PRECIOUS METAL1 IN IMIIH
SOME RICH FINDS.
Fortunes Made In Day by Hinart in the
Oold Plelde of Alaska.
The excitement over the Klondyke
mines at Seattle Is on the Increase and
hundred of people are preparing to
all for Alaska. The steamer Portlnnd,
which brought down over $l,000.ono In
(old Is on her return trip and will be
crowded to.V-r turnout capacity. Con
servative n s who have been In the
country rlalY there I room fur hun
dreds more In Alnskn. They almlt
that all of the Mold In the vicinity of
Klondyke have been taken, hut every
river In Alnskn Is, In their Judgment,
filled with (told, which can he secured,
If the men are willing to link the hard
ships. Inapectnr Strickland of the Canadian
mounted police, who rattle down on the
I'ortland, ay: "When t lift D'.wsnn
City a month ngo there were ROW
claim staked out, and there were be
tween 2.000 anil .1,000 In there. We can
safely nay that there was about $l,r.a0,
000 In gold mined InHt winter. The
wages In the mine were )! a day, and
the eawmlll Inlmrers $10 a day. The
claim!! now ataked out will afford em
ployment to about fi,f00 men, I believe.
If a man In strong, healthy and wants
work he can f 1 ml employment Ht Rood
wages. Beveral men worked on an In
terest, or what Is termed a "lay," and
during the winter renlUed from $5,000
to 110,000 each. The mines are .15 to 100
miles from Alaska boundary.
A detachment of mounted police of
the northwest territory, which passed
through Seattle two years ago, struck
It rich. Five of the twenty guards re
turned on the I'ortland With gold
amounting to $00,000. The other l!i re
mained In Alaska to engage In mining.
Circle City, Alaska, Is deserted, writes
a miner who has Just returned from the
Klondike mines. Everybody Is up at
Klondike or preparing to ho soon. It
Is the richest district the world has
ever known and will produce millions
.this year. Flour at Klondike Is worth
1100 a sack of f.O pounds, and everything
else Is In proportion, and none to be
bought. Live dogs are worth from t'2
to $." a pound; they are scarce. Gravel
Is frozen IS to 20 feet deep to bed rock,
but we burn a shaft down and then
drift, using fire Instead of powder. The
gravel runs from $5 to $ir0 a pan, and
the young fellow on a claim above me
panned out 140,000 In two days. I was
offered $;W0,000 cbhIi for my claim. 1
still hold the ground, and will be either
a millionaire or a pauper In the fall.
Men cannot be hired fnrwnges. Every
newcomer In the rnmp Is offered big
wages, as high as $'.0 a day, but seldom
will anyone work for another. The on
ly phantom that stands In our way to
the goal of a millionaire is grub, I
have provisions enough to Inst me till
next June, and I am as well fixed as
any man In the country. If the boats
do not get up the river before July we
will be In hard lines.
John F. James and Henry Blake re
turned recently from the derert region
near the Mexican border, bringing a
story of extreme suffering and of sue
eers In the discovery of the California
mine, one of the most famous of the
lost mines of the southwest.
THECCBAN WAR.
The Bainy Season no Impediment to the Con
tinuation of Hostilities.
At this senson of Hie yenr when the
rnlr.s In Cuba have usually prevented
warfare, there si rms to be no cessation
In the conflict between the Cuban Insur
gents and the Snnnlnrds.
The proximity of Ocneral flumes, to
Jiavnni and his constant and unre
stralnable activity nre sufficient to ex
pose the wretched Incompetency of
Weyler (is a general, and to show his
Btupldy n a tactician. Tor live months
Uomcz has moved about as he pleased
within a radius of six leagues, with 2'.
C00 men agnlnst him, and yet he escaped
onpture, death, wounding or even dis
comfort. General Weyler has proven
to the world, as well as to his own aov-
e-nment, that he Is a perfect dunce, so
far as a knowledge of conducting a cam.
palpn on tho usually accepted lines is
concerned,
INDIGNANT WOMEN.
With Broomi in Band the Clean they Dirty
Streets of Bt. Louie.
Half a hundred St. Louis womcfn sal
lied forth in a body, broom and shovel
In hand, a few days ago, and cleaned
that part of the c'.ty the center of which
is the alley between Chouteau avenue
and Convent street and Third and
Fourth streets. They were headed by
Miss Louisa Meyer, Two years ago a
party ot Bt. Louis women felt them
selves compelled to teach the city
tamers a lesson in tnis way. The con'
dltlons now are aa bad, and the women
nave won puuno approval by thus cal
line attention to them. The women who
cleaned the streets to-day were chiefly
wormngmens wives ana daughters.
Uteri Employ a Burglar.
