———————— ——— THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. The remains of nearly all the people killed by the hurricane in Galveston have been disposed of, either by being thrown into the water, burned or bur- fed, There is still danger pesti- lence, however, on account of the large number of unburied dead animals on the island. Three hundred carloads MKINLEY'S LETTER, PRESIDENT'S STATEMENTS OF ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN. . - tt : / DEATH BOLLS 'Y CITIES, “ ii i the tful soverelg slay Many Lives Yost ia Thirty Texas Com. munities Heard ston, (Special) are the towns 1 Texas ravaged by the tornade - A stateme f the umber Ki GUARDED BY SOLDIZRS. | tortie to tn ihe Rumber Galveston, 4600 houses ite- 2 HUNTING FOR DEAD, edu- | STORM VICTIMS BEING BURNED AND gteal | HURIED, im- Wy ii | WILL ACT ALONE, WEARY ity public and to From, habitants ication digpense their the blessings of liberty, and free institutions, | away, leaving them to anarchy or ; | pe rialism A STABLE CURRENCY. THE Follow- JOR PORLION AGREY. TRANSPORTS IN READINESS President MeKinley Has Declded to With. Texas OF WAITING POWERS TO or cities, and of . is hetween the American ver- The American duty and desertion quest mon diet (e- Reign of Crime 1s at an ¥ind 2600 dead of provisions are on the way to Galves tou. The Houston Post prints a list of 2701 names of dead. Thirteen hun- dred refugees from the island have been given temporary shelter in Hous- ton. The explosion of a boiler on the ex cursion steamer Jacob Richtman while returning to Omaha, Neb. panic among the passengers, whom were scalded Mr. Olyphant, president of the Del ware and Hudson Railroad, say no of an famine He also says not hold long John Stansfield accidentally sh and killed Preston Randolph in Richmond, and was ex the coroner's jury immediate the miner is anger out srr lose COlot erated Six vessels were ber of lives lost the Const New Rear I Montgomery retired, died at recently home in Westernville, N. The United ne Workers' tion declared ike in region of Pennsylvania. The 1 cyclone is ked ant in a storm that of foun Admira a str mmmber of now Galveston fast poss tion to prevent break. as ible - » . v Eighty-five have been lo to Texas at day. Most of © $650,000 attle, Many boroug! port er Three nernand struck wages, At Marysv ret i i In the first « + against Ros n Ferrell for } Adams Express Me senger Charles Lone Dr n terror at Huron, Ind. The Rockingham gansett Pler, was losing valuables, The ton lone near on fille, Ohio 1 " " : Ken CETroes Hotel Overland road was "el » Colorado line F. and P I barely passengers were sh A tower of the gition was blown dow Much Pan- property i Great Lakes afloa celebrate dent gratulati Out beginning graphic many property losses mond and Hitchcock each i lives lost. Alta Loma, Arcadia, Ve lagco, Seabrooke jelleville, Arcola and many towns have from one to eight In most place many have improves, it of ar ail additions received. report 16 other dead. these of houses been alone will suffer in actual damage, the loss from stoppage ¢ The International rthern and Santa Fe ha miles of track washed out. and t bridges connecting Galveston i with mainland must } rebuilt Ye 14 e entirely Details from the storm- dis- trict of Texas hourly heartrending , early rumors catastrophes Co swept disclose and the Years munication is yet possible Galveston and the only definite obtained so far has come by the and refugees, ’ In Galveston gathered up taken to sea on barges and there consigned to their last resting place. This action is necessary to protect the survivors from the ground is too wet to permit of dig- ging graves, There seems to be no grounds for the hope that fuller details would show a reduction in the number of lives lost, and a conservative estimate is given at 1000 dead, all told. The property logs is perhaps even higher than at first given. One man was instantly killed, four others are lying at the point of death, and four more are seriously burned. as the result of the explosion of a steam pipe in Baldwins’ Locomotive Works. in Philadelphia. The National Association ot Life Underwriters began its eleventh annu- al convention at Saratoga. President Jas. L. Johnson, of Springfield, Mass. delivered his annual address. The returns from the Maine elec. tion show that the largest Republican majority save one in the history of the State has been cast. Every county but one was carried, and over 1560 out of 181 members of the Legislature were eiected. The Republican plurality is estimated at over 32.000. The strike in the Pennsylvania eonl region has not yet been ordered by the executive committee at Indianapolis, and the opinion is general that trouble may be entirely avoided. The miners are all working, as usual, those who tock their