The Lake Geneva Herald from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin • 2

SOME LARGE FAMILIES. The Herald. had ten children. J. Loshoskey has his modest home adorned with fourteen olive branches.

Ten of them are girls, with four pairs or twins and one set ol triplets in the family, the eldest of tie lot being twelve ears- I TWINS, TRIPLETS, QUADRUPLETS AND SEXTL PLETS. IIEG NETHERCUT, Proprietors. xJlSE GENEVA Wisconsin. TOE 'WORLD OVER. oo- A MIRROR Ol Till IMPORTANT CUREENCES OrA V.XEK.

that up to the present time the Dominion Government has given 35,000,000 acres to railway companies, which together with the 5,000,000 now proposed fa be voted makes a total of 40,000,000 acres. The drea of agricultural lands in the fertile belt of Manitoba and the Northwest was 135,000,000. By deducting th lands in Manitoba and the reserve of 40,000,000 acres for settlement, corresponding with the area granted to railways, it ian be seen that the Dominion has divested itself of all- the good agricultural land, in the Northwest. The Smithsonian Institution has re- 3 crived a gift of great antiquity from the Chinese Minister. It is a Jade ring, about ten inches ini diameter, and.

one-eighth of sn inch in thickness, with a hollow center four Inches in diameter. It is of a pale hue. The ring is known as the Han Pek jewel, of the dynasty of Han, an old-time monarch of 3,500 years ago. Couri; officials of that day when given an audience with the Emperor held the ring with poth hands and tnrust their fingers into tlhe opening in order to guard against moving their jihouts. He was nlro treasurer of the Unitarian Church and at the time he went away had in his possession the funds belonging to the Episcopal Church.

The money of the Cape Cod Canal Company is all gone, and Fessenden has left behind him a large number of unpaid bills and notes which are not provided for. His family has also disappeared mysteriously, and no one knows where they are. Hew Yorks centennial celebration closed on the 1st with a mammoth civic and industrial parade. From a stand in Madison Square President Harrison reviewed the procession, whieh it is estimated numbered 90,000. At shaft No.

16 of the new aqueduct, at Hudson-on-the-Hudson, N. fiounds of nitfo-glycerine exploded. A oss of $20,000 was caused, but no lives were lo6t. H.VV. Oliver of Pittsburgh, has been elected President of the Pittsburg Western Railroad, The American Peace Society helcLits annual meeting at Boston, Mass.

The Hon. Edward S. Tobey was -re-elected President. ft .1. ft Thlngs That Do Happen A Complete Record of Interesting Ewnti the "Werlt Over Shocking A.Peitfe&Uf Crimes, Other Topics.

Battle Creek Has Tw ins and Triplets Battle Qresk, Mich. There are many families in this city and vic.nity with seven, eight. or nine children. Thd largest family yet discovered is that of Mr. and Mrs.

Patrick Sparrow, who are the parents of seventeen children, nine of whom are attending schooL Mr. and Mrs. Joe N. Sanford have twelve children. James Mulvauey has a family of eleven children.

The youngest one i-i about eleven years of age and weighs 213 pounds. Anotnet good-sized family is that of Isaac N. Johnson, which consists or eleven children. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Morse are the parents of eleven child -en, all but one of whom are living. In the last school census Jeremiah Conway is credited with ten children of school age. Hugh Gibson with nine, Sneau ten. and W. S.

Nelson nine. Twins are quite numerous. Mrs. Michael Marion recently gave birtn to triplets. The most remarkable case of that sort here was that of Mis.

Alonzo Gray, who first gave birth to one child, then to twins, and finally to triplets, all boys. The triplets were named "TomDick and Harry. The latter lived for several months, but all three are now dad. Mrs. Alonzo G.

Tayne, living a few miles east, gave birth to male twins very recently. PALMER NAMED. A i Iowa's Champion Leads with Twenty-eight Children, and Another Hawkey Claims Two Dozen Michigan's Great Record Wisconsin to the Front From the Chicago Herald. Dubuque. Iowa.

May. 1889. Some Interesting developments in connection with large families have been made in this vicinity. Melchor Mueller, who resides near Bellevue, in the neighboring county of Jackson, bears the distinction of being the father 5f one of the largest families on record. Twenty-eight children have been bora to him.

e'ghteen of whom are dead and ten living. In this number there were three pairs of twins. Mueller was, born at Tranheim, Germany, in December, 1834. and is a robust, healthy man. He has been twice married.

