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WHEAT S1IIK0IM Of The Chicago Market Above the Dollar Mark. FIltST TIMS DL'UIXO CAMPAIGN shortage In Foreign rotato Crop Kt. muted at 1,000.000,000 ItualieU I'rlee of l orn Al.o Itlelug. Chicago, Aug. 80. Today, for the firm timu hIiico the present bull cuiii paign in wheat was startod, the price of September wheat Hold above the dol lar mark in Chicago. Ten mintitea af ter the opening, I1.031, was offered, mi ailvaiuie over yesterday's vluHiiiy; price of 6?j cents. Even at that tempt ing figure, the hull clique refused to let go their holdings. Enough wheat mie on the market to break the price to 1(8 7-8 cents by the time the cloning bell Hounded, but the broker who were vngineering the deal stoutly denied that it came from them. There wan, perhaps, a shade of ma liciousness in the way they forecd the shorts to hid up. It wad currently re ported on Monday, when prices broke so sharply, that the jiool was forced to put up $100,000 in margins. They certainly had their revengo today. The nne was plainly duo to the clique, winch is now swelled, by rumor, to in elude Joseph Leiter, George 11. French Allen, Grier & Co., 'and James Keene, of Wall street. The only leader. George French, who upiieared distinct ly above the surface, makes no seore that lie has a line of 6,000,01)0 bushe of September wheat. There was not much more than 1,100,000 bushels ol contract wheat in Chicago, with hardly anything coming, and an immense short line of cash wheat sold for ex lort. Hi is is the situation us it now plays into the hands of the bull com bine. The sudden rise of September wheat was not reflected in any other largi market in the country, with the excep turn of Minneapolis, where Hepteuibe bounded from 03 cents to $1. St, Louis advunoed 2 cents at one time. but relapsed to the opening prices for December. Although statistics were not given much attention, one item of foreign news had a distinct influence. The foreign potato crop shortage is estimat d at the total of 1,000,000,000 bush els, which was expected to increase the demand for American wheat. Itsinflu nce was especially felt in December wheat, which is not supposed to be tin der the thumb of any clique. Corn and provisions were both affected by the excitement in wheat. In corn, the trading was enomrous, and although an , advance of 1 to 1)4 cents was recorded 'the feeding was very strong at the close. The closing for provisions was 15 to 20 cents higher. NEWS FROM THE ISLANDS. 'Hawaii Has Nut Yet Received Japan'i A nutter. Pun Francisco, Aug. SO. The steamer Maripo.su arrived this morning from Sydney, via Honolulu, with the following Hawaiian advices: The Hawaiian government has not yet received any answer from Japan regarding the offer to refer the lmnii gration trouble to arbitration. There ' is no Change in the situation here. The China registry case was finally submitted to Judge Perry for a decision August 19, and an earlv decision is confidently expeoted, as the matter will in all probability be appealed to the supreme court. It is predicted that the question of the big steamer's regis try will be settled before she readies liore again in October. The principal point upon which the Hawaiian govern' ment rules is the question of McFar lane's citizenship, he having been born on the island of British parents, The American ship Commodore left Honolulu for New York August 19, with a cargo of sugar, valued ut $191, 200. To Conciliate With Us. London, Aug. 80. The Standard'i correspondent at San Sebastian says "I learn that Spain has intimated her willingness to make considerable re duction in the contemplated West In dian tariffs, in order to develop the trade of Cuba with the United State. She was willing to negotiate a reciproc ity treaty when the Dingley tariff came into force, but the United States re ceived advances coldly, because it wanted the Cuban question settled first Indeed, Spain is now aware , that American diplomacy will soon, raise other and more important questions be fore commercial questions are likely to be mooted." j DIimu Aldi the Inaurgent (auae. ; Havana, Aug. 80. There are 4JQ00 Spanish soldiers in the hospitals of Havana and other points. A tout 3,000 are sent back monthly to Spain incapac itated. Sickness is increasiig. The health of the city is not rood. The official reports show that ii the week ending August 12 