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THETlRlBUNEl AS A LARBERlON A FIDE GIRGOLATION AONGANTONlNESSy EN THAN ANY OTHEB joRNG PAPER
INTELLIGENCE OF
'.EftSp WAR
Further Particulars or tba Naval Engagement
Between Clilnese and Japs.
chin:s: stubbornly r:sist:d
The Japanese Army and Navy Re
serves Have Been Summoned Into
Service Korea's King Appeals in
Vain for Aid from European Powers.
Japanese Ships Have Again Been
Fired Upon from Shore China In
sists That War Has Not Been De
clared. ,
London, July 29.
THE Central News has this dispatch
from Shanuhi: "The Chinese war
ship Tsao-Khan, which was cap
tured by a Japunese war ship oil
the coast of Round Island, is a vessel of
an oboleto model and was equipped
poorly for fighting. Although complete
ly outuutcbed by the Japanese cruiser,
the troopship offered som'i resistance
. and lost fully a hundred men, bille t
yand wounded, before she yielded. She
was entirely disabled whou the Japan
ese boarded her.
"The troopship Kow Shung tried to
get awsy as soon as the Japaness war
Bhips began their attack, and made only
a weuk ruuning fight. The Japanese
swept her deck aud carried off tne
Chinese soldiers by the score. The
latest estimate of the number aboard
her is 1,700. Only forty survivad the
foundenmr of the ship. They say that
all ber officers were killed before she
went down
The announcement that the rest of
the Chinese transports arrived safely
at Korea and landed their men is con
firmed. Oil the twenty-seventh the
Japanese tusiladod heavily those who
'had landed 0:1 the twenty sixth at Ya
chan. The Japanes3 officers hoped thus
to prevent the junction of the Ciiinete
with the Koreans near S'unl. Whetlur
they accomplished their object is not
known.
CONCENTBATINQ TR0OP3 AT TAKE.
"No uews of the hostilities can be
oViifi4d from Pekin. Code messages
nrtruftst'l ul the ic-legraph officer and
11 I finer ir,eaSHi(t'S referring to current
iihWs t,re scco;iled. The outlaying
btiitultoMS of the northern army are
concentrating rapidly at Takn. 'the
rendezvous from which the regiments
are mVrkeil for Korea,
"Tuo work of preparing harbor de
fences here advances rapidly. Tor
pedo.s arebotag laid in the north chan
nel at the entrance of the Yang Tse
Kiang. Great quantities of ammuni
tion have been purchased by the gov
ernment and are being collected at the
ports for shipment. The exportation
of riej aud grain bus teen prohibited.
Trade is paralyz;d,
"The costing steamers and small
crafts are afraid to leave the harbors.
Wltiio tveryt'iing luoks and sounds
like war, the Chinese officials continue,
to ni.iin' ilia that war has not been de
clare.!." T.-e Central News says that in offi
cial circles h.e there is a strong fuel
ing in f.ior of meditation 011 the part
of tits Ui.U'd State", although, few be
lieve thut Japan and Chin would ao
copt arbitration unless under consider
able pressure,
CHINESE VACATE JAPAN.
Yokoiioma, July 29. The army and
nnvy reserves have beeu summoned
into service. Chinese residents of
Japan are fleeing in large nnmbers.
Reliable news has reaohed Tokio that
the mum body of Chinese troops crossed
the r.-nthwestern frontier of Korea on
July 25.
In official circles everybody is con
! vinced that China's recent negotiations
were a were subterfuge to gain time
nnd c.iie'nlrate her forcs with a view
toe mining with the Koreans for an
attack. It is rep-irted that the Japanese
ships have been fired on attain from the
shore.
Siiammai, July 29. The British
cruiser Porpoise sailed from Ciiefoo to
day to protect British interests in
Korea.
The Japanese minister in Seoul re
quested the king, before his capture, to
demand the withdrawal of Caines
troops from Korea. He receded and
tlrVreupon tiiH Japanese troop ad
vanced upon Seoul. After a brief en
counter they routed the Koreans and
menpied the royal poltice. The king
appealed to tho representatives of Eu
ropean powers, but in Tain.
