The Lake Geneva Herald from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin • 2

The Herald. Brownsville, Armsted Gray (oolored) was executed at Powhatan Court House, and Darnel Lucky (colored) was strong up at in the Indian Territory. Murder was the crime for which they suffered. tj JohnTibbetls, the boy murderer, was taken from Per ham (Minn.) jail by a mob and lynched. He confessed to a double assassination.

A masked mob of 100 men burst the doors of the jail at Lawrence, secured Peter Vinegar, Isaac King and George Robertson, and hung them to the bridge timbers, for the recent murder of Daniel Bailsman. Lynching as a penalty for atrocious crimes is becoming a common occurrence in various parts of the country. Three cases of the kind occurred in one day last week. A negro in South Carolina guilty of outraging white girl, a negro in Mississippi who had attempted the same crime upon a child, and a half-witted railroad laborer who had killed a fellow-workman at Las Yegas, N. were the victims.

At Lawrence, a public meeting of colored men denounced the lynching of the three negroes who murdered farmer Bausman. Tibbetts, the boy hanged for a double murder at Perham, is said to have been instigated to the crime by his own mother. 3s The Japanese Indemnity bill was up for consideration in the Senate on the 12th inst, the principal feature in the debate being a war of words between the two Kansas Senators, Ingalls and Plumb, on the one side, and Morgan, of Alabama, on the other. The bill went over as unfinished business. Bills were passed to divide Iowa into two judicial districts, and to authorize the Sioux City and Pacific road to bridge the Missouri nver.

Mr. Pendleton presented a petition from 10,000 citizens of Cincinnati and Covington, asking the passage of the Civil-Service Reform bilL Mr. Brown offered a resolution authorizing each Senator to employ a clerk at $1,200 per annum, to be paid from the contingent fund. i motion of Mr. Logan, the Senate insisted its amendments to the Army Appropriation bill, and a conference committee was appointed.

In the House Mr. Butter-worth reported back the Army Appropriation bill with the Senate amendments, and recommended non-concurrence in the clause making retirement from the army compulsory at the age of 64 years, but the clause was agreed to by 101 to 75. Mr. Townsend reported a bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Inter-State Commerce. Mr.

Humphrey reported a bill for a uniform 'system of bankruptcy. A long debate took place on the Senate measure to increase tho water supply of the District of Columbia. At the session of the Senate on the 13th Mr. Grover made a favorable report on a right of way into San Francisco for the Ocean Shore railroad. The pending resolution, that each Senator be given a clerk at a salary of $1,200, was rejected.

Mr. Allison reported, with amendments, the House bill for the exten-ion of the national-bank charters. The Japanese Indemnity bill was taken up aSd passed. The President sent to the Senate tire follow. ng nominations Samuel B.

Axtel), of Ohio. Chief Justice or riie Supreme Court of New Mexico Kollm M. Daggett, of Nevada. Uuited State- Miuister to the Hawaiian i-lands Henry Ephseu. of Wisconsin.

Receiver of Public Moneys at Aberdeen, Dakota. The House of Representatives passed a resolution authorizing tLe Secretary of War to place at Washingtons headquarters at Newburgh, N. a memorial column co-ting and also appropriating $15,000 toward the expense of a centennial celebration, next vear, ot the declaration of peace- The lull to increase the water supply of the District of Columbia wps passed, with the proviso that half the cost be advanced by the Government. The Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole, discussed, amended and laid over. Tice President Davis a letter to the effect that the work in his office is in accord with the Typographical and Bookbinders Unions, and should he refuse to abide by their regulations a general strike would be ordered, involving serious loss of time, although he would act as Congress might direct.

In the International Typographical Union, in session at St. Louis, a telegram was received from the Washington Union, stating that Senator Plumb was fighting the union through the United States Senate because the union refused to allow one of his political followers to work in the Government printing office as proof-reader, as he was not a printer, and asking the convention to protest against Senator Plumbs procedure. A resolution in accordance with this telegram was introduced and adopted. A Washington dispatch says that Doyle offers to prove conclusively to the Government that the $1,000 bond-plate from which his bonds were printed is genuine, if he will be released from prison. His friends assert he is a misjudged and innocent man.

POLITIC AD The Greenback State Convention of Ohio was held at Columbus. A long series qf resolutions opposing menopolies were adopted, and a ticket nominated Secretary of State, George L. Hafer, Miami county Supreme Judge, L. G. Tuttle, Lake county member of Board of Public Works, L.

