Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 48, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 August 1893 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOATJC. Publlwhor. JASPER. INDIANA. F.x-Skxator J. J. I.noalls predicts u great financial upheaval ami a general redistribution of wealth. Kx-Gov. CAMniKi.i., of Ohio, announces that under no circumstances will he be u candidate this full. Michaki. WonsHAM left Wntertown, N. Y., on the 'Jd, to walk to Los Angeles, Cul. He expects to accomplish the feat in days. Tiik Canadian minister of railways and canals expects that the Canadian Sault Sto. Marie canal will be ready for traffic by May 1 next. Col. JacoiiT. Child, of Missouri, the new lTnited States minister to Siam, Killed from San Francisco for Itangkok on the steamer Oceanica on the id. Official returns issued at St. Petersburg, on the 31st, show a marked increase in the ravages of cholera in the parts of the empire where the disease is epidemic Ox account of the hard times churches of different denominations are uniting in some towns in Kansas and discharging all the ministers but one in a place. Rt'itGi.Alis worked several hours, on the night of the 1st, to get the fund of the bank of McCune, Kas.. but were unsuccessful. They ruined the vault with crowbars and dynamite. Ox the 31st the loan committee of the New York Clearinghouse association Issued 52,550,000 worth of certificates, making a total of t'JS.OOO.OOO worth outstanding on that date. Tub general depression in trade is injuring the tin-box industry in llrookIvn, and it is said the manufacturers will petition congress to repeal the tariff on tin, both block and plate. Tiik issue of standard silver dollars from the mints and treasury offices during" the week ended July i'i was 432,!!6'.i; for the corresponding period of last year the number was 440,005. Gov. Lkwkllixo of Kansas is trying to inaugurate a movement among western and southwestern states to ipen up direct trade relations with Eulvpean countries by way of the Gulf of 3Vcxico. Tin: condition of Senator Turpie, of Indiana, who had been seriously ill, was so much improved, on the 'id, that his family announced he would be able i to attend the coming extra session of i congress. A nis ASTitors explosion occurred on "board the Herman armor-clad steamer Itaden, at Kiel, on the d. Lieutenants Oelsncr and Sambsch and seven t-eamcn were killed and seventeen -er-eons were injured. Ciior.KUA has reappeared in Moscow, Kicff and northeast Hungary. In Moscow the outbreak is most serious. There were thirty-two cases and eleven deaths in the convict forwarding prison at that city between the 1st and 11th St'iiOKO.v-fiK.VKitAL Wvmax received a cable message, on the 'Ad, from Surgeon E. R. Young, of the marine hospital service, stationed at Naples, stating that the condition of affairs in that city in regard to cholera was getting worse. Thk llivtrsidc steel and iron works, lit Wheeling, W. Va., the largest plant in that part of the Ohio valley, were closed on the 20th. indefinitely. The plant employed over 4,000 men. The Mate of trade was the reason given for the shut-down. Tiik lire which had burned for a week along the Mullica river, in Rurlington county, N. J., had exhausted Itself by the od. A careful estimate places the damage to buildings at 150,000: to timber, fl, 00,000. and to the crop of cranberries at f 75.000. Tiik United Suites Watch Co. rcKutucd work at their factory at Walthum, Mass., on the 1st, after a two weeks' vacation. The operatives were notified of a reduction of 15 per cent during the present stagnation, with a promise that, when times Improved, the old wages would lie restored. O.yk man was burned to death and forty others had narrow escapes from a lire in the seven-story factory building at'JS Rrootnc street, New York city, at noon of the 1st. Wenzll Reiter, a woodworker, 50 years of age, was caught on the top lloor, where, he worked, and burned to a crisp. Ox the 2d Secretary Carlisle ordered the acting director of the mint to notify sellers of ollver bullion that from and after that date deliveries on wiles to the government must Iks completed