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TIIESWEEKLY EEnnEE: fiAFEXEY, S. SEPTEMBEK O^lSOr.. 3 Indianapolis Was Swept by a Tremendous Rainstorm. BOSTON'S HEAVY LOSS BY A FIBB, The ICaiu P.U In Torrents For Thirteen Hour*, Flooillns Streete and Basements In Indinn>|iolU t and In Some Sections People’s Uves Were Kudangered—Bos* ton Lo»t tmo.OOO by Fire. Indianapolis, Sapt. ft.—Aa tho roault of a veritable delude, which set in at 8 p. m. and continued until 7 a. m., this city was flooded and thousands of dol lars’ worth of property has been de stroyed, besides the inconvenience of •nspeuded street car transportation and telephonic communication. The busi ness portion of tho city was soon flood ed because of the inability of the sow ers and streams to carry the water off. / t 4 o’clock reports began coming into the police station of great damage in Tarious portions of the city. It was nearly 8 o’clock before a south side fttreet car could move. Pogue’s Run. running directly through the city, and under the union Itatlon, contributed largely to the de- •traction, and in the neighborhood of Pine and Washington streets it caused A lake to appear and no less than a dozen families had to be rescued by the police. Tho water in many of the base ments along Washington and Pennsyl vania streets wa. 6 and 6 feet deep. Many of these basements were used as Salesrooms and the damage is very great. At daylight the lightning started a fire in the telephone exchange building, corner of Illinois and Ghio streets and the entire system was burned out, re sulting in extensive loss. Several other fires were started by the storm, but Were extinguished before material loss was sustained. During tho night the rainfall had amounted to (i 7-10 inches. At 8 o’clock the rain had ceased. Big Fire Lons In Boston. Boston, Sept. 5.—A disastrous firo broke out shortly after 5 a. m. on pier 1, East Boston, and soon spread to the ad joining piers and warehouses. Piers 1, 4, and 5 were burned and 4 and 5 were Wholly destroyed. Several dwellings Bear by also caught fire, almost tho en tire fire department of Boston being called to tho scene as well as the depart ment from Winthrop and two fireboats. About C o’clock store No. 8 caught fire and burned tapidly. Fifteen freight cars and a large amount of freight was destroyed and it is believed tho loss will reach 1150,000. Big K&llroad Sited* Burning. Boston, Sept. 5. —The freight sheds of tho Boston and Albany railroad and Johnson steamship line sheds at East Boston are burning. From present in dications the loss is likoly to reach $100,000. MEDICO-LEGAL CONGRESS. Tit* Firtt Srtiiun of That Body Begin* In New York. New York, Sept.5.—The first session of the International Medico-Legal con gress was held in tho United States courtroom in the federal bnildiug dar ing tho morning. Ex-Surrogate Rastas E. Ransom pre sided and made tho opening address. He warmly welcomed tho visitors in the name of New York and Brooklyn. He also paid a high tribute to the genius of Clark Bell, tho president-elect pf the society, for tho interest ho has always taken in maintaining its pres tige and for giving it a name and a fame in this and other lauds. He then introduced ox-Judge Noah Davis. Ex Governor Roswell P. Flow er was to have spoken first, but at the last moment he had to send his regrets. Ex-Judge Davis said the first profes sion in tho world was that of medicine. He would place the church next and the law in the third place. Ho said that those who had devoted their wis dom to tho development of truth wore the real benefactors of mankind. He S iaukod tho congress for its courtesy, e was followed by Dr. Forbes Wilson. Old Dlrrotor* He.Elected, Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 6.—A meet ing of tho stockholders of tho Western Of Alabama was held here Tuesday. ? he meeting was pnroly a routine one. he old board of directors was re elected as follows: W. H. Smith, A. M. Eady, W. T Shell man, J. M. Falk- ner, R. M. Green and H. M. Comer. At a subsequent meeting of the di rectors President George C. Smith was unanimously ro-olectod. No changes will be made in tho other officers. THROUGH SOUTH CAROLINA in Epitome© of Event* Claiming General Interest During tho Fast Week. Columbia, Sept. J}.