Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 8, 1896, Page 2

BY E. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA The atmospher2, if compressed, would make a sea thirty-five feet deep around tho globe. pare eeS e rake 5 To attack a man with any weapon is 8 yerious matter in Madagascar. It is punishable by deuth. It is considered unlucky in Ireland to view a funeral procession while the beholder is under an umbrella. Turkey is on the defensive over in Crete now, but there’s nothing very new in that. Except in the case of the helpless Armenians, ‘Turkey is on thé defensive about all the time. fa ee Cecil Rhodes is probably only too glad of another Matabele outbreak. He is not likely to miss any opportunity ities at present for ingratiating himself again with the government and the English people. The American consular service doubtless may be improved, but it is soothing to national selflove to know that Germany is about reforming hers, to bring it up to the American stand- ard. Mr. Tesla’s announcement of his be- lief in a possibility that the X rays are fatal to bacilli will revive hope in that direction. His belief is mainly theo- retical as yet, but a Tesla theory is worth considering. ieee A boy poet of fifteen years has just been discovered in a London factory. His name is Edmund Curtis, and he first attracted attention by some really fine verses in an English weekly. A genuine philanthropist has taken the boy from the factory and sent him to school. Mrs. Terhune (“Marion Harland”) eays she is satisfied that women have at present all the “rights” they can make use of. Indeed, “things have reached such a pass,” said she to all interviewer in St. Louis recently, “that Iam really seriously thinking of trying to win immortality for myself by be- ginning an agitation for ‘the rights of men.’” i eee rt is strange how useful the clup or- ganization has been found in promot- ing literature, patriotism, military knowledge, hunting, fishing and the fraternal virtues, since the Raines liquor law went into operation in New York. Mr. Raines dreamed not of the good he wrought for all these objects. But it is stranger still that no club has been formed to secure Sunday drink- ing privileges. The sentence of Dr. Jameson, al- though not very severe, is sufficient to stamp the mana convict, and the mili- tary proceedings which are likely to follow will be still more humiliating. And probably not the least galling feature of the situation to the man himself is the knowledge that Cecil Rhodes is at large and winning fresh laurels in Matabeleland. A young man of Boston who had just spent his last ten cents received a telegram from Seu Francisco the other day stating that he is the heir to a fortune of over $2,000,000. But this should not lead other young men who have only ten cents to part with it in the hope that be may get a similar tel- egram. Better keep it ¢s long as they can. Facts speak more powerfully than ‘words. The Spanish government takes occasion to say that one-half of the news telegraphed from Cuba to this country is false, that the rebellion is rapidly being suppressed and that it will soon be a thing of the past. Per- haps. If that.is so, however, why is Spain preparing to send still more troops to the rebellious island? Are they needed to keep the other Spanish troops loyal? Under the cherter proposed for Greater New York, appropriation bills will have to pass two municipal boards by a four-fifths vote, and in case of veto by the mayor, by a five-sixths vote. In preparing the charter the commission have an iportant work to perform, and if they can do any- thing to lift municipal government in this country to a higher standard they will be remembered among the bene factors of their time. Language, once said a great literary authority, is enriched by contributions from the siums, not from the upper strata of society. ‘Ihe latter are satis- fied to use it in its purity. We may quarrel with the use, in this sense, of the word “enriched,” but we have only to look at slang additions to our mod- ern dictionaries in order to realize chat language is at least increased from that source. So, on the whole, we have little sympathy with those per- sous who always sneer at the innova- tions of men not purists in style. The innovations are terse, vigorous and ex- pressive, and many of them have come to stay, ? The Herald. PITH OF THE NEWS |S EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM. re A General Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week, From all Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Per usal by Busy People. Washington Talk. Ihe