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TRilH BOBBEBYINTEXAS. Cannon-Bal! Express Held Up in Broad Daylight Near Austin, CRIME COMMITTED BY FOUR MEN. The Bandits Took the Passengers' Money But Failed to Open the Express Safe? The Conductor and a Passencer "Wounded?The Robbers Kan Away With the Engine? Small Amount of Booty. Austin, Texas (Special).?At 5.30 o'clock - ? ?'"-I- ? 1 Mm limlfa nf p. 111., wiciuu tweivo uiucs ui this city, the south-bound "cannon-bull" 9 train on the International and Great Northern Railroad, consisting of mail, uaggage and express cars, and three coaches filled , ' with passengers, was held up by four men and robbed. The conductor of the train> Thomas Healy, was shot by the robbers while resisting them, but was not wounded seriously. * One of the passengers had his shirt collar carried away by a pistol ball that yras aimed at his neck, and another received a bullet wound in the hand. The passengers were robbed of about $200 in money. The bandits attempted to rifle the safe in the express car, but were unsuccessful. When the train reached McNeill, a small station, fourteen miles above Austin, two men, heavily armed, boarded the train and took their stand on the rear platform. After the conductor had checked up the train he reached the platform, whore a pistol was presented at each side of his * A T?W? *-?>?*?> thiif ha Qtnn fhrt UCftU. J.UCJ IIXCJ1 V4V. vu?, ..? train. He declined to do so, and began to run through the train, \yith the two robbers in close pursuit. He had not gone balf the length of the first car when the foremost robber shot at him, bringing him to the floor with a pistol wound in his risrht arm. The other robber pulled the bell cord, and the train was brought to a standstill. It was evidently at the appointed place, lor the train had hardly stopped before two other men, whos<* faces were covered with masks, stepped oat from among the trees and began shooting into the cars as they walked toward the irain. The tfco men on the train were joined by those from the woods, and began their work of robbing the passengers. As the colored train porter sprang from the rear coach and ran for shelter a robber began shooting at him, and the porter emptied a revolver in turn without effect. The express messenger looked out of his car, and, taking in the situation, left the car and ran through the woods and was soon lost to sight. The robbers, leaving two men to guard the passengers in the three coaches, proceeded to the express car and demanded that the baggageman open the express safe, but, upon being assured that he could not ^onnln ftivna/) fKiiit* offonflnn ftho passengers. They took only money from them, not overlooking a single cent, and walking two by two through the cars, so as to always keep their eyes on the passengers. Having secured about 8200 in this manner, they uncoupled the engine from the train and started off down the track upon it. After going several miles they set the lever so that the locomotive would run at a moderate gait and left the engine. The engine came on to thg flag station at Duval, and was there captured. The station agent returned to the scene of the robbery, secured the train, and brought it to Austin, arriving here shortly after dark. Officers went to thescene with bloodhounds to pursue the robbers. WOMEN SHOT DOWN MYSTERIOUSLY An Aged Mother and Daughter Killed in Cauiden, N. J. A policeman strolling along the street in a thickly populated district of Camden, N. J., at half past 4 o'clock a. m. heard a faint cry of "Murder!" coming from the vicinity of Line street. Line street is in the heart of Camden, a few blocks from the Camden and Philadelphia ferry slips. Kunning in the direction whence the cry came, the policeman found a man in his night robe leaning out of the third-story window of the dwelling at 242 Line street, calling feebly for help. He was Eli Shaw, an invalid in the convalescent stage of typhoid fever. Accompanied by two citizens, the policeman entered the house. On the second floor he found the evidence of a double murder. The victims were Mrs. Sarah M. Shaw, the mother of the voung mau who gave the alarm from the window, and her mother, Mrs. Emma Zane. Mrs. Zane, who was the widow of Captain Eli Zane, a well-known resident of Camden, was Beventy-eight years old. She was sitting in a chair in her night-robe, apparently asleep. But her skull had beep fractured just Dehind the left ear by Bomc sharp instrument. She was still alive, but unconscious, and died in a short time. Mrs. Shaw, who was forty-ftvo years old and also a widow, was lying on the floor near the window. There was a bullet wound in her head, but she was breathing, and with all despatch she was removed in an ambulaDce to Cooder Hos pital. She died there at 10 o'clock in the .doming. A superficial examination disclosed the traces of an attempted burglary. From (the disconnected and hysterical account of .the only witness of the tragedy, the invalid son, the police adopted that theory. BROOKLYN LAWYER FOUND SLAIN Henry Ingrnham, Manager of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, Killed. Henry Ingraham, a prominent lawyer, of Brooklyn, manager of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, one of the biggest corporations of its kind in the city, was Tound in a vacant lot in Flatbush with a Jbuilet through his heart. The neighborhood where this body was discovered is a lonely one. There are few houses on either Sullivan or Cedar streets, and weeds have grown rauklv in the vacant lots at the intersection of these thoroughfares. No better place could bo found for a murder, and the friends of Henry Ingraham believe he was the victim of an assassin's w.