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Oregon Gity Courier. A. W. OHBNBT, Publisher. OREGON CITY OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAK Am Interesting Collection of Items Froa the Two Hemispheres Fnunltd la Condensed Form. A movement ia on foot among promi nent olubinen of Chicago to extend an invitation to Li Hong Chang, the Chinese viceroy, to have him itop over a oonple of dayi in Chicago while en ronte to the Paoiflo coast Eogene Bnrt, wanted at Austin, Tex. , for the murder of bii wife and two children, about a month ago, wai arrested in Chicago. The dirk with whioh the crime was committed was found on his person, and blood staini were visible on big straw hat. A threshing engine, together with its driver and a team of horses, went through a bridge over Kriese creek, about nine miles west of Oregon City. The driver was slightly injured and one of the horses to badly wounded that it was found necessary to kill it John J. Brough, a well-known mer chant of Manchester, Conn., has re turned from a trip around the world whioh eonsumed exactly a year. Mr. Brough traveled on a bioyole wherever possible. Of the 00,000 miles oovered by him, 40,000 were by water; 12,000 on his wheel and the rest by railroad in the different oountries. Advices have been received by the war department from General Wheaton stating that three prisoners, supposed to be Yaqui Indians, were brought from Tubao, Ariz., to Nogales. They will be taken before the United States commissioner on a charge of violating the neutrality laws. They are be lieved to be members of the raiding party that attempted to loot the Mexi can custom-house. Aooording to private advices received in Philadelphia ten of the crew of twenty-one of the British bark Flora Stafford , burned at sea several weeks ago, perished.. Captain Oscar Smith took one boat with ten men, and the mate with nine other men got in the second boat. Captain Smith and ten men were saved, but nothing has ever been heard from the others. The sea was rough and probably the boat cap sized. By a collision between the yachts Meteor and Isolde during the race for the vice-oonimodore'g oup, at Southsea, Baron von Zedwitz, the owner of Isoldo, was so badly injured that he died before he could be taken to a hos pital. All the members of the crew of the Isolde were swept overboard when the yaobts oollided, but were res cued from the water by boats from the other yaobts. Ben Noyer, who was arrested upon uspioion of having robbed the Wilhoit stage, has been released from jail with out having been given an examination upon the charge. In a fight at Vodena, Maoedonia, be tween 160 insurgents and 600 Turkish troops, the former were reinforoed after four hours and routed the Turks, fifty of whom were killed. Frank Farnsworth Barnard, aged 43, tenor singer well known in theatri cal oiroles, committed suicide in New York by shooting himself in the right temple with a revolver. The oyolists of Olympia, Wash., have formed a olub, with a membership of 160, for the vigorous proseoution of a good roads orusade. They propose to immediately begin the improvement of the various roads leading out of the city. The four-story mill of the Sperry Flour Company, at Paso Robles, Cal., was burned together with three adjac ent onbins and a blacksmith shop. The mill was valued at $35,000, and the stock of wheat and flour on baud was worth $13,000, and it was a total loss. There was (30,000 insur ance on the building. A dispatch from Egypt says: "To show the futility of any hope of arrest ing the course of cholera at present, during the week before last fresh out breaks ooourred in sixty-nine differeut places and last week in eighty-seven. During the seven days to August 1, 1,200 doaths were reported, and in the following Bix days 1,700 deaths." Judge .Noble denied the application of the Biown Hoisting Couipauy's locked-out employes for an injunction to restrain Mayor McKissou, of Cleve land, from calling additional militia into service; to restrain the Brown company from arming its employes mm in compel tne company to carry out the agreement made with the locked-out rueu on July 27. The cHunery and machinery of the Anderson (Cal.) Canning & Packing Company, owned by Dan Grover and B. T. Ryan, burned. The cannery was worth $8,000. A stock of dried fruit worth $700, 800 sacks of wheat and a Urge quantity of tin was also de stroyed. There is no insurance. Two adjacent cottages owned by Dan Grover nd J. T. Kyau, valued at $700, were also burned. There appears to be no immediate prospect of a settlement of the strike of the Adams Express Company em ployes in New York. General Agent MoWilliams rays he has received more than forty applications for each place vacated by the strikers. The strikers say delegates have been sent to Phila delphia Pittsburg and Baltimore to urge the men employed by the company in the cities mentioned to join the strikers. Some of the new men en gaged by the company have quit work at the request if the strikers. lee Famine Threatened, St. Louis is seriously threatened with an ios famine. Prioes have been teadly advancing