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V.*4 ?r rl,~ 18 •1ii pi 1?'' ol I eil -CI •A'- M, 2" 'V 1 8 THE W0RTHIN6T0W ADVAH6E, ItoBmAlti^ iMtSr'atofiS WbUifei*^ «4R» '.IJOU iWWSW*te*r.r»M** WOETHIK UP WME present t?methe Canadian Govennhefii^b^s gri^n forty million acres olefetfS»4frrai*dad com panie* S I knee jt|d ap /the stovepipe hat He claims that the cental^ ptoturps of* the old, heroes in knoflfhp£Mh$slwyi pr&ve &o be edu| cat^ifS^ffblicr. H, D& iiWHTuNBM, of Budapest, says that out of 250 railway employes whom' he examined, 92, or more than a third,* suffered from ear disease. Engineers are especially liable to rheumatism and pneumonia, and after some years' service a certain propor tion of them become dull of sight and hearing^. THE forty life-saving stations of the New Jersey coast have been closed for the summer. During the winter season the wrecks averaged one for each station, but not a life was lost, owing to the efficiency of the life savers. they area noble band and the service to which they belong is a cause of just pride to their country. THE Sault Ste. Marie canal, which was opened in 1885, has so far cost about $5,000,000. It is less than a mile long, but it is one of the most impor tant waterways in the world. The canal is* open about 200 days in the year, and in 1888 the daily tonnage through it was 30,242, almost equal to that of the famous Suez Canal. DENMARK expends $55,000 yearly for the maintenance of dairy schools. The result is an immense improvement in the quality of the dairy product, and an increase within twenty years in Den mark's butter export from $2,100,000 to $13,000,000 annually. There is no longer any thing rotten in Denmark's butter. Industrial instruction pays. ANDREW MITCHELL died in the city hospital at Baltimore the other day. He refused to send to his relatives for help, saying that he had led a roving life for many years and deserved no help. A few hours after Mitchell had been buried it was discovered that his parents had died in New Haven, Conn., two years ago and left him $1,000,000L A SPECULATIVE New Yorker who pre pared thirty thousand sandwiches for the hungry, anticipating a grand rush during the centennial celebration, only disposed of one thousand, and has been Bince trying to unload tha remaining twenty-nine thousand on the commis sioners of charity and correction. Strange that the proprietors of rail way restaurants failed to take advan tage of this chance for bargains. A YOUNG man in Raleigh, N. C., eloped with the wife of one of his neighbors a few days ago, and the husband of the woman had the man arrested for stealing his wife. The justice of the peace before whom the case carao up dismissed it on the ground that wife-stealing was not larceny, because a woman, even though a wife, is not personal property, and therefore could not be the subject of larceny. A STORY comes from St. Louis that a young married woman' who had ap parently died, from puerperal fever, and had been placed in a coffin, was resuscitated just before the time set r(r re 11 efi I Wf vit nti'l Cli th|| M«1 lll( •of the funeral, a movement of one of the arms being detected by her hus band. The victim alleges that she was perfectly conscious of all the movements of her relatives, and suf fered untold anguish at the thought that shtf w« about to be buried alive. LEWIS-WIINMR, the superintendent ol the inquiry division of the Philadel phia post-office, has just complete his fortieth year of service as a postal official. He was appointed a stamp clerk in 1849, during the administra tion of President Taylor. He has served under twelve of the twenty postmasters that Philadelphia has had, and during his long term of service has not once been suspended. Mr. Wunder is sixty-four years of age and is hale, hearty and apparently good for another quarter of a century of active work. WILLIAM H. BURGESS, of Alexandria, Va., who in 1836 assisted in building Washington's new tomb at Mount Ver non, tells how the face of the father ol his country looked fifty-three years ago: "I was a lad then, but I remem ber that, in removing the bodies of George and Martha to their tomb, we decided to open the coffin. 1 looked in and saw General Washington's face. The body was well preserved, and the features were intact. A minute after exposure to the air there was nothing recognizable. The face looked like the pictures of him." BLOOD oranges, for which a big de mand has already sprung up in New York, probably because there is a bvj supply, have long been popular in Paris, so popular that suspicion was cast on their genuineness. The supply of blood oranges in Paris It year ago seemed to be enormous, and the ques tion arose whether common plain oranges- were nbt colored by artificial meansr On submitting a "blood" orange to an analytical chemist it was discovered that fuchsine, a red, harm less ooloring matter, had been inject^ with a sifrall syringe, THE universal exposition now opened in Paris is the third Ini tW history ol that 7ity former world's fairs having been held, there in 1867 and 187& Mag nitude glory, .display and expenditure are -prominent features. The space oo cupied is one hundred and ninety-two 1' Rcrea!a? Th0 outlay exceeds $8,600,000. The* resources of the civilized world ,3 are under contribution and art and $ archit^ctiirfltl ornamentation are au thorizetf.uimost without limit Of the thirty•fl& 'ihousawi exhibitors in the exposition proper fourteen hundred tra from tbt Uiitted States. BY TELEGRAPH AND? MAIL, s^': 1 AUNT. ELSIE WILLIAMS, A CORRAL