B. Stevens. Lucas county. -A Greenback and Anti-Monopoly Convention met at Emporia, Kansas, and nominated D. J.

Cole for Congress from the Third district, and S. H. Wood, of the Kansas State Journal, for Congressman-at-Large. The Republicans of Ohio met in State Convention at Columbus, and nominated Charles Townsend for Secretary of State; JohnH. Doyle, of Toledo, for Judge of the Supreme Court; and C.

A. Fiickinger, of Defiance, for member of the Board of Public Works. The resolutions express approval of the course pursued by President Arthur, and cite the financial reforms brought about under the administration of Gov. Foster. It is urged that the liquor traffic should be made to bear its share of the public burden, making necessary the amendment of the State constitution at the earliest date allowed bv law.

The State Convention of the Iowa Green-backers, at Des Moines, was composed of nearly 600 delegates. The following State ticket was nominated Treasurer of State, George Dorr, of Union county; Auditor of State, G. W. Wyant, of Ringgold; Attorney General, J. H.

Rice, of Mahaska; Judge of the Supreme Court, M. H. Jones, of Mahaska; Clerk of the Supreme Court, E. M. Clark, of Allamakee Reporter of the Supreme Court, J.

II. Williamson, of Buchanan. The Illinois Democratic State Central Committee met at Springfield and decided to hold their State Convention in that city on the 7th of September. Alabama Democrats nominated E. A.

ONeil for Governor by acclamation. The Ohio Democratic State Convention will be held at Columbus July 20. A dispatch trom Portland, says the average Republican majority on the State ticket is 1,800. George will have no less than 3.000 in the State, the largest majority ever given a candjdatef Governor, will have isafiout 100 less. The Republicans have tho Legislature by a certain majority of ten, which may be increased to thirteen.

The Gregnbackers of Tennessee met in convention at Nashville, nominated J. R. Beasley for Governor, and reaffirmed the Chicago resolutions of 1880 as their platform. A FALLING CRIME. A Mother Poisons Her Four Children and Herself.

Domestic difficulties in a poor German fami-ily of Chicago culminated in a blood-curdling tragedy. Mary Syeboldt, aged 35 years, wife of Casper Sevboldt, a baker, and residing at 51 Fmnfcll street, murdered her four children and then committed suicide. The Btory of the crime is one of the most remarkable in the police annals of Chicago, and ranks with any of the Borgia sensations. At 5 oclock in the morning, Casper Seybold arrived home after working all night at bakery, and was met at the door by his wife. She was dressed in a new chemise trimmed with lace and blue ribbon, purchased especially for the awful occasion.

She acted strangely, and could scarcely stand. Come in, Casper, come in, she said, waving her hand, and see our little children. Tiiey are all dead all our four little children are dead, gone to heaven, Casper. See how pretty they are. Every one got nice flowers for the angels.

For a moment the husband was stunned, and thought his wife crazy. He burned to the bedroom, and there a strange sight met his horrified eyes. Laid out, as for bunal, were the four children Matilda, aged 12; Anton, aged Annie, aged 2 years and 6 mouths, and the baby, Agnes, aged less than 4 months. They were dreared in white, tnmmed with blue ribbons, hair n.cely smoothed and tied with blue ribbons and in bouquets of fresh flowers. All were stone dead except Matilda, and she was just breathing.

Mrs. Syeboldt followed her husband into the room so full of death, and said: Yes, I sent them all to heaven, because God wanted them. Casper Syeboldt was stupefied. His lips moved hut iio sound came. He at last recovered sufficiently to realize the awful deed, and then hastened across the street' and summoned Mr.

Martin, a grocer. That gentleman hastily procured the services sf a physician, but he could do nothing for the dying girl, Matilda. Attention was then turned-to Mr3. Syeboldt, who was in convulsions. She managed to tell the physic.an toat she gave the poison to her children first, laid them out, and then prepared herself for death, faking the remnant of a large dose of strychnine.

She died in great agony shortly after 7 oclock, and was laid oat beside her children. The motives of the woman in this silent, bloodless destruction of her children aud self may be partly gleaned from the following notes and bits writing found among the effects of the family. They are by the oldest uighter of 12. The resignation shown by the writer ia remarkable: I wish to all my playmates a better and a happier time than I had, so good-by to you all, for you all are welcome to the place where I have gone. Remember me.

