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fned for dieorderly conduct, and hanged
him. Two hours efserward the place where
he had worked was set on fire and destroyed,
together with six other buildings.
The national encampment, Grand Army
of the Republic, in session at Denver, Col,
reported an accession to their ranks during
the past year of 81 posts and over $1,000
men. A large military procession was a
feature of the occasion.
SIX negroes wee drowned while attempt
ing TO cross the Waccamaw river near Bel
lamy's landing N. c., in an cd ba rye.
In tearing down an old house near Warm
Springs, N. c., the skeleton of mail car
Tier has been found, with leather mailbag
CONT ming over thirty letters date1 1927.
AT the Grand Amy national tncampment
in Denver the election for commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Republic
resulted in the success of Colonel Robert b
Beath, of Philadelphia
The Ward Iron company, of Niles and
Philadelphia, Ohio, has suspended with liza
bilities estimated at $30O,o)O, and only about
5000 in assets.
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CAPTAIN WEBB.
The Noted English Swimmer Drowned
WhiIe Attempting to Swim Through the
Whirlpool Rapids Mt Niagara Falls.

the Noted English Swimmer Drowned
While Attempting to Swim Through the
Whirlpool Rapids Mt Niagara Falls.
Captain Matthew Webb, the champion
English swimmer, who successfully swan
the British Channel, has been drowned in
the whirlpool rapids, In the Niagara river.
In 1861 the little steamer Maid of the Mist,
with three persons on board, ran the
whirlpool rapids of the Niagara
passed through the whirlpool itself,
and glided into the quiet waters at Queens
town. OF the three on board two survived
the trip, the only persons who ever went
through this fearful channel alive. Captain
Webb attempted the feat without any ar;i-
hclal aid whatever. and was conn.,
dent his endurance and swimming powers
would enable him to accomplish the under
taking in safety. He was rowed out into
the river, where he commenced undressing.
When near the Maid of the Mist landing
about three hundred yards above the old
suspension bridge at 4:02 p. M, he dived into
the water, and, on rising to the surface
began swimming toward the rapid:
Just as he entered the rapids, al
most Immediately under the bridge,
he was nearly turned over by the force
OF the water. From this point until he was
in the midst of the RAPIDS he was plainly
seen by tnOSe stinulng on the DrluSe, bNltn-
ming determine1ly. Attimes he plugged
out Q, sight, and then again could be seen on
top 'of a huge wa. Q He gradually passed
thr ugh the terrible rapids aud continued
on h way toward the VIII r'pool. He was
followed by as manv as cou'd get into car
riages. and even then they could not get
ahead of him. The last til at was set o. him
was Just as he was entering the Whirlpool,
when he was apparently doing nicely.
When he struck the whirlpool he was rushed
TO the American side, where the waves, it is
estimated. are from thirty to forty feet high,
and the last seen of him he was throwing up
one arm. His intention had been to pass
the whirlpool on the Canada side. The river
was at once searched for two miles below the
whirlpool, but no trace of Webb could be
found, and it is generally believed that he
was engulfed in the whirlpool. Captain
Webb leaves a wife and two children in Eng
land.
Captain Webb was a man of powerful
physique, being six feet one inch tall, finely
proport ohe1, and weighing about 200 pounds
in condition. He was most powerful
swimmer and made long distance swimming
a specially. His greatest feat was in swim
ming from Dover to Calais. The trial took
place August "a and %, 1875, and, after a
desperate struggle with the choppy sea. he
accomplished The stance of twenty fve
miles in twenty-one hours and forty-five
minutes, the lest time on record.
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ECCENTRIC SUICIDES.

Minnie Mitchell, of Shreveport, La. COM
mitted suicide on the dav in which her lover
was killed on the railroad.
81 have already outlived my allotted
time" said Mrs. Mary Bach, of Wheeling,
w. Va, and then she killed herself. She
was eighty-seyen years old.
After losing suit and being roundly
abused for it by his client, Co.onel j. D..
Pickett. of Gatesville, Texas, took twenty
two grains of morphine.
Grief for his first wife caused Samuel L
Magruder, of barnes own, Md TO cut his
throat, although he had been married about
one year to an estimable lady.
Mrs. II. V. Jones Philadelphia bride of
but two months, took laudanum because her
husband forbade her taking money from the
cash drawer of his store.