"Sleepy" Burk, expert cracksman,
has been employed by tho Servito
, sltycr of Mary, controlling tho Roman
uatnouo convent ana seminary at Chi'
cgn, to force open a vault In their In
siltutlon. The vault contains the re
mains of three sisters who have died
abme valuable marble fit for altars and
legal papers. But all of these have been
Inaccessible, for several years, as the
combination to the vault was lost,
tor the North Pole.
The Localanielger of Berlin describ
ing the start of Hcrr Andree's ballon
from the Island of Tromsoe says tho
mdnd was so gusty that Herr Andree
was obliged to glvo his orders through a
peaking trumpet. Everybody was sur
prised that the start should have been
made in such weather. The ballon had
a narrow escape from being driven
against a rock in Smeerenburar sound.
Lieutenant Peary set sail Monday for
un norm t-oie in tne Mope.
. Justifiable Harder.
3.8. Harris, who deliberately shot and
killed Thomas H. Merrltt, a prominent
. politician at Lexington, Ky because he
found Merrltt kissing Mrs. Harris, was
acquitted by the jury recently, after
,. Hearing juage traiconers cnarga that
aa unwritten law justifies a husband in
Killing a man under such clrcum
stances.
I- Can ia Demand.
i ' Lonjc trains of empty freight cars
nave rolled out ot Kerns city for two
weeks and dropped off In twos, threes
and fives on side tracks along the lines
of the rallroa Is In Missouri, Iowa, Kan
sas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. These
Qtipty freight cars, of which there are
(nouaands, will be filled with new '87
wheat Insldo of four or Ave weeks. A
tremendous grain ruth Is expected and
the best of management bv railroad nr.
nclals will be needed to prevent a huge
grain r lociiaae or a grain car famine,
Conservative estimates of oron atatuti.
clans place the yield of wheat for this
jruar 10 ansas ai u.tw.wo bushels,
TEBS1 TELBOBAMS.
The next convention of the Enworth
League will be held at Indianapolis.
Cln...l .... - .ft t ..nl ..nlli.K VI
nrini inuiiB m minii 1111,
have been partially covered by a land
slide.
The Trans-MlsslsslppI Congress met
at Salt Lake, Utah, with W. J. Bryan
as president.
Two daughters of Chas. Zelgler wpre
burned to death at Jersey City a few
days ago.
A $1,000,000 bridge between Ruperlor,
Wis., and Duluth. Minn., has been
opened for travel.
Rev. Hubert II. Fulton, a distinguish
ed I'resbyterlan divine, died at Ills
heme In Philadelphia, Tuesday.
Several buildings were struck by
lightning and houses unroofed during
a storm at Pittsburg Sunday.
Br. Cadawallader, a well-known Phil
adelphia physician, aged f.0, mairl 'd his
housemaid, Bridget Mary Iiyan, used
21.
Thomas Norman, an ex-snllnr of the
British navy, Jumped 100 feet from the
bridge Into the river below at Cleveland
and rescued a drowning boy.
Wilson, a savage bulldog owned by
Father Hill Paly, the turfman of Brook -
lyn, attacked an Infant in Its mother's
arms Hnturday night, wounding it fa
tally. There has been a satisfactory rain
fall throughout the. northwest prov
inces of India and the authorities In
tend to reduce considerably tho extent
of the relief work.
Frank Hcott and Frank llyre were
drowned at West Ennsburg, Vt., the
other dny while trying to save the
family or Dennis Iow, who wero en
dangered by a freshet.
An Ice cave hns been discovered at a
point near Cripple Creek, Col. Photo
graphs by flssh light reveal a wonder
ful display or runcirul and fascinating
figures formed In Ice.
(lov, Prake of Iowa was Injured re
cently by a fall on the steps of the
capltol. Mo struck on his hip, which
was penetrated by a bullet during the
war. The Injury may prove serious.
The eolnred troops. Ninth battalion
of the Illinois state guard, refused to
return from Springfield to Chicago In
old coaches, they demanded Pullmans,
but were finally shown where they
were wrong.
Hev. Henry c. Mlnton. P. P.. of Pan
Francisco, who has accented the presi
dency of Center college, at Lexington,
iy., is a Washington and Jefferson
college mnn, having graduated at
Washington in ism.
Tho Hawaiian government has given
notice that no foreign-built vessels will
be admitted to Hawaii pending action
on the treaty. Similar notice was given
in January, lw.'l, when annexation was
first proposed.
Mrs. Clarence Moore, of Washington,
received a severe nrrvous shock when
she heard the news of her father's death
Frank McLuughlin, proprietor of the
Philadelphia Times. A n lapse followed
and she died Saturday.
The National League of Republican
Clubs at Its convention In Detroit elect
ed L. J. Crawford, of Kentucky, for
President. The next meeting will be
held at Omaha. Tho platform elands
by McKlnley's administration.
