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Remarkable SurulcaI Oper alton,

BLOOMINGTON, IND, July 12.--Word has
just been received here Of one of the most
remarkable surgical operations in the his
tory of Indiana. For the past fourteen
years Mrs. Sarah Owens, mother of Con-
gresham elect Owens, from the Thirteenth
Indiana District, has been suffering from q
tumor located on the right of the abdomen.
It had grown so large that she could not
get about, until physicians informed
her that death would follow
within q few months. Upon ex-
animation she was told that she stood
one chance in twenty of having II removed.
AS death was certain in a short time, she
took the chance. At II O'Clock she was
placed on the table, and for five hours she
was under the influence of ether. An in
cision TWENTY-FIVE inches long was made
from the navel down, when it was found
that the tumor was OF fatty substance. 1t
required four men two hours and a half to
remove the substance, which weighed fifty
five pounds. When she came to her senses
the first feeling was in the heels, and she
declared she knew nothing of the opera
ton.
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The Pail Mall Gazette's Exposure.

LONDON, July 8.-The police have been
ordered to suppress the street sales of those
issues of the Pail Mall Gazette which con-
tain the articles on the secret vices of Lon
don. All news vendors found selling the
issues on the streets are being arrested.
Six vendors who were taken into custody
this morning were arraigned this afternoon
in the Mansion House Police Court and re-
manded for week, bail being allowed.
LONDON, July S.-The Rev. Mr.. Spur
geon publishes letter in this afternoons
Pail Nall Gazette approving Of that jour-
nci's exposure Of the secret vices of the
aristocrats of London. The litter is re-
markable in many respects, and the fol-
lowing are some Of his expressions:
"Ifeel bowed down with shame and indig-
nation. This is lOathsome business,
but even sewers must be cleaned: I pray
ure, which incidentally must do harm, but
whose great drift must result in lasting
benefit. don't think our churches
have failed, for they have kept q pure rem.
many are unaware of these dunghills reek.
ing under their nostrils. thank all
co-operators in your brave warfare.
Spare not the villains even though. wearing
ance committee, moral police, to suppress
this imfamy. - Let the light in with
out stint"
In the House of Commons last evening,
the question was asked whether the Gov
eminent intended to prosecute the Pail
Mall Gazette for its scandalous publica-
tions. Sir Rich Assheton Cross, the Home
Secretary, replied that that was a question
for jury to decide. From this it is in
ferred that the Government does not intend
to move in the matter, but that the munich
pal authorities are preparing prosecution.
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LAKE ACCIDENT.
A Small Vessel Capsizes and Eight
Persons are Drowned.
Fatal Ending OF Yacting Excursion or
Lake Minnetcnka.

MINNEAPOLIS, July 12.-Shortly after
O'Clock, this afternoon, heavy wind anG
rain storm passed over Lake Minnetonka
A small steam yacht, the Minnie Cook
with eight persons on board, was capsized
and the entire party drowned. News Of tn,
accident spread rapidly and created the
widest excitement when IL became known
that all the victims reside here. The
names OF the unfortunate party
are as follows: Ex-Mayor A. c
Rand and wife. Mary Rand, and two
sons, Harry and Frank Rand; J. r. Coy
kendall and wife, Kate Coykendall, and
George Mcdonald, engineer, all of Mime.
apolis. Two bodies have already been re.
covered. The storm is described by an eye
witness on big boats, as terrific; the waves
rolled high, spray, rain and hail filling the
air. Large steamers put into shore with
great difficulty. It was impos.
sible for small crafts to live
in the terrible sea and storm. Other boats
and lives are believed to have beer
lost, but it is difficult to get details. The
storm was severe at White Bear also, but
no lives are reported lost there. A. c.
Rand was Mayor of Minneapolis for two
terms previous to Ames' incumbency, and
was wealthy and we'll known citizen
John Coykendall was a member Of the firm
of Coykendall Bros. & Co. There Is great
excitement in Minneapolis and st. Paul
over the tragic end of the pleasure excur
sion.
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HORRIBLE SUICIDE.
A Demented Man Cuts His Throat With
BrOadaxe - The Third of Three
Unhappy Deaths.

