The Canadian Crescent. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1888 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CANADIAN CRESCENT.
FSEEKA5 E. VULEB, Editor * Puto'r.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUUKSDAT AT
CANADÍAN. - TEXAS
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
CONGRESS.
Thk Senate on July 2 concurred in the
conference report on the Legislative Appro-
priation bilL After the passage of several res-
olutions referring more specially to local mat-
ter# the River and Harbor bill was taken up,
and after a long discussion the amendment
abolishing the Missouri River Commission was
disagreed to, and after several amendments
had been made the bill passed. It appropriates
$22,474,783. Senator Turpie then addressed the
Senate on the President's message and tariff
reform, at the close of which the Senate went
into executive session and then adjourned until
Thursday....In the House Mr. Anderson, of
Iowa, introduced a bill providing for the con-
trol and regulation of certain railroads. The
bill is very long, and Mr. Anderson, in order to
antagonize the passage of the Union Pacitic
Funding bill, demanded the reading of his bill
in full. This occupied several hours, when he
offered another long bill and demanded its read-
ing. In order to break the deadlock the House
adjourned.
The Senate was not in session on the 3d-
The conference report on the Post-oftlce
Appropriation bill was presented and non-con-
currence recommended to the Senate amend-
ment appropriating 1200,«00 to provide a more
efficient mail service with South and Central
America; also the amendment fixing the rate
of postage on seeds and bulbs at two cents a
pound. The remainder of the session was de-
voted to the consideration of the iron schedule
of the Tariff bilL Adjourned until Thursday.
In the Senate on the 5th the conference
report on the Agricultural Appropriation bill
was presented and Senator Plumb spoke in fa-
vor of adhering to the Senate amendment of
1100,000 for continuing the sorghum sugar exper-
iment. A further conference was asked on this
item. Senator Plumb also presented an amend-
ment which he proposed to offer
to the Sundry Civil bill appro-
priating 13,000 for a monument at the
National Cemetery at Mound City, Kan. Ad-
journed until Monday. ..In the House, after
\ie expiration of the morning hour, the Land-
rant Forfeiture bill was taken up and consid-
ered at length. Many amendments were offered,
Mit when a vote on its passage was reached no
fiorum voted and the House adjourned, leaving
*ie bill as unfinished business.
Tna Senate was not in session on the 6th.
,..In the House several conference reports
jrere presented and the Lan -Grant Forfeiture
¿ill passed by a vote of 177 yeas to 8 nays. The
flouse then resumed consideration of the Tariff
bill in OommiiNee of the Whole, and a long talk
was the res^Jt. At the evening session twenty
penr^.jj billa passed. Adjourned.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Commissioner of Patents refused to
grant a patent to De Banssett for bis air
ship on the ground of its being visionary,
although the House Committee on Ventila-
tion had recommended an appropriation of
$150,000 for the inventor to develop his idea.
Postmaster-General Dickinson objects
to the proposed subsidy for carrying mails
to South America. He says that it is un-
like the British subsidy system which per-
mits foreign vessels to compete, and that
in view of the limited American shipping
going to South America, the parties to
whom the money would go might as well
be mentioned by name.
General Sheridan was reported on the
3d to have taken a relapse, while on board
the Swatara.
The Postmaster-General has written a
letter to the President formally protesting
against the proposition made by the Civil-
Service Commission to extend the classi-
tted service so as to include the railway
postal service.
The end of a National sensation was
reached when the celebrated criminal libel
case of ex-Post master-General Vi a*
against William Welch, was discontinued.
The alarming symptoms in the sickness
of General Sheridan were reported the
next day to have subsided.
Attorney-General Garland has re-
turned to his residence in Washington from
n brief visit to the lower Potomac. He is
improved in health but is still too weak to
resume his duties at the department. He
will probably leave in a day or two for
Rock Springs, Va.
The President vetoed another private
pension bill on the 5tb, and in doing so re-
marked that the abuses perpetrated in pri-
vate pension legislation were an injustice
to the worthy veterans and a waste of pub-
lic money.
Business failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended July 5 numbered for the
United States, 192; Canada, 22; total, 214,
compared with 201 the previous week and
154 the corresponding week last year.
