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ostensibsy as an eight-hoar meeting, tut
really as an Indignation, or riot meeting
to denounce the police. This is in accord
ance with the theory that the object of the
meeting was to provoke an attack by the
police, which would be the signal for the
opening of the revolution
DIR. Newman gave evidence as to the
character of wounds received by policemen
at the Haymarket fight, and identified an
iron nut and pieces of metal as having been
ex tracted from the wounds of certain per
sons. These relics were placed in evidence.
Counsel for the prosecution then read va
rious incendiary articles from the Alarm,
Parsons paper, ell of them bearing on the
use of dynamite as the means for the com.
ing revolt of the masses. The articles
were objected to by the defense on the
ground that they were signed communica-
tions for which the editors were not re-
sponsibie, but the court held that the ques-
ton of whether they were printed or
copied as matters of news or Endorsed as
editorial opinion was for the jury to de-
eide.
mass-meeting of sympathizers with
the Anarchists on trial was held at West
Twelfth street Turner Hall last night, and
was attended by about 1900 persons The
meeting was quiet and orderly, and the
detail OF police present was not called
upon to assert its authority. Several
speeches were made, none of which
were of an inhammatory character,
denouncing the press for attempt
ing to influence public opinion
against the "so-calledn Anarchists and
requesting the people to withhold thei1
verdict until after the conclusion of the
present trial A collection was taken up
and seventy-sis dollars were raised to be
used in defense of the men being prose
cI1fa6
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
xLIxth CONGRESS-

THURSDAY, July 2S.--In the Senate the
day was occupied in discussing the Payne
election case. In the House the principal
business was receiving and referring re-
ports of committees. In committee of the
whole revenue bills were considered.
FRIDAY, July 23.-In the Senate Mr..
Hoar's resolution for an investigation of
the election of Senator Payne was lost,
the vote standing II yeas to A nays An
evening session was held for the considera-
ton of the Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill, and an amendment was adopted APP
propriating $4,000 for the more efficient
prosecution and punishment of crime in
Utah. In the House the Senate amend
ment to the Oleomargarine bill reducing
the TAX on the product from five to two
cents was passed. and the measure would
go to the President. In the evening several
pension bills were passed.
SATURDAY, July M.-In the Senate res
olution to inquire into the violation of
rights of American fishing and merchant
vessels in Canadian waters was adopted.
The Sundry Civil bill was discussed, and
at the evening session the measure was
Secretary of the Treasury to issue silver
certificates of 81, So and IS. In the House
the Naval Appropriation bill amounting to
So $4,000 and the Sundry Civil Appropri-
alton bill were passed.
MONDAY July IS = In the senats the
bill directing the Labor Commissioner
I'd investigate the convictlabor system
and the Deficiency Appropriation bill were
passed. At the evening session several
bills for public buildings and fifty private
pension bills were passed. Mr.. Blair re-
ported favorably from the Education and
Labor Committee q joint resolution pro-
posing a constitutional amendment pro-
viding that after the year 1900 the manu-
facture, sale and importation of alcoholic
liquors as q beverage shall cease In the
House the Senate bill forfeiting certain
lands granted to the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company was considered, and dis
agreement on the Legislative, Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill was re-
ported
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THE EAST.

AT a church festival in Eastport, Me-,
on the evening of the 23d forty persons
we're poisoned by eating ice-cream. No
fatal cases were reported.
A BooT-BLACK named Stephen Brodie, of
New York. aged twenty three years,
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge at the
center span on the 23d into the East river,
distance of 100 feet. He was fished out
apparently uninjured.
FOURTEEN buildings were burned at
Franklin Pa, on the 23d, causing a loss of
$4,000.
WHILE waiting for the train at the Low.
ell depot at Boston Charles Hutchinson, for
over twenty years business agent for the
American Board of Foreign Missions, was
killed by locomotive on the 23d. He was
sixty-two years of age.
john RoTfIERBACK, a Tonawanda cooper,
on tho gath jumped into the Niagara falls
and was killed; Charles Lockwood the
murderer of Miss Matte Randall, took his
own life at Litchfield, Conn, through fear
of being lynched, and Robert Hamilton,
an old soldier, failing to receive pension,
suicided at Lockport, N. Y.
THE authorities at Castle Garden are de-
and paupers, who landed there on the 9th,
for reshipment.
THE strike in the great rolling-mills at
Philadelphia, involving over fiftesn hun
dred men, was settled ON the 24th.
MATTHEW ARNOLD. the English writer,
while bathing recently at Long Branch
was rescued from drowning by a bath
house keeper and fisherman who rubbed
him until he was able to walk.
