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EVENTS OF THE DM pans oi wu "uuu PREPARED FOR THE DUSY READER Le, imporlant but Not Loss Inter. eitlngHflPPonlngBfom ro.m. OuUldo tho Stato. Thnmas A. Edison is at present tour- t ,.t fires aro burning In Canada i;iElln-m Maine. J . office building coating JSU to bo erected in Chicago. American battleships Mnino and .lTl left Port Said for Na- JJSU' ...t nrft near Lob Angeles con ,M "'r w damage. One town i,.ikon wiped out. Four troops of cavalry, together with .5? If that vicinity, aro fighting rofi;;RnCarSturgi, S. D. i hurricane swept lurKs Minna, tj.ifj.h West Indies, iitmroying mo ilal and killing many people .rntnmcntS bIjow that tho (io! ra situation in St. Petersburg and throughout Hussin is much worse. m.. .imlipr of unemployed in Lon- feu strikingly illustrated when 3 000 men surrounded a hospital which y advertised for a porter ut $i.GO o Teek nd mcais, i r& investigation of tho Pull- ..t,mnanv. its achedulo of rates ond imllcRcd discriminations, is to bo Bid by the Intestate Commerco com- nitsion at uucago, The Pacific fleet has left Honolulu for Samoa. The battleship fleet has arrived at Albany, West Australia. Rassia was almost united in tho col cbration of Tolstoi's 80th birthday. firnt Britain has lust launched a Uttlcship larger than the DreaUnnught Germany will reject tho noto on Mo rocco and relations with Franco arc mined. H. B. Miller, American consul geno nl at Yokohama, is on his way homo for a vacation. A forest firo is raging in tho valloy vntof Laa AniroleB and several smnll term arc threatened. In a suit against tho Standard Oil in KtwYork the company ha8 been order ed to produce letters containing ovi iatt of bribery. The extra session of tho Iowa legis lature has adjourned to meet November 21, when aonother effort will bo made to elect a United States senator. Governor Hanky, of Indiana, charg- J it., t.ii it.. i t i... nr n uic muiuiiujiuiin ncnuui uvuiu 9 -.11 for addressing n graduating class last June. The fact has just become public through the auditing of tho bill. A Los Angeles tircacher 70 vcari H has just married a woman of 31. Kanm City negroes fear a race wr. and are arming for the conflict unld it come. A rumor nf nt1 nMnmnt in aUnnt PtMidtnt Roosevelt is found to be Without foundation. Methodists of ltllnni " the fifflit aitainst the reflection f Unnon to congress. A New Yurk 111:111 has rrmimif red "Hide because the anti-betting law vt away his business. Several nil UhI. t T ...I..MI. . . w., iitlliva ill lCUU VI1IC, wo, made a spectacular blaze, be causing considerable loss to property Fort Riley, Kan., troops arc out on ' practice march of 1:10 miles. When 5 out inarching, the column almost five miles long. A woman in . Re L i''-0"e , ,,6?fs in Chicago, ton n driving is given, as the rea and the driver has been arrested. A crank wUn ii(nt ml 4 h . 11.. pident has been sent to an asy t e JjC cla""ed lave located all Kooi!"1.1 ,n. Bos,on' aml wanted C'octurthir haVC 10'00 i?;i)iffir.pub,io co," ithn?,? n.'n? lms rmhoi n million Alife,0V-,Jms bK" task '"Pply, ",ul hn nmplb food iaDcCoLlal l,oncll0r capturod by teived, mi,Ia,n of the treatment re- tho EngHsh hop '"ported. hully lli"B0d "as first ,0'ftahnka,!!rn,nn n,1,lltIoni of U'8 tiico jail. ' COlo,,y iu th0 BnD 1?tan' Tb0 it 5 da"'"eo dono lec,l or 255LS!ntOB "ri"y ,B badlyin y dlrtrib ?" llow that aoroplanos '.r 'ff iiH1"". wns 11,0 fir8t ,lfikca on i,, a'0 iv',0 0 woro no 8aaPr San "inclsco. ana eo ho,ftUh nthnrltlOH have 5? cr 5nrno' 10080 12 "ts Il1 ?bJct tn . n'!'0co for thorn. Thn bIo r,lL , "00 lf thoy contract bu- A8K NO MORE PEN8IONS. Grand Army Votes to Suspond Ap iooib 10 uongross. Toledo, O., Sept. 8,Not for three years will the Grand Army of th ..,...w..w ..on. wiiKicsu ior uirtlicr re nci measures. It appeared to be th Pflllqpllsna nt nnlnU.. -t .1. . w. w.ii,un ui me icnucrs that too much hammering for pension bills and relief measures might soon create an undignified impression in tlic minds of congressmen and rnfli.i. discredit on the civil war veterans at the time in their lives when they would need the most assistance nt Mm hands of the