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PROMINENT PIONEER GONE. OUTLOOK IS HOST.
Charles K. Cnvlleer Dies at l'emblna
After Ilrlef Illness.
Charles E. Cavile-sr died at Pembina,
after an hour's illness, aged eighty
four years.
Charles Cavlleer, known far and wide
as the "Father of Pembina," enjoyed
the unlquo distinction of being not only
the oldest living settler of that portion
of the Red River valley, but likewise of
the whole State of North Dakota. A
full and complete history of the life of
this prominent and inlluential pioneer
of pioneers, since coming to this part
of the country would present to our
minds most clearly the wonderful
growth and development that has come
to this favored portion of the republic.
The interest that naturally attends the
narration of the life history of the pi
ll
neer is, in his case, made doubly
Strong by the fact that in all the many
years of his residence there, he has
taken a leading and prominent part in
the political, business and official life
of this, his adopted home.
Mr. Cavileer was born in Springfield,
Clark county, Ohio, March 10, 1818, and
Is the son of Charles and Rachel
(Trease) Cavileer, natives of Maine and
Pennsylvania, respectively. Receiving
In his native place the rudiments of a
common school education, at the age of
seventeen he removed to Mount Car
tnel, Wabasli county, Illinois, where he
learned the .saddler's trade. There he
remained, working as a journeyman,
until 1S41. In that year he moved to
Minnesota, and for a long time made
his home at Red Rock, near St. Paul.
In 1S4"I, in that young city. Mr. Cavileer
established the pioneer harness shop of
the State of Minnesota. This he con
tinued for two years. In 1S4S, in com
pany with a Mr. Dewey, he opened the
first drug store In St. Paul and the
state. In 1848 Mr. Cavileer was ap
I oint'ed by Gov. Alexander Ramsey to
the position of first territorial librarian.
This office he continued to hold until,
in 1851, he was appointed by President
Fillmore the first collector of customs
for the district of Minnesota. Pembina
was the port of entry for the district,
land thither he moved. He settled down
to his official duties, which at that time
not tonly had to do with the customs,
but he was also representative of all
the other civil branches of the United
States government. Aug. 15, 1851, in
conn any with Commodore Norman W.
Kittson, he arrived at what is now
Pembina. In 1S53 Mr. Cavileer, In part
nership with N. W. Kittson and W. H.
Forbes, engaged in the fur trade. At
the end of three years, Mr. Forbes hav
ing- withdrawn, Mr. Cavileer, with Mr.
Kittson, formed a partnership with
Messrs. Culver, Farrington and Sar
gent, and engaged in the same line of
business. This continued for two years.
•These five years were doubtless the
most exciting ones, in a life replete
with adventurous incidents. It was
during this time that he made regular
trips to St. Paul with trains of from
•eighty to a hundred "Red River carts"
loaded with furs and pelts. These trips
were long and wearisome, and often
dangerous frorii bands of roving Indi
ans and stampeding herds of buffalo.
Mr. Cavilleer, in 18G3, returned to
Pembina, he having, in the discharge of
his business cares, resided at St. Jo
seph, about thirty miles to the west
ward, at the foot of the Pembina
mountains, and at Winnipeg. In 1S64
he was commissioned postmaster, a po
sition which he held until 1884, when the
weight of increasing years caused him
to resign in favor of his son, Edmund.
The original plat of the city of Pembi
na was laid out by the subject of this
sketch, and this was added to in the
shape of an extensive addition in 1S78,
When railroad connections with the cen
ters of trade showed the need for en
larging the limits of the city.
In his early days Mr. Cavileer was a
regular correspondent of the Smithso
nian Institute of Washington, D. C.
His sketches of pioneer days and
graphic descriptions of scenes and char
acters are the delight of his friends and
neighbors, and the old settlers gener
ally. These sketches, which have been
mostly for looal papers and pioneer so
ciety meetings, are in the plain, blunt
straightforward and to-the-point style
of the Westsrn plainsman, but also
have a deep unfiercurrent of humor,
wholly his own.
