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W A S H IN G T O N THE NEWS OF THE WEEK ■ • U b e l « i D efeated. Details have been reoeived in Cape Town of a deoisive victory won by 700 British troops composing < olonel Plum mer’s oolumn. over a native force esti From All Parts of the New mated at from 6,000 to 7,000. The latter fought desperately and bravely, World and the Old. charging within a few yards of the British rapid-firing guns. About 600 Matabele warriors were slain during O F I N T E R E S T T O O U R R E A D E R S the engagement, which lasted several hours. About thirty of the British soldiers and six officers were killed and O v a p r e h e n i l v « R e v i e w o f t h e I m p o r t 60 wounded. ant H appenings o f the Past W eek C a lle d F ro m the T e le g r a p h Colum ns* At San Antonio de los Banos, a pro prietor named Domingo Hernandez, who was 70 yearz old, baa been hanged by the inznrgenta. August Florentine, a saloon keeper, was shot and killed at the four-mile house, on the San Bruno road, near San Francisco. The man who shot him is named Jackson. I jA t the Novelty theater, London, in a stabbing soene, the spring dagger made for stage use failed to act and an actor was stabbed to the heart so that he died in a tew minutes. Senor Maroel de Azacarra, Spanish minister of war, is considering a scheme to introduce conscription in order to facilitate the recruiting of foroea for the Spanish army servioe in Cuba. Miss Clara Barton, president of the American branch of the Red Cross So ciety, has started on her return to the United States, her mission of distribut ing relief to the Armenians having been ended. A. W. Fawcett, the recently deposed mayor of Tacoma, announces that the fight for occupancy of the office is not yet ended by any means, and that he w ill immediately carry the contest to the supreme oourt for settlement. John Thompson and Jay Leonard were killed by lightning in a violent storm at Sandusky, O. They were working on the new government pier at Cedar Point, with angers in their hands, which attracted the lightning. The body of a newly born male in fant was discovered floating in the Willamette river near New Era one day 'last week. A coroner’s inqnest was held over the remains, but nothing was developed which would tend to throw any light upon the mystery, as to why the body of the babe was thrown into the river. The steam schooner Point Arena, bound from San Franoisco to Mendo cino, went on the rooks near Point Reyes. Captain Johnson, her master, was on the bridge when she grounded. He at once began to back her, and within ten minutes she was free of the rocks. As soon as the vessel was loosened the water began to ruth in through a hole in her port bow, just forward of the forward hold. Captain Johnson headed for San Francisco, and oame up under a full head of steam, the pumps being kept in action all the while. By the time she reached the Mission slip, where she was docked, there was four feet of water in her for ward hold. 1" In a severe thunderstorm near Oma ha, Neb., three people were killed by lightning. A dispatch from Neath, announces that forty miners were entombed in the Brincoch pit by an explosion. Miss Ida Fuller, a New York actress, while in bathing at Manhattan beach, was grasped by an octopus and nearly drowned. Governor Altgeld has issued a mani festo declaring that eight houis shall constitute a day’s work on park im provements in Chicago. Misa Anna Pritchard, a widow from Kan Francisco, left $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 jumpud 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 rnns high, and more trouble is feared. In Chioago, twelve persons suc 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 sigual servioe thermometer registe-ing ninety-four in the after noon. Thermometers on the streets registered four and five degrees more than that in the tower. A bloody affray occurred among a crowd of sohool boys at Buobville, Ark. Robert Chew and Beuregard Poole beoame involved in a fight. Friends of the belligerents joined in the fray. Pocket knives were used. Beveral boys were dagerously wounded. Poole was stabbed in the breast several times and died of his wounds. The Chicago stock exchange w ill re main dosed until the Moore Bros.’ failure has been settled. The aotion of the governing committee in dosing the doors is said by some financiers to have averted a panic. "There is no telling whete it would have ended," said a member of the stock exchange "I t might have resulted in the ruination of a doaen business houses and banks.” A. W. Pile, of California, secretary of the national silver committee, was found dead at Washington, D. C.. un der ciroumstancea which lead to a sus