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1 ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. A Summary of the Work Done by the National Democracy. Cleveland For President and Thnrman For Vice-President. The National Democratic Convention at 6t Louis having adjourned after a short sestien on its opening day, met on the following morning and perfected its organization, making Congressman Patrick Collins, of Massachusetts, Permanent Chairman. After an address by the Chairman a resolution of sympathy for General Sheridan in his illness was passed. Mrs. E. A. Merri wether spoke for a miniitminn women's rights, and then the States were called for the purpose of nominating candidates for President Daniel Dougherty, of New York, in a short speech, nominated Gro- jr Cleveland, saying that he gave the convention " a name entwined with victory." The Convention 'v oke into the wildest enthusiasm at the clvse of Mr. Dougherty's speech. Hats were waved and thrown into tne air, bandanas streamed out all over the hall, and the delegates jumped on theii chairs and cheered madly. A picture of Cleveland in the "White House was uncovered on the east wall, and the bands plaved "Hail to the Chief." The cheering lasted twentyfour minutes. The nomination was seconded by a number of delegates. Upon their motion Grover Cleveland was nominated bv acclamation, and the Convention adjourned until the following morning. Soon after the Convention opened on the third and last day the Committee on Resolutions reported with one dissenting voicethat of hdward Cooper, of New York. The platform presented by the Committee was dopted unanimously, and is as follows: THE PLATFORM. The Democratic party of the United States in National Convention assembled, renews the pledge of its fidelity to Democratic faith 5 ? ri A/i VvTT {ffl ABU retiuirixtb but) pittnui IU auV|JIM uj <n representatives in the Convention of 1884, and indorses the views expressed by President Cleveland in his last earnest message to Congress as the correct interpretation of that platform upon the question of tariff reduction; and also indorses the efforts of our Democratic representatives in Congress to secure a reduction of excessive taxation. Chief among its principles of party faith are the maintenance ^of an indissoluble vujion of free and indeIfructible States, now about to entef upon its second century of unexampled progress and renown; devotion to a plan of government regulated by a written constitution strictly specifying every granted power, and expressly reserving to the States or people the entire ungranted residue of power; the encouragement of a jealous popular vigilance directed to all who have been chosen for brief terms to enact and execute the laws, and are charged with the duty of preserving peace, ensuring equality and establishing justice. The Democratic party welcome an exacting scrutiny of the administration of the executive power which four years ago was committed to its trust in the selection of Grover Cleveland President of the United States, and it challenges the most searching scruting concerning its fidelity and devotion to the pledges which then invited the suffrages of the people. During a most critical period of our financial affairs, resulting from overtaxation, the anomalous condition of our currency and a public debt unmatured, it has, by the adoptioj*eJ a wise and conservative course, notary averted disaster, but greatly proprosperity of the people. It has the improvident and unwise policy of the Republican party touching the public domain, and has reclaimed from corporations and syndicates, alien and domestic, and restored to the people nearly one hundred millions of acres of valuable land to be sacredly held as homesteads for our citizens. While carefully guarding the interest of the people and conforming strictly to the principles of justice and equality, it has paid out more for pensions and bounties to the soldiers and Railors of the Republic than was ever paid before during an equal period. It nas adopted and consistenly pursued a firm and pruaent foreign policy, preserving peace with all nations while scrupulously maintaining all the rights and interests of our own Government and people at home and abroad. The exclusion from our shores of Chinese laDorers nas uvea vuacLuauy ntuicu uuju * the provisions of a treaty, the operation of which has been postponed by the action of a Republican majority in the Senate. Honest reform in the civil service has been inaugurated and maintained by President Cleveland, and he has brought the public service to the highest standard of efficiency, not only by rule and precept, but by the example of his own untiring and uuselfish administration of public affairs. In every branch and department of the Government under Democratic control, the rights and the wellfare of all the people have been guarded and defended: every public interest has been protected, and the equality of all our citizens Before the law, without regard to race or color, has been steadfastly maintained. Upon its record thus exhibited, and upon th6 pledge of a continuance to the people of the benefits of a good Government, the National Democracy invoke a renewal of popular trust by the re-election of a Chief Magistrate who has been faithful, able, and prudent They invoke,in addition to that trust,the transfer to the Democracy of the entire legislative power. The Republican party controlling tne Senate and resisting in both Houses of Congress a reformation of unjust and unequal tax laws which have outlasted the necessities of war and are now undermining the abundance of a long peace, dens' to the people equality before the law and the fairness and the justice which are their right. Thus the cry of American labor for a better share in the rewards of industry is stifled with false pretences, enterprise is fettered and bound down to home markets, capital is discouraged with doubt, and unequal, unjust laws can neither be properly amended nor repealed. The Democratic party will continue with all the power confided to it to struggle to reform tlieso laws in accordance with the pledges of its last platform, indorsed at the ballot box by the suffrages of the people. Of all the industrial freemen of our land, an immense majority, including every tiller of the soil, gain no advantage from ex cessive tax laws; but the price or nearly everything they buy is increased by the favoritism of an unequal system of tax legislation. All unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation. It is repugnant to the creed of Democracy that by such taxation the cost of the necessaries of life should be unjustifiably increased to all our people. Judged by Democratic principles the interests of the people are betrayed when by unnecessary taxation trusts and combinations are permitted to exist which, while unduly enriching the few that combine, rob the body of our citizens by depriving