March 13, 1857, Mr. Cavileer was unit
ed in marriage with Miss Isabella Mur
ry, who was then sixteen years of age.
She was a lassie of Scottish ancentry,
daughter of Donald and Jeanne (Her
ron) Murry, and was born and lived in
the Red River valley of Canada. They
made a visit, as a bridal tour, to his
former home, in Springfield, Ohio. Mi.
and Mrs. Cavileer are the parents of
five children: Sarah, who died in in
fancy: Edmund K., William M„ Albert
D. and Lulah Bell.
NORTH DAKOTA CROPS.
Weather Bureau Report* on the
Conditions.
The last bulletin of the weather bu
reau says:
The past week has been the hottest of
-the season, and yet the excess of tem
perature over the normal was only one
degree a day. Light showers fell in
nearly all parts of the state, in some
sections accompanied by hail and high
•winds, doing some damage. On high,
sandy land the crop is beginning to
show the eff ?ct of dry weather, and
rain is needed.
Wheat remains in good condition, and
Is generally filling well. Early barley
and oats are being harvested in the
southern part of the state. Early flax
Is in fine condition, but that sown late
Is poor. Corn is now growing very
rapidly and is beginning to tassel out.
Haying still continues in all sections,
with enormous yields.
How 11.. You Make Circle?
The intelligence of people may be
gauged by asking them to make circle
on paper with a pencil, and noting in
which direction the hand is moved.
The good student in a mathematical
class draws circles from left to right.
The Inferiority of the softer sex as wi ll
ns the male dunces Is shown by their
drawing from right to left. Asylum pa
tients do the same.—Iiondon Family
Doctor.
Crop Pronpects tlic Beit Since the
Famons Year of 1SD1.
Information obtained from farmers
and business men from every section of
the state attending the Republican con
vention at Fargo recently indicates
that, with the exception of the Red
River valley, North Dakota has the best
crop prospect since 1891, which, for
most North Dakotans has the record
l'or average yield in nearly every sec
tion of the state, writes W. E. Davis
in the Minneapolis Journal. It was the
opinion of some from the Northern part
of the state that wheat harvest would
not begin before Aug. 20. Those from
the central and southern part of the
state named Aug. 15 as the earliest
date for wheat cutting. North Dako
ta, according to these authorities, has
greatly increased its acreage of flax,
reduced its acreage of wheat, seeded
twice as much barley as last year, and
is growing at least 500,000 acres of corn.
All grains are looking well. The farm
ers from nearly every section said that
'late-sown flax would be benefited by
rain. North Dakota does not expect to
ship a large amount of barley this
year, notwithstanding its increased
acreage. The farmers say they are ex
perimenting, and will probably use
much of it at home.
All grain is late in those portions of
the Red River valley counties within
fifteen miles of the river. Richland
county people say that this wet district
covers the northern portion of their
county only. In the western parts of
these counties prospects generally are
good. There is a considerable acreage
near the river growing no grain. A
large percentage of the seeding done in
this district is in barley, oats and flax.
These grains are late, naturally, some
flax being sown as late as July 1.
There are spots in this district where
grain is not thrifty, but generally it is
vigorous, and with a favorable season
will yield well.
In nearly all of the valley counties
the grain is uneven, owing to the big
difference In time of seeding.
James H. Mathews, who farms 5,000
acres near Larimore, says: "Early
sown crops in the western part of
Grand Forks county are promising big
yields. I have not seen such a good
prospect since 1891. In the eastern part
of the county the grain is late, but is
'ooking good."
Former State Senator H. F. Arnold,
who has a big farm in that same sec
tion, makes this summary: "The ear
ly-sown grain looks well. The late
sown, whi.?h is about 40 per cent of the
ci op,principally flax, needs rain. Cool
nights are doing much for the vigor
and vitality of this part of the crop.
There is a good average yield promised
by the early-sown grain. This is the
most uneven crop I have ever seen in
North Dakota. I have seen fields of
flax in blossom and beside them fields
of the same grain seeded but a short
time. In our section harvest is at least
fcur weeks distant."
