Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 August 1894 — Page 2

Shcpif County Eirmorrat M McC. STOOP8, Editor md ProprletCTPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. Anonymous letters threatening Emperor William s life are frequently received at the German imperial palace. The pope had an attack of syncope, on the 19th. and for some minutes the condition of his holiness caused much alarm. The Paris Gaulois says it is rumored that Germany will celebrate the anniversary of the victory at Sedan for the last time this year. An imperial edict has been issued by China ordering 100,000 Manchoos and Pekingese to hold themselves iu readiness for war service. L. W. Scheurmann, of Hudson, O., has been disbarred from practice before the interior department for violation of the pension laws. The attempt of the Chinese government to float a loan of 1,000,000 taels, to be guaranteed by Chinese merchants, is said to have proven a flat failure. The plate-glass and chemical trades in St. Helens artd Widnes, England show a morehopeful feeling on account of the adoption of the American tariff bill. ' . • : . » The Pullman relief committee was, on . the 21st, informed by Gov. Altgeld that immediate aid was at hand for the sufferers at Pullman, but he declined to name' its source. Humors were in circulation in London, on the 23d, that Mr. Gladstone had died at Hawarden. Investigation proved, however, that there was not the least foundation for the report. The officials of the Japanese legation in London denied, on the 93d, that there had been any engagement recently, either. oh land or -at sea, between "the forces of Japan and China. On the 21st A. F. Walker wired the Atchison reorganization committee in New York, that he will accept the receivership. He was theh in Paris but will be in New York September 3, and immediately qualify.

The City button works at Allentown, Pa., shut down, on the 23d, for an indefinite period, paid all its employes and dismissed them. The works will be kept closed until the fashion for wearing fancy buttons is revived. A dispatch to a London news agency, on the 22d, stated‘that the king of Corea had declared himself independent of the Chinese government, and had appealed ^o Japan for assistance to expel the Chinese from the country. Attorney-General Moloney appeared before Judge Hanecy, of Chicago, on the 24th, and asked leave to file information in quo warranto against the Pullman Car Co., revoking the latter's charter. Judge Hanecy refused to take up the motion. . Ye Sung Soo, the Corean minister, and Jarng Borng Whan, secretary of legation, left Washington, on the 21st, for Chicago, on their way home. They will leave San Francisco, on the 26th, and expect to reach Yokohama about the middle of September; Senator Hill expects to be attorney In the first case that is brought to test the constitutionality of the income tax provisions of the new tariff law, and says that he believes when brought to the courts it will be declared unconstitutional in whole or in p^ft. In obedience to orders from the foreign office the customs officers of Glasgow have seized the warship Islam, which is receiving her outfit for the service of Jap&m The warrant was issued under the jfbreign-enlistment act, the same as in tne case of the torpedo boat recently seized at Elswyck. Thomas Harper, of Esplenbcrough, Pa., returned to his home, on the 21st, after a short vaoation, to find his wife dead and her remains horribly decomposed and his two infant children on the verge of -starvation, and all saturated in the blood of the dead mother, who had died from hemmorhage.

About 50,000 people assembled at Fallen Timbers battle ground on the Maumee river, 13 miles above Toledo, ©., on the 30th, to celebrate the centenary of Wayne’s victory. There on August 20, 1794, he defeated the Wyandotte, Ottawa and Delaware Indians, breaking the power of their • confederacy. The Standard Wheel Co. of Terre Haute, Ind., has begun work on a truck on which the Columbia liberty bell, the duplicate of Independence bell, made of metal composed of moneys and art treasures contributed by the educational institutions of the country, will make a tour of this country and nearly all foreign lands. The patriotic workmen at the wheel works donate their labor. On the 21st Gov. Altgeld issued an appeal to the citizens of Illinois and especially of Chicago for immediate aid for the 1,000 starving families of the town of Pullman, having first vainly sent a letter to George M. Pullman in which he outlined the desperate condition of affairs among the strikers at the town of Pullman, and invited Mr. Pullman to call on him and devise means of relief. A telegram from Shanghai to the London Times, dated the 21st, gives account of two sanguinary engagements between Chinese and Japanese forces at Ping Yang, in both of which the latter were defeated and driven from the field with heavy losses. The J apanese were also driven out of Ching llo, which was captured by the Chinese. Another great battle was expected to be fouvht on the 23d.

jCUBRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS DT BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Lx the senate, on the 20th. the four house bills to place on the free list sugar, coal, iron ore and barbed wire were reported back by the finance committee. The first-named was altered so as to provide for an ad valorem duty of 40 per cent, on all sugars and specific duties on molasses. The free iron ore bill was the only one returned in its original shape. All the bills were placed on the calendar.In the house the session was short and unimportant. Several bills, none of them of considerable interest. were passed. Mr. Tarsney’s bill to amend the lead ore item was reported and placed on the calendar. The senate was not in session on the 21st. . In the house, during a session of about an hour, futile efforts were made to secure consideration of several Important measures, chief among which was the Hill bill for the exclusion and deportation of alien anarchists. Senate bill was ]Missed granting right of way to the Duluth & Winnepeg railroad through the Chippewa and White Earth Indian reservations in Minnesota: also a senate Joint resolution directing the printings of 20,000 copies of the tariff bil'. In the senate, on the 22d, most of the time of the Short session (which lasted only an hour and three-quarters) was passed in waiting for a quorum, there being only thirty-two senators present at roll call. The sergeant-at-arms was directed to request the attendance of absent senators; and when a quorum was reported the leaders on the side of the majority resolved upon proceeding to the consideration of executive business, which occupied the time' until 1:45 p. m.. when the senate adjourned.... The house was not in session on the 22d. In the senate, on the 23d. there was no quorum present and answering, and no business whatever was attempted—even the reading of the previous journal and the presentation of a message from the president being prevented by the failure of members to attend. The ser-geant-at-arms was ordered to compel the attendance of absentees, and after an hour's weary waiting the senate adjourned......In the house the committee on naval affairs submitted their report on the alleged armor-plate frauds, accompanied with a joint resolution to have plates now on certain ships removed and subjected to ballistic tests to determine their quality. After discussion the joint resolution was ugreed to. One or two private bills were passed and the house adjourned. In the senate, on the 24th. all but four minutes of the session was spent behind closed doors. Eight or ten bills were taken from the calendar and passed, as was a concurrent resolution for the final adjournment of congress on the 28th_In the house, the concurrent adjournment resolution w’as passed. Another unsuccessful effort was made to consider the Hill bill for the exclusion and deportation of anarchists. Two or three unimportant measures were passed, and after a session of am hour the house adjourned until the 27th. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Police Superintendent Byrnes of New York city, on the 20th, preferred charges against Police Captain Stevenson of the Mulberry Street station. Stevenson is charged with having received bribes while in command of the Leonard Street station. He will be tried before the commissioners. HirAm Berksmitji was blown to pieces and Andrew Roose and four other persons were fatally injured, on the 21st, by the explosion of the boiler of a threshing engine on Berksmith’s farm, 3 miles south of Byron, 111. John Peters, manager of the Fudden Lumber Co. at Ackley, la., was found in his office, on the morning of the 20th, with a bullet hole in his head and barely able to speak. He said that he had been shot and robbed of 85,000. He was mortally wounded. The confederate veterans’ association of Atlanta, Ga., took the Initiative, on the 20th, for the erection of a joint monument to the memory of Gen. McPherson of the federal army and Gen. W. H. T. Walker of the confederate army, who were killed within a few yards of each other. The grand army post of Atlanta will join the monument movement. People of Chelsea, Wis., a village lately destroyed by forest fires, have appealed to Gov. Peck for aid, saying they are without food, clothing or shelter, and have no means to obtain either. k at Shanghai, the circumstances attetiding the sinking of the Chinese transport Kow Shung by the Japanese war ship Naniwa has rendered a decision holding that the Japanese commander in firing upon the transport,, was justified, and therefore the Japanese government will not belcalled upon to make any compensation for the destruction of the vessel. / An unknown man fell off an eastbound freight on the Fort Wayne road at the depot In Salem, O., on the 23d, and was instantly killed, his body being cut in two. The victim is supposed to have been a tramp who was beating his way. The court of inquiry invesl

