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SWEPT BY FLOOD.
VERY MANY LIVES ARE LOST,
rna BAH4W114 valley maps mwolati it
Til BUSH OP TIIK AmiRT WATtllS.
The greatest disaster that ever befell Little
Kanawha valley come In tlie shnpe of ter
rible cloud-burst, which completely flooded
the country, destroying ninny lives, carry
ing off thousands of dollars in pnrty and
raining the crops for ninny miles around
rarkerebnrg, W. Va. The ('e'uge fell about
dusk, and rain continued to fall in torrenti
all night, doing much damage to the city.
The worst of the rtorm struck the lower
lide of the Kanawha valley, lillingthe small
Stream from bunk to bank, and ending in
the worst flood within the recollection of
the ouleat inhabitants.
In three hours the Ktnnwha raise I s!
feet, and ran out with such velocity that it
carried everything before it. At I'arkers
burg thousands of logs ami a number of
boats went out or weru sunk. The little
Knnnwha Lumber Company lost 2,000 logs;
the Wet Mill, ten rafts: Rarringcr, several
fiect.s; W. 1'. I'uddcii, five barges tit's, Several
of which were rmiLilit below. Keever & Co.
lost four bargi of coal which were wrecked
against the Ohio railroad bridge. Miller,
three rafts and 2,ooo tics. Taylor, one fleet of
timber; Charles Wells, four barges and one
full fiat. In one hour 5.0 ) log went out.
Mrs. Isanti Tucker, Martin t.amleis and au
unknown muu were drowned.
Above the destruction was still grenter.
I'.ig Tygart vulley is completely ruincl. The
big mill near the mouth went out, ami took
the Tygart bridge ulotig with it. In tho vul
Jey, all the fences, eros, and much livestock
was lost. At Chcsterville, a smull town
about ten miles above, half the residences
were carried oil bodily, ami left in corn fields,
many yards distant. In the Clay district, a
line church and three dwellings were wreck
ed. Still later a report rame that the steamer
C. C. Martin was sunk at Hunting Spring.
The Little Tygart is also reported completely
ruined. Heiitberingtou's store, Cupt. Silen
cer's residence, C. I'. Cooper's residence and
that of J. W. Smith were completely demol
ished. The worst story of all comes from Morris
town, a small village near the head of Tuck
er creek, where a cloud burst about midnight
and totally destroyed it together with many
of its people. The first report gave the loss
at eleven, but later news seems to tlx the
loss at a greater number. The houses of the
citizens arc said to have been picked up and
liurled against each other in such a Miort
space of time that no chance to cscae was
given to the people. Among those lost at
Morristown are .take Kiger, his brothers
Joseph and Thomas, a man nnmel Itailey,
Orville West, his wife and child. The body
of a matt, believed to bcanothor Morristown
victim, was found on the Richardson farm.
ANOTHER DAM BREAKS.
THEY DIED TOGETHER.
a moths a drowns nr. two childrin ars
turn iirasiLP.
The drowned body of woman, In whoa
arms were two lifeless children, both girla,
was found in Yankee Kim, a small stream
ix miles north of Youngstown, O. It was
tpparent from the position in which they
were found that that the woman had first
drowned the children and then deliberately
laid down in the shallow stream, until death
;ame. The water was less thin ten feet deep.
Hi remains were those of the wife and
children of William Gilchrist, a stone mason.
Mr. Uilchaist said that his wife nnd the two
girls, 7 a d 4 years of age, left him on Tues
Jay to visit her sister, Mrs. Hansel, in Shar
on, and lie expect ed to receive a letter from
bis wife, but none coming be decided to go
to Sharon and ascertain what was the mat
ter. Mrs. fiilehrist nnd Iter two children were
seen in the vicnity of where the bodies wers
found, and stopped at a farmhouse where
they were given something to eat. They
were met by two ladies in that locality, who
noticing that they were tired, tendered them
hospitality of their homes. Mrs. (iilchrisl
declined, stating that she intended to walk to
Hubbard and take the train for her home in
Young-town.
As far as known this is the Inst seen ol
them alive. Mr. (iilchrist said tfnt he had
f.WU in the house and on Tuesday his wifi
snid she would place it in bank, tint he bn!
made, impurit and was tumble to liud it.
He believes that she carried the money
with tier uttd that It was either lost or stolen
on the train, unil that the loss affected hei
until she became demented nnd linall)
drowned herself it txl the children.
GENERAL JOTTINGS.
HOME AND rOBXIQH.
A r.LsKiivoin or tiik onto canal oivls wat
AND VVIIU KS A VILI.V.K.
