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RECORD OF CRIME.

George Shepard aud woman were found
dead on the SOth in bed in furnished
room on Twenty-second street. New York.
both shot through the head--supposed to
be case OF murder and suicide. The man
ty'five. The motive for the tragedy is Inn.
known. Shepard was 4 shipning cleri
with the firm of Herring & Co., safe manu-
tacturers. His father is a clerxvman-
Rev. p. L. 5hepard-and is the head Of a
large school in Saybroek, Conn. The wo-
man found beside the body of Shepard hes
been recognized as Mrs. A. G. Kelly. She
va forty. five years old, and the mother of
hve children, one Young boy and two
gro"n'up sons and daughters.
Arthur w. Oliver was found recentlv in
. shed At Lynn, Mass, in an unconscious
condition. Near by was an empty phial,
wn,ch smelled of chloroiorm. Before
meolcal aid arrived he was dead. He be.
longed to one of the best families. It is
said that . yonng lady in high sociaj circles
to whom he had been paving attention for
some time, refused to marry him.
Frank Larkin, the base ball PLAYER. .vho
oeat his wife with his clenshed fist, in New
York, has been sentenced to tho neni.
tentisry for six months. He had previon..
y shot her In the face and been let off IL,
that on her request. She again beeped ths
court TO be lenient. Whisky 10 the csnse AT
Larkin's ug,ineae. 80 $500 ~
Three Arizona stage robbers, named Ar
hur Clifton. Billy Coleman and Join
Brig, have been sent tn the Detroit neni.
sa"a'1 ~ nYe years each, after having
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PERSONAL NEWS NOTES

Wiesbaden. Germany cable: Lhe Knights
TemPlar, who are taking the second tour,
spent delightful day along the banks of
the Rhine, visiting Utrecht. Dusseldorf and
Cologne: The party spent some time in
Amsterdam, and were the objects OF much
curiosity of the staid Dutchbergers. To.
morrow the pilgrims will sail down the
Rhine to Cologne, and after viewing the
grand Cathedral will take the train for Br,r..
sells. Wednesday night will be spent on
the Geld OF Waterloo. In this party are DR..
A. f. Higbte, =. 4. Benton, Jacob Barge
and the Misses Barge of Minneapolis.
Jay Cooke proposes fitting up his summer
home ct Gibraltar, near Put In. Bay,o scale
of magnificence unsurpassed by any similar
establishment in the west. Mr.. Cooke has
retrieved hisiosses, settled honorably with
his creditors, and is now amassing an enor-
nous fortune In silver mining.
Miss Alice Montgomery and Will swank
betrothed lovers living near Fndlay, Ohio,
died within tWenty-four hours of each 9th.
er, and were buried in one grave. The fu-
neral was the largest ever known in that
section.
1t is said Mr.. Gebhardt's presents to Ms.
Langtry. while the latter was in this conn.
try, cost him $4,000.
Beecher lectured to biz audience in st.
Paul on the 30th.
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Land once Fees.

