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^ HIGHLAND RECORDER VOL. XXII. MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., SEPTEMBER 28.1900. NO. 40. DROUTH. Head! dead! all dead beside the drouth Vnirnt brook. Shrouded in moss or in the shriveled grass; Where waved their bells,?from which the wild-bee shook The dew-drop once,?gaunt, in a night? mare mass. The rank weeds crowd; through whit li the cattle pass, Thirsty and lean, seeking some mengre spring, Closed in with thorns on which stray bits of wool Thc panting sheep have left, that sought trie cool. From morn to evening dearily wandering. No bird is heard; no throat lo whistle awake The sleepy hush; to let its music leak, Tbe bot sunflowers by the glaring pike Lift shields of sultry brass; the teasel tops. l'ink-tbornoil. advance with bristling spike on spike jj Against the furious sunlight. Field and copse i! Are sick wita summer; now, with breathless stops. The locusts cymbal; now grasshoppers beat ' Their castanets; and rolled in dust, a i team ? jj Like some mean life lost in its sorry dream, An empty wagon rattles through the heat. Where now thc blue-streaked flags' the flowers whose mouths Are moist and musky? where the sweet . breathed mint. That made the brook hank herby? where Fresh, bubble-like, through bloom-roofs of the Souths the brake "Wild morning-glories, rich in hues, that Only the gray-blue heron, famine-weak, hint Searching the stale pools of the min i At coming showers that the rainbows nowless creek,? tint? Utter its call; and then the rain-crow, "Where all the blossoms that the wildwood too, knows?? False prophet now, croaks to tbe stag v The frail oxalis hidden in its leaves: nant air: I The Indian-pipe, pale as a soul that While overhead,?still as if painted grieves; there.? The freckled touch-me-not, and forest A buzzard bangs, blank on the burning a**,c. ? blue. ^ " ?Madison Cawein, in Harper's Magazine. MISCONCEPTIONS. g., jrjrj^ _ HEODOHE VEl? lan bad been out -of England for more than thirty y e a r s. Thiriy odd years the set he red in bad been startled and mys bis sudden flight and disap? pearance. At that time bis position here bad seemed a singularly pleasant one. He was young?he was seven or eight and twenty: he was fairly well off?he had something like three thou? sand a year, indeed; he belonged to an excellent family, the Shropshire Vel* lans of whom the titled head, Lord Vellan nf XorsbingUeid. Avas his uncle; be was good-looking, amiable, amusing, popular, and be had just won a seat in the House of Commons, (as jun? ior member fm- Bheflngham), where, since be wits believed to he ambit ions as well as clever, lt was generally ex? pected that be would go far. Then, quite suddenly, be bad re? signed and left England. His motive for this unlikely course be explained to no one. To a few intimate Mends lie wrote brief letters of farewell. "I am off for a journey round the world. I shall be gone au indefinite time.'' Tbe indefinite time elided by defin? ing it as upwards of thirty years, for the first twenty of Which only bis so? licitor r.nd his bankers could have given you his address and they wouldn't. For the last ten he was understood to be living in tbe Island of Porto Rico, and planting sugar. .Mean? while his uncle had died, and his cous? in ihis ancle's only soui bad succeeded to the peerage. But the other day his cousin, too. had died, and childless, so that the estates and dignities had de? volved upon himself. With that a re? turn to England became au obligation^, there were a score of minor beneficia? ries under bis cousin's will whose lega? cies could not without delay be paid unless ihe new lord was at hand. Mrs. Sandyrl Kempton sat before the fire in ber wide. airy, faded drawing room and thought of Theodore Vellan of old days, aud wondered what the present Lord Vellan would be like. She. had got a note from him that morn? ing, dispatched from Southampton the day before, announcing: 'T shall be in town to-morrow?at Kowden's Hotel, in Cork street,"' and asking when be might come to her. She had answered by telegraph. "Come and dine at eight to-night," to which he had wired back au ac? ceptance. Thereupon she had told her son that he must dine at his dub; and now she was sealed before her fire, waiting for Theodore Vellan to arrive, and think? ing of thirty years ago. , She was a bride then, and her hus? band, ber brother Faul and Theodore Vellan were Bound In a league of ar? dent young inaunish friendship, a friendship thai dated from the time when they bad