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WE INDIANA MESS- EARTHQUAKE. IT FBIGHTENED THE BRAVEST. 6TORM HOUSES DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING AND WIND. A dispatch received from Nagasaki states that a dreadful earthquake has occurred in tbe western portion of the island of Kioa- Eiou. The town of Kumamoto was destroyed, a great number of people perished.

A vast amount of other property was also destroyed. Kiou-Siou is the southernmost of the three principal islands of Japan, in the Pacific Ocean, separated from by the Strait of Corea, and from Niphon Island by the Strait of Sikokf. The surface is mountainous, and there are several volcanoes, that of having been Seat Of 0 destructive eruption on April 1, 1626. Nagasaki, the principal commercial port of Japan, is on the island. Fayetteville, Arkansas, was visited by the most terrible electric and rain storm ever seen in that section.

Monday was the hottest and most oppressive day of the season. About midnifjht. the clouds seemed to come up from every point of the compass and met over this city, where they bung for three long hours. During that time it is safe to say that there were more "timid women and brave men" in the attitude of prayer titan ever before in Fayetteville. The grandeur of tbe scene beggars description.

There was not a vivid flash of lightning followed by a keen clap of thunder, but cue sheet followed another in such rapid succession that they made the heavens so bright as to be painful to the eye, while the reports of thunder that followed appeared to shake the very foundations of the earth. It was simply awful, and it is most remarkable that it continued thus for three hours, during which time the rain fell in torrents. Tbe residences of Moses Mock, Moses Baum, J. V. Walker, Mrs.

E. E. Wade, Rev, N. M. Eagland, Judge B.

J. Brown and the livery stable of Keil Haugin, in which 10 horses were killed, were struck by lightning. The large barn of Capt. Tomas Brooks, editor of the FayettevUle BejnMican, was set on fire and destroyed, together with a large quantity of grain and several fine horses. The residence of Thomas Holland, three miles from here, was blown to atoms, and that of F.

Graham, in the same neighborhood, was partly destroyed. A number of streams are higher to-day than ever before known. The Frisco Railroad bridge over White river is washed away, and the crops along the river are generally destroyed. The loss to the farmere of this county will be many thousand dollars. A heavy wind and rain storm did muc a damage in New Jersey, New Hampshire and Massachusetts and other sections.

In New Jersey the Fritz dam burst at Bloomfield. Tbe Coddington dam on Stony creek and the Bier dam ou Green brook, near Plain field, also burst. In Orange Valley several houses were washed away and three persons are reported drowned. Newark, Millburn and other points suffered considerable. At Haverhiil, there was a regular hurricane, unroofing houses, blowing down trees, telegraph wires, etc.

The storm took off tbe roof of the State Arsenal at Concord, N. as well as the coofe of many other houses. i THE DE BRAAK TREASURE. a BELIEF THAT THE CAEGO OF GOLD ASD BHVEB HAS BEES FOUXD. The Merritt Wrecking Company's steamer Tnckahoe, of New York, Capt Demorest, which has been at work off tbe Delaware Breakwater for the past seven or eight Marching for the treasure ehipDe Braak, which was sunk in Delaware Bay May 25.

1796, has, it is believed, made a very important discovery during the last day or two. The Merritt Wrecking Company's people were sanguine of success upon their arrival eft Lewes, Delaware, and tbe exact location upon which the steamer is now at work is believed to be the same as that upon which the British frigates Assistance and Resolute were working over the year after theDe Braak went down. The place is about seven-eighths of a from Ope Henlopen Lighthouse. Bearings were taken at the time by pilots tesiding in Lewes, some of whom left records which the Merritt Wrecking Company became possessed of, and, supplying themselves with the most expert divers that could be obtained and superior grapUng apparatus for penetrating the hull of the sunken ves- ad, they began operations wi th determination and superior facilities for success, which there is a reason to believe they have met With. The supposition that the De Braak, a British sloop-of-war, went down with millions in gold and silver has been verified by the records of the British Admiralty.

Themon and 70 tons of copper were the proceeds of the capture of two Spanish treasure chips bound from Central America to Spain. Observers of the operations of the Merritt wreckers have noticed huge objects hoisted their vessel within the past few days. and there is apparently great excitement on board. Tbe crew of the Tuckahoe since Sunday has been working in a sigulariy energetic and excited ananner, impressing the observers with the belief that the treasure, or a portion of it at least, has finally been found and brought to the surface. The captain of the Tnckahoe maiateins a carious desire to be undisturbed and has cut off all communication With the shore.

Moreover, no one is allowed board the vessel, and those men who have approached within hailing distance fcavebean peremptorily warned off. All these unusual circumstances tend to establish belief that at last, after nearly century, the long-Bought-for De Braak i found. AGAINST MORMOMSM. Two hundred persons in the Twenty-third district of Wilson county, have band- ad for the purpose of driving Mormon elders and converts from that county. This action bas been taken on account of the conduit of tbe Mormons on a recent occasion.

While the Rev. John Barrett, a Baptist preacher, was holding services in Wetmore's school- iiousehewas interrupted by some of the Mormon converte present, who asked him aeveral questions aud then became insulting. Members of the congregation made a move to resent this interference, whereupon tbe Mormons jumped out of the window and dated diem to come out and fight. Two Justices of the Peace subsequently prepared a big dinner and invited the community at laqpe to come and hear Mr. Barsett; preach and to give him pr tectkm.

