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.(. VIM SLYKE, Editor and PuMIsker. ILLINOIS. %V'McBBKRY," THE WORLD OVEit INTELLIGENCE PROM EVERY LAND AND CLIME. ' ̂i ' PSw Htatorjr or • Week Gather**! from A« >J| " Wires, Embr»clng Political DOIBK*, Per- * J' Hon si Movements, Accident*, Criminal :x> - Aflhin, X>abor Motes, Ktc. 'Ti' Ju ' r-v h-W -* * & v f ' % « ^ ?V;\ S?" T W*'-r : stfe - jpfe?1 * * .. YIELD OF CfeREAL CROPS. Official Bulletin I snwi by the Washington Authorities. TITB October estimates of yield per acre for tlie entire breadth of cereal crops as ,i Consolidated by the Department of Agri- Culture are: W Winter wheat, 10.8 bushels per acre: ' Spring wheat, 11.5; the wheat crop. 11.1: »;r<iat8, 19.8; barley. 21; rye, 11.8 bushels. • The condition of corn is 70.t> instead of 70.1 lltst month. Buckwheat., 00.7 instead of iW.ru potatoes, 01.7. instead of 75.7. There " is practically no change in the general >®verage of condition except a reduction of lour points in potatoes and an increase of two points in tobacco. The effect of winter frosts upon wheat is .shown by the low rate Of yield to have been severe. The figure Would have been lower but for the reduction ' area by plowing and planting of the worst "fields in other crops. Seme of the higher rates in principal States are: New York, $5.2; Michigan, 15.2; Illinois., 11.5; Kansas, 18.5. In the Ohio Valley the variation in yield in different counties has the extraor­ dinary range of from -five t> twenty-five bushels, and in extreme cases from one to : thirty bushels. One county in Illinois ^Claims "the best crop in years."arid another ••poorer crop than was expected." The Da­ kota yiolds, varying from a bushel or two to 25 bushels, make an average of 9 bushels per acre; Minnesota returns 12 and Wiscon­ sin 12.5 bushels. The estimated yield of oats is 19.5 bushels, wliicff is the lowest ever ipeported, probably reducing the aggregate product more than 200.000.000 bushels. * • DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW. ttHlness tn All Branches Shows $igns of Im­ provement. R. 6. DUN & Co.'s weekly review of t*ade says: Business In all branches shows improve­ ment. Prices of commodities are a shade .Stronger than a week ago, grain and oil -Itaving advanced with many kinds of man­ ufactured products, but the general advance since Oct. 1 is not a quarter of one percent, as yet. The movement of commodities Is very boavy, the money market here Is now a source .of embarrassment, and the feeling of confidence everywhere Increases. The state of foreign trade Is fairly satisfactory, but the weak­ ness of American securities in London and tfce disturbed state of the stock market ttiere, approaching a panic Thursday, af­ fects prices here and lessens the chance of early imports of specie. The business fall- ores occurring throughout the country dur­ ing the last seven days numbered 215, as compared with a total of 197 last week For the corresponding week of last year the *%ures were 214.* ©WE OVER HALF A MILLION. fPallan of the Indianapolis Car Company-- • What Caused IT THE Indianapolis Car Manufacturing Company has been placed in the hands «f a receiver on the petition of John Voorhees, Purchasing Agent of the company. The petition says tha&the company is insolvent, having debts to the amount of about $650,000 and no means to pay them. He says also that ihe assets bavo been largely hedged to secure indebtedness, and that $100,000 of this amount It now due. The company is composed of C. S. Millard and George A. McCord, and has been in business in this City for years. Millard said that the .failure was precipitated by the collapse «f the Empire Lumber Company, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and that nearly all the indebtedness was located in the South. Matthew Ilenning Was appointed receiver. An attempt will be made to Carry on the works and retain the 800 employes if possible. !* ' •Kv:;. " J'" SETTLED WITH HI9 MEN. V . One Michigan Mine Owner Conies to Terms. y* THE Ishpeming (Mich.) miners' strike T ~ 1s still on. A mass-meeting of strikers /was held at which the Executive Com- I' toittee reported that all but one of the mining companies refused any conces- .., slons. The men decided to stay on the strike. Fred Broastad, owner of the Winthrop and Mitchell mines, and Dem­ ocratic candidate for State Treasurer, has Just returned from Dakota, where he was ' ijrben the strike began. He at once drove to the Winthrop and Mitchell mines and asked to meet his men. They Were soon gathered around him and sat-, isfactory terms agreed on, and his men, «P0 in number, have returned to work. | A unanimous vote of thanks was ex- i'V tended him by the 3,000 strikers at the mass meeting for the way he had treated fer his men. ^ Predicted Hb Own Death- < WILLIAM PETEKS, of Summer Hill, ^ 3B1., predicted his own death hour, and notified an undertaker to prepare a coffin of sufficient dimensions. His .-.^Weight was 400 pounds. Bloodhounds Will Be Used. TiLlrY M. LEWIS, a well-known mer­ chant living near Jackson, Miss., was assassinated while standing in his yard. Bloodhounds will be put on the track of ir*v? $he murderer. • ... They Bar Out Negroes. i' •' THE Patriotic Sons of America amend- • OA their constitution, making only white f *ative-born citizens of the United States «Iigible to membership. § Beat the World's Record. 