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/ 'Suicide of boulangeb. The Notorious French General Hills Himself in Brussels. JL Sketch of His Turbulent and Sensational Life. ye- GE.VERAL BOULANGER. General Boulanger committed suicide in the cemetery of Ixelles, one mile south of Brussels, Belgium, on the tomb of Mme. de Bonne main. He killed himself about noon. He stood •lone by the gave of his mistress for some time, appearing to be deeply affected sorrowful recollections. An at* tendant of the General, who had, rpectfully remained at some distance from Mme. de Bonnemain’s tomb, suddenly: beard a sharp report In that direction. Run ning to the spot, the attendant found Gen-* eral Boulanger lying dead upon the ground 'With a revolver clenched in his right hand.' A hasty examination of the body showed that the dead man had placed the weapon to bis right ear and fired the fatal shot. General Boulanger went to Brussels from Xondon a few months ago. Recently he has not occupied his former gorgeous residence on the Avenue Louise, but, owing to re* dneed means, has been compelled to live id M small hotel, where his apartments were very different from those he had been accustomed to as a General of the French Army, as Minister of War, or as the friend of Mme. de Bonnemain. • He had been vloomy and nervous, and, his friends say, bad been inconsolable since the death of Mme. de Bonnemain. He had aged percepti bly, and was much thinner than during his more prosperous days. Every day at about four in the afternoon be has, since Mme. de Bonnemain’s death, .gone to the cemetery at Ixelles and deposited some handsome floral emblem, generally a crown, upon her grave. He would stay by sthe grave for some moments, sometimes for au hour, either engaged in prayer or in deep thought. In the carriage which had carried him, diving, to the cemetery, he was taken, dead, to his borne. His niece, In a swoon, lay be side him. His death was entered on the po lice register, one line, no more, as if he were A ruined gambler. The police went to his lodging and stood guard at the doors, allow ing nobody to enter. In five minutes the wires had carried the news to the Foreign Office in Paris: “Boulanger is dead!’* His aged mother and two of his nieces remained at the hotel where he u=ed to lire, in complete ignorance of his death. It was arranged that he should be buried beside his friend in the same vault, but in spite of persistent entreaties the Archbishop of Malines refused absolutely to allow the performance of any religious services in con nection with the burial. Mme. Boulanger, wife of ihe dead General, la described as being sotnoj|^t of a religieuse lesticin- acti tdcle fewanl General Boulanger since bis notorious infatu ation for Mme. de Bonuemain differ. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eaatera and Middle States. The Massachusetts Democrats in conven tion at Worcester renominated William E. Russell for Governor. Judgment was rendered against John Bardsley, ex-Treasurer of Philadelphia, Penn., for $394,010. Remel. the man who attempted to wreck a Lehigh Valley Railroad train at Kennedy’s station, near Philiipsburg, N. J., a month ago, has been sentenced to ten years at hard labor in State prison and fined $1000. William Gould, Jr., of Albany, N. Y., who was found guilty of aiding and abetting Bookkeeper Whitney in falsifying the ac counts of the Albany City National Bank, han been sentenced to six years’ imprison ment. At the meeting of the National Civil Ser vice Reform League at Buffalo,-N. Y.,George William Curtis was re-elected President. The First National Bank of Clearfield, Penn., of which Wilham H. Dill is Presi dent, closed its doors. President Dill au thorizes the following: An unprecedented run, amounting to nearly $40,000, made it impossible to continue bu-.iness, and, there fore, the bank suspends payment. W. F. Gould, of Portland, was released from the Maine State Prison on a pardon by the President. He had served five years of a ten years’ sentence for embezzlement while acting as cashier of the First National Bank of Portland. The Soldiers’ Monument was unveiled at Pottsville, Penn., General Horace Porter de livering the oration. Damaging frosts were reported in Cen tral Massachusetts and Now Hampshire. Both claimants to the Governorship of Connecticut have agreed to take their con troversy into the State Supreme Court for final settlement. Edmund H. Schermerhorn, of New York, aged seventy-three, died at his cottage in Newport. R. I. He was one of the wealth iest and most eccentric of summer residents. For half a dozen years he has been a recluse. He had been a summer resident there for thirty years. He was worth about $20,000,- 000. Arlik Monroe, the twelve-year-old son of Town Treasurer Monroe, of East Providenee, R. L, fell from the belfry on the new Town Hal], a distance of seventy-five feet, and was instantly killed. The fatality was the re sult of an act of bravado. A general strike of railroad coal miners of the Pittsburg (Penn.) district was in augurated. It was estimated that nearly 10,000 men quit work. They are firm for the three and a naif cent rate. A. B. Turner & Brother, bankers at Boston, Mass., have failed. Their liabilities are