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Report OF Supervising Inspector OF
steamboats,,

WASHINGTON, November 11.-General
Dumont, Supervising Inspector General OF
Steamboats,, In his annual report recon-.
mends that the Board OF Supervising In.
spectOrs be abolished, and instead thereof
that the Secretary OF the Treasury be em-
powered to convene mixed committee
composed OF Supervising, Local and Assist
ant Inspectors to examine and report to
him upon the efficiency Of any device to
be used upon steam vessels which requires
his approval. In the matter OF appoint.
ments, General Dumont says: "lwould
respectfully suggest the advisability Of
appointing Supervising, Local and AS.
sistant Inspectors by the Secretary OF the.
Treasury upon nomination in case OF
the immediatekuperior officer, ecah grade
thereby properly holding each superior
officer responsible for the general efficiency
OF his immediate subordinate; also giving
the superior officer the power TO suspend
any subordinate pending an investigation
OF the charges by the Secretary OF the
Treasury involving incompetency, neglect
OF duty or misbehavior on the part Of tho
subordinate, as upon the faithful perform.
anCe Of their duty by the officers Of this
service depends the lives Of people and
the safety OF an inCalCulable amount
OF property annually. The necessity OF
dealing promptly and summarily with any
TO whom even suspicion attaches OF neglect
OF duty, must be conceded as Of more i'm.
portance than the interest Of single per-
son affected by suCh summary aclion. The
files OF the office record one experience
where fifteen valuable human lives were
the penalty paid for continuing the duties
OF a negligent officer, pending the examina-
OF charges for remissness Of duty In cases
where lives were previously lost.
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Tho MIs.onrI Lnnn SwIndle.

ST. LOuis, November 1.-THE jury In
the Case of John Brady, jr., who was tried
to-day in tho Criminal Court on charge
Of false acknowledgement OF deeds, re
turned verdict Of guilty at o'clock this
morning and assessed the punishment al
seven years in the penitentiary. Brady Il
one Ofthe men concerned In the great land
swindle which was unearthed in the Land
Office at Ironton, this State, last spring,
and in which Robert /. Lindsay, Of tliig
city, Burns, OF Pittsburgh, and others were
implicated and will be brought to trial.
Lindsay Is now in jail ut Steubenville, o.,
and will be tried next month. Herman
Schuester, a Notary, and George L. Brown
who are also implicated In the swindIe
and charged with forgery, have pleaded
guilty but arc not yet sentenced. j.. g.
Duffy, another one Of the gang, has turned
States evidence and will be used as wit.
ness In the cases 10 come on. The cases II
will be recollected, were first brought be.
fore the United States Court here, but were
transferred TO the State courts and United
States District Attorney Bliss charged
the prosecution Of them to Attorney
General DeYine.
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ArroRNEY GENERAL MAC vEAen
ON the star Route Cases and His RcIa.
tiOn to Them.


PHILADELPHIA, November 1l.-Attorney
General Macveagh hasrcturned from New
York, where he visited President Arthur.
lie stated to all Associated Press reporter
today that the relations between them
have always been and noware OF the kind.
est possible character. Statements pub
lished to the contrary, including the pre-
tended Cabinet scene, were fabricatiOns.
lie says the sources from which they orig.
mated were 80 well known and they were
so improbable on their face that no denial
to them was necessary, aud the only thing
from such sources which could catise him
the slightest annoyance was praise, and
that lle knew he was in no danger
OF receiving. AS TO the misrcpre.
sentations OF his position In the Star Route
cases, said he only know one safe rule in
politics as in other things, 10 do whit YOU
thought right and let the consequences take
care Of themselves. Intelligent people
found their opinion Of man not by
what happened to be. published about
him one day or another, but
by the general tenor Of his life and
character. lle ended the conversation by
saying that no proposition had ever been
clear to him than that Ills own usefulness,
either as a member OF the Cabinet or as
representing the Government in the Star
route cases, was absolutely ended by the
death OF President Garfield. Any stibse.
quent supervisor Of those Cases by him was
inevitably calculated, In his opinion, to
give the erroneous impression that they
were still being conducted by the past al.
ministraton rather than by tic prCsent,and
such an impression, he thought, would be
very injurious indeed 10 the cases them.
selves
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nRIEF TELEoRAMs
NArratIng the Minor Events and Hap.
nenIuRA or Yesterday.

