Duluth’s city funds are practically ex-
Mhausted and the city employees will proba-
bly not be pald for many pay days to come.
Diehl! & Lord's wholesale beer, cider and
soda works, Nashville, Tenn., were almost
totally destroyed by fire,
Fire in the paper mill of Manning &
Palno, at Troy, N. Y., damaged the building
and machinery to the extent of $100,000,
The works of the Le Metzu Umbrella and
Bleyele Handle Company, at West Brighton,
8. I, burned, Loss, between $50,000 and
$75,000,
John Barnett, one of the oldest freight
conductors on the Belvidere division of the
Penasyivania Railroad, fell under a train at
Stockton, N. J., and was killed,
Heary Windell, an eccentric money lender
and furniture broker of Ban Francisco was
thrown from his buggy and instantly killed,
Windell lived all alone,
Articles of incorporation have been filled
with the Territorial Secretary of Arizona for
the construction of a narrow-guage raliway
from Guthrie, on the Arizona and New Mex-
foo Rallway to Moreno, Ariz.
A great deal of damage was
Middletown, N. Y., by a cloudburst,
irain came down in torrents. Cellers were
filled and sewers flooded beyond their ca-
pacity. The loss will be heavy.
John P, MeDonald, an ex-Sheriff of
waukee county, and who at various
held responsible political positions
caused at
Mil-
in Mil
county farm for vagrancy.
silent
Cleve.
known liquor agent, ‘aged about 75,
partner of Ulbman, Justein & Co.,
land, O., was struck and instantly killed by
a New York Central fast freight at Oneida,
A freight elevator in the Nelson Morris
packing house, in East St Louis, dropped
from the third story to the bassment with
four employes. Louls Been, William O'Brien
and Patrick Gillam were ploked up uncon-
‘seious, the two tormer with broken legs.
Mrs. Croker, of Cedar Junction, Kans.
and her 9-year-old son, were killed by a
Santa Fe passenger train, near there,
Reports of frost ¢
Southern Minnesota an
Garden truck was killed
but none of the repo of very se
injury to except from ¢
Minnesota, which represents the damage as
being heavy to corn and late flax. Wheat is
Unaffected, being mostly harvested,
In Philadelphia the National Association of
German-American Journalists and Authors
held their second and last sess
seventh bie nvention. These «
were elected: President, Dr. G. Kellner
preajident, Louis Holler; recording secretary;
Paul Epple; | scretary, E. W, Ditges,
and treasurer, William Regenspurger.
Ten saloons in Kansas City, Kan.,
raided by the j £3,000 worth of
liquor sels the gutters.
Saloon fliiing 10 Lig
drays wero seize i
quarters, whe
action will b
saloons,
Anxiety as tot
steamer P. BW
gold, is set at res
B. Hamilton, of
portation Con
advices that
Cirele Ci
ints in
1 North Dakota,
damaged,
me from a few |
+ r f fata
ris 8) rious
corr one
ro, a
nm Of ne
nnial ffloers
vice.
ware
far
home at Ma
by an unknow
bit a piece
A six-st
N.Y
ulacturers,
loss §75.000,
The 1 ie of Buffolk, Va., are preparing
to oppose the settling of asol f the Banc
fleation band in their neighborhood.
Ph ip Foust, old
their
street,
f sar
i INAan
Aggregate
ny
Bev, Daniel Kelly and
men, were killed by a train
buggy near Carlisle, Pa.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Com-
mittee met at Reading, and by a vote of
63 to 26, passed a resolution declaring va-
eant the position of national committeeman
striking
burg, for the vacancy,
The Labor Congress, vom posed of
dele-
country, excepting the Locomotive Engi-
met at St. Louls to take to ald the
striking miners,
Mrs, Edith Sigler, of Kansas City, who
claims to be a descendent of Stephen Girard,
announces that she ia going to try to wreek
GArard College, in Philadelphia, to get a
share of the millions left by its founder,
Louls Leutgert, the 12-year-old of
Adolph Leutgert, the Chicago sausage
maker, on trial for the alleged murder of his
wife, gave testimony which may help his
father,
A severe hurrieane visited the Gulf of Cal-
ffornia. A town was swept away, three lives
lost, and many vessels are missing.
nc tl Is
r FOUR MINERS DROWNED,
Fate of a Party Which Started by Bai)
4 Boat From Juneau.
J. Peterson, an Alaska trader, who left
Dawson City on July 22, with his partner,
Bradbury Cole, has arrived at Victoria,
British Columbia, on the steamer Islander,
they having come out to the coast over the
{Lowelton trail. Peterson says that on the
trip down the Islander picked up four
men, They were clinging to a eapsized
all boat, in which they end four other
#old miners hz? left Juneaa for Shagus
% aagust 1. On the morning of the 23 .
at 4 a. m., the boat capsized, and James
Armstrong, of Seattle; W, MeDonald, of
Nanaimo; Thomas Trevylan, of Nanlamo,
and Hugh MoLaren, of X ;
reer ol Naniamo, were
steps
son
KLONDIKE A LOTTERY.
