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a Big Failure.

NEw YoRK, July 9o.-E- W. Halbrook &
Co, cotton goods manufacturers and con-
verters of cotton goods, made an assign
ment 10 day. Liabilities about $725, 5,000
with preferences amounting to S61 900.
Their losses from manufacturing exceeds
$3.50, coo, which has been somewhst in
creased by outside transactions. The failure
- raru orsai
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A Reveuxeful Wife.

TERRR HAUTK, IND, July 2o.-John Viii,
liams, known as o bunko man, Was found
in house Of ili-fsme at 5 clock this morn
ing by his wife, who shot him Gead while
he was sleeping. Tne woman had been
hunting him at other places for several
hours before. She left the house immedi
ately after the shooting, and gave herself
up TO the police
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A And Death.

WASHINGTON, July Authorization hns
has been received here that the body of H..
w. Lord, q son Of Congressman Lord,
ofMichi igsn and recently clerk in the patent
4 flee, was found floating in the P0tom"
by some fishermen. The men were igno-
rant and towed the body ashore at a point
near Beall's landing, about eighty miles
down the river and buried il in the sand.
II is supposed he fell from one Of the river
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The CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

The First Case that Will Come Under
It's JurisdietiOn Oceurs By ihe Death
OF Clerk.
WAsHIHGIoS July 2O.-The first vacancy
in any OF the departments occurring since
the new Civil Service rules went into opsr.
alton is in the Adiutsnt Generals oiIice,
was created by the death OF sl,2O
clerk. 1t is probable the Secretary Of War
will promote clerk from lower grade 70
fill the vacancy, and call upon the Civil
Service Commission TO supply clerk for
the lower grade.
The Commission has not yet prepared
any rules TO govern examinations for pro.
motion, and until such rules are adopted
the discretion is left with the heads OF the
several departments whether TO fill vscan.
cies in the higher grades from persons al
ready in the service. or 10 call uoon the
Commission 10 certify 10 names for ap-
pointment to these grades.
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Ha,rea Ia R.,e.

{ CINCINNATI, July 2o.-The Times-Star's
Lexington, KY, special says: DAVID
TimbeTlsxe, colored. was hanged at no,a.
for rape on gsssis lawson, acolefed siri
feseion. claiming thatths gsrl heEself vsa
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Di.ea.eA CattlA

BosIoS, July a0.-There are several clses
Of Texas fever among the Texas cattle
brought 70 Worcester. It Is stated that the
board of cattle commissioners will ,ssue an
order fnrbidding the bringing ol any mere
o{ sslkse cattss nAvv ths osals.
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THE HILL INVESTIGATION.
An Important Aadavit Read Tester-
day-Pr0eresslnR slowly.

day-PTogresstng Slowly.
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 2o.-Before the
Hill Investigation Committee, Coleman
read an affidavit, which recited that A. B.
King, Milo waibridge and John Woodman,
all of Chicago, where the important and
material witnesses to the fact that the heat
ing apparatus Of the Chicago Postoffice fur.
pished by Rartlett, Robbins & Co, was OF
POOR quality and improperly constructed
not be brought TO Washington because
there was DO authority given 10 the com-
mittee 10 subpoena them, and no fund from
which to psy their expenses and the com
mittee.
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A BAD FARM Err.
He Attempted TO Murder the Hus.
band Of His IuHmoratn "A Feast for
Lawyers and G0ssips.

band OF His Iuamorata "A Feast for
Lawyers and Gossips.
ToUSGsTawS, July 20.-Edward Everett,
farmer residing in Austintown township.
is under arrest, charged with assault with
intent to kill. Everett, who has a family,
had been working until recently for a wild.
ow named Mrs. Nier, who had a charming
daughter, and it was said that he and the
latter were on terms OF close intimacy to
such an extent as to cause considerable
comment. Recently the daughter was mar
ried. and Everett threatened TO
make il interesting for the
Young Husband
unless he emigrated, which the latter de-
clined to Go. Last evening Everett called
on the widow. armed with an Ak, and
meeting the young husband epieayored to
make cadsyer OF him. The latter dis
armed Everett and elected him from the
premises. Ii is said that Mrs. Everett pro.
poses TO enter suit, charging the widow
and daughter with alternating the affections
of her husband. All the parties are wealthy
and the prospects for attorneys having a
harvest and the public q sensational feast
are decidedly good.
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r WHFEIING W. VA. SATURDAY MORNING. 1883.