His first wife was Agatha Doser, a native of Germany who bore him six children, three of whom are living. His second wife was Kunigunde Hummel, also a native of Germany, who is now living, aged 46. She has borne twenty-two children, seven of whom are living. Mueller Is a poor but industrious man. deeply attached, to his family, thoroughly domestic in his tastes, and, if his life is spared, thinks he w.U yet see several other flaxen-haired, rosy-cheeked children bear his name.

The neighborhood in which Mueller resides is largely populated by Luxemburger, and among them are many, large lamilies. The jivefage fainily is twelve. Indeed, a family of less than this number is considered small In that neighborhood. A family of twenty-five, children the first degree, and fixing the punishment at death. Hawes occasioned the riot of last December, in which twelve citizens were killed.

There, are two other indictments pending against him, one charging him with the murder of his wife and, the other with thtof his other daughter, Irene, Dec. 1, 1888. Hawes lawyers have appealed the case to the Supreme Court and asked for a change of venae on the ground that the of Birmingham are prejudiced against the defendant, Joseph -Heesfelder, a well-known clothing drummer, Jet Memphis, committed suicide "with morphine in a hotel in that city. Thc State Institute for Feeble-minded at Frankfort, was burned, but the inmates were all rescued without accident, The insurance foots up $25,000. 'A tragedy occurred near Covington, Tipton County, which resnltetP in the killing 'of IV.

T. Douglass, Mayor of that cHy. It seems a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Henry Donaldson, a-negro who1 wa3 charged with assault. Mayor Doualass was one of a pose of ten men -vf ho went to the negros house to effect 'his arrest. They found his cabin 1 closed and ealled.

upon him to oreri the door. answer gave warning that unless the door opened they woulcTbreak it down, at the same time informing him that they had a warrant for his arrest. Just at Ihis period a gun was thrust through the door and discharged by the negro on the inside. The contents struck Douglass, who was in front, killing him instantly It being dark and the posse fearing another discharge they immediately retreated, and Donaldsod succeeded in making his escape. E.

J. Slaughter, of Glen Elk, W.JVa., has been arrested, charged with fraudulently representing himself as a pension examiner. I The Illinoisan Receives His Commission I Public Printer. The President has made the following FraukW. Palmer of Illinois, to be Public Printer Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Huh S.

Thompson of South Carolina, to be Ciil Service Commissioners Arthur I Thomas of Salt Lake City, Utah, to be Governor of Utah hands while addressing the throne, the WESTERN HAPPENINGS. A Elijah Sells of Salt Lake City, Utah, to be retary of Utah; Ellsworth Daggett, of Utah, to WISCONSIN TO THE FRONT. emphasizing of thejr remarks by flourishes of the hands presumably being con-trirv to offic al etiquette. Tee ring was used as an emblem ox submission or respect for the sovereign. It was recently unearthed from sepulcher, having been buried with its owner.

Jl Matanzas, Cuba, specialj says: Iri grinding the sprieg canes sugar planters Earn 1pm Children at One 'Birth Near Claire $ome Big Babies. 1 Eau Clare. MTis. About two years ago Airs. Gr indale, of he Surveyor Geneial of Utah Perry J.

Anson of Idaho, to Registrar of the Laud Office at Bla'-kfoot, Idaho; William H. Danielson of Idaho, to be Receiver ef Public Moneys at Blackfoot, Idaho Michael A. Leahy of Wisconsin, to be Agent for the Indians! the La Pointe Agency, In Wisconsin Joseph F. Bennett, of New Mexico, to be Agent of the Indians of the Mescalero Agency, in New Mexico; James 'N. Beacon, of Kansas, to be Referee and Chairman of the Referees to be appointed under the act of March 2, 1887, An act to grant the right of way through the Indian Terrilory to the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway, for the purpose of appraising the compensation to be made by said railway company ttr-the Cherokee Nation.

find that the deficit in their yield is greater Chetek. a small town north of this city, gave tlinn wi.firrt anticipate lent gears I Jk I birtb to tour bop. at once, two Sen, was weighing six pounds each and two of them IT RAINED FROGS. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The following is a recapitulation of the public debt statement for April: interest-bearing debt.

Bondi at 4 per 148,542,203 Bonds at 4 per cent. I 675,342,100 Refunding certificates at 4 per 120,790 Navy pension fund at 3 per 14,000,000 Pacino Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 In the city of Dubuque there are many large families. John Benkson, a painter, heads the list. He has been married but once, and is the father of eighteen Children.

