The Parkerville Times from Parkerville, Kansas • 2

COMMERCIAL Kansas City Grain and Stock Markets. HV3 COLD WATER. Minnesota Prohibitionists Adopt a Platform and Organize. Ex-Senator Jones, of Florida, Penniless in Detroit-Dr. Thilo Denies that Ha Tried to Revivify Anarchist Bpies-Mlsoellanaoul Gossip.

Minnesota Prohibitionists. Site ffiuftmuUi AM. A. ItAltlt H7rulII1pi-. BUBSOBIPTIONi $1.50" PER ANNUM.

Eutered scond-elnM mail mutter at tlio postoffleo at rarltirvlllp, Kan. France sends $5,000 worth of egg to Great Britain every year. There aro thirty octogenarians in the little town of Union, Mo. DEVASTATION Forests, Farms and Prairies Swept by Fires. A Large Seotion of Country Converted Into a Veritable Sheoh Incalculable Damage Being Dona In Many Sootions-Only Rain Likely to Stop the Conflagration-Tidings From Various Quarters.

HITHER AND THITHER. Mrs. Fay, the medium, has sued the publishers of the Boston lieeord for $50,000 damages for. libel In publishing what purported to be an expose of bor spiritualistic methods, The rajah ot Narbau has offered to give 400,000 rupees to strengthen the defences of the northern frontier of Iudla, A woman named Mlrande and her twelve-year-old daughter, who, It Is thought, are afflicted with leprosy, have been placed in the hospital for contagious diseases at Philadelphia. Tho mother presents the hideous appearance of a leper, but she attributes tbe illness from which she is sufforlpg to her eating of a poisonous Brazilian plant.

A Dominion senator asserts that nearly every Fronch decoration worn by French-Canadians has been purchased. Some ot the money used in this peculiar traffic was taken from a fund raised for the purchase of books in Franco for a parliamentary library. Last week's Increase In tho stock of wheat In sight iu this country amounted to bushels. The stock of corn for the same time suffered a decrease of 803,798 bushels, and of oats 78, 109 bushels. The stock of wheat on Inst Saturday was 88,872,248 bushels, ot corn 6,708,498 bushels, and of finally jobuson began to pull off Ills overcoat Thnu this man struck him.

Another was standing with him, aud I interfered to prevent him from attacking Johnson also, and he stabbed me." He knew the names of none of the men, but It was agreed by those who saw the affray that the stubbing was done by (icorgo Bryant and that all the others attacked Johnson after be had been knocked dowu by Sullivan. 'You can put it down," said oue of the men who stood around tho bed, "that this is the work of the East bottom gang. Their ringleader Is a fellow named Bolan aud they were here only last ulght aud swore that thev would 'kill every Dutchman on this fl "Have you ever had trouble with them before" "Yes: about six weeks ago Bolan came here one night and going into the saloon threw two rocks at Thompson, the bartender. That was the beginning of the trouble around here on account of them." The police wore notified of the affair, and Sergeant William Parker, Oillccrs W. J.

Parker and John Dwyer despatched to tha place. Tho rullians discovered their approach as they neured the siiloon, and, rushing out, took to their heels. The oillceri gave chase and captured Mike Sullivan and William Clifford. When taken to the station the prisoners seemed to view their situation In a spirit of levity, aud acted more as though they had hecu to a party than engaged in What may prove to bo a murder. Clifford denied having iiuythlng to do with tho affair.

Albert Johson, the most seriously wounded of the two, Is an employe ot Judge Quiiilan at the stork yards. Fitzhugh is the son of Thomas Fitzhugh, a grocer who resides at 2413 Locust street Grain Kansas Citt, Nov. 3a The Dally Indicator reports: Wheat. Receipts at regular elevators sines last report, 1,605 bushels: withdrawals bushels: leaving stock iu store as reported to the Board of Trade tn-dav 420,894 bushels. There was a steady and merely nominal market on 'change to-day with no sales, either for cash or future delivery of any of tho different grades.

On track by sample No. 3 soft, cash, 71c. Corn. Receipts at regular elevators since last report, bushels, and withdrawals 729 bushels, leaving stock In store as reported to the Hoard of Trade to-dav 86,836 bushels. The market to-day on 'change was steady.

On the call there were no sales of any the different grades, either for cash or future delivery. On track by sample No. 2 corn, cash, 40c. Oats No. 2 cash, no bids nor offerings; no bids.

24 asked: Dec, no bids nor offerings; May, 27 bid, 28 asked. Most of the hair dyo usod in barber thops is said to induce blood-poisoning. Cider barrels are ia great demand in Connecticut. Nearly everybody is engaged in making cider. The oldest tombstone in the German empire is said to be one at Worms which bears the date of 900 A.

