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INTO THE SEA.
A Balloon Ascension at Boston Results in
Two Fatalities.

A Balloon Ascension mt Boston Results In
Two Fatalities.
Boston July 8.-The balloon ascen
sion from the commons had sad end
ing, the aeronaut, Professor George
Augustus Rogers, of Maiden, Me-, meet
ing his death almost instantly, his assist
ant, Thomas. Fenton, dying later, and
the third occupant of the balloon being
now in the hospital suffering from the
shock and inhalation Of gas.
The Survivors, Story.
Delos E. Goldsmith. the only survivor
of those who assembled in the balloon,
told the story of the trip as he lay on a
cot in the hospital. He said: "When
the balloon rose in the air the sun was
declining, and the scene from the car
was beautiful. We all anticipated all
enjoyable trip. At first it seemed as if
the balloon would take a westerly
course, but strong wind from the west
suddenly arose and swept us towards
South Boston. It was soon evident that
we were heading for the harbor, 1t
was then that Professor Rogers said we
would land on Thompson's island. TIC
fail in this we knew meant to be carried
to sea. The professor seemed tc
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From the report in the Washington
Springs Republican of a Republican
ratification meeting:
Hon. b. G. Preston followed; and Of
ter paying a deserved compliment to
the veterans who had preceded him,
and acknowledging the pride with
which he arose to voice the sentiments
of Republicanisln, he proceeded with
one OF the ablest and cleanest'cut politi-
cal addresses ever delivered to "a Jer-
auld county audience. Mr.. Preston's
speech was Republicanism simple and
pure. No ranting, no abuse, no sensa-
tional outbu,'sts of a revolutionary or
anarchistic character; but q straight
forward, rational address, endorsing the
party's record for the past thirty years,
ratifying the denomination of President
Harrison and urging our people to
stand firmly by the representatives OF
that grand political organization that
had proven itself the friend of every
IlOyal American.
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APPoRTloMMENT MADE.
The Wisconsin Legislature Passes Bill.
Spooner's Scheme.

The Wisconsin Legislature Passes q Bill.
Spooner's Scheme.
MADISON, July Both houses of the
legislature passed the new Democratic
measure reapportio,ing the state into
senate and ssembly districts. No ma
terial chang were made in the bill. 1t
makes the legislature Democratic, and
insures the retirement Of Philetus Saw
yer from the United States senate, and
the election either of General E. s.
Bragg, j. L. Mitchell or j. H. Knight.
all Democrats, as his successor, pro-
.vided, however, that ex-senator Spooner
does not spring another surprise on the
Democracy. He is in the city, land while
1t is not generally known, it is a fact,
nevertheless, that he has formulated a
scheme to have the SURE ne court de-
clare that all the state senators chosen
in 1890, and who hold over till 1894,
were elected under u fraudulent gerry
mander and therefore their seats are
vacant. He says on the quiet that he is
dead sure of succeeding i'll such an event
as an entire new legislature will be
chosen next fall. This would be great
disaster TO the Democrats, who have
fourteen holdover senators, and it is on
these fourteen that they are almost
wholly depending to have majority on
joint ballot next winter. There is also a
hint that Spooner will attack the new
law on the ground that it, too, is uncon-
stitutional. If any action is taken by
the Republicans it will be very soon.
| Both houses were in session virtually
all day, and it was only at supper time
that the senate finally concurred in the
bills whice had been passed by the as.
sembly i'll the forenoon.
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Gen. Bidwell, the California million
aire whom the Prohibition party has
selected for it's standard bearer, made
his money raising and distilling grapes
into wine and brandy. Six or seven
years ago, according to California cor
respondent of the New York Press, he
married second wife, and his fortune
then being up in the millions, he re-
formed and quit manufacturing liquor.
He still raises grapes for the market, but
lets some poor devil with no prohibition
soul to save do the manufacturing.
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THE TWO PLATFORMS ON SILVER.