His wife is a native of Iowa. 59 years of age. Their residence is 1090 White street. John Jennie, laborer, comes next with a family of sixteen children. His wife is 43 years of age.

said the couple declare they would not willingly part with one of their offspring. John Krayer, a well-to-do grocer in this city, has fifteen children by his present wife, who is now 43 years of age and a woman of rebust health, George Neumiller has a family of fourteen, and Jake Dodge, a peddler, one of the same number. Joseph Goode is thoroughly happy surrounded by the same number of children- Those having thirteen children are; Leo McDaniel, Benedict Bossier, P. Frank Maier, Fritz Beibitsch. McCullough and J.

C. Curtis. Those having twelve children are: J. M. Lenehan, E.

E. Jones, John Parker. Robert Miller. Adam-Doerr. A.

J. Patch, I. A. Mayor, M. Gantenbeim, Joseph Bower, Bidermeyer, Thomas Kenneally Anton laumhover; Henry Dippey, E.

Curtis and Max Matsch. It would occupy a column of space to publish -the Uamas of the men in I this city who are the fathers of eleven children each. With a great many that number seems to be high-waiter mark. It is related I here that in 1872 a woman named Schmidt, living at Rockdale, In this county, gave birth to six children, all within an hour. A i year or two ago a.

woman named Murphy, residing in this city, gave birth to four children. all of whom were healthy and strong. Mysterious Precipitation of Hoppers in the Streets of a Dakota City. 1 The other night a peculiar circumstance was noticed by a number of people at Jamestown, Dakota. A small black cloud hanging rather low was observed to move rather queer ly, when- suddenly the cloud was lost sight of and a precipitation of frogs was There were several lyuj-dreds of them, and they could be seen hopping up in the street a block away.

It is claimed that funnel-shaped cloud; indicating a cyclone, was seen in the west shortly before, and the theory of some is that the frogs were caught up from some- slough in this whirlwind and carried in the air nntil it spent itself, which happened to he the center of Jamestown. grinding will not commence middle of January, and, on account of the great drought now prevailing, jwhich prevents new sowing, tie prospects for the, crop of 1889 arp very poor. and other principal ports the I stocks are strongly held by merchants who have decided to wait until September "before sell-, ing, in the hope of "further lad vance in price. I The Hon. John the Hon.

John C. New, Consul General at London; the Hon. W. W. Thomas, Envoy Extraordinary and Mini ter Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway, and Lincoln Valentine, Consul to the Honduras, lhave sailed for Europe on the steazfier City of New York.

1 1 i A Winnipeg, special of the) 6th inst. says: The biggest fire In the his tory of this city is now raging jand threatens to destroy a lare portion of the busi ness houses. Already or tablishments, including twot the Jewish synagogue, have stroyed. The indications are that aibfg raf deal is on the lapis. The Northern Pacific and Manitoba on one hand, and the Manitoba and Northwesern op the other, are negotiating, and have been for some time past, with a viexSr ofeither consolidating into one system or at least arranging a running and traffic agreement by which trains t)f either road can pass over both lines.

Railway men at Ottawa, say that the consolidation is sure to be brought about, R. G. Dun Co.s review of trade for last week is as follows: five pounds each. The pair had been married about two years, and had previously, been blessed with no children, -nor have they had any since. The boys were all per- feetly formed and lively, bright babies, but two of them died Within a week, the other two living respectively six and five months.1' Had not the family been in destitue circum-L stances at the time, and had not the infants-thereby suffered from the lack bf immediate attention and of subsequent care, they; would doubtless have livpd.

The parents' had but just arrived in this country, and had settled in a remote spot, where aid did not reach them at once. -Mrs. John Neher. of this city, who is enjoying excellent health at the good old age-, of eighty-four, has had sixteen children1 nine boys and seven- girls all of whom are living and arc well-to-do residents of vari-i ous Northwestern States. The youngest or the 'family, a boy, was born when Neher was fifty-one years of age.

The young mau. who is a substantial9 citizen ot Eau Claire in being uncle to sixty-! nine children and the father of six. Neher. the father of this remarkable fanlly of sixteen, is dead. Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Ihle' have four boys and eight girls, the oldest twenty-six, and Mrs. Ihle is but forty-three years. of age. Louis Enguard, aged forty gave birth to triplets and has! had seven children in all: Mrs.

