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Great Heat at the East.

ASpecial from New York of the 10th says:
The continued hot spell in New York has caused
the most intense suffering here recently and re.
suited in about fifty cases of sunstroke, while
nine deaths occurred at Bellevue hospital Il
was in the tenement house districts in the lower
wards that people suffered most Hardly a
breath Of air stirring among the big build
ings with their forty or fifty families close
ly packed together in each, and the
sun beat down merclessly. Toward even
ing, however, tho thermometer began tc
drop, and is now cooler than it has
been since last Friday. The horses in
the street cars were suddenly overcome and
dropped down everywhere along the lines.
The horse car companies resorted to every
possible means to save their horses. Water
ing troughs were placed at close intervals along
the routes, and every facility provided for
bathing their horses with sponges This was
the fifth day that the thermometer indicated
o. eyer 80 deg the highest points reached being
eastern cities.
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He Blew a Bullet Prom His Nose,

He Blew a Bullet From His Nose.
The Jersey City Evening Jour nal
published lately an interesting story
about one of it's carriers. Bushrod
Vaughn, now living in Greenville. At
the outbreak OF the rebellion Mr..
Vaughn belonged to Company D, list
n. Y. S. Mo. In the first battle of
Bull Run he received a bullet wound
below the left eye, and was left sense
less on the field. He was taken prison.
cr and was confined in Libby Prison at
Tuscaloosa, Ala, the whole period of
imprisonment being twcnty two months.
The bullet still remained in his head.
No effort was ever made to remove it.
A few days ago, while at work on his
hands and knees in his coal-bin, his
right nasal cavity became obstructed,
as he supposed, by particle of coal.
He closed the left nostril and blowing
hard several times was delighted to
find in his handkerchief the bullet which
he had carried in his head for more
than twenty-three years. A collector
of curiosities offered him $3.50 for it,
but he refused the offer.
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wheat, chicago spring, 16(07t%c; No. 3,
Chicago spring, 6Oc; No. red, 79c; No. 3 red,
Csc.
Corn, cash, 56@561lc.
Oats, cash, 25(We51sc.
Barley, 57jlc:
Pork, cash, $500
Lard, cash, $710@$715
Milwaukee 1e.rksts.
G %hest N No. > z -; %2o
Oats, No. 2 white, 2815c.
Rye, No. l, SIC; No. 2, Sic.
Barley, No. 2, 61$4c:; extra No. 8, 47c.
Mess Pork, $l7 cash.
Lard-Prime steam, $717M.
Butter, choice creamery, 20122c; fair to good,
l7@l9c; best dairy, 15@l6c.
Minneapolis MARKETS.
~ W4E a, No. I hard, 1870; No. hard, 7sc:
Corn. Nc. Sc; rejected, 4s@5oc; con-
Oats, No. ; old, white, 25@96c; No. 2, new,
261c; rejected, a@Ac; condemned, 23@2sc
Barley. No. ., 5S(06Oc
Mixed Feed, No. 1, $1z5ot@s1s; No. 2 1850
Corn Meal, unbolted, sl7@s1s; bolted, q,
f. TX L. TIMOTHY, re- ss 81 wild, choice, $50
q. Paul MARKETS..
WHEAr.-No. hard, new, Soc; No. 2 hard,
&c; No. 2, Csc.
Corn, No. 2, 49c; No. 8, &c.
Oats, No. mixed, 2Sc; No. . white, Csc; No,
extra, Soc.
Rye, No. 2, 49c. -.=-~ .
Ground Feed, 41&5
Baled Hay, %; timothy hsy, $780,
Flax Seed, $ll5 .-.
Potatoes, 2Oc.
Eggs, 1876
Butter, dairy fair, 1910; choice, 15c; cream.
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The British Grain Trade.

