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Miss MontaEue,. Leg.

The Louisville COirier-Jeurnal of Thurs
day SAYS: "The suit of Miss Louise Mon
tague, the 1000 beauty Of Adam Fore
paugh's circus, has at last been disposed of
1t will be remembered that, on the 23d day
of last September, while the circus was ex-
hibiting at Bowling Green. this fair and
famed damsel was injured in railroad ac-
cident About 10 o'clock in the evening she
went from the tent to her apartments in the
circus sleeper. Soon after she had gone in
the car the train to which 1t was attached
shunted about the switches for some reason,
and a collision ensued between it and pass
ing freight train. The accident caused the
car in which Miss Montague was preparing
her valuable beauty for the nights journey
to be telescoped with the car behind it. Miss
Montague's leg was caught between some OF
the timbers and badly bruised. For the
damage thus sustained she entered S20,0
suit against the /. and n. railroad on her
arrival in this city soon after. Yesterday, in
the Court of Common Pleas, her attorneys
withdrew the suit without prejudice, from
which it is evident that the case has been
compromised, but for what amount those in
possession of the facts are silent.
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ARKADELPHIA, April -Four prisoners
escaped from the Clarke county Jail at this
place Thursday night. One was awaiting
trial for larceny; one, negro boy, is charged
with attempted rape, and the two remaining
are brothers named Owing, PROFESSIONAL horse
thieves and desperate fellows. Jailer Haw-
kins, before opening the door 10 feed the
prisoners, stationed himself with drawn
revolver at the head of the stairs leading to
the iailer's room below. Sheriff Sloan, with
a drawn revolver, then walked up TO the
door, unlocked it and threw it open. In
an instant all the prisoners were upon
Sheriff Sloan, holding up his arm. In push
ing him forward toward the head of the stairs
and before Jailer Hawkins could fire, he
was knocked headlong down stairs, his pistol
dropping from his hand and falling to the
foot of the stairway. This one of the pris-
oners picked up as they rushed on, having
previously wrenched from Sheriff Sloan his
weapon. The party fled toward Ouachita
river bottom, but were soon pursued by a
posse and one of them captured. A running
fight was kept up several miles, the pursuers
and pursued repeatedly firing at each other.
But three escaped
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DIED.

A POSITIVE cure for malaria, digestive and
urinary troubles is found in Browns Iron Bitters.
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THE letter Of Frank James to the Editors
of the APPEAL" which we publish this
morning, furnishes an excuse for the terrible
crimes committed by the ouuawed brothers,
one Of whom was murdered the other day by
the connivance and consent, it is ALLEGED, Of
the governor Of Missouri. This excuse has
been published many times before, but never
from SO authentic a source. 1t is an excuse
that does not in the least palliate or extenu-
ate the lawless course OF the James brothers
and their comrades, extending over nearly
twenty years Ii every family in the South
similarly aggrieyed had taken to the road to
rob and murder, there would scarcely be a
county "a the States that were the theater of
operations during the civil war that would
not be surfeited by gangs OF highway
men. Frank James has brought his
excuse 10 the wrong place. The people
of the South have no sympathy with
the James brothers; on the contrary, We
venture the assertion that they could not in
any Of the States of the late Confederacy
have run so long at large or been guilty of Il
huudredth part of what has been laid at
their door None the less deprecate the
"a anner of Jes4e James, death, believing
that there il nothing in the constitution
laws of Missouri that will justify the orders
of the authorities Of that State to take him
dead or alive.
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NEW RAILROAD
From IX0sciuslkO Aberdeen, via Stark
willie and West Point.

