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TRAIM WRECK IN lANSAS- j | t One of the Worst Accidents in the His- j tory of the Santa Fe Railroad, t t ENGINES EXPLODE IN A COLLISION |S 11 i [ W. J. Ilryan a Vas*em;er? Hi- Escapes In- ( Jury and Ministers to Those Lfhr Fortunate Than Himself?Twelve Fellow Passengers Crushed to Death?Boll- I era of Three Locomotives Exploded. ! ! ' Emporia, Kan. (Special).?One of the I worst wrecks in the history of the Santa ; ? Railroad occurred three miles east of , here at 7.30 o'clock p. m. Twelve or flf- i \ leen persons were killed and as many more j badly hurt. Benjamin Walters, of St. j Joseph, Mo., a fireman on the west-bound I train, is missing. It was feared that nearly all of the seven mail clerks had perished In the disaster. The identified dead are: James Brennan, engineer, Topeka; N. Hollister, fireman, Topeka; J. F. Souders, Kansas City, express messenger; body almost oomsumed by fire. William Frisbey, engineer; R. A. Doran; postal clerk; Gonzalez, fireman, west- : bound train; unknown tramp; Brag- | man, Topeka. The fast mail train going east and the Mexico and California express, west-bound, ' collided head on. The Mexico and California express was pulled by two locomotives, and when they struck the engine drawing the fast mail, the boilers of all . mree eu^iucs eApiuuuu i?uu IUHT < m tho ground so deep that the smoking cat of the west-bound train went in on top ol the tLree engines and two mail cars, and balanced there without turning over. Tho passengers in the smoking car escaped through the windows. Tho front end of this car was enveloped in a volume o! stifling smoke and.'steam, rushing up from the wreck below, and the rear door was jammed tight In the wreck of the cnr behind. The wreck caught Are from the engines, and the cars in the hole and tho smoking > f oar were quickly burned to ashes. In climbing out of the smoking car severa' men fell through the rifts in the wreck below. and it is impossible to tell whethei i they escaped or were burned to death. The westbound train carried seven I or eifrht coaches, and its passengers in- i olnded many excursionists who had been tc J hear W. J. Bryan speak at the county fal? : At Burlingame. Mr. Bryan himself was on the train, bu< j was riding in the ronr Pullman. He states , that nothing but a heavy jolt was experienced by the passengers in his coach. Mr. B^'an was one of tho most energetic men in the crowd of rescuers. Ho helped to carry out the dead and wounded, and gave the greatest attention to their care. One poor fellow who was badly maimed called to Mr. Bryan and said: "I went to hoar you to-day; I am dying now, and want to shake your hand and saj God bless you. If you possibly can, Mr Bryan, get me a drink of water." Mr. Bryan went Into the fast mail car, one end of which was burning, and came out with the drink of water, which he gave to the suffering passenger. He broughl out cushions for others of the injured, and was everywhere present to minister to the wants of the suffering. The engineer of the west-bound train had ! J received orders to meet tho fast mail a< j ' Emporia and was making up lost time These two are the fastest trains on the 3 Santa Fe system, and tho west-bound train 1 most have been running at a speed of al least forty miles an hour. The west-bound c express was going around a slight curve when the collision occurred. ^ . . Of the seven or eight cars making up the ? Mexico and California express, only the t mail, baggage and express and smoking , cars were destroyed. The coach following . the smoker was splintered badly. g There were not more than a dozen pas sengers on the fast mail, all in one coach Noneof them wasseriously injured, though ? Every seat in the coach was torn from the ? floor and many floor planks came up with d the seats. n John Sweeney was thrown over three * seats and through a window, but escaped with only scratches and bruises. The othei C cars of the fast mail train, a baggage and c express, were totally wrecked. A 5 LEE RETURNS FROM CUBA. { b The Consul-General Here to See Presl* ?lent McKinley. j General Fitzhugh Lee, United State? t Consul-General to Cuba, arrived at Nev ? York from Havana on the Ward Lim ^ steamer Segurnnca. General Lee was ac p companied by his son, Fitzhueh Lee, Jr. ^ and by James H. Fishback, formerly of the ^ 8tate Department. General Lee excused himself from discus r sine Cuban affairs and his future plans b) v saying: "Were I not in official harness ] I would talk freely. As it is, I have nothing a to say, beyond the fact that I shall go tc b West Point to see my son who is a cadel there, and that afterward I shall go tc jj Washington to see the President. My plan; v for the future depend entirely on the de ^ velopmcnts of the next lew days. n "There was no end of the war insight wher g I left Havana, and there is a terrible j, amount of suffering on the island. Busi ness is dead, and there are no prospects o! a revival. I have relieved 1400 distressed jj Americans witn tne jou.uuu appropriate i " by the United States Government for tlx j 11 S'urpose, and have used only $15,000. We I ave been reserving the funds as much a.