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h:" L i Emmmsm ! (The Twenty-ninth National Conven to Be Held At Louisville, Ky, (FIRST MEETING IN THE SOU" The Kentucky Metropolis Prepared to i tertaln 300,000 Visitors?-The "\V?ri ot the Confederacy Will Welcome Soldiers of the North?The l'rognar ' Arranged by the Order. / I A recent count of the Gran 1 Army of Bepublic shows that there aro still 365 iWarriors enrolled upon its books. F v one-third of these will make the journe Louisville, Ky., where the twenty-n National Encampment of the Order will1 place on September 11 to 13. Many of t\ : COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF THOMAS G. LAWLI i-f. , nf fVio fnnffl,1priii'V will he th too; also the sons of veterans, the wives families of the old soldiers, members of Women's Relief Corps of the G. A. R., ai host of followers, numbering in all 300 visitors to the Kentucky city. . It will be a notable encampment for m reasons. It will be the first time that Grand Army has met south of the line, the Southern folk intend to show the soldiers the vast difference between entei the Southland on missions of war and pe For months the Citizens' Committee Louisville, which has charge of the enca ment arrangements, have worked in< triouslyto meet the huge task of entertair 800,000 vfeitora, a number greater than srbsle pojnlatfon of the city. Subscript to the amount of $60,000 have been collei to defray the expenses. There are fiftypublic schools in the city, and all of th together with other public buildings, wil placed at the disposal of the visiting veter, Across the Okto Ttiver. on the Indiana s are the towns of New Albany and Jeffers ville. The citizens of these places have ganized to care for the overflow from Lo ville. All of the schools and public bu Ings will be devoted to the use of the visi In these towns. The country in and around Louisville s 3500 men to the Confederacy. Those of tJ 1 A..-tA-n/l crttrif nf fVlA Ci, BiV (lltvo CUICICU IUIV kuu o^ru.. w. sion with even, more ardor tbaa the a vet citizen. Th?> >c>ow a nnnberof men in city who fough'.them a generation ago. T1 are also a great number of men in the who fought on the Union side. In all. li y tucky contributed 100,000 fighters to Northern forces. The particular heroei the occasion will be the few whoarelef Rousseau's old brigade, which formed nucleus of the Army of the Cumberland. Gordon and Longstreet, of the South, toe there, and both of them will bring fi Georgia many wearers of the gray who help along the general jubilation. Sold of the Confederacy from all parts of South wiii gather there, too, and when enemies w old meet, some strange taie adventure will be told. The Louisville committee has attendee many details which will be gratifying to veterans. All the physicians of the city h been organized, and will doctor anyone ; may need the1* care, free of charge. Thed stores will also fill prescriptions free or f< nominal charge. Every precaution has b taken to protect the visitors against i schemers who may seek to overcharge th Commander-in-Chief Thomas G. Law of Rookford, III., has already arranged general programme. The headquarters 1 be at the Gait House. The Council of ministration will meet September 11. at ' m. The encampment will meet at Mi Hall September 12, at 10 a. m., and the rade will move Wednesday, September 11 10.30 a. m., Columbia Post, of Chicago, ing the escort to the Commander-in-Cb No other organization than the Grand Ai bands and Louisville committees will par lpate. C. C. Jones, of Illinois; Thomas Sample, of Pennsylvania, and J. W. Car han, of Indiana, have been appointee Committee on Credentials for the encai ment. There are many places of interest in i around Louisville lor toe visitors. ? miles east of the city, on the old Brownsb {>ikt, is the grave of General Zachary 1 or, the hero of Buena Vista, Monterey, I saca and Palo A.lto. This famous war lies buried in the family graveyard of the Taylor farm, and his resting place is mar by a granite shaft surmounted by a lifestatue of the famous soldier. Directly in front of the city are the f of the Ohio. Bridges span the river c necting the city with the towns of > Albany and JefTersonville. A new steel sti ture running to the latter city has just b completed, and will ba used for the first t by the Big Four Road during the encai ment. A hundred miles south of the cit the Mammoth Cave, which can easily visited by the veterans and their friei The battlefields of Perryville, Richmo Bowling Green, Cynthiana, Wild Cap Munfordsville are all within easy react the city. They will be visited with a dea interest by many of the old wariors who i them in It-ss peaceful times. Colonel Henry S. Cohen, an Ohio ir will bo the Grand Marshal of the big par? It is expccted that fully 1200 delegates, v voting rights, will attend. The official campment badges have been struck f: blended metal of two cannons, both which figured in the great struggle, one the Union side and the other on the Con: erate side. Prominent People. The King of Siarn own3 only five w elephants. The Duke of York has developed into expert polo player. Archbishop Ireland ia the only archbis who wears the button of tho Loyal Leg Gladstone's health is said to be better t it has been at auy time during the past years. Lord Rosebery declares that the Prem ship of England was to him a purgati from which he was glad to escape. Professor Ley den, the eminent Gori physician, was jail $25,000 for his att? anco on the late Czar in his last illness. William Stroiic: is the only retired Jus of the Supreme Court of the United St now iiviiis. He is eighty-six years old. Prnrncs.ir .Tohn Milne. F. It. S..the fan seismologist, has just married a chara Japanese lady, whose lather is a Budd priest. Marshall Field, of Chicago, made n money out of merchandise last year than other man in the world, uis net pri amounting to *7,01)0.000. The 9cneme to secure the nominatio the Duke of Connaught in succession to Duke of Cambridge as commander-in-c of the British forces has collapsed. Frank M. Pixlpy, the founder of the Francisco