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W A S H IN G T O N 1 NEWS OF TOE WEEK A F«m *l*t C O U N T Y M an iac. For several days reports have been received in lone, Cal., that a woman with long black hair, piercing black eyes, had been seen in the woods above From All Parts o f the New that town, entirely nude. A farmer Bids for the New Vessels Have and bis wife, while driving borne Been Opened. World and the Old. some three miles from town, encoun tered the woman, who sprang from the brush at the roadside and seized the OF IN TE R E S T T O OUR READERS bridles of their team. The farmer left TERMS ARE VERY R E ASO N AB LE the wagon, and grappled with the stranger, who was frothing at the and gave vent to fearful The Lowest Bidders Were the Newport U n n a p r a h . n s l v « R a r i e w o f t h a I m p o r t mouth shrieks, but she broke away from him News Company, The Champ* & an t H a p p « i l n | i o f tho P a rt W o rk and escaped. A systematic Bearch for Sous, mik I the Unlou Iron Works. C a l l e d P r o m t h o T e l e g r a p h Colum ua* the supposed maniac w ill be made Washington, Sept. 16.— The bids for T w o men and twenty-five horse» lost with bloodhounds. building three more battleships, of tbeir lives in a fire in Milwaukee, A i i O l d Ktt ta li ll Hh ert F i r m . abont 11,000 tons each, were opened W is., which partially destroyed Albert The Thomas B. Pearce, Henry T. Atkins at the navy department today. Manger’s livery stable. The flames spread so rapidly that only three men and Henry Pearce, owners of the terms offered were reasonable and the and a few horses managed to escape. Franklin cotton mills, of Cincinnati, ships can be constructed and fitted Owing to the collapse of a gangway O., doing an extensive ootton business with armament at a total cost within landing at Bnesiugen, Germany, in that city, under the name of Pearce, the lim it of tbe amount authorized ly forty-five persons were thrown into Atkins & Co., and the Henry Pearce oongress. Contrary to specniaiion. no the Rhine. Three were drowned, five Sons’ Company, assigned as a company attempt was made to bind the govern were polled out of the water in a criti and as indivduals to W illiam C. Coch ment to pay for the ships iu gold or cal condition, and it is feared that sev ran, a cotton-mill owner. The assets its equivalent. The bidB were us fo l are #240,000; liabilities, #163,000. lows: eral others were drowned. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry- Tbe cause of the crash is slow collec Hon. W. S. Allen, chairman of the tions and dull business. dock Company, of Virginia, one snip, Populist national committee, haB #2,595,000; John H. Dialogue & Son, F itz C h a lle n g e * Corbett. mailed to W. J. Bryan a letter official Camden, N. J., one ship, #2,661.000; ly notifying him of his nomination by Robert Fitzsimmons, tbe pugilist, Bath Iron Works, Maine, one snip, that body. No sacrifices are demanded, aud his manager, Martin Julian, gave #2,680,000; Cramp & Sous, Philadel and Mr. Bryan is neither asked nor ex a dinner in New York, at which James phia, one ship, #2,650,000; two fir pected to abandon his adhesion to the Corbett was challenged by Fitzsim (each), #2,605,000; Union iron Works, Chicago platform. mons. A #5,000 forfeit was posted. San Francisco, one ship. #2,674,950 W illiam Porter, former cashier of When Corbett was informed of their The lowest bidders are iu order, the Bank of Kansas City, Kan., which action, he said that Fitzsimmons was the Newport News company. Cramp failed last February, was arrested in again bluffing, but that he would call & Sons, and tbe Union Iron Works, that oity on warrants charging him his bluff, and that he would fight him the last named company being allowed with receiving deposits when the bank twenty minutes after his fight with a margin of 4 pur cent above the lowest was in a failing condition and he knew Sharkey. Eastern bid, to offset the difference of it was insolvent. The complaining prices between the Atlantia and Pacific A e r o * « I l i e Hett in » Y a w l . witnesses are two former depositors. The latest San Fraucisco adivees from coast. The department under act of Porter was placed in #1,600 bonds and Yokohama say that a twenty-foot yawl congress, must award the contracts for in default went to jail. started from that port for San Fran building these Bhips by