about $500,030. Isaac Randall, of Syracuse, N. Y., and his son were killed by’ a train at Fayette ville. •nd a woman of mode His Eventful Career. George Ernest Jean _Mario Boulanger, War, was born at His descent on the In 1S55 he entered French ex-Minister of Bennes, France, in 1837. maternal side is Welsh, the military college of St. Cyr, and was made sob-lieutenant in 1857. He served un- Marshal Ranelon in the Kabyle cam- Franoltalian * i of toP South and West. Edward Powell and James Deeper were hanged in the jail at Gatesville, Texas, for the murder, in 1889, of J. T. Matthias. The Colorado Democratic State Conven tion met at Denver. The only business was the nomination of a Chief Justice of the Su preme Court.and the adoption of a platform. After effecting an orgauizatlon and trans acting some routine business the convention put in nomination Judge L. M. Goddard, of Leadville. In a gale at Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich., a tug sank. Her crew ot six were drowned. Rufus Ferry, hackman, and Carrie Green, a mulatto, were drowned in the Chicago River, at Chicago. 111., at the Washington street bridge, Ferry driving into aa open draw. Business is at a standstill in Savannah, Ga.. owing to the spreading of the wharf laborers’ strike. A freight train on the Erie Railroad collided with a passenger train near Kent, Ohio. Three were killed. They were: W. H. Maxwell, road foreman of engineers; Fireman Glass and Mrs. Dewey, of Rich land, Mich. Twenty-two passengers were slightly injured. x T~ rt irr~"Trf’- i Tr~ir ir-’^ of $3000 in le alM took part in the f - r -- war,“aha was wounded in the battle big*. In 1860 he obtained his full lieuten ancy, and two vears later was promoted to a captaincy, having in the interim seen ser- ivioe in Cochin China, Just before the war of 1870 he became major. HewaswithBa* j^dne at Metz, but escaped the fate of Ba- vafnqV'army. and made his way back to 'tParST^ , was promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy by the Government of National Defence, and fought at Champigny, (November 30 to December 2). After the suppression of the Commune, Boulanger’s newly attained pro motion was quashed by the Grade Revision Committee, but was restored to him in 1874. In 1880 be became Brigadier General. Be ing appointed to the command of the army of occupation of Tunis he had a disagree ment with M. Camleon.the resident General, and was recalled. He next held the War Office appointment of director of the in fantry division, and became Minister of War in 1883. When de Freycinet resigned and was sue- oededby O. Goblet (December I860), the General retained his portfolio; but on the fall of Goblet, Boulanger’s name did not ap- . pear in the cabinet of Rouvier. Soon after This the General was despatched to Cler mont-Ferrand to take command of an army corps, receiving a great ovation at Paris on his departure. When the Limousin scandal broke up on Paris like a thunder c ap, General Boulanger commented very freely upon the VVar Min ister’s conduct, and was immediately or dered under close arrest for thirty days at fii« own headquarters. The Government having decided in March, 1888. to cashier the General by placing him on the retired list, he inaugurated a vigorous campaign against the ministry. Vacancies shortly after oc curred in the representation for the Bor- dogne and the Nord. Here he was returned by 23,750 majority. In the Nord his triumph was still more re markable. This was ou April 1.5, 1898, which, in a manifesto he issued to the elec tors, he declared would be markel iu the annals of the country as a date of true deliverance. ’ Subsequently his popularity waned for a time. The General’s appear ance in the Chamber of Deputies iu July 1888, to demand a dissolution of the Cham ber. gave rise to a stormy scene. Floquetraade a vigorous attack upon the General, and in the altercation between them General Boulanger exclaimed: “You lie.” This led Floquet to demand satisfac tion, and on July 13 \ duel was fought be tween tnem, with tne result that tne Genei&l received a deep wound in the neck. After his recovery he appeared as a candidate at bye-elections and was re turned by large majorities. The Patriotic League, of which he was the head, was suR. sequently suppressed and the General was tried by the Senate on a charge of having, while War Minister, appropriated $50,000 of public money for purposes of hisown propa ganda. He was found guilty. To avoid arrest he fled first to Belgium, then to London, where he arrived April 24, 1889. The General was elected at the general election (Sept.), for Montmartre, by a small majority over M. Jeffnn, but the election was annulled. The General then retired to the Island of Jersey, and later removed to Brussels, where he rented the palatial residence formerly occupied by the Austrian Ambassador. Madame de Bonnemain,the General's mis tress, upen whose tomb he breatnei his last, died in Brussels on July 16, 1891, after hav ing accompanied General Boulanger in ail iiis later wanderings. She devoted an in herited fortune of $1,509,000 to the further ance of the General’s political fortunes. Howard, Wis., has been robbed money and $4000 in Government bonds. An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging in Chicago, 111., caused by germs in the water from Lake Michigan. The Southern Inter-State Exposition opened in Raleigh, N. C. Governor Holt, Mayor Badger, the Rev. Dr. J. J. Hall and Octavos Cohen made addresses. Leland Stanford, Jr., University, at Palo Alto. Cal., was opened with 473 pupils already admitted; appropriate exercises were held. ^ ft snowed in Montana and over a large part of British America. Nevada, Cal., had its first snow storm of the season. Standiford Brothers, bankers, at Chris- man. III., have failed. The liabilities are estimated from $69,000 to $75,000. The fail ure is due to speculation.' Owing to insufficient thrashing facilities, fifty millions of North Dakota wheat are lying in the shocks, upon which the rain poured for twenty-four hours. The Hon. Harvey Watterson, father of Henry Watterson, editor of the Courier- Journal, died at the home of his son in Lou isville, Ky. He was born at Beech Grove, the family homestead, Bedford, Tenn., No vember 23, 1811. | The loss of the schooner Frank Perew, off Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, with all on board, is conceded. The Perew was bound from Marquette, Mich., with coal for Cleve land. She carried nine men and was com manded by Captain J. Marquey, of Bay City, Mich. \ The biggest fiy wheel in the Unite! States was turned a few davs ago iu response to the touch ®f President Wmtaey of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, at the new power house. The wheel is twenty- eight fe?t in diameter, ten feet seven inches face an i weighs eighty tons, with two belts four r eet six inches in width, and running feet per minute. Washington. President Harrison has approved the finding of a court marti >1 expelling Cadet Thomas Pelham Curtis, son of Colonel Cur tis of the array, from West Point for mak ing a false entry as to the time of his return to hospital after leave of absence. The total par cent. Government bonis continued at two per cent, is $25,364,590. Third Assistant John Moore retired from office in the Department of State to undertake the duties of Professor of Inter national Law in Columbia College, New York. Mr. Moore has filled the position of Third Assistant Secretary since Mr. Bayard’s accession to the office of Secretary of State. According to a Census Bureau bulletin, there are 4510 nurseries in the United States, valued at 841,978,833.80. The President has aopointed ex-Governor E. J. Ormsbee, of Vermont, Land Com missioner in Samoa, vice Henry C. Ide, resigned. The receipts of the Government since September 1 amount to 828,385, 000. The net cash balance in the Treasury.inclusive of fractional silver and deposits in national banks, is stated at §42,000,000. The monthly public debt statement is sued by the Treasury Departmeut shows a reduction in the aggregate of the debt dur ing the last month amounting to ?sj,- 535 SI2. The amount of four ard a half percent, bonds held in trust by the Treasurer of the United States for national banks, as security for their circulation, at the close of business September 30. 1891. is $248,909. These bonds are the property of fourteen banks situated in ten different States. As they are no longer available for the purpose stated.they will have to be replaced with interest-bear ing bonds. After orty years’ service, and at his own request. Captain George H. Perkins has been placed on the retired list of the navy. The total coinage of the mints during September was 11.437,246 pieces of all kinds, valued at $3,702,671.50. Gold pie es valued $2.220.362.*0 were coined; 720.000 standard silver dollars and 4,650.100 dimes wer? also coined, the silver coinage of the month amounting to $1,389,185. The first payments of bounty under the law giving a bounty of two cents per pound on sugar produced in the United States were made at the Treasury Department, Wash ington. They were both in favor of the Chino Valley Sugar Company of Chino.Cal.. on two claims for the production of 340.000 pounds of beet sugar, and amounted to $6800. The final session of the fFIfeh National League Convention in Chica a platform only moderately Parnell; M. V. Gannon, of Omaha, was chosen to succeed Preside!* Fitzgerald. Thru feet of snow fell uf Montana. Melbourne, rainmaker, is in a high feather at Goodland, Kan. He contracted to bring about a half-inch rainfall. There was a good shower that night. The President has appointed Lieutenant Colonel Charles T. Alexander Chief Medical Purveyor of the Army, to succeed Colonel Vollum, lately retired. This position is next in importance to that of Surgeon General. The Census Bureau from Washington is sued a bulletin which shows that the real estate mortgage debt in force in Illinois January 1, 18S0, was $383,299,260, of which $165,289,222, or 43.01 per cent, of the total was on acre tracts, and $219,010,038, or 56.99 per cent., was on village and city lots. The debt of Cook County, containing Chicago, was $191,518,209. Foreign. Chinese troops in Hunan are in a mutin ous condition and fears are entertained for the safety of the foreigners. Sixty thousand persons filled St. Peter’s in Rome on the occasion of the Pope’s cele bration of mass. Complete famine prevails in thirteen Governments