since ' the opening of the season nntil now they are up to the highest point reached in this city for several years. This week there was an additional inorease of $1.28 per ton to the trade and another inorease may bt expected soon. The prioe to the trade is now $5, or more than double what it was at any time last year. Ice la being shipped in from re mote northern points, bnt the demand oannot be supplied. DOWN TO HARD PAN. king Ad American Vltlten Root. A young man named James F. How ard is now in the hospital in Juarez, Mexico, with two bullet holes in bis body. He became Involved in a quar rel with Mexioans and shot three of them dead. They had attempted to as sault nim. He was seriously wounded in the fight, bat managed to escape. A Demand by Terrell, United States Minister Terrelbas de manded the immediate release of six Armenians (naturalized Americans) imprisoned at Aleppo. Terrel has notified the Turkish authorities that the further imprisonment of Ameri cana would not be tolerated. Scarcity of Hearses and Grave Diggers In New York. 1081 DIED Rough Eiperlenee of Miners Gold In Altikt. Port Towusend, Wash., Aug. 17. The steamship City of Topeka arrived tbia morning from Alaska with 189 passengers, forty of whom were miners I returning from Cook's inlet. Nearly all were men who bad gone north to DURING THE WEEK , k fortunes in the fabled gold fields i of that oountry. The poor fellows all ! returned as steerage passengers, and tell hard stories of that oountry. Among the passengers returning was j O. D. Fairbanks, of Adrian, Mich., a photographer, who went to Cook's in- letf or the purposo of taking panoramio views of that country. He asserts that not a single find of gold has been struok in that country, and that at sunrise uny there are now 1,000 men Trsni-Oceanlo Record Broken. The steamship St. Paul, from South ampton, orossed Sandy Hook in six days and fifty seven minutes, beating the new record made last week by her slater ship, the St. Louis, of six days, two hours and twenty-four minutes. Drowned In the Columbia. Mark Van Bibber, a son of W. H. Van Bibber, of The Dalles, was drowned in the Columbia river near that oity, where he was swimming in oompany witn several companions. The body has not been recovered. The Number of Children and Aged Per son! Dead Is Small -A verage Age Being 47 Yeare. New York, Ang. 19. Notwithstand ing largely increased forces of grave diggers, working day and night, graves oould not be supplied to fill the de mand Sunday. There was also a short age of hearses, and it was necessary to who are without money and have only borrow from other oities. There were j enough provisions to last a short time. 400 funerals during the day in New Fairbanks saya that, unless the gov York, and over 200 in Brooklyn. Un-1 ernment sends relief, many are des dertakers said the funerals of Sunday lined to die of starvation in the near would be more numerous than those of i future; that many men there mort any other day of ' the last week, and , gaRod their farms in the states, the re that meant more numerous than in any ! 8U'' ' years of hard labor, to go north, day in the history of this city. Tbey i ""d w now offering to work in Cook's were right. Friday, Saturdav and ! lnlot 'or 60 cents a day and board, but i oannot got worn, tie says that tne Boston & Alaska Company and the Alaska Gold Company bad every olaim BIG BILL OF DAMAGES Spain's Claims Against United States. the HE WILL NAVIGATE SPACE. ON ACCOUNT OF THE FI LI BUSTERS Precedent Established Against (treat Britain In the Alabama Award. Will Be Invoked. fifteen Bonn Poisoned. Twelve of the fifteen horses belong ing" to Charles A.Worth, of San Fran- oisoo, are dead and three more are un der treatment for arsenical poisoning. The poison was administered by an enemy unknown. Daniel Pulleu Missing. Daniel Pullen, a prominent farmer of Lapush, Wash., suddenly became insane last Sunday and left his borne and has not since been seen or heard of. It is believed he has oommitted suioide. ouuaay saw more onriais than any seven days of whioh oemetery book keepers oan find a record. Those are startling figures, but these further faots are as notable. The num ber of children among the doad has never in the hottest week of any year been so small as last week; neither has the hottest week of any year seen so few burials of aged people. The aver age age of the persons interred in three principals oemeteries was 47 years. There were nearly twice as many men as women buried. Of the 1,081 persons who died in this city last week, nearly 500 died Thursday night, Friday and Saturday. within 800 miles of Sunrise City staked off before the common prospectors reached the oountry, and absolutely nothing remained. Upwards of 1,000 mon have already left the Cook's inlet country, and those who are remaining are the ones who have not the means to get away. IDAHO BANK ROBBED. Six Hen Compelled to Stand Hope lessly By. Denver, Aug. 17. A speoial to the Because of the difficulty of securing ! "P" twin Pocatello yt: Word caskets, hearses and carriages, or even i "' from Montpeher Idaho, undertakers' serivoes