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CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNT?. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1896.
VOL. XXXIII.
NO. 22.
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CORVALLIS OREGON
The Wheel Caught the Fox.
One day toward night, while I was
passing through a wooded section of the
country close to the broader line between
Connecticut and Massachusetts, a red fox
suddenly dropped into the middle of the
road. The soft gliding motion of the
rubber tires did not attract his attention
until the cycle was within a rod of him.
Then with a wild scamper he started on
a dead run toward a distant swamp. The
creatme was fleet of foot, aud he swept
down the dusty road rapidly, turning
his head occasionally to watch the
strange apparition following him, and
he laid his body almost flat upon the
ground in his endeavor to outrun the
new pursuer. But it was no use. The
wheel slowly overhauled . him, foot by
foot, and the front wheel almost brushed
his bushy tail before he acknowledged
defeat. Then, with a half sob and yelp,
the creature jumped clean over the ad
joining ditch and landed safely on the
nether grassy bank. . The wheel flashed
past him, and he remained seated upon
his haunches watching it until out of
sight, probably the most astonished fox
that ever roamed the woods. New York
Post : :- - '
Voot Warmers.
A Portland citizen tells about a pious
speculation in foot warmers, way back
in" the thirties, when churchgoers de
pended on little individual box stoves to
keep their toes from freezing. "These
were about a foot square, the frame of
wood, the side of wire netting or cast
iron perforated, and with a deep sliding
pan in which were placed about three
pints of hot hard wood coals, or some
times charcoal. Every family group go
ing to church would carry several of
these stovea Finally the janitor of tin
second parish, a Mr. Leech, undertook
to take charge of all stoves for $1 each
during the winter. . He would bring them
to church every Sunday morning, full
of live coals, and place them tm the pews
where they belonged. As he had 50 or
more of the toe ticklers to care for, he
must needs have had a big bank of coals
to draw upon. Portland Times.
: Lang Diseases.
A New York specialist on lung dis
eases recently prescribed a course of
treatment for a woman who was evi
dently far on the road to consumption.
What he told her to take was all sorts
of strengthening food, such as rare beef,
cream, lots of butter, eta Besides this
he directed her to eat raw eggs beaten
up in milk until she could bring herself
to take 12 a day. This last regime alone
faithfully carried out has, it is believed,
saved another consumptive patient to
many years of . usefulness, and it has
helped the first woman greatly as well
Philadelphia Press. ' : ; . .
A Modern Fable.
A wolf, in skulking about looking
for opportunity to satisfy his hunger,
came in sight of a number of shepherds
engaged in discussing ' their wrongs.
"When the shepherds discuss their
wrongs," said the wolf, grabbing a
lamb, "the wolf gets his right"-
EVENTS OF. THE DAY
Epitome ot the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In a Condensed Form.
In a severe thunderstorm near Oma
ha, Neb., three pecplo were killed by
lightning.
A dispatch from Neath, announoes
that forty miners were entombed in
the Brincoch pit by an explosion.
Miss "Ida Fuller, a New York aotress,
while in bathing at Manhattan beach,
was grasped by an octopus and nearly
drowned.
Governor Altgeld has issued a mani
festo declaring that eight bonis shall
constitute a day's work on park im
provements in Chicago.
Miss Anna Pritchard, a widow from
San Francisco, lsft $1,280 in green
backs done up in a newspaper on the
Oakland ferryboat, and has not been
able to find the package since.
John Hazel jumped from an Illinois
Central passenger train that was run
ning forty miles an hour and was in
stantly killed. He was in custody of
an officer and was wanted for horse
stealing in Missouri.
A detachment of company I, who
were guarding the Brown hoisting
works, near Cleveland, O., fired upon
a mob of strikers and wounded one of
them. Excitement runs high, and
more trouble is feared.
A sale on the courthouse steps of
Elizabethtown, Ky., was a reminder of
ante-bellum days. Instead of a negro ;
slave being transferred to another j
owner, it was a white man sold t auo- j
tion for vagrancy under an old law sel
dom enforced.
The administration of President Pie
rola, of Peru, is to be credited with
another triumph in effecting a loan of
80,000,000 francs. The loan, which
will be guaranteed by a salt tax and
other revenues, will be subscribed part
ly in Paris and partly in Lima.
Bill Doolin, the outlaw who escaped
from the jail in Guthrie, O. T., four
weeks ago, was surrounded by deputy
marshals at Wewoka. A desperate
fight took place, and during a fusilade
of shots Doolin escaped. Deputies
Gregor and Reynolds were killed.
