Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1896 — Page 2

Democratic Press. DKCATUR, 1X1). •-Whs's. rtamorr.lls t'r»«« VOo • r«Ml«h»va 1896. AUGI'ST. ISM *Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa • I • • I • I •I • I 1 2345 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 301 31 • ! • I • | • I • *ir L. Q./>N. M. «k F. Q. . . F. M. v »ith W nth. V 15th. k* 2;'nd. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH BOILED DOWN FOR OUR INTEL* LIGENI READERS. Children Held n« Spice 'by the Span* ieh Government—Many Christiana Butchered by Mussulman* in the Island of Crete- Iron Work* to Ke* eume. Death In the Water, Whiting (Ind.) xpccial: Richard At* kins, a grocer, 71 yearn old, was drowued while bathing in four feet of water in Lake Michigan. He wan seized by an under current and carried away before liioae about him could help him. His body was recovered after a hall hour's search. Laporte (Ind.) special: Garland Travis and Will Way were drowned in the Kankakee River. The bodies have been recovered. Travis was standing in a boat driving a stake on which to fasten a trot line, when he fell overboard. He was powerless to help himself and Way jumped in to save him. Travis sank and Way, unable to reach the boat, was drowned. The Kankakee River here has claimed three victims within the last ten days. Children Held as Spies. Havana s|>ecial: In the city of Puerto Principe the residences of several American citizens were entered and searched by Spanish troops in quest of munitions and compromising documents. A Cuban woman and two little girls, eight ami ten years old have been held as spies in Puerto Print ipe. The former, the Spaniards allege, carried a revolver, and the children bad correspondence addressed to the rebel Government in ( übitas, when apprehended by the Spanish pickets in the Puerto Principe suburbs. All will be courtmartialed. A petition, however, is being signed beseeching the Queen Regent to order Gen. Weyler to pardon the children if convicted. Fatal Fire in New York City. What at first was reported as a most terribly disastrous fire, broke out in the big six-story building at No*. 465, 4t>7 and 4'?.i Greenwich street, New York, shortly after 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. With almost incredible rapidity the rumor flew abroad that from twenty to thirty unfortunate people had lost their lives in the flames. Later this was disputed, and it was pretty well proven that not more than five lives at the most had teen lost if. indeed the number of the dead would finally reach that total. The financial loss was fixed at something over SIUO,OOO. Body Snatchers. It has been discovered that body snatchers have opened two giaves in the insane hospital burying grounds at Indianapolis, those of Joseph H. Bitzer of Vermillion County, and John .'Schwab. Only Bitzer's body was taken, Search is being made for the body, which is supposed to have been taken to some medical college. The bodies were buried last Saturday. Bitzer had been an inmate of the hospital for years, {superintendent Edenhartner says that if it is necessary he will establish a night guard at the burying grounds. Butchered Christiana. At Anapolis Peddiadia, near llerakioian, in the Island of Crete, a thousand armed Mussulmans butchered thirty unarmed Christians, in the Precinct of lhe St. John Monastery. Several priests and women and children were among the victims. One woman was slaughtered after seeing her children and her husband butchered on her knees. Several churches were desecrated and a priest named Jeeremiah had his ears and nose cut off, and was then burned alive on a pyre of sacred pictures. Iron Works to Keaiime. The Indiana Iron Works and the Midland Steel Works, Muncie’s largest iron and steel industry, which have been idle for several weeks, will resume with nearly a full quota of hands, GOO each. The puddle furnace at the Indiana will start double turn, and the finishing mill single turn. The nut and boll works department will not resume at this time. Winona Assembly Visited by a Hur* ricaue, Warsaw (Ind.) special: A tornado struck Winona I’ark near here the othei day. Trees and tents were blown down. The amphitheater is a mass of ruins. Two people were injured. The assembly grounds were desolated. The money loss will reach SIO,OOO. The Cleveland Strike Failed. The strike, or lockout at the Brown Hoisting Works, in Cleveland, Ohio, s practically at an end. Os the son men who went out on strike, 500 are now engaged in other employment. The Brown Company has 335 men at work and has refused twenty-live applications for employment. More New Attractions. Attractions at Bark August 16: Soncrant Bros., gymnasts; Blanche Le Clair aerialist. _____ Killed Coupling Curs. Grafton (W. Va.,) special: Hugh G. Wright of Moundsville, W. Va., a brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, while coupling cars was knocked down and run over, suffering injuries from Which he died. _____ Pioneer Dead. Mrs. Sarah Hudson, aged 85, is dead al • Martinsville. She was the last ofoneol the families that first, settled m Morgan County, when the Indians were yet plenty here, and has resided in tins county continually since.