picion of foul play. He had been mis sing for four daya His body was found under the aqueduot bridge. When laat seen be had considerable money, but the money was missing when the body was discovered. A sil ver watch, however, had not been dis turbed. There ia no evidence of sui- cide. Mr. Pile was the son of ex-Con- giseaman Pile, of California. A W ire-M urderer H e u g e d . Charles Tbiede was banged in the yard of the oountv jail, at Salt Lake. The execution was witnessed by a large number of people. It is the second hanging in the history of Utah. Thiede, who was a saloon keeper, was oonvicted of murdering bis wife on the night of April 30th, 1894, by nealry severing her head from her body with a knife. He naaerted his innocence to the last. W ill T r s r e r s e the G lob es Miss Clara Parish, the seventh and youngest W. C. T. U. round-the-world missionary, has left Paris, 111., for St. Louis, starting on her trip around the world. She w ill be given a big recep tion there. She w ill lectore at several points in the West, and w ill sail from San Francisco for Japan August 26. She w ill take about two years to make the trip. A m erican M oney B lacklisted. The Montreal cnamber of commerce has passed a resolution expressing ap proval of the action of the banks in that district in charging a discount of 10 per cent on all American money. It also issued a warning to merchants, farmers and the public generally not to accept American money upon any con sideration. F a ta l K ansas City Fire. One man was killed outright, one 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 property loss is nearly $100,000. Joseph Hoblowitz, a night watchman, was suffocated or burned to death. A Fatal C on flagration. 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 R ev eren d Polaoner. COUNTY THROWS 0U1 II FEEIER Spain Talks o f Issuing Memorandum. THEY RODE A T r o l le y Cur the Track, sons and TO Rau TH E IR Away K illin g In ju rin g and DEATH Jum ped Seven M any a Per O th ers. London, Aug. 12.— The Rtandard has a dispatch from Madrid, which says: "The government has prepared a memorandum, carefully worded, so as not to give offense to President Cleve land and the American nation, detail ing the hiatory of the Cuban trouble and of Spain's relations with the American republic, and suggesting to the powers mediation with the view of pressing America to a stricter obseiv- ance of nentrality. As the result of a long interview between the Dnke of Tetnan, minister of foreign affairs, and United States Minister Taylor today, however, it is stated in official circles, the government has decided not to send the memorandum to the powers. B od e to T h e ir D eath. Lancaster, Pa., Ang. 12.—A run away trolley car on the Colombia & Donegal railway laat night killed aeven persons, and injnred fifty more. The brake rigging broke on a steep grade. There were about ninety passengers, who became panic-stricken. The car was running a mile a minute when it struck a sharp curve and left the track. It ran across the turnpike, struck a tree, and toppled over into the ditch. Henry Smith, an iron-worker, of Columbia, was instantly killed by a piece of wood which pierced bis head. Albert Felinger, the motorman, was crushed to death; W. A. Pinkerton, of Columbia, a boy, met a similar fate. Chief Burgess H. H. Heiss, of Colum bia, who was riding on the rear platform, jumped before the car left the track and his neck was broken. William Metzer, of Colombia, had both legs crushed, and died a few hours after the amputation. W. J. Ludlow, of Sea girt, N. J ., died at the hospital. Mrs. Eliza Fitzgerald, of Lancaster, had the left side of her head crushed and died this morning. ENTO M BED F a ll« into a IN C reva««e THE IC E . Crooning the C o o k ’ « I n le t G la cier. Rev. J. C. Hull, a preacher, was ar rested in Kt. Paul at the request of his Seattle, Wash., Aug. 12.— Edward wife, charged with attempting to kill Keenah, formerly a resident of Port her by administering poison in repeat land, engaged in the contracting busi ed small doses. Hull is prominent in ness, and who moved to this city at the Kt. Paul church circles. time of the big fire, has met a horrible death among the glaoiers of Alaska, H eld Up b y R o b b e r «. being literally entombed in the ice. James A. Campbell, a Honolulu Advices reoeived by the steamer Wil- millionaire; who disappeared from Kan lapa, arrived on the Sonnd from Franoisoo, returned with a bullet hole Alaska, say; through his hat aqd an exciting tale " A prospector named Edward Kee About an adventure with robbers. nah, of Seattle, fell through a crevice Campbell says that while he was drink of a glacier at Cook's Inlet, near ing in a private room in a saloon he Twenty-Mile