Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 25, 1897, Page 2

The Levald--Review. By E. Kiley. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS - = A correspondent wants to know what can be raised in Hawaii, Sugar and the stars and stripes. By the death of an elder brother a Boston man has become a count. Here- tofore his life has been blameless. Never get discouraged. Patrick Kel- ly of Niles, Mich., had his neck broken several weeks ago, and’ will soon be out. A woman in Delaware walked seven- teen miles the other night in her sleep. What a woman for night police duty! Where now are those who said the time would never come when a horse would trot or pace a mile in two min- utes? Dead. Langtry might as well drop his di- vorce suit. London has a scandal in- volving a prinee, a statesman and a duchess. Three of a kind beat a pair. The Klondike mosquito screen may also find a market in New Jersey. The Jersey mosquito is not much larger and stronger than the Klondike mon- ster. Princess Kaiulani, the niece of Liliu- okalani, expects to be queen of Hawaii in case annexation fails. But it is ac- cording to rules to “come in” before the auntie? Tillman Watkins, aged 91, and Felic- ity Slaughter, aged 77, eloped from Natchitoches the other day and were married. Wonder if it was the opposi- tion of their parents that caused it? The cheapest freight carriage in the world is on the Great Lakes, where a ton of ore is carried a thousand miles for less than a dollar. One could not in reason expect a dollar to ‘go far- ther.” Mr. Booth- ‘Tucker, commander of the Salvation army, is the latest inventor of Utopia. He wants to raise $500,000 with which to establish what he calls a “Poor Man’s Paradise,” on lands to be bought in Arizona or elsewhere on the line of the Santa Fe railroad. Mr. Booth-Tucker will learn much from sad experience, long before he gets his far western paradise in good working order, Attorney A. R. Smith of Omaha has confessed to stealing 227 bicycles. The day he was caught he had captured seven high grades, several low grades, and had his optics fastened on others. Smith moved in good society, was for- merly from Doylestown, Pa., and was just starting for the Klondike when captured. An enterprising attorney, indeed. What a success he would have made in the gold camps! He who does something at the nead of one regiment will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred. So wrote Abraham Lincoln to General Hunter, in a letter said to be published now for the first time. Lincoln’s fa- vorite officers were the men who did things. In what he said to Hunter how succinctly he puts the general truth that it is the use and not the mere possession of opportunity that de- termines the value of service! Almond King, a 28-year-old six foot- er of Lansing, Mich., and Miss Lizzie Young, a Boston, Mass., damsel of about the age of 50 years, went to Chicago recently for the purpose of getting married and starting in busi- ness. A day or two later they left town without having fulfilled their mission. Their failure to do either was due to the mysterious flight of $1,195 from its hiding place under a pillow in the room oceupied by King. It is needless to state that the money belonged to the Boston lady, and that her unsuccessful matrimonial venture was quite expensive. But even Miss Young is not too old to learn. A committee of the British parlia- ment appointed to inquire into the methods of money-lenders, listened to one witn who confessed that he car- ried on his business in several places and under eight different names. If he traded everywhere under the same name, people, he frankly remarked, “would not be likely to enter the trap.” This worthy declared that he had sometimes made loans at three thou- sand per cent. With certain classes, members of parliament for example, he had no dealings. Women owning annuities and tradesmen were the chief victims of the eightfold sharper. The usurer owned that there were peo- ple who knew better than to come to him. The people who do not know better need to be protected against themselves, and such protection is one of the obligations of discerning and discreet citizens. The total number of immigrants ar- riving at the ports of the United States during the month of July was 14-756, as against 21,476 for the same month of 1896. This is the lowest tota} for any month of July since the pass- age of the act of 1882, when the Fed- eral government assumed control of the immigration system, and probably marks the lowest point of immigra- tion since then. Of the total named, 11,340 entered at the port of New York, The largest number came form Italy, 2,928, with Russia second, 2,376, most- Jy Polish Jews. 