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LEPROSY.

Northern Wisconsin and Eastern
Minnesota are becoming alarmed at
the spread of leprosy in those Sec
tions. Prominent medical men have
investigated what they first consid
cred merely a sensational rumor
and have discovered that in the
northeastern portion Of Wisconsin
where the Norwegian element pre-
dominates the disease has found a
foothold, and that its thorough eradi-
cation will require much effort. As
far as ascertained the disease has con-
fined its ravages among Norwegian
inhabitants, but it is being rapidly
spread. 1t has already crossed the
Mississippi and fastened itself upon
the same class of people in Mime
sofa.
According to the report Of a physi-
clan who has searched the records
of the Wisconsin board of
health no effort has as yet been made
to stop its spread or limit its intro
duction. The same report also says:
The disease in question is eminently
contagious, and not only carried by
actual contact of a healthy person
with leprosy, but may be acquired
from hotel towels and similar sources
of c%ontagion. In the course of forty
years, or since the time of its intro
ductlon into the Sandwich Islands,
it has spread with so much rapidity
that at this date at least ten per cent.
of the people of Hawaii are rendered
unfit for any occupation, and are de-
barred entirely from any and all So
cial life. At the present time there
are four leprous csnters in the United
States, namely, eastern Minnesota
and northwestern Wisconsin, among
the Norwegians; California among
the Chinese; Louisiana, and among
the Indians of the northwest. That
the disease is spreading among us,
and that, too, with comparative ra-
pidity cannot for a moment be doubt
ed; and it seems that the time has
come for legislation and national &C.
ten to prevent its further introduce
ton and further spread.
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Denver objects to Montana's ex-
hibit being taken away until the ex-
position closes. The point is well
taken. The Territorial legislature
appropriated $500 to defray the ex-
penses of making an exhibition of
Montana minerals at Denver-not at
Louisville. The consent of Governor
Crosby to remove the exhibits from
Denver carries no authority with it,
and should they be removed before
the exhibition closes the party or
parties engaged in it would become
liable to prosecution for a misappro-
priation of public funds.
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SOUTH DAKOTA.

The move to divide Dakota was
not checked by the selection of Bis
marck as the capital for the whole
Territory. A. Fargo paper says:
''1he South Dakota State Convention
which is to form a constitution and
submit it to the people, will call a
state election the same day the vote
is taken on the constitution, so that
if the constitution is adopted, the
government of the state can be set up
and put in motion without any
hitch. It IS believed that not even a
Democratic Congress will turn a
deaf ear to the people ofSouth Dako-
ia when they come forward in this
manner and demand admission into
the Union IS a sovereign state" 1t
will be. time enough to talk
about what a democratic
Congress" will do when the
people Of Dakota are heard from
on the division question. It should
not be expected a democratic Con-
gress'will play into the hands of q few
South Dakota politicians and capital
soreheads and give them a state and
capital all by themselves simply be-
cause Bismarck succeeded in captur-
ing the capital from their portion of
the Territory. North Dakota has
some rights which should be respect
ed. When both sections are agreed
as to division, and both have popu-
lation enough and both have de-
cla1ed against the Dakota practice..of
repudiating county debts "even a
Congress would not turn
a deaf ear" to their request for adj
mission into the Union.
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ovohonVo cows. Tho nnnr1n0c

An exchange says: The announce
ment is made that the Hon. A. A.
Sargent, the visiting statesman who
has been visiting Berlin in his Off
cial capacity, is about to return
home. This is the gentleman who
had a hint given him six months ago
that a great many German. would
like to have him go home, and who
answered that he did not intend to
go; that he had the confidence of his
Government and, moreover, he was
making his studies in the German
language. 1t is to be presumed that
his tutor is a patriotic German who
has crammed Sargent on bis Ollen-
dorff to get him out of the country.
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The Pugill st Slade.

