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W A S H IN G T O N THE NEWS Of THE WEEK In Qninoy, 111., five fatalities by fro w n in g or otherwise occurred in forty-eight hours. James MoLean was killed by an accidental fa ll from the roof of the Kicker National bank; Her bert Harriaon, a school teacher, Fred erick Gross and Fred Uaumgarten, sons of prominent citizens, were drowned in Bear oreek; George Betero, another youth, was drowned in a pool south of the oity limits, and hia two brothers were saved only with great difficulty. Pennsylvania was visited by a disas trous hurricane, resulting in loaa of life and property. Steeples were blown from ohurches, adjoining buildings were orushed, houses were unroofed, and trees broken off or torn op by the roots. Great havoc was oaused by the heavy rainfall. Tw o lives were lost, thirty-six injured, some fatally, and property damaged to the amount of $100,000. A boarding-house near Cecil, Washington county, waa washed away and ita occupants, fifteen ooal minors, were drowned. Seven of the bodies have been reoovered. Eight are still missing. New s cornea from the Washington state Republican headquarters that the state convention w ill probably be held at Tacoma, some time between August 16 and September 16. Hon. Samuel Layman, a prominent and well-known Oregonian, died at hia home near Woodburn from the effects of injuries which he sustained tome weeks ago by falling from a cherry tree. Mr. Layman waa 69 y ean of age. A meeting of representatives from the large foreign banking-houses was held in N ew York, to oonsider plans for the protection of the treaanry gold reserve. It is understood a plan was arranged to ease the exchange market until the crop movement starta the balanoe in onr favor. A San Francisco dispatch aays: Ed w in B. Webster, the young paymaster who was recently court-martialed at Mare Island and found guilty of a oharge of embeazlement. does not in tend to abide by the judgment of the oourt. He w ill appeal to President Cleveland for clemency before the navy department shall have an oppor tunity to paBH upon the recently found ▼erdiot Three members of the revolutionary committee have juat arrived in Athena from Crete on a special mission. In the course of an interview they made the follow ing statement on an author ity of their committee: “ W e wish to aay it has been decided that we must have granted to us the demands we have sent to the sultan or elae we shall fight. The powers must either give us autonomy or see us crushed. Should onr demands be negleoted, then within fifteen days of July 16, the dste at which they were made, we shall break the armistice.” Advices from Hong Kong say that Imperial Chinese troops were recently sent to Lanohou to suppress the Mo hammedan rebels, who had riaen against the authorities. The rebels sorrunuded the Imperial troops and ■mm to have totally annihilated them, although tha imperial troops were bet ter provisioned and equipped. There were 6,000 troops sent to subdue the rebels and all are either killed or miss ing. The rebels are now mad for blood, massacreing all in authority, k illing and pillaging on their triumph ant march through the oountry. T w o cable oars broke loose at the top of the Ninth-street incline in Kan sas City, and dashed down the declivity into the Union depot sheds. The grip oar and those on board «soaped injury, but the trailer was thrown from the track just Inside the elevated shedtand literally smashed topiooes. Several of the oooupanta of this oar were badly hart. Am ong them ara George D. Fearon, ot Kansas City, and his two sis- tara, Mrs Gay and Miss Fearon, both of N e w York. Mrs. G a y suffered an inju ry of the spine. CON S h e r iff* « C o n u u iiilo n . The judgment of the lower court was reversed by the supreme court of Washington in Olympia, in the oaee of W alter H. Soderburg, appellant, vs. K ing oounty, respondent. This action was brought by the plaintiff as as signee of divers persons, judgment debtors in various foreclosure proceed ings. olaiming to be entitled to the surplus arising from each foreclosure O F I N T E R E S T T O O U R READERS sale. There was d o redemption in any case and the plaintiff in each no tion became the purchaser. It appears p r