ABUNDANCE Of GOLD IN MM. ESTIMATED OUTPUT. One Man Arrives Who Dug (30,000 In OoM From a 128 Cluira. Cnit. William Kldstnn, In command of the steamer Portland, which arrived at Seattle, Btinday night, reported plrasnnt voyngo and explained the de lav of three days In reaching Port An geles by Mating thnt ft very action storm at St. Michael delayed tho dis charge nf his cargo. He laughed when told of th( report thnt the Portland wa carrying $2,000,000 gold. A a mat ter of fart, he said, thpre only about IK.'.fl.Oofl In gold dust nml nugget on board hi Vessel, t'p to Hip tlnin he IcG St. Michaels he had heard of no newlv discovered gold Held. Anion the Portland passenger from Ht. Michael l Timothy Hell, who has with him $:io,ooo In gold, which he dug from a einlin which eoHt $125. William Ogllvle. dominion surveyor, sava the lioo claim now staked out will yield ftiO.OOO.imo. From a member of the Portland' crew It wa lenrned thnt Captain KldHton had expected the Weare, one of the company' boat, to roine down the Yakon with about n million dollar' worth of nugget ami gold dust, but a he dbl not arrive In time, he decided to bring down the treasure on Itis next trip. The t'nlted Slate cutter llenr. It I snlil, will guard the Portland on her next trip from Ht. Michael to Hcnttle. A most er the miner will make their "clean up" by that time, It I expected thnt the Port land' cargo will a very valuable one. The returned miner ray thnt the re markably rich claim on Eldorado reek will number 140. Mr. Ogllvle es timate that the rate theo 111) claim are now producing and considering ground yet to be worked In the next thrpp year will aggregate about $60, 0(10.000. AIR-SHIP AND WATER. Method! of (tatting; to the Oold Fields By Eaatorn Fortune Hunters. From Hrooklyn to the Klondyke by boat I the IntPHt way offered to Fast em gold spekers. The Did Dominion liner City of Columbia, lies In the Erie basin, New York, and Is being fitted for a voyage to Dawson City. llcr new owners are the Columbia Naviga tion Company, of which ex-Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert is a di rector. The Columbia, It Is planned, will sail from Brooklyn December 111, Hhe has accommodations for M0 pas sengers, each of whom may carry I, win pounds of brtggane. If It Is possible for the Columbia to get over the bar of the Yukon, she will run 600 miles In land. If not, boats built by the com pany at Ht. Michael will carry passen gers and bnggnge to thn gold llelds. To Klondyke in an airship is the dream of a Ifobokn band of gold Keeker headed by Chnrle A. Kuenxel. The ship I now actually being built here, and at the old Outtcnbcrg race track preparation nro being made for the early assembling of the parts. Kucnzel la the Inventor and builder, and his sehrnie Is not only to get a share of the Alaska gold, but also a shot at the $100,000 premiums men tioned In the resolution offered by Sen ator Lodge In Congress In IKHit for the construction of the first airship to come up to a certain Kpccilieatlon a to weight, carrying ability and speed. WAR IN INDIA. Fanatical Frleata Lead Large Number of Nattvos to Victory. London from Hlmla, India, announ ce that Fort Maude, In the Khyber pa, ha been captured by the Afrl dl after desperate fighting. The gar rison, which was composed of native levies known as the Khyber Hides, re tired with the loss of three men. The Afrldls afterward burned the fort. They compelled tho garrison to retreat last Tuesday and an hour later the defeat ed garrison reached Col. Westmacolt's relief column from Kohat. It I reported at Peshawur that a targe number of Afrldls, led by fanat ical priests, attacked the Bepoy near Fort All-Musjid about noon Tuesday, massacrelng 300, capturing their lilies, and then proceeding In large force to make an attack upon the llrltlsh garri son on the Lowrgat. There I a very uneasy feeling In Otietta. where the troops are under orders to be In readi ness to march to New Chaman, which la the extreme outpost of the Afghan frontier, southeast of Kandahar, and on the edge of the Reglstan desert. Khyber pas Is swarming with Afrldls. and it Is feared the fall of Fort Maude has greatly encouraged the rebellious elements. A letter from India published In the "Standard" emphasles the belief that the Sultan of Turkey Is at the back of the whole uprising. It Is admitted in ofllclnl circles that the news from India Is of the gravest description. All those who are fami liar with the situation attach tho grea test Importance to the rising of the warlike Afrldls, who are estimated to miAfter 25,000 men. The Afrldls. how ever, only form a part of the Insurg ents. The British government Is confront ed with the following state of affairs In India: Khyber Pass has