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VOL. 8. : J HOOD RIVER. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 28,1896. ; 1 NO. 14.
THE' NEWS OF THE WEEK
From, All Parts of the New
. World and the Old. ;
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OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
" ant Happening of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Column.
P. O. Minor, a pioneer resit ent of
San Jose, Cal. , a prominent lawyer
and capitalist, shot and killed him
pelf in that oity. No oause is assigned.
; United States Marshal Thomas and
deputies killed Bill Doolin, a noted (rat
la vf, in a buttle near Clayton, Payne
county, O, T. One deputy was
wounded.
J Charles Church, a young banker, of
iiowell, Mich., shot and fatally
wounded his wife and then committed
suicide. Financial reverses drove him
o desperation and to the commission
f the deed.
' JJ G. M. Schilling, the one-armed
T" Athlete who has undertaken to walk
from Pittsburg to San Francisco and
t hack in ten months, and to return
' with $1,000 in oash, although restrict
ed from begging or purchasing supplies
en route, has arrived in the latter city;
; twenty-six days ahead, but $200 be
hind his schedule.
Captain Burnside and twenty-two of
; the orew of the British tramp Bteamer
; Moldaya were pioked up at sea in
. three open boats by the Anchor line
" steamer Circassia, which has just ar
' rived in New Ycrk. The Moldava
,' struck an iceberg in a fog and sank
giving the crew barely time to provi
j sion the lifeboats an i lower them.
! All hands were saved. ,
The wedding of Miss Gertrude Van
derbil, the eldest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Mr.
Harry Payne Whitney, the eldest son
of former Seoretary of the Navy W. C.
Whitney, took place at "The Break
ers," Newport, R. I. The affair was
somewhat of a disappointment to so
ciety owing to its simplicity. Only
fifty persons were present. ,
The sultan of Zanzibar, Earned Bin
Thwain Bin Said, is dead He was
about 40 years of age, a nephew of
the late sultan, All Ehalif, and Bur
gaBh, and suooeeded to the sultanate on
the death of Sultan All, Maroh 6, 1893.
He was one of a number of olaimants,
and was selected as the most fitting
by the British government, whioh ex
ercises i protectorate over the' sultan
ate. Feeling against the Southern Paoifio
Company is intensifying, among the
15,000 wheelmen of San Franoisoo and
40,000 wheelmen in the state, over the
reoent deoision of that oompany to
obarge 25 cents for oarrying a bioyole
between any two points, and' for taxi
ing bioyolists who cross the bay 10
cents for each wheel. A boyoott has
been deolared on the Southern Paoifio
by a large number of wheelmen and
the others, it is said, vwill doubtless
take the same course. ,
. Peter Ryan, foreman of the St. Law
renoe mine, the property of the Ana
conda company, Jack Campbell and
' John Manning, two miners, were killed
by the fall of a cage in a shaft.
It is stated that measures will he
taken by the New York exchange to
Beoure - the importation of a large
amount of gold, variously estimated at
from $200,000,000 to $25,000,000.
The president has appointed Colonel
Charles G. Sswtelle quartermaster-general
of the army, vioe General Batch
elder, retired. Colonel Sawtelle is
now stationed at Governor's island,
. N. Y.
An $1,100 gold briok was brought to
Baker City recently from the Baisley
Elkhorn mine, it being the result of a
ten days' run. The average yield of
the ore taken from this mine is about
$50 per ton.
Six oars of a Rook Island stock train
. were derailed five miles west of To
peka, Kan., and four white men, rid
ing in the feed box, were crushed to
death. The head and limbs were com
pletely torn from one body.
Mr. Harrison, the owner of the Santo
Domingo gold mines in the province of
Carabaya, department of Puno, and
other rich gold mines in Peru, haB dis
- obvlred a whole hill in the Andes
' mountains, extending at least two
leagues and full of veins of rich quartz.
In consequenoe of frontier disputes
beween Bulgaria and Turkey, the Bul
garian government has notified the
. Turkish government that unless the
;. latter appoints delegates to the frontier
commission by a certain date, Bui
gaiian troops will be ordered to re
ocoupy the positions reoently oooupied
by the Turkish soldiers on the territory
Bulgaria claims.
Miss Mattie Overman, of San Fran
oiso, of the oelebarted Brown oase fame,
has at last confessed to the intimaoy
with the ex-Congregational minister
that finally caused his downfall and re
tirement from the church. The con
fession is in her own handwriting, cov
. ering many sheets of legal cap, and for
the present is in the safe keeping of
Rev. W. W. Soudder, of Alameda,
chairman of the Congregational com
mittee on credentials. '
A Fatal Campaign Quarrel.
