Weyler Must Make an Effort Crush the Rebellion. MOKE RAIDS BY INSURGENTS An Edict Taaued fro in Madrid A Mora Active Campaign Muatrhere for Be Inaugurated. Few York, Aug. 9. A diHputoli to the Herald from Havana says: It in rumored thut General Weyler's de parture for Matanssas was due to orders direct from Madrid, Bunding him to the front. Weyler made preparations to take the field Rome duyg ago, but uc t'ording to a Htateinent made by an ifHeer at the palace, he delayed his de parture in order to mature a plan to entrap General Castillo. The captain-general in severely crit tcixed for not having taken the field earlier. For three weeks now bands of insurgents have been swarming into Matanzas and even Havana. They have raided small towns and made demonstrations before large towns. They have raided landed exieditions and had time to organize. Yet Gen eral Weyler contented himself with remaining on the defensive and only retaliating on the insurgents by issuing decrees that considerably aggravated the sufferings of the unfortunate recon oentrados. It was only when the insur gents boldly attacked the suburbs of Havana that public opinion forced him to go. Public opinion with regard to Wey ler's policy is beginning to manifest itself. Business is at a standstill, and the merchants throw the blame upon the government. They say General Weyler's edicts practically restrict them from doing business with the interior. The wholesale arrests that have been lately made and the terror of the people on the outskirts of the city help to swell the feeling of uneasiness and dis content with the way the campaign is varried on. Insurgents reoently entered Esper nza, a railroad town of 8,000 persons. There they met with some resistance, and there was considerable fighting in the streets. According to official ac counts the insuregnts left 20 killed when they finally retired. The com mander of. the town was seriously wounded. He admits that the insur gents robbed several stores. Bolondron, another small town about eight leagues from Matanzas, was also raided and many stores and buildings were de stroyed. In Havana province on Sunday last insurgents attaoked Santiago de lus Vegas, five leagues from the capital. A band was playing in the park at the time and most of the citizens were out promenading. A panic was threatened, but the Spanish officers kept their headB and took prompt steps to repel the in surgents. There wub brisk firing in the streets for a time, but eventually the insurgents were forced to retreat. Several on both sides were killed. The iiyurgents remained close up all night to keep a fire on the forts. Four hundred insurgents under Gen eral Castillo attacked La Chora, a town three miles nearer Havana, on the same night, but kept np a fire on the forts All night He also used dynamite with great effect, throwing bombs into the town and destroying several public buildings. Three bombs were fired from dynamite guns which were landed by a recent expedition. The Spaniards did not venture out of the town. The authorities determined on the following morning to be revenged on some one, and arrested the family of Morales Bottelas, because the dunghter of the house was the affianced of Cas tillo's late chief of staff. Mr. and Mrs. Morales, their daughter and two children were taken outside the town, ordered to kneel down and were fired upon by a squad of Spanish soldiers. Morales, his wife and one child were killed at the first volley. The daugh ter and her 7-year-old brother were wounded and left on the ground. They will die. Several families have moved from the town. . Claim to Be Schlatter. Canton, 0., Aug. 9. A man who ayn he is the original Schlatter has been creating exoitement here. T. C. ' Snvde. formerly a state senator, walk ing about the streets, was injured 13 years ago so he has not walked without a crutch or eane since that time. Without solicitation from any one Mr. Snyder visited Schlatter. He has now laid aside bis crutches and the cane. His recovery is the talk of the city and Mr. Snyder is jubilant over the aid that has been given him. Another alleged cure is that of John Krause. He had a leg broken and the member when healed would not allow him to walk without aid. After Schlatter had treated him be was ena bled to get up and walk. , Girl Drowned While Wading. Sigonrney, la., Aug. 6. Four girls .i.i- : Pl jajiss Adams. They were caught in tlcurrent while wading. Reined Ira for Hard Time. Vidon, Aug. 6. The royal commis pion agriculture has issued a report ul?iting various palliativeg for the exi4 depression in agriculture, 'h'he commission attributes main ly tow genera' and persistent fall of pricelnj the foreign competition wb'not likely to abate. 