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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher.
CURRENT TOPICS.
The society girl now carries her head
crooned forward.
Mrs. Cleveland receives daily a most
voluminous mail.
Knee breeches are becoming popular on
the Eastern coast.
Tiikke are now less than 700,000 slaves in
the Empire of Brazil.
The total production of coffee in the
world is about 050,000 tons.
The festivities of the Emperor of China’s
wedding will cost $5,000,000.
Twenty divorces were recently granted
in one day by a Georgia court.
More than 8,000 persons in New York
make a living by street music.
Six election crooks have been sentenced
to the penitentiary from Baltimore.
It is said that no relative, however dis
tant, of the poet Moore is now living.
More beer is drunk in Chicago than ir
any other city in the world of its size.
The Weekly Conrant, of Hartford, Ct., is
the oldest newspaper in this country,
having had an uninterrupted career since
1764.
The breeches of our fathers are being
talked of again as one of the reforms in
dress.
Switzerland consumes more liquor per
capita than any other country on the
globe.
There is an alarming 'increase of diph
theria in the tenement-house district of
New York. Children are the greatest suf
ferers.
Geo. M. Pullman, the palace car poten
tate, will visit Italy next month, and, it is
said, will be created a Duke by King
Humbert.
An Indian woman named Shaw has pat
ented a dust pan, on which she is making
a fortune.
Queen Natalie, a Bucharest dispatch
says, returns her royal husband’s letters
unopened, and will consult the Czar about
a divorce.
Queen Victoria paid $500,000 expenses
of entertaining her royal guests during
the jubilee.
Type-writing is not rated as printed
matter by the German and Swedish postal
authorities.
The Fourth of July was more generally
observed throughout the country than for
many years.
A fall of two feet, from his porch to
the ground, broke the neck of a resident
of Bridgeville, Del.
There is a French company that has or
ganized for the purpose of breeding Ara
bian horses in Dak.ot,a.
Hereafter a bank bearing the name of
“Fidelity” will be looked upon with sev
eral grains of infidelity.
The statistics show that Philadelphia
has 8,034 saloons, but only 470 Americans
engaged in the business.
The Philadelphia Item says: “Cucum
ber, college graduates and other green
things are now plentiful.”
The only millionaire of African lineage
in this country is lonic Lafon, a French
quadroon, of New Orleans.
The colored soldiers’ reunion, combining
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, will be held
in Louisville, Ky., July 20.
Some Boston fiend has invented a fire
cracker that far exceeds in noise any
thing of the kind ever made.
Ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, has ap
plied to the City of Naples for the position
of nurse in one of its hospitals.
One hundred and sixty millions of
Northern capital has sought investment in
the South within the past year.
Now Utah is clamoring to get into the
Union. Dakota,. Washington, Montana
and Wyoming are in the same fix.
At ono ti mo Mount Vesuvius was silent
for nearly fifteen centuries. And yet we
speak of Vesuvius in the femine gender.
The “real estate craze” is assuming
proportions throughout the country, and
booms are being developed in many places.
The Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette says Cin
cinnati bank robbers wear better clothes
than Texas train robbers, but their princi
ples are the same.
Thb question whether the police have
the right to search a socialist’s house for
bombs and infernal machines is to be de
cided in the courts in Baltimore.
Wilcox County, Ga., has fifteen hale
and hearty male citizens who have passed
the age of four score and ten. Micajah
Owens, ninety-seven years old, heads the
list.
Charleston, S. C., has been celebrating
the one hundred and eleventh anniver
sary of the battle of Fort Moultrie, where
certain Americans and Britishers were
engaged.
The president of the college at Princeton
has for years striven to have it changed
to the university plan and has this year
succeeded. Hereafter it will be known as
the Princeton University.
He didn’t-know-it-was-loaded is coining
in from all sections of the country. The
crop promises to be unusually large. If a
few of them were hanged for murder it
might be a warning to others.
Those Goulds are wonderful people says
the Atlanta Constitution. Little Eddie, who
is not of age, walked down on Wall street
the other day and made fil'd,ooo before
dinner while his papa was skinning Cyrus
Field a few blocks away.