The New York Sun, in discussing the
silver planks respectively of the Repub-
lican and Democratic platforms, says
1t will be observed that while both
parties agree in demanding the use of
silver as money together with gold,
both likewise demand the maintenance
of the purchasing and debt paying pow
er of the silver dollar at an equality
with the purchasing and the debt-pay-
ing power of the gold dollar. This in
ferentially forbids the unrestricted coin
age of the silver dollar, because such
coinage would Immediately reduce the
purchasing and debt-paying power of
the silver dollar very much below that
of the gold dollar. The Republicans,
furthermore, explicitly ask that silver
shall be coined with such restrictions
and under such provisions, to be deter
mined by legislation, as will secure the
maintenance of the parity of value of
the two METALS" while the Democrats
insist upon such Safeguards of legisla-
tion" as will insure the same result.
Both parties, likewise, favor an inter-
national agreement upon par ratio of
value between silver and gold.
The Democratic party, in addition to
all this, goes further, and demands the
repeal OF the Sherman act of July IL,
1890, under which 4,5O0,00O ounces OF
silver are added each month, at their
bullion value, to the currency, and
asserts that "the dollar unit OF value OF
both metals must be of equal intrinsic
and eXchangeable value" as the first
means of insuring the equality Of the
power of the silver dollar with that of
the gold dollar
Both parties are thus precluded from
any legislation which will lower the
unit of value below that of the gold dol
lar, but the Democrats atfirmatively
promise, besides, q repeal of the act OF
July a. 1890, which is slowly working
out the result which the silver men de-
sire to produce Immediately by the un-
restricted coinage of silver. The Dem
ocratic position is. therefore, more fav-
orable to gold and less so to silver than
that OF the Republicans.
The Sun is probably more candid in
in its analysis than the trainers of the
Chicago platform will relish, but it's
conclusions are eminently correct.
The Republican party, as the party of
progress and in touch with the popular
sentiment, is prepared to go just as far
in the direction of an increased volume
of currency as is safe; while the Demo-
cratic party is retrograding even in
the face of the demands of the hour,
under the absolute domination OF Wall
street, whose choice above all others
for the presidency is Grover Cleveland.
And while the Republican party is
not prepared to go as far as some of its
free silver members desire it is certain
| ly taking that course which must COM
mend it to the great conservative body
of voters. Certainly the passage of the
Sherman law of 1890, the arrangement
of an international conference, and the
adoption of silver plank acceptable to
Senator Teller, if not indeed his own
handiwork, argues that the Republican
party is ever ready to move forward as
rapidly as the safety and stability of the
best interests OF the country will war;
| rant
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A Triple Tragedy.

SHERMAN, Tex, July 6.-H. M. Pierce,
farmer living near Pottsboro, in THU
(GraysoD county, suspected Morgan H.
Pack, his farm hand, and Mrs. Pierce of
being intimate. Monday, Pierce shot
Pack dead with rifle, and then cut his
wife's throat. After committing these
crimes he lay down by his wife's side
and cut his own throat.
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The controversy over the election Of
a grand master of the A. o. U. w. for
South Dakota was taken in hand by the
Supreme Lodge at its recent meeting in
Helena, and another election has been
ordered. This is considered victory
for Mr.. Gerner, and in accordance with
the decision, the Grand Lodge A. o. U.
w. will convene at Redfeld OH August
Sd, for the purpose Of electing Grand
Master. Mr.. Corners friends arc conf
dent of his reelection.
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Had a Marrow Escape.

OTTUMwA, Ia, July 6.-Passengers on
the north bound train on the Keokuk
and Des Moines branch Of the Rock
Island had miraculous escape. Just
after the train had passed over the
Sugar creek bridge, six miles from this
city, the structure collapsed. The
heavy rains bad washed out the abutt-
ment, but the crash did not come till the
last coach had passed over.
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Botll Wcre Druwned.

NEW RIcHLAND, Mimi, July g.
James Holmes, a young farmer. of the
town Of Freedom, Waseca county, and
his nephew, Eugene Holmes, were
drowned in the Little Cobb, on the farm
of the former. The elder lost his life in
trying to rescue the drowning boy.
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No Clue to the Murderer,

LEXINGTON, KY, July 6-Granville
Leech, a prominent and wealthy citizen
of Rock Bridge county, was murdered
on the public highway near historic
Goshen Pass, a lonely locality. He was
shot in the head and back. There is no
clue to the murderer.
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Efforts to Fuse in Iowa.