tools out having carried them back. tei tures fea of of one of greatest No te ate boats the rapidly dead are as as The Vital The Nation's Standard - A Recent oliey Viundieated. Before Credit Heview Issue the FYeople Under the Golda of the Country's ihe Expansion Philippine Washington (Sp \ Ham McKinley, re: high office he now holds bi liean National Convention it Philadelphia, has t acceptance the It is part as fx t endoere i notifies in low Executive Mansion nomination of Cony ition on, you wpted pia importan not stop to important will | iccessful purposes Administrat treatment Philippines are not m has no i ‘reedom Republican rests Liberty an doctrine war and were offered 1d billions expended to make it a of all without Blas PIATY party i= which great * he to for lawful onsent of ms: strain of the anxiety tional guarantee Philippines, h openiy advocated may distru have no ri * good faith and patriotism majority of the people who ars opposing them. They may fear worst form of imperialism with the helpless Filipinos in their hands: but f they do it is because they have part ed with the spirit and faith of the fathers and have lost the virility of the founders of the party which they profess to represent. The Republican party doesn’t have assert its devotion to the Declara- tion of Independence. That immortal instrument of the fathers remained un- executed until the people under the lead of the Republican party in the awful clash of battle turned its prom- ises into fulfillment. It wrote into the Constitution the amendments guaran- teeing political equality to American citizenship, and it has never broken them or counseled others in breaking them duct by one set of principles at home and another set in the new territory belonging to the United States, If our opponents would only practice as well as preach the doctrines of Abraham Lincoln, there would be no fear for the safety of our institutions at home, or their frightful influence in any territory over which our flag floats, Empire hac been expelled from Porto Or siave concealed hypocrisy in at ght to fo sisi “ din Jenlons Man's Three Vietims. mirers of Flora Zinn, Howard accom- they were met by Forest, who drew a revolver and instantly killed Howard. The girl fled, but was pursued by For- est, who shot her twice, once through the body and once near the heart, She will probably die, the weapon upon himself and inflicted a {aia wound, will be and ngainst for the Republic against hy and imperialism The country has been the pur il i or duty vriion, gana OVER 5.500000 1, The Country's Enormous Agricaltural Hesoureora “x pex ¥ the i statist chedules made exact informa- ting f« a ~ interes exhib Every person who kee pa sex of the tures of this figures or more cows and dis we have classifi 1 The Hive stock question in the West presented some iculties, but we be lieve that they have been successfully digposed of For instance, you can that cattle on the range might be in ofie State to-day and somewhere else to-morrow, as they not only travel on the hoof extensively, but are also transported from one grazing ground to the other by the railroads. ‘In addition to the above many other valuable facts regarding the economic and social position of the cultivators the =oil are included in our in- EQ Gift to Washington and Lee. Parkersburg, W. Va. (Special). Mra. Virginia B. Hamilton bas given an en- dowment fund of $10.000 to Washing ton and Lee University as a memorial of her late son, John H. Hamilton, su- perintendent of the Ohlo River Rail. road, who was killed in the terrible Fourth of July explosion, and who was an alumnus of that institution. It will scholarship. i FIELD QF LABOR Pekin has no manufactures, Japan has 3000 union printers. i There are union label suspenders. Dogs wear shoes in the Klondike, "Frisco has 15,000 Chinese domestics. Hamburg taxes dogs according to | wige, | Japanese coal “is equal to Ameri- |; Cleveland newsboys are in the t Seven out of eight loaves of bread eaten in London are made of foreign | wheat. i | The Hospital to Be Established at Hou ton 2700 Names on the Roll of Lives Lost Communication Being Rapidly Restored Bringing Order Out of Chaos. (01 names compiled from the | CieaAn 1d car giro anime from the {45 ro add "HEI RALIOT RELIEF FUND REACHES 81,000,000 Has Aimost Thar Amount in Hand. Texas al) lief of yeaton Texas' Covernor {Bp the regatos amount is it y hands of who the work of expending it for food, supplies ind other relief measures, The Governor will not give out publication an itemized list of the con. tributions for several days The fund stiffer. HOW $1.000.000 Moat of tl agg { is (fsovernor direct Sayers, for Two Hundred Washington (Bpecial).