womai^\Stfrft#oo&,'iMo. W saldto be distinctly, and sings with considerably **nrt^warded the executors of the will of spirit some of the old ballads of revo- «yra Clark Qaines the Ram of 1575,000. lutinwp, "5 This decision 4nded one of the ihost famous A says: ^'^The' next change tn the fashion oi jneg£s PAUL DU CHILLU. the veteran ex plorer, has just returned from Morocco." He hasheenlhtf/ig, ^pe a native in na tive viHages aroundTangiers, and is so impressed with the world's ignorance of the true character of the Moors that he is going back to spend several ure ters with them and write a book. FROM V^8tam6T01«.,-*# Ita validity of tha law excluding Chi nese laborers, known &B the Scott Exclu sion' act, was affirmed by the United States Court on the 18th. OJJ the 13th Judge Matthews, who- inv eeeda Judge Durham as First Comptroller otfche Treasury Mr. Huston, who succeeds Mr. Hyatt Irffreasuxer of the United States, and Frank W. Palmer, who succeeds Mr. B«diet tui Public? Printer, entered upon thai? newdutia*. OR the 13th the United States Supreme #ngSd ctest en'"re(pord which &ad been tnthe *4 y'i ON the 14th the United States Supreme f^urt |djouraed until October next. THE Presiaent made the .following ag-. poipttnentoon th£ 16th: Solomon Hjncb, o( Oregon, Minister to Turkey Colonel Clair* E. Carr, of Illinois, Minister to*-Denmark of Washington, Consul at Liverpool IN the United States there were 217 busi tfanfallures drring the seven days ended pn the 16th, against 174 the previous MTt| '.days. MRS. SARAH E. ALLEN, a teacher in the Jefferson public school at Washington, was shot and killed on the 17th by her husband, who th»® committed suici4$.. They had hot liVOTtdgether for some time. #. .. THE EA8T. THE death of Washington Irving Bishop, the mind-reader, occurred in New York on the 13th. ROYAL B. STURTEVANT, of Springfield, Mas*., mistook bis brother-in-law, James B. Smith, for a burglar, and shot him dead on the 13th. THE death of Edward M. Biddle, secretary and treasurer of the Cumberland Valley railroad, and the oldest railway official in the United States, occurred on the 13th at his home in Carlisle, Pa., aged eighty-one yearn A MONUMENT in city hall square, New York, to the memory of Horace Greeley, is to be erected. AT the annual meeting in Boston on the 14th of the Woman's Baptist Home Mission* ary Society Mrs. J. N. Crouse, of Chicago, was elected president. OIN Wayne County, Pa., valuable copper ore was discovered on the 14th. ON the 14th E. H. Piatt and John Allen, the former a riding instructor and the lat ter a hotel-keeper, started from New York to ride to San Francisco on horseback. THE New York Legislature on the 15th re jected the bill prohibiting the importation of dressed beef from other States. THE death of William H. Harding, fotf twenty years publisher of the Philadelphia Enquirer, occurred in that city on the 15th. ON the 15th Mrs. Catherine Storey, aged eighty years, was burned to death at Lynn, Mass. MINISTER LINCOLN, with his family, sailed from New York for England on the" 15th on the steamer city of Paris. THE seventy-fifth anniversary of the American Baptist Missionary Union was celebrated in Boston on the lath. The union has a constituency of nearly 7UO,OCO church members, and is the largest mis sionary 6ociety in the world. IN a Philadelphia hotel on the 15th Gen eral Adna Anderson, of Sing Sing, N. Y., aged sixty years, and one of the best known railway men in the country, com mitted suicide by shooting himself in his room. The cause for the deed was un known. THE newly-appointed United States Min ister to Russia, Allen Thorndike Bice, die£ sudden'y at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York on the Kith from throat trouble. Mr. Rice was thirty-six years of age, was a bachelor, and was very wealthy. THE Legislature of New York adjourned sine rti: on the 16th. THE general assembly of the Pror,byterian church began its one hundred and first an nual session In New York City on the 16th. ON the 6th James Doran, of Maltby, Pa., killed his wife with an axe and then took his own life. Domestic trouble was the cause. STAR-FISH were on the 16th said .to be making heavy depredations on the oyster beds in Long Island sound. JOHN HENGLE in a fit of jealousy on the 17th at Newark, N. J., fatally stabbed Mrs. Scherzer and then cut his own throat. AT a festival in St. Luke's Episcopal Church on the 17th at South Glastonbury, Conn., over one hundred persons were made sick by eating ice-cream, and thirty four were reported to be beyon«t recovery. THE failure of the Almy Woolen Manu facturing Company of Philadelphia occurred on the 17th for $3.10,000. IN Boston experiments were being made on the 17th with a magnetic car with which it was proposed to transport mail matter, and probably passengers, long distances at the rate of about four miles a minute. AT Erie, Pa., MIBS Jennie Engstrom, a young- lady, was shot by her brother on the 17th with a revolver that he "did not know was loaded." THE strike at the National tube works at McKeesport, Pa., which involved two thou sand men, came to an. end on the 17th. WEST AND SOUTH. THE Czar, a phehomenal three-year-old colt, died of pneumonia on the 13th at Council Bluffs, la. The Czar was the prop erty of Theodore Winters, of Sacramento, Cal., and was valued at $25,000. IHE new California Theater at San Fran cisco was opened on the 13th by Booth and Barrett. IN a collision by a runaway on the 13th at Grafton, D. T., Miss Johanna Goodman son was killed and four men were wounded. A NISW building was wrecked by