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1 v~.» - - - ... : •»." - •»' * • -. „ ' * • " -- • • • - • . < < • w y ^ y ras» fcrjtas pspar itasiia *a ICCM» j surely is twice blessed, breeding in re- JUI* ..MWtellU' MMpmiiily AH1 latest Chicago directory shows llation of 2,000,000. It's a >sort of city directory ti»a& will a town. torn that reciprocal kindness which we concieve of as governing the be­ havior of the angels themselves, latest fad In Europe is chess 1 by mail. Well, most chess would have plenty of time to It* and get an answer between moves. MASSACHUSETTS woman found a in her ted. The fact is note- jrthy because this is an experience which men have teen supposed to • have a monopoly. ;TIM DOLLARS in gold is offered by a #w York paper for the best receipt keeping cool in the summer time. I Lieut Peary ought to win that offer flying, both hands down. ANOTHER, Trfeite girl has married a Indian. Since the Cherokees went /East to issue $6,000,000 worth of bonds Lo's position in the matri­ monial scale has materially improved. AN Austrian Colonel publicly boxed the ears of a subordinate, and the subordinate made the mistake of I, blowing out his own grains while / j : those of the Colonel were still within ^ range; WHERE the telephone wires are , overland the speed of transmission is s at the rate of sixteen thousand miles , a second; where the wires are through ; i „ cables under the sea the speed is not more than 6,020 miles a second. THE School Board at St. Louis must be run by old bachelors. They have recently dismissed every mar­ ried woman teacher. They evidently think that as soon as a woman is married she either loses her mind, or at least is incapacitated for the gov­ ernment of children. St. Louis should imitate some other cities and put a lew brainy, clear-headed women on the school board in place of her bfhld- headed bachelors. ^ MR. ROBERT LINCOLN Is reported to have said that it cost him $70,000 more than his salary to represent the United States as Minister to England. If this is true there is something wrong. Either the salaries of our ministers abroad are grossly inade­ quate or some of these ministers are accustomed to live in a style out of keeping with the Democratic charac­ ter of the country they represent. The matter ought tp be investigated by Congress, and the wrong, whatever it may be, righted. Ons acre of land In Jerusalem sold for $24,000. That scheme may. work once or twice on the Turks, but It won't work on Christian white folks who know the difference between real-estate values in the New Jeru­ salem and the old! THERE is a little town in Massa- ' chusetts that thinks it has a Common Council which is absolute. It re- - cently passed an ordinance requiring certain of the prominent streets to be watered on Sunday, and it has rained every Sunday since. MEXICANS murdered a traveled and :nls servant, and the pursuing posse has, up to date, slain sixteen of the assassins. This is a |ittle rigorous, but it shows that If Evans and Son tag were in Mexico they would not be greater than the Government S: A FRENCH merchant tried to cor­ ner coffae. The police in settling the matter found grounds for clapping the merchant into jail. Su?h wanton interference would spoil almost any corner, and th$re are a number in this country that need spoiling. W \ - '*?• *• AT best, life is not very long. A few more smiles, a few more tears, some pleasure, much pain, sunshine, and songs, clouds and darkness, hasty greetings, abrupt farewells--then our little play will close, and,injurer and ; iniured will pass away. Is it worth while to hate each other? TV & ONE cheerful face in a household will keep everything bright and " warm within. Envy, hatred, malice, . selfishness, despondency, and a host of evil passions, may lurk around the .'door, they may even look within, but •J thev can never enter and abide there; ' the cheerful face will put them to shame and flight. . SOME notion of the vastd ŝs of the \ Western forests may be had from the tact that a new logging oamp just established at the headwaters of the ' Skagit River, in Washington, is un­ der contract to turn out an average of about a million feet every month, five camps on the Skagit will turn out twenty-five million feet of fir logs ; alone this year. ? - . THE war lord of Germany is a kind and indulgent parent. He is anxious to stir the martial order of his sons, and has had made for them as a toy a model steel fortress, at a cost of 1,000,000 marks. Probably had his Royal War Lordship been obliged to make his marks by labor a plain com­ pany of.tin soldiers would have ac­ complished his object. COURIER-JOURNAL: A play has been written which is described as a "captivating narration* to please and edify refined audiences." One of its grand climaxes, we are promised, is tq be a real fight between dogs, coons, and wild cats in a safe cage Why does not eome enterprising dramatist incorporate in his play a real session of the Kentucky Legislature in a safe cage? : OFFICIAL STATISTICS show that the dairy exports of the United States have decreased during the past de­ cade, though butter has improved a little since 188? and 1888. The ex­ ports of cheese have steadily de­ creased, and are less than-one-half in value what they were In 1881 and g , * 1882. Exports of imitation butter and also oil have increased very ma- r . a"1""* ; ' '̂' • To attain to • generous courtesy. *•*. more even th*u good-sense and good- nature Is necessary*, some self-denial f ' . must be ?