Franklin County Tribune from Union, Missouri • Page 2

YELLOW FEVER. TEIIKIFIC EXPLOSION. MLIN COUNTY TEIBONE. YELLOW FEVER SCARE. No Other Cases Have Developed in New Orleans.

SEPTEMBER 1897. The IIROWN CALKINS, Publisher. One Hundred and Twenty Quarts of Nitro-Glycorum, Pest Prevailing et Ooo an Springs, Miss. Sat Wed. Fri.

Tue. UNION. MISSOURI. 1 Confidence Felt (hut There Will he No Fp Idem I Ocean Spring In the llamlii of Com itt MtMi Kxpcrts Onlrreil There. Kiiu.li...,! In Shooilng a New Well, Explode, a Kricre supply on the Surface, hlvh kills a LarKf uutHer of Men and Ie-luollfltet Klght Houses.

A Klgld Ouarantlne Kstahliaheil Train Ordered Not to top at Hlloxl or Oreau Springs Houses of Keturiitug Tourlsta Ortiered umigated. 8 10 17 Sun. Won. i 12 J3 17 20 1 26 27 14 15 16 The conference of labor leaders at St. Louis adjourned without ordering a wholesale sympathetic strike in behalf of the striking coal miners.

They probably took counsel of prudence for once. Mrs. HETTy Grf.k.n says thatshe will not invest in any of the Klondike companies, and expresses the belief that far-seeing investors can find more gold in the t'nited States than in anv Alas- 24 Cyuskt. Sept. S.

A terrible plosion of nitro-giyeeriue occurred here yesterday afternoon at three j'ciock, which resulted iu the death of ix people whose na'nes are known 21 28 22123 2930 On the 5th an iron-ore train on Mis Pittsburgh Western was wrecked two miles east of Ravenna. O. Brake-man Hawley A- Thomas, of Ravenna, was instantly killed; Michael Seibo, a tramp, was fatally injured, and several other tramps were badly, but not fatally, injured. On the 5th Miss Millie Comstock, a rmisic teacher of Owosso, died from the effects of burns. She placed a blanket saturated with oil around herself and set tire to it.

She had been in poor health for some time, and preparations were being made to remove her to the I'ontiac asylum. Mis Morkii.i., aged 22, of East Cambridge, while riding a bicycle, on the 6th. fell into an excavation and was killed." the 6th Harry C. Albaugh. who was a clerk in the Second national bank of Altoona.

when it was looted by Cashier Gardner three years ago, and who was arrested at the time for having changed figures in his books at the cashier's dictation, lommitted buieide by shooting. Th's is the second suicide as the result of the failure of this bank. Van region. TOPICS OF THE DAY. It la said that the original Monitor, which went to the bottom in a storm off Hatteras, could be raised for NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

nd others at present unknown, The explosion occurred at tirant "ell. located at the rear of the National Suppiy oflieo building iu the village limits. This well had just been shot by auiuel Barber, the slioott-i- the iiio and Indiaua Tor-j o. The well was a gasser, and i hen the Vi-j quarts of glycerine let jiowu iuto the exploded, the gas I and ith a terrilic roar the 000. The fact that her achievements revolutionized the navies of the world would make her a peculiarly valuable relic.

The army of gold hunters on the way lames stiol liigu atiore tue iler i k. to the Klondike gold fields, after an experience in attempting to get through the White and Chileoot passes can be As soon as tne dri.ler.isaw the flames several climbed into the derrick toshut jif the gas, but they had hardly got- depended upon, in any future move ment for good roads, to earnestly advo cate any and every measure in that di rection. Tub suggested triple alliance be tween France, Russia and the T'nited ten there when there was a terrific ex- plosion. The burning gas had started I the remaining glycerine iu the empty slatiiiiug in a wagon near the In another wagon near by were some cans containing l'-'J quarts the stuff, and this was started by I the force of thi- first explosion. MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

W. J. Brt ast will speak at the Farn-Ington fair September 16. Ex-State Auditor Walker died at Fayette recently, aged 73. IJi RCiLABS blew open the post office safe at Whitehide and secured S119.

At a sale of shorthorn cattle near Fayette 34 head of cows brought 52,730. Sri'Kiocs bilver dollars, halves and quarters are circulating at Webb City. Congressman' Jerky Simpson, of Kansas, will speak at Sedalia September li. J. W.

Kiel, a pioneer jeweler of Clinton, killed himself because of poor health. Carrolltox people are elated over the completion of their electric street railway. The wholesale millinery house of W. Hollister, at Sedalia, was closed by creditors. Boone county will erect a new poor farm house upon modern and sanitary principles.

Fred Ji-dy, aged 12, was accidentally and fatally shot while out hunting near Clinton. Mrs. William Myers, living near Milan, died from the sting of a honey bee on her forehead. A covnty fair devoted wholly to exhibits by negroes will be held at Sedalia September 23-25. Glasgow voted almost unanimously in favor of establishing a 56,000 electric light plant in the town.

Rev. E. F. Trefz, a Lutheran preacher, succeeds Maj. Bittinger as editor of the St.

Joseph Herald. Henry P. Robbins, of Winfield. will resurrect the defunct Mexico Tribune and run a republican paper. St.

Charles is to have an asylum for epileptics. There are only three similar institutions in the United States. Hot and dry weather practically ruined vegetation and late corn and peaches in the vicinity of Webb City. Editor Wright, of the Republican, was recently married at Fayette to Miss Lizzie Sirkey, of Marshall. Soi thern Methodists at Boonville recently dedicated one of the handsomest church edifices in north Missouri.