CIRCULAR FROM COMMISSIONER N'FARLAND.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, July 81. >
Tho commissioner OF the general land Office
has issuel = circular to registers and receivers
explaining the provisions Of the act Of the last
session Of congress in relation to fees for re-
ducing testimony 10 writing. In computing
the fees for reducing testimony TO writing the
words actually written by registers aud re-
ceivers or persons in their employ only must
be charged for at the rates allowed BY para
graphs 10. II, aud IL. OF SEQ '2238. Revised
Statutes, aud no charge Ia to be made for the
printed words There can be no uniform fee
Of . specified cum applicable TO every case Of
the same class of entries. The commissioner
preecribes tho following fees:
For diagram showing entries ouly. 81 for =
township plat showing entries. nance Of claimants,
and character OF entry, 81: for . township plat
showing entries, names Of claiMants, character Of
entry s .pa number. $s: for . township plat show
number and cate Of ding or entry, together with
topography. etc. g. Tho register and receiver
shall be entitled to the same fees for examining
and approving testimony given before the judge or
clerk OF . court In final homesteads 40 are now
allowed BY law for taking the same. ReRisters
Of land Offices have no right. officially. to receive
By the receivers o salary. tees aud commissions,
and the fec OF 81 they especially entitled to re-
ceive for giving notice OF the calculation Of pre-
under the act Of May II. 1880 AN lndneya re-
ceved for services rendered BY either registers or
receivers under the act of March 3, 1884, are to
b paid 70 the receiver, who win pay the register
bis portion thereof. Should any money be- for
warded to tho register or paid to" him. he viii 1t
once pay over the same to the receiver. and whom
parties address the register - to the cost of any
service required he will refer the matter to the re-
ceiver.
Prior to the act of Narch last all fees were
reported and accounted for by receivers The
effect OF the change will be 10 give officers that
were maximum = good deal more compensa-
ton than they were receiving before, while it
will not benefit officers that were not maximum.
for the reason that of6cers that wore
maximum before got $4,000. aud now
they will get fees in excsss Of
this. On the other hand, officers not maximum
will get direct from the parties paying the
same fees they formerly reported and received
notably those in Dakota. the fees of the local
officers will be considerably increased. Among
the officers bensttted by tho new law ara
those at Huron, where the fees the officers will
be authorized to retain will amount to at least
$3, 900: and At Watertown. where they will
amount to over So. 600. In Minnesota, where
the Offices are not large, the increase of
compensation, if there is any. will be less.
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meOe OF our OW0 80Ooo0, UOOl
All kind friends been poor, like us-
selves. and got small house and much
children. So Knud say, carry dear
mcder home In arms to me, and takes
care her-I 40 lonesome with no old
wOmans to cares for"
He carries her, and walks on hind,
60 glad. 20 glad! We been poor fore,
but got no things now, but only dear
moder and selves. Soon Knnd's farm.
or and my farmer comes with wifes and
brings US much things, and we all 20
gladl
Zone day, knud say to me. Il been
think I will 20 to 'Merica and gets rich
with these big hands for work'-he have
such great hands! Then comes back
and makes you and our dear noder rich
not break his dead moder's word for
such poor price rs riches only"
Then says. Nobody been promise
NE to my farmer. I will 20 to 'Merica
and get rich. Enken Wieberger will
comes back"
but knud say: No womans can take
my dear moder from mel will cares
for her while You been gone; and when
we gets more We will come to You and
all be rich in 'Merica. been got nv
passage:money save in big box. Take
that and 60. Make home for US, Britta
the Glad!'' -. -
and my moder says. go. too, and
we all he glad for such hopes"
And how much money have you
sarned?" asked the lady.
mot some at all, ma am. I have been
very sick on sea. Water comes into my
little bed, and can't lift hands and toots
when ship comes in. They puts me in
carriage, and takes me to hospital. Doc
tor-poor gentleman-t talks not Swedish,
SO sends for Swede minister; and he
be my good friend and comes from my
home. n.,..t -8.-.,.. ~
when I better, he takes me home.
her elbow to show its course. "While |
sings. turns round my rivers elbow:
and ah, sees fire and smoke!
II throws way baskets and all things.
and flies like my skates been wings.
my little house blazel runs In and
wraps little moder in blankets, and
brings her out in arms. l can bring no
thing more out. / sits down in snow
with her in arms, and sees dear little
house my fader build with his own
hands all burn UP. Blanket and bed,
and gil my moder weaves, burn too
and hat. Now come to you, I will
work much and send home my money
for Knud TO keep in bis big box: Where
the farmers two years been out, you
will see him coming here with my little
moder in his strong arms. You not
surprise now that I been always 80
glad?"
In two years and half, the kind mis-
tress, who had learned many lesson
from Britta, saw gentle. patient old
woman seated in the tidy home which
her child had prepared for her, and
heard from Knud in perfect torrent
of words-not one of which she could
understand till the LAUGHING girl trans
lated it to her-how he had sold the
small house for one hundred dollars,
which money he had now in gold, in his
belt, and how Britta had secured him
work as porter before he landed. And
holding up his great hands for her ad-
miration, ne asked
"How can but grow rich with these?"
And Britta, Ianghing, said, 1--WE all 80
glad!-Mrs. J. D. Chaplin in Youths
0nnani0n.
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plead guilty to holding up and robbsng .
stage and lite passengers some three weeks
ago near Clifton, Ark.
One Michael Feeny. claiming to have
suffered barbarous treatment - political
prisoner 10 ireland, has been imposing up.
on the Irish OF Budalo and receiving aid
from them. It has been learned that he
never was Imprisoned, ~ claimed.
Charles Werner, the assistant commissary
sergeant at New Orleans committed suicide
on the I'd inst. by shooting himself He IL
still alive but cannot survive. Disappoiut-
ment in a love affair is sssigned - the rea-
son OF the deed.
The body of Henry Heller, who COM
mittted suicide by drowning at Fountain
City on the ID inst, was found on the river
near the saw mill below Fountain City.
Elan, the Richmond duelist, has re-
turned home and made . speech justifying
the duellO.
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HON r..