'X C. J. HAMLIN'S team, Belle Hamlin and Justina, driven by J. W. Andrews, f* trotted a mile on the Terre Haute track In 2:15, beatjng the world's team record. Sixteen Tears In the Penitentiary. PHOENIX P. PALMKH, who killed Law- ^ jer John H. Atkinson in New York last £ v Itfarch,. was sentenced to sixteen years 111 the Penitentiary. Will Not Accept the Salary. PRESIDENT PALMKK, of the National World's Fair Commission, says that as it Is not necessary he should reside in Chi­ cago he has determined to decline the full amount of his annual salary--$12,000 --and will take only enough to cover his actual expenses when oil World's Fair business. Poisoned His Wife and Children. CLAYTON LLOYD of Newton, Ala., poi­ soned his wife and four children. One of the children died. The murderer es­ caped EASTERN OCCURRENCES. -'*•' SEVEN startling explosions in quick jX~'- Succession announced to Wilmington, ' Del., a disaster at the Dupont powder- Works on the Brandywine. The whole flection of the works known as the "up- | « fier yard" was a complete wr^ck. One ; of the magazines went off first, and the - -irolling and drying mills near by, set off ^ •-|by the concussion, followed in rapid ^ac­ cession. There were at least seven dis- tinct successive explosions. Every dwelling in the neighborhood was either wrecked or unroofed. The force of the concussion even broke windows in some parts of "Wilmington, four or fivo miles away. Twelve liien were killed And office of the lliij>ont Company is a complete wreck, and six mills are in ruins. He vera! members of the Ilupont firm were injured by falling walls and broken glass, but hone of them seriously. The dead were all employes of tho com­ pany and were in and about the mills that exploded. Several workmen are misslne and are believed to have been! blown into fragments. The wounded j received their injuries among the walls [ of their falling,, houses, and by broken glass and flying debris. The first ex­ plosion occurred in one of the packing- mills where a workman named Grau was receiving a can of hexagonal powder to be shipped for the use of "the United States Govern­ ment. In some way a spark communi­ cated to the can and it blew up. In­ stantly the packing-mill exploded, and the other mills in the upper yards, seven or vight in number, followed at inter­ vals of less than one second. Immedi­ ately alter the explosion a large building known as the "refinery," located near the center of the village, took fire. It was a mat-: ter of life and death to the whole population that this lire should be ex­ tinguished befoie it communicated with the powder the building contained. The Dupont fire brigade valiantly fought the flaincs which had caught the roof and succeeded in extinguishing them. Had the roof fallen in, it is doubtful if any man, woman, or child in the vicinity would have escaped death or serious in­ jury. About fifty families are rendered homeless by the disaster. The total loss will be at least S&00.000.. The shock of the explosion was plainly felt in Phila­ delphia, Millville, N. -J., Chester, Pa., and other points thirty to thirty-five miles distant. MRS. JENNIE R. ROOEUS, of Norwich, N. Y., obtained a decree of absolute di­ vorce, on statutory grounds, from her husband, Rev. E. B. Rogers, now pastor of the First Baptist Church at Burling­ ton, Iowa. In the spring of 1837 Mr. Rogers accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Frank­ lin, Pa., at a salary of $4,000 a year. During the first year of his pastorate he and his wife were idolized by the congregation. But jeal­ ousy and discord entered the pastor's house in company with Miss Jennie Ross, a pretty typewriter, whom he employed as an amanuensis. To quiet the scandal the congregation patched up a reconcili­ ation between their j astor and his wife, and, after making the pair a gift of SI,000, started them off together for a pleasure trip to Europe. The couple got no fuHher than New York, where the quarrel over the pretty typewriter was renewed, and the pair separated for good. They returned to Franklin and took up separate quarters. The pceachcr's conduct became more indis­ creet than before. It is said that lie coolly proposed to the elders of his church to get a divorce from his wife and marry Miss Ross while still retaining the pas­ torate. The elders responded by de­ manding his immediate resignation. This he gave and then left the town. TIIE Mayor of New York says that from present indications the count of the population of the city will make the pop­ ulation at least 1,650,000. Eight hun­ dred and forty-two election districts have been counted, showing a population of 1,435,408, or an average of 1,705 to a district. Census Chief Porter's count gave 1,591 persons to a district. The increase over Mr. Porter's census will be, it is estimated, between 140,000 and 150,000 persons. This would entitle.Jfew< York City to one more Congressman. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. W. F. DALUYMPLE, the great Dakota farmer, has returned to Milwaukee from a trip through the Red River Valley, highly elated with tlic state of things on his monster farm. "The output of our farms," he said, "has been inore satis­ factory this year than ever before. Thrashing is about finished, and the whole valley proper lias a very fair crop. The yield of wheat has averaged from twelve to fifteen bush­ els to the acre, and it is a good quality. I was very much pleased with the corn development I found out there. Heretofore it has been supposed that corn could not be raised there, but this year they planted a variety that had been acclimated in Northern Minne- %oiaj syjd they have got a gct>d crop. I saw a great many fields of from 100 to 200 acres, and the corn had ripened in all of them. Tho ears are large, and tho kernel is firm and rich. The movement is of the greatest importance to that part of the country. Its success will enable the Dakota farmer to diversify crops, and this provides against the total failures that have been such hard blows to the people there. It will make it possible to work into stock raising, and I think the result of the ex­ periment will be the gradual changing of the district Into a stock-raising country." THE largest tree in the world has just been discovered in Fresno County, Cal. Frank Lomis, an old mountaineer, and party were on a bear-liuntijig expedition in the Sierras. They wounded a bear and in pursuing it ran across a big tree in the most rugged portion of the mountains, about two miles north of Kentucky Meadows. This monarch of the forest was circumscribed by a radius of a mile or more of almost impenetrable underbrush, so that the hunters were compelled to use both knife and ax to reach the center. It Is certain that no man has ever traversed the same ground. The tree was measured fibout four feet from the ground and a rope of 129 feet 5 inches long was necessary to span its circumference. A PAKTY of Brooklyn and London peo­ ple are on their way to Hutchinson, Kan., under the escort of Benjamin Blanchard of Terre Haute, Ind., whose business In­ terests are at Hutchinson. The object of the visit is to investigate tho