THE EAST.
The Republicans of the First Vermont
district have renominated John W. Stewart
for Congress.
While driving in a buggy across the
tracks of the Western New York & Penn-
sylvania Railroad at Carrollton, Pa., re-
-centlv, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Stokes were
kii'ed.
The courts at Erie, Pa., have adjudged
Simon Bolivar Benson insane. Benson was
at one time the assistant chief to the Se-
cret Service Bureau, and was active in the
ferreting out of the Belknap and whisky
frauds and the celebrated Tom Ballard
and other counterfeiting cases from 1S7Ü to
1S76.
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, is
seriously ill with acute bronchitis. He and
his family will move shortly to their sum-
mer home at North £ as ton, Mass.
The severest rain, hail, thunder and
lightning storm experienced in Scranton,
Pa., for many years prevailed on the 5th.
Bartholomew Reagan and John Armstrong
were struck by lightning and killed. The
rain fell in torrents, choking the sewers
and flooding the streets and cellars.
Nearly 40,000 Italian immigrants arrived
at Castle Garden during the past six
months. Many of them are in a destitute,
even starving, condition in New York.
As a coal train was passing through the
village of Dayton, N. J., recently it was
struck by a cyclone and Conductor John
Dyer, of Trenton, with two of the train-
men, were blowu from the train and fatally
hurt
Rev. Dr. W. F. Nichols, of Philadelphia,
recently elected Assistant Bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, has
declined on the ground that his duty calls
on him to continue his present labors.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, declares
that he will not accept a nomination from
the American or any other party for the
Presidency.
Delegates from at least 400 Democratic
clubs gathered in conventiou at Baltimore,
Md., on the 4th.
A battery of boilers at the tannery of
A. & J. Groetsinger, on River aveuue, Al-
legheny City, Pa., exploded recently,
wrecking several buildings and seriously
injuring six persons, three fatally.
By a collision between passenger trains
near Nanticoke, Pa., the other day one
tiremau was seriously and thirty passen-
gers slightly hurt.
Fire destroyed $150,00J worth of proper-
ty in New York on the morning of the 7th,
breaking out in the Cmtury offloe, East
Eighteenth street.
THE WEST.
A vekdict of acquittal was rendered in
the case of the United States against ex-
Chief Customs Inspector Irwin A. Gard-
ner, charged with smuggling opium at
Portland, Ore.
Lightnikg struck the house of Ole Ole-
stad, ten miies north of Hunter, Dak., the
other night, killing Oiestad aud his wife
Their baby was found alive in the house
by neighbors who forced an entrance
twenty-four hours after and found the bod-
ies of the parents.
Ge«rge Jones, a twelve-year old boy, on
the 4th loaded an old tomato can with
powder and, attaching a shaving as a fuse,
lighted it., at Indianapolis, Ind. Before he
could leave the spot the can exploded, tear-
ing off the top of his head and killing him
iustantlv. .
There was a fatal case of sunstroke the
other afternoon on Chouteau island, near
Nameoki, III. The victim, a stranger
from St. Louis, was shocking wheat at the
time.
Henry Meyer, a German farmer, walk-
ing on the Ohio & Mississippi railroad
track at Lebanon, 111., was run over and
fatally injured recently.
The American party of California held
its State convention on the 5th aud elected
delegates to the National convention.
Wind and rain in and about Algona,
Iowa, recently destroyed several small
houses, wrecked a circus and ruined muny
crops.
The business portion of Lake City, Mich.,
was destroyed by fire on the 4ih, two
blocks being burned down. The loss was
$75,000; insurance light.
A disastrous fire broke out at Marys-
ville, O., early on the morning of the 5th in
the block in which the most valuable busi-
ness houses in the city were located. Loss
was 120.),000; insurance, $90,000.
Harry C. Tucker and his father and sis-
ter were drowned in Lake Johanna, near
St. Paul, Minn., recently by their boat cap-
sizing.
Three men were arrested recently and
taken to Chicago, charged with being in a
conspiracy to wreck trains and destroy
property on the Chicago, Burlington &
Qaincy. Dynamite was found in their pos-
session and a card of membership of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
The business portion of Maumee, O., was
destroyed by fire the other morning. Loss,
$100,000. Cause, firecrackers.
