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FEW BEBO GRAPHIC NEWBEBO GRAPHIC. NEWBEF IG « r H M 'l t I P T I O * I A T I » (M Year ............................. .. ..... •> * Thro« Month*. ......................................... * GRAPHIC. 4 U V I: h T U IJ I4 I • a h a r r l p t l * * P r i e « P a y a k le l i t u i ib i)' la A l v a * « * . Addraa*. S o a p h io . Newoerg, Orato*. ■ • U m « w ill I t l u c r i « ! i l l « n l t t f T e a « « ■ ! • p er M m . VOL. IX . NEW BERG, Y A M H IL L COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1897. } T > A P T I8 T C H I RCH.-SERVICES, SUNDAY 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school Sun days at 10 a. m. Prayer m eeting Wednesday evening at 7;30 o ’clock. REV. G. F. JERARD, Pastor. RESBYTERIAN <H I*RU H .—SERVICES EV- ery two weeks as follows: February 7th and 21st, March 7th and 21st, and A pril 4th and 18th. J. A DAT, Pastor. P /C H RISTIAN CI1UR( II.-S E R V IC E S EVERY \ second and fourth Sunday at 10 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. lR E E METHODIST.—PR A Y E R MEETING 1 every Thursday at 7:30 p. m. Sabbath school every Sunday at 10 a. m. i E. CHURCH.—SERVICES SECOND, TH IR D • and fourth Sundays o f each month at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school every Sun day 10 a. m. At M. E. church, Fafayette, first and fitfh Sunday of each month. R. A. ATKIN S, Pastor. M Q A L V A T IO N A R M Y -M E E T IN G AT BAR- ^ racks on Main street as follow s: Tuesday for soldier converts and recruits; Wednesday, public; Friday, holiness, for Christians o n ly ; Saturday evening, put lie : Sunday. all day, comm encing with 7 a. m., knee d rill; holiness m eeting 11 a. m.; fam ily gathering at 3 p. m., and grand tree and easy in the evening. Ev erybody welcome. SOCIETY NOTICES. J OF THE WORLD.—N EW BERGCAM P.NO. 113, meets every Monday evening. i r C .T . U.—BUSINESS MEETING THE SEC- \y . mul ami fourth Wednesday in each month. O. F.—SESSIONS HELD ON THU RSDAY in Bank of Newberg building. I O. . evenings AND L. OF 8.—NEWBERG COUNCIL, NO. K , 168, meets every Friday evening in Ma sonic ball. F. AND A. M — MEETS E VE RY 8ATUR- day night in C. V. Bank building. A O. U. W. — MEETS E VE RY TUESDAY evening at 7:30 p. m. in I. O. O. F. Hall. EAST AND SO UTH -V IA - The Shasta Route -O F T H E - SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. Trains leave and are due to arrive at Portland: LEAVE. ARRIVE. (O verland Express.— '] | Salem, Albany, Eng- j j ene, Roseb’g, Grants | | I’a.-s, Medford, Ash- [ ♦6:00 p. m. ^ land, Sacramento, ♦ 9:30 a. m. i Ogden, San Francis- 1 co. Mojave, Los An- j geles, El Faso, New t Orleans, and East...., ♦8:30 ft. m. Roseburg >k way stations j* 4:30 p. m. (V ia Woodburn, fo r) Daily ! Mt. Angel, Silverton, Daily ^ \\ est Scio, Browns- j except except ville, Natron and Sunday. Sunday. (.Springfield............... J f7:30 a. m. Corvallis A way stations ♦ 5:50 p. m. f4:50 p. m. M cM innville & way sta's^f 8:25 a. m. A ll above trains arrive and depart from Grand Central station, Fifth and Irvin g streets. D lu in g Cars on O gde n Ro ute. Direct connection at San Francisco with Oc cidental and Oriental and Pacific Mail steam ship lines for Japan and China. Sailing dates on application. Rates and tickets to Eastern points and Eu rope. Also Japan, China, Honolulu and Au stralia, can be obtained from J. B. K IR K LA N D , Ticket Agent, 134 Third street, Portland, Or. Y A M H ILL D IVISION. Tassenger depot foot of Jefferson street. A irlle mail (tri-w eekly)._____________________ 9:40 aTmT L v ....... Portland......... Ar 8:05 p. m. 12:50 p. m. L v ....... New berg.......... L v 12:15 p. m. 5:10 p. m. A r ....... A irli e .............. Lv| 7:80 a. m. Sheridan passenger (daily except Sunday) 9:30 a. in. \\Lv .... Newberg.... .... Lv! 7:55 a. m. .]A r ........ Sheridan.... ....Lv “ •Daily, fD aily except Sunday. C. B. FRISSELL, Agent, Newberg. R. KOEHLER, Manager. C. H. M A RK H AM , Gen. F. A P. Agent, Portland, Or. THE GREAT G O I ì D m S M E H C O U N T R IE S OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND EASTERN OREGON S panish From all Parts of the New and Old World. B E IE » A5D INTERESTING ITEMS C o m p r e h e n s iv e R o r lo w o f th e Im p o r t* a n t H a p p e n in g * o f t h e C ur ren t W eek. The natives of New Guinea are mur dering Australian miners. Federal and state authorities are again in a tangle in Kansas and a clash is expected. The corn crop in Kansas is now said to be damaged 50 per cent by the