William Bell, has presented her husband with eleven, children, wffo range in age from one to nine-; teen years, four being girls and seven boys. Mrs. J. Hotchkiss has nadten.the youngest! a year old and the eldest nineteen. lies with nine children are frequently and ten children of one brother is not Angus McVicar has been presented by his wifeVith fourteen, the detest of whom is twenty-two.

Mrs. Joseph Whe- lihan has sixteen, ranging from four to, twenty Mrs. William Carden re-, cently gave birth to a- boy weighing seventeen pounds, and Mrs. A. Gilbert to twins weighing seven pounds each.

.4.. PrincipaL. Interest. T' 903,628,603 6,547,318 Total 910.175,920 AROUND THE DIAMOND. A terrible and fiendish outrage was committed at Crookston, on the person of an inoffending citizen named Jake Zenholt.

He was taken from his room at the hotel, was bound, gagged and unmercifully beaten. Then he was taken to the outskirts gt the town and taried and feathered, a rope was placed around his neck, and he was dragged a mile and left for dead. Finally he recovered and informed the police. He will die. His assailants are Billy Welsh, Toby Valars, Nick Funk, and Charles Bloodhorn.

They have been arrested and Elmer L. who killed his mother, Caroline Starkey, at Eaton, Ohio, on Jau. 11, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. The defense was insanity. Mrs.

Josephine Kissell shot herself at, her home in Honghville, Ind. had been married but a year, but quarrels with her husband had been frequent. On making the discovery that Captain Murrell of the steamship Missouri was a Mason, the Grand Lodge of Masons of Maryland presented him with a gold medal for his action regarding the Danmark. Harry W. Bishop, better known as Bfarry Robinson, The Man with the Silver committed suicide at Bloomington, 111., by taking six grains of morphine.

He left several letters, in one of which he said he had deliberately committed suicide because he was homeless and; penniless and feared he would soon be rendered helpless from with which he was afflicted. His father lites in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was fifty-five years old. It is believed that his suicide was precipitated by the fact that his wife obtained a divorce from him last week.

She was formerly Miss Ella K6rr, of Lexington, 111. John Reese, a farmer living- near Oneida, 111., blew his head 'off with a shot-gun. Recent reports from Cheyenne, confirm the rumors that the Sioux Indians, in council, decided to accept the terms of the treaty. Several Indians have already taken lands on the reservation opposite Fierre, D. under the severalty act, and it looks as if the treaty would be as soop, as the Commissioners arrived there.

'-0 The St. Vincent Orphan Asylum, three miles ea' of Vincennes, has been destroyed by. fire, entailing a loss of $50,000. St. Vincents was a Catholic institution, and under the direction of the Catholic Church of the Vincennes diocese.

About one hundred and fifty orphans were educated there. The fire caught from a defective fine. All the children escaped. Sister Bridget was severely burned, and had a remarkabla escape from death. The institution will be rebuilt at once.

i Ed Coyle, the proprietor of numerous DEBT BEiBtNO NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes 346,737,823 Certificates of deposit 14,580,000 Gold certificates 136,614,789 Silver certificates. 254,939,203 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed) 6,916,319 se-Balllsts Competing: for the League Cham- i pionship. The official standing of the balKclubs that are in the race for the championship of the associations named is given belowi 759,788,754 Principal. TOTAL DEBT.

6,702,494 Total Less cash Items available for reduction of the $414 769,023 Less reserve held for redemption of United Elates notes 100,000, I 514,769,023 Has Twenty-three Still Living. Bellevue, Iowa, About three Sniles north ot the neighborly township of Dows, this State, on the Soweu road, there lives In a one-story louse one of the most remarkable families on record. It consists of a father and mother. Mr. and Mrs.

William Marks, with wenty-two girl3 and one boy. The oldest child is only 24 years of age; the youngest an infant child of eight months. There was an -even two dozen children in the Harks family until November last, when the diphtheria visited them and carried off one. The husband, and father of this immense family is a laboring man. possessed ot no means of maintenance except his simple earnjjigs, with which he supports his flock, and want has never yet entered their door.

He ii 43 yeara of age; his wife the perfect piemre of health comeliness is one year his junior. They have been married twenty-five years this month. Total debt less available cash items $1,157,282,578 Net cash in the Treasury. 55,677,150 Debt less cash in Treasury May 1, 1839 1,101,605,423 Debt less cash in Treasury April 1, 1889 $1,114, 683, 6G3 Decrease of debt during the 13,078,264 Decrease of debt since Jane 30, 1888. 63,979,228 CASH IN TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF 1 THE PUBLIC DEBT.