the death rate was 90 per 1.000. Business is at a compl'je standstill. The army is not being pafl and a feel ing of hopelessness prevails among tha Spaniards and Cubans dike. London, Ang. 80. Ai dispatch from iSan Sebastian says the Spanish govern ment has learned that fat a secret an jarchist meeting in If ndon it was re Jeolved to avenge the execution of An ciolillo, the assassin of Canovas del 'Castillo, by an atteuf't on the life of the queen regent of fpain. Twenty of the ablest Barcelori detectives have gent A New York mh was arrested the other day for surfing a stole. DOOM OF TORPEDO SEALED. "Mires" Mer Ilevoliitlonlse Modern Warfare. Chicago, Aug. 80. A final 1 brass projectile, measuring four, by one and one-quarter inches, was thrown in the hike, off Van Buren street from the government pier, and at a depth of live feet it exploded. A volume of water ejwiutcd 25 feet into the air, and dead tlsh bobbed up to the surface und flouted about, mute testimony to the deHtriictiveness of the explosive. The name of this explosive, which is tho discovery of two Chicago men, is in i rex. From recent excrimeutH its inventors claim it is not a wild state ment to say that mi rex will revolution ize modern warfare. Unlike the inarino torpedo the most perfect destroying projectile known to naval engineers, mirex, a compara tively small brass casing, can be thrown from a cannon to an; distance desired under 20 miles, and, dropping into the water at tho side of a man of war, will sink to a stated depth and ex plodu with annihilating results. No wire has to be connected with the new projectile, as is the case with tho 8iib murine torpedo. The mirex project i does not pierce the steel armor of the gunboat, but settles in the water to the lepth of C, 10, 15 20, or any number of feet the operutor may wish, and then explodes: Its discoverers are Hermann G. Peffer, a salesman for Browning, King & Co., and William S. Darley, con nected with the Cleufoster Hosiery Company. They are not expert ehem ists, and mirex in its perfect state is the result of some luck and a good deal of hard work und enterprise. John II. Edclman, a wealthy former Philadelphia!), has such faith in the virtue' of mirex as a destroyer of ships and navies that he is backing it liber ally with Ins money. f etier is a modest man of 23 years, and in speaking of the explosive, said "It is neither liquid not solid, nor is it a lewder. N Inle experimenting with it Darley and myself smoke our pi lies und handle it us we would so in iiefi sand. It is an odd and wonder ful mixture, and its name signifies nothing. It explodes at any depth we desire, the explosion copending on the quantity and quality of the coinpoBi tion we place in the projectile. We are now having a gun model constructed in Chicago, and within six weeks this cannon will be finished and presented to the L mted States navy department It will throw a projectile eight inches long and three and a half inches in di ameter. This will blow into atoms any ship that will float in the lake, Each one of these shells will cost about $20, vastly cheaper than torpedos now in use and far more accurate and do strnctive." ' Mr, Darley is only 19 years of age, Ho will not divulge the character or nature of the new explosive. The projectile used In these expori ments is about the Biee of a giant fire cracker, and the ends of the cylinder are closed with a substance that looks like tinfoil. Mr. Darley was once connected with the navy department. LONG CHASE FOR A MURDERER Detectives Pursued Him Half Way Aroiiml the World. Port Townsend, Aug. 80. The steamer Portland, due from St Michaels, has on board a murderer who was chased by detectives half way around the world. He is in irons and under constant watch of two Pinkerton detectives. The prisoner, 'William Smith, was pursued over the continent. to Dyea, and across Chilkoot pass, over the lakes and down the rivers to the goldfields of Klondike, where he was taken into custodv. Smith was a storekeeper in a town near Cedar Rapids, la., up to several months ago. One night the store was burned and in the ruins was found the charred body of a man. Smith's rela tives claimed that he was burned to death in the fire. His life was insured tor 135,000, and a demand was made for the money. An investigation led to the belief that the body was not that of Smith, but of a watchman. The theory was at once advanced