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.presidential elec^-- ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH- FULLY RECORDED. l*rohihitionists of Illinois Kill Vacant Places--DelWo'a Slayer Sentenced . tjt$ the Penitentiary--Tragic Result of •an Altercation Provoked by Liquor -* Gere Nominated for Governor. The cxt^gjjiKe #onunitt:ee of the Prohi­ bition party of Illinois mot in Champaign tind nonrhiated George \Y. Gere of Cliain- •paisir fo? Governor to fill the place 011 the •5$rate fciefcet made vacant l»y the resigna­ tion of Hale Johnson of Newton, who was nominal eti by the Pittsburg convention 'for the vice-presidency, and chose Jndge Henry P. Kepley of Effingham for LieiT-" tenant Governor. Mr. Gere, the nominee for Governor, is a lifelong resident of Ohampaigu County, one of the most prom­ inent lawyers in central Illinois, and ha,s teen chairman of the State Central Com­ mittee for several years. He will retain his chniniuffaship. while that of the execu­ tive committee will go to Oliver W. Stewart of Mackinaw. RoUinger „Gets Fourteen Years. • Fourteen years in the penitentiary was the punishment - meted ou t to- Murderer Matt Hollihger by a jury-in Judge Chet- lain's 'court at •Chicago. There was. no. -demonstration when* the verdict was read. Rolliiiger sat near the, jail entrant^ ,to tihe court .room.' When the verdict was "read 1st* glanced up at. his attorney and his •cheeks Unshed. Then his eyes sought- the floor and. he sat silent, M a ft lloliiiiger in a tit. of jealousy lay in wait outside the house in which his wife lived Feb. 4 to kill Fred Mueller, a boarder in the house. 'The morning was dark and foggy. and ItolliiiKcr, mistaking JoJm .1. Delwo, wiio lived in tin adjoining house at 291 Mo- 'hawk street, for Mueller, shot and killed him. Delwo had been Rollinger's best friend iiTid^the latter was almost dis­ tracted with grief when he learned he had killed the young man. He made an at­ tempt to commit suicide when locked up. RoMinger is M7 years old, is a cabinet liiftk- <er by trade, and has lived in America eleven years. Parmer Kills a Doctor. The town of Union Center, Cumberland Counf.v, is greatly wrought up over a tra­ gedy which took place till ore Friday af­ ternoon. resulting in tihe death of Dr. Marsh Roberts, a prominent physician of . the place, by George \v. xiensley, a well- to-do fanner of the same vicinity. The two named parties, together with others, ha i met nt a blacksmith shop, all being more or less intoxicated. An altercation ensued. After some hot words between tlie dodor and the farmer tthe.y left the shop and proceeded down the road a little way. Then coming to a halt, Bens'.ev picked up a wagon spoke and struck Hob- errs over 1he head. The doctor fell un- •couseion« arid rejnainedyso until his death. Bensley on hearing of the fatal result im­ mediately gave himself up to the sheriff. • Ste»e News in Brief. So; Rhodes and Jeff G'idden, who were under sentence for riot, escaped from the jail at Lincoln. Mrs. Raymond Sissel died at her home .near Xenia of wounds vuUicieiLby Mn. , lt:ehard Dove. The cornerstone of the Plymouth Con­ gregational Church was laid at Peoria. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. S. AN'. Meek, II. T. Smith and others. C< n. Joseph T. Torreuee, of Chicago, is said to he a prospective purchaser of the New York Times. He'left for the East Wednesday to make an inspection of the property, which was offered to him sev­ eral weeks ago. Nathan J. Foster, superintendent of the Fairbury Electric Light Company, receiv­ ed injuries which will prove fatal. Ill' was coming out of a building, when work­ men above him let go of a heavy trestle, whi.-h struck him on the head, knocking him d<.wn. Twenty-three Chicago firemen were overcome by smoke while fighting fire in the basement of Gustav Pretzel's com­ mission house ou West Randolph street. Five of the men were carried out in an unconscious condition, wniie the remain­ der managed to stagger to the street and were then conveyed 'o their various en­ gine houses. None will die. Burning roast beef caused the Evanston fir" department a useless run <of three mil'\s the other afternoon. Neighbors »aw smoke issuing from the windows of J. li. Wilson's house and sent in a call for "engines. Mrs. Wilson was absent, and it turned out she had left a roast theef in the stove. The "basting" had boiled i.way and the burning beef raised a smoke wlkoli filled tihe house. The Wilsons did not return until after the ex­ citement was over, and they did not have •roast beef for dinner. AY. C. Garrard, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, was in Chicago to attend.a .meeting,of tihe Illinois State Fat Stock Show, held for tihe purpose of tak­ ing action upon the proposition made the show to hold a reproduction of the com­ ing Illinois State fair at the Coliseum imilding, Chicago, some time in October. The annual fat stock show cannot be held this year, and the„propo6ition is to have a duplicate State fair in its stead. The Board of Agriculture demands a guar­ anty of something like $30,000 cash, if, tihe fair is to be held in the Coliseum building. Field Columbian Museum at Chicago is to receive $2,000,000 as an endowment - fund. This magnificent donation is to fume from the founder, Marshall Field. He allowed Harlow N. Higinbotham to informally tender it upon conditions which are to govern the museum's future legislation. He insists that twenty acres shall be set aside +n the Lake Front Park and dedicated to tihe institution, and that the directors' shall be authorized to make the transfer from the building at