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8LYKE, Etfittr mtf PablHlwr. DOINGS OF THE DAY. JfttlMMARY OP LATE NEWS BY . WIRE Hipptnlaf* tat Krmtr )-Fir«i, Accldenta, Ctt IMUtiea, Religion, Commtrc* and Cropa* Iwiehed with Minor Afikin. V •' 4v:' *A8B-BALL. •* fewwfing of the Different Clubs According t« the- Latest Contests. FOLLOWING IS * showing o! the stand­ ing of each of the teams of the different associations. NATIONAL LEAGUE. ^ W. L. IPC. I W. Ii. (WCMCI 48 82 .600; Ph i 1 adel p'l. 88 41 Hew York*.. 42 38 .568,BrooklynS..M 43 Boatoo* 44 S4 .564 GinciiudaUt.95 46 CfarvelaiHU. .41 41 .500:Pittsburg#..SI 47 AMERICAS* ASSOCIATION W. L, <pc.| W.-L. Boston* 57 27 .07;) Colnmbng.. .43 44 fit. Louts... .57 31 .6t8lCincmnati8.37 49 Baltimore8..4S S3 .693 Washinet'n.37 r3 WSUadelp'*..*! 42 .494'Louisville*..30 a llilwanfcee ».53 Omaha r 43 Mnneapo'a..46 Lincoln a 42 WESTERN A SSOCIATCOT. 9c. \ .b24 Kious Citya.41 ,614 Kansas C'y«.33 ,5i5 Denvcrs 32 ,582:Dulutlis 30 tfc. .481 .462 .«a Pe. .494 .'30 .338 .380 s> ,476 .395 .349 jy-f/i Captain Saunders Dead. \ - A* Liverpool, Captain Saunders, of the new American whaleback steamer Charles W. Wetmore, was found dead in the cabin of his vessel. Death had re­ sulted from heart disease. The Wet- more's departure will be postponed until * new captain has been appointed. While in Liverpool the vessel was visited by many experts in naval construction. Her voyage from Duluth with 95,000 bushels of grain was successful, and her officers declared that in heavy seas the Steamer was much superior to the ordi- JUUT freight boata Situation in CHili. A STEAMER from Chili, at San Fran­ cisco, reports that much of the informa­ tion received here has been sensational. There has been no fighting to speak of for three months. The insurgents are sadly in need of officers. There is no pr»s- pect of immediate settlement unless by aid of the new vessels en route fro n Europe, which, if they do not fall i*&> the hands of the insurgents, will Jin- doubtedly turn the tide in favor of Bal- maeeda. McVickeKs Attractions. "THE SOTOAN" is really a remarkablo success, and McVicker's the most com­ fortable and the coolest theater ia Chi­ cago. Gus Williams in a new comedy will follow "The Soudan* at McVicker's for one week, and Thos YV. Keene will follow Gus Williams, appearing in su -h p'ays as "Louis XI.," "Richelieu," and •Richard III." for one week. »; B«M6 Hastings, a*.^ 9; and Susie McCarthy, aged 12, were In­ stantly killed. Mrs. White and a child 2 years old. received fractures of the skull and terrible bruises. Mabel Whit©, 7 years old, escaped with painful bruises. The Rev. Wellington White had spent ton years in missionary work in China. He was at home on leave of absence. . A SPECIAL from Mont Morris, N. Y., says: A dozen Italians and Poles em­ ployed at Greigsvillo while waiting for the train to return home, engaged in a fight One Italian was stabbed severe­ ly. His recovery is doubtful. Two others were stabbed, one seriously. FREDERICK ARKV, formerly an attend­ ant in the Cneen's County Insane Asy­ lum, at Mineola, N. Y., was stabbed and killed in a drunken quarrel with William Covert, at Hyde Park. AUGUSTUS LSWIS has been jailed at Rondout, N. Y-, charged with bigamy, and from all accounts he is the most married man in the Empire State. It Is report?d that Lewis is the husband of at least eight living wives. NEAR Cortland, N. Y., after a desper­ ate fight, Gjeorge Friesee, employed on a farm, was tramp ed and gored to death by an infuriated bull. Mtss MARY RUTH, of Greshville, Pa., has bccome a raving maniac. She is the young wornai whom gossipy neigh­ bors accused of being a witch. The neighbors slighted her and shunned her, and the poor g»rl suffered great mental anguish. * THE Russian Jews who are detained at Boston by the requirements of the new immigration law say that the final act of persecution which drove them from Russia was the burning of their village, containing eighteen houses, near Veila. To the surprise of the Russians, who were accustomed to see the Jews submit passively, the inhabitants armed themselves. In the fight which occurred, a youth whose mother had been burned to death killed three Russians with a crowbar. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Jay Gould Downed. V - AT Omaha, Judge Brewer refused to grant the Union Pacific Railway a su­ persedeas bond to carry its case to the Supreme Court This settles the cjse, and the Rock Island and Slilwaukee Roads can go over the bridge into Omaha The Union Pacific has its en­ gines guarding the entrance to its yards. Pine Bluffs Washing Away. Pine Bluffs Ark., another strip in length of most valuable real was precipitated into the Arkan­ sas River. Barraque street, the prom­ inent business thoroughfare of the city, threatens to vanish. One million lars' worth of property is in danger. Suicide of the Bride of a Month. AT Jackson, Mich., Mrs. Orvil e Quick, married a month ago, committed suicide by taking morphine. She •Has »Mr. Quick's second wife. Her husband had ... left her, saying that when sl^ jfliiJ right would again Jive with her.* ' "" " Enforcing the Maine Law* AT Augusta, Me., the People's En­ forcement League will prosecute the county attorney of Waldo County for the non-enforcement of the prohibi­ tory law. fet" Grabbed $3,500 and Ran. !