—Tho State Alli ance held its delayed annual session in the senate chamber at tho state capitol last week. Among tho most prominent Alliaucemen present were: Congress man Talbert, J. William Stokes, Lieu tenant Governor Timmerman, Joseph L. Keitt, and others. Tho Alliance was presided over by President W. D. Evans. President Evans’ annual address was read immediately after organization. The expressions of tho president met with groat favor, and ho was loudly applauded. The following resolutions were also adopted: Resolved. That it is the duty of the ap proaching constitutional convention to make provision for the establishment of a complete and thorough common school system, which shall be vigorously en forced throughout our state. Resolved. That in the appropriation of the necessary funds for common schools, while liberal provisions be made for the colored race, that due regard he had for the excess in taxes paid in for this pur pose by the whites, and that such a ratio i of division be adopted as shall best show ; justice to the needs and rights of both I races. , Resolved, That we ask the railroad com mission to equalize freight rates so that the injustice to the farmers be rectified. The only change of* importance made in tho constitution was the abolishment of the offices of treasurer and state lec turer and devolving the duties thereof upon tho secretary ami tho vice presi dent respectively. The following new officers were elect ed and installed: President—Joseph L. Keitt, of New berry. Vice president and state lecturer—J. C. Wilborn of York. Secretary and treasurer—J. W. Reid of Spartanburg. Executive committeeman—W. N. El der of York. Delegate to tho National Alliance— J. W. Bowden of Anderson. Columbia was selected as the next place of meeting. State Canvassers Sleet. The board of state canvassers met in the secretary of state’s office Thursday morning and canvassed the returns of the recent constitutional convention election as far as received. The returns have come in slowly and six counties are yet to bo heard from, viz : Ander son, Greenville, Lancaster, Richland, York and Beaufort. It is thought that all of them will bo in this week. The board elected Colonel R. M. Sims clerk. At the meeting of tho state board of ! canvassers, Colonel R M. iiiins of this city was elected clerk of the board. Thursday night two white men, J. T. McCabe and Stewart, wont into Hentz Jacobs’ place on Gervais street and bought some whisky and State Constable Lafar, unaided by any one else, arrested him. Jacobs showed i fight and Lafar says ho called for po lice assistance, but could get no re sponse for awhile, but finally tho housekeeper at tfio guardhouse heard his raps and came to his aid, and to- I gethor they succeeded in taking him in and locking him up. Hentz Jacobs is the negro restaurant I keeper who has been so often arrested on tho charge of running a blind tiger. COM EM’S MAIL. Spanish Officials Tried to Brow beat the Plucky American. BUT THEY MISTOOK THEIR MAN. J.ip* Show No Quarter, St. Petersburg, Sept. 5.—TheNovoe Vremya’s correspondent at Vladivos tok writes that the 1 ermosan insnr- f ieuts are conducting a successful war- are against the Japanese, in which women share equally with the men. Tl^pugh the army is decimated by sick ness, the Japanese will grant no quar ter and spare neither women nor children. Flneat I’lant la the Woriq. Helm a, Ala., Hept. 5.—The Interna* tional Cotton Oil company has received Its first car of cotton seed. The plant, which is pronounced by experts to be the finest in tho world, is being pushed to completion. The management has telegraphed to Montgomery for 26 car penters. Atubimw Coal For Export. Birmingham, Sept 5.—Another large order for coal for export purposes has been received by tho Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company at their Blocton mines. The order calls for Jft'J cars of coal, and shipment on the order Is to begin at once. Ilrrhxrt For the Senmt*. Montgomery, Ala , Sept 5.—\ re port is goin ' the rounds that Ion. Hil lary A. He >ert, tho secretary of the navy, will Im a candidate for the Uni ted States senate iroin Alabama to soo- dwd Senator Ptnrbi THE WRECK IN GEORGIA. Fj-thluan* Goiiitf to Indian Springs Fear fully shaken Up—Two Dowd. Macon, Aug. 81.—Tho wreck of the Southern railroad train, 12 miles north of this city, which was carrying excur sionists to tho Knights of Pythias drill at Indian Springs, resulted in two deaths, so far, and GO injured persons. On board were 500 people and the ex cursion was under tho auspices of the Macon Knights of Pythias. Tho train jumped the track without apparent cause. Investigation of the cause, from a technical standpoint, fails to disclose the reason. Mr. J. A. Kennedy was instantly killed. He was in tho baggage car, where the accident occurred. He at tempted to jump out of ouo of the side doors, and tho baggage car in turning over, fell upon him and crushed him to death. He was a wellknown citizen and