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-] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1897. days the men took out $80,000. Two of the miners were so intoxicated with their sudden weaith that they immediately quit and left the country. “In summer claims are located prin- cipally and worked in the winter. Last winter miners were paid §10 per day and were hard 1o get. They are now receiving $15. There is no trouble in getting packs across the line into Canadian Territory without paying duty. The inspectors keep a lookout for cigars and liquor @l mer- chandise sent in for sale, but lose their eyes to the size of an individusl’s sup- plies. I do not believe that the miners will submit to a royalty of 20 per esnton the gold mined. If they effect an orzan- ization and decide 1o resist this imposi- tion the 150 police will be powerless to enforce the law. We four Klondykers brought out about ninety pounds, valued at from §$18,000 to $20,000. Mr. Thorp and 1 bave sixty pounds with us, although jart of it was sent down by the miners to relatives here. Jack Ross had abont $3000 and Mr. Winterholen has about $2000 or $3000.™ Concerning ths glul at Skaguay Mr. Biewart says the people are doing the best they can, but the most of them will be unable to get ove: this winter. Those who have horses may get over, but they are having a hard time of it. They have t e White Pass trail cut through to the | Jake and are turning in to corduroy the boegy ground on the other s.de. Every one is willing to work, and it is expectad 1o have the swamp corduroyed in foar or tive days, Generally every one there is working for himself, with iittle organ‘za- tion, although he believea that the min- ers will get together and act in concert. Joe Wintenhoien is a hardy man about 45 yea:s of age, who has lived around Ju- forneariy ten years, Two years a he went into the Yukon country with $4000, but the poddess of fortune has not as vel been particularly kind to him. first prospected on Birch Creek and on the American side, where he bouzht a quarter interest in five claims. Lter he went to Charley R «ny degree of success. In February last he followed the rush to Dawson City and =oon aiter he bought a tixih interest in No. 26 claim and one | fourth interast in No. 44 on Bonanza Creek. The latier claim was being worked | when he left and he Lelieves it will pan | ks that there is plenty | out well. Heth of gold on Stewart River and Dominion Creek, but that it will take some time to prospect these streams before their rich- ness is ascertained. Everything is peace- ful around Dawson so far as law is con- cerned, but Mr. Wintenholen attributes it 1o the fact that the miner: fear to commit theft or engage in lawlessness because it would be difficult for them to get out of the ceuntry ere summary vengeance would be wreaked. Referring to the trip down M-. Wintenholen said: “*We left Daw-on City Juiy 4, seyeral weeks before the first steamer had arrived. Grub was very scarce, and as we only broughtin a small supply we bad to come out and get some more. We only brought enough money with us topay for our sup- plies and a little over. There had been no ireshe!s or washouts to speak of before we left. “There was not enough water in the ulches to do any mining up to the time we left. The winter was a hard one, but we suffered but little. We went up the Yukon in & boa' as far as Pelly River, then came overland via the Dawson trail and Chilecoot Pass. It took us thirteen days to make the Poliy River, 175 miles up from Dawson. This was a long trip and it took us more time than we ex- pected. Nine years ago I went up the river in a boat the same way, and it did not take nearly so long. The trip over the trail was a hard one, but we did not have any more of a pack than was neces- sary. It took us thirty-nine days to make Chilcoot Pass from the Pelly river. Tne following day we made Dyea. My crowd was out of provisions and I had to come out and get some. I will go back as soon as I buy provisions here. Idon’t believe there will be much gold brought out this fall. Next springis when the men with big amounts are counting on cowing out. Our party of four brought out about $20,000.”” When the steamer George E. Starr sr- rived at her dock this morning shortly | after 10 o'clock from Dyea ana Skaguay | she was met by a great crowd of people, it having been reported that several men irom the Klondike having made tneir way to sait water overland were cn board. Tuis report proved true, but the greatest interest centered in the appearance of one passenger, Ed Thorp, who was expected to come down on the Portland, and who is reported to have romewhere in the neigh- Vorhood of $120.000 Klondike gold in his possession. This story was given out by Willis Thorp, the father of the young man. He now explains 1t by stating that his two sons’ interests in cerlain claims are worth that amount. Epem GOING TO KLONDIKE. Vessels That Will Take Fortune- Hunters to the Land of Ice and Gold. SEATTLE, Wassa., Aug. 21.