t OREGON COURIER A, W. CHKNKV, fubllthar. OREGON CITY OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic News ot the World. TKESE TICKS FKOM THE WIRES Am Interesting Collection of Items From the Two Hemispheres Presented In a Condensed Form. George Haag, 25 years old, killed himself in San Francisco by taking stryohnine. He wai a member of a suicide club. The First Congregational chnrob, Bn Franoisoo, of wbioh Rev. C. C. Brown was pastor, will be sold to the highest bidder. The controller of" the onrronoy hasde lared a dividend of 15 per cent in favor of the creditors of the insolvent Stock Growers' National bank, of Miles City, Mont At A Ion so province, in Hnelva, Spain, a miscreant set fire to a build ing in which a danoe was in progress. Six persons were bnrned to death, and many were injured. A telegram received from Santo Do mingo says that the president, Ulysses Heureaux, has had the minister of war, Castillo, and Governor Estay, of Ma ooris, shot for conspiracy. Senator Kyle, from the committee on forest reservations, has reported favor ably the bill authorizing the purchase of toll roads in Yosemite National Park, and making them free. Twenty special agents of the general land office in Washington, D. C, have been ordered suspended from May 10 to Jane 80, inolusive, on account of an inadequate appropriation for the our rent fiscal year. rne Denver on amber ol oommeroe authorizes the statement that no oon tribntions for the Cripple Creek fire sufferers from other states are needed The contributions in sight in Colorado amount to nearly $50,000. The senate oommittee on public lands has agreed to press upon the sen ate steering oommittee consideration of the bill granting 6 per cent of the pro coeds of the sale of pnblio lands to the states where the sales have been or may be made. The schooner Viking, wbioh arrived in San Franoisoo, bropght news of the probable loss of the schooner Norma, The N jrma sailed on February 9 with ten persons aboard, for the South seas, and should have arrived at its destina tion six weeks ago. A dispatch from Valparaiso says: lne statistics of the general army staff, whioh have just been issued, show that the national guard now num bers throughout Chile 400.000 men. The figures were made np immediately after the late enrollment. A disptoah form Havana says: An American newspaper man named Ham ilton, captured on board the Key West filibustering schooner Competitor, will be released, but the other persons cap tared at the same time will be shot, in spite of protests from Washington. The New York Herald's correspond ent in Salvador writes that congress has approved the treaty of Amalpa whioh unites the republics of San Sal vador, Nicaragua and Honduras, which will henceforth be called by the name Bepublioa Major de Centro America. At Port Townsend an unofficial test of the new revenue launch Scout show ed her to be able to easily make four teen to sixteu knots an hour. Revenue offioers are delighted to think that the first government boat constructed on Paget sound is such an eminent success. It is said, on what is considered good authority in Washington, that the ex pert accountant employed by the secre tary of state has found a shortage of 137,000 in the trust fund aooouut of V. J. Kieokhoefer, until recently the disbursing officer of the state depart ment. The aeoretary of the treasury has ac cepted offers for the sale of sites for government buildings as follows: Boise City, Idaho. Sera M. Jaokson, f 17, 600, bounded by Seventh and Eighth and Bannock streets; Helena, Mont., O. F. Ellis & Co., 130,000, oorner Park ave nue and Clark strreet The Herald's correspondent in Guay aquil!, Ecuador, telegraphs that the province of Manabi suffered terribly from earthquakos. In Puerto Viejo houses were thrown down, many per sons were buried alive in the ruins and many injured. The proviuoe of Man abi is in the northeastern part of Ecua dor. Almost 80,000 government employes were brought at one sweep under the nmteotion of the civil service bv the v I iaasanoe of an order by the president, New York Journal, have been expelled from Cuba, on the ground that they caluminated Goneral Weyler, the gov ernment and army, and attributed. the insurgents' orimes to the Spanish army. They have been ordered to leave Cuba by the first steamer sailing. Renters and owners of land in the Umatilla reservation met in Pendleton, Or. , and