1 SRE ow E LATEST ! Crime and Penalties. “Commodore’’ Miller and 12 other con- victs working ina camp about six miles from Dallas, Tex., assaulted and disarmed the guards, and escaped. A hundred armed and mounted men are in pursuit. W. R. Crossett, of Hope, Ark., who de- faulted with $21,000 school funds and con- siderable money belonging to the People’s Bank, of which he was cashier, has been ar- rested at New Orleans. He attributes his downfall to speculations. Two practical joker fools in Kansas City attached an electric wire to a piece of ma- chinery which T. R. Vincent handled. Mr. Vincent is now dead and the officers are looking for the two practical jckers. Sergeant Alfred Halliday, drill instructor oi the Twenty-second Regiment, employed by Arnold & Constable, New York, was held in $1,500 for forgery. tHe confessed baving robbed the firm of $1,500 the last 15 weeks. He spent the money in fast living. Jacob Breitstein, a carpenter,-shot his wife three times at San Francisco and then sent n bullet into his own head. Both were mortally wounded. The couple had been separated several months owing to domestic troubles caused by jealously on Breiten- stein’s part, and a suit for divorce by the woman was to have been heard in the Superior Court on Wednesday. Washington was excited Wednesday by the suicide of Colonel William P. Canady, ex-sergeant-at-arms of the United Btates senate. He shot himself in the head short- ly before 7 o'clock while at his room. Eariy _ inthe morning the Colonel's office was | burglarized and his partner, J.G. A. Hough- “ton, told him he did not believe it, and that be would have the Colonel arrested for it. This affected the ex-sergeant-at-arms very greatly and was the cause of his suicide, Frederick Mellenberg, of Patterson, N. J., murdered his wife, wounded his daughter and killed himself. Family quarrels was the cause. A man named Murphy shot and fatally wounded his wife, in New York, because she asked him for money to buy bread for tke children's breakfast. Congressional Nominatiuns, The Democratic Congressional Conven- tion of the Becond Alabama district met again at Evergreen, Ala., having adjourned at Brewton over a week ago after 750 bal- lots. J. F, Stallings, of Butler was nom- inated on the one thousandth ballot. H. F. Hixson, of Racine, Wis., has heen nominated for Congress by the People’s party. The Republicans of the Second district of Wisconsin have nominated Lucius B. Cas- well, of Ft. Atkinson, for Congress. State Senator W. 8. McNary was nomina- ted for Congress by the Democrats of the Tenth Mas:achusetts district. The Ninth gistrict Democrats renominated Joseph H. O'Neil. Congressman Robert E. DeForest, of the Fourth Conrecticut district was renomina- ted by the Democrats. Lewis Sperry was nominated by the Democrats of the First district. The Republicans of the Twelfth Texas district have nominated Henry Terrell for Congress. Marcellus Audier of Port Washington, Wis., was nominated for Congress from the Fifth Congressional district by the People’s party. Gus Wilson was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fifth Kentucky district. Henry Terreli, Ascistant United States District Attorney, and brother of Edwin Ter- orel, Minister to Belgium, has been nomina- ted by the Republicans as candidate for Con gress for the Twelfth (Pa.) district against TI. M. Paschal, Democratic nominee, The Democrats of the First Maryland con- gressional district nominated Senator John -. B. Brown to fill the unexpired tern of Hen- «y Page, who resigned to accept a judgeship, and ex-president of the State Senate Robert ¥F. Brattan for the full term. John A. Quackenbush was nominated for Congress by the Nineteenth district Republi: cans of New York, at Troy. The Second district Republican Congress- fonal Convention of Connecticut nominated Congressman Stephen W. Kellogg, of Wat- erbury. The Hon. Al 8. Berry, mayor of Newport, Ky., was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Fifth district after taking #72 bailots. This 1s Carlisle's old district. Disasters. Accidents and Fatalities. Fire at the home of Washington Stucker, Shelbyville, Ind., burned his house and two _ small children. The father rushed through the flames and secured the children, but not before they were fatally burned. The bursting of a locomotive boiler near Qoalburg, Ala., killed Engineer Xlmore and wounded three others. ‘Brunswick, Ga., was visited by a cloud- burst. which damaged $23,000 worth of property and flooded a nuniber of streets with four feet of water. The dwelling of Samuel Adkinson, neai Teloup, Kan., was sttuck by lightning Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Adkinson and their two children were killed. The house burned down. ’ J Two