•/ AT Sag Harbor, L. I., employes of the Peconic Bank were watching the pass­ ing of a procession, and a thief grabbed a package containing §3,500 and es- * taped. _____ ; . " Reciprocity Treaty Signed. THE reciprocity treaty between the ETnited States and San Domingo has |,jbeen signed and wilt be proclaimed by , the President in the early part of August •i:?. f 1 ; Failure at Dubuque. i'; sAT Dubuque, Iowa, foreclosure pro­ ceedings were Ijistituted against the Dubuque Lumoer ^Company's plant on Mortgage bonds past due for $30,000. Texas Fever Among Missouri Cattle, r ' A NUMBER of cattle in Oregon County, Missouri, died from a disease pronounced Texas fever. The disease was brought by cattle from Texas in May. Three Thousand Deserted Wives. As official of one of the departments which has to deal with complaints of "J non-support say there are 3,000 deserted ' wives in New York-City. U' -:•••- . y* Just Like Pharaoh's Time, if i:% HBHVKH stores were forced to close by clouds of locusts on their way east. The streets were covered with the pests %•' lor hours.' • Reciprocity Voted Down. , ? ' AT Ottawa, Ont, Sir Richard Cart- Wright's amendment favoring a reduc- ^ ' tion of duties on necessities, and declar- ling that the Washington negotiations * *>(i! next October should be on a basis of feclprocity in manufactured as well as H^tural products,was rejected--114 to 88. i , kf"'! ' 1 y *r-' A New Chairman i&n. s. 8. CI ark son , of Iowa, is now Chairman of the National Repub­ lican Committee, vice Senator Matthew fi. Quay, resigned. - EASTERN OCCURRENCE* , AT Elmira, N. Y., the Rev. Welling- o Ion White started out to drive, having With him Mrs. White, their three chil­ dren, Ilattie Hastings, a daughter of a neighbor, and Susie McCarthy, a nurse •r 'girl. Approaching the crossing of the t,.:':paIlroad a freight train which had been in two to allow entrance to the nark occupied the nearer track. See- and hearing nothing indicative of " danger Mr. White drove between the , l»alv«s of the freight train upon the < Other track just in time to be struck by the Erie passenger train, No. 24, from , the west Mr. White, his daughter U - THERE is now but little doubt that the. Missouri River will .change its channel for several miles just west of St Joseph, Mo. In that event the city will be left oy the side of a boggy slough and the $1,000,000 bridge and two railroads will be swamped. Since the cutting began this spring two farms have been lost. AT Santa Fe, N. M., four convicts sawed their way out of the penitentiary and made good their escape, being as­ sisted, it is alleged, by three of the night guards. WHILE the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton excursion train of fourteen cars was returning to Dayton, Ohio, with working people from a picnic at Words- dale Park, a fre ght train crashed into it at Middietown station, and seven per­ sons were killed and between twenty and thirty wounded, many of them fatally. Tha excursion had stopped at Middle- town to repair some broken couplings, caused by one of the passengers jokingly pulling the air-brake cord. THERE is afloat a rumor that the Il­ linois Central Railroad is really ready to build a passenger station at Chicago which will not only protect waiting passengers from the rain but which will entirely lack that ancient fishy odor which has been the chief characteristic of its ruins of '7L THE body of Jennie Kurtz, the pretty, 16-year-old daughter of Charles W. Kurtz, of Lafayette, Ind., was found in the Wabash River. Mr. Kurtz objected to his daughter receiving the attentions of Ellwood Good, and severely chastised her with a strap for disobeying him. DUBIXG a thunder-stcrm a gang of thrashers near Ligonier, Ind., took refuge under a thrasher. Lightning struck the machine, destroying it and seriously injuring all the workmen, Ed Morrow fatally. THE village of Blair, of about 400 in­ habitants, in Trempealeau County, Wis­ consin, and ot\c cf the most flourishing on the Green Bay, Winona and St. Paul Railroad, was almost entirely destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of at least $150,-. 000. The town had no fire protection and everything was built of wood, and a brisk wind was blowing. There was nothing to do but try to save what was possible, though the amount was in­ considerable. Ten or twelve families were left homeless, though there were no injuries or fatalities. Some of the individual losses are as high as $l.r>,000; insurance light The town will- rebuild immediately. Ax explosion occurred in a new mill of the Laflin-Rand Powder Company at Platteviile, Wis. A workman named Lowrey was blown to atom& Six store buildingr, with their con­ tents, at Forrest, Livingston County, 111., were burned. This is over half th# stores in the town. FHAKK LINI>KSFMXE, a Kansas City tailor, broke the world's high diving record "by diving from a p'atform eighty- five feet high. AT Cincinnati, Ohio, George O'Meyer, an aged tramps was burned to death ia a fire that consumed the Kanawha Coal Works. MARV and Bertha, daughters of Gi. Thompson, a Cedar Falls, Iowa, hard­ ware dealer, were drowned while bath­ ing. They were aged 17 and 19. AT Indianapolis,Wm. A. Teal is ar rested for counterfeiting. He has al­ ready served three terms for this offense. AT Los Gatos, Cat., fire started in a liVery stable and before it was gotten under control destroyed nearly the whole business