organized a vigilance oommit tee, to shoot down cattle straying upon grain lands. The movement is caused by the Indians tearing down fences and turning stock loose. It is expected this action will provoke a test law case to more dearly define to what extent the Umatilla Indian is a citizen. J. Simons, the oook on the pilot boat schooner San Jose, was washed overboard and lost while the schooner was crossing the Columbia river bar bound in. The weather was rongb outside, and a hearvy swell on the bar tossed the little schooner about con siderably, one hnge wave striking ber midships and turning her over almost on her beam ends. Simons was stand ing at the time in the cockpit, and the receding wave oarried him over the side. The orew was nnable to render any asslsatanoe, the unfortunate man disappearing as soon as be went over the schooner's side. It is said that the war costs Spain $100,000,0000 annually and 10,000 sol diers every year. A fight between negroes and Hun garians at Keystone, W. Va. , resulted in two negroes und one Hun being kiled. Wilson Worthington and Geo. Manard were also injured. Rear Admiral Kirkland has been or dered to oommand the Mare Island navy-yard in place of Captain H. L. Howison,who is ordered to special duty in connection with the Oregon. Carl Albreoht, who killed his wife in Marshfield, Or., February IB last, was oonvioted at Empire City of murder in the first degree. The jury brought in a verdict alter fifteen minutes' deliberation. The railroad station in Florin, Cal., was entered by burglars. The burglars robbed the railroad station, the post office and Wells-Fargo express office. whioh are all in the same building. A small sum of money was taken. The Northern Paoifio & Manitoba Terminal ' bondholders have been ad mitted to the Northern Paoifio reorgan ization and have accepted 60 ner oent In new threes and a like amount in pre ferred stock as a basis of settlement. Crazed with drink and brooding over trouble whioh be considered a disgrace to himself and relatives, Frank Wal ton, aged 80, threw himself in front of an engine on the Rock Island track near Lincoln, Neb., and was ground to a pulp. In the Canadian prohibition oase, the p.-ivy council has deoided that parlia ment oannot pass a general prohibitory law, nor can the provinces abolish the trafno in liquor, but they can pass laws to regulate it by licenses, unaer reason Able conditions. THE FLYING. MACHINE Successful Tryout of Professor Langley's Aerodrome. PRACTICABILITY DEMONSTRATED Notioe has been given by the Soo line of its intention to put into effect a round-trip rate of $U0 from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Kootenai points. The tickets will have limits in both di rections of forty days and final return limits of ninety days. The oity of L'Anse, at the head of Kewana bay, Michigan, has been wiped ont by fire. The L'Anse company's lumber mill and nearly all the business nouses were burned. Two hundred persons are homeless. The total loss is $1360,000; insnranoe small. a aispaton irom ranama says: Puerto Vijo, the capital of Manabi, with a population of 10,000, has been entirely destroyed by two earthquakes. The shocks were succeeded by floods, inundaitng the oity. Many lives are supposed to have been lost. In a boxing match between John r-r 1:1. ... nuuunau ana rut jNoian, wnicn came off in Farmington, Conn., Houlihan was knocked out in the eleventh round and rendered unoonsoious. He was not resuscitated, and it is belived his in- uriea will prove fatal. It is stated in Kansas City that the firm of Swift & Co. will shut down their big packing plant at that point for an indefinite period. Their plant gives employment to 1,800 men, and in oapaoity ranks seoond among the pack ing establishments of Kansas City. In Rome, N. Y., J. Watson Hil dreth, the boy trainwrecker, reueievd a life sentence. His oompauious, Plato and Hibbard, who pleaded guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, "were setenoed to twenty years' imprison ment on two iudiotments, or for forty years in all. William Laverone and Jack Roberts, Highwaymen, captured a few dtys since, overpowered the jailer in Ma uera, ai., neating mm severely over the bead with a brick. They took his keys and arms and escaped. They are desperate characters and it is feared will kill some of the posse before they are captured. News is received of a brutal