Argonaut and for many year edito^ la dead. He went to Caillorni the oarly day8 of tho gold excitement. [in THE NEWS EPITOMIZED ' "WaBlilncton Item*. The picture of ex-President Harrison painted by Eastman Johnson, was hung i tion White House. It is considered to be ai excellent likeness of the subject, and as i work of art satisfactory to the best judges It is a notable addition to the gallery in th Executive Mansion. The heirs of General Albert Pike, famou ]"H, 'n 'ds day as a Mason, author and poet, fllei a claim in the United States Court of Claim for 8200,000 against the Choctaw Nation o Indians. General Pike was counsel for th En* Choctaw Nation, and Congress, through hi lor? efforts, it is alleged, allowed the Indian 62.85R.79S. 9 The United States Government will act i; nine concert with Great Britain in regard to th missionary outrages in China. f? ^ 1 1 samuel uresnam, n nepucw ul lummvou the retary of State, ami Mis* Sara Kobbe, dauprh nnn ter of a United States artillery eaptaii ' eloped from Old Point Comfort, Ya., an ully were married in Washington. y to The heavy withdrawals of gold cause inth anxiety at t!ie Treasury Department in Wash take tha An inquiry has been ordered by the Stat Department into the reported attack on SI Paul's College, an American missionar school at Tarsus, Asia Hi nor. The Navy Department is finding considei able difficulty in enlistinsr men to fill exist ins: vacancies and to man tbe new ships thu will soon be ready to ro into commission. The Treasury and War Departments hav taken steps to prevent any disturbances a the reservation of the Nez Perces Indians a the date of the paying out to them the $630, 0C0 appropriated by the last Congress. A contract has been made with the Wes1 inchouse Electric Company to furnish a ne^ electric lighting plant fortheHousa audSen ate wines of the Capitol at a cost not t? es ceed ?35,000. Final approval has been given by thi k Small Arms Board to the new magazine rifl [ii for the Navy and the Marine Corps, and bid 11 were aslced for the manufacture of 10,00 guns. The new gun is the Lee type. im> The State Department decided to brini \\Jj the family of ex-Consul Waller, who i3 1j |>U prison in France, back to America Domestic. record ok the league clubs. JVr Pe TV/in T/*a^ nt I Plnhi ITnn. Tiiah r*f Cleveland. 60 37'Vl9|Pliiladel ".48 41 .53 Baltimore. 54 35 .607 New York.46 44 .51: .R Pittsburg..55 38 .591|Brooklyn..46 44 .51: Cincinnati 51 39 .567|VVashing'n SO 54 .35' Chicago...54 42 .563 St. Louis..29 f.6 .301 ere, Boston. 50 39 .562Louisville.22 66 .23! and Au engine ou t&e Baltimore and Ohio roa< the struck a trolley car near Chester, Penn., in id a nineteen people. 000 The Whisky Trust was sold by public anc ' tion at Chicago to the reorganization com mittee for *9.800,0.0. any Thomas Tlovenden, the well known art)si the was killed while attempting to save the lif< and of a little girl at a grade crossing near Nor old ristown. Penn. "*nS At Pierre. W. W. Taylor. ex-Treasurer o ace* South Dakota, pleaded guilty to embezzle 1 ?* ment of the State's funds. The Bank of Shelby, Tenn., a small con ling oerD> ^as suspended. the A defective air brake on a Third avenu ions "L" train. New York City, caused a crash a 3ted the City Hall station and injured nutnerou Ave passengers. ese, Edward filler Cameron, President of th< 1 b? Hvgeia Distilled Water Company, killet fins. hint?i?df. perhaps intentionallv, at his hom ide, in West Islip. N. Y. >on- Fire in Philadelphia destroyed two larg ?r~ manufactories and burned out many lo lein? houses, rendering nearly t wo hundred peo tori homeless. Several persons were killed by lightnini >ave during the terrific ?torm that swept ovei jem New York Stale, Long Island. New Jersey and Connecticut. Many buildings werese on fire and destroyed. the The United States cruisor Columbia wa; lero found in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to be dam city agft'i by improper docking at Southampton iea- Eighty-one years aso the British bom the barded Old Stoninarton (Conn.) borough, or 3 of the sea, for three days and killed a goose t of Stonington had a great celebration of th< the anniversary. ... William C. Jlurdauftb, of Portsmouth, Va. and Arthur R. Gate wood, of Norfolk, wen killed in a trolley car wreck in Norfolk, Va iers Edward R. Terkins, the discharged con vict who stole a pair of horses, a surrey, and tbe harness from the Connecticut State prison s 0f was arrested at New Haven. He admits the theft and Insists that he was alona in the ( t0 robbery. thC Thirteen killed and seven men missing ave whoso bodies were ltelieved to be buried ix rho the ruins, was the casualty record on th( rug fourth day after the tragedy at the collapsed jr a Ireland warehouse building at West Third een street and West Broadway, New York City, any The Catholic Total Abstinence Conventior arm J- XT "--I- n.'i.. 1 ! 1 to/I/ in ?>?yy iorK oiiy nujuurueu iiucr iuo uw ler, delegates had renewed their pledges on theii the knees. It adopted resolutions calling 01 will Catholics to keep out of the liquor business, j " Four people have been burned to death bj P* a Are, which destroyed the Transfer Hote 1310 and several adjoining buildings in Pendleton P*~t Oregon. jje_ A collision occurred on the White Mount jef ain division of the Boston and Maine Rail road one mile south of Plymouth, N. H tiC. Three men met with instant death, severa q received injuries, and the ten or flfteei nal passengers received a shaking up* i a npForelsn Note*. and Baron von Tauchnitz, the celebrated pubour lisher, died in Liepsic, Germany. Justin McCarthy was re-elected Chairmai of the Irish party. rior Campos resigned the Captain-Generalshif old of Cuba and reoominended self-governmenl ked for the island. sizo The foreign community in Tientsin, closf to China's capital, publicly and unitedly dealls clare that diplomacy is useless in settlement on- of the outrages upon missionaries anc Jew others. uc- xhe British Parliament was formallj ?eQ opened; WilliamGullv was re-elected Speakei ,me of the House of Commons. Tho Admiralty Court, sitting in Bremer haveu, Germany, in the case of the Elbe^ Kjs Crathie collision, rendered a decision againsi inj" the owners of the British steamer, and Haee war iu Austria reached its climax ir i of a serious riot in Esseg, Slavonia. 