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Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03
The News Of the Week.
BY rELEoRAPH AND NAIL,
FROM WASHINGTON.


ACTING MINT DIRECTOR Preston pur-
chased $4,000 ounces of silver, paying
therefor 69.60 per ounce, the lowest
price yet paid for silver in the history
of the government purchases.
INTERNAL revenue collections from
all sources during the last fiscal year
were $l61 ,OO2, 900, an increase of 81, 49,
900 over the previous year.
OF the $3.50 national banks in the
United States ninety five have sus-
pended payment since January /, 1898.
OF the latter number twelve have re-
sumed business.
EXPORTS of wheat from all United
States ports for the week ended on the
asth show total of 1858, 900 bushels,
against 5,O77, 900 bushels the previous
week.
BUSINESS failures reported in the
United States during the seven days
ended ON the 2Sth numbered 1856; in
the week preceding there were 467, and
during the corresponding time in 1892
the number was Ill.
The exchanges during the week
ended on the 2Sth at the leading clear
houses in the United States aggregated
sSs7, 9ss. 500, against $979, 445, ,234 the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1922,
was 1O.7.
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GOLD is COMING BACK.

Export Movement of Breadstuns and Se-
curities Begun Which Can Only Result
In Good to the Country.
New YORK, July 31.-A great deal of
encouragement is to be derived from
the fact that securities and staple
products are now going out from the
country in large quantities and
have already brought about re-
turn movement of the gold which
Europe has acquired from us during
the last two years. In the opinion of
bankers most competent to Judge of the
absolute requirements of Europe and
also of the temper of its investors, an
export movement of breadstuffs
and securities has begun, which is
likely to result in the return to this
country of s5O, 1000, 900 or more of the
gold taken from it during the last two
or three years. Imports of specie on
Saturday were $3.50, 600, aud it is learned
that 81, ,250, 900 more was secured ir
London for shipment to this city.
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IMPALED ON a LEVER.
Horrible Injuries Received by Young
Lady I'm Chicago Result In Her Doath

Lady I'm Chicago Result In Her Death.
8 CHICAGO, July 31.-A peculiar acci.
dent which resulted in the death Of one
woman and serious injury to three 9TH
ers occurred at the east end of the
Harrison street bridge Saturday after
noon. An open car approached the
bridge at good rate of speed. AS the
car struck the east end Of the bridge
the latter shook and swayed up and
down for moment. The heavy,
pointed hardwood Tightening lever at
the east end of the bridge fell from it's
fastenings and swung around directly
against the right side of the car.
Miss Nellie Riordan, of IA Selden
street, sat near the right hand outer
edge of seat near the middle of the
car, and the pointed end of the lever
struck her in the groin. passed through
her body, and made a hole in the back
of the seat in which she was sitting.
The lever extended 20 inches through the
body of the woman, pinning her to the
fragment of the seat left unbroken by
the fearful crash. The driver had by
this time obtained control of his horses
and brought the car to stop. Wit
nesses Of the accident ran up
and were Mortified by the fearful
sight presented by the impaled
woman. Blood was pouring from
the wound in her side and flowing on
the floor of the car. A physician who
was summoned from house near by
said the woman would bleed to death if
the lever was withdrawn from her body.
"A saw was procured and the lever was
sawed off two feet from Miss Riordan's
body.
The woman with a portion of the
lever still penetrating her body, was
conveyed to the county hospital. The
attending physician said she would
probably bleed to death as soon as the
piece of lever was removed. A
priest and her friends were sent
for, and restoratives were applied.
Miss Riordan regained consciousness
and was told that she would probably
soon die. She took farewell of her
friends after the priest had given her
absolution. The hospital surgeons then
removed the piece of lever from her
body, after which she sank rapidly
and in a few minutes died from loss of
blood.
The flying splinters made by the
bridge lever as it crashed through the
seats of the car endangered many lives.
A long, sharp splinter struck Miss Mag.
gle Casey, Miss Annie Dexter and Mrs.
Maggie Ashcroft, who were seriously
injured but will probably recover.
John Stanton, an inventor of a de-
vice for holding bridges, was arrested
and taken to the Harrison street sta,
tion charged with causing the accident
1t is asserted that he was preparing to
try his device on the bridge and had
left the lever in an unsafe position.
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BoURKE is ACQUITTED.