penIngA OF Yesterday.
The Province OF Ontario, Canada, lost by
bush fires the past season between $40, ,0O0,.
900 and sl6,0O0,OOO.
The Irish societies Of Providence, Il. l.,
gaye O'Connor, OF the Irish Land League,
an enthusiastic reception lust night
The Orphans lIome at Womelsdorf, Pa,
burned yesterday morning. The children
escaped. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The Blanchard Lawrence, Aldine, 81.
Cloud, Belmont and Fiske hotels, at Or
Ohard Beach, were burned lust night. Loss
$4,000.
Mrs. Dinsmore, former wife Of Guiteau,
now residing.at Leadville, Col, has been
summoned TO appear rs witness at the
trial OF the assassin.
The Republican State Central Committee
OF Maine has elected VIM. r. Frye chair
man In place Of J.. q. Blaine, resigned. Res
olutions complimentary TO Blaine were
passed.
At Sedalia, NO., Frank McNally, a po-
lice man, shot and killed Wash Hyde last
night. Hyde was 4 farmer residing In
Benton county. Mentally was trying to
arrest Hyde, who was OH Il drinking spree.
Hyde was wealthy man.
Walker Peoples, the man accused Of the
murder Of one MaCCOmbe IN the southern
part Of Wayne county, Mo-, and who e..
caped from tile Greenville jail last Sunday,
was captured In the vicinity Of Popular
Bluff, Mo-, yesterday, by Charles n. Nc.
Cormick. A reward Of 81 900 was offered
for Peoples capture.
A special from San Antonia, Texas, says
the Rio Grande river at Brownsville,
Texas, Ia higher than At any time since
1913. The water Il within a half block Of
the main plaza. In MalamOras about three
iourths Of the town Is under water. Great
damage has been done and there Is much
suffering among the poorer Mexicans.
since the 18th Of September II has been
raining almost every day in the southeast
ern counties.
A dispatch from Laredo, Texas, says;
the temporary suspension Of work on the
Mexican National railroad across the Rio
Grande, by order Of the Mexican authorities,
has .ended. The hfst cars, construction
train, will cross in few days, after which
the company are prepared to lay two. miles
Of track per day. The International road
has laid its track to within 10 miles oil
laredo, and will lay one and a half miles
per day until II reaches the Rio GRnde,
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LOUISVILLE, November ll.-Lou. Norris,
Il woman OF the town, died at the City
Hospital this morning very suddenly. The
doctors suspected foul play and attempted
to hold post mortem, but were prevented
by about thirty other women, who collect
ell around and drove them from the hos
pital. The Coroner and squad Of police.
men were summoned and elected the wo-
men by force, and held n post mortem,
which developed the fact that she had been
beaten to death. An investigation was
had, which showed that the beating was
done at Woodland Garden Sunday night.
No clue as to who did Il can be obtained.
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RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
A Big Line OF Disasters on Southern and
Western Roads.

ST, LOUIS, November ia special from
Cozicana, Texas, says; A report reached
here last night that a freight train on the
International & Great Northern road had
run into convict gangat Riverside, killing
% convicts and wounding u large number.
Theaccident is attributed toan open switch
A special from st. Joseph, Mo-, says An
accident occurred on the Hannibal \ ST.
Joe road between Turney and Lathrop,
about eight miles from Kansas City. Last
night freight train No, Z, going west, and
freight No. ~, going east, collided in the
darkness. The engineers, when too late,
reversed the action OF the locomotives and
barely saved themselves by lcaping from
their engines. Both engines were demol-
ished, together with IS freight cars, among
this number were two cans full OF oil, the
property Of the Union Trunk Line, which
were Completely destroyed.
Daniel English, brakeman on No. l., was
instantly killed, and his bod y was after
wards found ieariully mangled among the
wreck. Frank Newhall, conductor on No.
7, was injured on one Of his knees. Several
others sustained injuries Of more or loss
severe nature, but none proving fatal.
A special from Columbia, Mo-, this
evening says The passenger and mail
train from Centralia to this place, on the
branch road, about six miles from here,
struck q COW on the track. The engine,
tender and express eur were derailed, and
the engineer, Wm. Dayton, and Thomas
Purdy, fireman, both Of CentraIia, were
badly scalded, the latter to such an extent
that he cannot possibly survive,
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HOME OF TuE "DEATm BATTLES"
War Begun on Them by the State OF
PennSyIVnnIa.

