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DAVIS JAMES OREIGN be JAMES DAVIS Co TAYLOR WOQLENDEBCi DRY GOODS RETAILERS WESTERN ASSOCIATED PRESS 165 167 WOODWARD AVENUI MARINE NEWS INALLIBLY CUBES "fW'A WS Ll a 3 I 1 i Brush of New Haven the new members the to work There are JAMES DAVIS GEO BISSELL Untrue Report St Louis August 17 Dallas Tex special says the reported assassi nation of a family of four people in Indian Territory telegraphed last night proves to be untrue Movements' of Ocean Steamers Queenstown August 17 Arrived Italy from New York Hamburg August 17 Lessing from New York Hartmanntlic Russian Nihilist on Illsit Wny to Detroit Chicago August 17 Hartmann the Rus sian Nihilist has been incognito since Wednesday last and to night as he was leav ing was interviewed by a Tribune reporter he said he traveled under an as sumed name to avoid Russian spies who are const intly dogging him that he did not come to revolutionize this country but to investi gate certain points that he intends to remain some months but that so far he is not favora bly impressed with the system of government here which is on too small a pattern and of too common an order for a model 7 i Music Hall after Genera! foreign Notes 5 Bismarck has left Berlin for his estate at Schoenhausen Paris dispatch states that the yellow fever Continues to rage in the rench colony of Sen egal West Africa Up to the 8th instant there had been eighty deaths members of the Cornell University crew have returned to London having aban doned rowing in the race at rankfort and will embark fqr New York in steamer Spain on the 24th instant A Wheelock the absconding clerk of Wolcott Co of New York who was ar rested Tuesday on board the steamer Neckar at Southampton was remanded to await the evidence of his crime from America Two Persons Drowned at Memphis Tenn Memphis August 17 At 7 to night Morris reiberg of the firm ot Kahn rei berg and Joseph Kahn son of the senior inember of the firm were drowned while bathing in the river opposite the city GREECE A BRIGAND CAPTURED Athens August? 17 of the brigands who captured the Englishman Suter near Salonica in April last was arrested hero with IIOUO francs in his possession (uticura THE GREAT SKIN CURE CANADA OBJECTED TO HIS LECTURING Hamilton Ont August 17 ather O'Con ncr of New York a priest' of the Independent Catholic Church attempted to deliver a lec ture at Watertown last evening He was in terrupted by a jnob who hustled him from the platform and seized bis manuscript Itching and Scaly Diseases Scrqfuloi Humors Ulcers Old Sores and Men curial Affections when all other Human Agencies ait rom East Tawas Correspondence of The Detroit ree Press East Tawas August At noon to day repairs to the John raft were completed and she started out but was obliged to return again at 3 in The tug Champion is also here waiting for better weather having a raft for owler at Toledo The tug Burnside attempted to leave 'yesterday but was obliged to return The prospect is that all will eet away to night ears that Brcslan Prussia will Declared in a State of Siege Because of the Social Agitation There Conference of the Association for the Reform of the Law of Nations at Cologne Germany The Wo co kon and Delaware in Trouble Special Disnatch to The Detroit ree Press Sand Beach August The steam barge Wo co ken and consort Delaware coal laden bound up ran ashore last night eight miles below here A tug and lighter were telegraphed for They are on a hard smooth bottom Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press Port Huron August 17 The propeller Wo co ken towing the schooner Delaware both coal laden went ashore last night at White Rock on a reef that extends some distance in the lake off that place A telegram from Capt Buffington of the Wo co ken at noon to day says that neither of the vessels are making any He wanted a large lighter a tug and a number of laborers to lighten his cargo The tug Quayle left at 4 to release the vessel The weather has been very 'smoky bn Lake Huron for the past two weeks which is con sidered the cause of the accident Newburg Cleveland Prindeville arid barges schooners Morey Mary Copely Propellers Empire State City of Mt Clemens Hackett with Three Brothers John Noyes and consort Wind northeast light Weather fine Lake Ercights fcj DETROIT Detroit August 17 The following charters were reported to day tf 'ByC Norton: Schooners Reliable and 'John St evenson wood Bayfield Lake Huron to Detroit $2 50 By Jones: Schooner St Louis wheat De 1 troit to Kingston 5Jc scow Enright lumber Os coda to St Clair 2 steam barge Kincardine railroad iron Whitby to Wyandotte $1 25 per ton free on and off rail BUALO Buffalo August 16 Vessels were scarce at this port to day ana in consequence lake freights were dull and unchanged The only engagements re ported were schooner Porter coal to Chicago $1 25 Atmosphere coal to Toledo 50c CHICAGO Chicago August 16 But few were made on the Board of Trade to day carriers de manding 3J4c on corn to Buffalo while shippers were only willing to pay 3c Only two charters to carry corn to Buffalo were made during the day one at the offer 3c and the other at through rates Two