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the liver, comatose d e a t h , were at raoned fr Monday forenoon. Mrs. Buch,arian made a last effort to induce Governor Morton to commute the 'sentence to life imprison-; meut. The woman sank on he^knoes be­ fore the Governor and pleaded for her husband's life, though her grief almost prevented her from speaking. Governor Morton was plainly overcome by the wo­ man's pleading, and tears stood in his eyes as he lifted her to her feet and told her that he could not grant her request. The iron mills of the .MooreKfead-Mc­ Lean Company, in Pittsburg, have been sold by the sheriff. The plant is worth over $1,000,000*; but went for $11,000, just enough to cover t he-taxes due on the, property and the sheriff's costs. By this transaction the plant of one of the oldest iron firms'goes out of its possession for good. The 'purchaser is ~ the New York Life Insurance "Company, holder of the mortgage 011 which the sale, was made. The mortgage was for $350,000, but ipe interesE'Vcumulated ran the claim tip to $370,000. This leaves the extension cred­ itors without security and nothing to fall back on. , -• KILLED IN THE CHAI - HARRINGTON IS OUT. Cbief of the Weather iSurean IaJRe- tnoyed the President. Professor Mark WS Harrington is no longer chief of the United States Weather buream« He has been removed by Presi­ dent Cleveland, after declining to hand in his resignation. The cause of his re­ moval is ascribed to' incompatibility of temper between Secretary Morton on the one hand and Professor Harrington on the other. Mr. Harrington was appinted four years ago by President Harrison^&nd, al­ most from the first day that Secretary Morton took charge of the agricultural DEATH IN THE S Dr. Buchanan, the Wife - F Dies hy Electrocution at SinJ Dr. Robert W. Buchanan,.tb</- oner, wa^electrpcpted at^Si»g$5i! Monday afternoon: Mtitt^U^ai a last effort to indqwSffllM|o: to commute the st ment at 6 o'clopl^|g womgp sank oajbgii J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MANY ACCIDENTS ON THE NA- TION'S BIRTHDAY. wii\ ing, IS. •• . • man ma do jr Morton "Imprison­ ing. The i the Gov- WIND AND RAIN CAUSE A! HAVOC. JJcHENRY, rLLl^OI' A Score Aire Dead and Others Will Die --Toy Pistol and Crackers Reap a Harvest--Four Hundred Fall with a Bridge. , Town of Winona, Mo., Wiped Off the Map an_d Eleven Persona Drown-- Pleasure Party Goes Down to Death in Lake Geneva. TRADE REVIEW NOTES IMPROVE­ MENT IN BUSINESS. iDnusiially Good Outlook for Fall Trade--Fearful Rain Storm in Kan­ sas-- Fatal Ribt at '-a Picnic -- New . Baby at th^White House. . • »K. BUCHANAN. than any other dealer in McHei Dun's Weekly Review. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: The midsummer reports from till commercial centers,, indicate distinctly better crop prospects than Other official Of commercial accounts, a marked in* . crease in retail distribution of products, ko active demand for goods, and a general enlargement of the working force, with eome advance in the .wages of more than Shalf a million hands. At the same time they show that the rapid'advance in pricey has somewhat checked the buying of a few classes of products; In soine parts of the country the outlook for fall trade is considered bright, There were 6.657 commercial failures in the first half of 1895, -against 7,030 in the. first half of 31894. These commerchU'•failures involved ^liabilities of $88,839,944 this year.' against - $101,739,305 last year. Manufacturing ifail,tires for the half year Were 1.254, fegainst , 1,501 last; /ear. and liabilities $40,301,949. against $41,376,102 last year. Trading failures for the half year were. 5,335, against 5,402 last year, and liabili­ ties $45,669,830, against $52,345,978 last year. Banking failures not included in •above statements were 63, with liabilities of $16,653,276, against 63 last year, with liabilities of $13,184,461. The Retails show B decrease in every class of failures in the second, compared with the first quarter of 1895, both in number and magnitude, and defaulting liabilities averaging $34, against $40 for every firm in business, and $3.04,'against $4.03, for every $1,000 solvent payment. Death in a Ragring Flood. A violent and long-continued downpour of rain, amounting to a cloudburst, precip­ itated over southeastern Kansas the worst flood in fifteen years. Reports already in indicate that five persons probably are drowned. NEWS NUGGETS. * The treasury deficit for July is already more than $6,000,000. The Saphite Iron Company, of Florence, Ala., employing 200 men, has advanced wages 10 per cent. David Renner, aged 90 and insane, of Greene County, Tenn.v killed himself by < hanging with a log?chainr-' John W. Carter, the well-known ink manufacturer of Boston, was drowned •while bathing at Harwich, Mass.,, Ben Lennox, an American ranchman in Mexico, was shot from ambush by a Mex­ ican driver he had discharged. The Santa Rita copper and iron mill at Santa "Rita, N. M., burned at midnight. Loss, $100,000. Believed to be unin­ sured. • Mary Morgan, aged 21, and Maggie Rafferty, aged 22 years, were struck by a Pennsylvania train at Holmesburg Junc­ tion, Pa., and killed. Folts Brothers, dry goods merchants at Sioux Falls, S. D., assigned for the benefit of all creditors. Liabilities. $12.