merchant, aged 85 years. Ho was »K. P- Tho other person killed was Mrs. C. W. Hancock of Americas, wife of the veteran editor. She had been in Ma con visiting her daughter, Mrs. Tom Jackson, and concluded to spend the day at Indian Spring. She was sitting in tho coach next to tho baggage car. Her spine was broken and she was in jured internally. She lived about half an hour after the accident. The injured were taken off the train at tho freight depot, where there was plenty of room in the warehouse to place the cots on which the injured were lying, until they could bo removed home. Doctors were on hand and ren dered all possible relief. A Newspaper Man Who Went an a Stow. nyr*y to Cuba—He Wa* Suspected of Treachery und Wa* About to Be Shot When Uyatt Took HI* Case In Band and Saved Ulm. New York, Sept, ft.—A special to The Herald from Nassau, N. B., says: Advices from Santiago de Cuba says that Donald Dodge, M. D., alias Frank M. Boyle, who says he is a correspond ent of a Now York newspaper, and who sailed from Nassau by the Ward line steamer Niagara, is in prison. He was arrested by tho Spanish authorities on his arrival in Santiago de Cuba and confined, charged with being an emis sary of the Cuban junta in Now York en route to Maceo’s camp. Despite the Spanish military gover nor’s expressed purpose to have Dodg*-" oourtmartialed and shot as a spy, Con sul Hyatt, after several loug interviews with Civil Governor Garrish, succeed ed in having the case transferred to the ordinary courts. In his declaration, Dodge said he had left New York as a stowaway and had finally takoq passage to Nassau under the assumed name of Boyle. Ho had insufficient funds thou to pay for first- class passage to Santiago and for family reasons he did not give his true name. As an explanation of his mysterious ao- tious on board the Niagara and his fail ure to go ashore when the other pas sengers did, he said he was waiting for friends from tho shore to meet him to pay his bar bill, without which tuO steward refused to give.his baggage up. Among f-ho letters found by the po lice in Dodge’s possession was ouo con tained in a large envelope of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship com pany, addressed to Pulaski F. Hyatt, the United States consul iu Santiago and unsealed. The authorities there did not attempt to open this letter. Tlioy however seufe for Consul Hyatt to go to the jail and delivered the lottor to him in Dodge’s presence, previously requesting tho con sul to open it before a judge who was present. Consul Hyatt refused and tho judge became angry and said that if the consul would not open the letter he would do so himself. The consul said: “You have no right to open a private letter addressed to me in my official ca pacity. If you dare break tho seal I Will inform my government by cable that you have violated my official cor- respondotice. ” Tho judge was silenced and meekly and unconditionally uelivorod tho letter to tho consul. Mr. Hyatt triumphantly put tho let ter iu his pocket and returned to his office. What tho contents of tho letter * were and from whom it ca: o it was impossible to learn. It has been in timated that it has been sinoe forward ed by Consul Hyatt with other docu ments to the state department at Wash ington for the information of Secretary Olney. Spanish officials in Santiago believe that tho big envelope contained various j letters addressed to tho insurgent lead ers in Cuba, which Bodge was shrewd enough to place under seal and address to thft consul before going ashore. As to tho naturo of the other letters taken by the police from Dodge, offi cials in Santiago refuse to disclose anything. Members of tho Cuban junta In San tiago entirely repudiate tho idea that Dodge went to that city with any mis sion concerned with the revolution. I Tho general impression is that the pris oner is somewhat out of his mind. Tho jailer at Santiago says that Dodge endeavored to commit suicide by sever ing the arteries of his arm with a pen knife. BY HIS BEST FRIEND, The rro»ccatlon Will Prove the Motlv* Durant Had For Killing Mis* Lamont. San Francisco, Sept. 5.