creek, at the head of was confronted by two masked men, who Tnrnagain arm, Joly 4. He, with a demanded money. The millionaire re party of eight other prospectors, was fused the demand, and in the fight walking across the great ice field. A that followed a bullet went through thin sheet of ioe hid from view a crack his hat. Campbell says he was robbed about three feet in width. The party and kept a prisoner for two days. approached diagonally, the head man When released he was given a nickle carrying a gun across both shoulders, for his car fare. when he and the next in line, Keenah, suddenly slipped through the thin coat A R a ce W ar T h reaten ed. A war between whites and negroes is ing of ice and disappeared in the chasm imminent in Polk county. Ark., on the below. Their wild cries barely pre line of construction of the Texarkpna vented some of the otheis meeting with & Fort Smith railroad. It seems that a similar fate. The gun fell crossways the hardy old mountaineers of that sec four or five feet below the surface and tion have not allowed any negroes to enabled one of the men to be resened. stop in that section for several years. But the other prospector, Keenah, fell The contractors building the road huvo over seventy-live feet and was tightly employed oolored labor. Trouble ia jammed between the diverging walls feared and the contractors have hired of ice. His voice could be distinctly heard as he directed the movements of guards to protect the negroes. his would-be rescuers in their fruitless F l o o d « In M ra i'H Ki in . efforts to raise him out of the coffin of Rains have caused the rivers Rama ice. Blankets were torn up and tied and Suqna, in Nicaragua to rise rapid into long strands and Keenah fastened ly, and the panio stricken inhabitants one end around his body, bnt the force of El Rama have taken to the high of the fall had jammed him so tightly ground and on board steamers. Nearly between the frozen perpendicular walls all buildings in the latter place were of ice and the chill so benumbed his destroyed. Plantations near the town body and exhausted bis vitality that were ruined and the damage is esti the combined efforts of his partners mated at $1,000,000. could not raise him from the frozen tomb. l ' u r a u l t 1 « A b l i n d o im *<I. "Gradually his voice became weaker Pursuit of the bandits who held up and more iudistinut, bis efforts for self- the Wilhoit stage has been abandoned, preservation grew feebler, and one as their trail was lost in the mountains hour and ten minutes from the time about fifteen miles from where tin- the accident happened the last faint crime was committed, making it well sound from below was heard and death nigh impossible to further trace them. quickly rescued the spirit from suffer ing. N ic a r a g u a M o s t GI t « Up. "Keenah was an elderly man, and A government organ declares that if belonged in Seattle, where he has a sou Nicaragua refuses to relinquish lalas Mangla, which she seized contrary to employed in the postoffloe department. A miner from Cook’s Inlet is taking a the wishes of the inhabitants, the Co lombian govenrment w ill regard the farewell message from the dying father to the son. refusal as a casus belli. " A party has been organized to hunt for Keenah's remains, but little hopes B o y M u r d e r e r H urrooflor*. Amos Decker, the boy who murdered are entertained of their recovery.owmg a playmate near Findlay, O., has given to the almost inaccessible country in himself up to the authorities. He sue which the unfortunate man perished." cessfully eluded capture for several N ulclfled. days by hiding in acorn field, but hun Baker City., Or., Aug. 12.— Edward ger drove him out. Boyer, of Upper Burnt river, aged 24, shot and killed himself in the presence T h « B o i l e r K ip lotlerl. A traction engine boiler exploded on of Miss MoClannahan, his affianced, a farm near Anderson. Ind., and one because bis parents opposed their mar man was Instantly killed and several riage. He left letters explaining his action. others seriously injured. M oney for Cuba. M a y flu p p r e »« G a m b l i n g , i f It Can. It is reported in Philadelphia that the Cuban junta in the United States this week raised a fuud amounting to $3*6.000 Part of this money has been changed into gold, and ia on shipboard bound for Cuba, where it will be placed in the hands of the officers command ing the insurgent army The balance has been retained by the heads of the junta in Philadelphia, who will use it in a way that w ill bust serve the Cuban oaute. Butte. Mont., Ang. 13.