The people of this country can stand al
most any thing. For instance, they take
$22,000,000 worth of patent medi itics every
year, and still there are hundreds of aged
citizens from one end of the land to the
other.
A Dubuque grocer named Scott offered to
let a woman named Taylor strike him with
a codfish for 25 cents. It was all a joke, you
know, but she paid the money, gave the
codfish a whirl or two and when it hit
Grocer Scott it broke his jaw and tore off
part of his ear.
President Cleveland writes few let
ters and dictates none. His public papers
he writes with his own hand. He uses a
stub pen and a cork pen holder, and in
reading or writing wears spectacles
with a black steel frame. H" shave*
himself every morning.
WILL STAY AWAY.
President Cleveland Reoonslders
His Intention to Visit St. Louis.
A Lengthy Letter Kxplalning III* Reasons
for His Action—A Wish to Avoid Un
pleasantness with the G. A. It.—Me
Fear of Violence.
HE WON’T GO.
St. Louis, July B. —The following letter,
addressed to the mayor of this ciiv, who
was the chairman of the committee of
representative citizens of St. Louis who
verbally invited the President to visit
this city during the holding of the encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic
next September, explains itself without
further comment:
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C.,
July 4, 1887. —The Hon. David R. Francis, Mayor
and Chairman—My Dear Sir: When I re
ceived the extremely cordial and gratifying in
vitation from the citizens of St. Louis, ten
dered by a number of her representative men,
to visit that city during the National encamp
ment of ihe Grand Army of the Republic, I had
been oentemplating for some time the accept
ance of an invitation from that organization to
the same effect, and had considered the
pleasure which it would afford me. if it should
be possible, to meet not only members of
the Grand Army, but the people of St.
Louis and other cities in the West which the
occasion would give me an opportunity to
visit. The exactions of my public duties I felt
to be so uncertain, however, that when first
confronted by the delegation of which you
were the head I expected to do no more at that
time than to promise the consideration of the
double invitation tendered me, and express the
pleasure it would give me to accept the same
thereafter if possible. But the cordiality and
sincerity of your presentation, re-enforeed by
the heartiness of the people who surrounded
you, so impressed me that I could not resist the
feeling which prompted me to assure you on
the spot that X would be with you and the
Grand Army of the Republic at the time desig
nated, if nothing happened in the meantime to
absolutely prevent my leaving Washington.
Immediately upon the public announcement
of this conclusion expressions emanating from
certain important members of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and increasing in volume and
virulence, constrained me to review my accept
ance of these invitations. The expressions re
ferred to go to the extent of declaring that I
would be an unwelcome guest at the
time and place of the National Encamp
ment. This statement is based, as well
as I can judge, upon certain official
acts of mine, involving important public
interests, done under the restraints and obli
gations of my oath of office, which do not ap
pear to accord with the wishes of some mem--
bers of the Grand Army of the Republic. I re
fuse to bolieve that this organization, founded
upon pat riotic ideas, composed very largely of
men entitled to lasting honor and considera
tion, and whose crowning glory it
should be that they are American citizens
as well as veteran soldiers, deems it a
part of its mission to compass any object
or purpose by attempting to intimidate
the executive or coerce those charged with
making and executing the laws and yet the ex
pressions to which I have referred indicate such
a prevalence of unfriendly feeling and such a
menace to an occasion which should be har
monious, peaceful and cordial that they can not
be ignored. I bee you to understand that lam
not conscious of any act of mine which should
make me fear to meet the Grand Army of the
Republic or any other assemblage of my fellow
citizens. The account of my official steward
ship is always ready for presentation to my
countrymen. I should not be frank if I failed to
confess, while disclaiming all resentment., that I
have been hurt by unworthy and wanton attacks
upon me growing out of this matter and the reck
less manner in which my actions and motives
have been misrepresented, both publicly and pri
vately, for which, however, the Grand Army of
the Republic, as a body, is by no means respon
sible.