been undergraduates to? gether at Oxford. She thought of the three handsome, happy, talented young men and of tbe britten, future she had foreseen for each of them, ber husband af the bar. ber brother in the church, nud Vellan?not in politics, she could never understand his political aspira? tions, tliey seemed quite at odds with Hie rest of his character?but in litera? ture, as a poet, for he wrote verse which she considered very unusual and pleasing. She thought of this, and then she remembered that her husband was dead, and that Theodore Vellan bad been dead to his world at all events for thirty years. Not one of them had in any way distinguished himself; not one had in any measure fulfilled the promise of his youth. Her memories were sweet and bittei; they made her heart glow and ache. Vellan, as she recalled him, had been before all things, gentle?with the gou? tiest manners. His gentleness, she told herself, was the chief element of bis charm?his gentleness which was really a phase of his modesty. "Hi' Wai very gem le, he Avas very modest, be was very graceful and kind," she said, and she remembered a hundred instances of his gentleness, his mod? esty, his kindness. Oh, but he aviis no milksop. He had plenty of spirit, plenty of fun. He was boyish, he could romp, And at that time a scene repeated itself to her mind, a scene mt bad passed in this same drawing ?ora more than thirty years ago. It as tea time, and on the tea table lay dish of sfearl biscuits, and she and er husband and Vellan were alone, [er husband took a handful of pearl Iscuite ;>n(l tossed them one by one 1 tbe air. while Vellan threw back is head and caught them in his mouth s they came down?this Avas one of is accomplishments. She smiled as he remembered it, but at the same line she put her handkerchief to her yes. "Why did he go away) What could t have been?" she wondered, her old ewllderment nt his conduct, lier whole eiug longing to comprehend it, re? iving with something of the old. old one. Could it have been?J Could i have been?? And an old guess, au ld theory, one she had never spoken o anybody,.but bad pondered much in Hence, again presented itself interrog tivdy to ber mind. The door opened; the butler mumbled i name, and she shav a tall, Avkite laired, pale old man smiling at her and ?olding out his hands. It took her a ittle while to realize Avho it was. With in unthinking disalloAvance for the ac? ion of time, she had been expecting a ?oung fellow of eight and twenty, irown-haired and ruddy. Perhaps he, on his side, Avas sur? mised a little by meeting a middle* tged lady in a cap. Alter dinner he would not let her eave him, but returned with her to the IraAviug room, and she said that he night smoke. He smoked odd little .'noan cigaretles.whereof the odor Avas lelicateand aromatic. They had talked ?f everything, then had laughed and lighed over their ancient joys and sor ?ows. We know melancholy wanders mud in hand. She had cried a little ivben her husband aud ber brother vere first spoken of, but at some comic ?emiuiscence of them a moment after* parda she aviis smiling through her ears. "Do you remember so and so?" aud 'What has become of such a one?" irere the types of questions they asked Mich other, conjuring up old friends ind enemies like ghosts out of the >ast. Incidentally he described Forte Uieo and its natives and its Spaniards ts climate, its fauna and its flora. In the drawing room they sat oe apposite sides of thc fire and were si lent for a bit. Profiting by the pennis lion she had given him, he had pro Sneed one of his Cuban-cigarettes opened it at Its ends, unrolled it. rollet it up again, and lit it. "Xoav the time has como for you U tell me Avhat I most Avant to kuoAv,' she said. "What is it?" "Why you Avent aAvay." "Ob!" he murmured. She AA'aited a minute. Then? "Toll mo," she urged. "Do you remember Mary leona?" In asked. She glanced at him suddenly as i startled. "Mary Isona? Yes. of course." "Well, I Avas in love with her." "You Avere in love with .Alary Jsona?1 "I Avas very much in hwe with her I have never gol over it, I'm afraid."' She gazed fixedly at the fire. He lips were compressed. She saw a slen der girl in a plain black flock, with i sensitive pale face, luminous, sad. dari eyes, and a mass of dark, waving hai -Mary Isona of Italian parentage, i little music teacher whose only rda tion to the world Theodore Vella! lived In Avas piofessiorial. She cara into it for an hour or two nt a tim now and then, to play or to give ; music lesson. "Yes," he repeated, "I was in lov With her. I have never been in lov with any other AA-omau. lt seems ri diculous for an old mau to say it, bu I am in love with her still. An ol man? Are Ave eA'er really old? Ou body grows old, our skin turns whit* but the spirit, the heart? The thin Ave call '1?' AnyhoAv, not a day, no an hour passes, but I think of her. long for her. I mourn for her. Yo knew?you kueAv what she Avas. D you remember ber playing? Her woi: derful eye.