Special to the Appeal
STARKvILLE, MISS, April 7.-Colonel
Clark, president of the New Orleans, St.
Louis and Chicago railroad, arrived here
last night in company with Captain Mann,
the chief engineer of the said road. They
came from Kosciusko across the country,
prospecting the new road from Kcsciusko to
Aberdeen, ria Starkville and West Point
In his speech this morning Colonel Clark
stated that the company would not call ON
the people for anything except the right of
way for the road. Our people are all in for
this road, as it will when completed give
them a direct line to New Orleans and COM
pete with Northern roads. Colonel Clark
stated that they would commence surveying
the road in two weeks, ndwork would begin
Of RI Iafa
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THE cotton market yesterday opened and
closed quiet, with moderate demand; mid
ding quoted &c. Thursdays quotations Of
other markets are reported as follows: In
New York spot middling was II Lice, and
steady; futures closed dull, April 1205G,
1906. In New Orleans spot middling was
l2c, and quiet; futures were dull, with April
1I.93@1l "a. In Liverpool middling up
lands were Gsd, and Orleans 6 1850, and
quiet; futures closed dull at 80 64I for
April, April-Msy, and So Cad for August
Septemler
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In another column our readers will find
synopsis of the governors message, read in
both houses yesterday. Some Of his recon-
mendations are timely and sensible, aud will
meet with very general approval, those
especially in which lie urges The passage of
an act comforting upon counties the power
TO issue bonds for the relief of the people ON
the submerged or flooded lands; and recon-
m ends that so much of the tax law applies
to the Collection Of taxes in 1882 be so mod
fled as to reduce the tax of that year to a
total equal TO the ordinary expenses
of the government. He refers with
pride to the promptness with which the PEG
pie paid the tax levied for 1881, 81, l250OO
of which was for the payment of interest I'M
der the 1908 act What he says about back
taxes and the railroad tax is also to the point.
The message, taken as u whole, Is fair,
conservative document
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FROM news to be Iund in another part Of
railroad consultations assure Memphis 4
continuous line OF railroad into Baltimore,
and Of course 10 Pnilad, lphia and New York
alto, making the shoriert ronte to the latter
city by ninety-si and a half miles. This
line, we understand, is TO be known as the
Viro;oia and Tannaasae
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OwINesvILLE, KY, April IA horrible
case of iPcest in Menifee county came to
light Wednesday morning. Henry Shrout
and his two daughters are the criminal
of children, his first victim being the eldest
daughter. She had but recently married,
and in a few days she confessed TO her hus-
band she was encsinte, bpt refused to give the
name of her seducer. finilly she revealed
the startling fact that her own father was
the author of her unborn child, and that her
younger sister was in the same condition by
the aama sourpo
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A SAMPLE OF the straits to which the out
let-system papers are put to bolster their
position is furnished by the specials from
Washington to the Yicksburg Herald and
Cincinnati Commercial, which We publish in
another column. The He4dlds correspond
ent puts Gene raj Humphreys forward az in
favor Of the levee system, as he has always
been, and opposed to the Lake Borgne out
let, which he considers dangerous to the nav
liability of the river; whereas the Conner
ciaPs correspondent puts him before the
world as an opponent OF the levee system,
and in favor of the Lake Borgne outlet.
General Humphreys owes it 10 himself TO
demand from the Commercial that it make
the omcqde, ard promplly.
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THE WEEKS TRADE.
Business Active at New York, Steady at
st. Leuis, Lively at Cincinnati
and Satisfactory at
New Orleans-The Immense Speculation
at New York the Worst Feature OF
the Financial Situation.

New ORLEANS, April Spot cotton ruled
quiet and easy all week, prices being barely
maintained. Weeks sales, $4,000 bales. In
the future room there has been a holiday
market, with values slowly settling down.
Compared with last Friday prices show
decline Of to u points. Weeks sales,
100000 bales. The arrivals of sugar have
chiefly been open-kettle, which is in active
demand at higher prices. All grades are
slightly dearer. No supply OF mOlasses has
arrived from the interior, and business is
mainly confined to reboiled. Rice continues
in active demand with prices firm and tend
ing upward and offerings freely taken.
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TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
Nine Men Probably Killed and Eight
others Injured.

LACROSSE, Wis, April THE steamer
Bellah lac exploded her boilers near Browns
vile, few miles below this city, at 80
o'clock this morning, completely wrecking
the upper works of the steamer, causing loss
of life and fearful injury to many OF the
officers and crew. The crew consisted of
seventeen men, including the officers. OF
this number five missing, one is dead,
and three are probably fatally injured, and
the remainder are more or less hurt. The
injured men were brought to this city, and
are being cared for
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Ohio.

