Jewell County Republican du lieu suivant : Jewell, Kansas • 2

THE WEEKLY RECORD. of Abraham A. Vorhultzn, in Dauphin county, exploded Thursday, instantly killing Pinion lirlnzen, tLgneer, and Jacob Klein, both of EHzabetbtowH. The explosion was duo to a lack of water in the boiler. St.

Joseph's pashiouists monastery, three miles west of Baltimore, was destroyed by fire. The church adjoining in process of construction was also considerably damaged. The damage is from $20,000 to partly insured. A kailway bridge at Minneapolis used by the Manitoba and Northern PaclOc trains was so badly damaged by lire that the two center spans fell into tac Mississippi. The loss is 20,000.

A freight and an excursion train engine, going at a good speed, collided near St. Kyds, on the Hannibal and at. Juseph road. No one was severely injured, but several painfully hurt. Miss Martha E.

Johnson, 27 years of ago, was burned to death near Newcastle, Coshocton county, her dress catching lire from a stove about which she was working. Mrs. Julia P. Smith, a well-known novelist, was killed at her summer residence at New Hartford, Conn. She was driving with her husband, when the horse ran awey.

Br an explosion of gas in Fair Lawn mine, Dan Sanswire, secretary and treasurer of the Fair LawH Coal company, and D. C. Blackwood were fatally injured. By the failure of an air brake, passenger trains collided at Colchester, on the Vermont Central road, thirteen trainmen receiving severe injuries. At Illiopolis, Mrs.

Pheebe Hayland and her two little grandchildren perished lu a burning building, all egres3 being cut oil by the flames. A firs at Cedar Springs, consumed the grain elevators of Benedict Brothers, and a store aiid dwelling. Loss $16,000. JEWELL CITY, KANSAS MINOR MENTION. CnERKY furniture is in stylo.

Lynn pays Lor shoemakers $100,000 per week. Tub banjo is fashiouablo Chicago ladies. Lemon juico or aiuiu on tho skin repels mosquitoaa. Captain Wkbb's widow is only twenty-four years old. Ex-Senatok Windom will upend several months in tho Scottish Highlands.

Mr. Gkokub Kimonos, of London, is at work on a marble bust of Italpb Waldo Einerson. Six thousand car loads of watermelons have boon shipped north from (Jeorgia this season. A PAiflUTKK of Gen. WinPold Scott is tho wifo of a Virginia gentleman named Winliold Scott.

The popular Polish poet and dramatist Ladislaus Ludwig Anazye, died recently in Cracow. Senator Anthony, who is at Sara lives were saved at Menak, where not a building was left standing. At OiiMjongpriok, flfty-elrtit milis distant, tho sea suddenly rose eight feet and then fell ten feet, causing wide-spread devastation in that region. In Santiago, Chili, a bill has been passed providing for Interments in cemeteries regardless of creed, whereupon the ecclesiastical authorities threatened to curse the general cemetery as soon as the law is promulgated. In consequence, a large number of bodies have been disinterred and reburied in church chapels.

Tub London Standard's Hong Konir special states the reported crossing of the Tonquin frontier by Chinese troops is is yet unconfirmed. A war, however, ia considered at Hong Kong certain to ensue unless the French government fully recognizes the sovereignty of China. Two graduates of the Toronto veterinary college, after a thorough examination of dead cattlo on the farm of John H. Thompson, near Flint, report that ten of them were victims of Texas fever. The surgeons say native stock is not liable to infection.

At a banquet given United States Ministers Morton and Sargent at London, several speakers expressed the wish that the United Slates would adopt the principles of free trade and conclude a treaty of commerce with France on that basis. The Countess de Chambord insists that the position of chief mourner at the count's funeral shall be held by his nearest relative, and the Count de Paris has left Frohsdorf with the other Orleanist princes. A statue of Lafayette was unveiled in Paris, recently. A vast assemblage witnessed the eere.rnouy. Addresses were delivered by Messrs.