murder committed in Oconto. Wis . in a dis pute between two larmers about a team of horses, in which a man named Olsen shot one named Lissot. He then oar It Good Work Vouched for by Indorse' meats from Alexander Graham . Bell, the Noted Inventor. " Washington, May 14. The first publio statement regarding the flying machine experiments oon d noted by Professor Samuel P. Langley, the sec retary of the Smithsonian institute, for some months past, was made today by Alexander Graham Bell, the well known inventor, with the authority of Professor Langley. In it be .says: "Last Wednesday, May 6,' I wit nessed a very remarkable experiment with Professor Langley a aerodrome, on the Potomao river. Indeed, it seem ed to me that the experiment was of snob historical importance that it should be made publio. I should not feel at liberty to give an aooouut of all the details, but the main faota I have Professor Langley's oonsent for giving you, and they are as follows: "The aerodrome, or 'flying ma chine,' in question was of steel, driven by a steam engine. It resembled an enormous bird, soaring in the air with extreme regularity, in large curves sweeping steadily upward in a spiral path, the spirals with a diameter ot per baps 100 yards, until it reaobed a height of about 100 feet in the air. "At the end of a course of about half a mile, when the steam gave out, the propellers whioh had movel it stopped and then, to my surprise, the whole, instead of tumbling down, settled as slowly and graoefully as it is possible for any bird to do, touohed the water without any damage, and was immed iately picked out and ready to be tried agair. "A second trial was like the first, except that the maobine went in a different direotion, moving in one con tinuous gentle asoent, as it swung around in circles, like a great soaring bird. At one time it seemed to be in danger, as its course carried it to a neighboring wooded promontory, but apprehension was immediately allayed, as it passed twenty-five or thirty feet above the top of the highest trees there, and then asoended , still further; : its steam finally gave but again and it settled into the water of the river, not quite a quarter of a mile from the point where it rose. "No one oould have witnessed these experiments without being convinced that the practicability of mechanical flight had been demonstrated." CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condensed Record of the Doings ot the ' Nation's Lawmakers-Meant. Washington, May 11. All Oregon and Washington items in the river and harbor bill went through the senate without opposition today, including the appropriation for the boat railway at The Dulles and the Seattle canal There will be a fight on both items in the conference. With the bond resolu tion out of the way, the senate gave its attention to the accumulation of minor measures before going on with the river and harbor bill. Mitchell of Or egon gave notioe that when the last ap propriation bill was passed, he .would press the joint resolution for election of senators by the people, not for the sake of having further Bpeeohes, bat to ac tually adopt the resolution. Bills were passsed to establish a classifica tion division in the United States pat ent office, and granting permission for the ereotion of a monument in Wash ington in honor of Samnel Hahne mann, and appropriating $4,000 for a loundatlon. Washington, May 18. The Califor nia deep-water harbor project was be fore the senate most of the day. It is seldom that a local improvement arouses so muoh feeling among sena tors, manifesting itself in a debate of WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. American Federations ot La- bor Meet at New York. TWO MILLION HKN REPRESENTED Propose to Unite All American Labor Organisations Favor Arbitra tion of All Difficulties. New York, May 18. The Herald this morning says: A long step toward a permanent onion between the Ametioan Federa tions of Labor, whioh together control about 3,000,000 organized working men, was taken at last night's meeting of the Central Labor Union, whioh is Prevailing Contldence In Batter Things. O lOUJOt New York, May 11. R. G. Don A Co. 