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LUCK IN COLD FIELDS 31UKK FORTI NKS FOUND BY CHANCE THAN BY PATIENT DIGGING. ♦ In tlie Senrcli for Bonanza I’lnorr* tlie ••Tenderfoot’’ Stinaln an Good Show uh the Skillful Miner. SCENES IN TOWN OF DAWSON * ■ TOTAL OUTPUT IN THE KLONDIKE THIS SEASON ABOUT JK7.000.000. ♦ • Short Ration* nnd Possibly Starvation During the Cuming Winter—How New Arrivals Are “Bled.” * ST. LOUIS, Sept. I.—Charles Haines, a start - correspondent of the Globe-Democrat, writing from Dawson City under date of July 26, says: Since the first of the year what was a comparatively unknown mining district has developed into a camp of three thousand ciners from all parts of Alaska. A few days ago an Indian runner arrived from the Dalton with news that the excitement which has spread over Alaska had reached even to the utmost limits of the territory. We expect to hear the end of it all before long, however, for the rich diggings have been comparatively idle through the summer, although the output from El Dorado and Bonanza was enormous, and there is plenty of gold in sight. I left Circle City for this place with the Scheel party, and found Dawson in a great state of excitemenet, inasmuch as everybody seemed to be getting rich. Since “first pans’’ the excitement has subsided somewhat, although there is every prospect of an immense output of gold from this district next spring, the value of which it is impossible to foretell. The total output this season is about $7,000,00, as near as 1 can judge. Very little ground has been worked through, and the dumps of the Klondike placers will, like some of the “tailings" of old California claims, pan out thousands of dollars when worked with improved machinery. The gravel has been worked in a very crude manner, and for that reason it is very hard to ascertain what will be the average yield of a given number of cubic yards of earth. The gravel deposits are in the beds of creeks and along their shores, but there do not appear to be any indications which may be accepted as definite signs of the proper lead to quartz locations. In fact, some of the gold taken out has had particles of rock attached ta it, which particles do not seem to have at any time been part of the formation of the surrounding country. These placers are the most puzzling that 1 have ever seen. 1 know of no laws of nature governing them by which a pector may be guided. Imagine a man working on good “color,” finding ground worth a few dollats per day, and then turning to a waste of mud and inoss, with no surface indication, and unearthing a bonanza. That is the situation here and all over the Northwest. Bar digging in every stream tributary to the Yukon pays from $lO to SSO per day, the $lO diggings being in the majority. Regarding these $lO ones, one cun readily understand why men leave them, when the price of provisions, difficulty of transportation and the terrible wear and tear on one's condition is taken into consideration. The man who conies here to nmn- dous so at the expense of health and happiness and it is with him a question of making a fortune quickly or taking chances with death, lie locates a bar claim, but what are a few paltry hundreds of dollars per month to him, who must work his physical self for a small sack of nuggets? LUCK A BIG ELEMENT. Now as to the difficulty of locating good claims. I dwell on the word difficulty, though there are about me scores o. men who can weigh their gold by the bucketful and who value their claims at millions. Four hundred valuable claims are stretched along the creeks, and every digging is a fabulous mine of gold, yet there are weary men here who have gone from and returned to Dawson City, searched the great country here about and never a nugget do they show for their toil, and their long tramps over broken ground into a country whose natural disad\ antuges are exceeded by no otlfer place on earth. This Northwestern gold field is so odd a prize-draw-ing proposition that 1 can liken it to nothing that admits of Defter comparison than a Chinese lottery ticket, on which art marked a number of spots; the dice of chance are thrown; if the numbers that he selected on the ticket correspond with those on the dice he wins, otherwise he loses. Thus it is with claims. A number of spots are selected on creeks and rivers and for one year the locater labors. The season closes, the water runs and the senson s output barely pays expenses. Not two miles from the unfortunate one another works, who has taken from the unpromising soil a sackful of gold. The lucky one did not strike the pocket because of his ability as a miner. Chance favored him that was all. ’ Surrounding the prospector is a country so extensive that it is hard for those at home to realize its vastness. Rivers and creeks abound, but all are not so rich in gold as has been reported. To be sure there have been many “pocket finds." but nothiftg w hioh would justify anew boom movement in the conditions that must naturally confront the miner. Then these rivers are miles and miles apart, and between them lies a broken stretch of mountains and bowlder-lined plateaus over which the prospector must travel, hauling his outfit The gold Is there somewhere between the distant outline in the western sky, where a range of rugged peaks protrude, and yonder in the east whore lies another broken ridge. Can the prospector point out a certain spot in all that groat domain and announce “gold Is there?" He cannot, but he must try to work out his destiny on these lines. In short, he guesses at it and locates anywhere that water flows. In nineteen eases out of twenty he misses it and has to wait another year for another trial. SITUATION AT DAWSON. Dawson Is a collection of log huts, several log storehouses and saloons and a rm*s of tents, about six hundred in numbe.r. Lumber is high-priced, and though the vigorous arctic winter already shows signs of closing down, there does not seem to be any very great effort being made among the tent owners to get themselves under nroper covering. When the long nights come and the mercury goes down to 66 degrets below zero there will be intense suffering here, and I shudder to think of the result. Provisions are going to be

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very scarce and there is little reason to doubt that the entire town will have to go on "short rations” during the winter. There is considerable sickness, and scurvy will surely break out. If we do not have early rains before the freeze-up there will not be enough grub brought here by steamers to last through the winter. To make matters worse a number of pack trains have been arriving from different sections lately with onfy half the grub their men started with. The packers foolishly sold or threw away their food to make their packs light. They will probably suffer punishment for their folly before the ice opens next spring. The gold that will go down the river to San Francisco will amount to $2,000,000. This includes the transportation companies’ store of nuggets, but it must be borne in mind that it is almost impossible to get at the exact amount that any one is shipping. There is a lot of gold in circulation which will remain in the camp, for it is used as legal tender at the rate of sl7 per ounce. There are few persons here who can be called poor, although the prospects are that before winter is over half the prospectors will be broke. Os the 4,000 inhabitants only a few hundred have made big stakes. The less fortunate ones have found work in various capacities. During the months of last winter many made sls and S2O a day, paid $2.50 for board and saved the balance. But the town cannot stand a great many more newcomers unless new strikes are made, which is probable. The man who comes in here this winter, should the floating population increase to any extent, must have money and food, or he will run the risk of starving. Reports of other strikes are constantly received here and many strikes have really been made. However, nearly all of these outside claims have been scattering and no district as rich and extensive as the Klondike has been discovered. A man named Winters took out several thousands of dollars on the Stewart river, but on the other hand several expeditions have returned from there and reported that only fairly rich bar diggings exist on that stream. There is another example of the uncertainty of “striking it rich” in this section. Quite a number of people are preparing to leave her for Juneau in case the steamers do not go through with provisions. The outlook for a good grub supply is not encouraging, but the transportation companies’ agents say that there will be supplies enough provided there is not much of an influx of people. The gold fields will develop slowly. Ten thousand men may come, but they will be lest in the vast country when they spread out to prospect. Not more than five hundred of them will strike any pay dirt. When they do find pay gravel their fortunes will be made. In years to come, when, at the sacrifice of human life and energy, the treasures of this land of ice are located and when capital develops the mines, the wealth of the West will be something almost beyond comprehension.