D. Minneapolis, Nov. 22. About 200 people attended the state prohibition convention held, here to-day. The plans for the next campaign which were adoptod Include a thorough organization of the party throughout the state in congressional aud legislative districts, counties and townships, the general distribution of prohibition literature and tha raising of a 15,000 fund.

Toward the latter 12,000 was subscribed at the convention. A state central committee of fifteen was elected. The report of tho committee on resolutions Was In the nature of the address to the people. They declare that voting Is a duty and that It Is to be used to protect homes, Ufes aud property; that the evils of the liquor traffic have reached a magnitude that threatens the foundations of tho government, and neutrality is a political crime: that tha repre un tracu dv sample Mo. oats, mneu, cash, 24e.

No. 2 oats, white, cash, 25c. compaiutivb srvritUKsr. The following tablo shows tho cash prices or bids for Wheat Corn. Oats aud Kvo at tho close of 'change to day In comparison with thn previous aay ana previous years: bushels.

Jacob Schwab, a well-known Importer of luces at New York, was killed by falling down tho elevator shaft in his warehouse. A general lockout among the brewers at Milwaukee Is threatened. No radical changes have been noticed In the condition of the crown prince of Germany. Secretary Bayard Is In receipt of a courteous response from the emperor to a message of sympathy, sent In the name of the people of the United States. Swept by Fires.

St. Louis, Nov. 23. Reports of forest and prairie flies come from all directions excepting tho north, and give accounts ot great destruction ot properly. Tho bottom lands of the Oknw and Bis: Muddy rivers in Southwestern Illinois and the prairies In many parts of the same section of the state are ablaze, and outhouses, fences, farming machinery, outstanding crops and whole forests, and in somo cases residences) have been destroyed.

In southeastern Missouri and In Anltansas, between the Iron Mountain railway and the Mississippi river, the swamps and low lands have been almost burnt out and the whole county is so filled with smoke that the people are almost stifled. As far west as Hot Sprint; fires huve devastated farms and burned residences, hums and fences, and the little town of Mayflower, in Frnukllu county, barely escaped total destruction. On the east side of the Mississippi river In Washington and Bolivar counties, Mississippi, nineteen cotlou (tins, besides much other valuable property, have been destroyed. From the Indian territory are reports of great prairie tires, forty miles of range around Red Fork having been entirely ravaged and thousands of tons of bay, farming implements and a large number of cattle burned, Other sections of the territory have suffered ill the same way. BAD REPORTS FROM MEMPHIS.

Memphis, Nov. 23. The sun hung In the skies like a ball of fire all day, and at times was almost obscured by tho dense smoke, which hovered over and around this city. It Is the same story that has been told for the past week of forest files, Which continue to race with unabated furv. Sam Tate, who arrived this forenoon from Birming- No.

1 No. 2rww 70 68 No. 8 6 70 No. 2 corn 88 $8 8ltf 27 No. 2 oats 25 No.

2 rye 46 46 43? 48 The striking; employes at Oliver's nut and sentatives of the liquor interests in the United States are law breakers and resist tho enforcement of all laws in the courts and criminally, even arson and murder becoming weapons In their hands; that the corrupt use of money to control legislatures Is the gravest problem In the history of the country; that the saloon has entered both parties and now rules them both, they refusing to take up this matter, the democrats making no pretensions In Its favor, and the republicans making nothing but pretences; that tho prohibitionists believe the licensed saloon the euemv of society, the ally of anarchy and the school of crime, and a menace to society which should be abolished; that high licence Is a failure, the diminutions of the saloons having been so small that It could not bo apprectated, while the increase In the sales makes amends for the smaller number of saloons; that local option is a delusion and snare, wrong lu principle and in practice a failure; that tho entire prohibition of the saloon is a principle sound lu law and ethics, and tho prohibition party pledges Its co-operation and Influence In thn prosecution of all measures needful for the protection of tho borne from the drink curse. Live Stoctt Maries'. bolt factory in Pittsburgh have yielded to the firm's proposition with regard to shorter hours and a reduction in pay, aud a large number of them are back at work. The Live Stock Indicator reports: Furious Flames, MEMPnis, Nov. 21.

Forest fires continue to rage In this section and the damage sustained is becoming serious. Several gin houses In Crittenden county, and in the counties of Mississippi which border the river havo been burned, but it Is impoBsiblo to gather definite detals of the loss, it being so widespread that an estimate cannot be given. Steamers can not run at night owing to the dense smoke which prevails from Vicksburg, to a point 150 miles, above Memphis a total distance of 050 miles. Fires are burning everywhere within this territory and there is no immediate prospect of rain. Travel by rail is absolutely obstructed from these causes.

