Muscatine Weekly Journal from Muscatine, Iowa • 3

MUSCATINE WEEKLY JOURNAL FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1886. duties. On the more popular side of FOREIGN. i THE JOURMlS PORTRAIT GALLERY SHAKEN UP AGAIN. Quaking Charleston.

One of the fallacies of Mr. Kirk wood's letter of acceptance isthus noticed by Wholesale Murder by a Man of War. San Francisco, Sept. 4. The steamer Maraoa arrived to-day from Sidney.

Australia. She brought news of the arrival there of the German war ship Albatross, from among the Hebrides islands, where she had been' for the purpose of punishing the natives for A I'll -1 CEORCE M. Treasurer of Muscatine County. After presenting the portraits of so many prominent men. owing: their na tivity and education to the older States or lands beyond the soa, it is a particu lar pleasure to the Journal to have its gallery honored this week with one to the manor born, a veritable Hawkeye a product of Iowa, George M.

Scott, Treasurer of Muscatine county. Mr. Scott was born in Pedee, Cedar county, Iowa, January 14, 1841. His father was Jasper Scott, who married Miss Sarah Beatty, and the family came from Trenton, N. in the early territorial stage of Iowa.

George was the young est' of six children, two daughters aud four sons, and has the honor of num bering himself among the first born of the State. This did not prove particu larly advantageous to his youth, spent on his father's farm, for the only education the times afforded was the win ter school, kept in a primitive log cab in, and whose tuition corresponded too close! with its rude surroundings to be of much benefit to its pupils. At the age of thirteen, his father died, when the care of the farm "and maintenance of the family devolved upon him ana nis brother Jasper, lour years his character, ione meets the old soldier with a service as broad as his country and as continuous as treason. Taking in view that pioneer life in the territory the 'log cabin school house, the duties of manhood falling upon him at th0 age of thirteen, his logging experiences while still in his teens on the moun tains of California, and his campaigns under the old flag east and south, one can picture that courtship in Pedee, of which the Old Sergeant, like another, could say: I ran it through, even from my" boyish days. Wherein I spake or most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field; Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.

And portanoo in my travel's history, Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touched heaven, It was my hint to speak. Mr. and Mrs Scott have a lovely Fourth street, and it is home on east the wish of the many new friends both have won in the city, that no accidents or freaks of fortune will remove their residence from Muscatine, i We publish to-day a communication from J. W. McElravy, of West iberty, on the Congressional contest, Mr.

McElravy has not for several years past supported the Republican party, but it will be seen that he is earnestly with the party now in its aim, by the support of Mr. O'Meara, to break down a corrupt and debauching Democratic ring rule in this district. Mr. Mc Elravy gives his views from: the stand point of a faithful soldier of the Union and a patriotic citizen, and he gives them with much cogency and force. In John Swiaton's paper, organ of the labor unions, attention is thus oalled to the claim of the brewers that they give employment to 530,000 men: "Think of this, workingmen! Half a million men employed -in destroying food, in rottening grain, turning into poison that which makes mt fiends, wives widows, children orphans, the industrious lazy, and sends women and children to work in place of men.

thus filling the land with loafers for the workers to support." The Woman's Standard is the title of monthly periodical in Des Moines, the first number of which has just been received. It is devoted to home, purity, Iculturef temperance, education and woman's right to vote. Mary F. Coggs hall, editor, and Martha C. Callanan, buiisness manager.

Fifty cents a year. The paper is well prin ted and ably edited. It deserves suc cess. Judge Martin of the Second Kansas Judicial District, has overruled Judges Brewer and Love of the Federal Court in a liquor case- In a suit to enjoin some Atchison brewers from manufacturing aad selling beer in Kansas, he refused to permit the case to be trans ferred to the United States court. Such rulings as this are vain, for the Federal courts will take jurisdiction whether the State tribunal consents to it or noC The West Liberty Index calls atten tion to the fact that with a single ex ception the Republicans press in the old counties of the Second District 'agree with the Hon.

Hiram: Price iu the opinion that the defeat of Judge Hayes by the election of an orable man, even though a Democrat, is the very best thing that can be done by the Republicans of this district." Political Purification. DeWitt Observer. By supporting O'Meara for Congress and the district bar ticket, you vote for a process of political and; judicial purification, far-reaching in its benefitsa consummation most devoutly t6) be wished. In this grand work we now find the best men of all parties standing shoulder to shoulder, upon the platform of "Law and Order." A good. Republican helping in this noble work is all the better a Republican for so doing.