The threats of personal violence and harm
in case I undertook the trip in question, which
scores of misguided, unbalanced men under the
stimulation of excited feeling have made, are
not even considered. Rather than abandon my
visit to the West and disappoint your citizens
I might, if I alone were concerned, submit to
the insult to which it is quite openly asserted I
would be helplessly subjected if present at the
encampment; but I should bear with me there
the people’s highest office, the dignity of which
I must protect; and I believe that neither the
Grand Army of the Republic as an organization,
Bor any thing like a majority of Us members,
would ever encourage any scandalous attack
upon it. If, however, among the membership
of this body there are some, as certainly seems
to be the ease, determined to denounce me and
my official acts at the Nutionul encampment I be
lleve they should be permitted to do so unre
strained by my presenoe as a guest of their or
ganization, or as a guest of the hospitable city
in which their meeting is held. A number of
the Grand Army posts have signified their In
tention, lam informed, to remain away from
the encampment in case I visit the city at that
time. Without considering the merit of such
an excuse, I feel that I ought not to be the
cause of such non-attendance. The time and
place of the encampment were fixed long before
my invitations were received. Those desiring
to participate in its proceedings should be first
regarded, and nothing should be permlted to
interfere with their intentions.
Another consideration of more importance
than ail others remains to be noticed. The fact,
was referred to by you when you verbally pre
sented the invitation of the citizens of St. Louis
that the coming encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic would be the first held in
a Southern State.. I suppose this fact was men
tioned as a pleasing indication of the fraternal
feeling fast gaining ground throughout the en
tire land and hailed by every patriotic citizen as
an earnest that the Union has really and in fact
been saved in sentiment and spirit, with all the
benefits it vouchsafes to a united people. I can
not rid myself of the belief that the least dis
cord on this propitious occasion might retard
the progress of the sentiment of common
brotherhood which the Grand Army of the Re
public has so good an opportunity to increase
and foster. I certainly ought not to be the
cause of such discord in any event or upon any
pretext.
It seems to me that you and the citizens of
St. Louis are entitled to this unreserved
statement of the conditions which have con
strained me to forego my contemplated visit
and to acceptance of your
Invitation. My presence in your city at
the time you have indicated can be of but
little moment compared with the im
portance of the cordial and harmonious enter
tainment of your other guests. I assure you
that I abandon my plan without the least uer
sonal teeling except regret, constrained thereto
by a sense of duty, 'actuated by a desire to save
any embarrassment to the people of St. Louis or
their expected guests, and with a heart full of
grateful appreciation of the sincere and unaf
fected kindness of your citizens. Hoping the
encampment may be an occasion of much use
fulness, and that Its proceedings may illustrate
the highest patriotism of Ameritan citizenship,
I am yours, very sincerely,
Grover Cleveland.
Bt Louis* July 6.—l'kc following teller
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 15. 1887.
was received yesterday by the origin il
committee appointel by the Grand Army:
‘‘Executtvk Mansion, Washington, D.
C., July 4. — To David R. Francis, Mayor of the
City of St. Louis; Frank Gaiennie. President
of the Merchants' Exchange, , and John
W. Noble, Commander Frank P. hlair
Rost, No. 1, G. A. R., eommittee—Gen
tlemen: While I have hitherto made
no formal response to your invitation given in
February last to myself and Mrs. Cleveland to
attend the National Encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic, to be held in St. Louis
from the 27th to the 30th of September next. I
have verbally indicated my purpose to accept
it if I should find it possible then to be absent
from Washington. The statement contained
in your letter that the organization was never
in so flourishing a condition as now nor its
membership so large: that no effort is being
spared by citizens of St. Louis to insure a wel
come of unusual warmth at this, the first en
campment of that body ever held in a Southern
State; and your suggestion ‘that no compliment
more fitting could be bestowed upon the valiant
defenders of a common country by the Chief
Executive of a restored Union, and none
would be more highly appreciated than that
conferred by his presence at such a time and
place,’ enlisted my feeling and interest.