within five days from the date of acceptance. The time heretofore has been ten days. It Is explained that five days is sufficient time for silver deliveries. Tiikiik is a project 011 foot in the City of Mexico to unite all Lutin-Amer-iean nations in a monetary league to resist the depreciation of silver. Public opinion there favors entering into monetary league with the United States, transferring the trade of LatinAmerica int gel v to Americans, onlv asking on the part of the United States ...... . . a. ireer entrance 01 raw material. A lit LI. in the celebrated suit of Countess Caroline Von Roepies, of Kotten. France, against David W. Armhtrong and others, has been filed In the chancery court at Richmond, Va. The case Involves the title to l!.50O,00O acres of land in Virginia. West Virginia nnd Kentucky, and the object is to have anmiled the deed signed by Countess nou Roquet and her daughter, .Mrs. ,1-lurencc K. Mavbrick

CUE KENT TOPICS.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSON a!TANDGENERAL. Tiik Chlno (Cal.) beet-Mtgar factory, the largest In the United States, with a maximum reducing capacity of 740 tons of beets a day, was started up on the SI st. The industry gives direct employment to J,000 people In nino. The crop of the Chlno rauche is climated at A0,000 tons. The factory will run day and night through the season, reducing an average of 000 tons of beets dally. The estimated output for the season will be 10,000,000 pounds of relined sugar. Hkalth York city Omen! .Ipvi.-ivc f v. has declared a five days' quarantine on all vessels arriving from South American ports where vellow ! fever prevails. This action has been : rendered necessary bv the danger of infection from ve'ssels in the South American trade, which have reached port lately with yellow fever on board. , Ricyclk riders have run across a new ! species of villainy in the shape of card-1 board filled with tacks thrown point upward in the roads frequented by the wheelers The object is to ruin expansive tires. Actok M. 1. Cuhtis, who failed to show up, on the 1st, for his third trial for the murder of Officer Urant in San Krancisco, and for whom a bench warrant was issued, was present, on the 1st, when the case was called. Ox the 1st, William Nunemaeher, a farmer, living near Antigo, Wis., killed his wife and babe, and two boys aged 5 and 3 years by dashing out their brains. He then plunged head first from a window in an attempt to kill himself. When picked up he was still alive but paralyzed. The cause of the I quadruple murder and attempted sui cide is said to have been the fear that the family would die from starvation. Word was received at St. John's. N. j F., on the :50th. from Labrador of se-! rious trouble in Lieut. Peary's expedi tion. It is said that it is so great that the trip is likely to prove a failure. Ox the 1st the Cook county (111.) grand jury began investigating the Cold Storage warehouse fire at the World's fair grounds, in which seventeen men lost their lives. A iiap.x on the farm of James Runton, near La Porte, Ind., was destroyed by fire, on the 0th, entailing a loss of 54,000. Nine horses were cremated. A tramp who is believed to have fired the bam for revenge was smothered in the smoke and his body burned. Tiik steamship Spree, sailing from Southampton. on the 1st, carried 50,000 American double eagles, consigned to August Relmont &. Co., of New York. Tin: president has appointed Charles 15. Morton, of Maine, fourth auditor of the treasury, vice John 1!. Lynch, of .Mississippi, resigned. Tin: striking glass-workers at Grcensbnrg. Pa., have accepted the 5 per cent, reduction in their wages and returned to work. Skcuktauy Cahlislk left Washington, on the 1st, for Ruzzard's Ray, Mass., on a visit to President Cleveland. Ut. Rev. Joskimi Radkmachki, D.D., bishop of Nashville, Tenn. has been appointed archbishop of Fort Wayne, Ind. Thk Edison Phonograph Co. of Orange, N. J., discharged 300 men on the 1st. Two CAiuxs occupied bv Chinese miners in the Tnryall gulch, near Coino, Col., were burned by white miners early on the morning of the 1st. Eight Chinese who are missing are believed to have