1 of Experiments are now being made with i saw view of lighting Westminster Abbey, London, by electricity. l^n' Cornell University crew won the first heat .e/ at the Henley regatta in England owing tc m the failure of the Leander crew, their strongen" eat rivals, to finish the race. com 0f The French Chamber of Deputies adopted } ou a motion that the Government open negotiated tions with the United States for the conulu 9ion of a permanent treaty of arbitration. New York CUy'a Debt Increase*. Comptroller Fitch made public a statemen , an of New York City's debt. On July 31 it wa; $181,898,321.28, of which $71,150,068.44 wai h0n in the sinking fund, leaving the net deb ion. $110,748,'252.84. The ntt debt December 31 1894, when the Tammany administrate ,,a? went out. was *104,078,720.81. During Jul' ~ the increase was over ?2,00J,U00. ler* dry A Lar~e Cranberry Crop. The cranberry crop of Now Jersev prom Tla1n ises to be the largest on record, exceedini ind- flw. tntllirin-hncho! own, in 1 M(W WTVU IUV UlliilVU'WUguVl V4VJ/ tu 4VVV( ;tice atefe Salvation Army Declared a NuU;;nce. l0us The Salvation Army has bo'-n declared tling be a public nuisance by tho authorities o ihist Pontiac, Mich., aa'l an ordinance was passe prohibiting its members from parading o lore preaching on any but two specified streets c any the town. Dflts . _ . American* Mobbed at Tarsus. n of i the Advices received from A^ia Minor stat :tibf tbat the American Mission school at Tarsu has been attacked by a mob, and that som Saa of the students were maltreated. The mie 5? its slonaries also were threatened with vie la is lence. ~ THE MISSION MASSACRES. i. i n a Detailed Account of the Butchery of ! e Christians in China, } THRILLING TALES BY SURVIVORS t e 3 Only One American, Miss Mabel C. Harts ford. Was Hart, Hat Nine British Sab- I n Jects Were Brutally Killed?Many 0 Wounded and Much Property Destroyed | t ?Fanatics Perpetrated the Atrocities. Dr. Gregory, an American missienary, who d escaped from Kucheng. China, gives the following account of the massacre there to the d representative of the New York World In l" Foochow: "At 12.30 p. m. on Thursday, August 1, a ^ native Christian rushed into my study, sayy Ingthat several of the foreign ladies at Hwasang, a mountain resort fourpuo (about twelve miles) from the city of Kucheng, had J been killed that morning, and that two houses had been burned. Fifteen minutes e Inter a note from Mr. Phillips confirmed this, t He wrote that Ave ladies were dead, the ,t Stewarts were missing and four persons were - seriously wounded. He expressed the hope that I was then on my way to Hwasang. "I immediately went into the Yam en, where ' hundreds of excited natives had already _ gathered, and requested the district magistrate, Uong. to send some soldiers at once to Hwasang to protect those still living. In ^ half an hour the magistrate went to Hwasang 9 under an escort of about sixty soldiers. 6 "At 3 p. m I left Kucheng City under an 9 escort of thirteen soldiers, arriving at Hwa- ] * sang at 8 p. m.. to find that nine adults, all t British subjects, hai been murdered, and ? that all those still alive at Hwasang?eight 1 3 only?had been more or less severely injured, excepting Mr. Phillips, who arrived there i only two or three day? before, and was Iodg- t ing at a native house some distance from the 1 English cottages. ? 1 ?L ?0 t natiyero^ucheng, of the type wj 3 the christia: ' I delayed in leaving Kucheng, owing to | S the fact that the cooliea refused to carry p " chairs. Oa my arrival I set to work to make e 1 the injured a3 comfortable as possible. b "Miss Mabel C. Hartford, of the Methodist p Mission, the only American residing In \ Hwasang at the time, who was living in a 1] ? Bmall native house some twenty rods from 8 9 the English cottages, was attacked by one & assassin armed with a trident. She received - a slight cut in the lobe of the right ear, was c I thrown to the ground, beaten about the t , lower extremities and the body. While the I murderer was engaged in this attack a ser- s > vant grappled with the assailant, and during 1 the struggle Miss Hartford escaped. "Of those killed outright Mr. and Mrs. p | Stewart, Nellie Saunders and Lena Pellow, 8 , an Irish nurse, were almost wholly incin[ erated in the burned house. In all probabil- J [ Ity they were murdered before the house 9 burned. 8 "This frightful moss-tore wa3 done by mem- 1 | bers of the secret society known as the Vege- a tarians, who have been causing much trouble p r alike to Christians and heathens in and y 1 around Kuohens: City. y "From various reports of those who saw 9 r the attack, I believe that about eighty men G I were qngaged. They were armed with 6 . spears and swords, and seemed strongly or- a ?anized under one chief leader. p "The attack came like a thunderbolt out c . of a clear sky, not one of the victims having 9 the slightest intimation of the intention to I assault them. Thirty minutes from the time p i the onslaught commenced not a single Vegetarian was to be seen near the grounds of the massacre. . c W.A 4U?4. 