Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Number 25, Bloomington, Monroe County, 13 August 1889 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. WALTER R BRABFUTE, - - PrausHm

CHICLING THE GLOBE.

A WEEK'S IMPORTANT OCCURRENCKS CONCISELY 8UMMARI ZED.

Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World, Em-brac-ng Foreign Affairs and Home Happenings of an Important Nature.

SAW HIS SON BURN. A Buffalo Father's Calamity Four Children Perish. A Buffalo, N. Y., dispatch says: Bystander? near the boa tho uses at the foot of Ferry street heard two explosions in quick accession from the boathouse just being bnilt by L. B. Crocker, in Tchich his pleasure yacht, the Cedar Kidge, was stored. Immediately following the explosions the bout burst into flames. Simultaneously two or three persons were thrown into the water as if from the force of t he discharge. A young woman, Miss5 McLean, aged 28 picked up from the water, was badly burned. Mr. Crocker's young son was seen standing on the boat's deck against a background of flro. A bystander extended a pikepole towardn the little fellow, but he seemed paralyzed, and in a moment fell back into the fire and burned to a crisp. John Rugenstein. a carpenter, wa6 another victim. The other children of Mr. Crocker, Leonard and Ethel, also perished in the names. Another girl, Charlotte; aged 14, was blown into the water, but was rescued. The yacht was what is known as a naphtha launch, run by naphtha for fuel. It is supposed the accident was caused by the explosion of some gas which had leaked out. The family were preparing to go off on a pleasure trip, and Mr. Crocker had taken his four children and Miss McLean, a lady friend from Detroit, to the river for an excursion. Crocker himself barely escaped vriih his life. He is almost insane with grief. His wife has been ill for some time, and tbis grief will probably kill her. THREE M1I.ES A MINUTE. Startling Kate of Speed Attained by the New Electro-Automatic Cars. On a two-mile circular track the startling speed of two miles a minute was maintained for about ten miles by the three-ton motor of the Electro-Automatic Transit Company of Baltimore City at their grounds at Laurel, Md. This speed equals three miles per minute on a straight track. David O. Weems, the inventor, conducted the eiper.ments. The company will build at once a five-mile- circr ar track on Long Island to demonstrate the practicability of the electric passenger system and also the automatic system which was tried to-day and is intended only for light express packages, mail, and newspapers. Edison has pronounced it the greatest conception since the telegraph. COKE-WORKERS ALL OUT. The Strike in the Connellsville Region Made General All the Ovens Idle. TBBgreat strike in the Connellsville ooke region of Pennsylvania has teen made general, and every one of the seventy-six coke plants and over 14,000 ovens are idle. The probabilities are that the strike will end soon and favorably to the men. A preliminary conference has been held at Seottdale, and it is just possible the final settlement will be reached very soon. A mass meeting of between 8,000 and 9,000 strikers was held at Scottdale and at which resolutions were adopted declaring in favor of establishing a uniform rate at once and fixing 1 cent a bushel as the minimum price. MURDER OF FOUR PEOPLE. Bodies Found InZth Montana Mountains Indicate a Mysterious Tragedy. Thx finding of the dead bodies of Ollie Jones, his wife, and two other persons is reported at Helena, Mont., from Corvallis, a small town in Bitter Boot Valley, in Western Montana. A young girl; who had been shot in the hip, was also found on Big Hole Mountain. All of the dead had been shot in the back. A party was formed to bring in the bodies. No further details of the affair could be obtained, as Corvallis is without telegraphic facilities. Jones was married at Missoula three weeks ago and was on the zoad to his ranch. .

CIRCLING THE BASES. The Various Ball Clubs That Are Earing for the Pennant. Relative standing of the base-ball teams that are working for the championship of their respective associations is as follows:

National. Boston.... New York. Fhilada... Cleveland. Chicago ... Indianap .

Pittsburg., Waah'gt'n.

