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HARD SHELL FIGHT.
Tho Sunday Entertainment on Staten
Island.

s -L 81 My ASA0ANs 1
The New York Times thus describes
q turtle fight on Staten Island the day
before: The two monsters we're sold to
saloon keepers in Port Richmond and
Clifton. A boast as to the size of one OF
them resulted in the two being pit
ted against each other for q purse Of
5000. 1t was after 10 o'clock yesterday
morning when the final preparations
for the combat were completed. A pit
was made in the center of the large
room. 1t was eight feet across, two
feet high, and octagonal in shape. One
of the turtles was 26 inches a,ross
its back, and weighed nearly 123
pounds. The other was % inches
and weighed 10S pounds. Both had
been fed on raw meat for two weeks,
with plenty Of pepper to make them
ugly. The North6eld turtle was han
died by u brawny blacksmith, and the
Southfield representative by a boss
stevedore both of whom were heavy
and strong men. The handlers were
each provided with a strong hickory
stick that was cut from a branching
sapling, and was Y shaped with a tail
about five feet long.
When a Judge and referee had been
selected the handlers began, first prod
ding the turtles with the sticks. As
soon as the turtles we're struck under
the shell behind they would raise up
on their legs and dart their heads out,
trying to snap at the person torment
ing them. Then the handlers quickly
slipped the forked ends of the pole
between the head and shell of the tur-
ties and across their necks. That pre-
vented their heads from being drawn in.
The big turtles were then pushed close
together and their heads bumped
against one another. This was done
quite violently several times, when the
nose of the Mortified one was showed
into the tender flesh of the neck of
Southfield's champion. The latter
quickly raised his claw and buried one
of the talons in the eye of the other.
This was sufficient, and the turtles were
soon in fierce combat. They stood up
on their feet and moved about almost
as quick as fighting cocks. They would
watch for an opening and then strike
as quick as any game bird could do.
Sometimes they would get side by side,
biting and tearing one another's un-
protected parts ss tiercely and rapidly
as they could, the object seeming to be
to use up the other and reach a vital
part. Neither of them at any
time showed any dasire to stop, and did
not need any further. urging on. AS
quick as II made a snap the other
would dart around at a surprisingly
quick pace and try to break the others
hold. If that succeeded the watching
and lodging for an opening would be-
gin again. -
At the end of the frsthourth the South
field turtle had lost it's tail, its right
leg, and had a big ragged wound in its
neck. The Mortified turtle could not
use its right front leg. which was ap-
parently broken, and was at adisadvan-
tage from the loss of one eye. After q
two hours and fifteen minutes struggle,
the Southtield turtle managed to get on
the blind side Of his opponent and
seized it with its sharp beak by the
throat. 1t held on vigorously and in .
few minutes its opponent was dead.
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The Charge Of canniba1issn.

Washington Special: The terrible tale of
the experiences of the party in their canvas
hut during the winter of 1884 has been the one
topic Of conversation in naval circles here,
and there is q general belief that although the
horrible story of human butchery which was
the worst side of their life in the Arctic during
lie. The attitude assumed by Commander
Schley and the other officers of the
~rescuing party certainly gives color to this
belief. While some of them were inclined to
be communicative when questioned on the
subject to-day by reporters, most of them
were reticent. Commander Scheley, when APP
preached by your correspondent, was not at
all in a communicative mood.
"Don't bothar me with your questioning,'
he said, 'for / will have nothing to commu-
nlcate to the public till the story is told
at the official Investigation. There is no
truth IN the story at all-none whatever.
If the survivors of the party ate the
flesh of tleii dead comrades, 1 know
nothing whatever about it. Did / know
of ANYTHING of the kind having been done, I
should refuse to crafty a morbid curiosity and
create o sensation ont of the sad misfortunes
of these men by disclosing any knowledge to
any but the proper authorities. Men in such
n situation lost their reason and are not strict
ly human beings. Starvation reduces men
to bru.es pretty rapidly, and they will resort to
means of sustaining life which TO us would seem
appalling. If You and / were reduced to such
u state that one must eat the other or both die,
then it is proper that only the fittest should
SURVIVE
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Grimes and Criminals.

