RIVER STEAMER The City of Golconda Struck by a Squall During a Severe Storm. Disaster Occurred While Supper Was Being Served and Many of the Passengers Were Without Warning and There Was No Time for Those On the Inside te Escape. Paducah, Ky. (Special).—~The steam- City of Golconda plying between city and Elizabethtown, Ill, was struck by a squall during a storm about p. m. as she was enroute to Paducah She turned over in ten feet water six miles above the city as she was go ing into Crowell’s Landing Sixteen persons are reported drown ed. Their names are: Miss Lucy Barnett, Miss Lizzie Graham and Miss Adams, of Greenville. Mrs. David Adams, of Smithland Messrs. Watts Havis, a farmer Livingston county: Clarence Slavton, of Lola, Ky., and three colored hands. The disaster occurred served, and many of the 75 were in the cabin. The the boat without warning was no time for escape Capt. Jesse Bauer ai Pilot E. E Peck were the leas boat and swam to shore eral persons str left the bank Bauer, w ter the catasiropne, Ol of Smithland. Trixie of deck as supper was passengers ' wind st struck and there those on the inside to Soy SUrviv and no 3 “The boat wa 3 tite reached feet of the men Worten ar Hampton were saved saved a $ Sie was FLYING SHIP SOARED IN AIR Gustave Whitehead Said to Have lovented Traveling Boat. acetylene the air : chine tum on ny travelin shut des mac g } trees directly 209 MILES AN HOUR. Remarkable Speed Is Claimed for Shaped Elevated Cars Ne w York ( Speci: ty With day 8 the of an A born pany stock of tl $100,000 to The of electrical gar-shaped ca on an ele i$ carried to be capable Jour at a present method Dase CRAZED BY A BLUNDER Station Agent Causes a Collision sad Then ! Loses His Reason. Omaha, tation ag rders + ygether « lying in maniac strained struction ence self-reproac throat, but was restraine The trains came together grade, bu: the crews jumped and escaped injury Six Men Killed by Explosion. Little Falls, N. Y. Mohawk Malone roundhouse at Herkimer was Vatchman Gil bert and an engine tender named John the Deck. cinity and members of the bridge-buil mg gang, attempted to extinguish the flames. While they were fighting the fire a large quantity of dynamite stored in the building exploded, killing Gil bert and Deck and four others. The bodies of the four last mentioned are unrecognizable. ot ya { h. tareene «4 On a (Special) The burned, assisted by residents of i 1 i Plucky Engineer. Birmingham (Special). —As the Phil- adelphia express was passing around the high rock just west of here a small slide came down, striking the engine just in front of cab, damaging it to some extent. Engineer John Galagher, of Harrisburg, who was at the throttle. was badly cut about the face by rock and flying glass from the cab window, but he relused to leave his post. and of more han one hundred miles, Southern Iron Trade Birmingham, Ala Southern Iron Committee, to which belong the various railroads in Ala- bama and Tennessee handling the pro plants, has issued its report for July, and the showing is not a bad one, tak- is usually the dullest of the year, The shipments of iron from Alabama and Tennessee for July amounted to 11.754 tons. The shipments of cast iron pipe for July amounted to 15.080 tons. Sua | SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. A syndicate composed of Drexel & | Co.. Brown Bros. & Co. and Harey Fisk & Sons’ Co. has hid $0.022.500 for the $0,000,000 314 per’ cent. water supply tonds of Philadelphia, and the city will accept the bid. Two men were rescued from the wa terworks tunnel at Cleveland, 200 feet under Lake Erie. They were imprisoned there for five days and were supposed to be dead. Seven of the injured by the 14 men furnace department of the Ohio plant of the National Steel Company at Youngs town are dead By the premature explosion of a shell used in target practice at Riley Reserva- tion, Kan., soldier killed and eight injured It is semiofficially announced that | President Hays, of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. has resigned. The American Tinplate Company is now running three mills Cleveland, and expect to soon start others The Russian bark Neptune is thought wrecked off the Fle Coast in the recent storm, The plant of the Americ ory in Richmond, Va., was | 1 50.000, partly r W E. Douglass tal mn HET Of the one Was in to have been rida an Cigar fac urned ] ins Lyuars . Company O! rested in Bost TERE Philadel; ] ack of the ¢ A body ol sect Armenia have been destroyed, ti t and off to harems Owing to poor crops in tions another famine is expected in one third the provinces of European Russia Hugh C. Kelly and Ethel, daughter of Sir Arthur Forwood, swere married in London and started for America Mr. Chamberlain, in replying to a criticism of Sir Williams Vernon Har- court on Lord Kitchener's proclama. tion in the House of Commons, said in regard to the devastation policy, that it was nothing compared with General Sherman's campaign. The editor and publisher of the Lon. Jon Globe has been ardered to appear before the bar of the House of Come mons for accusing Nationalist mem- Kurds been