WATER FAMINE IN ’rIKAiSAS. Human Paints Buffering tram t*>s Fangs of Thirst. A water famine exists In a large |*»r. Hon of Arkansas, and In some sections human beluga are actually Buffering from the pang* of thirst. There have beeu isolated thunder showers in various portions of the State recently, but lu some couiitk-s no mln hue fallen since April 13 amt the suffering is nlntent beyond belief. A gentleman arrived In Little Rock from an overland trip through p*»r---t loti a of Jerf.-rsmi, Cleveland and Brad, ley Counties and says that people In some locnlitlen arc hauling water for drinking purpose* in barrels a distance of twentyfive miles and that for an entire dny he was unable to buy a glass of water to quench his thirst. White river is running dry and the Mayor of Faycttevi! 1 -' has issued n proclamation prohibiting th.sprinkling of the streets, the water being needed f»r drinking purpoaea. TRAMP BURNED AT THE STAKE. taulslana Mob Metes Out Quick Justice to an Unlinßwn Murderer. An unknown white tramp was bunw*! to death by a mob in Franklin parish. La., Wednesday night. A respectable white woman employed as a domestic was rent across Tensas River on an errand, snd failing to return in proper time the family became alarmed and sent parties in search of her. The dead ami horribly mutilated l««ly of the woman was found In the woods partially concealed by brush. Suspicion pointed t<> a white tramp who hnd been seen near there. Doga were used, and in a few hours the tramp was run down. He confessed that he had killed the woman, nnd the Infuriated crowd bound him to the nearest tree, and, after burning his body and riddling it with bullets, quietly disappeared. Bpa-n'l Hands Full. At Inst the Cuban rebels have carried the war into Spain. They do not proceed openly or violently, but seek by intrigue to prevent the embarkation of mon- Spanish troops for Cuba. Trouble of a serious nature is being fomented in Spain, particularly in the Province of Valencia, by agents of the Cuban insurgents. Th<minister of the interior. Senor Cos-< Jayon. replying to a question in the chamber of deputies, admitted that a number of riot, had occurred in Valencia and. when asked to explain the cause of the disturbance., said they were caused by friends of the Culan insurgents, who hoped thereby to prevent the departure of further reinforcements of troops for Cuba. Hitherto the popular demonstrations have been attributed entirely to protest against th.imposition of new taxes—a step made necessary by the financial strain the government has been subjected to through carrying on the campaign against the insurgents of Cuba. But, while the government is only willing to admit that the riots have l>een instigated by the agents of the Cuban revolutionists, it is generally admitted that the roots of the trouble are much d.-eper. and that it is being nourished by the natural feeling of alarm and dismay at the apivarent utter inability of the government to cope with the situation in Cuba. That the large Spanish army in Cuba must tie still further and heavily reinforced is looked up-n ns being n confession of weakness upon the part of the administration and ns an admission of the growing strength of the Cubans. In addition, many letters have been received in different parts of Spain by the relatives of Spanish soldiers serving with the army in Cuba, and they tell such terrible tales of sickness, privation, incompetency and mismanagement, to sny nothing of lack of pay, that a dangerous feeling against the government has arisen and is gaining strength day by day. I nder these circumstances the agents of the Cubans do not have much difficulty in carrying out their plans of causing popular outbreaks. They Marry Native Women. Complaint is made that Chinese immigration on the west coast of Mexico is introducing leprosy, and it is also stated that Chinamen are marrying the women of the lower classes. Mormon colonies are prospering, owing to frugal and energetic business