Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 7, 1897, Page 6

| Ban The Rerald--Revi MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS - An ambitious negro admits that it makes him blue every time he remem- bers that he is black. Edhem Pasha has resigned again. That makes no practical difference to the military situation, because as an orthodox Moslem he is always resigned. That Montana man who is shedding his skin formerly lived in Chicago. Of course he had to get out of town just as soon as skin games were interdicted here. It begins to look now as if a few train loads of relief supplies for the Cubans might with entire propriety be distributed among the coal-mining dis- tricts of Pennsylvania and Ohio. John R. Lynch, the negro political leader of Mississippi, intends moving to Louisiana, where he thinks there is a better chance of success in politics than in his own state. Lynch has been in Congress, was the speaker of the House of Representatives of Mississ- ippi, chairman of the national Republi- can convention in 1888, and fourth au- ditor of the treasury under President Haartison, Good government in cities is made difficult, not alone by lack of con- science, but also by lack of wisdom. Writing of the city of Brooklyn, a cor- respondent of the New York Witness Says that “when the thieves are in power the people are swindled; and with only one exception, when the re- formers have been put in power, mat- ters have been no better, and in some cases worse.” The exception, doubt- less, refers to the mayorality of Seth Low, a man of clear sense and great ability, now president of Columbia uni-; versity, New York. The study of mun- icipal problems has been entered upon by many of the best citizens, and none too soon. Folly may be as costly as It is tious, but it is easy to imagine that ientiousness includes what it does clude. In a recent religious con- ce a devout missionary objected cepting a millionaire’s gift of two adred and fifty thousand dollars for y purposes on the ground man is not so religious This man became rich in almost be. the only way in which vast wealth can be accumulated honéstly—by the exer- » of superior business ability. He! riven substantial proof of his deep interest in the welfare of those less favored pecuniarily by setting aside several million dollars to be used for their benefit in religious, moral and educational ways. The objecting mis- sic: y evidently had been reading the eeping tirades of the anarchistic newspapers against the possessors 0} wealth, and—what few intelligent read- ers do—accepting their allegations as true, o oo ee ar ree A patent has been issued in the Uni- ted States for a novel process for water- proofing textile fabrics. In carrying out the process the fabric to be treated is wetted with water and placed be-; tween sheets or rollers. One of these sheets or rollers, which is preferably of tin or aluminum, is connected to the positive pole of an electric generator and the other sheet or roller to the negative pole. By employing such a dissolving positive electrode and pass- ing current through the wet fabric the fibres are made water-repellent. The ‘inventor states that the waterproofing is due to the formation on the positive conductor of a metallic oxide of some kind, produced by the liberation of nascent oxygen on the positive conduc- tor, due to the electrolytic action of the current on the water with which the goods are saturated, and which oxide enters in the fibres of the goods, aided by the current, and _ prob- ably is combined partly chemically and partly mechanically with the fibres, making the same waterproof by the presence of the oxide in or on the fibre. The strength of the current applied depends upon the character of goods submitted to treatment, but care must be taken not to carry the process too far. The nascent hydrogen on tne neg- acive side will, if the time of treatment is too long, accumulate and then begin to act as a reducing agent, and in case the period of treatment is prolonged beyond the proper time, then the nascent hydrogen will reduce the oxide of the metal in the goods to the me- tallic state, and the combination or union of the oxide with the fibres will be destroyed. by the reduction cf the! oxide to a metallic state. The process | is said to have the great merit of mak- ing the individual fibres and threads! water-repellent, while the pores of the gocds are in no way stopped up or closed. Consequently, if used on cloth-! ing it would not prevent evaporation taking