Several trestles on the Kansas City road havo been destroyed and cominuni-cation with St Louis is now made via Forest The Cattle. Receipts to-day 8,891 head. The official returns of the recent election In Pennsylvania show that the plurality of Hart, In New York the other night thieves stole a boiler that had been left temporarily on a vacant lot Newspapeus instead of toxt-books are now in use in the reading classes at the public schools in Doilhaui, Mass. An editor at Geneva has got a curiosity in the shape of ears of corn joined together after the Siamese twin style. During the week ending Saturday last, $2,500,000 was usod in paying the expenses of running the city of Now York.

It is said that Collector Magone of the New York port receives nearly every day a contribution to tho "conscience fund." Prof. O. II. Drake, of the Maine Central institute, has been offered the professorship of Greek in Hillsdale college, Michigan. The natives of Yucatan are the only-people near the equator, according to a traveler, who pay any attention to personal cleanliness.

Gen. Middleton, of Riol rebellion fame, has reached tho ago of 62, and will be retired from tho British army on a pension of $3,700 a year. market to-dav was slow and 10c lower except for butchers' cows which were 6l0c lower. The supply of natives was larger. Sales were: epubllcan candidate for slate treasurer, is 45,245.

But eighty persons are known to have been CATTLH SALHS! saved from the wreck of the steamer Scholten. Oue ot the survivors states that there were eight huudred life-belts ou board, but that thev were useless in a majority of cases be Tho resolutions also indorse the interstate aw, the labor and fanner organizations and cause the people were ingulfed with the ship. the general impression is mac ine responsibility for the disaster rests with the oillccrs the temperance work of the Knights of Labor. Ihero was also a clause favoring a reduction of tariff on necessaries. of tho steamer Rosa Mary.

Henry W. Lesllo and James A. L. Wilson, the embezzling secretary and treasurer ot the A Mental Wreck, Dktuoit, Nov, 23. It became known Delaware aud Chesapeake Canal company, have been sentenced to eight and six years respectively lu the eastern penitentiary of tor the first time to day to a few persons that Pennsylvania.

In an interview, Mr. Parnell expressed the tbe opinion that a more feeble or Inert gov City, Ark. Never before In the history of the country have there been such widespread conflagrations aud the loss to farmers will be very heavy. The wind storm which prevailed Saturday and Saturday night must have been destructive to many dwellings and ouihouses of planters, especially lu the counties to the west of Memphis lu Arkansas, but owing to tho secluded country and the lack of lcle-graphic facilities it will bo several days befuro the true condition of affairs is learned. PEOPLE MAYING Poll RAIN.

The samo reports come from every quarter of tires aud the loss that Is being sustained. The only escape that is promised will come from rain, and in nearly all the churches prayers were offered yesterday that showers might fall and the destruction cease. Sm'MouitE, Nov. 21. The forests In tho western part of this county caught fire again Friday and the tiro Is still raging with fearful effect.

The people aro powcrloHS to do anything to check the destructive elements on account of continuous high winds and nc water. The destruction of timber and fencing is already very great. Price, 4 20 4 00 8 811 8 70 4 00 4 20 3 95 8 95 8 85 3 25 2 40 8 40 2 80 8 15 I 8 15 2 55 2 80 2 50 2 60 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 TO 2 63 2 301 2 44 00 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 55 2 55 4 00 2 25 2 40 3 18 shipping steers 1,873 18 shipping steers 1,250 85 shipping steers 1,204 79 shipping steers 1,227 16 shipping steers 1,843 20 shipping steers 1,254 10 shipping steers 1,403 18 shipping steers 1,336 1J shipping steers 1,131 5 butcher steers 1,046 14 butcher steers 847 15 butcher steers 1,193 23 feeding steers 9S3 18 feeding steers 1.073 18 feeding steers 1,191 20 cows 1,150 22 cows -819 18 cows 1,031 22 cows 944 43 cows 1.IKI7 83 Colorado stocket 872 152 Colorado Blockers 160 Colorado stackers 1,040 88 Colorado Texas steers 1,095 185 Colorado Texas .1,056 53 New Mexlco-stockers 834 80 New Mexico stackers 756 1 cow and calf 100 Panhandle t-breed steers 1,040 152 Panhandle breed 1,1 43 28 Panhandler-breed 1,164 154 Texas steers 1,07 110 Colorado feeding 971 10 shipping steers 1,213 2) cows 12 stackers i'M S3 but. -her steers 1,039 ernment than the present never held the reins lu Ireland. Referring to the plan of campaign, he said that he was not consulted at its initia ham, via the K.

C. B. railroad, reports forest lires all along tho route between Memphis and Birmingham. They have been particularly destructive in the neighborhood of Kerrvllle, on the line of the C. O.

S. W. railroad, where many miles of fences Iirvo been destroyed and in the ltatclile bottom are very alarming, the scarcity of wator making it almost Impossible to put them out. T. O.