Gold held fear gold certificates act ually outstanding 136,614,789 Eilver held for silver certificates actually outstanding TJ. 8. notea held for certificates of deposit 14,580,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 8,634,250 Fractional currency. 786 The unprecedented interruption! of business by centennial preparations and celebrations has made the -week nearly a blank in commercial or financial respects. At New York accumulated orders gave a surface appearance of greater activity Thursday and.

Friday, but it Is not too soon to judge which way the tide will turn, I and the reports from other cities, though nearly all hopeful in tone, do not Indicate the expected improvement. The situation seems better at Milwaukee, satisfactory at Omaha, good at Cleveland as to most branches, bat questionable fts to iron rather dull at Kansas City and St. Paul, and 1B88 encouraging at the chief Renters of the grain, iron, -coal, and leather trades. Collections are far from satisfactory at Milwaukee and not improved at Detroit, but in other lines the situation seems fairly satisfactory. At New York some dry goods dealers complain that collections are too good" buyers keep bo far within means.

Reports about the wool trade are contradictory. A report that the Treasury may not decide the woolen worsted question for months disturbs importers, wno have quantities of goods locked up because collectors are waiting for a decision. Otherwise the woolen trade shows a littl better move, ment. Silks are quiet, but linenB fare quite active. A fair business in boots and shoes continues.

The paper trade is active. The lelow improvement continues in drugs and chemicals. Wheat tended downward, having Sold at 82540-Corn declined 54 and oats 1 cents. Pork is unchanged, with lard and hogs a shade higher. Coffee and sugar are nnchangedj but oil is an eighthr higher.

The business failures numbered 214 as against 213 for the previous: week. Liberal Interpretation -of the Pension Laws Assistant Secretary Bussey has rendered an important decision in the pension case of Mary E. McNeil, widow of Alexander McNeil, late private in Company 1 One Hundred and Nineteenth Illinois Volunteers. The case involves the important question of line of duty, and the former decision is reversed and the Commissioner of Pensions is directed to place the name of the widow on the pension rolls. In speaking of the decision Bussey said that he was of settled opinion that a soldier is in line of duty, within a Twenty-one Young Fredericks.

Sioux City. Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick are the proud parents of twenty-one children, two ot whom have died; nearly all of the nineteen are grown and some are married.

It used to be a standing joke in the neighborhood that Frederick bought hate and caps and 300 Is and shoes by the case, and that when io traveled with his family he procured carload rates of the railroads. Atlantics Showing. Atlantic, Iowa, Total available for reduction of the debt 414,769,023 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption cf U. S.

notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, afcd July 12, 100,000,003 Unavailable for reduction of the debt: 1 1 1 Fractional silver 24,975,567 Minor coin.J 223,936 Total the meaning of the pension laws, when he is not engaged in violating any order, army rule, or or violating any I gambling -dens, at Columbus, has instruction of his superior officer for the been arrested for murderously assaulting L. A. Lorenien and wife, of this place, lave had seventeen Children. A majority of them are not living.

W. Smith and wife have hAd two pairs of twins, and have had triplets once. All the children are living, and some of them are grown up and married. police regulation of the camp. Figures from DodgeviUe.

Dodgeville. Wls. Mr. and Mrs. James F.

Brown, of Linden. are the parents of eleven children, all of whom are now living in different parts of the country. Mrs. Bleakly, a daughter, is, in Chicago. Mr.

and Mrs. James Callom.l also of and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Peterson, ot the same town, have been blessed with families of twelve childrens Mr. and Mrs.

James Hutchinson, ofj Mineral Point, have had a like Mr. and Mrs. Henry Curry, of the town of1 Linden, anLMr. and Mrs. Joseph D.

of Dodgeville, have magnified the record by; one. and enjoy the enviable distinction ofj having become the parents of thirteen chil-i dren in their respective families. Mr. and Mrs. Erick Halverson, of Dodge-? ville; Mr.

and Mrs. William Lanyon of Min-s eral Point; and Mr. and Mrs. William; Thomas, of Mifflin, are the parents of four- teen children. Kearton Coates, a wealthy farmer and a former member of the of the town of Linden, is the father of fifteen children, ten girls and five' boys.

-i Mr. and Mrs. Henry Linley. of the town of Arena, have had seventeen children. John Crase, of the prolific town of Linden 1 -comes forward with a bright and interest-, ing column of twenty-one children, and Mrs.