Jackson Park as soon as the basin beyond the 11 li- nols Central tracks shall be tilled. Miss-Aleihda Morrow of the University of New Mexico, 'st. Albuquerque, was married at ItorkfOrd to Dr. E. M. Whit- «on vof Marion, Ind. The ceremony was performed by the I'ev. E. F. Ilasty of Pendleton, lnd., :t. cousin of theliride. All jobbers and shippers have been in­ vited fo be present at the Peoria meeting •of the Illinois division'of the Travelers' Protective Association. The question of n two-cent rate of Care in Illinois will bo taken up and discussed, and it is proba­ ble the division will formulate a bill fo In- presented to the next session of the Legislature. Jesep'i Mitchel'!, aged (52 years, a ship •carpenter by trade, but rcting recently as watchman on the tow.be at Frit v., was drowned off that boat one mile below New Madrid by accidentally falling overboard. He is said to have a brother living in New Yorki He was well known in river cir­ cles in St. Louis. < >n his return from the district synod *t Belolt, Wis., Rev. H. Meyer, of Lin­ coln. found his parochial, school building Jieafly renovated, and in the evening his congregation of J3Um Lutheran Church ^fathered and presented him with a hand- <*dmc bookcase. All this was in honor of his twenty-live years' service as pastor of church. The residence of Robert Hay of Milo was destroyed. Loss, $5,300; insurance, $1,600. • An unknown man was found do-ad near the tracks at Sepo, with an QUI pry bottle of laudanum by his side. A fatal cutting affpay took place at Mor­ rison ville, nine miles tfest of Panaf~Mon- day night, in which James, Noonal'i and .James Day were participants on oi& side and Sherman Liles, colored, on the other. During the fistic encounter prior to the cutting Day and Noou&n-^ere--getting the worst of it. when Noonan drew a knife and stabbed Liles immediately below the heart. Liles will die. Day and Noonan are hi jail. The man who was in jail at Blooming- ton, suspei?te<l of being A'ic McCarthy, the Western bandit" proves to be another -person. Samuel Starzer, sheriff of Sar- pey County, Nebraska, arrived for the purpose of identifying the man. He at once declared the prisoner was not Mc­ Carthy. The outlaw recently escaped from the jail of Sarpey County, after be­ ing sentenced to twenty years in the pen­ itentiary, and a rewa«rd of $1,000 is of­ fered for him. Philip -Hendpn Clayton, the oldest resi­ dent of that portion of the State, died at his home iu Alton, at the age"of 90 years. He was born in Madison County, Va., March IT, 1800, and as a boy knew and often met Thomas Jefferson in his old J Virginia home;. -John Adams was- also a friend and Visitor at the Clayton home, and the old. man's personal recollections o? the. two early I'.residents have always been a source .of entertainment to those Who met him. Last January while visiting in Indian­ apolis Miss Fannie - Reid^ aone of Paha's most popular and prominent belles, was clandestinely married to Frank Kenyon, a prominent Indianapolis business man. Mr, and Mrs. Ivenyon did not communi­ cate the fact of their marriage to anyone, and though Mrs. Kenyon visited her par­ ents in Pana several times since her mar­ riage, she went under her maiden name and did not announce her marriage until Tuesday, when Mr. Kenyon arrived in I'ana tojttake known their marriage and accompany his wife home. James French, who at Roekford killed hi# wife and shot himself, after which he jumped into the river, will recover. When told that his wife was dead he said that he was glad of it, and was now ready to die at any time. He also told a friend that he intended to shoot eight or ten oth­ ers, including several officers, and that was the reason he had three revolvers and a stiletto. He planned the murder several nionths ago. He will be tried in October and in all probability quickly sentenced fo execution. The funeral of the mur­ dered woman was one of the largest ever held in Roekford. An organization of nearly all of the large western dealers in anthracite coal has been formed for the purpose of devis­ ing. if possible, some means of defeating the ends of the coal trust. The organiza­ tion is in a crude state as yet, but has progressed far enough to convince the dealers that it is advisable to stand to­ gether. The territory included li^s west of the Mississippi river and the plan of campaign seems to be that of masterly in­ activity. It is hoped that if all of the western dealers hold together and defer their purchases for one \>r two months be­ yond the usual time it may result in dis- -s at is faction or demoralization within the trust. A large Omaha dealer, who would not admit his connection with five new combination, but who is plainly in sym­ pathy with it, said that not a pound of hard coal had been bought in Omaha this year, and that no purchases would l>e made until it became absolutely neces­ sary. At the offices of the leading Chi­ cago agents of the large coal producers it was the unanimous sentiment that scarce­ ly any coal had been sold this year west of the Missouri river, and that but very little had been sold west of the Missis­ sippi. In ordinary seasons the heavy buy­ ing by western dealers is done duriiij July. This year practically no buying has been done, though it is expected that sales will be heavier after Atig. L">. in case an expected cut of 50 cents in freight rates goes into effect on that date. The coal combination this year is strouge than ever in the history of the trade. It is not expected that any further advance will bo ordered in prices before Sept. 1. On that date an advance of 2.