COLUMBUS, o., April THE April report
of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture,
on 100 township reports, will give the fol-
lowing figures, compared with the same time
last year: Wheaf-Probable number of
bushels of the coming crop, 35,6l2,19), as
against 81 ,5Sl ,094 for last year; bushels of
old wheat in producers hands, 7,4l3,69s.
Rye-Acreage 81, condition 10l. RGrley-
Acreage SO, condition 100. Ciouer-Acreage
50, condition SO. Cous-Number 95, condi-
ton 9S. Other Cdae-Number So, condition
80. Shxp-Number 80, condition l01. Hogs
Number SO, condition %. The wages of
farm hands per month, with board, is SIC 20,
and without board SIS, or about 3 higher
than year ago. COrn-The per cent. of old
crop in producers hands is II. Wheaf-On
fat land A, very poor; on gravelly or drained
land extra good.
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Little Rock. April IA. E. Manson's
general store at Carlisle, Ark, was destroyed
by fire late last night. Loss about $4,000;
partly insured in Northern companies.
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WHAT a glorious triumph for the poet,
philosopher and patriot, Victor Hugo, that
the emperor of Russia should confess him
self fiattered by his toast publicly thanking
him for the reprieye Of five Nihilists, and
that subsequently, upon second tffcrt al
mediation by the great French Rspubli-
cans his autocratic maj sly should pardon all
the rest of the prisoners except Lieutenant
Soukhanof, who was saved frem the igno-
miny of the galIows and was shot to death
at his own request. Verify the world moves.
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DALLAS, April Matte Collins, who
figures 50 prominently in the james gang
developments in Missouri, and who claims
to be the wife of Dick Little, the betrayer of
the bandit chief, was a few years ago an in
mate of house of iIl-iame in this city, and
WIS the paramour of the notorious Joel Col
Inns, one of the early members of the Sam
Bass gang, and who was with him at the
great express robbery at Big Springs, Neb.
lie was afterwards captured and killed at
Bnff.lo Station, Ks, by United States
troops. Matte assumed Collins's name, and
was quite notorious in Dallas.
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THE grand jury yesterday returned two
bills of indictment for involuntary man
slaughter and criminal carelessness and neg
ligence against Captain S. C. Mcintyre, Of
]. n. B Indursnt, first mate; John G. Hill,
second mate, and Wash Smith, colored, cap
tain oil The watch on the same be at. The
latter has been in all ever since the disaster
occurred, and it is presumed the captain
and mates will appear and give bond to-day.
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at the age of si1ty-two, and on no account
does he desire any exception made in his
interest
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
heard Captain Eads explain away to-day the
objection made at previous sessions that q
railway across the isthmus would be imprac-
ticable on account of grades that could not be
successfully overcome.
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PrrrsBURe, April This morning at an
early hour another horrible murder was
added to Allegheny county's already long
list of crimes, Joseph Hess, an aged man, a
saloon-keeper of Allegheny City, delib-
erately taking his wife's life and then at
tempting suicide. The police were sum-
noned, and the murderer was found still
in the room, with the pistol TO his head,
about TO commit suicide. He was disarmed
and Immediately taken to the lookup, where
he refused TO assign any reason for the terri
BILE deed. His daughter states that he was
very jealous and that he frequently threat
ened 10 kill her mother
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WAxAHATcHTE, TEX, April Near this
town Thursday evening while four children
of ]. Witherspoen were playing near the bank
of the creek, one of them slipped in, and in
attempting to get it out another fell in, when
third going 10 the rescue fell in and was
unable to get out. The fourth child ran 10
the house and gave the alarm, when young
man ran down to the creek and succeeded in
saving one of the children. The two Others
were already drowned.
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ST. LOUIS, April 7.-Advices from Bots
dare, Green coun y, Mo-, say that baseball
Haseltine, trother Of Congressman Hasel-
tine, living on Clear Creek, few miles from
the above named town, attempted to drown
his wife in deep spring on Friday last, but
was prevented from doing 50 by his daugh-
ter. Domestic infeIicity growing out of
efforts on the part of Haseltine TO control her
property led TO the attempted murder. Has
eltine fled and his whereabouts are unknown.
Should he re turn he will doubtless be lynched
as the indignation of the citizens against him
L.
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CLEVELAND, o., April IA report has
gone out that 600 union capenters are on
strike here aud building is practically at a
stand-stilI. While it is true strike is in
progress, the number in it is greatly exag
gerated. Building seems to be unaffected.
Builders say they will have no trouble in
completing their contracts; that they are
paying increased rates TO good workmen, but
the ms jority of the strikers are not worth the
wages demanded, and they do not care to
employ them at all.
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the 81. xavier Churcn Fire.