nation they helped to save. Another way will be sought by tin veterans to get before congress thosi bits of Icglslati6n which they feel can not wait. The attention of the G. A is. ucicgaics was called by Kate nrownlcss Sherwood to the statin of the pending widows' pension bill, in which at present it is required that applicants shall have been married number of years prior to the present date. She asks that the bill may be altered to allow the cliinhilitv nl those who marry up to the date of the passage of the bill and that th matter may be placed in the hands of tlie pension agents. The same plan may be used with regard to the amendment to the service pension bill. At the wish of General I. R. Sh wood ins Uollar-a-dnv ucnsnn hill was not brought tin for constdernti'nn and a resolution asking congress to pay cx-prisoncrs 01 war S2 a day pen sion was laid over. After the installation nf tlie nru.lv elected national officers, the G. A. H. delegates decided upon Salt Lake City as the next meeting place by a vote of 401 to 104 for Washington. After Salt Lake City had been chosen for the encampment, Vicc-Comman-dcr-in-Chicf Scott notified the en campment that Atlanta would be in the UcIU tor 1910. REVEALS DYNAMITE PLOT. Dotoctlvo Gives Sensational Testimony at Strike Hearing. Chester, Pa., Sept. 7. Testimony given by a detective, who from the start of the Chester trolley strike posed as a street peddler and said he had wormed his way into the confi dence of the union leaders, was to the effect that he had received from their lips the confession of a conspiracy to dynamite and destroy street railway property. The testimony caused a sensation at the hearing of Patrick J. Shea, vice-president and national or ganizer, of the Amalgamated Associa tion of Street and Electric Railway hmnloycs: William Stockhart. presi dent of the Chester division, and 13 strikers arraigned before Justice of the Peace Williamson, at Media, the county scat. 1 lie 15 defendants were held under $2 000 bail for court.. The testimony of the detective made out the prima facie case against the accused men. DISTRUSTS JAPAN'SJMOVES. Chlnrt Sets Trouble? Brewing Over Chentao Boundary Dispute. Pckin, Sept. 8. Contrary to her agreement to maintain the status quo pending a settlement of the Chentao boundary dispute with China, Japan has recently done a number of things in this territory which arouses the apprehension of the Pckin govern mcnt. She has occupied the residence Imildinus recently completed at Yen- clti Ting in the disputed district; she has brought into this town a joint civil and military commander and 1,030 gendarmes and she is procccd- ng with the organization ot tlie ex sting system for the government of the Corcan population. China lias protested to Tokio and to the Jap anese diplomatic representative iierc. nit with no result whatever, inc ar rival of a battery of Japanese held guns near the border has renewed the fears of China that Japan proposes to precipitate some action. Four Hundred Panic Stricken. New York, Sept. 8. Four hundred young women milliners, employed on the upper floors of a 12-story build ing at 052 Hrondway, became panic stricken when a fire on the fifth floor filled the sta rwnvs so full of sinoKe that they were impassable. All the girls were taken from the building without serious injury and the fire was extinguished with a loss of $ono,- 000. Screaming with frignt, uic gins first attempted to find an exit by the stairs, but they were stopped by the smoke at the seventh floor. A num ber of them were slightly injured. Three. Bankers Indicted. San Francisco. Sent. 8. After sev eral days of intermittent investigation into the affairs ot the ucttinci iunrci street hank, the grand jury has rc- urncd indictments against A. el. president of the bank; W. H XT-it. . Iinniir cnclllfr mill (IirCCtOr. and L. II. Haven, the cashier who suc ceeded Nasji. The indictments charge the return of a falc report to me ).mk commissioners. Martci, wasu and Havens are held under $io,umi onds in each case, Rain Ruins English Hops. Mt,Unn,. TCncr. Sent. B. TllC CX- cessivcly wet weather, accompanied by a high wind, has completely ruined a large part of the Kentish hop crop. Thousands of hop-pickers who came down from London are suffering acutely. The huts wherein they arc quartered are flooded ami In many cues they arc without sufficient food. wsIri the national capital I NO POLITICS PERMITTED, Government Issues Warning to Civil oervico Employes. Washington. Sunt. 19. A tinlnmn warning has been issued by tho civil uurvico commission to the army of gov ernment employes in this city and elflowhcre. ncninRfc airloaf.Tinir,,- t,,.!