9 Hunt forgeda check for $1,000 got the
money from ! Deadwood bank and skipped
He was arrested at Pierre two days latter and
sent back to the Hills.
AtSt Louis Henry Smith and William Har-
din got into q quarrel when Hardin shot Smith,
Infiicting . wound from which hi died while
being conveyed to the dispensary. Hardin
Was arrested
Israel Biotcky, Jr., member of the firm of
Blotcky Bros, Des Moines, committed suicide
by taking poison. He left numerous letters re-
Gently written, appointing to DISAPPOINTMENT
love us the cause.
Friends Of George Vincent, the notorious
Engiishman, who has been in the st. Louis
jail since laat February, attempted his release
by Offering irresponsible bondsmen 10 q new
Jhdge, but the chief OF police discovered tho
trick In time to catch Vincent leaving the Jail.
Ahorrible tragedy occurred near Rochester,
Cedar county, Iowa, Saturday evening.
Charles zimmerman Of Muscatine and w. Rid
die Of Rochester, brothers-in-l law, left Musca-
tine Saturday noon with their wives and the
young childaof each for Rochester. The party
were in the same wagon, and got into a family
quarrel. zimmerman finally put Riddle and
wife and child out, and told them they could
walk to Rochester. Heaftcrward relented, and
took in the woman and child. On passing Rid
die the latter ordered them to stop, and on
their refusing fred at them with = double bar
Relied shotgun zimmerman was instantly
killed A second shot shattered Mrs. Am
mer1nan's arm. The team then ran away.
and Riddles child was run over and had an arm
broken. Riddle WAS arrested the same night,
and jailed at Upton.
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rhe Earthauake at a run.ral.

New York special.-on Sunday, during the
funeral of Lewis Ingler Jr., the young man
who committed suicide at. Amityville, l. L,
an extraordinary scene occurred. Az the mill
lister was about to kneel in prayer, the shock
of the earthquake shook the house. A large
mirror which reached from the ceiling to the
floor was cracked into from the top to the bot
tom, and the walls of the room were bracked
in two places. The flowers we're shaken from
the coffin and the silver handles at the sides of
the cas!set ratified. The minister and several
stampede to get outside and one lady jumped
through an open window and sprained her leg
SO that she had to be carried to her home.
The minister was unable to go on with the serv-
ice, and the mourners and others remained
outside while the pall-bearers re-entered the
house and carried the coffin out to the hcarse.
A broom handle can be laid into the creacks in
the wall.
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sAlabAuaa leads of in the elections 81
s16sk ohcsing stats officers and 5 legis-
.lAture Arkaasas win hold . similar
|election on Monday, September !, and.
sV'Eesrnont the next day MaineswM elect.
ex-governor. legislature and congress-
ln1sns and vote upcna proposed prohib-
cry amendment 70 its constitution. on
91lllleinday. September 8. Georgia will
IAaold 4 state election on October /, and.
Ohio and West Virginia On the 18th Of
q, same month. Thus preliminar con-
tswilo occur ii even states, but pub
hcinterest viii chiefly be attracted to-.
sWardsthose ii Maine and Ohio, and in
eacksscalset the cnmpsignw VIII be e1treme-
iyvieorots.
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A Montana Mining sensation.

Butte, Mont, Special T~elegram:-A sensation
has been caused here by the sudden and secret
departure Of Francis ". Fl. Medhurst, general
manager ofthe Lexington company, the biggest
silver mining enterprise in Montana. The i'm
mediate cause of his flight is that ] Judge Davis,
a prominent mining man, some time ago at
tacbed property of the Princeton Mining com
pany, and Medhurst, in whose name the title
rested, could not raise the $4,000 necessary to
recover possession. Medlurst was heavily in
debt, caused by excuses at the gaming table
here and in Salt Lake, where he once -four
$4,000. He did not touch the funds of the
Lexington company. HIS salary was s12, 600 a
year. Baron Erlanger of Paris, who is at the
head, Of the Lexington syndicate, will pny the
$1,000 claim of Judge Davis against the
Princeton company, and it was with this under
standing that Medhurst was allowed to leave,
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The season 81 1884 thus far proved !
conpazatiyely Improbable one for the
awstering piacs hotels. and also for the
ssafssit-class hotsls / many cities, owing
IA part % .he unusually cold weather
Eof Julyy. but alsoin part 70 an appar-
mt disposition IN The public "a be less
4Ayish Of expenditure than formerly.
There 4 agrowing demand for simpler
nd more houaelike hotels, says An East
IN With INSTRUMENTATION
md transformations service Of the good
sold dsys" styls. The quiet and horne-
Ike hotels are said TO be making the
snc money and rapidly increasing in
snuMbet. indicating ! growing change
fofths better = the habits Of the Amer.
atM people.
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number Of bales Of cotton, and they wore de-
stroyed Damage 10,0 600 france.