NEWCOMERS “BLED.” Extortionate Charge* for Services Imposed on Gold Seekers. NEW YORK, Sept. I.—The Post prints the following extracts from a private letter sent from Skaguay, Alaska, Aug. 7, and addressed to a man in this city; “This Is the first moment I’ve had for a week to get by myS’elf and I am taking advantage of it by writing a few private letters. The excitement here reminds me of Panama days, only here it is more so. Passengers are landed on rocks and sand bars several miles out to sea, and ‘cinched’ everlastingly by boatmen and Indians to get ashore. Their baggage com’es later, and next their freight and outfits for wintering in Yukon. The company have it reduced to a system, so that one is safe on figuring on finding each and every packag’d on a. different landing, and the trouble and expenses of collecting them, to say nothing of getting them ashore, are outrageous. Horses, lumber and cattle are dumped overboard promiscuously to get to shore or be lost, as the case may be, and the loss in that direction is also great. Saloons and dance halls and gambling dens are beginning to show up. • w hen on shore then the fun begins. Wagons haul a mile or two for $5 a load. Then comes a ferry to cross a swltt stream, for which $1 for horses and men and 50 cents a package for baggage and freight is charged. Th’en come pack mules for four or live miles, with the tariff accordingly; then native Indians for a few miles more; then more ferries to the landing at the foothills, where the hard work of crossing the mountains begins. Nearly every day some fellow refuses to pay ferry charges and attempts to swim his stock across, and either drowns his horses or himself, but others try in canoes and lose their entire outfits. “Day before yesterday I was appointed United States marshal to take a bad man’ who started out to bluu his way over the trail by pulling his six-shoot’er on men. I rode an Indian pony most of the way, and caught tlie man nearing the summit, which is tlie British line. I snowed him the warrant and he dropped his pack and said he was ready for his medicine,’ and wanted to Know what I expect’eu to do with him. I took him back nlteen miles to the port, where .he was fined S6O, wmch lie paid, and laughingly said if he had only had a few moments’ notice that 1 was on his trail lie would have been over the line, and then he, would nave liked to see me take him. “Last night an American was drowned in tho river in front of the office, and today 1 am selling his outfit and burying 1-is body. I found several hundred in goiil in his pockets and letters showing him to oe a married man with four children,’ and that he borrowed the money on his home to come here; also that his life is insured for several thousand dollars. He was a linelcoking man, of middle age, and well outfitted, and several hundred dollars more will be realized out of his effects. “Every man in camp has money, and every one is making from $lO to $25 a day that wants work. Some turn back when they realize tho difficulties; others work until they can buy an outfit to go on to the mines. I have only been here a week and have cleared up S6OO just buying and selling odds and ends. There are two trails and two ports— only five miles apart—and I run back and forth on a steam launch. There are no houses or accommodations, and cold, damp rains all the time. “One earns all he gets, and is liable to make breaks and lose it occasionally. I lost one canoe with $l5O worth of provisions the second dav I landed by upsetting, and yesterday a small canoe I had rented got washed out to sea. and I suppose I’ll have to settle for that at about five times its value. Horses are worked almost to death and then shot. All that are not dead when snow comes are killed and used for dog food. None is wintered to speak of. Feed costs tco much, and they are no use in winter. Good dogs are worth as much as horses—from sm to SIOO each. “I am deputy United States marshal for this district (Dyea and Skagaway.) The United States commissioner came on the same boat with me, and we tent together and work together on everything. I am kept on the jump I assure you. My district covers both the passes to the Yukon. There is also a deputy at the mines. Something exciting happens every few hours, and all is one grand rush. I’ll have lots of run (if I don’t get killed), even if I don’t make anything, if I continue to do as well as I have so far I’ll have no cause to kick. Prices for packing are going up. and it is going to be impossible to get half the people over at any price before snow falls. The rush is so gr at I have not been able to exactly get my soundings, but as everybody moves on I’ll soon be an old-timer and ‘dead on to the game.’ There are a thousand and one ways to make money here, and the thing is to get in on the ground floor this fall and winter and be ready for the spring rush.’V Peril* of tlie Skaguay Trail. VANCOUVER. Sept. 1.-A letter has been received here from Henry Benson, who left here for the Y'ukon, via Skaguay. with a well-equipped party in July. The party consisted of eight, but one grew faint hearted at tho hardships and returned. They had reached the summit on Aug. 22 and expected to arrive on Stewart river before winter sets in. Dead horses are reported along the trail and at one spot where their party lost one horse through falling over a precipice, six horses were killed on the same day. Two men were caught stealing and shot. Large numbers of people are turning back and outfits can be purchased cheaply. But he advises no one to' go up depending on purchasing outfits. He says horses are an absolute necessity. ExSergeant Haywood, of “;e police force here, who went up to Dawson City in the spring, says in a letter that “God only knows what will become of the crowds now heading this way.” At the time of his writing provisions were very scarce in Dawson, but a steamer was expected dally. May Dock at Bremerton. WASHINI TON, Sept. 1.-The Navy Department has authorized the use of the big government dock at Bremerton, Wash., for the docking of the merchant steamer Portland. which is hastening preparations for another voyage to the Klondike gold regions. The owners of the vessel will be called upon to pay a dock charge, which will bo moderate, hut sufficient to insure the Navy Department against the charge of unfair competition with private dock owners. _ Klondike Gold la Poor Sioff. NEW YORK. Sept. 1.- Two lots of gold from the Klondike, the first ever received hare, have bean oesuyed at the New York

