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' Til WEEKLY mm 11101 TIlEoi ~*^kSe" S'' W* Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, PolitflHfoture, Politics and the Current News of the Day. THE LITTLE WAIT. A Story of Absorbing Interest. By BERNARD HERBERT. CHAPTER V. A MOTIIER'8 WARNING. I It was r memorable morning in tho j annals of rhippii g when (ho queen of tho North Oerman Lloyd Stenmnhip i Company, tho good ship Fuhln, plowed i her \v?y up Now York liny, freighted 1 with the cutaways of tho lost Oregon. 1 It wrn n destitute, frightened, grate- i ' ful herdu of liuiuou .Immga th?;t hud- _J wfc i - Htiont the deekn hnd wdoorih', fo eoiving tiie Hospitality of the ojien- 1 hearted Herman officers with eager a lunula. f Ancl while they ate and drank to keep lifo and warmth in tlioir chilled bodies,' r the anxious query passed from lip to s ^ lip?"How many nave been lost?" To t M which was returned the comforting re- s ^ ply?"Nota soul!" 1 iNot a soul had been lost! j How f jw that diy understood tho r tragic significance of those pregnant e words! h >w few guessed in their joy nt. t their dclivcranco that one at least in their midst, the child with the fair face, 1 tho gold-bronze hair, and eyes like the t morning star, had j r.iyi d to die, had li fought against life, and had b >en cared tfor against her will. 1 Upon a coil of cordage she sat apart, v her small, white hands clasped tightly in her lap, her great, tearless eyes fixed J upon the rapidly vanishing spot where li the wat< r.t hud forever closed above the o j. great snip winen mm imrno lirr hack f * from a Htrange world to tlio land of her 1 birth. v The land of her birth, and yet no li home! c While she sat there, a shadow in the li sickly sunlight. fell athwart her, and a v rich, inar.l.v voice said : t "Here, Ctracie, drink this; you will s feel better." v She raised her eyes and saw the handsome face of Itupert Arnitn, the man s who had saved her life, bending above f her while he oll'ered her a tin cup of n steaming coffee. c "You must drink it," he urged, as she faintly shook her head; "I am rospon- i sible for your still being in this world, e and it is my duty to care for you. So > ( how you shiver; drink the coffee while it is warm." She took tlio cup witli tlio simple 1 obedience of a ehild^ and drained its \ contents thirstily. Immediately a r feeble tinge of color crept into her '"cheeks, and some of the far-away look n forsook her eyes. Then the young man sat. down before her and took her cold hands in his. t "Oracie," he said gently, "is it true 1 that, you wanted to tlio?" > For the first time sineo tlio awful ca- i tastrophe two great tears crept out from between the fringed eyelids of her j down-east, eyes and fell upon his hands. 1 "Do you blame me that 1 saved your t life?" he naked. t "No," she faltered. i "Rut you do not thank me?" t "I cannot, for 1 have nothing left to i live for!" t "Nothing!" he exclaimed, in a pained way; "yon have r * "oily, no friends?" i "Not one in at !e world." i t "You have nr. ...other and me!" t She heaved a deep sigh and drew l.rr i hands out of liis clasp. "I shall only l?o a burden to you," I uho faltered; "the hand of Fate is set against me, and I shall only bring ] misfortune to all whom " I "Hush!" he interrupted. "I cannot let you talk like that! you are excited and i ft' ill now. After you have rested, and i have known how kind my mother can be, you will forget tho misery of the past, whatever it may l>e." i At mention of the past?that past so i bitter and cruel?the poor child lost all control of herself. She rose to her feet, ] and turned from her protector in an attitude of desperation. "No, 110," she cried, "lot me go my wav. You have saved my life, and I i suppose I ought to be grateful to you, since Clod gave it me and 1 must live it out to the end. Hut from tho moment that we land, let that be the end of all between us. I can tako euro of myself." "uraeio, no hum firmly, rising an<l coming to lior side, "you must excuse me, but I will not leave you. Tonight, at leust, you shall pass with my mothor. You liavo lost, everything, and are not tit to go out into tho world alone and penniless, besides, if you chooso to tell my motlrer your story, perhaps sho can ndviso von how to act," The kindly intentioned words acted like tho lighted fuse to the waiting powder. The girl's eyes Hashed, and the pallor deepened upon her lips. She | drew hack a step, and faced the young artist with the very daring of despair. "Mr. Ariiim," she said, and the sweet voice was low and tense, "if I am to meet, your mother, it must he on condition that no questions are to lie asked me concerning my past. Whatever happens, I mean to keep that socrct between myself and my God." A suspicious moisture glistened in the tine, honest eyes as Hupcrt Arnim replied: "When you know us better, I think you will have no fault to find with us for wishing to pry into the secret ol your life. We shall respect that as we shall respect you." Tho proinl words, so gently expressed, proved too much for little wraoi.ia overwrougni. nerves. r?ne made an attempt to give the brave fellow her lunula in silent token of her gratitude, the flood-gates of her tears were loosened, and she fell forward, only, however, into