- ii.aJ. J f t . , . 11 yuiit. iur uncio aam in order to in dulgo in tho game of politics. It scema that in past campaigns it has been the practico of many govern ment omcinis and clerics to resign so that theV mnv run fnr nffinn In thn I.. homo communities, or otherwise be come actively emrflOV.d in nnHftnnl i n n - --- 1 ' - " WOfK. to UO rninntntari nfto nlnntlnr, uy, ir tho old job still appeals to them. This year there will bo no re instatement, says tho commission. The orucr ia as lollows: "Tho commission desires to inform acn Of tho department and imlonnnrl ent executive officers of its attitude toward employes in tho classified ser- Vico Who resign to lineomn pnnr1(rlfita for office or to engage in active polit ical worn and who afterward seek re instatement. Inasmuch an thn innnnnrn nf n oar. tlficato is discretionary with tho com mission, no certificate will bo issued in any case where the party seeking re instatement resigned with a view of running for office or indulging in polit ical activity wnich would be prohibited if he had remained in thn Rorvirn. ntul afterward, having failed in his enndi. dacy, or having indulged in contem plated political activity, seeks rein statement." NAVAL CRITICS REBUFFED. Roosevelt Promptly Approves Plans for Now Battleships. Washington. Scot. 8, P resident Roosevelt has approved the nlans of the proposed new battlcshios Florida and Utah, which were authorized at the last .session of congress. In the .. f ! ?...r. . . . tuurac 01 ins examination nc sougm tlie advice of Commander Sims and Lieutenant - Commander Albert L. Key, who entertained what are re garded as radical opinions respecting naval construction and who frankly criticised some of the features of the new ships. The prompt approval by the president o fthc plans is taken to indicate that he was not deeply im pressed with the arguments of the critics. It is expected that advertisements for bids for construction of the Utah will be published in a few days. That vessel is to be constructed at a pri vate shipyard, while the rlonda is to be built at the Brooklyn navy-yard. Fewer Japs Come. Washington, Sept 11. According to official figures made public by Secre tary of Commerce and Labor Straus today, tho tide of immigration from Japan has been checked until now it is but one third of what it was a year ago. Japanese immigration for the fiscal year 1907 was 30,000, including the Japanese who went to Honolulu. For the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1908, immigration from Japan was 18,- 000, of which 9,500 came to the main land of tho United States. The bureau of immigration has estimated that 5, 718 Japanese left the United States for Japan and other countries, leaving the net increase for the year but ,00. Of that increaso but 15 per cent are laborers. Parker Is Not in Race. Washington. Sent 11. Before leav ing for New York today, Judge Alton H. I'nrkor took cognizance of a report that ho would bo willing to make tho race for governor of tho stato 01 JNew York at tho annroaching election, and said in so many words that he was not so inclined. Judge Parker Baid: "I am not willing to run for governor of Now York. I do not feel that tho sit uation and the question sustained mo in saying more than it is my desire to never again hold public office. My friends, I felt, would understand tnac said precisely what 1 meant, and my answer was intended 10 lniorm tnem and no one else." Roosevelt Orders Appeal. Ovstor Bav. N. Y.. Sent. 12. While Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte was in conference with President Roosevelt, tho report of the decision rondered in Philadelphia today by tho TTnirnrl Rtntos Circuit court, that the commodities clauso of tho Hepburn railroad act is unconstitutional was convoyed to tho president's homo by thn Associated Press. The president and Mr. Bonaparte, after a discussion, came to a conclusion tnnt tno depart ment of Justice should take an appeal. Mr. Hnnnnarto would say nothing about what tho president had said in igard to tho decision. re Takahlra's Visit Explained. Washington. Sent. 10.