Four. of the priucipal business houses of
Durango, Col., were destroyed by fire on
the 4th. Loss, $50,000.
News has been received of a terrific
wind and hail storm about twelve miles
north of Amherst, Wis. One woman was
killed by falling timber. All the crops of
a strip of country about one-fourth of a
mile wide and three or four miles long
were a total loss.
Mohmon Church agen4s have turned over
to Receiver Dyer the noted Church farm
near Salt L ike, 1,110 acres, valued at $150,-
000. Further la ge amounts of property
are expected to be reclaimed within a few
days in Government proceedings aguinsi
Mormon Church property.
Reports have been received of the kill-
ing of three Illinois runaway lads n the
Seminole country by Indiaus. The boys
had previously killed an India .
Solomon Nelson and E. C. Hcttberg were
drowned in Belle Creek near Cannon Falls.
Minn., the other day, while repairing a
bridge, the latter falling into the water
and the former going to his rescue. Nel-
son was a prominent business man.
It is rjportod that Rev. Father Thomas
F. Mangan, of Joliet, III., will be appointed
Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic Dio-
cese of v hicago.
J. W. Brown, the alleged polygamist re-
cently arrested in Chicago, was arraigned
at Detroit. Mich., in the case of marrying
Mary Benjamin, pleaded not guilty aud
was remanded to jail. It is now stated
Brown has been married no less than 1 hirtv-
«
two time^. and many of his dupes are ex-
pected to<>e present at the trial.
A construction train on the Elgin, Joliet
& Eastern road was wrecked recently
near Joliet, 111., by obstructions on the
track. Three Italian laborers were killed.
Engineer Wright was fatally scalded.
The three mombers of the firm of Shot-
well, Clerihew & Lotham. who failed some
days ago at Minneapolis, Minn., have been
arrested on a warrant sworn out by the
cashier of a bank to which the firm was
largely indebted, on a charge of swindling.
THE SOUTH.
W. H. Rogers, dealer iu paints and oil?,
Chattanooga, Teun., has made an assign-
ment. It was thought the creditors would
get fifty cents on the dollar.
Twenty-two houses in Paragould, Ark.,
were destroyed by fire the other night.
Loss, $32,(X)J.
During the past year no less than seven-
teen Deputy United Stales Marshals have
been shot and killed in the Creek Nation,
Indian Territory. Of these three were
killed last week, John Phillips, Hector
Thomas and John Trammel.
An electric street railway has been com-
pleted and opened at Little Rock, Ark.
The Prohibition State convention met at
Little Rock, Ark., on the 4th. Colonel J.
L. Palmer was elected chairman, and T. M.
C. Burmingham secretary.
While 300 or 410 people were seated in
the grand stand on the grounds of the
Yalobusha County (Miss.) Fair Associa-
tion on the 4tb, the supports gave way
without warning and the structure fell to
the ground. Several persons were se-
riously injured, one fatally, but no one was
killed outright.
Gus Bogles, aged nineteen, was hanged
at Fort Smith, Ark., on theGth for the mur-
der of William Morgan in the Creek Nation
last year.
Articles of incorporation of the Mem-
phis, Little Rock & Indian Teriitory Rail-
road Company have been filed in Arkansas;
capital stock,
Rio Tinto shar- a ieil 17 francs in Pans
recently and all copper shares were heav-
ily offered, owing to reports that a strong
opposition had been formed in Londen
against the existing syndicate.
The Pan-Presbyterian Council opened at
London on the 4th, Lord Cairnes presiding.
Mr. Matthews, of Quebec, presented a
statistical report, showing that there were
4,000,000 communicants, equivalent to 20,-
000,000 adherents.
An expedition is being formed at Berlin
for the relief of Emin Bey.
TnE National Republican Committee for-
mally notified General Harrison of his
nomination for the Presidency at Iudianap-
olis on the 4th.
A dispatch from Christina, Norway, of
the 4th says: The United States war ship
Enterpriso ran on the Mole, aft Droebak,
to-day, colliding with a great crush. There
was no pilot on board at tue time. The
vessel is not leaking. One hundred tons
of coal have been discharged, and the guns
have been shifted aft to lighten her stem.
