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W ASHINGTON THE NEWS OF THE WEEK From All Parts World and O F IN T E R E S T T O A Mysterious Shooting. Arnold Floach, of the cloak manu facturing Arm of Bernard Pasternek & Co., of New York, ia in a hospital with three piatol-shot wounds. His of the New son, W illiam B. Fosob, ia in apatody on suspicion of having attempted to the Old take his fathers' life. The shooting oc curred in the spartment of the elder Foeoh, at the Hotel Peleter. He lived OUR READERS there alone, hia w ife having died three years ago. W o r k o f m M « i l c s n Mob« S M p n b im l« *•> !•» *>f th* m nt H » p p » l n x < o f l b « P M t W * * h C a l le d From th e T « l e « r » p b C o lu m n s - Riohard W illiam s, the ex-oostomi Inspector, of San Francisco, convicted Of extortioD, has been sentenced to six imprisonment and $10,000 tine. A bakery at Woodburn, Or., wai deatroyed by lire, and a baker named R ob l was burned while trying to save some of his effects from the building. The loss is $2,000. Hops aggregating in quantity over 78,000 pounds have been contracted by Marion county growers to Charle» Green & Hon, the purchase price being 8 oents a pound. Edgon Keith, for forty years a promi- nent citisen of Chicago, threw himself into the lake at the foot of Thirteenth street in that city, while temporarily insane, as a result of ohronio dyspepsia and insomnia. The American ship Luzon, Captain Park, whioh left New York May 21 for Shanghai, passing Anjeron August 18, grounded on a bai at Woo Sung. I t is probable the ship w ill be floated after she has been lightened, but she must be drydooked before putting to sea again. ju r a ’ A mob attacked the American Pres byterian church in Amnsa Calienta, Mexico, and broke windows and doors with atones. The minister’ s honae was attacked. The mob also broke every wiiylow in the college in the same oity. Minister Kanaome has been ap pealed to to uae hia best offices with the government to secure the punish ment of the offenders. A S t o r m In r e n i i a y I t unit*. A storm of wind, hail and rain, which swept the eastern part of Penn sylvania Haturday night was the most severe that has visited that section for a long time. Scores of buildings were unroofed, some utterly rained, thou sands of panes of window glass and many skylights shattered, and apple and other late crops almost destroyed. F o u r K i l l e d a nd S ix I n j u r e d . Four men were killed and six badly injured in a collision on the Cincin nati, Hamilton & Dayton railway, near Connersville, Ind., by a paycar and freight train. The paycar was fo l lowing the regular freight, eaBtbound. Both were running as extras. A n oth er Hank F ails. The private banking house of Gardi ner, Morrow & Co., the oldest bank in " K i l l me, k ill me; shoot me out of Central Pennsylvania, has closed its this misery." This was the agonizing doors, owing to the general depression ory of Anton Dusback, who has been in business. The firm says it expects employed in the Guggenheim smelting to pay every dollar of its indebted works near Woodbridge, N. J. Dus ness. back was working near a tank of sul I m p u r e W a t e r In N c h o o U . phuric acid, when he lost his balance The pnblio schools of Chicago are and plunged headforemost to a fate more horrible than death. His eyes liable to be closed at any moment on were badly burned and bis hair eaten the order of the health commissioner, because the water supply afforded them off. He cannot reoover. by the board of education without From Pittsburg. Pa., comes word filters is impure. that Russian spies sent out by the g ov F i r e In C h r o u l c l e K u l l d l n g # ernment of the czar have stolen Am eri can armor-plate secrets and propose to A fire broke out in the stereotyping turn their acquisition to prolit by fur room of the Chroniole building, Han nishing information by means of whioh Francisco, whioh destroyed $2,500 Russia may make her own sheaths for worth of property before it was extin battle-ships. This in brief is the dis- guished, the firemen being handicapped oovory which has been kept quiet for by the height of tbe building. eomemonths by the officials of the Car T hin D