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, 1888-12-01
Inter State Commerce Report.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3O.-The annual
report OF the inter state com
mission is now in type. From it the fol-
lowing Is taken: From the best informa-
alton now available the railroad mileage
of the country on the Both day of June,
1888, is estimated at 1872, 7Sl, of which
2,Sl2 miles have been completed and
brought into operation within six months
preceding hat day. A summary is made
of the formal complaints. Of 10Y cases
submitted fits have been decided. Six
are not yet decided. In nine the hearings
are not completed. Twenty. three were
withdrawn or settled, ten suspended by
request, and nine are assinged for hear
ing.
The long and short hauls in that section
of country north of the Potomac and
Ohio and east Of the Missouri, the cases
in which the..greater charge is made for
shorter transportation are few, and their
circumstances are such that complaint Is
not often made that they operate oppres-
sively. With some exceptions, resulting
from a ocean competition, the rate of the
short haul provision of the law has been
put in force upon trancontinental roads
where its operation and effect can be OBJ
served, under what now appear to be fav-
orable conditions.
In Southern and Southwestern states
the commission has had reason to think
that carriers were moving more slowly in
bringing their tariffs Into conformity with
the general statutory law than in other
sections. Not being satisfied that this
duty had been sufficiently apprehended
and observed, the commission has or
dered au investigation to be made of the
whole subject.
The report then takes up the subject of
the effect of the interstate commerce act
upon common carriers and says that al
though some railroad managers have de-
clared it to have had a damaging effect,
the commission is possessed of no evidence
showing that the general result has been
otherwise than beneficial. That the rail-
road business has suffered in the past year
is not because of the interstate commerce.
act, but owing to strikes, new parallel
lines and rate wars.
, 1888-12-01
Stocks ana Cattle Markets.

New YORK, Nov. 30.-The stock
market was dull throughout the day, while
movements in prices were irregular and
confined in most cases within the narrow
est limits and fluctuations possessed little
or no significance.
Governments dull but firm. Money
2(924 per cent. Mining shares active.
Congratulated easy. Lake, $l7.45.
Petroleum opened firm at S53c, but
after a slight advance in the early trading
fell back to IS. The market then became
stronger, advancing to SIT, and after a
reaction closed steady at 86s. Sales,
l,734, 900 barrels.
Following are closing prices of stocks:
Pacific 6's. llS: American Express,
ll2: Canada Pacific, 523; Canada
Southern, 52s; Central Pacific. 80; Bur
1863: Denver & Rio Grande, 1871; Erie,
&c, Lake Shore, lO1t; Louisville &
Nashville. 55: Michigan Central. s5a;
Missouri Pacific. 76s; Kansas Il Texas,
IL; New York Central, 1888; Northern
Pacific, 25; preferred, 5sg; Northwest
ern, 1919; Oregon Improvement, SO;
Navigation, 95; Transcontinental. 292:
Pacific Mail. 374; Reading, 47s; Rock
Island, 1913; Milwaukee 4 St. Paul,
63s; Texas Pacific, 22s; Union Pacific,
63s; United States Express rs; Fargo,
1876; Western Union, S3s.
CHICAGO, Nov. 80. Misunderstanding,
10000; market slow; choice beeves,
IS 259G 124; steers, 50. 00(G4. 80; stoekers
and feeders, 5 l.90(93. 80; Texas cattle,
81. 75(03 40; Western rangers, SO. 00(1
, 1888-12-01
BURIED ALIVE.
The Calumet and Hecla Mine
Again on Fire.
All Efforts to Control the
Flames Futile.
Many Workmen Estape Alive,
But Eight are Missing.
BURIED ALIVE.
Again on Fire.