—Tho Ex aminer says tho prosecution has a wit ness whose testimony will show a mo tive for tho murdors—something that has been lacking heratoforo on account of Durant’s standing in social and re ligions circles. Tho name of tho wit- no3 < ; is Clarenoo Wolfe, and it is said that he will swear that on April 2, one day before Blanche Lamont was mur- j dored, ho and Theodore Durant held a conversation which explains with terrible significance tho young stu* dent’s motive for killing the unfortu nate girl. Wolfo has told tho police and will tell the jury that ou the afternoon of April 2 ho and Duraut held the conversation which meant so much to the pretty girl whom both know only for a few months. Durant commented ou tho beauty of Blanche, in a tone of exultation and not of respect, he assured Wolfo that she was a pure girl and that ho intend ed to rob her of that virtuo which she so prized. The girl prized her honor more than her lifoi that explains the tragedy of the following day. This overwhelming testimony which Wolfo will give, has been kept a pro found secret by tho prosecution. Tho defense and tho public have hold that tho young friend of the accused would take tho stand only to speak a good word for the man whoso lire is at stake. Intimations were given out that Elmer Wolfe would bo dragged into tho case iu a manner little to his liking, but there was no suspicion that Durant had confided to his friend tho ignoble pur poses which inspiro i him. He spoke iu words far plainer than these which have boon published. He left uo possible doubt of what he meant. Tho source of this evidence is, iu the opinion of Captaii^^ios, ono of tho strongest proofs of Had some ouo enjoying no more fliain a sim-' plo acquaintance with Durant come forward with it there might bo some doubt, but its sponser is ono who pos sessed the student’s confidence, shared with his pleasures and took part in much of tho daily routine of his life. From his own circle his condemnation has come like a thunderbolt. THE VETSflffl A MY. They Will Meet at the Great International Exposition. THOUSANDS F™" nniOAMAUOA. South Carolina'* New Klee Crop. Charleston, Aug. 30. —O’Neil & Sous, of this city, have just received tho first new crop of rice, 25 bushels, from the plantation of Louis LaBruce, of Georgetown county. This is the third time iu succession that LaBruce has marketed tho first rico of tho year. Ilouilelde In South Carolina. Charleston, Aug. 30.—In tho town of Mount Pleasant, just across the Cooper river, Boyd Cokor shot and in stantly killed Augustin Welch, his father in-law, at tho labor’s house. Coker surrendered. He claims self defense. South Carolina Veteran* to Organise. Lexington, C. H, Aug. 30.—A camp of the United Confederate Veterans will be organized at this place on Sep. 12 Invitations have been sent out to all of tho old survivors of tho lost cause 4 ju this section to bo present and join. An Ex-Cou*table In a New IJualne**. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 2<1.—The state liquor commistiou has ordered 800 gal lons of corn whisky from ox-Liquor Constable John 1 jm, who is now run* uiug a distiller} in the neighborhood of ▲Bun. When tho Ex.r<.jOVt-r at That Fotut TIiosj Who Worn the Blue and Those Who Fought With Gray Jacket* on Will TuUe In the Big Show Then Be ing Held nt Atlanta. Atlanta, Sept. 6—The executive committee of the Cotton States and In ternational exposition has issued an in vitation to the veterans of both the Union aud Confederate armies to visit the exposition on “Blue aud Gray Day, ” Sept. 21. This date, coming directly after the Grand Army reunion at Louis ville and tho dedicatory exercises at Chicamauga National park, insures a large attendance of veterans from all parts of the United States, and prepa rations are being made to entertain at least 100,000 strangers in Atlanta at that time. This estimate is regarded as a con servative one. It promises to be one of the largest reunions of veterans ever held in the Union, aud thousands who are not veterans will attend. TO GEORGIA FARMERS. Coi»nii*«toner Nesbitt’* Letter und Ques tion Box For August. Atlanta, Sept. 5.—In Commissioner R. T. Nesbitt’s regular monthly letter und bulletin to the farmers of Georgia for August, just out, will be found a valuable treatise ou “Grain and Grass es,” which is just now receiving atten tion iu the state. He advocate the cultivation of red clover in tho following paragraph: German or crimson clover for winter grazing and for feeding in the early spring is attracting widespread attention. In Georgia it has scarcely yet attained popu larity, but in some other southern states it Is considered as heading the list of all crops intended for these purposes. It gives good returns from land on which the common red clover would not suc ceed. and is of equal value for improving the land and for feed. It can he seeded from the middle of August to the first of October from 12 to 15 pounds to the acre, lightly brushed or harrowed in, and after winter grazing and cutting, if the stock ere taken oil in March, sufficient seed will mature to fully reseed the land, which can then be prepared for late corn. When th • corn is gathered the clover comes ou again. Thus two crops can be obtained and the land instead of being exhausted, is gradually being built up. SEARCHING FOR TREASURE. DR. FRAKER’S COUSIN. An Unfortuiinto Boy’* itopn* Blncted by the Hrcent In»uruuco Swindle. Loa Angeles, Sopt. 6.