in Russia, and partial famine iu eight. The White Star Line steamer Teutonic reached Queenstown. Ireland, from New York, breaking the eastward record by one hour and twenty-eight minutes. The voyage was made in five days, twenty-one hours and twenty-two minutes. David Evans has been elected to succeed Sir Joseph Savory as Lord Mayor of London. The funeral train bearing the remains of the Grand Duchess Paul arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia, from Moscow. The coffin was borne to the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul by the Czar, the King of Greece, Prince Waldemar, of Denmark; Prince George, of Greece, brother of the de ceased Grand Duchess; Grand Duke Paul- Alexandrovitch. her husband: Gran 1 Duke Constantine ana the Grand Duke Coustanti- novitch. The Canadian Parliament was prorogued by Governor-General Stanley. It is reported that the troops in many places in Brazil have mutinied. Gold payments have been suso3n lei fo two years in the Argentine Republic. The dire distress of 25,000,000 Russians unable to pay their taxes has caused a de ficiency of 512,000,000 in the budget. An attempt was made to blow up the train upon which the Emperor of Austria was traveling in Bohemia. A railroad bridge near Prague was damage! by bombs a few hours before he passed over it. At Bridgend, Glamorgan County, Wales, eight miners were killed by the overwinding of the pit gear at the Abergwnfi collery. A tourist from Chicago Darned Solomon Schnidt inscribed his name and address on the famous Niederwald monument at Rudes- beim, Germany. The guardian caught him in the act, and instead of having him im prisoned made him fetch a bucket of water and some soap from the guard house and scrub off the marks, his fellow tourists de riding him meanwhile. A coachman attached to the Hotel Rau-’ tenkranz at Ilmenau, Austria, shot and killed his betrothed in a dancing sa oon, be cause she had chosen another partner. He then retired to the stables, and, after shoot ing nis favorite horse, committed suicide. General Boulanger left a political tes tament urging his adherents to continue their efforts and blaming his “proscribers.” The Russian custon officials will give twenty-one per cent, of their salaries for the relief of famine sufferers. The most disastrious fire Halifax, Nova Scotia has had in many years occurred on DESTT A State o Straits t • Peai [ON N BUSSIi t Famiw in Thirteen Norernients. . Whia the Starving ,nts ar Keduced. a recent night when wharf property extend- ( been eaten instead of being planted, and the ing from Cronan’s to Cunard’s, was almost " — entirely destroyed. The total loss is es timated at $200,000 to $40,0000. The men-of- war firemen and the military aided in fight ing it. Six persons perished in a fire at Puylaur ine, Department of Tam, in France. There was a serious disturbance in Rome, Italy, started by disrespectful acts of a party of French pilgrims at Victor Emmanuel’s tomb. The island A disputJi from S. Petersburg to the London TelJnraph, desribing the situation ia Russia arising fromthe failure of crops, and deta linig harrowng incidents of the famine n^w prevail in;, says that not for centuries ha 3 such wic«pread distress been recorded A circular las been issued by the Ministerof (the Interi-r, which enumerates thirteen Jof'emments in which the people are compet^y famine stricken, and eight in which a bart> a l famine prevails. The trouble is chiefl* due to the Govern ment. whicn, althougb well aware at the be ginning c,f t^ e year tbat a famine was im minent, qeiiyed taking any action to relieve the distra g8 until it wa- too late. What ben efit woul(i >ave been derived from the pro hibition .he exportation of rye was nulli fied by th* action of the Government in extendin, r he time for the decree to go into effect. 1 Qiddition to the scarcity of food, which ba s •aused untold suffering, the dis tress has b en intensified by the enormous number 0 'disastrous fires that have oc curred V mug[? out the famine-stricken re gion. 'J n mart y the districts entire villages tve be? u destroyed. Added to these cr u ^strokes of fortune came the cat tle pla^u, */rom wld ch thousands of head of cattle pe r-he-L m .iny families thus losing their oifij leans “l subsistence. What "ijjtle food it is possible for the peasants tc obtain is of the poorest descrip tion. In u .any eases their only food is the sweeping!, and refuse from the flour mills. In Saratcfj the landowners found this refuse so injuric u 3 to their cattle that they would not feed it to them. But the landowners made breat of it and sold it to the peasants. Bread mace of finely chopped straw and bran, mixel with a small quantity of rye, is considered excellent. In many districts the starving p-ople are not able to procure even these miseiable substitutes for nourishing food, and ire reduced to the most dire straits to procure auything that will prolong life. In these districts the starving population are keeping themselves alive by making and eating whst they call “hunger broad, - ’ the ingredient of which are dried dung, the powdered bark of trees and ground peas and goose-foof a plant more commonly known as pig-we 1. Heavy i lins have fallen and the ground is so