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Foreign.

The Messrs Merry, one of the largest mus
lin and calico firms of Glasgow, Scotland,
have failed. Their liabilities are enormous.
THE Perseverance cotton mill, situated
near Bolton. Lancashire, England, has been
DESTROYED by fire. Thirty thousand splndles
were ruined.
THE King and Queen of Denmark were en-
tertained at luncheon on board the American
cruiser Baltimore at Copenhagen.
THE Sultan has surrendered to Germany
for the sum of 81, 900, 900 his sovereign rights
over that portion of the East African Coast
which is leased to the German African Com
paay.
THE Italian torpodo-boat burst her boiler
and foundered at SEA. Three ohcers anu
fifteen sailors were drowned.
MUNICIPAL elections in Belgium resulted in
victories for Liberals and Socialists.
The olive crop at lara, Delmatia, was de-
stroyed by hail storm.
CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON,
the traveller and African explorer, died at
Trieste, Italy.
Mr.. GLADSTONE travelled to Scotland to
open his election campaign.
The Argentine Congress closed after adopt
ing the Government bill to cenvert the pro-
vincial foreign loans into ~ per cent.
national loan.
THE cholera has extended from Persia to
Bagdad, and is destroying many victims.
A CROWD Of farmers laborers at Schulz,
ireland besieged the Board of Guardians de-
maudinp work or bread, on account OF the
failure Of the potato crop. The Board re
plied that the law did not permit outdoor re-
1ief
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WASHINGTON.

Mrs HARRISON. wife of the President, has
accepted the presidency Of the recently or
ganized society known as The Daughters Of
the American Revolution
MAJOR y, c. SEYMOUR, connected vita
the United states Signal Service. at Calves
ton, Texas. died after one days illness. He
was a native of England. He was ffty-eisht
years old.
PETE MCCARTNEY, tae greatest counter
feiter the world has ever produced, died
few days ago in the Columbus iOhio) Peni-
tentiary, wnere he was serving out ten
years sentence
THE population OF South Dakota $ an
nounced by the Census Office as 327, s4S, an
increase since 1880 of 229, $50.
FUNERAL services for Justice Miller were
held in the Chamber of the United States
Court, and then the body was taken to keo-
kuk, Iowa. E1-Secretary Belknap was
buried in Arlington Cemetery VITA military
honors.
PHILIP CARROLL, Of New York, Consul at
Palermo, Italy, and Mr.. II. c. Pugh, OF In
diana, Consul at Newcastle, England, have
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Killed an italian SusD sct.

Thomas II. Duffy, a newspaper reporter,
and brother Of Prize Fighter John Duffy,
called at the parish prison in New Orleans,
La, and asked to see Antonio Scoffidi, one
Of tic prisoners arrested il connection with
the murder cn the day before of Chief Of
Police Hennessy, for the purpose, he said, Of
identifying him.
A keeper brought Scoffidi in the corridor,
when quick a. flash Duffy drew a pistol
and saot the prisoner in the neck, inaicting O
mortal wound. Drfy was arrested and
Scofidi was conveyed to the hospital.
Scofidi, at 1.3O P. NJ, was In the act Of
making a confession Of dying de- claration at
the hospital when Catholic priest, Father
C'NeiI, was announced to minister to the
dying man. That cut short the confession.
Over forty arrests have been made Of sus-
pected ,nurd.rers Of the dead chief.
that the leading papers of Rev Orleans have
editorials urging that the law be allowed to
take its course.
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TEMPERANCE.
WHAT'S IT GOOD FOR?

WbAiS . II GOOD FUN!
What's it good for-beer or whisky,
Good to make fellow frisky,
Good for burns and chills and VIII sezes,
"Good, they say, for oil diseases
Rather funny, il it's true~
Alcohops base deceiver;
It will "coop you in fever,
Warm you when you're blue and chilly
Ever hear of thing so silly?
Why, it's nonsense through and through.
What's it good for? If blessing,
What it does will need no guessing,
Old Aunt Chloe, at her baking,
Says, her yellow turban shaking,
'Good for misery, Pm shore"
Yes it's very good to make it;
1t will fill you df you take it,
Full of poverty and sorrow,
Leave you far worse of tomorrow
Than you ever were before.
It has draped the world with curses
Worse than rags and empty purses;
Given thirst, but not for learning;
Kindled everlasting burning
"Good for misery" we own.
But there's one more thing it's good for
Pills and pottage; you will find it,
Spite of "prejudice" behind it,
Very good to let alone.
Jessie Nacgre9or, in Times. Democrat.
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TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Important Late Dispatches
Cleaned From the Wires.
James Maxwell's Bravado on the
Seafold at Morris, III.