Every one expected that a fight would take pUoe, but the Mormons stayed a way. The preacher called on the congregation to kaow bow many would help to driw the Mormons out of the county. In response to his invitation all the men in tbe uuagHiaeMfln, about cave him hands, to drJtg the Mormons oat by whatever meaot iiinsaaij. The have keen fiorbfaUea to travel on the roadt and aetifiedtokave the county or stop hoMing CASUALTIES. DEATH BODE ON THE STORM.

ASTOXIEHIKO BATNFAIX IK CHICAGO AKD OZHXB WESTERS ttHSTB. A storm which swept across the prairie and struck Chicago Siturday night was without a parallel in the history of that section of the country. The records of the local signal ssrvice station show nothing approaching it. From 6:30 to 9:30, 4:12 inches of rain fell. Without going into the figures, it may be stated that the volume of water which fell inside of the would make a lake on which could be floated the greatest navy in the world.

It is impossible to estimate the damage with any degree of accuracy. Hardly a house in the city escaped the fury of the storm. Buildings were blown down, basements flooded, plate glass windows shattered and shade trees uprooted or broken by the fury of the gale. It is safe to say that the loss will reach into the hundreds of thousands. While the storm was at its height, an un- three-story house on Leavitt street was blown over on to an adjoining cottage, completely crushing the latter, instantly killing eight and seriously injuring three of its occupants.

Two families lived in the cottage, the front part being occupied by Cor nelius Ferdinands, a blacksmith, with his wife 'and four children, and the rear by Charles Buck, a laborer, his wife and there children. Buck's wife and two children, Anna and Albert, were instantly killed, and Buck himself and his eldest son, Gustof, were so crushed they cannot recover. Cornelius Ferdinands, his wife and two daughters, Geneva and Gertrude, were killed. Linda Ferdinands, 10 years old, was taken out alive but will die. A two year old babe, Cora, was taken out alive, but died at mid- eight.

Charles Shaffer, a boy six yean old, who lived with his parents at 3333 Yorktown street, was killed by lightning during the storm. He was sitting by the fireplace at his home, when lightning the house, and, going down the chimney, killed the lad instantly. The house was damaged to the ex- told of several hundred dollars. Other mem- hen of the family were considerably shocked. Ernest Blocter, the owner of a lumber yard, was instantly killed by an Eastern Illinois engine during the storm, and Henry Dues, one of his employes, was badly hurt.

The men were crossing the track at Sixty- sixth street. They waited for a freight train to pass and then started to cross. The rain blinded them. An engine approaching from the opposite direction struck them. Blocter was about 48 years old and single.

Dues'a recovery is doubtful. ANOTHER FLOOD. TRIBUTARIES OF THE LITTLE KAKA.WHA DO MOBE DAMAGE. Reports say there was a terrible rain and flood Friday night in the upper waters of the Little Kanawha. Reports from Grantsville say Calhonn county was devastated, and crops, fences and houses were washed away during the night.

Several lives were also reported lost. Particulars are hard to get The river at Grantsville is reported to be fifteen feet and rising rapidly. Reports from other sections along the Little Kanawha state that a fearful storm occurred during the night and much property was destroyed. Middle Island and all big creeks above, in Pleasant county, are reported rising rapidly. Bear run, Ritchey county, suffered terribly.

The loss is reported at not less than 1650,000. During the storm a few days ago in Wirt county, a circus was destroyed just after the performance began. The tent was wrecked and the whole concern carried away. Miss D'AIma, a trapeze performer, was drowned, and it is is reported that some of the em- ployes were lost. The town or Saultsbury, on the Big Tygart river, is wiped out of existence.

Theodore Boyd, Mayor of Parkenburg, has issued an urgent appeal for help for sufferers by the recent flood along the Little Kanawha river. Thousands of people are now without means of subsistence, everything having been carried off by the flood. All contributions can be forwarded to Mayor Boyd at Parkersbnrg. CYCLONE IN HUNGARY. A terrible cyclone swept over portions of Hungary, Translivania aud Bukovina, taking in a tract of several thousand square miles in iJB The ruin wrought by tbe visitation is terrible, Hundreds of people have been killed, and a great many more have been maimed and crippled.

All crops in tbe path of the cyclone are a total loss and houses and churches are leveled to the ground in all directions. UNCLAIMED VALUABLES. Louis Baomer, Chairman of the Johnstown Committee on Valuables, has a large number of articles yet in his possession for which no owner can be found The valuables found on the bodies of the dead are all kept here in separate packages, fnA many persons have found the bodies of their friends by recognizing some articles that was found on the body. There is a large of stuff yet in the hands of the committee, consisting of gold rings, breastpins aud other jewelry more or leas valuable. In addition there is over one thousand dollars in money that has been found on the unrecognized dead in the hands of this committee, and Mr.

Baumer desires to announce that all who have friends missing who wore jewelry or other articles of value in their possession should call at his rooms and if the bodies have been found it is likely that he will have something that may lead to their identification. If those who cannot call will send an exact description of the articles in possession of their friends, they will be informed whether 01 not tbe artides have been recovered. Inquiries should be addressed to Louis Baumer, Committee on Valuables, Johnstown. Pa. INTERNAL REVENUE FIGURES.

Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mason has made the following preliminary reports of the operations of the internal revenue service for the fiscal year ending June 30 last: The Total collections for the fiscal year just ended were $130,895,432 an increase over 18S8 of $6,568,957. The cost of collections for the fiscal year just ended will aggregate about $3,185,000, being a fraction less than 3.2 which is exactly the same as that of 1SSS. The total receipts from different objects of taxation were: From spirits, 74,313,300, an increase of $5,007,039 over the previous fiscal year; from tobacco, $31,863,860, an increase of from fermented Tquors, $23,723,835, an increase of from oleomargarine, $891,248, an increase of from banks and bankers, $6,214, an increase of $2,011, and from miscellaneous, $91,000 a decrease of $74,248. Tax was paifron 3,844,726,050 cigars, and 32,667,785 pounds of oleomargarine. LATE NEWS BRIEF.

Mark King, living Hazleton, Fa. his wife to death Friday night, in a fit of ungovernable rage. He was arrested. The marriage of Princess Louise and the Duke of Fife took place at noon ou Saturday, according to the arrangements made. The wedding presents to the bride numbers 1 fully 400 and their value is placed at $1,000,000.

The westbound passenger train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, due at Memphis at 1:05 A. was wrecked Saturday mornining at Brighton, 30 miles north of Memphis, by the switch being left open. The killed are the engineer, fireman, baggage master and mail agent. All the passengers were badly shaken up, but none were seriously injured. New York's scheme for holding a World's Fair in 1892 is going along swimmingly in every respect save one, but that one is the most important of tbe raising of the money necessary.

The Mayor has been au- thorised to appoint the several committees needed to push the project, and says he means to make them representative of all the city's great interests. Tbe police of Cincinnati made a vigorous effort to reform the city Sunday. All saloons which sold openly were raided. A large number of arrests were made. Several disturbances resulted.

The experiment with the co-operative bank system in Massachusetts bids fair to become pronounced success. There are now in operation 91 institutions of this class, of which 25 have been organized since November last. All are doing well, and more new ones are talked of, so that there is danger that the business may be overdone. Mat Walton, of Monongahela City, while plowing near the spot where Colonel Crawford was burned at the stake by Indians in 1782, unearthed a sword. The blade was rusted away, but the handle and guard, being of gold, were preserved.

On the handle was engraved the name of William Crawford. A bloody fight took place about a mile below Bellevernon, which resulted in the death of one man, while a second was mortally wounded. The affair occurred between two Italians, who are both foremen of gangs of workmen that are employed in putting down the pipe line of the Monongahela Natural Gas Company, frcm Belle- vernon to Pittsburgh. At Point Pleasant, W. during a row in a show-boat, moored in the river, John Jones was stabbed to death by Wm.

Mc- Clintosk. McClintock is under arrest. The Spring Garden Coal Company, capital $100,000. has decided to locate a seven-ton paper mill at Cumberland, and make its own pulp from West Virginia spruce pine. John Btryker, aged 75 years, has been arrested near Hammondsville, Ohio, for brutally abusing bis children.

It is alleged that he has been in the habit of hanging his eons and daughters up and whipping them until their flesh was reduced to a jelly. There is great indignation against the old man among his neighbors, to whom he has been a terror for years. Wm Seaton, of Mansfield, deserted his wife 18 years ago and went West. Friday night he returned, his wife fainting when she saw him. During his absence she was divorced, married and widowed.

The couple will probably marry again and go West. Christ Weinman murdered his wife at Columbus, Ohio, Saturday morning, and then shot himself and will die. He blew tbe front portion of his wife's head off with a shotgun, then fired a shot into bis own head with a revolver. Domestic trouble was the cause of the tragedy. Preparations bad been made by the wife to file a petition for divorce.

The Constitutional Convention of North Dakota bas decided to submit the Prohibition question to the people. J. P. Fannce and wife are under arrest at Springfield, for poisoning their two boys, one of whom died. Faunce has confessed he bought the poison, his wife saving she wanted it for rats.

She afterwards said she gave it to the boys in coffee because they were too much trouble. President Harrison decided to leave Deei Park on Thursday for Washington instead ol Monday of next week. There are various reasons assigned for this sudden change of plans. One is the increasing public business, and in proof of this Private Secretary Halford says that the President is followed to his retreat by public cares in the shape oi countless letters. Where he received a doz en letters at a mail a fortnight back he receives three score.

Li Presse, a Boulangist organ, accuses the government of falsifying 3,000,000 voting papers at the election for tbe councils general on Sunday; Corrected returns show that General Boulanger was elected in 23 cantons. Gov. Lowry, of Mississippi, has caused tc be prepared a list of 600 persons who witnessed the Sollivaa-Kilrain prize fight, anl these he affirms shall be punished. The friends of Rev. E.

F. Flemon, who is wanted in South Carolina for their last card before Governor Beaver and lost. The colored preacher will be turned over to South Carolina authorities at once. CBOSIH SUSPECTS five men under arrest at Chicago for the murder of Dr. Cronin were brought into Judge Horton's court Monday morning.