ATcH1soN, Kas., Aug. 24.-Slade,
the pugilist, who arrived here yester-
day with his trainer, Dick Brighton,
and his manager, has taken quarters
at the Exposition grounds and gone
into active training. It is said that
Jem Mace will be here in a few DAYS.
Bath house and convenieDces have
been built for Slade. There are all
sorts of rumors current as to the place
where the fight is to take place, bat
none appear to be reliable. SIada is
in excellent condition. There is a
that John l. Sn!liv.n W IL also
arrive here in a few days and that he
intends to back Shade against Mitch
ell. Slade is very quiet but appears
very confident.
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World: Parliamentary agitation is
but a poor weapon to use in securing
redress for Irish wrongs, but it is the
only weapon the frieuds of Ireland
a use, and it has already done
some good. The Land Act was
wrung from unwilling England only
by that intangible force of public
opinion which gathered about the de-
spised obstructionists. Against such
wrong as is done in Ireland it is
something gained when the victim
can make his cry heard.
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SHER1DAN'S INDIAN POLICY.

If We are to credit the correspond
ent of the Chicago Tribune with the
Presidential party, the trip to the Ma
'tional PARK was not solely for pur-
poses of pleasure but to propose to the
Indians the adoption of q new pol
icy, of which Gen. Sheridan is the
reputed author, doing away with all
reservations and agencies, the lands
now held by the Indians to be pur-
chased by the Government, in pay
ment for which bonds are to be is
sued, tho interest payable semi-an-
nually at certain convenient forts.
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A DISTINGUISHED Party.

A Aug. pa distinguished
party OF English and Canadian stock
hol'iers in the Canadian Pacific rail-
road arrived to-day. Among the
party are President Geo. Stephens, Z.
A. Mcintyre and r. B. Angus, of the
Canadian Pacific; Prince Hohenlohe.
L%ansburg; Count Glerhen, London;
Earl Latham. Lord Elphinstone and
Lord Castled0wn of London; and a
large number Of Canadian Pacific Of
ficials. They leave for St. Paul to-
morrow thence to Winnipeg and
from there to Minnetonka and En-
erson, where they will strike the Ca
madam Pacific and will proceed over
it to Elg0raly. 800 miles west OF Win
The party is travelling In
%splendidly equipped trains.
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Yellow Fever.

PENSACOLA, August 24,-Up til!
noon to-day no sickness of any kind
is reported in this city. A post NOR
tenn examination on a man who died
yesterday developed the fact that his
death was not caused by yellow fe-
yer.
Surgeon Murray and DR.. Leonard
pronounce the disease malarial fever.
There are no new cases and no
deaths.
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American Bar Association.

SARATOGA, Aug. 24-The Ameri-
can Bar Association held their clos
ing session this morning. VIM. Bu,-
offered a resolution extending u
most cordial welcome to Lord Cnies
} Justice Coldridge. The officers elect
for the ensuing year are: Presi-
Cortland A. Parker, New Jer-
rev; Secretary, E. H. Hinckley, Bal
tlmore; Treasurer, Francis Rowe,
PENNSYLVANIA.
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DAY DISPATCHES
A European Kills a Few Can.
ton Coolies.
Press ommen of the Stock
Market.
The Busted Boston Leather
Company.
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ETC, Erc
Help Wanted.

LONDON, Aug. pa special dis
patch from Hong Kong says a En uns-
pean writer at Canton, in an alterco
ton recently with some coolies, drew
a revolver and killed a boy and
wounded two men. This outrage had
an exasperating effect on the bonn.
lace, who were already greatly eT.
cited by the action of the French in
Tonquin. Placards were posted IN
the walls Of the city on Wednesdar
urging the people to slaughter thu
barbarians. This placard 50 added to
the flame that the Europeans in tho
country have become greatly alarmed
and the British Consul sent an Appeal
to the British Commodore for tha
protection Of a British sloop of war
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A a r Drowned.

PORTLAND, Me-, August 2.-Yes-
terday afternoon a party Of four peo-
pie were drowned on Wells beach by
being carried out by the undertow.
The names of two are Emma Gould.
OF Boston; and Eddie Little, of Wash
ington, d. G.. The others r I'M
known. None Of the bodies have
been recovered. The drowning was
witnessed by many people, but as
sistance could not be rendered.
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The Boston Leather Firm.