%* fKui.Ali.ia tiQwtha oiponmfitanfAO UUUCt, UUl UIC pvuvv point to suicide. A Private Maltreated. On order of Captain Lovering, officer of the day, a private soldier named Hammond was dragged, with his legs tied, a distance of.six hundred yards through Fort Sheridan, near Chicago, to a summary court martial because he refused to work and declined to walk when put under arrest. Spain's Keply. Spain's reply to the United States was announced at Madrid. The Ministry is unable to set an exact date for ending the Cuban war, but expects hostilities to end soon. Tlie pacification of the island, it is charged, would have been more rapid had it not been for American filibusters. It is asserted President McKinley will advise the Cubans to accept autonomy, and that if they refuse he will make no further efforts in their behalf. Snow in I'enim.vivanm. There was u heavy fall of snow at Frackville. Schuylkill County, Penn., the first of the season. Killed Wife and Hinmelf. John F. Boynton, a well-known resident of Leominster, Mass., shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. Family troubles are believed to have been the cause of the act. although several years ago Boynton was thought to be mildly insane. " He was fifty-eight years of age and his wife was flfty-one. More Severity For Cuba. General Blanco, the new Captain-Gen. eral of Cuba, announces that he will act with great energy against the insurgent.? and will try to establish peace by the system which he ?.cablished in 1879. i . - * .. t . THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washlncton Items. The Interstate Commerce Commission has issued its ninth statistical report, for the year ended Juno 30,180C. Cornelius N. Bliss. Secretary of the Interior, has sent a letter from Washington to General Traey, indorsing the latter's candidacy for Mayor of Greater New York. I It is believed in Washington that Justice i Field may retire from the Supreme Court bench during the present term of court. Attorney General McKcnna is mentioned as his successor. Governor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, has been informed by Secretary Sherman that j the Austrian Minister has made a comj plaint that tho firing on the mob at Lat[ timer was a violation of the rights of AusI trian subjects. The Secretary asks for a I statement of the facts in the case. Sheriff ! Martin and General Gobin have been asked I by the Governor to reply. Clara H. Richards has been appointed | Postmistress at Dyea, Alaska. The postal recipts for September show a gain of 7 1-10 per cent, over the same month last year. The Monetary Commission held a meeting in Washington, at which preliminary reports from the committees were discussed. Secretary Sherman has replied to Lord Salisbury's refusal to take part in the sealing conference; he suggests that a conference between experts of the United States, Great Britain and Canada be held. The President mado the following appointments: H. N. McGrew, of Phoenix, ! Arizona, to be Register of the Land 0fflc6 at Salt Lake City, Utah; Fred D. Sprlggs, | of New York, to "be agent for the Indians at the Nevada Agency in Nevada; Edward Gold burg, of Wichita. Kan., to be agent for the Indians of the Quapaw Agency in Indian Territory. Secretary Gage, who has just returned to Washington from his Western trip, reports prosperous conditions everywhere. The Board of Geographic Names has de I cided that Klondike is the correct spelling of the new gold region, and that Dyea j should bo Talya. Domestic. Judge Sbowalter in Chicago gave a de| cision to the effect that the makers of a certain line of goods, in a certain place, do I not have the right of a trade-mark to the t name of that place. This decision is of I general interest to milling people, and especially to those of Minneapolis. I The organization of the greatest combination of window glass makers ever formed in this country was completed at Camden, N. J. Tittsburg was chosen as the general ! selling agency. At a boxinc bout, for the benefit of yellow fever sufferers, in New Orleans, La., Jack Cummings was fatally injured, and died next morning. Walter Griffin, who fought against him, is under arrest. Fifteen men, including strikers and members of a brass band, were arrested at Sandy Creek, Penn., by Deputy Sheriffs of the De Armitt mines for marching on the public road. They were taken to Pittsburg for a hearing. Charles W. Dayton accepted the nomination for Comptroller of Greater New York on the Henry George ticket. Fairchild will remain on tho Citizens' Union ticket. Two women were drowned In the Neverj sink River, in Sullivan County, New York. I The fifteenth conference of friends of the ! Indian was held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. I Railroad traffic in Texas was almost entirely suspended on account of the yellow fever scare. Philadelphia authorities barred Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" as a text-book for high-school girls. The Western Carolina Rank of Asheville? tT. C., failed to open its doors. The steamer City of Topeka arrived at Seattle, Wash., bringing miners returning from the Klondike region and $300,000 in gold. The miners say the wealth of the Klondike has been underestimated, and one of them places the value of the claims thus far opened at 850,000,000. Conrad Helzelberg shot and killed Thomas McSorley during a quarrel at Castleton, Staten Island, and attempted suicide by i cutting his throat and wrists. Heizelberg } will recover. The largest cattle deal made In Texas" ?ince the boom days of fifteen yeas ago was I arranged at San Antonio, Ike T. Pryor, J selling to Winfleld Scott, of Fort Worth, | 20,000 head of cattle of all classes for $13 | per head, fall delivery. Other big sales are pending. Former fiovernor Boies, of Iowa, in a letter said the Chicago platform had had its j day in the "tribunal of last resort." i The Treasury statement of domestic ex| ports in September shows that the ship| ment of breadstuffs exceeded that of SepI tember, 1896. by 100 per cent. Over 81,050,000 of the school fund money of Chicago has vanished, and the account has been overdrawn to the amount of $117,000. This is the startling