< i: possible for emergencies." t Speaking of the Evangeline Cisneros case 5 General Lee said: "I visited the young woman in jail and found that she was being a well treated. When I snw General Weylei i in her behalf he told me he would have par- t doned her long ago if such a fuss had no1 been made over her. I feel certain thai r her name is on the pardon list and that shf , may be released almost any day." _ Sir. Fishback, who accompanied Genera * Lee, said that he went to Cuba on purelj . private business. The eyes of every one ot the island, he said, were now fixed or Washington and Madrid in the hope of re- ^ lief from the wretched conditions prevail- * ing thero. I , England and the Panama Canal. fc K ? - A AnKIn 4-/N fkrt Vftm VAIIL A a^cuiai v,uwn3 IU IUC *icu ivir World from Colon announces that a con cession to complete the Panama Canal ha; been grunted to England. lilf; Freight Car Contract. President Ingalls, of the Big Four and Chesapeake and Ohio, has contracted for the construction of 2000 freight cars. The St. Louis Breaks a Record. The American liner St. Louis completed ;he fastest trip ever made between New York and Southampton. She steamed thf distance in 6 days, 10 hours and 14 minutes, beating the record, held by the Furst Bismarck, by 41 minutes. She traveled 307? knots at an average hourly speed of 19.'J5 knots. I>i*i'aiM* a Cuban Ally. Dis^as" is a powerful ally of the Cubans. Not less than 2000 Spanish soldiers are sent twrtv uioii&iuy opiiiu, nj j i hot weather epidemics. The number that ' [ die is n<H reported. Cycling Non-U. After numerous experments with ma- f chines Of the folding type the Belglurr : Government has at last decided, with its characteristic patriotism, to favor one of Belgian make, called the "Belgique Militaire." Twenty-six different types were tested before coming to this decision. ' Trofessor R. C. Carpenter, of Cornell University, unaca, >. iraveiuiy maae a series of tests of chains ami bicycles to find j c out the exact measureof power lost through | 1 friction, the stretching or lengthening of ? chains and the use of gearing in place of ' the chain. Ho found that high-grade 5 chains can be made which do not change 1 their form by wear sufficiently to affect the \ IrictJon I ' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Item*. Government employes ar<> warned that :hi*v will be dismissed for insubordination f tiiey seek to retain their places by inunctions. Die full text of the Japanese Governn?*nt's a-'feptan^e of Hawaii's proposal to irliitrat"- differences was delivered to Sec otary j>h?*rman by the Secretary of tho rapanese Legation. Tho Government, through the Marino Hospital service, is taking every possible precaution against the spread of yellow ever from Ocean Springs, Miss. Domestic. RECORD OF THE LEAOOE CLUBS. Per Pet Clubs. Won. Lo?e. ct. f Clubs. Won. I^st. ct, ialt 78 33 .703 Chicago .52 . G3 .452 3oston ...80 35 .696 Brooklyn 50 65 .435 ^'w York.74 39 .655 Phiiad'a..50 65 .43.1 3incin*ati65 46 .586 Pittsb'g ..4H 64 .429 3level'd..56 56 .500 Louisv'lo 49 66 .426 iVash'n.. 51 61 .455 St. Louis.27 87 .237 In New York City the Bank of Commerce rave an A. D. T. messenger draft of tho ace value of 830,000 for collection. The >oy disappeared after collecting $1500. Althoueh it was announced that there are hree cases of yellow fever at Blloxl, Miss., t Is believed the authorities have the con;agion under control. Governor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, isked for and received the resignation of .TOneral Frank Reeder as Socretary of the Commonwealth. This is thought to be the jeglnning of an onslaught by the Governor lpon the office-holders belonging to the Juav faction. At the Coroner's inquest and autopsy hold >n the body of Mary Kistler, aged seven;een, who died at Allentowa, Penn., it was evealed that she smiliugly ate poison iu lie presence of several people. Policeman .T. B. Taylor was dismissed rom the New York City force. An anonynous letter informed the Police Commlsiloners that Taylor, when a youth, had been sonvicted of theft. He was a good officer. George Aiken, twenty-four years old, was lared to climb up and take hold of a racket >n an electric-light pole at Hudson, N. Y. Uken went up the pole. Ho took hold oj he racket with both hands and itnuiediitely fell dead, The Prohibition State Convention In Syracuse, N. Y., nominated Francis E. ialdwin, of Elmira, for Chief Judge of the 3ourt of Appeals. Horace S. Perry, who killed Bely Lanier, vas hanged in Decatur, Ga. *Hls last vords were: "I die in defense of my wife." E. Benjamin Andrews, President of Browr University, refused to withdraw his resigna:ion. In the Luetgert trial In Chicago a sensa:ion was caused by the Introduction as evilence of the prisoner's stained and rusty cnife, and by the Identification of some ol Mrs. Luetgert's clothing. Expert testinony was Introduced as to the nature ol :he matter found In the potash vat, an4thf lefense asserted that it favors the accused R. R. Ackert, the oldest conductor ol Vin WoKnoh Pollwow fi?nm Ininrlflc eoeived by falling from his train at Mojerly, Mo. " Ho was over seventy years ol ige and had been a conductor since 1855 The Zunis In New Mexico are torturing >ld women for witchcraft, and troops hav? )een ordered to arrest Chief Niope. The Indians are armed, and trouble is expected Colonel Isaac W. Avery, at one time edior of the Atlanta Constitution, the formei ilinister of Mexico and the South Americar Republics for the Cotton States and Inter lational Exposition, of 1895, fell from th< >orch of his residencein Kirkwood, a sub>rb of Atlanta, Ga. He died next day from he effects of the fall. Gold from the Michlpicoten district, ir Jichigan, examinod at McGill University, las shown as much as 8241.60 a ton. The President arrived in Somerset, Penn., n a visit to his brother, Abner McKinley. Wives of striking miners drove awaj leputy sheriffs who tried to evict families n Orangeville, Penn., and miners of the 'ittsburg district chose delegates to the Jolumbus Convention who will vote to acept the compromise settlement of the trike. President Andrews is to sever his assocition with the Brown University, Provi[ence, R. I. That decision was arrived at uring a conference between Dr. Andrews ndsix members of the Executive Coramitee of the university. Dr. 1. D. Bloom,.house surgeon of the !harity Hospital, Now Orleans, La., reeived a letter from Saratoga from Mrs. D. I. Milliken, widow of the late Richard lilliken, in which she announced her purpose to erect and endow a largo hospital or children to bo an annex to the New Organs Charity Hospital and controlled by it. Ulrich