A Confederate Pension Bill Signed. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The President signed a bill restoring a Confederate soldier to the; pension rolls at $17 a month. Ihe bill was passed through both Houses under a report that did not state all the facts. The reports set forth that killings, a South Carolina soldier in the Mexican war, was pensioned in 1854 as a Lieutenant at $17 a month; that he received this at the Charleston agency until September, 1861, when he was dropped "without reason." The date and location Was notice enough of the reason, and if the President had looked into the case with half the care he has exercised in vetoing small pensions' for needy widows, he would have found that Billings was because he entered the Confederate service, where he served as Major.

Iowa News. The Iowa State Fair opened at Des Moines on the 3d with more en tries than ever before and fine accommodations. Burglars robbed the house of A. S. Perry, in Mt.

Pleasant, on the! night of the zvth getting about ijsiu in money belonging to a Mr. Van Dyke. Of the criminal cases to be tried at the next term, of the district court, at Keokuk, the majority are for selling intoxicating liquors and keeping houses of ill-fame. 1 William S. Sturges, known some years ago as Sturges at Keokuk, where he was a daring and wealthy grainpperator, is said to be dying in poverty in Chicago.

1 The Des Moines Register says that prohibition has "killed the so badly that last year it expended more money for improvements than; all the anti-prohibition cities in Iowa put together; over $3,000,000. Prosecution of another Cedar Rapids druggist. Marc Mentor, for violation of the pharmacy law, has been instituted. It is proposed at the Rapids to make it hot for every druggist who has sold liquors without compliance with the law. the Clinton Herald: I The comparison of the endorsement of O'Meara with the election of a Meth odist elder to a Presbyterian General Assembly is a fallacy evident to the veriest tyro in logic.

If for some reason a Presbyterian could not be elected to the General Assembly, but it was ap parent that a Methodist could, and thus afford a representation of that synod in the General Assembly which would be better tnan no representa tion, while at the same time the candi date of an unworthy element seeking representation, in the Assembly could be defeated. Then you have a parallel case with the Meara-endorsement idea. i 1 Iowa News by Telegraph. A SALOON SCHEME TO SCREEN THE HAD DOCK MURDERERS. Sioux City, Iowa, Sept.

4. The Tribune to-night will publish the fact that Rev. Goo. C. Haddock recognized a party in the court room, the day he was killed, as being connected with a trouble he had in Wisconsin, and that he pointed out the party to Attorney Wood, the prosecutor in the injunction cases, who advised mm to obtain per mission from the Judge to carry con cealed weapons, as he feared the party would jump on him.

A FALL A BAR BANQUET. Fort Dodge, Iowa, Sept. 4. John Davis, a fell from a building yesterday, and though badly injured, will recover. The local bar of this city will ban quet Judge H.

C. Henderson this even ing at the Duneombe house. ACCIDENT. Keokuk, Sept An explosion of gas in a newly dug well on the farm of John McMahon, four miles north of Warsaw, 111., Saturday evening, was caused" by a boy going down with a light. John Miller died of his injuries Sunday.

George Happs, of Keokuk, was seriouslv. McMahon's son was sliglrray injured, Creston, Iowa, Sept. 6. A freight tram run through an open switch at Avery this morning, ditching the en gine and several cars. Noone injured.

THE SALVATION ARMY. Marshalltown, Iowa, Sept. 6. Ten Salvation Armv rioters, 7. women and men, were arrested for parading Sunday afternoon in violation of the Mayor's orders.

I They were given thirty days in jail this afternoon. The conference of the Evangelical church adjourned Sunday, after four days session. Telegraphic Briefs. banta Cruz, cai. experienced an earthquake shock at noon on the 2d.

Four new cases of yellow fever were reported at Biloxi, on the 2d, Five Pullman cars, valued at $16,000 each were destroyed by fire at Jersey City baturday night. The will of the late Joseph E. Tern pie bequeaths over $200,000 to public institutions of Philadelphia. European journals foresee in the let ters between Prince Alexander, of Bul garia, and the Czar the speedy abdica tion of the former. T-ho Queen of England, Friday, sent a dispatch to President Cleveland ex pressing sympathy with the sufferers by the President Cleveland's party returned to Saranac Inn, N.

Y.J on the 3d, after an absence of four days spent in the upper lake region. Mr. Cleveland killed a buck. The cholera has broken out in Torre de l'Annunziata, an Italian city of 15, 000 inhabitants. Ihe deaths on the 2d in the infected districts of Italy numbered forty-one.

JNear byracruse, JN. on the 2d, a wild cat train collided with a freight. Both engines were destroyed, and ten cars of freight were wrecked, causing loss of Mrs. Emma Molloy, the temperance lecturer, who was involved in the Gra ham murder at Springfield, at tempted suicide by drowning at South Bend, on the 3d and was rescued with great difficulty. Terrible Malady in Tennessee 27 Deaths in Three Days.

