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accomplish the same in years. In the
same year $3.50, 600, 900 were paid, large
ly IN wages for the construction and i'm
provement of lines, and 1888 miles
were added to the mileage, larger in
crease by 1900 miles than any previous
year shows. From 1870 to 1881 the rail
road mileage increased from So, GA miles
to 104, 813. If in the next ten years it
doubles again, in 1890 we shall have
200, 600 miles of railroad. 1T is believed
by those conversant with the, condition
of the country and capable of Judging
of future needs, that this estimate falls
short of what will be the actual increase.
Mr.. Poor believes that to meet the re-
quirements of our mineral and agricul-
tural resources, as they shall be here
after developed, 5000 miles of rail-
road, in addition to what we now have,
will be called for. The amount of cap
ital already invested In the construction
and equipment of railroads is $751;
996, 931. Estimating the cost of the adj
ditional mileage to be constructed dur
ing this decade at the same rate aa that
of what has already been built, we find
that In 1890 the tremendous sum of SILL
900, 000,000 will be invested in railroads.
The opinion which predicts this in
crease is based on our growth in popu-
lation and the increase of the tonnage
transported; $50, OOO,O 900 tons being car
ried in 1881, against 100000 in 1851.
The value in 1851 was so per head of
population. It was in 1881, 5000 per
head. Another astonishing fact is that
in operating and constructing lines of
railroad there were employed in 1881,
100000 persons, or a thirty second
part of our entire population estimated
at SO, 100000.
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The Fond duEac Flood.

A dispatch from Fond du Lac dated July
22d, says: sat intervals during the entire
week Fond du Lac has been visited BY the
most terrific transforms accompanied by heavy
wind. Last night about 1890 o'clock the
heavens seemed to open and deluge of rain
fell, sweeping all light material before it. This
was kept up during the greater part of the
night, and at dawn everybody was of the
opinion that heavy rain had prevailed. At
about 11:30 o'clock A. NJ. several dams in De
Nevue creek gave way, and the vast quantity
of water which was thus confined swept through
the entire eastern portion of the city. Upwards
of 200 dwelling houses were submerged more
or less, according to their location. The only
mode of conveyance in that section is by boat
Fortunately there are no accidents or fatalities
to record, but the damage to property is esti-
mated at fully 5000, the larger portion of
which falls upon the poorer classes. For two
hours the water continued to rise, until it was
three feet deep in the middle of the streets
Later. however, it began to recede. The
water travelled with such velocity that it tore
up the Division Street pavement at the lower
end of the street, washing it away to depth of
several feet"
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Heavy Fire in New York.

A little after 1 O'Clock on the afternoon of
the 22d, flames were seen to break out of the
sixth story of the Munro building, large
nine-story structure extending from Vande
water Street to Rose Street, New York, in
which George Monro published the Seaside
Library aud the Fireside Companion. The fire
started in hallway on the west side of the
sixth floor The Munro building is practically
two structures, one of which faces Vandewater
Street and the other Rose Street. The Vande-
water Street building is only eight stories high
The two buildings open into one another on
the fifth and sixth floors. 1t was in the Vande-
water Street building that the fire was discov
covered. The top floor of this building is &C.
cupied by Geo. Munro's press-room and by the
Hoe Publishing Company. On the seventh
floor were the Stock Company and the Clay
Novelty Manufacturing Company. The whole
of the sixth floor is occupied by Lovejoy, Son
g. Co.. electrotypers. The flames soon spread
from the electrotype rooms to the stock rooms
above, Owing to the narrowness of the river,
and the fact that the buildings were supplied
with inside shutters OF iron, the fire gained
great heldway before it could be reached by
The firemen. Shortly after o'clock the presses
fen from the eighth story to the fifth story,
which is occupied by A. Anderson, printer, and
the Vulcanite Jewelry Company. At the same
time Loveioy's batteries and hydraulic presses
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Vessels Burned.