Coppeuex, Superintendent of the I ester plantation in Louisiana, died from he effects of wounds inflicted by Willis filler, a colored employe. Miller was eneavoring to persuade the other colored lands to strike and leave the place. Copeuex ordered him off the plantation, when liller fired flve bullets, killing tho superatendent. A number of soldiers of the State Guard eturning from practice at Creedmoor deastated a flower garden at Queens, Long sland. The proprietors and several villgers attacked them, but were severelj eaten by the soldiers. Mrs. Mary Stuart, aged thirty-five, and er daughter Mary, aged thirteen, colored, rere burned to death in their beds at their ome, Jamaica Plain, Mass. The firemen lade heroic efforts to reach the upper tories, but were driven back by the inense heat. Abraham Dorfmann, a burglar, was shot nd killed by Roundsman Gaughran, while riving off with a load of stolen clothing, a Brooklyn. Several large New England manufacturng establishments will begin work on full ime, including the Amoskeag Mills, ol lanchester, X. H., employing 8000 men. The Agricultural Commissioners' reporl hows that sixty-five percent, of Kentucky s 1,000,000 bushel crop of wheat is still ir he hands of the farmers of the Stale. Thousands of working people celebrated ^abor Day in Greater New York by attendng excursions and picnics. There were no trades. Business was generally suspendd in the city and many flags woro hoisted n honor of the day. President McKinleyleft Canton, Ohio, foi iomerset. Penn., where he is to visit his iromer, Auuer. Veterans of the Seventy-third New York lejriment dedicated a monument on the >attlefleld of Gettysburg, Penn. Siskiyou County, California, is the latest o come forward with a big gold strike. A arge body of ore assaying *130 a ton has >een struck in the Schroeder Mine near freka. Since the mill was destroyed by Ire two years ago the owner has been runline drifts endeavoring to striko the vein, vhlch failed at the 1000-foot ljevel. This is ine of the richest strikes ever made in Siskiyou County. Forrest H. Tarker, Jr.. son of the Presilent of the New York Produce Exchange iank, and his young wife were drowned in ?hain Lake, in the Adirondacks. on the (state of the elder Mr. Parker. The cornerstone for a new Royal Arcaium building was laid in Brooklyn. Charles M. Charnley, a church older in 3hicaffO, fled under a chur^e of embezzling i"100,000, part of which were poor funds and >art money belonging to the Fresbyterian Educational Society. Foreign. Mascagni. the composer of "Cavallerla limtieana.'' tried to kill himself in Tioloi/nii tiily, by taking poison. The Duke and Duchess of York en<>d heir visit to f re laud, and sailed on a royal acht for Glasgow. Advices from Simla, India, are that the Lfri'lis are dispersing and are evacuating lie Samana territory and the Khyber Fass, ?ein? forced out through lack of supplies. The victory of the Anglo-Egyptian expelition up the Nile has resulted in the Der'islies withdrawing as far south as Met crunch. Two hundred and fifty of the delegates o the Trades Unions Congress in session it Birmingham. England, hold a meeting tnd unanimously adopted a resolution in avor of ftu international settlement of the nonetary question by the restoration of a >ar of exchange between gold and silver so is to provide a common standard of value broughout the world. MHWIMFBOI 1 No Tidings About His Daring Das For the North Pole. I BALLOON MAY HAVE LANDEC ! The Arctic Explorer Started on .Jnly 1 in Hla Balloon, and Although Thei Have Been Several Reports of Mei ages From Him, All Troved to 13 Bogus?Speculations About His Fat< Chbistiania, Norway (By Cable).?It i now about eight weeks since Herr Andre and his two companions set off from Trorr soe on their daring voyage to the nort pole. What their fate has been is only matter of conjecture, for, notwithstandin; the plcked-up carrier pigeons, there hav been no authentic tidings since tholr de parture. At first It was generally accepted tha the pigeon said to have been shot by th Captain of the fishing vessel Aiken betweei Spitzbergen and Seven Islands, carried i genuine message from the explorer, bu BALLOON IN WHICH AND REE The balloon in which Professor Andree was built much after the fashion of oth That is a strong guide rope which serves t loon at a uniform height and so prevents and overflow. It also serves as a keel 1 three large and easily worked sails. Wit fore the wind at an angle to the general c diameter and has a depth of five feet, room in the basket for one person at a tim Andree and his companion were to take tu ;hls Is now open to question. Herr Tegetmeler, perhaps the most accurately Informed man on the habits of these birds states clearly that it is impossible that any pigeon taken by Andree should ever returr to its original location. In his experience homing pigeons direct their course bj sight, and all those engaged in long-dis cance journey3 nave to oe trtunuu so as n. be made acquainted with the country ovei which they fly. If this is so, the hundreds of miles of unknown Arctic sea make tht pigeon story just impossible, and we must wait for news of Andree until he himself appears. In the way of conjecture ttiere have beer earious surmises by scientists, the majority of them being unfavorable to the success of the expedition. The most important ol these is from Dr. Nils Ekholm, an experl aeronaut, who last year accompanied Hen Indree to Spltzbergen to take Dart in th< voyage then proposed, but who declined tc go this year because he considered the balloon unsatisfactory in respect to its impermeability. He estimated the longest period the balloon could remain in the air was twenty-four days, and that, in his opinion was not sufficient to make a successful voyage across the pole or to the pole and back On the other hand, Mr. W. H. Gilder, ol New York, who has had experience ir polar explorations, though not in balloons, ! thinks