CINcIENATI, April 7.-Everything COM
bustible about st. Xavier's church, in this
city, was burned this morning, and nothing
is left but the empty tower and roofess walls.
1t is very doubtful whether the walls will be
fit 10 use in rebuilding. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000 to 100000. Insurance
nearly $4,000. There were services in the
church last night, and it is supposed the fire
started from candles left burning after ser
vices
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Immediate Danger at franklin, La.
AVeFfed.-

special to the Times Democrat says the water
has risen Two and a half inches in the past
twenty-feur hours. A heavy southeast wind
backs the water up from the gull, threaten
ing inundation in the rear. Upon the call
OF the mayor the citizens turned out and
built mile of levee, effectually preventing
immediate danger. The water is rapidly
rising in Bayou Sale.
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Robbed by "a mind Man.

LAsALLE, ILL, April T.-Mr Frederick
railroad of satchel Wednesday night con-
tanning 100000 in mining stocks by blind
man called Davis, who got off the train here.
Davis was arrested yesterday in the Harrison
House, with the securities in basket. He
with a boy was engaged in burning them in
a stove. lie had destroyed $4,000 in this
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ALL the commercial todies ard all the
leading newspapers OF the Mississippi val
ley south of Cairo are opposed to the Cow
don scheme, and urge the levee appropria-
ton bill now before Congress. Immediate
help and repairs Is what is needed now.
Perm anent work can follow as time and ep-
propriatIons permit
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A LIE OUT.
How ahe Papers Opposed 40 the Levet
System PerVert the News.
Contrasting Specials 10 n Cineinnaii
and Vieksburg Paper.
special % the Vicksbnrg Herald.


WASHINGTON, April 5.-General Hum
phreys, formerly chief of United States en-
gineers, appeared before the House Commit
tee of Commerce to-day. He declared en-
phaticslly that the Mississippi river could
be confined within it's banks by levees; that
such a course was necessary to improve nav
igation, and that the Lake Borgne outlet
project might prove adangerous experiment,
injurious to the jetties and destructive to the
navigability of the river below the proposed
outlet. Your correspondent has csnvassed
the committee, and believes majority will
favor the execution of the plans OF the River
Commission.
On the same day that the above was sent
to the Vicksburg Herald, the following, put
ting General Humphreys in opposition to
levees and in favor of the outlet system
which, during the present food, has proven
wholly abortive, was sent to the Cincinnati
Commercial a CoWdou organ
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CHARLESTON, w. VA, April IA mob of
sixty men last night captured the steamer
Sallie Freepe at Raymond City and went to
Winfield and took e negro, Joseph Smith,
out of Jail and hanged him to tree. He
had committed an outrage two weeks ago on
the wife Of section-hand on the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad. The shock was SO great
that the woman was reported dying last
night. Smith acknowledged his guilt.
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State, makes the following showing of the
condition Of wheat in Illinois: The last
seeding of winter wheat, 2,676, 372 acres, is
less by 2T5, 200 acres than that of the pre-
vious crop. The growth of wheat ia more
forward than at corresponding dates for
several years. The condition April Ist
promises more than an average yield per
acre for the State.
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CROP ESTIMATES.
Arkansas.

