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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.

For the six months ended June 80 the
total value of exports of breadstuffs was
SIG, 167, 09S, as compared with $67, 49,, PSI for
the corresponding period of 1884.
ACCORDING to telegram from General
Sheridan to the President, sent from Fort
Reno on the 18th, no serious Indian troubles
need be apprehended.
The building occupied by the Post, the
National Republican, the Critic and the
Sunday Gazette was destroyed by fire on
the 10Th, causing total loss of $l50, 900.
The President on the 18th ordered GEN.
eral Howard, Commander of the Depart
ment of the Platte, to make all possible
preparations for any emergency that NAV
arise in the near future in Utah.
THERE were 185 business failures In the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 18th, against 1914 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, 46; New
England States, q; Western, 40; South
ern, SO; Pacific States and Territories, 30;
Canada, IA.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses
in the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the IS aggregated
$8l3,686,476, against 1852, S97, 046 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the corre-
spending period of 1884, the falling off
amounts to 17.7 per cent.
ACCORDING to the Chief of the Bureau of
Statistics the number of immigrants ar
irving in the United States during the fis-
cal year ended June 80, 1885, was 3S7 1921, a
decrease of 122,013 as compared with the
immigration of the preceding fiscal year.
The Secretary of War en- the goth in
structed General Sheridan to take such
measures as may be necessary to open and
keep open, for the passage of cattle and
other purposes of inter- State commerce,
the trails and highways leading into and
from Indian Territory.
ACCORDING to reports of the goth 1000
men were said to have been killed in bat
tie between the Government forces and
revolutionists in Colombia.
STANDARD dollars for the week ended
10 the number of 839,9S1 were issued July
IS.
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LATER.

GENERAL GRANTS symptoms on the 21st
were such as to cause great anxiety. Ee
was suffering greatly from physical ex-
haustion and mental depression, and had
repeated attacks of hiccoughing.
AN explosion in a gunpowder and PEI
| troleum warehouse at Aries, France,
caused heavy loss of life few days ago.
THE trustees of Vassar Coliege, at
Poughkeepeie, n, Y, on the 21st elected
DR.. Galusha Anderson, of Chicago, as
President.
| ABOUT thirty Mexicans were on the 21st
| reported to have been killed by bands of
hostile Indians on the Texas frontier.
REPORTS of excitement among the
Northern Cheyennes in Montana were
confirmed on the 21st. The settlers were
preparing for defense.
i THE Arabs recently made an attack on
Kassala, and were repulsed with loss of
three thousand killed and wounded. The
garrison's casualties were small.
AMONG the strikers in Cleveland, O., and
Bay City, Mich, everything was quiet on
the 21st, and it was hoped that complete
settlement of the difficulties would soon be
effected. The troops had been withdrawn.
1 AN enthusiastic demonstration took place
at Quebec on the 21st in honor of the re-
turn of the Ninth battalion from active
service in the Northwest. The trial of
Riel, at Regina, had been postponed for
one week.
Il THERE were 2,417 new cases of cholera
In Spain and 952 deaths during the TWEEN
: fyT. n IAI - - Al
t321st
i REPORTS gathered by an Eastern agri-
cultural journal represented on the 21st
the winter wheat situation in the North
west as favorable, although the crop
would not be equal to that of 1884 in any
State save Michigan. Spring wheat prom :
Used an average crop. Oats and corn
looked well.
i An explosion on the 21st near Hunting
don, Pa, killed three workmen and fatally
injured two others.
| The steamer Hecla collided on the 21st
with the Liverpool and London steamer
Cheerful in a fog, off Cornwall, Eng. The
latter foundered and thirteen persons were
| drowned.
AS AN outcome of the recent Polish riots
in Toledo. o., the Grand Jury ON the 21st
found nearly one hundred indictments
against the rioters, eleYen being for MUIR
der in the first degree.
THE heat atvarious points still remained
intense on the 21st. At New York tho
| thermometer marked 81 degrees, with
twenty three cases of sunstroke; at Phil
adelphia 101, with twenty two sun
strokes; at Pittsburgh 81; at Cincinnati
80, with twelve sunstrokes: at Louisville
80, at st. Louis 96, with twelve sunstrokes.
In Chicago the temperature fell to Y.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