In Chicago, twelve persons suo
cumbed to the heat in one day. Two
or three of these are not expected to
recover. It was the hottest day of the
year, the signal service thermometer
registering ninety-four in the after
noon. Thermometers on the streets
registered fonr and five degrees more
than that in the tower.
A bloody affray occurred among a
crowd of sohool boys at Baohville,
Ark. Robert Chew and Beuregard
Poole became involved In' a fight.
Friends of the belligerents joined in
the fray. ' Pocket knives were used.
Several boys were dagerously wounded.
Poole was stabbed in the breast several
times and died of his wounds.
The Chicago stock exchange will re
main closed until the Moore Bros.
failure has been settled. The aotion of
the governing committee In closing the
doors is said by some financiers to have
averted a panic . "There is no telling
where it would have ended," said a
might have resulted in the ruination
of a dozen business houses and banks."
A special from Madrid says a 'great
fire rages at Rueda de Medina, a town
of about 4,000 inhabitants, twenty-five
miles southwest of Valadolid. Hun
dreds of buildings are said to have been
destroyed. The inhabitants are report
ed as being in a state of panic
The syndicate of foreign bankers
which came into existenoe to check the
drain on the United States treasury j
reserve exerted by Europe has been sig- J
nally successful in its efforts in that
direction, but the withdrawls of gold :
for shipment to Canada continues. j
James Fulton Shepard, a one-legged :
boy of Alameda, vCaL, saved a 19-year-
old lad named Durant from drowning
fin the tidal canal. Shepard rescued'
Drrant as he was sinking for the last !
time. The boy had swallowed a quan- j
tity of water, and it required an hour's ,
hard work to bring him to. j
Another rebellion is reported from,
China. Two powerful bandit societies i
are in revolt. Several villages have
been captured. Helpless inhabitants!
.have been foully murdered and their
homes destroyed. Foreign missions j
have been attacked, and two French i
priests - narrowly escaped with their
lives.
Governor Molntyre, of Colorado, has
received a letter purporting to be from
William Smeiduth, for the murder of j
whom Columbus B. Sykes is serving a i
life sentence. What were supposed to !
be Smeiduth's remains were found on i
his ranch, near Dallas, Cola , March j
13, 1894. The chief of polioe of San
Francisco has been requested to find the
man claiming to be Smeiduth, who
writes that he is staying at' the What
Cheer house on Sacramento street, San
Francisco. .
While an attorney was looking over
the papers of the late Eugene Wilhelm
at his home near Nebraska City, Neb.,
an express order was found for $1,500,
which had been issued in 1853 at
Placervillfl-, CaL, sent by Wilhelm to
his wife, Martha Wilhelm, and payable
to her order.. Why the order was
never cashed, Mrs. Wilhelm, who is an
old woman, is unable to explain. The
head of the company in New. York has
been notified that the order has been
placed in the bank at Nebraska City
for collection.
. Hatabelea Defeated. j
Details have been received in Cape
Town of a decisive victory won by 700'
British troops composing Colonel Plum
mer's column, over a native force esti
mated at from 5.000 to 7,000. The
latter fought desperately and bravely,
charging within a few yards of the
British rapid-firing guns. About 500
Matabele warriors were slain during
the engagement, which lasted several
hours. About thirty of the British
soldiers and six officers were killed and
50 wounded. . ' " '
A Wife-Murderer Hanged, .
Charles Tbiede was hanged in the
yard of the county jail, at Salt Lake.
The execution was witnessed by a large
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Thiede, who was a saloon keeper, wasj
convicted oi murdering ms wiie on cne
night of April 80th, 1894, by nealry
severing her head from ber body with
a knife. He asserted his innocence to
the last. . :-
Will Traverse the Globe. '
Miss Clara Parish, the seventh and
youngest W. C. T. U. round-the-world
missionary, has left Paris, 111., for St.
Louis, starting on ber trip around the
world. She will be given a big recep
tion there. She will lecture at several
points in the West, and will sail from
San Francisco for Japan August 26.
She will take about two years to make
the trip. . . ,
American Money Blacklisted.
The Montreal cnamber of commerce
has passed a resolution expressing ap- i
proval of the aotion of the banks in that i
district in charging a discount of 10,'
per cent on all American money. ' It 1
also issued a warning' to merchants,!
farmers and the publio generally not to j
accept American money upon any con
sideration.
Fatal Kansas City Fire. !
