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L 7 CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNT?. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1896. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 22. ; T TRANSPORTATION. East and South -VIA- The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific' Co. EXPRESS T1A1N3 RUN DAILY. S in) P M 1 lave Ju tland Anive 8:10 am 12:10 a m j Leave Albany Ariive I 4:45 ah 10:45 a M . Aliite 8. Fiancirco l.-ve 7 00 p M Above trnins stop at Ea-t Portland, Ore(ron City, Woocibuio, Ralcm, Turner, Marion, Jeller ton, Albai'y. Albany Jnuctiou.Tan; nr,Hti.-dds, Hairey, linn jibing.' Juiicilou :ity, Eugene, Cieiwell, Dialus, and all stations from Kuse borg to Asb'aud, Inclusive. ROSE BURG MAIL DAILY. 8:8 J A M 1 Leave' rinuaiia jr ts r M 12:25 P M Leave Albjuy Arrive 1 12.5, p M 6:2UPM Anive Hos.biirK lave I 8:00 A W Pullman B.iffet sleepers and second-class , sleeping cars attached to all through trains. .. SALEM PASSENGER DAILY. 4:00 ph I Leave 6:16 P M I Airive Poiilaud B.ilem Airive 11:15 A M Leave i 8:00 A M : WKST SIDK DIVISION. Between Portland and Corvallis Mail train daily (exeept Sunday). 7'30am Leave Foi.lnud aiuvb i i m r ti 12:15 p M Arrive Coi'vallis Lf ave 1 :85 P M At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains ol tbe Oregon Central & Eastern Ky. EXPRESS TRAIKS DAILY (Except Bni day). 4:46 p H l.rsve Fo tland Anive 8:25 a li 7:25 P Anive MffMinnville i,e'e 5:i0 A H - Through tickets to all points iu the Eastern states, Canada and Rnrone can be oota'ued at lowest rate from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallis. R. KOEUI.ER, Manager. E. P. ROGE1I9, A. 6. F. & P. A., Portland, Or. E. McNEIL, Keceiyer. TO THE EAST GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL zrott a? :s s VIA GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL VIA UNION PACIFIC RY, DENVER OMAHA AXD KANSAS CITY XW RATES TO ALLY EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS kEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS ' i ...FOR- ' SAN FRANCISCO For fall detail?, call on or addreBS W. H. HURLBURT, . . 5 Qen'l Pass. Agent, Portland, Oregon. OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERN R.R. CO. Yaquina JBay Route ' Connecting at Yaquina Bay with the San Francisco & Yaquina Bay STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Steamship "Farallon Saltafrbm Yaquina every 8 ys for Saa Fran cisco, Coos Bay. P.-rt Oriord, Trlmdud a-id Humboilt Bav. Passenger sec mmudations ansurpassed. Shortest route between- the Wil lamette valley and California. . Far From Albany or Folnta West to San Franelsoo:. Cabin............ J.... 8 Steerage To Cnos Bay aud Port Orloid Cabin To Humboldt Bay Cab n Kound trip, good for fO days, sptciaL River Division. - St-smers ALBANY and WM. M. HOAG, newly furnished, leave Corvallis dai y, except Satur days, at 7 a. m., arriving at ri-nland the same day at 5 p m. Keturuing, boats le-tve Portlmd same days as above at 6 a, m., arriving at Cor vallis at 9 p. m. J. C. Mayo, EDWIN STONE, Sunt River Division. - Manager. H. B. LOWMAM, W. 8CHMIDT, Depot Agt.,Corvallla. Agt. River Division, Occidental Ho eL BENTON COUNTY ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts of Benton County. Conveyancingand Perfecting -Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved, City and Country Property. V. E. WAITERS,-Prop. Of&ee at Courthonse, Corvallis, Or. DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0E0PATHIST Diseases of women and children and general practice. Office over Allen & Woodward's drag store. Office honrs 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 P. M. At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after hours and on Sundays. G. R. FARM, M. D. Office In Farra A Allen's brick-, on the corner of Second and Adams. Residence on Third street in front of court house. Otlice hours 8 to 9 a. h., and 1 to 2 and 7 to p. M. AU cails atteudea promptly. BOWEN LESTER DENTIST Office upstairs over First National Bank. Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed Corvallis, Oregon F. M. JOHNSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Cobvallis, Oregon Docs a general practice In all the courts. Also agent for all the first-class insurance com panies. NOTARY PUBUC. JOSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Office In Zeiroff building, opposite postodfee. Joseph H. Wilson. Thomas E. Wilson WILSON & WILSON ATTORNEYS AT- LAW Office over First National Bank, Corvallis, Or Will practice in all thestate and federal courts Abstracting, collections. Notary public. Con veyancing. E. HOLGATE. H. L. HOLGATE. Notary Public - Jaslice of the Peace. HOLGATE & SON ATTOBNEYS-AT-LAW Corvallis - Oregon W. E. YATES. J. FRED YATES YATES & YATES LAWYERS CORVALLIS OREGON The Wheel Caught the Fox. One day toward night, while I was passing through a wooded section of the country close to the broader line between Connecticut and Massachusetts, a red fox suddenly dropped into the middle of the road. The soft gliding motion of the rubber tires did not attract his attention until the cycle was within a rod of him. Then with a wild scamper he started on a dead run toward a distant swamp. The creatme was fleet of foot, aud he swept down the dusty road rapidly, turning his head occasionally to watch the strange apparition following him, and he laid his body almost flat upon the ground in his endeavor to outrun the new pursuer. But it was no use. The wheel slowly overhauled . him, foot by foot, and the front wheel almost brushed his bushy tail before he acknowledged defeat. Then, with a half sob and yelp, the creature jumped clean over the ad joining ditch and landed safely on the nether grassy bank. . The wheel flashed past him, and he remained seated upon his haunches watching it until out of sight, probably the most astonished fox that ever roamed the woods. New York Post : :- - ' Voot Warmers. A Portland citizen tells about a pious speculation in foot warmers, way back in" the thirties, when churchgoers de pended on little individual box stoves to keep their toes from freezing. "These were about a foot square, the frame of wood, the side of wire netting or cast iron perforated, and with a deep sliding pan in which were placed about three pints of hot hard wood coals, or some times charcoal. Every family group go ing to church would carry several of these stovea Finally the janitor of tin second parish, a Mr. Leech, undertook to take charge of all stoves for $1 each during the winter. . He would bring them to church every Sunday morning, full of live coals, and place them tm the pews where they belonged. As he had 50 or more of the toe ticklers to care for, he must needs have had a big bank of coals to draw upon. Portland Times. : Lang Diseases. A New York specialist on lung dis eases recently prescribed a course of treatment for a woman who was evi dently far on the road to consumption. What he told her to take was all sorts of strengthening food, such as rare beef, cream, lots of butter, eta Besides this he directed her to eat raw eggs beaten up in milk until she could bring herself to take 12 a day. This last regime alone faithfully carried out has, it is believed, saved another consumptive patient to many years of . usefulness, and it has helped the first woman greatly as well Philadelphia Press. ' : ; . . A Modern Fable. A wolf, in skulking about looking for opportunity to satisfy his hunger, came in sight of a number of shepherds engaged in discussing ' their wrongs. "When the shepherds discuss their wrongs," said the wolf, grabbing a lamb, "the wolf gets his right"- EVENTS OF. THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES An Interesting Collection of Items From the Two Hemispheres Presented In a Condensed Form. In a severe thunderstorm near Oma ha, Neb., three pecplo were killed by lightning. A dispatch from Neath, announoes that forty miners were entombed in the Brincoch pit by an explosion. Miss "Ida Fuller, a New York aotress, while in bathing at Manhattan beach, was grasped by an octopus and nearly drowned. Governor Altgeld has issued a mani festo declaring that eight bonis shall constitute a day's work on park im provements in Chicago. Miss Anna Pritchard, a widow from San Francisco, lsft $1,280 in green backs done up in a newspaper on the Oakland ferryboat, and has not been able to find the package since. John Hazel jumped from an Illinois Central passenger train that was run ning forty miles an hour and was in stantly killed. He was in custody of an officer and was wanted for horse stealing in Missouri. A detachment of company I, who were guarding the Brown hoisting works, near Cleveland, O., fired upon a mob of strikers and wounded one of them. Excitement runs high, and more trouble is feared. A sale on the courthouse steps of Elizabethtown, Ky., was a reminder of ante-bellum days. Instead of a negro ; slave being transferred to another j owner, it was a white man sold t auo- j tion for vagrancy under an old law sel dom enforced. The administration of President Pie rola, of Peru, is to be credited with another triumph in effecting a loan of 80,000,000 francs. The loan, which will be guaranteed by a salt tax and other revenues, will be subscribed part ly in Paris and partly in Lima. Bill Doolin, the outlaw who escaped