—To-mor- row morning the steamer Queen, which has been placed on the run 1o Dyea and Skaguay in place o! the wrecked Mexico, will leave for the north. She will carry a full list of 300 passengers, all exeept perhaps a dozen being Klondikers. In addition the Queen will take 100 head of horses and nearly 1000 tons of freight. Part cf the Queen’s cargo north will con- sist of lumber and shingles consigned to a man at Skaguay who intends starting a hotel and restaurant. Among the passen- rers willbe John King, an old British Columbia miner, Major J. A. Btrong, a well-known newspaper man formerly of Seattle but latterly from Tacoma and Spo- kane, who will head an expedition to the Klondik: via the Stickeen Kiver route. Mr. King returned from the Kiondike three weeks ago, coming down the Yukon, Lewis and Hootalinqua rivers to Lake Teslin, where he took the trail of about 100 miles to Telezraph Creek, the head of navigetion of the Stickeen River. Here he took a flat boitom river boat and was landed at Wrangel, where he boarded a steamer for Seattle. He pronounces the route the most feasible and easy of access of any yet tried. Jacob S. Graeber, Joe Graeber and Ben L. Faust are also three of the Queen’ passengers who came from Shamokin, Pa., 10 invade the upper Yukon. Mr. Graeber represents several bankers and other large Pennsylvania capitalists, and goes prepared to take advantage of such opportunities as may present whereby the invesiment of money may bring big returns. A number of gold-seekers left Seattle for Vietoria yesterday to teke the steamer Dinube for Dyea. The Danube sailed with a large list of passengers and as many horses as the ship has accommoda- tions for. They are of a heavier class than those hereiofore sent nortn. The hand- gome vprice commanded by a few heavy animals and the reports which have been received concerning the usefulness of large horses have tended to make buyers He | iver, seventy mile: from | Circ'e Citv, whare he prospected without | less anxious to purchase lightweights, which are becoming scarce locaily. The Danube will waste no time on ber present trip, but will make all possible speed in order to reach St. Michaels as soon as possible with the material for the constraction of the new vessel to be built for the Canzdian Pacific Navigation Com- pany service on the Yukon. This mate- rial she will load immediately on her re- turn from ber present trip. i Among the passengers on the Danube were Sergeant Raven and Inspector Strickiand of the mounted police. Ac- companying them were also s x addi- tional members of the force. They will carry a mail throuzh to Fort Cudahy, Dawson City, Forty-mileand intermediate points. The Stickeen-Yukon Transporta- uvon and D:velopment Company to-day filed articles of incorporation with a cap- ital stock placed at $2,000,000. The trus- tees are Juliug Steinberger of San Fran- cisco, Daniel 0. Fisher, Joseph A. Kuhn, Chbarles A. Dyer and W. Turner of Seat- | tle. The schooner Moonlight will not get off until to-morrow ni:ht for Dyea and Skaguay. Tickets on the schooner have | found a ready sale and it is evident that | she will have a full load. She has accom- modations for sixty passengers and will | take nearly fifty tons of freight. The | Moonlight 1s to be towed porth by the tug | J. M. Coleman, which is now on the ways | at Ballard receiving repairs. Tue steamer Wiliamette is due from | Alaska Augus: 23 or 24, She will load a return cargo, including a large amount of | feed, livestock, lumber and coal. It is pessible that she will make stiil another | trip to the north. The schooner Q1een saiied to-day from the Kerry mill ior St. Michael. Sha is | chartered by the North American Trans- portation and Improvement Company, bave been con- for two river steamers which structed by the Morans | American company. Her lumber cargo amounts (o 350,000 feet. The barx Bhirley, which expects to for Alaska, is receiv- ing nearly $1000 worth of new machinery, | and local dealers are furnishing lumber, | oakum, piteh, paint, etc., in giving the ship a thorough repairing. A marine in- | surance company has placed $3000 insur- ance on the vessel while