vessels were chartered to take flaxseed to Buffalo on said to be 2c Two cents was paid on corn to Sarnia and to Kings ton The following engagements were reported: To Propeller Milwaukee corn schooners Marion Page corn: Cummings and Golden leece flaxseed To Erie Propelers Lehigh and Conemaugh corn To Schooner Lottie Cooper com To Schooner Lewis Ross To Oswego Schooner Jamaica corn RATES BY TELEGRAPH "I Chicago August 17 Corn to Buffalo 33Jc Milwaukee August 17 Wheat to Buffalo NEW YORK THE DORY LITTLE WESTERN New York August 17 The steamship Devon has arrived and reports having passed the dory Little Western from Londou for New York all well ORGED CHECKS It is rumoredin the United States District office that a number of national banks will be called on to refund the money to the treasury paid by thenjpn checks drawn on the Assistant "Treasurer 1111867 and It'liS the indorsement ou the checks being fraudu lent To day the Assistant United States District Attorney called on the Mercantile National Bank to make good a check for $100 drawn in 18(58 by Assistant Paymaster Trues dell to Clifford A Gould of the One Hundred and Twenty ninth Illinois Volunteers The check was paid at the bank and returned to the sub treasury 1 1 has since appeared tpat signature was forged ARREST WHEELOCK AT SOUTHAMPTON Inspector Byrnes to day received official no tice of the arrest of A Wheelock the ab sconding clbrk of "Walcott Co who sailed from this city on the steamship Neckar August (5 Telegrams from England sent to employers in this city state that the clerk wos arrested at Southampton by Scotland Yard detectives and that heelock is now imprisoned in Most of the stolen securities and checks amounting in all to $5A000 were 'found on the person of the prisoner The police in tracing the movements of Wheelock first went to his boarding house inding he had taken his baggage and left ostensibly for Texas a de tective hunted up the track of the man who had removed the trunk The back man said he had taken them to the dock" of the steamer Neckar at Hoboken A photograph of Wheelock was obtained and the ticket agent of the steamship line recog nized it as the picture of a man to whom he had sold a ticket to England for $40 The Neckar sailed before crime" was discovered but the police felt certain he had gone on board the vessel Information was obtained that Wheelock had been intimate with a voung lady named Louis 'Newman living" at West Brighton Staten Island A detective was sent in search of her but she could not be found and the police believe she followed Wheelock to Europe A mem ber of the firm ot Walcott Co wont before the grand jury and procured the indictment of Wheelock for forgery the clerk having used the name of the firm oh cheeks for $10 (All) Wednesday of last week Detective Cosgrove went to Albany and procured a requisition for the arrest: of Wheelock and Sunday the same officer went to Washington to procure the war rant for the extradition of the forger On ac count of the serious illness of the President it was said some time would elapse before the necessary warrant could be 4 procured De tective Cosgrove returned to this city to day and' will remain here until the papers are sent on from Washington I Notes The tug John Martin is at Desotell cleaning out The scow Porter discharged coal atPitt wharf yesterday The steam barge Red Jacket is at un loading a cargo of stone The steamer Steinhoff took out a very large excursion to Chatham yesterday The steam barge Minneapolis is in dry dock at Milwaukee putting on a new wheel The schooner Kate Richmond is loadinx staves at the Detroit Grand Haven Milwaukee wharf Robert Steward Capt well known clerk is enjoying a trip to Mackinac on the steam er lora Buffalo Express At a meeting of the Cleveland Seamen's Union held riday morning wages were fixed at $1 75 per day The schooner Two riends wrecked in North Bay last fall has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired at Milwaukee The rumor that Mark Hopkins' of St Clair was about to build a passenger steamer for the river route appears to be with foundation The new slip at the Detroit Grand Haven Mil waukee landing is nearly completed and has already been used by the car ferries to land cars At the St Catharines Dry dock the schoonerSingapore is being calked the Gieniffer is receiv ing new decks and the Mary Battle Is receiving a thorough overhauling Mr Turner who so far this season has been act ing as agent for the propeller Saginaw Valley has concluded to retire from the steamboat business Chamberlain will in future have charge ofthe interests of the Saginaw Valley at this port 1 Toronto Mail: ollowing the example of the Toronto branch of the Union a special meeting was held by the Port Hope members on Saturday night and the wages raised to $1 50 perday on Lake Ontario and $1 75 through the canal Record has been made at the Custom House at Port Huron of the following transfers at the prices named: rom Luther Westover of Day City to Ira Holt of Detroit steamer Dove one half $15000 steamer Geo Dunlap nine $6000 steamer Metropolis one half $20000 Escanaba Iron Port: The first load of ore ever taken from here in an iron