Weekly News Review

Orville Grant, brotlier of ex-Presidont Qrant, has been taken to the insano asjlum at Alorrij Plains, N. J. Application for his admistion as a private patiënt was niads by bis family. The stop has been under consideration for somc time. His friends pay that bis reaton bas been gradually giving way Bince lio applied for tbo trading post on the Missouri. Ho ahvays contended that his politioal associates robbed hini of the emolumenta of that office, aud he afterward plunged iuto epeculation. THE WEST. Omaha's finest hotel -the Grand Central-built at a cost of $300,000, has been deutroyed by fire. Thb city of Sandusky, Ohio, was thrown iuto the wildest excitement, last week, by a cruel murder, followed by the summary exf catión of the author of the crime. Alicb O'Donnel), aged 19 years, employed as a domestic in the family of A. K. Wtwt, was missing. Suspicion feil upon William Taylor, sge 28, a negro coaehman oí West. Taylor was arrested and coDfessed to ravishing and murdering the girl, tellirg where tho body was conccaled. He conducted officers to the spot, six miles out of the city. The bcdy was found. the brains knocked out, aud tho throat cut. On arriving in tho city again, the officer fonnd the city in the greatest stato of excitement, as the news of the confeasiou had spread liko wildfire. He was fearful that he could not keep his prisonei , and, on cousultation with the Sheriff, ït was decided to take hini to Norwalk for safekeeping. Accordingly they starled as privately as possible," hut " had ouly got a short diitance when they wore overtakon by a posse of monnted men, and the buggy contaiuing the Sheriff, deputy and prisoner was tui ncd back toward the city. Soon tb's party was met by thonsands of excited citizeus on foot, and, as soon as the city limits were reached, the whole cavalado haltod. Every moment the excitement became groater. The Sheriff had, meanwhile, disappeared, and the crowd, picking np the bnggy, turnod it over and toot charge of the prisocer. Tho mob was now led by the brother of tho murdered girl, and his rage tipproached that of a wild animal. Thedefejaneless prisoner was beaten in tho mos horrible manner possible. Howls of rage and shouts of fiendish triumph went up. At length he was evidently insensible, but tho mob was not satiBtied. The murdered girl's brother liad adjusted the rope around the prisoner's neck, and now, with a shout of vengeance, threw it ovtr a lamp-post. A thousand hands reached for tho other end. and as many as could grasp it held it fast and drew tho limp, lifeless form from the ground and fastened it there, thus satisfying the ends of justice before tho law could take its course. An Omaha dispatch announces the death of Hod. Frank Welch, Member of Congrf3 f rom Nebraska. . . .The eitizens of Jefferon, Ohio, are cqnsiderably excited over an oilstrike thore. which proiiiises to be a regular bonanza. For Borne time past the woikaien have been engaged in deepening the town well ia tho pnblic square. Upon reacbing a depth of about f orty f e et, the other day, the exeavit ons were snrprised and the eitizens delighf ed to dircover oil drippicg frqm tho sides of the we)l in considerable quantities. President Hates was accorded an enthusiastie reception at the Minnesota State Fair, in St. Paul. He delivered a lengthy speech to an audience of 50,000 pecple. Tho speech consisted largely of tabular statements ehofting the reduction of the public debt, Ihe decreasod ratea of taxition since the war, the cendition o.' tho currency, etc. He concluded as follows: Now, my friends, with this picture, as I think, ao f ulJ of hope for the future for you and I 88 individuals, I do not veDturo with confidence upon predictione of prospenty reviving. I have no spirit of prophecy, but, reasoning, let us see how it stands. The (lebt is a great burden upon labor and capital. It ia grcatly dimlniehcd, and is Etill dixninisbing. Taxation ís a great burden upon labor and capita), ard it is greatly diminiehed and Ptill diniinishing. So, too, as to the expensfs of tüe Govorcinent ; and then with that wb'.ch lielps no, a eludí currency com'ng, and immigratiott raming, may I not confidently say that these are mdicationB, at Jeafct, that we are marching to tbc türoshold of reviviüg general business prosperity ? And now shall we look around for a new way to pay old debti, or shall we march intbcpathsmarkedout by the fathers - of industry, of íconomy ? Shall we do wbat Washington and Franklin wonid advise f That is the quettlon before the people to-day, my fr.'ends. I