OUK COUNTY . . . ,j
Correspondents j
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Mr, and Mm Carter, of AhIiIiiik! ,
worn in JiujUhoii villci Tuesday.
Mth. Jessie Lungel! KaniHworth
of hos Aii("Ioh, Ih paying, her old
Iiiiiiiu u visit.
Mrs,' I', lliitinon, of Portland, ar
rived Monday for a visit with her
sister, Mm. (Juo, Love.
Mr. and Mrs. J it 1 1 u h Hohuiiill, of
Placer County, Calif, uru visiting
relatives in Jacksonville.
Mr, and Mm. Win, Cook, wlio
have been uponding tlio summer at
Cinnabar, returned homo one duy
last ivook.
Married In Jaokconvllle, Oct.
10, 18U8, by Justice K, S. Dunlop,
Christopher Heale and I'earl Ann
Woodruff.
Miss Molllo Dritt, who haK boon
pay In u friends in Bun Kranoisco an
extonJed vluit, will return home
thin week.
Dr. Chan. HI had won oalled to the
homo of Kohcoo Cantrall, on Apple
linte, Tui'dduy evening, to attend
Mrs. Cantrall, who in quite ill.
' Mth. Theo. Cameron and daugh
ter. Maggie, were at AHhland Mon
day to seo Mr. and Mrs. W, C.
Lang off on their trip to Conneoti
out.
John Robs, of Central Point, has
been in JuokHonville several times
lately. He intends opening a Ha
lo mi at Central I'oint at an early
date.
The Ilirtliday olub met at the
home of Mm. Uao. N. Lewis on the
6th iiiat., and a moot pleasant even
ing was spent with the hostess and
her daughter.
Postmaster John V. Miller and
Kmil liritt will leave thiB week for
Hun Krancisoo a.id other California
points to upend a few weeks. Henry
box will assist llany Helm!) in the
postoflice.
Dr. and Mra. J. II. Hatch and a
B'.ep sister of the lute Harry Hatch,
Mrs. Smith, of Suit Francisco, were
hem Saturday and Sunday to at
tend the funeral of the son and
brother. They left for their homes
Monday.
Kugeno Armstrong is in tho val
ley and is introducing a new gaso
line lump. - He has placed ono in
tho dwelling of T. CS. Kennies and
Others will Boon provido themselves
with lamps. Tho light is similar to
that given by the electric.
A corn social will he givon this
Friday evening at tho I. O. O. V.
hall for the benefit of the publio
schools. Corn, will ho sorved in
moro than twenty different styles.
A program will he rendered during
the evening. All for 25 oents.
Walter Craig Lang and Miss
Ella L Krauso were married at the
home of the hiidi'd mother, Mrs. T.
Camoron, Sunday noon, only a few
intimate friends being present. The
young couple drove to Ashland and
on Monday loft lor Watorbury, Con
necticut, their future home.
Rev. W. F. McCluro, who arrived
just two weeks ago from California,
to take charge of tho M, K. Church,
lias resigned his appointment and
already departed for his former
h lino. Tho salary paid hero being
much less than what he has been
receiving in California.
Dr. Harry L. Hatch, who was an
nounced as seriously ill, died at his
home on Wagner creek, Oct. 7th,
of typhoid pneumonia, aged twenty
nine years. The funorul took place
from the rosidenoo of W. J. Flymalo
Sunday, at 5 o'clock p. m., Rev. J.
Does Baby
Thrive?
If your baby is delicate
and sickly and its food does
not nourish it, put fifteen
or twenty drops of Scott's
Emulsion in its' bottle three
or four times a day and you
will see a m:rked change.
We have had abundant
proof that they will thrive
on this emulsion when other
food fails to nourish them.
It is the same with larger
children that are delicate.
Scott's Emulsion seems to be.
the element lacking in their
food. Do not fail to try it if
your childron do not thrive.
It is as useful for them in
summer as in winter.
Ask your doctor if this is not true.
. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemliti, Niw York
L. Stri'lford officiating. Dr. Hatch
was married to Miss Mary I'lymale
JulyJOth.
Table Hoiik Items.
Mrs. Pendluluu spent several days
Inst week with friends at different
points in the valley,
Gathering com is keeping moat
of our farmers busy now days.
Tho crop Is above average.