W L. ..51 29 ..4tt 29 ..45 36 .Mi 38 ..42 43 ..35 50 51

50

Western. W. L. Omaha S3 25 Bt. Paul 51 fcO Minneapolis 42 38 Sioux City.. 30 42 St. Joseph.. 33 40 Denver 35 43 Milwaukee. .SO 47 Des Moines.. 45

c( American, W. .uS7 St. Louis 59 .t?28 Brooklyn.. ..57 .555! Baltimore. . .49 M7 Athletic 46 .4SKiCincinnatt..48 lliEWs City.. 34 .as.01 Columbus. . .35 lLouiviile...2a $e.l Interstate. W. .V79; Springfield .42 .t4i ; Davenport. .42 .55!reoria 41 Ml Qnincy 40 A'r2 Kvanbvilie. .36

A4t .38U .3ao

Burlington. .35 t

L. c 30 .662 30 .655 37 .569 36 .560 40 .545 52 .395 56 .384 67 .229 I. c. 36 .537 36 .537 38 .518 38 .512 43- .455 45 .437

Good Crops in Ireland A CABEPUL survey of Ireland indicates that the harvests will be more abundant and of better quality than for many years. In few districts will the crops be below the average, wh.le in most they will be far above- In the Dublin district prospects are better than for years. Judge Hardee Badly Wanted. A Canda, Dak., dispatch says: John W. Hardee, for five years Probate Judge of Towner County, Dakota, is missing and a warrant has been issued for his arrest charging him with wrongfully withholding $7,000 from the county. He it said to be also behind in his accounts with private individuals who had intrusted him witfl money. Bold Train Bobbery. Tbaxn robbers attacked an express train on the Bio Grande Western Boad, near Crevasse, Col., and after a vain attempt to break into the baggage -car went through the train ana collected $900 and twenty watches. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. It is repoited from Bacine, Wis., that Jay-Eye-See, Mr. Case's gelding, has gone lame from the effects of injuries receirod five years ago at Lexington, Ky.f and that the probabilities are that he will never appear on the track again. The Denver (Colo.) Mining Exchange has adopted resolution protesting against the free importation of lead ores from Mexico and British Columbia. Thebe is no cause for the belief that gonins to hive been prevalent that the