u x D e s e r v e * a M e d a l. negie Company, and which has worried James Keenan, a well-borer, who re the naval authorities and officials of this country and of the steel company. sides alone in a small cottage at Berk ley, Cal., narrowly escaped being The engineer and ordinance depart burned to a crisp, while asleep in his ments of the army are preparing for home. ,He was saved by a little dog. the execution of the legislation of the who kept up a frantic howling and last oongress, looking to the improve tugged ut his master's clothes until he ment and strengthening the fortifica awakened him. In escaping from the tions and coast defenses of this country. house Keenan was seriously burned and Plans for these important works have is now in a serious condition. The been formulated, and in moat instances tiremen who were battling with tbe the approved projects are under head dames had a narrow escape. Some way. The appropriation of $12,000,000 giant powder that had been stored in made by the last congress has been al- the house exploded and blew to pieces loted so as to accomplish the greatest all that was left of the building. good with the means and facilities at hand. T a le o f K rutal H avagery, One workman, John Nonan, was The state penitentiary board of A r killed and three perhaps fatally in kansas has ordered the discharge of a jured by a falling pile of brioks in Chi- number of state employes for cruel and oago. The accident was oaused by the inhuman treatment to convicts in their oaving-in of the old brick foundations. charge. Tw o oolored convicts had es The bark Gainsborough, from N ew caped, and when captured they were Iron rings were castle for Han Francisco, ooal laden, severely whipped. went ashore near Diamond Head, four welded about their necks and one end miles from Honolulu, and is a total of a chain fastened to the rings and the lose. The crew with the captain, his other to their waists. They were un w ife and children, left in boatB and able to straighten up when a member of the board saw them. The chains ware picked np by a tug. were drawn so tight the men were un Frank Hepburn, a son of Congress able to raise their heads and were com man Hepburn, of Iowa, fought a duel pelled to work in that condition. in Chester, A rk ., and was killed by the second shot from his antagonist s N o t M lluatllff A cte weapon. The duel was the outcome of The Brazilian minister in Rome has a joke which Hepburn perpetrated cabled to Buenos Ayres that he has had upon W. E. Hims, a saloon proprietor. a conference with the Italian minister An examination of the papers left by of foreign affairs. The foreign min Henry Dixon, an Englishman who died ister declared that in sending the in the almshouse in Witchita, Kan., cruiser 1'iedmont to Brazil, the Italian reveals the fact that Dixon was of noble government had not intended any hos birth, and that his w ife was the grand tile act against Brazil, being assured daughter of the Karl of Albermsrle that full satisfaction would be given and daughter of Lady Georgiaua Hill, for the insult to the Italiau flag. who eloped with Thomas MoGann. the C a c h e d T i k w t l e r In a S t O T * . Fenian agitator. The story was told Three men of Brighton Park, Chi- in an old diary found among Dixon's cm go, were injured, one of them seri papers. ously, by putting powder iu h stove to A n infuriated mob of laborers bat dry. They were preparing to go hunt tled with the police of Booth Chicago ing. and placed the powder in the for the possession of a wagon-driver oven and forgot about it. The build- whom they threatened with lynching, tug was completely wrecked nod their beoause his runaway horse knocked escape from iustauc death ia considered down several of the crowd. A fte r a miraculous. fierce struggle in whioh stones and A W om a n F lrrb u g . clubs were freely used, the driver, Ethel Woods, an unmarried lady of Peter Zisliski, was rescued from his as sailants. In addition to the half dozen about 22 years, of Danville, III., ha* men trampled beneath the hoofs of the been arrested for arson. Her lover, frantic horse, a number of the crowd George Allen, deserted her, and it is charged that she attempted to burn were