More recently indications have been disclosed
that, however correctly you expressed the pre
vailing sentiment in tlie Grand Army, there are
members and some posts of that body enter
taining different feelings in respect to
my acceptance, and that my accept
ance of your invitation would lead to
discord in the organization as well as an inter
ruption of cordiality at the coming encamp
ment. Without entering Into a discussion
of these opinions, and unmoved by any feeling,
although I deeply regret the condition, I can
but regard it my duty to refrain from con
tributing by my action to so undesirable
a result. Nothing can be of greater im
portance in connection with the encamp
ment than the free and unrestrained mani
festation by its participants of that patriotic)
fraternity of feeling suggested by the selec
tion of the place of holding It, and which
is at once the proof of the complete success
of their arms and the highest glory of our
veteran soldiers. I am constrained, there
fore, to withold my proposed acceptance
of your invitation. In doing so. I assure
you of my unfeigned hope and sincere wish
that in the agreeable entertainment prepared
for them by the hospitable people of St. Louis
the veterans of the Grand Army may enjoy the
most pleasant, profitable and useful reunion in
their history. Very truly yours,
“Grover Cleveland.”
THE FEELING AT ST. LOUIS.
St. Louis, July B.—A great deal of feel
ing is manifested here on account of the
action of mem oers of the G. A. R. which
has resulted in the President’s declination
of the invitation to visit this city this fall.
The general comment on the President’s
letter is favorable, the Grand Army com
ing in for a good deal of condemnation. A
special Grand Army committee goes to
Madison, Wis., to-day to consult with Gen
eral Fairchild.
The Citizens’ Committee met yetterday
afternoon in the office of Mayor Francis
and appointed a committee to draw up res
olutions to be submitted to a mass
meeting of citizens which will be
called to assemble at the Mer
chants’ Exchange this afternoon. These
resolutions will embody an in
vitation to the President to visit this city
during fair week early in October, or at
some other time that may suit his con
venience, and will promise him an enthu
siastic reception. A citizens’ committee
will then be appointed to again visit the
President anl try to induce him to come.
WILL NOT COME WEST AT ALL.
Washington, Julji B.—lt is practically
settled that the President will not visit
the West at all during the present year.
The abandonment of his proposed
visit to St. Louis has resulte l in
wholly changing whatever plans lie
had made for visiting Western cities. It
was said at the White House yesterday
afternoon that the only plans the Presi
dent has made for leaving Washington
during the summer and autumn are those
for his visit to Clinton, N. Y., on tbe 13th
iiist., which will probably not consume al
together more than a week’s time, and for
his visit to Atlanta in November on the oc
casion of the Georgia State fair.
EIGHT LIVES LOST IN A MINE.
Italian Miners Surprised by a Kuslt of
Water at Metropolitan, Mich.
Marquette, Mch., July B— A terrible
r .e disaster Qjcurred shortly after noon
yesterday in the Sturgeon River mine at
Metropolitan, Mich. A number of miners
had got a blast ready when water rushed
into the mine so fast that many could not
escape. Eight Italians are known to be in
the mine and they are surely dead.
It will be impossible to reoover the bod
ies before this morning. The of tho
victims can not be learned yet.
The cause of the disaster was the failure
of the pump which relieved the mine of
water to act. The shaft is 103 feet deep.
The mine managers telegraphed to Esca
naba for a large pump.
BLOWN TO PIECES.
A Cellonlte Factory Destroyed by. an Ex
plosion-Two Prisons Killed and Twen
ty Injured.
Arlington, N. J., July B.— An explosion
occurred in the Cellonite Manufacturing
Company’s works at eleven o’clock yester
day morning. A Swede, nam'd August,
and Miss Ariania Muchmore were instant
ly killed and about twenty others were
seriously injured, none fatally. Tho
works, three brick buildings, were totally
destroyed. The loss on the works is $50,-
OOd. A number of stores and houses were
damaged, and people were thrown down
in houses from the force of the explosion.
The loss in the town can not yet be esti
mated.
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THOUSANDS DROWNED.
Terrible I.oss of Life by the Overflowing
of a River In China.