Mr, and Mrs. Fred Darnohiirg
spent K at u r day night and Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Diokison.
Clarenoo Cliinn put his hoga onto
corn lust week and expects to turn
off some heavy porkers by Deo. 1st.
Charles Diokison is making soma
more Improvements. A new wind
mill will soon adorn his promises.
School Suporinteiidnnt Gregory
visited our people Monday, Oct. 8,
and made his stay both pleasant
and instructive, particularly to the
pupils of our school,
Mrs. Dart Vincent moved to Mod
lord last Saturday, where she will
spend tho winter. She hus several
orders for fancy carpets which will
soon bo ready for delivery.
W. J. Nichols brought J. W.
Merrill's sheep from the mountains
a few days ago and reports u good
season and little loss. They have
been dipping since they arrived.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nichols are
in from Klamath County to visit
relatives. They will return Friday
with a well loaded wagon of goods
purchased from our valley mer
chants. A. L Vincent will soon move to
Gold Hill where he will engage in
the mercantile business, carrying a
general Block. We oan reoommond
Lee as a square-up man and he
certainly should build up a big
business.
J. C. P.
Fhoeulx Shavings.
II Y TUB AI'I'IIF.NTICK.
Will Coleman was in Medford
Wednesday.
Ed. Hamlin, who has been ill for
sometime, is improving.
Mrs. John Norton was up from
their place near Medford ono day
this week.
Dr. Hargrave and Miss Maude
Weeks, of this place, were in Jack
sonville Sunday,
John Doveuev, who has been
working ovor near Yreka, Calif., re
turned to Phoenix last week.
Phoenix seems vory quiet this
week most of the boys are picking
apples in tho neighboring orchard-.
It was John Robbins, not John
Robinson, who arrived here from
Shasta, Calif., a couple of weeks
ago to spend tho winter.
(i rim n Creek Gatherings.
HV PlllLOMKt.A.
Miss Ruio liioiizeale, spent Sun
day with her parents here.
R. T. Luwton, of Modford, was
on Crooked creek ono day this
week.
N. Kimo has rented Dan Whet
stone's place and moved his family
thereto.
Mies Nola Redden, of Medford,
was visiting at J. McPherHon's lust
Sunday.
Mr. James and family left last
Saturday for thuir homo in Klam
ath County.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Fraloy, of
Eden precinct, spont Sunday with
J. MoPherson's family.
Messrs. Geo. Andrews and Lin
Rumloy returned . Monday from
their fishing and hunting trip.
Rov. and Mrs. Adkins, relatives
of Mr. Lamb and family, were vis
iting them sovoral days last week.
Central I'oini items.
D. Hamriok, of Chico, Calif., is
hore visiting his brother, John
HamricV, aud he may deoide to lo
cate hore.
Our nitizons who made exhibits
at tho fair and were awarded pre
miums are moro than pleased with
the association and the way they
paid all premiums in full.
Miss Minnie Hoekonjos, tho pop
ular Gorman teacher in the Ashiund
normal, camo homo last Friday
levelling for a visit with friends, re
luming to Ashland Sunday.
. Mr. Grieve, our popular bnehor,
i is having a shuiehtor house built
out cast ol towu on Hear creek . Ho
intends killing Lis own beef cattle
and will no doubt supply our market
with ohoico meat.
John Hnmri.ck has bought forty
aores of choice land on Hoar oreok
nf Owons brothers. This makes
Mr H. a pei uiunont neighbor, and
as i e is a vomit man of sterling
I worm we urn glad to welcome him
8. Minnick received the sad nows
of hiB mother's death last week.
Mrs. Minnick made her home here
for a few roars and made many
warm friui.da who ivro grievod to
learn ol her death, which occurred
at Minneapolis, Kansas.
Tho patronB of the Moundsohool
are loud in their praises of their
teacher. Miss Nora Sydow. Miss
Sydow being one of our prominent
young ladies wo are naturally grati
fied to know hIio is so highly ap
preciated in her efforts to advance
her pupils.
The Central Point nursery pre
sents quite a lively aiiptmrunce
these davs with a foroo or men dig
ging and healing in a largo num
ber of trees, also men busy packing
Block. Next Monday tho proprietor,
W, H. NororosH, will start with a
largo load of nursery stock for east
ern Oregon. He will also ship to
California points a large consign
ment of this ohoico stock.
h. M.