Lawyers ana jurists to the number of 200 occupied the front seats in Convention hall in Saratoga, N. Y., when the seventeenth annual meeting of the American Bar association was called to order at 10:50 a. m. on the 22d. Miss Edith Clark was terribly burned, on the 22d, by her clothing igniting from a spark from a locomotive on the Panhandle road at Grafton station, Pa. She may not recover. Commissioner Miller of the internal revenue bureau says the income tax will be collected notwithstanding the failure of congress to make an appropriation therefor. In the investigation of the late strike by the national labor commission at Chicago, on the 22d, testimony favorable to the Pullman company was for .the first time introduced. William Storm, 27 years old, wanted in Chicago for a $1,500 forgery, was arrested in New York on the 21st. He was formerly a real estate dealer in Chicago, and is said to have victimized his customers. The New York Sun says the three men, Herlitz, Scharf and Nelson, who were arrested in Chicago, on the 18th, on charges of arson, are supposed to have once plied the trade of incendiaries in New York city. A. S. Tucker, a Chicago board of trade broker, shot himself dead, on the 23d, in Washington park. He had been posted on change by the manager of the clearinghouse as having failed to pay his debit balance. Tre Pall Mall (London) Gazette says it is stated that the Norwegian members of the party assert the unfitness of the American members of the Wellman arctic expedition to take part in such an enterprise,

The Japanese government has declared riee to he not included among articles contraband of war. From reports received at the state department it appears that the United States has at last turned the tables on England, and is now shipping to that country carpets of the value of nearly $500,000 annually. To make the case still stronger,it is stated that these carpets are the famous Axminsters, supposed here to be produced in perfection only in England. On the afternoon of the 2Sd, while a number of tourists were viewing the Black Sand basin, which is a portion of the upper geyser basin in Yellowstone park, Wyo., they were startled by a rumbling noi$e, which lasted only a few minutes, when a new geyser broke forth within fifty feet of them, the water being thrown over a radius of 200 feet square. Mrs. Wm. Carrey, whose relatives live in the southern part of Wabash county, Ind., on the 28d, sold her 18months’ child to her husband for 86. Mr. and Mrs. Carrey quarreled and separated, and since then an endless controversy for the possession of the child has progressed between them. Mathias Hartman, a 65-year-old pioneer of Toledo, O., committed suicide, on the night of the 23d, by hanging himself with his suspenders while locked in the police station. Hartman was arrested for shooting at his wife, whom he married a year ago, and with whom he had frequently quarreled. Col. J. M. Winsteo, president of the Piedmont and People's savings bank of Greensboro, N. C., removed his shoes and jumped from one of the towers of the city hall at Richmond, Va., on the 23d, a distance of 175 feet. lie was terribly. mangled. Frank Carter, 26 years old, of Hastings, la., was run over and killed by a train at Hackney. Kas., on the 23d. It is supposed he was asleep on the track. His head was cut open and limbs broken. Peter Cunningham, a coal miner, while attempting to steal his way into the race-course at Leavenworth, Kas., on the 23d,- crawled under a young horse, and the animal, becoming frightened, trampled him to death before the man could be rescued. Albert Rewell, a resident of East Dubuque, 111., for forty years, was found dead at the foot of a stairway at his home on the 23d. His neck was broken, and it is presumed he fell down

stairs. Hon. Christopher Finley Frazer, late minister of public works in the Ontario government and recently appointed inspector of registry offices for Ontario, was found dead in his rdom at the parliament building in Toronto, Ont., on the 24th. A negro who calls himself Anderson Boyd was arrested at Knoxville, Tenn., on the 23d, on the supposition that he is identical with Jacob Haltz, who killed Edward Uhl, in Marion county, O., ten years ago. The chief executive of Ecuador has prolonged the session of congress in order that it may pass the budget and arrange for a French syndicate to build a railway from Guayaquil to Quito. George W. Reed was caught in the belting in a planing mill at Hagerstown, Md., on the 24th, and flayed out of all semblance to humanity. Thirty-seven miners, white said colored, perished in a mine explosion and fire in the Franklin mine at Franklin, Wash., on the 24th. Two men were killed and eleven injured by an explosion of gas in the Gilberton colliery, near Ashland, Pa., on the 24th. LATE NEWS ITEMS, Ida Robinson, who says she lives m St. Louis, was at the White House, on the%2oth, endeavoring to see the president, who, she said, would relieve her from a hypnotic spell which had been cast upon her by her enemies in St. Louis. No attempt was made to arrest her, and she departed after having had assurance that she could not see the president. Alonzo Kendall, of Kalamazoo, made a balloon ascension at^ Schoolcraft, Mich., on the 25th, and after he had cut loose with the parachute a sandbag became detached from beneath. the balloon, falling down through the parachute. Kendall fell 500 feet and was nearly cut in two by a barbed-wire fence.