A curbstone discussion of the coinage
question in Columbus, O., led to a
shooting . which may prove , fatal.
Joseph Rath, a retired manufacturer
and advocate of free ooinage, engaged
in warm discussion with Horaoe Way
man, an Englishman. They separated,
but Rath got a revolver and when
Wayman returned, he fired three shots
at him. As Wayman is .an old man
the injuries he received Will prove seri
ous. '.,'
They Will Sell Coal Oil.
Miohael and John Cudahy, wealthy
paokers of Chioago, have entered into
an oil deal of enormous proportions. It
their present plans materialize Chioago
is to have a new industry, a rival of
the great plant of the Standard Oil
Company at Whiting, and the first pipe
line from the oil fields to enter its
limits. The Cudahy s have placed an
order for $500,000 worth of pipes.
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Moonshiner Captured.
A party of twenty revenue officers,
representing all sections of Virginia,
went to Franklin county to break up
the' most noted band of Outlaws and
illicit stillers in that state. By arti
fice they suooeeded in capturing twelve
of the outlaws without bloodshed and
destroyed several stills.
' .'Cod Fishery a Total Failure.
The Labrador ood fishery, in which
80,000 Newfoundlanders are engaged
every year, is a complete failure, ac
cording to latest reports brought from
the Labrador coast. . Widespread desti
tution among the fishing olasses is in
evitable. .; .
Tnrklsh Consul Murdered.
It is officially announced in Vienna
that the Albanians have murdered the
Turkish consul at Vraniak, Servia,
near the Macedonian frontier. Though
this statement is officially oonfirmed,
no details of the affair have been re
ceived. A Bank Bobbed.
- In Kansas City, Kan., an unknown
thief entered the branoh of the Ameri
can National bank during the mo
mentary absenoe of the cashier, and
prying open a desk secured $1,000
in currency or more and escaped.
They Will Be Deported. ,
Leander Chanis, the French fencing
master, who is detained at Ellis island,
N. Y , with Marie Cobourge", for hav
ing eloped with her from her home
in Franoe, has been ordered deported
by the government authorities.
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A Premature Blast, '
While men were blasting rock near
Parry Sound, Ont., a heavy charge of
dynamite exploded prematurely, v Two
men named Smith and Hillman, were
instantly killed. Others were seri
ously injured. . .
Ohio Miners Strike. .'
Twelve hundred miners have strruck
at Corning, Rendville and Hemlock,
O., in oon sequence of a. resolution
adopted by the miners' convention.
Visited by a Deluge.
A terrible olouburst ooourred near
Mogollon, N. M., and George Knight,
a miner of, Georgetown, was drowned.
Twenty others are reported missing,
but only two - bodies, those of Knight
and an unknown Mexioan, have been
recovered. About 100 families have
been rendered homeless, and thirty
houses washed away. Several mines in
the vicinity suffered from the water.
' Fram I Safe at Home,
Nansen's Arctic exploring ship Fram,
whioh be left behind in the ice early
in January, 1895, in order to explore
the sea north of the route he proposed
to folldw, arrived at Skjervo, province
of Tromsoe. The captain reports that
he saw Professor Andree, who was still
waiting for a favorable wind to enable
him to attempt his balloon trip across
the Arptio region. ,
., Wounded by Burglars, 1
Walker B. Adams is lying at the
point 61 death at Bedford Station, N.
Y., as the result of an encounter with
four burglars. Two of the burglars
have been captured, having been
mortally wounded by Adam's son Wil
liam, who was himself struck by a bul
let, whioh glanced off his suspender
buckle. .
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' Explosion of Molten Metal.
By an explosion of molten metal at
the furnaoe of the I. Edgar Thomson
steel works in Pittsburg, Pa., ten men
were burned." Two were seriously in
jured but will reoover. The explosion
was caused by the molten iron striking
a pool of water.
A Mining Man Held Up. '
George H. MoCauley, seoretary of the
Cariboo Mining Company, Of Spokane,
was held up by a masked highwayman
while returning to that city from Camp
McKinney, B. C, and robbed of three
gold bricks, valued at nearly, $11,000.
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Wants to Fight Corbett. '
. ' Now that Choynski has managed -to
Beoure a fight with MoAuliffe, he
yearns for more gladiators to conquer.