management. Railway construction in various parts of the republic is actively going on, and imports of English railway material, principally steel rails, are increasing. The policy of the government is now directed to the development and completion in the most essential parts the present railway system, the greatest lack of facilities being in southern Mexico and along the west ;coast. which is agriculturally and minerally the richest portion of the republic. The government, in granting modification (of railway concessions, allows on portions inot subvention?.! rates which fully compensate. in the opinion of railway men. the profit to be derived from the subsidies. The most profitable railway in the country to-day is the Mexican Northern, operating in the Sierra Mojava mining region, which has no subvention, but is allowed to charge high rates, having no competition, and is doing an excellent business. Representations are being made to the government by the chambers of commerce of the cities on the west coast, stating that the entire section from Sonora south is lacking in transportation facilities, and praying that measures lie taken to supply the want nnd give life and impetus to the rich undeveloped country. Wolverine and Badger Candidates. Hazen F. Pingree, the famous Inventor of the municipal potato patch, was on the fourth ballot nominated for Governor of Michigan by the Republican State convention at Grand Rapids Thursday afternoon. In Wisconsin, the same day. nt the Republican State convention at Milwaukee, Maj. Edward Scofield, of Oconto, was nominated for Governor on the sixth ballot, after the most interesting fight ever seen in Wisconsin. The present State officers below the office of Governor were then renominated by acclamation in a bunch. Child Killed by a Lion. In Thomas Hurd’s animal show at the jhillleotlie, Ohio, fair grounds n large lion was chained near the entrance to the tent as a catching advertisement. Eddie Hurd, 18 months old, son of the proprietor, was playing near the animal, and the ferocious lienst seized the infant by the head nnd shook it as a terrier dog would shake a rat until it was a corpse. The affair caused a panic in the crowded grounds. Turkey Is Hard Up. The financial difficulties of the Turkish Government are most acute. The officials on the civil list have not received their salaries for seven months, and when some of them complained they were arrested.

ACT LIKE LUNATICS. STRANGE EFFECT OF RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENT. New Pittsburg, Ohl®* Families Broken Up and the Citizens on the Verge of Mint—Life Made Almost Unendurable by Heat nnd Humidity- . Mans Mau by Religion. New Pittsburg, Ohio, is the scene of moat Intense religious excitement, liorderIng on fanaticism. The lemlera claim to !>•• in personal communication with the !»rd nnd to act under Instructions from Him. Excitement i» sohlgli that families have been broken up ami numerous fights have occurred over the matter. The people have tried every way to get rid of the fanatics, but have failed. Warrants were sworn out for the arrest of the leaders— Mart Senrls and his two brothers. When arraigned lefore the Justice they were furious and denounced the court in most bitter terms, insulting the justice nnd even climbing tqion the desk and spitting upon him. The trio were finally placed in jail nnd Mart was taken to the Athens asylum. Their followers number about cue hundred and fifty, some of whom have given as high as $ 15(1,(MM) each upon being converted. DEATH IN THE SUN'S RAYS. All ths Largs Cities Report a Frightful Mortality From Sunstroke. The whole of the United States has passed through its moat remarkable meteorological experience for years. Excessive heat baa combined with humidity to make the lot of man and beast alnxet unendurable. All records for eight years have been broken. In New York and Brooklyn Sunday seventy-two people were killed outright; in Chicago. Ill; in St. Lull* Saturday, 