public lai.ds have all been taken up. The great rush to Oklahoma would f eein to emphasizo this belief. From tables that have just been prepared it is learned that Nebraska has yet about 2,498,000 acres of fertile lands to offer (o tho public under the homestead, timber culture and preemption acts. Mhs. F redPheineking, residing near Woonsoclet, D. T., Friday, committed suicide while insane with grief over the supposed death of her babe. The babe is still alive, and may recover. At Aberdeen, P. TM Senators Bengau and Stewart, of the Senate Irrigation Committee, witnessed an exhibition of the force of the city's artesian wells. A public meeting was held at which both Senators announced tie conviction that irrigation by artesian wells was practicable. Senator Reagan satd that land now worth from 6 to $10, when properly irrigated would be worth $80 per acre. Senator Stewart discoursed on demonetization cf silver at length. A totj rHFUii burglar euccessf nlly cracked a nafe in Tierney & Casey's livery stable t Anoka, Minn., and secured $30, but was discovered displaying his wealth and treating the crowd, and war; compelled to refund. He will go to the reform school. His name is Willie Webster, and he is only 10 years old. The most important work in the history of Dakota and one of the most significant victories of the Government over the ignorance and prejudices of the Indians has been accomplished. The requisite number of signatures for the opening of the groat Sioux reservation has been secured at Standing Rock Agency, tho sensation of the final council being the signing by Chief Gall, who, until th 3 last few days. had been most bitterly opposed to the treaty. Gall made a speech as was expected, but marched silently to the roll, touched the pen, and, amid the applause of the friendly Indians and the disapproving grunts of the Sitting Bull band, it was announced that Gull had signed. This settled it. The Blackfeet and UppeT and Lower Yanktonnais followed Gall and signed with a rapidity and eagerness that proved the wonderful influence of this powerful chief, n ad now the 11,000,000 acres of land to which the whites have been looking longingly for so many years are theirs. At Laporte, Ind.f Henry Shoemaker, William Vanadken, Hubley Yolheim and John Doe made a daring escape from the County Jail by tunneling through the rear wall. Mabtin Bueke, tho Cronin suspect who was captured at Winnipeg anti fought so hard and long against being brought back, has reached Chicago. The discovery of oil in Bedford County, Pa., is believed to prove the existence there of oil fields of unparalleled richness. A Minneapolis, Minn., dispatch says: Forgeries to the amount of nearly $300,000 have been committed in the name of John S. Blaisdell, one of the oldest, wealthiest and best known residents of Minneapolis. The report is th at a young lawyer in this city who is well known and popular and whose f ather is a wealthy and prominent man, has been robbing Mr. Blaisdell for a long time by a series of systematic forgeries, and that when the fact was discovered a day or two ago the total amount of his gains was in the neighborhood of 290,000. Owing to the previous good character of thd man ana the high social and business position of ,the young fellow's family a settlement was agreed to on the understanding that the whole amount obtained on Mr. Blaisdell's signature be returned to that gentleman. The large amount of the forgeries, together with the social and business prominence of all parties concerned, pre mises to make the case one of the most sensational ever known in the Northwest. A freight train on the Union Pacific road, drawn by two locomotives, bound for Kansas City, went through a culvert at Weston, Neb., burying five men m the wreck. Switchman Colklin was killed and Engineer Mitchell fatally injured. Engineer Morgan will be crippled for life. Two firemen who went down with the culvert were taken out unhurt. The disaster was caused by heavy rains which weakened the culvert. SaxiT Lake Citt, Utah, has been taken from the hands of the Mormons, the vote giving the Gentiles a majority of fortyone in the city government and insuring a Gentile city administration. The Mormons are disheartened, and feel that their rule of forty years has gone down forever. Ax Selma, CalM an incendiary fire destroyed three buildings occupied by thirty business firms, and causing a loss of $75,000; insured for $32,000. The heavy fire walls of one building alone

saved the entire business section from ! destruction. J. S. HoweIiL, the noted murderer of l Mrs. Hall and her three children, has ! been sentenced at Linneus, Mo., to be 1 hanged Nov. 15, 1889. A motion for a j new trial was denied. An appeal w ill be taken. j The Topeka Sugar Works, the largest in the State, located four miles west of Topeka, Kansas, have been almost totally destroyed by fire. The large boiler-house , and warehouse were saved, but of the i main building nothing is )eft but the 1 walls. The Iosh is estimated at 5570,000; insurance 0,000. The entire plant a year ago cost $114,000. Hundred h of acres of sorghum cane in the vicinity had been planted for this season's supply, and is almost readv for the mill. Tho fire is supposed to be incendiary. i GnouoE Caky, aged 13, disappeared from his home in St. Paul last week. He was traced to Mason City, Iowa, : where it was learned he had loft that pine in company with three tramps. His father, W. N. Cary, offers a reward for his return. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. At the Farlond Coal "Works, near ; Clarksburg, W. Vn., a blast exploded j while the men were tamping down the j powder and Edgar Matheny and S. V. 1 Matheny. his brother, were killed, and : Thomas Dodd and "W illiam Matheny dangerously wounded. Several othe r miners were slightly hurt. ' On his arrival at Jackson, Miss., on the requisition warrant, John L. Sullivan was met by Bud Kenaud, John Duffy, C. - W. Bich, Col. Jones S. Hamilton, and several sports and admirers. They all , xoarched'to the hotel, where dinner had teen provided for them. The crowd followed and shouted for Sullivan until he went into the rotunda, where was introduced and shook hands with hundreds,

