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South and West.

THOMAS S. BococK, for fourteen years
Member Of Congress from Virginia, and for
four years Speaker Of the Confederate Con-
gress, died recently at his homein Appomat-
tox County, Va, aged sixty-six.
The New York and Chicago limited e1-
press Jumped the track, near Salem, Ohio.
The engineer and fireman were killed.
A CLERK in the clothing store of A. L.
Abraham e. Co. INDUCED in surreptltlous
smoke, at West Superior, Wis, and when one
Of the proprietors came in he hid the cigar
stub on table piled with clothing. Inc re-
suit was fire. and before it was suppressed
almost the entire stocS, valued at S4o,0oo
was destroyed.
GOVERNOR BUCHANAN, Of Tennessee. is
sued proclamation calling an extra session
of the Legislature for August 81.
JAoB. ESTES and Tom Lon :, who fought
duel in the northern part of Franklin
County, KY, election day, have died OF their
wounds. They were desperate men.
JUDGE OGDEN HOFFMAN, the oldest Federal
Judge on the Pacific Coast, died at San
Francisco. CAL, after four months illness.
THE National Forge and Iron Company,
of Chicago, ILL.,, manufacturers Of car a1les,
Ash plates and bar iron, etc., made an assign
ment The liabilities are $500, OOO.
CHARLES N1EMAN, aSeu IWeuIy, suoI auu
instantly killed George Nieman, his father,
at Cincinnati Ohio. The tragedy was the
elimination Of family dispute.
The oldest savings institution in Louis
vile, KY, the Masonic Savings Bank, has
suspended Liabilities over S1,OOo,OOO.
A FeIGHTFCL heat wave in North Dakota
seriously affected the wheat crop IN a dozen
counties
ALFRED DOWNING, President, and N. II:
Tollman, Vice.President Of the National
Capital Savings Building and Loan Asso-
ciation OF North America have been ar
rested at Chicago for using the mails for
fraudulent purposes. 1t Is charged that the
men conducting this association have
swindled thousands of people IRON every
State.
PORTIONS of Iowa have been swept by
furious tornado. Many houses were un-
rooted, and several fatalities occurred.
CAMP DOUGLAS, Wisconsin town, has
been almost destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
0OQ.
AN express train ran into freight train
uear Fort Wayne, Ind. The engineer and
fireman Of the express were killed, eight
freight cars destroyed and the baggage and
express cars OF the passenger train were
ditched.
WORK on the Wori Fair buildings IS
being pushed rapidly at jackson Park, Chi.
cago.
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BRINGING DOWN RAIN.
First Results of the Governments
Experiments in Texas.

A special from Midland. Texas, to the
Dallas Ne,cs says that the rainfall expedition
from the United States Department Of Agri
culture reached Midland and have so far
made two successful experiments. The News
reporter interviewed one Of the party, who
said:
Saturday and Monday last part Of the
rain-making apparatus only was set up and
the preliminary trial made simply to test
the efficiency of the special blasting
powder which is being manufactured at
the grounds from material brought
with US. Several bombs were ex-
ploded by means of electrical dynamos.
Although this powder is very powerful, we
were by no means confident that the explo-
sion would have any practical effect upon
the meteorological conditions. However,
about ten hours after the explosion clouds
gathered and a heavy rain fell, extending
many miles
',We do not think the explosions actually
produced the storm, as they were not on a
large enough scale, but they were undoubt.
edly instrumental in precipitating the
moisture which the clouds brought
to that locality and greatly increased
the intensity of the storm and the quan-
tity OF the rainfall, which was greatest
in the immediate vicinity in the place
of operation. We will continue cautiously
to make tests as to the density of the atmos-
phere in this particular locality, so that our
bombs may be adopted to meet every posi-
BILE condition, and when we have sufficiently
satisfied ourselves upon these similar points
the decisive experiment will be made. This
will not occur for several days.'
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
Death of the WeIl-Known American
Poet at Boston.