soaked vith water that the potatoes are rotting. The price of potatoes has already doubled, i nd is still rising. The pee ant hoards have sent petitions to the Mini; *y praying that the taxes and ar rears of ti :es be wiped out. The petitioners declare th ,t the Government will be obliged to maintt n the impoverished people for fourteen r onths, and that it will be utterly impossible for them to pay the taxes. The gre: t fair which is annually held at Nijni Nov orod, and whieh is attended by merchant; and dealers from all parts of Rus sia, was a .'allure this year. This was due to the enormpus nuhaber of bankrupts and their consequent withdrawal from trade. In many villages the peasants have nailed up their huts, and have left their communes to scour-the country in search of work. Hundreds of them have failed in their search, and are begging along the roadsides. In numerous cases the seed corn which was fur nished the peasants by the Government has land is lying fallow. Notwithstanding the terrible condition of the peasantry, the taxes continues to be ex torted from vuem. Where the peasants dis play any unwillingness to pay over their taxes, the collectors resort to physical means to collect the money from them. The knout is extensively employed by the officials of 4he tax-gathering department of Russia. TEN a-J YNCHED. villages In the midst of cane. The Ger sten was wrecked cutter Hilda was d containing nineteen naf EIGHTEEN MIL Estimate ot the Cost of Running the World’s Fair. E. T. Jeffery, Chairman of the Grounds and Buildings Committee of the World’s Fair atCh'cago, made the following estimate of necessary exposition expenses for submis sion to the recent meeting of the National Commission: Buildings $7,295,090 Grading and filling 450,009 Landscape Wm 323,490 Viaducts and bridges 125,000 Piers * 70,000 Waterway improvements 225,000 Water supnly and sewerage, 600,000 Railways.* 500,000 Steam plant 800,000 Electricity 1,500,000 Statuary on buildings 100,000 Vases, lamps and posts 50,000 Fuel and light during construction 20,000 Seating ...j.. 8,000 World’s Cd%ress 200,000 Improvement of lake front. ... 200,000 General expenses of Construct^** Department 500,090 Organization and administration. 3,398,563 Ponce, watchmen and other ex penses 1.550,000 •swho were cap- in., and who were Marianna jail, never iter they were captured and posse captured four more, and >re being taken to jail afoot in .Sheriff W. T. Derrick and his dep uties. Thfe leader of the strikers, Ben Pat terson, wjis shot before the nine were cap tured. ■ -— " He escaped being killed outright by feign ing deatAlill the firing ceased. He only de layed his death a few hours by simulation. Being too ’todly wounded to go either afoot or horsebaBc to jail, he was put aboard the steamer James Lee, in charge of Deputy Sheriff Frank Mills, who was to take him^to # Marianna, ;Tenn., by way of Helena Total ,.$17,825,4133 AMERICAN BOAT SEIZED. The J. Hamilton Lewis Resists a Rus sian Man-of-War. News has just been received that the American sealing schooner J. Hamilton Lewis has been seized by the Russians for poaching about Copper Island, and Captain McLean and his crew of twenty-five Ameri cans carried to Vladivostcck for trial. The Lewis and two other schooners were ob served cruising off Copper Island. The Rus sian man-of-war Alert shadowed them, and finally caught the Lewis raiding the rookeries ! on Behring. Island, one of Russia’s posses- ! sions. The American schooner was brought | to by a shot which lodged in her j hull. When t e Captain of the Lewis was i ornere i to come aboard the Alert he took I with him all of his crew, and a ires fight en- ! sued on the man-of-war. The Americans were finaily overpowered an 1 sent under guard on a passenger steamer to Vlaiivostock. The ! seized schooner was taken there by a i prize crew. The Russians are said to be '■ much excited over this bold raid on their I seal rookeries, and. it is said, severe punish- : meat will be dealt out to the capture! Amer- i icans. The catch of Cooper Island this ! season is only 25,009 skins, about one-half the usual number. wai ebs boati At HaJ nailed to’ bank fift boarded under t! Chester fed to a piece of machinery on ’s Landing the boat was sig* i. As soon as it touched the men armed with Winchesters and demanded Patterson of Mills persuasive powers of five Win- _fles. The colored desperado was carried ashore, and as the boat pulled out a volley from the rifles told the story of his fate. His slayers then struck out across country to intercept Sheriff Derrick and his nine prisoner*- Heading them off they de manded of the S her iff his prisoners. He and the two deputies wtb him could not cope with the determi neu body of men which con fronted them, and there was little hesitation or parley. The pane men were lynched with out ceremony or 1',oss of time. Under the leadtkrsh p of dangerous colored men there is no Itellnz where the trouble would have ended! As it was, a white over seer, Tom Miller, Was shot to death, a gin house fired, aud allotof cotton destroyed. The assassins anil ncendiaries banded to- . gether were intent! oi further mischief when white citizens! sartei on the pursuit w'hich ended so ta-aycally. Whan Peyton ano! Patterson were* nrprisad they were on thei^ hands and kn(*escrawling in the cane- tle pistol he had taken ofMiller, and started to e ould raise it he was fi g?rs even being shot Inscy bitter against J. ^plitation the trouble 'jalthy merchaut of to get his cot- icago, 111., adopted itely against Mr. BLACK DIAMONDS. The Census Office Issues a Bulletin on Coal Production. The Census Office has issued from AV ash- ington a bulletin on the coal product of the Unite! States. It shows that the coal pro duct of the United States reached a total of 141,229.513 short tons in the census year, and was valued at the mines, before any expenses for shipment, at -SloO.