II. H. Strom, a former member of the
legislature and for years a Traill coun
ty farmer, says that much grain seed
ed late on wet soil, in the eastern part
of the county, is doing poorly. There
will be a considerable acreage in that
district which, in his opinion, will not
be worth harvesting. There is another
wet spot between Hillsboro and Blan
chard, In the southwestern part of the
county, which has a poor crop prospect.
In the extreme western part of the
county, whero the soil is lighter, crops
ire looking good.
Farmers and merchants from along
the line of the Great Northern, extend
ing from Grafton into Western Pembi
na county, say that, with the exception
of the district between Hansel and Cav
alier, crops promise a good yield. Along
most of that line of the Great Northern
extending from Casseltorf north to Han
nah, there is a good prospect. Farmers
from the Casselton country say that
the wheat acreage in that particular
district will hold its own, and crops are
in fine shape. Honey Bros., millers, at
Park River, in Western Walsh county,
say that growing crops along the
Langdon branch, as it is termed, from
Larimore north, is so good that they
believe there will be as much wheat
harvested as last year, notwithstanding
the decrease in the acreage. D. H. Mc
Millan, state treasurer., and for many
years a machine dealer at Langdon
AVIXD SWEEPS THE VALLEY.
Onsln of the Reil River Feels Ter
rific Rush of Air.
Grand Forks, N. D„ July 30. For
seven hours Grand Forks has been be
neath a mammoth storm cloud which
has traversed the greatest, part of the
Red river valley north of here and now
covers the country south. Here the
storm has been one of terrific lightning,
with heavy rain about 10 o'clock. No
damage has been done in the city or
immediate vicinity. Fragmentary re
ports indicate considerable damage
elsewhere. Lakota had no rain to a
late hour, but the Great Northern train
No. S war, '.:eld for an hour, as it was
considered unsafe to proceed on account
of high wind. The depot platform at
Mapes was blown away and from the
velocity of the wind it seems certain
that many other buildings must have
suffered. Park River, Larimore and
other places report a deluge of rain and
there are reports of damage by hail.
At Rowesmont a little hail Ml, and the
barn on the farm of Warner & Andrews
of St. Paul, occupied by Robert Deleliy.
was struck by lightning and burned
with one horse and a quantity of ma
chinery.
Charles Cavalier Dead.
Pembina. N. IV July SO. Hon.
(""h.-u-lt's K. valier. North Dakota'*
oMest settler, died yesterday morning
after a few hour's illness. Mr. Cava
lier was eighty-four years of age, and
located here in ISM, though he came
West many years before.
Awed "'mi Killed hy Curs.
Aberdeen. S. 1"., July 30.-John John
son, Sr.. father of John Johnson, road
ii-.ister of the .lames ltlver division of
111" MllwatU railroad, was Instantly
killed by the cars Sunday afternoon.
says that Cavalier county's corn
crop
never looked better at this time of year.
He says that the percentage of late
sown flax is small, and that the crop
can be matured in good shape without
any more rain. He estimates that a
little over half of Cavalier County's
acreage is In wheat. Nothing has oc
curred, so far, to injure the quality of
the grain. John Butterwlck, a well
known farmer living in the southern
part of the country says that the farm
ers in that section seeded about the
same acreage of wheat as last year,
nnd most of the grain is doing well,
although rain would help some.
.The 'good prosiec.ts continue alt
along the main line from Lakota. A
nreliant who has followed the devel
opment of Nelson county' for years,
says that the county promises better
than an average crop in all grains. The
country tributary to the St. John and
Bottineau branches has made a good
record to date. C. J. Lord, the Cando
banker and state railway commission
er, says: "I have been over much of
Towner county, and I believe, with
good filling weather, wheat will aver
age between eighteen and- twenty and
flax between twelve and fourteen bush
Is per acre. Flax generally is well ad
vanced. There is some late-sown grain
in the northeastern part .of the. county
which needs rain, but it is a compara
tively small per centage of the crop.
