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i§1j| • f. mi tumfe, Mter Mi MMier. ILLINOIS •era: sews RECORD.!' A IVKIAKT OF THE ETENTFUL WiK PKMINGS or A WEEK. , la-?';, Si- tlM latoit News as Flashed Over Oit Or.Ires from All Parts or the World--Re- Politic*, Kellgtol) OUWIUMI Cimiiniirrr, and Industry. ( v"' CONDITION OF BUSINESS. , , It 6. Don ft Co.'s Weekly Review of file Various Markets. IK their review of trade for last week It. G. Dun & Co. say: Outside New York there is a general Increase , In bank clearing* over the last year of about IS " per oent.; bat substantially the entire increase 1 of 90 per cent, at Boston may bo traced to un- ; nsnal speculation in stocks ; probably the gains of 7 per cent, at Philadelphia and 41 per cent, at ( flan Jfrancitoo are mainly of the same nature, ; and the speculation in wheat and other products Swell* exchanges at, Chicago and St. Ix>uie. At ; Mew York, on the other hand, a decrease of 10 ;; MT cent. appeard, which the difference in specu­ lative activity does not fully explain. At all ( ports the imports for the month of September Were •1,900,000 smaller than last, year, -while ex­ ports were $3,400,000 smaller, so that the excess Of imports over exports of merchandise was only a *2,M9,824. Bat prices of breadstuffs do . not so yield as to promise a free movement, and . tto excess of imports over exports for the past eight months has been more than $.M,<JO.),UUO. The inquiry for good American securities has not ceased in Kurope. Less trade activity is noted at Pittsburgh, a quiet trade and slow col- i lections at Memphis, and slower collections at I St. Paul, with more careful scrutiny of accounts ; by jobbers. At Cleveland, too, manufacturing is rather hesitant, and the money market tends toward stringency. Considerable liquidation ap- ' pears at Atlanta, but increasing cotton receipts £ive promise of greater activity there and at Memphis. The Treasury continues to supply the msfket liberally with funds, having p id : out during the past week $1,500,0(K) more than it has taken in, the excess being in silver cer- • tificates. DIED ON THE GALLOWS. Bea F.Carter Executed at Rawlins, WyoiMf Territory. BEN F. CABTER was banged at Raw­ lins, Wy. T. At his request newspaper reporters were not present at the execu­ tion. Carter walked to the scaffold un­ supported. His last words were: "I am going to leave you; will see von again. Good-by." His neck was broken by the fall and death was instantaneous. Benjamin F. Garter was bom in Horton Coun- • ty, Texas, in 1850. Ever since he was able to aaoont a horse he has followed the wild life of a eewboy. In the fall of I88t>, while wording fifty * miles north of Kawlins, he killed a boy named John Jeffrey, who was, with three others, Car- r tar's companion on a beef round-up. Carter Came to camp at midnight, and entering the tent ' where Jeffrey and hiB fellow cowboys were , sleeping, called on the former to "get up." Jefi- ' *ey obeyed, when Carter deliberately shot him through the head. He was captured the follow­ ing day, and after narrowly escaping lynching, Was taken to Bawling. DOUBLE MURDER IN OHIO. David Sellers and His Wife Killed by Bur­ glars and the House Burned. DAVID SELLERS and his wife, living sear Mount Gilead, Ohio, were murdered and their farm house was fired by the perpe­ trators of the crime. Their daughter and the hired man, who slept up-stairs, were awakened by smoke before the flames had gained much headway. They escaped and succeeded in getting the bodies of Mr. and His. Sellers out. Both were dead. The man's head had been burned off, but the woman's skull had been crushed and her jaw broken. Sellers was very wealthy and in the habit of keeping money in the se. It is supposed that the murder committed by burglars. vk* wBpwQl. WHwOiWW* vv Chatham, MM*-, aft«raxp«tieaeing a ter­ rible ordeal. He shipped from Bottom with Capt Gould. A storm oame up and in endeavoring to jibe the mainsail the eaptain was knocked overboard and drowned. The storm increased in vio- fence, and the vessel was dashed about telpleasly upon the waves. The boy was battered against the sides of the boat, and Was in constant danger for hours of being washed overboard. The storm finally ceased, and the little craft was headed for the harbor. THOMAS DOUGLASS HOXSIE, paymas­ ter in the United States Navy, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, while in a secluded spot in the handsome Srounds of the family residence, at Hale-on, N. J. He was stationed at the Brooklyn nary yard. Bradstreet's Review. ,.. CAXTCBLIATIOKS made by Bradstreet's, based on official reports received for th4 past week, Indicate that if 60,000,000 bushels of reserve wheat are to be carried over on June 30, 1889, more than the ex­ portable surplus on the Atlantic coast has already been sent abroad; and if we carry over but 30,000,000 bushels, we bave 16,024,000 bushels yet to go •broad. The Pacific coast, however, with 5,000,000 bushels of reserve, still has 26,- 278,000 bushels of wheat available for ex­ port until June 30 next, having already shipped 11,244,000 bushels. Business failures reported to Bradstreet's number 208 in the United States last week, against 195 the previous week and 213 the corre­ sponding week last year. Canada had 28 last week against 31 the previous week. The total failures in the United States Jan. 1 to date is 8,084 against 7,718 in 1887. ~ • , i:i A Carotin t Hanging. EPHBEUM MAYES was hanged at Edge­ field, S. C., for the murder last December of Jacob Burt, an aged deaf-mute. He confessed on the scaffold. Burt'B wife and daughter were implicated in the crime, and were convicted and sentenced to be hanged with Mayes, but the Gov­ ernor pardoned the daughter and com­ muted the wife's sentence to life impris­ onment. Heard by Wire. CHAKLBS H. WORD EN, cashier of the Baltimore & Ohio freight department in Columbus, Ohio, has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by J. A. Kearney, trav­ eling auditor of the road, charging him -with embezzling $4,800. He was unable to furnish bail. THE Burlington, Cedar Bapids and Hortbern passenger which left Cedar Rap­ ids struck a buggy near West Liberty, Iowa, killing Mrs. James Ditworth, of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Harry Pond, of West Liberty, and injuring Mrs. Isaac Larkin, of Centreville, Del. A BOYAIA proclamation has been issued in Bulgaria declaring that a new constitu­ tion is necessary and appealing to all parties to unite in *the work of procuring it. The elections for members of Skup- stchina have been fixed for Dec 2, and the newly elected body will assemble the 13th Of that month. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. THE National Convention, W. C. T. U.t ttwted officers at New York, Miss Frances •Willard being re-elected President. Caro­ line B. Buell was chosen Corresponding {Secretary, and Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, IBecording Secretary. , • ( JAMES E. BEDELL, the real estate clerk of Shipman, Barlow, Larocque & McFar- jland, the New York law firm, who robbed fri« employers' clients of $264,000 on fraud- jolent deeds, was arraigned in the Court of jGeneral Sessions on an indictment of (fourteen counts, pleading guilty of forgery $n the first degree, and was remanded for (Sentence. | JOHN WBISMAN, aged 28, who was (romantically married six months ago to a (Pennsylvania girl in answer to an adver­ tisement in a Philadelphia paper, was [found dead at his home in Shelburne, iMass., with a bullet-hole in his heart and at pool of blood beside him. { Two FREIGHT trains, were in collision i*fc Otisville, N. Y., and a few minutes later an east-bound express dashed into Pie wreck. Two persons were killed, and three or four others badly hurt. The three jengines^and a dozen freight cars were de- | WILLIE VA» ARSDALE, a 15-year-old WESTERN HAPPENINGS. THE Hon. John J. Linehan, of Dubuque, Iowa, died of heart disease. He was Superintendent and leading owner of the street railway line, and had been Alder­ man of Dubuque for eight years, Mayor for two terms, and member of the Legis­ lature for two terms--in 1884 and 1886. In 1884 he was a candidate for Congress. Two HUNTERS, Dutchie and Adams, who had been shooting elk and deer for their hides, in the vicinity of Snake Biver, Col., after having been warned to desist on pain of death by the settlers, are re­ ported to have been lynched. IN the chapel of the Convent of Notre Dame, in Milwaukee, "Wis., forty-six postulants, representing nearly all the Northwestern States, have entered upon their novitiate. Solemn high mass was celebrated by Archbishop Heiss, after which the Rev. Geoige Heldmann of Chi­ cago preached an able sermon in English, followed by the Kev. John Oichterlng of Fort Wayne, Ind., who spoke in German. The blessing of the habits, the investiture of the novices, and the bestowal of the new names, which, as brides of the church, they receive upon entering the novitiate, followed, the Rev. P. M. Abelling, the chaplain of the convent, officiating. THE operations and flight of Axworthy have nearly bankrupted the city of Cleve­ land. When the $8,000 in the vaults is paid out the city will be penniless. It is reared that Cleveland will also lose $175,- 000. the proceeds of bonds negotiated by Axworthy in Boston^about Sept. 28. A PECULIAR wedding took place at- Kansas City, Mo. Thomas Duffy, a young man, had been arrested for vagrancy and locked up. Soon after his arrest a hand­ some girl, who gave the name of Mary Smith, began making him visits. Mary went to the jail in company with a Justice, and with the permission of the Jailer passed through into the court where Duffy, with shackles on his feet, was engaged in digging post-holes. When the young man saw the procession he brushed back his locks, and, taking his station by the girl, was joined to her in marriage. As soon as the ceremony was ended Mrs. Duffy re­ turned to her buggy and he to his work. The girl was a stranger. A TERRIBLE shooting affray, in which two men lost their lives, took place at Thompsonville, a small station about thirty miles east of Duquoin, 111. Warren Jordan and John Williams became in­ volved in a quarrel over a game of cards, and Jordan, who bears a hard reputation, drew a revolver and shot his adversary, killing him instantly. Charles Williams, a brother of the murdered man, who was sitting at the table, seized a hatchet, and rushing at Jordan, dealt him a powerful blow, crushing his skull and producing im­ mediate death. Williams, when he saw what he had done, coolly laid down the dripping hatchet, and walking out, de­ livered himself to the authorities. A FAMILY of eight Bohemians were poisoned at Minneapolis, at the supper table. After partaking of a few mouth- fu]p of food they all fell to the floor writh­ ing in agony, with all the symptoms of poisoning from "rough on rats." The company were celebrating the wedding of George Martin and his wife, two of the victims, aid it is thought that a rival of Martin's poisoned the food. All were taken very ill, and may die. THE Grand Jury of the District Court At Provo, Utah, found 234 indictments for offenses against the United States statutes, nearly all of which were for crimes glow­ ing ant of the practice of polygamy. INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. FREIGHT was tied up several days at Pueblo, Colo., by reason of the switch- meiTof the Denver and Rio Grande Road going on a strike. AT the meeting of the .Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, held at Richmond, Va., P. M. Arthur was re-elected Chief, and Mr. Ingraham Secretary of the insur­ ance order of the Brotherhood. G. B. Doherty, of Massachusetts, was elected Grand Chaplain, and W. R. Hesky, of Bloomington, 111., Grand Guide. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. TSB^New York Socialists in convention madvthc^e nominations: For Governor -Edward J. Hall, a machinist. For Lieutenant Governor--Christian Pattburg, a saloon keeper of Brooklyn. For Court of Appeals Judge--Dr. Franz Ocrau. For Mayor of New York--Alexander Jontis, an editor. They also make nominations for Elect­ ors, Congressmen, Assemblymen, and for the minor municipal offices. THE total registration of Brooklyn is 156,385, against 130,090 in 1884. THE total registration of Boston is placed at 71,881, Or about 6,881 greater than in 1884. JIMIM and Van!