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01 FLAG OVER THE) The United States Will An. nex Dawson City. TAUT OF YUKON. IS IX ALASKA Strong Effort! Will lie Made to Iterlalm It Serious Complications May Arise Other Alaskan New. Port Townsend, Sept. 8. A letter jiiHt received from Julin U. Smith, United States commisioner at Dyea unl Skaguay, intiniutcH that government .officials now on the way to the Upper Yukon may bv their official acts bring mi serious internationul compliciitioiig with the Dominion government, lie lays: "It in announced here by a deputy United States marshal that the United States government ia to make claim for a large portion of the Yukon gold fields which have heretofore been supposed to he in British territory, and that the territory which is claimed as being within Alaska includes Dawson City. "The basis of the claim to be made by the United States official to the dis puted territory is in the fact that the boundary line has never been deter mined, and that the United States claim to possess information as to sur veys made by the Canadian government that fixes Dawson City and a large por tion of the district in Alaska." Tan Attacked by fluid Fever. Santa Rosa, Cal., Sept. b. A letter has been received by Deputy Postmas ter Griggs from his son, Joseph, who is a member of the crew of the United States gunboat Concord. The letter is dated Juneau, August 25, and gives details of the desertions of 45 men from the Concord during its cruise in Alas kan waters. It says: "Some of the boys got the gold fever and ran away, but were brought back, and are now in double irons. The ship lost 45 good seamen, but if they are fools enough to go and starve this winter they are not fit for the ship." To Klondike by Ilalloon. Toronto, Sept. 6. Aeronaut Leo Stevens hu successfully tested his new generator for nianufaturing gas for his bulloon, and gays lie will leave for Klondike the latter part of this month, lie declares he will go to Andree's res cue providing his later experiments are uiecessful. ALASKA'S SILENT CITY. Member or the Lulgl Farty' Say They Saw the Mirage. Seattle, Sept. 6. Alaska's Silent City has emerged ionce more from its mysteriotiB hiding place, and revealed its presence to five members of the party that acompanied Prince Luigi up Mount St. Eliae. In the early morn ing of July 13, the party, while return ing from the ocean with supplies, sud denly saw the city mirrored in the clear atmoephere. The vision was so dear that C. W. Thornton, who first noticed it, wrote in his notebook as fol lows: . "It required no effort of the imagina tion to liken it to a city, for the image was so distinct and plain that it re quired, instead, a strong faith to be lieve that it was not in reality a oity." Whereas the Silent City, of which Minor W. Bruce wrote, was seen from Muir glacier, the one obsercved by Mr. Thornton and company was observed from Malaspina glacier, more than 100 miles distant. It remained a perfect image for 80 minutes, and then slowly faded away, while in its place appeared a rocky ridge. A BRIDGE-JUMPER. Hit Life Probably the Penalty or Hit Recklessness. New York, Sept. 6. William Orton jumped from the Brooklyn bridge this afternoon, and now lies in a critical condition at the marine hospital. He rode on a truck going to Brooklyn shortly before 2 o'clock. When the truck was near the center of the bridge, Orton got off and quickly climbed upon the rail. The bridge was crowded with promenadcrs, but no policeman was , near. Orton stood on the rail for a few moments, and throwing off his hat, jumped oit into space. He turned over several times in his descent, and struck the water on his right side. When he came to the surface, the crew of the tug gratitude fished him out. Orton was in an exhausted condition, and, after a while said: "I did it; I did it; didn't I?" Then lie sank off into a state of coma, from which he had not recovered at last ac counts. Fly Wheel Bunt. Porstmouth, O., Sept. 8. A 40-ton , fly-wheel at the Burgess steel and iron wVirlia was bursted bv a 4.800-pound incot stopping a roll. The mill was crowded with workmen. John Murphy rled 30 feet and badly bruised. The roof was wrecked. Beams two feet square were cut in two like straws. The mill was set on fire, but the flames were soon extinguished and the furnace de stroyed. The loss cannot be estimated, but the damages will close the mill un til a new fly wheel is secured. Chinese Marries an English Girl. Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 3. John II. Taylor, an Americanized Chinese, was married yesterday to Carol Dis more, a pretty woman 22 years old. The bride was bora in Manchester, England. She first met her husband in the Mott street mission, after he had moved here from Oakland, CaL In the public schools in Japan the Engtish language is required by law to Le taught. AWAITING HER FATE. A Glimpse at Kvaiigellna CUneros III Her I'rUon Home. New, York, Sept. 0. A special to tho World from Havana hiivh: The World's corresiiondeut went to see Evangelina Cisneros in her prison. Tuesdays,. Thursdays and Saturdays urn visiting days lit the woman's jnil, anil the ante-room m these days is full of people from 12 to 4 P. M., who have come to condole with and bear good tidings to their relatives and friends. When the World's rorreHxnrient asked to see Miss Cisneros, he wus al lowed to pass through the outside iron gate into a small room with a stone floor, on one of the walls of which was painted in large letters, "Salla de Jus tica." Evangelina was sent for up stairs, and while waiting the corre spondent had the opiwrtunity to notice some of the other women who were re ceiving visits. One was a welf-drcssed woman who had murdered her husband. Sitting next to her was a good-looking woman who had been caught selling ammunition and supplies to the iilsur gonts. She was a political prisoner. Next to her was a woman who kept a lodging-house in Havana, and had rented a room to two men whom she did not know. While their baggage was being moved into the room the polio seized two of their trunks and found arms and ammunition. The men escaped, but the landlady was arrested. She knew nothing of the case, but was held responsible, and is now waiting the result of the full and long investi gation. A few minutes after the arrival of the correspondent Evangelina came tripping down the stairs and wulked gracefully across the end of he court yard and out through the gate. into the reception room. She is beyond ques tion pretty. She is petite of figure and graceful in all her movements. Her manners are perfect and her eelf-pob-eession wonderful. She said she could not make any statement on paper be cause her friends had told her not to, but she talked freely of her hopes and fears and answered questions seemingly without reserve. -She did not receive her meals from the outside, she saidj because she was afraid of treachery, and preferred to be content with the rations of the jail. There are eight or ten other women in this same big room. All looked clean and respectable, and all were white women. One of them was a distinguished-looking lady of about 60, with handsome gray hair. Some alleged political offense is the cause of her im prisc nment. Ei angelinals the most animated of all. She is the star boarder, and re ceives more attention and has more vis itors thun the others. She said the letters she received from Colonel Berris on the Isle of Pines, and which contain evidence of his guilty intentions to ward her, were all sent by her friends to Austria, and from there direct to Spain to the queen regent. She says if they could be produced before a fair court hjs conviction would be certain. The colonel says that he wrote her but one letter, and that granted the permit to her father to travel as a peddler. She would not describe the. events of the night of July 20, 1896, further than to say that she knew Colonel Berris was ooming to her house that night, because his secretary had told her so. She opened the door when he knockod. As to how he was seized, or by whom she would not say. She escaped from the house and was caught and arrested the following morning aiJ brought to Havana. She says that the greatest favor anyone could do for her would he to secure for her an interview with General Weyler. She says: "I could convince him, if he would only hear me." In government oircles nothing has been heard from Madrid in connection witli transferring her to a convent. Opinions differ as to whether such a change would be of benefit. If her case is let alone for a while she will bo released and perhaps ordered to leave tho island. EIGHT SUCCUMBED TO FEVER Fatal Expedition of Mine Proapeoton to South America. Denver, Sept. 6. George W. Adams, of Cripple Creek, arrived in this city today from the gold fields of South