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K ' L F C C H E N R Y . %Ct ' I522555S5SBS J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub ILLINOIS h£?!'. OVERLAND EXPRESS. ! Waylay Hit Traek-Wtlkw, CM Hl» Un- ' h to t|ie Train--Mmay V««*h Fail 'fpS^to WoMfcar X«lt« Ori«» .' 0»a>wl HlH»w ^ . , ;•. • i' {•" * . MAKE a Rich BmI> T?HK east-bound overland train was , up j.wo men about six miles; below Sacramento, Cal., late Thura-! night. The track-walker was- first robbed and then forced to fleg the train. The robbers then covered the engineer and fireman with puns and compelled them to accompany them to the express car. Messenger Page fired twice at the band its, and eame near losing his life from a shot tired in H return. The engineer and fireman oalled upon Page to open the door, as the robbers were going to shoot them if they did not, and also were prepar­ ing to blow up the car with dynamite.- Page complied with the request and the robbers looted the car of four bags «jf gold, the value of which is not; known. They then cut the engine loose, boarded it, and ran it toward the city three-quarters of a mile. The "bandits then got off. and the engine Was reversed and sent on a wild run toward the train, but before it reached its destination the steam had run so low that the collision caused but little damage. The robbers made good their :^Wi.pwape. V - ' Matte A Big Haul. f.r.-., THE north-bound passenger train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway, which left Rich­ mond, Va at 7 o'clock Friday night, was held up near Quantico. The engineer and fireman were forced! s from their engine and the en- fine was cut loose and sent ahead. The express car was then entered, ? the messengers covered with pistols, and the safe was robbed. The run­ away locomotive was stopped at Quan­ tico by obstructing the track. It is said that there was an unusually large, amount of money on the train, prob­ ably $50,000. The robbers, seven in number, were masked. The railway company has offered $1,000 reward for the arrest of any of the robbers. BREVITIES. *V,~ wm . . . guage is spolten, is dead. He alii away froin the arms of his loved early Sunday morning and joined his many friends in the great beyond. Al­ most his last word was a jest, not light nor irreverent, but kindly and easy, to soothe the pain of his dear on*e; to make them feel the pain of parting waB all; that he left the world which he had so honored and so loved, and of which he had been such an ornament and such a joy, without one pang or one regret, as one who "folds the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams." The tear-bodimmed eyes of his chil­ dren and his old-time friend hardly perceived when the end came, and it was only by the setting of the still-smiling lips and the cessation of the light breathing it was known that the father and friend was no more. WHILK carpenters were at work re­ pairing the timber in the Luke Fidler shaft near Shamokin, Pa., a miner's lamp on the head of Irvin Buflinton ig­ nited the wood and a fierce fire en­ sued. The carpenters gave an alarm, and seventy miners commenced a race for life, as the mi ,ie was tilling with smoke. Through a shaft now in course of construction they were hoisted to the surface in an iron bucket, a great crowd cheering as the men reached the mouth of the pit. During the res­ cue the flames came up the air course and burned the fanhouse and the fire department was called into service. Superintendent Morris Williams and Mine Inspector Edward. Brewster he­ roically entered the burning mine to seek for lost or exhausted men. At 5 o'clock in the morning Irvin Buffin- ton was found dead. It is known for a certaintv that George Brown, a well- known politician; John Gierze, a la­ borer; Anthony Bobert, a driver boy, and Michael Buzoftkie. a laborer, are still in the mine. It is the fiercest mine fire known in the region. The colliery is operated by the Mineral Mining and Railroad Company, arid gave employment to over ttcO men and boys. _____ ___ WESTERN. le ooachpawith tfee ;Y day fresh information raaeh- es Key West, Fla., from the Keys rela­ tive to the loss of life in the recent hurricane. Fourteen of the crew of the British bark Brandon, of Quebec, are supposed to have been lost. The Norwegian ship Theora was lost oif Turtle Harbor, but all were saved. It is likely that the number of lives lost will never be known, a) eomm tion with the Keys is difficult, POLITICAL. ft#. mU , TAMMANY has nominated Nathan "Straus for Mayor of New York City. 