaciaL] Charles Morgan, better known as "Blinkey* Morgan, was executed in the annex of the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus. The execution was witnessed by thirty persons. Morgan was on the scaffold when the spectators entered the execution department. He looked like a high- toned gentleman dressed for an evening ball. The warrant was read and Morgan refused to aay a word, but stood like a statue as the ropes were adjusted. When all was ready, the cap drawn down, and the rope began to tighten, Mor­ gan spoke in a loud tone, *Good-by, Nellie," and passed through the trap. The work was not a success. The body writhed in the greatest agony and the legs jerked, while the arms swung and the hands clutched. Be slowly strangled to death. Be was as game a criminal ae ever stepped upon a scaffold. Charles, alias "Blinkey," Morgan was born in New York State. In 1876 he was convicted in Philadelphia for robbing a safe, and .was sen­ tenced to five years in the penitentiary. After serving bis term he went to Cleveland, and there became associated with«7ack Connelly, an on- time thief, and through him with Nellie Lowry, the daughter of Connelly and the wife of Charles Lowry, a noted bank robber now serving au eleven-year solitary confinement sentence in a Philadelphia prison for the Osceola, Pa., bank robbery, in whic 1 one of his accomplices was Eddie Havill of Chicago. Morgan also became acquainted with the late Tom Foster, one of the most notorious safe operators and desperadoes to the country, who was shot dead by n, police officer in Cleveland about two years ago while resisting arrest. After a safe robbery at Wellington, Ohio, by Foster, Lowry, and Morgan, and a hot encounter with the police aud a posse, in which Tom Mor­ gan, one of the gang, was kille.l, and another of the gang aud several of the pursuers were wounded, Lowry and "Blinkey" Morgan went to C.mada, staying there for quite a while. They made their headquarters at Toronto and at a hotel at Fort Erie, epposite Buffalo, kept by John, alias "Clutch," Donahue, a notorious burglar now serving a sentence at Kingston, Canada. After robbing a safe at Ingersoll, Lowry and Morgan were pursued and overtaken by sever*] railroad men. Morgan drew his pistol and, tell­ ing Lowry to make off while he "held the fort," fac;d the pursuers and literally shot his way through them, effecting his escape. Lowry was captured. Morgan went to the jail where he was confined, and working from the outside got his pal out. Somo time afterward Lowry had a row with a police officer in Toron o w ile drunk drew his revolver, fired at the officer, and killed a hackman. For this he was sentenced to a long term in the Kingston prison. While there he became acquainted with a young Detroit burglar named Matt Kennedy, who was serving a term for a safe robbery near Windsor. While in jail at Sandwicn they at­ tempted to escape, and in so doing Fhot and killed a jailer. It being proved that Kennedy did not do the shooting, he got off with a long term in prison. Years afterward he met Morgan. The two escaped from prison and went to Detroit, where they stayed a long time under the protection of a noted ̂ambler. They also passed consider­ able time in Cleyelgnd, where they stopped at the hou^e of Nellie Loury. Two years ago or more a postoflf.ee near Grand Rapids, Mich., was burglarized. A posse started in pursuit of the robbers, one of wnom fled to n swamp. Standing in water up to his neck, hie head behind a stump, and with drawn pistol he held the men at b ly for a time, but they got rifles and shot so close to his hea 1 that he sur­ rendered. He was identified as one of the bur­ glars and was placed in jail at Grand Kapids. The postoffice authorities sent Mr. Pinkerton a picture of the prisoner for identification and he recognized it aB that of "Blinkey" Morgan, then going under the alias of Conklin. Two months after his capture he sawed his way out of jail, at the same time liberating every other prisoner in the place. Ho was next heard from through the robbery of the safe in the jewelry store of Mr. Green, of Greenville, Mich,, $">,000 worth of property being •taken. This plunder was carried to Canada by Nellie Lowry, and sola there. Morgan staid in the vicinity of the Lowry house until the Clave- land fur robbery, which occurred the night of Jan. 2!>, 1887, when the fur store of Bene ict & Ruedy, on Superior street, Cleveland, was burglarized, and 97,(TO worth of sealskin gar­ ments taken. After the murder of Hulligan. ; reward of $10,000 was offered for the capture o the criminals. Detective Hulligan traoed the plunder to a email town outsiae of Cleveland, from where it had been shipped to Allegheny City. This offi­ cer, together with Capt. Hoehne, went to the latter place, and the day after their arrival ar­ rested a young man who gave the name of Harry McMunn. Ho was afterwards identified by Cleveland shopkeepers as having been hanging around their stores, and also as having had a prominent part in the shipments of the goods. Requisition papers were served and the prisoner was taken aboard the train by Capt. Hoehne and Selective Hulligan, being shackled to the lat­ ter. Chief of Police Murphy, of Allegheny City, and several detectives went to the depot with the Cleveland officers. Had they not doue so a rescue would have been attempted at the depot. The presence of so many officers, however, frus­ trated the scheme. McMunn behaved quietly, and seemed anxious to make the officers as little trouble as possible. The prisoner and his cap­ tors were in the smoking-car. At 2 o'clock in the morning five men entered the car. There was no recognition between the prisoner