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r"' r ??r * * THE COOHTY RECORD ~ KiNGSTREE, S. C. LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Kd. &, Prop'r A NATURAL BONESETTER. trofeMor John Atkinson,a Noted TCngllsh- j man, at Work In New York. Professor John Atkinson, bon?3etter, has r tome to this country from England to set bones and cure the deformities of the JflLcted. Asa bonesetter he claims to haye to equal. He says he is not a doctor nor a mrgeon, but just a man who has studied bones and joints and the best ways of treat kg them, until he Is able to mot. mem back Into tb?ir noroial form when they have been displaced or injured. Atkinson has fc; . the most powerful pair of hands in the |rorld. They may not have the greatest amount of crude strength, although the nets he can do by his mere grasp are no I mean ones, but he claims they are at least the best trained and most capable hands in I jaorxssoB atkxsoit. I "the world for manipulating human bodies. ' All of Atkinson's work is done by the slm|fle use of his hands. He has no instruSneati and uses no appliances or remedies. .When s patient comes to him he examines l n eazefully. and then rnbs and poshes Mi muaolas and bones into place. I Atkinson's career began when he was a .Mr and bad an opportunity to watch the (Mitni bonesetter. Hut ton. For a long Jimohe devoted himself to healing animals, Work which had to be done withont pu ting i jatlcnts to bed and withont their taking I cart of themselves. Then he applied the \ ^knowledge he had gained to the treatment M human beings. Professor Atkinson has . two homes In London, at one of which he j V JSSOleea the poor gratuitonsly, and at the . i Other of which he receives his rich and {Mfctoeratie patients. Among those he has * ,oured have been the Dncbees of 8ntherland, Sflosrge Lambton, Prince Henry or Pless, Duke Ernst Gnnther of Schleswlg-Holstein and Lord Hyde. nt Dm ran nest of a New York newspaper I'*; {Professor Atkinson Is tresting free o< eharge all the mnlned and the halt who are K fcroaxbt to him at a public b&U in the tmpolla. * GENERAL TRACY NOMINATED. Qhaam the KcpabUon Candidate Vol ' Kayor of Greater Mew York. She Republican Cltj Convention nomin, tad Benjamin F. Tracy, ex-Secretary oj the Kavy. tor Mayor ot Greater New York; Ashbel P. Fitch, the present incumbent, tor Controller, and R. Ross Aopleton for f pmtdeut ot the Council. Seth Low repaired fwty-nlne rotes for Mayor. The jipto m;iin ?. TKACT. jtUail of 8anator PUtt were In fall eonbaL The platform reaffirms the St. Loaii mUeui platform and condemns Tammany |HalL General Tracy appeared before the jconvention and aooepted the nomination. FIVE MINERS SUFFOCATED. JoncwoM by "Black Damp" La a Pennsylvania Mine. J Jive men met a horrible death from j**blsek damp," the after accamutation of a , are, in the Jermya No. 1 mine near Rend'Bam.Pena. The dead are Isaac Watkins, Are boas; William TUomnkins, Joseph Smith. John Gallagher and William Frank- ; Jin. company men. The bodies of all bat Watkins were discovered by a man who went down into the ' mine with supplies to combat the Are. g> f 5-The men who lost their lives represented i it ' , jCM "shift." They went on dntv at 3 o'clock, lY and nobody knew of their death until the Safe Mtooovery of the iifeless bodice. Not a man i i' jb the party survived to tell the story. j- , v?TO Vi r<avu w4J kUQ ura'1 jyuiUkCU , ft*-' Mwd toe shaft. indicating that they had t WPeped ud struggled toward the shaft and mh air, while su Joeation was overcoming v?i?f dhem. b * . jjKILLED AT A RAILROAD CROSSING. Two Children ami Their Driver Meet a Horrible Death. Kf. - Maud Baldwin, six years old, and George ? ' / Baldwin, twelve years old, children of Bobert L. Baldwin, orerseer of J. Edward j Addieks's farm, nearClaymont, Penn., with . ja the driver of their wagon. Mytoo Dobriskf. ' were instantly killed by a train. The horse | $J.