A Dcmented Man Cuts His Throat With
Unhappy Deaths.
CINCINNATI, July 12.-Jack Wolf, aged
twenty-six years, committed suicide at his
mothers residence, six miles south of Gov.
ington, KY. About six years ago brother
of the man was drowned in the Licking
River while in bathing. The father was
so overwhelmed by the loss of his boy
that he got out Of his mind, and
while so afflicted destroyed himself.
Jack had been an eye witness of his
brothers. death, and that with the subse-
quent misfortune which his father under.
WENT had the effect of unbalancing his
mind. His disorder took a violent turn in
q short time, and he made himself q terror
to the saloon-keepers of South Covington
and vicinity more especially. He was
accustomed to assertFthat he had been
terly destroy all saloons. He finally set
about carrying his mission into prac.
tical shape, and nearly demolished one
with an ak before he was arrested and put
in jail. His subsequent trial on the charge
of lunacy resulted In his being sent to the
Lexington Asylum for the Insane, where
it is understood he remained till last Tues.
day, when his mother, who had a naturally
strong desire to have him home again,
gained permission to do so. At noon to-day
fhe mother and servant heard noise In
Jacks room. On going thither they were
Mortified to find the son stretched on
the floor, his throat displaying huge and
ugly cash, from which the blood was issu-
ing. A broad-axe lying at his hand showed
with what the terrible work had been
done. The frightened servant ran off to a
neighbours house to summon help. A
physician was sent for, but before any
could arrive the suicide had passed from
life to death. His throat was fearfully
hacked and he had evidently done the
work in intense earnestness.
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DOMESTIC HORROR.
A Betrayed Wife Commits Suicide and
Murders Her Two Little Children.

EVANSVILLE, IND, July ga terrible
tragedy took place at Howden, Warrick
County, thirteen miles northwest Ut this
city, last evening. John Hodgins, proprie-
tor of general store in that village, has
been living happily with his wife and two
children until three weeks ago, when a
cousin of Mrs. Hodgins, named Miss Ellen
Smell, q pretty school teacher, of Delaware
County, came to spend the sum-
mer vacation with them. Although
Hodgins is well advanced in years,
. criminal intimacy soon sprang up be-
tween Hodgins and Miss Smell. This lat
ter fact becoming known to Mrs. Hodgins,
she yesterday morning ordered Miss Smell
to leave the house, but Hodgins refused to
let her go, and insisted on his wife going
in her place. About O'Clock in the after
noon Hodgins and Miss Smell went out for
walk, and on returning in the evening
found the house deserted. Search was
made for Mrs. Hodgins and the
children, which resulted in the
finding Of the mother back of the
barn, lying across the water trough,
with her head down in the water. Further
search found the two children lying side
by side with gaping wound in their
heads, whilst q bloody axe lying beside
them told only too fully the horrible deed.
Miss Smell is lying in q critical condi--
ton, the sight of the terrible tragedy, and
the knowledge that she was the dire cause
of it having completely Frustrated her.
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INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Skirmish Between Apaches and
United States Troops.
Forty Indians Killcd-Action of the Gov
ern'ncnt Towards the Suppression Of
the Troublesome Tribes.