a h e m lv e R e v ie w o f th e Im p o r t that the amount claimed as surplus ant H a p p e n in g ;« o f t h e F a s t W e e k was the sum claimed by the sheriff as C a lle d F ro m t h e T e l e g r a p h C o lu m u i* fees and commission, in conducting It 18 rumored that the Turkish gov sales the sheriff paid into the connty ernment contemplates an issue of paper treasury several amounts under the mistaken belief that it was his dury to money. dednot a commission from the amount In Victor, Colo, .fifty pounds of giant bid in each instance. There were powder exploded, causing 15,000 worth thirty-fonr causes and the aggregate of damage. Many people were out by amount claimed (9,004.84. glass, but none killed. H o w a O u a rre l E n ded. In Bed alia, Mo., Mart Crawford, a section foreman on the Missouri Pa- In Cincinnati, shots were heard at oifio, was hanged by a furious mob for the residence of W illia m T. W iley, a the attempted rape of a 16-year-old girt. ladies’ tailor and furrier, on West The socialist congress, which met in Fifth street. Mrs. W iley was found London, proved to be a noisy gather bleeding from six ballet wounds, and ing. Scenes of violence were enacted her husband was unconscious with a and a free fight was narrowly averted. bullet hole in his temple. The woman died on the way to the hospital. The coming year it is said wines w ill W ile y 's wound was superficial,the ball oome high, owing to the failure of C al glancing off the skull. The oonple, ifornia's grape orop. Little wine w ill after frequent quarrels, had separated, be exported from the golden state this but began to live together again about season. three months ago. W iley says his A New York dispatch says Senator w ife shot him. He then seized the H ill is now in favor of a third tioket. weapon and fired at her. The information, it is said, oomea di- A n 1 1 - Y e a r - O ld B o y M u r d e r e r . mot from a personal friend of the sen In Chicago, Harry Rudolph, aged ator, who ia a prominent Democrat 11, struok two blows with bis puny A stockman named John Lawrence fists, and his opponent, Grover Han- was found dead upon the range near Ben, aged 9, fell dead at his feet. The Union, Or., with a bullet in hia head lads were having a boyish qnarrel, and and a pistol lying a few feet away It yoang Hansen started to run. Rudolph ia supposed that he committed suicide. followed in swift pnrsnit, catching the The trial of the Sooth African raid- lad near the curb, and struck him in era has ended in London, and Dr. the face and abdomen. Little Hansen Jameson has been given a sentence of covered his faoe with his bands, fell fifteen months imprisonment without backward, and expired. Yoang R u labor. The others received light sen dolph was locked up. tences. From All Parts of the New World and the Old. COUNTY H ATC H ET. DE 6 S E D A M E R ICA N S D IS P ATC H ES . Shot Tw o young people were killed in a railroad crossing accident in Lancaster, Pa. The Republican national committee has decided to open the campaign this week. W illiam Henry Smith, late general manager of the Associated Press, died HE T O O K D ESP ER A TE CHANCES at Lake Forest, 111. Three people were drowned near Wheeling, W. Va., while trying to T h e S h e r iff, B iu g le h a n d e d , W e n t A f t e r cross the Ohio in a scull. t h e H i g h w a y m a n , a n d B .-o u g h t H im The Northwest has again been visited D o w n , b u t D ie d lu th e A tte m p t by a disastrous Btorm. Much damage Nevada, Cel., July 29. — Sheriff was done to crops in Michigan and David Douglass went out yesterday to Ohio. search for a highway robber. Not re It is reported that a race war has oc turning and his horse and buggy being curred about 15 miles east of Jasper, found tied np half a m ile from town, Fla., in which six men were killed and this morning a searching party went seven seriously injured. ont. The sheriff and the robber were A Loudon dispatch from Constanti both found dead about a mile from nople says the latest news received is town and only a few feet from each that the prosperous villages around other. Five chambers were empty in Van have been destroyed and every the sheriff’s revolver and he was snot male over 8 years of age killed. The through the