his strong arms, .ami it, was his gentle voice that soothed her. It was the handsom \ sitanie face of Mux Hoyden, seen under such trying eircuniR'nnees, and in tho uncertain twilight of the early iun*ning, that had 8o disturbed our littla heroine. It seemid to h"r, in (hat drsjicrate moment, that li >r lot in life was too hard to l>? ar, if, having done nil she could to shield her father from the consequences of his crime, by asstini ing the accusation herself, the evil ?l irit who had prompted all the misery had limit-, d her down, and was about to balk her in the hardships of the new life which she had to fnce singlehambd and alone. But after Rupert's kindness to her, after she had wept to her heart's content, a senso of blessed relief settled upon her troubled spirit, and slio beeau to wonder whether it were, indeed, tho mocking faee of Max Hovden she had seen glaring up at her from out tho jaws of death. In that brief moment of respite sho loomed to loso sight of tho fact that <ho had lain ill among strangers in England for a week prior to her sotting out or America, and consequently wonlered how Boydon could have arrived >cforo hor. SIS I Hlie oven wonl nu /?> iv fnm'j i 11,,i icr excited imagination had played her 01110 triek. nnd it was not at all tho ace of Max Boyden that sho had seen. In this partially relieved frame of nind sho < agorly se amed every faee he mot on the ship, and as that of hor ormontor did not again meet her gaze, ho concluded that either sho must lave been cruelly tortured to no purhjsc, or that, if it were Boyden, ho nust have perished upon the ill-starred raft, that had caused the fatal disaster o the Oregon. Thererore, littlo drenming of tho utter consequences of every step sho rok, little Gracio Garland allowed i?rself to bo led on shore and far upown into tho Harlem district, to a humdo littlo house, where an anxious woman raited. Ono had but to look iuto tho fnoo of drs. Dorothea Arnim to bo assured of icr goodness. She was a fine specimen f womanhood, a true mother. A widow or many years, sho doted upon her boy, tupert, in a way that amounted to dolatry. Ho was her joy, her hope, icr stay in life, nnd naturally she welotned him homo to her hearth ami ...Ul. ? ~n\. ! i* *ii l u ? n ii llll lllutiiuiillir i'uiisi'mi illicit blinded her for tho liino being o tho proaonce of tho liHlo downcast tranger who stood with tearful eyes latching tho glad reunion. It was Rupert who bethought himolf first, and breaking away from tho ond embrace, turned tho go >d woman limit so that she realized the presence if a stranger for the first time. "Whom havtfive here?" she exclaimed 11 astonishment, as her eyes rested upm the sweet, upturned faeo of little Ir.ieio. "A guest, mother," was tho reply. Novor for an instant questioning her k>v's action in tho matter, Mrs. Arnim rent to tlje girl and took her in her notherlv arms and kissed her. "You are welcome, my dear child," he said; "what is your name?" "(Jraee Garland," was the low reply. "Wo will call her Graeie, little Gru ie, mother," Rupert said; "and we will ove her and cure for her, since she is a vnif from the lost Oregon, and she has 10 friends." His wish was his mother's law, and is Mrs. Arnim led Graeie up to a neat ittle chamber upon tho second floor of he house, the poor child felt that for lie time being, at least, hIic had found est and protection. It was with a hankful heart that she fell asleep that light ami prayed God to be good to hose who had been good to her. Below stairs, .11 the pretty room ivhieh for the ) resent served both as iit&ing-room ami studio, mother and mil sat facing eaeli other in the dim radiance of tlit* shaded lamp. For some moments silence had fallen between them, and it was Mrs. Arnim who was the first, to hreak it. They luul been talking of the advantages gained by the young artist in his brief journey abroad, and it was all the more startling when she suddenly broke off to inquire: "Rupert, who is she?" No need to mention names; he knew ; that she referred to the stranger who slept beneath their roof. "I know nothing about her, mother," he replied, "beyond the fact that she is lovely, and as good as she is lovely. We both crossed in the steerage of the Oregon. She lost what little she had, and as she has told you, she has no friends." "What would she have done, had she not met you?" "The good Lord only knows! I dare not think of it." "Rupert, you are in lovo with the child!" "Yes, mother, I am, as you will bo when you know her." A shadow flitted across the kindly j faee of the woman as sho rejoined : "How can I know her when you do not?" "You will win her confidence. Women beeomo acquainted easily. She has some terrible secret upon her soul, has escaped from some awful experience which has nearly wrecked her reason." I The shadow upon Mrs. A mini's face deepened. "Ah! You admit that something has o<currcu, somciuing mat migui. ox- | plain hor forlorn, destitute condition in i life?" "Of course! Have you not already soon it for yourself?" "Yes," "Mother!" ho exclaimed, starting suddenly to his feet, as for the lirst lie noted the peculiar expression upon his mother's face, "you certainly do not suspect so innocent a child of any per- j sonal wrong?" "I suspect nothing." "She lias boon cruelly wronged in some way." "Then let her place herself uj?on a fair footing with us l>y explaining her position." "No! the only way in which 1 cbuld induce her to come to us was by promising that we would not pry into her sec rot. Having given her my promise, I will not, and you must not. You will not, will you?" "No; F promise too," Mrs. Arnim said, rising as she spoke, and placing her hands ii|M?n her boy's shoulders; "but Ilupert, beware!?Mind, I do not suspect the young girl of any wrong in herself. So far as we can see, she wcina good and pure; but there has IP*!