fallen In to the hands of the Afrldls; the posts In Kurram Valley are threatened by the powerful tribe of the Orakzals; the Mohammedan tribesmen are meditat ing a renewal of hostilities around Ft. Shabkadr; while thousands of troops are engaged In crushing the revolt In the Swat Valley, and two large brig ades are holding the Tochl Valley, where the Mahsud-Maxarla are again restless. TOT BBOTAL TUBS. Ee Ooei on Torturing aa of Old in Bpite of the Power's Bemonstrances. The prisons at Constantinople are crowded with Armenians and Turkish Liberals, who have been arrested on suspicion. On Sunday last 80 of these prisoners were placed In the subter ranean dungeons of Galata. The Ar menian who exploded a bomb In the Turkish government offices has been tortured and whipped until he was covered with blood. The soles of his feet were burned. Tet he refused to confess. The situation In the provinces Is horrible. Six soldiers at Tosch ksehia outraged some nuns and cut oft the hands and feet of two of them. They tied the others to trees and aban doned them. D - Beet sugar will not be the only pro duct of the Starr mill at Crockett, Cal when It starts up about January 1. The machinery will permit of the refining of cane sugar as well, and the pros pects are that It will take considerable of the Hawaiian crop now controlled t y Ciaus Bprecklss. This year's crop It t :;.uUd t about tOO tons, TERSE TELEORAMl Cincinnati has Introduced a funeral trolley car. lingree, Michigan' governor, will speak at Pittsburg on Labor day. flgden (loelet. 4fi year of age, a wealthy landowner of New York, I ded. JclTerson county and Rtouhenvllle, O. celebrated their 100th anniversary dur ing the week. An Fngllah syndicate I surveying for the purpose of building a railroad to the Klondyke. Excessive dnnclng caused the death of a 17-year-old girl at Pittsburg Inst week. Name, Mis Mary Johnston. Pittsburg I making a strong light against Milwaukee In her endeavor to mcure the convention of Master l'rln t is In 1897. On a charge of murdering her hus bnnd, of whom he wa Jealou, Mr. Pauline JoluiRton. of Pittsburg, Is now In Jail awaiting trial. In their night clothe two daughter of Thomas (llle escaped from a burn ing building at Hurfnlo. Florence, an other dnughter was burned to death. Chief of Pnllce Peter Collins, of New York, was retired by the police com missioner on hi own application. Ho w ill receive a pension of $:l,ooo a year. Five dollar wa the sum a taff of ficer of tleneral ilrant' wa obliged to pay In New York police court a few day ago. Ills name Is Gen. John 11 a y e. A father' obstinacy and a lover' pcrsiKtency resulted In an nll-nlght's duel at Talbotton, tin., In which K. K. Love wan killed by the parent of hi sweetheart, C. C. Wnmble. Striker are blamed for setting fire to the power house of n mine which re ulted In a lo of t'l.noo. Till mine I owneil by the Federal Coal Company and I located near Pittsburg. "I never paid $100 more willingly," sold II. C. Frlck. the Pittsburg Iron manufacturer, when he returned from Europe, nnd paid that amount a duty on good among hi baggage. With a broken Jaw-bone, Frederick Itenselmnn In now lying In a Pittsburg hriHpltnl. Ho put his head Into the ele vator shaft to call the boy and was caught under the chin by the lift. The falling of a wall crushed to death two llrenien, Kara, f Hover and Harry II. Holt, at Pittsburg Inst Fii day. The building burned wa the fur niture store of F.dmundmin Periine, nml the loss amounted to $2."i0,t'OO. The oMlcers of the Merchant' neso elation at New York estimate that the hi netlt by the visit of buyer from nil part of the country thl fnll to New York will approximate $rii).000,nofl and say that future benefits are Incalcula ble. Hanker D. J. Hpllgnian, of New York, died nt Hollywood hotel, Long Branch, Inst Friday, ngcil 47. An operation was performed on him Wednesday for ap pendicitis. Mr. Hcllgmon wa the se nior member of the banking firm which his father founded. The tax of 3 cent per day on work ing alien wa declared unconstitu tional by Judge Marcus IT. Acheson, of the t'nlted States Circuit Court at Pittsburg. The la,v was enacted at the last session of the Pennsylvania legislature. Dnvld H. Itlder. Jr., of Accord, T'lstrr county, N. Y., was stung by a honey bee o badly the other day that he oon after dropped dead. It 1 thought death resulted from weaknes of the heart aggravated by exltement and the pois onous sting. Andrew Jackson Kvnns, aged 65 years, died a few days ago at Ban An tonio, Tex, Ho was I'nlted Htate at torney for the eastern district of Tex as under Presidents Grant, Garfield, Arthur and Hayes, and was the most famous prosecutor In Texas. Slabtown, a dangerous neighbor hood near Pittsburg, Inhabited