I I. FOUR CANDIDATES. All ere Ken of Bccognized Ability. Power of the New Mayor. Oreat Interest, second only to thnt shown In the election of ft nntlonnl president In being exhibited In the Greater New York fight for mayor. A mnyor under tho now charter will ave greater executive power, more appointments to make, ami heavier responsibilities than any other public oftli'or of our municipalities. Tho four men contedlng for the of fice are all known for their ability ami influence. Hcth Low, tho candidate of tho Cit izen's I'nlon, In well-known In cduca ttunal I'lrrlra. Ho Is president of Co lumbia University, nnd was at one time mayor of Brooklyn. Henry George, the lender of the de mocratic hosts. Is known tho country over for his single tax theories, and as a soclnl reformer. Rcnjiimln F. Tracy. Is the republican candidate. Ho Is uinklng a strong fight under the leadership of Senator I'latt. He will be remembered In con nection with ex-president Harrison's cabinet. Judge Vnn Wyck Is tho representat ive of tho Tnmmnny democrats nnd betting Is In his fnvor among New York men. Althoiich Tresldent McKlnley was urged to tnke a hnnd In the fight, he refused. William J. Bryan's services could not be enlisted In George's be half. Hocretary of the Interior, Cornelius miss, has left Washington and Is using his eloquence In the Interest of Tracy. Mayor Harrison of Chicago with a large delegation of Cook County de mocrats will arrive In New York In a few days to enonnrngc the cause of Van Wyck. Most of the New York city papers are In sympathy with Beth Low. The State of Kansas is rnlslng money for George's campaign. Never before has so grent an amount of money been spent for political purpos es as Is now being disbursed In New York city. MILITARY LAW. Lawlessness to bo Prevented in Alaska by Government Troopi. The secretary of war issued an order a few days ago creating a military re servation In that part of Alaska lying within a radius of 50 miles of St. Mich aels. The purpose Is to confer upon Lieutenant Colonel Randall the neces sary legal authority to preserve order and protect property In this section of the country, both of which are believed to be Jeopardised by the largo number of lawless characters gathered near the mouth of Yukon. The department desires to limit the reservation to the smallest dimen sions that will take In St. Michaels as a center and yet Include the estuary of the Yukon, where It Is possible the lawless element might gather If ex cluded from the town Itself. The pre sent laws of Alaska will continue to prevail over the lands within the re servation, but the military officer in charge will have conslderabdy en larged powers In the matter of ejecting obnoxious characters. There will be little excuse for the commission of lawless acts based on real necessity or starvation within the limits of the new reservation, for Se cretary Alger has authorised Lieuten ant Colonel Randall, In command of the troops at St. Michaels, not only to feed the miners who may be In actual need, but also to ship them out of the eountry when they have not the means to pay their own way. KG KI5LEYS WESTERN TRIP. The President Will Listen to Pittsburg's Famous Orchestra Next Month. ' Details for the President's Western flip at election time have been com pleted. The President, accompanied by Mrs. McKlnley and Secretary Porter, vlll leave Washington Friday after noon, the 2tth, over the Pennsylvania road. At Cincinnati he will he the guest of J. O. Schmidt, an Intimate per sonal friend. On the afternoon of Sat urday there will be an informal recep tion at the chamber of commerce. The President will not speak then, but will deliver a short address at the banquet given him by the Cincinnati Commer cial club Saturday evening. Early Monday morning the President will leave Cincinnati for Canton, re maining there until after the election, and will receive the returns in Canton Xuesday evening. The party will take the train Wed nesday morning, arriving In PlttBburg before noon. While in Pittsburg the President will be entertained by W. N. T'rew, president of the Carnegie Li brary association, and Robert Pltcairn. In the afternoon there will be the for mal exercises at the library, and the President will make a short address. In the evening he will attend a sym phony concert at the library, and at Its conclusion will start for Washington, arriving Thursday morning, November 4. CASHIER SUICIDES. After Making a Careless Effort to Bide His Ouilt. There was a small Are Monday night In the office of the Pacific Gas com pany, on Stevenson street, San Fran- . Cisco, and after the firemen put It out they found three holes drilled In the safe and money scattered around the room as though thieves had been in . a great hurry, to escape. The officers of- the company found $12,000 missing. The police declared Uie robbery