A stkono effort will be made at Spring
field 111. to secure the passage of a bill ap
propriating $150,000 for an industrial
school or home for the blind.
An unknown man, crazed, half clad
and terribly emaciated, has been found
waudring in the mountains of North
Carolina. He is supposed to have been
driven insane by the earthquake at Char
leston, Aug. 31.
In the village of Uniontown, Ohio,since
Monday morning, live married ladies of
middle age have dropped dead from sup
posed heart disease. Their names are
Mrs. J. Ferber, Mrs. Louis Archer, Mrs. 8.
Johnson, Mrs. H. Hansel and Mrs. S. Bow
ell. It is thought that fright, resulting
from the first sudden death brought on
the others.
A trunk directed to J. A. Wilson was
opened Wednesday at Baltimore aud
found to contain the headless body of a
man. The feet, legs and one arm were
also lopped off, and were packed with the
body, but the head was missing. The
trunk had been shipped from New York
and the calico shirt covering the remains
had on it the name C. Cankholdt. In the
trunk were cards bearing the name of a
Brooklyn butcher.
WASHINGTON.
Tuk circulation of the standard silver
dollar is steadily decreasing. The num
her outstanding is 58,684.267.
Tuk house of representatives passed
the postoffice appropriation bill and a
bill setting aside SIO,OOO for a special
distribution of seed in Texas by the com
missioner of agriculture.
