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.John Craig Killed His Wife, MotherIn-Law,
Father-ln-Law, BrotherIn-Law,
and Then Tried to Kill
Himself?Murderers Hanged? .
Rumors of War.
hn Craier, Los Aneeles, Cal., shot and j
killed his fnther-ln-^aw, William Hunter;
* * ^ ? * ** V?{a I
nis moiner-;n-iaw, :u.ary nuwci , ?
brother-in-law, George Hunter, and his
wife, Emily Hunter Craig.
Craig drove to Glendale, Ave miles from
Los Angele?, where his wife, from whom he
was divorced three months ago, was stopping
with her brother, George, nnd deliberately
ahot and killed them both. He then returned
to Los Angel PS nnd went to the home of his
father-in-iaw. William Hunter, and killed
him, after which, stepping over the body, he
waited to the dining room, where he shot
and killed his mother-in- law.
1 He then turned the pistol against his forehead
and fired t\yo shots, both of which
failed to kill him. He was taken to the police
receiving hospital and will recover.
He states that be was hounded by his
wife's relatives ani wanted revenge, but was
sorry be had not succeeded in killing himself
to ' omplete the whole business.
Craig was prominent in politics. The killing
grew out of trouble over the settlement
of community property. Craig ha* borne
the character of a desperate man, and had
few friends.
Down a Shaft to Death.
Lehigh Coal Company officials went on a
tour of inspection of Exeter mine, one of
the company's collieries at West Pittston,
Penn. The party comprise I Colonel A.
Mason, of Pittston, the superintendent;Robert
Mirror, of the Lehigh Valley Engineer
Corps; Professor Burrell, of Lehigh Universitv.
and Inside Foreman William Wilpon.
With the party was the foreman, Jacob
Gtr?i.
' Wii'n goingup theoldair shaft, wliiob. isa
seconl opening for the Exeter shaft, the bottom
o' the carriage gave way and precipitate
1 the men to the bottom. Gates, the
foreman, when he felt the timber giving
?iio oWu nf tlm hnntinc and
Wrt V, KIKJfJmi lut- oiuu ?? r,
held on until rescued.
Colonel Mason was killed by the shock.
Inside Foreman Wilson was fatally Injured
and died at 3 o'clock. Mr. Mercur was
badly and Professor Burrell slightly injured.
.
Half-Breed Indian Hanged*
At two minutes past 11 o'clock a. m. Wal?
lace Burt paid the penalty at Dvlestown,
Penn., for the murder of Mr. an 1 Mr*. Samuel
L. Rightly. He caused no <"? <ne at the
gallow?. Burt was asked by the sneriff if he
had anything to say. He replied, saying his
fat" wis a warning to all wrongdoers, in
ahotji twenty minutes after the drop fell
Burr w is pronounced dead.
. R'-Mtly and his wife w?r<? over eisrhty
yearn of .i<?e and lived near Richboro, Bucks
County, Prtnn. They were murdered for
th*?ir money. Burt wjis a half-breed Indian,
who had worked for them. The first clue to
the murder was a piece of tobacco dropped
oe'irthn dead man, which a neighbor recogniz-*
I as the kind used by Bart. The fellow
afterwards confessed.
Invalid Burned Alive.
H ?or^e W. Dee, a farmer, living < eight
mi:*- west of Burlington. Iowa, was burned
to d".ith in his house. He was eigaty-sevan
years of asje an t weighel 300 oounds, and
had been confined to his bed. When the fire
was discovered the flame3 were all around
Dee's bed. His son-in-law, Scott Devault,
attempted to assist him out of the house, but
the sick man was unable to walk.
Devault partly carried and partly dragged
him as far a9 the door, when the flames
wept upon them and Devault was compelled
to abandon the invalid to his fate.
Tbe flames soon reduced his form to ai blackened
mas* ia full .view of the horror-stri*ken
, spectators. His aged wife was terribly
KnvnaH
Rumor of War Declared.
Tbe Central News of London has this
despatch from Shanghai.
"War has been declared between Jnpan
and China. The Japanese have seized the
Sing of Korea and hold him prisoner
Eteven Ohinese steamers are on their way to
Korea. Moat of the troops aboard them are
coolies, armed with bows and arrows.
"Some Chinese steamers which have arrived
at Korea have been prevented br the
Japanese from landing troops. It is reported
that the Japanese artillery sack several
Of them."
' , Two Men Instantly Killed.
' While John Everly, Fran^ Jones and Milt
Blaok were engaged in running a traction
engine three miles south of Warsaw, Ind., il
broke down/
While Black was repairing it. Everly and
Jones, who had lost several nights' sleep sitting
up with a sick friend, threw themselves
down in front of the engine to take a nap.
Black, not knowing where his companions
were, started the maohlne, killing both instantly.
A New Japanese Minister.
Gozo Tateno, Japanese Minister to Washington;
has been recalled to Japan, and Mr.
Knklno, an experienced diplomat, has been
appointed to gncceed him.
rf>Ki? AVioncra fc* made on account of dls
satisfaction at the manner In which Minister
Tateno has conducted the negotiations with
the Washington Government, looking to the
modification of the extra-territorial treaties.
Two Girls Drowned.
Katie Johnson and Sadie Johnson, aged
fourteen and twelve yeare respectively, were
drowned in a little pond of one acre in extent,
at Bay Yiew Heights, West Chapel Hill,
K. J., while bathing. The children with
early one hundred others fro21 St. Chrysos$om
Chapol, New York, were having a two
7eeks' recreation.
>lurderer Executed.
Charles "Wilson, colored, was executed In
the jail yard at Sr. Louis, Mo., for the mur*
der of Moses Hodges in a quarrel over a
Toman.
WEISHED 590 POUNDS.
Sirs. Walters Lost !2.~0 Pounds in
Three Weeks.