Save Burke and Cooney, all the indicted men were Coughlin, Woodruff, Knnz and thek trial was not began, the lawyers raising the preliminary motions which must be argued aud disposed before progress can be made. Anyway, nwJfl Borke can be brought from Winne- psg tbe State's Attorney will insist upon a FIVE NEW WHEATS. The department of agriculture has ordered from France five varieties of winter wheats, three of which are of Southern origin and are recommended as rest proof; the other two are crosses made by Vilmoryn, of Paris. The Southern wheats are tbe "Bichellede Naples," a white bald wheat; the "Zelande," also a white bald, and tbe "Rieti," a red bearded variety. These wheats are to be distributed in bushel lots to experiment stations in the Sou.h aid st.

The other two are to be distributed in bushel lota to the experiment stations of the Middle and Northern States. One is called the "DattelL," a cross of the "Prince Albert," and tbe winter red-bearded "Chiddam." both English wheats acclimated in France. The other is the "Lamed," a cross of the "Prince Albert" and the Noe," an Odessa wheat with blue stem. A full history and description of the characteristics of each wheat and, in the cases of crosses, of the wheats crossed, will be sent with each lot, so that the experiment can be intelligently studied. COLLAPSE OF THE SALT TRUST.

Tbe proposed salt trust has collapsed. The Directors of the North American Salt Company published a statement that while the subscriptions had been numerous, the trustees did not feel justified in making an allotment of shares, and it had been decided to return subscriptions and postpone action fcr the present. The articles of incorporation called for a capital stock of $11,000,000. A week ago the company offered $4,000,000 in debenture bonds. It is not known how many of these were sold.

FOE Advices from tht trout state that three columns of dervishes are marching to reinforce the army of Nadel Njumi, the leader of the rebels. Caravans bearing large quantities of provisions are following the reinforcements under guard. It is believed that when a junction between the rebel forces are effected Nad-el-Njumi will MILUOHB FOB luforma tion has just been received that the estate of a man named Fisher, who died in Gennrny some years ago, about to be divided among the American heirs, of whom there are 72. Twenty-two of them live near Marshall, and several in Illinois. The estate is valued 51,000,000.

FALSE MESSIAHS. A CRAZE SPREADING IN GEORGIA. KIGBOES PBEPAEING TO MARCH TO THE PROMISED The Ohio lunatic, Orth, seems to have started an epidemic in the State of Georgia, foi' a negro has appeared in Cheiokee County who claims to be Christ. There is another in Camden County, down near the Okefinokee swamp, and a woman in Brunswick, down the coast, is preaching and claims to perform miracles. The religious frenzy aroused among Liberty County negroes by the lunatic who pretended to be the Messiah is baffling every effort made to counteract it.

Those who are possessed listen to no arguments or appeals of the whites, nor of the more intelligent of their own color. Orth was sent to the insane asylum at Milledgeville two weeks ago, and the hope was indulged that the craze would die out; but it has not. On the contrary, it is spreading. Orth, or Dupont Bell, as he at times calls himself, has been succeeded by a negro, Edward James; who chums that the spirit of Christ passed into him. His preaching is having a worse effect than the white lunatic's had.

James preaches that the world is coming to an end on August 16 and this has added to the demoralization of the ignorant blacks. He also preaches pernicious practices, and 500 negroes aie follw- ing him. This new false Christ obtains an influence which has thus far paralyzed the advice of the old orthodox colored preachers. One of these to whom the blacks throughout Eastern Georgia have for years looked up to as a leader, is the Rev. Floyd Snefcon, the Republican candidate for Congress in the First district last fall.

Even Snelson's eflorts are of no avail against James. The deluded band contiues holding daily meetings, singing, shouting and praying. A white man named McCrimmon went out on the Old Homestead Plantation country, a few days ago to employ laborers for G. W. Hawkins' saw mill upon the East Tennesee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.

McCrimmon had secured hands in that part of the country before, and he. found several of his old workmen. Their friends and families persuaded them not to leave. The march to the Promised Land is to start early Friday morning, August 16, and the men were deterred from themselves to work in another county through fear of being left behind when the procession starts Canaanward. A BATTLE FOR MILLIONS.

HTTKS CLAIM FART OF SAN BLYTHE WILL COXIEST. Suit will soon be Orought by counsel representing heirs in Hungary and in Cleveland, 0., against the present holders of the estate of William Leidesdorff, one of California's pioneer merchants, who died in 1818. The estate is now valued at $40,000,000 and comprises some of the most valuable business property in San Francisco. This property is held under deeds from ex-U. S.

Quartermaster Folsom, who was an intimate friand of Loidesdorf, and bought property from the administrator after Leidea- dorf died intestate. The story goes that Folsom found Leides- dorfer had a negro mother living at St. Croix, West Indies, and got from her quit claim deeds of all the estate. Now these Hungarian heirs are ready to prove that Folsom originated the story of a negress mother, and that Leidesdorff was really born at Azsood, Hungary, where he has many direct kin. About 100 heirs met in Buds Pesth in June, and furnished Solomon Ull mer, of Cleveland, with money to prosecute their claims.

