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venge ror nooDenes.
GUNS AWED THE JAILERS.
The Men Were IIol<l In Versailles,
Ind., For Robbery?The Farmer* Had
Been the Victims of the Thieves For
a Long Time?Jail Kahled Easily?
The Men Beaten, Shot and Hanged.
-Versailles, Ind. (Special).?Incensed by
numerous dopredations, burglaries and
daylight robberies, the people of Ripley
County have taken the law into their own
hands. Five men who have long been a
terror to the citizens of this county were
lynched here Wednesday night. This is the
county seat and a town of eight hundred
people. It is one of the oldest towns
In the State, but it is five miles
from a railroad station, and has
no telegraph office. For four or
five years the farmers of the county have
been the victims of a lawless gang'whose
depredations have continued unceasingly.
Arrests have been made, but the guilty men
have covered up .their lawlessness, and It
was seldom that conviction followed. On
Saturday last word was received by the
Sheriff that the store of Wooley Brothers,
at Correct, lnd., ten miles from here,
was to be entered. The Information was
given by one of the gang who had been under
suspicion. Sheriff Henry Bushing,
with his informant and Ave deputies,-went
to the place. Shortly after midnight the
gang reached the store. Clifford G. Gordon
and the Sheriff's informant were designated
to break into the building. Gordon
effected an entrance, andjusfras he stepped
Inside the Sheriff grabbed him. Both pulled
pistols and began firing. Bert Andrews,
who was with the robbers, joined In the
fusillade, while the deputies came to the
assistance of the Sheriff.
The Sheriff was shot through the hand
anu uoruuu who s/iui uuira. iui^o
pistol halls entered his body, and he was
also wounded In the leg. Gordon and Andrews
succeeded in escaping and came to
Osgood, where they were arrested. The
robbers had driven out to the place in a
buggy belonging to Lyle Levi, and it was
learned that the robbery had been planned
at tlie home of William Jenkins, Levi and
Jenkins were arrested as accessories. All
were taken to the jail at Versailles. Henry
8hulter was put in the jail for robbing the
barber shop at Osgood last week.
, While the citizens were not able to fix the
various robberies upon these men, they
were thought to belong to the ganp that
has committed most of them. When it became
known that they were in jail, it was
quietly suggested by the victims and sympathizers
that "justice" be summarily dealt
out to the prisoners. At 1 o'clock a. m.
horsemen seemed to come from all quarters
and dismounted on a hillside near Versailles,
and soon about four hundred men
marched into the town.
Shortly before2 o'clock there was a knock
at the door, and when the jailer opened the
door he wfs face to face with pistols held
by three masked men, who asked him to
turn overj the keys. IThis he did, and
then the mob filed Into the jail.
Three of the prisoners?Levi, Jenkins
and Shulter?wore on tho lower floor, while
Gordon and Andrew wer.> in the upper
tier. Levi, Jenkins and Shulter showed
fight, and the former was shot through the
breast, whiie the skulls of the two others
were crushed with a stool. Ropes were
in readiness, and adjusting a noose
around the neck of each and pinioning
their feet and hands was
the work of a few minutes. With
several men at the end of each rope, the
Ave prisoners were dragged two hundred
feet to an elm tree, where their bodies
were suspended. It is said that Levi,
Jenkins and Shulter were dead before they
reached the place. Levi was fifty-seven
fears old, Andrews thirty-four, Jenkins
wenty-seven, Shulter twenty-four and
Gordon twenty-two.
CERMANY'S NEW AMBASSADOR.
n. u ?ll?Knn la VannnAintod fn K pnrp.
sent Hi* Country at Washington.
Dr. von Holleben, who will soon come to
Washington as the Ambassador from Germany,
Is one of the best known diplomats
In Europe. The doctor is also well-known
and highly esteemed in Washington, where
he filled the post of German Minister from
March, 1892, to September, 1893. The mission
was then raised to an embassy, and
Dr. von Holleben was replaced by Ambassador
Saurma-Jeltsch. The new Ambassador
is highly educated and a most suave
man. He speaks English with as much
fluency as a born American or Englishman,
DE. VOX HOLLEBEX,
(Germany's new Ambassador to Wash<nrrts\n
'S
and during his stay five years ago he woe
many friends in Washington society, wherf
he was known as one of the few bachelors
of the diplomatic corps. Dr. von Hollebec
has had a wide and varied experience as f
diplomat. He has represented Germauv al
Santiago de Chile anu at Tokio. That wa.?
before his appointment to the America!
mission. He is about fifty-live years ol<
and has an inclination toward the pleasure.'
of literature. He will replace Baron voi
Thielmann, who is to be Secretary of th<
German Treasury. Dr. von Holleben is no^
Minister at Stuttgart.
Collision In Midstream.
Thesteamer Cutskill, bound for Catskil
and way points with forty-seven passen
gers and freicht, was run down and sunl
in the North Hiverat New York City by tin
excursion steamer St. Johns, of the Sand;
Hook Line. Bertie Timrnerman, the six
year-old son of Moses Timrnerman, o
Leeds, N. Y., was seen to jump from th
Catskill, and was drowned. Mr3. Mart;
McDonald and Mrs. Susan Morris, of (Jut
tenberp. X. J., were unaccounted for afte
the rest of the passengers had be^n takei
from the sunken vessel. Leonard R. Mille
had his leg broken. The steamers met i,
midstream.
Cycling N'otp*.
Of tho 1,000,000 cyclists which statist!'*
give London, it is sniil that 20.000 arc tan
dem riders.
Lack of fresh air and exercise is a fruit
ful cause of disease?the cycle is the enem;
of such disease.
With the increase in the uuml>er of wo
men cyclists, accidents in which wome
figure lire becoming more frequent.