but finally had to retire to his room, and the crowd was shut off. This demonstration bo angered the Governor that he ordered Sullivan locked up in the city jail, saying he did not intend to allow a prisoner charged with a serious crime to be holding a levee and making a farce of justice. THE NATIONAL. CAPITAL. The following is a recapitultttion of the debt statement issued Aug. 1: INTEnEST-BKAKDSO DMT. Bonds at 4V& l10r ceilt .$ 335,044,950 ."bonds at 4 per cent m 676,081,100 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent.. 116.740 Kavv pension fund at 8 jer cent 14,000.000 Pacific liailroad bonds at 6 per cem;. C4,G2?,517 Principal $ 880,868.302 Interest 5(f&V8t Total $ R05,391,KSG DEBT ON WHICH rXTKRUfiT HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $ 1,004.255 Interest 153.484

.Total $ 2,057,739 DEBT BEARING NO INTERK8T. Old demand and legal-tender notes. .$ 348,737,458 Certificates of deposit 17,575,000 Gold certificates 118,531,409 Sfcver certificates 259,557,125 Fractional currency (less $8,375,034, estimated as lost or destroyed). . . . 6,916,690

I Principal $ 749,227,63

. iincipal $1,041,100,240 Interest 5,077,000 Total 51,646,777,30a Less cash items available for reduc tion of the debt $ 403 256,286 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000

$ 503,251,286

Total debt less available cash items $1,143,521,023 Net casii iu the Treasury 65,857,090 Debt less cash in Treasury Aug. 1, 188? 1,077,663,930 Debt less cash in Treasury July:i, 1889 $1,076,040,021 Increase of debt during the month $ 1,017,311 Increase of debt since June 30, 188?'. 1,017,311 CiSH IN TliUA&UItY AVAII.ABLK FOB SEDUCTION OF THE ITHI.1C )KBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $ 118,511,419 Silver held for silver certificates actually ou t standi ng E59-, 557, 125 U. S. "notes held for certificates of deposit 17,575,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 75,781,324 Fractional currency 1.437 Total available for reduction of the debt $ 403,250,2SG KK8ERVK FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notea, acts June 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882.$ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt: Fractional silver coin 25,012,876 Idiuor coin 245. 555

Total $ 25.258.432 Certificates held as cash 40,351,214

Total cash in the Trasury, as shown by Treasurer's general account 8034,723.023 Mb. Pobteb, Superintendent of tho Census, hae started the preliminary work for taking the eleventh census, and will soon be in his new quarters. To cosr the vast territory of this country, which embraces 8,867,000 square miles, and nearly 70,000,000 people, over 40,000 enumerators will be employed, and about 2,000 clerks to compile their returns. The last census was restricted to a cost oi! $3,0t)0,0G0, but for the coming one Congress appropriated $6,400,000, exclusive of the cost of printing, engraving, and binding. There will be but thirteen volumes in the eleventh census, instead of twenty-two, as in the last, and it is hoped to have them all finished inside of five years, instead of eight years, which it took for the previous &msu. The forthcoming annual report of Acting Commissioner Stone, of the General Land Office, will show that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889, there were certified to railroad companies under various grants a total of 425,046 acres of land, or 404,11(5 less than the total certifications of the previous fiscal year. There were pending in the General Land Ofiice on June 30, 1869, raihoad selections under former grants amounting to 29,444,251 acres, which is an increase for the year of 4,014,385 acres. POLlflCALTPORRIDGE, The Kentucky election proved a surprise and defeat for the Republicans. It was confidently believed the race would prove a close one. The contrary has been the case. Fifty-two counties have been heard from, and they give Sharp 23,479 votes, a gain of 10,994 over liuckner's vote for Governor. At this rate Sharp's majority will be at least 35,000. The candidates lor the State offioe were S. F. Sharp, Democrat, of Lexington, and D. G. Colson, Republican, of liell County. The new constitution was adopted. The following appointments have been made: Charles Kirchoff, Jr., of New York, Special Agentof the Census Oifice to collect BtiitiHticB of copper, lead, and ores; John Birkbine, of Pennsylvania, Special Agent to collect statistics of iron ores; H. K. Carroll, of New Jersey, Bpecial Agent to collect church statistics.