making the trip to the Yukon, | The steamer Rosalie is due to-morrow | from Dyea and Skaguay, but nothing has as yet been heard from her and Manager Peabody rather expects that she will be a davy late in arriving. Information received | states that much interest is expressed | about that city in cornection with the | report that Hou. Clifford Sifton, the Minister of the Interior, is coming {0 the coast with Major Waish, the newly ap- | pointed administrator of the Yukon dis- trict, and that the Minister had been so much impressed by the protests with re- ;ard to theroyalty and reservation clauses 1n the mining regulations that he has de- cided to hear the complaintsof the British Columbians and then go in person to the Klondike, in order to acquaint himself with the exact condition of affairs. Cap- tain Gaud, resident agent of the depart- ment of marine, has received no official intimation as to the Government's inten- tions other than contained in a dispaich leave on Wednesda proceed to Dyea by September 20, if neces- sary, the party planning to take advant- age of the snows and frozen rivers to go in by dog trains. —_— FRED PIERCE’S SUICIDE. Despondent Over Losing His Outfit, the Young Man at Once Shoots Himsalf. TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 21.—Advices re- ceived to-day from Skuguay state that Fred Pierce committed suicide on July 31 at Lake Lebarge. He was not more than 20 years old. He had found the passage from Skaguay particnlarly try- ing. On reaching Lake Lebarge he had the misfortune to lose his entire outfit as soon as he learned that his outfit was irrecoverably gone be snatched a revolver from the belt of the nearest man and shot | himself through the head. The body was buried on the spot, with a wooden slab above the rude grave. bave a mother living in Utica, N. Y. S e IN CANADIAN TERRITORY. Senator Mills Would Change the Boundary of Alaska to Suit the British. OTTAWA, OxTaRIO, Aug. 21.—Benator Milis, ex-Minister of the Interior, says if the Alaskan boundary were properly } drawn, Canadians would nave plenty of access to the Klondike by way of the Pa- cific Oceen and the Yukon. Dyea, he as- serts, 1s in Canadian territory. He advo- cates strongly a route through Lynn Canal, which, he argues, lies almost wholly within Canadiau territory. *‘From the headwaters of the inlet to the head- waters of some of the tributariesof the Yukon,” he says, *'a short railway over a streten of fiity or sixtv miles, established either through Chilkoot or White pass, would be the only railroad required, and the construction of such a route would re- quire the expenditure of a very moderate amount of money, and would give persons desiring to go that distance an easy and comparatively cheap highway.” His contention is based upon the as- sumption tnhat the boundary does not properly follow all the sbore windings. He says it wae clearly the intention of the Russian treaty to adhere to the coast line wherever there was such a thing, no mat- ter whether it crossed tha inlets or not. ———— BOUNDARY OF ALASKA. General Duffleld Suys There Can Be No Mistake About the Situ- atlon of the Klondike. WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 21.—In speaking of the boundary line between Alaska and the British Possessions to-day General Duffield of the Coast and Geodetic Survey said: “Ido not believe that when the matter of the boundary line between the two countries is definitely settled there will be any appreciable change from what is down on the map at present. There cer- tainly will not be as far asthe Klondike region, which is beyond a!l manner of dis- pute in the British Northwest Territory. “Daw:on City is 100 miles or more east of the one hundred ana forty-seventh meridian, which is the boundary line. Mount St. Elias is near the intersection of the ten marine leagne line with the one hundred and forty-first meriaian. To be exact, the summit is 140 degrees and 55 minutes on the Canadian side, which in that latitude represents two and & half miles. But on the southern side it is only twenty-eight and a half miles from the coast, which brings it inside of the ten-league line or thirty-mile limit, and a mile and a half on American soil. “At Forty-mile Creek our survey agrees with that of the Canadian survey under General Ogilvie within fourteen-bun- and is loaded with lumber and partsof } the North | from Victoria | asking him to bave the Quadra ready to | Pierce is said to | dredths of a second, which in that latitude represents six and a half feet,” S A MACKENZIE RIVER ROUTE. D:c ared Impracticable at This