CALUMET, Mich, Nov. 30.-Fire was
discovered in the Calumet and Hecla mine
this morning in which a large party of
men were working. The fire made rapid
Roadway and all made a rush for the sur
face, but eight are missing, That they
are dead is certsi in.
The company is making desperate eff
forts to control the flames and rescue the
miners, but it looks as If the case was
hopeless. The men were all Cornishmen.
The scene about the min is heartrendiDg.
The families OF the men are cognlzant OF
the extreme likelihood that the men will
never come out alive, and to their griet
and lamentations is added the most fran
tic confusion on the part of all except the
trained employees Of the company.
Christ Rule, one OF the miners who
was at work in the fourteenth level of
No. 2 shaft says: About IL O'Clock last
night he saw and smelled smoke. lie at
once called the attention of Others to it,
and CharlesiG. Sarson and Henry Burk-
ineynki. who were thoroughly familiar
with thel Calumet branch of the mine, at
once started up the ladder as far as the
tenth level and then went south to the
main engine shaft and rode up to what is
called the grand sixth level. They then
crossed to No. 3 shaft, where they saw
the shaft all ablazc.
B~urkineynki at once went to the valve
of the water pipe, opened it, Strengthened
out the hose and was ready to fight the
fire at the risk of his own life, but there
was no water there. He says that, how
ever, had there been water it would have
helped matters none. Seeing this the
men came to the surface. Nothing is
known of the whereabouts OF the eight
men who are missing. They were work
ing ZOO feet deeper in the main engine
shaft, and it is supposed that smelling
smoke they tried to escape and were
smothered.
The fire is supposed to be of ~incendiary
origin. Over 100 men were in this por-
ton of the mine at the time, but escaped,
1t would be foolish to attempt to approx
mate the loss, as the fire is in every way
much worse than last year aud is liable to
burn for months,
, 1888-12-01
Another Anarchist Circular.

CHICAGO. Nov. 30 1t is learned this
evening that a new anarchist circular is
being distributed In various sections of the
city. 1t is issued by the Arbeiter Bund,
the same society that organized the Sun
day schools to teach children the doc.
trines of anarchism. The circular is com
posed of the usual harangue about work,
ingmen being trampled into the dust and
urges him to assert his independence.
Capital and all who control capital must
be destroyed and that quickly, and the
only eficacious method Of removal is the
n carried into execution by the martyred
advocates Of freedom who gave up their
lives that their principles might be per-
petuated. Believers are urged to Join
societies and contribute to the fund and
also to the defense fund for the dynamit-
ers now on trial.
, 1888-12-01
Will Not be General.

NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-The Stm prints
an interview with leading Democrats of
the G. A. R. in various parts of the
country. ln the review of these inter
views it says the movement for the with
drawal of Democratic members of the G.
A. r. on the ground that the organi-
cation is uaed to further the political ends
OF the Republican party seem to meet
with little sympathy outside of Indiana,
where 1t began.
, 1888-12-01

Read the following: Mr.. G. H. Morris,
Newark, Ark says: Was down with
Abseess of Lungs, and friends and physi-
clans pronounced me an Incurable Con-
sumptive. Began taking DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, am now
on my third bottle, and able to oversee
tine work on my farm. 1t 10 the finest
medicine ever made"
jesse Middlewart, Decatur; Ohio, says:
Had it not been for DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption | would have
died of Lung Troubles. Was given up
by doctors. Am now in best Of health "
Try it Sample bottles free at DIR. W.
n. Hunts drug store.
, 1888-12-01
s

Jas. Wood, colored, was hanged at
Aiken, s. c., yesterday for murder.
Thomas Baker, proprietor OF Bakers
theater, Chicago, opened Two weeks ago,
assigned yesterday. Liabilities, $3.50, 600;
assets the same.
Six Italian laborers were buried in a
sewer excavation in Philadelphia yester
day by the caving in of a bank. One was
killed and the others severely injured.
Governor Lee of Virginia offers $1,000
reward for the apprehension of the party
or parties engaged in the release of Way
man Sutton, convicted of murder, from
the Wytheville Jail.
Speaking at Edinbu=g yesterday, Lord
Salisbury, prime minister of England,
declared himself in favor of woman suf-
frage and said he hoped the day was not
far distant when women would be allowed
To vote,
, 1888-12-01