Bond lost 15,000 panels of fence and the Hon. D. O. Thomas and Esquire Estcs 8,001) panels each. Laggoon bottom Is also on fire, which is sweeping everything before it All the local packets are from tweuty-four to seveuty-two hours behind time, owing to tho dense smoke which prevails and prevents them from running at nights.

The weather is cloudy but there are no immediate prospects of rain, Cairo, Nov. 23. The woods are on Are for fifty miles in every direction from this place. The report of hunters being surrounded by fire lu tho Nlggerwool swamp has no foundation, The smoke from burning forest Is very dense and interrupts navigation on the river to a great extent. GREAT HAVOC IN ILLINOIS.

Anna, Nov. 23. The forest flies are still raging in all parts of this nud surrounding counties. The high wind of Saturday scattered them over a much larger territory than formerly and it ia almost impossible to check them. Several farm buildings in the tion.

States Senator Charles F. Jones of Florida, who has for somo uucxclaimod reason lojotirned iu Detroit for two years past, is practically a beggar upon the streets, aud but tor the charity of a friend would be without food or shelter. When Jones camo to Detroit lie was very free with his money aud gave lavishly to benevolent purposes. Ho boarded at the best hotel until a few months ago, when ho was unable to pay his bills. He then wont to a cheaper house and last nlglit his room was locked on liliu and he slept ou the floor In tho hall.

Ho was observed bv a man whom he had befriended lu his better days aud was taken to the man's home. Joues is almost a mental wreck. Ho Is pur The burning of Barnum's circus caused in tense excitement at Bridgeport, Connecticut, as somo ot me wtiu Deasts in tue menagerie broke from their cages and made their way Into the streets of the city. Many valuable aulmals were burned to death, aud It is esti mated that tho total loss will amount to about $100,000. LEOPOLD, PERRY MOV.

HI. lue It Is rumored that the English papal jubilee Hereafter people who want to visit the Lenox library, in Now York city, can do so without tho bother and delay of providing themselves with an admission ticket Portland, Oregon, makes its 1G0 saloons pay $48,000 into its treasury, and Portland landlords charge tho saloon-keepers rent to the nniouut of $192,000 yearly. Manufacturers of fire brick say that the only roliable way to distinguish good clay is by tasting. If it tastes salty it is genuine fire clay; if Hat and dull, it is worthless for fire brick. fires lu the woods in this vicinltv arc sweep- sued with the idea that soma enemies whom be never names arc following him, aud that pilgrimage will reach Rome in Junuurv, the intr evervthlug before them.

Everything il he will yet "down them." Scotch iu February aud the Irish in March. dry as tinder and the flames often rise to a height of fifteen feet and sweep over tha highways as rapidly as over narrow paths lu The government receipts so far for this month are $4,064,590 less than the expendi It Was Not Attempted. CniCAGO, Nov. 22. Tho story that ef Tho Hogs.

Receipts to-day 14 639 head. the roads. Hie tanners nave ceasea malting efforts beyond attempting to save buildings aud fences, tures, $18,283,747 of the latter being for pen sious. forts were made to resuscitate the body ol The report that the administration Is at August Spies after his examination is post tively denied by Dr. George Thilo who exam Flames About Mountain Grove.

Mountain Grove, 21, Last even work upon a tariff bill to be Introduced at the coming session of cougrcss is declared to be market to-day was steady. Extreme range ot sales bulk at as tallows: nHPUBSBNTATIVn HO0 SALBS. lfi Ad. WI.Prlr.1. Ifo.

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Trt Price. 02 274 4 87W 64 277 4 85 43 34(W5 57 289 4 85 54 255 4 85 52 818 4 85 Mississippi bottoms havo burned, among them one belonging to Jl, W. Eaveo of this city. The residence of A. C.

Musgravc, a farmer living east of town, was destroyed last night together with all Its contents. Bridges, tics and telegraph poles on the lines of both the Illinois Central and Mobile and Ohio railroads have burned and delayed traffic considerably. No rain of iiuy cousequeuce has fallen here for five months. Moweaqi'A, Nov. 23.

This city was enveloped in smoke all yesterday and the sun could be gazed at with the naked eve. It had ined the body after it was delivered to the without lounaation. friends and pronounced life totally extinct. r.8 2fi ing the bouse and burns with all their contents, belonging to Hugh Burns, living four and one-half miles northwest of this city, were burned. Mr.