* of fifty-thr«e leading * ~ 'tries ol and Secretaries of Trade throughout the United States, and the officers of State and Terri­ torial Granges and agricultural societies. A WASHINGTON telegram says that Mrs. Gen. Sheridan has selected a design for and will have -executed at once the monument for the grave of her husband at Arlington. The Loyal Legion, of which he was President, offered to erect the mommbnt in the Sheridan lot. but Mrs. Sheridan, while expressing her thanks, said she desired to erect the monument at that spot herself. ' ACROSS THE OCEAN. A LONDON telegram says that the open­ ing of the hearing before the Parnell Commission was a dull affair compared with the initiatory September session. There was a much greater crowd but a vastly smaller number of celebrities in attendance. The opening speech of Sir Richard Webster, Attorney General, was extremely dull to his hearers, because he rehearsed facts made familiar to every soul in England for the past half-dozen years by daily iteration, but his disclosure of the Times' case showed that unless the judges intervene the case will last a full year. Fourteen hundred witnesses, sub­ poenaed by the Times, bid fair to hold the field until March next. THE Berlin Post says there is no reason for alarm over the reported preparations for the transfer of Russian troops toward the Austrian and German frontiers. It asserts that 'the Russian Government de­ cided upon these movements last spring. It also says the probability of Russian warlike action toward the west is entirely out of the question, in view of the present general European situation. Russia's re­ lations with (Germany have continued to be of a satisfactory nature since the Emperor's recent visit to St. Petersburg. THE Freeman's Journal, of Dublin, as. serts that over 200 Irish policemen have been placed at the disposal of the London Times as witnesses who may be useful in proving the charges against the Parnell- ltes. It says that no subpoenas were issued for such witnesses. It also declares that copies of letters belonging to Matthew. Harris, which were seized when the police searched his house, have been given to the. Times. The fund to defray the expenses of the defense of Mr. Parnell and his as­ sociates in meeting the charges brought by the London Times now amounts to £11,000. BISHOPS DEMETRIUS, of Nish, and Nicanor, of Cacak, haveflbeen dismissed, because theyopposed the metropolitan's action in dissolving the marriage of King Milan and Queen Natalie. A PASTORAL ISSUED BY THE METRO- POUTAN THEODOSIUS. Ip RAILWAY GOSSIP. AT the meeting of the Union Pacific Di­ rectors in Boston, W. H. Holcomb was chosen a director, vice Mr. Colgate, re­ signed, and later was chosen Vice Presi­ dent to succeed the late T. J. Potter as chief executive of the system at Omaha. L. T. Kimball was 'appointed General Manager, and C. S. Miller was appointed Assistant General Manager. The result of the financial operation of the whole Union Pacific system for the twelve months ended June 30, 1888, is: Gross earnings of entire system, $29,029,453; surplus earnings, $11,159,836; total income, $12,259,482; total expenses, $7,507,103; surplus, less Uiiited States requirements, $3,535,579. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. THE Federal Supreme Court has sus­ tained the constitutionality of the,Iowa prohibition law. The case was brought by J. S. Kidd, a distiller, and the point at issue was the right to manufacture liquors solely for exportation to other States, and the claim was made that the prohibitory nature of the law in such cases was in conflict with the conrtitutional provisions giving Congress the sole right to regulate interstate commerce. The court also rendered a decision affirming the right of a State to prescribe tests for color-blind­ ness among railroad employes. AT a meeting of the Centennial and Exposition Executive Committee, in Washington, in charge of the prepara­ tions for the centennial of the Constitu tion in 1889 and the three Americas and World's Exposition in 1892, it was de­ cided to hold a meeting of the National Board of Promotion at Washington, Dec. 4. This board is composed of the Gov- a ^ ^ itf. . M'-. . FRESH AND NEWSY. THE Sioux Indians that went to Wash­ ington have gone home, having refused to come to the Government's terms in regard to the sale of 11,000,000 acres of their reservation. The result of their deliber­ ations was that fifty of the sixty-seven signed a protest against the proposition of the Government. The others affixed their signatures to a document denouncing what they termed their companions' inconsis­ tency, saying it was agreed between them before going to Washington that they would not ask more than $5,000,000, whereas they now want $13,-750,000. The majority formally notified Secretary Vilas that the Government's propositions were rejected. THE recent threatened rise of the Mexi­ can element, which caused so much anxiety and led to the sending to | Rio Grande City of the State Rangers and of several sheriffs of neighboring coun­ ties with large posses, has resolv­ ed itself into the arrest of twenty-one of the tfarbulent crowd, who virtually hold the town. They were arrested by the Rangers on a charge of conspiracy with intent to morder, brought up for examination, and bailed in sums of $500 to $5,000 to appear at the next sitting of the District Court. Editor Garcia, who was shot by Customs Inspector Sebree in the difficulty, will die. JUDGE RITCHIE, at Halifax, N. S., has sentenced William Preeper to be hanged on Jan. 10 for the murder of Peter Doyle, a farmer for whom he worked. Preeper vehemently protested his innocence. THE world's base-ball championship con­ test between the St. Louis and New York Clubs has been won by the New York team. CONGRESS ADJOURNS. Closing Scenes Unprecedented--Little Stir or Excitement. THE closing honrs of the session of Congress, on the 20th inst., were comparable to those of none of its predecessors within the memory of the present generation. The bustle and excite- meni, the crowded comers, the anxiety of claimants and lobbyists, the effort of the legis­ lators in behalf of belated measures, were con­ spicuously missing. In the Senate a gallery audience of a score of individuals at 11 o'clock had increased to two or three hundred at the end, and these looked down in placid silence upon the round dozen of Senators and complement of clerks, pages, and attendants busily doing nothing upon the floor of the chamber. The dignity and decorum of the body were preserved to the end, despite the meagemess of numbers, and the fact that there was less than a quorum present, and that the body was practically powerless for any legislative purpose, was successfully concealed from the official eye of the official reporter. Constructively, the tariff bill was under discussion, but practically notawordwas heard on the subject. The last hour, with a few momentary interruptions, was spenc in a state of suspended animation--of waiting for time. Just before 1 o'clock Presi­ dent l*ro Tern Ingalls arose, and with the utter­ ance of his first syllable the huBh of profound silence fell upon the body. No business or mo­ ment was transacted, and Congress adjourned at 1 o'clock. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CtTTTa Prtmn Steers Good Common Hoos--Shipping Grades SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RYE--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery CHEF.BK--Full Cream, flat Eoos--Fresh POTATOES--Car-loads, per bu.. PORK--Mess MILWAUKEE WHEAT--Cash COBN--No. 3 ..v OATS--No. 2 White RYE--No. 1 - BARLEY--No. 2 PORK--Mess DETROIT. CATTLE Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red. CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN OATS--No. 2 White. NEW YORK. CATTLE......... HOGS....,R.. SHEEP. WHEAT--No. 2 Red.. 1.09 CORN--No. 2 OATS--White. PORK--New Mess ST. LOUIS. CATTMS Hoos WHEAT--No. A... CORN--No. 2 OATS--NO. 9 RVK--NO. . «e.oo & 6.59 . 6.00 & 5.61 . 3.00 & 4.03 . 5.25 & 6.00 . 3.U0 & 5.00 . 1.1O&0 1.11}$ . .40 & .41 . .24 & .25 . .50 & .58 . .25 & .2 J . .11 & .11H . .18 & .30 . .88 & .40 .. 14.75 <315.23 '. 1.08 & 1.07 .. .41 & .42 .. .» «s# .30 . .57^T<JI .58« .. .73 (9 .74 .. LI.75 <$15.25 .. 4.00 & 5.25 .. 5.00 m 5.75 .. S.0U <$ 4.00 .. 1.10 & 1.10& .. .45 & .46 .. .WW .'£!% .. 1.08 & 1.10 .. .44 <9 .45 .. .25 & .25}$ .. 4.00 flAG.OO .. 6.50 &6.'25 .. 3.50 @ 5.00 & 1.11 .. .49 & .50 .. .35 © .41 .. 10.00 016.50 .. 4.50 <$ 5.50 .. 6.00 5.75 .. 1.07 INDIANAPOLIS. .37;^® .22 .52 CATTLE.. HOOS SHEEP LAMBS CINCINNATI. Hoos WHEAT--No. S Red........ CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Mixed BYE--No. 2 PORK--Mess KANSAS CITY. CATTLE--Choice Medium Common. Hoos BPKI.....,, ......... v • : Lv; 3.03 6.00 3.09 3.50 & 4.00 6.00 m 4.oo & 4.23 It Is Thought That It Will Cost Milan HH« Throne--The Injustice Done the Queen and Her Efforts to Prevent It--Letters That Will Go into History. [Bolgrado special.] The Official Journal publishes a pastoral prepared by tlio Metropolitan Theodosius* in whicli he says that in the exercise of his power as a leader of tho Servian Church, and by virtue of> rights eonsocratcd by precedent, he dissolves the marriage of King Milan and Queen Natalie, and declares that it is no longer existent. iing Milan, in a letter to the Metropoli­ tan, written previous to the issuance of the pastoral, after pointing out that the ordi­ nary laws of the country could not be ap- xnro ln&AK AND QTTEEN NATALIE. plied to the sovereign, who stood above them, demanded that the Metropolitan avert the danger threatened for the Servian state and dynasty by dissolving his Maj­ esty's marriage, with Queen Natalie. The gravity of the Metropolitan's act In declaring a dissolution of Queen Natalie's marriage will be appreciated throughout the world. No such ecclesiastical procedure has been recorded since Napoleon s divorce from Josephine. It is hardly four months since Queen Natalie wrote thus to the Metropolitan, who Is absolute head of the Servian Church: "The King writes to rue saying that he has taken steps to secure a divorce. Neither tho canon nor the civil Jaw permits divorce without real causes. Not knowing of any in our case, I, for my part, shall never con­ sent to it. I trust in God's justice." The Metropolitan did not deign to reply. So the Queen telegraphed: "The journals to-night nretend that I am divorced. Kindly inform me how a divorce can be pronounced while I, Queen Natalie, one of tho interested parties, have not re­ ceived any citation whatever. Up to the present day I have not a single paper about it." The Metropolitan briefly replied: "His Eminenco the ftishop of Nisch will present you with a reply to your telegram." And tho Queen answered: "I must inform you that I shall not re­ ceive the Bishop of Nisch before I know be­ fore what ecclesiastical court a demand for a divorce has been brought. Having abso­ lutely nothing to reproach myself with I am not afraid of tho light, and I will accept nothing clandestine. Do not forget that at your age the hour cannot be far off when you must appear? before our Sovereign Judge, and do not burden your soul with another sin." To this the Metropolitan replied: "The demand for a divorce has Deen pre­ sented to the fcvnod. the competent au­ thority of the independent autocephalous Servian Phurch." And tho Queen sent her last despairing message: "The Holy Synod pot being qualified to concern itself with divorce, I protest en­ ergetically against this iniquity and ille­ gality." These letters will go into history. They trace every step In the conspiracy between King Milan ot Servia and the Metropolitan Theodosius, The third party to the plot was M. Cristitch, President of the Council, who in the following words announced the forthcoming divorce to tho Queen: "I have the honor to inform your Majesty that his Majesty, our august master, has deigned to communicate to his Council of Ministers tho step which he has thought well to take." • And when Natalie, with a cry of anguish, called for her son, Cristitch replied: "I have the honor to inform your Majesty that his Majesty tho King has confided to Gen. Protiteh the mission to take his High­ ness, the heir apparent, to Belgrade, and that full official powers have been given to the General." »» . Bobbed: of her son. tAo Queen's fortunes reached their climax. Refused aid from Austra, expelled by Prince Bismarck from Berlin, she has wandered from capital to capital, tho most unhappy Queen in Europe. The King was only heir apparent when he married her. She was exceptionally beau­ tiful, the daughter of Col. Rechko, a Rus­ sian, and of Princess Pulcherie £>toudza. She is 29 years old and was married at 16. She is related to no European royal family. Her nearest relations are her two younger sisters, one of whom is Mme. Eugene Ghika. Her aunt, Princess Constantino Mourousy, has been a mother to the three sisters, and has been the Queen's constant friend and adviser. King Milan is a confirmed voluptuary. With his health he has lost his nerve. He sees conspiracies