Choynski Bays that after his battle with
MoAuliffe he intends to go east to
challenge Corbett. -. . , '..-.
' A Fatal Fire. ' '
Fire in the residence of John Fel
baob, in Watertown, S. D., burned to
death Mr, Felbach and his three daugh
ters, v
A. Brilliant Spokane Lawyer
Commits Suicide.
AN OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE
Bad Associations and an Uncontrollable
Appetite for Liquor Drove Him to a
Tragic Death His Dying Bequest.
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 26. Dissipa
tion and bad associations carried an
other brilliant Spokane attorney across
the gulf yesterday by the morphine
route. F. C. Landrum, who has been
drinking heavily for several months,
returned Sunday night from Seattle
and took a room at the Grand hotel.
At 5 o'olook this afternoon, the cham
bermaid finding the door locked, noti
fied the olerk and the door was opened.
The ,self-desroyed attorney was found
on the bed, stone dead. - Three letters
were found, one to the ooroner and one
to E. J. Dyer, cashier of the Exchange
National bank. Over his nose was a
batch of cotton, presumably saturated
with chloroform. The letter addressed
to the ooroner said:
"My name is F. C. Landrum, for
merly an attorney. ' I have voluntarily
oommitted suiode by taking about six
grains of morphine pills, which I pur
chased in Seattle yesterday. , I think
it unnecessary to hold an inquest over
my body, a. there is no question about
my death. I have been forced to do
this by business reverses, brought on
solely by my uncontrollable appetite
for liquor."
In a postscript dated 1:30 A. M., ap
peared the following:
."Pills I have takerC had no effect; I
have just returned from drugstore,
where I' purchased 25 cents worth
more; I have just swallowed them.
Please do not bury me until assured be
yond all possible doubt that I am
dead."
Mr. Landrum married the daughter
of Judge John J. L. Peel, formerly
county auditor. Owing to his dissolute
habits she left him and returned to her
father's home. He, continued going
from bad to worse,- and for. some time
past his friends have realized that he
was a wreck. It is said thathe fre
quently intimated his intention to com
mit Buioide. - , "
Landrum had been living here about
four years. Before going into law he
ran in the railway mail service be
tween Portland and' Tacoma. His
parents live at Centralia. He was a
member of the A. O. D. W.
'VARCHE OF FLAMES.
Brilliant Lighting for the .position
Building.
Portland, Or., Aug. 26. Brilliant
arches of light . will supersede the
glaring aro lamps at the Portland ex
position this year. The committee on
light and power has been at work on
this project for some time, and sub
mitted a draught of plans for lighting,
with an estimate of oost, and after the
matter had been disoussed in all its
phases,-the committee was authorized
to make a oontract for the lighting,
whioh involves a large amount of work
to be, done before the ourrent can be
turned on. .
Attendance from outside the city is
expeoted to be very large this year, ex
ceeding the unprecedented attendance
of last year. , One of the surprises the
management gave the people of Port
land a year ago was frequent crowds
upon the streets, brought in by the
cheap excursions worked up by the
transportation committee. There
was then but little time in whioh to
do anything. This year, with longer
time and with the knowledge gained
hy experience, much better results will
be aooomplished. Already agents are
in the field, making arrangements for
these excursions, and they report the
most encouraging prospects for a much
larger attendance than ever before.
Now that the railroads have found out
what can be done in this line, they
will work earnestly to secure as many
and as large excursions as possible.
Thousands of strangers will be. seen
on the streets of Portland during the
month the fair is open. The commit
tee on exhibits report that nearly all
the space is already taken, and' that for
this reason they have, been compelled
to withhold space for a time from some
applicants, in order not to shut out
more valuable exhibits that may be
offered later. Not only is there this
early absorption of space, but there is
promise on the part of exhibitors that
they will make better and more inter
esting displays than ever before. There
will be great rivalry among them, to
see which shall do the most to attraot
attention and please and instruct the
visitors.
Woman Murdered' by Tramps.
Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 26. Satur
day two tramps went to a section-house
near the Texas line, and murdered Mrs.
Halloran, wife of the seotion foreman,
robbed the house of $80 and $1,500 in
pay checks of the Fort Worth & Den
ver, and fired the section -house, whioh
was destroyed, partly cremating Mrs.
Halloarn's body. This information
comes- from Fort Worth & Denver
officeand a later message says one of
the tramps was arrested.
PACKING FALL SALMON.
Preparations for a Large Catch In Traps
and Wheel.