number, from one end of the line to the
other, having Joined the telegraphers'
strike. The road isl44 miles long, and ex-
tends from this place to Waynesbono, Va,
where Ii connects with the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway. Here 1t connects with the
Cumberland Valley, which runs 70 Harris
burg Pa, and with the Western Maryland
for Baltimore. At Shenandoah Junction,
W. ", it strikes the main line OF the b. &
o and at Riverton, Va, with the Manassas
branch of the Virginia Midland. The dam
ages resulting from the delay to freight
and passenger traffic will be immense.
rhe visitors at Luray Caverns will be with.
out communication with the outer world
for day or so.
Going for the Pennsylvania Company.
PrrrsBURGH, July 2O.-It was reported
this afternoon that the Telegraphers
Brotherhood is considering the advisability
of ordering the railroad operators on all
the Pennsylvania Company's lines west OF
Pittsburgh to strike, because the fennsyi,
vania Company shows q disposition to AID
the Western Union. Grand Secretary
Hughes says he don't think any action OF
this kind will be taken at present, but II
the case gets desperate he cannot say what
will be done. The strikers are doing all in
their power to keep the men from going to
work, but thus far have committed no
oveartcts.
The Situation at WashfngtOn.
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 20.-Capt. Whit.
ney says that sixteen operators reported
for duty tonight, being more than was
needed. The strikers have been quiet but
very busy to-day in localities distant from
the Western Unions main office. They
watch incoming trains and say they have
recruited several operators who came
for the purpose of taking the strikers
places. An officer of the Brotherhood as.
serts this evening that they expected about
thirty.fve operators all told from all the
companies in the city would join the
strikers to, day. They claim to have Sc
cured seyenty:four. The same officer as,
serts that only nine members OF the
cid Western Union force, includ.
ing the day men and the night
men, now remain on duty. The Western
Union Branch office in the Postoaice De-
partment was opened to-day, and other
branch offices remain closed. The Ameri'
can Rapid lost one operator to-day. The
Baltimore and Ohio is manned by the man
sger and chief operator alone.
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PRESS OPINIONS.
The Telegraph Operators simply
Exercising that Legal Right that
Belongs 10 Every American Citizen.

Belongs 20 Every American Citizen.
New YORK, July 20-The Herald says:
In resOrting to the steps Of yesterday the
telegraph operators simply exercised the
legal and moral right which belongs to all
dissatisfied working men In free country.
They did not strike until they had ex-
hausted all means of peaceful negotiations
and given the company fair notice OF their
intention to strike. Now that the issue is
Joined the grave responsibilities OF the
company to the public leave but two
courses open to it. 1t must either
make terms with the strikers or it
must fill their places with other compe.
tent operators, and this il must do without
delay. Ii must not attempt to "starve out
the strikers or force them into submission
by long continued refusal to re-employ
them coupled with a failure to fill their
places with other men. In other words,
it's bound to make the strike short, and
their duty is doubly imperative in view of
the fact that it had at least a weeks notice
of the strike. Strike or no strike, it's
bound to keep up its services. Its obliga-
tions to the public are paramount to all
other considerations, and the public will
hold ii responsible for any failure or gen
eral neglect OF its duty.
Orderly and Systematic.
NEW YORK, July 20-The Sun says edi-
torially regarding the strike of the tele-
graphers: Whatever may be the result of
the gigantic strike that was begun yester.
day in this city and elsewhere, the proceed
ing was an orderly, systematic and quiet
as the preparations for il had been and the
Brotherhood of Telegraphers gave an
illustration of their continental power
at once interesting to philosophers and
instructive to corporations. AS in mil
itary history the train bands OF the middle
ages were succeeded by the colossal armies
of modern times. So in industrial history
the petty local strikes OF other days have
given away before continental combinations
ike those of railroad strikes in 1877 and
telegraph strikes of yesterday. These
things are significant TO those who know
how to look into them, end their significance
will neither be increased by success or di-
minished by the failure OF the strikers to.
6ay
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Sad Accident nj Grafton.
Sner;1I IN The pc1is,sr

GRAFTON, July 20.-While the two-yeW
Id dsugh,er OF }. Lyons, of West Grafton,
was playing around some machinery this
.veriug, some of which was in casing, it
fel! on the child, crushing its skull.
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Orderly and Systematic.
oarsmap Teemer Saves Lifc.