—Ouo of the heirs of Dr. Frakor, the Missouri swiq- (Her who was arrested for attempting to swindle insurauco companies, is an 1 inmate of tho Whittier stato reform school, whore he has been quartered for tho last throe years. Ho is a boy 13 years of ago, named Adolph Frakor, a oonstn of tho doctor. In 1892, Dr. Frakor visited tho coast for the purpose of locating the children of tho family of whioh Adolph was ono of tho seven children. Ho discovered Adolph in tho reformatory aud took a groat fancy to him, providing him with costly presents, and declaring his in tention of taking tho boy oast and giv ing him an education. Ho left tho coast in tho spring of 1892, promising to return for Adolph in tho fall He corresponded with tho boy iu the interim until tho month of July, when Frakor was said to have boon drowned. The finding of Frakor destroyed the beautiful castle ho attempted to build for tho boy aud reduces Adolph again to the plane of a penniless iumato of the reformatory. He is being taught the trade of a shoemaker. A I’.irty Accompanies an Old Sailor to the - oath Sea lalund*. Santa Cruz, Sept. 5 —T. D. Hughes, R F. Davis, R. L Mann aud Peter Chri.stmaim of Gonzales, and II H. Mohrmou and P. Jennings of Gilroy have sailed for a lone island in tho Pa cific ocean about 800 miles west of Peru iu search of buried treasure. Forty- three years ago Mr. Jennings was a sailor iu tho south seas, and he is said to have been one of six who buried on a lonely island in the Pacific throe large jars of Spanish doubloons valued at between $300,000 and $1,000,000. Mr. Jennings is the only man alive that knows tho location of tho money, as tho other five died in his presence on the Peruvian coast. He has also a chart of the island and claims it is vol canic aud uninhabited. Three months will be required to make tho trip. A WOMAN'S PLAINT. Want Dab* Released. Atlanta, Sept 5 —Tho Atlanta Fed eration of Trades has adopted a set of resolutions protesting agains t the im prisonment of Eugeno V. Debs. The resolutions will be sent to President Cleveland, the United States supremo court officials and to Debs and his asso ciates now incarcerated at Woodstock, Ills. Mnsn’k Insult the Emperor. Berlin, Sept. 6,—Herr Pfund, editor of the Vorwaerts, has been arrested and two editions of his paper have been confiscated bv tho government on tho ground that the paper contained ar ticles insulting Emperor William. Th* CteUf Lost III* Job. Spokane, Wash., Sopt. 6.—Chief of Police Mortz has boon removed from office by the city council. The action Qt tho council is supposed to have been based ougolltlOalrcesons. The Chinese Heard From. Washington, Sept. 5 —The treasury department has received a telegram an nouncing the arrival at Vancouver, B. C., of 150 Chineso destined for the At lanta exposition. It is supposed these Chinese will enter the United States at Ogdeusburg, N. Y., and the collector there has been instructed to be on his .guard against illegal entries -g;*. th. partmelir TnbTTtroTved information that an effort would be made to effect the entry of several Chineso not legally en titled to come into tho United States. BELOW THE MARK. The Gold Reserve Sink* Oat of Sight Un ler Heavy Withdrawal*. New York, Sept. 5 — W. H. Cross man & Brother will ship $1,000,000 in gold by the steamship Augusta Victoria, Nesslage & Fuller will ship $100,000 in gold by the same steamer. Arbuckle Brothers stato that they will ship gold, bat have not as yet de cided upon the amount. The subtreas ury officials have been notified that $1,- 100,000 will be withdrawn. Up to noon no part of the $2,000,000 in gold deposited in the subtreasnry Tuesday had been turned over to the government, nor had any additional de posits of gold been made by tho syndi cate. Subtreasury officials stated that they had been advised of the impend ing withdrawal of the $1,100,000 in gold, engaged for the Augusta Vic toria. Additional engagements are expected to be made, although Hoskier, Wood & J Co., report that they will not ship. As tho matter stands, tho treasury reserve is below tho $100,000,000 gold mark. Gold to the amount of $1,700,000 has been withdrawn from the subtreasury. This includes $000,000 of Arbuckle Brothers’ who have not up to this time reported tho amount of their engage ments for tho next steamer. No gold has yet boon deposited any 1 where to make up the deficiency in the gold reserve. She Muk<>* Serious Charge* Against Agent* of an Insurance Company. San Francisco, Sept. 5.