Hundreds Have Not a Nugget
to Show for Toil.
IDLE FOR THE SUMMER.
Output from Eldorado and Bonanza Oreeks
Has Been Famous and There Is Much
More Gold in Sight-Placers Are Very
Decelving, Fortunes Having Been Found
ina Waste of Mud and Moss,
A despatch from San Francisco, Cal,
says: The Bulletin has received a letter
from Charlies Halnes, dated Dawson Olly,
July 26, Mr. Halnes Is a well-known news-
paper writer, and his letter is the Hest writs
ten by a trained newspaper man to some out
of the Klondike gold regions. He says
“The rich have been ym para-
tively idle during the su ugh the
output from Eldorado and Bonanza creeks
was famous, and there is plenty of gold In
sight, There is every prospect of an lm-
mense output of gold from this district next
I'he total output
Judge, about
diggings
mmar, alth
this season Is, as
7.000.000, bu
spring.
near as 1
very ttle ground has been ’
dumps will, like some of the tailings of old
pan out thousands of
with lmproved
oan
worked, and th
California
doliars when
chipery.
“The placers are the me
docelving | aver seon, Imi
man working on good ‘eolor’ and
the ground worth only a few d
day and thea turning to a waste of mud asd
moss with no surlace
carting a
here and all over
comes here to mine d
of health and happiness
of making a
leath, Aboul m
placars,
worked mna~
st puzzling and
wine o
fuding
per
have
lars
dications and ua
bonanza. That
Alaska,
is the situation
I'he
ws 50 at the expease
manu who
nad itis with hima
fortune q
@ Are 8
IIOKIY OF
rus of
st
juestion
chances with
ean weigh their gold by the bucks
cindmis al millions,
nen wh
full and wh
value their
Many Have Found No Geld.
dred
creeks, and
“Four hun valuable diggings ap
stretched along
is a fabulous mine of
woary men who have gone
Dawson after searching the
hereabouts and never a nugget Ao they st
for their toll and
broken groand
disadvantages
place on earth.
ritory is an od
that [ can liken ou
better som parison than a lottery,
“A anmber of spots are selooted on
aud rivers, and
miner lsbors. The year el
rans, and the season's outpu
Not two miles away
overy digging
gold, yet there are
and returned
great un
to drawing pr
thing that admit
creeks for one year he
#08, Lhe waler
Darely pays
Foes rt
BXpenses,
fortu
from an
nan who has taken
iainviting LIL of earth a sack |
Wl not v ~
Pe a 4 a * BRIAN
site e
MALY
ta one works a
wh
FOISON IN THE CABBAGE,
of
Agonizing Death,
Family Seven Narrowly Escape
mej
he sul-
y save thelr lives,
ms were those of m
ieian treated ac-
idren rallied with great
remained In a really danger
hours, Headley himself
ison better, probably
his more vigorous constitution,
but ke, too, was in great danger for a time,
Dr. Hummel made a careful Investigation
to discover the cause of the poisoning, after
he had made the sufferers as comfortable as
He learned that the family had
had ham and cabbage for dinner, and eaten
very heartily of the dish. ham was
found to be all right, but when some of the
remaining cabbage was closely examined,
particles of paris green was found adhering
Then the seoret was out. The deadly
poison bad been placed oun the cabbage in
the fleld for the purpose of killing the bugs
which destroy the heads,
f i
nisterad t t
urs t i
lneral pols.
than
them
possible,
he
FATAL WORK OF KEROSENE,
Threo Persons Burned te Death and Bix
‘Houses Destroyed.