>raeMe|$fe jwt with a view obtaining ' return, as' • THE killing of Emm Pasha by vio­ lence is in defiance of a lonpVfce of precedents. Emin has herctxfl&H evinced a preference for death in some less crudely disagreeable form, bis choice being smallpox in a ma- jorty of instances of his perishing j^rom the earth, although he has favored fever on occasions, and seemed not averse to the blandish ments of starvation. But inured at he is to dying, it'was not believed that Emin would ever consent to be sent hence by an untutored brunet from the center of Afric darkness. AT the meeting of the National Academy of Science in Washington, D. C, Prof. Alex. Graham Bell gave an interesting description of Helen Kellar, the Alabama marvel This wonderful girl was, by an unfortunate illness in childhood, rendered deaf, dumb, .and blind. Nevertheless al­ though now only thirteen years of age, she has accomplished wonders in the way of overcoming her difficulties. Specimens of her handwriting and original stories and poems were pre sented by Mr. Bell, who said that the girl was recovering her power of speech, and was, indeed, a prodigy. AN English magazine lately offered a prize for the best answer to the question, "What kind of a man does a woman most admire?" The an­ swers vary widely. The one which took the prize has, among the requi­ sites of the ideal, the following: "The man must interest by uncommon- ness, either in appearance or manner or he must have the indescribable quality called charm, jle must know his own mind and steadily work thereto, even to masterfulness. He disregards 'they say,' and is not one of a hero. His friends are men--not women. He is only once deceived by tbe same person. His, perhaps, hasty temper never runs to unkindness. He has not the abiding pease ot com. monplacenesa He needs sympathy and solace in a sometimes divine dis­ content. He abides under no failure, but goes on. His occasional want of success only attaches and rivets his determination." mm THE Massachusetts Legislature has taken one more step toward having good roads and pavements by passing a bill requiring wide tires on the wheels 'draft wagons. After August 1, 1896, every wagon in Mas­ sachusetts used for carrying heavy loads must have tires from three to five inches wide, according to tbe weight of the ioatt it is to carry. This step is as important as the build­ ing of good country roads and the construction of improved city pave­ ments. Neitner of these can be maintained if the old-fashioned nar­ row tire is to remain in use. It will cut and grind the best road and pave­ ment to ruin. Much has been done toward working up a public senti- ment in favor of improved roads. Tbe next five or six years are liKely to see the good results of this agita­ tion. But all this advance will be lost in a short time if the present style of wagon tire continues to be used. The reform should be made thorough while it is under way. Church Money. It is said that the people of New Zealand look down upon copper coins and will never use them if they can help it. An English clergyman who had one day taken the place of an­ other preacher in Auckland says tbat in the collection of something over eight pounds there were 256 three­ penny pieces and onlv four coppers. It is so well understood that these smaller silver coins will be used in church collections, that the three­ penny pieces have received a name. One day a young lady waDted some small change frotha Chinaman, who was the family grocer, and he drew out a handful of coppers. "Oh, no, I don't want that?" she said. "Ah, I see what missey wants," said he. "Churchy money.P And he handed over a quantity ot three­ penny pieces. Too Much for Him. From the Plunkville Bugle: •fThe Bugle is always glad to publish poetry from subscribers or advertisers, but when a man seDds in a verse to the effect that The Dr. Briggs imbroglio has ended rather groggily, O,' we throw up our hands and quit."--In­ dianapolis Journal. Tass iatMSiiasoa df th»yeaM^hen the flw cracker meet* its matqb. ̂ mm m pmsjmebs HOKE SMITH'S IDEA OF ECON­ OMY AHD PRACTICE. M gaffer--Many Htove Their MMUN Cmt Off While the BnmlM of the Unkm SeMlera , Make in Alleged V Pensioners Are PerwNWI, ' < The pension bureau has notified a great many pensioners throughout the entire country who are drawing pen­ sions under the act of June 27, 1890, known as the dependent pension act, that payment of their pensions will be suspended for sixty days, during whieh time they are required to show cause why they should continue to draw pen­ sions. The testimony necessary to pre­ vent their being dropped from the rolls is the certificate of a reputable physi­ cian, attested by two witnesses to the effect that the pensioner is precluded from active labor owing to injuries or disability not the result of his own vic­ ious habits. In case no attention is paid to the department notification within sixty days the pensioner will be dropped from the rolls. On the other hand, should the necessary certificates, properly drawn up and signed, be for­ warded to the pension bureau, the pen­ sioner will be requested to appear before the local board of medical examiners for examination as to bis condition. This action is pursuant to the recent ruling of Secretary Smith to the effect that a pensioner under the act of June 37, 1890, drawing a pension for total disa­ bility must be shown to be Dhysically incapable of manual labor. 