by crap-shootlng, throat-cutting, mur derous negroen, was burned by the constable a few days ago. This was the only means by which tho place could be subdued. A bitter and effective foe of prohi bition committed suicide at Davenport, la., the other day. For 30 years John C. mils was prominent In Iowa politics. Five weeks ago he suffered from heat prostration, the effects of which led to the shooting. An agreement has been reached be tween the leading bicycle tube mak ers of Birmingham, England, and America, by which no one will be sup plied under a fixed price. The organi zation claim that every tube maker will be compelled to Join. The forthcoming annual report of the Bureau of Statistics will show that ex ports from New York have fallen from 40.32 per cent, of the whole In 1895 to 87.27 in 1897, while Imports at New York fell from 64.12 per cent, of the whole In 1896 to 62.86 In 1897. President McKinley attended divine service Sunday murning at Epworth Memorial M. E. Church, Cleveland, where he has a pew. He was accom panied by Mr. James F. Ithudes, the historian, and Mrs, Ithodes. The church was crowded to its utmost ca pacity. After squandering $60,000 In specula tion George W. Parrott, Jr., of Atlanta, Oa., committed suicido luBt Saturday. The home of Edward Williams, col ored, who defied a posse to arrest him for, assaulting a woman was burned. When the desperado appeared a rllle .ball sent him back Into the house, w-here he was devoured by the flames at Baxter, Ark., a few days ago, George V. Trott, of Chicago, a tele grapher, has devised a system of tele graphing from a moving train, which will shortly be given a test by the Penn sylvania Company. Trott claims that every train on the line may bo In con stant communication with the station ahead, or, if desired, with the train dispatcher. Archbishop Ireland was mustered Into the Grand Army of the Republic Wednesday night. Ho has beeen pop ularly considered as a momber of the U. A. R., but It was not until Wednes day that he really became a comrade. He haa been a member of the Loyal Legion for many years. William A. Eddy, of New York, made an experiment Saturday with hi vitascope, or -aerial camera obscura. The little Invention was sent up from Bayonne 800 feet on a string harnessed to aix powerful Eddy kites. As the vl tuacope ascended the little group of experimenters saw a wondrous picture of the surrounding country, perfect In every detail of form and color, reflect ed upon the exposed disk. It was suggested that Terrence V. Powderly be thrown out of a park In New York, where a Knight of Labor plcnio was being held. The ex-Master Workman departed however, before a disturbance was made last Saturday. The Laurelwood plcnio grounds at Chicago were crowded with 3,600 mem bers of the Catholic Total Abstinence union Saturday when a severe storm arose. A mad rush was made for the railway train. About 800 of the pic nickers gathered In the dancing pavil ion. A gust of wind tore oft the roof and threw the timbers helter skelter among the crowd. Mrs. Brown was In stantly killed. Nona of the injured will die OUR TRADE WITH N NKTIONS. BRITAIN'S LARGE SHARE. Compared with 1198 A Small Inoreaie in Im port! From England Is Shown. The forthcoming annual report of the bureau of statistic will show the valuation of the Import and domestic export of tho t'nlted State by coun tries for the ypar ended June 30, 1897. The largest trade wa done with Great Britain, the Import aggregating $167, 947,820, nnd the export, $478,448,592. The next In volume w with Oermnny, tho Import being tl 10.210.014, and the ex port, 8123,781, 453. France I the third In the list, with Imports amounting to $17.5:10.231, and exports, "..'-'S7.;it. The trade with other European coun tries Is stated to Iihvo been a follow: Belgium, Import. $14,082,414: export. 8:12.11110.1124; the Netberlnnd. Import. 818.124,126; export. $50,362,116; Italy, Import, -$l!).(IK7,;r.2; exports, $2l.3i7, 761: Spain. Import". $.1,6:11.1)72; export. 810.8811,611; Swllxi rlmid. $1.1.849.782; ex ports, $70,328; Austria-Hungary. Im ports. $S,ir,8.328; exports. $:i,759.700; Dcmnnrk, Import, $:ir.6,3.'i5; exports, 8l0.lKtMr,:l. The Import from the Dominion of Cannda during the year amounted to HO.309.387, nnd the export, $58,465,018. The Import from Mexico amounted to $l8.fill,r72. atnl the export aggregated $22,726,696. The Import from Japan amounted to $24,009,758, and the ex port, 813,23:1,970. The Import from China reached a total of 8:0,403.862 and the export aggregated 811,916,888. The percentage, as compared with 1896. Klmw a mnll Increase In tho Im port from Great Britain, while the percentage of export remain the ame. The Import from Germany show an Increase of nearly 2.50 