William B. William, of Dodge- ville, preside over a family of twenty-twoj children, Mr. Williams being the father of; all of them, he having been twice Mr. Williams is a wealthy farmer: and lives near this village, and wields the domestic scepter over the largest and most interest-! ing family, perhaps, in this part of Wiscoi-' Mr. and Mrs.

Henry D. of, the town ol Dodgeville, early settlers, and who now enjoy a comfortable home and, competence, are the joyful parents of six-, teen children, of whom two are twins. and Mrs. Francis Pride aux, of this village, besides being the happy parents of three other children, enjoy the proud distinction') of being the parents of two pairs of Capt. B- -Jones, of Bidgoway, made a record of twelve whom were three pairs of twins.

This was considered! a very remarkable record until a family in, Mineral Point made a record that has not been excelled, or at least has not been made public, in this part of the State. Mr. and Mrs. William Jacka, of that place, were the proud parents of ten children, among them a pair of twin girls. The girls grew to' womanhood, and one of them married Wm.1 Paynter, of Mineral Point, and became the, proud mother of twenty-one children.

Tiro other one married John Huxtable. also of that city, and raised a family of nineteen children, among whom were two pairs of twins. 9 25,199,473 Certificates held as cash 24,345,263 Net cash balance on hand 55,67153 Total cash in the Treasury, as PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS Fire at Beaver Dam. Ohio. I MICHIGANS GREAT RECORD.

shown by Treasurer's general account $19,990,915 The tbwn of Beaver 1 Dam, Ohio; was visited a fire which destroyed the entire business portion of the town, besides many residences. The loss is estimated at between $80,000 and $100,000, with an insurance, or only $15,000. It is not thought that the burned district wilLbe rebuilt. Those Who Have Bfn Successful i Aspirations. The President has made the following appointments: Andrew Evans, of Texas, to ho Attorney of the United States tor the Western District of Texas.

William H. H. Clayton, ofi Arkansas, to he Attorney for the United States for the Western District of Arkansas. William EL H. Clayton, the new District Attorney foa the Western District of Arkansas, is a brother of the Clayton who ran against Breckinridge forCongreaa in the last election, and whose subsequent murder created a sensation.

He came from iPenn sylvania originally, and daring the war eejwgd in the Union army. He lives at Fort Smith, and was displaced by Cleveland from the place -to which he has jnst been appointed. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. On the 218th' ballot, at Emporia, the Republicans of the Fourth District nominated'Harrison Kelley for Congress. A Washington, D.

special of the 3d inst. says: The President has sent a telegram to Chicago asking Frank Palmer if he willl accept the office of Public Printer. The appointment of Captain Meredith, also of as Chief pf the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; will probably be announced at once. Emigration Commissioners Puzzled. -The Emigration Commissioners at New York are undecided whether or not to let Bland a man named Gonzales, a convicted robber, who was pardoned "at Gibraltar, the famous fortress, for acting as executioner of a condemned murderer.

Statistics from the State Census' Show 1 Many Prolific Women. 1 Lansing, Mich. George Batchelor was married and resided in Bunker Hill Township, in this county, shortly after the close of the war. During the first eleven years of his married life eleven children were added to his household. All the children are yet alive, but Mr.

Batchelor is now dead. A. 3. Angell, when twenty-eieht years ot age, married a sister of Mrs. Batchelor, referred to above, became the father of eight children iu the first seven years of married life.

This famdy was once blessed with triplets. The last State census of Michigan shows that there were. 701 mothers who had given birth to their tenth child. 405 to eleven children, 251 to twelve children. 120- to thirteen children, sixty-three to fourteen children, twenty-seven to fifteen children, ten to sixteen children, eight to seventeen children, four to eighteen children, one to twenty children.

to twenty-five children. were 696 pairs of twins reported during the census year, and four sets of triplets. MARKET REPORTS CHICAGO. ACROSS THE "OCEAN. Dick Bunkley, a visitor to one of his notorious places.

Bunkley was seriously injured by being struck several times with a poker in the hands of At the time of the affray there were fully 150 at the tables playing. All escaped arrest. Coyle will be prosecuted for conducting gambling rooms. The bluffs along the Missouri, near Chamberlain, Dakota, are covered with the white prairie schooners and 'the tents of hardy farmers from Iowa and other Eastern States, who have cast their tents in anticipation of the speedy Openng of the Sioux resefvation. It is expeced that when the reservation is opened the rush for claims will resemble the Oklahoma rush, as the land is much better and the amount many times greater.