Death of the WeIl-Known American
Poet at Boston.
James Russell Lowell died few days ago
in Boston, of complication OF liver COM
plaint, aggravated by his age.
This well-known American poet, man Of
letters and ex-Minister to England and
Spain. was born in Cambridge Mass. on
Washington's Birthday, February %, 1919.
He was graduated from Harvard College in
1888. and studied law, opening law Office
in Boston in 1910. His literary career be-
gan with the publication Of his first volume
Of poems in 1871.
From the time Of the publication or his
first volume until his death Mr.. Lowell gave
to the world numerous volumes in poetry
and prose. The most CHARACTERISTIC OF his
prose works is 1.-THE Bigelow Papers" which
wGs inspired by the anti-slavery movement.
He passed the years 1851 AMI 1852 in Europe,
and in 1854 delivered course Of twelve lee
lures in Boston to large audiences. his SUBJ
ject being the British poets. In 1855 he was
appointed Longfellow'S successor to the
chair of Bellies Lettres in Harvard College,
and in 1851 he became the editor of the At
.ldntic Monthly In 1863 the editor OF the
North american RerieW.
In 1871 Lowell was appointed to represent
the National Government at the Court OF
Spain, all in 1850 he was transferred to the
Court of st. James. There, socially, he was
the greatest favorite who ever represented
the United States in England. After his
successor was appointed he spent much OF his
time abroad.
Mr.. Lowell was married twice-in 1S44 and
in 1851 His first wife died in 1858, and his
second in England in 1885. With his death
passes away one of the foremost OF American
poets and writer's.
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THE COUNTRY'S CROPS.
August Returns to the De.
partment of Agriculture.
Much Will Depend on the
Weather of This Month.

The August returns to the statistician Of
the Department Of Agriculture make the con-
iition of corn 90.e; spring wheat, 95.N spring
rye, S9.6; oats, s9.5; barley, 93.s; buckwheat,
97.3; potatoes, 96.5; tobacco, ss5: hay, 90 9.
Corn has fallen off two points during the
month, the decline being almost entirely in
the States Of the Ohio Valley and
the Northwest. The decline was due to
dry weather, approaching drought in por-
tions of Indiana and illinois, and low tenn
perature in all sections Of the corn surplus
districts. In the surplus States the averages
are: Ohio, 90; Indiana, Sa; Illinois, S.;
Iowa, 80; Missouri, 81; Kansas, SS; Nebras-
ka, SO. Il should be noted that only one Of
the surplus States returns an average higher
than the average for the country.
The wheat returns relate to spring wheat
only, the average for the whole breadth ad-
vancing somewhat during the month. The
improvement is general except in Washing
ton, where hot winds injured the prospect in
some districts. The State returns outside of
this State and Wisconsin closely approach
the standard for comparison. The principal
States are: Wisconsin, 79; Minnesota, SO;
Iowa, 95; Nebraska, 81; North Dakota, 10;
South Dakota, 9S; Washington, 90.
Oats have improved two points during the
month and the ngureS OF conolClon lnolcate
a medium yield per acre. Averages in States
Of larger production are: New York, go;
Pennsylvania, 81: Ohio, So; Michigan. &C.;
Illinois, So; Wisconsin, 80; Minnesota, "a;
Iowa, 9S; Kansas, 90; Nebraska, 96.
Barley shows improvement and promises q
large crop in most of the districts Of heavy
production. California returns condition at
loo, or practically perfect. In, New York
and Wisconsin, however, the prospect is less
favorable.
The first return for buckwheat is the
highest for eight years past, with slight In
crease in acreage.
The condition of potatoes is returned re-
markably high, scoring a. gain of point
over last month. III fifteen years previous
to the present season August shows con.
dition higher than July once only. Should
the present prospect be continued, the crop
will be one of unusual proportions.
The returns make the condition of cotton
ESQ for the whole breadth, practically the
same as last month. The improvement
during the month has been confined to sec
tions Of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
Mississippi, and Arkansas. In other portion:
of the cotton belt there has been decline IN
condition The fact that the crop is decided
" late over almost the entire breadth makes
the season during August OF vital impor
tance.
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THERE was furry in wheat speculation
on the New York Produce Exchange, price:
advancing about FIVE cents bushel and
5,0OO,0 900 bushels being traded in.
GEORGE JONES, chief owner Of tho New
York Times, died the other day at Poland
Springs, Me. He was born at Poultney, VT,
in 1911, and there he and Horace Greeley
worked together as boys for the same man.
Mr. Jones assisted in placing on sale the first
edition of the New York Tribunsand started
the Times in 1851.
JOCKEY MONAGHAN. fifteen years old, was
killed through injuries received while riding
at the Jerome Park New York City races,
and a similar fate befell Jockey Bushnell,
twenty ty-eight years old, at the Gloucester
IN. J.) race track.
MRS. J. ROBERTSON and her daughter
were murdered at st. Martinsville, La, by a
burglar.
LATE heavy rains in Kansas, Nebraska,
Minnesota and Indiana have saved the corn
crop.
ALL work on the Worlds Fair buildings,
at Chicago, has been temporarily stopped
because the foundations are not strong
enough.
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG. who. it is said, was
the oldest living Odd Fellow in the United
States, has just died in Salem, Ore, aged
eghty.nine. He was initiated into the Or
der at Buffalo, N. Y. in 1884.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MILLER has directed
an investigation to be made of charges Of
brutal treatment OF Federal prisoners con
fined in the Arkansas Penitentiary at Little
Rock.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has ordered an in
vestigation Of the reported seizure of the
Pacific Mail steamship City Of Panama by
the Government of Salvador.
M PArENoTRE, at present French Minis
ter to Morocco, has been appointed to sue
ceed NJ. Theodore Roustan as Minister to
the United States. NJ. Roustan will go as
French Minister to Spain.
The twelfth international convention Of
the Young Mems Christian Associations
opened in Amsterdam, Holland. About 500
delegates were present. 100 of them being
Americans. Count Won Hogendorp, of Hol-
land, was made President of the convention.
Brief reports of the work in different coun-
tries were made.
The Russian ukase prohibiting the export
of rye has caused sensation in Berlin, and
the price ofrye and other grains in Germany
advanced.
The Gladstonian candidate won the bye
election at Walsall, England, for Member
of Parliament
FOREST fires in the vicinity Of Toulon,
France, have destroyed more than 5000 acres
of woodland.
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Sketch of tho Career OF Captain John
Palmer