''Big Alice," a museum freak, whose name
was Mrs. Hattie Walter^, died at Camden,
N. J.t of blood poisoning. Mrs. Walters
scratched her finger on a rusty nail three
veeks before.
When in good health Mrs. Walters weighed
590 pounds. Her Intense suffering reduced
her weight until she only neighed 300
pounds at the time of her rteatb. The door
of the house In which she live 1 was too small
to allow me coma lu nurer, ?a I IUO uuuy
had to be carried to the hearse oa a cooling
board.
Mrs: Walters had beoa a dime museum
freak for a lone while, and hai been exhibited
all oyer the world.
TIN PLATE PRODUCTION.
Report of Special Agent Ayer to Secretary
Carlisle.
Special Aqent Ayer, of the Treasury Department,
detailed, in connection with the
tin plate Industry reports, to Secretary Carlisle
that daring the quarter ended.March
81 last thirty-six firms produced 38,260,411
pounds of tin and terne plate proper, against
37,510,441 pounds by thirty-alae firms in the
previous year.
Of the tin plate seventy-two per cent, was
rolled in the United States. All classes of
tin and terne plate produced aggregated 40,423,300
pounds, ot which 90,070,601 pounds ,
were blank plate produced In the United
States. Of the thirty-six firms making formal
returns, nineteen used American plate
Wholly, three foreign plates wholly and fourteen
firms used both,
a shock resembling an earthquake ex*
cited ail the geysers In the Noma basin,
"flows'.one Pari. i?ia aativitr.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Police Captain Dohei:ty nnd his ward
men, Hook and Meehan. of New York City,
were found guilty of tbo charges against
them and dismissed from the forue; charges
were also prefered against five sergeants and
two patrolmen, who wero suspended until
trial.
The General Term of the Supreme Court,
Jn Brooklyn, handed down a decision affirmhie
the judgment of conviction and sentence
of .Tohn Y. McKane. the Graves end "boss."
The first election of School Trustees under
the new Borough an<l Township law
passed by the last Legislature or New Jersey
was held in Vineland, N. J. The women
made a bitter fight to exercise the right of
puflfrage, but they were refused.
Andrew Fttrman\ the infant son of Andrew
Dilks, died at Milvilie, N. J., from the effects
of an overdose of medicine administered by
his two-year-old brother Willari.
Several deaths from sunstroke and many
prostrations from heat wer>3 features in New
York City of what the records show to have
been one of the hottest July days ever known
in this latitude. The temperature on the
street level reached a maximum of 104 degrees
in the shade. There were ten deaths
from heat. Joseph Daul, of Newark. N. J.,
planoed at a Broadway thermometer, saw
that it registered 102 degrees, and then cut
his throat.
Bt the explosion of one of a nest of six
boilers at Packer's No. 4 colliery of the Lehigh
Talley Coal Company. Shenandoah,
Penn., one man was instantly killed, two so
badly hurt that they died, and one seriously
burned.
Postmaster Charles W. De Bevoisb, of
Confers, N. Y.. who was found $1100 short
In his accounts, died of heart disease.
FrRE practically destroyed the Lorlllard
block on the southwest corner ot Pulton and
Gold streets, New York City, at an estimated
'.otal loss of $150,000 to $200,000.
At Waynesboro Junction, Penn., James
Wally. a farmer, was driving over the track
whm nnw.ac hv tho train. In the ear
riage with him were his wife and two children.
Mr. Wally and one child have since
died. Both horses were killed.
The squall which swopt the Hudson River,
overturned, opposite Hastings, N. Y., a catboat
containing seven young inon, three of
Khom were drowned.
South and "West.
Majob W. H. Upham was nominated for
Governor by the Republicans of Wisconsin.
Mas. M. A. Hartlt shot and killed State
Senator M. D. Foley, at Reno, Nev, Mrs.
Hartly Is an artist, and she killed Foley in
her rooms in the Bank of Nevada Building.
William Hekry Harrison Duxcax, colored.
aged twenty-*ven. was hanged at
Clayton, Mo., for the murder of Policeman
James Brady on the night of October C. 1890.
Duncan had been scntenoiid to death at
Beven different times.
Chiko, the chimpanzee attached to Barmum
& Bailey's circus, died at Dayton. Ohio.
Mr. Bailey had refused an offer of $10,000
from Hagenbeck for the animal. The body
has been embalmed and sent to New York.
The North Dakota Democratic State Convention
nominated this ticket: Governor,
E. M. Kinter; Lieutenant-Governor, E.
A. Ueland; Secretary of State, George
Slette; Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Mrs. Elsenhuth; Auditor, A. W. Por
ter; Treasurer, Knutt ,T. Newland ; Commissioner
of Agriculture, George Kurtz; Insurance
Commissioner, James Cudahie; Congressman,
N. G. Larimore.
Joes W. Love. cashier of tho Watkins (N.
Y.) National Bank, was arrested in Chicago,
charged with having a shortage of $70,000
in his accounts.
Comhoxwealebs from Seattle captured an
Ohio train and held it until threatened at
Alliance with a bath by hose.
Mayo Coi lege, the leading educational
Institution of Northeast Texas, at Cooper,
Delta County, was destroyed by Are. Loss.
$100,000.
"Washinstfon.
Sexatob Vilas defended the President In
a 9peech in the Senate. A vote to instruct
the conferees to report a bill making coal
jad iron ore free was defeated.
Cabboll D. Wright made a report to the
President concerning his investigation of the
slums of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia
and Baltimore.
Thk President approved the Naval, Diplomatic
and Consular and Military Academy
Appropriation bills.
Ax investigation of the tacts concerning
the Nova Scotia coal syndicate shows that
the charges that W. C. Whitnev, Secretary
Lamont and President Cleveland are interested
in it are false.
Admibal Staxtojj applied to be retired
- "? - ' ' 1 die onnll.
under ms lony-vcar 3cmv;o ??n. ..jjj/..cation
Is before the President.