London, Sept. s-To-day 1895 bales Of
New Zealand and Port Phillip wool were sold.
There was good demand, and prices were
firm. There were frosts during the nights
which were cold Rains would greatly benefit
the stand In English wheat values lost thei1
hardening tendency, and crops proving of un-
usual weight makes present value unequal.
The sales of English wheat the past week were
625H quarters at 34s Sd per quarter, against
54,14S quarters at Ais Sd per quarter the cor
responding week last year. The market
for the foreign wheat trade lost it's
steadiness, and values were somewhat
nominal and in buyers favor. Heavy
shipments from the United States
show Americans to be free sellers at current
rates. The imports of flour double those for
the same period last year. Of-coasttra is in
buyers favor. During the week 10 cargoes ar
rived, were sold, withdrawn, 10 remained,
and Is are due. Foreign -four is dull and weak
in the country: Maize quiet Round corn
favors buyers. Barley quiet. Oats dull Re-
cent ;adva noes mostly lost Peas were Is per
quarter cheaper. Beans quiet Inseed firm
and dearer. During August British imports in
creased, compared with that of the same month
last year, E6,6OO, 600 Exports, compared with
August, 1885, decreased II COO, OO0
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Setting apart differences of masculine
capacity and adaptation, a man, says
Mr.. Richard A. Proctor, in order to fly
would need wings bearing the same
proportion to his body as we observe in
the wings of the sparrow or the pigeon.
In fact, the wings commonly assigned
to angels by sculptors and painters
would not be so disproportioned to
the requirements of fight as has been
commonly supposed, if only the muscu
lar power of the human frame were we'll
adapted to act upon wings SO placed and
shaped, and there was no actual inferi-
GRITTY in the power Of human muscles
(cross section for cross section) as com
pared with those Of birds,
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1GisoSllaasous 1ows 1oeaa,

The Nebraska wheat crop will be about &c.
COZ, GOO bushels.
The total receipts Of tho state fair ut Des
MOines were over $4,000
ssBlack Pat" Meehan was arrested in Penn
sylvania in company with Mrs. Harriet Curtis,
said to be the daughter Of St. Paul divine.
Accounts published by the government of
Canada state that there are at the present time
lux, coo Indians still living within the dominion
President Ogden, of the Cincinnati trades as
sembly, says of A,OOO members of trades
unions in that city, 5000 are idle, not including
women and children who support themselves.
Eugene v.B. Thayer Of Boston drove skim
hand from Glen house to the summit of Mount
Washington in one hour and ton minutes, beat
ing the record made last year by W. H Van
derbilt by seven minutes.
Henry Hoffman recently eloped from Now
castle, Del, with daughter Of Mr.. Westfall
The girl was captured and taken home Hon-
man escaped arrest, and subsequently induced
Mrs. Westfall, mother Of the girl, to run away
with him He is now locked up, - is the
woman.
Concerning the alleged discovery Of gold in
the Little Rockies, Mont, Benton papers con-
tain ths usual ENTHUSIASTIC reports. ThARnsss
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The English people have o white
elephant in their House of Lords, and
do not know what to 90 with the con-
tumacious animal. A London paper
assumes that the American SEN
ate corresponds to the House of
Lords, though there is scarcely any
relation, one being hereditary
and the other an elective body. the
complexion of which can be easily
changed. With solemn particularly,
it points out to Americans the terrible
dangers that are ahead of them from
the undue power that our Senate has
over pending legislation, and shows
that this power will continue to increase
in an unsafe ratio, as the number Of
Representatives will always in some
measure correspond to the population,
while the number of Senators will re-
main the same. If the English will
attend to their hereditary Lords the peo-
pie of this country will try and look
after derelict Senators, as they have
done, very summarily, in some cases.
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Record Of cAsualtaes,