EGD1ES KAKGLED BY RATS.
Remains of Boji Who Have Been Min
ing Since Thurtday DUoo7a-d.
Hartford, Conn., July 29 The
three Quinan ohildrsn, who strayed
away from their home on Broad street,
this city, Thursday afternoon, have
been found, nnd all three are dead.
Chief of Police Bill gave orders this
morning that all cars about the depot
and tho freight yards bo thoroughly
eearehed." A few minutes nftsr 10
o'clock pol. -smen who had been search
ing cars in tue yard of the New York,
NewHsvenand Hartford railroad for'
about two hours same to a ca
boose from which sickeniug odors
came. They burst open the
door and the steneb, which bud beeu
strong before, became almost over
whelming. Keeping on at their work
of investigation the officers traced tho
smell to the closet which the traium-m
use as a clothes press, and breaking
open the door they found tbe throo
little bodies, naked and mangled by
rats.
' Freddip, the 4 year-old, lay at th
bottom. On him was Raymond, 9
years old, and on top of both was Leroy,
7 years old. Under the three bodies
wi re the fotr garments the boys wore
when they left home. At the autopsy
this afternoon nothing was found to
indicate Violence. The condition of
the lunjjs indicated death by suffoca
tion, and the ubeuc of effusion and
other marks about the neck precluded
tbe suspicion of strangulation.
The theory is that the little Mows
ran iuto tbe, car to bide from a pissing
policeman Thursday afternoon and that
the door of tbe elosat elosed and caught
thorn in with the spring lock. The
closet is fiv feet hiu, and its fl ier
space is 23 by 15 inches. It is
impossible that the little boys could
have lived long in such a confined
space, and the doetors tbink thoy be
came unconscious in about fifteen min
utes, and that they did uot live more
than fifty minutes after the door was
locked on them. It 1b supposed that
the three boys had taken off their
clothes to play going in swimmiug,
as that idea was in their minds when
thsy left homo.
TENT AUDIENCE DRENCHEO. .
A ThouiBid People Thrown Iito a Panic
at Welliboro.
Wellsboro, Pa., July 29. A violent
thunderstorm in this place last night
damaged crops and inuoh property.
Two farm barns end a dwelling which
were struck by lightning have been
burned, A dramatic perforinauce was
going on in n tent bete and the wind
split the canvas and the audience of
1,000 persons were drenched and thrown
into a panic
Women folnted, children screamed
nnd men rushed for the exit and pan
demonium reigned while the rain fell
in sheets aud tbe lightning was inces
sant. Fortunately no one was seriously
injured.
THE PLWElNTHlNA.
Novel Methods That Have Been
Adopted in Canton for Check
ing the Disease.
Washington, July 29. Several re
ports regardiug the ' plague in Uhlna
have been received at tbe Marine hos
pital bureau. Secretary Den by, of the
Unlteu fctates legation, says tnat at
Canton a novel and thoroughly
Chinese method of checking the
disease was bit upon. A for
tune teller, having given out that
the plague would uie away with
the approach of tbe spring eollstice,
the people of Canton, iu order to de
ceive the gods of sicknens, made the
first dy of tuo fourth moon (Muy 0),
their New Year's dayj every ceremony
by which the day is celebrated whs
gone through with scrupulous exacti
tude. The local authorities assisted in
this fareicl performance. The New
Year's festivities in tbe presence of
such widespread death, had a some
what ghastly character.
Consul Seymour, writing from Can
ton, says everything continu '9 iu wild
confusion. Business is almost suspend
ed, be has been in nearly all parts of
Canton during tbe plague, and has re
mained at bis post through it all and
is persuaded that with the observance
of proper precaution, especially in
securing a snpply of pure water for
cooking and washing and for flushing
drains in time of drought, there should
and would be no such thlug as this
plague, except where the natives, in
congested localities, cause pollution of
air by overcrowding and blth and vio
lation of sanitary conditions for safety.
During all of tbe plague heathen
processions have constantly marched
through tbe streets of Canton through
out tbe night, pounding gongs, explod
ing firecrackers, exposiug Uols uml
other similar dolngs.eupported by con
tributions from the shopi and stores, to
propitiate the evil spirits and to dis
perse the adverse elements.