Idaho prospectors William Carlett and Henry Gerford, while hunting in a _ canon, were killed by mountain lions. "By the explosion of a boiler in the saw mill of Joseph Lalonde at Embrum village, Pierre Stone and J. B. Lazure were and five men badly wounded. ron the Buffalo, Rochester & oad was blown to fragments on of the boiler while stand- near Grove Bummit, Pa. Fireman Flynn were lit- Capital. Labor and Industrial, = The furniture strike at Cincinnati which had assumed National importance, is over. “The unions directed their efforts against Robert Michel's factory and Mitchell fought. The strikers have now accented won an eight-hour day. Two years ago they struck for it in vain. The union printers in the Milwaukee Sentinel office struck on the employment of non-union men. The latter fill the office now. At Pottstown. Pa;, the Ellis and Lessig other situations, with pay equaling that ae manded of Mitchell, and the latter has now employed non-union men, and is paying lhem what the strikers demanded, The wages of South Scotland miners wil be reduced six pence per:day, beginning October 6. The Ishpeming, Michigan miners have Steel and Iron Company have advanced the wages of the mean in the nail works 7% per cent. At Decatur, Tl1., 300 miners struck because i5 drivers were refused an advance of 25 cents a day.’ The locked-out granite cutters at Milford, Mass., have refused to resume work in com- pany with non-union men. The employers will take them back on no other terms. In a fight between union and non-union lumber handlers at Buffalo, N. Y., Charles Schroeder was stabbed in the back and had his skull fractured. Thomas Clark was badly hurt and a number of others were injured. Turf News Less than 24 ‘hours after Nancy Hanks trotted at Terre Haute, Ind. in 2:01 & pacer bas has touched the same mark, and that too in a race. The hondr belongs to Mas- cot, a bay gelding owned in Buffalo. , Last Saturday he tied the record of 2.07 made on a kite shaped track, aud Thursday lowered this just three seconds, with Flying Jib, who was previously the champion, only a neck bebind. This second phenomenal mile by quarters was 824, 313, 29% and 31 seconds, the third being just one quarter of a second faster than Nancy Hanks over the same part of the course. Evangeline, a 4-year-old bay mare, owned by A. H. Moors, of Philadelphia, proprietor of the Cloverdale stock farm, died at the club grounds at Columbus, Ind., from a broken hip, caused by getting down in her gtall. She made a trotting mark of 2,113, and was valued by her trainer, George San- ders, at $40,000. Moore bought her a year ago for $'8,000. Fires The business section of Bellinghamt Minn., was over one-third destroyed by fire. Loss, $15,000; insurance, $10,000. At Belingham, Mass., 13 business houses, Loss, $55,000; insurance, $10,000, At New Orleans, 24 houses, mostly dwel! ings. Loss $50,000; insurance, $25,000. At Warren, Mass., Sayles & Jenks’s. woolen mill. Loss, $300,000; insurance $270,000, At North Bend, Neb., half of the business part of the town. Loss, £50,000. Miscellaneous. At Mount Washington on Monday the wind reached a velocity of 150 miles an hour. ; The Minneapolis World’s Fair Auxiliary has voted in favor of keeping the Fair open on Sunday. Conway's mountaineering party, now in the Hindoo Koosh, have climbed a peak 3,000 feet high. This is 1,000 feet higher than any recorded climb. : . Railrond News. It is learned on the best authority that no railroad corporation operating in Massa- chusetts and doing an extensive business will comply with the law passed by the last Legislature, requiring them to have on sale mileage books, representing 1,000 miles, for $20. and interchangeable on all railroad lines in the State. The law went into effect October 1, yet no railroad has' made prepar- ations to obey it. It is claimed that it is anconstitutional. The roads will simply ig- nore it, and let the commissioners take whatever course they see fit. -~- Judicial. The Wisconsin Supreme Court rendered a decision declaring the new apportionment made at the recent extra session of the Legislature invalid. Justice Winslow dis- sented. Another extra session wiil doubt- less be called, and the Legislature will make a second attempt to conform to the rulings of the court by framing a third apportion- ment. Political, Governor Wm. E. Russell was unanimous. ly renominated, and James B. Carroll was named for lieutenant governor by the Mass- achusetts Democratic State. Convention. The official figures show the election of Cleaves, the Republican candidate for Gov- ernor in Maine by 12,512 plurality. Personal, Senator Rodger Q. Mills is lying very ill at Corsicana, Texas. He may be unable to take part in the campaign. Mortuary. Sir William Johnston