bottom was the cargo of the steamship Brunswick on Saturday August 6 She took something over 1500 tons on a draft of twelve feet four inches which is a point in favor of iron vessels A wooden vessel with the same cargo would have been two feet lower in the water Toledo Blade: The propeller Sage left Buffalo at precisely 4:40 yesterday afternoon and the Gault at 5 The Sage arrived here at 1 '30 and the Gault at 1 :15 this afternoon This is un doubtedly the fastest time on record from dock at Buffalo to dock at Toledo but does not indicate which is the faster boat They are both magnifi cent propellers Buffalo Express: Ayoung man of about 20 years named George Hackemer is reported to have been drowned on the lakes from some vessel about the middle of last month His mother who lives at 55 German street this city would like to get some deflnite information in regard to him Any person happening to have any knowledge of him would corner a great favor by notifying Mrs Obituary Memphis Tenn August Ethel Porter one of the oldest citizens'of this place died to day aged 77 or the last fo rty seven years he has lived here and been identified with the invests of Memphis AUSTRIA SUERING ROM Vienna August 17 Herr Probst leader ofbe Liberals in the Reichsrath addressing his constituents Monday last pointed out the necessity of economy and eaid The malady from which all Europe is is It is unknown in America and there fore the United States will soon have no na tional debt and will by degrees become '1 the creditor of Europe at the same time disposing of its' immense resources He thought this was most serious The prospect of was causing constant increase of the emigration to America both from Austria and Germany A HAIL STORM? i Vienna August A terrible hail storm destroyed the whole harvest of Isonzo Valleys THE EIRE RECORD At Oconto Wis Loss SI 00000 Milwaukee August 17 A fire at Oconto Wis this forenoon destroyed Anson large saw mills and lumbering establishment The loss'is place'd at $100000 Milwaukee August A special to the Republican from Oconto places the 16ss on A Eldred saw mill by the fire at $70000 insurance $25000 At Omaha Neb Loss 814500 OmahA Neb August 17 A serious blaze occurred this morning about 2 The Newspaper Union building caught fire from the furnace in the basement and was totally destroyed with all its contents Two other buildings were also burned Total loss $14 500 insurance $80c0 Some fifty papers were supplied with patent insides by this Newspaper Union and the fire will cause seri ous inconvenience ifteen paper sides were ready for shipment General Telegraphic Nates Henry Seeger was shot dead at Cincinnati Wednesday night by JcCkert in a quarrel on McLean avenue about 9 The Globe Rolling Mill at Cincinnati re surned work Wednesday paying Pittsburgh prices with a full force" and without in terference 1 Gov St John of Kansas arrived at In dianapolis Ind Wednesday He will deliver auumber of addresses in Indiana in the inter est of prohibition The air of the New England Manufactur and Institute opens Thursday at Boston with an address by Gov Long an oration by Geo Loring etc Dr Thomas is Xf 'Nor wood Park a suburb of Chicago preparing for his trial on heresy charges which is to begin September 1 before the Methodist Conference The boiler makers of the' United States in convention at Chicago the past three days have elected officers adopted a constitution and organized a defensive and protective union Geoi ge Neilson traveling agent of the An chor line of New York committed suicide at tha Windsor Hotel Chicago Wednesday night Cause unfortunate speculation in cards The twenty third convention of the Delta Tau Delta College fraternity assembled at the Monongahela House Pittsburgh at 10 Wednesday morning Hon Chas Town send Soi'retary of State of Ohio in the Chair About 100 delegates from all parts of the co unry are in attendance 'At Eoxbury a Loss 822000 Pittsburgh Pa August 17 a fire at oxbury Pa this morning destroyed twelve building on the west side of the Main street entailing a loss of $22000 on which there was a small insurance National Butter and Cheese Association air Chicago August The National Butter and Cheese Association and Dairy air com mittee of arrangements in session to day ad journed this afternoon The proceedings were harmonious and the attendance large The fair will be" held at Cedar Rapids la in No vember and will include dairy products ma chinery and implements dairy cattle models of creameries and cheese factories The com mittee invite all dairy associations an I boards of trade to participate Exhibits of products ami implements are solicited Several thou sand dollars in cash premiums will be awarded Butter and cheese manufacturers throughout the States are expected to compete The com petition is open to the world The interest iriaui tested that the exhibition will be a success The fair will continue week SKIN DISEASE Drake Esq Detroit Micb suffers" yond all description from a skin disease which peared on his hands head and face and destroyed his eyes The most careful docuTig failed to held him and after all had failed be the Culicura Resolvent internally Cuticura Soap externally