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the morning NEWS, I
J ESTABLISHED 1950. INCORPORATED 18S8. V
] J, H ESTILL, President. j
LOSS OF THE KOW-SHESC,
Nearly 1,700 Lives Lost On the 11l-
Fated Troop Ship.
gt-r Decks Swept With Fearful Effect
by the Japanese Guns Before She
Foundered- A Gallant Fight Made
by the Tsao-Xahn Before She Sur
rendered—China Rushing Forward
Her Preparations For the Conflict.
England Favors American Media
tion.
Shanghai, July 29.—The Chinese of
ficial account of the recent engagement
between Chinese and Japanese warships
B avs that the Chinese ironclad Clien-
Yuen, which is one of the largest vessels
oi her class belonging to the northern
tieet. retreated to Kot/.e, and escaped cap
ture by t he Japanese.
The latter, the report adds, captured a
dispatch boat and sunk a transport. Six
other transports escaped.
.News has been received here that on
the same day the naval engagement took
place the Japanese troops ashore attacked
the Chinese at Asan. No details of the
attack have been received.
The British twin screw cruiser Por
poise has sailed hence to protect the Brit
ish at Cha-Foow, on the Shan-Toong
promontory, a health resort of foreign
ers.
I he principal division of the Chinese
re-enforcements sent from Taou has
reached its destination safely.
The Japanese minister in Seoul request
ed the king, before his capture, to demand
the withdrawal of Chinese troops from
Corea. He refused, and thereupon the
Japanese troops advanced upon Seoul.
Alter a brief encounter they routed the
Coreans and occupied the royal palace.
The king appealed to the representatives
of the European powers to intervene, but
in vain.
JAPAN’S RESERVES ORDERED OUT.
Yokohama, July 29.—The army and
navy reserves have been summoned into
service.
Obiaeqp residents of Japan are fleeing
in large numbers.
Reliable news has reached Tokio that
the mam body of Chinese troops crossed
the northwestern frontier of Ccroa on
July 25. In official circles everybody is
convinced that China's recent negotia
tions were a mere subterfuge to gaiu time
and concentrate her forces, with a view
to combining with the Coreans for an at
tack. It is rumored that the Japanese
ships have beou fired on again from the
shore.
MADE A GALLANT EIGHT.
London July 29.—The Central News
has this dispatch from Shanghai: "Tbe
Chinese warship Tsao-Khan, which was
captured by a Japanese warship off the
coast of Hound Island, is a vessel of an
ol>solete model. Although completely
outmatched by the Japanese cruiser, the
troopship offer* .1 some resistance and lost
fully luu men killed and wounded before
she yielded. She was entirely disabled
when the Japanese boarded her.
(he troop ship Kow-Shung tried to
get away as soon as the Japanese war
ships l egan their attack, and made only
a weak running fight The Japanese guns
swept her decks and carried off the Chi
nese soldiers by the score. The latest es
timate of the number aboard her is 1,700.
Only forty survived the foundering of the
ship They say that alt her officers were
killed before she went down.
THE OTHER TROOPS LANDED.
"The announcement that the rest of the
Chinese transports arrived safely at Corea
and landed their men is confirmed. On
the 27th. the Japanose fusiladed heavily
those who had landed on the 26th at YTa
chan. The Japanese officers hoped thus
to prevent the junction' of the Chinese
with the Coreans near Seoul. Whether
they accomplished their object is not
known.
No news of the hostilities can be ob
tained from I’ekin. Code messages are
refused at the telegraph offices and no
other messages referring to current af
fairs are accepted. The outlying battal
ions of the northern army are concen
trating rapidly at Takua, the rendezvous
from which tho regiment is embarked
for Corea.
"The work of preparing harbor de
fences advances at tho entrance of the
aaug-Tse-Kiang.
ÜBAVT ITRCnASBS OE AMMUNITION.
"Great quantities of ammunition have
to>n purchased by the government, and
are being collected at the ports for ship
ment . *
1 he exportation of rice and grain has
oot'n prohibited. Trade is paralyzed.
I coasting steamers and small crafts
a,, c afraid to leave the harbor.
"While everything looks and sounds
-ke war. the Chinese officials Continue to
maintain that war has not been doclared.”
■ he Central News says that in official
r< ies here, there is a strong feeling in
iavor of mediation on the part of the
I I "ten States, although few believe that
sp in and China would accept arbitration
“loess under considerable pressure.
BOUND TO BE A FIGHT.
London, July 30, 4 a. m.—The Daily
‘H-ws says this morning: "It is certaiu
ui: vnenever the Japanese and Chinese
os tneet,ondand or sea. they will!tight
unless compelled to refrain by some
thlY7 , or combination , of powers
“tu noth must, respect. It seems too
t '. f°r mediation of the ordinary
t >. although the basis for it yet
e: ams, China being less sensitive on a
utd : honor than some other nations,
cjit. ( urea must be reformed, all impar
observers admit. The testof Japan’s
ocenty is her willingness to retire on
hm oompletiou of the reforms. It ought
' l 1 ’ ' ,e difficult for the powers inter-
Y ™ 10 guarantee the execution of the
tire rniS an<l demaua 111 at both armies re-
Ihii Standard says: "The Japanese
' ! [Y it difficult to persuade Hu rope
at, - iiey are not tho aggressors. The
j. , '"-I that have already occurred
Yu Preparations of both powers
j ttic- hope that the quarrel will be
" without further resort to arms.