portion of the town. Loss, £60,000. AT Columbus, Ohio, the long, anxious wait for the Elliott verdict is at an end. The jury announced that William J. Elliott had been found guilty of murder in the second degreo for the killing of Albert C. ( sbornonthe 23d of February. When these wurds were spoken Elliott pulled hts Grand Army button from the buttonhole in the lapel of hi* coat and threw it viciously at the jury. By the laws of Ohio murder In the second degree is punishable by life Imprisonment, the court having no alternative In the matter. Notice of a motion for a new trial w«s made and so sentence was not passed. Elliott's crime was the direct result of personal journal­ ism. OBborn. one of the murdered men. was the proprietor of the Sunday H'wrW, while the Elliotts published the Sunday Capital. The editors gave a great deal of spaco in their respective sheets to personal abu.se of each other. While the streets were crowded with spec­ tators of the Washington's birthday parade the men met. W. J. Elliott opened Are upon Osborn with a revolver, and. standing over him. shot lilm to death. K bystander. Mr. Hughes, was shot In this eye and killed by a stray bullet, s.nd two others were wounded slightly. A HORRIBLE sight met the gaze of an early morning visitor to Garfield Park, Chicago. Seated on a bonch, not a hun­ dred yards from tkp»jtate, was James Carter, a b'.acksmirav with his head thrown far back. A nearer view dis­ closed a terrible cash in lii^throat, which almost severed his head fcom his body. AT Mass'.llon, Ohio, the, annual con­ vention of the National Alliance of Daughters of Veterans cf the United Amori'-a opened. - ,T 1-fW the oocaslon. AT jfoffsrson City, Ma, Judge Bur­ gess overruled the motion for a new trial In the case of ex-State Treasurer Noland. Pending an appeal the court will fix Noland's bond at $3,0CQ. The ruling of Judge Burgess was expected. MtTRDERKlt WlMJAU FlTTIOERAI-D, Olf Youngstown, Ohio, was taken to Col ma- bus, where he will be hanged Nov. 1®. The murderer said: "If it is my fate to hang I want it done up in style, attired in a dress suit and patent leathers. The warden will press the button and I will do the rest* . • "y,;J SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. MRS. ADA AVERT and Mis* Fanny Kellcy are in jail at Birmingham, Ala. They have a brother named Will Tanner, who was being conveyed to Coal burg as a convict The women met the deputy, gatheied him snugly in their embrace | and held him until their brother had mounted the deputy's horse and fled. He Is still at large. AT Da'las, Texas, a Are broke out In J. B. Cowan «fe Co 's big liquor house and spread rapidly to the Benbroeck School Furniture Company's place, the Brewers' Storage Company's warehouse, and Wolfe & Ca's cotton gin. The total loss will foot up $250,000; Insur­ ance 8200,000. AT Jackson, Tenn., John Brown, the negro who mortally wounded John Gardner, the Illinois Central Railroad switchman, was taken from jail by 500 masked men and lynched. The jailer refused to open the prison dotor to the mob, who were armed with Winchesters, whereupon the door was broken with a sledsre hammer. NEAR Wheeling, W. Va, Miss Sarah McGowan was killed and Miss Kate Kinney and George Wentzell seriously wounded. Andrew Height came up with a shotgun and Joseph Fayhey took it from him, at the same time asking if it was loaded. Height said it was not, and Fayhey pointed it toward the crowd with the usual result. A NEGRO tramp murdered a farmer and his wife, fatally wounded one of their sons, and dangerously wounded another near Paris, Ky. The farmer's name was Nathan Conway. The negro, Craig, was killed by the neighbors. AT Selma, Ala., Miss Lulu Wrjght and George Aiken were married under trying circumstances. The young bride's mother, who had been very sick, made her will, and requcste 1 the immediate marriage of the lovers after death had called her. Scarcely had her lios grown cold before Rev. Dr. Dickinson, iu the presence of a few relatives and the corpse of the bride's mother, married the young coup!e. FOREIGN GOSSIP. JUST out of Paris, France, a collision between excursion trains occurred at St Maude, in which fifty persons were killed and 100 injured, and three car­ riages wrecked. Both trains were re­ turning from a musical festival at Fon- tenoy. The guards' van and the three rear carriages of the first train were wrecked and caught fire from the gas. Most of the dead victims are legless, their limbs having been crushed off through the jamming together of the seats. The driver and fireman of the second train were burned alive. It is reported that the stationmaster has gone mad and decamped. HENRY M. STANLEY has met with a serious accident, according to informa­ tion received from Muerren, Switzer­ land, where Stanley is staying with his wife. The explorer fractured his left thigh-bone |Jy accidenta'ly slipDing while moua tain-climbing. AMERXAXS who have been victimised by a fellow in Spain who knows, or says he does, where a quantity of treasure is buried, will be pleased to learn that the fellow was arrested in that country. He was caught while taking a letter and money from the postoftice. FRESH AND NEWSY. A DISPATCH from Seven Islands, on the Lower St Lawrence, reports the drowning of seven children. A boy only 7 years old showed extraordinary cour­ age and succeeded in saving one