- was also killed and the wagon was torn to ? splinters. |? DobriskJ had started to the home of Mr. | Addicts. They reached the railroad cross- j I teg at Carrcroft just as the exr.ress train L tec Philadelphia wa? doe. It is believed I that Dobrisld thought that the train bad ) passed, for he drove on the tracks. The worse and carriage were burled into tb? air, and the oecat?ant9 of the vehicle w? re ' thrown ont and terribly mangled by the wheels of the train. Hnsbftcd?"Do you n^d anything for I |v the house r Wife?"The cook says k there Is not enough chics to last the ( |l<- week outV-Life. I AUSTRIAN PREMIER IN A DUEL. [ Co ant Rftdenl Won-ided by 11 r. Wolff, tht German Nationalist Leader. A pistol duel was fought In Vienna between Count Baienl, the Austrian (J ? ? -rv- ?T-1<? H,. Slorman V?_ , .Premier, ana ui. ??urn, mo ... tionalist leader. Smooth-bore pistols were used, and the conditions were that three shots were to be exchanged simultaneously at twenty-five paces. 1 Count Badeni was wounded on the first fire, but not seriously. The bullet entered the right wrist and came out above the elbow. \v? MMII I B.VDEXI. (Wounded In a duel with Dr. Wolff, German loader In the Austrian Unterhaus.) The meeting grew ont of Insults addressed by Dr. Wolff to the Premier during a session of the Unterhaus, involving a charge of "rascality." Dr. Wolff fought a duel with swords on Hay 8 with Herr Horica, a Czech member of the Unterhaus. as a result of violent , scenes In the House between the Germans and Csechs, in which personalities were ex- j changed. Count Badenl was formerly Governor of Gallcia. He Is a young and able Pole, but very little known, even in Austria, until he ! was unexpectedly called upon to form a Cabinet in September, 1895, when he assumed the duties of President of the Coun-1 ell of Ministers and Minister of the Interior, i ni. nAVllif^ /tafaw hint onlir tft his father. His mother's brother, a Count Mier, marlied the famous Oerman actress, Anna 1 Wierer, who eventually left her large for- 1 tune to her two nephews, Count Caslmir ' Badenl, the present Premier,and his younger brother. 1 OCEAN- RECORD SMASHED. i New Steamship Kaiser Wllhelm Der < Groue a Marine Marvel. The Kaiser Wllhelm der Grouse, the larg- \ est ocean steamship afloat, arrived off 8andy Hook Lightship Sunday evening at ' 9.09 o'clock, having broken all records for j the Western passage from Southampton, j It was the maiden trip of the Kaiser, and : she not only justified the great hopes that ! were entertained foot her by her builders and owners, but exceeded them in the bargain. She crossed the Atlantic in five days twenty-two hours and forty-flve minutes, lowering the time between ports ) < one hour and forty-six minutes. The previous record held by the American Line steamship St. Paul was six days thirty-one minutes. Not only has the big ship beaten the Southampton record, but she has also to j the exedlt of her maiden trip the fastest ; single day's run. On the nautical day end- . ing at noon Sunday she reeled off 561 knots, 1 Kw 9 mA tnAtil 9Ko f QCfpcf H ffr't I ' VAVwumg ajj nv %uvm ?*?v ? ran by the steamship Lucania. * OHIO VILLAGE FIRE SWEPT. Twe X?a Lose Their Live* and Seven j Other* Are Hart. The village of Bainbrldge, Ohio, has been the seene of a disastrous fire. An entire i square, containing most of the prominent ) business houses, several handsome reel- j denees and the Methodist Episcopal Church, < was entirely destroyed, and two prominent \ men lost their lives in an exolosion whioh | occurred in the drug store of W. P. Beards- | ley. ? ! The fire was started in a barn in the rear I of Perrii Brown's general store by two lit- i tie boys who were playing with matches. 