wind on the 13th at Tscoma, W. T., and of the twen ty men at work on the structure twelve were killed by falling timbers GEORGE LOOMIS, of Osceola, Wis., killed his wife by cutting her throat and then killed himself on the 13th. He was insane. AMOS TURLEY and Edward Hartshorn.were killed and four other men were badly hurt by the explosion of a boiler on the 13th at a saw-mill near Payne, O. AT Memphis, Tenn., George Ward, an en gineer, shot and killed his wife on the 13th because 6he refused to live with him, and then killed himself. WHILE drunk on the 13th -Fred Medley, proprietor of the Pueblo House at Denver, Col., shot and killed his wife becaune she refused to give him money to purchase beer. ON the 13th IJ. Cornwall, at Sedalia, CoL, was robbed of $35,000 worth of jewelry by a clerk named Strauss, who, in his em ployer's absence, packed up the goods and left town. THE youngest son of E. Ellis, of West port, Wis., was instantly killed on the 13th by his older brother, aged thirteen years, who shot the child's head off with a shot gun with which he was playing. Dick SINEX, a local tough at Bichmond, Ind., 4^ a fight on the 14th with John Brjici tow, a wandering soldier, bit the letter's nose off. It was an unprovoked assault. A H3AVY fall of snow in Minnesota and Dakotw occurred on the 14th. ON the 14th the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Honor iinet in sixteenth *min»i session at Indianapolis. The secretary's re port showed a total membership of l'J7,000, divided among 2,500 lodges, which paid $3, 210,000 death benefits last year. AT Dayton, OL, Walter Keller, nine years old, fell into a Tilt of vinegar on^ the'14th and was drowned. Jos HOOKER, the. famous trottlng-horse, killed himself at -°lw4rersti|jirg,--iW. Va., on the 14th by running away and cutting his head nearly off against a barbed-wire fence. AT Lumberton, N. C., a gale on the 14th unroofed many small houses and utterly obliterated the crops. A CYCLONE did great damage on the 14th at Dattville, Va. to roofing, fences, shade and fruit trees. Three tobacco factories were unroofed, ihe bridge over the Dan river damage^, and a house in course of construction 'and the Colored Baptist Church were blown down. AT the annual conference of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association of the United States in Chicago on the 14th M. 8. Gibson, of Portland, Ore., was chosen pres ident for the ensuing year. IN the vicinity of 'Norfolk and Ports month, Va., a hail and wind-storm on the 14th did great damage. The vineyards and orchards suffered severely, vines and trees being cut tetribly andr the Ifnit dsStroftpd. A sWath Of five or six miles broad was cnt thrbugh Norfolk and Naneamond- counties by the storm. Barns were blown down by the wind and many horses and cattle were 0' y-iy y* The losses were _*,¥W«HPeTi In In wott*, KkiX-ADMnUL JSDWABD DDKIEBBO) on the 15th at Baltimore, Md., at the age of seventy-three yean. He entered the navy in 183\ way wsssoldby oi^er^^dd^e^resha^te a committee representing a majority of thatf ff bondholders for fl5.500.000. TIN mine was discovered on theTSfii twenty mtl&f^ptf TopeUs KinJt OHIO Bepublicahs Will hold lheir Stkf convention at tioiumKiITJflnifaySi THE death of General Volney T. Howard, a prominent lawyer, occurred on the 15th' Maine in lHS^nia w« eieefetr to clrapeM jgBveralhfclmes from JOHN keeper with a r*a«$£hd thfjiliilla^ himself 15th wh: ALL OI gan a bHnwng-^snofsptoii^^prevaii^ the 15thJj NEARL feit tenj Rushvilli_ gera They~&aveTecT"in a buggy, town before their game wpdiio^e|^}.' AT Carthage, N. M., Gewg« W. Bloliar*le, superintendent of the Santa Fe mines, was murdered by twt M«aio«M on the lMh^aad robbed ot »7-OOflf"WhfcK :fie to pay the imnel4t'* ftad Just received ~9i* T*E National Editojdai iMnciattMr wili hold its jpezt meeting in Detroit, Mich, August 8jS? A scHipaE'iwfes being perfected on^h^ 16th for long-distance telephoning whtoa ooxW templated the connection by telephone of St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, St. Ltfhis |nd Kansas City with each other, and with the East through Chicago. IT was voted at ^TL** State council in Lynchburg, ^JL/OII th| HBth ot the Prot estant Episcopal church to exclude the col ored people from a place in its councils. ROBERT D*& ayoung.larmer at Loveland, O., while drunk on the liBth shbt^and killed his aged fathier,' fatally'5 shot his divorced wife, and then set fire to the place. Day a a ON the 16th Joseph Pe4z, w%o keeps a restaurant at Hortofi, Kan., was jbaken from his home by two hundred men and given seventy-five laftos on his bare back for brutally beating hlB stejph-daughtjer. IN Middle Tennessee Beven^sexi-year lo custs had made their appear ancebnthe 16th and grave fears w^:e entertained jf6r the. safety ef^vegetationL A risk destroyed StewKrt Brothers' psck ing-house at Council-Bluffs, Ia.,on the 16th. Loss, $ioo,ooa i. THE Michigan Senate on the 16th£defeat ed the Woman's Municipal Suffnw^'.bill, which had passed the House. THE depot warehouse of the Cheppes|KJt Ohio Railroad Company at Norfol|^lVeb,%aaF burned on the 17th. Loss, $100,0^% AT Nebrsska City, Nelx^an old man named Crume burned a 'hed^tfek on the 17ch in which his wife had placed $500 for safe-keep ing. The money was destroyed and the old couple left penniless ON the I7th Nelson Colbert (colored) WM hanged at Washington for the murder of Philip Wentzell in October last. Louis PALMER'S house at Rockdale, Tex., was destroyed by fire on the 17th iand Mrs. Palmer and her two little boys perished in the flames. Mr. Palmer was also badly burned. ON the 17th Firmino Opepago, an Indian, 70a linnriPAiff aA '-TiWifeMa* h? was hanged at der of Pa&h&^F ARTHTFB THSMAS" TOOK tha office as Governor of Utah on the 17th. SEVERAL buildings in the western portion of Morgan County, 111., were destroyed by a'cyclone on the evening of the 17th. A HAIL-STOBMpassed over BuckvlUe, Ark., on *he 17th, doing great damage to growing crops. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AT Eisenhetm, Germany, in a dispute on the 13th over some land, the .villagers were fired upon by the gendarmes and seven persons were killed. IMMINENT danger oia war between Bolivia and Paraguay was reported on the 18th. AMONG the military at St Petersburg a plot was unearthed on the 13th, having for its object the assassination of the Czar, and a targe nuihftier of arrests had been made. ON the 15th five brigands were hanged in the court-yard Of the prison at Sofia, Bul garia. TOE Samoan con'erence sub-committee decided on the 15th that the municipal council of Apia shall comprise six members, Germany, England and the United States each to appoint one. The other three shall be elected by the residents of Apia -This decision displeases the British commis sioners IN the House of Cdmmons on the 16th Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Said that there were now ten Irish members of Parliament impifeoned in Ireland. FLAMES on the 16th at St. Sauveur, Can., swept over a great distriot and laid seven hundred houses in ashes. Over live thousand persons were without shelter. AT Mozanillo, Cuba, the Teresa central sugar grinding factory was burned on the 17th. Loss, $400,000. THE Bolivian Government on the 17th gave notice of Its intention to send a Min ister to Washington. THE death of Queen Mary, of Bavaria, oc curred at Munich on the 17th of dropsy and cancer of the liver. LATER. THE exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 18th aggregated $1,051,627,365, against $1,108,681,351 the pre vious week. As compared with the cor responding week of 1SS3 the increase amounted to 13.7. ELEVEN dwellings and several busslne6f houses at Howard City, Mich, were de stroyed by'flre oh the 19th." RANEY TEATEB, nine years old, committed suicide on the 18th near Harrodsbnrg, Ky., because his parents insisted upon his going to work. CITIZENS of Clay County, Ala., on the I8tb ordered a flourishing colony of Morihons in that county to leave, and they were seeking new quarters. A TERRIFIC hail-storm passed over the vicinity of Albany, N. Y., on the 18th„klli. ing stock and greatly damaging fruit trees. IN a riotous disturbance at the polls on the 18th in Forest City, Ark., Marshal F. M. Folbre, T. H. Parham and' Sheriff D. M. Wilson were killed. A CYCLONE which swept across Northern Texas on the 18th destroyed a number of buildings and killed several children. A WAGON containing George Wright, hie wife and two children, was struck by a train on the 18th near Worham, Tenn., and the entire family was killed. ^DISASTROUS storms swept over parts of Austria on the 18th. Three persons were killed near Vienna fearful catastrophes occurred near Pilsen houses collapsed at Rackowltz and Bieckowitz, killing nine children, and at Zlne thirty persons were killed. A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt al San Francisco early on the morning of the l?th. The shock was general, and in the Joaquin valley chimneys were thrown down. SEVENTEEN men fell from a burning bridge over Stone river in Tennessee on tho 18th, dropping fifty feet to tho water, and three were killed and eight dangerous* lyjnjured. THE War Department*at Washington wae1 notified on the, 18th of the capture of two of the bandits who took part in the attack upon Paymaster Wham in Arliona. THE schooner Merrick was run down and sunk by the steamer B. P. Batfney on the 18th on Lake Huron, near Presque Isle, and 'five of the crew were drowned. Miss FANNY DAVENPORT, the actress, and Melbourne McDowell^ TeaSlng" xfiSh finrgf dramatic company, were married in Niew York on the 19th. 4.! 4 BELOW will be found the percentage of the base-ball dubs 1# the Ifotibbal Leagud for the Week ended on 'the 18th:Boston. .736 Philadelphia, .681 New York. .560 Chicago, .523 Cleveland, .478: Pittsburgh. .409 Indianapolis, 88) Washington, .:.28i American Association: fib. Louta, ,758 Kan sas City, ,.615 Brooklyn, :583 .481 Baltimore, .4SJ Athletic,.478 Cklum :lnu, .388 Louisville, .230. Western Asso aatlon: St Paul, .833 Omaha,, QB Sioux -City, ••'88 Denver, .500 Minneapolis, .478 St. Joseph, .437 Des Moines, 313: Milwau kee, .200. MADE VACANT BY DEATH. Ml Kosslan The Tboradlk' Kveat Brilli NEW YORK, May 17.—Allen Thorndike Bice, the newly-appointed Minister to Rus sia, died Thursday morning at 3:30 o'clock In the Fifth Avenue Hotel in this city. Mr. IRfce had been sfiiftrlng with in affection :th« this prevented "^aiflttg "Ic^lLropfl on Wednesday, although fie was not Jhofligkt fto b« serlousljf tl^ ye was taken wdrse Wednesday night, and fell a (l^p kmpimFSiffii tfi^ nurse unable to wake him. Dra Fuller and Gold* Hit? 4 THE loaa at sea olt^ape Blanco of ironj sidi Oregon Railway Navigation Company, and'the drowning of five of the crew, was reporter w'tlie' 19thi' valued at^30,000. .y thwalte were summoned, but failed tc *^9^. the .patient, and he died soon after Btw*m«r "wM thefr Srrfvdt. The physicians attribute the f^al tennlna||on #f the case to a sudden fwell^Bg' of lie glottiis, whichprevented Ch the patients breathing. [Allen TfcorndikeRlca was born in Boston, fine 