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mtSm 1 i * •a" W -V¥w; . •<* , •* •* ar * * : [cHtrnrn glaindrai -'li «\Vk£. fcefe«r/># POWIfm." :/ DOWN INTO THE DITCH. ,^&PK»yBf« .AND RIO. CJRANpE, .. , TRAIN WRECKED* iM«K»i!s at Mandan-- Attorney GelK'TSl flliHRj Take* a Hand In the Atlanta Bank Settle­ ment-- A St. Joseph Mau It Missing ID Seventeen Hurt. THE Denver and Bio Grand# (far train from Sen Francisco to Denver left Leadvillc, Colo., thirty minutes late Friday night and was ditched about a mile below the city. The train was heavily loaded, there being over 2fl0 Iassenpers on board. There were eight passenger cars and two baggage. The rails spread from the end and tho two eleepere were first to leave the track. Then followed five coaches. Four of these were turned on their side and passengers were hurled in all directions. The sides of the care, the steps, and win­ dows were smashed. Lights all went out, and a scene of confusion reigned. It took a short time to get at the in­ jured and they were taken to the Lead- ville hotels. Ko one was killed, but many received cuts and bruises and seventeen were Injured more or less eerlously. -•. £ To Protect the OepMltort. .. "T" jff'v *., THE stopping of the invest:gat'ori into 3'".the affairs of the Gate City National v' Bank at "At lanta, by order of Attorney 'J / <leneral Olney, has been explained. • " The grand jury was about to find true §jr"'bills against two oflicia's of the bank,in addition to Defaulter Bedwine. There is now $4€fl.OOO in the bank's vaults, ili.v, collected since the bank closed. This fy amount, with o'.h^r assets, would en- ||4 ? able the depositors to get dollar for dol- fc(V lar if the business was properly man- aged. The indictment or any more jjp bank officials would have imperiled the m> bank's affairs financially and the re- fe" opening would have been impossible." §1 This would work great injury to the do- Jr . positors. ' I , Bloodshed la Imminent. R* / ®«CKBiTAKT HOKE^MITH has received V- ft telegram from Commissioner Gibbons, , at Athens, I. T., saying that unless steps are immediately taken to prevent a collision between the two rival fae- §fii;% tions of Choctaw Indians, bloodshed is ££ - imminent. Secretary Smith at once t • communicated with the Secretary of Ip; "War with the result that the officer in ;!;'r command o:' the United States troops if. : nearest the scene of the threatenod •W trouble has been instructed to promptly inform himself of the exact situation and take fuch action as it seems to i « "warrant. Agent Bennett, at Muscogee, p": has also been diiected to proceed at | • once to the locality and i export upon the |£-'• 1; situation. NEWS NUGGETS. ^ , WILLIAM P. BROOKS & Co., dealers In furniture at Boston, have failed, with liabilities of $100,000. TE| HESBY SCHOEXFEXIB, of Chicago, has f been awarded the Rational Conserva- tory prise for the best symphony. if1-- E. D. FABSSWOBTH, ex-Granfl Sire of fc the Grand JLodge of Odd Fellows in the . United States, died at San Franc'.sco, ^ aged 75. ENGINEER WII/LIAM GBAT was killed and Fireman Lewis Mitchell fatally in­ jured in a wreck on the Georgia Pacific at Waco, Ala. TBE dead body of a man supposed to be named Glasscock, was found near Joplin, Mo. The evidences surrounding the body indicated murder. SIB CHABLES TUPPER, Canadian High Commissioner in England, has resigned because the Dominion Par­ liament failed to ratify the French treaty. A CEBTIFICATE of incorporation of the American Stave and Cooperage Com­ pany, whose capital stock is $4,000,000, was filed in the office of the Secretary of State of New Jersey. . IT has been discovered that the steamer Haytien Republic has smuggled at least ten tons of opium into the coun­ try within a year. High Treasury offi­ cials are said to be implicated in the scandal. THE five-story buildings, 129 to 137 North Front street, Philadelphia,owned and occupied by the Welkel & Smith Spice Company, were partially destroy­ ed by fire. Loss, $75,000; covered by insurance. ROBEKT WAREING, cashier or the Mo- kaska Manufacturing Company at St. Joseph, Mo., is mysteriously missing. He arrived in Chicago about the middle t*f March and since then all trace of him has been lost. THE Vanderbilt system proposes to run a fast "World's Fair flyer," to make the trip between New York and Chicago In nineteen hours, five hours less than the time of the faslcst train now run- ning between those cities. THEBE is so much water in the Heart River near Mandan, N. D., that busi­ ness is suspended on the east end of the Missouri division. The bridge at the sixth crossing of the Heart, just west of Mandan has been moved from Its moorings. All west-bound trains stop at Mandan. THE teste of the contract bar-iron for ehain-making have been completed at the Charleston Navy Yard. It was pri­ vately announced at the navy yard that the tests were very satisfactory, and, She price being considered, the iron sub­ mitted was remarkably