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GEORGE NEsr1NaHorsE does not nut

GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE does not put
on the air-brakes in the matter of ex-
penditures-on his new cottage at Lenox,
Mass. The cottage is being built en-
tirely of marble, and already over
100000 have been expended on the
property. large marble building is
now boing erected in which the electric
light plant will be housed. Eighty men
are kept constantly EMPLOYED.
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GENERAL MIDDLETON, the command
er Of the Canadian militia who was
censured by Parliament for question
able transaction involving the transfer
Of valuable furs belonging to citizen
of Manitoba during the Riel rebellion,
has resigned his post.
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
ElEIY.ElRsr coNaREss.

V1F t'rtnSJ OON0HeSSs
TUESDAY, July & The conference
report on the silver bill was discussed
in the Senate. Petitions were present.
ed from many States praying for an ac-
knowledgement of Almighty God and
tho Christian religion in the constitu-
ton OF the United States. Memorial
exercises were held in respect to the
memory of the late Representative s. s.
Cox. OF New York. In the House the
Senate amendments to the House bill
for the admission of the State of Wyo-
ming we're concurred in. The Missis-
sippi contested election cases were de-
cided in favor of Messrs Catchings and
Hooker, Democrats. A bill was intro
duced to establish public schools in New
Mexico, and the bill giving army nurses
pension of $13 month was favorably
reported.
WEDNESDAY, July 9.-In the Senate
the sundry civil appropriation bill
($S1, 241. $500 was reported and the silver
bill was further discussed. The pre-
siding officer Senator Ingalls) an
nounced his signature to the bill for
the admission of Wyoming as State.
In the House a resolution was adopted
calling for information on the negotia-
tions between Great Britain and the
United States on the Behring sea ques-
ton. A favorable report was made on
the bill appropriating $50, 900 for pub
lie building at Wausau, Wis.
THURSDAY, July 10.-The conference
report on the silver bill was adopted
in the Senate by vote of 80 to 26.
In the House the journal was approved,
after long discussion, by vote of 1o3
to 81. The conference reports on the
diplomatic and consular and the agri-
cultural appropriations bills wore
adopted and the land grant forfeiture
bill was further considered. A concur.
rent resolution was introduced provid-
ing that the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House be author
lied to close the present session of the
Fifty-tirst Congress by adjourning their
respective houses the 31st day of July,
1890, at 2p. m.
FRIDAY, July ia resolution was
introduced in the Senate calling for
an international conference to estab-
llsh uniform standard between gold
and silver. The bill to establish a
United States land court was discussed.
In the House the conference report on
the silver bill was presented, and ia
vorable report was made on a bill to re-
vive the rank of Northumberland of
the army.
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A TERRIBLE famine prevails in the
Soudan. Food is so scarce that the ma
tives have revived their ancient prac-
tice of cannibalism. They are not only
eating the bodies of the dead but are
killing each other for food
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FROM WASHINGTON.

HE Navy Department on the 10th
ordered two war vessels to proceed to
Central America to protect American
interests and subjects in the event of
war between Salvador and Guatemala.
THE President on the afternoon of the
10th approved the act for the admission
OF Wyoming as State of the Union.
In the United States there were 1917
business failures during the seven DAYS
ended on the 18th, against 17s the
previous seven days The total number
OF failures in the United States from
January to date is 5,7o2, against 1886
in like portion of 1889.
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AtLakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis
che other day two men employed in
packing graves found, about fourteen
inches under the surface, tin box
which contained two bank deposit
books, one on the Farmers Savings
Bank of that city and the other on the
ST. Paul Savings Bank, the two show.
ing deposits of $3.50, made in 1877. The
books were taken to the banks and the
deposits found intact, with interest due
for thirteen years. No one could OK.
plain why the books were buried.
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Brought Home for Burial.

The remains Of Mrs. George G. Howe
arrived at Faribault recently for
burial. One week ago Mr.. Howe and
family started for Waterville, Wash.
When near Drummond, Mont, thew
met with an accident whereby Mrs.
Howe lost her life. Miss Benson, who
was travelling with Mrs. Howe, was
somewhat injured, but she was able to
return to Faribault.
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To Make Binding Irvine.