pre vailing hot weather. Senators Quay and Morgan are to go to the Sandwich Islands to post them selves on the country and its possibil ities. The internal revenue office has issued orders to local collectors to seize tobacco prize packages under the provision of the new tariff law. Over 100 tramps and harvesters took possession of a freight train on the Northwestern line, near Omaha, Neb. The train was sidetracked, and the sheriff and police were called upon for assistance. After an hour’s delay the tramps were dislodged. Tiie sheriff had a desperate fight in trying to jail the men, but was successful. The sur rounding country is overrun with tramps. The following is an extract from a private letter received in San Fran cisco from Manila, Philippine islands: “ Here things are in a frightful mess. Spanish dollars have been introduced at 10 per cent less value than Mexican. Everybody wants to sell out. Native brokers are all over the place trying to sell their possessions, and find no buy ers. In the sugar provinces, cane plants are being burned up for lack of rain. ” Samuel Wolf, a Jersey City contract or, offered a dish of cream to the boy who would hold his arm the loflgest time in an ice cream freezer. A num ber of boys who were around W olf’s store contested for the prize. Willie Lockwood outdid them all. Although suffering great pain, he held his arm in the freezer for four minutes. When he withdrew it the arm was frozen stiff. He was taken to the hospital, where it was said it would be necessary to am putate the arm. J A letter received in Portland from Juneau, Alaska says: There are 500 people now at Dyea, waiting to get ovei the pass. There are several more steamer loads now on the way, loaded to the guards. The Indian packers at Dyea and pack animals have all the freight they can carry to the lakes by the time winter sets in. There will be hundreds camping at Dyea and on the lakes all winter, eating the provi sions they have taken with them. Other parties bound for the mines by this route have to carry their own freight over the mountains. The pricei for packing across the mountain have risen to 25 and 27 cents per pound, and the packers are independent at that. Kansas and Missouri are again being scorched by h.‘at. Six persons were killed in a moun tain slide a tew miles from Berlin Sat urday. A non-union coal miner was shot and killed at Scottdale, Pa., during a quarrel with striking miners The potters of Trenton, N. J., and the sheet iron workers of Phillipsbnrg, N. H ., now threaten to go on a strike. The monitor Puritan broke her rud der in New York and w ill be laid up for a month, and will cost about $5,000. George H. Walker, a Washington, D. C., lawyer and former correspondent, has been appointed assistant postmas ter-general. Four boys were drowned at Kansai City while in swimming, four in Win nipeg and two more at Boston, one ot whom was 80 years of age. Bluejackets from the warship York- town and Boston were stoned ami beaten by Japanese at Kobe, Japan, and some of them were badly used up. Andree’s north pole balloon is report ed to have been seen in several place* recently, but each time away off itl course. Many have given him up at lost. Professor Anon, a professional high- -VIA- wire performer, fell from his wire, a distance of 75 feet, while riding a bi cycle at Ridgewood Park, N. J., and was killed. The monthly statement issued by the director of the mint shows that during July, 1897, the coinage executed at the No Change of Cars Between United States mints amounted to »670,850. BAKER CITY A Missouri Pacific train ran into ( PORTLAND and j freight standing on the main track at SPOKANE Yates Center, Kan., and Engineei Joseph Clown *nd Fireman Cal Kowar were killed. Other persons were in jured. Captain General Weyler has par Connecting with doned forty political offenders nndei death and other hard sentences, at th* suggestion of the home government, and 1,000 Cuban exiles have been TRAIL, ROSSLAND, MARCUS granted amnesty. Assistant Secretary Howell has ren NELSON, and All Kootenay dered a decision in which beholds that Mining Camps... calfskins should be classed as “ hide* of cattle,” and are therefore dutiable under the new tariff, but at 15 per cent ad valorem. L o w R a te * and Through T ick ets In the engagement of Chakdara the British troops suffered but slight loss, fo r Pamphlet* and tota lled Inform ation, . bnt the native losa was heavy. His W rit« to thousand tribesmen were preparing tc W. H. HURLBURT. attack the fort when they were at Gao. Paa*. A f t O. R A V. Co., Portland. Or. tacked by the British column, nndei Colonel Meikeljohn, and completely O LIV E R A COLCORD, Agent*. routed. Ngwaiao. Oaaooa. ARE ALL REACHED T he 0. R. & N. Shortest Line to Spokane ALL RAIL ROUTE to... P r e m ie r A Msasiinuted I t a lia n A n a r c h is t. by T h e S t r ik e r « W o n th e D a y a t T u r t le and S a n d y C r e e k «. Madrid, Aug. 10.