Mrs Kincaid, of Rutland, o., was enter
tanning merry company of friends in her
pariors. Suddenly she excused herself, went
out, and drowned herself in the cistern.
Jennie Roberts, Of Meadyille, Penn.
could not get permission from her paren 8
to attend dance upon which she had set her
heart. She resented their refusal by drown
ing herself in the mill pond.
After a quarrel with his wife about some
money which he had out at interest in Ger
many, Christoph X to-, aged seyenty-tv
went out in his orchard at South Belleville,
Mo, and hung himself. He first struck his
wife ON the head with spade, then ran to
his barn and stabbed himself in the left
breast, and finally went to the orchard TO
hang.
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another South African potentate, and has
sought safety in fight.
GREAT floods have caused much damage
in Buenos Ayres.
ApvroEs from Durham, South Africa, rela-
tive to the death of Cetywayo at the hands
of the insurgents state that all his wives and
many of his chiefs we're also killed.
CASES of the Egyptian cholera have oc-
Cured in the London docks and in Wales.
SUCCESSIVE earthquake shocks have de-
stroyed the village of Toacaso. in Ecuador
Every house in the place was shaken down
Other villages in the vicinity also suffered
heavily.
DENIS MAURICE O'CoNoR, home rule men,
Der of parliament for county Sligo, Ireland
is dead.
THE steamer Hankow, from London to
Honolulu. with 1900 passengers, at the end
of voyage. lasting fifty-four days reports
the death of fifty-ive children from the
measles and whooping cough. 1t is surmised
that the passengers are natives which the
steamer took up in Chill and Peru.
A BERLIN dispatch says that Professor Pu-
tlitz mot Zuputlitz), who killed himself
after drawing death lot il so-called
American duel, refused to fight the duel in
the ordinary way because his antagonist was
short-sighted. His death attracts serious at
tention TO the dueling mania.
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A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.

Many Persons Killed or Injured by Trains
Collision with n Freight Chr near Ro-
chester.
At 8 O'Clock at night the steamboat express
on tie Niagara Falls VISION of the Rome,
Watertown and Ogdensblrg railroad mel
with an accident frightful in its conse-
querce The train was an enormous
one-a doub!e-header, as those are called
that ara dragged by two engines-and
the engines were followed by six sleepers
and six ordinary coaches. 1t was bound
from Niagara for Clayton, when ,e its a.
sengers we're to take boat to the Tho lsand
Islands. 1t was behind time, and swept
along at forty miles an hour. The way was
along the south shore of Lake Ontario. Sud
denly, when it neared Carlyon, six miles
north of Rochester, N Y, it dashed into
thunder squat of unusual violence. The
rain fell in sheets, the wind roared
and pressed heavily against the cars,
and, while the thunder was head above
the rumb' and CHATTER of the train, frequent
flashes of lightning illun mated The country
side There were 200 people in the cars,
mainly pleasure seekers, and neary allfrom
Michigan.
A box freil h. car had been standing in a
siding near Cariyon, and had either been
b own ong TO the janet on of the sid
ing and main track or had been pushed
there by some ma ciols person. 1t
TO ted so that one of its corre
p.oj ected beyond one Iail of Z Q main
track, and the swiftly moving express train
ran against it. Instantly, aud without any
apparent loss of Roadway, the engines, bag
gage car, and two of the sleepers left the
Talls and were heaped one upon the other-a
mass of wreckage-beside the track. block
ing the way of the rest of the cars and par
TALLY wre citing many of them. 1t is reported
that the crash was heard three miles away
The cries and shrieks of the wounded ad led
to the horrors of the situation for those
who have described the scsne, and who
could not in the 6arkness, and amid the
binding and deafening storm, compreh nd
the extent or exact nature of the disas err
The countrS is very sparsely settle there,
and assistance olme slowly. The first en-
CINE tipped over on its side, and the engi-
neer aud fireman on it escaped. The en-
gineer and fireman on the second engine
we're among the killed. Twenty -thres persons
in all-four of them train hands and the rest
passengers-lost their lives, and nearly RS
many more we've injured.
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Foreign N ews.

JOINER, of the American rifle team, won
the cup and $50 presented specially for the
team competition. Human, of the Ameri-
can team, won the St. Leger prize.
SOME one with troubled conscience has
returned $500 to the treasury.
TIE London Times, in its crop report,
says the area of wheat planted in the United
Kingdom is from ten to fifteen per CEN.
below that of last year, and the yield will he
below the average. Reports from the con-
tirant are very similar in their conclusions
SEVEN women and children have been
drowned by the upsetting of pleasur boa
on Lake Lugano, Switzerland.