per cent. There wa alo a llght Increase In the export. The Import from llrl tlsh North America Increased from 5.29 per cent, to 5.33, while the export decreased from 6.92 to 6.28. The Im port from Japan decreased from 3.26 per cent, to 3.14, nnd tho exports In creased from .87 to 1.26. About the same changes In our trade with China are noted. PRESIDENT IN BUFFALO. McKinley Attending the Oreat Convection of the Orand Army Men. Never before In the hlrtory of the fl. A. n. has there been such an assem blage of veteran, a there were gath ered at Buffalo during the lant week. It Is intimated that there were 300,000 vis iter In the city attending the encamp ment of the Grand Army of the Repub lic. The feature on Wednesday were the arrival of President McKinley, ac companied by Secretary Alger and Gov. Black, of New York; the banquet lo tne I'resiuent in tne evening and tne pnrnde of the naval veterans and ex priHoncr of war during thn morning. During the day there were more than 30 corps, brigade, regimental nnd com pnny reunions. Tho naval veterans, ex-prlHoners of war. Ladles of tho G. A. R. nnd the association of nurses held their conventions and there were many receptions given by nnd to the women of the auxiliary associations. A trip on the lake, participated In by shout 2,000 women, was ono of the plensantest of the many entertain ment. Wednesday evening there were a number of cnmpllres for the men and reception nnd musical entertainments for the women. In the grent pnrade on Wednesday there were 60,000 veterans in line. Penn sylvania had the largest number of sol diers exceeding even New York State, where the encampment was held. The procession wan led by President McKinley and party Including Secre tary Alger and Gov. Black, togcthpr with Mayor Jewett and other dlsting ulHhed personages, and was greeted all along the line by tremendous npplauae. Gen. John J. S. Gobln, of Lebanon, Ta., In the new commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Gen. Gobln wa a printer, I a lawyer and entering the army as a llteutenant In April, 1861, served through the rebel lion, being mustered out as colonel of the Forty-seventh Pennsylvania vol unteers and brevet brigadier-general. He Is brigadier-general commanding the Third brlgado N. G. P., and haa been a state senator of Pennsylvania since 1884. Cincinnati has been chosen as the next place of meeting by a vote of 626 to 214 for San Francisco. Government Employe In Disgrace. Thomas M. Arrlngton, of North Carolina, for 13 years past an employee of the Postofflee Department, anil until recently In charge of the Washington division of postofnce Inspectors, was arrested last week charged with em bezzling Government moneys. An in vestigation of Arrlngton's accounts has been In progress for some time, and It 1 said resulted In the dlHcovery of a shortage of about $3,000. He was released on $2,000 bond. CAPITAL OLEANINOS. Birmingham, Ala., Is exerting every effort to have the proposed government armor plant located there. With a view to using oil for marine engines, the secretary of the navy has ordered Lieutenant Nathan, Sargent to Investigate the oil fields of Penn sylvania. WILL FIHD 0BAVE8. Thoneande of Poorly, Equipped Oold Hunters Bashing on to Death. Edward Marsden, a native Alaskan Indian, who is also a missionary. Is at Youngstown, O., and has received let ters from friends and relatives near the Klondyke gold fields, telling of the great sufferings and hardships that are dully overtaking hundreds of people who have already reached the gold fields, or are on their way from the coast. The letters state that hordes of people have arrived there and others are on the way, who are lily equipped to be In such a country at all. Mr. Marsden said that the writer of every letter he received wrote sadly of the prospects and predicted that thousands of unknown graves would be filled be fore spring unless something Is done at once to get to the Interior enormous supplies of provisions and clothing and other things, to which the people of the United States have been -accustomed. Aa Inline Banker. John D. Tollant, the president of the Tolla'nt Banking Company, of San Francisco, Is confined In the station at Chicago a raving maniac. Locked In a compartment of one of the cars of the overland limited train, which arrived at the Northwestern depot Wednesday the demented banker paced to and fro In the greatest excitement, occasion ally throwing himself against the walls of the ear crying out In mental agony until the train slowed up on tha depot tracks, when he was removed to a waiting patrol wagon and taken to the station. A PRESIDENT SHOT. Baler of Urugnay Killed by an Aetaaiin while Attending Church. During a national fete which was held