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LABORI AGAIN IN CUT.
Wounded Counsel Renews Fight Foi
Dreyfus With Remarkable Vigor.
WARMLY WELCOMED IN COURT,
Clilef Lawyer For the Defence Sirnalizet
Hit Recovery From His Wound bj
Vigorous Attack?He Questions Gen- j
eral Mercler?Chief Accuser Refuse* tc
Answer and Stands Convicted.
Bexkes, France (By Cable).?llaltre La
bori's return to court was like a royal processioa.
The entire line of the route o!
Dreyfas's chief counsel, who has just recovered
from the effects of the assassin's
bullet, from Professor Basch's hou3e on
the Hue Dantraln to the Lycee, a disv
tance of a mile, was lined with gendarmes
stationed fifty yards apart. The
populace, attracted by this unusual
precaution, made quite a showing
along the sidewalks. Laborl's pirty came
la two landaus, the first containing Labor!,
Mme. Labori, Professor Basch and Jaures;
the second Hennlon's deputy and three
other police agents, while two more ol
Hennlon's men.on bloyoles preceded thr
carriage, on the lookout for possible danger.
Labori received a grand oration on returaing
to the court room. He had nothing
of the usual appearance of an invalid.
On the contrary, he seemed to be In splendid
health.
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tuo uenerais suou^ muiuo wmuu |
I warmly by the hand. General Mercler
even smiled at him. The audience stood
np and applauded.
Complimentary speeches were exchanged
between the President ot the court and
fcfaltre Laborl.
The Dreyfusarda and the anti-Dreyfusards
are beginning to show a gcpater cordiality
toward each other.
The evldenoe given was of no value
whatsoever, although Captain Dreyfus ex- j
hlblted great irritation when Captain Lemolne
tried to fix the charge of treason
against the prisoner, on the groand that
he bad-seen him at the German manoeuvreg
in Mulhause, Alsace.
The Ave hours' session was crowded full
of dramatio situations and incidents. The
man who has become a scarcely less conspicuous
figure than the prisoner himself, j
returned to the stage ana the whole atmo?
sphere of the scene changed instantly. Nobody
can understand the spectaole which
they watched with wondering eyes. Maitre
Laborl, though wounded. Is a giant o(
* strength, energy and valor. He seemed
more than a man as be plunged into the
fray, striking mighty blows, which speedily
drove the enemy into their la3t de- |
fences, and now it is known at last what
those defences are.
Labor! compelled General Mercler tc
admit by his refusal to answer questions
that he wasin possession ot secrets of the
French Department pertaining to the case
which he bad received since he ceased tc
be Minister of War.
Colonel Bertin, who commanded Dreyfua'3
department when the prisoner was
degraded, was foroed to admit that he in a
conversation with M. Labor! first suggested
to the attorney that the prisoner was innocent.
Labor! proposes to recall all the generals
who belonged to ths French Army Staff,
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wuu lo^nuou wiiiic uo HCM ov/s^uk, auu ui^
the principal accusers of Dreyfus.
A feature of tbe testimony during the i
past two or three days which terribly hu- j
milnted decent Frenchmen is the revela- :
tlon of the low social Instincts of the j
French officers. They have not hesitated ,
to reveal private confidences which have j
Sot the remotest bearing upon the queson
of treason. This has revolted manj
Df the audience, even those whose sympathies
are against Dreyfus.
One result of 31. Labori's fighting policy
was that only one-hAlf of tbe witnesses assigned
for examination gave their test!Tf
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trial within three we.-ke.
DREYFUS'S STRENGTH SURPRISING.
He Live* Almost Solely on a Milk Diet?
Hit Meeting With Laborl.
Besses, France (By Cable).?Dreyfus's
maintenance of his strength 13 Indeed
remarkable. Ho is still unable to take
solid food and lives almost solely on milk.
His greeting of M. Laborl on the platform
In the court room was most aCeotionate.
He took no notice of his lawyer until he
b&d first approact^d the platform with his
Usual military precision and saluted
Colonel Jouaust. Then he turned and expended
his hand, which M. Laborl clasped,
and they stood thus for some little time,
lawyor and client, and, moreover, two Arm
lrlends.
Eiterhazy Hooted In London.
T.nvnn* ("Bv fluhlnV?Fr.Mftlor Fstftr
hazy, who Is a .fugitive from France, was
' recognized on Oxford street a few days
ago by k few persons. They began groaning
and their actions soon attracted other
persons, and in a short time a well-dressed
crowd was following Esterbazy along the
street, hooting him. The police Interfered
and dispersed the crowd, while Esterhazy
made his escape in a cab.
: DROWNED TWO NEGRO BOYS.
Companion Says They Were Taken Ont in
a Boat and Damped Into the Water.
Newport News, Ya. (Special).?George
Boberteoo, a colored man living near
Back Biver, is under arrest in Hampton,
charged with overturning a boat and
purposely drowning Jamos Bobertson
and James Smith, two small
colored boys. A third boy, .Benjamin
i Robertson, was In the boat, but bo clung
to the elder Robertson's shoulders until be
reached Bhallow water. According to this
boy, George said he proposed to drown
the whole lot after leaving the shore in the
rowboat, ana he tried to do It. The Cor
oners's jury held him responsible.
> ' Fusion In Nebraska.
* The three Nebraska State conventions,
"Democratic, Populist and Fusion, met In
separate halls on tbo same day all in one
block in Omaha. Ex-Governor Silas A.
Holcomb was nominated for Supreme
Justice by the Popnlist Convention, and in
dorsed by Democrats and Free Silver Republicans.
The platform adopted by the
"Democratic Convention indorsed and em
fibas'.zed each plaak of the national piaiorm
adopted at Chicago in 1396. Tnls
action was concurred in by all three bodies.
We Are Brazil'* Best Custoinor.
The Rio Janeiro Notlcia, In an official article,
denounces a3 baseless the rumor of a
projected alllanco of the South American
republics against their best customer for
coffee, the United States, and says It is
having a depressing effect upon business.