;,/‘IT.V result could only be secured if
, mo '° Powers should intervene
■ advice, backed up with a threat of
"roipulslon.
wants japan warned.
ti? 1 ‘ l . ru s **•''* “If Japan is to obtain
ti J ‘ a | approbation of Enrol* in the
. , l ttiat she seems determined lo
■ she must prove by more eon
, ►’ arguments than any yet produced
is not wantonly disturb
is' !"*uc in the interest of
ambitions, or to subserve
l • I 'l“>e of party chiefs 'lTie gist of
” matter is that Japan is beet on
lo t l,k ' Ul ' historical suzerainty U* China
t , 'liditiosof a purely ceremonial j
, ‘ and Chins Is resolved to resist. !
I "•■! mu determined to prevent j
'U, , dangerous war, they must ion- |
“ J l ‘ that Ua|'c arc luuLogonrios
She Jluftting ffrto#.
I® w hich they would proceed to some
thing more than mere exhortations and
admonitions.”
THREE BOYS SUFFOCATED.
They Hid in a Closet in a Caboose and
Perished.
Hartford. Conn., July 29.—The three
Gu.van children, who strayed away from
their home on Broad street, this city,
Thursday afternoon have been found, and
ail three are dead. Chief of Police Bill
gave orders this morning that all cars
about the depot and the freight yards be
thoroughly searched. A few minutes
after lu o’clock policemen who
had been searching cars in the
yard of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad for about two hours,
came to a caboose from which sickening
odors came. They burst open the door,
and the stench, which had been strong
before, became almost overwhelming.
Keeping on at their work of investiga
tion, the officers traced the smell to the
closet which the trainmen use as a
clothes press, and, breaking open the
doors, they found the three little bodies,
naked and mangled by rats.-
PILED ON TOP OF EACFI OTHER.
Freddie, the 4-year-old boy, lay at the
bottom. On him was Raymond, 9 years
old, and on top of both was Leßoy’, 7
years old. Under the three bodies were
the few garments the boys wore when
they left home. At the autopsy this af
ternoon nothing was found to indicate vio
lence. The condition of the iungs indi
cated death by suffocation, and the ao
sence of effusion ami other marks about
the neck precluded the suspicion of
strangulation.
The theory is that the little fellows ran
into the car to hide from a passing police
man Thursday afternoon, aud that the
door of the closet swung to and caught
them with the spring lock. The closet is
live feet high and its floor space is 28 by
15 inches. It is impossible that tho little
boys could have lived long in such
a confined space, and the doctors
think they became unconscious in about
fifteen minutes, and that they did not
live more than fifty- minutes after the
door was locked on them, it is supposed
that the throe boys had taken off their
clothes to play going in swimming, as that
idea was in their minds when they left
home.
CHINA’S PLAGUE.
Superstition Running Wild Among
the Natives at Canton.
Washington, July 29.—Several reports
regarding the plague in China have been
received at the marine hospital bureau.
Secretary Denby- of the United States
legation says that at Canton a novel and
thoroughly Chinese method of checking
the disease was hit upon. A fortune
teller having given out that the
plague would die away with the
approach of the spring solstice, the
people in Cantop, in order to
deceive the gods of sickness, made the
first day of the fourth moon (May 5)
their New Year's day. Every ceremony
by which the day is celebrated was gone
through with exactitude. The local au
thorities assisted in this farcical per
formance. The New Year’s festivities, in
the presence of such widespread death,
had a somewhat ghastly character.
LACK OF A WATER SUPPLY.
Consuls writing from Canton say- that
every thing continues in wild confusion.
Business is almost suspended. Death is
in all parts of Canton. The United States
consul at Canton has remained at his post
through the whole plague, and says that
if there were means for securing a supply
of pure water for cooking and washing,
and for flushing the drains in time of
drought, there should be no such thing
as this plague, except where native
in congested localities, create pollution
of the air by overcrowding and violation
of sanitary laws. During all of this
plague, heathen processions have con
stantly marched through the streets of
Canton throughout the night, pounding
gongs, exploding fire crackers, exposing
idols and other similar doings, supported
by contributions from the shops and
stores, to propitiate the evil spirits and
disperse the adverse elements.
HAWAII AT PEACE.
Seme of tho Natives Refuse to Take
the Oath of Allegiance.
San Francisco, July 29.—The steamship
Australia arrived yesterday morning, six
and one-half days from Honolulu, bring
ing Hawaiian advices to July 21. Peace
prevails throughout Hawaii and the new
government appears to bo firmly estab
lished.
The jury system under the new consti
tution is causing some trouble in tho
country districts. The constitution re
quires all the jurors to take the oath of
allegiance to the new republic and to
abjure all help in restoring the monarchy
in anv form. In one country district it
has been impossible to get enough jurors
to serve, the Honolulu royalists having
sent out a circular stating that no an
swer had yet been received as to Presi
dent Cleveland's intended action, and
warning the natives to keep out of poli
tics and to take no oaths of allegiance.