was a fake, as all signs pointed to amateur work, evidently done to mislead. Or ders were given to Inspect the books and then the news came from Berkeley that William J. Lyon, the cashier of the company, had gone Into the hills back of his house and shot himself through the head. How heavy his embezzlement is cannot be told until the books are examined. ARMOR PLAHT. Chief of Ordnance Bays It ean be Puroh&sed Cheaper Than Made By the Government. Capt. O'Neill, chief of ordinance, In his annual report, made public last week, says: "The bureau Is of the opin ion that the government can purchase armor more cheaply than it can manu facture it, and regards the making of armor as a proper adjunct to a great commercial steel plant. Foreign prao tice confirms tma viow; and even should the departent acquire a plant of ila own, the chances are that It would He idle a large part of the time and thus suffer great deterioration, and that the expense and difficulty of oner atlng it when needed, would more than offset any advantages gained by such ownership." The report states that the (6,517 tons of armor are still to be delivered to the department by the Carnegie Comapny. Servian Cabinet Beslgns. The cabinet of Sorvla has 'resigned because of the return of ex-King Ml lan. This la his Mist visit since his ybdlctation la 1m. TERSELY TOLD TELE0BAM8. Six fishing vessels have been sunk off Labrador, and five lives lost. The Yanul Indians are driving gold prospectors out of their territory in Mexico. The mayor of St. Louis refused a per mit to Km ma Goldman, an anarchist, to address street meetings. The new comet discovered by the Lick observatory Is 73.000 miles from the earth ami moving away. James M. Mutter, of Philadelphia, w ho took his life In New York, said In a note he did It to avoid Insanity. J. L. Parkhurst and his wife, an aged couple, were murdered and their bodies tunned In their house near Bl loxl, Miss. The Queen City Oas Company of Buffalo, N. Y., owned by James Kd ward Aditleks, has been sold to Buf falo men for 11,050.000. K. P. Speedv, high diver, leaped from the Louisville' nnd Jeffersonvllle bridge Into the Ohio liver, a distance of 108 feet. He was not Injure-.!. A dispatch from Towncnd, Vermont, announces the death at that place of Thomas Dunne, of Chmicstown, th. eminent civil engineer. He was 77 year of age. The effort of Marquis Lnlgl Carcanl to get the $::o.noo dowry promised him In wilting by his mother-ln-lnw when he married his American wife ninny years ago, lias failed because of a de feet In the Instrument. Thomns O'llnnlon was sent 'to Jail for 10 days at Patcrson, N. J., for fall ing to pay bis Vig license. He said he could not afford to pay the money, and his children were so attached to the dog that he could not send It away. The Herman Sugar Industry society hns agnln protested to Prince Hohen lohe, the Imperial chancellor, against the differential In the new United States tariff, demanding vigorous steps to protect sugar growers. Sir William Van Home, presldept of the Canadian Pacific railroad, says his company intends to put on a first-class line of steamers to the Yukon, and also to construct a railroad from Hohson to Frazer liver via Boundary creek, open ing up a large and Important mining district. "Oood-bye, sweetheart," said John Cunningham to Ella Heed, who had Just become his bride at Trenton, N. J. a few days ago. The groom then dls appeared by Jumping In a passing train, leaving behind his hysterical bride who knows no reason for his de parture. All of the students of the Baptist university at Sioux Falls, S. D.. walk ed out Wednesday and demanded the removal of the president. The arbitrary rulings of the president and the slight provocation on which he Inflicted punishment were the cause!. It Is likely that he will have to go. Bryan has begun the campaign In Nebraska In earnest, and will make two speeches dally from now until the close of the campaign. The Indications are that Interest In silver has not dl minishej a particle In Nebraska since last fall. John U. Carlisle will be In the state next week to help the cause of the gold democrats. Oeorge M. Pullman will be remem bered chiefly for two things the Inven tlon and expansion of the country's magnificent sleeping car system and endeavors to establish the model town of Pullman. III., which was not entire ly successful, and which was the cause of the great Debs war In the inldsum mer of 18S4. which required the federal troops to subdue. The president gave a public recep tlon Friday afternoon. Among the large number of callers was Miss Cos slo Clsneros, the escaped Cuban girl, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Karl Decker and Mrs. John A. Logan. Mrs. Logan Introduced the party and Pre sident McKlnley shook hands with them, but. as Is the usual custom at these public receptions, said