-'i >.32b The product included 45,699,487 ^ort tons o£ Peunsy.- vania coal aud other antnrac-ite wortu $>35, 879,514, and 95.629,026 sbor* tons of bitum inous snl licnite, valued at $94,34 5,809. The average value oc ail saiab.e grades of anthracite was $1.58 a ton at the mines, and the average of bitumin ous coal was ninety-nine cents a short ton at the mm?*, in 1880 the total product included 28,619,812 short tons of anthracite and 42.831,758 short tons of bitu minous coal. The product increased 97.57 per cent, during the decade, and the total value 67.53 per cant. The total number of persons engaged in the industry was 299,559, who received in the aggregate $109,139,928 as, wanes. The fire which swept through the Sioux Reservation burned everything in ite path, leaving in its track a blackened waste. iV t brako. Peyton ha: from ^ho dead body use it. Nit before shot mafty times, hi off. ' The fesfing is m F. Frank, H»n whoss occurred. He is ^ Memphis, and, being’anxious ton picked, advanced the price of picking to sixty cents per hundred. Until then pickers on other plantations were satisfied with their wages. A DARING TRAIN ROBBERY. An Express Car Rifted at the Point ot a Ke\VjTv>r. I ! A train robbery, with nearly all the thrill ing features that acuornpatiy such events in the wild AVest, took place about 1 a. m. on a Central Hudson railroad. tnV-n between Al bany, N. Y., and Little Fal*. on train No. 31, a solid American Express train of six cars, which left New York at 8:39 at night, bound for Chicago. At the hour named E. A. I a trusted messenger of the who had b;en in its empk sud lenly realized the facr stool over him. with two revolvers pointed at his head, and demanded the surrender of his revolver and the key oil the safe. Moore was taken wholly by surprise, and as the robber bad taken his revolver, he had to give up the key of the iAfc. The robber then opened the safe, took nut all the money it contained, about $10001 if t cutting the hose of the air brake, hf-of lit the train nearly to a standstill and jai^®^ off, start ing in a nortner.y direction [ ss soon as possible Moore^Aie known to the other men on the train had taken place, and they ma le a se see how the robber got into the car. Th^H was no mys tery about it, for a hole lar^Buough to ad mit a man's body was found^B tnr >ueh the lorward eud of the car. about six teen inches square aud had b^Bcut out with an auger and ssw. Once th^Bitruder got inside he was concealed froni^Be messenger by the freight and could the mes senger without being seen Wmself. He waited until Moore was makinjkrat certain way bills and had him covered^feith the pis tols and at his mercy. The Br that was robbed was the last one in the t|in. WORLD’S FAIR NOTES. Nicaragua wants half an acre for the site of its building at the Exposition. Farmers. Farmers’ Alliances, and other rural organizations will be provided for in a special building at the AATorld’s Fair. Commissioner Shufeldt has cabled from Cape Town, South Africa, that an exhibit of diamonds and feathers worth $390,009 will be sent from Cape Town. The Executive Committee of the Illinois Woman’s Alliance has asked for the priv ilege of making a display at the Fair which will show the evil results of child labor. Sexor Noyez, of Madrid, petitioned for the privilege of conducting bull fights dur ing the Exposition, and offered to pay $1, 250,000 for the right to do so. The directory decided not to sanction any bull fights. It is probable that the five Territories— New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Oklahoma and Alaska—will make their exh at of their re sources and products under one roof. They united in a request to that effect, and it was granted. Two anchors that Columbus carried in his ships will be exhibited at the Fair, and al ready one of them is stored in AVashington, waiting to be brought to Chicago. The anchors were found by Columbian Commis sioner Ober near two old wells at San Salva dor. Secretary Dickinson is greatly interest ed in the efforts of Texas, his own State, to raise a large Exposition fund. He has of fered prizes of $100, $75, and $50 to the J toung woman of Texas who shall raise the argest amount for the fund before Novem ber 1st. Two granite columns for the Woman’s Building have been contributed by Mrs. Alice Houghton, Lady Manager, of Wash ington. The columns are fifteen feet high, twenty inches in diameter.and will be placed in the main entrance on the east side of the Woman’s Building. The Grounds and Buildings Committee decided to advertise for the construction of a