- the recent lairs nf the lanaiiesc ambassador, Baron Takahira, to President Roose- elt at Oyster Hay and to secretary Root at Clinton, it is otticiauy smieci, has no bearing on the question of Chinese-American alliance, nor were they for the purpose of discussing the presence of the Atlantic fleet 111 Asiatic waters. Acting Secretary of State Adec said last night that the Japanese ambassador s visits were en tirely intormai. "Want Ads" Got Rocrutts. Washington, Sept. 0. "Want" ad- vortiHOinonts navo noon lounu huiiuui by tho navy department in its rocruit ing work, and horoaftor most of tho money availablo for that purposo will bo spout in that olass of advertising la proferonco to tho display forms. POLYGAMISrS ShUT OUT. Secretary Straus Approves Action on Mormon Immigrants. Washington, Sept. 0. Secretary Straus yesterday approved the action of tho local immigration officials at Boston in tbo so-called Mormon cases, wherein a number of immigrants wore held up on tho allegation of entering tho country in violation of law. Mr. Straus said that tho two cases of ex clusion wcro on tho grounds, as to one, f admission of belief in polygamy, and an to tho other, of physical and other reasons. A number of other cases havo been held up for further investigation. Lively interest has boon taken in these cases, on account of the question of Monnonisrn, but Mr. Straus said that the decision in all of tliom was wholly regardless of tho question of Mormon religion; that tho question of polygamy was ono specifically provided for by law, and that his action in tho matter followed tho plain provisions of tho statutes. Senator Smoot had a conference with the secretary on tho subject, and Sen ator Sutherland and Governor Cutler, of Utah, iavo telegraphed to tho de partment, expressing their views and desire for tho treatment of tha immi grants without regard to tho religion invoiveu. TEST NEW WOODS. Government May Introduce New Zea land Forest Trees. Washington, Sept. 10. Far-off New Zealand is the latest country to which forest experts have turned in seeking substitutes for the valuable American woods used by the furniture, cooper age, implement and similar wood using industries. Manufacturers in this country have been facing a constantly decreasing supply of available hardwood timber for a number of years, and the time is already at hand when efforts must be made to look to the preservation of the American species most in demand, and to scour foreign lands for trees which may prove valuable as substitutes. Seven different New Zealand hard wood trees have just been nut through a scries of tests by the United States lorest service in co-operation with the university of California in the timber testing laboratory at Berkeley. The trees showed up remarkably well in comparison with white oak, which is one of the strongest woods in the United Mates, developing under test when in an air dry condition a enisli ng strength of 8500 pounds per square nch, and a bending strength of 13.100 pounds per square inch. Swinburne May Look for Aeon. Washington. Scot. 8. Instructions have been sent from the navy depart ment to Admiral Charles Swinburne, in command of the Pacific fleet at Honolulu, to keep a lookout for the ontish steamer Aeon, which has not been heard from for weeks. On board the vessel are the family of Chaolain Bower R. Patrick. U. S. N.. and Mrs. William K. Riddle, wife of Lieutenant Riddle, also of the navy. The Aeon left San Francisco July 0 tor samoa, where she is long over due. Since the Pacific squadron on its departure from Hawaii will pro ceed to Samoa, it is thought that the distressed ship may possibly be sighted. Nothing Doing for Kathleen. Washington, Sept. 8. Miss