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THE CASUALTY RECORD.

Rev, ". J. Hahn dropped dead in his pulpit
at Des Moines
MIR. Burgett of AnBeny, Iowa, blew out the
gas in his room at the fremont house, Chicago,
and was nearly asphyxiated.
While blowing near Carson City, Iowa, re-
Gently, William Naugle, q farmer, vas kicked in
the head by one of his horses and killed.
Elmer swaisgood, living on a farm with his
parents near plymouth, Ind, was struck by
lightning and killed, recently. He was doing
chores about the barn ut the time.
During the thunder storm recently, q large
barn on the farm of David Askgard, three
miles north of Hickaon, Dakota, was struck
by lightning and totally consumed, together
with its valuable contents. which consisted of
four head of horses, four threshing machines,
two self binders, moving machines, hay rakes,
and harness. The adjoinging granary, a large
and well-built structure, caught from the barn,
and vas also destroyed. The loss will be about
$1,000.
The steamer City of Berlin, from Lverpoo,
May IL, has arrived with 143 cabin and /, l39
steerage passengers, after a severe experience
with icebergs. On the 10Th instant, at 3:25 a
m. latitude As deg. 80 M. longitude 1890 deg. /,
banks of Newfoundland, the steamer struck an
iceberg in a dense fog. The engines were go
ing very slowly at the time. Her bowsprit
and headwork were carried away, but no dam
iceberg which carried away the jib boom, bow
spirit, tgurehead and all gear attached, stove
In the bow, breaking the iron plates, plsnking,
iron ratings, etc, etc. Many tons of ice fell
upon the sorecastle deck, breaking through it
and going down into the hold
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Big Fire at Lansing, Iowa.

A large fire occurred recently at Lansing,
Iowa. 1t was discovered at 2:l2 o'clock. and
destroyed $l50,O00 worth of property. The
insurance is 5000 -Four three story brick
buildings, IL two story bricks, 6 dwellings,, e
barns, and twenty families were burned out
of their homes. Thirty-five buildings in all
were destroyed. Following are the principal
sufferers:
Concert hall, occupied by J. W. Thorpe:
boot and shoe stock mostly saved. L. Tuclis.
clothing; Joe Urmersback, restaurant; S,
H. Kinnis, law library; Wnst house:
H. W.. Warking, cigar factory; L. q.
Sam, boots and shoes; ]. 1'ully, gem
eral store; George X. Ohler, store. Tho
bank, with l. L. fellows law Office, postofice
and Haughton gallery: D.. P. Spencer's resi-
dence, W. D. Morgan's residence and j: Ilet-
rick's house.
TIL loss to Lansing is terrible, and many
sufferers, having no insurance and being
poor, will be unable to rebuild. The fire orig
mated in the rear of the Concert block, a fine
three-story building, and swept south and east,
consuming the Lansing bank, postofiice ana
the Lansing Mirror and journal office, and
the stores, MOTEL and dwellings. The La
Crosse fire department was telegraphed fo.,
and started on a special train, but turned back
from Caledonia, the fire being under control.
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Gen. Grant and His Book.

New York, Special, May a5th:-stephen 3, FL
kins was relatingt to- nigh some particulars OF his
visit to Gen. Grant yesterday. ''They are all
looking forward to the removal of Gen. Grant 10
Saratoga. which will take place in about three
weeks. The general believes he can stand the
trip all right, bnt his mind is now thoroughly
engrossed in his book. The entire work is
well nigh completed, and was shown some
hundred pages or more, which I read with the
greatest interest. l think it is going to be
one of the most remarkable books of lis
kind. Any child, as well as any ma
ture man, can read it with pleasure
and satisfaction. Gen. Grants literary
style is clear, forcible, picturesque and plain.
There are no detectives. Everybody comrre.
hends at once what he intends to convey. He
tells a great deal in a short space. His method
seems to present a very few marked features
of a picture and leave the reader to supply the
rest"
Did Gen. Grant keep journal during the
wars
N / asked him the question last night"
MY orders" he replied, ARE my journal, I
have depended on nothing else.
Mr.. Elkins said the first volume of the mem
oirs would be published III November and the
second in March.
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ZONE :~rsrrltor1a, Appointments.