October 9 urxt. The Amerioau schooner Frederick cisco August 10. It was the Nadjes- The vessels most be completed wiihin Gearing was seized off the coast of ka, aud in her Captain Kiddcrbjelke three years thereafter. The lim it of Nova Sootia, having been caught inside hopes to iross the Pacific She left cost fixed for each ship was #3,769,009, the three-mile limit. She was con port amid tbe cheers of a large delega including hull aud armor. It is be demned by the court, and the depart tion uf American skippers and tars lieved the armor can be supplied by the department for less than #1,000,- ment of justice has now been notified from the cruisers iu the harbor. 00 . 0 . that the owners w ill appeal to the su T h e S t r i k e I n Oil'. The new vessles are to be combina preme court of Canada, as they claim that she was not within the three The strike of 2,000 union hod car tions of the best features i f the Iowa riers in Chicago has ended in almost and Kearsarge, now under construc mile lim it at the time. John MoCarthy, the alleged bank- complete victory for tbe men. By tion, modified by suoh improvements They robber, was arraigned in Los Angeles. gaining recognition for their union as experience has suggested. He made a statement to the court to from the bosses, the hod-carriers claim w ill be 363 feet long on the water line, the effect that his alleged confession, they have won all they could have and seventy-two feet wide in the m id said to have been made to Captain wished when they struck over a month dle. Tne vessels w ill be propelled by engines of 10,000 horse power aud Lees in Sacramento, was a bogus one ago. w ill be expected to make a speed of in toto, and that he has nothing to con A n O il T a n k E x p lo d e d . sixteen knots an hour. fess, as he was not connected with the An oil tank on a freight train in Offensively, each of the three new attempt to rob the First National bank Wellington, 111., exploded, vetting fire of that oity in any way. He was held, to and burning twenty-two cars of coal. ships w ill possess two very powerful batteries. The main battery w ill be and his bail fixed at #5,000. Peter Norton’s elevator, containing composed of four 13-iucb breech loading Mrs. Elizabeth Cavanaugh, an aged 21,000 bushels of wheat, was destroy rifles and fourteen 6-inch rapid-firing woman of San Francisoo, has brought ed. The railroad pumping station rifles. The secondary battery designed suit in the superior oourt of that city was also burned. to repel torpedo-boats and light craft against her husband and her sou, and to swamp the nnarmored parts of A W a r ltellc Burned. charging them with having conspired an enemy, w ill consist of sixtseu 6- Ender’s tobacco factory, in Rich to rob her of her possessions, and with pound rapid-tire guns, four 12-pound having held her and caused her to be mond, Va., which, during the war used rapid-fire, four m iodine or Gatling held a prisoner for four months in a to accomodate the overflow of prisoners guns and one field piece. local private insane asylum. The from Libby prison, one square away, In addition to the force, an allowance property was acquired through her own has been burned. It was a very old of gun cotton for submarine mining structure. About $50,000 of leaf to hard work taking in washing. and eignt automobile torpedo« to be Ida Buchanan, of Hannibal, Mo., bacco was destroyed. discharged from the two tubes ou each aged 10, committed suioide by shoot broadside amidships, w ill be carried A B ook by G en eral M ile«. ing herself. She dressed herself for for that sileut and more deadly phase Majoi-General Nelaon A. Miles has burial, then went out in the front yard, of naval warfare. It w ill be issued lay down on the grass and blew out written a book. within the next two weeks and w ill THE M AINE E LE CTIO N. her brains. She was engaged to be married, and her lover was in the donbtless cause comment from one end of the country to tbe other, aud from house at the time. She left a note say Republicans < latm the Largest Majority lu It. History, ing her health was poor and that she civilians and military men alike. The book is entitled, “ Personal Recollec did not wish to become a burden on Augusta, Me., Sept. 1 6 — Maine has tions and Observations of General N e l any one. Her mother is a widow. followed the example of Vermont and son A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View