An oooount of a visit to the Cen
tral Point publio schools will appear
in these oolumns next week. Ki.
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
THE WEEK'S NEWS AS PICKED FROM
THE DISPATCHES.
Commtrilor Watson Assumes (,'harga el
tlio Navy Vara Ml Mara Island Nut
Oullj- of Murder for hhoattnc a
Tranip.
Efforts are making- for the establish
ment of a postal route along the Kun
Jonquil! river.
An aeronaut named Hugiil Ih con
structing an airship at Santa Rosa, ol
willed lit- ha high hopes.
It in estimated lliut Oregon grain,
wool, anil hop crop will net the peo
ple of that n laic 114,000,000 tliU year.
Tho construction of an $80,000 bridge
across lliu Snake river at Lowislon,
Idaho, wan begun Oct 1st.
Real estate prices at Tumon are said
to average 100 per cent hither now
than they were this time last year. '
Tlio ((rowing of Muscat grapes iu the
region around Phoenix, A.T., i being
abandoned aa unproflLub e.
A refrigerator box for long- distance
shipments of fruit is being perfected
by J. C. Slewort of I'uyalltip.
An effort is IH-Iri',- iiuido to liavo a
government sal i hatchery estab
lished oil bolllll Loos rivor.
Caleb C. Currigor, a pionoor of Sono
ma cotmlv. died Monday. Ho nettled
in Konoina iu 1840.
The Raisin Growers' association ol
Fresno Ih discussing the adVi-abllity ol
advancing' the price of ruining.
Homy C. Murray, slieriir of Mal
heur county, Or., wan put in jail ul
Vule for intoxiculiuu. During- Hit
night ho sut fire to the building and
burnud to death.
A half-iuito of tho Cascade tunnel
tliu Great Northern U bonng has been
completed. Tho entire length of the
tuuuol Kill bo two miles.
Tho ullogad cxislonco of two canon ol
leprosy at Astoria bus started tho au
thorities there to investigate the Chi
nese quarter.
An explosion occurred iu the Corral
Hollow mine at Tcslu, Cal,, lint week,
seriously injuring live men, one ol
whom, Shift Doss Harrington, may not
recover.
Head-Admiral Miller bus returned
from Honolulu on the Philadelphia.
He is to bo retired next month, having
reached tlio ago limit.
The lung political struggle in Oregon
to elect a United Slates senator came
to an end at tho special session of the
legislature by tlio election of Joseph
Simon, of Portland.
Joseph Armstrong, ugod 28, a uaiive
of Liverinoro, was kilicil by a ki.k
from u horae in n corral near danger.
The kick drove a piece of scantling imo
I ho back of Armstrong's head.
Them wni filed in the recorder's ol
flio at San Jose, a commissioner's deed
of I ho St. James hotel pri p.iity to the
regents of the slate university. The
sale was for $02,110, the amount of the
judgment aud cosib in Uio foreclosure
Btiit rendered sovoral months ago.
Martin Trice, a miner employed ai
the Iron Mountain mine near Redding,
was run over and killed by u trolley
nro car. Ho was in tunnel No. 2, and,
considering himself ou the right I nick,
paid no attention to the approaching
car unlit too late.
One of the largest bodies of land
ever set out in wheat Iu the S.m Joa
quin valley Is being scl odt ai Col vis.
Over 2o,000 acre aio iu iho piece,
which is ululated on the Fresno and
Madera aide of tlio San Joaquin river.
T. H. Sago, representing the sugar
trust, is iu FieBtio and will try to in
terest tho fanners of that county in
boot-sugar culture. Ho is of the opin
ion thai much nf tho soil of Fresno
eoimly Is adapted lo tho eultuio of the
sttgar beet, and n. tho crop is a very
piotlltiK" one at pree-it i rics he
thinks 1-e will Le : 1 lo co ..ii.r i 1 1: u
h mi rs I nit il would lie to t..oir inli i
ooi to plant buu44.
Tlio preliminary oxnmiuatiou of Al
bert Thomas of Redding charged with
tlio murder of William Hou.-lien, a
tramp, rusuited in a dismissal or the
charge. The identification of the arti
cles found on tlio dead tramp as being
those stolon near Fort Uudding recent
ly, saved Thomas from being hold lo
auswor.