from the jail in Guthrie, O. T., four weeks ago, was surrounded by deputy marshals at Wewoka. A desperate fight took place, and during a fusilade of shots Doolin escaped. Deputies Gregor and Reynolds were killed. In Chicago, twelve persons suo cumbed to the heat in one day. Two or three of these are not expected to recover. It was the hottest day of the year, the signal service thermometer registering ninety-four in the after noon. Thermometers on the streets registered fonr and five degrees more than that in the tower. A bloody affray occurred among a crowd of sohool boys at Baohville, Ark. Robert Chew and Beuregard Poole became involved In' a fight. Friends of the belligerents joined in the fray. ' Pocket knives were used. Several boys were dagerously wounded. Poole was stabbed in the breast several times and died of his wounds. The Chicago stock exchange will re main closed until the Moore Bros. failure has been settled. The aotion of the governing committee In closing the doors is said by some financiers to have averted a panic . "There is no telling where it would have ended," said a might have resulted in the ruination of a dozen business houses and banks." A special from Madrid says a 'great fire rages at Rueda de Medina, a town of about 4,000 inhabitants, twenty-five miles southwest of Valadolid. Hun dreds of buildings are said to have been destroyed. The inhabitants are report ed as being in a state of panic The syndicate of foreign bankers which came into existenoe to check the drain on the United States treasury j reserve exerted by Europe has been sig- J nally successful in its efforts in that direction, but the withdrawls of gold : for shipment to Canada continues. j James Fulton Shepard, a one-legged : boy of Alameda, vCaL, saved a 19-year- old lad named Durant from drowning fin the tidal canal. Shepard rescued' Drrant as he was sinking for the last ! time. The boy had swallowed a quan- j tity of water, and it required an hour's , hard work to bring him to. j Another rebellion is reported from, China. Two powerful bandit societies i are in revolt. Several villages have been captured. Helpless inhabitants! .have been foully murdered and their homes destroyed. Foreign missions j have been attacked, and two French i priests - narrowly escaped with their lives. Governor Molntyre, of Colorado, has received a letter purporting to be from William Smeiduth, for the murder of j whom Columbus B. Sykes is serving a i life sentence. What were supposed to ! be Smeiduth's remains were found on i his ranch, near Dallas, Cola , March j 13, 1894. The chief of polioe of San Francisco has been requested to find the man claiming to be Smeiduth, who writes that he is staying at' the What Cheer house on Sacramento street, San Francisco. . While an attorney was looking over the papers of the late Eugene Wilhelm at his home near Nebraska City, Neb., an express order was found for $1,500, which had been issued in 1853 at Placervillfl-, CaL, sent by Wilhelm to his wife, Martha Wilhelm, and payable to her order.. Why the order was never cashed, Mrs. Wilhelm, who is an old woman, is unable to explain. The head of the company in New. York has been notified that the order has been placed in the bank at Nebraska City for collection. . Hatabelea Defeated. j Details have been received in Cape Town of a decisive victory won by 700' British troops composing Colonel Plum mer's column, over a native force esti mated at from 5.000 to 7,000. The latter fought desperately and bravely, charging within a few yards of the British rapid-firing guns. About 500 Matabele warriors were slain during the engagement, which lasted several hours. About thirty of the British soldiers and six officers were killed and 50 wounded. . ' " ' A Wife-Murderer Hanged, . Charles Tbiede was hanged in the yard of the county jail, at Salt Lake. The execution was witnessed by a large 1 - ' 1. II - .L- .3 i : a! 1. Aa T7. u I Thiede, who was a saloon keeper, wasj convicted oi murdering ms wiie on cne night of April 80th, 1894, by nealry severing her head from ber body with a knife. He asserted his innocence to the last. . :- Will Traverse the Globe. ' Miss Clara Parish, the seventh and youngest W. C. T. U. round-the-world missionary, has left Paris, 111., for St. Louis, starting on ber trip around the world. She will be given a big recep tion there. She will lecture at several points in the West, and will sail from San Francisco for Japan August 26. She will take about two years to make the trip. . . , American Money Blacklisted. The Montreal cnamber of commerce has passed a resolution expressing ap- i proval of the aotion of the banks in that i district in