enter upon no argument on a disputed qursïjon, but I say, as my opinión - we may be mlRtakf n all of os, but I believe it- that a restored ïinancial condition depende largely tipsn au honest currenoy, and I say this : The commerce of tlie wor.'d is the cominerce r.ow inwhich we are t.ikiug part. and that Js the same thing the globe aronnd. " Where there are very hard times in one great nation, sooner or later it goes clear around. We should then baso our ñnancial syetem on principies and inytruniontalities that are sanctioned and apnroved by the best judgnicnt of the whole commercial wnrld. Then, I repeat, if we want our s'.and&rd fmancial prosperity to be baned upon sure and safe foundations, let us rimember - Iet us all remember - that its best Eecurity Is an untarnifhed national credit and a sound, constitutional cnrency. A party of seven men, mounted and well aimtd, recently came into the mining oamp of Caraboo, Idaho, where some twenty er thirty minera were at work on scattered claim?. They robbed all of them ia detail, alKO tho store ut the camp, took all the good hordes with them, shot the poorest ones, and Jeft. They got ahout $16,000, niostly in gold dmt from the minere. It is supposed that tbis is the same party that lately took up a rail on the Union Pacific at Medicine Bow A dispateh from Camp Stambatigh, Wyomiug Territory, reports a fight on Clark's fork, between a detachment of troops and Crow Iurtians and abont twenty lodges of hostile Bannocks. The Bannocks were defented, their 'hief, and their Fquaws and children. and a largo number of horses being captured. One Foldier, a citizen, and a Crow scout were killed, nnd one soldier wounded. Many of the Bannocks were killed. GENERAL. Samuel Allan McCoskey, Bishop of the Diocese of Michigan, has been eolemnly depoeei from the ministry of the Protestan! K iscopal Chnrch by the unanimous action of the Houeo of Biehops. This action was a surprieo to all save the membors of the House, it having been generally understood that the resiguation of Bishop McCoskry, submitted immediately before his departñro for Europe. wonld be accepted. His deposition frem the ministry and from all its offices, however, is not the renult of a former trial of charges of immoralonduct, bnt han been made simply on the technical grounds of his abandonment of bis dircose and departure from the territory of tho United States while allegations affeeting hiB morality were in existence. A Washington telegram says: "A gentleman who has receutly returned from Now York visited the asylum where the witness Leet is, who went infane during his examination before the Potter committee. Leet insista that he was badly deceived; that the only oondition on wbich he agrecd to be a witness was that be i-hould bo permitted to teil his own story, and should not ba examined bv Ben Butler." THE SOUTH. Eeports of tho yellow plague in the Southern cities up to Sept. 4 ehow no abatomont of the epidemie. At Mempbis there were eighty-six deathB for theprevioustweotyfour hours, about half of them colored poople. Physicians and nnrses were well-nigh worn out, and the situation was extiemely discouragúig. A Vickplmrg dispatch thus det cribes the Bituation Ui that city : "This truly has been the Baddcst day Vicksbnrg has experienced for 6fty years. There Isno telling of the Fufferiug within our midst. No pen can picture the droadful state of existing affairs here, acd the outeide world can f orm only a f aint idea of he misery of the poor of this plague-stiioken city. If this devastating diseaso keeps np the strides of the past twenty-four hours there will not be one loit to teil the tale in a short time. There is no way to-day of getting at the correct list of new casen. The death-li8t - oh ! horror ! - exceeds any during the scourge of the neverto-be-forgotten 1853. No person seems to be exempt from attack, not even tbose who have had the yellow f ever before." At New Orleaus the plaguo was on the inercare, to far as the number of new cases was concerned, though tho mortality was not so great, only 36 deaths being reported for the twenty-fom' liours. Tho fever had braken uut at Brownsville, Tenn., Holly Springs, Greenville, and Delphi, Miss., and Hickman, Ky., and tbe inhabitants of thoee towns wero Heeing as fast as they could get away. At Hickman the epidemie raged sevcral days before it was ascertained tbat the disease was really yellow fever, and then a wild pr.nic onsued. Owiog to the terror of tho peoplo, the sufferjng in these rural towns will be greater, proportionately, than in the large