Dies MONIES, July 6.-An effort is be-
ing made to unite the Democratic and
Peoples party in this state. The pro-
gramme is to give the Peoples party the
electoral candidates and the Democrats
the state ticket. The matter has been
brought up in Omaha in a quiet way.
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who was mentioned. Weaver has been
anything and everything in the past
twenty years to get office, and is now
the fitting representative OF party
which has gathered all the fads and
follies of the universe into it's platform.
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Champeny Bros. Department Store.

was terrible wound IN his head, and
hole torn clear through the left chest
The loss to the Wabash railway is .est1-
mated to be in the neighborhood OF
100000.
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Had His Hand Blown of.

ST. PAUL, July e.-James H. Burns
editor and proprietor of the st. Paul
Herald, had his right hand shot off by
dynamite bomb He held the bomb too
l,ng, and it exploded in his hand. The
llnl was amputated at the wrist.
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1sifth Victim Recox.red.

WABASH, Ind, July 6.-The body of
Frank Moore. the fifth of the victims of
lie Wabash wreck Sunday night, was
taken from the debris at p. IN. There
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Gen. Weaver is the fourth presiden-
tial candidate this year to be nominated
on the first ballot
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-29
WHISPERS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss Maude Stone, Of Cincinnati, is
the young lady after whom Maud S
was named
Lady Tennyson, whom the poet mar
ried in 1850, was niece of Sir John
Franklin. For nearly forty years size
has been more or less of an invalid.
Adaline Iveson has taught fifty sue
cessive years in one of the public schools
in Cambridge, Mass. She was trained
for her profession in the first normal
school opened in that state.
The new Duchess of Sutherland, one
of the youngest women to wear the
ducal coronet in England, is member
of the Writers club and a contributor
to the literature of the day.
A piece of tapestry, the work of Miss
e. j. Stearns, of Washington, has been
hung in the rotunda of the Capitol at
Washington. 1t represents General
John A. Logan rallying the troops at
Atlanta.
Mrs. Robert Anderson, the widow OF
Major Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame
lives quietly in Washington. Among
her possessions are the flags that were
on Fort Sumter when Major Anderson
defended it.
Four thousand dollars year apiece
are the salaries of the Countess de Nura-
sol, Miss Eta Hughes and Fraulein
Paula, who are respectively the Spanish,
English and Austrian governesses of the
infantas of Spain. Each receives, be-
sides her salary. home in the royal
household
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-29
FASHIONS FANClES.

Pretty belt buckles are made of Rus
sian enamel.
Gauntlet cuffs are worn ON all varie-
ties of sleeves.
The half handkerchief and the Nor
mandy are the most striking of the new
bonnet shapes.
A new glove feature is the cuff, which
is not gauntlet, but straight cuff,
made by pipings of contrasting color
white on dark tints, dark on light.
Fine broadcloth is used for expensive
capes. A bright canary color makes
one which is worth looking at. The
capes are of various lengths, but
whether long or short are topped by
cape collars, gathered or jaboted.
Velvet is used on even the coarsest
cloth. A favorite disposition of it is the
trimming Of the cloth cuff with a velvet
band sewed down on all edges, and a
big button at each end. If the velvet is
used to face the cuff almost to the back
no buttons are employed.
Much white matelasse is to be used
for opera wraps, and white and gold
passementerie fringe will be a favorite
trimming. White passementerie is Of
fered in large variety in the trimming
stores, and is so pretty that every wom-
an who looks at it will wish to find
some use for it.-New York Times.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-29
RAILROAD JorrlNes.