heart, in the right eye and through the hand. The highwayman total killed is placed at 12,800. The strike at the Brcwn hoisting and was also shot three times through the heart, in the abdomen and hip. The oonveying works, at Cleveland, O., in robber bad a rifle, but it did not ap augurated nine weeks ago, which caus pear to have been nsed. It is thought ed several bloody riots, has ended, a Douglass was killed by a pal of the settlement between the company and dead robber. There is great excitement the employes having been reached. over the affair. Several parties iden The present outlook for hopgrowers tified the dead robber as the man who is not encouraging. Reports from held np Polioenian Gibson and Charles Silverton say that growers expect to re Sladky, of San Francisco, near here ceive only about 6 or 6*2' cehts a pound about two weeks ago, and who is sus for this year’s crop, at which price pected as the person who has commited many w ill not go the expense of hav other robberies in this section of late. ing their hops picked. The bloody work took place some Among the speakers who w ill take time yesterday afternoon or last even the stump for tbe Populist ticket will ing. There have been a number of be Senator Butler and ex-Chairmau bold highway robberies lately, all evi Taubeneck, E. V. Debs, Robert Schil dently the work of the same man. He ling, of Milwaukee; Senator Allen, ol has worked without assistants, but his Nebraska; Senator Peffer, Mrs. Rob j capture seemed impossible, although erts, of Georgia, and many others, .n- the sheriff and his deputies made every eluding Coxey and Carl Brown. effort to oatch the thief. Finally, In N e w York two young men had a Sheriff Douglass determined yesterday to attempt the capture of the highway discussion as to the relative merits ol man alone. The sheriff started with a two actresses of their acquaintance horse and baggy, accompanied only by To decide their controversy they foughl T h a B a llo t T h ie v e s . The city council of Taooma, in spe his dog. Nothing was heaid from the a battle-royal on the roof of a handsome cial session, offered a reward of (1,000 sheriff daring the day, but when no Riverside residence. The referee de for the arrest and conviction of the word was received after nightfall, his clared it a draw after they had pum thieves who stole the ballots of four ; friends grew uneasy, especially as the meled each other to their satisfaction preoincts from the vault at the city dog came back alone late In the even A Philadelphia dispatch says: In hall. Mayor Fawcett has offered a re ing. A t daybreak today a large party formation received from Stanley undei ward of (200. The evidence thus far of deputies and friends started in search date of June 9, proves conclusively tbal secured indicates that the breaking into of the sheriff, tracing him to W ells' the ship which foundered off that lo The cality May 14 last was the Philadel the vanll was started about two weeks ranch, two miles from town. ago, and finished between last Satur horse and bnggy had been found near phia clipper, City of Philadelphia, and W ells' tied to a tree last night. Tbe that Captain Johnson, his wife and day night and Tuesday morning. horse had evidently been there several family, one passenger and a crew num G e n e r a l G e o r g e W . .lo n e « D e a d . honrB. The vehicle was owned by bering in all twenty-five men, perished. General George W . Jones, the oldest Sheriff Douglass and was easily identi surviving ex-United States senator, fied today. This aroused the fear of S W E P T ON T O DEATH. died at his home in Dubuque, Ia., aged tbe searchers, who divided into small 92. He represented as a delegate to parties and covered the surrounding » C lo u d b u rs t I d congress the territory now inolnded in country thoronghly. Abont 10 o’clock, F i f t y L iv e s L o s t C o lo r a d o . Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and the half a mile from where the horse had Denver, July 28.