ACROSS THE OCEAN, Sin WixiiiAM Ewabt, member of Parliament for the north division of Belfast, is dead. He was a Conservative in politics. The short-time movement in the cotton mills at Manchester has proved a failure. A MussriiMAX shot an Italian sailor in Candia, the capital of Crete, and an Italian torpedo-boat has been sent there to obtain redress. This may lead to further troublesome complications. Advices by the steamer City of Pekin from Hong Kong and Yokohama are as follows: There is much suffering in Foo Chow, China, caused by a late fire which destroyed three-fifths of the city. It is difficult for many poor people to find means to sustain life. Fortunately, however, rice is exceedingly cheap this year. Heavy rains fell in certain districts of Japan last month. At Amagi and in the neighborhood on the 10th ult. 505 houses were either washed away or knocked down and twenty people drowned. Au Hita, on the same date, 200 houses were washed away and nine people drowned. In celebration of 1,000 miles of railway in Japan a sumptuous banquet was given on the 10th ult. One hundred and eighteen students were graduated from the imperial University of Japan last month. Gen. GitENFEiili captured 1,000 prisoners and tseveral thousand weapons in a recent Egyptian engagement. The dervish loss in killed and wounded was 1,700. Tho remnants of tho dervish army have been driven into the desert, where the wretched men must die of hunger and thirst. It has been decided to occupy Sorrus, already deserted by tho dervishes. The troops are returning to Cairo, and tho invasion is ended. Reports to lhe llaytian Consulate at New York aro to tho effect that Hippolyte and his forces made an attack on Port-