Secretary Lamar dictated from a sick bed a
list OF twelve territorial appointments, the re-
suit of his days work with the president
Among them was the name OF Morris Taylor,
for surveyor general of Dakota, which, it is
understood, was not made as a recognition OF
NJ. II. Day, the natDnal committeeman, but be
cause OF Taylor's endorsements We're SO strong
that there was no getting around them. Mr,
Taylor is not a practical surveyor. Mark x
Shafer is appointed register, and d. /. B.alt
BILE receiver at the Watertown land office, aud
L. ". Miller and u. w. Boyington register ail
receiver at Aberdeen. Ex-senator Upton,
who came to Washington in February,
hoping TO be called into the cabinet, waited, cX-
pecting to be made general land commissioners.
and went home thinking he would set nothing,
is made receiver of the Bloomington tNeb,1
land Office. Ex-senator Ross of Kansas is TO
be governor of New Mexico. He is one who
voted against Andy Johnson's impeachment
Senator Vest has at last got the Yellowstone
Park in his grip. His man D. W. Ware was
appointed superintendent Mr.. Ware is II st,
Louis broker, described as honest, driving and
capable. He has visited tho park several
times. He is q emi-misanthrope, hating ~
great many men and things, aud MI. Vest had
him appointed because of his general ugliness.
All the above appointments have been official
ly promulgated by the president.
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A Scrap of Tartar History.

From the P%ittsburg Chronicle.
The remarkable workmanship OF the
Tartars is proverbial. Their f~avorite
weapon is Il long, curved cimetar, quite
different from that of the Turks. 1t is
made OF the finest steel, richly allowed
with silver, and a sword becomes an
heirloom in 2 family and decends to the
first born SO long as the family exists.
When the last representative OF a race
dies his sword, which may have come
down to him from a hundred genera
tions, is broken and buried with him.
The blades of the n which are
beaten out on an onyx stone anvil in the
ancient Mogul city Of Taztchiutzy (the
Holy place., are very thin, and the won
derful feats performed with them are
astonishing. Once when Robo, the
cousin of the Great Mogul, was caught
IN a rebellion, his execution was order
ed. The most skillful workmanship of
the empire was provided for the behead-
ing, and the Great Mogul and his court
assembled to see 1t. For n second the
keen Tartar blade flashed in the sun
light and then descended upon the
bare neck OF Robo, who stood upright
to receive the stroke. The sharp steel
passed through the vertebr;e, muscles
and organs Of the neck, bat so swift was
the blow and so keen the blade that the
head did not fall but kept it's exact
position and not a vital organ was dis
turbed. In surprise the Great Mcgul
exclaimed: "Wbat, Robo, srt thou not
5eheaded?" "My lord, 1 am" replied
Robo, "but SO long as I keep nv bal
ance right my head will not fall Off"
The Great Mogul was so pleased with
the dizziness of the executioner that he
ordered a bandage to be tied on, and
Rohospeedily recovered. He afterward
became a loyal subject, and was made
cashier, OF the empire, because as the
Great Mogul remarked, "He knows
that If he keeps his balance right his
head will not come off," 1t is one of
those curious scraps Of history that are
often overlooked.
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THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