A diminutive "quad"' has been con
structed by a New York manufacturer fo
. four youngsters. Their ages are throe, live
seven and eight years.
A paper saddle is one of the latest novel
ties. The papier ma-'be is susceptible o
receiving a very high-grade enamel finish
Which can be cheaply renewed.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
TVaftliincton Items.
Domestic exports for August wore tha
largest on record, while imports were the
smallest since June, 1879.
The President resumed work at the White
House, seeing many callers and holding a
Cabinet meeting.
The President appointed Daniel B. Hainer,
of Pennsylvania, United States District Attorney
for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Upon the recommendation of Third Assistant
Postmaster General Merritt, the
Postmaster General awarded the contract
for supplying postal cards for the four
years beginning December lnext to Albert
Daggett, of Washington.
Judge Cox, of the District of Columbia,
dismissed the suit of John G. Wood, Superintendent
of Mails at Louisville, for an injunction
to prevent his removal from office.
The case had been considered in the nature
of a test of the power of removal.
The monthly comparative statement of
the exports of breadstufTs, cotton, mineral
oils, cattle and hogs and provisions in the
month of August shows as follows: Breadstuffs,
825,502.532; increase as compared
with August, 1896, about ?11,000,000. Cot1?
01 nno oio. ,1 ohmit SI 7fin 000.
I4.UU, '^X, IUi),OiO, UCUnnco,
Mineral oils, 85,691,348; increase, nominal.
Cattle and hogs, 82,853,215; Increase, about
8500,000. Provisions. 812,233,137; increase,
nearly $1,750,000. Total, 847,984,050; increase,
about 811,000,000.
President McKinley returned to Washington
from Somerset, Penn. He was received
at the station by three members of
his Cabinet.
Louise Michel, the notorious French
anarchist, has announced her Intention to
visit the United States In October. The
authorities in Washington may not allow
her to land.
Consul-General Lee had a conference
with Secretary Sherman and Assistant Secretary
Day on the Cuban situation.
Dr. Guiteras reported to Surgeon-General
Wyman that a case of yellow fever had
been found in Mobile, Ala., and he feared o
serious outbreak.
Domestic.
BECOBD OF THE LEAOUE CLITBS.
Per Per
Clnlis. Won. Lost. of. | Clnbs. Won. Lost. ct.
Bait 84 33 .71* Rrooklvn54 CG .450
Boston ...85 35 .70? Chicago .53 68 .438
N'wYork.76 42 .64t|Pitt3b'g ..52 67 .429
Cincln'ati67 50 .573 t?iilad'a..51 69 .425
Clevel'd..60 59 .504 Louisv'le51 71 .418
Wash'n.. 55 63 .466 St. Louis.27 92 .227
Fear of yellow fever has practically deI
populated Jackson, Miss. There are sevI
eral cases at Edwards, near Jackson.
Tha Avoi?/1iio afaomnr ItrrlvAd in
, San Francisco with 0800,000 in Klondike
gold.
Michael defeated Lesna by 150 yards in
the twenty-mile bicycle race at the Springfield
(Mass.) Bicycle Club's tournament,
lowering the American record. Arthur
Gardiner, of Chicago, broke the world's
record In the one-mile professional handicap.
During the unloading at Glasgow. Scotland,
of the Allan Line steamship Tower
Hill, the body of a young American was
found deep in the grain. It is supposed
that the young man was shot in with the
grain when the vessel was being loaded in
New York.
There have been no disturbances in the
mining region about Hazleton, Penn., but
the strike is spreading rapidly.
United States Senator George L. Wellington
resigned the Chairmanship of the
Maryland Republican State Central Committee,
thus relinquishing the leadership of
the party in the State, which he has held
for the past three years.
"Joe" Farnsworth, who shot one of the
young Hntflelds and tried to kill Miss Alice
Ferguson in Lee County. Virginia, was
found hanging to a limb in the Cumberland
Mountains in Kentucky. It was evident
that he was lynched, though an attempt
had been made to make it appear thrtt he
had committed suicide.
George M. Judd, a lawyer, was arrested
on a charge of having stolen $15,000 from
the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, of
New York City, his former employers.
The Kings County (Brooklyn) Republican
Committee deposed Jh -ob Worth as leader
and unqualifiedly indorsed Seth Low.
Miners in Eckley, Penn.. were forced to
stop work by strikers b-fore troops sent
from Hazleton to head tliem of! reached
the place.
The public schools of New York City
opened at the close of the summer vacation.
It is estimated that 200,000 children
out of a total of 225,000 applied for admission.
The crowding was less than usual.
The Rev. "G. F. B. Howard," a notorious
swindler, escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary.
Charles Gibson, a colored man, who had
murdered another colored man was lynched
by a Georgia mob near Macon, not for the
murder, but for an assault committed on a
white woman.
The second great drought of the season
is being seriously felt in Indiana. It is accompanied
by unusually high temperature,
prevalent alfover the State. Throughout
Central Indiana corn is prematurely ripening,
fields are burning brown, and fall seeding
is seriously retarded. The same is generally
true throughout the State. In many
localities the limited water supply is giving
much concern, farmers being put to great
embarrassment for needful supplies.
On her trial trip in New York Harbor the
machinery of the new torpedo boat Rodgera
went to pieces and Ave men were seriously
.scalded, among them Chief Engineer J. R.
Edwards.
Throe prisoners on Blackwell's Island,
New York Cltv. tried to escape by swim-,
ming the East River. A ferry-boat pursued
two. one of whom was drowned obeying his
oomrade, who ordered him not to touch a
life-buoy under penalty of death.
Judge Augustus H. Fenn, of the Supreme
Court of Connecticut, died in Wlnsted.
The Enchanted Mesa in New Mexico has
been climbed again, and evidences of civilization
have been found on the summit by
F. W. Hodge, of the Smithsonian Institution.
Frofessor Libbey, who made the ascent
in early summer, reported no signs of
early occupancy.