The State Board of Prison Managers
in session recently authorized the
warden to advertise for bids for ma.
chinery to be used in manufacturing
binding Irvine from fax and hemp.
They also authorized the warden to ask
the farmers for bids for supplying the
flax and hemp. The machinery will
produce 2,00c pounds of Irvine in ten
hours.
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Nineteen Bodies Recovered from I'll
Wreck OF the Steamer TioRa at Chicaxo

Nineteen Bodies Recovered from the
Wreck of the Steamer Tioga ut Chicago.
CHICAGO, July 1.-THE explosion on
the Tioga Friday evening killed not
fifteen persons, as was at first sup.
posed. but at least twenty, and the
list of fatalities may reach thirty.
Seven dead bodies were recovered
Friday evening, six on Saturday, an6
six more were taken out Sunday. One
of the injured men died at the hospital
Saturday, so that the number of recov-
cred dead up to midnight last night was
an even twenty. Seven men known to
have been at work on the boat are still
miasinp - Icy
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An Express Company's Loss.

CHICAGO, July II. The Northern
Pacific Express Company's office, 81
Dearborn street, was robbed of 81, 4OC
Saturday night. Two of the clerks
were in the office at the time
working on the books. Three thousand
dollars that was in the safe was un.
touched, but the money drawer was
smashed open and the $1.40O which il
contained was taken out. The clerks
claim to have been overpowered and
chloroformed by three masked men.
Their story is looked upon with sus.
picion.
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A KANSAS doctor recently reported to
mis- medical society case oflead poison
ing, which he attributed to the patients
habit of putting the end Of his lead PEN
Gil in his mouth.
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REV MR. STURGEON inherited large
sum of money recently from an admirer
in an English town, but distributed the
entire amount among the testator's poor
relations
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A Disastrous Fire at Philadelphia Causes
Loss of About 46OO,OOO

PHILADELPHIA, July 14.-Fire here
Sunday caused a loss of over half mill
ion. II. T.. Atkinson's turning and
planning mill at Tenth street and Sus
quehanna avenue was first destroyed
and most of Atkinson's lumber in the
yard opposite. Then the fire spread tx
Carey Bros five-story wallpaper fac
tory, occupying an entire block 800 by
120 feet, and soon this was in ruins
Carey Bros. estimate their loss at $780,.
900, and Atkinson at $S5, 1000. The loss
on adjoining property will bring the
total up to about $500, 600.
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THE FAST