nothing. Oeorge Young, a farmer, residing two miles south of Blue F.arth City, Minn., shot and killed his wife, his two boys, aged 2 and 4, and himself a few days ago. All died instantly and wero found weltering in blood when the hired man, the only other person on the place, came In. Business and do mestic troubles form the only explan ation for the deed. The court of appeals of Chattanooga Tenn., recently handed down Its opin ion In the case of the city of Chatta nooga va the state of Georgia in the famous depot case. The court's decision was in favor of the state of Georgia, This case Involves property worth $100,000, situated where the old W. & A. depot of this city is situated. The casn has been pending In the courts for several years. An assignment was made Friday by the Fowler Cycle Company of Chicago, one of the largest bike concerns In the West. The company has not been do ing a flourishing business for some time, and has keenly felt the eompe- titlon of cheap wheels. The officers of the company are reticent regarding the amount of assets and liabilities, but the best Information obtainable makes the liabilities amount to 1500,000 and the assets mush less. The concern employed about 600 men. STREET CAB ORATORS. Will Assisst Henry Oeorge to Become Mayor of Creator Dew York. Henry George's managers at New York have enrolled 300 volunteer speak ers. They will address 1,000 meetings, Contributions to the George Fund amount to $5,000. The smallest contrl- trlbution was 17 cents. More money is needed, and quickly, too. Each of George's three leading opponents will spend over $100,000. He requires no such amount, because his speakers glva their services free. Rev. Father Mc Glynn has endorsed George's candi dacy, but will probably not make speeches. A plan to enlist 1,000 spell binders and turn them loose every evening In the crowded cars Is under consideration by the George managers. Bo far as known there Is no law to pre vent a man talking at the rate ot ten miles an hour If he cares to. Onoe in a Home for the Friendless. After a search for heirs extending over a score of years, the vast tbtaU ot Imblay Clarke, at San Franclscj. now appraised at $25,000,000, seems about to come to the daughter of Clarke, a mine owner, who died in Australia over twenty years ago. She is Grace M. Elliott, adopted daughter of Wlllam H. Elliot, a saloonkeeper, who took her from the Home for the Friendless In 1878, when the matron as sured him her parents were dead, her father, Imblay Clarke, leaving her in the home, and that he Afterwards died in Australia, Local attorneys pro nounce her papers faultless. , Esoaped from the Hob. Seventy-five masked men met in a schoolhouse the other night, near Uiimfleld, Ind., where Adam Hoffman was secretly murdered, and proceeded separately to Albion, where a suspect of the man murdered ia held. ' They went to the county jail and demanded the prisoner, but the deputies saw the mob coming and slipped away with the pilsoner. The reward for the appre hension of the murderer of Hoffman now exceeds 12,(00. PASSENGERS PLUNGED 10 DEATH. AWFUL WRECK. Twenty-Eitht Lives Lost on Train Which Ban Into the Bndson Blver. Twenty-eight persons met tloath and a large number were seriously injured In a wreck on the New York Central railroad near Garrisons, N. Y Bunday morning. All of the victims were probably n- sleep when they met their fate. The train left the track and plunged into the Hudson river, and most of those who entered the eternal sleep from their re freshing slumbers were drowned In the Icy waters of the beautiful stream. There was nothing to presage the ter rible accident which so suddenly de prived the unfortunates of life. The New York Central left Buffalo Saturday night and had progressed nine-tenths of the distance toward Its destination. The engineer and his friends had Just noted the gray dawn breaking In the Fast and the light strenk of red betokening the sun's ap pearance when the great engine a servant on the fnlls, a devil off plunged Into 4he depths of the river. Neither engineer nor fireman will ever teii the siory of that terrible mo ment, for with his hnnd upon the throttlo the engineer plunged with his engine to the river bottom, nnd nil fireman, too, was at his post. Behind them enmc the express car, the com bination car and the sleepers, and thos piled on top of the engine. Whnt seems to have happened was thnt underneath the tracks and ties the heavy wall had given away, and wh"ii the great weight of the engine struck the unsupported tracks It went crash ing through the rest of tho wall nnd toppled over Into the river. Then there happened wnnt on the railroad at any other time would have caused disaster, but now proved a blessing. As the train plunged over the embankment the coupling thnt held the three last of the six sleepers broke, and they miraculously