Mark Hanna opened his Senatorial campaign
in Ohio at Burton, a small village
without a railroad or a telegraph line, makInc*
hie flraf otnnin snAAr*li_ fcpnntnrFnriikor
also spoke.
Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews has withdrawn
i his resignation from the presidency of
: Brown University.
i Foreign.
1 The shipbuilders' federation has called
1 out the shipwrights in England, completing
the paralysis of the shipbuilding trade.
J The Austrian military manoeuvres were
s concluded at Totis, Hungary. Emperor
William, who was President,, decorated
p several officers and thou left with Emperor
r Francis Joseph to shoot on the estate of
Archduke Frederick.
The War Department is concentrating
G000 troops with the intention of dispatching
them immediately as reinforcements to
J the Spanish army in Cuba.
The British troops under General Yeatman-BIggs
have relieved the Samana posts
' on the Indian frontier, the tribesmen fallv
ing back without resistance before their
. artillery a uperior rifles.
f The floods near Valde Penas. Spain, have
e destroyed many lives and -r 1,000,000 worth
ii of property.
A meeting of the Ambassadors of the
i Powers was held In Constantinople, and an
n | understanding reached on the preliminari
| ies of the Turko-Greek treaty of peace.
? icwiik rnnna nas neen requested to resume
the negotiations.
The British have mobilized 59,000 men od
the Indian frontier to advance on Shads
kadr.
Joseph L. Harris, an alleged incendiary,
for whose capture a reward of *2500 hasbeen
offered in New York City, is in cusy
tody at Copenhagen.
A famine in Ireland is impending, and it
is predicted that the suffering will be as
a great as it was in 1879.
An effigy of Campos and figures of hogs
meant to represent American Senators who
r favor Cuba were burned at an auto-da-fe
>t celebration in Spain.
Forty lives were lost iu India by an accident
in a mine.
>f The King of Slam arrived in Paris and
i, was received with high honors by l'resi'
dent Faure and otlmr offl^iniu
A FRIGHTFUL COLLISION.
Two Trains Meet at High Speed on
a Colorado Mountain Curve.
FIRE FOLLOWED THE CRASH.
Passenger* Tinned Under tlie Wreck and
Burned to Death?Many Bodies Dinfigured
Beyond Recognition ? The
Freight Supposed to Have Been "Stealing
a Station" From a Passenger Train.
Denveb, Col. (Special).?Passenger train
1 of the Denver and Bio Grande Railway,
which had left Denver for Salt Lake City,
and an eastbound stock train of the Colorado
Midland, collided on the Rio Grande
Junction track a mile and a half west of
New Castle at 12.15 a. m. Both trains were
wrecked, eighteen persons were killed,
and many others were hurt.
The identified dead are: 0. S. Ostrander,
engineer, freight train; B. S. Hallan, fireman,
freight train; Bobert Holland, fireman,
passenger train; James F. Keenan,
postal clerk; Charles Leeper, Clarion,
Penn.; Mrs. Alexander Hartman.Heuscher,
111.; two Hartman children; six unidentified
persons burned in the wreck.
The seriously injured are: William Gordon,
passenger engineer; the Bev. Alexander
Hartman, Heuschler, 111.; J. H. Stanier,
Biverside, Idaho; Miss Pearl Cornell, Atsel,
Oregon; Thomas Nash, Moab, Utah.
Ten other passengers received burns,
scratches, and scalds, but none severe
enough to interfere with their continuing
their journeys.
The passenger train left New Castle west
bound just an hour late and {he freight was
supposed to be on a siding six miles west
of New Castle. It is believed that the crew
of the freight train endeavored to "steal a
station," but the freight train had run ten
minutes over the allotted time when the
collision occurred. Conductor F. E. Burbank
of the freight train was arrested. He
refuses to talk.
Both trains were running at full speed
when the collision occurred, the locomotives
telescoping with a tremendous crash
and the passenger locomotive exploding
immediately after striking.
A Plntsch gas cylinder under one of the
coaches is supposed to have exploded, igniting
the wreck, and before the injured
passengers could be rescued the cars were
a mass of flames. The flames spread so
rapidly that little work in rescuing the
passengers who were pinned down could be
done. One man, shouting for aid, was
reached,but therescuers were driven back by
flames before he could be extricated,,andhe
died before the eyes of the rescuing party.
F. P. Mannix of Victor broke open a window
in the smoking car, but only to admit
the flames. He made his escape through a
window on the opposite side. Miss Cornell
was found partly out of a window with
her hip dislocated, and she was rescued
just in time to escape cremation. TheKev.
Mr. Hartman was dragged out of a rear
door, but his wife and family perished in
the flames. The two express messengers
chopped their way through the side of the
car and escaped practically uninjured.
Few in the front coaches escaped. The
sides of the car pinned down tho passengers,
and they perished in the flames before
they could be reached. No mail and
but little baggage was saved.
As in all similar accidents the locomotive
men are first to lose their lives. Engineer
Ostrander went down with his hands on
the lever. Robert Holland, fireman on the
passenger, was so badly hurt that he died
at five o'clock. Engineer Gordon of tho
passenger train was fatally hurt. He was
thrown over a barb wire fence by the force
of the collision.
Neighboring ranch houses received tne
Injured. The ranchmen did what they
could to help. At least two cars of stock
were wrecked, and the road was strewn
with bodies of dead animals.
Physicians were taken to the wreck from
New Castle and from Glenwood Springs,
and early in the day the injured were taken
to the hospital at Salida.
Charles Leeper, one of the victims, was
on6 of the most conspicuous men of Clarion
County, Pennsylvania. Fifty years ago he
walked into a Clarion a poor boy. Ho died
worth $500,000.
