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J. VAN SIVKE, Editor and Pub. MCHENRY. - ILLINOIS PANIC ON A t '• .. . ' •X • • £ • v- i /, J , W \ TOLEDO EXCURSIONISTS IN A COLLISION. Figures from' Abroad on the Wlieat Crop--Welcome Haiti Viiita a Widte Area--Rothschild's Life Attempted- Twenty Gums. Bring; Deatl^ H ||g « Seven Radly Hurt. About 9 o'clock Saturday evening the passenger steamer City of Toledo was re­ turning to Toledo from her regular trip to Put-iri-Bay and encountered the schooner Magdalen Dowling'in tow of the tug Butler in the straight channel just offi Presgue Isle. As the City of Toledo ;w&s coming in she signaled to the schoon­ er to take the port 6ide. The signals were apparently understood, for the tug at once commenced to sheer off, but in doing so gave the schooner a momentum which carried her onto a bank of mud just as the steamer was abreast of her. She sudden­ ly slid off the bank and veered into the City of Toledo, her jibboom striking the passenger steamer just forward of her igangway. About fifty feet of her. upper works torn away. As soon as the collision occurred "a panic reigned on board, the men acting like insane persons, 'Wist of them taking three- or four life preservers and refusing to give them iip. The officers used every endeavor to quiet the passengers, assuring them^that there was no danger of the boat going down, and after a f^w minutes succeeded in re­ storing order. The. schooner was pulled away from the wreck ami the debris clear­ ed away. It was founa that seven per­ sons had been seriously injured, while at least fifty received severe cuts and bruis­ es. A great many of the people were sit­ ting directly beneath the boom when it Was jmshed through the vessel. Dun's Trade Review. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: The volume of business shrank, as is natural in August, and the shrinkage seems rather larger than usual, because "transactions in July were some­ what inflated for that month. Some in­ dustries did more than ever before in August, and the prospect for fall trade is good in others, although much depends on the crops, and the outcome is less cleax than speculators on either side are dis­ posed to admit. Industrial troubles have not entirely ceased* but have become much less threatening. Big Shortage in the Wheat Crop. The Hungarian Minister of Agriculture announces as a result of data obtained •from Consuls and specialists, that the world's wheat crop for 1895 is as follows: .The total production in countries which import wheat is estimated at 749,022,000 'bushels. In countries which export the total production is 1,(551.701.000 bushels. The Minister also amends the estimate of the crop of 1894 so as to make the total in that year 2,032,736,000 bushels, show­ ing the crop of 1895 is 232,000,000 bushels less than that of 1894. Drought Broken by Heavy Bains. The drought in the Northwest, which was becoming serious, was broken Fri­ day night by general rains. In Central and Western Illinois and in some portions of Iowa crops were suffering severely 'for lack of rain. The corn crop of Cen­ tral Illinois has been so much affected that it is doubtful if the rain will bring up the average to.,, estimates. of three weeks ago. Three Die by Fire. The Air Line Hotel, at Air Line Junc­ tion, near Toledo, Ohio, burned late Fri­ day night. Nearly all the guests escaped with only their nightclothes. Timothy McCarthy hailed from Hillsdale., He was taken from the building soon after the ar­ rival of the department, badly burned, and died before reaching the ground. The names of the two others are not known. The loss will be $25,000. • 1 Bows to Uncle Sam. It is semi-oflicially announced that the French Government has granted the re­ quest of United States Ambassador Eus- tis to allow a representative of the Uni­ ted States Embassy to visit John L. Waller in his prison under the usual prison regulations. It is stated, however, no further steps can be taken until the papers in the case arrive. NEWS NUGGETS. W ~ "• •>. - Grace Newman, 20 years old, pretty and stylishly dressed, leaped from a ferry­ boat at Detroit and was drowned. The whole south side of the Osceola, Neb., square w-as burned, with the excep­ tion of the Osceola Bank. The loss is over $50,000, with less than $5,000 in­ surance The Stromsburg and Shelby fire companies were called and responded. Laura Jackson Arnold, aged 70 years, sister of ."Stonewall" Jackson, and resid ing at Columbus, Ohio, leftFriday to at­ tend the reunion at Buckannon of the Fifth West Virginia Union Cavalry, of which she is the "mother," having been a Union woman during the war. Allen Wilson, a negro at Watonga, Ok., drank twenty glasses of gin in less than thirty minutes, staggered home and died in a few hours. He drank the liquor in Andrew Hauk's saloon, a crowd of in­ terested spectators paying for the drinks for the fun of seeing them drank so fast. A serious attempt has been made upon the life of Baron Alphonse de Roths­ child at Paris. A large and heavy enve­ lope .was received at the bank Saturday addressed* to the Baron, and was opened by M. Zadkovitz, the confidential clerk of the banker. Just as the clerk opened the envelppe it exploded with great force. It tore out his right eye and blew off some of his fingers. Frank A. Reed, a prominent citizen of Alexandria, Va., shot and killed himself at his home. The cause of the deed is not known. An.attempt was made to blow up a Northern Pacific train near Butte, Mont., by placing a stick of dynamite in a frog. -The last car was shattered; but no one -was hurt. Thomas; J. Thornton has been sen tenced to be hanged at Fort Smith, Ark. . Oct. 9, for murder. It is said 6ix people will corroborate Durrant's alibi statement in his trial for murder at San Francisco, Cal. ; .