One man was killed outright, one J
perhaps fatally injured and five others :
sustained more or less serious injuries
in a fire which started in Swift's pack- ;
ing plant in Kansas City, Mo. The j
property Iobs is nearly $ 100, 000. Joseph
Hoblowitz, a night watchman, was j
suffocated or burned to death.
A Fatal Conflagration.
A disastrous fire occurred in a fac
tory in Christiana, Norway, and before
it was extinguished, several buildings
were destroyed. -. A falling wall killed
six men and thirteen others were seri
ously hurt, of which three have since
died. It is believed that three children
have perished in the ruins. ,
A Reverend Poisoner.
Rev. J. C. Hull, a preacher, was ar
rested in St. Paul at the request of his
wife, charged with attempting to kill
her by administering poison in repeat
ed small doses. Hull is prominent in
St Paul church circles. .
Held Up by Robbers.
James A. Campbell, a Honolulu
millionaire,- who disappeared, from San
Francisco, returned with a bullet hole
through his hat and an exciting tale
about an adventure with robbers.
Campbell says that while he was drink
ing in a private room in a saloon he
was confronted by two masked men, who
demanded money. The millionaire re
fused the demand, and in the fight
that followed a bullet went through
his hat Campbell says he was robbed
and kept a prisoner for .two days.
When released he was given a nickle
for his car fare.
A Race War Threatened.
A war between whites and negroes is
imminent in Polk county, Ark. , on the
line of construction of the Texarkana
& Fort Smith railroad. It seems that
the hardy old mountaineers of that seo
tion have not allowed any negroes to
stop in that seotion for several years.
The contractors building the road have
employed colored . labor. .Trouble is
feared and the contractors have hired
guards to protect the negroes.
Floods In Nicaragua.
Rains have caused the rivers Rama
and Suqua, in Nicaragua to rise rapid
ly, and the panio stricken inhabitants
of El Rama have taken to the high
gronnd and on board steamers. Nearly
all buildings in the latter place were
destroyed. Plantations near the town
were ruined and the damage is esti
mated at $1,000,000.
Pursuit la Abandoned.
Pursuit of the bandits who held up
the Wilhoit stage has been abandoned,
as their trail was lost in the mountains
about .fifteen miles from where the
crime was committed, making it well
nigh impossible to further trace them.
Nicaragua Must Give Up.
A government organ declares that if
Nicaragua refuses to relinquish Islas
Mangla, which she seized contrary to
the wishes of the inhabitants, the Co
lombian govenrment will regard the
refusal as a oasus belli.
Boy Murderer Surrenders.
Amos Decker, the boy who murdered
a playmate near Findlay, O., has given
himself up to the authorities. He suc
cessfully eluded capture for several
days by hiding in acorn field, but hun
ger drove him out
Tne'. Boiler Exploded.
, A traction engine boiler exploded on
a farm near Anderson, lad., and one
man was instantly killed and several
others seriously injured.
' M ncy for Cuba.
It is reported in Philadelphia that
the Cuban junta in the United States
this week raised, a. fund amounting to
$375,000 - Part of this money has been
changed into gold, "and is on shipboard
bocni for Cuba, where it will be planed
in the hands of the facers command
ing the insurgent army The balance
has been retained by the' heads of the
juuta in Philadelphia, who will use it
in a way that will best serve the Cuban
cause. - . , -.-
A DEATH-DEALING SUN
The East Stricken by an Ex
tremely Hot Wave..
NUMBER OF THE DEAD NOW 128
Fifty Alone In Greater New York -The
Wave Extended as Far West as
Kansas City, Ho.
Washington, Aug. 11. The report
of fatalities resulting from heat in vari
ous sections of tbeoountry indicate that
the present hot spell will be as disas
trous in effect as a national calamity
or plague. The death roll of today ex
ceeds 128 in the principal places. Fol
lowing is the reported fatalities:
New York and vicinity, 50; Phil
adelphia, 18; Washington, 16; Balti
more, 19; Bayonne, N. J , 3; Newark,
8; Albany, 12;-Jersey City, 1; Pitts
burg, 1; Roohester, 1; Chicago, 15;
Louisville, 1; Memphis, 1; Cleveland,
2; Cincinnati, 5; San Antonio, 1.
THREE KILLED, FIFTEEN INJURED
Trolley Car Dashed Down an Incline at
Columbia, 1'enn.