's weekly review of trade isys: "That the exports of $6,860,000 gold this week have produced no monetary distrnbanoe is at onoe proof of the soundness of financial conditions and of the prevailing confidence in better things to oome. Much of the hesita tion at present is doe to temporarily re duced demand inall industries, and in iron and steel the power of the new combination is being tested by refusal of orders, so that production exceeds consumption, but consumption exoeeda new bnying. The general irregularity of prices and slackness of domand for finished products do not prevent the marking up of prioes by combinations, but are largely due to doubt whether such prices ss are fixed can b main tained. Pig-iron is weaker in the n nnrniv iimui tiniv nnaHunhorf tn either, but containing anions owing fT' a?d b1bo t Pittsbnrg, and most allegiance to lmth t finished products are weaker, with a ceived from Samuel Gompers, president renlrkDly low demand. Minor metals oi the federation, asking the Central are inactive, with oopner weak, tin steady and lead slightly lower, and Amerioan tin-plates thirty cents below, foreign. "Traders in wheat have lifted price a little, and yet nobody questions the feeling. Berry began the de- ljaDor- ,0 roIer Gompers' offer to affil- " , deolaring that this proposed la"a nmon" Ior te, was oarried by ""H" "urD" lu of $3,000,000 was against "rff .... . 'ttttZ. .v ..... . .u . i a wiior whi KOHiTM irnm uismnr. . uuu. ... Labor Union to sink all differences and join the federation. When the letter was read, Charles W. Hoadley, of the Eleotrioal Workers' Union, a Knight of Labor, warm I v wnrinruid it A mn. unusuTanTm personal bate today expenditure f h a nnh in aa. J 1 . vuv uhuiiu luwim IUU 1U lun U1IYHIO I -.. n d Assembly No. 76. Knights of Labor. time of the Tar, speculation for ad outvawov v -KJt UUliUUKVVUi Jl iJJTJ I ... . 1 I n n ma n 1 U - . . HnnfWn Plfl v. j . wnicn OOUtrOlS the streut railway uuuurmuiwns. auiuu. T GOV OUU VHUOIT I ' 1 L r . 1 . .Tit . union ol Brooklyn, alleging that Presi- w.u icuiopwi me ouu u per dent C. L. Rossiter. of th Rrnnvlvn lar&er than last year, while At Heights trollev rod. rini.KH .. lantio exports, flour inolnded, are for ments entered into with it h dlanrim. the week 843,067 bushels, against 1, inating asainst nnlon mn 616,000 a year ago. After a fall to The district autnmhl nl.in th.t 88 oents, the price rose about 2 cents. it did not wish to inconvenience the CorD U also a Bnade lweri bnt without miblio bv another erriba .mi .kai a definite reason that the members of the Central Labor Union patronize the rival loads. Caffery took the ground that the appropriation should not be made at present. Frye, chairman of the oommeroe oommittee, replied to the strictures upon the prop osition, and vehemently characterized the criticism of Huntington as "savor ing of the slogan of the sand-lots." Washington, May 14. The animated contest whioh has proceeded for the last four days in the senate over the deep water harbor on the southern coast of California was brought to a close today by a compromise between the conflict ing interests. The issue has been be tween the ports of Santa Monioa, the terminus of the Southern Paoifio, and Kallwar Kmployes Convene. St Louis, May 13. One of the most important meetings of railway em ployes ever held took place at the head quarters of the Order of Railway Con rirtnrnH rtn f . nnAt -....J.- T i. Sin D.n u l ii. j i. iL - ""V,,",D bmooi veaioruur. it "JO "HIOHIJ UIKCU UY tlUB on.onntJ W1 .11 1 .. i Mo, uiuLucruuuuH. in mac. rney the oommeroe oommittee. finally v. nj t ' "Z ho,mnnlJ .1,. Jiff u' i " " lUMJrilHHOOa., 8B (OB Z?::! membership of each includes men em. ployed on lines in Canada and Mexico. "Failures for the week have been 238 in the United States, against 227 last year, and 24 in Canada, against 84 last year." MOBBED AT PUERTO BARRIOS ried the body to a brush nile and set it on fire. A deputy sheriff arrested Olsen and had him handcuffed by one hand, but by a desperate effort the man s:aped and hid in the woods. As an indication of the unprecedent ed mining activity in the state of Washington, the reoords in the office Of the storetarv of stata at (llimni. mat mo raws uuarpcu uu. i.ir iu snow toat mere nave been filed for reo- them, considering the risks involved, ord ln the last three months articles for The opinion is expressea tnai tnis ad- eighty-three mining corporations. Tanoe in freights may check the present These, in connection with others, outward movement of gold. have netted to the state an amount for James Creelman, correspondent of recording fees