Portland, Or., Aug. 26. Prepara-'
tions are being made for packing a
large amount of fall salmon on the Co
lumbia this season. The fish . will,
however, be caught principally in
traps and wheels, as seining is too ex
pensive a method for. catching fall
salmon, and the prioes which the traps
and wheels will take will prevent gill
net men from engaging in the business
to any extent. " T ' :.
Traps for the fall fishing have been
put in about the mouth of tfce Cowlitz
in large numbers, where a few years
ago traps were not known. The gill
nets catch only the large fish, while
these traps and the wheels catch large
and small.
Parties at The Dalles are making
calculations for a large catch of fish
on and after the 10th of September,
when the olose season ends. J . . j.
The big run of fish which came into
the river near the end of July were not
nearly all caught, and the survivors
have been loafing along through the
Casoades and middle river,, ever- 'since
tne season closed, finding it very enjoy
able to be able to move without run
ning against a trap or net of some
kind. If they bad any knowledge of
the monster wheel whioh Mr. Taffe
has ready for them at The Dalles, they
would have passed up and got by there
before the end of the close season, hut
as it is Mr. Taffe is preparing to take
all, or nearly all, of them in out of the
wet. By the time they reaoh his wheel
they will be all fall fish.
COMMANDER OF THE OREGON
Captain Cook May Bare Charge of the
Battle-Ship.
Washington, Aug. 26. Navy officers
regard the Oregon as one of the finest
Bhips of the American fleet. There is
quite a scramble to get command of her
by officers who have reached the grade
in the navy entitling them to command
ships of her class. Some of the ships
are sent out under command of lieutenant-commanders,
others under com
manders, but only captains are placed
in command of ships of the Oregon's
class. It is said that Captain Cook,
who has been for many years the chief
assistant of Admiral Ramsey in the
bureau of navigation of the navy de
partment, will be selected for the com
mand of the Oregon when she leaves
Washington. He is a very fine officer,
and one of the men who is destined
to make a good record if ever occasion
should require. . It was just after the
war that Captain Cook, as midshipman
or ensign, went around Cape Horn
with the old Monadnock. ., She after
wards was left on the Paoifio coast
Naval officers here never tire of say
ing nice things about the Oregon, and
it is believed that as a battleship she
will prove more effective than any of
the fleet, if she is ever brought into
action. " ,.
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Found on a Mountain Top.
an Francisoo, Aug. 26. -The his
toric reoord that was deposited on the
windswept summit of Mount Brewer
thirty-two years ago has been found,
and by a young woman. Sinoe 1864
the snow-capped crest of this giant of
the Sierras that, with its , fellows,
dominates the great Yosemite region
and looks down upon the lowlands of
Central California, has held in its
stony olutoh the only authentio record
of the result of Professor ' Brewer's
perilous ascent, made in 1864 in the
interests of the United States geodetic
survey. The existence of the record
and the place where it reposed were
known to many, but for more than
three decades none were so bold as to
brave the perils and hardships of those
Boundless solitudes to seek it out and
give it to the world. It remained for
Miss Helen Gompertz, of Berkley, to
accept the task and overcome the diffi
culty that lay between her and the
secret of the mountain top. The record
was found in a bottle buried in the.
Bicyclist in Hard Luck.
Chioago, Aug. 26. Two bicyclists
were killed, one, probably fatally in
jured and several more or less seriously
hurt on the boulevards yesterday.
Those killed were Abraham Smith,
aged 16, who tried to pass in front of
a Garfield-avenue car, was mutilated
in a terrible manner by the wheels and
died in a few minutes. The seoond
man is unidentified. He was riding
along the railroad tracks and when the
Chioago & Northwestern train came
along became oonfused and rode di
reotly in front of the train.
Miss Jessie MoKay, of Indianapolis,
was struck by an Evanston avenue
electrio oar and hurled a distance of
twenty-five feet. Her leg was broken
and she received internal injuries. Her
chanbes for reoovery are small.
The injury of the others are not con
sidered serious beyond laying them up
for a day or two. .,. ,' ,
Swltchllght Tender Killed.
Louisiana, Mo , Aug. 26. Milton
Davis, a switolight tender on the St
Louis, Keokuk j& Northwestern rail
road at the station, was instantly killed
by a southbound freight last night.
In oompany with two women on a
tricycle he was en route to attend a
camp meeting at Ashb'urn. The
women escaped by jumping.
Insurrection Brought to an
' End by Cecil Rhodes.