A GREAT sensation has been caused in Ber-
lin by the suicide of DR.. Zuputlitz, profess IT
of political economy at the Berlin Uni
versi y.
rIsPAToH from Egypt says that TO pre-
Ven; The IRE ad of cholera "a large part of
Bulah has been burned. Corpses we're found
in many of The houses. The eight hundred
inhabitants of Bulah encampe1 at Tourah
are surrounded by a Gordon. Nothing is
supplied them, and they are dying of famine.
Cholera is spreading among the guards"
pHNEhAL IL ". Os OLDJ "a iiic CAltbl
Stctes army, who took passage on a steamer
at Vera Cruz, Mexico, for New York, and
was taken with yellow fever, compelling his
removal to the shore while the vessel was a..
Havana, died there from the disease
General Ord was born in Cumberland, Nd,
in 1918, and was graduated at West Point in
1889. He took a prominent part on the
Federal side in the civil war, and after its
close commanded the departments of Cali
fornia, the Platte and Texas. In January,
1881, he was placed on the retired list. Most
of the time since his retirement he has made
his home with his son-in-law, General Ire
vino, who for q time was Mexican minister
of war.
TWELVE doctors who are experts in cholera
have been sent from England to Egypt. A
doctor with forty assistants has also been
sent to Egypt from India.
TIE Prince of Hohenlohe Langenbourg.
who is president Of the German Colonial
society, is about O start on two months
journey through the United States and
Northwest Canada.
CErEwAYo, the Zulu king, has been de-
fea'ed, with immense loss to his army, by
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

FIRE destroyed the Gibson house, at Ports-
mouth, N. II. with Stoddard's stables, twen-
ty-six horses and many vehicles.
Mss. LANarRY has sailed from New York
Tor England. She will return in October.
AFTER two men-a liquor dealer and n
mlner-had fought eleven rounds of prize
6ght near Nantioke, Penn, crowd OF
women broke into the ring brandishing
snives and pistols and put stop to the
brutal exhibition.
The poet Dongfellow's estate has been in
ventoried at $4,000, of which two-thirds is
personal property.
PARTIAL victory was scored by the strik-
ing telegrephers in New York, the managers
Of the American Rapid company having
compromised with the operators, three hun
sred of whom resumed work.
A HEAVY frost h IS visited the White noun
nins.
A SUMMER storm on the New Jersey coast
GAS caused great destruction of property in
,he vicinity of Long Branch. At Atlantic
Highlands, settlement of cottage and tent
,ouses, out of forty houses eight were swept
INTO the water. while twenty-five others
we're unroofed or otherwise damaged. All
he hotels, filled with summer guests, were
mroofed, and thedamage done is estimated
1t 100000.
SAMUEL J. HOWARD, one of the wealthiest
eolored men in the United States, died few
days ago in Brooklyn. He was eighty-five
gears old and left fortune of several hun
5red thousand dollars.
ATTIRE destroyed the extensive works of the
Howe Sewing Machine company at Bridge
tort, Conn. The buildings consumed occu-
pied three sides of a square, were of brick
snd four stories high. The company employs
shout 400 hands, and was turning out about
100 machines day. The loss on the build
tngs, machinery and stock burned is about
t35OOOO.
DANIEL b. PHILLIPS, forty one years old
Tn evangelist we'll known in New York and
Boston, committed suicide at Norh Wey-
mouth, Mass, by hanging. He had besn
suffering from sunstroke.
THIRTY-sIx italian bootblacks were ar
rested at Atlantic City, n. j., under special
law, passed by the New Jersey legisla ui @,
tnacting that no child or children urde
he age of eighteen shall be allowed to
black boots, solicit aid, play musical instlu
ments. or become a mendicant, &c.
The boys were discharged with the under
standing that they shall cease their oc-
cupation.
ANoTH ER cremation has occurred at the
Washington PENN furnace, the BODY
being that of Charles Meininger, ST., of
Cine matt, aged about sixty years. His
ashes we're sent by EXP ress 10 his widow.
WAGON containing Henry Welsh and wife
and a neighbours little girl was struck by a
rain at Mount Joy, Penn, and all thIes
were killed.
RAGS having been shipped from Egypt to
Boston the collector of customs at the latter
place has beenordered by Secretary Folger to
enforce the quarantine regulations so as to
guard against cholera.