One of the most disastrous storms ever
known in the Hocking Vulley culminated
in the breaking of Sharp's dam, at Sugar
(irove, on the Hocking Cunul. The dam
held in store a large body of water that sup
plied the lower levels of the canal. Tho
heavy rains had tilled tho reservoir to tho
banks, when, suddenly, tho dam gave way,
and with a mighty rour thssea of water went
out through the vulley, taking with it every
movable object. Tor 20 mill's the soil is
ploughed up. Trees, fences, crops and hun
dreds of head of live stock have been swept
awny. No lives were lost, because the js-o-
iile had taken warning and bemuse the
houseware situated on the bluff that over
looks the vallcv. ittit tltu canal for miles is
a wreck and thousands effect of railroad
truck are washed away.
At Athens the Cincinnati, Washington and
Ihtltiuiore and Hocking Vulley Railroad
tracks are curried uvvay, nnd trains will be
delayed several days. RoiuIh and bridges are
annihilated, and the whole valley for miles
looks like a dry water course. Competent
judges place the loss in tho hundreds of
thousands.
I'.URS El) TO DEATH.
An explosion took place in the Turk mill
pfthe Eugle Valley Tannery, owned by W.
II. Sustenhnut St Co., at Ridgeway, l'u. It is
supposed to have been caused by the dust
particles, which were ignited spontaneously.
Flames Immediately burnt out in all direc
tions, and before it could be brought under
control the bark-mill, engine-room, leach
room, cooler-house und bark-sheds contain'
im: Sou cordb of oak bark were burned. Of
the employes, John Striker, a single man,
aued 20, was burned to death in the boiler-
room; Andrew Striker and John llurgoson
are supposed to be fatally burned, and John
Westerline, John Fisher and tieorgu Smith,
the engineer, are serioutly burned. The
t..l.'i.raih otllce of the rittsburtrlt Erie
Tumi was ulso destroyed. Tho loss will
leucll l-'O.OOO; fully insured.
Tl I E DEED OF A I I EN D.
At Edgartoti, O., Hiram Hoadley Jr., shot
and killed his wife und her father, a farmer
named Newman, und then killed himself,
Hundley's wife hud upplicd for a divorc
and was living with her parent. Hoadley
laid in wait for his wife us shu went out
to the burn to milk the cows, and
thot her down. Newman, hearing the re-
Isirt, ran to his daughter's aid ami received a
bullet in the breast, Hoadley then went to
the house and tried to kill his mother-in-law
failing in which, he returned to tho barn
lay down beside bis wife's body uttd put
bullet in his head. Ho hud three revolvers
on his tierson ami it is thought he intended
to kill tho entire Newman family.
iiACRrn to ijkatii. Joe i-rieciman was
grinding sausage ut his meet market in Cur
bolt, Cliyemio, W.T., when Wtu. Milton, an
employe of u rival establishment, entered,
l'he visitor hinted that diseased canine en
U-red into tho mixture. Friedman becume
Crazy mud at once, and without any warn
lug rushed uon Miller and with both bunds
lank a big cleaver into his skull. Frenzied
tt the sight of blood, be continued ids as
tuult until 10 fearful wounds had been in-
Bu ted, either of which would have proven
futul. Friedmun boarded an outgoing
freight, but was thrown from the truiu, cap
tared uud committed to jail.
FAMINE MAY FOLLOW.
Ml'RMiKIHI MAPK ItoM KI.KSS llV A I'Lofll-llfRPT
AMI M I KNUKST ON UlAlilTV.
Specials from the flood district near Far
kcrshurg give the following complete list of
the drowned, so far as known. It Is thought
that the death list will be much larger w hen
the districts now cut olf front the outside
world nrc heard from.
Robert lilac k, Mr. ISlnck, Mrs. Thomas
Hughes and four chilreu, Ed. lloso, Mrs.
snnc Roberts, Mr. Orrville West and two
hildren, John Hailey, Roy Kiger, Mr. Roy
Kiger, Mrs. Isaiah Tucker and a man whose
name cannot be nsc rtained. The dumiige
proerty cannot be estimated ut present.
Hundreds of oplo lost nil they possessed
nnd manv families are homeless. A late
lispatch mys the village of Morristown,
Wirt county, was swept entirely away.
Great sull'cring exists among those who lost
ull they isissussed, and the County Commis
sioners of tVoodcounty will Issue uu ap)ieal
for aid. The cloud-burst occurred on Lime
stone Mountain, Wood county, where the
live creeks that were Hooded have a com
mon source und from where ttiey take their
course in as many different direc tions. The
damage to cros wits iiiestimated and the
farmers will be dependent Uiott charity un
til next season.