Dr. McGee, of New London, produces a peach from his orchard that weighs 12.Vf ounces and is 1 1 1 a inches around. The first annual encampment of the United Confederate Veterans of Missouri will be held at Mob -rlv September 2-SO. The hlst annual session of the Missouri M. E.

conference (south) was held at Albany last week. Bishop Fitzgerald presiding. The thrashing machine men are finding fault with the law which compels them to lay plank at every bridge they have to cross. W. H.

Coooeshal, a merchant of Joplin, was arrested at F'ort Scott, states would be a mighty good thing for France and Russia, but Fncle Sam's most advantageous attitude to wards Kuropean countries is that of a "provider' in war times, not of a fight ing partner. It strikes the New York Observer that the new automatic contribution box may not be the success anticipated LATEST FROM CUBA. Iaaiargent Attack I'pon Fort Santo Crlsto-bel Valle Ftvas Deaths from Kplalcuilc -The Ilutrher Wejler Dlsgust-ed An Order I'rolnhltlue the I'lantlnR of Tobacco Final Instructions Regarding the F.stablUhiiient of the Tariff. Havana, via Key West, Sept. 5.

A wealthy merchaut natueal Bias Casares has been arrested in Puerto Principe, charged with political offenses. A party of insurgents recently made au attack upon Fort Santo Cristobel Vaile. near Sabol, in the province of Piuar del Kio. The garrisaiu a stout resistance, but the insurgents set tire to a house near the walls of the firt, which took tire, compelling the garrison to retire with the loss of kix men il leal. Two brothers named l'ortillo made a stan.l bchiul a tree aual were reinforced by a number of their comrades.

After sharp lighting the iusurgeuts were driven off with the loss of four killed ami six wounded. It is reported that a group of iusurgeuts uttacked and entered the town of Jane Ouayabo, near Remedios, where they sacked several stares and burned a number of iuuses. It is also reported that the iusurgeuts have tired upon iuira Melena. in Havana province. During the month of August persons alied iu (tuinas from epidemic diseases.

The mortality is due to yellow fever, malaria ami dysentery. It is estimated that autt of every I.o.m sick toldicrs in the hospitals throughout, the province die. Many deaths occur on steamers en route to Spaiu. The bodies of those wln die en route are thrown overboard. Three deaths occurred on one of these steamers recently before she left port.

apt. Hen. Weyler returned to Havana greatiy disgusted because of the. erroneous interpretation of his edict referring to the gathering of cattle, large, numbers of oxen anal cows having been slaughtered iu consequence of the misunderstanding of his orders. During hh recent tour lien.

Weyler deposeal the mayors of several t.jwus and sent several military commanders ta Cabanas castle. At liuinas and other towns he caused the release from custody of a number of merchants and reeoucentrailajs who had been falsely accused. Weyler has issued an order prohibiting the planting of ti-bacco within the boundaries of the military cultivated zone. Seven huudred members from municipal tire brigades have returned to Havana from the Majana trocha. Many of them were ill ami all were disgusteal.

An attaa-k was made recently by insurgents upon Fort Tursuia, province of Santiago de Cuba, with no other re-bult than to cause great alarm among the residents. The last Spanish mail steamer brought final instructions ta the authorities regarding- the establishment of the tariff, tireat anxiety is felt iimong all classes as to whether the alterations in the tariffs will end the ruinous losses Vj the revenues of Uie island resulting from the protection granted to merchandise importe.I from Spaiu. Customs receipts on rice ami corn for the four months from March to June inclusive were less than those for the corresponding period last year. The insurgent general, Castillo, with his command has crossed the line int'i the province of l'iiuir ilel Rio. He was defeated according to last aivices.

Nestor Ranrague accompanied lien. Castillo, anal Raul Arago remains iu charge of the insurgent forces in the Havana province. I he second was bleudeil with the lirst in a mighty roar, and the towu md surrounding a-ountry for miles Lrciubled from the shock. The Na-liajual Supply buililing as completely demolished, and notnuig re-nains but a big hole where the wagons stood. There is not a whole paue of glass iu the town, and every house and store shaken to its foundations.

There because it will not be combined with "the expectant attitude of a live deacon at the other end of the handle." It is by no means certain that the personal magnetism referred-to can be spared. It is estimated by a well-known St. touis druggist that at least 2.0U0 ounces of cocaine are consumed in the Sew Orleans, Sept. 7. President Olliphaut of the Louis'aua board of health sent a telegram to that board here at ten o'clock yesterday continuing the report that the physicians at Ocean Springs had declared the pro-vailing sickness undoubtedly yellow" fever.

The doctors of three states came to this conclusion after holding an autopsy on the body of a person who jied Sunday. Couriers are now skirmishing around the city for sullieient members to make up a ijuorum of the state board of health, iu order to declare uarantine against Ocean Springs, hich is about 100 miles from this city. Rigid precautious will be taken absolutely to isolate the Springs, and it is confidently hoped here by leading physicians that the precautions will be successful iu keeping the disease from spreading in this place. A case in point is that of Biiosi, several years ago. when there was au epidemic of yellow fever.

Biloxi is closer to New than Ocean Springs, but the medical men were successful in conliuiug the sickness to that city. There is little or no alarm here, but sojourners on the coast are returniug to the city. The result of the nuarautine will probably be the taking otf of the excursion and regular trains which run between New Orleans and Ocean Springs, and which touch at the various resorts along the Mississippi sound. The fever has been prevalent at Ocean Springs for some time. Two weeks ago, after a careful investigation, the Louisiana authorities declared the disease to le dengue, which it probably was at the time, tiie disease being mild and the death, rate tritliug.