Spider Bites Are Not Fatal.
Professor L. O. Howard, one of the most
expert of nil the Government entomologists,
declared in a lectura at Cleveland,
Ohio, tb:it he had failed to substantiate a
single report of fatal results fro:n a spider t
bite in the United State.-'.
Mrs. Perot Set Free.
Mrs. William Y. Perot, charged in London
with having abducted her daughter
Sladys from Baltimore, 3Id., was free J, tho
child having DC0U transierreu iu iu? custody
of its grandfather, William II. Terot
President ICrucor'a Oflfer.
President Kruger offered to give the
Transvaal Outlanders more voice in the
government on condition that Great Britain
abandon her claim to suzerainty.
Welsh to Colonize in Canndn.
A large migration of Wol3h colonists to
Canada is llkalv in th? near future
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Wulifntton
The Post office Department has adopted
a now form of domestic money order,
which will be introduced gradually as supplies
of the old form become exhausted.
The new form 19 somewhat smaller thaD
the order now in use, and through a manifold
process the order aud the advice are
produced simultaneously.
The little band of Winnebago Indians in
Wisconsin is making trouble for the Indian
Bureau by combating the efTorts of the InJian
school officials to educate the Indian
jhildren. The Winnebagos refuse to send
their children to school.
The War Department has established
depot battalions, a svstem that has not
been known in the United States Army
heretofore.
Secretary Gaije is considering ways and
means to meet the heavy demands on the
Treasury caused by the increase of the
army; a' bond issue will be avoided if possible.
In regard to the rumors that the United
State.? forces in Cuba were to be reduced
rapidly, the War Department authorities
declare that no troops will be ordered
home beyond tho five batallions who were
selected "to be relieved several days ago.
A map of operations in tbe Philippines
has been prepared for Secretary Root.
Surgeon-General Wyman will make a
more potent yellow fever serum after the
Sanarelll method.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jone?
does not favor women as superintendents
of Indian schools.
O. W. Moore, of Jackson Township, neat
Mercer, Penn., who is in his seventy-first
year, during the present summer walked to
Washington, and secured a pension of $10
per month and back pay amounting to
S673.
Secretary Root signed an order for taking
the census of Cuba and appointed
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph P. Sanger director.
The War Department is negotiating for
more transports in order that troops may
39 hurried to the Philippines.
President McKinley, Mr. Scburman, of
the Philippine Commission; Secretary
Root and Attorney-General Griggs will
hold u consultation on the situation in the
Philippines.
l>oine*tic.
Two colored women have sued a Chicago
theatre for an alleged refusal to allow
them to occupy seats they had purchased
.'or a matinee performance.
Twenty-six skilled American mechanics
sailed on the steamer Majestic to work on
i bridge to bo erected near Rangoon, in
British India, by an American company.
Mrs. Lucy Williams, who is believed to
Kotfa haon Mm nlrtwst wnman In Connect!
jut, died at Uacasville a few nights ago,
iged 103 years.
John I. Blair, the founder and public
Denefactor of Blairstown, N. J., was ninetyseven
year3 old Tuesday, and the townspeople
observed the day Qttlngly. Most of
;he stores were closed for the day.
The Ramapo Wuter Company has secured
jptions on a large part oT the Catsklll region
as a watershed. It has filed map3 in
Sreene and Ulster Counties.
Three tramps stealing a ride on a freigh t
:rain that left Marshalltown, Iowa, shortly
ifter midnight, shot and killed Brakeman
T. E. Wilson and Conney Matthews and
:hrew their bodies under the wheels.
John Landauer, a marriei man, killed
Ifteen-year-old Josopbine Engel in a va:ant
lot in New York City and committed
an l/?f A a
Johu Paul,'a farmer of Logansport,Ind.,
recently returned from Chicago, where he
took treatment at an alcoholic institute,
irove seven fine hogs to the woods, shot
them with a rifle and cremated the carcasses
on a bush heap. He had declined a
good price for the hogs, saying that they
were possessed of the devil and must be
sacrificed.
Some one murdered John Conors, an
Olneyvllle (R. I.) weaver, thirty-five years
old, and laid his body twenty feet from a
railroad crossing in Webster, Mass., taking
extraordinary pains to disguise the nature
of the crime. Both the ears had been
clipped off.Willlam
J. Bryan declared In Omaha,
Neb., that he had never said the money
question should be relegated to the rear,
and that he had never thought o! compromise.
Squad Bolin, a negro lodged in jail at
Fulton, Ky., on a charge of highway robbery
and attempted murder, was taken out
and lynched by a mob of masked white
men.
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against the Westlngbouse Air Brake Company
by the New Yoric Air Brake Compauy.
Conspiracy is alleged to have Injured the
business of the latter.
Two bridges over the Chicago River at
Chicago have been closed to traffic, seven
others condemned as dangerous and two
more labeled "very suspicious."
Armstrong Taylor and John Alfred
Brown were hanged at Rockvilie, lid., for
the murder of aged Louis Rosenstein and
bis wife. The motive of the crime was
robbery. The hanging was a horrible
botch. Taylor declared on the scaflfold
that Brown was Innocent.
A syndicate proposes to organize a Na:lonal
Cotton Mill Trust with a capitalization
of $135,000,000. The Hide and Leather
Trust has been organized with a capital of
536,000,000.
A pugilist named "Jim" Franey died In
San Francisco, after being knocked out by
Frank McConnell in the fourteenth round
of a prize fight.
The Continental Match Factory, at Passaic,
N. J., recently sold by E Iwin Gould l
to the Diamond Match Compauy, has been
?losed, and the 290 hands have been discharged.
It is reported from the West that a pro
i -l *. l*no nravfl I ] rtH
QOUQCeil SUUflUKO Ui VJIUUO uuo .
for some time on the ranges. Not a herd I
Is left io Nevada and Utah. The grass
there is a complete failure tills year.