— SenorCanovas del Castillo, the prime minister of Spain, was assassinated today at Santa Agueda by an anarchist. The murderer fired three shots, two of which struck the premier in the head and the other in the chest. The wounded man lingered unconscious for two hours, and died at 8 o’clock tliis afternoon. His w ife was but a short distance away when he fell. Santa Agueda is noted for its baths. The plaoe is between San Sebastian, the summer residence of the Spanish court, and Vittoria, the capital of the prov ince of Alava, about 30 miles south of Billie. . The premier went there last Thursday to take a three weeks’ course of the baths, after which he expected to return to San Sebastian to see United States Minister Woodford, when that gentle man should be officially received by the queen regent. The assassin was immediately arrest ed. He is a Neopolitan, and gives the name of Rinialdi, but it is believed his real name is Angele Angelo Golli. The murderer declared he killed Can- ovas in accomplishment of a “ just ven geance” and as the outcome of a con spiracy. He is believed to have arrived at Santa Agueda the same day as the premier, and was frequently seen link ing in the passage of the bathing estab lishment in a suspicious manner. The remains of Senor Canovas will be brought here tomorrow. Marshal Martinez Campos has gone to San Sebastian to attend the queen regent. Senor Sagasta, the liberal leader, has sent the following telegram to the gi v- ernment: “ I have heard with deep pain of the crime that iias thrown us all in mourn ing, and I place myself at the orders of the government and qneen.” Most of the liberal leaders sent sim ilar messages, placing themselves at the disposition of the government. The queen regent, on hearing the sad news, dispatched her own physician by a special train from San Sebastian. Later, on learning that Canovas was dead, she wired her condolence to the widow. The health of SenorCanovas had im proved greatly of late. He had been leading a quiet life, although he attend ed to the business of state. A t the moment of the assassination he was waiting in the gallery of the bathing establishment for his wife, who was to join him for lunch. Suddenly the assassin, who had the appearance of an ordinary visitor, approached and fired at him point blank, one bullet passing through the body and coming out behind the left shoulder, and the other two lodging in the head. He fell instantly, and only recovered conscious ness long enough to speak a few words. Several medical men and his wife were unremitting in their attentions to the sufferer, but his wounds were mor tal, and he died in two hours. Extreme unction was administered amid a scene of mingled sorrow and indignation. The assassin narrowly escaped lynch ing at the hands of the waiters and at tendants who rushed forward. Detec tives and civil guards immediately secured him. He was very pale, trem bled very much and evidently feared that he would be killed on the spot. He will be first arraigned before the local magistrates at Vergara. JACK W ill H AM BLET ARRESTED. B e T r ie d in L o n g C reek fo r th e M u r d e r o f B en ja m in G u m in a n y . Long Creek, Or., Aug. 10.— Jack Hamblet, arrested in Boise City, Idaho, last week, and for whom requisition papers have been applied by Sheriff Livingstone, of this county, will be tried for the murder of Benjamin Gammany, whom he killed in an alter cation at a dance at Rock Creek on the morning of February 23, 1894. The circumstances of the killing are as fol lows: Jack Hamblet, who lived in the mountain, and was considered a quarrel some and dangerous character, was called to order during the night of the dance by Gammany, who was floor man ager. Hamblet resented the interfer; ence, and, using abusive language, the two men came to blows. Gammany, who was considerably the smaller, was getting the best of the fight, when Hamblet drew his pistol. The pistol was taken from him and the men sepa rated. Everything was again compar atively peaceable until about 3 o’clock in the morning, when Hamblet renewed the quarrel by asking Gammany to step ontside with