Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1880, Page 1

PacKew % % mB? a rosy —— VOLUME XL.- BUSINESS COLLEGE, iRD ANNUAL MEETING ~~ OF THE Business College Teachers’ and Penmen’s Association WILL MERT AT THE PALMER HOUS Puesdny, for a Three Days’ Session. Programme for Tuosday. MORNING, AT 11 O'CLOCK. Address of Welcoma, Muyor of Chicago , Carter H. Hurrison.. eS Respon ntotthe Fro on Mot Phadolphia ETERS BOCK, ‘Annual Address by the President. prof. Thoums May Peirce... uKeeping—How to BoM Ree rR eginners, Prof, Dy, Lilies sene9f DORMpOrE, TOME ing Books of Account from Singte to Chang able Entcy, and Vice Versa. Profs C, Werownssvsssessseeseesso0f Jucksonvita, I Averaging Accounts, Prof 8 Cady srsrerwrrsrseOt NOW YORE Clty f Money Inventments fram one Line Changlng or Mecurities to Another. J, As BLOCUI. ss cetenseecen ents Prof J AVENING, A‘T # O'OLOGK, Natlonal Finance, More Especially the Independent Tresuury. Hon, Frank Giihort, Asnt. U.S. Trensnrer,...Chtenzo ‘The Necessity for a Knowledge. of Book-Keep- ing, and a Method to Everything. Mon, Leouant Swot seeeeef Chleago ers, Merchants, and Citizens of Chicas The puerallye are tuvited to Attend the Meetings. .0f Chicago 1B. BRYANT, Chairman of Fxeeutive Cominittac. MOTH POWDER, “HUCK & RAYNER'S Moth. Powder! AND POWDER GUN Sweeps them off in swarms, and ts NOY POISONOUS--Flies, Fleas, Roaches, Spiders, or Bedbuys. “No reckoning made, Buteent to their account ‘With all their Imperfections on thelr heads."* BUCK & RAYNER, Makers of tho ¢ Mars’ Cologne. COAL, —e ROGERS &CO._| 98 DEARBORN-ST,,. SHIPPERS OF Anthracite and Bituminous Coals. Pig Iron and Foundry Supplies, ~ COAL. Fo,carluad, and retal Ofilees, 280 Madison, and 126 Market-sts, FoR SALT. “FOR SALE. TO HEWSPAPER “MEN, A firstsolnss Chambers’ Folding -Mne chine, with the Kalter Attachnient..- WilL. In good’ :fold a sheet 86x50 or 24x36, order, ata very low price. Apply. at. this aftice, . NOTION. {mendment to Ruto @ of “the Tuies - Governing the Inspection of Grain in the City of Chicago, to take effect August 4, 1880. >. RULE VL—BARLEY, ‘No.1 Barley shall be plusnp, bright, clean, and treo frow other yratt. No.2 Barisy elu bo sound, of teatthy colar (bright, orbucellgutly stained), not plump enough for Nu, ty Feawauauly clewil, und reasunably free from ather arloy shall tneludo wlluhtly abrnnken, and gtligwlao wtuthtly damayed barlay, Tot kuod cnougts ~ No, a Harley aball include all bari dugposee Had ated Snug Cor Nocay Se fF wantin v6.6 iusluy stall Inlude ul! batiey which ts badly Minhinae be urued Bale ee ae ‘vis Itule stall be In foreoun und after August 4 3au, Lut ia provided wit an oniey. nr stare oi end daty Inspected in under the rile horeby amunded hill be inxpected out In uecordance with. the pro- ‘Visluus of suid rule, Wat. M. BMITIL a Ualtroad and Warotiouse Commilsstonora.. Inty 14,190, NILUSSES. Nr RUPTURE $106 Reward. We will pay to a obaritablo Institution ofan Inuinat Hernin that ean be rotainud by the hand wnt, we earner rolain with the anita the TENTLYS COMMON-SENSE CHUSS, patontod July QI DARELETT, BUTMAN © PARI, Gs StAta~¥t, Chicayo, NL Dit. PARKER, tho patentoo, as had 3? you rioned, tho iast& yours witht” Murino Tluspieie, Ars Wy Navy, und Poilsloners, tho Guvorniunt baving {upton Gur appltaniee wa the bow tn usd, uses thnt can bu cured we nuver full fo cure, anuitactitrors of SEAULESS-TUEL ELASTIC STOCKINGS, Patented Murch 36, 1876, OPTICAL GOODS, Fino Spoctacios mited to all stents, on ctont! Prinetplen..o} told’ dlnssoss Lelarcapany Mle PI uaa i anh SSE — ee STATIONHItY, &c.! ‘BLANK BOOKS, STATIONERY AND PRINTING, ANor Haparior G BS Htpertor Quality and wt Low Stabohory and Printing Co. ot and Duarbornests Pon CLOTS es . [5 Per Gent Discount $32 Garments ordered uf us tn July fromm pap ater il AND ELY & CO, —— Vutlors, OLAL, Bere een: Loans on Real Estat mptly made at it by \ Low Mae) ay & MADLY, Moors 17, 0 La Sallo-st, TORENT.: inn nonaaan a e ee CRAR AAR SOUGING HOUSE FOU RENT in KANSAN CITY, 10., ig Stories with basomunt, 7V fout Blona ¥runt, b obit Loading aad ooery anise ornare : WS UUMESS, Kuneas City, Mo. EE a nn EU MMA ee BIRDS sien, BINUO cri. 187 Houth Clark-at, ~~ SEELELOND Goons. Celluloid COLLARS and CUFFS donot wilt in the warmest weather, Th proved ‘with Infurtue cs wo Will auil the sicher Game Bosca ns Beas ns Cus per p . Burnes Ca. 86 Mudladneat, thos baling are jer and netiva men PRESIDENTIAL. Important Republican Confer- ence to Be Held in New York Aug 5, At Which Both Gens. Garfield and Arthur Will Be Present, Grant’s Order to the Boys in Bluo Unpalatable to ihe Democrats. They Strongly Object to His Participating in the Campaign. Hancock's Order No. 40 to Be Printed for Campaign Pur- poses, ~ How He Countenanced the Res- toration of Rebel Func. tionartes, ' And the Deliverance of Freadmen and Unionists into Their Power. Further Exposition of the Operations of Ku-Klux in Virginia, THE AUGUST MEETING. AWG TIME ANTICIPATED, Spretal Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune, New Yonk, July 26.