everywhere. "He is In­ capable of self-restraint," said Count Her­ bert Bismarck. "We must appease him at all hazards." After tho war between Servia and Bulgaria King Milan, worsted at every Soint, leaned on Austria for support. The (ueen, surrounded by Russians, looked for sympathy to St. Petersburg. She is deeply religious, besides being cultured, talented, and an excellent linsruist. She educated her boy to be different from his father. And it was when King Milan found that tho lad was Russian rather than German in his tastes that he precipitated the conflict with Queen Natalie. In this conflict he has found ready aid from his Prime Minister and from tho Met­ ropolitan. The condition of Servia is such that the interference of any power in its at- fairs might provoke a European war. Hence the King has been suffered to have his way. But nobody in Europe doubts that the divorce will ultimately cost him the throne of Servia. A BAG OF SAND FOR A MAN. Person* Charged with Defrauding an In- - surance Company Suing lor Liberty. August Sherman and W. F. Ringel have made application to the Supreme Court at Topeka, Kan,, for a writ of habeas corpus* claiming that they were illegally restrained of their liberty on a charge of attempting to obtain money under false pretenses from the Provident Insurance Company of New York. In November, 1887, George T. Reddington took out a policy of $15,000 in favor of his wife, and afterwards conspired with Sherman, Ringel, and Samuel Morehart, by which they represented that Reddington injured himself, and had died from the effects, and been buried. The information charges that the defendants, for the purpose of deceiving tho public and the insurance company, buried a bag of sand in the coffin, and after­ ward, when relatives from the East sent for the body, the defendants, to escape detec­ tion. opened the jrrave. took out the bag of sand, and pretended that tho body was stolen. The case excites much interest. 1.08 .38* (9 .23 & .53 A NEW l'LAGUE SPOT. tfce Fever at Enterprise, Fla.--Thirty Cases and Four Deaths at Jacksonville. A Jacksonville (Fla.) special of October 24th says: Thirty-one new cases of yellow fever occurred during the twenty-four hours ending at 6 p. m. to-day. There wero four deaths, of the new cases twelve were white and nineteen colored. Total cases, 3,903; total deaths, 337. Alarming rumors wero in circulation re­ garding the prevalence of yellow fever at Enterprise, in Volusia County. According to a report made by Dr. Wyly, of Sanford, the fever has existed in Enterprise since last June. Nearly twenty cases are reported and two or three deaths. The population of the town is about seven hundred. Tho peo­ ple are panic-stricken. They havo kept their troubles secret until recently. There are no disinfectants In thj place. Mayor Lilienthal, of Kunford, has requested aid of the Jacksonville authorities. Owen County has quarantined against Volusia County and thirty men guard all avenues of exit. 4.50 @ 5.75 l-O^s# 1.06'tf .48 <£ .47 .25 (9 .20 .58 <& .00 14.75 & 15.25 4.50 3.25 2.50 4. SO 3.00 & 5.50 & 4.50 & 3.50 <& 5.75 A Woman Unwilling to Talk. The District Grand Jury appeared before Judge Judd at Provo, Utah, with Miss Miller, an alleged plural wife, who had re­ fused to answer their questions as to the identity of the father of her child. The Judge, after inquiring into the matter, in­ formed the young woman that the court would be in session until August, 1892, and that sho could answer the questions pro­ pounded or remain in jail until that time, xne unwilling witness returned to the jury- room and imparted the desired information. •on DAKOTA FAMILIKS Vf A DIS- _ TRESSED CONDITION. » Their Property Covered by Mortgagee Themselves Without Fnel, Food, or KM- eseary Clothing"--New Mexioo's Wants. The Governor's Report. [Minneapolis (Minn.) special.) X. J. Harpmann, of this city, who has been Investigatingpthe condition of the farmers in Bamsey County, Dakota, who were report­ ed to be starving to death, has returned. Be says there are seventy families who are absolutely destitute of food and fuel, and something must be done, and immediately, or they will starve to death. The real con­ dition of the people is beyond description. Men, women, and children are in rags, and they have not a cent of money in the world. Their crops were totally destroyed, and their land, stock, and farm implements are mortgaged up to their full value, and the mortgagees are threatening foreclosure. The most absolute distress prevailed every­ where. Women and children were crying, and men were going barefooted and in rags. One place was the home of a minister who had just come from Europe. The people told him that he must not stay; that they could not support him and that he would starve. He replied that he had no money to leave with and would havo to remain and share their lot. His house consisted of only one room, with nothing but a dirt floor. He was accompanied by his wife and two small children. One of tho latter was wrapped up in a crib in order to keep warm, and the other was blue and shivering w|th cold and emaciated with hunger. There* was no fuel with the exception*of a little dry manure, which is all that any of the families have to burn, and the only thing they had to eat was a dry crust of bread, which was lying upon an otherwise bare and empty shelf. "Perhaps the most painful satire on their misery and want," said Mr. Harpmann, "was a little prayer-meeting which I attended. It is seldom that one sees a congregation more devout and earnest in their supplica­ tions for assistance than this ono was. But the rags, distressed countenances and ema­ ciated features, combined with a sublime confidence that aid would come from some source, conspired to make a scene and arouse emotions which I can never describe nor soon forget." The frost which came in August com­ pletely destroyed all the wheat that there was, as well as all vegetables, even those which are as hardy as turnips. It is claimed that the frost was sufficiently severe to form a quarter of an inch of ice in the low places. Of the seventy families in the Jew­ ish settlement, sixty had everything de­ stroyed, while ten others who had their farms on high ground escaped with only a partial loss. The trouble lies in the fact that all the property is mortgage# to its ut­ most limit now, and every resource