The St. Louis Credit Men's associa
tion hns withdrawn from the National
Credit Men's association, because the
East favors the Torrey bankruptcy
bill. It Is trying to get all other west
ern organizations to do the same.
Neary one thousand Spaniards em-
Ployed In the navy yard and In the ar
senal at Havana went on strike Monday.
They refuse to return to work until the
wages duo them nre paid. Operation In
the two departments is practically sus
The Avlsador Commercial, a political
and commercial dully of Havana, in a
leading eililoiinl article, makes a bit
ter attack upon United Btates Consul
General Lee. on account of his report
to the Government ut Washington on
the Itulz case.
Acting upon the suggestion of Cnpt.-
Oen. Weyler, Queen Resent Christina
of Spain, has granted pardons to tho
Insurgent chiefs, Jtogeiio, enmncne,
Gonzalez, Castillo, Oulllcrmo, Fuente,
Domingo and Blvcrlo, who were under
sentence of death.
A meat train on the Chicago and
Northwestern railway ran into eight
cars which had run oft the track near
Boone, la., Tuesday. Eight tramps
are supposed to he killed. Several
trainmen were injured. The whole
train was wrecked.
The Central Labor union, after a
long wrangle at their meeting Sunday,
"resolved that the appointment of T
V. Powderly as commissioner of Immi
gration Is the greatest official Insult
ever offered by the federal government
to organized labor."
Three men In a buggy were chased by
Chicago police. In exchange of idiots
two of them are supposed to have been
fatally wounded, a bicyclist who ful
lowed went over the abutment at the
Lake street bridge, the draw being
open. As he clung to the abutment the
bridge swung into place, crushing him
out oi numan snape,
Columbus R. Cummlngs, the financier
and railroad builder, died Tuesday
night at Chicago after an Illness of
several months from Inflammation of
the liver. He left a fortune estimated
at $7,000,000. Mr. Cummlngs waa born
in canton, N. 1 ., 65 years ago.
. A new board ot pension examining
surgeons nas Deon appointed at Man
nlngton, W. Va., consisting of Drs. O.
P. Mclntyre, W. C. Q. Wilson and M.
L. Miller.
Henrique Laldley, Portuguese vice
consul at Can FranclBco, has arrived at
Monterey, Cal., to Investigate the In
cldent of the tearing down and burn
ing of the flag of Portugal, which Man
uel Orting, a Portuguese grocer, had
hoisted over his place ot business on
the Fourth of July,
The seventh International convention
of the Baptist Young People's Union of
American began in Chattanooga. Tenn..
Thursday morning with about 4,009
delegates In attendance. As In all pre
vious conventions the singing will be
quite a factor, a trained choir of fOO
voices filling the big auditorium with
melody.
In consequence of the increasing tur-
ouience ot uie Mussulmans at Crete,
and the almost incessant outbreaks and
disorders, the Admirals of the Interna
tional fleet have Issue! a proclamation,
admonishing the Mussulmans and an
nounclng that If a single European sol
dier Is harmed they will bombard the
town.
John Fraser, who, 40 years ago, own
ed a profitable business In New Tork.
and lived in one of the finest houses on
Fifth avenue, was found dead In his bed
in a Ralneslaw hotel In Park How a few
days ago. His father, who died some
time ago In Bcottland, had left him a
handsome legacy.
Annie Kcrchall, aged 14 years, living
at Ph lodelph a. waa the victim of an
atempted assault the other day in the
woods near her home. Her assailant
escaped, but the following morning his
body was found hanging to a tree some
distance from the scene or tne assault,
He had evidently feared arrest and
committed suicide. From appearances,
the man waa a tramp. . , -
I NEW lift Bill WED M.
SLIGHT CHANGES MADE.
Bepresentatlveo of the Boose and lenate Per
fect the Long-Dlsoussed Measure,
The new tariff bill, as agreed upon
by the members of both houses In con
ference will, when maelo public, present
an entirely new sugar schedule, at least
In the main Item of duty on raw and re
fined sugar tho fourth presented slnco
the bill emerged from the recesses of the
Ways and Means Committee. It Is estl-
n-atd that the changes In the sonar
schedule will raise about $2,000,000 ad
ditional revenue. Following are among
the more Important changes made In
other schedules:
Ildes, IB per cent, nil valorem. In
place of the 20 per cent, fixed by tho
Senate.
Wool (as heretofore sent), first-class,
It cents per pound; second class, 12
cents per pound; third class, 4 cents on
Hint below 12 cents per pound In value
and 8 tents on that above 12 cents In
value. These rates on third-class wool
Were the result of an agreement be
tween tho wool growers and tho carpet
manufacturers.
Coal, bituminous, 07 cents per ton.
Tobacco, $1.76 per pound on Imported
wrappers. This is the Senate rate.
