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The death-rate record is mounting up
with the thermometer in eastern nd south
srn cities. On several days the mercury
was reported as high as 100 above zero.

RECENT decisions Of the District and
Supreme courts of Minnesota, and Of the
United States Circuit court, are decidedly
IN favor of the people in regard torespons-
ibility for railroad accidents, and will serve
8 good purpose in making railroad corpora
tons more careful of the lives of patrons,
and EMPLOYEES.
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Conklins's Successor Elected.

On Friday %. the republicans Of the legisla-
ture of New York finally consented to go
into a caucus-a measure. contended for
heretofore by the Conklng ring-and in
a short time nominated Elbridge e. lap
ham, and in joint convention Of the ]egis-
lature, he received all tho republican
votes and was declared elected senator
in place of Roscoe Conklinsg Mr.. Lapham
is resident OF Canandaigua, N. Y, and was
born at Farnaington, n Y. October IS, 1914
He was reared on a farm, attending the winter
public schools, aud was subsequently at the
Canandaigua academy, where he was a class
mate of Stephen A. Douglas. He studied
civil engineering and was employed
on the Michigan Southern railroad. He
afterward studied law and was admitted to the
bar in. 1914, and has since prachced at Can
andaigua. He was a member of the New York
constitutional convention in 1862, and repre-
sented the Twenty seventh district of New York
in the forty fourth and forty fifth congresses,
and is a member elect OF the forty seventh
CONGRESS-
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his leg. G. Thomas had his arm aislocated

his leg c. Thomas had his arm dislocated
Miss Anna Leach was. carried out Of the house.
Her mother ran ont after her, and she said,
"Oh, mother, must die, !" and Immediately ex-
pired. Mrs. Leach was badly injured. AL
kinds Of rumors are in circulation. Some who
have just came in from West Newton say the
town is completely devastated, while others
contradict the report It is claimed that 800
buildings are destroyed.
RELIEF MEASURES
The committee Of gentlemen from New Ulm,
81 and dGo How s. ffgasG es1son h s S9s q
Minneapolis on Saturday and called on the
governor. They gave him a full account of the
damage. and the governor will endeavor to
persuade more fortunate localities to aid the
sufferers.
DESCRIPTION OF NEW UIM
The thriving city of New Ulm which has
been thus terribly stricken is shout sixty miles
southwest of St Paul, on the Winona & St.
the right bank of the Minnesota river. It's
beautiful location and large number of hand
some public and private buildings made it one
Of the most beautiful little cities in Minnesota.
It was first settled BY q colony Of Germans
from Chicago IN 1855, who laid out a town
German colony from Cincinnati. In 1862 it
gained national reputation as the
scene of the terrible Indian massa ere,
and the three days battle in which
the redskins were defeated by handful of
plucky. whites. At the time OF the terrible tor
nado Of Friday the city contained three churches
the German Methodist, costing $25, 900; the
Lutheran costing $5, 600, and Trinity Catholic
church, costing So, 900; the New Ulm Turner
Hall, the finest in the northwest; the Working
mems association fine brick hall, builtin 1868
sta cost of 81 900; three mills the Eagle
mills, saw and grist mill, costing 500, 600;
the steam flour mill Of the New Uln Mill COM
psny, costing $25, 600, and one other; three
public school buildings, one costing $4,000,
and the others 1000 each; St. Michaers
academy and the New Ulm academy, and large
number Of fine business blocks and private
residences rhs
RELIEF MEASURES
At a. meeting of the citizens of New Ulm
committee Of ten were elected, o. wnicn uo1.
Pfaender was elected chairman, Rev A. Bergold,
secretary, Charles Wagner, treasurer. Ali
contributions should be directed to the chair
man or treasurer. E
The chamber of commerce of St. Paul and
the board OF trade Of Minneapolis have taken
measures for extending relief to sufferers The
cities of Northfead, Hastings, Winona, Red
Wing, St. Cloud, ETC., are also moving in the
matter. There is the greatest need of cash
contributions, to purchase material for repair
ing damages, but bedding, clothing and other
things are solicited,
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Puck; The professors are now claimino
that the comet which is now visible when
nothing prevents) is Gould's.'' Is there
nothing in heaven or earth, Horatio, which
this man Could can be prevented from
menopolizing? 80
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The ssMild'' Government OF the Gar.