that there is no reason as yet foi discouragement. The voyage may be successful, but the voyagers be landed so remote frpm civilization that it would take a ooasiaeraDie itme, pernaps sovorai muuius for them to reach a place where thej could communicate with the world. A reasonable time limit has' not yet beer reached, and consequently there is nc i warrant for believing that these daring adventurers have been lost. There is no reason to abandon hope thai Andree and his companions may return The fact of the matter is that the explore! said before he started that he might not bt heard from for two years. Andree is a fine intelligent fellow of magnificent physique He was perfectly well aware of what h< was doing when he undertook the trip t< the North Pole, and if pluck, intelligent and physique could help a man througl such an undertaking, he will yet be liearc from. It may be that his balloon has com< down on the northern coast of Alaska, ii which case it will take considerable tim< for him to reach a telegraph station. Thei the balloon may have descended in Siberh I or Greenland, and some time must elaps< I in nnv oftso before he could be heard from He has his sledge3 and other necessaries t( make a journey, and possibly will reac] some civilized point eventually. Hanged In the Public Square. "Doc" Kelley, alia9 Black, colored, twen ty-three years old, was hanged at Sno^ Hill, N. 0., for assaulting Mrs. Morritt, i white woman. The gallows was in the pub lie square of the town, and 5000 people wer spectators. Kelley was accused of severa other crimes. Murder For n Song. Edward Register, a young farmer livini near Jacksonville, Fla., was shot am killed by his adopted son, Robert, who i fourteen years old. The boy and a man j Henry M. Tyre, were arrested, and the la< confessed that he committed the murdei I The victim's wife gave him $5 to do it. Labor World. Wyoming has one woolen mllf. Southern cotton mills have 90,000 hands A Japanese match mill has 13,000 hands The United States has 365,000 coal miner! In Germany tho law permits fakers t work but twelve hours a day. A great revival of business is in progres in the cotton mills 01 iNew tngianu. All tne railroad shops in Birmingham Ala., have increased the hours of thoi working force. In Rhode Island all the mills in an about Providence are running on full time and Olneyville has risen from stagnatio to activity. New buildings are gging ui i*? : - - *ia?iYT in i ISETH LOW HAS ACCEPTED. Agrees to Become the Mayoralty Cancll date of the Citizens' Union. Beth Low, President of Columbia Collegi is formally la the Held as a candidate fc tho office of Mayor of Greater New Yorl Ho made his announcement In his cottag at Northeast Harbor, Mo. Secretary Clarl of the Citizens' Union, called at 11 o'cloc . a. m., and after tho newspaper men ha ' been admitted, Mr. Clark, addressing tb President of Columbia, said: "Mr. Low, I have the honor, on beha of tho Citizens' Union, to tender you th 1 nomination for Mayor of Greater Ne1 e York." Then Mr. Clark read the formal letter c notification. President Low listened al >e tentivcly, and, when Mr. Clark had fir j, ished, accepted the nomination. Hespok earnestly, and his manner indicated tha |3 he had weighed well the step he was tali ing. Mr. Low will write a formal letter t 10 the Citizens' Union Nominating Commit i" tees. This letter will be hla platform i h tho campaign. 5 UNCLE SAM'S STRONC BOX. e Cash Balance of 82X8,561,206 In tb Treasury. t -The August statement of the public debl 0 issued at the Treasury Department, Wash j ington, shows the debt less cash In th a Treasury to be $1,009,335,121, which is a: t increase for the month of $14,888,475. Thi SAILED FOR THE NORTH POLE. ? on July 11th sailed away for the north pole er balloons. It has one distinctive feature wo all essential purposes. It holds the balthe gas from being diminished by expansion :o the floating vessel, which is equipped witt th the aid of the kee) the balloon can drift bellrootlon. The basket or car is seven feet ir Above the car is the observatory. There If e. It is used as a living and a sleeping room, rns at the watch. increase is accounted for by a correspond ing decrease in the amount of cash on hand , Tho debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest-bearing debt, 4847,365,540. i Debt upon which interest has ceased t since maturity, 81,336,290. r Debt bearing no interest, 8378,194,507. Total, 81,226,8%,327. > This amount, however, does not Include : 8593,961,953 in certificates and treasurj i notes outstanding, which are offset by an > equal amount of cash in tho Treasury. The ; cash in the Treasury is classified as follows: Gold, 8181.234,165. Silver, 8519.363,496. l Paper, 8139,427,064. r Bonds, disbursing officer's balanoes, etc., i 818,115,651. [ Total, 8853,145,367. ; Against this there are deman3 liabilities : outstanding amounting to 8639,534,160, s which leaves a cash balance in t he Treasury > of 8218,561,206. ANICERED BY LIONS. SHOT HIS WIFE, . Then Tamer Haustetter Blew Out His Own Brains. William Haustetter, famous the countrj ; over as a lion tamer, fatally shot his wift t In the right lung near the entrance of the , Zoological Garden at Cincinnati, Ohio, and then shot himself In the head. Haustottei die i instantly. For fifteen years Haustetter has been emi ployed at the Zoo, where he handled lions , tig'irs, leopards, panthers and hyenas. He r had all the beasts under his control and waj the only man who dared enter all the t ca?es. > He fed the lions and started for homo, ?' Near the entrance he met his wife and shot hei- and himself. No motive for the deed t is known. He had had trouble with twc lio is In the afternoon, had beaten then; f with an iron bar and was still angry wher > he met his wife. He and his wife were , never known to quarrel. Haustettor was thirty-eight and his wife i is i:hirty-six. They have two small chil ) dron. 3 l New Railroad Terminal. 