*; . boon something terrible in her life, something criminal perhaps, from I which hIio hits fletl. It inn^r hunt hci clown anil liml her out, ami it may not; God only knows. Therefore, remember this?whatever may happen, you cannot afford, in more ways than one, to lie mixed up in it. When you are older, and know more of the ways ol tho world, you will underatand bettei what I moan." Kupcrt Arnim stooped and kissed the placid brow upturned to his. "You are anxious, good little mother," he said; "but rest assured that I shall get into no trouble on account of our charge. We can shield her hero with us from all shadow of harm. Only, should danger find her out, I stand prepared to defend her with tho last drop of my blood 1" . "You are a bravo l>oy," tho mother rejoined; "and all I can say is, that I pray the good Ood to spare you . disappointments until they oomo," he I cried with a buoyant laugh; "thero is , too much to lie enjoyed in life to bor- | row trouble! Why, just look at it! Here I went nil over Kuropo to find n i fresh fnec for my new Madonna, and I ( only find one when I turn my face , homewards. I sketched little Grncie | on the steamer. She has promised to | sit for me here, and the picture will bo , done in time for the May Exhibition, for I shall work at it with all my heart | and soul, with all my might and main." Mrs. Arnim east a quick, apprehensive glance about the apartment, as | though in fear of some watchful eye, , some listening ear, ns she said, ear- , neatly: "Rupert, do not paint tiiat picture for the next exhibition, or at lenst for some time!" "Why not?" ho asked in amazement. ( "I scarcely know, my boy." , "I shall novcr havo another such a model." i "Then paint her, but let no eyo ro3t upon her face until the mystery of her , liTe is cleared up." "Oh, but you are making a mountain out of a mole-hill!" J "Something tells me that I am not. Were you to exhibit her face, you might , get yourself into trouble, besides bringing down upon licr those whom she j fears." ( Rupert Arnim was silent and thoughtful as he went with his mother , to the door and kissc d her goo l-night. "Perhaps you are right, mother," ho murmured; "1 will think of what you ] have said. Good-night." For hours he laid awake that night, thinking over the strange suspicions which his mother had placed upon him; but at last ho fell asleep to dream of a beautiful face, the face of his Malonna^^ and of bin enooem*- in the lorlhoommg ->, exhibition. While this quiet scene was being en- ( acted in the little home in llarlem,,the Rrovoort House, down town in Fifth avenue, was all ablaze with light and ngog with guests arriving and departing. Among the persons who sauntered up the spacious, gas-lit steps and entered tho office of the hotel was a middleaged man of indifferent appearance, but blessed with a pnir of keen, fcrret-liko eyes that flashed about from point to point, apparently taking in the bustling scene at a glance. To the clerk at the desk he said : "You have a gentleman in your house bv the name of Hoyden. I believe. Mr. IVtax Hoyden." And ui>on receiving the evidently expected reply he added, "Just be good enough to send up my O ird to him." Therein on on a slip of eardliourd he wrote, in a bold, business-like hand, the name? " llancker." Five minutes later he was requested to take the elevator to a certain suite of rooms on the third floor of thehouso. Wrapped in a dressing-gown of some richly embroidered stuff, and reclining at ease in the depths of a comfortable arni-cliair, sat Mr. Max Hoyden, of unsavory nn mory, with his sharp, black eves fixed intently upon the partially opened door that led into the hall. The instant a rap sounded uj>on the door Hoyden rose, and in a Arm, clear voice said: "Come in." The personage with the ferret-like eyes promptly obeyed the summons and put in un appearance. "Mr. Baneker ?" began Boyden, interrogatively. "Yes, sir. ?At your request. I come from " "From " "Pinkcrton's Deteetivo Agency, sir." CHATTER VI. DETECTIVE I?