— Legalized gambling was knocked out in Butta to day. The city council recently passed an ordinance prohibiting gambling. The gambling houses opened up and claimed the city had no right to sup press anything allowed by the state laws Judge McHatton today denied the writ of habeas corpus for the men arrested, holding that the oity has ex press power to legislate on matters for the publio good. WENT HATCHET TO SEE ACROSS M K IN L E Y . B rya n R e c a p tio n U oim ulttee Y lilt« B cpu blicM a N om in ee. C h in e«« Laborer« A ttacked. Sissons, Cal., Aug. 12.—A demon stration was held in Sissons yesterday against the Chinese laborers employed in the new McCloud river railroad to the Fall river timber belt. A crowd of white men, consisting of laborers, tramps and men out of work, gathered and incited each other to riot. After dark Sunday evening, a large crowd left for the railroad camp, four miles from here. They drove the Chinese, about forty in number, with their equipment, from camp to McCloud river, five miles away. Several Chin ese were bruised with stones and clubs, but none were seriously hurt. Manager Van Arsdalo. of the Siskiyou Lumber Company, which is building the mad, says the Chinese were employed be cause it is necessary to finish the road this season. He prefers white labor if they will work steadily. The Chinese get the same wages as white men, ex cept board. Sheriff Hobbs, of Yreka, will be asked for deputies to protect the road, and the Chinese will return to work. No further trouble is antici pated. T o r p e d o B o a t Kri«-*«ou D a m a g e d . New York, Aug. 12.— An aocideut which caused upwards of $10,000 damage occurred at the navy yard in Brooklyn Saturday night. The scene of the disaster was the drydock built about seven years ago. A wave caused by a passing steamer forced itself past the heavy oaisson at the mouth of the drydock and capsized it, throwing it into the dock and allowing the water to rnsh in, which ia the cause of the damage. The force of the water caused the moorings of the torpedo boat Ericsson to snap and the boat was hurled against the end of the dock, carrying away about 12 feet of the for ward end of the bout. The monitors Puritan and Terror also broke their cables. The boats were not seriously injured, however. A court of inquiry will be held to de termine who is responsible. T h e C on trib u tion Wag Large. Old Orchard, Me., Aug. 12.—At the Christian Alliance meeting here Sun day the contributions in cash and checks and jewelry handed up to the platform reached the amazing total of $101,500. When Dr. W. L. Lacheur stepped forward to make the announce ment he said: “ Such a contribution in the cause of Jesus Christ has never before been known." Last year the contributions at the same place amounted to $70,000, and that was said to be the high water mark. The Christian Alliance meet ing began two weeks ago, and the at tendance has been enormous. The largest single contribution was one of $26,000 made by an estate, the name of which was not made known. Fiom this splendid gift the amounts ranged all the way to a few cents. I.e a p e r i F r o n t a L o f l r atropi.. Vienna, Aug. 12.—A shocking case of suicide occurred here. The act was committed by a leap from the lofty steeple of St. Stephen's cathedral. The victim was a young man named Egy- dins Leiss, the son of a shoemaker. He took a ticket to mount the tower at the same time as a party of English tourists. After he had reached the his torical spot half way up where, during the last si»ge of Vienna by the Turks, in 1688, Count Starhemberg, the com mander of the city, sat in order to watch the movements of the besiegers, young Leiss threw himself from thè steeple and fell on the roof of the cathedral, breaking his neck, so that death was instantaneous. M ore C a n o n ( ro o k e d n e ««, San Francisco. Aug. 12. — It has dt veloped that Harry K. Brown, ex change clerk of the Bullion & Ex- change bank of Carson, Ney., who left that city suddenly about two months ago, is a defaulter to a large amount. He robbed the institution in which he was employed of nearly $75,000. The proposed railway up the Jung frau, Switzerland, w ill be 12.3 kilo- meters long, and will cost 8,000,000 franc*. To pay. it would have to carry 17,000 passengers a year. Columbia M ine English fly ltd Irate s,Cu the Canton, O., Aug. 12.