White Pino lumber waa restored to
the House classification and the House
rate of $2 per 1,000 feet Insteud of the
Senate rnte ot $1.
Tho reciprocity clause has been trans
formed Into a modification of both tho
Senate and House schedules that Is,
the number of articles which enn bo
used as bases for reciprocity agreements
has been Increased, but the President's
discretion as to rates dnd the ratifica
tion of treaties by the Senate, which
was the main feature of tho Senato
provision, has been rejected.
One of the biggest victories won by
the House was In the restoration to the
dutiable list of burlaps, Jute and Jute
bagging, cotton bagging, gunny sacks,
floor-matting and cotton ties, which the
Senate placed on the free list. While
restored to the dutiable list, however.
the rates are lower than they havo ever
been on this clsss of articles. Another
victory of the House was the elimina
tion of the Senate stamp tax on bonds
and stocks. It was decided that the
machinery of collection was too cumber
some. Haw cotton was restored to th free
list as originally fixed by the House.
The Senate, with the aid of some of tho
Democratic Sonntnrs, mudo cotton du
tiable at 20 per cent.
SENATE AGREES.
United Btates Objeota to Faying the Exorbit
ant Demands of Iron Hanufaeturers.
The price to bo paid for armor plate
for the three new battleships now In
course of construction wns the theme
of extended, and at times, lively de
bate, In the senate. Late In tho day an
amendment to the deficiency appropri
ation bill was agreed to, restricting the
price or armor plate to $.100 per ton, or
$12G less than tho amendment reported
by the committee and recommended by
tho navy department as the minimum
rate ncceptablo to the armor contrac
tors. Another amendment inserted In
the bill directs the secretary ot the
navy to Investigate as to the establish
ment of a government armor factory
and to report to tho next session of
congress.
During tho debate Mr. Hale urged
that the failure to equip the battleships
with armor would humiliate the I'nlted
States In tho eyes of the world, and
would lessen our navnl power at a time
of possiblo foreign complication. After
inserting tho armor amendments, tne
deficiency appropriation bill, the last
of the great supply measures, was
passed.
The bill provided a total appropria
tion of $,'!,410,72fi for armor for tho three
battleships authorized In 1W6 and lim
ited tho cost per ton to $42d. Mr. But
ler (N. C.) offered an amendment re
ducing the total to $2, 4(17. DUO, limiting
the cost to $:100 per ton, and providing
for the establishment of a government
armor factory If private concerns do
not bid within $300 per ton.
The measure will now have to be act
ed upon In conference. Representa
tives or the house and senato have as
yet come to no conclusion on the Tariff
bill.
Foster Meeting with Bnooeaa.
Ex-Secretary Foster Is bellovcd to he
meeting with a large measure "of "suc
cess In his efforts to secure from tho
British government additional meas
ures of protection for the seals In Be ti
ring sea. While ho has not yet report
ed that the British have formally con
sented to participate In a conference
with this object In view, unofficial ad
vices Indicate that this is about to be
accomplished,
TO COLONIZE THE P00B.
Booth Tnokor of the Salvation Army Confers
with mslaeat HoKinley.
Commander Booth-Tucker, head of
Salvation Army In the United States,
called at the White House the other
day with a note of Introduction from
Vice President Hobart, with whom he
naa a pleasant Interview. President
McKlnley received Commander Booth-
Tucker cordially, expressing pleasure
at meeting a man of whom he had
heard so much, and praising the work
of the Salvation Army, in which he has
long taken a friendly Interest. Com
mander Booth-Tucker presented the
respectful greetings of the many thou
sands of Salvationists In the United
States, and told the Presldeht that he
was on his way West to make inquiry
aa to land upon which tg begin on a
large scale the Army's project for col
onising the destitute poor of the cities,
in which tho President showed much
Interest.
CAPITA! NOTES.
Myron H. McCord's nomination to be
governor of Arizona was Anally con
firmed by the senate after a contest
lasting several weeks. The vote stood
29 to 18.
The new tariff duty on imported cat
tle will have a prohibitory effect as far
aa Mexico Is concerned. During the
laat 24 months 600,000 cattle have been
Imported from Mexico, paying to this
Qovernment about $760,000. The duty
on Mexican cattle under the rfew tariff
will range from $4 to $4 per head,' while
the old duty averaged ti.oo per head
President McKlnley Issued the order
suspending the operation of ex-Presi
dent Cleveland's order consolidating
the pension agencies of the country
ana reducing tnetr number to from 18,
Secretary ot the Treasury Oage has
Issued an order reducing the salary of
the commissioner of Immigration at
New York from $8,000 to $4,600 a year,
and the salary of the assistant commis
sioner from $4,000 to $3,000. Mr. Powder-
iyj aalarwlUJe .ow
THE MINERS' STRIKE.