Even the most ardent royalists have
little hope that the commission recently
sent to Washington will be able to accom
plish anything In ex-Queen Lilioukalani’s
behalf.
One evidence of the public faith in the
new government was shown just before
the steamer sailed: $lO,OOO of government
bonds, that previous to the adoption of
the new constitution had gone begging at
98, were easily disposed of at par.
THEE MEN KILLED.
A Boiler Explodes at One of the Le
high Valley Collieries.
Sheuandoah, Pa., July 39.- By the ex
plosion of a boiler in a nest of six at the
Packers No. 4 colliery, of the Lehigh Val
ley Coal Company last night, one man
was killed, two so badly hurt that they
tiaveisinco died and one seriously burned.
The cause of the explosion is not known.
The boilers were in the engine room and
had been inspected yesterday and tho
men wore engaged in making the steam
pipe fitting and getting ready to fire up
when the explosion occurred The men
were hurled in every direction and the
holler house wrecked by the force of the
explosion.
SUGAR FROM EGYPT.
The British Steamer Monkeiaton,
Arrives From Alexandria.
New York. July 29.—Tho British
steamer Monkseatou, which arrived to
day from Alexandria, Egypt, has a lull
cargo of Egyptian sugar The importa
tion of sugar has assumed gigantic pro
portions, It being brought to this |>ort j
from almost all qurtrs of the globe, in ]
aliUei|iatli>n of ile to mg subject Lo duly j
by the pnoisiou of U Uiisou UUi.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY. JULY 30,1894.
EUROPE’S EYE ON THE EAST.
Germany to Maintain an Attitude of
Neutrality. v
Her Ministers at Tokio and Pekin In
structed to Support England’s In
itiative to Restore Peace- The Berlin
Post Announces That the United
States Is Anxious to Gain a Foot-
Hold in Eastern Asia —The Dissen
sions in the Berlin Ministry Over
the Treatment of the Anarchists.
Berlin, July- 29. —Here, as elsewhere on
the continent, all eyos have been turned
eastward throughout the week. Several
days ago Chancellor von Caprivi sent his
instructions to the German ministers in
Tokio and Pekin. He told them to
strongly support England's initiative to
restore peace between China and Japan,
and, in the event of continued hostilities
to maintain an attitude of absoluto neu
trality.
The Japanese legation here received
yesterday dispatches announcing that
active hostilities had begun. At the Chi
nese legation, however, the officials still
persisted in assuming that the dispute
would be settled without war. The Pekin
government either neglects to inform its
Berlin representative of current events,
or the Chinese minister distorts the official
dispatches sent to him. The consensus of
official opinion is that a prolonged war is at
hand and that European efforts to restore
peace will be futile. This is the opinion
of diplomatists best acquainted with east
ern politics.
SOME NOVEL VIEWS.
The press comments on the situation
reveal some novel views. For instance,
tho Post, familliarly known as the. 'dpi
lomatists organ,” turns on the United
States government with the words:
“There is no doubt that the Americans
covet territory in East Asia and sec in
the present crisis an opportunity. Cali
sornians are especially eager for a foot
hold on tho East Asiatic coast, aud natu
rally feel a stronger attraction toward
that territory than do the southern
states. They are linked by the ocean
with Asiatic trading interests. Ameri
cans who look far ahead now desire to
create in Japan a point of vantage for
further Asiatic ventures. Therefore they
back Japan against China, unmindful of
the fact that by so doing they give an ir
reparable shock to the much lauded and
natural friendship between Kussia and
the United States.”
JAPANESE SUCCESS PREDICTED.
The Vossissche Zeitung maintains that
, Japan will w'in in the war and blames
China for refusing to adhere faithfully to
the spirit of her treaties and for trying to
keep Corea in barbarism. China, it says,
is endeavoring to stop the progress of
civilization in Eust Asia. The majority
of the Berlin dailies take this view of the
conflict and express the hope that the war
will crush the ignorant self-conceit of the
Pekin government. The victory of Japan,
they say, would mean the reform of the
barbarous abuses of Corea's internal
affairs, the introduction of proper schools
and of telegraphs and railroads and the
opening of rich mines.
TREATMENT OF THE ANARCHISTS.
The dissensions of the ministers over
the policy to be pursued toward the an
archists, has become acute. Count Bothu
Zeu Eulenburg, thootory premier of Prus
sia, leads the ministerial group who de
mand exceptional laws to stop the spread
of anarchy and the social democratic
propaganda. Dr. Hinz-Peter, once the
emperor’s tutor, is said to be exerting all
his influence in favor of Count Eulen
burg’s proposals. The Emperor is said to
be undecided. Whiie inclined to favor
repressive laws, he fears to
oppose Chancellor von Caprivi,
who undoubtedly would resign his
office the moment the Eulenburg pro
gramme should be adopted. One way out
of the dilemma has been suggested—
probably at the emperor’s instance—and
that is to lay the whole subject before the
federal council, not in the form of a bill,
but merely as a matter for discussion.