Boys exploded a ton of dyu unite by
building a bonllre near the shed where it
was stored in Harlem, New York City;
windows were broken for blocks around
and a number of persons Injured, one perhaps
fatally.
The State Department is advised from
Yokohama of the formation of an American
Asiatic Association there, to guard the
interests of American citizens in Japan.
Foreign.
The murder of Lieutenant-Colonel Klobb
and Lieutenant Meunier in the French Soudan
has caused quite a flutter of excitement
in Paris.
James Fitzharris, known ns "Skin the
Goat," and Lawrence O'Haolon, wlio were |
sentenced to penal servitude in Maryborough
Jail for the part they took in the
Phoenix Park (Dublin) murders,have been
released from custody.
A panic has been caused among the uneducated
classes of southern Russlajby pre
dictions of the end of the world.
Sir Thomas Lipton said the Prince oi '
Wales was obliged to refuse an invitation
to witness thecup races, but that the Shamrock
might have other distinguished
guests.
The English Government is adopting
repressive measures against the Irish
United League.
General.Mercier declare! his conviction
that the result of the Renues court martial
will be the recondemnation of Dreyfus.
M. Bureau, formerly private secretary tc
.Maitre Laoori, says that a new trial for
Dreyfus will be ordered if a verdict o!
cuiltv is rendered.
Experts fear the introduction of tlie
bubouie plague into London.
Tho highest Prussian court has decided
it to be a punishable offence to keep foi
sale American meats and sausages which
have not been previously examined.
The German ex-Minister at Felcin says
that liussia has all she wants in China, and
that a China-Japan treaty is impossible on
account of mutual hatred.
General Toral, who was recently ac|
quitted at Madrid, Spain, of the charge 01
surrendering Santiago before he had ex
haused his resources, has been released
| from confinement.
Emperor William paid tribute to French
as well as German dead, in his addres?
dedicating a monument at the Het? batHm'IAUI.
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TBH SEGMENTS FOR OTIS
Their Enlistment Ordered For Service
in the Philippines,
iVAR TO BE MORE AGGRESSIVE.
Secretary Root Say* the Policy of the De
parnnent 11 i* uire uenerai vm au
the Troop* N'eceigary to Conqner the
Fillpinoi^To Be Recruited In 2f?w
England and the Central Welt.
Washisotox, D. C. (Special).?Secretary
of War Root has Issued orders for the enistment
of ten regiments of volunteers,
nstruotlons to that effect having been rejelved
from the President. The new reglnents
will be sent to the Philippines.
"The policy of the War Department,"
jaid Secretary Root, after the order was
posted, "Is to l'urnish General Otis with alj
the troop3 and supplies that he can pse,
and which are necessary tq wind up the
.nsurrection in the Philippines in the
ihortest possible time."
The Secretary further said that no delay
would be allowed in enlisting, equipping
and supplying the ne* regiments, or in
transporting them, as wed as the other
regiments already organized, to tht Philippines
as soon as they were needed for
active operations. If the present number
of transports is insufficient more will be
procured. The men already enlisted for
Phllinnlue service will be sent at once,
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THE*SHAMROCK, CHALLENGI
and the new regiments will be forwarded
as fast as they are organized and needed.
While there have been suggestions that the
new regiments will be used a3 a reserve
force, It may be stated positively that
these regiments as well as more, 1( tbey
can be used, will be sent to reinforce General
Otis. ^
The ten new regiments are to be recruited
mainly in New England and the
middle aud central Western States. Kansas
and Pennsylvania have apparently
been selected as the best field (or recruits.
The new regiments will be designated
Thirty-eighth to Forty-seventh, inclusive.
Officers have been assigned as follows:
Thir.ty-elghth?Colonel George 8. Anderson,
Major Sixth Cavalry; LieutenantColonel
E. B. Pratt, Captain Twenty-third
Infantry.
Thirty-ninth?Colonel R. L. Bullard,
Caftala sub-department; LieutenantColonel
C. J. Crane, Captain Twentyfourth
Infantry.
Fortieth?Colonel E. A. Goodwin, Captain
Eighth Cavalry; Lieutenant-Colonel
Byrne, Captain Six Infantry.
Forty-first?Colonel E. T. C. Richmond,
Captain Second Artillery; LieutenantColonel
J. S. Malloy, Captain Second Infantry.
Forty-second?Colonel J. M. Thompson,
Major Twenty-fourth Infantry; LieutenantColonel
E.H. Crowder, Major, Judge Advocate.
Forty-third?Colonel Artuur aiurray.uaptaln
First Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel,
James Parker, Captain Fourth Artillery.
Forty-fourth?Colonel E. J. McClemand,
Captain Second Cavalry; LieutenantColonel,
Francis Michler, Captain Fifth
Cavalry.
Forty-fifth?Colonel J. H. Dorst, Captain
Fourth Cavalry; Lieutenant-Colonel W.
H. Wilder, Captain Fourth Cavalry.
Forty-sixth?Colonel W. S. Schuyler,
Captain Fifth Cavalry; Lieutenant-Colonel
T. H. Beacon, Captain Sixth Infantry.
Forty-seventh?Colonel Walter Howe,
Captain Fourth Artillery; Lieutenantcolonel
John Bigelow, Jr., Captain Tenth
Cavalry.
All of these officers have seen active service
either In the Spanish war or the Civil
3r Indian wars.
The Thirty-eighth will be organized at
Fort Snelling, Minn.; the Thirty-niuth at
Fort Crook, Net).; the Fortieth ut Fort
Riley, Kan.; the Forty-first and Forty-sevsnth
at Camp Meade, Penn.; th6 Forty5ecoad
at Fort Niagara,- N. Y.; the Fortythird
at Fort Ethan Alien, Vt.; the Fortyfourth
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; the
Forty-fifth at Jeff?rson Barracks, Mo.; the
Forty-sixth at South FramlnRham, Mass.