by dispeIling the symptoms so often
mistaken for consumption, Santa Able
has brought gladness to many a house
hold. BY its prompt use for breaking up
the cold hat too often develops into that
fatal disease, thousands can be saved
from an untimely grave. You make no
mistake by keeping a bottle OF this pleas
ant remedy i'll your house. California
Cat-R. Cure is equally effective in eradi-
eating all traces of nasal catarrh. Both
of these wonderful California remedies
are sold and warranted by DIR. ". n.
Hunt. 81 a package, three for 81 50.
, 1888-12-01
Petroleum Wells in Burmah.

The petroleum field of Yenangyoong ex
tends over an area Of sixteen square miles,
the physical conformation Of which repro.
duces almost exactly that of the oil pro-
ducing district in Baku in tho Russian
Caucasus. Bare crumbling ridges alter
nate with deep, dry gullies, half choked
with sand, while every here and there you
como upon a black, narrow, and seemingly
unfathomable chasm in the parched earth,
all around the mouth Of which the dusty,
yellowish gray surface is spotted with
pools of thick, dark, glutinous liquid, as
If some boy giant had been set to fill a
number of colossal jars of molasses, and
had done 1t SO awkwardly as to spill tho
precious fluid all over the place.
The petroleum wells OF Yenangyoong
are about 300 in number, and vary in
depth from 200 to 800 feet. They have
been worked for a considerable period,
but hitherto without much success, partly
IN account of the unskillful and costly
system adopted by the natives and partly
on account of tho ingrained rapacity Of
the Burmese government, which, up to
the very latest moment Of its existence,
never failed to lay its greedy claws upon
every native industry which showed the
slightest token Of yielding any profit
whatever, thereby verifying to tho letter
Il famous passage in the ancient Brahmin
hymn to the five headed deity of night:
The priest is one of thy mouths, and
with that n!puth thou devourest tho PEG.
pic; the king is one of thy mouths, and
with that mouth thou d~evourest every
body"
The oil yielded by tho Ienangyoong
wells is somewhat lighter than the ordi-
nary color, and unusually thin when first
taken out, although after having been
exposed to the air for some time (more
especially In cold weather) it shows "A
tendency to become thick and g%lutiuous.
As regards It's quality the resident ex.
ports are not altogether of one mind, but
all alike agree in p~ronouncing it far info
rior to tho American article, and not
likely to compare favorably even with the
best quality Of petroleum yielded by the
Russian oil wells ut Baku.-David Ker in
Now York Times.
, 1888-12-01

PROPOSALS FOR WOOD AND
coal Headquarters Department OF the
Platte, Chief Qu]artermaster's Office,
Omaha, Neb., Nov. "a, 1883. Sealed
proposals, in triplicatc, subject to the
usual conditions, will be received at this
office until . o'clock p. M. central time,
Dec. "a, 1883, when they will be opened
for furnishing good and coal for Camp
Pilot Butte, Wyo., deliverable there or
at other point specified by the bidder:
preference beng given to articles of do
nestle production, conditions of quality
and price %Cncfhding in the price Of for
pign production the duty thcreon) being
equal; and no award will be made for arti-
Giles Of foreign production when the article
of suitable domestic production can be
obtained. The right is reserved to reject
any or all bids. Blank forms for bidding
and circular giving quantities required and
all necessary information will be furnished
on application to this or Office of the post
quartermaster at Camp Pilot Butte. Pro
posall should be endorsed on envelopes,
Proposals for fuel, - and addressed to
VIM. B. HUGHES, Quartermaster, U.
). a., Chief Q~uartermaster.
, 1888-12-01
The Walking Match.