London, July 8 —The Wenchow river in
China has overflowed its banks, sub
merging miles of territory, and thou
sands of persons are believed to
have been drowned. The city of Chuchow
is submerged and the inhabitants have
taken to boats. The town of Nagy Karolyi,
Hungary, was destroyed by a hurricane
and waterspout Wednesday night and the
site of the town and adjoining district
converted into a vast lake. Many persons
lost their lives.
The Crown Frlnce Will Recover.
Philadelphia, July B.— The Philadelphia
Medical News has a cable message from
Dr. Mackenzie, reporting the entire suc
cess of the last op ‘ration on the German
Crown Prince. Dr. Mackenzie’s state
ment foresha lows the complete recovery
of his highness.
NINE KILLED.
Frightful Work of a Stroke of Light
ning at a Funeral.
Three Colored Preacher* and Sli Mourn
ers Hurled Into Eternity at Mount Pleas
ant, Tennessee.
Nashville, Tenn., July 12.—The negro
population of Mount Pleasant, in Maury
County, is greatly excited and badly
frightened over a tragedy that occurred
there to-day. Harriet Terry, a popular
young negro woman, died yesterday, and
a large concourse of her friends escorted
her remains to the grave, with the usual
quaint singing and shouting peculiar to
the Southern negro. Three ministers
were present, and it was about three
o’clock when the services were concluded.
A great black cloud had been approach
ing some minutes, and one of the
ministers remarked that it looked like
rain. Scarcely had the words left his
mouth when a great doivn-pour drenched
the party and they made a break lor the
nearest trees. The three ministers and
six others succeeded in reaching the shel
ter of a great black oak tree, and were
crouched close to its trunk when the whole
heavens were lighted up by a flash of
lightning, and three persons near this oak
tree saw the party of nine thrown from
the tree in all directions. .Running to them
they found that every one was dead. The
names of the killed are as follows: Wil
liam Burch, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and Hattie, his wife;
John Hannah, a minister engaged in mis
sionary work; Manuel Orr, a Methodist
minister; Tom Rodgers; Hester Terry,
mother of the girl who was buried, and
her two daughters, and Sebra Guthrie.
Burch and wife appear to have been st ruck
in the face, the current passing down the
left side. Burch’s shirt bosom was black
ened and his studs melted. The wailing
and mourning of the ignorant creature#
who witnessed the freak of nature are
heart-rending.
Madam, If You Please.
Chicago, July 12.—At yesterday’s con
vocation at Lake Bluff, in the Committee
of the Whole, it was decided that “Madam
President” was the proper expression, and
not “Miss” or “Mrs. President.” The rea
sons were many; first—because there is no
need of designating a presiding officer by a
word which denotes her home relation
ships; she is an individual first of all, and
not first of all to be classified by her rela
tion to some man, and second—the word
Madam is far more euphoneous and digni
fied than the hissing issuing sound of
“Miss” or “Mrs.”
A Father’s Terrible Discovery.
Opelika, Ala., July 12. —A heavy cloud,
followed by a electrical display,
passed over tMmr News
reached heivTate last that John
Bankhead’s wife anl three children, who
were standing on the verandah of their
home, five miles from the city, watching
the cloud, were struck by lightning and
#LI unconscious to the floor. When Bank
shcad reached home he found that two of
the children were already dead, while the
other child and his wife were so paralyzed
can hardly recover.
Sheep-Raising Scheme.
I Middletown, N. Y., July 12.—An asso
iation is about to be formed in Sullivan
lounty, to be known as the Empire Sheep
and Land Company in North America.
The Abject is to clear up the former timber
lands of Sullivan, Delaware and the sur
rounding counties in the State of New
York, and to seed them down in perma
nent grasses in order to breed sheen of
superior quality for both wool and muttoD.
Peculiar Marriage.
Dover, N. H., July 12.—Ruth Hannah
Sykes, a disgraced member of the Salva
tion Army, has been in jail some time for
larceny and other offenses. Yesterday
a young man named Thos. F. Gay, of New
York, came here and said he wanted to
marry Hannah and pay her fine. The
magistrate objected, as the girl admitted
she did not know Gay. She was willing
to marry him, however, and the ceremony
was performed to-day, and Mrs. Gay re
lease^.