1 The Locust Point yards of the B. and 0 2 Railroad are completed and that ocean tor 3 mlnal at Bel imore now has a capacity foi l 3600 cars. During the past few weeks the i wisdom of making the improvement has 8 been amply demonstrated. Thousands ol . cars of export grain were handled wlthoui q a single blockade and with such celeritj i and ease that the old timers wero greatlj astonished. Her Face to Be Washed. The Goddess of Liberty, In New Yorl v Harbor, who for eloven years has been wel a coming wondering foreigners to the great i. New World, is to have her noble fac? ant e majestic bronzo gown soundly scrubbee ,1 and "done up." She has been queening il nt Bodloe's Island for lo! theso inauy years and time and the scornful waves have takei many liberties with her?and she the God 5 dess of Liberty herself! At any rate, she i , to be washed with soap and water am scrubbed with a big bath brush at an earl; s date. An ArmV nf There arc about 17,090 prisoners in tiac United States. Prominent People. Lord Frederick Roberts, of Kandahar , was installed a Knignt of St. Patrick at th( 9ame time with His Royal Highness th< ' Duke of York. ' The Count of Turin, the victor in the re 0 cent royal duel, is described by a Frencl r.ewspaper as being a brisk officer oftwon s ty-seven, tall, slender, easy, with a jovia t ir and a straightforward look. t, Rechad EfTendi, who is regarded as thi 1 flultan's probable heir, is the owner o something that is exceedingly rare amonj a C?urks?a head of red hair. Should he sue " oeed to the throne now occupied by hi; ' brother, it Is said that he will be obliged t< ? dye his gandy locks jetbUol^ ? IRELAND FACES FAMM ,r Crops Rot in the Fields and Land:e lords Press For Rent. c, k 1 OUTLOOK THE WORST SINCE 1847, If ^ Pailsh Priests Tell of the Disasters Pallet fTnnn Farmers?HarTest a Total Fall' !| urc?Fourteen Counties Suffer?PotaL* toes, Oat?, Hay and Flax Are Ruined ?Starvation Thought to Be Impending '* London, England (By Cable).?A panic i? > fas': proclaiming itself throughout Ireland n over the terrible prospect opened up by the apparently complete failure of the harvest. Reports from 110 parish priests from Counties Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick Tipperary, Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Derry, . Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Monaghan ' and Tyrone, all tell the same piteous story of ruined crops, Impending destitution and famine. Blight has everywhere wholly 01 mainly destroyed potatoes, while oats, which Is the next most essential crop to the - Irlah farmer, have been battered down bj Incessant rains and practically destroyed, Cries of warning to the Government are Halnc In n. nrnsnmirlo scale from alt Darts ol Ireland. They are not confined, as In formei years of distress, to the congested districts on the western seaboard. From Mullingar, one of the most prosperous parts of the midlands, a correspondent telegraphs: "The crops are now Irretrievably destroyed. It will be impossible for the farmers to make anything of their cereals th:!s year, as they are quickly rotting. Ic the churches prayers for fine weather were recited, and if a change does not come Immediately the crops might as well be lefl to manure the ground." From County Wexford, noted as one of the richest in the country, the tidings are: "The green crop may be described as a gigantic failure in County Wexford this year. The greater part of the potato crop Is only fit for feeding cattle." From Fermanagh, in Ulster, the correspondent telegraphs: "At a meeting held here to ask for a reduction in rents, the parish priest, presiding, declared that nol since black 1847 has the prospect for farmers in this district been so bad. In several places the potatoes have been a failure, Hundreds of tons of hay have been ruined by the heavy rains and floods." From Carlow, known as "the mode! county," a despatch says: "There is before our farmers an outlook as disastrous as if is possible to conceive owing to the frightful weather. A great deal of the corn cul early remains in the stalks, injured beyond recovery. In many districts the farmers have been unable to cut their crops, whicli present the saddening spectacle of being levelled to the earth by the persistent rains, while a mass of second growth and weeds has come up. The apprehensions concerning potatoes also have been dismally real ized." At a meeting of the Board of Guardians at Mitchellstown, County Cork, the Chairman said: "The potato crop is generally s failure, while the other crops have beeu hopelessly injured by the unparalleled inclemency of the season. We are on the verge of a great agricultural crisis. The outlook In farming affairs is gloomy in the extreme, and to aggravate the condition ol affairs caused by the failure of the potato crop, the prices of provisions are considerably increased, and before long the people who are supposed to contribute to the poor rates would be in workhouses themselves." The Irish Government has adopted no measure yet to cope with the threatened famine. Complaint is heard from the most distressed districts of the country that landlords are pressing for their rents to secure i whatever little money the tenants may have In savings Dantcs, Knowing mat noiuing will be left before the winter'is half i through. i The weather shows no sign of Improving. Rain continues and the temperature has i fallen to an exceptionally low point for this I time of year. The outlook for Ireland is one of despairing blackness. TRIBESMEN ARE DISHEARTENED. Tho Swatls Have Completed Their Submission to the British. The India frontier reports are more favor' able to the British. The spies say the Orakzals appear to bo disheartened. They lost fifteen men killed in the attack on ' Fort Gulistan and are now holding councils. i I GEXEBAL SIB BLOXDIX BLOOD. * (The English Commander on the Afghan 