LARGE numbers of the Cleveland co.,
strikers armed themselves with shot guns
and muskets on the 10th and engaged in
regular military drills in their settlement
The militia was in readiness to quell any
disturbance. At Bay City, Mich, strikers
burned $4,000 feet of lumber.
AT Helena, Ark, David Ackles (colored)
was hanged on the 18th for the murder of
Frank Burrell and Felicia Flanagan, and
Eaton Mills (colored) was executed at
Halifax, N. c., for the murder of Henry
Pontop.
In the wheat fields of Dakota near Fort
Buford grasshoppers made their appear
ance on the 18th, and were doing consider
able damage.
A NEBRASKA census just taken shows
that the population of the State is over
100000, as against $4,000 in 1880. The
population of Omaha was increased from
30,652 in 1880 to g., 1856.
FORT RENO was reached by Generals
Sheridan and Miles, on the 18th. General
Sheridan would remain there several days,
making an investigation into the Indian
troubles.
JERRY OAKLEY, the Town Marshal at
Stepstone, KY, after killing three men
who had molested him, was on the 18th
shot and slightly wounded.
AT Fort Keogh, M. t., reports were re-
ceived on the 18th that the Northern
Cheyennes were on the war-path, and
serious trouble was apprehended. 1t was
rumored that in a recent skirmish five
cowboys and seven Indians were killed.
Troops had been sent from Fort Keogh to
the scene of the disturbances.
AT Cincinnati three boys were drowned
on the 10Th while bathing in the Ohio
River.
The belief was current at Fort Reno on
the 18th that the danger of an outbreak
among the Cheyennes had passed. Gen.
eral Sheridan, who had been comforting
with the dissatisfied chiefs, found them
divided on the question of leases to cattle
men.
AN agent of the Department of Agri-
culture has Investigated the reports OF
ravages by grasshoppers in Colorado and
found them to be greatly exaggerated.
A TOUR of New Mexico has been COM
pleted by Senator Henderson, of the Sem
ate Committee on Territories, and as Q re-
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A VICTIM OF FoOLHARDINEss.
Mrs. Mcintyre Hurled Over the Falls of
ENiagara Through an Act.of Foolish Dar-

Mrs. Mcintyre Hurled Over the Falls of
ENiagara Through an Act.of Foolish Dar-
ing.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, July 1.-THE
name of the lady who went over the falls
Wednesday was Mrs. Mcintyre, of Well
and, Ont. She was about twenty-eight
years old and had not been long mar
ried. She was of sprightly dis
position and had the reputation of
being personally venturesome. She was
visiting the family of P. j. Murphy in
Buffalo. Wednesday she came here with
Miss Henrietta Shields, who is neighbor
to the Murphy family. Miss Shields, who
was with Mrs. Mcintyre when the latter fell
into the stream, says that at about 6 80
o'clock in the evening she and Mrs McIn-
tyre were about to cross the bridge from
Bath Island to Goat Island when the latter
ran upon fiume bridge leading from the
main walk. She challenged Miss Shields
to follow her, and when the latter refused
she skipped on alore, good-naturedly call
ing back to her companion that she was
a coward. Immediately thereafter Mrs.
Mcintyre, apparently becoming dizzy lost
her balance and fell into the water. There
were few people on the main bridge as the
Inflated woman was swept under it and
dashed to death just below the bridge where
the water strikes submerged boulder. The
body was not seen afterWard nor observed
when it went over the falls between Luna
and Goat islands by any one of the many
who were huddled close at that point.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AT Madrid the negotiations for COM
mercial treaty between Spain and the
United States have been revived.
1T was asserted by German newspapers
on the 18th that the revival of the war ru-
mors in England all emanated from a
group of spectators having Berlin as a
headquarters, but operating through
agents on every bourse in Europe.
ACCORDING to advices of the 10Th over
fifty persons lost their lives in the recent
earthquakes in India, and the damage to
property was great.
The widely known Rev. DIR. S. Iren9us
Prime, since 1910 editor of the New York
Observer, died at Manchester, VT, on tho
18th, from a stroke of paralysis. DR.. Prime
was born at Ballston Spa, N, Y, November
4, 1912. He was the author of several
sketches of foreign travel, and devout
and leading member of the Presbyterian
Church. He leaves wife, two sons and
two daughters.
A SOUTH AMERICAN named o. Adair,
who robbed the paymaster of the Island
Railway at Victoria, B. c., was captured
on the 18th with the entire sum stolen,
$4,000.
NEAR Venice, Italy, mailman was ar
rested a few days ago, who confessed that
he had stolen and killed and eaten num-
Der of children.
The Canadian Parliament was pro-
rogued on the Doth.
THERE were 1850 fresh cases of cholera
in Spain and T61 deaths during the twen-
ty-four hours ended at six p. m. on the
goth.
E AT Oldham, Eng, twenty-five thousand
cotton operatives struck work on the goth.
AT Regina, Manitoba, ON the goth, the
trial of Louis Riel, the leader of the rebel
lion in the Northwest, was begun.
A SHORT crop of winter wheat is report
ed in the southern provinces of Russia, and
the prospects for spring wheat are poor
throughout the Empire.
REPRESENTATIVES, of both powers have
signed the new treaty between China and
Great Britain, by the terms of which the
interior of the Chinese Empire is opened
up freely to the opium trade.
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Arranging for the Special Delivery.