Tliu second trial of Honry MuDaniulB
of Eureka, charged with omhecii'eineiit,
rosulted in bis conviction. McDauiels
and Morse hud chargo of a band of cat
tle, tho properly of Colusa county
slocknion. Thuv drovo tboin into
Humboldt comity for pasturage last
summer and bu d a munberof animals, ;
appropriating tlio proceeds. Mor.io is
In jail awaiting trial. . j
Survjiyors are at wor.k oua Jlne from
lue ciiMcr.i pin ol IVn's.iiugtoii
through Iho CiiM inle In .iiutuin t con
nect Willi llio U' n ih u'l,,u Ceil nil and
Moule CriHto ro iil in n-U' e ell. The
stuleiiieut has guiue-l credence lliat the
C, II. ky. is iiiloiCH.ud in the enter
prise. Tliu circuit er.iirt lias decided that
the city of Kun hi Crux, Cat., must pay
10(1,000 mid liiloriwl at ' lervent from
April -illi. IS!M, on bonds lulled hy lli,
cily for linpiovenimiis. 'I lie bonds
were placed in I he bunds of ageuls,
who disposed of Ihein lo eastern cap,
lulists. luiurei-l and cost iucrciiko Hie
debt lu.iieiiily half a million doiiaia.
Coininodoro Wnlson has arrived ill
Maro Island and assumed charge of a -fairs.
Wlibu on the train near Colfax,
the car he and his family were riding
in left tho track and whs wrecked.
Watson was badly cut about the head
by glnss, but not seriously injured.
The oilier members of the party es
caped 1 11 j II i v.
Tim Canadian Pacific railroad will
establish a new transpacific line. The
steamers Tartar ami Atlieii'iin, of over
4fil0 tons, will run between Vancouver
and VludivrMlock.
Tho iielliiigliam Buy & British Co
lumbia railroad is lo be extended Into
the Mount Baker mining region, prob
ably with the ultimate intention ol
going on over the Cascades,
. Work bus bcu on on Iho Utah A Pa
cific railroad, which, beginning ai Salt
Luke c iv, U uili, iimler the auspices of
the Oregon Short line, will ultimately
conned with s Angeles, Cal.
The Oregon Sugar company's plont
at I.a Grange, Oregon, staried up last
week, it is localiy estimated that this
year's crop w II keep the factory busy
day and night for three mouths, and
that the prod net will lie 3),0O0 tons of
su'Rr.
. At Santa Cnir.. Cal., the new powder
works plant has begun operations. The
daily output is uow 0000 pounds.
Enough orders for smoke. ess powder,
at 80 cents per pound, huvo been re
ceived lo keep tiie mills running day
aud night lor Iho years.
At Port Angeles. Wash,, a bonus of
15,000 has been rals d for the Pitta
burg glass works to be located at that
place. 'I he Pittsburg men ugreo lo
commence work within ninety days,
and must complete the works before
demanding any of the bonus.
J. M. King of San FrHiicisco, convic
ted at Stockton of forging the name of
Mrs. J. M. Carson of 110 Turk s'reet,
San Francisco, to a cheek for S15, was
ilenteiiccd to six yean in Sail tuenliu.
Furmers and stoi kmun in the Gall
district uru alarmed over lie fata- dis
ease known as amliiax union- ill -ir
herds. During tiie past fen weeks
Solomon Kteeger, a larmer of that
county, losl ten head of cattle from un
firux, und V. S. Quigg.c lo-l three
head. It is ouiy wiiliiu the past few
weeks that the disease lias m:idu its
appearance.
Ah Suey shot and fatal y wounded
Mock Young of Sun Jose. 'Iho chojl
ing was caused by a quarrel over a
gambling game.
Two Sail Francisco po. icemen, James
Wilkinson and Timothy W. M.ir owe,
have been discharged from the force
for cowardice. The cause of the dis
charge wat lailure to aircst Theo lore
Park Iliiynes, the crazy tinker who
killed Lieutenant liurke last March.
Tint s. earner, Czarina, from San
Francisco to Seattle, reports that about
fifty miles south of Ca; e Flattery site
reccnt y picked up a small fishing
sloop, bottom side up. In the cabin
tliu dead body of a buy was found
flouting. Tlio boy had been dead four
or livo days. Clothing which evident
ly belonged to two men was also found,
anil it is supposed that tlio men hud
been washed overboard and drowned.