America. Fourteen months ago .Ad ams left this city to try his- fortune in South American mines. He went to the gold fields 800 miles from George town in company with eight Ameri cans, remaining there 11 months. Of tho nntirn rmrtv of nine he alone escaped death from the fatal fever. One by one he saw his companions die ot the terrible disease; saw holes scooped in the ground, and their bodies, twist ed from pain, covered with earth. He was attacked twice himself with the malady, and all but died, and finally, after seeing the last of the eight die in annntr Ko h- puma twrrnr-strinkpn mul fled from the country, from which he says not one ot 70 wnue mea ever re turnde alive. A Fatal Accident. Moscow, Idaho, Sept. 6. By the upsetting of a lamp the clothing of Mary Hildebrant, aged 4, caught fire and her body was burned almost to a crisp. The child died after three hours of terrible agony. Mrs. Hildebrant ' was badlv burned in her efforts to save her child's life. Spain's Sick Soldier. Havana. Sept 6. The last two steamers which hare sailed for Spain carried 1,600 sick soldiers. Captain- fieneral General Weyler received from Spain today $2,000,000 in silver, to be used in defraying the expenses ol tbs war in Cuba. Four camels have been aoccesfully acclimated in Poland by Count Skor zewski, who has had them broken to the plow on his estate in the province of Posea. NG THE END. Great Coal Ml"""' Strike Is Practl. leally Otrr. Columbus, ..Kpit. . Tho end of the great millers'' strike is in sight. This afternoon1 the national executive board of the United Mineworkers' Association agreed to recommend to tho miners a proposition from the Pittsburg 0iratora for-a straight price of 06 cents a ton, to continue in force until the end of the year, with the additional mutual understanding that a joint meeting of operators mid miners shall be held in December, 1807, fur the purpose of de termining what tho rate of mining shall be thereafter. A delegate convention of all miners who have suspended work has boon called to meet in Columbus 8eptemler 8, at 10 A. M., to act upon tho recom mendation. President Katohford and the other memliers of the board say there is not the slightest doubt b.t that the miners will approve the recom mendation. The proposition does not involvo arbitration, and it provides for an immediate settlement of the strike As soon as the miners ratily the proposition work will be resumed in all the mines. McDonald Mlnen Out. Pittsburg, Pa., Snet. 8. Colonel Kend's miners at McDonald, Pa., will not go back at the terms offered by him yesterday. The committee appointed to present his ultimatum to tho men reported today that meetings were held last, niirht. and it was decided to accept no rate except 69 cents, and not to work for that price unless all the otherminers do it. Operators here say they will not pay 69 oents, and will now go ahead with their arrangsmeiits to start tiie mines with new men. Marchera Again Enjoined. Wheelinff. W. Va.. Sent. 6. An other injunction was served this morn na on J. Kea. James Wood and 73 other named and an unlimited number of unnamed and unknown people, pro hibiting them from holding meetings or marching near the property of the Worthington Coal & Coke Company. This injunction was issued Dy judge J. H. Hagaus, judge of the Marion oounty court. Assistance From San Francisco. San Francisco, Sept. 6. The San Francisco labor council tonight adopted a resolution recommending the affil iated unions to instruct their members to contribute one day's wages to the striking miners in the East, the money to be sent to Secretary Fearne, at U lumbus, O. TWELVE MINERS KILLED. Explosion In a Coul Mine Near Glen wood Spring, Colo. Glenwood Sprincs, Colo., Spet. 6. A coal dust explosion in one of the chambers of the Sunrise Coal Company, the property of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Companv, at Sunshine, 12 miles southeast of Glenwood Springs, killed 11 Italians and one American tonight, n few minutes before 0 o'clock. The men were prerjaring to leave the mine on the dav shift when the disaster oc curred. A shot had been fired, and in stead of its being a direct explosion, which in miners' parlance is called a "blowout," it oreatod a flame, which shot backward and caught the dust that had accumulated in the chamber intsead of dislodging the seam of the coal in tended. At the time of the explosion there was a barrel of powder