Chattanooga, Sept. 3. Par- rottsville, in Cocke county, is in a wild state of excitement over a strange epi demic which has made its appearance there. The disease, which in every case proves fatal, resembles flux, ex cept that victims are! attacked with se vere pains in the head, simultaneously with pain in the abdomen. Physicians are unable to cope with the disease, and those who are stricken with it suc cumb in a short time.

Twenty-seven deaths have occurred within three days. i- Return of Gen. Logan and Party from the Pacific CoastA Chicago Reception. Chicago, Sept. 4.

General and Mrs. Logan arrived in tfiis city this morning at 7 clock. They took breakfast with Gov. Aiger and party in the Governor's private car, after which Mr. and Mrs.

Logan were driven to their residence on Calumet About 10:30 a committee of citizens called on them and tendered them a reception at the Grand Pacific Hotel this evening. Ihe invitation was accepted. Married Only Five Days, i Harrifiburg, Sept. 4. Levi Bor-del, of Leadville, Colorado, jumped from a passenger train yesterday on the Philadelphia Reading railroad near here while it was running at the rate of forty miles an hour and received fatal injuries: Bordel was on his wedding trip, and until ten days before his marriage had been a hard drinker.

Five days ago he was married, and it is believed that the man was suffering from temporary aberration of the mind. we nave a good many rising young men in this country, but somehow you don't notice them in the crowded horse car unless the woman who to get on has more than an ordinary share of youth and beauty. bomerville Journal. 1 1 My liver was so fearfully 'disordered and I felt so feeble and languid that I scarcely took interest in anything. Tried all the so called remedies with out relief unlil I used Parker's Tonic, which effected' a permanent cure.

David Bash, Little Rock, Ark. older; his other elder brothers having taken wing to make their fortunes elsewhere. In 1859 he, too, left the nest, and sought his fortune in California, where he was logginginthe mountains whenthe war broke out, an event which brought him home in the fall of 1861, to enlist the next spring in Co. 24th Iowa infantry. He shouldered hi8 musket "for the war," which he met at once at Port Gibson and found its sterner realities at Champion Hill, where a rebel bullet laid him among the severely wounded while his company went on to share in the siege of Vieksburg.

But he was ready to join Gener ,1 Banks' Red River expedition and that was over he found himself suddenly transferred to the Shen-' andoan Valley and witnessed the end of Sheridan's famous ride to Winchester and was in the dust and smoke and shot of Cedar Creek 'and Fisher's Hill ind carries forever engraved on eye and memory the bloody scenes of those days when Sheridan sent the enemy "whirling through the Then this Hawk-eye brave was transferred with company to Savannah, where he was doing duty when Lee surrendered, and the long three years' service came to an end. The comp ny returned to Davenport and was disbanded, Private Scott receiving his discharge Sergeant. It fell to few soldiers to Prince Alexander. Compelled to Audi cate by Russia. THE PRINCE ANNOUNCES HIS INTEN TIONS.

Sofia, Sept. 4. Prince Alexander made an address at a banquet given by him to the oflicers of the army, in which he made the following state ment: "The independence of Bulga ria requires that 1 should leave the country. If 1 did not, Russia would occupv it. I will, however, consult with superior oiheers and constitute regency, which will endeavor to pro tect the interests of my omcers.

In any case I rely on the army." Prince Alexander imparted his intention of abdication to the German and Russian consuls. A grand council, among the members of which are btambulofi and Karaveloff is being held to arrange for a regency. -Ihe Prince will probably leave within two days. Officers of the army are greatly excited and talk of detaining the Prince. They have, re solved any case to refuse to receive a Russian envov.

Thev will hold a meeting to decide what course to adopt. The city is tranquil. Sofia, Sept. 6. Before Alexander announced his intention to quit the throne, he received a telegram from cismarK, that he should abdicate order to save Bulgaria.

RUMBLING OK WAR. Constantinople, bept. is rum ored that in accordance with advice giyen by two friendly powers, Turkey is making military preparations on the Asiatic frontier. It is also said orders have been given to supply the army in Erzoroum and along the border with additional guns, stores and amunitions. This action is due to the movement on the part of Russia which is supposed to be making efforts to guagejthe military and navnl strength of lurkey.

Murderous Modesty Why a Young Man was Left to Drown. Boston, Aug. 29. The circuni stances attending the drow ning of Harry D. Smith, of Chelsea, at Lake Idlowild, Wexham, on Friday, illustrate in a marked manner the idiotic folly" which takes possession of many people when in the presence of a drowning human being.