*<••) v EASTERN. The Ocean View Hotel, on Rockaway Beach, was bfiViied, All the 200 guests • are thought to have escaped. The Grand Union Hotel at Congers, N. Y., caught fire and, with-^ts contents, was totally destroyed. Loss, $85,000. Forest fires are raging in Southern New Jersey. ' Hundreds of miles have already been burned over, houses and live stock consumed, and it is feared there has been considerable loss of life. An explosion! at furnace II, of the Car­ negie Steel Company, at Braddock, Pa., at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning killed six ------ • . ---- ! '. ; oen>> Injured ten more and destroyed $30,- 000 worth of property. Five of the in­ jured Will dip; All of the' killed and in­ jured were Hungarians, except James Harrison, the foreniaji. The explosion was due ̂ to a "hang" , in the furnace, which suddenly loosened and dropped into the molten metal below, generating an im­ mense quantity of gas So suddenly that it could not escape by the ordinary means and the explosion followed. TheMerrible loss of life w^s due to a poculhy* cause A few minutes before the explosion oc­ curred one of the top fillers dumped a barrow of materia 1 into the bell of the furnace, which he had forgotten to raise. This clogged the.top of the furnace and prevented the gas escaping;. A gang of sixteen men. in charge,of James Harri­ son, was sent at once to the top to remove the obstruction. *A'M WW closely cro wded around the bell of the furnace removing the material when there was a terrific ex­ plosion and men, barrow, tools and mate­ rial were hurled in«11 directions .Flames, deadly gases and sutoke'belched from the furnace-top, and then men tell its if shot;. Only one man was killed instantly. • WESTERN. V;0:_; : Mrs. William Forde, ajretT,ropped dead while makingJan address before the Baptist Association at Flat Rock. lntl. ; Settlers along Lake Sauits, Wash., re­ port that there is an unbroken line of for-: est fires from ^Belfast to the lake^estrfyjh• ing timber and rendering the atmosphere : almost suffocating. . All. game is/beiygj driven from the hills to the lakes and Water?eourseSvand'decJ' are almost dirtrims- ticated. • v-.. • - ,;5- " James MeGeo. youngest brother of ^Al­ len B. McGee. who was one of the eleven - men who laid Qut Kansas City. .Mov, com­ mitted suicide toy taking, atv overdose. ..of chloral He was 50 year's old. aim.leaves a wife and four grown 'children." Bnsines reverses; were • the \ ea ss,e., At one (ini McGee was wenlthy. . . ' • The stearner:.t'i'ty of Sheffield, froiii/ St.. Louis to Tennessee' Ki'ver, struck an ob­ struction in.the .Mississippi Kiver back of Cairo at midnight Sunday ..and. sunk. The water barely covers the boiler deck, and she lies straight and smooth and will be raised without trouble. Several hundred bflf'rrels of flour in the hold will be dam­ aged. No lives were lost, and the passen­ gers were taken off. The Sheffield had 100 passengers. The boat knocked a hole in her bottom twelve feet long, and filled and settled down smooth and square on a bar. Most of her passengers were asleep and knew nothing "of the accident until morning.' Following is the ticket nominated by, the Ohio State-Democratic convention at Springfield Wednesday: • Governor James E. Campbell Lieutenant Governor Iohn B. Peaslee State Auditor .James W. Knott State Treasurer William B. Sholer Supreme Judge. .... William T. Mooney Attorney General. .George A. Fairbanks Member of the Board of Public Works. Harry B. Keefer Clerk of the Supreme Court, J. W. Cruikshank The convention, by a vote of 525 to 270, reaffirmed the financial plank of "the Dem­ ocratic national convention of 1892 and in­ dorsed the administration of President Cleveland and the course in the Senate of Calvin S. Brice. Milton C. Merrill, night yardmaster of the Chicago, Burlington and Quiucy ltail- road at Chicago, by his own desperate act, Monday night dissolved the injunction that Judge Cbetlain granted his wife re­ straining him.from marrying any other woman or pretending to do so. He turned on the gas in his room and died by as­ phyxiation. Most novel, indeed, was the prayer of the petitioner, Mrs. Minnie Mer­ rill. an invalid, who asked the court to enjoin Mr. Merrill from making good his threat to marry Mary Beetieh, and the gossips of the corridors of the County Building had scarcely ceased discussing the court's temporary restraining order granted on the petition when the news of the defendant's effective plan to escape service was brought to them. Fire burned over a dozen blocks in Mil­ waukee Thursday and destroyed property worth $382000. It started on the river front at the Water street bridge and be­ fore it was stopped it had burned a swath from one to three blocks, wide to Sixth street. A stiff breeze served to fan the flames and sent them traveling west over the yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company with start­ ling rapidity, destroying in their path the freight warehouses of railroad and steam­ ship companies, valuable freight in stor­ age and railway cars. For four hours the fire apparatus, firemen and employes of the railroad company in the city fought" the progress of 'the flames "before they were under control. When the fighters finished work at night two companies of firemen were left to guard half a square mile of glowing embers. During the ex­ citing scenes incident to fire-fighting a boy was run over by a fire ehghie and killed. frowns, but he, nevertheless, has a griev­ ance. The larger nkrt of hjbj). contingent, fee was dependent upon the payment of the interest, amounting to something like $1550,000, and the waiving of that part of the. claim shuts him out of-oyer $100,000. No wondeK he is angry, for he has been putting in most of his time for seven or eight years in the case. It transpires that the Mora family--father and children- will nOt benefit largely by the payment of the claim, most of it having been assigned around among capitalists and lawyers. ~ • Washington dispatch: The construc­ tion end of the Navj^®epartinent has at length impressed the higher powers of the administration that a piece of monumen­ tal folly was committed when the oppor­ tunity was thrown away of monopolizing the Harvey process of hardening armor- plates for" war vessels. As the? matter- now stands the United States is in the position of developing the idfeas of In­ ventor Harvey and * perfecting the most valuable of armor improvements and of neglecting to.stipulate, for the control of the process. No sooner, therefore, did this Government prove ̂ Wie great useful­ ness of the process than the inventor pro­ ceeded to sell it to all the great naval powers of Europe, placing each and every on<* on an equality, whereas this country should liave held a distinct advantage over rival Governments. It may gratify the .national pride to know that Uncle Sam now leads the world in excellence of its armor-plate,.processes. and'also in the man.ufaotnr»^o£ projectiles.' ,Six years ago this .'country was away in the rear. HOLD-UP ON THE CHICAGO AND WEST MICHIGAN. " FOREIGN, SOUTHERN. Two negro children on the Searles ranch, nine miles from Bryan, Texas, were attempting to start a fire with kero­ sene when the can exploded and both were burned to death. The Shoally Bend vendetta of Mont­ gomery County, Ark., is charged with hav­ ing added another murder to its list. The body of a'prominent doctor, J. H. Brooks, was found partially eaten by hogs and riddled with buckshot. About^one month ago a prominent farmer named Redwine was foully assassinated while at work in his field. Dr. Brooks, it is said, de­ nounced the murder as a blot upon the; community, and asserted tbat its per­ petrator must be run down. He declared that he would see that the next grand jury thoroughly investigated it. It is sup­ posed that he was assassinated to pievent him doing this. John Wester Hardin, the terror of the Mexican border, was shot and killed in the Acme saloon in El Paso, Texas, by Constable John Sellman. Seliman's son, Who is on the police force, arrested a fe­ male friend of Hardin a few days ago, and Hardin threatened to run Sellman out of the town. Monday night Sellman •walked into the saloon with a friend. Hardin was inside, and when he saw Sell­ man he threw his hand to his hip pocket. In an instant Seliman's gun was out and a ball went crashing through Hardin's brain. Hardin had in his lifetime killed nine men and served eighteen years in prison for one of his murders. While in prison at Hunteryille, Texas, he studied law and was admitted to the bar on his release nearly two years ago. Several months ago he held up a faro game in El Paso. Sellman is the officer who killed the notorious Bass, outlaw, a yeaT ago. / Gcruia.ny is preparing,compete with England, in" supplying .feoke to the ore smeltebs. of Australia. .. , The Hawaiian congress - has ratified the cableuoniract made by President Dole with ZJ. S. Spaii-lding.: who will ask the next eoiigress feu* an 'annual subsidy of $250,000. > The Chinese officials at Ku Cheng have positively refused to allow the American Consul, J. (J. Hixs.in, and the British Con­ sul. R W. Mansfield, opportunity to in­ vestigate tiie massacre of missionaries there. A severe engagement, it is reported from Havana, in Spanish official circles, has been fought at Arillao in the Depart­ ment of Santa Clara. It was officially an­ nounced that Lieut. Col. Palanea had routed the insurgents under the command of Roloff and Serafin Sanchez. The in­ surgents left sixty dead and wounded on the field, and twenty of their horses were killed. Th'etroops lost-two killed and had eight wounded. A Singapore lette!- to the London Times says that consequent upon the legislative retention of the silver guilder at the old value, which is about double the intrinsic value in the Netherlands, coining factories have been established in China, and the export of guilders thence yields a hand­ some profit. It is estimated that two bullion of such counterfeit coins are al­ ready'in circulation and the evil already threaten# to increase. Another.-outrage has been committed near Foo Chow, China. The American mission has been attacked by a large and infuriated mob armed with various weapons The chapel and school were wrecked and four native scholars were fatally wounded, while the foreign teacher escaped. %here is a strong antiforeign feeling in Foo Chow, which is spreading among the populace, who are parading with cries of "Drive out the foreign devils." The London Daily News has a dispatch from Vienna which says Trieste papers report an explosion destroyed the artillery barracks at- Toula, Russia, and that 300 men were killed, including many officers. The barracks were found to be complete­ ly undermined. Many arrests have been made. Toula is the capital of the Govern­ ment of Toula in European Russia. It is on the River Oopa, 105 miles south of Moscow. It is a manufacturing city of 70,000 people. IN GENERAL The stockholders of the Commercial Bank at Milwaukee have decided to .close the institution and go into liquidation. Zella Nicolaus wants to add another count to her petition against George Gould. She alleges that he assaulted her in March, 1803, and will ask for $50,000 additional damages. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per \P. W. L. cent. Cleveland 104 06 38 .635 Baltimore 90 61 35 .035 Pittsburg 101 59 42 .584 Philadelphia ... 98 55 43 .561 Boston 97 54 43 .557 Cincinnati 97 53 44 .546 Brooklyn 1)9 54 45 .545 Chicago 102 55 47 .539 New York 00 50 40 .505 Washington .... 93 31 (52 .333 St. Louis 102 32 70 .314 •Louisville 07 23 74 .237 WESTERN I.EAGUE. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis .... 98 64 34 .653 Kansas City.... 101 £0 41 .594 St. Paul... 97 57 40 .588 Minneapolis ... 99 49 50 .495 Milwaukee 100 49 51 .490 Terre Haute. .. .100 42 58 .420 Detroit 107 44 63 .411 Grand Rapids...102 33 69 .324 MARKET REPORTS. WASHINGTON;/ The President has signed W order ex tending the classified service toinclude all printers ai£d pressmen employed in the various executive departments. The expenditures of the government for the first two-thirds of the present month exceeded the receipts by $7,009^293, but only $1,250,000 remains to be paid on ac­ count of pensions, and the treasury of­ ficials estimate that the deficit will be rer duced.during the next ten days to about $o,000,000. The excess of expenditures over receipts last month was $8,478,366. The "hottest" man in Washington is Nathaniel Pj^ige, principal counsel for the claimants in the celebrated Mora case, just forced to a final settlement. As a part owner of the $1,500,000 claim it would seem that Mr. Paige should be wreathed in smiles instead of clopded with !;r if#-"- 4 Chicago--Cattle, . common to prime, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.5fr to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 04c; corn. No. 2, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 45c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c;. potatoes, new, per bushel, *Qc to 40c; broom corn, Illinois, poor to choice, $55 to $100 per ton. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; kheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 1 white; 36c to 38c; oats; No. 2 white, 26c to 27c. St. Louis--Cattle;1 $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 35c to,36c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2,®39c to 41c. Cinc^njoati--Cat tle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.pp^ to, $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to ,24c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 46c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39c to 41e; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, 44c to 46c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 44c-/to 46c. Buffalo-Battle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to. $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4,00; Wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 43c to 45c; oats,/No. 2 white, 27c to 20c. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 61c to 63c; corn, No. 3, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; barley, No. 2, 43c to 45c; rye, "No. 1, 46c to 47c; pork, mess, $9.75 to $10.25. . New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No, 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2, 44c to 45c; oaJg^No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; butter, creamery, 15c to 2!t; eggs, West­ ern, 13c to, 15c. • ; v y , • : Train Was Rutininc Liglit and t'Ke Villains Were Badly Pooled--Got $7.50 and Two Watches--Passengers Badly Scared but Not Molested. Bandits Near New Richmond. Five desperate bandits dynamited the express car on the Chicago and West Michigan passenger train, due at, Grand Rapids from Chicago at 10:30 p. m., near New Richmond, Tuesday night. The rob­ bers secured only two watches and $7.50 in money, but their intentions- were good. The Allegan County officers w,ere noti­ fied, and with daybreak the woods in the vicinity of the hold-up were thoroughly scoured, and liberal rewards offered" for the apprehension of the robbers. Not only the Allegan County, but also the sheriffs of Ottawa, Van Buren, Kent, and Kala­ mazoo Counties have been notified, and the Officers say that, unless the robbers have a boat and escaped across Lake Michigan, they will be caught. The train was bowling along at a rapid rate. When rounding a curte at a place iii the road1 that is lined with forest growth En­ gineer Debbie' caught the gleam of a white light waved across the track. He saw "by the reflection that the track was obstructed and brought the train to a Bto^. . As the train was stopped a volley was .fired into the cab, one,shot narrowly miss­ ing the fireman, and the two men Were ordered to come down. They refused to comply with the demand, and the robbers, only two of them in Sight, did not insist upon it. The rear brakeman, Timothy Murphy, jumped off the train and ran back .to flag any train that might be fol­ lowing. The robbers saw him jump and fired at him, inflicting a flesh wound in" the thigh. Conductor E. E. Rice stepped out upon the platform to inquire what was the matter and was fired upon, but not touched. The passengers were not molested, but^were dreadfully afraid they would be. Women were is hysterics. The men looked for places to hide their valuables. Even if the robbers had de­ cided to work the train they would not have found much without a 1 careful search. The passengers were mostly tour­ ists bound for the northern resorts. James Cannon, of Rock Island, and Herman Pew, of Chicago, were on board, and they gave vivid descriptions of the wild scram­ ble for places to hide valuables. Conductor Rice thinks the robbers were amateurs, as they were not disguised nor masked and made no effort at conceal­ ment. The leader was a middle-aged man about five feet six inches, with a full beard. The other three were younger, and all were roughly dressed. Brakeman Murphy was taken to Grand Rapids