LITTLE Rock, ARK, April THE crop
estimates received from Fort Smith show
that about one-tenth of the tillable soil Of
northwestern Arkansas has been sown with
wheat. The average Of corn has been in
creased fully twenty-five per cent, while
that of cotton is at least fifteen per cent. less
than before. The farmers are paying much
more attention this season to grasses and
cereals. The present condition of crops is
all that could be desired.
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THE SUNDAY APPEAL will, as usual, BE-
superb issue, full Of timely and interesting
reading matter, besides telegraphic news
from all parts CT the world, LEGAL news and
commercial and river reports. Advertisers
will confer favor upon us by sending their
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BUSINESS FAILURES.

Weekly Report OF r. q. Dun d. Co.'S
Mercantile Agency.
New YORK, April THE failures for
seven days reported TO r.. G. Dun & Co.'s
Mercantile Agency are l27, distributed as
follows: Eastern States, IS; Southern, SO;
Middle, 20; Western, 50; Pacific, 8; New
York city, IL. This is about the same IS last
week, so far as the numbers are concerned
The figures in New York city are insignifi-
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CHARLEY FORD, the young man who
murdered Jesse James, like Mason, who
tried to kill Guiteau, was an enlisted man;
but, unlike Mason, he was enlisted 10 slay
James, whereas Mason was enlisted TO pro-
tect Guitesu., Ford is just that much batter
than Mason that he did what he was hired
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FREAKS OF THE FLAMES.
wlndow.Glns. Factory,

CHICAGO, April THE Evening Journals
Streator, ILL.,, special says: The Streator
window lass factory caught fire at o'clock
this afternoon and was totally destroyed, with
most of its contents Loss, SO, 600 to $50 900;
insurance. $4,000"
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LABOR TROUBLES.
At MilM aukee.

MILWAUKEE, April 7.-Considerable eI-
element was created here this morning by
the fact that the workmen in the factories
which do not employ union men received
anonymous communications, with a rough
engraving of a skull and cross bones, and
over the representation the word ''Scab. y
The communications are considered az threats
of bodily harm to the non-union men,
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The Lives of Three Ien Valued at

ST. LOUIS, April IA dispatch from
Pueblo, Col, says that the friends of the men
who we're lynched there a few days ago on
suspicion of being cattlet-hieves will bring
action against Pueblo county for $4,000
damages, the proceeding being based on the
ground that while the accused men were in
charge of responsible officials they were per-
mitted TO be taken away and killed. Able
counsel have been retained
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CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
Daring Jail DeIfvery-A Jealous Hus
bands Bloody Deed.
Robbed by n Blind Man-HOrribIe Case
OF Incest

CHICAGO, April Early this morning at
a point near the city, we'll known as a sport
ing place, Owen McManus, OF Syracuse, and
John Files, of New York, fought with hard
gloves for 500. After McManus delivered
three knockdowns in succession 10 his oppo-
nent be was declared loser on q foul
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THE Vicksburg Commercial regards it a
very favorable indication that Captain
Cowdon and the few other outlet advocates
find no encouragement from the best informed
and scientific engineers throughout the
countryn
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ESTABLISH ED 1910.
ISDICAr.oss.

For Tennessee and The Ohio paEey, light
rim, JoitOneed by Party cloudy 'oedte, nOTtheas.
u southeast Minds, IoNer barometer, stationary or
higher temperature. The lo,0er MissSssiPpi a0iH
remain nearly stationary.
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NEW YORK.
General Trade Fairly Active, with an
Immense Speculative business.

GENERAL Trade Fairly Active. Win an
Immense Speculative business.
New YORK, April There was ANNA
ton reported in commercial circles and
larger business was being done in merchan-
disc, but still the trade was not as active as
was expected. Speculation in products has
assumed larger proportions than ever before,
nearly three times as much wheat, for in
stance, has been sold in New York in the
first three months of 1882, than in the same
period in 1881. To less extent the same
may be said of other commodities This
immense speculation is the worst. feature OF
the financial situation and sound, prosperous
business suffers. No business OF Importance
to-day, and as the week is broken one de-
tailed report could not be obtained of great
value