atroyed Damage 10 O francs.
The medical congress opened YESTERDAY at
Copenhagen III the presence of the king and
queen Of Denmark, council of state and king
and queen of Greece. Tho congress Included
350 Danes, 100 Sweedes, 1e0 N~orwegians and
$40 persons of other nationalities.
An Episcopal congress will be held at Fulda.
The archbishop of Ermland will preside over
the congress-. Bishops Of Munster, Treyes.
Heidesheim, Csnabruck and others will attend
the meeting. The objects of the congress are
g 9sganize professorships of Catholic theology
russian universities, to unite the diocese
Of Fnlda and Limbourg in an archdiocese and
NIL vacant curacies,
Later details of the capture OF Kelung by the
French say the own was given withouta blow.
Directly 2 cannon from Admiral Lsspers' flag
snip gave signal, men landed from the various
snips and the town was taken possession Of
IN the name France. The authorities of the town
anda majority of the population fled. Four
thousand Chinese troops, recently arrived
from Shanghai, retired into the interior. The
BRUSH vice consul went on board the English
ggnboat, having previously sent a protest to
Admiral Lsspers against French occupation,
and pointing out that Kelnng was protected
under Sshe treaty with England. The French
coed several steamers hailing from Shanghaion
the ground that their papers were irregular.
The congress of the two houses of the French
parliament at Versailles resumed its labors on
the revision of the constitution Monday. The
tirs s.s article OF the bill was adopted by a vote
q Pc 70 lSa The congress- also adopted, zoe
70 i65, paragraph !, article 2, decreeing the re-
publican form of government to be i1nmutabla.
2 declaring monarchical pretenders
ed-59 to 153. Before tho adoption Of
the article decreeing the republican form
Of government to DO immutable, Prime
Minister Ferry said: eve do not de-
demand = decree of the eternity of repub-
ncanism, but for the dignity md security Of
Trance, . decree that the republican regime is
imnautable. Treppel opposed the article, de-
clarlng It wss unlikely to prevent a change in
favor of the Comic de Paris. A commotion
among thesLeft Immediately occurred, F1oquet
exclaiming, sYou have pronounced condemns
ton ppon the Comte de Paris. We will exc
cute 1t Treppel resumed his speech and
said he hoped the congress. which assembled
March 4, 1855, would replace the monarchy.
The whole of the second clause OF the bill was
adopted-592 to 14S.
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Things in General.

The late New York Legislature en-
acted a law Furnishing railroad baggage
smashes with a fine of $50 for each
trunk destroyed, in addition to the LA
bility of the railroad company for the
value of the property.
At the office of the American bank
note company in New York there is
used a stamp with a clock attachment,
SO arranged as to stamp on any paper
or package o dial indicating the exact
time of day when the impression was
made. This precise record of the time
OF any given transaction, made in SON
nection with other memoranda; which
are recorded by the stamp at the same
time, is found agreat aid in accuracy
and clearness in the company's accounts.
The arms company in Hartford are
just finishing the last six of the forty
n Gatling guns for the United States
army, which, with the recent order for
the navy, will make ffty-one guns in
all thus far ordered.
According to Lord Shaftesbury, one
OF the social necessities of the time in
England is said to be the emigration Of
half a million of surplus women. The
recent report of the Women's Emigra-
ton Society declares that in three years
the society has sent to the colonies $50
women. "Three hundred and ffty!"
exclaims the Pail Mall Gazette, sis it
not trying to empty the Atlantic with a
teaspoon"
The Garfield Memorial Hospital at
Washington was opened to patients
June 16. The first patient admit
ted was a woman, q lady clerk in
the Treasury Department; the first
operation performed by DIR. Swan Bur-
nett, o%culist, on a colored veteran, a
diseased eye, resulting from a wound
received in the war for emancipation.
The first funeral, last week, was that
Of q full blooded Pawnee Indian, at
tired In buckskin leggings and hunting
shirt.
While a proper regard to etiquette
should always be paid during waking
hours, it is equally proper that people
should conduct themselves in q decor
GUS manner while asleep. A Catskillla-
dy dreamed the other night that she saw
her husband kissing a neighbor's wife.
The correct etiquette in this case was
for the lady to continue her dream and
apply for a divorce in the land of Nod.
Instead of SO doing she awoke and
struck her slumbering spouce on the
face, breaking his nose. Nothing could
be more unladylike or uncalled for.
The known dangers Of arctic ex-
.ploration have no power to daunt those
with the genuine explorers spirit,
When Sir John Franklin was prepar-
ing for his last expedition, objections
had been offered to his going because
he had reached the age of GO years.
His friend, Sir Edward Parry, replied:
aHe is the ablest man I know. and IL
you do not send him he will certainly
die Of despair" Said Franklin him
self when asked to repose on his laurels:
"My Lord, / am but So" It is relat-
ed that he appeared as jealous Of q
few months of his age, when it was a
question OF exposure to great danger,
OF OF executing a work of difficulty or
suffering, rs q woman would of being
thought older than the pariA register
showed"
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A Brother unknowingly Assaults His