state of affairs that confronts the Board of Education. according to the story of one of its amployes. Detective William Moore,who is snspeoted of the murder of his wife, was arraigned in New York City and was afterward taken before Coroner Fitzpatrick while the charge against him was examined. He was committed to the Tombs by the Coroner. Much of the testimony was directly against him. The New Bedford (Mass.) semi-centenaial celebration occurred. All of the public buildings were covered with - decorations, and many business houses and residences were masses of color. A forty-eight-inch water main burst at Forty-eighth street and Madison avenue ind flooded the neiprhborhootl ror many blocks. It is estimated that the damage will reach 850,000. The accident was caused by the heavy blasting of rock dur| Ing the construction of the new sewer in | the avenue. A severe frost In the Lake Eveuka (N. Y.) j grape region ruined hundreds of tons of ! grapes. The loss will be several thousands | of dollars. The citizens of Benton County. Arkansas, have organized an anti-horse stealing association as a protection against horse thieves from the Indian Territory. Frank Hoverton is President and the headquarters of the organization are at Bloomfleld. The members take an ironclad oath to punish horse stealing with death. Former Queen LUiuokalani of Hawaii has been offered 82000 to preside over a carnij val at Wichita, Kan., for three days in 1898. | The invitation was extended through Dr. | Martin, formerly of Wichita, who was the I Queen's physician at Honolulu. The American flag was draped with crape : and government by injunction denounced i i... iskm. rtj-nronl^Af-inns in Lvnn. Mass.. where a clergyman preached a funeral serI mon for the twenty-four men shot down at | Lattimer, Penn. Mrs. Charlotte Leclair, of Westerly, R. I., died at the age of 109 years and six month*. Five generations of her descendants are living, Foreign. M. Maertens, a distinguished Russian jurist, has been chosen to preside as umpire over the court of arbitration which is to decide the British Venezuela boundary line. Professor Leopold Stern, an optician from New York, has been murdered and robbed by bandits near Tovar, Venezuela. The American steamer St. Paul made the run New York to Southampton in six days twelve hours and ten minutes?better than Vior liuct iirnvinnq run. Senor Moret, the Spanish Minister of ColI ouies, will offer the chief political and ad: ministrative posts in Cuba to Cubans. Mrs. Langtry's horse Merman, at 100 to j 7. won the Cesarewitch Stakes, in England, ' winning for his owner, it is believed, 3200,] 000. Leading men of London are signing o fetter objecting to action by the British Government in the direction of bimetal| ltsm. An organization is said to have beer formed in Paris to secure the escape ol Captain Dreyfus, the French traitor, from prison. A Frenchman was arrested at Lyons on the charge of having committed a series o) Jack the Ripper crimes. General Weyler was ordered to turn hi.' command over to Generals Ahumada oi Linares immediately and return to Madrid. SPAIN RECALLS WEYLE1 General Blanco Succeeds Him Cuba's Captain-General, LARGE REINFORCEMENTS SEN VFeylcr Resigns at Last and the Cabii Loses No Tiino In Naming Genei Blanco as His Successor?The "Bate er" Explains the Causa of His Del ?Sagasta Sends - Him a Messaj Madhid, Spain (By Cable).?Contrary expectation, and to the great relief of t now administration, Captain-General We ier has sent a dispatch to Premier Sagas tendering bis resignation, and placing 1 office as Governor-General of Cuba a Commander-in-Chief at the disposal of t Government. The Cabinet thendoolded npon the imm diate recall of General Weyler from Cut A. decree was prepared appointing Genei ? 1 /" /(\r> I A'- Ly^y-: ( " "7 OENEBAX WETLEB. Blanco y Arenas, Marquis of Pena-Plata, succeed Weyler. The Qaeen Regent's slg Ing of the degree was the next step. A wording to El Heraldo, 20,000 relnforcemen will accompany General Blanco to Cuba. In the course of Weyler's message he r marks: "If the functions with which tl late Government had intrusted me hadbe< merely those of Governor-General of Cub I should have hastened my resignatio But the twofold character of my missic and my duty as Commander-in-Chief intl face of the enemy prevented my tendering resignation. "Nevertheless, although I can rely upc the absolute, unconditional support of tl Autonomist and Constitutional parties, i well as upon public opinion, this would 1 Insufficient without the oonfldence of tl Government, now more than ever necessai to me after the censure of which I ha' been made the object by the members at Journals of the Liberal party and by publ opinion in the United States, which latt< is largely Influenced by the former. Tb confidence would be necessary to enab me to put an end to the war, which has c ready been virtually concluded from 01 lines from Jucaro to Cape Ran Antonio." Senor Sagasta replied: "I thank you f< your explanation, and value your fran GENERAL BLANCO. ness. I wish to assure you that the Go1 ernment recognizes your services, and va ues them as they deserve; but it thin! a change of policy, in order to succeed, r quires that the authorities should be at 01 with the Ministry. "This has nothing to do with the conl dence felt in you by the Government; U the Liberals have always said that the r< sponsibility for a given policy does not fa UDon those who carry it out, but upon tt Government inspiring it. I shall commi nioate your decision to the Governmei hortly." John K. McPherson Dead. John R. McPherson, one time Democrat leader in New Jersey and United Stat' Senator from that State, from 1877 un1 1895, died suddenly in his room at Taylor Hotel in Jertey City. Mr. McPherson he been staying at the hotel for more than month. He had been sufTeric.? for a Ion time from stomach trouble. John Roderii McPherson was born at York, Livingsto County, N. Y., on May 9, 1838. Bank Robbed at Lunch Time. Ti ieves entered the office of the Uni< County Bank, at Morganfleld, Ky., in tt * ?j ?