The body of the boy had been buriod
at Bea. and the Bloop was towed inside.
The sloop boro the name of "Kat."
Augustus C. Widbor, ex-treasurer of
San Fraiice-co, has been found gui.ty
of embezzling 711,242.54 of the city's
funds.
Tho transport steamship Senator
readied San Francisco last week on
tho return voyage from Manila. She
will leave almost immediately for the
Philippines with more troops.
Louis J. Sejircey, a negro who was lo
be hanged Friday morning for the mur
der of a man on the Mojava desert, was
reprieved by Governor Budd. His
sentence may either be commuted or
the case may be reoponed. The gov
ernor carefully examined all' the pa
pers in tlio case, and expressed himself
with the greatest indignation in regard
to tho verdict in the case, Btuting that
tho circumstantial evidence regarded
.by a jury as conclusive of Seorcoy's
guilt consisted of the supposed si mi ar
lty of his footprints to tracks found on
the desert which wore over a week old
at tho time of their discovery.
Docla Worlow of Modford, Or. com
mitted suicide Sunday by taking poi
son. Sho had been engaged lo be
married to James Wyl and, but her pa
rents would not permit, her marriage.
Wy'and committed suicld..- two weeks
ago, sud it is now thought Unit tho
vnu is roup o decided to die rather
liuin iivi- aivirt
Joseph Soldato, of Petaluma, jumped
into the river and was drowned, while
temporarily Insane, last week.
Tho Dean mill at Maywood, Wash.,
which cuts the Northern Pacific lum
ber, was burned on the 12th lust. The
loss will roach t40, 000.
The Boston and Alaska Steamship
Company are to put the steamers Lan
rathi and South Portland on the Seattle-Honolulu
run.
Tlio largost fire in the history of
Fresno began at midnight Saturday.
The fire Boon gained rapid headway
and got beyond uontrol of the depart
ment and before It spent itself it did
$2-)H,000 worth of damage. The new
Forsytlie packing-house was burnod to
tho ground, togolher with levers I
other largo buildings.
XKWS'OKTIIE WOULD.
HAPPENING8 OF THE PAST FEW
DAYS FROM ALL QUARTERS.
A Nitr York Vifliintonr Itnglmunt Onus
on a llHttiii,gu A Itrltl'h Ship lions
AtfrtiutKl In tlin Jlwnre A Colorado
Jlottnr Shoots Ills Wife.
Yellow fever is spreading at an
ilarmlug rate In the southern Missis
sippi states.
The Belgian distilling company, with
,.'1,000,00 1 capital, will establish a bus
iness in the City of Mexico.
Tho international conference which
held session at Quebec, adjourned
Monday, October 10, to meet again In
Washington, November I.
Rear Admiral John Carson Febriger,
U.S. N., retired, (Hod Monday at his
home near K.iston, Md.
In regard to the situation at Puna,
III., Governor Tanner lays that if the
operators poraist in employing import
ed labor ho will withdraw the troops
from that place.
Joseph Corcoran, aged 2), accident
ally shot aud seriously wounded Liola
Shade,, aged IU, while playfully exhib
iting u revolver ut Cu-ivie, III. Then
in remorse he committed suicide.
The interior department authorities'
have received a telegram from the
Dawes commission denying the report
that the intermarried white men had
been ordered off the reservations of
the Five Tribes.
Judge JohnBon in the district court
at Denver decided that B. Clark
Wheeler, and not Congressman J. G.
Bell is the Silver Republican nominee
for Congress in ilie second district.
A warrant wns sworn out for the ar
rest of William Schmidt, a real estate
dealer, and member of the board of
education of Cincinnati, on the charge
of embezzling $20,000 from a build
ing association. Schmidt cannot be
found. . '
One man killed, three cars burned,
and a locomotive wrecked, was the re
sult of a collision between a passenger
and a freight train on the Chicago and
Northwestern raijread about seven
miles south of Milwaukee.
The miliiks at Pana, III., continue to
patrol the streets, holding up and
searching all classes of citizens and re
lieving them of lireanns. The union
miners, in conlerence with state labor
leaders, have adopted plans for a more
vigorous war aguinst the blacks.