and them At Ravenna, thirty miles from Alliance, they stepped across the aisle to where McMuun sat shackled to Detective Hulligau, and, draw­ ing their pistols, said, "Give him up!" Both Hulligan and Hoehne drew their weapons, and rapid firinj commenced. Bota of the officers were shot several times, but would not yield. Finally oni of the rescuing party took a coupling-pin from a newspaper and struck both officers on the head, knocking them sense­ less. Hulligan was dragged to the car door, where the shackles were broken, and McMunn was free. Morgan's picture was identified by the train­ men, who had seen him the night of the attacK on the officers. Mr. Pinkerton suggested that a watch be kept on Nellie Lowry and all letters addressed to her be intercepted. A few davs later two letters were stolen from her house. They were from a thief who threatened that if she did not right an injustice that had been done him he would communicate with "W. A. Pink­ erton, and give him the full particulars of the affajr at Bavenna. He gave l is address as general delivery, postoffice, Kansas City, and demanded an immediate answer. These let­ ters were sent to Mr. Pinkerton by Capt. Mc- Hannon. and the former at once communi­ cated with Chief of Police £ pears, of KanBus City, asking hiin to watch lor any mail ad­ dressed to the pert-on who had written the Lowry woman. That sanje day a thief known to the police all over the country was arrested at the Kansas City Pos. office. He was badly scared, and with little persuasion told that the rescue of McMunn, alias Kennedy, had been devised at Cleveland by Nellie Lowry, whom he characterized as the hea<l and braius of the gang. He told of tbose who participated in the crime, the leader of ths ganK being "Blinkey* Morgan. His accomplices were Pac Hanley. a Dayton, Ohio, thief, Bob Dickerson, also a notorious Ohio crimiuai, at.d two others. This information being sent t J Mr. Pinkerton was forwarded by h£ur to the Cleveland police, together with photographs taken from his ov n rogues' gallery. It appears that after the rescue the gang sep­ arated, McMunn, HAuley and Dickerson going to Europe. When fast heard from they were in Ijondou. Morgan, «-n account of his pecul­ iarly marked appearance, thought best to stay in this country. He organized a new gang and made his headquarters with a sister of Nellie Lowry at Alpena, Mich. The Cleveland police sent word to the Sheriff at Alpena, tell­ ing him who the men were, and Detective Reeves and Capt. Hoehne went on to assist in their capture. Coughlin and Robinson, two of Mor­ gan's new gang, the former a cousin of Ned Lowry's, aud the latter a distant rela­ tive of hers. started to leave Alpena by bo it. The Sheriff got these men and tbon slipped back to get Morgan. The latter at < nee opened fire, one of his bullets striking the Sheriff in the tbigb, inflicting a wound irom which he died th:ae weeks later. Morgan was captured, however, and 'taken to Cleveland, identified, an 1 Oct. 3, 1K87, he was taken into court at Ravenna for trial. The witnesses for the State, one aft r another, gave testimony which connected Morgan with the burglary aud subsequent murder on the Cleveland aud Pittsburgh train. Notwithstanding this fact, Mcrgm s attorneys refused to call a t-ingle wit­ ness in his defense, not even attempt ng to prove an alibi, and at the conclusion or the tes­ timony f< r the prosecution, Morgan's couustl ant ouneed their v iKiniaiess to suoiui. tl.eir case without argument, which was cone. The jury, after having been out one hour and twenty-five minutes, returned a verdict of "guilty of murder in the first degree." Morgan protested his inno­ cence to the last. , JEf.OUDS OP MOTHS. Legion* ofThese Insects Visit Reading:,Pa. Beading, Pa., had a remarkable visita­ tion of moths the other night. Myriads of them filled the air, resembling at a dis­ tance a snow storm. They were first no­ ticed tlyjng around the electric lights about 8 o'clock, and gradually increased to such lumbers as to blur the brilliancy of the lights. Fires were bnilt under the Jights, and heaps of moths were burned. The doors and windows of dwelling houses had to be kept closed to keep thb'o ont. Local scientists pronotmctd them cotton- moths, and they evidently dame from ths South. _ "GOD BLESS YOU, BOYS." -".U.WWU.•!{!»' . , ' * 7ohn AndaxMO, tfc» Biro of the He Belates • VtoCHnf Story of Hfe Feelings fib Buried [Johnstown (Neb.) ilpadaL] * John Anderson, who was bnried in A caving well, near Johnstown, Neb., and was rescued after (en day* of torturing uncertainty, tells a thrilling stoty of hie experience. "The man who boards mo for the next ten days," says Anderson, "will not get rich very fast. "What have I to say about my experience? A good deal. It was awfnl. July 19 I went into ft. H. Hall's well to clean it out and repair the curbing. The well, which was" 150 fee* deep, was £ very dangerous one and I felt as though I ought not to work in it. Fifty feet down 'was where the curbing needed the most repairing, as at this point the old curbing had given away and about a foot of sand around the well had caved in. After taking the measurement I came out, put my curbing together lowered it, supported by four ropes. Of coarse this curbing was Smaller than the other and would have to be made fast. This I did by going below and nailing two by four inch stuff on the old curbing.. In this new curbing I had laid three boards across the bottom, letting therta rest on the old curbing, thereby making a box. I was in this box stuffing hay in behind, preparatory to filling in the small cavity with straw. ^ "When I was about ready to leave the well I saw it beginning