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WILLIAMSPORT, N.DAKOTA. THE ladies of St. Louis make life a burden to the gripmen on the cable cars by punching them in the back with their parasols when they want the cars stopped. PAUPERISM in Great Britain costs the country over ten millions sterling yearly. The statemont is made on the authority of the London Chamber of Commerce Journal.

EX-CONGRESSMAN W. L. Scott sold from his farm in Northampton county last year $85,000 worth of truck. The farm expenses were $63,000, a net profit of $22,000 was made. SOMETHING of the magnitude of the Vanderbilt system of roads is suggested by the fact that there are about 72,000 employes on the New York Central, and over 60,000 on other lines belonging to the system.

CHICAGO has a protective agency for women and children. In the last three years the agency has collected nearly $5,000 of wages due shop girls, seamstresses, domestics and clerks. GREAT BRITIAN has a continuous subsidized line of travel and transportation from Liverpool to China, by means of the Canadian Pacific railway and fleet steamers on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It transpires that the frightful accident on the Old Colony Railway was not an unavoidable occurrence. The train was thrown from the track by a jack-screw which one of the workmen who was engaged in making track repairs failed to remove from between the rails.

A CORRESPONDENT at Carlsbad names two of the most extensive patent medicine manufacturers in the world as among those who are there drinking the waters and taking the cure generally. They concluded to throw their own physic to the dogs. THE total number of stars, ofwhich some knowledge may be obtained by the optical appliances now available, according to Prof. Lockyer, is from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000. Of these only about 6,000 are visible to the naked eye, equally divided between the two hemispheres.

BY covering bullets with vaseline they may be easily seen in their course from the rifle to the target. Their trajectory course is marked by beautiful ring ofsrnoke, caused by a the vaseline being ignited on leaving the muzzle of the gun, the smoke being suspended for some time in the air, if not too windy. ACCORDING to the Allahabad Pioneer, the largest reser vior, or artificial lake, in the world is the great tank of Dhebar, twenty miles southeast of Udaipur, Rnpootana, which covers an area of twenty-one square miles. The masonry dam is 1,000 feet long by 95 feet high, 50 feet wide at the base, and 15 leet at the top. THE dweller on the planet in the year 2,000 will undoubtedly look back on these times with a good deal of the same feeling that we of the present day have for those who lived in the days of the stage-coach and weakly mail it is quite likely that the philosopher of that period will speak of ours as "the good old timeB." GENERAL ALFRED H.

TERRY, U. S. Army, retired, now lives at Hartford, which is his native city, and although but little is heard of him those who knew him as an officer in the army and as a commander of troops in action, and who are aquainted with the history of the war, are aware that few, if any, are deserving of more renown than is Gen. Terry. MRS.

P. A. L. SMITH, ayounglady of Danville, who failed in her efforts to induce the Virginia legislature to pass an act under which she could practice law in that state, has concluded to start a newspaper, and is likely to start in editorially with a piece of her mind about the meanness of the men who prevented her legal aspirations from being satisfied. AMERICA, France, Germany, and Italy have gone so far ahead of England in electrical matters that the British, public, wbother scientific or otherwise, is entirely at a loss to know 'mm what, to believe and what to disbelieve.

It is said that in London to-day there are grave doubts entertained as to the practical qualities of the telephone, many persons of average intellectual attainments and information, regarding it simply as sort of scientific toy. "'P-' THE NEWS DIGEST. Interesting News of the Week Boiled Down and Classified. PEOPLE OF NOTE. The Wisconsin Democrats nominate Qeorgo W.

Peek for governor. Mark U. Dunnell was renominated (or congress by the Itopuplicans of the firet district ol Minnesota on the first ballot, securing 01 votes to 13 for A. D. Qray of Fillmore Six persons were recently bitten by a mad wolf near Moscow.

Three of the victims have since died oT hydrophobia. Tho other throe are under treatment by Pasteur of Paris, and will probably recover. Tim boiler of a locomotive on a freight train on the Now York, Pennsylvania Ohio exploded near Mansfield, Ohio. Engineer Albert Gruliam and Fireman Joseph Murphy were instantly killed and fifteen cars of oil burned. By the mistake of a druggist at Knoxville, John P.

Snith, tho eleven-year-old son of State Superintendent of Public Instruction F. M. Smith, and a boy named Hutchins died from a doso o' morphino, taken for quinine, Wilhelm Schmidt of Bloomer, was found near that place, having been run over by a train at night. He wns still alive, although having laid there all night with one leg smashed to a jelley. He expired the next morning.

The hail stones that fell in recent thunder stormB in Connecticut were extraord inarily large, and cut like flying shot In one tempest along the sound tlie.v were simply lnisliapeii chuncks of ice. They tore corn hito tatters, anil pierced the hide of cattlo so hut blood followed the impact of each ice boll. A farmer named H. A. Smith was killed on his place near Mulvaney, Kansas, by a mad horse.

