FI RATES CAUGHT.
MORE SEIZURES IXBEIIKIXO SEA
crrnrtnii or mi buck mamond faiici
INTK.NSK r.XCITfMFNT AND INMO
NATION AT VICTORIA.
The steamer Olympaln brought, from Tort
Townsend, Cupt. Alger, of the American
schooner Allio L. Alger, anil one of lila hunt
en, both fresh from Retiring Sea, and the
brought news of importance with them.
TUe Captain was interviewed and said:
"Onthe3oth of July we wero in Retiring
8ea, as nearly as we can judge about fiO
miles went of St. Paul, when we sighted the
cutter Rush steaming up to us on our quur
tor. We at once hove too. .Some miir.iU-s
afterward a bout put off from the Rush, and
Lieut. Tuttle boarded our vessel. He asked
for tn y papers, which I at oneo handed him,
and lifter perusing them ho proceeded with
two men to search the ship. He didn't find
anything, however, though it is Hot to say
there was nothing to find aboard.
"After coming out of the hold, when he
lntd linintieil searching the sliip, I said to
Liutit. Tuttle; 'Well, what luck have you had
in the search." He said: 'I II tell you: On
the 1 ltli of July wo captured the Black Dia
mond and dispatched her to Sitka with a
(nan on !ard to take churgo of Iter. On the
JCU of July we sighted the schooner Minnie.
Hit owner, t'npt. Jucobsoii, wits aboard at
the time, and she had Pl.'i seals. We took
HMe.xsinii of her, and dispatched her to Sitka
also. Yisterday (.nh of July) we bore down
on the l'.ithlindcr and found WW sealskins
aboard of her. We put ai.othel
man uhourd her uud ordered her oil' to Sit
ka us well. IjK week wu boarded both the
Ariel and the Theresa, they ulso had some
kins aboard, but wo let them go, us they
had been toy long there, and ordered them oil
the sea.'
"After telling me this the Lieutenant told
mo I had better get out of the si 'a at unco
uud was then pulled uhoard the cutter which
Leaded lor thu East. Wu then set sail for
the South and arrived Monday at Neah liay.
I left my schooner there and came up from
Caiw Flattery to Tort Townsend. I caught
the Olympian nnd have just reached Victo
ria. My schooner will, I expect, be on tho
road to Seattle now. I leave hero on the
Olympian to rejoin her."
Intense excitement prevails ut present,
Itoth of tho seized schooners are well known
ami their catch is a very valuable one.
Tho Alger had 3i skins when boarded. It
now appears that on the trip down ('apt. Al
ger sighted first the Minnie nnd then the
1'uthlinder, each with ono man as a prize
crew aboard, lioth signaled their intention
of not going to Sitka at all, but of making to
Victoria, so that within '.'I hours we may c.v
ect to see them in the harbor. When Lieut.
Tuttle went uhoard the Alger several of his
men expressed themselves us heartily sick of
their work.
BIO OIL FIRE.
The oil refinery of A. D. Miller Jk Co., on
I'rcble avenue, Allegheny, was totally de
stroyed by lire Wednesday morning. The
Humes from it raged all day and it was
thought at times that tho destruction which
the tiro was causing would extend to other
parts of tho city.
All morning more than half a dozen
(t reams of water were pouring on the llames,
but the) seemed to be ot little avail. In thu
buildings w here the liremeii were ut work
there were stored moro than 'Joo barrels of
benzine which caught tiro from the intense
heat. The firemen made many brave ell'orts
to save thu storing-house, hut they soon
found it was of no avail. Tho whole refinery
is a mass of ruins and nothing was saved ox
tept fi.OoO barrels ol 'refuted oil.
Engineer Thornton Miller was ought in
the llames and burned almost beyond roe
Jgii'.tion. Hi body was recovered, but if it
had not been know n that he was missing it
uevcr could have been ascertained whose
the remains were, lie was burned to a crisp.
Tho p ant and stock was (tituated by Mr.
Miller to lie worth about ? J ,(), on which
there was an insurance o' f.Vnioo. Kd wards
A: Kennedy, who placed tho insurance, said
the loss would fall ulmost entirely upon for
eign companies. Only about two thirds of
theproptrty insure l is destroyed, the bal
ance Hot being in thu tire.
I'OK WRECKING THE TRAIN'.
TWO MKN AIIIIKMTKD AND CONFKSS THAT THEV
I' LAC ED TUB OlMiTUTCTloN.