severely beaten by the police. down the house in which be slept. Reports made by three vessels that When the fire was discovered tbe whole have arrived recently in New York side of the house was in flames. arouse the gravest fears that the three- A M ysterious Fire. masted ship Htate of Maine, which left N ew York September 4 with a cargo of The stock of wooden ware, household coal for Shanghai, has been burned at goods, etc., of the Carlos Luna Com sea, and that all on board, Some twen pany, of Portland, Or., was damaged ty-six men, have perished. The State to tile extent of about $8,000 by fire. of Maine is w ell known along the Pa- Tbe firm is unable to account for the oiflc coast Hhe has been to San Fran origin of the tire. The stork was in cisco a number of tim ea She held the sured to the full amount of the loss. reoord between San Francisco and New Three times as many herrings are York. The captain was a part owner consumed as any other kind of fish. in the vessel. The dw elling of James Madison, a farmer livin g near New Era. Or., burned to the ground while Mr. M adi son was away from home The build in g was worth about $300 and Madi •on bad $1,000 in paper money, notes and aooounta and $40 in gold in the bouse, all of which was lost. There was no Insurance. A man named Baker. In charge of the pomps st the W hite Hwan mine, near Baker City, fall ¿own . 400-foot gbaft aod w u inuuntly killed. COUNTY I ’ a n l r In a Mrhm >l hn* $f . A ohild tipped over a cupboard in an anteroom in the Ogden school in C hi cago. and the eoond of breaking ao frightened the younger children that they were terroriaed and ruabed from the building. Tbe report that a Ore was in progress in some way gained ctrcntaltOD. and for a time there was no controlling the little one«. No lives were lost, but many of the chil dren were badly bruised and trampled upon. THE HATCHET TRADE REVIEW Gill* D a w n in g , H o p k ln . A Co.’ « W e e k l y M ar ket Letter. Portland, Or., Sept. 23. Only a Spark Needed to Pre W hile the conservative investor has been waiting for the skies to dear the cipitate War. trade on 'change has made heroic ef- orts to pat prioes on a higher plane, and to infase new life into speculative THE TU R K CLEARED FOR ACTION transactions. These efforts have met with partial succe»sa. Two very seri ous obstacles have been constantly in the way of success. First, the general A w a itin g t h « W o r d «o 81auaht«r A l l public, frightened by tbe ory uf hard C h r i s t i a n , a nd B o m b a r d t h » F o r e i g n C o lo u r-A w a itin g tho C o m m a n d . times, fights shy of all forms of trad ing. Hecond, the overprodnetion of London, Sept. 23.— The Berlin cor the whole agricultural world has caused respondent of the Times quotes a Con a depression whioh has been most dis- stantinople dispatch to the \ osaiche- oonraging to those who attempt specu Zeitnng from an unusually well-in lation only on tbe baying side. But the formed correspondent, whioh is said to local trade has made a good fight. have evaded the censorship of the Prioes have gone lower and lower until Turkish official«, and which says; bear plungers found themselves at "E verythin g w ai ready for a general tempting the impossible in foroing fur massacre of Christiana, and a bombard ther declines. There has been a long ment of the foreign quarter of Constan period of narrow markets at close to tinople, should the European warships tbe lowest prioes ever recorded on tbe attempt to J* bh the Dardanelles. There Chicago exchange. The past waek were forty-eight gnns placed in posi brought the first upheaval in auy quar tion on the heights above Para, and ter. Natural conditions have favored the Turkish fleet in the harbor was buyers to an extent that attention has cleared for action. The street patrols been withdrawn from tbe political were composed exclusively of palace field. There has been fresh vigor in troops, while tbe Sopatchia and Kurd the pits by reason of the return of ish cavalry, although apparently un many Bpeoulative leaders from abroad armed, loitered in the streets, awaiting and from the summer resorts. These the word of command.” have taken hold with more confidence The Times has a