OFFICERS MAKE A M(S HAUL.
ttiANOPF COl' -TF UK I! ITERS UllOKl.N IP. LOTS
OF THE vH'ttCH Fof.NU.
Kevret service men In disguise have for a
longtime lieen dickering witlt Nelson RrigK
nnd wife, who keep the United Stutes Hotel
in the country, two miles from Duytoit, ().,
for till, 000 counterfeit money the deal was
to huve been ellected Thursday, and it is
now learned that the notorious couuterfeitet
Jim (itiyoii, for whom the Government
has been looking for nine years, brought
the bogus mot.ey 1 1 Dayton for delivery,
While Secret Service Olliccr John S. Hell
wits in tho hotel, eight other detectives sur
rounded the building to arrest the gang
(iiiyou retiiaine I in hiding in the woods
und us soon us he discovert' 1 thu trap that
had been laid for htm, he begun to retreat
tiring us he ran through thu thicket. Thu
The otlicers returned the lire, uud forty
shots were thus discharged.
Olliccr Donnelly, of Virginia, wns shot in
thu right side of the head, but Hot fatally,
tiny on escaped, though it wus thought he
wus wounded. Nelson l'riggs, who is uu
old otlcnder, und his wife ami Mrs. Mury
Hrown arc under arrest, and Olliccr Hell se
cured 125,000 of the bogus money.
SIXTV FAMILIES EVICTED.
TIIK SVMUCATK OL'TH I'OHLSSION or TIIK Vl'VtU
H.ATS AT ST. I'AL'L.
The Oppcnhcim syndicate, consisting ol
half u dozen millionaires resident in St. l'uul
uud New York, completed the wholesale
eviction of sipiutters on its proH'rty, knowu
us the 1'pper Fluta of St. l'uul, Minn.
As a result of the eviction upward of OC
families, numbering about 300 persons, uro
now located on the levees without shelter
of any kind, guarding their possessions and
appealing to the city for either work or
food.
Tho city aided the syndicate in clearing
tlie large property uf squatters and razing
their houses. A force of twenty men of the
Engineers' Department, protected by l'ollce
Lieut. Cook und siuitd, was employed in lo
cating the streets und removing the shuuties
which were within street lilies. Some of the
ijuutters huve lived on the Hats us long us
15 years, but tho continual presence of the
Otlicers cowed them uud there wus no show
of resistance. The women pleaded and cried
in vuin, and the men stood by stoically and
watched the destruction of their shuuties.
The syndicate plat, thegrouiid and the streets
will be graded, and tho pnerty over which
there has been so much dispute will be put
un the market for sale.
How it Kills Cattle. The buffalo fly lint
ipieared in Monmouth county, N. J., and
the farmers have lust many head of cattle
by It. Tho lly is smull and of a bluck color.
Its method of itttuck is for tho fenialo lly to
bore into the llesh ut the base of the horns
md deposit her eggs, and when
the grub hatches It penetrates the
bead ut the buse of the horns und also
works through the horns. The animal thus
llllicted shakes its head and endeavors to
teratch the top of its bead with its hind
hoofs. While the grub Is growing the ani
mal becomes crazy and butts its heud
gainst fences, which results oftentimes in
the breuking olf of its horns. There Is no
sure for the animal after tho lly bus onus
deposited its eggs. The most effective way
'a keep the flies off the cattle is to daus the
base of the horns with wood or coal tar.
Blam has (rone extensively Into the rosea
focture of paper money, and made it a legal
tender for all purpose,
A coalition of all the leading labor organ
Izationt of tha country ii now proposed, and
has received wide notoriety through tha me
dium i.f secret circulars, the most effective
form cf advertising a schema of the kind yet
devised. It will Include, as far as heard
from, the Knight of Labor, tha Federation
of Ibor and the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen.
The snle of tickets for the Sulllvan-Kilraln
prize light in the Ne-v Orleans ticket office of
the Queen and Crescent route alone nrtted
the big sum of I22,ooo, but there were prob
ably as many more sold at points through
out the country and at the ring side, of the
receipts front which the ruilroad Compmy
got a goodly share.
Dr. McDow, the slayer of Captain Daw
son, was exielled from the South Carolina
Medical Society.
The Virginia State Prohibition Conven
tion met at Lynchburg and nominated a full
Stute ti ki t, at thu head jf which, for Gov
ernor, is Hon, Thomas K. Taylor, of Loj
iloii county.
Several lives were lost by the recent flood
In the vicinity of Uvalde, Texas, and much
aroperty was destroyed.