A terribly disastrous cyclone swept along the shore of the sea of Azof, in Russia, on the 25th, working immense damage. In some instances entire villages were swept into the sea. Many steamers were sunk or driven ashore and wrecked, and it is believed that at least 1,000 persons perished. The New York eity associated banks issued the following statement for the week ended the 25th: Reserve, decrease, $1,088,000; loans, increase, $2,464,900; specie, decrease, $283„600; legal tenders, decrease, 8580,200;. deposits, increase, $896,800; circulation, decrease, $4,700. A poor Japanese who had saved from his meager earnings just $2.50 a year for the last forty years, making in all a total of $100, tendered the whole amount to the authorities for use in the war. A new geyser of the first magnitude has started up in Yellowstone park. It throws a stream of water fully as high as “Old Faithful,” and is very noisy in its eruption. Rkv. A. R. Morgan, in charge of the MethodistrProtestant missions in Japan, writing from Nagoya, predicts that the war between Japan and China will be a bloody one. The sultan of Morocco has issued a circular letter to the powers requesting them not to appoint consuls at Fez for fear of creating serious trouble in the country. On the 25th the associated banks of New York city held $66,718,650 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule. In the island of Formosa the Chinese authorities are decapitating Japanese subjects, supposed to be spies, in large numbers. Queen Victoria prorogued parliament on the 25th.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A sanitarium may locate at Roma City. Richmond carpenters are very busy. A drunk is called a “plain stew” at ^Marion. t Elwoop and Alexandria are now connected by telephone. At Matamora William Pierce was crashed to death under a wagon load of stone. Pickpockets made a big- haul in a Monon sleeper out of Indianapolis. Two were captured. George Waites, of Logansport. is lying dangerously wounded and Bill McIntosh, a horse*trading wanderer, is in the Cass county jail, charged with shooting with intent to kill. The trouble grew out of a horse trade. Henry Welstro. aged 61 years, and Mrs. Emeline Dolch, aged 71 years, were married at Valparaiso. Both hare been married three times before. The 4-year-old child of August Schultz, of Bedford, was burned to death. Mysterious circumstances surround the case. Nothing is known as to how it occurred except that the child claimed two boys set it afire. Israel Blair, 16-year-old grandson of Israel Patton, was slacking lime at Crawfordsville, when it exploded in his face, burning out both eyes, Boys who jump on moving trains at Garrett are compelled to work out their fines on the streets. Sullivan is experiencing a water famine. Even the street sprinkler has had to quit work. A Tipton lady was arrested the other day for disturbing the neighbor!* at unseemly hours by pounding beefsteak. . Farmers have threatened to stop trading at Goshen because they are not allowed to hitch their horses on the public square. Elijah Dalton, aged sixty-five, a convict in the state prison south, died at that institution the other morning, He had been confined in the prison for nine months, being sentenced for complicity in the white-capping of his wife near Salem, Washington county, about a year ago. The trial at the time attracted widespread attention. Although Dalton did not assist in whipping his wife he stood by and witnessed the deed without attempting to