—As announced about. ® week ago, & Republican conference of great Importance will be held in this elty Aug. 5. The indications trom every part of the country are that the Republicans not only rendy, but anxtons to prosecute the eqmpalgn with vigor, There seems every reason to helteve that something Iike what fs called fn many letters the “old- time” Repubilean spirit will be awakened, and that not only all the old-time Republtc- ans, but 2° vast army of — young ‘ who are about to cast thelr first vote for President, 4 will be organized In support of Republican RonHIET LAW, desler In all kinds of Coal, by ears | principles and the Chicago candidates. It has been considered advisable at this time in the campaign to cali together some of the representative men of the party: from very -section’ of the coun- try to consider the best means of action upon what appears to be 9 general and ruling hnpilse to make an early and active eampalgn, and. to. decide. upon n plan that will make ft inost active from one end of the . country tothe othor. * = att . AMONG “OTHERS WHO HAVA BEEN RE- QUESTED -* | to tuke.pnrt In the conference are Gens. Gat field and ‘Arthur, ‘Chey will meot the mem- bers of the National Committee, the Chalr- men of the different, State Committees, tho Congressional Committee, and about 100 promingnt Republicans from different States who are not members of elther of the Com- mlttees named. A body of 200 men of the character and experienée possessed by those Whoart to take part inthisconforenerennnot mect Without oxeiting the deepest Interest fi Ropuliteans all over the country, an nity, be taken for granted that thelr ton will be followed hy an advance alone the whole Hne- that will be sbundant evi- dened of tho faith and assuranes to every Rep bifcan of n glorious success in Noveni- ) AT HEADQUARTERS. i THE REPORT COMING IN, Apectal Dispatch to The Chicago Cribune. New Your, July 2.—The cheerful head- atjarters on Fifth avenue were filled with vfsitors to-night, many of whom cnme from (stant polnts, Col, Hooker brings these vasitors. together and gives them oppor- inity to compare notes upon the situ. tion in thelr respectlys sections, From Vest Virginia news waa received that ho early work of the enmpaign is being pushed with great vigor, and meetings are being arranged In diferent parts of the State, The Republican State Committee raves to have assumed a thoroughly busl- jness-like look; which docs not belio the true condition of affairs, Letters secking aidvico ‘and conveying Information as to the organi- Zation of the party come in grent bundles, and the sinall forces of cleris at present ume ployed have their hands full of work, A letter from Syracuse yesterday brought word that an Irish Repebliean Club hos been organized in that elty with more than 20 mem- bers who have signed the roll. ‘he juterest in the organization is very: Mvely, and It promises to be n potent fretion In the polities of Onondaga County during the next three montha, Seneca County ts not belindhand. A club {s heard from In Waterloo, haying 100 names alrendy on the roll, ‘fhe young men of the pass ure exerting themselves diligently to nerense the membership, and nasure ‘the Conmnittee that thoy will give a good weount of themselves In tha canvass and nt the polls, St. Lawrence Countyyas usunl fs coming nobly tothe front. A letter from Gouverneur Wuys that the Ropublicans ar tho town ure “on the warpath.” “Phe ticket gives the ut- intest satisfaction, Wo will give more than py usttal masor! ty A fow lltherto stron Democrats hive declared for Gurileld, wun tho soldier boys are enthuslastic for him,” GRAN'?’S ORDER. NOT RELISHED BY DEMOCRATS, Spectat Dispatch to The Chicaga Tribune, {Waamnaton, D, C.. duly 20.—The order of, Gen, Grunt to the Hoys in Blte, to organize to} save the country from tho Demouracy, fetl the representatives of the latter here wth something akin to tho old order for an vince of the Union army, Republicans stern ax Worth many thousand votes in quarters Adhjere they will tell, ‘The Democratic papers Hor the first time in our history wo find an ex< Prosldent, who, having been moat inglovioudly de¥outed in an effort to folst himself on the cofintry for a third term, undertakes to load a DOM ed! organization in a campaign tht ts to ddfelde who shall eccupy the pluce which be var ex¥ed ana vainly tried to reuch aguln. ‘There is no}fale wan of any purty who will not think Ue. logs of Gon. tiraut fur this ifort to rally the ox- softens of tha pen, and oninizlug them into ‘Aloye in Dino” Clubs for wampaign service, ‘TIN wuucks of the want politician, and fafa eartul lotting-duwn of “tho bead and suminit of the human race! ‘fhe country would ike to think well of Gen. Grant; tho People uaAYG trivd to overlook 4 thousund ovi- cca of lugralned Uittlencss; but he persists fi letting bingelt down in the substrata of pol cd hl of aman with bia history behind iim telexrapblog from Colorado an ordor that the munber of cach tute of tha Nationul (Fomuitttce of Union Voterans’ Uulon will at «pace proceed to organize the Boys in Hive ln hole respective States to promote tho election pf Gartield and Arthur.” Tho organizations of soys ja Bluo will repart to the Departimnant Y pal among then hitago Dain Cribune. | ~ PRicn | TUESDAY, Comtnandera in their respeetive States that ft fs rather Mminitiye potatoes for * the yrentest living American, BWAYNT'S “OPINION.” THE “WOULD'S* DESPERATION, + Speetat Dispatch to The Chicayo Tribune, Wasiivaton, D.C. duly 26,—A promt nent Indiana Democrat, who hns been spend- ing some thie In New York, has informed’a, friend here that he has suceeeded In raising $45,000 for campaign purposes in fadiann, Tho World makes unother effort to-day to show how f{s correspondent was mised in woking up the dispateh about Justice Swayne. ‘This effort Is quite as bad as any which has preceeded ft, since the Doollttle brief, which was twiee quoted correctly fn its Issue of Satiirday, 1s to«lay quoted incor: reelly, so ay to agree with the gare Ing” of its” correspondent, who, . hy the way, not known In’ Washington, ‘The elattse left out by the Wortd iself in this third presentation of the Deollitle urief Is the sneer at Gen, Garfield for having former. ly heen a mitulster. | By thus followlng fn the footsteps of its irregular correspondent It 1s. able ta present f verslon of the, Doolittle belef which corresponds with the lance used In Its special and attributed to Justice Swayne, : NO, 40, BLISHED FOR CAMPAIGN PURPOSES, Srectat Dispatch to The Chicaga Tribunes Wasinxaroy, D. G., July 2.