beyond the sim- , at abou,t " 0 olookJ thls afternoou. plest and most necessary, nearly all the 1 ""ed men rode into own on funerals for that period .were delayed MontX Tll S and oompelled six men who were Flood In Incllil. A London dispatoh from Bombay saya heavy floods have been caused by the rising of the river Kistnah. Im mense damage was done, and thousands rendered homeless. A river boat was capsized and 200 person b drowned. Regulator Badly Needed The violent demonstrations by the turbulent elements of Belleville, 111. , against the Salvation Army whioh have ooourred at frequent intervals on the publio square for a year past, at last oulmiuated in a riot. For over two hours the mob Burged around the little band of Christians, oursing, push ing, striking and oreating a perfect bedlam of discordant noises. One of the army flags, on whioh was the stars and atripes, was torn from its staff and trampeled upon. One of the women, who was struok on the head by a mis sile, was about the only one seriously injured. They Saw a Large Meteor. E. Simmons, wife and two daughters were fitting in the yard at their home in Chicago when they saw a meteor de scending and aiming directly toward them. Terror overpowered them, bound them to their seats and prevent ed their fleeing. But fortunately while the mass of molten metal was 100 feet from them it burst, and the fragments scattered with a report like a cannon, the hissing sound which hud been growing in intensity culminating in a laat dying gasp. No fragments could be found. until Sunday. There were thity-six hearses bor-' rowed from adjoining towns of New 1 Jersey and twelve from Philadelphia, j Several New York undertakers whose : rush was over, loaned hearses to Brook- : lyn friends. Other hearses were added j to Brooklyn's supply from Long Inland towns, as there were nearly one-fourth i of the week's 870 dead in that oity still unhuried. The cost of funerals advanced about 20 per oent on Friday. So many graves had been called for that the "force of nearly 800 men at Calvary had been in-1 oreased by over 100 diggers, and the entire force had worked night and day. At the Lutheran cemetery the number of diggers had been nearly doubled, j and even then the number of graves oompleted was less than were needed. ! In oonsequence many bodies placed in receiving vaults. All day Father Costello stood in the noy onapei at Moiy uro and pro nounoed benediotious for the Ihe funeral trains approached the chapel in double lines, the hearses massed around the entrance, where bearera waited with their burden, and the weeping relatives until their turn to enter. Btanding in front of the batik to go in Bide. Two of the desperadoes then oovered the men with revolvers, while the third went behind the oounter and emptied all the cash in sight into three saoks. The robbers then mounted their horses and rode out of town. Sheriff Davis organized a posse of men, who are in pursnitof the robbere, thirty minutes beniud. It is thought tboy are heading for Jackson Hole, and if they are, their capture will be uncer tain, as the Hole is known to be filled with a desperate gang, who will resist their capture. The bank officials re fuse to disclose the amount cecured, but it is believed to be fully $10,000. THE WEATHER RECORD. were GAIL HAMILTON DEAD. Seven to Ten Hundred Hare Died of Beat In New York New York, Aug. 14. This was the aicrhth dav of the hot weather. The dead. namber of deaths in Greater New York during the past week, as a result of the torrid wave, is estimated at from 700 to 1,000. In many cases the heat has been given the credit for oanBing deaths that in reality are due to other complications. On the other band, miny persons have doubtless perished from unknown causes when an autopsy would have shown "sunstroke" as the cause oi death, Sinoe Monday over 100 bodies have been sent to the potter's field from the morgue, and forty more will be hurried away tomorrow morn ing. Estimates of today range from Famous Journalist Fmim Away at Her Home. Hamilton, Mass., Aug. 19. Miss Mary Abigail Dodge, writer, bijgraph er and conversationalist, died here this evening. Miss Dorics stroke of paralysis while sitting at the ! forty one hn,ldred ior New York. breakfast table yesterday morniui;. Death In the Flood. A great rain storm burst over Pitts burg and vicinity, deluging a territory several miles in extent, swelling the streams . into torrents, sweeping away bridges and sending a sooro of human beings into eternity. - The storm is attributed to the approach of a cool wave from the Northwest. Great dam age was done by water in various parts of the oity. The streets were covered by debris, car lines tied up and tracks blockaded. At Dehaven, a small town near the Wildwood oil well, six peopl-j were drowned. A Holler Kxplnded. A hundred and fifty horse-power boiler at the Lnokville Brick & Tile works, near Maximo, O., exploded with terriflo force, completely wrecking the building. Isaiah Johnson, an en gineer, had his buck broken. He will die. Samuel Snider was badly injured about the head and bad his breast orushed. lie cannot