The opinion of the federal governments
could be obtained thus without the im
perial government’s being committed to
any definite policy.
SWITZERLAND’S NEW LAW.
The new Swiss law against anarchists
went into effeot on Wednesday. The
first case in which it was applied was
that of Paul Sisternas, a notorious anar
chist who was expelled from France in
1891. He sought refuge in Geneva, and
there he continued to plot. Under the
new law he was expelled. Tho German
newspapers contrast such decisive action
of the free little republic in handling rev
olutionists with the selfish policy of Eng
land. The Swiss law is certainly severe
enough to please the most reactionary
Prussian. It provides five years impris
onment for everybody convicted of incit
ing acts which imperil human life, or
working to upset the present social
and political order. It penalizes
heavily the manufacture and the illegal
possession of explosives. It gives the
government power to - ..pel any native or
foreign anarchist, and to punish anybody
failing to denounce those who are known
to be plotting anarchistic crimes. The
editors of the German social democratic
journals, printed in Zurich and Basal, are
preparing to move their offices, probably
to London. The conservative journals
here praise Switzerland for passing this
law, which they regard as an example to
Germany.
AN AGITATOR ARRESTED.
The Wurtemberg trades unionist agi
tator and murderer, Aspieron. was ar
rested last Wednesday in Bremen, while
awaiting an opportunity to get away to
the United States During the main
strike in Zurich. Aspieron and a crowd of
strikers met a Swiss workiugman named
Hoessli, who was just leaving the
station to visit his family. Hoessli,
who was a non-uniouist, was at
tacked by tho strikers and was beaten
to death. At a reunion of German ’
workingmen several weeks afterward, a I
spy blowod that Aspieron struck the I
fatal blow und induced his comrades to
subscribe a fund for Ids escape. With then
money thus obtained he paid his expenses
while waiting to embark. He had sev- -
oral German accomplices, among them !
Sclmidtslur, chairman of the strike com
mittee. Most of thorn have beou ar
rested.
BISMARCK TO KSCBIVR A DEI.EGATtO*.
Prince Bismarck has consented to re
ceive a Posen delegation of 700 at Vnrscin
the first wuek ill September, und he is
expeeb-d to give then-a review and and
fease of his policy toward the social -Inn
oersu. The Hamburger Na- hrirhtcu said
this wuek, iu an articlu defending his ra
press!vo laws, llml I'rltce Bismarck
never feared the dangers threatened by
lbs social democrats, and deeituad to
have a guard of secret police until the
old emperor commanded it. "Tho pres
ent political loaders," adds one editor
contemptuously, “do not need such pro
tection. as the parties from which the
outrages are to be expoctod, are the sup
porters of the government." Tho editor
of the Nordeutche Altgeinine Zeitung
replies: "That is a coarse and inexcus
able insinuation. Surely tho Hamburger
Naehrichten cannot believe that the
social democrats can keep Chancellor
Caprivi in power any more than they did
Prince Bismarck.”
CHOLERA ON THE VISTULA.
Several battalions of pioneer troops,
who had been ordered out to practice
bridge-building on the Vistula in August,
have been relieved of this service indef
initely, owing to the sjjgead of cholera in
the Vistula basin. *•
The cholera commission met on Friday
at the imperial health office, and decided
to increase the frontier guard and tho
physicians’ corps in I ast Prussia. It is
impossible to get a clear idea
of the spread of tho disease,
as the boatmon conceal whenever possible
all deaths from cholera, and refuse even
to report cases of sickness. The Vistula
and its tributaries have been declared in
fected, yet the boatmen and their fami
lies still drink the water Outside of the
Vistula basin there have been only a few
isolated cases of cholera or cholerinc in
Prussia.
A committee of the striking journey
men breiters have collected 35,000 marks,
of which they have spent hut 26.000.
Large subscriptions are expected as the
result of the boycotters' mass meetings
on Friday.
OUR DUTY ON SUGAR.
The sugar manufacturers have held sev
eral conferences at the offices of the im
perial treasury to discuss the new sugar
tariff of the United States. They are al
most unanimous in begging the govern
ment to retaliate in case the American
import tax on sugar he increased, hut the
goveruinent treats the proposals coldly.
Under the treaty of 1991, (iermany would
still be the most favored nation even
should the tariff be left at the figure fixed
in the Gornjan bill. The commercial
journals adviso tho government to in
crease the duty on American petroleum.
AN AROHDUKE KILLED.
Concussion of the Brain Caused by
Being Thrown From His Horse.
Vienna, July 29.—While the Archduko
William was riding this afternoon in
Baden, near Vienna, his horse bolted,
being frightenod by an electric car.
The archduke was thrown. His
foot caught in tho. stirrup and
he was dragged more than a 100
yards. He was insensiblo when the horse
was stopped, and he died at 5:80 o’clock
without having regained consciousness.
The physicians who attended him say
that death was caused by concussion of
the brain.
The archduko was born in 1927. He
never married. He was inspector-general
and master of ordnance in the Austrian
army.