—The Repub Hean Congresstonat Committe ts about to publish Gen, Hancock's famous Order No. 40 aga Republican campaign document. Itts to be accampaniad by a brief history of the events which preceded Haneoek’s advent in Loulsiang and ‘Texas, with mumerans ex- tracts from reports of Gen, Sheridan, his pre- decessor in that department, and other high inilitary authorities, ‘These reports show 1 state of affaira to have existed which to Northern minds seems almost incredible, yet whieh have been proved by subsequent events to be absolutely true, Unreventant Rebols were In amajority In all communi- ties, and local tribunals and munielpat offices were all in their linnds, Laws passed under Confederate rule for oppression of Unionists were executed and enforced by these tribunals, while the malignant hate of defeated Rebels toward freedmen and Unian- {sts found Its rendiest means of exercise through the instrumentality of © MIACALLED COURTS OF JUSTICE, Gen, Sheridan, it is shown, acted vigorous- ly, and had well nigh trodden out the spirit of rebellion which still existed, when President Johnson interfered, whenever it was found necessary, to remove civil oflicinis for abuse of power placed’ in thelr ands and men of known loyalty were appolnted in their. plaees, When “Hancock come upon the stage it fs'shown that everything alrendy accomplished in the direction of pacl fication aud reconstruction was undone. ALfs General Grder No. 40 was openly inte: peated to Slgplty: fn intention on the part of he Administration to countenance the res- toration of old Rebel ‘functionaries to their full power, and the delivernnce of freedimen and Untonists into their hands, ‘This re- sult is graphically Mlnstrated by the story of afew of the terrible mussaeres whiclt oc- curred at that the as a direct* result of the work of Gen, Hancock in his brief season of civil rule. VIRGINIA KU-KLUX, .A DEMOCRATIC CONFESSION, © Special Depateh to The Chicago Tribune, Wasinxaton, D,C., July 28.—A short tin since specials of this correspondence an: Nonneed the oxistence of Ku-Klux fn Scott Coutity Virginia. The Democratic journals ridiculed the statement because names were left blank. The following from-a Virginia Democratic newspaper (the Lee Sentinel) ought to be auMclent proof of the truth of former dispatches: ‘Tho purty who shot and killed “Tandy " Raker dn Scott County a fow days ugo—n statement of which appeared in this paper Inst week—ulso shot son of Pinkney Carter, who was also in the Ku-Klux band, the shot.taklug offeet in the mouth ‘of young Carter, knocking out utlof bis front teeth, Eleven of the Ku-Kinx Bry, have been recognized, and the inntter will @ brought before the Grand dury of Scott County, ‘The mun whe committed the homtelde ennnot be found, he elther having tied tho catintry or [4 hid in the rides in order to save bia own life, vengeance having teen aworn ngulnat bim on tho part of the Ku-Kiux, ILLINOIS, THOQUGIS COUNTY. % the Lultor of ‘The Chicago Tribune. Sue pos, Ill, July 24—The campaign has fairly opened {n Iroquois County, and puiitles in this sectlon Wave reached red heat. Dem- ocrats made their big effort: to-night, and by athorough scouring of the country for ten iniles nround succeeded In ralsing a crowd of perhaps 350 men, women, snd children, one-fourth of whom were Republicans, and who went home hurrahing for Garileld and Arthur, ‘The principal speaker of the ocen- sion, Maj. Harrington,—a Major who resigned Mls comnfssion whon the Smancipation Proce lamation was enunclated,—spoke at Flenger’s Hall, Some Jealousy loval politielans, princl- Dr. Bush, commenced stumpspevches on the streot-corners, which wore so congenial to tho average Democratic mind that it drow: upon the educated Major's audience until at the close of hls yitupera- tive address tho hall was nearly empty. ‘This was the demonstration of the cumpalyn, Meantine the Republicans were mostly at Lister's Polit, where a strong club wns are ginized and speeches made by the Hon, Con- rad Seerist, J. W. Johnson, A. M, Enstburn, Joe Bell, and others, ‘They came home'in Nigh spirits, to ‘sce the Democrats looking sore and weary. 5 ae TUE ONDER TOD: INDIANA. ., , RATIFIOATION MENTING AT ROUTIE HEND. Spiciat Dispatch to The Chicaga Tribune, Sourn Benn, Ind,, duly$,—The campaign opened here this evening under tho ausplees: of the Young. Men's Garield and Arthur Club, and.was a grand success In point of nunbers, the Court-House square and street belng filled by more than could comfortably hear the magnificent voices of the orators, ‘The principal speech was by ex-Congressinan Williams, of Warsaw. Io dwelt at somo Jongth on the supremacy of the Natlon and tho overthrow of tho constitutional amend- “ments by tha Supremo Court, His speech was about two hours In length and was Ist: ened to with marked attention and recetyed puthuntaatie applause, Congressman W, Hf, Calkins followed in w short apeveh, being here nga looker-in at thts tho first gath in his district, He proposes to devote hin self to. the campaign from now to the end, ond will make his work felt with an in- creased Republican vote, NOTES, A THIN EXCUBE, fpectas Dupatch to The Chicaga Tribune,» Wasiinaton, D.C. July %,.—The presa of personal business In connection with mill- tary dutles, which Gon, Hancock writes wilt detain him from the Soldfera’ National Ie. unton at Columbus, 1s not fully understood by nillitary men here, slnce the only duty re quiring special attention which he has had on hand of late was the Warren Court, from which he was discharged some weeks sluce at his own request, A GOOD ONY ON THE GENERAL, A fled of Judgo Bluck {9 authority for the good story thaton one: oceasion, when the Judge was talking of Gen, Hancock, ho sald: “Lf never Ike to lund any of iny manu. seript to Hancock, for fear be will not copy it correctly,” A MICHIGAN RATIVICATION, Specral Hapotch to Tre Chicuyo Tribune, Luptyeton, Mich, July 2%0.