place through the interstices be- tween the threads. Actor Seabrooke has been ordered to continue paying $40 a week alimony to his wife, even though he is out of a job just now and she is making $10 a week more by her own efforts on the stage. That is a good deal more dis- mal than the tomb scene in “The Isle of Champagne.” Some one has figured out that 1,10¢ theaters have been destroyed by fire in the last 100 years, and that 10,00€ fatalities were the result. The United Siates was unfcrtunate enough to have 462 of these fires. ew,|THE NEWS RESUME DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel- egraph Reports—The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Have Attracted Attention. The Nation’s ‘Capital. The first copies of the tariff act in jaw form for circulation haye been re- ceived at the document rooms of the senate and house. The law makes a pamphlet of seventy pages. The members of the house will have 25,- 000, the senators 10,000 and the sen- ate committee on finance 15,000. People Talked About. Mrs. Charles H. Spurgeon, widow of the late pastor of the Metropolitan tabernacle, London, recently turned the first sod of the ground at Bexhill whereon a large Baptist chapel will be built. Cc. C. Crane, a pioneer resident of Downing, Wis., is dead. He was, un- til recently, an extensive manufacturer and dealer in lumber, for more than twenty years owning the entire plant at Cranetown. He was a prominent Odd Fellow and Mason. Prof. Charles Henry Marcy, well known as a musician and composer, died at New York from apoplexy or heart failure at his home, aged forty years. He was a member of severa! well known musical societies, and his | music has been sung and played by many of the famous musicians and singers of the day. Elder John Davis of Princeton, N. J., is in his eighty-third year and his lived in ten or twelve states. He is a member of the Christian church, and preached in that church for fifty-three | years, and until he was too infirm for the active duties of a speaker. Mr. Davis says he was the humble instru- ment in redeeming 2757 persons at meetings held in Virginia, Teenessee and Kentucky. Miss Marie H. Jenny of Syracuse, | the | who has just graduated from Meedville (Pa.) Theological seminary (Unitarian) with high honors, intends to enter the ministry. She is de- scribed as “pretty, dressy, refined, cultured and athletic.” She is a sister of Miss Julia Jenny, who has made so | able a success as a lawyer in | Syracuse, as well as an orator and lecturer, Accidental Happenings. Antonia Drago, well known in min- ing circles in Montana, is dead from the effects of a snake bite. He was at work at a mine in the Naturtl Bridge c ict, When he was attacked by a large rattlesnake. Ha Jeffreys, a barber of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, left his shop Saturday evening and has not been seen since. He had poor health and it is feared he jumped into the river. He was pros- perous. Three Detroit young men were ' drowned by the capsizing of a rowboat off Sugar island, near the mouth of Detroit river. The drowned are: i liam W. Shier, Frank E. Russell, Jr., and Edwin Stubenstay. Fire almost destr d the Spring house at Richfield Springs. N. Y. The fire broke out in the landing. At the time there were 160 guests in the house, besides 100 employes. Every person in the building, as far as known escaped, r ay aa Pye Crimes and Criminals. ch Ingersoll, said to be a second of Robert G. Ingersoll tempt- ride in a drug store at Bath Beach, Brooklyn, by taking an oume of laudanum. Three persons committed suicide in Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Frances Schisch- ke, aged 45; Charles Weitzke, a tailor, aged 53; and an unknown man who jumped off the ferryboat int othe river. Pasquelle Dadario was hanged in the county prison at Philadelphia for the murder of Modestino Moffo. The vic- tim of the murder was a three-year-old | child. At a small hotel in Westchesterville on the nocth vestern boundary of New York, Patrick Sullivan, 26 years old, and his first cousin, Annie Sullivan, were found dead. They had been as- phyxiated by illuminating gas. Nathan Bevins, a wealthy and re- tired farmer and one of Fayette coun- ty’s Gowa) earliest settlers, is dead. He leaves an aged wife and two sons, S. H. and Orson Bevins, bankers at Hawkeye. Foreign Goasip. The duke of Marlborough has gained a new political laurel, and has won additional fame before the public by speaking from the same platform as | Lord Salisbury. A dispatch to the