1 The flames spread rapidly. In the midst of j the excitement a terrible explosion oc- j I ourred in the drag store, and Mr. Beards- M ley, who was trying to save some of his | property, lost his life. His brother-in-law, Thomas Higgle who went to bis rescue, 11 was unable to get out, and was burned to ! death, while seven other men were more or leas injured, bat none fatally. TWELVE MEN KILLED. \ Miners Burled Alive by the Caving in ef f n Mine In Mexico. The San Pedro Mine in the Corralitos group, twelve miles from El Paso in Mexico, eaved in, killing twelve men. The ( unfortunates were buried alive under thirty feet of rock and dirt. The San Pedro is one of the oldest mines of the group and rich with silver. It Is the ! property of the wealthy Corralitos Com- ; pany, the principal stockholders of wltieh ' reside in New York. President Gerry, of the Kio Grande. Sierra Modre, and PaeLflo ' Koaas.ana j. Higgins, dow ox new lorx, ; are stockholders. ' It the mine was not timbered the Metd can Government would impose a heavy ' One on the company on account ol the wholesale killing. J INDIA'S CREAT ACCIDENT* j 150 Person* Killed in the Railroad Smash* Up in Southern India. Details of a railroad disaster on the lino running between Bangalore and Mysore in j India show that 150 persons were killed. ; t Seventy others escaped death, but fourteen J of them were seriously injured. A train ran into a demolished bridge and | dashed into the river, the boiler of the en- t giue exploding, aud blowing the engineer j and fireman to atoms. Tho Ove cars be- j hind the engine plunged into the flood and 5 most of those who lost their lives were f drowned, though some were crushed be- ; f tween the^t^tered cars. TT nter Prospect For Gold Seekers. District-Attorney Bennett, of Alaska, j, says the lives of many gold seekers are j sure to be lost in White'Pass this winter. Gold Seekers on Bicycles. The stampede to the Whatcom gold mines 0 on Silicia Creek, in Washington, continues. | Beturning prospectors say that there is a j continuous procession of men, horses, f< wagons and bicycles between Wuatcomand Eignt Mile Post, on the State trail. Three Killed In a Boiler Explosion. 0 The boiler in the sawmill of ?. G. Dez, A three miles from Livermore, Ky., blew up, J ? Three men were killed und ten Injured. < j. Cold water run into tfc e t>oiler caused the accident. -3r '^ .yj itr BATTLES AMONG MINERSj ! Sanguinary Conflicts Between Two Factions in Pennsylvania. \N OUTCOME OF THE STRIKE. r*o Furious Fights In Which Guns, Axes, Knives and Other Weapons Were Used?At Least Nine Men Fatally Wounded, and Forty More Injured^ Many Ringleaders Put Under Atrest. Giraedville, Penn. (Special).?At least Dine men received fatal injuries and possi. bly two score others were more or less seriously wounded in a bloody riot here late it night and early in the morning. The battle was the outcome of a quarrel over the Hazelton troubles. Thirty-six men are known to have bee wounded and about fifty more are being se. ireted by their friends, who fear that they rill be sent to jail. Twelve of the ringleaders were brought before Justice Elias Kissinger, and ten before Justice H. B. Johnson. All were charged with assault with intent to kill, housebreaking, and rioting, and were held in heavy bail for court. , Many more warrants have been issued, but . have not been served as yet. Dr. Charles Sctilesman attended to twenty-two of the wounded, nine of whom, he says, will die. Drs. William Monogham , and Joseph Donaghue attended to four- 1 teen others, and how many the other physicians cared for is not known. Several hundred Polanders board at Will- i lam Culacabbage's hotel on Second street. Joseph Cavendish is proprietor of a hotel at the east end of town, where several hundred more Polanders make their headquarters. Bad blood has always existed between them for a long time and the recent itrlke troubles at Hazleton e nbittered them still more. Culacabbage, It is charged, and his followers to the number of several hundred, arming themselves with guns, revolvers, ?!? m n aA k A/1 f A Pa?An_ kuivrs, mrs, auu uuus, utaivuvu iv vaiyudish's Hotel, where several hundred of ( their enemies were celebrating pay day. The CaTendish men ascertained that their foes were marching on taem and arming themselves hurriedly awaited their arrival. \fter a demonstrative march the CuiacabLure contingent arrived and immediately stormed the saloon. Then a bloody battle ensued. The men fought like demons; the shooting was fast ind furious; axes, knives, clubs, and other sreapons were used with deadly effect. The battle lasted almost an