declared for the Republican ticket by Mr. Bryan has issued his letter of ac of the C ivil War; or. From New Eng \ the largest majority in its history. ceptance. He defines his position on land to the Golden Gate.” According to the latest returns tonight, the questions of the day and states the plurality for Powers, Republican, that he w ill uphold every plank of the T u n n e le d a B a n k V au lt. for governor, w ill be over 45,000, and platform adopted at Chicago. John MoCarthy was arrested in San probably in tho neighborhood of Seventeen people were injured, some Francisco for complicity in the at 50,000. o f them seriously, by the overturning of tempt to tunnel into the vaults of the Hon. Thomas B. Reed is re elected a wagon, which rolled down an em First National bank of Los Angeles, to the house by over 10,000 plurality. bankment of ten feet. The accident five months ago. When arrested M c The returns show a plurality of about ooourred near Clackamas station, OreJ Carthy drew a revolver, but was over ' 10,000 for Dingley for congressman powered. He is believed to have been from the Second district; over ¡2,000 gon. There have been received at the the leader of tbe gang who opearted in for M illikeu iu the Third district, anil granaries at Salem thus far this season Los Angeles. practically the same for Boutclle in 60,000 bushels of wheat, and it is esti the Fonrth district C y c l o n * in l*ar i*. mated that about 25,000 bushels are In the state legislature, the Demo A violent oyclone swept over por yet to come. Wheat now sells in the tions of Paris, France. Omnibuses, crats w ill apparently have less than capital city for 42 oents a bushel. cabs and stalls in the streets wore over half a dozen of the represcnatives in James Applegate, who died at Mon turned, trees blown down, store w in the honse aud not one in the senate. Toe successful candidate for gover- rovia, was one of the earliest pioneers dows broken, carriages sunk in tbe to come to the Baoiflc coast. He came River Seine, and the firemen had to be I nor is the Hoq. Llewellyn Powers, of to Oregon from Missouri in 1843, to called. Many people were seriously 1 Houlton, Republican. Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Portland, gather with his father and two brothers. injured. j from the First district; Nelsou Dmg- He was 61) years old at the time of bis D i e d F r o n t Hurtm. ! ley, of Lewiston, from the Second dis death. Mrs Bird, the w ife of a farmer liv trict; Seth Millikeu, of Belfast, from Engineer E. F. Ingles, the hero of ing near Rankin, Wash., waa engaged the Third district, and Charles A. Bou- Webster, who saved his passongers in fighting fire in a clearing near the telle, of Bangor, from the Fourth dis from being robbed by killing Bandit house, when her dress took fire and trict, who have for years represented Morgan on September 5, was called be she received barns which in a few Maine ill the national house, are the fore J. A. Filmore, A. D. W ilder and boars caused her death. congressmen re-elected. other officers of the Southern Pacific T w o M in D rowned. To Cure Te*a* Fever. and given a testimonial for bravery. Tw o men named Painter and White, San Francisco, Sept. 16. — Dr. J. The ceremony was simple. The brave enigneer was given a check for #250, respectively, attempted to go from the Sidney Hunt, an eminent physician of together with a beautiful watch aud Nestuoca river to Alsea in an open Queensland, and for many years physi boat, by way of the open sea. When cian of the Brisbane board i f health, chain suitably engraved. near Alaea their fra il craft capsized arrived here yesterday. Dr. Hunt has A terTible tragedy was enacted on iu the breakers and both were drowned. been sent here by the Queensland gov Broad street, Richmond, Va. James ernment to investigate an 1 find a rem K. Wimmer, aged 46, a blacksmith A n o t h e r lt.m k F a ilu re. edy for the Texas fever, as it is known working at the Richmond locomotive The Mutual National bank, of New in the sontheru part of the Uuited works, stabbed and killed 8. (4 That- Orleans, has closed its doors. The States, which has broken ont among heimer, son of a well-known liquor capital stock is $200,000 aud the line the cattle on the big ranges in North merchant. The cause of the homicide of deposits was very small. It has ern Queensland. was the