The horribly crushed body of a disaoltita
woman of 33 years who called herself An
tile Elliott was found In the back yard of a
home at Boston. She bad fallen front tha
fifth story window while her companion
was out buying licuor.
A pretending purchaser at Fred Rcholek's
jewelry stro at Chicago covered the pro
prietor with a revolver, snatched up a trny
of rings, backed out of tho door, ntu down
Halsted street and escapod, dropping rings
at be ran.
James Stephens, oi" Strawberry I'lnlns,
Jefferson co nty, Tennessee, was shot and
killed and his wife wounded, by part of a
bond of negroes against whom he bad re
cently testified for petty thieving In that
neighborhood. The perpetrator of the deed
Is thought to have been Rill Jackson, and.
if caught, he will be lynched.
Several thousand West Virginians have
petitioned Governor Wilson to include Henry
George's single tux scheme in his subjects
for consideration at an extra session of the
Legislature.
Thomas Moore, a mine boss, of Elk Oar
den, near Keyser, W. Va., was assaulted by
foot puds and robbed of (XK) and a gold
watcti. Three young men have been arrest
ed on suspicion.
Two freight trains collided on the Kansas
and Texas Railroad Sunday, near lloonevllle,
Mo. Doth engines were demolished, 21 cars
destroyed and .00 cattle killed. Loss, ttO.OOU.
No lives were lost.
The Lehigh Valley agent at Easton, Fa.,
noticed a Hun wulkiiut on the truck and oc
cupied him. When asked where he was go
ing ami what his business was he produced
a card which stated bis destination to be
Scrunton. He also showed a ticket good
from New York to Scranton. The man man
aged to explain that ho was tinder tha im
pression thut the ticket eutitled him to walk
on tue track between the two cities. The
agent detained him until the night express
came along, put him on it and sent him to
Scranton. The Hun had walked 74 miles
with the ticket in bis peckct.
President Harrison is so well pleased with
Dear 1'urk that he is not declined to go back
to Washington even to conduct cabinet meet
ing. A government that can be run from
thu portico of a summer hotel isn't going to
the dogs very fust.
TheChipH'wa Indians have signed the
treaty disusing of their Red Lake reserva
tion to the whites. This opens up for settle
ment 3,000,000 acres of the finest land in
Miuuinota, on some of which it is estimated
there are lO.lWO.OoO feet of plue.
The Mississippi authorities are In dead
earnest in their purpose to prosecute those
of their own citizens who in anyway pro
moted tho late pric tight, and already a
hulf dozen of them have been arrested and
held to bull for trial. Among these is Mr,
Rich, the owner of the property upon which
the light took place, a very prominent citi
zen. The Miz-drawn out war In Haytl will
soon he over. Hippolyte and his army havi
Legitime and his army cooped up ao com
pletely In Fort an 1'rlnco that death or cap
ture ure ottly the (juration of a few days.
Recent experiments have gone far to raise
a reasonable doubt whether electricity used
by known uppliunces is a proer means ot
accomplishing the execution of a human be
ing.
. A United Stutes Judge in Kansas bus de
cided thut there is no law in Oklahoma. It
may bo well to have a judicial declaration oi
the fact; but thu public wus pretty well awart
of it already.
The wheat crop of Dakota, it Is now said,
will fall short of thu original estimste by 30,
000,000 bushels, and will not exceed '.V.OoO,.
Out' bushels, owing to the drought. The
ttbundunt yield elsewhere in the country
will ntoro than make up for this shortage,
however.
John M. Stone wa nominated Governoi
of Mississippi by the Democrats, who In the
platform repudiated all sectional f teling, re
joiced in the claims of thu brotherhood, and
endorsed Governor Lowry's etfort to pre veu t
prize lighting in thu Stute.
Tho f ."i.OOO.OOO needed to build the Uongo
Railroad have ull been subscribed by Eng
lish, French, llelgiun, German and Ameri
can capitalists. Tlie projectors b avo calcu
lated thut it will do from tho first a half
million dollar business yearly, while the
cost of operating and maintaining they esti
mate at 1 2 10,000 yearly, leavinn a fair reve
nue. There will be no delay in taking the
preliminary stupe of construction, and in
four years the road will Incompleted and
the heart of the Dark Continent pieroed by
quick and safe means of travel. Tha ex
ploration and development of Africa will
then proceed with mighty stride.
At an illustration of the progress tod
eoabeudttiveneas of our country, it may
be mentioned that the 'seventeen-year
locust, which appeared, twice in thirty
four years half a century ago, now visits
us annually.