A writ of error has been granted by the
United States Supreme Court in the ease
of James Albert Newsome, who was con-
victed in the Federal Court at Waco, Tex.,
for the San Angelo stage robberies. It
was generally believed that the wrong man
was convicted, and a petition for pardon
wh6 signed by several of the iurora.
The war on dressed beef aud packing
house products still continues with una-
bated vigor and there is no immediate
prospect of a settlement. It is generally
conceded by freight men that the rates
will yet go lower and that the rates on
other commodities will be cut before very
long.
Toe O'Donnell libel suit against the Lon-
don Times ended in favor of the newspaper.
Egan declared the letters connecting him
with the murder conspiracies were "vil-
lainous concoctions."
Tue locust plague in Algeria is becoming
worse. Sixty thousand laborers and 2.000
soldiers are powerless. The whole couutry
is devastated and it is feared tuat famine
and pestilence will result.
King Milan, of Servia, has been di-
vorce! from Queen Natalie by the Church
Synod.
The disorders at Seoul, Corea, have been
ended. They were caused by stories that
foreign cannibals had abducted native
children.
The monument to Francis Scott Key, the
gift of the late ^ames Lick to the city of
San Francisco, was unvailed on the 4th.
Eleven of Key's descendants were present.
The City of Rome, which sailed from
Liverpool June 27, arrived at New York
July 6. It was reported by her officers
that on July 1, at noon at latitude 12.50,
longitude 38 degrees 22 minutes, during a
heavy head sea, the vessel shipped a huge
wave, which carried away her bowsprit
and stove the forward bridge, and the sea-
men on duty there were seriously injured.
Tue Canadian police have arrested iu
Toronto the notorious counterfeiter John-
son, who escaped from the United States
authorities in Detroit three weeks ago.
The Russian Government has signed the
convention for the abolition of sugar boun-
ties.
The report that King Milan had been
divorced is denied.
A bush tire was reported raging near
South Indian, Ont., on the Canadian &
Atlantic railway, below Ottawa, On .
Wade's saw mill, 5,0J0 cords of w->od. five
freight cars, five houses and thousands of
cords of tanbark were destroyed. The
country on each side for some days wa3
utterly impassable.
THE LATEST.
Clearing house returns for week ended
July 7 showed an increase of 1.1. In .New
York there was a decrease of 7.7.
Many shops m the market place of
Athens, Greece, were destroyed by fire the
other day. Loss, $75J,000.
In the course of a recent address before
the Anti-Poverty Society at New York Dr.
McGiynn is reporte a to have said: ''Some
day there will be a tremendous revolution
which will eclipse the French uprising and
in which the people will rise up in their
wrath at the interferences of their dic-
tators, and bayonet and club these monks,
and priests, and Archbishops, the Pope
and Cardinals. This is the way the Lord
will deal with them; so I may leave them
to His mercy." This was wildly cheered.
A movement is reported to have assumed
extensive propurtious in India for refor m
in child marriages. InRajpootana no male
is to be married before eighteen uor female
before fourteen.
Judge Walter Q. Gresuam sailed from
New York tor Europe the other afternoon,
to be gone aoout two months.
A serous rain and hail storm was re-
ported in the vicinity cf Buffalo, Wyo., on
.he afternoon of the 3th.
Since the Chicago convention a truce
has been effected between ex-Senator
Mahone and Senator Riddleberger by
which «their long standing personal differ-
ences have been laid aside sufficiently to
allow thu*m to work in harmony for tin
success of the Republican electoral ticke
in Virginia.
Tut. steamer Ville de Brest, belonging tc
the General Trans-Atlantic Company, col-
lided with and sunk the steamer Charles
Quint, belonging to the same company,
near Havre, France, recently. The captain
of the Quint and four of the crew were
drowned.
The Paris coiporation has voted £2,630
for the erection of the reduced copy of
BarttiolJi's statue of "Liberty" in New
York harbor, which was preseuted by Hon.
Levi P. Morton.
A Salvation Army captain named Davis
was drowned recently while bathing at
Washington.