Captain of the Victoria Exonerated by the
Court Martfal-Vice Admiral Markham's
Course in Blindly Obeying Orders IL
Condemned.
VALETTA, Malta, July %. The court
martial Investigating the loss of the
British flagship Victoria rendered
its decision in the case of Capt.
Maurice A. Bourke, of the Vic.
toria. The court found that no
responsibility attached to him and
he was acquitted of all blame. The
court in its further findings expressed
regret that Rear Admiral Markham,
who was in command of the port col.
umn, did not carry out his original in
tention and ignore the fatal signal dis
played by the Victoria.
The verdict of the court-martial was
that the accident was etirely due to the
order given by Vice Admiral Tryon.
Not only Capt. Bourke, but all the other
survivors, were acquitted Of all blame.
Robbed of $1,000.
i CHIcAGo, July ss.A masked robber
entered the office of the Calumet Elec-
trio railway, at Ninety-fourth street
and the Illinois Central tracks early
Thursday morning compelled Cashier
ID. w. Noel to put $1,000, most
of which was in small silver
pieces, into canvas bag. tied the
cashiers hands and feet. placed him
inside the vault and then made his
escape. Before leaving the office the
robber closed the door Of the vault
upon the helpless cnshier, and
when he was found ten minutes later
he was unconscious. Had he remained
undiscovered much longer he would no
doubt have died
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LATER NEWS

1T was discovered the 3lst that VIM.
Nonenacher, a farmer living nine miles
southeast of Amigo, Wis, murdered his
wife and three children about 10 o'clock
Saturday night and then made an un-
successful attempt to take his own life.
At the inquest Nonemacher made full
poor and lie was afraid of starving; his
wife's parents were in Quebec, where
they had come all the way from Ger
many, and wanted money, and he had
none to send. After the inquest the
murderer was placed in Jail, but he
may not livesto be tried.
The London regatta of the Royal
Yacht club took place at London the
31st. There was fair breeze and the
yachts got away in capital style. The
boats that took part in the race were:
Royal Phelps Carrolrs Navahoe; Lord
Dunraven's Valkyrie; J. Jameson's
Iverna; the Prince of Wales britannia;
A. ID. Clark's Satanita; b. III. Donald's s
Calluna. The starting gun was fred at
10 o'clock, and under full sail the yachts
made for the line. The Britannia fin
ished first minute and seconds ahead
Of the Valkyrie, which was second and
1 minute and 26 seconds ahead of the
Navahoe, which finished third.
A DISPATCH was received at New
York the .3lst by the Nicaragua Canal
and Construction company from their
agent at Granada that peace has been
restored in Nicaragua.
A CRISIS was reached in the lumber
showers strike at Ashland, Wis, the
31st. The Shores Lumber company
sent word to Mayor O'keefe that they
would commence loading their boats
with nOn-union laborers, and asked for
police protection. Work had hardly
commenced on the boats when great
mob OF strikers swarmed down over the
dock and tramway. The foremost of
them were forcibly handcuffed by OH
GERS; others arrested were afterwards
rescued from the police by their fellows.
A desperate hand to hand contest fol-
lowed, in which srevolvers were -four
ished and several shots fred. It is i'm
possible to learn, under the present ex-
citement, whether any person is shot.
The officers were nearly all badly
bruised with clubs and staves.
DEsPoNDENcY .over his wife's death
caused CLANCY Maxfield, Of Lansing
village, Mimi, to commit suicide, the
31st.
FoRTY-FIvE Swedish singers Of Min.
neapolis and ST. Paul gave concerts 81
the Minnesota, North Dakota and Wash.
ington state buildings at the worlds
fair, the 3lst. 81
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THEY are bobbing up serenely on
every hand. these lineal descendants
of Columbus, and soon they will be as
numerous as George Washington's body
servants The latest accession to the
ranks is a remarkable person even
granting that he is mistaken in his as
sumed relationship to the great ex-
porer. He is 104 years old and is in
Chicago taking in the worlds fair
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

THE Railway Gazette has counted up
and finds that there have been eighty
six train robberies or attempts at train
robbery during the first six months of
1898. The railroads will have to carry
armed guards in a steel-clad car just aft
of the tender if this thing is kept mp,
and it will be kept up as long as it con-
tinues to be so dead easy" .-
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THE EAST.