1 he Board of Review appointed to carry into ef­ fect that decision is now going over all the cases of June 27, 1890, probably 100,000 in number, and selecting those cases which show in the record that the pensioner may not be incapaci­ tated for manual labor. In the cases thus selected the pensioners are noti­ fied, as before stated, to prove their total disability to the department or cease to draw pensions. Under Secre­ tary Smith's ruling the department holds that a man who can work shouldn't draw a pension lor total dis­ ability. It is est.mated at the Pension Office, although the work has but re­ cently been begun, tha% something over 1,000 suspensions have already been made. There is a rising tide of protest against the shameful court-o of the au­ thorities at Washington tn dealing with the men who fought the battles of the Union. The flood of detraction and misrepresentation has spent its force and has beaten vainly against tbe rock of truth. The hfeart of the nation is true as ever to the cause for which the surviving veterans risked their lives, and for which their comrades died. Those who imagined that the Union soldiers, their widows and orphans could be assailed and abused with impunity are finding that they misjudged the American character. Not Republicans alone but loyal Demo­ crats as well are sternly prbtesting against the maltreatment of Union veterans, and in every section of the North utterances are heard denouncing the injustice that would drive the dis­ abled Union soldier to the poor-house in order that Bourbon hate might be gratified and the tariff reduced for the benefit of the British manufacturer. Every laboring man in the United States should remember that copper­ head and free-trade Democracy has its two chief objects in view in "purging the pension roll." The first is to strike down the Union soldiers who «trangled the rebellion. The second is cheap labor, which the South has always favored, and now proposes to gain by reducing the laboring men of the United States to the pauper wage levels and conditions of pauperized Europe. The McKinley tariff is providing the revenues to pay all the pensions to dis­ abled veterans, without one cent's ex­ pense to the people of the nation. Positive proof of that statement is given in the fact that the average price to the consumers of dutiable goods imported into the United States is nearly 10 per cent, cheaper to-day than before the McKinley tariff became the most helpful law ever enacted for all the people of every portion of this country. If the McKinley tariff is repealed American wages will be reduced at least 50 per cent., our factories will be closed, and the aver­ age price of foreign gt ois increased after our industries have been de­ stroyed. Let every laboring man paste that sentence in his mind, and watch for its certain and complete fulfillment if the tariff is repealed. The American people are in favor of the enforcement of the pension laws, both in spirit and letter. The official who deliberately violates the pension laws is not only wronging the pension­ ers. he is wronging the people of the United States, whose servant he is. There should be a strict inquiry in Congress as to the responsibility for recent defiance of the pension laws. Republicans should insist upon such an investigation, and support the move­ ment with all their energies. What Are We to Kxpect? Protective tariffs, then, not only restrict and disturb trade, tax and depress legitimate in­ dustry and burden the consumer, but they curse the Industries they were designed to en­ courage. This is the n;iin of prote;tlve tariffs. The sooner we are done with them the better for all. The foregoing is from a paper sadly misnamed American Industiies, but which would be more correctly termed Anti-American industries. This Bheet cannot be honest and truthfuL Its name Is a lie, and it publish lies. Why can it not acknowledge that it is the election of a Demecr atio President and of a Democratic Congre-s and fear of tariff reform that has disturbed trade and is a curse to the industries? The Right Doctrine. "The Republicans in Congress will be in the attitude, to a certain extent, of spectators." This remark of Sena­ tor Sherman in an interview yesterday is true in a sense, but its truth depends upon the force given to the clause "to a certain extent." The Republican members will fail in their duty if they sit with folded hands, as idle lookers- on, watching the majority tangling •?Mrr~"<nr Men. F-vl"mately, we b«v liove there is little ohanoe of the i American public being afflicted with a renewal of the antiquated State bank currency system, notwithstanding the old-fogy character of much of what passes with Democrats these days for statesmanship.