Uilmer has also made a syndicate of heirs in Cleveland, and tbe battle will soon begin. It is also reported that a San Francisco capitalist has pooled the issues of all the Blythe claimants except Florence, the daughter who claims the entire estate, and is bearing the expenses of the contest under an agreement by which he is to secure, in case of victory, the entire estate, worth $4,000,000, after paying them $1,000,000, to be divided among about 80 claimants. NEGRO LABOR IN THE SOUTH- The Chattanooga Tradesman has instituted an inquiry with reference to the value of negro labor in industrial channels in the South. The inquiries were sent to 300 leading Southern manufacturers, representing blast furnaces, rolling-mills, miscellaneous iron works, mines, lumber-mills, saw-mills, etc. Replies were received which represent 9,000 negro employes, of whom 2,500 are skilled.

The Javerge wages payed common negro labor is $1.10 per day, and skilled labor runs from $1.75 to $2,25 per day, although several correspondents pay colored puddlers, heaters and rollers as high as $4 and $5 per day, and many furnaces pay as high as $2 50. The replies, without a single exception, show that there is no difference at all between the pay of whites and blacks for the same class oi work. The manufacturers are practically unanimous in the opinion that for common labor in the Southern States the negro is more efficient and useful than the white, and without an exception they declare then.se! ves well satisfied with the negro in the factory and announce their determination to continue him in his place. Many state that he is making progress in skilled work. The Tradesman adds that the condition of the negro is constantly improving and as an industrial factor his usefulness is now recog- by all.

SUFFERERS EXONERATED. 'HE TAX PROBLEM AT CLOTHUfG BUB1TCD, The Board oi' County Commissioners have unanimously decided to exonerate from County taxes all properties the flooded district. This will reduce the revenues of the county very largely, and a loan will have to be effected to keep up current expenses. Fortunately the finances of the county will be in good condition, the last of the indebtedness having been lifted last fall. It is supposed that the borough aud school authorities will also exonerate from taxes property in the flooded parts of the town, but where the money to keep things going is to come from is a serious question.

Rev. Father Tebaney, pastor of the St. John's Catholic Church, has effected a settlement with the insurance companies, receiving $20,000 out of a total insurance of $22,000. He will build a temporary wooden structure for his congregation to worship in i A once, and expects to have the foundation completed this fall for the substantial brick church. Two available sites be'ong to the congregation, and it is not known which one the new building will be erected on.

The Convent of the Sacred Heart, which was only partially destroyed and in which all the Sisters of Mercy were saved while at prayer, will be rebuilt, and a memorial table erected in remembrance of the great flood. FIVE SCHOOLS diets' Orphan Commission of Pennsylvania decided to dispense with the Mount Joy, McAllisterville, Mercer and Chester Springs schools, controlled by the syndicate, and resolved also to drop tte school at Mansfield, lioga county, because of its inconvenient location. The children fa the Soldiers' Orphan schools will be thus distributed after the summer vacation: Butler. 129; Laysrille, ISO; Northern Home, 350; JumonsvlUe, 342; Harf ord 270; Whitehall, 285; churches and other homes, 108; total, 1,600. Ex-Senator John Creer was Miss Jennie Martiu, matron of the Mercer school, female inspector, in place of Mw.

Attteka. FEARS OF A FOOD The European harvest news shows that the situation of the world's breadstuff supply is much more serious than was expected a fortnight ago. Russian official reports now admit that the wheat crop is the worst in many years, but they strive to take the edge off the announcement by the declaration that the Government, in consequence will reduce railway rates on grain freights, so as to prevent a food panic inside the Empire. Telegrams from Vienna report the ravages of something like a cyclone in Hungary and Northern Roumania, which not only destroyed tbe grain still standing, but swept away so many granaries at Szegein, Mohacs, and other centers that tbe bulk of the grain harvested a few weeks ago was also destroyed. Tbe Austrian Ministry of Agriculture officially announced the day before this storm that the grain crops of Galiciaand Silesia were a total failure and those of Bohemia and Moravia very bad.

In India, too, the reports from Bombay are worse as the season advances, showing estimates of an average shortage of fully 15,000,000 bushels, but these tidings from exporting countries are not the worst feature of the present situation. MURDER. Samuel Kramer, a widower living between Davistown and Donegal, two towns of the Chestnut ridge, who kept a small store, was discovered to have been murdered Tuesday morning by Joe Christner, a neighbor, who had gone toKramer's store to get his shoe mended. Christner found the shop locked on his arrival, and went to the rear of the house. At the well he discovered a pool of blood, and, upon tearing up the platform of the well, he found the remains of Kramet with a bullet hole through his head, A party has been formed to make a thorough search for the murderer, Kramer was about 50 years of age, a quiet, inoffensive man, and was probably murdered for bis money.

SUNDAY CLOSING. For tbe first time in years, Sunday, Wheeling was practically a dry town. The Chief of Police issued orders, Friday, that no saloon should be open on Sunday, and the rule was pretty strictly enforced. There was a general exodus of people to Bellaire, Benwood and neighboring towns, where drinks could be procured. A Sunday closing law bas been on the statute books for years, but saloons have continued to run openly on Sunday.