23; in Philadelphia. Boston, Pittsburg, I»etroit and other towns, lesser numbers, though the heat was intense. In addition to these, there were thousands of prostrations. many of which will terminate fatally. The suffering among the very poor of the cities has been terrible. ICE SAVES A HORSE'S LIFE. It Is Applied to the Heat-Stricken Animal Just In Time. Ice saved a Chicago horse's life Friday night. Stricken in the harness, the poor beast fell when at Dearborn and Washington streets. It was nearly midnight when the toiler gave up. Its driver •tripped the harness from its back, watched the listless struggles for a while and then sent for ice. The horse's head was placed on the sidewalk and covered with cracked ice. In an hour and a half the cold did its work and the horse was able to stagger to its feet. Soon it was able to walk to its stalde. Hundreds of jwrsons who watched the acene nnd the humane man who applied the ice to hi* best friend's burning head was cheered to tlie echo when the horse revived. VISITS THE WRONG BANK. W. I. Chamber ain Demands Money from Cashier Hubbard and le Shot. W. I. Chamberlain, a Jacksonville. Fla., crank, went into the bank of the Southern Savings and Trust Company at noon Friday and presented a paper to the paying teller, Archie Hubbard, who was alone in the bank. The pajs-r was a demand for silence nnd the immediate delivery of $5,01)0, with a threat to throw acid tn Hubbard's face if he did not comply. Hubbard covered the crank with a revolver and the two men grappled. Seizing his opjiortunity Hnblaird fired, hitting his opponent in the abdomen. Chamberlain will probably die. LEE TAKES A HAND. - Consul General Demands Better Treatment of Prisoners. Havana advices say that Consul General Lee has renewed his efforts to have the Competitor's crew transferred to better quarters, and in a note to the captain general also insisted that the prisoners should be fed better. Several of the men are ill. and unless the Spanish prison authorities improve their diet the consul general purposes to ask that the prisoners' friends in the United States be allowed to contribute to a fund to provide them with necessities. CATHOLICS WHO ABSTAIN. Annual National Convention Is Held in St. Louis. The twenty-sixth annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union met in convention auditorium at St. Louis Wednesday morning, about 1,200 delegates being present. After assembling the delegates marched to St. John's Church, where Archbishop Elder of Cincinnati, in the absence of Archbishop Kain, celebrated pontifical high mass. In the afternoon the delegates paraded and were reviewed by the officers of tin* union. Kills Four Children. At Opelika. Ala., a man named Huckabee, who is partially demented, went to the bouse of a negro against whom he had a grudge and, taking an ax from the woodpile, struck four negro children who were there, laying their heads open, instantly killing all four. Smallest Hor*e In the World. At Canandaigua, N. Y., a colt wns given birth by an Iceland pony mare belonging to a traveling circus. The animal weighs eight and one-half pounds. Its height is eleven inches. The colt wns named Canaadaigua. It was conveyed to the train in u market basket. Sheriffs Favor the Curfew Law. The Interstate Sheriffs' Association hold its fifth annual convention at Denver. Colo. Gov. Mclntyre and Mayor McMurray delivered addresses. Tne convention adopted resolutions in favor of the curfew law in all cities, towns and villages. Hanged for Wife Murder. Charles Thiede was hanged nt Salt Lake City. Utah, Friday. It is the second hanging in the history of I'tah. Thiede, a saloon-keeper, murdered his wife on the night of April .‘IO, 1894. He asserted his innocence to the last. Quests Flee In Terror. The I’nrk Theater. Tugby's Museum, nnd other buildings nt Niagara Falls were destroyed by fire. The International Hotel was on fire several times ami the guests fled to the streets. The loss will reach $250,000.