AT Cedar Rapids, Iowa, A. L. Franks, while
drunk, killed an Italian scissors-grinder in a
row. The murderer was arrested.
Sheriff Jones of South Royalton, vt, left
Mandan, Dakota, for the East with a prisoner
named Woods, charged with forging a will
over two years ago. Woods has been a fu-
gitive from justice all this time.
Samuel p. Holmes of Paris, Tex, separated
some months since from his wife, entered her
residence and slashed her with his bowie knife.
Prof. Youmans and Mrs. Holmes sister com
ing to her assistance, Holmes disemboweled
them. All three of the victims died. Holmes
escaped.
Complaints were made to the authorities at
La Crosse, Wis that deck hands on the steamer
Mary Morton were being robbed by pocket
cutters among the roustabouts. One man has
had every. pocket in his coat and trousers cut,
but had his money in his boot and saved it
It is said the losses on the last trip amount to
$3.50.
"A young man known as Frank Cole, who had
been employed at the Northern Pacific house
at Bozeman, Mont, fora month, committed
suicide by taking strychnine, dying in great
agony He was m intelligent, well educated
young man, and was given a position in the
hotel because, as he said, he was destitute.
Before he took the poison he confessed to a
young man here that his name was not Cole,
but John +. Mulchary; that his former home
was in Syracuse, N. Y.
United States Postofice Inspector Henshaw
Of Chicago has arrested and brought to Madi-
son, WIS, Albert Wcingartner of Aurora, Ill,
who in March, 1884, forged the Elder Brothers
signature to a receipt and secured from the
postoffice a registered letter from Germany,
containing a draft for 500, which he endorsed
and negotiated. He is twenty-eight years of
age, intelligent and educated, and the reckless
son of a wealthy family of Germans. He was
arrested at Rib Lake, Taylor county, Wis,
where he was quietly living with his young
wife and baby. He confessed the crime, APP
for sentence.
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M1scELLANEous 1rEMs OF NEWS.

Serious differences are said to exist between
the English and American Bible ~rcvisers.
At Camp township, Iowa, Mrs. Casper
elopes, leaving her husband and three chill
dren.
The grand jury in Springfield, Mass, has
indicted the Boston Il Albany railroad for run
ming Sunday trains.
A general strike of the Pittsburg iron work
ers will probably take place June l, and lOO,-
wv men will be thrown out of employment
The Democratic state central committee Of
Iowa meet and make several recommendations
for Office, among them Ed Campbell for mar
shall of the southern district
The 135th anniversary of the birth of Steph-
en- Girard was celebrated at the college in
Philadelphia. A memorial window. in honor
of tho late President Allen, was unveiled. II
cost $500.
The greatest vein OF coal on the continent
has been found in Saline county, Mo. A shaft
has been sunk through ffty-three feet of solid
coal, aud tests show that the vein is very ex-
extensive.
Amos Woodruff, president of the Woodruff
Oliver Carriage, at Memphis and president OF
the Woodruff Lumber company, made an indi-
vidual assignment, His liabilities are about
WV wv, duu uOiulLlul dsSGtS SlSg,UtU. .r
Henry w, Blair is the leading senatorial can.
dida;e in New Hampshire and Rollins is a can.
didate for reelection. Ex- Secretary Chandler
is also in the field and Mr.. Blair's chances are
not remarkably good. The election takes
place next month
Tho Helena, Montana, Independent says:
sOfficial records show that Louis David Riel
took out final naturalization papers at Helena,
| Mont, March 16, 1883, renouncing allegiance
to the British government This settles the
much disputed claim OF American citizenship.
Tho governor of Iowa has been invited to 90
with the Iowa press gang on its Oregon excur-
sion, and has accepted. The decision of the
Pnllmans that no lunch baskets will be per-
mitted on their coaches will dampen the ardor
Of some OF those intending to 20, as it means
an expense of $3 a day for meals to each per-
son for eighteen days. DR.. Hannawalt, of this
city, will go as the medical officer.
Senator John Sherman was rendered a pub.
lie reception at San Francisco, by members of
the chamber OF commerce, board of trade and
manufacturers association. In q speech he
said: ave want a certain adjustment be-
tween silver and gold, that both these metals
may be coined free; thar they may be deposit
ed in the United States treasury in exchange
for money certificates, and both be 30 adjusted
that they may travel all over the world equal
to each other in every land To accomplish
this, silver must be purchased, coined and
paid out at market rates, or received on de-
postal market rstes, and paper money issued
for II This will give . bimetallic money,
good not only in IA Francisco, but In New
YORK, London snd other parts of the world"
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George Rex Graham, the founder of
Graham,s Magazine. whose name was
a household word in every cultivated
home forty years ago, is now blind,
helpless, worn out, and subsisting on the
charity of more successful friends in
New York. The burden of caring for
Mr.. Graham was taken up three years
ago by a Newark journalist. Through
the liberality of old Philadelphia ac-
quaintances of Mr.. Graham, particu-
larry Mr.. G. W. Childs and Mr.. G. J..
Peterson, the simple wants Of the dear
old man have been provided for. His
wife died many years ago, and, SO far as
near relatives are concerned, he appears
to be absolutely alone in the world, all
of them being dead.
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PERSONAL