Smith was tying up the brute when it turned on him, seized him by tho Bhould er ami threw him down. Just then the barn door closed, shutting off all means of escapo, and tho horse viciously attacked the man, biting, pawing and kicking, until Smith seized a ('lull anil with it killed his horse. He was so badly exhausted, however, that he died shortly after being discovered, when he had just strength enough to tell of the fight. While a Wisconsin Centeral engine with a train of ten cars loaded with coal nud eight empties, was engaged in switching on the (locks of the Ohio Coal company at Ashland, it ran off an open switch on to the ties. The dock extends ont into Chequamegon bay for a considerable distance and the ties are rn piles.

Tlio engine ran off the ties and into tho liny, being completely submerged. The engineer and fireman jumped and were not hurt, except the former sustained a slight Bprain of un ankle. Owing to tho break in the dock wrecking trains cannot got at tho wreck and tho engino will probably have to bo taken to pieces to be recovered. Coanty. MINOR ACCIDENTS.

The list of victims of tiie Wilkesbarre (Pa.) cyclone now numbers sixteen. Fire has Bwept the Soukais forest in Algeirs. Two villages were destroyed by the conflagration. A fire broke out at Tokay, Austria, the entcrpot for the noted Tokay wine, and the whole town, with the exception of thirteen houses, was destroyed. William Higgins, a contractor, was partially disemboweled while loading logs on a carat Groundhouse, and will probably die.

An epidemic of disastrous fires has occurred in the frontier towns of Prussian Poland. In all these fires have rendered 150 families homeless. At Sundridge, tho Queen's hotel, together with its contents, wns burned. Two Powers and Herbert Day were burned to death, and two others were badly burned. While Frank Roberts wns hunting for his calves about a mile and a half west of Bancrolt.

Iowa, ho was attacked by a wild and ferocious animal. According to hiB account the animal bore a resemblance to a panther. The animal sprang upon him from a bunch of weeds on the edge of an adjoining slough, clearing ten feet at the first bound, knocking him down and covering his whole face with its enormons mouth, displaying at tho same time a hugli set of blunt yellow teeth. He Buys the animal was about six feet long, having short legs, built heavy in but slim through the flunk. Once he thought the animal hud him down lor.

the last time, but fortunately he caught it by the loner jaw with one hand and by a desperate effort pushed him off and got on his feet again and escaped. WAYS OF THE WICKED. Seven Aldermen of Biddeford, have beeu arrested charged with election frauds in a recent local election. Laura Shrope, fourteen years old, has been arrested at Jersey City, N. and confesses to have robbed her employer of money and jewelry at Des Moines.

Goshen, Sam Wilson, a negro, shot and kilfed Mrs: Mather, a widow, who had refused to marry him. He then shot und fatally woundod himself. Henry Smith, aged twenty-four a five-time murderer, died of consumption in the Alabama penitentiary, where he was awaiting the lesnlt or an appeal from the death sentence. Dr. Bnlinson of Crookston is shot aud killed by Horace Russell at Fisher.

Russell accuses the doctor of criminal intimacy with Mrs. Russell. Near Decatur, William Crawford killed Mrs. Cal Mathies, a married woman with whom hewuB in love, and then cut his throat with a razor. He cannot recover.

Scott Shoemaker, one of the best known men in Westorn Pennsylvania, committed suicideby shooting while talking with a party oi friends at Scranton. It is thought there was a woman in the case. A. C. Delano, the projector of the Octavia Investment, Improvement and Insurance company of St.

Louis, is missing, and it is said number of business men have beon victimized. Ace Madison, a farmor near Bowling Green, shot and killed his sixteen-yeSr-old daughter. He had previously attempted her No causefor the deed is known. He may bo lynched. The burgomuster of Osterwoerck has been convicted of forging an official document and sentenced toafbng term of imprisonment.

For an esteemed linctionnry to be convicted of a crime is so rare in Germany that the incident attracts much attention. Charles S. Rainey, a civil engineer formerly of Pittsburg, is illegally imprisoned in of Chapez, Moxico. Some months ago he had a dispute with some Mexicans and lie, in self-defense, drew a revolver, He has since been in solitary confinement. At a picnic near Wentherlord, Texas, Henry Erwin, the son and main support of a widow, wns set upon by the three druuken Browley brothers and io badly beaten and stabbed that he died the next day.

The murderers escaped. J. C. Schwass, a patient in the Sacred Heart hospital at Spokane Falls, threw himself from a third-story window, and died fifteen minutes later. He entered t.he hospital recently, and apparently his only trouble was a slight attack of fever.

He was rational, and showed no signs of being delirious. During the night when, the night watchman passed through the ward he was sleeping, but seon after they heard the window raise and a moment later beard him fall. Mrn Josephine Qnrley, who abdncted Annie Redmond, at Chicago, for which she was sent to the penitentiary for five yean, now gives the public a confession wherein ahe aaya she stole the child at the bidding of her husband, who, in turn, wishad to farther a vindictive plan of Mrs. Annie Alias, a woman of qnestfonable character. Gurloy isa bigamist, and is now nerving a term in the Wisconsin penitentiary.