David Julian, a brakeman, was killed
by the wreck of a tram at a landslide two
miles south of Lafayette, ind., on the
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago. The
engineer and fireman were terribly in-
jured.
The Academy of Music bu Iding at
Haverhill, Mass., containing a hoiui aud
several stores, wa* destroyed by lire the
other (light. Loss, $1uu,000; insurance,
$!)J,000.
Pevi P. Morton, the Republican nomi-
nee for Vice-President, was formally noti-
fied at (iis residence at Rhmebeck, N. V.,
on the 7th.
The Senate was not in session on the 7th.
The Tariff bill was before the House. An
amcudmcnt to opay a bounty on sugar
manufactuie caused much discussion. Ad-
journment occurred before a vole was
taken.
GETTYSBUflGHr
Continuation of the Reunion of the HIM
and the («ray on tl&e Historie Ground.
Gettysburg, Pa.t July 3.—Yesterday,
the second day of the reunion, opened clear
and beautiful, no cloud menacing the en*
joyment of the visitors, while trains with
thousands of passengers rolled into the
town. At ten o'clock the five regiments of
Green's brigade, the Seventy-eighth, One
huudred and second, Sixtieth, One hundred
and thirty-seventh and One hundred and
forty-ninth New York, dedicated their
monuments on Culp's Hill, and immedi-
ately afterward a reunion of the brigade
was held. Major-General Henry J. Sio-
cum, who commanded the right of the
Federal line during the battle, and General
George S. Green, the brigade commander,
made addresses.
At the same hour Sickles' Excelsior
brigade, made up of the Seventy-first,
Seventy-second,Seventy-third and Seventy-
fourth New York regiments, met at the
site of the brigade monument and held the
dedicatory exercises.
At 9:90 o'clock the members of the Irish
origade, composed of the Sixty-third,
Sixty-niuth and Eighty-eighth New York
infantry, marched to the < atho ic Church,
where requiem mass for those who felt in
the battle was celebrated by Fathers Suil-
lette and Corby.
In the afternoon the business meeting of
the Society of the Army of the Potomac
was held. t
At three o'clock the Society of the Army
of the Potomac had its annual meeting,
and elected General Joshua Chamberland
president for the ensuing year. A tele-
gram was sent to General Sheridan cou-
gratuluting him on his convalescence.
At 4:3) o'clock the grand procession
moved from Cenrer Square to the rostrum
in the National Cemeterv, where the ex-
ercises of reunion between the blue and
the gray took place. On the rostrum the
front row of chairs was occupied by Gen-
eral Sickles, General Beaver and General
Robinson, all with crutches. General Gor-
don, of Georgia, Gene al Graham, General
Butterfield and Rev. Dr. Valentine, of the
Southern Theological Seminary. At five
o'clock General Robinson in a few brief
words introduced General Sickles as the
presiding cflicer, who addressed the vet-
erans assembled. He was followed by
Governor Gordon and others.
FEARFUL EXPLOSION.
Third Day.
Gettysburg, Pa., July 4.—Yesterday
morning was very quiet, all seeming to be
holding themselves in readiness for the ex-
ercises of the afternoon, and with the ex-
ception of the drum corps of the various
G. A. R. posts, no musical organizations
were visible, the veterans mostly s aying
out all night and devoting the morning to
sleep. The Government troops remained
in their camp and the sleepy soldiers
crawled out slowly when the reveille
sounded, as the sun showed itself aboye
the Seminary hill.
There was a strange similarity between
this day and that of just twenty five years
ago. Then the armies of Meade and Lee
confronted each other. So yesterday the
Federal and Confederates were once more
on the field and again was the one on
Seminary ridge tfnd the other on Cemetery
hill. Nothing unusual occurréd to break
the monotony until four orclock, when the
Union and Confederates met once more at
almost the same hour at which they bad
joined in deadly combat twenty-five years
ago.
At three o'clock the procession, com-
posed of the same military commands as
Monday, entered the National cemetery
and marched past the rostrum. At the
conclusion of the parade General Robin-
son, of New York, as presiding officer,
requested Rev* Dr. Twitchell, of Hart-
ford Conn., to open the exercises with
prayer. The prayer -was listened to with
uncovered heads, and when iu concluding
he began the Lord's prayer the crowd
joined in.