NEW York, Dec. 1.-The walking
at | II. III. was: Cartwright 4S7,
Howarth 4Gl, Hart 4G8, Smith l72,
Moore 1876, Conner 4G3, LittlewOod j3S,
Golden 45S, Noremac 47j, Ilerty 525,
Elson 1856, Mason 455, Campana 400.
1893, Hcrch 300.
At | n. ~. L]ittlewood was three miles
and six laps behind Albert's worlds score,
, 1888-12-01

GLASGOW, Mo, Nov 3O.-Mrs. Emma
Jackson. aged 20, was shot and instantly
killed by her brother, Harvey Rallom, a
lad of IA, this morning, The woman had
asked Harvey to get a bucket of water and
he refused. She then threatened to whip
him and he shot her.
, 1888-12-01

MILWAUKEE,, Nov. 30.-The official
shows the total vote for president
to be 1854, 664, IN increase of "a, 776 over
1884; Harrison plurality, 81, 2T1. Blaine's
plurality in 1854 was 1850 Fisk re-
1884. The labor vote was s. 1852 as against
Is, SIS in 1884.
, 1888-12-01

Every voter should know that the
Union Pacific, the Overland route" and
the Chicago & Northwestern railway,
commenced Sunday, Oct. IA, to run Pull
man and Wagner Vestibuled Palace sleep
ers through from Denver to Chicago via
Omaha and Council Bluffs. The princi-
pal line from Denver to Chicago.
, 1888-12-01
Wheat May Go Up.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2O.-A furry occurred
on the board Of trade to-day on the re-
ceipt of advices from San Francisco, in
quiry being made there for wheat for
Australia on account of the almost total
failure of the crop in the southern part of
that country. Some weeks z CONNER
cial papers reported the damage to Aus
tralian wheat, but this was the first init.
, 1888-12-01

The Union Pacific will have on sale
Nov. Is, the only round trip ticketsto St.
l.ouis for the public attending the range
cattle convention to be held there Nov.
20, 1888. Tickets good until Dec. .
Rate for round trip, 500, 60.
, 1888-12-01

How can parents allow their children to
cough and strain and cough and calmly
say: "Oh! it is only a little cold" and
keep giving them cheap and dangerous
medicines, until they are down with lung
fever or consumption, when they can be
70 easily relieved by Beggs' Cherry
Cough Syrup 1t has no superior, and
few equals. For sale by W. N. Hunt,
druggist.
, 1888-12-01

What on earth is the reason people
will not, can not, or do not see any differ
ence in nheap nostrums put up by Cheap
John houses or irresponsible parties at
enormous profits, rather than take a med
icine of world wide reputation and one
that is giving universal satisfaction at
equal price? No medicine in the world is
giving such unparalleled satisfaction for
purifying the blood as Beggs' Blood Pu-
riGer and Blood Maker, and every bottle
that does not do its work will cost yeu
nothing. For sale by W. N. Hunt, drug
gist.
, 1888-12-01
The Celery Was Good.

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 3O.-Gen. Harri-
son had the usual large number of visitors
to-day, but there were no notables among
his callers. The presents that came were
OF a practical and useful character and
included oranges, potatoes and celery.
superior quality.
, 1888-12-01
Playing With Pistols.

PARIS, Nov. 3O.-A duel between De
Roulde and ReIpaeh, editor of Repu5liique
Franoaise. took place this morning. Pts
tolls were used and tour shots were ex-
changed, but neither of the combatants
were hurt.
, 1888-12-01

NEWPORT, r. l., Nov. 3O.-A cable
from Paris received this morning stated
that Mrs. T. T. Pittman (Margery DEAN
died this afternoon. She was the wife of
4. It. Pittman, proprietor of the Newport
Daily NcioS, and daughter of l.. A. Davis,
editor of the same paper.
, 1888-12-01

Kellner wishes to state that he is soon
to wind up his business here, and will
therefore close ont his entire stock of dry
goods and millinery for less than they
cost at wholesale.
, 1888-12-01
Tha Guilty Man Fled.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Nov. 3O.-The
coroner's Jury has adiudged G. a. Wood
guilty OF criminal carelessness and respon-
slble for the wreck on the Rio Grande and
Rock Island train last week. Wood has
1isa npporpl
, 1888-12-01
DRAGONS Vote.