Columbia, Penn., Aug. 11. Three
persons were instantly killed and
fifteen injured, some fatally, by the
derailment of a trolley car on the Col
umbia & Donegal electrio road tonight,
just outside the limits of Columbia.
The dead are:
Aday Forelinger, motorman; Henry
Smith and an unknown person.
At least one, and probably two, of
the injured may die. The place where
the accident occurred is at the baso of
an incline, alongside of whioh runs a
high embankment The car was loaded
with passengers and, as it reached the
edge of the incline, there was no indi
cation of danger. Once on the incline,
however, the car began to slip on the
wet track. The motorman applied the
air brakes, and at that moment the
gear-wheel broke, rendering the brakes
useless. The car dashed along at a ter
rific rate, while the terror-stricken pas
sengers were helpless from fear.
The car, upon reaching the bottom,
took a sharp turn and was thrown up
against the embankment
Word was quickly sent to Columbia
and a relief car was sent to the scene.
SEVEN PERSONS DROWNED
Three In Detroit River at Detroit, and
Four In Lake Michigan.
. TtAtwAi a 1 1 a i : Jl
and thunder storm, which swept over
i this city this evening, resulted in the
drowning of at least three men in the
Detroit river, and several yachtsmen
had narrow escapes after the capsizing
of their oraft. ' Two others ' were
drowned during' the afteinoon from
other oauses. . "
The capsizing of the yacht Corsair
caused the drowning of Frank Hughes.
William J. Thiemer was drowneJ from
the yacht Alberta. John Heike, jr.,
was drowned while swimming near
Peche island. '
A dispatch to the Free Press from
Benton Harbor, Mich., says:
Four persons were drowned in Lake
Michigan this afteinoon a mile north
of here. They were M. Manning,
James Butterick, Frank Yerring and a
stranger. The men, with a dozen
others, were bathing, when two of the'
number, who could not swim, were
caught by the undertow, and the others
went to their rescue.
WINE F-r?M ROBBED.
Weekly Payroll Taken by a Daring and
In gen! us Thle".
San Franoisoo, Aug. 11. A daring
and ingenious thief got away . with
$1,200, the weekly pay of the employes
of Lachman & Jacobi, the big wine
firm, - today. Superintendent Ciprico
had received the money from a mes-
senger, and placed it in a cabinet in
the office. Then he made out his pay
! roll, and when be went for the money
it was gone. A search revealed the
i fact that a square hole had been cut in
a wooden partition against whioh the
back of the cabinet rested. The piece
of wood sawed ont had been retained
in place by hinges, and the work must
i have been done the night before by
, some one familiar with the place and
: its customs. While Ciprico was en
1 gaged with his payroll, tne thief had
i opened his little trapdoor, cut out of
j the thin back of the oabinet, and
walked off with the two sacks of gold.
No trace of the robber has been found.
Between Japan and Germany.
San Franoisoo, Aug. 11. According
to mail advices from the Orient today,
the commercial treaty between Japan
and Germany has been approved by the
privy council of Japan. The exchange
of ratifications and the subsequent pub
lioation of the treaty are expeoted to
take place within sixty days. While
the terms of the treaty are not known,
it is believed that Japan has conceded
more to Germany in the way of com
mercial privileges to German residents
in Japan than she accorded to Great
Britain in the treaty made with the
British government some time ago.
Advices from Peking are to the effeot
that a commercial treaty has been rati
fied between China and .Japan.
Havana, Aug. - ll.-News from
Puerto Principe .is that Samuel Nolly,
an English seaman, and an American
named Angusto Bortherman landed
near Maternallis on June' 11, and have
surrendered to the insurgents, having
failed to pay the $200 monthly agreed
upon. Ricardo Barrois Robado will be
executed at Matanzas.
To be "in a brown study" is a cor
ruption of a brow study, requiring
much thought and contraction of the
brows.
Massacre in Crete.
Athens, Aug. 12. At Ananolis,
Pedadad, near Herkalion, in the island
of Crete, on Saturday, 1000 armed
Musselmen butchered thirty unarmed
Christians in the precinct of St John
monastery. Several priests, women
and children are among the victims.
One woman was slaughtered for sav
ing her children and her husband.
She was butchered on her knees.
Several churches were desecrated,
and a priest named Jeremiah had his
ears and nose severed from his head
and was then burned alive on a pile of
sacred pictures.
The Boat Capsized.
. Chicago, Aug. 12. Charles Johnson
and Edward L. Schubel were drowned
in the lake by the capsizing of their
boat last evening. They went down
in sight of their wives and children
and a number of friends who were pa
nicking on the shore and unable to
help them. The boat was not more
than 300 feet from the shore, and was
upset by two companions who jumped
from its side into the water for a
swim.