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assay office, in Wall street. One lot, weighing 44.45 ounces, assayed 749 per cent, fine gold and 246 per cent, silver, which made the value $15.48 an ounce. The other lot, which weighed 10.16 ounces, assayed 820*4 fine gold and 174 silver, making the value $16.95 an ounce. Superintendent Mason said this Klondike gold was poor stuff. Ordjnary California gold assays 850 fine, $17.57 an ounce. The finest gold comes from Madagascar. A good deal of it reaches the assay office. American houses trading with Madagascar take their pay in crude gold. An lowan Strikes II Rich. OTTUMWA. la.. Sept. I.—Oskar Larnppeze, one of the wealthiest men to return from the gold fields of the Yukon, has been visiting relatives in this city and vicinity. Lamppeze returned several months ago with over $150,000, which he mined on his own claim in less than two years. He formerly resided near Ottumwa, but two years ago he and his wife left for the West, and finally drifted up into Alaska, where fortune smiled on him. He left a claim which he estimates as worth $1,000,000 and which he will not sell. Famine Probable at Dawson. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. I.—News received in letters to the Alaska Commercial Company that famine is almost certain on the Klondike next winter receives confirmation from Mr. Goodhue, a newspaper correspondent at St. Michael’s. He states that the Yukon is unusually low and the chances of getting enough food to Dawson to support those now there and those Hocking in are slender. SITUATION IN CUBA. No Recent Battle* of Importance— Hospital* Overcrowded. HAVANA, via Key West, Fla., Sept. 1.The general situation in Havana and in ali Cuba is unchanged from that of the past month from a military point of view. No battles of importance have been fought, though many skirmishes have taken place, with one or two killed here and there ana three or four wounded. The ravages of diseases in the island increases weekly and the hospitals are overcrowded. The foreign consulates in Havana are besieged with people demanding food. In Guanabacoa rations are distributed twice a week by the city government. Last Saturday a number of women and children were seriously hurt in the rush made by the crowd in their efforts to get at least half of a small piece of bread. It is announced that Senorita Evangelina Cossio Cisneros will probably be released from custody in a month or two. • The insurgents will hold their election for President of the Cuban republic tomorrow. It is stated that they have about 35,000 men under arms and are possessed of sufficient supplies to 4 last through the coming winter should the war continue. Official advices state that within the last ten days the insurgents have lost 257 killea, including two chiefs. In the province of Santiago de Cuba, the advices say, s'.xtytwo insurgents have been killed, in Santa Clara twenty-five, in * .itanzas fifty-six, in Havana sixty and in Pinar del Rio fiftyfour. It is also stated that during the same time 447 insurgents, 157 of whom, were armea, have surrendered. The Spanish losses (luring the same period were, according to these reports, thirty-five soldiers killed and six officers and eighty-five soldiers woundea.

FAIR THIS MORNING, Clouded Skies and Possibly Thunderstorms In the Afternoon. Forecasts for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 11 p. m., Sept. 2—Fair weather; increasing cloudiness on Thursday; possibly thunderstorms in the afternoon. General Conditions Yesterday—Low atmospheric pressure continued west of the Mississippi and high pressure from the lakes south to the guit The temperature fell near the lakes. Very high temperature, above 90, prevails in southern Colorado, northern Kansas, lowa and northern Missouri. Local thunderstorms formed in central Indiana, eastern lowa, western Nebraska and near the lower lakes. Quite a gale prevailed at Indianapolis in the afternoon, blowing at an average of sixty-four miles per hour during fifteen minutes. The storm formed west and in advancing brought in its front a thick wall of yellowish brown dust, which hid everything. _ The temperature fell from 94 degrees to 67 degrees within a few minutes, showing the . origin of the storm, a cold current from above entering vertically an area of very high temperature near the ground. FORECAST FOR THREE STATES. WASHINGTON. Sept. I.—For Ohio— Showers; fresh, to brisk variable winds. For Indiana and Illinois—Showers; warmer in extreme northern portion; variable winds. Local Observations 'Wednesday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m.. 30.02 68 84 S'east. Clear. 0.00 7 p.m..30.00 74 84 North. Pt.Cld’y. .53 Maximum temperature, 94; minimum temperature, 66. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Sept. 1: Temp. Pre. Normal 71 .10 M’ean 80 .53 Departure from normal *9 *.43 Departure since Sept. 1 *9 *.43 Departure since Jan. 1 —229 1.16 *Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official. Y'esterday’s Temperatures. Stations. 7a. m. Max. 7p. m. Atlanta, Ga 72 88 82 Bismarck, N. D 56 74 <4 Buffalo, N. Y 64 72 62 Calgary, N. W. T 44 64 6o Cairo, 111 72 94 86 Cheyenne, Wyo 52 82 78 Chicago. 11l 68 72 70 Concordia, Kan 76 92 100 Davenport, la 74 74 70 Des Moines, la 72 98 92 Dodge City. Kan 70 92 86 Galveston. Tex 80 84 78 Helena, Mont ■ • 66 Jacksonville, Fla 78 90 80 Kansas City, Mo 76 98 90 Little Rock. Ark .2 94 88 Minnedosa, Manitoba ... d2 Marquette, Mich 56 60 54 Memphis, Tonn 74 94 88 Nashville, Tenn 70 94 88 New Orleans, La 76 88 76 New York. N. Y 66 78 72 North Platte, Neb 58 92 78 Oklahoma. O. T 68 92 88 Omaha, N'eb 74 98 £4 Pittsburg, Pa 60 86 Qu’Appelle, N. W. T 56 74 72 Rapid City, S. D 58 84 82 Salt Lake City, Utah.... 58 88 86 St. Louis, Mo 74 96 92 St. Paul, Minn 60 74 78 Springfield, 111 <4 91 8* Springfield, Mo 2 92 86 Vicksburg. Miss.... 74 92 86 Washington, D. C 70 82 74 Windstorm in Ohio. CLEVELAND, Sept. I.