Among the papers was one containing two verses of the hymn beginning There is a happy land, etc. Another note is addressed to a playmate: Mary Murjhy Please tell Lizzie Martin probably the daughter of the laiydlord of the house, 51 Finnell, Minnie Olten and Lizzie Reymonld that I have forgotten their dispute and forgive them. I guess they will feel Borry for it. May they think of me as their friend. Tilly Syeboldt.

Other notes read as follows Dear Papa Forgive ma. we have to leave you. Mamma thought it was the best we could do. I am now in the better land, where we all live in freedom. Your daughter, Matilda.

Dear Papa Tlease bury us decent at Wua-ders that we may all be buried together. Tnats all I request of you. My knife and money is for your present, and is in the collai-box. Luv for Anton, "Annie and self flowers from the money which I have saved. It is mine.

The knite is yours. For May Murphy 1 will tell you the story of our trouble. My mother was always sick, you know, and thought of dying often, ami thought how if she was dead how we would be treated, an 1 so thought best for all of us to die at once, and bought something to kill us. The baby first, Annie seoonl, Tony third, and I after. We did not suffer much, and now we are all out of trouble.

Roney Morris: Take the book that Ive brought home trom school. It is not mine. It is the History of the United States. Take it to room 5, to George Oaproni. It is on the lower ehelf of the closet.

This is for Mary and Nell Mmphy, my two 2 THE KITCHEN. Frosting. Beat the yelks of two eggs, add ten teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar; after frosting the cake, set it in, a cool, dark place to stiffen. To Take Out Stains. To take out cherry, blackberry, raspberry and currant stains on white goods, pour boiling water on the stains, and they will disappear.

Be sure the water is boiling, or it will only serve to set the stain." Sugar Icing fob Cares. Sift pulverized sugar, and to the white of every egg add six teaspoonfuls of sugar. If tho cake is a white one, use lemon extract beat the egg to a 6tiff froth before adding 6ugar this will harden in a short time, and is very good. Boult Yarden Cake. One-half cup butter, one cup sugar beat to a cream the whites of three eggs, beat to a stiff froth now beat all together.

Throe-fourths cup of milk, one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder in two cups of flour flavor to taste. Dried Apple Pudding. One teacup cooked dried apples, one cup molasses, one and a quarter cups butter, one egg, one teaspoon lul of soda, one teaspoonful ground cinnamon, a little grated nutmeg. Bake as soon as mixed; servehot with sauce made of one cup sugar and half cup butter beaten smooth and flavored with grated nutmeg. Lemon Pie.

Two lemons sliced thin and seeds taken out, two cups of cold water, two cups sugar, two tablespoonfuls flour wet and stirred until smooth, yelks of six eggs; bake. Frosting Whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth and a cup and a half of sugar when th pie is nearly or quite done, put the frosting on and return to the oven until it is lightly brown. This makes four good-sized pies. Only one crust is used. Wedding Cake.

One and one-half pounds flour, one and one-half pounds butter, one and one-half pounds sugar, eighteen eggs, one-half ounce of cloves, one-half ounce nutmeg, one-half ounce mace, one gill wine, one gill brand-one gill molasses three pounds currants, four and one-half pounds raisins, one and one-half ponr.ds citron, one teaspoonful soda. Bake three hours. This makes three loaves. Use pastry flour. Stewed Beef with "Vegetables.

Wash and cut the beef into moderatesized pieces put into a porcelain kettle and simmer for three hours, adding salt; after it has been well skimmed, one hour and a half before dinner, put in your vegetables, potatoes, parsnips, onions or any kind let them cook quietly until time to dish up dissolve one table spoonful of flour in cold water; add to the juice in kettle for a rich gravy. Cold roast beef is delicious cooked over in. this way. Boston Baked Beans. Pick over on quart of beans, and let soak over night.

In the morning put on to boil in cold, water with half a teaspoonful of soda boil thirty minutes drain and put in an earthen pot with two table-spoonfuls of molasses. When half the beans are in the pot, put in a half or three-fourths of a pound of pickled pork washed and cut in slices; cover all with water and bate six hours in a moderate oven; they cannot be baked too long. Keep covered so they will not burn on the top. Servo ill the dishes in which they are cooked, Householders, try this, and see if they are not nice. Old beans require a longer time to cook, and may have to be filled with hot wrater two or three times.