FRANCE’S NEW LAW.
The Anti-Anarchist Measure Failed
to Cover the Colonies.
London, July SO.—The Paris corre
spondent of the Daily News says: “It was
discovered the last day of the debate in
the Chamber on the anti-anarchist bill,
that the colonies had been overlooked in
framing the measure. Many jurists as
sert that consequently tho law is not ap
plicable there. Premier Dupuy intends
to apply the law to the colonies by de
cree. This is regarded as a rather bold
step.”
PROSECCION FOLLOWS PRAISE.
Many men have been prosecuted in tho
larger cities for having spoken well
of Santo Caserio, the murderer of
President Carnot. Some of them
have been condemned to severe
punishment, although they were proved
tp be merely drunken babblers. A few
have been acquitted. All had Jury trial,
but those awaiting trial for the same
offense will be tried before magistrates
only, in accordance with the provisions of
the anti-anarchist law.
A Duel at Long Range.
Paris, July 29.—Editor Drumont of La
Libre Parole has refused to come home
to tight the duel to which Comte
d’Elva has challenged him. As Comte
d’Elva objects to breaking the law in
Belgium by fighting there, the duel is not
likely to take place very soon.
St. Petersburg’s Cholera Record.
St. Petersburg, July 29.—There were
seyenty-nino fresh cases of cholera here
yesterday and forty-nine deaths. Tho
epidemic is abating somewhat.
LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC.
One Man Killed and Several Persons
Shocked in Berkshire.
Pittsfield, Mass., July 29.—After an ex
cessively warm morning, this city was
visited by a succession of severe thunder
storms, which killed one man, shocked
several others and wrought havoc gener
ally.
At Thomas Island, Onota Lake, George
B. Castle, aged 29, was instantly killed,
and Charles Johnson, Henry Wagner and
Lena Wagner were terribly shocked.
These four, with Castle’s wife and Mrs.
Samuel Williams, have been camp
ing for six weeks and were to
break camp to-night. Shortly be
fore 6 o’clock Castle, Johnson.
Wagner and Miss Waguer went out
under a large pinetree, twenty feet from
the cottage. The storm broke suddenly,
a Hash of lightning struck the tree anil
all four fell to the ground. Castle was
instantly killed and the other three were
rendered unconscious. Johnson recovered
in an imur and the others will come out all
right in time. Castle was a well-known
grocer, and married
Lightning struck a shed at the fair
grounds in the upper part of the city,
under which Mary Sturtevunt and
Charles Urquhart had tak-m refuge, and
botli were rendered unconscious and will
be laid up for some time.
Another bolt struck Pierce’s block, on
North street, breaking windows und do
ing other slight damage. A double house
at the junction, owned by Henry Noble
and occupied by George Bridge, was also
struck, a large hole being tom in thereof,
but the occupants were not harmed.
TEAMS lIP A STBKM.B.
Norwich, Conn , July 99.—Lightning
struck the steeple ot the Broadway
< ongregational ehur- b iu this city at 12
o'clock this noon. Tha steeple is 199 feet
high, and a big slice* Joel who- and ut
feet in length was torn out of it The
fulling bricks crashed through the run 1
and made a hob six feet iu di*-;u,L*( in
the center A iM-dualriau was slightß-
Injured toy the failing bricks-
BELLE PLAINE S BIC BLAZE
Over 60 Buildings and Business Con
cerns Burned Out.
The Loss $460,000 With Insurance of
$150,000- The Local Firemen Un
able to Cope With the Flames Suc
fully Only One Hotel Left Stand
ing No One Killed and but Few In
jured.
Belle Plaine, la., July 29.—The cry of
fire was heard throughout the town late
yesterday afternoon. The citizens soon
had the fire apparatus out, but owing to
tho engines steaming slowly the flames,
which had started in the roof of a livery
stable and were fanned by a strong west
wind, had leaped across the street
into the business part of the
city, were soon beyond the
control of the firemen. It was impossible
to stop the spread of tho flames with the
apparatus on hand, and telegrams were
sent to Cedar Kapids and Tama, but by 9
o’clock the business portion of the town,
with the exception of three buildings, was
in ashes.
OVER SIXTY BUII,DINGS BURNED.
In all over sixty buildings and business
concerns were burned out, with a loss of
#45n,O(X), with #150,000 insurance. The
largest are as follows: Greenlee opera
house. Herring hotel. Sweat & Husk,
hardware; J. G. Blue, dry goods; W. 11.
Burrows & Cos., clothing; Van Meter &
Cos., drugs; K. Nicholson, groceries; W.
F. Donovan, boots and shoes; C.
IP. Hosiner, hardware; U. A.
Turnbull, restaurant; Nichols & Marr,
drugs; T. Lawrence, dry goods; Citi
zens National Bank, A A Selden &Cos.,
tailors; J. W. Keeler, livery; Hartman
Grocery Cos.; Swertheim, ciothing; Swift
&C 50., drugs; H. Sijelp, dry goods; L.
Grissman, dry goods; W. P. Hauson,
hardware, in the opera house; Chi
cago and Northwestern passenger depot
aud offices; J. P. Herrin, lumber.