citie?. Thkee were eighty-nine deaths from yellow fover in Mempbis on the 5th inst. A diBpatch from that city of that date says: " We have scttled down into a state of despair that i hard to break by the cloeest home-thmsts from tbe plague. Wo know nothing of what the outnide world is doing, nor do we care. Dootorf, r.urees, drugo, sick-rooms, coffinH, graves, ongross our attention by their petrifyïng monotony of occurreneo." At New Orleans 201 new cases and tighty-six deatbs wero reported on the 5th. In Vicksbnrg the plague showed no abatement, the number of deaths being greater than on any preceding day, namely, 45 ; number of new casos reported, 183. At Holly Springs. Miss., Hickman, Ky., and Brownsville and Union City, Tenn., the Bituation was traly distreesing. 'Business was completely suspended iu all these places, everybody having fled tbat eould get away. Thero was sore n..cd of supplies and uureen. Fob the twenty-four honrs endiog at 6 o'olock Scpt. 8 there weie 101 deaths from yellow fever in Memphis, and 400 new catee, in Vicktbnrg, for the same period, tbere were 185 new cases and 42 deaths; in New Orleans, 223 new cafes and 87 deaths. At Grenada the pcstilenoe had abated somowhat, pimply because thore woro no more victiras. At Hickman, Grcouville, Cantón and other toïvns whero tho plague liad appeared the mortality roll coutinned to iocrcase. The totai deaths from yellow f ever in all the plagucmfected cities up to the 7th of September, were au follows: Case. Death. New OrleanR A.SOO 1,500 Vicksburg 1903 5S0 Mcmpbie -fi{)3 W) Morgan City 30 1(1 drenada, Mies 500 170 Cantón, Miss 125 45 Ocean Springs, Miss 20 7 Holly Springs, Miss , 125 35 Hickman, Kt o 85 Louisville, Ky 3S 12 Ht. Louis 40 15 OinciuDati 8 5 Ottoerpointa ,, 50J 160 Total 13,(03 3,334 A dispatch from Naphville, Tenn., says that Pinkney Bell, the murderer of atablo Dement, of Rutherford county, was taken from the Murfreesboro jail at midnight and lynched by a mob of over 100 men. Memphis dispatcbes of Sept. 9 represent the condition of affairs in that city as truly appalling. The new cases of yellow fever for the preceding twenty-four hours reached the foarfal figure of 411, and the doaths 120. Over 2,000 people were down with the pestileuce. The doctors were workiujj hard, but hnndreds of persons were dying without beiug able to get a phyaician. "A walk or a ride tbrough any street of the city," telographs a correspondent, "reveáis the scène of death at almost everystep, wbile thentench from rotting bodies is most loathsome, the number of unattended cases being bo numerous that mauy are fouml daily ouly by tracing upthe scent tiïl its source is reached, and tben i't is often the case that threo or four dead bodies are found in oue room." At New Orleans the number of new caeos for the tweuty-four hours was 144, and the deaths 87. At" Hiekman, Ky., 60 cases of fever wero under t rea t ment, in a population of 200. A dispatch of the 9th from Jackson, Miss., says: "The fever has broken out at Beveral new points in this State - Bolton Lake, Lawreiico Station on the Vicksburg and Menden raiiway, and Gilman Station on the New Orleans road; Ury Grove, inHinds county. No abatement at Vicksburg, Holly Springs, Port GibBon, or Greenvillo. At Grenada only three or four remain to be attacked." WASHINGTON According to the treasury statement for Sept. 1, the national debt was decreased $6,475,504 during the month of August. Appended are the official figures : 8ix per cent, borde $ 723,553,850 Pivp percent, bonds 703,266,650 F our and a half per oent. bonds 250,000,000 Four per cent. bonds 141,850,000 Total coin bonrts tl,818.670,500 Lawf ui moncy debt $ 14,000,000 Matured debt $ 11,973,650 Legal tenders 846,743,256 Certificaba of deposlt 49,460,100 Fractional currenoy 16,351.728 Coin certuicatca 44,017,850 Total without Interest $ 45672,834 Total debt $201,216,984 Total Interest 27,890,917 Caeh In trBasury : Onin $ 238 420,709 Currency 2,122,171 Ourroncy held for redemption of f rao tional currency 10,000,000 Bpecial ieposits held for redemption of certiflcatet of deposit 49,460,000 Total in treasury .$ 300,002.881 Debt lesB cash in treasury .$2,029, 1Ö5.U2O Decreaee of dobt durinf August 6,475 501 Decrease sioce June 30 6,881 8;l Bonds issueil to Paclflc Itaiiroart Companies. intc-rctít üa.vab!e in lawf ui monvr Principal outstandiDR L4,623,612 Intercut accrned and net yet paid 640 235 Interest pald by United Statee 89,835,03!) Interest repnld by transportaron of mails, etc 10.241,749 Dal ai ice of interest paid by tüe United 8"tes 29,593,29 j Cómale at Dnited States mints in August: Dollars. 