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LIQUOR ADCLTERATIoN.

The American analyst reports dealer in
liquor adulterants as saying:
7'Our largest business Is in the liquor Inc:
With French spirits and color as basis,
con make you any liquor you want with our
extracts. Here are the essences OF Old Tom.
London Dock, Swan, Holland, and Schiedam
gins, the extracts Of Otard and Cognac
braudies, rye bourbon, applejack, Irish and
Scotch whiskies, Santa Cruz, Jamaica and
Medford runs, not to speak Of the fancy cor
dials and liquors. To make Old Tom, take
q teaspoonful of French spirits, one OF water,
three drops Of glucose syrup and two drops
of the extract. That makes the Old Tom
you have drank in dozen saloons IN tnls
city There are some funny things about
this part Of the business. Most people Like
their whisky and brandy aged and free from
fusel oil. But there are great many, es.
pecially among manual laborers, who like IL
fresh and harsh. They want it to cut as it
goes down. To supply this demand we sell
fuseI oil to rectiders and even retailers;
They mix q barrel Of whisky, Of spirits and
one Of water with gallon Of fusel oil. That
makes ten cent rye which beats torch
light procession. It's cheap, too, and stands
an intelligent dealer in only 81 q gallon.
That's twenty cents bottle, and less than
one cent drink on an average. No wonder
that rum sellers grow rich and become Al
dermen or go to Congress" ..
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DUEL TO THE DEATH.
Two Men Fatally Wound Each Other
and Two Bystandcrs.

Two Men Fatally Wound Each Other
and Two Bystandcrs.
One of the most desperate battles fought
between man and man took place near Mid
dlesborough, KY, the other night, about nine
o'clock, between Marsh Turner, of the
famous Turner gang, and Steve Warricl,
another deperado Of more than local fame.
Warrick's brother-in-law, who is huckster,
called to see WarricS, and he drove across
the lot which is owned and occupied by Tur-
ner. Turner ordered the pedler's wagon of
the premises.
Turner and Warrick met at seven o'clock
in the evening and went to fighting after
few words. Turner used his revolver and
Warricka large knife. The terrible combat
lasted fully fifteen minutes and resulted in
Warrick receiving pistol shot in the breast,
about an inch above the heart, the bullet
passing entirely through his body. Turner
received eleven knife gashes in all, one OF
which penetrated the abdomen and will
prove fatal.
The father of Marsh Turner attempted to
separate the two men and received ugly knife
wounds in the hand for his pains. Police OF.
ficer James Parham, who also endearored to
arrest the men, was badly cut about the
hands and arms. Warrick died next morn
Ing and Turner also died soon afterward
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BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS,
Ten Men Go Through an Ex'
press Car in Alabama.
The Frightened Passengers In
Inundated by Pistol Shots.

The Louisville and Northern train from
New Orleans reached Flomaton, Ala, about
II o'clock the other night Two men
emergel from the swamp. and running close
to the train, made their way to the engine
They climbed up over the tender
and covered the engineer and fireman
with pistols. With hands up, they
were made to crawl over the tender to the
front platform o. the express car and open
the door. Here two other outlaws Joined
them, and as soon as the door was
opened they rushed into the express
car and fired two shots to intimidate the mes
senger. At the same time volley Of shots
was fired from other outlaws who stood on
either side of the train near the baggage car
to prevent any one from the rear of the train
coming toward the express car.
The passengers were very much frightened
and began slowing article of value away in
hiding places about the car, expecting the
robbers to give them a visit as soon as they
finished with the messenger. While two Of
the men kept the engineer and fremen COW
cred with their revolvers two others paid
their respects to the express messenger. He
was made to unlock his safe and turn over
all the valuables in it to the gang. 1t was
not certain how much they got, but the pas
sengers declared they made good haul.
They said it was asserted on the train that
the robbers took $4,000 from the express
messenger.
After finishing their work in the express
car the robbers fired another volley to in
timidate the passengers, and then made off
into the swamp with their booty. The pas
sengers began recovering the articles they
had hidden, and then the train hurried on
its way, having been delayed forty minutes
by the bold outlaws. 1t was neat piece of
criminal work. performed by ten men, and
that it was done by Rube Burrows and his
gang.
A careful examination by the express
officials at Mobile showed that only portion
of the packages in the express safe in the car
which was robbed was taken, and the loss is
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Washington.