state department has recently been giving much attention to the con- duct of the United States consuls, and in consequence it has been found nec- essary to call for resignations in the case of a few of these officers. People in Print. Nathaniel Hutchinson McKelway, a son of St. Clair McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, is dead of con- sumption. Maj. Josiah Quincy has issued an in- vitation to Li Hung Chang to visit Boston as its guest while on his coming visit to this country. Col. Calvin Fletcher Burns, president of the National Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., and one of the state’s leading financiers, died after an illness of two weeks. Gen. C. E. Colston, who was an offi- cer in the Confederate army, and at one time commanded the Stonewall brigade, died at the Soldiers’ home, in Richmond, Va. William B. Noble, a wealthy citizen of Washington, D. C., who went to Colorado for the benefit of his health, died in the swimming pool at Glen- wood Springs, presumably of heart failure. His family is summering at Bar Harbor, Me. Casualties. The explosion of a powder magazine at Fuenfkirchen, Austria, resulted in the death of five persons, the injuring of eighty others and the wrecking of the town hall. The yacht Avocet of Cleveland, for whose safety there were great fears, she haying been caught out in the gale, has finally been reported safe at Rocky river, ten miles west of Cleveland. Enos N. Barge, aged twenty-one, and Berbara Herschey, slightly younger, while returning from an outing in a buggy, were struck and instantly killed while crossing the track of the Pennsylvania railroad near Lancaster, Pa. Four large flood gates at Buckeye lake, near Newark, Ohio, were opened to prevent the luke from overflowing its banks, ‘The water rushed out, flood- ing 500 acres, washing away fields of grain and killing fifty sheep. The bark Yoalani arrived at Hono- lulu on July 16, 154 days from New York. ‘Lhe vessel ran into a hurricane April 21, losing sails and rigging. The ship Tillie BE. Starbuck sailed for New York with a cargo of sugar valued at $200,000. While Levi Sancomb and Nellie Bushy, aged respectively eighteen and sixteen, of Chateaugay, N. Y., were re- turning to that village they were struck by an engine on the Central Vermont railroad as they attempted to cross the track. Sancomb and Miss Bushy and the horse they were driving were instantly killed. Two French fishing crews report that the schooner Anna Marie, with twenty- one men, sunk in a collision with the schooner Pacifique and that the schooner Tedel, with fifteen men, foundered. The French crews landed at St. Johns, N. F., having been picked up adrift in dories. af Andrew Mansfield, for many years a resident of Chicago, who arrived at St. Joseph, Mo., a few days ago to take charge of the city electric light plant, suffered an accident which will cost him the sight of both eyes, if not his life. By mistake he opened the door of a gas generator. ‘The five-year-old son of Will Morlan fell into’ a well sixteen inches in di- ameter and eighty feet deep at Jeffer- son, Iowa. He managed to catch hold of a sharp rock just above the water, fifty feet from the surface of the earth, and hung there. A man tried to go down, but was unable to force his way through, so small an opening. Finally a twelve-year-old boy squeezed down and rescued the little fellow. The res- cuer, however, had his shoulders terri- bly lacerated. Evil Doings. The mine of the old Pittsburg Coal company at Hymera, Ind., was burned by strikers. One of the robbers of the stage near Cripple Creek, Col., on July 23, has been arrested. It is reported that a race-war has occurred about fifteen miles east of Jasper, Fla., in which six men were killed and seven seriously wounded. James Casheraga, alias George Wil- son, was hanged im the federal jail at Fort Smith, Ark., for the murder of a man named Thack. He protested his innocence. I. N. Coffee, president of the Illinois state board of pharmacy, was stabbed and killed in Cairo by Dr. Crabtree, in front of the latter’s drug store. Crab- tree is in jail. The case of Ed Perry, who was to be hanged at Ava, Mo., for killing three members of the Sawyer family, early last fall, has been appealed to the su- preme court. George McConnell, grand keeper of records and seals of the Knights of Pythias of Oregon, has disappeared, and his accounts with the order are about $2,000 short. It is said he has gone to his former home in Canada. Jesse Wilson of Massillon, Ohio, ac- cused his wife of having improper rela- tions with other men. She denied the aceusation, when he threw her on the bed and