4 FlgRenBeck, 10 years old, son of D. Beck, a farmer living four miles from St. Joe, was frightened to death. He went to St. Joe with his brother and was left in charge of the team.

A street-scraper passing became unfastened and fell to the ground, making a sharp report. The next instant young Beck fell from the seat to the wagon bed and was picked up dead, his heart having ceased action from fright. S. D. Williams, general agent for the Siberling Machine Company, of Akron, Ohio, committed suicide at Fort Branch, by cutting his throat.

Ha had been showing the machine to a customer, and suddenly walked to the rear of the hardware store and sat down on a box and severed his jugular vein with a pocket-knife. The strike of coal-dock laborers coal-dock at Cattle Prime $4.00 Good ,3.50 r2.50 Hogs Shipping 4.50 (3 4.00 3 3.50 3 4.75 5.75 I The London Posfs Berlin correspondent is understood that England, vHe Must Hang. At Brooklyn, N. James Stone, a xcolored jockey, who killed a bartender at Ooney Island, was sentenced to be hanged June 25. This w-as Stones third trial, juries on former occasions having 3 (3 (3 disagreed.

Sheep Wheat No. 2 Spring. Corn No. 2............. Oats No.

2., Rye No. Butter Choice Cheese Full Cream, Eggs Potatoes Louisiana, brl Pore Mess jl.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat Cobh No. 3 Oats No. 2 Rye No.

1 Barley No. 2. 4.00 .34 .22, .40 .19 .08 .11 4.00 .77 .34 .26 .43 .52 .81 .23 .41 .21 .09 .12 5,00 Cp 11.75 .27 .44 .54 (3 8 Nothing Remarkable About Benton Harbor Benton Habbob. Mich, Mrs. George Herman, of -St.

Joseph, has borne fifteen children, twelve of them girls and three boys. Mrs- Henry Butzback is the mother of twelve children. Mr. and Mrs. Don C.

Morrison filled their cradle full of twins on Feb. 10 last. 9 Fierce Forest Fires. Fierce forest fires were" reported in Midland, Clare, Gladwin, Osce'ola and Huron Counties, Michigan, on the 8th inst. A brisk wind fanned the flames.

Men worked in brigades trying to check the progress of the file. I Nothing Great at LaCrosse. LaCbosse. Wis. 1 Peter Botti Is the father of twelve-ehil- dren, all living.

John Olson, a Norwegian mill-hand, is the father of fourteen children, eight boys and six girls. Mr. Damrod. a resident of the Fifth Ward, is the father of a bakers dozen, all of whom are living. Mr.

Lynch is the father of seventeen, i Pork Mess glL75 DETROIT. Cattle. Wheat No. 2 Red Corn No. 2 4.73 5.00 5.00 3 .87 3.00 4.00 4.00 .36 THE NEW BRITISH MINISTER.

Sir Julian Fauneefote, the Successor ol Sacfcrville-Wpst. 3 Will Die by Electricity. Three alternating current electrio dynamos, to be placed in the penitentiaries at Sing SiDg, Auburn and Clinton, to be used for the killing of condemned criminals, have been purchased by the State of New York. Duluth, has ended. Kittie Edwards, who .24 3 in the interests of the Australian colonies, will on many points support the American proposals in Tegard to Samoa.

The Berlin correspondent of the Newer says: Perhaps Tamasese will be -appointed Vice King of Samoa, but Germany will decline to allow Mataafa any official position. A Belu telegram says: A committee of the Berlin conference has. been directed to iexamine and report upon the means for establishing order in Samoa and adequate guaranties tor the maintenance, of peace, including the question of, a King. Dr. Knappe, formerly German Consul at Apia, denies thqt Mataafa ordered his adherents tb aid in rescuing the sailors of the Ger- manmen-of-war recently wrecked at that place.

On the contrary, he says, Mataafa forbade his followers to assist the Gej mans in any way. Dr. Knappe also severely censures the loose discipline of the American sailors in Samoa. Ha accuses them thievislfpropensities anc. a fondness for liquor.

The great French exposition, the greatest the world has ever seen, is open at Paris, Prance. The formal ceremony of giving to the people this magnificent show took5 place when President Carnot delivered an- address and touched the but ton that set the vast machinery in motion. Only 1,500 people were able to see the real ceremony inside the grand vestibule, or to hear President Carnots speech, which, however, was a very good effort, Probably people went in on tickets. The scene was a magnificent one, and the crowd a prodigious one. was shot in Council Bluffs," Iowa, three weeks ago by John Poland, who afterward committed suicide, is dead.