- 000; assets somewhat less; Post office authorities have issued fraud orders against J. C. Baldorf, of Grand liapids, Mich., and Charles Allen, of New York and Weston. W. Va. Dr. Edward R. Palmer, one of the best known physicians in the United States, was run over by a bicycle in Louisville and so badly injured that he died. E. L. Nicholson, representing the oil company headed by the president of the lead trust, was arrested at Wheeling. W. • iVa., for stealing $200,000 worth of leases. Winona, Mo., was, wiped out of exist­ ence by a cloudburst, or a tornado sim­ ilar in destructive power, between 9 a. m. and 1 p. • m. Saturday. Eleven people were drowned. „ At Gray Gables, the quiet and pic­ turesque summer home of President Cleveland, at 4:30 Sunday afternoon a little girl was born to Mrs. Cleveland. Mother and child are doing well. Ed Berry, of Gadsden, Ala., interfered with John Kyle while the latter was beating a woman. Kyle resented this and slashed Berry with a razor, causing the latter's death in half an hour. Six persons were drowned in Lake Geneva, Wis., at 5 o'clock Sunday after­ noon when the steam launch Dispatch Was turned over by the tornado that passed over that section. The boat went to the bottom like a shot. As a result of a riot at a picnic at Si­ beria. Perry County. Ind., three persons are dead, five fatally woUnded and fifty seriously hurt,. The desperate fight, which lasted for an hour, was precipitated by a gang of roughs. North Dakota farmers are unanimous in the statement that thcjState will this year harvest the larg^/trop of wheat for many years. The quantity was vari­ ously estimated at from 43.000,000 to 00,- 000,000.bushels. Not a few venture the statement that the average yield would be from sixteen to thirty bushels to the acre. ' ' ', The Kentucky Populists held their State convention at Louisville!" They adopted the Omaha.platform and declared for the free and unlimited coinage of silver'at 16 to 1. A delegation of women appeared before the convention and in several speeches urged the convention to adopt a plank in its platform indorsing equal suffrage, but it was voted down, James Reynolds, a druggist of Parsons, Ivan., pleaded guilty to selling liquor in violation of the law and was fined $300. More arrests will follow. Sitting on the spot where a jealous lover ihad several years before shot her, Mrs. Robert Oone, of Alley, Ga*f? committed suicide wtfcfa a shotgun, which she explod' <•<! with her foot. At Louisville, Ala., lightning killed Post master Edward Bryan, wife and baby. : iOne boy survives. Thomas Norville, colored, was hanged ;at Mobile, Ala., for the murder of Louis .Coleman, also colored. James R. Garfield, of Mentor, Ohio, son of the late President, is a Republican candidate for State Senator. John Meyer, Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, prominent Re­ publican politician and well-known "law­ yer of Chicago, died Wednesday at Free- port. For some time the Speaker had been in poor health, but it was not known that the end was near. Death came sud-, deri.ly while the patient was seeking, rest and proved a great; shock to,his political colleagues-find associates, at' the. biir, - The Southern Pacific, "overland" was Stopped Monday .night by three highway­ men * near Riddles,. Oregon, ancl robbed. Sticks of dynamite were placed on the rails.' n Nothing was obtained frohi the express-car,"for there was no,treasure on board. In the "niailcaF better success was* met, and Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Victoria, 6. C., registered sacks were rifled. -PaTs^ngers were also searcK^d pretty thoroughly, but just what success .was met with is not known*.. ,</svU For five years "Whistling" ;£)avis, of Long Beach. Cal., has kept the corpse of his dead child in a little coffin i^his ho'use. The neighbors have remonstrated and threatened without avail. He has stub­ bornly refufeed to bury the body or per­ mit anyone to have it interred. Lately the neighbors became excited about the affair, the coroner was notified and Js about to commence up, investigation, jt be­ ing hejd that there is a law making it illegal for a person thus to retain the body of a deceased human being. Humane Officer Wright and Constable deel& Monte went to the beach to arrest the man. They found the little casket con­ taining the body under the porch. In it was the little dried skeleton. An ilitfilest will be held. The increase of 10 per cent, in wages recently announced by the Illinois Steel Company went into effect Monday. Over seven thousand men Will be benefited by the change. The advance has been .made at the South Chicago works, the North Chicago rolling mills and the plants at Milwaukee and Joliet. All classes of employes are included in the advance,' with the exception of the tonnagemen, who work on a sliding scale. That is, the rate of wages of those paid according to the actual amount o"f manufactured ma­ terial is regulated according to the