Rolette county, to the north, has good
prospects in both flax and wheat.
There has been some loss from hail but
no complaint of rust. Wheat harvest
will begin Aug. 20. I think our county
sewed less acres to wheat this year
than last. Nearly all the new land was
seeded to flax."
I. Ransieur, a farmer living in tha
southern portion of Towner county,
says that some pieces of wheat, with
good weather, will go twenty-five
bushels to the acre, and the general av
erage will be good. Flax is also com
ing on finely.
V. B. Noble, the Bottineau banker,
says that the conditions along the Bot
tineau branch are far above the aver
age. Bottineau county scored a big
yield in 1895, and Mr. Noble says the
prospects now are good for a '95 yield.
On the present outlook he considers
eighteen bushels, as an average for
wheat, conservative.
So far, conditions along the Soo line
have been good. The crop is doing well
on th snew lands in Ward county,
where the soil is capable of taking care,
of a heavy rainfall, such as North Da
kota has had this season. Ward, Bot
tineau, MeHenry, Benson, Pierce and
Wells counties are in the big flax dis
trict, and the crop is developing well.
There is the same story of good pros
pects in the territory along the North
ern Pacific between Jamestown and
Leeds. J. D. Carroll, a New Rockford
farmer, says that Eddy county seeded
its grain under favorable conditions,
and a large yield is promised. What
late-sown flax there is would be ben
efited by rain, but it is not suffering.
Traveling machine men say that about
the same conditions rule in Griggs and
Foster counties. M. B. Cassell, a prom
inent North Dakotan and long a resi
dent of Steele county, says that on the
present outlook Steel county ought to
average eighteen bushels of wheat.
Flax is exe?ptionally good in that
coun­Jt
ty, and may go fifteen bushels. No
harm has yet come to the wheat head.
J. D. Mould .»r of Fargo, who has
charge of the southern half of North
Dakota for the McCormick Harvester
company, and aims to keep in close
touch with crop conditions, says: "In
Central North Dakota wheat harvest
will probably begin about Aug. 15. One
pleasant feature about the crop this
year is the fine condition of grain in
the extreme southern counties, which
are tapped principally by branch lines
of the Northern Pacific. That district
has the best prospect it has had since
1S91. There have been no hot winds, as
in many former years, to injure the
crops, if this district gets reasonably
good weather from now on, it will do a
great deal towards giving North Da
kota a comparatively good yield of
-nheat, notwithstanding what I figure
to be a big decrease in the wheat acre
age. Flax is the big crop in the coun
try from Jamestown west, and is prom
ising a big yield. I do not believe that
North Dakota will ship much barley,
although it has practically doubled its
acreage of that grain."
MERCHANT KILLS HIMSELF.
Acutc' Insomnia. Onuses Temporary
Insanity of A. M. Rotschild.
Chicago, July 30.—A. M. Rothschild,
until two months ago the head of the
State street department store firm of
A. M. Rothschild & Co.. committed sui
cide yesterday at his home, Thirty
seventh court and Michigan avenue,
by shooting himself in the head, the
wound inflicting almost instant death.
Acute insomnia, which probably
caused temporary insanity, is said to
be responsible for the deed. Mr.
Rothschild returned from a six weeks'
outing in Minnesota the past week and
seemed improved physically.
SHOT BY STRIKERS.
Colliery Foreman Is Seriously
Wounded at Pottsville.
Pottsville, Pa., July 30.—Daniel Lan
derman, foreman at the Kohinoor col
liery. Shenandoah, was shot yesterday
in his home by a crowd of strikers.
His face and shoulders are torn with
buckshot, but it is thoughe he will re
cover. Albert Landerman was also
chased anil shot and four other lion
union men badly beaten.
OFFICERS A ItH IGNORANT.
Appointees in Indian Army Lack
ing in General Kdiii-utinn.
London. July 30.—The military au
thorities of India have discovered
numerous officers who were recently
commissioned in the Indian army to be
so lacking in general education that it
has been necessary to Instruct and ex
amine
them in the elements of arith
metic.
geometry, geography and
English history before perimitting them
to attend the courses of garrison In
st ruction.