-? ?-* 4-u aq n luuua uuur ttllU guwiuou lunu vau in currency which had been loft in the co.i drawer. When the bank officials returni they discovered their loss. The vault w closed and locked. The robbers made gci their escape, leaving no clue. Switzerland to Own Railways. The National Council, by a vote of 93 29, has adopted a bill providing for tl purchase of the Ave principal railroads Switzerland, at a cost approaching S2CC 000,000. Senorita Clsneros Escapes. The beautiful little Cuban maid Senorl Evangelina Cassio y Cisneros, heroine the sensational adventure with t Governor of the Isle of Pines, escaped frc the Casa de Recogidas, Cuba, where s had been confined for several months oi charge of conspiracy against the Crown Spain and of an attempt upon the life Governor Berez, Governor of the Isle Pines. Killed His Brother. ratrlou uonway iciuea nis Droiu j Jatnes, near Plattsburg, N. Y., as the : j suit of an altercation with their mother, j which James took her part. Labor World. Detroit (Mich.) clerks invite employi to attend tneir meetings. Bay City, Wis., is to become nn oxpc 1 j ment in a co-operative manufacturing^! agricultural community. The United Brotherhood of Carpenti and Joiners donated and collected nea | S2000 for the coal miners. Washington planing mill owners ha notified the Central Labor Union that th men may become unionists. . Detroit (Mich.) peddlers have organize They will test the constitutionality of ordinance taxing them 325 a year. \ In Concord, N. C., thero is being ereci r a cotton mill which is to be owned, cc | trolled and operated by colored hands. |1 FAIR REFUCEE HERE. Hi Evangrellna Clsneros, Who Esrapctl XVej ler'n ciutcncs, in ^ew ion*. Senorita Evangelina Cosio y Cisneros, 35 who has passed so many weary months in a Spanish prison in Havana, is now safo In New York. She arrived on t he Ward line steamship Seneca, after a thrilling escape from Cuba, daessed as a man, and under Tan assumed name. The young fugitive was taken from the steamer at Quarantine, and after reaching the city in a tugboat, was taken to the Waldorf. The way in which Senorita Cosio escaped from Havana was no less startling thanber 'a' escapo from the Recojidas jail in Havana h. three nights before, when her rescue was effected by two reporters for the New Yorlc OJ Journal. :e. Since her sensational flight from captivity until Saturday evening Senorita Cosio to was kept concealed somewhere in Havana, he All the time she was waiting in fear and trembling, dreading recapture, plans for I her flight to New York were being made. ta A transportation ticket ana passport, lis made out in the name of Mr. Juan Sola, _a was obtained for the girl, so that on Saturday evening, a short time before the Seenca weighed anohor, everything was ready for the venture. Disguised as a (). man, with her long black hair concealed under a sombrero, Senorita Cosio boldly >a* boarded the vessel alone. ral Two Spanish detectives, stationed at the ? head of the gangway ladder to watoh for fugitives, stopped the girl and, as she waited in suppressed excitement, examined the passport and ticket. Senorita Cosio, when the papers were returned to her. hastened to her stateroom. Until the steamer started, two hours and a half later, the young woman did not leave her room. A short time before the vessel sailed the Chief of Police, accompanied by his deputy and secretary, boarded the Seneca. They examined all the .passports, but suspected nothing when they saw the one made out to Mr. Juan Sola. And so, after adventures such as have 'come to few young women, the pretty refugee found herself moving toward the hospitable shores of America. The Stars and 8tripes floated from the stern of the Seneca and the lights of Havana soon faded away. The Cape Hatteras light was the first thine Senorita Cosio saw on the coast. When she learned that the light was In the United States, the young woman was overcome by emotion, and, before all the passengers, knelt on the cabin floor and prayed. As she arose she wapt. The first sight of the country she had heard so much about had proved too much for her overstrained nerves. The Seneca was mot at Quarantine by the tug Fred Lohman, which had several of the ~~ girl's friends aboard. As the Cuban maiden t0 descended the ladder from the vessel's deck n- to i:he tug she wore no hat nor wrap of any c- kind. Her dress consisted of a red crepon ts waist trimmed at the neck with lace, and a black skirt, e- j 16 ABYSSINIA'S GREAT LOSS. jn I a> Ras Makonnen, Hero of Adowa, Meets n> Death In Battle. >n la Mr. J. Bennett Stanford, who has just rea turned from taking part in an expedition )Q | to Somaliland, brings news of the annihilaie j tion, at the end of June, of an Abyssinian is ! army of 3000 men, under the famous Genbe j er?l Has Makonnen, of which number only ie i sixty men escaped. ry 1 Mr. Stanford said: "While in the Interior re | we came across a powerful Somali Chief id: who hud just returned from the fight. He 10 told-ma that the Abyssinian force had been Jr j raiding down the Webbe Shebeyli River is i nearly as far as the forty-fifth parallel. The le | Somalls then overwhelmed them with large il- ' numbers. allowing sixty men to go back 11 ! with the news of the defeat. Ras ilakon| nen was killed during the battle. >r | "The affair occurred about one hundred k- ! miles from where we were. The jvhole - j neighborhood is still greatly excited, and ' the possession of so many Italian rifles by I the Somalls is evidence that the story told I of the Abyssinian defeat is true. "The latest news from Harrar was that an Abyssinian army was being despatched againat the Somalia, who were eagerly anticipating another fight." In ragard to the reported massacre of the Cavendish expedition, Mr. Stanford said: "There are no expeditions in Somalilaud to