Mm. Qnrley says John Redmond, I ho blacksmith, tho father of the child, wns on intimate terms with several women, Including Mrs. Allen. A bill for wines tractml at Alton's house remained unpaid and Mrs. Allen becoming spiteful, planned, with tho aid of Ourley, the little girl's abduction.

FROM FOREIGN SHORES. Russia haspresonted a vessel of 1,300 tons to Montenegro. Cholera spreading in the city ol Toledo, Spain. Thirteen cases and five deaths are reported. Lord Salisbury, replying to the porte's note, says that the timo is not ripe to evacuate Egypt.

The number of coal miners on a strike in the Rorinage district, France, is 10,700, and the movement, is still spreading. The strikers are becoming very disorderly. Despite tho foreign protests on tho subject the anti-Jewish edicts will be promulgated in Russia in October, with a supplement justifying the measure ol repressive severity. The latter is intended to satis foreigu Many cases of ordinary cholera and of low forms of fever aro reported in the districts of Ireland affected by the failure of the potato crop. The medical officer of Clonakilty reports 8,000 cases irt which starvation will occur unless relief spoedily arrives.

A big socialist conspiracy has been unoartlted in Rome. Concealed in thehouses of workingmen the police have found bombs charged with powder and dynamite, as well as republican flags and correspondence of a dangerous character with foreign socialists. The British newspapers ltavo taken advantage of tho passage of the meat inspection bill at Washington to renew the clamor against American beef. Tho new measure is denounced as an unwise and ungracious attempt to Ibrceexports. It is doclaredthnt the inspection provided lor will not bo accepted us satisfactory, and the prediction is mndo that bad results will certainly follow.

The British war ship Buzzard arrived at Halilux from Jamaica with yellow fever on board, having been ordered to Halifax on account of the fever breaking out among the crew. There were nineteen cases on board at one time, and one of the victims died at Port Royal and was buried there. All the others have recovered except five. HERE AND THERE. Mr.

Burlingame, tho Farmers' alliance candidate for attoraey general of Minnesota withdraws. Advices from Samoa state that the consuls at Apia have issued a proclamation in which they wariv.the natives against entering into any intrigues to replace King Mataafa. Tho deputy minister of agriculture of Canada declaros that Asiatic cholera will certainly visit Canada next year. He will establish quaranstine station. Representative Jones, a prominent builder and railroad contractor ol Knoxville, has assigned.

His liabilities are $100,000 and assets $80,0 00. Tho Dulutli Winnipeg Railroad company has a squabble with tlio Indian bureau over tlio question of buildiug its line through the Winnebagoshish reservation. Proprietors of Fall River. (Mass. print mills have signed an agreement not to sell print cloths under 3 5-16 cents during September.

The price advanced rapidly to that point. Robert T. Lincoln, United States minister to Great Britain, emphatically denies the truth of those reports which represent as contemplating the tendering of his resignation. The military maneuvers at Montichinri, Italy, with smokeless powder, were a great success. The of artillery fired half an hour without their presence being discovered.

Advices from the New Hebrides island state that the natives of Amba island massacred the crew of a GermanlaborveBsel. A French war ship subsequently shelled the village on the island. The announcement has been made that Baron Largerfelt, vice president of tho Jefferson Iron works at Stoubonville, Ohio, has iBsued and sold fraudulent stock certificates of the company to the amount of $20,000 or more. The baron was German vice consul at Pittsburg. Dr.

Joel E. Justin made another experiment of firing dynamite shells from a common cannon at Cyracuse N. resulting like a previous cannon, weighing 30,000 pounds, being blown to pieces. Filty people were within twenty yards of the gun, but no one waB injured. The cholera which the farmers of Iowa had hopes would not again infest their hogs, has broken out in the south part of Cerro Gordo county and during past few days William Winter has lost over $1,000 worth.

Those who know say it iB tho genuine cholera, the same which HAB before proved such a loss to the farmers of Northern Iowa. One of the most unique conventions ever held in New York, is now iu session. It was a gathering for mutual benefits and discussion of instructors of deaf mutes, representing seventy-three institutions scattered throughout the country. France, Italy, Spain and other countries were represented by proxy. Inspector General Dumont has received the report of Local Inspectors Knapp aud Yeager, who investigated thecase of the steamer Sea Wing, which capsized in Lake Pepin in July with such fatal results.

After surveying the evidence, they say that they are satisfied that nothing could have been done to save tho steamer after the squall struck her, owing to its sudden aud violent character. Holzhay, the bandit of the Northern woods, made another unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide in the prison at Marquette, Mich. He was found lying in hiB cell in an unconscious condition from loss of blood, he having severed the arteries of his wrist with a sliver of tin, secured from a slop bucket. His scalp and the top of his head was also reduced to a pulp from attempts to dash out his brains on the prison walls. Holzhay now lies in a straight-jacket.