8,502,400 Doublo caglea 5 349 000 Quarter eagie 125,000 Standard dollars 3 028 000 The President Las appointed Gen. Lew Wnllace Governor of New Mexico, viee Axtell, removed The Secretary of the Interior has rendered an additional decisión to the Comnrissioner of the General Land Oftice in the well-known Dudymott case. The appeal was taken for the reversal or suspension of the formor decisión. Secreiary Schurz declines to do either, and the former decisión by which large tráete of land covered by land-grants to railroads were opened to settlement is to stand, unless reversed by a decisión of the courts. It is announced f rom Washington that the Secretary of the Treasury has finally decided that 10,000,OCO silver doliarg now in tho vault8 must go out. To accomplieh that he has cau.-i-:) to be issned a cironlar which prevides that silver dollars may bo obtained by any person in tho same marnier in which fractional RÜver curreccy can now be obtained. The treasury proposes to eend out, at its own expense for transportaron, silver dollars in suma of not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000 to any person who may make correspondujg deposita in currenoy with any uib-treastuy, detignated dopository or national bank denignated as a depository. In addition to that, for the present at least, all national-back notes seut for redemption in múltiples of $1,000 and not exceeding $10,000 will be redeemed in standard silver dollars. POSTMASrER OhAUKOET I. FnLEY, Of St. Louis, has been removed for alleged looeeness in the management of the office and violation of Order No. 1. He is sneeeeded by Samuel Ilsys. Mr. Theophi&us Fbench, the Anditor of Railroad Accounts, fctates that all the companiesexcept the Central and the ün'on Pacific of which ho has requeslod reporta havo either complied or expressed a willingness to comply with snch requests, as well as with all the provisions of the two acts in relation to them enacted at the last eession of Congres?. The Central and the Union Pacific have not as yet informed Auditor Frenen whetbor they wi'l obey the lair or not, but the opinión generallv prevails that these companies intend to coutcst the constitutionality of both the Sinking Fund act and oT the act creating the Anditor of Itailroad Accounts. A ciRCUiAK has just been iBsuod by the CommisBioner of the General Land Oftice giving effect to the decisión of Secretary Sehurz regarding tho right of pre-emption in the case of the unsold landsof (he Pacific railroad landgrant companies. Kegiöters and Eeceivers of Land Ollices are instructed to receive declaratory statements from pre-emptors, and, after ascertaining from the railroad companies that the limd applied for haB not been sold, to permit ontry and payment at the rate of fl.25 por acre. Tramps succeeded in creating sornething of a yellow-fever panic in Washington last week. A nuinbcr of them called on the Health Ofticer, representiDg that they camo from the South, and wore sicK with somc complaint, which thoy f earod was f ever. Of course they were eent to the hospital, andcddled and cared for until tho cheat was disco vered. Then they irere turned adrift, but not until they had been daiutily fed for a while, and repaid their entertainers with a decided scarc The Secretary of the Treasury directa that heroafter tho treasury in Washington and tho severa! sub-treasuries exchange Standard silvor dollars for United States notes. POLITICA!.. The Republicana of Minnesota held thoir State Convention at St. Paul on the 4th inst. Tho Hon. John M. Borry was renominated for Judgo of the Snprome Court by acclamation ; Sam H. Nichols was renominated for Clerk of the Supremo Court without opposition. and O. P. Whitcomb wan nominated for Auditor. The platform urgos "persistence in the policy of speedy specio reaumption," warns " the people against the doctrine of an vmümited and irredeemable panpr cuiTency," and declares that " in the efforts to restore harmouy at the Sdutb. in administeriug tho various executive dopartmout, so that no taint of corrii)tion rests upon them, in emancipating the primary councils of the people from the dommation of offioeholders, in its redemption of the pledgeg of civil-eervice reform, and in its flnancial measures and policy, the administration of President Hares merits the confidence and hearty co-operation of the people.".... Vermont voted for ötato officers on the 3d inst. Proctor was elected (iovornor by about 18,000 majority. In tho First and Second districts Joyce and Tyler, Kepubhcane, were