alleged betrayal of Wimmer's been regarded weak for a loug time. K \ ¡ » 1 o f Fir* Dump partially paralyzed daughter by young 0 Pittsburg, Sent 16. — A dispatch That'neimer. Wimmer, who was hunt A l le le im S u icide. ing for the youth, came up with him Dora Forest and Madge Dow, two from Walker's Mills, Pa., reports an on the street, oaught hold of him and disreputable women of Helena, Monk, explosion of fire damp this morning in stabbed him in three places. That- took morphine with suicidal intent. the oldest Hawknest coal mine. Oae heimer walked half a block and fell The former died, but the latter w ill re man was killed. The other miners are closed in. dead. Wim m er surrendered himself. cover. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, Sm all B o y D ro w n e d . ebairman of the Populist executive San Francisoo, Sept 16.— The B rit onmmittee, has officially notified T. E. W hile a number of boys were swim ish ships P itt m and Celarbank sailed Watson, of Georgia, of his nomination ming in the Mokeluntne river, nesr out of port yesterday for a race in dis as oaudidate for vtoe-presideut by the Lodi, Cal , Bert Cornwall, 15 years tance more than half around the world. People's party. In a long letter con old, son of Mr. and Mrs Thomas Corn- Each is wheat laden, the Ditton, Cap veying the notification, Senator Butler w al', waa drowned. He attempted too tain Moody, being bound for Q teens- reviewed the history of the People's long a distance, and weakened, when town, and the Cedarbank for Hall. party and the causes which led to the a companion went to hia rescue and Their captains, it is said, have put up adoption of a co-operative tioket.wbich was nearly drowned himself in hia quite a neat aunt on the aailing quali he referred to as “ the best silver ticket brave endeavor to aave the etrnggling ties of their sltipe, aud a g i o l deal of iu the field and one wboh is more rep boy. Tbe oaee la a peculiarly sad one, intereat has heen aroused over the race, resentative of American interest th. u ha being the oldeat child. The body so that news of either rcskel w ill be watched for with eag-mesa) any other.” haa not been recovered. 1- J ■ H A T C H E T Nipped in tli« Bud. London, Sept. 16.— It is generally believed here that the polioe, by tbe arrest of Edwin Bell at Glasoow, J. Wallace aud Johu E. Kearney, at Rotterdam, and P. J. Tynan (No. 1). at Boulogne-aur-Mer, France, have Deposition o f the Sultan Can nipped a widespread dynamite plot in not Be Long Delayed. the bud. A t Rotterdam ti e police captured a number of infernal ma chines and correspondence which may THE POWERS ARE PREPARING result in farther arrests. The men ar rested in Rottenlam were in bed when arrested. Many infernal maobiues T h . M u s s u lm a n , H o w e v e r , l » o e s >»t were fonnd in their possession, togeth Mh ow A n y A i q i r e e l a l l o a o t t he h at e er with a quantity uf correspondence in W hich Is I m p e n d i n g O v e r H im . cipher. The correspondence is said to have contained plans for dynamite out Constantinople, Sept. 15.— To t lose rages, including an attempt upon the who have eyes to see, there is utore life of Queen Victoria. aud more evidence of the approach of a crisis in the affairs of the Ottoman em A t Last » D ecltlou . pire. Bot the Turk himself offers no Washington, Sept. 16.— The Span sign of the appreciation of the fate im ish government has yielded to tbe de pending over him or of the limit that mands of tbe United States for a trial has apparently been reached in the by a civil court of the Competitor pris patience of the European powers with oners. Authentic information to this the process of extermination of the effect has reached the state department Armenians that has been steadilv aud unofficially, and the formal announce relentlessly pursued by the Turks ment is expected iu the next mail from There is no diminution in the ranoor Minister Taylor iu Madrid. The displayed by the Mussulmans toward Spanish government -reached this con clusion some time ago, but has delayed the Armenians, and no sign of the re linquishment of the Turks’ ooutenttou tbe formal announcement of its deci sion until after the cortez adjourns, in that the Armenians are persistent and determined revolutionists aud agitators order to escape criticism from that body for making concessions to tbe against the sovereignty of the sultan, and, as suoh, invite the stringent re United States. pressive measures that have been used against them. A ii Ita lia n Hark W r e c k e d . Some color has to be admitted to this Highland Light, Mass., Sept. 10.