him. Gammany com plied, and no sooner had the two men reached the outside when Hamblet turned and fired. The shot struck Gammany's left wrist, and, ranging to the elbow, entered the body. With his death wound, body bent, and hands crosseit on his breast, Gammany rau back into the room. Hamblet fol lowed him, and, reaching over his shoulder, sent another ball into his brain. Then, defying any one to arrest him, Hamblet mounted his horse and rode away. Armed parties started after him, bnt he got into the mountain fastness, and eluded all efforts to cap ture him. Before leaving the «lance hall Hamblet made the remark that Gammany was his fourth man. Those who touch each other tometimes farthest apart. S h o rta g e In K a t t fr n r e a c h Mtatea. Hugh C. Wallace Talks ot the Great Gold Strike. EXTENT OF THE RICH DIGGINGS I t I * E s tim a te d T h a t 100.000 M en W i l l <io iu t h e S p r in g —C a lifo r n ia n C h an ge« H i« M in d . Tacoma, Aug. 10.— HughC. Wallace, the prominent banker, who has proba bly made a more careful investigation of the Klondike than anybody on the coast who has not actually been there, having interviewed a great number of the miners who came down on the Port land last mouth, and other people who have traveled in the upper YTukon coun try and prospected along the main river and its branches, said to a press repre sentative: “ There is no doubt that the Yukon will yield more gold than has been taken from any river on this coast, or probably in any other part of the world. Tiie Yukon runs through a country not yet explored by white men, and its bars are universally reported to be rich. Miners w ho have worked along the river since 1882 agree that ground »5 to »100 per day is easily found. “ The existenoe of gold in such quan tities along the main river is abundant proof of rich diggings in other branches than the Klondike. It is certain there was two months ago somewhere between »6,000,000 and »3,000,000 already taken out and sent to Dawson City. Fully one-half of this, it is believed, will come down on the next two steamers. “ The gold thus far taken out ha! come from two or three small creek! emptying into the Klondike. Reports of other rich strikes have been obtained. Returning miners unite in declaring that prospecting has scarcely begun. Men engaged in profitable enterprises on Puget sound are leaving them for the Klondike. I am informed that profit able diggings hnd prosperous towns in Alaska are being almost deserted in the rush for the new eldorado. “ There w ill be a mighty and contin uous stream of people from Puget Bound for the next six weeks, and I believe it is no exaggeration to say that there will he 100,000 men go in next Febru ary, March, April and May. To my knowledge, letters are being received daily from every section of this coun try, and from European cities as well, making inquiry as to means of reaching Alaska in the spring. “ Old Yukoners say the trip can be made any month in the year. The perilous and difficult part of the trip has consisted heretofore of a climb over the mountain passes requiring a portuge of 28 miles from salt water to the first of a series of lakes, forming the Yukon headwaters. This difficulty is now over, for since the using of W hite’s pass be gan, three weeks ago, horses can be used for packing outfits the entire dis tance over the mountains, ami miners themselves can ride if they choose. It is three days from Puget sound to this pass. “ The effect of these discoveries on business on Puget sound has been elec tric, and the effect of the immense in crease in the production of gold will stimulate every artery of trade.” N o K l o n d i k e fo r H im . Port Townsend, Aug. 10 — An evi dence that many people started for the gidd fields of Alaska during tiie strain of mental excitement was given here last night, when the steamer Queen sailed for the north. Just after the steamer blew her whistle to cast off her lines, an excited passenger, who had »800 worth of provisions billed through to Dyea, yelled out: “ Boys, divide the d— d mess between you; I ’m going back to California.” The disgusted passenger refused to give his name, bnt said lie would pre fer to give up his outfit than to take the chances of crossing Chilkoot pass this fall. Evidently there were several disciples of counterfeiter Dean and wife, of Han Francisco, yesterday hound for Alaska, for just before the Queen sailed last night, several well dressed yonng men rushed around the city in quest of change for greenbacks. They said they were going down the Yukon river in boats, and, in case they fell overboard, paper money would be ruined by get ting wet. In many cases they succeed ed iri passing bills, two-thirds of which have been found to be counterfeit. One saloonist, in a hatch of »240 in bills, received two »20 Confederate bills of the inintageof 1862. Investigation de veloped the fact that they were left here by people who went north on the Queen. I m p r a c t ic a b le E x p o s itio n H r h fm M . Paris, Ang. 10.