*.' Her beautiful pale face And boAV the bair grew around th forehead? And her talk, her voice, he intelligence! Her taste, her lnstinci in literature, in art? il was the fines 1 ever met," "Yes. yes. yes," Mrs. Kempton said dowly. "Sln> Avas a rare woman. 1 inew her intimately?better than any me else. I think. I kneAv all the un [nippy circumstances of her life: hal torrid, vulgar mother; her poor, Ireamy. Inefficient father; their pover? ty: how hard she had to Avork. You were in love with her. Why didn't voe marry her':" ??She wouldn't have had me." "Did you ask lier?" '.'No. It was needless. It went with? out saying." "You can never tell. You ought te have asked her." "It was on the tip of my tongue of course, to do so a hundred times. My life Ava1* passed in torturing myself with the question whether I had any chance, in boping and fearing. But as often as I found myself alone with ber I kneAv it Avas hopeless. Her manner to me is one of frank friendliness. There was no mistaking it. She noA'c-r thought of loving me:" "You were Avrong not to ask her. One. never can be sure. Oh, Why didn't you ask her?" His old friend spoke Avith great feeling. He looked at her surprised and eager. "Do you really think she might have cared for me?" "Oh. you ought to have told her, ought to have asked her," she repeated. "Well?now you know why I went away." "Yes." "When I heard of her?her?hei death"?he could not bring himself to say her suicide?"there Avas nothing else for me lo do. It Avas so hideous, so unutterable. To go on with my old life, in the old place, among the old people, was quite impossible. I Avrnt ed to folloAv her, to do Avhat she had done. Tbe only alternative Avas to fly as far from England, as far from my' sell, as I could." "Sometimes," Mrs. Kempton con fessed by-aud-by, "sometimes 1 Avon doted whelher. possibly, your disap pearance could have bad any such con? nection with Mary's death?it followed it so immediately. I Avondered some? times Avhether, perhaps, you had cared for her. But I couldn't believe it?it Avas only because the tAvo things Hap? pened one upon the other. Ob, why didn't you tell her? It is dreadful, dreadful T' When he left her she still sat for a little Avhile before the fire. "Life ls a chance to make mistakes? a chance to make mistakes. Life is a chance to make mistakes." It Avas a phrase she bad met in a >iook she Avas reading the other day. Then she had smiled at it: now it rang in her ears like the voice of a mock? ing demon. "Yes. a chance to make mistakes," she said, half aloud. She rose and went to ber desk, un? locked a draAver. and turned over its contents, and look out a letter?an old letter, for the paper Avas yelloAV ant the ink Avas faded. She came back tr, the fireside, unfolded the letter, and read it. It covered six pages of note paper, in a small feminine hand. It was a letter Mary Isona had written to ber. Margaret Kempton, tbe night be? fore she died, more than thirty years ago. The Writer recounted the many harsh circumstances of her life, but they would all have been oearable, she said, save for one jrreat and terrible secret. She bad fallen in love Avith a man avIio Avas scarcely conscious of her existence; she, a little obscure Ital? ian music teacher, had fallen in loye Avitli Theodore Vellan. It was ns% she bad fallen in love Avith an inhabit? ant of another planet; the worlds they respectively belonged lo were far apart. She loved him?she loved him ?aud she know her love avsr hopeless and slie could not bear it. Oh, yes! she met him sometimes here and there, at houses where she Avent to play, and to give lessons. He WM civil to her, he Avas more than civil?he was kind; he talked to ber about literature and music. "He is so gentle, so strong, so Wile; but he never thought of me as a wom? an?a woman Avho could love, Avho could be loved. Why should he? If the moth falls in love with the star, the moth must suffer .... I am cowardly: I am A\eak; I am Avhat you Avlll; but I have more than I can bear. Life is too hard?too hard. To-morrow I shall be dead. You avIH be the only person to know why I died, and you will keep my secret." "Oh, the pity of lt?the pity of it!" murmured Mrs. Kempton. "1 Avonder Avhether 1 ought to haAe shown hirw Mary's letter?"