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DARING BANK ROBBER A Reckless Bandit Secures $1200 in Ohio. After Killing a Farmer,He Shoots Two Others and Escapes. A reckless bandit of the Jesse Jamas order entered the Keystone Bank at Columbus Grove, a small town near Lima, Ohio, about 9 o'clock on a recent day and shot the cashier and another man, terriorizad the whole town, and escaped with $1200 that he took from the bank Tha man is described as about five feet ?even inches tall, of heavy build, with full face and small black moustache. He wore a black alpaca skull cap,long alpaca sack coat, blue striped trousers, and no vest. He appeared to be about thirty-five years old. He jumped off a freight train that morning, and going to tue hardware store of John Crawford asked to see some revolvers. He selected two and asked the storekeeper to load them. "When Mr. Crawford had dona so, his customer coolly pointed the pistols at his head and said. "I'll pay you in cold lead i? you want me to." He then left the store a_.t went to the C.R,?1. n??r hf T .T ia H>C^ OUUUW A/^un UVM* v r < ? w. *o . ? cashier He had opened the bank as usual in the morning. A heavy business was ex- | pected, and he had taken out ?1200 in greenbacks and had placed them near the paying teller's window. To protect money lying on the counter a plate glass about two feet high runs around the top of the desk. Sitting on a chair in the lobby was O. L. Syford, a big, strong man, and courageous. ?us chair was tilted back, and he was chatting with the cashier, who was not yet busv. Suldenly a man entered the bank. In ?acii hand he flour.shed a revolver. He cast bis eyes wildly about the room, and without * word began shooting. The first ball flew harmlessly through the til' and lodged in the wall above the cash" ler's head. Before Mr. Maple could make a move to lecure the revolver that was always kept in his desk for such an emergency a second shot shattered the bones of his right arm. Another shot followed, and the cashier fell from his chair, pierced in the side. Turning to Syford, the desperado spoke for the first time, and in foul language ordered him not to stir or he would meet a similar fate. At this juncture William Vanuemark appeared on the scene. Ho was a prominent farmer living in Union Township. He had driven into town that morning with soma 1 fkn UOJS BQU rccciioa a vucva \jul kuo uaua iv/i bis money. . The desperate man without a word faced the old farmer and levelled his revolver. The unfortunate victim had turned half way wouud when the ruffian fired. The ball struck him in the side just above the thigh, and passed almost through his body. He fell bleeding and senseless. Still Byford sat horrified and spellbound. That evening Vanclemark died. With his revolvers the robber broke the plate glass, and shoving his arm through the ragged aperture raked all the money amouut hog to about $1200 and thrust it into the side pocket of his long sack coat. By this time several people had beea attracted by the sounds of the shots. The desperado realized that it was time for him to he moving. Again brandishing his rovolvers be dashed out on the street. There was a wild scattering on the part of the people. ?<o one was loosing ror smeves ana murderers, and there was not a weapon in the crowd. One poor fellow failed to gee out of the way in time. Henry Buck fell pierced by a ball from the revolver that already scored two victims. Thorobber fired several times and shouted: "Po a second Jesse James!" The fellow ran down an clley and was last een disappearing into a big cornfield at the :S edge of towD. tv. T. Maple, a brother of the cashier came to Lima, and the local police and citizens from there and all towns near by went iu fruitless pursuit of the robber. It has oeen learned that after the chase V 'was given up that night tho man stopped with some laborers buildinga pipe line aboat two miles east of Beaver Dam, and at the crossing of the Lake Erie Railroad at a point one mile west of Biuffton. lie went into a pasture and stole a black mare, four miles east of Bluffton, and foll/nroH a furmsr and his familv home who | had been attending a show. With the readyrevolver he compelled them to get him a meal. The stolen horsa was tied to the branches of a tree by a rope halter duriug his stay at this place, and an attempt was made to buy a buggy and harness or even a bridle from the farmer, but in vain. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. {jf\ Death of the Well-Known American Poet at Boston. : James Russell Lowell died a few days ago & in Boston, of a complication of liver complaint, aggravated by his age. This well-knowa American poet, man of letters and ex-Minister to England and Spain, was torn in Cambridge, Mass., on Washington's Birthday. February 22, 1819. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1838. and studied law, opening a law office in Boston in 18^0. His literary career began with the publication of his first volumo of Doams in 1&41. From the time of the publication of his first volume until his death Mr. Lowell gave to the world numerous volumes in poetry and prose. The most characteristic of his prose works is "The Bigelow Papers," which was inspired by the anti-slavery movement. He passed the years 1S51 ani 1852 in Europe, and in 1S54 delivered a course of twelve lec- j tures in Boston to large audiences, his sub- j ject being the British poets. la 1855 be was appointed Longfellow's successor to the cuair of Belles Lettres in Harvard College, .and in 1S5T he became the editor of the A?.lantie Monthly. In 18B3 the editor of the North America* Review. In 18*7 Lowell was appointed to represent "the National Government at the Court of Spain, an ) in 1SS0 he was transferred to the Court of St. James. There, socially, he was the greatest favorite who ever represented ^the United States in England. After his successor was appointed he spent much of his time abroad. Mr. Lowell was married twice?in 1S44 and in 185V. His first wife died in 1853, and his secoud in England in 1S35. With bis death passes away one of the foremost of American poets and writers. AN EARTHQUAKE'S WORK, Wonderful Topographical Changes ill the Extreme Southwest. Persons from the region of Sonora, on the Colorado River, report a wonderful change in the topography and appearance of the country. Many old lan lmarks are obliterated, prominent natural objects are wiped off the face of the earth, and new or.es created in unexpected places. The damage done is principally to stockmen, who have lost many head ot cattle. The Cocopah Indians are heavy losers. The small stream four miles north of Lsr.Jo, which, prior to the recent earthquake, was readily forded, has become impassable owiu'4 to its depth. It is now necessary to oros< the water course six :nil.