remained on the broken track. In that way about 60 lives were saved. A porter lumped from one of the cars that remained on the track and ran In to the yard of August Kah's house, near which the accident ocurred, and stood screaming for help, and moan ing: "The train Is in the river: all our passengers are drowning." In a few minutes Kan nan aressea himself, and. getting a boat, rowed with the porter to the scene. As they turned a point In the bank they came upon the express car and the. combin ation enr Moating about zo reet rrom shore, but sinking every minute. One man was taken from the top of the car, and efforts were made to rescue those Inside. A few were gotten out, the pas sengers left upon the track making a human bridge to the shore to take tho wounded on. The day coach and smoker had gine down In the deeper water, and rescue was Impossible. In the latter coaon the conditions must have been horrible The car turned completely over, and the passenger end of It was in the deep water, while the baggage end stood up toward the surface. The men In that lower part have fought like fiends for a brief period, for the bodies, when taken out, were a mass of wounds. Following Is a list of the dead, as far as could be ascertained: Thomas Rell- ly, St. Louis, K. A. Green of Chicago, W. H. O. Meyers of Trcmont, N. Y., Gulseppe Paduano of New York, un known man, died while being rescued, A. G. McKay, , private secretary to General Superintendent Van Ettln body supposed to be In wreck, John Foyle, engineer, of East Albany; body not recovered; John G. Tompkins, fire man of East Albany; body not rccov ered; two unidentified women and eight Chinamen. TERRIBLE SUFFERING. Hardships Endured by Miners Hunting Oold Near the Yukon. Tho steamer Humboldt arrived the other night at Seattle, Wash., with Ave men from Dawson City, leaving there September 3, and three men from Mltv nok and other points on the Yukon. They say no gold will come out this fall, as this steamer has taken the last of those who have come down the Yuk on. The river Is already frozen hard, and boats are laid up for the winter. Tho Humboldt left St. Michaels Oc- tober 8. The five men from Dawson are John F. Miller and Frank E. Sims, of this clty.C. A. Harrison, of Atchison, Kan.; William Dubell, of New Jersey; and Wlllam Braund, ot Black Diam ond, Wash. They were passengers on the river steamer Margaret. When they found the mouth of tho river blocked with ice they resolved to come overland at all hazards. For seven days they crept forward through terrible wind and snow storms. Some of them fell In their tracks, and had to be helped by their stronger compan Ions. They crossed the river, coverei with thin Ice, by lying down and push Ing their packs beftre them, and at night they sought shelter from tho storms by huddling in Eskimo tents or lying unprotected from the biting wind save by blankets. Of the five or six thousand people In Dawson and vicinity, at least l.OuO will bo obliged to flee from impending star vation. 1 p to September 3, when Mil lcr left Dawson, new orrlva's number ed from three to twenty people dally, and there is no doubt thnt that ra'io will be continued all winter. Thr hundred men were working In the gulches, and In the hills were several prospectors, all of whom knew nothing of the stortage, and were depending on he company Btores for provisions, DISCOURAGING FOREIGNERS. Machinery Introduced at Braddook Which Will Dispense with TOO Laborers. The Carnegie company proposes to do by mechanical contrivances work which has heretofore been done by for elgn laborers and this will to a larga extent diminish the number of Slav onlans. Poles and Hungarians. In the nine blast furnaces of the company nt Braddock there are about 800 or 1,00) of such foreigners engaged, and It said that the great majority of thes-3, probably 700, will be thrown out of work before spring by the new move Already the hegira has commenced caused by the putting In blast of fur nace'F. This furnace has not been pro duclng for three months or more. hav- Ing during that time been out of blast that it might be remodeled. The new arrangement makes the labor of th foreigners in handling ore, coke and other materials from the railroad tracks unnecessary, for the stuff is now handled In improved bins which mam pulate the materials by machinery. To Boll Over the Ooean. ' The machinery of the roller boat In which Lawyer Knapp expects to cross the Atlantic ocean In three days, had a trial recently at Toronto. Th vessel consists of two large cylinders, one in side the other. Two engines which are In the inner cylinder are designed to drive the outer shell around at a rapid raw ana mane it rou over in water. A BRUTAL OFFICER. Testimony of a Private Soldier Exposes Fiendish Methods of Punishment. Frlvate Charles Hammond, tt. fl. A.. gaunt and thin showing plainly