and had his wounds dressed. He is not seriously hurt. The passengers1 were in^a desperate panic. The women' crawled in behind seat backs and the men got in as inaeeessiblegplaces as they could. The brakeman hastily returned to the coaches and locked the door after him. With the decks clear for action, the rob­ bers turned their attention to the bag­ gage and express car. Dynamite Is Used. The firing had alarmed Baggageman V. N. Vannetta and he had locked his - door against the intruders. The robbers ordered him to open up. He refused. Then they .applied a stick of dynamite to the side door and blew the bottom of tho car open. Mr. Vannetta concluded that he had done all that valor demanded and opened the door.. The robbers im­ mediately demanded thotkey to the strong box, and when Mr. Vannetta declared he did not have it they used up another dyna­ mite cartridge and burst it open. The strong box was empty and did not even contain a cent. The train did not carry any express. . The robbers left the car in disgust and held;a heated argument whether or not to gd through the passengers. They final­ ly concluded not to do so. Conductor Rice representing that the passengers were mostly poor people who could not afford to lose what little money they had. The robbers relieved Mr. Rice of what small change lie had, about $7.50, missing the well-lined pocket-book which RlCe had thrown into the wood box. They also re­ lieved the fireman and engineer of their watches and then with a pleasant fare­ well to the conductor they gave him per­ mission to move on and disappeared id the woods. This train is patronized every day byr wealthy citizens of Grand Rapids and Northern and Western Michigan, whose business calls them frequently to Chi­ cago. The express messenger went out with a "feint" car in the afternoon and was re­ turning on a "dead" trip. There were forty-two passengers. To make sure of a halt ties had been piled on the track half a length ahead of where the engine stoppe'd. The baggage car was not dis­ abled and the train proceeded, arriving at Grand^Itapids half an hour late. Albert Antisdell, of Chicago, superin­ tendent of the American Express Com­ pany, said his company had iost nothing by the liold-up. "We had no messenger on the train," said he. "Our night mes­ senger went out on the train that leaves at 11:45." "Will you send any detectives to the scene of the robbery?" "Yes, we'll send some men over to help the officers in pursuit of the robbers." The train was composed of an engine, baggage car, two passenger coaches, and a parlor car. Cuba, there havo been cases of cholera during the year, but it has not been epi­ demic in any of them. , It has been estimated by good authori­ ties that the average pearly, number of deaths from cholera the world over is close upon a quarter of a million. It is not known that in Russia alone last year there were nearly 100,000 cases of the dis­ ease, about 45 per cent, of which proved fatal; but the ravages of the disease among the Russians are light as compared with that among Asiatics. Very likely it has been as widely prevalent in Western Russia, Eastern Austria and Turkey this year as it was last year; " CONDITIONS IN NEBRASKA. Corn Promises a Large Yield, Except in the State's Garden Spot, A McCook, Neb., correspondent says: On crossing the Missouri River running to Lincoln, the Burlington land agents' party found a prospect which, from an agricultural standpoint, could not be ex- ceHed. Corn is luxuriant and sturdy and every stalk shows large-sized ears, stick­ ing out from it. It is so far advanced_that the uninitiated could be made to believe very readily that it is past all harm from any source. Notwithstanding its fine ap­ pearance, however, it is not yet out of danger of frost, and will not* be for at least two weeks. ,' t.i A fine crop of oats has been reaped in ithis, section. Much of it is still in the shock and a good deal of it has been stacked. It is thrashing out from thirty to fifty bushels to the acre and will aver­ age about forty. The wheat crop lias all been harvested, and farmers are now busy plowing their land preparatory to putting in another crop of winter wheat. -Leaving Lincoln the outlook is, much less promising. Between Waverly . and Fairmont, a distance of sixty miies, is a stretch of country; which has usually been described as the garden spot of Nebraska. Crops have always been abundant here, however poorly they may have been in •other parts of the State. Last yfear and this year have been the only known excep­ tions to this rule. Somehow this belt has suffered severely this year. It has rained copiously on all sides of it and all around it, but the clouds refused to give it a drop of moisture until too late to save the corn crop. For a stretch of country sixty miles long and sixty miles wide the corn trop is a comparative failure. It will only run from a quarter to half a crop, averaging as a whole about one-third an ordinary prop. ; ... Oats,have not fared so badly. They are thrashing out fr&Crl thirty-five to "forty bushels an a<?re. Heavy iains fell over this section at ilie fend of last week. They came too late, however, to save the bulk of the corn. Very much of it is wilted be­ yond redemption and a good deal of it has already been cut for fodder. Wheat in this section js thrashing out fifteen bushels to the acre. West of Fairmont the scene again changes and an ocean of waving corn, strong and luxuriant, is to be seen as far as the eye can reach in every direction. The crop from Hastings to the western boundary of the State is practically made, and nothing but a killing frost can now blighr^it. It will average not less than sixty bushels to the acre, and very