MCKEEsPoRr, July 2O.-Iesterdsy morn.
ing, while John Teemer and Martin Nc.
Donough were out prscticing in their scull
boats on the Ioushiogheny river, at Nc.
Keesport, they were both upset, and Nc
Dorough would have drowned but for the
assistance rendered by Teemer, who caught
him as he was going down for the last time
and held him until help came.
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For VRgrancy.

Commissioner Mcdowell is authority for
the statements that the prisoners were al
lowed the freedom of the corridors, and
that no attempt was made to lock them in
their cells. Sheriff Hoover gave as an ex-
cuse for this that he had no keys, they
having been mislaid or lost. 1t is alleged
that the girl Lizzie James, who is
weak minded, has been repeatedly
outraged by the male prisoners
and was treated worse than dog. Mrs.
Oyler said she frequently was a witness to
these sCandalous proceedings. Commis-
sioner Mcdowell said the Jail was in a
filthy condition, and that the prisoners had
complsined to him about the terrible odor
they were compelled to inhale. They had
expressed willingness, he said, to scrub
the Jail once a week il they were furnishei II
the nipple mentS.
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DlsGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS.
The Crime.Stained County OF Fayette,
Pa.-A Case OF Carelessness and Neg.
Iect In Its County Prison.

UNIoNTowN, Pa, July 20.-For some time
past considerable complaint has been heard
in reference to the manner in which the
Jail In this place has been conducted. 1t
was noised abroad that the prisoners were
kept under no restraint whatever, and re-
Gently very scandalous and outrageous
proceedings had taken place within
the prison walls. At the present
time there are twenty.three prisoners in
the Jail, two of whom are females, Hester
Oyler, an old woman, OF Everson, who IVES
sent here couple OF weeks ago charged
with illegal liquor selling. and girl named
Lizzie James, whose parents live at Irwin
station, who was committed from Connells-
Vile,
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hsvs besn very ssck oyss twe Iee9
1s:y g: na.t e: e:,,ii :,i n Sat- sss ~, s
not reach de vSr!t psrt Tbs iusn -
heart vosId Gil sp svssy night sed dlsst1o
me, ssd ny tbrost ~ very hed. ~
ny children never should die ie lsA6e
until I bad tYisd Hop Bittsfa ! hese
taken too bottles. Thy hsys heiSeo -
ysTy much indeed. an nos we'll 1here
uas lot Of sick folks hsrs. vho hsss 80
hou they bslpsd Ne. ssd thsy ueed -
srd are esrsd, aed fssl - thsokfai - -
dat thefs q 10 valuable DedScies me4e.
Ma JufIA q. CVunfn0.
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RsshIss's Assssa aasvs.

The greatest medical wosdss d ths vcsA
wsrrsnted 70 speedily eurs DasnA btsie0s
Cuts. Ulesrs 81 Rhseo, Isv3 -. ~.
Capesss, Piiss.. Chilhisies. Coma L..
Chspped Hands ssd I'll skin srspoeeS
Gusrsntesd 70 cure IN evssy lneeeeS
money rsfundsd = esro - -,
als 81 Logan 4 Co.. Dfaesis@
Corner
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crxrixsAr1, July 1--At . picnic Eives
By fte Ge,nsn Methodist Hpieccpal c1era
yesterday 1t . grove Ave .tlss eeH -
EeypcrI Duo Heees ag0y!ee M. -
s 81 Iss'.s ~ - ,is s::s:s 4 i r.
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From Csdis Ju.etioe by Ssily - )
sis Geptenber Ssh. This isstitstlee . 3:
over dirty ysan'. geepsfity viii ooSs. - =
20 a6ord unequaled o1pone1lY -.
perjpe lsaebsis Soe eoonsoa eeNSS ~ :. !.
siIi not = sSsellsi = r. s1p y
neat 1essR. u - 0tsess - - f.Ss<ss,.y ~
6 Css:sss. ~
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PRovIpEscx, July 2o-The situation in
telegraph circles remains unchanged. Both
the Western Union and American Rapid
Offices are working with full forces, with
the exception of one man in the Rapid
Office discharged last night for refusing to
co TO work in the company's office in New
York.
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Worcester.