AT Pittsburgh, N. Y, on the Sth,
several lives were lost and an immense
amount of damage was done in short
time by wind-storm.
IN New York on the Sth over 5000
starving, locked-out cloak-makers pa
raded the streets, and the spectacle of
so many pale, hungry, poorly-clad men
and boys was sight that would never
be forgotten.
A CYCLONE wrecked q portion of the
village of Winthrop Me-, on the sth and
the wife of Chester II. Shaw was killed.
On the 9Th storm broke over Mead
vile, Pa, and trees were blown down
in all directions and the roads were
blocked everywhere. The damage in
the country was great.
On the 9Th the United States Book
Company, with capital of SO, 500. 900,
was incorporated at Trenton. N. j.
AT New York on the 9Th the ther-
mometer reached 100, the hottest for a
number of years. Many persons were
Frustrated.
Mrs. ELIZABETH WHITE died on the
9th at Newburyport, Mass, aged 1o1
years and Z months.
A FIRE destroyed the little town of
Roseville, Pa, on the 9th.
NINE men were drowned during a
terrific storm on the 9Th at Balls Bluff,
N. Y.
The death of General Clinton B.
Fisk occurred at his residence in New
York at 1880 a. m. on the 9th in the
62d year of his age. He was for years
identified with the Prohibition party
and was it's nominee for President in
1858.
AT Mount Washington n. j., the
mercury marked 81 degrees above zero
on the 9th, and ice formed in all ex-
posed places.
HENRY Powers was nominated for
Congress on the 9th by the Republicans
OF the First Vermont district.
AT railway crossing near Owego, N.
Y, a carriage was struck by train on
the 10th, and Mrs. Cleveland, widow OF
ex-Sheriff Cleveland, of Tioga County,
Mrs. James Shay and Mrs. Avery Whit
marsh were killed.
EDWIN Holt, living near West Mil.
ton, N. f., became suddenly insane On
~ injured his mother.
On the 18th the centennial anniver-
sary of Methodism in Boston was cele-
brated.
Mrs. THOMAS BEAHAN and Mrs. Hen
ry Van Duser. who were injured in the
recent accident near Owego, N. Y,
where three ladies were killed, died on
the 18th.
The Connecticut Prohibitionists will
meet in State convention August 10 al
Hartford.
Mrs. JAMES WILLIAMS, living near
Fair Haven, VT, while insane on the
18th, murdered her two children-a girl
of II and a boy of 6-set fire to the
house and cut her own throat. Her hus.
band was killed in his slate quarry two
weeks ago.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AT Osaka, Japan, fifty-nine people
were drowned recently during the
launching of a new sailing vessel.
By cyclone in Arabia on the 9th
over 700 persons were killed, and i'm
mense damage was done to houses and
plantations.
The German explorer, Dr. Peters,
reached the coast from the interior of
Africa on the 9th. He was we'll.
On the 9th the Argentine Republic
issued 500, 600, 900 in paper money to
ease the financial strain.
DISPATCHES of the 10th say that a fire
at Kirin, Japan, destroyed one-fifth Of
the city and caused loss of So, O0O, DOC.
Ten lives were lost.
THE cable connecting Bermuda with
Canada was completed on the 10th.
A NUMBER of Armenian peasants at
Alakiles who failed to pay their taxes
were burned alive recently by Turkish
Zaptiehs.
ADv1CEs of the 10th stated that Fort
de France, town of Is, 900 inhabi tants
on the west coast of Martinique, French
West Indies, had been almost totally
destroyed by fire and that many lives
were lost
AT MADAM, Russia, flames on the 18th
destroyed $50 houses, and 329 dwellings
at Wassilkervo. At each place seven
persons lost their lives.
THE cholera epidemic in Spain was
steadily decreasing on the 18th.
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A NEW electric brake, recently ex-
perimented with in England, stopped a
car travelling at a rate of thirty miles
an hour in two hundred feet.

SPEAKING of brief names, there il q
family in France named B. one in Bel
GUM named o. a river in Holland called
the Y and q village in Sweden named A.
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Where Arc You Going2