COURTS SUP IN
ISSUE ORDER PROHIBITING CON­
TINUATION OF CORNER IN
JULY OATS.
DEALERS TREATED TO SURPRISE
FIRST TIME COURTS HAVE EVER
BEEN ASKED TO ASSIST
"SHORTS."
HEY THROW IP THEIR HANDS
COULD NOT GET NEW JULY OATS,
SO WERE OBLIGED TO DE­
FAULT.
Chicago, Aug. 1. The ban of the
courts has been placed on the corner
in July oats. On application of Waite,
Thoburn & Co., one of the firms heavily
short in the July option, a temporary
restraining order was granted yester
I day by Judge Chiltrus in the upper
court prohibiting James A. Patten and
associates from continuing a corner in
new July oats and from bidding up the
price of the cereal or calling for further
margins. This is the first time in the
history of the Chicago board of trade
that dealers who are short have re
sorted to the courts to assist them in a
dilemma like the present, and the in
junction came as a decided surprise,
although drastic measures had been
threatened to prevent heavy loss.
Cornered and unable to secure new
July oats wherewith to meet their con
tracts the dealers who were short ap
pear to have practically
Thrown Up Their Hands.
"We have nothing else to do but to
default,said one of the unfortunates
yesterday. "Those in control of the
corner will not sell, but tell us to go
into the pit and buy. If we should do
io the prices would go up into the
clouds. A dollar a bushel could easily
be extracted, as the receipts of stand
ard new oats will not fill our con
tracts."
Waite, Thoburn & Co., who requested
the injunction, issued the following
statement last night on the course they
have taken:
"For a year or more there has been a
regular epidemic of manipulations and
attempted corners on the Chicago
board of trade which have inflicted
immense injury on the legitimate grain
interests in this city and the country
tributary to Chicago. These attempts
to squeeze the trade have become so
Extreme and Unscrupulous
that it has become high time for some
one to make a fight and find out where
the trade stands and whether it is to be
for all time possible for groups of mil
lionaires to turn upside down the grain
business of the land and inflict heavy
losses on the trade. We have decided
to make a test and find out where the
trade stands.'
I Three million bushels is said to be
the shortage in July oats. The greatest
part of this amount was sold, it is said,
to those in control of the market at
between 32 and 43 cents, so there is
more than 25 cents a bushel profit in the
deal for those on the long side. Instead
Of the market collapsing as the result
of the adoption of a 45c marginal price,
established by the board of trade, July
oats advanced 3c yesterday and closed
at 63c. Indications were that the
parties in control of the market had be
come indignant at the move of their
opponents and intended making the
bears settle all obligations in the pit.
MANY MEN MISSING.
Feared That Tliey Lost Their Live!
in Recent Texas Floods.
Dallas, Tex., Aug. 1. A report
leached here last night from Hillsboro
that between 400 and 500 men who were
chopping wood in the bottom lands be
tween Richland and Post Ooak creeks
I have not been heard from since the
heavy rains of last Saturday, and it is
feared that some of them were
drowned. An effort is being made to
get into communication with the lo
cality. The flood conditions in the
Brazos Valley continue to grow worse.
The rains have damaged the cotton
crop materially. The present crop had
promised to be the largest in the his
tory of the state, but boll worms are
developing rapidly and farmers are be-
coming apprehensive. Advices from
ether parts of the state do not show
any improvement in the situation.
MURDERESS INSANE.
Mrs. Meyer Of Buffalo. Who Killed
Her Hnbnnd. Loses Her Mind.
Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 1.—Mrs. Meyer,
who killed her husband, l)r. Jacob i?'.
Meyer, in his William street ottico two
months ago, has become insane. To-day
her attorney applied to the supreme court
to have Mrs. Meyer committed to the But
falo state hospital. It was learned to
right that Mrs. Meyer's most intimate
I friend. Mrs. Thomas W. Wall, who was
tc be the principal witness in the trial,
I became raving mad a week ago, and was
trkin to the state hospital, where she 1»
still confined.
