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attention has been detected in a plot to blow up the prison, and a quantity Explosives have been found within the prison walls. Latimer was locked in a solitary dungeon at once on the discovery of the plot. For six weeks past the Warden suspected Latimer was laying some scheme and he has been watched closely. Last Friday a chore man was detected in getting a package near the north wall, which had been thrown over by an outsider during the night. A watchman got the package. It contained a quantity of Hercules powder. Warden Hatch has refused to state the details, and wants to keep the matter quiet SO he may catch Latimer's outside accomplice, and will not state what Latimer says about it. From reliable sourcess it is learned that old prisoners have made use of Latimer's money and secured outside influence to execute the scheme which would, if entirely successful, have partly destroyed the prison and let eight hundred convicts loose. Needs Investigation. ST. LOUIS, August 26th -The Post-Dispatch prints another chapter of its army exposure. It shows a terrible state of affairs at Jefferson Barracks, alleging that recruits are treated like dogs. Men are strung up by the wrists until they swoon from weakness. That brutal Sergeants deem no cruelty too severe. It relates how an insane man was heartlessly tortured, while common soldiers are imprisoned at the whim of their superiors. It is also charged in the expose that in the guardhouse where the prisoners are, they are packed into an inclosure twenty by forty feet. The sanitary condition is terrible. Lame Duck Annihilated. CINCINNATI, August 26:h.-About midnight the steamer Commonwealth came into direct collision with the small steamer Lame Duck opposite Newport. and utterly annihilated the latter. The crew were all saved. In less than one hour later the steamer Commonwealth was discovered on fire, and the flames could not be controlled. The steamer was burned to the water's edge. Loss, $40,000; fully insured. All lives were saved. Fifteen Per Cent. Short. NEW YORK, August 26:h.-When the result of the Vienna Congress became known on the floor of the Produce Exchange today there was considerable excitement. Grain went up 1 per cent. a bushel over Saturday's closing and 1½ cents over the lowest figure of the day. The market gradually settled and peace reigned before the close of day. The result of the Vienna Congress was startling. It showed the European grain crop was 15 per cent. short. Not Determined Yet. DEER PARK (Md.), August 26th.-President Harrison was seen to day at his cottage by an Associated Press representative. The President says he has made no announcement to any one as to the calling of an extra session of Congress. He says he has, of course, discussed the pros and cons of the matter with various persons. However, this much is understood, the question is not determined. Dishonest Cashier. MOUNT GILEAD (Ohio), August 26th.-It is supposed that the defalcations of Cashier Robert Halliday, of the First National Bank, which closed Saturday, will reach $25,000. Halliday on Friday made a confession to the Directors. He went away on Saturday. For the past five years he speculated in wheat and oil, used the bank's money and supplied its place with forged notes. Another Blanket Mortgage. NEW YORK, August 26th.-The Commercial Advertiser says a blanket mortgage for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, after the plan of the Northern Pacific, is now suggested as a possible solution of the present difficulty. The plan may be reported at the annual meeting of the stockholders on September 15:h. Construction Train Wrecked. LINCOLN (Neb.), August 26th.-The construction train on the northwestern extension of the Burlington and Missouri River road was wrecked Saturday night near Pine Ridge tunnel, near the northwestern corner of the State. Eleven men were hurt, two of whom, George Moore, the engineer, and James Murnan, a laborer, will probably die. Drunken Men Run Over. DURHAM (N. C), August 26th.-Last night a train on the Richmond and Danville Railroad ran over Arthur Burcham and Calvin Holder, near this city. Both men were drunk and lying on the track near the signal lights, at which the engineer was doubtless looking when the accident occurred. His Labors Ended. WEST LITTLETON (N. H.), August 26th.Colonel Alfred Aylward, formerly of the Transvaal Republic, died here yesterday. His life was full of adventure. He was prominent Fenian, and served in the American War of the Rebellion, also with Garibaldi and in the Boer campaign. Gone to Canada. CLEVELAND (Ohio), August 26th.-A. J. Jackson, of Cleveland, representative of Thomas Cook & Son, Tourist Agents of New York and London, is short $3,600 in his accounts. He has disappeared, and is supposed to have gone to Canada. Fatal Accident. SHANER (Pa.), August 26th -About three hundred feet of the Lake Shore Gas and Coal Company's trestle at Ciera fell this morning. Superintendent Weaser and his brother were fatally injured. Four other men areslightly hurt. All Hands Perished. NORFOLK (Va.), August 26th.-The schooner Joseph went ashore at Cape Henry in last night's gale, and is breaking up. The crew is missing. The schooner Maroon is also wrecked. It is believed all hands perished.