Morton and the American minister to France and Germany. Reports from all parts of Russia state that the cattle plague continues with unbated fury. Over a million cattle have fallen victims to the plague within the past few years In European Russia alone. Prof. Faclb, who made a study of the subject of volcanic eruptions and is considered an authority, predicts another earthquake will take place at Ischia the 15th of October.

Professor Varley, the electrician to the ing the fit half mile in 07 seconds. John Murphy 'sent Frank Work's tea r.i around In Jay-Eye-See made a mile in 2 Judge Hoadley, the democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, is suffering from nervous prostration, lie. has gone to Philadelphia to consult his old phyichn, and may not Bpeak again during the campaign. Professor a. Phelps Is daugcrously ill at Bar Harbor.

The death of his son, Professor Phelps, of Andover, who accidentally killed himself in th wood of Maine, is baid to be the cause of his sickness. Subscription lists have, been placed In every bank, hotel, and saloon In El Paso, to raise funds to insure a tight between Slade and Mitchell on tho Mexican Me of the river. A disease known as splenic fever has attacked the cattle of Lancaster county, and is raping with great virulence. Large numbers of cases have already proved fatal. Tkk Louisville air-line road is selling tickets from St.

Louis to Louisville for $1, and to Cincinnati for $1.50. The latter rate just covers the bridge tolls and bu3 transfer. Thb Massachusetts state democratic convention will be held at Springfield, iseptemher 20. It is authoritatively stated that Butler will become a candidate for re-election. Ex-Governor Talbot, of Massachusetts, is prominently mentioned as a republican candidate for governor, but declines positively to allow the use of his name.

At Sandy Hill, N. M. S. Teller, druggist, shot himself fatally with the 6ame weapon, In the same room and at the same hour his father killed himself a year ago. Mr.

DEnAAS, one of the German commissioners of the foreign exposition at Boston, states that the empress of Austria is likely seon to visit the United States. Mitchell, the mauler, wants to fight Slade iu Mexico, and Harry Hill, the stakeholder, has been requested to order the mill to take place over the border. John Coxnelle, a watchman on duty in the treasury building at Washington, killed himself with a revolver in a coal-vault in the basement. Anew exchange will be shortly opened in Nov York, to be known as the Electric Man ufacturing and Miscellaneous Stock Exchange. Lot Chadwick, one of the oldest eettlers in northern Illinois, was buried with Masonic honors at Lee Centre.

He was 91 years of age. Tun American woman suffrage association will hold its annual meeting in the Brooklyn academy of music October 9 and 10. William F. Hines, a detective sergeant in New York, shot himself dead In a bath-room, leaving a wife and two children. Tnn Grand Trunk road has contracted for an iron steamer, costing 2S5.CO0, to tramfer cars across the river at Detroit.

Fhed Lauer, the well-known brewer and first president of the United States brewery congress, is dead, aged 73. William B. Stearns, president of the Fitchburg railroad, died of Brighl's diseaso, at Marbltthcad, Mass. Tub Western Union have Issued orders which will have the effect of raising salaries all around. Considerable damage has been done by WASHINGTON.

Fitiii) Douglass, the colored leader, in an Interview with a Washligton Star reporter, aidd: The statement printed in the New York newspapers that the proposed convention of colored men o.t Louisville on the 2lth Inst, was to be in the interest of the present, administration, was wholly untrue. He Raid also that lie proposed to go as a delegate to th convention, if one should be hld, and that he had received letters from, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and other states, informing him that delegates from those states would attend. said also that he had received letters from Senator Harrison, of Indiana, from the mayor of the city of Indianapolis, welcoming the convention to Indianapolis, In case It should not be welcomed to Louisville, and in any ewe if the colored people should wish to bold the convention there. Consul Roosevelt, of Bordeaux, France, has sent the department of state some extracts from a note conceru'ng the prohibition cf American pork, which had recently been hauded the mi ulster of commerce of Paris, Marseilles, Bordeaux and Havre. In this note the chambers represent the loss caused by the prohibition to the merchant marine and the country in freights, to be very great, that the nanit iry question has been decided by a commission of public hygiene adversely to the prohibition, that by prohibition the working classes have been deprived of cheap food and the price of food increased, with other results and dlillcultles, and that as long as the prohibition lasts retaliation may be expected from tho United States.