IS FATAL TO TWO.
Engine Jumps Track and Runs Into
Embankment.
Pittsburg, Aug. 1—The engine of the
west-bound fast mail. No. 11. on the Penn
sylvania railroad, jumped the tr:iek near
l'aeksaddle about 11 :.'!( o'clock to-day and
plunged over a 'J.'.O-t'oot embankment, tak
ing v. iih it the mail ears. One man. Joiin
Kemmerling, engineer, was killeo, and
live injured. John Kinsley, !irem.m. was
fatally hurt. The otin rs were mail clerks.
Who escaped with slight injuries. A re
lict' train has been ^ent to the scene.
nrakeman Killed.
Two Harbors, Minn., Aug. 1.—Harry
IC. Hare, brakeman on the Duiutli
Iron Range here, was injured by being
caught between the drawbars of two
cars last evening from the effects of
which he died at the Budd hospital.
Mother nnd Child Ilndly llurned.
Iron Mountain, Mich., Aug. 1.—Stella,
the tlve-year-old child of Abe Kahoury.
•was badly burned about the face and
body while playing with matches. The
cl ihl's mother was seriously burned in
trying to put out the lire.
1
I
DON'T KNOW WHAT AILS KINO.
Edward's Illness as Much a Mystery
an Ever.
London, Aug. 2.—Apropos of the
ru
mors that the coronation may again, at
the eleventh hour, be postponed on ac
count of the enfeebled condition of the
king, the Lancet authorized the follow
ii'g statement:
"If King Edward was an ordinary
hospital patient he would have been
discharged cured several days ago, with
a mild caution to be careful. It must
be remembered that the incision in the
side is extremely deep. The rigid
precautions of the king's medical ad
visers in declining to allow his majesty
to move about as soon as might have
been expected were dictated merely by
a desirs to give the healing process
ample time to consolidate. There has
been at no time the remotest sign of
anything pointing to malignancy, and
all talk of a second operation is with
out the slightest foundation."
From other well informed medical
sources it lias been ascertained that
while the king's physicians and sur
geons entirely relieved his ailment, the
actual cause of the illness has never
teen definitely ascertained. All that
Lister, Barlow, Laking and Treves are
believed to know themselves is that
they successfully removed a dangerous
abcess. Having accomplished that re
sult it seems they are content to ig
nore the cause, in the absence of com
plicating possibilities.
NAMED BY MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS.
Stute Ticket In Nominated and Pint
form Adopted.
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 2.—Judge George
II. Durand of Flint, who filled a va
cancy on the supreme bench of this
state during the year 1S92 and who is
generally credited with being a Gold
Democrat at heart, though r.ot a bolter
in 1S9G, was nominated yesterday after
noon on the fourth ballot to run for
governor this fall on the Democratic
ticket. The balance of the ticket was
completed as follows: Lieutenant gov
ernor, John F. Bible of Ionia secretary
of state, John Donovan, Bay City
treasurer, Wilbur F. Davidson, Port
Huron auditor general. David A.
Hammond, Ann Arbor: attorney gener
al, W. C. Knight, Grand Rapids: super
intendent of public instruction. Prof.
Woodbright M. Ferris, Grand Rapids
commissioner of land office, Arthur P.
Watson, Cheboygan: member state
board of education. Charles Field, Has
tings clerk of supreme court, to fill
vacancy, Benjamin J. Brown, Menomi
nee. The convention adjourned sine
die at 10 o'clock last night. The plat
form adopted is devoted almost entirely
to state issues, the only mention of
national issues being an indorsement
of the elec'.ion of United States sena
tors directly by the people.
MILLENIUM IN THREE YEARS.
Tliree-Months-Old Cliiled in Russia
Does Some Prophesying
Washington, Aug. 2—A letter has been
received by Solomon Berlin, a merchant
of this city, conveying the information
that the millenium will come in 1903. Mr.