of his companions, a girl 8 years old. THE schooner Annie E Paint returned to Victoria, B. G, with 100 skins, mak­ ing the third sealer now In port The Captain of the Marvin says the officers of the Rush took guns and ammunition from his s -hooner and towed her to Ounalaska, where twenty-one of her crew were kept on hardtack for two days, when they were turned over, to­ gether with the schooner, to the officers of her Majesty's vessel Nymph, who ordered them to proceed to Victoria. THE Atlas Line steamship Alvo, from Haytian ports, arrived at New York, and reports all quiet at Hayti, though a renewal of the recent disturbances is feared. CANADIAN MINISTER OF MARINE TUP- PER contends that according to the lino laid down by the last geodetic survey that part of the Bay of Fundy in which the United States fishing boats wero seized recently is clearly in British waters* MABEW KJ&FOKT*. CHICAGO. CATTUS--Common to Prime ( HOGS--Shipping Grade* SH£KP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORX--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RYE--No. 2. BUTTER--Choice Creamery...... CHEESE--Full Cream, flats EGOS--Fresh POTATOKS--New, per bu ' 1NDIANAPOLI8. CATTLE--Shipping HOGS--Choice Xl«ht. SHEEP--Common to Prime WHEAT--NO. % Bed CORN--NO. 1 White OATS--No. 2 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Hoos WHEAT--No. 2 Red.. COKN--No. 2......... OATS--No. 2.... .%... POBK--Mesa. CINCINNATI. CATTLE...... Hoo« SHEEP WHEAT--No. Sited.............. COKN--No. 9 OATS--No. ^ Mixed... DETROIT. CATTLE. Hoos. FINAL.. VSETTLEMENT 'OF MINING TROUBLES*.- THE aso 4.S0 & i .85 (<$ .58 ® .2* © 11.50 <3> 1! 8.50 & I 4 0J & I 8.00 i .84 .37 <g> 3.00 3.<fc» 3.00 .90 •B3 .44 Vj aMJuvtanent of Whmt SfttiMt « Svrtons Matter--Mailt!* Sent Besolutlont--Ort«rl<i at thm Tsrowbt*. ' • Peace has been restored in the Ten­ nessee mining regions, and the trouble, which seemed about to necessitate shoot­ ing down probably scores of miners to uphold the law, has been adjusted. A K n o x v i l l e ti e c i a l s a y s : hen the sitha- l!i o n looked to those on the in-, side more dan- ferous than at t n v t i m e s i n c e the beginning of the Bri c ev i 11 e agitation, the minors' commit­ tee met in a room a t t h e L a m a r OOL. SETTER, OT WILITIA. House, and In half an hour the trouble was ended. The Hon. Dennis Leahy, at the begin­ ning of the session, presented the draft of a series of resolutions, which were unanimously received. The resolutions wore presented to the Knoxville c o m m i t t e e o f citizens, and by them approved and signed. An i n t e r v i e w w a s then had with Gov. Buchanan and At t o r n e y General Pickle. To say that the opportunity to obtain peace without blood*, shed was jumped- at puts the thing mildly, for a "love meeting" followed in' which all took part Following are the resolutions:^ We, the undersigned, committee on be­ half of the miners and their friends of Bricevllle and Coal Greek, and in the ln- terest of harmony, do submit the follow­ ing, trusting that It will meet with your favorable considera­ tion: 1. The status quo to be restored, and guards and convicts not to be molested on their return to the mines, and we will use all Ordinary cau- J. E. GOOD WIS, ASST. tion and honorable BUPT. OF CONVICTS, means to prevent any Interference with them. 2. Reposing confidence In our Governor, and believing the General Assembly, when tl^ey meet in extra session, will give us the necessary relief from the oppression that now hangs over us, we will endeavor to con-' duct ourselves as law-abiding people, so as to maintain the confidence and sympa- ^ETRAEINT KERRIUL, THE JUNKRS' LEADER. V,- .M.~ V_W, by force of numbers, and succeeded only too well. White then have been differences ex- isting between the mine operator? using con*ict Iftbor and the miners for years, ne'er did ihf people of Coal 'Creek and vicinity feel that the State militia-would be needed to settle the differences be­ tween Fast Tennessee miners and con­ vict operators. But when it became evi­ dent that another mine heretofore using free labor was to be handled by the out­ laws of the Stato there at once arose mutterings of discontent. Had the Ten­ nessee Coal Mining Company not made an effort to put in convict labor instead of retaining the lree miners, it is thought there would have been no call for troops at the company's mines. The people could have endured tho convicts they had had to,fight against for years, but when it became apparent that more free miners were to be displaced, and work had. to be sought elsewhere, a halt was called. Indignation reached a fever heat, and but for the cool heads and good judgment of the leaders then w^nid doubtless have been b oodaJMd. EARLY DAYS. BnUdtnf; Cabin on tH# Growler. Log-cabin building was great fan to the boys, although they did not find it easy work. There was a certain nov­ elty about the raising of the structure that was to be a home, and an interest in learning the use of rude tools, that lasted until the cabin was finished. The maul and the wedges, the frow and the little maul intended for it, and all the other means and appliances oi the buildiug were all new and strange to these bright lads. First, the dze of the cabin, twelve feet wide and twenty feet long, was marked out on the site on which it wae to rise, and four logs were laid to de­ fine the