-s back fro n the C->lora io. The <'ocopa!i Indians now pre .iot another earthquake lia'?i to occ ir soon. Th ;v say natural signs in mm | _ FATAL TORNADO. Circus Tent Blown Down?Three Killed and Fifty Injured. A tornado swept over Ashlan 1, Wis., anl the town of Washburue, just across the bay from there, doing an immense amount of damage. At.Washburnethetentof Williams's circus tras blown down, three people being killed and about fifty injured, many of them fatally. About one hundred houses were demolished at Washburn" but the only casualties were those at the circus grounds. In Ashland about fifty houses were blown down, many of them the best business buildRft ingsAll of tbe skipping in the As land harbor suffered severely, much of it bain^ destroyed altogetiw* t \ . I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States^ T? * i ? Tf i w TV t nxi Af Tanort TTftti Wart of Revolutionary fame, one of the thfw captors of Major John Andre, the British spy, died a few days ago on his farm at Westcnester, N. Y. He was seventy-one. An inmate of the County Hospital, at Reading, Penn., na-ned Hiram Troxel escaped from his attendants and drowned himself in a water trough containing only fifteen inches of water. Troxel's race was almost eaten away by cancer, and he was driven to desperation by pain and hunger. He had eaten nothing for nearly a ! month. Philadelphia has taken the first stap to- ^ ward the formation of a naval reserve, in imitation of New York and Boston. I Norman Campbell, a prominent mem- I ber of the New York Consolidated Stock ( Exchange, committed suicide with a pistol , in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Business troubles drove him to the deed. Campball was about fifty-eight and had a wife and | family. W. E. Schmerlz, President of the Third ' National Bank of Pittsburg, Penn., has failed for $233,000. United States Commissioner Hirs^ibeck rendered a decision at Buffalo, N. Y., to the effect that Chinaman smuggled from Canada into the United States must ba sant back to China and not to Canada, as heretofore. John Uniack, a driver, and his four-year old son, Thomas, met with a violent death in Brooklyn, N. Y., from the kicks of a horse. Alvin Crimmins, of Danville, N. J., was killed in a saw mill near Hope, N. J., in a horrible manner. He was caught fast in a frame and was drawn on to a circular saw and his body was cut in two. The saw split his heart in halves. Lieutenant Alexander Ogle, United States Army, died suddenly in Pittsburg, Penn., as he was being removed from the Monongahela House to jlercy Hospital in an ambulance. G. M. Shinn. twenty-seven years old, the eldest son of the Rev. Dr. G. W. Shinn, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Newton, Mass., committed suicide by cutting his throat. He had recently failed to get the Government to adopt a patent letter box of his invention, and was also despondent from illness. An engine ran into a train loaded with Italian workmen at Branford, Conn., injuring ten of them. An uusuccessful attempt was made to mob the engineer by the injured men's companions. Intensely hot weather has prevailed in - ? *r c 1 J many porwons ui new uu^muu uuu Middle States. In New York City many cases of prostration through the heat were reported. South and West. Thomas S. Bocock, for fourteen years a < Member of Congress from Virginia, and for , four years Speaker of the Confederate Congress, died recently at his home in Appomattox County, Va., aged sixty-six. The New York and Chicago limited exfress jumped the track, near Salem, Ohio. he engineer and fireman were killed. A clerk in the clothing store of A. L. Abraham & Co. indulged in a surreptitious smoke, at West Superior, Wis., and when one of the proprietors came in he hid the cigar j stub on a table piled with clothing. The re- ( suit was a Are. and before it was suppressed almost the entire s>tock, valued at $40,005, was destroyed. Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, issued a proclamation calling an extra session jf the Legislature for August 31. Jaos. Esteks and Tom Lon,;, who fought i duel in the northern part of Franklin County, Kv., election day, have died of their wounds. They were desperate men. J udge Ogden Hoffman, the oldest, Federal Judge on the Pacific Coast, died at San Francisco, Cal., after four months' illness. The National Forge and Iron Company, of Chicago, 111., manufacturers of car axles, 8sh plates and bar iron, etc., made an assign- 1 ment. The liabilities are $500,000. Charles Nieman, aged twenty, shot and instantly killed George JNieruan, his father, at Cincinnati, Ohio. The tragedy was the I nf o familtr rlicnilto f The oldest savings institution in Louis- c ville, Kythe Masonic Savings Bank, has r suspended. Liabilities over $1,009,000. r A frightful heat wave in North Dakota si seriously affected the wheat crop in a dozen counties. r Alfred Downing, President, and N. H. Tollman, Vice-President of the National Capital Savings Building and Loau Asso- P ciation of North America, have been ar- 1 rested at Chicago for using the mails for v fraudulent purposes. It is charged that the P men conducting this association have ^ swindled thousands of people irom every v State. s; Portions of Iowa have been swept by a a furious tornado. Many houses were un- ? roofed, and several fatalities occurred. ^ Camp Douglas, a Wisconsin towD, has been almost destroyed by fire. Loss, $150,- p 000. li An express train ran into a freight train e aear Fort Wayne, Ind. The engineer and n fireman of the express were killed, eight ^ freight cars destroyed and the baggage and 1 express cars of tbe passenger train were ? ditched. 