charging a discount of 10,' per cent on all American money. ' It 1 also issued a warning' to merchants,! farmers and the publio generally not to j accept American money upon any con sideration. Fatal Kansas City Fire. ! One man was killed outright, one J perhaps fatally injured and five others : sustained more or less serious injuries in a fire which started in Swift's pack- ; ing plant in Kansas City, Mo. The j property Iobs is nearly $ 100, 000. Joseph Hoblowitz, a night watchman, was j suffocated or burned to death. A Fatal Conflagration. A disastrous fire occurred in a fac tory in Christiana, Norway, and before it was extinguished, several buildings were destroyed. -. A falling wall killed six men and thirteen others were seri ously hurt, of which three have since died. It is believed that three children have perished in the ruins. , A Reverend Poisoner. Rev. J. C. Hull, a preacher, was ar rested in St. Paul at the request of his wife, charged with attempting to kill her by administering poison in repeat ed small doses. Hull is prominent in St Paul church circles. . Held Up by Robbers. James A. Campbell, a Honolulu millionaire,- who disappeared, from San Francisco, returned with a bullet hole through his hat and an exciting tale about an adventure with robbers. Campbell says that while he was drink ing in a private room in a saloon he was confronted by two masked men, who demanded money. The millionaire re fused the demand, and in the fight that followed a bullet went through his hat Campbell says he was robbed and kept a prisoner for .two days. When released he was given a nickle for his car fare. A Race War Threatened. A war between whites and negroes is imminent in Polk county, Ark. , on the line of construction of the Texarkana & Fort Smith railroad. It seems that the hardy old mountaineers of that seo tion have not allowed any negroes to stop in that seotion for several years. The contractors building the road have employed colored . labor. .Trouble is feared and the contractors have hired guards to protect the negroes. Floods In Nicaragua. Rains have caused the rivers Rama and Suqua, in Nicaragua to rise rapid ly, and the panio stricken inhabitants of El Rama have taken to the high gronnd and on board steamers. Nearly all buildings in the latter place were destroyed. Plantations near the town were ruined and the damage is esti mated at $1,000,000. Pursuit la Abandoned. Pursuit of the bandits who held up the Wilhoit stage has been abandoned, as their trail was lost in the mountains about .fifteen miles from where the crime was committed, making it well nigh impossible to further trace them. Nicaragua Must Give Up. A government organ declares that if Nicaragua refuses to relinquish Islas Mangla, which she seized contrary to the wishes of the inhabitants, the Co lombian govenrment will regard the refusal as a oasus belli. Boy Murderer Surrenders. Amos Decker, the boy who murdered a playmate near Findlay, O., has given himself up to the authorities. He suc cessfully eluded capture for several days by hiding in acorn field, but hun ger drove him out Tne'. Boiler Exploded. , A traction engine boiler exploded on a farm near Anderson, lad., and one man was instantly killed and several others seriously injured. ' M ncy for Cuba. It is reported in Philadelphia that the Cuban junta in the United States this week raised, a. fund amounting to $375,000 - Part of this money has been changed into gold, "and is on shipboard bocni for Cuba, where it will be planed in the hands of the facers command ing the insurgent army The balance has been retained by the' heads of the juuta in Philadelphia, who will use it in a way that will best serve the Cuban cause. - . , -.- A DEATH-DEALING SUN The East Stricken by an Ex tremely Hot Wave.. NUMBER OF THE DEAD NOW 128 Fifty Alone In Greater New York -The Wave Extended as Far West as Kansas City, Ho. Washington, Aug. 11. The report of fatalities resulting from heat in vari ous sections of tbeoountry indicate that the present hot spell will be as disas trous in effect as a national calamity or plague. The death roll of today ex ceeds 128 in the principal places. Fol lowing is the reported fatalities: New York and vicinity, 50; Phil adelphia, 18; Washington, 16; Balti more, 19; Bayonne, N. J , 3; Newark, 8; Albany, 12;-Jersey City, 1; Pitts burg, 1; Roohester, 1; Chicago, 15; Louisville, 1; Memphis, 1; Cleveland, 2; Cincinnati, 5; San Antonio, 1. THREE KILLED, FIFTEEN INJURED Trolley Car Dashed Down an Incline at Columbia, 1'enn. Columbia, Penn., Aug. 11. Three persons were instantly killed and fifteen injured, some fatally, by the derailment of a trolley car on the Col umbia & Donegal