and was cured remained perfectly well to this day Vessel Passages DETROIT Detroit August A Propellers Cleveland 6 Newburg 8 tug Wales and barges 9 propellers Ojemaw 11 Saginaw Valley 12 Tug'Urusader with schooners oster and Stuart 2 propeller Annie Young 2: propeller Commodore 2:30 tug Masters and barges 4 pro pellers Pridgeon Jr 4 ountain" City' 5: tug Winslow with schooners Burton and Monti cello 5 :30: tug Brady with schooners 8 H' Kim ball and Harrison 6 Tug Erie Belle with schooners Hamilton and Canada 5 Cleared Schooner John Mott 4 A Propeller Badger State 8 steam' barge Rust and consorts 10 propeller Con estoga 11 :30 steam barge Glasgow and barges 12 Propeller Nassau 1 :30 Cleared Tug McClellan with Swallow 12 LATER PASSAGES Tug Erie Belle with schooners Lilly Hamilton and Canada 7 steam barge Empire and barge 9:20 propeller 'Arctic 10 steam barge Smith Moore 10:30: steam barge Garden City and barges 12 steam barge Coffinberry and consort 12 tug SweepstaKes 12 Down Schooner Pelton 8 steam' barge Hackett and consort with schooners Noyes' and Tnree Brothers 11:80 propeller Empire State PORT Port Huron August 17 Afternoon Up Propellers Oscoda Wissahickon Wm Cowie and barges Mary Pringle and barges Jas Davi son with schooner Ellen Spry Lowell and 'barges Henry Howard and barges Mackinaw and barges Michigan arid barges Ontonagon and barges Ira Chaffee and barges City of Concord and consort schooners 'Halloran Acorn A Morey steam ers City of Cleveland Pearl lora Down Propellers Dominion Nashua Conestoga Badges State David Rust and consort Glasgow and barges Wind northeast brisk weather fine 1 Night Propellers Ogemaw Ocean GERMANY THE SOCIAL AGITATION AT BRESLAU London August 17 A Berlin dispatchsays it is feared Breslau will shortly be declared in a state of siege because of the prevalence of Social agitation thera REORM THE LAWS NATIONS' London August 17 The conference of the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Laws of Nations which convened at Cologne Germany yesterday holds its ses sions in the great Hall of the Hansa The reg ular officers of the association are: Honorary Right Hon Lord Presi Right Hon Sir TL Phillimore and Vice Prosideuts from the United States China Denmark rance Great Britain Italy Japan the Netherlands and Norway and Sweden The Vice Presidents from the United States include Chief Justice Waite of the Supreme Court and Justice ield Hon John Jay Hon Carl Schurz Hon David Dudley ield late President of the association Judge Chas A Peabody and Gen Jas Grant Wilson The subjects to be discussed at the con ference are public international law interna tional' commercial law and international inariiime law and embrace also arbitration and disarmament Among the American delegates who have left to i attend the conference are David ield A Barnard Chas A Peabody John Jay Geo Cullum Andrew Pea body Clinton isk and others The con ference wil represent all the principal nations of the world It is the ninth conference of this association and is expected to surpass all previous ones in practical benefits to interna tional law reform and arbitration I would hereby certify that I have used 8t Ja cobs Oil and found that it relieved rheumatism after a few applications August Prick Bergen NO MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT fsstrtng a catalogue should omit to get for Ste from TUE free PRESS COMPANY The character of the published work will be immensely Improved and the cost wifi largely reduced A Canadian Scheme The following are the particulars of a scheme for a line of steam propellers between Chicago and Prescott with transhipments at Montreal or Que bec into line of ocean steamers The company has been termed with a capital of $2500000 and will commence operations and enter into competi tion for the removal to Europe ot this har vest They nave four floating elevators which will be brought to Prescott to start with until perma nent elevators can be constructed The latter is in tended to have a capacity of 1000000 bushels though at first it will be built with machinery at one side and having a capacity of only half the number of bushels named its extent being doubled when needed by the construction of the second half of the' building It is expected that this structure and the necessary docks will he constructed during the coming' winter The river barges as well as the lake steamers of the company will be built of steel constructed with tamarack and will supplied with consorts so that grain will be promptly unloaded at Prescott and beat Quebec ready to be transpdrtea into ocean steamers in 48 hours Already close connec tion is said to have been made with the rench syndicate line of steamsbips running to Quebec by whom the ocean service will be performed RANCE WBATH London August 17 A Paris correspondent describing the great electoral meeting yester day when Gambetta was interrupted by noisy demonstrations says: Gambetta concluded his remarks thus: you are doing was never done by the worst populace You are slaves! Next Sunday the ballot will avenge me on your disgraceful conduct and then I shall know how to discover you even if I have to track you to your I