CHINESE BICYCLIST.
\ Michigan Laundry Man Beat Whit*
Wheelmen at a Carnival.
Foo Lee, a Chinese laundry man, of
Niles, Mich., is the first of his countrymeD
to win a "bike" race in the United States.
Some months ago he was persuaded to
buy a bicycle, and in a few w^oks was able
to ride as well as any one. He accompanied
American boys on long spins, and surprised
them by making good his boasts to
? * 11 *?n?* A f n no rnIrn 1 A#
SHOW tueill lac waj. ai a vuiuwi.. v.
sports held In Niles he entered in one of
the events, and the announcement of his
entry brought an immense crowd. In the
race were entered some fast riders, but they
were not "in it" with the Chinaman. He
won handily.
Sporting men are trying to induce Foo
Lee to give up the laundry business and
devote himself to racing.
A NATURALIZATION SCHOOL
Established in Pottsville, Penn., to Help
Foreigners.
Among forty appicants for citizenship a*
Pottsville, Penn., was a man who stepped
forward with an air of confidence wheD
called up for examination by the court.
"Did you ever attend a school In this
country?" asked Judge Bechtei.
"l'es, sir."
"What school?"
"The naturalization school."
It was brought out that there was a
school in Pottsville where foreigners were
coached in the easiest methods of securing
naturalization papers.
Irrigation of Arid Lands.
It Is expected that work will be resumed
in slx*y days on the great Rio Verde
! irrigation enterprise, which is to redeem
200,000 acres of the finest land in tne sail
River Valley of Arizona, Of the 150 miles
of canals that will constitute the Rie
Verde irrigation system, twenty-two have
been dug, and a large amount of the work
costing altogether $200,030, has been done.
Saratoga'^ Floral FCte.
Over 100,000 visitors witnessed the annua)
fete of the Saratoga (N. Y.) Floral Association.
The procession and battle of flowers
were particularly attractive. In the evening
150 children danced the figure "The
Realm of the Roses." A ball closed the festival.
New York Banker* Assign.
Jameg R. Willard, Elmer D wiggings and
Jay Dwiggings, who composo the firm of
J. R. Willard <fc Co., bankers and brokers,
with offices in New York City, Buffalo,
Washington, Philadelphia and Montreal,
assigned. It is estimated that their liabilities
will reach ?1,000,000.
A Farmer Who Has Prospered.
JohD Stollar, a Nebraska farmer, who
; went into debt for eighty acres of land, has
raised enough wheat on it this year to clear
the debt.
Lulior World.
It is estimated that *40,000 a month will
soon bo paid to tho raisiu packers of
Fresno, Cal.
American railroads are employing one
hundred thousand more men than they
wero in 1896.
The striking coal miners doubt whether
tho sixty-five cents a ton rate will bo accepted
by the men.
A syndicate has been formed InTicnt-sin,
Chinn, for erecting a large cotton manufactory
in tliat place.
The Trades Union Congress, in Birmifisham,
England, pledged moral and financial
aid to the striking engineers, and favored
an eight-hour day
j WILL TEACH CHINAMEN TO FARM, n
I A New York Man Under Engagement to J
a Progressive Chinese Viceroy.
0. D. Brill, of Poughquog, Dutchess
County, N. Y., Is on his way to China to u
teach the Orientals how to grow potatoes, '
corn and wheat; how to milk cows, what to
do for hens when they refuse to lay eggs,
and how to preservo the juice of the apple
so it neither will be too sweet nor too sour,
and caoable always of sending a Celestial f
to Walhalla.
Chang Chi Tung, who, next to Li Hung
Chanj*, is considered the most progressive
of China's ruling great men, sent for Mr. '
Brill. Chanpr is Viceroy of Hu Kwang, Central
China. He has 473 persons to orery
square mile of his district, and he thinks
they do not get as much out of the soil as
they should.
Chang had heard of President Scherman
of Cornell University and the school of agriculture
there. So he got Sidney C. Partridge,
Yale, '80, rector of the Boone school
in Wuchang, a foreign mission of the Epis- p
I
G. D. BiULL.
copal Church, to write to President Scher- j|
man, tailing mm tnat ne wamea u smart
young American to come over and give Ills
farmers some Information. Mr. Brill was
graduated from Cornell in 1889, and since
then has been running three farms. President
Scherman thought he ought to know
how to teach the Celestials, and the arrangement
was made. Chang will pay all
of Mr. Brill's expenses and give him a fat
salary.
Mr. Brill is taking along only a few seeds,
jome books, a chemical outfit, a typewriter
and a camera. He purposes importing his
hoes, plows, hayforks, harrows, drills,
clover, hullers, threshing machines and
ehurns.
Mr. Brill doesn't kijow what he will do
lor power. He will need something to pull
the plows. They have no horses in Central
China, and Mr. Brill may have to harness a
lot of Chinamen.
WOODFORD AT SAN SEBASTIAN.
The New Minister Present* HU Credentials
to the Queen Regent.
The Hon. Hannis Taylor, the retiring
4 * vt.AOAnfArl Kle 1 nfforrj Af
American JilUlSlCf, JJLOanuiou ivov.u v> .
recall to the Queen Regent at noon at San |
Sebastian, Spain, and in doing so made a |
short complimentary*non-political speech.
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GENERAL BTEWABT L, WOODFORD.
Half an hoar later the Queen received.
General Steward L. Woodford, the new
Minister, who 'simply read the letter of
President McKinley appointing nim the
American representative to Spain. The
chief paragraph of this letter said;
"He (General Woodford) is informed of
the relative interests of both countries,
and of our sincere desire to cultivate and
promote the friendship which has so long
existed.between both countries. He shall
constantly try to promote the interests and
prosperity of both Governments, thus making
himself agreeable to Your Majesty."