jmrished in the Harnes. About seventy-five Chinese are emrefuir in buildings about town. Tiikiik is trouble in the hat factories of Orange and Orange Valley, N. J. Some shops are already closed and others arc atiout todoso, which will throw f.,000 men out of work. Tiik United States cruiser New York, which is receiving her finishing touches at Cramp's shipyard, Philadelphia, ent into commission, on the 1st, with brief and simple ceremonies. Ax effort was made by the Indianapolis (Ind.) board of trade to have the secretary of the treasury send currency to that city to pay the M.000,000 in pensions falling due on the 4th. but It failed, and the payments will be made by checks upon the New York subtreasury. This Is made necessary by the failure of the Indianr.nolis national bank, the tory in that city. government deposi Tiik North V. erman Llovd stnm.r Spree, which sailed on the '-'d from Southampton for New York, had on board i.:50.001. consigned to American houses. The White Star liner Majestic, which left Liverpool on the same j nay ior mew 1 orlf, brought i'5 0,000, . a total of iM.-JOO.OOO shipped on the '.'d i ne return tide of the precious metal seems to have set in in earnest. SKCUKTAUV CAItriKI !. S 1

! ployed in the Tnryall placers, working ' 1 treasury department restrictions J for less wages than the whites. This ' f,,rrndlg exhibitors and their good J caused the trouble. The Chinese were ,n bon(l 1,1 t,lc World's fair have been ' greatly friirhtened. and took refne. I relaxed a little by the collector of the

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Cor UI.VIH.KS H, .1 o.N KS lull- man aging editor of the St. Louis, Republic, has assumed the position of editor and personal representative of Mr. Joseph PuliUerou the.N-w York World. Col. Jones will direct the editorial poller f the World, the editorlul "junta," composed of heads of departments in the office, being abolished. Tiik circulation statement issued by the treasury department on the id showed that the amount of gold and silver coin and certificates, United States notes and national bank notes in circulation August 1 was f 1,011, out) -117, an increase during.the month of July of 17.:J.'t7,00;'i. The increase during the last twelve months in round

tigures is 511.000,000. The per capita ' rcuiauou, oascu on an estimated I ..t t. 4.F 11 . . . i al,on of W0 August 1, was Mixistku Hi.ot'XT is reported as belYK mlu umignant at tl.e presump. l,?n of n, royalist clique in Honolulu j w ff"t to compromise him by ini " ". among outer., m an inscription on a cane presented to Claus Spreckels by partisans of the deposed queen. It trauspires that the active intervention of President Carnot alone prevented a ministerial crisis in France and prolyibly a different issue out of the Siamese trouble. M. Deleasse, supported by a majority of the ministers, stubbornly insisted that harsher termi Ihj exacted from Siaiu as u stepping stone to a French protectorate, but the president would not consent. Mail Satoi.li returned to Washing- I ton, on the id, after an extended tour j through the west and northwest. He expressed himself as lieing much I pleased with his trip. Mgr. Sntolli declined to talk about the telegrams from Minneapolis which imputed to him an intention to recommend the appointment of coadjutor to Archbishop Corrigan of New York. Thk question as to whether Dr. T. Thatcher Graves will bo tried a seeond time for the alleged murder of Mrs. Rarnaby is to be decided by County Commissioner John Toombiy, who went east, on the 3d, to investigate the evidence and ascertain the cost of transporting witnesses to Denver. Tiik Carpenter Steel Co.. of Reading, Pa., announced, on the 3d, that by reason of new contracts they would put in operation twelve new crucible furnaces and give employment to ninny new hands. They also announced that the week's wages, amounting to 80,000, would be paid in- gold. Tiik works in Jersey City. N. .!., of the New York Standard Wntch Co., have closed for an indefinite period, throwing out of employment over i50 men and boys. The shut-down is attributed to stringency in the money market. KrssKLi. it Co. 