They ask that American pork be made free and the decree of prohibition cancelled. Officbkh of the postoflicc department express the opinion that the Inadvertence of congress in making a bill to regulate postmasters salaries to into effect at once, instead of the 1st of October, the date fixed for reduction In letter rates of postage, will cost the government a million and a half dollars In increase of salaries. The system of grading salaries proportionately in accordance with the receipts of offices is also unfavorably commented upon at the department, for the reason that under this system postiua-ters are continually tempted to fictitious 6alcs of stamps in order to increase their compensation. The free delivery system was established In forty-two cities and towns during the fiscal year ended June 3d, 12. But four poet-offlccs have been added to tho list since that date, although many urgent applications are received for the establishment of the system The department has been unable to accord the privdegc except in rare instances, because of the meager appropriation which has been absorbed to a considerable extent by the operations of the law providing for the yearly promotion of letter carriers.

O. I. Denny, United States consul general at Shanghai, made his report to the state department under date of Shanghai, July 23, in reference to cholera at Swatow. A number of foreigners composing the crews of foreign vessels have died. Hong Kong has d( dared Swatow an infected port.

Denny was requested by the consular body to communicate with Chinese officials to secure their co-operation in enforcement of the regulations of 1874. Tub state department is in roccipt of a copy of the text of the treaty concluded between Germany and Mexico December 5, 1S82. It is the usual form of treaties of commerce, and ii3 Mexico has recently abrogated all her old commercial treaties with a view of proving her relations with foreign powers on a uniform basis. This treaty, which is the first of her new treaties, may be considered as Indicating the character of those which are to follow. Ex-CniKF Justice Moore, of Texas, died suddenly in Washington City, Thursday, of cerebral apoplexy, aged 01 years.

Judge Moore was for many years a prominent lawyer in Texas, and during the first year of the lute war commanded, a Texas regiment. He was then elected to the bench, and served as associate justice and chief jtictiee eighteen years. Early in lbS2 he resigned the latter on account of failing health. Is auswer to the application from the French charge d' affairs for permission to take twenty Indl.uu from their reservation to France for exhibition, Commissioner Perce has advised the secretary of the interior to refuse the request upon the ground that such exhibitions result in the demoralization of Indians, and renders them ilLsalu fled with life at the agencies. Secretary Cn axdlkr notified the secretary of the foreign exhibition that the government steamer Tallapoosa was at the service of the foreign visitors and representatives at the world's fair.

The decrease in the public debt for the month of August is estimated at about CASUALITIFS. A boy in charge of the passenger elevator in the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago, lost con trol of the machine as it was making an upward passage, and advised the two passengers on board to jump off at the next landing. In attempting to do so one of them, Christian Jackson, a painter employed in the hotel, was killed. The tragedy was needless, as the automatic appliance caused the elevator to stop naturally on reaching the upper story. A collission on the Delaware railroad, near Green Springs, was caused by a runaway locomotive from Clayton, which was started by a tramp, who was seen to board it, and then jump off.

The south bound passenger train, which was running fast, met the locomotive, and both engines were wrecked. Wm. Collins, fireman, was badly scalded. Several passengers received trifling injuries. Flames appeared Monday afternoon In a rag and paper warehouse on Walnut street, Cincinnati, and spread with such speed as to out off the escape of the employes, several of whom were seriously injured, and five are still missing.

The composing-room of the Times-Star was destroyed. The total loss is $100,000. Tei boiler of a steam thresher on the farm toga, is described as looking much bet ter than before Ins illness. The Empress Engenio, who lias suffered from dyspepsia, walks much and continues to improvo in health and spirits. Ex-Senator Pomekoy, of Kansas having spent tho early summer among tho Hooky Mountains, is now enjoying Now England sea aironScituatoUeach.