A trial will settle the bean Question. More than half of the eighty-six suicides in St. Louis the past year were Germans. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK.

Beeves $8 00 (316 00 Hogs 7 25 13 Cotton 121((4 Floub Superfine. 8 85 Wheat No. 2 Spring 1 29 No. 2 Red 1 4 Coen Ungraded Oats Mixed Western BoRK-rMess 20 00 Lard CHICAGO. Beeves Choice Graded Steers 7 90 3 8 90 Cows and Heifers.

3 25 Medium to Fair. 6 91 Hogs 6 00 (4 8 55 Flo i 11 Fancy White Winter Ex. Good to Choice Spring Wheat No. 2 Si ring No. 3 Spring I 06 Corn No.

2 Oatr No. 2 Rye No. 2 Barley No. 2. Better Choice Creamery Eggs Fresh 3 Pork Mess 20 60 Lard MILWAUKEE.

Wheat No. 2 iris No. Oats No. 2 9 Rye No. 2..

A LE O. 2 Pork .20 50 Lard ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 Red 1 28 Corn Mixed 72 (4 74 Oats No.

2 49 50 Rye 74 75 Pork Mess ...21 00 i21 25 Lard U4 CINCINNAYL 1 30 3 1 32 W. 73 4 75 Oats VI 60 51 Ryk 72 0 73 Pork Mess V.V.7-V.7 21 00 21 50 Ul4 11J TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 1 34 4 1 85 Co eh -73 74 66 DETROIT. Flour Choice 3 4 9 00 Wheat Not 1 White 30'a 1 si Corn Mixed I 74 Oats 61 (4 51 Barley (per cental) 20 Pork Mess (521 50 INDIANAPOLIS.

Wheat No. 2 Bed. 1 81 (A Corn No. 72 (A 63 4 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle 8 00 (4 8 50 Fair 7 00 (4 7 60 Common 5 00 6 60 Hogs 7 TO 8 60 Sheep 3 00 5 25 J.

UEQ, Publisher. LAKE GENEVA, WISCONSIN. THE NEWS. FOREIGN. It la said that $50,000,000 in spurious bank notes have been put in circulation in Peru.

The Turkish Commissioner and suite were enthusiastically received by the native troops of Alexandria. Two Pashas at Cairo have declared that the Khedive shall die rather than that Arabi Pasha shall be driven away by Europeans or Turks. The family of Gen. Garibaldi decided to abandon the cremation of the body, owing to the practical difficulties in the way of its accomplishment. The remains were interred at Caprera.

The work of embalming the body was attempted too late. -The race for the Gold Cup at Ascot, one of the most important English turf events was won by the American colt Foxhall, the property of Mr. J. R. Keeno.

How joyful it is, were the last words Garibaldi as the setting sun cast its radiance into his bedroom, where death stood waiting. Michael Davitt, in a speech at Cork, said his object in going to the United States was to appeal for aid for Anna Parnell and the Ladies Land League. Another agrarian murder is reported from Ireland. Walter M. Bourke, a Galway landlord, and a Britieh dragoon, who was acting as his escort, were fired upon and killed by parties concealed behind a wall at the side of the road alon which they were traveling.

The Irish Bishops have issued an address offering support to the people peaceful agi tation, and appealing to them to oppose secret societies as hostile to religion and freedom. Evictions are pronounced permanently provocative of crime. A bill has been introduced in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies for the immediate abolition of slavery in Cuba, with civil rights for the emancipated. There were serious riots between the natives and Europeans at Alexandria, Egypt. Quite a number of persons were killed and wounded, and a number of houses destroyed.

The police at first remained inactive. Riotous demonstrations later took place before the French Consulate, to which several of those mortally wounded at the outbreak of the riots were conveyed. The disturbances continued some time before the authorities took steps to suppress them. The English Consul was severely hurt, receiving a gunshot wound. The engineer of the English man-of-war Superb was killed.

Tho Greek Consul and Italian Vice-Consul were severely wounded. The disturbances continued five hours, when the military appeared and dispersed the rioters. Two hundred and sixtj-three suspects are still immured in Irish prisons. A number of houses and bridges were destroyed and several persons drowned by a flood at Vescez, Hungary. The object of the Alexandria riots of Sunday appears to have been simply for plunder.