THE directors have placed the New
| York, Lake Erie s. Western railroad il
the hands of receivers.
In the Eighth district of Pennsylva
MIA Howard Nutchler dem. was
elected to congress to fill the vacancy
caused bv the death of his father.
TO SECURE their life insurance George
Schmous, Pittsburgh German, killed
his wife and two of his children vita q
hammer
In Boston Benjamin Fl. Ticknor, do
ing business as Ticknor & Co., publish
ers, made an assignment.
AT Clarence Center. N. Y, Mrs
Henry Maybach cut her throat and that
of her 7-months-old baby. She left a
note saying she feared her child was
going to die and she could not live
| without it.
The carpet mills of Alexander Smith
& Sons at Yonkers, N. Y, shut down,
throwing 5000 hands out of employ.
ment. The mills turned out % miles OF
carpet day.
In Lewistown, Me-, and Worcester,
Mass, several large factories closed for
an indefinite period, throwing thou
sands of persons out of work.
A RECEIVER was appointed for the
American Tube and Iron company OF
Pittsburgh. Pa. The liabilities were
81, $50, 900: assets, $2,7OO, 900.
OVER 1000 men were thrown out OF
employment by the closing of the
Strange silk mills at Paterson. N. J.
In Wilmington, Del, the Dental Man
ufacturing company went into the
hands of receiver with liabilities of
5000, 900.
AT Auburn. N. Y, William G. Taylor
was electrocuted for killing Solomon
johnson, fellow convict in Auburn
prison, on September 20 last.
In Plainville, North Attleboro and
Attleboro, Mass, jewelry manufacture
ers have closed their shops, throwing
5000 persons out of work.
in Philadelphia S. II. Morrison, an
extensive lumber merchant, failed for
500, 900.
FLAMES in the Union Indurated Fiber
company's works at Lockport, N. Y,
destroyed the entire plant. Loss $780,
OOO
WHILE beating his wife William
Washington, of York, Pa, dropped
dead.
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News In Brief.

: a z
Mrs. Albert Loudon, of Dover, gave
birth to three girl babies recently,
weighing respectively 61a, 81 and 4a
pounds. The most remarkable thing is
that Mrs. Loudon has done the work in
q family varying from 10 to II until re-
Gently.
Erick Reseland. farmer living half
q mile from Fertile, while moving hay
fell from the seat, his head coming in
contact with some hard sustance,
breaking his collar bone. He died
within a few hours after the accident.
From later reports received at Still
water regarding the break at the Vel
low river dam it seems that only gate
went out, and it will not take as long
posed.
The s-year-old son and only child of
A. F. Crawford, of Casselton, N. D.,
who with his mother was visiting rela-
tives at Little Falls, fell into cistern
and was killed.
President j. j. Hill, of the Great
Northern railway, will entertain the
foreign countries to the worlds fair
next month, Aug. % is set as the date
of this visit. The guests will be given
trip through the famous Red River
valley to see the harvesting of the
wheat crop in the greatest wheat fields
in the world. President Hill will take
his guests out by special train.
q
its willingness to put on daily mixed
train between Benson and Huron, to be
run on schedule time. This answers
the demand in the petition of the citi-
zens along the line, fled before the
state railroad and warehouse commits
sion.
Lightning burned E. Carlson's house
at st. Cloud. Loss. with contents,
81, 200.
The postofice at Canon Falls was
robbed Of the money order book and
postofice cash. No stamps were taken.
Lightning struck the Union Oil house
at Buffalo and it was burned to the
ground. T. "A. Quirk's residence was
also stl uck and the family severely
shocked. There were no fatalities.
James HI. Bennett, of Buckman town,
near Little Falls, Mimi, aged about SO
years, was found dead on his wagon.
seat while the team was on it's way
home. Bennett came to town for some
medicine for his sick wife and bought a.
bottle Of alcohol and chloral and drank
about two ounces of the choral, mis-
taking it for alcohol.
George Merritt, the Northern Pacific
have each fallen heir to S25, 900, which
has been left them by the decease of a
wealthy relative in Illinois.
Ash Nelson, dealer in general 1ner
chandise at Brocton, has assigned.
Liabilities, SO, 600. S.
The Millers & Manufacturers Insur-
9ance company Of Minneapolis has be.
gun suits against farmers in various
counties to collect premium notes. In
Polk county alone between 800 and 400
actions have been commenced.
Fire damaged the stores of F. o. Hall
and Mrs Rademacher at Austin.
Olaf I'asy, merchant and lumber
dealer at New York ills, has assigned
to Fred Webber, Of Perham. Liabili-
ties, $2s, 600; assets, $$s5, 900,
lillian Lavalley, living near Moor
head had his fine driving horse stolen.
Recently he discharged and paid off one
Of his hired men who went away, but
shortly afterward returned and hung
around during the afternoon and even.
n y
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Big Beet sugar Factory Open

CHINO, Cal, July 81. The Chino beet
sugar factory, the largest in the United
States, with maximum reducing ca
pacity of 74O tons Of beets day, will
start this morning. The industry gives
direct employment to 1900 men in
Chino and several hundred atAnaheim.
The crop Of the Chino ranch is esti-
mated at 50, 900 tons The crop to be
shipped from Anaheim is 10000 tons.
The factory will run night and day
during the season, reducing on an
average 600 tons of beets daily. The
output for this season will be is, 900, ,OOp
pounds Of refined sugar.
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After the Railroads.