interfere. The annual picnic of the Pennsylvanians of northern Indiana and southern Michigan, took place on the ‘island at Elkhart, a few days ago, with several thousand in attendance. Hon. J. B. Stoll, of South Bend, xVas the principal orator. An appropriate programme was carried out. State Geologist Gorby, ’Squire Feibleman and Hiram Cohen, of this city, have formed a syndicate and have purchased 1,830 acres of land in Oconee county, S. C., looking to mining for gold on an extensive scale. A stranger visited a northern Indiana town and sold tickets for a play called “The Disappearance of a Man.” After selling about fifty tickets he skipped with the proceeds. Wm. Ardeby’s barn, with contents, was burned by a tramp in Bartholomew county. Loss, $2,000. > Peter Crum, a Delaware county farmer, assigned the other day, Marion H. Carey being assignee. Liabilities, $2,000; assets small. Mrs. Matilda Wilson, aged eightyfive, died near Atlanta. She was well-known in Shelby county, having raised fourteen children in the Wray neighborhood, a few miles west of ;Shelbyville. Four more cases of smallpox are reported from Atwood, a small town five miles west of Warsaw. This makes seven cases there now. L. Plummer, wife and two children were taken down a few days ago. The body of Edward Garrity, the eight-year-old son of Mrs. John Garrity, a widow, was found the other evening near his mother’s home float* ing in the Connersville hydraulic, dead, he having, it is supposed, fallen from one of the bridges and drowned a few minutes before fouud. At a Sunday-school picnie near Columbus, Thomas Wykoff was dangerously stabbed in the neck by Edward Neville, a desperado. In Indiana there are 402 children in poor houses and 1,259 in the orphan asylums. In 34 counties last year the dependent children cost $105,000. The total cost in all counties was about

$150,000. At ML Vernon Jesse Pike shot his brotherin-law, Doc Berry, with a shotgun, inflicting dangerous wounds. Berry was in a quarrel With his wife, Pike’s sister, when Pike interfered. New brick walks adorn the thorough? fares of Warren. The chewing-gum social fad has struck Greencastle. Farmers all over the state are feeding wheat to hogs. At Montpelier John McElwain fell from a ladder and was killed. At Metamora W. H. Pierce was instantly killed by a runaway team. A cow became unruly at Knight&ville and it took 20 men to hold her down. Ft. Wayne saloonists have decided to disregard the Sunday closing laws. Thos. Ryan’s crop of oats and wheat was burned near Union City by a fire started while threshing. The Adams County bank, at Decatur, has been reorganized with a capital stock oi $175,000. James K. Niblick is president and R. K. Allison cashier. At Sotath bend A. L. Hudson, aged 45, druggist, was found dead in his drug store by his daughter. The drug store hap been closed for several days. Hudsonthad been a morphine eater. Rev. i>. C. Chmstner, pastor of the Presbyterian Dunker church at North Manchester, has abjured the faith and resigned his position as president of the Brethren state conference, vice president of the National Ministerial association and the Brethren’s National conference. : James E. Sexton, r. young freight brakeman, fell from a Lake Erid and 'Western train, north of Peru, and waa killed, j

MIDWAY PLAISANCE. It WUl Be » Feature of the St. Laois IWr -Many of the Attractions of the World’s Fair to Be Exhibited—Description of Some of the leading Features—Plans That Promise the Best Fair St. Loots Ever Had. Persons who attend the great St. Louis fair in October will see sights from many foreign corners of the world. They can hear the monotonous cry of the old muezzin calling the faithful to prayer in the Turkish mosque; they can have a ride on the meek-eyed camels in the streets of Cairo, and alight at the theater where beautiful houris, with dreamy eyes, will appear, and perform all the evolutions of the famous danse du ventre; they can wander through the quaint corners of Old Vienna and- sit in ancient cafes; they can lose themselves in the labyrinthine windings of the Moorish Palace; they can see the lion ride the horse and play with the tiger and leopard in Hagenbeck's show; they can see Hindoo jugglers apparently defy all laws of gravitation; these and many other odd and unique sights can be seen by attendants at the St. Louis fair. In short, the Midway of the World’s fair is to be reproduced. An avenue 1,000 feet long will be laid out on the fair grounds, and 50 feet wide, on either side of which will be arranged the buildings and pavilions of the following nationalities and attractions: Streets of Cairo, Egyptian Theater, Libby Glass Works, Old Vienna, Japanese Theater, Beauty Show, Persian Theater, New England Home, Turkish Theater, Moorish Palace, Egyptian Theater of London, Hagenbeck's Arena, German Village, Blarney Castle, Hindoos and Ferris Wheel. The interior of these buildings will contain many of the original attractions seen at the World’s fair. The Streets of Cairo will be supplied with Egyptian dancers, feiicers and musicians. The Oriental marriage ceremony \ will be performed as at the World's fair, and the “Hot-Hot” man will also be in evidence. The Libby Glass Works will be under the management of Mr. Libby, who had charge of the same at Chicago on the Plaisance. Mr. Hamrnesfahr and a number of the same spinners and weavers from Chicago Midway will entertain and delight the throngs who will see the Midway on the St. Louis fair