cut he: threat. She is not ex- pected to live. Wilson is in jail. Frank Ccnnors and Steve Brady, each about twerty-five years old, tried to hold up Bartender James Maloney, in Maloney Bros’ saloon at Kansas City, Mo., and Connors was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by the bar- tender. James Byers, employed at Moran, Ind., as agent for the Vandalia Rail- road company and the Adams Express company,ekilled himself. Byers was! 1 $800 short in his accctnts with the ex press com yj and $150 short with Young Hartwick of South IIL, who shot and killed tis fat also shot a policeman who attem} to arrest him, was captcred in a car at Whiting by Officer Horlbeck, after a struggle, in which tbe officer’s clothes suffered considerably. John Selvage, a young farmer, shot and killed the thirteen-year-old daugh- ter of David Hoffman, a farmer, and then killed himself, near the little town of Afton, Kas. The murderer left a letter in which he stated that he could not live without the child. The grand jury at San Francisco has presented an accusation against Supe- visors King, Scully, Benjamin Hughes, Dunkirk, Morganstein and Wagner asking their removal from office on the ground that they corruptly reduced the assessments of several large corpora- tions. Several months since Jim Carey ar- rived in Clinton, Mo., from Iowa, and made his home with his uncle, W. F. Carey, near Clinton. During the lat- ter’s absence Mrs. Carey eloped with her husband’s nephew, taking her baby along. A warrant has been issued, but it is thought they have fled to Iowa. Lucas Johnson and his wife, colored, while on the public road near Augusta, Ark., were fired upon from ambush, the woman being instantly killed and the man fatally wounded. Another negro with whom Johnson has had trouble has been arrested on suspicion. From Foreign Shores. Sig. Bernard Mortango, formerly governor of the Banca Romana, is dead in Rome. He was the central fig- ure in the Banca Romana scandals. Geoffrey Millais, the second son of Sir Geoffrey Millais, is a keen sports- man, and is writing a book on the deer of India. His recent work on the big game of Africa was well received. Several arrests have been made at Warsaw of persons who were found to be connected with an impending Pol- ish reyolutionery movement. The movement is of a serious character. A riot broke out®at Zurich, arising from the killing of a Swiss by Italians, and continued all night long. An infu- riated crowd attacked the Italian quar- ter and committed serious excesses. The Chronicle announces that the duke of Westminster, as chairman of the Cretan distress furd, has appoint- ed Bickford Smith of the Antiquarian society, to distribute the English funds in Crete. After the arrival of the reinforce- ments on their way from Spain to Havana, Capt.-Gen. Weyler will as- sume personal direction of the cam- paign against Antonio Maceo in the province of Pivar del Rio. The women imprisoned in the jail at Las Recojidas are the wife of Dr. Trujillo and the wife of the insurgent leader Colongo. United States Consul Monoghan, at Chemnitz, regards it as meriting note that, while earnest efforts are being made in the United States to reform the consular service, a movement is on foot in Germany to reform the consu- lar service in that country so as to bring it up to the present efficiency of that of the United States. Miscellcncous. Congressman H. C. Logenslager was renominated by the Republican con- vention of the First district, which met at Woodbury, N. J. Because of depression in business, the Pennsylvania railroad decided to stop all work on its line wherever pos- sible, in order to reduce expenses. It is said, on excellent authority that ex-District Attorney John R. Walker will, in a few days, institute proceed- ings in the federal court against the brewers’ combine which has existed at Kansas City for some time past. Among the speakers who will take the stump for the Populist ticket will be Senator Butler and ex-Chairman Taubeneck, Eugene V. Debs of Terre Haute, Robert Schilling of Milwaukee and Senator Allen of Nebraska. The wage conference of the chimney branch of the American Flint Glass Workers’ associaticn is being held at Pittsburg, and the prospects are that a settlement will be made on the basis of last year’s scale. About 2,000 men are affected. A wage scale to govern the shipping interests of the world has been drawn up. If the shipowners fail to accept jit, seamen say, a trike will be de- clared, which will be felt wherever men trust their lives to the decks of vessels. G. H. Duggan, owner of the half- rater Sophis, has admitted having fouled the buoy at