many large fields will yield fifty bushels. Around MeCook is where the disasters of last year were most severely felt. The gains of this year have more than made up for the losses then sustained. The whole section of country looks like a veritable garden, and the people feel buoyant be­ yond expression. Winter wheat is thrash­ ing out about twenty bushels to the acre and the best fields are yielding thirty bushels. Spring wheat is running from twelve to eighteen bushels to the acre. Oats average from fifty to sixty bushels, the best fields thrashing out 100 bushels. Alfalfa is a new crop here with which the people are delighted. All kinds of live stock eat it with relish, and it is prov­ ing to be fattening fodder. The first year it yields one ton to the acre, but after the third year it yields three crops a year, which foot up seven and one-half tons to the acre. It is worth in the mar­ ket $5 per ton, but to feed cattle the re­ sults have shown it to be worth $70 pe* acre. It is the coming,crop all along the fiats of the Republican valley. THE CUBAN WAR. The Insurgents Making Headway in the Struggle for Freedom. Recent reports from Cuba indicate that the insurgent army is gradually en-, croaehing on Havana. . It is now on the outskirts of the great sugar district and is increasing its ranks daily. According to a letter from the Marquis de Santa Lucia, who some time ago joined the insurgents, the two divisions of tho army number 25,- 000 men and 10,000 of these are well armed and splendidly equipped. One di­ vision is under Gen. Antonio Maceo in RAVAGES OF THE CHOLERA. Europe and Asia Have Suffered-- America. Has Been Free. Through the energetic efforts of the health authorities in New York the ctfolera has not'entered this country this summer and, as the season is so far ad­ vanced, it probably will not do so. Though we have been free from it in Europe Russia, Arabia, India, China, and Japan the disease raged. It is unfortun­ ate that trustworthy statistics concerning it cannot be obtained from Russia, or from any of the other countries in which it exists, with the exception of Japan. It ravaged several of the western Russian provinces last summer; it did net entirely disappear last winter, and it has been epidemic since the early spring season, The cholera appeared in Arabia, on the border of the Red Sea, early in. the spring, brought there, as in other y&ars, by the Mohammedan pilgririis from India to Mecca. Alarming accounts of its!' fatality were sent out in tho spring months and up to June; but nothing dia^ been heard of it for some weeks, and its ravages have doubtless been allayed. In China the extent to which the chol­ era has prevailed can only be guessed at,., but it is believed that the disease has been widespread. From the trustworthy statistics kept by the Japanese authorities it is learned that up to the close of July there had been 0,500 cases of the disease in Japan, more than one-half of which had proved fatal. This fatality may be regarded as part of the price paid by Japan for her victory over the Chinese, but that .price was greater yet, for many •of the Japanese soldiers who are^yet in China have fallen under the disease. It has recently been epidemic over a large part of the Japanese.(empiee. In some other countries besides those | here ineutioned, including Mexico and M GENERAL ANTOXIO MACEO. Santiago, while Gen. Gomez commands another in Camaguey. Meantime the Spanish army is becoming daily more disheartened and there are numerous desertions to the ranks of the insurgents. Gen. Campos who, when he reached Cuba, announced that he would have the rebellion crushed in a couple of months has utterly failed to make any im­ pression on the insurgents, although near­ ly 20,000 troops more than he asked for have been sent him. The cry is still for more troops--a proof in itself that the re­ bellion is serious and thatj^the Spanish forces to-day on the island are unable to cope with the plucky insurgents. ^ 1 The dining-room of the HpweH House at Quogue, L. I., was the scene of a lively \time. Hamilton Fish Jr., son of Senator tosh, who is stopping at the Howell House, with his imclo, Rev. Mr. Fish, ap­ peared at" dinnerfcntoxicated and had a fight with a waited ' CAMPBELL IS DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF OHIO. ' George A. Martin, of Sioux City, IoWa, has sued the Southern Pacific Company for $46,000. He was on his way home ifrom San Francisco on a round-trip ticket which the conductor clnirKed- hinr with- having purchased from a scalper and Mar­ tin was put off. Dr. Erasmus D. Jones died at Albany, N. Y., iii his 77tli year. He was one of the founders, of the New York-State Homeopathic Medical Society. He wo* y thirty-second degree Mason. All the Nominations Are Made by Ac­ clamation--Free Silver Is Benten4 Cleveland's Administration Enthu­ siastically Indorsed--Brice On Top. • / • - . . ' Buckeye Democratic Hicket. Governor JameB E.