elected to Congress. In the Third district JJarlow, the Greenback candidate for Congress, received about 5,000 votes, against 3,500 and 2,000 ly the Itepublican and Democratie 00111petitors ; conpcquently thore ia no elecion. Vormont requiring a majority of all the votea catt to clect Tüe Kansas Demoerats met in State Convention at Le&venworth Sept. 4 and nominated the following icket : Secretary of State, L. W. Barton ; Treasnrer, C. C. Black ; Attorney General, J. F. Co ; Superintendent Public lustructiou, O F. McKoin ; Chiuf Justico Supremo Court, B. M. liugglee ; Auditor, Gabun Shaunon. Tbe Minnesota Democratie State Convention was held at St. Paul Sept 5. WiUiam Mitchell was nominatcd for Supremo Court Judge, Dillon O'Brieu for Bupreme Court Clerk, and M. M. Black for Auditor of Stat. Tho Greeiibackora of New Hampshiro met in State coiivcntion at Manchoster last week - 362 delégate being in attendanoe - and nominated Warren G. Hrown for Governor .... The New York Kepublioïn Stato Conventiou has bren cal'.ed to meet at Saratoga ou the 2Gth inst. A Washington uispateh says that " Hepresentative Blackburn, of tho Potter coinmittec, has recoived a letter from Chairman Potter stating that no time has been appoiuted for tho next moeting of the coraniittee. Representativo Blackburn's understandiug is that the next movcment of the committee will bo to eend a sub-committee to New Orleans to take additional teatimony." Maine voted for Governor and Congreesmen on Monday, 8opt. 9. Tliere were tbroo eandidates in the flold for Govornor- Conuor, Bopublican Smith, Domocrat, and O&rcelon, Nitional. The latter polled a eurprielngly large vote, estimated, at this writfug, at upward of 40,000. None of the eandidates having received a niajority of all the votes cast, there was a failure to elect, and the Legislatura will havo to choose the Governor. Eugene Halo has probably been defeated for r.-slestion to CongreRS in the Fifth district by tho National candidate. FORKIGN An appalling disaster ocenrred on the Euglish coast on the evening of Sopt. 8. The excursión atcamer Princesa Alice, returning from Graverend, that ovening, with about 800 passengere, was run down off Barking by a screw steaiaer, and between 500 and C00 poople fonud a watery grave. The drowned includo an extrao.-dinary proportion of women and childreo. Sevtral of the survivors Rpeak of haviug loat as manv &a three, five and six children. They describe the water was covercd with hundreds of shrieking childreu. The Captain and uearly all of the crew of the Princesa Alice were drowned. They had no time to lower boats, and there wero bnt few life-buoys on the steamer The new 5 per cent. ituseUn loan, 300,000,000 rubíes, whichwas to be ssuod by the RuBSian Imperial Bank at 93 as the issne prico, has proved a partial failure. At tho close of the subscription oniy 101,000,000 rublea had beon taken. iNconsequenoeof the obstinacy of the Tarks, no approaoh has been made to a settloment of the difficulties between Groeci and Turkey, which were foolishly left by the Berlin cougres8 to the diplomacy of the two conntriea. Late accounts report that Turkish troops have been oncroaching upon tho Greek froutier, and war seema to bo considered somctbing more than probable. Contemplating that contingency, it is eaid, the Frcnch anc! Italiau Governmonts bav given notice to tho Porte that bombardment of the Greek coast town will not bo permitted in any ovent The number of livea lost by the collision in tho river Thames, and the sinking of the steamer Princesa Alice, is now ostimated at upward of 700. The cabn of the lost steamer is said to be packed f our and five doep with corpses. Lateit Mehemet Ali, who attended tho Berlín cougress as one of the Torkish plenipotentiaries, was sent to Albania to suppress diaturbaucos in that rogion, created by the Auatrian occupation of Bosnia. The people wore not inclined to be cacified, and iusisted, instead, that Mehemot'Ali should organize an army and lead it against the Austrians. Ho rofused, of course, and the infnriated populace therfiupon murdered him and twenty membera of his etsff. Tho insurgents al?o murdered the Governor of Ipoka and ten other officials. A Oaicütta dispatch says: "It íb geuerally recognized that the present is one of the most critical epochs (f&r England) in the hietox-y of ludia. A single false move in tho coDduct of the mission to Afghanistan may involve not only a costly frontier war, but wider complications. Tho mission forms a 6ingle step in the extentive concerted fcheme for the protection of India."