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ROYAL ARCH MAsoNs.
Convocation OF the General Grand Chapter
at Minneapolis.

COnvocatfOn OF the General OranU CA2pter
at Minneapolis.
The General Grand Chapter Royal Arch
Masons of the United States of America
held its twenty eight triennial convocation
at Minneapolis Mimi. The body is the
largest Masonic body in the world. having
a membership of IA, 901. 1t is also the
Oldest BODY in the United States, and it will
celebrate it's centennial in 1897. The adj
dress of welcome was delivered by Mayor
P. B. Winston and the response was by
General Grand High Priest d. +.
Day, of Buffalo, N. Y. The report
of the general grand scribe showed
that in two years the net growth of the or
der was IA, 942 The total membership now
is IA, 901. Since 1889, $1s6, 796 was collect
ed and $16S, O97 expended. There were 1909
enrolled chapters Interesting reference
was made to the growth of the order in
Asia. Mexico, and South America. The
grand chapter in Chilli had not been heard
from on account of the civil war. The
general grand high priest, in his address,
said that the grand chapters of Pennsyl-
vania, Virginia, and West Virginia, which
were still independent, would probably be
brought under the general chapter, as well
as the Canadian grand chapters, before the
cantenniaI
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back with them and warned the mob
that they would protect them at all
hazards Gov buchanan at once pro-
| ceeded to the seat of trouble and ex-
planned his position to the rebellious
miners. He told them that it was
his sworn duty to uphold the law,
and if the convict lease system was
wrong he was not to blame, and that the
only recourse of the men was through
the Legislature. The miners announced
that their families were starving and
that they were compelled TO drive out
the convicts If it cost the life~of every
man in the valley. They made all sorts
of fun of the beardleSs youths, but de-
clared they would not harm the spider
legged, cigarette smoking dudes," as
they characterized the militia, but that
as soon as the militia were withdrawn
they would release every convict in the
region. Becoming impatient, however,
at the delay in recalling the troops they
decided to try to overcome the soldiers
by force of numbers, and succeeded only
too well.
While there have been differences eX-
listing between the mine operators using
convict labor and the miners for years,
never did the people of Coal Creek and
vicinity feel that the State militia would
be needed to settle the differences be-
tween East Tennessee miners and con-
vict operators. But when it became evil
dent that another mine heretofore using
free labor was to be handled by the out
laws of the State there at once arose
mutterings of discomfort. Had the Ten
nessee Coal Mining Company not made
an effort to put in convict labor instead
of retaining the free miners, it is
thought there would have been no call
for troops at the company's mines. The
people could have endured the convicts
they had had to fight against for years,
but when it became apparent that more
free miners were to be displaced, and
work had to be sought elsewhere, a halt
was called. Indignation reached fever
heat, and but for the cool heads and
good judgment of the leaders there
would Soubtless have been oodshed.
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FARMERS WHEAT CORNER.
Alliance Scheme to Squeeze Spectators
and Traders in Grain.