A large negro state convention, with delegates from many counties, met at Raleigh, N. C. and was addressed by the negro leaders of the state. They spoke against the Democrats and demanded recognition by the Republicans. Resolutions were adopted endorsing President Harrison's administration, the Blair bill and the federal elections bill, and protestingagainst local grievances in the state, the jury system, the state election law and demanding more political recognition.

Political Movements. The Republicans of Sonth Dakota have nominated the following ticket: John A. Pickler and John B. Gamble. C.

Mellette. Lieutenunt A. Hoffman. Secretary of 0. Ringsrud.

W. Taylor. Attorney Dollnrd. Superintendent of Public of Schools and Public Thomas H. ltutii.

Commissioner of Labor and A. Smith. The Wisconsin democratic nominees are theBo: George W. Peck, for governor Thomas Cunningham, of Chippewa Falls secretary ol state John Huuner, of Eau Claire, for state treasurer, and J. L.

O'Connor, of Madison, for attorney-general. E. Wells, of Kaukauna, for superintendent of public instruction. Wm. Root, oi Shebaygan, for insurance commissioner by acclamation, and Thomas Thorn psoir, of Eau Claire, for railroad commissioner.

For member of congress, Cnpt W. H. Harries. of Houston county. This is the way the baHot of the democratic voters of the First congressional district of Minnesota will read at the coming election, tbat gentleman having been selected to ran against Mark H.

Dunnell. A Heroic Aot. Chicaso Times: say. old boy, Tom Innealy has disgraced his set. He was fined in a police court yesterday.

tor? Too much wine? be kissed a St. Louis girl. And they lined him? Why, congress ought to Tots him a msdsl for his Efeao aV A HORRIBLE DEATH. A Woman Rushes Into a Burning Building to Rescue Two Girls. The Charred Remains of the Three are Found Lying Together.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. the explosion of a coal oil lamp early this morning at 1504 Germaiitown avenue the building wns set on fire and Mrs. Sarah Mclntyre, sixty years old, Mamie Mclntyre, her ten-yeardaughter, and Sarah Logue, seventeen years old, were burned to death. The police have arrested Cliarle3 Mclntyre, thirty years old, son of the dead woman, on a suspicion of having caused tho lire. A partial investigation into the cause of the lire by tho fire marshal is said to show that Mclntyre came home drunk last nightand upselta lamp in in his bed room.

A citizen called the attention of an officer to smoke and flames which were beginning to pour out of the second story window of the house. The officer at once turned in an aliAn, and then, together with two men named James Heron und James Donahue, broke in the front was followed by a rush of smoke and flame, driving tho officer and two volunteer firemen back. The inmates ol the house had by this time aroused and began to realize tho peril in which they were placed, and all reached the street safely except the two girls. Suddenly Mrs. Mclntyre uttered a terrible cry, and screamed out for some one to save her daughter and niece, who were still in the burning building, and then, before the firemen and spectators realized her purpose, the maddened woman dashed in the smoke and seething flames and started to make her way up the stairs.

For an instani her figure was clearly outlined by the red light ol the fire as she made her way up the stairs, and then, before the horrified crowd could even cry out, a great gust of black smoke enveloped lier and she was seen 110 nrtre. Alter this the firemen soon had the flames under control. When they made their way into the building, the charred und blackened bodies of the two girls and the heroic mother were found lying together at tho head of the stairs. During the progress of the fire Charles Mclntyre disapieared, but he was soon found. The loss on ilie building will amount to several thousand dollars partly insured.

A LUMBER SMASH-UP. Hoxie Miller of Antlgo, Forcod to Slake an Assignment. OSHKOSH, Sept. firm of Hoxie Mellor, one of the most extensive lumber firms in Wisconsin, doing business in Antigo and other localities, failed today. The failure was precipitated by an attachment for $60,000 in favor of the National Bank of Oshkosh.

The ussets are said to be $600,000 the liabilities about $518,000. A meeting of creditors will be held shortly in this city. The failure may affect others and causes widespread interest in Northern Wisconsin. ATTACHED BY THE BANK. ASHLAND, Special Telegram, Sept.

reDort that Hoxie Miller ol Antigo had failed caused considerable excitement here. Everything in Gogebic county belonging to them lias been attached, which includes the large lumber yards in Iron wood and Bessemer and logs and lumber at Sfauncsco. The only person on the ground who knows anything regarding the condition of affairs is O. E. Lewis, manager of yards in Iron wood, and to impart what he he is not well enough posted as yet to speak definitely any further than that the business there and at Bessemer is being conducted under the name of the Oshkosh National whoso interests the attachments were made.

In the event of its being a total collapse the Bank of Ironwood will lose about $8,000, while tho First National bank will lose about $3,000. The feeling prevalent among business men is- that the company are all solid and that no one will be loser. Different causes are assigned for the failure, but as yet no one can tell what the real cause is. BARBAROUS CRUELTY. Cruel i'unlsliwent of a Half-Witted Hoy for 111 Treatment of a Clilld.

EAST LIVEKPOOL, Ohio, Sept. comes from Walkers, a small hamlet situated between this place and Wcllsville, of a case of barbarous cruelty. Elias Glass lives there, and works in the sewer pipe works at that place. His wife works' in the glass factory in this city. Both are absent from home through the day and the house is left in the care of their young children.