good. Yet if the requirements called for in the speci- flcations are insisted upon, the iron must be rejected. AT Little Bock, Ark., the motormen and conductors, about forty in number of the City Street Electric Iiailway Company, decided to strike and refuse to operate a car until their demand for twelve hours' work a day is accepted At present they are required to work eighteen hours a day. AT McCarty's saw mill near Pueblo, GoL, the boiler exploded with great force. Charles Languame, the engi­ neer. was blown over a hundred feet and instantly killed. J. M. Hardin was seriously injured and two men slightly hurt. The mill is,a total wreck. EASTERN. . , H. GAIJT, one of the best known men in the art world, of New York, died suddenly at his studio in the Association Ha.ll Building. He was English by birth, but had dwelt in that «lty many years. THE ruost costly and luxurious train of cars that has ever crossed this eonti cent left New York at 10 o'clock Wednesday morninc. It is composed of six elegant Wagner coaches, and it will carry Dr. W. Seward Webb, his family, and ^ few invited guests to the 1 Pseiflc coast and back. This train cbh- stltutes & perfectly equipped hotel <m wheels, with an uncommon supply of the comforts of a home. THE Elm Park Methodist Episcopal Church, of Scranton, Pa., which was partially destroyed by fire Dec. 3 last, at a loss of $iti0,C(Mt and which had been almost reconstructed, was again burned. The structure is now a com­ plete ruin, nothing standing of the walls but the tower. The estimated loss will reach fully $125,0( 0, on which there is $3o,000 insurance. It is believed to be the work of an incendiary. - * WESTERN. - IJP, EWIIF® DENT, a salesman iter J". H. "North & Co., furniture dealers in Kan­ sas OHy, hits disappeared. He has a broth >r in Chi< a^o connected with the firm of Dent & Doggett. SCRIIPTOR RUPERT SCHMID, of San Francisco, has been awarded the eon- tract to model a bronze group of figures representing Pocahontas saving the life of John Smith. The expense will be $1^,000, to be paid for by the descend­ ants of the Captain. FRED S. TURTLE, of Omaha, has been arrested at Sioux Cityjor embezzling $•200 from D. Appleton & Co., of New York, for whom he was a collector, and for forging orders and embezzling money from the Century Publishing Company. He will be prosecuted in both cases. AT Geneva, IIL, the*jury In the Vera Ava case brought in a veidict of guilty, as charged in the indictment, and fixed the penalty at two years in the peniten­ tiary. A motion for a *new trial was overruled, and Vera Ava asked to be taken to Joliet at once. Her attorneys will appeal to the Supreme Court. MRS. MARY POLISHZ, the motherof Dr. Polinitz, sentenced to be hanged on May 5, has appea'ed to the Governor of Georgia for the pardon of her son. She is more than fcO years old iand made a piteous appeal for clemency, asking the Governor to let.her-go down to the grave without experiencing the disgrace of the execution of her son. She lives in Marengo County, Alabama. The family is one of noble birth. The father of Dr. Polinitz was forced to fly from Germany in the revolution of 1848. WASHINGTON. SECBETABY GBESHAM has called for the resignation of Dr. F. O. St. Clair, chief of the consular bureau of the State Department. COMMANDER WHITNEY, of the United States man-of-war Alliance, is engaged to marry Miss Etta Ah Fong, daughter of a wealthy Chinese merchant at Hono­ lulu. HENBY CLAY SWAIN, for years assist­ ant cashier of the Second National Bank of Washington, D. C., was burned to death at Sea Isle, N. J. He was a prominent figure in Washington society and one of the few surviving members of one of Cape May County's most aristocratic families. SECRETARY HOKE SMITH on Friday rendered his first land decision. It was the case of the Southern Pacific Bail- road Company, and the Secretary holds that the company had. acquired no title to the lands in question under its grant. This decision operates to open many thousand acres in Southern California to settlement and entry. The Commis­ sioner of the General Land Office is accordingly directed to take such steps as may be necessary to restore them to the public domain. FOREIGN. PRINCE BISMARCK is reported to be failing rapidly. His principal troubles are insomnia and neuralgia. THE Turkish Government has denied that there were any antl-Christian riots in Caesarea and other cities of Asia Minor. ANABCHIST MATHIETJ, Bavachol's al- lesed accomplioe in the explosions of a year since, has been identified. Hfc was arrested for robbery, and In his shoes were found papers connecting him with anarchistic plots. A OBEAT sensation has been caused in London * sporting circles by the inex­ plicable disappearance of the famous racer and winner of the Waterloo cup, Fullerton. The horse was taken from the stable of Colonel North at .isitkaifi on Saturday. IN GENERAL BMCLE SAM'S new crusler New York is the fastest armored vessel in the world, having