salt de­ posits at South Hutchinson, Kan., with a view to their ultimate purchase. A JUJiY in the Circuit Court at Car­ thage, 111., gave Miss Leah Brewer 85,000 damages against Dr. Arista D. Lloyd for breach of promise of marriage. Lloyd did not appear. GEORGE T. RAWSOX, son of one of the earlier settlers of Chicago, charges his uncle, Stephen W. Raw^on, with appro­ priating funds from his father's estate to his own use. He claims half a million dollars from his uncle, CAI'T. PETER FOSTER, the oldest mem­ ber of the Grand Army of the Republic in the United States, has just died at his home in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. NELSON, the great Maine stallion, trotted a mile on the Terre Haute track in 2:11 breaking the world's stallion record. Hal Pointer, on the same track, paced the thrqp fastest consecutive heats ever made. CAPTAIN MICHAEL ENBIOIIT, of the schooner Arthur, shot his wife three times in Toledo while she was in com­ pany with one William Murphy. The latter also was shot by the irate mariner. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. IT is announced that the Buena Ven­ tura stables, neir Clarksville, Tenn., consisting of the §15,000 stallion Russia and thirty brood marcs, will be sold at auction in Chicago Nov. 3. THE trotting mare, Naiad Queen (£;20%), broke her leg in the pasture of Jier owner, George G. White, in Bourbon C|wip^y, Kf ntuckjr. She was valued at THE youngest murderer in West Vir ginia is the 7-year-old son of Albert Hcnekle, a well-known stock farmer of Nicholas County. A day or two since, during^the absence of tho parents, tho boy was seen by his litllo 5-year-old sister trying to get his father's rifle off the hook. The little girl fTHviitened to tell her father, when the young fiend became en­ raged, and, snatching the gun from its place, deliberately shot the child through the head. He had boon punished the day before for one of his uncontrollable fits and had threatened to kill both his father and mother. Tho boy is said to be perfectly fiendish when enraged. Ho displays no sorrow for tho murder of his sister. WHILE Congressman Breckinridge was addressing a Democratic meeting at Cen­ ter Ridge, Ark., ap unknown person attempted to shoot iiim through a win­ dow within a few feet of him. The cap mapped and the noise attracted general attention, but the would-bo assassin < 8i>ped. . • FOREIGN GOSSIP. £ THE potato crop failure in the con­ gested districts lying to the northwest, west, and southwest coasts of Ireland is complete, but in other parts the crop is about an average one, and other crops are entirely satisfactory. Irish editors are surprised at the American subscrip­ tions. The reports sent to America have been greatly exaggerated. There is plenty of work for laborers. People •who have beeh relieved so often natur­ ally look for money and become totally demoralized. Mr. J. N. Franks, Irish Land Commissiotner, says it is not a mode of relief to lift 100 Irishmen out and plant them elsewhere. The local Gov­ ernment Board in Dublin expresses the belief that it can cope with the question mnaided. NEWS comes from Switzerland that Dr. F. M. Biber, Nevada's Commissioner to the Paris World's Fair, is in prison at Sclnaic, Switzerland. Biber had word sent home several months ago that he was dangerously sick, and then came a report that he was dead. Tills was prob­ ably to prevent many Nevada mining men whom he had swindled from prose­ cuting him. In Nevada he "salted" mines and gained so hard a reputation that wonder was expressed when he was ap­ pointed commissioner. Many valuable mineral specimens in the Nevada exhibit intrusted to him to ship home he sold,4 and he also swindled people in Zurich, Berne and other cities by selling bogus mining securities. For these offenses he was imprisoned. He is a very smooth operator and claims to bo a chum of Millionaire. Mackay. A CORN agent of Pesth has failed with liabilities of 1,000,000 florins. It is be­ lieved that other failures will follow. The trouble is due to the poorness of tLe harvest. FRESH AND NEWSY. CHARLES TENNANT, a brother-in-kiw of Henry M. Stanley, said, in the course of a conversation at St. Louis, that the explorer would not visit America until April next. THE visible grain supply as compiled by the New York Produce Exchange is: wheat, 17,050,0{i2 bushels, an increase of 229,264 bushels; corn, 871,426 bushels, an increase of 92,162 bushels. AT St. Pierre rtu Sud, Canada, a quar­ ter of a mile of land. 011 which stood the house and barns of Mathias Gad 11 on, slid into the St. Lawrence River, com­ pletely blocking the stream. Mrs. Gad- 11011 was killed and the husband dan­ gerously hurt, but the nine children were saved. EAST-BOUND shipments of freight from Chicago last week aggregated 71,823 tons by the railroads and 79,414 tons by the lake lines. THE crop estimates agree generally in placing the wheat yield of Minnesota and the Dakotas at about 1)0,000,000 bushels. It is conceded that about 20,- 000,000 bushels will be required for seed and local consumption by farmers. De­ ducting this, there remains 70,000,000 bushels. The millers of Minneapolis are expected to consume about 30.000,- 000 bushels during the year, and this re­ duces the supply ^o 40,000,000 bushels. The winter wheat millers in the southern belt and the spring wheat millers of Wisconsin will proba­ bly call for 15,000,000 bushels, and tho supply goes down to 25,000,000 bushels, and nothing has been said about the wants of • the many mills in Minnesota and the Dakotas. It Is thought to be a fair estimate, however, to place the con­ sumption at one-third their capacity, leaving 15,000,0000 bushels. There has been 110 allowance made yet for wheat shipped to New York. Duluth is a heavy New York shipper. The state­ ment appears to be warranted that good milling wheat will be scarce, with the result that Hour must advance later in the season. THE weekly edition of the Atlanta Constitution was seized by the postal au­ thorities for violating the anti-lottery law recently passed. THE miners of the Monongahela dis­ trict will demand an increase of }<; cent a bushel this month. If the operators refuse the demand a strike will ensue, which will affect 6,000 miners. MAItKKT REPORTS. Catixk- CHICAGO. Common to Prima $ 3.25 HOGS--Shipping Urada* BHKEP V\ HKAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 KTE--No. 2 IiurTKB--Choice Creamery CHEESE--Full Cream, flats Koos--Fresh POTATOES--Western, per bu INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Khlppiug Hoo*--Choice Light HHEEP--Common to Prime WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 1 While OATI--No. 2 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Hoos WHEAT--No. 2 Ked CORN--NO. 2...; OATS--No. 2 KYE--NO. 2 CINCINNATI. CATTLK Boas HHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Mixed MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COKN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 White BARLEY--No. 2 ».... lv*is-- No. 1 DETROIT. CATTLE. Hoos HHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT CORK--Cash OATS--No. 2 White BUFFALO. 