4-V.s* 1n/^lao "111133 l>UUlU?bl)U LOUS uio luai iuo muiw were first seized and told that they were to be bound and taken away into captivity. Af" terwards several faint-hearted attempts were 0 made to kill them when they pleaded for d i their lives. At this time tho leader appeared e upon the scene, and noting the wavering of ^ > of the gang, shouted out to them: 'You know j t your orders. Kill them outright!' These g orders were at once obeyed. "It is obvious to all who have given the matter much thought that China has been en- j [ couraged to continue to be slack in caring e . for foreigners' lives and property within her t territory by the fact that heretofore a money j. indemnity has been accepted as the price of ^ ' foreign blood spilt by murdurous subjects. j. "Just as long as the foreign Powers are c satisfied with such a settlement of this wan- t - ton, barbarous destruction ot life, just so <j - long will China fail to govern her people as ^ t she should govern them in this enlightened r century. J. J. Gkeooby." a i . i MABEL HARTFORD'S STATEMENT. A Loyal Servant Saved Her From Chi- t nese Assassin's Spear. i > ? Miss Mabel C. Hartford, the only Amerl- { can at Hwasane at the time of the massacre, j I makes the following statement: "August 1, at 7.33 a. m., I heard shouts. They were the yells of servants, who rushed in shouting to me to get up, for the Vegetarians were coming, tearing down the * houses on the hill belonging to the English f Mission. A few minutes later a teacher j , came to my door and told me to run. I put < c on my clothes and rushed to the door. I was f j met by a man with a trident spear, who * yelled: t " 'Here Is a foreign woman.' , "He pointed tho spoar at my chest. I i twisted it to one side and it just grazed my 3 j ear ana neau. tie tnrew mn to me gruuuu i and beat me with the wooden end of the , spear. A servant came and wrenched tbe ( spear away, then told me to run. j "I jumped down the embankment and ran along the road. A sen-ant came and pulled , me along until I got up on the side of the 19 hill. I then lay down there to get more , breath. After resting twico I reached a secluited spot and lay there. "All this time tbe yellswent on and two 1 hoases were burning to the ground. After a 1 3 while the yells stopped. I supposed the Veg, etarians had gone away. A servant went to see how matters were. Ho returned in half ^ an hour, telling mo to come home, that five ( r ladies of the English Mission had been , killed and some had been wounded, bat that my house?a rented native house?had not been troubled at all. "I went home to find Miss Codrington much cut about the heal and beaten all e over; Mildred Stewart, twelve years old, , with knee cut and bleoding very hard; Her- < bert Stewart, six years old, cut on the head , 0 and almost dead; Baby Stowart, with one ' i- eye blaok and swollen; the second Steward " girl, Kathleen, elevon years old, with the second boy, Evan, three years old, were , beaten and pierced with a spear, but not ' seriously injured. The boy vomitted all | dav. hut we rhmient it w?w from frlaht." . ! MORE MISSIONS ATTACKED Infuriated Mob Demolishes America: British Hospitals. A Hong Kong special says that the E and American Missions at Fat-Shan, Canton, were attacked by a large and 1 ated mob, and the hospitals were d ished. Some of the missionaries fled to Shai while others remained. A Chinese gu has been despatched to quell the riot. It is reported that all the mlssio Kwangtung will soon be destroyed an missionaries driven to the treaty ports. The Vegetarians are 72,000 stronfi well armed and organized and able to rtand the Chinese troops. A later dispatch from Foochow, C says: Baby Stewart is dead, the elevent tim of the massacre of missionaries b] Chinese at Hwasang. One of the mure af the Stewarts has been caught and [esses that they out off the hands, fee head of the wife. Mrs. Stewart was fre ind fought till hacked to pieces. Americans at Shanghai have sent a lespatch to President Cleveland prot( igainst the action of Minister Denby ir senting tnar a ijriusn uonsui snouia i jent the United 8tates at the inquir ;he outrages on Christians at Kuc! They recommend in the despatch thi ;ommission of inquiry be reformed, anc vn American official of adequate ra nade a member of it, while Chines^ ofl ;vfio were in any way implicated in the meres be excluded. The despatch lrges that the Commission be escorl lucheng by marines. The British warship Rainbow was or o Foo-Chow to protect foreigners. [Jnited States man-of-war Detroit ar hem to afford protection to Americans. JULY CROP CONDITIONS. Clio Lowest Cotton Averace Ever Rep ?Other Crop Conditions. The August report of the statistician < department of Agriculture shows a r ion in the condition of cotton durin nonth of July from 82.3 to 77.9, or 4.4 p< rhis is the lowest average for August eported, being a half point lower tha Lveraze for August, 1893. The r or low condition generally given bye ipondentsis excessive moisture, thouj 5ICH COMMITTED THE OUTRAG] N MISSIONS. outh Carolina drought seems to be irincipal cause of injury. There is i om plaint of grass, and not a little of light worms, and insect enemies ol lant. The State averages of condition rlnjinia, 81; North Carolina. 74: South ( [na, 81; Georgia, 87; Florida, 92; Alab 1; Mississippi. 83; Louisiana, 71; Texa j-kansas, 80; Tennessee, 89. The returns show an improvement in ondition of corn about threw points di be month of July, or from 99.3 to 102.? The condltiou of spring wheat has 1 ince la3t report 6.3 points, being 95.9, ag 02.2 for the month of July. The condition of oats has advance oints since last report, being 84.5, ag 3.2 July 1. Spring rye condition is 84, against uly last. Barley has fallen to 87.2 1.9 in July; tobacco to 82.7, ag 5.9 at that date, and 74.9 in Au 894. Bice is 84.1; last year, pples, 71.2, against 44 last eaches 83.3, against 22.3 last year; t rheat has an acreage of 9G.5 per cent, o ear and condition 85.2. Area under 1.5 per cent, of 1894; conditioh of tin 9.9, against 75.6 last year; product of c 6.7, against 72.1. and quality of clovcr gainst 90.2 a year ago. Conditio asture 77.8, last year 66. Irish pota ondition 87.7, a fall of nearly 4 points 1.5 in July. LORIDA'S NAVAL RESERVE LAI >rer 44,000 Acres Thrown Open for H tead Purposes. Register Barco and Receiver Wainwr f the United States office, have rendei eclsion regarding naval reserve lands fleet of which is to throw open for i 4,260 acres of lands sitaated in Alai iBvy, Lafayette, St. Johns, Suwunoo lanta Rosa Counties. A few months ago all of the Naval Re finds in the State were transferred t )epartment of the Interior for home ntry, and a number of people stake racts of 160 acres each and er iuts upon the same. Thei pas announced that the land desc iad been selected by the State unde 1 Qtrt TKlo t*ar\Ai4 Hon )W<tUip rtVil VI iUUUi A uio iwpvyii, uv|/ he