4 4.53 5.50 3 5.75 3 .85 3 .46 3 .40 13.25 Shot a Car Thief. AT Rochester, N. Railway Detective Lapointe shot and killed a man named Gascogne, a professional car thief, who attempted to escape with a of car fixtures which he had purloined. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. WE present here- -with a faithful portrait of Sir Ju-11 an Pauncefote.

the new British Minister to Washington, who has just entered upon his official duties. Sir Julian springs from an ancient and distinguished family. His ancestors came with the Conqueror, and have since been employed in the making of history. The Paunce-fotes settled in the west of England, Coftie In Buuclies at Grand Rapids. Gband Bapids, The wife of Professor -La Pierre was one of a family of twenty-three children, and she is herself the mot her of eleven, six of whom are sti Unliving.

John Van der Hauten is the father of twenty-two children by two marriages, and nineteen of them were alive at one time and all 'living under the same roof. Seven of the children have died at various ages I There were only two sets of twins. The late Leonard DVoge was the father of fifteen children, five of whom are now living, one of theifive being Professor DYoge. of the State University faculty. John Shekehee is the father of thirteen children, only four of whom were girls.

John Phillips has-the credit of being the father of thirteen boys, all grown to manhood and themselves parents of large families John Poisson is tne father of an even dozen children, none of them twins, and the majority of the feminine persuasion. Michael Farrell, of Ada Township, has nine girls and two boys. Mrs. May, a widow, has ten children, the eldest fourteen years, six of them boys. Aairon B.

Turner, editor of the Eagle. has two boys and six daughters living and one boy laid away to rest. John Montague, of Georgetown, has thirteen children living and two dead, and but three came either as twins or triplets. Seven of them girls, and the eldest is eighteen years of age. A Polish family at Dow had one set of triplets, two pairs of twins; two solitaires, and last fall the mother gave birth to four 3 4.50 3 4,75 3 3 '-31 3 .23 3 .43 EASTERN OCCURRENCES.

Oats No. 2 White .27 TOLEDO. Wheat No, 2 .88 Corn Cash. Oats 2 White NEW YORK. Cattle.

Hogs Wheat No. 2 Corn No. 2... Oats White Pork New Mess 12.25 ST. LOUIS.

Cattle. 3.75 Hogs 4.25 Wheat No. 2..................... .80 Corn No. 2 I .30 Oats Rye No.

2 1 ,42 INDIANAPOLIS, U.50 Sheep ft-ft ft 3.00 ,6.00 CINCINNATI. Hogs Butchers'. Wheat No. 2 Corn No. 2 Oats No.

2 Rbe No. 2 ft ft-- Pork KANSAS CITY. Cattle Good Common Hogs Choice. Medium 4.00 .36 .28 3.751 3.00 2.5 0 .4.40 4.00, 3 4.50 3 4. 75 4.00 3 7.75 The twenty-seventh anniversary of Gen.

Butlers occupation of New Orleans was observed by the Butler 'Club at the United States Hotel, in Boston, Mass, 275 gentlemen paying their respects to SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. were included in the Doomsday Book, and were engaged in Gloucestershire in the wars of the barons. He is 61 years old. Dr. Porter has ordered the quarantine, restrictions raised at Sanford, such action being justified by the sanitary condition of the city.

Etienne Des Champs, aged60, who in September last murdered Julliette Deitche, aged 12, at New Orleans, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. The culprit had been on intimate terms with his victim, and at the time attempted suicide, but was resuscitated. The jury in the case of Dick Hawes, at Birmingham, charged with the murder last December of his 8-year-old daughter May, brought in a verdict of gnilty of murder in 3 5.00 3 3 .49 12.50 the General and listening to addresses in eulogy of him. Sandwich, is considerably stirred up over the mysterious disappear ance of Samuel Fessenden, treasurer of AND NEWSY. Do you think your son has the-nec-, essary 'qualifications to become an artist? I'm sttre of it.

He can do withont food for three days and ha Ptiou of every free lunch fcjcWD as the Sweet Singer of Michigan. 1 111 the city. 3 4.25 3 4.00 3 3.25 3 4.60 3 4.40 the Cape Cod Canal Company, who left that town Borne time ago, sincqvfhen nothing is known concerning hi3 where-. Mb. Dt.wdnet, Minister of the saidin the House at Ottawa, 3.50, 4 J50 i.