11 Work on the Wori i Fair buildings is ? being pushed rapidly at Jackson Park, Chicago. ? t \y asmngiun. ^ The Department of State is informed that, v according to the views of the Minister of State of Japan the subjects of that Government, under the existing laws of the Empire, will be unable to avail themselves of the benefits of our recent statutes relative to copyright. S The President has appoint3d F. M. Wise as Lieutenant Commander, Lovell K. Reynolds and James 0. Gilmore as Lieutenants, and William A. Gill as Lieutenant h of the Junior Grade. a A statement prepared at the Pension 1< Office shows that during the month of July 0 there has been issued 2S.107 pensions, aggre- u gating in first payments $3,576,855.23, of _ which the average to each pensioner was _ $127.28. I rt* t> :j a. i l IHE x"resilient lias a^uiuicu iviwum u vuuu u Shannon, of New York, Minister Resident and Consul-General to Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. A contract for 100 high-power guns has been awarded to the Bethlehem Iron Companv, of Pennsylvania. The total cost i? ?3,nSU,;3T3. Frederick Douglass has resigned his commission as United States Minister at Hayti. Foreign* Shortly after the steamer Alameda left Sydney, New South Wales, Second Lieutenant William J. Beiges, of Her Majesty's ship Ringdove, jumps*! overboard anfl^was drowned. He had bean suspended from duty ' for a breach of discipline, and it is believed that chagrin at this fact caused him to commit suicide. The nun moth, whose ravages wera disastrous to vegetation in various parts ol I Europe some years ago, has reappeare 1 in Westphalia, Germany, and is causing widespread havoc. There is a tremendous ru3h of gold seek- *1 ers to the n<?w fields in Masiionaland, South d Africa. n The Russian Imperial Council decide 1 to r prohibit the exportation of corn from that j; country, owing to thd bad harvest in Russia, f( which mis caused a scarcity of this cereal. ^ At Mor.ieu, Manitoba, lightning struck f( the house of Martens Killing. His wife was I. instantly killed an 1 the house destroyed. At ? Moose Jaw the wife of John McGrinnis w as alo killed by lightning. The famous Tokay vinayards, in the He- y galja district of Hungary, hiv3 bijn ravaged by phylloxera and almost entirely destroyed. An aged woman was fatally stabb9d and c cut in Whitechapel, London, by a man sup- | d posed to be "Jaca ttoe Ripp9r," this making f the thirteenth victim of the mysterious assassin. D L 1 he London Chamber or Commerce has issued a circular commending the Chicago i. Fair to English exhibitors, and advising that , high-class goods only be sent. " Alarhlno rumors regarding the health of 1 Emperor William, of Germany, are in circu- 1 lation. ? i Balmackda and the Chilian insurgents have appealed to Spain to arbitrate, in order to put an en 1 to the war. A fatal collision occurred at Davidstadt, Russia, a station on the Finland Railway, where a passenger train dashed into a military tram. Two soldiers were killed and forty-eijht persons were injured. The baggage car oE the military train was wrecked. influenza nas again maue im appearancB In Moscow, Russia, and is attacking people in all classes of society. On the average 500 persons are prostrated daily The Salvadorian Government has confiscated the Pacific Mail steamship City of ' Panama at La Libertad for leaving La i Onion without a permit from tho Captain of the Port. the international Congress or Hygiene J ind Demography was opened in London by ' the Prince of Wales, and the International < 3eographIcal Congress begau its session at Berne, Switzerland. ] Excessive rains, famine, typhus fever ^nd dysentery afflict the inhabitants of the ' Magura District in the Austrian CarpathL- 1 ins. ' NEW 8, A.'BTCOMMANDER. , Sketch of the Career of Captain John ^ Palmer. \ t > i CAPTAIN JOHN PALMER. s Captain John Palmer, who was elected by t tfee Assembly at Detroit Commander-in- ' Chief of tbe Grand Army of the Republic, * was born on Staten Island, N. Y., March 22, ? 1842, and removed in early manhood to Al- s bany, where he has been twica elected Commarder of the New York State G. A. R., t and has also been Senior Vice-Commander- 'J In-Chief. c His four years' st^vic-j during tlis war es- * tablished his record 8S a gallant soldier and > an efficient oflicer. Comrade Palmer enlisted in Company B, Ninety-first New York Vol- s unteers, September 10, 1861, and during his * continuous service with the regiment in c camp an l field was successively promoted t from private to Corporal-Sergeant. Ser- r geant-Major, Second and First Lieutenant, I Adjutant and Captain. Captain Palmer is a charter member of * Lew Benedict Post, G.A. R., of Albany, 1 which was organized in 180", and during its s existence has spent over 151", 000 in charity, s He has been commander of the post five j v times, and he presided at the National En- I rampmeut of the G. A. R. held at DaytOD, Ohio, while Senior Vica-Commauder-icUhie:. He was caairman of the committee appointed at the national encampment to visit President Cleveland and the heads of the f departments in Washington in the interest jf the veterans of the war. It was through s tne exertions or tms committee that many veterans were retained iu the public ser- . nee. 1 Captain Palmer has carried on the business of boss painter at Albany for mauy E fears. I BRINGING DOWN RAIN. L rirst Ilesnlts of the Government's j. Kxperiments In Texas. A special from Midland. Texas, to the r )al!as News says that the rainfall expedition roDi the United Stat?3 Department of