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INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPT,
sfl4,553,3eG Collected During the Ps
Year mt n cost of About IS, 12O,OOO.

S1l4,553,3 eG Collected During the Ps
Year ut n cost of About S5, 2O,O0O.
The commissioner of internal revenue h
written a letter to Secretary Fdger in
gard to the OF erations of his Office, in Will
he says.
The Offices of all the collectors of incer1
rev nue., l26 in number were careful
Examined before the Gle Sc of the last fis}
year aiding June 30, 1883, and the emit
collections of internal revenue for IN
year, amounting to $I44, 3 IS, 1886 have BID
not only acc )unt ID for. but paid into 4
treasury of t ne United States. The COLI
ton of this vast sum cost the governmd
abouj 500 600, percentage of three al
one-half. and the money was disbursed viii
cut any loss 10 lie United States.
The compa atise stat ement of the Tecei1
during the fiscal years ending June 30, IL
I'd 1Ss3. shows rece pts as follows:
In 1889, 46,523,273; in 1883, $1i4, 553, 81
being d 9crt ase of S1,969.a07. The total
ceipts from spni S was in1SS2 $6],e7' ,40S;|
1873, $74,3CS,775. being an increase
S4,4J5,367. The inc ease was mainly frd
spirits distilled from grain $4,274,314; fr4
retail liqu or dealers Especial tax, S169,2I
from spirits distil, ed from fruit $50, 786, ID
fem whole sale quor dealers Especial tai
$16,e97. The total receipts from obad
were: In 1892 SAL, 1901 ,9s9: in 1888, S42, I'D
90, being decrease Ct S5,2S7, 73a.
The deer ease was mainly on chewing o.
smoiing tJbaceo, $2,S 800; on cigars a
Gle DOT $3.50, $50; and on dealers in II a
fat tured tobl Especial tax, $500,
The total receipts from fermented liquN
was, il 1882, SIG, 153,t 20: in 1883. $3.50
615, being an increase of S74G,695. The
crease was mainly on ale, beer and port
S745.sGi. The special tax on brewers
de'' Used s10.93o.
The total receipts from b lnks and banke
not national, were: In 1882, 1928 ,458;
1888, ~, 1884. being decrease of 81,
asa. The dec ease on bank deposits
$ ,T9.s.4, md on bank capital, $431, I
TIE total niscell neols receipts we're ls
81 $50, 497: 1873, S7,430, 731, being deere
of S419, 7G6 TT ere was an increase of SIG
!73o1 e lalties, and decrease of $5i6,
on tank checks, friction matches, pat
medic mes, etc.
The following tabular statement is an
mate of the annual reduction Of inter
taxation, nde. date of March 3, 1888, on
basis of the receipts for the fiscal year 18S
Objects of Turation. annual ReductI
Capita and deposits of banls and
bankers not national. ........... S., 249u
Snuff, chewing and smoking to-
DdccO. IL, JUo
Cigars NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 9,122
cigarettes. .................... IVA
Speti ! a es of re ldlers of to-
bloco and of manufacturers of
and dealers in tobacco, snuff,
cigrr-, etc. 1,136
st mp taxes on bank che cks. -. 2,31a
Friction matches. ......... 3,272
! ent medicines, per.umery, cos
metlcS, etc. ....... ............ l,5Id
Total. ............ .$S,377
Add capital a I'd deposits of nation
al banks, paid directly to the
treasurer. ................... 5,95.
Total reduction .....s42,6 IS
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REDEE MING THE BONDS.
The Residue of the Registered Three n
Half FER Cents. 10 be Redeemed No
ber1

The Residue of the Registered Three al
Half rer Cents. 10 be Redeemed No,
Der I.