Severul dwellings and their contents
were also destroyed.
The Burley is the only hotel left stand
ing, and it was saved only by a fortunte
change of the wind.
So far as known no one was killed and
but few injured.
This is a severe blow to Belle Plaine aud
it is a grave question whether it will bo
rebuilt completely.
FULTON STREET HAS A FIRE.
A Building at the Corner of Gold
Street Gutted.
New York, July 29.—The building at
the southwest corner of Fulton and Gold
streets, and numbered from 92 to 98 Ful
ton street, was gutted by fire this after
noon. This building was occupied
by various firms, including two
manufacturers of ohemicalJD articles,
some of which added largely to tho
spread of the flames. Five alarms were
sent out in quick succession, bringing
twenty-five engines and two -water tow
ers to the scene. After about two and a
half hours’ hard work the firemen suc
ceeded in getting the fire under control.
The loss will amount to about $150,000.
The following were burned out: Mondot
& Aiken, restnurant aud saloon ; S. Bemd
son, denier in patent medicines; A. Poll
A Cos., drapers and tailors; Lehtnaiero
& Bro., steam printers; the Wedlo Jour
nal composing room ; A. Lounsbury, man
ufacturing jewelers; Fairchild Bros. A
Foster, manufacturers of digestive fer
ments and Charles Scbmolze, litho
grapher.
Tho cause of the fire is unknown.
DISTILLERS IN A BAD BOX.
An Attempt to Dodga Taxes May End
in Confiscation.
Baltimore, Md., July 29.—Four thous
and barrels of whisky may bo confis
cated by the federal government as the
result of an attempt to avoid the payment
of $4,900 or $5,000 taxes, says a morning
paper. It is alleged that a local distill
ing firm a few days ago made applica
tion for the release from a government
warehouse of 4,000 barrels of whisky.
The sample barrels which the gauger
tried showed only a fraction above proof,
and he became suspicious. Other bar
rels were found to vary far from the sam
ples, and always at a much higher show
ing. The gauger, becoming satisfied that
tho sample barrels had been "doctored,”
to avoid the payment of the higher tax,
reported the case to Collector of Internal
Revenue Vandiver, and he, it
is stated, yesterday laid tho
case before Secretary Carlisle. If the
secretary orders the collector to exact the
highest penalty fixed by tho revenue laws
for violations, one of tho largest dis
tilleries in the Baltimore district will bo
closed, its product now in bond confis
cated and sold by the government, and
tho owners rendered liable to tine and im
prisonment.
IDA WELLS IN GOTHAM.
The Negro Leoturess Still Harping on
the Lvnchinga.
New York, July 29.—Ida Weils, the ne
gro lecturess. spoke to an immense audi
ence to-night at the African Methodist
Episcopal church on Sullivan street. It
was her first public appearance since she
returned from England, where site has
beon for the past six months delivering loe
turos on lynehings in the south. Tho
English people, she said, were astounded
at the cruelty perpetrated by American
whites upon the southern negroes. She
declared that the negro is not free to-day;
that he has teen deprived of the power of
the ballot and does not dare demand jus
tico. in conclusion she said: “All we
ask is that what is crime and law to the
white man shall be crime and law to the
negro.”
SHOT BY A SENTINEL.
One of the Militiamen at Pullman
Wounds a Man in the Arm.
Chicago. July 29.—Private Chamber* of
Company B spilled tho first blood lust
night lu the Pullman campaign He shot
a man who was waiklug through the
Michigan freight yard* at KonsingUm
The usual command to halt was
given three time*, but the Intruder
did not stop Private Chamber* fired -me
•but lu the sir, ami followed it by another
that struck the man lu the right arm,
just below the shoulder, and cam* out
near tlia Wrist. At the hospital he gave
Id* hanui a* P Kenny He Is a Dane
formerly employed in the packing house
at Hammond, and told Kurgmu A-iaius
that he did nut understand a hat the
souHum's comiesou tu ball uumui.
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
An Agreement on the Tariff Bill
Looked For.
Washington, July 29.—The torrid heat
is aiding tho tariff compromisers. The
extremists find their obstinacy wilting
with tlieir shirt collars. Senator Jones,
who has held tho laboring oar on tha
tariff bill on the Senate side ever since it
left the House, is fairly confident that an
agreement of some sort will be readied
this week. Whether the debato, which
will then follow, will be brief or indefi
nitely protracted, will depend entirely
upon the nature of tho report presented
by the conferees.
Omitting the tariff bill from the calcu
lations as to what may take place, there
is every indication that the end of the
week wilt see all the appropriation bills
safely out of the way. Mr. Cockrell,
chairman of the senate committee on ap
propriations. expects to get the sundry
civil bill—that vehicle which carries ev
erything not otherwise provided for—out
of tho committee room by Monday night,
to be reported Tuesday morning. He will
call it up at once for consideration. Ho
then expects to have the deficiency bills
in such shape that ho can follow the sun
dry civil bill with it when needed. This
will complete the appropriation bills, and
leave the Senate free to discuss the tariff
| or to threaten adjournment if delays are
interposed.