~» cents, or to $7 a ton. is looked for. The Chronicle says: If within a week every rattle-pated boy in Chicago is not the owner of a set of improvised burglars' tools and fired with an ambition to use them no thanks will bo due to the police. The exhibition of "safe blowing" and kindred criminal industries which is now being given in this city by a professional burglar is one of the most astonishing per­ formances ever tolerated by the authori­ ties of a civilized community. The-l ' V - turer, who has si>eiit several terms in va­ rious prisons and who is now at liberty under bonds, charged with participation in a robbery accompanied by violence, gives daily illustrations of the latest methods of burglary. Ho recounts with pride the "big jobs" in which he has been professionally engaged and grieves over the mistakes which have occasionally in­ terfered with his attempts to acquire oth­ er people's property. This harangue is delivered in a room in the m« % populous part of the city. Admission to the enter­ tainment can he gained by an.vnne willing to pay 10 cents. No discrimination it made. The innocent school boy is as wel­ come as the professional "crook." Young­ sters in knickerbockers are sandwiched in between lifelong habitues of the "levee." And the exhibition is popular with the rising generation. Boys of all sorts and conditions are to be found hanging eagerly upon the utterances of the professional criminal and watching his every movement as he illustrates the pro­ cess of safe breaking. It is a veritable kindergarten of crime. The effect of this outrageous exhibition upon boys inclined to be wild or upon those who are lacking in moral force can easily be surmised. Some will become criminals at the first opportunity and others will create an op­ portunity without waiting for one. Mrs. Margaret E. Bo wen, of Blooming- ton. is dead, aged SO. She was a native of Harper's Ferry. AY. A'a.. and leaves a number of children. S. T. Ragsdale and Vina Pearl were arrested at Metropolis Monday on com­ plaint of Mrs. Ragsdale No. 1. She says that Ragsdale deserted her seven years ago for the Pearl woman arid that she has followed them to Evansyille and Vin- cennes. Ind.. Mount Vernon and numer­ ous other Illinois towns before locating them at Metropolis. Ragsdale and the Pearl woman have been living iti Metrop­ olis for some months. Much interest was manifested at Mar­ shall in the preliminary trial of John Clements and David McDonald for the killing of Charles Bell of West York. The entire day was consumed in taking evi­ dence. Fully 1.000 people were present. The court admitted the defendantsto bail in the sum of $5,000 each. - t Consternation has been created among Northwestern conductors because of the announcement of wholesale dismissals, some of the oldest conductors ou the road being let out, and it is said more dis­ charges are soon to follow. The rules re­ garding the purchase of tickets is being rigidly enforced, and the company has numerous spotters all along "the line. &Wi>; \ lff 7/ | Escape from a Meteor. A meteor, weighing nearly four and a half pounds, fell in an orchard near Namur, in Belgium, on April 13, nar­ rowly missing a young workman. The meteor penetrated twenty inches into the ground. L • 1 1 'j Electro-Matrnetic Velocity. Beceut experiments by Monsieur Blondot on the rate of propagation of an electro-magnetic disturbance along a wire showed, according to "one series of tests, a velocity of 184,IS" ,miles per second. and according to another series, in which the distance traversed was nearly twice as great,'*!85.117• miles per second. The velocity of light Is ab.out 180,300 miles per second. The Swinginst Karfrh. It is known that. the polos of the earth, instead of remaining fixed'in po­ sition, revolve in smtjll circlet*, or, curves Which a-re.*nearly circles, in a period of 4'IT days, and that another thotiou of revolution, considerable shorter, also affects the position of the poles. The cause of this "wobbling" is not known, but Prof. Simon Newcomb has recent­ ly suggested that it may be due to cur­ rents in the oceans and in'the atmos­ phere affecting the equilibrium of the globe. The Traveler's Tree. Monsieur Bureau, a French traveler, disposes of the old stories about the "traveler's tree," in Madagascar, winch has been represented as a great boon to thirsty wanderers on account-of the water stored m its cup-shaped leaf­ stalks. He says the tree grows only where there is a plentiful supply of water, and where rain falls frequently all the year round, and that since the leaves are situated at the top of the trees, which are very tall, the thirsty traveler would have difficulty in reach­ ing them, even if it were necessary to do so in order to find water. right side up! The engine usted at pres­ ent is capable of driving the aerodrome about lialf a mile. On account of Prof. Langley's high standing in the-world of science great intewst has been, aroused in his experiment^ Natnre Worked Backward. ^ An Interesting story of a reversal of the ordinary course of nature, which cost a market gardener dear, is told by Miss Ormerod, the English" naturalist. Watercress is eagerly devoured by cad- ,dis worms, but caddis worms are a fa­ vorite food of trout. The trout in turn have a voracious enemy in borons. Which ordinarily catch the fish after they have grown fat on caddis worms. Recently it happened that a large grow­ er of watercress had three-quarters of his crop ruined by the ravages of cad- ciis worms. On investigation it was found that the trout, which ordinarily protected the plants from the ,worms, had been devoured, ahead of time, so to speak, by a flock