The number of Europeans killed is placed at Bixty-seven. PERSON AD Milop Jewett, first President of Vassar College, died at Milwaukee in his 75th year. Mrf. Lucretia Garfield has been elected a of the Board of Trustees-of Hiram College, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of President Garfield. Hon.

W. A. Wheeler declined to serve on the Tariff Commission on account of ill health. President Hinsdale, of Hiram College, has assumed the duties of Superintendent of Public Schools at Cleveland. A.

R. Cazauran, of New York, the famous playwright, is a hopeless maniac. FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL. All the iron manufacturers west of the Allegheny mountains, representing a capital of $35,000,000, gathered at Pittsburgh and resolved to stand firm against an advance in wages. The Superior rail mill, at Allegheny City, started up with a force of green hands, who ruined four tons of good material.

The Pennsylvania Company reports a profit of $1,715,614 from the Fort Wayne road for 1881. It is impossible to obtain accurate information as to the number of men thrown out of employment by the strike of the iron workers, but the following figures are approximately correct Pittsburgh, Pa 20,000 Youngstown, Ohio heeling. W. Va 5,000 Milwaukee, Wis 2,000 Cincinnati, Ohio 1,500 IrondaJe, 111 1,100 Springfield, 111 D00 St. LouiS, Mo 8H) Louisville, Ky 250 Erie, Pa 200 Cleveland, Ohio 2K1 Wellsville, Ohio 50 Total 47,050 To this number should be added not less than 10.000 coal miners and railway laborers, the need of whose services ceased with tho closing of the iron mills.

This makes a grand total of 60.000 men idle. All the crop reports have taken on a hopeful aspect since the advent of bright sunshine and real summer weather. Even as far south as the bordey of Missouri and Arkansas the prospect for wheat is flattering, the quality and quantity being the best for twelve years. From all points in Illinois the advices are far more favorable than those of a week ago, great activity in corn-planting being everywhere reported. Iron-workers in Pennsylvania are organizing fishing clubs, to camp out for the summer.

-The mill's are undergoing repairs, and have sent their horses to pasture. Jarrett, President of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, was at Cincinnati last week, where be heard the statements of the strikers, and decided that they were bound to continue at work under their contract of last October. The Haimony mills, at Cohoes, N. have been closed for seven weeks, and will not resume business until September. Cotton for summer delivery has been ordered sold on arrival at New York.

Failures for the week reported to New York, 106, against 135 last week. The Eastern States had 12, Middle 19, Western 35, Southern 22, Pacific States and Territories 9, and New York city 9. GEN FRAUD. In response to a resolution recently introduced in the Senate by Mr. Plumb, Public Printer Rounds has addressed to Acting LATEST NEWS.

A dispatch from Las Vegas, N. says that four rustlers, who bound and gagged Mason, a store-keeper, near Mesilla recently, robbing his store of all they couid carry, were overtaken by a Mexican posse and strangled. All were Americans, but their names are unknown. They belonged to a gang of Arizona cowboys aud richly deserved their fate. Four railroad excavators were killed near Portland, by the premature explosion of a blast.

Mr. and Mrs. James Pendergast, au aged couple, were cremated at Munson, by lie burning of their sons house, in which they were residing. A woolen-mill, tannery and fifteen stores and dwellings were burned at Newton, N. J.

Loss, $75,000. A terrible fire occurred at Montreal Property valued at about as destroyed. The blaze originated Victoria Square, and for a long time was unsubdued, there being but three fire engines the city. Texarkana was severely scorched by a great fire. It is estimated that the damage will foot up $175,000 insurance about $95,000.

Henry B. Anthony has been re-elected to the United States Senate from Rhodo Island for another six years term. The Maine Republican State Convention was presided over by Senator Hale, and nominated for Governor Col. Frederick Robie. The resolutions indorse the policy of the national party deplore the untimely death of Garfield express confidence in the administration of President Arthur; support the policy of piohibition in intoxicating liquors oppose a reduction of the internal-revenue tax on intoxicants protest against the efforts of free traders to grant American registry to foreign-built ships favor pensions and bounties foi Union soldiers and Bailors of the late war denounce the greenback theory, and deprecate the movements made to overthrow the present national-hanking system.