the end of the ninth mile in the Ogdensburg (N. Y.) yacht race, although unseen by the judges’ boat. ‘the international cup was given to Paul Butler’s Vesper. he great auditorium in St. Louis, in which the Republicans and Popu- lists held their national conventions, will be turned into a Madison Square garden for horse shows, bicycle meets and other great indoor sporting enter- prises the coming fall and winter. Within a mile of the white sands of Normandie-by-the-Sea, where a thou- sand summer visitors daily bathe in the ocean, a gigartic man-eating shark was captured. The great fish became entangled in the rets of some fisher- men, and he was towed into shallow water and killed. William W. Borst was appointed re- eciver of the Denver, Lakewood & Golden railroad by Judge Hallett in the United States district court at Denver, on application of the Farmers Loan and Trust company of New York. The company is in default on the interest of $627,000. At New York a meeting of promi- nent sporting men and managers of different athletic clubs has been held, to form a protective league. After con- siderable discussion it was agreed to name the new orgatization the Ameri- ean Sporting Protective League, Its object is to promote all kinds of pro- fessional sport. Maj. Ggorge A. Armes, U.S. A., re- tired, who achieved national notoriety last fall by delivering a threatening letter to Gen. Schofield on the eve of his retirement as commanding genera] of the army, came into prominence again by being the cause of a writ of sequestration issued by the district court to secure pay of alimony and costs_in a divorce suit. MINERS SUFFERING. SEVEN THOUSAND MEN THREAT- ENED WITH STARVATION. They Are Now Idle and Merchants Refuse Them Credit—They Sow Crops Qnly to See Them De- stroyed by the Army Worm-—Un- less Help Comes From Outside Sources They Will Starve. Milwaukee, Aug. 4. — A desperate state of affairs exists on the Gogebic range in Northern Michigan. Where once 8,000 iron miners were employed at an average of $1.75 a day now only 1,000 have employment at $1 a day and the unemployed find themselves on the verge of starvation. All the mines with but two exceptions, have shut down their pumps. Merchants have refused credit to the unemployed and before the snow flies thousands will be in need cf food to keep from starving. Most of the residents along the Gogebic range have not yet recov- ered from the panic of 1893 and are still in debt. Those who are still em- ployed have their salaries drawn by the merchants with whom they deal, and after deductipg a share of the debt the balance is turned over to them. Under this system the people are al- most penniless most of the time. To the idle ones the merchants have re- fused credit because they see there is no immediate prospect of their secur- ing employment. Many of the mine companies have allowed the idle miners to plant potatoes on the spare lands, but the army worm now swarms in that part of the state and is destroy- ing the crops. No 1elief can be expect- ed from Gogebic county for the treas- ury is depleted. All the taxpayers have organized themselves and have refused to pay taxes, and consequently the poor commissioners are at sea where to get money from. Unless out- ‘side assistance is secured there will be starving families on the range. THREE DROWNED. Tragic Occurrence in the Mississippi River. La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 4.—While out boat riding Henry Hendrickson, Anna Amsrud and Lizzie Oldstad, three La Crosse young people, were drowned in the Mississippi river just below the city. They were just rounding a head in the river where the current was very swift and the boat became un- manageable. The boat with it occu- pants was pulled under some barges which were moored near by and that was the last seen of them. Neither of the parties could swim and had very little experience with rowing. ‘The bodies have not been recovered. Elevators to Close. West Superior, Wis., Aug. 4. — The Belt line, Terminal, Globe and Great Northern Elevator companies have notified their managers that the plants in this city will be closed permanently in a few days, owing to the fact that the Superior board of trade has decid- ed to adopt a new system of inspec- tion under the Wisconsin law. Board of trade men believe that this was done for the influence it was expected to have on the deliberations of the Commercial club, which body held a meeting last nignt and unanimously passed a resolution favoring the change in systems. It is looked upon as a master stroke of bluffing, but it did not seem to work the desired re- sult. The board of trade