Agri * ulture reached Midland and have so far | lade two successful experiments. The News eporter interviewed one of the party, who aid: "Saturday and Monday last part of the ain-making apparatus only was sat up and d he preliminary trial made simply to test t he efficiency of the special blasting owder which is being manufactured at I he grounds from material brought fa iith us. Several bombs were exloded by means of electrical dynamos. . ilthough this powder is very powerful, we . err* hv nn mc?nn?s rnnflHpnht.hat; t.ho pxnln ion would have any practical effect upon he meteorological conditions. However, I bout teu hours after the explosion clouds c athered and a heavy rain fell, extending iany miles f "We do not think the explosions actually h iroduced the storm, as they were not on a irge enough scale, but they were undoubtdly instrumental in precipitating the . loisture which the clouds brought n that locality and greatly increased he intensity of the storm and the quan- b; ity of the rainfall, which was greatest I 11 the immediate vicinity in the place r f operation. We will continue cautiously o make tests as to the density of the atmos- g i'aere in this particular locality, so that our c iombs may be adopted to meet every posai- i ile condition, and when we have sufficiently atisfied ourselves upon these similar' points he decisive experiment will be made. This fill not occur for several davuJ' DROWNING ACCIDENTS. jj t ix Persons Perish at Boston and Four in Wisconsin. t At Boston, Mass., a drowning accident jj appened in the harbor, off what i3 known s Cow Pasture, by which six lives were j >st. The accident was due entirely to a lack v f knowledge on the part of those who j andled the yacht, and the carelessness ' ? r\f fha Minn nov. ons started out for a sail during tho i fternoon in a small yacht and c tad proceeded a short distance t rhon she capsized, and all were thrown into ( he water. Only three of the party were c aved. Those drowned are John Burke and t wo of his children, aged eleven and fourteen t rears; Annie and Thotnas Carmody, uges i sleven and thirteen year.-, and Thaddeus dartliorn, aged thirty-fivo yenrs. Four young people, children of prominent Milwaukee business men, were drowned at Lake Pewaukee, Wis. They were out in a : imall sailboat with three other young j leople. A squall struck the boat, capsizing t. It was heavily ballasted and sank ilmost immediately, leaving the seven peo- | lie struggling iu the water. The names of , :he drowned are Albert and Emma Earth, Martha Kindling and Clara Siegler, their iges ranging from fifteen to twenty year3. FOUR LYNCHED. 1 nccntliaries Shot to Death in Henry County, Alabama. i News has just been received of a quadruple * inching in Henry County, Ala. On a recant ' ay the residence of William Davis, a promi- 8 ent farmer, was burned and the family nar- j! owlyescaped with their lives. On Sunday f !lla Williams (colored) was arrested and conassed to saturating the house with oil ami 1 jttiug fire to it out of revenge. Her con- t jssion implicated William Williams, Willis t rowe and Eliza Lowe (all co'.orei). They g rere arrested, anil while the officers wera t iking the n to jail at Abbeville a mob over- T owered the officers, and shoS the prisoners 3 death. Their bodies were thrown Into tie river nearby. That cx-alderman in New York wlio laims his salary for the nine months 1 uring wheh ho was in Canada hiding rom justice, would be a polished brass Qonument to society if he were only pol? shed and ornamental. a "What do you think of Dr. Hilnus 9 lea that a fish diet gives a mtn many a shy characteristics?" "I think the fc tatement a little indefinite. He does 5 ot stat> whether the man becomes a j hark or ? sucker." t A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER." i Fall of an Excursion Barge's *" i\ . - 1. upper ueca.. Fourteen Persons Killed and Forty More Injured. Four hundred employes of Theodore Kay3er'sdry goods establishment at 197 Graham avenue, Brooklyn, went on an excursion a few days sinca to Cold Spring Grove, on Long Island Sound. Tha steamer Crystal Stream and the barge Republic left the foot South Fifth street in the morning. The trip was a merry one, and when the party was landed at the grove every one was iu the best of spirits. After spending a few hours in the grove the excursionists made ready to return to Brooklyn at 4 3'clock. Just as the barge and steamer drew away from the Cold Spring dock a big squall sprang up. The barge lay close to the pier head, and was connected by a gang plank to the steamer, which was fast alongside. The last the excursionists was on board at 3:4-1 when the pilot gave the word to east off. rhe barge was fast to the pier by three hawsers?one from the bow. one from the stern. ind one amidships. The forward and 'mid- j ship hawsers were loosed and the bow of the vessels pointed to midstream when the squall ?me. Rain poured in torrents and the sky bo- I :aine black as night. An awning was low?red from the hurricane deck of the barge md fastened to the main deck to keep out ;he rain. A heavy gust of wind swept across :he barge, struck this awning and tore it iway. The force of the wind loosened the lurricano deck on the side from which ;he awning was svvuDg. The excursionists auddled together under it heard the crackng of the timbers and rushed to the other >ide of the barge. Every one became panic itricken. Before a single person had a .'bailee to escape from the barge the upper leek fell. Fourteen persons were killed and ,'ortv or more seriously injured. The scene when the deck fell was indeicribable. Above the storm could be heard he groans of the injured and the shrieks of votnen and children. Many jumped into ;he foaming waters, Kild it is oeiievea inat i ;oine were drowned. During all this time he crowded barge and steamer were tossed ibout on the angry sej. Jn a few minutes rescuers came to the issistance of the affrighted excursionists. The debris on the barge was cleared away, ind tho mangled bodies of the dead and vounded placed on the dock. Physicians vere summoned from near-by places. Then the wounded were carefully carried iboard of the Crystal Stream, which conveyed them around to Oyster Bay village, a listance of six miles, where they were atended by several doctors. The steamer then eturned and carried another load to Oyster Jay, and again a third load. Eleven of the fourteen persons killed were vomen or children and three were men. -tooerc ocmuer, jmui ui mc imong the killed. Among the injured were everal whoso wounds it was believed would esult fatally. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Ex-Senator Thurman's health is falling ast. Governor Hill, of New York, % getting tout. Senator Brice, of Ohio, i3 sightseeing n London. Justice Field is the scholar of the Su>reme bench. Emile Zola, the French novelist, la ris ng one-and-flfty. Chief Justice Lucas, of West Virginia, s only four feet high. Ex-Senator Ingalls is about to make a >ilgrimage to the Holy Land. Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is eportei to be worth $6,000,000. Don Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, is said o be much broken in body and spirit. Queen Victoria has conferred the order if the garter upon the Prince of Naples. The Duke of Edinburgh is the most peniriouc member of the British royal family. Edwin Booth, the tragedian, ia said to ' >? lying from the effects of over-indulgenco in obacco. It is said that stenographers pronounce iishop Phillips Brooks the fastest speaker q the world. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is a sufferer from ieart disease and has made preparations for , sudden deat^. Gladstone has a fondness for having xmgfellow read aloud to him, now that he an't read Homer. Parnell has been deserted by all but a ew insignificant followers, but he declares imself still in the field. John Bell, who was an intimate friend f Sir Walter Scott, died at Melrose, Scotind, the other day, aged ninety-two years. Robert Bonner has been such a lover of peedy trotters that he has spent more than 600,000 in gratifying his tastes in that diection. President Harrison has invested 20,000 of his surplus cash in a block at the orner of Pennsylvania and Georgia streets, ndianapolis. Le Caron, the notorious spy whose career ras brought to an abrupt ending by Parnell's ait against the London Times, is dying of a aortal disease. Ex-Secretary Batard, of Delaware, is rowiue fleshy as he advances in years, and us fine height is now balanced by a fair ireadth of body. Tue youngest member of the next Naional House of Representatives will be Baisy of Texas. He is not yet thirty years of ge, and is au orator o. unusual quality. The Countess Lswenhaupt, Secretary Jayard's daughter, who was lately widowed imier the most distressing circumstances, s spending the summer in Sweden with the arnily of her husband. Ensign Dashxell, who has charge of the mportant naval orelnance-proving station it Indian Head, on the Potomac, receives lie iminiucnit sum of $1200 a year from the Government. For this salary he furnishes mnrt Unnwlpdtri? on the subjects of navica ::on, naval ordnance, civil engineering, irchiteeture, electricity, machinery and inmentions. Commodore Ram.sev, who succeeded Admiral John Walker as Chief of tho Bureau oi Navigation, is a picturesque figure in the Navy Department, Ho looks more like a popular >ew York preacher than a naval o'hcer. He is one of the best sailors of the navy, howover, and is a mau of fine physique, tall, straight as au Indiau, with close cropped silvery hair and a trim little gray mustache. i RATTLESNAKE'S VICTIM. ! Horrible Death ot a Man Bitten by a Reptile lu New Jersey. William P. Elliott, of Branchville, N. J., lied the other day from the effects of a ratlesnake bite, which he received a week beore. Elliott was picking berries, when he uddenly heard the warning rattle, and the j nako, four feet long, sprang at him from j teneath a low, hanging bush. It sunk its , angs again and again in his arm. Instead of sticking the poison from the vound at once, Elliott tarried to kill the repile. By the time he got home his arm was errlbly inflamed and swollen. After lin;ering in groat agony for a week he died, ough every known medical aid to save him cas administered. DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. I ndignant Women With Pitchforks i Make a Libertine Jump to Death. A fellow named Boehruo, notorious for his bertinism, recently assaulted in Weissenels, Germany, a girl who bad rejected his dvances. The women of the village asembled, cairying pitchforks and scythes, nd surrounding the guilty man, drove him o the brink of a well, into which he jumped ,nd was drowned. It was given out thai ioehme had committed suicide through hams, and there is no - likelihood that hii ormeutors will be prosecuted. ' ' .. . LATEB NEWS. There wag a flurry in wheat speculation on toe new xorK rroauce jsixcanzige, prives advancing about five cents a bushel and 5,000,000 bushels being traded in. George Jones, chief owner of tho New York Times, died the other day at Poland Springs, Me. He wa3 born at Poultney,Vt., in 1811, and there he and Horace Greeley worked together as boys for the same man. Mr. Jones assisted in placing on sale the first edition of the New York Tri'6un#and started the Times in 1851. Jockey Monaohan, fifteen years old, was killed through injuries received while ridiug at the Jerome Park (New York City) races, and a similar fate befell Jockey Bushnell, twenty-eight years old, at the Gloucester (N. J.) race track. Mrs. J. Robertson and her step-daughter were raurdtred at St. Martinsville, La., by a burglar. Late heavy rains in Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Indiana have saved the corn crop. All work on the World's Fair building?, at Chicago, has been temporarily stopped because the foundations are not strong enough. William Armstrong, who, it is said, was the oldest living Odd Fellow in the United Rfntoo K?C "iitcf ^io/1 in