's agricultural and engine works, at Massillon, O., employing S00 men, will close for an indefinite period, about the 15th, on account of the uncertainty of the business future. Thk government, is closing all schools in the south of Russia because of the prevalence of cholera. Twenty doetors have gone from St. Petersburg to Kief and ten to Pondolia. Mits. SoriutoxiA Twitciikli.. the woman speculator, well known in Wall street, New York city, and on the Pacific coast, died, on the 3d, in Rrooklyn. Thk town of Risk, in the government of Orenburg, Russia, was visited by a most disastrous conflagration on the '.id. One hundred and eighty houses were burned. Seven persons were killed und a large number injured. port of Chicago issuing instructions to Deputy Collector Hall, In charge of the hranch custom house at the fair, to allo.v all exhibitors who apply to pay duty on their goods entered as exhibits in bond and secure their release for such disposition as they could make consistent with the rule" of the exposition. SKVKXTV-rivi: striking miners lay in wait for the men at work in shaft No. 17 of the Kansas and Texas Coal Co., at Pittsburgh. Kas., on the 4th, und made an assault upon them as they were going to work. All of them ran but one. Henry Smith, an American. He stood his ground and was brutally assaulted. He afterward proem ed a revolver and made his way to the mine. Ohivkx to a condition of irresponsibility by the swallowing up of his fortune: with the frosts of sixty years upon his head and no prospects for the future, Nelson Van Kirk, a well-known f'l.S .. A .... i mt. upernior in grain antl provisions shot and instantly killed himself on the 4th. Sknatoii Moiioax cabled his son. on the 4th, that it would lie impossible for mm to leave Paris before the 10th. This is a postponement of two weeks hejyond the time originally set for his de.T " ?. u me iMMiriugsea Rehrint? armiraiors. A I'Lkahuuk yacht going to a dance at the lower end of Lake Oeorg , N. Y., on me night of the -.d, with twenty- ( nine people on board, ran upon 'a I sunken pier, careened over and sank in t eighteen feet of water. Kight women ami one man were drowned Ox the 4th the executive committee of the hoard of World's fair illreet ordered a payment of 11 per cent, on j the entire bonded indebtedness of the corporation. The payment, amounting to 450.000. will be made on the 'J7th. ,n ' , " .""""T S V f 1 ... 'lUMWi' , V. wa?vh 00 the rtd, on account " en.i unn or trade. 1 met- inousami employes were infected. 'I,,,. 1.-... 1.1.. I..,-.-. nr. i.iiuii.iiiiu tuc em insurance sen placed in Mason, as re its affairs. commanding l"c rru"1 wa ers, anSKon the L

LATE NEWS ITEMS,

INDIANA STATE .NEWS. Joij.v .InTim:., u, stock-dealer neat Cnrmel, had 5550 stolen from his house. Tracks show that three men wvnt through a corn-field near by. A Co.v.nkiisvii.lk machinist named Morgan has Invented a unicycle. The vehicle consists of u wheel eight feet in diameter, and the operator sits inside this monster cycle to propel it. As the model of the machine is not completed a full description can not 1k given. He claims that It will revolutionize modern wheeling and that It can bo

easily and successfully operated. CiiuisTi.rv WiLiiKi.M, the wealthiest farmer in Clinton county, whose home was near Russiaville, wan Instantly killed the other morning. lie. was working in a clearing, and was standing near a burning tree stump which burned off and fell on hint. His head was crushed horribly, lie was about sixtyfive years old, and leaves a large fortune to his family. Tiik Indiana Association of Spiritualists at Anderson elected Dr. J. W. Westcrfiehl president of the association: Mrs. Colley Luther, vice-president: Miss Flora Hardin, secretary, and S. V. Smith, treasurer. Gov. Mattiikws has pardoned Win. Hudson, convicted of bigamy. Mus. W. W. Ritciiik, of Noblesville. swallowed a pin and needle about six years ago. The pin passed from her directly after the accident, but the needle has just come out of her llesh in the side. She has suffered no pain whatever. Thk First National bank of Kendallvllle, which suspended payment June -'J. 1803. has been permitted to