hear, when the uulacabbagegang was routed, leaving their srounded behind. Everything in the house was smashed, ind the floors were strewn with wounded men. The walls were be? pattered with ?lood and shreds of human f esh. After the routed rioters had returned to ;heir headquarters the Carendish men armed themselves to the teeth and marched :o their enemies' rendezvous, where & battie still bloodier than the flr*t ensued. The ;>oKce force and the constables of the surrout ding region were called to the scene, jut were unable to cope with the rioting Jorde, who continued hostilities until morning. v The townspeople did not sleep a wink all ; light, and while they watched the progress >f the flght during the night they made no kttempt td interfere. The residences of nany citizens were damaged, and several mtsiders were wounded. i CLAIMS A CENTURY OLD. fannaylTwnla Farmer* Called to Pay SI,000,000 to the Stale. In accordance with the provisions of a tew law many Pennsylvania land owners ire now being called upon by the State to layover about $1,000 000 in cash owing to :he Commonwealth for over 100 years, and ;hey aremuch perturbed. The debt isupon lands bought from the State, part payments on which only had been made. Every gounty in the State Is concerned. Schuylkill County owes $23,000; Lehigh, i20,0<)0; Chester, $50,000; Lancaster, $70,K)0; Lebanon, $10,000; Montgomery, $10,>00. and so on. The forefathers of famous >ld Daniel Boone's father and grandfather, vho bought lands from Pennsylvania, lyng along the Tulpehocken Creek, Berks bounty, failed to pay a cent of the purchase nonev, and all this must l?e - paid by the iresent Innocent owners of the lands, unonnting to quite a sum. It must either >e paid In fifteen days, or it will be a lien ipon the property. The father of Daniel ! Boone bought 160 acres in Cumree townibip, near Reading, but paid nothing on it. Abraham Lincoln s ancestors also bought nany acres in 1790, but they paid every >enny, spot cash, for all tbe land they bargained for. Hundreds of farmers feel like contesting these century old claims, but the . awyerssay that tbey had better pay them, is with the accumulating interest arter ' iwhile the claims will be so high that thej can't pay at all. In some ca?es nearly every dollar of the armer's profits for the season will be retired to pay this indebtedness. A FARMER'S AWFUL CRIME. Sarders Mis Wife and Six Children and ' Gives Himself a Fatal Wound. John Boecker, a German farmer living ' eight miles from Carroll, Iowa, murdered | lis wife and five children and fataily rounded his eight-year-old son, Henry. Lfterward the fiendish or demented man ent a bullet into bis own head, inflicting a atal wound. The family were prosperous Germans and, as far as is known, lived tappily. No motive for the tragedy has ! >?*en disclosed. Boecker's victims are his rife and these children: Caroline, age.l j ourteen; Christine, aged nine; Henry, aged igbt; Lizzie, aged six; John, aged three, ind an infant. Cultivation of Sngar Beets. From reports received on experimental growths, Secretary Wilson, of the Agrionlural Department believes that sugar Insets an be cultivated successfully in nearly all he States of the Union. Rhode Islander Choked to Death. Michael Hennessy, aged about sixty i rears, choked to death while eating sup- i >er, at t is home. In Central Falls, B. I. A j )iece of meat lodged In his throat. Sixteen Killed by a Boiler explosion. Sixtee a persons were killed and several njured by the explosion of a boiler In a ugar factory at Botfalu, in Hungary. Two Couples Lost In a Squall. William Philips, Jr., eighteen yeare old, f Swarapscott, Mass; Patrick C. Horgan, Ighteen; Bessie Corcoran, eighteen, and adie FJynn, seventeen, all of LvnD, were rowned'while sailing in the harbor at the jrmer place. A Mexican Town Delnged, Terrific rains have caused great damage n the Pacific slope of the Sierra Wadros. torrent of water swept down from the lount&ins upon the town of Candelero, [exieo, washed nway many of the buildigs, and drowned ten persons. THE NEWS EPITOMISED. j