A German inventor has built a ship so that in case of accident to tho bow the stern half can bo instantaneously separated from it, andean continue the voyage securely. In a population of New York City has 61,052 real estate owners. It further appears that whilo the real estate annually increases in valuo the owners become fewer. Mrs. E.

Lynn Lynton, tho English authoress, is a pleasant lady of sixty, with gray hair and spectacles. Sho is a fascinating talker, and lives abroad most of tho time, sponding all her winters in Rome. "If this is not tho solid truth, lloor mo with a watermelon, and give tho piece to tho Sunday school scholars," is a form of spooch which is regarded in Georgia as imparting conclusiveness to an assertion." The tanks of tho liorlin lish dealers in tho Burgstrasso contain, it is said, ibout 180 tons of live fish. Berlin consumes weekly from forty to sixty tons jf fresh water fish, and seems to have a wild fondness for cols. At tho dedication of tho Princess Alice Memorial Hospital at London recently, tho Princess of Wales woro tho plainest dress of any of tho ladies presont.

It was white cambric without trimming, and sho woro no jewelry. A Salt Lake City admirer of tho sainted Brigham Young urges tho erection of a monument to his memory on the ground that the old man was "the Moses who led tho oppressed out of monocracy; tho leader and the wheelhorso in tho settlement of tho valleys." The citizeua of Bremen hold fast to some of their ancient traditions. All peremptory snlos of real estate still take place by tho light of tho "burning candle." Council messengers appear on solemn occasions in llaminjr red coats, knee brooches, whito stockings and side swords. Martin Farqithak Tupier is said to be very proud of a book by an Amorican writer, called "Sands of Gold, sifted from the Floods of Literature; or the wisest sayings of Solomon, Shakspeare and Tupper, exemplified by the Poet." A copy of this, elegantly bound, is in his library. The Prince Imperial's tomb in the Zulu country is, it appoars: kept in good order.

Thore is about a quarter of an aero of ground inclosed by a wall, and within that another inclosure where Queen Victoria's Cross stands. The oiiginal wreath placed around the cross is still intact, though much faded. The monument was placed by a British officer, in charge of a chief named Sabuza and his clan who promised to take care of it. They have kept their promise well. CRIMINALITIES.

Joseph Chose, an aged Englishman, farming about fifteen miles from Burlington, got out of bed tho other night, and stabbed ills wife six times with a pocket-knife. One of her lingers was cut off in the struggle, and her Intestines protruded from a cut across the stomach. She crawled to a neighboring farm-house and made her statement. There seems to have bceu no cause for the assault except incompatibility. Til trial of Frank James at Gallatin, Mo.

for complicity in the Winston train robber-, resulted in an acquittal. The other two eases agalntt the defendant, one for being accessory to the murder of Westfall and the othtr for the murder of Sheets, were continued until the October term of the Daviess county circuit court, which meets the second Monday in October. Dr. J. K.

Hichky, who fatally shot his wife at. Mendota, 111., recently, and fled, returned Thursday with his throat cut from ear to ear, but no main artery severed. He was much emaciated, having laid in the hay loft all the intervening period. He is under arrest and will recover. At the Marble hall saloon, Kansas City, Julius Hooks playfully pointed a 45-caliber Colt's revolver at John Bagley, a well-known sporting man, which was accidentally discharged, the ball penetrating the abdomen, coming out at the back, producing a fatal wound.

C. C. MoNi5AY went to Stanford, and reported that some one had during the night cut his wife's throat from ear to car. After a brief session at his home in the country, the coroner's jury pronounced him the murderer and caused his incarceration. Daniel Courtney, in a saloon under a lodging house, in South street, New York, deliberately shot dead Thomas Young, coolly replaced the revolver in his pocket and walked away.

lie is still at large. Both longshore men. By the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of a drunken ruflian named Yellow-hammer, on the exposition grounds at St. Joseph, George Keattie was fatally shot the aMomcn, and James Madden was shot n.the arm. Two negroes of Edwards, confessed having robbed the grave of Mrs.