reopen its doors for business. AuhaX(.k.mkxt8 are leing made bv the Mundo Cycling club to hold fall raees August 'J5 and '. Large prizes will lie offered, and the fastest men of the country are oxpected. Tin; Eagle machine works, of Indianapolis, of which Lewis Hasselman is president and O. P. Haughey, of the Indianapolis national bank, treasurer, have made an assignment. Lewis Aiken was appointed assignee. Assets, 5150,000: liabilities, 5100,000. Tin: Rank of Commerce, of Indianapolis, has collected 510,500 of outstanding debts since the bank suspended, and most of the notes held by the hank will be due in a few weeks. The vice president reports that it Is the Intention of the bank management to be able to pay all claimants in full and resume business on October 1. Tm: Monitor Co.. of Auburn, manufacturer of windmills, has failed. Assets, $05.000; liabilities, $.s.5,000. A Tli.voic event occurred the other evening near Corydon. Kate Kekcrt, aged t years, was shot and killed by Carrie Perkhiser, aged IS. Miss Fertiliser did not think the revolver was loaded and snapped the weapon at the child in fun. i)n. S.vmi'KL E. MfxroitP. a noted physician and surgeon of Princeton, died the other morning, of consumption, the result of an attack of grip in U01. Dr. Munford was one of the trustees of the Indiana Medical college at the time of his denth. He was a liberal contributor to the medical journals of the country, and he served as president of the state Medical society during IhS'.i. He enlisted in the late war as private in the Seventeenth Indiana volunteer infantry, but soon rose to the rank of surgeon. Att'y-Okx. Oiskkx Smith has sustained Oov. Matthews in regard to the hitter's stand on the Roby prize ring matter. The attorney general holds that the offenses committed at Rohware simply misdemeanors over which r.t- - .a . . any i,.aKe county justice or tne peace has jurisdiction. Tavi.oii's planing mill and three dwellings burned at Lafayette. At Indianapolis Frank l). Harris, aged SO, who had domestic troubles, kissed his wife and then suicided by taking pmssie acid. Tiik trouble lxstween the workmen and proprietors of the Midland Steel works. Muncie. has been sattled,and500 men commenceu worif. Hie men agreed to make 45 tons a day at fl.fcO. The Indiana Iron mill will start soon and give employment to 000 more men. At Winchester Samuel Price was arrested on suspicion of having murdered Kent Rrowne, colored. Tiik Carroll county soldiers' monument was dedicated a few days ago. Mn. a xi Mus. Koiikiit Coxk. of Muncie, the other day celebrated their fiftieth wedding unniversary. About . one hundred guests were present 1 U. H. Lindsay, aged twenty, wasar- , rested near Fort Wayne for having in 1 his possession a horse and buggy be- I longing to M. L. Ross, of Muneie. John Kessler, aged but 10 years. Is ! under arrest at Laporte, for arson. He j is charged with barn-burning. Ho was caught in the act of firing the barn of Henry Herold, near Westvllle. He has a mania for destroying barns, and those acquainted with the youthful fire hug are disposed to attribute this madness to a peculiar condition of the mind. Hknhy, the 1'2-year-old son of Chas. Thompson, of tioslicn, sustained injuries In a runaway, from which he died. RUHOLAim chloroformed Mrs. Alex Moore, near Wabash, and she was barely saved by her husband coining to her rescue from an adjoining room. A nvK-vr.AU-oi.P daughter of O. W. Fisher, proprietor of the Hartford City laundry, wns run over by a wagon loaded with straw nnd fatally Injured. Tin: Odd Fellow of Randolph, Delaware nnd Jay counties will hold their first annual celebration at Lake Mills, near Farmland, August 10. A fine past grand's collar will be awarded to the oldest Odd Follow in attendance. Tin: fourth annual session of the Indiana State Chautauipta Assembly opened with the brightest of piospects at Kagle lake, the other day. Rev. A. V.. Malin, of Fort Wayne, gava ihefirt lecture of the season. Tin: Chicago ,t Central Indiana Klectrie road will begin elevating their tracks eu'ti or eight miles out from hidt.inapolis, and maintain the elerr. ;. n irt . t'i eltv

SILVER CERTIFICATES.