Burns' loss will be very heavy, leaving him nothing but his land and stock. This afternoon he said: "When the body was first brought to Mueller's undertaking establishment somo of the people present thought they perceived unusual warmth iu tho corpse, There is a Shakspoare hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon, and instead of numbers tho names of plays are upon the room doors. "Take tho gentle and I was sent for. I made a careful examin otion of the remains and was soon convinced that death had intervened, and that any at tempt at revivification by galvanic battery or 4 85 56 302 4 85 06 293 485 4 85 63 273 4 82J 58 295 4 82J4 4 82 66 274 4 80 56 297 4 8J 4 80 133 291 480 07 288 4 80 4 80 65 251 480 76 278 430 4 80 72 295 4 80 117 263 4 80 4 80 78 238 4 79 244 4 80 4 80 64 254 4 80 69 206 4 80 4 80 54 275 4 8 78 249 4 77 4 77 64 273 4 77 74 229 4 75 4 75 138 237 4 75 69 251 4 75 475 74 271 4 75 49 281 4 75 475 56 217 4 75 273 4 75 4 75 69 268 4 75 64 234 4 75 4 75 70 249 4 75 64 294 4 75 any other means would bo useless, The drought has made everything like powder and the woods are on fire in almost every direction and a numbor of buildings havo been burned. Embezzlers Sent to Prison.

Philadelphia, Nov. 21. Henry V. Leslie and James L. Wilson, the embezzling secretary and treasurer of the Delaware and Chesapeake canal com nan r.

pleaded guilty to and I so informed the gentlemen present, There was no attempt whatever to restore life. The fact that the body was warm proved 62 308 09 287 67 i.93 71 54 281 73 275 74 289 68 273 48 277 40 241 07 261 85 249 60 269 66 260 74 219 65 214 59 237 69 221 71 224 83 176 49 147 a light red appearance and formed a singular phenomenon. Tho smoke has been so dense as to affect breathing and eyesight. It comes from the Okaw bottoms, where hundreds ot acres ot timber are on lire, and on account of the extreme drought, it can not be checked. It can be seen burning several miles away and has destroyed much property.

Marshall, Nov. 23. The engine of a north bound freight train on the Cairo, Viu-cennes and Chicago liue flred the timber on both sides of the Hutton south of here and it took hours of hard work to save the place owing to the fierce wind that raged all day. l'lillip Kraemer lost several thousand rails and a lot of timber and fencing, while many of his neighbors suffered likewise, but in a less degree. Two miles below town an other disastrous fire was kindled aud Edward Herbst suffered considerable loss.

It Is reported that the Irish executive has decided to suppress the Kerry branches of the national league. It is claimed that 75 per cent, of tho voters of Dakota will have signed tho petition for the admission of the territory as a whole by the time the convention which Is to consider the subject meets at Aberdeen. The Liverpool stoatnshlp Dours has been wrecked off Cape Flnlstcrre aud thirteen persons have been drowned. A correspondent at Boston sends some Interesting figures which show to what an enormous extent eastern capitalists are loaning inoucy on real estate In the west. It Is computed that at least $1,500,000 Is sent west every mouth from Boston for Investment In farm and city mortgages, while the savings banks and insurance campaules of some of the New England states havo enormous sums placed in the samo sort of securities.

So far the business has been carried on with astonishingly small losses. The principal chiefs of Afghanistan havo taken oaths on the Koran of friendship to the ameer. nothing. It had been dead only a couple of hours, aud wheu a body is kept under shelter to takes six or seven hours for the natural heat to leave It. especially when death Is vio 4 72)4 207 4 70 75 242 4 70 lent and sudden.

When I first saw the body 470 rigor mortis hud already set in and had stiff man's luggago up to Romeo and Juliet," is a common order. A course in tho Semitic languages just opened at the University of Pennsylvania ha3 among its instructors Prof. Lyon of Cambridge, Prof. Harper of Yale, Prof. Brown of New York, and Prof.

Haupt of Baltimore, with Profs. Jastrow, Peters, and Heilprecht The nppoaranco of the venerable Capt Robert B. Forbes at the meeting of the Boston Marine society Wednesday was an impressive incident. Capt Forbes entered the society in his youth and looks back to a membership of moro than 60 years. day before Judge Mitchell in the criminal court to conspiracy to cheat and defraud that company of a sum aggregating $000,000, aud were sentenced to eight and six years respectively in the eastern ponltoutiary.

ened tho neck and tbo jaw. There was but Tit K04 4 (H 4 IU 79 254 4 70 49 246 4 70 15 238 4 62 73 201 4 60 70 208 4 55 SO 192 450 86 149 4 20 107 153 4 15 12 148 410 84 166 4 10 one case known to medical science where 470 4 65 460 445 415 385 man judicially hung 1ms been resuscitated The criminal hung for fifteen minutes and when cut down was turned over to the physi 20 184 cians for experiment. Within five minutes Sheep. Receipts to-dav 1.SS9 head. Mar from the time ho was cut down, or with A Murderous Assault.