WASHINGTON, July 17.-The special de-
livery postal system provided for by the last
Congress will be put in operation in the
course of a month or two at about dozen
of the principal post-offices of the coun-
try, including New York, Boston, Brook
Ign, Philadelphia, Chicago and Wash
ington. The details of the system are
now being formulated at the Post-office
Department. The law provides that the at
tachment to letter bearing the legal post
age of special stamp of the denomination
of ten cents shall entitle the letter to inn
mediate delivery at the free-delivery offices
o be designated by the Postmaster-G Gen
eral. 1t is believed that fifty messenger
boys will be required at the New York
Post-office and twenty-five at each of the
twenty large stations in that city.
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suit of his observations he will file a report
next December against its admission as a

suit of his observations he will file report
next December against its admission as
State.
AT st. Louis the 10Th was the hottest
day of the season, the mercury marking
101 degrees in the shade at three p. m.
Several persons were Frustrated.
ACCORDING to crop reports on the 10Th
from the Northwestern States there would
De better yield of wheat in many local
tiles than was at first anticipated, while
news concerning corn, oats, barley, pota-
toes and hay was very encouraging.
On the afternoon of the 10Th the mer-
curry marked ninety EIGHT degrees in Chi
cago.
ON the Goth intense heat prevailed
throughout the East, West and South. In
New York the thermometer marked 90 de-
grees in the shade; at Philadelphia, sc,
with seven fatal sunstrokes; at Baltimore,
SO, with three deaths from sunstroke: at
Richmond, 104; at Pittsburgh, IS; at Day.
ton, o., 101; at st. Louis, 80, with five ia
tai sunstrokes; and at Chicago, "a. Great
mortality occurred among hogs at the
Stock Yards.
AT Joplin, Mo-, Neal Thornton, the des-
perado who murdered Policeman Daniel
Sheehan, was lynched on the 20th.s
GOVERNOR DAWES, of Nebraska, has is
sued a proclamation of quarantine against
cattle from Illinois and other States.
On the night of the goth the Wells &
French car and car-wheel shops, in Chi
cago, were destroyed by fire, the loss be-
ing $250,O0O.
In the three-mile sculling race at Pitts
burgh on the Goth Gandaur defeated Teem-
er by length in 1885, the fastest time on
record in q single-scull race.
GEORGE PACKARD, aged eleven years,
shot and killed his brother Albert, aged
thirteen, while playing with revolver
supposed to be unloaded) at Columbus,
O., on the Goth.
A FEW days ago an East bound Santa
Fe passenger train, which left Eel Paso,
Tex, was wrecked near Wallace, and
three firemen we're killed.
WHILE attempting to ford the Walnut
River near Douglas, Kan, the families Of
Mr.. Carman and Mr.. Keats, numbering
seven persons, were swept away on the
Goth. All were drowned save one
JULIUS LOCKS, a Texas desperate, while
intoxicated on the Goth wantonly killed
two men and wounded several others ut
Manley, N. G. He was in custody, and
lynching was threatened.
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HOUSES TORN TO PIECES.
Ravages of Thunderstorms-Seve Re
poted Killed in the Northwest. .