When the orator, George William Curtis,
was presented, three cheers were called
for by General Sharpe, and lie was
greeted with hearty applause at the con-
clusion of his oration, which occupied con-
siderable time.
At night a banquet was served at the
Springs Hotel. At a business meeting of
the department held in the cemetery yes-
terday it was decided to hold next sum-
mer's encampment at this place, the time
to be determined at the winter session.
CANDIDATES FOR HEMP.
The Mayor of a Kansas Town Killed and a
Justice of the Peace Shot by Lawless
Negroes.
Geuda Springs, Kan., July 5—Mayor
Kenyon, of this city, was fatally shot and
Justice Furry badly wounded by negro
desperadoes yesterday afternoon. Citi-
zens are in pursuit of the criminals and will
give them short shrift.
Three negroes, Ike David, Jim Cherry
and Simmons, all of Arkansas City, opened
a joint in a corn field adjoining the city
yesterday morning, and all day men were
seen going and coming from the place.
Colonel N. C. Kenyon, mayor of the city,
said at four o'clock in the afternoon:
'There is a joint over there in the corn
field. I am now looking for Judge Furry
to go and arrest them." He went and in a
short time a report came that Colonel Ken-
yon was killed and Judge Furry wounded
in the leg.
This proved to be true, and in a short
time the mayor was taken in a carriage in-
sensible to his home, shot through the ab-
domen, and is now dying. Judge Furry,
who is a justice of the peace, was shot in
the leg, receiving a serious but not fatal
wound.
Colonel Kenyon was a brave soldier and
commanded an Illinois regiment during
the war. He was recently elected mayor
of this city and was one of the most bon-
ored citizens of this place and one of the
best business men. The killing was done,
as now reported, by Cherry, who is a des-
perado and will certainly be banged at
once if caught.
Telephone and telegraph messages have
been sent in all directions to intercept the
murderers and the citizens organized
armed squads who are now in pursuit of
the desperadoes* and they will be shot on
sight if intercepted. The Governor of the
State wffl be asked to offer a big reward
for the murderers and especially for the
apprehension of Cherry, who is reputed to
be a desperado of the worst type.
It is now known that the assassins swam
the Arkansas with their horses near the
fied to
Terrible Effect of a Boiler Explosion al
Allegheny City, Fa.
Pitsbubgd, Pa., July 7.—A batterjr of
boilers at the tannery of A. & J. Grdefc-
singer en River avenue, Allegheny City,
exploded shortly after four o'clock yester-
day afternoon, wrecking several buildings
and seriously injuring six person, three of
whom will die. The following are the
names of the injured and their condition:
William Wetzel, engineer, aged SO years,
leg blown off and terribly burned; will
die. Christ Neidt, aged 27 years, bruised
and scalded; injuries believed to be fatal.
L. L. Farbye, aged 43 years, burned,
bruised and scalded; death probable. Otto
Bergbaetidler, aged 2$ years, bruised and
| scalded; will recover. John Staab, about
25 years of age, arms, face and body badly
burned; not fatally hurt. Annie Myers,
i aged 12 years, crushed and bruised very
seriously. A large number of others,
mostly employes, were slightly bruised
and cut by being struck by flying debris.
The cause of the explosion is believed to
have been high pressure, as a few minute
after four o'clock Engineer Wetzel noticed
that the pressure was higher than usual
and started for the furnace to turn down
the natural gas. Before he had tune to do
so, however, there was a terrible explo-
sion and he was blown up through the roof
of the tannery and landed in the yard out-
side. t
One side of the main building, a brick
and frame structure, 10J feet long, was
blown out and a portion of the front badly
wrecked. The boiler house, fifty feet long
by forty-two wide, built of brick, was
totally demolished, and the office, situated
across the street, was completely shat-
tered. A heavy double wagon was
blown against Wetzel's residence, sixty
feet away, and the side of the house
crushed in. Pieces of the boiler Hew in
every direction. One section was carried
across the Allegheny river, a distance of
over otic thousand feet. Another piece
struck the Third Ward school house, twelve
hundred feet away, and tore out ono end
I of the building. A third piece struck a
horse and killed it, and a fourth piece al-
most cut a Grand Rapids A Indiana rail-
road freight car in two.