— A hundred projects for attractions for the Paris exposition of 1900 were submitted to the commit tee today. They included the building of a copy of Bartholdi’s statue of lib erty in New York harbor 600 feet high; the construction of a restaurant under water, to lie built of glass; an enor mous vertical screw, with a nut fitted as a cafe; a reproduction of the Trojan horse, capable of holding 1,000 people, and plans for fitting the Eiffel tower with a spiral railroad and toboggan ar* chute. The committee decided that none of the schemeg were practicable. C * u * h t by * M o w e r. Wilbur,Wash., Aug. 10.— While cut ting grain yesterday afternoon the 4- year-old son of Peter McKay in some way managed to get in the tall grain in front of the machine, and had one of hia little limbs completely severed. The other was badly mangled, but Dr. Young thinks that he can save it if he can save the child’s life. Cliambersburg, Pa., Aug. 10.— The Blue Mountain peach belt of Southern Pennsylvania and Western Maryland is the only part of the country that will have more than 20 to 25 per cent of a crop this year. According to the view* of Colonel Tames Englore, of Chambers- burg, who has returned from a tour of the peach states, the shortage is es pecially great in Wisconsin, Ohio, Del A flve-cent stamp must *dorn every aware and the Esstern shore in Mary day book, ledger or other account book land. kept by s business house in Mexioo. NO . 38. A MOST TRAGIC FATE CHURCH N0TICE8. 71 RIK N IH ’ C H l' K< ’ H 8 E K V1CB8 EVER Y 1 Sunday at 11 a, in. and H p. in. and Thur*- ay at 2 p. m. Sabbath school every Sunday at 9:4.’> a. m. Monthly meeting at » p.'m. the first Tuesday in each month. Quarterly meeting the second Saturday and Sunday in ’February, May, August and November, woman s For eign Missionary Society meets third Saturday in each mouth at 3 p. m. ALFRED T. WARE, Pastor. K 4 T M : On# Column...... .. ............ Unii Colum n— .............. Prof— Ion*] Carda ...... .. . ...........Oas Dollar Pittsburg, Aug. 9.— Out of the 2,000 Gold-Seekers Perish strikers who camped at Turtle creek Three last Saturday, barely 300 now remain in Alaskan Ice Fields. at Camp Determination. In addition to tiie large number turned out of camp and shut off from the free food distri bution yesterday, many were drafted to OVERTAKEN BY SEVERE STORM Plum creek, where the great struggle for supremacy between the strikers ami the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal One o f Th om I.oft a Noto Giving; an Ac* Company w ill be carried on. count o f T h e i r T e r r ib l e Suffer A t Turtle and Sandy creeks the ing;*» From Cold and Hung«*r. strikers have practically won. Turtle Seattle, Aug. 9.— There now remains creek mine, known as No. 4, is closed j down as tight as the strikers can ever [ no doubt as to the fate of Charles A. hope to close it by their present peace- I Blackstone, George Batcher and J. W. fill means of agitation. It is true that | Malique, the Cook’* inlet miners who a few men are still at work in the pit, have been missing since April. Black- but they are not putting out any coal. stone’s body has been found, and on bis body was a diary stating his part The same holds good at Sandy creek. Reports from Plum creek are conflict ners had frozen to death. When the steamer L..kme sailed from ing. Superintendent DeArmitt claims that 255 men are still-working, while Seattle for Cook’s inlet, Alaska, in the strikers say they counted but 80 go March, 1896, she carried among her passengers Blackstone, Batcher and ing into the pit this morning. The deputies at Plum creek are hav Malique. The men attempted to cross ing a hard time. Many are complain the portage glacier on u prospecting It is ing, and a number have resigned. They tour and were frozen to death. are up from before daylight nnitl long evident Blackstone made his way down after the sun has set. They are on a the glacier to where it pitches into constant strain. A ll the mines are con Prince William sound. His body was nected by private telegraph and tele found at the foot of the glacier, to phone wires, and every stranger or gether with the remains of his dog. body of strangers moving along the On his body was the following memo highway are reported to the nearest randum; “ Saturday, April 4, 1897.