electrio road tonight, just outside the limits of Columbia. The dead are: Aday Forelinger, motorman; Henry Smith and an unknown person. At least one, and probably two, of the injured may die. The place where the accident occurred is at the baso of an incline, alongside of whioh runs a high embankment The car was loaded with passengers and, as it reached the edge of the incline, there was no indi cation of danger. Once on the incline, however, the car began to slip on the wet track. The motorman applied the air brakes, and at that moment the gear-wheel broke, rendering the brakes useless. The car dashed along at a ter rific rate, while the terror-stricken pas sengers were helpless from fear. The car, upon reaching the bottom, took a sharp turn and was thrown up against the embankment Word was quickly sent to Columbia and a relief car was sent to the scene. SEVEN PERSONS DROWNED Three In Detroit River at Detroit, and Four In Lake Michigan. . TtAtwAi a 1 1 a i : Jl and thunder storm, which swept over i this city this evening, resulted in the drowning of at least three men in the Detroit river, and several yachtsmen had narrow escapes after the capsizing of their oraft. ' Two others ' were drowned during' the afteinoon from other oauses. . " The capsizing of the yacht Corsair caused the drowning of Frank Hughes. William J. Thiemer was drowneJ from the yacht Alberta. John Heike, jr., was drowned while swimming near Peche island. ' A dispatch to the Free Press from Benton Harbor, Mich., says: Four persons were drowned in Lake Michigan this afteinoon a mile north of here. They were M. Manning, James Butterick, Frank Yerring and a stranger. The men, with a dozen others, were bathing, when two of the' number, who could not swim, were caught by the undertow, and the others went to their rescue. WINE F-r?M ROBBED. Weekly Payroll Taken by a Daring and In gen! us Thle". San Franoisoo, Aug. 11. A daring and ingenious thief got away . with $1,200, the weekly pay of the employes of Lachman & Jacobi, the big wine firm, - today. Superintendent Ciprico had received the money from a mes- senger, and placed it in a cabinet in the office. Then he made out his pay ! roll, and when be went for the money it was gone. A search revealed the i fact that a square hole had been cut in a wooden partition against whioh the back of the cabinet rested. The piece of wood sawed ont had been retained in place by hinges, and the work must i have been done the night before by , some one familiar with the place and : its customs. While Ciprico was en 1 gaged with his payroll, tne thief had i opened his little trapdoor, cut out of j the thin back of the oabinet, and walked off with the two sacks of gold. No trace of the robber has been found. Between Japan and Germany. San Franoisoo, Aug. 11. According to mail advices from the Orient today, the commercial treaty between Japan and Germany has been approved by the privy council of Japan. The exchange of ratifications and the subsequent pub lioation of the treaty are expeoted to take place within sixty days. While the terms of the treaty are not known, it is believed that Japan has conceded more to Germany in the way of com mercial privileges to German residents in Japan than she accorded to Great Britain in the treaty made with the British government some time ago. Advices from Peking are to the effeot that a commercial treaty has been rati fied between China and .Japan. Havana, Aug. - ll.-News from Puerto Principe .is that Samuel Nolly, an English seaman, and an American named Angusto Bortherman landed near Maternallis on June' 11, and have surrendered to the insurgents, having failed to pay the $200 monthly agreed upon. Ricardo Barrois Robado will be executed at Matanzas. To be "in a brown study" is a cor ruption of a brow study, requiring much thought and contraction of the brows. Massacre in Crete. Athens, Aug. 12. At Ananolis, Pedadad, near Herkalion, in the island of Crete, on Saturday, 1000 armed Musselmen butchered thirty unarmed Christians in the precinct of St John monastery. Several priests, women and children are among the victims. One woman was slaughtered for sav ing her children and her husband. She was butchered on her knees. Several churches were desecrated, and a priest named Jeremiah had his ears and nose severed from his head and was then burned alive on a pile of sacred pictures. The Boat Capsized. . Chicago, Aug. 12. Charles Johnson and Edward L. Schubel were drowned in the lake by the capsizing of their boat last evening. They went down in sight of their wives and children and a number of friends who were pa nicking on the shore and unable to help them. The boat was not