During the past week, however, the disease has become more violent, and has probably developed into yellow jack. Will (Juaraiitlne. Against liiloxl and Ocena NpritiKS. The state board of health has decided to enforce a rigid iiaraiitiue against Riloi and Ocean Springs. Quarantine uiil also be enforced against the other watering places on the gulf coast until President oiii-phant returns and more light is obtained on the situation.

Ouards are to be put on the trains, and at stations all baggage is to be fumigated and every precaution to be taken to keep the disease out of the city. The Louisville Nashville trains have been ordered uot to stop at cither Biloxi ir Springs. The houses of ail people who have returned to New Orleans in the past two days are to be thoroughly fumigated. I'liauiiiioiiH Opinion of Three Stute Hoards. Jackson.

Sept. 7. linv. Mc-Laurill has just received the following telegram from the of the state board of health who went to Oeeiiu Springs. Sunday, to investigate the yellow fever scar-: yt ei i i f-1 1 1 it is ht- unaii mi-.

ni. the th- Louisiaua. tti I i.itis vf ami the murine vrvire tliut, lUe fever now prevaiiiii Springs is yeilovr fever. ISii-'iieiLJ 11. U.

UAilllA.vsua. J. F. IlCNTtlL city of St. Louis every week.

Ninety nine per cent, is purchased by people who are addicted to the terrible habit. No Other Cases Keporteal at New Orleans New Om.f.ans, Sept. S. It was considerably after midnight when th board of health office was closed for a few hours, and the tireal physicians went home to snatch a few lmurs of rest. I'p to that time, although the widest publicity had been given to the tielpi case, ami the desire of the baiaral was known that every suspicious case should promptly reported, no news was received at the otliee til U-atl to the belief that there exists a single case of yellow fever iu vv Orleans.

Dr. 11. A. Haul, of Water Valley, of the state Loan! of health, has taken charge of the situation at Ocean Springs, and will spare neither pains nor money in an effort to stamp out the fever. He is of the opinion that, ith care ami goo.l management, this can be done in a few days.

All haiuses where fever has been, or may be, will be thoroughly laa dvOal after, ami the sick will be isolated. The board has put out disinfectants in all the principal streets, and the towu will be strewn with lye from one end to the other. The popular excitement has quieted down considerably. Things are, in fact, better now that it is known that there has been only one new casa' re-pairtcal in the past Jl hours, anal thero are but three snspiciaius cases among the fever patients iu town. The other cases are doing well.

The duration of the fever is only from 24 to 4S hours, and some of the parents do not take to their leds at all fra the disease. The Louisiana state board of health has a reconl of all people who have come from Ocean Springs in the last few alays. anal is giving attention ta all of them. Kiperts Oralered to Ocean Springs. Washington.

Sapt. P. In addition to Dr. liuiteras. Doctors Murray and Carter, all yellow fever experts have, been oralered by the marine hospital authorities to the scene of the epidemic at Ocean Springs.

The following oralcr was telegraphed to Passed Assistant Surgeon Wasaiin at Mobile: "I'ntil a cordon is established, have our gents sell tickets only to northern points, north of Washington or points in mountainous districts, and keep record of all who leave, with points of their destination, and notify the local authorities. Arrange for cordon, employ necessary help anal turn matters over to Dr. Murray on his arrival and report to him for duty." The treasury department has procured tents from the war department for use at the permanent yellow fever detention camp which has been established at Waynesboro, (la. Three are no fever patients there, but the camp has been established as a precautionary measure. The officials at the surgeain-general's office are aiuite anxious that Dr.

tiuiteras should be on the ground as soon as possible, as they think so much of his opinion iu yellow-fever cases as to be guided entirely by it in their action. So far their advices are confirmatory of the press reports that the epidemic is of the nature of yellow fever. Still, it is evident that even yet they are not entirely convinced of the correctness of the reports as received, and there is a strong inclination to doubt their accuracy. They say that if the disease is yellow fever, it is very strange that out of Con cases there shoulal have only been iteaths. he remaining one per cent, is all that is prescribed by the physicians in the awful excitement, and all the re- naiuing population of the town rushed the spot.

Who the men are who were in the lerrick, and who were killed, cannot be learned now. owiug to the excite- i men I. The damage to the Ohio Oil Co. will amount to iu. Light buildings are a total wreck and many others dam- uged.

The town has a population ol about 1 Many bystanders wer- i usual course. A new law which has just gone into 1K1MIM1. AMI OLITItAL. On the mortiing of the 2d .1. 15.

dorin, one of the oldest anil best-known citizens of Decatur, 111., was found dead in bed. He retired in fairly good health. Mr. Goriu was almost SO years old. He was grand master of the grand lodge of Illinois in l-i7 and l5tjs, being the oldest past grand master in the masonic order.

John au ex-sheriff of Milw aukee county. and who at various times has held responsible political positions in Milwaukee, has been sentenced to six months at the county farm for vagrancy. Overindulgence in liquor is said to have been the cause of his downfall. The commission appointed to examine as to the mental condition of ex-Mayor Lock wood, of Gleuwood, reported him insane, and recommended that he be sent to un asylum. Mrs.

Ki.izabktii 1'iioekk Kf.v only survivingdaughter of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star Spangled Ranner," is seriously ill at Oakland, Md. She is nearly 94, and recently suffered a stroke of paralysis. John C. Woods, superintendent of mails at the Louisville Ky. post office, has brought suit against I'ostmaster-General Gary and the post office department authorities to prevent them from removing him from the service.

The case probably will be a test of the power to remove a government official embraced within the civil-service rules. On the 2d Weyler received from Spain in silver, to bo used in defraying the expenses of the war in Cuba. The election for president of the republic of Venezuela was held on the 2d. Owing to the great popularity of Gen. Ignacio Andrade, the liberal candidate.