—A violent wind and rainstorm swept over Cleveland about 5 o'clock this afternoon. The storm came suddenly from tho northwest, and the wind blew at the rate of fifty-six mires an hour for fifteen or twenty minutes. At Glenville, a suburb, the wind swept down big trees and played havoc generally. Yachts and small boats in the harbor had a rough time of it. A eatboat was capsizvd a short distance west of the city and blown ashore. The bank at that is seventy-five feet high. People tried io rescue the occupant of the boat, but were unable to do so. He was drowned. His name is unknown. The storm was general tnroughout northern Ohio. At Akron the wind blew down the walls of the Academy of Music, which burned some time since. At Dunkirk. Hardin county, the corn crop was practically destroyvd by hail. Panned Forged Money Order. WILMINGTON. Del.. Sept. I.—A man giving the nar. e of John E. Ford and claiming to be from Ohio was arrested here last night, after he had passed an alleged fraudulent money order on a Market-street merchant in payment for a hat. To-day he was turned over to the Federal authorities. In Ford’s possession was found a set of rubber stamps like those used in the postoffice for filling out money orders. The order that was passed was dated Belmore, 0.. and a number of other blank money orders were found on him. Ford, it is said, has confessed that he was a member of a gang that had been operating with these monev orders throughout the country. It is said that another arrest of the leading member of the gang has been made, but the authorities refuse to tell who he is or where he was - "rested. Colored Pythian*. COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. I.—Tlie Supreme Lodge Kights of Pythias, colored, of North and South America and Australia, elected officers to-day as follows; Supreme chancellor, James C. Ross, Savannah, Ga.; supreme vice chancellor, S. W. Starks, Charleston, W. V.; supreme prelate. C. D. White, Piqua, O.; supreme exchequer, J. H. Young. Arkansas; supreme keeper of records and seals. C. K. Robinson. St. Louis. Mo.; supreme lecturer, John Mitchell, Richmond, Va„ besides minor officers.

EVIDENCE OF CRIME ■ ♦ ■- FRANK ODOROFSKY’S TESTIMONY IN LUETGERT MURDER CASE. * It Wa* by tlie Sausage Maker’s Order that He Filled One of the Vats with Caustic Potash. - ♦ FOUND SMALL PIECES OF BONE ♦ AND A SUBSTANCE RESEMBLING FLESH THE NEXT MORNING, Which Luetgert Ordered to Be Scattered About the Yard—Cross-Exam-ination of Frank liiulL.

CHICAGO, Sept. I.—But two witnesses were on the stand in the Luetgert trial today, and when the court adjourned the evidence of one of them was not completed and will be resumed to-mororw. The first witness was Frank Bialk, the watchman of the factory, who was on the stand yesterday giving his direct evidence, and today he was turned over to the defense for cross-examination. His testimony was in the main unshaken, although the defense drew from him the fact that it was by no means an unusual thing for Luetgert to be around the factory at all hours of the night. He said, in his direct examination, that ho thought Luetgert was acting in a suspicious manner on the night of the alleged murder, and to-day said that he was in a position from which he could have seen everything that Luetgert did at the vat on the night the murder is said to have taken place, but not look at him. The other witness was Frank Odorofsky, an employe of the factory, who placed the caustic potash in the vat on the order of Luetgert. He has been working around the vats for a long time, but that night was the first time that he had ever seen any caustic potash in the factory. He testified to finding in the morning near the vat into which he had put the potash on the night before a mass of slimy brown matter, in which he found pieces of bone and pieces of substance which lie took to be flesh. Luetgert told him to take the stuff away and throw it around the yard, but instead of doing this ho dumped it .all in one place and afterwards showed the police where he had put it. The interest in the trial was unabated today. A majority of the spectators were women, who had come early. Outside the court hundreds waited ir. line, unable to enter. The big sausage maker, the central figure in the trial, was apparently in the best of spirits, betraying no outward effects of the strain of the trial. He commented. not in bitter terms, on the testimony of his old employe, Bialk, the watchman, who, he said, was a simple, honest man. “He is an ignorant man.” said Luetgert. “and, iike an elephant or bear, can be trained. He has been well trained by the police.” When court W’as called to order Assistant State’s Attorney McEwan announced that he had authorities at hand on the questions which were left undecided yesterday, whether the visits of Mary Simmering, the Luetgert family servant, to Luetgert in the factory w’as admissible as evidence, but the state would prefer to argue the question later. Judge Tuthill said Bialk could be recalled later in the trial and the question decided. BIALK CROSS-EXAMINED. Attorney Vincent then began the crossexamination of Bialk and put to him questions regarding his connection with the police since May 16. Mr. McEwan objected, but Attorney Vincent declared It would be shown that Bialk had not been out of the sight of a policeman for five minutes since the arrest of Luetgert, and the defense had not been able to get a minute’s conversation with him. The cross-examination proceeded, and Bialk testified that since May 16 he had been with Officer Klinger, living at the latter’s house and paying no board. He had done no work, but Inspector Schaack had provided means for his wife to live and pay rent. Mr. Vincent brought out the fact that previous to May 1 the watchman had met Luetgert in different parts of the factory at all times of the night. Sometimes the sausage maker walked about the building, even in the yard, at late hours. Bialk said he regarded the actions of his employer on the night of May 1 as suspicious, because he turned on the steam into the basement at 9 o’clock! This was unusual. It was made plain to the jury in the cross-examination that Bialk, from his position in the boiler room, could have looked through an opening near the elevator and have seen Luetgert at the vat in the basement. He did not do so, he said, because he knew it would not do for him to bo caught at it. Bialk said that although Luetgert had barricaded the door leading directly from the boiler room when he went to the basement thf|re was another route by which he could have walked into the basement. He did not go into it, he said, because Luetgert had told him to go back to his fires after he had delivered the second bottle of medicine to him. Luetgert did not