A SENATOR SET FREE.
Acouitd cf Forgery, He Ccnvlnoea the
Govsrnor of Bit Innocenct
Lansino, Mich., July 29. Governor
Rich has refused to grant tho requisi
tion of the governor of California for
the extradition of Alonzo J. White
man, the ex-senator from Wisconsin,
who was charged with forgery.
It was proved to the satisiaction of
the governor, by testimony of business
men in Howell, Mich., that the signa
ture that was alleged to bnve been
forged by Wbitemnn was genuine.
Whitemau will be given his liberty.
GOGEBIC STRIKE OFF.
After an Idlenes of Six Weeks
the
Miner. Betuma Work.
Ironwood, Mich., July 29. Tne
miners strike in tbe (iogebiu range was
declared off today after an idlem ss of
six weeks ami a loss to tne working,
men of $100,000, and tin additional tax
to the county of $50,000.
The militia will leave bore tomor
row. FftLfiKi OF OLD SCL.
In the Iron mouutaiu, Michigan, it stood
at 100 in tbe shade.
At Huron, S. D., the mercury went up
to 108 degrees in tho shade.
In camp at Peeksklll, N. Y it was 104
degrees. One private was prostrated.
At Elizabeth; N. J., with the mercury nt
Wi degrees men snnpiy wouiun't work.
Eighteen prostrations aud one death
formed Brooklyn's tribute to the wentber
clerk.
At Hannibal, Mo., and Davenport, la,,
the thermometer registered an even 10U
degrees.
At Omaha, Yankton and Sioux City, 100
degrees In tbe shade was tbe top notch of
the torrid wave
Three persons were killed and ten pros
trated in Philadelphia Buturduy by the
beat. Tbe thermometer rogintereu Vi oe
grees.
Gotham on Saturday sweltered to the
tune of degrees. One man was killed
by sunstroke una ten persons were pro
tinted,
Even at Marquette, Mich.,and La Crosse,
it was 100 deiiiees. while at Oreeu Bay,
til, Paul, Alpena and Rochester it was US
aogrooj.
Even Germany sizzled. A dispatch from
Berlin says hundreds wero overcome.
whilo outdoor work bus been generally
Buspeuuea.
Twenty-flve employes of the WllliamB-
onig, j. x( sugar retluery were overcome
by the heat Saturday aud the establish
ment had to close.
The Wilkes-Barro weather editor puts
omuruiij lornuuy iu mac city at iu de
grees In tho shade, and says it was too hot
lor tbe people even to attend a circus.
Tbe Louisville Courier-Journal. Henri
Wattersou's paper, had mude an offer ot
i.ouu 10 tne subscriber who could In ad
vance name the oouest day in August;
but this tnuipnge of Old Bol settled it and
the offer is withdrawn. A November elea-
tiou guessing contest bus been subsiituted,
I an ofieriliiz cooler unnrt fnr I
TEMPERATURE IS
. AIDING TARIFF
Obstinate Extremists Cannot Hold Out
Against the H:at
EARLY AGREEMENT LOCKED FCR
Compromises Will Be Forced by the
Sultry Weather and It Is Predicted
That the Bill Will Be Rescued from
Chaos This Week Appropriation
Measures to Be Considered The
House of Representatives Will
Simply Drift Tho Springer Bill
Recommended.
Wakiiinoton, D. C. July 29.
THE torrid heat is aiding the tariff
compromisers. Extremists find
thoir obstinacy wilting with
their shirt collars. Senator
Joues. who has bad the laboring oar on
the tariff bill on tbe senate side ever
since it loft the bouse, Is fairly confi
dent thut an agreement of Borne sort
will be reached this week. Whether
the debate which will then follow will
be brief or indefinitely protracted will
depend entirely uoou the nature of the
nport presented by the conferees.
Omitting the tariff bill from the cal
culation as to what may take place,
there is every indication that tho end
of tbe week will see all the appropria
tion bills safely out of the way. Mr.