of hungry herons, which in thus reversing the course of events, bad brought disaster to the own­ er of the watercress. The Color of Water. The fact is generally known that pure water appears blue when light is trans­ mitted through a sufficient thickness of it, and that when opaque"particles are suspended in it the hue of the water is greehisb. But while pure water looks blue when light passes freely through it, yet whe"r<-l.t_js contained in a deep, opaque receptacle, like the basin of a lake or the ocean, it ought to absorb' all light and look black. Experience shows, however, that the deepest parts of" the Medlterraneah. for Instance, ap­ pear not black but Intensely blue. This h»s been supposed to be caused by mi­ nute particles held in suspension, but the recent experiments of Prof. Spring at Liege suggest a different explana­ tion. He has found that warmer cur­ rents passing through pure water in­ terrupt its transparency, even when the difference of temperature is very slight. Such currents may cause deep water to appear blue by reflecting light back from its depths through the transparent layers above. This, it is suggested, ex­ plains the fact that t'resii water lakes are more transparent in winter than In Bummer, because in winter currents of heated water are not traversing them. Even the shadow of a mountain falling on a lake may increase the transpar­ ency of the water by cooling the sur­ face. Stereotj-pa Casting: Apparatus. Clias. M. Conley. for years an expert stereotyper and at present foreman of the stereotype foundry of the Chicago Newspaper Union, has perfected and patented an invention to automatically operate means fur locking together the cover and matrix-bed of a stereotype- casting box preparatory to the easting operation, and in like manner automat­ ically to unlock the parts when the cast plate is about to be removed. Pro­ vision is made at different portions of the 1K»X against springing and warping of the parts in use, tints not only avoid- IN A "BULLA-CARTA." The Peculiar Vehicle in Use in the island of Maderia. The master-at-arms went out into the Plaza, and hired a vbu 11a-carta. A bulia-carta*1$ in reality a covered sled provided with curtains, and drawn by two oxen. For the proper, manage­ ment of these vehicles, according fo Portuguese ideas, two men are neces­ sary. One goes ahead; in order to check any ambitious intentions on the part of the. oxen, and apparently does the guiding^ The duties ofsthe other are harder to define; he receives the fare incidentally, and urges on the oxen in those plaintive, wailing tones which he who has been to Maderia can never forget, and which incline him to believe that the Portuguese language is, oiie of lamentation. As Mr. Keegan tersely remarked, everything is "on skates" in Madeira. The streets of Funchal are paved with small lava blocks, set on end, and polished to a degree that makes walking dangerous to people who wear the shoes of civili­ zation. Hence the owners of the bulla- eartas do a thriving business with for­ eigners. especially up the slope, where a false step is fraught with no incon­ siderable consequences. It was up the hillside, or rather up the tirst slopes of the mountain, that the villa ro which the master-at-arms was going was situated. Few visit Madeira who do not take that delight­ ful ride up the mountain on horseback, and experience the delirium of the coast down, over the polished stones, in a wicker sled. Ascending, the traveler looks from his saddle over the high yellow walls on each hand into invit­ ing gardens of tropical, luxuriance, their shade-trees often completely arch­ ing the way over his head.. But the master-at-arms cared nothing about looking into the gardens, and had a sailor's prejudice against horses;-be discreetly preferred the bulla-carta. Even the picturesque procession of wine-growers which he met coming down the mountain, with skins slung' over their shoulders, made no more of an impression on"him than if they had been a draft of new bauds. He sat back behind the curtains of his bulla- carta, and smoked brown-paper cigar­ ettes. and meditated in the gravity of his mission; and he wondered whether the senliora would look, with f-avor on •the plan. Only once, when he had to turn out for a fat eeclesisatie.from the convent above, was he aroused from these reflections. The priest was de­ scending at a pace which would have defied a trolley-car, but he sat in his sled with as much equlnimity as if he were pronouncing a benediction, his guide deftly balanced on the runners) behind.--Century. THE PEOPLE'S PARTY* Brief History of Its Inception and Subsequent Growth. The recent events at St. Louis make of interest some accbunt of the growth and oalgin of the People's party. >io party had its inception at a mat­ ing held at St. Lonis in December, 1889. In 1807 the farmers* movement began in this country with the organization of the grange, or patrons of husbandry. This was not a political organization, but it spread with the most astonishing rapidity through the western and southern por­ tions of the country. The popularity of this movement caused the organization of a largo number Of similar societies and all of them grew humer.eally and acquir­ ed some political power. ' : "" ' An effort waS l !fiiade to unite air the^e various organizations, and at the meeting held in St. Louis irt 188© a consolidation was effected and the name of the "I'Vrm-; ers' Alliance and Industrial Union" was adopted. This was followed' by a con­ vention called to meet at Ocala, Fla., on Dec. 2, 1890.: The convention was held, composed of lt>3 delegates, representing