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An Alleged Invention that Will Do Away the ITse or Railroads and ItMm- boafci -- Mammoth Air - Mips. to Be Built. [Chicago dispatch.] For a Week past a dozen gentlemen have gathered at the Grand Pacific' in earnest discussion of a plan u hich sounds like a tale from the "Arabian Nights." If carried out--and it is claimed $20,000, 000 of solid cash has been paid in to say that it will be--their schemes will result In making railroad trains appear like mere stage coaches, will make the trans­ portation of the mails almost equal to the telegraph, allow a business man to have his office in New York and yet live in Chicago with no more inconvenience than if his home were just around the cor»er. The tourist will be permitted to leave any point in the United States ono day and arrive m Europe the next, an^ »ny one may have the opportunity of leaving Nellie lily /back in the middle ages by making tip circuit of the globe in just five days. The project was completed yesterday afternoon etad to-day at Springfield the Mount Carmel Aty^nautic Manufactur­ ing Company will be chaptered with a capital of 820,000,000. Within sixty days tho first air-ship is put down on the schedule to arrivein Chicago. The com­ pany is said to bo backed by a powerful English syndicate and by Eastern capi­ talists, both those iHterests having rep­ resentatives at tho Grand Pacific meet­ ing. The incorporators, however, are the inventors, E. .T. Pennington and Richard Butler, of tho Mount Carmel Machine and " Pulley Works at Mount Carmel, 111.; W. C. Dewey, of the Grand Rapids Furniture Manufacturing Com­ pany of Grand Rapids, Mich.; E. L. Chamberlain and James A. Pugh. Tho proposed air-ship, models of which the inventors claim have bwsn success­ fully tested, will carry cars the size of the Pullmans and will contain fifty per­ sons each, special cars being manufac­ tured for quick mail and passenger serv­ ice. Work will commence immediately at Mount Carmel upon the manufactory, the plant being a mammoth one covering many acres. The first building to be erected will be 800 feet square, and the contracts for it have already been let. The company will manufacture all it needs from the raw material, even to the aluminium, of which the air-ships Will be ftlmost entirely composed. This metal Is ni t only the strongest and lightest, tyut by a new process owned by the com­ pany it can be made the cheapest. The claim ia made that the ship com­ bines safety, speed, and comfort, and is so perfect as to be under the absolute control of a crew of two men. It is shaped much like the hull of an ordinary sea vessel. It has on either side and ex­ tending tho entire length large wings arranged so as to turn into a parachute in case of accident. At the corners of theso wings there are propeller wheels, enabling the ship to be raised or lowered at will. A large propeller wheel at the bow gives the ship power either to go backward or forward. Above the buoy­ ancy chamber is a rudder for steering horizontally. Just in tho rear of this is a smaller one to steer either to the right or left. Tho cabin or car is suspended immediately beneath this framework, and beneath this are the storage batter­ ies, which also act as ballast. In the front of the car is a place for the pilot, who is provided with levers for switching the electric appliances, the rudders and pro­ pellers being controlled by electricity. The inventors say the chief secret in the aerial navigation problem has been aluminium. In addition to this all the machinery is pf entirely new design and of the >lightesC weight possible. It is also said that in order to cause the ship to fall or to bo lost control of at all the rud­ ders, the wings, the propeller wheels, and the buoyancy chamber must all break at once, for any one of these would keep it suspended. But even if they should do so the automatic parachute, formed instantly by the wings, would allow the ship to descend gently to the earth, and as special cars will be made for crossing tho ocean, even should this happen in mid-ocean it would float on touching the water. Mr. Dewey, with whom a talk was had at his room at the Palmer at the close of the Grand Pacific meeting, said that not a dollar would be a^ked from the public at any time to float the company. It was entirely beyond that. Nor would a dol­ lar's worth of stock be offered the public until tho company had complete and perfectly equipped ships in which they could ask the public to travel. Then if thero wjis any stock to spare it might bo placed 011 the market, but at present not a share is for sale. "When it is first presented to you," said Mr. Dewey,' "it seems simply impossible --it is really tho simplest and most practical matter in the world. Nor was there ever so great a scheme backed by a more solid business and financial a concern. I have no more doubt of its success than of the fact that I shall be in Grand Rapids in tho morning. Of course, if successful, it will revolutinizo the world, even more than tho railroad or the telegraph has done. Wo are al­ ready in correspondence, with the post- office department at Washington, and have been assured that the mails will be sent by our air-ships the moment we prove that they can go faster than the present mail trains. They have not realized the stupendous fact that in a few months a man will bo able to fly over the