'SCHOOL INSPECTOR LIPHART of Detroit has been put in jail without bonds, on a charge of receiving bribes. GEORGE ^AN TAYLOR, a youthful prisoner in the Cheboygan jail, com- aaittei suicide by cutting his throat with a razor given him by the jail at­ tendants for shaving purposes. He left a letter to the officials acknowledg­ ing to twelve murders. ' NEARLY 300 vessels in port at St. John's were more or less injured dur­ ing a gale of unusual severity, which for two or three days prevailed on the Newfoundland coast. Thirty fisherman lost their lives, and many vessels in *' the gshing fleets were badly wrecked. GRUNDY MOORE, a 12-year-old white boy, was arrested at Bells, Tenn., charged with wrecking the fast mail on the Louisville and Nashville, in wh'ch several persons were fatally in­ jured. The youthful train wrecker v confessed his crime and said he opened the switch to see what wou d happen f to the train. ^ PASSENGER steamer State of Ohio, Buffalo to Cleveland, became storm­ bound under Long Point, a neck of ! land extending forty miles into Lake Erie from the Canadian shore. A carrier pigeon was released and con­ veyed the news to the company's ortice > in Cleveland. There is no telegraph . Office wi.hin fifty milei of the place, r * TAMMANY has made the following -j-r*' nominations for Congress from New , J York City: Seventh District, Frank- lin Bartlett; Eighth, James J. Walsh; Kinth, Henry C. Miner; Tenth. General , 1 Daniel E. Sickles; Eleventh, William „ Sulzer; Twelfth, Colonel George B.Mc- Clellan; Thirteenth, Amos J. Cum- wiings Fourteenth, John Connolly; /' Fifteenth, Jacob A. Canter. ,!V THE members of the American Rail­ way Union, especially tho e on the r' ~ northern Pacific Road, have shown an inclination to support the Populist ] picket this year. This may and may '••• Mot have haci anything to uo with a IPorthern Pacific order recently issued that all employes refrain from' taking «ny active part in politics, and if any Employes are nominated lor office they ijttuet resign from the company's eer- ~ , JUDGE SOOTT of the Omaha District Court is attempting to have Editor &osewater of the Bee brought before bim for contempt in pe mitt'ng a local • > to be printed referring to routine ' court proceedings in a humorous vein. V The sheriff tailed to produce the editor and Judge Scott 'ound a Eee re- Krt'jr and place 3 him under $500 ndson suspicion of knowing same- ' r - thing about it 1- ' Lou 13 MARQUIS, a wealthy farmer, years old, living at Kokomo, Ind., for seven years a helpless paralytic, .V$g<:'%Bed his 5 year-old grandson a? his ex­ ecutioner. The old man induced the boy to hold to his lips a saucer contain­ ing a solution of carbolic acid, kept in the room as a deodorizer. Marquis drank it all and sank back in his choir . dead almost before the boy could re- •Vy • move the tauc r from his lips, i^ FIRE destroyed the bended ware- „ bouse of Blair & l allard, near Leba­ non, Ky. Over 1,000 barrel* of whisky »'gye b'rned. ^TFCSTIMUAY given before the Lexow , r. ; committee at New York implicates iii) jhearly every police captain in the city ** ljeing in leaeue with 1 olicy Sharks, LII-', DISPATPH^S froin -fcltxnghai state ; ' ~ *bat 40,000 Japanese troops have been w f / landed on the Chinese boundary. gV 't TWENTY-FIVE railroad, men, includ- % " lug E. V. Debs, have been indicted bv sgj , the Federal Grand .Tury in Milwaukee. ' EASTERN? " A TERRIBLE gale at New York ! brought death on its wings. A seven- story building in course of construction j ' at 74 Monroe street was blown down. It crashed through a two-story build- : ing at 7^, demolishing it completely. Two families with boarders lived at 72. They were all burled in the ruins. Four were taken Cut dead and nine badly injured. The building that fell was defective and frequent complaints ; had been made about it. DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, the tjnarf. friflad. thp JdiyiiiMt«iOIUI> thft 'THE General Agent of the Northern Pacific, George C. Chandler, was killed at Tacoma. He was riding on the platform of a street car which jumped the track, falling on its side,,and crush­ ing him. ' ' " : CAPTAIN A. N. HILL, Who cojV manded Company* B, Fifth Regiment Illinois National Guard, during the railroad strikes, died at Jol.itt, III., from typhoid fever, contracted during that period. THE wife of Charles Stelling, a gro­ cer and capitalist of San Francisco, eloped with Alexander McNeil, a street car conductor. She took 85,000 in money belonging to her husband and deeds to $75,00 > of his property which he had recorded in her name. WILLIAM M. PRICE, a Phoenix, A. T., newsboy, shot and mortally wounded William Siiurbert. The men had had an altercation over a game of poker. Shurbert is a plaster­ er by trade and has a small family. He formerly lived in Chicago. A SPECIAL from New Castle, Wash., says: A dust explosion occurred in breast 35 of the fifth level east of the Oregon Improvement Company's mine, with the result that one miner is dead and ten are seriously burned, two prob­ ably fatally. The explosion occurred at an hour when the second sh:ft changed for the third shift and all the miners being in the