recover. She fell from her chair, was picked up unoonsoious, and remained in that con dition until her death. Since the illness of last year, whioh came on suddenly in the Blaine man sion in Washington, Miss Dodge lived very quietly at her old home iu Ham ilton, Mass. Her streucth had never rallied after that illness, but during j that time she had been able occasion- i ally to drive about the town and to en tertain, iu her old delightful mnnnor, the friends who called upon bor. Her literary work duriug this time had been fragmentary, done by the help of an amanuensis as a diversion when some current event had especially at tracted her interest. DYNAMITE IN A KITCHEN. the total number of dead officially re ported to 10:80 tonight amounting to sixty-seven. The total number of pros trations reported in New York city to day was 250. The total deaths offi cially reported in Brooklyn today was twenty-five. The total deaths reported from Jersey City and surrounding towns during the day was about fifty. DICKINSON TO RETIRE. Train Hun 1 11(0 a tVanhout. An eastbonnd mail train from Chi cago on the Lake Shore road, ran into a washout seventy feet long and thirty feet deep near Otis, Ind., and the entire train, except the day coach, plunged into the big hole. The engineer, .lames drift 11, and the fireman, Michael Roache, were almost instantly killed. No one else whs injured. Florenoe, Kan., is proud of being the residence of a humane lady, who bought an ear trumpet for her pet dog. Explosion Killed Three Men ami In jured Sixteen, Lancaster, Pa,. Aug. 19. Three men were killed, sixteen or more in jured and several buildiugs deniolii-hed by the explosion of twenty-five pounds of dynamite at New Holland, Pa., this morning. The Pennsylvania Telephone Company, which is building a new line, had stored the explosive in the summer kitchen of the Eagle hotel. Early this morning Charles F. Cannon went the kitohen to get out enough dynamite for the day's use. A few moments later there was a terrible explosion. Cannon was blown to atoms. Frank Hammond, of Hairisburg, just outside the buildings, had every bone in his body broken and was instantly killed. George Crossman, of Steeltou, a waiter boy, was so badly injured that he soon died. A number were seriously in jured. Other buldings close to the summer kitchen were badly wrecked. The dam age will amount to a large sum. The cause of the explosion is unknown. He Will Sever All Connections With the Northern Pad lie. Taooma, Wash.. Aug. 14. When the roceivership of the Northern Paciiio railway terminates, August 31, George W. Dickinson, general manager under Receiver Burleigh, and long previous to that assistant general superintend ent, will retire from all connection with the road. This he admitted to night. He will retire of his own free will, and will remain in Tacoina. It is generally understood the position of Washington, Aug. 18. The Spanish government ia preparing a big bill ol damages to be presented to the United States on account of the numerous ex peditions alleged to have gone from oui shores to the relief of the Cuban iusur gents. In support of its olaim foi reparation, it intends to invoke the precedent established against Great Britain in the oelebrated Alabama claims award, made by the Geneva arbitration tribuual. There have been reports heretofore that Spain, at the proper time, would present a series of claims on aocount of the use the insur gents have made of the United States as a base of supplies of hostile opera tions in Cuba. These were nothing more than rnmors until today, when the government officers received copies of a report from the Spanish legation, made by its legal adviser, Mr. Calder on Carlisle. The report is handsomely printed in pamphlet form, and, with its five appendioes, makes a book of over 800 pages. The Wiborg case, recently decided by the United States supreme court, is oited and refered to as the one solitary oonviction obtained in the United States sinoe the beginning of the pres ent Cuban insurrection. The attorney says it is thought proper to show from the case of the severe award against Great Britain what the United States expected of a neutral nation, and also to reoall the attitude of Spain to war! the United States during the civil war. The principles indioated and euforood by the United States against Great Britain, as' those .which should have governed her oonduot would seem, the report says, to be clearly applicable to the duties and legislation of the United States towards Spain in the recent in stance, In reviewing the Geneva award, the report says that it was dear that the United States made its complaint mainly upon the fitting out and ship ping from Euglaud of vessels and sup plies. In oonoluding the first section of bis report, Mr. Carlisle says the powers invested in the president of the United States have not been effectively used for preventing the carrying on of military expeditions forbidden by the Btatutes. The United States, be says, contended at Geneva that no nation can, under cover of the deficiencies of its own laws, disregard its duties to ward another