conti­ nent Saturday night and return in time for business Monday morning." The first car will leave St. Louis for Mount Carmel within t wo mon&s, and will then come to Chicago, where the men and a few invited guests will take a day's vacation for a trip to the Pacific coast or to some other distant point. Newsy Paragraphs. THE sandwichmen of London are esti­ mated to number 15,000. PAPER plates are being used !n soqie of the London restaurants. THE French authorities are very rig­ orously suppressing gambling. A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy, while fishing in a Wisconsin stream, was pulled out of a boat and nearly drowned by an immense fish. THK latest retu/ns are said to show that 96,000 out of the 97,000 men In tho English home army are under 21 years •f age. A SNOW-WHITE swallow, hatched and reared under tho,eavcs of a glass roof in Grenelle, is interesting the ornithologists of P»ris. SALARIES of pastors in Germany are very low. It is proposed to give a mini­ mum of £90 a year. At present many are as low as £40. A FAIR at Cochrantown, Pa., had to be abandoned 011 account of a freshet. The grounds wer« flooded and the goods were removed in boats. A GIGANTIC dam is being built across the Missouri. It will be 800 feet long and 47 high, and the reservoir will cover an area of 429 square miles. THIRTEEN colts broke out of an ln» closure in Lancaster County, Pennayl-' vania, several days ago, ran down a rail­ road track, and all were killed. JSo ONE will feel obliged to excuse a cold, since a Philadelphia physician has declared that in the hard climate in wWch we live it Is impossible to escape mfljUyywiiaiuniimr m , iti'iinjwitii ' BABKISON LN ILLIK0IS. MAGI3TRATEMAKES H 5 • A WESTERN TRIP. t M""% . •. GrMtad by Tlioasandn of Citizen* at ban* vllle--General Harrison Makes a liort Kj;eech to the Multitude --Greetings at Other Polnjts. tDanvill9 (111.) dlspateb.)' ... ( President Harrison irt making a West­ ern journey to attend tho reunion of his old brigade at Galesburg, and other sol­ diers' reunions. The Presidential party was advertised to reach this city at 6:30 o'clock this evening. During the day a platform was erected 011 the north side of the railroad tracks opposite the depot of the Peoria Division of the Big Four. Before 6 o'clock a small crowd of early comers had assembled, and It was good for them that they had taken time by the forelock, for it was just five minutes of 0 when the special Presidential train arrived. The old veterans, headed by a martial band, and the reception committee were for­ tunate enough to arrive on the scene a" few minutes before. During tho day Editor Jewell, of tho Danville Kcws, had invited Circuit Judge Hughes, Edwin Winter, Capt. R. F. Cook, and a few other prominent Repub­ licans to accompany him to the Danville junction, where they would board the train aud ride to the Big Four depot. Not having heard of the change of time, they arrived at the junction just in time to f-ee the train disappearing in the dis­ tance. Editor Jewell and Captain Cook, who were on the Reception Committee, started 011 the run down the track after tlio train and succeeded in reaching the Big Four depot, a distance ->f over a mile, a few minutes before the final de­ parture of the train. Congressman Can­ non and Joseph B. Mann were more suc­ cessful, being the only citizens to board the train at the Junction. Battery A fired the Presidential salute on the ar­ rival of the tratn. Congressman Cannon led the party 011 the platform. The lights were so badly arranged that it was impossible to distinguish the feat­ ures of the President. The c rowd called for lights. They were not forthcoming, and the Presidential, features remained in darkness. After a fifteen-minutes' speech the party boarded the train aud the president stood on the rear platform. By this time the crowd had rapidly grown to dense proportions, and ilie air was filled with cheers for the President. He gracefully introduced Secretary Tracy apd his private secretary, E. W. Halford. Both were enthusiastically re­ ceived. AH was quiet for a few min­ utes, when a child was held up to shake President Harrison's hand. Then the crowd, with one mind, took up the idea, and a grand rush was made from all di­ rections for the car platform. Women and children were fearfully crowded. Some, unable to stand the pressure, fell and were trampled upon. One lady was seriously injured. At twonty-fivo min­ utes after 6 the train, departed for Cham­ paign, leaving behind the largest crowd ever assembled in Danville. Had it not been for tho mistake in time, the recep­ tion would have been a grand success in every particular. The President in his speech said: My fellow citizens, I regret that tho time of our arrival and the brief time we can give you shoold make It so inconvenient for you who have assembled lierfe to greet us. Vet though the darkness shuts out your faces, I cannot ojnlt to acknowledge with the most heartfelt gratitude the enthusi­ astic greeting of tills large assemblage of my fellow citizens. It is quite worth while, I think, for those who are charged with great public affairs now and then to turn asido from the routine of official duties to look into tho faces of the people. It is well enough that all public officers should bo re­ minded that under our republican institu­ tions the repository of all power, the orig­ inator of all policy is the people of the United States. I have had tWe pleasure of' visiting this rich and prosperous sect-ion of your great State before, .and am glad to no­ tice that if the last year has not yielded an average return to your farms that already the promise of the coming year is seen In your well-tilled fields. Let mo thank you again and bid you good-night.' At 7:40 the train reached Urbana, where, another multitude of IUinoisans clamored for a sight of the Presidsnt." He declined to talk, however, and intro­ duced Secretary Tracy, who was received with applause. At Champaign the citizens were at­ tended by the students of tho University of Illinois, who received the President with their college cheer several times repeated. "My good friends," said the President, "it is evident that thero is a large repre­ sentation here of the Greek societies. I thank you