A GOOD CARD OR GAMBETTA Parts August A placard emanating from the Belleville Republican Com mittee has been posted in the Twentieth Elec toral District strongly condemning the inter ruptions at the meeting at which Gambettawas to have spoken and expressing the hope that all true Republicans will avenge the in sult offered Gambetta by voting for The Temps says Gambetta could not have a better electoral platform as he is now the rep resentative of the liberty of speech and re sistance to revolutionary violence Shipbuilding At Capt shipyard in addition to the large repairing business going on the new ferry for the vValkervllle route is making good progress She has been considerably delayed by the difficulty experienced in obtaining timber but the work is now progressing very satisfactorily At the Detroit Dry dock the work bf erecting the frames of the new steam barge for the Inter Ocean Transportation Company is being pushed forward rapidly The new scow" John Doyle is also making good headway at the same yard At the work has been commenced on the barge for the Inter Ocean Transportation Company to be used as a consort to the steam barge building at the Detroit Dry dock Considera ble progress has also been made on the new scow which is to be used inthe Straits of Mackinac for ferrying cars from Point St Ignace to Old Macki nac A PANIC ON A STEAMEB Scenes of Terror aol! Several Penions Injured bat no Lives Lost New York The steamer Plymouth Rock on her morning trip to Long Branch with 1000 or 1100 passengers when about twenty miles from her destination burst a steam flue knocking open the doors of the engine moms from which an immense volume of steam hissingly escaped A scene of terrible confusion and ter ror ensued the passengers being panic stricken In the struggle for life pre servers men were seen to seize them even from women or about half an hour there was a scene of dire confusion In the upper deck cabin a struggling mass was wedged the doors being blocked up and to facilitate esr cape windows were broken out by officers of the boat and passengers passed through head first As soon as the panic had somewhat subsided the band struck up and this helped to reassure the pas sengers and restore order The tug Germania went to the assistance of the Plymouth Rock and took her iu tow Before starting how ever tbS steamers Schuyler and City of Rich mond also came up The latter boat and the Germania towed the disabled steamboat some distance up the bay into smooth water where the passengers Were transferred to the City of Richmond and brought to this city In thepanic a number of women and children were knocked down and trampled upon but the ex tent of their injuries has not licen ascertained NOTICE JDISSOLUTION The undersigned have this day dissolved copart nership by mutual consent LUMSDEN MARY TYLER Detroit August 15 1881 The business to be continued at their new store 139 Bates street by the new firm of Lumsden Humphrey Co who will collect all accounts and nav all liabilities of the late Ann of Lumsden Tyler LUMSDEN JOHN HUMPHREY JR JNO McNOAH The Annual Meeting at Grand Rapids Grand Rapids August 1 17 The attend ance at the annual meeting of the "Western Associated Press here to day was as follows Patterson Chicago Tribune John rew Daily Intelligencer Wheeling Va fj Myers Daily Dispatch Columbus Houser St Louis Globe Democrat George Knapp Missouri Republican St Louis Wm Druhe St LouisAinerika Jos Pulitzer St Louis Post Dispatch John New Indianapolis Journal Wm Ball Terre Haute Gazette Janies II McNeelv Terre Haute Express Battelle Toledo Telegram and Commer cial WW Coleman Milwaukee Herald Wm Penn Nixon Infer Ocean Chicago Jos Sieben ick Pittsburgh Chronicle Melville Stone Chicago Daily News Edward Tabor Evansville Journal Jno Shoemaker Indianapolis Sentinel Ira Jones Nashville American I Mack Sandusky Register Rublee Milwaukee Republican and News Richard Smith Cincinnati Gazette Haldeman I ouisville Courier Journal Halstead Cincinnati Commercial Sullivan Chicago Evening Journal A Leonard Cincinnati Times Star Markbreit Cincinnati Volksblatt Lane Toledo Blade i John Keffer Cleveland Herald Driscoll St Paul Pi6neer Pres" Geo Shaw Minneapolis Evening Journal A Boynton Detroit bek Press II Stone Detroit Poet and Tribune Wm Bickburi Dayton Journal Nixon Chicago Inter Ocean Cowles Cleveland Leader ll St Paul Globe A rancisco 'Columbus State Journal Baker Detroit Post and Tribune Wm Henry Smith Chicago General Agent of the association Roberts Milwaukee Sentinel" The Chicago Stoats Zeitung Springfield Journal Evansville Courier Cincinnati En quirer Cleveland Plain Dealer Milwaukee Wisconsin St Louis Anzeiger and Westliche Post wore represented by proxy The association met at 11 this morning in the ordinary at the Morton The reports of the General Agent Secretary and Treasurer were heard The association furnished its members nearly five million words of tele graphic news last year It has much enlarged its scope and facilities and will continue to increase them Its reports were satisfactory to the members Matter of detail as tothetirue Of news for both morning and evening papers an effort to get it earlier which is of