Alliance Scheme to Squeeze Spectators
and Traders in Grain.
The headquarters of a national move
ment by the United States Farmers Alli-
ance to corner the entire wheat crop of the
United States is located at ST. Paul For
several days large force of employees has
been engaged in sending out circulars with
a view not only of having the Alliance men
of the United States but all classes of
farmers keep back their wheat crop until
the bears have all been killed off and prices
have been advanced to a high point. In
other words, the Alliance Press Bureau and
State Press Bureau are working together,
endeavoring to unite the farmers of the
United States ian gigantic wheat trust, in
which the producers shall be the stock
holders, and by which the spectators and
wheat buyers will be squeezed to the WALL
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per, to fit into similar notches cut in
the log below, and in that which was
to be placed on top. So each corner
was formed by these interhcing and
overlapping ends. The logs were
piled up, one above another, just as
children build "cob houses" from odds
and ends of playthings. Cabin build
ers do not say that a cabin is certain
number of feet high; they usually say
that it is ten logs high, or twelve logs
high, as the case may be. When the
structure is as hig as the caves are in
tended to be, the top logs are bound
together, from side to side, with small
er logs fitted upon the upper logs of
each side and laid across as if they
were to be the supports of floor for
another story. Then the gable-ends
are built up Of logs, shorter and short
er as the peak of the gable is ap-
preached. and kept in place by other
smaller logs laid across, endwise of
the cabin, and locked into the end of
each log in the gable until all are in
place. On these transverse logs, or
rafters, the roof is laid. Holes are cut
or sawed through the logs for the door
and windows, and the house begins to
look babitable
The settlers on the Republican Fork
cut the holes for doors and windows
before they put on the roof, and when
the layer of split shakes that made the
roof was in place, and the boys bound
ed inside to see how things looked,
they were greatly amused to notice
how light it was. The space between
the logs was almost wide enough to
crawl through, Oscar said. But they
had studied log cabin building enough
to know that these wide cracks were to
be "chinked" with thin strips of wood,
the refuse of shakes, driven in tightly,
and then daubed over with clay, fine
bed of which was fortunately near at
hand. The provident YouDkins had
laid away in his own cabin the sashes
and glass for two small windows; and
these he had agreed to sell to the new
corners. Partly heWn logs for floor
ioists were placed upon the ground in
side the cabin, previously leveled off
for the purpose. On these were laid
thick slabs of oak and hickory, riven
out of logs drawn from the grove near
by. These slabs of hardwood ere
"puncheons," and fortunate as was the
man who could have floor OF sawed
lumber to his cabin, he who was
obliged to use puncheons was better
off than those with whom timber was
so scarce that the natural surface of
ground was their only floor. - st.
Nicholas.
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LaughaD1e or Logical.

SODA fountains are fizzica1 neces-
sity.
MEMBERS of boating club should
always be true to its scullers.
ATHLETES say it is easier to jump a
board fence than board bill.
CHARACTER is to intellect what a
locomotive is to train of cars.
TINE wasted in fault-fnding can be
better employed seeking profit.
NEVER ask woman her age, unless
you desire to witness her rage.
MISERY travels on free pass; hap
piness always has to pay for q ticket.
A VULGAR merchant is gross sir,
and a vulgar woman is gross her,
too.
ADAM was proudly conscious that he
never made mistake in his bovhood.
A GREAT financier is thief who sue.
ceeds. A thief is great fnanc1er
who fails.
IT seems odd that flying debtor
should cross the ocean to avoid the
bill loves.
IT is an unblushing fact that the
ROSY cheeks of the modern city belle
are due to art.
WHEN a man despairs of success,
the devil will be on hand with words
of encouragement.
ANOTHER 1.astodon has been found
in a swamp in New Jersey. Apple
lack has not been abolished yet in that
State.
AN enterprising New Hampshire
woman has been drawing four pen
sions as Mrs. Smith, which was not
her name at all.
a DUEL1sT never selects second
without hoping that he may prove to
be the man for the hour. Make a
minute of this.
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FIFTY PER SONS KILLED.

An Excursion Train Wrecked just Outside
of Paris, France.
Just out of Paris, France, a collision be-
tween excursion trains occurred at st.
Maude, in which fifty persons were killed
aud 100 wounded and three carriages
wrecked Both trains were returning from
a musical festival at Fontenoy. The guards
van and the three rear carriages of the
first train were wrecked and caught fire
from the gas. Most of the dead victims are
Iegless, their limbs having been crushed off
through the jamming together of the seats.
The driver and fireman of the second train
were burned alive. 1t isTeported that the
stationmaster has gone mad and decamped.
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EARLY DAYS.
Building Log Cabin on the Desolate
Frontier.

Building a Log Cabin ON the Desolate
Frontier.
Log-cabin building was great fun to
the boys, although they did not find it
easy work. There was certain nov
city about the raising of the structure
that was to be home. and an interest
in learning the use of rude tools, that
lasted until the cabin was finished.
The maui and the wedges. the frow
and the little maui intended for it, and
all the other means and appliances Of
the building were all new and strange
to these bright lads.
First, the size of the cabin, twelve
feet wide and twenty feet long, was
marked out on the site on which it was
to rise, and four logs were laid to de-
fine the foundation. These were the
stills of the new house. At each end
of every log two notcKes were cut. one
on the under side and one on the up
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SEVEN KILLED AND SCORES INJURED
A Freight Crashes Into an Excursion Train
Of nTiAd1ofnvun Ohio