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 state department has been In- formed that the six prisoners under arrest at Bahia, Brazil, for complicity in the mutiny on the American ship Olive Pecker, and the murder of the captain and mate, will be brought to the United States for trial on the U. S. 8. Lancaster. People Talked About. Judge Augustus H. Fenn, of the Gen- necticut supreme, died from Bright’s Cisease, aged fifty-three. Abner Gile, one of the most wealthy and widely known lumbermen of Wis- consin, died at La Crosse, aged sev- | enty-seven, after a long illness. Miss Sarah Randall died at Balti-; more on the eve of the 103rd anniver- | sary of her birth, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. Rey. J. G. K. MeClue has been elect- | ed president of Lake Forest university | at Chicago. He graduated from Yale in 1870, and from Princeton 'Theolog- ical seminary in 1873. Charles D. Nicols, a brother of De- | lancy F. Nicols, the noted New York attorney, died in the workhcuse at Quincy, lL, of sunstroke. Drink had been his ruin. General Freight and nt Thacher of the tional Rai 3 the American hospital in the ¢ i Mexico, of liver disease. He has been | ill for several weeks. | The Cologne Gazette says the g and } duke of Hesse has presented the czar | of Rus: his brother-in-law, with an | | i | i Shuisacage shied extensive site at Matilehohe, upon which his Russian majesty will erect at his own expense next spring an or- thLodox chapel. While passing through the streets of | Nur burg in company with the | pri regent of B: Wilham was verbally insulted several times by perso: in the crowd. One man shoute ‘We want no P sians in Bavaria.” Arrests were ade by the police, but the real culprit es- caped. , Enperor Accidental Happenin An American lady, Mrs. J. W. Field, residing at the Hermitage, Kast Grin- stead, Eng., was fatally burned. Emanuel Hanselman, a prominent farmer living near Lawrence, Kas., ‘as gored in a terrible manner by a Je y bull. Ten stacks James Hynd, taining fully were destroyed by fire. of incendiary ori; On the McPherson branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad | an extra freight train and a switch en- gine came into collision, near Flor- ence, Kas. Several cars were ruined and the engines were badly damaged, Two electric cars on the Suburban way, Chicago, came into n while running at full speed Grange, when t was heavy, of wheat belonging to near Kildare, O. 'T., con- 3,000 bushels of grain, The fire was and nearly all the engers with which rs were crowded were injured. accident y due to a heavy mist which hung over the track. While handling a ladle molten iron slightly spattered William Kreig and John Michaelson at the Pioneer Stove works at Leeds, lowa. Michaelson dropped the handles and the metal flowed over the floor, inflicting fearful burns on M on and Kreig, Hen- ry Anderson, a spectator, and John and Charles Neussle, proprietors of the wor! All are in a critical condition. Crimes and Criminals, David Rutherford, brakeman on the Memphis road, w: killed by a low bridge at South Paola, Ka Ruther- ford’s parents live at Lamar, Mo. Henry Smith of Fort Scott, Kas., com- mitted suicide by drinking syrup made of seeds of jimpson weed. Fa-nily treuble <vas the cause. George T. Hall, a farmer living near ’awnee, O. T., killed his wife be- cause she wént to chureh Sunday night. Hall has fled the countr, In the Illinois district of the Chero- ‘ee nation there have been fifty-one killings, most of which were first-de- gree murders, since 1895. At Maryville, Mo., the second trial of Hez Rasco, aged sixteen, charged with the murder of Mrs. Kate Baumie, ended in the jury disagreeing. ‘The case was at once set for trial Oct. 13. Deputy United States Marshal Poe arrived in Denver in charge of James Burslem Loverock, who is being taken to Dublin, Ireland, to stand trial on the charge of embezzling several hun- dred pounds from the English govern- ment. Foreign Gossip. Floods on the Jabalm river in Spain have done $500,000 damage. Empress Charlotte of Mexico is at Brussels. “The Paris Matin, in an article on the grein supply, says it will be nec- essary to import 30,000,000 quintals of wheat. According to the official sta-istics