London Daily News from Cairo says it is rumored that the friendly tribes have occupied Abu Hamed without any resistance having been offered. It is said that Queen Victoria would, were it possible, promulgate a decree against second marriages. It is be- Neved that Princess Beatrice has promised her mother never to re-mar- ry. Gen. Albertone, the chief of the Ital- ian prisoners who were recently re- leased from confinement in Abyssinia, has issued a challenge to a duel to Prince Henry of Orleans on account of the charges of cowardice. A Gothenburg, Sweden, report says Lieut. Svendenborg, son-in-law of Dr. Otto Nordenskjold, the Arctic explorer, reports from Ascension that if nothing is heard from Herr Andree in six weeks it is not likely that anything will be heard from him this year. M. Poilloue de St. Mars, a fine old French general, who died the other day, directed that his funeral should be without military honors. The rea- son he gave was he did not want the soldiers’ dinner hour changed just for his sake. It is no wonder that he is hailed as a true father of the army. Great satisfaction is expressed in Great. Britain at the announcement that the queen has commanded Will- jam Quiller @rchardson, who was the duke of York and little Prince Ed- ward. ‘The archbishop of Canterbury states in a letter received at Chicago by Rey. John Lee, the chairman of the com- mittee of the Chicago Methodist minis- ters’ meeting on religious liberty for Protestants in South America, that in his judgment “religious liberty in the limit of the moral law is a priceless possession which men are bound to claim for themselves and to help oth- ers to obtain in all circumstances,” Otherwise. Secretary: Sherman has denied the “fake” that he was going to resign in favor of Whitelaw Reid. The blast furnace company at Ash- land, Wis., is shipping East nearly. 4,000 tons of unsold pig iron. During a sun dance of the Ponca Indians near Guthrie, O. 'T., White Feather, a noted Iowa Indian from Ne- braska, fell dead in a fit. All the placer mines along Bear creek, Montana, have had a good sea- son. The Colona group is especially rich in output. Dr. Mary Walker argued a case be- fore Justice Knowlton of the Massa- chusetts supreme court, in Springfield, ir week, and acquitted herself credit- ably. Over 300 policyholders in the Massa- chusetts Benefit Life association de- cided to transfer as many of the 10,- | 000 policyholders as were willing into some old established New York coim- pany. Jimmy Michael and Eddie McDuftee | Were matched to race ten miles, paced, in Boston on the afternoon of Oct. 2. | The former has made his entry for the | ee purse race to be ridden for Sept. | James C. Carter of New York has | contributed $5.000 to the Randolph ; Lucker Memorial hall. to be erected in Washington and “ee university, Lex- ington, Va., at a cost of $50,000, for | the accommodation of the law school. | At Eldora, Iowa, C. F. Manahan of | Ackley lowered the state bicycle rec- | ord for fifty miles by eleven minutes. i He made the run from Ackley to Marshalltown in three hours three | minutes and ten seconds. | Reports co:ne from Fort Collins of a lively mining excitement in Sand Creek pass, which lies between St. | Cloud and the Big Laramie river. The mineral consists of gold and silver and | lien in well defined veins and extends over a wide belt of country. Judge Taft of Cincinnati has ordered sold the Lancaster and Hampden Rail- road property in its entirety. He di- rects Receiver Black to dispose of it for not less than $150,000 to satisf, judgment in favor of James H. Ski ner. At Louisville, Ky., Judge John W. Barr refused the injunction petitioned for by Deputy United States Marshal _Lee Dudley to prevent Dr. A. D. | James, the new United States marshal | from discharging him ‘laimed he was protected by ¢ Mother Cleophus Mills, superior of Catherine’s academy in Lexington, has been notified of her selection s mother superior of all the Sisters of Charity in the United States and will ume her new duties at Nz _ next week. A big pocket of gold was found last week on Ark creek, 8 iN Cal., by Harry Nichols and his partner. It contained 217 ounces and was worth about $3,500. The owners of the Mi- netta B. mine on Thompson creek have bought the Seattle placer mine at that i place for $12,000. + ‘The town of Winston, Mont., has { produced a lady prospector who is en- | titled to be called a gold queen. M | Mattie Moore of Winston, while pros pecting near the old Freiburg mine, discovered a six-inch vein of