gangways accounts for the small fatality. Othe *s were burred and fome who were knocked down by the force of the explosion are more or less injured. POLICE investigation of the two re­ cent murders of veterans of the Eay- ton (Ohio) Soldiers' Home on pension day develops a situation more horrible than the Bender crimes in the West. Forty old soldiers have been robbed and murdered at the National Military ,|Home, and only passiner notice taken of the crimes. The Grand Army is taking I hold of the matter, and the feeling ex- i iits that the government should place detectives there to collect evioence against the murderers who have grown I rich by robbing the veterans. Local police authorities can go no farther than to give pointers that will surely lead to the arrest and conviction of the guilty ones. THE., forty-seventh annual fair at Delaware, Ohio, closed Friday night, after a big week. In past years the people have claimed that the reason the fairs there were not more success­ ful was the fact that no premiums were given to outside parties. This year everything was accepted and fortune wheels and other allurements ran galore. The soap racket was worked, crap shooting was indulged in, all in open play. The residents of the city, the seat ol one of the greatest religious colleges in the world, were paralyzed with amazement and are up in arms. It has created the greatest sensation ever known there. It U probable that the people will be satisfied with their old accustomed fair in the future. BY the explosion of a steam pipe in the rail mill of the Illinois Steel works at South Chicago, three men lost their lives and four others were terribly in­ jured. The recovery of one of the four is impossible and of the others improb­ able. The steam pipe was one of the large main feeders running through the entire plant. It passed' through the rail mill in its c urse and the ex­ plosion came at a point in the middle of this department. More than fifty men were working near the part of the room in which the explosion took place. It came without warning. The report was deafening and gave the employes the lir^t intimation of danger. Many vfrgre slightly injured and were able to run from the shop. Escaping et?am filled the rooms and the cries of the injured and the ab­ sence of many of tfceir comrades warned those who had gained safety that the explosion had been followed by serious and probably fatal results. ALABAMA Populists have combined with the Republicans to defeat the Democrats. COLONEL WILLIAM STRONG has de­ cided not to accepf the Republican nomination for Mavor of New York unle-s indorsed by the German-Ameri­ can Reform Union and other anti-Tam­ many organizations. IT is said that a friend of Senator Hill has received a private letter ex­ plaining that for the purpose of satis­ fying the people Hill ^ill hand in to Governor Mower his resignation as Senator. There will be a string to it. for the Governor is expected to hold it under consideration until after elec­ tion. when, if Morton is succ essful the resignation will net be accepted, and David B. will be in the Senate until 1897. RUSSIAN OFFICIALS TRV KEEP IT QUIET. • *->4' of Hta D**t» «M| *avo- |M»n Polities--Talk of Hlft SoeeMftor-- Heir Apparent b Mentally »nd Physically Vasonnd--Prematurely Beportod FOREIGN. tr %,V31 • c't' '§• •-{. SOUTHERN/ Gus JACKSON, of one of the pldest families of Waco, Tex., shot and fatal­ ly wounded MissGeraldine Livingston. Jealousy was the cause. ! Two Galveston, Tex., typesetting machine operators will compete against two Denver operators. The pair show­ ing the greater speed wins $200. THE engineer and two of the crew of a runaway train near Asheville, N. C., w re k lied when the engine and fourteea cars piled up at a curve. FIFTEEN men were injured in a j wreck of the Washington and Chatta­ nooga vestibule limited near Bristol, Tenn. Otstructions had been placed on the track, derailing the entire train. JOHN T. CALLAHAN, the first of the New Orleans boodle councilmen con­ victed of criminal bribery and corrup­ tion in office, was sentenced by Judge Moise to five years in the State peni­ tentiary and $50 fine. SEVEN negroes are reported to have been killed in a race fight on an excur­ sion train ne£-r Haw.sville, fcy. lfce BY the blowiug up of the military barracks at Granada, Nicaragua, 200 people lost their lives. One-quarter of the town was destroyed. , A DISPATCH from Chemulpo says that since Sept. 27 the Japanese have landed 7,800 troops and 756 coolies. The dispatch adds that the defenses of Seoul are being strengthened, and that the garrison has been re-enforced by 4,000 Japanese troops in anticipa­ tion of a hostile demonstration by the corean insurgents, it is reported that the Japanese have captured Ch e Foo, a town on the Yellow ^ea, having a good harbor and telegraphic connec­ tion with Pekin. A DISPATCH to the Panama Star and Herald from Granada, Nicaragua,says; "The military barracks have been b!o#n up ^SKI a whole quarter of the etty has been badly damaged. The ' nindber of dead is estimated at 200. The number „of wounded is much greater, , biit /co exact estimate is, yet obtained." Grjtnada is a city jai Nicaragua. It is the cap> itaTor a province ol the same name, and is loctttM on the northwestern shore erf the lake. It is w'ell built, having handsc me streets and public edifices: the latter comprise several fine churches. It is the s.