At about 1870 O'Clock on the morning CT the
10Th inst, a spark from an engine fell into a
pile of jute, which had just been landed on
Harbeck's dock. New York, from the vessel
Lawrence E. Delap, from Calcutta. The dock
was filed with hemp, jute and coffee. The
flames spread with rapidity and in few min
utes the entire dock was abaze. The Delap
was the first vessel to catch fire, and all her
rigging was burned before she could be towed
out. Next to her, on the south side Of the
dock, was the ship Perseverance, also from Cal
cutta, which arrived on the 18th, and on the
north side lay the ship Col. Adams. from Cal
cutta. To both these vessels the flames were
communicated, and the crews jumped over
board for safety. The ship Delap was burned
to the waters edge. She was valued with her
cargo at $4,000 The ship Col. Adams burned
at the pier. The bark Perseverance foated
into the stream and burned to the waters edge.
The total loss is now estimated at ST. 900, 900.
Twelve men were seriously injured and one
man is reported missing
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SPOR Ting.

HE British team won The information
al rifle match by As points. The grand
totals were: British, 1 95l; American,
1906,
WILLIAM ELLIOTT, ex-champion oars-
man OF England, aud George Gaisel, of
New York, are arranging q three mile
and-turn race for $500 a side.
WILLIAM CUMMINGS. the English
champion runner, was beaten by John
nonrihan, Of Cambridge, in a fve-mile
race at Springfield, Mass, July 4th;
time 27:44.
E. FL. CARSON, of East Rochester, n,
H., recently walked eleven miles up
Mount Washington, pushing his bicycle
before him, and then made the descent
on the wheel from the Tip Top House
to the Glen House in one hour and fifty
minutes, being the first wbeelman to ac-
complish the feat.
TIE two-mile bicycle race at the
O!ymp1an Clubs rink OF the evening Of
the 18th, at Newport, r. T., drew a
large audience. There were three
entries, viz, ". D. Drown, of Provi-
dence; Prof. K. A. Skinner, and A. G.
Landers, Jr., of Newport. The prize
was a gold medal, and Skinner was
winner in 1904, beating Drown by 9
seconds and Landers by IL seconds.
The details Of the great race in which
1t is intended to bring together if pos
slble Iroquo1s, LeOnatus, Barnes, Eole,
Monitor and many others Of the best
horses IN America, owned by men Of an
enterprlslng sp1lt, have been completed.
1t will be run on Saturday, August 9Th,
at Monmouth Park, New Jersey, with
the other races. It will be a sweep
stakes at $500 each half forfeit with
S., 900 added, $1,000 to the second.
weights to be seven pounds above the
scale, distance one and one-half miles.
The Chicago Times of the 18th refers
to the great pacing event on the pre-
vious day as follows: johnson, the
winner of yesterdays race, became at
once the sensational PAGER of the year,
being generally regarded by horsemen
as the coming record cutter, and prophe-
cies are numerous that he will beat Lit
tie Brown Jugs great record of 2:104.
He is the property Of @. A. Mather, of
Berlin, Wis, and Mr.. Smith, of Mil
waukee, and is q fine looking bay geld
ing, years old, standing fifteen hands
and three inches high, and possessing
an intelligent looking head and good
sound limbs. His career as race horse,
however, did not commence until June
goth, Of the present year, when he won
race in straight heats at Detroit. This
performance he repeated later on at Sag
NAV, and last week at Kalamazoo he
did the same thing, there pacing his
fastest heat of the season up to yester-
day, the time being 2:174."
The following table shows the stand
ing of the league clubs at the close Of the
games on the Goth inst:
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A Brave Brute,

lFrom the Wheeling Inteligencer.l
Yesterday shortly before noon a man
was crossing the Seventeenth Street
bridge over Wheeling Greek, and, notie-
ing some object in the water, he leaned
over the balustrade. Reaching out too
far, he lost his balance and tumbled
over, falling into a deep hole in the
creek. He either could not swim, OF
was rendered powerless by fright or the
effect of his conclusion head first with
the water, and houndered about help
lessly. A few spectators we're in sight
and all rushed to the bank fully expect
ing to see the man drown. He sank
twice, and was about going down a third
time never to rise alive, when huge,
shaggy Newfoundland dog dashed down
the bank, leaped into the creek, swan
to the man, and grasping him by the
coat held him up and pulled him toward
the shore until the mans feet were on
solid ground, not letting go his hold until
both were clear out of the water. Then
the shaggy brute shook his coat dry, and
walked off paging his tail, anil the
pIaudits of hundred men and boys who
had been attracted by the shouts of few
people who witnessed the mans tumble.
The man, as much dead as alive, waited
until he had recovered his senses entire
" and drained somewhat, and then walk
ed off. Neither the man or the dog was
known to any of the eye witnesses.
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America HBSuEIed.