Mail advices from United States Minister
Willis, at Honolulu, were received at the
State Department, giving in detail the facta
attending the inauguration of the new republic
and its recojnjtion.
Mb. Gozo Tatkxo, the ex-Japanese Minister.
took leave of the President. ExpressIons
of personal and national good will were
exchanged.
The Conferreas on the Tariff bill adjourned
without rcachingan agreement. Both House
8nd Senate eonferrees announced they would
make no concessions.
Secrstart Gresham ordered Minister
Denby to return to Pekin immediately. b&
lleving war between China and Japan to be
Inevitable.
Secretary Herbert has finally accepted
the 300 tons of barbette armor intended for
the battleship Oregon, represented by the
aeventeen-inch Carnegie Harveyized steel
plate, which has been tried at Indian Head.
Foreign.
The French Chambor of Deputies passed
the Anti-Anarchist bill 2G8 to 163. Meunier,
the Anarchist, was found guilty of having
blown up the Cafe Very, in x'.irls, and sentenced
to penal servitude for life.
The Bank of Engiand celebrated in London
the two hundredth anniversary of iu
establishment.
An earthquake has dcno much damac-e
and killed several persons in Macedonia,
Old Sarvia and Eastern Bulgaria.
The laying of the new Atlantic cable between
Heart's Content, New Foundland, and
Valentin, Ireland, was completed.
Twesty-iive lives were lost by the sinking
of a Russian ferryboat in a collision.
The Archduko William-Francis Charles, ol
Austria, was thrown OH his horse and killed
near Baden.
The Britannia defeated tho Vigilant at the
Penzance (England) yachting regatta.
A oeea.t heat wave, which was predicted
by Professor Falbe, visited Germany.
While or.e big Chinvse army is inarching
threugh Korea another i? preparing to folio
v.'. Japan is said to have ilred on the
British Sag in the rectat naval light.
A BIG BLAZE.
Half a Million Dollars' Wortli of T;timber
and Railroad 1'roperty Burned.
Tho third disastrou-s flro in tho history of
Minneapolis, Minn., broke out about 3.30 p.
m. in the lumber yards of the Rhevllu-Carpenter
Company, on the bank of the Missiseippl,
at the foot of Eighth avenue. North.
It spread with remarkable rapidity and
burned 20.000,030 feet of lumber, the gca
manufacturing plant of the Omaha Railroad
Company, with its round-house, tool-house,
sand-house and turn-tables, nearly forty
freight cars, some of them loaded, and the
office building of tho ShevlLn-Carpenter
Company.
The saw-mill, the planin^-mill, drying
kilns and store-house for moulding and prepared
wood, although in the very heart of
the fire district, were saved by a fortuitous
change in the wind. Help was summoned
from St. Paul aud seven engines with full
crews were sent over from that city. The
loss is nearly $500,000 and insurance about
*350,000.
' The salmon run at the Cascades, Oregon
la something unprecedented. in the history
of the State. Wheels catch tons every day,
and the facilities for transportation over the
portage are sorely taxed to afford means of
fhipmsob
CHINESE WAR SHIP SUM.
TTTF TAP A WEST! VTflTORTOTTP,
IN A NAVAL BATTLE.
China's Second Largest War Vessel
Lost, With Many Lives, and Two
Cruisers Captured or Destroyed?
Superior Fighting: Skill of tho
Japanese?Statement by Japan.
News has just been received ot a desperate
6attle between the fleets of China and Japan,
in which tho Chinese were defeated and tho
Chen Yuen, tho largest battle ship but one in
the Chinese service, was sunk, and two other
large Chinese vessels, said to be firstclass
cruisers, were captured or destroyed.
The battle was hotly contested,but the Japanpso
appear to have handled their guns,
ships, and torpedoes with more skill than
the Chinese.
The Chinese fleet engaged carried nearly a
thousand men, and the latest despatches
state that few if any of them escaped. Two
of the German officers in ommand of the
Chen Yuen were reported to have met death
with the crew of that vessel.
Tie news means that on end has been put
to the power of China so far as fluhting
Japan upon the seas is concerned. Not one
of'the remaining ships of China would dare
to show itself out of port after learning that
the first-class battle ship Chen Yuen has
bppn sunk.
The two Chinese cruisers, supposed to
have been captured or destroyed during the
engagement, are the Chin Yuen and the
Foo-Ching. The Chin Yuen was a protected
cruiser, built at Elswick, England. She had
a displacement of 2300 tons and attained an
average speed, in her trial trips, with
all weights, batteries, and crew aboard,
of 18)^ knots. Her armanent consisted
of three 8^-lncb Krupps and two sixinch
Armstrongs, protected by splinter-proof
shields. She also carried eight six-pounder
rapid-fire Hotchkiss guns, six Gatlings, and
four torpedo tubes. The Foo Ching was also
an English built protected cruiser, very similar
to tbe Chin Yuen. She had a displacement
of 2500 tons, was built of steel in 1890.
and carried ten guns of about the same calibre
as those carried by the Chin Yuen.
A Statement by Japan.
The following official statement of the difficulties
between China and Japan, which
led to the outbreak of hostilities between
those two o?untries, has been issued by the
Japanese Government:
'Japan and China were approaching a settlement
of their difficulties when China suddenly
requested Japan to withdraw her fleet
from Korea, and to give a formal compliance
with the Chinese demands by the 20th, otherwise
the whole Chinese forces were to land
and a sea advance upon the part or China was
to be made. The Japanese regarded this as
an ultimatum ; but, acting unier the advice
of the friendly powers, they agreed to the
proposals, in principle, in amended form, at
the sametime declaring that if the threatened
Chinese advance was made on the 20th, it
would bo regarded as a menace to Japan."