The City of Dulutli Safe. CniOAGO, Nov. 21. The owners of the Steamer City of Duluth, which has been recorded overdue at Ashland, said this afternoon that the vessel was safe. They had a dispatch from the captain reporting her arrival yesterday at Hancock.

in twenty minutes from the time the drop fell," the body was on tho operat Kansas City, Nov. 21. The Times ket active and firm. Sales: 81 natives, av. 98 430 natives av.

87 114 natives, av. 97 $3.00. Horses Receipts for the week were very cnod. ing table and a powerful gaivanic current applied. The neek was not broken, and after i says: An affray which may prove fatal In Its results occurred between 10 and 11 o'clock last night on the corner of Fifth aud Lydla aven irreat deal of labor In producing artificial res Draft Extra 4 to 7 years $150 to 200 100 to 150 ue.

Tho saloon of Cyrus Near is located at Good piration and the electricity being constantly applied, the subject revived but iu a state of wild delirium. From this ho never recovered A Mexican who was stabbed at El Paso lived two hours after the infliction of the wound, though It was found upon a post-mortem examination that the knife of the murderer had penetrated his heart. The physician who attended him savs be believes the case Is with that point and a large number had frequented and in tweutv-four hours he died. Now, res It during tho evening. Among the number torative agents were used in this case within was whatis known as tha "East bottom gang," 125 to 800 140 to 175 75 to 135 125 to 250 75 to 100 65 to 125 25to 55 Saddlers Marec Extra Good Drivers Good Oregon Plugs.

twontv minutes after the hanging, while the Spies case it was three hours before the bodv was brought to the undertakers. Then, even though the ueck was not broken, it was tho week were qulto Mules Receipts for of too late, tie was ucau oeyonu any nope resuscltaiion." small. All classes of good fat mules selling Cotton In A sties. Mf.mpiiis, Nov. most disastrous Are that ever visited this city occurred to-night at 7:45 o'clock and resulted In the complete destruction of 13,200 bales of cotton and compresses Nos.

4 and 5 of the Merchants' cotton compress and storage company. The buildings are located in tho navy yard and are easily accessible to the lines of the Louisville and Nashville, Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern aud Louisville, Now Orleans and Texas railroads, each lino having tracks running through the company's grounds. The fire was discovered among some cotton in press No. 5, whlcb is west of the railroad tracks, aud contained 2,800 bales. It spread One of tho questions which tho people of Worcester, voted on, Tuesday, was whether they would soil a portion of the old city common to the federal government for a postolfica site, and they voted nearly two to one that they would not.

There is an unaccountable and ro-markable mortality among the sardines of San Luis Obispo bay. They are dying by tho thousands, and the shores of the bay aro covered with these dead fish to the depth of two or three feet, and the stench is unbearable. out precedent, and explains it upon the hypothesis that the wound was immediately stopped by clotted blood. The Scottish miners' federation have resolved to work only five days per week and eight hours per day hereafter. During the season that has just closed the saw-mills at AVinona, Minnesota, havo cut feet of lumber, 23,000,000 laths, aud 50,000,000 shingles.

Not over an inch of rain has fallon In the vicinity of Charleston, Illinois, since May 15, and the protracted drought is working great Injury to farmers, who havo scarcely any water for their stock. Saturday's storm raged with such fury on the lakes that many vessels were compelled to seek port for safety, and quite a fleet of boats at good figures. 13Wtol4 4 to years B5 to 75 14 to 14 70 to 90 15tol5 95 to 130 165 to 185 Heavy Plugs extra 80 to 65 General Markets. Butter Receipts of creamery are liberal. The demand is quiet and tbe market easy, though there is no change to be found in prices.

Dairy and country butter. If choice, does well. Roll Is arriving freely and is mostly poor, and on that account very slow. We nuntfl Tweknd: Creamerv. fancy.

24c; do. composed of about half a dozen of the toughest young men In that part of the city. At the same time they wcra hanging around tho place two youne men, named Albert Johnson and Thomas Fitzhugh, were also there, and upon them tho gang pounced with all the brutality of cold blooded murderers. No disturbance whatever occured on the Inside of the place. Johnson and Fitzhugh had stepped outside, presumably to go home, and were followed by a number of the gang.

No high words were heard, and the fracas was seen by very few. Those who witnessed ItsawJohn-son felled to the ground by a blow from one ot the gang named Mike Sullivan. George Bryant, another, appeared to be attempting to assist Sullivan ana was prevented by Fitzhugh. The latter, however, seemed to start to run across the street and was followed by Bryant, who stabbed him in the abdomen aud leaving him prostrate returned to Sullivan and the two, assisted by at least as many more, all fell on i lie prostrate Johnson and kicked him. It Is believed that some rocks were thrown at hi in also.