market price of the material they are employed in making. When the price of steel rails, for example, advances, the wages of those employed in making steel rails advance in proportion. When the market price of steel rails declines the wages of the work­ men decline with them. All this class of workers are not interested in; the change, but all who work at a given amount per day will be benefited. • Judge Goggin of Chicago doesn't think the Fletcher prison parole law, passed by the last Legislature, constitutional, and Monday refused to sit in the Criminal Court and try cases according to its pro­ visions. He discharged until further no­ tice the jury which had been selected, and declined to hear any of the cases on his call. The witnesses were also dismissed, and so far as his branch is concerned Judge Goggin put a stop to criminal court business, declaring the law was unconsti­ tutional. and that to try cases under it was a waste of time. The law which made the Judge strike provides that, ex­ cept in murder and treason cases, the jury can only return a verdict of guilty or not guilty without fixing the length of sentence to the penitentiary. Under its provisions a prisoner will be. sentenced to the limit of the law and the question of reducing the sentence rests entirely with the warden and the prison board, who are to reward him according to his good be­ havior. The jury has nothing to do with fixing the time of sentence. The new law went into effect Mondav. which these boats are to be built permlta tthem <0 be constructed on the Atlantic i coast ̂ nly inithe evi?Jit that the navyj de­ partment is'Wnaible to* secure reasonable offers from responsible bidders on the Pa­ cific coast, the Mississippi, River and thV Gulf of MexicoInquiries are being re­ ceived from iron-workers and shiprbuil(k ers aldng the Gulf and on the Mississippi which encourage the department officials to hope that- bids will be forthcoming fjrorn, these sections, and to stimulate the inauguration of new naval shipwrights the department has been at some pains to furnish the inquirers with all information that might properly be given them in the way of detailed plans of the boats and matters of internal construction that will assist them in submitting estimates. One purpose is to correct a very prevalent-im­ pression among embryo naval constructors that a torpedo-boat is easy to build, being nothing more than a powerful engine en- dh86d in the smallest hull that will float it," for sin reality it is one of the most un­ certain products of the naval architect, and only the highest degree of designing and structural skill and the use of the best material will styand the severe strains and develop the very high speed absolutely re­ quired by the contracts under which the torpedo-boats are built. Success in build­ ing vessels of ordinary type and merchant craft is no guarantee of good results in the first attempt at building a torpedo- boat. .. , '. • " - '• FOREIGN" J. Lamb Doty, United States Conspl at Tahiti, is charged with deceiving a na­ tive girl with a mock 'marriage. ^ According to advices received Peru his made ample apology for insulting the British Vice. Consul,, William Fry, in Sep­ tember last, when Fry was arrested and compelled to subscribe to a forced loan. The steamer Empress of China brings the news that "Billy" Waters, of Vic­ toria and San Francisco, pugilist and bar-room bouncer, is now Minister of War a'nd Vice President of the Republic of Formosa.- '• The Spanish Government has apppoint- ed a commission to consider the claims of the United States regarding the confisca­ tion of the estate of Antonio Maximo Mora, an American citizan residing on the island of Cuba. The value of the •property taken from Mora was. alleged to be about $2,500,000. This was done during a previous insurrection in Cuba. In-December, 1886, Spain promised 'o pay $1,500,000 under this claim, with inter­ est on such -part of the indemnity as should be deferred. , The new tariff measure passed by "the German reiehstag early in May went into effect Monday. The most important pro­ vision is that authorizing the government to impose retaliatory duties whenever other nations discriminate against Ger­ man products. Discriminating duties on goods now on the free list are, however, limited to 20 per-cent, ad valorem. The measure also raises the duty on perfumes containing alcohol from 200 to*300 marks, and imposes a protective duty on Que­ bracho wood, which is used for tanning. IN GENERAL A restaurant keeper at Los Angeles, Cal., has received information that he has fallen heir to 4,000,000 francs in Italy. His uncle died some time ago, leaving a large estate, to which Scotto was the only heir. An immense amount of poor seed is sold to American farmers and gardeners, ac­ cording to a report recently issued by the agricultural department. While other countries have been looking into the-sub- ject with a view to protecting their agri­ culturists from abuses, no investigations have been made in the United States ex­ cept at a few experimental stations. Great apathy prevails, however, among purchasers, who, as a rule, buy