on RUSSIA BLOCKED. AMERICAN AND OTHER FORCES NOW IN PERKIN SITUATION HAS IMPROVED. Mauy Diplomats Believe that the Prompt Action of the United States Minister and the Other Foreign Representatives Has Checked, for the Time KHussin's Desigus. Being. Bhangbal, (By Cable. ).--The detachment over three hundred international blues juokets bas arrived at Pekin, Twenty-three warships are now at Taku pine Russian, three British, three German, three French, two American, two Japanese and one Italian, in addition to their crews, the Russians have on board their warships 11,000 troops from Port Arthur, with fleld equipment. Fourteen thousand Russian troops are held in readiness at Port Arthur, of Loudon, (By Cable The Vienna corres- poudent of the Dally Telegraph says “An active exchange of dispatches is go ing forward among the great powers relative to China. The colossal superiority of Rus- sia's representation at Taku is regarded as significant. The Triple Alliance advocates anited action by Europe to protect common interests.’”’ Washington, (Special.)— Minister Conger at Pekin, reports to the State Department that the arrival of 350 guards for the legu- tions of Russian, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and the United States has had the eflect of improving the situation. He says that Pekin is mueh quieter, but that the Box- ers are still active in the surroundiog coun- try. t is hinted in diplomatic circles here that the sudden inerense of activity on the part of the Boxer thing more than part of a well-conceived plan by one of the great European powers. to secure a permanent lodgment in Pekin, and to seize a position giving it full control of the great Pel-Ho River, the approach to the Chinese capital. It is farther intimated that the plan has proved abortive, owing to the alertness of the other European powers represented in Chiness waters, but particularly to the read. fness of the United States Minister, Mr. Con- ger, and the American Rear Admiral on board the Newark, which at once gave the movement an undesired international aspect, and so tended to prevent the particular na- tion concerned from aggrandizing itseil at the expense of the interests of the otber na- tons. Therefore, it is assumed that the ex- eitement will rapidly abate, acd the Boxers will disperse, temporarily, at least, a is ne referred to The nation in the Washington dispatch is Russia, whose designs upon China have been manifest for some It has been reported that Russia's preparing to send over one hundred thousand troops into Northern China by the Trans Siberian Rail way, and the fact, as reported in the Shaog- bai dispatches, thnt there are 11,000 troops on nine Russian warships fn Taku harbor, ciearly shows the Czar's os to en ¢roach upon China. lime, i intenti “EXHIBIT A" IN RUBBISH, Faper that Manda Thousands to Routh Carolina Comes to Light. Washington ial ).—Senator Tillman received from the Governor of Bouth Caro- line an important paper recently discovered in an old rubbish pile at the State Capitol at Columbia, which may cost the United States Government something §500.000. The long-lost doeulnent, which mysteriously die- appeared from the filles over thirty years ago, is pronounced genuine by Mr. Tiliman, and it is his Intention to proceed at once to secure an adjustment of war claims pending on the Federal Government and his State The important discovery is the long-lost paper known as the Black Voucher, exhibit “A, setting forth in detall thes claims of Bouth Carolina for supplies and moneys ex- pended in the Revolutionary War, the wars of 1812 and 1836 and the Mexican War. The claims mentioned will be used to off. set the claim on the State of Bouth Carolina by the United States Government for the payment of $248,175 for bonds and $340,000 for ordnance stores seized In the arsenal at Charleston at the outbreak of the Civil War, {pec Heo MRE DOG MANGLES A BOY, Big St Bernard Shakes Lancaster Lad Into Insensibility. Lancaster, Pa., (Speecial).