—The first artield mass-meeting hag been held, and tha boom has mada great headway. Suerches hertiss") sustaining power ever slace, It 1880—' JULY 27, EN were made py Messra, White, AV Stanch- field, aud Bishop, of this place, ‘The meet Ing Was very suecesstul. CASUALTIES. THE SUNKEN MAMIE, Speclat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune Dernorr, July 26.—After searching four days, the wreek of the yacht Maule, whieh was run down on Thursday night Jast by the excursion boat Gurlaud, was discovered to- day. ‘The remains of the Ul-sturred craft Were found submerged In thirty feet of wa- The most intense excttement. has pre- vailed here slice the collision, and there wns no lick of volunteers to assist in the search for the vlothns of the disnster, The lack of organized and properly-direeted eifort, how- ever, hag sadly fiipeded the work, To-tay large parties of sent commenced nt day- Veht, and this afternoon the first traces of the wreek were discovered. The Joeation of the Mamie was finally found, by J. HT, Westcott, maring reporter of the Post and Tribune, nut Capt, Littleton, of the tug Paeitic.- A diver was then sent down, aud he soon returned, bringing ong corpse, “Then it seemert as if the water fad commenced giy- Ing wp Its dead. One body after another was found floating {1 ‘the vielnity until three more had heen recovered. Tho fifth was, re- turned ta this elty ‘to-night by an upward- bound vessel, having become attached to a raft and carried to Lake Erle, The faces of the victina fully portrayed the arony they suifered from thne of the collision untll death olatmed them. ‘Me steam which probably filled the enbin ‘after the yacht was run down hid senlded thelr faces, ant thelr heads had xwollen to tftee or four tines thelr normal ‘The sight presented was a sickening News of the finding of the bodtes reached this eity In advance of the steamer which brought them, and consequently an immense crowd had assembled at the dock when the Hh arrived, Hundreds rushed on board ff the corpses were tho their lost ones,” ALL shrank in horror from the sight, and the cries of those who recognized their children were hoyetrendng, The bodies. were those of four boys, aud Mary Haha, 2 Sistor of Charity, ‘fhe search for other bodies will be resumed to-morrow, A LUNA'TIC'S FATE, Special Dlapatch to The Chteavo Tribune, Ch AND, O.. July 20.~Particulars have Just come to Nght of a snd affair whieh hap- pened Inst Friday at the Insane Asylum at Newburg. During the mememtary absence ‘of a lady attendant, Miss Ida Bates, a young Indy patient 23 years old, confined In the see- ond story, in some way slipped off the fasten- fnys which bound her bands to prevent her doling anlzehlof, and, golng to the window, sho “managed © to get. through > bee tween the bars of the fron grat- ing. ‘he ntendant enme back — aud. saw the irl hanging to the grating with her hands, Selziug the unfortunate patent by the wrist the attendant tried to hold her till help came, but the formar succeeded In free ine herself wid'fell to thd ground, a distance of-twenty feet, sirlking dn her head and pro- ducing concussion of the brain, from which she died during the night. ‘The aperture in the grating through which she crowded was only five and three-fourths Inches -wite and sixteen Inches long. flow she inanaged to squeeze through exeltes wonder. A TORPEDO UXPLOSION, Spectat Dispatch to Ths Chicago Tribune. CINCINNATI, On July 26,--Last night, st Brown’s water-tank, negr-West Manchester, on the Dayton & Westirn Railroad, twelve miles north of Eaton, party of boys xeel- dentally expluded 4 raiaonil torpedo, which thoy found on the travk.: Russell Crister was so badly Injured that he dicd this morning, Robert Warrlman had: one eye put out aud his arm so badly mangled that it lind to be mnputated, and he will probably die. Joseph. Brown and James Shields eaeh were badly injured. ‘The Coroner.of Preble County fs engnged In an investigation of this singular necident, DROWNED. Srectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Fast Saginaw, Mich, July 20,—Edward Kline, aged 8 yenrs, was drowned In the Barun River to-day while pluylug on tho jogs. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. KAnsas Ciry, Mo, duly 28.—About 10 o'clock this morning one John Watson, clalming Chicago ns his home, was drownet ia the Missouri River at this point by the up- setting of a boat, with a companion named » Tlennesy, It ty salt that he his 1 wife and three children living at Englewood, RATIAVAY COLLISION. Special Dispatch to The Chtcaco Tribune, Lavaverre, Ind, July 2.—Between 8 and Po'clack last ulght an east-gulng and west- bound frefeht train on the Wabash, St, Louis, & Pacitic Ridiroad came together a half mite east of Williamsport, ata polnt where there Iaadeep cut, Iths clulmed that the weat- bound tritn had anders to make Williaa port, which would ‘make the other of thine, ne lovomotive and several cars were “ stove up? and such a tearing wp of things gener. ally that it was several hours before the trac! could be cleared, BLOOD POISONING, Bpeeiat Dispatch to The Chteago Tribune, Broominaton, Ib, July W—A Swedish eoal-ndner named Petersen died at St Joseph’s Hospital under remarkable elrewm- stances, Some days ago he struci his elbow ugalnst the shle of a room In the mine, and knocked thofskin off. brulsing Into the wound a certaln whitish fungus that grow on the rock. In un hour. the arm had awolled to double its natural size, and to-day hedied from blood polsoning. PROBABLY A DRUGGIST'S MISTAKE Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Rocumaren, Minn. July 2,—A, ML Wine torsteln, of Lebanon, St. Clair County, either comnuitted sulelde, or, by a mistake of o elerk In compounding prescription, re- celved morphine fnstead of quinine, Ho Iived nearly twenty-four hours after taking Avo seals, Coroner Sedgwick fs holdlug ay Quest. GAS EXPLOSION, Bpeetal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Prrranung, Pa, July 26.