Seventeen indictments have been returned at Cleveland by the United States Grand Jury against participants in land frauds in Missouri; five prominent persons were arrested. James G. Blaine has been elected a director of tho Cincinnati and Qliie River Railroad Company. Ex-Assistant Postmaster General Tvner while out riding at Washington, was thrown from his buggy and knocked senseless. His face was badly bruised.

The House Committee on Foreign Affairs at Washington again examined James G. Blaine in regard to the Credit Industriel, eliciting nothing of general interest. TARIFF REVISION. The Commission Selected, by the President. The Tariff Commission nominated by the President comprises William A.

Wheeler, of New York, Chairman John L. Hayes, of Massachusetts Henry W. Oliver, of Pennsylvania Austin M. Garland, of Illinois Jacob Ambler, of Ohio John S. Phelps, of Missouri Robert P.

Porter, of the District of Columbia John W. H. Underwood, of Georgia Duncaft F. Kenner, of Louisiana. Nearly aU the members of the commission are known to be favorable to protection.

A Washington correspondent thus outlines the views ol the members of the commission Mr. Wru. A. Wheeler, of New York, tho Chairman, is a strong advocate of the American system, but is believed not to be opposed to a' general revision of the tariff. Mr.

John L. Hiyes, of Massachusetts, represents the manufacturers of wool, and is a strong protectionist. He is a man of very extended information on the wool and general tariff question, and he cannot fail tone of service on the commission. Ho assisted in drafting the existing tariff on wool, and has probably stated the 6ide of the wool manufacturers to every Committee on Ways and Means for a quarter of a century. i has been, and probaoiy now is, Secretary of theNaingal Wool-Growers Association, which unanimously recommended him for the place.

Mr. Austin M. Garland, of Illinois, who was once President of tho National Association of Wool-Growers, is appointed especially as representing the wool-growers. It is believed that Haves and irl.md, representing respectively the manufacturers and growers of wool, are agreed that some revision of the tariff is desirable. Henry W.

Oliver is identified with the iron and steel interests of Pennsylvania, which he represents on the commicsion. Jacob Ambler, of Ohio, is a native of Pennsylvania, ai.d is a protectionist. He rerved iD the Forty-fii st and Forty-second Congresses as a Republican. John S. Phelps, of Missouri, a Dcm 'crat, is a native of Connecticut.

He served eighteen rears Cougiess. He is not a protectionist. Robert P. letter, appointed as from the District of Columbia, is a native of England, and for a long time a resident of Illinois, where he first attracted attention as a writer on statistical and economic questions. He was called by Gen.

Francis A. Walker to take charge of a portion ot the census work, and acquitted himself with distinction. He is now editor of the International RtTiew. Judge W. H.

Underwood, of Georgia, represented that 8t.e in the United States Senate, but left his seat in 1861 to join the Confederacy. He agrees with Senator Brown, of Georgia, and ex-Representative Felton, in advocating moderate protection for Georgia inter sts. Duncan F. Kenner, of Louisiana, is a wealthy sugar-planter, and is expected to represent the sugar interests. He is a Democrat, but is a protectionist as to sugar.

He achieved some prominence as a witness before the Potter Committee and in connection with the Electoral Commission. Auerbach The main token of a Btrong character ia not to make known every change in thought and feeling, but to give to the world the finished THE STRING GRAIN. June Report of the A ational Department of Agriculture. The June crop report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington represents an entire area of 1,561 of the principal counties ot the United States, and includes all but a small fraction of the breadth of prominent crops. The area in cotton is 27.1 per cent, less than in 1881.

A large number of returns say that with (he recent fine weather cotton is improving and fives some assurance of a better report for uly. The largest deficiency is in States bordering on the Mississippi river, where planting in overflowed districts was not enlirelv finished the 1st of June. The area sown in spring wheat has decreased apparently about 12 per cent. The comparative average of the Northwest is as follows Wisconsin, 85 Minnesota, 83 Iowa, 82; Nebiaska, 90; Dakota, 102. The condition of winter wheat is Bull very high, averaging 100.

Last year in Juue it as 76. Taking tho winter and spring areas together, and assuming a continuance of tho present conditions, a yield exceeding thirteen bushels per acre would result in an aggregate exceeded nlv by the product of 1880. The Southern harvest is safe. Northern winter wheat has few risks to encounter, but spring is still an uncertain quantity. The corn acreage cannot be given until Julv.