THOMAS RICHARDSON, JR., in fit of
jealousy on the Goth at Fall River Mass,
shot Miss Bishop and two young men
named Russell and FIFTEEN, the wounds of
the two latter being fatal.
AT Buffalo, NJ Y, two young men, Will
lam Potts and George Hazlitt are making
barrel in which they propose to fioas
through the whirlpool rapids of Niagara.
WILLIAM NJ. BRUcE, of the firm of Niles
& Bruce lawyers OF New York City, alb
seconded on the 26th, with over $50, 900 which
the firm had control of as trustees of large
estates.
A FIERCE rain and wind-storm swept the
Pittsburgh region on the 26th, reports from
along the rivers indicating heavy losses by
floods and the destruction of crops Whole
fields of wheat and corn were ruined, rail-
road tracks were washed cut and houses
flooded or wrecked by lightning. Rough
estimates placed the damage at $4,000.
On the morning of the 26th Hubert o.
Thompson, the leader of the County De
mocracy, was found dead in bed at the
Worth House, New York, the cause of
death being cerebral apoplexy. Mr..
Thompson was in his thirtv-eiehth wear.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Six new cases of cholera and four deaths
were reported at Trieste, Italy, on the
23d and at Fiume three cases and one death.
A BATTLE was fought by Mexican troops
and Yaqui Indians near Medano on the
23d, the Mexicans losing ten men killed and
twenty wounded. Forty of the savages
were slain and twenty taken prisoners,
who were Immediately shot.
FULLY $50 persons were reported on the
23i to have persisted of hunger on the
Newfoundland and Labrador coasts, and
$500 were at present suffering from lack of
food. Government relief had been asked
for.
TIE freight depot of the Bavarian rail
road at Leipsic, valued at one million
marks, was burned on the 18th.
AT London on the Goth Cyrus W. Field
was awarded damages of $4,000 and all
costs against James Gordon l5eI nett, for
libel
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Republican, state Convention.

The Republican electors of the State of Wis
consin are requested to elect delegates TO q
State convention to be held at the capitol at
madison on Wednesday, September s, 1856, at
twelve O'Clock, noon. for the purpose of
placing in nomination candidates of the Re-
publican party for the several State offices,
TO be voted for at the ensuing general cleo
ton in November. Each county win be enti-
tied to delegates as follows, the representa-
ton being based upon the number of votes
| cast for Mr.. Blaine III 1884, one delegate to
each five hundred votes, or major fraction of
five hundred-each county entitled to one
delegate without reference to the number of
votes cast
Adams, 2; Ashland, ?; Barron, 8; bayfield,,
i; Brown, 6; Buffalo, 8; Burnett 1; Calumet,
2; Chippewa, 5; Clark. 4; Columbia, Z; Craw-
ford, ); Dane, IL; Dodge, g.; Door. 4; Doug
las, 1; Dunn, 8; Eau Claire. Z; Florence, l;
Fond du Lac, 8; Grant s; Green, 5; Green
Lake, 8; Iowa, 5; Jackson. 4; Jefferson, 6;
Juneau, A Kenosha, 3; Kewaunee, l. La
Crosse, s; La Fayette.5; Langlade,l; Lincoln,2
Manitowoc, 8; Marathon, 4; Marinette, 4;
Marquette. 2; Milwaukee. "a; Monroe, 5:
Oconto, 3; Outagamie. 5; Ozaukee, /; Pepin,
2; Pierce, 5; Polks3; Portage. 5; Price, 2; RAJ
cine. S; Richiaud, 8; Rock, Is; St Croix, 8;
Sank, Z; Sawyer, 1; Shawano, 3; Sheboygan,
Z; Taylor, 2: Trempealeau, 4. Vernon, 8; Wal
worth, 9; Washburn, 1; Washington, 8; Wau-
kesha, 6; Waupaca, 6; Waushara, 4; Winnie
bago, 10; Wood, 3. Total, 81.
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lied. The proposed canal is to be built
from Hennepin to Rock Island, the water.
way thus formed connecting the Missis-
sippi river with Lake Michigan. The Hi
nois & Michigan canal has been presented
to the Government on the event OF the bill
becoming law. The canal, as well as the
Illinois river will have to be widened and
deepened, but the great engineering work
will be on the locks necessary in the pro
posed canal, as there are two elevations,
one of 20S feet and another of 40 feet in
the line OF the canal, and over which the
commerce will have to be carried. The
route of the canal has been surveyed and
is estimated to costnearly 1000. 900.