I'eteetive Goorgi Wheatly, of the I'enn
eylvania Ituilroud, arrested John Wilson
and Weller Dowden, whom ho charges with
having attempted, on July 20, to w reck a
passenger train on tho Mouonguhelu division
of thu Pennsylvania Railroad ncur Lostocu
Htation. The men obstructed tho track by
placing two plunks Hi feet long uud I foo
wide, imbedded in a hill and so placed that
hey extended across both tracks. Thu
tr in came upon the obstruction, and tho
engineer did not see anything on thu track
until within :J yards of thu point of dan
gor. lie did all in his power to stop ,t ho
train, but the speed was so great that t!io en
Kino ran head on over the planks. The train
was derailed but hardly any one was in
jured.
Detective Wheatly was put at work, and,
after a month, locatts) tho men whom ho ur
rested Thursday. Dowden, when arrested,
made a full confos.sion,sayingthut it was the
outcome of a drunken freak. Magistrate
tiripp held the men for trial
A YACHT HQ Ed DOW.V.
The pleasure cru se of the yacht Celt came
to a sudden end l.') miles aouth of Siskowit
Harbor, Islo R-iyale, und tho pleasure seek
ers arrived ut Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, on
the steam barge Samuel M jther.
Tho yacht sprung a leak and sank I
juinutcs afterwurtl. giving tuose on
board scarcely time to take to their yawl
bout. Then began a long pull over laike
8iierior for tho Salt passage, as '.he vicinity
where the shipwreck occurred is not Ire
qucuted hy vessels. After being on the luk
several days they were picked up oil' Oute
Islund by the Mather.
lie occuiuiits of tho yacht were P. M
Denser and wife und N. O. Rodman. The
were bound from Ashilaud on a trip dow
the lakes.
KO DANGER OF A TAS1C
The failures of the past few weeks form a
opto for discussion In manufacturing cir
cles. There have been no further develop
ments regarding the Wauregan factory, and
the trado ia concerned chiefly now in an in
quiry as to its cause and probable effect. It
ia the general opinion In Providence, Rhode
Island, that ruuch of the distrust of manu
facturing paper manifested since the failure,
and eciully by Boston bankers, Is unwar
ranted by fact.
A number of prominent business men
agree in the opinion that the condition of
our cotton goods Industries as a whole it
sound. These failun do not indicate any
unhcalty condition of the trade; the latter is
Considered In good shape, with stocks well
n bund and In some lines contracted far
'ad. In some grades slight concessions
have hriMi made this year, but the business
as a whole Is profitable, and as far as can bo
earned there is no mill doing what is con
sidered a large buslncs, while thero are none
n iinuiicinl strait.
There is good outhortity for tho prediction
that some lliiortuut changes will soon oc
ur in the ull'uirs ot the Atchison, Topeku-
and Santa Fe Railroad. The measures adopt
ed at the htst annual meeting to provide
funds for paying maturing obligations, and
to adjust other diltlculties of the company,
have not turn d out as anticipated, and the
Inst state of the case is likely to bo worse
than the first. In other words, the new di
rectory, w hich was supposed to represent un
limited capital and supervising ability, has
proved to be less effective in both respects
than the old one, and the results lire almost
certain to bring on the upjioiulmcnt of a Re
ceiver for tho proiicrty.
WTRAME RS PEST ROY ED.
ItlVKIt MONSTFtl ANNIHILATE A SMAU
II Mill ill MKVMKIt.
The Coney Island steamer Common.
Wealth, coming down the river, cunio into
lirect collision with the lit'le harbor steam
er Lame Duck, going up the river, Just
piarter of a niilo above tho Newport A Cin
cinnati Railway Itridgo, ami utterly iinnlhi-
itud the Lime Duck. Thero was a crew ol
live men on tho Lame Duck, and lour ol
them were picked up uninjured hy men in
a yawl, (ieorgo It. Alexander, the engineer,
uud the fifth man on the L'ttln cralt, wenl
uider the revolving paddle "vhec'.sof the big
Commonwealth, which was backing,
mi I rnmo fti the surface near the guard of
he b lat, whero a plucky passenger caught
the exhausted engine) r bv the hair ami held
him tip until others could draw him en tin
b iat, whero he was found to lie uninjured.
Tho Lame Duck was valued ut t-ou. The
Commonwealth immediately after the colli
sion discharged her big load ofCotiey Island
passengers and returned to her landing. At
ll:l ", less than an hour ami a half after the
collision, tho line passenger steamer Com
monwealth was on lire. A double fin
alarm sounded, but it was of no use. Tlx
big steamer burned to thu water's edge in
less than three-'piarters of an hour. She it
a total loss. Nobody knows how tho tir
started. Tho loss is about 1:10,000, pretty
well Insured.
THE DYNAMITE GUN3.