them of the benefits of natural competit:on. Every Democratic rule of governmental action is violated when through unnecessary taxation a vast sum of money far beyond tbe needs of an economical administration is drawn from the people and the channels of trade, and accumulated as a demoralizing surplus in the National Treasury. The money now lying idle in th9 Federal Treasury, resulting from superfluous taxation, amounts to more than $125, 000,000, and the surplus collected is reaching the sum of more than ffiO,000,000 annually. Debauched by this great temptation, the remedy of the Republican party is to meet and' exhaust by extravagant appropriations and expenses, whether constitutional or not, the accumulation of extravagant taxation. The Democratic policy is to enforce frugality in public expenditures and abolish unnecessary taxation. Our established domestic industries and enterprises Bhould not and need not be endangered by the reduction and correc|M^^^tion of the burdens of taxation. On the conGBHB^K&ry, a fair and careful revision of our tax B9mnC^Ku.with due allowance for the difference HHHmLu the watjes of American and foreign promote and encourage every ffijBWfHNUSjK^^uch industries and enterprise by 9nflHffiMB|^BM^^^issurance of an extended ^3|SK9MB9BH^^dy and continuous operagHBSK|^9MBBkrest of American labor, event be neglected, BBBnBaSBHHBn^Ltax contemparty is to HHHHfflB^BBflBlH9BH|^kLguch labor by BMMHagflQnfi|^HSBHBj^B^^k^sarie > H^^^RSHHRBraHraMnan, and at and reso Democratic party submits its principles and professions to the intelligent suffrages of the American D20DleJ After the platform had been adopted, resolutions were carried demanding the immediate passage of the revenue reduction bill now pendins: in Congress; favoring the admission of Washington. New Mexico. Montana and Dakota as States, and sympathizing with Ireland in it3 efforts to obtain home rule. The States were then called and nominations for Vice-President made. Delegate Tarpey, of.California, nominated Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, and Senator Voorhees named Governor Gray, of Indiana, Delegate T. M. Patterson put in nomination 1 General Black. The speaker read a letter from General Black asking for the withdrawal of his name, aa the sentimant of tha Democracy was for Thurman. The Clerk announced that there were three Candidates, but as soon as the voting began it was evident that Thurman would be the Convention's choice by an overwhelming majority, and hia nomination was therefore made unanimous, amid great cheering and the waving of bandannas. The Convention then, at 2.10 p. ii., adjourned sine die. Grover Cleveland. Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, Essex County, N. J., on March IS, 1837. His paternal ancestors were of English origin. His father was Richard Falley Cleveland, a Presbyterian clergyman, and his mothar a daughter of a Baltimore merchant of Irish birth, whom his father married in 1829. Mr. Cleveland received an academic education at Favetteville and Clinton, N. Y. At seventeen he became a clerk and assistant teacher in the New York Institution for the Blind, New York City. In 1855 he went to Buffalo, secured a place as clerk and copyist with the law firm of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers at $4 a week and began to read law. He was admitted to practice in 1859. He was Assistant District-Attorney of Erie County for three years from January 1, 1863, and was elected Sheriff of Erie County in 1870, serving a three-years term. Upon retiring from that office he resumed his law practice, when the firm of Bass, Cleveland & Bissell was formed. The firm was prosperous and Mr. Cleveland attained high rank in "Western New York as a lawyer. In 1881 he was elected Mayor of Buffalo by the largest majority ever given a candidate in that city, having received support from Republicans and Independents as well as that of the Democrats. He soon became noted as the "veto Mayor," acquiring a reputation which he has maintained as President. In September, 1882, he was nominated for Governor of New York by the Democratic Convention at Syracuse, and in the* following November was elected by a plurality of 192,854 9Y?r Charles J. Folger, the Republican nominee. Friday, July 11, 18S4, Grover Cleveland was nominated at the Chicago Convention as the Democratic candidate for President, on the second ballot, and on the fourth day of the convention, by 688 votes out of a total of 820. The nomination was afterward made iinanimons. In the election the following November Mr. Cleveland received 219 electoral votes against 182 cast for Mr. Blaine. His plural- I ity over Mr. Blains on the popular vote was 69,806. Mr. Cleveland received the solid Southern electoral vote, with the votes of New York, New Jersey, Indiana and Connecticut added. But the election was, nevertheless, very close, since a change of New York's thirty-six votes would have given' Blaine 218 votes in the Electoral College to Cleveland's 183, and Mr. Cleveland only secured the State by 1017 plurality out of a total vote of 1,171,3i2. Mr. Cleveland was a bachelor at the time of his election to the Presidency, but on June 2,1886, he married at the White House Miss Frances Folsom, of Buffalo, the youthful daughter of his former law partner. Mrs. Cleveland succ?eded the President's sister, Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, as mistress of the White Housa. and has gained a wide measure of popularity. Allen G. Thurman. Allen Granberv Thurman was born on November 13, 1S13, in Lynchburg, Va,, ol good descent on both sides of his family. His mother was a half-sister of William Allen, who became Governor of Ohio. His paternal grandfather, who was a Baptist minister, removed to Ohio with his family, numbering three genaralions, when Allen G. Thurman was six years old. A settlement was made in Chili'cothe, where ths boy's father at first tanght school, and then engaged in woolen manufacture. The laa obtained his education at the Cbilicothe Academy, and was graduated with high honors at the age of seventeen. Then he studied law in the offices of his uncle, William Allen, and Judge Swayne, of Columbus, Ohio. During his period of study in the Stite capital he read law chiefly at night, as in the daytime he was acting as the private secretary of Governor Lucas, and the duties of the position included much work which would now be assigned to a number of clerks. In 1835 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Chilicothe as the pnrtner of his uncle, who, becomin? engrossed in polities, soon left the care of his law business entirely to the young man. Mr. Thurman applied himself with great industry to his profession, in which he quickly attained distinction. In 1845, while he was absent from his Congressional district on | professional business, its Democratic Convention nominated him for Cougress without his Rnlinitfttion or knowledge. Mr. Thurman