dispatch from Se than those who have been throngh tbe bastopol, whioh declares that a portion tiresome trade of the summer months. of the Russian Black sea fleet, consisting But the changes in the routine news of four ironclads, three gunboats and and statistics, the all important lawB several torpedo-boats, ia erniaing off of supply and demand have favored Otohicokoff. at the month of the buyers and helped prices. The latest Dneiper. under orders. On receipt ol government estimate on the crop totals a telegram from the Russian ambas places wheat, corn, and oats at much sador at Constantinople, they w ill join lower figures than established by popu the admiral, leaving Seabstopol with lar judgment. W hile the trade dis the remainder of the fleet, and go di credited the totals in a way the mar reot to the Bosphorus. The whole fleet kets were relieved because- the official has been placed on a war footing, and exhibit was not exoesHivo. The Wash has embarked three battalions of in ingtou report oarne when markets were fantry and troops. The sooth of Rus- J - making headway and the influence sia has also been placed on a war was a negative one— it simply was not footing. bearish and depressing. The advances scored are eneonraging. Wheat shows Still lu llie Si*m® Vein. London, Sept. 23.— The St. .Tames improvement of 5 cents from extreme Gazette this afternoon publishes a dis- low point. The export sales at the seaboard have oh from Milan, Italy, that the Seed s.ys the departure of the Italian flying been heavy. Chicago has been on an squadron for the Levant iB the initial export basis. Bt Louis, in the center step toward forcing Turkey to graut of the winter wheat belt, has been the reforms demanded in the oase of kept busy supplying a very urgent null Armenia, and it is taken by Italy and ing demand from the interior, and re supported bv the United States and ceipts at that point have fallen off Great Britain. The Seool adds that in sharply. There are evidences that New York the event of the saltan’s refusal to grant the reforms he w ill be deposed. carriers are parting big mrmey into A dispatch from Rome to the St. wheat in the Northwest and that a James's Gazette says that the Italian great volume w ill be taken to the sea Bhips w ill co-operate with those of port for carrying profits and to meet any emergency abroad during the long Great Britain and the United States. term when lake navigation is impossi DEATH OF TWO HOPPICKERS. ble. This tends largely to effset the very heayy receipts at Minneapolis and M r . Dolan Fell From a Brl.l« « - tirat Duluth, which are largely the result ol Acchl.Dtally »hot Himself. tight money. Country elevators w ill Portland, Or., Sept. 2 3 — Two hop- not carry the farmers' grain this win The forwarding of this great pickers met death by accidents at ter. Champoeg, one by falling from a bridge volume of grain to terminal markets early yesterday morning, and the other w ill increase the visible supply, but by the accidental discharge of a shot the grain w ill be in shape for an urg gun this morning. The first was a ent foreign demand, which European Mrs. Mary Dolan, who lived in South trouble may force at auy time. Exports of wheat, flour included as Portland. She had been picking in s yard about a mile and a half to the wheat, from both coasts of the United eastward of Champoeg with some States last week amounted to 8,666,- friends, and, in going home about 4 326 bushels, against 8,709,000 bushels o'clock in the morning, they had to the previous week, and as compared cross a bridge over the Champoeg m ill with 2.638.000 bushels two years ago, race. The bridge was being repaired and 4,727.000 in the like week of 1893. aDd it was considerably torn up. Mrs The American visible supply of wheat Dolau stumbled over a jack-screw and increased 2.068 000 bushels, and now fell a distance of twenty-seven feet, totals 49,655,000 bushels. breaking both thighs and suffering in ternal injuries that oaused her death KILLED WITH A CLUB. in about two hours. The deceased was about 50 years of age and left six H e n r y H ru x c o S t r u c k on H a c k o f l l c a d children. She was the w ife of W il b y K. s u t h e r l l u . liam B. Dolan, of 234 Gibbs street Oakland, Or., Sept. 23.