in the chamber, which ingited and aided the disaster which would have occurred through the coal dust exploding alone. The Sunshine mine, where the disaster occurred, is of a peculiar coal, a com bination of anthracite and bitumen, and there is a belief that the gather ing of coal dust in the chamber was due to excessive explosions caused by a desire to empty the chamber too quick ly. In the property there are 50 to 65 men employed. The single chamber where the men were killed, was the only one damaged. Two hours after the explosion occurred, the bodies of the dead men were all brought to the surface. ' Vasques Was Ieported. San Francisco, Sept. 0. -The steamer Aoapulco brought information of an other political earthquake in Guate mala. When the vessel reached Aca jutla it wsa met by a telegram from President Barrois and held until 11 o'clock at night, when a special train arrived with Genoral Vasque, ex-president of Honduras, under guard. It was ascertained that Vasquez, who hud taken refuge in San Jose tie Guatemala after his expulsion from Honduras, had been ordered deported by Barrois The refugee was put on board the steamer and landed at Acapnlco. It is said he was detected in fomenting a revolution against Barrois. Lead Industry Booming. St. Louis, Sept. 6. Prosperity hasf struck the lead industry, and the mar ket is on the boom. Prices are higher than they have been for the past five years, with the prospect of attaining the highest point in the history of the metal. Missouri mines, which were on tho point of dosing down, have resumed operations in full blast, and will pro duce a larger tonnage than ever before. Since August, 18U6, when the price of lead reached the lowest, it has been gradually climbing, until today it was quoted at $4.05 to $4.10 per 100 pounas. Bicycles Are Personal Property. Oakland ChI.. SeDt. 6. Judge Eli Worth has ruled that a bicycle is per sonal property and exempt from execu tion if nesd by the owner in his daily business. ' Ereaeb Monuments. France is the country of monuments. It has set up about 800 monuments to more or less distinguished Frenchmen during the last 25 years, and there are row 127 committees collecting money tor more NEAR TO SEIZE THE CANAL Japan Has Designs Upon the Nicaragua Waterway. DSITED STATES TO RE IGNORED Negotiations Upon the Subject Pending Between Japan anil the (renter Republic. New York, Sept. 6. A special to the Herald from Washington says: Japan, notcontent with an interference n President McKinley's Hawaiian an nexation policy, now has designs upon the Niearauga canal. According to seim-officiul advices just received here from Nicaragua, the Japanese govern ment is secretly negotiating with the diet of the Greater Republic of Central America, which recently met in Salva dor, for the construction of the Nicara gua canal, independently and in defi ance of the interests of the United States or other nations. This action of Japan, taken in con nection with her recent attitude in re gard to Hawaiian annexation is of the greatest significance, showing as it does to the authorities that there is no limit to the ambition of the nation, and that her aggressive policy may yet get her into trouble with the United States. That the administration will resent liny interference with the Nicaragua canal project as it did in the case of the Hawwaiian annexation treaty goes without saying. If Japan oan encompass it, according to the Nicaraguan advices received here, she would like to obtain the abro gation of all treaty rights possessed by the United States in relation to inter Dceanic transit and the forfeiture of the American oanal concessions from Nic aragua, and to immediately make a treaty with the diet of the Greater Re public of Central American giving her control of the route through .Nicaragua. In the negotiations Costa Rica has not been consulted, it being well known that she would not assent to a violation of a treaty right. It bus been suspected in some quarters that England, which has always been ' anxious to acquire at least a joint control of the canal, might be working in collusion with Japan in the "dickering" with the diet now un derstood to be in progress, but nothing has yet come to the surface to indicate that she has encouraged Japan in the move. It is said that the agent of the Nic aragua canal here has laid the faots be fore Mr. Hitchcock, president of the oanal company in New York, 