Captain John Palmer, who was elected by
the Assembly at Detroit Commander-in.
Chief of the Ora nd Army of the Republic.
was born on Staten Island, N. Y, March %
1s42, and removed in early manhood to AL.
bany, where he has been twice elected Com
mal'der Of the New York State G.. A. R.,
and has also been Senior Eice-Commander.
in-Chief.
His four years stevics during ths war es.
tablished his record as gallant soldier and
an efficient officer Comrade Palmer enlisted
in Company b, Nipety-first New York Vol
unteers, September 10, 1861, and during his
continuous service with the regiment In
camp an field was successively promoted
from private to Corporal-Sergeant. Ser.
geant-Major, Second and First Lieutenant,
Adjutant and Captain.
Captain Palmer is charter member of
Lew Benedict Post, G.. A. r., of Albany,
which was organized in 1861, and during its
existence has spent over s5u, 900 in charity.
He has been commander OF the post five
times, and he presided at the National En-
campment of the G. A. R. held at Dayton,
Ohio, while Senior Vics-Commander-in-
Chie:
He was cnairman of the committee ap-
pointed at the national encanpment to visit
President Cleveland and the heads of the
departments in Washington in the interest
of the veterans of the war; 1t was through
the e1ertions of this committee that many
veterans were retained in the public ser
vice.
Captain Palmer has carried on the bust.
ness OF boss painter at Albany for many
years.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States&

ISAAC VAN WART, grandson of Isaac Van
Wart Of Revolutionary fame, one of the
thros captors Of Major John Andre, the
British spy, died few days ago on his farm
at Westchester. N. Y. He was seventy-one.
AN inmate of the County Hospital, at
Reading, Penn, named Hiram Troxel eS-
capped from his attendants and drowned him.
self in water trough containing only IF.
teen inches of water. Troxeps face was
almost eaten away by cancer, and he was
driven to desperation by pain and hunger
He had eaten nothing for nearly a
month.
PHILADELPHIA has taken the first stsp TO-
ward the formation Of a naval reserve, in
imitation Of New York and Boston.
NORMAN CAMPBELL, a prominent mem
Der of the New York Consolidated Stock
Exchange, committed suicide with a pistol
in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Business
troubles drove him to the deed. Campbell
was about hfty-eight and had wife and
family.
w. E. ScHMERLz, President of the Third
National Bank of Pittsburg, Penn, has
failed for s233, 900.
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS HIRsE-
BECK rendered decision at Buffalo, N. Y,
to the effect that Chiuamsn smugSled from
Canada into the United States must bo sent
pdCh W Suiua hnL hoo w Sohoao, 90 'ASAoSo
fore.
JOHN UNIACK, driver, and his four-year
old son, Thomas met with violent death
in Brooklyn, NY, from the kicks Of horse.
ALVIN CRIMMINs. Of Danville, N. J., was
killed in a saw mill near Hope N. j., in a
horrible manner. He was caught fast in
frame and was drawn on to a circular saw
and his body was cut in two. The saw split
his heart In halves.
LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER OGLE, United
States Army. died suddenly in Pittsburs,
Penn, as he was being removed from the
Monongahela House to Mercy Hospital in an
ambulance.
G.. NJ. SHINN. twenty-seven years old, the
eldest son Of the Rev. DR.. e. w. Shlnn, rec
tor of Grace Episcopal Church, Newton,
Mass, committed suicide by cutting his
throat He had recently failed to get the
Government to adopt patent letter box OF
his invention, and was also despondent from
illness.
AN engine ran into a train loaded with
Italian workmen at Branford, Conn. in
juring ten of them. An unsuccessful at
tempt was made to mob the engineer by the
injured mems companions.
INTENSELY hot weather has prevailed in
many portions of New England and the
Middle States. In New York City many
cases of prostration through the heat were
reported.
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A Valuable Cow.