The law has not been popular, and.no effort has been made before this to enforce it. INDIANS WIPED ghastly ery was made last week on Sun river. From the particulars at hand it seems that a few months ago a family of Flathead Indians left their reservation, crossed the mountains and went into the Sun River cou to hunt. They were seen by one of their relatives, a half breed, living 'on Sun river, when they first arrived. Last week this half breed found one of the ponies in posession of a white man, who claimed that he had purchased the animal at Sun river The half breed was satisfied that something was and at once began a search for his relatives.

After hunting two or three days he found their camp, which had been burned, and the charred remains of bis relatives, a family of three or four. There is no doubt that they were robbed and murdered. The authorities have been notified and are looking for the perpetrators of the fiendish deed. TEXAS FEVER PLAYING from the Indian Territory report that Texas Fever is playing havoc among the cattle in the Territory. Over 40 head were found dead in one pasture alone, and in others numbers varying from 7 to 25.

They also- stated that hundreds of cattle were dying in Oklahoma, and predicted that there would not be a living bead of cattle imported into that country from the States of Kansas and Nebraska in two months. The fatality among cattle in Oklahoma is not caused so much from Texas fever as from the effect the more Southern climate has on them. Reports from Guthrie, Oklahoma City and other points in the Territory verify this statement. FOBXST FIRES IN Noble received a telegram from the Governor of Idaho Territory, dated Boise City, July 29, in which he says that a terrible fire is now raging on the Government timber lands 30 miles from Boise City, in Boise county. The Governor says that all efforts of the people to check the fire have proved unavailing, and he appeals to the Government for aid, In response the Secretary has directed the Government Agent now in the vicinity to promptly render all necessary assistance.

He is authorized to expend $500 in employing men to subdue the fire. FOREST FIRES IN fir are reported in the mountains and along the banks of the Missouri for many miles below Fort Benton. At Bowdoin the section house was destroyed and Miss Mattie Johnson, a school teacher, so severely burned that her recovery is doubtf uL The Northern Pacific track east of Livingston was burned out for a short distance, but has been repaired. Several mining camps have been deserted, and ranchers are plowing around their land to prevent fire in the grass frouMmnning. COL.

F. D. Hirr, of Ottawa, possesses some rare relics of the early French explorers of the Mississippi Valley. Among them are the camp- kettle of LaSalle and the Jesuit cross of Father Marquette. The cross is of lead and copper, and in form is double, having a figure of Christ crucified on the obverse, and of the Virgin and child on the At the end of each beam is a heart.

The relics are undoubtedly authentic. GEN. W. S. ROSECRANS, Register of the United States Treasury, has a pe-j culiar one-sided expression of face which has a history to it.

Few people know that Gen. Rosecrans was the 1 first man who ever refined He experimented with it forty years' ago. People said he was, a fool, but he went on with his experiments. Presently, as though to prove what they said, his petroleum blew up and burned his face in a serious way. He has suffered from that since.

MB. MUNDELLA, in opening a free library in London, urges that the way to elevate men is to make readers oi them. This is partly true, but is one of those half-truths that stand for ignorance of human nature. Our civilized races, as a rule, are reading races, but the majority read trash and bosh and worse. Still the tendency is upward and betterward.

The Librarian of the New York Free Library tells us the novel most called for in 1888 was "Ben Hur," and in 1887 "Uncle Tom." "Ben Hur" is infinitely above average fiction, but not a book that pleases a highly cultured person. Scott and Dickens and Mrs. Craik and Charlotte Bronte and Black are greatly read by the masses. Just now "BobertEla- mere" is all the rage. History fa ex- oeediogly popular with joaqf rmAyn, and history is better written of for the young.

OONTTlfUES TO IMPROVE. a. e. Dxnr a WKDU.T mrvnw G. weekly review of says: The business outlook has on whole improved during the week, but on Thursday the assignment of an important iry goods commission house, with liabilities over $4,000,000, occasioned some disquietude.

But the general tenor of advices is encouraging. Crop prospects improve. The latest accounts indicate deci ed in tbe wheat prospect hi Dakota and Minnesota, the yield being estimated at 80,000,000 against 60,000,000 last year. The foreign reports are evidently two-faced, but appear on the whole to promise a larger demand than last year's. The price has advanced only t-4c, corn and oats 3-Sc each, and hog products have declined a fraction.

Sugar declined 1-te. "Famine" is imminent; the consumption has been sharply reduced by high prices. Oil nas risen 20 cents per barrel for refined and 5i cents for crude. The general average of prices is a shade higher than a week ago. There seems to be real and steady improvement hi the condition of the great branches of industry, i he demand for iron has so far increased as to cause a general stifleaing of prices daring the past week.

Bar iron is a tenth of a cent higher; rails are firm at $28, and nails stronger; the business in and sheet iron is satisfactory, but the demand for plate is a shade leas urgent. The official report shows that the production of pig, 3,677,767 gross tons, was largest in any half year in the country's history, and while stocks increased about 200, dOO tons, the consumption was but 70,008 tons less than in the last half of 1888; 131,000 teas of Northern iron, apparently, and 61,000 tons more of Southern iron. But production bas been hi excess of the demand. The signs of improvements hi the woolen business are less clear, but manufacturers have been buying more freely and there has been some increase in the orders for goods. The harvest season for boots and shoes has Commenced welL The coal business is dull and weak.