th? effects of his 14 days' cnnflneent on a brear-and-water diet In the guard- on se at Fort Sheridan. Chicago, ap peared before a court of his superior ofllcers Friday and told them of the circumstances of his disobedience of the orders of Capt. Loverlng and of the subsequent and drastic measures taken by that official to enforce his commands. Under oath he testified as follows: "On Friday. October 9. I refused to go to work and was ordered from the gard room Into a cell. Saturday at :30 I was told that I would have to appear before a summary court. I old the olllcer of tho guard that If he wanted me he must carry me there. Captain Loverlng came there with two members of the guard, and the order was given to the sentries to step In and drag me out so that my hack would strike on the door sill. The sen tries took hold of me and threw me to the floor and I was dragged out. Sergeant Barnard tried to hold me down onto the sill so that my back would be scraped. I was dragged to the guard room outside and as I went through the door Cnpaln Loverlng put his heel over my head nnd threatened to stnb me In the face. Then I was nl- owed to walk back to my cell. Later nntaln Loucr nff returned to my ceil with four sentries and gave the order. Go In and Jerk thnt mnn out.' The door wns unlocked and two sentries stepped In and threw me. "Loverlng then ordered a rope ana gave orders to nave my feet crossed and tied the ankles. I placed my hands behind my head, and then Loverlng and the sentries began to ding me. He prodded me In the light hnnd with his sword and then in tno snouioer. i wns dragged to the guard room and out to the porch, where, with' one hand erk.. tbev started me down tne stone steps on my back across the road. The sentries were re nforoen iy two oiners, At 2 o'clock I asked to be taken to the hospital, where the doctor sponged he blood from the sword stans. on Monday I was called before Captain Itlchnrds and have since been In soli tary confinement on bread and water." Co one Snyder asked iiammona why he left his barracks at Flattsburg, N. Y. The witness repnea: I had some private business in cni- cago, and as the inspector general was at the barracks I knew the request for release wou lil be refused. I nail no in tentlon of deserting, and reported at Fort Sheridan so as not to be ranKcu I expected to bo confined, but thought I would be returned to my posi anu i ter sentence restored to duty." PULLMAN DEAD. The Sleeping Car Magnate and Millionaire Stricken oy Heart unease. George M. Pullman, the sleeping-car magnate and multi-millionaire, uiea suddenly of heart disease at Chicago Tuesday morning ot 5 o'clock. Mr. Pullman attenuea to nusiness i his downtown olllce as usual Monday, and after eating a hearty dinner re tired shortly after 9 o'clock. The next mornlmr he comnlalned of frightful pains and before a physician could be summoned he was dead. George M. Pullman was born In Chautauqua county, N. Y In 1831. In 1Kr he removed to Chicago and en gaged In the then novel business of raising entire blocks of brick and stone buildings. About this time ms atten tlon was first directed to the dlscom forts of long-distance railway travel, and he determined to offer the public something better. Ho remodeled two old day coaches Into sleeping cars, which at once found favor and estab lished a demtnd for Improved traveling accommodations. In 1863 ho began tho construction at Chicago of a sleeping car upon the now well-known model, which was destined to associate his name inseparably with progress in rail way equipment, it was named mo "Pioneer," and cost $18,000. Tho Pull man Car Company, of which he was president, was organized in 1867. Its business developed so rapidly that In 20 years it had 1.400 cars on more than 100,000 miles of railway. In 1887 he de signed and established the system of vestibule trains, which virtually makes an entire train a single car. In isso ho founded the industrial town of Pull man for his employees. W0UHDED PATBI0TS, Come to New York for Treatment Cuban Army in Oood Condition. Andres Hernandez and Baldomero Acosta, two Cuban ofllcers, arrived the other day at New York from Cuba for medical treatment, colonel Acosta nas bullet wounds In his head, right arm nnd legs. Colonel Hermandes's chest was pierced by two bullets and hia wounds have not healed. When seen at the Hotel Habana they snld: "Of course wo do not know much of what Is going on outside the pro vince of Havana, but we allirm that the patriot army there is in first rate condition, mere are 7,luo wen armed Cubans In the province. As to food, we fare passably well, whereas famine ex ists in the cities and towns." Three Cubans have been In St. Louis for two weeks procuring and shipping ammunition. One of them declares that they have purchased and forwarded to the Texas ports $226,000 worth of stuff. The