the wheat harvest of Italy is estimated at 30,000,000 hectoliters against 51,- 000,000 in 1896. ‘The London Times’ correspondent at Buenos Ayres says it is feared that the harvest will be almost entirely de- stroyed by locusts. The municipality of Madrid by a unanimous yote has decided to erect a statue to the murdered Beuet, Can- ovas del Castillo. Military experts declare that the cap- ture of Las Tunas by the Cubans is comparatively as great a victory for the insurgents as the capture of Vicks- burg by Grant was for the Union. Ed Simpson, a well known Omaha speculator, was frightfully injured by vitriol being thrown into his face by his wife. ‘The act wes the result ‘of | jealousy. It is the general opinion, reflected ‘by | the press of St. Petersburg and War- |] saw, that the visit of Emperor Nicho-} las to the latter city has sensibly di- minished ill-feeling and paved the way for a reconciliation with the old Poles. The police of Wichita, Kas., found a woman, setting fire to a building on North Main street, owned by W. A. Polk, a wholesale liquor dealer. ‘he fire department extinguished the fire. The woman was captured. She was Mrs. Frank Williams. A man charged with theft at Fair land, I. T., was being taken to Vinita by Marshal Arthur Mickelberry. Up- on the latter stepping out of the bug- gy near Afton, leaving his pistol on the seat, the prisoner picked it up and forced the officer to turn back, while he left in the buggy. The Matin of Paris, in an article on the grain supply, says it will be neces- sary to import 30,000,000 quintals of wheat this season, on account of the failure of the crop. The importation of this quantity of wheat will yield 140,000,000 franes, about $28,000,000 duty. It is announced that King Charles of Roumania will arrive at Budapest as the guest of Emperor Francis Jo- seph on Sept. 27. His majesty’s visit to that city was arranged by the sov- ereigns of the dreibund at Hamburg, end is intended as a public demonstra- tion of Roumanian adhesion to the dreibund. French journals record the death, :at the age of eighty-five, of the well known painter, M. Lecoq de Bcisbau- dran, who, in his later days, otticiated as directeur de I'Ecole de Dessin des Arts Decoratifs, and apart from the distinguished positions nis werks ob- tained in the salons, was a much-be- loved teacher. The bishops have agreed to demand of the czar that Tolstoi and his follow- ers be prosecuted, that the secvarian schools be closed; that the peasant | communes be accorded the right to ex- pel sectarians to Siberia, and that the publication of Lutheran books in the Russian language be prohibited. The more violent of the bishops further propose that the property of sectarians be confiscated. Otherwis: Goddard and Sharkey will fight in November at San Francisco, Lavigne and Walcott will fight in San Francisco early in November. ‘The tin plate workers’ scale has been signed by the capitalists at Elwood, lid. Seymour Brothers, commission men of New York, have failed for $1,000,- 000 after playing wheat. Bell Telephone declared a 3 per cent dividend, making 10 1-2 per cent so far this year. The knit wool wholesalers of New York talk of raising prices 33 to 50 per cent. Prosecutions under the butterine law are held up at Chicago by habeas corpus until the supreme court passes on the law. Mrs. Fannie I. Bernandez of Colora- do, has been appointed to a place at the Rainy Mountain Indian school,O. Se Karl Kruger and wife, two Germans who migrated to Kossuth county, Iowa, last year, are to be sent back to Germany, being paupers. Fitzsimmons says: “I will not fight Corbett again until he makes a reputa- tion. Let him fight some one else. He quit like a yellow cur on the 17th of last March; besides I have retired.” The Oklahoma State Fair association las fixed the date for the first state fair for Oct. 11-16, at-Guthrie. ‘he great feature of the fair will be the cotton palace. El Imparcial of Madrid declares that it has reliable authority for the sta ment that the Carlists are secretly es- tablishing an elaborate military or- ganization, The Cuban junta has had coined 1,000,600 handsomely-designed silver souvenir dollars for which the demand is so great from all sections of the country that the junta is unable to supply it. ‘The fifty-sixth annual convention of Ene Evangelical synod at Asbury Park, J., elected the following officers: President, Rey. A. Singmaster; sec- retary, Rev. W. Hinman; treasurer, Rev. A. H. Fischer. George