developed a speed of twenty nautical miles an hour on her trial trip. AN application for a receiver and an accounting has been made by minority stockholders of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Bailroad, alleging fraud by the Northern Pacific. THE barge Equator, which was lost off Fenwick Islands light, was com­ manded by Capt. John Feehan, of Philadelphia, who, together with three colored men shipped in Richmond, was lost. The hawser parted during a storm, and the vessel drifted on to the shoals surrounding the islands. The tug was unable to render any assist­ ance. MARKET REPORTS CHICAGO. CATTT-E--Common to Prime.... HOOK--Shipping Grades BHEEP--Fair to Choice WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN--No. '2 OATH--No. 2 RYE--No. 2 BUTTEB--Choice Creamery EGGS-- Fresh POTATOES--New, per bu INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping HOGS--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to IMme WHEAT--No. 't Red COBN--No. 2 White OATB--No. A White ST. LOUIS. CATTLB HOGS WHEAT--No. 2 lied COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2. BYE--No. 2 ' CINCINNATL CATTLB HOGS. ' SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed. COBN--No. 2 OATS--No: 2 Mixed BYE--No. 2. «... DETROIT. CATTLE HOGS . ... HHEEP ' WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBNS-NO. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 COBS--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White RYE BUFFALO, CATTLE--Common to Prime.... HOGS--Best Grades WHEAT--No. 1. Hard No. 2 Reil MILWAUKEE. >V HEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN--NO. 3 OATS--No. 2 White 11 YE--No. 1 BAKLEY--No. 2 POBK--Mess CAT™, newvobK-C Hons SHEEP * WHEAT--No. 2 Red"..'.'.'."""" COBS--No. 2. OATS--Mixed Western...11 BUTTBB-- Best.... *"• POBK--New Mess $3.25 @ fi.25 b.60 & 7.50 4.00 & 6.00 .76 & .76 .40 (ft .41 .39 & .29% .46 & .48 MM & .90J6 .14 <3) .16 .70 & .80 3.25 @ 6.50 3.50 (4 7.75 3.00 & 6.00 .66 & .65% .41 & .42 & .36 3.00 & 6.00 9.00 & 7.S0 .64 & .66 .34 & .39 .80 & .30% .61 & .63 3.00 @ 5.25 3.C0 & 7.76 3.00 (<5 5.25 .67 <» .67 % .43 & .43 •34^@ .35 .66 & .67 8.00 ® 6.00 . 3.00 & 7.76 3.00 & 4.75 . .68 & .6a . .VI & .42% . .37 & .38 WILL OPEN ON TIME. PRB 3IDBNT CLEVELAND TO SET THE FAIR GOING. Col. Davis and Director of Works ltnrnham S.'jy the <»ates Will JUe Thrown Wide Open M»y 1-- £xt«rtin»te C1mu«m IKgfc, K<»t The Week lit J»ck!ioB Park. Chicago correspondence: The World's Columbian Exposition will be ready for business May 1. Pres­ ident Cleveland will touch the electrle button, If he lives, and the spindles will whirl, e.nd the great wheels revolve, and every door in every department will swing open so that all the world through Its representatives m*y enter and behold the acres of exhibits which will be in place on that day. The can­ non will bdom across the Inland sea; the flags of all countries will float in the air of a Chicago spring; the bands will play; the electric boats will dart along the lagoons, and the gondolas will move dreamily over the waters and loiter in the shadows of the great build­ ings. One country will vie with an­ other in exhibits which will at that time be displayed in the most attractive manner by men of the world who have made effective beauty a study. The Sm organised a oreche, whfere mothers may leave their lufants in charge of compe­ tent nurse* while they explore the treasures and curiosities of the build­ ings. The youngsters will be provided with toys and games for their amuse- '/l* riiiMHj in r, 'i i i . . , i i • * ^ r,. "THB CifcEtt riiEBS. •» SCULPTOR CLARK* . EXNIBLT. ment; hammocks and cots will be fur­ nished in whioh they may swing or sleep when tired of romping; good food ; will be provided for them; for these services a very trifling charge, not yet determined, will be made. But chil< "V"-. • • m pw WEiT FACADE OF AGRICULTURAL BUILDING. natives of fhe various States of the Union will go to their State buildings and renew their allegiance in such man­ ner as may seem best to them, and then turn to gaze with wonder at the work which has been done in Jackson Park for over a year and a half. So it will be with those whose mother countries are under other flags. The buildings of most of the countries of the East and South which will exhibit will be ready for the reception of their children. Even Mid­ way Plaisance, that strip, about which CHORAGIC MONL MENT. people outside of- Chicago know so lit­ tle, will be ready. In one day the vis­ itor may wander or ride, as he may be prepared, along this great highway and tee how the people of countries which the tourist seldom visits live and dress. So much has been written and eaid about this Columbian Exposition that those who are under its walls scarce realize that the time is almost at hand for the penetralia of its wonders to open. On the eve of the opening of the dren accidentally separated from their parents and temporarily lost on the