No .Muri of Thrill Will Im IhmiciI at !rc , t ut. Ilm I. hull I'itmtMm'iI by l.mv llitvlug Ilten lleiieheil IVImt II;ik lleen Ihme Winter I lie Ultimi Ael -Unltvil Stuton Treitaurer .Miircaii'M Circular. Wasiii.voto.v, Aug. 4. No more, silver certificates will he Issued by the treasury dop:irt incut for the present, as the limit prescribed by law has been reached. That is to say, as many silver certificates are now outstanding as there are standard silver dollars coined and in the treasury to redeem them. The standard silver dollar was issued under the act of 1S7S commonly known as the Bland not. Fuder this law 3S'.),030,:'.74 standard silver dollars havu been coined. Of this coinage there are: Standard silver dollars in the treasury. 3,l0t,.,WI; silver certificates in circulation, 50,'Jb!j,4SO; silver certificates in the treasury, cash, M.lliW,0'24; net standard silver dollars in the treasury, after deducting silver certificates In circulation, -',ss,j,l03; standard silver dollars in circulation, 50.771.701, nnd standard silver dollars paid out by the Philadelphia mint yesterday 500. The reduction in the number of standard silver dollars in the treasure has been brought about by a large demand recently for silver dollars from the south to move the crops in Georgia and the Carolinas to pay off hands at work on the cotton crop." United States Treasurer Morgan's circular on the subject reads: The Imsuc of sliver certificates lx-lntr limited to the amount of standard silver dollars lld by the treasury tor their redemption or exchance. f((r the present tunilar.1 sliver dollar can ho furnished only lor silver rertllloiite.s deposited for exchange or In return for Uioms received for redemption. Halves, quarters nnd dimes can be furnished. In the present ease of standard sliver dollars in hjuh of f.U'i or more free of charge, by cxpit-maire or by registered malls In sums or multiples of $ri. registration free for drafts collectable r.t Washing, ton or nt any of the suttreasury cities, namely: Kew YorU, Ito.ston. Philadelphia. Baltimore. Cincinnati. Chlcaco. St. Louis. New Orleans or San Francisco, or for a denoslt of ----- i Miitwik) VI ll m,iVHKM currency by any correspondent la said eitles, The coin will k forwarded from the nearest ruuuviiii j uHii-iMiuu ur;m.s inpayment merefor should be c.rawn to the order of the assistant treasurer of the United State, naming place, und forwarded directly to the offlco there. A SENATORIAL OPINION. Henry Ciihot Lodir'-'x Opinion nf tli Prite Ileal KfTeet of the Itepeal of the Slierma 11 Art. P.oston, Aug. 4. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, in speaking of the probability of the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law, said: "I think congress will" repeal the purchasing clause, although it may not be done quite so promptlj as is hoped here. If an attempt is made to unite with the repeal any other measure in the nature of a compromise of an ntlirmative character, it will lead to interminable debate, and repeal will likely be defeated. "1 do not in the least underrate thu necessity for some affirmative measures in regard to the eunency. Something ought to be done looking to the sale of the silver bullion In the treasury, under proper limitations, for gold. Some amendments ought also to be made to the national hank act. Rut these measures can wait, and can be much better handled after the