Kath ccn M. Roosevelt Cronin, the woman who called at the white house last week and demanded admis'sion on the ground that she was a long-lost daughter of the president, has been sent to St. Elizabeth's asylum. She protested against being sent ro the in stitution, declaring that "her father," President Roosevelt, would have the court officials punished. The woman appeared at the white house and told policeman that she wanted Mrs. Roosevelt to vacate her room at once. She said she was 37 years old and came from San Francisco. She ad mitted having been tried for insanity in California Another Successful Flight. Washington, Sept. 10. At Fort Meyer yesterday Orville Wright made the two greatest aeroplane flights ever made in public in this country, remaining in the air for more than eleven minutes on his first flight and for nearly eight minutes on his second flight. There was apparently no rea son why the flights could not have been of longer duration, as the aviator landed the last time because of the approaching darkness. Throughout both flights Mr. Wright apparently had tlie machine under perfect con trol, rising at times to 00 feet and making sharp turns. Cuts His Vacation Short. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sopt. 9 Presi dent Itoosovolt's vacation, according to prosont plans, will como to an ond Sop- oinbor 22, whon tho chiof oxocutivo and his family will depart from Saga more IIil to tako up their ros'ulonco in tho White- llouso, Washington, for tho coming wintor and spring. With the eloso of tho prosont vacation of tlio prosidont Oystor Bay will coaso to bo known as tho sununor capital of the Unitod States. Double Park Guard. Washington, Sopt. 9. Provision Is boing niado nt tho war department to Increaso tho garrison at Yollowstono National park. It is proposed to double tho force. Tho recent holdup by n lone highwayman of sovon tourist coaches with 120 passengers calls attention to tho necessity of a more thorough super vision of tho park procinots. RAWHIDE IS BURNED. Nevada Mining Town Almost Wiped Out by Conflagration. Rawhide, Ncv., Sept. 7. A fire that started Friday in Dr, Garner's office, a vcruauie nrctrap, spread with lightning-like rapidity and, despite the vig orous efforts of the fire department and COO miner volunteers, eight blocks, comprising all the business section of the town, were a mass of names. Ihc firc-fightcrs soon discov ered their efforts were of no avail against the fire, so they began dyna miting adjacent buildings. Over a ton and a half of dynamite was used. At 11 o'clock the total area was a mass of ashes and smoldering embers. Among the first buildings to go was Collins' hardware store, which con tained two tons of dynamite, which exploded with terrific force, hurling burning planks and boards a great distance and setting fire to numerous buildings simultaneously. This ca tastrophe led the firemen to fight the flames with dynamite, which prompt action saved the outlying portions of the town. A strong wind was blow ing, which swept the flames south ward across Rawhide avenue and east across Nevada street. The buildings destroyed will alone result in a financial loss of $750,000, i 1. rr . . e wiwi no insurance, ine contents ot the buildings are a complete loss and will swell the total to considerable more. Many, people were slightly in jured by flying debris, but none are reported seriously hurt. Many acts of heroism were enacted and were it not for the cool-headed ones among the fire-fighters several fatalities would have resulted. Fren zied men. whose fortunes were going up in flame, rushed madly forward in their attempts to save their belong ings, and would have perished had not restraining hands detained them. LAND GRANT SUIT BEGUN. Government Seeks Return of Tracts Given to Railroad. Portland, Sept. 7. Suit by the United States to cancel the Oregon & California land grants has been filed in the United States court for the district of Oregon. The government asks for the forfeiture of all lands in cluded in the two grants to the de fendant railroad company, valued at $40,000,000. If this relief is denied, plaintiff requests the appointment of