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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,
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is to
HHHHfflB^BBflBlH9BH|^kLguch labor by
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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