Storm at Saginaw.
Saginaw, Mich., Aug. 12. A lightn
ing and wind storm caused $100,000
damage in this city and vicinity early
this morning. Jefferson avenue Metho
dist Episcopal church was struck by
lightning, and damaged to the extent
of $50,000. Fifty other buildings and
factories were unroofed or badly
wrecked, hundreds of trees blown
down and wires prostrated.
Five Were Driwned. - -
Philadelphia, Aug. 12. Five persons
were drowned last night in the Dela
ware river, opposite Bridgeburg by the
capsizing of a small rowboat The vio
tims were: Amelia Holman, Rose
B'erninger, both of this city; Charles
Minnik, of Cincinnati; John T. Reeder,
address unknown. The boat was caught
in a squall and upset
a Ifred Tennyson's Widow.
London, Aug. 12. Baroness Tenny
son, widow of the late poet laureate, is
dead. She was the daughter of Henry
Sellwood, and married Alfred Tenny
son in 1850. Her son, Rallman Tenny
son, is the present Baron Tennyson.
Kidnaper Captured.
San Francisco, Aug. 12. O. W.
Winthrop, who is accused of kidnaping
James Campbell, the aged millionaire
of Hawaii, was caught in Oakland this
morning and brought to this city.
TO END THE WAR
Negotiations for Peace to Bo Begun in
Cuba.
Key West," Aug. 1 1. It is ' openly
declared here that Captain-General
Weyler has reaohed an understanding
with the chief insurgent leaders and
that negotiations will be begun with a
view to the cessation of hostilities ' in
Cuba upon terms satisfactory to all
concerned. It is also stated here that
the captain-general and his deputy
commanders have held a conference in
relation to this important movement
The authors of these striking declara
tions say that the. truth of. their reports
a established by the fact that within
the last few days many influential
emissaries have arrived here and at
other points in the United States, from
Cuba, bearing important dispatches to
the Cuban junta in New York. Some
of the sympathizers in the revolution
ary cause admit that these dispatches
may contain references to a possible
truce, but they are not inclined to talk
freely on the subject
Other surmises whioh have been aris
ing owing to the arrival of the Cuban
envoys are to the effect that insurgents
are at this time dispatching messages
to the United States, urging immediate
aid in the way of arms and ammuni
tion, of which they are sorely in need.
By far the greatest importance, how
ever, is attached here to the report that
a truce is likely to occur soon in the
island. Ernesto Castro and Jose Ros
sell, picked up by the pilot boat Jewett,
and brought here last night, are still
held in detention by the health authori
ties, despite the efforts of their friends
to have them released. Habeas corpus
proceedings were held today, however,
and the men may be released.
The apparent anxiety and the un
usual efforts made to seoure the release
of the two Cubans detained, in order to
enable them to proceed to New York,
are evidences of the importance of their
mission to the United States. Their
arrival was telegraphed to the junta in
New York, and the dispatches that they
brought were entrusted to a messenger.
Some prominent local members of
the Cuban revolutionary party ridicule
the reports ascribed to the presence in
this country of emissaries from the
rebels. Recent wholesale arrests in
Havana and elsewhere, of insurgent
agents, together with the capture of
emissaries bearing dispatches from the
field, they state, has temporarily inter
rupted the former means of sending
messages and they have been oompelled
to resort to dispatohing them direct
from the coast
Poison in Their Food.
Brighton, N. J., Aug. 11. Five
members of the family of Jeremiah
Frasier, a merchant of this place, are
dangerously ill from poison supposed to
have been in something which they
bad eaten. Mrs. Frasier and two sons
were unconscious, and her two daught
ers are in a dangerous condition.
New T..rk Trousers-Makers' Strike.
New York, Aug. 11. Fifteen hun
dred trousers-makers struck yesterday,
throwing 3000 women out of employ
ment The strikers complain that
their wages have been reduced 50 per
oent and working hours increased.
- Miss Ashley Held for Trial.
San Franoisoo, Aug. 11. Miss Em
ma Ashley, charged with attempting
to shoot E. J. Baldwin, was arraigned
for trial today. ' She pleaded not
guilty, and was held for trial, Aug. 88.