A constitution has been prjpared for sub
mission to the South Dakota Convention,
which embraces the leading features of trieJ
constitutions. Ill against female suffrage
and prohibition, gives the Legislature power
to regulate the liquor trade, makes ample
provisions for schools, gives wivei ths con
trol of their own proerty, places chec ks on
corporations, and restricts the right of suf
frage to those who can read the Declaration
of Independence,
A sneak-thief stole a package of registered
tiers, supposed to contain about 110,000,
from the Milwaukee postofllce. Tbe officials
refuse to give particulars.
Edward Hoe, a young Englishman, bad
his leg almost bitten Off by a shar.k, while
bathing in the Cumberland Sound, Via. He
bled to death in a boat ere livH was reached.
Tommy and Agno Willi mis, children,
aeodSandS years, respectively, living In
Columbus, Ohio, were burned to death by
the explosion of an oil can, into which they
were throwing lighted mutches.
The steam barge Joseph Farman, valued at
10.01)0. was burned to the water's edge on
Lake Michigan. The crew of 10 men were
picked up near South Haven, Michigan,
having escnied on a raft.
A BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS.
IRVKSTII1ATIO.X or TIIK COAL Ml MRU lUmtCli
T1KS I. ILLINOIS.
The inveitigatioit of the coal mining dif
ficulties ut La Sa'le. Ills., developed a bad
state ofaftair at Rrnidwood, on the prt of
the miners, who endure all tha evils of the
truck store system; aro hampered iu their
work at some of the mines by reason of not
being adequately supplied with timber for
propping up the roof, contrary to tha State
mining law, and are in jeopardy of their
lives.
The coal cars, according to the testimony,
were not properly constructed, so that much
coal fell off while being hauled to the mouth
of the mine, oil of which Is confiscated by
tbe company, and which some days aggre
gate upward of 23 tons. The mines arc very
wet and the miners had their clothes con
stantly soaked. Often the air is insufficient
and bad.
The complaints from Ilracevllle and Strea
tor were not so great. Miners wages average
only t'27 to MO a month, with deductions
foriwwder, repairing, tools, etc., of several
dollars each month.
L. H. l'liimb, a Strcotor operator, found
competition so sharp that he said be saw
little hoe for tho Northern Illinois opera
tors. He had submitted bis case to a Hoard
of Arbitration. If he could not o-erate his
mine at the rata of wages awarded he would
close it. If the miners would not work for
ths wages that might be named, they were to
be under no obligations to do so.
BUTCHERED HIS BRIDE,
a toiko woman stauhko to iu:atu ii v iirb
II l SUA NU.
A horrible case of wife murder occurred
near Bud River .Mutton, Wisconsin. The
victim was the pretty 14 yeir old bride of
Joseph Ftichs, and the murderer Is the hus
bund, a man of about 40 years of age. They
had been married about two weeks and
made their home ut Glidden.
About !! o'clock Thursday they left on the
north bound train. They gtit off
near Morse, and a section foreman
tuw them walking arm in arm up tlie track.
He wus horritied as lie watched their actions
to see Fuchs strike the woman severul times
wiih some deadly implement. As he a
pronclied, the murderer picked up the woman
and threw her down a steep embankment.
When the section foreman picked up the body
it wus lifeless. In the meantime thu murder
er tied to the woo-Is. Examinution of thu
hotly showed that the young woman had
been subbed seven times in the throat, and
terrible gashes on her arms and hands show
ed what an awful struggle shu hud mude for
her life.
HUNTED TO DEATH.
Two young criminals escued from tlie
County Jail ut Cleveland, O. They were W.
R. Smith, held for gruud lurceny, and Rich
ard N. Muuslicld, a horse thief. Deputy
Hlierills and policemen bturted on their trail,
ami shortly after midnight two men in a
buggy were overhauled by a detachment of
pursuers. Revolvers were drawn, a score ol
hots were exchanged, und Deputy Sheriff
Goldsoll, one of tho best criminal officers
thut ever served In the city, fell with a
wound that will probably prove fatal.
The men in the buggy drove away.
Shortly afterward the buggy was found
abundoned, with the body of a young man,
supHsed to be Smith, in it. Later it de
veloped that it "vns not Smith, uui the body
bos not been identified.