was elected after a personal canvass ol the whole district, in which he freouently had public discussions with hit Whig opponent. At the end of his term he declined a renoraination, and resumed the practice of his profession. In 1851 he was elected, upon the Democratic ticket, a Judiro of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and from 1854 till 1856 he was the Chief-Justice of that court. Returning to the bar in 1S50, ho found business pouring in upon him from all sides, and by his professional labors he gradually acquired a competency. In 1S67 he received the unanimous nomination of the Democratic State Convention for Governor of Ohio, and after a hotly contested campaign, in which he took an active art, was defeated by Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1868 Mr. Thurman was chosen United States Senator from Ohio, succeeding Benjamin P. Wade, and he was re elected in 1874. During his twelve years in the Senate he served on a number of the most important committees, and was recognized as one of the ablest leaders of the Democratic party. Since his retirement from the Senate, Mr. Thurman has taken but little active part in political affairs. THE MARKETS. 24 NEW YORK. Beef. City Dressed 0% /-w-immnn tanrime.... 714GB "A gheeo ^ @ ^ XSfc 5 CO @6 76 Ho^Uve 5 70 j 5 95 Dressed ~tA Flour?City Mill Extra. 4 So 4 65 West, fcood to choice 4 fc5 @ 5 ou Wheat?No. 2 Red ?1 *A? 93 Rye-State ko 1 o? Barley?State ?2 @ 8o Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 5b @ 59/? Oats?White State 43 @ 47 Mixed Westeru 83 @ 40 Hay?Choice Timothy 95 @ 1 00 Straw?Long Rye - 1 05 (<? 1 10 Lard?City Steam ? @ 8 15 Butter?State Creamery.... 20H@ 21 Dairy 16 @ 1?^ West. Im. Creamery 14 @ 18 Factorv ML, Cheese?State Factory, New Slfims i ? 1 Western L,? ?., Eggs?State and Penn 17A? 17% BUFFALO. Steers?Western 2 50 @ 4 00 Sheep?Good to Choice 5 CO @ 6 00 Lambs?Western 6 50 @8 25 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 5 (?) 5 75 Flour?Family 4 85 <gr 5 25 Wheat-No. 1 89}?@ 93 rWn?Nn it MiTArt K7 (ih K71^ Oats?No. 2, Mixed 36 (g) 36>? Barley?State 88 @ 01 BOSTOIC. Beef?Good to choice 7 @ 8 Hogs?Live 6 Northern Dressed..., 6jf@ 7 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 25 @ 5 C5 Corn?^teamer Yellow. 6S (c? 69 Oats?White 47 y,(ft 4X1$ Rye?State CO (fy 65 % WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET Beef-Dressed weight 7 @ 1\i Sheep?Live weight 4j$@ * 6 Lamb) ; 6 8 Hogs?Northern 7 @ 7# PHILADELPHIA Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 85 @ 3 03 Wheat-No. 8, Red 91K@ ?-> Corn?No. 2, Mixed 59 (<S 69}$ Oats?Mixed... 42 @ 48^ Rye?No. 2 ? @ 78 Butter?Creamery Extra... ? <3 19 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. ? QS 9 1 / A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS. Large Sections of the West Overrun by the Pest. Great Damage in the Infested Kegion by Their Depredations, Professor Otto Lugger, the entomologist of the Minnesota State University, has been up in the Otter Tail locust region and has brought back interesting reports of his observations there. It appears ;that the condition of things up there is very much worse than was generally supposed. The region infested by the locusts consists of 100 sauare miles, and Professor Lugger states that he found the locusts averaging 12 to the square inch. They are the genuine Rocky Mountain 1nnii?t? that hare done so much damage in these Northwestern regions In the past. Their actions are not, however, after the ordinary pattern of the conduct of these insects, and so afford a chance for much interesting study. They have made this region their feeding ground for four years. In each year they nave done much damage, but never so much as they are doing now,for the reason that they are swarming in so much greater numbers. The inhabitants of the region have kept strangely silent on the subject, fearing that if the report got out that the "grasshoppers" were doing damage again it would be a greater injury to the whole region. The Professor thinks this course has proved injurious. If some vigorous action had been taken at the start the locusts might have been exterminated. Now it will be a great fight. A great deal of damage has already been done and a good deal more must be done in the future. Twelve insects to the sauare inch means enough to destroy about all thb vegetation that can grow in one sfeason; in fact, there are parts of the country .where every trace of vegetation has been eaten to the ground. This entails much suffering already and gives promise of so much more that the farmers in many instances are moving out of the country. rrof. Lugger came back for help. Gov. McGill gave him four carloads of materials, and thus equipped the Professor has gone back to fight the enemy. The main weapon is a sheet of canvas 15 feet wide stretched over a frame. There is a trough at the upper edge of this which is kept filled with petroleum. This is allowed to run clown gradually over the canvas. The canvas is drawn along over the fields, and the locusts, flying up against it, come in contact with the petroleum-saturated canvas. A single touch is enough to kill them. This method of warfarejigainst the insects has been found to be very effective, due wnen suca large areas are infested it is,of course, a pretty big undertaking to attempt to exterminate them in that way. It an effort had been made in the spring, while the eggs were deposited in the ground, much more good might nave been accomplished. Of course there is great danger that the infested region will be I greatly enlarged. | Dispatches from several points in Illinois and Iowa say that the locusts, which are making their appearance in such great numbers, are not molesting the fruit, grain or vegetables as yet The only damage done is the killing of young and tender trees, many of which die from the incisions made by the insects in depositing their eggs. The Secretary of the Iowa State Agricultural Society says he has received information from Muscatine that there are millions of locusts iu that county, but that no special damags has yet been reported. DEVASTATED BY FIRE.' The Easiness Portion of Norway, Minn.. Laid in Ashes. Nearly all the business portion of Norway, Minn., is in ashes. In all forty-saven houses were destroyed. The fire broke out at 2 p. m. Sunday, and the fire engine broke down before getting a stream on the flames. A terrific wind swept the flames over the town, and until five o'clock there was nothing to bar the progress of the fire. As it swept through the business portion toward the resident portion a scene ot wildest excitement prevailol. Everybody in its track hastily removed their effects to places of safety, and tho town seemed doomed to total destructioa The fire department from Iron Mountain was despatched as soon as possible. Before they reached the scene, however, a most tern Die storm, amounting; aimost iaj ? | cyclone, accompanied