squatters of tho right to enter the The register and receiver instituted a 'estigation, which showed that the lane lot been selected under the Swamp ! l?t. Woman Becomes Sheriff. Mrs. Helen C. Stewart, widow of the sheriff, took tho oath of office and be he Sheriff of Greene County. Missouri. ;ave a bond of $20,000, which wasappr Jhe reappointed all the old deputies anc hat she would rely largely on her son, a a minor, in conducting the office. Killed on the Track. At Ooelda, N. Y., a train struck a mai i v/oman who were walking down the it the lower Lake street crossring. Both nstantly killed. Tney were W. H. Hue )f Crown Point, and Miss Helen Rand armor's daughter. Crockett Died at 103 Years of Age Flanner Crockett died on Sykcs Is Maryland. Ha was 102 years old an wife is ninety-six. Ho was never sick md never took medicine. He was the 1 >r fourteen children; Ave of whom su lim. Cuba's New President. An election was held by the insurge 'ew days before August 1 at Cama, Cuba, and General G. Masso was el President, and Cumaguey was declar .Hi the temporary capital. Women May Vote in (,'tali. Judge Smith, of the Unitod States Di Court, decided that the women of Utafc rote on the adoption of the new Con tion. Cuba's Trade With America. The State Department learns that A ;an vessels carried 81,241,187 wort Cuba's aggregate of $4,750,886 in exporl r-ear. A Great Fire in Newark. At Newark, N. J., the plant of the Ce Stamping Company burned. The lo probably $500,000. The company oa 3250.000 insurance / /.?-v; ;v \. THREE BIG SHIPS LOST.' iritish a?uri! Two Off Brazil's Coast and Another Near Sidney, New South Wales. meen, nboat hb at NEARLY A HUNDRED PERISH. d the ; and with- fhp Wreck of the Catt?rthan?She Went Down at Night Off Australia's Coast h vie- Wlth Fifty-fonr Souls?The Third Vesjt tJtl0 sel Went Under Ten Mlnatea After Helerers ,UR; jjy the Prince Oscar. . conDispatches received In New York brought on the same day news of two fatal disasters cable at sea. The British steamer Catterthun >sting foundered near Sidney, New South Wales; e'pre- ^'ty-fourlives were lost. The British ship 7 into Prince Oscar collHed with a strange oraft in heng. mid-ocean of Brazil's coast. Every soul was L*that '03t on t'ie unlcn0WTlnk be Dispatches from Sydney, New South Wales, Icials say that Ihe British steamer Catterthun, Ef[far, I bound *rom Sydhey for Hong Kon?, ran on the Seal Bocks, HO milea north or syaney, at 2.45 o'clock a. m., and sank in twenty minutes, dered As soon as an examination of the vessel was ThQ rived ma(*e was 80011 s00a ^at t^ere was n0 chance of saving her, and orders were given to abandon the ship. All hand1? took to the small boats and laid their course for the mainland. There were Australian and English passengers on the steamer. The officers orted of the vessel were English and the crew were Chinese. The names of those lost ... are Neil Shannon, the Cantain: First Officer si tne ptnney, Third Officer Leffler, Chief Engineer t educ- Harper. Second Engineer Adams. Third lg the Entrineer Wilson. Fourth Engineer oints Wolstenholme, Chief Steward Manning, Surgeon Anderson Phips, ?*!?r twonty Chinese and eight Lascars, n ttl0 all of the crew, and the passengers. Meseason dames Mathias, Lorine and Smith. Miss Lor!0.rr.e" ing. Robert Fraserand twelve Chinese steer?h in a?,e passengers. When the vessel struck a heavysouthwest gale was blowing. There was a shock that could be fell in every part of her. The passengers were greatly N alarmed, and there was much confusion. The Captain reassured them, stating that there was no danger. He thought the steam" f er had been struck only by a heavy sea. The ship continued on her way. but before f/'J many moments it was found that she had a iTY"" hole in her bottom and wa= making water rapidly. 8he began to settle down and took : T^>? on a list to starboard. The fires under the Vs boilers were extinguished, and she was then helpless. She broached to and the seas r swept over her fore and aft. Every effort / made to lower the boats was baffled by the seas, which swept them inLboard after they had been swun? out on the |$py7 davits. The port lifeboat was lost entirely, Spi c,' being swept from the davits. Excellent disWlkw c^P''ne WR9 maintained. During an attempt to lower the starboard cutter a tremendous Vfi&j sea broke aboard the steamer and carried the [iftiS cutter away. It also swept from the bridge . ( >!? riantnin and chief and second' S. officers and Captain Fawkes. The survivors . say that Fawkes, having been unable to reach r his cabin to obtain a life belt, had borrowed the Captain's knife, and was cutting the | lashings of a small table on the bridge when I he was swept off into the sea. A few min| utes later the starboard lifeboat was lowered \ and it picked up Fawkes, who was clinching j to some floating wreckage. Only three other Europeans were rescued. Besides her general cargo the Catterthun car\ In gold. BOTH SHIPS WENT DOWN. ? A Frightful Night Collision Off the Coast 24 OJS of Brazil. The British steamer Capac, from Vali the paraiso, brought to the port of Philadelphia much sixteen shipwrecked mariners and the first rust, news of a disaster that occurred a short dfs' the iance south of the equator. The mariners ??V>? cnmli-n nf t-hn orflm nt thn British 3aro- ship Prince Os^ar. sunk after a collision with ama, an unknown vessel, which also went down, but s, 71; with all hands on board. Six of the Prince Oscar's crew were drowned soon after they left i the the ship by the capsizing of the small boat iring Into which they had scrambled. The slx'). teen survivors were huddled Into one small 'alien boat with neither food nor water. They ainst w?re pinked up by the British ship Dhaman, from Melbourne, Australia, for London, d 1.3 From that ship they were transferred to the ainst steamer Capac. and, without money or proper clothing, they were landed at Phila77 in delphia. Captain John Henderson, master of from the Prince Oscar, told the little he knew of the :ainst disaster. She was a full-rigged Iron ship, and gust, was bound from Shields, England, with a 91; cargo