— The Italian bark Montetabor, from contention of the Turks, from the fact Trapani for boston, with a cargo of that some of the envoys of the powers salt, was wrecked ou Peaked H ill bar have received a circular note from the at midnight. To escape death by Hiuitichak revolutionary committee, drowning it is presumed Captain De- declaring that if the reforms demanded lassa shot himself and the mate cut by the Armenians at tho time of tho his throat with a razor. Four of the raid by them open the Ottoman bank crew of ten, all of whom were swept are not grained, there w ill be a more overboard, were drowned. The re- serious outbreak against the Turki-li inxiuiog six reached shore on the ves authorities ami over a much wider area than was the last, which resulted in sel’s deckhouse. the appareu ly indiscriminate slaugh ter of Armenians iu this city. BUTCHERED BY SPAN IAR D S. Since Friday there haa been a large M a r an/as increase of the pairiots of cavalry in Ma**aereri in t h e TUerapia, the suburb of Constantiui.p’e t 'r o v i v e e . iu which are situated the French and Key West. Sept 15.— Advices from English ambassadors’ residences, and Havana by tho steamer Masootte give in Buyukdere and Pcra. This is the derails of a massacre of Cubans in sultan's precautionary measure ugaiust Matanzas province by Spaniards under futuie outrages, in compliance with General Molinas. The butchery occur the warning c attained iu the note from red ou Las (Jalas sugar estate. Molinas tho powers. These troops, it is under heard aq insurgent band was en stood, come under the authority of camped on the estate and ordered a those who are warned that they w ill be raid. The insurgents had gone when responsible for the outbreaks involving the Spaniards arrived, and Molinas tho destruction of property and loss of ordered the buildings on the estate de life. But ilie troops are at the same stroyed. The Spaniards suiroundtd time instructed that they are author the homes of tiie employes, applied the ized t > use their arms iu self-defense torch and shot the Cubans as they if they are attacked. These so-called rushed out. Eighteen men and four precautionary measures have not im women were killed outright, while proved the situation, aud have rather thirteen others, including three chil served to extend tin feeling of terror dren, were wounded Molinas was a ism ou account of the feeling of doubt pleased spectator of the rnasaacre, and as to what secondary and veiled mean reported it to Weyler as a “ glorious ing may he hidden behind the letter victory.” of instruction to the troops. -Mean Thursday insurgents raided and time, the British relief committee is burned the town of San Francisco de busy with the work of helping tbe dis Paulo, a suburb of Havana The tressed Armenians. Spanish garrison of 300 men surren The official Turkish estimate of the dered, but w’ere released after being number of victims of the massacres iu disarmed. The smoke aud Games the city is 1,100. Other estimates run were visible in Havana, aud caused pretty much all the way upward from great excitement. this figure The official estimate is Weyler seems to have completely coupled with the allegation that many lost his head. He is having leading of those kil.ed were in reality Turks, citizens of Havana arrested by the but that they were buried with the wholesale. W eyler says the men ar Armenians and that their number went rested have been plotting to have him to swell the supposed number of recalled to Spain. The arrests have Armenian victims This is undoubted- profoundly stirred Havana. lv designed us an apology aud explana tion of the assertiuu contained iu the THE FIR ST BIG BET. note of the powers that the savage bands which pillaged their houses were McKinley »ml BriHn Supporter Back not a 'cideutal gatherings of fanatical Their Belief* With lot».. people or undirected mobs, but there San Francisco, S-’pt. 15.