— The torrents oi West, except the Pacific coast. He been tied, in the woods back of W e lls’ He was water which rushed down the canyons was the state’s first senator, and was ranch, waa found the sheriff. prominent in national affairs, especial dead, bnt he bad got his man. Not upon Morrison, Golden and othei ly of the Northwest. five feet from the sheriff lay the dead mountain towns of Colorado last night, were caused by a terrific mountain body of the mneh-songht robber. , C r ip p le C r e e k M tage H e ld I'p . storm, which extended hundreds oi FOR A B U R G L A R miles or more from Boulder, where the The Cripple Creek stage was held np M I S T A K E N near Grassy, five miles east of there, A ll down the C h ic a g o M a n S h o t a n d K i l l e d b y H I , damage was blight. by three masked men, who obtained range west of Dtnver, almost to Pu S o n -in -1 .a w . twelve gold watches and (600 in caBh. Chicago, July 28.— Daniel Shroyer, eblo, the storm swept its destructive The passengers inclnded thirteen men i a well-known resident of Park Ridge, way. and two or three women. The latter it has been impossible, thus far, tc was shot and killed early this morning were unmolested by the robbers. A by his son-in-law, George E. Pottin- fully explore the devastated district, posse with bloodhounds is on tne trail ger, a prominent Chicago real estate but it is believed that when a full in of tho highwaymen. man, who mistook him for a burglar. vestigation has been made at least fifty The shooting took place in Pottinger’a lives w ill be found to have gone out F r a n c l i l « « G ra n te d . Ingleside avenue. Mr. during the progress of tbe storm. The council of the town of Castle | honse in A t Morrison and Golden tbe torrent Rock has granted to H. Orcnard a thir I Shroyer had been a guest at the Pottin- tore away buldings, uprooted trees, ty-year franchise for the construction ger home for several weeks. Mr. Pot- washed out long stretches of railroad of a water and sewer system. The tinger was aronsed at 3 o’clock this tracks, swept away bridges and spread water w ill be taken from a mountain morning, and, thinking burglars were annihilation through the towns. Id stream about two miles below town, | abroad, took bis revolver and started to He was about to enter work was as brief as the warnings it and carried to a reservoir on the rook | investigate. gave were inadequate, and almost be south of town, to an elevation of abont 1 the kitchen, when he saw the form of a man approaching, and. raising his fore the citizens knew what had hap ninety feet above the town. revolver, fired. Tbe man gave vent to pened the floods had passed, leaving C o n s u m p t iv e M ilc h C o w s . a startling exclamation and Mr. Pot- only deadly Bilence and signs of devas M ilk Inspector Dockery, of Ban [ tinger recognized his father-in law 's tation everywhere. A ll that could be done in the dark Francisco, says fifty per cent of the voice. The bullet struck Mr. Shroyer oows which supply milk for San Fran- in the groin and he died in an hoar. ness and oonfusion was done by the oisoo are consumptive, and w ill have Pottinger is almost distraoted, and his rescuers. Men, women and children were extricated from dangerous predic to be killed. There are 6,700 oows w ife is prostrated. aments, let down from the roofs oi owned by the dairies of the oity, and A D o g '« D e v o t io n . floating bouses, helped out of trees and of these fully 8,000 are diseased, and San Francisco, July 29.— The doleful drawn out of the very whirl and death the m ilk from them is unfit for use. w hining of a dog near the Scandina of the torrent. vian plat, in Lanrel cemetery, attract F o r A S e c o n d C o n v e n tio n . As far as ascertained, the following ed the attention of Mrs. S. C. Oyer yes A t a meeting of the gold-standard is a full list of persons whose live! terday afternoon. She took a path Democrats, held in Chicago, it was de were lost in the great floods that swept leading to a clump of bushes, when a cided to hold another national conven down upon the towns of Morrison and small fox terrier ran toward her. She tion not later than September 2. A Golden, in the foothills near Denvei tried to pet the dog, but the animal last nigh . meeting w ill soon l>e held in Indianap kept out of reach. Not seeing any olis to deoide on the place. The dead at Morrison are: Mrs thing, she turned away, bnt the dog Moses M iller and three children, and followed her, finally pulliug at her T w o B o d ie s F o u n d . child of J. C. Longnecker, of Morrison; Skamokawa, July 27.