18, At ,1he tjpeof nine years he was taken a&ro'a<V and 'Ifof live years lived in Eu rope. In 1887 he returned to the United States and remained here until 1871, wheahe went to England and was graduated a| Oiford la 1875. On his roturn to the United Stutes he entered as a student the Columbia Law School. In 1876 he bought the North American Review, ot which he has since been the editor. He organ ised in 1679, and subsequently .directed, the Charnay expedition, which was dispatched un der the joint auspices of the United States and France, to investigate systematically the re mains of ancient civilization In Central America and Mexico, -in1881 he bought a controlling interest is tip Matin, one ot the chief papers of Paris, of which he was still a proprietor. He has always been actively interested in poll ttes and In 1886-ran on the Republican ticket for Cgngms ia the Tenth New York district agaiaft.GencralSpinola. but was defeated by local.political leaders. He was strong advo catejpf the !AusiralijMi system dt voting. He has edited '-Reminiscencca of Abraham Lin coln," and contr.buted to "Ancient C.tles in the New World."] THEY?. MA^ COMPROMISE. ..nan MiNfM^Wd TIieir Kmpluyers Like Stttiifactoiy Agreement. •..'ftflttfti, May 17.—Efforts to arrive at a eoinipromise in the miners' strike are pro ceeding so satisfactorily that,it is thought probable a general resumption' of work will take place by Tuesday. The Emperor, in au address to a delega tion of employers, said that the main point seemed to him to be to bring the strikes to an end, leaving the question at issue to be settled while peace and order pre vailed and while production was proceed ing. He had spoken plainly to the workmen on the subject, warning them to hold aloof from Socialist intrigues. "Telegrams from Westphalia," he added, •^y^wyJ.4»t'aunounce that my words have been favor- ably received. |3the healthy patriotic feel ing: manifested' by the workmen's del egatibn Inspires trie With confidence that they will do all possible to bring their comrades back to work as soon as possible. I have urged the mining companies to maintain henceforth as close touch as possible with their workmen. I am anxious that the dispute be brought to a favorable issue." The Emperor also evinced a very kind disposition toward the work men and said he hoped the companies would consider their welfare. After the audience a conference was held between delegates of the miners and Herr Hammacher, member of the Reichstag, who represented the mine-owners. The result was a provisional agreement on a basis of eight hours work per day, exclusive of the time occupied in descending and ascending pits the abolition of compulsory over time, and an increase of wages according to local circumstances. The directors of the Weimar collieiics have convened a meeting for Saturday to consider the pro posed settlement. Hundreds of the striking miners at Essen have been sworn in as special police at their own request in order to keep their fellow workmen from rioting and thus spoiling their hopes of the mine-owners' concession. Many of the miners at Dort mund reitimed work Thursday without op position froin the strikers. The owners are now treating with (he men and the strikes will probably soon be settled. LOST AT SEA. The 'Steamer Alaskan' Wrecked In'm Gale 011 the Pacific—Five of Her Crew Re ported Drowned. PORTLAND, Ore, May 17.—The steamship Columbia, from San Francisco, brings the captain, mate and eleven of the crew of the Oregon Navigation Company's large slderwheel iron steamer Alaskan, which left her a May 11 for San Francisco and wai wrecked in a gale off Cape Blanco May 13. ¥ive%f the crew are reported to have been drowned. Two boats containing membert of the crew have not yet been heard from. The Alaskan had no passengers aboard. She was to have been docked at San Fran cisco for repairs. Tnere were thirty-four persons on board the Alaskan. As soon as she began to founder the officers and men took to the boats, Captain Howse, Captain Woods and eleven of the crew in one boat and the re mainder of the crew'In others. The boatr drifted toward the land, and Captain Howse and his party were -picked up by the tug Vigilante. The fate of the others is not yet known, but it is hoped that they drifted landward and, were saved. The Alnxbnn was the most elegantly fitted-up steamer in the Northwest,* and cost I&T0,000. She was insured for 9200,000. CRUSHED IN A WRECK: Bight Men Injured, Three Probably Fatal ly, in Railroad Accident Near Pltt» burgh. PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 17.—A wreck on fhe Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston rail road, near Ormsby, a subiu-b of this city, at 7 o'clock a m., resulted in the injury ol eight workmen, three of them seriously. The accident was caused by the freight train backing out of a siding on which the woik train was standing: A gang of nearly 100 men, mostly Hungarians, were on the train, and the escape of the others is con sidered remarkable. A number of cart were badly wrecked. BOTH WERE DROWNED. Bad Ending of a Pleasure Party in Florida JACKSONVILLE, ffla, May 17.—The famlUei of W. P. Shereth and W. T. Denham were spending Thursday in fishing at Lake Trout Bartow County. The 13-year-old son oi Denham stole away from the party and went in swimming. He got beyond hii depth and screamed for help. His sistei vent to his rescue. The lad clinched hei frantically and both were drowned. Theli mother reached the scene in time to see thenousinklng for the last time. She rushed into the water to assist, them and would probably also have been drowned but foi the arrival of some of the men of the party She Xa«M»»r. Jja Jffjhleh Identlt) of a Thief Was Discovered. PITTSBURGH, May. 17.