TOPEKA, KAs., July 10.-General Augur,
commanding this department, sends Gov
ernor Martin copies of two orders issued to
the commanding officer of the troops now
in Southwestern Kansas. Governor Mar
tin states that the action of General Au-
CUR has been prompt, energetic and effect
i've, and that with troops stationed as Gen
eral Augur has directed he believes the
Southwestern frontier will be protected and
an Indian invasion will be made impossible.
The first order directed Lieutenant
Colonel Compton, now at Crossfield, the
terminus of the route of the Southern
Kansas Railroad, to move his command
west to q point nifty miles south of Dodge
City, where the road from that place to
Fort Supply crosses the Cimmarron, there
establish camp, and from that point
scout east and west along the frontier.
The second order instructs Major Sand
ford, commanding troops at Kingman,
Kas., to march to Crossfeld, 60 into camp
there and scout along the border in con-
junction with Compton's command.
:. TOMBSTONE, ARIz., July 10. From
Samuel Branan, jr., who arrived yesterday
morning from Sonora, are learned the fol.
iO"hIS ldCUS' vi tu6 aIteTuOOu OI July =,
the scouts under command of Captain
Chaffee came upon band of Apaches
near Guasabus, on the Oporto River, in So
nora, and spirited fight ensued, in which
forty Indians were killed and three bucks
and eleven squaws captured, the loss to
Chaffee being one soldier and one or two
scouts wounded. The prisoners have
been taken to San Carlos in charge
or sixteen Indian scouts, and should
arrive here to-day il nothing hap
pens. The same day one hundred Indians
crossed the Coonaps Valley and entered
the Sonora Mountains. They killed fifteen
head of cattle while crossing the valley,
and took the carcasses with them into the
mountains, where it is evident they intend
to stay. Captain Chaffee with his soldiers
and scouts and $50 Mexican volunteers Is
In pursuit, and will try very hard to ex-
terminate the entire band. Mr.. Branan
got these particulars from Oso Mar la
Torres, brother OF Colonel Torres, who
had just returned from the scene of the
fight. 0te
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A Horrible Accident.

CINCINNATI, July 9.-Just before mid.
night, Isaac Lederer went into the show
window of his millinery store, 1874 West
Sixth street, to turn off the gas. Standing
on the floor of the window were number
of bonnet rods, which consists of stiff
iron rod pointed acutely at the upper ex-
tremity and held firmly in position at the
base by iron bands. While reaching for
the thumb-screw to shut off the gas. Mr..
Lederer either slipped or took fainting
spell, and fell over sideways, and as he
fell one of these deadly looking rods en-.
tered the throat in the arch Of the jaw
bone, and passed upward through bones
and flesh distance of nearly four inches,
glancing out so as to escape the eye socket.
1t required all the force OF stalwart man
to withdraw the implement Of death, which
held its place with vice-like tenacity.
At an early hour this morning the victim
was unconscious with slight hopes of his
recovering.
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First Comet Of the Year.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y. July 9.-Prof. Lewis
Swift, of the Warner Observatory here,
has received information that Prof. Bar
nard, Of the Vanderbilt University Observ-
atory, at Nashville, Tenn, discovered on
the evening Of July Z, a pretty, but very
faint comet in Ophinchus. Its position
was in P. A. 17h. 21m. As., dcclination
south 44h. Sim. IS. This morning at O'Clock
Prof. Swift received another telegram
southwest. with the great telescope Of
the Warner Observatory, Prof. Swift OBJ
served last evening that the surface of the
comet was sprinkled over with very minute
bright points like resolved nebula. This
discovery will clearly entitle the discoverer
to the Warner prize Of $500 for the first dis
covery Of a new comet during the year
1S95 Is.
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A Terrible Lean.