— This is office by scouts, and the foreinVn or managers of all the mines get notice. to certify that George Batcher froze to A t the point upon which any march death Tuesday night, J. W. Malique thus reported seems to be directed, died Wednesday forenoon, C. A. Black- there is a stir among the deputies. As stone had his ears, nose and four fingers those marches are of almost daily oc on his right hand and two on his left currence day and night in all direc hand frozen an inch back. The storm tions, the deputies are in a constant drove us on before it overtook uswithiu state of apprehension and activity. an hour of the summit, and drove us Tiie feeding and lodging facilities are before it, and drove everything we had limited, and not adequate to the de over tho cliff, except our blankets and mands made upon them, and what adds moose hide, which we all crawled un to the deputies' discomfort is the fact der. The temperature is supposed to that none of them are used to hard have been 40 degrees below zero. F ri day I started for salt water. I don't ships. know how I got there with the outfit Saturday afternoon. I gathered up T E S L A 'S W IR E LE SS SYSTE M everything and have enough grub for M e s s a g e * M a y li e Sent to A n y T a r t o f ten days providing the bad weather don’ t set in. Sport was blown over t l i . G lo b e . the cliff 1 think I hear him howl New York, Ang. 6.— Nicola Tesla every once in a while.” announced today the completion of his It would appear that Blackstone latest discovery, the "simultaneous went over the cliff with the intention transmission of messages by means of of finding his dog. From his diary it the earth’s electrical currents to as seems that he found his dog, and finally many scattered points on the surface of in order to prevent starving to death the globe as may ho deBired.” This lie ho was forced to kill and eat tho animal, regards as by far his greatest achieve but it-was of no avail; no relief came ment. To a few intimates lie gave a and he starved or froze to death. thrilling demonstration of the operation On May 27. just two months after of his device for arresting and subject the men left Sunrise City, the body of ing to control under natural laws the Blackstone was found by George Hall, natural substances in and about the a prospector from Seattle, and the re earth. main« were buried. Blackstone was 39 His latest invention or discovery is years old, was a native of Oregon and to produce such a disturbance of the had lived in Portland, Centralia, electricity of the earth which can tie Wash., and Seattle. felt and noted simultaneously at all Batcher was a native of Montana, parts of the globe. was 36 years of age, and for many years “ I am producing," said lie in tho followed mining. course of liis demonstration, “ an elec Malique was a native of Indiana, trical disturbanceof intense magnitude, was 38 years of age, was a graduate of which is continuing throughout the en Hamilton college, Mo., and was a prac tire earth. In other words, 1 am pro tical miner. For many years he had ducing a disturbance of the earth’s as a partner Mr. Hull, the hero of this charge of electricity which can he felt story. to the nttermost parts of the earth.” “ And the result w ill be?” F A T A L C H I C A G O FIR E . “ That is almost incomprehensible. This electrical disturbance by means F ive Firemen W i » r « K il l e d and Fifty W m in d e d . of certain simple instruments, oan be felt and appreciated at any point, of the Chicago, Aug. 9.— Five lives were globe. In this way messages can he lost in an explosion thif evening dur sent the entire earth around, nnd ho ing a fire in the Northwestern grain taken up at any part of the earth with elevator, at Cook and West Water out the aid or intervention of wires iu streets. Four of the dead are firemen; any way at all. ” the body of another fireman is thought to be buried in the ruins. From the M o w e d D o w n W i t h Cannon. force with which the explosion swept London, Aug. 9.