Marie, the fourteen-year-old daughter of
Mrs Frances Valdez, of Port Tampa City,
Fia., went to the kitchen to start a fire Bune
day. Bhe poured on kerosene and instantly
there was a dealosing explosion, follo ved
by the girl's agonizing death cries as she ran
through the room a blaziog masa, Mrs,
Valdez at once went to her daughter's as-
sistance, While she was attempting to ex-
tinguish the flames her own clothes caught
ire, and the two went sereamiing from the
house, Both were burned to a erisp, especs
fally about thelr faces. It was Impossible to
recognize them,
The house caught from the flames and
was soon a mass of fire, and a small boy
was burned in the houses, His body is not
yet recovered, The fire spread rapidly, and
five houses, owned by the Plant Tuvestment
Company, wers burned, there belng no fire
protection, The department from Port
Tampa turned out, but could do no good,
there being no water on hand. Loss, about
#2.000,
The Valdezes were Cabans employed in on
dae factory, near whers the fire ocourred,
The fire was witnessed by several thousand
pleasure-seckers at Picnle Island and the
Ian.
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
There were but four deaths In Mechanles-
burg during the month of August,
While making up a charge of
Jacob Jacobitan had his right arm
off by the explosion at Lattimer,
¥ Frank Flora
badly Injured
of powder from a hole
Ebervale,
powder
blown
and Angelo Christian were
while withdrawing a
that missed fire at
charge
Jucob Garner, a
aast of Bharon, was
bull in his barnyard and so
may not recover,
prominent farmer living
attacked
badly gored he
by a viclous
A trolley road Is to be constructed from
Shenandoah to Ringtown that will reduce
the rail distance to Ringtown from thirty to
four miles,
A preliminary (injunction has been granted,
rostraining the Be 1 Board of Danville
from making a proposed text
books,
Ah driven 3
Smith and President 1. A. 8
Cross Creek Coal (
change in
Orso perintendent LL. C
t of the
ompany, took fright and
occupants were
SRrns,
ran away at Drifton, Both
slightly Injured,
Btepben Vogden, a Polander, of Thomas
ton, beaten durlog a drunken row
and was brought to the Pottsville Hosg
the entire Jeft
was badly
side of his skull belug ort
in.
Roy Parks, aged 15 years, of Easton was
other bovs,
ateur eleven,
and had his
practicing with a number of i
|
ne of Batons an
when he got into
left shoulder |
composing «
nage
Will Connor, ‘ottavilie, In attempting
to jump fell upon
trac
$1
iis
J an engine {
K. I'he wheels o
right leg ab
badly that amg
will dle,
I'he Monumen
Post, G. A. R
the soldiers
sasmokin
Company.
Alvin W
in
the tank passed
% 1
BUKie, Crusiing
, has awarde
pecullar He was
health an
itiaw, wh
munity
nt
’
f Gorn
r the |
ther, whe
lies ,
Liege
alieged
rushed
that he
nd, catehing M
axlio at he latter's
Mollski drops
mont was
aimost belo the balf-intoxicated
erowd realized what had
James Kaos, of Berantan
fell from a swing at
eurage
stroet, It
aki
1
evi
happened
aged 20 years,
Mayburg Park and was
seriously and probably fatally inj His
face was | rut and bruised and seems to
bave been internally injured
An in man, Willlao
says he is a relative of
tried to throw himself
Brook shaft, Seranton,
was detained by
adly
sano Wildrick, who
the Gould family,
down the Meadow
Later in the day be
the Beranton police at the
request of authorities in Moorce Counts,
TRAMPS STOP A WEDDING,
Drive Ont the Guests, Eat the Wedding
Bupper and Steal the License.
Fifteen armed tramps surprised and cap
Wiliams at
Miss Williams and Frank Col
ins wereto have been married, The tramps
drove the family and guests out, devoured
the bridal supper and ransacked the house,
All valuables wore taken, even the coat of
Mr, Williams that contained the marriage
license, The wedding was postponed and
the guests formed a posse for pursuit. No
srrests uve yet been made,
Oigate, OO),
A III O55 som
ALABAMA'S COTTON CROP SHORT.
The Output Will Be About 30 Per Cent.
Less Than in 18846,
Reports have been received at the offices of
Commissioner of Agriculture Calver from 54
of the 88 in the State as to the condition of
cotton, The output for the State will not ex-
owed 70 per cent, of last year's crop. There
have been heavy losses during the last two
weeks on aceount of rust,
The Railroad Commissioners, who have
been over every railroad In the State re-
cently sstimated the crop even lower than
the above. These are facts as to the cotton
arop of Alabama.