at any time tell him not to enter the basement. Ihe watchman said he could have looked from the upper floors of the factory across a court into the part of the building where the vats were and could have seen Luetgert and his lantern, but did not do so. The cross-examination of Bialk. which had taken all the forenoon, was concluded shortly after the afternoon session began. Frank Odorofsky was next called as a witness. He was an employe of Luetgert’s whose duties were around the vats. Odorofsky said he broke up the caustic potash and, under Luetgert’s directions, put it in the middle vat. The witness then told what he saw in the basement on Monday morning, May 3. Beside the middle vat was a mass of reddish brown stuff which had overflowed from the vat and had been carried part of the way toward the sewer opening on the floor. The stuff had an offensive smell, the witness said, and was slimy and greasy. Near the vat were three doors which had been taken from the smokehouse nearby. Two of these doors were smeared with the same substances as though they bad been on top of the vat and the contents of the vat had boiled up against the doors. He said he took a quantity of the stuff on a shovel and examined it carefully. In it he could see small pieces of bone and what appeared to be particles of fiesh. Odorofsky said Luetgert ordered him to remove the stuff from the floor and vat. which he did, and the sausage maker then told Jiim to take it out into the yard and scatter it all over the yard. “I took it out into the yard,” said the witness, “but I did not scatter it around. Instead, I dumped it in one place and put some dirt over it.” The witness said that after the police began their investigation of the case he showed them where he had placed the material from the vat and they took part of it away. Odorofsky said the fuel used in the smokehouse furnace was sawdust and the furnace was cleaned out on the Thursday before the Ist of May. Luetgert then directed that anew supply of sawdust be placed in the furnace and this was done. When court adjourned for the day Odorofsky was still on the witness stand and his testimony will be concluded to-morrow. Body Hanging to n Trot Line. PINE BLUFF. Ark.. Sept. 1.-The dead body of a negro was found hanging to a trot line in the Arkansas river yesterday near Rob Roy. A rope around the neck and several gashes in the head indicate that the negro had been lynched and thrown into the river. There was nothing on thv? body by which the man could be identified and no lynching has been reported in that vicinity recently. Molt Waiting for Him. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Sept. 1.-Henry Kransten, near Malden, six miles from here, attempted to assault to-day his four-teen-year-oid daughter Nellie. A mob is gathering and talks of lynching. He is now at work in a coal mine and the mob is waiting for him to come out ia the morning

between 5 and 6 o'clock. Officers will attempt to get him away before the mob gets him. Shot by His Step-Son. ENGLAND, Ark., Sept. I.— George Young, a prominent farmer of Indian Bayou, was shot and killed by his stepson yesterday. Young had beaten the boy’s mother and the son warned him not to repeat it. This Young did cruelly and the son shot him, the wound causing death in an hour. VICTIMS OF A COLLEGE “RUSH.” One Student Disfigured for Life and Two Others Maimed. BERKLEY. Cal., Sept. I.—There will be no more “rushes” at the University of California if Preseident Kellogg’s latest mandate is obeyed Half dazed, his jaw broken, his face a bleeding mass, Benjamin Kurtz, a newly entered freshman, was found wandering about the campus after the rush between the two lower classes. In the struggle someone put his heel on Kurtz’s face and as a result he is disfigured for life and may have received an injury to the brain. An examination showed that a piece of flesh had been tom from one nostril. The upper lip hung only by a ( shred and the ragged nature of the tear made the injury the more serious. All the front teeth were gone. Four teeth had been knocked out of the jower jaw bone, in w'hich they had been Imbedded and part of the bone was broken out with them. Both the upper and lower jaws were smashed and the flesh of all the face crushed and bleeding. There were two other serious casualties. Frank Marshall, freshman, had his right leg broken just above the ankle. Another freshman named Conlon came out of the combat with a broken leg also. MONEY SCARCE IN INDIA + SALE OF DILLS OF EXCHANGE SUSPE.VUED FOR TEX WEEKS. * British Preparing to Attack flic Fanatical Tribesmen of the Xorthern Part of Indiu. LONDON, Sept. I.—The following notice was posted on the Bank of England to-day: “Tne secretary of state for India, in council, gives notice that the sale of hills of exchange on Calcutta, Bombav and Madras has been suspended for a period of not less than ten we’eks.” The government has very little money in India to draw on, owing to the famine, and the plague having rendered the collection of taxfes slow. The present time may be opportune to accustom the East Indians to the use of gold, instead of silver, though it would not have been attempted had not the scarcity of money arisen. The Daily Telegraph, anticipating tlte action of th’e Indian Council, said to-day: “The council may refuse to draw altogether, thus sending exchange up to the gold point and render possible the ’establishment of the gold standard in India.’ The action of the Indian Council has attracted but the slightest notice in the afternoon papers and has not affected the rate of exchange, which is normal. The Westminster Gazette, commenting on the subject, says: “The decision was altogether unexpected, being the outcome of financial situation in India.” The India Council has suspended the sale of bills of exchange on previous occasions, notably in ISB2 ana 1893, but in neither case was gold shipped to India. The present suspension does not cause surprise, it being occasioned by heavy expenditures in connection with the frontier troubles. It is probable that a gold loan, for which the powers already exist, will be issued in London in order to replenish the Indian treas- ’ ury. No other important effect of the action taken by the Council is expected, the general belief being that little gold will be remitted to India. All morning papers refer to the possibility that the bank will raise the rate of exchange to-day.