expeditions conveying the supplies will sail from a Texas port, and In the Carribean sea will meet two other expo illtions that will set sail from New York. ' LlftPOB AHD IMDIAKS. The Combination Results In Murder and Looting of a Town. Mill Creek, a small town In the Chick asaw nation, was raided Monday by a drunken band of 35 Chickasaw braves, who terrorized the inhabitants, drove the merchants from their business houses and in the evening engaged In a wild orglo. which ended In a killing, The Indians came sweeping down unon tho town uttering Bhrlll war whoops and tiring their guns. They went tearing along the muln street, shooting sign boards full of holes and causing a general stampede. They then drew up in front of a cider Join broke it open and drank everything they could find. Then they began a systematic raid on the stores, driving the merchants ana customers out ana helping themselves to whatever struck their fancy. Luxy iewis ana J as. hc Kinney, engaged In a shooting bee in which the latter was killed. Lewis is still at large. Dingley Bill Hot Liked. At the meeting of the Central As ociatlon of German Industrials for drafting new commercial treaties. Herr Buck denounced tho Dlngley tariff as ' tne most complicated, con tradlctory and uncertain tariff ever conceived." He declared the passage of the bill was due to the capitalist speculations which are proving fatal to the Industrial existence of the United Btates. The sugar Industry would suf fer thereby, and Germany would not be In a position to support herself If the United States should retaliate with repressive duties on corn, cotton or pe irotoiim. E. SALISBURY'S SUCCESSOR. British Hobles Forming Plan to Secure the Coveted Position. In spite of the official denial of the Marquis of Salisbury's approaching re- Ignatlon of the premiership, belief In its truth I strong In political circles, t London, Where It Is considered that his retirement Is Inevitable within a few months. This view of the under current was confirmed by a cabinet minister Wednesday, who privately re marked that the Duke of Devonshire hnd declared that hp means to have the premiership when the Marquis of Salis bury resigns. The minister quoted ad ded: "This means that the candidates will be the Duke of Devonshire and Mr. Bal- ur, the latter being aided by Mr. Chamberlain. There Is not much love between the Duke of Devonshire and Mr. Chnmherlaln, and the succession o Ixird Salisbury will be a t"st between hem. If the Duke of Devonshire docs not succeed he will lose considerably as It will raise Mr. Chamberlain mora distinctly to the leadership. Mr. Cham- berlnln therefore, will support Mr. Hal- our, In the belief that should Mr. lsXI- fouri ns premier, mnke mlstnkes, tho reversion nt the premiership will go to him Mr. Chamberlain. ' The announcement of the coming re tirement of the Marquis of Salisbury has given an opportunity to the press and even the Conservative newspnpers to rako the premier over the coals ror falling to smooth the widespreadlng disaffection In the party ranks. EXPLORERS RETURN. Expedition Which Was Supposed Lost Turns np in London. Cavendish, the nephew of the duke of Devonshire, who, with a compnnlon, Lieut. Andrew, has been exploring Somallland, Fast Africa, at the head of an expedition composed of ninety Ascaris, and who, with his party, was reported to have been massacred by the natives, has arrived safely In Lon don from Zanzibar, via Klkuyu, which place the expedition reached on August last. The explorer has had a re markable Journey, lasting less than a year, during which he traversed much of the unexplored country between Berbera and Mombasa. He and his only European companion, Lieut. An drew, were everywhere received with cordiality. Even the Boranls, who were so hostile to the expedition commanded by Dr. Donaldson Smith of Philadel phia, freely supplied Cavendish with cattle and provisions. In many of the villages Cavendish found men and wo men with mutilation inflicted by the ferocious warriors of King Menellk of Abyslnnia and the expedition begged to remain In the country and defend Its Inhabitants against the Invaders. Turbulent Foreigners. The session of the unterhnus at Vienna the other evening was marked by continuous disorder, which ended in a free light. All attempt to proceed with the order of the nay were frutlle, an.l after a useless session of six hours, thj members had worked themselves Into such a passion that the chamber was In an uproar. Pandemonium reigned supreme. Members stood on their seats and In the aisles and all sorts nt threats were made. This rumpus last ed 15 minutes and then a hot headed member struck another. This was the signal for the fight. The president ab ruptly adjourned the session. Thero have been many disgraceful scenes in the unterhaus recently but none to equal that of this morning. A