HIS MISSION WAS A SUCCESS
til-Usage by Native Police and Oppres
sive Tax of the Chartered South
Africa Company Lead to the Bevolt.
Buluwayo, Aug. 25. The mission
ef Cecil Rhodes to the Matabeles is re
ported to be a pronounoed success
The natives have yielded and the war
is considered at an end. Ceoil Rhodes
inspired the confidence of the Matabele
ohiefs by going among them unarmed.
The ohiefs complained that ill-usage
by the native police provoked ; the re
bellion, and Rhodes promised them
that reforms in this respect would be
inaugurated at onoe. Earl Grey, who
was appointed to administer the affairs
within the jurisdiction of tha British
South Africa Company, believes the
surrender of the natives was practically
unconditional.
The war with the Matabeles, whioh
began in South Africa' early in this
year, in many respects resembled the
early Indian war in Amerioa. Several
hundred settlers in the more sparsely
settled portions of Matabeleland were
murdered by natives. Survivors in
the country districts quickly gathered
in the larger towns, and existing forti
fications were garrisoned as strongly
as possible. The. natives were at first
commanded by a son of the late King
Lobengula. To the number of 20,000
they gathered on the' hilla around Bu
luwayo, the prinoipal town. To a con
siderable extent they were actuated by
a sort of religious frenzy, but other
causes are said . to have combined to
bring about the trouble. i
Chief -among these were the wrong
doings of the native police and the im
position by the South African Char
tered Company of a hut tax ; on the
43,000 huts of the natives in Matabele
land. The tax the natives sternly re
sisted for many months, but the Char
tered Cojnpany insisted upon this reve
nue being colleoted and refused to
make any exceptions. It was not until
Cecil Rhodes, at this late time, to
some extent under a cloud, because of
his alleged oonneotion with the raid
into the Transvaal, conducted by Dr..
Jameson, oame to the rescue, and
started from Rhodesia with an armed
force that the.backbone of the rebellion
was broken. '
Buluwayo itself was for a time
threatened with annihilation ' by the
blaoks, but, owng to the brave defense
by its citizens and the timely advance
of the column headed by Rhodes, the
state of siege which practically existed
was broken and the Matabeles were
gradually forced baok from the hills
surrounding the metropolis of Matabe
leland to their old resorts in the parts
of the country not oooupied by Eu
ropeans. ' f ; ; 1
A NOVEL DUEL. V . ;
Kansas Farmer Engage In a Battle on
Traction nglnes. i
Leavenworth, Kan., Aug. 25. Six
miles west of Tonganoxie, in Jefferson
county two farmers engaged in a battle
this afternoon, mounted on traction en
gines. As a result one man was mort
ally wounded and both engines were
wrecked. The threshers, one ' named
Peat and the other Stevens, aspired to
do a job of threshing for John Earhart,
who through a misunderstanding had
engaged both to do the work. It hap
pened that both of the threshers arrived
at the farm at the same time, approach
ing the main gate from the opposite
directions. At the gate they stopped
their traotion engines and a quarrel en
sued. , Both started to steam through
the gate at the same moment A col
lision resulted. Then both engines
baoked off again and began jockeying
for position. Another rush . for the
gate followed with throttles wide open.
The result was a terrific collision. One
engine was thrown into the - air and
fell back upon the other. Stevens was
caught between his enigne and the wa
ter tank and so badly crushed that he
cannot live. The other engineer es
caped. There have been no arrests.
A WHITE HIGHBINDER.
Sensational Accusation A gainst a Ban-Fi-anolsco
Attorney.
San Francisoo, Aug. 24. At the
trial today of ex-Customs Inspector R.
S. Williams, charged with bribery
and illegal landing of Chinese, Wong
Sam. an Americanized Chinese, testi
fied that he had seen Williams paid
money for landing Chinese, whom he
mentioned, and how he had paid $100
to land one of his clients named Wong
Sing Toy.- Attorney Mowry, for de
fense, tried to show that the witness
was a member of the Hop Sing Tong
looal highbinder society. The witness
admitted he was formerly a member,
and then made the Sensational ohftrge
that Attorney Mowry was himself a
member of the same highbinder so
ciety. Mowry is an Amerioan who
has been prominent in the federal
courts as a Chinese attorney. No
cross-examination on this point oould
induce the witness to modify his oharge
whioh caused the sensation.
NO HELP FOR THE BOY.
He Drowns In a Oulch Before Help
' . : Reaches Him.
Portland, Or., Aug. 26. Ernest
Carter, the 9-year-old son of Mr.