Hattie Howell. One of them who attempted to escape was riddled with bullets. The other was taken from the sheriff and banged. A man who boarded a train at Smithfield, Utah, late on Sunday night, covered eight passengers and two trainmen with a revolver, robbed them of their watches and money, and escaped in the darkness. Jacob Waldrox, a irm-hand of Danville, 111., killed William Miller fn a drunken quarrel.

A patty of twenty-Ave officers and citizens are in pursuit of the murderer. Gkorce Raskin, convicted of pension frauds in the United States district court, at Philadelphia, was refused a new trial and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. At Tsylorvllle, Jacob Hadley, a stone cutter, 6hot and killed his son Charles, aged 20. lie was drunk at the time, and tried to drown himself after the shooting. 5 County Treasurer John C.

D. Wiggix3, of Montgomery county. is reported short in bis accounts $300,000. Speculation in grain is said to be the cause. At Mendota, 111., Dr.

J. K. Ricbey shot and mortally wounded hij wife, then fled. FOREIGN. A mass meeting was held Saturday at Cap-paniore, Ireland.

Davitt delivered an address, stating that by the tyrannical oppression of landlordism in Ireland, 6,000 holders had been deprived of their homes within the quarter ending the 1st of July. He contended that the question of a complete abolifon of landlordism must be kept before the people. The land act, he stated, if not a failure at the present time, was rapidly becoming so, and not one-sixth of the tenant farmers of the count'y have yet succeeded in having their rents fixed. He urged the people to be resolute, calm and not lose their self-control. The London Standard's Amsterdam special says the Dutch controller at Katimborg, Sumatra, was saved, together with his family, indicates that the destruction in that quarter by the volcanic eruption was not absolute.

One European book-keeper and two natives were the only persons wbjse Electric International Telegraph company, which laid the first cable across the Atlantic ocean, is dead. Prince Alexander has issued a manifesto announcing that he has decided to appoint a commission to draw up a new constitution for Bulgaria. 2 Baron Von Mostzuffell, the German in command of Alsaoe-Loraine, closed the French Literary elub, at Mctz. A fund has been raised in London to employ eminent counsel to defend O'Donnell, the of Carey. It is now stated that but little damage was done by the storm oil Scotia, and that there was no tidal wave.

TnE Malagassy envoys will land in an out of the way corner of the island, in order to avoid the French. he treaty oi commerce Dctwecn Germany and Spain passed its third reading in the reichstag. Tub village of Batlincourt, Belgium, containing 110 houses, was destroyed by fire. GENERALITIES. The foreign exposition in Boston was formally opened Monday, though ftill very incomplete.

The Japanese exhibit, which is large and artistic, is attended by natives in their home costumes. Among the products of Ireland are a stoue cross weighing live tons and a model of the treaty-stone of Limerick. The rajah who entertained Gen. Grant lu India has sent a case of curious musical instruments. Music is furnished by the Victoria rifles' band of Montreal.

At Marshall, on Saturday evening, a party of white men went to the negro headquarters to witness the organization of a colored military company, and were halted and fired upon. Shooting then became general, after which the negroes fled. Three hundrcd white citizens organized and patrolled the town all night. During the inaugural ceremonies at Frankfort, Governor Blackburn endeavored to excuse himself for the large number of pardons granted, and Governor Knott declared that in no rase would he remit criminal penalties unless satisfied that the sentence was unjust to the convict. The excess of value of exports ovcrimports for the twelve months ended July 31, 1883, was $107,579,236.