free mill- ing gold that pans well and promises to ripen up into one of the large pro- ducers. | ‘The St. Louis Car Wheel company has filed a chattel deed of trust with the Union Trust company as trustee | for William H. Keirfey to secure a $50,000 note due in ninety da The chattel deed covers the proper’ Corre street, buildings, fixtures and other belongings. W. A. and ©. T. Thompson, members | of the John Eaton Company of Toron- to, whose large department — store burned recently and who failed soon afterward, have been arrested charged with having, during the month of Tune, illegally transferred goods for the purpose of defrauding creditors. ‘The trustees of Lehigh university at Bethlehem, Pa., have authorized an emphatic denial of the report that the university may be compelled to close its doors in September. This report was entirely unauthorized. The uni- versity will be open as usual in Sep- tember with all departments in full efficiency. An incident which occasioned con- siderable surprise among many friends of Mrs. Dugan, a widow lady of Del- ano, was her marriage to an Oregon ranch owner, reecntly, the meeting having béen secured through an ad | placed ina city daily. The newly- married couple left for their home in , Oregon. Baggy Trousers Fool a Snake. Some men have “sand” enough to plaster a house. Jim Murphy of Alma, was out in a field the other day when a huge rattlesnake struck at him. | Phe fangs of the snake passed through | his pantaloons and stuck there, with- | out touching the flesh. Murphy coolly reached down and clasped the snake by the neck and carried it a mile into | town, where he now has it safe in a | coop.—Kansas City Journal. Preparing for It. “I thought you were going on the stage,” he said. “TI am,” she replied. “Well, most society women who have aspirations that way don’t take so long about it.” “Well, the fact is, I haven’t succeed- ed in arranging for a satisfactory scandal yet.”—Chicago Post. The Smart Editor. He came into the editor’s den with- out even so much as a knock, “Phew!” he said, “it’s hot in here.” “You walked in very coolly,” re- marked the editor. Then the editor wrote it up for the paper.—New York Journal. ‘ twenty years, ago, fo paint a guvuee | EFFORTS WERE VAIN DISAPPOINTED OVER CREEK MEETING. STRIKERS PLUM Some of the Miners Have Returned to Work and All the Mines Are in Operation—De Armitt Wins With His Men—Kansas Miners Will Work Half-Time—The Uniformity Plan Still in Di«pate. Pittsburg, Aug. 1—After a long and weary night of waiting to learn the results of the meetings of the miners of the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal company, the camping miners were a disappointed lot of men, for the ex- pected exodus from the Plum creek, Sandy creek and Ooak Hill mines did not occur. The miners did not quit work as they promised to do, and all the mines were in operation. In the vicinity of the Sandy creek and Oak Hill mines anxious inquiry was made about Plum creek. At the two meet- ings the leaders announced that the Plum creek miners would come out, and that no more coal would be dug until the strike was won. ‘The main interest in the strike, so far as De Armitt’s men are concerned, is at the Oak Hill mine, about two miles from Turtle creek. The strikers thought that this mine would close, but this morning the Oak Hill miners boarded the company’s train at ‘Turtle creek as usual and started tw work. A body of strikers was camped along the railroad track, and as the train hauling the miners passed the camp four of the strikers jumped on the ears. Two of the miners, believing the strikers were about to make an attack, jumped from the cars and joined the strikers. These two were the only Ook Hill miners who started from Turtle creek for the mine and did not go to work. The mine officials say that, including these two men, not over 6 per cent of the Oak Hill miners are idle, and their absence is caused by sickness or something other than the strike, What the marchers will now do is not known, but from indications given by the speakers yesterday, it is be- lieved that large bodies of strikers will | be brought to the vicinity of the De Armitt mines, and the demonstration will be kept up. Much credit is given the leaders and the strikers for the good order which has been maintained. The men are not drinking .and perfect order is maintained in the camps. i Legal proceedings are to be taken against the marching coal miners un- less they disband and’go to their homes. It is evident that the marches are