nt Montevideo Wednesday, Presi dent J. Idiarte Borda wa shot nnd killed by an assassin. The nssnsKlnn lion of the president occurred Jut as he wa leaving the cathedral, where a Te Deum had been sung. The assas sin wa arrested. Senor J. Idlnrte Bor da was elected president of I'ruguny for the term extending from March, 1)94. to 1898. The fete at which he wa nnlniitpd wa being held In celebra tion of the Independence of I'ruguny, which W'a achieved on August 2i, ll.l'fi. The nKKasHl it In n youth natiiPil Arredoniln. Prpnldent Borda died al most Immediately after he wn shot. Senor CuchIii, president of the sen ate, hn nsuined the presidency of the republic ad Interim. THE MINERS' STRIKE. Operator) and Labor Leaden Fall to Agree on a Battlement. Several new proportion were offer ed by the operator nt the conference In the hope that the miners' oMIiinl could bn Induced to moderate their ul timatum. Thu llrst offi-r was to start the mine nt once without nny price being agreed upon for pick mining. A board of nrbltrntor wa to bii selected without any delay and given 10 or 30 day as may derided upon, to fix a rate for mining. When the rate wa fixed tho operator were to pay It from the time the miners had returned to work. This offer wn refused. President Dolun fought against accepting any thing of the kind. "You men," he snld, addressing the operators' committee In conference, "have refused to hold nn Interstate conference. You have declined to meet with the operator of other tnte to settle this question. You have refused to agree to nny proposition offered by u and n, why should we sgreo to nny of yours? We hnve offered to go to work nt 69 cents a ton, the operators to pay out no money In wage until the bonrd of arbitrator shall decide what the price for mining shall be. The ope iii tiii will have the best of that bar gain. They will have the money in hand, and If tho arbitrators decide that the price shall be lens than 69 cent, all that the operator will have to do I to deduct the difference from the 69-cent rate before paying the min er their wages. This is fair to both sides. President Dolan, of the striking min er of the Pittsburg district, was ar rested at Cnnnonsbiirg, Pa., for visit ing the mine or Cook & Sons last Wed nesday. Several hundred miners, headed by three bra bands, Hugged a mixed freight and passenger train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Rail road ut WellHton. (., Monday. The train came to a stop nnd was boarded by the men. The trainmen refused to proceed nnd barked their train to the depot, where they were ordered by of ficials of the rood to proceed. The mi ner were en route to Oak Hill, where there wa a mine In full operation. Ar riving at Oak Hill thn striker march ed to the mine nnd demnnded thnt the men como out. This the men did, but not before being assured thnt no harm was Intended If they conducted them selves right. Tho men then held a meeting and Informed the strikers thnt they would not work until the strike whs settled. They were then compell ed to march with the strikers through the principal streets of (Ink Hill. Fifty Italian employed to shovel coal nt Sturgeon, near Pittsburg, had been nt work but a tew noiirs, when there appeared 1,200 wives and sweet women were nrmed with sticks nnd hearts of the striking miners. The tone, and the foreigner started on a run, which from Indications would keep on Indefinitely. MRS. McKINLEY'S SYMPATHY. The Freaident's Mother Makes a Strong Plea In Behalf of a Poor Cuban Oirl. The "Journal" of New York prints a dispatch from Canton, O., In which Mrs. McKinley, mother of the Presi dent, expresses her sentiments con cerning tho Imprisonment of Slgnorlna Cisneros in Cuba. Mrs. McKinley said: "I am In profound sympathy with the movement of the American women to secure the release of Miss Clnneros, and hope and pray that they will be successful. It Is an outrage to send a woman to that awful place simply be cause she Is a woman true to her coun try, and It Is doubly outrageous to ex ile her without anything like a fair tri al The women of America can accom plish a great deal sometimes, and I assure them they have my hearty In dorsement and prayers for success. I hope the Queen Regent of Spain will llnten to the voices of the American women, her own conscience and wom anhood, and consider the daughters nnd children of the country, the good opinion of the world, and set the Cu ban child free." LOST HES OAS. Tonng Women Have a Narrow Escape From Drifting Toward the Ocean. Miss Hutchinson, a member of a wealthy St. Louis family, and Miss Cavanaugh, of New York, guests of the Munnatawket hotel, had a thrilling ex perience on Long Island sound recent ly. They started from the hotel In a