—~While Peter Kirsch, a twelve-year-old boy, was watebing the decoration of the soldiers’ graves in the cemetery conneeted with St. Joseph's Cath. olic Church he was attacked by a large Bt Bernard dog belonging to Father Christ, the rector, The animal first seized both of the boy's hands and threw him to the ground. The dog grabbed the boy by the thigh and shook bim like a rat, The boy is badly mangled but may eover. The animal was shot. re. Blinded by the Eclipse, Lancaster, Pa., (Special. )-Mrs, H. C MeAlligter, of Conestoga Center, near here, has became blind in oneeys as a result of gazing too long at the eelipse of the sup, Bhe watebed It closely for a long time, both through smoked glass and with the naked oye. Her sight became dim the next day, and grew steadily worse until she is unable to sec with that od nig Geld Frogucer Sold. Phoenix, Ariz, (Speeial.)-The Congress gold mine, sixty miles north of Phoenix, has been sold for $1,500,000 to a New York syn- dieate, reported to include Warner Miller and John Mackay. It has been regarded the privscipal gold piadusst o of Arizona. Dine Honors nn Kinley. Chieago, II, (Special. }-A special dis patel from the City of Mexico says : “President Diaz has designated 100 picked rursles to attend the Pan-American Expos. tion at Buffalo as a complimentary body guard to the President of the United States, To Represent Patent Office. Washington, (Speeial,)-Edwin L, Chap- man, a principal examiner of the United States Patont OMeo, has been designated to represent that office in charge of the models lonned to the United States Commissioner to the Paris Exposition, Deficit Tan Porto Rico. Washington, (Special, )—The total receipts of the Porto Rican Treasurer for the month of April, 1900, were £105,806,18, The total payments for the month were $186,510.77, which shows a deficit for the month of $60,641.50, | ECLIPSE WAS SUPERB. Ideal Weather In Many Places For See- ing Sun Darkened. - Astrono. mers Made Happy. Seldom has a total eclipse of the sun oc. curred under better conditions for observa. tion than the one which was visible Monday in parts of North America, Europe and Afriea, Clear and beautiful weather prevailed throughout almost the entire belt of totali- ty. This not oply afforded the astronomers ideal conditions for making scientific ob- servations, but heightened the effect of the wonderful spectacle on the millions of per- sons who gazed at it merely as a sublime phenomena of nature, Astronomical parties were scattered thick- iv throughout the totality belt, which began in the Paoifie Ocean just west of Mexico and extended through Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Caro- lina, North Carolina and Virginia, thence crossing the ocean to Portugal, Spain, Al- giers and traversing Northern Africa to the Red Sea, where it ended, The belt was 55 miles wide, The United States Government had three stations for observing the eclipse in this country, These were at Ploehurst, N. C,, where the station was in charge of Prof. Aaron N. Skinner; nt Barnesviile, Ga. in charge of Prof. Milton Updegrafl, and at GriMin, Ga., in charge of Prof. Stimson J. Brown. Captain C. H. Davis, superintend. ent of the Naval Observatory at Washing ton, was in communication with these offi. cinls Ly telegraph, Remarkably successful results were achieved, The conditions at Plneburst were particularly favorable, though hoped-for ob- servations of the periodieity of shadow bands eould not be taken, At Barnesville the corona double fan-like form of great beauty, eral solar prominences were distinctly ob- served, The United States Goverument also had a station in Tripoli, Northern Africa, where excellent results were obtained. At Algiers a weird effect was produced, The color of the sea was changed from deep blue to gray and the trees became purple. The efrona and shadow bonds were observed under rarely favorable conditions, Crowds of sightseers went to Norfolk, Va, for the great spectacle. Among them was President MeKinley, who made the trip from Washington on the dispatch boat Dolphin, The tem perature fell, and at the period of otality there was a drop of 1) degrees, The corona, with the planets Me reury and Venus shining near, was seen to great advantage. As the sun was darkened a weird effect was produced at many This led to some scenes of excitement, peopie in the South being especially affected. flashed out in Bev. piaces, colored MANY REBELS CAPTURED, Successful Campaign of the Troops In the Philippines Manila, ( By Cable. )-Scouting, small en- gagements and the capture arms and prisoners continue dally in northern Luzon. Last week's operations by the Ninth, I'weifth, Thirty-third, Thirty-fo surth and Thirty-sixth