making an impression on the em- ployes of the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal company. Yesterday there was posted in the vicinity of the Turtle Creek, Sandy Creek and Plum Creek mines a proclamation by the sheriff commanding that all persons refrain fr sembling on the public high- ‘s of Allegheny county or interfer. ing with the peace. A meeting was: held which was addressed by District President Dolan. He attacked the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, saying that, owing to the inroads of electric lways and other means of rapid transit, the wages of the engi-' n would drop sooner or later, and H then they would be ing assistance from other organ In other portions of the district the strike mat- ters are quiet. Situation in West Virginia. Wheeling. W. Va. Aug. 1. — The striking miners’ organizers in the Wheeling district are making a des- perate effort to counteract the effect of the refusal of the men in the two mines of the Bogg’s Run Coal com- pany to come out, but it likely that the Bogg’s Run break will precipitate oth- ers. In fact the mine at Moundsville was working to-day with a small force and thirty-five of the seventy men at Elm Grove were at work. The Glen- dale operators assert that their mine will resume at once. Sige To Work Half-Time. Pittsburg, Kan., Aug. 1.—The min- ers in some of the mines in this im- mediate district have held meetings and resolved to notify operators that they are unwilling to work more than three days a week for the present. The object of the miners’ resolution is to prevent an accumulation of coal that might eventually find its way to the East and thereby be the means of deferring the early settlement of the miners’ troubles there. pe State Convention Called. Springfield, Il, Aug. 1—James M. Carson of O'Fallon, state president of the miners’ association, has issued a call for a state convention of miners to be held in this city Thursday, Aug. 5, to adopt a union scale for mining coal in hand and machine mines, and | a corresponding rate for day work. | The representation will be one dele- | gate for every 100 miners in the state er major portion thereof. ge Still in Dispute. Pittsburg, Aug. 1. — The coal ope- rators’ committee appointed at the true uniformity conference to secure signatures to the agreement were busy | revising and correcting the proofs of the contract which is being printed. It is still a question of dispute among , many of the coal operators as to whether enough signatures can be ob- tained to the contract to make it operative. e Is He a Forger? Plainfield, Wis., Aug. 1. — Howard Street, alias Jack Harris, wanted at | Lawrence, Kan., on a charge of forg- ery, has been arrested here. Disaster Caused by Heavy Rains. Breslau, Aug. 1.—The recent heavy rains have caused many rivers in Silesia and Bohemia to overflow. A uumber of bridges have been carried away, railway traffic has been stopped and several houses have collapsed. Many persons have been drowned. 'Two Girls Drowned. Northampton, Mass., Aug. 1—Mamie and Estella LaPoint, aged ten and , fourteen years, were drowned in Mill river. The girls came here from Fort Dodge, Iowa, about two weeks age. { They Will Find Out About Seizures ‘ on the Reservatio: Rapid City, S. D., Aug. 1.—The late detention of cattle at Pine Ridge agency by Agent Clapp develops into a hotly contested legal fight. Yester- day answers in twenty-three cases were filed by cattlemen in this city. The fight is not to get out of paying the ransom of $1 a head, but rather to make an end to all future corralling of cattle on the reservation. The boun- dary line between the reservation and the cattle ranges is imaginary as far as wandering cattle are concerned. The cattlemen contend that if Agent Clapp is sustained by the courts there will be nothing to prevent a repetition of the rounding at any time. It would be impossible for the cattlemen to keep stock from drifting onto the res- ervation or to prevent Indians from driving the cattle across the line into their possessions and then holding them for ransom. On the other hand, the Indians say that each year their range on the reservation is eaten by the stray cattle from across the line. TRAMP KILLS TRAMP, Fight at Mad Minn., by Fatal Results. Madison, Minn., Aug. 1. — A tramp named John Nelson, whose home is said to have been in Lincoln, Neb., was shot and killed at this place by one of a party of three tramps who entered a box car where Nelson and Chris Johnson, a partner, were. They told Nelson and Johnson to hold up their hands and a fight ensued, during which Johnson escaped and gave the alarm. The village marshal, aided by citizens, ran in thirty-four tramps, among them the man whom Johnson identifies as the man having the gun. The coroner’s inquest is in progress. The remains have not yet been buried. TROOPERS ARE DROWNED. Followed One Could Not Swim, and Pulls His Rescuer Down. Denver, Aug. 1.