great im portance received attention Resolutions of thanks were adopted to the Grand Rapids Chicago West Michigan Detroit Milwaukee and Michigan Central Railroads and the Pullman Palace Can Company for excursion and other facili ties rendered the association The officers chosen for the ensuing year are: President Halstead Cincinnati Vice President Joseph Pulitzer St Louis Baker Detroit General A ent Wm Henry Smith Chicago Richard Smith Haldeman Houser Siebenick I Mack Ira Jones Penn Nixon Mr Halstead and three or four others re turned homa but the rest remained to take part in an excursion to morrow to Petoskey by the Grand Rapids Indiana Railroad rom Petoskey some will cross by boat to Mackinaw and Cheboygan and a selects corps of expert fishermen Will go up the River Jordan for trout A nrenber of members are accompan ied by their wives or daughters We offer a good unlaundried Shirt linen bosom 5X1 A first class Shirt 75c A superior Shirt $1 Night SM plain and trimmed 1 A full line of Merino and Gauze Underwear The baJ ance of our stock of Balbriggan Underwear at reduced rates! Hosiery in great variety 1 ull assortment of Collars and Cuffs Neckwear of kinds inclnrling all the Novelties of the season Gossamer Rubber Coats Silk Umbrellas at low'prices POWDER Absolutely Pure Made from Grape Cream Tartar No otherpr paration makes such light flaky hot breads or lux urious pastry Can be eaten by dyspeptics without fear of the ills resulting from heavy indigestible food Sold only in cans bv all Grocers Royal Baking Powder Co New York wahsetn inform our friends that we have succeeded in renting thou large stores (formerly occupied by Rathbone Sard Co) Nos 14 and 16 a JI bridge st between Woodwara avenue auu With increased facilities and double the amount of room that we had preYi01 tn the fire we expect better than ever to meet the wants of the trade Although the fire crippled us for a few days we are filling orders and to be under full headway within a week As a Summer Beverage ADDED to water" lemonade Seidlitz powders milk and other liquids GINGER quenches thirst opens the pores relieves the head regulates the stomach and bow els prevents chills malaria and sudden prostra tion and imparts new life to the languid nervous and deepless Beware of worthless imitations said to beas good Ask for GINGER and take no other Sold everywhere WEEKS POTTER Boston 8onr SCROULA Hon Wm Taylor Boston says: months use of the Cuticura Remedies years of as constant suffering fromhumOT face neck and scalp as was ever endured say that I am cured and pronounce my most remarkable on record I 0 flu with my success that have stopped street who were afflicted and told them s' Cuticura Remedies and they will cure tneg SKIN HUMORS Mrs 8 Whipple Decatur Mich wru her face head and some parts of her almost raw Head covered with scabs Suffered fearfully and tried everything nently cured by Cuticura Remedies urnisliing Goods 'A alse Alarm Topeka Ks August 17 A special to the Commonwealth from Las iVegas says' Prof Snow and party of Lawrence reported ea tured by Apaches are safe and that the alara! was a false one THE AMERICAN BAR Third Annual Session of the Association at Saratoga Saratoga August The American Bar Association began its third annual session to day President Hon Edward Phelps of Vermont presented the annual report being an account of the most noteworthy changes of statute law made in the several States and by Cotigress during the preceding year Several new members wore admitted The following message was sent by cable to the Association for the Reform and Codifica tion of the Law of Nations at Cologne Ger many: The American Bar Association now in ses sion in Saratoga hoping to further ad vancement of uniformity in the laws of this country wishes you success in your efforts to advance uniformity in the law of nations (Signed) PHELPS President Memliers of the Executive Council were elected as follows: Roger Av erill District Of Columbia Ashton A Mercer: Illinois Thomas Hogan Asa Inglehart Kentucky John Stevens Carleton Hunt A A Stuart Cowen E' Bennett Michigan OBrein Ji Atkinson Missouri Brod head Nebraska Anderson New Sherley New Jersey Jacob Heart New Benj A Willis Ohio Upson Pennsylvania ranklin Vermont Luke Poland Virginia Robert Ould Wisconsin Carr Texas Stroutlorida Randall At the evening session of th American Bar Association Albert McNeal of Tennessee Luther Smith of Alabama and Moore of Arkansas were elected members of the Executive Council A paper on recording the laws of the United States by Thos Cooley of Michigan was read The Americah Association for the Advance ment pf Science i Cincinnati August At a meeting of the American Association lor the Advance ment of Science at Music Hall after address of welcome by Gen Cox and response by rror and the reception of associntion nroceccted two sections each subdivided making four sub sections The sub sections organized and proceeded to work Col Garrett Mallory read a paper on the languago of gesture At night Cant Dutton delivered a lecture in'the Presbyterian Church on in Boulder Canyon Col in connection with which one of the sections of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science