PORTLAND, Nov. 3O.-The official count
shows the total vote of the state to be
81. 9ls; Harrison, 1929; Cleveland, 26.-
524; Fisk, 1,677; Streeter, 1868; scatter
ing, 81. Harrison's plurality, 6 ,769.
, 1888-12-01

Mrs. Wins!ow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething It
sootncs the child. suftrns the gums. allavs
the pain. cures wiud collie and is the best
remedy Tor iiarrhHa. Twenty five cents
a bottle
, 1888-12-01

LOUISVILLE. KY, Nov. 3o.-The of
fetal vote of Kentucky is as follows
Cleveland ls3,sOO, Harrison 1851 1874,
Fisk 5,225, Labor 622, Belva Lock
wood 9.
, 1888-12-01
Sklpped with $4,000.

REDFIELD, Oak, Nov. 3O.-Tho an
nounccment is made hat County Treas,
urer Winchell has left for larts unknown
and is a defaulter to the amount of
SlO lNl
, 1888-12-01
Callforn1a,s Vote.

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 30.-The electoral
vote of California as announced by the
secretary of state to-day is as follows
Harrison l24, 800, Cleveland III, 729,
Fisk 5.7Ol.
, 1888-12-01

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 3O.-The Jour-
mails correspondent at Columbus, Ind.
says: Will Schriber, teller of the First
National bank of that city has fed to Can
ada after robbing the bank of s., 800.
, 1888-12-01

The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT.
MENT is only put up in large two ounce
tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old
sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and
all skin eruptions. VIII positively cure all
kinds OF piles Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABIETINE OINTMENT. Sold by DR..
W. N. Hunt, at 25 cents per box by mail
80 cents.
, 1888-12-01

Ties worth 30 cents selling at % cents
at Hellman's.
, 1888-12-01

81 hoys suits selling at s. now at Hell
, 1888-12-01

Wedding and visiting cards. in great
variety at the Leader Office,
, 1888-12-01

Oysters on the hall shell at the Saddle
Rock.
, 1888-12-01

A good shirt and drawers at II cents at
Hellman's.
, 1888-12-01

Boys suits from $500 up at Hellmau's
, 1888-12-01

trouble to show goods at Hellman's.
, 1888-08-22

In Burmah people of superior rank
must not dishonor themselves by passing
underneath persons of inferior rank;
thus a nobleman must not pass through
a passage when q servant is occupied in
a chamber above. In Indoo-China this
opinion is most extensively held. II it
were not 30 strongly prevalent two
stored houses would be far more COM
mon. When q case is being heard on an
upper floor and a woman has to be ex-
amined, the whole court will adjourn to
h below rather than bring a fe-
male above the heads of persons who
may chance to be on the ground floor.
A Buddhist priest-as superior in rank
to a layman-even on a friendly visit,
will decline to enter a two storied build
ing. The populous capital of Siam is in.
tersected by numerous canals, which are
crossed by many bridges; but these
bridges are SO constructed that the road
ways in the center can be removed. If
the king is to pass along n particular
route notice is sent beforehand to the au-
thorities, and the roadways are actually
removed till his majesty has gone by, in
order that no subject may stand upon
the bridge while the sovereign is passing
beneath. Once a Week.
, 1888-08-22