1 Frontier.) l * The British Political Officer at Malakand reports the Swatls to be submitting and to ' be surrendering more guns and swords, which, with the previous surrender of arms and the fines imposed, completes the Government's demands and tfrms for the punishment of the Swati tribes. General Sir Blondin Blood Commander of the British Army on the Afghan frontier, t is familiar with every foot of the mountain territory under his charge, and is likewise : familiar with the character of the bellicose . Afghans with whom ho has to deal, so it is [ not surprising that he is succeeding in put; ting down the uprising. The General took r part In the Afghan War of 1879-1880, and was awarded a gold medal for his services in that conflict. He is llfty-ftve years old and a rlne and seasoned soldier. : Lyncliod an Innocent Man. Henry Wall, a young white man about j twenty-two years old, was lynched by a 1 mob near Friend's Mission, Ya., for an alii leged assault upon Miss Sadie Cook. He was probably innocent. Miss Cook \ was found in an unconscious -condition . witli fourteen gashes on her body aud 9 head and her skull fractured. Further in1 vestigation proved she had been assaulted. f Wall was lynched, simply a suspicion being the ground. There was practically no evidence to convict Wall of the crime. It is now believed he was innocent. There is , much indignation in the neighborhood against the mob. Killed !>v the Cain. A wagon Deionging to aueu ruusi, ?> miller of Berkeley, Penn., was struck by ft 2 tralu at Fresh Valley crossing. The driver, Evan Heistor, aged forty-live years, and Mr. Faust's two sons, Warren, aged nino, and Leon, aged seven, were killed in1 stantly. A train struck a two-wheeled gig J at North Bay, N. J. The occupants were Henry W. Williams aud M. J. Graham, of fivlvan Beach, and Hobart Boosovclt, of 3 Fish Creek, Boosevelt and Graham were f killed instantly and Williams was fatally J Injured. 3 Yellow Fever Scare Subsiding. 3 The yellow fever scare In tne South is subsiding. No new cases were reported at New Orleans or other points. ^YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC^ ' Official Announcement That the Dread Scourge Has Broken Out. 1 RIGID QUARANTINES ORDERED. ' Health Officers of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama Declare It the Genuine Fever?The Disease Broke Out at Ocean Springs, Miss.?A Number of Deaths^ Unusual Precautions Against Spreading , ' i New Obleans, La. (Special).?The as^ ! Boclated physicians of the United States j Marine Hospital service and the Louisiana, ' AJabama and Mississippi Boards of Healthf who have been examining the suspicious 1 cases of fever prevailing at Ocean Springs, 1 Miss., a small town on Mississippi Sound ah/4 f V? a T.Atifbtrillfl nn/1 VnahrUla Pall. uuu iuu JJVUIOT1I1V auu uuouiutv i?uu1 road, about eighty-flve miles from New Orleans and sixty from Mobile, have pronounced the disease yellow fever* The examination was complete. Two autopsies were made, assisted by the microscop, 1st and bacteriologists who accompanied the party. The result was a unanimous ver| diet bv the physicians, all experts, that ' the disease was yellow fever, al. though it presented several character| istlc/i not heretofore npticeable In the disease. The announcement of the news , caused an uneasy, feeling along the Mississippi Sound and in the neighboring towns, for the reason that the verdict of the doo( tors came as a surprise. No one was pre, pared for it. Some 800 people who have been in Ocean Springs and exposed to the , disease during the last few days have scattered in all directions, going to Mobile, I To/1 l'OAn VAnfftAmarv Vow Hrlonna an^ other places. The apprehension is that some of these refugees may develop the fever, and the several Boards of Health will . have hard work to keep track of the refa| gees. , Quarantine proclamations flew right and left, but it was very mnch like closing the . stable door after the horse had been stolen. Most of the visitors in Ocean Springs had J left before the quarantine was proclaimed t against that town. Ocean Springs is a ' pretty seaside summer resort of about 1200 people. The Louisiana Board offers to give rej lief and assistance In the way of physicians, medicines and provisions to any I town that may need them. The chances , are that 9ome of these towns, being bot. tied up by the numerous quarantines, may ! be in actual need of help or food. t The origin of the fever still remains a j matter of perplexity. Some attribute it to ! the large number of Cubans who flocked to ! the town in July to arrange for a filibuster aTT>a/1lf(nn. anma fhinL- tho rurafftrs mftV ' have spread it, but the most prevalent beI lief is that the disease was brought an from the quarantine station nt Ship Island, only twelve miles away, and believed to bo thoroughly isolated, but with which, It is as, sorted, the fishermen have kept up a regular intercourse. The Louisiana Board of Health announces , that Raoul Gelpi, who died a few davs ago in New Orleans, had yellow fever. He was , fourteen years old, spent the summer at i Ocean Springs, and came home sick. His I case was not regarded as suspicious. An ! autopsy proved it to be yellow fever. The j board decided to send inspectors to each of the towns, and, where the health was found , to be good, to reopen communication. The board is confident of its ability to keep out disease. New Orleans was quarantined ? against Galveston, by sea, becafise of the Gelpi death. SPREAD OF THE COWTACION. | fellow Fever Carried From Ocean Spring* to Edwards, Miss. Jacksox, Miss. (Special).?A telegram from Edwards, Miss., about thirty miles west of here, states that S. S. Champion, -a member of the State Legislature since 1890, and a prominent politician, died there from what was supposed to be yellow fever. A family of nine persons named Anderson, living near Edwards, had been sojourning at Ocean Springs. After