by terrific rain, struck the burning city and soon put a stop to the scene 6f havoc. Hundreds of people are homeless. The damage was fully $220,000. Only two stores were left, and were it not for the prompt assistance of the people of Iron Mountain much suffering for foo:l would twra resulted. Norway was the first town built on the iron range bad about ten thousand inhabitants. , PROMINENT PEOPLE, The Prince of Wales suffers from insomnia. Gladstone was once a squatter in Australia. Pierre Lorillard is a crack shot with a | pistol. The Ameer of Afghanistan will visit England this summer. Ex-President Hayes dramatized Scott'g "Lady of the Lake" when a boy of ton. Judge kelley,the "Father of the House," was a jeweler before turned his attention to politics. ! John G. Whittier, the poet, has a lingering fondness for the shoe ma king trade, which he learned when a boy. The Queen of Denmark is intensely deaf, hut fond of music, and has a bier and cower ful organ that she can hear. Baron dk Heln, one of the Chief Justices of the Austrian Empire, has seventeen children, nine of whom are girls.. Cardinal Howard, who is hopelessly insane, took to the Church after being jilted by a beautiful Irish girL Queen Louise, of Sweden, is threatened with a return of the cancerous trouble which nearly took her life a year aga Russell Sage, the New York millionaire, once lost a wallet containing $44,000, and a clergyman found and restored it. The Prince of Wales, in the mere number of miles traveled, has probably beaten most explorers, ancient and modern. It is estimated that President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland received invitations for visits during the summer holidays at the average rate of one a minute. There appears to be very little doubt in New York about the Duke of Marlborough having set his heart upon marrying the beautiful widow Hammersley, who has a little dot of $5,000,000. Prince Victor Napoleon, the heir to the French Empire, is gradually baiug adopted bytbe ex-Empress Eugenie. She has expressed a desire that he should take up his residence with her. Claus Spreckles, the Sugar King, is a member of the highest nobility of the Sandwhich Islands. His title was given hi m by the King in return for financial favors, and is never used by Mr. Spreckels. Don Pedro, of Brazil, besides being a wise and liberal monarch, an accomplished musician and an experienced traveler, has been a profound student of languages, and is well versed in Hebrew, Arabic and Sanscrit. An unpretentious-looking man with a Kmwn hanr/4 a florhv hut and nnfash ionable clothes is often seen walking briskly up Broadway, New York. It is ex-Governor Geo. Hoadly, of Ohio, who is now making an annual income of $50,000 in the metropolis as attorney for several railroads. President Seelye, of Amherst College, is gifted with a remarkable memory. He is able to greet by name every living graduate of the allege whom he has ever met, and freshmen who have not been in college a week are surprised to hear the President address them by their first name. The Empress Victoria was the good genius of the German Emperor throughout his illness. Every day she was in the kitchen to see her husband's food properly prepared; day and night she attended to every one of the doctor's orders. In moments of danger and at operations she assisted like a skilled nurse, resolutely helping to move the bed. The leading lady, by right of official etiquette, among the wives of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, is Mrs. Eliza Winters Miller, wife of Justice Samuel F. Miller, of Iowa. She is of English parentage, her father having been a Baptist clergyman, Jft Bristol, England. She is the second wifa ff Justice Miller, and was a widow at the time of bar marriage to him. i - 'V'v'. -- \ . . ,.-r. J* THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Five men were horribly burned, two of them fatally, by the overturning of a ladle at the Pennsylvania Steal Works at Stockton, Penn. James Freeman Clarke, the historical and secular writer, has died at his home in Hanover, N. H. John Smith, an old farmer of Fairview. Penn., was killed by the bursting of a small cannon used in a political demonstration. Twenty-one people have been killed and one hundred ana thirty-nine injured in New York city since January 1 by horses and vehicles driven by reckless drivers. Albert Wettber, a shoemaker, has been arrested at Crimmitzschau, Saxony, for the murder of a banker in Watertown, N. Y., in August, 1886. A. G. Sellon, the chief clerk on the postal car in which Clerk Jere. G. Sinclair was murdered at Bangor, Ma, has confessed the deed, pleading self-defence. Four men were drowned by the capsizing of their boat near Hockland, Me. In the Rhode Island General Assembly Jonathan A. Chace has been re-elected United States Senator by a majority of both houses. The Legislature adjourned until January, 1889. At the village of Glasgow, Penn., Ellis Wingert, a farmer, was shot and killed by a woodsman named Mr. Kee, who immediately committed suicide without assigning any I cause for the tragedy. The Unipn Labor State Convention of Maine in session at Waterville nominated W. H. Simmons for Governor. Resolutions were adopted favoring greenback postal banks, goverment telegraphs and railroads, service pensions, an income tax, a secret ballot and homestead laws, and denouncing the importation of labor and fusion with other parties. The Vermont Prohibitionists assembled at Montoelier and nominated Professor Seely, of Middlebury College, for Governor. The Maine Republican State Convention was held at Portland, and State Treasurer Burleigh was nominated for Governor. Resolutions were adopted condemning the Mills bill, but declaring that "it is the duty of Congress to reduce National revenues to an amount which shall equal as nearly as possible the annual expenditures of the Government." Four persons were fatallv burned and seven injured by a tenement house flee at 34 Second avenue, New York. Sonth and West. Mr. T. Harbison Garrett, the banker of Baltimore, and brother of Robert Garrett, the railroad magnate, has been drowned in the Patapsco River. His steam yacht Gleam was rundown by the steamer Joppa. Four masked men attempted to rob an A PwnwAfia />SM of iWlKl HIWa QTlH Aiucnv;au uaui coa utt ou i^oiu<, vmw, murdered the baggage master, who resisted them. They fled without securing any booty. The graduation ceremonies of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis took place Friday. The address to the graduates was made by Governor Knott, of Kentucky, and was received with great applause by the cadets. The diplomas were handed to the graduates, 90 In number, by Secretary of the Navy Whitney. The triennial General Conference of the German Lutheran Church, at Madison. Wis., concluded after the adoption of resolutions declaring strongly against secret organizations. Hereafter persons desiring to join