MAY BAR INSURANCE COMPANIES. Colorado Comm esioner Proposes to Uss Anli-«ilvsr Circulars. It Is announced (>'"t State Audltoi Parks, of Colorado, who Is ex-officio in •ureitc<* cotnmbiHonef, I# about to ipniui m wurprUv upon of the tendhitf iinuir Ui.ee eompatiieo. Several enmpatilva, it is ■aid, have rees’iitly been sending circulars to their Iwlley h.dtlcm containing the a*wnloii that if the Democratle party • surcoMful in the coming ele.tion their policies w 111 Im* worth but half lhe amount <n which the premiums have been paid. It is said Mr. Parks ha* been quietly securing a eolls’ction of these circulars, which he claim* are evidence of insob vency on the part of the conipanii*. and he now projiooea to entire) the license. <>f nil nueh c»»mpunk*« which uro now tloing business In that State. It is claimed that the Auditor's judgment in such cases • final, and that if ho insists upon this course the companies will lie barred from doing business in the State. GLOAT OVER $14,000 IN COLD. A N«br«ska County Board Cemand* that the Cash Bs Shown. Just to satisfy the longing of the momben of the Dakota County, Nebraska, IL.nrd of Commissioners to gaze on $14,(SMi In gold coin that styit had to lie ’™ n *' l>orted six miles across the country Wednesday from tiic Sioux City Bank, where it was d<*p<mit<*<l, to the board s meeeting place at Dakota City. When the members of the bonrd expressed a desire to sec rhe county funds the Treasurer showed them a certificate of deposit. 1 hat was nil very well, the Chairman replied, but they wanted the money. Much against hi* will the Treasurer accordingly ■iqdied to the Sheriff, who with a strong escort made the trip to Sioux City and returned with the coin in a lumber wagon. When he arrived the board simply pawe-1 over the glittering pieces and ordered it sent iHtck to Sioux City at once. Fritalns Dp'vst the Mstsbeles. Details have been received at Cape Town of the decisive victory won Wednesday by the "(Ml British troops composing Col. Plnmer's column over a native force estimated to have numbered from S,(M»J to 7,0(10. The hitter fought most de»'»**rately and bravely, charging up to within a few yard* of the British rapid-fire guns. About 300 of the Matabele warriors were slain and the loss of the British included Major Kershaw. Lieut. Harvey, four sergeants and about thirty soldiers killed, nnd six officers, several non-commissioned officers an! alsvut fifty men wounded. The Matalude aud their allies were commanded by the big chief Sokomlieo mad Vmlugulus and were divided into five imp!* or regiments, each of over 1,000 nwn, well Supplied with arms and ammunition. Twenty Million at Stake. After months of skirmishing and sparring for position among the army of at torneys involved, order has been finally secured in the Fair litigation, and the trial of one of the greatest will contests in the history of the United States is near at hand in San Francisco. fteamcr 6t. Paul Athore. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's steamer St. Paul went nsbore at Point Pinos, near Monterey, Cal., early Sunday morning and will probably be a total wreck. There were about fifty passengers on board, but all were landed rifely and no live* were lost. A Grave Crisis In Hayti. Many large commercial houses in Hayti are closing down owing to the unstable position of the Government A SI.(MM>.<MM) tire at Port-au-Prince has intensified the trouble. Gold has risen to 85 per cent Kilted In a Trolley Car. At Columbia, Pa., three persons were instantly killed and fifteen Injured, some fatally, by the derailment of a trolley car on the Columbia and Dom-gal electric road Sunday night. River Threatens a City. The Missouri river is advancing toward Vermillion, S. D., cutting into the earth at the rate of ten feet per hour. Unless the advance is checked Vermillion will be in the river by fall. Tennessee Town is Burned. The entire business portion of Concord, Tenn., consisting of nine stores, was destroyed by tire at au early hour Wednesday morning. To Bar Out Our Grain. Austria will organize an international union to protect the central European grain producers against American competition. THE MARKETS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 55c to 50c; corn. No. 2. 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2, 16" to 18c; rye, No. 2. 30c to 31c; butter, choice creamery, lie to 15c; eggs, fresh, 10c to lie; new potatoes, per bushel. 20c to 30c; broom corn, commou short to choice dwarf. $25 to SHO per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,57 cto 58c; corn. No. 1 white, 25e to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. St. Ixiuis—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.75; hog*. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,58 cto <Mic; corn, No. 2 yellow. 21c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2,27 c to 211 c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, C>Oc to 62c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 27c; oata, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye. No. 2,30 cto 32c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hog* $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 r<«l, file to (13c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c: rye. 31 e to 32c. Toledo—Wheat, N«. 2 red, 62c to 04e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 2(5c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white. 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,31 cto 33c; clover seed, $4.30 to $4.35. Milwaukee—Whi'at, No. 2 spring, 55c to 57c; corn, No. 3. 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; barley, No. 2. 30c to 34c; rye, No. 1,31 cto 32c; pork, mess, $0.25 to $0.75. Buffalo—l'attic, $2.00 to $1.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24e; butter, creamery, 11c to 16c; eggs, Western, He to 13c.