at the meet- ing to-night will finally settle the mat- ter, which has been agitated by the grain interests of the head of the lake, in fact, throughout the Northwest, for three years. The board of directors will be ordered to appoint inspectors under the Wisconsin law, and provis- ion will be made for their salaries, which means that the Minnesota sys- tem ‘of inspection will be abolished. Hundreds of Dakota farmers have in- formed the Superior board that they will ship all their wheat to this point if the new system be inaugurated; that they are dissatisfied with the Min- nesota system of grading wheat and will co-operate heartily in the interest of the Superior board. Champion Oarsmen. Halifax, N. S., Aug. 5.—The profes- sional four-oared race for the cham- pionship of the world and $1,000 was rowed last evening. The crews were the English, Bedford, St. John, Hali- fax and Canadian. The latter crew took the lead from the start and kept it to the turn, being closely pressed by the English crew, with Halifax a close third. The Canadians turned the stake boat with Halifax a half-second_be- hiftd, with English, St. John and Bed- ford crews in order. The return was pretty much in the same order until within about 300 yards of the finish, when the Englishmen caught the Can- adians and were neck and neck for a time. Suddenly the latter spurted and drew slowly ahead and crossed the line fully two lengths ahead of the English crew with the Halifax men a good third. The winning crew was composed of Gaudaur, Duran, Hackett and Rogers. ‘the time of the Can- adians was 18:30. Robhery Confessed. Perry, Okla., Aug. 4.— Mail carrier Hempmeyer, whose stage was report- ed robbed by outlaws between Okenee and Lacey several days ago, has con- fessed he committed the crime him- self. Hempmeyer is only nineteen years old. Since the robbery he has been acting suspiciously and spendtings money freely. He was arrested yes- terday on suspicion and to-day made a confession. te had charged the rob- bery to “Bill” Doolin and “Dynamite Dick,” outlaws who recently escaped from the Guthrie jail. Strikers Arming. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 4.—A startling piece of news in connection with the Brown strike, which comes from an apparently reliable source, is to the effect that the strikers are arming themselves and drilling. It is an- nounced that the purpose of the men was to avenge the death of two men who were shot at different times in conflicts between union mea and non- union men. Senator Nelson delivered a financial speech at his Alexandria home. This Said to Be Amount of the Moore Bros.’ Losses. Chicago, Aug. 6.—It is said that the Moore failure will aggregate between $5,000,000 and $7,000,000. Such is the sum mentioned by a bank president who has beea in the confidence of the speculators during their daring and dazzling reign. According to this au- thority James H. Moore and William H. Moore, his brother, held together $5,500,000 worth of Diamond Mateh stock. A portion of this amount was owned in fee before the speculative era in the stock began. Much, however, was bought at prices ranging between 150 and 240. The Moore holdings were a majority of the total stock is- sued. It so happens, however, that the balance of the stock has been heid by a great many stockholders. Soon af- ter the stock began its wonderful aerial flight these minority stockholders be- gan unloading, and each case the per- sons who bought this purchaseable stock were James Moore and his broth- er. Most of these purckases were not cash purchases, but on account, some of them running thirty and some six- ty days. Margins of 5 per cent were given, and in this way at least $2,000,- 000 worth of the stock was bought. Two banks in Connesticut, one in Bridgeport and the other in Hartford, were the holders of the stock as trus- tees. As the stock fluctuated in value or the time limit for purchase expired more margins had to be deposited. In this way not less than 60 per cent on the par value of the stock was paid. All this the Moores paid without flinching, but, in the long run, the stock became, notwithstanding its ex- traordinary intrinsic value, a fright- fully heavy lead to carry. At last the two brokers were substantially the only prop to the big enterprise. The result was inevitable, and the crash followed. And this it happens that to-day, while the Moores, the financial genii of this colossal enterprise, are losers to the tune of $5,000,000 or $7,- 000,000, the numerous minority stock- holders are the winners. for they have been the beneficiaries of the margins paid and their stock is still theirs al- though