Dr. Raijas i'au! and lieu. Hernandez, who were running in the interests of the conservative and progressive conservative parties, respectively, retired from the contest. In the course of an interview on the subject of President Faure's recent visit to St. Petersburg, Prince Itismarck is quoted as saying: "Hut for all that, the French people are moved nearer to the fire and might more easily than ever boil over.

This ought to deliver our rulers from any illusion they may still cherish, ami should serve to warn them against altering the basis of our national defense." On the 4th the hearing of the application of John G. Woods at Washington for an injunction to prevent His reduction from superintendent of mails at Louisville, to a clerkship in the railway mail service, was postponed until the 11th. H. Ci.at Evans, the commissioner of of pensions, is ill at his hotel in Washington city. He has been under a great strain for almost a year.

On the 5th a formal declaration was made by the Vatican that the statement that Cardinal Satolli had been designated by the pope to succeed Cardinal Ledochowski us prefect of the propaganda was pure fiction. It was also declared that Cardinal Lcdockow-ski had no idea of leaving his post. On the 5th Lieut. G. Diby Itarkner, effect in New York provides a tine of S't against any one, not au employe of Uie post nllice department, who de posits advertising matter in the letter boxes of a Hat or apartment house.

It WEATHER BUREAU seems that no room was left in the boxes for letters after the circular fiend got through with his work. I to September I the striking had lost, according to estimate, Sl-V ioO.OUO in wages; the mine owners had lost in profits: the railroads had lost about in freight charges; the coal companies' stores MISt EI.LANFOIS. The United States consul at Odessa, Russia, reports to the state department that the wheat crop this year in Russia is a poor one. The yield iu many places will not be more than four bushels to the acre. The post office department is availing itself of every satisfactory opportunity to dispatch mails to the various points in Alaska.

In accordance with this policy. Assistant Postmaster-General Shallenberger, on the "3d. wired authority for forwarding mails on the steamer Farrellon. sailing that day from Seattle for Dyea and intermediate points. On the ltith, 17th and l-sth the National Fremont association will hold a reunion in Pittsburgh, Pa.

The occasion will be a memorial to Gen. John C. Fremont, the first candidate for president on the republican ticket, after whom the association has been named. On the 3d the United States subtreas-ury transferred Si oo. ooo in small bills to Kansas City, for which it received gold in exchange, and Sl.vooo iu silver dollars to Texas and Alabama.

Hankers also report heavy shipments of currency direct to the west and southwest by registered mail and otherwise, but uot much to the south. Rifa at Rev, until recently councilor of the Turkish embassy in London, has been appointed Turkish minister at Washington, to succeed Mustapha Tachsin Itey. On the 6th the biennial convention of the subbidary high court of the Ancient Order of Foresters convened in Cleveland, O. The most important business before the convention was a proposal to add an insurance feature to the order, which it was believed would be done. A disi atih from Pittsburgh, dated the 5th, said: "Expectations are high in coal mining circles over the probable resumption of work in all the mines throughout the country." A hisi-atcii from Havana dated the 5th said: the month of August 500 persons died in Guinas from epidemic diseases.

The mortality is due to yellow fever, malaria and. dysentery. Many deaths occur on steamers en route to Spain. The bodies of those who die eu route are thrown overboard. Three deaths occurred on one of these steamers receutly before she left port." A si-EiiAi, commission will meet in St.

Petersburg at an early day to discuss the introduction of universal and compulsory education in Russia. Jatoii Wilson, aged 52, who arrived iu California, last March, as a tramp, and applied for work in Tulare county for his board, has received word that the United States supreme court has decided in his favor a suit that will give him a good portion of a estate, left by his father who disinherited him. A London dispatch on the 6th said: "The sultan has been indirect communication with the czar, and that the correspondence has resulted in the making of mutual arrangements by which the sultan agrees never to use his inllucnce. against Russia in central Asia, and the czar pledges himself to uphold Turkish rights in, Europe." This year's Egyptian cotton crop has yielded 5,900.000 castors I a bout pounds), double that of a decade ago, anil 1,000,000 in value beyond that of ls.96. The Loudon Daily Chronicle's Berlin correspondent telegraphed on the 6th: "Fearful storms have occurred iu western Silesia, and the rivers are rapidly rising and threatening fresh inundations.

Several persons have been killed lightning, and a number of farm houses have been burned. lost sales of worth of goods. and the public has lost Ss.000,000 in in creased cost of coal in two mouths. Minister Woodford, who has ar-ived at his post in Spain, is instructed i charged with the theft of a fine horse which he was driving. I The old soldiers of the Pomme de Terre held a big reunion at Dadeville recently.

An effort will be made to purchase permanent reunion grounds. Miss Annie Glass, a midget, died near Sedalia, aged 41. She was only 35 inches tall, but remarkably bright, nnd refused many offers to go on exhibition. Mrs. Jonh Kchkkck, of St.

Joseph, i driven to desperation by domestic un-; happiness, hung herself in the attic of i her home, but was found in time to save her. i Eighteen convicts in the Missouri I penitentiary are serving life sentences. Nineteen have 99-year sentences hang io offer the friendly mediation of the 1 mtcd States in bringing the war in i i i i i una lospeeuy ciose. rMiouia re ject his overtures, it is believed in ad ministration circles that an extra ses sion of cougress, with a special message from the president, would be an immediate result. Conallt Ions of In the Central Val- leys and -Southern Washington.