BOSTON, Aug. 23.-I. Shaw, of the
firm of l. Shaw Il Brother, which
failed, has left town, and this fact has
given rise to conflicting opinions as
to the cause of his departure. 1t IS
learned that on the day before Shtw2S
departure the attorney for the Ma
tlonal Park Bank. of New York, came
to Boston and made a formal demand
on I. Shaw Il Bro. for the money
which the bank claimed was fur
nished through fraudulent representa-
tons Shaw had made to it regarding
the financial standing of his firm.
The bank is a creditor to the amount
of $4,000. This demand upon
Shaw's firm was known to be a pre-
liminary step to the commencement
Of criminal proceedings which the
bank proposed to institute against
Shaw & Bro, and which, IL
is understood since, have been begun
The departure of Shaw so soon a1I-
er this is looked upon Win
strong suspicion by many interested
On the other hand the assignee. wy
man. makes the following statement;
Shaw has been attempting ever sihee
his failure to find all opportunity 70
go to Maine. New Brunswick ana
Canada, to find out the precise con-
dition Of his business there, ana he
started away for that purpose Oh
Tuesday, and is o either at the
tanneries of shaw Bros. Il Cassie III
Canda or is on his way there. The 1acl
of Shaw's departure, coupled WIN
the cutlery raised by certain creditors
in New York. gave rise to some ru,
mors that are untrue, viz: mat lo
left Massachusetts to escape process.
An overwhelming majority OF the
creditors believe the Shaw firm mas
acted honorably and done nothing
criminal, and that New York rarlles
are seeking to bulldoze some au''l
tage out OF the firm.
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San Francisco Notes.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25 Fifth
day OF the billiard tournament be-
tween Schaeffer and Sexton one
thousand poinlsfor $500. Five innings
were ~played;score, Schaeffer, POI; Sex
ton, 81. Highest runs, Schaetfer, ISL;
Sexton, 40.
The Alaska Mining Co. has been
assessed $3.50 per share.
A large fire is raging in the timber
on Feather river and thirty miles of
valuable timber has been DESTROYED.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.-Ihe H.,
auguratlOn of The foundation ol !"
Garfield monument, under the au+
pieces of the Grand Mason c Louseoi
California, assisted by the ul"nf
Encampment of Knights Templal law "
the United States, took place lo,u",
at noon IN Golden Gate park. o,n
100000 persons witnessed the CIV
monies
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Frank James Wirness'

KANSAS CITY, Aug. Ex-Governor
Crittenden arrived this morning
from Jefferson City and left for Gal.
latin this afternoon, where he has
been subpened by the defense to tes-
tify at James trial. The Governor
says he cannot imagiue what they
expect to prove by him except the
mere fact of Franks surrender.
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Railroad Matters.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. A.-Members
of the Northwestern Traffic Associa-
ton me- yesterday at Lake Mime
tonka. On account of the absence of
several prominent members no BUSH
ness was transacted. and the meet
ing adjourned until to-day. The
question to be considered is Pacific
coast business in connection with the
Northern Pacific Railway.
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Paddy Ryan.

CHICAGO, August "a. - Paddy
Ryan, who was rumored to have
been concerned in the shooting affair
last night, put in an appeara nee to-
day and denied having been con-
cerned in any alteration. He SAYS
h. was in the company of friends
during the night, but certainly was
kept so close that the detectives and
reporters could not locate him.
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Yellow Fever-Silver Purchased,

Yellow Fever-Silver Purchased.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-The Col
lector at Pensacola telegraphs that
the house on the Halifax wharf,
where the cases of yellow fever were
discovered, has been burned. DR..
Guttman, of the Board of Health,
does not believe there will be an ep-
idemic.
The Treasury Department has pur-
chased $50, 900 ounces of silver, for
delivery to the San Francisco, New
Orleans aud Philadelphia minis.
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CHICAGO, Aug. A.-Numereus re-
porters kept up a prolonged search for
the alleged wounded pugillst Paddy
Ryan. No positive information was
received up to a very late hour. Re
porters have concluded that Ryan is
not shot at all but off on a big spree.
Johnny Files, a pugelist and a friend
of Ryan's, stated this morning that
Ryan was not shot but that he (Files)
had him in custody. The theory is
put forward by Ryan's friends that
he has hurt himself in a drunken fit
and been secreted by his friends.
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The mystery" Party.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Ang. Ia
Friends of Joseph w. Bartlett o; the
yacht Mystery, after a conversation
with Captain Andrew Luin who saw
the man On Chickens Rocks on tue
18th inst, are confident that the man
who gave the Masonic signals must
have been Bartlett As he was the only
Freemason in the Mystery party.
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Governor Crittenden is determined
that Slade shall not train in Missouri,
but it appears the M .eri's agent is
equal to the emergency. He coolly
informs an interviewer that Slade is
sojourning at Independence
for his health and pleasure and is ex-
ercising accordingly. And now:
"What is Governor Crittenden going
to do about it?n
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Remarks Of Earl Spencer.