that Smith had committed a murder and burned his store in the hope that the body would be roasted beyond recognition, and his relatives obtain the insurance money after he had disappeared. Pinkerton men were put on the trail, and after one of the longest chases on record, arrested Smith at Dawson City on July 12. lie was taken to St Michaels to await the sailing of the Portland. Saved Hia Daughter' Lives. New York, Aug. 80. Harry G. Stone, the veteran manager of the Pat terson opera-house, became ill and wai forced to go to his home, which ii called Ryle Park, on the banks of the Passiao river, a short distance below the village of Little Falls. -His indis position provedi the salvation of his three daughters, Minnie, Bella and Maud, for he rescued them from drowning by his opportune advent from town. mi 1 1 1 m ine gins nan gone out lor a row on the river and they upset in 13 feet of water just after his arrival. Although Mr. Stone is 60 years old, he managed to reach them before they sank and saved them by almost superhuman efforts. Two were unconscious when brought ashore. ' Toronto, Aug. 80. A visiting de tachment of 15 members of the G. A. R. from Buffalo marched up Yontr treet carrying the stars and stripes. It is a violation of a civic ordinance tfl carry a foreign flag in this city, unless a British flag is also carried. A po liceman stopped the procession and told the marchers of the violation. They bought a small union jack, but no one would carry it. Finally a small boy was hired to do that duty and th veterans continued on their way. POLICE FIRED ON THE CROWD Twelve Killed and Hevernl Wounded I a Klut at Mereila' Yucatan. New York, Aug. 80. Correspond ence of the Herald from Muredu, Yu entail, under date of- August 27, says Twelve persons were killed and sev eral injured in a riot which occurrei on the plaza in front of the municipa palace last Sunday evening, The cause of the outbreak Seems to have been the prejudice of the police, who at tacked the eople because of their oj: position to the candidacy of Senor On los Peon, the present governor of Yu catan, who sought re-election. The governor instructed the chief ot police to tire on the crowd in the even of an outbreak. The chief ignored his instructions because of a rofusal on the part of the governor to reduce them to writing, and as a result the governor delegated one of his aides us acting chief of police. While the crowd was gather in around the plaza on Sunday night, Pastor Kemon Kamcriz, one of th governor's party, threw a giant fire' cracker in front of the iiolice station, It exploded, und as though acting on Bignul, the police fired on the crowd killing one womun anil two men. The crowd immediately scattered. News reached the headquarters of the national guard, und a detuchmen came out and commenced firing on the crowd. They killed nine persons and injured many more. News of the riots was at once sent to President Diaz, and he ordered the ar rest of all the officials connected with the affair. MINERS ARE ENCOURAGED. Settlement of the Strike Believed to Be In SIKht. nttsourg, Aug. 80. xne miners leaders are encouraged over the pros pects of the early settlement of the strike. Efforts are now being directed to the Pennsylvania railroad and the central field of Pennsylvania. Distriot President Dolan addreseed meetintr at Claridge, Westmoreland county, last night, und the men decid ed to quit work. President Dolan says six mineB have been closed in the Cen tral district and that work will be sus pended in that region within a short time.' Sheriff Lowry went to Bunola this morning, accompanied by several deputies, and ordered the strikers off the public roads. The first attempt at starting the mines was made at the Champion mines, neur McDonald, this morning. Two carloads of foreigneia were sent to the mines about daylight and put to work loading slack into the cars. About 600 women marched against the miners, attacked them with stones and clubs and drove them from the cars. The women then dumped the 'slack from the cars. Thev were met by 1,000 strikers and marched a short dis tance from the mine whore they ore now encamped. Shot lllin In the Keck. Spokane, Wash;, Aug. 80. Deputy Bhoriff Brown, of Cheney, this evening shot and seriously wounded J. C, Allen, known also by the alias "col ored," wanted in Spokane for robbing farmhand named Doyle, last night. Allen alighted