Several prominent men of Chicago
have organized the Chicago Elevated
Terminal road.
The Baltimore and Ohio VI going in
for supply of large capacity cars. The
company is now having built 400 3O-ton
hopper bottom gondolas.
An iron bridge will be built across the
Shenandoah river at Harper's Ferry,
Va, by the Harper's Ferry and London
company. 1t will have four spans.
Samuel r. Galloway has again been
chosen president of the Toledo. st. Louis
and Kansas City road; w. Il. Gilden,
treasurer. and M. l.. Crowell, assistant
treasurer and secretary.
President Newell of the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern, has authorized
the establishment of plant at Toledo
for the manufacture of compressed gas
for passenger train illumination. Sew
eral railroads will be supplied from this
plant.
The Globe Express company has been
quietly organized at Denver with the
avowed purpose of absorbing the Denver
and Rio Grande Express company and
securing the Wells-Fargo contract with
the Santa Fe road, which expires in Feb
ruary.
A number of twelve section compart-
ment cars have been introduced on the
limited trains of the Chicago and North
western, between Chicago, st. Paul and
Minneapolis. Each compartment is sup.
piled with lavatory containing hot and
cold water.
At the car shops of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, at Dover, N.
D., new style of car has been built for
the transportation of horses and cattle.
Accommodations have been provided
for twelve horses, and the car is so con.
structed that it can be hauled on first
class trains,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-29
An Excellent Idea.

"Keep close to me" mother was
overheard to say on ferryboat
Wednesday to her two children of
apparently nine and twelve. IF,
however, she went on, 1--WE should
get separated at any time today,
don't get frightened. Both of you
have money; get a policeman to help
you through the crowd and start you
for this ferry. Then take the cars
home. Ask your way often, and
though the experience may not be
pleasant you will come out all right.
This struck listener as very sensi-
BILE. Children at all grown should
have possible emergencies of this
sort suggested and arranged for, in
stead of, as is often the case, being
taught to consider that to be alone
in the city's streets is hopeless and
alarming strait.-Her Point of View
in New York Times.
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AROUND THE THRONES.

At forty-eight the Princess of Wales
is said to look like woman of half
those years.
Emperor Alexander has freed the Kali
mucks, of Astrakhan, from serfdom.
These rowing people are Buddhists. and
they number 100, 900 souls.
The Grand Duke Paul of Russia is so
tall that he is obliged to carry his bed
with him, as he cannot find one at any
hotel long enough to hold all of him.
Princess Marie Bibesco lately sue
ceeded in swimming the Hellespont-
Dardanelles straits--from the European
to the Asiatic shore, and thus ranges
her name alongside of those of the classic
Leander and the poetic Byron.
The king and queen of Greece are a
remarkably happy pair after twenty-five
years of welded life. The handsome
queen is daughter of the Grand Duke
Constantine, who was one of the hand
soonest men in the Russian court.
Emperor William of Germany has ap-
pointed Colonel Rossuer, who is one of
the few Jews in the German army, an
aid -de-camp on his own staff, as an inti-
nation of his disapproval Of the perse-
cutions 10 which that race is subjected
In the kaisers own realm as we'll as
elsewhere in Europe.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-29
Salvation Army Women.

The mother of the Salvation Army
was the wife Of General Booth. She
died several years ago. Four of her
daughters and two daughters-in -in-law
are active in the work. Kitty, the
eldest child, now a marshal and the
wife of Mr. Clibborn, has developed
the army in Switzerland and France
Emma, now Mrs Tucker, has found
her field in India. Eva and Lucy.
both still young, promise in time to
rival their elder sisters in usefulness.
Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth is the
daughter of a clergyman, and was
treated with great disfavor by her
family when she first enlisted in this
work. For time she served in
Switzerland, and was subjected to
much persecution.
AS the wife of General Booths sec
ond son and director of much of the
army work in the United States, she
is widely and favorably known in
this country. Mrs Bramwell Booth
is the wife of the generals Oldest
son. Before marriage she was a
Miss Soper. Her great work has
been the foundation of rescue
homes" which are the most success
full establishments of the kind ever
started in Great Britain. She is a
woman of fine linguistic and literary
accomplishments. London Letter.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-29
WAY HE WANTED THE MONEY.
The Horrors OF Homemade Haircu
Confronted Tim.