HARRsBURG, November 1.-THE war
against the death rattle insurance com.
panies has been comm enced by tho State.
Tomorrow morning Deputy Attorney Gen
eraI Gilbert will go before Judge Pearson
and ask for u grit Of quo warranto for. the
arrest of the following corporations State
Capital Mutual Aid Association Of Harris
burg, Prudential Mutual Aid of Harris
burg, Southern Pennsylvania Security OF
Hanover, York county, Steelton Mutual
Relief OF Steelton, Dauphn county.
The grounds are that the companies have
not conducted their business on the mutual
assessment plan they have allowed their
policies to be assigned to persons having
no insurance interests in the persons in.
sured; they have established endowment
policies contrary TO the mutual plan; they
do not undertake to pay any fixed sum on
the death Of II member. BY this action the
Attorney General AYERS they have forfeited
their franchises.
The Commonwealth will be represented
by Attorney.General Palmer and Deputy
AttOmey.GCneral Gilbert, assisted by John
u. Mcpherson, representing Insurance
Commissioner Foster The companies
will make vigorous fight, us OH the plan
which the AttOrney.GenGral declares Us IL.
legll is based their existence.
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LtrTLE Rock, November 1l.-Iarnums
circus closed its season here to-day, and
leaves tomorrow for New York, 10 20 ift.o
winter quarters The different lines Of
railways leading east were represented,
seeking to secure the transit ol the com.
pany, embracing nearly five hundred peo.
pie. There was q lively competition on
rates. The Baltimore and Ohio dropped
to five dollars, the rate from 81. Louis "a
New York; the Vandalia held 10 seven
dollars, and that rate secured the majority
Of the company,
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FREDERICK, Mn, November 11.-Telix
MenshOr, convicted OF the murder OF his
cousin, James r. Wetzel, August 7th, was
hanged in the jail yard to-day. The time
Of his execution had been fixed three times
by the Governor. lie assembled the gal
lows with firm tread and died protesting
his innocence, repeatedly exClaiming that,
although guilty before God Of many sins,
he was innocent Of the crime whereof he
WINS convicted. Ills neck was broken by
the fall.
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A CASE FOR THE DOCTORS.
Astonishing Enlargement Of the Heart
Of Young Girl.

CHICAGO, November ll.-An extraordi-
nary case Of enlarged heart was developed
in the death Of a girl Of fourteen yean u
few days ago on the West Side, She had
been troubled with heart disease for sew
eral years, and suffered the most intense
pain, The complaint completely battled
the skill OF the physicians, and at the post
mortem examination held by DR.. Trow-
bridge and number OF other physicians,
it was discovered that that organ was
greatly enlarged, weighing two and u quar-
ter pounds, and being much larger than
that OF COW or horse The weight Of
the female heart Of an adult is only from
eight to ten ounces, and then only about
the size oi pear. The extra
ordinary feature OF the case is that
the heart itself was completely Joined
TO the pdricardium or heart case, and this
in turn completely fastened TO one OF the
lungs. The ventriCle was capable OF hold
ing fully pint Of blood. The doctors are
puzzled to ascertain how the heart, being
fastened in this manner, was able to beat
at all. Ordinarily u Clot OF blood in the
heart will cause death, but in this case in
the heart were found any number Of or.
ganized Clots-ClOts which were all the
way from the size Of the thumb.nail to two
or three inches in length, fully organized
with skin, fat, blood-cells, tissues, etc. The
liver and heart were found affected with
fatty degeneration, 80 much so that
the parts affected could be broken off with
the finger. The pulsations Of the girls
blood could be seen in the jugular veins
across the room. The given reason for this
terrible enlargement was extensive musCu-
lar action caused by the efforts OF the heart
to beat, united Us it was to the pericard-
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About the Pottery business.