According to experiments of most
dentists, ladies' are BY far the bravest and
most considerate patients. While not
able to bear as much physical pain as
mankind generally, they make up in
force of will power and self control, and
thus endure the trying ordeal without
fainting or hysteria. They may suffer a
shrek of pain to escape them, but they
bravely hold their ground until the tooth
is extracted. A young lady entered a
dentists establishment accompanied by
her mother. She was suffering with a
severe toothache. She was DESTROYS of
attending a party in the evening, how
ever, and wanted some relief. An
examination of the tooth proved
Ii impossibility of saving it, and its ex-
traction was suggested. Every WE'LL"
submissively replied the young lady. The
head was thrown back, the pretty lips
were parted, the forceps were inserted.
A shrill scream pierced the air, but in
another instant the young lady was
smiling through her tears, and the dentist
triumphantly held the emaciated tooth
before her. Her toothache was gone and
she could attend the party in the evening.
"a nan would have carried that tooth
around with him for a week" said the
dentist, ''before he would have mustered
up courage enough to rave it out, and
he would have suffered the tortures of
the damned before he would submit to
the almost instantaneous operation of
extraction. That's the difference be-
tween the exes."-Chicago Herald.
, 1888-08-22
Marriage. of First Cousins.

But let us go q step further. Imme-
diately after the Noachian deluge the mar
riages of first cousins formed the remotest
degree of kindred available for such in
tercourse, eve if the respective distances
(see Genesis, oh. 10Y and insuperable diff
~iculties of communication and locomo-
ton between the members of the only re-
naming family, scattered throughout the
recently submerged world, did not neces-
lsarily involve a resort to the natural law
of the first family. and were but one re.
move from the primitive law of nature.
1t was not until the lapse of many gen
e~rations after the traditional history of
the flood that Moses issued his Levitical
DEGREES to restrain the RIGHTEOUSNESS that
was creating confusion in that social or
~ganization which had supplanted print
tive simplicity. Such prohibitions are not
confined to cases of consanguinity,
though the prohibited intercourse I'M
doubleday includes ''any that are neal of
kin" which may well embrace first
cousins. The catalogue extends to de-
grees Of affinity.
The vulgar error that both mental and
physical deterioration of progeny is the
result of consanguineous alliances, though
long since exploded by the scientific por-
ton of the medical profession, arose from
arguing from a foregone conclusion to
the premises, instead of from the prem
ises to their legitimate conclusion. If it
were otherwise, the race must have de-
Perforated from the very beginning;
whereas, on the contrary, it Is well
known that by the law of nature the
purity of q stock is maintained by breed
ing in and in, although to obtain certain
foreign characteristics it is sometimes de-
sirable to cross it with another. No
doubt any specific acquired disease in a
family would be intensified by the inter
marriage of its members, but there isno
record Of any physical or mental infirmi-
ty, in the early ages of mankind, result
ing from consanguineous alliances. The
Levitical prohibitions were directed
against a prevalent social and moral evil,
sapping the purity of the domestic hearth,
rather than a physiological one, affecting
the sanitary condition of the world
Hugh Weightman in New York Sun.
, 1888-08-22

In a recent issue of The London SAM
tary Record I read a startling account Of
the manner in which a pet cat unques-
tionably communicated diphtheria from
one family to another with sad and fatal
results. A little boy was taken i'll with
what ultimately turned out to be fatal
diphtheria. On the first day of the sick
ness, when the little fellow was taken
with nausea, the cat licked the vomit on
the floor. In a fewdays, the little boy
having died, the cat was noticed to be
Ill, and her suffering being so severe, and
80 similar to those of the dead boy, the
owner had the animal killed. During its
illness the cat had been let out into the
%barnyard of nights, as usual. A few
days later the cat of q neighbor, also let
out at night, was noticed to be i'll. The
second animal, which, however, recov-
cred, was the pet and playmate Of four
little girls, who, grieved at its illness,
nursed IL with great care. All four OF
h little girls were seized with diphtheria
and died, and their mother is satisfied
that they got it from the cat. 1t is easy
to imagine how a cat can catch diphtheria
or other infectious diseases, when it is
remembered how often milk or other I'M
used food from the sick room Is given to
the cat, or by some people thrown into
the back yard for the cats of the neigh
borhood.-Dr. Frank j. Lutz in Globe
Democrat.