Washington Items. The President has made the following appointments: Ex-Congressman Hosea Townsend, of Colorado, to succeed the late C. B. Kilgore as Judge of the United States Court for the Southern District of Oklahoma; Charles A. Wilson, of Rhode Island, to be United States Attorney for J the District of Rhode Island; Benjamin F. i Stone, of Ohio, to be Consul at Huddersfleld, England. Newton C. Bates, U. 8. N., hsa been appointed Surgeon-General and C hief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy. The report of the Director of the Mint shows the total coinage executed at the United States mints during September to have been ?10.044,449, classified as follows: Gold, $8,702,375; silver, tl.050,092; minor metals, $231,982. Of the silver coined $100, vou was in sianuara aonnrs. Secretary of the Interior Bli*s has ap* proved the action of the Commissioner of Patents in disbarring John Wedderbtirn A Co., of Washington, from practising before the Patent Bureau. The monthly Treasury statement shows that at the close of business September SO, 1897, the public debt, less cash in the Treasury, was 11,012.122.713, an increase since August 30 of $3,787,592. During September the Government receipts were $21,933,096. and the expenditures $25,368,815, an excess of expenditures of $3,435,717. Since the recent shooting of the colored Postmaster at Hogansville, Oa., tho Administration has ceased appointing negroes to local offices in the South. Secretary Long, in his annual report, will recommend to Congress that three battleships and ten or twelve new torpedo boats be added to the nnvy. President McKinley and his party have returned to Washington from their trip to Massachusetts. Fire entirely destroyed the central power station of the Capital Traction Company in Washington. Adjoining buildings were gutted. The total loss is estimated at $500,000. Senator Wilson, of Washington, says that a scheme of goveriunent for Hawaii had already been considered by several Senators. Secretary Wilson will ask Congress for a large appropriation for the Bureau of Annual Industry, the Farmers' Bulletins BUU mo ntxiijcr uumu. Domntic. BZCOBD OB THB LEAGUE CLUBS. Per Pw Clnba. Won. T<o?t. e?. | Clnbs. Won. Lost. ct. Boston ..93 38 .7101 Brooklyn AO 71 .453 Bait 90 39 .698 Pitt9b'jf ..58 71 .450 N'w York.83 47 .633 Chicago .57 71 .445 Cinein'atl74 55 .574 Loulsv'le 52 74 .413 Clevel'd..69 59 .539 Philad'a..54 78 .409 Wash'n.. 60 71 .453 St. Louls.28 100 .219 The appraisers of the estate of the late James O. Fair, the California millionaire, pnt its value between $12,000,000 and $15,000 000. William Ogllvie, Canadian surveyor o* the Yukon country, reports that there are enough provisions at Dawson City for 4000 persons during the winter. Tne town of Willow Springs, sixteen miles from Chicago, was destroved by fire with a total los9 of about $50,000. The Boston Cluh won the National League baseball championship, the Baltimore Club, champions for the past three years, being second in the race and the New Yorks third. The miners employed in the Hadtson Coal Company's shafts "in Edwardsville. 111., were attacked by a mob of strikers and womrn and badly beaten. The armed deputies woo guaruca me miners wcm alav roughly handled. John jSucher, a Brooklyn (N. Y.) tailor, who had long been ont of work, drowned himself in a sauerkraut Tat which he had partially filled with water for that purpose. Ezra T. Sawyer, of East Hampton. Mass., died from the effects of swallowing two false teeth while asleep. He was sixtyeight years old, and a prominent business man. The Congressmen who t dted Honolulu to gain accurate informath 1 about the Hawaiian Islands arrived at ian Francisco. Most of them express themselves as favorable to annexation. The National Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts, held In Boston, nominated ex-Congressman William Everett for Governor. Later returns made the result of the vote on the anti-gambling amendment to the New Jersey Constitution very close, and indicated the success of the amendment restricting the appointment powers of