Cockrell, chairman of the senate coui
mitteo on appropriations, expects to
get the sundry civil bill, that vehicle
which carries everything uot otherwise
provided for, ont of the committee
room by Monday night to be reported
Tuesday morning. Ho will call it up
at once for consideration. This' will
complete the appropriation bills, and
leave tbe senate free to discuss tariff
or to threaten adjournment if delays
are interposed.
It may be that tne Cuineso treaty
will get its day in court, but there does
not appear to be much interest iu
treaties just new, und this purticuliir
treaty seems to have more active
euemies than friends.
the house 13 waiting.
Drifting is the only word that will
now accurately describe the coudition
of affairs in the house of representa
tives. All tbe business which the man
agers feel it is iu any wise essential for
record purposes to pass nt tnis session
ot congress has already been disposed of
und they are now simply waiting on the
conference committees to give tliem un
opportunity to settle the differences
between the two branches over those
measures upon which the house has
already once passed. No programme
has been arranged tor next week, fur
ther than that Wednesday will be de
voted to the Moore-Fuuston contested
election case from Kiuaas. Moore is
a Democrat, aiming to get Fuuston's
seat, and the uuij irity of the commit
tee have reported in his favor.
Constantino J. Erdman, of Pennsyl
vania, from the committee on labor,
in an elaborate' report, recommending
the passage of the Springer bill creat
ing a national board for tin aroitratiou
of controversies between employes uud
their employers, says that the bill does
not assume to compel arbitration wh-ro
neither party to the controversy is will
ing to submit its case. No new penal
ties are imposed or now riijuts or privi
leges granted.
THfiirGflVSWflY.
Large Crowd at bu quibanaa l'reolpi
tatcd Into Drinker Crk.
Svcciai to the ticrnntvn Tribune.
Hallstbad, Pa., July 29. List even
ing about 7 lid o'clocK u terrible acci
dent occurred on Main street, Sutquu
hnnnn. A free entertainment had been
advertised to take, place oa the street.
A largo crowd had collected on tbe
Bidnirulk over Drinker creek.
During the otitertuium -nt a section
of tho walk gave way and ISO persons
were precipitated into tho creek below,
a distance or twenty roet. jN one were
killed, but about tuirty-live persons are
reported more or le.ss severely injured
SETTLING FOR THE FUN.
ChlcaBo Called Upon to Pay for Property
DeHtrjyed Durlnif Dtb' Strike.
CliK.'AOO, III., July 29 Large bills
!.r 'inmate to and destruction of rll
ro.-id piopertv by tho strilfi rioters i-re
now uoining in to the ciiy ball. The
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis
railroad h presented a bill which
ucfrri gn'i'R f 440. 001. The largest item
is 1101.091 lor 729 Height enrs destroyed
uuii loriy-two damaged. Eighteen
tlicuuaud dollurs is charged for lading
74 cars.
Tho Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chi-
coo has preseuteil a bill of ifl.li)7.
Tun largest Item is for rotirtom ireiinit
cars d stroyed and fifty oigbt damaged,
514,'i'Ji mayor UMptciu smiled wun
shown the bill's and merely roplied:
"Wait until we g-.-t through with
them.
SANTA FC MlN MaV STRIKE.
1 he Entire System muv po Tied TJo If a
CiieiUrls Not withdrawn.
Kansas City, July 29. It isreparted
that the Santa Fe railroad may be in
volved in another strike wilhiu forty
eiilit hours along the whole svstem
The engineers, liremun and conductors
are to walk out unless the circular is
sued some days ago, statiug that all
contracts would soou bo abrogated, is
withdrawn.
The men fear a cut in salaries und
say thuy will not submit to it.
NiW MEXICO'S GOLD STRIKE.
Prosptolor. Are Fl. oktne to ,lhe Pinos
Alto. Eistitot. '
Silver City, July 29. A gold strike
h is been Tumid iu the Pinos Altos dis
trict, which promises to be the richest
made io New Mexico. The strike is
ibout two miles from the big gold
mines which are now being worked at
Pinos Alios, and hundreds of prospeo
tors have gone over the grounds since
the c imp of Pinos Altos was struck iu
the '00.