(NTKKKSTINO AND lUCCKSSFl'tj TIIAL OF TU1
TKSUVIl'S AUMAMENT
A highly Interesting and successful trial ol
lie pneumatic gun armament of the dyna
liito cruiser Vesuvius was made in the pros
luce of Lieuts. Seotou, Schrocder and Win.
F. l'ullam, of the Navy. Lieut. Schrocdcr Is
o command the Vesuvius as soon as she is
Mil in commission, and Lieut, l'ullam is to
oe second in command.
, lie trial was made in the Delaware river,
lear I'etty's Island. Twelve shots were fired
n ipiick succession, although thero was no
ittempl to attain rap ility ol lire, since mi
vessel was in u tide way an 1 had to bo care
fully p intd before each shot. The projoo
tiles us.sl wero plugs representing the weight
nf thu regulation shell, which is to contain
J) p niti is of high explosive. Tho weight
these p'.ugs was . 1 1 pounds, und some un
tie idine-is in (light was duo to tho fact that
:he center of gravity was not placed as It
would bo in tho regulation shells, which are
perfectly steady in llight und w hicli, there
fore, attain u much greater range. The reg
ulation shells wcr not used in this trial, as
thev are far more expensive than the plugs,
w hich unswer all purposes in experiments.
COLD-RLO()I)i:i) MURDER.
AHAI.OON KKKI-F.lt KII.I.S A MAN TO OCT SIX
Hol.LAKS.
What will probably turn out to be one ot
tho most cold-bloo ie 1 murders ever pen;
tratei in Wisconsin is just coming to light
uttiagen. A stranger went into the suloon
of one Nelson, called for a drink, and exhib
ited a largo roll of bills. Nelson
walked out from behind thu bar and
struck tho man with a shing-slmt
knocking his brains out. Tho only witness
was a man named Hurlow, und Nelson told
him ho would kill him if ho ever told, liar
low made an ultldavit uud Nelson was ar
rested. Nelson buried tho man ut tho buck
door of his saloon and afterward dug him
up und curried him oil' somewhere. Itarlow
says that all Nelson got were six tt bills,
w hich were wrapts-d around a newspaper,
Ho fought doporately when arrested, und
kept using tho expression: "I did not kill
him, but was told to."
DISASTER IS A Ml.VE.
rtVB MIN TKIIIttllLY fl'UNKD BY AN BXTLO
SIO.N or II UK KAMI'.
There was an explos'.on of fire dump Is
tho No. J colliery of the Delaware it Hud
son Canal Company, at Hcranton, Pu. bj
which live men were seriously and perhaps
fatally burned. The No. 2 colliory is one of
the lurgutt breakers oporuted by the Dela
ware & Hudson fuual Company
A portion of the mino caved in,
a gang of men went in to rctuiir the damage,
As they approachfld whero the cave-in oc
curred one of the miner's lamps Ignited the
gas, and a fearful explosion, which could b
heard for miles around, occurred. The work
men lied for their lives and all escaped but
Andrew Nichols, tho superintendent; Rich
ard Mason, the inside foreman, and John
I-avern, Samuel Williams and John Jones,
who wore all tearfully burned. Nichols, who
lives in Scrunton, was the most badly burn
t4, and it is feared he cuuuot live.
ANOTHER WRECK.
THREE KILLED, MANY WOUNDED.
AD COLLISION 01 THI BALTIMOkl A OHIO
kAILBOAD.
A terrible collision occurred on the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad between Petroleum
and Silver Run tunnel, east of Parkersburg,
W. Va., about ''3 miles, In which three men
wero Instantly killed and many wounded.
The accommodation train coming went,
crashed into a special train occupied by rail
road magnates on a tour of inspection neat
Petroleum.
The cause of the wreck Is said to bars been
conflicting telegrams. The one ;reoelved by
Conductor Elannagan and James Layman,
of the accommodation, ordered them to pass
at Petroleum, while the special train, engi
neered by Captain Cephus Rowland, Is said
to have had telegraphic orders to pass the ac
commodation at Silver Run. The result of
these misconstructions was to burl Into
eternity four mon at least and to wound IS
or Li) others.
The trains came together wl h a crash at
the curve east of Petroleum and between
that (xiint und Silver Run. lioth trains were
miming at rapid spec , and when they col
lide I the engine of the special and the en
gine, tender and baggage car of the aoco rn
mo lation went over the clilT In one mass,
James La man, engineer of the accommoda
tion, ono of tho old st engineers in the
employ of tho Haiti more A Ohio Railroad,
was crushed to death. Alexander 11 alley,
firman for Layman on the accomodation,
was also crushed in the wreck of the engines.