grounds. -r' Old Vienna, with its pretty Venetian girls, dressed in Austrian costumes, serving refreshments, is also among the attractions billed for the St. Louis Midway. A good band of musicians, and seating capacity for 500 people will be provided in the pavilion. The Japanese Bazaar will be presided over by winsome Japanese girls, and at the Japanese theater Japanese juggling and hair-raising acrobatic performances will be given, all of which will lend a decidedly oriental air to its Japanese architecture and ornamentations. The Beauty Show, with its typical beauties, attired in the costumes of their respective nationalities, is bound to be a great rage with the “chappies.” The Persian theater will be equipped with five of the stars of the Midway Theater, among whom may be mentioned Carmalita, Thyissa, Dervish, the only Fatima, and Little Egypt, who delighted the throngs with their graceful dancing. In addition to these there will be musicians and singers. The typical New England home will be reproduced with its quaint furnishings, its bacon and beans and qramp-kins-pies, all served by charming ladies in the costume of the colonial period. The Turkish Theater will be supplied with singers, dancers and musicans. with the same queer instruments and weird strains that were so prominent at the World’s fair. The Moorish Palace will be reproduced with absolute fidelity to the original in its exterior. The maze on the interior will be somewhat different from the original, but if possible more perplexing. In the Egyptian Hall of London will be witnessed exhibitions of magic illusions, black art, second sight, hypnotism, nuemonics and mind-reading. Hagenbeck’s Arena will not contain the original attractions, but others just as good will be substituted. Messrs. Bostock & Bosswood, with their trained animals, will be substituted for those of Hagenbeck’s. The exterior, however, will be a reproduction of the Midway arena. The German Village will be in all essential particulars a reproduction of the Chicago village. A band of music, refreshment tables and German waitresses in costume will give it a most realistic appearance. A seating capacity of about 500 people will be provided in

this pavilion. Blarney Castle, Lady Aberdeen’s Blarney Castle, will be reproduced with fidelity to the original. The Irish piper who made music for the Chicago people will reproduce the same strains here. Patsy Brannigan, the celebrated jig-dancer and Irish singer, will be on hand, and this pavilion promises to be among the most attractive features of the Midway. A company of Hindoos has been secured, which will be an object lesson in natural history. The women are very small and they will have with them a sacred bull from India, only 30 inches high. The Midway will, of course, be kept open in the evening, affording those who have no time to. attend in the day an opportunity of seeing its wonders. A Fenys wheel, 72 feet in height, will be in operation, It will carry for-ty-eight persons at a time. But it is in the way of attractions that the most radical departures will be made the coming fall. The country has been thoroughly searched for novelties, and those of the most striking character have been secured for the fair regardless of trouble and expense. For the arena, W. C. Coup’s trained houses and dogs have been secured. Dr. W. F. Carver, the world’s champion marksman, has been secured for the entire week, and he will give one or two of his wonderful shooting per f ormances in the arena each day