WORCESTER, Mass. July 2o-The tele-
grsph operators are still absent and firm.
The Western Union Manager is alone in
the office, save the reinforcement of one
lady who spilled this morning and was set
TO work.
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H.sznsrovn, Nm, July 1D--Ths SAen-
ssdosh ysliev railroad has hasn tsnpo.
s.siis ssesdsa~i. - ~ spsi4ssss ssa =
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81. Louis.

CINCINNATI, July 0.-The Western Union
office has received number more operators
to-day, and business is being forwarded as
fast as received to all points not crippled
Two of yesterdays strikers have made ap-
plicstion for reinstatement. No action has
vet been taken in their case. The strikers
maintain excellent department. They con
tinue sctive in trying to persuade the WORK
ing operators to Join them.
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The striking operators held meeting to.
night at which seventy.eight members OF
the brotherhood answered the roll call.
-Four additions we're made to the list 70.
day. Encouraging reports were received
from prominent cities. Resolutions were
adopted to stand rirm TO the last and pledg-
ing themselves 10 total abstinence from in
toxicating LIQUORS, and to use the same
carefuluess and moderation while on a
strike that marked their conduct while in
tba ODpratino rOOnl
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-17

CHARLES B. LYMAN, chief clerk in the Office
of the United States treasurer, was appointed
as cDlct examiner Of the civil ser;ice Commis-
sion.
The FLORIDA Ship Canal Company was duly
organized at Washington on the eth inst. 1t
Is expected that work will be begun by the first
of September. The canal will run from the ST.
johns River on the east to the Swauee River
on the Gulf Of Mexico.
The New York Daily World was sold on tLc
9th inst. to Joseph Pulitzer, of the st. Louis
Post Dispatch.
y DISASTROUS storm is reported along the lie
high and Wyoming valleys, III PennsyNania.
on the 9th inst.
y CONTRACT was sgne on the Sth inst, be-
tween Pittsburg firm and New York state
officials for the employment Of $50 convcts in
the Clinton Prison for five years az 35 cents
aay. Iley wlllmanufacturc clothing for the
Wholesale trade.
G. c. SNowDoN Il Co., heavy ironmongcrs of
Montreal. who lately failed will pay fifty cents
on the dollar
UP to the Sth inst. Gfty-fom saloons in
Dcs Moines, Iowa, had taken out licenses, for
which 81 900 each were paid.
SIXTEEN young men and boys were fined 80
and costs each in Chicago, on the 7th inst,
iuIi u dllS Nll!lt III llIDllOu.
They were all arrested while stealing rides to
their work.
y. \. TINsMAN Il Co., coke manufacturers,
OF PttShurg, made an assig ment on the 7th
inst. Liabilities S3lG,0O0.
The United States supreme coutt adjourned
on the 7th inst, to October. Among the i'm
portant decisions rendered by the court daring
the last few days of its session was that of the
famous " Granger" law care appealed from
the supreme court of Indiana. The decision
Of the court below is affirmed.
ANOTHER senator is in trouble. Complaint
was filed in tie tirsT judicial district of Nevada
on the 7tll by the wife of Senator Fair, of Ne
vada, for divorce. Mrs Fair charges her hus-
band with habi.ually breaking the seventh
commandment.
Moody and Sankey, the evangclists, were
among the passengers on the Liverpool steamer,
ALASKA. which arrived at New York on the eta
inst.
The bricklAyers of Petersburg, Va, struck
on the ith for an increase to 20 per day. which
was granted.
CHAs. b. HALL, president of the Boston Ma
ional Bank, died on the Sth inst.
JOHN RUSSELL, printer by trade and
miscr, died in llevue Hospital, New York,
on the I'd lust, without friends or home. AT
ter his death it was found that lie had $40
OUO III New York banks. He was an English
man.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-17
4 Novel Fire EScaDp,
[From the Chicago News.