-H. J. Cook hat beenarrested In |/ondon, Ont, for robbing the Portersvllle Savings Bank in Xeroei County, Pa., of *2,000 last week. He con fessed and Implicated others lit the rob berjr. Cook was formerly #mptoy^d In the building in which was located the He was an inveterate sinoker and Had th« habit of chewing the lend of hla cigar. Th« nior¥flf a*tor ,r the robbery.,a atmftp of 1. cigar was found on the floor of the baalc audit gave evidence of having been Ooek'a month from the peculiarity ae» nooea .. A DRUNKEN flUSBAND. Caitlng Hls THE DO^R H» 8! ^SJHIWOTOH, May 1&-Mrs. Sarah E. Alien, a school-teacher In the Jefferson school building in South Washington, was •hot and klUed by her husband, Oswald C. Allen, about 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. Alton then turned his pistol and killed hlmaelf. There had been some diffioulty between the pair, and they have -not lived together for some time. The tragedy occurred in^ the achool building. *11^ hired a cab on Pennsylvania' avenue and told the driver to take him to the Jeffer son building. Upon arriving there he lighted and told the driver to wait m»m he wanted him. Then he walked up the •tone steps and passed through the hall into the cloak room (tdjoining the room where his wife was engaged as a teacher. He showed himself to her and beckoned her to the door. She came toward him. As she reached the threshold of the cloak-room he drew a pis tol and shot her in the left temple. Turn ing the pistol then upon himself he shot himself through the right temple. Both fell to the floor In the cloak.room. The children in the school-room who had witnessed the frlghtlul scene rushed from the room In a panic and spread the »i»Tm Lieutenant Vernon and two policemen soon arrived on the scene. The woman was found to be still alive. She was removed to the school room, and Drs. Bowman, Cook, Thompson and Leach called, made an examination and dressed the wound, which, however, was pronounced fatal The stairway was thronged with the fright ened teachers and children, while outside an immense throng blocked the sidewalk. In the confusion some one had turned in an alarm of fire, and the gathering orowd f* augmented when the engines arrived. The remains of Allen were taken away to the morgue, but Mrs. Allen was left on a couch temporarily prepared in one corner of the school room, in which a short time before she had been cheerfully talking to the pupilsi She died at0:10. Mrs. Allen was about 43 years old and had been a teacher for many years She was in charge of a third-grade school, composed of little girls. She was the daughter of It. W. Johnson, an old and well-known citizen of Washington. Her parents reside in this city. Allen never had any trade, but his father, Oswell S. Allen, is a well-known printer in this city. His family came from Charlottsvllle, Va, about fourteen years ago. Miss Johnson was warned against Allen before she married him fifteen years ago. He ill-treated her during their early mar ried life and she was obliged to leave him. For some time she has been living with her parents. Allen has figured In the police courts a great deal of late. He was a worth less vagabond. DEATH IN THE FREEZER. A Hundred Persons Poisoned by Eating Ice-Cream at a Festival in a Connecti cut Village Thirty-Four of Them Not Likely to Recover. NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 18 —South Glas tonbury has been having a May festival in the interest of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Thursday night over 100 persons who had eaten ice-cream at the festival were taken ill. The four physicians were kept busy Thursday night and Friday. The symptoms were those that attend poisoning. In many instances whole families were taken sick, and in some of them not a single person is expected to recover. The trouble was traced to the vanilla ice cream sold at the festival The physicians express but slight hope for the recovery of thirty-four of the victims. They are igno rant of any known remedy for the strange disorder, and all they can do is to admin ister drugs that will make the patient more comfortable. In other cases, where the victims partook sparingly of the cream and the effects of the poisoning is less srvere, the physicians are hopeful of recovery. Mr. and Mrs. F. A Glazier were enter taining Mrs B. F. Williams and Mr. and Mrs. William S. Williams, of North Glaston bury, during the evening. A messen ger was sent to the festival for two quarts of vanilla ice-cream. Mr. and Mrs. Glazier and other visitors ate plenty of the cream, and a few hours after ward were taken sick. The servants in the house were given a portion of the cream, and they are also ill Mrs Glazier and the two Mrs. Williams are seriously affected. Dr. Henry Bunce, the town coroner, has obtained a sample of the vanilla cream and will analyze it to determine the cause of the poisoning. The cream was made by John Bitter, who sayR that, with the ex ception of the flavoring extract, similar in gredients were used in the manufacture of the other creams. No one who partook of any other flavor except vanilla at the festival suffers, and Coroner Bunce is of the opinion that the poison was in the vanilla extract. He has ordered some of it and will also analyze it SENSATIONAL REPORT. Rumor In New York That Chinese Gor don Is Alive and Being Held for Ran som—James Gordon Bennett Said to Have Started for Khartoum to Purchase His Release. NEW YOIIK, May 18.