the Church must first sever connection with all secret organizations of which they may be members. The County Commissioners at Central City, Neb., have discovered a shortage of f3p,000 in the accounts of the Treasurer, Colonel W. H. Webster, who has fled to parts unknown. Millions of Rocky Mountain grasshoppers have appeared about Pasham, Minn., and the State authorities have sent thither four car loads of materials for their destruction. The Thirtv-sixth Annual Convention of the International Typographical Union has been held at the Board or Trade Hall, Kansas City, William Amison, the International President, presiding. Mayor Kumpf made a speech of welcome to the visiting delegates. James Poster (colored) was taken from jail at Henderson, Ky., by a mob and banged for a brutal crime which he had confessed. In a difficulty over a trifle at Longview, Texas, Watson Rosson, aged eighteen years, shot and killed Fletcher Welch, an old man. R0BKRTS0N,a colored soldier at Fort Shaw, Montana, quarreled with another man and, shooting, killed a bystander. At night he was lynched by fifty masked men. The Prohibition Convention of Missouri was he!d at Kansas City and a State ticket was nominated headed by J. M Lowe for Governor. Peter Alt, proprietor of the Arlington House, Baltimore, while drunk male a murAfreaiilf nnnn ki? wifa wHon Viia I year-old son shotliira dead. Eighteen State convicts employed in railroad construction near Georgetown, Ky., overpowered the guards and escaped. The mother of General Philip H. Sheridan has died of old age at Somerset, Ohio. Dennis Williams (colored) who shot and seriously wounded Superintendent McCormack at Ellersville, Fla., was taken to the woods by a mob and lynched. His body was afterward found in the river. The recent severe rains have caused the greatest flood ever known in Northern Minnesota. At the village of Cloquet the portion of the town on the island was engulfed, only the tops of the houses being visible. All the sawmills being flooded were abandoned, and in the boom3 200,000,000 logs were jammed. All county bridges have bean carried away. Washington. The President has approved the acts for the erection of public ouildings at Paterson, N. J., and Tallahassa, Fla.; the act to increase the appropriation for the public building at Sacramento, Cal., and the act to amend the act to establish agricultural stations in connection with colleges. Attorney-General Garland has sent to the House revised estimates aggregating $1,700,000 for expenses of United States courts for the fiscal year 1869. The Department of Agriculture has issued a crop report showing a reduction in the area of winter wheat, and an increase in spring. The acreage of rye and barley is the same as last year, but there is an increased cotton area in every State except Florida. The Postmaster General has sent to Congress an additional estimate of appropriation for the free delivery service for the next fiscal year of $l,021,?u0. It will be necessary to employ 1,600 more carriers?an increase of twenty-five per cent.?to bring the hours of letter carriers within the provisions of the law. General J. D. C. Atkins, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has resigned. The President has nominated Varnum M. Babcock, of Wisconsin, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at St. Croix Falls. Wis. Foreign. Jakes G. Blaine and party have gone on a three weeks' coaching tour through Scotland with Mr. Carnegie, the Pittsburg (Penn.) iron manufacturer. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has agreed to abolish capital punishment. The stables of the Street Railway Company at Montreal, Canada, were destroyed by fire of incendiary origin, and 134 horse? were burned to death. Hrrh von Puttkamer, the Prussian Minister of the Interior, has resigned. Sergeant McGowan, of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was murdered by Constabla Simpson at \Valderstown, Ireland. A sword Rnd revolver were used by the murderer, who afterward committed suicide Lord Stanley, of Preston, the new Governor-General of Canada, has arrived at Quebec. He was given a grand welcome and a volley of marine bombs was fired in his honor, to which the citadel responded with a salute of seventeen guns. The Right Hon. Edward Robert KingHarman, rarliamontry Under Secretary for Ireland and member of Parliament for the Isle of Thanet, Division of Kont, died at his residence in Ireland, aged fifty. Lord StanleV, of Preston, has been sworn in at Ottawa as Governor-General of Canada. Tenants on the Island of Arran, Ireland, have been threatened with dynamite if they pay their rent. Emperor Frederick at last accounts was reported to be much worse. " i.; V . ' ' ' ' ' ..\v" *: > - ' ';:^v - ?-r ' . 0 * : >/ ' ** . " -7 ' EVEKTS DFTEE DAY. Cream of the News as Skimmed from the Wire. Mysterious Murder of a Maine Bailway Postal Clerk, Jerry Sinclair, a veteran railway postal clerk, tu mysteriously murdered at Bangor. Me., Saturday night while at his poet on the mail car of the night exprecs for Boston. Hia body was discovered lying on a pile of raai bags jost as the train was leaving that city.1 The train was stopped and the body taken out OI tne CELT ^ DUU It Wft3 XiUli UISCUVCI CU uuav u? bad been murdered ontil two hours later, when Undertaker Hunt was removing his clothing to prepare for embalming, it being supposed that hemorrhage of the lungs caused his death. Mr. Hunt found a deep cu<i in the left breast, just above the heart, which severed the main artery, and this haa caused his death Dr. Sanger, who examined the wound, said the man must have died within a minute after the wound was inflicted. Sinclair left the postoffice on the mail cart soon after 7 o'clock to join the other two clerks, 8. Lyman Hayes, of Ossipee, and A. G. Sellon, of Methuen, Mass.. who make the run with him, and who bad begun work on tbe mail car at six in the evening He had changed his coat for a jumper and put on a pair of overalls. The train had been backed into position in the depot aad the mail put into the car when Transfer Clerk S. T. Lowry stepped up to the main door at the Bide of- the car and handed Sinclair a package of letters just three minutes before tbe train started. When the last gong was sounded three minutes later, and the train had begun to move slowly out of the depot, Mr. William H. Lowell, who runs the restaurant at the depot, and who was going aboard as a passenger, jumped on to the rear platform or the mail car, and on looking into the open door saw Mr. Sinclair on a pile of mail bags, apparently dead. ' < At about 10 in the evening, when the undertaker removed tbe clotnlng from the body, he found a deep cut extending downward in the shape of a V on the left side, just opposite the left arm This wound was seven inches long and between five and six inches deep and severed the main artery. Sellon ana Hayes have been arrested for murder. Fatal Midnight Flames. Shortly