TIE Swedish authorities having requested
that the body of Ericsson be disembarkel at
Stockholm, as originally intended, orders to
that effect have been sent to the Baltimore,
at Gothenburg, by the Navy Department.
GENERAL GRANT, Acting Secretary Of
War, has directed the abandonment OF the
military reservation at Hot Springs, Ark,
as military reservation, and its transfer to
the Interior Department for disposition
under the law.
THE President has approved the Joint re-
solution making an appropriation for the re-
lief of the destitute in Oklahoma.
DURING August the public debt was de.
creased 1888, ,0T2.75. Total cash in the Treas
ury, s694, 557, 45l.07
AS agreed to in Conference Committee Of
both Houses, the River and Harbor bill ap-
propriated $24, 9S1, 295.
1t has just been made public that five
months ago Ex-senator T. C. Platt, OF New
York, declined President Harrison's offer to
appoint him United States Minister to
Spain. In his letter of declination Mr..
Platt said that he was precluded hy numer
GUS business obligations from accepting tha
offer.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.


Geauga and Harrison Counties, Ohio, have
no saloons.
The women Of Nebraska propose to hold
all-day prayer-meetings NoVember4
The liquor traffic costs our country about
50, ,000, GOO a days, ,COO,OO0 worse than
wasted.
The retail liquor traffic is now prohibited
in seventy-nine municipalities OF the province
Of Manitoba.
Huron's large brewery in South Dakota,
will, it is said, be converted into beet
sugar factory.
The City Marshal of Gainesville, Ga, says
that prohibition has dcne Gainesville an IN
calculable amount Of good.
Between $50 and 200 hogsheads Of beer are
given away every. week to the employees
at Burton-on-T Trent in the way Of allow
ances."
He who made the human frame made 1t so
wisely that it does not need the stimulus OF
beverages, which, when taken in excess
blind the reason, inhame the blood, SOW the
seed of disease, and implant an unconquera-
BILE craving for the fatal poison.
According to Bishop Taylor, the single city
OF Hamburg, Germany, has exported 2oO, 600
tuns of rum and gin to Africa within the last
year. Apparently the best way to convert
Africa, therefore. would be first to convert
Hamburg.
The Royal Niger Company has prohibited
the Importation Of spfrituous liquors for
sale or barter throughout the greater part
of its territory. In the remainder Of its ju-
risdiction it has not yet the strength to en-
force this law, but hopes to do so in the near
future.
Mr.. T. v Powderly says that an expert
ence Of twenty years among working1nen
convinces him that ''liquor has done more
harm to workingmen than all other causes.
It is not the drinking man alone who suffers,
for three drunken men in O hundred will
prevent the other ninety-seven from accom-
plishing what they seek"
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has sent to each employe circular
note, of which the following is in part
copy: This company will not under any
circumstances employ men who ore in the
habit of becoming intoxicated. All eui-
ployes known to frequent drinking places
must be warned to discontinue the practice
or quit tho company's service Employees
will be discharged il intoxicated either on or ,
of duty. No person discharged for iutoxica- /
tion will be re-employed." ..-.~--I
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TIE USE OF ALCOHOL AS A MEDICINE.

DR.. Grosvenor, in the Buffalo Medical
Journal, gives the following concise sum-
mary of bis views respecting the medicinal
use Of alcohol
/. Grave responsibility rests upon the medi-
cal profession in the use Of alcohol as medi-
cine on account of its deleterious influence
upon the system and the liability Of the pa
tient to contract the habit Of using 1t as a
beverage.
2, Alcohol being an acrid narcotic poison,
the bottle containing it should be labeled,
poison" as reminder Of this characteristic,
and q warning to handle it with care.
8. Alcohol, containing none Of the COM
pounds which enter into the construction Of
the tissues, connot properly be termed tis-
sue-forming food.
4. The evidence in favor Of the existence Of
a heat-generating quality in alcohol is not
sufficient to warrant the belief that 1t Is q
heat-producing food.
5. As narcotic and anasthetic, alcohol
has limited sphere Of adaptation, and Is
much less valuable than several other mar
cotics and an1sthetics
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Foreign.