SUNSHINE IS DEADLY hundreds are laid low in VARIOUS PLACES. •ntTarlaiz In the Cities la tha Worwl Kver Ksperlenccd —ln <’na Day S*eveut.v*two Die In Naw York au*l «* Skura I'arlah In Chicago. Hlaln by (he Pun * Tlw whole of the Unlled Suites bns pas.**! through Its most remnrkabl** metmirologlcid experience for years. sive ln*«i has combined with humidity to make the lot of man ami lu-ast Alnwut uuendurablc. All records for right rears h.ivv Umhi bnikcn. In N<*w York iumi Brooklyn Sunday seventy-two pc*>|M» were killed out right | lu Chicago. H>l *•> Bt. Isutia Sntunlay, 25; in l'idla<lalphla, Boston, Pittsburg. Detroit an*| oU»*r towns, lesser numbers, though ths heat *vns intense- lu addition to these, there were tbouMtida of proat ret lona, many of which will terminate fatally. The suffering among the very i»*or of the cities has been terrible. The following wble shows Sunday's recordt New York and Brooklyn ~,**■•■<•> < Philadelphia Baltimore Chicago Small IlHnola towns. ~*...*. Cincinnati <<•••• »• [’ Smell towns In Indiana. ” Small towns in Ohio, Boston ” St. Louis “ Pittsburg ’ Oevclsnd *• Louisville 1 Memphis I S*ui Autonio Bionx City Worst Since IHO2. Neer York city has not had such a suerewuon of hot day* and such lists of prostrations hy the heat since 1892. In July »f that year the otlu-i"’ thermometer reg-.-•tered on th*- 25th, 9*; 26th, IM* 27th, *2Lj; 28th, 94; 29th. 96 1 ,-... and fell on the fcxh to 94. The humidity was high as well as the boat, and the published list as prostration* ami fate! sunstrokes rose to thirty-one deaths and ninety-two prostrations in New York and Brooklyn on the 28th, ami sixty-five d<-aths and 133 pr<s*tratlon* on the 29th. The feverish efforts of those who live in narrow and airless rooms to get sleep caused more than the nsual number of persons to roll front roofs and fall from the balconies of Tre escape**. The bott<*t day of the present protracted spell of fierce heat, and the most unbearable of all this summer, fell ui»on Philadelphia beginning at midnight Satorday, and bringing death to twenty-four persons and prostrations to an unusually large number. Men nnd women dropiad exhausted in the street* and a few died there before b*‘l[> could reach them. Others were found dead in their beds, and «til. olhers succumbed while under treatment in the wards of the various hospitals. Philadelphia ha* felt nothing like the present spell since July, 1892, when for seven days humanity sweltered and iick«oed under a temperature that fluctu-xl.-I between !•) and 102 degrees. Unabated hi-at dealt death to Chicagoan* Snnday. Prostrations despite the ,uiet of the day. were reported in every quarter of the city. Two hours of hike Ivveze in the morning grappled with the rising temperature and ebeked it down anti] rhe afternoon, wheat it arose to 93. the maximum for the day. Had it not t*en for this the prostrations earlier in the dey must have been much greater. At midnight nineteen deaths from heat had been reported to the health department. The police <xirt*d for 61 cases of prostration. 17 of them resulting fatally. M<«t of the cases were reported in the aftertxxMi. The police ambulances were taxed to their utmost to respond to the untMnal number of call* which were made upon them, and rhe attendants at the hospitals had their hands full preparing lee (*ompr«*sse*« and other remedies necessary in caring for their patients. Tite deaths dne to sunstroke reported to the health department for four days are a* follows: Thursday 4 Sunday 19 Friday ......... 