ljlG l9llO'' ,UOfcfHIlCAAG VI CilC CGIIe
From the Boston Herald.
A short time ago NJ. Birwanski, an imper-
ial state attorney of Russia, was sent upon
special mission to OrenbGro, to inyesti-
gate and report upon the practice of the
imperial tribunals and prisons IN that prov
ince. He fulfilled his duties so honestly
that he was at once suspended from office.
Since his dismissal he has published to the
world a detailed account Of his observations,
and the imperial government has still fur
pending the journal that published it. 1T
was revealed to me-" says the ex-counsel-
lor, chow our judges trample the laws un-
der their feet; how cynical and wanton is
the behavior of our police; how savagely
brute force is brought to bear upon the
weak and friendless." His revelations
are most shocking, supported as they are by
"indefeasihle proofs. " Il lived, he says,
in an atmosphere OF appalling groans and
heart breaking sighs. liberated innocent
prisoners who had been kept confined by
the executive for several years after they
had been acquitted in open court, and who
had been secretly tortured. | took down
the depositions Of peasant women who had
been subjected to torment-their flesh
pinched with red-hot tongs-by order and
in presence of the chief commissary OF
police, merely because they had presumed
to plead on behalf of their unfortunate
husbands, M. Birwanski' i'sa account Of the
barbarous treatment Of their inmates al
most passes belief. That he should have
undergone official persecution, and lost his
poosition. for seeking to right these wrongs
is a fact more discouraging than the atroci-
ties which he revealed.
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Frightful ExplatAon OF 2 Breadth! Crime.
A more terrible expiation of crime was never
witnessed in this country than that just re
ported from Albania, Ga. Jesse Waldrop had
brutally violated and murdered the young,
beautiful and accomplished wife of DR.. John
Mitchell, of Randolph county, Alabama He
was tracked with blood hounds, captured at
Newman, near Atlanta, and carried back to the
scene of the murder. The following is an &C
count of what followed:
Waldrop was firmly tied and bound with wire
to a stake driven on the spot where his victim
was found, when for the first time his dogged
courage failed. He pleaded piteously, not fo;
life, but only to be allowed to die by the gal
lows or bullet; but he cried to men of stone,
and at midnight one Of the relatives Of the I'M
fortunate wo man applied the torch to the pine
which, satura ted with oil, had been piled around
him. Ills screams rang out on the quiet
country air, and the flames lit up the scene
with lurid glare. Che death struggles were
horrid, but not man stirred. Standing in a
circle around the human sacrifice, they looked
with stolid indifference at the horrid expiation
of his crime. From first to last the officers
made no effort to save the prisoner for a legal
doom. If they had it would have been futile,
for popular passion was frepzied.
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THE HISTORY
OF A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS,
PROSECUTED UPON THE PRINCIPLES
OF
TRUTH AND HONESTY.
THE HISTORY

We refer TO the wonderful success that has attend
cd the introduction Of DIR. c. W. BENSON's Gel
cry AND %CHAMOMILE PILLS into the whole
country.
They are prepared expressly to CURE Sick Head
ache, Nervous Headache, Neuralgia, Nervousness,
sleeplessness, aud Dyspepsia, aud the FACTS
PROVE THAT THEY DO AND WILL CURE
these diseases EVERY TIME where the cause is
not of an organic nature.
The secret Of their success Is tw~ofold-hrst, the
need OF them is very great and second, 1T Is THE
ONLY THING that has ever been found, in the pro-
fesslon or on. OF II, that would actually and permA-
nently cure those diseases; so that everybody who
lakes them becomes a walking and talking adyer-
,lsement for them. one box taken into a neighbour
mood has been followed and traced to selling fifty
dollars worth at that one pOsi-oGice-
They are indeed a valuable preparation, and no
nervous person ought to he without them, as they
not only save fiom suffering, but rave and prolong
ife by preventing paralysis, apopleIy, and heart
disease.
Sold by all druggists. Price, so cents a box.
Depot, log NORTH EUTAw STREET, BALTI-
MORE, Mo. BY mail, two boxes for 81 or six
for $3.50, 10 any address.
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Frigh.ruI Il