It is conjectured that the Japanese naval
commanders were instructed to be on the
qui vive for the Chinese warships and seeing
the latter advancing on July 27, they opened
lire,
Japan Declares War,
The hews that the Emperor of Japan had
declared war against the Emperor of China
reached the British Foreign Office, The
Japanese Government has wireddnstrtlctlous
to the Japanese Minister in Lohdon to offer
an apology to Great Britain for firing
upon and sinking the KoiV Sbing while she
was flyih# tbe British flag., The Minister is
also instructed to in form the Government of
Great Britain that the commander of the
Japanese cruiser was upaware until after the
fight that the RoW Shing was a British vessel.
Captain Galeworthy, the commander of
the Eow Sbing, and many others on board
the transport, were saved by the boats of the
Japanese war ship Naniwa.
In oonsequenoe of the declaration of war
upon China, the,Chinese Minister left Tokio,
The Japanese flag was hauled down from
the Consulate at Shanghai. The light has
been removed from the mouth of theNing-Po
Tilrftr.
It was reported that eight Russian war
ships were about to sail from Vladivostok.
Advloes from Tashaa state that the Chinese
are strongly Intrenched there and that
repeated attempts have been made by the
Japanese troops to dislodge them. In every
Instance, however, the attacking forces, after
hard-fought engagements, were tepulsed
at all points with heavy losses. A portion of
the Chinese soldiers engaged'In these battled
were the beet troops of the northern army of
Vloeroy LI Hung Chang. The Chinese losses
were small.
The North China News says that the
Japanese brought tip for the attack every
availably man, almost denuding Seoul of
troops. The successful defence made by
the Chinese vjaa dlrectod b,v European
officers.
Fifteen hundred Japanese were killed by
the Chlneeo at Yashan.
GOVERNMENT FINANCES,
A Cash Balance of $119,065,3512?
Gold Reserve $45,024,393 Short.
The regular monthly statement of the
public debt, just Issued by the United States
Treasury Department, shows that the aggregate
on July 31, 189*. was $1,641,806,240, as
against $1,632 253,636 on June 30, 1894. This
apparent increase is owing to the increase in
the issue of certificates and Treasury notes,
which, however, are offset by nn equal
amount of cash In the Treasury. The in
terest oearingaeot amountea xo TM;>,u4z,oyu,
an increase for the month of 8700. The debt
bearing no interest was $379,950,470, a decrease
of $51,215. The increase in certificates
and Treasury notes, which, however, are
offset by an equal amount of cash in the
Treasury, was from $615,355,820 on June 30,
1891, to $616,972,329 on July 31. 1S91.
The cash in the Treasury is $771.201.760.
against which there are demand liabilities
amounting to $655,136,114, leaving a cash
balance of $119,065,352, of which $51,975,607
was gold reserve. The increase "in th? cash
balance during the month was $1,180,915.
HEAT IN GERMANY.
Many Soldiers Have Died From Sunstroke?Killed
by Lightning.
Although tropical heat prevailed throughout
the German Empire, the summer military
drills were carried on without any appreciable
alteration of programme. The
troops suffered intensely. Fifteen soldiers
died of suustroke at th? garrison manoeuvres
round Bautzen, Zlttau and Leisnig.
8cores of othors who were prostrated by the
heat are convalescing slowly. From all
parts of the Empire where tne soldiers are
In the field come daily stories ol sunstrokes
and prostrations from the heat. Many
soldiers of the Berlin garrison have been
Incapacitated for duty for the last throe
days and have been senttotho hospitals.
In a hnavy thunderstorm at Essen, Germnnt?
1) r?Vifn 1 n of on nlf f K alcv>t fll*
One person was killed and twelve others
were stunned. Eight persons were killed
by lightning in Aimanfeld.
A COMMA SAYED HIM.
Jones Was to Be Hoiiged, But Tliero
Was a Flaw la the Judge's Charge.
Jesse H. Jones, nineteen years old, owes
his oscupc from the gallows at Little Rock,
Ark., to the uso of a comma in the Judge's
charge. Jones was charged with the murder
of two brothers named Hibdon, with whom
he traveled through Arkansas. They cam pod
one night in an unoccupied house. The next
morning the charred bones of the Hlbdous
were found. Jones's trial was hurried forward,
and on April 9th ho was sentenced to
death. A stay was secured ponding an appeal.
The opinion of the Supreme Court points
out that by the misplacement of a comma In
the Judge's charge the Judge appears to
have made an error.
It Is claimed that enormous defalcations
have been found in Ezela's administration
of Salvador's affairs, as muah a? $10,000,;
000 being abstracted Irom one d^***vjaeat.
LATER NEWS,
Ocean Grove, N. J., celobratedtho twen.
ty-flfth anniversary of Its birtb.
The Michigan Republicans placed a fall
State ticket in the Held, headed by Governor
Rich, who was renominated on the first ballot.
Three mon were killed and several hurt,
two of them fatally, by an explosion of dynamite
in a Chicago stone yard. A railroad
station 1500 feet away was damaged and a
car wrecked.
Attorney-General Olxey decided to investigate
grave charges against United
States Judge Ricks, of Cleveland, Ohio,
upon which lmpeaohment proceeding may
be based.
The Strike Commissioners met in Washington
and decided to begin their public inquiry
at Chioago August 15.
" ??? - afhfl Mftl.nra nJf I
SPANISH iroops uoioumu wv ?.-?J- ?
Mindanao, killing 250 of them.
The annual camp meeting of the National
Temperance 8ooiety began at Ocean Grove,
N. J.
The Armor Plate Investigating Committee
of the House of Representatives visited
the Carnegie works at Homestead, Penn.
State dispensaries in South Carolina
opened. Local authorities In two towns arrested
the dispensers.
The North Dakota Prohibition State Convention
named for Governor Roger Allln, of
Park River.