This canal is to be free, and it is ex-
pected that Offering from st. Paul, Minnc-
apolis and the great grain growing sec
ton, an all water route to Chicago and
through the lakes and Erie canal TO New
York, that it will be beneficial compet-
itor to the railroads..
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LATER,

THE chief feature of the Anarchists trias
in Chicago on the 9th was the evidence OF
M. NJ. Thompson, who swore that no saw
Spies and Schwab hand Schua,thelt mys-
terious something in the alley, just before
the meeting which terminated in the Hay
market riot.
TWENTY persons were killed and eighty
wounded in tie reccnt riots at Amsterdam,
Holland.
IN Missouri on the 9th the Democrats
renominated A. T. Dockery for Congress
man in the Third district and James n
Burnes in the Fourth district.
FOREST fires in the vicinity of Provi-
dence lay, in Canada, were doing great
damage on the 27th Several saw-mills, a
large quantity of lumber and many farm
er's buildings had been destroyed.
THE business of Martin Kaibdeisch's
Sons, one of the largest and best-known
chemical manufacturers Of Brooklyn, N.
y, was placed in the hands of receiver
on the 9th. The Liabilities were 81, 900. 09).
w. w. PORTER has bssn confirmed a
United States Justice of the Supreme Court
of Arizona Territory.
| ADvIcEs of the 27th from st. Johns, N
f., say that thousands of arctic bears
driven south by the cold were consuming
the provisiong of the starving people oil
Labrador, and the Indians were eating
their dead companions.
| MAJOR FLEMING. one of the railroad com
| Elissioners of Dakota, asserted on the 9th
| that by the recent storms 1900 900 bushels
of wheat were destroyed, AMI that the
grass on the Montana ranges had been en-
tirely burned out by the sun.
CIARLEs F. CoNANT, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury undsr Me-. Bristow, diel
on the night of the 25th at Cambridge,
Mass.
| AT Erie, Kan, on the 9th Willie Sells,
aged fourteen was found guilty of the
murder of his parents, his brother and his
sister.
| SAMUEL FuLHAM's shin gle-mill at Gowsn,
Mich, with 100000 feet of lumber and
10000 000 shingles, was burned on the 27th.
Loss, s20),00); insurance, s150,090
The hop crop of New York was on tie
eth reported a complete failure, ami
growers were destroying their yards.
The Charles W. Allen Tobacco Com
pany, of Chicago, failed on the 27ti for
$25o,eoo
| In tie United States Senate on the q b
several vetoed pension bills we're reported
back with recommendations that they lie
passed over the vetoes. At the evening
session number of pension bills were
passed. In the House the Interstate Com.
merce bill and the River and Harbor bill
were considered, the items in the latt r
bill for the Lake Superior ship canal, the
| improvement of the Potomac river and the
construction Of the Hennepin canal being
stricken out
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Ex-President Zoldivar, of Salvador
who is now an exile, will live in SAM
Francisco.
There are sixty thousand volumesI
in the Massachusetts, State Library at
Boston, and not one novel among!
them
The late Moses A. Dow, of Boston.
left SO, 000to home for aged women,
$50, 900 to an academy, and $3.50, 000in
private requests.
Il. d. Closson has been brakeman
on the Pennsylvania railroad Tor twen-
ty-four years and in that time has trav-
sled two million miles.
Whatever bruises an editor may
confer, those he receives are the most
telling. inasmuch as the former are dis
tributed among many, and the latter
all to be endured by one.-Harper' s
Weekly.
During the last twenty years Ed
ward Payson Weston has walked, pro-
fessionally, sixty-four thousand miles.
A London physician who examined
him recently pronounced him to be the
healthiest man he had ever seen.
Mary Anderson tells a London
newspaper man that she will stay in
Europe four years, and that she will
not act for some time, as work recently
has proved great strain on her
health. She will spend the winter in
Rome.
"A little negro called "Curt," at
Marshall, Mo-, whose father was a
soldier and was killed in the war, re-
Gently received 81, 500 pension money
His first purchase was S65 finger
ring, his second a $500 horse and
buggy.
Mrs. John Balfour, of Chicago, is
reported to have inherited $500, 600 by
the death of an old sweetheart who
took to China instead of to drink after
his rejection. 1t is unnecessary to add
to the half million the information that
the lady is handsome and charming.
The book-hunter comes upon
valuable book occasionally, even in
India. A short time ago the books be-
longing to General Douglas, B. A.,
were sold by auction, and well-pre-
served copy OF "Hippocrates Pre-
scriptions," $50 years old, was bought
| for 20 rupees or less than e.. A copy
of the same edition was sold not long
since in London for FL, 200.-M T.