—An evening paper says that James Gordon Bennett started three weeks ago for Khartoum, the Mahdi's capital. There are two stoiies in regard to the journey. One is that it is undertaken on account of a wager made by Bennet with an officer who had served in the Egyptian army who asserted that no foreigner could enter Khartoum and depart alive. The other story is that Bennett received along dispatch from a Cairo correspondent saying that he had just received a visitfrom an envoy of the Mehdiwith important news regarding Chinese Gordon, and that the lat ter was Btill alive and kept a close prisoner that the new Mehdi, by reason of his reverses on Kordofan and the Bahr-el Gazel and his loss of the great province of Darfur, was willing to ransom Gordon for 1,000,000 francs. The next few days Bennett made all arrangements for the trip and for the payment of the vast sum mentioned, and with an intimate friend set out for Egypt But little could be learned in New York in confirmation of the story. An editor of the Herald stated that cablegrams from Bennett had been received from Mar seilles, Alexandria and Cairo, but that nothing was known in the office about his prospective movements. TERRIBLY* AFFLICTED. A Texan's Wife and Two Children Burned to Death and His Home Destroyed. ST. LOUIS, May 18 —While Mrs. Louts Palmer was tsookin? supper in her home at Bockdale, Tex., Wednesday evening she dropped a lighted lamp and was im mediately enveloped In flames. She ran from the kitchen through a bed-room in which her two little boys, aged 3 and 4 yean, were sleeping, out into the yard where her husband was. The latter at tempted to extinguish the flames, but did not succeed until his wife was fatally burned. He then discovered that the house was on fire' and it and the two children were consumed. Mr. Palmer was also very badly burned. An Iron Firm's Heavy Liabilities. BELVIDERE, N. J., May 18.— Chester Van Syckle has been appointed receiver for the West End Mining, Company, a corporation owning Iron mines in Hunterdon County, N. J., and Pennsylvania The liabilities of the company are reported to be from •300,000 to #500,000 greater than its assets. Kx-Secretary Bayard to Bo Married. WILMINGTON, Del., May 18.—Every Even ing confirms the rumored engagement of ex-Secretary Bayard to Miss Clymer, daughter of Dr. Clymer, U. Si N., of Wash ington. The wedding will occur early in the rammer and the wedding pair will p«— a few months in Europe. A Reform Party to Bo Organised. CHARLESTON, W. Va, May 1&—Chairman J. W. Goshorn, of the National Union Labor Executive Committee, has called a commit tee meeting at Chicago June 1& Indlca tions point that at that meeting the Prohi bitionist and other reform movements will effect a consolidation, and that a call for a convention will be issued for the inangur&» tlon ef^thereform party. tt Very Rapid Transit. .BOSTOX, May 18. —Experiments are being asade with amagnetle ear with which it la propoaed to transport mall matter, and probably paMengen, long dlstanoee at tha «at» *boujfw»yimi«»iBUroto, A FURIOUS SfO'RM. Doae'Jn V«tliotu Cities by JIKl Rate A Bursting 8ewer Tunnel in Milwaukee and Three a*! Drowned—Lives Lost by Light nlag. v, MILWAUKEE, May Hi—During a terrific rain-storm -Friday night a temporary dam at the end of Island avenue tunnel was •wept away and five workmen engaged in side were caught by the receding waters. Two of them succeeded in getting out but the other three were drowned. They are Poles and their names are not known. Their bodies have not been recovered. MADISON, Wis., May 18 —The home of Dayton Flagg at La Prairie, Wis., was struck by lightning and fired Friday night The flames were qUickly extiu^uished, when Mrs Flagg was found to have been killed by the bolt. Her little child was somewhat burned, but will recover. ELDORA, la, May 18.—Thursday night the livery barn of B. E. Deyo was struck by lightning and destroyed. Ten horses were killed and burned. The loss is placed at $5,000. MILWAUKEE, May Id—At Big Patch, Wis, Thursday night lightning struck a barn be longing to Aifred Terrell, which was con sumed, together with three valuable horses which it contained. The loss is placed at #3,000, with no insurance. JACKSONVILLE, 111, May 18.—A little after 6 o'clock Friday night a funnel-shaped cloud struck the lower part of this county, scattering buildings and treeB in every di rection. No loss of life is reported, though a number of persons came near being badly hurt. -Fortunately the cloud rose high In the air without doing serious damage, though for miles eastward there was inky blackness in the sky. A high wind and heavy rain speedily prevailed after the cloud passed. BOCKFOBD, 111., May 1&—The hardest thunder-storm Bockford ever knew oc curred at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon. The. explosions were terrific. The rain fell in perfect sheets for half an hour. A number of houses were struck by lightning but not badly damaged. A lad named Charlie Keeler was fishing on the dam and was struck by lightning and knocked into the river. He was dead before he could be rescued, but whether from tho lightning or drowning can not be told. KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 1&—A heavy rain storm passed over this section Friday, doing a great deal of minor damage in this city and in Kansas City, Kan., where several streets and sewers were badly washed out. The railroads were also badly demoralized and not a road