1 where nature intends tha insects) on flowers at night, tie floi ti,eT geiect are all of a white Atlor. SEVEN WIVES CLAIM HIM. A rolygamou Bookkeeper In a Chi cago Jail. Chicago, Aug. 9. A warrant charg ing bigamy has been served on' David Ellsworth Butes in his cell at the police station. It was sworn out by James L. McCarthy, who suid he was the father of Mrs. Bates No. 8. The police say Mr. Bates married ut least seven women, all of whom are living, and only one of them divorced. " This makes the lean and sallow-faced little bookkeeper a poly gam ist extraordinary. The following women have so far filed with the police their claims to Butes as husband: Mrs. Butes, formerly Miss Jnlia Mc Carthy, married in Chicago three years ago, recognized by the prisoner as his true wife, and dwelling at 840 West Sixty-first street. Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss Nettie Swaitn, married February 25, 1897, in Chicago, and residing at 6402 Bishop street. Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss Anna E. Herbert, Plain well, Mich., a sister of his brother's 'wife, morried September 11, 1889, and now in Michigan. Mrs. Bates, formerly Mies Nellie Howard, of Kalamazoo, Mich., married in 1885, and divorced two years later. Mrs. Butes, formerly Miss Ida Cader wood, of Gulena, III., who dwelt at 6401 Dearborn street, where she gave birth to a baby. Her home is not known to the police. Mrs. Bates, whose identity is a my stery, but knnwn to have dwelt at Forty-third and Wallace streets, where a child was born. A Wisconsin sheriff says Butes is really Austin O. Croven, who is under indictment at Waupauca, Wis., for the abduction of pretty 15-year-old Olive Vosburg some months ago. Her photo graph was found in his coat. It is sug gested by the police that this girl may have been his wife. A PECULIAR COMPLICATION. Two CominlMlonera Appointed for the St. Michaels Office. Washington, Aug. 9. A peouliar complication has grown out of the fill ing of the posts of United States com missioners for the district of Alaska, and two men now hold commissions for the same office at St Michaels. The last sundry civil bill created four commissionerships for Alaska, to be located at Circle City, Dyea, Unga and St Michaels. There were already four commissioners there, with offices at Sitka, Juneau, Wrangel, Kodiak and Unalaska. William J. Jones, a lawyer of Port Townsend, was appointed- to the St. Michaels commissionership. The de partment heard he had withdrawn, and then cliose L. B. Shepard, of Nebraska, for the place. Meantime, Jones' bond and oath of office were received, al though he was supposed to have with? drawn, but the second appointee's tommission had then been forwarded. Both men hold commissions, and the department is at sea as to how t straighten out the tangle. THE SWAUK DISTRICT. . O. B. Henton Kearhe Seattle With 1, OOO lu Gold, Kuggeta. Seattle, Aug. 9. G. B. Henton ar rived in this city tonight with over $1,000 worth of gold nnggests, there suit of ten days' work on Williams creek placer claim on the Swauk dis trict, Kittitas county. One nugget was worth $200, another $120; others $50 and $00 and down to very email pieces. He bus been working the claims since January, and since that time has taken out $5,000. The Swauk placers are old and well known, but have been worked only in a crude way. One man who owns a claim there has been working it quietly for six years, during which time he has made about $50,000. Mr. Hen ton sunk a shaft 103 feet to bedrook before he made his find. He says the Clcndyke has no attractions for him. Flailing 8eaon to Cloie. AstoriarOr., Aug. 9. The fishing season closes Tuesday. It is utterly impossible as yet to make an estimate of the pack, but it will probably be in the neighborhood of 500,000 cases. It is known that the fiflhermen's union cannery packed 80,000 oases. Of the other packers, some have made the usual packs, while others have fallen below last year's output. The fisher men on the upper river have done com paratively nothing, the ' catches being very light. An up-river fisherman says the men have barely made expenses. On the lower river the men have done better, and all cleaned up good wages. The high men on the lower river have 19 tons to their credit, valued at about $1,500. The seiners have made light catches, but the traps have done very well. Fish are plentiful in the river at present. Canada Enforces Labor Law. Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 9. Canada has begun to take means to enforce the alien labor law against Americans. Commissioner McCreary is here on business in connection with work on the Crow's Neet Pass railway through the Kocky mountains, and he informed the Canadian Pacific railway authorities that any American laborers engaged for that work would be deported to their own country again. McCreary has in structions from the Canadian govern ment to strictly enforce the new law. Trouble on Turko-Peralan Frontier. London, Aug. 9. A dispatch to the Daily News from Takriz, North Persia, capital ol the province of Azerbaijam, says that serious trouble has broken out on the Turko-Persian frontier, and that both governments have dispatched troops and guns to the scene of toe difficulty. There is nothing that helps a man in his conduct through life more than the knowledge of bis own characteristic weakness. CLAIMS ARE ALL TAKEN. Clondyke Thronged Willi liUappolnted (nip Huntra. San Francisco, Aug. 9. Speuking of the Clondyke output of gold, the chief olerk of the mint said: "All the gold brought to this city from the Aluxkuii mines will not ex ceed $800,000, mid all that has been taken out this year and gent to the other mints of the country will not ex ceed $2,000,000. The gold from that part of the country is generally from 700 to 800 flue and Home of it rates 000, the average being worth from $15.65 to $17 an ounce." J. C. Butler, of the Pullman Car Company, is in receipt of a letter from R. P. Taylor, a financial broker of Seattle. A few days ago Taylor re ceived word from some men whom he sent to the Clondyke region last spring, in which they inform him that every claim within 150 miles of Dawson City has been taken up, and thut men are rushing all over the country look ing for locatitons. He says that star vation and hardship stares many of them in the face. Cuptuin Niebaiim, of the Alaska Commercial Company, who has made a careful study of the situation, fears there will be a great deal of suffering in the mining regions this spring. He thinks the people going are far in ex cess of the supplies thut have been for warded. A letter from Hurt Humber, a pros, pector, dated Dawson City, June 18, just received, shows thut the gold seek er needs plenty of capital. After reach ing Dawson and paying the heavy duty on his outfit, besides 80 cents a pound for getting it over Chilkoot pass, he will have to pay 25 cents a pound to get his stuff from Dawson to the dig gings. The rush to the Clondyke gold fields is affecting the mineowners of the mother lode in the vicinity of Sonora, Jackson and Sutter Creek, and if it con tinues will cause the closing down of the mines in Calaveras, Amador and Tuolumne counties, or their operation with depleted forces. In the past week 200 men have left Amador county alone for the gold fields in the north and others are preparing to follow. Some of them were hired by mineowners in Alaska, but many of them went on their own resources. The other counties have also sent ex pert miners in large numbers. An Expedition From Brooklyn. New York, Aug. 9. A half dozen ambitious Brooklynites are organizing an expedition to Alaska to search for some of the Clondyke gold. David P. Watsons, of Brooklyn, clerk of the Re publican general committee, is making up a party, of which he will be one, and which will leave early in February to seek fortunes in the gold fields of the North. Ticnml la Clondyke Mad. '"' Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 9. Desire to rush off to the Alaska gold fields at once, without waiting till next spring is increasing all the time. Fourteen steamers are scheduled to sail from this port between now and the first of .September. TO LAY THE DUST. Novel Scheme of a New Jeraejr Railway I , Engineer. New York, Aug. 9. A dispatch to the Herald from May's' Landing, N. J., says: The recent discovery of Chief Engineer Nicholas, of the West Jersey & Seashore