Ritchie, chief jus- tice of the Supreme Court of Canada, died at Ottawa, aged 79. Crops, The boll worm is still devastating South. ern cotton fields. BEYOND OUR BORDERS, Thirteen persons have died at Angouleme, France, after eating what they supposed to be mushrooms. A second victim of the Berlin ‘Jack, the Ripper,” has been found. The body is that of a woman, mutilated after the same fashion as the fiendish work of the London butcher who brutally murdered a . notor- jous woman tbe othef day. A Portuguese launch at Mozambique was wrecked recently, and all but one of its eight occupants were drew aed. * In celebration of the birth of his dayghter Emperor William has issued an order to pardon all women in German jails under sentence for first offenses, or for crime at- tributed to distress or anger, é The schooner J. W. Dean, from ~ Paris Boro, N. 8. for Digby, having on. board s crew of 14, is now 11 days out, and as the “od an usually occupied half a day. it is sup posed she is lost with board. ai + Louisville... ves 280000 J Wasbinzton...... 2 43 NAKCY: TROT A MILE IN 204 The Remarkable Time Made on the Old Style Reguiation Track. The Crowd Covered the Little Piece of Lightning With Roses,and Gav Doblea Triumph- al Ride on Its Shoulders. Fa : At Terre Haute, Ind., the world’s record for the light harness horse, either trotting or pacing, was lowered Wednesday when Nancy Hanks trotted the mile in 2:04. The 10,000 people who saw it sat breathless so : LE runner, Abe Lincoln, stood opposite the flag while Nancy was taken weil up the stretch for the start. ~ x hte Coniing like s whirlwifid down the stretch Abe was at her wheel, and Doble nodded for the word. The clip was a terrific one. She was at the eighth in 15% seconds and at the quarter in 31 seconds. The second, an *up-hill"” quarter, was done in 31% seconds, the half being reached in 1.023. The'excited crowd began to cheer, butat a word of admonition from the judge ‘lapsed sileuce. This was only or by murmur- ed “'oh’s” when. the third quarter was done in 29% seconds. Even the judges were appalled at the wonderful Join of speed or thought the for a moment after the little -mare passed under the wire, and even Doble, always modest of speech, declared when carried to the Judge's stand on the shoulders of the crowd and called upon for a speech: “I am hoarse, and Nancy Hanks went so fast it took my breath away.” y re THE 28 INCH WHEEL PNUEMATICSULKY. A. A.— Position of ball bearings. B. B,—Hollow steel backbone. It was about half past4 o'clock when starting judge Walker announced that Nancy Hanks would go to beat her record of 2:07 made over the regulation track at B8t. Paul. The daughter of Happy Medium had beer. worked two miles in 2:36 and 2:25 re- spectively earlier in the afternoon. The mare was running away. So fast did she come that no one could te'l her gait. On she flaw and into the tre ch, never falter- ing. Doble wirh his steady hand. and cluck- ing gentle ‘‘whoa'’to keep her steady,squar- ed her away for the great flight home. Even her light hoof beats sounded loud to the silent crowd. As Doble gathered her for the final effort he touch her gently with the whip, gave two of those masterful lifts of his, and the world s record, either pace or trot, was lowered 1} seconds, and the record for a regulation track 3 seconds. The excitenient over thre great mile did not really begin until evening, when the crowds gathered about the hotels. Neally every noted driver in the country is here, and all are unanimous in declaring that it was the most wonderful mile ever 'donme. Doble received hundreds of telegrams of congratulation from ull over the country. He wired Robert Bonner: ‘Nancy Hanks, 2.04 over a regulation track?’ ! This is a gentle hint that the owner of Maud Sand Sunol can present him the $5,000 offered for the tirst horseto trot a mile in 2.05 over a regu'ation track. Mr. Doble said this evening that too much credit could not be given Ben Rennes, who brought out Nancy Hanks and gave her her first race record. Doble was questioned about the to-day. and asked if he thenght reached her limit. He said that the track Tus Jus right, the mare was just right and the driver was at himself. Asto the i- bilities of Nancy lowering ber record. be thought that as she is only six years old, that she would train on next year and be a far faster mare than now. There was no variance in the time, ana once more the regulation track holds the record. Another proof that this course is suited for extreme speed was furnished im- mediately atter-when Monbars lowered the Jeon for 3-year-old stallions by trotting in 2:113. at mile LATER NEWS WAIFS, The Postoffice Department will place the new return postal cards on sale early 1n October. One