Smith, who was 17 years old, was spending his vacation at Hamilton. On Friday he went in swimming with companions, was taken with cramps and called for aid, but the boys thought he was trying to, tool them and only laughed at him. Smith repeated that he was not shamming and begged them to save his life. Finally his mates re cognized his danger and endeavored to secure assistance, is ot far from the spot where Smith was struggling, was a boat containing two young men and two young women. The former started to row to Smith's -assistance, but the vounsr women were suddenlv smitten with a senseless modesty, and refused to allow their escorts to row near to Smith.

"You shall not, you shall not," they screamed, "take that naked man into this boat." The young men were compelled to row the females ashore before helping Smith, and on reaching the -spot again Smith had sank for the last time. His.bdy was recovered in an hour, but all efforts at resuscitation were futile. While the body was being recovered, Smith's mother was suffering with violent hys terics on shore, requiring the attend ance of a physician and several helpers to hold her back from the water and stifle her screams. At the same time one of the overmodest young women was pacing the depot platform biting her lips and occasionally dashing away a tear. Reformed in a Minute An Earthquake Incident.

Special to Inter Ocean. Butler, Sept. 2. One gentleman who had been turned out of church for dancing, had retired Monday night, and when he felt the shock left his home in his night-clothes for his for mer minister's house, shouting at every step. "Earthquake! Earthquake! Where is the preacher? I want to join the church again, and will never dance another step if I can pull through now." The wife of onerperson was so badly frightened that he sent, for some whisky to give her by Ian old servant, to whom he gave a The negro said he hoped "Before the Lord that an earthquake would come every night the balance of this year." This is a "dry" town.

Two Negroes Hang for Murder. Memphis, Sept. 3. James bimpson ana jraterson ceil, two ne groes, were hung to-day at Marion, Crittenden county, twelve miles north west of Memphis. About 2,000 people, mostly colored, witnessed the execution.

There were the usual exercises, which donsisted of reading a chapter from the Bible, singing a hymn and prayer by two colored ministers. They both declared their innocence, although they had previously con fessed. The drop was sprung at 1:20 and in twelve minutes both were pronounced dead, their necks having been broken. They were executed for the murder of Lee Goldsmith at St. Thomas Landing, twenty-fivefniles north of here, on the night of Jan.

2. Strange Eruption in Southeastern Illinois Was it the Result of the Earthquake Oakland, Coles county, 111., Yesterdav the citizens of Bowdue township, north of this city, were startled by a noise like the; explosion a steam boiler. On examination it was found to have been caused bv an eruption on the farm of Christian Lun-kenbach. That gentleman stated today that when the noise occurred a cloud of smokend dust was thrown sixty feet in the air, in which were bits materials, stumps of trees, roots and stones, and a deep hole was left in the earth which has not yet been explored. Appointments.

Washington. Sept. 6. -James T. Callahan, of New Mexico, has been appointed special agent of the general land office for fraudulent land entries The President' has appointed Sterlin Hart, of Nebraska, to be register of the land office at McCook, NeR, Jacob Steinmetz, of Nebraska, to be receiver public monies at McCook, Neb, and Robert W.

Ross, of Vandalia, Ills, re corder of the general land officer Fatal Accident. Manchester, Iowa, Sept. 4. Charles Schubert, of Earlville, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon. He was doing some work on a buz-saw, when a splinter caught on the saw and was driven'into his heart.

He was asoldier the late, war and had resided at Earlville for eighteen years. J. THOUSANDS OP APPLICATIONS FOR RELIEF. The Buildings and Streets in a Deplor able Condition. Appalling1 Scenes of Panic and Terror Caused by Falling Walls.

Charleston, S. Sept. 4 At 9:30 to-night another earthquake shock occurred of about five seconds dura tion. It was not nearlv so severe as the shock last night. Columbia, b- bept.

4. Another very distinct earthquake shock was felt this city to-night at 9:27 o'clock, the vibrations continuing about 15 sec onds. Ihe shock succeeded as usual in clearing all the large houses in the city of their occupants. Augusta, bept. 4.

Another slight shock was felt here at 9 o'clock to-night. About $30,000 in cash has been re ceived or'the sufferers, and the indications are that several times that amount will be forwarded. A reporter made a detour of the city to-day and was surprised to find so much wrecked property, which had before escaped the eyes of press representatives. At least four out of five of all the build ings are damaged more or less. City Assessor Kelly says that the loss will reach $10,000,000.

Charleston, Sept. 6. At 9 this morn mg the headquarters of the relief committee at the city building were crowded by unfortunate earthquake sufferers. One member of the committee was kept busy wa iting railway passes to trans port sufferers to other parts. 1 The committee prefers to give this charac ter of assistance above all others.