Clicked on His Coffin.
Guadalajara, Mex., July 12.— Yesterday
the body of Jaun Aminte, a telegraph op
erator, lay in its coffin in church ready
for burial. A companion near it heard
regular taps inside, which clearly clicked
out, “I am alive.” Surprised, he gave the
alarm and the telegrapher, weak but still
alive, was rescued and restored.
Another Thieving Postmaster.
Brooklyn, July 12.—Postmaster Sam
moi., of Flatbush, confessed to Post-office
Inspector Doser to-day that he had openod
registered letters passing through his of
fice and had extracted the money they
contained. He is confined in Raymond
street jail in de.ault of SIO,OOO bail.
Minnesota Soldiers’ Hume.
St. Paul, July 12. -The State Soldiers’
Home for Minnesota has been located at
Minnehaha Falls, conditional upon Minne
apolis contributing fcJO.OOO and St. Paul
locating a park on the opposite of the
river. These conditions have been agreed
to.
Killed on a Trestle.
Dalton, Tenn., July 12.—Mrs. Craig and
her niece, Miss Allie Phillips, were caught
midway on a high trestle, near this place,
and killed by a train.
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Fidelity’s Charter Dissolved.
Cincinnati. July 12.—Judge Sage, of tha
U. S. Circuit Court, has dissolved tho
charter of the Fidelity National Bank, of
this city. •
Tho deadly Toy Pistol.
Cincinnati, July 12.—A son of Police
Clerk Draper, of this city, died of lockjaw
induced by injuries received from a toy
pstoi.
JIM ROBINSON'S WIFE
Pearlies on Her Husband and His Pal#,
and Tells Where McMunn’s Release Was
Planned and by Whom.
Akron, 0., July 11.—Margery Robinson,
now in the county jail here on a charge of
horse-stealing, claims to be the wife of
Jim Robinson, alias Harrington, one of
the Cleveland fur robbers and murderers
of Hulligan, at Ravenna, and who is now
in jail at the latter place. In an interview
to-day she tells an interesting inside story
of where McMunn’s release was planned
and hiding of the rescued. Her story con
cisely is this: She first lived
with Mr. O’Donnell, her father’s
uncle, in Pittsburgh; married Jim
Robinson in Warren, Pa., who paid her
board at a disreputable place in Pittsburgh
kept by “Scranton Jen.” It was here that
the Cleveland furs were secreted—some in
an ice-box in the basement and others in a
closet—and the furs were still there when
the house was searched by officers. She
was there when the furs arrived, and
Robinson came with them, but she had
left there before they were disposed of.
Mrs. Robinson said that on the night of
the Ravenna affair “Blinky” Morgan, Tom
Hully, Smith Carson and her husband left
Pittsburgh about 1 o’clock in the morn
ing, on the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne
train, ahead of the train on which were
Captain Hoehn, Hulligan and Me-
Munn. The above four named per
sons were at “Scranton Jen’s” when a tele
gram was received from men sent from a
place west of Cleveland, from which they
understood that Hoen and Hulligan were
bringing McMunn through Ravenna, and
that he must be released at Ravenna. Tha
rescue was planned at “Scranton Jen’s”
place, where there were about twenty
men in a gang. McMunn was not shot in
the Ravenna affair, and he is in good shape
and safe to-day. The officers did not get
on the right track of the gang, for they
were secreted for several days in a swamp
not very far from Ravenna. Being asked
why she gave Robinson away, she said:
“Because, after this affair, they followed
me from place to place and threatened to
do me up. I was ix danger of my life. In
fact I am afraid now that some of the gang
will kill me. They know that I know the
whole story, and they want to get me out
of the way. I had to tell for my own pro
tection, but when I did let out people
would not believe me,and I don’t care to talk
about it now. If the truth is not wanted
I don’t care, and lam sure I don’t want to
live. One thing is certain, that I will
never leave even this place for the pen.”