James Maxwell was hanged at 10:47 on
recent morning at Morris, ILL.,, for the
murder Of Charles Decker in June last. He
died apparently the most unconcerned man
in the town Of Morris.
The murder was the result Of Maxwell and
a coiored man being discovered about mid
night on June IS by Decker in the latters
house for the purpose of robbery. Decker
was killed BY blows from hatchet.
When the Sheriff showed some evidences
Of trepidation at the task before him, Max
well said:
Brace up, old man. You are much more
troubled about this than am."
parent relish that morning. His spiritual
advisers received severe shock when they
went in to administer the lest words Of
consolation to him. An enterprising
reporter had been before them, in the
guise of minister with the idea OF getting
an interview. When the newspaper repre.
sentative began to question him as to his
spiritual welfare Maxwell threw off the re-
ligious mask which he had hitherto worn
and drove his visitor from him with string
Of curses Of the most profane sort.
When the Sheriff began to read the death
warrantin trembling voice Maxwell inter-
rupted with:
s'Stop that CAB, Shredder, and let us get
through this thing as soon as possible"
His wish was complied with and he was at
once conducted to the gallows. A brief
prayer was offered, the prisoners arms and
legs were pinioned and the moose adjusted.
The Sheriff asked Maxwell if he had any
thing to say. His reply was complaint
that the Sheriff had put window in the
snanty in which the execution took place,
so that the crowd outside could see him.
The Sheriff then cut the cord and the body
fell. In six minutes Maxwell was pro-
nounced dead.
Just before leaving the cell Maxwell
handed the Sheriff big knife. telling him
that he might have killed himself half
dozen times il he had wanted To.
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$l5,O0O,O0O IN SIGHT.
Wonderful Strike of Gold Reported
in the Great Sheridan Tunnel.

Wonderful Strike of Gold Reported
in the Great Sheridan Tunnel.
A telegram received from Telluride, Co.,
says: Telluride is ablaze with excitement.
Flags are flying, men cheering and every
body is off for grand holiday. The great
Sherman tunnel has struck the vein AMI de-
veioped large body OF ore OF very high
grade. The tunnel was commenced il No
vember, 1857, and has been run $50 feet az
a cost of nearly $780, 900.
Manager Waters says that calculating OIL
a basis Of what the mine has done in the
past, this strike puts Sl5,000,0G0 in sight.
The ore struck by the tunnel carries brittle
silver and copper, and runs high in god.
There is no such mine in the world. The
vein is owned by the Sheridan Company for
5000 feet linear on the surface. It has been
developed the entire distance and has pro.
duced nine.tenths OF the output OF San NJ
gucl County for the past eight years.
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Collision Of Freight Trains.

When the Wilson Point freight train on
the New Haven and Derby Railroad rounded
q curve on the Botsford branch Mt Round
Hill Brook, Conn, the engineer, Fred Shep-
herd, saw Immediately in front Of him the
Botsford freight standing on the main line.
Before he could slow up his gine crashed into
the caboose, splitting it in two like an apple,
smashed the next car into kindling wood,
and then left the track, falling on its side.
The five cars following it mounted the engine
and fell over badly wrecked. Engineer
Shepherd jumped and escaped uphurt. Fire
man William Norton jumped and struck on
a heap of railrord ties. His face shoulder
and side were badly hurt He was taken to
his home in New Haven, where he lies at the
point Of death.
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A Town Marshal Assassinated.

s. E. B. Vogelsapg, the town marshal Of
Falmouth, KY, has been shot and killed.
The murder was brutal and cowardiy. Vogel-
sang was just entering the gate Of his homo
when an Unknown assassin fired. The mar
shall fell dead with double load of buckshot
in,i,is breast and fsce.
Several persons heard the shot and rushed
into the house. Oscar Downward, a livery
Stable keeper, is sknown to have had grudge
against him and is suspected Of the murder,
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EIGHT MEN PERISHED.
A Steamer of the Lake Superior Tran
sit Company Burned.