-
Maude Stuart, the dead actress, was o men,
Der of sanger's Bunch of Keys company.
Charles Trabing, one of the best cattle men
of Wyoming, died at tho Paxton hotel, in
Omaha, recently, of blood! poisoning.
The will of W. w. Smith, Of Worcester,
Mass, gives the whole of his estate, valued al
$4,000 for the education of colored men in
Africa.
Mrs. A. 7. Stewart mas formally conveyed
the great cathedral at Garden City, 1. T., and
all the appurtenances to the corporation of the
cathedral in trust for tEn.Episcopal diocese OF
Long Island The property is valued at over
Miss Nellie Garfield Of Washington, seven
ssen years old shot herself recently at Mrs. De
Wits seminary in Belleville, N. J. She had
been Ill for . long time, and was deranged at
the time. The girls mother is a niece Of the
wife OF President Lincoln.
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Gladstone catohing It Everywnere.

London Cable: The political situation in
England is notonly regarded by Enslishmen as
anomalous, but it now forms the chief subject
of comment in all the continental papers.
The leading organs OF European public opinion
outside of England severely ~criticise the pres
ent British ministry. Mr.. Gladstone gets the
lions share of all this continental denunclation.
The Vienna Mondays Review says it is posi-
Bile that the English parliament may absolve
Mr.. Gladstone and his cabinet for their
laundering management of British for
eisn affairs, but it thinks that sooner
or later the British people will denouneo
tho ministry that has Sacrificed the
honor and vital interests of the British
empire" The Algemane Zietung of Vienna,
says that Mr.. Gladstone has impaired an saim-
less nervousness" into European politics
which the paper declares is alternating great
continental powers from England. .Wfu
what nation) would be rash enough to be
Gladstone's friends?:" asks the Zietung. The
Rassegna of Rome advises Italy to closely oh
serve the negotiations in progress between
England and the porte for a Turkish occupa
ton of Suakim. Such an occupation would
seriously modify Italy's position at Massowall.
The Rassegua says, and Italy is, intensely in
tcrested in Ensland's intentions concerning il.
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A Relic of The Manistee.

1t is now eighteen months since the steamer
Manistee went down in a terrible gale on Lake
Superior, and on all board persisted. Nothing
has been seen or heardfrom the Manistee since
but an occasional bucket or piece of timber
washed ashore in the vicinity of Fish creek.
Wis, until recently when a party of trout fish
ers While angling up Fish creek some dis
lance from lis mouth, found a sealed bottle
containing a piece of paper on which was writ
ten: "On board Manistee. Terrible storm
tonight. May not live to see morning. Yours
to the world. John Mckay" Mckay was cap
tain of the Manistee at the time of the disaster.
The people of Ashland, with whom Mckay
was in the habit of doing business, carefully
compared the handwriting OH the slip of paper
found III the bottle with receipts and other
documents Of the late captain, and pronounce
question. The slip of paper has been sent
to the widow of the late captain Mckay for
further Identification.
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Shooting Affair in Dodge County, MINI.

join Leahmann, living near Claremont,
thirteen miles east of Owatanna, Steele
Co., went to the residence of William Van
Ruden, q quiet, respectable farmer, and at.
tempted to quarrel with him, accusing him
of many oifenses of which he claimed to be
innocent Finally Leahmann loaded hi. gun
aud said he had come to shoot Van Ruden.
Leafinann advanced with the intention OF
shooting and'would not stop at the warning of
Van Ruden, who fred and killed him instantly.
Another account says: They had trouble tor
several years and Leahmann was in the habit Of
gong over to Van Ruden's and shooting at his
chickens, sometimes threatening to shoot him.
Recently Leahmann went to an Rudcn $
with a loaded gun. Old Mrs. Van Ruben
went out and requested him not to shoot
IN the yard as he might shoot SON of the
children. Leahmann said he would shoot all
he wanted to and could shoot her If he desir-
ed, ~wherenpon he discharged his gun off in
the pasture. Van Ruden appeared, and, after
some words with Leahmann, went into the
house, brought out his gun and shotLcahmann.
Van Ruden went to Kasson, Dodge county. at
once and gave himself up. Leahmann was a
bachelor about forty years of age, and had ore
brother living. Van Ruben has a wife and one
child. Both parties were well-to-do farmers
Leahmann had 5000 on his person.
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FOREIGN E W GOSSIP.