Both Mr. Taylor and General Woodford
were received by the Queen Regent at tho
Palace of Miramar, where she and her
court have been spending tho summer.
During Mr. Taylor's visit to the Queen
Her Majesty carried on a friendly conversation
with him regarding the United States
on/1 OT.Pfoalrlont PlnvAlAnd flVfin savin??
that she hoped some day to visit the United
States. When Mr. Taylor was taking his
leave Her Majesty said, touchingly:
"Do, pray, befriend Spain when you go .
back to America."
Mr. Taylor bowed low and replied: "I
will do so as far as my conscience permits."
Mr. Taylor's departure is personally regretted
even in the official world, to which
he frequently had to convey unpalatable
communications.
Yellow Fever Spreading.
Four new genuine cases of yellow fever
were reported from New Orleans and Ave
cases are said to have a suspicious character.
The isolation of the city is almost
complete, one town aftor another having
refused to receive persons or goods from
that city. The State of Alabama has pronounced
quarantine against its coast city,
Mobile, in which place two new cases were I
reported; there is one new case in Scranton,
Miss., and a suspicious disease has j
broken out in Edwards, Miss., which is being
investigated. Alarm is gradually increasing.
1
SagaHta Takes a Gloomy View.
Senor Sajjasta, the Spanish Liberal lead
er, in an Interview on the subject of tLe !
Cuban insurrection says that instead of dying
out it is spreading. He adds that the
situation in the Philippine Islands is serious
and asserts that the Carlist propaganda in
Spain cannot bo viewed with indifforonco.
I
New German Ironclad Launched.
The new German ironclad Kaiser Wilhelm
dor Zweite was launched at Wllh'Jlmshaven.
She was christened by Trlaces? j
Henry of Prussia.
Why Wlicnt Is Dear.
John nyde, the statistician of the Agricultural
Department, in hismouthly report I
for August, explains why wheat is dear, j ,
and ex [trusses the opinion that there will j
be no cheapening of wheat until another ;
crop is in sight, with a prospect of ampler i
slocks than those now to be found across
the water.
Condition of tlx* I'ntik of .Spuin.
The position of the liauk of Spain continues
to gn-ntly concern commoi-cial circles,
owing to the immense note circulation.
Tho bank has loaned the Government
*30,000,000 repayable, without Interest,
In l'J'20.
IULF HUBBICANE'SSWEEP
Wreckage and Loss of Uh in and
Near Sabine Pass, Texas.
IDAL WAVE WRECKS TOWNS,
eath anil Disaster Resulted From a
Hood and a Storm That Swept the
Texas Coa*t?The Tovrn of Winnie Said
to Have Been Destroyed ? Damage
at Other Points Is Very Extensive.
Galveston, Texas (Special).?A terrific
torm swept over Port Arthur and Sabine
ass and tbat section of Texas, causing
tie loss of many lives and very great deduction
of property.
The towns of Port Arthur, Sabine Pass
nd Sabine were inundated. The estimates
f the deaths in these places vary from
ir?hf fn furnntw ThA fnwna WPrfl ftllt off
rom railroad communications because of
lie flood and from telegraphic communiatlon
because the telegraph wires were
lown down. Reiief trains have been sent
rom Beaumont.
To the west of Sabine the towns and
anches and farms along the coast for forty
llles have been wrecked or damaged. In
be town of Winnie only two houses remain
tanding. To the south of Galveston there
s known to have been a great rise in the
raters as far as Corpus Chrlstl. Galveson,
lucky as on former occasions, escaped
without trouble.
For two days the wind had been blowing
ieavily from the southwest, driving the
raters out of the Gulf into the lake and
ts estuaries. Finally this southwest wind
ncreased to a gale and the water poured
n from the sea at a great rate. Suddenly
he wind swung around into the north and
leveloped into the fiercest blow that has
ieen experienced in many years. The
rinds whipped the water back from the
ivers and drove it toward the lake, and
he water of the lake was driven against
he water that wa^ rushing in from the
iulf.
The meeting of these two great forces of
rater made a bank of water which had to
Ind an outlet. Unable to stay within the
latural channels the water broke out over
he prairie lands and swept along in mighty
raves. Wherever these waves met an obtacle
it was washed aside'as if it were of
taper.
Within a few hours the level of the waters
n the territory within a radius of six miles
f Sabine Pass had risen eight feet. To add
o iue torrurs ui tuo oibuoi.iv/u iv imuuu iu
orrents. The force of the wind was in itelf
sufficient to dismantle any frail strucure.
The people of the three towns, Sabine,
labine Pass, and Port Arthur, were pracically
in a trap, threatened from within
md without. Wreck and devastation were
>eing wrought by the wind, and death by
Lrowning was in the flood.
it was reported that eight persons were
:illed and twelve injured by the storm at
tort Arthur and that forty had been killed
it Beaumont.
At Winnie every house but two was blown
lown. The great dairy farm of ex-Governor
Vheeler, of Iowa, was wrecked. The
'reel Hotel wns blown from its founlations.
The store of E. A. Thornon
was demolished, The home of Mrs.
iregory was destroyed. The store and
warehouse of Z. R. Guess were torn to
)ieces and the merchandise ruined by
rater. Every residence was damaged
nore or less. All along the route of the
Julf and Interstate Railroad for twenty
niles, on each side of Winnie, farmhouses
tnd barns were blown down and trees upnw*
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At Sour Lake, on the Southern Pacific
Railroad, immediately to the north of Winlie,
the roof was blown off of a passenger
loach:
The newly established towns of Webb,
Jeabreeze, Cheek and Fannette, on the Gulf
ind Interstate Railroad, are practically
viped out, the frail structures erected there
>eing picked up and hurled about by the
vind a* i? they were of little or no weight.