Perry Valley, Iowa, had little taste Of cy-
clone Tuesday night.
E. J. Salt 4 Co. g wooden mill at Portsmouth,
Ohio, burned Loss $3o, 900; fully insured
The factory of tho Eagle Furniture Works,
Baltimore, was burned recently: Loss, $780,
co.
A block Of stores at Midland, Ont, extending
from Queens hotel to Dominion avenue was
burned Loss, $780, 600; partly insured.
son of Rev. Clinton Locke, of Chicago,
dropped lighted cigar into key of gunpow-
der, and almost wrecked the rectory, but him.
self escaped with eyebrows somewhat scorched.
At East Liverpool, Ohio, Walker l. Co. 3 fire
brick works, together with several small out
houses, six Cleveland 4 Pittsburg railroad
freight cars and numerous telegraph poles
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $25,0O0
AT the coroner's Office, Tuesday morning
between 8 and IL, there were reported twenty
five sudden deaths, many Of which were d.
rectly or indirectly due to the heat The total
number of cases of prostraton Thursday was
eighteen, and in Brooklyn fourteen, three be-
ing fatal.
The terrible sufferings of Capt Murphy and
the crew of the bark Anita Owen from yellow
fever have seldom been equaled Capt Muir
ply sailed from Santiago de Cuba for New York
with crew of five men. OF the captain and
two mates andhis wife, and man named Con-
way, who was sick with the fever when the YES
sci started, but begged to be taken on board,
Conway is the only man of the crew alive the
rest having died of the fever on the passage
The captain and mate suffered terribly from
the disease, but managed to navigate the YES
sci, and reach New York on Wednesday last
Additional reports from Wisconsin cyclone
territory show that while not conveying an OK
tended area, the storm was decidedly thorough
as regards destructiveness. Clear Lake suf-
fered to the extent Of $3UO,OO0 From Marine
to Clear Lake the track of the storm was from
eight to fifteen miles wide and the loss very
heavy The damage to timber alone in that
section is placed at 100000, and to farm
buildings, machinery and the like at 1900, 600.
Some estimates place the total loss as high as
$4,OOO,0OO Considering the violence Of the
storm the loss of life was surprisingly small.
Mitchell, Oak, Special: Fire last night,
by which several of the best business build
ings of the city were laid in ruins, is serious
blow to Mitchell. The work of rebuilding will
commence at once. Letcher l. Co. g loss is
s$5, GOO, insurance $4,000; M. H. Rowley,
Shauer Il Co., lost $1,000; insured for $1,000:
the stock was valued at $13 600 and was in
sured for about one-third; l. o. Gale and T.
McGovern lost about $3.50 each, and were
insured for about half; photograph gallery
and law Office on the second floor of the
Rowley building were total loss. 1t was
only by the utmost exertiOns on the part of
the firemen and citizens that the fire was pre-
vented from spreading to other buildings
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opDFBllOWsIlf.


Address OF the Grand Sire Of he 0ovorsd91
0rana MISREPRESENTATION Growth Of
the Order.
The following Is an abstract Of tho Cd dress
Of Grand sire t,eech, Of the sovereign gran
lodge Of Odd Fellows, delivered Il the
session in minneapolis, MINI. op the 18th inst !:
!, ITO tie Sovereign Grand Lodge Of the In
dependent Order OF odd Fellows Represent
htdves: Once more greet YOU, a. you gather
In these seats, TO enter upon the work Of an,
other annual seasiop Let us reverently thank
our Almighty Father for the great privilege
granted to SO many of US, as we assemble
here this morning congratulate you that
your are holding the sixteenth annual
communication in, this great, North !; Star
state, and one Of the eight states in that Sec
ton Of our land which contains nearly one
quarter Of the membership of the order Let
us see the roll-Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Dakota 1t is proud day for the 124, 900
Odd Fellows of the vast region of our beloved
country. In their name and in their behalf
l greet you all AS required by the
constitution, have the honor aud take great
pleasure in submitting to you my report of
the official acts and decisions, and the gen
eral condition of the order for the year
During the year there have been instituted
four grand lodges, two grand encampments,
1S9 subordinate lodges and forty-two sub
ordinate encampmenta New territory has
been invaded and occupied, aud our field
Of labor largely increased While we
have not initiated SO large q number OF
members as, in tho previous year; yet out
growth III . healthy Che. We how humber
nearly SOC, 900, and taking ali things into
consideration the prospects of the order were
never more flattering than at the present
time. Returns show the following figures,
the Increase being given iii the last figures:
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Railroad and River Yevn

Railroad and River 1evs,
The Wisconsin Minnesota l. Pacific fled 4
first mortgage of 81 900, the money to be
used for an extension frtM Waterville to Cav
lord
David Swan, who until recently, was the
cashier of the Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany, in its Office in St Paul, is charged " it'll
having embezzeled s2l,248os The company
has begun in the supreme court in New York,
= suit against Swan to recover the money, ana
its attorney, Mr.. Gray, has obtained from
Judge Donohue an attachment against what
ever property he may be found to have in this
state Robert L Belknap, the treasurer of the
company, made the affidavit upon which the
Feb. 2; last Swan appropriated IS, 100 belong
ing the company to Ills own use; that On
f Fsb: Is he appropriated y, 600; on Feb q "a
600; Feb IL. s9,746 0s, and on June q, $1,6o6
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CourbOt ImpAtiont.