more than 300 feet from the shore, and was upset by two companions who jumped from its side into the water for a swim. Storm at Saginaw. Saginaw, Mich., Aug. 12. A lightn ing and wind storm caused $100,000 damage in this city and vicinity early this morning. Jefferson avenue Metho dist Episcopal church was struck by lightning, and damaged to the extent of $50,000. Fifty other buildings and factories were unroofed or badly wrecked, hundreds of trees blown down and wires prostrated. Five Were Driwned. - - Philadelphia, Aug. 12. Five persons were drowned last night in the Dela ware river, opposite Bridgeburg by the capsizing of a small rowboat The vio tims were: Amelia Holman, Rose B'erninger, both of this city; Charles Minnik, of Cincinnati; John T. Reeder, address unknown. The boat was caught in a squall and upset a Ifred Tennyson's Widow. London, Aug. 12. Baroness Tenny son, widow of the late poet laureate, is dead. She was the daughter of Henry Sellwood, and married Alfred Tenny son in 1850. Her son, Rallman Tenny son, is the present Baron Tennyson. Kidnaper Captured. San Francisco, Aug. 12. O. W. Winthrop, who is accused of kidnaping James Campbell, the aged millionaire of Hawaii, was caught in Oakland this morning and brought to this city. TO END THE WAR Negotiations for Peace to Bo Begun in Cuba. Key West," Aug. 1 1. It is ' openly declared here that Captain-General Weyler has reaohed an understanding with the chief insurgent leaders and that negotiations will be begun with a view to the cessation of hostilities ' in Cuba upon terms satisfactory to all concerned. It is also stated here that the captain-general and his deputy commanders have held a conference in relation to this important movement The authors of these striking declara tions say that the. truth of. their reports a established by the fact that within the last few days many influential emissaries have arrived here and at other points in the United States, from Cuba, bearing important dispatches to the Cuban junta in New York. Some of the sympathizers in the revolution ary cause admit that these dispatches may contain references to a possible truce, but they are not inclined to talk freely on the subject Other surmises whioh have been aris ing owing to the arrival of the Cuban envoys are to the effect that insurgents are at this time dispatching messages to the United States, urging immediate aid in the way of arms and ammuni tion, of which they are sorely in need. By far the greatest importance, how ever, is attached here to the report that a truce is likely to occur soon in the island. Ernesto Castro and Jose Ros sell, picked up by the pilot boat Jewett, and brought here last night, are still held in detention by the health authori ties, despite the efforts of their friends to have them released. Habeas corpus proceedings were held today, however, and the men may be released. The apparent anxiety and the un usual efforts made to seoure the release of the two Cubans detained, in order to enable them to proceed to New York, are evidences of the importance of their mission to the United States. Their arrival was telegraphed to the junta in New York, and the dispatches that they brought were entrusted to a messenger. Some prominent local members of the Cuban revolutionary party ridicule the reports ascribed to the presence in this country of emissaries from the rebels. Recent wholesale arrests in Havana and elsewhere, of insurgent agents, together with the capture of emissaries bearing dispatches from the field, they state, has temporarily inter rupted the former means of sending messages and they have been oompelled to resort to dispatohing them direct from the coast Poison in Their Food. Brighton, N. J., Aug. 11. Five members of the family of Jeremiah Frasier, a merchant of this place, are dangerously ill from poison supposed to have been in something which they bad eaten. Mrs. Frasier and two sons were unconscious, and her two daught ers are in a dangerous condition. New T..rk Trousers-Makers' Strike. New York, Aug. 11. Fifteen hun dred trousers-makers struck yesterday, throwing 3000 women out of employ ment The strikers complain that their wages have been reduced 50 per oent and working hours increased. - Miss Ashley Held for Trial. San Franoisoo, Aug. 11. Miss Em ma Ashley, charged with attempting to shoot E. J. Baldwin, was arraigned for trial today. ' She pleaded not guilty, and was held for trial, Aug. 88. FLED THE COUNTRY Escape ot a Woman Journal ist From Cuba. '' STOW AWAY" ON A STEAMSHIP Was Burronnded by Spaniards and Bluded Them by Donning Male Attire. - New York, Aug. 10. Miss Cecilia Charles, who says she went to Cuba several