Two tugs owned by Moore & Betts, of
)range, were sunk in the Sablne'Pass,
irownlng Messrs. Moore and Betts. Threeluarters
of the buildings at Port Arthur
lave been blown down. A number of peo)le
fled to the Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad
oundhouse there for safety. Six were
)lown off and killed and fifteen Injured.
LOWS LETTER OUT.
Iccepta the Citizens' Nomination and
Proclaims His Platform.
Seth Low's letter accepting the nominator.
of the Citizens' Union for Mayor of
Greater New York was made public. He
leclares?
Tbat if elected Mayor ho will be Mayor,
terving no party, and with the single aim
)f promoting the public welfare.
That he is a Republican, but will not use
public office for any party or faction whatjver.
That fitness, efficiency and economy, not
party service, will dictate every appointment
and removal.
That New York City, in its local affairs,
ihould be the home of its inhabitants, and
should not be ruled from Albany.
That public franchises shculd be sold,
lot usea for private profit.
That rapid and com for- lie transit
ihould be no longer postponed but speedily
realized.
That the excise laws of the greater city
should be regulated and controlled by and
In accord with the public sentiment of the
:ity itself.
Killed by Alaskan Indians.
United States Commissioner B. Killen, of
Portland, Oregon, who has been investl?
II A Inol'D
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jrlngs word that serious trouble has developed
between white prospectors and
the Copper River Indians, at present the
)nly unconquered and uncivilized natives
an American soli. Three miners have lost
ihelr lives. When the Topeka, on which
Commissioner Klllen arrived, left Juneau,
a,n armed body of twenty-four white men
was advancing into the mineral region,
whose invasion the Coppers deeply resent.
The Revolt In India.
A thousand Orakzais have captured the
Sarhargnrtl police post on the British Indian
frontier. Twenty-one Sikhs In the
garrison hold out for sis and a half hours,
and one Sikh killed twenty of the assailants
before he was slain. News from Fort
Lockhart Is to the effect that the tribesmen
number 47,000 men. The English Generals
are preparing for their final advance into
the Mobmand country.
?
II. Meline, Prime Minister and Minister
of Agriculture, announced to t!io French
Cabinet that the official crop returns showed
that the wheat crop amounted to 88,546,890
hectolitres, as against 119,743,416 hectolitres
in 1896. The official estimate of the
Italian wheat crop places the yield at 30,600,000
hectolitres, as against 51,000,000 last
year.
Sherifl'8 Victims Buried.
Twelve of the victims of the conflict between
the authorities and the strikers at
Lattimer, Fenn., were burled. There was
no disturbance.
'Minor Mention.
Germany's trado with Mexico has in?
ereftsutL
Tho prisons of Germany cost the empire
over *25,000.000 a year.
Tho Indian tribesmen's uprising is now
reported well under control.
No less than 2000 miles of railway are
said to bo projected in China.
A new system has been found in Germany
of destroying llax microbes.
Chicago's public library now has 219,275
bound volumes and 42,000 manuscripts.
United States Consuls report that Japan's
textile product for 1890 was I'JG.OOO,000
A FATAL STOLEN RIDE. (
Sercn Men Killed In a Railroad Wrccfc I
in Indian Territory.
A m^st disastrous freight wreck occurred
on the Iron Mountain Road at Hansom, r
Indian Territory, a small station twenty
mile wost of Van Buron, Ark., at 2 o'clock,
resulting In the death of seven men and
the serious injury of six others, two of
whom will die. .
The dead ara William Fame, Charlea |
Fame, Douglass Anderson. John Johnson,
Bore Henderson, Frank Hamilton and H.
A. Walton. The Injured are George Coffman,
Jack Jones, James Phillips, Robert 5
Eubanks, Charles Bonder and George
Parker.
None of the trainmen were hurt. The
wrecked train was a local freight from fcoffeyville,
Kan., to Van Buren. While the
train was running at a speed of twenty
miles an hour, the forward trucks of one of
the cars near the engine broke, wrecking
fifteen cars loaded with walnut logs ana '
baled hay. With the exception of two cars 9
In front and three cars in the rear, includ- i,
ing the caboose, every car of the twenty 1
composing the train was ditched. c
In the middle of the train was a car \
loaded with heavy machinery. In this a
nar m?n tcata atpalint? a. ride. and
from it seven dead and six seriously "
wounded were taken by the trainmen I
shortly afterward. The occupants of the
wrecked car were a party of men and b,oys ,
living In Vian, Indian Territory, who were '
going to Van Buren to find employment in 8
the cotton fields. When the machinery car t
left the rails it fell on its side, nearly all (
of the men being caught by the heavy
beams. A car of logs was piled on top of c
the one in which the men were riding, and [
that any of them escaped instant death la (
little short of a miracle.
CUBAN TRAITORS KILLED. J
The Whole Garrison of Consolacion Del
Sar Pat to Death. j
The sensation caused by the news of the '
capture of Victoria de las Tunas, Cuba, by
General Garcia, the insurgent leader, was \
not over yet In Havana when another re- '
port came whioh made the loyalist Span- 1
iards in the capital shiver. The important 1
town of Consolacion del Sur, in Pinar del ]
Bio province, was attacked three days ago
by the insurgents, and the whole gar- j
rison, composed of . 200 volunteers
from Havana, slain by the revolu- '
tionlsts. As soon as the terrible work was 1
done the insurgents left the town. A strong 1
Spanish column which arrived some hours J
afterward buried the bodies of the volun- '
teers. The insurgents did not do much
damage to the town, but destroyed a great I
tobacco plantation In the neighborhood and '
took away all the cattle.