Regiments resulted in the kill ing of forty-six of the enemy, the taking of 18) prisoners and the capture of 300 rifle and a quantity of ammunition. Col. Edward E. Hardin, with panies of the Twenty-ninth Regiment and jackets from the gunboat Helens, landed at Palonog., Masbate Island, under the enemy's fire, routed the insurgents, and after an engagement lasting ball an hou occupied the town, without easualtios, The Insurgent commander, with twanty and 250 men, surrendered on May 20, giving up 100 rifles. An impressive scene occurred on the Plaza when the prisoners were disarmed and liberated. The islanders were [ound suffering from lack of food, ow- ing to the blockade, and the American au- thorities are endeavoring to relieve them. Peace reigns and no trouble is expected in Manila, although the city is crowded with peoples from the provinces, who are leaving the unprotected hamlets in order to avoid the copseription which the insurgent leaders are enforcing, as well as robbery and out rages at the bands of roviog insurgents and bandits, The investigation of the charge against Brigadier General Frederick Funston of baving summarily execuled two natives in the provinee of Zambeles bas resulted In a discontinuance of the proceedings. It de- veloped the fact that Oeneral Funston eaught the natives Iu the very act of mur. dering bound Maecabebe scouts, his action, under the circumstances, being regarded as justifiable, American f of throes com blue Paper Mill Burned. Phillips, Wis., (Special. )-The Fiambeau Paper Company's mili and warehouse at Parke Falls, in Prince county, burned, en- taillog a loss of #200000, The property is well insured. The town was without ade. quate fire protection, and &t ode time was in danger of leing wiped out, Assistance from Medford and Abbottsford prevented the spread of the flames. Included in the loss are two paper machines, valued at $40,000 each, To Prison for Life. Weiland, Ont. (Bpecial.)~The three con- vieted dynamiters—Duliman, Nolin and Walsh —were taken to Kingston, there to serve their sentence of life Imprisonment. The prisoners were handcuffed together and securely guarded, A great erowd saw their departure. Dullmap and Walsh were surly, the Iatter complaining that the bandeufls Burt him, Nolin was particularly chatty, remarking to the sheriff that “'It was a beag- ful morning.” He also told the ladies near Lim that he was sorry to Jeave them, OUR NEW "POSSESSIONS. Collector of Customs Bliss, of Havana, Cuba, states that since he took charge of the department more than two hundred Cuban employes bave been discharged for frand, The second instalment of General Young's report of his operations in Northern Luzon was made publle, “The wile of Col. €C. R Greenleal has opened a library in Manila for American soldiers and saliors, The Filiploos sent out a story to the effect that five hundred Americans bad been slain by them at Catubig. The natives of Mindoro Isiand, ong of the Philippines, beheaded the boatswain and his nccompiices of the brigantine Navarro, who had mutinied and killed the captain, his wife and the mate, General Wood bas warned the Caban elvil governor of Santa Clara provieee, Cabs, that if he attempts to eorrupt the elections he will be dismissed and punished. government teamstor in Manila died from the bubonic plague, General Wood has ordered that every de- partment in the government service in Caba be overb iuled. The soli.tor's bureau at Havaua has been abolished, WAR MAY BE OVER. FORTS AROUND THE TRANSVAAL CAPITAL ABANDONED, PRETORIA IS EVACUATED. Mritish Nearing Transvaal Capital Ex- pected Murch Into Town Without Opposition President Kruger is Said to Have ¥Viled From Territory to Lydenburg. to Transvaal Pretoria is to the firing of london that London, Eng., (By Cable). fall into British haods without a shot, It is believed In Johannesburg will also yleld. A dispateh from Lorenzo Marquez says that Johanpesturg hes already surrendered, but this is not fully credited in London, I'he news from the Trapsvaal capital comes in a dispateh from tbat place. It says that “all the forees have been dismissed from the forts around Pretoria. President Kruger Is now at Watervalboven.'' British officers, according tothe same dispatch, ‘are now at Johannesburg dictating terms of sur- render.” Further light on the situation is shed by the London Daily