massacre. Peel, who was with me, is away to the south; Lord Delamere is near Lake Rudolph, Major MacDonald is on thte traderoute, toward Uganda, and Cavendish, when I last heard of him, was on the Kikuyu road." FAMILY INCREASED BY FOUR. Two Hojrft and TTwo Girls, Each Six and a Half Pounds, Born Together. Mrs. William J. Olmstead, wife of o V. ! motoiman on the Troy (N. Y.) City RailSi} j road, recently gave birth to four children( j. j two boys and two girls, at her homo, Id J a SllDurD 01 Xroy. ine momer auu Ji j children are doing well. The children y j weighed six and a half pounds each. The I | mother weighs only 130 pounds. | Mrs. Olmstead was unable to care for all i the bfkbies, and two of her sisters came to [ her relief. One took two of the babies to - | Oswego, and the other took one of them to 7- ; Stuyvesant Falls, while the fourth was left 1- with f:he mother. Mr. and Mrs. Olmstead cs I have four othe:: children, the eldest being e- | a girl of sixteen and the youngest a boy o/ ie j Qve. f). Sheep iften Kill Three Settler*. )r News from Long Valley, Washington "J County, Idaho, says that there has been a ie battle between the settlers and the sheep i- herders In which three men were killed it and one dangerously wounded. Fifteen of the settlers warned the sheep men to leave the valley, and when they refused, made an attack upo:a the sheep camp. Thirty jc shots were fired by the settlers and a man named Barber was wounded. The sheep 09 meni:hen returned the fire, killing three ol' :il | the uettlers. The rest of the attacking 's J party fled, id | - i ht-to. Atkinson's ,lurv Disaerrces. ^ j The jury before which Mrs. Myra H. At" 'a j kinson, wife of the Governor of West Vir" i ginie., had been on trial at Gljnvllle.W. Va., for a week on a charge of forgery failed to agrea upon a verdict and was discharged. The court replaced the case upon the >n docket for future hearing, and Mrs. Atkinie son and her co-defendant, Owens, were plaoed under bonds for their appearance. 8h ???????????? Tornado in New Jersey. ag A "ornado struck Far Hills aDd Elizabeth, 3d N. 3., wrecking buildings and uprooting trees. John Olark was crushed to death iD a building in Elizabeth which collapsed. to Scaffold Broke and Flvo Were Killed. Through the fall of a scaffold at the Bap?' tist Church being built at Piano, Texas,five men were killed. The men fell a distance of tblrty-flve feet. Ita Whltecaps Killed. 01 A dispatch from Milan, Tenn., ?avs: he "Wliltecaps attacked the home of Dot Prbe, a colored man living noar this place, x a anc't fired into his house. He returned the oj fire, killing William Sires, a white man,and 0I fatally wounding four others. Price was 0j 9hct through the arm." A Novel Signal For Street Cara. cr It is the suggestioa of a Bangor (M<3.) r0. mctorman that persons who want to stop a io car at night strike a parlor match. The blaze, he says, cun be seen by the motormen several rods away. jrs Cycling Notes. A cycle track has been erected at Birrj. mlngham, England, that has accommodan(j tions for 75,000 people. The Belgian Touring Club is compiling a 3r9 set of rules of the road, among which it rij makes the use of the brake obligatory. A physician who has given much thought lVe to the subject says that so long as the cyeir clist can breathe with the mouth shut he is certainly safe so far as heart-strain is J(j concerned. T>finnaaa T.nnian irlfa of the heir to the Stvxon throne, has taken to publicly bicycling in bloomers tn the Dresden parks, ao:od companiedby Prince Frederick Augustus, 3n" hor eldest son. . - .. TROOPS HOLD QUEZALTENANCO, Report of the Evacuation of That City bj Guatemalan Rebels. The news of Jthe evacuation of Quezaltenango, Guatemala, by the rebels and its re occupation oy lUO uovcrumom luiiioa 13 fully confirmed. The consular corps there has sent the following message to President Barrios: "The city of Quezaltenango was abandoned by the rebels, and wo havo notified General Garcia Leon. Bt FHEOIDENT BABBI0S. "The city has been for some time without proper authorities, and all desiring the reestabllshment of order and peace respectfully beg you to give the necessary orders to that efifeot. Confiding in your well known rectitude, JMr. President, we trust the occupation of Quezaltenango will be peaceful, for which all Quezaltenango prays and will be grateful." The United States cruiser Alert has arrived at San Jose, where she is now anchored.*!! The ^British flag ship of; {he Pacific squadron, the Imperleuse, is exSected to arrive soon. The new British [Inister to Central America has arrived. A COOD SEA FIGHTER. I Bear Admiral Miller, Who Is on Guard at Honolnln. Rear Admiral Miller, of the United States Navy, who Is the central figure in the situation at Honolulu, Hawaii, Is a stout, short sailor, with a pleasing face and calm eyes that reflect the color of the sea he has lived upon so long. He is a good sea fighter and was reared, one may say, upon the ocean. He entered the Naval Academy when he was a lad of fourteen. From midshipman BEAB ADMIBAX, illLLEB. he rose by service through the various ranks of the navy between one of the lowest and one of the highest positions. He made a good record in the wnr as an officer of the Florida, and was aboard that brig when she captured the Savannah. He is a strict disciplinarian, and can be depended upon in any situation to do the right thing at the right time. He will let Japan know *" * * - - --TTnffaH cnat lQ6r6 IS U vuu vu*?wvk States. NEW RECORD IN EXPORTS. More Domestic Merchandise Sent Abroad Than In Any Previous August. The Bureau of Statistics, Washington, has Issued tables showing the exports and Imports for August, the first full month under the new Tariff law. These figures show for that month the largest exports of domestic merchandise of any August in the I history of the Government. The exports were $79,490,264, against $66,689,981 for Au- | gust, 1896. For the first eight months of \ the