number of duels will certainly result. FBOM ACB0S8 THE SEA. There is a shortage of 175,000 bales In the Australian wool clip. China's salt tax produces $10,027,000 yearly. The consumption is over 3,300, 000,000 pounds. Col. Bchaeffer, an officer In the army of Luxembourg, haa been selected as provincial coinlssloner of the powers for the island of Crete. Dr. Mlqucl, the vice-president of the council of ministers at Berlin, an nnunces that the duty on American bi cycles will be increased. Colonel Bchaeffer. an officer In the army of Luxembourg, has been deflnlt- ly selected as provincial commissioner of the powers of tne island of Crete. A severe earthquake shock was ex perlcnced at Oran, Algeria, last week. Many houses were damaged and the Inhabitants were thrown Into a stnto of panic. No loss of life or serious In Jury haa been reported. Two squadrons of the North Bengal lancers fell Into an ambuscade the oth or day in the hills Bara and Mamannl, in Simla, lnd. A native officer and fourteen Sowars were killed, seven Sowars were Injured and fourteen horses killed. The Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg Is dead. She was a princess of Anhalt, was born in 1824, and was married to the Duke ot Saxe-Altenburg In ISM. The chamber of commerce of Reich enberg, Bohemia, haa passed a resotu tlon urging the government of Austria Hungary to negotiate with the othjr powers with the view of taking concert ed action against tne new united States custom tariff. Second Mate Oleson, of the Norweg ian bark Seladon, which was wrecked in the South sea last August, has ar rived at London with the 12 survivors, who floated for a month in an open boat, suffering horrible torture for want of food and water. Mississippi Biver Impro vements. Senators Gallinger, ot New llama Bhlre, and Berry, of Arkansas, ot the senatorial subcommittee, which has been inspecting the Federal works at the headquarters of the Mississippi, re turned to Washington recently. Be nator Nelson is still in the north. Be nator Gallinger said the rservoir sys tern was a great help to navigation and a prevenlve of floods, but he believed the present reservoirs snoum be repair ed and used to their fullest capacity before new ones are built. The com mittee listened to the testimony on the effect of forest dedunation on the rape rise and fall ot the river, but were un able to discover that Minnesota has been sufficiently denuded to cause any such effect at all. The senator said an extensive system of levees from Cairo to New Orleans was Inevitable Ho was opposed to Irrigation reservoir on the Upper Missouri on the ground of expense. Amerioan Steel Cheapest The London "Pall Mall Gazette, during the course ot a long article on American competition in the iron .. ., .1 aia.1 InHnutrlAU ma va "To-day we And the United fetatea not only challenging our supremacy In neutral markets, but even obtaining a foothold In England. The causes which are giving the United Btates euch a favorable position are pjrman en. MILLS ACTIVE. The Possible Production of Iron for the Tear Already Ordered. It. O. Dun & Co's., Weekly Review of Trade reports as follows for last week: After the heaviest buying evef known In many branches during Sep tember and the first half of October, it was both natural and desirable that a more quiet period should give time for testing the size and temper of retail trade and for distributing part of the enormous quantities bought. In tex tile goods the rush of orders went far beyond all distributive demand In August, and represented great re plenishment of stocks, and the similar rush for goods has been correspond ingly great In other lines during tho past two months. In Iron and steel and In boot and shoes there was actual danger of a spe culative Infection of prices such as was seen In 18HB, but It has been avoided apparently for this season by the solid sense of leading men who regard a time of comparative quiet as essential to the coming and permanence of prosperity In their lines. The Iron Industry waits, because pos sible production for the year has been practically ordered, while neither buy ers nor sellers regard contracts at cur rent prices for next year's business as quite safe. Bessemer pig Is a shade weaker at $10.40 and gray forge nt $.50 at Pittsburgh, while billets are hard to get at any price. Owing to the stoppage of only two works of moderate size has the current demand come to exceed production. Snles of warrant pig lion at Philadelphia, 25 cents below. Is not. In fact, a decline. The demand In bnrs Is the best for a long time, nnd contracts for the East river bridge, for numerous new bulld ogs nnd railway bridges, are still pending. The coke output has risen to ions weekly, unu ine mrsest known for years. AnthracTie coal Is sold at $4.15 In New York harbor vt JO cents below" the circular, and con servative