little short of the rui the New Yorkk World, and Frederick Ding expenses of the secretary of state's W. Lawrenoe, correspondent of the office for the same time. making a general revision of the civil ervioe rales. The order is the most important since the inauguration of the system more than a decade ago. It takes effect immediately. All of the trans-Atlantic steamship lines have advanoed the rate on gold from 1-83 to 6 83. For some time past the companies have held the opinion An American Lynched for Kllllnf a Train Dispatcher. Memphis, May 14 Letters were re ceived in this oity four days ago an nouncing the hanging of Euroepe Adrian Harper Dewitt, of this oity, by a mob at Puerto Barrois, Guatemala. They were forwarded by W. J. C.arke, who failed to give any details. Clarke was located at Montgomery, Ala. , last night. His story of the affair is as follows: "I was ready to return to the states, and the afternoon of April 28 1 went to the wharf to see abont a passage to New Orleans or Mobile. The Breakwater had just landed and Dewitt came ashore. He went with me to my lodg ing house and we spent the night to gether. Next day we went to the tele' graph office, and while there Dewitt be came involved in a quarrel with Mo Namara, a train dispatcher on theFer ro Carril del Norte railroad. MoNa mara struck him a severe blow in the face. I helped Dewitt up and took him to the lodging-house, where he ohanced his olothing. He told me he would oall MoNamara to account Later in the day we returned to the telegraph office and the quarrel was renewed Dewitt caught MoNamara by the oollar and drawing his pistol shot him through the head, killing him in stantly. "Dewitt surrendered himself to the authorities. Shortly afterward a crowd of Americans, mostly mechanics, gathered for the purpose of taking the law in their own hands. They made a successful attack on the jail. Several guards were killed and Dewitt was taken out and hanged." Dewitt was related to the Harpers, publishers of New York; he has an aunt of that name living in Washing ton, and was a oivil and mechanical engineer of national reputation. POST EXCHANGES. Right of Government to Maintain Them Without Interference, Omaha, May 11. Jndge Sbiras, of the federal court, today passed upon the habeas corpus cases at Fort Robin son, In which Lieutenant Langdon and Sergeant Braden had been held under state authority for selling liquor with out license as offloials in oharge of the post exchange. The opinion of Judge Sbiras was a comprehensive and elabor ate statement of law pertaining to mil itary reservations in gent ral through out the United States. It cxhanstively reviewed all the authorities. He up held in the opinion a complete and absolute jurisdiction of the general gov ernment over the military reservation in quetsion, and, farther, that the J .. fc t. J 1 . passed by the flfty-second congress, the out was earned with only two or three ZTZtoJ ta Honor members of subsequent congresses re- dissenting votes. The officers of the )SliiSiZf OHivtHi mi mi iiHT mnnrn tai ninrir hiw orann itviirn m Ka a4 i . - ww". f" v I B'"" wsjw v wiD pa a U1UC1 0 XUJJrCBOUv I Qjy uui,u6 oosDiuAio. xuuajr buo uruuu- ou no iua iuetiuu&f were auiflonzea ana Tk.-. 0fna u .ju. sition to extend this allowance to mem- instructed to formulate a plan te Ltorarttt ben during the recesses of congress mg the six under a general council. exoh witW intnrf " nV came up in tne lorm of the Hartman similar to the governing bodv of the reBoiutiun, adversely reported from the Federation of Labor. The convention oommittee on aocounts. It occasioned adopted resolutions favoring arbitra- some very aeep aenate. It had the tion and aDDeals from ifeniainna nf the federal oourts, after which the conven tion adjourned sine die. the determination as between Santa Monioa and San Pedro to a commis sion, to consist of three oivil engineers, naval officer and an officer of the coast geodetio survey. The compromise was accepted by the California sena tors, and was unanimously passed. House, Washington.May 11. The members of the house voted themselves $100 per month for olerk hire during the re cesses of congress. Under a resolution Ihere were some 600 present. The chief result of the convention was the i d iption of a resolution to form a fed' eration of the six orders named. Every speaker favored the federation and ev ery man present voted for it