~-At 3_ o'clock this afternoon two men named William Lowe and Bonjanin Hickwnn were prot, ably fatally injured by the exploston of gas in the Hutehfuson Standard Ming, near Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland. County, Thoy wero sinking an alr slioaft atthe tae of tho nceldent, —_———_$ DR, TANNER'S FAST, - Speetal Dispatch fo The Chicago Tribune, New Yon, July %~—At noon to-day Dr. Tanner tufshed the twenty-elghth doy of his extraurdinary fnst,—just four weeks without food, u pretty tong pull for flesh and blood, Early this morning ‘the faster welghed 120 pounds, .Jiaving lost altogether twonty-elght and a half pounds alnce he quit cating fora living, One-half this loss Was sustaluéd during the last seven days of As abstinence from water, ond It ls an opon sugrot that ho was on the polnt of collapse when he was persuaded to abandon Is) orlginal iden of taking no water, Water saved his life, and has proved its is helloved if he had hot uttempted that Impossible feat he would have managed his forty days of foodiusness without trouble, und perhaps have held out longer. As it ia his attendants feel confident that he will’ go through wht right, and say there was i marked lmprove- nent ja iy condition foduy, Io talksinore, and Ig much less potitant than formerly, ‘W0 the Western Associated Presa, New Yous, duly 2—Dr. Tanner reated on £ cot for the greater part of: the day. He took iis usual morning and eventug ride, re- turning from the latter much exhatist He Jald onthe cot. and jn a few moments was the. “endal June 30, PAGES. fast asleep. He awoke and asked for water, but before It could be handed him he had again fallen asteep: ALO he rethed, after drliking some water, which his stomach was Unable to retain. An exiiniiation showed Pilla 74, temperature 08 2-5, and respiration 6. Shice the commencement of the fast he hay Just twenty-seven pounds, : + BEIRES AT OMAITA. Spretat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. , OMAIA, Neb., July 26,—A tlre started at 4 Meluck this afternoon In the centre of block In the heart of thy city, An nlarm was sent In by telephone, but the Department was slow Jn responding. A strong breeze was blowing from the suuth, aud ag the buildings were all of fraine anc old, the fiames spread with startling rapldity, Columns of smoke and flume rolled ta the very clonds, and whirtwinds played tn the streets nhout. A stable, several agrleultural huplement. wares how and two machine shops caught fire and within the ayant of less than an hour were In ruins. Horses and livery rles were saved, and the streets for blocks were atrewn with ail kis of goods, The heat Wns so intense that two firemen and one horse of the Department were burned, but not fatally. By 5 o'clock the thunes were unter control, ‘and although the engines are still playing on the ralus no further danger {3 apprehended, ‘The loss will foot up be- tween $12,000 and $15,000, on which there Is trbout $6,000 insurnuce in diferent Eastern and three-fourths goupanles. The fire orlginated In an out house from on cigar stip thrown down enrelesly, « i IN CHICAGO. A atill alarm to Engine No, 25 at 11:30 yes terday forenoon was caused by a fire in the two-story frame building at Nu, 716 Halsted street. ‘The fire broke out onthe second floor, oceupled by Frank G, Hertting as ‘a bouk-bindery, Cause, explosion of a gaso- Tae lamp, “Damege ta stack $20, Hii at tempting to extinguish the fire Charles Metzger, of No, 601 Halsted strect, employed ag a laborer jy the place, was badly burned about the hands and fac ‘ 23 ut 9 o'clock last ‘The alarm from Box 32 evening was caused by the capsizing of 2 kerosene Jamp 3 the tailor shop of J. Paw- Josk!, No. 102 Caniiport avenue, ‘The wari from ox 457 ut 12:08 this morn- NYE sod by a fire Ina frame cottage at No, O57 West Erle street, déwned and oecu- pied by James Weaver, Dannge, 8100; no Insurance. Mr. Weaver thinks the fire was the work of an incendiary, and has com- menced un investigation. > AT MUSCATINE, TA. Davesronr, fa, July 26.—The washboard. factory and pliuining-mill of the Brent Manu- facturing Company at Muscatine, Ia,, has been destroyed by tire, Loss, $10,000 to $12,- 000; no Susurance, AT WARREN, PA. Bravronn, Pa., July 26.—Clark, Morrison & Co,’s planing mili at Warren, together with six or seven diwelling-houses: and 800,- 000 feet of Lumber, are burned. Loss, 83,000; Insurance, $10,000. AT VAN WERT, oO. Van Went. 0, July 26,—T. S, Gilltland’s outhouses and, contents, ineluding seven yalunble horses, burned Inst night, eS CANADA, The Imports and Exports of Montreal for the Month of June’ Strike on the Lachine Canal. Speetal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Montrear, July 26.—The limports at Mon- treal during the mouth of June Inst were $2,808,000, ngninst $1,!H2,000 the correspond ing month of 1879,—nn Iucrensy of $1,466,000. The exports of grat from this port for the week ending the 17th Inst, were 400 per cent greater than from Boston, and were a third of the quantity exported from New York, ‘The amount was 1,000,000 bushels, A strike occurred to-day among some of tho laborers employed on the Lachine Canal, About thirty men quit work and-demanded $1.25 per day In place af $t, which they wera getting, The contractors, Davis & Son, re- fused the demand, wherenpon the diseon- tented men returned to the works, and at- tempted by threats to get the remainder of the Inborers to turn out. The men, who number over 250, declined to gomply. with the agitators’ wishes, when tho Jotter left, About 1 o'clock they returned, and, ng the men were gathering alter dinner, thoy were attucked by the mueontents, who tried to drive thom away by force, ‘The con- tractors obtained reinforcements of their well fnetfned en, and soon drove the ob- strictionists off theground, The authorities will provile protection by sending a force of jollee to the ground to-morrow if necessary, The contractors require 1,000 men to eurry on the works, butso far have not got half that number, i t A considerable quantity of Ico is being ex- ported from this city to the United States on aecount of the Ire fainlne there, To the Western Associated Press, Montrear, July %2.