The steamer Annie Young, of the Lake
Superior Transit Company, took fire and
burned to the waters edge of Lexington,
Mich. The steamer Ed Smith went to the
rescue and brought thirteen of the crew to
Detroit. The rest of the crew, eight mon,
took to the yaw and were drowned. She had
a cargo Of coal aud merchandise. The boat
was built in Detroit in 1869. She was G93
tons burden and valued at $50, 900. The mate
was badly burned about the face and hands
He was taken to the Marine Hospital.
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The retail prices Of meat in Prussia ara
higher than since 1851. At that date beef
was twenty-seven cents; por.1, twenty-nias
cents; veal, nineteen cents, ami mutton,
tweaty-siz cents per kilo two pounds 3A
ounces). This year the prices ara twenty
nine cents for beef and mutton, twenty-ssyen
sants for voal, and thirty-two cents for pork
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ANDREW CARNEGIE. the well-Inown iron
and steel manufacturer, has gained control
Of tho newly-found manganese mines, located
on the south side of Cuba, and is 2ow labor
ing to establish line of flrs1-class steamers
to carry the product from Santiago de Cuba
to Philadelphia for shipment to Pittsburg
aud other points where his large plants arr
located.
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Four Killed by q Train.

A terrible accident occurred on Ene
line of the Chattanooga, Role AMI
Columbus Railroad. Four persons were
Killed, thres instantly. \ south.bouni
passenger train left Chattanooga on time:
and was running at moderate rate of
speed. Approaching Chickau'auga, Tenn;
as the train dashed out o, cut covered
wagon was upon a crossing. Tho engine
struck the wagon, and killed ]. w. jenkins,
his wife and baby and Mrs. James bowman,
all of Walker County, Tenn.
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ANet to Catch Torpedoes.

simultaneously with the arrangements for
the manufacture Of the Whitehead auto
mobile torpedo in this country the Navy De-
partment has adopted an improved torpedo
net, which will be Supplied to all the armor
clads.
This is an American invention, and as it
has not yet been patented, at home or abroad,
the department officials are not at liberty to
give out much information concerning it. 1t
is said, however, to possess many advantages
over the French net now in general use in
European navies. II is to be manufactured
: at some place in the United States.
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Gored to Death by a Bull.

Gothardt Smith, a prosperous farmer of
Caledonia, Wis. was iu his pasture driving
the cattle to the barn. when he was attacked
and gored to death by bull. A neighbor's
son heard the mans cries and tod his father,
but aid did not arrive in time to save Smiths
life. He was Horribly mangled by the bulls
horns and hoofs.
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The News Killed Him.

William Budd, a prominent farmer end
President of the Farmers Alliance in Boone
County, Ohio, started from home to prevent
his wife from applying fora divorce. Word
reached him just before he arrived at
Lebanon Inat she had made the application,
whereupon he dropped from his horse dead
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CHOPPED-UP HIS FAMILY,
A Berlin Builder Mutilates and Kills
His Wife and Three Children.


His Wife and Three Children.
perlin, Germany, is excited over horri-
bic tragedy just discovered by the police. A
builder of the mama of Schaaf, living in
Peinckendo.f, suburb Of Berlin, horribly
mutilatei and killed his wife and three of his
children with hatchet, and terribly injured
two others of his five children, who may die.
Schaaf was builder who grew wealthy
during the recent boom OF Berlin real estate.
Ee gotinto financial difficulties, losing nearly
al of his fortune, and was hard pressed by
creditors. Fearing proceedings in bank
ruptcy, he became n,arly insane, and of late
had shown signs that he was out Of his mind {.
In this condition he suddenly attacked his
WIFE and children early that morning. Their
cries for help were unheard by their neigh
bors. Schaaf has disappeared.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