from a freight train, and Brown placed him under arrest. Another negro, also wanted, was Been by Brown coining into town on a bi cycle. Brown tried to get both,' and Allen broke away, and ran. Brown fired two shots to scare him, and then shot him in the neck. The bullet lodged in the mouth, tearing away part of the jaw. Allen is said to be the negro who shot Hawkins in Butte, Mont, a short time ago. Tried to Starve Miner. San Francisco, Aug. 80. The An chor Point gold mine, at' Cook inlet, Alaska, was the scene of a miners' riot in July, according to news which has juBt been received in this city. About 50 men are at work there employed by a Boston corporation which owns the mines, and in July the funds for the payment of the men ran short. The men quit work, and the company with held their food and supplies to force them into submission. On the third day of this treatment, the men de manded their usual rations, and when the food was not given, they shot at the foreman and his assistant, serious ly, but not fatally wounding both of them. Underground Railroad Conductor. Chicago, Aug. 80. William Cratty, who, before the war, was one of the most notable conductors of the "under ground railroad" for the assistance of ronaway slaves, died near Maryyille, O., last night, of old age. Mr. Crattv, it is said, helped over 8,000 slaves es cape to Canada, and at one time a re ward of (3,000 was offered to any one Who would deliver him dead or alive south of Mason and Dixon's line. He was 93 years of age. Went Down on the Mexico. Ashland, Wis., Aug. 30. The Gold Lake Mining Company, at the head of which is ex-Governor Swineford, was thrown into consternation by the news that 2,000 rounds of valuable gold ore belonging to the company went down on the Mexico. It was not known that the company's representative bad ship ped it by that boat until today. A Boom In the Hoc Market. Kansas City, Aug. 30. There is a boom under way in the local hog mar ket. Today's prices were the highest reached within nearly two years, going up 10 to 15 cents a hundred, on top of a similar advance yesterday. Prices Lave advanced 40 cents since last Fri day; 70 cents since August 1, and they re now tl higher than in the middle of July. The advance in prices is due to the increased demand for meats, rather than scarcity of hogs. CRUSIIAT ST.MI0IAELS Blockade Equality at Skaguay. That LOWE'S ADVICE TO MISERS Illcli Strike on Dominion Creek Causes a HUinpedo l'lmity of Itooui In Klondike Country. Tacoma, Aug. 80. In an intorview today, Joseph Lowe, muvor of Circle City, Alaska, said: "l Here are 3,500 tons of provision stored ut St. Michaels, awaiting ship ment up the river. Half of it will not get through this year. Last winter four boats were frozen np for eigh months loaded with supplies for the camp. There will be more this year. The poor fools, or at leust 90 per cent of them, who have gone up to St, Michaels, hoping to get up the river, will be disappointed. They oannot make it The fleet of river boats is too small for the traffic and the result will bo that freight and passengers will be tied np at St. Michaols or in the river. While some of the first that reach St. Michaols can go through easily on the first trip or so of the steamers the majority cannot. "Klondike is the greatest gold camp on earth. I have been a miner for 80 years,' and know what I am talking about. There is room there for 50 000 people if they go in right. In the first place, they should not attempt to get in before next spring, and then they should go up with a year or 18 months provisions. I will go back in the spring, going in by the Fort W rangel, Stiokeen river and Lake TcbIiii route. "It is all nonsense to suppose that there is any opposition to Americans that are going in. Those British officers treat Americana just the same as they do Englishmen. Jo duty is collected except on goods taken in for trade. No miner has ever been charged duty on his outfit, and I don't believe any ever will. "Dawson City is a quiet, orderly camp. You will see 400 men drunk there at a time, but not one fight in i month. Everybody is happy and good ivitnred. mere nave been a number or new strikes beyond Klondike. One good one has been made on Dominion creek, about 80 or 100 miles from Dawson. don't know just how rich it was, but they said it was pretty good and quite a stampede was heading that way. We saw or heard