——————
Bexton Mardeved In is Church,
In the vestibule of Holy Trinity Church,
Montrose and Graham avenues, in the Wills!
famsburg distriet of Brooxiyn, the dead’
body of George Stulz, the assistant sexton
of the ehurch, was found lying in a 1 of
blood at 1 o'clock a.m, The man's head
had been battersd in by a blunt weapon,
Robbers is suppared to have been the mo
vo,
on ssa sis isi.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, of the United States
my, witnessed a parade of ths Berlin gar. |
ison and was presented to Emperor es
fam,
TUIEREDBY PIRATES
A British Ship Attacked and
Looted by Achenese.
CAPTAIN CUT TO PIECES:
Forced His Way to the Deck, Where He
Was Overcome and Disenibow led by His
Assnlliants Were
Killed or Bought to Escape by Jumping
Overboard Milllonaire.
Navage Passengors
Pirates Hob =»
A daring piracy is reported off the coast of
Achent The British steamer
Hegu was attacked by six armed Achenese,
Captain Ross managed to force his way
through the pirates snd reach the deck,
hotly pursued by his savage assallants, one
of whom had meanwhile laid hold of the
carving knife from the table,
As the skipper, badly wounded,
kachen, China,
struggled
stabbed In
» get to the bridge, he was the
The remainder of the piratical
gang surrounded the prostrate man, and
hacked him savagely, actually disembowel-
ing him and leaving him an mangled corpse
I'be mate and steorsman were thy
next to bea doth were on the bridge
offered,
The boatswaln, how-
ever, climbed up the funnel and thus
! { the pirates,
lock two more of the
passongers were kill
8 borer
rormnen.,
nm deck,
tacked
and, in spite of the resistance they
were soon cut down,
stairs
escaped t lnught «
ro pASSEDROrS, Oc-
been killed, or
leanth by jumpin ward, The
n looted Ho « he Acheliose
wl at the wheel to steer the
rding to ace Lave
met thelr
juts,
| was the
ahin
hig
aarer anu
bis
1 p- ¥ - fr alr
i. Others plundersd the captain's
taking a repeating rifle aad a revol-
was
and
the directi of Bim-
Be « pened, gl
wvored fror
Tin
1 the ahi}
triohtf .
rightful one
the d«
' a
i i and the
entrails
eh, Korth
been
a8 fghting
6
HAY:
s Dotor-
w, ralded the
Calva “a pe
1 charge
the trons
tower
LATE INVENTIONS.
ow belfg
alr tank
bie rubber tubes
the tire, after which
t, and the air
unscrewing the
valve closing the machine
be
valve in
ney is placed in the sl
the tire, the act of
the
ows into
ube from
gaia.
Blind hinges are being
eirenlar cog on the is stiached
to the blind, with a rod which ends in a gear
mesh in the cog on the
blind, the other end projecting through the
made with a semi.
part which
turu the blind
from the inside,
Smokers will be pleased with a ttle de-
vies which is lutended for use In lighilng a
pipe or cigar when the wind blows, a semi
circular shield being fitted with a boliow
handle, which is corrugated inside to ignite
a match us it is pushed into the handie from
the opposite end, the head of the mateh rest.
Ing in the center of the shield to light the
cigar.
Cyelers will appreciate a new pump, which
consists of a long eylinder with a piston at
each end, connected to a central shaft,
which is revolved bya orank instead of
gliding the tube back and forth, the new
pump weighing but little more than the old
one and flliag a tire In less than half the
timn with little exertion,
i —————
Three Colored Naval Cadets,
B. C. Bundy, the colored appointee from
Cincinnati, has arrived at the United States
Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md. R. FP.
Smith, golorad, from Chicago, is axpected
soon, and another eolored youth has been
appointed from North Carolina, maki
three. in all. This seems to indicate sottied
plans to get one or more colored youths
into the school, y
——-———
Dead Ofcial's Acconnts Short.
|
The expert accountant employed to ins
vestigate the books of ex-County Treasurer
John A. Doran, deceased, of Wichita, Kan.
during his two terms of office. made a ro.