the cheap­ est seed in the market and trust to hick tot* it to produce the crop. Such seed, says the report, is dear at any price and the principal source of the hosts of bad weeds, whose eradication costs vastly more than the few cents a pound extra which good seed would have cost. The re­ port makes the charge that American seed has acquired a poor reputation in foreign countries, in some of which it is difficult for it to gain a foothold through prejudice. Following is the standi.ug...yf the clubs of the National Base-ball League: SOUTHERN. E. O. Sanders killed his young bride and himself at Dallas, Texas. G. C. King was escuted at Rusk, Tex. The Governor refused to interfere. Miss Minnie Wilkinson committed sui­ cide in a Richmond (Va.) church because her lover proved faithless. Three children of Archdelus Cook, of Iloekhouse, Ky., were poisoned by eating mulberries that contained spider eggs. All died. Private advices received at Tampa, Fla., say that Campos is preparing an expe­ dition, or convoy, which will be supplied with large quantities of poisoned food and defective cartridges loaded with bullets, jut with no powder. It is hoped the in- j surgents will capture the convoys and the food taken by the Cubans. A special from Harrisburg, Ark., says: J. II. Vandever, treasurer of Poinsette County, claims to have been robbed of several thousand dollars. Monday was the last day for county treasurers to set­ tle. and the discovery of the alleged Job­ bery just before the hour of settlement caused a sensation. The dispatch adds that developments in connection \y;ith tin- robbery are anticipated. ,. , v.,. Per P. W. L. cent. Baltimore ... . . .. . 53 33 20 .623 Pittsburg . .. 62 37 25 .597 Boston ...... . . .54 32 22 .593 Chicago .. .65 38 27 .585 Cleveland . . .. . .. 62 36 26 .581 Brooklyn .... . .. 57 32 25 .561 Cincinnati .. .59 33 26 .559 Philadelphia .. . . .56 31 25 .554 \New York . . .57 27 30 .474 Washington .. 23 34 .404 St. Louis .. .62 2(1 42 .328 Louisville . . .58 9 49 .155 WESTERN LEAGUE. In the Western League the clubs close the week in the following order: EASTERN. Per P. W. L. cen t. Indianapolis- r.. . . 55 35 20 .636 Detroit s . .56 30 26 .536 Kansas City... . .56 30 26 .536 Milwaukee . .57 29 28 .509 St. Paul . •. 55 28 27 .509 Minneapolis ... . .54 24 30 .444 Torre Haute. . , . .55 24 31 .436 Grand Rapids. . .. 56 22 34 .393 prime, grades, WASHINGTON. John Swanstrom and two girls namea Hedwick Lawson and Christine Hegelen were drowned in Lake Chautauqua, N. Y. The family of Jam.es Caussian, while driving near" Pittsburg, were thrown down a precipice. The girl was killed and the mother will die. Mrs. Mabel Roellofs was arrested at Philadelphia, charged with passing bogus checks on a Colorado bank; also with ob­ taining $1,000 in a similar manner from . n Philadelphia lawyer. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan, the wife pois­ oner, was electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. Y., 3l : r f The union carpenters engaged^Ofi1 the Catholic University at Washington, D. C.f have struck for an advance of wages-, ' During the year ended Tune 30 the Pofetoffice Department issued 2,S23,000,- 000 Stamps, valued at $56,885,418, an in­ crease of $4,000,000 over the piV-Vlotis year. The value of envelopes issued was $1,968,161. | The Eureka Tobacco Works at Wash­ ington operated by A- Beck & Co., Chi­ cago. has been notified by' .the postoffice department^to cease sending through tlip mails bags of smoking tobacco, or to re­ move from them certain cards that offer a prize to the purchaser of those contain­ ing a given number. The department holds that the scheme is practically a lot­ tery. Captain Henry W. Howgate, the former disbursing officer of the signal service, who, after years of wandering as a fugi­ tive from, justice, was found in Ne\i- York 'City in business as a second-hand book dealer and brought back to Washington, %ak'«£rttenced Tuesday to eight years' im­ prisonment in the penitentiary fop forgery and falsification of accounts in 1879. Cap- ^fXin'Howgate was then remanded to jail td'#Mait.'the result of the appfeal." ' e navy department has advertised for proposals for building th?e£ "nfe^v torpedo- ts large enough to go to sea and make fAenty-six knots an hour. The act under Celebration Costs Lives. Press telegrams indicate that the na­ tional holiday was" generally observed throughout the country, and attendant to the celebration were the usual number of fatalities and accidents. The pistol of commerce and the toy pistol got in its work in the death list, many, in the roll being victims^of this deadly- machine. Firecrackers came next" in the list, with a number to their credit. Then came stray bullets, persons being hit at various times and places by shots from instru­ ments held by cheerful idiots who shut their eyes and blazed away. Torpedoes hurt few persops, while the rocket list^is small. p•> Five persons "dead. and thirty-thrfee in­ jured Was the record in Chicago. The dead viei-e not all killed on the day itself, however. Three were victims of the day before,andone fell dead, presumably from