?Waverley Magazine. Itovnnrd'a Inglorious Gnuie Usg. In Telemarken last summer a man turned up one day Avith the mortal re? mains of a vixen and two cubs which he had slain the previous evening on the mountainside nearby. He had ac? cidentally chanced upon the "earth" during the absence of the owner, and had patiently waited for her return. Eventually that excellent family pro? vider made ber appearance, bringing with her ele\'en small caper cailzle, one full-groAvn hen and a mouse. The chickens and the mouse were packed in between the Avings of the gray lieu, the tips of which* she held lu her mouth.?The Field. ltellgious Sects In Knglanrt. England has many religious deuom- . inations and sects, probably more than 800 altogether, and the names of some are amusing. Out of a list of 210 I | have collected these: Glassites. Glaze brook Army, Glory Band, King Jesus's , Army, Open Baptists. Open Brethren, j Particular Baptists, Peculiar Teople, ? Ranters, Recreative Religionists, Ra? tional Christians, Sandemanians, Wor? shipers of God- Benevolent Method? ists, Bunyan Baptists, Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, Ecclesia of the Mesiah, Followers of the L. J. C., j Free Grace. Gospel Christians.?New , Y'urk Pres*, HE NEW8JBRIEFLY TOLD. Wm. H. Dun ton was arrested at the hamberlln Hotel, Old Point Comfort, a the charge of embezzling $10,000 ?om the Union National Bank of Chi tgo. The fact that American capitalists ill subscribe nearly $20,000,000 to has. T. Yerkes' company for building lilways in London is surprising the nglish people. The torpedo boat Stockton arrived t Norfolk after a successful builders' ?lal trip. Eight people were injured by the fall f an elevator in the Fisher Building, 1 Chicago. Four masked men held up the ex ress car on the St. Louis-Portland yer, on the Chicago, Burlington and tulney, near Lincoln. Neb., and robbed tie local safe. Alfred Castner, bVrber, and Pasquale imassure, tailor, rivals in love, fought ntll Castner was dead and Omassure robably fatally injured. A lone robber held up a passenger rain on the Northern Pacific, near tathdrum, Idaho, and got away with 500 of the passengers' property. Pearl Corbin, 12 years old, living tear Lu ray, Va., died from the effects f burns. Her clothes caught fire from cook stove. John Sisson and his son killed John 'onnor and his nephew, Martin Dever? ill, in Warsaw, Ky. Martin Fry, who killel his brother n-law in Carlisle. Pa., was convicted if murder in the first degree. Fire burned to the water's edge the teamer War Eagle, of the Eagle Pack !t Company, and the Carrier, of the dinoun Packet Company, while lying it their docks. Joseph Schultz, bill Jerk of the War Eagle, was burned to leath while asleep on the deck, and me man is missing. James Catlett, colored, after serving our years of a sentence of eight years, mposed for the murder of George "Jrandstaff, in Winchester, Va., was lardoned by the Governor. Judge Powers gave out a statement ieclining his appointment by Acting Governor Nebecker, of Utah, to the Tnited States Senate, because he knows ie cannot be seated. Augustus Bowen, a boy of 12 years, was so badly beaten and kicked by A.llan Engel, an older boy, in Ship pensburg, Pa., that he may die from als injuries. Theodore Furley was found guilty of attempted rape on Mrs. Sarah Bowers n Martlnsburg, W. Va. David LeAvis Shepard and his wife, in Foxborn, Mass., were murdered, probably by their deranged son. E. S. Mason, president of tbe Bank if New York, died at his home in that ?ity. Four negroes were taken from the jail at Pontchatoula, La., and lynched. Train service waa restored in Galves? ton and martial law abrogated. The daily bulletin issued from the headquarters of thc miners announced that the strikers had received grati? fying accessions to their ranks in the Wyoming and Lackawana Valleys. The attempt of the organizers to get the miners at Williamstown and Tower City io join the strike was a failure. The inhabitants of the region about Hazleton fear trouble. Several small acts of violence were reported. Lindsay Jackson, colored, was ar? rested at Alexandria, Va., on the charge of attempting a felonious as? sault on Mrs. James Coxen at Side burn, Fairfax county, Va. The Electrical Review, of New York, claims negotiations will soon be con? cluded consolidating the telegraph and telephone companies. Oyster-tongers in Pagan