The HORRORS oil Homemade Haircut
Confronted Tim.
"Wby, no" said Mr.. Peck, the grocer,
in surprised tone, in reply to Benny
Bloobumper's request, III haven't any
work can give You just now. How is
ii you are asking for something to dol
A well dressed boy like you does not
often ask for an odd job"
"Oh, SIR" replied Benny, ''if you but
knew how anxious am to earn a quar-
ter you would surely give me few err
rands to perform"
"You can't be hungry, can your
"Oh. no. sir have had my usual
number of meals so far today"
"Do you want to give it to poor
widow or to a blind manY
mo. sir. do not now recall any
such poor unfortunates.
"Do you want to put'it in the mission
airy box?"
mo, sir My parents provide me with
money for that purpose.
"You want to go to the minstrel show,
perhaps?'
"You have not yet guessed my need of
the money, SIR"
"Then what in the world do you want
it forp"
"Oh, sir" replied the distressed boy,
"my mother said she would cut my hair
after supper tonight, and am extreme
ly anxious to let the barber perform the
work before that time"
"My poor boy" replied the grocer,
deeply moved, "come right in. I'll give
you quarters worth of errands to run. "
Which he did. William Henry Sivi-
ter in Harper's Bazaar.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-29

A young man living in Detroit started
out to rent flat, but at every place
advertised he was met by the question
"How many children" AS soon as hi
answered he was told that he could moi
have the fiat, as children were consid
cred nuisance.
Tired out he approached the last or
the list.
"How many in the family" asked the
landlord.
"Two-just two" was the ready an
swer.
The landlord was much pleased and
at once drew up lease, and the nex'
day the family moved in, and were
snugly settled when the angry landlord
came tearing up the stairs.
"What-what is this, sir? You have
cheated and deceived me. You told me
there were only two in the family"
Eyes, and told you the truth-s
family of two children"
"But you didn't say children.
"And you didn't ask me. What con
stitutes family, should like to know
If it isn't the children. You should be
more explicit in your questions, my
friend"
The landlord raved and fumed, but il
was too late, and it made him more
angry to know that he had set the traI
he fell into with his own hunds.-Detroit
Free Press.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-29
BRAINS VERSUS ssAury.
women Noted for Intellectual PoweI
Who Are -dopeiessly Plain.

women Noted for intellectual Power
Who Are .HopeIessly Plain.
One Of the puzzling things difficult
of solution in life is the persistency
of divorce between brains and
beauty. While it by no means fol
lows that a homely woman is always
brainy, or a pretty one invariably
devoid of intelligence, still it is true
that of all women noted for power
full intellect few have been other
tiise than hopelessly plain. Nine.
De Stael, the intellectual prodigy Of
her day, before whose wit even the
great Napoleon quailed, and of
whom he said, "She has shafts
which would hit man if he were
seated ON a rainbow" was totally
without feminine grace save only
the charm of a low, melodious voice.
One famous word portrait describes
her as a ''priestess of Apollo, with
dark eyes illumined by genius, and
marked features expressive of a des-
tiny superior to that of most WON
en-, /" which is of course only an orna-
mental way of saying that she was
not fair.
George Eliot's biographers seldom
attempt personal description, and
shirk the issue by saying that she
had large, massive, homely fea-
lures" which were at rare intervals
softened by q smile of great beauty,
Her head was colossal and masculine,
her hair coarse, brown and bushy,
her brow high and full, but her body
was frail and delicate. And this
powerful woman, whose writings
have influenced all modern thought,
was given over to the woman 5 weak
ness of shedding tears necessarily. 1t
is hard to reconcile the fact with her
other characteristics, and it, like her
second marriage, are things her adj
nirers like to forget. Lady Mary
Montague, she of the exquisite let
ters, was a most untidy and slovenly
woman, with face hideously SCARED
by smallpox and distressingly home
ly. She said herself that the only
reason she was glad she was woman
was because she would never have to
marry one.
Margaret Fuller was quite the re-
verse of pretty, save for her grace
full carriage, though her admirers
were given to rapsodizing about her
neck with its swanlike curves. An
interesting fact about literary wom-
en- and one pleasing no doubt to
brunettes is this, that almost all in
tellectual stars of feminine lore were
dark in ype.-New York Sun.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-29
Rewarded by the Queen.

Queen Victoria, when girl, was
passionately fond of climbing walls
and trees. One day at Malvern she
climbed a tall apple tree, and was
unable to get down, A young man
named Davis, gardener, was at
tracted by her cries, got ladder
and brought her down in safety,
Deeply grateful, she opened her
purse and presented him with a
gainea. Davis nicely framed it, and
ever since has been proud to tell the
tale and show the piece of gold that
the queen gave him SO many years
ago. London Tit Bits.