It may bo that tho Chinese treaty will
got its day in court, but there does not
appear to be much interest in trenties
just now, and this particular treaty seems
to have more active enemies than friends.
IN THE HOUSE.
Drifting is the only word that will now
accurately describe the condition of af
fairs in the House of Representatives. All
of the business which the managers feel
it is in any wise or essential for
record purposes to pass at this sossion of
Congress has already teen disposed of
and they are now simply waiting on
the conference committees to give them
an opportunity to settle the differences
between the two branches ovor those
measures upon which the House has al
ready nnco passed. No programme has
been arranged for the next week, further
than that Wednesday will be devoted to
the Moore-Funston contested election
case from Kansas. Mr. Moore is a demo
crat seeking to get Mr. Funston’s seat,
and the majority of the committee have
reported in his favor.
A meeting of tho committee on rules
will !>e held Mondny morning to decide
what committees shall have the sessions
of Monday and Tuesday for the consider
ation of business. The Indian and naval
committees will probably be the favored
ones. The other days in the week will
be apportioned later, if it shall then be
found desirable to continue the policy of
parcelling out the time.
The programme is always subject to in
terruption b,v conference reports, and
there are six appropriation bills, beside
the tariff bill, which are likely-at any
time to come iu and vary the proceedings.
SHOT WHILE IK HIS OAB.
An Engineer Murdered on the Eastern
Illinois.
Danville, 111., July 29.—Shooting at non
union men in the Eastern Illinois yards
at Danville Junction, is a pastime of al
most nightly occurrence. Joseph Byrnes,
an engineer, was shot last evening and
died from the effects of the wound at noon
to-day, at St. Eliznboth’u hospital. His
engine was crossing Fairfield street, when
a man standing on the. sidewalk but a few
feet distant, deliberately fired four shots
out of a revolver into the cab of the en
gine. Tho first shot struck Engineer
Byrnes in the side, and after passing
through the lung, passed down into the
abdomen Tho murderer walked
and escaped.
BILLS AGAINST OHIOAGO.
Railroads Ask the City to Fay for
Losses Caused by the Strike.
Chicago, July 29.—Large bills for dama
ges and destruction of railroad property
by the strike rioters are now coming In to
the city hall. J. T. Brooks, secretary and
vice president of the Pittsburg, Cincin
nati und Kt. Louis railroad, has priuted a
bill which aggregates $449,091. The
largest item is $401,691 for 729 freight
cars destroyed, and forty-two damaged.
Eighteen thousand dollars is charged for
lading seventy-four cars.
Tho Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chicago
has presented a bill of #21,847. The
largest item is for fourteen freight cars
destroyed and fifty-eight damaged.
Mayor Hopkins smiled when shown tho
bills, and merely remarked: “Wait until
wc get through with them.”
NEW YORK A BAKE OVEN.
The Mercury Climbs Up to 93 K”—One
Death and Many Prostrations.
New York, July 29.—After a miserable
night of torture and sleeplessness, the
inhabitants of this city arose this morn
ing for another day of agony.
At 8 o’clock a in. the thermometer had
succeeded iu mounting to 78", and during
every minute of every hour from then un
til a cooling broezo sprang up late in the
afternoon, it kept up an industrious ad
vance until it had reached 98W°
at 8 o’clock. That was the of
ficial figure made from the reg
ister high up on top of tho
sheltered weather bureau, where there is
always a breeze, no matter what may be
the condition below on tho street. But
down >n the street the thermometers
register over ion' in the shade Throe
deaths were recorded as resulting from
the heat and a largo number of prostra
tions.
A NEW WEEKLY PAPER.
Rains Continue Plentiful in Wlloox
County.
Abbeville. Ga., July 29. —A stock com !
pany composed of tho best citizens of
Abbeville has been formed to publish a
wet si v newspaper here. The Weekly
Reporter like its predecessors, having
teen, to say the least, unsuccessful ami
unprofitable. The new p|>er will prob
ably start on ItsJ- ur-s-r about Aug 8,
backed by sufficient capital to insure its 1
success
Tim People's Steamboat Llun have put]
on double - rews. ami the boats wilt run i
day and night in future.
tha question of bonding the town to ]
•reel A system of U r works aud for !
other improvements Is toeing agitated Just ;
now
Copious mins •on Uniat tu Visit this see :
tion
i DAILY, $lO A YEAR, I
i 5 GENTS A COPY. I
I WEEKLY, 3 TIMES-A WEEK, #1 A YEAR \
WISCONSIN'S FIERCE FIRES.
A Hundred Miles Square of Forest Un
der a Canopy of Smoke.
Three Relief Trains Roll Into the Des
olate Town of Phillips -Twenty five
Hundred of Its Inhabitants Fugi
tives in the Forests and Nearby Vil
lages Gov. Peck and His Staff On
the Scene,
Phillips, Wis., July 29.—At daybreak
this morning a dense smoke covered an
area of forest for a hundred miles square,
utid the country was desolute. Fire
swept this litle city. More than 2,500
persons have tied into the forests or to
the villages near by. The town this
morning was a heap of ruins, and
the smoke was so dense that
the headlight of a locomo
tive could not be seen fifty
feet away. Three relief trains reached
Phillips soon after 6 o'clock this morning.