The toueh Of kindred, too, and love hs
feeh! IS
The modest eye, whose beams on his alone
Ecstatie shine, the little strong embrsoe
or psattling children. twjned around his
neck,
And emul0us to please him, calling forth
The fond paternal soul. Nor purpose gay.
amusement, dance or sone, he stefnfy
sc0Ins;
For happiness and true philosophy
Are OF the social, still and smiling kind.
This ID the life which those who fret in
guilt,
And guilty cities, never know; the life,
man! Thompson.
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last Woelk'a Failnrea

BradstIeet's journal furnishes the follow
ing: There were 155 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstrects during the
week ending 4tb, l3 less than the priced
ing week, rs more than the corresponding
week of 1882. and 80 more than the same
week of 1881.
The important failures were l, Shaw &
Bres., hides, leather, ETC.; G. w. Copeland
4 Co., manu- facturts Of boots and shoes; W.
+. Plummer, hides, etc.; Msoomber e.
Greenwood, manufacturers of boots and
shoes; John f.. Mills, hides and leather,
Boston, Mass; Charles 81. Wood & Co..
boot and shoe uanufacturers, Pennington
n. H.; G. B: Tevis 4 Co., manufactures Of
boots and Shoes, Hatlck, Mass; Honheimer
q Co., Wholesale boots and shoes, Norfolk
Va; the United States Patents company.
Boston, Mass; .. G. & ]. g. Phinney loot
counter msnusacturs1e. 9toughton, Mass:
Taller 4 Co. whOlesale boots and shoes.
baltimore; S.edman 4 Co., wholesale boots
and shoes, New York; lancsater watch
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the loa to buildings and their ooats.Gs.
mainly, q nearly ?75.O0OA no edmafo beips
made upon growing csopa forestry an6
~ ~. 49, A,,..s,, ..,,,,,. ..-... 49,.
....s,...s ....,. .aarss. ;.o... Jae
"a rnsins rrsnm S90rso ~ ~ -. ~!
fine IN : f,ftv.hosse ~ stesm soilv ana -
~; ;-he =. ,o-S. s.,.s.. CO. ~ 40
IN n,sde snd Fin mo 49, Isooo
more. Canning commsno0 about An. q,
md ooneraces are maoe sor al the peoduee
requifeo'
james Barrett, young man, has boeu
minuine fhon Duluth aince Juns q. and il
a e~,SA ~. 40 l,s,l ,,lev
South otillvater vas treeaed to Q ssnse,
ton THURSDAY evening. which has sti7ed
.A...a, sy~.. .l...
cited the entire village. NJ. LaRoy Farrell
.na NJ va. p.ss. s.......-a .H;.,,..4
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Desperate Fight With Outlaws.

Hot Springs (Ark.) telegram OF the Goth
says: The officer and posse pursuing the
Montgomery, Yell and Garland county
outlaws on Sunday came up with the
Daniels brothers and bands in the moun-
tains In Berry county, on the head waters
OF the Fouche river. The fugitives were in
stronghold and a desperate hattie follow.
ed. Two pnrsuers, Shelton aud Caldwell Of
Garland county ana Charles Carter of Oar
daselle, were killed. Barnes of DarlanelIe
was wounded and one of the blood. hounds
the fastness. which the desperadoes forii-
fed with stones, and the desperadoes e.
capped without injury, though ii is reported
that one of them, Rial Blockar of Garland
county, surrendered to Sheriff Nichols of
Garland county. The strength Of tho ont.
laws il unknown.
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New Northwestern Patenr.

clande n. Atkinson, Milwaukee. glue compound:
Thomas u: Bates and J. A. Jackson. Des Moines'
Iowa, cookie machine aud grain separator; Samuel
6eckwlt9: Mount Pleasant, Iowa. fence post<
George n. Bryant. Minneapolis. MIMI, metal
% %u f1 , e.: eserse Cameron. osht osh
apparatus for generating and carbnretina hydrogen
eas: o. De Forest. JauesviIle, Wis, type writing
and printing machine also apparatus for justifyine
:sts,s0'yPed ns strips. and putting and seear ing
Esterlv. Whitewater, Wis. grain harvesting and
binding machine;J. 8. freeman. Balsam Lake, wis,
sSnfH ore"s st. Paul. ELECTRIC ere
Harrison: Clinton. Iowa, fire escape ladder: VIII.
lem len and J. NJ. Heftoer, Minneapolis. MINI, com
hined stand pipe aud fire escane: William ".
Kitchen, West Union; Iowa; chnrn: Charlie. q:
pher W. "Levalley, st. Panl, grain binder: Thoms.
q. Malone. Milwsnkee: attaching seals to cars; L.
cleaning ia. seed: Thomas J. Ne.cy, Mi!xsukee.
Iowa. presser foot for sewing machines; Robert
Porter. Ott9mwa, Iowa: harness buckle: August
R1timan. Milwaukee, folding stool: v. b. simsr
and J. Dale. St. Paul. car unloading apparatus:
Frank svoboda, Kewaunse. Wis. neck yoke attach
ment.
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New Rampsbire's New sen.tor