She said she a letter from
Robinson in Michigan in June, and he ask
ed if she was going to tell on him, and
warned her not to do it. When she gets
her freedom sho states that she is going to
live with a brother in Pennsylvania.
To Exert Pressure on Cleveland.
St. Louis, Mo., July 11.—Interest in the
President’s Western visit has intensified
and spread out over the State since his
letter withdrawing his acceptance to visit
St. Louis, and citizens have determined to
bring strong influence to bear on him. A
number of letters have been received by
Mayor Francis from citizens of
various parts of the State urging
mother appeal. Accordingly, witli the
idea of obtaining a more general expres
sion of opinion, the mayor has issued an
address to the people of Missouri. In it he
has requested every county in the State to
appoint one or more representatives to
join the St. Louis committee and accompany
them to Washington to bear the invita
tion.
Supposed Poisoned by His Bride.
Baltimore, Mp., July 11.—J. J. Farlow,
of Crisfield, Md., aged fifty years, died
Saturday night of poison, and his young
bride, eighteen years of age, has been ar
rested, charged with killing him. It is
said that Farlow’s cruelty to her child
drove the young woman to the deed. She
attempted to drown herself when sho
learned that she was suspected,
Juvenile Jesse James Done For.
little Rock, July 11.— Edward Potter,
aged sixteen, started to ride home from
Portia yesterday in company with a man
named Lester. Suddenly, when on the
outskirts of town. Potter drew a pistol,
demanding money from Lester. The latter
surrendered $l5O, but drew a pistol and
shot Potteg dead, not before he himself
was wounded.
Cholera Spreading in Sicily.
Rome, July 11. —Cholera is rapidly
spreading in Sicily, and the virulent char
acter of the disease is attested by the fact
that out of two hundred eases in Catania
one hundred and forty have already been
fatal. Great alarm is felt at Naples owing
to the arrival of large numbers of fugitive
Sicillians at that place. A great clamor is
raised for a quarantine.
Rome <Ga.) Votes Prohibition.
Rome, Ga., July 11.—This city of twelve
thousand inhabitants voted for prohibi
tion by 530 majority Saturday. The elec
tion was an exciting one, the women tak
ing an active part, and religious services
being held by Sam Jones and Sam Small*
Can’t Work On the American Side.
Detroit, Mich., July 11.—A Port Huron
special says the United States Customs
Collector at that place to-day stopped
thirty Canadians from working on tho
Grand Trunk road. A number of these
are employed in prominent positions.
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Pacific Squadron Ordered to Honolulu.
San Francisco, July 11.—'The U. S. Pa
cific Squadron has been ordered to Hono
lulu. It consists of the Alert, four guns;
Juniata, eight guns; and Vaudalia, eight
guns. The Iroquois will undergo repairs
here before sailing. The Asiatic Squad
ron, of six men-of-war, will also be or
dered to Honolulu if events warrant it
Withdrew Their Acceptance.
Utica. N. Y., July 11.—The four G. A. R-
Posts of this city have withdrawn their
acceptance of invitations to attend the
Clinton (N. Y. i Centennial ou account of
the presence of Clavelaud.
VOL. IV.-NO. 21.
SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST
In a Terrible Conflagration at,
Hurley, Wis.
One Hundred and Fifty Building* Destroy
ed.—Fourth Great Fire in the Brief His
tory ot the Place,
Hurley, Wis., July 10.—Fire broke out
on the stage of the Alcazar Theater at 8
o’clock last night, and within an hour the
entire business part of the town was in
flames, while seventeen persons had per
ished in the theater. The charred remains
of nine people have been taken from the
ruins. The loss is fully 1500,000. The Al
cazar was a variety theater, chiefly fre
quented by miners, and was one
of the resorts of unsavory repute associ
ated with the notorious dance-houses
of the mining regions. Only a
small audience had gathered when the
fire broke out, and they scrambled out in
a hurry. Several of the actors, however,
rushed up-stairs to save their wardrobes,
and when they sought to escape found
that they were hemmed in on all sides,
the flames having spread through the
wooden building with incredible rapidity.