FLED THE COUNTRY
Escape ot a Woman Journal
ist From Cuba. ''
STOW AWAY" ON A STEAMSHIP
Was Burronnded by Spaniards and
Bluded Them by Donning
Male Attire. -
New York, Aug. 10. Miss Cecilia
Charles, who says she went to Cuba
several months ago tor the purpose of
obtaining material for a book,' was a
passenger by the Ward line steamship
City of Washington, which arrived
from Havana Wednesday, and whose
passengers were sent to Hoffman island
for investigation. ' '
Miss Charles says that after travel
ing through the island a newspaper
correspondent warned her that ber lib
erty and possibly her life was in dan
ger. She acted upon the warning as
soon as it was received, and, going to
her hotel, made preparations for leav
ing the city.
Before she-could do so the bouse was
surrounded by Spaniards. Becoming
then thoroughly alarmed, and fearing
every moment that she would be hur
ried to prison, the deoided to evade ar
rest by disguise. She arrayed herself
in boy's clothes, tucked her bair under
an old straw hat, soiled her face and
hands, and unobserved stole out by a
back door and made her way to the
city. The Ward line steamship City
of Washington was at anchor in the
harbor and making ready to get under
way. Miss Cbarles hired a small row
boat and went alongside. The gang
way ladders had been taken in, but a
rope ladder was trailing over the side,
and she succeeded in getting on board.
She "stowed away," she said, and
did not make her presence known until
the ship was clear of the harbor. Then
she revealed her identity, paid ber pas
sage, and was given a stateroom and a
stewardess fitted her out with female
garb. -
THE VEIL LIFTED.
Alleged Facta in the Brown-Overman
Case Related by Airs. Tunnell.
San Francisco, Aug. 10. After
many months of waiting and of eva
sion, of hunied flight from town to
town in California and across the
southern border, Mrs. M. F. Tunnell
has consented to tell the story of her
relations with the Rev. C. O. Brown
and Mattie Overman, and to explain
why she fled at the very moment when
her presence was needed to dispel the
shadows of scandal, or to bondemn
the pastor who was seriously accused.
Mrs. Tunnell is -the last witness to
speak, and as far as faots are con
cerned, the testimony she gives closes
the great case.
She explains the important points
upon whioh the clerical judges of Dr.
Brown were in doubt She removes
the elements of uncertainty that made
the ecclesiastical court hesitate before
pronouncing a final judgment of con
demnation. She fled from San Fran
cisco, she said, to shield Dr. Brown
from the consequences of his own guilt
She says she knew of the love between
Mattie Overman and the pastor, and
would have revealed her knowledge if
she had been summoned to the witness
stand. '
She says that Dr. Brown paid her
expenses while she was away, and
when she returned, tried to induce her
to go to Central America. She tells
when and where she received the
famous letters from Mattie Overman,
and for the first time explains how they
passed from her possession into the
keeping of a man who allowed them to
be published.
She traces in detail the career of
Mattie Overman and she came to know
it through the confidences of her young
friend. The recital lifts the veil from
the home of the unfrocked pastor, and
shows how he struggled to save bis
pulpit and his good name.
Outlook Bright for Peach Crop.
New York. Aug. 10. Although the
annual wail of the American peach
growers went up early in the season
about alleged short crops in some pro.
lino peach-producing sections, the pres
ent outlook is for abundant receipts
from most of the old and some of the
new sources of supply for this market
Shipments from Georgia are ended for
the season, but the product of Mary
land, Delaware and California is oom
ing in freely.
The Maryland and Delaware fruit
first received was small and unsatisfac
tory, but good peaches are now coming
in. They are being sold at wholesale
for from 85o to 90c a basket, according
to quality and condition, some extra
choice lots oommanding somewhat
higher prices. California peaches of
small sizes are quoted from $1.80 to
$1.60 a box, and large ones $1.80 to
$2. 10 a box. -'
Will This Brove Russia? "
Athens, Aug. 10. It is rumored that
the Mussulmans have invaded Herak
lion and committed frightful exoesses.
Many are reported killed and wounded.
The Mussulmans forced the Russian
consulate, and severely maltreated
Vice-Consul Barrows. The troops are
powerless to check the disorder.
Valor's Better Part.
Christiana, Norway, Aug. 10. A.
paper here publishes a dispatch received
from Spitsbergen, saying Professor
Andre declares that unless the wind
soon changes he will pack away his
ba&oon and postpone his attempt to
oross the Arctic regions until 1897, as
there is no midnight sun after August
24. - - - '
Women medical students will, in all
probability, be admitted to the univers
ity of Budapest -during the next term.