The formation is entirely different
where the locatious have been made
this month from that in which millions
of dollars in gold have been found at
Pinos Altos and until this summer
prospectors did not think it worth
while to look for gold tliero.
FIRE HERDS PATHWAY.
Valuable Proptrty Swept Away
by
Fkmu-Loea Over $600,000.
New York, July 29. Tim building
at the Soutbwest corner of Fulton and
Gold streets aud numbered from 83 to
88 Fulton street, was gutted by fire
this afternoon. This building was oc
cupied by various firm Tbe loss will
amount to about $150,000. Tbe follow
ing wore bnrned out: Mondot & Aiken,
restaurant and saloon, S. Burndiohn
dealer in patent medicines; A. Pell &
Co., drapers and tailors: Lehumier &
Bro., steam printers: The L uv Journal
composing rooms; A. Lnunsbury,
manufacturing jeweler; iaircuild
Bros. & Foster, manufacturer of di
gestive ferments, and Charl-s Scbraul-
ze, lithoKraphers, ibe causa of tbe
fire is unknown. r
Bkllb Plain, la., July 29, With the
exception of three buildiugs, the ontire
business portion of this town whs de
stroyed by fire yesterday. Iu all sixty
buildings were burn" I
The loss will be SijO.000, with an in
surance of $150,000.
fiin.irs, Wis.. July 20 At day
break thi.i morning a dense smoke
covered uu urea of forest a hundred
miles square, und the center was this
desolate, fire swept little citv. More
than 2,500 persons nave Had into
the forests or to the village near
by. The town this morniug wns a
heap of ruins, and the smoke was so
dense that the headlight of a locomo
tive could not be seen fifty feet away.
Tnreo reliof trains reached Philips
soon after G o'clock this morning.
One was in charge of Oov.
Ueorsre W. Peck and bis stuff.
Through the dense smoke Governor
Peck started out on u tour of inspec
tion, lie soon found two heavy walls of
masonry whiuu marked the place
where two bunks had stood. Oa in
quiry it was learned that the vaults of
tuo banks contained $52,090 and Gover
nor Peck immediately swore in a dozm
men to guard tbe money in the vaults.
Thoy were armed with Winchester
rifl.'S and ordered to remain on duty iu
tbe two siurts day and merit.
The loss by the great conflagration in
its entirely is difficult to estimate. Out
of 8U0 liuildiugs in the town ouly S7 re
in tin. lue Davis Lumber company lost
$500,000, fully insured. There is no
way of estimating the number of lives
lost iu tbe hre, and even after forty-
eight hours bud passed no one tun be
found who ventures an opinion of the
loss ot life. VVbeii tbe people 11. 'd be
fore the wave ot lire they became sep
arated and can give no account of each
other. It is knowu that sixteen per
sons perished on the raft that burned
in the bayou. A bridge or trestle
crossed the bayou and when the sup
ports of this bridge were burned away
it fell. Women and children were
crossing at the time aud some must
have perished.
JAiHES MULLIGAN DEAD.
Mulligan Letters Episode Recalled.
His Adventitious Connection with
Political Career of Blaine.
Maynard, Mass., July 29. James
Mulligan, of ".Mulligan Letters fame,
who figured prominently in the politi
cal career of James G. Blaine, died
here yesterday morning from general
debility.
Mulligan was born in the north of
Ireland nearly eighty yuara ago, lie
came to this country when be was 15
years old, nnd was first employed in a
grocery store in Iioxbury. Later be
bad h store of his own at Prentice and
Tremotit streets. In 1S51 he bssame
the confidential bookkoop"r of a weal
thy merchant in North Market street.
wIiobs sister James G. Blaine married.
As the confidential man of this mer
chant, Mr. Mulligan knew Mr. Blaine
intimately.