The garrison of Consolacion del Sur had
oeen marked for death by the insurgents J
for a long time. They were considered de- j
3erters from the Cuban army, most of them '
being native Cubans, who got good pay
from General Weyler and were especially J
employed because of their knowledge of I
the country as scouts for the Spanish guerrillas
in raiding the Cuban hospitals all I
around that neighborhood. The town was
taken by storm, the sudden attack of the ;
Insurgents surprising the garrison, which
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UltiUD UUL IIUVAO XCSIObauWO.
Oar Oldest Railroad Repair Shop.
The erecting and repair shops of the B.
and 0. at Mt. Clare In the City of Baltimore,
which are tbe oldest shops in the United
States, have been completely modernized.
The locomotive erecting shop has been rebuilt
and Is supplied with two flfty-ton
Jlectrlc cranes, whioh lift the heaviest
locomotives and move them to any point as
though they weighed but a ton. The com-'
pressed air appliances are of the latest
pattern, and the cost of making the Improvements
will be saved In two years,
as the new machinery accelerates the work
at a less expense than In times gone by.
Yellow Fever In New Orleans.
The Louisiana Board of Health officially
announced the existence of seven cases of
yellow fever In New Orleans, La. Six of
these are among the twelve sick on St.
Claude street, previously reported as suspicious.
The diseaso has made sufficient
progress to enable the doctors to definitely
diagnose it as yellow fever. The Board of
Health followed this information up with
the announcement thnt it had discovered a
case of genuine yellow fever at the corner
of Esplanade avenue and Mlro street. This
last case has caused much apprehension.
Aged Sisters Burned to Death.
Miss Harriet C. Sheldon, eighty-two years
old, and her sister, Miss Matilda Sheldon
eighty-six years old, were burned to death
In their home on Cedar street, Lynn, Mass.
The old ladies had lived by themselves and
kept house alone, although both were enfeebled
by advancing years. They attemptj
ed to start a Are in tho kitchen with keroI
sene. The oil can exploded and Miss Ma
tllda's clothing was set in a blaze at once.
In an attempt to extinguish the flames
Harriet's clothing was also ignited.
A Great Cuban Victory.
Great excitoment was caused in Madrid,
Spain, by news of the capture by the Cuban
Insurgents of the strongly fortified town of
Viotoria de las Tunas, Province of Santiago
do Cuba. The Minister of War cabled to
Captain-General Weyler, demanding an explanation.
A special meeting of the Cabinet
was summoned to oonsider the situation.
An effort will be made to recapture
the place, and reinforcements will be sent
I to Cuba, if necessary.
Wild Horses In Arizona.
Wild horses have become so much of a
nuisahce in Northern Arizona that At*
torney General Frazier has been asked if
they may not legally bo slaughtered. That
vicinity has been overrun by several large
bands hundreds in number, unbrandod and
unclaimed by any one. They have rapidly
increased in number and have become
wilder than deer. The matter has been referred
to the Live Stock Board.
Killed Man and Wife.
George Slaughter, a colored man, assaulted
Mrs. Will Jones, in Warwick County,
Indiana. James Robinson, a colored
I rinnntv sheriff, arrested Slaughter and took
him to Mrs. Jones for identification. When
Mrs. Jones recognized him Slaughter pulled
his revolver and killed her and her husband
and escaped before Robinson could
Interfere.
Confessed the Nichols Murder.
In the secrecy of their bedchamber
Charlos Boinay confossed to his wife the
murder of George Marcus Nichols, at
Daniels Farms, Conn., In July, and described
to her the part which he and her
brothers David ana John Weeks took in the
tragedy.
81,500,000 For Mining: Land.
It Is reported that the Chaffee estate of
Denver, L. M. Lawson, of New York, Senator
S. B. Elklns, of West Virginia, and R.
C. Kerens, of St. Louis, owners of the
Ortiz Mine grant in South Santa Fe
County, New Mexico, have sold the
property to a New York and London
mining syndicate for 81,300,003.
The property consists of 69.000 acres, which
I Includes much of the best gold-producing
- 1 ?T 1 T a on
j territory in aow .ucaicu, ju. o. uu>.u, ....
t English mining expert, has spent six
1 months investigating the mineral resources,
and his report has recently been veriiiedby
a New York expert namedFlcming'
Prominent People.
Andrew Carnegie has bought Sklbo Castle.
Sutherlandshire, England.
The Pope's physician announces that he
may live to see tho twentieth century.
Taderewski, tho pianist, who is on his
Polish estate, has cut his hair and takeu to
! bicycling.
Ex-Queen Liliuotalani, of Hawaii left
! Washington for San Francisco, where she
i will live in future.
The estate of the Into William L. Winans,
of Baltimore, Md., who die<l in London on
Juno 25, is valued at $12,610,000.
Frlnce Bismarck, in an interview, says
he fears that the Russo-German meeting at
Poterhof accomplished nothing.
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Joal Miners Killed by Deputies in a
Bloody Affair at Lattimer, Penn.
rHE MILITIA WAS ORDERED OUT.
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?he Marchers Refused to Disperse When
the Blot Act Was Read to Them?The
Sheriff Thought He Was In Danger
and Ordered His Deputies to Flre~>
Deadly Volley Followed the Order.
Hazeltos, Penn. (Special).?Twenty-two
trtkers were killed, thirty-six seriously
rounded and nearly forty more or less In,
ured near here Friday by deputy sheriffs,
mder command of Sheriff Martin. The en.
ire region Is wildly excited over the affair,
;nd there was every indication that the
Leputles would be assaulted by friends of
he dead and wounded.
Hazleton Is In a turmoil. The streets are
irowded with citizens of all classes, and
ire all talking of what they consider a
errible outrage. An indignation meeting
r&s held, at which resolutions were passed
lenounclng the shooting of the miners,,
irotestlng against the sending of troops, .