Several large ones were found Deadly Collision Between Trains. Vienna, Nov. 21. Yesterday afternoon, four miles north of this city on tbo Cairo, Vlnceunes and Chicago railroad, two freight trains collided, The two engines and eight cars were badly smashed and Dan Col-lard and Frank Barton, the engineers, Richard Walker, a brakeman. and a fireman named Scbaffer were iustatitly killed.

Several others were wounded. A Tropeller on the Rocks. Milwaukk, Nov. 21. In the fog that prevailed on the lake to-doy the propeller Waverly, of tbe OgdeuBburg line, ran on the rocks at North Point, five miles above this port.

Though the bottom of the vessel Is undoubtedly biidlv damaged, neither tho crew nor tho propeller are in danger if the calm weather continues. A relief expedition will go out to her at midnight with members of the with great rapidity and was soon beyond the control of tho men who were on duty and who made a bravo attempt to extinguish It, In fifteen minutes after tho alarm sounded the flames had spread to the cotton stored In press No. 4, which was to the south and which contained 5,000 bales. The entire fire department of the city was on band, but could do nothing toward extinguishing the flames, and devoted attention to tho saving of press No. 1, which was cast of the tracks and contained 9,000 bales.

Hill, Fontaine shed, in which were 80,000 bales of cotton, .1 .1. Two years ago Mrs. Mary Porter, of Cleveland, was prostrated by nn attack of creeping paralysis. It started in her throat and gradually extended over all her body until she was unable to move a muscle or to speak a word. In this condition she lived until last Tuesday, when death kindly relieved her of her troubles.

around the spot where he was lyiutr lu the street and the ground shows plainly the JOIUCU HUB IU Lue IJOIIU, nuiJoacuitsBULn. life saving crew aboard. The waverly is put Into the harbor at Milwaukee. 1 wo nsucr-men who went out from that city before tbe storm arose are rcixrtcd to have been drowned. The schooner Stampede was stranded off Poplar polut, about eight miles southeast of South Chicago.

A deputy sheriff who went to the jail at Birmingham, Alabama, to bring a negro named Collins to the criminal court, where he was to be sentenced for the murder of a fellow-convict, found that the man had died from hemorrhage of the lungs. The strike begun by the switchmen In the Southern Pacific yard at Houston, Texas, is extending to other roads and to other cities In the state. valued at $50,000 and carries twenty-two men, witn naics, was uirccuy umu. this cotton, 64,000 bales, was In great danger, but fortunately the wind was blowing favor ably and carried the names toward me river. Warrants for Election Violators.

There another danger was threatened, as the river fronting the compresses to the west Albany, N. Nov. 21. Warrants were today Issued for Ihe arrest of John B. Sullivan and Arthur L.

Main, democratic Inspectors In the Watervliet district, for violatlug the state was filled with coal Dartres netouging io Brown Joues, and it required a constant fight on the part of their men to extinguish the fires that were continually springing up among the barges, which were in close prox election by making a fraudulent return of the vote cast for senator. Warrants have also been issued for the arrest of the same men by United States Commissioner King for violating the federal election law. creamery, choice, 2122c: farm dairy, choice tofaucv, 1718c: farm dalrv, medium, 15c; store packed, choice to fancy. 14c; store packed, medium, 9c; roll, fancy, 15c; roll, medium, 1213c Eggs The receipts continue very light, ana though the demand is very fair the market is higher aud firmer owing to the scarcity of stocks. We quote strictly fresh candled at 18Kc; pickled 1314c per doz.

Evaporated Fruits We quote apples, choice ring, 9c; poor, 6c; unpeeled peaches, 12c; peeled peaches, old, 18c; peeled peaches, new, 15cai6c. Poultry There Is now a pretty fair demand for extra large aud fancy snrings, and they will seU as high as $2.25 readily. Hens and turkeys continue dull. We quote: Springs, fair to choice, hens, choice, heavy, mixed hens and roosters, roosters, $1.251.35 per turkeys, large, 6c per lb; turkeys, small, per lb, 6c; spring ducks, Pekin, spring ducks, common, spring geese, choice, $3. Cheese Firm.

We quote eastern full cream out of store: Youue American, new, 13c; twins, HWc per lb; Kansas and Missouri, 8c; Cheddar. 11J; fiats, llc; we quote Edam cheese, $13 per case; skim cheese, In job lots, fair to choice, 45c; brick cheese, 14 015; Limburg, 1314c; domestic Swiss, 17 18c; imported Swiss, 28(a3U Dried Fruits Rather saarce and In good demand. We quote apples, bright, 67c; dark, 45c; peaches, unpeeled, 7c for quarters, 8c for halves; peeled ll12c Apples lu pretty good supply and the market a little quIeL We quote consignments in car lots of choice to fancy eating, Missouri and Kansas, at $3.75 per bbl; eastern, $3.75 per bbl; merchants shipping small lota to the country, fancr repacked, $3i3 50 per bbl Carrots QuieU We quote at per PioeOSR Sell alow at $1.25 per dozen. marks of ids ringers made iu bis fierce struggle with the rutlhine. How far they miirht have cone can only be a matter of conjecture had not Cy Near, attracted by the noise, rushed out aud pulled them off the unconscious aud bleeding man.