Creek, Va., defied the sheriff and his deputies, who came to arrest them for working on leased beds. The Postoffice Department issued a fraud order against Arthur O. Foster & Co., dealers in cotton futures, in Philadelphia. The executive committee of the Christian Endeavor Society decided to hold the next convention in Cincin? nati. Joseph McGingan was arrested iu New York on the charge of killing his wife by throwing her from a window. Charles Prust, superintendent of the Norway Iron and Steel Works, died at his home in York, Pa. Four men of the flshiug schooner Mary A. Whalen were drowned during the gale off Cape Cod. It was estimated that there are 1000 bodies yet to be taken out of the ruins In Galveston. Five policemen were overcome in New York by a fire that caused a loss of $220,000. One fireman was killed and ten in? jured by a falling wall in Toledo, O. ? Farmer Baldwin, of Hilton, N. J.j was shot four times by Thomas Doyle. Doyle was wounded by the farmer's shot gun. Efforts of the strike leaders to close the West End Coal Company's mine at Mocanaqua were fruitless. Governor Sayers, of Texas, said that the rebuilding of Galveston would be well under Avay by the latter part of the Aveek. The South Danvers National Bank, of Peabody, Mass., closed its doors. Congressman Bout.elle, of Maine, is reported to bc rapidly improving. Captain Holway and crew of three men of the barge S. L. Watson, which sank off Highland Light during the storm Tuesday, were saved by the tug? boat Gladiator, Avhich bad the barge in tow. The Census Bureau announced the population of Fitchburg, Mass.; Johns? town, Pa., and Molden, Mass. H. H. Lush, formerly a member of Parliament of New Zealand, was be? fore the Industrial Commission. He explained the system of arbitration in New Zealand. Mrs. Florence Buehler died In Chi? cago of fright, superinduced by threat ot her husband to kill her. Buehler was arrested and committed suicide. Commemorative tablets were pre? sented at Portsmouth, N. H., for new battleships Kearsarge and Alabama. Secretary Ixrag made an address. More men are out in the anthracite coal region and the ranks of thc strik? er- showed no hreak. TRAIN HELD UP, DARING SCHEME Sl'CCESSFU LIA' CARRIED OUT. ROM BERTH TO BERTH. I'lth the Al?l of n Formidable Looking i'iatol, Persuaded thc Awakened Fro aengera to Hand Over Their Valuables? He Exchanged a Few Shots With Con? ductor, Doing No Harm, and Eacaped. Spokane, Wash. (Special).?Single? handed, a masked robber held up the vest-bound passenger train on the Northern Pacific at one o'clock in the aorning, and succeeded in getting way with about $500 in cash, several catches and a quantity of jewelry, "he robbery occurred after the train eft Athol. Idaho, and the lone#robber pft the train at Rathdrum. The hold ip was evidently carefully planned, nd was executed with a cool delibera ion which showed thc robber thor iughly understood his business. Until ie left the train few of the passengers ?ealized that only one man was in the dot. Conductor Dunning Avas the only >erson on the train who offered Berl? ins resistance, and a few shots from he robber's gun effectually silenced he trainman. As the robber stepped iff the trian at Rathdrum the condue ;or came out of the tourist car and ired twice at the robber. The latter ?chimed the fire, clipping a piece of leather off the conductor's hat. No me wad hurt during the holdup, but ?very occupant of three cars was ter? rorized. The man boarded the train it Sand Point. Idaho, where a short stop was made. He is described as seing a little over five feet, in height, of Hight build, had a light mustache and wore a dark suit of clothes, a mask and a slouch hat. After the train left Athol he gained the rear of the second Pullman sleeper and at once began op? erations. From bunk to bunk he work? ed, waking up the sleepers and de? manding their valuables, while cover? ing them Avith a formidable-looking pistol. Upon his arms he carried a short sack, made of a coat sleeve. For some reason he didn't use the sack, but slip? ped money and valuables into his pockets. After cleaning up both Pullmans the robber entered the tourist car. Here the occupants began to scream with terror, and attracted the attention of the conductor, who was in the forward part of the coach. He came down the aisle, and the robber backed out of the car door and stepped off the platform as the train was pulling into Rath? drum. Drawing his revolver, the con? ductor fired twice at the man, who at once fired three shots at the conductor. The