Cephus How land, also ono of the oldest en
gineers, was caught under the wreck and
had ono leg broken, and received internal
injuries from which he cannot recover.
John Fletcher, fireman on the special,
w.is also killed. Fletcher stuck to his engine,
and with his helpmate pcrfcrrcd death to do
sertiou of hii post uud went over the bank
in the wreck. Ho was cut and crushed to
death.
The arcial car, occupied by officials on an
Inspecting tour, was smashed into smith
ereens. Koiuimustcr J. a. uutucr was bad
ly injured, together with several others.
(.ieorgo Douglass, in the sauio car, was also
badly injured.
On the accommodation train were many
passengers, all of whom received a terrible
shukiugup.
FLIGHT OP A JUDGE.
COMPELLED TO SF.KK SAFRTT OUTSIDE BIf
OWN DISTRICT.
Wilson Ix-wis, county judge at Harlan
Court House, Ky., has just reached Pine-
villc, seeking lefugo from enemies in bis
own county. W ilson Howard is wanted at
liurlan for the murder of (loorge Turner
near there the day before election, August 4.
The sheritr uud jailer uro relatives of How
ard uud take his sido in tho Howard-Turner
feud. They have so fur refused to arrest
Howard. Judge Icwis went last week with
sKsse to make the arrest himself in time
for court. Ho found Howard surroundoi
by armed friends playing cards.
Shots were exchanged, in which one of
Howard's men was wounded, and George
Hall, of the hhsi, shot several times. Mer
edith and Craig, of the Lewis party, wore
shot on their way back to Harlan, and bad
ly wounded. Two moil w ho wero with them
for a time, were lost sight of and are still
missing. Judge Lewis und those immedi
ately with him wero pursued tor on hour
uud fired uimui several times. There are re-
wurds of$.r,otw from tho Governor of Mis
souri, and t-'ioi) from Governor ltuckuer for
Howard. Ho has about IVJ well-armed men
uboiit him uud docluros ho will not be
taken.
A GANG OF RO It R ERS.
TWO OF Til KM CAl'OIIT, CONFESS TO MKARLY 73
lioiun:ini:s.
For the past fifieen years a well organized
gang of robbers has been oierating in the
southwestern portion of Greene county,
Pennsylvania, und the eastern portion of
Marshal ami Wetel counties, est irginia,
und during ull that time has defied success-
full prosecution. Horses sheep and swine
have been stolen, granaries nnd corn-cribt
robbed, mills broken open uud looto stores
raided and every species of farm niuchiu
cry and other jMirtablo ;projerty
curried off. Many localities
were raided again and again, und for the
past live years tho annoyance bus been nl
most intolerable and the loss great. The
headquarters of the gang was In Pennsylva
nia and everything stolen was hurried over
llio line, Arrests were often made in Greene
county, but there was always enough of the
rusculs to swear suspected comrades out of
tho trouble. Saturday lust David Gorby and
llcsckiah Kemblo woro arrested uud taken
to the Lhtlctowu jail. There Gorby mude a
Confession extending over a rlod of four
teen years, und Including nearly seventy-live
robberies. Four other arrests were ut once
made nnd many others will follow, thor
oughly breuking up tho gang.
AX EXCURSIONIST DROWXED.
Claremsj Young, aged 14, was drowned
while bathing In Herring Lake, tlvo miles
south of Frankfort, Michigan. He, with 0
companions, arrived on the Sunday School
excursion from .uuistee, but the bout left
them behind. They concluded to
walk to Manistee, about thirty
mites distant, via the Lake Shore. They
c'uuiied ut Herring Luke Saturday night.
Sunday, white Clarence was tuking a buth,
he was seized with crumps and disappeared.
His frightened companions ran to tho Frank
fort Life Station. Keeper Matthew s started
for the scone with a life boat and recovered
the body. Publio indignation is directed to
the steamboat line in leaving the children
behind.
A Gut Fawkis Plot. A great sensation
has been unearthed at the State prison, at
Jackson, Miss. The matricide, Irving Lat
imer, w hose crime and trial attracted such
wide-spread attention, has been detected In a
plot to blow up the prison, and a quantity o'
explosives bus been found within the prison
wall. Latimer was locked In the solitary
dungeon at onto on the discovery of (be
plot.
OXE LONE IIIGIIWAYMAW
TICKLM
ANt Rons A COACH
WKALTHV rtSIIRRMBN.