THE INDIAN REVOLT. Indefinite Newt* Regarding; the MovenientM of Troop*. LONDON, Sept. 2.—The Times this morning publishes a dispatch from Chakdara, saying it appears that Haddah Mullah has abandonc-d the idea of attacking the Khan Dir and is gathering his forces for an attack upon Peshawar. All the tribes in this district have been quiet since its occupation. The upper Swat country has hitherto been comparatively unknown. It has not. been visited by organized troops since the time of Alexander the Great. The Swatis deemed their country inaccessible, the only entrance to it being by a narrow causeway barely wide enough to admit one man at a time, flanked on one side by a raging torrent and on the other by precipitous cliffs fortified by stone breastworks. The news regarding the Indian frontier troubles is indefinite and fragmentary, and it is difficult to follow the varying movements of the British forces, which are apparently decided in consequence of the quickly changing gatherings of the tribesmen. News has been received of fresh accessions to the forces of the insurgents and of the appearance of various fanatics who are endeavoring to stir those tribesmen who are reluctant to join the revolt to attack the British. There is every probability that an attack will be made by the British at some point within a few days. The attack upon the British post, Gazarbund, Beluchistan, is not of great importance. The station at Gazarbund is a small one. A report comes from Quetta, Beluchistan, to the effect that the militia there has become disaffected; but the rumor is not credited in government circles. The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that after careful inquiries he is convinced that the Sultan's personal influence among the Mussulmans in northwest India is nonexistent. There is no doubt, the correspondent says, that the suggestion that the Sultan instigated the trouble is flattering to his vanity, but it is quite clear that nothing can restore to the Sultan his preponderance in the Mussulman world. The Afghan Sheik, Said Yahia, who has been on a visit to Constantinople, has been loaded with presents by the Sultan and taken back with him a number of valuable gifts and an autograph letter addressed by the Sultan to the Ameer of Afghanistan. Outbreak of Moplnhs. MADRAS, Sept. I.—An outbreak is reported among the Moplahs, or fanatical Mohammedans of the Malabar coast. It has not yet assumed serious proportions. Malabar is a district of India in the Madras presidency and on the west coast of India, but the term Malabar coast is also applied to the west coast of India in general. M. FAIRS AND TIIE CZAR. Former Sends a Mpmiikf of Thank* and the I.atter Replies. PARIS, Sept. I.—lt was given out to-day that on the arrival of President Faure at Dunkirk yesterday he sent a dispatch to the Czar saying: “At the moment I place my feet once mor*e upon the soil of France, my first thought is for your Majesty, her Majesty, the Empress, and the whole Russian nation. The magnificent and cordial reception given to the President of the republic calls forth throughout France a feeling of emotion and joy. It will leave in our hearts an ineffaceable memory. I beg your Majesty one’e more to accept the expression 6f my thanks and the wishes I entertain for your Majesty's happiness and that of the Empress and the imperial family, and for the prosperity of Russia.” The Czar replied to this message* from the Lazelsky Palace, at Warsaw. He said: “The Empress and myself are 'extremely grateful for your kind words just s'ent to us. It is with pleasure tnat I shall preserve the memory of the visit paid by the President of the republic of France, whose h’eart has once more beat in unison with that of France.” President Faure, referring in an Interview to his visit to Russia, is quoted as saying that everything passed of’ wonderfully well and that one could not dream of anything better. Admiral De Courtille. in an interview on the same subject, said: "The Czar, upon several occasions, expressed to me the happiness h'e felt at signing the treaty of alliance and spoke witli a warmth and enthusiasm which could not be misunderstood.” President Faure w'ent to Havre to-day for a few days’ rest, but the city, determined

not to be eclipsed by the demonstration at Dunkirk, gave M. Faure an enthusiastic greeting. “Down with Englandl” LONDON, Sept. I.—A special dispatch from Paris published to-day says that the cries of “Down with England” were raised outside the British embassy in Paris last night because that building was not illuminated in honor of the return of President Faure to the French capital, after his visit to Russia. Two lads, the dispatch adds, were arrested outside the embassy for participating in the demonstration and were subsequently released with cautions. * SPEECH lIY THE KAISER. Emperor William Talks About His Awful Responsibilities. WURZBURG, Bavaria, Sept. I.—The Emperor and Empress of Germany arrived here at 7 o’clock this morning and were accorded an enthusiastic reception. They were immediately driven to the reviewing ground. Emperor William, in proposing a toast to the Rhine province, at the provincial banquet held at Coblentz, last evening, after the unveiling by his Majesty of the equestrian monument erected in honor of William I, at the confluence of the Rhine and the Moselle, made a long speech on the subject of his grandfather, during the course of which he said: “My grandfather went forth from Coblentz to mount the throne as the chosen instrument of the Lord, and as such he regarded himself. For all of us, more especially for us princes, he raised the throne once more on high, crowning it with bright rays of treasure which may we ever preserve in its sublimity and holiness—l mean the kingdom, by the grace of God, the kingdom with its heavy duties, its never ending, ever enduring toils and labors, with its awful responsibility to the Greater alone from which no man, no minister, no house of Parliament, no people can release the prince. For me it w’iil be a sacred duty to follow in the w r ays which the greater ruler has shown us, and in solicitude for my country to hold my protecting hand over this splendid jewel and in the tradition which has descended to us and which remains stronger than iron—yes, even than the walls of Ehrenbreitstein—to take this province to my heedful heart, the heart of the father of his country, and I wish with allmy heart that her people may grow under the protection of long lasting peace.” * LOAX OF JJW30,000,000. Chinese Government Trying: to Secure a. Large Sum of Money. VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. I.—The steamship Empress of China arrived from the Orient to-day, bringing the following advices: Rumors are current in Peking and Shanghai that the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Bank is negotiating a loan of £160,000,000 for the Chinese government. It is stated that difficulties which arose to prevent the fulfillment of the Belgian loan to Shang Tai Jong have disappeared and that the loan will go through and the much-talked-of Hank h ow Railway will be soon started. Fights continue in the Philippines and the rebellion is not yet suppressed. A proclamation has been issued by Emilio Aguisaldo, a leader in the Philippines, stating that the rebel plan of abandoning the tow r ns, taking the offensive and adopting the Cubban method of guerrilla warfare was exhausting the resources of Spain, while enabling the insurgents to prolong the war for an indefinite period. He predicts that Spain will succumb in the end. The rebels demand the expulsion of the friars and the confiscation and return to the township of monastery land, parliamentary representation and civil and religious freedom similar to the Spanish concessions and also revocation of the power of banishment by government officials. Russia has dispatched thirty officers and eight thousand soldiers for Corea, for the purpose of stationing them at Seoul and open ports in accordance with the RussianJapanese agreement.