heart disease, while watching the celebra* tion, and. one man was ,drowned, At Marion, Ind., while firing a cannot! at the Soldiers' Home John Haupt, an old artilleryman and a soldier in the regular army for seventeen years, was killed-by a permature discharge. . During the> progress of a ball galne at Hinckley, HI.. Peter Anderson's 6-year-old daughter was struck in the stomach by a foul ball, caus­ ing her death. At Kangley, 111,,, a man named Mozener had one leg taken„eff by the explosion of a small cannon. In East St. Louis, two serious accidents happened -on account of the -celebration, and both will probably result fatally. Eddie Lau-: inann and Willie Strathman, sons of prominent citizens, attempted to fire off a can of powder with a short fuse. In fir­ ing a salute at* Milwaukee a cannon ex­ ploded and an old soldier was killed at the Old Soldiers' Home. A shotgun in the CELEBKATING. PROF. MARK W. HARRINGTON'. department, two years ago last March, there has been friction between him and the chief of the weather bureau.' So se­ vere has been the strain in their relations, it is understood-they had held 110 personal communication with each other for more than a year, but that their correspondence had been confined almost entirely to mis­ sives of the most severely official style. The difficulties came to a climax after the change of administration, v an investigation was instituted by retary Morton into the business affaii the weather bureau, the results of w did not implicate Professor Ilarringtc any way. This, however, did not east strain between him and the Secretary, it is well understood that for nearly years the chief of the bureau has practically nothing to do with the row management of his ofliee, .which has 1 governed almost entirely from the partment. It is no surprise to those are well informed that the .difficu have now culminated in the summary moval of Professor Harrington, as known that he has steadfastly refuse^ resign. FIELD ON FIRE TWO MONT Swept by a Flood. . Eleven persons' were killed, eight others are missing, twenty or thirty \Vere hurt" and thirty houses were demolished by a flood which all but swept the town qf Winona, Mo., out of existence Friday night. Not in the history of Missouri has such an awful siory of terror and destrucr tion been told as that which comes from the little town, and Saturday its inhabit­ ants were wandering about in despair, some homeless, many with relatives or friend^ dead or missing, and all almost dazed by the awful calamity from which they had emerge'.1.. The dead are: Maggie Gannon, Mrs,< Clara Crawford, Myrtle Crawford, little daughter of Mrs. Clara Crawford; the Rev. G. W. Duncan, Mrs. ,G.; W. I)unean, wife of the Rev. G. W. Duncan; Miss Mattie Duncan, daughter of.the Rev. (}. W- Duifc^n; John Norris, George; Neyins, Mrs. Novins, mother of George.Nevius;! Miss Norma Nevins, sis­ ter of Gporgei Kevinsr*May Wright; ' The residents of the village.Were caught totally undwarjeSiby the cloudburst. The- evening had beeifiv:calm, with no sign of an approaching storm with the exception of fitful flashes of'lightning far off,011 the horizon, which, .-li^gi'veii ,aLthought, Were .attributed to the feat, i lis tea, q of being set down as th^i^fipursoir'o;^&s,torin that was soon to wrfeck the town itnd- engulf human life in its terrible swyjpp. About 9:30 o'clock rain began to fall, but it was so slight that the few who had not re- £ > • * * " t h e TtiflLd-.ara fli m n I- ful ( for ' in- ;< to land land ob- M A R K E T R E P O R T S , Chicago--Cattle, common to $3.75 Jo $6.00; bogs, shipping $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2, 45e to 46c; oats, No. 2. 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2, !3uc to 57c; butter, choice creamery. 16c to ISc; eggs, fresh. 10c to 12c; potatoes, new, per barrel, $^.25 to $2.75; broom corn, common 'growth to line brush, 4c to 6%c per lb. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common fb prime. $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, -No. 2, 73e to 75c; corn, No. 1 white, 48c to-49cjToats, No. 2 white, 33c 1to34c,,i,. / St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to- $5.75; hogs. $4.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2, white, 24c to 25c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50: hogs. $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, 75e to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 48c t<S' 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2^61 c to 63c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to, $5.75; bogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 48c to 49§i oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye, 57c to 59c\ '*• Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rJ'c. No. 2, 59c to 61c; clover seed, prime, $5.60 to $5.70. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 1 hard, 78c to 79c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 52c to 53c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70e to 71c; corn, No. 3, 47c.to 48c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 29c; barley, No. 2, 48c to 50c; rye, No. 1, 59c to 60c; pork, mess, $12.25 to $12.75. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 fed, 75c to 76c; corn, No.. 2, *5Ic to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to|82c; butter, creamery, 14c to 19c; eggs,'West­ ern, 12c to 14c. hands of Charles A. Hull, a son of Silas Hull, a prominent farmer residing near Attica. Ohio, was accidentally discharged, fatally injuring his mother and his 11- year-old sister. William Boiler, 7 years old, of Tiffin, had both eyes puti"out by the explosion of a toy cannon. A Sioux Falls cannon improvised from a piece of gas-pipe exploded, breaking $2,000 worth of plate glass and dangerously injuring Richard Peterson, a boy who happened to be standing near by. At Dubuque, Henry Hilderbrand lost three fingers by the explosion of a torpedo, and William Callahan, 17 years old, had part of his face torn off by a cannon cracker. FIFTY ARE INJURED. Three Hundred PersonB Break Down a Bridge at Bristol, Ind. At Bristol, Ind., while about 300 of the population were gathered 011 a bridge spanning the St. Joseph River watching a tub race, 100 feet of the sidewalk of the bridge went down, carrying with it 100 persons. The fall was about thirty feet and the iron fell on many. As the racers got into their tubs and prepared for the race the immense crowd on the bridge grew wildly enthusiastic. As the crowd surged up against the rail­ ing there came a fearful crash and roar. The whole side of the bridge gave way, slowly at first, and then with frightful speed, carrying the panic-stricken and shrieking crowd down forty feet to thfe river. For a moment there was almost absolute silence before the horrified crowd on the banks could realize what had oc­ curred. Then as the cries and groans of those who had struggled out of the water were heard the farmers and their wives, rushed to the rescue. The water is only five fee;t deep at this season and the res­ cuers hurried into the river with boards, tubs, and anything that would help the wounded to keep afloat. As rapidly as possible they were carried to the shore, while those who escaped injury scrambled out and assisted in the work. Messengers were hurried away for doc­ tors and surgeons and every house in the town of Bristol Was turned into'a hospital. When the surgeons made a hurried ex­ amination they found thirty-eight people laid out.along the shore and in the resi­ dences,-many of them insensible. Broken legs and arms, hands smashed, and serious bruises were found to be the injuries in the majority of cases. The bridge which gave way has been used for years. Only- last spring it ^ as repaired, and consid­ ered able to bear any strain that might be put upon it. Tliugs 011 a Picnic Train. In an attempt to murder the crew of a Santa Fe picnic train as it pulled out of Chicago by' eight members of the "Henry street gang" a conductor was wounded and two of the tWigs bruised and beaten seriously. Over twenty shots were fired by members of the gang and the pas­ sengers were terrorized and. several wo­ men fainted. Peculiar Ihcnomeiion Near Indil apolis--Was Once a Swamp. A field which has been burning cet lessly for two months is the remark!] phenomenon presented by a farm adjac to the village of Maywood, near Indij apolis. This field is not a towering V vius, but is rather a valley, and from! deepest part comes the smoke that sc believe is the precursor of a worse flA that may reduce the village in the nu> of houses if not in the number of ved^S--TeW inV0iC8 Of HllFfil Two months ago smoke was B S« ing from the ground 011 a lowl' of the Campbell farm. It was strartge by those who saw it, but it ^ believed to be nothing more than th? smoldering remains of some fire. But day after day the smoke ascended or blew a great distance, clinging, although treach­ erously. to the ground. After a week or so farm hands passing the field saw flames mingling with the smoke. They in­ vestigated and found the dry grass and black earth on fire. Sticks were driven into the ground and. if was discovered that for a depth of from two to four feet the earth was absolutely reduced to ashes. The field in which this peculiar fire is burning is a bottom lield of black earth that shows clearly its vegetable origin. Those- who have lived at the village for years say that twenty years ago the field was a swamp, seemingly ages old, and that it was years before even cattle could be suffered to tread it in search of pasture food. Recently attempts have been made to cultivate it, but none was made this year. The field looks as though a giant mole had gamboled under its surface, for it is ridged with tunnels, whose upper sides souletimes assume the prominence of miniature mountains. The manner in which the fire is breaking out is evidence of its subterranean origin. So complete has the destruction of the earth and grass been in the district patches that the little portions where yellow, withered grass may be look like oases in a desert. Many Are Hurt at Buffalo. While the riders were taking the track of the five^mile handicap in the bicycle races at-the Buffalo, N, Y,, driving park a section of the grand