railway, that crude oil ap plied to the ground along the railway tracks would effectually lay the dust, lias proven after thorough tests to work far -better than was first expected. Both lines of track leading from Cam den to At'antio City are being thor oughly saturated for u .distance of six feet on both sides of the track. Tlie oil is applied on much the same plan as streets are sprinkled. A water and recently an oil train with sprin kling apparatus sprinkled more than 20 miles. The work will be completed in a few days. One sprinkling a year at a cost of $30 per mile, it is claimed, will lay the dust effectually, but two applications may have to be made. The Pennsylvania system is to be sprinkled with oil as speedily as possi ble. A Michigan Tragedy. Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 9. Last April A. II. Dailey, of Jennieon, sent a 'letter to Mayor Swift, saying he wanted a wife. The letter got into the newspapers, and as a result Dailey received 500 answers. From among the offers he selected Mrs, Hattie M. Newton, a Chicago widow, and they were married. They quarreled and finally separated. Dailey gave his wife three days to return. The time was up at midnight last night and she refused to return. Dailey forced his way into her bedchamber and shot her with a musket. Dailey was arrested, and on hie way to juil was allowed to go into a saloon to drink. He slipped strych nine into his beer and fell over dead in a few minutes. The woman will recover. Fatal Quarrel Oyer Cattle. Madera, Cal., Aug. 9. In a quarrel over cattle in Crane valley, at Mc Swain ranch, yesterday, between Patsy Reardon and L. A. Woodford, the lat ter was shot and instantly killed. Keardon gave himself up. Over Seventy Million. Washington, Aug. 9. The latest offi cial estimate of the population of the United States is 77,000,068. This li made by the actuary of the treasury an officer whose duty it is at fixed intervals to report on the per captia circulation of money in the United States. He estimates that the present holdings of money are $22.53 for every man, woman and child in the United States. It is much easier to find the man yog owe than the man who owes you. Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From All the Cities and Towns ml the ThrlTln Slater ftatet Oregon. A large cougar, measuring 0 lj feet from tip to tip, was killed near Alsea last week. The Oregon Press Association will meet in Baker City on October 18, 17 and 18. Quite a number of tlifl Umatilla In diuns are in the Grand Honda valley, in Union county, digging camas. Just outside of the town of Athena a field of 25 acres of wheat has just been harvested, and the yield was 52 bushels to the aore. The salary of the principal of tha Roseburg school has been reduced to $70, and the under-teachers to $37.50 The janitor's salary was cut down to $18 from $30. Last week a piece of bridge timber 70 feet long and 40 inches in diameter was cut at Saldun's logging camp, near Clatskunie, for the Astoria & Columbia River railroad. At the custom -house in Astoria one day last week $1,200 duty on coul was paid under the new tariff, or $300 more than would have been required under the old law. Thirty-six bounty warrants for squir rels and gopher sculps were issued by Marion county last week. The sums for which the warrants were issued amounted in the aggregate to $94. 10. Mrs. Mercy Simons, of Sodaville, is said to be the oldest person in Linn county, and perhaps in the state. She is 105 years old. Mrs. Fisher, who is 95 years old, is the oldest resident in Albany. The Columbia river annual confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal churoh will be held in Pendleton during the week commencing August 25. The con ference has about 85 ministers and more than 90 charges. It is expected that 150 visitors will be present. Bishop Foss will preside. A dispatch was received in Baker City from Weiser, Idaho, announcing the arrival of a smelter and that the same would he immediately forwarded to the Seven Devils. This is the first move of importance toward opening np this vast copper belt. One carload of sawmill machinery was received at the same time. The smelter is said to be of 75 tons capaoity, and one ton of tnatte will equal four tons of ore. As the Peacock ore average? 