LOAD 01
Rlaek Hart s most daring deeds In th
mountain panes of Colorado were outdoiU
by a lone highwayman who held op ana
robbed the stage that runs between Ocgebic,
on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore A Western
Railroad just over the line In
Michigan and Gogebic Lake, a sum
mer reo-t, where people rrom tu
largo cities send dog days. As the stage
was running along at a lively gait through I
dense forest, when about two miles from
the station, a man jumped out In front of it
and pointing two big navy revolvers at the
driver, commanded him In good old West
ern style to throw up his hands, at the same
time extending the same order to the four
passengers inside the coach, with the fur
ther provisions that they 'shell out' all loose
valuables ami currency.
Ono of the passengers went down In his
pocket, but instead of bringing up hit
pocketbook, he clinched a pistol In his hand
and began bring at tho robber. The desper
ado Immediately returned the lire, and al
though the driver whiped the horses Into
mad gallop, his aim was true. D. Slacker-
char, a bookkccer In the First National
Rank of Minneaolls, receiving tho first bul
let in his cheek, while a second went crash
ing through his Icj. Another passenget
named A. G. Fleeschbain, of llelleville, III.,
was mortally wounded. He raised ap In tht
seat as the horses were whipped awayjusl
in time to receive n bullet in the hip. H
fell forward and pitched over the side of the
coach into tho roadway.
The horses continue 1 on the run, and the
wounded man was left to take his choncrj
with the robber. That villai n threatened ut
first to kill him, hut finally desisted, altet
securing (.17 und his victim's watch and
chain. The wounded man lay bleeding In
the road for three hours before any one cour
ageous cnouth to goto his succor was sirur
ed. Ho was taken to tho hospitul at Bessem
er, but the loss of blood was so great us te
blight all hoeof recovery.
Mackorchar was taken to Eagle River for
treatment, and from there to his homo at
Minneapolis. There are grave doubts as to
his recovery also. Thero wero two other
passengers on the coach, but neither of them
were molasted. They wero William Pud-
don, of ISO Washington street, Chicago, and
Robert Ridoout, of Chicago. The party was
out on a fishing trip and was composed of
wealthy men. A description of the robber
tallies to the letter wltli that of tho daring
free-booter, who went through a North
western train near Ellis Junction sometime
ago. Sheriff Dave Foley, of Resseiner, at
once organized a posse of u dozen men and
has gone In pursuit.
LOXDOX STRIKE SPREADING.
The strike inaugurated hy tho London
dock laborers is rapidly extending uud em
bracing workers in all industries. Seven
thousand men employe I in thu various iron
works oti tho banks of the Thames joined
the strikers Monday morning. The shi-
ping trade is completely paralyse 1, the largo
mail steamers being compelled to sail with
out cargoe-s. The gas stokers, of whom there
are thousands, threaten to Join the' strike and
take part in a movement compelling the la
borers in all branches of trade to cease work,
The mon on strike have thin far been quiet
and orderly.
Four of the largest mills at fllackburu have
succumbed tothe prevailing dullness of trade
and closed their doors.
The tin platers ut llcrmnndsey, a suburb of
London, joinel the strikers. In Itotherhitu,
the shipbuilding district of L iu lo i, proces
sions of strikers uro inarching continually
but up to the prett'iit timu the men seem to
be fieaix-ably disposed.
Many shipowners have begun suits against
the Commercial Dock Company, claiming
damages for the detenton of their vessels.
The company, however, claim that the uct of
Parliament granting t -em a chatter preclud
es the enforcement of any claims for dam
ages owing to strikes.
STARTED RY OUTLAWS.
AN0T1IF.U OHEAT FOHKhT FIIIR IIAOINO IN
WASHINGTON TKIIIUTOHY.
For several weeks past tho country Bbout
Seattle, Wash,, has beeucoverel with a
cloud of smoke, caused by extensive forest
fires in every direction, tho suu apx-anng
as a large red ball of fire.
These forest liresuru of unnuul occurrence,
destroying yearly muiiy millions of feet of
vuluable timber. Started by settlers during
the dry summer mouths in clearing, tho
fires sweep unchecked through the continu
ous forest and are often only stoped by the
commencement of the rainy season. This
year the fires are more extensive than usual,
and the amount of timber destroyed is almost
beyond computation.
The entire eastern slope of the Cascade
mountains, from Natchez Pass north to the
boundary, is rcortcd to be in Humes, hav
ing been sturted by a band of outlaws flee
ing from the Sheriff of Okunugan county.
the fire being set to hinder pursuit.
REFUSED TO LEAVE.
TIIHKR MOUMON EI.HKK HKVIKKLY WH1IT
II V HKlil LATOllH.