The only ainerence of opinion was on the ques. tion of admitting the American Kail way Union. As first submitted, the proposition included Eugene V. Debs' irder, but an amendment to strike it exchanges without interference in any manner by state authorities. support of Cannon, obairman of the appropriations oommittee, bnt was op posed Dy Dingley, the floor leader of the majority. Aldrioh said it would involve an additional expenditure of $316,000 per annum. The resolution was amended so as to except members who are ohairmen of committees, hav ing annual olerks, and was pased, 130 to 108. Washington, May SOURCE OF THE. MISSOURI It Is Discovered by a Minnesota Geo grapher. St Paul, May 13 Colonel J. V, as amended Brower. Minnesota's state geographer. nas made tne sensational discovery that 13. The session tne source ot the Missouri river is not Omaha Flooded. Omaha, May 14. A cloudburst in the vioinity of Omaha occurred late this evening, and a deluge of water was the result The streets of the oity were running several inches deep for two hours, and all low places were flooded. Tbe downpour covered the state during the afternoon. Tbe dam age in the city was considerable. There are rumors here of a disastrous cyclone in the interior of the state. of the house today was almost entirely Red Rook lake, Montana, as previously devoted to the consideration of Distriot stated. Colonel Brower has explored Columbia business. Bills were passed the whole region of the upper Missouri to authorize the seoretary of the tress- ad today made public the result of his ury to detail revenue cutters to en- discoveries. He says the longest upper loroo regulations at regattas; to grant oranoh ot the Missouri, does not flow the Denver, Cripple Creek & South- through the lower Red Rock lake in western railroad a right of way through Montana, but comes from a hole in the the South Platte and Plum creek forest mountains, voloanio in its oharaoter, at reservations; to grant pipe line rights tne summit of the Hooky mountains, of way over tbe publio domain in Colo- west of Helery's lake, Idaho, and at a rado and Montana; to grant the Flag- point bordering the boundary between staff dz Canyon railroad right of way that state and Montana. The minia' through the Grand canyon, and to ex- tore river, at its commencement, striv- tend the charter of tbe Dennison & iDR to secure existence from the inner Northern railroad. A preliminary oon- walls of the surrounding voloanio vents, lerenoe report on the Indian appropria- near perpetual snowbanks, has by its tion mn was agreed to, and the title of eroding oapaoity out its way ont from Mr. Maddox, of Georgia, to his seat that rugged and precipitous mountain was confirmed. uplift of enoromus size until a solid Washington, May 14. The house to- rck of mountain has been severed in day entered npon the contested eleotlon twain, a oanoyn formed and assuming oase of Rinker vs. Downing, from the the proportions of a river, from the sum nunois District, rne aenate was nowage or innuraera Die creeks, coming shipping failities which would be very spirited. Moody joined with the In the side, reaohea tbe valleys be afforded by tbe canaL At present all Democrats in asking the adoption of a low flowing into and through nDDer coal used on the Pnnifln nnast ha resolution ior an omoial recount of the ea Kock lake, twenty miles from its stated, is mined in Australia, Janan KaI In.. In "t 1. . T . I J il .. . . 1 I .... .. ' ana Vancouver island. He predicted Postal Card Duns. Chicago, May 11. Untied States Judge Grossoup and the present federal grand jury view "postal card dun" cases alike. At the last term of the district court, the former advised As sistant District Attorney Rosenthal to use discretion in the proseontion of per sons who unwittingly, and in many cases on acoount of poverty, had offend ed against tbe statute inhibiting postal cards whioh bear written or printed matter reflecting discredit on the re cipient Yesterady two more cases of the same sort were brought before the grand jury and that body was prompt in throwing them out. Judge Grossoup says that if a man . simply asks for what is due him he commits no offense. It is further stat ed that tbe statute in question is in voked chiefly by debtors who are desir ous of swindling or getting revenege upon those they owe and that the ohief sufferers are the poor and ignorant The Nicaragua