M. Olmsted, ex-alderman of Cedar Rapids, lowa, and for years at the headgof a company operating numerous cheese factories in different perts of the state, died yesterday after a long sickness, The supreme court of the Kiova tribe is now in session at Anadar! with Quanah Parker, Ah-pea-tione and White Bread on the bench. They are trying fifteen members of the tribe for indulging in the ghost dance, agaiust the order of the Indian agent of the tribe that dances are only to be held in the winter season. The Pall Mall Gazette, which hereto- fore has been booming American se- curities, thinks the prices in many are now perilously inflated, and “While conditions in the Unit- States have improved, and are im- proving, the future is more than ade- quately discounted, and prices are bound to descend.” A practical joke may cost Fred Clay- bourn his life. He was sitting asleep in the Bodega saloon at Sioux City, Iowa, a few nights ago, with his chair tilted back against an ice chest. Otto Lerch pulled Clayborn’s chair from under him. In his fall Clayborn struck Lis head against a faucet. Lerch was arrested. A prominent official has informed the Paris Libre Parole that the gov- ernment demanded definite guarantees as to the relations of Siam to France before it would receive King Chula- iongkorn I. It was stipulated that the king would accept a moral French pro- tectorate and adopt exclusively the French policy. The king has just ar- rived. The Chaffee estate of Denver, L. M. Lawson of New York, Senator Elkins of Virginia and R. C. Kearns of St. Lovis, owners of the Oritz mine grant in South Santa.Fe county, Col., have sold the property to a New York and London mining syndicate for $1,500,. 900. The property consists of 69,000 acres, which includes much of the best gold-producing territory in New Mex- ico. | LooKs MORE SERIOUS YELLOW JACK LANDS MORE VICTIMS AT NEW ORLEANS, Board of Health Reports Eight More Cases of Yellow Fever and One Death—Situation Has Assumed a Serious and Disappointing Aspect —Hot Weather Favorable for a Rapid Development of Germs— _ Other Stricken Towns. New Orleans, Sept. 18—The fever situation in New Orleans has assumed a somewhat more serious asgect than at any time since Sunday, when six of the St. Claude cases were declared to be yellow fever. The board of health officially announces the appear- ance of eight new cases and one death, that of Zena Brauner. At the office of the board of health the day’s 1eports were considered somewhat surprising and disappointing. The situation had so materially im- proved that it was felt that pretty much the worst had come and that conditions would improve. Yesterday, however, was one of the hottest days of the month, and as yellow fever thrives in that character of weatter, there seems to have been a rapid de- velopment of germs. The physicians sill feel, however, that there is much that it satisfactory in the situ- ation. It is true, however, that the new cases represent the extreme up- per, the extreme lower and the cen- tral portion of the city, and there has been no serious spread from original foci, and the opinion is still expressed that the disease may be controlled and that there is no imminent danger of an epidemic. In the meantime there has been no relaxation of efforts on the part of the health authorities to control the dis- ease. They realize that they are grappling with a dangerous and in- sidious foe, and neither time nor money is being spared in fighting it. The foree of inspectors and police of- ficers is being steadily increased and quarantine measures are becoming more and more rigorous. On the whole the weather conditions were advan- tageous. A heavy rain storm lasting for several hours flooded the streets, thorougily flushed the gutters and tempered the atmosphere, and while cooler weather is somewhat dangerous for the sick it is a material aid in frustrating a spread of the disease. The city is comparatively calm. Pee- ple continue to leave in small parties but there is nothing like the wild exo- dus that depopulated Mobile, Jackson and other cities. 'The situation was somewhat quieter at Ocean Springs. Three cases, how- ever, were reported. ‘The report of the board of health at Biloxi is that there are nineteen cases of actual yel- low fever under treatment with diag- nosis reserved as to twelve cases. There were seven new cases reported in the last twenty-four hours. ‘The doctors at Biloxi are tempted now no longer to class cases as suspicious, but ccme out boldly and say they are yellow fever. Moot One Death at Mobile. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 18.—The day’s re- port shows no increase in the ratio of cases and but one additicnal death, that of J. L. Taylor. a bricklayer, who came here from West Virginia four weeks ago. He had been in a bad con- dition physically ever since his arrival. There are three suspicious cases and others are spoken of but they have not been reported. ‘The quarantine has increased in severity. Scranton has no new cases. The cases previously reported are improving. PAIR OF SWINDLERS. Assuming Double Roles, They Dis- posed of Forged Notes. Chicago, Sept. 18.—John Growe and E. H. Stonehouse have toppled from a handsomely furnished business of- fice into a cell in the central police sta- tion. They are charged with having eperated a froud in which both played Jekyll and Hyde roles, In their office, at 22 Pacific avenue, they were known as E. Tedd & Son., members of the board of trade, with an over supply of personal notes which they were prepared to sell at a discount. At their homes and among their friends they were John Crowe and 1. H. Stonehouse, private detectives. The men masqueraded in this man- ner, it is said, for three weeks. Dur- ing this time the real Edward E. Todd, who is a feed dealer at 1313 Wabash ayenue, and his son were quietly con- ducting their business and congratu- lating themselves that they had no outstanding notes. It appears that matters finally came to a climax when Stonehouse called on a_ relative of ‘Todd and offered to sell a note bear- ing Todd’s name. The police were notified and Lieut. Wood and Detec- tive Sergeants Cudmore and Bailey began an investigation which resulted in the arrest of Crowe and Stone- house. The former, it is said, con- fessed that he had been impersonating the younger Todd, but Stonehouse stoutly maintained his innocence. The amount involved is believed to aggre- gate $30,000. Charged With Murder. San Francisco, Sept. 18. — Judge Campbell held Theodore Figel, former- ly beokkeeper for Hoffman & Co., of tkis city, to answer to the charge of having murdered his employer, Isaac Hoffman, in his office on Battery street, on the evening of June 1, last, and remanded him to the custody of the sheriff without bail. Excommunicated. Madrid, Sept. 18. — The bishop of Marorcea, Balearic islands, has excom- municated the Spanish minister of finance, Senor. J. J. Reverter, for tak- ing possession of the treasury of a chureh in his diocese. ‘The minister proposes to appeal against the bishop to the holy see. Er United States consul at Manra- . Nie., reports to the state depart- nt that the mail service, which has a n interrupted by quarantine meas- uy ts, is again in surat | NIPPED BY .FROST. and Garden Truck Slightly Damaged. Adrian, Minn., Sept. 18. — The first frost of the season came yesterday morning, killing all tender vegetation. Corn is generally safe, most of it being fairly well ripened, and is a fair crop. 2g Madison, S. D. — '[he first killing frost of the season was noticed here. Further growth of corn and vegetables is prevented. Corn had generally ma- tured. Corn ae Plainfield, Wis.—A heavy frost oc- curred over Central Wisconsin, killing corn, potatoes, buckwheat and gar- dens. gS New Paynesville, Minn. — A hard frost, the first of the season, fell here, doing some injury to late corn and garden truck. os PARE Winnebago City, Minn. — The first frost of the season struck here. But little damage is reported. Someof the tenderest plants in the gardens were killed and corn leaves are somewbat injured, but not sufficient to attect the ears. pose Barresville, Minn. — A heavy frost passed over this section doing consid- erable damage to gardens and some corn, which was all late on account of the frosts in the spring. im of Tramps. Racine, Wis, Sept. 18—The body of a man was found on the Chicago & Northwestern track near Racine Junc- tion. From letters found on his per- son it was learned that the man’s rame was William Madernack of Chi- cago. He had a letter in his pocket from a brother who worked for Mar- shall Field & Co. A peculiar feature of the accident was the fact that there were no broken bones in the man’s body. It is thought he was a victim of tramps. Uniformity in Courts. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 18.