A Freight Crashes Into an Excursion Train
at Middletown, Ohio.
While the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton excursion train of fourteen cars was
returning with the National Cash Register
employees from picnic at Woodsdale Park
a freight train crashed into it at Middle
town Station, Ohio, killing seven persons
and injuring fifty more. The excursion
train broke a draw-bar while pulling on the
siding, and in the delay OF repairing
freight train came along and ran into the
next to the rear coach, causing the awful
disaster. The breaking of the excursion
train couplings was caused by one of the
excursionists pulling the air brake cord for
n Joke
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thy of the public in the future as we'll as in
the past
g. And we do hereby express thanks to
Governor Buchanan for the kind consid-
Grafton in holding the militia in this city
and thereby preventing conflict that might
have resulted in blOodshed
4. And to the committee Of citizens we
also express thanks for the interest they
have shown by their counsel and advice in
their efforts to adjust the existing difficult
ties. JOSIAH L. THOMAS,
j. w. HARDIN,
S. r. PICKERING.
S. +. MOORE,
w. L. SMITH.
We the citizen committee. hereby approve
of the above DENNIS LEAHY,
WILLIAM RULE,
J. O. J. WILLIAMS,
D. A. CARPENTER.
This ends the trouble in the mining
districts The militia were drawn up at
dress parade and orders read releasing
them from strict discipline. The orders
were received with tumultuous cheering,
for the troops did not relish a week or
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ELLIOTT BREAKS LOOSE.

Sensation in the Murder Trial a: Column
bus, Ohio.
w. J. Elliott, on trial for murder at Co
lumbus, Ohio, caused u sensation by calling
Prosecutor Huling liar, when in his argu-
ment he referred to charges against a
female member of Elliotts family. Elliott's
lawyers tried to stop him, but he wildly
gesticulated and continued: "If hangY
want to hang like gentleman" The Sher-
if seized him at this juncture and forced
him into chair
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ELOPED WITH a GAMBLER.

A Wealthy Pennsylvania He:ress Unites
Her Fortunes wi Handsome Harry"
At Shamokin, Pa, a sensation has been
caused by the elopement of "Handsome
Harry" the king of Pennsylvania gamblers,
and Miss Lizzie Johnson, daughter of Law
yer Johnson, who for forty five years was
Register and Recorder of Montour County,
and who died nearly year ago. leaving
500, 900. Miss Lizzie is a beautiful bru-
nette, a graduate of the Boston Conserva-
tory and q favorite in society. Harry
Lattimer has long been called the king Of
gamblers. He has won and lost thousands
OF dollars
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Tragedy Among Criminals.

At Topeka, Kan, tragedy was enacted
at the State penitentiasy. While returning
from divine service two colored convicts
happened to be together. One of them,
through accident or designs, kept stepping
on the heels of his fellow convict. fight
ensued, during which the offending con-
vict was thrown or pushed to the stone floor
beneath, distance of thirty feet. He soon
died.
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN TEXAS.
3. WiIkerson May BE Lynched Because of

B. Wilkerson aGay BE Lynched Because of
His Infatuation fora Stepdaughter.
About a week ago H. b. Wilkerson eloped
from Bolton, Texas, with his stepdaughter
He was arrested at Lorena, Texas, and
brought back. The affair has finally Gull
minated in double murder. Wllkerson
shot and killed his wife and then attempted
to carry off the stepdaughter Her cries
brought some of the neighbors to her res
cue and as one of them, W. Hamilton, got
within ten feet Of him Wil1erson leveled
his shotgun and shot him dead. Wilkerson
will be lynched if caught
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CONVICT WAR rs OVER.

Miners Agree to Keep the Peace and No
Blood VIII Be Shed.
The Tennessee convict war is over, at
least for the present The law will be en-
forced without resistance and the dignity
of the State maintained. A telegram from
Coal Creek says everything is quiet and
orderly, and the miners are rejoicing over
the peaceable ending of the trouble. The
convicts will return to work for the pres
ent and the miners will depend on the Leg
islature to repeal the law.
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At Ann Arbor, Mich, Mary Bauer, SER
want at the home of Charles w. Vogel, was
lighting gasoline stove when the gasoline
ran over and caught fire. Mrs. Vogel and
the girl were horribly burned, and both
died few hours later. Mr.. Vogel, who ran
to the assistance of the women, was badly
burned about the hands.
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Tennessee Ca,tl.men Comolain.