It gets unfortunates away. Orders for rations are being issued. Money is given to no one. During the rush of applicants for aid, a large section of the Meeting street front of the court house, opposite the city hall fell out. The report was equal to an earthquake shock, Immediately the assembled thousands began to sway and move like billows of a storm stricken sea.

The scene was appalling for a time but quiet was finally restored. Acting Mayor Huyer says the relief committee is assisting about one third of Charleston popula tion. Mayor Courtney is expected to arrive to-morrow and will hold a special meeting of the council, when decisive steps will be taken to offer protection from falling buildings and clear the streets of some of the debris which now impedes the progress of pe destrians and vehicles eyery where. About ninety-five thousand dollars of contributions have arrived here From indications it is believed contri butions will aggregate five hundred thousand dollars. Shortly after ten o'clock the scenes of despair and fright were renewed at the City Hall by falling buildings in that vicinity.

People who slept on board vessels in the harbor last night say thev felt at 11 o'clock a shock very plainly. Horrors Among Hungarian Laborers iq Pennsylvania -Seven Burned to Death A Murder. Williamsport, Sept. 3. Word has been received here of a sickening calamity which occurred about mid night last night, five miles and a half above Sonoestown, on the line of the Williamsport North Branch railway, where a large number of Hungarian laborers are employed on an extension 01 tne road, a shanty which over twenty of these men were lodged taught hre last night, from the over turning 01 the stove, while tne men were asleep.

Sixteen men slept on the second floor. 1 hose on the hrst floor, and all on the second floor but seven, succeeded in getting out. The others were left to their7 fate and were roasted alive in the burning shanty. Their charred remains were afterward found in the ruins. The men who es caped were so panic-stricken that they made no enort to save their compan ions.

Ihe remains of the seven dead were removed to Sonoestown to await the arrival of the coroner from Laporte. The names of the victims have not yet been received. a Hungarian, named jeninski, was murdered and his body hidden under a shantv on the same railroad at Elk- lick. A short time since when the shanty was torn down portions of hu man remains were found and a quan tity of bloody straw. The men who occupied the shanty have disappeared.

California Democrats. San Sept. 2. The Democratic State Convention to-dav nominated Jackson 'Temple, of Santa Rosa, of San Francisco, and Byron Waters of San Bernardino for the three vacancies on the Supreme bench, ihe platform indorses Cleve land's Administration; recommends the free coinage of silver: demands a restoration of the wool tariff of 1867: iavors the passage 01 wine bills now before Congress; approves of labor cooperative societies; demands the abro gation of the Burlinghame Chinese treaty, and favors legislation providing for the deportation of all the Chinese. Alter an unsuccessiui ballot for a nomination for Governor the 1 conven tion adjourned until to-morrow morn- ban a rancisco, bept.

a. xhe lremo- cratic State convention to-day com pleted its ticket. Washington Bartlett, mayor of ban Francisco, was nomi nated for Governor, and M. F. Tarpey, of Alameda, for Lieutenant Governor.

Heavy Mill and Lumber Fire in Michi- Igan. East Saginaw, Michi Sept. 4. The mill fire at Zilwaukee, last night, was the most Serious in the valley for years. acres of build ings, lumber and shingles were entire ly consumed, and huge piles of slabs are stm burning, un tne docks were piled ten million feet of lumber of dif ferent and of these onlv a mil lion remains.

Two million shingles and thousands of cords of slabs were burned. One-quarter of the mill, the tram way, docks, saw and shingle mills, three drill houses, and three dwellings, owned by the company, were also de stroyed. total loss is about $302, 000: in-! surance about ijsiuo.uuu. Yellow Fever in Sew York. New York.

Sept. 6. Grant Golden, fireman on the steamer Alvo, was found by the health officers last night, suffer ing with yellow fever in St Vincent's hospital, ihe steamer came in last week from a voyage to the West Indies. p. A.

of of P. of in Another Earthquake Shock along the Atlantic Coast. Increasing Alarm at Charles tonDeaths from Fright. Apprehensions of Further Damage to Property by the Impending Equinoctial Storm. new Sensation Fall Pebbles and Pieces of of Flint, that have Abraded by Water.

been WHAT NEXT? ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. Washington, Sept. 3. At 11 o'clock to-night another shock of earthquake was felt all along the Southern Atlantic coast. It was not attended by anv damage so far as can be learned, but it was strong enough to cause a stampede from their instruments of telegraph operators in Charleston, Augusta and Columbia, and perhaps other places.