The monetary supply is at all reporting points ample, and the complaints of slow collections are fewer than usuaL The treasury has taken in 2,000,000, more than it has paid out during the week, but the exports of gold have been for the moment arrested, and commercial bills are more freely made against grain and cotton to go abroad. The exports from New York for three weeks of July have exceeded last year's by per though the imports are also large. In the stock market depression has been followed by a stronger feeling, and the average of prices is a fraction better than a week rather more hopeful prospects as to the settlement of difficulties between Chicago and the seaboard. The business failures number 216, as against a total of 208 last week and 209 the week previous. For the corresponding week last year the figures were 221.

HEAVY FAILUBE. Tbe failure of the boot and shoe firm of F. H. A. BacheUor Boston and Brookfield, has been announced, with liabilities of $1.000,000 and nominal assets of probably about the same amount.

An assignment has been made for the benefit of crditors to Thomas £. Proctor and Robert Bachellor, of North Brookfield, and a meeting of creditors will be called as soon as a definite statement of the firm's affairs can be prepared by tbe expert accountants now engaged in examining its books. As considerable of the indebtedness is held by purchasers of the firm's commercial paper whose names are unknown to the debtors, the trustees request that all creditors will at once send them a statement of their claims. McXean Appleton, shoe manufacturers at Salem, have assigned to J. Beebee, of Boston.

The estimated liabilities are from $65.000 to assets, $40,000 McKean Appleton did the largest business in Salem, their yearly sales reaching nearly $400,000. COMMERCIAL. RTT8BUXGH. 19 Country roll 11 15 full 9 New York 10 11 EGGS 14 15 9 pah- 30 70 Turkeys, 8 10 POTATOES-Peerleas 150 175 Rose 150 165 country 4 50 5 65 Timothy 155 175 Blue grass 95 100 Millet 150 200 2 red 90 91 No.3red 83 85 2 yellow ear 47 48 Mixed ear 43 44 Shelled mixed 41 42 No. 2 white 33 34 No.

2 Obio and Pa. 48 49 winter pat's. 5 75 6 00 Fancy spring 6 00 6 75 Clear winter 3 50 4 75 Rye flour 300 325 1250 1450 Loose, from 14 00 16 00 14 50 15 00 Bran 1200 1250 Chopfeed 1300 1400 BALTIMORE. 2 red 86 RYE 49 50 CORN 42 43 32 34 BUTTER 10 12 EGGS 10 1450 1500 CIXCIXXATI. RYE.

46 CORN 37 OATS 24 EGGS 10 PORK BUTTER 15 79 47 40 26 11 1137 20 PHILADELPHIA. 4 4 25 2. Red 85 87 2, Mixed 44 45 White 3i 34 2. 48 49 16 17 Y. Full 6 9 MEW YOBS.

CATTLE, 2 4 65 SHEEP, 550 LAMBS, 510 4 05 4 91 5 665 88 52 54 Mixed 42 44 Western 26 11 18 Factory 9 12 Factory 6 8 7 9 Western 7 8 and 14 t5 LIVE-STOCK MARKET. Cnraui, STOCK YARDS EAST FAST MAILS letters to be Carried Hundreds of Miles in an Boor. A System Which May Revolutionize the Postal Service. A Boston correspondent of the New Orleans Pitayuna says: Within a twelvemonth from the present date mails irill be carried from Boston to New York city in sixty minutes. So say the capitalists who are nuking arrangements for the establishment of a transport line, on the so-called "portelectric system," for the conveyance of letters and packages between the metropolis and the modern Atheas.

Even tha least sanguine backers of the enterprise are confident that, if the expected public support is given to the scheme, not than two years will be required at moot for the establishment of the necessary plant in running order, to bring the two of population within an hour's distance by post The Mid plant will resemble, as to its most essential part, a little elevated railway, supported en a single line of tall iron uprights and stretching front the postoffice here to that on the island of Manhattan. Along the track on top runs a small car laden with mail freight, which at certain intervals during its transit is seen to go under queer- looking box-shaped arches. These boxlike arrangements contain each a coil of wire, passing beneath the rail below and around over the arch, so that the moving mail carriage runs, as it were, through a succession of coiled wire hoops. And these latter communicate the motive power to the vehicle. Such a hoop of magnetized coiled wire is called a "helix," and possesses ibis peculiar property, that if a bar of iron or steel be placed with one end near the center of the coil, the bar will be drawn into that center.

Place a number of similar coils in a row and start an electric current thjoagh them, then apply the bar to the first coil, and by cutting off and letting on the circuit at the proper intervals, so as to disengage the bar from the attraction of one coil in time have it drawn era bj the next, the bar may be made to move continuously through the hoops. In this way it is that the little mail car of magnetized steel is caused to pass along its rails through successive coils of boxed- in wire, the latter being magnetized by a current from a dynamo, which the car itself shuts off and turns on automatically as it The speed to be attained by the car in this manner is almost incalculable. As is recognized in mechanics, a constant propelling force is pro- ddctive of nearly infinite velocity, obstructed only be the resistance of friction. In this system the only friction conies from the air and the slight contact of the car with the rails. Two hundred and fifty miles an hour is not thought to be an overestimate of the speed easily to be compassed by the portelectric post-dispatch.