the Governor. The amendment permitting women to vote at school elections was defeated. Dr. Robert M. Flagg, a prominent physi- 1 clan of Yonkers, N. Y., who was married on Thursday night, killed himself at the Murray Hill Hotel in New York on Friday morning in presence of his bride by jumping from a window to the street. It is thought he was temporarily insane through business troubles. Eugene Kraustben And bis wife fell to the sidewalk on crowded Broadway In New York. They were accompanied by three children, and were exhausted from lack of food. The needs of the famished family were attended to immediately by a sympathetic crowd. Stage robbers are again active in California. Three stages were "held up" near Milton In one afternoon by two masked men and the passengers robbed. A Rock Island pa?senger train was held up in the Indian Territory: the passengers and mail were robbed, and unsuccessful attempts were made to blow open the express safe. The Massachusetts Republicans, at their State Convention in Boston, renominated all their State officers, with Governor Walcott at the head of the ticket, and endorsed the St. Louis National platform. Mrs. Clara Gray was killed and Mrs. | Rosina Nelson and two children were seriously injured by a Long Island Railroad train, which ran them down as they were driving across the track at Springfield. The farmhouse of A. L. Gordon, at Alma, neD.. was uurncu suu mroe cmiureu perished in the flames. They were left in the house by the father, who went to the barn. Gordon was dangerously burned In his efforts to save his children. A quarantine train which left Now Orleans over the Southern Pacific Railroad with Dr. Guiteras, United States Marine Hospital expert; Dr. Carter, of the Marine Hospital service, and Dr. Olliphant, President of the Louisana Board of Health, to hold a conference with the health boards of the towns and parishes of western Louisiana, was stopped by an armed mob at Rayne, in Acadia parish, and compelled to return to New Orleans. A three days' session of the National Irrigation Congress was held in Lincoln, Neb; Every Western State was represented. Rutland McEnery, a planter of Ouacita Parish, La., a nephew of United States Senator McEnery, was shot and mortally wounded near Monroe, La., by Jim Turner, a colored man. McEnery at the time was looking for Wash Ferren, another colored man, who had assaulted two white girls. Turner was shot and killed by McEnery. A slight fall from a wagon killed Samuel Lewis, of Slatedale. Penn. He w:is twenty years old and weighed 315 pounds. According to Assistant Engineer Knight, of Peary's ship, evidences of cannibalism were discovered in Lieutenant Greeley's camp at Cape Sabine by a landing party. President McKinley drove from North Adams. Mass., to Williams College, where he held a reception. * t .-. . .. ' IMWIg "spread ofthe scourge ! | | ' Stricken Districts Report Numerous New Cases of Yellow Fever. HEALTH OFFICERS ARE STOPPED. Armed Guards Prevent Them From Proceeding on Their W?y in t Special Train?Mails Tied Up-Talk of Asklnc President McKlnley to Interfere?A Serious State of Afiairs In New Orleans. New Orleans, La. (Special).?The fact tbat nearly 100 new victims were reported from the yellow fever stricken districts of the South shows that the spread of tfce contagion has not been stopped. In this city there were twenty-four new cases and three deaths. In Biloxi there were twentyfour cases and two deaths. In Edwards there ar? twenty-nine new victims of the disease. One death occurred there. Mobile reports six new cases and one death. There were five new cases In Scranton, seven In Clinton and three in Ocean Springs, making in all ninety-eight new cases and seven deaths. J Although all these new cases were re- ] ported, the most serious development was ] the condition of affairs caused by the quarantine regulations which have resulted ] from the panic. So serious is the situation < that it is the intention of the State Board of i Health to petition President McKinleyfor | some measure of relief from the quaran- i tine regulations which