The Administration has now availed itself
of about 30,000 of the provisional army
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lieved that two regiments of cavalry will
bo ordered, and that the remaining number
may be made up of natives of the Philippines.
With this increase an army of approximately
C5.000 will be employed In the
Philippines, an indorsement of General
Miles's views.
Secretary Root's policy contemplates
that General Otis shall pursue a far more
aggressive and offensive campaign against
the Filipinos, which will necessitate his
keeping his headquarters nearer to the
front than in the past.
Dewey to Arrive September 29.
Tho Plan and Scope Committee of the
Dewey celebration, New York City, received
a telegram from the Admiral saying
that ho would reach the Lower Bay on
Kantambar 29.
To Lecture In the South on j^j-ncliing.
Miss Lillian Clayton Jowett, who took
tho Baker family from the South to Boston
recently, announces that she Is about to
return to carry on her campaign against
lynching. She said that stie would go llrst
to Georgia and deliver addresses. Sa e
speaks of going to Cedarhurst, Ga., where
an attempt was made about two weeks ugo
to lynch a young negro.
Bubonic Plague in Portugal.
There have been twenty-six cases of ba.
j bonic plague and eleven deaths frum the
j disease at Oporto, Portugal.
The National Guinu.
The rittsburg Club has roieased First
1 Baseman Clark.
Gieason.'of New York, is having another
bad year with the stick.
Van Haltren, of New York, is about the
premier bunter of the League.
Yarns about the new League are as
numerous as they are ludicrous..
i Like Griffith, Pitcher Dowling, of LouisI
ville, Is superstitious ubout shut-out
I games.
Shindlo, the ex-Loague third, baseman, U
putting up a remarkable game for Hartford
this season.
Third Baseman Hartman, recently suspended
by New York, is pla\ iag with the
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ARRIVAL OF SHAMROCK. |
America's Cup Challenger Reaches
New York After a Quick Voyage* \
Sir Thomaa Llpton's Yacht Wal Towed
Moat of the Way Over?Weathered the
Trip In Good Condition.
New York Citt (Special).?The Shamrock,
Sir Thomas Llpton's challenger for !
the America's Cup, which Is to contest with
the Columbia for the famous trophy, arrived
la port after a voyage of about
^vo weeks, accompanied by her owner's
steam yacht the Erin, and seemed non?
the worse for her trip, over which English
yachtsmen had wasted so many fears. The i
passage had been a quick one and the Irish !
cup challenger's arrival was unheralded 1
and almost a surprise. 8he went to Erie i <
Basin, where preparations bad been made
m * ?^ aha wMI ha I
iur uor rcuwptiuii auu wucxw t..? ?w
riffled with her spars and fitted for racing.
The Shamrock made the trip from the
Clyde in less than fifteen days, and without
so much as parting a rope yarn, and she
came over in steamer time at that.
This is not surprising in view of the faot
that the Erin towed her over 2000 miles,
the Shamrock sailing altogether not more
than 1100 miles. The distance from the
Clyde to Sandy Hook is 2944 by the steamship
lanes, but it is over 3050 the way the
challenger camo. The Erin came in command
of Captain Matthews, and had as a
passenger Chevalier Martino, marina
painter to the Queen, who was busy with
his brush during the trip, taking In the
rough several fine pictures of the Shamrock.
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Captain Hogarth, who, with a crew ol i
forty-three men, brought her over, couldn't ! i
say too much In praise of the seagoing D
qualites of the craft. The regular comple- t
meat of men that the Shamrock will have
In tbe race against Columbia or Defender fl
will be between flfty-flve and sixty. The t
remainder are to come here on the City ol 2
Rome, and will arrive within ten days.
MOTORMAN AND COMPANY BLAMED. ?
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Bridgeport Jury Urges Special Law* to |j
Prevent Trolley Accidents.
h
Ebidoepobt, conn, (,speciai;.?xne jury i which
has been holding an Inquest Into the I j
causes of the trolley car accident on the I a
Shelton 8treet Railroad Company's bridge
at Peck's Mill Pond 8unday afternoon, | 3
August 6, resulting in the loss of twenty- ^
eight lives, reached a verdict.
The finding is that the motorman, George '
8. Hamilton, who was in charge of the Illfated
car, was guilty of criminal carelessness,
and that the Shelton Street Hallway
Company was negligent ia allowing the ?
roadbed to be in the condition existing on
tho day of the accident, and in not enforcing
the order for slow speed and constant
Inspection at the point where the accident }
occurred.
The jury also recommends that the Gov- l'
ernor call a special sessl.on of the Legisia- ?;
ture for the pdssage of laws requiring the
use of inside and outside guard rails on all <
trolley car bridges, the licensing of motormen
by a competent board, the reduction
of the number of working hours of motormen
and conductors,and thp st-'iishment
of a State board to have si ion of the _
construction and operation Oi " trolley ^
roads. y
nv/ropniBn iu a r.iRPunp.
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Tvro Women and Fonr Children Drowned
in White River, Indiana. P
Louisville, Ky. (Speolal).?By the over* w
turning of a carriage at tbe ferry landing | tl
on White River, near Waco, Ind., six per- | ^
sons lost their lives. Tbe dead are: Mrs | ?
Amy Dillon, Mrs. Albert Hensel and fouz j E
children of Mrs. Dillon. ; r
The accident occurred before the eye3 of i p
Albert Hensel. All of tne persons lived at ! t
Waco. They had been at a picnic several ii
miles away and were returning in a surrey.
A rope ferry crosses White River- ^
Mr. Hensel left the surrey and led the
horse on to the boat. The hawser wa? e
parted by the swift current,the boat swung
down the stream and the carriage and its
occupants were instantly dumped into the r
water. n
The carriage turned over as it fell and i ,
carried the women and children under it,
and then the current swept them and the A
carriage under the boat. The bodies of the d
oldest and youngest of tbe children were rr
found locked iu each other's arms about b
six milea below the scene of the accident vs
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Carrie Snedeclcer'a Body Found.