for this greeting. Wo are on our way to Galesburg to unite with my old comrades in arms of the First Bri­ gade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps, in a reunion. I have not expected here or at any other intermediate point on the journey to make any addresses, but I cannot fail to thank these young gentlemen from the University of Illinois for tho interest their presence gives to this meeting. Your professors no doubt give you all needed admonition and ad­ vice, and you will, I am sure, thank me for not adding to your burdens. Good­ night." After leaving Champaign the train made no further stops until Bloomingfdn was reached at 9:15. The President and Secretary of the Navy refrained from making any speeches either at Bloomington or at Pekin. although immense crowds greeted the party at both places. At Peoria, which waS reached at 11:35 o'clock, Mayor Clark and the members of the City Council greeted the party and es­ corted the President and his friends to the National Hotel to spend tho night. Owing to the lateness of the hour no speech-making was indulged in. Pertinent Paragraphs. TEI-FAIR COUNTY, Georgia, boasts a smart baby. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. John- Son have an 8-months-old son who can walk and talk and weighs fifty-three pounds. A GREAT scheme is on foot in Japan for the emigration of Japanese laborers to Mexico, where they are wanted to work on railways. Two Mexican agents are promoting the scheme. THE Manhattan Club of New York City has at last taken possession of the old A. T. Stewart mansion, which is to be its future home. Nearly all the fur- nlturo send carpeting owned by Mr. Stewart was bought by. tho club. A REVOLUTION in Europe is approach­ ing. Tho waiters have formed a league or union which is to hold a congress de­ manding the suppression of the "tip." The garcons prefer a regular salary to the irregularity of the "tip." IT is said that the tomb of George Sand and her son offer a sad spectacle of forgetfulness. The graves are ill-kept, withered flowers lie on the marble slabs, and the spectator turns away with a melancholy conviction of the shortness of .human memory. THE new law for transferring the in­ sane poor from the county poor house to the State insane asylums in New York State has just gone into effect. It was to aid in the securing of this reform that Dr. J. G. Holland wrote his novel of ^Arthur Bonnicastlo" years ago. THE Pacific Mail steamer Newport has just broken the record between Colon and New York, having made the trip in jix days and eleven hours. The Newport was built by John Roach on the Dela­ ware River, and is one of tho fastest American ocean steamships afloat .KILLED BY A LUNATIC GERMAN-AMERICAN DAY JAMES D.DOUGHERTY BECOMES *7 MURDEREIK'- -J-r'-ti- ;' t: ' •••'•tt'i: «PS#n*» Insane I/Over &hoot* to IJeath Mr. Lloyd, of the Flatbush Asylum --Ho Had Planned to Kill Several Other People--His Art-e*!. [New York dispatch.] Dr. George W. Lloyd, the Assistant Superintendent of the Flatbush Insane Asylum, was killed by James D. Dough­ erty, Mary Anderson's crazy lover, who had been generally regarded as a harm­ less crank. Dougherty escaped from the asylum about two mqpthS ago by means of a false key. Since then he has been frequently seen on Broadway in ,this city, and Occasionally at Flatbush. He appeared there with a big revolver on Sept. 23, and by threatening tho life of Superintendent Fleming got his clothing which ho had left behind when he escaped. He was seen trudging through the miry grounds of the asylum late this afternoon. He walked up the wide stone steps of the main entrance to the asylum, placed his blackthorn stick and his cloak in the hallway, and appeared suddenly upon the vision of four startled men in the office on the right of the corridor. They were Dr. Lloyd. Dr. Thomas J. McGreal, the druggist of tho institution, young Dr. Edwin W. Ashford, of Washington, who is superintending the taking of the Fed­ eral mortality census in Brooklyn, and Drug Clerk Schneider. The spectacled crank stood, barehead­ ed, In tho doorway of the office, with a big, brand-new, glistening revolver in each hand. His eyes were gleaming with the light peculiar to a dangerous lunatic, and the young physicians in­ stantly recognized that they were in ex­ treme peril. Their first thought was to pacify the madman by soothing words, and then overpower and disarm him. He stood in the doorway for a moment glaring at the frightenod men, and then said, in a savage tone: "Where is Dr. Fleming?" Dr. Lloyd nervously fingered the paper before him and answered: "Dr. Fleming has just put on his coat and hat and gone out." Dougherty remarked gruffly, still glar­ ing at the young physician, "I don't be­ lieve it." Then he walked to tho door of the pharmacy, which adjoins the office on the north, and backed in, covering tho four men with his revolvers. "He is not in there, anyhow," he said. Dr. Mc­ Greal, white as plaster, stood directly in range of the weapons, with his back to the lunatic. It was only a few seconds that Dougherty was behind him, but ho says It seemed like half an hour. Dough­ erty moved toward Dr. Lloyd, who was still sitting at his desk in the middle of the room. The Doctor said, in a concili­ atory tone, looking calmly into the muz­ zles of the two self-cockers: "Dougherty, you ought to be ashamed of yourself to want to hurt Dr. Fleming; he has always been a good friend of yours." The lunatic said nothing. He coolly walked up to the Doctor's chair, placed the muzzle of the large revolver (which is nearly a foot long) almost against the Doctor's left side and fired. The bullet pierced the young physician's heart and went clear through his body. He threw up his hands, arose convulsively from his chair, and exclaimed, "Oh, Dougherty!" While he was toppling, with his life al­ ready gone, the assassin sent another bullet through the Doctor's neck. Dr. McGreal ran through the corridor into the street and shouted "Police!" There are no police within half a mile of the asylum, but the druggist didn't think of that in his excitement. As Dough­ erty passed Dr. Ashford in tho hall tho young Washingtonian noticed that he was remarkably cool. He still held tho revolvers in his hands, and as he went out of the