AVG" Ss0P9OAE0'S NeW senator.
The 42d joint ballot In the New Hamp.
shire Legislature resulted in tho election of
Austin F. Pike ~ United States senator bv a
vote 18l to 112 for Bingham, 10 for Mas
tor and scattering.
Austin f.. Pike Of franklin. who will
succeed Senator Rollins, was born in 1920.
10 2 lawyer With large pra stice, and is said
to bear strong personal resemblance to
Senator Edmunds. In 1850, 1861 and 1859
he was in the Legislature, 70 which be M
returned in 1855 and 1896 in both of vhich
years be Was speaker. In 1887 md
1858 be Vas . member OF the state sanate.
and the last year there he was presiding Of.
house, he was for three years cbairmen of
me republican state committee, and in
1873 was asantsd 70 congress from the So
Ond distrcf. When the tie Of re- election
came hs ~ counted .out - pa,t Of the
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Pennsylvania Politics.

; The Democratic State Convention was,
bald et Harrisburg on the lst inst The
convention selected Robert F.. Wright for
temporary and Robert G. James for peru,a-
nent chairman. Both are from the old tenth
legion comprised OF Pennsylvania Dutch
counties.
Robert Taggert of Warren was nominated
for auditor general and Joseph Howell of
Bradford county for state treasurer. The
platform contained the usual criticisms of
republican rn1e. On the tariff and 9TH
er points, the convention spoke as folio VS.:
The democracy Of Pennsylvania believe in
such taxation OF the people IA is
necessary for the requisltion of the govern
mcnt economically administered, aud that
import duties should be adjusted in their
application as to prevent UNEQUAL burdens.
encourage productive industries at home,
and afford just competition to labor, but
not to create or foster monopoly. They
denoance the proposition of the republican
party that people should be taxed to raise 4
surpi0a fund tor the federal government to
distr ibute among the states. The people
should only be taxed 80 much as is abso.
lutely indispensable for the frugal conduct
OF their af1aire, not one cent for surplus,
and no unnecessary taxation. The existing
surplus in the treasury should be faithfully
applied to the pay ment Of the public debt.
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A Vermont Railroad Horror

One of the trains which colliled on the
Troy e. Boston road near Pownall, VT, by
which six men were killed had fortv-five
cars and the other twenty-five. The en-
gines were driven into each other. while
some of the cars fell into the Hoosic river.
The wrecksge Immediately took fire. About
i've minutes after the crash . passenger
train with tonr cars oil filled, was due, and
the brakeman With his hands, face and head
bleeding, went out and tagged it. The
trainmen and passengers on the train at
once Get about rescning the un fortunate men
under the freight train, but it was so hot
they could do but little. The groans of the
men could be heard under the wreck, but
they could not be rescued, and their bodies
were burned to cinders. Conductor George
warner and fireman Frank Burns were
both seriously wounded about the heal
The losses Of the Troy 4 Boston road csn.
not be less than 1900.
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of Litchfield attempted sricide
with rat p'ison, but va saved from death
BY physician. -
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
GOSSIPFROM WASHINGTON