° Campbell Lieutenant Governor.... K'..John B. Peaslee State Auditor James W. Knott State Treasurer..........William B. Sholer Supreme Judge..........William T. Mooney Attorney General. George A. Fairbanks Member Board Public Works. . H. B. Keefer Clerk of Supreme Court. ..J.' W. Cruikshank The Ohio Democratic State convention nominated James E. Campbell for Gov­ ernor by acclamation. It was done with a whoop and a yell and while Mr. Camp­ bell was on his feet trying to persuade the body to select Judge Peck, of Cincinnati. The convention also; by a vote of 525 to 270, reaffirmed the financial plank of the Democratic na­ tional convention of 1892 and indorsed the administration of President Clevie- land and the courpe in the Senate of Cal­ vin S. Brice. The nomination of Campbell was made in spite of his most c. s. BitiCK. earnest protests. He had the floor when he was interrupted by Dr. .James A. Norton, who , presented a motion to Suspend the rules and nominate James E. Campbell by acclamation. Mr, Campbell protested and raised points of order amid the wildest scenes of cheering and yelling for Campbell. Campbell said lie had run for Congress three times in a Republican district and twice for Gov­ ernor in a Republican State, till he was depleted financially and otherwise unable to make the race. He insisted on the nomination of Judge Peck or-some-nther good Democrat who could make a good race and afford to make it Seconds of the nomination of Campbell polled in. Chairman Brice ruled that the JAMR E. CAMPBELL. motion of Dr. Norton to suspend the rules and nominate Mr. Campbell was in order. M. E. Ingalls, who had previously op­ posed Campbell, made a strong plea for him as the winner. The motion of Dr. Norton was put and carried with ,a great whirl of enthusiasm and Chairman Brice declared Mr. Campbell the nominee for Governor. The ticket w;as completed as above by acclamation. Platform Adopted. The Democratic party of Ohio, in conven­ tion assembled, points with satisfaction and pride to the wisdom of the action of that party in the last two years and the re­ sults accomplished according to its prom­ ises, to-wit: The repeal of the Republican legislation known as the Sherman law, the un-Ameri­ can Fedoral election law, and the McKinley law, from which repeals has resulted re­ turning prosperity to the country to such an extent that even the Republicans are obliged to recognize the same. We^congratulate President Clevoland that Ills efforts in favor of the repeal of these vicious laws and the upholding of the credit of the country have been successful. We congratulate our Senator, the Hon. Calvin S. Brice, for the earnest and effect­ ive support he has given to the President in these matters. When we consider the fact that the Demo­ cratic-party received from the Republicans in 1892 a bankrupt treasury, that It inher­ ited from them the vicious currency and tar­ iff laws which had prepared and finally pro­ duced the panic of 1803, we insist that it is. entitled to tho thanks of the people for the courage with which it has attacked and re­ pealed thesa laws. Wo reaffirm the following portion of the seventh plank of the platform of the last National Democratic Convention. "We hold to the use of both gold and sil­ ver as tho standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal In­ trinsic and exchangeable value, or be ad- Justed by Internationa! agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times tn the payment of debts; and we demand that the paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable In such coin. Insist upon this policy as especial­ ly necessary for the protection of farmers and the laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and fluctuating currency." We call the attention of the people to the methods and practices of bossism by which the Republican party in this State has been managed in the last few years, and-for ex­ amples point to its history in Hamilton coun­ ty and to the final culmination of the same in' the Zanesville convention, and we ask the people by their votes this fall their condemnation on such practice*!; We denounce the last Legislature as \jpr rupt and unworthy of the oonfidence^of the people, nnd we submit to t^e voters wneth'er they wish to perpetuate /this condition of affairs by placing the Republicans again in sower. J e view with irtirrm-nie large increase of indebtedness Ui/oughout the State by coun- tles]and inunlmMnlities, as authorized by the last/Legislaturif, and the increase in the last few( years in tfhe tax rate, and we demand econ«my_ji__-erxpenditure and conservatism In the increase of debt. REGAIN THEIR LIBERTY. All the A. R. U. Directors Except President Debs Released from Jail. All the directors of the American Rail­ way Union except President Debs left the Woodstock (111.) jail Thursday, after having served a "three months sentence for contempt of court All of them re­ sume their duties in the field, obligating and instructing members and organizing local unions. They have demands now which will require them fully three months to filb Kelliher goes direct to Minneapolis and Goodwin to St. Pflful. Rogers, Burns, Elliott and Hogan go to­ gether to Chicago, where they will sep­ arate. Rogers goes to Puebloj Col,; Hoga'n to Ogden, Utah; Elliott to Phila­ delphia, stopping at Cleveland, Ohio? until after Labor Day, while Burns will remain in Chicago and establish district head­ quarters there. Their release marks a new departure in. the work of organizing railway employes: District headquarters wili be established in all the large rail­ way centers throughout the country. In each of these districts solicitors will be employed jto obligate members,' keeping their names absolutely secret. Since their imprisonment 15C>-locnl unioiis~that were shattered by. the strike of last summer have been reorganized aiid twenty-seven new ones instituted. , Tom Wilbur, aged 91, committed suicide at Norwich,'Conn,, by severing his jugu­ lar vein with a razor. He was a well- known quarryman. ,. 