Post
They were two freshmen who had
just emerged from the literary atmos-
phere of Russell Library Hall. Every
nice audience. eyes, and so literary,
toe" Every. You are fond of litera-
ture, l presumed" ''Passionately so.
''You like Shakespeare, then, dare
say?" ''Ah! very much. Do youP'
Extremely; and 1 like Pope, too. ;"
$50 do /, very much indeed" "He' s
grand; and I'll tell you another good
writer" "WhoP" Milton. "-Atbany
argus.
"A correspondent of the Berlin
Folks Zeit~ng corrects the report that
the distinction of being the northern
most editor in the world belongs to
the Esquimaux poet, L. Moller, who edits
a paper at Godthaab, on the west coast
ofGreenland, Ga degrees north latitude.
There are three papers published at
Tromso, a city of only 5,400 inhab-
itants, SO degrees 38 minutes north
latitude, and one each at Vardo, 20
degrees % minutes north latitude, and
Hammerfest, 20 degrees Al minutes
north latitude. The latter is really
the northernmost city in the world.
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GENERAL Phil SHERIDAN says he is
delighted with his new experience as a
suburban farmer. Instead of sending
his wife and children to crowded sea-
side hotel or fashionable resort this
year he rented thirty acre farm near
Washington, whore he picks his own
peas, digs his own potatoes and enjoys
freedom from intrusion, which has to
be endured good-naturedly at water
ing places. The General drives in
every morning and returns in the after
noon. The enjoyment of seeing has
children loving Mother Earth, he says,
is far more happiness to him than he
has ever experienced at all the fashion
able resorts.
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HUMOROUS.

An Irish recruit was asked by his
officer: whats your heightP' to
which Pat replied: Five feet ten or
ten feet five-I am not sure which.
-"There are great many ways of
catching flies, but still adhere to fiy
paper, us the man said when he sat
down on sheet of it.-Dansvtllc Breeze.
An honest old farmer, on being in
formed the other day that one of his,
neighbors owed him grudgc, growled
out: ''No matter; he never pays any
thing"
"A correspondent asks how to serve
a dinner If it is a good dinner and
you are hungry, just eat it. That's the
way we would serve dinner.-AIbany
Journal.
AN Alderney COW swallowed SOW
erelgn seven years ago, and the coin
was recently discovered in her stomach
after she was butchered. Her owner
wondered what made her milk so rich.
Prairie Farmer.
The New Bedford Mercury, report
ing the proceedings of the Water
Works Association in that CITY, saws:
CATER some further discussion, driven
wells were taken up" That must be
an association of experts. -LoweH
Courier
Yes" said Mrs. Towser, as she
expatiated upon the beauties of her
flower-garden, 81 have given it great
care, and if you come over in week or
two expect to be able to show you
some beautiful scarlet pneumon as. -
N. y Ledger.
"A young doctor said to a girl:
"Do you know, my dear, have heart
affection for you?" ''Have you had it
lungP" she coyly inquired. "Oh, yes,
| feel that will liver troubled life
without your he fervently responded.
''Then you better asthma" she softly
murmured.-M Y. Telegram.
-'.Halloi" CALCULATED an anxious
guardian to his lovely niece, as he en-
tered the sitting-room and saw her in
the arms of a swain who had just
popped the question and sealed it with
a smack. whats the time of day
now?" II should think it was about
half-past twelve" was the cool reply.
"You see that we are almost one. !"
AN Australian poet, said to be
Every young sings:
"Ohl what fhorr bic thing is death.
When it comes before you get your breathp'
And good old lady, on reading the
effusion, sighed and said: "IndeedI in
deed! it is. as have often found to my
sorrow."
-'Now, Mr.. johnson, you are well
up in mythology" "Yes, sir, that's
where you can always find me- 1--WE
have all sorts of muses-the muse of
poetry, the muse of dancing and so on.
Now, [ want to ask, for the inforina-
ton of all present, whether there is
any muse of darkness-of nightP"
"Well, Mr.. Hendricks, mythoIogically
speaking, there is not. Categorically
speaking, the night is full of news. y
N. 7. Independent.
-"Won't you go up, dear and get
my goats off the bureauP" Your
goats?' queried Jones; 'swhat new
tangled things that?'' '.rn show
you, remarked the wife, and she
sailed upstairs and down again with
pair of kids on her hands. .sThere
they are," said she. .Why, [ call
those kids, said the surprised hus-
band. ''Oh, do you?n replied the
wife. $50 did | once, but they are so
old now I'm ashamed to call them
any thing but goats. y Jones took the
hint Chicago JoarnQl,
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THE HENNEPiN CANAL.