The Bunkers and Merchants' Mutual
Fire Insnrauco company of Liberty,
.Mo., has assigned to E. D. Moore, its
general agenL The managers suy that
tho assignment was due to the war
made on it by the board of insurance
commissioners. It is stated that all
c a ms can be liquadated.
The British Ship Weehawkeen is
aground and on fire on Cherry island
fiats, in tho Delegare river. Shu clear
ed from Philadelphia for Venice Sat
urday witli a cargo of over 1,001,000
galloiiB of oil, valued at about $40,000.
She will be a total loss.
Secretary Dixon of the Chicago
peace jubilee has received word from
Captain Kodley 1). Evans of the battle
ship Iowa, accepting the invitation lo
participate at the peace jubilee ex
ercises. Commodore Philip of the
Texas has also sent an acceptance.
Application has been mado in the
United States supreme court for a
continuance until after November of
the trial of United States senator Ken
ny, indicted for complicity with W. N.
Boggs in the Dover bank defalcation.
The trial will probably be cubed about
the middle of December.
The SpuuMi premier, Sagasta, has
received a letter from tho president ol
the Spanish commission conveying the
news that General Merritt recommends
the annexiation of the entire Philip
pine archipelago, and that Adniir.it
Dewey concurs in this view. Tho news
iins created a bad impression at Mad
rid, and it is beiieved that ihe peace
negotiations will be greatly delayed by
the Americans' position.
John E Burton, the main promotor
of the Gogebic iron milling movement
in 1S87, has filed a petition iu bauk
rupcty in the United States court at
Milwaukee.' Ills liabilities according
to the schedule, amount to $200,000 and
the assets to less than $100,000. ,
The representative of a Pittsburg
company is negotiating for 20 acres of
land on the banks of the Manchester
ship canal. Eng., where it proposed lo
erect a manufactory of non-corrosive
metal, which will employ 51100 men.
Dr. O. F. Mentzer shot and killed his
wife at Tellurido, Cot., without provo
cation. He then pointed bis revolver
at W. E. Monroe of Cleveland, O., a
brother of Mrs. Menlzur, who was vis
iting her. Monroe grappled with tho
murderer, and In the light that ensued
the dootor's skull was fractured. It is
believed ho will die of his injuries.
Monroe was not arrested.
As a result of the killing of a private
in tho Twelfth Now York rcgiinTTi; en
camped noar Lexington, Ky., by Pro
vost Guard Kitchen, three or four
hundred members of that regiment
formed a mob Monday night and
seized a train at Damp Hamilton, with
tho intention of going to Lexington oa
it and raiding the county jail for the
purpose of taking Kitchen out and
lynching him. Generol Wiley and
Colonel Wood wore quickly noli lied of
the uprising, and thev suppressed tho
mob by the most radical and prompt
action. The rioting was the sequel not
only of the fatal fights, but also of the
drunken carousals that have been
going , on Since pay day. One night
there ; were two killed and two
wounded. The drinking and disor
derly conduct is not in Camp Hamil
ton, but in the otly, when the men get
off on leaves of absence.
The presidfitt has appointed Profes
or David Juyiie Hill, of Rucheslor,
N. Y., first asslss'unt socretary of slate,'
lo succeed John Bussott Moore, re-'
signed.
Now Houtii Wales, N.Z., authorities
estimate that tho coming sonson will1
produce a yield of 15,000,0 '0 bushels
of wheat, of which 10,000,000 will !)
required for home consumption, leav
ing 5,000,000 bushels, or, roughly
speaking; 1000,000 tons of wheat to ba
exported.
Howard Clark, wanted ia Louisville
for murder and burglary, and his
sweetheart, Huttie Mahoney, wore
both killed while resisting arrest near
Owcnsboro, Ky. Clark was wanted
for the murder of Officer Hefferinan at
L'tiisvllle last August, and was at
temp ing toercupe in askiifby rowing
down the Ohio river. .
Tlio most costly block of amusement
and stores on the beach front of At
lantic city Y.J., was destroyed by Are
wilhin two hours of the' time the firs
broke out. Twenty buildings, occupied
by fifty business concerns, were
burned, and a half-dozen families were
rendered homeless. Tho loss is estl- -mated
aj $200,000.