is ex­ hausted for borrowing money for the winter expenses. NEW MEXICO. Annual Report of Governor Ross--Harked Progress. E. G. Ross, Governor of Now Mexico, in his annual report, says that the questions of the settlement of the land grant titles, water storage, and irrigation precede, iic their importance to the development and futuro welfare of tho Territory, evijry other topic of an economic character that could be suggested. Of tho land grants he says that, compared with the aggregate acreaga of tho Territory, the area of these crants is not large, but it cgmpHsca several thouHnnd holdings. -These grahts are confined mainly to valleys where water in accessible for irrigation, and^tre often located in the vicinity of t&wns and railways whore tho land is tho most valut» bio in tho Territory. The greater portion ot these claimed grants, he says, are but illy defined as to exterior boundaries, and in the increasing pressure of settlement the unoccupied portions are liable to be settled upon and endless and serious frictions ensue which will becomo more serious from year to year, so long as legislation for settlement is delayed. He says it is to a degree unsafe, even now, to go on the public lands in some sections and make improvements, for fear of conflict with some real or pretended grant. The Governor says that of the 79,000,000 acres, the area of the Territory, 60,000,000, may be classed as tillable with proper irrigation. He says that the facilities of the Territory for storing water are unsur­ passed, and that the present system of in­ dependent ditching must be abandoned, and that the Territorial Government must assume jurisdiction of the water supply and its distribution. The aggregate value of the taxable prop­ erty in the Territory is given as $43,151,920. Of this amount $15,370,900 is on live stock, $7,466,869 on lands, and $6,858,350 on houses and improvements. Three hundred and eighty-four thousand acres of land havo been entered during the year by settlors. The progress made in agriculture during the year, the report says, is very marked; and substantial progress has been made in educational interests. IDAHO'S PROSPECTS. Agricultural Statistics --Estimated Popu­ lation 100,000. Edward A. Stevenson, Governor of Idaho, in his annual report, estimates the popula­ tion of that Territory at about 100,000. The value of taxable property is given at $21,- 288,392, which, his report says, is less than one-half of its actual value in cash. About 460,000 acres of public land have been en­ tered during tho year. The agricultural pro­ duction for the year is: Wheat, 2,986,280 bushels; oats, 1264,590 bushels; barley, 394,- 690 bushels; hay, 528,965 tons; potatoes, 1,476,895 bu. Live stock is classed: Stock cattle, 184,025 head; value, $2,171,276; Ameri­ can cows, 45,350 head; value, $635,251; American horses, 43,185 head, valued at $1,265,791; mixed horses, 28,608 head; value, $605,737. A report from the United States Assay Office at Bois City shows the gold, silver, and lead production of the Territory for the year, $8,905,136, of which the gold was $2,522,209, the silver $3,422,657, and lead $2,960,270. The Governor recommends that the Indi­ ans in the Territory be given their lands in severalty, and that the balance of the reser­ vations be opened to settlement; that the people of the Territories be given tho right to vote for President and Vice President; that the Territory be given the right to lease school lands and apply the proceeds to the school fund; that the mail facilities of Idaho be increased, and that all crimes committed by Indians on the reservations be tried in the United States courts at the expense, of the United States. DAK0TAS_GR0WTH. A Gain In Popnlatton the Last Tear of Over 72,000. L. K. Church, Governor of Dakota, in his annual report, says there has been a gain in the population of tho Territory during the year of 72,346 in a total population of 640,823. The quantity of land newly filed on and purchased for settlement during the year was 2,500,000 acres. An awakened interest in all that pertains to education, an increased number of pupils in the higher and special schools, with a marked tendency toward one general sys­ tem of schools for the Territory, is men­ tioned with approval. The report recommends that Congress authorize the rental of school lands for the benefit of the school fund. As to the dis­ covery of tin in the Black Hills, the Gov­ ernor reiharks that there is not a producing tin mine nor a pound of Dakota tin in tho markets. Tho Governor recommends the passage by Congress of a law enabling him to veto items of appropriation in a bill and approving such as are unobjectionable. He also suggests that authority be given to convene the Legislature in special session when the interests of the Territory seem to demand it. The Governor renews his recommenda­ tion that the law preventing aliens from acquiring extensive tracts of land bo amended so that capitalists or money cor­ porations can loan money in tho Territory on land, and in case they becomo owners to be allowed a certain time in which to pose of it. t;,s; - > , ' < . \ \ ^ " Endowing Religious Institutions* The will of the late Elizabeth Tabor, who died recently at Marion, Mass.. aged 97 years, has been filed at Plymouth. It gives $13,500 to relatives and friends. Other be­ quests gave $87.0<X) to the missionary socie­ ties, churches and charitable association® in Marion, Apushuet and Xew Bedford. The rest of her property, supposed to amount to $100,000 or more, is placed in the hands of trustees, who are to place $06,000 as an en­ dowment fund for the Mnrion Academy. If the estate is large enough the trustees are also to build a music hall and a reading- room in that village. , Xiooking back to the year 1800, we we astonished at the change. The comparatively simple science of the heavenly bodies known to our prede­ cessors, almost perfect as far as it went, incurious of what lay beyond its grasp, has developed into a body of manifold powers and parts, each with its separate mode and means of growth, full of strong vitality, haunted by the sense of problems unsolved, and tormented by conscious impotence to sound the im­ mensities it perpetually confronts. Knowledge might then be said to be bounded by the solar system; but even the solar system presented itself under an aspect strangely