held a meeting To morrow the Association of the Agricul tural Chemists will bold a meeting in connec tion with the section on chemistry A general meeting will be held in the forenoon and a sec tion meeting in the afternoon To moi row night there will be a reception at the High land House on Mount Adams Above 500 are present was escorted to hotel by consta bles Warrants yre been issued THE MONTREAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY Montreal August At a meeting of the shareholders of the Montreal Telegraph Com pany to day President Sir Hugh Allan an nounced the injunction proceedings with drawn and the meeting had a right to express an opinion upon the provisional agreement en tered into with the Great Northwestern Com pany There was then nearly a unanimous approval of the agreement which was at once executed MEXICO A NATIONAL BANK City Mexico August 17 A contract was signed yesterday for the establishment of a national bank with Moetzlin represen tative of the ranco Egyptian bank os Presi dent THE CUTICURA TREATMENT for the sei of Skin Scalp and Blood Diseases consist ini the internal use of Cuticura Resolvent tliewl Blood Purifier and he external use ot Crriail and Cuticura Soap the Great Skin Cures I or Sunburn Tan and Greasy Skin use Cutianl Soap an: exquisite toilet bath anti nursery sra tive fragrant with delicious flower odors ed healing balsams SALT RHEUM Wifi McDonald 2542 Dearborn st Chicago era fully acknowledges a cure of Salt Rheumouheil neck fade arms and legs for seventeen yeas not able to walk except on hands and knees Sr one year not been able to help himself forest years tried hundreds of remedies: doctorep nounced his case hopeless permanently the Cuticura Remedies PSORIASIS Carpenter Esq Henderson of Psoriasis or Leprosy of twenty staate by the Cuticura Resolvent internally and CutinB and Cuticura Soap externally The most wood ful case on record Cure certified to ore! justice of the peace and prominent citizens afflicted with Itching and Scaly Diseases send to us for this testimonial in full GREAT BRITAIN THE LAND BILL London August Tha Times says we go back to speech Com mons on the introduction of will be 6en that in its present shape it as fully satisfies the'eondition of the solution thencon tem plated by Gladstone as" the original project with regard to Ireland There ought to be no difference of opinion among the ten ant farmers at least in regard to the value of the bill It gives them all and more than all that the reasonable men among' tnem ex pected or even demanded down to this time last year HOUSE COMMONS in the Commons to day on motion for go ing into Committee of Supply 1 arnell moved that the Coercion act had not been adnnnis tered in accordance with the pledges which the Ministers had given when they induced the Parliament to suspend the Constitution and he declared the action of the government in regard to coercion prevented any gratitude for the Land bill It was well known he said that but for the Land League the whole strength of the Commons would have been un availing to force the through the Lords He thought the Irish people would be wise if they to rely upon their own exertions which had procured them such an installment of just rights Messrs Lalor Daly and ohers followed Parnell the principal point made by all the speakers being that the power of arrest unaer the Coercion act had been used to crush politi cal agitation and not against ruffians whom the Chief Secretary for Ireland orster de nounced in his speech introducing the Coercion William Johnson Solicitor General for Ire land replieddenying these accusations He said he hoped before long when peace andoi cter bad been thoroughly restored that the prison doors might be opened Anderson Advanced Liberal member for Glasgow joined Nolan in urging the release of the The latter iu urging their immediate release" said if the government waited until every one in "Ireland was con tented with the Land bill the rClease of tho prisoners would be Hng: deferred The de bate was then adjourned INDEMNITY CLAIMS London August 17 An active exchange of dispatches has been proceeding the last few days between Loudon Rome and Madrid on the subject of the indemnities claimed by the English Italian and Spanish subjects from the Bey of Tunis in connection with the bombard ment of Sfax and there is reason to believe a perfect understanding has been arrived at even the Bey declaring his utter impotence 'to deal with the matter DEAN WILL The will of the late Dean Stanley has been sworn under £90 (W 11 PURCHASES GOLD London August 17 Eighty thousand pounds sterling were purchased for United States account from private sources IRELAND ARCHBISHOP ADVICE Cork August 17 Archbishop Croke strongly recommends the people to give the Land bill a fair trial and accept it as a great boon and blessing? 