They soon returned, however, and re sumed business. The shake was felt from Jacksonville to Washington. It was plainly perceptible in Washington but not so strongly as on Tuesday night. Charleston, September 3. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt just be fore 11 o'clock to-night and two build ings ien.

A white woman, name un known, was killed by a falling wall this evening. ugusta, Sept. 3. At 10:40 p. another shock was distinctly felt.

Ihe streets are again filled with people. Wilmington, Sept. 3. An other distinct out not severe earthquake shock was felt here at 11 p. m.

Much alarm was created and many people rushed from their houses to the streets. Raleigh, N. Sept. 3. At 11:01 to night a well developed shock of earth quake was felt here.

It was preceded by a light rumbling noise. Ihe oscu lation of buildings was marked on upper floors. Jacksonville, Sept. 3. At 10:20 to-night a distinct shock of earthquake was felt here, lasting hve seconds.

It caused great excitement. THURSDAY NIGHT'S QUAKE IN CALI FORNIA. Grass Valley, Sept. A sharp earthquake was felt here at la clock last night. Merced, Sept.

3. A slight earthquake was experienced- here last night. THE QUAKE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. Savannah, Sept. 4 2:40 a.

m. Since last night's shock slight vibra tions have been felt in the upper stories of the Morning JSews building almost continually, the intervals between them varying only from 5 to 10 minutes at most. While there was a general stampede at the first shock, the edito rial and typographical forces neverthe less returned to their posts and stuck to them. The building is the highest and largest in the city. Birmingham, bept.

4. The earthquake cracked a rock, some 15 miles from Blount Springs, in the county next north of this, and from the latter they say petroleum is issuing in a stream and forming a pool at the base. Charleston, S.f&sJSept. 4. Last night's shock hasgreatlyMmpaired con fidence.

Ihe slightest noise, such as the arring of a door, will empty any house of its inhabitants. Charleston, September 4. The great dread now is the approach of the equinox. The equinoctial gales have Always been disastrous in Charleston In fact, last year disaster was so great as to attract national attention. It is estimated that every house in the city has had its foundations shaken by the earthquake.

Walls have been rent, chimneyB and steeples are off their square, and there is nothing plumb about the citv. if an equinoctial gale of the usual severity should strike the city, before considerable repairs can be made, nearly every house in the city will be blown down. Ihe gales come sometimes as late" as the first week in October, but last year it came the last week in August. It will thus be seen that the city is in imminent peril at any moment. This would cause such a crashing of timber, brick and mortar as was never before heard of.

The temperature has changed so as to warn people that a storm is at hand. The effect of a week's storm and pelting rams" upon "houseless women and children would be appal- ing- bix ladies are reported to be dying in tents from fright. The effort made early yesterday to clear away the debris has been abon-doned and the people are setting back into the melancholy of yesterday. Two aldermen of each ward and three citizens thereof have been appointed to condemn unsafe buildings. Berkley, chairman of the committee, has entered upon his duties.

He knows not what to do, where to begin, or where to stop. He has freely declared that if a fire had swept the city it would have been more preferable, for in that case the insurance would have helped to repair the waste places. Charleston, bept. 4. The sensation of to-day is the falling of -pebbles in the lowef part of the city.

The first fall was at 7:30 o'clock this morning and the second about 11 o'clock. Thev appear to- fall in a slanting direction, from south to north. There are morsels of flint among them, and all are plainly abraded and worn by the action of water. Some few have sharp fractures and evidently have been recentlv broken. The fact of the fall is; vouched for by several trnstworthy persons.

The bulk of the pebbles fell on and around the News and Courier office. Charleston, Sept. 4. The Newsand Courier says the statement of com munication of land waves to an enor mous distance is fully verified by the observations of previous earthquakes since and even before the Christian era. The absence of a tidal wave proves conclusively that the cause of disturbance was confined to the land, and the jerky motion communicated to vessels, as reported by their officers, was caused by vertical vibrations intermediate between rapid forward transmissions and slower backward jerks.

the murder of German subjects. At the lsland of Leneur the crowd of armed natives, who had gathered on the beach; were fired into and a hun dred or more were kiUed. The village of Tombolougs, on the islandof Penta- cost, was then bombarded and many more natives were killed. When a landing was effected at the latter place, portions of human bodies were found, but most of the bodies had apparently been carried away. On both islands all the native villages that were found were burned.

On Lenner, a man named Klein, and on Pentacost a man of the German schooner, Upon, had been murdered by the natives before the Albatross returned to Sidney. A 1 Aesperaie struggle witn ii urgiars. 1 St. Louis, Sept. 4.