Canal. Washington, May 11. Governor MoCorkle, of . West Virginia, appeared before the house oommittee on oom meroe today to advocate the construc tion of the Nicaragua canal. He spoke in behalf of the coal interests in bis own and adjacent states, declaring that that section would be able to control the ooal markets of the Paoifio coast. of North and South Amerioa, with the ballots in dispute. Cook and Leonard source in the mountains, thence west. spoke for the contestants today and wardly, northerly and northeasterly. Bartlett and Moody for the contestee. Pa8t Red Butte and Beaver Head rook Before the case was brought np Wheel- to Three Fork, thence to the Mississip er was taken to task for abusing the pi nd thence to the Gnlf of Mexico. privileges of printing in the Reoord, through and past thirteen states.a dis- and some extensive interpolations in a tance of 4,221. reoent speech of his were expunged from The Ked cross m Armenia the permanent reoord by a vote of 176 Congtantinnnlfl i s ti, . t tr. 1 AA 1 V.J: . j "". vuouicuco to toe of the agents of the American , Ul ,uo wy ""a means Cross Society, under the uuuiuii.tct), Ko notice mat ne WOUW Mina Clara Rartnn u. call np the "free alcohol bill" at the first oppportunity. Sunday Shaving I'pheld. Springfield, May 14. Tbe supreme court today rendered a decision hold ing the barber shop Sunday law uncon stitutional, as class legislation operat ing against tbe receipts of tbe owners which are const rued as property. The Hollers Xipluried. Vioksburg, Miss., May 13. The boiler of tbe large towboat Harrv Brown exploded twenty-five miles be low this oity at 11:30 last night, and in less than one minute she sank ont of formed here, and will be placed at the sight Eleven persons, all white were disposal of Ira Hurris, for the work in killed. When tbe explosion ooourred the Marasb and Zeitoun districts. where tbe towboat Brown broke in two. Of typhus fever and dsyenterr are rasino- Red direction of president, is mi very puocessiui. iney nave Keen re lieving a very great deal of distress by distributing seeds and tools, especially in tne tiarpoot distriot, where Dr. J. D. Hubbell's party has been urged to make a lengthy stay. A Red Cros medical corns is beinir . FItc Officers Were Killed. Algiers, May IS. A train loaded with troops for Madagascar collided yesterday between Adela and Vesonlbei man with another train. Five officers were killed, and three officers and thirty soldiers and the crew of tbe train were injured. tne crew ot ioriy-two men, tnree are here dead, eight missing, and the cap tain and four others badly injured. Many were slightly hnrt Holla Convicted. Omaha, Neb., May 13. Shortly be fore noon the jury in the case of Henry Waa conn, tne oeianiting city treasurer, returned a verdict of guilty rn very count, me amount or tne d al stion in the finding aggregates $105,ovO. By vote of 435 to 98, the Methodist general conference, in session in Cleve land, O., decided tbe four women dele gates might retain their seats. This does not mean tbst the women have won a complete victory. The decision tbe result of a oomoromiie. and with the understanding that it should not prejudice the claims ot women in the future or establish a precedent for future conferences to follow. that with the advancement of the Jap anese they would monopolise the coal business of tbe coast unless tbe canal should be built, when the freight rates would enable West Virginia to under sell tbe Japanese. Civil Service List Kztended. Washington, May 11. The presi dent has issued an order exetnding the civil servioe rules to the interstate oom meroe commission. This brings all offices in the commission here and out side of Washington in tbe classified service, except the chief executive of fices requiring presidential nomination and confirmation by the senate. This order makes a total of about 86,900 government positions now included in the oivil service. To Force a right. New York.May 13. A World snecial from Havana says 6.000 volunteers are to be sent to the trocha to relieve reira. . ... " tars needed to operste against Macho. Ten siege guns have been sent to the trocha. Weyler is anxions to force a general engagement in Pinar del Rio be fore tbe heavy rain set in. It is esti mated that he has now about 60.000 troops in Pinar del Rio. Maoeo's forces is a"" nn There is tuiy one sodden among woman to eighty among death