Season of the Year by a Do~ minion Oftic:al. OTTAWA, O~t, Aug. 2L—Questions are daily received here about the Mac- kenzie River route to the Klondike. Mr. King of the Dominion Bureau of Surveys says this route will be impracticab.e at this season of the year. It might be pos- sible 1o reach Fort McPherson before the | The best route to be followed is the Hud- | son Bay route to the Yukon. The Cana- dian Pacitic will take the miner to Edmon- ton, from hence he will take the usual road to Athabaska Landing and steamer down the Athabaska, Siave and Macken- | zie rivers to Fort McPherson on Peel | R ver. This waterway is navigable by small boats. The Hudson Bay Company stores its goods during the winter at Mc- Pherson and hauls them by dog train across the mountains to La Pierres House, which is on the beadwaters of the Porcupine, the east branch of the Yukon River. Tuence tke voyager proceeds down to old Fort Yukon, where the Yukon and Porcupine rivers meet, a distance of about 400 miles navigable by boats. Tracking | up the Yukon River 350 miles will bring the prospector to Forty-mile Creek. —_— FOR OVER ONE MILLION. Sale of the Interests of A. E. Iron- monger=Sola to the British and North Amarican Company. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aue. 21. ~-The Ex- negotiated the sule of the entire mining and real estate interests of A. E. Iron- monger-Sola in Klondike to the British | and North American Trading and Explor- |ing Company for cash and | amounting to over $1,000,000. Ironmon- a half years right 1n the heart of the Klon- dike district, and was among the first party that went to Bonanza Creek when George Cormack told of the strike he made there. e | CANADA SHOULD CONTROL. Eng'lshmen S:zem to Fear That | British Ofticers Will Be Da- ! posed In the Klondike. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 21.—The Journal’s Loudon special says: The | Marquis of Lornein a signed statement to the Journal, expresses confidence in the ability of the Canadian Government to retain its supremacy in the gold fields and maintuin its hold upon the Klondike | regian. Ac the same time there is no denying that the feeling of uneasiness begins to be feit in London over the probability of a cenflict between the Canadian-American interests there. England feels that Can- ada should control the Klondike and they would support Canada in any restrictions | she may propose on American enterpiise, no matter how severe they may be. The opinion is commonly expressed that the Caradians should do preciseiy what the Boers did at Johannesburg— hold the mines and tax the Uitlanders, as | tification for the Jameson raid. The apparent weakness of Canada in the remote diggings is felt, as well as the necessity of reaching them through American territory. Engiisnmen admit that t' e Klondika is now controlled by Americans, but these men are described in the papers here as | plunderers, rufians and outlaws. Bome express fears thatthe Canadian | customs officers co!lecting taxes at Ekag- | uay will be wiped out bv Americans and | that the few Canadian officers at Dawson | City will be laughed at and defied, and | that the stars and stripes will be raised by | a m>b over the Kiondik2 region. | In that event sufficient force will be I sent to the diggings, for England wants | the pold and hates to tee it get away to through the bresking to pieces of a raft. | tpe United States. He was picked up by his companions, but | or bloodshed between Americans and Any trifling conflict Canadian officers would at once raise most serious international complications, Many Englishmen fear the proximity of the Kiondike to the Alaskan boundary, and that the the miners and the mad rush now being made will end in a war between England { and the United States. | One London paper has already an- nounced that American politicians and journalists are now scheming to bring on war through the Klondike craze, with a view to annexing Canada, and warns its readers to be prepared for violent exhibi- tions of ill-feeling. Shrewd observers here, however, say that England would put up with almost anytbing rather than incar the risk of such a conflict, with the inevitable loss of all Canada. London speculators are looking envi- ously toward the Kiondike, but thing Wall street will have tbe first picking and Eagland will get what is lefr. heverthe- less, many Kloudike schemes are being floated here, and the newspapers are printing full accounts of the new dig- gings. e Santa Rosa’s Contingent. SANTA ROSA, Carn, Auz. 2L—Word has been received here from the Santa Rosa contingent