au-Prince on July 25, and w:is repulsed with heavy loss. Gen. Grenfell is returning to Cairo. Tho campaign is over. A body of Egyptians was left at Sarras. Cavalry are in pursuit of the one emir who survived the recent battle. He is lurking in the hills above Bo liana with a force of 200 men. FRESH AND NEWSY. The palace steamer St. Lawrence, which has for several seasons been the pride of her officers and the best of the Thousand Islimd line of boats, run on a rook off Hog Island in the Canadian channel near Watertown, N. Y. Sho had on board nearly nine hundred people, who were safely conveyed to the adjoining islands. President George Gould, of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, has received a cablegram from th'j company's agent at Manzanilla stating that the treasure, footing up about $200,000, on board the steamer Granada w!aen the vessel was lost, had been recovered. The vessel, valued at $200,000, was a total loss. HmaIiXi-pox is officially reported to be raging in lower Egypt. Acting Secretary BatcheijTjER has informed the Secretary of the Navy that the Chinese who enlisted as servants on the United States steamship Aleit, now on her way from Honolulu to San Francisco, are laborers within the meaning of the Chinese exclusion act, and will not be allowed to land in the United States. At the annual meeting at Niagara Falls Tuesday of the American Electric Light Association the fact was developed that in the United States there aro in use 237,017 arc. lamps and 2,704,708 iacaudescent lamps. One of the most important customs seizures of the year has jusi: been made at Hamilton, Out. The property seized consists of 1,325 bags and seventy-five barrels of muscovado sugar, valued at over 20,000. It was consigned to W. G, lteid of Hamilton, and its owners are either Turnbull, Stewart & Co. of Trinidnd, West Indies, or George Christall oi New York. The grounds of peizure are false invoicing and excessive undervalua tion. Bradstreet's, in its review of the week's trade, says: There is no improvement in the distribution of general merchandise as compared with th preceding fortnight. Two or three large fail, ures, apparently not due to conditions under, lying the state of trade, have brought a more careful scrutiny of credits, and unusually uro longed wet weather has retarded bubinoss in Eastern and adjoining States. The iron mar. keta are as rirni as ever, and consumers are asking for early instead ol delayed deliveries on contracts, fcteel is very " firm. Htocli speculation displays a strong undertone on the crop and traffic outlook, but there ii neither interest nor activity in the trading, Money at New York is firmer in tone. Foreign exchange is irregular and firmer ot an advance. News from the Northwest revives faith in a large domestic wheat crop. Wheat has been less active, with a bearish drift, i ot withstand ing stronger cables. The hoJders of raw sugar have been easier, but owing to the protracted sluggishness of the demand foz refined, refiuera have not bough : freely, and sales were made $c off. on the week. Speculation in Rio coffee has not been espicially active, yet prices have advanced about 4-5c per pound. The distributing movement has improved.' Business failureas number 213 i:i the United States, against 221 the previous week and 1B0 the same week last year. Tho total failures iu the United States Jan. 1 to date art O.WJ, against 0,091 in 1888. MANY APPOINTMENTS, A Largre Number of Offiee-Sekers Named by tu President The President has just made a large number of appointments, tho more important of which were tho following: Edward F. Hobart, of New Mexico, to bo Surveyor General of New Mexico ; Ca vin G. Townsend, to be Principal Cfrrk of the Public Lands in the General Land Office ; Isaac IX. Couwell, of Indiana, to be Principal Clerk on Private Land Claims in the General Land Office ; William T. Harris, of Massachusetts, to be Commissioner of Kducation; William H. Hart, of Indiana, to be Third Auditor of the Treasury ; John 1 Kai -kin, of Pennsylvania, to bo l)epir;y Co-Audilcr of the Treasury for the Postoihce Department. Walter H, Johnson, of Georgia, tt: bo Collector of Internal Revenue for tho district of Georgia. Eugene A. Webster, of South Caroliua, to bo Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of fcoultt Carolina, Granville E. Benedict, of Vermont, to be Collector of Customs for tho District of Vermont. Columbus C Wunbish, of Georgia, to be Surveyor of CuatoM for the port of Atlanta, Ga. John F. Patty, or Luieiaua, to be Naval.Ofticer of Customs for tie District of New Orleans. John ingle, to be Supervising Inspector of steam vessels for the Hixth District (Louisville, Kentucky). Joseph H. Kibber, of Arizona, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Arizona; George W. Jolly, of Kentucky, to be Attorney of the United htateB for tho District of Kentucky; William Grant, of Louisiana, to be Attorney of the United istates for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Peter A. Williams, of Florida, to be Marshal of the United States for the Southern District, of Florida; Andrew J. Whitakef, of Illinois, to.be Demty Fourth Auditor of the Treasury. Harry Tt. Probasco, Assistant United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio ; William R. Chase, Special! Agent of the Treasury at Philadelphia Joh i Coker, of IllinoisLaw Clerk iu the General Land Office ; William A. King, of Colorado, Chief of Division in the Census Bureau. MARKET li PORTS. CHICAGO. CxTTiiB Prime 8 4.00 4.75 Good 9.50 4.23 Common !i.5a (tf 3.50 Hoos Packing Grades 1.25 (t$ 4.75 Sheep 3.00 $ 4.73 Wheat No. 2 Ked 77 6 -78 Corn No. 2 30 (9 .3(5 OATSNO. ii 2d .21 Rye No. 2 43 .43Vj H utter Choice Creamery 14 cj .10 Cheese Full Cream, flats 07 .08 Eggs Fresh 10 Ht Potatoes Choice new. per brl. 1.10 J 1.25 Pons Mess 1X50 (10.75 MILWAUKEE. W heat Cash 77 .78 Cokn No, :i 3C$ .37 Oats-No. 2 Whit 25 i .28 Kyk No. 1 43 .44 Daki-ey No. 2 59 .(0 Pork Moss 10.50 l0.73 DETKOIT. Cattle :100 4.00 H;os 1.00 4.50 Sheep 3.25 4.00 Wheat No. 2 Ked m. .Si .82 CoKN No. 2 .37'vC .386 Oats No. 2 White 27?3l .28 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 70 .79)4 Corn Caoh 37 (3 .38 Oath Old.. 545 .fltt NEW YORK. Cattle 3.75 ?5 5.00 Hor.a 123 & 5.00 Khkev 3.50 5.25 Wheat No. 2 Ked. 88 i .90 Corn No. 2 White.... 50, .51 OATS-Mixed Western 20 & Pork Mess 12.00 (3U2.75 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 4 00 & 4.50 Hogs 4.00 i 4.60 Whkat-No. 2 Ked 74 0 .74 Corn No. 2 :3 i .3 Oath W .2- ?, Hue No. 2 30 .4 INDIANAPOLIS. ff Cattle 9 75 ft V 1 Hogs 4.25 ( 4.: j: Bhkep 4.00 ( A. a Lambs 4.00 & fi.f. CINCINNATI. Hogs 4.00 4. ; Wheat No. 2 Rod 77 3 . Corn-No. 2 38 & . ... Oats - No. 2 Mixed 2( . Rye No. 2 451. ..4 Pork Mess 11.25 $ll.iu KANSAS CITY. Cattle Good 3.75 A 3 Medium 3.00 & 3.71 Butoheri1 2.00 $ 3 ') Hong 4.00 r 4. I BHJLHP 3.00 tf 4.C0. 1