— The first was every indication of thi ir especial big bet of tho presidential cainpaigu so organization aud uf its being known, if far recorded was made here last night, not directed, by the authorities. when Charles D. Lane, manager for In foreign circles here tbe state Alvina Hayward, and Henry Brat- ments that Turks were killed along uober, the mine promoter, affixed their with the Armenians is denied. But signatures to notes in which each the actual number of victims of the pledged to pay the other #25,000 in disorders was cettainly 5,000, and w ill case the candidate of his choice is not probably reach 6,000. The military the choice of the people in November. anlhorities state that three soldiers The parties to the wager have known were killed and thirty were wounded. one another for many years. Lane was A ll Mussulmans who have yet been chairman of the recent silver conven tried by the extraordinary tribune, tion. aud is an ardent supporter of W. appointed to pass judgment on those J. Bryan and the white metal. Brat- implicated in the recent massacre, have nober is just as enthusiastic a supporter been acquitted of the charges of com of Major McKinley. plicity. The evidence agaiuet many The two friends were on the point of these was deemed by foreign resi of taking a "n igh tcap " at the Graud dents here conclusive, and the failure hotel bar, when the political situation to hold them adds to the oonviction was broached. In the heat of the de that the porte has no intention of com bate Bratnober offered to bet #100,000 plying with the demand of the powers on M cKiuley’s success, and Lane that the culprits shall be brought to promptly accepted the bet, but by mu pnuishment. In view of this failure tual consent it wan subseqneutly de to punish the authors of outrages upon clared off. Just before parting, how Armenains, the state of terrorism ever, Bratnober remarked to his friend among the Armenians continues un that he guessed Lane had saved him abated, and the exoins of these people self #100.000 by not making tbe bet, goes on with no diminution. The ap and the latter thereupon offered to bet pearance of the refugees, many of them any amount on Bryan at even mouey. in a state of destitution from the hasty Bratnober named #25,000, the bet was nature of their flight, and all laboring made, and a couple of minutes later under extreme apprehension of a blow their respective notes were signed aud likely to fall at any time, evokes the deposited in the hotel safe. universal compassion of the foreigners who see them. It* SnrrcM Ai#nrnl. An Impending Cottons» War. Omaha, Sept. 15 — Tbe committee having charge of anbsoripti ms for the London, Sept. 14.— The Berlin cor trans-Mississippi exposition today re respondent of the Times says that ported that the #300,000 guarantee re. there are persistent tumors there of an qnuired before the congressional appro impending customs war between Ger priation would be effective has been se many and Russia It is stated that cored. Three hundred and fifteen Russia intends to retaliate for some thousand dollars unconditional sub vexatious restrictions upon Russian im scription have been received, and #40,- ports, imposed at the instigation of the German agrarians. 000 conditional. Tn Avoid Trouble. A runner.’ r»nit Buenos Ayres. Sept. 15 — The H t Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 15.— Near aid’s correspondent In Rio Janeiro sends word thst President Morses ,>f Limestone, Sumpter county, on F ri Brazil haa had a conference with Gen day, H. C. Dooley shot and killed Sam eral Cereqnira, the minister of sf re. W. Sibley, after having received a over the Italian troubles It w » . th- charge of shot in his own bady. Both object of the conference to devise » pi»,, were farmers, and shotguns were their to avoid trouble in the diplomatic reis weapons. HE EIEI OF IHE IE lions between Italy and Brazil. 1 h- congress baa adjourned until October Prim*« Von Hohenlnhe Dead. There is some talk of having a sloo, regatta at Bay Centre soon. Prince Elon von Hohenlohe, depute to the reichsug. is dead. He expired suddenly of heart disease. USED A M A IL S M » t r i l l i o n In i UN LAWFULLY. M w ln ille W orked by > « w Y o r k W o in mu • Newburg, N. Y .. Sept. 1 5 .