BsllAite Independent.
II Is rumored that Captain Crawford has
sold his fine Etnayille property at IEtna.
vile, including his brick mill house, for
25,OOO, 10 a company that will start a pot.
terry there at an early day. II this Is true,
It will put All end to the pottery talk here
in all probability.
East Liverpool has twenty.eight potteries,
some Of which employ from three 10 four
hundred hands, and the energy which has
built up this business in q town possessing
but few natural advantages would double
the population Of this town every five years.
Natural advantages uhinprOved can never
make town, while energy and well dl.
rected enterprise will caiSe the desert TO
bloom,
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Tho Iioom MI pIttahnrgh.

According 10 the fltlsDufRn DIpllcH OF
Yesterday, there is something like large
.iud business boom in progress in that
city, We quote as follows:
There never was n time when the cloud
curtain which wraps an abundant prosper
It's reached 80 far or hung 30 thick over
this city Of ours us ut present. Nor does
The memory Of the oldest inhabitant run
blcktO period when so many workshops
were going; or 30 many wagons laden with
cur products struggling for precedence up
on Our streets; or when bounteOus plenty
GIlel 80 many homes Of all degrees; or
when universal content among all classes
smiled 10 broadly and 20 bealningly upon
all our industries.
Pittsburgh has, In short, put on It's sew
tn.eague boots, and Is stretching out for
and getting from all quarters large share
Of the vast trade to which It's natural posi-
ton and the enterprise and skill oil Its btlsi-
ness men and mechanics entitle 1t.
But Pittsburgh still needs something. It
needs railroads. Railroads are arms
stretching out to new fields; sending out
our products to fine markets, and bringing
in trade 10 our merchants and work for our
W0fkmcn.
There are thirteen new railrods now pro.
jGted for Pittsburgh, some Of them now
under way, some on paper-but all Of them
desirable Let us have them all, and
more, II possible. The poorest railroad
shat can be built to Pittsburgh is worth
millions Of dollars u year to our people.
Help them all along; put through every
one projected, and give us more. There
cannot be too many fountains OF pros
perity.
We presume that the meaning Of the
above is obvious to tho reader, despite the
obsurity Of the opening sentence. Pitts
burg is to be understood as in booming
business condition. Her factories are
belchins forth their fire and smoke, and
Wrapping the city in great cloud Of sooty
Prosperity. This seems 10 be the fact from
all the reports that reach us. The bank
Clearings show that the volume OF business
stitty per cent larger than last year. The
ryisior more railroads. Pittsburgh Is
victim as it were to the great Pennsylvania
monopoly. In this respect she is
not as well Off rs Wheeling. We
have the Pennsylvania and the B. & O..
and the faint presence of the Vanderbilt
system on the west side of the river, Still
We need other railroads. and. chieicst OF
oil, we need ,he ItonnGeld oxtension We
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Thstnuasa sana,nrsbin.

CnicAdo, November little Intcr. Ocedn
recently addressed 10 each member Of the
Iowa Legislature a letter asking their
sentiments on the Senatorial question. OF
the ia Republicans 81 responded. Forty.
one declare for James r. Wilson, five de.
sire their letters confidential and twenty.
one Of those not heard from are instructed
for Wilson, which will make his vote al
least Sixty.two in the catlCus, being ma.
jority Of four, and his friends claim that
he will receive eighty on the fist ballot.
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Carr. T. II. WILLIAMS, Of the Homestead
Farm, Is about to plant ten thousand wal.
nuts. He will SOW them in rows; after Two
years will thin out, leaving the thrifty trees
in five years will cut young walnuts for
table legs; in eight years will cut again
alternate trees for newell posts; in ten yeafS
will begin 10 harvest nuts by the thousand
bushels, and in fifteen years will have wal.
nut logs to sell. This Is new enterprise
for this locality, but II has been praCticed
In New York State with great success
Non, (pd.) Rem,
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BosroS, November 1l.-J. Wilson Gui.
teau, Of this city, left to-day for Washing.
ton to be present at the trial Of his brother,
Chas. ]. Guiteau. lie was first subpmned
by the Government and later was served
with a subpoena ducss iectm in behalf OF the
prisoner, calling upon him TO produce a
number Of documents in his possession,
among which arc letters that passed be.
tween Guiteau's father, for the assassin,
and HE sot
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The star Route Cases.