Cattlemen in Tennessee are indignant
and complain bitterly that notwithstanding
Secretary Rusk announces that there is no
quarantine against Tennessee cattle, still
their cattle are rigidly excluded from the
Northern markets except for immediate
slaughter.
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Ranl, Tbieves snatch sa. GOO.

At Akron Ohio, while George c. Berry,
Jr, cashier of the Werner Printing and
Lithographing Company, was answering a
decoy telephone call his assistant, Otto
Schoenduve, aged IS, swept So, 600 in green
backs and gold into basket ran through
the open door, jumped into two-horse car
fiage in which were two confederates about
his own age, and disappeared.
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CHOLERA AT MECCA.

Hundreds of Deaths Daily Reported
Among Turkish Pilgrims.
Advices from Mecca represent the cholera
as rapidly increasing at that place. On one
day recently 140 deaths occurred, followed
by $50 on'the next day. The mortality is
greatest among the Turkish pilgrims. The
Khedive has ordered rigorous measures to
prevent the inurod uction of the disease into
Egypt Not one Egyptian has as yet been
smitten with the cholera.
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A x n xvii | e
S pc CT VI say S:
When the situa-
tion looked to
those on the in
side more dan
gerous than at
any time S in C e
the beginning of
the Bri C ev lille
a gi t a til on, the
miners commit
tee met in a room
at the L a m a r
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j. E. GOODWIN,

j. Z. GOODWIN, ASST e. ON and HONORABLE
sUPT. OF CONVICTs. means to prevent any
interference with them
g Reposing confidence in our Governor,
and believing the General Assembly, when
they meet in extra session, will give us the
necessary relief from the oppression that
now hangs over US, we will endeavor to con-
duct ourselves as law abiding people, SO
as to maintain the confidence and sy mpa
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Have Recovered 14he Bodies.

The bodies of Captain Jennings and five
of his crew. who were drowned at the wreck
ing of the steamship Gree, have washed
ashore at AnticOSti
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FREIGHT CARS IN A HEAP.
Fatal Collision on tie Northern Central
Road at El1nira.

Fatal COIIsi0n on TIC NOrIhern CehtraI
Road at E1lnira-
A Lehigh Valley passenger train, while
crossing d switch near Elmira, N. Y, struck
q Northern Central Railroad freight train
With frightful force. The freight cars were
piled thirty feet in the air, the locomotive
stripped and thrown down an embankment,
and the tracks torn up for considerable
distance. The engineer. John Hopkins, of
the Lehigh train, was killed, and his fire.
man, NJ. w. 1illman, OF Waverly, and Bag
gagemaster John Daniels, of Wilkesbarre,
fatally injured.
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PEACE NOW RESTORED
FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE
MINING TROUBLES.

Successful Adjustment of What Might
Have Been Serious Matter-MIiitia
Sent ADMINISTRATIONS of the
Trouble.
Peace has been restored in the Ten
nessee mining regions, and the trouble,
which seemed about to necessitate shoot
ing down probably scores of miners to
uphold the law. has been adjusted.
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FOUR WERE KILLED.

Disastrous Collision the Denver and
Rio Grande Near Carlisle, Colo.
The narrow-gauge east-bound express
from Salida, Colo, on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, collided with the broad
gauge Salt Lake express going west a few
miles from Carlisle, Colo. The trains were
running at full speed and were heavily
loaded. The engine and front coaches OF
both trains were completely wrecked and
four persons killed
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Henry NJ. staulav Hurt.

Henry NJ. Stanley, the explorer, has met
with a serious accident at Muerren,
Switzerland, where Mr.. Stanley is staying
with his wife. The explorer fractured his
left lower thigh bone by accidentally slip
ping while mountain climbing.
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Dallas Loses Heavily.