Mall, which publishes a dispateh from the Earl of Rosslyn, one of its correspondents who was a prisoner at Pretoria, but who, as a civilian, appears to bave been released. The dispatch was dated at Pretoria, and said: ‘Pretoria will be oe- cupled In about two hours, without resist- ance, Everything is quiet, but erowds are waiting expectantly in Chureh Bquare for the arrival of the British.” DBurgomaster de Souza, the Earl states, was authorized to recelve the British. The London War Office bas made publle no dispatel from Lord Roberts as to the present situation st Johannesburg or Pre toria. Itis believed in the British capital, however, that there will be no further oppo- sition to the occupation of either city, and that, in the language of one dispatch, ‘the war is over.” It is rumored in Berlin that Johannesburg has been blown up, but there is no conpflr- mation of this. Watervalboven, to which place President Kruger bas retired, is 140 miles northeast of Pretoria on the Delagos Bay ralircad. It is near the junetion of the Delagoa line with the road to Lydenburg, from which it is 40 miles distant. The latest move of President Kruger therefore seems to lodicate a decis- fon to transfer his eapital to Lydenburg, as it bas been reported be would do. Lyden. burg is described as in an almost {naccess]- bly moustaisous region and wonderfully well adapted to defense. For some time it has been rumored that the canpon and pro. visions at Pretoria bave been in process of transfer there, FILIPINOS RUSH TOWN, Killed, Officer and Two Men Missing. Manila, (By Cable )—On Tuesday night the Filipinos rushed Ban Miguel, Provinee of Bulacan, lLuron, garrisoned by three ¢om- panies of the Thirty-ffth Volunteer Infan. try. They swept through the surprised town, shooting right and killing five Ameri eans and wounding seven, Capt. Charles D loberts and two privates are missing. No Filipino dead were discovered, San Mig Ruel is a few miles from Mania While a basd under the escort of troops of the Forty-sixth Infantry was moving from Tang to Sllang, within 25 miles of Manila, it was attacked by Ladrones, three of the party being kiliad, Lieut. Jens E. Stedje, of Company L, Forty-seventh Volunteers, mmanding = seouting party in the southern part of Albay Province, had several engagements with the natives, in which 17 Filipincs werd killed and 23, including a captain, were capiured, Hix explosive bombs and a number of val uable Filipino documents also fell into the hands of the Americans. The scouts burned the town of Yubi, the headquarters of the natives, Sergeant Brickley was killed dur ing aslight engagement near Higao, Provines of Albay. Seouts of the Thirty-sixth and Thirty- fourth Regiments captured 32 rifles and 500 rounds of ammunition in the Pangasinan Provinee, Major March's van of the Thirty-third Regiment has arrived at Aparr! from Ben. guet, after the hardest of mountain travel ing. The men were exhausted and ragged, having followed persistently on the supposed Aguinaldo trall, They had several epcounters with the Filipinos, but found no signs of Aguinaldo, Five Americans left, oO Indians in Ugly Mood. Washington, (Special )--General Wade, who was directed to proceed to the North. ern Cheyenne Indian agency, at Tongue river. Montana, and investigate the reports that the Indians bad the Messiah craze and intended to rise agalnst the whites, has tele graphed the adjutant general that he could find no reason to anticipate troubie. He says the Indians are in bad condition, but peaceable and well disposed. The settiers on and pear the reservation seem to have no fear of trouble, ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Bliss Carman, the poet, is making a study of old French Canadian folk songs aod stories for transiatidn into English verse, Professor Brander Matthews bas been asked to deliver a series of lectures on the modern novel before an association of Lone don clubs, “Davy” Stephens, of Kingston, Ireland, bas sold newspapers for 5 consecutive years, and more famous men and women bave been among bis patrons than any of his rivais ean boast, Allred Vanderbiit Is more of an athiete than most of his family. He is a splendid horseman, a good polo player, is as skillfol at golf as be used to Le at tennis and is a first-rate hand at hockey. Hepablieans of the First Maryland distriot at their couvention