The number Of strikes is not decreasing.
THE maltsters have reorganized their un.
lon.
BELGIAN bricklayers work sixteen hours
1day.
TIE Confectioners' Union is twenty-five
years old.
AN eight hour movement has been startel
N Mexico.
DowN-EAsT textile firms will shut down
10 reduce production.
THE Federation Of Labor is boycotting
tenement-hoIse cigars.
THERE are now three organizations ol
@orkingwomen in Toledo, Ohio.
ABOUT fifty union men hold public Offices
N New York city and Brooklyn.
ALL the coachmen and street car drivers
IN Havana, Cuba, have gone on strike.
MORE than 5000 stonemasons in Berlin,
Germany, are without work or money.
THE labor troubles continue to be source
Of anxiety in various parts of the world.
TIE organized tin.miths ara about to
lorn school Of instruction for pattern cut
ting.
HARD times this winter are anticipated at
Ottawa, the chief center of the Columbian
! lumber trade.
A PITTSECRG locomotive f el has volun.
tarily adopted the nine-hour day without
reducing pay.
In Can ada the farmers anI the Knights
of Labor are looking to a closer ailiancs be-
tween the two.
The shortage OF railroad-cars has cut
down mill production very materially in the
Pittsburg district.
THUS far no European uation ms passed a
law limiting the time Of the labor OF adult
male workingmen.
The letter carriers and postoffice clerks Of
New York city and vicinity have started an
eihgt-hour movement.
4 MOVEMENT is on foot in Chicago to con-
solidate all the various branches oe the car
penterS and joiners into one large union.
The total number Of strikes reported in
the United States during September was
6fty-four; the total number OF strikers 6l47.
THERE has been notable decline lately in
the salaries paid to women photographers,
stenograpaers, and typewriters in the Eastern
cities.
THERE are in Paris and tho Department OF
the Seine 10000 persons, chiefly women,
engaged in the washing and ironing estab-
iShmentS.
THE locomotive fremen have discovered
that strikes ere expensive rastimes. Their
Order owes $4,000 that was borrowed to
help out the Burlington strikers.
THREE of tie strongest bodies Of mechanics
in New York are not connected with any
central body. They are the bricklayeri
piastercrs and locomotive engineers.
THE Clothing Operatives National Union,
of Boston, recently addressed a letter to
Governor Bracket, Of Massachusetts,, stat
ing that New York tenemeut-house manu-
factured clothing is carrying germs of dis
ease into the homes Of that Stete.
OFFICIAL statistics show that 100000 per-
sons are out of employment in Lombardy,
10000 in Piedmont and $1,000 in Romagna
and Southern Italy. The condition of most
Of these unfortunoteS borders upon destlttl-
ton, and the results Of the industrial stagna-
tion are likely to be very serious.
SHAN DAULET, q Koelem fanatic, ispreach.
ing a Holy War in Afghanistan for the ex-
pulsion Of tie Russians from Central Asia.
He is creating much excitement among the
Mahomme1acS Of that region and has many
adheTents. who have armed themselves with
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TIE Government has advanced tho sIil-
lard Great Western Railway Company of
Ireland 81. 0Ot t0G) for the purpose Of enabling
the company to build lines to connect the
coast with inlanl markets in ths distressed
districts of Ireland.
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OVER $50, 600 bottles Of champagne valued
at $4OO, 900, ware sent to Now York by
French speculators to forestn the operations
OF the new tariff law.
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DURING the year 1880 something like $780,
900 pounds of prepared or smoking opium
was struggled into the United States, and
enue tax Of s., ,S00. 900.
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Killed at q Crossing.

I'M. Poitras was fatally injured and Ca.
mila Beaudois, his niece. was instantly killed
by train while attempting to cross a rail-
road track at Montreal Canada, in wagon.
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A New Transatlantic Mail Record.