—Troopers Bertrand and Jacobson, of B troop, Second United States cavalry, were drowned in a reservoir at Monument. When re- turning from camp at Colorado Springs to Fort Logan, Jacobson fell from his horse into the water through which he was urging the animal to swim. Bertrand went to his rescue and was dragged down by the drown- ing man, Burglary at Redwood Falls. Redwood Falls, Minn., Aug. 1. — A vigilant lookout is being kept in the south part of the county for robbers who did some plundering in Walnut Grove. In early morning the front door of the postoffice was forced open. A quarter-inch hole was drilled in the safe door and a sufficient quantity of explosives put in the safe to break the fastenings of the door and throw it off its hinges. About $150 worth of postage stamps and $50 in money were carried off. The blacksmith shop of Johnson Bros. was broken into and some depredations done ther The earriage of Thomas Norton we up to the stable of A. Evans, was taken out of the stable and an effort made to hitch it to the bu but as the horse was not broken i Ss put back into the stable again and the burglars were forced to use their legs in escaping instead of horseflesh as they had planned. Taylor's Word Made Good. Redfield, S. D., Aug. 1.—The remain- ing assets of the defunct First Nation- al Bank of Redfield were sold at pub- lic sale by Receiver Bourne. ‘The en- tire assets were sold in gross to L. ©. Issenhuth, banker, as agent for Henry A. Taylor of Lafayette, Ind., brother of W. W. Taylor, for $10,860. There were two other bidders. The amount real- ized will be sufficient to pay the re- maining 10 per cent dividend to com- plete the full payment to all deposit- ors of principal and interest, substanti- ating Taylor's claim when the bank closed that it would pay dollar for dol- Jar. Drove Over Tramps. Bristol, S. D., Aug. 1. — George Chamberlain, living north of this place, while driving home, ran over two tramps, breaking the leg of one and crushing the foot of another. It is thought the men were drunk and went to sleep in the road. He was driving fast, having been after a doc- tor. Shot His Wife and Himself. Watertown, , Wis July 1.—A sensa- tional suicide occurred here. Albert Schultz, a young married man, fired four shots at his wife and then turned the weapon to his forehead, blowing out his brains, dying instantly. Mrs. Schultz will recover... The shooting was the result of domestic troubles. Sue the Banker. Rock Valley, Iowa, Aug. 1. — W. F. Stenzel and A. J. Kemper have begun attachment suits against William Mul- hall and wife. Mulhall is the banker who assigned here a year ago. Sten- zel’s claim is about $1,500. Both grow out of real estate deals Hotels Burned. Waupaca, Wis., Aug. 1.—Fire total- ly destroyed the Hotel Waupaca and badly damaged the Scoville hotel. It was caused by an explosion. Loss on Hotel Waupaca, $4,000; on Scoville house, $1,000. Both insured and both will be rebuilt. Rattlesnakes Do Bite. Eagle River, Wis., Aug. 1.—A snake charmer named. Lewis Smith, with Skerbeck’s circus, was bitten by a large rattlesnake here while perform- ing with him ina side show. There is little hope of his recovery. He lives at Sparta, Wis. Charged With Robbery. Madison Lake, Aug. 1.—Norristown ofticers arrived here with one Archie Darforth, who is suspected of having been implicated in the robbery of $3,- 000 from an old man named Greely in Morristown during the encampment of the G. A. R. Dynamite Exploded. Pittsburg, Aug. 1—By a premature explosion of a dynamite blast on Beechwood boulevard three men were dangerously hurt. One of them will probably die. FAST TRAIN ON THE BIG FOUR IS _- THROWN FROM THE TRACK. The Engineer and Fireman of bc. Trai Together With T wa Tramps, Are Reported Killed—"- None of the Passengers Were Hurt—Switeh Had Keen Fastened Open and the Train Ran Into It. Indianapolis, $ train Nooo, on the Chicago division a t of the Big Four, was wrecked | ai Thornton. A pin was placed in the switch which caused the train to leave - the track. The engine, baggage and express cars were overturned. Engi- neer Winslow and the fireman were © killed. According to information given out at the Big Four offices in this city no passengers were injured. The en- gine is a complete wreck. In addition to the engineer and fireman two tramps were killed. Engineer Winslow leaves a widow and remains were taken to his home at Greensburg and those of Fireman Crickmore to ndianapolis. The officials of the railroad have instituted a thorough investigation as to the per- petrators of the wreck. ‘There have recently been some labor troubles in and about Thornton, but none of them have been in any measure connected with the road. 7 It is said that» since the miners troubles there have been a number of strangers about the place who are not connected with the strike, but who are supposed to have been tramping about with a view to plunder during the ex- pected trouble. No attempt was made to rob the express or other cars after the wreck, and no understanding of the plot can be ascertained. All avail- able detectives were set at work on the case. The switch had been fastened open and the train struck it at a high rate of speed. The opinion is entertained at the headquarters of the Big Four road that the train wreckers had hoped to destroy a coal train about due. General Manager Schaff has of- fered a reward of $500 for the arrest. and conviction of the wreckers. SEALING CONFERENCE. Official Notice That It Will Be Held in the Fall. London, Aug. 1. — The British for- eign office notified Ambassador Hay that Great Britain accepted the prop- osition of the United States for an in- ternational conference on the question of pelagic sealing in the Bering sea, to be held in Washington during the com- ing autumn. A Heavy Crowd. Washington, Aug. 1—Some idea of the size of the yast throng of oilice seekers that has called upon the pres- ident since March 4 was conveyed to the visitors at the White House when they saw a number of workmen lift- ing up and strengthening the floor of the large iobby just outside the presi- dent's office. This fleer had sunk no less than four incucs from the weight imposed upon Ready to Apologize. Bombay, Aug. 1.—Gohnlee, the agi- tator who recently made certain alle- gations against the conduct of the British soldiers in their efforts to stamp out the plague, among other things asserting that the soldiers had violated two women, has withdrawn his charges. He says he is prepared to make a full apology to the govern- ment. Pushed Off the Train. Washington, Ind., Aug. 1, — Harry Lister, son of the purchasing agent for the Monen, was dered near here. He was pushed train, it is al- leged, by John \ ms of Trenton, Mo. Lister’s home was Bedford. Will- jams is in jail, An engineer named George Welch claims to have seen the murder, Alaska Gold Company. ‘Trenton, N. J., Aug. 1—The United States Alaska Gold company, with an authorized capital of $1,000,000 was incorporated by the filing of articles in the office of the secretary of state. The company is formed for the pur- pose of mining gold in the Klondyke fields. The capital stock paid in is $1,200, Train Crew Overcome. Hinton, W. Va., Aug. 1.—A freight train was stalled in Lewis tunnel on the C. & O., and the crew was over- come by foul air. Conductor Ed Bray is Gead and Samuel Hamilton, Ed Womax and Tom Kamewood are in a precarious condition. Pavilion Gave Way. Franklin, Ohio, Aug. 1—At the Mi- ami Chautauqua, while Dr. Talmage was speaking, the second rise in the pavilion at the rear of the speaker gave way, and several hundred people were dropped about ten inches. No one was seriously injured. Colored Man Hanged. Livingston, Ala., Aug. 1. — John Johnson, colored, was hanged here by the sheriff for the murder of A. F. Clarke, a white man, in January, 1896. Johnson made a full confession in which he said that he was hired to murder Clarke. Portuguese Revolt. Madrid, Aug. 1. — A dispatch from Lisbon says that the situation at Opor- to is alarming. Ministers fear an at- tempt at revolution. The governor of the town has been dismissed and re- Lys by Augusto de Castillo, a naval officer. Burlington Railroad Extension. \/ Aug..1.—The Times says tng % pone urlington Railroad com, % to extend its lines creat Cal ana Salt Lake, Utah, where it will connect with the Oregon Short Line, mak through line to the Pacific coast. Rog Denied by the Portuguese Washington, Aug. 1. — The guese minister has received a- gram from the foreign office in Li denouncing as untrue the pul story that a revolu' onary , Seimpending in Portugal Aug. 1, — Passenger ~ two children. His - cir is — i ee od