had a large banner in- seribed with the names of the President and their Congressional Representative, The Lanner read: “For McKinley and Mudd.” William Dean Howells, the novelist, is at work upon another book of poems, Great Britain's new Minister to Denmark, William Edward Goschen, Is a brother of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and was for. merly attached to the British legation at Washington, J. M. Barrie, as the author of “My Lady Nicotine,” has appropriately purchased and sent ot hie own expense a large quantity of tobacco to the Highland Brigade, now fight. ing in South Africa, There ts only three members of the ore iginal Cabinet ree years Ny still in office Lyman J. Sage, Secruury of the Navy, and James Wilson , Secretary Agriculture. CHARGES or EXTRAY AGANC Unjustly Criticised, Havaus, (Special) — American officials here feel that they have been unjustly treated by certain newspapers in the United States, which have published the sweeping state- ment that they ail live extravagantly, Army officers point out that if they have to live lo cities thelr expenses ure much greater than when at home, Moreover, very lew care to risk the health of their families by keeping them fn Cuba during the summer. Thustwo establishments are necessary. As their duty compels them to remain in atropical climate, they feel that the United States government, like other governments under similar cond! tions, should pay additions] stipends, 80 far as the officers of high rank are con- cerned, it should be pointed out that General Wood occuples only a small portion of the palace for residential purposes, the rest of the bulldiog being utilized not only for the divisional ofMees, but also for all the munici- pal offices. A number of employes have to be kept at General Wood's expense — cleaners snd helpers generally—and he says that if he did not have some private résources to eke out his pay snd his allowance it would be next to impossible for him to live in the palace at all, Colleetor Bliss lives qu'etly in a single room at the Hotel Telegrafo, going to and returning from bis office in a hired vehicle of the most ordinsry description. Major Ladd, chief quartermaster, lives at El Veda do, in a house which he shares with three other families, General Lee lives at head. quarters at Quemadas, where do all his staff officers, who are unmarried. General Wil son, governor of Mantanzas-Santa Clara lives io a house for which be pays a small rental. Colonel Whitside, at Bantiago, lives in & little wooden bungalow, formerly ocou- pled by General Wood and leased from Mrs, Ramsden, wife of the former British consul. General Humphrey, Colonel Black, Major Scott, Captain Plleher sud many other offi. cers live In bLulidings used by the govern- ment either as oes or police barracks, General Wood, when asked what he thought of such charges, replied that he considered charges of extravagance lo departments, ex- cept the postal, unfounded, adding that he believed no other department bad anything to fear on that score and that all could en- dure the closest investigation possible, sure Lae A DE STR c iy E Ving. Wiped Out Valuable Business Properiy in Apulachicoln. (Bpecial, A disns- e¢ of Mrs. Methodist » the business por- than three hours The Apalachicola, Fia., trous fire broke out in the residence Broughton. It spread to the Church and from there t tion of the town. Iu less threes blocks were entirely consumed, following is a partial report of the losses The Methodist chur uh, the residences of Mre, Droughton and Dr. Willls Hicks’, offices of J H. Lovett & Co,, the stores of Patton and Hall and all Intervent g sho pe to RB. Collins’ store, on ner of Centre and Market streets The fire erossed Marke! street to the bulid- fogs occupied by Dre. Alexander He ffman, Moore and Wills Micks, Messrs. Murat Hendry and Rice, Warres, A. H. Hopp, E A. Fiateur & Co., Dr. Bush Lichenfeit, A H. Gendberg, the residence of J. 8. Hateh- cock, the Times office, John Cook's bar and adjacent bulldiogs. From bers the fire jeaped across Cestre street and consumed everything from the Central Hotel 10 the foehouse on the whar!. Everything on the water front from the telegraph office to Rogge & Sons, on Water street, was cone sumed, The customhouse was consumed apd a very few of the records were saved, The splendid armory, recently Lulit