nothing of the Portland. When we left St. Michaels, the most dismal place I was ever in, there were only about 20 "or 80 people there waiting for the Portland. A BULLET ENDS IT ALL. Divld 8. Tnthlll Kllla Himself In Bed With Pistol. Portland, Or.. Aug. 80. David S. Tuth ill, of this city, is lying dead at his residence, at Eighteenth and Davis streets, from a bullet wound in his temple, inflicted by his own hand. when his body was discovered yes terday morning it was dressed as if for sleep.and was reposing in bed as though us slumbers were for the night; but n his right hand was firmly grasped a 88-cahber pistol, the muzzle of which rested on the dead man's cheek, and the pillow beneath his head was satur ated with his blood. No one heard the re port of the revolver or knew of his self-destruction until an early hour yesterday morning, when an attempt was made to call him to breakfast. His sister and a servant both slept in tne dwelling, me lormer on tiie same floor and the latter above in the attic. David S. Tuthill iiad been identified with the business interests of the citv for the past 1 8 years in various capa cities. He had for many years been the confidential man of the firm of Allen & Lewis, wholesale grocers, and had been connected with various busi ness enterprises of his own. He was a iid degree Mason, a Knight Templar; and was populur in society. His vio lent death has created a great sensa- ion, and common rumor that the cause impelling him to take his own ife was defalcations from his employ ers, is supported by many circum stances, although nothing affirmative or contradictory can be obtained from Allen Lewis, manager of the firm. Will Suataln Spain. London, Aug. 80. Tho Paris corre- pondent of the Daily Mail says: United States Minister Woodford, Am bassador Porter and Ambassador White ave failed to arrive at any definite de cision at their conference. General Woodford's task is extremely delicate. He has been instructed to put the screw upon Spain, but to avoid any step lead ing to an open rupture. Much de pends, therefore, upon Spain's attitude, and upon the amount of support she re ceives in Europe. On both these points the reports of Ambassador White and Abassador Porter were unfavorable to the American case. The Spanish gov ernment is forced by public opinion to continue the policy of Canovas, and the sentiment of Iwth France and Ger many is decidedly hostile to American interference. Ooea to Cincinnati. Buffalo, Aug. 30. Cincinnati'- tri umph in securing the national encamp ment for 1898 and Pennsylvania' vic tory in winning the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Repub lic were the features of the encamp ment. Both battles were hard fought Connecticut papers say that the old est man in the state ii Manuel Oliver Levy, of Stonington, who was born in Portugal 104 yean ago. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Downing, Hopkins Company's Havlew of Trade. An inquiry into European crop con ditions conducted by tho Orange Judd syndicate of agricultural pupers, includ ing the American Agriculturist, of New York, the Orange-Judd Farmer, of Chi cago, and the New England Homestead, of Springfield, Mass., indicates that the food crop situation abroad is very grave. Estimates of Europe's (including England) need of wheat imports range all the way from 800,000,000 to 400, 000,000 bushels. Europe's wheat crop for 1805, 1894 and 1893 averaged 1, 500,000,000 bushels. In 1891 the fam ine year, it was only 1,200,000. The impression is gaining ground that Eu rope's wheat this yeur is even less than in 1891. But this is not the worst of it. Europe usually produces as much rye as she does wheat. It is the bread grain of the masses. The rye crop of the principal European countries has averaged above 1,800,000,000 annually for 1800, 1805, 1894 and 1893. This Benson the rye crop of these countries cannot much exceed 875,000,000 bush els. Quite as bad is the potato pros pect. Only about 1,850,000,000 bush els of potatoes will be harvested in these countries this year. Without re gard to the United Kingdom or other European countries, there is-a shortage of som million bushels of potatoes. The European shortage, compared with the average, follows: Wheat, bushels Hnn.fiu3.OD0 Kve, bushelH 8.H6.1XKUM) 1'utaloea, bushels J.UUU.ihiu.uuu Total l,635,0UO,UCXI The Hungarian department of agri culture says: "The favored