door he warned Dr. Ashford to keep back. But Dr. Ashford is a man of nerve, and, although unarmed, he determined to follow Dougherty and have him arrested. For nearly three- quarters of a mile he kept less than a block behind the murderer on a deserted road. . Every now and than Dougherty would stop, point his weapons at his plucky pursuer, and warn him back. But he kept right on when Dougherty resumed his flight, sticking his pistols in his hip pockets. Dougherty stopped a moment at tho Kings County Hospital, near the asylum, and inquired for Dr. Arnold, whom he also intended to shoot. Dougherty was finally arrested after crossing the Brooklyn bridge. Tho po­ liceman who captured him took him around to the Oak Street Station and turned him over to Acting Captain Ga- han, to whom he unfoldod his plan of wholesale murder. He intends to kill ten or a dozen people, beginning with Dr. Fleming. Dr. Hoyt, tho Secretary of the State Charities Board, was also to be a victim. He snuffed out the promis­ ing life young Dr. Lloyd because Dr. Fleming wasn't around. He is said never to have been violent except on the occasion of Mary Ander­ son's return from Europe, and then he raved about the hallway at night until Night Clerk ^Vaddell had to call in two policemen to quiet him. He-would stand for an hour at a time In the hotel din­ ing-room surveying a portrait of Mary Anderson. From a letter written to Louis Spader, a gue&t at the hotel, it seems that Dougherty contemplated suicide after his campaign of murder. He said It was not worth while to ship his body to his home at Olean, Cattaraugus County, N. Y. Dougherty gained wide notoriety by his mad infatuation for Mary Anderson. He followed her to Europe and disturbed her here and in other cities while she was acting by his attentions. He met her once when she returned from abroad, and was arrested for the effusiveness of his devotion. Items of Interest. A WOMAN in New York furnishes lovc-- lettcrs at $1 apiece. LIVE quails are selling in the Orlando (Fla.) market at 10 cents each. j BEARS and deer are more numerous in 1 tho Dismal Swamp of Virginia than for ' many years. I ONE bushel of Irish potatoes costs as much in Missouri this year as two bush- I els of sweet potatoes. AN imitation in gold of a wicker rock­ ing chair, swung by two slender chains, I forms a recent addition to chain pen­ dants. A RECENT writer says: "I often allow a knave to take me for a fool rather than let him sec that 1 know him to be a knave." 'THERE has been a tremendous rain­ fall in Now South Wales. Seventy inches in seven months, aud still raining at last accounts. IT is said there are no less than eight American girls at Lenox who have this year refused offers of marriage from titled foreigners. A LOVER of literature objects to ad­ vertisements in street cars, and wants to see tho panels ornamented with" quota­ tions from the best authors. A VASSALBORO, Me., farmer raised 100 bushels of nice potatoes from a scant half acre of land. The crop of potatoes Is excellent all through the State. A BEREAVEO hurfband in North Caro­ lina put the touching inscription on his departed wife's tombstone: "A little while." In a "little While"--threejffeeks --he married again. ___ RELLTONIC CITIZENS ENJOY A CELEBRATION. -W" W *Ww*tiltee the German* Tarn Ottt in Jtorce In Mem«r.r of the First 8ettle«seab by Their Countrymen in America. [Milwaukee dispatch.] Everywhere conspicuous in the Ger­ man Day parado to-day was the Ameri­ can flag. The historical and industrial display in the parade was the grandest aver seen in Milwaukee, representing as it did the work of many months qf prep­ aration and the expenditure of thou­ sands of dollars. The schools wero closed-all day and business generally wa» suspended this afternoon. Thero wer» 5,000 men in line. The procession was. an hour in passing the Plankinton House,, where it was reviewed by Gov. HoardE and a number of prominent gentlemen,,. Following the parade, a German festi­ val was celebrated at National Park* Where Gov. Hoard, Mayor Peck, an<& other gentlemen delivered addresses. The first speaker was Paul Bechtner* tho President of the day. After review-* lng the achievements of the Germans i» America, both in peace and war, from, the settiement of Gcrmantown to th» present time, tho speaker said: Thousands have cemented the tie which binds us to this land *it.h their lives' blood, and fof : this alone could the German-American point with right and oride to his citizenship. Hut the German-American has taken an active part ia the historical, social, and industrial develop#;; _ ment of thin, his beloved country, and it is fot ' ' that that we this day celebrate. Wo rojoioe* • that the part taken by Gcrman-Amoric^ns na#. '. been so Kivat. Trulv has it been said by onr great fellow-citizen,"Carl Schurz, that the posiS ! lion of the German-American who has left hi# native laud to seek a home in this our glotiooe'>• land of liberty is like the youtb who left tli* - mother to seek a bride. Is he less wor\tvy ojf^v V the brido because he still love" the mclbfir, or . nould he be worthy of tho bride if ho did no*,- retain his love for the mother ? Truly wo hav« every reason and right to commemorate tbiit day of the first landing of those of our upon these shores, as a day in coirimomoralioi| of the part taken by us in the development of* . this country, as a day of rejoicing that that* " part Is so great. ' Mayor Peck followed Mr. Bechtner, and said it appeared to him as a higH^ honor that on the occasion of tho firsts- celebration of the German-American Day In Milwaukee he should be Mayor of this* great city. In concluding he said: * • As the beautiful summer green of our foresta Is gradually, silently, imperceptibly beintt merged into the golden yellow of autumn, so alfi" over broad Wisconsin t&e peoples of tho various countries of Europe who have settlotl among utb are gradually but surely and peacefully as thai days and yeari; pass by, becoming merged intdfe. 1 one great, grand nationality, nobler and bettor. than any of them could ever be Kingly. lam,- sure that the day is not far distant when ' shall be a homogeneous people--great, intelli­ gent, educated and free--marching in *!»