-at of a flour­ ishing trade in cocoa, indigo, wool and hides, which are exported in boats by the River San Juan to Greytown. It is a noted seat of the manufacture of gold wire chains, "ihe population ft 15,103. , • INGENERAL THE Lick School in California. will bie opened for pupils July 7, 18S5. A SPECIAL dispatch from Panama says: "It is reported here that Amer­ ican J have regained control of the Panama Railroad: that G3orge Gould will be its new President and that Col. Rives, the present Superintendent of the road, will enter the tervice of the canal company as engineer." A NORTHEAST gale of exceptional force 6we>t over Newfoundland and the Atlantic coa ^t Tuesday night. The storm was severe at St Fierre, Mique- lon, where thirty lives were lost and great damage was done. A heavy sea was running in the - har­ bor. All the vessels at anchor Ahere put out extra anchors and, took other measures to cutride the gale, but notwithstanding this the maritime casualties were many. Not less than fifty vessel* dragged their anchors or parted their cables and were thrown upon thi shore. Everv effort made to claw off shore was fruit­ less, tho gale blowing with such tre­ mendous fury that even storm canvas could not be set. The wrecked vessels were part of the fishing fleet that had put into St. Pierre from the banks to repair damages they had sustained during the heavy storm of Sept. 30. Although there we e nearly 300 ves­ sels at the port, not a sing'e one of them escaped without sustaining some damage. Several of the fleet are missing, and g. ave fears are enter­ tained that they loundered during the night The shore all along the north­ east section of Long Islaid is strewn with wreckage. R. G. DUN & Co.'s weekly review of Trade says: -••jtti tbe cheap money cro-a of the West and Soulh starting in value it is not strange that purchases of manufactured products are smaller than was expected. Wheat has touched the lowest point ever knawn for options and cotton this lowest ever known in any form with the present classification, and ibe accumulation of stocks In both products is discouraging to purchasers for an advance- Producers are compelled to sell at prices below the or­ dinary coit of raisins crops, and in some Western States there is also a lamentable failure of the corn crop. Under the cir­ cumstances it would be very strange If the demand for manufactured products sbouM be quite as large as In other yean. MARKET REPORTS, . . CHICAGO. CAT-rt,*-Common to Prime.... p t9 HO«H -Shipping tirades * CO SHEEP--Fair to Choice £ oo WHEAT--No. J lied. Co**--No. S*. GATS--No. 2 RY*- No. 2 POTATOES--Cat-low, per BU.I . .• „ . INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLK--Shipping • HOas--Chbieeiljight SHEEP -Common to Prims..... WHEAT--No. -i Bed COBN--No. 2 White OATH--No. -i White BT. Lovia CATTLE .. HOGS WHEAT--No. a Bed.. COBN--Ne. A * OATH--No. S.. BTE--No. 2 CINCINNATI. CATTLS . HOGH SHEEP WHEAT--No. i Bed Cojtff--No. 2 Mixed OATS--No. 2 Mixed KYE--NO. 2 DETROIT. CATTLE HOUB SHEEP * WHEAT--No. l White.... OOKN--No. 2 Yellow .... OATS--No. 2 White .... TOLEDO. WHEAT--NO. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 Yel'ow ....:. OATS--No. 2 White ;. RYE-NO. 2 BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. L White No. 2 Red CORK--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White _ MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--NO. 2 Spring........... COBS--No. a OATH--NO. 2 White BABLEY--No. 2 RYE--No. 1 CATTLE Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No, 2 Bed COB*--No. 2 OATS-White Western BVTTEB--Crsammrr.... Koo»--^Testeni S>: V *" '# i K ' -m.. ^ f . 1 v . " & - Mm , j.- • 's Iw-:..