to Alaska, Virgil Moore, Arthur Buell, J. J. Poat, Mart Tarwater and Clarence Temple, who are en route to the iaterior, except Poat, who has decided to return home from Dyea. Mrs. Poa: received a letter Saturday from her husband, dated Juneau, August 12, Mr. Poatsays in substance that all the boats from Victoria to Juneau were loaded with passengers and freight. He arrived at Juneau August 11. He says: “There are lots of people at Dyea, and it will be impossible for half of them to get over the pass this winter, and many are turning back. Some of those who have attempted the pass have lest their lives and horses. ‘Lbe Cnilcoot Pass is safe encugh, but there are not enough Indians on hand to pack the outfits over the p: The Indians frequently contract to carry an outfit for so much, and as soon as some one offers them more they break their contract and leave the poor fellows in the lureh.”’ The letter states that regular outfits can be bought cheap at Juneau and Dyea. The freight rate from Dyea to the moun- tains is 30 cents a pound. He says there is a fog or rain nearly all the time, and he intends toreturn to California un- til spring. e Rav. Mr. Fobes’ Mission. BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 21.—The Klondike country will soon bhave a Rhode Island clergyman of the Congregational faith, for Rev. J. W. Fobes of Peacedale Church in Washington County left for Alaska to- day. At Seattle Rev. Mr. Fobes will join an old and wealthy. friend and they will go through to the gold fields together. They have been in British Columbia beiore, and like the place. It is the desire of the preacher to get through to the gold diggings this fall and do all the good he can during the winter months, when it is close of navigation on the river this fall. | ploration Syndicate of Wall street has! securities | ger-Sola returned from & atay of three and | this would give the Americans ample jus- | i ple’s Bank yesterday. sensational wealth of ! expected there will be some suffering and attendant misery of soul. Mr. Fobes’ moneyed friend expects to become au in- vestor in mining claims. | MAY SEITLE THE STEIKZ. ‘| Important Conference of Operators and Finers to Be keld at Pitts- burg To-Day. PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 21.—A confer- ence between the Pitisburg coal operators and the officials of the United Mine- workers’ Association has been set for Monday. President Ratchford, National Secretary Pea~ce and Dolan, the Pit sburg | district president, will ~represent the miners, aud Rend and others the opera- tors. Whether the conference will result in an arrangement to end the strike is a matter of conjecture. The miners’ repre- sentatives will be confronted by the ope- rators’ demand that the strikers return to work at the old rate of wazes—54 cents a ton. The operators will be met by the strikers’ demand for 69 cents. Neither side will admit that it can consent to com- promise on the price. If this spirit should hold until Monday no settlement is pos- sitle at all. From bints given by coal operators it appears that their body might consent to wage rates of more than 54 cents but ma- terially less than 69 cents. On the con- trary, the miners’ representatives talk as if a 69-cent rate was the only one they can discuss with propriety. Some of the op- | erators say a settlement is in sieht. The coal operators’ press committee issued a statement to-night, in which | they said: ‘*Facts produced within the last few davs disclose that the coal producers of Pitts- | burg district are confronted with the ¢ m- bined opposition of the miners’ organiza- { Indiana and Iliinois. | “Tbat there is a well-considered plan on the part of those Western producers to (supplant the Piitsburg overaiors in the | Nurthwest :narke:s for coal required jor the coming winter is evi enced Ly the in- fluences which have been set in motion to prolong the strike and to make it impos- sible to get Pittsburg coal to upper lake poris belore the close of navization. “The Pitisburg operators have this year paid the highest wages per ton for min< ing, except in 1solated seciions, where from the difficulty of mining the diggers have been unable to make as large earn- ings. _““The operators have been met with con- ditions which bear as heavily on them as on the miners, and which theyv have been equally as helpless as the miners to avert or miligate. “The operators of Pittsburg district | have given evidences of the sincerity of their motives and the truthfulness of their representations by agreeing to submit thelr side of the controversy to disinter- ested men for arbitration, feeling assured of the strength of their position. Finally and reluctantly, it seems, a conference has been accorded, to take place Monday, and | they hope for'a saiisfactory setilement.’” | Ivis undersiood that Ratchford has not lost hope of securing a sympathetic strike, and that the meetiug to be helid at | S8t. Louis, while ostensibly directed against court injunctions, is realiy in- tended to secure the advceacy of a general strike. s et BANK CASEI.R MUBRDERZD. Shot Four Times Whils F esisting a Gang of Robbers—Swears to the Identity of 1hres of Them. SHEPHERD, Micu., Ang. 21.