Thcodor Turner's expedition re-'
lurned to Trondhjem from Spiizhargea
on tbe steamer Helgoland. The expe
dition got as far north as 81 degree,
but nothing was learned of Andrea, .
the missing aeronautic explorer.
A terrible tragedy took place at St.
Patrice, near Ciiinon, In the depart
ment of Indre et Liire, on the Vienne.
While the parish priest, the venerable
Pleural, was conducting services burg
lars entered the presbytery and mur
dered his aged housekeeper. Inert
they awaited the abbe's return and
heat him also to death, afterward ran
sacking the house. Abbe Fieural was '
chap ain to Marquis de Caslellane.
Richard Dickson, aged 66 years, tbe
keoper of a repair shop at Cleveland,
O., shot Mrs. Blanche Winship three
limeo with a revolver, and then turned
the weapon on himself. Both died al
most instantly. Mrs. Winship, who
was a divorced woman, had been very
intimate with Diekson, but refused to
see him any more.
H. E. McDormott, assistant profes
sor of chemistry at Columbia univer
sity. New York, was found unconscious
at New Haven, Conn., aud died soon
alter. It developed that he had com-
mitted suicide with prussic acid. Poor
health was the cause.
Judge Augustus Van Wyck of the
supreme court of New York, and
brother of the mayor of New York, is -the
nominee of the Democrats for gov
ernor of New York state.
Secretary Long has named the four
monitors contracted for last week as
follows: That at Bnlh, the Connecticut;
at Nixon's, the Florida; at Newport
News, the Arkansas, aud at San Fran
cisco, the Wyoming.
Jenny Stephens, aged 14, committod
suicide at Gonzales, Tex., by eating
the heads of 212 parlor matches.
The Galveston, La Porte and Hous
ton railroad has bean sold by Special
Master Grant, under order of the Uni
ted States court, to J. .L. Smith of Kan
sas for $450,000.
The investigation of the United
States Nicaragua canal commission has
again demonstrated the entire feasibil
ity of the great waterway. The com
mission is entirely through with its
work, and will submit its report to the
I resident before the opening of con
gress in December so that he may
make Btrong recommendations on the
matter to that body. One of the com
missioners declares that it will be pos-i-ib
e to make the great waterway for .
very little over $100,UOi),OjO. Rear
Adiniral John G. Walker, retired, is
favored to control the work if tlio
canal's construction is authorized by
congress. Favorable action is confi
dently looked for.
A fatal boiler explosion occurred re
cently at the sawmill of Laherty & Lee,
located six miles from Verdi, Nov., in
which two lives were lost and three
persons seriously injured. The entire
plant was completely destroyed, and
not a fragment of the boiler was to be
found.
The 4-masted schooner, Sarah E.
Palmer, was wrecked near Cateret,
N.J. recently. The captain and seven
of the crew were lost.
The first-class battleship Lllnols was
launched a few days ago at Newport
News, Vu., forty thousand peoplo wit
nessed the launching. : -.
There had been 14 cases of small
pox and six deaths from that disease
among the American troops at Manila '
last week. Tho dead arc: H. M. Powd
ers, First California; Harry Wheeler,
Second Oregon; Henry Culver, Four
teenth Infantry; Joseph Saly, George
Cootv, and Frank Warwick, Thirteenth
Minnesota. Eight deaths from typ
hoid fever have also been recorded.
Two freight trains collided in the
Burlington yards at Indianola, Neb.,
causing the loss of three lives, slight
injuries to four others, and damage to
railroad proporly amounting to several
thousand dollars. The dead are: Sol
Brace,, engineer; F. J. Wallers, firo-
man; Wtliiam McCarl, brakeman.
A dispatch from Bombay says that a
forry boat was capsized while crossing
the Indus at Mittun Koto, a town of'
the Punjatib, on the west bank of the
river, and 100 of the passengers wore
drqwned.
Lloyd and Joseph Henderson and
Fran I D rst, farmers noar Rockport,
Mo., , re buried in a sand bank In
whicn they wore digging, and wore
!ei,d when In ken out an hour after tlio
cave-in occurred. The Hondursoiis
were brothers, aged 10 and 18 years 1
respectively. DorBt was So years old'
and married.
Robert Fiizsimmons, the putilltst, re
ceived word a few days ago that his
father had died at Timaru, New Zea
land, aged 00 years.