port. showing a shortage of $353 175.09,
he strange feature of the case ia that no
shaftage during Perens term was suse
pected,
¢
CABLE SPARKS,
Colonel Pando, with 600 Bollvians, has
invaded Peru,
President Frrazuriz,
nounced un new cabinet,
Mr. Ogden Goelet, of
his yacht at Cowes, Isle
of Chill, bas an
New York, dled or
of Wight,
The Princess of Wales 1s takiog the water
curs made famous by Father Knelpp,
The East Indian government has decided
to tend an expedition fn large force against
the Afridls,
The Freneh cabinet has
i5 no ground at
duty on cereals,
scided that there
present
Count Mutsu, formerly minister of foreign
aflalrs of Japan and
Washington, Is dead,
Japanese minliter at
The Congress of the Republic of Salvador
has decided to change the « urrency of that
country to a gold basis,
Fort All-Musjid, in the Khyber
India, wes abandoned to the Afridis
{ the garrison had deserted,
The mew tha
arotio
Pass of
after
eleven
bers of i-Harmsworth
“ul three win-
wturned w Eug-
Jackson
CX pe ) have 8)
Lore near Cape
web to the §
that the
erainty of Great Drital
Dr,
Willlam Osler
Hospital, Baltimore
on wedlcine nt the
dedioal
The Muerqul
British H
toad,
6, the
he ttle,
A dlepatch fr
gov
Associnti
‘
large 4
1 7.00
juRar
11
bat Dr, v
tuttgars, \
for the §
D WORKERS.
ne ih
# than in ¢
e————
REAR TRUCK FLEW OUT,
FPeocullar Accident to a New York Express
Train at Blodgett's Mills,
rtiand, N. ¥
Train Ne. 4 the southbound vestibule
the Delaware, Lackawanna and
lailroad, wae wrecked at Blodgett'emilis at
10.16 o'oloek in the morning. The train ocon-
sisted of an express car, a combination bag-
gage and smoking car, a
day coach and a
Puliman parior car. The trails, which does
SAYS
on
Western
A despatch
the rate of 8 miles an hour on a straight
track, Whea about 500 feet north of the
station the rear truck ou the day oeach, in
some unsxplained manner, became detached
and left the rail. This truck knocked all of
the trucks from under the parior car, which,
after being dragged a few rods, was turned
on its side in a four-foot ditch,
The rest of the train was dragged 450 feet
further and thrown against the ice housé of
the milk station, after which it struck the
passenger station, knocking it from its foun-
dation, When the engineer finally succeed
ed in stopping the train it was found that
Mrs. J. H. MeQuillan, of Qverbirook, Pa, a
suburb of Philadelphia, bad been killed and
a number of others injured. Messengers
wore senit to Cortland for physicians, who
wont to the sosne of the wreck by special
train,
None of those injured will die. The body
ofiMre. MoGillan was brought to Cortland
temporarily, as were some of the injured.
Others of the Injured who were able, pro.
oaedad on thelr journey on later tralps. It
ie stated also that seversd of the injured
were taken to Byrhcuse,
——— ————————
Fast Freight Rane.
The B. & O. 8 W. has been making
records on quick dispateh within the phst
‘week or two. Two trains, one whighing
782 and the other 734 tons, ran from Cinein-
nati to Parkersburg, 200 miles, In 8 hours
‘and 3 minutes and 8 hours std 4 minutes re-
spectively. The run from St. Louis to Cin-
cinnatl, 240 miles, was made in 18 hours,
Considering that some of the grades exoeed-
od cue per cent, the performance ranks with
the best on record and demonstrates that the
track and motive power of the B. 8 0. 8. W.
must be la good condition,
OMB FOR FAURE,
Exploded After He Passed the
Madeline.
POLICE MAKE ARRESTS.
No One Hurt, but the J xplosion Cansed
Freltement Among the Througs of Veo,
The
Fragments of the Bomb Rescinbie Those
Found in Paris Last June
ple Gathered to Greet the President
Pre
ert Rallroad
0 clock Tuesds
there by t
Deputic
Renate, M
of the Parle gurris
cipal conn
fs
HOGS PR(
Clenr ribwide
Hams
Moss Pork, 1
LARD Cr
Best ref
EUTTER
BUTTER-—Fine Criny
Uhder Fine
Creamery Rolls
CHEESE--N. Y.
N. XY. Flats
Bkim Choose
EGGR-8tate
North Carolina
LIVE POUTLTRL
CHICKENS —Hens.......9
Ducks, per ©
TORADON,
TOBACCO-Md. Infer's..$
found common . 803
Middling .s ‘ £0)
Fancy 1002
150 a
LITE STOCK.
BEEF Best Beevos i.
BHEEP........ .
Hogs. ...
420 @
50
350
FURS AND BRINA
3 0 @
40
MUSKRAT
Raccoon.
Bed Fox.
Skunk Black. .
Opossum .
Mink
Otter...
FLOUR--8outhern
WHEAT--No. § Red
FRILADELPHIA
————
FLOUR-S8Southerss.... ..& 28D
WHEAT —-No. 2 Red. ..... 154
CORN—-No. 8........... ably
ans vine 25
BUTITER-State_ .........
as 18
EGGS—Penna ft... 15
Casuaw