20 per Cent copper, the lessees of the mines expect to reap a rich harvest. Several arras tras are being put tip for the purpose of working some of the rich- gold ledgei which abound in the same district. Washington. Aostin has a new flouring mill. The State Bar Association will hold its next annual meeting in Spokane. More than $1,000 was paid the gill netters in Blaine for one night's catch. The annual report of the auditor of Adams county shows that the county only owes $5,000. John W. Trov, the alleged defaulting auditor of Clallam county, has been taken back to Port Angeles. It is prob able that his case will be settled out of court. The telephone line to Goldendule will soon be completed. The poles are all set, and the wire in place as fur as Winans. The line will cross tne river at Winans' place, being stretched be tween their big stationary fishwheels. It is reported that the General Elec tric Company, of Portland, has had a survey of the Klickitat fulls made re cently for the purpose of furnishing eleotricity for The Dalles and GolJen dale and to bnild an electric line from Lyle to Uoldendale. So many men are leaving Skagit county that there is a fear of crippling the shingle industry in this county, as the manufacturers say they can't get enough men to keep the mills in opera tion. Even the farmers come to Mount Vernon daily looking for help to work in the hay fields. The Walla Walla Statesman says that when the petition of the Commer cial Club of that place to the war de partment to have two troops of cavalry sent to Walla to replace those sent to Fort Yellowstone was referred to tha commanding officer of the department of the Columbia, that official made favorable report upon the petition, Mrs. Egpey and her daughter, Clara, of' Rock ford, Spokane county, who walked all the way from Spokane to New York city, returned a few days ago to their home. Both mother and daughter report having had a good time, and declare that their health was nearer hotter, although the long journey reducer! them an flesh. Their object in making the pip wag for the purpose of making enough money to lift a mortgage trcja their farm. They were in derna id alj the various museums and other pi k,' where salaries were paid them a curiosities. The eceitfer of the bank of Puyallup has received) permission to sell the real estate and other assets of the institu tion. I ' Th report of the commissioner of tub and fisheries recently published bows thai the government has dis Iributed ii Washington state during :he. fiscal year, 625 large-mouthed laik basi, 450 yellow perch and 860 -,ch; in Idaho, 495 carp, 758 tench, '.,475 broLk tnnt, 400 yellow perch, 170 largefmouthed black bass and 2,- '10,000 hiteflh fry. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Downing, Hopklna Company' Review of Trade. The short sellers of wheat have but a single argument left to support their views, viz: The admitted fuut that the wheat crop of this country will be at least 100,000,000 bushels larger than thut of lust year. The current news during the week bus been extremely bullish and developments huve materi ally strengthened the position of spec ulative buyers. Probably the most im portant annoucement wus Beerbohm'a estimute platting the European shorttge compared with lust year at 224,000,000 bushels. This has been emphasized und confirmed by the active cash de mand and enormous sales for export. An additional aid in enhancing vuluea has been furnished by the farmers stacking their wheat at a greater ex tent than usual. Should the coal min ers' strike continue a fortnight longer it will prove a powerful, although un natural, factor in enhancing values, and in all probability result in a more serious congestion of the market for September delivery than lias prevailed for July contracts. The promise ol an abundant wheat crop in America, the ubsence of competition in supplying the requirements of importing coun tries, and the oonsequont increused ex port demand for American wheat, all tend to benefit the American farmer. Wheat will prove a profitable purchase on all reactions and the general tend ency is toward a still higher range of values. The American visible this week shows a decrease of 164,000 bushels, and now totals 17,650,000 bushels against 46, 429,000 a year ago. There is much to be suid regarding both sides of the com market, but after all is said it is still a fact thut values are extremely low due to panic and