countries are the United States and Canada. The latter will soon be one of the most important of the exporting oountrios, its excess over last year's production being 70,000,000 bushels of wheat, and 20,- 000,000 of corn. Its output of all sorts of grain was 270,000,000 bushels. The yield of wheat in Great Britain this season is 50,000,000 bushels zsinst 63,000,000 lust year. ' The wheat area of British India is reduced from 23, 000,000 acres to 18,000,000, and the wheat yield from 234,000,000 bushels to 203,000,000 bushels. The United States, which has re duced its area sown in oats by 2,000, 000 acres, that for corn by 1,000,000 acres, while that in other grain re mains unchanged, will nevertheless dis pose of 534,000,000 bushels of wheat, againBt 434,000,000 bushels last year. Tortlaud Marketa. Wheat Walla Walla, 80 83c; Val ley and Bluestem, 84 85c per bushel. Flour Beet grades, $4.50; graham. 3.85; superfine, $3.50 per barrel. Oats Choioe white, 85 30c; choice gray, 84c per busliel. Barley Feed barley, $18; brew ing, $18 19 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $14 per ton; middlings, $21; shorts, $15.50. Hay Timothy, $12 13.60; clover, $1011; California wheat, $10 11; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per ton. Eggs 12,c per dozen. Butter Fancy creamery, 4560o; fair to good, 8540c; dairy, 25 30c per roll. Cheese Oregon, o'. Young America, 12Bc; California, 9 10c per pound. Poultry Chiokens, mixed, $3.60 8.75 per dozen; broilers, $1.603.50; geese, $34; ducks, $33.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 10 lie per pound. Potatoes. O.egon Burbanks, 85 40c per sack; new potatoes, F" per Back; sweets, $1.75 per oental. Onions California, new, red, $1.25; yellow, $1.50 per cental. Hops 10llio per pound for new crop; 189H crop, 4 6c. Wool Valley, 1415c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 1012c; mohair, 20o per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 2i4e' dressed mutton, 4j2c; spring lambs, b per pound. Hogs Gcoss, choice heavy, $4.60; light and feeders, $34; dressed, $3 4.25 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, $3.758; cows $2.25; dressed beef, 45o per pound. Veal Largo, 88o; small, 4W per pound. Seattle Marketa. Butter Fancy native creamery, brick, 20c; ranch, 10 13a Cheese Native Washington, 10 lc; California, 9Jc, Eggs Fresh ranch, 1920a Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, ens, 10 lie; spring chickens. $2 3.60; ducks, $2.608.75. Wheat Feed wheat, $30 per ton Oats Choice, per ton, $23. Corn Whole, $23; oraoked, per ton, $23; feed meal, $22 per ton. r Barley Kolled or ground, per ton, $23; whole, $22. Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef, steers, 6c; cows, 5jc; mutton sheep. 6c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 6. Fresh Fish Halibut, 4c; salmon, 6c; salmon trout, 7 10c; flounders and sole, 84; ling cod, 45; rock cod, 6c; smelt, 24c. Haa FrancUeo Marketa. Wool Choice foothill, 9 12c; San Joaquin, 6 months' 8 10c; do year's staple, 7 9c; mountain, 11 13c; Ore gon, iu( uc per pound. Hops 610o per pound. Millstuffs Middlings, $19 22; California bran, $14 14.60 per ton. Onions New red, 70 80c; do new ilverskin, $1 1.10 per oental. Potatoes New, in boxes, 40 60c. Fresh fruit Apples, 4065c per large box; apricots, 20(2 40c; Fontain bleau grapes, 20 35c; muscats, 40 60c; black, 80 50c; tokay, 40 60c; peaches, 25 60c; pears, 40 60 per box; plums, 20 40c; crab apples, 15 85c. Hay Wheat,$12 15; wheat and oat. $1114; oat, $1012; river barley, $78; bt barley, $913; alfalfa, $8.60 10 clover, $7.60(3 9.60 CONCESSION TO AMERICANS. Valuable Commercial rrlvlleaea He- cuivd In Columbia. Kansas City, Aug. 80. A Kuns.is City syndicate representing the Pitta burg & Gulf railroad interests, haa secured a concession from the govern ment of Colombia giving valuable com mercial privileges in the South Amer ican republic. This concession, which was secured through J. Edward Buckley, United States vice connstil at Bogota, given tho right to navigate the Magdalcmt river and to build a railroad aoross the conn try from a point 250 miles from tho mouth of the river at Bogota, and thence on south through the whole of tho counrty. The project also carries with it tho establishment of a line of steamships, from some jvoint on the Gulf to some of the kii ts of Colombia on the Curib ean sea. It is the aim of the Pittsburg 8c Gulf