Despite the st. Paul & Duluth's de-
clared determination to test the con-
stitutionality of the law requiring
trains to stop at all county seats
through which they pass, County At
torney Roberts will continue the fight
in behalf of Pine City. Whether the
first case goes to the supreme court Of
the United States (as it probably willy
or not, he. says there will be further ar.
rests and prosecutions so long as the
Duluth limited fails to make stops at
Pine City. Mr.. Roberts is confident
that the city has good case.
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

BALTIMORE IS to have two spr1nkling
that city this summer. Each car car
ries tank with a capacity of $500 gal
Ions of water, which vets down six
miles of road alongside the track. This
system is available in every city where
there are electric railroads, and bids
fair to supersede carts as well as water
ing pots in all the principal thorough
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

ABERDEEN, S. d., has an international
Cold Wave company" with a capital
stock of 81 100000. Its business wisl be
to produce cooling breezes whenever
the temperature reaches the uncom-
Portable stage. The company will not
only furnish comfortable summer
weather to order, but will be open to
inducements to bring early frosts for
the benefit of wheat bulls. Letters
of inquiry from proprietors of skating
rinks, summer hotels and cough medi-
cines are invited
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r. 4. HAYES was the only occupant
of the white house to die of heart dis
ease. Washington expired of pneu-
monia: John Adams of natural decline;
Jefferson of diarrhea; Madison and Mon
roe of natural decline; John Quincy
Adams Of paralysis; Jackson of con-
sumption; Van Buren, of catarrh; Har-
rlson of pleurisy; Tyler of bilious at
tack; Polk of chronic diarrhea; Taylor
of bilious fever; Fillmore of natural
decline: Pierce of inflammation of the
stomach; Buchanan of gout; Lincoln
assassinated; johnson paralysis; Grant
of cancer; Garfield assassinated; Arthur
of Rright's disease.
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

STATISTICS from sixty cities which
contain more than 5000 inha bitants
by the census of 1890 show that out of
1905 fires 2O3 were attributed to cleo
tricity and that the loss was Sl.25 for
each S1OO
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Dangerous Convict.

At the st. Cloud reformatory con-
vict assaulted Guard Julian A. Relden,
who had reported him in the morning
for misconduct. He struck the guard
on the back of the head murderous
blow with a piece of gaspipe three feet
long, cutting cash. A second blow
on the side broke two ribs and injured
the spine. Belden staggered away.
The convict followed to finish him when
help arrived. The guilty convict's name
is said to be Harrington, in for robbing
a house in Minneapolis in daylight.
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

A CORONER in Minnesota has decided
that when a man has been adjudged
dead by the coroner he is dead, even
though he return to the bosom OF his
family i'll good health and exuberant
KOiritS
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

AMONG the many proverbs that have
been smashed by the modern scientific
iconoclast is that one which runs:
Early to bed and early to rise makes
one healthy, wealthy and wise" An
eminent London physician has been
making study of the subject and finds
that eighty per cent. of the people over
eighty years of age have been in the
habit Of sitting up until the small hours
and never rising until the day is well
aired. Early rising" says the doctor,
tends to exhaust the physical powers
and shorten life" There ought to be
great consolation in this for small boys
and newspaper men.
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

A NEBRASKA farmer recently lost
$4,000 by the collapse of a bank. The
Missouri river was seized with an in
sane desire to change it's course and
scooped out one hundred acres of the
NebraSkan'S land.
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A BoTcHEo Jos.