grounds will be conveyed to tbe creche and cared for and fed without charge until claimed. As to charges outside of the grounds, let It be clearly understood that the best hotels have said plainly that thej will not charge more than their usual prices, and the hotels of lesser magni­ tude will be compelled to do likewise. Chicago is full of enterprising people, and really enterprising people know that extortion ruins enterprise. There will be mililons of visitors to Chicago during the exposition season, and J or that very reason there will be fierce competition for their custom. There are now hundreds ot restaurants in this city at which a satisfying meal can be purchased for from 15 to 25 cents, and the number of such places will be greatly Increased during the year. The scramble for the patronage of visitors of moderate means will be furious. It is quite possible that the prices of the restaurants that cater for the people of small incomes will be reduced by reason of excessive competition, and It is cer­ tain that they will not be increased. In short, it will be very easy for a rich visitor to spend $26 or $50 per day, and it will be quite as easy for an econ­ omist to find a room at the rate of $2.50 per wees and to feed himself for 75 cents per day. The great Exposition is for the delectation of the people of the world, but specially for those of the United States, therefore attendance upon it will be made to be within the reach of all. The rich can enjoy all the luxuries that money can buy, the person of slender means can live well at slight cost. Everybody is invited to come. Everybody will be welcome. Nobody shall be iaaposed upon. This is Chicago's pledge to the nation and to the whole world. Admission Ticket*. Three hundred and seventy-five thou­ sand tickets of admission to the Exposi­ tion have arrived and have been placed on sale down town. As .already pub­ lished the engraved entrance cards will be handled in the principal hotels, at the Randolph street and Van Buren street stations of the Illinois Central and at the Exposition Treasurer's office, in the Rand-McN&lly building. Fifty SOME TOWKKS AND MINARETS, MIDWAY PLAISANCE. .42 & .33!i@ .65 3.50 4.(10 .7!) .7* m .65 & ia'S 's*" .81 17.25 3.50 3.00 3.00 .76 .51 .87 .211 18.75 .69% .42)5 .34 .57 5.50 7.75 80 .75 .66^ .40 .33 Hi .55 .63 r.75 @ 6.00 (<U 8.50 & 6.25 (« .77 (q> .62 & .41 m .32 019.29 gates at Jackson Park a thousand bene­ dictions will fall, and from the altars of the world there will ascend the incense of thanksgiving that the work about which the nations of the earth will assemble in confraternity is completed, for the day before the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition will be Sunday. The Plain Truth. An impression seems to prevail in some quarters that the Columbian Ear- position is to be cut up in some way into sections, end that the fifty cent entrance fee will hardly do more than admit the visitor to the vestiblue. The truth Is, on the contrary, that that one entrance fee will give the visitor free access te every building erected by the Exposition Company, and to all the State and for­ eign buildings, including all their ex­ hibits. Every exhibit proper may be seen without any further entrance fee. The false impression in question Is due* to the fact that there will be some side shows, some of them in Jackson Park, some in Midway 1 laisance, and some elsewhere. Those in Jackson Park ana Midway Plaisance are under the super­ vision of the exposition manage­ ment, and a certa n per cent, of their j receipts will go to the management. Of course the World's Fair Company has no control of what may bo erected and I maintained outside of their own grounds. If tome circus company should estab­ lish a tent alongside the Manitoba Building, and there is plenty of vacant space for It, the World's Fair would none the less be open in full on the payment of fifty cents. The best of the side-shows will be of very small importance as compared with what will be shown in any one of the regular Ex­ position buildings. Not only will every requisite of health and comfort be provided without cost to the visitor, but the management has gone so far as to sterilize the drinking water, a sani'ary precaution of great importance to the health of visitors. Again, the women of Chicago have cents is the price of a ticket, and the installment just received will be good at any time from the date of purchase until the close of the Fair. A good many Chicago merchants have placed advance orders for tickets with Horace Tucker, superintendent of admissions, who is sanguine enough to estimate a BIO STONES FROM WISCONSIN. revenue of more than $1,000,000 from tickets before the gates open. His es­ timate is re-enforced by a surprisingly large number of inquiries from souvenir collectors who wish to purchase speci­ men tickets of every series issued by the admissions bureau. SENATE WILL SOON ADJOURN. The Extra Session Inspected to