—Cashier E'mer E. Struble of the Farmers’ Bank V‘nms: at 4 o'clcck this morning to go to ‘Mount Pieasant. He went to the bank | vault to get some paper<, and three hours later his body was found in front of the open vault, having been pierced by two bullets near the heart, one in the back and one in the arm. He died at 11 o’clock without regaining conscionsness. There was evidence of a fierce struggle, the cashier’s clothing being torn and dis- arranged and all the farniture in the office smashed. The theory is that the robbers | knew of his intention to 2o to the bank, and in attempting to rob the cashier he resisted and was shot. Saicide was first suspected owing to the failure of the Peo- How much the robbers got the owners refuse to say. Investigation made by the authorities shows that Struble was in the vault when he was approachec from behind and the robbers demanded money. Struble was first shot in the wrist and then in the side while be was trying to shut the vault door. The robbers azain opened fire and shot him in the back. The prosecuting attorney says that Btruble yesterday afiernoon held a con- versition over the telephone with W. J. Ryau, owner of the bank. who demanded that he send all tie money and books to Mount Pleasant, but the cashier refused to do so. It is supposed that this conversation | was beard by some parties having money in the bank who were expecting i: to fail, and they concluded to secure themselves by rovbery and hid themssives in the building for this purpose. The bank is in no danger of failing, as Struble to.d a most intimate friend last night that it could stand a run if necessary. It now appears that the officers had hidden the uruth in regard to Struble’s condition b:fore his death. Just before the last moment he rallied and made a sworn statement that he recognized three of the robbers, and he gave their names to the Prosecuting { Attorney and the Sheriff, but these officials refuse to aivulge the names. In this statement Struble swore that he forced the shooting, us he refused to give up the money, und in the fight which | tion and a colition of producers of Ohio, 1 followed, he recognized hiv assailants, who killed him to save themselves from being known. Struble was a light-hearted easy-going man, without debts or cares, and the officers who have the names of the men expect hourly to make arrests. A FEMALE BANK ROBBER. Betrayed by One of the Gang Who Is Badly Wounded and Captured by a Posse. WEIR CITY, Kass., Aug. 2L.—One of the Pineville, Mo., bank robbers, a woman, was captured here to-day, together with the supposed originalor of the plot. The robbery occurred last Tuesday wmorning, | when the McDonald County Bank was robbed of §600 by two men, while a woman aressed as aman guarded theentraace and held the horses. They were foilowed by a posse and the woman’s horse shot down just as they reached the timber, but they ot as far as Southwest City, Ind. 'I‘.] be- fore being overtaken. There Whitt Ten- nyson, one of the rang, was badly wounded, while the other two escaped. He gave their names as Parker and his wife and said they would be found in Weir City. This afternoon D:putics Yeargin and Smith of Southwest City came in, accom- arcie! by Ca-hier W." J. Shields of the meville Bank. Tennysou had given up papers implicating Bill Hubbard of this city, a brother of the Parker woman, as the one that planned the robbery, and he was arrested on the streets. A large posse guickly organized and proceeded to the house of Sam Hubbard, his father, in the hope of capturing the woman and her husband. The house was surrounded and searched and the woman arrested, but ber husband bad disappeared. The prisoners were at once started for Pine- ville. Mrs. Parker was divorced in April from James Russell, and had been mar- ried to Parker but a few weeks. CLIMAX. OF WETLER'S CROELTY Spaniards Are Tortur- ing a Defenseless Cuban Woman. IN REVENGE FOR A SPY’S EXECUTION. Other Barbarities Being Car- ried Into Effect Daily at the Capitol. PATRIOTS ARE ASSASSINATED IN SECRET. During the Butcher’s Rule of Ruin on the Island Hundreds Also Die of S:arvation. HAVANA, Cupa, Aug. 21.