of coal for Iquique. Chile. Ten mlnyear; "tes after they struck both vessels had filled >uck- and disappeared. Captain Henderson had f last just gone below when the shock came. He hay rushed on deck and' the small boats were lothy miinned promptly and were cut away, a3 lover the vessel was sinking rapidly. From the 87.3, other vessel could be heard the cries of the n oi terrified men, but so sudden was the shock toes, and so awful the peril that it was im from possible to offer assistance. The Labor World. Mechanics head the list of inventore. oine- Kew England mill laborers are joyous over the great advance in wages. The Rome Iron Works, at Rome, Ga., has ' advanced wages ten per cent. re a Theatrical mechanics will hold their next 'i t*16 convention in Baltimore, Md. sntry rp^e atrike of the quarrymen at Stony :hua, Creek, Conn., has been settled. aQt* Strikers at Ishpemlng, Mich., augmented by all the city employes, Indulged in a mon^the ster 9treet PRrad0, stead The colored men of Chicago appealed to d off Governor AJtgeld to protect the colored acted miners at Spring Valley, 111. i it Secretary 8mith has decided that Governribed ment officials who do extra work on Sunday r the must do It at their own expense. rived The United Brotherhood of Carpenters .reland. fused to allow Knights of Labor carpenters n in- to establish a Union in Brooklyn. r rin ^ Mining operators signed an agreement in "ana pjttsburg by which the miners' demands are acceded to. and a big strike prevented. , Pu.idlers' wa^es were raised at the rolling '' * * - T^? * AO 7^ fn nrtr . infA mill m xorK, r^uu., uum day. Fully 10,000 puddlera get the better came scale. She General Master Workman James R. Soveroved. eign, of the Knights of Labor, has accepted lsaid an invitation to speak at Lynn, Mass., on i w"? Labor Day. Minnesota farmers have been offering from 135 to 3)40 a month and board for farm hands, and have not been able to get enough, a and even at those rates. track Secretary Carlisle issued an order increaswere ing the compensation of the pressmen at the 3tess, Bureau of Engraving and Trinting, Washall, a Ington, from $3.20 $4 per day. A suit has begun in tho United States Circuit Court to test the Federal shipping laws. ' which make it a crime for sailors to refuse land t0 wor'i w^ea 011 t'ie seas. j hk The tailors of New York City, Brooklyn , aud vicinity are to bo congratulated on hav,Rth ing conducted a great strike in a wholly atnez unique manner?there has uot been any vioirvive lenue to speak of. General Master Workman Sovereign visited the Southwest, looking up good farming _ | lands for the location of laboring men, in order to relieve the distress caused by over?uey. | crowding in cities. ectfid Under the new French Arbitration law ed to there were fifty-one appeals by workmen Inst 1 year and Tour by employers. The masters refused to arbitrate in twenty-four oases and 1 the workmen in sixteen. There were 391 strict strikes during the year. i maj The blacksmiths, horseshoers, harnessstitu makers and hackdrivers of Quebec, Canada, have made an enenjotic protest against the ' granting of a permit to build an electric | street railway in the city, for the reason that . it will interfere with their means of earning raeri- a living. ;j*. Complaint is made in New York that the wages of women are rapidly declining. ] Strange as it may seem, one of the chief I reasons given for the decrease is that men < . . . are seeking employment in various trades i ma that have heretofore been practically monop- I 38 1; olized by women. ? xriet} HOLMES'S ANTECEDENTS. The Mother of the Notorious Criminal Saya f He was a "Gentle Little Fellow." Herman Mudgett, or, as he Is known, H. H. Holmes, who Is now confined in Moyarn- 0 ensing Prison in Philadelphia awaiting sen- v tence on a charge of conspiracy to defraud Cl an insurance company, and awaiting indict- |( ment for heaven only knows how many mur- ^ ders and other crimes, is, if he is guilty, the a great criminal of the age. To him murder ^ seems to have been as common a crime and 0 no wiokeder than stealing. In fact, of the ^ twd ha soAmflrl to consider murder the Dre feraMe, for, committed after his plan, there 0 was no one left to point an accusing finger tl at him. He built a house In Chicago, q which he called ''The Castle." and t there he is accused of disposing 0 of his victims as rapidly as and with the a deftness of the Bluebeard of fiction. The ? bodies of some, they say, he utterly de- f stroyed with quicklime and acids. He is n accused of having his own private articula- j tor, too. and he had the skeletons of some of r his victims mounted and then sold them for v cash, thus realizing more from the victims ^ than the mere property, to obtain which he ^ killed them. Holmes didn't c?nfine his g crimes to his charnel house, the police say. ^ Any place was good enough for him, and the k slightest motive was sufficient to actuate ^ him to take the lives even of innocent chll- t dren. There is no such record as that cred- u ited to him in the criminal history of a score * of years, if there is In the century. q The Boston Globe has been Investigating r Holmes's family antecedents. Around Gil- p '' ^ w% I ^ 0 * H. n. HOLMES. p From a sketch made in Moyamensing Prison, t & manton Corner, N. EL, where Herman Mud- B gett -was born, all his forbears have borne n an excellent reputation. The Mudgetts for j many generations past, according to the t, records and traditions of Gilmanton Corner, n have been models of New England virtue a and propriety. His father, Levi Mudgett, n was born on a farm in the village, and, like n his father before him, whs brought up re- D ligiously In the Congregational Church. His a son, the now notorious Holmes, was born ^ and bred in the same way. ^ On his mother's side thisstar criminal was ^ equally well descended. His maternal c grandfather was Moses Price, another far- j, mer, who had lived honestly and prosper- 0 ously on a well-kept farm just beyond Gil- *, -Mil mauiuu v/Uiuci. uviuica a uiuiuci ?L 111 speaks of him with affection and esteem, and t j refuses