rowboat, Intending to skirt the shore for half a mile or so. A brisk wind was blowing and the ladies had barely got out of sight when Miss Cavanaugh, who was rowing, lost an oar. The boat drifted toward the Atlantic ocean. Darkness soon came and the waves threatened to swamp the frail craft. For more than eight hours the young women were tossed about the sound and then their boat drifted ashore bet ween Mystic and Stonlngton on the Connecticut shore. They managed to find a fisherman's cabin, where they were cared for. They arrived at the hotel safe and sound and were received with rejoicing by the hotel guests, who had given them up for lost. Tone of Oold. "Before I left Juneau," said Mr. Cas sell, president of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, who is now at Seattle, "I had a talk with Archie Shelp, who told me positively that on the dock at Dawson City was piled up gold dust, and that the pile measured a quarter of a cord. It took him two hours to get his sack from the heap on the dock. I saw a letter from William Kerr which said that the last steamer which left there had taken away three and a half tons of gold." Continsons Sermon, C. T. Russell, the leader of a new sect, called simply "The Christians," who halls from Allegheny, Pa., deliv ered a continuous sermon In Park Square hall, Boston, a few days ago, lasting from dawn to twilight without an appreciable break. It. was re markable performance In many res pects. When he concluded he waa still In good vole and spirits and noma of his patient audience were left. mem geu wm mm. LACK EQUIPMENTS. Ironcladi Narrowly Esoapt Banning Aground While Dodging Torpedo Boats. An unpleasant surprise ha been crented at Berlin by the naval cor respondent of the "Kreus-Zeltung" nnd other conservative newspaper, a well a th" correspondent of the "Deutsche .pitting Rundschau," re porting the naval maneuver near Dnntslg during thn pnst fortnight. 1 hey describe the evolution of thn German war Vessel an having been total failure n far a quickness and ability to resist torpedo attack are concerned, tin Tuesday Inst, off the Port of licln, one Ironclad division nar rowly escaped running aground while maneuvering to es.ape torpedo-boats. The correspondents, who are them selves naval men, nnd who were on board the vessels engaged In the man euvers, nttrlbute thl lack of skill to the wunt of modern equipment on the Grrman ship. The government will argue from thl that more cruisers are nefded for the German fleet, nnd will urge the necessity of forming a di vision of cruiser., ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. Anarchists Fall in a Plot to Murder the Oer man Emperor. The Investigation Into the recent de railment of the Hamburg-Berlin ex press near Cello, which led to loss of life and the destruction of considerable property, has yleld"d sensational re sult. The Merlin dctectlvps have? as ret tallied that tho accident wa due to a criminal plot, in which at least live persons, evidently foreigners, were concerned. Dynamite cartridges were placed near th trucks and lighted fusis were attached to them. The political police of Berlin have further learned that five Anarchists, evidently the samo live person, left Pari for Germany a week before, together, and they were seen at Celle the night be fore the accident. They made Inquiries In broken German concerning Empe ror William's trip over th'j roRd, but did not obtain correct information. It is now believed that the plot was an attempt upon the Emperor's life. BLOODY HEATHEN. They Loot a British Ship After Murdering the urew. A daring piracy Is reported at Hong Kong off the coast of Achentskachen. The llrltlsh steamer Hegu was at tacked by six armed Arhenese. Capt. Ross muniwreil to furce hi way through and reached the deck, hotly pursued by hi savage assnllant. A th skipper, deadly wounded, strug gled to get to the bridge, he was stabbed In the abdotnpn. The re mainder of the piratical gang sur rounded the postrate man nnd harked him savagely, disemboweling him and leaving him a corpse on deck. Return ing to the deck, two rnoro of the crew nnd four Chinese passenger were killed. Thirty of 40 more passengers, according to accounts, have been killed or met their death by Jumping over board. One of the Aehenese was placed at the wheel to ste.T the ship nearest land. Others plundered the captain's cabin, tnklng a repeating rille and re volver. The. safe was opened, $15,000 was taken, two boat lowered from the ship and the pirates made off In the direction of Simpang Ollm. Earthquakes in Japan. The Japan steamer brings new of ppvere earthquake In Japan on August 5. followed by a tidal wave and great Hood. A thousand houses were Inun dated and 200 persons were killed and