thirty-five States and territories, and in­ dependent political action was decided. upon1. ... A platform was adopted which enr bodied the following principles: (D The abolition of national banks and. the es­ tablishment of sub-treasuries to loan money to the people at 2,p.er cent" interest, with an increase of.the circulation to $50 per capita; (2) laws to suppress gambling in agricultural piquets; • (3)' unlimited Coinage of silver;.i'i) prohibiting the alien ownership of land and restricting owner­ ship to actual use* (5) restricting tha tariff; ((S) government, control of railroads and telegraph lines, and (7> direct vote .of the people for- President, Vice-President and: United States Senators.; This convention was followed by an­ other, held in Cincinnati on May 19, 1S91, at which were 1.418 delegates from thirty States and territories. At this meeting the Ocala platform was reaffirmed and the name of the "People's party" was given to the organization. A third <x- tioual convention was held in St. Louis on the 2'Jd of February, 1892, at which little of an important character was done. The tirst nominating convention was held at Omaha July 4, 1892, composed of 1,290 •delegates. No great change was made in the platform, but the income tax and postal savings banks were demanded. In the election that followed the Peo­ ple's party polled for Con. Weaver, its- candidate for President, 1,0."»,424 rotes and he received 22 electoral votes. He carried the States of Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, North Dakota and one vote in Oregon. The party received al­ most votes enough to Carry Nebraska, South Dakota, Washington and Wyom­ ing. There have Ivoen no elections since then to test the voting strength of the party as a national organization, but in the congressional election in 1894 the total vote cast for the congressional candidates of the party aggregated 1,310,.'597, which shows a gain of 254,973 in two years. DEATH TCLSEVENTEEN. Awfnl Havoc Wrought by the Storm in Pennsylvania. . T ' One of the most terrible results of the Pennsylvania storm Monday night was the .drowning of a number of coal miners in the Painter's Run district, just over the Washington County line. The board­ ing house which t^ey; oc/rupied was blown down and sWept aSvAy, and of the sixteen miners"sleeping in it fifteen are fbelieyed to have been drowned. They. .were $11 foreigners, :mt)stly Italians, and were em­ ployed in the mines of Col. W. P. Rend and the Ridgeway-Bishop Coal Company. The boarding house was a little mining settlement called Cecil, on the line of the eight-mile branch of the Panhandle road, which leaves the "Chartiers. division at Bridgevillo. The'branch runs over to McDonald and Cecil is located midway between the two points. The fatality in­ curred at 4 o'clock in the morning, when the small stream, Painter's Run, which empties into Chartiers creek, was sudden­ ly-swollen into a raging torrent by a cloud­ burst. The stream had been very high on account of the rain, but little damage had been done before the rush of water Which carried away the tenement house. A great deal of mining and oil property was damaged in the district along the rum The water rose some places to a depth of eighteen feet. The loss in the district will amount to thousands of dol­ lars. Many narrow escapes are reported from the valley through which Painter's Run courses, and it is not unlikely that some others have, perished. Several houses in the valley were swept away. - The full extent of the damage wrought by the hurricane, in Pittsburg and vicin­ ity Monday night was not, known, until daylight, when wreck and ruin were ap­ parent on all sides. Steeples' were blown from' churches and adjoining buiidings crushed, houses were unrpofed, trees broken off and in some cases torn up by the roots, while the havoc caused by the heavy rainfall of last week was repeated. Summed up, with many outlying districts to hear from, the result in Pittsburg was two lives lost, thirty-six persons injured, many, it is feared, fatally, and property damaged to the amount of $11)0.000. MAUD IS MARRIED. Daughter of the House of Wales Wedded to Chorles of Denmark. Princess Maud, third daughter of the Prince anil Princess of Wales, was mar­ ried nt I'J :X0 o'clock Wednesday to Prince Charles, second son of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark. The ceremony U»ok place in the private chapel of Buck­ ingham Palace, 1,-ondon. So far as the general public of London is concerned the wedding did not attract as much at- SOL MAKES 'EM SIZZLE. Intense Heat Ts Recorded in Many Citiea'alnd Towns. Reports received- by telegraph from the principal Cities and towns,of the West and •South bring"^•"•tidings of unusually Hot weather. Following is a sample of the temperature in various parts of thfe cpaft- try Wednesday: ; Little- Rock. ... .lOOJacksonville, Fla 9*5 Dodge City .. . .^lOOMemphis 9tt Indianapolis .... ,9tf Atlanta. M Cincinnati ..... 96N*ew'Orleaji^.,... 9SS Kansas City.. .. 90Chicago 92 If a line w%re run from Canada down, through the western boundary of Ne-1 braska to the Gulf of Mexico, fo. tlie east of it would lie that portion of the country where the mercury hove'red- all cfiRf!iii the' 90 s. The coolest spots were: Bosdon, 84; New York and vialvesion. 88. In the morning the center of the hot. wave was over Duluth. Last night it hau sneaked to Lake Huron. . ..' Jy..'