Berlin's letter came from his father, who
lives in Russia. It relates that a child
three months old living in Warsaw re
cently began to talk. The child was left
for a few moments by its mother in
charge of her seven-year-old daughter.
The daughter became frightened at some
thing and began to cry, when .the baby
startled her by exclaiming: "Don't cry
mamma will be back soon." This speech
from a child three months old scared the
girl extremely and she summoned her
mother. When the mother arrived the
child said: "Send for the rabbi." To
the rabbi the precocious infant uttered
clearly a prophesy to the effect that in
one year from that time there would be a
great war between the world powers, and
that in three years the millenium would
arrive. The letter related that this pre
diction has created great consternation
among the Jews of Russia. Several He
brews have been interviewed in
regard to the alleged prophesy. They said
that according to the Torah, the millen
nium is due in about three or four years,
and they consider the Warsaw child's
prophesy as a reminder of the approach
ing reign of the Jews.
TWO WOMEN DROWNED.
Undertow Has Responsible for the
Accident.
Hull, Mass., Aug. 2.—Miss Anna D.
Collier, a school teacher of Worcester,
and Miss Jean Brown of Detroit, both
summer guests at Bay Side, were
drowned in the surf while bathing yes
terday. The undertow was responsible
for the accident. Miss Collier, who
could not swim, had waded into rather
deep water and was carried off her feet
by the undertow. Miss Brown and Miss
Christina McAdam, also of Detroit,
who could swim, started to save her.
Both readied Miss Collier, but she in
her fright seized and dragged them
down. After a struggle Miss Collier
and Miss Brown disappeared, while
Miss Adam managed to keep afloat.
The danger of the three women hail
been seen from the beach and several
volunteers started out, rescuing Miss
McAdam.
ELEVEN MEN BURNED.
Explosion Due to l.enking Gas Fatal
to Three.
Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 2.—Eleven men
were frightfully burned yesterday by
an explosion in one of the buildings of
the Stoddard Manufacturing works.
Three will probably die. The explosion
was caused by a leakage of natural
gas. It is not known how the gas was
ignited.
CHOLERA BAD IN MANCHl'HIA.
Not Only Chinese liut Russians and
Other Europeans Are Victims.
St. Petersburg, Aug. L\—Official re
turns show that cholera is spreading
with terrible rapidity throughout Man
churia. Th- epidemic now claims hun
dreds of victims daily, mostly Chinese,
but Russian" and other Kuropeans axe
living of the disease.
Peril in China.
New York. Aug. -. Miss Christina
Williams of Minneapolis is on tlie
corps of Methmlist missionaries work
ing in SzeeUnen province. China, who.
according to Pr. Cartwright. vainly
seek protection from the authorities.
Vfter the Lynchers.
Charleston. W. Va„ Aug. 2. Gov.
V'hitc offered a reward of §500 for the
arrcj-i and conviction of parties en
gaged in the recent lyinhings in Ran
dolph county as a result of the assas
sinaiiori of Police Chh\ Wilmoth.
MILITIA ON GUARD
TWELVE HUNDRED STATE TROOPS
ARE ENCAMPED AT SHENAN
DOAH.
ALL IS QUIET AND ORDERLY
LOCAL AUTHORITIES REMAIN IN
CONTROL OF THE SITUA
TION.
MINE WORKERS ARE INCENSED
OBJECT TO THE PRESENCE OF
TROOPS AND WILL ASIC THEIR
WITHDRAWAL.
Shenandoah, Pa., Aug. 2. Twelve,
hundred state troojas are encamped on
a hill overlooking Shenandoah. Down
in the town where rioters and police
men fought the bloody battle Wednes
day night all is quiet and the indica
tions are that so long as the militia re
mains the peace of the community will
not again be broken. The riot, which
caused the soldiers to be sent he^,
came like a flash and was over almost
as quickly as it had started, and since
then there has not been a single case
of violence reported. The tens of thou
sands of idle men and boys in this vi
cinity who had been gathering in large
numbers and marching from place to
p'ace, did not repeat their demonstra
tions yesterday, and the authorities
consequently had little or nothing to
do. Beyond the presence of a group of
soldiers here and there on the principal
street Shenandoah does not show any
evidence of having passed
Through a Trying Ordeal.