latter beat a hasty retreat Into the car. The robber escaped before the alarm could be given to the few peo? ple at the Rathdrum station. A reward ot $2000 has been offered for the capture of thc lone highway? man who held up the westbound North? ern Pacific passenger train near Athol, Idaho, at midnight and secured $600 cash and a quantity of watches and jewelry from the passengers. Sheriff Bradburn and a large posse are in pur? suit. The robber has been traced to a point three miles south of Athol, Avhere he held up a ranchman and stole his horse. Ol sc I gi A Burlington Flyer Held Up. Lincoln, Neb. (Special).?Four mask? ed men held up the expres.t car on the St. Louis-Portland "Flyei" on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail? road, near the village of Woodlawn, a few miles northwest of Lincoln. The men forced their way into the car and compelled the express messenger to open the local safe, which they looted. Only a small sum rewafdfd the rob? bers. The messenger ctfuld not open the through safe, which contained a large sura of money, and the robbers did not attempt to break it open. After going through the local safe tlie men left the express car and disap? peared in the country. Angry Mob in Fan .i?Hii. San Juan de Porto Rico (Special).? The plant of El Diario, organ of the Federal party, was completely destroy? ed by a mob. The type and presses were smashed. The supposed cause of the disturbance were articles attack? ing Mayor Egozcuo, who is a Republi? can. No arrests were made. Munoz Rivera, the editor of the paper, is pre? paring a protest to Governor Allen on the ground that no protection was af? forded by the authorities. The protest will be sent to Washington. To Curtail Yarn Production. Charlotte, N. C. (Special).?The rec? ommendation of the Southern Cotton Spinners' Association that its members curtail their production of yarns as much as possible for sixty days has been complied with by enough mills to bring about a reduction in the South? ern output of about 40 per cent. Two large mills at Maiden, N. C., have sus? pended operations altogether. Tn Exterminate Boxers. London (By Cable).?The Chinese minister here, Slr Chih Chen Lo Feng Luh. has received an imperial ?diet which orders that the Boxers be ex? terminated, and says that the mission? aries at Pao Ting Fu arc to be escorted by the troops of the acting viceroy and delivered to the commanders of the al? lied forces at Chang Sing Tien and Lu Koa Chiao. Sick Soldiers Return. San Francsico (Special).?The United States transport Grant arrived from the Philippines and China. The Grant brings home over 500 discharged sol? diers, including nearly 200 sick and wounded. She will probably remain in quarantine several days. Young Womal? Murdered. Binghamton, N. Y. (Special).?Anna White, aged 28 years, who was employ? ed at the home of Samuel Hllsinger, in Oneonta, was found dead in the kitch? en of the house hy Mrs. Hilsingsr, who had been aroused from sleep by three pistol shots. Each of the shots had taken effect in the woman's body, and she had breathed her last when Mr. Hilsinger arrived on the scene. Miss White came to Oneonta about three months ago with an infant child. She had been cast off by her relatives, who are believed to live in Pittston, Pa. \ An inquest ie being held. 6,000 rROBARLY PERISHED. >nservatlve Estimate of Dead in Gab Teston- Eellef Work. Galveston, Texas (Special).?All es mates of the number of dead in Gal? ston have been made as conservative l possible, but the evidence grows ronger that the figures have been lly too small. It is now believed that 100 persons perished in the flood. A ?eat number of negroes lost their rei and few have been identified. The roperty loss probably will foot up 12,500,000. The work of extricating bodies from ie mass of wreckage continues. With 1 that has been doue to recover bod l buried beneath or pinned to the nmense rift, the work has scarcely arted. There is no time to dig raA'es and the remains are hastily msigned to the flames. Under one pile of wreckage 20 bod? 