A Boilrh's Work. The boiler in the
plunlng mill of the R. V. Stone Lumber
Com I any, on Hoy no avenue, Chicago, ex
ploded. The mill was blown to atoms,
scarcely a board or a sign of tha machinery
being left, and tho following men were kill
ed. Jefferson King, engineer; A. Dollur,
luborer; Fred Beill'ol, teamster. Four other
employes had most .uiruculuus escapes. The
body of King was recovered from tho ruins
frightfully mungled. Dollur was outside the
building and was iu seurch of work. Ho
was also badly mangled and burned. Beiffel
was a teamster fur another firm. His head
was crushed by a piece of the boiler. The
flames which followed the explosion were
toon extinguished. Thu financial loss is
shout IJ0.0JO
Mysterious Disease. At Harden and 0t
way, villages not fur from Portsmouth, Ohio,
the peculiar disease which nearly dejiopu
luted those pluces last summer has returned.
A lady is said to havedicd in two hours after
being stricken. Ex-Mayor Freeman is re
ported iu a dying condition. Physicians
have been unable to check the disease or to
agree uon its cuuse. It Is an allection of
the bowels, and many think thut the causa
is to be found In the drinking wuter taken
tron the wells.
Tabbed and Feathered. A mob of 100
men with black masks over their faces, at
tacked the house of Nuncy Vincent, a no
torious resort at Montpelier, lud. One male
Inmate was whipped with switches. The
other inmates escaxxl. The Vincent woman
was tarred and feathered, and the bouse and
furniture were demolished. The occupant
bave fled.
TRADE TOPICS.
tfltCttAMSO SJOUSS TRANSACTIONS SHOW CI
WELL.
R. G. Dun A Co.'s weekly review of tradt
says: For the dull reason of the year, bus!
Less continues remarkably large. The in
crease in clearing h use transactions fa
July, thus far, has been about 30 per cent. 0
New York; about 19 er cent, at Boston
Philadelphia and Chicago, taken together
anil about 10 per cent. In the aggregate of al
other cities. New business of a non-specu
lative character evidently exceeds that o
the same month in any previous year. From
all parts of the cjuntry, aim, onto reports
that an active and prosperous fall trade it
anticipated, and the crop prospects continue
favorable. But the financial outlook It
rendered uncertain by the continued exporti
of gold, the liquidation uf foreign holders ol
securities and the doubts about trust opera
tions. Secretary Windom has talked witi
some free-lorn regarding the purchases o
bonds, hut stated that prices now paid are at
high as he thinks the government ought to
pty. He consider, that tho monetary sup
ply Is at preicnt ample. The treasury bai
paid out during the post week 12,000,001
more than it hits taken In.
Trade is improving at Pittsburgh. Al
most ioints there is observed a full norma
demand for groceries, excepting articles es
K'Cially controlled by speculation or trusts
and the demand has raised coffee half I
cent, while distrust of the combination hnl
Iie1ied to lower the price of sugar an eighth
Supplies of dairy products are very largo
and butter has fallen a half and cheese s
quarter of a cunt. 1 ork products are a fric
tion lower.
The ooul market Is dull and the demand
backward. Iron is hesitating again, and
the belief thut tho present rate of produc
tion cannot be maintained seems increasing
Sule of rails for the week huv
been but 15,(M) tons. For the half year ao
tual shipments of rails weru 675,000 tons
igalnst &S5 SoS Inst year and H07,3T1 the yeai
before. Copr is weaker. Wheat has been
advanced a cent on resrt of extensive dam
age iu Dukotu, with salei of 17,000,01 10 bushelt
here. The accounts do not warrant the ex
jvectution that the yield will fall as low at
4M3,ooO,000 bushels, which, with the largt
surplus still in band, will much exceed any
demand at present probable. Corn bus ad
vanced hulf a cent and o its a quarter, with
out Sclul reason. Tlie general aver
age of prices is lower by nearly half of 1 ici
cent, than a week agOa and unless
crops sustuin great injury, is likely to go still
lower. Stocks have tended downward; and
average about ll.iJ er share lower than a
week ago.
The business failures number l!OS as com
pared with a total of Jot) last week and 303
the week previous. For the corresponding
week of lust year the figures were 218.
THE OUTLOOK FOR CHOI'S.
PHV HOT WEATHER RKgt'lRril FOR IIAKV1XTIXO
AND UIUNOINO COI1M t'OUH Al.l).
Tlie Farmrrtf Jtrview says: The majority
of our crop corresHindeiits report an excess
of rain during the past w eek, w hich has in
terfered considerable with the harvesting of
wheat and inclined oats to rust and lodge.
The great present need is dry hot w eather to
bring corn forwau and enable the farmerr
to cut and harvest grain crops.
The prospects for potatoes a -e very flutter
lug in all the States covered by our retiorts.
save in Minnesota and Dakota, and even In
thut section the crop promises to be a fuir
one. In most of the other Status she present
condition is considerably above the average.