— Anna Goasner, a Swedish woman 30, who has a husband and six ohii dren, was arrested in this city U« night ou a warrant charging her wit using the United States mails unlawj fully. The warrant was obtained 0 Postofflce luspeotor McDnryea, i complaint of W illiam A. Siloott, Mount Vernon, O. Mrs. Grossner alleged to have advertised in a matr atonal paper that herhusabnd had liisj aud left her a fortune, but that thj estate was not settled up yet. SW wanted the asaistanoe of a wealth! gentleman, aud atated she would go i his home for an interview if moneyV pay her fare was sent her. It is leged that she obtained #40 front sq, cott in this manner. Mrs. Grossnerj iiusabud l i f t here yesterday morn in for Toronto, and the fam ily waa t follow. Mra. Grossner aud her haw are in jail, and the other five ehildret are at the Children's home. T)J woman w ill be given an examinatiJ by Recorder Hyuilmauu tomurroi morning. STAB BED A M urder TO DEATH. F o l l o w e d a W* r « * t l i n g at San B e n ito . Hollister, Cal., Sept. 16.— Logs B. Cornwall aged 32 yeirs, was sta bed to the heart and died instant lust night at San Benito, thirty.ft miles south of here, by George Sunt, a chum of tbe deceased. Both were skylarking aud inilulegd iu so wrestling, in which Cornwall thru! Siintb. This angered the latter sonr what, and, anothe. boat taking phm Smith was thrown again, Cornwi falling upon him. Smith reached iu his pocket and palling ont a kmtj slashed at Cornwall several tin Two cuts, six and five inches ion? were made across his abdomen, and i stab was directly over his heart, win) was fatal. Cornwall rose, walk! about fifteen feet aud expired. -Smij went home and, upon the arrival Sheriff Holbrook this morning, surra tiered himself and was placed in j*f He deeply deplores his act, as he i Corn .vail were warm friends and hi been raised from boys together. L'otj wall leaves a widow aud two childrej W ENT THROUGH BRIDG Fatal K-i l road Accident in -North« California. Eureka, Cal., Sept 15 — A fas rail >rait accident occurred this nfk noon live miles north of Areata, whir resulted iu the death of four per* aud the serious, if not fatal injury | several others. The train which Jea^ Areata at 4:30 for Cornel,wentthrouj th^ bridge across Mad river, ba coaches, engine aud box car being pj cipitared to the river bed below, abj forty feet. Those killed were: San| Cameron, brakeman; Annie Hoi lx Mrs. Kiikbam, of Riverside; a chi whose name could not be learned. A relief train immediately went} the m eue and brought the dead and/ juied to Areata. Tbe injured given all possible attention. Drs. Fel Wallace and other physicians wj summoned aud attended to the injur This is the worst accident that everj curred in Humboldt, and the telephj and telegraph offices were beseigfdj news. i he news spread quickly i excited groups discussed the ncoidj on the streets and about the offices. S T O PPE D H S OWN FUNilq M i s t a k e .Mil<1** b v ft*« ' F r i e n d * o f » Wj l u g S h I ck mi hii San Francisoo, Sept. 15.— Mattlj Roche, a missing dry goods sal» made his appearance today jus* io to interrupt his own funeral «**1 and to prevent the interment oi a coi that had been identified by a son former associates as his. The had been picked up on the bench , day morning, aud as K< ehe had missing for some days, wac out] work, despondent and given toflrr his ex-employers and several of I friends, who called at the m°r*j readily identified it as his, and m*»1 -» rangemeuts for his decent h®1] While tbe cortege was on tbe w*j the cemetery, Roche telephoned * the city and county hospital wj coroner’s office that he had just re*j the papers an account of his death j that some one had made a nn»“ The fuueral was promptly Ptopp^j he coroner, and the body taken hid the morgue, where it now await® it tiocation. The unknown man i*j to closely resemble Roche in M features and age. F ive F t - h e r » n e » i Dr o wn ed * Halifax, N. S W .. Sept. 18-— Warford aud hia four sons, Bay, N. F ., were drowned i" straits of Belle Isle while on theit home in a small schooner fri)»*j mg cruise. _ A lice K l y i l i c V « ,| H - San Francisco. Sept. 15. " 1 Editn Dickerson-Blythe, the who claimed to be the entrse**’! Thomas Blythe, and as such half interest in the dead estate, was arrested this afiet®0™ booked at the oity prison npoz of vagrancy. During the #**J years the woman has been an*" all of a score of time«. San Francisco, Sept. 1 # " ^ lady from Seattle, who g«®* as Mrs. Weber, came neat s'*” phyxiated ty gas at the night. She was found unlxa>*,,; 8 o'clock this morning, s“ ’1 to the receiving hospital. slowly recovering. She •*>“ j to the city for treatment »< J man hospital. Tbe old the night to take her m is thought, accidentally I gat.