*NCKEn. "You are the man I am expecting," said Boyden, with evident satisfaction, as he resumed his seat; and, pointing ton ehair on the opposite side of the tnlde, he continued, "please be seated." Mr. Baneker accepted the proffered chair, placing his hat beneath it, and then proceeded to attach his keen vision upon the face before him. "Mr. Baneker," began Boyden, twisting round and round the third tinger of his left hand an elegant snake ring, embellished with diamonds, as ho KjHtke, "for the first time in my life I I find myself obliged to employ a person of your profession." As Mr. Baneker did not utter a word, scarcely winked an eyelid, Boyden was obliged to proceed. "Are you prepared to undertake tiio responsibilities of a murder ease?" inI quired he. "Quito prepared, Kir," was the laconic reply. "Tlien I will givo you the circumstances of the ease in a nut-shell. My uncle, Mr. Orrin Clifford, of Hoston, ! went abroad eighteen months ago in i search of health. He took with him his trusted body-servant, one Nicholas Garland, and Garland's daughter, a port, forward minx, anywhere from fifteen to eighteen years of age." "What office did tho girl fill, sir?" inquired the detective. "Merely baggage; hut her father was afraid to leave her at home for fear she might get into trouble, so my uncle, Mr. Clifford, very kindly consented to take her along." "Thank you, six." Mr. Bancker had producod a notebook, and wu8 rapidly taking ^otts in short-hand, the first of which was portincnt and ran as follows: "Clifford uinrtb r. Nephew's* pro- ( nonnced dislike for the bodj-sirvant's < daughter." i "Finding that his health was rapidly 1 fulling," continued Bovdon, "and not ' daring to attempt tho voyage home, my i undo hired a place in Devonshire, J Knglund, near Torquay, and went down I to reside. Three weeks ago to-morrow | night, Mr. Clifford's nurse was drag- ] ged, and he stranglod to death in his i bed." c "By whom, sir?" y "By Grace Garland, the body-ser- j rant's daughter." "For what motive, sir?" . "Robbery." ^ 1 "Indeed ? Were you present ? "Present! I was miles away, up in * ^^^^^ow^^l^^^.ViHturl>cd when j* asked whether he was present on the .1.4 ?/ iU 1 ? H 11 ui^iic ui uir uiiiiurr. "The circumstantial evidence against ' Grace Garland, all of which I need not * enter into, an it does not concern your part of the work, was so overwhelming ? that it left no doubt in the minds of 1 Hie witnesses that the girl was the J criminal. In fact, whea licensed, she t< feigned a swoon and escaped during tl the night." m "Where did she go?" n "Ten days later it was discovered p that she h.\d gone to Liverpool and had n sailed by the ill-fated Oregon, the u Btenmcr which followed mine to this M port." b "What was your haste to leave En- n gland?" rl "As my uncle died intestate, I l>ocame his heir, and was obliged to re- ,, turn at once to Rp.ttlo his ogimfc." D "Nephew in hot haste to settlo up w the estate," jotted down Mr. Bancker. "It was her father who cabled mo concerning the girl's sailing," observed Boyden, "and my object in engAging " you is to ascertain her whereabouts since her arrival." " "Which could only have occurred to- * lay, sir." "Yes; I am informed that the Fulda t| brought up tlio passengers by the Ore- * gon this afternoon." 4,4 "Very sorry you did not notify mo B earlier." tl "Why so?" 1 "1 might have been at the pier and a nabbed the young women then and fc there." "Oh?er?yes! very true," replied t Boyden, stammering for the first time a it liia ltilKnrtn ti t rni/vl?4- a^/vww ? ?" llil HHIIViW Obldl^liu OVUiJ 9 uir 3 trouble was T wm nn^ nf ?in j, Bqstomjmil only returned to-day to <, RS3 the cablegram fttvwvz? - j "But our agency received orders to v call upon you yesterday." "Yes: I sent the order 'rum Boston." "Before you received the cablegram, ? sir?" inquired Mr. Bancker, slightly elevating his eyebrows, but otherwise '' betraying no surprise. "Yes," replied Boyden, boldly, with ' a darkening frown, "I wished to consult 1 one of you in the matter." t "Ah! But the order bore the New 1 York post-mark of the first morning do* i livery; not the Boston post-mark of a the evening before, sir." ] Livid to the lips with suppressed t rage, Boyden replied: i "1 consider your remarks irrelevant, j Mr. Bancker! We are wasting time. ( I sent tho order from Boston to a friend ] in New York to mail, having forgotten } to do so beforo I left, and not knowing ; the address of your agency." "Thank you, sir. You will pardon my impertinence, if you will have the 1 goodness to remember that even the ' slightest details may bo of paramount 1 importance in so delicate a.case." ' This being a long speech for Mr. < Bancker, ho relapsed into his note- ' book, while Boyden took occasion to growl: ? "I can't see how my goings and com- 1 ings have any bearing whatever in tho 1 case!" As a last entry Mr. Bancker noted 1 down: ' "Nephew much confused as to dates i and localities on tho morning of the l Ui'iinmi iliuuator Hirrniflpunf. " Had Mr. Bancker been able to road between the lines of his note-book entries, he would have had the true state of the story in a nutshell. But then, even a T*inkerton detectivo is not omniscient, fil, Havin^aiptsDy bestowed his pencils in n*Uo>.^(o^V"'het of his vest, and sn- Certainly 1 V. l)nnd around his notoJhnV^.1 ' iJjL* J^n<1 ro 0SSJ3 jo.ui dn pj.v "4'?opow<r*n m 'g ii]vj) uxt forty-eight hours at the onto. . shall hear from mo, Mr. Boy den/ 3\,,r>lP.id. "Very w^J " assented that gentleman;"!