utterly to credit the terrible story of a his misdeeds. She affirms that "he was always a klndhearted, gentle a little fellow" when he was young, q that he "never did anything wrong, a never had to be scolded for not doing as he C( was told, nor for playing pranks." She says d that she never knew him to tease other chil- ^ dren or to abuse animals, that he was all gentleness, and that the mere sight of blood filled him with nausea. She further testifies that, as a boy, he was. if anything, too industrious, and that she never knew him to tell a lie or be guilty of any deceit. NEW BUILDING C0LLAP3E& T An Eight-Story Structure Tumble* In, Killing Many Workmen. si By the collaps3 of a part of the roof and all of the floors of the eight-story building in the course of erection at the northeast ^ corner of West Broadway and West Third street, New York City, seven men were in- ti stantly killed, thirteen were burled in the o ruins, and nine were injured. The building y is owned by John B. Ireland: the architect b was Charles R. Behrens, and the contractor, si John H. Parker. The contractor and his su- h perintendent, Jefiferson Seligman, were ar- tl rested. V The cause of the collapse is variously at- a trlbuted to defective material and to the ci overloading of the floors with building ma- t> terial, but it will require an Investigation fi by the officials of the Building Department p before it can be determined where the blame g] is to be placed. ei Those found dead In the ruins were John a Burke, forty-five years old, plasterer; Michael Flyan, fifty-three years old. Brooklyn; Michael O'Hure, forty years old, laborer; Charles E. Peterson, twenty-flve years old, electrician; Augustus Phillips, fifty 1 years old; Michael Savage, thirty-four years old, laborer; John W. Schmidt, wireman. A.fter finding these bodies the search for the dead continued, as nine men were re- ^ ported missing, and it was thought that all ,ti would be discovered buried in the huge pile d of debris. _ The architect said that, although he did * not advance this as a theory of the collapse, ? the reported fact that a shoulder on one of R the upright columns had snapped off was, ? in his opinion, enough to account for H the wreck. Tuat shoulder supported the i girder, he said, which, resting on a similar rshoulder on the next pillar, upheld one sec- r tion of the building at that spot. Between the girders were only cross rods to uphold 0 the heavy fireproof flooring, and if a r< broken shoulder let down a girder ho *could I see no reason why the heavy floor material , should not fall and carry everything with it. 8| The fireproof flooring that was in place in f: the Ireland building, he said,weighed proba- j' bly eighty-five pounds to the square foot. jc When completed the floors were to weigh tc 100 pounds to the square foot. If, in addition to this, heavy material were loaded onto the floor, and then one of the girder supports should give way, it seemed per- o fectiy natural that a collapse should result . THEY R03BED A STATE PRISON. L Two Men Steal n Team of Homes From the Jail in Wethersfleld, Conn. ^ At about 2 o'clock a. m. two thieves got into the yard at the State Prison in L Wethersfleld, Conn., by climbing a high fence, and then broke tho lock of the stable, about one hundred yards from where they entered. They took a span m of black horses, harnessed them to a surrey wagon and drove around inside the prison pi wall. Then they cut a wire fence and drove across a field of cabbage to the main road, 0! running to Middleton and Hartford. There all trace of them was lost. , A big mastiff, the terror of Wethersftold, lay in a stall near the horses which were stoleD, and gave no alarm. The team be- tb longs to the State, and is worth about isGOO. The harness has the coat of arms of the State tv on the blinders*atu1 saddles. It is thought that the thieves are discharged convicts.be- . causethoy were familiar with tho premisesand the do? did not molest them. The thel't was committed without being observed by the b< watchman stationed in the {ower on the inside wall of the prison. Pi Warden Woodbridge has offered a reward of 4101 for the apprehension of the thieves ln and the recovery of the property. Tho mis- J, creants intended to take two other horses 1 which were found loose in the yard. ? pi Cost of Wheat Production. It is estimated by the British Consul at tb Buenos Ay res that the cost of producing a bushel of wheat in Argentina does not exceed thirteen cents. The yield ranges from ?T1 :welve to flfteen bushels per acre and th6 ot land ean had for an annual rental of forty jentb per acre. th W KILLED A BEAR TRAINER. armer McCombi Shot at Them WhM They Refused to Leare Hit Place. Five Frenohmen, whose business is that , ;/ f exhibiting trained bears, met at SummitiUe, Sullivan County, N. Y. One of them ime from Middletown and three from Eljnville. Each had a performing bear. They rank a lot of beer during the afternoon, nd held a sort of informal jubilee. They ad their bears give exhibitions for their wn satisfaction and had an all-round good Ime. When night came they 'went to the barn f Farmer James McCombs and prepared o turn in for the night. Farmer Mo!ombs had gone to Nappanoch early in > tie morning to buy horses, and his wife rdered the men away. They refused to go . nd threatened to kill her. Mr. MoComba ot home in the evening and found men giving the bears a^ bath^ in ^his auK spring near ine nonse. xaey roiuoou iw eave, and be went to Summitville and borowed a gun. While he was gone to the lllage Mrs. McCombs was chased from the louse with her six children. When he got ack he sent his family to a neighbor's and farted in drive the Frenchmen away, 'he bear trailers showed fight They drew nives and -said they would sleep in the arn and warned him not to interfere with tiem. McCombs ordered them to go away, ut instead they attacked him, and he Ired a shot cutting the jugular vein of Jean lourate. McCombs fired again and hit Jean talent in the leg and hand. The Frenchmen etreated, and McCombs went to the house nd reloaded his gun. He fired a third time ? t the intruders and hit Jean Lameraux in he face. Then the Frenchmen got as fast as hey could. When near the Summit ville tation, about 600 yards from McCombs's lace. Courate died. McCombs gave himself up. Coroner toesch, of Wurtsboro, commenced holding n Inquest, assisted by District Attorney /' fill. Ita Luclen, one (of the Frenchmen, wore that when McCombs fired they were ' n the lands of tho Port Jervia and Montioel} Railroad at the crossing. The dead man and his wounded com pan- J ons had honorable discharges from'the < 'rench army. BANNOCKS WERE THE VICTIMS. 