held in trust. IT WAS A DEFEAT. House of Lords Antagonizes the Govrnment. London, Aug. 6—In the house of lords that body to-day by a vote of 25 to 19 inserted a clause in the Irish laborers’ bill which the government resisted as it would endanger the passage of the bill in the house of commons. The defeat of the govern- ment caused a stir in the lobby. It has disconcerted the government, which fears that the Irish land bill will suffer considerably at the hands of the Irish landlord peers, among them the marquis of Londonderry, the earl of Winchilie and the duke of Ab- ercorn, whose strictures on the land bill promise amendments in committee which are likely to cause trouble when the measure is returned to the house of commons. After the vote Arthur Balfour, the government leader in the house of commons, had a long confer- ence with the duke of Devonshire, lord president of the council. MARKET REPORTS. Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. Chicago, Aug. 6.—Wheat — August, 58c; September, 583-4c; December, 6lc. Corn—August, 241-2c; Septem- ber, 251-4¢; October, 25 1-2c; Decem- Der, 255-8c; May, 281-2c. Oats—Au- gust, 183-4c; September, 181-8c; Oc- tober, 181-8c; May, 203-4¢. Pork— August, $7.20; September, $7.25; Oc- Latest tober, $6.30; January, $7.171-2. Lard —August, $3.32 1-2 September, $3.37 1-2; October, $3.40; December, $3.55; January, $3.70. Ribs—August, $3.57 1-2; September, $3.52 1-2; Janu- ary, $3.65. Rye—Cash, 301-2c; Au- gust, 301-4c; September, 3le. Flax— Cash, N. W., 711-2c; September, 711-4c; December, 74c. Timothy — Cash, $3.15; August, $2.97 1-2; Septem- ber, $2.87 1-2. Milwaukee, Aug. 6. — Flour steady. Wheat lower; No. 2 spring, 58 1-8c; No. 1 Northern, 603-4c; September, 5S 5-Se. Corn’ steady; No. 3, 25a26e. Oats firm; No. 2 white, 211-4c; No. 3 white, 21c. Barley firm; No. 2, 38c; sample, 25a29c. Rye quiet and steady; No. 1, 82¢. Chicago, Aug. 6.—Hogs active and generally 5a10c higher; light, $3.20a 8.55; mixed, $3.05a3.40; heavy, $2.70a 3.30; rough, $2.70a2.85. Cattle—Natives stronger, others steady; beeves, $3.25 24.30; cows and heifers, $1.30a3.90; Texas steers, $2.50a3.70; stockers and feeders, $2.60a3.70. Minneapolis, Aug. 6. — Wheat—Au- gust closed at 55c; September opened at 543-8c and closed at 55c; Decem- ber opened at 571-8c and closed at 575-Sc. On track—No. 1 hard, 57c; No. 1 Northern, 56c; No. 2 Northern, 55 1-4. South St. Paul, Aug. 6.—Hogs 5a10¢ higher than Saturday; very few on the market; selling early to packers; sales at $2.50a3.15. Cattle steady; good demand for fat cattle and feed- ers; sales at $1.70a2.80. Died in the Mountains, Helena, Mont., Aug. 6.—The body of» James Anderson, a well known teleg- rapher, was discovered yesterday in a cabin a few miles northeast of this city. Anderson had taken up a gold claim two years ago and was living alone on it. From the condition of the body it is thought that Anderson had been dead at least ten days. He died of typhoid fever. He had worked in the Western Union office when he first came to this city six years ago from St. Paul. He was considered a fast operator and*had taken the press re- port for some time while. in Helena. Anderson had considerable property, it is said, in Kansas City. Wreck and Explosion. Shamokin, Pa., Aug. 6.—Two men were killed and another fatally in- jured in a freight wreck on the Phil- adelphia & Reading railroad six miles west of here to-day. The wreckage took fire from the dismantled loco- motive and the knowledge that on the siding where the accident occurred was a car loaded with gunpowder prevented any attempt at rescue until the explosion occurred. It was thus that the body of Engineer Michael Smock was burned within full view of the workmen. It was pinned beneath the engine and fiercely burning debris. SHOTS EXCHANGED EXCITING INCIDENT OF THE STRIKE: IN CLEVELAND. A Supposed Attempt to Blow Up a Non-Union Men's Boarding House Results in a Running Fire Bee tween Rioters and Militia—Ten to” Twelve Thousand Men May Go on. a Sympathetic Strike. Cleveland, Aug. 6.