Wien do you start1 Where FRONT Howmany
In your par - What amount Of freight OF
baggage l,;.ve soa7 What route do you preferr
Ui,rn receipt Of IN answer to tho above ques.
tious yen vii! be furnished. free OF expense, with
ses aov Il ss fatss; sac
viii ss.ve trouble. time and money. AGENTS will
call in person where necessary. Parties not
yea ~ TO tnswer above questions should cut out
End pre,ervs this notice for future reference. 1t
NAY become useful. Address C. II. WARREN.
1.neraa Passenger Agent. St. Pacl, Nina
be0d esR nsU 49, al 1orthveeA
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nauge0 AZ fOrt smith, Ark, Tor killing
his wife last August.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were on
the 9th as follows: Iowa, Second dis.
trict Bruce T. Seaman (Rep.); Third.
D! Il Henderson (Rep), renominated.
Illinois, Eighth district, Lewis Stewart
(Dem.).
THE Louisiana Senate on the 9th
adopted a report Of the judiciary com.
mittee which declared that the Cover
nor's veto of the lottery bill was with.
out right or authority aud returned it to
the House of Represent atives.
FLAMES destroyed one Of Brooks,
Waterfield & Co.'s tobacco warehouses
at Cincinnati on the 10th. causing .
loss of $135, 600. - *.
AT Calloa, Mo-, every business house
except one was destroyed by fire on the
10th. .--..- -.
THE Independents Of South Dakota
in State convention at Huron on the
10th nominated . full State ticket
headed by II. L. Loucks for Governor.
The Congressional nominees are F. c..
Zipp and A. A. Leavitt.
On the 10th George u. Perkins was
nominated for Congress by the Repub-
licans of the Eleventh Iowa district,
and Owen Scott (Dem.) was nominated
in the Fourteenth district of Illinois
Four negroes were killed and six
wounded, one fatally, in race riot at
Stars mill'pond in Fayette County,
Ga, on the 10th. Eight white men
were also shot, one fatally.
MRS. WILLIAM C. GORDON, a wealthy
widow of Warsaw, Ind, and William c.
Evers, a young man about the house,
were fatally burned on the 10th by an
explosion Of gasoline stove.
GEORGE w. SHAW, of Eau Claire,
Wis, was elected Supreme Chancellor
at a meeting of the Supreme Lodge of
the Knights of Pythias in Milwaukee
on the 10th.
THE Republican State Committee of
Virginia on the 10th advised members
of its party to refrain from voting under
existing State election laws.
The Louisiana House on the 10th
adopted the resolution of the Senate de-
claring that the Governor had no power
to veto the lottery bill by vote of 81
to ~, and the PRONUNCIATION of the bill
was intrusted to the Secretary of State.
The Legislature then adjourned sine die.
The Democrats of the Sixteenth Ohio
district on the 18th nominated John G.
Warwick for Congress, and in the Third
district of Minnesota the Farmers Al
lance nominated w. w. Gable.
A FIRE in the village of Ithaca, Mich,
on the 18th destroyed twenty-eipht
houses.
The National Educational Associa-
ton in session on the 18th at St. Paul
elected w. r. Garrett president and ad-
journed sine die.
The death of David Walton, an old
Virginia slave, resident of Pella, a.,
occurred on the 18th at the age of 112
years.
On the 18th Benjamin Butterworth,
of Ohio, was elected secretary of the
Worlds Colum bian Exposition.
ALT COOPER (colored) was hanged at
Birmingham, Ala, on the 18th for the
murder of jeff Googer, and Edward D.
Gallagher was executed at Vancouver,
WASH, for the murder of Louis Mar last
November.
OVER dozen persons were killed in
battle on the 18th between Mexicans
and natives at Ysteta, Tex.
BY an explosion on the big freight
steamship Tioga on the river in Chicago
on the 18th fifteen men were killed and
eight injured.
FLAMES destroyed the businss portion
OF Lamar, COL, on the 18th.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Twentieth Judicial District Court

On Friday, January g.. 1890, the f,lle " ;np
resolutions were ordered spread upon the
minutes. viz:
The Court notes with high approval the
resolutions OF Praise ard cunds,enee tender.
ed ny the bar upon the occasion Of the death
OF our deceased brother.
When a goud man dies 1t ia very proper
that more than passing notice of his depart.
ure sii"nid he taken; Tor it Is 4 serious loss
to the community and especially to these
with whom he lAbored.
Eugene w. Blake was couspjcuous ar n
mar aud bee well and worthiiv tile burdens
0 fhfe.
Tue records Of this Cont are fuII Of bis
workmanship IN alms-t every capacity from
the lowsstt to the hi.h,.t. In ali this work
Including in Il period VI more than forty
years. and embracing his life from box reed
to mature naIihord, not one flaw can be
found which could, III any wav. im,,earh h;s
character AS adv o'ate, counsellor or man.
IL Is gwen Ia few 81 us to have this much
said ot Ms and sail Faithfully.
The lite of eur dead frienni is enc which we
can All Take I" heart rs most worthy of emu.
lttlon AMI li; Reputation he has made sh.uJd
be cherished by friends and family AN mars
10 We desired tt!ail monumental brssses.
We know of no one to whom can he more
truthfnliy applied the words of the English
language: HE bore, without reproach- tbr
grand OLD maine OF gentleman"
IN MEMORIAM.
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a Letter from Mrs. Davis.