Close Earl;/ I lrt April. I The extra session of the Senate will soon adjourn. There will be five or six more days of the debate upJh the ques­ tion of seating the appointed Senators from Montana, Wyoming, and Washing­ ton, and thon a vote is expected to give all of them their seats. The debate, however, Is being conducted on non­ partisan lines, and the Intention is to determine an Important "uestion of doubt whether a senatorial term shall end cn March 3; irrespective of action or non-action upon the part of the Legislature in electing a successor to the Senator serving, and the Governor can on that day appoint a successor in the absence of an election, irrespective of the fact that the Legislature has not adjouined and may elect a Senator the day following the appointment of tne. In other words it Is the ' purpose to determine whether there is any. connection between the appointive power of the Governor and the elective power of the Legislature, and whether the one must have any respect for the other. It is believed also that the resolution to elect a Sec­ retary, Scrgeant-at-arms and Chaplain of the Senate will, after a little brush upon the part of the Democrats, go over till the Senate comes together next winter. The programme is to refer the resolutions proposing an investigation into the characters of Senators Koach (Democrat) of North Dakota, and Pow­ ers {Bepublican) of Montana, to the committee on privileges and elections for consideration, with the understand­ ing that they will not be reported. When these steps have been taken the Senate will be ready to finally adjourn, A quorum cannot be kept over a week longer. A call of the Senate Thursday revealed but forty-seven Senators in Washington.. Many of them are paired and if a party question had been upon a vote there would not have been a quorum. *1... THE PATH OF THE STORM AWFUL WORK OF THE SOUTH­ ERN CYCLONE. The Property Lou In the Mississippi Val­ ley Roughly Estimated at Two of Dollars--DatalU ot Dlsaebees' Matty Points. Twenty-three Shied. The damage done by the cyclone In the Mississippi Valley is enormous. While the loss of life lu not as great as at first reported, the damage to property will reach $2,0(0,COO. The telegraph wires are still demoralized, and reports are coming in slowly from the storm districts, and it will be several days be­ fore the full extent of the'disaster will be known. The death list so far as known foots up twenty-three, while the list pf Injured will run up into the hun­ dreds. The first heard of the cyclone was in North Louisiana and Southern Arkan­ sas. It crossed the Mississippi a few miles above Greenville, devastating plantations, wrecking farmhouses and uprooting giant forest trees. The path th© storm was about half a mile wide, and nothing was left standing in its track. The first fatality occuried near Snaw's Station, Miss., where the house of Di ury Sumrall, a "prosperous industrious colored farmer, was THE WASHINGTON'S; and CONGRESSMEN SPURRED UP. Talk of Japanese Control of Hawaiian Islands May Hasten Action. Hawaiian affairs have come to the front again. The announcement that Japan wants to annex the Sandwich Islands is attracting the attention of Congressmen. Expressions favorable to annexation to the United States are now heard from those who have hereto­ fore opposed the proposition. It is con­ ceded upon every hand that to back down from the position we now occupy on the islands--to lower our flag from the palace--will not only be an ac­ knowledgment that we Were in eiror but that, this Government is fickle if not cowardly and paltering. It is sus­ pected that the talk of Japanese control is an English move, and it is spur­ ring up our legislators, many of whom aie growing anxious for the report which is to come from Special Agent Blount. It is believed that Mr. Blount will make some kind of preliminary re­ port upon which the Senate can take action before it adjourns, and that the President will not dismiss the Senate until he hears from Mr. Blount. A pro­ tectorate is likely. Should any step be taken by Japan, England, or other for­ eign power to annex the Sandwich isl­ ands th 8 government would protest. It is bound to secure at least a neutral administration of the affairs of the islands. More interest is being taken in Hawaii just now than has been shown since tho inauguration of Presi­ dent Cleveland. It is believed that we will shortly make a move in some di­ rection and that our status will be changed. CHOLERA RAGING IN RUSSIA. Alarming Reports ot the Spread ef the Dread Disease. • Cholera has made its appearance again in St. Petersburg, and it is known that fatal cases are of daily occurrence, although the authorities have not re­ sumed their policy of last year of mak­ ing regular daily announcement of the new cases and deaths. At present the authorities are pursuing a policy of sup­ pression and withhold from the public all information as to the spread of the disease. Very