Sept. s. The weathet oureait. in its crop report of conditions for the week ended at a. Seplem- her ti, says: in the central valleys and southern states the week has not been fava.ua- bie.

owing to getia-ral absence of rain and prevalence of high temperatures. Hot, winds have proved injuri- ous iu the states of the lower Missouri and central Mississippi valleys, ami: rains, unusually heavy for the season in Oregon and Washington, interfered! with hat vesting and threshing in those stata-s. but ca.ised no injury to rain. torn has been very unfavorably af- fecteal by the weather conditions ol the past week in the principal corn- proaiucing slates. High temperature! iitid absence of mueh-needeil ruiu have growth af tha.

late crop and jaused premature ripening, while the i prevalence of hot inds- has caused in- jury, particularly iu the states of the lower valley. In Iowa audi Missouri much corn is past help, and will be cut fair fo.hier. The coii litiains. however, have been uijre favorable to corn in the lake re- gion, upper valley ami New Kuglaud, ami in tin? iniildie Atlantic stales the jrop is generally alaiing well." The general onilition of citton is 1 less favorable tlian in the previous week, ami over portions of tha- middle itini eastern sections af the esattani ba'it liierv has been marked tia'teriarat ion. Absence of rain has eausi'd il toopa-u rapid iy and to some extent premature- BODIES FOUND.

llraiaight to the Surface hy the I se ol 1 Dynamite. l'l. A'i I sin ito. N. Sept.

Ta. The bodies of Mr. ami Mrs. Forest H. Par ker, wln were drowned in Chain 1 governor of ISermuda, arrived at New The governor of Georgia, in view of the recent expose of the brutality ith which misdemeanor convicts are treated by the contractors for their labor, and finding that efforts to ameliorate their condition are likely to be balked by the powerful ring that controls such affairs, is seriously contemplating the pardoning of the entire outfit, and then ask the contractors what they're going to do about it.

Japan, not content with an interference with Hawaiian annexation, isnow said to have designs upon the Nicara-guan canal. According to semi-official advices from Nicaragua, the Japanese government is negotiating secretly with the diet of the (Ireater Republic of Central America for the construe tion of the Nicaraguan canal, independent and in defiance of the interest and influence of the L'nited States or other nations. Japan is York, accompanied by his aide-de camps, Piatt. Gov. r.arlter and wife intend to make a tour of the United States and Canada.

Senator W. A. Harris, of Kansas, departed, on the 5th, for Washington to attend a meeting of the subcommittee on Pacific railroads, called by Senator lake, in the Ailiroinlai'ks. on Saturilay, were recovered Saturilay night. Dynamite was used and the bodies came to the surface.

Mr. Parker aud his wife went rowing in the morning, Mr. Parker taking a gun with him. Not re turning about noon a party went in eeareh of the missing couple, and the boat was fouml tl.iating bottom up at the end of the lake. When Mr.

Parker's boaly was recovered it was fouml that the nose was broken and the face baally tiistigureil, which seemed to in-ilicate that when the gun was alis-chnrgcal it hail exploded or ki'-keal badly, and that Mr. Parker hml bceu knocked overboard aud probably overturned the boat. Foraker for the 7th. Senator Harris ly. In portiousof soutu and southwest Texas, sLowers improved late cotton I ami the crop, but over the north- stated that a determined effort would be made to prevent the sale of the Union Pacific before congress convenes, in order that the government may not lose by the transaction.

ON the 5th Sir William Lockhart, commnniler-in-ehief of the forces in he Punjab, who was summoned to India eni portion of the state and over the feutral anal eastern portions ad Hit cotton belt the conditions have been unfavorable, except for picking, which has progressed rapidly. The bulk of the tobacco crop hat bceu cut and housed generally iu good condition, except in Kentucky and Tennessee, where the crop promises taj be very short, particularly iu the tirst i named state. i i EUROPEAN CROPS. i Coin mera-lal Aiccut Atwa-11 I'aiiillrins Ka- i to take charge of the operations there, has sailed from Itrindisi to Komhav. THE FRENCH CABLE.

While the inerleitu is Uousld-erinjc Whether to IVruitt It to Land Is I.amled. Washington, Sept. 7. -oflieials of he state department and of the attorney-general's otliee have been conferring recently relative to the French cable which lands at Cape Cod. The cable was first laid under authority given by the president, through Secretary Kvarts.

in and recently the French company has been replacing this line with a new copper cable. This met with opposition, and Senator Fry introduced a bill to prevent the lauding of cables without the assent of congress, while Senator Nelson afterwards offered another bill leaving the question with the president. Neither bill passed congress. While they were under consideration in the senate committee ou commerce the statement was made that if the French cable was landed pending congressional a United States revenue cutter would cut it. Throughout the summer work on the cable has progressed stua lily, and information received lp re yesterday indicates that the last link iu the line will be completed in midocean in about ten days, although there may be delays-owing to the delicacy of this final operation.

The American connection at ape Co is said to have been completed with the line into midocean. The question before the st depa rl-int'iit has been as to the right to laud he cable. S. 1). North, of lloston, has been The sentiment of the population of San Sebastian, the seat of the Spanish government at present, is said to lie hostile to Gen.

Woodford, the new 1'nited States minister. His mission makes him but few friends among the Spanish. He is. indeed, regarded as an enemy of Spain. San Sebastian looks on him with unfeigned dislike, considering as impertinent his going there to disturb the queen regent's holiday.

Gen. Woodford, however, is one of that kind of men who doesn't get ruffled over such trifles. AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP rtie Only Thins; that (Saved the l.lfe ot Lorenzo Vlves. New York, Sept. 8.