different from that it now wears. It consisted of the sun, seven planets, and twice as many satellites, all circling harmoniously in obedience to a universal law, by the compensating action of which the indefinite stability of their natural relations was secured. The oc­ casional incursion of a comet, or the periodical presence of a single such wanderer, chained by planetary attrac­ tion to prevent escape to outer space, availed nothing to impair the symmetry of the majestic spectacle. Now, not alone have the ascertained limits of the system been widened by one million miles, with the addition of one more giant planet, and six satellites to the ancient classes of its members, but a complexity has been given to its constitution baffling description or thought. Two hundred and seventy planetary bodies bridge the gap be­ tween Jupiter and Mars, the complete investigation of the movements of any one of which would overtask the ener­ gies of a lifetime. Meteors, strangers apparently to the fundamental ordering of the solar house­ hold, swarm, nevertheless, by millions in every cranny of its space, returning at regular intervals, like the comets so singularly associated with them, and sweeping across with hyperbolic veloci­ ties, brought, perhaps, from some dis­ tant stars. And each of these cosmical grains of dust has a theory far more complex than that of Jupiter; it bears within it the secret of its origin, and fulfills the function in the universe. The sun itself is no longer a semi-fabu- lous fire-girt globe, but the vast scene of play forces as yet imperfectly known to us, offering a boundless field for the most arduous and inspiring researches. Among the planets the wildest variety in physical habitude is seen to prevail, and each is recognized as a world apart, inviting inquiries which to be effective, must necessarily be special and detailed. Even our own moon threatens to break loose from the trammels of the calcula­ tion and commit errors which sap the very foundation from the lunar theory and suggest the formidable necessity of its reversion. Nay, the steadfast earth has forfeited the implicit confidence placed in it as a time-keeper, and ques­ tions relating to the stability of the earth's axis, and the constancy of the earth's rate of rotation, are among those Avliicli it behooves the future to answer. Everywhere there is muliformity and change, stimulating a curiosity which the rapid development df methods of re­ search offers the possibility of at least partly gratifying. Outside the solar system of problems whicli demand' a practical solution are all but infinite in number and extent. And these have all arisen and crowded upon our thoughts within less than 100 years. For sideral science became a recognized branch of astronomy only through Herschel's discovery of the revolutions of double stars in 1802. Yet already it may be, and has been, called "the astronomy of the future," so rapidly has the development of a keen and uni­ versal interest attended and stimulated the growth of power to investigate this sublime subject. What has been is little--is scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us.--Sidereal Messenger. Uncle Tom's Cabin Critically Considered. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a remarkable book, it certainly betrays--in many places--genius of an uncommon order. Still as a work of art, it is decidedly a failure. It is without plot; bereft of all harmony of construction; violates estab­ lished rule after rule of composition; the language is often very faulty; the local descriptions are scarcely more than passable. It contains virtually two stories; the adventures of George and Eliza, and those of Uncle Tom; and these two stories keep mixing up, inter­ lacing, and Heaven knows what else, with each other in a manner that causes one to lose all thread and connection. Mrs. Stowe has a good perception of the humorous, but if she has in any place been more intensely humorous than in her attempt to give the story the emblance of a plot--by simply grouping her characters together in the last chapters, we certainly are not aware of it. , The power which Mrs. Stowe has exhibited of producing at will in the reader the strongest and intensest emo­ tions, is remarkable. Pity, anger, com­ miseration,--even hatred, are variously aroused. Few books ever printed have been able to produce so many, and so deep effects on the reader. Nor as we have said before, is she deficient in a delicate sense of the humorous and the ludicrous. She preaches "at" the reader too much and too often,--one wearies at her frequent homilies. An­ other great defect is that when she has reached a climax, she unfortunately is not aware that it is time to stop, but de­ stroys her work bv an explanatory ques­ tion in the next lines. Furthermore she has introduced a multiplicity of characters and left them all incomplete. --SL Louis Magazine. |>ld You Ever Kill Anybody. It may seem at first glance that no­ body has any right to hurl such a mon­ strous question at a promiscuous public. But however startling the statement may be, about one-half of the popula­ tion is methodically engaged in killing off the other half. If Darwin's famous theory of the survival of the fittest is true (and who can doubt it?), the strongest survive and the weakest per­ ish. It is said that ninety per cent, of people who go into business fail. Com­ petition is so strong that only the shrewdest, the most active, and the most vigilant succeed, and under the op­ eration of natural business laws this small fraction dispossesses the other and larger fraction, and oocupies the whole field themselves. The little fish are eaten by the big fish, the big fish are eaten by men, and men, speaking metaphorically, are eaten by other men. But it is the ways and idiosyncrasies of individual men and women that kill. A wise philosopher has said that no two persons unless they are man and woman violently in love, can live intimately to- mnrders his wife by hia manners, The^ unooMcwms defect of one's character, his Utile whims and crochete, his pet theories or hie darling hobbies, are sometimes the instruments of slow tor­ ture by which a man murders bia wife. In precisely a similar way a wife fre­ quently murders her husband. The daily torture of tired nerves finally brings the victim to the grave, just as surely as a daily pinch of strychnine in the coffee-pot. There have been thou­ sands of bovs who have murdered their mothers without knowing it. Perhaps after all it is not an impertinent ques­ tion for any man to ask of himself, "Did you ever kill anybody?"