^ su.e you secure the murderess, and I shall not mind giving you a handsome douceur." "I beg pardon?" "A douceur?a present?er?something for yourself." "Oh, I xce! Thank you, sir. I do my duty and am properly paid for doing it. Good evening, sir." When the door had closed upon the detective, Max Boyden sprang from his chair in a spasm of impotent rage. "The insolent puppy!" he exclaimed; "it would look as if ho suspected me of murdering the old man. But there! they're all alike. They must let off just so much guff to keep up a show of imi>ortance. Ho long as ho gets the girl I don't mind what ho says to mo, since I have nothing to tear ?" U|x>n reaching the street Mr. Banckcr broko into a brood, goodnatured smile. "I had rather talk with that rare rascnl than eat a good dinner," ho remarked to himself; "by jovel?if I were called ujoii to pipe the Oregon mystery, hang me if I wouldn't begin with that same Mr. Max Boyden! He's quite capable of anything from killing his undo to sinking a ship. A doticeiir indeed! Dash me, but I reckon it would take many a douceur to sweeten his score!" And with an astute smilo Mr. Bankcer trudged along np-town. ITO BR C0NT1NUXD.J . ? . J > THE NEWS. The Augusta Orphan Asylum, at Angus G was destroyed l?y lire, L<>ss $100,0 George Christian was convicted of rat ior and sentenced to prison for life, at Hi tin. ton, W. Vs. Ho set tiro to tho jail which be and Frank Brown were conflm and Brown was burned to denth. VVal McK>y fell from a throe story window lis residence,Washington, and was install filled. Robert Snyder, a saloon-keeper Hldorado, Kansas, shot l is wife and moth' n-law. A mother and her daughter wi tutragod and murdered In McDowell count iV. Va. An express train 011 the Ito daiid Railroad collided with a freighting tnd one trainmin was kille<l and several i 11 rod. George H. Hammond & Co.'s lar tacking house at HfnimonJ, Ind., w is 1 troyed by flro. Isria $300,000. PreDai joosj iflJitiKflMCTgVftte veterans at the m < ig of the Army of^beCumb -Hand at Cln tnoogo, Toon., Boptomber 19. Willia ioudermann, a brick maiiufncturer of Hs logs Minn., has discovered gold in tho sai *Hi ior making uricKs in um ynnl. Jti I linger, a deputy Unite I Status m-irshi ras sliot from ambush and fatally wound i Wyoming county, W, Vu. Patrick Ci oun, general counsel for the West l'oi 'erininal road, and J. D. Williamson, prci ant of tlio Chattanooga, Homo and Carro on road, fought a duel at Hoke's HlufT, < ho Coosa rlvor, (ia., in which Calhoi rounded Williamson. Sirs, N. l'ronn nd lior twelve-yoir-old daughter were kill y lightning at Pifer City, 111., but a bjvo lonths-ohl babe in tho mother's arm w uliiirt. Tho night express for Ntngh alls, on the Koine, Waturtown and Ogder urg Hail road, ran into a Rochester trai onr Forest Lawn, N. Y., telescoping foi ars, killing one |)?rsoii and injuring eig tbers. A dozen old men hlaiin that th< are tieeu rejuvenated nud feel youngaga y tuo nrewn-o i|ima Mfo cttxir tre itnion rith which tho ludiann|)olis physicians a xpcrimentiiig. John Proctor, who mu ered Wado Pureed, at Mount Vernon, Ki ttempled to kill Lilt or W. K. Cross, of tl fountain Siynal, at Mount Vernon, for d ouncing him in tho paper. Hobort Pu er was assassinated near Hickory, N. C.? other llaggerty struck LI ward ltoggott < tie jugular vein, killing liim instant'.}*, 'reehold, N. J. Heavy losses of mailnni ?r belonging to merchunls of Heading, P? re being investigated by tho postal authoi les. Charles 8weeny, a Frenchman 'urner's Falls, Mass., shot his wife and th ttoinpted suicido. Despondency duo to 1 lenlth was the cause. Thomas F. Plunkett, former president ho Hnrtford Bilk Manufacturing Cnuipsn nd who disappeared a defaulter a year ??} nd wus suIuantly repotted,d-iod iuAP! x?, is now declared to t>o living in nfll'iou ill-. A nn,lD..^?>iw.t.l tlsa full filim fa nine-hundred-voltcurront. Thousau >f Chinese uro smuggling their way into t Jnited States t?y way of Mexico. Dr. Ku rt Longfellow, of tlioCinciunati College dedicinu nnii Surgery, made interesting, ai t is claimed, soccessful experiments with t Irown-fSoquaYil elixir of life. Willia Jutien wns killed and Mark Cbristnrin fati y injured by the cabooso car in whicb tli voro asleep, at South Bethlehem, I'd., boil itruck by a locomotive and demolished.? Sloven one-armed switchmen on the Chico md Northwestern ltailroad are on strike.! in advance in wages. Collapse of t Prosser motor scheme lias ctu-sed the fuilii >f Colonel J. Hans Davidson, of Kt. I'a Minn., with liabilities of $10.1,IKK). l'oli< nan Fryer, of Chicago, wux shot and kill in a street fight. Colonel James Curi Lf. 8. A., retired, diod suddenly at Fort Mi ro.\ George Duncan Bryson was hang it liouKler, Montana, for the murder of A uie Lindstroin. There wore 101 busin Failures in the United States and 37 in Cat la tho past weok. The coal miuers at A hama are organ zing to light tho couvict l>or system. Walter Ore us, a liftoen-yei >ld boy, of Jacksonville, Fla., was whirl around a shaft in a saw mill and nearly to limb from limb, Henry Uclunit's tweb year-old daughter whilb running from t house to the barn, at lacrosse, Wis., w itruck by lightning. Astriol llrotho milliners, of I?nucastor, i'a., have failed f 10U,UUU. ity tuo nronKing of on nir-ura in a pissongor train rounding a curve 011 t Pittsburg ami Western llailrond, the ci turned ovor and many of the {toss Jiigers w< njurod. Several prisoners in tbo jail Lumbeitui, Hobeson county, N. C., knoc) the jailers down and escaped. Hungari coke workers, at Morewood, Pa., not uud standing that the strike hod been settled, p ceeded to destroy property and attack 1 bosses. Iiy a natural gasexplosion 111 Pi I burg two persons were Instantly killed a fifteen injured. Henry Kusol, treasur of tbo village of Numosta Luke, Minn., I disappeared taking with him (1,'JUOof I town's niouev. Philip Dougherty, an engineer at Becht villo, P11.. was caught in a li.