The Waral line steamer Yumuri. which arrived here yesterday from Tampico ami Havana, brought Lorenzo Vives. who was ar-resteal last December at tin; Hotel An-gleterre, in Havana, anal imprisoned at Cabauas for five months. Vives is an American citizen. He denounces in bitter terms the hotel proprietor.

F. Villamiam, wlnj is a captain in the Spanish volunteers. Villamiam reported to the Spaniards that Vives was a Cuban sympathizer ami caused his arrest. Without friends at baud, or means of communication with them, Vives was held at the Canabas for live months, when he was taken out with a large number of other pr'soners to ba- trans-ported to Africa, but Consul ieneral Lee interfered anal ileinniiilcd his release as an American citizen. Vivea was sent to jail aud later, through the eff irts of lien.

Lee, obtained his release. Vivas admitted that he had been sent out ou a sa-cret mission by the Cuban junta, but tin? Spanish authorities were unable ta prove it. He savs that the only thing that saved him from aleath was the lad that lie waj au American citizen. selected by President MeKinley as the director of the next census, and his ap pointment will be made just as soon as the necessary legislation is passed by congress. On the 0th Charles George Percival, parts of ShortaKs In Kurope.

Washington, Sept. s. V. P. Atweli, commercial ageut of the ui ted States at Robaix, France, sends ta the state department a report on the short seventh earl of Egmont.

died in London. The deceased was born June 15, GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD. JKetuiton of Veterans who Fought ou thf Melal anal Their Friends. tiF.TTYsm Sept. ti.The veterans ami friends of the Seventy-third New York and One Hundred and Twenty-fourth New York regiiueuts ami the veteran firemen of New York spent ail of yesterday on the battlefield- In the afternoon the veterans of the One Humired ami Twenty-fourth hehl an informal meeting at their monument at Devil's Den, which was opem-al with prayer by Rev.

T. lirittain. who aisu maale an address. Hrief historical sketches of what tha regiment alid here in battle were given by Cai. Wy-gant.

who comiuandcit the regiuia-iit after Col. Kilis was killed; Dr. Thompson, the regimental surgi-on: I'lialoar Sheriff Howell and other veterfcns of the regiment. and succeeded his uncle, the sixth earl, in 174. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Harry F. I.eadi.kv. of Rochester, N. died in Bancroft. on the Cth.

Before his demise he stated that he had been guilty of killing a Miss Emerson, in Rochester, and of embezzlement from a Rochester fire insurance firm. Investigation proved both statements to be false, and it is believed that Lead ley's mind was wandering when he made them. The London Times' correspondent in Bueuos Ay res, on the Mb. said: "The Uruguayan rebels are within a two days' march of Montevideo. If they- make a determined attack, the Ex-Conohessman Hanuach.

aged ing over them and 14 are serving 50-year sentences. Surveyors are at work selecting a -oute from Houstonia to McAllister Springs for the Chicago, McAllister Springs Southwestern railroad, which will extend from Sedalia to Marshall. At the Nevada fair last week Attorney Gordon and Cashier Pinnell, of the Thornton bank, got into a quarrel over the races and a tragedy would have resulted had not friends of both parties separated them. James Peacock and wife celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at Independence recently. Mr.

Peacock has resided in Missouri nearly all his life, and went from Lexington with Doniphan's command to the Mexican war. (iKorur I). Frazier, of Brookfield, this state, while visiting iu Utica, N. last week, was thrown under a trolley car and his life was saved by the prompt action of Miss Susan W. Randall, a daughter of the late Congressman Samuel J.

Randall. Judok Withkow. of the St. Louis circuit court, has decided that the breeders' law passed by the last legislature against certain forms of bookmaking on races is constitutional, ami his decision will be authority until the state supreme court passes upon the question. Sesator Vest has written a letter denying the charges made against him by Comptroller Eckels In connection with the failure of the Sedalia First national bank.

He says he never requested a delay in the investigation, but merely presented the request of the officers. The railroad commissioners have issued an order citing express companies doing business in the state to appear before the board at Jefferson City-September 24 and explain why they failed to obey a former order of the board requiring them to reduce rates ten per cent. The new hospital at Joplin has been thrown open to the public. It is conducted on the plan of railway hospitals, only those ho desire can take out membership tickets. While traveling on a steamer from Portland, to San Francisco Miss Annie Brockfield, a deaf mute of Fulton, wan defrauded out of S95 by a man named Hintel.

Rev. Alexander Proctor, for 33 years pastor of the Christian church at Independence, has retired, owing to advanced age. A kirk in the Black Diamond coal mines stables at Berier burned 11 mules. Tei Union, a populist paper at War-rensburg, has suspended, leaving John-sou county minus a populist organ. The annual reunion of Mexican war veterans of Missouri was held at Odessa recently, 55 members attending.

ItrcKKT shops have started up in many of the smaller towns, a result of the stories of so many fortunes being made at St. Louis through speculation in wheat. Nklsox Ward, of Springfield, late of the Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry, has received a medal of honor from Uncle Sam for bravery at Staunton Bridge, Va. wheat crop in-France. He says the! crop iu France and, iu fact, iu all Lu- rope, has fallen much below the aver- age, and that it is estimated that the l'nited States anil Canada will be 5S, died at his home in Armourdale.

on the tith, from typho-malarial fever. He had been ill but two weeks. He served through the war with dis One ho has been looking over the recent claims of the large cities places the present population of the l'nited States at an increase of over lx.OOO.ulKl in seven years. As the increase in lsi'O was but 13,500,000 over the figures of 1HS0, the estimate i6 plainly too large. Guesses at our population in ly.tO ranged up toward but the official figures were Probably it is over 70,000,000 now, and may be 75,000,000 in 1900.