disquieting rumors have been received from the interior of Russia, and the Minister of the Interior is tak­ ing action which indicates that the Gov­ ernment must possess special informa­ tion of the gravest character. The Minister has ordered tbe reopening of the medico-sanitary stations in the Volga provinces, where the cholera car­ ried off many thousands last year, and special steamers with sanitary staffs will cruise in the river, stopping along the Volga 10 pick up any cholera patient or any dead from cholera-strickca ves­ sels plying on that stream. The Gov­ ernment is also causing to be formed sanitary commissions which will look after the health of the people at the points to be reached through the rail­ way system of Russia. leveled to the ground/killing the entire family of nine persons. The cyclone passed through the suburbs of Shaw's and demolished several residences and small stores, but no one was killed. Tho hurricane thou changed its courso slightly and traveled the right of way of the Yazoo and Mississippi Val­ ley Bailroad i:ntU it entered Cleveland, Mis3., where the publio school building and several stores and residences were razed to the ground. Leaving Cleveland, the cyclone passed within a mile of Clarksdale, a town of 2,005 Inhabitants, and next gtruck Tunica, the county seat of Tunica County. Nearly every building in the place was wrecked. Tbe colored school building was wrecked, and over thirty children maimed and crippled, some of them being fatally injured. As the cyclone left Tunica it divided, one por­ tion traveling in a northeasterly direc­ tion, while the other took a north­ westerly course and again crossed tne Mississippi River through Arkansas, where It spread ruin through three coun­ ties. The towns of Crawfordsville and Vincent were nearly wiped off the face of tne earth, and the storm then took a northeasterly course, reaching Kelly, Miss. Here the greatest damage was done. Six people were killed outright and scores injured. Not a building was left standing, tho fragments being strewn over the country for miles. After leaving Kelly the cyclone passed into Tennessee, the next place to fall in its path being Spring Creek, where several people were injured. The storm did great damage at Bowl­ ing Green, Ky., and the surrounding country. The loss to the Louisville and Nashville Bailroad on the building and locomotives is $75,(100 to $100,000. The town of Rowlins was almost de­ stroyed. The postoflflce building, owned by Frank Cordice, was swept ontirely away, together with ail the li^ll, some of which was found two mil6i aff. Mr. Cordice's loss is $41,000. The store­ house, occupied by Stephens & Knox, was demolished, and their stock, valued at $5,000, ruined by the rain which fol­ lowed the storm. At Murray, Ky., twenty residences and fifty stables and barns were demolished. Only one per­ son, Miss Aline Stubblefield, was seri­ ously injured. A dozen were slightly hurt. The loss will reach $25,000. Much timber, fencing, etc., was also de­ stroyed. Late information concerning the effects of the storm in Southern Indiana indicates that the damage will be very great. A number of persons are known to have been seriously in­ jured, but as yet no fatalities have been reported. The country for miles around was devastated. Dwellings and barns were lifted from their foundations and many are wrecks. Trees, fences, and smaller building at various places were laid low. The Center Methodist Episcopal Church of Evansville was completely demolished, only its founda­ tion remaining. At the Southern Hos­ pital for the Insane a frightful panio prevailed for nearly an hour. The end of the east wing of the institution was blown in, causing between $3,000 and $4,000 damages. THE^ WILL BE IMPEACHED. Proceedings to Begin Against Ex-Officials of Nebraska. The commission appointed by tho Ne­ braska Legislature to investigate the State officers and ascertain if there was evidence enough to impeach the Board of Publio Lands and Buildings, reported to the House unanimously in favor of the impeachment of Secretary of State Allen, Attorney G-eneral Hastings and Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings Humphrey. The commission was composed of representative attor­ neys from the Bepublican, Democratic and Independent parties, chosen by the party caucuses of members of the Legislature. The impeachment pro­ ceed.ngs will now be pushed. F. Po»TEBFIEI,D, cashier of th» sus­ pended Commerc'al National Bank of Nashville, Tenn., has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Bank Examiner McKnight. Porterfield gave bail In the sum of $10,000. The charges are per­ jury and making false statements to the department. Miss LILIJE JOHNSON, who was In­ dicted at Memphis, Tenn., as accessory to the murder of Freda Ward by Alice Mitchell, has been discharged, there be­ ing no evidence against her. Miss Mitchell is still in the insane asylum at Bolivar, Tenn. Overflow of News. THE