A CITY ALMOST RUINED,

BPOKANEFAUS, WASH. TKR., DEVASTATED iav F1KE.

A Conflagration that Iiafftocl the Fir Department and Burned to the Water's Edge The Losses Will Aggregate 14,O0O,000 Awlul Work of the Devastating Foment. A Kpokane Falls (TV. T.) dispatch of the Gth iust. says: The entire business portion of the city, with the exception of one mill, was destroyed by fire Sunday night The loss will reach ifM, 000,000 .Tho blaze started in a lodgng house on Railway avenue at 5 o'clock in the evening and burned until Monday morning. A largo number of frame buildings and aeveral grain elevators were near tho lodging bouse and soon after the lire broke out t hey were ablaze. A strong wind was blowing toward the city at the time, and the Maze was soon beyond the control of the firemen. The fire leaped from street to street and nothing could be done but let the flames have their own way until they reached the river and then endeavor to prevent the lire from reaching tho buildings on the opposite side. The flames swept through the city and one business block after another was consumed, everything being burned to the water' s edge. The fire department was stationed on the other side of th stream and prevented flying embers from setting fire o the buildings there. Only a few dwellings were destroyed, as the residence portion of the city was not visited by the fire. The water supply proved totally inadequate, and firemen as well as citizens became panic-ptricken. Several people are known to have perished in the flames and se ver al more were in j ured by leaping from windows. Charles Davis of Chicago, a guest at the Arlington house, was awakened by iiames bursting through the doors of his room in the third story. He jumpted trom the window, was shockingly mangled, and died in a few minutes.

$100,900: Benl:am & Griffiths, wbfesal grocers, $40,010; Mason, Smith Co.f grocers, 40,000: Pacific hotel, 40,000t

J Grand hotel, MO, 000; Windsor, $25,000;

Hyde block, $ "5,000; Washington block,. $05,00; Crescont, $30,000; Cannon blocir $20, 000, M oore b lock, $30, 000; First national bank block, $25,000; Wolverto:i block. $25,000: Frankfort

I block, $125,(100; TuU block, $75,000.