READING, PA, July S.-Monroe Bechtel,
Hiram s. Weber, David Knobb and Peter
Brown went down the Schuykill River as
far as the second valley bridge to take a
swim. Bechtel proposed to jump from the
top of the railroad bridge into the river
height of ninety feet. The water at the
bridge is about eighteen feet deep, and
Bechtel concluded that il was just deep
enough for the purpose. Weber, Knobb
and Brown secured batteau and rowed
beneath the bridge in order to pick up
Bechtel after he made the jump. In the
meantime Bechtel had reached the top Of
the bridge, and, without hesitation, leaped
off it. Before he reached the water he had
doubled himself up drawing up his legs,
and when he struck he went down like o
shot. He says he touched bottom.
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Mans Perhdy.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 1O.-Charles Chap
man and wife of Lawrenceburg, Ind, reg
istered ten days since at hotel at Belle
vile, Ill. Saturday Chapman came to ST.
Louis and thence disappeared. The wife
awaited his return several days and then
searched his baggage and found a note
saying: II am married; have deceived
you. My wife in Cincinnati is on to the
racket. Goodbye" Chapman is hand
some portrait painter, five feet ten, with a
big mustache, black eyes, fair skin. He
met the lady whom he deserted in Law
renceburg, Ind, and married her May %,
representing himself single man.
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A Weeks Failures.

New YORK July 10.-The business fail
ures occurring throughout the country
during the last seven days number for the
United States 1853, and for Canada q, or q
total Of 1856 as against 204 failures last
week and 205 the week previous to the last.
The Western, Southern and Pacific States
furnish about thirds OF the whole num-
Der. In the Eastern sections business
troubles for the week are light and unim-
pOrtank. --.-. IL - ~.
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EGYPT'S POVERTY.

American Syndicates Offered Control of
its Commercial Resources.
LONDON, July 8-The Egyptian Govern
ment is hard pressed for money, and is re-
sorting to every available means to re-
plenish its treasury. In aid of this object
II is granting valuable concessions to Eu-
ropeans on the most advantageous terms in
the control of its agricultural and COM
mercial resources. It is stated that an
American syndicate, in which Mr.. W. H.
Vanderbilt is interested, comes in for q
large share of Government favor, and has
an agent now at Cairo in connection with
big tobacco monopoly scheme.
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New Orleans and Yellow Fever.

WASHINGTON, July 1O.-Dr. Hamilton,
of the Marine Hospital Service, says that
there is report in circulation that there
are number of yellow fever cases in New
Orleans. He has not received any official
as yet, but Is now investigating.
NEW ORLEANS, July 10.-The Board of
Health officially deny that there is any
yellow fever in this city other than the one
case reported some days ago, the sufferer
from which is almost entirely recovered.
The Board renews its assurance that any
case of yellow fever occurring in this
city will be promptly reported officially to
other boards and through the press.
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The Dolphin to be Accepte

WASHINGTON. July 1O.-Attorney Gener-
al Garland has given an opinion to the Sec
rotary Of the Navy on the question of law
involved in the controversy with John
Roach concerning the dispatch boat Dol
p pm, Sec Secretary eta y Whitney declines atPres
understood, however that it is of such a
character that the Secretary will accept
the vessel. -.
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An Internal Machine,

NEWARK, N. j., July "a mysterious.
looking package was left at the house of
George Krementz, prominent jeweler of
this place, by stranger this morning. 1t
was found to be O cigar-box wrapped in
paper, and on opening the box a pistol,
concealed in it was discharged, and Mr..
Multhrop was struck by bullet, but was
not injured. No clue has been discovered
by which to identify the man who left the
box. or his motive.
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ROCHESTER,, N. Y, July 10.-The Hessian
fly has made great devastations in the
wheat fields Of various towns in Wayne
County. In Arcadia the loss is estimated
at $4,000. In the immediate vicinity of
Lyons the loss is estimated by careful OBJ
servers at 900. In some places the farm.
ers are burning the wheat fields in order to
exterminate the insect as far as possible.
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A Thief Makes a Complaint.

WASHINGTON, July 10.-Mr. Hibbs, ex-
Postmaster at Lewistown, Idaho, who stole
$4,000, and came near securing $40, 900, has
written letter to Attorney General Bry-
planning that a registered letter he sent to
a friend, containing 5000, never reached its
destination,
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Riel Not a Traitor to the Queen.