> van of the nations of the earth. After fourteen bands had united in playing the "Star-Spangled Banner" Gov. Hoard was introduced and he was re­ ceived with cheers. The Governor saidiL Fellow citizens, it is eminently moot an<t :.3 proper for a people whose name and antece** 3 dents have t>een so closely identified will* ll American history as bavo those of tho German • people to commemorate that identity with im­ posing ceremonies, a* you are doing to-day. I congratulate you above all things on the face. that you do this not as OermanH alono but aa Germau-Americans. It is your identity witit American history and the triumphs of German genius and valor in behalf of American destiny that give to tliin hour and occasion such im­ pressive significance. It is what wo are to be, not what we have been, that widens the path­ way of true renown. The German immigrant meets with no prejo- dice or discrimination in law or sent'niout. Ho is invited to the table of American Mo-airigB. and told to help himself. All that is asked of him is that be should become an American citi-' *eu in the same broad, liberal sense he has beeu welcomed. He finds here a nation which hat* for its foundation a grand uys'tom of fret* schools, from which emanates a Stem and en­ lightened exercise of religious worship, a free, exercise of the ballot, and, finally, the croatiou of free men. These are what arc railed Ameri­ can institutions. All that is asked of any man is that he shall take hold with the rest anil hel(> sustain these institutions so that thoy may afford other men, in the future, that same pro­ tection and development they have afforded. a him. To tho credit of the German people be it). said, they have nobly responded to this de­ mand. The great and constant necessity of republican society is tho making of honest and. intelligent citizens. This is a republic. Thattf > i means that it is a partnership tioveramentfw.t'J Every partner should know something of thefr history and cost of the concern, aud what ittii ,;'i, means to be a partner in it. Una of tho firs%^,^ things to be learned in American citizenship i®'*' ' to think and accept for yourself. Lot r.o m»i4v. *1$ dictate to you how you shall vote. It ought tojf' " ^ be the proud boast of every man, "I am my owiv mactor, and hence an American." The next thing to be learned and acquired ia courage in civil affairs. The American citizen must be a man pf courage in the cxetciae of his convictions. Wo must learn to cultivate tru«*>,.i V; independence of character. It is said that "(TO<*--'---- and a woman hato a coward," and it is welt U&& remember that the Goddess of Liberty is rep­ resented as a woman. Here we must learn political and social toleration. Wo arc a nation of mixed races, and we must strive to live iu peace and harmony with each other. W e aro- ' all stones iu the great temple of liberty. W» lmiBt grow broad-minded and broad-hearted, toward each other. Political or religiout* intolerance should have no placo in the- true American heart. If 1, as a man of one political and religious faith, cannot- meet anv w« ight of opposing ideas 011 the sam« plane of common sympathy for n common coun­ try, I have uot yet learned to bo an American citizen. One of the greatest hindrances to the> growth and expansion of American civilization is the spirit of political intoloranco. It is tho curse of the Southern States aud of mnny Northern communities. Wherever found it is the outgrowth of ignoranco and superstition. Show me any community whero tho people am religiously or politically intolerant and I will •how you ono where the school-houso does not. flourish. 1 am proud of the patriotic demon­ stration you have made to-day as German- American*. In common with all"other eitiy-ena you have no other hope but an American hope no other destiny than an American destiny. Let us draw increased devotion and patriotism from those whose achievements on American, •oil have added luster and renown to the well- honored name of German-American. l'itliy Paragraphs. A DAKOTA farmer this season raised! by irrigation 400 bushels of potatoes per acre, of the best quality. THE letter carriers and postoffico clerks of New York and. vicinity have started an eight-hour movement. RUSSIAN calculations of the population of China place it at 382,000.000, and the annual increase at 4,000,000. A WELL-TO-DO farmer of Brooks Coun­ ty, Georgia, 52 years of age, took his first ride 011 a railroad last week. OVER 3,0t0 bolts, eight inches long, were used in the construction of the St. Clair tunnel every twenty-four hours. A GREAT number of .huge private hotels are now in procoss of construc- ;iou In California, and especially in San Francisco. ACCORDING to tho recent census,of Switzerland the republic contains 1,700.- 000 Protestants, 1,200,000 Catholics, 8,300 Jews and 10,000 non-religious persons. FACE massage, at 95 a treatment, is- popular at Newport. The Indianapolis Sentinel thinks that is a much cheaper rate than John L. Sullivan used to com­ mand. Moscow, Idaho, believes It has discov- ed genuine fire opals in the pocket of an old porous lava formation. Hitherto, on. this continent, they • have been found only in Mexico. PORTLAND has taken the Oregon ex­ port salmon trade away from'Astoria* with the result that Americans, instead of Canadians, get.thecarrying trade. A RARE and curious animal--a lizard, known to science as Phrynosome plan- ice ps--has been received in Paris from. South America. It is completely cov­ ered with wart-like points, and when frightened it flattens itself out 011 the- ground, bristling with points. SPORT in California is illustrated by the following from a local paper: ."Ben Smith, a farmer of Coos Bay, saw a largt> buck in his Held the other day and he> went after it. By the time Smith reached the brush he found a big panther eating" the buck. Smith killed the panther and took the deer to his house." A WOMAN was at the depot at Decatur, 111., the other day who was on her way to Nebraska. She had seventeen chil­ dren with her. She had been marriedr only ten years. The first three years she- had triplets. Then she had twins for- two years. After that they came singly^ • but regula*Jy, for four years. \ ' "[• * ^ -'sa ^ .:Jk: • ,w'-!, * 7' ̂ Jit \:J. :-K :-J'- 1, . i "i. .* i' fV- . 4i -jsL-JLstt «/•.- A A."