Injured. Sixty-five Chinese villages were Inundated. Several village were destroyed by the eruption of matter from the Mayon volcano. In one KiO wrre killed, and 200 were missing. At another 200 are missing. Many of the bodies were completely calcined. Brigands in China. Matt. Salet, a notorious brigand, with 200 followers, raided the govern ment station at Pulop Gaya, Chlno, captured Mr. Newbronner, the officer In charge, killed a corporal, and then sacked the treasury office of $20,000, The town, which consists entirely of wooden and kajang houses, was then fired, and every building destroyed. Gaya la the export anfl Import center of a considerable district, and the pop ulation was largely Chinese. A Diminished Crop. The ministry of agriculture at Buda Pest has Issued Its annual estimate. In which it describes the world's harvest n extraordinarily light. The total yield of wheat Is planed at D7.1.760.000 metric hundred weight, while the pro sent annual requirement are estimat ed at 6!i:i,li0,000 metric hundred weights. It la calculated that for 1H7 and I8ii8 there will be a shortage of 50, 800,000 hundred weight. The stock re maining on hand from 1896 are approx imately estimated at somewhere be tween 3S.OiW.000 and 45,0ii0,Ofl0. The to tal supply for the year, reckoning both the present stocks and the harvest, is estimated from 610.000,000 to 051,000,000 metric hundred weight. FB0M ACB0SS THE SEA, The well preserved body of Captain Arkwrlght of London who In 18S6 lost his life in an avalanche on Mont Btano. was discovered. Imbedded In Ice a few days ugo. Twenty women were killed a few days ago by an accident to an ap paratus used for raising water at Mon cada, Spain, province of Valencia, on the Moncada river. From Naples Is reported a perfect cnrnlval of blood. Stab-affrays are commun In tho streets. On Friday a fruit merchant stabbed and killed a boy for taking an orange from his stand. The government of Corea hat ceded or leased Keer Island, near Fusan, to Russia, for use as a coaling station, with the consent of Japan, who was disappointed at the failure to arrange an alliance with England. Sunday 800 strikers made an attack upon the police at Rletl, 42 miles from Itome, and it was found necessary to call out the military, who were ordered to fire on the mob, which they did, wounding several of the strikers. The Insurgents fired on Dievad Pasha, the commander of the Turkish forces In Crete, while he was outside of Suda, last week, compelling him to abandon his Intention of visiting the fortress of Isxedden. Advices from India state that the ravages of the bubonic plague are in creasing, and the Kirkee Basaar haa been closed entirely. Prof. Haffklns Is Inoculating the people at Kirkee with the preventive virus. Tho Spanish government will Imme diately construct one large Ironclad und six cruisers, of from 6,000 to 7,000 ton. . ENCOURAGING REPORTS. Man Iron ana Woolen Mill! Opined Darlnf the Fast Wees It. O. Dun As Co. In their Weekljf Review of Trade report: Speculative market have their turn of reaction, but buslnes haa none this enon, gaining with a uteadlne which I most gratifying. The starting of works, Increase In hand employed, advance In wnge and In price of pro duct, nnd the heavy movement of crops, are fact before which all spec tilatlve Influence have to bow, Thn week's dlspntche mention !xteen Iron work which have started, against on cloning, fifteen woolen work started, and so In many other branches, while many morn works have Increased force nnd many are preparing to resume npd some have Increased wages? Whent rose over 6 cents Saturday with exnggernted reportn of Injury, fell nearly 8 cents, advnnced 4 cents nnd then declined sharply, closing lo lower for the week. Thnt some hnrm wn done to spring wheat In three stntcs appears, but no accounts enti tled to respect Indicate damage reduc ing the yield below r.tn.oiKI.WM) bushels, which would be 25,000,000 larger than any other crop except that of 1891. In spite of great lark of care, whent re ceipt were 4,349.594 bushels for the week and for four weeks 15,589.681 bu shels, against 14.896,947 bushels last year, nnd Atlantic exports, flour Inclu ded, though somewhat checked by higher prices, were 8,568,369 bushel for the week, ngnlnHt 2,207.516 bushel last yenr, and for four weeks 13,387.687 bu shels, ngninst 7,310.177 bushel Inst year. Receipt of corn bear strong testimony to the serlnusness of foreign needs, being 6.810,144 bushel for thn week, ngnlnnt 2,813,919 bushels last year and Atlantic export in four week have been 10,466,478 bushel, against 5,617,110 bushels Inst year. The price rose 1 1-8 cents for the week. At lat demand ha so far overtaken the capacity of Iron works thnt price nre growing