before midnight Saturday afire broke out in a two-story tenement block at Lowell, Mass., and spread rapidly, practically gutting the building before the Fire Department could make much headway against the flames. The building was occupied by two families, nine persons in all Six of these escaped. Three were burned to death. Alfred Vallerand, aged fourteen, was nearly suffocated before he awoke. The. flames cut off all egress, but he rushed through them^nd jumped to the ground through a win? w. The hair was completely burned off his .Bad, and the skin of his face and the upper Bart of bis body was burned black, injurinatim fatally. Mrs. Thom3| Vallerand. the mother, a widow, escaped by jumping from a window, breaking her leg in the fall The Boisvert family?three in numberescaped from the building. Mrs. Boiivert was burtaed slightly and the smoke so pene*. trated her lungs that a fatal result was apprehended. She made her escape by getting out of an end window upon the roof or a low buildine n^'oin-'nc. rarrying her little oneyear-old baby w i ,h her. The bodies louuU iu the building bore no ?fhof t.hom wn<5 anv atriiTcYe. and it D V 1UOI1V/C WUWw V..W. w - y ot> , was supposed that they suffocated before awakening. The aiuie of the fire was unknown. The house was a rattle-trap affair, with a narrow stairway. Murdered By His Mother. There is much excitement at Greenfield, Mo., the county seat of Dade County, over the discovery that a supposed suicide was a singular case of murder. Last Sunday morning George, the fourteen-year-old son of Mrs Stoffle, a widow living on a farm near Sprinsrfield, was found hanging dead in a barn. The general, belief at the time was that he had committed i suicide. The mother's grief took a very violent form soon after the funeral and she was placed under restraint It then came out that she had threatened the boy's life; and in one of her lucid moments sho said she had drugged her boy with morphine and then doagged him to the barn and hanged him. A Death Dealing Tempest. Several persons were killed in a tempest at Fort Yatea, Dakota, by lightning ana flying debris. Those so far identified are Shell King, the celebrated Indian chief, and his son. A farmer living two miles sooth was found dead in his field half a mile from the point at which his house was situated. The building had been completely wrecked, and it is supposed that the man had been carried to the point where found by the wind. Mattie Dambrowski, a girl of thirteen, living at a settlement six miles south, was blown into the river and drowned. The loss among the Indians ia especially severe, as hundr<?ds of thei# had everything o wonf. awnv hir t.hft win A* lUCJ' pvixxswou o??w^Cat His Son's Head Off With an Axe. A. terrible tragedy recently occurred in Haselgraea Township, seventeen miles from Monticello, Iowa. An old man named Rothbaker, who was working in a stone quarry, undertook to whip his boy, ajad twelve years old, but was prevented by a fellow workman. In the evening the old man again tried to whip the boy, who ran away. The father gave chase,and captured him, knocked him down and cut his Head off with an axe. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Thirteen Boston churchea are without pastors. Thk Alabama State Treasury contains $400,000. The largest cable road in the world is at St Louis. A strange disease has appeared among the Texas cattle. A bio fire in Panama destroyed $800,000 worth of property. Claims for sidewalk injuries in Detroit aggregate $100,000. "Christian science" has driven a Cincinnati young man crazy. The 40,003 Bohemians in Chicago are preparing to become citizens. A Cape Cod man, now a Bostonian, is a Director in 57 national banks. One of the men-of-war at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is sold for $10 to a junk-dealer. yEx-Governor William Johnson, of entucky, died at his home in Bards town at the age of 71. Mr. Villard, the famous American railroad financier, is organizing an expedition to the South Pole. in H7 T->? ? T7nf.fiT-on nt r ADiUO I*. XVIA) CL W TTI*? fvw??u Marblehead, Mass. has inherited a million from a rich uncle. The English Government think they have discovered a Fenian plot to assassinate Irish Secretary Balfour. The New York War Id's editor and proprietor, Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, has entirely lost the sight of one eye. Leprosy is spreading at a dreadful rate in Russia Thirty cases have been officially reported in Darpat alone. The Farmers' Alliance, introduced into Mississippi in March, 1887, has now 1200 lodges aud 40,0j0 members. The next session of the Presbyterian General Assembly will be held in the Fourth Avenue Church in New York in 1339. A famine prevails at Epirus, Greeca. Funds have been started at Constantinople and Athens for the relief of the sufferers. The municipality of Berlin contributes annually more than $300,000 to the maintenance of hospita.s and other sanitary institutions. A city official of the xjizy of Mexico who died the o?.her day had been stealing right along for thirty-nine years without a suspicion beinK raised. The City of Macon, Ga., has been sued for $20,000 damages, by the widow ot a man who was lynched two years ngo. She claims the city was responsible. The locomotive engineer dreads unplaced switch > children don't i ?"5 * . J. -r'j-.: t,. .....!/ . '.v 8UMHABT OF OON&BE33. Senate Proceedings. 109th Day.?The Fisheries Treaty was again brought 'up for consideration. Mr. Gray made a prolonged argument In favor of its ratification, and in defense of the Secretary of State for his action in the matter. Mr. Riddleberger declared that the treaty ought not to be ratified. On motion of Mr. Sherman further consideration of the measure was deferred. 110th Day.?A bill was introduced to appropriate $25,000 for putting underground the wires belonging to the District of Columbia which are used for official telegraph, telephone and fire alarm purposes?Mr. Chandler offered a resolution referring the credentials of Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, to a committee for the purpose of investigating the method of his election... .Mr. Stewart's resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the offers and purchases of bonds since April, with the names, etc., went over without action, after considerable discussion?Mr. Cullom addressed the Senate on the bill to amend the Insterstate Commerce law....The Senate was addressed by Mr. Dolph on the subject of coast defences. 111th Day.?Mr. Hale addressed the Senate in opposition to a ratification of the Fishery Treaty, and incidentally spoke of the menace to American interests by reason of the heavy coast defenses England was erect ing on the Pacific coast....The Senate, in considering the District of Columbia Appropriation bul, voted to strike oat the provision requiring electric wires to be placed underground, and the bill passed....The resolution calling for a statement of the sale of bonds since April, 1888, with names of the parties, was passed. Honse Proceedings. 