A PASSENGER TRAIN PRRCIPJTATED INTO a
RIVER-F0RIUNATE EsCAPy or MANY PER
Sons TROh DROWNING, &C
DETROIT, Mich, September 27.-The POS
seDger train on the Canada Southern rail-
road, due here about / O'Clock this morn-
ing, while being transferred across the
river from Amherstburg to Grouse Isle,
met with an accident. The transfer boat
was run with such force against the dock
at the island as 10 force the sleeper which
was on the boat Into she water in the
slip. The passenger coach Immediately
behind 10 was also forced forward,
and the forward trucks went over the
end Of the boat. The coupling between
this coach and the one behind did not break.
however, and the car hung over the end OF
the boat at IN angle Of - degrees, and enc
end iust touched the water. The engiBes
Of tie boat we're az once reversed. and a. 1t
backed away from the slip the sleeper
which bad fallen into the water-rOse and
turned over on its side, the trucks attaehed
to II having gone 10 the bottom. AN was
confusion. The passengers in the sleeper
chung TO the sidR out Of the water,
tired 10 break through the win
dows, and cried for help. Sixty or
seventy others wbo were in the pas
seneer coach behind were panic stricken,
and rushed pell-HDell for the end OF the ear
furthest sway from the water. Some OF
them clambereA out at the sides, and fell
into the water. Others OF the passengers
who stood on the deck OF the boat saw the
danger OF those in the sleeper and pushed
into rescue them. As'sOOn as possible the
passengers and train-men elambered on
top OF the coach floating in the water,
broke open the windows, and pulled
out the dripping occupants. When all
In sight bad been rescued " was
found that OF the fourteen passengers
in the sleeper there were three missing.
The darkness OF the plight, the confusion,
and the fact that nearly all the passengers
we're strangers to each other, make it posi-
BILE that all were rescued, but it also leaves
the painful uncertainty as 10 whether there
are not several persons drowned. Six pas
sengers went down with the car, but were
rescued, with the exception OF a man named
Bloom, who occupied a seat in No. 4. Care
full search for him was made, but he had
not been found at last accounts.
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A Terrific %RxpIOsIon.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, September 81
About > O'Clock last evening, just at the
close Of the Garfield memorial exercises, the
city was shaken 10 It's very centre by a ter
rIble explosion. Instantly great volumes OF
smoke were seen ascending from the south.
western part OF the city. An investigation
Of the cause Of the explosion disclosed the
fact that on Saturday last a car. load OF gum
powder, billed rs common blasting powder,
reached here over the c., Il. !. and Pacific
railroad on is way to Denver, Colorado.
The Union Pacific Company, however,
refused TO receive the dangerous freight,
and the ear was returned to the
r.. /. yards, where from some cause 1t eX-
ploded with fearful force last evening.
The conclusion demolished the company's
round.house and replir.sbops (brlck) and
the frelght-house (iramel, besides forty or
fifty freighl-carS. and dug a hole in the
ground fifteen feet deep and iOIty-iye feet
in diameter. Large windows in all parts
OF the city were shattered TO pieces. Pieces
OF pIastering were torn from houses and
strewn in all directions. Windows were
even broken by the conclusion in Omaha,
on the opposite side Of the river, and as
far a. the Missouri Valley Junction, twenty
miles north OF Us. The loss will foot up
several hundred thousand dollars.
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Not Masen. bat Jean whmeear...