--Cleveland Leader. Dare Democrats Deny It ̂ One year ago the prosperity of this nation was at high water mark. Eigh­ teen hundred and ninety-two was the banner year of American industrial progress. During the twelve months ending at midnight on the thirty-first day of last December the American people produced more and consumed more than in any year of their history. Our foreign trade broke all records by its magnitude. The volume of our in­ dustrial production and of our ex­ change of products among ourselves went far beyond all precedent. We fireduced a million tons aiore of pig ron than in 1891, and 2,000,000 tons more than Great Britain. We pro­ duced 200,000 tons of steel rails more than in the preceding year. We con­ sumed 59,000,000 pounds more wool than in 1891. Capital and labor were alike fully and profitably employed. The factory wheels revolved unceas­ ingly. Wages were higher than ever before. Confidence was universal. Credit was freely extended. The in­ tegrity of the currency was assured. There were fewer commercial failures than in any year since 1882. The cre­ ation of wealth for the nation and com­ petence for the toiler went on apace under the shield of America's second Declaration of Independeh^eJ the Mc­ Kinley law. Until the Bourbons and the Social­ ists elected Grover Cleveland there was every prospect that the same condi­ tions would prevail during 1893. The c&pital of tue nation, the executive ability of its leaders of industry, the enterprise of its merchants and the skill of its trained workers Were at the highest point on Nov. 8, when the Dem­ ocratic party triumphed ofii a platform that declared war on every American interest. With the election of Cleve­ land manufacturers and nrerehants be­ gan to trim their sails in anticipation of the coming storm. With the inaug­ uration of Cleveland the ttorm burst. Confidence vanished. Credit fled Capital hid itself. Securities in which a large proportion of the country's wealth was invested rapidly dwindled in value till the loss to ths people ox ceeded $1,000,000,003. Bank after bank went to the wall. The liabilities of commercial failures for the first six •months of the year were more than double those of the corresponding pe­ riod of 1892. Menaced by revolution, American industries ceased to expand and began to retrograde. Production has fallen and wages have fallen with it. Every plate glass factory in the country has shut down. The great iron mines of the Northwest have sus­ pended operations. Blast furnace fires are being banked. Trade balances are against us. Textile mills are every­ where closing or restricting their prod­ uct. The prices of wool and wheat have shrunk to a ruinous figure. The farmer suffers with the merchant and the manufacturer. Tens of thousands of American workingmen who last year were busy and prosperous are idle and facing destitution to-day. Is there one Democratic organ that dares to assert that the disaster which has come upon the country since March 4 would have occurred if the Republican party had continued to control the Government? The Silver B1UU It is conceded by everybody that tho Sherman silver purchase act was mere­ ly an expedient to prevent something worse. That being so, there would seem to be no reason why the law should not be repealed at the earliest possible moment. Of course the silver mines of the West will make a struggle against the repeal, but they will be forced to depend upon a natural Instead of a forced market, provided, of course, that Congress does not precipitate free coinage, the very evil that the Shor- man law was intended to guard against. Whether the repeal will relieve the present strained condition of affairs, even if a worse law is not substituted, remains to be seen, At any rate, events will demonstrate that the prevailing stringency is due. not to the silver bill, but to universal distrust of the Demo­ cratic administration.--Dolgeville Her­ ald. The General Lack of Confidence. Nothing shows that the real cause of all our present financial and commer­ cial troubles is not the Sherman bill or any other bill, but the general lack of confidenca in the Democratic adminis­ tration, more than the fact that, in spite of the growth of the gold reserve to over $98,000,000, the money stringency continues as desperate as ever. In­ vestors, capitalists, especially foreign ones, are afraid of the attitude of the Democratic party on the silver ques­ tion. They tear that with the party in power we shall have free coinage of silver, followed by a repudiation of our obligations in gold and! their payment in silver. No man wants to invest a dollar if he thinks he is only going to get 55 cents back, and that is the key to the situation.--Ex. Cleveland and His Dat7* While the banks and business houses of the United States are going to wreck and ruin President Cleveland is carous­ ing with a few New York stock brokers, who are his boon companions,on Broker Benedict's yacht, the Oneida. Does anybody suppose that if President Harrison had been re-elected last No­ vember he would be bumming with a lot of Wall street gamblers while the country is passing through such a crisis as the present?