—Ship Winchester, from Manila, with sugar for the St. Law. renee Refinery here, was wrecked In tho Strakts of Maeussar, “The earga was yalued from $150,000 to $200,000, Insured, a WASHINGTON. ‘The Excons of American Exports Over Imports the Past Year=The Balunce of Trado, Wasutnatoy, D, C., July %.—The excess of exports over fmports for the twelve months ended June 30 was $107,005,059, During the year just closed both the value of imports of merehandise inte and value of exports of merchandise from the United States were larger than during any preceding year in tho ilstory of the country. ‘Tho vatue of exports of merchaundlse for the year ended June 90, 1890, exeecded tha value of exports of imer- chandise. during the preceeding year about $15,000,000, or 18 per cent, und the value of {mports of merchundise durhiyg the year end- ed Jue 30, 1880, vd the “value of stich iuports during the preceding year about $222,000,000, or 50 per cont. ‘The Increase in the" valite of imports of merchandise oxceedad tho inerense du tha vaiie of exports nearly $07,000,000, ‘The value of imports and exports chandise during the fiscal bexceeded the vatus of si re y ,000,—10n Inerens percent. wid growth of the forelyn conmeree of the canntry $s strikingly exhibited by tho faet that tho value of Imports and exports of mer chandise during the fiscal year Just closod aniounited to 31,605, in, beng ubout st percent greater thon the value of, linports and exports of 1870, aud nearly 19 ‘por cont renter than the imports and exports of 186d, fhe exports of coin and. bullion Guring the pean ended duite }, 1880, were abLout $7,800,000 ess than the preeediiy tisent year, and die {mperts of coin and bullion auring the year 2580, execeded the imports during the preceding fiscal your about $%3,- 700, During the qe Jtiat closed, for the first thae since 61, the imports of coin and bullion oxceedod the exports of the sane. SUICIDAL. -Bpeclat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune Miwaukee, Wis, duly 24.—A man named Herman Pltscher, from Sedalia, 3fo,, at- tempted to cut his throat here this afternoon, He claims that his wife eloped with a man named Rudolph Wolf, and he tracked them as far as Chicago, 5 . “" Bpectat Depateh to The Chicago Tribune, Oxnrnarsa, HL, July 2—A little over two weeks ugo Nellie Bulland and Joseph States were married. ‘The latter ls employed in the continues near Du Quoin. | [ie camy to Cen- traija last Saturday, Intending to leave for Dn Quoin this morning with fits wife, [ast ight, between Vand 10 o'clock, he stepped ont to the well to gut a drink, a8 he said, and tive mluutes after he was a corpae. With o Sealibre rovolver he had shat himself One-half of the through the heart, The eause for the deed isnot known. It ig suriutsed that he had no money, and Incked the courage to. tell his Wife and frends, and preferred death to go- ing back to hls work without her. DAyton, O., July W—-Mrs, Edward Gin- kon, wife of a prontinent eitizen of Dayton, committed suiclte last nlght by taking pole son. No entse ts assigned for the snlelde, It Is supposed to be the result of derangement. THE CROPS, MINNESOTA, Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tritune, St. Paut, Minn, July %.—The following crop repurts from fimportant points inthe Minnesota Valley and southwestern counties are among those received by the Ploneer Preas to-night: St. Peter-—Only a few flelds of whent have been cut in this county, but on Munday of next week will commence tn earnest through- out this section, Extensive Inquiries mnunz farmers result In the conclusion that there will be some disappointment Ia very large ylelt fs expected In portions of this county, Good judges think there vill not be even fifteen bushels per nere, while in other fons farmers - are confident of from twenty to twenty-iive bushels: but the former estiniate is gener. ally confirmed, The grain stands up well exeept It spots, and thy tbe no trouble uiting it Uils year. Barley promises 1 full crop, In general fields that have been ent nnd thrashed have turned out about forty- five bushels per acre, The ont crop will be excellent, and corn: never ed better, Cons! ble hay lias already been ent and seenred In the best possible condition. Minknto—Along the line of_ the Milwau- kee & St. Paul’ through South Bond, Napidun, Lyra, and Danville, the crops are. did. ‘The average yield will from twenty to thirfy bushels, Ai can be safely estimated that the entire crop of Blue Karth-will average twenty-two and n half bushels per acre, the lowest yield Delnyg estiinnted at ten bushels, and that only by one farmer, and the highest at thirty-five bashels. No chinch-bugs are reported, and there {s blight only on sandy sof), aud early sown whet, barley, and rye are all cut and a splendid yield. Harvest hos fatrly bezun, and tin fininense amount of the crop will be harvested this week. Harvest hands are plenty, and wages from $2 to $2.50 per day. The weather is all that could be asked, with indleations of continuance through harvest. St. James—The crops in this section have Improved so rapidly within the past two. weeks that one and all ure confident of the best crop known for years. | Especially is this true of wheat-ticids that two weeks ago. were averaged at five bushels and Jess per agere, which will yield at ‘least ten bushels, Already the harvest has begun, and from all that enn be learned our wheat will all go a good No. 1. Oats in this vicinity stand thick and heay ys and will yield Jurgely. Other sinaff gralns will also yield as well, Owatonna—Huarvest operations have now fairly best all over the county, Barley and onts are yielding well. Wheat