is for domestic and the othe: for international service. The half of the double domestic card is three and a hall inches wide by five and a half inches long. The international card is slightly smaller. The President appointed Orlando H. Baker, of Iowa, Consul to Copenhagen fo succeed Consul Ryder, who is now awaiting trial in that ci*y for speculation of a large sum of money. The British steamer Bayonne, reported burned at sea, bas arrived at Avonmotith,ite fire having lasted only 40 minutes. The grand s'and, Prince of Wales's fox and stables adjoining, on the Aintree race track in London, have been destroyed by fire. Hectar Jonathan Cremieux, the noted dramatic author, committed suicide in Paris by shooting himself in the head with a re- volver. Samuel Howard Whitfrend has been elected to supply the vacancy in the louse of commons caused by Cyril Flower being elevated to the peerage. The boiler of a steam thresher exploded at Indiana, Pa., on the premises of County Commissioner A. C. Rakin. Harry Myer, aged 14, was blown to pieces. Aaron John and Frank Gromlev, all prominent citizens of this place, were probably fatally injured. Al Rome. Ga., Lord Walter 8. Beresfield. alias Sidney Lacelles, the noted English forger, was to-day sentenced by Judg: Hen- ry to six years hard labor in'the penitenti- ary. At a meeting of. the committee of the Schuylkill, Pa., Exchange the rates of wages for the miners and mine laborers of Schuylkill region was fixed at 6 per cent. above a $2.50 basis, an increase of three per cent. over the preceding month. All Read ing and Lehigh collieries are included in the’ rate. : At Chicago, Charles Kee, a Chinese man. ufacturer of cigars, who employs none but white union cigar makers, to-day defied the edict of the Chinese Six Companies, and made application for a certificate of resi- dence, under the provision of the amended exclusion law. The League Record. The following table shows the standing of the various buse ball clubs: Post- Per 1.08. poned. Cent. 47,09, DT D5. cass O........015 Pittsburgh. . brouklyn.. Philadelphia. New York Cincinnati Chicago... des «0... 481 Las erner ST Baltimore........ 24.00.38 3s ‘ 29x een >t. Louis 24, “i dBl WEATHER-CROP BULLETIN. Condition and Prospects of Growing Farm Products Throughout the Country. The following is the weather-crop bulle- tin issued by the weather bureau at Wash- ington: The warm, dry weather of the week has been favorable to outstand.ng corn, and for cutting and housing tobacco. A large part of the corn crop has already been cut, and that remaining in the fields now is consider- ed safe from injury by frosts, which have, however, caused some damage.to corn and vegetables in lowlands of Northern New York on the 20th, and slight damage was done in Northern Illinois on the 26th. So far this season the injury from frosts has been comparatively slight. While the warm, dry weather in th3 Col- orado valleys and Northwest has been gen- eraily favorable for securing crops moder- ate rains would be beneficial tor fall plow- ing and seeding. Special telegraphic reports: Pennsylvania —Winter wheat looks well; corn cutting about finished; potatoes and apples poor; buckwheat good crop. North Carolina—Crops a'l short. Ge) rgia—Cotton rotting, bolls; heavy crop of rice, butin danger of sprouting; fine crops of corn and fodder. : Louisiana—Cotton improved; rice being harvested; large yield cane continues fine. Arkansas—Cotton improved, opening rap- idly, and picking will be acral This week; large increase in acreage of winter wheat. Kentucky—Tobacco cutting progressing; crop“will be safe from frosi in ten days; much corn matured. 1llinois—Frost in three northern counties on the 26ih slightly injured outstanding corn; on low ground early corn being cut: plowing for fall grain retarded by dry ground in southern portion. Indiana—W heat seeding nearly complet- ed; corn ripening rapidly; nearly safe from frost. West Virginia—Corn all about cut. Large acreage of wheat sown; pastures very short. Ohio—Wheat seeding well along; early sown wheat coming up nicely. North Dakota—Fine weather for thresh- ing and ripening of corn. 5 outh Dakota—Corn beyond danger from Tost. Nebraska—Bulk of corn crop beyond in- jury by frost; very large acreage of winter wheat sown. Kansas— Weather favorable to corn, hay- ing and threshing, unfavorable to fall plow. ing, seeding and pastures. ‘ Colorado—Crops are out of danger from rosts. INSANE WOMAN'S AWFUL DEED. Three Small Children Choked to Death . at Bordentown, N. J. Lena Scmeidt murdered three young children, ranging from 1 to 3 years old,at her residence in Bordentown, N. J., by choking them to death. One of the victims was her own son, and the other two were sons of William Bowker, a neighbor. After