5 — Saturday 8 Total for 4 dnys.36 For the entire corresponding week ln*t year but one fatal case of sunstroke was rvpnrt*-d. The high death rate last week is charged by officials of the health departjrwsrt directly to the terrific beat and the high degree of humidity in the atmosphere. It is much greater than last year s record and confirms the belief of tne department that for years Chicago has not suffered so greatly from the lieat. The records for last week and the corresponding week in 1895 are compared as follows: Deaths. Snnday. Aug. 2 28 Monosty, Aug. 3..... .....106 Tuesday, Ang. 4 61 Wednesday, Aug. 5 85 Thursday, Aug. 6 .103 Friday, Aug. 7 .I**9 Saturday. Aug. 8. 85 Sunday, Aug. 9 81 Total 658 1895. Deutlu*. Friday, Ang. 2 64 Saturday, Aug. 3 80 Sunday, Ang. 4.. 37 Monday, Aug. 5 107 Tuesday. Aug. 6 77 Wednesday. Aug. 7 61 Thursday, Ang. 8 69 Friday, Ang. 9 ...104 Total 599 At St I»iiis, for a fortnight each day has broken its record. Saturday the official thermometer recorded a continuous te«ni>erature of 99 degrees during nearly five hours. On Friday the record was nearly a* high. Sundky the thermometer reached IK) degrees at 10 o’clock nnd attained its tnnxitnum of 1)8 degrees sson after 3 o'clock, remaining practically stationary until after 5 o'clock. At 7 o'clock in the evening the mercury hnd fallen to 03 degrees. There were forty-eight ciiwes of prostration from heat Saturday, with eight deaths. Bunday, when no labor or mannfacturing was in progress, there were eighteen prostrations and two deaths from the heat. The high temperature is leaving its mark upon the city's mortality record. The normal rate is al>out 200 deaths n week. Last week 273 burial certificates were signed. Hnd Sunday been n dny of labor In Boston there would Iwivo been n long list of fatalities to record. It was, with one exception, the hottest day of the summer so fnr. and the heat wa« made more intensely uncomfortably by the fact that

(I,v l.umi.lnr I pita!. Sunday ui,-!,, ■ deaths 'l'lie „ f '-1 HI very Urge. In Clnelunntl, ||>,. |„ n h , iw death*, but ther, ! fatnllti.v. directly tr,,,,, .'‘•'l t"i"l- r«»iuv Im* l.„.„ „ ~ Tb Hi «.vk Hie ttefflxT 'G 1 1 maximum tem H , , ' "-I MM at fl p. m. nnd 95 mp, ( , lu ‘l' K'n At Omaha, th*- I , K Insufferable A f..« ~r . .< r, . Imv-11 ri-ia.rt.vf, and p> iy . ’ many .-a*.-. „f p„ rlU1! fatality occurnxl Smi<| iiv Sunday in Ba It in,., r ,.' . H| worst of the heated term. Tu? *■ nlnetwn .loath* rc.n, hl l . ; '”»■ thirty prostration* .. Sunday night. " »«*qH ! BRYAN'S TRIP EAST. Crowds st the Mtiitlo na *■„. Route to Hee the Ne|, r .. k * ■ W. .1. Brynn, the lMu.,er,-. ( . I tlnl candidate, u (u . ii„. „ ", "“»■ demotisirntb.il* while r „„./ /,?*•■' M home in Lincoln, Neb , t.. .\ -« \ '*■ to morive th*- official nutul „-. I tH.mluaU.an The tri;. Wll . under favorable rondbiun,. r “ I of torrid temperature, but 1 the time for the deixirtun- ~f ■ r uT 1 1 jHzrty the Rock 1.1. n l , !rI ,, Lincoln so* vrowded, al ,d ’ ringe coiitalabig Mr and M r , ■ drove up « round u t eh„. r , I over I.IMM) throat*. From th.. fJ* ll until tlie train pulled out [*-• I each other a* they prvs.,,l .J 7* K fellow citizen and UtidL B wished him God sliced. A. away from the station a tli-u...,,! a ” E uig baudkerehief, w U v,.,| a imrtingsaj- H On the second .lay of'th., trip th.. ■ left Des Moim-S at 6:50 a. m. r„!f al K readied a few mitntt.s More s ami nearly 1,060 pis,pie «,.> wrtf . ■ into Uie narrow space lejm,-. -h,. ■ Many of them were %in. r» wi:h ■ liunjm in cops. At Newton at *]J I were 1.3 M) to 1,500 enthiuui.t. <*>&»■ platform. They were so ls*nt on ■ ing tlaU it was with difficulty that Ga K Weaver succeetled in finally rocoritii I dev while Mr. Bryan mad. a l.ri-fsptH, I At lowa City a ten minutes' »t..p « a I made and I,l*lo people v.