— The London News the R|Mit on which they were standing, puhlishet a letter from a Calcutta vol they must have been instantly killed. unteer reiterating the statement that Either the bursting of a boiler or the during the recent rioting there the artil explosion of mill dirt caused the havoc. lery fired at a mob of 5,000 mill hands The four firemen, who were killed by who were marching to join the rioters, the falling wails of the elevator are: with the result that l,500of tho natives Jacob J. Schnnr, Joseph Striknmn, were killed. John J. Coogan and Jacob S. Strainer. The secretary of state for India was An unidentified man was blown into questioned in the house of commons the river, but the body was not recov July 0 as to thre accuracy of the native ered. report that 1,600 persons were killed Besides these dozens of firemen and during the rioting, which hail just oc passers by were more or less cut and curred in the vicinity of Calcutta, as bruised by glass ami flying dehiis. In one of the results of the stringent meas all 51 firemen were injured. ures taken by government officials to prevent tho spread of and stump out A S L U M P IN S I L V E R . the bulionic plague. He replied that about seven persons were killed and 20 T h « Pr ic e Declined One nnd O n e- Q u ar t er were wounded during tho riots referred Cent« nt N e w York. to. __________________ New York, Aug. 9.— Silver bullion experienced Unlay the most violent T o Cnniplitt« I I ik I moii H i r e r Tunnel. New York, Ang. 9.— The Hudson I break of the season’s decline. In Lon river tunnel project to connect New I don, the price dropped Jgd per ounce York and New Jersey has boon revived. ! from yesterday’s price, selling at 2534d Plans are now being perfected to re per ounce, as against 27 V I a month sume construction where it was dropped ago. The New York price fell toSS^c five years ago. Engineers say that an bid, a break of I l^c an ounce from yes expenditure of »1,600,000 w ill com terday and 14c within a month. At plete the work. Four million dollars this price tiie bullion value of the sil hail already been s|mnt before the work ver dollar i* * trifle more than 43 was abandoned, at which time there cents. London dispatches ascribed today’s were 3,916 feet of completed tnnuel go ing east from the shaft in Jersey City. j great weakness in silver to liquidation One thousand feet of this distance ex- ! of New York holders of the bullion. Such s decline as today's has not tends east of the middle of the Hudson been witnessed since June, 1893. The river. _______________ India mints were closed to free silver P r i i l i l . n l W i l l Not C o m . W « « t . coinage June 26 of that year. On th* San Francisoo, Aug. 9. — Mayor news, bullion fell in London from Phelan today received a dispatch from 87fgd per ounce »n a price below 30<l, Attorney-Genera I Mi-Kenna, stating hut it rallied sharply later. that President McKinley hail assured A huge cypress tree in Title, in the him that the proposed trip to the Pa cific coast hail been abandoned for this state of Oxaca, Mexico, ia 164 feet in circumference. y e a r . __________________ j Calif or nia W h . n l for K m r l l . 4 4 ?trtft«Uf Bills Collected Monthly* C LA IM S ARE ALL TAKEN. Clo ni lyk e T h r o n g . i l W i t h Di sappointed Golp lluiiljr». Han Francisco, Aug. 9.— Speaking of the Clondyke output of gold, the chief olerk of the mint said. “ A ll the gold brought to this city from the Alaskan mines w ill not ex ceed »800,009, and all that has been taken out this year and Bent to tho other mints of the country will not ex ceed »2,000,000. The gold from that part of the country is generally from 700 to 800 flue and some of it rates 900, the average being worth from »15.55 to »17 an ounce.” | J. C. Butler, of the Pullman Gar Company, is in receipt of a letter from K. P. Taylor, a financial broker of Seattle. A few days ago Taylor re ceived word from some men whom he aent to the Clondyke region last spring, in which they inform him that every claim within 150 miles of Dawson City has been taken np, and that men are rushing all over the country look ing for locatitons. He says that star vation and hardship stares many of them in the face. Captain Niehaum, of the Alaska Commercial Company, who has made a careful study of the situation, fears there w ill be a great deal of suffering in the mining regions this spring. He thinks the people going are far in ex cess of the supplies that have been for warded. A letter from Hart Humber, a pros pector, dated Dawson City, June 18, just received, shoWB that the gold seek er needs plenty of capital. After reach ing Dawson and paying the heavy duty on his outfit, besides 80 cents a pound for getting it over Chilkoot pass, he will have to pay 25 eents a pound to get his stuff from Dawson