foundation. These were the sills of the new honse. At each end of every log two notches were out. one on the under side and one on the up­ per, to fit into similar notches out in the log below, and' in that which was to be placed on top. So'cach corner was formed l>y these interlacing and overlapping ends. The logs werfc piled up. one above another, just as children build "cob-houses" from odds and ends of playthings. Cabin-build­ ers'do not say that, a cabin is a certain number of feet,high; they usually.say that it is ten logs high, or twelve logs high, as the case may be. When tnc structure is as high as the eaves are in­ tended to be, the «top logs are bound together, from side to side, with small­ er logs fitted. upon the upper logs oi each side and laid across as if thev sns BRICEVILLE MINES. thy ot the public in the future as well as In the past 3. And we do hereby express thanks to Governor Buchanan tot the kind consid­ eration in holding the militia, in this city and thereby preventing a conflict that might hive resulted in bloodshed. 4. And to the committee of citizens we also express thanks for the Interest they have shown by their counsel and advice in their efforts to adjust the existing difficul­ ties. JOSIAH T. THOMAS, J. W. HARDIW, s. R. PicKKRjato. 8. F. MOORE, • W. F. SMITH. We. the citizen colli niittee. hereby approve ot the above. - DFNNIS LEAHY, WILLIAM RULE, J. C. J. WILLIAMS, D. A. CARPENTER. -This ends the Jxouble in the mining districts. Tho mlutia were drawn up at dress parade and orders read releasing them from strict discipline. The orders were received with tumultuous cheering, for the troops did not rolish a week or THE COAL CREEK DEPOT. I SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO, WHEAT--New .9't & M COBN--Cash.... .63 <« .86 OATS--No. 2 White .30 & Mi CLOVKB BEEP 4.23 & 4.80 BUFFALO. BEEF CATTLE 4.50 @8.00 LITE Hoos 4.25 8.00 SHEEP 4.00 @ 8.33 W HEAT--No. 1 - Hard. . 1 . 0 4 & 1 . 0 0 COHN--No. 2 .68 0 .89 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring .98 <9 .OS CORN-NO. 8 .82 & .84 OATS--No. 2Whifce.,..k.......... .41 & .413 RTE--No. L: M & .70 BAM/BY--NO. 3 ............... .89 <$ .71 CATTLB. 3.50 Hoo* 4.00 SBKEP 4.25 WHEAT--No 2Red. 1.01 COKN--No. 2 .73 OATS--Mixed Western............ .86 BUTTK.R --Creamery .14 _ toamr-X* two in the mountains. The fourteen companies left for their homes on a spe­ cial trainv The. convicts will be removed to Briceville" and Coal Creek at once. The miners' committee remained in Knoxville to accompany the guards and convicts to guarantee protection when the train arrives' at Coal Creek. This action will not meet the fu'l approval of all the miners, but the terms of the agreement will be kept. Nover in the history of labor agitation have illegal acts been committed in as orderly a fashion as wero those of the Coal Creek Valley miners. They are so thoroughly disciplined'and so thoroughly controlled by the miners' union that it is universally conceded that the end of the struggle has come. ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE. Last week about 40!) armed strikers attacked the guards who had charge of fifty felons at Brleeville and liberated them. Gov. Buchanan was immediately notified and responded by ordering two companies from Chattanooga and one from Knoxville to the scene. Of the fifty convicts taken from the guards at Bricevllle. two escaped and the others were brought to Knoxville. When tho militia arrived they took the convicts back with tnem and warned tho mob that they would protect them at all hazards. Gov. Buchanan at once pro­ ceeded to the seat of trouble and ex plained his position to the rebellious miners. lie told them that it was his sworn duty to uphold tho law, aud If tho convict li aso system was wrong he was'not to blame, and that the only recourse of the men was through the. Legislature. The miners announced that their families wero starving and that they were compelled to drive out the convicts if it cost tho life of every man in the valley They made all sorts of fun of the beardless youths, but de­ clared they would not harm tho "spider legged, cigarette-smoking dudes," as were to be the supports of a floor foi another story. Then the gable ends are built up of logs, shorter and short­ er as the peak of the gable i3 ap­ proached. and kept in place by other smaller logs laid across, endwise oi the cabin, and locked into "the end oi each log in the gable until all are in place. On these transverse lbgs, or rafters, the roof is laid. Holes are cui or sawed through the logs, for the dooi and windows, and the house begins tc look habitable. The settlers on the Republican Fork cut the holes for doors and windows before they put on the roof, and when the layer of split shakes that made the roof was in place, and the boys bound­ ed inside to see how things looked, they were greatly amused to notice how light it was. The space betweeD the logs was -almost wide enough tc crawl through, Oscar said. But they had studied log-cabin building enough to know that these wide cracks were to be "chinked" with thin strips of wood, the refuse of shakes, driven in tightly, and then daubed over with clay, a fine bed of which was fortunately near at hand. The provident Younlcins had laid away in his own cabin the wishes and glass for two Bmall window^ and these he had agreed to sell to the new­ comers. Partly hewn logs for floor- joists were placed upon the ground'in- t ide the cabin, previously leveled off for the purpose. On these were laid thick slabs of oak and hickory, riven out of logs drawn from the grove near by. These slabs of hardwood were "puncheons," and fortunate as was the man who could have a floor of *awed lumber to his cabin, he who was obliged to use puncheons was better off than those with whom timber was so scarce (hat the hatural surface oi ground was their only floor. -- 8t. Nicholas. ^ r. Qneen Vlcto-l»'» ^quare-To-d flioes. It is a pity that there are not more mothers guided bv the Queen's excel­ lent example in the matter of square- toed boots aud shoes. Not only has her Majesty persistently worn this shaded chaussure all through her own life, but she insists that the royal children shall all be similarly shod. It is nothing short of ab-olute cruelty to imprison growing children's feet in the unnatural pointed-toed instruments of torture that we have so long per­ mitted to remain the fashion, and there can be no doubt that the children oi unthinking and fashionable mothers do suffer very greatly from this barbarous practice. But perhaps, now thai the fact is made known that not one of the royal family is ever seen in anything but Sensibly shaped boots, it may in­ duce these foolish women to make their little ones comfortable, and save them from much suffering in after yeftra. --JLadiea' Pictorial. tUm Alr-Brake C«MM^CW» hn Train, Csut!n( m Delay Vbi«k *«I!owe<t by a Frightful C*la»n!t;~» »tw*T OP the Wreck. The wreck at Middietown, Ohio, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad was one of the worst that have ever happened in that vicinity. The National t ash Register Company of Day­ ton had given its employes an excursion to Woodsdale, in a train of sixteen coaches. The day had passed merrily, and everybody was laughing and chat­ ting when the train reached Middle- town at 8 o'clock on Its way home. Some one had turned the air-hwiikes on for a joke, and the engine was puffing and wheezing to pull the heavy load with the brakes on. Pretty soon a draw-bar broke, and the train was stopped on the siding at Middietown for repairs. Will­ iam G. Douglass, one of the foreman of the National Cash Register Works, tells this story of the wreck: The train of _ fifteen crowded cars started on its return Srip from Woods- dale about 7 o'clock and about an hour later the accident occurred at Middle- town. A drawbar about the middle of the excursion train broke and they stopped at Middietown to patch it up for the run to Dayton. Brakemen were Immediately sent out with red Sags to flag the approaching train, and nearly half an hour was consumed in repairing the disabled car. Red lights were not promptly changed to the rear of this car, though the train was pulling out when the accident occurred at nearly 8 o'ciock. Tho 250 men, women, and children were in the last three coachea and all knew that freisrht train No. 44 was following and they ap­ preciated and ta'ked of their danger. Some of them called Con. ductor Peter G. Clancy's attention to their peril and he cautioned them that if they heard train 44 coming they should jump from the car. Five min­ utes later tho awful disaster was upon them. The excursion was slowly creep­ ing off the side-track, when an Ominous roaring was heard from the expected train No 44, not over a quarter of a mile away. Nearer and nearer came the monster mogul with thirty-five loaded cars, and when In sight of Mid­ dietown Station Engineer Schwind saw the flagman waving the danger signal, and he immediately called for brakes, shut off steam and applied the sand. He saw that a collision was inevitable. Then he and his fireman jumped and an Instant later the crash came--a rear-end collision of mighty force. The excursion train was pulling out on to the main track and all but the two rear coaches had left the siding when the mogul engine with the heavy train behind it went plowing through. The two rear cars and human freight were hurled into the ditch and the next coach was struck fairly in the end, and the locomotive, pushing under,1"elevated it to an ang e of forty-five degrees, and ther& it 6tood, filled with shrieking peo- p'e. This car caught fire, but Engineer Schwind and his iireman were able to extinguish tho blazo by use of hose from the locomotive. Two cars lay crushed in the ditch with a.mass of maimed and mangled people moaning in agony, pleading for help. Rescuers set to work at once to extricate them.' Legs, arms and heads could be seen through broken windows or pinned under the wreck. Moans of the helpless sufferers, and moans of the dying, min­ gled with the frantic cries of mothers seeking husbands and chil­ dren. Many had been cut by glass and the timbers In the rush to escape, and bloody faces and hands bore ghastly tes­ timony to the great number who were injured. Physicians and citizens oi Middietown were soon at the s:ene to join in rescuing the unfortunates. Tne terror-stricken excur.