- • Involve AU BnrO^ie. ' The serious illness of the Emperor* of Russia continues to alarm the whole of Europe. It is extremely difficult to get any correct news of t&e trua condi­ tion of his Imperial Majesty, as only the most meager daily bulletins are issued. However, there is no disguis­ ing the fact that the Czar is very sick indeed. There is already any amount of speculation on what effect the Em­ peror's death will have on European politics, and tbe fluctuations of the money markets can be directly traced to this source. In the bourses of all Europe Saturday and in every center of finance on the globe there was more or less uneasiness anent the reports that came from St. Petersburg that the Czar was dead. True, the report J were no sooner in circulation than they were denied, but denials from a source where suppression and mystery are the rule do not reassure entirely. And just such news has been expeoted from St. Petersburg, has been expect­ ed for many weeks. Weeks ago Alexander IIL, j)rey to fears of assassination following the Peterhof plot of Aug. 6, half dead from dropsy and Bright's disease, his mind a shattered wreck, was carried in a homes of the destitute. This will be kept up throughout th*wintit| or at least until it is no longer aeoMh sary. This is the only way pr^i«ioaa can be distributed to the satisfaction of the givers and tho?e who receive them. I am going to commence work as soon as it can possibly be done, and I am sure that upon the report ot the committee the County Board will give us a good supply to start with." A FAMOUS CRIMINAL. Capt. Henri Howf*t«'» Story If StraafM th*n Flctioa. It seems a thing incredib?e that a than, a notorious criminal, should for years elude the pursuit of lUitioe though all the re­ sources of the law were brought to bear against him and should live quietly in New York, going in and out aiiiong men, attending to his own business without hindrance or harm. Such a case shows an e traordinary cour.-e of luck and, if one J should riad of it in a story, one would say "impossible." Yet that it is by no means impossible is* shown Vy the case of Capt. Henry W. Howgate, who was arrested recent­ ly in New ifork. i<or twelve years search has been made for him high and low and he could not be found. The whole machinery of the Govern­ ment secret service had been brought to bear on the case without avail, and yet. when finally discovered, Howgato ii' was found had teen living in the H. W. HOWGATB. NATIONAL MEETING OF TILLERS OF THE SOIU Bt* Crowd of A«rlemtorlete la Atteirtaaeo -lattNMlBK Papon Md Debate* on Im­ portant Smbjeete--Some of the Objects •ad ParpOMt of the Organisation. B. W. CLATTOH, i ,«y r. L ...s, . mm: i hospital car from his imperial palace to his hunting lodge--a palace itself-- in the Eeloweschki fastnesses. There he ha? been since, under the care of an eccentric old physician of Moscow, Sacharjin by name', whose methods are the quack's, laughed at by all the med­ ical savants of Europe. "A madman curing another," it is whispered in Kt. Petersburg. But Sacharjin cured the Emperor's lesser ills on a previous oc­ casion, and he is the only person hold­ ing the imperial confidence to-day. Under the best of condition* it is generally believod that the Czar can never recover frcm his present illness, and his death willce.tainly precipitate a quarrel over the succession. The Grand Duke Nicholas is the heir ap­ parent to the Russian throne, but he was never normally strong either mentally or physically, and it is thought to be more than likely that he will be compelled to abdicate in favor of hi9 mother. In the present unset­ tled condition of European affairs the death of the Czar will be more than of usual moment, involving as it may. complications which might involve the peace of Europe. / # / APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. ffhtnffs Growing Worse in the Model Town Where Pullman Cars Are Built. Some hundreds of peop'.e in the model town of Pullman, 111., are grad­ ually starving to death! Startling as is this statement it is literally true. Since the great strike of June and Julv ended the people there have continued to exist only because of the charity of others. But after the public interest in the strikers had died away the siip- plies which were being furnished to the needy in the town of FtHlman cars slowly but steadily decreased. The climax has now been recched. Seven hundred people who applied at relief headauarters the other day were toll that there was nothing for them. Undoubtedly something will be done at once for the deserving poor at Pull­ man. County Commissioner David Kallis is thoioughly in earnest in the very heart of New York for the past six years, known to many men as a studious and intellectual book-seller, and respected by all who knew him. Twenty-five years ago Henry How- gate arrived in Washifigton poor, but handsome, strong and youthfiiL He began to interest himself in meteoro­ logical studies, and as time went on, enlisted the sympathy of many high in government circles. Through his ef­ forts the Weather Bureau was organ­ ized in i870, and Howgate was put at its head. Then Howgate began to te a prominent figure in Washington so­ ciety. The elegance of his dinners and entertainments which even the Presi­ dent attended, not to speak of Cabinet officers and Senators, the splendor of his horses ami equipages and the beauty of his home, all con-pired to make him a conspicuous personage. He led the gayest