Charles Carter, who resides at 167 ;
Grand avenue, fell from a trestle in
Sullivan's guloh yesterday morning at
about 8:80, and was drowned before
help oould reach him. The boy had
been in the water over an hour before
the body was reoovered.
Ernest Carter and another boy named
Frank Fritchard, went down on the
O. R. & N. railroad track in Sul
livan's guloh in t;he morning. About
200 yards east from the Grand avenue
bridge the railroad crosses from the
north side of the guloh to the south
side over a trestle, which is fully
twelve feet above the water. ,. The
water is quite deep at this point The
boys proceeded along the railroad track
to this trestle, and, it Beems, undertook
to cross over it. They had not gone
very far before they heard the train
ooming from the east. The train
swings around the ourveand is not seen
until it reaches the trestle, but is easily
heard. The boys started baok. The
Pritcbfcrd boy reached the end in safe
ty, but Ernest failed to get off - the
trestle. Just how he came to fall is
not known, hut is it supposed when he
found he oould not reach the end of
the trestle he got out on the end of a
bent and then fell off before the train
came on the trestle.' : The accident
either occurred this way, or he stum
bled and fell. -
IN THE BAD LANDS. ,
Discoveries Maie by a Geological Ex
ploring Party. ,
Sioux City, la., Aug. 26. The geo
logical exploring party from the South
Dakota state- university whioh; left
Vermillion, S. D. , early in the summer
for a tour of the "bad lands," has re
turned with a collection of speoimens
weighing nearly a ton. ' Characteristic
speoimens of about twenty extinct
species of vertebartes were found, to
gether with twice that number of in
dividuals. : The most valuable was the
complete skull of a titanotherium, a
kind of gigantio hog with horns.
Many forms not yet determined were
included in the collection. ;
The records of many geologioal eo-
tions were opened, throwing light on
the natural history of the state, and
adding vastly to possibilities of the
agriculturist One of the problems
whioh Professcr Todd, chairman of
the expedition, proposes to solve at his
leisure concerns the agricultural bene
fit of mixing the oretaceous soils and
the silts and marls of the teritriy for
mation. He also intends to look for means by
whioh the clay solution oalled water
in the bad lands can be precipitated
and made fit for drink, and to dis
cover, if possible, new water .oourses
in the barren region where a water
supply is at present unknown.
SUCCEEDS HOKE SMITH.
Ex-Governor Francis Is Appointed Sec
retary of the Interior.
Buzzard's Bay, Aug. 26. The an
nouncement was nade by President
Cleveland at Gray Gables tonight of
the appointment of David R. Francis,
ex-governor of Missouri, as secretary
of the interior, vice Hoke Smith, who
recently resigned the secretaryship be
cause of his financial views. Mr.
Franois will probably assume office
September 1, as that is the date named
in Secretary Smith's resignation.
A Fight In Church,
Macon, Ga., Aug. 26. A sensation
was caused in the leading Methodist
church last night by a difficulty be
tween Rev. Alonzo Monk, pastor of
the oburoh and Tilden Adamson, a re
porter of the Daily Telegraph. Adam
son reported the reverend gentleman's
sermon last Sunday, whioh was pro
nounced by the pastor to bo inoorrect.
At last night's servioe the Rev. Mr.
Monk was pretty severe on the reporter,
and reflected on him in such a manner
as to cause Adamson to resent it at the
end of the sermon. Going to the pul
pit, the young man demanded an ex
planation of the doctor's remarks. An
exchange of words angered both, where
upon they grappled each other. Dea
cons rushed forw'ard, and an exoiting
exchange of blows between them and
the reporter followed. The newspa
perman stood firm, and defended him
self as best he oould against odds.
The police were sent for. The congre
gation was greatly exoited, more than
1,000 people being present. Women
and men stood on the chairs to , watoh
the outoome. Finally order was re
stored, but the servioes were shortened
by the scene.
Killed In a Sparring Contest.
Van Buren, Ark,, Aug. 26. While
sparring yesterday morning Emsie
Williams was hit on the left breast by
Will Clark and sank down and died -immediately.
Clark was examined by
the ooroner, who acquitted him, the
verdict being exousable homioide.
Williams was a farmer and leaves a
large family. ' 1
Andree's Scheme Failed.
Tromsoe, Norway, Aug. 26. Pro
fessor Andree . arrived here from the
Danish island on the Virgo, having
apparently abandoned for this year the
attempt to cross the Arotio regions in
a balloon. ,
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