7 laptaln Van Amdale Reports That Whites, Not Indians, Did Harder. The report of Indian Agent Tetor of the 'ort Hall reservation upon the recent Baniock trouble was received at the Indian tareau, Washington. It confirms the hereofore-published accounts of the killing of " Satmock Indians. An interesting report has been received by a be Secretary of the Interior, forwarded from 4 be War Department It is from Captain J. \ Van Arsaale of the 8eventh United States fk 'avalry, formerly acting agent of the Fort lall reservation. The report says in parts v "Being short rationed and far from selfupportlng the Bannocks hunt for the pur- 7 'ose of obtaining sustenance. By treaty hey are granted this privilege. It would eem that the killing of these Indians inder the circumstances was nothing more ,v ior less than murder. Further, I be- 32 [eve than there is no wanton slaughter of game by these Indians, while it is a -j otorious fact that hundreds of the animals ^ re killed by white men for nothing lore than heads and horns. There are len in that country who make it a busiess to pilot hunting parties from the East nd abroad, which not only slaughter elk, ' ut capture and ship them out of the connry. The killing of game by Indians inerferes with this business. The Indians an hardly be expected to submit to the killig of their people while engaged in an oeupation which they think they have a right i follow more quietly than white men, and ' lilure by the Government to take proper acon is liable to result In serious loss of life ;>"2 nd property." The report is dated at Fort Logan, Col., <;' nd bears the endorsement of Ueutenantolonel Henry E. Noves, of the Second CavIry, commanding the post, who says he oncurs heartily in what Captain Van Arsale has said. It is also endorsed by Briga- ' ier-General Frank Wheaton, commanding .1 le Department of the Colorado, who hopes lat Captain Van Arsdale's recommendations ill be favorably considered. HISTORIC ELMS DESTROYED. he- Felling of the Old Elins Back of the ./ White House Ordered. Caterpillars and tree worms have played ich havoo with the immense old elms in the jar of the White House grounds, Washing)n, that orders have been issued by Colonel Mson, of the army, in oharge of public buildigs and grounds, to have a number of the eescut down and their roots dug up. Many . f these trees are believed to be nearly 100 ears old, and most of them were planted efore the present White House was contracted. They form a grove through ^hluH undreds of department clerks daily pass on leir way to and from the great State, "ar and Navy departments building, nd have been admired by strangers in the /J? Ity. who have found them equalled in eauty only by the famous elms in Boston ' ommon. Lately, however, a worm has lade its appearance among them, and, depite the efforts of Secretary Morton; has :ripped them of their leaves and left them 3 bare as pines after a forest fire. FICHTING IN MACEDONIA. ??? * hree Hundred Houses Burned and Many ,} People Killed. Dispatches from Ghiustendil, Bulgaria, ay that a ba*d of 150 (insurgents has aticked and burned the villages of the Bho- . < ope Distriot east of Nevrokop. Macedonia. :'j ierce fighting is said to have taken place and lany are reported to have been killed on oth sides. The Vali of Salonica telegraphs v| lat a Bulgarian band, numbering 1000 men, as attacked the village of Janakli, in the . j ifafnt Kirdiali. and burned 290 houses. he Bulgarians are also said to have killed prenty-flve of the inhabitants of Janakli. According to news received from a Turkish fflcial source. 500 Bulgarians, led by three ; 53erve officers, attacked the Mohammedan illage of Dospat across the Turkish frontier, he Bulgars then set the village on fire and aughtered the inhabitants indiscriminately 9 they rushed from the houses. It is stated lat several hundred were killed. The Ot>man Commissioner has delivered a protest ) the Bulgarian Government $$ The National Game. The Boston team is fast losing its terrors f former years. r ,V?J The days of playing ball on past reputaons have passed. / . New York offered $4000 for Clarke, the ouisville outfielder. Cunningham h:is pitched in nearly half of ouisville's victories. Joyce, of Washington, now leads the . eague in home runs. The Pittsburg players have made fifteen / Dine runs this season. ynj Hrtnnron f\f PltfahllPff did T\C& UUI>UCiUv4 A/VUVTIVU, V? wso.Q, ake an error in July. Burkett, of Cleveland, wasthe first League layer to make 150 hits. Crooks, of the Washingtons, leads the Seoul basemen in fielding. Four memboro of the Topeka (Kan.) base. ill team are full-blooded Indians. HtcGraw, of Baltimore, is the quickest trower from third in the business. Chicago's star pitcher, Griffith, has won renty out of thirty games pitched. Breitensteiii has pitched the largest num-* v <r of games iu the League this year. The pitchins "find" of the year appears tc : young Foreman of the Fittsburgs. York has bought the release of itcher Mains, formerly of Cincinnati. Cuppv's average waste of time while pitchig for Cleveland is "only" twelve second* ?r ball. The League race thus far has knocked into cocked hat all the predictions of the rophets. With McMahon's arm once more inshapk ie Baltimores are sure to make a strong jht for the pennant. Mobile now has two pitchers named Hahn. j hey are brothers; one is left-handed, thi M her is right-handed. V Louisville has won more consecutive garnet ^ an New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, ashington or St. Loute.