The Gaulois states that Admiral Courbet in
elsts upon an instant declaration of war bv
France against China The admiral declares
It impossible for him to carry on effective op-
erations against the enemy while ships of 9th
er nations are permitted to carry out munitions
French squadron. Besides reinforcements 81
mon, Admiral Courbet states he is awaiting the
arrival OF war munitions his fleet being def;.
Gent in shot and shell for big guns. The mu.
nltlons sent him from the artillery park Of
Piled e"p-
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has received letter from ono Of the s1uckys
prosPectors, saying. the writer and his partner
we're then making sluioe bc1e4a and thtt Tho ii.
dications were they Mculd 6et from Us to 500
: day . re mar. the gutch Is an extensive
one, Ind Tor miles above and below Discovery
good prospects are found The quartz iinds.
however, are Is wonderful - the placer. In
one day, he says. his partner pounded and
washed out 80 in dust from rock found in chat
vicinity, which must have been tremendously
rich quartz aE#
conservator Patterson has aied His answer
to the motion for In Investigation Of hii
,f9esnaeement q ne Chicago Times
have His Accounts and iets examined by
good and Impartial nep, bit be objects de-
cidedly to Messrs. Water and Smith, To the
former, because he ,is stranger whom Nj:
Patterson believes was brought to Chica-
So Tor the express purpose of sup:
the paper; and to. the latter, because
he has too much personal interest ip the rival
Inter Ocean, and might use the KNOWLEDGE o.
tanned for tie benefit Of that paper
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Confession of q Monster.

oliver Bateman in his confession as to the
killing of the young Mclaughlin girls at Sa-
vannah, NO., SAYS he was at home when the
girls went there. He saw them so into the
woods to pick hazel nuts, and followed
them within fifteen minutes. They were
near the edge of cor;,tield when he
came up with thcn While talking with
them he saw Henry Knappenbeyer pass He
then induced the children to 20 farther into
the corntield and while the eldest was walking
IN front of him he shot her with twenty-five
callbrc ball and when she turned around shot
her with q thirry-two calibrc killing her in
etanty: The smaller girl started to run when
he followed her and caught her She begged
30 hard for him to let her so that lie came near
dong so, but knowing she would tell, he fol-
lowed and caught her again, threw her down
and cut her throat 1t was fifteen or TWEEN
y minutes after knappenbeyer passed before
ne shot the elder girl After killing the Young
or girl he went back to his first victim.
aged her and mutilated her per
son to create the impression that it was the
deed OF . crazy man. He relates that the elder
glrl said nothing after he shot her. and that he
held his hand over the mouth of the Younger
one to prevent her cries from being heard He
says after these horrible occurrences he went
70 the creek, washed himself, threw the knife
IN the creek and went home When the father
OF the girls came to his house inuuiring for
them he wanted to go help search for chem.
put his relatives would not allow him. as thew
thought he wae ill Bateman declares he was
induced 10 confess owing to the circumstantial
manner in which Knappenbeyer had accused
him Of the crime 'o"
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MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.
Planting OH Forests:

The Secretary Of the Minnesota State For.
est5 Association desires lie press Il the state
to call tho attentt6n Of residents in Tie prairie
countless who are interested in the cultivation
Of timber, that the acorn. crop is abundant this
fall There isa good croppf acorns only once
desiring to plant groves of oak trees should
take steps to collect acorns At once, in the
abundant groves in the eastern and central
counties, the "White Oak" is the most valu-
able for timber and fueli but either the
Burr Oak" or the BLACK O.k;" and the
'Jack Oaks" or Black jack grows rapidly
and makes good fuel The advantage in plant
ing oaks for wind breaks il, ,th.tthe leaves are
thus affording shelter from the cold winds:
The acorns should be sown this fall, onground
we'll broken and pulverised Sow in rows 81
feet apart Drop the acorns one foot apart,
and cover an inch or SO deep. II they come
up too thick they can be thinned, - oaks have
along tap root, they are transplanted with
much trouble, and should be sown whefe the
grove is wanted
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1ugrets Of 1oreasa 1evis