One was in chargo of Gov. George W.
Pock aud his staff. The sceoud came trout
Stevens Point in charge of Frank
Latnoreax and Crosby Grant, and
tho third from Marshfield in
charge of Maj. H. W. ■ Upharn, tho
repubican nominee for governor. Aa
soon as he arrived, Gov. Peck called his
staff together and saw to tho work of un
loading the provisions. A warehouse
was opened in one of the few buildiugs
that was left. Through the dense smoke
Gov. Pock started out on a tour
of inspection. He soon found
two heavy walls of masonry which
marked the place where the two banka
had stood. On Inquiry it was learned
that the vaults of tho banks contained
$62,000, and Gov. Peck immediately swore
in a dozen men to guard the money in the
vaults. They were armed with Winches
ter rifles and orderod to remain on duty
in two shifts day and night.
768 BUILDINGS BURNED.
The loss by the great fire in its entirety
Is difficult to estimate. Out of 900 build
ings in the town, only 87 remain. B. W.
Davis of the Davis Lumber Company es
tirnates tho total loss at 51,000,000, with
scarcely half of the full amount insured.
The Davis Lumber Company lost $500,000,
but is fully insured.
The next largest loss is that of the
Fayette-Shaw Tannery Company, operat
ing one of the largest tanneries in tho
United States. The tannery was de
stroyed with its stock, aggregating a loss
of nearly $200,000,
The Blatz Brewing Company of Mil
waukee had a distributing depot here,
which was destroyed with a loss ot
$3,000.
There Is no way of estimating the num
ber of lives lost in the tire, and even after
forty-eight hours have passed, no one eau
be found who ventures un opinion of the
loss of life The people who fled before
the wave of fire became scared and can
give no account. It is known that sixteen
persons perished ou a raft that burned In
tho bayou. A bridge crossed the bayou,
and when the supports of this were
burned away it fell. Women and chil
dren were crossing at tho time and some
must have perished.
The charred body of Anton F. Lentzor
cun bo seen in the wreck of a brick chim
ney. The man was attempting to carry
his trunk from a burning dwelling when
the brick chimney fell on him, crushing
out his life,
CHILDREN RUSH INTO A DEATH TRAP.
As the tire swept toward the bridge a
number of children were seen to taka
refuge in the big lumber yard. Their
cries were heard by others who fled to
ward the water, but tho children have
never been found.
Of the sixteen persons who lost theip
lives ou tho raft that burned iu tho bayou,
eight are yet in the water. The body ot
Frank C. Lias, a machinist, was found
under a pile of drift-wood at noon to-day.
The bodies of his wife and children were
recovered afterward. Dynamite was ex
oloded all day in tho bayou, and a num
ber of bodies were raised by this moans.
Jiin leek’s body was brought to the sur
face. He was the butcher who was
drowned with his child in his arms.
THE STORY or TJIB RAFT.
The true story of this ill-fated raft ha*
nover been told. The only man who tella
a comprehensive narrative of the horror
is Joseph Boiten, a lumberman. He was
standing near a boat house when a num
ber of women and children came toward
him. There were three or four men fol
lowing. They went to the raft and
attempted to push it from the shorts
when It caught tire. Some jumped into
small bouts and others remained on tho
raft. All these perished. As the boat*
were overloaded they sank. The raft
burned to the water’s edge.
Gov. Peck discovered that a saloon out
sido tho city limits was opened and sev
eral men had become intoxicated. Tha
governor ordered the sheriff to close tho
saloon.
A temporary Jail was made by appro
priating an empty box car.
The local relief committee has issued a
statement to the public thanking the gen
erous citizens of the state for their
liberal contributions.
RUNNING IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
Wausau, Wis., July 29—News from tha
country is that tho forest fires are run
ning in all directions and destroying
much property. All day long tho suu
has been obscured by dense smoko, bub
this city is lu no immediate danger.
TWO MOKE BODIES FOUND.
Stevens Point. Wis., July 29. Late
tills afternoon two additional bodies were
taken from tho bayou o,t Phillips, making
ten in all. ’
STRUCK AGAINST A CUT.
The 300 Employes of a Chicago Firm
Quit Work.
Chicago, July 29.—Tho 800 employes of
H. Wolf &Cos of this city, dealers in no
tions, which nro sold to peddlers through
out the west, went ou strike last night
when the proprietors notified them of u
cut of $3 iii their #l2 a week wages. 'lTiey
have been compelled to work three hours
every Sunday morning for nothing, aud
have received 15 rent., for working until
II o’clock three nights every week in a
badly ventilated basement. The firm
said the extra gratuitous labor was de
manded by Die hard times. The ern
ptoves dul not see the consistency of tho
claim. ___________
Tanlongo Jury Oondsmned.
Home, July 29 Tho entire press eon
dems the Jury that or-juttled Tniilougo.
The trial u r< yarded as a farce, aud no
imitj hesitate, tussi that’J am ugH was
ed toy political interference,