> • Jn Cincinnati many men were overcome by the heat. St. Louis reports thirty-four persons prostrated by heat, and many oC. them will probably die. Thirty-six horses fell dead on- the streets, and scores~erf • dogs were driven mad by the high tem­ perature. The thermometer marked 98 degrees, and the suffering was increased by the humidity in the atmosphere. TW» deaths were reported-^Frederick Tous- saint, A tailor in the Southern Hotel, and Richard Tassolk a laborer. Martin Tay~ lbr, a street, cleaner in Cincinnati, 'died* and M. Kobald. a bafcdr, is in a, eritifcal condition. A number of horses fell dead in the street. In Louisville the hot weath­ er record for fifteen years; was brokea- . The thermometer registered 98 degrees in the shade. Two laborers died fnwu hea t prostration. \ In Illinois. there was great suffering' froiu the heat. In Quincy the "hottest day of the year was registered; th§. mercury marking 100 degrees in the shade. There were numerous prostrations, but none ot them serious. Thermometers On the streets in Chicago registered 3s high as 101 degrees at (I o'clock in the evening, but the instrument in the tower of the. Auditorium marked 92 as the highest! Many prostrations but no deaths were, reported. Wabash, Ind., sweltered un­ der 99 in the shade, and a shower did not help matters at all. In Topeka, Kan., they had winds, but the winds were like wafts from a blast furnace. Life there was a burden to man and beast, but the corn crop is safe. HOW THE PRESIDENT IS ELECTED Members of the Electoral College as Chosen by the States. While the people elect a President by their votes they do not vote direct for the candidate. The work is done through all electoral college. In other words* each State puts up a tic tors and these cast the votej^hich finally decides who shall be President and Vice- President. This ticket is made up so as to give one elector for each - United States Senator and one for each member of Congress. 'I'he college, therefore, this year will con­ tain 447 electors, ' i 'he successful candi­ dates for President and Vice-President will be^Ve.rjuired to secure not less than 224. The college by States is as follows: TltK CAST!NO BOX. ing the danger of leakage of the molten metal, but also insuring a perfect cast- plate product. The inventiou Is one of great value, as it not only saves time, but protects workmen from injury and makes possible a better grade of work. Tlie'accompanying cut will clearly il­ lustrate the Improvement to the skilled mechanic. A Steam Hird. Prof. S. P. Langley, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, lias con­ structed a flying-machine, driven by a steam engine carried by the machine, which made two sucessful flights at Oceoquan, Va.. on May <>. The machine is not large enough to carry a man, and is only intended as a model for experi­ ment. It is called aerodrome, mean­ ing "air-runner." Its framework is of steel, and the length of its wings, or aeroplanes, from tip to tip is fourteen feet. No gas is used to lift the machine, ^he ascensional force being derived from propellers driven by tlie portable steam engine'; and this force is, made effective through thc^slia'pe and pitch of the wdigs. In the air the aerodrome resembles an enormous bird sailing in broad, regular curves and gradually rising. When the steam gives out the machine, instead of tumbling headlong to the earth, settles down gently and Childish Diplomacy. We all know the child's aptness in "easing" the pressure of commands and prohibitions. If, for example, be is told to keep perfectly quiet because mother or father wants to sloop, he will prettily plead for the reservation of whispering ever so softly. If he is bid­ den not to ask for things at the table, he will resort to sly, indirect reminders of w'bat lie wants, as when a boy of five years and a half whispered audibly, "I hope somebody will offer me some more soup," or when a girl of three years and a half with still greater childish tact observed on seeing the elder folk eating cak'\ "I not asking." This last may be compared with a story told by Rous­ seau .of a little girl of six years who, having eaten of all the dishes but one, artfully indicated the fact by pointing in turn to all the dishes, saying. "I have eaten that," but carefully passing by the untested one. When more difficult duties come to be enforced and the neophyte, in the higher morality is bidden to be considerate for others, and even to sacrifice his own comfort for theirs, he is apt to manifest a good deal of skill in adjusting the counsel ot perfection to young weak­ ness. Here is an amusing example: A little boy, Edgar by name, aged five years and three quarters, was going out to take tea with sonic litrle girls. The mother, as is usual on such ocasions, primed him with special directions as to behavior, saying. "Remember to give way to them, like father does to me." To which Edgar, after thinking a brief instant, replied: "Oh, but not all at once. You have to persuade him."--Prof. Jas. Sullev. State. Electors. State,. Number. - •*"*"* 11 Nebraska tS Nevada New Hampshire 4 New Jersey... . <i New York North Carolina. 4 North Dakota. . l.'-i Oiiio Oregon 24 Pennsylvania ... l."> Rhode Island... 115 South Carolina. 10 South Dakota. . l.'i Tennessee 5 Texas ........ '! I*tali 8 Vermont . .. .n . 1"> Virginia .... '.. 14 Washington .... 9 West Virginia. . !> Wisconsin IT Wyoming Alabama ... Arkansas .. . ("alifornia . . . Colorado . .. • Connecticut . Delaware ... Florida Georgia .... Idaho Illinois ..... Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky . .. , I/ouisiana . ... Maine ....... Maryland .... Massachusetts Michigan. ,, ̂ Minnesota ... Mississippi • • Missouri Montana .... Electors. Nuinbej^. 4 10 3t> 11 4 o2 4 9 4 12 lo y 4 12 4 (i 12 a STORMS IN INDIANA. Total .. Necessary to choice. 