haVaSeS OF Ihun0erStOrmS-SoVe Re-
poted Killed in the Northwest.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, July 17.-Specials
from Dakota points show that the storm of
Wednesday night was very severe. At
Highmore and Holabird there was a regular
cyclone, the latter town being almost torn
to pieces, though no lives were lost. A. P.
Reed, grain dealer, of Miller, was killed
by lightning, and E. B. Thompson, living
two miles from Highmore, was carried
forty rods and had his neck broken. Eff
teen houses were blown to pieces at High
more and others were badly damaged.
WATERFOWL, Wis, July IA severe
thunder and lightning storm, accompanied
by high wind, passed over this section
from the west at six o'clock last evening,
leveling trees and fences and doing consid-
cradle damage to crops. During the storm
the planning mill of P. Henricks & Co. was
struck by lightning, but did not burn. In
the town of IXonia David Lewis, an old
settler sixty years Of age, was killed by an
electrick shock. His house and barn were
struck by lightning and both destroyed
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, July 17.-Rep0rts from
various points in Dakota show that the
storm Wednesday extended over a large
tract of country but that the greatest dam
age was confined to few localities. At
Marvel there was heavy hail, which
leyeled the crops in the vicinity. Many
farms were wholly destroyed. Five thou
sand acres OF grain are destroyed, which
would average twenty-five bushels to the
acre
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Death of Rev. Irenseus Prime.

MANCHESTER vt July 20.--Rev. DIR.
Irenaus Prime, who was taken seriously
i'll last Sunday, died at noon Saturday. He
never regained consciousness since the mo-
ment of his attack.
samuel Irenpcus Prime was born at Balls
ton, n. Y. November 4, 1872, and inherited
literary tastes from his 1ather, Nathaniel
Scudder Prime. He read Latin at the age of
eight, Greek at nine, and had some acquant-
ance with Hebrew at ten. AT thirteen he was
f aamltted TO Williams 44lese, graduating
He was licensed to preach when about twen-
ty-one, but was forced by failing health to
give up the ministry. In 1910 he obtained a
position upon the New York Observer. secur.
ing controlling interest BIZ purchase in 1858.
since which time he has been chief editor of
the paper. Mr. Prime wrote number of
works, and was handwriting member of
many religious societies
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A NOVEL EXECUTION.
Barnum's Huge Elephant, Albert, Sho
for Having Killed His Keeper.


for Having Killed His Keeper.
KEENE, N. H., July 21.-The huge ele-
plant Albert, belonging to the Barnum
Show, killed his keeper, James McCor-
mick, on July IS. During the afternoon
performance of the circus yesterday James
5. Hutchinson, one of the managers, an
nounced that as the elephant had taken
human life he would be shot Immediate
ly after The performance. and re-
quested any members of the Keene Light
Guards who might be among the spectators
to report to their Captain at the entrance to
the museum canvas. At 4:30 p. m. the
giant Albert, loaded with chains and pre-
coded by the head trainers, Arstingstall
and Newman, marched forth from the
menagerie followed by thirty-three rifle
men and nearly all the members of tie
show. The procession passed down into
lcng ravine near the river. Here the eIe-
plant was securely chained to the trunks OF
some large trees and the rifiemen were
drawn up in line, fifteen PAGES from the head
and side. AT this stage of the proceedings
the great animal seemed to instinetively
feel that something unusual was about to
occur, for he began to trumpet in a
piteous manner George Arstingstall, the
trainer, drew chalk line around the ami
mails heart and one around the brain as
targets for the sEarpshooters. The
commands "Readyv "Aimr' were given.
Arstingstall cried "Albertr' The monster
slowly raised his head in obedience to
the last command of his keeper, and
as the word ''Fire!" accompanied by
the report of thirty-three military
rifles, rang out. he fell dead in his chains
without a struggle or a cry. The execu-
ton was witnessed by fully two thousand
people, who gave great shout as the man
slayer fell. He was next in size to Jumbo.
Albert had been with the Barnum show
since its consolidation with the London
show, and had made tour of the world
with this latter institution. He was valued
at $4,000.
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Cholera Excitement in Spain.

MADRID, July 21.-The cholera report
for Sunday received from all the infected
districts in Spain shows 1850 new cases of
the disease and 761 deaths. Of these 356
new cases and 1873 deaths were reported
from the province of Saragossa Cases have
also appeared at Puerto Real, in the prov
ince of Cadiz, and at the cities of Palencia
and Valladolid. Cases are reported from the
immediate vicinity of the city of Cadiz. The
people are once more becoming panic
stricken over the slight increase in the
death statistics, and the inhabitants of the
provincial towns are taking flight to the
country, where they are met by the viii
layers, who, armed in many cases with
pitchforks and firearms, seek to drive the
fugitiyes away.
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AN officer at Bridgeport, Conn, was
astonished the other day by seeing a
baby fall on the sidewalk. Looking up,
he discovered that careless mother had
laid the little one to sleep on the win
dow-sil!. first closing the blinds, and
that the blinds had become unfastened,
letting the baby roll out. The infant
was fatally injured.
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Statistics of migration.