A gentleman living near Bueua Vista,
Ga, has a COW worthy of mention in
these columns. lie has made careful
calculation of the product of this COW
and it is as follows: Since she first be.
gan to give milk the yield in buttermilk
has been 1852 gallons aad 223l pounds
of butter, not counting the sweet milk
used by the family. Counting the milk
at ten cents per gallon and butter at
twenty-five cents per pound the value OF
this product would be $1003.95. She
is Of the common piney woods stock aud
was seventeen years old last June. This
cow Is still doing good service by Civ
ing two to three gallons of milk per
day. The gentleman says if the COW
was three years old, knowing what he
does, $3.50 would not buy her.-Atlaata
Constitution.
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Astonishing Smuggling Ingenuity.

"There is heavy duty on diamonds,
and one of the passengers had three large
stones, worth about $12, 900, which he
had purchased in London. The problem
of how to evade paying the duty on the
stones worried him considerably, but at
last he evolved plan.
"The chief officer had a little Skye
terrier, and the passenger, after consider
able coaxing, induced him to sell the
dog. AS soon as the smuggler gained
possession of the animal he tied him up
and gave him nothing to eat until just
before We were to 90 ashore. He then
procured some fat meat from the cock,
and, cutting off a piece little larger than
a walnut, made hole in it, into which
he placed one of the diamonds.
ga dog will generally bolt piece Of
fat without chewing it, and, Of course,
a diamond will 60 down with it. The
hungry dog swallowed the meat, as his
owner expected he would, aud in a short
time the three diamonds were safely
slowed away in his interior. The dia-
mond smuggler had no difficulty in
evading the vigilance of the Custom
House officials, and was soon on his way
up town, leading the dog by string.
81 met him few days afterward, and
asked him how he removed the stones.
Easily enough he replied. AS soon
as got home I shot the dog and found
the diamonds after a short search. OF
course was sorry for the dog, but dogs
are cheap, and the tariff on stones is
high, and I never allow sympathy to in
terfere with business. '"-Jeuelers' Week.
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4 FRIGHTFUL DISASTER.
Fall of an Excursion Barge's
Upper Deck.
Fourteen Persons Killed and
Forty More Injured.

Four hundred employees of Theodore Kay
ser'sdry goods establishment at 1877 Graham
avenue Brooklyn, went on an excursion
few days sincs to Cold Spring Grove. on
Long Island Sound. The steamer Crystal
Stream and the barge Republic left the foot
Of South Fifth street in the morning.
The trip was a merry one, and when the
party was landed at the grove every one
was in the best of spirits. After spending a
few hours in the grove the e1cursionists
made ready to return to Brooklyn at 4
o'clock. Just as the barge and steamer drew
away from the Cold Spring dock q big
squall sprang up.
The barge lay close to the pier head, and
was connected by a gang plank to the
steamer, which was fast alongside. The last
Of the excursionists was on board at 3: II
when the pilot gave the word to cast Off.
The barge was fast to the pier by three haw-
sers-one from the bow, one from the stern,
and one amldships. The forward and mid
ship hawsers were loosed and the bow of the
vessels pointed to midstream when the squall
came.
Rain poured in torrents and the sky be-
came black as night. An awning was low
cred from the hurricane deck Of the barge
and fastened to the main deck to keep out
the rain. A heavy gust of wind swept across
the barge, struck this awning and tore it
away. The force of the wind loosened the
hurricane deck on the side from which
the awning was swung. The excursonlSts
huddled together under it heard the crack
ing of the timbers and rushed to the other
side of the barge Every one became panic
stricken. Before q single person had
chance to escape from the barge the upper
deck fell. Fourteen persons were killed anu
forty or more seriously injured.
The scene when the deck fell was lnde-
scribable. Above the storm could be heard
the groans of the injured and the shrieks OF
women and children. Many jumped into
the foaming waters, s:ld it is believed that
some were drowned. During all this time
the crowded barge and steamer were tossed
about on the angry ses.
in few minutes rescuers came to the
assistance of the affrighted excursionists.
The debris on the barge was cleared away,
and the mangled bodies of the dead and
wounded placed on the dock. Physicians
were summoned from nearby places.
Then the wounded were carefully carried
aboard of the Crystal Stream, which con-
veyed them around to Oyster Bay village,
distance of six miles, where they were at
tended by several doctors The steamer then
returned and carried another load to Oyster
Bay, and again third load.
Eleven Of the fourteen persons killed were
women or children and three were men.
Robert Schluer, pilot Of the barge, was
among the killed. Among the injured were
several whose wounds it was believed would
result fatally.
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Washington.