KILLED IN THE SURF. A Young Man Stnek by Llghtniac WbS<*Ba thing In Company with Two Yoanj: Ladles—The Bolt that Dwtreywl Him th» First Herald of a Coming Storm—A Canl s Among the Amemhled Bathers. Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. r *. -Wm. Carr, aged about 20 years, teas instantly killed by a bolt of lightning while in bathing in company with two young women. He had just entered the surf and had but risen from a dire beneath the breakers when the flash came—the first intimation of the coming storm, and the bolt struck him with a fatal shock. His companions, the Misses Farnum, were within ten feet of him when the bolt descended. They suffered a severe electrical shock and were prostrated by fright at sight of' their companion's lifeless body. There were hundreds of people in the surf near by and thousands on the strand and beach, who saw the fatal flash and the mark it struck. There was an instant panic among the bathers, who, more or less, felt theradiating shock, and they hurried out onto the strand as if fearful of another visitation of the destroying element. Although restoratives were promptly applied young Carr could not be revived. His death is said to be the firstby lightning ever occurring at this resort. ' ' . THE FRANKLIN MINE HORROR. An Examination Into It* Cause— Destitute Fnmllles of the Bend Miners. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 2ft.— An ex- ' animation into the causes which led to the death of thirty-seven men in the Franklin coal mine Friday afternoon was in progress yesterday. A great many witnesses were sum- V moned and the examination will last several days. It is believed that many of the men killed by black damp could have saved their lives had they hastened from the mine at the first alai*m. Mauy of them were overcome by curiosity, loitered and death overtook them. The mine is still on fire, but it is believed to be confined to No. ft slope. It will be three or *our months before the mine again starts Lp. Many of the families of the dead miners are in destitute circumstances, and a fund is being raised in this city and elsewherefor their relief.

AMERICAN ENGINEERS Betas Enlisted at 1’ugct -Sound for Chinese War Vessels. , Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 27.— » The work of securing engineers and ^ * firemen from Puget Sound to go to the 9 orient to serve in vessels of the Chinese navy has been inaugurated by W'ah Chung, a millionaire merchant and Chinese employmewi agent at Seattle, who has addressed several unemployed men of this eity asking whether or not they would be willing to go to the orient. The agent guarantees a good salary, payment of all expenses of the trip, and salary to begin on the day of departure. . The fact has not yet leaked out in Seattle, where Wah Chung resides, and as a result he expects the entire quota to be secured here. Secrecy has thus far been maintained to prevent interference with the sdheme on the part Of the United States authorities. The men secured will leave as first-class passengers on the next Canadian Pacific steamer sailing from Vancouver for the Orient. SUBORNED TO PERJURY. Sharp Practices that Will be Rough on Those Too Hasty In Remarrying. V Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 26.—At a meeting Of the bar association yesterday afternoon a committee of three was appointed to begin disbarment proceedings against J. M. Donovan and J. L. Glover, two well-known divorce lawyers, on the ground that they have been procuring fraudulent divorces. It is alleged that they suborned plaintiffs to perjury. Actions will be commenced to set aside a number of decrees if fraudulently granted. It is said that the cases of suborning to perjury against D movan and Glover will be laid before the Brookings county grand jury, and also cases for perjury against the plaintiff* who have falsely ^vorn to length of residence in the state. ONE THOUSAND LIVES LOST In a Terrible Cyclone Along the Shores of the Sen of Asof. St. Petersburg, Aug. 26.—A terribly disastrous cyclone swept along the shore of the sea of Azof yesterday, working immense damage. In some instances entire villages were swept into the sea. Many steamers were sunk or driven ashore and were wrecked, and it is believed that at least 1,006 persons perished.

Serious Accident tojan Electric Car. Newark, N. J., Aug. 37.—A serious trolly car accident occurred at 5 o'clock last evening on the Suburban Traction Co.’s new line between Orange and Eagle Rock, in which fifty persons were more or less seriously injured. The car, which contained about eighty persons, . while descending a steep grade just opposite the Mountain, avenue, became unmanageable and dashed into a curve at a terrific rate of speed, breaking the flange of one of the forward wheels. The car left the track and capsized down a slight embankment. Broken glass flew in all directions and the occupants were thrown into a confused mass. Unacsonntsble Assault Upon a [Superior* •Officer. 0Chicago, Aug. 37.—At 8 o’clock yesterday afternoon Col. Crofton, commandant of the Fifteenth regiment at. Fort Sheridan, was assaulted by Lieut. Welch. Welch called on Col. Croftonk at thpt hour and as the two were* conversing outside the tent, Welch, suddenly struck Crofton three blows ini the face with his clenched fist. Officers near by, seeing the assault, interfered and placed Welch under arrest. It is thought that Welch is • insane or that he was under the influence ofi liquor at the time of the assault.