a receiver to take charge of all unsold lands, included m the grants, and the disposition of the same under the re ceivership in tracts not exceeding 100 acres to each purchaser and for a consideration not exceeding $2.50 an acre. If this petition is rejected, the plaintiff asks for a mandatory injunc tion requiring the defendant corpora tion to sell all of the unsold lands re maining in the grants in quantities of not more than 160 acres each and at a price not exceeding $2.50 an acre. It is also asked by the government that the defendant company be re strained from asserting any further claim "to the land, making any further sales of the property or trespassing thereon. An accounting also. is asked from the railroad company to the government for all money realized by the defendant company from its sales of the lands. ARMY BROADENS OUT Aeroplane Fleet Is Planned as Addition to War Equipment ASK CONGRESS FOR THE MONEY Gensral Allan Certain That Lawmak ers Wjll Be Liberal Toward Proposed Scheme. FIGHT WITH JAPANESE. Men From British Cruiser Stand Oft Brown Men. Shanghai, Sent. 7. Outnumbered ten to one, bluejackets from a British cruiser in this port put up a desperate battle with Japanese non-commTs-sioned men and a motley Japanese mob, until the police broke up the fight by the free use of revolvers, fir ing repeatedly into the mob. Many Japanese civilians were wounded, but were carried away by their com panions. The fight started over the arrest of a Japanese officer for a particularly atrocious assault upon a low-class European woman, which was resented by the English jackies. A well-organized riot came simultaneously with the publication of a letter from the Japanese consul-general to the mu nicipal council, which was of a highly recriminatory and incendiary charac ter, and defended the ruffianism of his own people and the failure of his court to assist in maintaining order. The feeling between the British and the Japanese is intense, and further outbreaks arc feared. Sails From Melbourne. Melbourne. Sept. 7. Punctually at 8 o'clock Saturday evening the Con necticut, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sperry, commander-in-chief of the American Atlantic fleet, weighed an chor and pointed her prow down the bay. With clock-like precision 14 others of the white-hulled craft fol lowed in her wake and began the cruise to Albany, West Australia. The New Jersey remained in the har bor to convey the American mail, which is expected shortly, to the fleet. As the vessels passed down the bay many salutes were fired. Phosphate Found on Pacific Isle. San Francisco, Sept. 7. Two com missioners of the French government, Albert Bonnet de Meziere and John Stephens, are in this city on their re turn from the exploration of an island in the Pieumotu group, near Tahiti, which is-said to be enormously rich in phosphates, rivalling the deposits owned by the British on Christmas island. They will go to Paris and return with sufficient capital to begin the work of developing. Japanese Town Burns. Tokio, Sept. 7. Fifteen thousand people are homeless as the result of a fire which almost entirely destroyed the city of Niigata, 18 miles north west of here. It is estimated that 5,000 buildings were destroyed. The town has a population of 40,000. The government has been asked for aid and tents are being supplied. Food depots will be opened at once. So far as is known no lives were lost. Washington, Sept. 8. Should tho tests of the Wright brothers' aeroplane provo successful, it is probablo that within one year tho war department will havo a fleet of aeroplanes as well as a fleet of dirgiblos as an adjunct for military warfare. Brigadier-Gen eral Alien, chief of tho signal corps, believes congress will ho Hhfir.il 5n it.s appropriations if tho tests nro a suc- . . R . 1 ( . . ... KKaa. it. xuii rupurs 01 ooin mo uirgioio and aeroplane tests will ,be got ready for submission when the $1,000,000 an- propriation for aeronautics comes up ior uiscusBion. It is now fullv realized hv nrmv officers that thn "Unitfiil Stntna is far behind other countries in aeronautics. hilc demonstrations havo beqn mado abroad that air craft are an absoluto necessity in future warfare, no stena have been taken here, and army ex perts are now anxious to make up for lost time by auicklv assembling nn aerial fleet. When, on September 27. 