Fully sixty men were at work, and ali
who were able to do so rushed panic strick-
en from the building. The building caught
fire, but before the flames got much head-
way they were extinguished. The injured
were then taken from the wreck aud re-
moved to their homes. They are si til liv-
ing but very slight hopes are entertained
for the recovery of at least three oí them.
THE COUNTRY'S TRADE.
Bradstreet*s Weekly Review of Trade—Ex-
tent of the Great Strike.
New York, July 7.—Bradxt*eel's, in its
review of the week, says: The effect on
general trade of the Fourth of July holi-
day, of the customary diversion of atten-
tion to stock inventories, has been to re-
strict business in many lines. Special tel-
egrams to JJradstreet's note these features
particularly at Boston, New York, Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Kansas
City St. Joseph, Omaha and Chicago.
Louisville and Denver are exceptions,
with reports of improvements and ac-
tivity in the distribution of merchandise.
The crop prospects, as reported at
Omaha, St. Joseph, Louisville aud St.
Louis, are all favorable. Like reports
come from Galveston and Now Orleans,
with the exception of cotton iu Louisiana,
where there has been too much rain. Tho
New York stock market is more active and
higher, and principally on crop reports,
though the influence of the July disburse-
ments and a feeling of reaction from the
long continued depression have a share in
the movement. Bonds aro strong and in
good demand. Money is easy.
Our iuvestigatiou into the Amalgamated
Iron and Steel Association strike indicate
that the number of men on strike and
rendered idle has been overestimated. The
statement telegraphed from Pittsburgh
that 100,000 men had been rendered idle is
exaggerated. To date seventeen mills have
signed the scale and agreed to pay the old
rate of wages. Four or five other mills are
expected to sign the scale in ten days. The
number of men on strike is about 50,00:).
Toe reports of bnsiness failures number
149 iu the United Siates this week against
204 last week, and 141 the same week last
year. Canada has 10 this week against
25 last week. The total number of fail-
ures in the United States from January I
to date is 5,4'Jl against 5,243 in ISS7.
KANSAS CROPS.
ferry and
the Territory.
Secretary Mohler Issues Another Favor-
able Report.
Topera, Kan., July 7.—Hon. M. Moliler„
secretary of the Kansas State Board of
Agriculture, issues the following official
circular to-day:
Reports now in from aboutfioo correspond-
ents, representing nearly every county in the
State, clearly indicate that the expectations ol
the early spring, based upon the favorable con-
dition then, are about to be realized In our
State, the wheat crop being already secured:
also a fair oats crop and corn has never been in
a more promising condition at this dale.
Wheat—The acreage of wheat as shown by
the assessor's return already received at this
office, has been overestimated about 15i)/*C
acres for the State and ten per cent, of the
acreage sown in the fall of 1887 is reported «ot
harvested, leaving still the acreage which was
not harvested about 100.000 acres. Of the acre-
age harvested the average yield per acre of the
State is estimated at seventeen and one half
bushels, being two and one-half bushels higher
than we estimated it a month ago, indicating a
total wheat product for the State of 17,500,000
bushels.
Corn—Since the weather has become warm
and rain abundant corn has made au unusually
rapid growth, and, with the exception of some
damage by bugs entering from adjacent wheal
fields, the crop is free from insect depredation.
Oats—The oats crop In a good many countiet
was cut short by chinch bugs, but generally
throughout the State it is reported good.
Summary—Condition as compared with a full
average crop: Corn, full average, 89.1; oats,
average, 82; rye, average, 90; barley, 82; pota-
toes, 85; broom corn, full average, 9G; flaxseed,
full average, 9t; sorghum, 7* per cent.; millet.
90; tame grass, fall average, 80; prairie grass,
full average, 95; apples, full average, 80.
Rainfall and chinch bugs—Throughout the
month of June, especially the last half of the
month, rains have been abundant in every
section of the State, with the exception of a
few counties in the western portion. Fifty
counties report "no bags to hurt.** The balance
report some damage to corn crops. Rains con-
tinuing plentiful will remove all apprehensions
of loss to this crop from these destructive i*
sects.
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