--Denver Republican. Where's That Dollar Wheat 7 Last fall the Democrats paraded the country with banners inscribed ••• *«' *•"' : • Tkm Lightning Aim ot a Mexican Sarfta ' Ut Um. A striking example of "pure nen* ̂ came muter my observation two years ago. Valencia County, New Mexico, had been disgraced by a long series rj cowardly and awful assassinations done by one young Mescicar, despera lo and his peons, a series which culmin­ ated on the 14th of February, in my own receipt of a leaden valentine, in the shape of two loads of midnight buckshot The question whether these lnfluentlM murderers should I e punched had entered into local poli­ tics, and the campaign was a verv ex­ citing one. At some of the precincts the judges of election and the voters were alike armed with Winchesters and six-shooters. Among those that were active in the movement to over­ throw the evil men who had for years exercised a reign of terror over •'Bloody Valencia.was gentle, gen­ erous Dumas Provencher, one of the pioneers of the Territory, and he was one of the dozen of us whom the as­ sassins had marked for death. Shortly atter midnight < f election day,the I allots of that precinct we:e stiil I eing c untkd by a flickering lamp in a lvng, low rcom in the plaza of San Rafael, and poor P.ovencher was there. He had just received news of a plot, to kill the judges and se ze the ballots at three precincts, and leaned over to tbe Lnited States l-eputy Marshal. Martin Gallegos, to whisper a warning. Gallegos Is h;.rdly mo.e than a boy--a common, illiter­ ate Mexican youth, at who-e awk­ wardness and igno ance most of us would turn up our noses. But that he had In him the stuff of men, he showed by the most gallant act I ever saw. At that very instant there were six hired murderers crouching at the open window; and while Provencher was vet speaking one of them thrust in his old Springfield and fired. The great half-inch ball struck Proven­ cher In the aorta, and from that chief life fountain the blood leaped out In a tall, broad arch. The stricken man gave one lowcry»in>d fell dead against Gallegos, whose face and body were drowned in the spurting deluge. The click of another ritle came from the window. There were still six living targets in that lighted room for the marksmen secure in the dark­ ness without. To shoot at the as sassins were vain--they were invisi 1^5 and couM kill every man in the room before ,one could lift a finger again-t them. There was but one thing to be docc--to put out the ba- traying lamp But that was 30 feet away; and before the nearest man could reach three steps toward it, all would be corpses. How long it seems, now that I come to tell about it--how long it seemed then! But from the sound of the shot that slew Provencher to the ring of another that left the room ic darkness and the occupants iq satety was really less than two seconds. One ceuld scarce discharge two chambers of a double-action re- volver more closely together than those two reports came--the crash of the assassin's rifle and the lighter crack of heroic Gallegos' six-shooter. The young Mexican, absolutely taken by surprise as he was, had not even tu.ned to look toward tbe window, had not even shrunk from the poor clay that was spurting its ghastly flood into his face and blinding and choking him, but snatching the heavy revolver from his belt, bad shot the lamp out, all, in one swift, indis­ tinguishable moment, and without apparent aim! Pure nerve---that in one second saved six lives. The battled assassins fled and the storm ot public wrath aroused b>' their deed put a temporary check upon their paurderous employers.-- Boston Globe. SSVftJ LIVES ARE LOST. Mnstrows Bwalt of the Colorado. The other night Pueblo, Colo., was overtaken by the greatest disaster in the history of the city, resulting in the loss of at least seven lives and the total- destruction of an immense amount of property. The aggregate loss is not far from $250,000. When the pec»!e of Pueblo retired to their beds a gen­ tle rain had been falling, and the Ar­ kansas River flowed through tho cen­ ter of the city with the water but a few inches atiove the ordinary high wat^r mark, hut at 11 o'clock all were awakened by the discordant screeching of the great fire-alarm, whistle and the continuous tooting of other whistles tn all parts of tbe city. The Arkansas river flowed bank full. The water broke over the levee in two places, and the entire lower portion of tjiA city was ih res.toned v/ith & Seed.* The city hall was flooded, and all the basements in that block were filled. A break west of the city resulted in flooding that portion of the city west of the Union Etepot and Victoria ave­ nue. The loss will be nearly $100,(KM), The water works were completely shut down by the flood, and in the midst of the excitement a fire broke out in a large saloon, but was put out with chemicals. Hundreds of poor people living in the flats have fled from their homes to higher ground. Tho rise was so unexpected and so rapid that it was impossible for the gallant rescuers to do more than to save life, no opportunity being given to at­ tempt to remove personal belongings. The carcasses of all kinds of domestio animals float by dozens in the water. It is known that an immigrant with his wife and five children wove efifmped in & tent on the Fountain bottoms, and that they were drowned