of lives; he spent money lavishly, and he seemed neither to know or care how much he flung away. At first all went on merrily enough; then came ugly whispers kind/ before long such accusations were made that Howgate was forced to give lup his ^position. An investigation was made ;and it was found that Howgata had pursued a systematic course of ijorgery, larceny and embezzlement and that his peculations reached the large sum of $H70,000. On one of tha numerous charges against him he was arretted. In prison Howgate was treated with extreme consideration and allowed a great degree ol liberty. Among other privileges he was permitted to gdi home under an officer's care :at stated) times to bathe. Howgato took advan-> tage of this leniency and escaped, taking with him a young woman known as Nellie Burril, with whom he had been living and she has been with him ever since. For six years they were fugitives, now traveling through the far South and now making their way through the dense and untrodden forests of the Northwest. Six years--years of fear and torment, six years of dread of punishment and suspicion of every man--were passed, and then, as though m « «• & 8 60 4 8 00 0 » -7S 00 & S (0 <&9SO t ss as & 5 25 C® 6 00 & t 0) V>M -m-' SCENES I'VLLMAX. <& 4 00 & « 00 3 Olt <a» 3 25 ....; 66H 6!t <o» ss » IS 00 0 8 80 »'•»»» work which has fallen upon him. He says: "As soon a* possible I am going to secure a large etorehousa of some kinl and then I am going to adiress a circular to tbe citizens of Chicago. Mtmey will not be asked for. We will ask for provisions of all kinds, and everything that could possibly be of anv use to the sufferers. After these things commence to come I will se­ cure the services of several charitable wowea, who will visit Pullman tvery wishing to end his suspense and give, his enemies a chance to take him,. Howgate and Nellie came to New York. Howgate had alwavs been a man of literary tastes and a knowledge of books, and so it does not seem unnat­ ural that he should open, as he did, a second-hand book shop. He adopted the name of Harvey Williams, and soon became known to buyers of books m a gentleman, refined and elegant ia manaer, and as a i eel use ^rid studeat The Farmers' National Congrass, composed of delegates from every State in the Union, appointed by the Governors, matin Pfcrkeraburg, W. Va., and remained in ses­ sion nearly a week. Great preparations were m a d e b y t h e citizOns of Parkers- burg for the recep­ tion of the delegates, and the several hun- red representative farmers from all parts of the countrr' were present. The address of weloofne was deliv- ered by Gov. McCor- kle, and many distinguished men de­ livered addresses. Thursday's session was held on historic Blennerhasset Island, where a banquet was served the delegates by the citizens of Par- kersburg,* On Saturday an excursion Was ran to the famous Sistersville oil field, The regular sessions ware held in the Academy of iMuaic and were ©pen to the public. The > ational f armers' Congress is non-partisan in character and has no alliance with the many semi-partisan farmers' organizations of the country. At this session many valuable papers were read and the proceedings are ex- f iected to be fruitful of much good to he agricultural class. Resolutions favoring free mail delivery, Sunday |*est for railroad employes and for ( government control of railroads were Jflnfcroduced and referred. A com- mittee was appointed to investigate .^charges against millers taking exces­ sive tolls. A resolution favoring a law to compel railroads to carry live stock through to its destination without fetops of tnore than an hour was adopted. Oliver of Pennsylvania. Rogers of Maryland, Wells and Cow- fen of Ohio, Smith of Pennsylvania, 'otter of New York and Moore of Pennsylvania spoke on taxation. JVhn Hutchinson of Parkersburg delivered tin historic address relating to Blen- Jierhasaett island and Aaron Burr. fJolonel Dan Needham of Massachu­ setts spoke on farmers and finance and Senator Henderson of .West 'Virginia On stock and the farm. The congress also adopted resolu­ tions calling upon the President and the United States Congress to call an international conven­ tion of nations ready to unite for the equal us 3 of gold and silver as full legal tender without discrimina­ ting, and censured the United Congress ?for repealing the Sherman act without Inaking provision for the coinage of silver dollars. A resolution •Was also adopted de­ manding that equals protection be given JOHN M. STAHU to farm p^odqets with other industries jn all tariff legislation and that a com­ mittee be appointed to confer with the committee of Congress to secure the e^ual adjustment of euch schedules. A resolution demanding protection to woo1, cotton, hemp, and flax was laid on the table by a vote of 160 to 87, the convention refusing to