a test exhibition of q new system o.
fire escape, the invention of George II.
Thompson, Of Plattsmourh, Neb,, was
given at the Leland Hotel this afternoon.
The novelty of the escape lies in the fact
that there ~ no apparatus. In the face
OF the wall, and either directly above Que
another, or at distances of One.hglf or
one whole brick to the right aud left, ,
cavities are made by the removal Of two
bricks. The distance between each
cavity is equivalent to three courses of
brick. In each receptacle thus made an
non box eight inches long by four and
one.Lalt inches wide and high is placed
1t hts the niche precisely, being OF the
cublcal dimensions Of the two bricks re-
moved. The front of the box, which is
flash with the wall, and which swings
from hinges on Its upper edge, yields to
gentle pressure and reveals a solid iron
bar, of the length Of the box, which,
fixed transverSe!y in the sides Of the lat
ter, fits neatly in channel nodded into
the swinging lid. It is this bar, which
band may firmly grasp, and 4 loot Sc
curelY rest upon, that constitutes Il
round in the invisible ladder SO many
boxes then, so many rounds. and OF
such Il length the ladder. If the
lateral space is limitcd, as along the
edge of building, or between a yer
tlcal row Of windows in close proxim-
ity, then the boxes are placed the one
above another. Otherwise they are
more conveniently placed TO form a zig
zlg row, invisible when painted the
Identical color Of the building. The
bottom OF each box is slightly beveled
to permit OF the escape of water When
he boxes ere to be inserted in the walls
OF stone structure, suitable rpcoptaclcs
are to be chlseled out of the stone.
This ladder if it may be so called. has
been placed in the wall of the hotel
irontlng upon the alley separating the
former ard the armory. Mr.. Thomp-
son showed that he has invented fire
escape that will bear more men than
ever fire-la3der has been known to mold.
and which IS accessible from every win
dow where cgress is possible. Mr.. Le-
land is causing his house TO be thor.
oughly provided with these always-ready
Romeo ladders, four or five of which
will soon have been placed in both the
jackson Street and Michigan Avenue
wells. The inventor OF this escape. who
has made use of the system in the
Plattsmouth Opera House, OF which he
was the architect, and with which sew
eral Omaha buildings are soon to be
provided, conceived tho essential idea of
the system after the Newhall House fire.
when he saw the advantage of an escape
OF thus character, which might be incor-
porated in the walls of the building by
the builder.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-17
TWO Ways OF Looking at Things,

CFrom the New Haven Rcgister.l
Two boys went to hunt grapes. One
was happy because they found grapes.
The other was unhappy because the
grapes had seeds in them.
Two men, being convalescent, were
asked how they were. One said: II am
better to- day" The other said: .'I was
worse yesterday"
When jtrains one man says: "This will
make mud" Another: "This will lay
the dust"
Two children looking through colored
glasses, one said: "The world is blue. I"
And the other said: at is bright"
Two boys eating their dinner, one said ::
81 would rather have something other
than this" The other said: "This is
better than nothing"
A servant thinks mans house is prin-
clpally kitchen. A guest, that it is priuci-
pally parlor.
II am sorry that live," says one man.
81 am sorry that lmust die, says another.
81 am glad" says one, "that it is no
worse. 81 am sorry" says another,
chat it is no better"
One man spoils good repast by think
ing of Better repast of another.
Another one enjoys poor repast by con-
trasting it with none at all.
One man is thankful for his blessings.
Another is morose for his misfortune.
One man thinks he is entitled to bet
ter world, and is dissatisfied because
he hasn't got it. Another thinks he is
not Justly entitled to any, and is satisfied
with this.
One man makes up his account from
his wants. Another from his assets.