Flood Disasters in Japan. VICTORIA, Sept. I.—The steamer Empress of China has arrived with Oriental advices to Aug. 19. By floods in a prefecture of Japan over one hundred houses were destroyed and five or six lives lost in the Nishlma district. All bridges on the Oshima Railway line in Higashi Kuziki district w’ere broken down by floods and the roads also damaged in many places. Over forty houses and twenty go-downs were swept away by water and twenty-four lives lost in the village of Matsugaskl, Saldo district. By the swelling of the Agno river, 1,300 houses in Sanjo Machi, and seven hundred houses in the village of Ichinikido were sumberged. At Izimukais one shrine, two go-downs, four temples and half a score-of dwellings were crushed by landslides from the mountains and five lives lost and ten persons severely wounded. A dispatch from Maoetsu says that the houses flooded numbered 1,600 and the killed and wounded three hundred, w r hile six hundred persons were saved from drowning. Warring: Kurds ami Armenians. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. I.—The following official statement regarding the reported disturbances near Van, Armenia, w r as issued to-day: “Fifteen Armenian agitators, who were hiding in a village near Van, fired upon the troops sent to arrest them. Thirteen of the agitators were captured and taken to Van.” Relative to the report of heavy fighting between the Kurds and Armenians on the frontier, announced in a dispatch from Tabreez. North Persia, to the Daily News of London, the following official statement has been made: “Zekki Pasha reports that the Armenian brigands on the Persian frontier recently raised a band of five hundred horsemen, intending to attack the village of Bashkouleh, but the Turkish troops have hitherto prevented them from so doing.” Wood ford nt Sen Sebastian. SAN SEBASTIAN, Sept. I.—Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, the United States minister to Spain, arrived here this afternoon. Extra precautions had been taken by the authorities to prevent any hostile demonstration being made, but these apparently were unnecessary, as the behavior of the crowds that had gathered to witness the minister’s arrival was perfectly satisfactory. Attempt to Kill a. Mayor. TOULON, Sept. I.—As the members of the municipal Cos. ncil W'ere leaving the Town Hall this evening after their regular meeting, an attempt was made upon the life of Mayor Pastourcau by a Corsican, who approached the mayor and stabbed him in the abdomen, inflicting a dangerous w'ound. At last accounts, M. Pastoureau was In a serious condition. Suspected King Killer Arrested. BRUSSELS, Sept. I.—The police of this city have arrested a German named Gustav Daubenspeck on suspicion that he is concerned in a plot to assassinate Emperor William. Daubenspeck was denounced by a friend who learned of his intentions to leave Belgium for Germany. Alpine Tourists Killed. AROLA, Switzerland, Sept. I.—A terrible accident to a party of Alpine tourists has occurred at La Salle, near Mount Pleurer, by which four travelers whose nationality is unknown are feared to have been killed. Rueen Victoria in Scotlund. ABERDEEN, Sept. I.—Queen Victoria arrived to-day at Balmoral Castle. At Perth, Aberdeen and Ballator enthusiastic crowds gathered to greet her Majesty. Decorations were plentiful, and at Craphio a handsome jubilee arch was erected. Railway Disaster in England. LONDON, Sept. I.—A passenger train has been derailed at Mayfield, Sussex, eight miles south of Tunbridge Wells, on the Brighton line. Four persons are known to have been killed and many have been Injured. llohenlolie Will Retire. LONDON, Sept. 2. —The Daily Mail’s Berlin correspondent says it is stated that it has been practically settled that Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor, will retire in October. The Oyster. Philadelphia Record. The sentiment which annually greets the return of the oyster from its summer vacation may not be of an aesthetic sort, but certainly it is remote as possible from mereernary considerations of commerce. And yet the oyster not only stands for a great delicacy. but for a great industry that will In time be vastly greater. It is shown by government statistics, lor Instance, that of the 35,000,000 bushels of oysters consumed throughout the world each year, 30,000,000 bushels are supplied by the United States, and that the oyster fishery excels any other fishery in importance. Add to this that the Industry is especially Important In our sister States of New Jersey and Maryland—the latter alone producing one-third of the

AMUSEMENTS. GRAND— To-Morrow The Newest Eastern Comedy Success MissFrartcisofYale One round of laughter. Presented here by s phenomenal comedy cast, headed by Ktietme Glrnrclot (The Original "Charley’* Aunt.”) PRICES—Night: 25c, 50c, 75c, *l. Matinee: 25c, roc Seats at the Pembroke. Npw Part Prices ’ ,oc ’ 2oC’ C W I aI h) Matinee Daily.... This Afternoon and To-night, Lincoln J. Carter’s Great Spectacular Production' THE HEART OF CHICAGO Wonderful Mechanical Devices—Mysterious Electrical Effects—Vivid Picture of the Great Eire— The Marvelous Train—A Splendid Line of HighClass Specialties! tyeverybody goes to the tahkjei Monday—(Labor Day)—“A PAI’KH CITY.” Empi re=One Week Matinee at 2. To-Night at M, lOc, 15e, iifie. 