A large increase in area is reported in the South and in the Northwest, but in half tho States planting was not finished on the 1st of June, and in large districts the plant had made no show above ground. In parts of the South early-planted is in tassels. Planting is everywhere late, the plant is small, and not of average rigor or color in consequence of cold and wet weather. The increase in the area of oats is nearly universal, and amounts to an average of 7 per cent. The average of condition is 101.

The harvest promises to be very large. There is an increase of 1 per cent in the area of barley. Average condition, 90. The condition of clover and spring pasture has improved, and ranges very high in the South and fair to good other sections. THE GREAT STRIKES.

Pittsburgh, June 14. It is two weeks since the ironworkers struck, and they are as determined and enthusiastic as at the beginning. The manufacturers, on the oontrary, show signs of uneasiness, which is interpreted to mean that they are weakening. The starting up of the mills at Cincinnati and other points is against them, as it draws trade from the citv which may never return. This is part of the plan of the strikers, who think it will force the Pittsburgh manufacturers to resume sooner than they would under other circum stances.

The coal strike continues. Strikers at Robbins works are to be evicted to make room for colored miners. There may be trouble before this is accomplished. Cleveland, Ohio, June 14. Nearly 1,300 men went to work in the various mills of the Cleveland Rolling-Mill Company at Newburv yesterday.

This is a greater number of men than has been at work at any time since the attempt to start the mills a week ago, and the strike may be considered as virtually at an end. There was a serious disturbance at Cleveland between the union and non-union workmen. Over 1,200 of the latter quit work in the evening at the Cleveland rolling mill, and were escorted by policemen through Wire street, which waft lined on both sides with sinkers and their wives and children. At the elevators there com menced a shower of stones aud cinders, which was kept up for three blocks. Police Captain Ilocher being seriously huit.

When the workers had been placed the street-cars, the police arrested several ringleaders in the assault. Business has been resumed in the Wabash Rolling Mill at Terre Haute, prices to be governed by the Pittsburgh scale. The mysteries that have surrounded the vrardrobes of women are gradually being solved, and articles of apparel which have hitherto been supposed to be mere vanity are having their objects and purposes disclosed. The other day the life of a Chicago woman was saved by a pair of iron clamping pins, the bullet which was intended for her brain striking them and glancing off; and now a Cleveland womans corset is reported to have acted as an impenetrable armor toetop two bullets that were fired at her harfc. The only protection men can have of this sort is a Testament carried in the left -breast pocket.

The old man sighed as he took the golden-haired, laughing boy upon his knees, and, stroking his shining tresses, said: Ah I how much I should like to (eel like a child again. Little Johnny ceased his laughter, and, looking soberly up into his grandfathers face, remarked: Then why dont you get mamma to spank you i I FIRES AND CASUALTIES The St. Paul elevator at Sioux City, containing 23,000 bushels of grain, was burned. At a fire in Frederick street, Baltimore, a falling roof crushed down nine firemen, all of whom were more or less bruised. The California silk factory at San Francisco1, valued at $75,000, was burned.

A fire at Rockville, caused a damage of $100,000 to the envelope works of White, Corbin Co. Thirteen of the principal business houses of Le Mars, Iowa, were burned, the loss being estimated at $75,000. The postoffice at Osborn, took fire, and the flames spread until loss of $40,000 was inflicted upon the town. Reports from Patrick county, are to the effect that there are 5,000 persons in that county starving, on account of the drought of last summer. Denver, CoL, was visited by one of the heaviest rain-storms ever experienced in that region.

Thousands of dollars worth of property was swept away, and five or six persons drowned. The premature explosion of a blast at the Union Consolidated Mine, Virginia City, instantly killed John Black and James F. Brown. John Beargo was fatally injured, and R. Hicks seriously.

A circular saw in a St. Louis mill burst, and one of the pieces cut off one side of a workmans skull, split open one arm from shoulder to elbow, and finished its operations by cutting his shoulder bone in two. CRIMES AND CRIMINALS. A duel was fought near New Orleans between Maj. E.

A. Burke, State Treasurer and editor of the Times-Democrat, and C. H. Parker, editor of tho Picayune. At the fifth shot Burke was pierced through the thigh, and hostilities ceased.

The distance was twenty paces. Six masked men rode into Brookfield, in broad daylight, and dismounted close to one of the banks. While two of the party held the horses, four quickly entered the bank, confronted the cashier, John Ford, and secured $6,000. As soon as possible the party remounted and fled across the country. Squads of citizens from five villages were soon hot pursuit.