year the exports were $61,810,000 in excess of the first eight months of 1896, so that the bureau officials believe the exports i this year will far exceed those of last year, I which was Itself a record-breaking year In ! the matter of exports. The value of all imports, dutiable and i free, for August was $39,848,312, of which | $18,629,609 were free. REJECTED BY GERMANY. Ret ages to Recognize Mr. Xenmann as | United States Consul to Cologne. The German Government has refusod tc | recognize Ferdinand Neump.nn, 01 mmois, who was nominated by President McKinley on May 23 to be United States Consul to Cologne. News of his rejection caused no surprise at the State Department, Washington. Mr. Neumann was appointed to his post last > May, and has since exercised the functions j of his office, but the German authorities j have been considering certain allegations j connected with the World's Fair and a concert enterprise, in which Neumann is said to have been interested, which resulted dis- j astrously to some German artists. SaRaata's Cabinet Chosen. The new Spanish Ministry is constituted as follows: President of the Council of Ministers, Senor Sagasta; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senor Gullon; Minister of Justice. Senor Groizard; Minister ot War, Gen eral Corroa; Minister of Marine, dumiruj Bermejo; Minister of Finance, Senor Puig-' Carver; Minister of the Interior, Senor Capdepon; Minister of Publio Works, Count Xiguena; Minister for the Colonies, Senor Moret. Australasia Buy* Our Halls. Not being aolo to llnd in England the kind of steel rails it needed, the Government of New South Wales has placed an order for 2000 tons in the United States at I $25 a ton. Not many years ago we were j buying all wo used from Engiaud at .flOO ji ton. An Illinois Town Burned. All the businoss houses in Modora, 111. including the bank, woro burned. Me<loro ! is a populous town twenty miles north of Alton on the Chicago, Burlington and n,,irv,.v | Vjumv,,, | India's Famine Co9t S.10,000,000. At the flnal meeting of the London Mansion House Committee of the Indian Famine Fund the Secretary of State for Imlia, Lord George Hamilton, announced that the most serious famino of the century in India Is disappearing, though 1,500,000 persons still are receiving relief; that the total subscriptions from Great Britain, the , United States, t.h'3 British colonies and i India amounted to nearly 37,500,000, and lhat the whole cost of the famine was more than $50,000,000. i A. G. A. R. Post of Priests. A. G. A. R. Post composed exclusively oJ J priests was installed at Notre Dame University, Indiana. I . KLONDIEERS PERISHING. |! ? | r Go!d Seekers, While Crossing the Lakes, Meet With Fata! Disasters. i SNOW STORM ADDS TO DISTRESS. s Adventurous Prospectors Who Have Be- j turned From the Alaska Trail Tell of the Great Hardships?Many Lose Their ^ Outfits?Hundreds Go Into Camp For the Winter?Bear Hunting a Sport. I Skaoua.y, Alaska, via Seattle, "Wash. I (Special).?Reports of disasters to gold hunters bound for the Klondike, on the lakes, are coming thick and fast. Of those i actually verified one Is the disaster to what Is known as the Kelly expedition. Kelly started to cross Shallow Lake, which is near the summit, with his two companions, Adams and Conrad, of Seattle. They were in a canvas boat, and near the end of the lake the boat capsized. Kelly, who is a big, strong fellow, managed to swim through the icy water to the bank. His two companions perished. On the same lake Mr. Cope, who once ran for Mayor of Vancouver, B. C., was lost about three weeks ago, and some efforts were made to recover his body, but they proved unavailing. The Costello party of three, from Seattle, havo just arrived here, having lost their goods on Lake Bennett. They took two passengers, theatrical men. on the way to Dawson, The bottom of the boat fell out near the foot of the lake, and the Ave men reached shore with difficulty. Two young men from Philadelphia, whose names cannot be ascertained, were also 3wamped on Lake Bennett, and lost all their goods. There are about thirty tents at the Lake Bennett camp at this writing. Some of the Klondikers will push on as far as1 they can and again make camp, but the majority will winter there. None of them now hopes to reach the Yukon River until it is frozen up. The saw mill ha3 stopped and boat building is therefore at an end until spring. At Lake Lindermann there are about twenty-five camps, and the building of log ' cabins Is being pushed raoidly forward. At J Sheep Camp, the last station before cross- > Ing to Dyea Summit, ?nd at the Scales, a few miles from here, nearlv a hundred persons will winter in order to be the first in. There are few crossing either over the Dyea or the Skaguay trail, and these state that already the snow storms are terrific on the I iummit. An experienced and intelligent packer j over the Dyea route tells that when he went over the summit four days ago he was only an hour behind a partv of nearly twenty, and yet he could not distinguish the trail because of the heavy fall of snow and the drifting. The actual depth of snow on the summits, apart from the drifting, is estimated at about fourteen inches. Bears are said to be comihg down from the heights in goodly tiumbers and feeding on the thousands of dead horses on the 3kaflfuay trail. The New York colony here, with the crack rifleman Suydam, of the Twenty-third Regiment, are just getting up a bear hunting party to camp at the third ridge. So far only two bears havo been killed this season. 