Three Mormon ciders, named Engel, Tay
lor and Laird, wero severe y w hipped by
regulators in Marion county, Alabama. The
elders had been proiclyting in tho county
for souk) time, and umong their converts
were two married women, who left the1
homes and families to follow the elders,
A notice signed Regulators was bunded the
the elders. It read: " If you are in thii
county to-morrow night you will be in hell
next day." Thu elder refused to leave and
the following night a baud of men wear
Ing masks took them Into the woodi, hung
them up to trees by their thumbs and whip
ped theiu severely with switched. The
women were warned that unless they re
turned to their families at once they would
be treated tho same way. Tuere is uo clue
to the Identity of the regulators.
HiTRNED Tin CoTTAuics. The Marvin'
Grove Camp Ground, near Lowell, Monroo
County, W. Vs., was to huve been opened
yesterday. Saturday night an incendiury
set lire to the buildings, and IS cottugca
were destroyed. Several ieople hud narrww
scues and the property Ions is very heavy
WRECKED.
FATAL EXD TO A PLEASURE BIDE.
WRICK OF TBI FIRST TBAtN TO BUI 0VIB
SOUTH S RN BO AD.
A terrible wreck, which resulted in tht
death of three men and the Injury of several
others, occurred on the Knoxvllle, Cumber
land Gap and Louisville Railroad at Flat
Gap Creek, 23 miles from Knoxvllle, Tenn.
The train was the first to go ovet
the new road, and carried a select party of
excursionists, composed of members of the
City Council and the Hoard of Public
Works, representatives of the Chamber of
Commerce, and the very flower of the busi
ness and professional men of Knoxvllle.
The train of two cars left the track at a
crossing, and the rear car went down a
trestle. Only one man was uninjured. It
was Impossible to obtain medical aid for a
long time, and until 4:30 in the afternoon
hen tho train reach! Knoxvllle,
scanty attention was rendered. Many had
to be brought buck on flat cars, and the last
part of the Journey was made a In driving
rain. Three men died from their injuries,
ami others cannot live. The dead are:
JUDGE GEORGE AXDKEW, the moet
prominent lawyer in Esst Tennes-ee.
8. P. 1'OWKKS, the leading merchant and
former pnsodent of the Lost Tennessee
Fire Insurance Comrmnv.
ALEXANDER KKcDKIl, n leading politk-
can, w bo has Iieht many ollices or trust.
Out of loO rsons on the train 41 were in
ired
GROWTH OF KANSAS CITIES.
The Secretary of the Skate Hoard of Agri
culture is now receiving from the utility
Clerks of the State the reiMirts for the annual
assessments ami census. The returns show
that Kansas Ci:y, Kus., has ma e the most
rapid growth ol'tno year, nnd, according to
the figures submitted, is now the mctronlis
of the State having a population of .Tfi.JTli.
while Topekit, tho next largo-it city, allows a
total population of Xi,tU2. Several additions
have lately been made to tho City of Topeka,
however, which will increase heropulution
to l'),i. lnemo't surprising leutute of
this annual census is tho case of the City of
Leavenworth, which last year led all the
Kansas e't:o with a population of 1,1.'1'7
The returns this year give a population of
only 2o, , a decrease of 12.421. or about
three sevenths of the former imputation.
NEW LETTER ROXES.
The postolllce department has Just received
from thu factory samples of three sizes of the
new letter box which bus recently been
adopted to supersede the present style of let
tor box, which are not weather or burglat
proof. The new stylo has ti visible open
Ing for the reception of letters i
but thero are two knobs at the
top, by pushing down on either one of which
an opening is cxx(ed by the revolving of a
hinged plate. This plate connects with a
tray, and as soon as tho knob Is released the
trny fulls down and drops tho letter below.'
There are two compartments to each letter;
box, and It Is Impossible to get at the lower :
compartment in which all letters are dump
ed by the tray until tiie box is opened by the
carrier. The new stylo will gradually sup
ersede the old style, as the present boxes
wear out. I
Tua Arn.i Crop. Tho towns on both
sides of tho Ohio river from Wheeling to 'company's pay roll amounts t tlT.'.n) r
Point Pleasant, are beginning to be throng
ed with apple-buyers from the Eastern und
Northern cities, and before the end of tho
first week in September tens of thousands o(
barrels will have been contracted for for
future delivery. The river counties in Ohio
and West Virginia constitute one of the
lurgest apple-growing centers in tho coun
try, and from lmi.OOO to 150,0110 barrels are
annually shipped to the Soutti aim est, or
to tho Atlantic seaport for export. This year
tho crop In New York State is said to be
very short, and many orders ure being so
licited for delivery in Rulialo, Albany and
other New York cities.
Plans fou tub Poik's Dn-Atercr.K. The
decision of the Pontifical Major Domo to re
fuse to the olllcers of tho Vuticuu Guards
their usual leave of absence imiuts to tho
eventual departure of the Poie from Rome.