>n the ground that they are not needed,
ind demanding the prosecution of the
Sheriff and his deputies.' The citizens also
isk that the deputy sheriffs concerned in
;he affair be discharged from all authority
ind disarmed. They say the local police
[orce is quite competent to take care of the
strikers if any disturbance occurs. ;
Sheriff Martin, in giving his explanation
3f the shooting, said: "I fully realized k
that the foreigners were a desperate Tot and I
valued life at a very small figure. I also \
saw that parleying with such a gang of in- 1
turiated men was entirely out of the question,
as they ' were too excited to ^
listen to reason, and that myself- and *
deputies would be killed if we
were not rescued or if we did not defend
ourselves. I then called upon the deputies
to defend themselves and shoot if they must
to protect their lives or to protect the property
that they had been sent to guard from
being demolished.
"The next second there were a few scattered
shots tired into the infuriated foreigners,
and a moment later the entire
force of deputies discharged a solid volley
Into the crowd. I hated to give the command
to shoot, and was awful sorry that
[ was compelled to do so, but I was
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knew how and as my oonaclence dictated, >
as the strikers were violating the laws of
the Commonwealth and flatly refused to
obey the proclamation that I read to
them." ? I
The shooting of the miners occurred
about four o'clook In the afternoon, near
the village of Lattimer, a small mining1
town about five miles from Hazleton. A
body of strikers, numbering about 250 met
early In the afternoon at the Harlelgh and
Cranberry minds, not far from Lattimer,: , . ^
and, after Informal meeting, resolved to
march to Lattimer to Induce the men to
join their ranks. This has been their mode
of procedure during the three weeks of
the strike.
The men started about half-past two
o'clock for Lattimer. They were not
armed In any way, all revolvers and knives
having .been discarded several days ago,
by order of their leaders. There was not
even a club among them, every precaution
having been taken to prevent violence.
Two hundred yards from the Lattimer
breaker they found their path blocked by
Sheriff Martin and ninety of his deputies.
The strikers were marching along in or- derly
array, with no shouting and making V '
no disturbance whatever. The Sheriff or- ?
dered them to stop. They obeyed his com- N
mand and halted, still in orderly array and V
about six abreast. The Sheriff walked up ^
to tne head of the line.
"You must stop marching and disperse," J
he said. "This Is contrarv to the law, and A
you are creating a disturbance. You must ^
go back. I won't let you go on to the colliery."
The leaders expostulated with the Sheriff.
Finding that this words had no effect, Sheriff
Martin said that he would read the riot
act to them, and he proceeded to do so.
Most of the strikers did not understand
this, for few of them can speak English,
and, thinking it was some sort of warrant
for their arrest, they crowded around him. '
The Sheriff, however, seemed to think he
was In danger, and he pushed his way out
of the ring around him and tried to get
back to his line of deputies. The strikers
made way for him, ana just as he emerged
from their ranks a voice was heard shouting
"Fire! Fire on them!"
The next instant the deputies had levelled
their rifles, and a terrible volley was
poured Into the huddled mass of strikers at
close range.
v The effect was fearful. Dozens of men
fell, and others shrieked and cried for
mercy as they ran away, with many of the
wounded banking to their more iortunaie
comrades, moaning and crying for help.
In that Instant another volley was poured
Into them, and they fell before It In heaps.
The smoke of the rifles discharged so
close to them hung over them in a cloud,
and for some moments concealed the terrible
execution that had been done. On the
outskirts of the cloud dozens of the men
were seen running, and at these the deputies
fired another volley. More men fell,
and.as the lucky survivors continued running
a few of the deputies flred chance
shots after them. One of these struck a
striker in the neck, killing him instantly.
The place was a veritable snambles. The
quiet street was red with blood, and' blood
was on the fences and tracked into many
of the houses into which the wounded had
run or crawled. The road was deep In duet,
and the dead and wounded were covered
with It, their faces, distorted with pain,
were black with it, and the hands that
sought their wounds and tried to stop the
flow of blood were muddy with the horrible
mixture. .
The residents of Latimerwere quickly on
the scene and did all in their power to aid J
the injured and dying, but confusion and 4
disorder r?igned supreme. Physicians and * '
clergymen were quietly summoned from
surrounding towns, and ail assistance possible
was hurried to Lattimer. The injured
were hurried to the Hazelton hospital, several
dying on the wav. Three died after
they were in the hospital.
uver a dozen singers were iuucu uuiright,
and fully forty wore wounded, of
whom many will die. They are Hungarians,
many of them having large families. There
are now thirty-eight wounded persons at
the Hazelton hospital, half of whom are
likely to die. The identified dead are twelve
in number.
Just after midnight the Third Brigade,
General Gobin in command, was ordered to
Hazelton, and the First Brigade was ordered
to hold itself in readiness.
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Elevator Fell Nineteen Floors.
A passenger elevator in the American
Tract Society's tall building in New York
City broke loose at 9 o'clock p. m. and fell
to the cellar, smashing itself into splinters
and scrap iron and crushing to death the
elevator boy and the engineer of thg building.
Only these two were in the car at the
time of tie m!s!inp. Nicholas Nielson was
the engineer and Isaac Bachrach was the
elevator boy. The spirit indicator beside
the shaft showed after the fall that the car
had been to the nineteenth floor, and the
gauge still marked that tlguro when all
was over.
The National Game.
Eastern League Umpire "Tim" Iieefe has J
resigned.
The agitation in favor of the double urnpire
system again is on.
Wagner is now playing second base foi
Louisville, and is doliig fairly well.
Quinn, of Baltimore, demonstrates that
he can play a very clever shortlield.
Tho Anindv n\I 1 flub has lost twentv.
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ttiree games by one run this season.
Gettman, the Washington's now outfield"
er, is a tall man and is extremely fast.
The days of dirty ball playing are fast
approaching an end through popular con- ?'
damnation*