The youngest child is about a year old and the oldest is a half-witted boy about fourteen years old. While the parents wero away, as usual, the baby became iretful and its cries so enraged the boy that lie lilted its skirts and placed the little one on a hot stove and held it there until it was burned in a hotrible manner, When the mother returned home in the evening and heard from the other children what had happened, she bared the boy's back and with a stout strap, on the end of which was a buckle, beat him until his back was covered with blood and bruises. Later, when the father returned home and was informed of what had occurred, lie stripped the boy's legs, took a lid Irom the stove and applied it to the bare limbs of the boy in several places, searing liim terribly at every touch. The township authorities hearing of the affair had the parents arrested. INTERNATIONAL, ARBITRATION.

Pan-American Kecommendatlons the Subject of a Letter to Congress. WASHINGTON, Sept. president today transmitted to congress the recommendations of the international American conference touching international arbitration, together with a letter of transmittal from Secretary Blaine. In his letter the secretary says: The act ot congress, approved May 24,1888, authorized the president to invite the several other governments of America to join the United States in a conference "for the purpose of discussing and recommending for adoption some plan of arbitration for the settlement of disagreements and disputes that may hereafter arise between them." The president in his letter says: The ratification of the treaties contemplated by these reports will constitute one of the happiest and most bopeful incidents in the history of the western hemisphere. Controlled by Colored SAH ANTONIO, Sept.

convention met to-day aud after the election of R. B. Hawley temporary chairman, and appointing committee on credentials. adjourned until to-morrow. Tho Cuney or negro faction has gained control of the convention, and a lively time is expected.

Xhe First One In the County. WAUPACA, Special Telegram, Sept. Waupaca County National bank was organized here to-day with a capital of $50,000. The principal stockholders are R. Lea, C.

Churchill, L. D. Moses, N. L. Felson and L.

H. Pelton. It is the first national bank in this county. Swallowed Morphine. CHICAGO, Eddy, a burlesque actress, under engagement with the Bluebeard company, took morphine with suicidal intent last night.

She was in a restaurant with Eddie Toy and two other oi ner acquaintances, and suddenlyswallowed the contents of a a bottle of morphine. A physician was called and by daylight he had bis patient iq a semUconscious condi? tion. She will probably recover. The cause of her attempt at suicide is thought to be a notice she had received from- the manager of the company stating' that her rehearsal work was unsatisfactory and that unless site could do better he would have to cancel the MIZXElt'9 LIFE IN DAXGRR. Irotlowors of Gen.

Ilarrundln Threaten to Kill the United States Minister. CITY op GUATEMALA, Sept. Mizner'8 friends aro urging him to abaudon the city if he would save his life. The followers of Gen. Barrundia threaten to kill him on sight.

Up to the present Mr. Mizner shows no signs of accepting the advice of his fleo the the almost open threats of assassination have badly frightened him, arid the legation is constantly guarded by squads of policemen. OF CONDOLENCE. WASHINGTON, Sept. Secretary Wharton to-day sent the following telegram to the widow of Gen.

Barrundia: The president desires me to say lie has received your telegram announcing tho death of your husbaud, Gen. Barrundia. While deeply with you in your affliction, he uwaits olliciul detail of the occurrence necessary to determine his action in regard thereto. The matter, you may be assured, will receive most careful attention. In the house to-day Mr.

Call offered a resolution, which was re.erred to the committee on foreign relations, declaring that the murder ot Gen. Barrundia on the steamer Acapulco, by the authorities of Guatemala, while under the protection of the flag of the United States, was an insult to the people ot the United Slates, and demanded prompt action by the government of the United States for the redress of tlmt injury, and for security against the recurrence of such cases. BURIED IN TI1IS SAND. An Embankment Cayes in and Causes tlie Death of a Plumber. ST Special Telegram, Sepl.

Ole Gunderson, a plumber employed by C. A. Brooks was buried in an excavation on South Eleventh street early yesterday afternoon, and died shortly after he was unearthed. Gunderson and two other plumbers, one ol whom was his brother, were engaged in making connections on a sewer pipe in front of the residence No. 211 South Eleventh street, when the sand caved iu upon him to a depth of six or eight feet.

The unfortunato man's co-' laborers were so distracted over the occurrence that it was some time before tlicy began the rescue. Several firemen Irom a neighboring fire station assisted in the shoveling. Gunderson was standing up, but the pressure of the sand was sufficient to bend his head over upon his chest. When recovered from the trench he was unconscious. The vigorous efforts of Dr.

C. P. Allen to resuscitate him proved unavailing. Gunderson was about thirty years of age, aud with a wife and child lived at 907 Cedar avenue. The cotoner ordered the remains taken to Glcason Byorum's morgue.

It has not been determined whether an inquest will be held or not. FREAKS OF LIGHTNING. A Man Killed While Working on Straw Stack. DOLAND, S. Special Telegram, Sent.