--Yankee Blade. '0 Vampires. PerMffe t^ou think they belong to^tlie "Arabian Nights" alone and have their habitation in those ghoulish graveyards whence they emerge at night to hold high revels, eating rice by way of change of diet with a bodkin ? Not at all. They stalk among us every day. We count a few of them among our most intimate friends. Per­ haps they are nearer to us still. They never suspect themselves of their blood­ sucking propensity. And we ourselves qre rarely more enlightened as to their true nature. We live with them in the bonds of the closest companion­ ship, perhaps. And they drain us, drop, by drop, of our vitality--the wine of lie --till we feel it oozing out at our finger tips and wonder what has so exhausted us. The more sensitive, highly strung and neavous the temperament the more likely it is to be affected by the propin­ quity of vampiristic natures. It ha? happened that very acute organizations have detected the presence of such a one in a crowded room sometimes and been warned of the nearness by a strange sensation of drowsiness, an irresistable impulse to yawn repeatedly. Fortu­ nately these are the exceptions. The majority of mortals are cased in a mOre secure armor of denseness. Fortunately, it is said. For else how would people live who have a vampire for a husband, wife, mother, father, brother, sister? In those cases there is no escape. The one literally lives on the other; flourishes, fattens, like some huge parasite,\and reduces the creature it feeds on to $ condition such as that of a flower might be that was trying to exist under the weight of some enor­ mous stone. There is a theory that human vam­ pires are very restless, emaciated be­ ings, full of the vivid will-o'-the-wispish fire. But that is not correct. People of this sort are often filled to overflow­ ing with magnetism that reacts pleasur- ably on others. They have the odic, the health-giving- force sometimes. And they are rarely disagreeable to the senses. The chief vampire among wo­ men is limp, sodden, white-faced, help­ less, weak and stubborn, selfish and in- validisli. She hangs her fangs like a great polypus on whoever will hold up her dead weight, and the doomed one is never himself or herself again. Among men the vampire is apt to be a gusty, blustering, noisy personage, loud and insistent, aggressive and personal. He shuts off the heat when every one else is shivering. He wants fresh air when people have pneumonia, and no open windows when the thermometer stands at ninety in the shade, as he has a cold in his head. They wilt under him. He absorbs all the oxygen of the atmos­ phere. When he has slammed the door for the last time choked lungs draw a deep breath, and the color comes back to bloodless lips. Men and women of this sort are gre­ garious, of course. They want to hud­ dle. They would perish did they not draw their nutriment from other lives. And poor sensitives who recoil instinc­ tively from personal contact, to whom the propinquity of other natures except such as are magnetically attractive may almost be physicalpgia^ysuffer in con­ sequence such eofilused throbs, such in­ definite pangs, as no pey has written or tongue spoken. Besides the extreme} types of vam­ pires specified there are many others less obvious that djj^tneir work with as much success. Family broils, cases for the divorce court- -feuds among friends --all have been caused by occult in­ stances of vampirism. And it is gen­ erally to be observed that it is the vam­ pire who comes out the winner in such instances. The victims, only partly and obscurely conscious of the incubus upon them, remain the sufferers to the end. Their nerves have been shattered by the strains Their temperament has lost its poise in the atmosphere to which they have been subjected. They are out of tune and touch with the whole world. But the vampire is more or less blooming in the contrast; and easily ap­ pears in the right.--New York Mercury. Monuments of an Unkuown Race. Unhewn stone monuments are among the most interesting relics of prehistoric man found in France and other portions of Europe, the ancient provinces of Brittany being especially rich in them. The builders, Mr. Thomas Wilson states, are supposed to have come from a more or less remote East during the polished stone age, bringing a knowledge of ag­ riculture, some ideas of government^ and a religion, with less of art than the inhabitants of the country before them possessed. They buried their dead, and left the magnificent monuments over them which, to the number of more than 6,300 in France and more than 1,600 in Brittany, are now being carefully re­ stored and preserved by the French Government. Some of these monn- ments are made up of immense stones, while others are really collections of monuments in great numbers. The* works are known by various names. A menhir is a large stone standing on end; a dolmeci, a table-like tomb; a crom­ lech, a circle of stones; an alignment lines of menhirs; and a tumulus, a mound of earth or stones usually cover­ ing a dolmen. In Brittany there are 652. dolmens, 739 single menhirs, 23 alingments, and 42 cromlechs. The dolmens often have as many as six chambers, being sometimes 15 feet wide, 30 feet long, and 8 feet high, with cov­ ering stones weighing from 5 to 40 tons; and the tumulus of Mount St. Michel measures 320 feet m length, 120 feet in bredtli, and 80 feet in height. One menhir is 671 feet high, and weighs 347 tons. The alignment of Mcnec, near Carnac. has 835 menhirs, arranged in 11 parallel lines, 3,778 feet long and 328 feet wide at the head, tapering to 200 feet at the tail, with a cromlech of 62 menhirs as its head. Many of the mon­ uments must have disappeared, but all, these remain, dotting the country in every direction, enormous, rough, rude,4 unhewn grauite stones--belonging to an other civilization, mighty iri its time, but now dead and buried in the ages ol the past, with no inscriptions and A# history.--Arkansaw Traveler. >;f A KKAL, live princess keeps a millilfc* getheo for ten years without hating J ery store on Fifth avenue, New York. % m ^ . - >- u :* v*-V. ' * .