-i.-, I fli.-irenthv. I siasm through the medium of a br»s». B bund. Th.- crowd at Davenport I to the h*rtel and st.sal in the pirriiinzwi I until Mr. Bryan bad finished his ■ when be address.-.) them front :hv k-g I porch. When Chicago was reached at I o’clock Baturday night, there n.r- asm; I 10,000 people massed about tia* Rwt I Island station, anxious to rate'., a gumps I of the presidential candidate. Alate I I, of tiles*- were members nf the u- I rious silver organizations which went h I make up the procession that escorted Mt. I Bryan to lit* hotel. tTlie street, ton I filled with people anxious to -hemißj. I nee for I’rewi.lcnt. Mr. Brt .n I the right and left rontinuoualy all tU I way to the hotel. When the Cliftoi I House finally was readied Mr. Bryu I went imnwdiately to the Isilcny. whes I ♦he formal exercises were held. Wilßaa I J. Strong, the Bepublicsn cl.airtnaa f I the reception committee, delivered the ad- I dress of welcome, and Bryan sp.k- tou I many people as could crowd in front d the hotel balcony. The party left Chieajs Sunday night, continuing the tr.p esst INSURRECTION AT CRETE Tl»c Unspeakable Turk Displays Hi* Usual Atrocity. The powers having naval and < ■-.omen cial interest* in the Mediterranean I just now anxiously watching the strnfii* I which baa again recommenced betwwt I the Greek population of Crete . r Csadu. I which after Sicily, Sardinia a Cort • is the largest island in that sea. and tae forces of it* sovereign, the saltan of Tvkey. The prospects of political in<ie;»ndence, or, rather, of eventual annezsn.a to the kingdom of Greece, do not teen hopeful for the Greeks. The Turkish soldiery, by all areoonu. have di*pL-iye*l in this Island a remirkabk decline of their old military ■; nil.ty. he having like brigands, in cruel orgias ’! massacre, outrage and ..'under. The ne»-tea-1 "■ i. —i —■ Iff' P 'Ww!' HARBOR OF CANEA, < KI TE ly appointed governor, Abdullah I has faihxl hitherto, if he ha* serwwlf endeavored, to check these savage prac tices, and'five Europeqo consuls at LM** have jointly protested against them. It Is admitted, on the other band, «« mundera and other outrages have t*.J> perpetrated by some bands of Greek in*ll- - belonging to a rude highlah-l rare, and not subject to any discipline "rm tary command. The state of nffnirs ’ very different in some districts, nnd at™ end or side of the island from that ' v 7" _ prevail* nt another, in the town of ’ nea, a well frequented port on the nar'. const, a Mussulman mob, supported by t> Turkish soklier*. rioted ami coninutt great excesses, killing the “kavnsae* • chief guards of the Russian and ('B* consuls. Notea of Current Event*. Henry M. WlFtney. the Bocton mngnnte, brother of William 1 ■ ” ■ ' • of New York, is seriously ill at b>* "' from nn nttnek of appendicitis. Patriotic Spaniards, living in rfcl ' 1 tins, have given n Clyde building ‘ order for a cruiser of 4.500 tons to $1,600,000 nnd to <be delivered in eignw months ns a gift to Spain. A wind storm nt San Ixini*. ,P 5’ <> T".‘ h g of Santiago de Cuba, has d«noii»“ < * barracks there, killing two guerilla’ right and burying seven olivets ruins. Five persons were killed Iff e ‘ trfeity. i "HO The Mussulmans have hnrno • Christian houses in the village of \ . dike, in the province of Selino. tian* as a reprisal are burning th.' sulman villages. Hostilities have retumH in various parts of Selina