have been imposed ] by nearly every town in the South. Mail has been most seriously interfered with, and this is objected to as strongly as is the quarantine barrier against freight. ; A mob at Rayne, in the parish of Acadia, refused to allow the special train bearing , the health officers from here to proceed. I mil? I... .l?,J 4 V. ? V. l_ tk. I i JLUI9 uu procbit-?iij unu miMXj uamu vi mo ^ people of this city, and they will have to it quietly down until the scare is over. Even Dr. Oalteras, the Government's yel- ' low (ever expert, who wanted to get the consent of the Texas officials to make an t examination of Galveston's reported cases > of dengne, was turned back, and the only 1 way he can enter Texas is by a long water 1 route. The scare has gone so far as to i stop the work of constructing the Government levee at Biggs, in Madison parish, i and the contractor and Federal Inspector < FIGHTING "YELL01 As one means of lighting the yellow fevei burning the surface of the asphalt-paved si The implements used are the asphalt heater I been brought from other cities. at work on a levee being built near the i State capital, Baton Rouge, were arrested i and taken to jail. The mail situation, however, is the most < serious, and the people of this city intend ] : to ask President McKinley to intervene. It I is contended that President Cleveland, ! during the big strike in Chicago, took such ) a stand in the matter of keeping up mail J communication as to prevent any trouble 1 from that cause, and it is expected that 1 President McKinley will put his foot down < on the small towns where a half dozen men assume the right to stop passenger and mail trains. Mobile and Shreveport have practically j decided to conduct sanitary measures by j ot&er m^ans man oeroioion? useu. ouxtjycEort has been spending at the rate ot five undred dollars a day for sanitary work j | and maintenance of quarantine guards. . She cannot stand the ontlay any longer. ' | Mobile has undertaken drastio measures. I She will not stop the good work nor cripple ] herself financially. To carry on the work i a practical system of conscription will be j started, and men will be drafted for limited periods for work on the streets and on the guard lines. This is another matter which closely approaches the workings of war times, and recalls those half forgotten days. One thousand men are reported as baring been drafted for such duties to-day. FAMILY OF FIVE KILLED BY CAS. Mother and Four Children Asphyxiated in a New York Hotel. A woman and her four children were found dead Friday morning in the West Shore Hotel at Forty-second street and Eleventh avenue, in New York. The vic; tims comprised the family of Robert RavinI ius, a United States soldier at West Point; his wife Earoline, forty years old, and their children?Laura, fifteen years old; William, thirteen years old; Albert, ten years old, and Elizabeth, three years old. All were found asphyxiated by gas. Whether it was a case of murder and suicide, or was due to accident, will probably never be certaiDly known. The probabilities are that the I mother purposely turned on the gas after the children were asleep and then lay down to die, for two gas jets, one in each room, were found turned on, and all the ] doors and windows were closed. On the 1 other hand, the fact that the woman < had bought return tickets to West < Point, and had been shopping in the afternoon showed that the determination to kill herself and her children must have been made after she left home. Robert Ravinios, the husband, t could furnish no clue to the mystery, j There had been no quarrrel between the < two when the wife left with her children j on the trip from West Point to New York, j and so far as known there was no reason ( for her terrible deed, except that she had been ill. Ravinius and bis family were to return to Germany next August, on bis retirement from the service. ^ Washington's Wool Clip. < Washington's wool clip for 1897 amounts 1 to 6,000,000 pounds. 