W A S H IN G T O N
1 NEWS OF TOE WEEK
A
F«m *l*t
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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.
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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.
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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.