power. Whatever pre text and attempts may be made to oarry on these expeditions, as peaceful and lawful voyages, the faot remains, says the attorney, that from the begginning of the insurrection, the base of supplies for war material has been in the Uuited States. This branoh of Mr. Carlisle's report concludes as follows: "To tolerate this state of affairs and these aots is a violation of the treaties of neutrality nnder the law of nations as they have been proolaimed to the rest of the world by the United States To prevent and punish these aots, which are in violation of the statute laws of this oountry, it is believed that the federal government has all the at tributes of sovereignity with respeoc t the subject under riisiusilon. Nor i-i it perceived what distinction or differ ence in principle can excuse the exer cise of the diligenoe oomuiensurate with the existing emergency' whioh in the sight of the world they required and enforced against Great Britain at Geneva.'" In conclusion, after a review of the proclamations of various presidents of the United States, the attorney says that, while it oould not be insisted that ono nation is bound to take notice of the existence of an insurrection in an other oouutry, as it is bound to recog nize a state of publio war, it is never theless bound to take notice of such oondition to the extent that it gives warning to the citizens and inhabitants in the discharge of obligations which one friendly nation owes another, and as a measure of precaution must pre vent the violation of this obligation A San Franolsco Han Hal Designed a New Airship. San Franolsoo, Aug. 17. Dr. C. A. Smith ia more enthusiastio than ever over hia flying machine sinoe he re ceived a telegram Wednesday from Washington informing him that a patent had been granted on hia device for aailing through the air. A oom pany waa incorporated in tbia oity last Saturday to build Smith'a airship, navigating air vessola and carrying on a general business in them. I. J. Tru man, president of the Columbian bank, and George T. Garden are among the stockholders. The attorney for the oompany is M. M. Estee. These well-known men declare that Smith'a maobine appears feasible aa a meobunioal proposition, and that it is really a most Ingenious solution of the difficult prob'ems that have faced the soientifio aeronaut Smith himself olaims it will lift itself and additional weight, and more than that, he oan so ootrol its flight as to praotically imi tate a bird on the wing. This means that the airship can be lifted from the earth and depressed at the will of the engineer, who may also stoer bis vessel hither and thither, describe oiroles re gardless of the wind, and perform evo lutions like a ship at sea. It is still further olaimed for this wonderful invention that it oan be driven into the very teeth of the storm. Indeed, if all that is olaimed for it proves true, the loug-talked-of airship will soon be an accomplished faot. The company intends to open a work shop at onoe and begin the construc tion of Dr. Smith's first airship. And in the ooursa of a few months, the ex pectation of seeing the maohine arise and float aloft will be very strong. INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION. Win B Held In Portland From tember 10 to tlotober 17. 8ep- The ooming Oregon Industrial Expo sition whioh opens in Portland Sep tember 19 and closes October 17, prom ises to be a pronounced success. The citizens of that enterprising city have subscribed ovar $10,000 to oarry out the plans, whioh are now being ar ranged on a more elaborate scale than, ever before. It looks already as though every available inch of space alloted to exhibits in the great building will be ocoupied. A splendid military bund has been organized and will be under the leadership of Mr. G. Oechslo, late of Gilmore's celebrated band, and a leader and oompoaer of great ability. The admission prioe has been fixed at 25 cents, and the same interest mani fested in the Portland fair last year will doubtless be muoh increased this year on account of the overwhelming success of the Exposition of 1895, when the management in every respect kept faith with the publio and provided such attractions as had never before been seen on the ooast DID IT ALONE. Garrett, the Enoinada Gold-Bar Bob ber, Bas Confessed. San Diego, Cal., Aug. 14. Garret, the Enoinada gold-bar robber, bas con fessed to the Mexican officers. He Bays no one was implicated with him, and he opened the safe by a combina tion. He offered to show how it was done, and was taken by the officials to Riverall's office, where in a few sec onds he opened two safes by the combi nation. He says Prutt is not guilty, and that on the night of the robbery, he got Pratt drunk and robbed the safe alone. When captured Garrett carried firearms and a canteen with water, enough to withstand a long siege. The governor bas sent out boats and armed men to overhaul the schooner Pekin, whioh took Garrett to Lower California. assistant general superintendent and 1 He declares that the proclamation "Increase of cholera in Egypt" is the principal feature of a report