3. the Riggs farm, sixteen miles south of Doland, while on a straw stack at a threshing machine, Peter Peters 11 was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning from an almost clear sky. The stack was about fifteen feet high. As the bolt struck the stack a flame ascended six feet, und it left a hole from the top to the bottom of the stack the size of a barrel, with sides as smooth as a wall. Peterson was iound dead lying in the stack with his clothing all torn off.

Even a new pair or strong shoes could not be found. The deadly fluid apparently struck the top and back of his head, tore the hair and skin from his head, ran down his body, tore off the skin and left the body bleeding all over, with the flesh torn out iu several places. The clothing ripped off was lying by his side burning. Stranger yet, the straw stack apparently did not burn. The deceased was single.

OVER ITS BANKS. Prague Inundated, Causing Loss of Life aud Proporty. PKAGUE, Sept. of cannon at 1 o'clock this morning announced to tlio inhal itants of this city that there wai an alarming rise in the Moldau river, whioh flows through Prague. The waters of the swollen river bore along fragments of household furniture and wreckage of all kinds.

At 6 o'clock this morning the inhabitants of the lower town were ordered to quit their houses by the military. During the day the floating baths were destroyed. A pontoon oil which were tliirty-fivo pioneers, two commissioned officers and corporal was capsized, and only the officers and six other men were saved from the drowning. All the houses at Brdweis, which is also on the Moldau, are flooded. Hundreds of boats are in use.

Perlslied in the Flames. NEW YOEK, Sept. premises extending from 227 to 231 East Fifty-sixth street were destroyed by fire to-day. lower part of the the building was occupied by T. Hagman.

Tlie men employed by him had entered the cellar and were about to sound tho whistle lor the men to go to work, when an explosion occurred in the back part of the cellar. The men who were in the collar at the time fled for their lives, but one of them, about seventeen years old, named Daniel Hillian, perished in the Well Cooked Groceries. irt.s.'"?'r..s broke out to-day in the Wallabout market building ou the outskirts of the Brooklyn navy yard, in Peter Young's bagging shop, which was filled with inflammable in an unconscious condition, men were slightly injured. Four fire- Over Two Blocks Burned. HIAWATIIA, Sept.

which started in a livery stable early this morning, destroyed two and one-halt blocks in the busiiiess center of the city Aniong the buildings destroyed were the con- Tlie loss is Dealt Death and Destruction. ABERDEEN, S. Special Telegram, Sept. Ludden, north of this city, Henry Moscheiu, a farmer, was instantly killed by lightning while working in a barn, which burned to the ground. He has no relative? in this country.

Struck by Jove's Bolt. Societies of Vice. LONDON, scandal recently unearthed in Wurtemburg grows more seri otis as further developments are made. The police have verified the cxistecice of numerous societies formed for the purpose of mutual indulgence in all forms of the grossest vice. Hundreds of arrests have been made, and public feeling at Stuttgart is greatly excited.

The king refused to stifle the investigation, despite the great pressure brought to bear upon him oy the friends of the accused. The Fall Was Fatal. FKAZEECITY, Special Barr, age sixty-eight, lather of Barr merchants of this place, died from tho effects qf frojp a CONGRESSIONAL. Besnme of the Proceedings of Congress Daring the Past Week. SENATE.

Mr Davis of Minnesota, made a speech upon the tariff and reciprocity. The resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Plumb, instructing the committee on rules to issue such orders as will wholly prevent the sale of spiritnonB, vinous and malt liquors in the senate wing of the capitol, was taken up. discussed and referred to its committee on rules. HOUSE.

There was a light with bare knuckles on the floor of the house. Two or three congressmen called each other liars, and applied other epithets to each other. Wilson of Washington and Beck with of New Jersey were the combatantB, while Cannon and Mason ot Illinois, Williams of Ohio and Lehlback of Now Jersey were "in in." It cams during the height of the filibustering on the compound lard bill. Beckwifh tookexception to a remark rande by Mr. Wilson and called the Washington congressman a vile name.

Wilson resented this with a blow. Beckwith struck at Wilson, bnt did not reach him. Williams ol Ohio tried to draw Beckwith away and Beckwith turned to scrap with him. Then the deputy brought tho maces from their places above the desk, and before the rods and the eagle the fight stopped. It was several minutes before order was restored.

SENATE. The tariff bill was taken up. Mr. Aldrich, from the finance committee, gave notice of two amendments he would offer to the bill, andwhich were read for information. Oneol them is a reciprocity amendment.

Senator Davis introduced an amendment lo the tariff bill providing that binding twine manufactured in whole or in part from Islo of Tampico fiber, jute, jute butts, mnnilla, sisal grass or sunn, Bhall be admitted free of duty. HOUSE. Tho decision of the speaker as to the Inrd bill was sustained (130 to 36 and the ill was passed (126 to 31 the clerk counting a quorum. After further personal explanations in regard to the Cannon resolution directed against the filibusterers, the eighthour law claim bill was taken up and discussed to the end of the morning hour. A bill to constitute the hour of a day's work for laborers and mechanics on government work was amended and passed.