Agreement Between Operators which will
Probably Settle the Dispnte.
The basis upon which the great min
ers' strike will probably be settled Is
embodied In the following provisions ol
agreement between the mine opera
tors; "That wo will pay tho miners em
ployed by us In cash for all the coal
mined or loaded by them on the pit car
or wagon on the bnsls af coal screened
over the standard screen her-lnnfter
provided for. That no owner or opera
tor, and no person connected with the
management of a mine shall be Inter
ested directly or Indirectly, In the pro
fits arising from the snles of merchan
dise to ftiiy employees of nny such own
er or operator. The payment shall bo
made In cash semi-monthly for all la
bor performed at the mines during the
pay period next preceding the pay
days, without deduction or set off for
any merchandise, supplies or goods
that may have been obtained by tho
miner from any store, or for or on ac
count of any order for such merchan
dise, supplies or goods. And we anil
each of us do hereby further agree Hint
in case of the violation by nny one fir
more of us, parties to this ngreetnent,
to pay the sum of 10 cents per ton upon
each ton of the total output of coal
mined by any one or morn of us vio
lating nny one or morn of said pro
visions and terms.
It Is ngreed Hint when this contract
hns been signed by 7 per cent of all
the mine owners In the Pittsburg dis
trict, Including the river operators, It
will go Into effect. It Is bard to say
how long It will take to get the neces
sary signatures, but If everybody
works towards thlH end tho compact
should be In force at the end of a week.
The matter of wages Is to be left to
a commission of arbitration ngrecablo
to both tiperator and miner. The de
cisions of this bonrd nre to bo final.
Shrewd operators nt New York who
were expecting the strike and got a
corner in coal stand In a fair way to
rnnke a fortune. Advices from cities
of the middle west confirm the Impres
sion in speculative circles here that the
coal market Is being played for all It is
worth.
In the Pittsburg district the price at
the mines hits already Jumped from 7rc
to tl.r.O a ton. A. M. llluittiinn, of tho
Washington Coal A Coke company,
said that some of tho Pittsburg operat
ors were doing an extensive brokerage
business In West Virginia coal.
There Is more coal on band than Is
generally reported. Many long railway
sittings are lllleil with loaded cars.
These will not be released ntilil the de
sired advance Is secured. New York Is
not afraid of a coal famine, as bard
coal Is burned there almost exclusively.
TO SEIZE HAWAII.
The American Flag to be Baised on the Island,
Should Japan Interfere.
A special dispatch from Washington
to the Chicago "Times-Herald" says;
'Tho administration has taken steps
to keep Its grip on Hawaii. Any ag
gressive Interference on the part of
Japan will result In the landing of ma
rines and the hoisting of the American
flag, with or without tho ratification of
tho pending annexation treaty. Tho
administration, realizing that some
crisis might arise while the treaty still
hangs fire In tho Senate, have taken
steps to be prepnred fur any emer
gency. Rear Admiral Bnrdsley will
have, when the next steamer arrives In
Honolulu, Instructions giving him
power to net at the first sign of aggres
sion on tho part of Japan or trouble of
any kind with which local authorities
are not nble to cope. Rear Admiral
Bi ardnley will be given sufficient force
to carry out the programme that events
may force upon him.
"It Is definitely settled that the bat
tleship Oregon, now en route to San
Francisco from Seattle, will bo dis
patched to Hawaii as soon as she can
be prepared for the voyage. This will
give Admiral lieardsley three vessels
the Oregon, Philadelphia and Marlon.
Julian has at present but one vessel In
the harbor of Honolulu the cruiser
Nanlwn. She haa another cruiser at
Ban Francisco, awaiting orders which
may take her to the Hawaiian Islands."
Two young women, Georgia Coulter,
of Chicago, and Bertha Yarnell, of Fort
Wayne, lost their lives by tho capsizing
of a sailboat at Eagle Lake, Ind.
A Selfish Preaoher.
Rev. Early It. Itedmon, aged Sii, a
graduate of the Blblo College of Ken
tucky, and a Christian minister of re
putation, left Lexington, Ky., tho other
day for Cincinnati to be married to
Mrs. Jennie Hunter, a young widow
from Cripple Creek, who is said to be
worth $100,000, Tho groom procured a
divorce from his former wife, who was
a Miss Lanbrlck, last Monday. He and
Mrs. Hunter met and became ac
quainted through a "personal" In a
dally newspaper. They made every
preparation to get married as soon as
the young preacher could get a divorce.
He charged his wife with unfaithful
ness and began proceedings several
months ago.
To Prevent Biota.