killing the children the woman, who is believed to be insane, went to Marshal Jones and told him that he would find three dead bodies at her house. She admitted the killing, but could not give any reason for the act. anks had, fu { “lis 3 1X oi ‘A Coun'y Officer Makes an Ntamattia © _ Before Justice Paxson Against all the M-mbars of the Advisory Com- mittee for Treason Against ths State. A new snd startling: move against the Homestead strikers was executed Saturday ‘when County Detective Harry Beltzhoover went before Chief Justice Paxson, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, about to sit in Pittsburg, and made an information against all thesmembers of the Advisory Board, charging them with treason against the State. Warrants were at once issued and placed in the hands of the Sheriff of Alle gheny county. : 2 The information made by Mr.Beltzhoover reads as follows: = = Commonwes'h nf Pennsylvania Versus Ew Davii H. Shannon, Johii acLuckie, David Lynch Thomas: J. Crawfor: Hugh O'Donnel arry Bane Einier £1 Bail, huasc By. Henr. Bayard, «Mil er C . 5 BE a TS oh Sa Tek William Me.orabs. John Durkes, Patrick Fagan, W. 8, Gaches, Nathan Reid Kennety, Joh Miller, O, O. ht, Jul urray, MH. mp ron, Martin Murray, Hugh Ross, William T. Ro erts, George Rylands und George W, Sarver, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny. Before me, the subscriber, Edward H. Paxson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and ex-officio Justice of the Court ot Oyer and Termin-r of Allegheny county, and a Justice of the Peice in an for the county of Allegheny, in the State of Pennsylvania. personally came Hurry Be.tz- hoover, county de:ective, who upon vath administered according to law, deposeth and says that he fore, to-wit. on or about tue first dav of July, A.-D. 1892, the detendants above named. be.ng inhabitants of and resi- dents within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and under protection of the laws of the Commonwealth; of Penn- sylvania, and owing allegiance and fi- elity to the said Commonwealth of Penn-. sylvania, not weighing the duty of their said alleziance, but wickedly devisi- g and intending she peace and tranquility of the said Commonwealth to disturb and stir, moveand excite insurrection, rebellion and war aga nst the said Commonwealth of - Pennsylvania, did at the borough of Home- stead. and in the township of Mifflin, both within the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere within the State of Pennsylvania and beyond the borders of said State, unlawfully, falsely, maliciously and traitorously compass, im- agine and intend to raise and levy war, in- surrection and rebellion against the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania; and in order to fulfill and brivg into effect the said com- passings, imaginations and intentions of them the said defendants afterwards, to-wit on the 1st duy of July, A. 15. 1892, and at divers other times at the borough of Home- stead and in the township of Mifflin, with a peat multitude of persons, numbering undreds, armed and arrayed ina warlike manner, that is to say with guns revolvers, cannons, swords, knives, clubs and other warlike weapons as well offensive as de- fensive, being then’and there unlawfully maliciously and traitorously assembled an gathered together, did’ falsely und traitor- ously join and assemble thezsel ves together against the Commonwealth ‘of Pennsyl- vania. and then and there with force und arms did falsely and traitorously and ina hostile and warlixe manner, arruy and dis- pose themselves against the said Common- wealth of Pennsylvania and did ordain, prepate and levy war againsc the said Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania to the end, that - its Constitution, laws and authority were defied, resisted and averted by the said de- fendants and their armed allies, contrary to the duty of allegiance and fidelity of the said defendunts. * All of which this deronent states upon in- formation received -and believed by hin, and he therefure prays that a warrant may issue, and the aforesaid defendants may be arrested and held to answer this charge of treasm against the Commonwealth of Penn-/ sylvania. > THE LAW FOR IT. The law under which the proceeding is brought is th - Crimes act ot 186). ‘There are said 10 have been a number of prosecu- tions under the same act. ‘The first section of it reads as follows. i “If any person, owing allegiance to t.e Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, shall levy war against the same, or shall adhere to the enemies thereof, giving them aid and com- tort within the State or eisewhere, and s: all ve there«f convicted, on confession in open court or on the tesiimouay of two wit- ne