-iou.sts were made comfortable in the houses, the dead per­ sons were properly cared for, and the in­ jured received all necessary attention. A tramp named James Wilsan, of Co­ lumbus, Ohio, who, with his two little boys, was having a free ride on the freight train, says he is a railroader by occupation and was on the third car from the front when approaching vMid- dletown; that he plainly saw tiie red lights swinging, and that the engineer tried to stop the train but could not, and the heavy cars crowded him into the ex­ cursion train. W I N D F A N N E D T H E F L A M E S . THERE is much taik about a "spirit picture" in the possession of Mr. Wind­ sor Bates, of East Thompson, Conn. Three years ago a traveling photogra­ pher took a picture of the front of Mr. Bates' farmhouse. There was no one in the dwelling at the time, and yet the picture represents, at one of the win­ dows, the figure of Mr. Bates' mother, just as she used' to sit sewing. She died three years before the picture was Twenty-two Building* Burne 1 In South Haven--Foundry Dmnafeil In Toledo. At South Haven, Mich., fire broke out in H. Zeedyke's grocery store. Before the flamos wore under control twenty- two buildings were burned. A strong northwest wind was blowing at the time, and before apparatus was at the scene the fire had full sway, and the people could only look on and see it burn. The tearing down of two small stores finally stopped the flames Loss, about ,$40,000; insurance, 810,000. Among the heaviest losers were: Guy Smith & Co., grocers, ^,000; Insurance, $4,200; G. B. Po;reroy, agent imple­ ments, $3,000; no Insurance; C. Coin- stock, groceries, 84,500; no insurance; C. J. Fletcher, store and house, $4,000: insurance, @500; 11. Peckhain, $3,500; no insurance; H. Zeedyke, J. McCrimmona, the Public Library, the G. A. R. ar­ mory, Masonic Hall, and many other buildings. Fire broke out In the foundry-room of the Central Chandelier Company's building, Toledo, Ohio, destroying the greater portion of the two upj er floors. The loss was chiefly on machinery, and Is roughly estimated at $15,000; lnsur- j anco, $40,000. | Near Vacaviile, Cal., fire In the Blue | Mountains burned nver a large extent • of territory. There are a large number ; of thriving orchards recently planted in ; Gate's Canyon, besides a number of rcsi- i denccs, and, as seen from the town, tho , entire section is burned over. No call for help has been made, and no advice as to the e\taut of the damage is obtain­ able. Fire at Newort News, Va , destroyed over twenty buildings, stores and dwell­ ings. Estimated loss, $50,000. At Montreal Frazcr & Co.'s grocery warehouse and Qulnet's carriage factory were burned. Loss, $1C0,000. * Miasm? Links. .j.; BUTTER IS sold by the yard at Oatt- bridge, England. PHILADELPHIA claims the liurgestcold storage warehouse in the United States. IT is«said that the five* leading hotels at Saratoga take in an aggregate of 82,- 000,000 a month during the busy season. THE poundmaster at Oakland sold at auction for $13 an estray horse that proved to be a thoroughbred trotter, valued at $4,000. A CONNECTICUT man has gone into the business of propagating Bewer rats. He sells their skins to "kid" glove manu­ facturers. THE interior of Labrador is said to ba the largest unexplored area on the con­ tinent, and it has a waterfall with a sheer descent of 2,000 feet RECENT observations with the Lick telescope of the shadow of one of Jupiter's satellites are said to show that the tiny moon itself is double. IN the animal market at Hamburg, in Germany, giraffes sell at $7,000 a pair, chimpanzees go at $800 apiece, and select lots of Sumatra monkeys at $l,000i OF AJWERICA/S TRApfi WITH THE A < sift* oT Cotton Reach •*01,e00,000. Fro visions •138,000,000, Md Bread­ stuff. •1?8,000,000-TI|» Total Trad* Crowds ss.ooo.ooo.ooo--Tho Fan Y«ar the Heaviest Known. • The Bureau of Statistics of tlieTreasui Department has issued a summary and review of the foreign commerce and im- j migration of the United States during' - the fiscal year ended June 30, 1891. It gives also a comparison of the imports and exports during the Dastnine months,: as compared with the correspond ng. ^ nine months of the preceding year. The statement says that the total va!-.,.-,^,^ ue of the commerce of the past fiscal ' •' year was the greatest in the history cf ;U % the Government, and exceeded the total.'". ^ value of the commerce of 1890 by theS' c* sum of $82,191,803. The commerce of •*£-. 1890 was the largest for any year in *' the history of the Government up to||jiff|^ that time, exceeding the commerce of the prior year by the sum of $159,606,(Wi3. ^ Our total tommerce during the past fis-,, l ^ cal year amounted to $1,729,330,81)6.* ^ During the year there was an increases /^ ̂ of our impo'rts of merchandise, in order of magnitude, in the following articles: • V* Coffee, tin plates, hides and skins, fruits,/. chemicals and drugs. India rubber and'i'" gutta perch a, sugar and molasses,'-,.., etc. There has been a decline in th##^"^ value of our imports of wool and manu- * h ^ factures thereof, silk and manufactures*! Vtf; thereof, hemn and jute and manufact- '* f ?' ures thereof, breadstuffs, and animals. ? % ^ The total value of imports of mer*V/'<A'• chandise during the last year was .*844.-£,, 4 f> 905,491. The total value of our exports s of merchandise during the same periodpi'i was $884,425,405, which *hows an excess in favor of experts, during the fiscal' year, of $39,519,914. There wae also an „ excess of exports of domestic merchan-f1*'\f ?