—There will be an important meeting in Fargo of the judges of all the districts in the state. They will formulate and adopt if possible a uniform system of prac- tice for the entire state. The matter has been discussed at considerable length by the judges, and they will make it easier not only for the court but for the attorneys who do business in a number of dist Taking Emma Home. San Francisco, Sept. 18. — Emma Davis, the litle English girl whe was rescued from slavery at Madeira by the California Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children, is on her way home. She will be met by KH. Fellows Jenkins at New York, secre- tary of the New York society, and taken to the society’s home. She will sail next Thursday for England. Mirneapolis Gets It. Milwaukee, Sept. 18. — Minneapolis was chosen as the place for holding the next annual convention of the National Association of Underwriters. Most of the day was spent in putting forth the claims of the different cities in the race for the next convention, After the installation of the newly elected officers the convention ad- journed. Crushed by an Elevator. La Crosse, Wis., Sept. 18.—Theodore Boeheim, an employe of J. J. Hogan, a wholesale grocer, got caught be- tween the elevator and the fifth floor and was so badly crushed that he died in three hours. He was_ conscious long enough to give directions about his affairs. He was forty years old and leaves a wife and three children. Down a Shaft. Butte, Mont., Sept. 18. — Patrick Griffin, a miner, was knocked 1,400 feet down a shaft by a descending cage and instantly killed. ‘The acci- dent was almost similar to the one by which John Harkins lost his life in the same mine the day before, and made the fifth violent death in Butte in twelve hours. Knocked Arrested for Malfeasance. West Superior, Wis., Sept. 18.—Mar- tin Kornstad, a member of the town board, was arrested, charged with he- ing interested in town road contracts while officially letting them. He was taken before Court Commissioner Kel- logg and released on $500 bail to ap- pear Oct. 1, Discharged anl Rearrested. Black River Falls, Wis., Sept. 18.— Charles Weber had a preliminary ex- amination before Justice l‘orbes, charged with robbing Elmer Green and James Plummer, and was dis- charged, but was immediately rear- rested on a similar charge ana locked up. Bail for a Murderer, 3500, Bessemer, Mich., Sept. 18. — .'The charge of murder against John Stev- enson for killing James ‘Taylor of Marensco was changed to that of manslaughter. He was bound over to the circuit court under $500 bail, which was furnished at once. Trouble at Sauk Center. Sauk Center, Minn., Sept. 18.—May- or. W. D. Townsend has been sus- pended from office by the city council, For grounds for their action the coun- cil claim malfeasance, the mayor hav- ing refused to sign the order tor the purchase of a park. Stamped to Death. Amherst, Wis., Sept. 18—Ole Elef- son, a farmer twenty-two years old, was killed during a quarrel with John Lombard. Lombard stamped on HI- efson until the man was dead. Lom- bard was taken to Stevens Point. Murray Sentenced. Ottumwa, lowa, Sept. 18.—Thomas Murray of Chicago, alias “Buck” Murray, alias T. J. Ryan, has been sentenced to nine years in the peni- tentiary for complicity in the robbery of Bradley’s bank at Eldon last Jan- uary. Idaho Miners Quit. Pocatello, Idaho, Sept. 18.—The coal ‘miners at Diamondville are on a strike and have resolved not to again go to work until their wages are raised and the truck store systemabolished, NEED MORE TROOPS: ANOTHER BATCH OF SOLDIERS MAY BE SENT TO HAZELTON, Outbreaks of Violence Are Occuring © Near Outlying Collieries and the~ Withdrawal of Troops Is- Out of” the Question—Wisdom of Bring-- ing More Cavalry Being Discassed —Wild Band of Women Make a- Vicious Attack on Workmen, Hazelton, Pa., Sept. 18.—The strike~ situation may be summarized thus: Over 10,000 men are still out, with no apparent prospect of settlement; spo- radie outbreaks of violence are occur- ring near the outlying collieries and the withdrawal of troops is. net only without consideration, but the guard lines of several of the camps are being constantly strengthened, and the wis- dom of bringing more cavalry is: being discussed. It w: id that if the sol- diers are kept here much longer the Sheridan troop of Tyrone, attached to the Seeond brigade, wiil be ordered out. A captain of Gen. Gobin's staff is authority for the statement that an ureasy feeling pre at headquar- ters in consequence of the little out- breaks of the past few days and the indication they