at a cost of $18,000, also was destroyed, the « A COMMISSION CENSTURED. Avguitted » Filipino Whe Accused of Murdering a Seldier. Washington, The Secretary of War has received the official record of the case of Rosario Espiritu, a Filipino who was tried by a military commission at Manila in June last on the charge of having murdered Private George A. Wagner, Company F, Fourteenth Infantry, by shooting him with a revolver and by stabbing him with a bolo. The commission, after being In session we months, found the Filipino pot gulity of the charge. The commanding general of the Depart. ment of the Pacific disapproved the findings of the aoquistal, but ordered the release of the prisoner. In his review of the case be PRyE “In this case the evidence was abundantly sufficient to sustain a conviction, and the fallure of the commission to so find is at. tributed to complications arising during the trial, resulting from wholly immaterial and irrevelant objections by counsel.” it Was Special, BIG BATTLE ON GOLD COAST. are Killed on Beth Sides af Kumassi (By Cable). Many Acora, Kumassi, The Ashanti loss is reported to have been great, as the Hawsers had three Maxims en gaged, although themselves greatly out said to have been killed In a previous action. The rising is still spreading. Senate Nominations. Washington, (Special),--The pent the foliowing Henate: E RI Stackable, collector of customs for the district of Hawali; Bergeant- Major F. MeC, Volunteers, to be firet lloutenant, nominations to the FOREIGN AFFAIRS. dates by large majorities the past week will probably determine the government to foroe a general election before the war fever abates, A schoolboy named Brener, nlve years old, committed suicide in Berlin, The French Minister of War announced in the Senate that the officer who gave the poll. ticlans the letters of Detootive Tomps on the Dreytus affair had been cashiered, Representatives at Pokin of the foreign powers have notified the Chinese foreign office that If the Chinese secret society, known as the “Boxers,” ls not immediately suppressed the powers will land troops in Ceell Rhodes and other Bouth Afrlean mil llonaires are about to develop » big mining enterprise in Gorman West Africa. A loving cup was ted to Sir Thomas yacht Shamrock, by * MERRY WAR. ARMED POLICE OF CAPTURE THE FOR CHICAGO SQUATTERS, { Cuptain Streeter, Who Clalme Pefied the Authorities with a LAr. | Men nnd Two Gat Police Fired Upon by lune 3 ship, tie ling Guns His Vickets. Army of Seventy Purk Chieago, (Bpecial, Fhree burdred police | officers of the city of Chicago, headed by | Chief Kipley, und every man bearing » re- | peating rifle, marched from the East Chicago Avenue Btation, on the North Bide, to the foot of Buperior street, where Capinin George | Htreeter had fortified himsell on a strip land created by the washing up of soli from | the bed of Lake Michigan, and which Btreet. er claims as bis property by right of discov ery. In the entrenchments were about sev. ently won, armed with rifi-s and two Gatling § guns, Earlier in the day & party of Lincoln Park officia's had been upon by plekets | around the improvised fort, and a boy, four | teen years old, bad been wounded severely A horse driven by the park had been killed, 0 o'clock "Brigadier General Nii and four of his men, perceiviog the over. whelming foree of jolie approsching | climbed over the emplacements of their im. | provised fort and offeréd to surrender to the | park police, providing they were protected, | I'he surrender was sccepted, and the park | polisemen started on foot toward the police statiop, foliowed by an immense Those in the crowd pushed and jostled Niles roughly, and be suddenly whirled around and tried to bayonet perseculors A rough-and-tumble fight ensued, in which i Niles’ rifie was wretched from his acd clubs were freely used og the erstwhile bri Sadior general »" bead, Fhe was kne down and was about to draw a revolver when be was manscied and dragged off by the officers, The four men with bim were | also roughly handled in the melee, The remainder of Bireeter's the fate of thelr leaders, snd escaped in the throne once took charge of the store of arms and ammunition Captain Streeter was pot found fort, The shooting resulted a call upon city officials for the arrest of the cecupants but the city authorities be inftistive, owing to the