raiding a ive villages mien and boys the young w car- on of i we - ~ 1 yi * murdered men ried certam sec- Of private bill legislation. Over 700 persons, mostly women, im- shicated in the fire a: the harem of the Cifdiz paiace, have been banished from Constantinople to Arabia. Fioancial. The Park Steel Company, of Pitts. burg, has declared the regular monthly ferred stock. tional Bank of Chicago have voted to increase the capitai from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. It is stated that W, K. Vanderbilt has recently invested $8,000,000 in low- priced stocks of the Vanderbilt system, Lincluding 20.0000 shares of Nickel Plate common and an equal amount of Lake STRUCK Three Firemen Dead and Many Hurt in Philadelphia, BiG BENZINE TANK EXPLODES. Lightning Strikes a Tack and Starts a Conflagration at Point Precse~lan a Short Time Four or Five Big faoks of Oil Are in a Blaze--Many Were Injured by Flylag fron. Phladelphia (Special). —During a se clectrical storm lightning struck a lantic Oil Refining Company's works, at Point Breeze, in the southwestern section of the city. Four oil tanks were ignited by the blaze from ben nk the five were de stroved with their contents; also 63.000 barrels of 1 Is of ben Vere benzine tank at the 1 the rine tank and oil and 28.000 barrels zine \Whil endeavor 3 cneck ae hremen fire in a 12 m £ xploded WOXHNIY of were nest Nnesy 10 a an to y the bla ROBBED BY EMPLOYE Secretary of the New York Branch of Swift & Co. Short im Accounts BRITISH SYMPATHY WITH STRIKERS. Congressman Grosvemor Says Eoglishmen Want Our Industries to be Crippled. Prior h EXPECTS BOTHA'S SURRENDER. Father lncredulous Story Published in a Loa: don Paper Concerning the War. CTF FEVER TEST CAUSED A DEATH Spaniard Bitten by an Infected Mosquito Died and Experimcats Stopped. Grecia viel Surgeos fn Was who ted The is a Spamiard, desired to become une and therefore allowed him be bitten by an infected mos quito Another man who was bitten so suffering from a very bad case. I-immuncs an ever bitten by infec f vellow O 18 8i I4 Ships for Morgan? London (By Cable).—It is reported in Glasgow that J. R. Ellerman, of the gaged in the East price being nearly £ 1,000,000 ($5,000, Pierpont Morgan The City Line is owned by George Smith & Sons, of Glasgow. The mor, is acting for J i LIVES LOST IN SHIPWRECK. The Steamer Islander Struck an Iceberg Off Douglass Island, | Victoria, B, C. (Special). —The steam- | er Islander, the crack passenger steamer of the Alaskan route, operated by the | Canadian “Pacific Navigation Company of this city, struck an iceberg off Doug las Island at 2 o'clock Thursday last and went to the bottom, carrying down 65 | to Bo souls, imcluding passengers and | members of the crew. Some of the sur- | vivors arrived here by the steamer Queen. They report that as the vessel went down the boilers exploded, causing the death of many who might have es caped and went down with his steamer Among the passengers lost on the Isl ander were: Mrs. Ross, wife of the gov- ernor of the Yukon Territory, her child and niece; Dr. John Duncan, of this city; W. G, Preston and bride, Seattle F. Mills, Victoria; Mrs. J. C. Hender Victoria: W. H. Keating and two Los Angeles, Cal.: J. V. Douglas, Vancouver; Mrs. Phillips and child, Se- attle; Mr. Tall, Victoria: son, wife of Captain Nicholson The the | Captain gineers SO, Sons, Mrs members of are Foote, George Horace Smith, Pitt two Ching ler and Burke, oilers : Watch pantrvims arber N Crew Allan, 3 1 " All third en SEC( 1 1 cook : fuck Saloon i seCona Miller hb ae and Moran 1 muoer GREAT GULF STORM. The American Steamer Avelyn Goes Ashore at Pepsacola--Many Schooners Sunk. DESTROYERS IN WATER Three New Fighters Launched at Sparrows Point, Near Baltimore. Steel Com STEAMER SINKS PILOT BOAT. James Gordon Bennett Cut Down and Four Men Are Drowged in the American ran down and sank ti lot boat Gordon owned three Bennett Th» ac 1d Lightship, while the pilot boat was ving hove to Sandy Hook bar. about miles east of Sandy Hook When Alene struck the pilot boat the weather was clear The survivors say the German steam- er came bearing down upon their ves- sel and they were totally unable to avoid her CALIFORNIA STAGE HELD UP. one Robber Gets Money asd Valuables From Twenty Passcagers. San Francisco (Special). One man armed with a repeating rifle held up a stage loaded with twenty passengers on the Calistoga and Clear Lake road, some eighty miles north of here. Af! ter taking the express box, the mail | bag and watches and purses of passen- | gers the bandit ordered the stage driv- | er to go on. He got a few hundred | dollars, but the exact amount is not - / ‘ cook Mm ident occurred near the Scot on ten the 146, would have 24 vessels and a ton- nage of over 301,146. Castillo’s Widow is Dead. Madrid (By Cable) ~The widow of Senor Canovas del Castillo, former Pre. mier of Spain, is dead. Senor Canovas Anarchist at the baths of Santa Agueda, at Guesalibar, August 8B, 1897. Cable Service Established. Washington (Special) Cable com. munication has been established be- tween Calapan, on the northern coast of Mindora, and