Mayor Ellison, of this city hi,
city, this morning received . @letta,
from Mrs. jefferson Davis in reply t.
a request that the body of her hus-
band might be buried here. Her LET
ter Is dated Beauvoir, Miss, Dec. q.
In it she says:
IL gratitude for the manuer in
which the people of Richmond sus-
tanned him during the war, his atfec-
tion tor her citizens and pride in tle
calm fortitude of her men and wn~
men under crushed defeat. were to he
the moving cause only, | might Law
nm there nnquestioned but the state
OF his birth kentucky and the state
OF his adoption, which showered every
honor upon him within her Gift mis-.
Slslppl) the state where the confed-
eraey first unfurled her flag (A,a-
hama, the state in which his parents
spent their early life, and where bis
father was born and where my bns-
band has received many ~Ionors
tDeorslal the state i'll which we
found friends and home, and where
our dead repose ~(Tennesseel. and
last but not least, the state which now
gives HIM sepu'chre amid the tears
and plandits Of her people Louisi-
ana)-all these have put forth claims
streng that cannot choose amonm
them, and have decided to wait per,
maps a year before making IA selec-
TO rest in the same soil with onr
immortal heroes, General Robert +
zee ana Stonewall Jackson, is IA phi
'iiege FULLY appreciated, and | should
the last to undervalue the honor.
out when the final decision must he
made, cannot be unmindful of those
VINO have done me the honor to claim
ne custody OF my dead, and | ber
TO have patience with me for q
!"
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Wouldn't be Photographed.

\ Philadelphia tour st stoned Of,
at North Yakima recently. As usuaI
there were scattered along the prin.
cipal streets groups of Indians in FIJI
dress of buckskin legcincs. rod
blankets. feathers and green paiut
The tourist wandered ON until h.
came face with Il chief. With an en-
clanatlon OF satisfaction he pulled his
Kodak in front of his face and .hont.
ed
Ugh. Ugh. Bad medicine. Pie
ture no good. Bad medicine"
The tourist only laughed and per
sisted.
The chief stepped forward and
pushed the Gamers to ore side. The
tourist gave the chief shove. and
got Il blow in return. Three or four
white men came to the rescue of the
Pllladelphian, and several braves
gathered about the chief and mut-
tered, while n of the Youngest laid
his hand on a knife. There was n
parley, which ended in the Tourist
putting mp his Kodak and the chief
mounting his cayuse and going down
the street at full speed and will, an
occasional whoop toward the reserya-
tion.-Chicago Herald.
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a Vegetable Mystery in a Tomb.

In the beautiful cemetery at Athens
"a, stands ~ old tomb Of il famil,
once prominent. not only in the Clas,
SIC city. but i'll other cities and
throughout the State. lii it are laid
ut rest the bodies of several ancestors
Who once played prominent parts in
the history of Athens and the State,
says the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle,
Death Sights no family, though for a
timc ne may pass it by. A few wears
after the war the door of the last cold
resting place of the family vawned
FOR Il while and closed again on the
Increased dead who slept within it's
dark. cold recesses. For some wears
there were no deaths. and the silence
OF the tomb was unbroken. save for
the visits Of loved ones who knelt
without and offered a PRAYER for the
dead or paid loving tribute to their
virtues. 1T last death came once
more. Tire good old grandmother
t"WeG to the will Of time, and dear
ones gathered to pay their last res
poets The solemn procession wound
Its SLOW way to the cemetery.
The door of the vault opened
heavily on its hinges as it swlln~ back
to receive It's dead. A flood of cold
eif sunlight. filled the tomb. dispeu-
ing the gloom aud revealing Il strange
sight. There, creeping along the
wallis and Owe the %coffins. WAS =
white vine. Pure and pearly it stood
III bold reiief against the dark back
ground aud glistened i'll the sunlight.
But What most astonished those Who
It was its urn-shaped win1inrs
here was no ~mistaking the resem-
biaice. It was almost a perfect urn.
But the wonder did lot SION hero
Curling further on it formed an
family initial. Astonishment
ceased not here. 1t was a triple
mystery. and the climax was vet to
reached. The minister offered nm
prayer. "Aslles to ashes, dust to dustr
Those who were looking at the Whit.
saw it tlemble. then it shook and
Tell III fragments, scattering over the
Nffins OF the dead.