The body of Carrie Snedecker, the two- c
and-a-half-year-oli daughter of Frederick e
Snedecker, who disappeared from her ; j1
borne, and who was th jught to have been j 11
kidnapped, was round in the Dottom or a |
limestone quarry about 400 yards from the
Snodocker nome, near Kingston, N. J. The |
body was found face down In a large pool i
of water. Many of the farmers still be- ^
lleve that the child was kidnapped, and c!
that the kidnappers, fearing detection, ' r<
drowned the child near her home. I),
Strange Scenes at Shlloli.
At the dedication of the new temple ol i
the Holy Ghost and Us Society, a religious : t
sect, at Shlioh, Me., there were strange 0
emotloual scenes among the thousands , s]
presunt. A feature of the meeting was the i s|
faith cures effected. Large dmounts of
mouey have been received Dy the society a
from mysterious sources. ^
Cruelty Charged.
An employe at the County Temporary
Home at Warehouse Point, Conn., testified i
that Superintendent Adams tied children v
with dog chains and rubbed their heads | J
against stones and in ashes. w
Brothel* Killed by Llclitnlns.
Thomas and Charles Holland, eleven
and thirteen years old, sous of Miley Hoi- J
land, were killed at Goldthwaite, Texas, i ?
K? i(i*hfn!ni*. fimirtTM an niiler brothar ! '
*JJ nt5"???n? ? -o ~? ? , i.
wus seriously injured. T-ue boys had taken u
shelter in a barn which was sot on lira and
destroyed.
Yellow Fever Easy to Control. j T
The Yeilow Fever Commission of the 31a- J ?
rine Hospital staff has reported that the i
dread disease is not nearly so difficult to |
control a-> was supposed. The bacillus is ;
very susceptible to disinfeetants, and a |
stronger anti-serum than SaraaelU'g wAy I ?
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COAST FDLL OF WRECKS,
Wild Shore Near Cape Hatteras a
Graveyard For Many a Vessel.
SURVIVORS TELL OF LIVES LOST.
Story of the Recent Storm About Cape
Hatter**?Eleven Wrecks Strew the
Shore?Brave Work of the Life Saveri
?Hou?e? Swept 4.war?The Prlacllla
Founder*?Fonr of the Crew Loat.
Nohfolk, Va. (Special).?News whlcb
reached Norfolk of the loss of eleven ves
iels noar Cape Hatteras during the late
lurrlcane has grown more appalling since
:he fuller story of the survivors of the disaster
has been told. The list of vessels no*
known to have been lost includes the
)arkentlne Prtscllla and the schooners
Minnie Lergen, Robert W. Dazy, Florence
Randall and Aaron Beppard. The Dlanond
Shoals Lightship, reported to have
tarted her anchor chains, drifted a9hor?
ind lies high and dry on the beach. Ad
inknown vessel, reported to be a bark, ha?
lrifted ashore. Besides these, six more
vessels are stated upon the authority oj
iurvivors of the storm, to be wrecks on tlS
hore between Cape Hatteras and New Inet.
New Inlet is a passage whloh the waters
tot long ago made through the long
ongue of land which lies outside of PamIco
Sound. It is about twenty miles north
>f Hatteras. This shore Is strewn with
wreckage from known and unknown vesels
which have foundered at sea or been
lashed to pieces on the coast. Two hunIred
and flfty-slx bale3 of cotton which
ame ashore are supposed to be from the
argo of some steamer whloh foundered.
The vessel upon which the greatest num*
ter of lives, so far as 1) known, were lost
s the barkentinePrlscilla, Captain Spring*
teen. She was a vessel of 612 tons reviser
and she sailed from Baltimore for Blc
vita a general cargo on Augusi 14.
l wo days later she passed oat at
Jape Henry and on the night of
hat day went ashora. She Is a total
vreck. Captain Springsteen's son, twentyoar
years old, mate of the vessel,
attempted to swim ashore with his mothei
>n his back. Both were drowned. The
iaptaln's other son attempted to swim
isliore with a friend, FltzhughLee Golden>orough,
said to be a relative of General
Fltzhugh Lee, and both were lost. \ Help
:ame after this, and by means of the
jreeches buoy Captain Springsteen and the
:row of eleven men were all taken off.
The Robert W. Dazy, whose captain, a
German mate, (Jeorge W. Layfleld, of Balilmore,
and a crew of four men were taken
)ff In the breeches buoy In safety, went to
Lleces. She was bound from Philadelphia
0 Jacksonville with a cargo of coal.
The schooner Florence Randall, of Port
lefferson, Captain Cavileer, from Promised
Land,.L. I., with fish scrap for Charleson,
struok and went to pieces, all onboard
)elng saved.
Of the crew of the schooner Aaron Repjard,
the first vessel reported to have
jone ashore at Hatteras, five men, Includng
Captain Oscar Wessel, were lost, while
ihree swam ashore through the breakers.
The lost are, besides the captain, W. Robinson,
steward, of St. Albans; Tony Neilson
tnd James McLynsett, of Philadelphia,
tad a man named Cummlngs, of Charles*
on, a passenger.
The three-masted schooner Minnie Barren,
Captain Sykes Bowman, was bound
rom Philadelphia for Nuevitas, Cuba, with
00 tons of railroad iron, one locomotive,
00 tons of coal and 1300 cases of coal oil,
be struck near Chlcktnecomico on Friday
jorning, August 11, and went to pieces
rlthin an hour. All aboard were rescued
>y the life savers wbo used the breeohes
moy.
The fury of the storm is stated to have
een awful. Twelve houses and two
hurches were washed away at Big Klnaknut,
and twenty-flve homeless people
re housed in the little life-saring station
here. The spars of the schooner Banall
were found nine miles from the wreck
f the vessel and are said to have been
lown through the air with the canva9 aticbed
to them to the place where they
'ere found. The loss of life is great.
REED HAS RESIGNED.
ertaln Now That tlie Kx-Speaker Will Sit
lio Longer In Congress.