repeal of the purchasing clause has removed the distrust which now exists abroad, and the fear which they there have that we are going on to a silver basis. When this fear is removed money will flow from London, where the rate of interest is very low. to New York, where the rate of interest is very high, and money rate will at. once begin to grow easier in this country. As soon as that comes about, the vast' sums of money which are now hoarded all ovei the United States, will come forth from wieir inning places nnd tins will cause a still further decline in tn rates of money and bring n great relief to business. This is the practical effect, as it seems to me. of repeal." A. . f ,.,,. 1 ... ... The K111I of the Sritrrltjr of Currency at Hand. Nuw Youk. Aug. 4 Frederick I). Tappen, president of the Cul latin national bank and chairman of the clearinghouse loan committee, said yesterday that the cry about a .scarcity of currency would le all over by the end of the week, by which time the first of the gold importations would be here. The receipt of $10,000,000 of gold, the amount now on the way, would, Mr. Tappen said, effectually put a stop to this scarcity of currency. Mr. Tappen said he dkl not know anything about a premium being offered for currency; so far as the Oallatin bank was concerned it had shoveled out the .cash without discrimination and would continue to do so. He believed one or two banks uptown were a little short ol currency, but it was probable that arrangements will be made to relieve their necessities in that respect. In the I.lne of Itrtreiirlitneiit. Philadki.i'hia, Aug. I. President RoWts of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has caused to be issued from the general office of the company nn order for the reduction of hours of lubor in the mechanical department from six days a week of ten hours per day, to five days of nine hours each. The order affects all the shops of the Pennsylvania railroad system, including the leased and eontroled lines. This action Is taken with a view to reducing the expenses, and Is In line with the policy of rigid retrenchment inaugurated some time ago, the lienlicial effects of which have already licen manifested in the shape of a great Increase in the net earnings. The Mrarrltjr of Curreney In NVw Vorh I'rrmltiniA for Smnll 11111, Ni:w Youk, Aug. 4. Scarcity of currency is the most important feature of the present financial situation. For several days money brokers have been offering premiums of from $2.5(1 to $10 per $1,000 for small bills $'20 and under und yesterday the bids were advanced to $'.0. Up-town retail stores whose daily receipts are in small bills were offered certified checks In exchange at 11 premium ranging from to 10 per cent. Country demand is unabated, but little money wai thlppco I

1HE WAR IN SAMOA UfN, Ihr ItelH l Chief. 'deMy tU) " " and l..l.u,. ci.ulBM I l orelKii Coiim lirmim.l und lte. .V, . tin- Old KelM T. Surreuiier. Apia, Samoa, July 10, via San Fra. p sc, Aug. 4.-War broke out ln-tween Malietoa's and Matnafa's forces, u war ships of the three powers interl vened and stopped the fighting. taafa and his eniefs have surrenderee Matnafa's loss was thirty killed aul twenty wounded. A large detachment of MataafaV ti n were stationed In a cattle yard. A. the king's men advanced, the jneu on Mataafa's side recognized friends ami vailed out cordial greetings. Hand.