2u9gsts OF 1orsign 1ew&.
F. W. O. Grant, lately an assistant bailiff al
Omararu, New Zealand, has succeeded to the
earldom Of Seafeld, with an ANIMAL income 81
According to official statements the total
number of forces under the French flag in Ton.
quin is $4,000 OF these 1000 are Europeans,
and the remainder native auxiliary troops.
Mervyn Smith, awealthy citizen Of Montreal,
who married handsome American girl, named
Kate Wheeler; ten years ago, has become
jealous of an English coachman, and has
entered suit for separation.
In consequence of the British governments
refusal to institute fresh inquiry into the
Maamtrasna murder case, in the light of the
confessions of Casey and Philbins, the Irish
party in parliament have resolved to act with
the Conservatives on the franchise bill when
the measure comes up again at the autumn
session.
Great indignation is expressed in Munich
over the intention of King Louis, the music.
mad monarch Of Bavaria, to erect colossa,
equestrian statue of King Louis XIV. of France
in one Of the squares Of the Bavarian capital.
The DIRECTORS say that tho man whom it is thur
proposed to honor was always the arch-enemy
of Germany
Arrangements have been made for the three
emperors to meet at Count Hcnckel's castle,
near Kattewitz, in Prussian Silesia- Emperor
William started for the meeting place on Sun.
bert Bismarck and Gen. Alldyle will accom-.
pany him NJ De Giers, Russian pri me min;
lister, starts for Poland to be present at the
meeting.
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3~ FEW JERSEY TRAGEDY.
President 3unyon, OF the New Brunswick
National Bank, Cuts His Throat In the
Bank Building.

3rssddeIt 1unyon, OF the New Brunswick
National Rank, Cuts His Throat In the
Bank Building.
Mahlon Runyon, president of the national
bank at New Brunswick, N. j., cut his throat
in the bank on Monday. He was implicated in
the thievery of Cashier Hill New Brunswick
is shaken to its center: Bank Examiner Shelly
has discovered a deficiency of over one mil
lion dollars in the surplus cash and securities.
The town is wild. Men rushed franticalIy to
the doors Of the national bank, only to be told
that the business of this institution had been
suspended for the present
The crash in Wall street in May last took the
bulk of Hills stealings. Runyon, although
quite popular, was ignorant of financial matters
and was willing tool in the hands of the de-
signing cashier. At 9:45 Monday President
and twenty minutes later he sent Chief Fitz-
gerald, who was in charge of the bank, for .
copy of the morning paper in which the story
was told Of his completely in the banks down
fall Securing the paper, he went INTO a room
occupied by the directors and began to read:
A deathly pallor overspread his face, and
he exclaimed: "My God, what will
my children do!D Passing a handker-
chief over his brow, he threw the paper into
the lap Of Director stodaard. and excusins
minute later the sound of fall was heard,
the directors rushed to the closet and discov-
cred the body of Runyon on the floor, with
blood Oozlng from a gaping wound in the
throat Determined on suicide he had cut his
wrists deep, blood squirting against the wall
and ceiling. The thousands of people outside
were Mortified ''Shal we raid the bank"
was the question which agitated the agonizeG
idepositors
The suicide of President Runyon, while
strengthening the testimony in regard to the
Affairs of the management causes unbounded
astonishment to the public generally. Runyou
was farmer, sixty years old He leaves a
wife and four children He had been president
OF the bank five years, but was not generally
regarded as much of fnanccr, the late cashier,
Hill, being considered as running the institution
pretty much of his own way, RunyoD not APP
pearing of much consequence. 1t is stated that
RunyOn was implicated in the theft of Hill.
and expected to be arrested when he took his
life.
Friends of Cashier Hill, who was found dead
Friday morning, when they heard of his sud
den taking of, predicted that if he was short in
his accounts the deficit would be up near q
million, as he loved life too well to kill himself
for less. No resident of New Brunswick was
. more popular than Hill. He was happily mar
ried, but childless. He was one of a family OF
bankerlQhis father having been president OF
the National bank when he was made cashier.
while both his brothers are in the banking
business, one in this city and the other in
Jamesburg, N. J. He was hearty, hail fell
low we'll met, with fund of humor, popular
alike among the rich and poor.
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ux Fir, in Cleveland. OHIO.

Last Sunday night there was = destructive
fire in Cleveland, beginning near Wood, Perry
l. Co. g lumber yard, who lose $3.50, 600 House
L Davidson lose $780, COO, both their planning
mills being destroyed Hubbell Westovere
Co.'s lumber yard destroyed, loss 81, ooo, CO.
Variety iron works, loss not ascertained. Loss
on Stanley,s candle factory about $1,000
Potter, Bifdsall Il Co. g lumber yard, $780, CO.,
Hewelis coal sheds burned, loss not given;
About nifty freight cars belonging to different P
Co.'S yard, we're burned Eynon 4 Sons
machine shop was destroyed; loss $500 The
New York, Pennsylvania 4 Ohio freight house
was saved The fire extended the river from
Scranton avenue to the Bee line tracks and
back to the bonded warehouse. Everything
within that district was consumed Total loss;
100000