—The Bryan reception committee from Pittsburg, composed of about sixty prominent Democrats of that city, headed by Conuty Chairman Howley, arrived at Canton at noon today, and, finding that they had nearly two hoars to wait before the Bryan tram arrived, de cided to call upon Major McKinley. Morris Forster acted as spokesman. He said he believed that any candi date for the presidency was worthy of the greatest respect of every one re gardless of political affiliations. In response, McKinley said: “ I am deeply grateful to receive this friendly visit from the Bryan reception committee. Although we are of differ ent political belief,we are as American citizens proud of our country and be lieve in common that we have now and will continue to have in the future, the best government in the world. I sin cerely thank you, gentlemen, for this visit, and assure you it gives me great pleasure. ” At the conclusion of a brief address McKinley greeted each member of the delegation in person. H a ll w a y C o a c . , ^ Kan Francisco, An» i< Steamer St. Paul on the Rocks tion has jnst been recite*,, eat interest to Kan Friuc " at Point Pinos, Cal. Pacific coast, in its reU,‘!® problems of freight and tru An English syndicate, „ PASSENGERS SAFELY L A N D E D which is Sir Wheelman P* P. for Colchester, has JMt * lease with the Mexican T h ere W ere A b o u t F ifty on H o .r.l- the Tehauntepeo isthmus»¡ 1 » T h e V ee e el W i l l P r o b a b l y B e a T o terms of the lease include u tal W r e c k - H e l p B elli« B en dererl. on the part of the sydioate the work already well adv»n * Monterey, Cal., Aug. 11.—The Pa- ctflo Coast Steamship Compauy a improvement of the harboT? steamer St. Paul, bound for San Fran coalcoa, at the terminalolila-J cisco, ran ashore at 10:30 o'clock last to construct the harbor work,” night, uear Moss beach, and is now Cruz, the western ternij.1 wedged on the rooks on which she were iuoluded in the ori™, struck. The forty passenger« on board but which the Mexican got were safely landed at 4 o clock this ao far been unable to ei road itself will be greatly morning, and most of them took ^the afternoon train for Kau Francisco. The and put in the condition class line. A line of ship, first news of the accident was brought to the company’s offices in this city by tween Salina Cruz and K m 'F seven passengers, who walked from the w ill be put on, and deliver! the many lines plying L beaoh and arrived here at 4 o'olock this Mexioo. ", morning. A determined effort will k The boat is lying on her port side and doos not move an inoh. It is feared secure the freight and lo».« senger trafflo of San Ft,m she cannot be pulled off. The crew the other Bide of the iithnm'1 will probably stay on board tonight, aB pected to get the bulk of tbs“ the bay is smooth. fine freight, such as dry In her position, and in the manner of running ashore, the St. Paul’s case is now come by steamship »> leans and by rail to Stu | muoh like that of the wrecked Colom bia. The officers have been instructed That the syndicate mean,; to say nothing regarding the wreck. Bhown by the fact that it i On board are nearly 200 head of cattle spend large amounts in provements. On the gulf i and 600 sacks of wool and grain. There are many rumors current as to Mexican government hat j the canse of the disaster. One story is jetties similar to those sill» that the captain struck a rook, and, the Mississippi, by whioh fearing the boat would sink, ran her the Coatzacoalcoa river u ashore for safety. Others say the cap being deepened so as to a tain missed his bearings, mistaking est ocean-going vessels. iW Point Cypress for Point Pinos, and ran little w ill be required to con ashore, thinking he was going into works. The syndicate',« for the expenditure of liW Monterey. On the Pacific side the pat The latest reportB from the boat were to the effect that the water is getting , Cruz is nothing but1 ad op«; higher, and at least six feet of water is There was an iron pier : 1 twenty-seven feet of wata in the hold. storm in which the Oolimi destroyed it, and all freight RECORDS O F T H E PAST. lightered, often under nnl, ditions. The character of tin Forgotten D ocum ent« Found b y the bay is such that s very In, V e n e z u e l a CouiitiiM«ioii. ous harbor can be created c Washington, Aug. 11.— During the but the expense will begmii past mouth the work of the Venezuela The syndicate ha, nude; boundary commission has entered upon expense, and expects lo tp«/ a new stage. Heretofore, the efforts of 000 to build breakwalov the commissioners have been directed docks and warehouses It mainly to securing the evidence upon more thHu the original t which the final reports is to be based. when the railroad wn The work from now on will largely called for. But the rate consist of classifying the information that the works to be creiMl' already obtained. The British govern this the finest harbor on: ment, it is presumed, has put into its coast outside of San Fran< two voluminous bluebooks all the in concessions the syndicate) formation upon which it relies in sup for these expenditure, u port of its claims. The Venezuela gov but it is not believed that^ ernment has done the same in its three favorable to the Merioan i* volumes of transcripts