The following is the text of the one
bred and twenty-frst call for the redemI
of bonds of the five per cent. funded lod
1881, continued at three and half per
fIom August u, 1881.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, d. c., July &c, 1888
By virtue of the authority conferred
law upon the secretary of the treasury, nj
is hereby given that the bonds herein|
indicated W II not be accepted for surre
ard that the principal and accrued init
of the bonds here n below designated
be paid 1T the treasury of the United 81
in the CT y of Washington, ID. c., on MOI
Der l, IS 3, and thai the interest on
bonds will cease on that d ~, viz: All n
tered bonds of the acts of July IA, 1901
January 90, 1871, continued during the |
ure of the government under the tern
circular No. 80, dated May II, 1SS1
b ar interest at the rate of three and
half per cent. per annum from Augu
1881, and which constitute the residu
those issued under the acts of July IA,
and January 20, 1871, known as CONT
fives, and which have not he retofore
called or which havenot been offered TO
render and exchange into three per
bonds of the &C. of July II, 1882. The b
embraced in this circular are those last
and numbered, as required by section
the act July II, 1870, andinclude those
have been issued on transfers since tn
hundred and twentie h call was issued
three months interest due Nov. 1888, o
above described bonds will not be pa
checks forwarded to the holders OF
bonds, but will be paid with the priI|
to the holders at the time of presenta
Any of the bonds embraced in this ca
be redeemed prior to their maturity
prescutation to this department, intere
ny paid to the date of such REDEEM
Bonds forwarded for redemption s
be ad1iessed to the Secretary
the Treasury. Division of j.
etc, Washington, ID. c." and al
Bonds called by this circular should
signed to the Secretary of the Treasu
redemption. Where che cks in pay
are desired in favor of any one but the
the bonds should be assigned to the "
tary of the Treasury for redemption fl
count Of" Here insert the name
personor persons to whose order the
should be made payab'e.)
CHARLES j. FOLGER, Secret
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From w as1ilngton.

The portraits on the new postage stamps
that come in use October l are: One-cent,
Frauklin two-cent, jackson; three-cent,
Washington; five-cent, Garfield six-cent,
Lincoln; seven-cent, Stanton; ten cent, JEFF
ferson; twelve cent, Clay; fifteen-cent, Scott;
thirty cent, Hamilton; ninety -cent, Perry.
The amount for which the star reuters are
10 be proceeded against in civil suits exceeds
S1,1C0,O09.
COMMODORE WILLIAM N. JEFFERs, of the
United States navy, died the other day in
Wa hington.
SECRETARY FoLGER has written a letter
declaring that the trade dollar is not legal
tender, and that the Pres dent has no power
to cause trade dollars TO be received by the
treasury a. face value.
The secretary of the treasury, at the sug-
gestion of Surgeon General Hamilton, of the
marine hospital service, has telegraphed In
structio ms to the American sul-gene-al in
London and the consul in Liverpool 10 ap-
point at once sanitary inspo ctors whose duty
it 81 all be to inspect all vessels leaving tn !,
United Kingdom for the United States, and
to inform by cable the health authorities in
ease on board. or being liable 10 develop
disease on the voyage. This action was
taken in consequence OF the rumor which has
reached Washington that cholera had ap-
peared in the London docks.
NJ. A. DAUTuIN, manager of the Louisiana
lottery, has sued Postmaster-Ge General Gresh-
am for $4,000 for depriving him of the
use of the mails.
The secretary of the treasury has issued a
call for the redemption of bonds of the five
per cent. funded loan of 1881, continued at
three and one-h half per cent. from August -,
1871. This call, which includes all of the
outstanding "Windoms," or three and n
! half per cent. bonds amounting to 49,, t00,-
! co.., natures November /, 1888.
Hen MONTGOMERY BLAIR, ex-Tostmaste'
general, died few days ago a his home
near Washington, aged seventy years. lie
was born in Kentucky, and was the son of
Francis P. Blair (born 1871, and died 1870,
who was for many years leading Demo-
critic editor, but in 1850 took a prominent
part in organizing the Republi party.
Montgomery Blair graduated in 1885 at
the United States Military academy Mt
West Point, and served in the war yaillst
the Seminole Indians in Florida. Resign
ing his commission in 1896, he stud ei law,
and was admitted to the bar at St. Louis,
and from 1889 to 1S49 held civil and judicial
positions in Missouri. In 1862 he removed
to Maryland, where he was appointed
solicitor of the United States in the
TT of claims. He had len Demo-
Graf, bat upon the repeal of the Mis- o1ri
Compromise he, with his father and elder
brother, joined the Republican party, and
was removed from office by President Blu
chanan. In 1S he was appointed by Pres
iden. Lincoln to be postmaster-genera, re-
tanning the Office till 1864. when he re,i gned.
He afterward joined the Democra ic party.
The internal revenue commiss oner re-
rorrs that during the past fiscal year the l2t
cole ctors of internal revenue collected
Sl4i.5j9, 1866, at an expense of about
S5,12o,00O.