1 Three men have come in here who made 1 the trip as far as Lake Tagish, and turned j back from there because they had not ] money enousrh to pav the customs duty. < This is their statement. But there are hundreds of men who, after the hardships on the road, are glad of a reasonable exouse to turn back. Railroad Over Chllkoot Pass. Tacoma, Wash. (Special).?Officials of the Northern Pacific Railroad are preparing for the construction of a railroad and tramway over Chilkoot Pass, Alaska. Work will be commenced as soon as possible, and It is expectecfcthatthe road will be completed by January 1. By this means it Is hoped to get provisions over the trail and Into the Klondike early enough to prevent "tarvation among the miners. YELLOW FEVER IN TEXAS. Galveston Greatly Excited by the Dlicovery of the Disease. Dr. West, a member of the Galveston (Texas) Board of Health, agrees with Dr. Uuiteras that there is yellow fever in Galreston. He says he has two well-defined ; jases now under treatment. Despite the ! assurances of Dr. Guiteras that there is no j need for alarm or excitement, and no neces- j sity of leaving the city, a general exodus | has set in, and every regular train leaving > the city on the day after the announcement j was paoked with people fleeing from the iisease, and special trains were in demand. The general officers of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, with their families, j ilerks, and other employes, left for Cleburne, where they will remain and operate j antll the scare Is over and the disease sub- ; 3ides. This is more of a precautionary j measure than anything else, as the general | J Dfficers wished to be in a position to oper- j t ate the northern end of their line, with Galveston bottled up. Intense excitement prevails, and harsh sxpresslons are used, against Dr. Guiteras T an account of his statement that yellow j ^ fever is prevalent. Every one who was , ^ ible to get away left. Absent ones were ^ advised to remain away until the danger i t Is over. Houston quarantined against , T Salveston. ! a | Q DROUGHT BROKEN BY RAIN. j * Heavy Downpours Reported In Kansas, ! t Nebraska and Iowa. s Heavy rains have fallen over a wide belt ; v of farming country in Kansas, thus break- i v Ing the drought which had been severe D for a month. The rain is worth at least ; ? 81,000,000 to Kansas farmers. A dispatch i b from Topeka says the drought in many I counties about that city was broken by a | heavy rain. Reports from nine important counties in | D Nebraska, say the crops have been saved f: ay copious showers, which fell all day. ! p There is great rejoicing over this news. j c The six weeks' drought in Iowa fcas been r oroken by a heavy fall of rain. ! n i ij A Bold Bobbery. j a The residence of Francis H.Scott, Prosi- j.j* dent of tho Century Company, at Orange, i *< N. J., was entered during the absence of | o the family by burglars, who stole 419,000 i worth of goods, which they sent to New ! k'ork City. New York detectives arrested i the men, recovered the articles, and then ' t notified the Chief of Police at Orange that i g the robbery had occurred there. c o A Parnell Anniversary. j 8 The sixth anniversary of the death of Utiaries Siewarc l'arneu was uussrveu iu - t Dublin Saturday, 5000 men marching to j bis grave and heaping it with flowers gath- ) ered from every county in Ireland. The American flag was carried in the procession ! In place of the Union Jack. . VccuHed of Burning His Wife to Death. : ^ William De Peyester is under arrest at Canton, Ohio, on the charge of murdering his wife. She ran out of their home wrapped In flames, her clothing being soaked witb j )il from a lamp. Prominent People. j 1< E. Ruggles-Brice, director of convict t prisons of Great Britain, will visit this ; aountry soon, to study American penai in- j ititutions. ' ? The Duke of Wellington aud the Duke of t >V tJStui 1113l?r nave kuiunu upcu tuc ^btuiu I galleries of their London houses to the pub- j Uc on Sundays. [ P H. 31. Stanley has accepted an Invitation ! t] :o be present on November 4 next at the ! ^ opening of tho extension of the railway to I Bulawayo, South Africa. g Mrs. Gladstone always selects her hus- y band's attiro for the day and in particular ^ irranges for his buttonhole bouquet, in n which matter he_?a most fastidious. _ , L TEMPERANCE COLUMN.! HE. DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST' ^ IN MANY WAYS. in In*ati~to Robber?The Sunday Saloon ?From the Earliest Day* of the Colo nies There Was a General Regard for and Observance of the Sabbath Day.; l glance far as memory reaches, 1 Doth a great and sad lesson disclose, l solemn, deep lesson that teaches That man Is surrounded by foes; tat of all the dread foes that pursne him, The greatest, the strongest?alas!? :o ruin, destroy and undo him, Is the death-dealing robber, the glass. t robs him of wealth while caressing, It robs him of honor and fame; t robs him of health, choicest blessing, And brings him to sorrow and shame; , it robs him of grace and of glory, Of happiness, comfort and home, Lnd leaves him to tell a sad story Or sends him an exile to roam. The Sunday Saloon. As a Nation, there Is not among as a cns;om more fixed and distinctive than the alnost universal regard for the Christian Sabbath. It has been so from 4he settle* nent of the countrv. One of the principal -easons assigned by John Boblnson, the jaetor of the Pilgrim Fathers, for his little look resolving to ault Holland, their adopt )d oountry?whither they had fled ten rears before from England?for America, vas, "that they could not bring the Dutch ;o observe the Lord's .day as a Sabbath." Dne of the chief cares of these Pilgrim fathers on their arrival here was the oblervance of the sacred rest. In the eayiieet records of the Dutch colonists in New York :here are decrees of the most stringent jharacter, intended to guard the infant community against the demoralizing tenancies of Sabbath profanations, and even :o-dav, so far as the Sunday laws require ;he suspension of business, most of the people very oheerfully obey. Our meohanics rest from their labors on :hat day, vast manufacturing establish- ; nents are olosed and quiet, and even our, schools, our courts, and our : legislative jodies, bowing to the majesty of law, close! . -J ;heir doors and adjourn over so as to