An unpleasant rumor is aloat to the es-
feet that the tragic death of Minister Bsrca
was due to the fact that disgrace awaits him
because OF . incorporation of money en-
trusted to hir, by the Spanish government.
It is limited in various quarters that this
money was used In Wall street speculations,
in which the Spanish minister hoped . re.
lieve his financial embarrassment. The pr.
upon his sanity are cited a. "a evidence of
the anticipated exposure. Through this 1t
was proposed to save his family from dis.
honor. There are very few who credit these
stories. The real truth appears To be that
the family. whose reputation is 30 precious
now, is wholly responsible for Senior Barca's
death. A beautiful wife and daughter in
their extravaganza here had plunged the d.
plomat deeply and irretrievably into debt,
In this false position they left him In the
lurch to return to their own land, where he
was forbidden to 20.
Postmasters Observation-Disclosures,
Isaac Medaugb, Popp]e. Iowa; Peter Will
liams, Psrvin; John Ware, Hanover Dako-
ia: Miles f. Redick, Canning; r 50 F..
Parks, Lily: Charles B. Brown, Hazelton;
Phillip Reifsneider, Fort Stevenson. Mon
tsns: Clinton II. Moore, Anaconda. Post
offices stablished-Dakota: Stepa. Day
county. Postof1ce names changed-Iowa:
Maple River Junction, Carol county, to
Maple River. Wisconsin: Dover Station, Ra-
cine county. to Dover; Prospect Hill, Wan
kesba county, to Prospect.
The surgeon general OF the Marine hospi.
tai has receivsd advices that vessel load
ed with rags from Eeypt is due at Portland,
Me-, in a few days. The acting secretary Of
the treasury was informed of the TACT and at
once teleeraphed the collector of customs at
Portland not to allow the cargo to be dis
charged until the local health authorities
had iDSDeCted it,
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GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gov. Cleveland, of New York, has par
doned Charles f. Schuyler, who was SEN
fenced in Buffalo Oct. %, 1879, to seven
years imprisonment for enticing young
girl to accompany him to room and there
obtained from her written message to her
father asking him to pay for her release.
No indignity was offered, nor threats made.
he was found to be insane and sent to m
asylum. Since then it has been learned
that he was night telegraph operator and
had been rendered insane by grief over the
death OF his father and OyerwOrk. His time
had almost expire and he is now sane.
Officials of the Western Union TelegraLh
company state that twenty. five wires have
either been cut or connected with fire wires
so as to be for the moment useless between
New York and HackeDsack Meadows; that
thirteen wires have been cut between New
York aud Williamsburg, and twelve be-
that all wires on the Fort Wayne road
near Englewood, Ill.,, had also been cut.
Gen Jubal Early fatty denies the truth Of
the story that he picked up, from the field
OF Manassas . tiny blus-sysd eirl baby
whose pasees hod both been killed II trv..
Ing TO escape from their houDo 1otine fha
proRrese Of the fight, and that thie -"woif Of
the battle field" u now tho sole support Of
Gen. Early's two aged sisters, who caiod 10
; nd brought her up.
The saloon keepers of st. Louis paid no
attention to the Sunday law. They have
made up purse OF $40, 800 to employ ooun-
sci. The police went the rounds and made
note of al violations of the law.
Frank Harris, boy thirteen years old,
got into freight Car at Chicago recently,
and was by chance discovered in it ut Phil
ade'Phia, and taken out nearly dead.
The will of Jacob Weckasrt was received
for probate in Chicago the ether day from
Bingen on the Rhine.
According to it's new city directory,
Columbus Ohio, now has population of
&, 600.
Boston has another 500, 100 failure in the
shoe trade, caused by that of SHAY Bros.
Georgia has $l9, 0OO, 900 invested in man.
ufacturing. -
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THE CASUALTY RECORD.

THE CASUALTY RECORD.
The brakeman, ADDISON Dayton, who was
run over by the oan At La Crosse ON the
3lst inst, will lrobably lose, but one leg.
although il the other escapes some 'perma-
nent injury it will be remarkable piece of
good fortune. The misfortunes Of the, fam
lily to which he belongs command thes sym
PATTY of all. His father has lost IN arm,
his mother has been bed.riaden three years
and will never walk again; his youngest
BROTHER 10 2 cripple for life; another brother
lost three fingers in . mill recently and
now this young man, the stay and support
Of the family, loses one leg and will prob
ably be crippled in the other. .'5|
On the morning Of the End, . littlesdaugh-,
ter of J. w. Judd was killed by. . freight
train on the Burlington. Cedar Rapids &
Northern railrord about three miles
north Of Iaporte City, Iowa. The child was
only twenty months old, aud had got away
frem the house unnOticed, and rot on the
track. The engine Knocked her of the
track and injured her so that she died in
about an hour.
At North East Harbor, Me-. blackboard
party, consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. Case and
daughter, Miss Pierce and Miss Lewis of
Boston, and Miss 8allie White of Baltimore,
all prominent in social circles, was thrown
to the ground by the horses running awap.
Miss Case was instantly killed. Miss White
seriously injured, and the remainder of the
party badly bruised.
A water spout caused the Allegheny river
to overflow It's banks at P:ttsburg, carrying
out 5000, 900 feet of lumber and SOC, ESQ
cubic feet of logs, valued at 500, 600.
The recert Fargo fire burned $33, 900
worth Of buildings off OF $33, OOO, 900 worth
of real estate. There was some insurance
on the buildings.
Dexter's hat factory at Danbury, Conn.,,
was burned with its contents. Loss nearly
SOC, 600; partially insured.
A waterspout relieved Pittsburg of $780,
600 worth Of logs and lumber.
Cholera has claimed IL 600 of the children
of Egypt for its own.