building to accommodate four saw-mill plants. The structure will be located south of the Agricultural Annex, on piles driven in what is now a natural lagoon. The build ing will be 130x290 feet and will cost $25,000. A. B. De Guerville, of Milwaukee, has been appointed a general AVorld’s Fair Com missioner, and will visit the different coun tries of Europe, Asia and Northern Africa, delivering lectures on the AVorld’s Fair. The lectures will be illustrated with stereopticon views of Chicago and the AVorld’s Fair build ings Secretary Bctterworth, Major Handy, Commissioners Lindsay and Bullock, and Di rector Peck, comprising the Exposition’s Eu-. ropean Commission, have returned to this country, having visited during the past nine weeks almost every European capital in the interest of the Exposition. This tour has resulted in awakening throughout all Eu rope very great interest and even enthusiasm in the Fair. It is now certain that England, France, Germany, and nearly all other Eu ropean nations, will surpass at Chicago all previous efforts in making exhibits. Chief Buchanan, of the Agriculturl De partment, says that the cotton industry will make one of the great displays of the Expo sition. Cotton is the leading vegetable fibre of the world, and the United States fur nishes over fifty-six per cent, of the entire product, so that it is entitled to a prominent placo in the Agricultural Department. As contemplated by Chief Buchanan, the ex hibit will embrace samples from every coun try where the plant is grown to any extent, and various illustrations of growth and preparation for market. Half a million pansies, one hundred thousand roses, and millions of other flow ers, including every known variety and species, will be seen at the Exposition. The horticultural exhibit will be on a scale never before attempted in the history of the world. Mr. Thorp, of the floriculture division, esti mates that the equipment of the horticul tural building, including the purchase price of plants, will be $350,090, and the total ex pense of the display $750,009. The floricul turists of the country will donate a large share of tbe plants. Ten of the sixteen acres of ground on the wooded island will be planted in flowers. will inmHHHnteM half a u? lars in carrying SUt toe plans for i«T sentation. It is proposed not only to erect a building in which to display the magnificent resources of Brazil, but to surround that building with practical illustrations of the methods of agriculture and industry. There will be a sugar mill in operation, a coffee quinta, at which the method of gatb- ering and curing coffee for the market will be illustrated, and the manner in which rub ber is gathered and prepared for market will be shown in a similar way. There will be also several fac-similes of native huts, with native families living as they live at home, and pursuing their industries. It is proposed also to have the national band of Brazil in attendance. HIS DEBTORS KILLED HIM; The Friends of a Usurer Slanghteredi in China. A letter from Shanghai gives the details oi a tragic and sensational occurrence in thd northern province of China: In the region known as Tulufan, situated! in what is known as the New Terri tory, are large numbers of Mohammedans, native Chinese, who many years ago adopted] the Mohammedan faith. These people arel numerous and powerful in the community,! but are said to be perfectly ignorant of the| principles of trade. A native, known as a[ Shensi man, had for years conducted a] sort of banking house at Hupoo. He had accumulated an immense for tune, making large sums by lend ing money at usurious rates. Unfortu nately for him at the wrong time he pressed his debtors, who were all Mohammedans with too much severity. They held a mass meeting and threatened him. This had no, effect, and finally a few weaks since they armed themselves, seized the usurer and put, him to death in a most brutal manner. AVith him the mob killed no less than thirty-eight Chinese, who were followers and friends of the Shensi man. The heads of the victims were afterward placed on bamboo poles and exposed to view. A revolt was imminent^ but was stopped by the Mohammedan chiefs, with the assis tance of imperial soldiers. MAN AND WOMAN LYNCHED i make mum IS A PLEASANT fSIPERIENCE! BUT RELIABILITY IS A FEATURE THAT ENSURES TO TiJE END OF TIME 1 And, Tjotll combined, make any business house mor© ambitions to meet the wants ^nd desires of its patrons. Such is the purpose of \ H. BUSCH & 1 ; CO., and they especially call attention to their stock of goods, as being new, fresh, desirable, and varied! iu all’ departments. | In Dry Goods, vre have Dress Flannels, 25, 75 and 90 cents; Black and Colored Cashmeres, 12A, 25 cents and! upwards; Worsted Dress Goods, 10 cents up;j Dress Ginghams]! 