Ayoung lady, the daughter of a highly respec-
ted merchant Of Hackensack, N. j., had occasion
to visit some friends about three-quartersof a
mile distant from her own home. At about s
o'clock she started on her way home. When
about midway between her friends house
and her ewn, the young woman was suddenly
seized from behind, and while one of her as
sailants (for there were two pinioned her
arms, the other placed his hand over her
mouth to prevent an outcry. Thus handi-
capped the girl was unable to defend herself and
was dragged into the bushes She had scarce
ly been thrown to the ground, wien the moon
broke through the clouds and a terrible dis
covery was made. ooh, brother, spare me!!s
the girl cried, and then tainted. s'My God,'
calculated the horror-stricke young man, cit
is my ~sister!!'' Then he sank down beside her
on he grass and cried like a Child. 1t was
some time before the young lady returned to
consciousness, and when she did u neighbor
stood beside her, and when she was able to
stand, accompanied her to her home. The
young woman, upon arriving home recounted
the particulars Of the terrible ordeal through
which she had passed to her parents, but care
fully, in order to shield her brother, concealed
the facts of the horrible discovery she had made.
Both Of the young men have heretofore been
highly respected, and it it is thought they were
under the influence of liquor ut the time.
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. Murderous lrin1star.

One Of the most sensational and at the same
fearful crimes that has been known of in
Chicago for years, took place recently. The
case was murder and attempted suicide which
will probably end in death. The murderer
and suicide was the Rev. H. NJ. Col
iison, late pastor Of the Fullerton Avenue
Presbyterian church, and his wife was hisvictim.
Mr.. Collision lives on Wright wood avenue
in q new two-story building. A report of a
pistol was heard, and then another followed
It Mrs. Collision was found dead and Mr..
Collision in a condition in which death was
expected every moment Neighbors and po-
lice at once took charge and the latter
conveyed Mr.. Collision to the hospital.
,ao 10 q Canadian or an Englishman,
about forty years of age. He was pastor
Of the Fullerton Avenue church for i've Years.
and resigned in July on account of some
trouble in the congregation, the chief cause OF
which was that he was deaf. Mr.. Collision was
. lover of sports, and in his study was q shot
gun and revolver always exposed to view Of
callers. He had been feeling worry gloomy of
late, on account of his recent troubles, His
family consisted of his wife and four children.
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sNss Asrecently enacted law forbids the
gtasaitous publication Of statistics col
1sctedby tn A0vernmert, and the cab
|aaistic figures 81 imports, exports and
Immigration which mill lately flowed
r recurring Streams from Washington.
III y Z no more for q seasons-The
grest masses Of figures gathered and
Fublished ~ the government, are sim
plyTubbiah 4 amaiority Of the people,
Mt ocsrtain specialists they are val
.aabls for data and comparisons, and
thiiasaass wilsnot DO debarredf from 40,
anihEstng ~ they want through other
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his nationality in Northwestern Minnesota. HI.
life was insured for S. GOO in the United Work,
men, Mutual Aid, Northwestern and Hartford
Life.
Paul Sletten, Mr.. Sterls's predecessor in the
Crookston office, it will he remembered,
died a few weeks ago. Mr.. storla was
80, 1858, of Norwegian parents. His early
years Mere spent on the farm OF his father,
and attending school in the neighhorhood. In
1876 Storla went to Clay county, Minnesota, and
settled in the town of Eglow, purchased a farm
county auditor by an overwhelming vote. He
had held the Office ever since, being reelected
in 1852. A few weeks ago he received notice
of his appointment to the reccivership of the
Crookston land Office, had accepted, and was
taking steps to qualify when he died.
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lrarkst 1aporta.s