Jttdoe Joseph Holt, who was Judge Ad'
voeate-Genernl of the Army, and at one time
acted as Secretary of War, died at his residence
In Washington. His death was due
indirectly to a fall sustained a few days before,
but to which he paid little attention.
Joseph Holt was born in Breokenrldge
County, Kentucky, on January 6, 1807.
Evidence taken by the Senate Sugar
Scandal Investigating Committee was made
public.
Comhodobe Meade was ordered to command
the North Atlantic Station with the
rank of Roar-Admiral.
Secbetabt Carlisle accepted the Sixteenth
and Spring Garden streets sit* as the location
for the new Philadelphia Mint Building.
The consideration agreed on is $305,000.
The White Star steamer Majestic ran down
and sunk the Ashing schooner Antelope In a
fog off the Grand Banks, New Foundland.
One member of the schooner's orew was
drowned and another died from exhaustion.
The keg containing $10,000 In gold that
was stolen while In transit from New York
to Paris, but not its contents, was found at
a railway station near Paris.
Thbee thousaxl Insurgent troops are
marching upon Porto Alegro. This city Is
the oapltal of the State of Bio Grande do
Sul, Brazil.
Tns Spanish Government purchased three
cruisers from English firms to protect her
Philippine possessions against the Japanese,
HFTY^THIRD CONGRESS.
The Senate.
161bt Dat.?Mr. Vilas defended President
Cleveland's letter to Chairman Wilson in a
long speech, nnd Mr. Stewart criticised the
President; Mr. Hill's motions for free coal
and iron ore wer.e voted down.
1C2d Dat.?After a lone parliamentary
debate the Senate sent the Tariff bill back to
the Conference Committee without instruc
tions, as agreed upon in the Democratic
caucus.
163d Dat.?The Agricultural Appropriation
bill was sent baok to another confer*
ence. Mr. Allen introduced a bill for the
relief of tie States. The Senate passed a
number of bills, incltadingthe House bill extending
the annual term of the Life-saving
Service and the House resolution extending
the appropriations of the last fiscal year.
The Sundry Civil bill was reported with
amendments increasing by $2,538,301 the
House appropriation.
164th Day.?The Senate voted to buy the
Mahone lot tor the Government Printing
Office. The conference report on the
Indian Appropriation bill showed aereements
and disagreements, and a further
conference was ordered. The General
; Deficiency bill was placed on the calendar,
, and so was the House Bankruptcy bill.
Some half dozen unimportant bills were
pas?e-l.
165th Day.?Mr. Chandler introduced a
resolution tor the investigation of the Nova
Scotia coal syndicate by the Sugar Trust Investigating
Committee. The conference
report on the Agricultural Appropriation
Din was asrreea to. xne Dea;ue
from Its Russian thistle million-dollar
amendment. Most of the day was occupied
in the consideration of the amendments
offered by Senators to the Sundry
Civil bill.
Tie House.
184th Dat.?A bill providing that life-savlnff
stations shall be kept open ten months
instead of elgftt was passed.
185th Day.?The day was devoted to the
consideration of routine business of no public
interest.
186tu Dat.?The Hons* passed a resolution
emending the appropriations of the last
fiscal year until Au?ust 14, and discussed
without action the bill to punish those who
pirate plays. A larsre number of private
pension bills were passed.
187th Day.?Mr. Boutelle presented a resolution
for recognition of the Hawaiian Bej
public. It was referred to the Foreign AN .
rairs uommiuee.
I li)?Tn Day.?The House transacted con- I
s'dijratle business in the three and a halt
hours that it wrs in session, but little of it
was important. Most of the bills passed
were reported from the Committee on Naval
Affairs. Mr. Hatch reported the result of
th e con ferenoe on the Agricultural Appropriation
bill?an ngr.^omant on all items except
the one appropriating ?1,000,000 for the extirpation
of the Russian thistle in the Northwest,
put on the bill by the 8enate. By an
overwhelming vote the House determined to
adhere to its disagreement, and to further
confer about the amendment, as the Senate
requested.
189th Dat.?The Agricultural Appropriation
bill was passed, the Senate having withdrawn
its amendment regarding the Russian
thistle. The Funstoa-Moore contested
election case was considered.
COST OF THE STRIKE,
One Railroad Alone Presents Chicago
With a Bill for $*50,000.
Bills for damages to railroad property by
tlw strike rioters are now coming into the
City Hall, Chicago, 111. J. T. Brooks, Second
Vice-President of the Pittsburg, Cincln- )
nati A St. Louis Railroad, has presented a
bill which aggregates $4-19,091. Tho largest
item is $401,691 for 729 freight cars destroyed
and forty-two damaged. The Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne & Chicago hu3 presented a bill
of $21,347. The largest itom is lor fourteen ,
freight cars destroyed and ilfty-eighr
damaged.
Mayor Hopkins smiled when ho saw the
bills, and remarked: "Wait until wo get
through with them."
SIXTY BUILDINGS BURNED.
The Business Section of Belle Plain,
lown, Destroyed by Fire.
The entire business section of Belle Plain,
Iowa, with the exception of three buildings,
was destroyed before the fire which devastated
it had burned itself out. More
thau sixty buildings, business houses ani |
dwellings were burned. The loss is estimated
at $.500,000, whilethere is only $150,000
insurance on the property consumed. |
The flumes originated in a livery stable,
and, leaping across the street, were soon
communicated to several buildings. _
'TfflXT FLAME ANB FLOOD
FOREST FIRES DESTROY POPULOUS
WISCONSIN TOWNS.
Driven in Panic From Their Homes,
Citizens of Phillips Rush for
Safety to a Lake?Nearly a Score
of Lives Lost?A Sea of Flame in
the Lumber Region.
Forest fires raged over a wide area in
Northern Wisconsin and wiped out the town
of Phillips, driving citizens headlong into
the lake. Nearly a score were burned or
drowned, and 3000 were made homeless.