their return seven of the family were taken slok, and Mr. Champion visited the family to Inquire after the health. Two or three days afterward Mr. Champion was taken sick and died. The attending physician pronounced the case one of yellovj fever. A police guard armed with shotguns was ordered for all inland roads, and a boat was sent to Grant's Pass to prevent an approach by water. Although such stringent measures have not been taken here since early in the seventies there is little excitement, not one case even of suspicious fever being reported in the city or county. A BIG SCARE IN TEXAS. Talk of Reorganizing the Shotgun Quarantine Force. Austin, Texas, (8peclal).?State Health Officer Swearingen Issued an iron-olad quarantine against Ocean Springs, Miss., and all other points now affected or likely to be affected by yellow fever. It will go into immediate effect, and last Indefinitely. Reports from the Gulf coast are to the effect that the inhabitants are badly frightened at the prospects of yellow fever entering the State, and some of them aro talking of reorganizing their shotgun quarantine force, which patroled the Gulf shore twelve j years ago, to keep out all persons, and thereby prevent the disease from entering the State. Doubted In Washington. Washinoton.D. C. (Special).?The Marine Hospital service has ordered Dr. John Guiteras to Ocean Springs to investigate the outbreak of alleged yellow fever there. While the Marine Hospital officers here are unwilling, in the absence of definite official information, to express any opinion as to the nature of the disease, they are inclined to the belief that it is dengue or some other form of malarial fever, and point to the extremely low death rate, which is too small for yellow fever. . Gold Fields In Michigan. Prospectors returned from tne MlcMpicoten River gold country In tlie Lake Wawa district, Michigan, report great finds of gold-bearing quartz. Fortune hunters \ are hurrying into the region, and preparations are making to accommodate the crowds arrived and arriving. A town site, ( named Wawa,is beingsurveyed on the lake. < 1 Shipping Cattle to Central America. Recently a ship was loaded with cattle at New Orleans, La., for shipment to Cen- 1 tral America. ( i Minor Mention. The Wyoming assessed valuation shows 1 an Increase of ?300,000. < There were 300 applicants for a single ' j chaplaincy in the United States army re- I '' cently. The large blowflies, or bluebottles, are ( exterminating the grasshoppers in Umatilla j County, California. The steamer Windward, with the mom- I I bers of the Jaokson-Harmsworth Polar ex- ' | peditlon oq board has arrived in England. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty , j to Animals, of Portland, Me., has prevented i two entertainments, in which the chief feat- j ure was to be chasing greased pigs. Tho German fleet manoeuvres uearDant- j | zig during the past fortnight are described i as total failures so far us quickness and j manoeuvring ability to resist torpedo at- j tacks are concerned. " j Russia has the largest military expenses, 8260,000,000 a year. Britain follows next I /n/xn r\ix/\ t-i ? ?: u a1 oa ann ru\f\ I l Willi iJl'JUjUUUjUUU, r ruiiuc wiuu <?XQ\/Iuuvluwn/I i Germany with i<130,000,000, Austria $90,- i 000,000, Italy $65,000,000. I President Jordan has taken steps to stop ) hazing at Stanford University, California, to weed out dissolute and idle students,and to prevent poor boys from overworking themselves and ruining their health in the eager desire to secure an education. The ? faculty will in future request the with- 11 drawal of any student who seems objection- s able. .. - | ? - - K.-.*S-S& a tempermcecold^H THE ORINK EVIL MADE MANIFEsBH ?N MANY WAYS. '' - Nature's Beverajje?Who Is to Blame For Drunkenness??Careless Parents, Moderate Drinkers and Saloon Keepert Bear Most of the Terrible Barden, What beverage can, ye wise ones tell, Water pure as a drink excel? 'Tls the drink of Nature's royal feast, Of flsh and reptile, bird and beast; The beasts that Nature formed so strong Drank nothing else their whole lives long, Yet foolish man full oft maintains That alcohol his strength sustains. No liquid but water cools the throat Of singing birds of purest note, The lark, the linnet, the nightingale, ' That nil with music hill and dale, And all the birds that music fling Along our paths in gladsome spring, And chant the great Creator's prais? In sweet, melodious, tunoful lays. -i It is water is drunk by every rose, And every beauteous flower that blows, The lily white, the fuschia red, The pansy sweet by dewdrops fed, The primrose gay, the violet, The balmy, fragrant mignonette. Would men and women too, look fair, Let them of drunkenness beware. Fixing the Responsibility. At a mass meeting of men and women held in the Young Men's Christian Association Building, In San Francisco, D wight H. Robinson, of Lansing, Mich., spoke for half an hour on the Anti-Saloon League. He was followed by the Rev. Howard Russell, of Columbus, Ohio, who endeavored to fix the responsibility for the results which follow excessive Indulgence in drink. The latter speaker said that he blamed every parent who did not warn his children to keep away from saloons and to shun all kinds of alcoholic or malt liquors. The saloons, he said, were mantraps that should be pointed out to tl\e young. Next he blamed the moderate driDker. The sight of a, reeling drunkard staggering through the streets was not likely to cause young men to become addicted to the use of liquor, but a snare was to be found in the ; sight of a moderate drinker. While many , .? , were capable of taking a drink when they pleased without becoming enslaved by the habit, others could not drink at all without indulging to excess. Tor this reason, and for the additional fact that moderate drinkers supported a majority of the saloons, he held this class of men"responsible for a large