Qo1a<vi Hmo a juou U4tu iu uuiuai, wi u., agcu eighty-nine. He was initiated into the Order at Buffalo, N. Y.. in 1834. Attorney-General Miller has directed nn investigation to be made of charges of brutal treatment of Federal prisoners con fined in the Arkansas Penitentiary at Little Rock. President Harrison has ordered an investigation of the reported seizure of the Pacific Mail steamship City of Panama by the Government of Salvador. M. Patenotre, at present French Minister to Morocco, has been appointed to succeed M. Theodore Roustan as Minister to the United States. M. Roustan will go as French Minister to Spain. The twelfth international convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations opened in Amsterdam, Holland. About 500 delegates were present, 100 of them being Americans. Count von Hogendorp, of Holland, was made President of the convention. Brief reports of the work in different countries were made. The Russian ukase prohibiting the export of rye has causad a sensation in Berlin, and the Drice of rve and other trains in Germany advanced. The Gladstonian candidate won the byeelection at Walsall, England, for Member of Parliament. Forest fires in the vicinity of Toulon, France, have destroyed more than 3000 acres of woodland. THE LABOR WORLD. Soston has a peddlers' union. Pittsburg reporters have a union. Berlin girl-waiters have organized. London employs 500,000 factory hands. Londonderry, Ireland, has 700 K. of I* Indianapolis workingwomen are organixing. Locomotive firemen will build a $150,000 hall. Illinois miners averaged $1.15 a day last year. An International woodworkers' union ii proposed. New York furriers who work overtime are fined $25. The weaving trade of Saxony is suffering from depression. The plush-makers.4 co operative shop at New York failed. A mass meeting of the unemployed waa held in New York. Australia's Labor party elected twentysix men to Parliament. Women in California canneries get from $1.10 to $1.90 per week. ? ? - ? OAZf r BA.^ti8i;u afiiiuou uw agaiuai/ iua competition of Japauese. Two railroad conductors in Illinois were fined for instituting a strike. Twentt-eight unions compose the New York Hebrew Trades Union. The diamond cutters of New York earn an average salary of $i>0 a week. New York organized workingwomen marched to a picnic in a body. The women of Italy who work olive oil presses get twenty cents a day. Coopers will hold a National Convention at Indianapolis on September 14th. Trade is extremely dull for carpenters and joiners throughout this country. Indianapolis laundry girls are Inducing employers to pay for work after C p. M. The street car railways in Chicago have decided to employ women as conductors. The New York Housesmittw' Union has 4000 members?only 125 non-union men in town Miss Sarah Shea is the manager of the K. of L. co-operative shirt factory of New York. Francs has prohibited the working of railroad firemen and engineers over twelve hours a day. The farmers in New England are offering *25 per month and board for laborers, and cannot secure them. For carrying marble blocks on their heads from the quarries, Italian women receive twenty-five cents per day. They are now oo 6trike to get three cents more. For producing twenty thousand slate pencils the State of Meininger, Germany, pays about 43. A family of about seven persons has to work an entire week to accomplish the task. The slate quarries ara property of the State. BOILED HIM ALIVE. How (he Shah of Persia Pnnishcd s Thieving Tax Gatherer. Advices from Teheran, Persia, bring a queer report to the effect that the Shah, having become much enraged against Abdullah Khan, the Governor of Mazenderiun, condemned that ruler to the terrible death ol being boiled alive. The charge igainst the unfortunate Governor wm -bat he had embezzled taxes dn to the Shah's treasury. The truth, it is alleged, is that Abdullah had not embezzled any more than he was in the labit of doing, but that, owing to poor hardest and the poverty of the jieasantry, he lid not keep the usual amount for the Shah. The Shab, with a view of striking terror into other thieving governors, ordered that A.bdulluh should be boiled alive, but gracously declared, also, that the water should Je boi'ing hot at the time of the fatal dip, so is to finish him as Quickly as possible. INDIA HUNGEY. Famine Extending in Two District# of the Madras Presidency. There has been no rainfall in the Chingle^ put and North Arcot districts in the Presi. dency of Madras, India, and all hoped of averting a famine havo been abandoned. The heat is unprecedented. The standing grain and other crop9 have succumbed to the long drought, and all are withered and burned. Many deaths from starvation have been reported. Horses, cows, donkeys and other live stock are dying in large numbers everywhere in the districts. It is not only the poorer classes of the population that are suffering. Many natives of the high castes are making application to the authorities for relief to keep theaualTM and tbeir families from ftarva&oa. ^ ,.| I THE COUNTRY'S CROPS. August Returns to the Department of Agriculture. Muck Will Depend on the Weather of This Month, The August returns to the statistician of the Department of Agriculture make the condition of corn 90.8; spring wheat,95.;\< spring rye, 89.6; oats, 89.5; barley, 93.8; buckwheat, 97.3; potatoes, 96.5; tobacco, 8&5; hay, 90 9. Corn has fallen off t *o points during the month, the decline being almost entirely in the States of the Ohio Valley and the Northwest. The decline was dne to dry weather, approaching drought in portions of Indiana and Illinois, and low temperature in all sections of the corn surplus districts. In the surplus States the averages are: Ohio, 93; Indiana, 88; Illinois, 85; Iowa, 90; Missouri, 87; Kansas, 83; Nebraska, 89. It should be noted that only one of the surplus States returns an average higher than the average for the country. The wheat returns i elate to spring wheat only, the average for the whole