cutting has only just begun, but it is in prime con+ dition, and will dd probably fourteen or fifteen bushelsto the acre through the coun- ty, some fictds golng over twenty. and some notimore than eight, In low, wet pl Delayau—Fariners are cutting wheat, to- day. The yleld is vario estimated wt from elghteen, to twenty” bushels per aere, whieh” {s+ 40 ‘per cent bet- ter than Inst year, and of better quality, ruin will be cut this week, Barley that has been thrashed ylelds from thirty-five to forty bustielsof No. 3 quality, Northfleld—The Snformation your corre- spondent hns reeeived jn relation to the wheat crop from many of the leading farmers and sqnlll-owners, and persomil exaimtiation, Is, that the crop is good, 25 per vent better than it appeared eight days ago in Rice County on old soll and corn ground. On the prairie the wheat is Injured by blight from 1 to 10 per cent, but the uinjor part is good, ant the farmers claim that in many cases the yleld will be twenty bushels to the acre, In*the thnber the wheat is grand; nover better. In Southern Dakota County the damage by blight 13 from 1 to 10 percent on okt fields;' about. the sume In West Goodline County. Last week’s cool weather saved the crop. ‘To-day harvesting. conmenced, although some began on Saturday. The erop fy good, and will average fifteen bushels per acre, and some think more, THE ARMY-WORM. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Prersuuna, Pa, July 20,—-What is sup- posed to bu the army-worm has made Its ap- penrance on several farms in this nelghbor- hood, ‘They were first notleed by a Me. ‘Hart- inn. dn a fifteen-aere cornfield, ‘The bindes wero entirely constimed, teasln the stalks bare, Mr. Hartman says that the worms were so tumerons that a person could not walk throngh the field where they were ear rylng on the work of destruction without be- ing covered with them. ‘They are described as being very Diack. tn general appearance and manner of operations they closely re seinble those which have been deyastatlig Long Island and New Jersey, ‘Their pres: ence Is also reported In sume parts of East- ern Ohio, — ILLINOIS, Bpectat Dispatch ta The Chicago Tribune, Decatun, IL, daly 26.—The farmers re- port the average yield of wheat in Macon and adjoining counties as something enormous, Considerable wheat lias been thrashed, and the general average fs about twenty-five bushels to the n¢i Ty some Instances reach ing as high ns thirty bushels, ‘The Rev. M, ‘Turner, of Oknw fownship, Shelby Count; off of tivo and a hinlf acres got 139 bushels of wheat—tha Inrgest yield yet reported to Tue Tusunecorrespondent, Lhe corn crop promises bias and, in fact, everything 33 plentiful, and workmen of alt kinds are in domand, particularly on farms... —— 5 IOWA. , Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, — * Sioux Crry, In, July 26,—Tho weather continues dry. Most of the grain will be cut this week, Corn needs raln, ‘The estinites of the small graiu yleld: krow better slice the harvest begin. ; : a COAL AT DECATUR, Bpectat Lispatch to The Chicago Tribune. “Decatur, I, July 2.—The work. un tho new coal shaft hore fs moving alongas rapid Jy as possible, Frank Frorer hopes to find cont in paying ‘quantities before fall. Tho shaft hay reached a depth of 100 feet and the aan ary How work: MF nthe quicksand, diay: and night, All Decatur ts fnterested in this enterprise, a8 the. future growth of the city Hopends Jargely upon Sts successful termiuae |. ton. —— . OCEAN STEAMSHIP. NEWS, Faurarny Porst, July 2u.—Pagsed {nward, the Montana, from Liverpool, Prysouru, July %.—Arrived, the Gellert, from New York, tor Hamburg. New Your, July 20,.—Arrived, steamships Erin and Gallla, from Liverpool, Livesroot, July ,—Artlyed, Bohemian, from Boston, SS aEEPEEEeeecamenn RELIEVED, Wasutnoton, D, C,, July 26,—By. the al- rection of the Secretary of War, Col, Daniel McClure, Assistant Paymaster-General, 1s relieved from duty In the Department of the Mlssous!, and Will repale to this city and re- port In person for duty to the Payuuster- eneral of the Ariny, LATE MARINE. Bpeciat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunt. , Sturgeon Bay, Wis., July 26,~—Departed via canal yesterday—Tug John © Leathom with barge John Luctue, ico Jaden for the Unton ine Conipany : ‘Toalay—Scow - Moses Gage, ico for the QGuthrla Ico Companys schooner Bradley, ties and posts for Josyph Sintth. Arrlved—'l'ng Gregory with barges, a SOLD AGAIN. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Sour Evan, Ui, July %.—The South Elgin Cheese and Butter Factory haschanged owners agalu, Mr. Jumes Jt, Carlisle, Su- E CENTS. Towtshlp, bought the Aveuk from LM. Rater paying hint, $7,000 for it, and dag al- ready taken posscavion, Mr. C. says that the South Elzti factory possesses the best ftacili- tles and Is the most favorably located of any cheese and butter factory that he knows of, CRIMINAL NEWS. A DISTINGUISHED LOT OF PRISON- ERS, ervisor fof i 30 fvcte Speetat Dispatch to the Globe-Demnerat. Spmvorim.y. Wh, July 2.