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.
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