-lting and dra through two rollers, crushing Ills body i pulp. The Union National Rank of V mington, Del., has refused to cash the ci check for $120,000, thus taking th 1 cil funds out of that bank, tho question in vc ing an act of the last legislature, at>out legality of which thoro is doubt. By rec.-nt election in Bolt LakoCity tho gent will control the municipal government. In a quarrel among farmers at Prinoet Ky.,John II utchins shot and fatally woun George and Albert Lewis, brothers ? young daughter of F. M. lioshiler, of I hart, Ind., has hem tho victim of a retnar hie caso of suspondod animation. S?>v< prisoners escaped from jail nt I?aporte, Ii by tunneling under the wall. The f mated average corn yield of Illinois wil seventeen bushels per acre. Andrew \ liams, of Ensley city, Ala., found his wif a room with Wm. McCutchoou and shot killed them both. (localise Miss Athoy declined to marry William Johm of Madison, Ind., he shot her and thon e mitted suicide. Tho To|teka sugar w< at Topoka, Kansas, were destroyed by I I/oss $70,000. The government is tryini reoover a pension paid one of twowidov. a soldier at Hackettstown, N. J. Itich Tate, Kentucky's defaulting treasurer, been arrested at IScotisboro', Ala. Grant wm tho youngest President his first inauguration. -T V STATE OF TRAM_ tn, 00 An Increased Volume of Busim ness and Improved Crop Prospects. tor of Favorable Ilcp.trta from tho Cotton l,y Fields?Mono/ Kasjr on Call and ?f Finn on Tlmo-L.ir(jo Increase 9r* In ICallroad Hunting*. TO y Special Telegrams to I!railstrent's report a wmewlnt larger volume of tra-lo at Pliilal(J ilelpbia, Pittsburg, Louisville, Cincinnati, ? Kansas City, Chicago and G lives ton, and at other points the lookout for the Autumn 1 trade is bright. Anthraoite coal and lutn' her at tho Bast remain quiet, and raw wool ures among raanufacturoia. ' ? uis nas mrecv >d goneral trad? la some degree at Boston|n Kentucky's tobacco acreage is reported at 7Ja75 per oent. Prices are advanoiag on pros|J(j pective short crop and renewed purchases. |g Hog products are stronger, notably Western itcara lard. At San Francisco 2OU.O0J bush sis of wh >ot have been chartered for Bra*.' kj. aud 37,000 shipped to Australia. nt Although narrow, stock spsculation la ,j. itrong, and prices ndvanoe on the increasing grain movement at the West Interest looms to I><> growing, and unusual confidence on Is expressed in the probability of nioro active m movement in speculation and investment. Bonds are stromr, with increasing deman I. Money at Now York is eesy on oall nud firm **1 on time. Call loans, 3n4 pur cent Time n- money is Ave per cent Foreign exchango is lull, but firmer on the advance of rules nt l^ondoiL Gross earnings of 121 railroads for ra eight months of this year amount to #201,is 178,284, against $188,331,1'.M during tho corn, responding period of 1888. The mileage upon winch those figures are based is 73,140, ur against 70,183 inilce last year. In July, 1880, lit only twenty-onocompanlesshowed decreases, ?y as compared with July, 1888, while in June, 1880, returns from lorty-seven oomfiw WW* "? Mrnn In cm Tie, WW * There is an increased activity in dry goods ro jobbing line* at Now York, but notably in ir- cotton and wool dress goods. (Southern ami (Southwestern Jobb irs are tho chief buyers. ' Commission mm report trade moderate. 1,0 Prices are as a whole stoa ly, the only notae hie exception being in print cloth futures, r. which are weaker. Tho export demands for cottons is loss activo. Woolen goods are In inolerale sale at rocont advances (2)^t7j^ M1 per cent). Haw wool is ensier, t>ui not ao quotaably lower, on loss activo demand. tt. ltaw cotton is in fairly good demand at unchanged quotations- Near now crop futuros are uiglier on less favorable "i- crop reports. nt Prices of raw sugar are shaded, with contilled restricted takings by refiners and only n moderate decrease in arrivals, thus iiicroas" ing stocks at four ports 10,315 tons. The world's visible supply of sugar is given nt 0f 5-1'J.Olfi tons, rgain*t 575,1(15, tons last week ami 810,4:13 tons a year ago. Refine I sugar lias been in moderate request, although ro marked down on Friday. Coffee h ? l>een x?variable witlrTire result on the woek of a C() moderato advance, 10 to 3.1 |>oints. In distributive lines the movement has l>e?n fairly n- tSMflfrifoitiritrm: Blt pend upon the Brar. linn crop. (Should that crop equal 6,000,000 bags, lower prices are likely to rule, but if th total is only about lie 4,UCM,0U0 bags, higher prices will bo in prosb pick ? TI10 week has brought a reaction in breadstuffs, caused by improved homo and "I foreign crop reports, moderate export deho maud ami stronger ocean freight rates. ,,1 Flour declined 5al5c 011 fr<-e offerings of new product, wlioul ^al\jo, Indian corn, on free "" offerings, %c, and oats, with very favorable ey crop reports, % 1 l%c. nw The business failuresoccurrinor throughout the country during tlio Inst seven dny3 number, for tho United States, lit I, nud lor CnuB? ndu, 157, or u total of 201 failures, nscomparor ed with n total of V!IO Inst week, and 21(1 the j10 week previous