In 18G5 Mr. Mulligan went into busi
ness with Warren A. Fisher, Jr., and
Aquila Adams, in the Adams Sugar
refinery, He was employed as their
confidential mauairer. While he was
with the A'lnms auxar refinery Warrou
FiHhpr, Jr., contracted to build
the Fort Smith and Little Rock rail
road, and Mr. Blaiie was said to be
concerned in some way with tho pro
motion of the enterprise. At this time
Mr. Blaine had become a conspicuous
figure in National politics. His rela
Hons with Mr. Mulligan bud been
necessarily close, uud in fact
many important transactions were
conducted through tbe conn. Initial
manager. At this period Warren Fisher,
Jr., died. He was a man of lurue
wealth, and Mulligan was directed to
take charge of bis estates. In IS it) the
Fort Smith und Little Rocic railroad
enterprise went to pieces. In tbe con
gressional investigations thut followed
Mr. Blaine went to Mulligan to get tbe
letters that bad been written. What
followed is a matter of history. When
Mulligan loft the refinery be was via
ployed by Arthur Cheney as confi
dential manager of the Ulooe theatre
In lute years he bad devoted himself to
mnnsging large estates. lie was
taciturn and eccentric He was small
in stature and weighed less than 100
pounds.
A STRANGE DISEASE.
D ctors Call It filaok trysipalat, but
Cannot Cop. with It.
Alliance. Jn'y 29 A strange dis
ease-, which buffi is the skill cf phy
sicians, has caused the death of three
rpHideuts of Minerva, ten miles south
of this citv. within ture weens. John
Morebead was the first victim, the doc
tors pronouncing bis case blood poison
ing. Joseph Poorinau, the seeond vic
tim, was Purled juonasy. uooiors
from Canton and this city ware called
in consultation and pronounced bis case
black erysipelas, but tbty were unable
to treat it with spesess. Mrs. Levi
Pennock, who assisted in taking care
of Poorman, bad a sore finger. She
contracted tbe disease, from the rssult
of which she died, her funeral taking
place today.
FATAL BOILER
EXPLOSION
Three Men Killed in an Accident at Shenan
doah Mines.
BOILER HOUSE BADLY WRECKED.
By the Explosion of a Boiler in a Nest
of Six at Packer's No. 4 Colliery
John Miller Is Instantly Kiilcd and
Darby Shields and John Laubock
Die from Effects of Wounds Re
ceivedThe Men Were Hurled
Through the Air by Force of Escap
ing Steam.
Shenandoah, Ph., July 29.
BY THE explosion of a boiler in a
nest ot six nt Packer's No. 4
colliery of th Lsliigh Valley
Coil company last night, one
mail was instantly killed, two so badly
hurt that thoy have since died, aud one
seriously burned.
TUB DEAD.
John Miller, aged 45, leaves a wife aud
finally.
Dahisy Shields, aged 44, leaves a wife aud
family.
John Laudock, 25 years, siusle.
the injured.
Steve Salisky, u Pole, seriously burned.
The cause of tbe ixpiorion is not
known. Tbe boilers were in the en
gine room and had been inspected yes
terday, and tbe man were engaged in
making the slo.itn plpo nttins an I sot
ting ready to fire np when the explosion
occurred. The men were hurled in
every direction and the boiler bouse
wracked by the force of the explosiou.
Miller was instantly killed und
Shields und Laubeck so terribly burned
that they died today.
THE BRIDGE COLLAPSED.
Twj Epaus Give Way, Wrecking a
Freight Train.
Bradford, Ph., July 29 As a
freight train consisting of seven louded
cars and some eighty emptios en-route
from Buffalo south on the Buffalo,
Rochester and Pittshnrg railroad was
passing ever the bridge nt Carroll ton,
N. Y., this mowing, two spans of the
bridge gave way and fourteen ears
went down on top of. each other. It
will take several days to clear tho
wreck.
The Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
burg trains are using the tracks of the
Etie from Salamanci to Limestone, N.
Y. The loss will approximate 50,
000. A crowded excursion traiti irom
Bradford to Silver Lake was due to
cross tbe bridge shortly after the
freight train met with the accident.
No oue was injured.
RECOVERED HER SPEECH.
Eleotriclty Aide la Nuking One Woman
Solis-bUd.
flnAvniT. N. J . .iulv 29 Mrs Frunivn
D. Loiton last March caught a severe
cold and narllv lost her susech. Nearly
every physician here we consulted.