A Galveston, Tex, dispatch of the 18th
inst says: "a Laredo special says DR.. Camp
bell, the American consul at Monterey, arrived
in Laredo on the 18th inst, leaving the consulate
in charge Of Rev. Mr.. Shaw. To-day dispatches
were received addressed officially to Consul
Campbell, notifying him that last night the
American consul's Office was entered by a mob
of Mexicans, and Rev. Shaw, acting United
States consul. at Monterey was attacked and
beaten nearly to death. The furniture and
papers belonging to the consulate were de-
stroyed. The information creates a profound
sensation at Laredo. The citizens Geplore the
rupture between the two governments, but con-
slider that the insult is 80 bold that the United
States mnst resentit. Employees of the Mexi-
can National Railroad who arrived tonight say
that Shaw. after being beaten senseIess. re-
vived sufficiently to crawl to one of the public
hotels and give an account Of the outrage but
in a few moments became again insensible, and
at last accounts was still unconscious"
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Suicide

Information was received on the Goth inst,
that H. W. Lord, Jr., son of ex-COngressman
Lord, of Michigan, had committed suicide by
jumping from a steamer about eighty miles
below Washington, on the Potomac River.
The body was found by some ignorant coiored
men, who buried it after it was found. After
ward one of the men came to Washington with
some keys and addresses which he had taken
from Mr.. Lords pocket.
John Habercorn, an employe Of the rolling
mills at Joliet, H.. committed suicide On the
morning of the 18th, by taking strychnine, and
died in great agony. His inability to pay bis
debts, together with the feeling that he could
not free himself from the use of whisky, made
him melancholy and he took his life. The
body of an old man, Nicholas Sheer,
father of Mrs. John Kepler of st. Joseph,
Mich, was found under the dock near that
place on the 18th inst. He had been missing
for two weeks. He probably committed sui
eide. Sophia Wartman, living in Philadelphia,
aged 10, who in April last nearly succeeded in
killing herself with revolver, almost severed
her head from her body on the 18th inst,
with razor. She was ruined under promise
of marriage. On the night of the 18th inst,
JAS. Hellion killed himself in the presence OF
his mother and wife at Henderson, Tex. He
was drunk at the time.
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Conc alp IN smoke.

ScobelPS brewery at Cape Vincent, n. Y,
with large stock of lager, Gle, porter and
malt was consumed by fire on the 18Th inst.
-Four dwellings and stores were destroyed by
tires at Shenandoah, Pa, on the 18th inst
A fire at Louisiana, Mo-. on the 10th inst
destroyed four houses containing IA, 900 tons
Of Ice. Loss $50, coo.
The building occupied by Bernard IT. Smith,
manufacturer of piano castings, etc., New
York, burned on the 18th. Loss $50. OO0
Shortly after noon on the 10th inst. fire
broke out in Bell q Days pork-packing estab-
Hshment. on Liberty Street. PittsbuTg. Pa.
and the building and stock were damaged SIG
600. The adjoining buildings were also dam
aged to the extent of 5000.
About o'clock on the morning Of the 18th
inst, fire broke out in McLean's two-storv
frame building on the south side of Broad
Street, Texarkana, Ark. The fire soon spread
east and west. consuming nine or ten business
houses. G. E, Hayden & Co., Charles vii.
keison. Mrs. Lizzie O,DOnnen, N. Mclean,
John Nix 0. L. Thompson and Turner q Co.
are heavy losers. An entire half block was con-
sumed, except VI. Hecht's store The loss is
estimated to be from $25, 900 to $50, 900.
A building occupied by Charles Virgins.
general merchant, Rogers bakery and Silver.
thorn. apothecary, at Staynor, Ont, was
burned on the morning of the 10th inst Loss
1915, 900.
Fire on the 10th inst, at the new chemical
works just completed at Newberry, near
Detroit, destroyed the retorts, the buildings
and saw mill. Loss $125.000.
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GROWTH OF RAILROADS.