New York Home Bute meeting netted $11, «00. THE High School building at Pipe­ stone, Minn., burned. Loss, $20,000. THE sash, door and blind trust has made a 5 per cent, advance In prices. THE anti-pool room bill passed tho Illinois Assembly by a vote of 124 to 7. A iiAKOE part of the business portion of Toronto. Kan., burned, causing $40,- 000 loss. BUHGLAKS secured $700 from the safe of the Swift Chicago Beef Company at Sbmmerville, N. J. THE Michigan Assembly passed a bill providing for the use of voting ma­ chines at elections. THE sum of $150,000 was secured on the forged whisky warehouse receipts negotiated at Louisville, Ky., by A. B. Sutton. SECRETARY HERBERT has decided to name torpedo boat No. 2, being built by the Dubuque iron works, the "Erics­ son. " THE Western Construction Company incorporated at Dubuque, Iowa, with a capital of $p00,00". It has a contract for building 200 miles of railroad for the Santa Fe Company in Ar.zona. THE attempt to arrest and bring In the wounded Indians, Two Sticks and White-Faced Horse, who are wanted for the killing of lioyoe and his threo ' companions at the Pine llidge Agency I beef camp, has failed. I THE Ohio House has passed a bill J placing a tax of $100 jrer annum upon retail dealers in cigarettes and $r500 | upon wholesale dealers. It is certain to become a law, and jnrill place cigar­ ettes on exactly the same ground as in­ toxicating liquors in Oh'o. IMPORTANT PENSION .RULING. [ It Heverses a Decision Under Which S2,- 400,000 Hm Reen I'Bld to Claimants. It has been discovered that one of the most important rulings ever made in the pension office has remained un­ promulgated, so far as the publio knows, for more than five months. It is learned that Sept. 28 last Assistant Secretary Bussey made a pension de­ cision which radically changed the prac­ tice of the department as to the dispo­ sition of acciued pensions in certain cases and established a new and im­ portant rule as to reimbursement of "expenses, last sickness, and burial" under Sec. 4718, Revised Statutes. The Assistant Secretary holds that accrued pensions can be fully paid to grandchildren, but as to reimbursement for "last sickness and burial," the Assistant Secretary con­ cludes that while only the widow or minor child of the deceased soldier can take the accrued pension, the only per­ son for whom the expenses of the last sickness and burial can be allowed is the soldier himself. From the date and under the authority of an opinion by Solicitor General Phillips rendered Ang. 10, 1876, until now, last sickness and burial expenses have been allowed ; in all cases where the deceased was an j impecunious pensioner or entitled to a j pension, whether soldier, minor chil­ dren, grandchildren, or dependent par- j ents. It is stated that fully $2,000,000 j has been wrongfully paid to claimants under the Phillips opinion as reim- i bursements for last sickness and. burial | expenses, for which Sec. 4718, Revised Statutes, did not provide. Currencies Condensed. ANOTHER bomb has been exploded In Home. No one was injured. > W. C. RIPPEY, who shot John Wr Mackay, will plead insanity. C. H. & L. M. AKERIjY, lumber deal­ ers at Tonawunda. N. Y., have failed. FATHER M. JOZEATT, a Catholic mis­ sionary, was maltreated by a mob in Corea. THE Southern Land and Lumber Company failed at Little Bock, Ark., owing $200,000. IT IS said that after the World's Fair the Leather Trust" will buy the manu­ facturers building. J. C. DAVIS, a grocer at Salem, Mo., shot and killed Miss Mary Miller and committed suicide. JOHN W. MACKAY, the California millionaire, is improving. His doctors are much encouraged. BEN MCCARY and John Terry were hanged in Copiah County, Mississippi, for the murder of J. C. Davis. 1 POSTMASTER GENERAL BISSEI.II an­ nounces that editors are not barred from becoming postmasters. j AT Detroit, thirty-five delegates at­ tended the conference of the Supreme Council of Patrons of Husbandry. (hi Old Knjilsli of the Faintly - Still HtoMKts. It will tie a surprise to tnany ts> know that ttie ancestral home of 4*£hfc father of our country*' still stands in England. It was in Little Brington, [Northamptonshire, not far from AL- thorp Park, that Laftrence Washing­ ton, the great-Rrcat-g reat-grandlatber of George Washington, lived, and it was in His house that John Washing­ ton, the General's great-grand father, was born. John Washington emi­ grated with his brother Laurence to Virginia. 