proportion of the intemperance that exists. Dr. Russell said that young women who associate with men who drink were to be blamed. He said no woman with a correct sense of propriety and of her own safety would make a companion of a man who was accustomed to the use of liquor as a beverage. The speaker blamed the men who sell liquor. He said saloon-keepers should be held legally responsible as well as morally accountable for the crime, poverty and suffering that follow in the wake of drunkenness. In closing the Rev. Mr. Russell mentioned the work of the Anti-Saloon League in Ohio. He said that whsn the league was organized five years ago saloons were increasing at the rate of 500 a year. He said the leasrue had not onlv istoDDed the increase in the number of saloons, but had driven 2700 places out of existence. He urged that the principles practiced with so much success in Ohio be adopted in California. An effort should first be made, he said, to close the saloons on Sunday. Then the dives and places with side entrances should be closed, and one by one the worst features of the saloon business eradicated. A Practical Experiment. Years ago, before we entered the ministry or journalism,*our business brought us in contact with shipbuilders?with one in particular, who employed a large number of men. He paid them all in the same man* ner, and nearly to the same amount, yet v was struok with the difference in their situ- V.', ations. A few, and only a few, were able ^ from their wages to support their families, A but these were out of debt and independent M in their circumstances. They always had ^ money on hand and frequently suffered their wages to lie In the hands of their employer. The rest were poor and harassed, the former easy and comfortable in their circumstances, and he resolved, if possible, to nna tae cause or tae difference. j On inquiry and examination he found I that those of them who were out of debt 1 used no Intoxicating liquors, while the others were in the constant and dally um of them. Here, he was satisfied was the explanation. He determined, if possible, to prevail upon tftem all to abstain altogether from their their use for at least one year. To this proposal they all agreed, and at the end of the year they were all to a man out of debt, had supported their families in better condition, destroyed fewer tools, were handy and robust and enjoyed better health. No comment is needed.?National Temperance Advocate. Physician to a Kins: Excoriates Drink. I One of the most famous medical men of Europe is Sir Henry Thompson, surgeon to the University College Hospital, fellow of the Royal Society, and surgeon extraordln- f ary to the King of tbeBelgiaos. Sir Henry I has made an especial study of alcohol and ? its effect upon the human system, and has < Knan m /-vof v(<VAt>rkiia In Vt(a /loniinrtl'ofiAra rtf M uocu luv^i TI^vivuh iu ui^ ucuuuviubtvud w? * the business of selling it as a beverage and I of its use as such. On one occasion he made this observation: "I have long had the conviction that there tl is no greater cause of evil, moral and phy- fl steal, in this country than the use of alco- fl hollc beverages. I do not mean by this that extreme indulgence which produces fl drunkenness. The habitual use of fermen- * ted liquors to an extent far short of what 1 is necessary to produce that condition, and J such as is common in all ranks of society, fl injures the body, and diminishes the men tal power to an extent which few people B are aware of. I have no hesitation in at- ' I tributing a very largo proportion of some fl of the most painful and dangerous mala dies which come under my notice, as well as those which every medical man has to m treat, to the ordinary and daily ase of fermented drink taken in the quantity which i a /inniffln fi'nn n 11 U7 V.UUICUUVUailJ UiUUVlAbV I Dr. Mann's Testimony. ?H Dr. D. H. Mann, the R. \V. G. T., at the ' International Supreme Lodge In Zurich, M Switzerland, In his biennial report says of ^ the National Temperance Society and Pub- I Ueation House: jl ' It is still carrying on its good work, j I despite the hard times, though like other j | organizations on that side of the sea. it rj feels the tightened grasp of the times as I BR well know. But it Is the great temperance W landmark of America, the fountain head of temperance literature there. H| "In its great corps Of literary contribu- SB tors are some of the most eminent writers on either side of the sea. . Wfl "In connection with its vast phllanthropio Bjj works it is still pushing Its good missk>nary Dj ifforts among the colored people of the fH South, scattering a profusion of literature g xmontr them, wliich is bringing forth fl ibundant fruitage as I can well testify from my own personal observations among 9| A Wise Iiemark. H It is reported of Artemus Ward that he H mce offered his flask of whisky to the driver H the stage on the top of which he was rid- H na; through a mountainous section. The M tage driver refused the flask in most de- SB ided tones. Said he: "I don't drink; von't drink: I don't like to see anybody else Irink. I am of the opinion of those mount- H lins?keep your ton cool. They've got mow and I've got braius: that's all the differ- ^Hl rence." There is a great deal of wisdom n his remark, "Keep your top cool." With- bH| >ut a sound brain man is not of much use o the world. Alcohol, whether in beer, 'ider, wine, brandy or whisky, is a foe to he brain; and when it gets there inflames ^B| t. and renders it unflt lor use. 23e like the ^H| ion?st stage driver, and resolve to keep -our top cool. H Southerners Are Temperate. GjB It can be stated that the average Southiruer bus been slandered by outsiders ia egard to his drinking habits. The South BM 9 a temperate section. Prohibition is more renorui under local option taws in tne mh louth than in any other quarter of th? Jnion,? ^VrminKham (Ala.) Aee-Herald. > KM 1 i ij