urt of the United iand to be a part of fired Melals At 8. on | erowd. one of bis hs bands eked | force, seeing The police with al fort in of Btreeter's Fort, declined to take { fact that the Bupreme (4 Bhat onoe the ¢ territory of lilinols It was finally decided to mobilize 300 police officers, under the leadership of Chie! Kip. asd to march against tbe squatters and demand thelr surrender. Sheriff Magerstadt went with the chile! of police, and it was plansed that in case of re fusal to surrender that the sheriff should immediately swear in tge 500 polices offi bers as deputy sheriffs, again demand the surren der of Streeter's loree on the grodnd of riot and disorderly conduct, dnd proeeed to ar- rest the occupants of the fort, regardiess of sont, A frebost, with a Gatling gun aboard, was dispatched up Lake Michigan to make a demonstration from th the pape Of Bireeters their yacht. It bad been determine ai 8 conference belween sctling mayor and corporation counsel, that in view of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that the land claimed by Streeter is territory of the State of lllincis, the city police forces could pot legally precipitate 4 battle with Streeters forces. Cotlisel ex- pressed the opision that the matter could only be settled by the State authorities whe outrel the park police, a large number of whom are stationed in Lincoln Park Captain Streeter ciaims to own the land, declared : ley, men by means of be between thirty and fifty millions of dollars. stranded the doughty navigator laid claim to the lsud and declared his right, being the whole population, to elect himself to all the offices, the territory in need of. As the years passed by the dumping of ail sorts of refuse and earth washed up by the lake formed a iarge tract, now 180 geres in extent, and Captain Streeter became a man of importance, With his importance and the ine value of the lands his troubles began. The tract became connected with the shore, and owners of adjoining property resented the presence of tainers he bad gathered about kim, reaped The Supreme jurisdistion of State of lilinois. the district to the federal government, A year ago he organized, under the name “District of Lake Michigan ™ government, and elected himsell chief jus ties and to other offices of imporiance. The police, however, descended on him and his present time the captain bad lived The preparations to retake possession were made with grept secrecy, and It was pot until dawn that the police were aware of the invasion. Patrolman O'Malley saw a small schooner anchored off the shore when daylight broke. From the boat Captain Streeter landed bis men, who had holsted no move in the matter cot alter a confers ence with the law department of the city, and in consequence the Invaders, or right. Fatal Explosion of a Mine. Clifton, W, Va., (Special.) An explosion of firedamp la the Camden-Spilman mine mouth of the mine were blown away and | demolished, and several persons narrowly | escaped from flying debris, A flash of pow- | der ignited the gas, A AA 5 HRN SE WAITED 71 YEARS TO WED, Bride-to-Be BR, Groom B86, and Bridal Party All Over 00 Years, Toledo, O., (Bpocial, August Croft, aged 80 yours, and Miss Kate Putnum, aged 88, were married at Bouth Bloomfield, The wedding party was a large one, bat 50. vis6 Whos agra was Jesu hin #0 Yours was At the age of 18 and 17 they were devoted lovers, but cary #. 180. Neliber the gaged until the THE NEWS. The United Contedernis Veterans closed their reunion at Louisville, and will meet | next year in Memphis. A resolotion recipe roenting the kind words of General Sickles | toward the men of the Confederacy Wee &5IGD. Heferee in bearing the case in New York, ordered fihe books Fridence was nt desler: to show how he piles Xushaum, the production « given the trast raised The ty independ Huilway ste ckholders met thorized the issue Company 8 Southery Va. supplement te RLid A of a fourth the The Ivory mtd coroner's jury in Prof. Re ¥ three negroes were held Philude phia stirling by the for the murder of Bigcoe Hindman, of LOUIRYILIe was #lected commander-it-chief of the United Bons of The Phi jury beid Tower- for the adsiphia grand A. Lantell freight wreck iu the tunnel responsible Au epidemic of black ker peared at West were reported Della May Fox, th wns commited to toria, L. 1, CRY rash wap Derby