At Collinsville, 111., early this morning, two burglars gained access to the house of Brent Willough by. Awakened bv the noise. Willoughby raised up in bed, when the two men sprang upon him, one strik ing him on the head with a blunt in strument. Willoughby seized a revol ver from under the pillow and shot one burglar, who fled from the room. His second shot, poorly5 aimed, struck his wife, inflicting a dangerous wound in the She will probably die.

Wil loughby is in a critical condition fiXini wounds On the head. The burglarses-1 caped, but one was evidently badly nun. Appointments of the St. Louis German Conference. BURLINGTON DISTRICT.

Presiding Elder J. L. Barth. Burlington, Locust street and Rock Spring Her. Zimmermann.

Burlington, Washington street, E. C. Magaret. Calamus and Clinton, to be supplied uavenport, J. uapp.

Dos Moines, Win Sipflo. Dodgeville, J. H. Knehans. East Des Moines, Ora Labara, Frank Hertzler.

j. Etna and Lancaster, John B. Swiet- ert. Farmmgton and West Point, Chas Emig. Geneseo, to be supplied.

Harper, Jno. P. Wilhelimi. Illinois Citv, W. Schwiering.

Iowa City and Wellman, J. Miller. Keokuk, Frank Gruenewald. Mt. Pleasent, H.

Naumann. Muscatine, Chas. Thaleohorst. Nauvoo, Fotsch. Newton, C.

J. Lotz. Rock Island, Wm. Baumgarten. Victor, Gottloeb Bonn.

Wapello, F. L. Litzeroth Warsaw, David Huene, Wilt S.P. Wagner. Jno.

Schlagenhauf, President and Wm; Balke and Fred Munz, Professors in Mt. Pleasant German College mem hers of Mt. Pleasant Quarterly Confer ence. BELLEVILLE DISTRICT. Presiding-Elder C.

H. Heideli Altamout, H. Flottmann. Alton, Appleton, Theo. Keis.

Belleville, Wm. Schoenig. Bible Grove, -Aug. Bueltemann Boody, L. Harmel.

Brighton, Peter Hehner. Bunker Hill and Fosterbury, H. F. Koeneke. Cape Girardeau, Fred.

Stoffreger, Chester, J. F. Froeschle. Decatur, Geo. E.

Heidel. Edwardsville, M. Schnierle. Ellis Grove, H. Zeigler.

Highland and Hurricane, C. F. Flore th. Jackson, M. C.

Nuetzmannn. Mascoutah, H. Lahrmann. Mt. Olive and Staunton, Fred.

Rock. Moweagua, Jno. Stulken. -Nashville, E. W.

Simon. Wm. Fiegenbaum. North Prairie and Hoylton, Fred L. Mahle.

Pinkneyville, F. H. Miller. I Red Bud, O. C.

SchulzeJ Summerfield, Emil H. Baab, QUINCY DISTRICT. Presiding: Elder Henry S. Schuetz. ArenzvilJe, Peter Martin.

Beardstown, Ph. Gruenewald. Bloomington, E. E. Hertzler.

Bushnell and Rushville," H. EHer- beck. Canton, S. Saegesser. Columbus, J.

J. Sandmever. Emden and Hartsburg, Frank Peih- ler. -r Fairburg and be supplied. Hannibal and Bethel, Baumgar ten.

Jacksonville i and Meredosia, Wm. Schlueter. Lincoln, Paul Phillips. i Pekin, Geo. Addicks.

i 7 Peoria, Wm. H. Traogor. Peoria Mission, to be supplied. Secor and Jubilee Mission, C.

G. Becker. Petersburg and Tullula, J. Wanner. Pittsfield and Perry, Ph.

Skaer. Quincy, Jefferson Street. H. Ross. 1 Quincy, Jersey Street, Wm.

Wilken- raing. ban Jose, Havighorst. i Springfield, Ph. Barth. i St.

LOUIS DISRTICT. I Presiding- Elder P.J acoby. i Ballwin, Thomas. J-Beaufort, Henry Schlueter, Big Spring, to be supplied. Bland, J.

M. Rhode. De Soto, Chas. I. Stuckemann.

Drake, C. C. Stahmann. Farmington, Conrad Mardorf. Herman and Berger, Schwind.

Herman Circuit. Aug. Koowing. Hopewell, 11. Jamestown, H.

C. Jacoby. I Jefferson City, to be supplied. Moberly, Frank Brinkmeyer. Morrison, Henry Miller, Mt.

Vernon, Geo. Hildenstein. New Mella, Wm. Hartel. i St.

Charles, to be supplied. St. Louis, Eighth' street, C. Roden- borg. bt.

louis layior avenue, M. Koeder. St. Louis, Warren street, Holt- camp. 1 bt.

liouis, Wash street, Wm. Koeneke. Warren', Wm. Schuetz. Warrenton, Geo.