breadth advancing somewhat during the month. The improvement is general except in Washington, where hot winds injured the prospect m some districts. The State returns outside of this State and Wisconsin closely approach lUa cfanrlawl fi-.r pnmnuricnn ThfinnnHnal States are: Wisconsin, 79; Minnesota, 98; Iowa, 95; Nebraska, 97; North Dakota, 99; South Dakota, 9S; Washington, 90. Oats have improved two points during the mont h, and the figures of condition indicate a medium yield prr acre. Averages instates of larger production are: New York, 92; Pennsylvania, 91; Ohio, 80; Michigan, 86; Illinois, 86; Wisconsin, 89; Minnesota, 94; Iowa, 98; Kansas, 90; Nebraska, 96. Barley shows improvement and promises a large crop in most of the districts of heavy production. California returns condition at 100, or practically perfect. In-New York and Wisconsin, however, the prospect is less favorable. The first return for buckwheat is the highest for eight years past, with slight increase in acreage. The condition of potatoes is returned remarkably high, scoring a- gain of a point over last month. In fifteen years previous to the present season August shows condition higher than July once only. Should the present prospect be continued, the crop will be one of unusual proportions. The returns make the condition of cotton 88.9 for the whole breadth, practically the same as last month. The improvement during the month has been confined to sections of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. In other portions of the cotton belt there has been a decline in Th? fnrfc that the croD is decided ly late over almost the entire breadth makes the season during August of vital importance. MONEY IN CIRCULATION. An Increase of $10.00 per Capita id Thirty Years. A statement has beon prepared at tin United States Treasury Department in "Washington in regard to the amounts of money in circulation on the first of July of the years 1860, 1S65, 1885, 18S9and 1891, from which it appears that the assertion that there has been since the war a great reduction of the amount of money in circulation is without foundation. The statement is as follows: All the statements furnished are made upon precisely the sa jie basis, the amount of each kind or money in tae Treasury ana me remainder is given as the amount in circulation. There is nothing omitted from the statement which should appear there except minor coins (nickels and pennies) and they are left out of all the reports because of the difficulty in estimating the amount of them in use. As the amount at the present time is certainly greater than int.he earlier years, their omission will not be unfavorably criticised by those who contend that there is now a scarcity of money. The amount of money in circulation in 1880 was about #435,000,003, and the amount par capita was $13.85. In 1865 there were *723,0<X),000 in circulation, and the pel capita amount was $20.82. Twenty years later tht> circulation was over $1,292,000,000, and the per capita was $23.02; while on January 1, 1891, tae amount was nearly ?1,529,000,000, with ?24.10 as the per capita allowance, the highest in the history of the United States. Owing to the shipments of gold to foreigt countries there has been a decline since January 1, 1891, not only in the per capita amount but in the total circulation. On August 1, not withstanding the outflow of gold, the total amount was about $1,500,000,000, and the amount per capita was $23.87. RUSSIA'S GRAIN FAMINE. Restriction and Possible Prohibition of the Export of Corn. The grave situation created by the failure i of the crops in Russia is causing the greatest apprehension in all circles. A St. Peters bnrg paper declares that the local administrations will be unable to make provision for the inhabitants of the distressed provinces by drawing upon the surplus of other provinces if speculators are allowed to export corn or if the artificial rise in the price of corn is not checked. The paper demands that the Government immediately place a heavy export duty on rye. The Financial. Messenger declares that it will be almost impossible for Russia to export corn this year. It is officially announced that the Government. has not as yet contemplated issuing a decree totally prohibiting the export of grain from Russia, but the partial failure of the crops demands that provision ba made for the people living in the distressed provinces. and consequently the export of graiu from those provinces will be restricted uy the authorities. WORDS OF WISDOM. Learn to explain thy doctrine by thy life. Death breaks the lantern, but cannot put out the candle. Language was given that vrc might say pleasant things to each other. Reason is that ingenuity of the mind witn which men justify their prejudices. Purchasing luxuries and skimping on necessities and comforts is not wise economy. The excuse of ever} man who does not mind his own business is that he is trying to do good. Economy, rightly understood, is not refusing to spend money; it is spendiug money judiciously. It is about as hard to find a man who will not help you spend money as it i9 to fiod a man who will help you tn cam it. No state can be more destituto thav. i that of a person, who, when t'na delights oi seuse forsake him, has no pleasures of the mind. It is the bounty of nature that we live, but of philosophy, that we live well; which is, in truth, a greater benefit than life itself. It i3 with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the Ic3S they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. Indolence is a delightful but distress* ing state; we muse be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thDught to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. ^ v. Astonishing Sraa^llfl? Ingenuity. ' "There is a heavy duty on diamond!, and one of the pa3seugera had three large stones, worth about fl2,000, which ho had purchased in London. The problem of how to evade paying the duty on the stones worried him considerably, but at last