1 Stowed Away In a Dark Corner. The ship America has arrived at San Francisco from Prinoe William Sound with j a cargo of salmon, and stowed away in a dark corner was the dead body of one of J her Chinese passengers. It had been hidden j by the other Chinese to prevent a burial at ( sea. The man bad been dead a week. Boy Kills His Baby Sister. 1 Flora, the twenty-one-months old dangh. ter of Ovid Carter, of Peterboro, N. H., was < accidentally shot by her flve-year-old i brother. The boy was handling a loaded < revolver, when it was discharged. The < bullet entered the girl's head. 1 HENRY CEORCE ACAIN NAMED. Democratic Alliance Nominate# Him Fm Mayor of Greater New York. Henry George has been nominated fat *n9 STayor of Greater Sew York by the Demo* - ' cratic Alliance, comprising the Demoeratft League Clubs of Sew York and Brooklyn HEXSY GXOBOZ. Progressive League Clubs of New York, the People's Party of Kings and New York, and r . ?a D (strict Assembly No. 49, Knights of Labor. yflft Mr. Oeorge bad previously been noml-' aBj aated by the United Democracy, composed )t numerous free-silver and Bryan clnbs, ? which were active in the campaign of last , :*j fall. Mr. George nuce polled 69,000 votes : ft is a labor candidate for Mayor of New THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. Fudge Robert A. Van Wjrek Nominated For ^ Mayor of Greater New York. At the Democratic City Convention City rudge Robert A. Van Wyck, a Tammany * nan, was nominated by acclamation for kfayor of Greater New York. Bird S. Coler, of Brooklyn, a banker, was * g inanfcnonsly nominated for Comptroller, ind Colonel Jacob Rcppert, Jr., of New j fork, son of a wealthy brewer, was chosen 'or President of the Council In the same ";r2 nanner. The platform which was adopted did not j nention the silver issue, bat denoaneed trusts and the Balnes Excise law, and de- , V JACK" BY FIRE.^ r in New Orleans men are now employed la , tt] treets to destroy larking germs of disease.' -SH i employed by pavers. Many heaters have .* manded municipal ownership of franchises and dollar gas. Judge Van Wyck's nomination made Hts i candidates in the field for Mayor of Greater < 3 New York, as follows: Seth Low, nominated v5 by the Citizens' Unions General Tracy, < Dominated by the Republican organization; i . Benry George, nominated by the free all*1 rerites; Patrick J. Oleaaon. Slayer of Long island City, candidate of the "Battle-Ax" Democracy, and Robert A. Van Wyck, can- -3%I iidate of the Democratic organization. / SPANISH MINISTRY RESIGNS. Premier Aicarrara's Cabinet Goes Oat mt Oflce-SafMta Called In. A crisis has been injected into Spain's at- ^ Fairs by the resignation of the Cabinet. ' iwH rhe Queen accepted the resignation of the , ? Ministers, bnt asked Gentfral Azcarrags, the Prime Minister, to continue in officeanti* a solution of the crisis could be foand. OE5ERAL AZCARRAOA. 'Head of Spanish Cabinet which has just . ^ resigned.) Senor Sagasta, the leader of the Liberal party in Spain, was called upon to form a v$9 lew cabinet, and after conference with the * jueen he declared his willingness to on* lertake the task. Klley's Costly Klondike Joke. Edward Riley, of Providence. R. I., gilded .?*3 i large lamb ot coal, labelled it " 9000 gold ' lugget from Klondike," and pnt it in his >how window. Ten minutes later a man imashed in the plate glass window with & > jJs paving stone, stole the "nnggwt," and es- ~ ' fr Greece's Ministers Resign. s /J An Athens dispatch states that the 'V.' Premier of Greece, IT. Ralli, odlcially teniered the resignations of the Cabinet Minsters, and they were accepted by King i George. Thirty FUhermen Drowned. The Ashing fleet which goes annually to [celand has just returned to its hailing port, Dunkirk, Scotland. Ninety-six smaeknj started, but only eighty-eight canae baek.| Eight are lost with their crews, making a> ;otal of over thirty men drowned. Bones of s Mastodon Fonnd In Kentucky, While excavating for a pond on the farm! jf L. V. Harkness, near Donerail, Ky.,1 -fta workmen discovered the bones of a mastoion. The skull is nearly three feet I* iiameter and the other bones in propor-1 ;,o? >' js j r