Booth-Tucker, commander of tho Sal
vation Army, is the guest of the Santa
Fe Itallroad Company on a tour of Col
orado, New Mexico and Arizona, where
he goes to locate lands in the arid dis
tricts for homes for the worthy poor In
the large cities. Mr. Tucker declares
that the poor classes must be colonized
or revolution will overtake the nation.
Colonization, he says, will solve the
social problem and take from the large
cities tho idle men and women and
make them creators of wealth, rather
than charges on the Government.
She may be a Widow.
After waiting a week; for the return
of Fred Burrows, his wife has coma to
the conclusion that he Is dead, and that
his death is due to the avarice ot some
one who knew that he went around
with $1,100 In his vest pocket. Mr. and
Mrs. Burrows were seeing the country.
They left their home in Chicago and
came to Denver after a long stay at
Manltou and were to have left for the
coast this week. On July S Burrows
Went to visit a dentist and never re
turned. "
Illled In Cube.
Col. Charles Gordon, a well-known
.American, who served in the Cuban
army ana was in nign tavor witn iten.
Gomel on account of his intelligence
and bravery, has been assassinated
by the Spaniards In the same manner
that Charles Govln was murdered last
year In the pronce of Havana. Covin
and Gordon landed together In Cuba In
the same expedition early In 1896. Govln
was attacked with machetes and cut to
death.
He was ia Love.
Clarence Davis, aged 17, became in
fatuated with Miss Artie Phillip at
Columbia City, Ind. The girl consented
to their marriage In September. Re
cently, however, she became smitten
witn another man ana jutea Davis,
who wept upon the street as he saw her
pass with his rival. He threatened
vengeance, and last night he threw
himself In front ot a Wabash express
ana wee greuoo to pieces.
ALLEGED MURDERER'S ID IMP.
LEAP FOR LIBERTY.
Esoape Prom a Trala While It la Traveling
80 Miles aa Boar.
Accused of having murdered and be
headed his father some time ago at
Pittsburg Archie Kelso for a long time
eluded tho vtgltnnen of tho police. A
few days ago he wns apprehended In
Oklahoma, and detectives were sent to
bring him back to Pittsburg. Kelso ad
mitted Hint ho had been present when
his fnlher was murdered, but that the
deed bad been done by two tramps. Ily
ma willingness to return without the
necessary requisition papers ho gained
the confidence of the detectives. When
the trnin had passed F.mlngton, ten
miles west of (nlell, 111., Kelso com
plained of not feeling well, lie leaned
out of the car window, his hands both
on the sill. For a moment he remained
in Hint position. Suddenly, as though
shot from a catapult, the prisoner went
through the window. Detective Mr
Kelvey was too late to catch him, and
looking from the window, saw him go
rolling and bounding like a rubber ball.
The train was rushing along lit tho
rate of firty miles an hour, and It seem
ed ImpoHKlble that the boy could havo
lived. The train was Immediately stop
ped and backed to tho spot. No man
gled remains were found, nml no traco
of tho ulleged murderer discovered.
MANY DEAD.
Flood Similar to That of Johnstown Engnlfs
Two New York Towns,
Tho two Inrgo reservoirs In tho Finn
kill mountains, which supplied water
to tho towns of Malteawan and Fish
kill, N. Y burst their walls at 2
o'clock Wednesday morning and the
water that Was released swept through
the Dutchess valley, causing ruin and
death.
Five bodies have been taken from
tho wreckage left In tho wake of the
flood, and there are known to bo two
and probably three more lying some
where beneath the piled up debris,
which Is all that remains of three
houses tint were swept away by tho
torrent. The nnmis of those whoso
bodies have been recovered, as official
ly given out by Coroner II. B. Holier
of Matteawan nre Mrs. John (,'onroy,
Mrs. Mary Ferry, William Ferry, John
Hi ilka, I'bllaniena Iielukn, The miss
ing are; John Conroy, aged 2 years;
Julia Conroy, nged 0 years; an un
known Hungarian. The body of Mrs.
Mnry Ferry wns taken from mud and
debris t';n fet deep. Thirty-five men
worked all day (n tlie ruliii.
Mrs. Conroy. one of the lost, before
her marriage lived at Johnstown, Pa.,
where the grent flood occurred severnl
years ngo. She was rescued there by
John Conroy, who afterward married
her. Most of the ruins have been
searched over, nml It Is possiblo that
some bodies have been swept Into the
river.
Knglneer John Conroy, who lost his
wife and two children, states that they
were not In tho building when the
flood enme. They were on a knoll on
the edge of tho floods. He told his wife
to stay there with tho children until
he went back to tho building, but she
attempted to find a place of . greater
apparent safety, and In crossing to an
other house the flood swept her and the
children to her death.