A dispatch from Ashland, Wi?., sravethe
following particulars Northern Wisconsin
is beins? swept bytb? worst forest flres in
the history of the State. The losses already
amount to millions of dollars, and unless
rain falls speedily this sum will be vastly
increased.
Reports in^cafe that several towns have
been burned within a radius of a hundred
miles of Ashland. To the south, Phillips,
the county seat of Price Count}-, a thriving
town of three thousand inhabitants, has
been wiped out. Taylor County, directly
south of Price, is beina: laid waste, and
Shores Crossing has been destroyed.
To the southwest of Ashland, MasoD.a
busy town of Bayfield Count)*, has been
burned, while in Forest and Langlade Counties
the flames are making destructive
progress.
It Is reported that twenty persons lost
their lives in Phillips. It is said that when
the flames swept over the town many persons
tried to save their valuables and household
effects, and lingered so long in the effort
as to be cut off from every avenue of escape
except a small lake formed by the
widening of the river. They then rushed?to
the lake, and while some succeeded In escaping,
twenty are reported to buve been
drowned.
Five hundred women and children from
Phillips are In the woods near Flfleld, the
next town, without food or shelter. A requisition
for supplies wa3 sent from Milwaukee,
Wis. It is feared many persons
have perished in the woods, as with the lire
r? nil o ?aii n A fliam (a ? A /ihonAii
for the women and children to escape.
The number who have lost their lives will
probably never be known. The list of dead
whose bodies have been recovered is as follows
: >Irs. David Byrden and her two children.
Frank Cliss and child, James Locko
and three children, Charles Pllantzer,burned
to death.
A hole has literally been burned in the
ground over a territory one a half miles
Ion? and a half mile wide, and the sawdust,
which is all of four feet thick, is
still burning, sending clouds of smoke
over the city to stifle the few residents
who have returned and are engaged
in putting up temporary sheds for the protection
of their wives and families. In the
woods around the city the people have
erected tents to shelter them until such time
as the crude houses which they are building
will be ready.
Appeals for aid to fight the Are were coming
in ali day. Belief trains were despatched,
but in nearly every instance they encountered
burned bridges and were forced to re
luru. rwui# wuueu ju uy iuo uttuica it n<?
practically Impossible to get assistance to
the towns frantically asking (or it. Cut off
from all outside succor, rains were the only
source of relief. The woods are dry and the
flames sweep through them.
There were only three brick buildings In
Phillips, the rest being constructed of wood.
The lumber Industry was the main source of
wealth and prosperity to the Inhabitants.
They hewed an open space in the forest an3
built a wooden town. Baked for weeks by
a bla7jngsun, It fell an easy prey to the
flames that swept up to its edges through
the forest.
When the box fastory ourned the boiler
exploded and shook the entire town. An explosion
of powder and dynamite occurred
when the lumber company's hardware store
burned. It is estimated that twenty million
feet of suwed lumber waa destroyed.
The John R. Davis Lumber Company sustained
the heaviest -loss, as Its plant was valued
at $500,000. A big tannery, several
churches, the Court House, the Wisconsin
Central Ballroad station, the public school
and all the business and dwelling houses are
in ruins. A dozen bridges on the Omaha
line have been burned and it will take weeks
to rebuild them.
The littietown of Mason, with Its big lumber
mills was wiped out, with, a loss of nearly
$1,000,000. The fire start?d in the lumber
yards of the White River Lumber Company.
The Are came upon Shores Crossing with
terrible rapidity and residents there lost
everything they possessed.
A freight engine with a caboose arrived
from Mason, and the worst reports of lire
there are confirmed. The town is literally
wiped out of existenoe.
Superintendent Collins, of the Wisconsin
Central Railroad,said in the morning that all
the news there was from Prentice, the first
station next south of Phillips, was tbat the
town was gone. As the wind had changed
and decreased in violence, the prospect was
ttmt lurther progress ot the forest fires
would be stopped.
In various cities throughout the State
steps were being taken to send relief to the
ufferers. Provisions, food and money will
be forwarded.
Briefly summarized, the fires have burned
as follows: Phillips la wholly wiped out j
Mason Is' practically destroyed, with the
White River Lumber Company and 30.000,000
feet of lumber; the headquarters
?I the Ashland Lumber Company,
(Uiftpaa Pr?aoin(7 nrn crone: a
special train on the Omaha, consisting
of sixteen care and locomotive,
was burned, having broken through
the bridge near Ashland Junction ;the camps
of the Thompson Lumber Company are
burned at White River, along with two
bridges on the main line of the Omaho Railroad
and two bridges on the Wisconsin Central's
main line, south of Ashland.
The damage to timber and logs scattered
through the woods, to Individual
homesteaders, nouses and other property,
to cut cord-wood, etc., will swell
the general damage to appalling figures.
8everal parties of berry-pickers from
Aahland narrowly escaped with their
lives, and it is almost certain that some
ot the lone homesteaders through the timoer
perished, unless they in som? providential
manner escaped through the suffocating
flames and smoke.
THE LABOR WOELD,
Babbebs have 160 unions.
Jap ax reports a cotton strike.
m? o -V.1- tnnn
JLHL vntuip ouiy jatu cuipiuja uuuu?
Detroit, Mloh., has 2000 carpenters.
Chicago painters get 32% cents an hour.
Tobokto, Canada, hss a Building Labor*
era' Union.
PoLiopiittt In Austria mast understand
telegraphy.
Massachusetts plumbers bare a State
association.
Toronto (Canada) city laborers get fifteen
cents an hour.
A Texas K. of L. District Assembly baa
6000 members.
Masbachusetts K. of L. recently held a
State convention.
Leadworkixq is the most disastrous of
ail trades to the health.
A Proofreaders' Union has been organized
in Indianapolis, Ind.
A rxioif of shirt ironers and laundry
workers ha? been organised.
Tiie New York State Worklngmen's Assembly
condemned prison labor.