—When three weeks ago the Cubun general, Adol’o del Castillo, hanged, a few miles from Ha- vana, the Epanis: spy, Miguel Beato Betancourt, he did not realize to what | fearful revenge from Weyler he exposed several defenseless persons in the cavital, 2nd among them hapless Cuban women. News of Beato's fate was received here with great joy by all Cuban sympathiz- ers. B-ato, feigning to be an agentin Havana of the New York Junta, inspirea the confidence of the insur.entsin Ha- vana and discovered the secrets of those Cubans who were helping to revolutionize the island in tne stronghoid of Spain. He cenounced to Weyler many promi- nent men of Havana, who are now suffer- ing in dungeons of Ceuta and Chsffarinas, and also the Cuban woman, Ana Toto- longa, and Armando de lo Rios, who have suffered the most barbarous iortures ever invenied by the Spaniards. Bsato tried to once more deceive the Cubaus, and Totolonga went to the camp of General Acosta to propose a plan for the escape of Ana, who is now a prisoner. On two previous occasions Beato had proposed the same plan, and the last time in evident connivance with Spanish po- lice, he secured the escape of Ana Toto- longa, and concealed her in a house where Cuban friends called to cffer her help. That was ail Beato desired. Inafew days ke knew the persons who sympathized with Ana. The Spanish police arrested them, and when no more uss could be made of the poor woman in the lone house she was rearrested. This was enough for General Acosta. As his only answer to Beato’s new proposals for the escape of the woman, he ordered one of his soldiers to bring a rope, ana hanged Beato to the nearest tree. Now Ana Totolonga is exuviating the death of Beato. The poor woman was questioncd by fiscal or Spanish military attorneys under threats that the toriures inflictea uoon Rios will be rereated upon herself. Rios, who was imprisoned to- gether with Ana Totolonga, both upon @ charge o concealing a large amount of dynamite in a house on San Rafae! street, suffered in his cell the fearful torture known as el foraponte. A soldier armed with a long manati beat him until he fainted. When he came to his senses he was asked by a Spanish agent who were his accomplices. “I am the only responsible person,” al- ways answered the heroic Rios, “and I had that dynamite for the purpose of kill- ing as many Spanish tyranisas I could.” Then the torture was renewed, but not a word more was obtained from Rios. The report is now circulating that the threats against Ana Totolonga of inflict- ing on her the same punishment have been carried irnto effect. It is certain that a Spanish agent since the death of Beato has been very active in the proceedings against Ana Totolonga and he has been for hours together closeted in a cell of the house of Recogidas with the unfortunate woman patriot. She is accused now, besides, of an an- archical plot to blow up with dynamite the whole city of Havana and of carrying on from her prison correspondence with the Cuban Junta of New York and with the Cuban patriotic women, Senorita Clemencia Aranzo and Senorita Sigarroa, who have been expelled from Cuba by Weyler. Mre. Anna Totolonga is a woman of about 30 years of age and has two chil- dren. Bheis a Cuban by birth and has always been an ardent patriot. A SECRET ASSASSINATIONS. By Order of Weyler Many Cubans Are Dally Belng Murdered, While Others Starva. HAVANA, Cusa (via Key West, Fla,), Aug. 21.—Conservative newspapers in Ha- vana, which back Weyler, are severely criticizing the Bishop, because they say he constantly annoys the captain-general tvith petitions for clemency, and tries to interfere in military operationsin a way that is favorable only to the insurgents, The real cause of these attacks is the strong protest of the Bishop in the case of the town of La Esperanza, where the in- habitants are doomed to starve, as pre- viously reported. The captain-general is very angry over the publication of the news and attributes it to the Bishop. Assassinations are daily occurring here by order of the captain-general, particu- larly of Cubans who surrendered to the Spanish and live in the capital. They are believed to be ihe instigators of recent raids on Havana. The placa wihere most of these’ murders are committed is in the outskirts of Ward El Cerro. About 500 pacificos have entered Havana from Campo Fiorido in &n awful state of misery. Many died