DUBLIN, Aug. 24-Earl Spencer,
Lord Lieutenant, ST eaking ut CorE
last evening said he hoped the DAYS
OF bitterness, crime and agitation in
Ireland had past and the country
could look forward to practical meas
ures in politics and prosperity in
the land.
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London Notes.

LONDON, August 24.-At the wool
SAFE Lib tales Of Port Phillip and
Sidney We're sold. Prices steady.
A special dispatch from Cettinge,
Montenegro, says a reign OF terror
exists in the village of Kossevo, in
Albania. The Arnouts are murder
ms Christians and all of the latter
vino IAN get away are fleeing from
the cocntry. The Turkish officials
connive with the outrages on the
christians and have arrested aud ex-
ilea a number OF priests in Ipex dis
tf'ct. Ninety-two persons have been
murdered. Twenty-three villages
have been abandoned.
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And now the suggestion is made
in we'll informed eastern circles that
O'Donovan Rosa, as we'll as McDer-
mott, has been doing some quiet de-
tective work for the British Govern
ment. If this be so whom can the
Irish trust?
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The Cigar Makers Left.

NEW YORK, Aug 23.-At a session
of the federation OF organized LABOR
and trade unions this morning, a res
olution was adopted refusing TO sup
port the cigar makers in their ilsu'
to secure the enforcement of the Id"
passed by the last New York LeSls,
~lature. prohibiting the manufac1uie
of cigars in tenement houses. lvh
said that the manufacturers lltti,a
to contest the constltutlonallty o. 'N'
law
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New York Stock Market.

NEW YORK, August A-Stocks
opened firm with a slight advance on
yesterday. The market is lower aud
the improvement partially lost. The
business is fairly active and market
well supported.
Secretary Wagner, of the Denver
& Rio Grande, states that he issued
NO call for a meeting to-day.
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New York Money! Market.

New YORK, August 24-Money
easy at 1908; prime mercantile paper,
5@63; bar silver. l109; exchange dull.
4.o5; governments irregular; railway
bonds lower. Stocks continued firm
until 1880, when a reaction ser in.
and they touched the lowest point of
the day.
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Rumor has it that $l7, OOO, 600 of
the Postal Telegraph bonds are to be
sent to Europe to be placed by a syn
dictate consisting of J. W. Mackey,
e. S. Stokes and Harry Rosener.
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ChambOrd's Death.

FRoHRDoRF, August 24.---Cham-
oord remained CONSCIOUS to within a
moment OF MS death. There will be
40 public funeral services at Frohrs-
dorf. The obsequies will be cele-
DRAFTED at Gori,z a week hence.
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SENATOR BILLS ADDRESS.