'with the suggestion that the department be ap prised of the secret negotiations that are now being carried on between Japan and the diet. Senor Zelaya, the president of Nic aragua, it is understood, has admitted to close personal friends that Japan is now negotiating with the diet, but in each case he advised the strictest sec recy. A private letter just received in this oity from Nicaragua says: "Among Amenoans in Oentrai America the belief is general that the Greater Republic of Central America, which is represented in diplomatic affairs by a diet composed of three members, one each from Nicaragua, Salvador and Honduras, was organized principally in order that Nicaragua might absolve herself from individual responsibility as a nation, and thereby abrogate her intoroceanio transit treaty . with the United States. The so-called Greater Republic, resenting the failure of the United States to recognize the Greater Republic (receiving Senor Rod riguez) and in failing to accredit a United States minister to the Greater Republic, is likely to make a treaty with Japan granting her a concession for the construction of the canal. "The United States minister here believes that when this news readies Washington the state department will send a note to Japan asking if she is seeking to interfere with our treaty rights in the premises. The Americans in Nicaragua believe that the United States government will insist that her interoceanic treaties with Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras and Colombia -are yet in force, although the diet claims that Nicaragua and Honduras are no longer separate and individual nations and are therefore Irresponsible." Although state' department officials will not admit that any official news has cometoconfirm theprivate advices, there are reasons for believing that the authorities have been watching Japan's movements in Central America with more or less suspicion for some time past. . Moving the Grain Crops. Chicago, Sept. 6. A million dollars a day at a low estimate is the amount of money being sent out by the banks of Chicago to heip the fanners move the big grain crops which they have be gun to harvest. Fifteen million dollurs is a close approximation to the sum which has been sent to the West and Southwest during the past two weeks, and yet the movement has only begun. It shows signs of growing in strength every clay. The bulk of the money thus far sent out has gone to Kansas City and Omaha, but large sums are reported as going to Minneapolis and Duluth and the Northwest. . Burled In Collapsed Building. Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 6. A dispatch from Montreuz, 14 miles from here, announces that the asylum for the insane, which was in course of con struction, has collapsed, burying a number of workmen in the ruins. The bodies of seven dead men have been re covered. : A Minneapolis genealogist reckons up four billions of persons between William the Conqueror and one of his descend' anU now living. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Downing, Hopkins ft Company' Review . of Trade. We have hud a week of ner vous, or ratio markets, fluctuations covering a wido range, but finally set tling near the figures of a week ago. Receipts are,eomparatively light, with a good demand both homo and abroad. Exports for the week were ugiin very heavy (6,208,247 bushels), and that ratio will probably be increused short ly. The rt)ort of the Hungarian min ister of agriculture estimates the deficit in the w orld's wheat crop at about 820, 000,000 bushels. This a very bullish estimate and will make itself felt in the oaloulations of the grain trade. Thresh ing returns from the Northwest, while meagre as yet, are very disappointing, the yield falling below even the latest estimates, while the quality is very poor indeed, and there will be a great deal of low grade and rejected wheat on the market when the orop gets to mov ing more freely. We feel very bullish indeed on the general outlook, and be lieve that wheat will sell fur above the dollar mark before Christmas. It is perfectly nutural that we should have reactions; it is a sign of a healthy mar ket, but we consider we have had ours after the late advance. There has been a very firm undertone to corn, and while it has reacted from the sharp rally that followed the break of last week, yet there is no sign of any real weakness and there is a fooling