The Postoffice Department has received in
formation Of a remarkable piece of work ac-
.complished with the American mali arriving
at Queenstown, ireland, on the Inman liner
City Of New York. The vessel reached
Queenstown early in the afternoon.
Her mails were removed and sent
by a special train to Dublin and Kings
town. From there they were transferred to
Holyhead by special steamer, aud thence
again by q special train to London, where
they were delivered early next morning.
This is the first time that American mails
have made London OH the morning OF the
seventh day after leaving New York.
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RAILWAY TRAGEDIES.
A Series of Fatal Wrecks, Col.
lisiOns and Accidents.
Seven People Crushed to Death in
Kentucky Tunnel,

A disastrous collision occurred early in
recent morning on the Cincinnati Southern
Railway, in tunnel a quarter Of a mile
north of Sloans Valley Station, Kentucky.
Seven men were killed and number Of
others were more or less seriously hurt.
Following is list Of the killed: c. l..
Deegen, mail agent, missing; supposed to be
burned to death; = Gould, fireman. Lud-
Albany, N. Y; - Payne, commercial
traveller for Pierson & Clark, of Louisville;
both legs crushed and died; John Prinlott,
engineer, Detroit, Mich; Ed. Ruffner, ex-
press messenger, Bond Hill, near Cincinnati;
- Walsh, fireman, Somerset, Ky.
The trains involved were freight No. %,
north bound, and passenger No. 5, south
bound, which leaves Cincinnati at eight P. n.
Another passenger train leaves Cincinnati
an hour earlier. Both these were held at
Somerset, KY, two hours or more on account
of a freight wreck, which occurred south Of
that place. When the track was clear the
foremost Cincinnati train started out FROM
Somerset first and met and passed safely the
north bound train. Then at a safe distance
behind it the fated No. started out.
Freight train No. % was side-tracked at
Sloans Valley. When the first Cincinnati
train passed south the crew OF tae freight ap-
pear to have overlooked the TACT that NO
was to follow, and they pulled out and started
northward.
Less than quarter of mile away they
entered tunnel which is one sixth Of mile
long. In the most hopeless place that train
men ever meet death the engines Of the two
trains dashed into each other, and the cars,
following, jammed into each other in mass.
Then came the added horror Of conhagra-
ton.
The burning Of the trains in the tunnel
rendered it impossible to clear the track as
readily as it could be done on open ground,
the smoke and hsat preventing men from
entering.
The initial cause of the collision was
wreck which occurred the same night at
Elihu Station, two miles below Somerset,
Ky. A mixed train was stopping to learea
car, and had not yet got into motion, when
freight came up in the rear and struck the
rear car, causing a serious wreck. Young
Mr. Payne, O commercial traveller for the
firm Of Pierson & Clarke, Lexington. KY,
had both legs crushed, and has 'ince died.
Fortunately, the passang:r train had not
entirely gone into the tunnel when the crash
came, and so tie three sleapers which did
not leave tho tracks served as q means OF
escape for the passengers. These sleepers
were detached and drawn away from the
burning train, but the baggage car, mail car
and two coaches were burned.
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Fog Obscured the Signal.

A bad wreck occurred on the Union Pa
ciflc Railroad short distance west Of the
suburban town Of Armourdale. Mo. A
freight train had left Kansas City ahead
Of the Union Pacific passenger train, and
was stopped west of Arnourdale on
account of an accideno to the
trucks of one Of the freight cars. The Union
Pacific passenger train, which followed close
behind, was stopped, and fagman was sent
back to warn an expected Rock Island east
bound, which uses the Union Pacific track
into the city.
On account of the heavy fog, the engineer
of the Rock Island train did not see the flag
mans signals until too late to stop the train,
and the locomotive crashed into the sleeping
car "Wathena" Of the Union Pacific train.
The en- CINE was complete wreck, and the
engineer was buried beneath the debris. The
fireman jumped and saved his life. Several
passengers and trainmen were seriously IN
jured.
The following is a list of the injured: Pat
Cullen, engineer Of the Rock Island train,
probably fatally injured (he lives in Topeka,
kan.); John Cuff, fireman, severe injuries
about the head and shoulders; Edward Jack
son. co,ored porter, of Edwardsville, Kan,
both legs broken; j. q. Grayson. Pullman
conductor, left leg badly hurt; j. F. Kin
new. Chicago, severe bruises in back; j. A.
Lapschire, Lincoln, Neb, right knee badly
cut; John Driscou, Osaqua, Kan, LETT leg
broken below the knee; c. j. Avery, Spring
fielJ, H., special census agent, back hurt
and bruised about the body.
A wrecking train was at once sent to the
scene of the wreck, and the injured were
taken to Kansas City and taken to the Sis
tcrs' Hospital. The track was cleared about
noon. The damage to the company is esti-
mated at $50, 900.