AEAPHTHA vessel has been burned at her
wharf at Batoum, Russia. The captain and
two sailors lost their lives.
THE treaty Of peace between Guatemala
and Salvador has been signed by both par
ties.
TnIEE-oCAITERs Of the town Of Ken
eshma, Russia, has been destroyed by fire.
The damage is estimated at 81, 100000.
Serious fires are also reported at Orel and
hurss.
A TERRIFIC storm flooded the rivers and
canals in st. Petersburg, Russia, and VI
cinity. There was two feet of water in the
lower streets Of the city. Guns were fired at
the fortress to warn the inhabitants OF
danger.
THE schooner Bessie Walker collided with
the bark Wave in the Bay Of Fundy. and five
of the crew and a young lady passenger
were drowned.
REBELLION, believed to have been melted
by European powers has broken out ar:iohg
Moorish tribes.
The strike in the shipping trade has sprea :
from Australia to New Zealand.
THE Tunnel House, at the Sarnia (Canada)
entrance of the st. Clair Tunnel, has been
burned. A female employe, unable to es-
cape, was burned to death, and two labor
ers, who were stopping at the house, also
perished.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

: EMIL ZoLA, the French novelist, has made
$500, 600 from his books.
| THE estate Of the late John Boyle O'Eeily
will amount to S15O, ,OO0.
EDWIN ARNOLD, according to rumor, is
going to take Japanese bride and settle In
Japan.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, United States
Minister to Germany, no longer wears his
hair banged.
HoN. w. T. SCOTT has declined the Demo.
cratic nomination for Congress frc:l his old
district in Pennsylvania.
GEORGE ". CHLDs, the Philadelphia edi-
Tor and philanthropist, is said to spend and
ngive away s250, 900 year.
Il GENERAL EzErA, who has led San Saliva
doris forces so successfully against Guate-
mala, is only twenty-seven years old.
SENATOR GEORGE, Of Mississippi, has
head of long, flowing hair that waves
picturesquely about when he is excited.
YOUNG John Jacob Astor is stoop-shoul.
dered, probably in anticipation Of the great
responsibility be will have to carry in later
gears
PRINCE ALEXANDER OF BArTENBURG has
adopted the children Of Panitza, who was
shot for conspiring against the existing Bull
garian regime.
THE Duke Of Edinburgh is a clever violin
ist and also an enthusiastic postage stamp
gatherer his collection being one Of the most
Complete in the world.
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS RAUM is g
short man Of medium weight, keen-looklng
and bald on the top Of his head. His chin Is
covered with whlskers.
PRESIDENT ROBERTS, Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, started life as a track hand thirty
years ago. The combined salaries he receives
now amount to Sl0O, 0OOa year.
ROBERT P. PORTER, the Superintendent OF
khe Census, has the physique Of an athlete:
BE is an active, clean-shaven man, dark
comple1ioned, with black eyes and black
hair.
The Marquis Of Salisbury, the Premier OF
Great Britain, owns 20, GOO acres OF land IN
England. AS much Of it lies within the
corporate limits Of London, he Is enormous
y rich.
/ JUSTICE BRADLEY, of tho United States
Supreme Court, is an expert Mathematician.
BE has been known to make almanacs and
calendars just to keep his mind in good work
Ing order.
The Queen Of Italy has maintained her
reputation for pluck and endurance by climb
Ing the Mountain Of Monza, 10000 feet high,
during rainstorm, which turned into snow
before the top was reached
Il DR.. NoRvIN GREEN, the head of the West
kern Union Telegraph Company, is a Ken
ktuckian Of giant frame, nearly seventy-three
wears of age. he was practising physician
In the early days Of his career. ----
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A REBEL GENERAL KILLED

Barrundia, the :Guatemalan Revolu-
ZIONIST, Shot on an American Ship.
A San Jose de Guatemala dispatch says:
Everything was prepared to capture the
,evolutionist, General Martin Barrundia,
who was on board a passing American
steamer. The Port Captain, with several
companions boarded the steamer and
demanded the surrender Of Gi:rrundia
from Captain Pitts, who answered that he
would deliver up the revolutionist and in
Titel them to Barrlndia's cabin. The As
sstant Chief Of Police, Captain Calderon,
and three officers were among those who
went with the captain to the cabin. When
there Major Toriello made known to Barrun-
dia that the captain of the vessel had decided
to deliver him up. Barrundia thereupon
opened fire with his revolver upon the party,
who answered his fire. Barrundis fell, rid
died with bullets. His body was taken to the
Port Captains Office.
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THE BIGGEST COTTON CROP,
All Former Yields Exceeded by More
Than q Quarter Million Bales.