that it will seek a much higher level of prices than thoso now prevailing. Re ceipts have been large, with a good de mand. The export demand still con tinues to make itself felt, and clear ances last week aggregated nearly 8, 000,000 bushels, and would have been larger had there been vessel room to ship it in. Crop news contineus prac tically unchanged, the crop making lir progress during the week. Portland Markets. Wheat Walla Walla, 84c; Val ley and Bluestem, 87c per bushel Flour Best grades, $4.40; graham, (3.85; superfine, $3.50 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 86c; choice gray, 85c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $18; brew ing, $18 19 per ton. Millstufl's Bran, $14 per ton; middlings, $21; shortB, $15.60. Hay Timothy, $12 12. 50; clover, $10 11; California wheat, $10 11; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per ton. Eggs 18 14c per dozen. Butter Fancy creamery, 47M55o; fairtogood, 8745c; dairy, 8085c per roll. Cheese Oregon, 11 o; Young America, lac; California, 9 10c per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.60 2.75 per dozen; broilers, $1.252.25; geese, $4 4. 50; ducks, $3 08. 50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 10 11c per pound. Fotutoes. O.egou Burbanks, 40 45c per saok; new potatoes, 50o per saok; sweets, $1.40 per cental. Onions California, new, red, $1.25; yellow, 1 per cental. Hops 10c per pound for new crop; 1896 crop, 6 6c. Wool Valley, 1415c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 10 12c; mohair, 20o per pound. 1 ; Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 22)c; dressed mutton, 5c; spring lambs, 5) per pound. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50; light and feeders, $34; dressed, $3 4.25 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, $2.76(98; cows $2.25; dressed beef, 45': pound. ' Veal Largo, 4)o; Bmall, per pound. Seattle Markets. Butter Fancy native creamery, brick, 20c; ranch, 1012o. Cheese Native Washington, 10 llo; California, 9)0. Eggs Fresh ranch, 1920o, Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 10llo; spring chickens, $2 3.60; ducks, $2.603.75. Wheat Feed wheat, $30 per ton. Outs Choice, per ton, $22. Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per Vn. $22; feed meal, $22 per ton. Barlev Rolled or ground, per ton, $22; whole, $22. . Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef, steers, 6c; cows, 5c; mutton sheep, 55,'uc; pork, 7c; veal, small, 6. Fresh Fish Halibut, 4(c; salmon, 45o; salmon trout, 710o; flounders and sole, 3(34; ling cod, 46; rock cod, 6c; smelt, 2J4c. Han Francisco Markets. Wool Choice foothill, 9 12c; San Joaquin, 6 months' 8(3 10c; do year's staple, 79c; mountain, 11 13c; Ore gon, 10 13c per pound. Hops 610o per pound. Millstuffs Middlings, $1922; California bran, fl414.50 per ton. Onions New red, 7080o; do new silverskin, $11.10 percental. Potatoes New, in boxes, 40 00c. Fresh fruit Apples, 40 65c per large box; apricots, 20 40c; Fontain bleau grapes, 20 35c; muscats, 40 50c; black, 30 60c; tokay, 4050o; peaches, 2560c; pears, 4050 per box; plums, 20 40c; crab apples, 15 85c Hay Wheat,$1216;wheatandoat, $1114 oat, $1012; river barley, $7 8; l"Bt barley, $9 12; alfalfa, $8.50(310 clover, $7.509.60. Cheese Fancy mild, new, 8c; fair to good, 7o per pound. Butter Fancy creamery, 22,; do seconds, 2122c; fancy dairy, 20c; good to choice, 1820o per pound. Eggs Store, 16 18c; ranch, 20Q 24o; Eastern, 14 17; duck, 16i per dozen. Citrus fruit Oranges, Valencias, $3 3.00; Mexican limes, $56; Cali fornia lemons, fancy, $3; do common, $l2perbux. A large flock of pigeons has taken possession of a grove in Shasta county, Cal INCREASE IN EXPORTS. rhe Business Bone In July the Largest ' In Our History. Washington, Sept 6. The figures ot exports from the United States for July show an inoreaso over tho eorresionding month last year of about $4,100,000. The domestic exports last year were tho largest in our history. The total ex ports in July were $549,943,870, against $500,572,050 for the first sevort mouths of last year. The exerts of agricultural products show a decrease during the period, while those of man ufactured products increased. The exports- of gold for July were $5,482,869, against $11,971,438 for July, 1890, and for the first seven months of this year, $30,559,071. against $54,920,948 for the correspond ing period last year. The export of silver for the