's were taken out and cremated. In oother pile a man pulled out the re lains of two children. For a moment e gazed upon them and then mechani ally cast them into the fire. They ere his own flesh and blood. As they lowly burned he watched them until ley were consumed. Then he resumed is work assisting others. At Hurd's Lane, about four miles 'est of the city, the water ran to a eight of 14 feet. Hung up in trees nd fences are the bodies of men, ?omen and children, which are being ollected and cremated as rapidly as ossible. All is in readiness to turn on the cur ent for the arc lights in the business listrlct. but because of the danger rom hanging wires on the circuit tho natter of lighting will be indefinite^ ostponed. Three telephone wires an iow working between Galveston and louston. Clara Barton, president of the Red "ross Society, has issued au appeal to he American people for money and upplies for the sick and wounded. Her dea ls to spend some of the money vith local merchants wherever prac icable. She and assistants are doing tobie work. HS,OOO MEN ARE OFT. I'ery Elttle Violence Reported?Breach Still as Wide ns Ever. Hazleton, Pa. (Special).?Following s the statement issued by President etchell on behalf of the striking mint yorkers: Hazleton. Pa.?Reports received ai mr office from Districts Nos. 1, 7 and S if the anthracite coal region show thal :here have been great accessions tc he ranks of the strikers. In District to. 7 (Hazleton region) not less than L500 mine workers who mined fulled tc "eport for work, thus Increasing the :otal number on strike from 10,000 tc 11,500. In District No. 9 (Schuylkill) out forces have been augmented by 450( nine workers, in addition to the 30,00( reported. The situation in District No. 1 (Lackawanna-Wyoming) is practically the same as the first day of the strike, i>uly 200 men remaining at work. To? tal number of men idle, 118,000. From every section of the an? thracite region reports indicate thal much dissatisfaction prevails among those who have up to this time failed to participate in the strike, and wt confidently expect that the number ai work will grow less with each succeed lng day until the mines shall be com pletely closed. JOHN MITCHELL, President United Mine Workers oi America. PART OF HIS BRAIN GONE. The Patient Survived an I munal Opcrn Hon and May Recover. Rochester, N. Y. (Special).?To liv* after the removal of a portion of hi< skull and a segment of his brain is th* experience of David M. Frost, a New York Central Railroad freight engint driver, and as the operation was per? formed Friday morning, and the mar is still alive and in what the physician regard as a very favorable condition, ii it believed by them that he will re cover, aud probably live many years a walking, a talking, breathing testi? monial to the efficacy of modern sur? gery, aided by a fine physiqus anc great vitality. Dr. Wm. R. Howard attended Frost and determined upon an operation. The forepart of the skull over the left eye, and part over the right eye wen taken away, as also the bridge of thi nose and the bone over the right eye The part of the brain in which tht pieces of bone had imbedded them? selves was also removed. The opera? tion was a delicate one, but was care? fully performed, so that the danger wat reduced to a minimum. Frost became conscious after the operation. Dr Howard thinks his patient will recover Bodies of American Soldiers. Washington (Special).?Col. Wm. S Patten, of the Quartermaster's depart ment, on duty at the War Department has completed arrangements for th* free transportation to the United States of tbe remains of soldiers and sailors and civilians who lost their lives an< were buried in the island possessions of the United States and in China According to the present plans of th* department a burial corps will tak* passage on the transport Hancock scheduled to leave San Francisco ob the 1st proximo for the Philippines. Stones on Railroad Track. Hanover, Pa. (Special). ? Worlej Haasler, a young man of Spring Grove has been arrested on the charge of pil ing stones and lumber on the tracks ol the Western Maryland Railroad witt the intention of wrecking a passengei train near that station. Th* Wisconsin's Short Run. San Francisco (Special).?The neA\ battleship Wisconsin took a short run about the bay and will test her ma? chinery in a similar manner. On Thursday she will sall for Port Or? chard. After being overhauled in dry dock there the trial trip will be made Lived to Me Nearly 104. New York (Special). ? Mrs. Anns Baumle died at Newark, N. J., at th* age of 103 years, 7 months and 2 days She was a native of Austria, Mrs Baumle retained all her faculties unti about four years ago. She showed re markable physical strength, consider? ing her great age, and only on Wednes day last she took a walk of half a mile 35 Killed By Explosion. Dux, Bohemia (By Cable).?An ex plosion occurred at the Frisch Glued Mine. Thirty-five persons were kHlei and 15 injured. 