from the Span which built and own, Ik: ish archives. Independently of this, has been operating it since ( the commission has been searching on tion, because President! its own account. The congressional fastly refused offers to ! library in Washington and many pub various corporations H(| lic and private libraries in various given sufficiently assorn parts of the country have been ran would remain an indepeni sacked for historical and cartographical tive line. information. The archives at the H|»anlar«l« Outgeur Hague have been gone through with a New York, Aug. 12 —0 thoroughness that not even the zeal of Great Britain or Venezuela has hereto Niagara, which reach«) i fore attempted, and as a result import day, from Santiago de ant documents, which the world thought sister and son of General! lost or destroyed have been unearthed. Cuban army. They t® This work, although not yet termin leave the island for their and with the greatert ated, is nearing completion. For some months past, Sir Clement aged 1 1 reach the it R. Markham, president of the Royal Diego, from a email boat Geographical Society, has been in cor secreted in the stater«* respondence with the secretary of the steamer left. General 1 commission.and has furnished valuable flicted considerable di information on the subject of the Spanish lines of transpa of dynamite C* Schoinburgk line, accompanying it by use copies of maps on file in the colonial Weyler warned Lucre! 0* office, some of which have never been ceased that mode of WUA published. While information is looked eminent would retaliates; for from Rome, from The Hague and the residence of his possibly from other places, the bulk of tiago. The family i®“* the evidence is now to determine what doned their home. Other passengers that evidence establishes. In order to solve this problem, a Niagara report that theq number of preliminary reports are suffered crushing del«' being prepared. Among those may be near Santiago July 28. **, mentioned special reports upon the troops. Generals Go®« geographical and physical characteris immediately gathered tics of the region in dispute; reports ceeded in engaging the = upon the evidence presented by the 300 umna before they could * or more maps which have been pub tare. Hospitals and P"* lished, reports upon the facts of occu Santiago were report pancy and settlement as given by his wounded Spaniards. torians, and separate reports upon the Iinmigraat *“ same facts as developed by the docu Chicago, Ang. 12 ~ ments from Dutch and Spanish man Lloyd aDd Hac archives; critiques upon the arguments Steamship Companies 1 of the British and Venezuelan govern make Galveston one o' • ments as they appear in the British in so doing they have , bluebook and in the Venezuela brief. Western railroads not • Theie reports are being prepared for grants for points we«1’ . the most part by the commissioners at Texas. The trans-AW* their respective summer homes. lines have asked the I resident Brewer spent several davs withdraw their this week at the office of the commis Europe, abolish sion in Washington He was joined clearing-house at Nes on Thursday by Mr. Hallett Provost, the steamship compel'1!; the secretary, and the two spent the day in consultation. President Brewer divi e this traffic has gone on to his home in Vermont New York. The W« and the secretary will remain in Wash- w illing to do this, prey ship companies wiiW’ ington some days. grant agent from the 1 Chicago. The ttbot' - Fear« a C o n f l i c t , Madrid, Aug. ll.-K e n o r Sagasta. considered at a meet“ ! the well-known liberal leader, in an and steamship coapr interview on the Spanish outlook, said About 4,000 that he feared, like Senor Canoras, the premier, a conflict with the United the principal coll«* Probably another 4.« states. co-educational itah^ V J Hold. Paker City. Or., Ang. 12.— Minus*, polls parties have paid $5,000 to close the deal for the purchase of the Colnm- bia mine, on Cracker creek. The bsl- snee. $76,000. w ill be paid in a short time. The Bonanza mine's monthly dean-up was $2.500. The vein is venty-five feet wide; all pay ore. correct proportions is six tim< as tbs right foot U long. THE D e str u c tiv e F" n An* 'T here >• ">ri- on. trouble at Prince Albert. Northwest St. John’s. N- *• territory, caused by land jumpers. forest fires hsve » Fifty armed settlers proceeded to the Trinity. Fourtsez ^ b™ r 0t 1L“ ni* c on>o, a land jumper, itroyed, the ^ !°T® down' throwing both house thing except d* and fornitore into the lake. Inspector Snyden took » small detachm w t of mounted police f rom Edmonton to qoell the disturbance, but last evening he wired to Saskatchewan that the full 0< i*01*0* •‘ •»‘ «ned there be dispatched to the scene.