At the starting point the wire coils will have to be close together and on up grades; but elsewhere, and especially on down grades, they may be few and far between, the mot.ve power needed being slight. Six stations, placed at intervals between here and New York, will supply the requisite currents from dynamos. Many experts think that the system is destined to revolutionize postal service in this country. For instance, it is expected that instead of mails hours kpart between Boston and New York, carriages will be sent over the tracks from either end of the line at five-minute intervals, thus rendering unnecessary the waiting for malls to close, and giving people in one city an opportunity read their letters two hours after they are written in the other. Once prove the notion a success here and it will be quickly adopted everywhere.

By applying it on a large scale, too, who knows that it may not serve for the transportation of passengers some dayt the rate of 250 miles an bear erne tould put a girdle around the earth in four days! Truly, it is a wonderful century we live in. The supply while not large, was equal to tbe demand, and the market was slow. Prime 1,400 to 1,500 Ib. cattle, go 1,200 to 1380 Ib. fiur 1,000 to 1,100 Ib.

do. 3.65@3 85: stock cattle at bulls and dry 1 cows, SHEEP ASD LAMBS. Some ten car-loads on sale and all sold. Market steady for better grades, but dull for common. We quote: Pnma to 5c; lair to good common, lambs HOG6.

Market dull, with supply in excess of demand, and prices were off about lOc. Sate at4.70@4-75c for Yorkers, and 4.00Q4.6S*, for JrhUdelpbia hogs. WOOL. has bean a quiet tat all kinds of wool, and the iates In play a ed, the surface of waich is into seventy-two aqoarea, of run together to fern a thirty-two OB each site; bat stand OB the them are ninety potitieai sia- teen pieces used by each Sweaty-six mom than are used IB fii The pieces like er men in shape, each of kinds on each side having name cot on top, and distinguished by red at black colors. The four neat each edge fora tbs of tsiagox, "general," out of twosxor OB each, of two elephants, two hopes i iota, whose powos ofourbi similar.

The chariot i erf ul piece. IB stand two tike oar Five guard the: the eaeisy, get bJgbet vaJot when they reach tbe last rew. Eaci piece is pot wbereift captures except, tbe ject of eacb player to bba from moving except ia rbscsr. Tat want of aoBsea end fiBussd ntovet of the men lestrict the coaahiaation ia the game than is chess, but it bas Us OWB rtssarots oi skOL Chinamen hi Vott street have had several toamanHBts whicl the papers did not report. Bat some oJ the players bare attained an amount ol skill that would pet an American oi his mettle to defeat.

Bwve thai seven centuries chess has been a great game with tbe Chinese and held ia great respect ia China ai A Mkhigaa avenue car stopped Second street to permit jouag and a gentleman to get oa, troit Jfewa As the former, whe jeoag well as pretty, paatisd lutmuA a seat offered her, tiippad over outstretched foot of individual wbt was sitting at tbe mar of car. In an instant she was ahaost at fut length in bottom of car. Tbi exclamations of aad tht black looks they directed at extend ed stnmbliag block should have causec its owner to sink through seat, Quicker almost than she weat down, however, she was OB her feat again, aac gracefully acknowledging courier of the gentkmaa who fcarmadtmd hi seat. She was greatly embemased, aat her escort looked like a thander cloud and as if he would like to poach tht head of the fellow wbo bad caused al the trouble. Butbedida't, He COB tented himself with occarionatty step ping vigorously oa stiB extended foot.

Then did not to tfc lea-t sign of eoaseieejaem from it owner, while awaited the lurch from the feet cious dig that was ae piuaseanfl ta almost twM ana eat ef tb. seat. TbmkiBC that pitrhapa be baas really injured tbe ana, tbe escort ant tered an that waa meened great equanimity, with fiatifjmf explanation: "Ob, don't apologise; one aad used to Masele Witbeat Mr. J. Williams Thora, Bl now past three and tea, aas been a strict forty-five mostly on whew wheat aad fruits.

Alcoholic liquor and tobacco are never tooehsd, 4 medicine," He still pewistently busy ioing more of tbe hardest farm labor "than any two tab-eating woiken together, young or He twenty miles IB half a day soavenience or fatigue. Aaetber wit- nem in tbe well pummsd per- Mn of Henry L. Rj, who, though jost snteriaj his eighty-third year, is still active principal ia tie Schcol of Wood Carring, aad of fine physique.a wonder to many. is not so rigid as to eschew eggs aad batter, but a main reliance oa trails and vegetables of his owa raking, aad fbod, Bone and says is always ready to give for abstinence from the world's meat aad argue for its advantages. Charles Dudley Warner discovered two years ago in a shop ia a Mrxkaa city, of pottery rfvalHag ia brffliaBcy aad mdesceftce the Gubbio lustres of wrought in Italy tury.

Themethedof Said of Labor the otker day peculiar of one maa, John OTOrhja, a eace weU kaowa ibii nairtir ef city, poratrvely agamet ebsvgeJ, aad. atmagar ing to work rated write me thttT a kindly yaaj me. an ef the year, 4 and don't yea forget deLversd biamit, gathered aa seal himMtt back.