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Hunton, Who 11 Wanted in Chicago, Arrives at Fortress Monroe ?lames Cntlett Pardoned Itv Governor Tyler-Fifteen Thousand Acres of Fine Timber L;md Has Reen Destroyed. Fifteen thousand acres of timber land were burned over hy a Bro which has boen raging in the Diemal Swamps. The fact was brought out by an in? vestigation which was concluded by William ll. (Jay, who inspected the barned district et the instance of Wm. N. Camp, of Albion, Pla., thc principal owner. * The fire is not yet ont, but is now confined to small areas and its onward course is seemingly checked. No intelligent estimate of th" dam? age can be made. Valuable pine and juniper trees are burned and shriveled and in some places scorched 80 feet from the ground. The soil, whose com? bustible nature resembles peat, has been burned in spots to a depth ot several feel, leaving yawning excava? tions fringed in black. Beare, deer, wild eats and other animals forced from their haunts have either sought safety by fleeing to the highlands or have been driven further in the fast? ness of the jungle. A theory has been offered thal the wolves which have been preying on the stock of North Carolina farmers were run our of the swamp by the fire. Several of the ani? mals, which are of a species similar to the coyote and which are not indigen? ous to the localities where caught, have been taken alive. Two were sent to Delaware Park and another younger one was.carried to Franklin, with a view to its domestication. Lake Drum? mond, normally a beautiful sheet <'f water, some eight miles across, has shrunken to much smaller proportions. Jericho canal, one of the feeders, has gone dry, and the lake cannot be reach? ed from this side except on foot. A guide says hundreds of animals flock about its shores at night in search of water. i ? Arrested nt I'orM'es*. 'Monroe. Wm. B Dunton, who is alleged to be an embezzler to ihe amount of $10,00i) from the Union National Bank of Chi? cago, was arrested at Fortress Monroe upon a warrant issued by the United Stat?s Commissioner. The arrest w.is made hy Deputy Marshal West. The alleged defalcation occurred on the 11th inst., since which time Dun ton had been shadowed by a Pinkerton letective. He first went lo New Tort md registered under the name of Jack? son at the Waldorf-Astoria. From there he went io Ai1**0**'- City and stopped at the Hotel Brighton under the name of Duncan. At the latter place he chartered the sloop yacht J. W. Morgan and sailed for Hampton Roads. Pinkerton's man was there awaiting his arrival and he was arrest? ed as stated. He is accompanied by a woman who is not his wife. About $2000 in money was recovered from his person. Coal Exports. Coal exports from Norfolk continue to increase in volume. Within the week six steamships, carrying approxi? mately 25.000 tons of Pocahontas coal, have sailed. The Spanish steamship Begona took a full cargo for the Brit? ish Admiralty, to be delivered at Malta. The Italian steamship Cit ta. di Messina took a cargo for Messina, the Italian steamship Balilla took one for Naples, the British steamship Strathord one for Nagasaki, the British steamship King Frederick one for Tampico and the Norwegian steamship Fri one for Halifax. No shipments for Russian ac? count have, so far as known, been made. Much of the coal, it appears, is for commercial purposes, but a good deal of it will be burned by warships. Catlett Pardoned. After serving over four years of a long sentence for murder, James Cat? lett, colored, was pardoned by-Clover- - nor Tyler from the Virginia peniten? tiary. Catlett was convicted at Win? chester on March 23, 18%, of killing George Grandstoff. a well-known white man, by hitting him on the head with a brick. Ed Broaddus, colored, was arrested and tried at the time for com? plicity in the murder, but was acquit? ted. Considerable doubt was expressed at ihe time Of Catlett's guilt, ami it i.s now generally believed that Broaddus struck the fatal blow. Broaddus ru afterward shot and killed during an al? tercation in Pennsylvania. Catlett re? ceived a sentence of eight yeera, and was teirdoned enuditinmiiiv Staunton Courthouse. . The committee appointed by the Su? pervisors of Augustin county to make a contract for rebuilding aud remodeling ? the Court House has opened the bids. 10 in number, and let the contract tu A. F. Withrow & Co. Their bid was $29,398. Work will begin October next and the building will be completed bv September 1, 1901. The eommitt.. is composed of T. M. Smily. John G FuB?>n and William Paui> k. ,j I "1 J +