133d Day.?The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Mills Tariff bill and the consideration of the salt paragraph was continued. A vote was taken on a motion made by Mr. Burrows to strike out the paragraph, and was rejected. An amendment offered by Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, to exclude bulk salt from the free list, admitting only dairy and table salt, met with a similar fate. This concluded the consideration of the salt paragraph. Mr. Baynp, of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment to insert rice, cleaned and uncleaned, in the free list Rejected. The four lines, 30, 31, 32 and 33, relating to flax, were read, and Mr. Browne, of Indiana, moved to strike them out of the tree list, rending debate tne committee rose. 134th Day.?The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Mills bill. The four lines relating to flax were reconsidered Messrs. Reed and Parker spoke in opposition to the clause while Mr. Bynum advocated its adoption. 135th Day.?Theee bills were referred: Providing for an Assistant Secretary of the Navy; to repeal all laws providing for internal revenue taxation; to provide for the levy and collection of a tax upon all incomes of persons, corporations and trusts of $5000 and upward per annum, the proceeds of saidincome tax to be devoted exclusively to the payment of pensions; to increase the efficiency of the Medical Corps of the Navy; to reduce the postage on fourth-class mail matter, and to provide that all articles or products not manufactured or produced in the United States, shall enter the ports of the United States free of al! import duty?Mr. Spinola, of Now York, ask?d unanimous consenWor the immediate consideration of the joint resolution appropriating $25,000 for the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.... A bill was passed increasing the police force of the District of Columbia. 13toh Day.?In the contested election case of Lynch against Vandever from the Vlth Congressional District of California, the resolution in favor of the sitting member, Mr. Vandever, was adopted without division,... The report of the Committee on Elections in the contested election case of Frank against Glover from the IXth Congressional District of Missouri, affirming the right of Mr. Glover, the sitting member, to the seat, was adopted without division The House then went into (Jommittee 01 the Whole on the Tariff bilL Mr. Bynum. of Indiana, moved to strike from the free list flax, hackled, known as dressed line. Agreed to Mr. Kelly moved to strike from the free list jute butts, and offered an amendment to strike out the last word in order that he might obtain time to have the reading of the report concluded. A spirited colloquy over this measure took place between Messrs. Kelley, Scott and Breckinridge. Mr. Kellev's motion was defeated. 137th Day.?The Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics reported a bill appropri ating 1150,000 to enable A. de Bausset* to buila an air-ship: referred to the Committee of the Whole The House then went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Springer of Illinois in the chair) on the Tariff Bill Mr. Bayne moved to strike from the free list sunn, sisal-grass, and other vegetable substances. The motion was defeated. Mr. Warner moved to strike from the free list burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches in width, of flax, jute, or hemp. The Committee of the Whole then agreed to an amendment placing jute bags for grain on the free list POSTAL EXPENSES. A L/reuiIftiue yuancnj xKcpui b M.- A ulu the Postoffice Department. The report just filed of the Auditor for the Postoffice Department for the quarter ended December 30, 1887, shows the receipts from all sources to have been 113,653,902, and the expenditures $13,791,781. Deficiency. $137,819, The total amount of stamps sold was $12,859,886. The revenue from the money order business was $238,879. The amount paid for railroad transportation during the auarter was $3,8(H), 7(i7. The report shows tnat the receipts for this quarter were'the largest for any quarter in the history of the Government, and the deficiency the smallest since the reduction of the rate of postage in 18831. MUSICAL AND DBAMATIO. Etilka Gerster has gone to ting at the Royal Opera House, Pesth. Three comic opera companies are playing in St. Louis for the summer. Jeff D'Angelis, the opera bouffantist, is engaged to Colonel McCaull until September, 1890. Charles E. White is the oldest living performer who made negro minstrelsy profession. Mas. D. P. Bowers, the actress, has decided to make a professional tour of the Australian colonies. James Lewis, of Daly's company, has been immortalized bv the London Times as an American Coquelia Mrs. Bernard Beere, the celebrated English actress, will come to this country and act just after election. Pinero's "Swe9t Lavender' has been purchased for the New York Lyceum, and will be produced early next season. The success of Booth and Barrett in tragedy has led to talk of an acting partnership between Jefferson and Florence. Bobby Newcomb, the well known favorite song and dance man, is dead. He was one of the neatest and most graceful performers on the specialty stage. Ella Russell, the American singer now in St. Petersburg, Russia, was recently presented with a rose of diamonds during a performance of "Traviata." Mrs. Alice Shaw, the American whistler, is just now a novel attraction at high society entertainmerts in London. She recently whistled for the Prince of Wales's benefit, and was personally complimented by him. Mme. Albani recently sung "Home, Sweet Home" at the inauguration of the exhibition for the benefit of the London (England) Home for Incurables in such a way that a lady present at once wrote her check for $5000 for the charity. The Egyptian Government has granted permission to Sarah Bernhardt impresario for the use of the Khedive's theater in Cairo for ten performances to be given in the winter. The great French actress proposes giving a like number in Alexandria also. Mme. Kate Rulla, an American prima donna, has scored an operatic success in London. She was called upon,without rehearsal and upon two hours' notice to sing in "Don Giovanni." She awakened the enthusiasm of the audience, and has been favorably considered by all the critics. Tony Pastor's Theater, in New York, which has just b?en destroyed by fire, was a regular school for comedians. Among the many graduates turned loose upon the stage from Pastor's tutelage are: Nat. Goodwin, Lillian Russell, George 8. Knight, Joe Emmet, Evans and Hoey, Neil Burgess. Baker and Farron, Thatcher, Primrose ana Wwt, Jacques Kruger, Deaman, Thompson and Gus Williams. LATEB NEWS, 18 Henrt Borthwick, an old man, whi^Bi a spectator at Forepaugh's Circus in Sprinf^H field, Masa, was struck by one of the ushefH for a trifling infraction of the rulos, and in^H stantly killed- jH Four monuments were dedicated tfl Gettysburg on Wednesday by members ol.;.