The committee of Cardinals charged to luuke
detailed arrangements for his possible de
parture propose that His Holiness shall go
by roud in a carriage, accompanied by the
ambassadors, us fur us Civita Vecchia, and
thence travel by sea to Spain. A small num
ber ot Cardinal prelates will follow the l'ope,
who will dulegute extraordinary poweis to
the chiefs of congregations remaining here.
Tin Rusk of k Randit. Friday night the
proprietor of the Santa Roia Ranch, above
Matumoras, Mex., noticed a brush fence on
Oro, and, witli his men, wont to put out the
flumes. While they wero away Juuu Alun
is, a noted bandit, at tho head of a few ot
his gang, rode into the much, scared the wo
man into submission uud robbing tho place
of ull they could I'ukJ of value, made good
their escape with their booty. Aluuis and
his mun had tired tho fence to gut the ranch
ers out the way and muko their plundering
oHTtttions easy. Ho and his small gang
have been infesting the rouds near the city
for iumo weeks and, though there is a strong
force of cavalry in town, the Government
does not appear to he able to break them up.
OriNtNa Iniuan Lands. The commission
which wont to Leech Lake reservation to
socure signers to the petition for opening
those lands secured an otsy victory. Only
117 namos were required, but 111 were ob
tained. Commissioners Rice, at Whiting,
with Captain Shulor, will leave Leech Lake
for Cass Lake, WinttHlmgosoh. White Oak
Point and other Mississippi river points to
finish the work In that suction, where no
trouble is anticipated. The whole con. mis
sion will come together again noxt at Milh
Lac Lake.
A BiioxiN Axli. The second train of the
Daruum and Uailey Show was wrecked
Thursday night, about two mllrs and a half
east of Potsdam, N. Y. while enroute on the
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroud
from Gouveiieur to Montreal. A broken ax
le was the cause. Twenty-four ring horses,
including one of the lour chariot teams, and
two camels wero killed. Six cars were de
railed and two were telescoped so that avery
tiling lu thorn was crushed.
FLOOD AXD EAItTnr,.
-"(' as
CBTAllJ Of TBI TF.RRIRLl Diio.iT!,.
D JAPAN. ""C!!!
The steamer Oceanlo arrival f
Kong and Yokahomo, brln(r!n. 1.
August 10 of futher details of th, "
the Yellow river embankments. In''"!!!!11' "
Tlnoe of Shantung, July 2. sjrhich
the destruction Is wide-sprea.1 Th'U,,Ul
In the river is over 2.000 ft in ,( b
a swift current swept through JlT M
depth of 12 feet a large i? I
country lying a.ijil(nt
houses were washed '
and a dispatch from (TiefK atate, th
number of nersnns
, t l(Ki -
counted. Ten district ar b
merged and It is fear d rniny m ,r ,"l'
low lying country south wilt .-.. ' a ll"
fate. W,W
The latest advices coneernlnR
tiiatrA At ITllm.miit. ! n.
the
number of killed at 18, and the L. ',
19. Fifty-two dwellings were d "J
A teteifram on lha 3 Kb. of ti- ""H
K.1.1wwlr ti.l 1.-.. ... :.. . n 's
..... . M.-.-rn.uc(. ( i,.itL,.
they continue to be felt. Tlis lnhh't
were slectiliii In the onen nt. t
Mtrthnmtke was felt, tn tl,. J.. .'.
, c rrnvi'leM
Ciikmro. Oinsidorulila 1M. r i: .
ed, but no particulars havo be.'ti re-!;''
The Jannti (liizrlt o. .
took nl ace at Manila on hoir,l o.. . m "'c'
"ic ainfrici
bark Fanny Clare July 21. Tho r rt
the captain into the cabin an I aii ,t,,r JJ
Ing overboard and swimming to 's,
vessel near by. Tho mutine -n t lire i j
vessel, but on the arrival nfih. r . .
f...... II. ....... 1...... ' ""I
and were handed over to the Vii ,
Consul for punishment. The firorni,, 2
of the vessel was extinguish l Uf,
great dnmago was done. le n rJ
. - -. M -i . r '
villa niri.isi ut, .mhuiiii, iriltll 1 .ir.i , J
no ...lil. .1... ....... t . .
, nivn tut? urn nil'l liassen.-,.-.
tb
....-.. ..... , i-iif, nun , .
i . tita V.i.fi..a I-. . II. .!!.. ... .- .
(-lfl.ll AUtlllt, inn .. -.1
mo FAii.uur.
TWO LAROI COTTON MILLS AND A VXUrj I
BlBl'KM).