In Poor's Manual of Railroads for
1852 a striking exhibit is made of the
amount of business done by the railroads
of this country during the year 1881,
and of the rapid increase of mileage.
Our national debt is in round num-
bers 81, 800, 100000. The gross earn
ings of all the railroads for that year
were 1925, 1926, 119, an increase of $40,
100000 over the preceding year. The
net earnings were S276, 654, 119, an in
crease of $21, 500, 900 over the year 1880.
It will thus be seen that the gross
earnings would in p years pay our ma
tional debt, and the net earnings would
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Doinn a Smart Ehinu.

from the Detroit Free Press.
A few days ago an eminent c1t1zen OF
Detroit, or at least one eminent enough
to own a 81 umbrella, left the article IN
a store on Gratiot Street, and some one
gobbled it. Eminent citizen was thor
oughlY indignant. and he went to de-
tective to see what could be done. AS.
there was no clew to pick up and fol-
low to success, the detective could do
nothing. All Of sudden bright
thought occurred TO the loser, and next
day an advertisement appeared as fol-
lows:
"The man who took that silk umbrel-
la from a store on Gratlot Street last
Thursday Will save himself trouble by
returning it, as he is known.
Eminent citizen was chuckllng over
his smartness when a man dressed IKE
a laborer and having an umbrella care
fully tied up in paper entered the ONCE
and said:
Sc So you knew NE, eh !?
eyes. SIR was the prompt reply.
s'Somebody must have seen me
take it and told you ?"
eyes. that was the way"
"What would you have done if I
hadn't shown up?"
ssSecured warrant and made it hot
for you"
''Well, give me receipt and I'll leave
it aud never try to get away with an
other mans umbrella.
A receipt was written and passed over,
and the man seemed so contrite that he
was handed hall dollar besides. 1t was
full half day before the parcel was I'M
wrapped for look at the umbrella, and
then eminent citizen kicked up row to
alarm the whole building. The umbrella
was old, faded, rib broken and worth
less, and it was evidently put up job
to take the smartness out of man who
thought he had hit it.
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Mind md Rain

A cyclone struck the village of Dodgeville,
Wis, on the Dist inst, destroying two build
ings. Mrs. Grace Fault was killed and one of
her children seriously injured. A dispatch re-
ceived on the 22d inst, says the small town
of Elgin, Mimi. was devastated by a tornado
on the Dist, that erased nearly all of its
buildings from their wonted sites The inhab-
itants were simply appalled, at the destructive
ness made manifest by the storm, and many
families remain without homes, their entire
dwellings, being demolished. tits asserted that
nearly every house was blown down. One
person was killed and a number wounded some
fatally. The wounded are amply provided for
medical assistance having been kindly rendered
by surrounding towns. The pecuniary loss is
not stated
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Minor Happenings.

George De Long, aged 25 years, was in
stantly killed by the cars at Elgin, ILL.,, on the
Goth inst.
A fall down stairs killed Col. W m. Rogers at
Fort Wayne, Ind, On the 18th inst.
daughter of Joshua Budd was fatally bit
ten by rattIesnake at Fort Collins, Col, on
the 18th inst.
Charles T. Rober, of Indianapolis. fell from
the roof of his residence on the 18th inst, and
was killed.
Gilbert H. Hine, aged 70. prominent citi-
zen of Lockport, N. Y, fell from cherry tree
on the 18th inst, and was fatally injured.
singular reunion occurred in Tapleyvllle,
Mass, on the Goth, being that of ilneal de-
scendants of Rebekah Nurse, who was hanged
for witchcraft in Salem in 1892.
Hudson, n. Y, celebrated its centennial
birthday on the 18th inst.
Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm is dangerously Ill
at her home near Pittsburg, Pa.
Leslie Waldsmith, a Nebraska City, Neb.,
business man fell between two freight cars at
Creston, Ia, and was fatally injured on the
18th inst
A report from New York on the 18th, which
was afterwards denied, that Gen. Grant had
dropped dead in New York City. caused great
excitement throughout the country.
Chief Justice Waite was severely injured by
being thrown from bucking pony in Yellow
stone Park on the 18th inst.
miner at Danville, ILL.,, on the 18th inst,
died from fright, caused by the falling of sew
eral tons of slate almost at his side. He re-
covered sufficiently to walk three miles to his
home, but soon expired.
Some villain changed a switch outside of
| Knoxville, Tenn. on the 18th inst, and an ex-
press train was sent flying into the zinc works.
tearing away one side of the building and
| crushing the stationary engine.
The inemen of the telephone company, at
Chicago, went out on a strike at noon on the
| 9Th inst.
Advces from Escanaba state that the schoon-
er G. H. Hackley is ashore on Round Island,
Big Bay De Noquette, and the schooner Van
Valkenburg at Parent Bay, Lake Michigan:
Heavy eastern capitalists on the 18th inst.
entered $4,000 acres Of land at 81 per acre, IN
! what is known as the Cherokee strip.
A jurv was sworn in on the Polk trial at
Nashville, Tenn, on the 18th, and the examln-
alton of witnesses commenced.
Col. J. B. Culver, commission merchant OF
Duluth, died suddenly at Buffalo on the 18th
| inst, while being shaved, His wife was wait
ing for him in a hotel adjoining the barber
shop.
The single scull race between Hanlan and
Ross at Ogdensburg, N. Y, on the 18th inst,
was won easily by the former.
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A strike Of Lightning workers.