overproduction. The growing crop is not yet assured, and with the enhancing values ruling for wheat compared with producing years, the increasing activity in general trade, oom must participate to a greater or less extent in the general improvements, according as the crop promise to be above or below that of last year. In any event, present values promise to be well maintained, and there is little if any inducement for speculative short gelling. Should the growing crop meet with any mishap much higher values will quickly obtain. Portland Markets. Wheat Walla Wallai 78c; Val ley, 81c per bushel. Flour Best grades, $4.15; graham, $3.65; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Outs Choice white, 88 40c; choice gray, 87 89c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $16 16.50; brewing, $18 19 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $14 per ton; middlings, $21; shorts, $15.50. !. Timothy, $12 13; olover, $1011; California wheat, $10 11; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per ton. Eggs 1212c per dozen. Butter Fancy creamery, 8540o; fair to good, 80c; dairy, 2680c per roll. Cheese Oregon, la Young America, 12$'c; California, 910oper pound. ., Poultry Chiokens, mixed, $8.00 3.50 per dozen; broilers, $1.502.75; geese, $34; dnoks, $3.60(3 3 per dozen; turkeys, live, 10llc per pound. Potatoes. Oregon Burbanks. 85 45c per saok; new potatoes, 50o per sack; sweets, $1.902.25 per oental. Onions California, new, red, $1.25; yellow, $1.50 per cental. Hops 1011M l'er ponnd for new crop; 1896 crop, 46c. Wool Valley, ll18o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 7 9c; mohair, 20c per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 22c; dressed mutton, 4o; spring lambs, b per pound. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4; light and feeders, $2.603; dressed, $3 4.25 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, $2.75(38; cows $2.25; dressed beef, 4050 per pound. Veal Largo, 83Jo; small, i)i per pound. Seattle Market!. Butter Fancy native oreamery, brick, 18c; ranch, 1012o. Cheese Native Washington, 10 Ho; California, 9,'jC. Eggs Fresh ranch, 1819o. Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 10llc; spring chickens, $2 3.50; ducks, $2.50(38.75. Wheat Feed wheat, $28 per ton. Oats Choice, per ton, $23. Corn Whole, $22; oraoked, per ton, $22; feed meal, $22 per ton. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $22; whole, $21. Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef, iteers, 6o; cows, 6Jc; mutton sheep, 5o; pork, 6c; veal, small, 6. Fresh Fish Halibut, 4)c; salmon, 4 5c; salmon trout, 7 10c; flounders nd sole, 84; ling cod, 45; rock ood, 6o; smelt, 2)j(34c.. Ban Franclaco Market. Wool Choice foothill, 9 12c; Pan Joaqnin, 6 months' 8 10c; do year's staple, 79c; mountain, 11 13c; Ore gon, 10 13c per pound. Hops 79o per pound. Hay Wheat, $12 15; wheat and oat, $11 14; oat, $10 12; river barley, $7 8; best barley, $9 12; alfalfa, $7 8. 50 clover, $7. 50 9. Millstuffs Middlings, $18.50 22; California bran, $14 15 per ton. Potatoes New, in boxes, 40 60c. Onions New red, 70 80c; do new ilverskin, 85 95c per cental. Fresh fruit Apples, 20 80c per email box; do large box, 40 65c Royal apricots, 2085c common cherries, 15 (3 2 5c; Royal Anne cherriet, 2540o per box; currants, $1.00 1.60 per chest; peachefc, 25 40c; pears, 20 40c; cherry plums, 20 30c per box. Cheese Fancy mild, new, 8c; fair toitood, 7)o per pound. MOVED THEIR CAMP. The Striker Won the nay at Turtle Mot Handy Creek. Pittsburg, Aug. 9. Out of the 3,000 striker who camped at Turtlo creek lust Saturday, barely 300 now remain at Camp Determination. In addition to the large number turned out of camp and'shut off from the free food distri bution yesterday, many were drafted to Plnm creek, where the great struggle for supremacy between the strikers and the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Company will be carried on. At Turtle and Sandy creeks Jha Hrikers have practioally won. Turtle 3 reek mine, known as No. 4, is closed, down as tight as the strikers can ever hope to close it by their present peace ful means of agitation. It is true that, a few men are still at work in the pit, but they are not putting out any coal. IThe same holds good at Sandy oreek. Reports from Plum creek are conflict ing. Superintendent DoArmitt claim that 255 men are still working, while