At3Dallas, Texas, a fire broke out in J. B.
Cowan s. Co.'S big liquor-h house, spread to
the Benbrook School Company's place, the
Brewers Storage Company warehouse. and
Wolfe s. Co.'S cotton gin. The total loss
will foot up $780, 600; insurance, 5000. O00
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"stonewaIps" Statue Unveiled.

At Lexington, Va, on the thirtieth an
niversary of the first battle of Bull Run,
the statue of Gen. Stonewa1l jackson was
unveiled by his granddaughter, Julia
jackson Christian.
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SENATOR Ross Dead

Senator w. H. Ross, of the Cherokee Ma
ton, died at Fort Gibson, Of heart disease.
He was a half breed, 68 years Of age, and
was educated at Princeton.
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Give thn Gnvernment Time.

The appropriation at the disposal of the
Surgeon Generals office for artificial linn BIS
and for Communication where the pensioner
does not take the artificial limbs supplied
by the government is already exhausted,
and about 1900 pensioners will have to
wait for their Communication money until
after Congress meets
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Preacher Commits Suicide.

At Indianapolis, Ind, the body ofORev. ].
N. Wright was found floating ia the canal.
II is supposed that he drowned himself. He
was rs years old and was one of the Oldest
Methodist preachers in the State
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VIII Cultivate Figs.

Great interest is aroused among the pec-
pie of Pomona Valley (Cal) by the pur-
chase of 400 acres of land, with an option Of
800 more. for the purpose of planting the
largest fig orchard in the world.
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Women,s Homo MISSIONARY society.

The Women's Home Missionary Society of
America is holding its annu al session at
Ocean Grove, n. J.
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Crushed in a Mine Shaft.

At Pinelucky. coal mines, Ala, shaft
caved in, burying four miners under a mass
of stones and dirt When taken out Tom
Roundtree was dead, his body having been
crushed to a jelly.
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were presented
to the Knoxville
c o m M i t t g e of
citizens, and by
t h e m approved
and signed. An
interview w a S
t b g n had with
Gov. Buchanan
and At torne y
General Pickle.
To say that the
opportunity to
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DECLINES TO PAY THE RENT.

Ca1ifornia's Auditor in Doubt About the
Legality of the Fair Appropriation.
The California State Comptroller doubts
the. legislative act appropriating $500, 900
for CALIFORNIA; exhibit at the Worlds
Fair, and has in consequence refused to
draw his warrant for the amount due as
Office rent for the California Worlds Fair
Commission.
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Briceville and Coal
Creek. and in the in
tie r e s IT of harmony,
do submit the follow
ing, trusting that it
will meet with your
favorable conside Y
ton:
1. The status quo
to be restored, and
guards and convicts
not to be mOlested on
t b Q i r return to the
mines, and we will
use all ordinary eau
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cor. SEWER. oF M1L1rIA.

COL. SEWER, oF MILITIA. III ouse, and in
half an hour the trouble was ended.
The Hon. Dennis Leahy, at the begin
ming of the session, presented the draft
of series Of resolutions, which were
unanimously received. The resolutions
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The Only Ones Now Out.

The only countries now outside the
Universal Postal Congress are Cape Colony
and tho South African Republics.
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wrecked on Hone leland.

9Boss Bill" Tweed's old y'.cht Columbia,
in which the famous ringleader of New
York politics escaped from New York to the
Spanish main, was wrecked off Hope Island,
Bay
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Fired His Bedding.

At Woodstock, ILL.,, Anton Motll, an in
sane prisoner in the county jail, fred his
bedding and was burned to a crisp.
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hrea mon who sacprad a ooo ana

three men who secured $4,000 and made
good their escape. At the hour mentioned
three men entered the bank and while two
of them engaged the two clerks who were
on duty in conversation the third man
managed to get to the vault from which he
secured package containing $4,000.
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Nlurderer Ozburn Hanged.

Charles NJ. Ozburn was hanged at At-
lanta, Ca, for the murder of John NJ.
Bradley on May S, $780, The execution
took place in the county jail before about
forty witnesses.
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Want Peff,r tor President.

Kansas Alliance men are advocating
Senator PETER for the Presidential nominal
ton by the Peoples party.