Boar near the west coast of the iland of Marinduque, in the Philippines, : i The highwayman wore a hand- kerchief over his face and had cut holes in it for his eyes. This is the third robbery in this section in the last three weeks, 1818, 5,000 Me on His Trail Sherman, Texas (Special), = The search for Moses Wilder, the hall. breed negro Indian who is said to have murdered Mrs. Caldwell near South Mayd, continues. Posses are covering all the territory from South Mayd, in Grayson county, to Wood. ville, T.. a distance of 100 miles, Several arrests have been made, but the suspects were soon released. Should the negro be run down his fate is not a matter of conjecture. The offi- cers, however, are tania steps against mab violence. Sheriff Shrewsbury says there are 3000 men on the trail, 2 THE FIRST FIGHT Compelled to Retire, Four Thousand Men From of Cucuta, Led by Dr. the Rangel Gar. Massed on the Frontier for the Defense of Venezuela Washington State The Depart ceived a dispatch report Garbias has 4000 men from of Cucuta Everything Venezuelar invaders took pla (Special) has consul Dr. Rangel Venezuela with irontier Of re Do from the ing that vaded { at Maraca 1 in the was done by the ment to meet the The nrst trados and ire fight the invaders 10 ret " 1 } 3 ne invaders took two bust recaptured by th come to Maracaibo Venezuelan 7 a4 the in wing it ix { re neral Diege Bauti Presiden sd erinog dering reierred ¢ on AMERICANS MAKE BIG CAPTURE Colonel Cabrera, an Insurgent Chief, Made Prisoner in the Philippines. BiG STEEL WORKS SOLD. Bethichem Steel Company Likely Passes late Control of the Trust i ru MOB RETREATS BEFORE SHERIFF. Heary Pratt Saved From Lynchers by Plucky Alabama Olficial Was 2% a bragadier Qe neral. ter having declined a coloneley in the regular service. He was postmas Harrisburg during President Johnson's administration, and at the death was connected with the Pennsyl vania State Department Robbers Made a Mistake. Laporte, Ind. (Special). Five armed nen, at 2 o'cock in the morning, tempted to hold up a United States Ex. Own ertest wn req t ier of they made a mistake, however, and held up a baggage wagon robbers secured nothing. Serious Fire ln Peansyivania, Chambetsbury, Pa. (Special) ~The village of Dry Run, Pa., was almost de. stroyed by fire. The fire originated in the Hammond Hotel stable and spread to the hotel, destroying it, together with four stores and six residences. There is no fire apparatus in the town. The loss is estimated at $40,000 partially insured Thirty Pairs of Teachers Married. Carbondale, 111. (Special) Of the got American teachers who sailed on the transport Thomas from San Francisce to Manila 60 of them on reaching Hono lulu were married. The teachers had been chosen from the many normal uni. versities of the country, and were strang. ers to cach other. ' courtship extended over a period of less than ten days. The captain of the Thomas refused to permit their wedding arrival of the transport at Honoluly sought out a clergyman and were mar! ried. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Pension Roll Longer. lay Evans bh showing the ope Pen Year M 0% Comm pared yo iRsioner H { a 4 staicinent ralions in in alures during the las with formes Cala will pared ] be embodied in } annual and the statement J ute of the National Encan the ( 1 Army of the Republic will be held before the report is read I he reared a : tie TAN statement 1901 the shows that on January 07.735 pens if 42006 during ' 1 last fiscal year 0 there { 9 R44 gain o The roll for the were on rol story of the bur During the 44.225 claims restore fi were dropped or Pp > and other To Investigate Philippine Cerrency ik Yas ¥ £ + New Offices in Presidential Class Il ng foursl ; LE}! 3 i » To lavestigate Plant Discase. B. M. Duggar., physiologist vegetable pathological investigation Department of Agriculture been ordered to proceed to point Soutk Carolina, Texas, sissippi and other States to investig: Dr Capital News in General The War Department is in receipt of a list of soldiers who have died since last report in the Philippines The North Atlantic Squadron has been ordered to proceed from Nantucket to Fort Monroe. The Navy Department denies that the South American troubles have any connection with the movements The Treasury Department has decided that a customs duty of five cents a pound shall not be imposed on all coffee im- rted into Porto Rico from the United States, The Navy Department bas announced that it will furnish the counsel of Ad. miral Schley with the list of the govern. ment’s witnesses, “as a courtesy. Captain Perry, of the battleship Towa, now at San Francisco, has ted to the Navy Department that bis vessel could not sail immediately to Panama on account of needed repairs to boilers and machinery. Commissioner Evans, of the Pension Bureau, gave out some figures showing the operations of the bureau during the Jast fiscal year, as compared with former years. The President announced appoint. ments and promotions in the Army and Navy. The gunboat Machias sailed from for Panama,
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