4 HEALTH POOR John Dillon writes to his constituents Who invited him to a public meeting that he must remain under medical treatment and will be obliged to leave Ireland for a briet period on account of his health which however has improved considerably since his release The Musical Jubilre at Lawrence Ks Lawrence Ks August The great musical jubilee opens here to mOrrow and promises to be a grand success ully 4000 singers are (famped on the grounds to night and every train brings hmidreds more Ail the celebrated artists promised are here The Westeru National air Association will enter tain the editors of the State and their wives on riday ami Saturday Over 200 have already onnounced tbat they will be here All the ho tels are full arid the people are throwing open tlieir houses All who come will be 'hospita bly entertained A Dishonest Clerfc Baltimore August The Police Com mis ioners of this city learned that Sullivan Vail ct Co of New York had been forward ing cloth under the impression that the goods were for the police force The matter was in vestigated and to day Marriott Boswell clerk of the board confessed that he ordered and received the goods He was then dis missed It is stated that Sullivan Vail bill amoiinted to $4500 The cloth was received and sold here Boswell has been clerk Of the board since its organization in 1SGS The Law Against Carrying Concealed "Weapons to be Enforced iu St Louis St Loris August In view of the many murders and shooting scrapes which have oc curred here lately the Board of Police Com missioners have issued stringent orders to the police to enforce the law against carrying con cealed weapons witliout fear or favor and to arrest every man known to have or suspected of having arms on his person CUTICURA Remedies are for sale by all 1 of Cuticcba a Medicinal Jelly rTL ths I large boxes $1 Cuticura nE01CCut Blood Purifier SI tier bottle Toilkt Soap 25 cents Cuticura JIeoki jno Soap 15 cents in bars for barbers consumers 50c Principal Weeks Potter I feET All mailed free on receipt yLP OneCoLLixs trig Plaster VOLTAIC jggi pit orthe stomach over the ki 'rvviiertd LADIES AND GENTIeM VISITING or ADDRESS ATTHE RrEVRESsmR! The most elegant styles 5 7 the lettering from many beautiful branch ot the ree Press Job PnrmMU the finest materials and claims tawcrkmanhiix i or JCj GRAVED PLATEb to trade marks for PRESS ludr executed by THE INDIANS Two Herders Murdered Near argo Antonia Col August 17 Three herders were attacked by Indiana in a pass near argo last night Two were killed and the other escaped The murdered men were found this morning The south bound train was delayed here by a five mile washout near Chama Rains continue very hard Discovery of Rich Silver ields on an lu clinn Reservation "Washington August Advices have been received at the Interior Department from Indian Agent Hunt at Anadarko i In dian Territory announcing the discovery of rich and extensive silver fields near' ort Sill within the limits of the Kiowa Comanche and "Wichita Indian reservation Agent Hunt also informs the department that illegal attempts are being madeby white men to locate mineral claims in these regions The matter to day was referred to the Secretary of tho Interior by the Commissioner of ln dian Affairs with a request that troops be furnished to protect the Indian interests in the newly discovered fields from intruders Conference 'of Indian Chiefs with the Sec retary ot the Interior Washington August 17 A delegation of nineteen Indian chiefs from the Sioux Ponca and Winnebago tribes called to Washington by the Secretary of the Interior held' a con ference with the Secretary and Commissioner of Indian Affairs at the Interior Department to day The conference was called with a view to settling some disputed questions of boundary rights on their respective reserva tions After the delegates had assembled Secretary Kirkwood spoke to them through the interpreters as follows Thirteen years ago the President sent com missioners to make a treaty with the Sioux The treaty was made and by that treaty the land that had been giveu to the Poncas was given to the Sioux The land of tho Poncas being then taken from them and given to the Sioux the Poncas had no land left to live up on our years ago the Poncas were re moved from Dakota to the Indian Territory and a majority of them are there now A part of the Poncas were not willing to live in the Indian Territory and with Standing Bear left there and are now near their old reserva tion iu Dakota At the last session ot Con gress the white great coun cil money was appropriated some to go to the Poncas down in the Indian Terri tory and some to those in Dakota A part of this money was to be spent in putting up some buildings for the Poncas who are in or near Dakota but we cannot build houses with out land to build them on and the Commis sioner of Indian Affairs and I have brought the Sioux Winnebagos and and Oma has here to see if we can get lands from some ono or other of these tribes on which these houses may be built Now we want the Sioux and Omahas andWinnebagos to go back to where they are staying and talk this matter over themselves aud see if they are willing to have the Poncas under Standing Bear have a home and come back here to morrow and let us know their conclusions Say to the Poncas that after we have heard to morrow from the others we want to see and talk with them with a view of securing a home at the place most agreeable to them if we can do it cl 11 63 I.