224. WhUe the territories took part in the nomination of candidates they have no vote in the electoral college. THE ARMY WORM. A New Industry. Restaurants in New York have grown so numerous in the last few years that what ma.V be called a wholesale restau­ rant has been evolved. In these estab­ lishments meat is bought by the carcass and vegetables by the barrel. In this wise the proprietor t'aii sell a great piece of roast beef or a shoulder of mut­ ton, thoroughly cooked, to a small res­ taurant keeper for less than the latter would pay for the material if purchased at retail. There are three institutions of similar character here. Close on to these people are the three or four men who make a living in buying up the remnants from big dinners, wedding re­ ceptions and similar social affairs, as­ sorting them so as to be presentable and then selling them to cheap restau­ rants, boarding houses and saloons. This new Industry was started ouly four years ago. but lias prospered ao well tlu^t It has probably come to'stay. No wonder bees are profitable: they steal all they eat from the neighbor*. | Some of the Characteristics of Thi9 Great Pest of the I' 'arincrB. ! The army worm, which has now made | its appearance in many States of the j Union, is a species of caterpillar. It hatches from an egg deposited by a night- I flying moth. Like the moth, the cater­ pillar prefers the night for labor and or- j dinarily remains quiet during the day. j The hot sun is distasteful to the worms, j and they die if exposed to it for a eon- siderable tinie. The moth that, lays the eggs is nearly one inch long and is one I and three-quarters inches from tip to tip I of wing. The eggs are deposited in rows ! of from fifteen to thirty near the roots of grass a'nd grain where they will be pro- i rooted. More than TOO eggs have been | found in the body of a moth when dis- . se-eted. The worms hatch a week or ten days after the eggs are laid, the time de­ pending somewhat on the climate. When | their lives as caterpillars are ended they | burrow into the ground and remain there j until spring, when they emerge as moths i to lay eggs to produce more worms. The army worm has appeared almost every year, according to the I'nited States Bureau of Agriculture, "puily oc­ casionally. however, have they been num­ erous enough to. do serious damage to ; crops. In 1870 the entire west was over- - run with the pest. So numerous were ; they that they stopped railroad trains. ! They crawled on the tracks in such uum- 1 hers that the wheels of locomotives were j unable to obtain a grip on the rails. They I also swarmed over the engines, disar- ! ranged the machinery, thronged the cabs i and annoyed engineers anil firemen,. When they arc once started nothing hut. death I can stop1"them. j A writer, in describing the ravages of j tbjj? worm in the West in IS,SI, said tluit i tlie sight, as a field of wheat was being I devoured, was discouraging, and strong j men turned awav, nauseated, after ! on the slimy mass of wriggling woiiniK r As they chewed the leaves a slight, or ink- | ling souud could be heard. Within a few hours the grain was destroyed and the army took up its march to other pastures. Gen. Josiah Siegfried died at Pottson- ville, Pa., aged 00, from kidney trouble and nervous prostration. Gen. Siegfried was one of the prominent millttiry^mea anil philanthropists in the State He waa the leading Republican politician Schuylkill Coufaty. fritSCK CHK1STIAX AND PKIXCKSS MAUDE tention as had been ljesfrowed upon other royal marriages of recent years. As Princess Maud's "procession entered the chapel the choir sang the hymn "Para­ dise." The archbishop of Canterbury met the bride and bridegroom at the altar and there performed the marriage service, at the conclusion of which he delivered a short address. Sad Devastation Is Caused--Houses Wrecked and Crops Kuined. Tuesday afternoon the entire south part of Wells County, Indiana, was.swept by a heavy hailstorm. Wednesday afternoon nt the same hour a cyclone swooped down on territory only a few miles north, clear­ ing everything before it. Orchards were destroyed and a barn belonging to Robert. Gavin, one of the largest in the county, was blown . down, burying cattle and horses in the debris. At Liberty Center, a number of residences were blown down and the Methodist Church was unroofed. A house at Petroleum was blown to pieces----" The Clover Leaf Railway be­ tween Bluffton and Liberty Center waa covered with fallen trees. In the vicinity of Warsaw the loss of crops is dreadfnl und little will he savpd: ""Corn, potatoes and unthrasheu wheat and oats are ruin- Wabash the hailstones-were -of extraordinary size and badly punished stock exposed to the storm. The corn in many places was whipped to ribbons. There is yet a great deal of wheat in the shock, and all of it is molding or sprout­ ing and practically worthless at Craw-, fordsville. The downpour was accom­ panied bv terrific lightning and thunder, barns,,trees and houses were struck with- oat-number, and many animals "f washout on the^*4*lal«JJm«'ff"ati engine and five men into Wal.nut Font creek.' i'w'.o-oC-llje five were instantly killed and others injured. COLORADO FLOOD VICTIMS. TwJhl^ryiinc I'eraona Known to Have J Been Drowned. The c/oudhursts in the foothills west of Denver Friday night, resulting in floods in which twenty-nine people are known to have perished, was followed Saturday afternoon by another terrible storm, the like of Which has seldom been Seen. At Morrison, seventeen miles from Denver, in the foothills, where twenty-two per­ sons were drowned in the flood Friday