SEN-ATE. The tariff bill was again taken up. Several amendments to the liquor schedule were adopted, some increasing and others reducing tho duty. Schedules relating to cotton manufactures and flax and hemp were pussed over informally, and the wool schedu'e was taken up. Mr.

Carlisle moved to plare wool on the free list, but the senate adjourned without action after a dobate between Messrs. Carlisle, Sherman, Aldrich and Mr. Edmunds introduced a concurrent resolution, which went over lor the present that when the two houses adjourn Kept. 19 he to meet Nov. 10.

Mr. Illair presented a memorial of th Women's National Industrial league for th luppression and punishment ot the "arine issnsHins known as tho Pinkerton dotcc HOUSE. The omnibus Southern war claims bill, jarrying about £530,000, was passed by the house. The day was devoted to work in of the whole. SENATE.

The tariff bill was taken up, ihe pending luestiou being on Mr. Carlisle's motion to ilrike out the wool paragraphs, so as to place wool on the list. A long debate and ceased only at the request of Mr. Aldrich. who said that if every amendment was discussed at so great a length tome of the most important questions prelented in the hill oould not bo discussed at ill.

Mr. Carlisle's motion was strict party vote, although Mr. Payne, if present, would have, Mr. Sherman mid, voted in the negative. HOUSE.

The bill making eight hours a day's work in government work and contracts, tho bill to amend the alien labor law, the bill prohibiting the employment ol convicts oil public works and the bill prohibiting the purchase of convict-made material by the United States were passed. The HOUBO committee on Indian affairs unanimously reported in tnvor of thejolnt resolution ratyfyingt-he leases ol coal claims made by Choctaw citizens to. the Chockraw and Railway company, finding them to bo made in accordance to law and valid. SENATE. The tariff bill was takea up, the question being ou wool and woolen yarns, to which the finance committee had reported an amendment increasing the duty from twice to two and one-lmll times the duty imposed upon unwashed wool of the first class.

After a long discussion the committee's amendment was ugreed to 18. Several The otluT committee amendments wero agreed to, and tho wool schedule was completed, HOU8B. After a week's steady work the conferrees on the river and harbor bill have reached un agreement nnd signed their report. The changes made in the bill by tho senate were generally ugreed to, but. in numerous cases the appropriation was reduced.

flames. John Logan, another workman, criminal jurisdiction of circuit and district was badly burned about the head and courts to the great lakes and their connejtlimbs. Loss, $40,000 fully insured. ing waters. As tho river and harbor bill passed the The senate hill was passed extending the the Appropriated $19,648,445 as SENATE.

The tariff bill was taken up in the senate and the sugar schedule was considered. Mr, Carlisle gave notice that he would move to ferial and spread to the yards of Frederick Btriko out all tho paragraphs relative to BUTielme and from there to Yon Glahn gar bounties. wholesale grocery store and three lit- A bill WOB introduced by SenatnrCoke protie wooden structures. "They were entirely viding that hereafter no national bank shall consumed by the flames. The losses will issno circulating aud that witliia six aggregate nearly $200,000 of which Von months each national bank shall deposit Glahn Co.

lose from $150,000 to $175,000 money with the United States treasurer or insurance, $90,000. Patrick Doran, who the redemption of its circulating notes. The lived in the Young building, was rescued bonds now deposited this purpose shall be returned. United States legul tender notes shall be isBued in place of bank notes. Authority is given national banks to loan money on real estate, HOUSE.

The speaker announced the appointment of Mr. i'liek of Iowa as a member of tlie First National The select committee appointed to investi- bank building, the Odd Fellows' building, goto the accounts the Bergeant-nt-armsof tho Kentucky hotel aiid a number of stores the house has made a report favoriag a biN and livery stables. The vaftlt in the bank constituting the sergeaat-at-arms a disbarsbuilding, containing $50,000 in currency ing officer of the government. and many valuable books and papers, gave way under the intense heat, and its tents were entirely destroyed. estimated at $150,000.

Laziness Don't The sun never stops in his course. Light is constantly streaming over the earth, "in tlie great Workshop of the universe nature is ever bnsy with those processes which are to robe the earth with her carpet of green and fill the air with odors of flowers Without activity there would soon be trouble and death. In life, too, one secret ot success is found in activity. "Not a day Without a line" was a motto of a great of the grandest men our civilization has known Eight times did tho greatest of Grecian orators copy the history of Thucydides to HENBY, S. Special Telegram, Sept.