1907. it urn ft announced that the war department would buy a dirgiblo balloon and an aoroplane, some persons believed tho plan would never materialize. Only sev eral army officers who 'knew of tho future plans realized that an effort was to bo made to establish an aerial fleet for the United States government. It is said at Fort Myers that Secre tary of War Wright has approved tho request of Brigadier-General Allen that Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, whn snlrl dirgible No. 1 to the army, bo hired to supervise tho transportation and ex hibition of the airsh in and thn livdrn. gen plant, which Cantain Baldwin nlsn supplied to the government, to the mil itary exposition at at. Joseph, Mo., which begins on September 21. From St. Joseph the dirgible will bo taken to tho Aeronautical and Signal Corps school at Fort Leavenworth, in command of Major Russell, and on tbo completion of the modern balloon house at Fort Omaha, about the middle of next October, it will be taken thero permanently. FIRE IN MINNESOTA. Several Small Towns Are Threatened With Destruction. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 8. The Mesaba range tonight is threatened with a new outbreak of the fire which swept away Chisholm Saturday and wiped out thou sands of acres of standing timber. After a day of quiet the flames, which died down Sunday, were fanned into renewed fury again yesterday, and aro sweeping on toward Hibbing, Buhl and Nashwauk from tho south. Snowball, 100 inhabitants, was des stroyed yesterday afternoon by a fire that came upon it suddenly. The peo plo had no opportunity to fight tho flames, and fled in terror. Snowball is about two miles from Nashwauk. Brooklyn, a small suburb of Hibbing, is threatened by fire. Buhl and Nash wauk, which were threatened with de struction Saturday, aro again in dan frer. Tho citizens are fighting tbo flames desperately. Aurora is sur rounded by fires and the citizens' aro fighting them. Mitchell, a small town about ono milo south of Hibbing, was threatened with destruction all day yesterday, and was saved only by tho efforts of the in habitants and tho employes of the Du luth, Mesaba & Northern railroad, wuoso roundhouso is situated thero. Soveral hundred men aro still guarding tho place. Tho pine timber which sur rounds Mitchell has been almost all consumed. Between Nashwauk and Hibbing, a region 22 miles long, the forests aro ono continuous front of flamos. From Hibbing it is an appalling sight, and big clouds of smoke havo been pouring over tlie threatened city all day, hiding tho sun. May Arbitrate Dispute. Providonco, It. I., Sopt, 8 Thero is a possibility that arbitration may bo called upon to end tho troubles of tho local strcot railways and their em ployes, which threaten to precipitate a gonoral strike on tho trollov lines op orated by tho Now York, New Haven & Hartford railroad 'in throo states. Should such a striko bo ordorod, no less than 32,000 men would bo involved. Tho whole troublo nroso over tho dis charge of 54 men omployod by tho local company. Tho company officials de elaro that tho action was duo entirely to a breach of discipline Doomed to Die as Rebel, San Francisco, Sopt. 8. Passengers on tho stonmor City of Sydney, which arrived hero yestorday from Panama and Contrnl American portsi brought tho nows that Captain Loo Cannon, a graduato of Cornell, who is said to bo ono of tho leaders in tho Honduras revolution, was capturod and has beqit sentonced to death. According to tho reports hoard by tlio passengors, Can non killed 15 men in his last tjtand, but was finally capturod, Fertilizer Plant Burns. Chicago, Sopt. 8 Tho wool houso and fertilizer plant of Armour & Co!, in tho Union stockyards, woro dostroyod by firo Inst night.. Tho buildings woro fivo stories high, built of brick, and covering tho ontiro blook. Tho firo was the first in the stockyards In sovon years, and attracted an immonse crowd of spectators, Loss, $500,000.