to the Inst. For tint corresponding week of last year the figures were lro 'SKI, representing 205 failures in the United ul, States and 28 in the Dominion of Cntindu. Be- ... | -y! AUGUST CROP REPORT. >n- ?? ;ed Tho Accounts Generally Favorably? n- No Harm from Wot Weather. ess The August crop report of tho Department ia- of Agriculiuro says corn hns m ido nn imla provoment during tho past month of 4}? la- points, and is now less than one point lower ?r- than nt tho snmo date last year. The August ed return of condition hns not stood more than rn ono |>oint higher during tho past nine years, to- and tho present return lias boon equalled but ho throe times during that period. Tho Im 'as provoment is quite generally distributed rs, throughout the country, following favorable or growing weather and sutTlcient rainfall. . Spring wheat has suffered a further falling off during the month, tho doclino amounting l?e to nearly three points. Condition is now irs nearly three points higher than 1887, and on< above that of 188(1. With those exceptions, it is the lowest since tho very small crop ol ?t 1881. Minnesota records some linproveinen cod s nee last report, but in Dakota ther? is r I further decline from tho samo causes noto> ' last month Dakota is now the largest suriiij or* wheat Htato, and tho very low conditioi ro- there reduces tho general average. In thi tl,0 rest of the spring wheat district condition 1 generally good. tts" Tlio quality of the crop will be better thai ........ i ...v. | or '1 bo August crop report makes the conditio) ' of c >tton89.3,anndvunceof nearly two po nta Improvement is uote<t in five Ktat's, whil< :be Virginia, North Carolina, Tennossoo and Mis sissippt shows lower averages K.iins havi . been frequent and general except in portion ?18' of Texas. Damage is attributed to excess o wn moisture. nto North Carolina has had too much rain, de laying cultivation. Iu Mouth Carolina con , 11 it ion has Iteen Improved, though soiik * ilamage from rain. Alabama returns shoe ty's the crop promising. Mississippi reports con ,|y. ditioii lower on account of excessivo rain . Louisiana had rains rather too much for t>ol 11,0 torn lands. The crop in Texas, with a fei the days of dry weather, will be all right, li ilea Arkansas the plant is in vigorous conditio! and improving rapidly. Tonnesseo has ex cess of moisture. on. The uvoragos of condition by Ktatos arc ded Virginia, 03; North Carolina, 80; Mmth Cai _ a aliua/.K); (Jeorgia,'Jl: Florida, Ho; Alahainn Jd; Mississippi. 88; Louisiana, itl\ Texas, 91 Mk- Arkansas, 93; Tennesson, 78. ka?ral 111 ? EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP. I be Vd- Two Men Fatally Injured In a Mir 0 |n Near Wilkes liar re. and An explosion of fire-uamp took place i idio Haddock's mine, at Luzerne Borough, thn ion, miles (rum Wilkes-Barre, l'a., which results om- in the fatal injuring of two men and tl irks serious burning of a third. The throe m< flr>. wero Michael McNamee, James Deary ar g to Kichnrd Murray, who were on their way o< s of of the mine. In coming from their ohamb ftr,l in a distant part of the colliery they unde . took to pass through some abandonod worl f,ft8 Inga. 'I hey had naked lights on their ha and coining across a considerable body of g< a violent oxplosion followed. All three me were terrible burned. McNamee was noti badly hurt and was taken to bis home net the colliery. William Logan, of Milton, waa struck and * killed by a train at Watsontown, Penna. William Dervish, aged 88 yoars, was killed in Prospect Colliery, at Wilkes bar re, by an explosion of gas. Paul Cloder.aged II yea it, was drowned n ttie Mystic river, near Medford, Mass., by tho capsizing of a sailboat. Charles Hammer and Henry Arnett were drowuod In Braxton county. W. Va., white attempting to cross a flooded stream. Itussell Armstrong, a well-known resident of Kansas City, fell tietween the cars on the elevated railro id, and had both legs nut off. i A dog, supposed to be mud, ran amuck in flobokou. New Jersey, and bit four persons, n horse and another dog. He was then killed. Jackson Qravos, n well known resident of Ithaca, New York, is lying at the point of death, as a result of being stung by a swarm of bees, ' two~7ncn and three boys were killed, being torn to shreds. Whilo Horatio Frazor, his wife and two children were boating on the Pnwtucket river, near Providence, It. I., tho l>ont capsized and the two cbildrou, aged 2,V? and 4 years, were urownmi. Reports havo l>oen received at Chicago to tho effect that Texas fever has broken out nmong the cattle In the Indian Territory.and that hundreds of cattle were dying iu Oklahoma from tho elTect of the climate. William Bchlck and Mrs. Hannah Becker were killed ami Henry 1*. Kestner was probably fatally injured in Louisville, Ky., by being struck by a train while trying to cross! tho Louisville Southern Railroad traoks in m wagon. The steam barge W. II. Haskoll broke through three gates of tho canal lock at St. Catherines, Ontario. The water washed in from tho uoper level cauiiug serious damage to the oannl bank and flooding the country in the iinuiediato vicinity. Nine persons were poisoned in Burlington, Wiscousin, by eating dried beof shipped to local dealers by a Chicago firm. Two of tba poisoned are In a