the strikers say they oounted but 30 go ing into the pit this morning. The deputies at Plum creek are bar ing a hard time. Many are ooroplain ing, and a number have resigned. They are np from before daylight nnitl Ions; after the sun has set. They are on constaut strain. All the mines are con nected by private telegraph and tele phone wires, and every stranger or body of strangers moving along the highway are reported to the nearest! oftioe by ' scouts, and the foremen or managers of all the mines get notion. At the point upon which, any march, thus reported seems to be directed, there is a stir among the deputies. Aa these ' marches are of almost daily oc currence day and night in all direc tions, the deputies are in a constant state of apprehension and activity. The feeding and lodging facilities ara limited, and not adequate o. the de mands made upon them, and what adda to the deputies' discomfort is the fact that none of them are used to bard ships. TESLA'S WIRELESS SYSTEM. Meaaagea May Be Sent to Any Fait ml the Globe. New York, Aug. 6. Nioola Teslav Rnnounced today the completion of hi latest discovery, the "simultaneous transmission of messages by. means of. the earth's electrical currents to aa many scattered points on the surface of the globe as may be desired." This he regards as by far his greatest achieve ment To a few intimates he gave a thrilling demonstration of the operation nf hi dnvlnn for arrnatinir and snhtact- ing to control under natural laws the natural substances in and about the earth. His latest invention or discovery ie to produce such a disturbance of the electricity of the earth which can be felt and noted simultaneously at alL parts of the globe. "I am producing," said he in the course of his demonstration, "an elec trical disturbance of intense magnitude, which is continuing throughout the en tire earth. In other words, I am pro ducing a disturbance of the earth' charge of electricity which can be felt to the uttermost parts of the earth." "And the result will be?" "That is almost incomprehensible. This electrioal disturbance by means of certain simple instruments, can be felt and appreciated at any point of tha crlnhn In this wav messages can be sent the entire earth around, and be taken up at any part of the earth with out the aid or intervention of wires in any wuy at all." Mowed Down With Cannon. London, Aug. 9. The London Newa i-1 : i ... - 1 ... . r a f 1 .it t . JUUIIHIlce O IUHUI liuiu n vnivuiia .wr unteer reiterating the statement; that during the recent rioting there the artil lery fired at a mob of 5,000 mill hand who were marching to join the rioters, with the result that 1,500 of the native were killed. The secretary of state for India was questioned in the house of commonr July 9 as to thre accuraoy of the native report that 1,600 persons were,, killed during the rioting, which had just oc curred in the vicinity of Calcutta, aa , one of the results of the stringent meas ures taken by government officials to prevent the spread of and stamp out the bubonio plague. He replied that 'tbout seven persons were killed and 20) ' were wounded during the riots referred to. To Complete Hudaon River Tnaael. , New York, Aug. 9. The Hudson river tunnel project tu connect New York and New Jersey has been revived. Plans are now being perfected to re sume construction where it was dropped five years ago. Engineers say that an expenditure of $1,600,000 will com plete the work. Four million dollars had already been spent before the work was abandoned, at which time there were 3,916 feet of completed tunnel go ing east from the shaft in Jersey City. One thousand feet of this distance em tends east of the middle of the Hudson river. Prealdent Will Not Come Wtit San Francisco, Aug. 9. Mayor Phelan today received a dispatch from Attorney-General McKenna, stating; that President McKinley had assured him that the proposed trip to the Pa cific coast had been abandoned for this year. 'California Wheat for Brazil. Washington, Aug. 9. The bureau of American republics had information that merchants of Rio Janeiro have chartered two vessels in San Francisco to take cargoes of California wheat to Rio. This is the first time that soch a. thing has occurred and is attributed to the short crop in the Argentine repub lic and Paraguay. The common house sparrow flies at the rate of 93 mi lei an hour i