The imports of "merchanr disc decreased $23,785,054 for the year ended July 31, 1883, compared with same time lam. year, and exports Increased Henry Ward Bkecher, wh is now in Pan Fraucisco, persists in obtruding upon the Califoruians his radical views on the Chinese question. In consequence the church which pays him $2,400 for four lectures will have a deficiency to make up. A doat modeled after the Maid of the Mist, with no one on board, was sent through the rapids of Niagara river, the other day, and reached Lewiston in 6afety. The experiment was witnessed by forty thousand persons on the banks.

Mahlon Rowe, who deserted his family lu Ithaca, N. eighteen years ago, left an estate in Honolulu worth $70,000 to a Hawaiian woman and three children. The original family will make an effort to secure the prize. Paul Vaxpervoort, chief clerk of the railway mail service at Omaha, has been dismissed by Postmaster General Gresham for absence from duty while acting as cstn-mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Henry Villard and his guests found Fargo decorated with five car-loads of evergreens and forty-five acres of oats and wheat.

Speeches were made by General Grant, Carl Schurz, William M. Evarts, and several governors. Hanlan has cabled to England that he will row Laycoek, of Australia, on the Thames course for $5,000 a side. Hanlan gives an exhibition at the Cincinnati regatta, and will then go to St. Louis and give an exhibition.

At the Charter Oak park, Hartford, John Splandrova Rockefeller's span in 2:18, mak frosts in the New England states. A state jewelers' association has been organized at Columbus, O. The Ohio state fair at Columbus was thinly attended. THE MARKETS. MARKET QUOTATIONS.

The following reliable report of the stock market is furnished us by Geo. K. Barse fc live stock commission merchants, of Kansas City. RECEIPTS. Receipts of cattle, hogs and sheep the past week.

Cattle 12.184; hogs sheep 5,138. cattle For shipping steers sales ranged at 5 50; native "feeders butchers steers $3 854.00; native srockers $3.00 3.7.5; Texas steers S2.85frt3.8 cows 3.25. HOGS. Sydes ranged from $5 62 to $5.75 for heavy bulk at $4.70 a'4 75. For light, sales ranged from i'4 75 to $4 90; bulk at $4 SO.

SHEEP. Native sheep, $2.503.00. MIAIN AND PRODUCE. Grain No. 1 red winter wheat, No.

2 red winter, SS: No. 3 red winter, 80; No. a mixed corn, i7; No. 2 oats, 21, l4; No. 2 rye, 42.

Produce Eggs, 1414; butter, choice dairy, creamery, lancy, 2021; cream-cry, choice, lTiilS good to choice western store packed, "ilea 13; medium, 7 8: rooklrur, ftfrfft. spring chickens, large, spriner chickens, small, 1.7.5: hens, potatoes, choice large, 3Jcf 40; hay, suiall haled, new, O.000.25. OTHER MARKETS. Rt. No.

2 red winter, $1.02 (ai.02X; No. 3 red, Corn, No. 2 red Chicago. Wheat, No. 2 spring.

No. 3 sprintr, i('87; winter, Corn, 488-4SJ-h'. New York Wheat, No. 3 red, $1.11 Lg 1.12. No.

2 red, Sl.l.'.l.lO. Corn, 3, No. 6lii. A Partially Dead Stan, The Morning Herald, Baltimore, states: Major 15. S.

White, of this city, describes his miraculous cure as follows: "I have been a partially dead man for ten years. Doctors attributed my sufferings to the enlargement of certain glands. The quantity of medicine I took without relief would be sufficient to set up a first-class apothecary shop. Finally St. Jacobs Oil was recommended.

I had my spinal column thoroughly rubbed with it. All those knots, kinks and stiffness have passed away, and I am myself again." 'What are you doing there 1" demanded policeman of a man who sat on a fence howling. "That feller in the house shot my dog because he howled, and I am carrying out the dog's contract. I'o going to howl here until I think the dog's death has been sufficiently avenged. If he shoots me, my son will howl out my contract, and If further harm should befall my family, my wife w'll come out and howl till he can't rest.

Oh but we are howlers." Arkansaw Traveler. A good medicinal tonic, with real merit is Browa'i Iron Bitters..