A Map of the Proposed Waterway to Cor
meet the Mississippi with the Great
Lakes.
WASHINGTON, July 27.-Inasmuch as the
Senate has commended the construction OF
the Hennepin canal by its passage OF the
River and Harbor BILL including an item
appropriating 100000 in ard OF the
scheme, and the fact that the fate OF the
bill in the House seems to depend upon this
clause, q description OF the route OF the
proposed waterway will not be ainiss here.
The following is a map OF Upper Illinois
and the route of the canal:
The Illinois and Michigan canal, 100
miles in length, runs from Chicago to La
Sale, and from this point to the town OF
Hennepin the Illinois river is to be util-
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HUBERT o. THOMPSON.
Sudden Deatl, of the Leader of New York
County democracy.

Sudden Deatl, of the Leader of New YorI1's
County Democracy.
New York, July 27.-Hubert O. Thomp-
son was found dead in his bed at the
Worth House, Madison square, at 9:35
o'clock yesterday morning. His room was
visited at that time by his physician, Dir.
Roberts, who had slept in the parlor adj
joining Mr.. Thompson's bedroom which
was room No. 3 ia the hotel He had last
seen Mr.. Thompson alive at about four
O'Clock in the morning, the latter being in
bed at the time. There was then no ap.
prehension of 81 fatal result OF the illness
which had caused the ex-commissioner to
be under medical care for some months.
Mr.. Thompson was found lying on
his right side with his knees drawn up.
The pupils of his eyes were dilated and
bloodshot, and his face and neck were
livid. The immediate cause of death
was cerebral apoplexy. Coroner Messe-
mer, who was summoned. said that death
probably occurred at about six O'Clock. !.
Hubert Ogden Thompson was thirty sew
en- years and seven months old. He was
born in Boston, Mass, but was brought to
UuIS CiDy ny lis pdf0utS Wueu u Cillu anu
has ever since lived here. His education
was acquired in the public schools and
he was graduated with honors at the
Free Academy, now the College
of the City of New York. After
ten years passed in Wall street in broker
age and railroad business. he was APP
pointed clerk in the water purveyor's
office by Allan Campbell, then COM
missioner OF public works, and
soon afterward was appointed dep
uty commissioner, He filled tie
latter position with credit for three
years, resigning to accept from Governor
Robinson the appointment of county
clerk in place of Henry A. Gumbleton, re-
moved His term as commissioner of
pubic works began in 1880, and lasted
until the appointment of the present
commissioner MI. Squire. Mr.. Thompson
first became active in politics, in
1871, VIXEN he joined the young
Mems Democratic Club and became an OPP
ponent of the old party leaders. In 1877 he
was member of Tammany Hall. but
withdrew from it because of his hostility
to John Kelly. His career since then as the
leader Of the County Democracy is well
known to the public. Personally he was a
man of winning manners and a genial
cOmpaniOn
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WIGGINs, the weather prophet, abates
nothing of his claim that there will oc-
cur in the fall a storm compared to
which other storms are zephyrs. The
clements viii begin amusing them
selves the afternoon of September 20,
and when the affair has ended this
country viii look as if it had gone
through a Neutrality-suspicious.. A con-
temporary calls sfeclal attention to
Mr.. Virgins date, as it seems to have
slipped the mind of the giddy thou
sands, who go along with their petty
affairs as if no such shaking-up were
in prospect.
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THE woolclip in the United States is
estimated to be fully twelve million
pounds less than two years ago. Mich
igan's clip will be over million
pounds less than year ago, that of
Ohio three millions less. and of Texas
seven millions less. Every wool-grow-
ing State and Territory. with probably
the exception of Montana, viii show a
lessened production.
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A REMARKABLE story about an ele-
plant which killed sixteen men some
where in India is going the rounds of
the papers. Probably the announce
ment that the elephant will go round
with some circus will come next.
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WEST AND souTt,.

L. 0. PICKERING has been nominated for
Congressman by the Prohibitionists of the
Second Kansas district
AN assignment was made by Edwin
Hoole, Of Chicago tho surviving member
of the firm of Snider & Hoole, bookbinders
and printers, on the Esd. The assets were
placed at 100000.
In the Eighth Iowa district on the ed
the Democrats and Greenbackers NOM
mated 4. R. Anderson Tor Congressman.
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A LARGE landslide occurred recently
on the eastern shore of Block Island,
r. 1. There is high bluff along the
shore at this point. About an acre of
land in strip two hundred feet in
length broke off and slid down into the