80 'ANN
The st. Louis Republican. ouo,,no NJ,
~, ' N'emeyer, a citizen OF ST. Louis, who
recently returned from his old home In
n.ofiolk, Va, declares than the real name Of
mason, the army officer who shot nj Gni.
ieau, Is John Whiiehurst. lie was born in
portsmouth, Va, Just across the river from
NolioiS' where his married sister and his
brother are still living. "At the com.
meneement OF the rebellion John White
hurst, then a Young man, Joined a compsny
known IS the Vngiuia Defenders. ana
served o while IN the Third Virginia reVi.
ment. When everything began 10 crow
uark Tor the C%oniederacy be deserted, and
MS relatives knew nothing OF him until
some time after the close Of the war. when
ne returned TO Portsmouth. He was moi
cordisl'y received by his relatives. des.r-
o being then considered most disgrace.
iul. lie again disappeared, and the next
Dearu OF him was when his brother saw
MIN among troops at Fortress Monroe. He
had enlisted under the name OF Mason. and
under that name, as bis brother learned ~.
terward' was made sergeant. After the
news OF his promotion, the next dennite in
received Of him by hi, family
was when be shot at Guitesu. MIR. ME.
meyer, who know John Whitehurst well.
says that there c$n he no. doubt OF bis iden.
IVY with Mason. From bis youth up he
Wss OF q bafum-Searem, reckless dispose
tlon' ana Just the man 10 make such an at
tcmpt.N
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~host.Hunte Dispersed.

For some time past a crowd has nightly
gathered In Temple street, Paterson, y. D.,
by q report that a female ghost had been
seen there. On Wednesday night the ghost
hunters were armed with clubs, and many
OF them carried torches. No ghost appear
lng, they were about 10 disperse, when a
cry was raised, "Here comes the ghost"
AZ the same time a figure dressed in white
rushed through the crowd brandisblng a
club and striking among the pariy indis-
Ultimately with II. This dispersed the
crowd 10 bali q minute, and the figure was
len victor Of the ground. The truth OF IT
hsS that the white figure that so madly
enssed the crowd was a young man, who
had watched the progress OF the party, and
when II was about TO disperse thought 10
hasten ms footsteps. The female ghost has
not appeared since.
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Memorial Services interrupted.

NEW YORK, September 27.-An Atlanta
special in an evening paper states that du
ring the commemOration services at De
Gives Opera House last evening the police,
while keeping back the crowd, were as
saulted by a cOlored man, who was soon
Joined by others, and a genera riot was i'm
minent. About 5000 people lined the
streets, and a panic at one time struck them.
A scene OF the widest confusion ensued,
which resulted IN the crushing OF women
and children. The policemen used their
clubs deXterOusly, and succeeded in arrest
ing about twenty OF the ringleaders. They
were followed 10 the jail by a large crowd,
and an attempt was made TO rescue the pri-
soners, during which many persons were
wounded. The officers finally lodged them
in fail, and by midnight the excitement had
entirely sub,idCd.
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Pnker In The Unlted STATES Army.