About a tlioiiHiind yards above Mur
phy's boarding house, directly In the
( enter of the ravine, was n small settle
ment of Arabs, :ti or 40 In number, oc
cupying half u dozen huts. There Is
not a vestige of the settlement now,
but so far as known no Arabs lost
their liven. On each side of the rail
road track are great plies of rubbish,
tree trunks, ris ks, pieces of houses and
all sorts of household goods and cloth
ing. 1 he wave was about l.i feet high,
as shown by traces along Its passage.
When It reached a point about 700 feet
above the buildings It had spread out
until It wns about 200 feet wide and 10
feet deep, moving with resistless force,
It tore out by the rooots trees that
were ono to two feet In diameter.
POOR ARMENIA.
The Turks Quietly Massaoreing the Unfortu
nate Race Have Oiven up Hope.
According to a printed report, the
Turks In Armenia, fearing European
Intervention, have abandoned the old
practices of wholesale massacre, but
during tho last year there have been
clandestine butcheries and most tern
ble persecutions, especially In the more
remote provinces. The Turks openly
boast that they have sworn to wipe
out the whole Armenian race.
The document recites In detail varl
nus forms of persecution. It appears
that the tax collectors seize the In
habitants If they do not pay everything
nemanoeu. "women are taken tnrougn
the streets with chains around their
necks and kept for days without food.
in somo coses they are fastened to oil
lars, head downwards. Freezing water
Is thrown over them, or they are beaten
until the blood runs. In other cases
their hands are tied behind their backs
and then cats, first mode furious, are
thrown upon their bosoms. Often they
are burned in various parts of their
bodies with redhot Irons.
"All the highways are guarded so as
to prevent emigration. Not a single
day passes without one hearing of or
witnessing somewhere witnin our un
fortunate provinces some act or nend
Ish cruelty. The Turks and Kurds en
ter the bouses of Armenians In gangs
and commit fiendish outrages."
The document concludes with the de
spairing cry, "Our hope Is dying out,
God help us. May Europe have pity
upon us."
Embraced a Hero.
James E. Gavin, with a 2-year-old
child clasped In his arms, leaped from
the window of a burning building to
the ground at unicago, Sunday nlgnu
When the spectators saw that the In
fant was saved and the man had only
received a silgnt cruise in tne ten teg,
they cheered Gavin and a number of
women embraced him. The damage by
fire amounted to $10,000.
Cuban Oeneral Killed.
Reports from Sanctl Splrltus confirm
the rumor tnat uenerai muinun can
dera, who commanded the insurgents
In the engagement on July B at Papaya
Heights, was allied during tne ngnt.
CaDtaln General Weyler. who left
8s.nc.tl Splrltus In the latter part ot
laat week with the Astuiiaa Battalion,
surprised a camp ot the Insurgents
near Jaruco and a sharp engagement
took place. Among the killed was the
well-known Dr. Hernandez.
They Peared the Haa Eaters.
It Is reported at Hermolselle, Mex.,
that the exploring expedition of Jesse
Grant and associates, which landed on
Ttburon island In the gulf of California
have been driven off the island by the
Bert Indiana The expedition will go to
Uuaymas, where the vessel will be
loaded with more men and another ef
fort made to explore the island. The
Indiana. ar$ said to be cannibals.
CROP PROSPECTS.
As Advanet la Wheat-Coal Strike not Cos
slderod Serious.
II. O. Dun ft (Va weekly review trade
reports; Excepting the grent coal min
ers' strike, which may terminate at any
rime, there Is scarcely a feature or the
business outlook which Is not encour
aging, tho season considered. Crop
ifospeota have been Improved br need
ed rain In some regions nnd foreign ad
vices continue to promise a large de
rrinnd. In many home Industries, par
tic tilarly In building, there Is more ac
tivity than In any year since 18M. and
the week has brought a better demand
in noots nnd shoes and In woolens,
while the movement of freight, mainly
Iron ore, through the Snult Sto Marie
anal Is the largest In Its history. With
money markets unclouded there Is
nothing In sight to hinder rapid Im
provement when uncertainty about
legislation hns been removed, for the
miners' strlkn could not lost ions? If
business and industries should become
active. There Is much less apprehen
sion of a failure of fuel supply than
there was during the first few days
when prices rapidly advanced and large
quantities of eoal from West Virginia
nave reached northern markets, but
some of the miners In that state have .
struck.
The advance In wheat to Rl 1-Rn waa
not duo to the government estimate,
which wns followed by a decline, hut to
foreign advices and considerable buy
ing for export. Demand Is already felt
from Australia, South Africa, Brazil
mm even Argentina, while the prom
ise for F.uropcnn crops Is not consider
ed bright. The disposition of farmers
to keep back wheat for higher prices
nay afreet the outward movement, but
Atlnntlo exports during July, flour In
cluded, have been 3,1 If., 443 laishels.
against ,9;3,KI7 bushels Inst year, al
though in the same weeks 4,6r9,31G
bushels corn went out. against 1.&74.-
07a bushels last year. Wheat closed 4o
higher for the week and corn Ma high
er. Cotton Is a sixteenth hlgner, the
closing or partial stoppage of Impor
tant New Fnglnnd mills hardly neu
tralizing In market estimation the ap-
irenensions or Injury from drought.