Three deaths Liretle, Ase the wud sou he insape sasviom at Five persons were killed by the explosion of nitro-g etia, O, About twelve h ture fuctories in 16 three injured erine in Marl undred workers in gas 0x New York are on a strike, arrested on the who robbed was dis apainst Frank Preston, whe sarge of being ope of the bank at Willanmsburg charged, there being no ev him, wae men Va. AELCe ¥ Buggins and J. Foney Cunning- driving home at night from Bum. t Bridge, Del, went through an open draw and both were killed George hile ¢ The annual meating of the Shipbuilding FPhiladeiphia, and & 4 1:}{ per . declared. William William Cramg NDPALY Was uarteriy dividend held in cent Ingram, eo f th red Va., ¢ ye killing « ier, and sentenced 10 On¢ JR, ort, Ky. issued { lormes Cantriil Judge r warrant r a bench arrest © Tnfigers sslhii 8. nesistant pend Captain W. T. bi tendent of the Virginia stats in Richn 4 Constable Hurrican rnd Nangemoy su perin- tentiary lied at kis home had haunt in interfercuoce, The great solar ec the ti litions at Pinehurst, { the re 61 iversiiies had whom ai GLUSUA! BUCOeEss IL South, The goversme Barnesville, Ga., and Johns Hopkins 1 the latter place, expeditions at pecured good phot sefantific data, niversity had olserre and other un Yarious § graphs and ince, all of usable Judge Morrow, of the United States Co San Pranciseo, gravted an injunction t vent health authorities from diserimins against the Chinese in precatlions the plague. Bishop Moore, of f Bt. Ax urt, opre atiog against be Roman Catholie Dio Fia., was stricken in Allegheny, Pa ore was broughtto Phil- m the site of ‘ ig ustine while preaching a sermon A cargo of pur sdeiphin that ha the ancient city « Fire in Houghten Overcoine, Henry K. List, § of Wheellng, W. Va, died at tk JE oe > been dug fr¢ {f Telmessus, the Hecla branch mine One of the men was broke out in Miel ity Bank age of sev- resident of the © © unty, Utah Sheri a were killed Jan Jenkins, a outiaws, nilis of the York Haven York Haven, Pa. were f Grant e« owner ff Tyler, ¢ callie Paper Com- destroyed Mrs Frank Wilson, the largest woman in Pennsylvania, died at ber bome in Easton, John C. Cass was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment in 1 Mass. for robbery. An elephant from the train New Jersey. Judge G. W. Jeffers, judge of the Munici- rt in Wheeling, W. Va, and formerly mayor, was found dead in his law office. He bad been missed for more that a week, and a sonrch revealed his decomposed remains it & room in the rear of his office. At the anniversary meeting of the Ameri ean Unitarian Association in Boston, a move yuu fell Newark. k's ute lo from circus while Bostic £8 rd for the organization of an international A large foroe of police raided and captured The General Assembly of the Southern ment of a committee to raise a twentieth century million-dollar fund. The Methodist General Conference adopt. in the Book of Discipline. William J. Gilmore, manager asd os of the Auditorium in Philadelphia, sold o his plase and announced his retirement. Louis Ruger, seventy-three years old, was \ arrested in Tuscarora township, Pa. while coining counteriell money, Brother Androw, of St. Mary's College, at Peimont, N. C., was killed by & circular saw while sawing wood, Timothy B. Blackstone, dent of the Chicago and Alton Company, died in Chicago. Chicago police state that one of two men arrested in Loipsic, Germany, charged with stealing gems valued at $15,000, is Charles Woodward, with many alinsss, known ss the “diamosd swallower,” who, in his no- torious carver, has stolen half a mililon dol lars’ worth of diamonds, It was reported that the Kentucky Demo. crats bad planned to kidnap in Indiana and take to Kentucky a witness very important in the Goebel assassination onse, Three bank burglars dynamited the South Perwick (Me) National Bank, but were frightened off by a whistle blown by a woman (0 attract the police. Rev, ©. W. oul Chri, a Htpoka, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church olyoke, Radke was dismissed after baviog confessed in. dulging in dissipationn, James Fitzharris and J i Irish Invinelbles who arrived in New York : 2 1 and a EN : were ordered to be deported. Ww New York Oity Chapter of the Daugh- of the Revolution decorated the A ne formerly presi Railrosd
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