first seven months of 189tt wore $32,859,204, against $36,083,659 last year. WANTS TO KEEP HIS OFFICE. A Superintendent of Malls Bum tk Postmaster-General. Washington, Sept 6. John O. Woods, superintendent of mails at the Louisville postofflce, today, brought suit against Potmator-Gcneral Gary and the postofflce department to pre vent them from removing him front service. Woods was notified his ser vices would be dispensed with, and ha refused to resign. The court, haa is Biied a temporary restraining order to protect his rights. At the postofflce department, it la stated that the office of superintendent of mails, which Woods is seeking to keep, is uniformly filled by details of employes of the railroad mail serviee. This is the nature of a temporary pro motion, and the order against which. Woods complains directed hiin to "re sume" his former run in that service. With this notification to Woods to return to his old work, was the formal detail of Clerk O'Donnell to succeed him as superintendent. The restrain ing order issued by Judge Bingham was served . on' Postmaster-General Gary and First AssiBstant Postmaster general Heath today. ALLEGED SPANISH VICTORY. OIHclul Account of Engagement With ' the Insurgents. - Havana, Sept. 6. It was officially announced today that a force of 200 Spanish infantry, commanded hy Cap tain Caesaro Ponton, at suunrise yes terday surprised an insurgent force camped on the heights of Joro, prov ince Piimr del Rio. killing 26 of tho enemy and wounding several others. The Spaniards captured several prison- ., ers. f Another Spanish column, while re connoitering in the hills of Ruby ami La Guana, province of Pinar del Rio, killed 24 insurgents, the official re- ports say. ' v Captain-General Weyler, escorted by a detaolnnent of 150 oavalry from Mad ruga, passed through San Antonio and San Nicholas yesterday, and camped for the night at the sugar plantation of Amistead, near Guinea, this province. On his way through San Nicholas, the captain-general fined the mayor of that place $100 and imprisoned the military contractor at Sari Nicholas, both of them having been concerned in deliver ing incomplete rations to the troops. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Santiago de Cuba yesterday. Caught by aa Alpine Avalanche. Berne, Sept. 6. Further advioea from Lasalle, near Mont Pleureur, show that the reports of an aooident to a party of Alpine tourists in that vicin ity were not exaggerated. Eight persons started from Sion, the oapitul canton of Valais, to ascent! Mont Pleureur. The mount is 12,165 feet high, and is not very difficult of ascent. The tourists were led by Pas tor Gonin, of Sion, and they made the ascent divided into two parties of four each. The first party reached the summit, and the second was only a short dis tance behind, when the four persona composing it were swept by an ava lanche into a crevasse a thousand feet deep. It is hoped that some of the tourists may be rescued. The ascend ing party was composed of PaBtor Gonin, six schoolboys and a young En glishman named Bernard. Tragedy of the Arlsnna Desert. Hackberry, Ariz., Sept. 6. During the latter part of lust week four men who had been working at White hills, 50 miles north of here, left camp and started toward Nevada. They had been on a protracted spree, and when they left camp it was night, and they took no water. Yesterday they were found 10 miles from the river, two of them dead. The others were nearly dead, but may recover. Jara Ma guire, a blacksmith, and an unknown man are dead. ineir tongues are swollen and cracked and showed the marks of indescribable suffering. Jame Rogers and P. Goldsworthy were found nearly dead, but were carried to set tlement, where they may recover. Hostile to Woodford. Madrid, Sept. 6. All the newspa pers of the city publish strong protests against the mission of General Stewart Woodford, the new United States min ister to Spain, thus causing widespread irritation against the United States. Many Families Homeless. Kansas City, Sept. 6. Thirty-five families were rendered homeless to night by a fire on the Kaw river bot toms, just across the Kansas line. An entire block of frame buildings bound ed by James, Reynolds, North Jame and North First streets, were destroy ed, entailing a property loss of $60,000. Wild geese make about 48 miles an hour, and the average height at which, tbey travel is from 1,000 to 1,500 feet.