THE Department Of State is informed that,
according to the views of the Minister Of
State Of Japan the subjects Of that Govern
ment, under the existing laws of the Empire,
will be unable to avail themselves Of the
benefits of our recsnt statutes relative to
copyright.
The President has appointed F. M. Wise
as Lieutenant Commander, Lowell K.
Reynolds and James G. Gilmore as Lieu
tenants, and William A. Gill as Lieutenant
Of the Junior Grade.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Pension
Office shows that during the month Of July
there has been issued 2S 107 pensions. aggre.
eating in first payments So, SIG, S55.23, Of
which the average to each pensioner was
Sl27.2S.
The President has appointed Richard Colts
Shannon, of New York, Minister Resident
and Consul-General to Salvador, Nicaragua
and Costa Rica.
A CONTRACT for 100 high-power guns has
been awarded to the Bethlehem Iron Com
pany, of Pennsylvania. The total cost i:
:3,5S0,373.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS has resigned his
commission as United States Minister a,
HaYti.
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BALMAcEDA and ths Chilian insurgents
have appealed to Spain to arbitrate, in order
to y,ut ON an IN tho war

BALMAcEDA and ths Chilian insurgents
have appealed to Spain to arbitrate, in order
to put an en- to the war.
A FATAL collision occurred at Davidstadt,
Russia, station on the Fl inland Rail ilwaY,
where passenger train dashed into milf
tary train. Two soldiers were killed and
forty-ei yht persons were injured. The
baggage car OF the military train was
wrecked.
INFLUENZA has again made its appearance
in Moscow, Russia, and is attacking people
in all classes of society. On the average
500 persons are prostrateG daily
The Salvadorian Government has confis-
Gated the Pacific Mail steamship City of
Panama at La Libertad for leaving La
Union without permit from the Captain of
the Port.
THE International Congress OF Hygiene
and Demography was opened in London by
the Prince of Wales, and the International
Geographical Congress began its session at
Berne, Switzerland.
EXCESSIVE rains, famine, typhus fever
and dysentery afflict the inhabitants of the
Magllra District in the Austrian Carpathi-
ans.
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Foreign.

SHORTLY after the steamer Alameda left
Sydney, New South Wales, Second Lieu
tenant William J. He e1ges, OF Her MaJesty's
ship Ringdove, jumped overheard and was
drowned. He had BEEN suspended from duty
for breach of discipline. and it is believed
that chagrin at this fact caused him to commit
suicide.
THE nun moth, whose ravages were
disastrous to vegetation in various parts OF
Europe some years ago, has reappeare1 IN
Westphalia, Germany, and is causing wide
spread havoc.
THERE is a tremendous rush Of gold seek.
ers to the new fields in Maslonaland, South
Africa.
THE Russian Imperial Council decided to
prohibit the expectation of corn from that
country, owing to tho bad harvest in Russia,
which has caused scarcity of this cereal.
AT Morien, Manitoba, lightning struck
tine house of Martens Killing. His wife was
instantly killed an the house destroyed. AT
Moose Jaw the wife of John McGinnis W a,
also killed by lightning.
The famous Tokay vineyards in the He
gala district of Hungary. htv, been raw
aged by phylloxera and almost entirely de-
stroyed.
AN aged woman was fatally stabbed and
cut in Whitechapsl, London, by man sup
posed to be Jack the Ripper" this making
the thirteenth victim of the mysterious as.
sassin.
THE London Chamber OF Commerce has
issued circular commencing the Chicago
Fair to English exhibitors, and advising that
high-class goods only be sent.
ALARMING rumors regarding the health of
Emperor William, Of Germany, are in circu-
lation.