sent in a train exactly on time. A large portion of the bluff facing the Missouri river was washed down over the Chicago & Alton tracks, and that road was compelled to use the Wabash tracks. Late reports from the storm indicates that it was more severe than was at first tho usrht The railroads are the chief sufferers Two spans of the Bush crcek bridge on the Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road near Liberty,' Mo., were washed away, and trains between Kansas City and Chilli cothe have been abandoned. The bridge is 200 feet long and 80 feet high and it will take a day or two to repair it The Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs tracks are submurged twelve inches for a long distauce near Parkville. The Hannibal tracks are also under water near Liberty and a passenger train was delayed an hour there yesterday. The passengers and trainmen had to get off and wade knee deep to clear the track. All east-bound Rock Island trains go from Kansas City via St Joseph to Cameron. The Union Pacific is badly damaged near Manhattan, Kan., where the Kaw river is thirteen feet above low-water mark. It is feared that when the rise reaches Kansas City it will flood the west bottoms. The Missouri Pacific is badly demoralized in all directions and its trains are from two to four hours late. Several bad wash outs are reported between here and Little Blue and some small trestles are in danger. The evening trains were sent out almost on time by most all the roads, but they expect to have a hard time getting through to their destinations. In this city tho Eighteenth street cable line was stopped six hours on account of the flood and the power-house of the Tenth 6trect line was so badly flooded that the water had to be pumped out of the boiler-room for several hours to keep the machinery in op eration. The Twelfth street line stopped for over an hour on account of the water flooding the conduits in the loop at the eastern city limits. Between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets for a distance of two blocks in the Eastern part of the city the entire surface is under water. The floors of nearly all the dwellings in that territory are submerged, causing great inconvenience. In Armourdale a number of cottages were flooded, while on Split Log creek there is an area of ten acres that is now a lake from five to twenty feet deep. The house of M. Hissler was flooded to the ceiling and the family was rescued with difficulty. In Kansas City, Kan., it is estimated that #'J5,000 worth of damage has been done. Reports from various parts of Kansas tell of unprecedented rain fall, and low lands everywhere are flooded. ABILENE, Kan., May 18.—The severest storm in the history of the city raged here Thursday night The lower part of the city was completely flooded and business houses have their cellars full of water. Thousands of dollars' damage has been done. Considerable hail fell. THIRTY-THREE "MEN MISSING. Strong Probability That Nearly All of the Alaskan's Crew Were Lost. PORTLAND, Ore., May 18.-Captain E. Howes, of the steamer Alaskan, which foundered off Cape Blanco, and the first officer, Wood, arrived here Friday on the Columbia. The Columbia brought no tidings of the boats which put outfrom the Alaskan, and the probability that all of them were lost is strong. It is not known to a certainty just how many men were on the ship. The crew numbered forty-four, and after the vessel had put to sea three stowaways were found. Two stowaways are among the rescued. One of them, James Foley, said that be knew there were five stowaways, which makes the total number forty-nine. Of this number ten have been saved, six have died and thirty-three are missing. John Welch was found dead on a piece of wreckage, clinging to some ropes. Chief Engineer Swain was seen washed off on one of the rafts soon after leaving the sinking vessel, and is known to be lost Seven persons refused to leave the ship and were certainly lost FATAL "RUN AWAY. A California Lady Killed and* Another Badly Hurt at Washington. WASHINGTON, May 18.—Friday afternoon short before 4 o'clock a horse attached to a cab containing two women became frightened while coming down Fifteenth street above Boundary. The horse ran down the hill at a frightful rate, and at tho foot of the hill the cab was overturned and one woman killed. It was found that her name was Mrs A. E. Horton, a stranger and visitor to the city, and that her home was in San Diego, Cal. Miss Haight-, of San Diego, who was with her, was badly hurt. Mrs. Horton was here on a visit to her sis ter, Mrs. M.~ B. Hay, from whom she bad been separated for thirty years.' ^BOUnced.T Marshal Jones Summarily Dismissed Be cause of Charges of Misconduct in Of fice During the Opening of Oklahoma. WASHINGTON, May 18.—Richard Walker, of Kansas, was yesterday appointed United States Marshal for the district of Kansas, to succeed Marshal Jones, against whom charges of misconduct in office during the time of the opening of Oklahoma settle ment had been made. The President and the Attorney-General decided not to allow Jones to resign, and the order for his removal was made Friday. Attorney-Gen eral Miller said that action in Marshal Needles' -case hA been suspended unti more information concerning the charges cgainst him conld be procured. ArrMi.»rih« Artfcona Robbers. Los AKGELE£ Oal May 18.—Assistant Adjutant-General Volmar, of the Depart ment of Arizona, has received a dispatch from Captain Lebo, dated Fort Thomia, A. 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