by the rushing wall of water whieh tore down the bed of the brook, carrying everything be­ fore it. The corpses of two men were seen floating down the Arkansas, but the river was so turbulent that it was impossible to atop them. A number of persons are reported missing by their relatives and friends, and it is alto­ gether likely that when the waters subside sufficiently to permit a careful search the bodies of many will be dis­ covered In the ruins of their homes. WARNING 18 GIVEN. ! ̂ Bangkok Will Probably Be Stormed and a Force Landed. Notice has bean given of the block­ ade of Bangkok by the French fleet. Outgoing vessels nave been warned that they must clear Bangkok and Koh-Sl-Chang or submit to detention. The blockade will extend along the entire north coast of the Gulf of Siam. The French fleet, with M. Pavie, French minister resident, ha3 gone to Koh-Sl-Chang. The general expecta­ tion is that the French fleet will attack Bangkok and land some 5,000 men. There is little doubt there that France's purpose is to make Siam a French col­ ony. The Siamese government is ex­ ceedingly anxious to avoid open war­ fare. When the gunboat Lutin was at AEL OVER THE S! ILLINOIS NEWS CONCISELY CON* : DENSED. ""i**; ^ , - T ' s. CoapTet ttenptrM* Fight with --Boauuatie Elopement at (IIImi Tin rifle Heat In Fayette and St. CUr.Com>>. Ww Had D«ts and Cat*. m- V**nn Far and Wear. * ^ THE Clay County Veteran Assocla* : ̂ ||J tion will hold its annual reunion at Saar« * lor Springs, Aug. 30. C. V. LOUDEBBACK, a young farmer of Hickory Township, near lftllW lllu, mysteriously disappeared m few days - - A; ago. At the school ̂ election aft Carlyle for one member to fill the vaea&ey iu tie Board of Education, J. f. McGafftgan was elected. WHILE Mrs. M. L. Johnson was out driving at Trenton she WaflTthrcngli out of the buggy and received injuries thai may cripple her for life. THREE persons have been bitten at Vandalia by dogs having the rafaleŝ and as a precaution Mayor Steinhaoav has ordered all dogs muzzled or shot. Several oats supposed to be mad mrs killed. John Nkumikk, a young St. Clair County farmer, waa overcome bjr heek at Mascoutah, Sunday, and was found running around in a field wildly in­ sane. After a desperate struggle he was overpowered and taken to an asylum. At Springfield Judge Allen, in ths United States Circuit Court, mads formal orders fop thu delivery ol the St. Louis and Chicago Railroad, ex­ tending from Springfield to Litchfield) by the Jacksonville Southeastern lb Receiver Robert J. Cavett. INSURANCE COMMISSIONER DCTFBJS has appointed Ma}. J. J. Brinkerhoff actuary of the insurance department. This position pays $2,500 a year. /Maj.- Brinkerhoff, previous to the present administration, was for many years the chief of the insurance department of the auditor's office. ( AROUND Vandalia the mm CROP to suffering greatly for want of rain, the stalks are firing and the blades curllnw up. V egetation of all kinds is parched and withering and the pastures are drying up. The corn crop is already hurt badly and will be almost a com­ plete failure unless rain comes to its rescue soon. The mercury registered 97 in the shade Sunday. CHICAGO notes: Fire in the lauim dry-room at the Palmer House started a panic, which was averted by the cool action of the clerks. After a stub­ born fight Officer Hubbard Miller cap­ tured Patrick Maloney, a desperate character and recently released con­ vict. While trying to quell some noisj children Charles Afihua started a quart rel in which he was fatally shot bj George Virzine. AT Alton a romantic elopement oo» W; 'A, CLEVELAND AND DOLLAR WHEAT : To-day we have Cleveland, but where-- oh, where, is the wheat ? With a dull, sickening thud the market quotations reply, "Wheat, 624."--Chicago -Journal. Tells of Grover the Great. The telegrams from Buzzard's Bay are highly important. One says "the themselves"up Inextricably or puttin| j h(?keAd a bi^/18h' h?}u fa,iled . . . | 1 1 1 ' " 10 fl H n 1 TT* A Vt /I OO If £1 T • H ^ • O TT1 m themselves in a hole. There will be serious business before Congress, and the minority is in dutv bound to lend a helping hand to the best of its ability in the solution of the grave and vexing problems that confront both Congress and the country.--New York Tribune. The .Change Is Here. "The country demands a change," so it was said. Grover Cleveland was to land him." A second says "the fam­ ily spent the day quietly on the veran­ da." And still a third and more im­ portant assures the public that "the President took his breakfast as usual." How could the public ever get along without the telegraph? The Condition* Largely Absent. Our Democratic contemporaries who are insisting that "all that the country h was said, trover ^leveiana was j , • oonRdenee »should remember elected President ol the United States, j If M com«tf,m p"i™ to Gold has gone out of the country and the reserve has bean cut into. Mills and manufactories are closing up be cause of the uncertainty over the tar­ iff. Banks are failing right and left. A "run" begins on the slightest provo­ cation. Confidence is destroyed. Pres­ ident Cleveland pulled down the Amer­ ican flag in Honolulu and went fishing. The country has got its change. How does it like it?