Horrible Failure at the Electror !. go r1
Murderer Taylor in Auburn Prise The
First Contact Fails to Kill. the Dynamo
Re.ns Out Of Fix-Whi.e Waiting for
Over an Hour for It's Repair the Victim
Lives, Writhing In His Torture hut I'm
conscious.
AUBURN, N. Y, July 2S.-The at
tempt to electrocute Murderer William
=. ylor by electricity at the prison
here was attended by horrible acci-
dent. The force of the electrical current
gave out, and the board to which one of
ais feet was strapped broke One current
Of ] 200 volts had been administered
before the accident occurred, but it was
rot strong enough to kill him. When
the physicians one ct whom was
woman-the first 20 view an
execution by electricity-rushe for
ward to determine if Taylor were
dead they were startled to; find that
he was still breathing The electrode
board to which his foot was fastened
was showed into place and the cleo
trician signaled to turn on the current
again, but the dynamo had given out
and the current did not reach the
death chair
During the brief space of time the at
tempt to introduce a second current
consumed Taylor showed signs of re-
turning consciousness, and while the
excited physicians and electricians
were debating the question of the
best thing to do he began to groan,
his body twitched against the strap
that had held his head. arms and legs
In place. The body of the murderer
was lifted from the char and placed on
a cot. Morphine was freely admins
tered and preparations We're made to
secure power from the city electric
light plant to take the place of
the exhausted dynamo. In the mean
time Taylor was alive, but appeared to
be in state of pronounced apo
plexy. He was lying on his back,
breathing heavily and groaning. The
physicians in attendance said the force
of the first current had simply rendered
him unconscious. He would recover,
they thought, and the only way to
carry out the sentence of the law was
to again place him in the chair.
Almost an hour elapsed between the
time the first shock was administered
and the time Taylor was placed in the
death chair for the second time. He
was first placed in the chair at 12:45
o'clock, and it was 1:55 before connec-
tion was obtained from the city's cleo
tric-light plant. During all this
time Taylor was kept under the in
fiuence of morphine, but breathed reg.
ularly and groaned and writhed. When
the connection was finally made with
the city electric plant Taylor was lifted
into the chair and strapped as be.
fore The signal was then given
and the full force of the current,
said to have been 1900 volts,
was shot into his writing
body. 1t required contact of only a
few seconds to complete the work OF
the first current. III less than half a
minute the current was turned off and
the attending physicians declared Tay.
lor dead. A third contact of half sec.
ond was shot into the body to make
certain work of the first.
Taylor murdered Solomon jackson, a
white man and a fellow-inmate Of the
Auburn prison, September 30, 1892. He
was tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death Januasy 10.
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

A sIX-YEAR-oI.D Tennessee boy can
play on almost any musical instrument
without teaching That is what Ten
nessee gets for having once upon time
elected man governor because he
could fiddle.
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

THE recovered city of Lachish'' in
Palestine is one of the most interesting
as we'll as one of the most important of
archaeological discoveries in the Orient.
This ancient city is mentioned in
Joshua, and it's site was unknown until
three years ago, when Prof. Petrie hap
pened upon it's ruins while digging in a
vast mound known locally as Tel-el-
Hesy. The great Importance of the
find lies in the fact that there are
eight ancient towns beneath the
mound, each Except the frst) built on
an older abandoned town.
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saloon blown Up BY Dynpmite.

,dARTlNsvlLLE, Ind, July 90. The
saloon Of George B. Moss, Of Brooklyn,
this county. was blown up Wednesday
night by dynamite, presumably by the
better class Of citizens. No one was
injured. This is the second saloon that
has been thus treated in Brooklyn
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Caught In His Own Trap.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July 31.-The
mysterious death of III. j. Hedland, the
has been explained by his wife. She
confessed he burned the house in order
to obtain the 81, 100 insurance on it, and
before he could escape was cremated.
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03
Deatl, of ". s. Mellen. !:

ST. PAUL. Alinn., July aaa.A private
telegram received at the Northern Pa
cific railway eadquarters says that w
$. Mellen, general manager Of the
road, died at Victoria, B. e. Wednes-
|iay Of an attack Of neuralgia Of the
heart
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

Hon. GEORGE 5. BOUTWELL,. when
elected governor of Massachusetts, was
the youngest person ever elected to
that Office. Now he is the senior ex-
governor of the state as we'll as the old
est in years.
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

TUE Wells-Fargo people have just
started a new bank in New York de-
spite the fact that several secondhand
ones, only slightly worn, could have
been obtained at ridiculously low
price
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Fin.nce the sole Topic

WAsHINaroN, July 81 President
Cleveland. it is said, will confine hi
forthcoming message to the Anancia
Isituat ation and will defer any recomncn
dations regarding the tariff until IL.
regular session 81 congress
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

THE July poetry is all in now and
the magazines are working on the Au-
gust stock. Autumn verses, and those
that read lessons of life in the falling
leaves, will soon be along
Warren sheaf., 1893-08-03

women. has lately been Christianized,
and as an evidence of good faith has
discharged two of the three husbands
she had previously married.