~~ -00-00"
Senator Hill, in his discussion o
tho silver question the other night
referred to the fact that the unfriend
ly criticism ty American newspaper
upon silver as a currency and the
adverse action of the President anC
Secretary of the Treasury concerning
the coinage of the metal, prevent
ed the international Monetary
Congress from arriving al
any argument or understand
ing in regard to the common
value at which all the leading ma
lions should receive it. 1t is quite
natural that foreign powers should
regard such unfriendlv criticism and
adverse actisn as the outgrowth OF
American hostility to the metal, and
that they would shape their own pol
icy concerning its adoption or rejec-
ton, as a legal tender, SO as to har-
monize with what they supposed to
be the sentiment of the people who
are the greatest producers. Hap
PLY, however, for our silver
mining industry the animus
of the home opposition to silver as a
currency is becoming better under
stood here and abroad, and IS it is
understood its enemies are shorn of
their power to degrade the metal.
The assertion of mone-metallists
that the standard silver dollar is a
fraudulent" dollar, and that lit is
rejected from the channels of circu-
lation," was clearly d~isproved by the
Senator. Out of the146, 600, OOostandard
silver dollars coined under the Bland
law, about Ill., ZOO, 900 are represented
by silver certificates, which circulate
side by side with gold, greenbacks
and National bank notes. They a:e
regarded by the people with the same
favor they regard other money, and
accepted with the same confidence
they accept gold. Those who seek to
disturb their Office in the circulating
currency of the country de so for the
purpose of increasing the purchasing
power of gold and in the end to
drive silver upon the markets of the
world as q commercial commodity.
to all the fluctuations which
other articles of commerce.
The assertion that we have more
than we a use, and that its
continued coinage will result in
overstocked vaults of unemployed
is met by the argument that
at the present rate Of coinage in ten
years we would have but $3.50, 000, 900
of silver coin. In ten years u
wealth will be double what it is now,
and the demand for silver will he
correspondingly increased. Our
population will be $1,000 900 instead
of 1900, 900, or almost equal to the
population of France and
the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and Ireland to-day, which have
al aggregate full tender metallic cur
rency of more than four times $780,
OOO, 600.
Another fact should be taken into
consideration in passing upon this
The arrest of the coinage of
silver would be followed by a break
in the price which would prove dis.
astrous to every silver mining section
Of the country, and PROSTATE every
business pursued in its immediate
vicinity. It is not probable, how
ever, that the present Congress will
interfere with our present coinage
laws. The House is Democratic,
and the Democratic party is COM
to our present silver policy.
In that party the silver miners of the
West may safely trust their interests.
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The Commissioners Pow Wow.

The Commissioners Pow WOW.
FORT YATES, Dakota, via Bis
marck, Aug. 24.-SeEators Logan,
Davis and Cameron of the select
commission to inquire into the griev-
ances of the Sioux Indians, held a
council here to day, with bands at
this agency. About 800 Indians
were present including Sitting Bull,
Zpll and Rain in the Face. said
to have killed General Custer.
The inquiries of the commissioners
were principally directed to the in
vestigation of the terms of the agree
ment ceding $1,000 square miles Of
this reservation to the governmental
consideration OF 2 500 cows and l,0m
bulls. The Indians claimed they
signed the agreement while not fully
understanding it and they say now
they wish to become farmers aud own
their lana in severalty if tI,vy car he
furnished with implements an:
instructions in cultivation and
they are willing to give
up their regions but insist on their
continuing under any policy iii
council. Sitting Bull told the COM
mittee that he had been appointed by
the great spirit to speak to them and
he alone had the right to express the
sentiments OF the Sioux. When it,
formed that all should receive receg-
milton he used insulting language to
the committee and LEFT the council.
He afterwards returned and apollo
giZed and addressed the cOmlliii zee,
saying he wished SIS, 5000 o0 FOR the
land covered by the ayr ement.
General Logan replied to Sitting Bull
and informed him that he was not
the chief and that if he used like
language to another committee he
would be thrown into the guard
house and madetO work.
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NOtabl9

LONDON, Aug. 24.-Amongth the pat aft
sengers by the Sardinia when are
Liverpool yesterday tor Callao'
Lord and Lady Carlyon and o trii'.
~ Welsh. The Quarrymen's n' ss.
object to the latter. The trip IS t .nnr
ta0lish the Welsh colony al nP'
Rock mountains near TT. Calgary
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UXOrcide and Snicido.

CARRoLToN, H., August 24.--W.
Pope attempted to obtain reconcilia-
ton with his wife near Woodvil!e,
but his advances were repealed. He
then shot her and himself.
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Mutton for JOHNNY Bull.

LONDON, Aug. 24.-The steamer
lcnia. from New Zealand via the
Straits of Magellan, arrived at Ply-
mouth with IL 900 frozen Of
sheep in good condition. She made
the voyage in As days.
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New BEDFORD, Mass, Aus25.+iuTas
terday morning Il sunken yael' wi 0
discovered three-fourthS OF Il nns
east northeast Of Hen-and-CIl'hIIay ,
near the entrance to Buzzard D''
She is supposed to be the Myslei''
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MADISON, Wis, August 24.-The
lilnltn,e elevator of Frow & Co.,
containing 1000 bushels of wheat.
was Mas urned early this morning; loss,
$l2o,O0O, insurance, 100000.
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WEST FAt MOUTH, Mass, Aug. %
Another body is found at Pocassett;
the Glenn and Sargent families have
gone there.