—Shooting by sol- diers and rioters marked the opening of another day in the vicinity of the Brown Hoisting works. At 1:30 this morning two men stopped in front of Mrs. Lind’s boarding house, a few squares from the works, where a man named Gettner, who is employed at the works, boards. The two men yelled for the “scab” to come out, and then they began to throw stones at the house. Presently one of the men fired at the door, the bullet passing through the panel and entering the house. The noise attracted the attention of the militia, and a detachment of Com- pany I men were ordered to the scene on the doubie-quick,. As the soldiers turned a neighboring corner the two men started to run. The lieutenant in charge shouted “Halt!” The pursued men paid no attention to the order, and the soldiers began firing at them. They returned the tire and for a few moments there was a lively fusilade. One of the men suddenly made a ery and was heard to groan. later, however, both had disappeared in the darkness. The affair caused the utmost excitement in the reigh- borhood for a time. The bullets struck several houses. Two went clear through the side of a grocery store. The soldiers and others believe that the two men had planned to blow up Mrs, Lind’s house. About 150 non-union men went to work at the Brown works this morn- ing, under guard of a large force of militia and police. An enormous crowd of strikers and their sympa- thizers were present, but no trouble occurred. On every street within a radius of nearly a-mile of the plant both soldiers and policemen patroled the sidewalks. Many of the soldiers were double-armed, carrying belts and revolvers as well as guns. A number of the strikers also carried guns. At a meeting of the executive committee of the locked-out men this morning it was decided to ask the central labor union at its meeting this evening to declare a sympathetic strike. If this is done it will call out probably 10,- 000 to 12.000. It is not likely now that the sympa- thetic strike will be ordered. Eight of the leaders of the central labor union who represent different trades were interviewed, and all but two of them expressed themselves as opposed to such a strike, declaring that it would be unwise and could not benefit the Brown strikers. The question will probably be decided at the meeting of the union to-night. Sale of N. P. Lands. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 6.—All of the: lands of the Northern Pacific railroad in the State of Washington, compris- ing 11,902 sections of patented and an indefinite quantity of unpatented land, were sold at public auction by Special Master Alfred L. Carey. The sale was. under a decree of the United States. circuit court of the Eastern district of Wisconsin. The property was bought in by Edwin W. Winter for the Northern Pacific Railway com- pany, of which he is president, for $1,- 705,200. A private bidder attempted to purchase one tract of 160 acres, but Winter bid it up to $15,000 and took it at that figure. There was no opposi- tion after this. Winter purchased the next tract at $100, with an option to- take the rest of the patented land at the same figure, which he promptly covered, depositing $119,010 in North-- ern Pacific bonds. The remaining lands of the company were knocked down to him for a lump bid of $3905,- Naturalization Refused. Washington, Aug. 6.—ln refusing to- grant naturalization papers to two young Italians to-day, Judge Cole, of the district supreme court, held that: no one who is in ignoratice of the con- stitution of the United States is com- petent or entitled to become admitted to citizenship. The young men ex- plained that they had come to this: country before reaching their majority and that they have ever since resided here, but when questioned by the- judge they confessed they did not un- derstand the constitution and were even doubtful as to the form of this. government. ‘Judge Cole thereupon decided them to be ineligible to citi- zenship on the ground that they could not swear to support something they” do not understand. Prisoners Shot. Havana, Aug. 6.—Brig. Gen. Esha-- gue, with 700 reinforcements, arrived by the trans-Atlantic mail steamer Catalina from Spain yesterday. The same vessel brought a quantity of munitions of war and $1,000,000 in silver consigned to the captain gener- al. The prisoners of war, Antonio Pena Lopez, an insurgent lieutenant, and Marcisco Rodiguez Lopez, a pri-- vate, recently court-martialed, were shot in the Cabanas fortress here at sunset last evening. Another prisoner from Santiago, Nunez Bravo, a rebel prefect, was shot at Santo Domingo yesterday. The. new” Moorhead directory has: jisc been iseued. It ‘shows that. Moorhead his a population of 3,567, while Fargo has 9,460. Alabama's Election. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 6.—Further returns received from the elections in this state confirm the first reports of a complete Democratic victory with: surprisingly large gains. Johnston has carried forty-five of the sixty-six counties and his majority is about 42,— W. G. Nye, the city controller of Minneapolis, has been appointed a member of the committee on apneais: and grievances of the @dd Fellows sovereign grandi lodge.