— The body of skirts. She turned once more and the Mrs. A. S. Proctor; Robert James dog, a pace or two ahead, led the way Frank Peterson, one of the unfortun Proctor, 5 years; Grace Proctor, 7 ates who. with Mrs. A. R. Crosby and into the brush. A few steps farther years; Edith Proctor; Mrs. T. F and she was startled to see the body of Charles Newell, drowned May 12 last, Casey; James Casey, 10 years; Edith near this point, was picked up by the a man. She leaned over and saw that Casey, 8 years; Mamie Casey, 7 years; he was dead. The dog cuddled down seine st T. K. Johnson's seining Anna Casey, 6 years; Clara Casey, 3 ground yesterday morning. The re and licked the faoe of the corpse. years, > ra. Anthony Heress; Eugene Mrs. Oyer at once left the place and mains were naturally very much de Heress, 7 years; Mabel Heress, 2 years; composed, and were only recognized by notified the superintendent of tbe ceme Josephine Heress. 6 years; Carroll the clothing and shoes. This is the tery, who in turn notified the morgue. Heress, 4 years; Thomas McGangh, 21 first appearance of any of the ill-fated W hen the wagon reached the spot the years old. A t Dayton, a cousin of Mrs. young people. They were supposed to dog was still by the side of hia late Casey and Annie Hansen, 20 years old, Deputy O 'B rien and Messen have been washed out to sea by the master. a servant of tbe Proctors, were killed. heavy freshets. Another body was also ger McGinnes took the receiver and Fatally injured: A child of J. C. picked up near Brookfield, about tile started to lift the body. The dog Longnecker. same time, but those who saw it say jumped at them and had to be driven The dead st Golden are: C. A. W hen the body was placed on it is not that of yonug New ell, but that away. Johnson; Mrs. A. A, Johnson; Mrs. of a man who had not been in the the receiver the dog jumped in and had J. F. Edwards. water more than a week The remains to be lifted out. Tbe dog followed the A ll the Denver people who perished of young Peterson were buried here to wagon some distance, but was finally were campers at Bear Creek canyon. lost. There were no papers or any day- ____________________ thing on the body that wonld lead to There were many more campers in that Gisss in oven doors is a new contriv its Identification. Tbe deceased was a vicinity. Some reports say that when ance. It enables cooks to watch the man apparently 60 years old, with a Bear oreek canyon is fully explored it w ill possibly be found that no less food without opening the doors. short chin beard and grayish hair. than fifty people periehed in the flood. A C o llisio n l-r o b a b lo . Sheriff and Robber Found Dead in the Woods. T h e b n < l llfllc e r a H la iu e d . The latest theory regarding the sup London, Jnly 29.— The board of in posed loss of aome of the coast-bound quiry has decided th..t the loss of the fleet off Cape Horn Is to the effect that steamship Drummond Castle, off two of the vessels have been in colli-i Dshant, Jane 16, resulting in the aion. The British ship Anoaloa, which drowning of about 250 persona, onjy has just arrived at Cape Town from one passenger end two seamen being the Sound, reports that, on A pril 97, in saved, waa due to the fact that she was latitude 66 south, longitnde 63 west, not navigated with proper stamanlike the abandoned hall of the British ship care In view of the prevailing condi Gowenbank was sighted. The derelict tions. looked like it had been in ooUision I Tha ropes on a first-class man-of-war The masts were gone end the headgear scat shout (3,000. carried away. A Resume of Events in the Northwest. e v id e n c e N , w i of lia t h .r ..! steady In Our Neighboring A ll Ik s grow th Tow ns of S U t e « - Improve- n ,ru t N o te d In A l l I n d u s t r ie « —D ra gon # The smoke from forest fires in the Cascades is bo thick around Pendleton that tbe Blue mountains can no longer be seen. Assessor Howell, of Linooln oounty, has completed the field work of assess ing, and is now at work making up the assessment roll. Seven-year locusts are numerous ab o u t Canyon City, in Grant county, and the merry music of their wings can be heard all day. Mrs. Catharine Irvine, who died at Salem