15e, 25c, SOc. THE NEWEST SENSATION, St s Moulin = Rouge EXTRAVAGANZA Carload of Scenery 20 Pretty Girls. The Burlesque Satire, “A HOT BOX” Coming—The White Elephant Extravaganza. To ' Day ’ Friilay OiIDG I>£|ll and Saturday. GAME CALLED AT 3:30 I*. M. Tickets on sale at Warner’s, Adam’s, Huder’sand Alcazar. Box seats at Alcazar only . CONCERT and ISAKL, Given by the Old Veteran Firemen, ...BENEFIT OF THE COAL STRIKERS... At Tomlinson Hall, Monday Eve., Sept. 6. Admission—soc; ladles free. First-class Union musicCommittee on Arrangements—J. M. Bohmie. A. J. Elscus, S. W. Keely. Executive Committee Gen. John Coburn, Gen. Fred Knefler, Gen. Jolm C. New, lion. B. K. Elliott. BEN E. GRESH, President. D. W. BROUSE, Secretary“BESSlE and TOMMIE MEIER Champion ■ Child Trick Swimmers And HIGH DIVERS, Will give Two Exhibitions daily, 4 p. m. and 8:30 p. m., SEPT. 1 to 6, inclusive, at BROAD RIPPLE PARK. fcy EXHIBITION EBKE. “The Big Double Decker” STEAMER Regular trips morning, afterSUXSHINE noon and evening. At BROAD Full orchestra on board. RIPPLE Boat can be chartered for private parties. Apply on board. ~ WHIST- # I will take a limited number of pupils fortlia study of MODERN SCIENTIFIC WHIST. Teniis reasonable. CLARA H. BRADSHAAV. No. 12 West New York street J/|CCCJ ’C A GRAND CONCERTS DAILY. J nlJJbb J U Every Afternoon and Night. " Ladies' Orchestra—l 2 Soloists. Benefit Concert to Orchestra, Wednesday evening. Sept. 8. Admission, 25 cents, including Dancing.

world’s crop—and it will be seen that thera are special reasons why Philadelphia should be cordial to the oyster, and should greet its advent with a degree of effusiveness not extended to any other thing in the edible list with the possible exception of the Thanksgiving turkey. THIRTEEN PEOPLE POISONED. Demented Servant Threw ••Rough on Rata” in the Well. PADUCAH, Ky„ Sept. I.—Thirteen members of the family and people living on the farm of Henry Milltr, near Metropolis, 111., were poisoned yesterday and three are dead. It is thought at least eight more will die. A hired girl, who is insane, threw a package of “Rough on Rats” in the well. Her name could not be learned, but she has been arrested and admits her crime. German Red Men Adjourn. BALTIMORE; Sept. I.—The biennial convention of the Supreme Tribe of the German body of the Independent Order of Red Men adjourned this afternoon to meet two years hence in San Francisco. Officers were elected as follows: John J. Pilert, Baltimore, supreme chief; Charles Ackerman, Cleveland, deputy chief; Louis Bobseln, Chicago, assistant deputy chief; Charles Schmelzeisem, Elizabeth, N. J., supreme priest; Gustave Wahle, Chicago, supreme secretary, and P. H. Lenderking, Baltimore, supreme treasurer. A resolution was passed granting the Daughters of Pocahontas, an auxiliary of the order, representation in the state grand lodges. Schools Guarded ly Police. SPRING VALLEY. 111., Sept. I.—Th Spring Valley schools opened to-day guarded by the entire city police. The wielders of clubs patrolled the schoolyards, while crowds on the outside peered at th< m through the fence pickets. The new teachers hired by the Spring Valley Coal Company faction of the School Board, many of whom do not live here, have many things against them. The old teachers, who were reinstated by the anti-company members, seem to have the sympathy of the pupils. In many rooms the children refused to recite th*'ir lessons for the new teachers. The fight between the contesting janitors is also warm. "ECZEMA JEN YEARS Suffered Untold Agonies. Limbs Swollen sb Could Not Got About. Ablest Physicians Signally Failed* Was Absolutely Disheartened. Had Lost All Hope. Gave CUTICURA a Trial Which • Resulted in Absolute and Perfect Cure. For ten years I suffered untold agonies from that dread disease Eczema, my lower limbs most of the time being so swollen and broken out that 1 could hardly go about. 1 had to wear slippers so that I could moveabont at all. My brother, a physician of thirty years’ practice and extensive experience, had tried in vain to effect a cure and signally failed, I tried other physicians of splendid ability with like results, and had reached that point where I became absolutely disheartened, and in fact had lost all hope, when a friend (after long ami continued persuasion) succeeded in inducing tne to at least give Cuticcha Remedies a trial. I shall never regret that I did so, and until my dying day I shall sing the praises of them. 1 used two cakes of Crrioi ha SjoAP and two boxes of Conorka (ointment), and it resulted in an absolute and permanent cure. I feel that I owe suffering humanity the debt of at least, in my feeble wav, calling their attention to my case and absolute cure. I am now, 1 feel, perfectly cured, sound as a dollar, and the sweets of lifearestill mine, thank God,and toCirrici ra Remedies 1 attribute my almost miraculous cure. I refer all interested to the Postmaster of this place, any of the ministers, the prominent business men, and all of the citizens of our vicinity indiscriminately, and especially to my friend, John A. B. Shipney, attorney at law, who succeeded in persuading me to give CcTtorttA Remedies a trial. With profound gratitude, l remain your most enthusiastic admirer, DAVID M. BAPP. Plymouth. 111. Dealer in Hardware, Stoves, etc. Srsznr Case TasvTatsr fob *ti Skis ."re Ruxin tli'MO.s fMm bath, with Ci'tk c* So.r. semi* appiic.tion* CvrtccßA(oinimtul).the great.kincur*. .ml mini d0... of Cvricva* ttssoiASxr, iimiml of blood puritl.i. ami humor cure*. Sold throughout the world PoTTsm D. awo 0. Cose , ■ole Prop* , Lo*IU. mr ” How to C*r. tr. BED RQUGH HANDS oo A*.**

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