WASHINGTON, November ll.-Col. W. A.
Cook, Of the counsel for the Government In
the Star route cases, said to-day that the
decision Of Judge Cox yesterday did not
put an end to the case which has been in
court the past week. II will, he said, be
taken before the grand jury and proceeded
with in the regular way, Then a plea "a
TO the statute Of limitations will be tested
in the court the grand jury, Of COURSE
having nothing TO do with that matter.
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The New hell hallway for ChienEo.

CniCAgo, It'll, November little pur.
chase Of the Forsyth tract OF land. contain.
ing 5000 acres, just across the State line, In
Indiana, which place Is TO be the starting
point Of the New Belt Railroad, has been
completed and certified check given Mr..
Forsyth by Mr.. Gulliver, OF the firm OF
Alexander 4 Green, Of New York, for $685..
3S3 "a, being one.third Of the purchase
money. This is the first practical step in
the East Chicago scheme olwhich 80 much
Ia. I,ant, uatI
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"a. 1,oIi.etIrT iIIsgaI E....

ST. LOUIS, November ia Fosl. Dc.
patch special from Jefferson City says that
Captain j. K. Kidd, ex.menber Of the Re
publican State Central Committee and
Postmaster at Kidd Ridge, Usage county,
was arrested and brought before the U. \.
Commissioner here to-day, charged with
collecting illegal fees for issuing pensions.
lie was committed to Jail in default Of 81
900 bail.
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Disnppointed In Love.

CnicAGo, November 1l.-An Erning
Journal Lincoln, Ills, special says: j.
Engle, a young mediCalstudent, committed
suicide this morning. He wNs disappoint-
ed in love and shot himself In the front
door OF the hOuse where his beloved lived.
lie left letter stating That remorse Of con.
science was the cause Of his deed. Ills
parents arc we.l.to.do residents OF Green.
villn
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Declines the Honor.

NEw YoRK, November 1l.-District At.
lorney Rollins Just elected Surrogate, hav.
ing been invited TO I've one Of the counsel
for the Government in tho Guiteau case,
writes the Washington authorities that as
the trial would probably outlast the calen.
tlar year, lie would I've obliged to retire
while II was still pending, and he therefore
declines becoming counsel.
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nlsNARCK's REsldNA rtoN.

CoLoaSE, November t1.-Tlie Gd.eik
says. "should Bismarck resign the Chan
Cellorship, we hope the EmperOr's answer
will be, now Ms previously, never as far
as the guidance Of Germany's foreign rela-
tions are concerned; but with regar1 10 the
domestic and social policy may L, in Gods
name, be entrusted 10 some less TASTY and
more skillfdl hand, for the Empire needs
internal repose.
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iRFRE continues to he II great deal Of
hsIne" in our midst measles, diphtlleria
anu typhoid ieyer-and the number OF
Ties ~ does not seem 10 diminish very fast.
inS : an extremely unhealthy season all
over . The country, and II the mild weather
,ans Is through the win'er, a. predicted,
were I Is chance for Il reign Of epidemic
diseases. MoNndlnM RhpOrter.
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LOUISVILLE, November 1.-THE North
Elkhorn stock firm, near Lexington, to-
gether with the great stable OF racers, be-
longing to NJ. II. Sanford, was sold yester.
day to b. surgcrt The price Of the stock
is not yet made public. The sim paid for
the land (647 acres was $4,000. The deed
was acknowledged this morning and for
warded to New York for Mrs. saniord's
sivnattirp
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CnicAuo, November ii.-An Omaha, Ne
btaskn special says the man captured at
Grand Island, Nebraska, and believed to
be Maxwell, otherwise I'D Williams, has
been identified by Deputy Sheriff Knight,
Of Peppin county, Wisconsin, and by Two
brothers Of the murdered Sheriff, Cole
man, who have appliedto to Governor Vance
for rcquisition papers.
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aaad Mllnsss for In.iis..

ALBANY, N. v, November ll.-Rev. Dr..
Magee, summoned as witness In the Cult
eau case, says that ten yeats ago he knew
Guiteau during period. Of three weeks,
and never saw anything about him incon.
sistent With sanity,
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AURORA, November li.-A terrific ex.
plOsiOn, which shook the foundation Of the
town, occurred q little before midnight,
caused by the blowing up Of a still in NJ.
Gaf7s distillery. The building took fire
and one hundred feet OF lis east end was
destroyed. BILLY Fowler, who was sleeping
in the building was killed. Loss 5000.