estimates make the year's output 40.500,000 tons. The only note worthy feature in minor metals Is a sensational collapse In lead of 80 points with sales of 3,000 tons. Sales of wool have sharply decreased again at Boston, amounting to only 3,043,000 pounds, against over 18,000,000 pounds the last week in September, and the week there was the dullest since January 7. Some large offerings were made to realize profits before prices fell, but quotations remained unchanged because even at half a cent decline buyers were not disposed to take hold. ' The produce market acted with a little apparent reason as usual. Al though Atlantic exports of wheat were 3.576,607 bushels, flour Included, and for three weeks of October, 10.039.S08 buali els, against 7,742,214 bushels last year. with western receipts not half a mil lion bushels larger, the price advanced 2 1-2 cents. Corn, with smaller re ceipts and exports, barely a quarter of last year, declined a small fraction. Failures for tne week were m tne United States, against 274 last year, and 36 In Canada, against 60 last year. CHINESE MASSACRE. Thousands of Inhabitants Slain by Plunder ing Insurgents. The city of Kuang Yang, in Hunan province has been captured and Its in habitants massacred by a band of re bels. On August 27 the bandits scaled the walls of Kuang Yang, with the. Intent Ion of capturing the provincial prison and releasing three of their members there Imprisoned. One band tore down the prison, setting rree several nuna red murderers, thieves and Imprisoned debtors. Another gang attacked the central part of the city, first murdering the magistrate who had sent the three ban dits to prison. His entire family, num bering 32, including several servants, were killed. The entire, night was spent in slay ing and plundering. All mandarins and every civil and military officer In the city wns slain. The number killed and Injured ex ceeded 1,000. The Insurgents numbered 15.000 men, half of them armed. Their avowed object la to destroy existing government in southern China. FOREST FIRES. Hundreds of Men Employed Saving Property From the Advaneing Flames. Forest fires are doing great damage nar Bradford, Pa. In the vicinity ot Kice Brook a force of nearly 100 men are flsrhtlns the fires, and thus far their efforts have been successful. Two oil well rigs owned by the South Penn and Worth oil Companies have been destroyed and a large tract of timber laid waste. It was estimated that 6,000 acres had been burned over in the neighborhood of Rice Creek. Redhousa and vicinity have also suffered. At Chipmunk Ave oil well rigs belonging to the Seneca Oil Company burned. Oil men are sending men out In all di rections to protect their property. The forest fires at Nelson Run, near Austin, Pa., are now under control. Twenty million feet of hemlock and 25.000 cords of bark have been con sumed, resulting In a loss to C. W. & F. H. Goodyear of $200,000. The fire at Cobbin Hollow was prevented from go ing Into Barts Brook by the work ot fifty men, thus saving 6.000,000 feet ot logs and many tons of bark. No camps were burned and the loss of property outside of the Goodyear's Is very small. Over 1,000 men were engaged in fight ing the fire. There was no Insurance on the logs and bark. Tho northern part of Cayuga county, N. Y., Is ablaze with forest tires which have been raging for tho past few' days and nearly all the timber In the vicin ity of Red Creek, Lowvllle, Sterling and North Vistory haa been destroyed. Many farm houses, barns, haystacks and animals have been burned. The farmers are fighting the flames night and day, but as there has been no rain in the vicinity since last July, the parched condition of the ground and the muck in the swamps make their efforts almost futile. AH EHOIXEEBIHO FBAT. 1,700 Tone of Steel Moved in a Few Minutes Substituting One Spaa for Another. An extraordinary engineering feat was performed on the New York divi sion of the Pennsylvania railroad at Philadelphia Bunday. It was the sub stitution of one Immense bridge span for another without interrupting the movements of a single train on one of the busiest railroads In the world. The Bridge crosses the Schuylkill river. The old steel span waa too light for the heavy traffic. The engineers hit upon the plan ot building the new span alongside ot the old one, and, when everything was In readiness, of sliding the old one aside and the new one into its place. Rollers were placed on both spans. To each end ot the spans were cables connected with two powerful steam en gines, one at each end. Each span was 250 feet long and weighed a total of 1,700 tons. In two minutes the new span waa lined up and the old one removed. It was just 14 minutes from the time the first rail in the old span was cut that a train passed over the new one.
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