General COurt-Martisi Orders Nc. eS.I
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT or MISSOURI.
Before a general cOuft-martial which con-
vsDed 81 the cavalry camp on the UncOm-
pibgre river, Colorado, June, 1881, was az
isigned and tried First Lieutenant Charles
H9y. Twenty.third Iniantry, on the charge
Of conduct unbecOming an officer and a gen.
ileman.
The specification, in that First Lieutenant
Charles Hay, Of the T~wenty-third IDfsntry,
being at a game 81 cards for money with
Captain Louis Z. Stille, Second Lieutenant
j. x. Clagget, and stephen O'COnnOr, OF
tbe Tgeuty.third Infantry, and Acting As
,isisnt Surgeon W. W. Rowan, did cheat
thereai, By iraudulently and dishonesty
putting and fixing the cards, so as TO pro-
dUce The following hands on a deal made by
bin SAID HayL TO wit:
To Captain Stille. al inferior hand; TO
Dr.. Rowan, four kings; 10 Lieutenant
Cisggett, four queens; to Lieutenant
OCOnnOr, four jacks; and to himself (said
Ha') = straight, or sequence lusb-this last
being the winning hand-by reason OF
Which fraudulent combination and setting
Up Of the cards the said Lieutenant Hay
Rss eaabIed 10 win q pot DR. pool OF Sl02
ifom The said parties, who were induced 70
bei largely by reason Of the said fraudulent
abd deceptive combination OF the cards.
This at~ Cantonment, on the ~Uncompahgre,
Colorado, on or about the 18Th day Of OctO-
Der, 1850.
Pies, not guilty; finding, not guilty and
TOE Court does therefore hOnOrsbly scqult
bin. ? TIE proceedings. findings, aud
acQuittal In the case Of First Lieutenant
Charles Hay, Twenty-third Infantry, IS APP
proved.
The circumstances which made the trial
10 this case necessary ought, 10 the estlma-
ton Of the department commander, TO forcl-
by appeal TO all officers in behalf OF a sentl-
Dent that shall effectuaily discourage gam
bling IN the army, and he trusts that Lieu.
ten,nl Hay and those associated with him
10 this case, taking warning from past ex-
perlence. will desist from the indulgence OF
this vice, which, for them and all Others
who often indulge, tends surely in the
direction Of a lower and lower range Of
aud often 10 open and lasting dis
grace.
BY command of Brigadier-Genera Pope.
+. X. PLAT,
Assistant Adiutant.GenerGl.
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Trial
n NEW JERSEY AUTHORITIES MOVING u THE
NATTER TO HAVE II ASSASSIN TRIED IN
THAT sTATR.