Atjousta, Me. (Special).?The resignation
<rt. r? J I n 4Un
I mumas ?>. xvstju a.*) ituug&ossuiau iu iuc
Irst Maine District was received by G>vrnor
Powers.
The resignation Is to take effeot on Sepsmber
4, and It has been accepted by Govrnor
Powers.
Mr. Reed's letter was as follows:
Pobtlaxd, Me.
I hereby resign the position of Member of
ongress from the First District of Maine,
} take effect on this date (September 4),
ery truly yours, T. B. Reed.
The Governor will issue a call at once fox
special election.
It Is the general verdict among Maine
ollticans that Amos L. Allen, of Alfred
ork County, Mr. Reed's private secretary,
rill succeed him in Congress. It is agreed
tiat the nomination shall^^ to York
onnty.
There are two other candidates, J. 0.
tradbury, of Saco, and Judge Horace H.
iurbank, of Saco, and their friends ar?
aislng a wail because Reed gave Allen
rlor knowledge of his resignation and
herefore an alleged "unfair" advantage
a the canvass.
'AINLY TRIED TO SAVE HIS CHUM.
irowned Lad Once Rescued the Boy TV he
Strove to Do the Same For Hiin.
Chicaoo (Special).?Jo?eph Crutcher, a
ewsboy, fifteen years old, was drowned
l the lake at tho foot of Fifteenth street.
, year ago ho saved Blaine Lisle3 from
rownlng In Desplnines River and Lisloa
. n .4.% at .1 frt oiltfft flic
oy to whom ho owed his life. Hl3 efforts
era unsuccessful. Llsles divert many
mes trying to flud the body, but was flnlly
forced to give up the search. Twc
ours later the body was recovered. Cruther
and Lisles had lived together lor sevral
years la the rear of 1702 Michigan
venue. They were both left to shift fot
lemselves when little more than babies.
Father and Son Lynched.
Peter Louin and his fifteen-year-old son,
rho were uuder arre3t at Electric, Ala.barged
with shooting Hall Jordan, a
sspectable cltlzcn, were taken from jail
y a mob of masked men and killed.
Aguinatdn'a Capture Urged.
At a conference at Laka Champlaln beiveen
the President, Secretary Root and
there it was decided that Gonoral Otis
tiouid not be recalled and that every effort
hould be made to capture Aguinaido.
early seventy thous in J troops will be
vailable for service in the far East before
ovember 1.
Murderer Hanged In I'eiinsylviiiila.
Llewellyn Stout, who killed Harry Hfurster,
a station ngont a: Biugen, or
ar.uary 20 last and robbed tho safe of 515
as hanged at Eastou, Poan.
Martial Law In Hullauri.
Enraged at tho suppression of a local
llr, a mob at Hllversum, Netherlands, |
vr:r-powerea tne police, destroyed prop- ;
rty and nttnekod tlio Burgomaster's I
ouse. Martini law was proclaimed.
TTrltlnc-Pftper I'rices Advance.
Scarcity of raw material is the excusc
iven by thoJAmerican Writing-Paper Comany,
llolyoke, Mass., for advancing price;"
n ail cheap grades half a cent,
Victor, Col., Sutler* by Fire.
Flro destroyed the business portion o> j
he city of Victor, Col., causing a loss estimated
at S2.OOO.O1K) - _
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WORST DROUGHT IN YEARS
Farming Interests in New York State
Suffering For Lack of Rain.
Crops Are Below the Average and Stock
of All Kinds Are Being Driven
Long Distances to Water.
Medina, N. Y. (Special*).?The worst
drouth In many years Is afflicting Orleans
County and Western New Yorlc. A six
weeks' drouth in May and June was re*
lieved by only slight showers, and it is
now snTAn woalra ?lnr?A therA liftq hAAn I
rain of any consequence. For several
weeks there have been no dews even, no
moisture of any sort. Hay was less than
one-half of a crop, wheat, oats and barley
yielded far below the average, and
beans, corn and potatoes are almost
rained. The damage can scarcely be estimated.
Cucumbers for the pickling factories
are less than one-sixth of a orop, and
wilt on the vines. Small fruits have dried
up on the bnsbes, unripe. Apples are a
small crop anyway, and the dronth Is baking
them on the trees. The quality promised
to be extra fine, but the fruit will be
ruined unless a rain comes. There bas been
no soaking rain since April. The woods
and country are like tinder, and bushes
and stubble are burning In many places.
Streams and wells are drying up, and
stock is suffering for water. There is a
dangerous scarcity of water for fighting
fire in many villages. Pastures are dried
up, and in many Instances farmers are
feeding stock in barns, as though it were
in winter. Or'eans County has experienced
nothing like this in many years.
DISTRESS IX WYOMISG COUNTY.
Production* in Cheese Factories and Bat.
T?r Making EatablUhmenti Curtailed.
Warsaw, N. Y. (Soecial).?Springs,brooks
and wells are dried up which never were
Sfnown to fall heretofore. Farmers at many
points are driving stock one and two miles
:o rivers and creeks, returning with wagons
; U.j.J ..uu .... .0 mu. .L.....
; luiiueu WILU utius ui water. AU? cucesw
factories and batter making establishments
bave fallen off one-balf in their productions.
The water supply in Castile, Attica
and other villages is short and any waste
by sprinkling lawns or running faucets Is
prohibited. Few of the standing crops
will amount to anything If ths drouth con*
tlnues. Field corn ha9 not eared well and
will be seventy-five ner cent; barley, eighty
per cent; buckwheat, is an uncertainty, but
will soon will be blasted without rain. The
potato crop, an important crop here, is
suffering materially. Beans were- extensively
planted and promised remarkably
well six weeks ago, out are now prematurely
yellow H.ud will be a half crop. Fruit
has begun to fall on account of the dry
season, especially the pears.
ERIE COUNTY BARE AND BROWN.
Farmeri and Market Gardener* Will
Loie Heavily by the Drouth.
Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).?The drouth
which affects all of Erie and the whole or
large portions of the adjoining counties is
tho most severe in years. No rain of consequence
has fallen since the latter part of
of June, and the farmers and market gardeners
will lose heavilv. Wheat and hav
largely escaped, but later crops and pasturage
are In bad shape. Grass fields are
brown and bare. Stock is also suffering
from the scarcity of water. Many wells
and springs never before known to fall
have gone dry.
Fruit will be cut down one-third, and at
least one thousand acres of tomatoes in the
town of Hamburg alone will be practloally
ruined. In the interior corn and potatoes
will not be half crops, and other late crops
are on an equal footing.
BIDS FOR FALL RIVER MILLS.
Syadlcate Wants to Unite Thirty PrintCloth
Corporation!.Fall
Riveb, Mass. (Special).?A formal
offer has been made for the stock of thirty
of the principal cotton mills here, representing
a capital of $18,153,700. The offer
came through tbe firm of Barrow, Wade,
Guthrie A Co., of New York and London,
acting in the interests of capitalists who
propose to consolidate the print-cloth
mills of the city. The yarn mill trust went
through easily enough, but it was a small
affair compared with this. The fine goods 1
mills are not Included and the Iron Works
Corporation is emitted, a3 it is controlled
bv a printer, M. C. D. Borden.
The prices often vary and may not prove
satisfactory. Mills that have not earned a
dividend In a long time are to get a better
bonu9than some that have been making
eight per cent. In fact, tbe promoters
have not been urgent In bidding to the
paying concerns. .
BAHAMA DEAD S<X HUNDRED.
Probably a Million Dollars' Damage Don*
by the Hurricane.
Miami. Fla. (Special).?Reports from
Audros Island say that three hundred persons
were killed or drowned there during
the great hurricane. A large part of the ;
Island was burled under eight feet of j
water.
iLiiKUty resuieubs 01 now jrjruviuouuc uro
believed to have perished, the majority of j
whom lost their lives on vessels, blown out | ,
of the harbor of Nassau.
A conservative estimate places the loss of I
life on'the Bahama Islands at 600, added to I j
which is the destruction of all crops and j
scores of buildings. The pecuniary loss !
will probably exceed $1,000,000. :
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WENT DOWN IN LAKE HURON. [
Schooner Capsized and Five Persons Lost, 1
Three of Them Women.
Hakbob Beach, Mich., (Special).?The ; ,
schooner Hunter Savidge capsized in a i
squall oSf Point Aux Barques on Lake
Huron. Five persons were drowned, Mrs,
John Mullerwels3. wife of the owner and ; ,
captain; u daughter of Captain and Mrs. j
Mullerweiss, Mrs. F. Sharp?te*n, a son of j
airs. Sharpsteen, and Thomas Duby, mate
of the schooner. The boat hails from j
Alpena. ^
Killed Hi* Brother For a Deer. I 1
Ralph Hills Bobbins, aged seventeen, of J
Warren, Mass., was shot and Instantly J
killed by bis brother, William Bobbins, the I
instructor of mauual training in the pub- e
lie schools in Passaic. N. J., near their c
Adirondack camp. The young men had j fc
been enjoying camp life for weeks on i c
Eighth Lake,Fulton Chain,near the Durant i a
road, leading to Seventh Lake. William t
mistook his brother for a deer and kll.ed j
him instantly with his rifle. ?
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Fierce Skirmish With Filipino*.
Lieutenant Alfred W. Drew, of the ;
Twelfth Infantry, was instantly killed, and ' p
Lieutenant Willis Kline, of the same r>igl- i
meat, severely wounded in an attack on .
the Filipino insurgents near Angeles, j
Lieutenant Cole and eighty men of the i }
Sixth Infantry fouud 100 insurgents in the j
mountains of Negros and put them to
flight after killing nineteen of them.
llonsevelt Visits Mclvlnlcy.
Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt spent the ^
day at the Hotel Chatnpiaiu, whore Tresi- j:
dent McKiulcy is a guest.
Peop'c in tiie Public Eye.
Senator Frye, of Maine, is a great fisher- ;
man. ; t
Lord Rothschild's musicals are tho finest [ 1
In Lomlou.
Lord Kitc'.ieDer's favorite diversion is ?
reading the Koran. I J
Marshall Field appears to be easily the ?
richest man iu Chicago. j j
Alson is. Sherman. Mayer of Chicago la o
1841, is still alive and in t erfect health. i
| .
President Mckinley has received the de- j ,b
gree of L.L.D. from seven colleges and b
universities. i jj>
Senator Depew, of >ew lork, uas rur- ,
;hased four thoroughbreds for thj coacil t 7
ue is to keep ia Washington. ^
F* *v-. .
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iflilCliST HOBIH PifilS
Street Fights That Recall the Days . x
oi the Commune.
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PILLAGE AND BURN CHURCHES.
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Daraonatration Mar Hurt Dreyfna'a
Ch?nc?i of Acquittal?Sacrilege at the
Church of St. Joaeph?Wild Babble
Deatroya Altar*, Fonts, Statue* and
Bare Painting*?Many FeraonaInjured
I
Pabis (By Cable).?A mob of Anarchist*
and Socialists, Inflamed by revolutionary ,
harangues, attacked a number of churches
In Paris. The Church of St. Joseph was
broken Into and the Interior wrecked in a
aI aa/?l1i>?lnni fnnf Tha .
WBU ?
rioting was suppressed by the police sad
Republican Guards only after fierce fighting.
The Prefecture of Police Rives the following
statistics of the rloia: Three hundred
and eighty persons were injured.
Three hundred and sixty were taken to
the Lariboisiere and St. Louis hospitals.
Fifty-nine police agents were wounded,
besides Gommlssaires Gouller and Domslmone.
One hundred and fifty peraoos were
arrested, of whom eighty are detained lu ;
custody.