--Since they placed In commission, several months ago, 200 enlisted men are said to have deserted from the battleship Kearsarge and Kentucky This unusual proportion of deser- tions has aroused considerable com- ment in vaval circles, but it is ascribed by officials to the fact hat the vessels are new and that the glamour which war always throws about the naval service has disappeared. The encour aging feature about the matter is the fart that of the number of deserters only two were men who had been ene under recommen Desoritons Wore upon Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. The isfactory results from the system, and it in =aid the men, who are educated landamen, so as to bring the enlisted strength up to the limit fixed by law, Womble Not Guilty, Danville, Va. (Special) ~The case of Henry Womble, who shot and killed Troy Conoy, was brought before a special grand jury, and no true bill was returned. Womble was after ward tried in the Police Court and dis- missed, sn Ro Letitea a Wreok, Brookshire, Tex. (Special). ~Letitia i« a wreck. The houses which stood tn the place, including a d have been blown to the ground, and the tim. bers from some of them carried for miles. Mrs. Sophia Schulte, formerly of Honston. was killed, buildings destroved: Houston, 4 20 inj damage, Dicking dead, ured 45 on, FIGHIY- Iv: DEAL. Another Storm. Horror Reported $.. Tex: d Bolivs were mi Ar ab Ons Ons rat MINSTRELS IN A WRECK. Nine Women Were Killed, and Six Others Were Badly Injured. 11. (Special). ~The incan Clarke cked at « nin ia He Herits on pe Kittie hospital Duncan Clarke, the manager, in probably recover Patrick Patterson was killed, was t hurled the switch stand Etta Patterson, his wife, was horri bly injured, a large piece of wood being driven through her right shoulder. A special train was harried from this city to the scene with Dr. W. W. Gasslead. the company’s physician, and a corps of nurses on board. They did what they could 10 relieve the suffering com- pany. cook. . He struck ana s he was Car the from Negro Lynched in Alabama, Montgomery, Ala. (Special). — Zed Floyd, a negro, was taken from jail at Wetumpka and hanged. Floyd attempted to assault a white woman. FOREIGN ARF Lala perished. President Kruger ig sald to be still about him is known, Mail advices from Australia tell of a series of brutal murders committed by a band of blacks in the country dis- tricte of New South Wales, women be. ing the principal victims. The missing members of the crew of the wrecked steamer Jndra were found on the Arabian coast. By a compromise in the Delagoa Bay Railroad case American claimants will receive half a million dollars, Four men were killed and eighteen injured by the explosion of a gun in the Austrian military maneuvers, Major Marchand started from Prapee for China to represent the French Gove ernment on any international commis. slon. The Portuguese are reinforeing heav- ily their troops on the border in an- ticipation of a rush from the Trans. draw Our All Paris of China, If the Yoreign Governments Lo Nout Agree Upon Flan of Action. Troops Frown Fome Harmonious “p ft of Mexic NATIVES AGAINST NATIVES Fie Hired turning Velunteers. Cable) —As Filipinos May in Places of the cing I hese given have the then homes. operations times done cts work in ted pote tion They have Agu i fiel the ) been used inaido’s soldiers § in { Luzon and hern islands, i In December of last year about £00 i Hlocanos went to Colonel Kennon, at {Cabanatuan, and asked to enlist under the American flag. Colonel Kennon | was granted permission to eniist 50 Hocanos sconis. These men have {| been emploved as road-builders, ra- ! tion-carriers and guides also against against the sont ne REICHMANN HB. Ogu EST, Attache's Dispatch May Mean that Dep Resietance Fig Entirely Onllapsed. Washington (Special). ~The follow. ling dispatch has been received by the | War Department from the United | States Army officer who accompanied | the Boers in their campaigns as mill tary observer Lorenzo Marques-~Events have re { quired the departure of the attaches | from the Transvaal. Reguest lnstroes { tions. REICHMANN This message ip interpreted at the Department to wean the complete cole | lapse of the Boer résistance to Enge land. Captain Reichmann has been cabled permission to start at once for the United States, Secretary Hoot TL Southampton, lL. L (Special). ~Hon. Elihu Root, Becretary of War. is re- covering from an operation for the removal of a carbuncle on his breast which he underwent at his cottage here. The operation was intensely painful. The carbuncle was deeply imbedded and the surrounding tissues were badly inflamed. However, the operation was prutdunced entirely successful. Mr oot has beet advised to remain quiet for several days, and it is probable that he will remain in bis cottage seve eral works. a
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