THE NEW JERSEY AUTHORITIES MOVING IN THE
NATTER TO HAVE II ASSASSIN TRIED IN
THAT STATE.
RED BANK, N. j.. September 2I.-rhe
legal authorities OF Monmouth county, N:
IT, have addressed the Attorney General OF
the State and the Attorney. General OF the
United States upon the propriety OF bldg
counts before the grand jury OF Monmouth
county at its meeting next Tuesday against
Guiteau for the murder Of President Gar
field. 1t is held that the waiver OF the coro-
ner's inquest by the State does not deprive
the grand jury OF this county OF It's power
to indict aud try the criminal; also,
that the criminal law Of New Jer-
sev does not ~disqualiiy a citizen
from serving on the jury simply be
cause he has expressed an opinion on the
case TO be heard. If Attorney'6enerai
Stockton, OF New Jersey, and Attorney,
General Macyeagh consider that the trial
can be held here the prisoner VIII DC
brought to New Jersey. The county prose-
cutor of pleas, Hon. John LANG, OF Mon.
mouth, has decided to file before the grand
iury an Indictment against Guiteau simply
as q precautionary measure, so that II The
washington authorities deemit hest 10 have
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my rpRRE WAS no RAIN PROM
SAS.o U.NrARY-TFRRIBbG ORB
IN a., ,eter IN CON icr-Joaruai.I
",n, Unl I conyersed with an
Nfts I'd nous Shaker, who held 10
Jne Of final perseverance IN his
tt a ,ah in the goodness OF 1od
Gstliu. .uGering = totsl failure OF
b 20, .enr. lie was n young man
SVp, Y ,be year Of the "Groat
II l>,sr abcn from early SUMMED TO the
piessD Lpusry there was no rain, when
riae hot and dry, whrn the clouds
ara "" form and be condensed into
rsa'e1 ohen toe dew.point was not seen,
.hRtr stogpant pools Of water IN the
Ebfn ~ "a hrarches became so thoroughly
trtA3 AID miasmiferOus that the cat.
aIu and al vegetation was utterly
Sc 80 nm and apparently destroyed.
rl me terrible drought The cat
pd' affected with the " bot
O. esb.v and thousands died, lite
y -.,icr The skin from their sides
r.' ~ I'M their frantic efforts 10 scratch
81 ., rcHeyeths intolerabie iiching.
anal horses died with 6iaeS tongue;
l, "a birds became istless and stOpe-
,ooed IN despair, lost their plumage,
l MA ip utter misery. Men, women,
i '.,05rea grew sick win disap-
bores for the besling show
S-olinc the foul csrbonized wa
c' .o3 eating dusty food, and many
q % di.e,se not known before or since.
.+,.d with The iBtolcrsble Itch and
vih eating the dry and deslccsted
A@ 4srfiyed Of an nuiritive elements by
y No drought, the cattle, sheep, and
,cqmed over the fields sud through
.E-,.i.. moaning and bowling, or paw
~,A. esftb in impOtent rage. Added 10
borrors. the fields and forests took
"a burned for weeks and months.
IA, was filled with smoke and ssheS,
i',8neing another horror IN the shape Of
s i,rm Of ophthalmia that was almost
rt-ierble.
r,..h vegetables were soon exhausted,
..,fle were too diseased 10 be used for
"a wafer vas scarce and unit to drink,
we're raging, and the whole population
n.,ed with disease in some shape. This
..-,s ~ things lasted until the middle Of
t-,u,rv. when the blessed rain and the
IN, beautiful snow came snd saved the
.,-7.ry from utter annihilstion.
The gentle Shaker had feared tbst such
.,5'ber dread season was beginning; that
ne water was again becoming carbOniZed
,rd jmprcgnated with deleterious earthly
al. and other constituents from dead in
,as. aphidianS. b%atrschians, iniusorlO, aud
,,ripc mammalia. AT this very time the
GOD Shsker did not know tbst cattle and
b3r,e, were dying 10 some parts Of Illinois
vim a disease similar 10 many respects to
,bst be described in 20 graphic a manner
sr1 sisriirg under circumstances go SIM
ISL.
Iiet really alarmed at bis vivid descrip-
ton, Of the "bOt-weather Itch" from a
re-.5nal knowledge Of the rayages perpo-
rated upon the human hand by the bite Of
asjugle mosquito.
Hi, description Of the erySipelatous black
tongue wss equally distressing, and | shall
never forget bis leTse and iorcible language
;, be depicted these horrors. He was sub
Hne'y eloquent without an effort, in his
cua way, and il | could impGrt his man
DER n the paper on which ! write II would
produce rare reading for the Courier Jour
al
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Mrs. Grant is now engaged 10 furnishing
n1 new house in New York. Among the
rare and beautiful things with which II is to
De adorned Is a sidebOsrd OF magnificent
Shyx, presented TO the General by Mexico.
sporty after the General became President
AeSieo gave him beautiful service OF sill
yer. This the General transferred 10 his
WE, as The President could not accept such
, gHt. This silver, which has never yet
Oten used, is now 10 be u%npacked. Colo
hsl and Mrs. Frederick Grant, IL is report
w. i've With their father and mother. MI.
sho Mrs. SaTtoris will shortly arrive with
sneir three children, and will spend the
WINTER with The General.
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The Yorktown Centennial.
PROGRESS OP THE PREPARATIONS AT YORK.
TgWN.

IgNN.
FoET MONROE, September 25.-Preplra.
,ions for the Centennial celebration at
yorktown are beiag pushed forward, and
will no doubt be completed, as far 9s the
limited means at command will admit, In
ample time. Ooe company Ol engineers, in
charge OF Lieutenant Townsend, and bat
terry Of artillery under command OF Captain
j. r. MysIck, are now employed survey
ing the grounds for tue encampment
OF troops. Captain l.. Z. Forsyth, Of
the Quartermaster's Del artment, is al.
so on the grounds arranging for an
ample supply Of fuel, forage, etc. and also
looking after the wafer supply for the en-
campment. The arrangements for ae-
commodatiou OF visitors. so far as York.
town is concerned, are very mea9re, and
those coming from a distance viii have 10
depend chiefly upon the steamers upon
which they arrive for meals and sleeping
accommodations. There are but three small
hotels in the town. with accommodations
for bot more than 100 persons in each.