he evolved a plan. "The chief officer had a little Skyo terrier, and the passenger, after considerable coaxing, induced him to sell the dog. As soon as the smuggler gained possession of the animal he tied him up and gave him nothing to eat until ju# before we were to go ashore. He then procured some fat meat from the ccok, and, cutttng off a piece a little larger than a walnut, made a hole in it, into which he placed one of the diamonds. "A dog will generally bolt a piece of i fat without chewing it, and, of course, a diamond will go down with it. The hungry dog swallowed the meat, as his owner expected he would, and in a short time the three diamonds were safely stowed away in his interior. The diamond smiicwrler had no diffifiultv in evading the vigilancc of tbe Custom House officials, and was soon on his way up town, leading the dog by a string. "1 met him a few days afterward, and asked him how he removed the atonea. 'Easily enough,' he replied. 'As soon as I got home I shot the dog and found the diamonds after a short search. Of course I was sorry for the dog, bat dogs are cheap, and the tariff on stones is high, and I never allow sympathy to interfere with business.' "-?Jeweler*' Wtekly' _____ All About Cellars. There is nD good reason why a cellai under a house should be any less health; than the house or rooms above it. But if the cellar is damp, and in* the fall filled with apples, potatoes, cabbages* and other fruits and vegetables, that heat, steam and decay during tbe wintet months, then the fumes may ascend to the rooms above and be injurious to the health of yourself and family. If you will keep the cellar dry and clean, and sec that the fruits and vegetables stored in it do not heat and decay, then there will be no danger to health. Have the bottom of the cellar cemented, and every spring clean out and give the walls a gooa coai 01 wnnewasn, ana Keep caa windows open all summer for ventilation. Wire screens over the windows will keep out the flies and other insects. "Want of cleanliness is why cellars are so often decried as the source of disease. A cellar wall made with cement, sand and gravel, if laid up properly, is preferable to brick, because it will not?absorb and hold so much moisture. Almoat any good country m*3on will be able to make you a first-rate cellar wall out of the materials named. In fact, you may carry up the walls of your house with tha same. The principal cost will be in tha cement, if you have saad aad gravel near by.?New York Sun. A Colt With Horns. Scriven County, Georgia, has a genuine curiosity in the form of a colt, which carries a pair of unmistakable horns on his head. He is now nearly a year old and in no way remarkable save for th? horns, which have grown with him until ?_ - _ i a j iney are nearly a 1001 m ibu^iu auu aa handsome a pair as auy cow ever carried. The animal is the property, or wa3 until recently, of a farmer named Kavanaugfy who has sold it to an agent of a dim? museum in Boston. Kavanaugh says the colt came of par ents differing in no way from their kind, and can only account for the peculiarity by the fact that the colt's mother wa? severely gored by a savage cow a few days before he was foaled. The animal has never attempted to use his horns, and, it is said, seems not to know that he possesses any such adornment or weapon. The other animals with which he is stabled and pastured, however, appear to recognize that there is something abnormal abo'it him. and are unanimous in giving him a wide berth, even threat ening him with hoof and horn when hi ventures too near them.?JSew xork jour* nal. Peiis and Razor* Don't Get "Tired." "Having been in the gold pen business I know whereof I speak," remarked Hon. J. O'Neill, "and when I say thai the story going the rounds to the effect that gold pens get tired, and must have rest is a glimmering falsehood. I make * the assertion advisedly. As the yarn goes, a bank clerk was overheard to remark that his favorite gold pen must have a month's rest, and when chaffed about it, replied that he kept two dozen gold pens for the reason that he could not get satisfactory work out of the pens unless he gave them a certain amount of rest. The same story is applied to razors by barbers, but the statement that a Tazor gets tired has Jong sioce been shown to be rank nonsense. If a gold pen is properly cared for it will last a long time. Otherwise it will becomo worthless very quickly. Ouce it gets 'tired,' however, it will remain 'tirei'? that is, it will be worthless for all time to come."?St. Ix?iu< Star-Sayings. A Valuable Cow. A gentleman living ncir Buena Vista, Ga., has a cow worthy of meation in these columns. lie has made a careful calculation of the product of this cow and it is as follows: Siucc she tirst began to give milk the yield in buttermilk has been 4462 gallons and 2231 pounds of butter, not couuting the sweet milk used by the family. Counting the milk at ten cents per gallon and butter at twenty-five cents per pound the value o 1 this product would be ?1003.95. She is of the common piney woods stock and was seventeen years old last June. Thia cow Is still doing crood service by giving two to three gallons of milk per day. The geutleman says if the cow was three years old, knowing what ha does, $150 would not buy her.?Atlanta Const it tit ion. Good Waterproof Blacking. A good waterproof blacking is composed of the following ingredients: two ounces of beeswax, two ounces of tallow, two ounces of spcrmaceti, one tablespoonful of lampblack. Mix all well togethor and stir well. Apply warm with a brush and when cold polish like ordinary blacking. Broken ends of candles will do for the spcrmaceti.?New York Tribune. Length of Soldiers' Steps. Among the continental armies the German soldiers have the longest legs, judging by the length of step, which is eighty centimeters. The step of the French, Austrian, Belgian and Swedish wldiery averages seventy-five centimeters, while that of the Russian soldiers rarely exceeds sixty-oiae. 1