to cave about me. Jumping into the bucket I called for those above to pull me up quick, but before a move could bo made the sand and boards had closed in on me and I was a prisoner. For the first few minutes of my imprison­ ment words cannot express my feelings. That my time had come I did not doubt in the least, and the thought of such a horiible death was terrible. After col­ lecting my thoughts a little I dis­ covered I was held fast in the bucket by two or three boards, but by a hard struggle I managed to extricate myself from this position and dropped down into the bottom. From the bottom of the box it was three and a half feet to the boards above, which in falling had formed themselves into an arch and pro­ tected me from the sand. The box was now only about two feet square, and not room enough for me to stand erect. I could get on my knees or sit down, but had to stay in a crouching position the whole time I ̂ as iij the well. "About the first three days I got along very well, but after that I began to want water badly. The fourth day when it rained I heard what I thought was water slowly dripping. Feeling around I found it, and holding my mouth open man­ aged in this way to get about a dozen drop6 of water, which gave me much re­ lief. I had no difficulty in breathing until the well below me came so near being filled by sand occasionally coming in, caused by the diggers above. I had breathed the air over so much that it become impure, causing me to feel a smothering sensation, but about this tima the rescuers got near enough to me to let in air from above. "By having a good supply of chewing tobacco I did not suffer so much for foodt as might have been expected. From the beginning I could hear considerable that was said and done above. I heard tho wagon when it started to town for lumber and heard some one say the man is dead and the order given to try to pull mv box out. When they began to pull I knew there was great danger of the boards*giv­ ing way and crushing me, and for my own safety and to give evidence of being alive I cut the ropes and heard the exciting talk that prevailed when it was discovered that I was alive. It was music to me, and frem that time on I was hopeful of being res­ cued. "About the sixth day I felt something crawling on my hand and found it to be a blue-bottle fly. I thought by this that an opening had been made from above. I was correct, for soon Henry Archer had the opening large enough to pass a wet rag to me. In reaching it to me it be­ came covered with sand, but no honey ever tasted better than that wet rag. Soon a bottle of water and a piece of bread were given me and I was truly thankful. "From this time on I began to gain strength, and by helping my rescuers tho time passed quicker than one would sup­ pose. When my feet, which are badly swollen, are better, and I dare eat a square meal, I will be all light. I am veiy thank­ ful to my friends for their persistent ef­ forts to rescue me." When reaching the top of the ground, Anderson shook hands with his rescuers and tried to thank them, but could only say, "God bless you, boys," when his voice was choked. There were 200 people present, and there were very few dry eyes; among them. He was at once carried to the farm-house, and placed under the care of two physicians. They say he is doing as well as could be expected, and that he- will soon be restored to health. The sympathy naturally called out by &. situation such as Anderson's was intensi­ fied in the county where, by force of cir­ cumstances, every settler is a neighbor, and for ten days business in Johnstown and Ainsworth and on the farms wa» practically suspended. So intense was the excitement and anxiety that farmers- left their fields and merchants their stores aid flocked to the scene of the ac­ cident. Every day supplies were sent to tho workers from private residences and stores, and the women were unceasing in their kindly offices. But although the rescuing party did all in their power, An­ derson would never have been saved but for his own efforts. He planned and di­ rected the work during the last two days, and was unceasing in his own efforts and encouraged the men b.vliis cheerful worjfc when they were almost'ready to ' ^ ' 'V A HEROIC CHILD. He Kills One Burglar and Wotndi other with s Revolver* Mrs. Jane Thompson lives on a fartn near Altoona, Pa., with her 10-year-old^ son und a hired man and his wife. Mrs. Thompson is wealthy, and usually keeps a considerable sum of money in the house. It wr.s this fact, probably, that induced two thieves to visit the premises the other night. The hired man and his wife were- absent. The thieves obtained entrauce by smashing a window. Mrs. Thompson, hearing the noise, awoke her son, gave him a levolver, and placed him at the head of the stairs. The two thieves ap­ proached together. When within a few feet of him the hoy fired two shots in v rapid succession. One of the thieves fell dead, and the other was wounded, as was ascertained from marks of blood along the path by which he fled. After the shooting Mrs. Thompson fainted. The young hero has received many congratu­ lations for his bravery. The dead thief has not been recognized. He is sunnosed. to have been a tramp. ^ " -- 1 f . Robbing the Dead, t < 1 The widow of a man who died at Ellen- ville, N. Y., the other day, has confBssed that he was a professional grave-robber. He took jewelry from the dead Mid sUver* plates and handles ^rom the casketf. ' The Chicago Anarchists. The Chicago anarchist conspirators,. Chopek and Chleboun, diet not appear in court at the time set, and their bail bofidt were forfeited. They were afterward, found and arrested.