AL tOrmer 4lcluS EACeeded by More
Than a Quarter Million Bales.
The New Orleans Exchange has issued the
official report Of the cotton crop OF the Uni
ted States for the commercial year ending
with the close Of August, 1890. made up by
Secretary Hesler. The report says that the
total crop amounts to 1911 ,332 bales, exceed
ing the largest crop ever grown by 265, 4Ss
bales and the crop of last year by 373, ,032.
The total Southern consumption for the
past year is reported at SAC, 1863 bales, against
4Sl, ,235 bales last year. The number of mills
in operation is 270, with 1,G65, 19l spindles
Thirty-nine new mills, with "a, 1874 spindles,
have commenced working during the year
and fifteen Hew mills have been completed
and will be at work this fall. Forty-four
mills are idle, number of which expect to
start up again at an early date. The total
number of mills in the South is now 1886, with
40,S19 looms and 1873, 29l spindles Secre-
tary Hesler says the increase of spindles dur
ing the past year is equivalent to nearly one
half of the entire number reported in ths
South by the census Of 1880.
Not only is the crop Of 1SS9-90 the largest
ever produced, but it has moved OFF with un-
e1ampled rapidity and brought full prices
throughout the year, netting to the farming
interest handsome surplus.
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FIFTEEN persons were killed at fire In q
Hungarian village.
Prominent French papers favor the re-
moval Of the prohibition of the importation
Of American pork into France.
AsIATIC cholera has broken out in several
country districts Of Portugal.
FIVE HUNDRED delegates took part in the
Trades Union Congress at Liverpool.
The British steamer Portuense, from New
York, foundered near the Island Of Ane-
gada. British West Indies, and ten Of the
people on board were reported missing.
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TIPPING AMONG ENGLISH WOMEN.

Great Britain is the only country have
been in where one will frequently see fine
looking women drinking brandy and other
spirits in the cars and where the custom Is
so prevalent among both men and women,
that at each station and in the cars, one will
see sign requesting passengers not to throw
are often injured thereby" II this custom
keeps up it is possible that the railway COM
panies will have to steel-plate their section
hands In order to preserve their lives from
these bombs.-Chicago Journal.
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Cause of a Clerks Dismissal.

Edward Renaud, $500 clerk in the PEN
hon Office, was dismissed by Secretary Noble
upon the recommendation Of Commissioner
Raum. MIR. Renaud has penchant for
writing for the newspapers and it was
charged by Commissioner Raum that he has
inspired articles which have appeared in q
New York paper criticising tho action Of
Pension Office officials.
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BOTH DROWNED.

Captain Thurber Dies Attempting to
Save His Child.
While the schooner Palmer was being towed
down the Connecticut River, off Middletown,
Conn.,, Captain Thurbor's daughter, beau
tiful girl about eighteen years of age, who
was on pleasure trip with her father, acct
dentally fell overheard.
Her father, who was at the wheel at tho
time, Immediately sprang into the water af.
ter her and before boat could be lowered
both sank, clasped in each others arms, for
the last time.
Captain Thurber's ho:ue Is in Staten Isl
and, N. Y.
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WHAT ALCOHOL Is GOOD FOR.

DR.. Nansen, the Norwegian explorer,
crossed Greenland on foot. With Eve COM
panions he spent several weeks on floating
ice. For forty days they tramped over
frozen snow, with eighty degrees Of frost.
Did he use any alcoholic drinks3 That he did
make use of alcoholic spirits You can see from
the following statement, but never as @
beverage. BE says: 1.-THE only spirits we
took were as fuel for our stove to melt the
snow that we might have water to drink. !
think the use of stimulants Is mistake"
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HIS STATURE DECREASED,
A Curious Case Of Shrinkage of the
Human Form.

Death has ended the career Of Alexander
Sorden, of Harrington, Nd, for nearly
twenty years clerk to the Levy Court Of
Carolina County, at the age of eighty-fve
years. He has been a source Jf wonder 10
physicians for many years. Without sue
cess they have been examining into a pecu-
liar physical shrinking that followed sick
ness causing his stature to become one foot
less than it was during health.
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ACROSS THE WIRES.
Important and Newsy Tales
Told by the Telegraph.
Terrible Experience of a Sur
veying Party in Alaska.