The trouble originated in an attack made
by Anarchists on Anti-Semites. A thousand
Anarchists UQder Sebastian Faure assembled
in the Place de la Republfque and
resisted the police who attempted to disperse
them.
A police commissary and an Inspector
Attempted to arrest some rioters who were
uarrying a red flag, but they were trampled
upon and beaten with bludgeons. A number
of shots were fired by the -mob. The
inspector was mortally Injured by the
cIuds, and the commissary was hit by a
bullet, receiving a serious wound. Four
other policemen were stabbed. Notwithstanding
their defeat the police made a
number of arrests, among tbelr prisoners
being Faure.
Subsequent to the rioting in the Place de
la Republlque the mob rushed to Rue St.
Maur, where they stormed the churches of
8t. Maur and St. Joseph. They entered the
buildings, and wbi e some of them tore
down the altars and pulpits, other*, seized
the sacred pictures, holy vessel* and the
Host, the consecrated wafers, all of which
were thrown into the street. The altars
and pulpits furnished wood for a bonfire,
and all the seized church property was
burned. A similar scene was enacted at
St. Nicholas'^ Churob. Tbe mob tried to
burn the ohurche3, but failed.
While the rloter9 were storming St.
Nicholas's Church they were charged by
police and cavalry, but they succeeded In
carrying out tbelr plan despite the efforts
to disperse them. Tbe sacking of the
churches recalls tbe excesses committed
by the Oommunlsts in 1371.
The mob which attacked St. Joseph's
Church carried hatchet* and long knives,
which they had stolen from the counters
of various shops. The aged sacristan, f
seeing the rioters coming, hastily closed .yc
the outer gate9, but Ills precaution was
futile. The mob attacked the gates with
hatohets and long bars of iron, and soon
forced them open. The oak doors were .
next attacked. They finally gave ^ay and ,
the crowd burst into the church.
The six side altars and baptismal font
were thrown to toe gi-ouna. xae aoiy wmor
stoups were broken, pictures were torn,
and the statues and other devotional obeots
were thrown to the floor and smashed fi
to pieces.
Next the mob attacked the high altar.
The tabernacle was torn from Us place.
The sacred hosts were thrown on the
ground and trampled upon, aadthecandlestlcks
were broken. A figure of the Saviour
hanging on a great cross above the altar
was made the alm'for all sorts of missiles,
and was fractnred In several places.
While some sung tbe "Carmagnole," the
rioters seized the chatis and carried them
to the small square In front of the church,
where a bonfire was made of them. Not
content with the destruction that had been
wrought, some of the mob returned to the
sanctuary and succeeded in pulling down 2
tbe crucifix, which they then threw Into the
flames.
Some one raised the cry that the statue
of the Virgin had been forgotten. Bs.ck ,
Into tbe church poured the crowd and
quickly they polled down inn imago.
When the police had routed the mob and
entered the church the Anarchists hadjast
Bet flrq to the pulpit,-which they had been
unable to destroy.
The interior of the chnrch (s simply a
wreck. Saveral valuable oM pictures u
were destroyed and they can never be replaced.
A lamentable feature of the affair Is that
It will be regarded as a pro-Dreyfus demonstration
and react greatly to the detriment
of the chances of acquittal. .,
NO ANTMMPcRIALIST PARTY.
Erring Wln?low Say* the League 11 Not
Backing Boatwell.
Concobd, Mass. (Special).?Erwlng Winslow,
Secretary of the Anti-Imperialist
League, said as to the statement from
Washington about a third party ticket'
idth ex-Governor Eoutwell at its head,
that there was no truth in It as far as the
League tea? concerned.
"Toe policy of the nnti-Imperiallst
League," he continued, "has been to keep
sntlrely aloof from politics and simply to m
joncentrate and develop the opposition tc
;he colonial policy and Philippine war, so
:hat at the proper time after a careful canrass
of their constituents they will be able
;o convince toe political mauagers that a *
arge body of voters consider these the
paramount issues before the country, and
vill deliver their votes to that party and
jandldate which are thoroughly commitrt.1
f Kam ''
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YOUNG WIFE MURDERED.
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South Carolina Mob Wanted to Lyncb Hex
Husband and Another Woman.
Columbia, S. C. (Special).?It was with
Ufflculty that a nob was prevented from
langing S. W. Keep, a merchant, and d
voman at Fort Lawn, Chester County.
rwo days ago Mrs. F.eep, a pretty wornin
of twenty-five, was found dead la
>ed with a rifle ball through her brain.
leep reported It as suicide. Investigation
howed that she was asloep with her baby
m her hrenqt and the lufaut was removed
ly the murderer or murderess so the rifle
night be flred in such a way as to give the ,
.ppearauce of suicide. The identity of the
rooian in the ca?e N not yet clear, hut she ,
9 believed tOL be n near relative of lira.
teep. Reep nils been sent to jail.
More Cotton Than Ever Before.
Henry M. Neill, the cotton crop expert of
few Orleans, La., who alone predicted the
normous crops of 1334-'95, 1897-'9S and
399-'99, is out with a forecast indicatinghat
the crop now maturing will exceed
ny of these, and may reach the unprecs.ented
total of 12,000,000 bales.
Russia and China Agree.
The Czar announces that Ta-lien-wan,
Ihina, wh-'ch recently came under Russian
ontrol, will be ma<le a free port for the
(lerehant s-hips of all nntious and that a
iew city will he built m that neighborhood
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Cjrcllnc Notes.
Road riding interest bus taken a new
urn this season; quadruple centuries are J:>
be rage.
Joe Downey, who rode a mile flying
tart on the road, with motor pace, neat
Joston a while ago, is a youngster of sixeen
years, weighing 103 pounds. He uses "
, gear that causes wonder the world over.
t is 133. much higher than is used by any
ither rider.
The bicycle police squad of Atlanta, Ga,,
ins been entertaiolng the public with a
erios of races in the Coliseum under the
uspices of the Police Kelief Association
rhich realized considerable profit on the
enture, which it is announced will lx
laic an annual aCuir. . .
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