— Saturday this oily. The victim of the shotgun accident evening at 10 o'clock Ed Sutherlin, was Hermann Graf. 18 years of age, George N oli* and Henry Bruso went whose borne was with his parents, at to the residence of James Brown to 407 Engene street. He had borrowed have a chieken supper. Nolta proposed the gun to go shooting pheasants. He that he aud Brnwu should take a drink laid the gun down along w iih the of liqnor. Brown had his baby in his muzxle toward him. One barrel was arms and Nolta said, after Brown bad bruso discharged, and sent its deadly load drank, “ Give the baby some." into his abdomen, tearing a hole remonstrated, and a quarrel ensued be through which the intestines protruded. tween Nolta aud Brnso. Brown order ed Nolta and Bruso out of the house He lived half an hour.. Sutherlin followed, and the quarrel Fat® of th® Flahara. was renewed. Sutherlin got a large Bo A od , Sept. 23 — The catboat club and struck Brnso on tbe back of Hebe, of Dorchester, with six men, the head, fracturing the akull and whioh started on a fishing trip Satur knocking him aenseless. Sunday two day morning, has not returned. It is physicians were snminonen and tre thought that the boat capsized daring phined Brnso's skull, but be never re a squall, and that the meu are gained consciousness, and died this drowned. Those aboard were; John evening at 6 o'clock. Sutherlin was Cannon, Miohael F Burke, Martin J. arrested, and had a preliminary bear Burke. Joe Burke, all brothers; Pat ing at Rnseburg. He waa held to rick C. McCormack and Henry Don answer witbont bonds and was placed in jail at Roseburg. nelly. A H u y Fatally I M l » F o r r e , I A c c e p t a n c e o r H a n k N o le e . Victoria. B. O.. Bept. 23 — Yester Madrid, Sept. 23.— Captain-General day morning the 14-year-old soil of Mr. Holmes, a milkman living on Gordon Weyler, of Cuba, has issued a procla Head road, was dangerously wounded mation which threatens severe penal by a pistol shot. Young Holmes and ties fur the non-acceptance of the notes a neighbor's sou were playing with the of the Bank of Havana at their face pistol, when it was discharged acci value, although they have already dentally. The bullet entered the abdo suffered a discount of 16 per cent. The men, cutting through the intestines government is enforcing this proclama and inflicting what w ill prove to be a tion despite the resistance of the eon- meruial classea and of the general pub fatal wound. lia A H w in * K i l l * 111* M if®. Aspen. Colo., Sept. 22.— Antonio Cnaze, a yonng Bwiss, liv in g on a ranch twelve miles from this city, to day shot and killed his w ife and her mother, Mrs. Quinn. Jealousy was the cause. Cuaxe wax arrested. Calllornla «lc»pe Crop. San Diego, C al., S«pt. 23. — Grape- cuttiug has commenced at Escondido. The price of raisin* i* so low that vineyard* are undecided whether to attempt the sale of the crop or let it rot on the vines The product of the valliyr t* zeo-ager to that of El Cajon ▼•Hey. Bt A new b found in fluid sr*-"/ j Another K ankurecker A rr es t e, mu K n d . An Ohio Farmer Most Cruelly Treated by the Mob. beaten The and bu r ied a l iv e F a m ily « « O » « 1" , h r * “ U ‘ ,,d A ,r a id t o lo in m u n lc a t * to th e A u t h o r it ie s T h e i r S to r y . Toledo. O.. Bept. 22, - T h e whitecap. have created another sensation in this county b , whipping a man named Huntsman, who lives at Holland '** tion. ten miles from here, and burying him alive. According to report, the story has only just leaked out. although the outrage was committed Speteinber 9 The family was uuder threat* and afraid to communicate to the authori ties the story, but neighbor* learned of the facts ami informed the police today. The facta, as reported to the police, are that two of the Huntsman children, coming from the postoffioe.were picked up on the road by two men in a buggy and accused of stealing a pocketbock containing $80. The next night, a party of meu came to the Huntsman house, aud, after calling Huntsman out of bed, seized aud dragged him out side and beat him and misused him in a frightful mauuer. Then they carried him to a grave, aud, putting him in It, covered him with earth. After awhile, they dug him up again, and then beat and abused him a second time, and finally buried him again. Then they dug him up the second time and again lashed him and drove away. The two children were also lashed. The affair occurred about midnight. Huntsman is a respootable, well-to-do farmer. ________________ A GIRL KILLED HERSELF. p r a n k L a u d a n u m B e ca u s e u f H e r L o r e lor a F ic k le Youth. Kansas City, Sept. 22.