last week, was one of the first women married at The Dalles, having gone there from Indiana in 1853. The high water of laBt month in U n ion county is said to have destroyed many young prairie chickens, as the breeding grounds were in many places overflowed. Elmer Hansen, of Adams, brought into Pendleton last week the first of this year’s wheat crop in this connty. and sold it to Mr. Byers for 40 oeuts a bushel. It ran 58 ^ pounds to the bushel. A carload of fat hogs was shipped from Elgin last week. This is the first shipment of hogs made from there for some time, because of the dull market. Most shipped last week sold for two cents per pound. J. McCarty, in attempting to board an ont-going freight train in Baker City last week, fell across tbe rail, and several cars passed over his left foot, which was so badly mangled that it bad to be cut off. as EXECUTE o ] F i l i b u s t e r s by Cuba. a— - Key West, July 29.-Tw.lv« * filibusters recently landed in <>. the steamer Three Friends h«,/ killed by the Spaniards, ttorni letters reoeived here. They » ed near Havana. A small hsaT„ surgents were in waiting aB,| arms to the mountains. vVhil« lug they were discovered by,;— column. The filibusters fled ¡ 3 forost and for four days Wt)r4 * food. On the fifth day, alter, " died of heat and exhaustion | some insurgents who nB(j— guide them to a place of safet, - after meeting the aconta the/«, a Spanish column and were (» scatter. G abriel O ffall and Louis Pina Key West; James Floyd, of Co)¿ O., aud Pearce Atkins, whose nu are a Jacksonville family, are ■ the killed. The names of the, killed have not been heard. The ' members of the expedition react insurgent camp. R EG IS TR A TIO N FRAUD: t V lio lo e a le V io la t io n o f the Lav f F r a u o ia o o C ity Hall. San Franoisoo, Jnly 29.—Cr able signs of fraud have been i ered in the registration at the office in the oity hall, and i| « been found that many of the s applicanta for placea on the ¡ boarda resorted to falsehood to- themselves eligible. The fm registration were discovered byi trar Hinton’s deputies, and tbiJ eries concerning the precinot apis was made by men employed ¡ Democratic and Republican c under the supervision of Msi ¡f and T. J. L. Smiley. Donbtlea wrongdoing of the same kind ‘ disclosed. The grand jnry'i u was oalled by the election i era today to frand already asee) Mr. Smiley said there were pet cases of men having registered dents in precincts wherein the; The nuusual drought has killed all live, so as to get appointed on - the salmon berries, raspberries, and tion boards. other wild bernes along the Necan- W O R K O F WRECKE sl nicum, in Clatsop county, so that the bears, which in the summer time live principally upon these berrieB, have L a id T r a p f o r Pasflenger C a u g h t a Freight. been induced by huDger to come very close to men's habitations, looking for Sun Franoisoo, Jnly 28. —An food. was made to wreok a pa« The Grant s Pass Courier says: “ The on the Southern Paciflo, near Sr scarlet fever, which carried off three day, bnt instead, a local freight: patients on the Anton Rose ranch on was toppled over a fifty-foot ■: Tbe engineer, drew William s creek, has been corraled, and ment. the danger of spreading the virnlent brukeman were badly but nol disease is now almost past. The citi hurt. Three cars went ora A rail had been pli zens petitioned the oonnty court to ap engine. point quarantine officers, but no law when the engine struck it it oould be found justifying the measure. lifted off the track and sent' Superintendent Risque, of the Virtue steep embankment. It il mine, in Baker county, has let a con intention was to wreck the; tract for supplying the mine with 5,000 train due two hours later. Tbs, cords of wood. The contractors are P. are John Edwards, engineer; L Basche and Cato J. Johns. The con Hurd, Brakeman Wright immediately tract price is abont (20,000. The wood road company is to be delivered by January 1, 1896, wrecking train to the scene i and Basche & Johns w ill put a force of of detectives is ínvestigs*- men to work in the timber without wreck and scouring the oouxijj ture the miscreants. Had lb* loss of time. ger train gone over, tho loa: The Willamette Hopgrowers' Asso wonld have been large, si the ciation met in Independence recently, a dangerous one. and decided that at the next regular meeting, which comes on the 1st day IN A NARROW GOt of August, the members would con sider the advisability of picking hops llr u s li W it h M a ta h e ls e Is tin and also the price to be paid this year. mn>. They also extend an invitation to all London, Jnly 28.