Wheelixo and Lake Erie railroadere have
had the 33% per coat, cut rostorod.
A uxiox of workinswomen was orcanlzed
lately in the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum.
Hacoma (Wnsh.) unions are opposed to
the abolishment of the manual labor school.
The Chicago Printers' Union ha9 in four
months distributed $3500 to Idle members.
A St. Paul striker tvas fined S.jO for turn?
ing off atr brakes and "attempting intimidation."
LiUJ uanuiv*. 9 .HlWU'll .-WJ7VIUUUU 4 ocently
held its annual convention ill Sandusky,
Ohio.
The annual convention of tho Harness
and Saddle Makers' Intern tttonal Asaoola- i
tion was held in Peru, Ind,
BICYCLING IN ASIA..
THE REMARKABLE WHEELING
TOUR OF TWO AMERICANS.
In the Capital of Turkestan?RusBlan
Home-Life Around the
Samovar ? On the Vast
Steppe ?A Mishap.
W TTT1 I? J 1. _ .11 1
I 1 i j xuej story 01 ine remarKauie
I . bicycle tour around the world
I by the two young American
students, Messrs. Allen nnd
j Sachtleben, now running in the -Century
magazine, shows how many dangers
and difficulties they had to contend
with, and what enterprise and
mastery of resource they displayed.
Their route lay through countries that
were not accustomed to Western visitors,
and their strange method of locomotion
invariably called out great
curiosity, not unmixed with superstitious
fear.
In the August Century the young
men describe their journey from Sammarkand
to Kuldja. Soon after leaving
the former place the lowering
snow-line on the mountains, the chilling
atmosphere, and the falling leaves,
warned them of the approach of
winter. A failure to obtain necessary
passports prevented them from attempting
to reach Vernoye, a provincial
capital near the converging points
of the Turkestan, Siberian, and Chinese
boundaries.
"Permission to enter Turkestan is
by no means easily obtained, as is well
understood by the student of Russian
uolicv in Central Asia. We were not a
little surprised, therefore, when our
request to spend the winter in its
capital was graciously granted by
Baron Wrevsby, as well as the privilege
for one of us to return in the
meantime to London. This we had
determined on, in order to secure
some much needed bicycle supplies,
and to complete other arrangements
for the success of our enterprise.
"Our winter quarters were obtained
at the home of a typical Bussian
family, Jn company with a young reserve
officer. He, having finished his
university career and time of military
service, was engaged in Tashkend in
the interest of his father, a wholesale
merchant in Moscow. With him we
were able to converse either in French
or German, both of which languages
he could speak more purely than his
native Bussian. Our good-natured
corpulent host had emigrated, in the
pioneer days, from the steppes of
Southern Eussia, and had grown
wealthy through the 'unearned increment.'
"The Russian samovar is the charscteristic
feature of the Bussian household.
Besides a big bowl of cabbage
aoup at every meal, our Bussian host
would start in with a half-tumbler of
vodka, dispose of a bottle of beer in
inf.ervH.ls. and then ton off with
?"v ' y * - - x ?
two or three glasses of tea. The mistress
of the household, being limited
in her beverages to tea and soup,
would usually make up in quantity
wh&t was lacking in variety. In
fact, one day she informed us that she
had not imbibed a drop of water for
over six years. For this, however,
there is a very plausible excuse. With
the water at Tashkend, as with that
from the Zerafshan at Bokhara, a dangerous
worm caUed reshta is absorbed
into the system. Nowhere have we
drunk better tea than around the
steaming samover of our Taakeud
host. No peasant is too poor, either
in money or sentiment, to buy and
feel the cheering influence of tea.
Even the Coasack, in his forays into
| the wilds of Central Asia, is sustained
i by it. Unlike the Chinese, the
Russians consider sugar a necessary
concomitant of tea-drinking. There
are three methods of sweetening tea:
to put the sugar in the glass; to place
I a lump of sugar in tiie moutn ana
sack the tea through it; to hang a
lamp in the midst of a tea-drinking
circle, to be swung around for each
in turn to touch with his tongue, and
then to take a swallow of tea."
When the spring came the young
men began their journey again with
unabated ardor. At Chimkend their
course turned abruptly from what was
once the main route between Russia's
European and Asiatic capitals, and
here they began that journey of 1500
miles along the Celestial mountainrange
that terminated only when they
began to descend into the burning
sands of the Desert of Gobi.
"The steppe is a good place for
learning patience. With the absence
of landmarks, you seem never to be
getting anywhere. It presents the
appearance of a boundless level expanse,
the very undulations of which
are so uniform as to conceal the intervening
troughs. Into these, horsemen,
and sometimes whole caravans,
mysteriously disappear. In this way
we were often enabled to surprise a
herd of gazelles grazing by the roadside.
They would stand for a moment
with necks extended, and then
scamper away like a shot, springing
on their pipe-stem limbs three or four
feet in the air. Our average rate was
about seven miles aft hour, although
the roads were sometimes so soft
with dust or sand as to necessitate
the laying of straw for a foundation.
There was scarcely an hour in the
day when we were not accompanied
by from one to twenty Kirghiz horsemen,
galloping behind us with cries
of 'Yakshee!' ('Good!'). They were
especially curious to see how we
crossed the roadside streams. Stand
Viont tliAv would watch I
iUJJ UU T j
intently every move as we stripped
and waded through with bicycles and
clothing on our shoulders. Then they
would challenge us to a race, and, if
the road permitted, we would endeavor
to reveal some of the possibili- I
ties of the 'devil's carts.'