3. perfect himself that great master's style. -John Currie, a single man twenty-five, lai4 tlie foundation of his greatyears old, farmer living twelve milei north oflienrv, was killed by lightning at the residence of C. M. Ell wood during a severe electric and rain storm.

ness by using the little bits of leisure time which he could save at dinner hours and svemngs wlnie working qs a printer's bov. Kirk White learned Greek as he walked from "is lodgings to the lawyer's ofiiw where he was employed as a Pennsylvania's greatest astronomer learned to calcific eplipses hy using the bits or time when, as a plow boy, his liorses rested by figuring out his problems on his plow handles. Elihn Burritt achieved wondeif fields of learning by gathering HP bite of knowledge as he stood by hiB lore' with an open book before liim, while lie rested from severe bodily "The French have a proverb which savs, "Step fay step one goes very far." In our tongue we haVe a sayirg "Constant dripping will wear away a stone." Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton declared: ''What men wain is not talent, but purpose not power achieve, but the will to labor." Boys, do von sea the moral? It's work Uutt tSls. Whether with the hands oi A Generation on fne March. London Wit and Wisdom.

A generation on the march from the cradle to the grave is an instructive spectacle, and we have it carefully presented to us in a report of Dr. Farr. us trace tlie physical fortunes which any million of us may reasonably expect. The number to begin with is made up of boys and a dispropor- tion which, by-anu-by, will be reduced by the undue morality of tho boys and will be reversed before the close of this strange eventful history. More than a quarter of thesechildren will die before they are five years old exact numbers 14:1,387 boys and 121,795 girls.

The two Bexes are now nearly on a level. The next live years will be much less fatal. In the succeeding five ten to morality will be still. further reduced. Indeed, for both sexes, this is the most healthy period of life the death rate, however, is lower for boys than girls.

There will be some advance in the deaths in the next five years, and still more in the five that follow, but 634,045 will certainly enter on their twenty-sixth' year. Before the next ten years are at an end two-thirds the women will have married. The deaths during that period will be 62.052 andol these no fewer than will be caused by consumption. Between thirty-five and forty-five a still larger "death-toll" will be paid and little more than half the origimal bandin exactnumbers, enter on their forty-sixth year. Each succeeding decade, up to seventy-five, will now become more fatal, and the numbers will shrink terribly.

At seventy-five only 161,124 will remain to be struck down, and of these 128,559 will have perished by. the must become still more limited as enlightenment goes on. As a method fox producing oblivion from pain ex-J pects to find it further limited in-application to short seasons of special, social or meteorological cast and il it falls the influence of suggestion will fall with it. A Dead Elephant. From the London Times.

The recent Indian papers describe the difficulty attending the disposal of the body of an elephant at Nowaree, in Baroda, which, illustrates the Indian saying that an elephant must be buried where it dies. It pears that a tame elephant, which had been kept at Nowsa ree for many-years past, died. The news was at once telegraphed to Baroda, and sanction for expenses incidental ta the burial ofthe animal was obtained. The local authorities then held a council as to how the remains should be removed to a distant part of tha town, where they could be interred without endangering the health oi the inhabitants. It wns suggested that the dead body should be cut up into pieces, which might then be re.

moved and disposed of, but this idea was rejected. It was then resolved to drag the remains out of the town, and with that object to pull dowu one of the walls within which the animal had been confined: Hundreds of coolies were pressed in to the service, and a number of carpenters, ironsmiths and other artisans were engaged to construct a huge car on wheels to convey the dead animal. But the body, which weighed several tons, could not be lifted, much less removed, from the place where it was. Various attempts were made for three days, but they failed one after the other. When the authorities saw that they were baffled in all their en-, deavors to move the body, they resolved to adopt the suggestion made at the outset, and eventually caused it to be cut into pieces, which were then buried at a short distance from, the place.

When the body was submitted to the operation it emitted such repulsive odors that Banee Jumnabai, the adoptive mother or the Gaekwar, who lived in the neighborhood, had to move into another bungalow. To Suit the Room. "NowI'llshow you over the said a friend to me the other day. She had moved into a South Side residence, whose numerous bay windows gave one the impression of a roomy interior, when in fact the reverse is' true, says a writer in the Chicago News. She had made manylmprovements, and was anxious to see what a good housekeeper she was.

On the third floor she threw open a door disclosing an apartment about the size of a hatliroom in the average flat, and in which she stored her trunks, valises, etc. "This," said she, "was the room occupied by the former ten ants maid-ofall-work." "Was there a hole sawed in the partifon through which to extend her Feet? I inquired, as the story related by Btocktou through my not Emergencies are met in better fashion in Chicago. Instead oi makingtheroom fit the girl as Stockton did, the girljs selected to fit the room. The lady who formerly resided here told me that she had a small mark on the parlor door, and in choosing her help, if the applicantcame up to the mark, she got the position, but if beyond it she had to: go, no matter how superior her qual-: locations were." Probably during worlds fair time advertisements for help will contain eome such clause as "Do not apply il over 4 feet 8 inches in height." Wonders 5 Beneath the Workmen engaged in sinking an: artesian well in Sandy Valley, near Niria, N. struck an open which a cold stream of air rushed with force enough to remove a twelve pound tock laiaover the opening.

The air was charged with mill-: ions of small yellow bugs, having but two legs, no' wings aUd a small red circle on his back. They lived but a few seconds after striking the warm outside air. Loeul scien- nla Republic. 1 tu i-' 'i-v 4v v. Jigs uzm JL.