Finding their etlorts useless, Mrs. L ir
ton decided to consult a specialist.
Tha .neniuliMr. inserted a etniLll nnnner
wire in Mrs. Lortou's throat, turned on
tue curreut and told nor to speuu.
"Yon'll bn iib mueh anrnruod as if T
do speak," said Mrs. Lirton in her nat
ural votes, sue euuid tiarJiy believe
herself, and Is now us Weil us ever she
wua Tha doctor explained after the
oporation that a shook of some kind
was the ouly moans of restoring her
speech.
ASSASSINS AT WORK.
Cowardly Thus. Go Gunning- for Non
Union Workmen.
Danville, III., July 29 Shooting at
nou-nuiou men in the Eastern Illinois
yards at Danville Junction is a pastime
of almost nightly occurrence. Joe
Byrnti, an engineer, was shot lust
cveniug and died from the effects of
the wound at noon today at Sc. Eliza
beth hospital.
His engine was crossing Fairfield
street when a man standing on tho
sidewalk but a few feet distuut dollh
irately fired four shots out of bis re
volver into the cab of the engine. The
murder walked , away and escaped.
Neither Byrnes uor his fireman knew
the assailant.
SEED TIME AND HARVEST.
Ccnnrreaemen Get More Money to Spand
for Garden S-eds.
Washington, July 29 The great
question of tne distribution of seeds by
members of congress to thoir rural
constituents, bus beeu settled by the
conferees on the agricultural appro
priation bill on a baois which will se
cure tho most extensive dissemination,
of the seeds with the least trouble to
congressmen.
As the bill will fiually pass reported
from the conferouce it will compel
Secretary Morton to buve disseminated
$109,000 worth of agricultural seeds.
FAIRLY R-ISiO A MOUNTAIN.
Quarrymon Lift 12,000 Tone of Reck by
Immenee Cburjn of Dynaml e.
Allentown, July 29. Twelve thou
sand tons of rock were loosened by a
bliist made in a quarry iu Egyp', this
county, yesterday morning. Twenty
two holes wero bored into the side of
the mountain aggregating 190 feet, and
into the boles was placed a ton and a
bulf of dynamite.
The whole mountuin was raUcd sev
eral feet into tho sir aud fell back
ugain.
HOMESTEAD STRIKE ECHO.
Knights of Labor Alter the Political
Eoalp of rtouarreaeman Oatea.
Omaha. July 29. The Knights of
Labor general executive board is pre
paring an opsn letter to the voters of
Alahama, giving Congressman OMes'
record as chairman ot the Homestead
strike sub committee.
It is aliened be furnished the Pinker-
tens with a oopyot tbe Knights of
Labor charges against them and other
wise aided thorn in their defense, act
ing mor as counsel for the Carnegie
company uud tho Pinkertons than as a
disinterested servaut of the poopli.
Omaha Knights have called organized
labor of Nebraska to a political conven
tion August 11.
ELOPEMENT POSTPONED.
Prepared to Km Away with One Lover.
Capiurod by A nether.
ritiNCETON, Ky., July 29. Dolly
Jones, of Laura Furnace, Trigir county,
arranged to elope with ber lover, Jo
seph Colston, naming tlio tims. Cas
siusllicks, a rival, overheard the ar-
rungi mjnt.and ou tne night appointed,
wilii the ui I of a coufe lerato, deeiyed
Miss Jones to bis own biugy,
and forcing her to enter, drove
her to the. home of her frleud, where
for ten days she was kept a prisoner.
each day rofusing Hicks' daily proposal
01 marriage.
Meantime notice was conveyed to ber
father, who hastened with an armed
posae to release bis daughter. Her
captors ignomiuioualy lied, aud now
Miss Jones is to marry Colston without
an elopement.
RESULT CF A FREE FIGHT. '
Rhinehardt Jacobs an Inquisitive
Spectator, Receives a Charge of
Shot in His Limbs.