WASHINGTON, July 21.-T1e Chief of
the Bureau of Statistics reports that the
number of immigrants arrived in the United
States during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1885, was 3s7, S21. being 1908 less than
the immigration during the preceding fiscal
year, and 401, III less than during the
year ending June 30, 1882, the year of the
greatest immigration. During the month
of June, 1885, there arrived at the customs
districts of Baltimore Boston, Detroit HUI
ron, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York,
Passamquoddy, Philadelphia and San Fran
cisco, 55,718 passengers, Of whom $3.50
were immigrants; $685. citizens of the
United States returned from abroad and
3 AZ aliens not intending to remain
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The Chicago Inter Ocean says that
mot a box of Valencia oranges or
Malaga raisins should be imported this
year from the cholera districts. The
California raisin is q superior article
and can be furnished as cheaply.
There is thus good reason to give home
products chance"
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A PROMINENT criminal lawyer of
California has recently made the fol-
lowing announcement in the San Fran
cisco Call; Hereafter l will not de-
tend any of the criminal class. prefer
to aid in sending that class to State
Prison, where they more properly be-
long, rathev than keeping them free to
prey upon the community, as 1 have
heretofore done, to my sorrow"
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Lost in the Storm.

CHEBoYGAN, Mich, July 20.--A mystic
rious case of shipwreck came to light Sat
urday. While some fishermen were setting
their nets in Hammond's Bay Saturday
morning they ran across capsized yacht
and towed it ashore. The boat,
which was small affair, about twenty
feet long, was full of water, and con-
tanned besides a quantity of provisions a
Dloated corpse. The body which was that
of a young man, was discovered in kneel-
ing position, with the arms hanging ever
the side and the head above water. 1t is
believed that others were in the boat when
she capsized, and that all were lost.
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Terrible Result of a Family Feud.

LOUISVILLE, KY, July 2O.--A triple
tragedy occurred at Stepstone, KY, Satur-
day, growing out of the revival of an old
grudge between The Town Marshal,
Perry Oakley, and John Smith. Very
few words were exchanged before
Oakley fired on Smith. Before
Smith could return the fire he was shot
dead in his tracks. Mute Osborn,
friend of Smiths came up to take part,
firing at Oakley, when he was himself shot
in the breast, just below the heart, dying in
half hour afterWard. Henry Smith, a
brother of John, was next shot twice, once
in the head, just below the left ear, and in
the breast, under the heart. He died at
nine o'clock last night.
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Coming civil-service Examinations.

WASHINGTON, July DISCRIMINATION
for departmental service will be held at
Milwaukee September 8; St Paul, Septem-
Der 5; Bianark, d. r., September s; Hele-
IA, NJ. T., September IS; Portland, Ore,
September 10, Seattle, w T., September
%, and at San Francisco, October 1. At
the same time examinations will be held
for persons wishing to be examined in
special subjects, as law, special pension
examiners stenography. French, German,
Spanish and Italian. Those who intend
applying should at once request official
blanks from the Ciyil-Seryice Commission
at Washington.
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JAMES d. FISH, of New York, ex-
President of the Marine Bank, has been
given employment in the prison shoe
shop at Auburn. In going TO meals he
docs not march in lockstep, but follows
the company at will, as do most of the
older prisoners. His cell has been fur
nished by friends with carpet and an
easy chair.
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TIE Baltimore Srln says that a So
ciety of Husbands has been formed in
that city for the purpose of protecting
its members from the lash penalties of
the wifc-beating law. When a member
thinks his wife needs q whipping he
calls upon another member to perform
the ceremony. The law applies to a
husband when he beats his own wife,
not another fellows. The only pro-
lection the woman has is in charging
the man who beats her with assault
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In the way of Vigilance Committee
Richmond, Va, has novelty, 1t is
composed entirely of ladies, married
and single, and their special mission is
to seek out wife and cow-hide
them. AT q recent meeting they adopted
resolutions favoring the establishment
of whipping post as a punishment for
wife beaters.