81. PAuL-Wheat, No. / hard, g5;No. z. roc
Corn. No. !. SIC. No. j, 4Sc,
Oats. No. 2 mixed. 2Sc; No. 8 white, 27c.
lOc.
Rye. No. 9, SIC,
Baled Hay, wild. $500; timothy s1s,ou
Eggs, 12@lSc
MSLwAuKEE-Wheat, No. 9, 7sc
Corn. No. Z. rejected, 49a5Oc.
Oats. Nc 2. white, new, SIC; old, SO
Rye No 1.62c.
Barlev. No. q. old, SIC.
Meas Pork. S15.5l
Lard. $7.40.
Butter, choice creamery, e0aoec; fair 70
good, 1T@l9c; best DAIRY, 14@15c.
Eggs, l3I5@l4c
sS01SAc
Corn. 5U91Q15lslc.
Oats, 24a4@25c.
Rye. Sic
Barley. Csc.
Flax Seed, $L.35.
Pork, SlS50@s10.M.
Lard. s7.40@$7.45
Butter. erssmery, a7@1s111c dairy. 14@141So
Eggs. l3@l4c
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seymour, iowa, saaly scoreh.a.

Seymour, Iowa, Special Telegram-satur-
day morning, a fire broke out on the back part
of Earnests drug store and Young's hall. The
entire town turned out, and everything posi-
a.ail. Twenty-three buildings in The business
part Of the town were destroyed. The losses
on the buildings will amount to at least $780,
COO. A great many of the goods were saved in
q more or less damaged condition. The insur-
total loss. The principal losers are Geo. Her
bert; Post Office; Morrison & Co; Young's Hall;
". II. Earnest; Union Block; Odd Fellows
Hall etc.
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Iaksly to Oct Il. p,.ert..

Ashlapd, Wis, special:-ames Maggie, keep
er ofa house Of i'll fame at Glidden, met an
eleven-year-old girl named Fannie 10th going
e s',, school he 9, last s,.i Friday about one mile from the
woods and ravished her, threatening 10 Kill her
II she told. The child went home and told her
parents what had happened, and her father
procured q warrant for Nagle's arrest Nagle
was captured ct Glidden Saturday. He was
taken 70 Butternut for safe keeping. The
lynching. were heard on the streets, and the
officers brought him to this city. He was
brought before Justice E1sner, when the girl
Identified him. He WAS bound over under a
thousand dollars to appear at the nextterm of
county jail.
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Murder In wisconsin.

A murder was committed near Fountain City,
Wis, ten miles from Winona, Monday after
noon. Two farmers, William Kurto Of the town
Of Goss, and Joseph Keller of the town Of Nil
ton, living on farms two or three miles apart
IN Buffalo county, Wis. met at Fountain City,
and Kurt complained to Keller that the latter's
cattle had ~tresspassed upon his crops and done
considerable damage. Keller at first said he
would settle for any damage that the
cattle had done, but as both men had
been drinking, they soon became mutu-
ally abusive, Keller finally applying a
very opprobrious epithet to Kurt They then.
separated, and both went home. Kurt on ar
irving at his house went to a neighbor named
Meili and borrowed q gun for the purpose, he
Kell,er's house, Between 3 and ) O'clock i'm" in the ,e
afternoon, and calling him outside, asked him
if he would retract the vile language used.
Keller replied that he would not, whereupon
Kurt discharged the contents Of the gun into
Keller,s breast, the charge entering his lungs
and causing . wound from which he died in
about an hour and q halt. Keller, surrendered
himself and will be tried.