months ago tor the purpose of obtaining material for a book,' was a passenger by the Ward line steamship City of Washington, which arrived from Havana Wednesday, and whose passengers were sent to Hoffman island for investigation. ' ' Miss Charles says that after travel ing through the island a newspaper correspondent warned her that ber lib erty and possibly her life was in dan ger. She acted upon the warning as soon as it was received, and, going to her hotel, made preparations for leav ing the city. Before she-could do so the bouse was surrounded by Spaniards. Becoming then thoroughly alarmed, and fearing every moment that she would be hur ried to prison, the deoided to evade ar rest by disguise. She arrayed herself in boy's clothes, tucked her bair under an old straw hat, soiled her face and hands, and unobserved stole out by a back door and made her way to the city. The Ward line steamship City of Washington was at anchor in the harbor and making ready to get under way. Miss Cbarles hired a small row boat and went alongside. The gang way ladders had been taken in, but a rope ladder was trailing over the side, and she succeeded in getting on board. She "stowed away," she said, and did not make her presence known until the ship was clear of the harbor. Then she revealed her identity, paid ber pas sage, and was given a stateroom and a stewardess fitted her out with female garb. - THE VEIL LIFTED. Alleged Facta in the Brown-Overman Case Related by Airs. Tunnell. San Francisco, Aug. 10. After many months of waiting and of eva sion, of hunied flight from town to town in California and across the southern border, Mrs. M. F. Tunnell has consented to tell the story of her relations with the Rev. C. O. Brown and Mattie Overman, and to explain why she fled at the very moment when her presence was needed to dispel the shadows of scandal, or to bondemn the pastor who was seriously accused. Mrs. Tunnell is -the last witness to speak, and as far as faots are con cerned, the testimony she gives closes the great case. She explains the important points upon whioh the clerical judges of Dr. Brown were in doubt She removes the elements of uncertainty that made the ecclesiastical court hesitate before pronouncing a final judgment of con demnation. She fled from San Fran cisco, she said, to shield Dr. Brown from the consequences of his own guilt She says she knew of the love between Mattie Overman and the pastor, and would have revealed her knowledge if she had been summoned to the witness stand. ' She says that Dr. Brown paid her expenses while she was away, and when she returned, tried to induce her to go to Central America. She tells when and where she received the famous letters from Mattie Overman, and for the first time explains how they passed from her possession into the keeping of a man who allowed them to be published. She traces in detail the career of Mattie Overman and she came to know it through the confidences of her young friend. The recital lifts the veil from the home of the unfrocked pastor, and shows how he struggled to save bis pulpit and his good name. Outlook Bright for Peach Crop. New York. Aug. 10. Although the annual wail of the American peach growers went up early in the season about alleged short crops in some pro. lino peach-producing sections, the pres ent outlook is for abundant receipts from most of the old and some of the new sources of supply for this market Shipments from Georgia are ended for the season, but the product of Mary land, Delaware and California is oom ing in freely. The Maryland and Delaware fruit first received was small and unsatisfac tory, but good peaches are now coming in. They are being sold at wholesale for from 85o to 90c a basket, according to quality and condition, some extra choice lots oommanding somewhat higher prices. California peaches of small sizes are quoted from $1.80 to $1.60 a box, and large ones $1.80 to $2. 10 a box. -' Will This Brove Russia? " Athens, Aug. 10. It is rumored that the Mussulmans have invaded Herak lion and committed frightful exoesses. Many are reported killed and wounded. The Mussulmans forced the Russian consulate, and severely maltreated Vice-Consul Barrows. The troops are powerless to check the disorder. Valor's Better Part. Christiana, Norway, Aug. 10. A. paper here publishes a dispatch received from Spitsbergen, saying Professor Andre declares that unless the wind soon changes he will pack away his ba&oon and postpone his attempt to oross the Arctic regions until 1897, as there is no midnight sun after August 24. - - - ' Women medical students will, in all probability, be admitted to the univers ity of Budapest -during the next term.