-, Shaler's Brigade to their fallen comrades.. The stone monument marking the where Stonewall Jackson was shot has beep :i dedicated In Chancellorsville, VeL A clay bank in a brick yard at Men omit nee, Wis., caved in, and seven men wers buried beneath it. Two brothers saiptiff .'3 Janson were taken out dead and- terribly mangled. Two more were fatally htirt, and the other three have legs or arms broken an?. internal injuries. John HcCclloch shot his wife and kfiMtl^ ^ himself in St. Louis, Mo. Two young German ranchers, Hans Tidg*,-* and August Michaelson, were boating .?t Fullerton, Neb., when Michelson, tofrighti^jfTidge, who Was unable to swim, tipped fchS. ? boat. Both lost their balance, fell in, and were drowned. John J. Ha.ys, foreight years Treasurer uf Vanderburgh county, Ind., walked out o< f second story window while asleep and wl?1' killed. . Nineteen persons were poisoned at Kasbla*' i Minn., from eating diseased cheese. President Cleveland has approved tlifr bill to establisha Department of Labor.. The King of Holland's heir, the Princes* Wilhelmina, aged seven, years, has been be* trothed to the twelve-year-old Prince-of . Saxe-Weimar. The marriage will untt%~! Saxe-Weimar and Holland. ?" A FAEMEB'S LONG ; Going For Nearly a Month Without Food?A Strange Case. John Zacher, Jr., son of a wealthy BoW* mian farmer, living five miles north of Racine, Wis., has not tasted food for twentyr stx days. Daring the greater portion of th?^ -\time he has done arduous farm work, btxfc ~ lastaccounts had grown so weak that anything. more laborious than light chores exhausted him. He talks rationally, and gives no othar 'v. reason for his abstinence than that he is not hungry. Two doctors have been treating him. but their efforts to induce him to take food hareso far proved unavailing. It is thought hi*self-imposed fast is a pronounced symptom uf/insanity, although there are no other indications of mental weakness. Insanity has rufl in the family for several generations. Zachsr*: is fully six feet in height, and has been a very powerful man. His clothes, which fitted him a month ago, now hang loosely fl I him. His limbs and body have shrunken': away to a marked degree. The doctoral not think he can live long. THE NATIONAL GAME- v . It Is reported that veteran Tommy Bcoilfr to try pitching again. . "_i Gore, of New York, has stolen but on^ base in twenty-three games. ^ // '/ In three Princeton games Pitcher Bates, ,05 Harvard College, struck out forty-fife xn?u i Cleveland has cast a vote against having.' :J a base on balls recorded in th6 error oohnnir y of a score. .: The New Orleans management haa-volun^ tarily raised Captain limey's salary fof good work. . Vox deb A he's losses on his Western Atm - % ciation speculation are reported to he over -k $5000 already. Fred Pfefeer, of the Chicago*,-is eoinei ing second with more dash and .Tim thi|K*. season than ever before. ' A box of cigars is offered to the player 0^ ; ; the Chicago Western club making the firrf, doable play unassisted. " Whitewashes are plentiful ^fe'sBast??.? under the three-strike role. Last yearthey f were comparatively rare. . " ' . I "Siuxrao Mickjey" Walsh has kept his-. opponents down to lesB than ten hits in every} game he has pitched for the New Yorks. ; i McKean, of Cleveland, now disputes with* , Kiiroy, of Baltimore, the honor of being thffastest runner to first base in tbs Assocfe* ? tion. t. - * In three innings, as the men cams to the bat in the recent Prince ton-Yale garnet! Stagg, of the New Haven College; struck them out said to^5eta?ted at ^oskfordTffl^i^^ ^ persons being employed all the year round in the manufacture. C li he nt?, Of the Philadelphia!. has caught: in twenty-six championship games this se# son out of thirty played, twenty-one of th?&f being in succession. The numerous accidents on the field th&|season seem to show conclusively that theix . y. players are taking more desperate chance# than they ever dia before. At Scranton, Penn., Umnire Callihan; V had to be escorted from the field by polioe-j men and the players of the viaitftig verse* -m City Club, else he would have been mobbed! C" "A ball-tosser is either a hero or 4- -1 tramp," says the Louisville Post. "He is-*".,'3 either worsniped or he is cursed. There if) no middle ground around the bases for j him " y But for Mike Kelly's remarkable batting | and base-running, Boston would not rank a* a high as now. He, tingle-handed, has won a' ] number of game* by a timely hit, stolen base1 I or ran. 1 Catcher Flint has his hands done op iaj I kr.ots as an indication of the punishment-h? I has received In handling the swift delivery of ' K roc k, the big Oshkosh pitcher of th* Chicagos. Giles is the most valuable all-rotmdj player in the Cleveland Club. He handle^ flies in the field equal to the best of them,] plays at third with skili. can pitch a fine) tame, and in a pinch is a right good man tof ave behind the bat. "When any of the Chicago pitchers are be-! ing hit heavily Anson takes the slightest* chance offered to delay the game. His ideai is to break the spell of the batters and to giva> the twirler an opportunity of resting himself' and getting full command of the ball. Little is said about Farrell, the young' player Captain Anson, of Chicago, got fromi Massachusetts, and yet be is, by all accounts,' developing into one of the greatest player# in the country, and an especially heavy batsman. It is almost certain that he will, ,1 before long, become another Kelly. Umpire Gaffney says he is as much influenced by the character of a game as either " the spectators or the players. A close ud| well-played game, he says, puts the umpire; on his mettle, and gives him a chance to show the stuff of which his made. A one-sided and' draggy contest, on the othor hand, has a onrresnondinelv depressing effect and blunts the umpire's quickness of perception, NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. /fame or Club. Won, Lott, Chicago 28 11 Boston 25 17 7 Detroit . 25 15 New York 22 18 Philadelphia 20 18 Pittsburg 14 25 Indianapolis - 14 26 Washington 11 29 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. KameofClub. Won. 1/itL. Brooklyn 33 11 ' ! St. Louis 25 IS CkK IT Cincinnati ?i < Athletic 24 17. Baltimore 19 21 Cleveland 16 25 ,?( Kansas City 12 23 Louisville 11 32 Several of the wealthiest merchants of Moscow, Russia, have been convicted by ths Government of adulterating tea, which they bad for sale. One of the merchants has been deprived of all civil rights, and further, sentenced to Siberia for life. The largest meeting of Kentucky distillers forming the Whisky root ever herd has been -*4 in session at Louisville. They formulated aq agreement to reafcriofc production of '88-'89 tfl ii,000,000 gallons. * ^ '