--Philadelphia Inquirer. In Uta Own Commentary. The collapee of six State banks in Kaosaa Mo^ay is its own commentary 'ok tfcd Democratic -wildcat' Sfctate bank that, namely, the makes confidence Journal. condition which pcssibld^--Boston Their Latt Chaaea. ^ _ ^ According to Senator "^oorhes, "Congress will likely be in continuous session for a year. This is the last Congress the Democrats will have this century, and they want to make the most of it.--Kansas City Journal. LAST year Democratic orators had a great deal to say about taxed dinner • A St *' A Girl Explains How an Engine Is Made* Power gives the following as a young lady's description of how a steam engine is made--according to the study she made of the subject on a recent visit to the Payne Engine Works, Elmira, N. Y.: 4iYou pour a lot of sand into** box, and throw a lot of old stoves aod things into a fire, and empty the molten stTeam into a hole in the sand, and the men all yell, and It's awfully dirty and smoky. And then you pour it out and let it cool and pound it; and then you put it in a thing that goes round, and try so break it; then you screw it to a thing that goes back aud forth, that you can ride on, and that serap:s it and it squeaks; then you put it in a thing tbat turns it round, and you take a chisel and cut it; then you put it in a thing that bores holes in it Then you screw it together and paint it, and put steam in it, and it goes aw- fplly; and they take it up in the drafting room and draw a picture of It, and make one of wood just like iU And oh, I forgot--they have to make a boiler. One man gets inside and one gets outside and they pound just terribly; and then they tie it to the other thing--and oh, you just ought to see it go!" Fish Freak in Arizona. A prominent Eastern naturalist in a letter to the editor of the Citizen seve al yeais ago, in view of some ex­ ceedingly cuiious habits of bird and animal life in Arizona, said: Here­ after nothing from Arizona will sur­ prise me. The unexpected is always to be expected. Apmp s of the fore­ going it may not be commonly known that the native fish in the Santa Crus River bring forth their young alive. A more remarkable f.eak in nature cannot be found. The propagation of all true fish is supposed to be by means of the females depositing their eggs in the water, where they hatch and come forth, but the young of the fish in tbe Santa Cruz are nearly an inch long at the time of their .birth. Each female brings fv»rth abouttwelve to fifteen young at a time. Tbe male adult fish reaches from.three to five inches in size, but the .adult female is scarcely half as large In color they are grayish brown on the back, with bright, silvery sides. At the present time the females are Dig with young, and strange appealing. We desire to call the attention of scientists and naturalists to this intciestiog: and curioijs form of tlsh life.--Tu6oon Citbw#. IF a man ever consents to wear a tcld glove, it is to get a girl to bold of St. Louis, went to school some years » j ago at Quincy. There he met Miss Edna Hllborn, vand the young peo- $ V pie fell in love. Miss Hilborn has ' been in Alton some time with her * - V: , ^ father. Under pretense of going to a' public library they went to the Rev. H. " the Menam bar the foreign minister curred Thursday night. J. A. Wagner* sent to M. Pavie a note to the effect - • - that the, king and his advisers were most anxious to maintain peace. All such efforts, however, are believed by the English residents to be vain. Un­ less England intervenes to assist in a settlement of the dispute there can be little expectation or even hope that France will refrain from extreme meas­ ures. The Earl of Rosebery has stated that the British government was by no means indifferent to the events passing in Siam. Great Britain had first place in the great commercial interests there, her shipping amounting to 87 per cent. of the tonnage and her trade to IK} per cent, of the total value. For this rea­ son he regretted that France deemed that a blockade was necessary. This blockade might raise some questions of international law. The proposed territorial arrangements attendant upon the dispute involved matters that concerned Great Britain. The Government was glad to believe that France was no less alive than Great Britain to the value of Siamese inde­ pendence, regarding it as a matter of Import that France and Great Britain should not have coterminous frontiers, because that would involve both coun­ tries in great military expenditures and creat great liability to panic. / ROOF WALK TO BE REOPENED.' Plans Perfected to Make Hie Top of the Manufactures Building Safe. The promenade on the roof of the Manufactures Building at the World's Fair is soon to be thrown open to the public again. It has been determined that in putting in the fire escapes and other protections recommended by the City Council the promenade has been made safe. The plan adopted provides for broad and eaav stairways at each corner of the building leading from the prome­ nade over the slope of the roof to the Second gallery inside; From here exit to tbe ground is easy "from a large number of stairways and by fire ee- capes outside. It is believed this will remove all the objections to admitting the public to the roof promenade. Another attraction in the manufact­ ures building which will soon be ready is the Yerkes telescope, which is being erected in the center aisle near the north end. It is expected this will be in position within a week, '.