—A special from Portland, Or., says that an e*- state senator, now a judge of Clacka mas county, Gordon H Hayes, and Special Agent Toll Thomson, of the Stute Insurance company of Oregon, will stand trial in the district court hero, on indictments of the grand jury charging coercion and corruption. Tho complainant is Mrs. Keunie Melcher of Oregon City. A year ago Mrs. Meloher’s house was burned. It was insured in Thomson’s company for $2,000. Mrs. Melcher was accused of arson and she asserted that Hayes and Thomson coerced her into surrendering her insurance policy. A Georgia Bunk Resume*. Ellaville, Sept. 5 —The Planters’ bank has resumed business here. It was closed 10 months ago when Cashier Clark blow open tho safe and robbed it. Clark is now in tho penitentiary. Tho directors paid off every cent of money they owed—$14,000—aud had something left. SELECTING THE JURY. Preacher II'-nhIi iw’* Trial Creates Excite ment—(. liargeG With Wife Murder. Danville. Ind., Sept. 5.—The jury for tho trial of the Rev. William E. Heushaw, tho young Methodist minis ter who is charged with the mnrder of his wife, Thorese, last January, is being selected here. Tho trial promises to bo ouo of the most sensational ever held in central Indiana. Mr. Heushaw was holding protracted meetings at the time the crime was committed, aud claims that his wife was tho victim of robbers. Henshaw also received 17 stab wounds and two gunshot wounds. He was arrested several weeks after bis wife’s death. Heushaw was im mensely popular iu this community and his following at the trial will be large. The best criminal lawyers in tho state have boon engaged ou both sides. Offlciitl* Quarrel, l)i*ea** Spread*. Pittsburg, Sept. 5.—Tho state board of health was askod to suppress the epidemic of diphtheria at Sharpaburg. Two now oases were discovered, mak ing 20 in all. For three years there has been a deadlock between the coun cil and board of health over the ap pointment of an inspector, and conse quently there wore no health regula tions iu the borough. When diphthe- j ria broke out it became epidemic because tho authorities would not act. ’iho deadlock was at last broken and health offices opened iu tho town hall. One Patient Murdered Another. Indianapolis, Sopt. 5.—John Rioh- ards, a patient at the Central Hospital for the Insane, caused the death of an- I other patient, Nathan Duuihoo, of New Albany. Last Saturday, as the patients were taken to rooms, Richard stopped from the line, picked up a chair and struck Dunihoo, knocking him sense less. Dunihoo has just died without regaining consciousness. Richards is a quarrelsome man. The coroner pro nounces tho case murder. The Cordage Reorganisation. New York, Sept. 5.—The organiza tion committee of tho United States Cordage company has issued a call for tho fourth installment of $5 per share on guarantee stock; $2 50 per share on preferred stock, and $1.25 per share on common stock, payable ou or before Sept. n. I Ivo Wore Blown Up, Prgvjdunck, R. L, Sopt. 8.—By on explosion of a gas meter hero, five men Forty Tears • Horse Thlof. Kingwood, W. Va., Sept 5.—Peter Zimmerman has been sentenced here to two years in the penitentiary for stealing a horse. Ho is over 70 years of age aud has sorvod 10 yoars In atate K risons. Forty of his 70 years of life avo boon spent behind the bars. His only crimes have been stealing horses, for which ho claims to have a mania. BIQ REDUOT1QN8. The Southern Faciflo Fall* Off In Baftf log*, Causing H*c*lv*rahip Talk. San Francisco, Bopt 8.—The potri blllty of a receivership for the Soathert Pacific Railroad company 1b an infer •nee drawn from the testimony gives before the railroad commissioners bj G. L. Lansing, secretary and comptrot ler of the company, whioh is fighting f proposed reduction in freight rates. Lansing declared that the reduction in the net income for 1894 from that oi 1898 was $2,278,000. The total Income of the road for th« first six months of this year was $14, 791,000. The operating expenses and fixed charges were $10,267,000. The secretary therefore stated that there is a deficit for the first half of the year of $1,470,000. Dr. Lansing said the reduction of $3,- 270,000 in the net income of 1894 from that of 1893, was a striking amount. The question arose whether it was not due to abnormal conditions. He be lieved there would be a return to better conditions, but if this should not fol low, to some extent, then there would be a critical time for the railroad com pany. Of course the railroad company could carry its indebtedness for some time, but should the present state of affairs continue eventually reorganization through the legal processes wonld en sue. The unsatisfactory condition at present was due to the general depres sion in all branches of business from which the railroad suffered in common with all other industries. Death of a DUtlngulahad Swed*. Stockholm, Sept. 5.