stand fell in. It caved from the very center of the stand, taking with it a section stairway, two private boxes • and about sixty people. George H, Murphy, vice-commercial agent of the United States at Luxem­ burg, Germany, reports to the Department of State a decree of public works discon thraing wherever it is practicable the use of petroleum at railway stations in conse­ quence of the rise in the price of American petroleum. • Dennis O'Connor, 21 years of age, i&< ried, was instantly killed at Pueblo, Colo., by lightning while putting up- a pole for electric light wires: , . Corbett had his diamonds stolen last year and now is playing the divorce rack­ et. Ob, James is an actor, all right. o-'f y © It The The wheat crop is the only thing we can recall that is worth most when there are flies on it. There are no swear words in the Jap- enese language. How does Japan ex­ press her opinions of Russia just now'.' A Brooklyn church has built a stable for the bicycles of^ its congregation, thus laying the path tc> heaven via Wheeling. There is fame and.fortune ahead for the horticulturist who succeeds in crossing the Georgia watermelon with Jamaica ginger. John L. Sulliv,an says he wants to open a hotel.. He might have owned a few ho- telfe before this if he hadn't Opened quite so many things with a corkscrew. Campos has ordered 25,000 more troops from Spain. Probably he has just found out that three or four American corre­ spondents have joined the insurgents. Nearly all the important iron furnaces in Pennsylvania have advanced wages 10 per cent recently. They are evidently driving their pigs to the right market. The defaulting ex-treasurer of South Dakota should at least express regret that the authorities have been put to So mucu trouble in preparing a reception for him. A Springfield bicyclist claims that a snake bit the tire of his wheels and burst it. It is remarkable that any man who sees such things could keep in his bieyclo saddle. , - "What makes Chicago the healthiest of cities?" inquires the Times-Herald."Pre­ cisely the same thing which Wakes it the most moral ami-religious of c^fies. Any­ body can guess it. Says the Boston Glober "We hear a great deal about raising potatoes on the vacant lots about Boston. Why potatoes alone?" The point is well taken; beans should have the call in Boston. The winners of the Columbian prize medals should take courage. A Minne­ sota man has just received from the Gov­ ernment a medal for valorous deeds per­ formed as a soldier more than thirty years ago. „ Here comes another Indian story about a man who "dives into water and catches fish with his hajt&js." We boHeve a close investigation will prove that that fellow dives into his imagination and catches fish with a lead pencil. ed by fire, only a few houses remaining at that time to mark the site. Reports from surrounding villages indicate that great damage has been done elsewhere, although there are 110 reports of loss of life. Pleasure Party Drowned. 0 A heavy storm passed over Lake Ge­ neva. Wis., Sunday afternoon about 4:30 which unroofed buildings and demoralized shade trees. The hail broke a large amount ofLglass and ruined corn and what little fruit there was. The steam launch Dis­ patch was chartered just before die storm by a party consisting of Father Hogan and Miss Hogan, of Harvard, 111., and Dr. John E. Hogan, assistant superintendent of the Elgin, 111., insane asylum, wife and child. The boat was in charge of John Preston, a reliable young man. They were caught by the storm and the boat was swamped and all 011 board were drowned. The body of Miss Hogan was found float­ ing near Ivaye's Park. It is reported that four 111011 who were out in a boat near Waukegan were.drown­ ed in the storm. The storm over the State was severe in sections. It passed to the north and south of Milwaukee, but did 110 damage in the city, although from meager reports received from the State it must have done considerable damage to prop­ erty and crops. A furious wind and rain storm struck Chioago Sunday afternoon just before 6 o'clock and raged for an hour, leaving death, injury and destruction in its wake on land and sea. The wind howled across the lake and through the streets at a 50- mile an hour gait, and for a few moments it looked as if a well-developed Western twister was about to turn itself loose 011 the city. One man was drowned by the capsizing of a small boat and a number of others had narrow escapes from a like fate. Ten Killed in Georgia. A terrific cyclone swept across Eatonton and Morgan County, (5a., ^ibout 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Meager accounts only have been received. At Willard's sta­ tion 011 the Middle Georgia and Atlantic Railroad every house was torn to pieces. Henry Adams, white, and Robert Hard­ ing, colored, were killed outright. Build­ ings, fences and crops 011 the Martin plan­ tation were carried away. Over in Mor­ gan County Andrew Perry's farm build­ ings and house were blown down. Perry and his family were buried in the falling timbers. Perry is injured internally and will probably die. His wife is in a critical condition. The