yesterday from star. vation. Others are very feeble from the same cause, Three thousand still remain in Campo Florido ip the same condition, but Wey- ler does not allow them 1o leave the place. The Cuban leader, Vicente Jorge, at- tacked the town of Cerral Nuerero, Man- tanzas province, and securec m teh booty. According to La Lucha's dispatches from Madrid to-day General Azearraga in- tends 10 send new re-eniorcements to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. Twenty thousand will be sent 10 Cuba, 10,000 to Porto Rico and the same number | towne Philippines. W TO-DAY—DRY GOOD Commencing To-morrow, Monday, we shall place on sale ordinary specials of the following extra=- NEW FALL DRESS GOODS and HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS, which should interest intending buyers. - inch All-wool At $3.00 & Shib =20 5re ‘e e new fall colorings. 4 *4 —Scotch Cheviot Mixtnres At $3.50 a Suit 2%tk in » saree variety of designs and all the new blendings of colcr. A (i —Camel’s-hair Cheyiot, 1n At $4.00 a Suit very stylish, neat plain mixtures, & good, eer- suiting tor fall °T Wear. ‘nij—New Novelty Suiting in At $600 8 NIt Tne Satest 18l color: sugs_incitding blue and black, green and blsck, | brow. and black, red | and biack, purpié and | black. | At $7.00 a Suit=2rereaNor M ge of | very cho e colorings, A perfect nuished material and very styiish, | —3 cases 52-inch New French Broadil.ths, in all the latest co orings for fall axd winter wear. Extra Special! 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At $2.75 Eac An immense invoice of Hemmed, Hemstitched and Embroidered Sheets and Pillow=cases, made of the best quality of sheeting and pillow-casing. All of these Sheets and Pillow-cases are hand~torn and dry-laundered and ready for use. Note the following: Hemmed { Hommed Pillow cases. Sheets. | size 90x72.4214¢ each 56.12!4¢ each | Size 80x90.5%14c each Siz2 50: Hemstitched lflemstitehcd : Pillow cases. Sheots. .15¢ each | Size 72x90,5214c each 7! ‘ Size sus:.o’{}gc each Size 45x36 Si E 7!50 each S1ze 90x90. ¢ each Size 50x 128 TO 129 POST STREET. BLUE BLOODS AT A FIGHT. Brutal Midnight Affair Under the Fatronage of Cociety Swells at Narragansett Fier. NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. L, Aug. 21.—There was a notable absence from the ballrooms last night of the society swells. Tke gentlemen were wandering aboutir the dark lanes, squeezing tightly bits of cardboard for which they bad.given up $10 each, and which were toadmit them to a prize-fight. Frank Brennan of Brook- Iyn and Joe Barr of Providence were en- gaged. A purse of §200 was hung up and arrangements made to have the mill at the Tally-Ho Clubbouse. The police stopped it, but the bioods got a tip to show up near Beach street for an all-night jaunt. 3 At midnight the police were completely thrown off the track, and at 1 o’clock the ticket-holders met in a grove two miles from the casino. There they found a regularly pitcued ring, which at 2 o’clock the men entered. Sianton Abbott, the | English lightweight champion, was ref- eree. The fight was to be twenty-five rounds. Brennan began immediately on the ag- gressive and folloved Barr all over the ring. Eoth men fought cautiously until the fourteenth round, and wege quite fresh when the gong rang. In the four- teenth Brennan, making a feint, indue d Barr to snift his guard and duck. In- stantly, like a pile-driver, Brennan shot out his left and caught Barr on the pit of the stomach. The blow was a terrific one. Barr reeled | about an1 became groggy. Brennan :quared hims:lf for an upper cut, and | bang it went in. The blow cavght Barr | squarely under the jaw and he wentdown like an ox in the shambles. He roiled over on the turf, quivered once ortwice and then lay as limp‘as a rag and unconscious as a marble statue. i It was a brutal performance and the bluebloods were greatly tickled. Barr did nat recover consciousness for ten minutes. This morning the scions of several wealthy men slept late. “Sassiety” is satistied with its noble entertainment, bat some of the noted millionaires in thecountry may yet be arrestea for it. s A CONFESSES SEV:N MURDERS. Fiendish Work of a Louisiana Kegro for Fobbery—Two innocent ltal- ians 1ynched. NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 2L—An- tonio Richards, alias Crecls, a negro, a rested in St. Charles Parish for the rob- bery and murder of Louis Zigler, to-day | confessed to seven murders in all for rob- bery. Creole was the leader of a murder gang, including two women. 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