night, people were terror-stricken whaa they saw the second storm approaching. Hail began to fall soon after 1 o'clock. The storm kept on with steadily increas­ ing force till near'y 1 o'clock, when a black cloud of unusual density began to gather in the vicinity of Mount u. /?w miles from Morrison. Then the cloud burst, and in ;ui instant a wall of water caine down the gulch fully six feet dees* Everything in its path was carried away. The raging torrent carried along with it houses, barns and debris of all kinds. Morrison is indeed a stricken city. The dead number twenty-nine. Numerous parties, from Denver, camping out at Ev­ ergreen, ldlewild, IiKedalc and other places in the mountains near Morrison are safe. Many hairbreadth escapes and thrilling rescues reported. Damaging floods have also swept down the valleys in some of the Eastern States. The general conditions throughout the MonongaheLa valley is critical. In many places the rains were the heaviest known in twenty-five yaars. The Ohio valley will experiemv a flood its entire length. Reports from West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio -show all the tributaries of the Ohio river overflowing iheir banks. The damage t-> railroads/and other property is general and very great. The wheat and crops that were in shock are generally ruined. The loss on highway bridges and the railroads is the heaviest ever known In the Ohio valley. Sparks from the Wirei*. Garret A. Hobart. the Republican nom­ inee for Yiee-Presidenf. will spend four weeks at Hotel Champlain, Plattsburg, N. Y., where he now is. While driving a horse rake near Edin- burg. Ind., Fenton Wright fell upon the farm implements,when the horse bolted, and bot]i,of his eyes were gouged out. William Skea. for fifteen years a con­ ductor oil the Hannibal ami St. Joe Rail­ road, living nt Hannibal. Mo., was run down and killed by a train at Palmyra, Mo. Ex-President Harrison and Mrs. Har­ rison, accompanied by Secretary E. F. Tibbett, passed through Cleveland in their private car, en route for the Adiron­ dack s. \n imperial irade has been issued noti­ fying the council of Armenia and the Patriarch that they will be held respon­ sible hereafter for any treason on the part of the Armenian*,.. ; ; »<;. : ^ - .1 The cricket team from Havreford Col­ lege, Pa., played the Charter Hou«e pu­ pils' eleven hear London. At the con-' elusion of th*t 'first • innings of the Charl ter House players 82 runs had been seor- •ed. " * •'! CAMPAIGN LITERATURE. ; Headquarters of Uoth Parties Behind, with Orders, It waS stated at the Democratic con­ gressional campaign headquarters in Washington Wednesday that the entire force was buried under the demands made for literature to be used io the cam­ paign. In reply ts a question as to wheth­ er requests were for silver literature, the official in charge responded: "Entirely,; we get no other requests." The commit­ tee is far behind its orders in the matter of documents and a larger force will be employed in the mailing and folding de­ partments. At the headquarters of the Republican congressional campaign committee there seems to be a larger force employed and already tons of documents are being sent out. Yico-Chairinnn Apsley says that the demand is for financial literature and tariff literature. The committee"is how supplying a very large amount of tariff documents to every section of the country. The silver forces are niakiug arrange­ ments for temporary headquarters. These headquarters will be maintained until the Democratic national headquarters are permanently established and the silver headquarter.' will be established at the same place. PRISONPRSTMUTINY. V Leader Fatally Wotinded in Trouble at Fort Leavenworth. While a gang of thirty prisoners from the I'nited States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth were being worked on the prison farm a mutiny broke out among them. At a signal from George East, an Indian Territory desperado, the men broke for a cornfield. The guards com­ menced tiring with shot guns and all the prisoners but three surrendered. East was shot six times before he gave up. He was fatally wounded. Sam Mills and S. Dove were also badly, but not fatally, wounded before they were run down. When the bloody prisoners were run into the penitentiary yard, where 200 con­ victs were breaking rock, there was au ugly demonstration and a second attempt at mutiny. The guards were about to fire into the convicts when Warden French apjH'.ared and by coolness and •irmness quieted the revolt. WATSON SPEAKS OUT. Will Not Resijjn llis Place on the Populist Ticket. Thomas Watson is out in a strong edi­ torial in his paper stating his grounds for accepting the nomination for Vice-Presi­ dent from the Populist national conven­ tion. lie refers to Mr. Sewall as an in-, dividual of standing, and a free-silver Democrat, but adopts the argument elab­ orated on at St. Louis, that the uomina^ tion of a Populist for second place was necessary to preserve the autonomy of the Populist Organization, especially in the South. The editorial is accepted not only as a letter of acceptance, but also au offi­ cial ultimatum that propositions of with­ drawal will not be considered by Mr. Wat­ son or the Populists, and that the case now rests with Mr. Sewall. Keep Out of Politics. • • Postmaster General Wilson has issned an order to all raiijray mail clerks direct­ ing theih hot totake an active intereet it* the political campaign such as would te invofved iti their attending political coo- Tctiti&tV as delegates; niakiug political speeches or assisting in the management of political campaigns. .