—The hopgrowers of Dallas, Buena Vista and surrounding country to be present at Buluwayo dispatch has be® that time, and join with them in dis by the Chronicle: Nicholson’s patrol, 300 she cussing all matters of interest. yesterday checked in a ntrw^ W a N liin g to n . the north of the Matoppo hit! G. W . Corning, of Olympia, died in to Laugns’ stronghold, that city last week at the age of 81. in great strength occupied u He was born in New York. liable position, and they The Populist party of the state of equipped with rifles and Mfc Washington w ill hold its state conven The straightness of their r tion at Ellensburg August 12. remarkable. The Cape "boys” (with *>, A. B. Weed, of North Yakima, says the Yakima hop crop w ill probably not patrol) cleared the neighborly of the enemy, killing t 0 - be more than 5,000 bales this year. rebels, but a gallant attempt The cost of “ experting" the books of passage was checked by » ! King county w ill be not less than (6 ,- from tbe caves studding lb*u 000, and the highest estimate is (21 • delivered at close range. 000. Nioholson lost but five h* The county treasurer and auditor of Thurston county have been directed by two Cape “ boys” in s f*»| He therefore withdrew his ' the comimssioners to invest the sinking returned to the camp. fund of (8,000 in state warrants. The connty commissioners of Linooln county w ill this fall submit to the voters a proposition to move the county seat from Sprague to Davenport. A M O T H E R ’S D r o w n e d l l « r T » n rhllSree ^ t o F o i l « « TH«»- The farmers of the Kennewick valley Camden, N. J ., -Inly are busy cutting their second crop of Hermann, 80 year, Ora^S alfalfa, and the yield is good. They Fourth street, drowned her find a good market for their hay among children and tried to dW” 1 the sheepraisers. night in the Delaware n** The Ocosta mill is no more. A ll the the hands of one child •**) machinery has been taken ont and the other and took a l*rl* shipped to Cosmopolis. Over (75,000 bolic acid. Then. has been lost in attempting to operate each arm. she leaped the mill at Ocosta. boatmen saw her jump-*? The total loss by fire in the city of her ont of tbe water «< Spokane has been less during the last down for the third time Domestic troobW twelve months than during any pre live. When vious similar period since the paid fire wish to die. husband heard of her department was established. 1 The eldest son of H. H. Spaulding, tempted to commit of Almota, was dragged by a runaway his throat, bnt the poll* • team through a barbed wire fence the weapon from his hand* other day and hia clothing completely jured himself. H® , - torn from him. He was scratched from The oldest national t o head to foot, but not so deeply but that il the that of I ,en®*' E his wounds w ill soon heal. been in nee «ince thef** Hogan Johnson, of Riverside, in P a V io le n t S to r m « In I’ a r i« . A M o d e » * '» ! cific oounty, put a rope around a bull's Paris, July 28.— Violent storms oc- Philadelphia, ¡^ 1 , neck and started to lead him home. curred in this region tonight, immense On the way the boll made an attack H all, 22 years old, ■ ■ damage having been caused by wind upon Mr. Johnson from the rear, goring jumped from the J*(*” and rain The lower quarters of the him m the back and trampling him un into Delaware bay. oity have been flooded and several cas der foot until he was nearly dead. One from an excursion, ualties are reported. H all *9 horn penetrated the lung, entering the recovered. at a local body about five inches. Mr Johnson's student F i n . K i l l e d a t D e lh i, In d io . ... . . 1 l... oSfl* Bombay, India, Jnly 28.— A rsilwsv right arm was broken in three places and from his hips down he is one m au collision has occurred at Delhi by He i. 62 year. old. which fifty persons were killed and in of severe bruieee. jured. but it ia thought be w ill P o rtly re 1