entertain polit­ ical questions. The Committee on Resolut ons was instructed to report no resolutions that were not non-par­ tisan. ' Object of tho Congress., B. F. Clayton, of-Indianola, Iowa, is President of the Farmers' Congress. President Clayton is a practical and extensive farmer, has served on the Iowa State Board of Agriculture,, in the Legislature, and declined further political honors. His opinions are said to have more weight than those of any other agricultural writer. The farm­ ers' congress is not a political body, as is shown by the fact that delegates are appointed by both Democratic and Re­ publican governors. The congress owes much of its success to the etfo. ts of its President. As Secretary of the Farmers' National Congress, Hon. John M. Stahl, of ^uincy, 111., was one of the leaders of the recent annual meeting. Mr. Stahl is a man of prominence and influence. He has held political office, and when appointed delegate tj the Farmers' Cong e3s by Governor Altgeld, he was chairman of the Republican Central Committe, of Quincy. The Farmers' Iv ational Congress is strictly non­ partisan, hut no other organization of farmers has so much iolluence with legislative bodies. It is said that to it alone is due the provision made by Congress for a test of rural free mail delivery. The Congress, is composed of one delegate from each Congres­ sional district, two at large, appointed from each State by the Governor, and one from each State Boa d of Agricul­ ture and agricultural collage. Its principal object is to make rijra.1 JLxfe more attractive. Telegraphic Clieu. ^ NEW YORK CITY has decMedi to adopt the patrol wagon system. REECE RUSH was killed at Marengo, Ohio, by a Toledo and Ohio Central t:ain. EDWARD HURST, a pickpocket, was shot at South Beni. Ind., by Dr. Crawsby, whose pocket he attempted to pick. A THROUGH mail pouch from Chi- eago to St. Joseph, Mo., is said to have been robbed of nineteen registered letters. . « : THE boiler in Shultz's sawmill, near parkersburg, VV^. Va.. exploded, killing three men and fatally inuring two Others. JOSEPH SHACHXETON has filed suit |ot* $ 0.030 at Muncie, Ind., against the Eureka Land Counpanv for damages alleged from non-fuliillment of con­ tract. • MRS. J. E. BUTLER, a wealthy widow jof Mount Kisco, shot herself through the head at J> ew York. She was the wi:e of a Confederate general whodied fc year ago. ; THE five members of the sophomore Ciais of the Minnesota State University who were suspended for taking part in a rush with freshmen have been reinstated. * IN a pitched battle between train- Wen and tramps near Anderson, lad.. One of the latter was fatafty injured. MRF. MARTIN STANKBWICZ was burned to death at Kankakee, IIL, trying to start a the with kerosene 'oil;;;;;.,. * JUDGMENT « a * r e n d e r e d i n t h e Delaware Co jnty, Ohio, circuit court against the Michigan Mutual Life In­ surance Company for $6,£00 in favor of Mrs. Nettie Lenn. LYMAN BROWN, the New York millionaire, has l^en arrested at Montreal on a charge of conspiracy preferred by his daughter-in-law for spiriting away, her husband. BTOHM'S HAVOC ON THE FOUNOLANO COAST. J y \ «/';>» , ..••i '• •••»• v • rqft'ttr * t 18 ' OT Ov&> Th^e ITWdrefl Bscapee Damaee --Atlantic Shores Okie Swept--Yachting and Fiihlo| Boat* Beoefcod ae t«Bf liland goond. ' X m r S h i p * W r e c k e d . A northeast gale of exceptional forctf swept over New Foun Hand. Th« ^ storm was tevere at St. Pierre, Mique- lOn, where thirty lives were lost anil * great damage was done. A heavy sea wasrunaingin the harbor. All the vessels at anchor there put out extra anchors and took other measures to " Outride the gale, but notwithstanding* this the maritims casualties many. Not less than fifty vessels i\ dragged, their anchors or parted their cables and were thrown upon, the shore. Every effort made to claw off j, shore was fruitless, the gale blowing with such tremendous fury that evea storm canvas could not be set. Some of t the doomed vessels were thrown<ashore in exposed places, and the great seas breaking over them soon pounded them to pieces. No assistance could be ren­ dered th6 shipwrecked men from the ' | shore. A number of them who jumped overboard and attempted to reach the ; shore by swimming were drowned, while others were swept into the sea by the waves combing over their ve«- s tels and were not s en again until their* i bodies were cast upon the beach. The wrecked vessels were part of tba ? fishing fleet that had put into ct. Pierf<e ' i from the banks to repair damages they J had sustained during the heavy storm ; of Sept. 30. Although the e wera ? nearly 300 vessels at the port, not a single one of them escaped without J sustaining some damage. Severa the rteet are missing, and grave fears " • are entertained that they foundered. . --i.