Cum prospect continue good in Missouri,
Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa. Tho crop has
devclojied considerably iu Wisconsin, Min
nesota and Dakota under recent moist hot
weuther. (juitu a fulling off is noticeable in
thu reports from Ohio und Kentucky, how
ever. In Illinois and Indiana the present
uutlook is fuir. Oil the whole tho present
lituutiuu is rutlier critical. If cold wet weath
er prevails during the next fifteen days the
result will be disastrous in many fields al
ready saturated with moisture. With hot
dry weather during that time tho result
would probably be ubove the uvcrugu.
The condition of spring wheat continues
good iu Iowa and Nebraska und fair in Wis
sonsin. The crop bus Improved since the
last report in Minnesota, b .t reports are far
front-encouraging. Dakota correspondents
report a still further decline iu condition,
with prospects of only hulf a crop.
A general decline is noticeable in the cor,
ilitioti of tho oat crop in Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin and Kansas,
due to tlie excessively wet weuther. In Kau
nas many correspondents report serious dum
age from rust, but whether it will materially
affect the yield for tho whole State, it is yet
too early to determine. In Kentucky, Iowa,
Nebraska, Miuuesota nnd Dukotu the condi
tion has improved slightly since last reports.
In Dakota, however, it is to j lato to restore
even a fair average and the crop there will
probubly be utmost a failure.
A. L. Mohler, Assistant GJiierul Munagei
of the Munit ba Railroad, bus just com
pleted a thorough personal examination of
tho wheat crop along the lines of the Mani
toba system, and has prepared a concise
summary of the results of liis investigations.
He predicti) that Ihe country tributury to
tbe Mauitaba lines will furnish for ship
ment at least 3L',X)3,0O0 bushels of wheut.
This estimate, he says, is confirmed by Chi
cago ex iter! who have been recently cover
ing the tame territory independent of him-elf.
Dr.rtTV KiLt.niiM Oklahoma. Informa
tion has been received ut thu office of the
United Stutes Attorney, ut Topeka, Kas., ot
the killing of Robert Datum, u Deputy Uni
ted Stutes Marshal in Okluhoma, on Suuday
afternoon. Datton was in the act of arresting
Lee West, a notorious criminal, for being
a "moonshiner," or whisky jieddler.
Vist shot Dulton fatally, but before he ex
pired tho lutter shot West, killing him in
stantly Tbe ull ray occurred near the Ar
kansas river and near the border of the Osage
Indian reservation. West hud uotitiod the
officers that ho would not submit to arrest.
This Is the third affray in which a United
Slates Deputy Marshal has been killed in
Okluhoma in the lust two weeks.
An Iowa roan bat received hit appoint
ment at Consul ot the United tituiei at
'Batmen.' None but a lawyer should
be sent thither.
TUE LONDON
rt A ttfa tt r- tli
o uu 10 JAI K THE Hjp I
A SOLDIER CAtTl-RID Hr Til.
MAKES A C.sr,10!,
The excitement . ver th ...
el murder hss been foll.ii
.. v, II, .
ivii. nn r.ngiisiunan Wm " ri
toe charge of having murd,
whose body wns found Tup.-,. '
Castle alley. Whiteehapel. kL"'
en Into custody the pri 'TUi
that he had kilM , '
He raid the weuH.n ,f
accomplish his purpose was h
pock knife. He curried no mL
lie declared Hint he lived nowhsr
he had Just arrived from abroad
oner is six feet tall, of fuir ;,'
carried himself with a military .j, u "
tions indicate that he I, in!,anf
tsilil'p nrA niftkim, ,i,,,.,l. .. Q'tS.
, ....,,,,,, U(.jr,
is thought by ot hers t hat t lim, ,u .T :
may biivecommiiusl the latral ,,..,
not nt ull probable that 1K- i, -j k 7'J".
per." l"R
Ho has confesse.! that he marl.,, .
Women whose biHlln i,.... i '''
and about the vi,i... n ''m
gave the names of hi, victim, n,. ,
tiH,n which ho killed them 1:
Khustly and Indecent .let ail, c..m ,-,' t
tho terrible crimes. The i ilicc i,;: 'f
he Is a lunatic, but that pMV ,,U'
i.. ...ii. i. . .... ' -
ib irutj mm mat In- i. it.-
whom they have so lorn; be,,,' m'
" ior tint,,.,..