-—Depuly Unk ted States Murshat Davis brought ta Spring. Held lastnight at 12 o'clock a bateh of prise oners from Chester who are of a class of ctl zens who do not generally fall mder the han - ofthe law. ‘The party consisted of the Hon. J. Perry Jolin, 1G, Horner, Robert Iarine unty Clerk of ftandolph Count me) 95 de Middentorf, John Detrich, formerly State Senntor from. that county, and C. i. Cole, They are brought here under ant atfnehiment issted out of the * United States Clreuit Court on Friday last, by order of ddge ‘Trent, and will to: morrow be culled on toshow enuse why they shal not be fined or committed to Jatt for fh contempt of that Court, shown, us is al- leged, under ther followbig elrewustancess In 872 Randolph County voted a subsere Yon In ald of the Chester & Tamaron Coal & Rallroad Company, This vole was taken + three days before the new Constitution went Into effect, ond the bonds were fssued. Since that date Ilias been deelded by the United Suttes Supreme Court. that the Iinit of taxn- tion preserihed by the Constitutlon does not apply in this. eg ant -as the coupons on these bonds have matured from thine to tine thelr pat has been hotly contested by the people and offictals of the county, Suft being instituted for thelr collectlon, au {njunetion was) fssued restraining the extension of the tax, Following the Supreme Court decision, the — holders of the judgment sued out a peremptary writ of minndanits against the Jounty Board to compel them to levy n tax to pay the Judgment. ‘This was met prompt. Jy by'an Injunction out of the Clrenlt Court of the county aualnst the Clerk, Mr Uariner, enjuining hin from extending the ti books, aid uithough the levy was mule November ft has never yet been collec! ‘This sult was instituted by the Hon, .f, Perry Johnson as attorney for Detrich Metteldort uid other citizens, and explains the fact of the appearanee of these gentlemen to ane swer Jn court to-morrow. ‘The mutter wag argued before Judge ‘Trent last January, and ling since been held tinder advisement, the attachment being ordered ag stated last Saturday, ‘The case will, no doubt, attract public attention, AX O} CAMP-MERIING BROKEN UP, Cincinxatt, 0., duly 26.—The colored Bap- fist eamp-mecting at Danville, 10 miles south of Jiillsburo, O., wag the scene on Friday night and Sunday bfternoon of a blondy fight, On Friday night a party of drunken. Youghs went to ‘the camp abott 10 o'clock und began au attack with plstals, elitbs, ad stones, ‘They wore repulsed. and) William Duckman, one of thelr number, shot through the abdonen, Sunday afternvon a party, sald te number 200, again atineked the eanty, anda most desperate fight followed, ending in the brenking..up of the imeceting, It is thought same of the culored peaple were Killed, but they dispersed so rapidly that the facts could not be gathered, No arrests hava been nade, THE CARROLL POISONING CASE, Spectat Dispatch to The Chicugs Trivune, Baaproun, Pa, July 2—The Carrot polsoning case culminated this afternoon In the arrest of Dro A, Grant Hopkins and If ram Leasure, the drug elerk, on charge vf manshiuehter. Both are under heavy guard, Rlus had packed his trunk, and was Teady to leave town when arrested. He Ls graduate of a bogus Ph Totibt mie college, Carroll wi vt Uh tr complaint De, Hopkins pre deat o€ morphine, which killed din, The drng-store put np its shutters this afternoon, The authorities propose to clean out thd ' ‘quacks prictlelng ‘ Sav Francisco, Cab, dul It Onktund this evening, about So°elurk, Mdward Setirue der entered the oftice of Dr, Alfred Lefevre and shot him throweh the be proving fatal fn ntew momen tes were of good soelal positions & belng ‘Teller of the’ London & San Frinelsre Bank, this city, aud Lefevre along estab Hsted and papular dentist. Nauieroas re ntors re afloat us to the cause of Ure tragedy, It is generally wuilerstood that Letevre was suspected of erlininal inthuaey with the wife of hrueder, thongh nothing detinit: Is known, UELD FOR MURDER, Daytox, July 2.—Gus Pentand and John Westerman were arrested to-day on a eharge of the murder of * Valentine Schacht, an fumate of the Sotdicrs’ Home, Who was found shot through the head on the rod near the elty last: May. They were arrested once before, but were discharged, is no proof could be ebtained against them, Stnee then defectives hnye been on their track, aud obtained testimony of the strony. est character, ‘Lhe prisoners werd held without bail, 11K WACIE FAMILY, New Your, July 2—The Ibach family, consisting of the mother sd three sons, were arrested on their arrival from Germany, 0 month ago, at the Inustanes of the German Consul-General, for extensive forge! in thelr native country, The United States Commissioner to-day discharged Wilhehning Tbach, the mother, and the eldest son, and held for extradition Hugo and Albert Ibueh, POISON ‘ Bravronn, Pa, duly 26.—Corover late to-day caused the arrest of Dr. A. G. Hop kins, who preseribed, and Hiram Leasure, & eferk fw Kennedy's drug store, who com: pounded tho prescription whieh produced he death of A, W. Carroll, of this elty, on Saturday, ‘The Coroner's jury found a ver let thut deceased wns polsoned by imorplila being used Ina powder Instend of ‘euloinel. RATLNOAD 'TUTEVES, LAWRENCE, Kas, duly 20,—The ears of the Santa Ps Rallroul were broken inte Mriday and Saturduy nights at this station and 9 lot of miscellaneous goods stolen, “thought te tava been done bya gang of professlonale who bonded the train while it muyed xlow ly geross the Leavenworth, Laramie & Southern Raflroad, aut threw the boxes out ou the river bank, YAzZOO, Yazoo Crry, Miss, July 2—-Dr, 3f, F. Williams, of Mechanicsburg, was ussasinated while riding home Saturday night. Hl: horse reached home riderless, and, search be ng made, the Dactor’s body was found, A Negro was arrested on fusptelon, antl. has since confesaed ity guilt. He says he was paid to kill the Doctor, WANTED IN BLOOMINGTON, s Speclat Dinpatch to The Chicago Tripune Broosixatoy, I, July 2.—W, M. WIll- Jains, groceryman and Greenback polltictan, and John Janssen, German baker, Lave both disappeared from this city within twenty. funy houre, ‘aud both are in demand by many creditors, SUSPICIOUS, Bpsclal Dispatch to ‘The Chicago Tribune, Bravrory, Pa. July 2.—Sain Drownell waa found dead In Poke” Abbott's pluce tonight. Appearances tndleate that he was strangled to ‘dewtl Coroner’s Jury holding tuquest, s+. eee : ——— sToT DUAD, “ee New Yonk, July 2~—At Sg Harbor, Miles Morris was shot dead by a seainan who acensed Morrly of belug {mproperly jutl- aunts with the wife of the seaman,, | COMMU'TED, Ricwuswonn, Va., July %,—TLhe sentepco of Nelson Mitchell, colored, to haveit been tay In Amherst County, bad boon Pernt 24 mprisonment for Ife,” 3 x