The major portion of the population
is made up of foreigners, and, as a
rule, they kept -close to their homes
during the day. It is claimed by the
citizens of the town that the foreign
element was solely responsible for the
trouble.
Contrary to popular belief Shenan
doah is not under martial law. The lo
cal authorities and the sheriff of the
county have not relinquished control of
the town or county and they remain in
as complete control of their respective
affairs as they did before the troops
reached here. The soldiers are merely
in camp on the outside of the town.
It was deemed advisable, however, by
the brigadier general to establish pro
vost guard in certain parts of the town.
So long as the situation remains as it
is at present there is no likelihood that
the regimental companies will be scat*
tered through the mining towns of
Schuylkill county.
Gen. Gobin spent a busy day inform
ing himself of the situation throughout
the county. He had a personal inter
view with Sheriff S. Rowland Bedall in
the forenoon and a
Telephone Conference
with him in the afternoon. The gen
eral also received messages from vari
ous parts of the territory. The mine
workers were greatly incensed over the
calling out of the troops. They assert
that this action was entirely unwar
ranted and is an unjustifiable expense
to the state. The strikers, through
their officials, are making an effort to
have the soldiers withdrawn. It is
said the mineworkers' officials intend
to circulate among the citizens of the
town for signatures a petition calling
upon tlie governor to withdraw the
troops.
Miles Dougherty, national board
member of the United Mineworkers
from this district, told the Associated
Press last night that Deputy Sheriff
Thomas Bedall, who is a nephew of the
sheriff of the county, and who was es
corting workmen along the street,
which action led to the riot, was whol
ly responsible for the trouble. Mr.
Dougherty said Bedall had no good
right to shoot, as no one was making
an attack upon him. The firing of the
revolver, he said,
Angered, tlie Crowd.
which soon got beyond control of the
peacemakers. Bedall's brother, Jo
seph, who attempted to go to the res
cue, was badly beaten by some one in
the crowd, Mr. Dougherty said, because
he was carrying several boxes of cart
ridges to his brother Thomas. It is not
Improbable that the strikers will call
ui on the county officers to fix the re
sponsibility for the shooting on the
deputy sheriff.
Of the twenty or more persons .who,
were beaten with clubs or struck by
bullets during the rioting, one man,
Joseph Bedall, is dead. The four po
licemen who were shot and the strikers
who were sflso hit by bullets will re
cover. Most of the wounded strikers
claim that they were merely onlookers.
IS HARD ON CANADA.
Tough Lot of Fishermen on Border
Get Best of the Government.
Vancouver, B. C.. Aug. 2—The close
by unguarded boundary line between
British Columbia and the States is caus
ing more trouble to Canada.
Many hundreds of foreigners are among
the fishermen who swarm on Frazer
river this time of the year and they are
a lawless lot. T3oat and net stealing has
reached an al,inning state. These foreign
fishermen are dead broke as a rule, swear
they are British subjects and get licenses
to fish and advances for pro'visions, be
sides boats and tackle.
They then make straight for the Amer
ican side, icpaint the boat, obliterate the
numbers, fish for a while in American
waters, sell their boats and get away.
The number of boats and nets stolen
this year is alarming and would make a
respectable licet in themselves. There
seems to be no way to apprehend the
thieves.
Suicide Vmc* ly miniite.
Bro.ikville, Pa., Aug. 2. Barnaba3
McC'ann. a well known citizen, com
mitted sui.i le yesteruay by igniting a
stick of dynamite. His body was
frightfully mangled. The cause for the
deed is not known.
Hundreds l' Kioters Kille«l.
Pekin, Aug.
2.—The
loreign otliee has
notified Vnited States Minister Conger
that government troops have killed be
tween 300 and 100 rioters In S/e-t'huen
province and that order is now restored
there.

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