leave* :his dav unbroken. But there is a olass of men who demand,' - :hat these laws, so far as respects them,1] should be repealed. And who compose this jlass? Rumsellers. And why should the/ t>e exempt? What is there so much more precious, or pressing, or peaullar in the' iquor trafflo than in those other kinds of honest business that it cannot stop as well is they? Who is it that has constituted the ffhiskv seller a sort of titled nobility among us, who are not to be subject to such Taws as we poor plebians patiently obey? Is it not more dangerous to the publie peace for the rumseller to dispense hto poisons on the Sabbath day than for the manufacturer to keep his establishment golag on that day, or the butcher'to keep spen his stall? What, we ask, is the rumseller's special olaim on us to be allowed to do so? On what ground shall the traffic in beer, with noisy and immoral accompaniments, claim a practical and recognized exemption from the operation of these laws and a virtual monopoly of Sunday trade? Was it "for man," as an animal, as a beer-drinker, that "the Sabbath*was made?" A Temperance Sermon. My dear boy, writes Bob Burdette, men have fought, bled and died, but not tor beer. Arnold Winkelried did not throw V himself upon the Austrian spears because be was ordered to close bis saloon at nine o'clock. William Tell did not hide the arrow under his vest to kill the tyrant because the edict had gone forth that the tree-born Switzer should not drink n keg of beer every Sunday. Freedom did not shriek as Kosciusko fell, over a whisky barrel. ; Warren did not die that beer might flow, aa $: the brooks murmur seven days a week. I Even the battle of Brandywine was not tought that whisky might be free. No , alause in the Declaration of Independence > [fanlAt-Ao that n. Sundav concert ffarden. j nrith five brass horns and one hundred kegs J 3f beer, is the inalienable right of a free M people and the' corner-stone of good . Got- . v jrnment. Tea?mild, harmless, innocent ~ tea?the much-sneered at temperance beverage, the foeble drink of effeminate, men and good old women?tea holds a iigher plaoe, it fills a brighter, more glorious page and is a grander figure in ;he history of the United Statue than beer. Men liked tea, my boy, but they nurled it into the sea rather than drink it until they aade it free. It seems to be worth fighting .'or, and the best men in the world fought !or it. Tne history of the United 8tates is ncomplete with tea left out. As well night the historian omit Faneuil Hall and Bunker Hill as tea. But there is no story )f heroism or patriotism with rum for its lero. The battles of this world, my son, lave been for grander things than free vhlsky. The heroes who fall in the struggles for rum fall shot in the neck, and their nartyrdom is clouded by the haunting ihantoms of the jimjams. Whisky makes : j ne'n fight, it la true, but they usually fight vith other drunken men. The champion >f beer does not stand in the temple of ame; he stands in the police court. Honor tever has the delirium tremens, glory does tot wear a reanoso, anaiamo piowa u uuru* tut never takes one. A Truthful Picture. The oil of Incendiarism, piped from the rells of bell into the cellar, is the fuel hat feeds the fires of hunger and distress n the poverty stricken home: that burns he clothing from the children's baoks: hat pierces the mother's naked breast pith the red hot iron of shame and abuse; .nd that transforms the gentle father into i roaring wild beast. Can any apologist or the saloon dare attempt to refute this? knd this is but a tinge of the background o a bloody picture that Is even now tretching from horizon to horizon across he face of a frowning sky; an outrage that rill some day tap the reservoir of Divine rrath, and roll a tidal wave of indignation lountoin high through the streets of our ity, sweeping into the pestilential hole? rom whence they came?both salooneeper and saloon!?W. K. Stalev. A Sensible Chinaman. Taking a walk one day through the comlissariat stores in Hong Kong with a X riend, says a correspondent, I came to a V ortion of that establishment where four - 9 Ihlnamen were emptying a large tub of I urn, which they were carrying in gallon 1 leasures to another portion of the build- S ag. Addressing myself to one who was I pparently tho head of the party, I in- I uired, "Do you like rum, John?" "No, g ir," said the Chinaman. "Why not?" S Rum not proper, sir; make Chinaman I umber one fool." Going1 Steadily Forward. The Archbishop of Canterbury declares bat the cause of temperance has gone teadily forward In England, winning one lass of society after another, the conversion f the medical profession being one of its reatest victories. The decline of drunkeniess in Liverpool is attributed in part to igh license and in part to the growing inerest in athletics. Temperance News ami Notes. The liquor traffic is the greatest criminal mown to civilization. The easiest time to let strong drink alone ! before the first drink is taken. The man who drinks champagne at night I enerally {eels real pain in the morning. H Work on! sail on! the morning comes, H The port you yet shall win, 9 And all thebells of God shall ring H The ship of Temperance in. H There are lots of cures for drunkenness, fl Dts of so-called scientific ways of overcom- H ag the habit; but there are none so effeo fcfl ual as the total abstinence pledge. When every teetotaler becomes an earn> st Christian, and every professing Chris* lan an aggressive teetotaler, the days ot- -^Hj he liquor traffic will be numbered. The St. Petersburg brewers arranged to H lace a largo number of barrels of beer In 9 ne of the public parks for the free use of H tie French sailors during the visit of Presi* 3S ent Faure. H During the teaching or tae temperance H unday-school lesson, an Indian boy, tea H ears old, was asked, "What does alcohol 19 o to a man's brain?" He answered. "It H lakes him think crooked." IB ,,-rM