—Svten Loren, tho distinguished Swedish naturalist, Hi dead, at Che age of 87 years. THE PUBLIC DEBT. How Uncle Sam Stood With HU Creditors the First of the Month. Washington, Sept. 5.—Tho public debt statement just issued by the treas- ary department, shows the pnblic debt £^thelas|^HBOAagust, less cash in in the treasury, to have been $942, 92 823, an increase for the month of $3,- 815,418. Following, is a recapitulation of the debt: Interest bearing debt, $747,360,- 610; debt ou which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,095,870; debt bearing no interest, $377,900,998. Total, $1,- 120,903,479. There are also certificates and treas ury notes outstanding offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury amounting to $002,884,093. Tho cash in the treasury is olassified as follows! Gold, $149,410,200; silver, $511,447,344; paper, $150,284,534; bonds, disbursing officers balances, etc., $lft,* 817,539. Total, $820,900,345, against which there are demand liabilities amounting to $043,921,189; leaving a cash balance of $184,039,150. The de crease in the cash for the month was $3,110,374. SATOLLI OFFICIATES. H* Dedicate* Hill Seminary at St. Paul With Imnoalng Ceremonies. St. Paul, Sept. 5.—At 10 o’clock, in the beautiful grove that surrounds the buildings of the new Hill seminary, the dedicatory exercises of that institution took place with pontifical high mass, celebrated by Mgr. Satolli. The large buildings of the new seminary were built by a half million dollars cash, a gift from President J. J. Hill, of the Great Northern Railway company, and are located ou the banks of the Missis- sippi, ou the western edge of this city. The sermon was by Dr. Thomas O’Gorman of the Washington univer sity, his text being: “Tho lips of tho priest shall keep knowledge and they shall seek the law at his month, be cause he is the angel of tho Lord of Hosts.” It was an eloquent portrayal of tho work and preparation for tho work of the priesthood. At the conclnsion of the mass tho buildings were thrown open for the in spection of the multitude. TO SEE THE RECORDS. Brajrton 8. lee* Keep* Hammering Away at the Northern Faciflo Peopla. Tacoma, Wash., Sopt. 6.—Silas W. Pettit, counsel for Brayton S. Ives, has left for New York. Before taking his departure he said his next move wonld be to move ou Oct. 1 for an order allow ing an examination of all the records and correspondence of the Northern Pacific railroad receivers, whioh he claims will show the payment of exor bitant fees to New York counsel, large sums for political purposes, aud sala ries of receivers at the rate of $18,000 a year each. This, he says, is too mneh. He eon- eiders that there is no doubt that the present receivers will be removed and says the federal court’s action will pre vent the consummation of the Hllls- Adams plan for consolidation of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern. Social Boienc* People at Saratoga. Saratoga, Sept. 6.—The American Social Science association occupied ite morning session as a department of health. An address was made by the cLairmau of the department, Mr. Fred erick Paterson, of New York city, on “The Craig Colony of Epileptics.” Pa- lers wore read by B». L. Duncan But- ey, of New York city, on <.‘A Plea For the Legal Control of Certain Daugen Communicable Diseases” and b) Grace Packham Murray, of New _, city, on “Tho Relation of Education the Cerebral Development of Childrei Allowed the Reds to Eaoape. Washington, Sept, ft.—The depart ment of justice has notified the Indian buroan that there are no Bannock In dians iu confinement at Marysvale, Wy., those arrested and imprisoned by the state authorities for Eolations of the game laws having been allowed to escape. The district attorney for Wy oming is therefore unable to ask writs of habeas corpus in their behalf and this means of bringing the Bannock treaty before the United States courts for adjudication cannot be carried oat. Heerl* la Ahead of Time. Chicago, Sept. 6.—Word has been received that R. P. Searlo, in his at tempt to break all records fr m Chicago to New York, has reached Cleveland, O., three hours ahead of all previous HWBtdS. P It