stronger bessemer and grny forge 25 cent higher nt Pittsburg, and pig In eastern market tin much stronger becnuse rebates and conces sions are stopped. Billet am $1 per ton higher; ntructural angle, barn and plates about as much; rods $1.50 and $2.50, nnd wire nail S cent per keg higher. The demand Is also heavy for merchnnt pipe and steel, and sheets nre very active. The advance In Iron and nteel price average 2.7 per cent, for the week. Buying of ore continues heavy, 400,000 ton In two week at Cleveland, and among the Iron works starting are four more furnace. While tin I weaker at 13 S-4 cent, with large arrival, copper In held at 11 1-4 cent for lake by larger orders and deliverlfl. and lead la scarcely ob tainable below 4 cent, sale having been heavy. Connellvlllo coke work Increased their output to 123,614 tons for the week. Hides nre again stronger at Chicago, though packers no longer lead, but country hides are called senree, al though cattle receipts nt the four chief mnrket. 151,400 hend, nre the Ur gent for the corresponding week since 1:''. Fnllures for the week hnve been 223 In the I'nlted Stntcs, against 288 last year, and 34 in Canada, against 38 last year. LOOK TO AMERICA. European Nations Must Have Wheat From the United States. Crop reports are now In from the re mote corners of Europe, as well as from the more traveled routes. The news is uniform In dismalness. The political effect of the short crop is almost as Important as It commer cial bearing. In tho first place all Idea of retaliation against the I'nlted States because of the Dlngley bill has been abandoned. Germany, Austria and France have got to have American foodstuff, and to put a higher tariff on Imports from thn I'nlted States, i now out of the question. Several big London millers have sent agents through the continent and des patches hnve come from them that the more they see of the crop the less they like It. Even the valley of the Danube, the great granary of Europe, In im porting Inntend of exporting wheat. There Is even now a tremendous out cry agalnnt the present French tariff on foreign wheat. Tho Increased price of bread has caused several riotous de monstrations in France and in Italy armed peasants have attempted to seize parts of the vast uncultivated estates of the nobles. CHAPEL IHOKEEN WOOD. Mass to be Said Bvery Day For a Millionaire's Dead Son. Negotiations have been begun by re presentatives of John W. Mackay, of California, with the authorities of Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, for the purchase of a plot of ground large enough to erect a mortuary chapel. As Greenwood la non-sectarian the question of consecration ha been con sidered. Bishop Donnell will, it Is said, apply for a dispensation permitting the consecration of only the plot on which the chapel will stand. It will be re membered that Mr. Mackay's son waa killed In Paris not long since by being thrown from his horse. The body was brought here and Interred at Green wood. The chapel Is to be built In order that mass may be said dally for the repose of his soul. If the difficulties about consecration are overcome one of the handsomest chapels In the world will be erected, and a priest will be speedily assigned to say mass In It every day. He will be attached to one of the Brooklyn parishes. HEARTLESS UNCLE SAM. In the Glare of Glittering Diamonds He Makes Demands of Fair Smuggler. Rosa Herta attempted to smuggle $40,000 worth of diamonds and Jewelry Into this country the other day, but was caught. The diamonds were taken away from her. She has been in Europe for some time She arrived here on the steamship Normannla. Her husband, who haa been looking after her Interests In thia country since she left here, met her on the pier In Hoboken. As she appeared she attracted the at tention of everyone on deck. She waa literally ablaze with sparkling gems, and every step she took every diamond on her person appeared to dance In tha light. Custom House Inspector Brown caught up to Mr. Herts and asked her to step aside with the woman Inspector for a moment. The Herts woman did so with a bad grace, and Brown took charge of her husband. The Inspector told her that she had a right to $100 worth of Jewels free of duty, but that the rest were dutiable. She stormed and said all sorts of things to the Inspector, but to no end. The woman was not arrested. Wanted te Bide Whiia Dying. Carl Mylterberger Introduced a nov elty In his attempt at self-murder last Saturday In New York, when ha took a big dose of parts green. He rode around on cable cars for more than two hours and finally wound up at the heme ot bib sister. From there he waa taken to Bellevue Hospital, 1
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