— V ive May Walton, the 17-year-old daughter of u barber, committed suicide last night by swallowing two ounces of lauda num. A t daylight this morning her body was found in a dooryard a short distance from her father’s home. Miss Walton was enamored of George VV. Duffy, a laborer. The tragedy fol lowed a sensational scene in a ball room, whither Duffy had gone in the company of several ladies who are visiting his mother. Miss Walton ap peared at the ballroom very much agi tated, the tears rolling down her cheeks, and, taking young Duffy by the arm, led him out of the room. Then she handed him a two-ounce bottle labeled laudanum. Sbe told him she had swallowed the poison. She also hand ed him a note which he thurst iu his pocket. Duffy then dismissed her and returned to his pleasure. When the police learned of the snicide, they found Duffy aud obtained the note. In it the girl declared she intended to take her life because of her love for the fickle D u f f y . ___________ GAVE THE WRONG ORDERS. Collision K clw ee ii T w o K a l i e u Trains >®ar K u t le . Butte, Mont., Sept. 22.— By a colli sion between tho Union Pacific express train, from Salt Lake and the West, due here at 11:35 A. M., and a mixed train on the Montana Union, bound for Anaconda, near Rocker, four miles west of here, at 11 o'clock this rnorn- iog, the engines uf both trains and ex press aud smoker of the Union Pacific rraiu,were wrecked, and quite a number of people seriously injured. A ll of the injured were on the Union Pacific express, which uses the Montana Union tracks from Silver Bow junction into Butte. The passengers hurt were all in the smoker, which was tele scoped for a third of its length by the express car. The aocident is attributed to a con flict of orders. The trains were to have passed at Silver Bow junction. It is said that the dispatcher subse quently released the Uniou Pacific and failed to change tbe orders to the mixed trsin. The trains met on a straight piece of track, the express going twenty-five miles an hoar and the mixed train fifteen miles. The engineers of hoth trains reversed, and put on the air brakes and then jumped with their fire men. None of them were hurt. Both engines were demolished. The express car of the Union Pacific train jnniped tbe track and telescoped the smoker. The passengers of the mixed train were in the rear of the train and es caped with a shaking np. The injured were all brought to this city and taken to the hotpitala A •fu«tg® on M Strike. St. John's, N. F.. Sept 22.— It it announced that Sir James Winter, jndge of the supreme court, is about to iesign to resume the practice of law be cause of the recent reduction of sala ries making it impossible for him to support the dignity of the postion. He has entered suits against the govern ment for amounts. New Orleans. Sept. 28.-»-Joseph N. M u r d e r and Hulcld®. W olf son. a prominent lawyer, was ar F. J Fowler, of Stillwell, O. 1., rested tonight for siding in fleecing found his runaway w ife in St Joseph the Union National bank out of Mo., and shot her and then shot him $36.000. self. Both are dead. .lohn K*r<1*l®y P*r«lnn*<t. Harrisburg. Pa., Sept. 23.— Gover nor Hastings has signed the recom mendation for a pardon for John Bardaley. ex-city treasurer of Philadel phia, who, in 1891, was sentenced to fifteen years for embexxling nearly $1,000,000 of oity and state money. New York. Sept. 21.