re ceived from the land of the Pharaohs by Surgeon-Genera Wyman, of the marine hospital service in Washington. "Notwithstanding the measures taken by Dr. Rogers Pasha," says the report, "the proportion of the cholera outbreak shows the disease has got beyond the oontrol of the sanitary authorities. It is no reflection upon Rogers Fash or the members of the staff who are assist ing him. A Peapoudent t lubinan. Seattle. Aug. 19. William Mazyck Miles, a well-known club and society man of this city, committed sninirt some time today at his rooms in the j Rainier club. At 7 o'clock thia even j ing the steward of the club found Miles ! stretched on bis bed dressed only in ; his pajamas, a revolver gTaeped in his right hand and the pillow and bed clothing covered with blood that had dried, showing that the act bad been i committed some hours before. that of second vice-president, now held by C. H. Prescott.will be consolidated, and an Eastern man appointed. W. G. Pearce, now assistant to General Manager Kendrick, may probably be that man. Walking fur a Husband. Ligonier. Ind., Aug. 17. Miss Liz zie Ronsor. of Cass county, started Wendnesday to walk to St. Louis, where she is to meet B. A. Steuzel, of Denver. The long overland journey la to have its Reqnel in the marriage of the couple. Miss Rensor is 25 years old. Stenzel advertised in a matri monial paper for a wife, and Miss Ren sor was the successful applicant for his affections. The novel agreement that 1 they should meet in St Louis was made in lieu of Miss Rensor's inability to go to Denver. She expects to be j assisted on her journey by persons en route. ! Big Hotel Burned. j New York, Aug. 17. The Manhan- ! sett hotel, at Shelter island, one of the largest and most fashionable summer hotels on Long Island coast, took fire 1 early today. The whole south side of tbe betel was burned, entailing a loss of $100,000; Navasota, Tex., Aug. 17. A boiler explosion occurred at Summerford's SHwmill, near here, today, killing three men ud fatally injuring two other. cited in the appendices fully illustrate the recognition of this principle by the United States,' which is especially ac centuated by tbe proclamation of Presi dent Cleveland on June 12, 1895. He concludes this portion of his report by saying: "Tbe laws made by the municipal authorities of the United States cannot measure or limit the international re sponsibility of the Uuited States." The officials to whom copies of this pamphlet were addressed did not care to discuss the matter for publication, but all privately expressed tbe opinion that the only object of its preparation was the basis of a claim toba presented against the United States by Spain on account of filibustering expeditions. A Turkish turban of the largest size contains from ten to twenty yards of the finest and softest muslin. Counterfeiting Dollar. Washington, Aog. 17. The secret service bureau of the treasury depart ment has been requested to look into a report of extensive counterfeiting of United States silver dolars in one of the Central American states. Tbe in formation comes from a Mexican paper, and was sent to the state department by Minister Ransom. It states that in one of tbe Central American states a company bas been organized by Ameri cans who bave purchased the silver dollars of the state worth 47 cents, and coined them into American dollars. It is said that 2.500,000 of these dollars have been shipped into this country, where they have passed at par. The story is discredited at the treasury de partment, and it is said it would be impossible to ship any considerable number of coins into this oountry with out the counterfeit being discovered. If counterfeiting bas been going on, tbe guilty persons could be punished nnder the treaties providing for such crimes, which bave been made with nearly all oountries. Fusion Agreed Upon. Ellensburg.Wash., Aug. 17. Fusion of the Populists, Democrats and free silver men who left the Republican party bas been effected in tbe state of Washington, and the name of the new party will be the "People's party." This was brought about tonight, when the Populist convention decided to al low the Democrats to nominate one congressman, in addition to the other officials allotted to them. Florence, Ala., Aug. 18. A terrific storm passed over Florence about 6 o'clock this evening. Great damage was done, but no fatalities have been Minnesota Train-Wreck. Round House, Minn., Aug. 17. An Eastern Minnesota freight Tan into a Great Northern engine, demolishing a-j fn a 1 1 . . , -ii- rcpurieu. iwu irame nuuses were j DOin engines ana Killing ai. Jloore, a j blown down, and awnings, chimneys ; Great Northern fireman. The blame and trees were wrecked. Trees were is supposed to rest with the Eastern i uprooted all over town and on Court ' crew. street, large plate-glass windows were ! -.-r, 77 '. . . . i broken by the fury of the wind. The 1 the ,inventlon I storm came from the northwest one mo?el 'hef inveDtor ,s 'eflolre to fur- ! cloud being met by another black cloud i m"h " of TT"? ',2e t0 ?" from the southwest 1 V7 "? u" dTanUe working of the device. A