home of James Collier was demolished and two of his children were mangled by the wreck. Full reports cannot be obtained until daylight. Twenty persons are knowil to have been badly injured, and the list .Of fatalities will hardly be less than ten. Sparks from the Wires. Frank Jerost has been convicted at Ash- laud. Ivas., of the murder of Sid J. Jack- man. Prof. Hussey of the Stanford University may succeed Prof. Barnard,,at Lick Ob­ servatory. V Wool shipments have begun iii rtie South Dakota range country, Prices range from 8 to 10% cents. Charles West while drunk tried to whip his fat:hor at Brazil. Ind. The latter frac­ tured his son's skull and Cha.rle<sajjay not live. -s- Tom Kelly and "Dude" Tiffany are in jail at Emporia, Iyas., charged with at­ tempting to burn the Salvation Army ten Inhere. Valparaiso, Ind.. has compromised with the bondsmen of ex-City Treasurer Schwartzlcopf, taking $8,000 for the $12,- 000 shortage. Dr. Walter II. Lewis, of Anderson, Ind., has been appointed receiver for the Pen­ dleton window glass factory. Liabilities, $40,000; assets, $35,000. The Vicksburg and Delta Transfer property will be tjirned over to the Mis­ sissippi Railroad Transfer Company at Vieksbunr.-'Miss. Price, $150,000. \ ernor and pleaded for her husband's life, though her grief almost, prevented ' her from speaking. Governor Morton was plainly overcome by the woman's pleading, and tears stood in his eyes, as he lifted her to her feet and told her that he Could not' grant her request, 1 The crime. for which the condemned man suffered the death penalty was the alleged poisoning of his wife in 1893. Ho married Miss AnDie Bruce Patterson in Halifax, M S.. about ten years ago.. By her he had a daughter, who is now living. In 1890 Dr. Buchanan got a divorce and soon after he marrjed Anna B. Suther­ land, of New'ark, N. J. She made a will devising all of her property to him. With­ in six; months she died and the doctors said she bad been poisoned. Then fol- BUCHANAN AND HIS W4FK. ' lowed the arrest of her husband, who •soon after her death had remarried his first wife. Although the testimony against him was ^-ery strong Dr. Buchanan al­ ways protested his_ innocence. He was abouf 34 years EX-PRESIDEr^TPEIXOTO'S DEATH Will Allay th^ Opposition to Moraes' Government. Confirmation of the report of the death of ex-President Peixoto, of Brazil, has reached Rio Janeiro. The ex-President expected to leave his hbrne for Rio,Janei­ ro when he was at­ tacked with the fa­ tal disease, a combi­ nation of Beri-Beri fever and abscess of He was until his . Physicians once sum- from Rio Ja- PEIXOTO. neiro to embalm the body. When it arrived at Rio Janeiro, however, it was in bad condition. There was great excitement in Rio Ja- Aeiro, and groups of the friends of Peix- jto and the late Admiral Saldanha Da Gama gathered in force in the streets, showing a decidedly angry spirit. These groups were finally dispersed by the po­ lice. The clubs and theaters were -dosed and all flags were placed at half-mast. One of the leading papers in Rio Janeiro deeply laments the death of Peixoto. Oth­ ers content themselves with notices • of the death, adding that it Till certainly end the spirit of opposition to President Moraes, as there is now no leader in the party of which Peixoto was the bead. Cardinal Gibbons'ha5 had his farewell audience with the pope. Many inhabitants and 100 horses at Vishner-Volotchok, Russia, perished by fire. Official dispatches received at Berlin deny the existence of a Franco-Russian written alliance. The family residence of the Duke and Duchess of Fife, Mar lodge, Braemer, has been destroyed by fire." The Spanish Chamber of Deputies re­ jected by a vote of 69 to 53 a proposal to abolish the export duty on grain. A fire in the Victoria warehouse, Berlin, destroyed the buildings and their contents, involving a loss og 1,400,000 marks. An excursion boat on Lake Maggiore, Italy, was struck by a squall and capsized. Ten of its occupants were drowned. Maharajah of-Paina, a native state of the central province of India, shot his wife, killing her instantly, and then com­ mitted suicide. M. Svedet'up, the leader of the Norwe­ gian Moderates, who was asked by King ; Oscar to form a new cabinet, has decline^ the proposition. It will be necessary to carry out a thor­ oughly extensira process of dredging be-, fore the Kaiser Wilhelm canal can be used for practical purposes. A St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times telegraphs it is almost cer­ tain Russia will take no' action to compel reforms by Turkey in Armenia"1."' The immense Italian warship Sardegnti, on her way to the North sea, went aground in the great belt. Several German and Danish warships went to her assistance. Chili is to coin 10.000,000 silyer dollars per annum and issue gold in $6, $10 ant^ $20 pieces. Silver is not to be a legal ten­ der in amounts above $50, but the mint will exchange gold for silver. The Cologne Gazette urges the powers party to the triple protest against the Turkish administration in Armenia to in­ sist that the reforms demanded for Ar­ menia be also applied to Macedonia*