DR.. T. c. Mendenhall, Superintendent of
Vey, has received several reports from John
E. McGrath, of St. Louis, who has charge Of
one Of the parties engaged in determining
the 14lst parallel, the boundary between the
possessions of the United States and Great
Britain in Alaska.
Mr.. McGrath's party is encamped on the
Yukon River. about 400 miles from Sitka
aud in one of his reports he tells of the priva-
tions experienced b. the party during last
fall and winter.
Owing to the wreck of the steamship Arc
sic, which had provisions and other things
for the party on board, the surveyors We're
! in danger of starvation, and serious alarm
was felt as week after week Went by and the
steamship did not appear.
. In October the river was frozen over.
Just before this party Of starving miners
came down the river from Forty Mile Creek
tighter that had been loaned him in
order to continue their journey. In
the hope of securing provisions two
of the surveying party (French and
McLarty) were detailed to so with the
miners and secure what they could in the
way Of eatables at place called Miklukayet.
and to put back to camp through the winter
py SleQ ana QOS. 1ue uleLuosAS VI lac poi W
had been placed on short rations before
French and McLarty left.
''They set out for the main camp in Feoru.
ary," says IJr. McGrath, with hand sled
and toboggan drawn by three dogs. These
they loaded with flour and beans knowing
how scant one lot was, and after seventy
days of a journey got into our camp on May
B, having Travelled $50 miles, and most OF this
was gone over thrice, MS they could not haul
ktheir load all at one time.
''When they reached us they had only the
clothes on their back. one pair OF blankets
and no coats, but on their sleds were 200
pounds of -four For the last days they cut
of the tops of their boots to feed the dogs
gave them deer skins and whatever they
could spare. Their own clothes they cached
on the way"
The progress of the survey has been greatly
retarded by cloudy weather, and Mr.. Nc
Grath has determined to remain another
gear in order that his part Of the survey may
be finished.
Collections have been made as far as posi-
bic of insects and fora. The party has re-
eeived large consignment Of provisions and
Is comfortably situated for the weather.
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HANGED AT MIDNIGHT.
A Boy Murderer and an Older Crimi.
nal Executed at Columbus.

Otto Leuth, the boy murderer, of Cleve-
land, was hanged in the annex of the Ohio
Penitentiary at Columbus, shortly after
midnight. The drop fell at five minutes
past twelve A. N. His neck was broken, and
be was announced dead at twenty-five min
utes past twelve.
Another murderer, named Smith, was
hanged at the same time Both Leuth and
Smith bore themselves with great courage
during the entire evening, and were nerve
and game up to the time the trap was
sprung. The death warrants were read to
the men at eleven P. ", when the spiritual
advisers took leave of the doomed men.
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The Corn Fair opened at Vienna, Austria,
with good attendance. In the. crop esti.
mates for the world, America is credited
with 414, ,0O0, 900 bushels Of wheat and 1,6OO, =
O00 900 bushels Of maize against 491, 600, 900
bushels Of wheat and 2, 11S, 900, 900 bushels Of
maize in 1889. England Is credited with an
average yield.
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How an Ohio Miser Lived.

The death Of George Gilbert, which oc-
urred recently, reveals some strange
doings of the man, who was a con-
ermed miser. During the last fifty
gears he had lived alone, devoting his time to
having money, which he deposited in banks. It
was his boast that his living the year round did
not cost him to exceed three cents per day.
In 1855 he sold neighbora load Of hay for
E7. Gilbert punctually collected the interest
bach year, and last year he accepted the
principal, it having earned him over 500.
Gilbert leaves an estate valued at from
b125 900 to $3.50, 900, and has no relatives iv-
ing in this pert Of the country.
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A CHECK has lately been drawn by the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company
on the London and County Bank for 80, 250,-
800. This is supposed to be the largest ever
written, the famous Vanderbilt check for
Z k3, 500, 600 having hitherto stood at the head
Of the List. ...--.-...-.-.-..
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An Iowa Town Burned.

Fire the other night almost totally destroyed
The town of Oxford, west of Iowa City.
Nearly all the business part and many
private residences were burned. The Post
pfice, the bank, and many other buildings
were destroyed. The fire was of incendiary
brigin. The fire bell rope was cut The loss
k upward Of $50, 0OO