"On an occasion like this occurred |
one of our few mishaps. The road j
tfas lined by the occupants of a neigh-1
boring tent village, who had run out j
to see the race. One of the Kirghiz <
turned suddenly back in the opposite I
direction from which he had started
The wheel struck him at a rate of tif- i
teen miles per hour, lifting him off
his feet, and hurling over the handleLars
the rider who fell upon his left
arm and twisted it out of place. With
the assistance of the bystanders it was
pulled back into the socket, and bandaged
up till we reached the nearest
Russian village. Here the only physician
was an old blind woman of the
faith cure persuasion. He massage
'
treatment to replace the muscles wa?
really effective, and was accompanied
by prayers und by signs of the cross,
a common method of treatment among
the lower class of Russians. In one
instance a cure was supposed to be effected
by writing a prayer on a piece
of buttered bread to be eaten by the
patient."
British Crowns.
What has becemr of Charles IFs
crown? He expressed in characteristic
phrase his unwillingness to risk
again the loss of a crown that had
been recovered for him. As his predecessor's
actual crown disappeared
in the commonwealth, a new one was
made for him, at a cost of ?21,978 9s.
lid., ($109,892.45) and this served for
the coronations of himself and subsequent
kings until George the IV's accession.
It was known as St. "Edward's"
or the "memorial" crown. At
a recent beraldical exhibition at the
Society of Antiquaries, Lord Amherst, \
of Hackney, exhibited the skeleton of
a crown as being that made by Sir
Robert Vyner for Charles II, and
stolen by Colonel Blood. We understand,
however, that Lord Amherst
bought his relic of Rundell & Bridge.
He purchased, it seems, one of the
three crowns whose stones, with many
morajj were used for Qaeen Victoria's.
But it also seems that the old crown
so'a to him was George IV's, and not
Charles II's.
A "St. Edward's" or "memorial
crown," mounted with false stones, is
kept in the Tower. The imitation
jewels may be accounted for by the
fact that at the Queen's accession
Messrs. Rundel & Bridge were supplied
with three old crowns and some
jewelry, with directions to use their
stoners for a new crown in readiness
for her Majesty's coronation. That
wiM uunt?, auu tuc new vxuwu, ui uxadem,
weighing under three pounds,
may be seen among our regalia, resplendent
with a sapphire and the
rubby given to Edward, the Blaok
Prince, by John of Portugal, and
worn, it is said, by Edward at Crecy,
and Henry V at Agincourt. For
George IV, Bundell & Bridge had
made a fresh and very large crown, six
and one-half ponnds in weight and
fifteen inches high, its arches rising
to a point.?London News.
Bicyclers Race Against Horsemen.
Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben, the
wo young American students who
made a bicycle tour around the world,
were compelled to give many exhibi*
tions of fancy riding before the curious
nomads of Central Asia. The following,
from the Century, is an account
of one of their experiences in
the Chinese city of Kuldja:
Although built by the Chinese, who
call it Nin-yuan, Kuldja, , with it<?
houses of beaten earth, strongly re- .
sembles the towns of Baesian Turkes~
AUA Ana/tiiAfiAn 4- k A
bttUt (JiUUD uuu cra^uamuu kjj
Russians the Chineic have built around
the city the usual quadrangular wall,
thirty feet in height and twenty feet
in width, with parapets still in the
course of construction. But the rows
of poplars, the whitewash, and the
telegas were still left to remind us of
the temporary Russian occupation.
For several days we were objects of
excited interest to the mixed population.
The doors and windows of our
Russian quarters were besieged by
crowds. In defense of our host, we
gave a public exhibition, and with
the consent of the Tatai made the circuit
on the top of the city walls. Fully
3000 people lined the streets and
housetops to witness the race to which
we had been challenged by four Dungan
horsepien, riding below on the
encircling roadway. The distance
around was two miles. The horsemen
started with a rush, and at the end of
at- ? ^ *<*awa A ^ fK a
1/I1U Iirau 111 11C >T CJL O aucan, av vtiw
third turning we overtook them, and
came to the finish two hundred yards
ahead, amid great excitement. Even
the commander of the Kuldja forces
was brushed aside by the chasing rabble.
The Pikeman and Ills Weapon.
The pikeman was covered with defensive
armor, an iron headpiece, iron
"back and breast," and "tasses," a
kind of iron apron protecting him
from waist to knee. He cirried a pike
sixteen feet long, with an ashen shaft,
an iron head, and a blunt iron spike .
at the butt end, whereby to fix it in
the ground; and, besides the pike, a
rapier.
The pike, from its great length,
was a weapan which required deft
handling in order to be of effective
use, aud, as may be imagined, was
excessively showy on parade. The
modern lance exercise is a pretty
sight enough, but the old pike exercise,.
perfectly executed by a large
body of men, must have been superb.
We are not surprised, therefore, to
find that the postures, or instructibns,
for this exercise are extravagantly
minute.
To give one example, at the close of
the instruction on the word "Order
your pikes," we find after a mass of
complicated details the following con
elusion: "You place the bat end of
your pike by the outside of your right
foot, your right hand holding it even
with your eye, and your thumb right
up; then, your left arm being set
akimbo by your side, yon shall stand
j with a full body in a comely posture."
?Macmillaa's Magazine.
Recovered His Mcmorjr In Old Age.
Authentio instances of old people
who have recovered lost sight, hearing
or speech, or who have grown a third
sat of teeth or a supplementary crop
of hair are not uncommon. Bnt cases
in which perfect memory has been regained
after being impaired almost to
| the verge of extinction by paralytic
I shock are rare. This, however, has
happened to William McEntee, an old
man of eighty-four, residing on North
Twenty-eighth street. During the
recent storm he insisted upon taking
his daily walk, nud in consequence
was laid up with a severe cold. While
sitting in his arm chair after his recovery,
a day or two since, he found
himself humming an air which he haJ
j not heard since he wa9 a boy in the
! Emerald Isle. Then he began to tell
a story which the old song recalled,
and to the amazement of his family he
went on to recite incidents and event3
not only cf long ago, but of more recent
dates, of which before his brief
I illness he had no recollection. ?PhiUj
delphia Record