• dise over such experts of the prior year//" of $26,941,737. The Increase in the ex-v; , ports has been in the following articles,**^ stated in order of magnitude of increase:' Raw cotton, provisions, refined sugar, "* 'v n?,' cotton manufactures, copper and manu-s>, ^ factures thereof, and iron and steel and . maufactures thereof. *" • '- The value of the leading articles ofT;$ ri::\ exports from tho United States during**#® the past year was as follows: Cotton,^" V I i $290,708,898; breadstufls, $127,668,092; provisions, $138,176,638. Since Oct 6, 1890, to June 30, 1891, % inclusive, the total imports of merchan-. Nf-k" dise were $630,20<!,005, as compared' -4 '4, with $598,769,905, the value of such im- , ports for the corresponding period of . *i, 1890, which shows an excess for the nine months of 1891 of $31,436,100. * VjjE- The exports of gold and silver during] , ' the last fiscal year were $108,729,288; / if' and the imports were $33,212,334, an ' excess of exports of $72,516,954. The^fc^llft exports of go'd during the last fiscalrv year were §86,363,623. The imports of . ;* f gold were $18,246,512, showing an ex­ cess of exports of gold of $68,117,110, , the largest excess of exports of go'd in'. ,- any year of our commerce. 'yVt? There has been a largo increase In.the -v!" v; volume of Immigration into tho United States during the last fiscal year. The total number arr ving was 555,456, as; against 451,219 during the fiscal year; 1890, showing an increase during tho last fiscal year of 104,277. This increase is largely from the following countries:£«l Italy, 23,354; Austria-Hungary, 14,861; 'i Germany. 21,112; Russia (including Po- land), 28,245. 1 > EDWIN BOOTH A SICK MAN, -••si; 1: • •' . Exeuilve Smoking the Cause of Hit 111- . ness. Dispatches from Buzrard's Bay stat- ing that Edwin Booth was badly broken • ' in health through overindulgence in./w!;;* smoking, while shocking tho general : ; public, were not a surprise to many of, the tragedian's professional associates. -- For tho last two years it has been an - open secret among Mr. Booth s intimates t h a t h i s p h y s i c a l c o n d i t i o n w a s s u c h , that a collapse might result at any mo- - "*• ment. Last summer wbi e visiting Mr. Jefferson at the Bay he became so weak-'. • • \ t h a t h e c o u l d w a l k o n l y w i t h t h e a i d o f ' „ • a cane, and was constantly in communi- ' cation with his physician. During his j ...^ last tour, which was brought to an,-'* ^!"; abrupt close by the death of Lawrenco- •'* I'5® Barrett, he was frequently 111, and hisi# vitality decreased to su h an extent that-v his acting was materially atfected. The death of Mr. Barrett was a great); shock to Mr. Booth, for the ties of ar-* tlstic and personal friendship which ex­ isted between them wero exceedingly*; strong. It deepened the cloud which had settled upon the tragedian's spirits. The recent publication of tho wretched Augusta De Lanoir story was brought^ to his attention and added to: his mental depression. Mr. Booth has, always been a more than moderate^ smoker, but of late years the'habit* has rapidly grown upon him. Turing the present summer ho has pra ti- eally lived with a cigar In his mouth. Tho effect upon his health has been marked and Immediate. Mr. .Tef^ers-ou argued with him persistently, for at one time the comedian was himself a victim of the weed, but by a determined effort of will stopped the use abruptly. This Mr. Booth is not able to do. A mental depression now exists to a greater desree: than ever before and several severe* nervous derangements havo resultod. ,n, Jmr Gould. j IT is lucky for Mr. B'alne that he has recovered most of his health. Jay Gould- is also in search of health, and be is verjf1 > . likely to get a corner on the entire mar* \ ket.--S\ Joseph Gazette. ' : JAY Goru> says ho can afford to take ,.. a month's vacation. It s a wonder he *,$• doesn't take the other eleven months to o# " I j » He is not popularly supposod to let any-t ^ j t h i n g e s c a p e t h a t h e c a n r e a c h . -- P h i l a * • • deliihia Vcul. 1 * .* b, JAV GOULD, whoso avoirdupois weight " T is given out as 105 pounds, has gone* among tho Rockies of Colorado for the , benefit of his health. Jay may not bo aole to train more than three or four more pounds of flesh, but it will be just ' like h.m while recuperat ng to hatch a rl scheme whereby he mav gobb e another ./r l a r g o s l i c e o f t h e e a r t h a u d a f e w d o z e n , - ' h -Blbomingtoa Lc idcr. cars upon which Jay, more railroads A TRAIN of Gould was riding was recently held up^ *' I n C o l o r a d o a n d o b I g e d t o s t o p o v e r * T n i g h * . T h e t r a i n w a s s t o p p e d , n o t , a S V . K ' . might be supposed, by train robbers* H but by grasshoppers Jerry Rusk, with . * his vaccinating apparatus, should have • , > been called at < nco to the scene of ac­ tion and inoculated these grasshoppers • with contagious diseases, as he has al- ready inoculated the chinch bug.--Bos* ton Herald. JAV GOULD says that ho obeyod tha ^ doctor's orders to "drop everything1* . when he started West. It has not yet • * been learned that Mr. Gould dropped ^ the railway properties which he gob- - bled by means of his money-squeezoj last fall, so that it is to to feared that the medical orders wero not literally carried out. However, if the prece^ dents established on former occasions! ' ^ when Mr. Gould left Wall street are ad* 'l hered to, something may be heard t<% •- ,*-.> drop when ho comoa ba k.-- Dispatch. i