hold of tne underly- ing disturbance. ‘The brigade com- mander admitted that the action of the raid of women was giving him much perplexity. He does not care to use force against them and has in- structed the soldiers in case of neces sity to use only the dats of their sabers upon the Amazons. The story reached. the general that many men were in the attacking par disguised as women. The violent scene at Au- denreid arose from another attempt to start the Monarch and Star washeries of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre com- pany. About 100 men _ reported for work at the former, when the wild band of women sweoped doiyn upon them, armed with sticks and stones. Others were stationed on top of am adjacent culm bank, whence they showered missiles upon the would-be workers, and a large body of men and boys waited in reserve behind the- bank. The men promptly quit work before and injury could be inflicted. At the Star washery, where 100 of * men wanted to work, a like ass stopped them, Last night a body of strikers at Lat- timer No. 2 quarreled among them- selves and bloodshed was threatened when Company K restored quiet. Dep- uty Coroner Bowman will begin the inquest over the bodies of the dead miners next Wednesday afternoon. Over 100 witnesses will be examined. Gen. Gobin will not interfere with to- night’s mass meeting unless highly colored speeches are made. The only change in the strike situation was the return to work of the 500 men em- ployed at Coxe’s Beaver Meadow col- li The miners say that this 1s- only temporary, and that if the other Coxe men at Drifton and elsewhere decide, at their meeting of next Mon- day to go out, the Beaver Meadow men will join them. LARGE BRITISH LOSSES. Fight Some Severe With the Mohmunds in India, Camp Anayat, Sept. 18. — Severe aken place between the Second brigade of Gen. Sir Bindon Blood's d nm and the Mohmunds, The British loss was 140 killed and wounded. The brigade has moved out to attack the Mohmunds in the valley north of the camp to puxish them for the assault Tuesday night upon the force of € Jeffreys at the foot of Pawat pass. ‘The Bengal Lancers found the enemy entrenched on the I rout eight miles distant. The Thirty-fifth Sikhs was ordered to make the attack. The regiment was supported by four zuns of a mourtain battery and t x compani f Buffs. The Sikhs drove the enemy into the hills, but eventually fell back upon the bluffs before superior numbers. she enemy then advanced against the left flank, drove back the cavalry and sur- rounded a company of Sikhs. The vavalry rged brilliantly and re- lieved the Sikhs, ard the guides com- ing up, swept the enemy back. The force halted for some time, destroying the enewy’s towers and then retired. A-company of Sikhs on the hills to the xtreme right was hard pressed and was running short of ammunition when the general officer commanding moved the guides forward to their re- lief, which was gallantly accomplished The guides carried the wounded Sikhs back and executed the witadrawal in good order, though the enemy pressed them hard. Darkness came en be.ore the force reached camp and the guides with Gea. Jeffreys and his escort of Buffs became separated from the col- umn, which passed them in the gloom. Gen. Jeffreys remained with the gurs ard took up a position in a village. DISMAL SWAMP AFLAME, fighting has Seme 400 Square Miles of Fire in Virginia and North Carolina, Norfolk, Va., Sept. 18. — The great dismal swamp of Virginia and North Carolina, covering an area of perhaps 400 square miles, is afire from one end to the other, the result of an un- precedenied drouth and _ excessively hot weather. No one inhabits the swamp but wild animals, therefore no attempt is madé to check the flames. The smoke is so dense that the crew and passengers on an incoming train were nearly suffocated. Forest fires are also raging in adjoining cousties, and unless rain comes soon crops wilk be burned up, the loss and suffering aha and may result in some loss of ife. Steel Mill Deal. Allentown, Pa., Sept. 1%.—‘he Cor- nel Steel Company of New Jersey, which is said to control a process for the manufacture of steel without flaws or blow holes, is about to close negotiations for the purchase of the two large mills at Fullerton, Lehigh county, from creditors of the defunct Catasauqua Manufacturing company. The mills will be rebuilt and enlarged, and will be started in six montis, They will give employment to 2,500 F bands, ‘ b ) * t