4-, MICROSCOPIC CHIROGRAPHY, J . . ' - ^ Interesting Specimens of Writing Pre- eeryed in a Washington Museum. Among the collection of microscopic- , objects at Washington is a specimen of microscopic writing on glass, which contains the Lord's prayer, written lit characters so small that the entire 227 letters of that petition are engraved within an area measuring l-294th by l-441st of an inch. So far this statement ' does not trouble us. If, however, we go a little further we easily find that the,1 area having the above dimensions- would be only the lrl29,G54th of a square inch, and consequently that aa inch square covered withWriting of the same size, or counting 227 letters to- each shell fractions, would contain 29,- 431,458 letters. Let us put this figure into a concrete form by seeing how much of a book thiS~~ number of letters would represent. The Bible is a book of which we may safely assume that every one has an approxi- r mate idea as regards its general size or extent. Some one has actually deter­ mined the number of letters contained in the entire old. and new testaments, and finds this to be 3,566,480. Hence the number of letters which a square inch of glass would accommodate, writ­ ten out like the text of the Lord's pray-, ei- on this strip of glass, is more than eight times this last number, or, in oth­ er words, a square inch- of glass would accommodate the entire text of the Bible eight times over written out as is the Lord's prayer on this strip of glass. I am free to confess that though this fact has been known to me sirice 1873, and I have had in my possession photographs takeh with' the microscope •' of this: writing, I cannot say. that T fully apprehend or mentally grasp the fact just stated. I can form no mental picture of a square inch of glass with the entire text of eight Bibles engraved upon it, and j-et, when I have verified the measurements and calculations leading up to this conclusion, I feel ab­ solutely certain as to its truth, not as the result of intuition, but as a deduc­ tion from experience which has not yet developed into an intuitive conscious­ ness.--Cassier's Magazine. The Women of Ushant. In character the head-dress is more Italian than Breton. The coif is small and square-shaped, with a wide flap hanging down behind,'.and it is white when the wearer, considers herself dressed and not in mourning. Bright colors, chiefly scarlet and blue, are often introduced at the_gide of the head, especially in the case of children. But the strong singularity of the coiffure is the manner in which the hair is worn. It hangs loose upon the back of the neck to the length of six or eight inches. The first impression the women make is that they are all recovering from a fever and a cropping. The hair is gen­ erally lank and Wiry, like a horse's mane, and very dark. It is rare to see it really gray, even on the head of a very old woman. The short, and thick locks are often without a silver thread, although the face of the wearer may be as furrowed as a block of sea-worn granite. Baby girls, young women and old women have their heads dressM in ex­ actly "file" same way. After her swad­ dling wraps the child is given the style of coif and other clothing that she will keep thpougli life; consequently, as she toddles about in front of the, cottage door, she is one of the oddest of little figures. In full dress the gown is always black but. a brilliantly colored handkerchief, in which scarlet predominates, is so worn as to show a little down the front of the bodice. A small shawl, general­ ly blue or red in the case of children and young girls, completes the cos­ tume. Loss from Storing Potatoes. Potatoes are perishable property. Even when not affected by rot there is a natural shrinkage by evaporation, and especially towards spring by start­ ing of the eyes, which always draws heavily on the substance of the potar to. A farmer reports that last fall he tried an experiment Most of his pota­ to crop he sold at 75 cents per bushel, but he put up 100 buslie!s to see whether the price could not be raised to $1. When he took out the potatoes in spring they had shrunk to 78 bushels of 60 pounds per bushel. The price also had declined, and he could only get 60 cents a bushel for them, apd was lucky to get that The 100 bushels in the fall would have brought $75 with less labor and trouble than was required in extra handling to get $46.80. At one time this spring potatoes could hardly be sold, for 20 cents a bushel. _ Grain Not Put in Shock. As harvesting machinery is improved so as to lessen the labor required from the harvester, there is a general dispo­ sition to shirk all the work that the machine cannot do. "\£e have known farmers to let the grain bundles lie on the ground as the machine delivered them instead of putting them into shock. This is very bad practice. The bundles lying on the ground are damp, on their tinder side, and if rain falls are much mora injured and require more time to dry out than if standing up. Most of tJae uiyshoeked grain was filled with Canada thistles. This only made the matter worse. The thistle is full of sap, and when bound in a bundle with grain it needs to be exposed to the air. as much as possible, in order to dry out and not heat the grain when put in mow or stack.--American Cultivator. A Curious Point of Philology. It has been found in the case of prim­ itive river names in the Old World that a syllable njeaning water occurs once at least, and In many instances several times, in the same name. From this philologists have been able to trace successive conquests as each conquer­ ing tribe added its own name for water or river to the syllables already form­ ing the names of streams within the conquered district. The same thing, lias happened in this country, as. the whites have tacked 0ie wordTTiver to many Indian names already including the word. Pleasant Summer in Iceland. From Ioeland the news comes that the long, cold "spring lias giyen place to a warm, pleasant summer. The whale fishing has been unusually rich. At a small whaling station there have al­ ready been caught seventy whales, each worth 3,000 to, 4,000 crowns.