precarious condition. It is said that "cats ami dogs which wero giveu U* * waM not sat it." A lad wreck occured on ths New York and N*w England Railroad, about one mile west of New Britinn, Conu., by reason of a collision between a freight train and a delayed passenger train. Fivo persons were Injured, but thuro was no loss of life. Mrs. Knodgrass and bar two chihlorn, aged 9 ami 0 ro-jtectively, were drowned in Whito river nt Rock ford, Ark., while attempting to cross the stream in a wagon. Tho wagon was caught in tho current mid carried dowu the river. The driver out the horses loose aud escaped with them. Michael Ryan, being insane, jumpod from a oar window on a Temisylvania Railroad train near Huntingdon, I'onna.. and was dan ! porously, if not fatally, injured. He said " the Ix>rd prompted him to the act." He gave New Ixmdou as his place of residouce. In his pockets were a ticket from Cincinnati and several hundred dollars In money. While Olo Krlckson, a Chicago butchor, was trying to bitch his horse to n wagon, the animal bit him on the leg and , then dashod off, "fonming at the mouth and evidently mad." It bit eight hordes, ran over a little child, hit a piece from tho hand of O. W. Huffy, who tried to stop hlmt vraaliiiaiiy Vionr^ fttSKVpra'-if'l'vj il??3 IIWI1 I^uvlrr.fcv, - _ (in.. left iioiuo on nionuny mgnc. leaving a loaded shotgun with hi* wife, with tho injunction tiiat alio wns to "ahoot anybody who bothered her." Ho returned nt 10 o'clock^ and, I (linking to have some fun, refuse I to'tell Mrs. Heavers who lie was. Hho shot hiin in tho neck, and ho will probably die. 1" ' A south-bound passenger train on the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad collided with a north-bound passenger train at Lawlou, twelve miles south of Alexandria, The engineer of the south-bound train, Jerry Desmond, was killed, and Conductor Nowman, of the north-bound train, was badly injured. Conductor Howell, of the southbound train, and a lady passenger were lightly hurt. i LOST HIS ALL AT JOHNSTOWN. A.G. West's Mlml Fails Under the Loss of Home, Kin and Fortune. A pathetic story of individual destitution and mis-ry resulting from the Johnstown ; flood was develojied at tho oflloo of the Department of Charitiea, at Pittsburg, Pa. A. O. West, well-known on tho dry of the flood as the largest carp -t dealer of Johnstown, ; is a pliysicial and mental wreck as a sequel to the disaster- lin is houseless. homeless. and a wanderer on the fncj of tho earth. > Not blessed with a sioglo cent the formerly well-to-do merchant Is an object of pity. Although a loser to the extent of f'JO.OuO at 1 least by tho flood, he has not received a single > copper from tho Relief Committee. After partially recovering Ids health, shattered by I the loss of his family and exp >.-ur.', ho was I shlp|ied off to I'iitahurg with tho inagniQ' cent sum of fl in his pocket. Mr. West oa ' tiie day of the flood was more fortunate than any of his relatives. His wife, three children, father, mother, two sisters and a brother t were swept away bv the angry torrents. He, 1 in company witu Mr. Coleman and his tlireo I daughters, were shut in a room und made the ( exit froin the windows, standing on a llo ?tII ing organ They were in the wut*r thirtyn six hours, and when sescued were barely 8 alive. West is almost six feet high, And previous 1 to the accident was vigorous and muscular. The immersion and mental shock caused by 1 the loss of his people completely unmanned him, and lie was in the hosplt il for some time. 9 and was only re eased I ecause it was feared ' that he would become violently insane if 9 kept in confinement. He went to the l.ouso 9 of a friend, H. M. Lynn. The sight of Mr. ' Lynn's children completely unnerved him, however, and ho cannot roniiin in an apart'* ment with thom. The name of Johnstown effects him powerfully. He starts at tho 9 word and trembles as if uflheted with DilftV. f ; PROGRESS AT JOHNSTOWN. i umifl W ftrK ssilli /tcuvi: ? minuivw Cood?Another Hotly Recovered. >: Tho Hoard of Inquiry at Johnstown, Pa., has boon in evory ward in tbo devastated dis' triot, and yet over flvo hundred orders bavo not b.'en called for. There aro ovor a thousand cases yet that have not been rated, and night sessions will.be held until they can be classified. In the meantimo clerks are preparing tabulated statements from which the io Btate Commission will draw deductions to make a basis for the final distribution. Iiunincss is good and tiios? morcbants who ?t have an established trade aro hard worked. 9,, Mr. John Thomas sa>s thoir firm did the big, gut month's business in July ever known in their history. Tho merchants here have all bo received much encouragement from thosj jn with whom they dealt, and It is largely due j to the generous troatment they have received that many of them are now in business. 1,1 A -meeting of business men was held to or take steps tow ird determining the liabilities is of the South Fork Fishing Club for the dials aster. Committees were appointed and funds ts sill tie raised to holp make the suit of John as Thomas & Sons against the club a test one. >n The body of n flitsen-year-old girl was ?o found near the business part of Main street, ir I< was covered with ground and remarkably 1 well preserved.