After many attempts to gain redress for
their wrongs from their employers, the telo-
graph operators in the Offices of the Western
Union Telegraph Company left their tickers all
over the country at II o'clock on the 18th inst
The number of men who left their Instruments
is estimated at twenty thousand. Contrary to
the custom of strikers, however. the TeIe-
grapher8' Brotherhood. to which all the tele
graphers belonged, allowed sufficient number
of men to remain at their desks to handle the
railroad and newspaper work, so that these two
branches of business should not be paralyzed.
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Ex Congressman Archibald McAlister. Of
Pennsylvania, dropped dead at Altoona, on the
18th inst, Of apoplexy.
Two young girls were drowned at Port Stan
ley, Ont. on the 18th inst, while bathing.
Two little boys named Nash we're struck by a
tram and killed at Carolina, r. l.. on the 10th
Paris dispatch says Warrington has been
appointed French ambassador u England ia
health.
battery Of eight boilers in the Anthracite
Furnace Company'S Works a. Reading, Pa.
exploded on the 18th inst, killing one man and
badly lnjuring several others The works are
badly damaged.
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Village i'm Ruins

A tornado which was unequaled for destruc-
tiveness in that section passed over the village
of Darlington, few miles north of Fargo,
Dakota, on the night of the 18th inst. The
town is a total wreck fourteen of its principal
buildings being totally destroyed. The storm
was terribly destructive, almost leaving the en-
tire community without home. The new
Sheridan House, almost completed, was entire
ly demolished. Casualties from the falling
houses and flying debris ale not numerous
only one man being seriously injured. He will
die. The storm was ACCOMPANIED by a heavy
rain. It is not thought that the crops have
suffered any considerable damage.
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W. B. FASH, secretary OF the CIeye-
land Driving Park, has been at Chicago
for some days and has arranged free
for-aH race for $4,000, with st. Julien,
Edwin Thorne, Trinket and Fanny
Witherspoon, to be trotted on Thursday
of the meeting there during the first
week in August. He had also concluded
a match race OF 81, 600 aside with So, 900
added by the association between
Majolica and Jay-Eye-See. but it is said
the former is showing signs of lameness
and the probal ility IS he will not be in
a condition to- trot.
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TWO Vile wretcnes Confess.

rape of a little girl, has confessed and asks to
be protected from mob violence. His trial was
set for the 18th. The punishment for that
crime il Kentucky is death. Frank Jackson,
a negro laborer on the farm of Joseph Sch@fer,
near st. Peters, IN ST. Charles County, Mo-.
was arrested on the 10th inst, on charge of
Sch@fer, aged respectively II and Is years.
Jackson, who is 40 years old and has wife
and family, confessed to the charge, and said
he had been intimate with the children for
nearly two years. The affair created good
deal of excitement.
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Wind swami.

At lao o'clock P. NJ, on the 10th inst, the
city of Ft. Atkinson was visited by ter
rife tornado which struck on the north side,
just west of the extensive works of the North
western Manufacturing Company, and tore a
path of destruction through to the West Side.
leveling shops, dwellings. barns, trees and out
buildings. The day had been marked by pc
culiar electrical disturbances. The damage is
estimated at about $4,000.
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Rack Eri6aX-

McNIillen, the wife-murderer, was hanged at
Canton, Ohio. on the Doth. The trap was
sprung at Ills. He died without a struggle,
the neck being broken. He was limp and
Iachrymose on the scaffold, begging friends to
pray for him, his murdered wife and children.
David Timberlake, colored, was hanged at Lex
ington, KY, on the same day, for a criminal
assault on Maggie Lawson, a colored girl 9
years old. He made nominal confession,
claiming that the girl herself was not limo
cent