Flitcialto the tkranlon TVifcan
Forest City. Pa, July 29. Rhine
hardt Jacobs, the proprietor of the
bakery In the Bu 11 block, cnino nosr
losinu bis life yesterday. Mr. Jacobs
was in the vicinity of tho Northwest
breuker or that part of the terrestrial
creation known us "Moukey Run," or
more properly speaking Simpson, 011
the day meutiouod Bulling bis baked
stuffs. Atone of the drinking places
there a row was in progress uud Mr.
Jacobs was an on looker.
The row had reached that point
where Untie encounters did not settle
nil differences: so oue of tbe party in
the coutest seized a shot gun aud dis
charged the wenpin, tho contents of
which struck Mr. Jacob in both legs
and ouo arm. The wounds bled pro
fmely. aud although not of a serious
nature are very painful. Mr. Jacobs
was taken to Carbondale where tho
wounds were dresjed by Dr. Miles.
Upon reaching this place tin- wounds
were again attended to by Dr. F. L
Grander.
The man who did the shooting
claims it was accidental in the strik
ing of tbe Forest City m m and wishes
to settle it and pay all expsuses in
curred. KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Tragedy at a Carrp in Massachusetts.
Dam ana at Various Po-nts.
Pittsfield, Muss., July 29. -After
an excessively warm morning, this
city was visited this afternoon by a
succession of severe thunderstorms,
which killed one man and shocked
several others and wrought havoc
generally. At T'omas island, Onota
Like, George B. Castle, sued 28, was
instantly killed und Charles Johnson,
Heury Wanner and Lena Wagner were
terribly shocked These four, with
Cistle's wife aud Mrs. Smul Wil
liams, have beeu ramping for six weeks.
Shortly before 0 o'clock Custio, John
son, Wagner and Mias Wagner went
out uudera large pine tree, twenty feet
from the cttuge. Tho storm broke
suddenly, ailiili of lightening struck
the tree and nil four fell to the ground.
Castle was iustuntly killed aud tho
other tlireo retidered unconscious.
Johnson recovered in an hour and the
others will come ont nil rignt in tim.
Lightning struck a shed at the fair
grounds iu tho'i'.pp r part of the city,
under which .Murray Sturtevam
and Charles Urqulmrt were taking
refnge, und bom were rendered
unconscious and will be laid up
for some time. Another bo t
struck Pierce's Id ck, on North street,
breaking windows nnd doing other
slight damage. A double- house at the
Junction, owned by Henry Nolde aud
occupied by George Brodies was also
struck, a large bole being torn In the
roof, but the occupants were not in
jured. HOSTILITY TO ENGLAND.
United Statos Said to Kn.p Peace from
Fear rf ih Biitleh Navy.
London, July 29 At a meeting of
the city branch of the Imperial Feder
ation leaguo Mr. D. nison said Canada
would fight ngainst attempts to annex
her to the United States. Grent en
mity, he said, was felt iu the United
States toward England, and only the
better edumited uud higher classes
there wore friendly to great Britain.
The peace was maintained only
tbroiv-'h fear of the British navy uud
5 000.000 Canadians. If France and
Russia should combine against E ig
lind tho United States would join
them. This emphadz.d ths iiecessiiy
of a federation. Canada was prepared
to make great sacrifices for thi, but
she expected help from England.
NEGKOLS ARL STILL SLAVES.
Ida Wells Unites un Earnest Plea for
the Unfortunate.
New York, July 29. Miss Ida WellF,
tho famous Negro lecturer, spoke to an
enthusiastic audience tonight at the
African Methodist Episcopal church
011 Sullivan street. Io was her firi-t
public appearance since she returned
from England where she hail beeu for
the past six mouths delivering lectures
on kynchings in the south. The Eng
lish people, she said, woro astonuded
at the cruelty perpetrated by Ameri
can whites iip iu tbe southern Negro.
She declared that the negroes is not
free today, that he bus been dtprived
of the power of the ballot nnd does not
dare demand justice. In conclusion
she said: "All we ask Is that what is
crime and law to the white man should
be crime and law to the negro."
WEAlliER FORECASI.
Washington. July 29. Forecast
fur l'ennsylvania, local rains,
cooler in eastern iinrfinit, soura-
turst triads. For western l'cnnsulvania,
Showers in southern, fair in northern por
tion, south winds.
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