How they struggled to flee will never
be known, as none of them, except Sadie
Wells and Mabel Powers, were ever seen
again. The former appeared at a second
story window and called piteously upon
the crowd outside to save her. Before a
hand could be raised the flames reached
her and communicated to her clothing.
She made a frantic effort to jump through
the window, then with a piercing shriek
fell into the furnace below. Mabel Powers
had reached a third-story window. She
jumped, and was so badly injured
that her recovery is doubtful. The
Alcazar was in the very heart of the
city. It was a mass of flames in a very
short time. The fire seemed to leap from
building to building until several blocks
became a roaring oven. It was not long
before every business building between
Third and Fifth avenues was in flames.
All efforts to get the fire under control
seemed futile. The fire department, rein
forced by scores of volunteers, sent its
puny streams against the advancing walls
of flame, but had to retreat as the fire
swept resistlessly on. It did not stop until
material for it to feed upon was lacking;
This is the fourth big tire in the brief his
tory of this place.
Heavy Trestle Falls.
Chicago, July 10.—A trestle work being
in course of construction <tn tho Illinois
Central road, near the suburban town of
Lombard, collapsed last evening, killing
Joseph Fox, of Oswego, N. Y.,and Charles
Clark, of Chicago. Fox’s son, Edward,
was mortally wounded. Albert Bayers
and another son of Mr. Fox received
serious but not necessarily fatal injuries.
Joseph Fox, who was in charge of the
work, was an experienced bridge builder.
The structure had just been passed upon
favorably by the railroad company’s chief
engineer. Less than fifteen minutes’ work
remained to be done when, all at ouce, tho
heavy beams trembled and went down of
their own weight, burying all hands be
tween masses of the trestle work.
Gettysburg Battle Guns.
Washington July 10.—Colonel Ratchet
dor, the official historian of Gettysburg,
and an officer in the Gettysburg Memorial
Association, has received an order from
the War Department for turning over to
him 140 field pieces complete,which, as fast
as received, are to be placed
in positions where they were
used in the battle. This is the number of
guns in the batteries of the regular army
which took part in the fight. The guns
now to be furnished are not in all cases
the identical ones which were used iu the
battle, but they will be of the same pat
terns. The order is under an act of Con
gress making a donation of these guns for
the purpose indicated.
A Sinking City.
San Francisco, July 10.— The inability of
the Comstock superintendent to locate the
entombed miners in the Gauld & Curry
mine has again directed attention to the
fact that Virginia City ts fast sinking
down upon its wooden supports and crush
ing the drifts, tunnels and shafts out of
their original shape. This rapid subsid
ence of the earth explains the loss of sev
eral rich veins of ore.
Report on Virginia Debt.
London, July 10.—The report of Sir Ed
ward Thornton and Mr. Braithwaite re
specting their efforts to obtain some ad
justment of tho Virginia’s debt satisfac
tory to the English bondholders, states
that there was no sincere desire on the
part of the Virginia representatives to ar
rive at any settlement with tho bondhold
ers on terms other than such as the State
may dictate.
Standitord’s Present.
Louisville, Ky., July 10.— Dr. E. D.
Standiford, a wealthy citizen of Louis
ville, has donated to the city 140 acres of
land for park purposes, thus defeating the
scheme of a number of other citizens to
sell a tract to the city for $400,000.
General Whittaker Dead.
Louisville, Ky., July 10.—General
Walter C. Whittaker, well known as a Gen
eral in the Federal army and as a criminal
lawyer, died at his home, near this city,
’ate Saturday night.
Spanish Rioting.
Madrid, July 10.-There was further
rioting at Valencia to-day in consequence
of attempts to collect the octroi tax. The
military fired into a crowd, killing four
persons. Reinforcements have been sent
to the town.
Nine Instantly Killed.
Columbia, S. C., July 10. —A premature
xplosion of giant powder occurre.d while
bl istiug rook yesterday, on the Carolina
railroad, near Catawba river. One white
man ana wight negroes were Instantly,
kilted, «r>