nuuicvN were indulged In and Uava changed. It seemed us if friendly 1.. ! ...... . , .... - reluuuiis were to oe re-established. TJ1K KIOIIT liKOf.V One ferocious old warrior named Patu urged the king's men back int the ranks, when somebody fired ti sh.t and the fight commenced. Firing W. came general and deadly. On the m-ii beach, opposite the cattle yards, weit posted a nutnlier of the king's men. Mataafa's men advanced to the wa'l and were exposed to a raking tire. Another detachment of MuileloaV troops took advantage of an ojH'iiht In the side of the wall to pour in riZ peatedand deadly volleys. The Ma. taalites were forced to a stone wall a little distance in the bush. Here they made a stand and Malietoa's men retired. When they attacked the pluco next morning Mataafa and his men hut lied. On his was back from the furht Mataafa. who was wounded, set fire to h own town, which was burned to the ground. At latest accounts he h:lt gone to Fpolo, where he was hemmed in and had no chance of escape. A COXSfLAl: I'ltOCLAMATIOX the foreign consul at Apia have I , j M,e(l a proclamation ordering ail the ! white inhabitants to kee me natives ami to take no pari in tl.e hostilities. Malietoa's forces muulier '.1,500 men, while those of th rebel chief are only about S00. During the night nothing unusual happened. The dead bodies of three .i . , . . ... Malietoa's men were brought in next morning. Wounded men came straggling in one or two at a time, slung opoles or assisted to walk by then friends. Ten wounded were pnt intc a temporary hospital ami attended u by surgeons of the tlerman men-of-u-.ir Sperber and Huzza rd. while two others were attended to at the American consulate. Father llroycr, French missionary addressed the chief justice on the qu.-s tlon of honorable peace being graute to Mataafa. He was referred to tht consuls, who again referred him to tht king. Father Rroycr was informe-t that his majesty would hear of m terms of conditional peace. In talking of the light Purser Keith of the Monowai said: "There will U; nt more trouble. Mataafa will surrender unconditionally and that will end thewar. He has been heard to say that he will surrender and end all trouble." MATAAFA S-fllllK.VDKItS Mataafa and nearly thirty chiefs. surrendered at the demands of tne consuls. The following is the copy of a letter sent by the consuls to Mataafa. demanding his surrender: We. the three consul of the treaty power? hereby clve you notice that If you and yo :t confederate) nnd your wounded come on tort of the Kncllsh mnti-of-wnr within three horn from this time your lives will fce safe. If no: three men of.T?ar will o?n lire upon ou urn) you will be attacked by thj tdnu's forces Your follower mutt brine all your arin) tothe Hrltlsh man-r.f war for xafeltecplnt;. If yru u not surrender you must still send your women 1 children to the llritlsh man of-wur. an4 they will to safe. Mataafa replied as follows: To TUrtr Krrtlltnrlet, the Contuls of the Thrt drtttt rtror: Youn Kxeixt.KS-eiKx: I have agreed with that you have written me. Wo are pleased ! ottoy with humility the creat power. You cxt'ellnnclc, I am, MA?AAt'A. The consuls Issued the following proclamation: To all S'amoans: Vc. conouls of the treat', jHiwers. hcrety itlve notice to nil Samoani that Mntanfu nnd his chief have surrendered The war in unite llnlslicd. Any further tnrlmnce will be suppressed by the men-of-wr.r All Samoans fiuit return nt once to their own. districts. Any dlsobcdlunce of this notice w.il be summarily dealt with. Ht'MA.V IIYKXAS On the afternoon after the surrender the conquerors, Malietao's warriors.rcturned to Apia with the spoils of victory. These spoils consisted of the bleeding headsof human ludngs. F.aeh, man who had the luck to cut the head off an enemy marched through the streets of Apia with it. They walked up the street yelling like fiends, with eyes starting fron: their sockets with excitement, and 'blowing the severed heads about like baseballs, blood dripping over the bearers. Many heads were brought in in this manner and after being exhibited as trophies of war about the tvn were presented to Mai let oa a trophies of war. The king graciously received them and they were ther thrown In a pile on the ground. The white people took refuge on the verandas of houses while the warrior held the streets. The whites were at the mercy of the excited natives, whowere crazed with victory and blood, and if there hail lieen any clash there would probably have ln-eii a massacred. United States Vice-Consti! Rlackloek was on board the ICatoomba anil remained to see the final surrender. Until it is decided what shall Ikj donewith the prisoners they will probably be kept on the war ships. ttun Down him! Wrerked In the Strnllft of Melle lote. Month K a l, Can., Aug. 5. The steam" dilp Straits of (libral tar has been lost in the: straits of Reil ? Isle by a collision. She Is a total wreck, and her entire cargo of coal Is lost. The crew was saved by a passing vessel. The vessel was In regular trade between Montreal and Olngow, and left here nn July 1. She was valued at $110,000, and was covered covered by insurance In several English companies. Her owners 'are McLean Co., and lift Canadian agents McLean. Kennedy t Co.. of this city.