D. W. Vanderhoof, who stole $100,000 while bookkeeper of the First National Bank of St. Paul, pleaded guilty on an indictment, and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary at Stillwater. He lost $30,000 in one wheat deal.

The postoffice at Columbus, was entered, the safe blown open, and $2,000 in money and valuables purloined. The Brookfield bank-robbers were but-rounded in the woods northwest of Kirksville, and surrendered. Their names are Frank and Burt Ward, Winfield Alien and Ben Fox. They had recently rented the farm on which they were arrested, and their house contained sixty revolvers. Gov.

Crittenden sent a complimentary telegram to Miss Carrie Scott, the brave lady employed the bank. James McSteen, a laborer, residing in a Pittsburgh suburb, in a fit of jealousy crushed his wifes skull with an ax, killing her instantly. Quirino Gaitan, a Mexican, was hanged at dear pdavmates. I wish you a happier and better time than I welcome. had.

Good-by. You are all Two or three of the slips containing por- tions of the above were written in German characters, the remainder in English. CONGRESSIONAL. Bills were passed by the Senate, at its session on the 7th to erect public buildings at Ciarksburg, W. Ya.

Camden, N. and Lynchburg, involving $215,000. In regard to the bill to give the administratrix ct John C. Uhderwood $5,000 for contesting his claim to seat, the statement was made that deceased was a Judge in the Federal Court, and constantly in receipt of a salary. The District of Columbia bill, which appropriates $2,367,767, occupied the remainder of the session.

The House went into committee of the whole on the General Deficiency Appropriation bill. Mr. Sparks made a fruitless attempt to strike out theciause Betting aside $900,000 fpr army transportation ior two yoars. Mr. Holman failed in an effort to cut out for army transportation to land-grant roads.

Mr. Blount, in moving to strike out an appropriation of $150, 000 for the Bureau of Construction and Repair of the Navy, called out Mr. Robeson, who boasted that every ship bearing the American flag had been built by him, and that they are the best of their kind. Mr. Sparks apologized to Mr.

Cox for having, in debate, called him a little scamp. The District of Columbia Appropriation Dill was passed by the Senate, on the 8th after refusing to remit $40,000 unpaid taxes on the property of the late Superintendent Patterson, of the Coast Survey. Mr. Hawley reported a joint resolution, which was adopted, appropriating $10,000 to furnish food to destitute people in the overflowed portion of Mississippi. The House passed a bill increasing to $40 per month the pension of any soldier who lost a leg, hand or foot in the late war.

The General Deficiency Appropriation bill was taken up and passed, motions being defeated to strike out the clauses of $125,000 for land-grant railroads, of $362,000 for the Naval Bureau of Construction, aDd of $112,603 for Special Deputy Marshals. A joint resolution was passed to lead 1,000 army tents to shelter Russian refugees at Ymo land, N. J. Bills were reported to create the Oregon Short-Lino Railroad Company and the National Railroad Company. Mr.

Calkins reported in favor of limiting to $2,000 the expense of conresting seats. The Dcfiaocrais of the Senate held a caucus to consider the nominations on the Tariff Commission. Considerable opposition to the make-up was developed. Senator Yest received a dippatch from ex-Gov. Phelps, of Missouri, declining the appointment.

A Joint resolution to refund lnternal-re venne taxes illegally collected from the Detroit nouse of Correction wu passed by the Senate on the 9th inst. Mr. Yan Wyck offered a resolution, which was laid over, that the nominations to the Tariff Commission be considered in open session. A bill was passed authorizing the Postmaster General extend mail routes, at pro-rata additional "pay, for any distance not exceeding twenty-five miles. The Japanese Indemnity bill was discussed and flung aside.

The House spent the day in committee of the whole on the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation bilL A proposition by Mr. Burrows to equalize the salaries of Senate and Housa employes was agreed to. Mr. White objected to the item of $2,300,000 for salaries the Internal Revenue Bureau, and it was passed until the bill is completed by the committee. Nearly half the items were considered, when a recess was taken.

At the evening session twenty-live peusion bills were passed. The entire session of the House, on Saturday, the 10th was devoted to the consideration of the Legislative Appropriation bilL There was no session of the Senate. A.