Company to build up a profitable traffic between Kansas City and South America. TELEGRAM SAVED HIS LIFE. A Stoekton'i Man'a Eaeape Mistake at m Drugglat Nearly Fatal. Sacramento, Aug. 30. Goorge Ladd, one of the most prominent wholesale liquor-dealers in Stockton, left this city tonight for Portland, Ore., to seek his health. Before he left ho bad a doc tor's prescription filled at one of the ipuding drug stores, hut as fortune would have it he received a telegram in time to keep him from taking the medicine. Had the telegram failed to reach him he would have died from the effects of a deadly dose. The olerk who filled the prescription took the wrong bottle and put in coi rosive sublimate instead of the drug that was written in the prescription. The error was discovered about two houra after the train hud started and a tele gram was sent ahead in the almost Tain hope that it would reach him in time. The telegram said: "Do not take the medicine; it i poison and sure death." A duplicate of the dispatoh was sent to Chief of Polioe Drew, of this city, and instructions were given to the offi cers, who boarded the train just as Mr. Ludd was about to take the dose that would have ended his life, and the tele graph triumphed over the bungling of a druggist's olerk. Quart! Mining Mora Certain. Washington, Aug. 80. General W. W, Duffleld, superintendent of the coaBt and geodetic survey, in disoussing the gold discoveries in Alaska, gave this advice to young men: "If I were a young man," he said, "I should get about a 75-ton schooner at Seattle, take supplies and engage the services of a first-olass prospector. Then I should cruise along the south eastern part of Alaska, in what is called Alexander archipelago. There are a number of islands there and more gold lodes than at any place with whiolt I am acquainted. The mining would not be 'placers,' but the ore can be got ten out very cheaply and being directly on the sea, the transportation amount to nothing, except the time spent" Gold Duat From Sawdust Port Townsend, Aug. 80. Mr. J. Metculf, of Detroit, Mich., who oamo down from St. Michaels on the Col man, states that he saw a man wash $13.60 from one pan of BawduBt which he took from the floor of a barroom in Dawson City. It is said to be a common prac tice for miners to opon gold dust bags and take out a pinch of gold dust in payment for drinks. A Coatljr Hypnotic Teat. Tallulah Fulls, Ga., Aug. 80. A suit for $1,550 damages has been filed in this county which develops a sensa tionally unique story. Mrs. Fairbanks Higgins and her daughter, of Atlanta, have been spending the summer here, and in the burning of the Grandview hoel. at which they were stopping, lost their possessions, amounting to $1,550, They sued the proprietor to recover. ' Mrs. B. A. Young, proprietress of the hotel, files an answer alleging in substance that at an evening social the young lady was hypnotized and com manded to fire the hotel. When she retired to her room it is claimed that she literally obeyed the injunction and robbed herself of a right to sue. The Women Marched. Pittshug, Aug. 80. The wives and daughters of the striking miners at DeArmitt's Oak Hill mine took a prominent part in today's demonstra tion. Early this morning a dozen or more women gathered at the camp. and with flags and banners marched along the road leading toward the tip ple. Un their way they met a number of miners going to the pit, and greeted them with yells and jeers. They de rided the miners who were working ; and ridiculed them in a manner which caused many of them to hang their heads in shame. The women say they will make a demonstration every da hereafter. HalUbury'a Flan. Rome, Aug. 80. Italy has wired Morocco, threatening to dispatch a man-of-war to Tangier, unless the crew of the Italian brig Fidicura is released. Moorish pirates recently attacked anil plundered the Fidicura and detained the crew. Falnt-Hrarted ftold Keekers Return. Seattle, Aug. 80. The steamer City of Topeka arrived trom the north thin morning, bringing excursionists ami about 80 men from Skagnay who canto down because they were afraid they could not get over the passes this win ter. Tibs it the largest number yet to come back and the men who came aver that there will be many more in the next few weeks. No change in the condition of the trail is reported and no Yukon miners direct from the mines) came by this steamer.