TORONTO, ONT, July 10.-There appears
to be flaw in the Indictment Of Riel,
through which he will be acquitted. He is
charged with being traitor to the Queen,
while being her subject, but it is said that
Riel is citizen of the United States, hav-
ing taken the oath Of allegiance in Mon
tana,
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A Maniac Disposed Of.

CHICAGO, July 9.-Several weeks ago the
Polk Street Depot, this city, was the scene
of most startling tragedy. A man named
Remeau, passenger on an incoming train
from Denver, went mad. When the train
reached the depot his capture was at.
tempted by a platoon of police. In the en-
counter which followed Officer Barrett was
shot dead by the maniac. The latter was
wounded, thought MORALLY, and taken to
the hospital. This morning Remeau was
taken into the County Court and declared
insane. l'A
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Serious Result Of q Bee Sting.

SEYMOUR, IND, July 12.-Jonathan Rob.
ertson, farmer, living near Ewing, this
county, was stung on the wrist by sweat
bee yesterday. The arm at once began
swelling which soon affected the body,
passing into the other arm, then into the
neck, and finally into the head. In an
hour the entire body and extremities had
become swollen to almost double their
natural size. There is diversity OF opinion
as to the strange case, but the general be-
lief is that the bee had been feeding upon
poisonous blossoms. -ssr> .FE.a,l 81.
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Bicyclinq.

KINGSTON, ONT, July 10.-In the "Big
-Four" bicycle race from Arlington to this
place, Stone was first to arrive, making his
hundred miles in Sh. and 2sm.; Meneger
second, lin Oh. and one-half second and Web
Der third, in Oh 6n. one-half second. The
roads are in bad condition and the weather
showery. The main body of the wheelmen
arrived at s p. m, and after q short stay
embarked for Clayton.
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RevenaefuI Convict.

PHILADELPHIA, July lO.--The people Of
the town of Indiana, Pa, are greatly
alarmed lest the place be burned by Jack
Sackett, who has just finished aiterm of i'm
prisonment In the penitentiary. Sackett is
q desperate character, and threatens to
destroy the town in revenge for having
been sent to prison for burglary. There
have been half dozen incendiary fires
of late which are attributed to Sackett and
his associates. People 60 armed, and have
organized night patrols and vigilance COM
mittees.
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To Educate Every Seventh Child.

PARIS, July 1O.-The Chamber oflDeputies
this afternoon voted an appropriation of
100000 to be expended by the State in
maintaining and educating every seventh
child born in French families. This action
was taken to revive an obsolete law enact
ed during the French revolution in the in
terest of increase in the French population.
The present enactment applies to either
sex, and is confined to the children of pa
rents in needy circumstances. An attempt
to reject this later restriction was rejected
by O vote of 260 to al.
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No Reason for Their Dismissal,

CHICAGO, July 10.-The West Division
Railway Company has reinstated fourteen
of the sixteen men discharged from their
service, and for whose reinstatement the
recent strike was inaugurated. The Presi-
dent of the company declares that there
was no adequate cause for the discharge of
the men in question.
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Destructive Fire.

ALBANY N. Y, July H. Property to the
value of 100000 was destroyed by fire
This morning. Four fremen were buried
under a falling wall, one of whom, John A.
Luby, died Of his injuries, and Daniel
Wheeler was killed.
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A Biuamist Commits Suicide.

SHENANDOAH, PA, July 12.-Charles
Dyer, breaker boss at one Of the colleries
here, fatally shot himself this morning He
bad three wives, and one Of them was
threatening to prosecute him for bigamy.
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Escaped and Recaptured.

y RICHMOND, VA, July 12.-Three convicts
escaped from the penitentiary this after
noon, but were recaptured after q hot
skirmish, in which two citizens and.each
of the convicts were wounded.1
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Fatal Fire.

BELFAST, Me-, July 12.-This city was
swept by a disastrous confagration. Two
persons were killed, twenty horses roasted
alive. and property burned to the value OF
$4,000.
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CUMBERLAND PLATEAU.
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