The sultan Of Turkey has employed two Ger
man specialists to remodel the pharmacy OF
his palace.
Sir Leonard Tilley has arrived in London
He will make an effort to borrow 9GO. GOO. 200
for the attenuated dominion treasury.
A bottled message has just been found on
the shores of Lake Superior, from the dead
captain OF the Inflated Msnistee, lost some
eighteen months ago.
Negotiations for the settlementof the Difficult
iesbetweenS San Salvador and Guatemala have
failed. and 400 Guatshalan troopsh have crossed
the 6slvsdorian frontier.
d. Tseppsn Of Hamburg gets three months
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An incident Of the prince Of Wales
visit to Ireland which pleased him
highly has not been generally recorded.
An old fiddler played and sang while
his wife, already Of perhaps 20 sum
mers. danced an Irish jig before the
prince to the tune: .sSeaghan O'Duib.
hive an Gleanna-
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VIsrroRs to London will soon be
ablsgto Q an old historic monument
In new quarters. Temple Bar is to
reappear VI the Kings Bench walk,
the ston!es having been numbered and
made ready for use.
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HE first steam-car that ever ran on
any street railway In that city began
running in London on April 10. The
line is i've miles in length. The loco
motives \ almost noiseless, and are
capable Of hauling two well-loaded
cars at q speed of eight miles per
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MoTHER-or-pEARL, the material Of
which ornamental buttons, buckles,
fan-sticks, card-cases, and other fan
cy articles are made, is the principal
production Of Tahiti, and makes a
commerce variously estimated be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 per year.
Butte. B. Brandley, in La Nature,
states that the lagoons in which the
oysters producing this material are
found are growing poorer every day,
and that unless protective measures
are adopted they viii be impoverish.
ed, If not ruined, in a few years.
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The following statement is made at Ottawa
in regard to Riel's citizenship: Iiiel took an
active part late in 1882, or early in 1883, in the
Montana elections, having become an American
citizen there. He created considerable excite.
ment in the election referred to, being an
active worker for the Republicans. After the
elections were over, he was prosecuted on the
charge Of having induced several half breeds
to vote, although they had not the necessary
qualifications. The prosecution having got
fairly under way. however, he fed to his Old
home, ST. Vital, Man. He subsequently re-
turned to Montana, and removed his family to
st. Boniface, Man. Iu tho fall OF 1883 he went
mp to the Saskatchewan country, where he has
been ever since. There 10 no doubt as to his
American citizenship.
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EvzKx day the London policemen
walk distance equal to twice the cir
conference OF tho earth. There are
As0SOa t taem, and they average 12
miles q day each.
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ri the CITY Of st. Petersburg there
are fourteen Protestant congregations.
During the year 1884 there were 2.131
children baptized by tho pastors, 1,Os4
were confirmed, and 34,719 COM
mnnnd
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WASHINGTON is q remarkably relig-
Ions city. Statistics show $50 churches,
with 4a,S51 members. OF this total
membership. kswever, about q. 900.
are in Che colorsd churches.
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SAcKyILU5 street, Dublin, which
was 90 long occupied by dwellings, Of
the nobility and gentry and members
OF parliament. is now wholly devoted
q sbusinees.
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Dublin cabmen charged 1927 each
forthe nse OF cabs by persons attend
ing the recent drawingroom at Dub
Hin castle.
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The Chinese have q queer way Of
Furnishing persons who venture to
commit suicide in the precincts Of that
portion Of Pekin occupied by the i'm.
perial court The bodies of the OF.
tenders are brought to a bridge or
some other public place and logged.
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Ma BALI, the American sculptor, is
hard at work in Florence on a clay
model Of his colossal statue OF Wcb-
afer.