,1, m .:.. ....... ....... I
gre-AS out of the evidence in tllf u..
iiiysii-rious muniers. in Hi ..... -i
there uiiy trace ofa pni able mur,!,'
.nun suppoico. to ue tt sol.l,, r np;.. ,.
inn, neur tue p:uce oi the imml,r c,n
wim uioou nun mucii ngit'itml.
with the description of tbe man !.''
wiin mo victim, wiio was .
...... , ... , .. . . " t
coiiiu never ue loilliil iitleritr.l i.
iHtrtcd ill tlie military t lub iliatther-
uusviiTS uic or-iTipilon of tlll'Iim,
to, und thut he is a private s..Mwr,
COMMERCIAL
PITTS hi Ki.lt.
BUTTER Creamery f jv-j
Country roll u
CHEESE Ohio full cream...
New York .;
EfiOS ),
POULTRY Chickens, V fair :
Turkeys, Dj... ii
rOiAiOlvS-l'ecrless l
Rosu ;m
SEEDS Clover, country 4 v
Timothy v
Illue Kruas :o
Millet l.ij
WHEAT No. 2 red v;
No. 3 red a
CORN No. 2 yellow ear 4.
Mixed ear tl
Hhelled mixed 41
OATS New No. 2 white Ji
RYE New No. 1! Ohio anil px 4.
k'LOL'R Fancy winter pal's. S '
Fancy spring pat's.. 5 TS
Clear winter 4 73
Rye flour 3i)
HAY Timothy II w
Loose, irom wagon... i:uv
kUDDLlNlig Whitu U!
Urun ll'it) :l
Choii feed 1JW if
BALTlMOtil.
WHEAT No. 2 red t f j
RYE
CORN t;
OAT.- Western
It UTTER It
EUUS 1!
HAY Western MM i.
CINCINNATI.
WHEAT No. 2 Red I KS
RYK
CORN r
OATS -1
EU(W 1
FORK
IS UTTER U
riiiLAii:i.rnu.
FLOUR Family M )'
WHEAT No. 2. Red "
CORN No. 2, Mixed J
OAT.Sl'iigraded White 3;
RYE No. 2
HUTI'ER Creauierv Extra ... 1
CHEl&Sk N. Y. Full Cream..
HEW YOIIK.
CATi'LE
8 II EE I', 4
LAM US
Hours Live
FLOUR I'ntents
WHEAT No. 2 Red
RYE Mute ,
CORN Ungraded Mixed ....
OATS Mixed Western
Wn'ER-Creumery 'J
Factory !
CHEESE Stute Factory ....
Skims Liglit .- ',
Western '
CGUS State and l'eiin -. "
live-stock: mabkCT'
Central Dr0Ve Yards, East Wl
run
The supply of cattle has beotiM
market slow ami lOtelV; lower un
except neat 1,000 to 1.100 w?:,n
lust week's range. We give tut f'J
1,'juo to 1,400 tts-, :t micrtiw; ro01J
tol.yooibs., 3 60m3i-''; gisidbot-t";!
0O0 to l.HS) n.s., j kh:s 75; cntni
bOO to 1,000 lbs, :Ioik.i3i; buJl
cows, tl O0(f 2 75; fresh cowl au t i
f 'Mac y Iieud.
The receipts of hogs hav f
the market active on gisid 1
while the heuvier grailw nniM " i
... ft. ll. ...... a I V,,rkiT "
mediums, $1 70(il 7.'; grasr.
en tt:r.
The supply of sheep early in &
heavy and the market ,l0" J
dine of 15ltk5 from mr!,J
me supply v euiii-siiay ""-,r.,i
tlll.rU.-l .lull ami l.'mi jn.' loVHTtl--
We quote as follows: I'nme , I
diuna wethers, 110 to I'-V'-,!!
good, iwto 100 lbs, t
mixed, I I 60(ii t 00; good "j-Tjl
lis., I 40 to i t; coniiil' a , ' il j
(US., J .) lO S W. v
lbs., 15 50(gU 00.
WOOL.
i- -,o,l miit-t t'lt .
tie fleece, aU('3!k!; pulled, -U' j
e-,sc- , t M.'-l
JtoSTOK. I lie Sine "' - ,. w,j1
huve been 2,tH J.UiO tt-s- o f , J
lug 2,473,000 U)S. oi - ,(l,is
nmrket was very lirni, but . t '
nianufacturers was not J7
business of the k".,,,V
two or thn Iiouses. inc v
been selling only in smuu i- ,
of Ohio anil J'entis iv"'- v,i
noticed at 3;t(n3ic for
chigan X fleeces t--l',;,J7J
anu ueiuine noeces ,:,ohot
No. 1 combinif: SIMM for O"
and 35o for Michigsn
ed combing wools are w '
o
ii -
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