1657, and he settled near the Potomac, in the County of West­ moreland, Virginia, between Pope's and Bridge's creeks. lie here mar­ ried Anne Pop?, by whom he hadtwd 60ns, one of whom he called, attgr his brother, the family name dif Lanrence. Laurence married Mil­ dred Warner of Gloucester County, and had three children. The second cnild was named Augustine, and was the father of George Washington The old English home of the Washingtons is now the moss-grown cottage of a laborer, and the plaster has here and there fallen from its stuccoed sides. Its roof, once of thatch, has also been replaced by shingles, tut the old-fashioned win­ dows are the same, and the cottage has not been added to in the way of improvements since Washington's great-grandfather was born in it, not far from 300 years a<ro. The house is of yellow sandstone covered with plaster. The lights of the windows are divided by slender stop0 bars, and above the door there is aq in­ set iption which roads: "The Lord Giveth, the Lord Talceth Away; Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Constructed 1606." Near this is the Sultfrave church, in which Washington's ancestors aire; buried, and where upon a slab is an inscription stating that Laurence Washington, Gent, ancl Amee his wife, by whom he had i?sue of three sons and seven daughters, died in 1564. By the side of this is engraved a sort of a shield or coat of arms, with three stars at the top and two> stripes below, from which it has been erroneously stated that our national flag was taken. Gen. Washington said but little about his ancestors in his papers and; the probability is that his time was so much engavred that he could not look them up. lie was in many re­ spects an aristocrat, and we have had no other President who was so punc­ tilious regarding the etiquette to be observed in his establishment. He was addressed by his friends as "Your Excellency," ana I have seen manu­ script private letters to Mrs. Wash­ ington which were directed to "LadV Washington." She and tne President had their coat of arms, and they ob­ served a genteel style in all their liv­ ing. He had one of the most gorgeous coaches which has ever been seen in America. He imported the most of his c'.othea from England, and he wore silk, satin, and great quantities of gold lace, lie entertained like a lord at Mt. Vernon, and his estab­ lishment there was such that it would not discredit the most lavish enter­ tainer among the statesmen of to- 3ay, --Harper's Weekly. The Hair. When not the consequence of old age, baldness is a disease, says a phy­ sician, and is a far more terrible enemy to overcome than white or ?rav hair. No healthy person should begin to be bald till alter tifty years of age, and yet a general lamentation arises of young pe9ple barely in their twenties losing their hair. There must be some defect of constitution, some disease of the hair that should not exist. Headaches and almost every kind of suffering of mind or body, cause the hair to fall off. Close application, thought, or study will have a similar effect. Women are less subject to baldness than men. Man works more with his brain, generally, than woman. He also indulges in drink and other ex­ cesses, and keeps his head covered more than women da Hygienic pre­ cautions mav do much towards main­ taining the thick hair. £ knew of a man who kept, his hair thick and black by never wearing a hat all his life. You must not expect that your hair will never fall, even in health; it falls at certain seasons to make room for new one3. If the fall' con­ tinues too lone, then cut the hair as you would cut a faded plant. It will grow stronger and richer afterwards. Frequent washing in cold water is also recommended to prevent the hair falling, and daily friction is good. Consistency Is a Daisy. Mr. Bushem, of Rushcm & Co., to his general manager: "Mr. Stiremup, 1 wish you would write a sharo letter to our traveling man in St. Louis. Tell him he must hustle more; that he must call on his customers per­ sonally and haul some business right out of them. Whoever heard of a man getting big trades without going for them for all he was worth? Tell him that business of any account doesn't come to men thess days: we have to dig it out of people every time "And by the way. Mr. Stiremup, if that life insurance solicitor or that advertising man from the daily paper comes around say I am too busy to see 'ein to-day. Beats all how persist­ ent some men are!" An Karlier Woman Titan Eve. The Talmud of the Jews speaks cf an earlier woman than Eve, named Lilith, who gave birth to nothing but demons and then fled away from Adam, her husband, for whom Eva was then created. By the way, if this- account be true, Adam must ha«e been a man of quarrelsome disposi­ tion, for we are told that on account of trouble between the latter pair be was separated from his wife for a period of 200 years. During that time he lived a life of penitence on the site of the Temple of Mecca, where he was instructed in the divine com­ mandments, instructions which he very much needed anparentlv, by the angel Gabriel.--Pittsburgh Dispatch. Scrub Cattle. • Scrub cattle are in all probability the most expensive luxury bv far that the fanners of the United States, have to-day. They cost them mom than all the monopolists combined can ever hope to wring out of them, fc-crub stock i3 tte leech that sucks away at their prosperity 338 days lt> the year. •>. * ViTt •m Oai'ti I M ; '„;K ' ' Vi.\