— The largest chnnk of gold that has ever been in this city was today wheeled down Broadway. It waa taken from tbe Grand Central depot to the United States assay office in W all street in a common express wagon, guarded by five detectives. The big lam p weighed 4,737 ounce* and it ia worth $85.000. $ Leadville, Colo.. Sept, work of dynamite and bucks! evidence at the oity morgue 1 five bodies, yesterday full cl ous life of the mountains— qv with bullets while doing h,» horribly mangled by the uyna were using to destroy life au,J! aud the other* fu ll of leaden oeived while they were fightj; shadows to destroy the live who bad taken their plaa mines. An additon was mat death list at 6 o’clock this evf the discovery of the body oft Daugherty on the ground oss] met mine, where he tell whil the rioters who went to thd flushed with their victory ati uado. There were many people windows and on bouse roofi1 with night glasses, who in liaut moonlight saw the san? on the Emmet and the more 1 lant repulse of the murdero These watchers say that the flj from tbe mine was delivered] range, and that the attacking like grain before the tick!* many met the fate of Uaughei remain for time and a search J abandoned shafts in that vi tell. It now seems that tit dragged away their dead and{ Indian fashion, tor a great pie hae been about the Emm] and this is tbe. only dis kind. The story of the defense of] met is a thrilling one. Eas ble, and surrounded only b« board fence, it seems wonderf was not quickly overwhelm«? slain aud the building de? But the fifteen buckshot Daugherty’s body aud the ito] fearful effect of the first vol the mine tells how quickly tl] lost stomach for the bloody The work at the Maid of Erit pily done for naught. Usd ti been blown up, tbe great pan drain it and many other have been destroyed, end th( damage frightful to contem] morning’s work, particularly! fire department, has destroyer vestige of sympathy for the! and this fact was evidenced » ly attended meeting of re] citizens this afternoon. T[ ceediugs were secret, but monious, and the measurer upon, if stringent, will be be^ the highest degree. A DAY OF by C h ic» *» Hu « z e s t e d PRAYEy in* to the Political *11« Chicago, Sept. 23. At meeting of Christian mini! denominations today, whiebi by D. L. Moody aud whioh of tilled the Central A u d it o r » gestion was made that m m present political and indal« it would qe desirable to h«vs| humiliation and prayer tbroi nation. Tbe suggestion so i reflected tbe feelings of a l l « the call to all Christians pat^ nation was at once prop adopted by a rising vote. " T o the Christian citue. United States. In commoi large number of our fellotK every religions and believe our nation is in tbet^ great coufliot. portending m« consequence", unless there J interposition of the divine’¡J believe this to be true nid»pK auy settlement of the preslwt test, one way or another. "O n one hand that rnym, tor known as ' public confide' clining, as illustrated bT * , in both financial and industtt while on the other, polino* j even sectional feeling is usually high, and l kely to, tenser as the day of a near. N ot only is ' tious requiring most caret sinuate consideration are be determined in many >“ * J heat of passion, but afle J initiation, the results m»T «1 ful over a wide lengthened period. We c the situation, perplexing ing as it i*. outside H* re J mind of God. W e h e ll«« ence aud agency among a ernor among nations, this to be the time for t trints to follow the « - J forefathers in the earlier have confronted us. » “ * to him that keepeth mercy for them that lo his commandments, tns us w ith especial «race “ W e therefore HfleCt and earnestly urge out low-citizens through,» J breadth of our laud. l* nominational or to join with ns in o b «rv -B October 8, as a day ^ sian, and prayer to A he w ill allay P * » « 0“ am°ng ns; that he ^ faith and inspire hope- impart wisdom, and that he w ill f >rgir« «-J as a nation and gri* tion.” _____- —— p Hawk w r e c k e r Indianapolis. 8 *P *', Coffin found g01*/ „-«sIB wrecking the „ bank, and refused a ne United States suptem morning taken to Michigan City. tence of eight year*__ ' Mio baa probably been German investigations seems to It was shipped to the a n y office by * ;c* dogwood. Th* show that towns strung with tele The only fur-cover the Bank of Montreal, Canada, and frotad efficacious phone wires are leee Halbe to lightning belong* to the Cariboo m ining company member of the s01" ' * . g ■Hoke than other* of British Colombia. lays eggs lik e »