̂ y -- »,.,•». - Telegraphic Click*. A DOZEN buildings in the vicinity of Concord, N. H., were demolished by a windstorm. The Bates mills at Lewis ton, Me., ill be closed, and 1,500 men will be made idle. CANADIAN speculators have lost 15,- 000,000 by the recent decline in the values of stocks. BUNCO men secured <3,600 from Rob­ ert Elliott, a. rich farmer living near Payette City, Pa. ROBERT MORRISON, a stockman, was fatally injured at Crawfordsville, Ind., by his horse falling on him. ̂ THE Pittsburg Wire Works at Brad- dock, Pa., have been closed, and 500 men are out of employment. SHERIFF M. M. SMITH, of Cleveland County, Ark., claims to have been robbed in Little Bock of $1,288 of State funds. FRANK LATJOHLIN, who lives near Van Wert, O., shot and killed his wife in a quarrel. He fled and has not been found. BRAKKMAN CHARLES ORTON, of the Big Four, fell asleep while flagging a passenger train and was killed at Craw­ fordsville, Ind. CLAUS SPRECKLKS has arrived in San Francisco from Honolulu, and declares that the provisional government of Hawaii cannot last long. THE total internal revenue collec­ tions of the government the past fiscal {ear were $161,002,000, an increase ot 7,145,000 over the previous year. A. A BRIGHT, grain ̂ dealer at Cum- herlastd, Iowa, flea after f M. Chittenden's house and were mar** ' ried. They left immediately and have ,' i not yet been heard from. f - JACOB KABERICK and his wife, ^ wealthy people, residing on a farm four . miles southeast of Hillsboro, had a dee- v 1 perate fight with a robber the other . ̂ night. Kaberick was severely cut and " ^ knocked senseless with a-club, while " t Mrs. Kaberick was dangerously cut In several places. The robber failed to get any monev, although there was - " 11,000 hidden In a feather bed. Frits / - Mate, a carpenter, who has been In the neighborhood a short time, was ar- • . rested and positively identified by Kaberick and his wife as being tbe f :- robber and their assailant. • ; Gov. ALTO ELD has issued a proeiar- p - mation denouncing the murder ot S. P. ,/ .ft' Bradshaw, at Kingston, and offering -Af*^ rewards for the apprehension of tbe f v;i perpetrators. THROUGH a change in the law rejbt- , | ing to apportionment of funds anddia- , position of the dog tax many fflinoia •% townships are without money to pay ', ..J Current fexpenses. 1"^-, GOTTFRIED MAST, who so brutally ̂\ cut and beat Mr. and Mm. KasebrieK "'*"•? of Hillsboro, during his search of their . home for hidden money, committed auicide by hanging himself in his eell in the jail with a towel. AT Springfield a motion was entered by Judge Kramer in the United Statea Court for a, new trial of the Newbgr- Benton case. Tho motion was set for '; ̂ argument on the 14th of August. - 4; A CYCLONE struck the town otW 4s! doval Tuesday afternoon. Many large • trees were uprooted and houses watr >y*" roofed, blockading the streets with -S debris. No fatalities are- reported. AT Mascoutah Deputy Sheriffs, under if| orders from the St. Clair County Court, took two little girls, aged 13 and H from their grandfather, John Hans, , ̂ and restored them to Peter Weis, their £ father. A bitter fight has been ,tnadft . «f for the possession of the children by : ' the two men, both wealthy farmers. The children accuse their stepmother ̂ oT cruelty, and force was required tq ' ̂ take them away. . - | IN a Macomb police court Wednes- day, when some small case was to be > ,y tried and Chief of Police V'erard was -/'.i about to summon a jury. City Attorney MeClure arose ana stated upon his oath that Verard should not be allowed • , to summon a jury, that he had packed -L'~ - one in a trial a few days previous and # > that he was working against the heat interest of the city. The chief made no reply and a constable summoned the jury. The affair created quite a sen- '! sation. ^ Miss ALICE PAINTER, of Carlinville, j attempted suicide by taking a dose ol ^ rat poison, but her life was saved by ̂ prompt medical assistance. Disap- t j point ment in a love affair was the . ̂ cause. THE Chicago and Alton, the Wabash* and the Jacksonville Southeastern rail- gf- roads, which have teen fighting each 4II& other so bitterly for the past few weeks, have made up. and advanced rates from Jacksonville to Chicago to the regular ^ tariff, whieh is $8.35 for the round trip. The rate has been $2.50 for some time past, and has caused a great deal ot travel to Chicago. THOMAS JORDAN and John Olsea were drowned at Chicago while boat­ ing. Both bodies were recovered by the Chicago life-saving crew. Jordan was 22 yeacpold and unmarried. Oim was & years old. AN accident in which a man was killed awt two others fatally injured happened Tuesday morning «t KtehTa trestle, on the St. Louie, Chicago f Paul railroad. A freight train erctsing the trestle. T& five ears passed over sate! tfeatle gave way-and tbe the train was piled up t* below. William BurrelL was killed outright, and Johata* am Mathew»,brakemen,are tatalijr iajured. *. m