Johnson and Fitzhugh were at once taken up stairs Into tho boarding house kept by Albert Meyer over the saloon and medical aid summoned. Johnson's head was found to be frightfully crushed, a large portion of the skull near the center at tho back of the head being broken iu. The wound inflicted upon Fitzhugh was probably done with a large jack-knife, and owing to its location is also of the most serious nature. The physicians were unable to toll how far the knife had penetrated. Tho injuries to neither were pronounced necessarily fatal although the chances are against them both, and tbo ultimate recovery of Johnson particularly is very doubtful.

A reporter saw them both shortly after midnight. They ore lying side' by sido in the same bed. Johnson was in a comatose slate and Fitzhugh appeared to be in a considerable pain, but dually became easier aud evinced a willingness to talk. He said iu effect that he had not been acquainted with anv of those who bad assaulted A strong flow of natural gas was struck Sat urday afternoon at Princeton, Indiana, and the citizens turned out en masse to celebrate the event. A construction train on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad ran Into an obstruction caused by a landslide near Steubenville, Ohio, and was badly wrecked.

The engineer and a brakeman were Instantly killed, and tbe fireman was fatally injured. The phosphate Industry of South Carolina Is In such a bad condition that It Is proposed to call upon the general assembly for Immediate relief. The state royalty on river rock during the present year has amounted to Father John Bapst, a noted Jesuit, died in Mount Hope insane asylum a few days ago, and was buried Friday near the Jesuit college at Woodstock, Md. He was 70 years old. With other Jesuits he was a refugee from Europe In 1848.

Ho was assigned to Portland, Me. During the know-nothing troubles his house was ransacked, ho was stripped of his clothing, tarred and feathered, and nearly beaten to death. The citizens of Portland, to partly atone for the outrage perpetrated by the roughs, presented him with a gold watch to accept which he received special permission from the superior of the order in Rome. Jesuits not permitted to wear jewelry, aud he was the only Jesuit priest in America who wore a gold watch. For many years he was at the Jesuit home iu Frederick, Md.

and belonged to the college faculty. When his mind gave way, six months ago, he was sent to tho asylum. Peadly Flsht in Tennessee. Cincinnati, Nov. 21.

At Jellico, yesterday afternoon Marshal Woolburne undertook to arrest some miners for disorderly conduct, when the men resisted. One of them, Noah Miller, was killed and the other fled. At 8 o'clock Miller's friends attacked the marshal and killed three and wounded two of his posse. Great excitement prevails. imity to the burning buildings.

About forty cars belonging to the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern railroad, and which were loaded with cotton ready to be shipped cast, were burned, together with contents. The cotton destroyed was principally for export. It was valued at $1130,000. The insurance can not be ascertained to-night. It was covered by policies of the compress company and none of the local companies suffer any loss.

The Insurance was placed in St Louis mutals, eastern mutals, manufacturers' mutals, the New York mutual and other eastern and New Orleans companies. The amount of insurance In all probably will not exceed 60 per cent of the loss. The presses and buildings of the cotton press company were valued at $125,000 which were also partially insured. The flames covered au area of three blocks aud lighted up the entire city. The orlglu of the fire Is unknown, but Is supposed to be Incendiary, and Walter Men-deuhall, a fireman on the Little Rock railroad, has been arrested on suspicion.

There ia no positive proof, however, ot his guilt, The union labor convention of Wisconsin, at i him ana nis iricnu, aim mai previous 10 I leaving the saloon, they had had no dispute or trouble of auv kind. "I intended to go a meeting Thursday at Fond du Lac, positively refused to condemn the hanglug of the Chicago anarchists. Indian Inspector Armstrong, now In St. Paul, attrlbntes most of the -recent Cro.v Sport Ends In a Tragedy. Chicago, 111., Nov.

21. Patrick O'Brien, a milkman, was shot dead to-day by William Rleeman, a Blue Island saloonkeeper. The tragedy was the result of a quarrel brought about by O'Brien and three companions taking bits ot bread from the free lunch counter and throwing them at the saloonkeeper. Tha llayer is under arrest, i home," he said, "but Johnson proposed going 1 back to the saloon. Oue of the gang raid, No; wo won't go and Johnson told him that be was speaking to me and not to anv troubles to Bitting Bull's Influence.

11 thiuU that there will be no further trouble now. anybody else. One word led to. another, and..