At all events it is not safe to gauge it by city directory multipliers. tinction as a I nion soldier, ami had held many public ofliees. called upon taj export from to bushels more than a-x-porteai to Luraape lust year. France will require about (Wi.nuii.iiito to meet the deficiency in that country. Consul ileimann at Odessa has ma le quite au extensive report to the (state On theHthex-Coiigressman T.

T. Flag ler, of Lock port, N. died, aged fxS. He was president of the Holly A YOUTHFUL PARRICIDE. facturing Co.

CRIMES AM) OA St ALT Its. On the 2.1 Louis Hreen, Daniel department concerning iho failure crops iu Russia. In many aiistricts it has been the wettest s-asoc ever! known, and grain has been destroyed by both rain and bail. Much of the I rain was not worth tha expense ajf binding. The wheat received at Odessa is of a very inferior quality.

i O'Brien. William O'Hrien, Patrick Gil-Ian and an unknown man were injured NATURAL GAS EXPLOSIONS. Five i'ersons KUIeal anal Injaired la an I nalianaMlls nlurt. I.NIH Sept. 5.

Uroad Rippie. a suburban village six miles north, had two natural gas explosions. Five alead haidies have bea taljen aiut of the ruins, and 1 or badly in-jureal. Tha business portion of the by the fall of an elevator in the Nelson Morris packing house at East St. Louis, 111.

KrcenV. nose was cut off. A Trio of Appailntments Annaiiinrad From the White llaiuse. Washington, Sept. The following appointments have been announced from the White House: Commamier Royai H.

Kradford, to bo chia-f a.if tin? bureau of cquipm-nt. in the department of the navy, with the rank of commodore. Naval 'onstructor Philip Hichborn, to be chief constructor ami chief of the bureau of construction and repair in the department of the navy, with the relative rank of rommavlore. Albert Mnrteusen. to be vice and deputy consul at Bordeaux, lie Killed His Father for Breaking Into Mot tier's Hoim.

Bali imoiik. Sept. T. Edward B. Bishop, aged shot and wounded his father, Iviward A.

Bishop, at their home yesterday afteiuo -m. The family is an eminently respectable one anil the shooting has cause, 1 a sensation. The parents were living apart, and yesterday afternoon the eider Bish jp went to the house ami attempted to force an entrance from the rear, lie warn shot ley hissou as he broke through the kitchen door. On the during the military ma Since the prices of wheat and corn segau to advauce, a few weeks ago, there has been a marked increase in the prices of all wheat ami corn products. The same is true of oat products, the increased cost of the latter being in many cases greater than the rise in the market quotations on oats would seem to warrant.

As nearly all corn products have their greatest demand during the winter months, the housewife will find the expense of maintaining the larder greater than it has been for several years. neuvers in tne vicinity of Germany, a pontoon bridge collapsed while the Ninety Thuringian regiment of infantry was passiug over it. A number of the soldiers and some The report predict that little wheat will be exported from Russia during the season of as there is little available for that purpose, the oil slocks being practically exhausted and the new crop little more than sutlicieut for the hajtne demand. PRACTI ALLY PACIFIED. Mmj Withdraw tha Keaitar 'Traia-p-i From I'luar l.

I Itio. Havana. Sept. A wealthy plant er, a Spaniard by birth and a lesi'lent for over years ut Consoiaciou del of the trumpeters were either drowned or hit by the timbers of the bridge and Demand to te the Maale aan the Frisco hj F-mplaiyes. killed.

The body of a beautiful woman, naked frightfully mutilated, with the skull smashed in, was found in the River Seine, at Paris, on the On the middle of the back was tattooed the words: "Long Live Poland." and "Death to Traitors." capture or tne capital will lie possible, as the garrison comprises only 2,000 men, and there is no system of defense." 1'ostmastek at Mt. Pleasant, anil Postmaster Hamilton, at Warren, who declined to surrender their offices, when removed, on the ground that the recent civil service order covered their cases, have both surrendered their offices to the inspectors. I 'do me NTS by confession aggregating S'50, 102, were entered, on the 7th, against the American Cycle Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, and in favor of the Continental national bank and Assignee Boyd of the Haymarket Produce bank. Mrs.

H. L. mother of Mrs. John T. Rockefeller, died, on the 7th.

at Forest Hill, Mr. Rockefeller's Cleveland (O. I home. She was years old, and had been iu failing health for some time. In addition to Dr.

Guiteras, Doctors Murray and Carter, all yellow- fever experts, have been ordered by the Marine Hospital authorities to the scene of the yellow fever epidemic at Ocean Springs. Comptroller of the Ci'rrencv James H. Eckels, wife and daughter, arrived at Yellowstone Lake. on the 7th. He and Bank Examiner A.

D. Lynch went fishing and caught 47 trout. The Turkish gendarmery in Crete has been placed under the command of officers of the European gendarmery, the powers paying the expenses ami receiving therefor half of the customs revenue. Mrs. Richard Mii.liki.n-, widow-of a wealthy sugar planter, has presented the Charity hospital at New Orleans with 875.

000 to found a children's building, which will include a kindergarten and other improvements. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, sailed from San Francisco, on the 7th, ou the steamer Australia for Honolulu. ONE HUNDRED ACRES Of Lsntl Slides llown Into the Itlver, Completely Klot-kiiiK It. Sept. 7.