to the dig- gings. The rush to the Clondyke gold fields is affecting the mineowners of the mother lode in the vicinity of Sonora, Jackson and Sutter Creek, and if it con tinues w ill cause the closing down of the mines in Calaveras, Amador and Tuolumne counties, or their operation with depleted forces. In the past week 200 men have left Amador county alone for the gold fields iu the north and others are preparing to follow. Some of them were hired by mineowners in Alaska, hut many of them went on their own resources. The other counties have also sent ex pert miners in large numbers. A m Ex pe dit io n F ro m Bro ok ly n. New York, Aug. 9. — A half dozen ambitious Brooklynites are organizing an expedition to Alaska to search for some of the Clondyke gold. David P. Watsons, of Brooklyn, clerk of the Re publican general committee, is making up a party, of which he will he one. nnd which will leave early in February to seek fortunes in the gold fields of the North. Ta co iu a I* C l o n d y k e Mad. Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 9.— Desire to rush off to the Alaska gold fields at once, without waiting till next Bpring is increasing all the time. Fourteen steamers are scheduled to sail from this port between now and the first of September. TO LAY TH E DUST. N ove l Sc heme of a N e w Jer sey R a i l w a y Eng ine er . New York, Aug. 9.— A dispatch to the Herald from May’s Landing, N. J., says: The recent discovery of Chief Enginocr Nicholas, of the West Jersey & Seashore railway, that crude oil ap plied to the ground along the railway tracks would effectually lay the uust, has proven after thorough tests to work far better than was first expected. Both lines of track leading from Cam den to Atlantic City are being thor oughly saturated for a distance of six feet on both sides of the track. The oil ia applied on much the same plan as streets are sprinkled. A water and recently an oil train with sprin kling apparatus sprinkled more than 20 miles. The work will be completed iu a few days. One sprinkling a year at a cost of »80 per mile, it is claimed, will lay the dust effectually, but two applications may have to he made. The Pennsylvania system is to be sprinkled with oil as speedily as possi ble. A M ic hig an T r a g e d y . Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 9.— Last A pril A. II. Dailey, of Jennison, sent a letter to Mayor Hwift, saying he wanted a wife. The letter got into the newspa|>ers, and as a result Dailey received 500 answers. From among the offers he selected Mrs Hattie M. Newton, a Chicago widow, and they were married. They quarreled and finally separated. Dailey gave hia wife three days to return. The time was up at midnight last night and she refuied | to return. Dailey foroed hia way into her bedohamlier and shot her with a musket. Dailey was arrested, and on hia way to jail was allowed to go into a saloon to drink. He slipped strych nine into his beer and fell over dead in a few minute*. The woman w ill recover. F a ta l Qu a rre l Ov e r Cattl*. Madera, Cal., Aug. 9.— In a quarrel over cattle in Crane valley, at Mc- Hwain ranch, yesterday, l«etween Patsy Reardon and L. A. Woodford, the lat ter was shot and instantly killed. Reardon gave himself up. F lo u r on t h « R l«o . O v e r S e v e n ty Mllllnne. Chicago, Ang. 9.— Flour is rising in price, and has reacheu »6 s barrel. Last April it cost »4.10, the low price of the year. The advance has been steady since, and some of those In the trade think it will continue uatil war-time prices prevail. Washington, Aug. 9.— Th* latest offi cial estimate of the population of the United States is 77,000,068. This is made by the aotnary of the treasury an officer whoeednty it is at fixed intervals to report on the per oaptia circulation of money in the United State*. He estimates that the preaent holding* of money are »22.53 for every man, woman and child in the United State*. Washington, Aug. 9.— The bureau of American republics had information that merchant* of Rio Janeiro have chartered two vessels in Han Francisco to take cargoes of California wheat to Rio. This is the first time that such a thing has occurred and is attributed to the short crop in the Argentine repub 8t. Petersburg, Aug. 9. — Word has lic and Paraguay. oeen received that during the recent floou* 88 persons were drowned by th* The common house ipsrrow flies at oollapee of s bridge at Ksrtle, province of XlthoDia. th* rat* of 93 mils* an hour. It is mnch easier to find the man yoq owe than the man who owe« you