-- V&IIXBD IN THEIR BEDS. ' , Wind In Mew York Blows Down a Batl^f Inc. Burrluf Two Familial. A storm broke upon New York and vicinity, doing great damage oa sea and on land, agd causing death and destruction in all directions. Houses were wrecked and vessels cart ashore. Many craft which were due are miss- ' ing, and some of them are reported lost with all hands on board. The most serious accident on land occurred at 3:50o'clock, when the wal s of a seven- story factory in course of construction at 14 Monroe street fell in. They crushed in the roof of the three-story dwelling, 72 Monroe street, killing nine of its inmates ana se.iously injuring fourteen others. There were nearly twenty persons in the tenement-housa and ten in a rear extension to the house on the other side of the collapsed building. Both house were crushed and by H o'clock three bodies had b?en taken from the ruins, two of them mutilated almost beyond recognition, and at least til teen parsons were under treatment for severe injuries received. All the morninsr the work of rescue- went on till the bodie3 of nine dead were recovered. The most severely injured were taken to the hospital Galligan. the contractor who under­ took to erect the building, will be ar­ rested. Thomas F. Brad'y says that two weeks ago he called the attention of the building inspector,. M. J. Casey, to the apparent instability of the build­ ing, and was told to mind his own busi­ ness. At Coney Island* the storm was OQO> of the worst which have visitei the place in years. 'The wind shook the buildings to their foundations, and many families rushed out into the pouring rain rather than face the 'pos­ sibility of being buried alive. Tree " were uprooted and fell across th. streets, blocking traffic for hours. T] tracks of the New Jersey Southai Railroad, between freabright an Highland Beash, N. J.. were covered with sand washed up by the waves! The fishing smack Louise was driven ashore at Highland Beach and is a t > tal loss. Her crew of ten moa were taken off by the life-saving crew. In Seabright and vicinity a num­ ber of buildings were unroofed. At Long Island City the big iron tank be­ longing to the £!ast River Gas Compa­ ny was blown down to within five feat oi its foundation. In Jersey City ttoa damage is confined to the telegraph, telephone, trolley and electric-lighting wires. In three'instances horses were ^ killed by coming in contact with liv® 1 wires. The damage at Long Branch is gieat. About JOO leet of piling of the new iron Dier waj washed out. ,• =• The bulkhead between the Brighton andGrand View hotels is ba ily wrecked. About twenty-fi ve feet of the West e.ild J hotel was blown off and tho old Oliver ^' cottage adjoining was unroofed. GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT. • - Increased Yield Promised In All Cereal*;., hot Corn, Which Is Unchanged. The October returns to the statts* tician of the Department of Agriciil- • ture make the general condition ot ' corn as not materially di. erent from that of last month, it being ti4.2. against 63.4 in September, a gain oi eight-tenths of 1 por cent. In most ot a the Southern States the canditian of corn has fallen since the last report,, but in some of the Western States there has been slight gain in condi- - , | tion. The averages of condition in that; :- largest surplus corn growing' States ' are as follows: . " K Iowa .....fifi; Tennessee Kentucky... Ohio Mlehiiian Indiana. Illinois... WlBoonstn.... Minnesota... M W Missouri Kansas. N e b r a s k a . . . . . . ' 1 4 South Dakota... North Dakota.......M California.........v.,** The returns of yield per «icre ct wheat ind cate a production of about 13.1 bushels, being 1.3 bushels greater than last October's preliminary esti­ mate. The rate of yield by States l» as follows: " New York l*.8jMissonrl Pennsylvania. 15.8J Kansas Ohio Xv.41 Nebraska............ M Michigan.. lS.SiSoutli Dakota....... Indiana........-- 19.4|North Dakota II.? „ Illinois. X8.b| Washington .UU4 * Wisconsin...... ....lfi.6|Ore«on JM 1 Minnesota ,ix» California. .11/ ' Iowa u.s| _ The indicated auality for the couar try is ^3.5. The quality in somo of principal wheat states is: New York Pennsylvania Kentucky............ Ohio................ Michigan. •.,.... Indiana Illinois, Wisconsin; Minnesotia.... ..... USIowa..... 96 Missoaxl. Kansas & Nebraska 9* Sooth Dakota bt North Dakoaa...... S3 Washington.... Oregon Catnornla.. 1 % -M The returns of yield of oats per aCra, after consolidation, indicate a yield ^ t * " 24.5 bushels, being one bushel moi% i than the estimate for last October. The average yield of rye, according t» \ the correspondents' returns of .yield,." Car acre, is li'.T bushels, against i.J.8 ushels in 1893 and 12.7 bushels in 181?. "! According to the return on yield pec j acre the general average for bar ev I 1&3 b.shels, aga nst 21.7 bushels ip ' 1883 and 2.^.7 bushels in. 1892.