--Almost a repetition of the landslide which occurred two years ago at St. ban's parish. Port Neuf county, am the St. Ann river, below Oiiidaee. when a large section of the land bonlering on the river slipped alown.

carrying many houses with it. occurred last Friday. The slide is desa-ribeil as being of or 20 acres lamg'Vnd tiva? acres dea'p. The river is completely Moi ked with the mass of earth. Sept.

s. Committee of the or. lers of trainmen, conductors, tire men and engineers have for-muiateai a series of demands to be presented to tha- St. Louis A- San Fran-cisao railway officials on Friday. Certain work is objected to by all the men.

unless extra pay is granted, and the eomlnctors and brakemeu want better wages. Presi-atcnt Robinson, who is in the city, said that his company intended to at once put the standard rules now in vogue in 'he east iu force on his road. O-t September the great St. Louis exposition opens its fourteenth consecutive annual season uude' most favorable auspices. St Loui unique in the fact that she is the only city in the country that has been able to make an annual exposition a success.

The Buccess is, without doubt, due to the wise and liberal policy of its promoters and managers, who have made it au event to be looked forward to with pleasurable anticipation by all the people not a certain class and its forty days' duration is always ended with popular regret. town taioic lira, and tha- a-ity tire de-purtinent was a 1 1 I upon fair help, which was pra.tnMy The lire was got under control at haxej. with five business houses ale-htn ed. I I'K A n. Pious Crash, gr-M-er, ageal burned to death.

Jacob Darling, painter: crushed by falling wjills. harla Yountz, single, afcil M5, found ih ad in groi-ery ruius. unknown bodies, burnn-' to a crisp. Among the injured are: Squire Cuibertson, hurt by alebris. Win.

ss. hips cruslieal. S. Waiibaugh, painfull si: in i. Frank and lvlgar Watts Liiiuley F.

W. 1a-aton, bruiseal. THEY'RE DISSATISFIED. striking Miner YY.aaitat Kather K-iiiio Idle than I'aimnraainise. I'll ism Sept.

6. The striking miiiers a'tn-aniped at the De Arm'. tt yiina-s not look with favau upam tiie proposition to resiiuia: work at tha- rata; of n't pa ton until the uf th. year. Paui Trimmer, a ilstric official of tha- I'liiteai -jur.

Seuor Rodrigti 'an Pedro, civil governor of tha- province of Pinaraiei i Rio, informeal apt. -t rcn. Weyler yes-i terdav that iu his opinion the goveru-; ua'iit iuh.v withdraw the regular troops I from that province, as tiie gendarmes i md volunteers jire sutlicient sup-; press the small groups of insurgents scattered over that territory. Notwithstanding the fact that a large prTqsaUajon of the breadstuff con A Victory fair t.erman IHplouiarjr. LoNKon.

cpt. s. The. marquis of Salisbury's latest proposal for the settlement of termsof peace between Turkey ami Ureece Is generally regarded UanufaeturliiK Inalaistries Taking a New tart. Sept.

--Manufacturing industries in this vieinity sre taking a start and at present the jrajspea-ts for fail business is good. Mine. Duse continues to win untifmal honors. A vote of thanks has been tendered the actress, a born Venetian, for the fame she has achieved by Vienna's council. sumed in FnglaTrri imported from Wii.i.is and Robert Steele, cousins, of Hrushy Fork, became involved in a tight, on the 3d, over an old feud, when Willis drew a revolver and shot Robert in the abdomen, which caused death in two hours.

Willis gave himself up, claiming self-defense. On the 3d H. Russell Ward, of Santa Monica, who became notorious a short time ago through his connection with the elopement of Mrs. Hradbuary, met his death near Wheatland, by falling or jumping from the east-bound overland limited on the Northwestern railway. On the 5th an excursion train on the Maine ''entral railroad was wrecked 33 miles west of Etna station.

Me. One fierson was killed and 32 wounded. The train was carrying excursionists from Dover and Foxcraft to the Etna camp-meeting. The breaking of a flange derailed and overturned a car containing 65 pauecgera. The ordinance prohibiting the of birds of song is being-strictly enforced in Tampa, Fla.

TROUBLE ANTICIPATED In the Attempt to Fjert the Intruders from the t'heriakee Natiaan. SlI.OAM Si-itlNiis, Sept. 7. From present iudications trouble will follaw an attempt to eject the intruders from the Cherokee nation. When the Cherokee strip was sold, the gjv-eminent promised to put out all the intruders, but upon one technicality or another they have managed to remain.

Tbd government has deciaieal to take a firm stand, however, and has oniered their removal forthwith. Thure ars) S.OuO of tliKlu, i as a via-tory for Herman diplomacy, and much bitter feeling is alis-: playeat in Lnglam! over the itrit- ish premier's backdown. A fresh p-oposa! was what 'erinauv had been holding out for, namely: The control of tlieOreek revenue interest of all the l'nited States, those of us on this Bide of the pond pay the larger price for our bread if we patronize the urban baker. In England the standard loaf is four pounds, and at present the outside quotation is fourteen cents, while for the American baker's loaf, weighing one pound, five cents is charged, and they are talking of increasing the price or reducing the size of the loaf. No wonder liii; baking concerns grow wttaithy.

Charles Darwin's statue in bronze has heert set up in his native town, inc i.iiiran mius ai noiyame, where 1. 3u0 hands are employel. started on full time yesterday. The I'hicopee Manufacturing of Ckia-opee start up on nil time September J1', after a complete shutdown of tftiee and employment will be farn- shed to 1. JU0 people.

The Dwight Manufacturing Co. of I started uiida v. is. and in Mine Camp Determination, said th- n- sure to ho hie ot.p-.siti.m tj the proposed sett'emetit the c. -a the creditors ajf lireece, as well as for the security of the loan to Jreeco for the purpose of paying her indemnity to.

Turkey. Ada Rehan began a two months' tour the English province Augujt 23 in a Shakespearean repertory, 9 lai.