8, 10 and 12A cents, nice styles; Suitings, New Flannels and Dress Goods, 8, 10, 12A and 15 cents per yard. ; Immense line, nice Pall Prints, at 4A, 5 and 61 centd per yard. We always keep a nice line of White Goods id stock that are good all the year round. \ Canton Flannels—Bleached and Brown : r—8, 10, 12A toi 20 cents per yard; also Colored Cantons for linings. Bleached! and Brown Muslins in all qualities and very cheap. We keep a fine line of Bed and White Flannels, from 201 to 75 cents per yard. Do not forget these. We have, good heavy Flannels for Ladies’ and Children’s Underskirts. All kinds of Dress Linings and Furnishings, Clothe ing, Hats, Caps and Piece Goods for Men’s auc Boys’ Wear, 12 A cents to $1.25 per yard. - i Our Shoe Stock consists of a carefully culled line o$ Ladies’, Men’s and Children’s Shoes. ' Special line of Ladies’ Goods, in pongola, Comi mon Sense and Opera Toe, $2.00 to $3.50, in Button and Bals*j Our Child’s Springheel Goods cannot be matched^ all sizes, in plain and tipped toes, 65 cents to $2.00. Try our $4.50 Men’s Electric Shoe. AVe carry in our NOTION DEPARTMENT, Corsets, Gloves, Collars, Ct Handkerchiefs, Ladies’ Undervests, Children’s Underwear, Mean's Underwi and a large line of shirts. HOSIERY for everybody, any qiiality, at the price that can be for the article, 10 to 50 cents per pair. | Our STATIONERY DEPARTMENT is full of AVriting Piapers, Enveloj Blank Books, Memorandums, Pens, Inks fall colors), Pencils in big variety, Pli] ing Cards, Tablets, etc. We go into detail to enumerate sotne M the ma hundreds of different things kept by us. All we cannot name. Remember, School Books are to be had of us at lower p| made the best arrangements, and can sell, and do sell, cheaper tha .FRESH BOOKS. OLD BOOKS ARE NOT KEPT BY US. gny Coates’ Spool Cotton, wholesale or retail; also Spool Si] Our GROCERY DEPARTMENT is, as usual, so popular wij we are emptied constantly, and we are pleased to meet the good Reliable Grocep.ies. Staple and fancy lines are now along rapidly. Ask to see our Special Bargain Counter Goods, ii and Small Articles. You may see something cheap you will We shall soon open up a fine line of Blankets and Qui 10-4 Sheeting and Pillow Casing for your beds. We have just renovated and brightened up our stores, purchases to be able to offer New Mfeos in all de( and Stables Free in rear of store iHC- IBTTSOKC PARK AVENUE. AIKEN. SM GKLAT1 LAWRENS STREET, AIKEN,j DEALER IN IS, General Merchd FINE GROCER] applies,Wines, Liquors, Cigars & Tobaci DRY GOODS, 'm ji I oore, of Buffalo, :press company, i ’ fifteen years, iat a stranger TaRen From Jail by a Mob and Hanged From a Bridge. The usually quiet town of Holl ndale, Miss., has been for forty-eight hours in a fever of excitement on account of the un provoked murder of a white citizen by col ored men and the speedy administration of justice to the murderer and his accomplice. Lou Stevenson, a mulatto woman of low character, for reasons not yet ascertained, decided that a white man named Davis must die. With her colored lover. Grant White, she plotted the murder. Davis, who worked for Miller & Griffin, merchants, was called from the store at about 11 o’clock at night by the woman and was engaged in conversation. AYhite then crept up behind bim and shot him dead. The entire town was aroused hv the crime. The murderers were put in jail, "but on Sun day night a posse of fifty men demanded and received the guilty pair from the officer in charge, and carrying them to the bridge across Deer Creek,’hanged them from tha trestle. Hats, Ribbons, Etc. Call aud Examine his Handsome Stock, Learn his Low Prices. 1*n The There is a company formed sure damages against frost. Tfc in Franca during bad weather t is put at $15,039,099. Paris to in- mual loss culture BURNING PRAIRIES. Awful Mischief Done by a Care less Bone Picker. N. L. Shortman, who has just arrived at Ellendale, North Dakota, from Fort Yates, on the Missouri River, brings news of an im- l mense pra rie fire west of the Mis souri. He says that a section 390 ] miles wide and 300 miles long has ! been burned over, destroying farm houses, i many herds of cattle and numerons quanti- ' ties of hay. The fire is said to have been | started by a bone picker, who found his | calling unremunerative,owing to the heavy growth of grass. Seeing what awful havoc he had wrougnt he fled, realizing how little his life would be worth if captured by the enraged ranchmen. The whole region is described as a place of death and desolalL211«J4fii^^£Q f6on£ wera believed J TRIAL OF 0. K. A SEPARATE VERSICT WAHTEfl FROM EACH JUROR. 1 find that his two stores are thej best in town. I find the stocks are complete in every lins. I find that all customers are treated well, ii. I find that every one gets his money s worth, b. I find that the goods are the be«t. b. I find that the stock is the largest in town, h. I find that the goods are bought from the 03-. in the United States. / I find that every one goes theite for bargains. I find the prices the lowest. , I find the qualities of the goods the best. I find that his store^e the largest, best arranged, handsomest in towfr- I concur with the eleven jurymen that the whole b ness is the most complete and varied in this part of country. Decision of Judge Allstdes : > ^ ^ Upon the verdict I find C. IC. HENDETUON^ gull selling Clothing, Shoes, Boots, Hats, Gents, Underwear, Drawers, Cuffs, Scarfs, Umbrellas, Trunks, Traveling &c., cheaper than any other house in the country, and im fine of $250,000 to be paid into th 3 public school A ^ County. , . You are most respectfully invited to call and mg stock of Goods. 8 th. 9 th. 10th. 11th. 12th.