Two cotton mills tho Wiiure-.in and;!
leased property, ami the Nottingham-,,
woolen mill, the Thornton Worst)-.! C,;t
puny, of Providence, R. L, have fui'.ei,IR
suit of he recent failures nf Lewis
ui. iiuu iirunii, ora-igiii nam. Ilictrta
urer of the Wauregan nulls statul: "1
failure was due to distrust rn
ing from the fail uro of Lewis Hn
! Co., of the Riversido Oswego mills,
Rrown, Stoese A Clark. Lewis liros. ic4
1... i 1 . .i. - ... r . ... t ..
into oeeii iiiu Urania jur us tor it va.
i A hen that concern failed exagrv.-l a
. ports of thoir Indebtedness in prny.ima
wero published. Since then bank L ,;
; tho puer of the Wuuregaii miili ha I bn
I unwilling to renew it. t he ro-;ilt wi)ii
thu concern was unable to meet tli; ;j
meuts itemanaea ami votea to-Uay to i
pend. The failure was, in short, u s.
the injury to its crctlit cause.l hy ths Culi
before ulluilod to. It could not brruv
moot its notes and hud to succumb.
The liabilities are variously eitimM c
from esJO.OOJ to l.OJJ.OD, altli-ju;h tV:
treusurer would neither verify nor coatrai:
this estimate. The nominal assets tarn
to about $J.000,iHX). The plant ai m) m
(1,300,000. Tho mills aro doing a g u! LB
iness, manufacturing bleached go .ul, im4
and white goods and some fancy f nk
mouth. There aro about f1 stocklwlln
in tho concern. Director Arnold nt.
that if arrangements could be uia 1c t.) r.
the mills, they could muko enmuli mur
to more than pay tho intcre-a on the
i and in time liquidate all their urniH
rucnts
WRECKED AXD Rl'll.NKD.
A batl wreck occurred on the Erie m4
Big Fluts. A Lehigh Vulh y freight tn
was bucking down on u stretch acr-a
west-bound track, when mi Erie fre::
truin plunged into it, demolisliin.' U.tt
gine ami soveral curs. An cast-boiin I frtt
was immediately Hugged, und the llv
sent buck to stop tho Eriu passengT t.v
No. 2. The tlau'iuun failed to uby crttl
und the passenger train ran into the retf
tho freight, causing u frightful wrevk. I.
engine, the baggage and tho expnui as
tho passenger, und the caboose anJt a-1
of the freight train wero wrecked imJ k
ed. Engineer Andrew Wallace sn-l
man Charles Kimball of tram Vi.
budly sculded. A drover imtmsl '
from Woodhuli, und suvetul pasM-nssil
slightly injured. Tho truck was IhW
for some hours, ull pasaengor trains
- i M
transferred over the D. L. A v. rul '1
Corning and Elmira. Tiie first rep rt HA
accident stated that 20piTsoiishaJl)ii
.I in tlm w-reclc and caused lUIUD tlA
meiit until the details wero learned.
HANGED.
The four murderers of wonien-Pifj
Packeuhum. Jack Iwis (coloreil,1. JH
Nolan and Ferdinund Curolin were teA
in tho yard of tho Tombs Prison t
York Friday.
There wire two scaflolds, ami tJ M
were bunged on each.
Fackeuham uud Nolan were tirstr"1-
on tlio Kallold which had been '
lie l'ranKlin street side of the pr..-- o-
drop fell at 0:55 o'clock. Eight uiiuutM
Lewis and Curolin were lungiiit! f' c1
scall'old on tho Leonard street side.
Resides Giblin, wlio isulreuily un-if'
tence of deuth, there ure 1ft w "
woman in the Tombs urisju wu;t'ii
for homicide.
WANT TO FIGHT.
Borne of the more belligerant Tori1
making no end of troublo for I-rd '
niul liis anvnrniiiuiit hv tllilir S"
...... b -rf I
niamls for reprisals against the I uitai 1
for tho seizure of the Canadian''
Retiring Sea. They want to kno rJ
lli no ckt ItAvtmr a pnmt. hii? nflVT
" .- -' O -n - , M
l.i h. iiiiJ whai, tl.i. Itrllluli W' il IBI
6ome of the staunchest iuorte!f j
f l.ilhorl,. .ra llllllltt i H
donunciation of what they call U'
h,..i'. mlllr ..wl -nU. nnlL-V tO-"
wsj si iii 1 1 ssk mm- w m w j .
,. . . . ... . i.i.j. hol'l
Liniieo Mutes, n is noi iikcst, -
lliuf tlm r?u1iiiiMf. U'lll nllour
IbeiuKh"
Influenced by this pressure from U"v1
supporters, strong us it U.