Engeroth. H. A. Koch J. L.

Kessler, M. Rinkel and E. F. Stroeter, Professors in Wesley an Warren ton, and members of Warrenton 1 quarterly conference. C.

J. bCBlmger, Superintendent of Urphan Asylum and member: of War renton quarte rly conference. "Ob, Mrs. Scraggins! Just think of the awful wreck of the night!" "I heard of it. Batterlv.

Joe Simpson was on board" "Yon don't say so! And was ha mashed?" "Ye3, by a handsome young widow 1 who was on the train." -Philadelphia Absolutely Pure. 'Vnia powder never xarlea. A nrnmi nf purity, strength and whole lomeoui. More economical thA nnKnura Hnita a-nA not be Bold In avmiatlHnii n.niMn of low test, short weight, alum or phoaphate p-wTTvivAa uuiu uwy iu oauBi Botal Bakihq Potoib York. rHE DEALBE OR mDBUOAX to 33 1-3 Per Cent Profit When you can buy a rood, konet iimm ill DUffffy that la warranted to OUTWEAR of the best Easterabura-toa sold la MutMtln I Thl TftAT- Laat Leathertopbufgy tl quarter Rubber top 100 Best Eastern bnara-r aold la th IN ueaiers Repairing andSepalntingr at the as libera prices.

The beat or material used and bom but the bast of maohanlaaam nlnvad A. ffood iob of naintinir ftkraa coats) on your buggy for i 5.00. J. P. T.

CHEAP R. R. TICKETS. -S. M.

Ticket Broker, three doors east of Postoffloe R.I.4P. mileage, and cut rate ticket ALWAYS ON HAND. ANNOU IMC EM NT LiUibridge St. John HAVE NOW. AS ALWAYS IN THE PAST, A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF THE BEST GOODS to be found in the market.

Our choice ROASTED COFFEE -is daily winning- golden opinions. AND are of the very best grades. HOUR FLOUR-: is all of standard, well-known brands, and cannot be excelled in good qualities. The ALPHA has no equal Try it. deal largely in TABLE LUXURIES such as choice Tomato Catsup, Salad Dress- ing.

Preserved Figs, French Mustard. Im- -ported Olives, Olive Oil, Sardines, Mushrooms. Edam Cheese, Chow-Chow, etc. Due attention is given to OTTAN- TITY, but QUALITY of goods is made a 1 irst Consideration. REMEMBER THE PLACE, St.

John. QUEEN OF THEPAHTBY FLOUR IS THE BEST. Full stock bottled pickles, sardines, canned meats and fish. Extra nice New Orleans molasses. New First Si white cloyer honey.

class butter "and cheese specialties. M'CAMPBELL 'DAY, Agents for 5 l-LOOK AT OUR HEW GOODS. sideboards. Book Cases, Chamber Suite M'CAMPBELIi DAY, AH Lillibridge O.FR0 ER' pK 0 iiU 5 3- to follow the old flag on so many fields of combat, under such widely diverse commands, in extreme parts of the countrjr. On leaving the army, Sergeant Scott resumed his life on the farm in Cedar county for a year, and in 1867 went into the mercantile business in Pedee which hi followed until 1873, when he sold out; his store and again took his way to California.

He found the Golden State much changed in its business from its earlier aspects and opportunities and after a stay rone, months he returned to Pedee, whence, in the flpring of 1877 he moved to Atalissa, where he purchased the stock and trade of N. D. Dyer, inj general merchandise business. In this peaceful harbor he remained at ancnor until launched on the sea of politics in 1883, with the Democratic nomination for County Treasurer flying from the maintop, to find himself, a few weeks later, heading nnder a popular breeze for the port of Muscatine. Two years later, in 1885, a second nomination was run up to the main peak and after a popular cruise, he returned under a booming gale and with colors flying to his old anchorage in the Court Square.

Mr. Scott was married May 30, 1866, to Miss Maggie Hutchenson, of Pedee. Of this union there have been born seven 'children, three sons and four daugb iers, of whom' all are living jut one son. One of the eoTis, Joseph, the conductor of the popular Second street grocery.is almost as well known to the county as the Treasurer. -i.

Mr. Scott is not a church member, and we presume it would be "difficult for him to precise his faith in religious matters. But like so many of his brethren in free Masonry, in which he "holds the rank of Knigbt Templar, his principles are in the Law of the Word, and he finds in the sacred teachings and Christian chivalry of the order ample food for devout contemplation and lessons for his rnle of life. The Treasurer had a valuable experience in his business life to fit him for the acceptable discharge of his official.