Speculation In the wool market con
tinues with price at Boston advancing,
with signs or a boom among dealers.
in which manufacturers are taking
little part at current prices, and at the
West whero holders are looking for a
great advance. Imports at Hoston
wero bnles In two weeks, and
dealers are said to have bought 100,000
bales more In London. Sales were ln,
4r,2,30fl bales at the three markets for
the week and 24,(172,800 In two weeks, of
wnicn I,u7,zw were oomestic.
The output of Iron furnaces July 1
waa 104.0(14 tons weekly, against 168,80
tons June 1, but several furnaces have
gone Into blast since July 1, and the
output Is large for the senson. Pre-
?umably an unprecedented share of It
s to supply the great steel companies,
which are even now putting more fur
naces Into blast, and have heavy ord
ers taken, when prices were dropped,
while the demand for structural shapes
iliiii pmien ih ULrK', firm ior imin im
proving, though steel bars are now at
the lowest quotation ever known In
rittsburg, Bi'fc to Hue, witn bessemer
pig quoted slightly lower. Tin plates
nre also lower at $3 10 for full weight
nnd less than $3 is paid for 100-pound
boxen.
Failures for the week have been 2GJ
In tho I'nlted fates, egnlnst 2G last
year, and 21 In Canada, against 39 last
year.
UNCLE SAM LOSING MONEY,
Speculative Importers Making Unusually
Large rurcnaeee or Wool.
Never In the hlstcry of the Boston
Custom House has tho Importation of
raw wool been so large ns during the
lust few months. Wool sufficient to
supply all demands of trade for years
ahead Is being Imported and stored
away In anticipation of the operation
of the new tariff bill. The Government
Is losing millions of dollars of revenue
Hnd the wool speculators are accumu
lating such vast quantities that tne
more conservative of them are begin
ning to lose heart, and fear that In the
eagerness to make a big "strike" when
tho price of wool Jumps, the market la
being overstocked bo heavily that the
upward tendency In prices will be par
tially checked and much of the wool on
hand become a dead loss. The wool
soeculators have got ahead of the Gov
ernment by about 124,000,000 pounds,
the duty upon which, under the Dlngley
bill, would amount to almost $12,000,000.
The revenue that would have been
yielded, had the whole Import been
taxed according to the new schedule,
would have reached almost $16,000,000.
The greater part of this Immense quan
tity of wool has been brought into port
during the last few months.
A LAKE OT OIL.
Important Diaoovery Made la Alaska by Oold
rroepeenrs.
What is said to be the greatest dis
covery ever made Is reported from
Alaska. Some gold prospectors several
months ago ran across what seemed to
be a lake of oil. It was fed by In
numerable springs and tne surrounding
mountains were full of eoal. They
brought supplies to Seattle and tests
proved It to be of as high grade as any
ever taken out of Pennsylvania wells.
A local company was formed and ex
perts sent up. They have returned on
the steamer Topeka, and their report
has more than borne out first reports.
It Is stated there la enough oil and coal
In the discovery to supply the world. It
Is close to the ocean; in fact the experts
say that the oil oozes out Into the salt
water. It Is stated that the Standard
Oil Company has already made an ofrer
for the property. The owners have 8.
000 acres and are naturally much excit
ed over their prospects fur fortune.
The British Havy.
In the London house of commons re
cently Mr. Joseph Austen Chamberlain
member of East Worcestershire, moved
the second reading of the naval works
bill. The revised estimate, he said,
proposed the establishment of naval '
works at Dover at a cost ot 3.500,000
Instead of 2,000,000. These would be
an enclosed spate of 810 acres, he said,
with berthing accommodation for 20
battleships, besides smaller vessels.
The Gibraltar harbor, he said, would
be rendered absolutely secure and
there would be an Increased space of $0
acres. A new dock would be construct
ed at Comombo and a naval barracks
at Sheerneas.
Sad and Disheartened.
Carbolic, acid ended the life fit a cul
tivated, traveled woman, an accom
plished Ugulst, who spent a fortune in
acquiring all that makes life worth
the living. Weary, 111 and dishearten
ed at lnappreclatlon, Mrs. (Pauline
Rlchter took the cheap dose ofiacid In
Central Park at New York, JKjiriday,
and died In the Presbyterian tYJSpttal
without regaining consciousness! Pa
pers found on her tell a sad aory of
disappointed ambition. At ork time
she waa a teacher In this clty.Xbut of
late years spent most ot her tJne la
janan.
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