Tho disaster is undoubtedly far mor serious than that which overtook Seattle, both on account of its great extent and the more substantial character of the burned buildings. No account of losseshas yet been received. T:ie Western Onion office was bur ied out ai d all instrumentsexcept one, m hich an operator is now working on a dry goods box just outsidethe city, were destroyed. All the floor and lumber m ils were saved. Spokane was one of th most prominent of the many nuw cities in the infant State of Washington. Situated on the line ot the Northern 3 'acific railroad close to the Coeur d'Alene mining region, the city hasbeen the site for many large industrial establishments, tiuch as smelters and kindred enterprises. Expensive public edificeshad also leen recently erected, and the population was easily supporting two prosperous daily papers. The business! district o:! Spokane was in a strip between the Northern Pacific railroad tracks and the Spokane river. Thia strip was five squares across, and extended about seven. squares in length. It was solidly built ip with brick and sr.onev structures, the cost cf which varied from $25,000 to $125,000. Teo banking houites, five hotels, the oerav house, and m any wholsiile estublishm-jnts-doing business estimated at half a million, dollars each, were situated within the district described. The estimate of a $0,000,000 loss is believed to be exaggerated. Half teat amount is thought to be nearer the act io! figure, assuming that thereported complete destruction of the city is correct. The population of fSpokane is about 20,000. The city possessed an excellent water works, modeled after the Hollysystem, with a capacity of 1), 000, 000 gallons. There were no fire engines, but

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SPOKANE FALLS BEFORE THE FIBH.

A woman whose name is unknown leaped from the second story of the Pacific hotel and was killed. The fire spread with such astonishing rapidity that it is believed many were shut off from escape before they were aware of their danger. By order of the Mayor a dozen large buildings were blown up with giant powler, but even this failed to check the i lames, The Northern Pacific fe probably the heaviest loser, the passenger depot and magnificent new freight wart-house being destroyed. Its loss, including freight burned, will reach about $1,000,000. All provisions and supplies were burned, and there will be much suffering for several days. Appeals for help have been sent out, and Portland, Seattle, Tacoma. and several neighboring towns have already responded. The fire started at 7 o'clock p. m. in a lodging house on Railroad avenue. The fire department was on the scene quickly, but owing to a lack of water the fire spread to an adjoining frame building, and was soon beyond control. The flames jumped across the street to the Russ house and Pacific, hotel. By this time a strong wind sprung up, and it was evident the city was doomed. Tho fire spread with fearful rapidity and tho firemen were powerless. An attempt was made to check the fire ;y blowing up buildings in its path, but it v as useless. From the Pacific hotel the fire jumped across First street to the frame buildings iu the next block Soon it reached the heart of the city. A block of two-story brick buildings on Riverside avenue next went. From here the fire was communicated to the magnificent Hyde block, a four-story building, taking in the whob block between Mills and Howard streets on Riverside avenue. The fire leaped across Howard street, and in a few minutes the block between Howard and Stevens streets was reduced to ashes. The next to succumb was the large Tull block. From there the fire swept the solid block of four-story brick buildings, including the postotfice, between Stevens and Washington streets, and hero burned out from lack of material. From the point of beginning the fire took another direction, leaping across Sprague street to the Opera House block. From it the iiames leaped Riverside avenue to Brown's bank and both sides of the avenue were in flames. The block between Post and Mill streets was quickly licked up, including the Grand hotel. From here ths flames were communicated to the block on the right. Here was the Frankfort block, the largest building in the city, having cost $J50,000. It withstood the lire for some time, but finally succumbed. The Arlington hotel was next to go. From the Arlington the lire traveled north and consumed the block between Howard, Main, Front, and Stevens streets, burning cast as far as the latter street, where a vacant lot checked farther pro gress in that direction. Everything in a northerly direction, including the Northern Pacific express. Union block, and Windsor hotel, was soon a mass of flames. The river preventod the fire doing further damage and was a means of saving big flouring and lumber inilis. By this time, iu the short space of three hours, the fire had consumed everything in its path, reducing to ashes the entire business portion of the once beautiful city. Tho only business block left standing is the Crescent builc'.iug,3 wbich wtis savod by tearing down intervening buildings. Owing to the rapidity withwhich it spread scarcely anything was saved. Provisions are scarce and will last only a short time. The city council met this morning and appointed a committee or relief. Provisions will bo scut for aud the ueedy supplied. individual osses as far as known are as follows: Honey, Masrm. Marks & Co., wholesale hardware $ir.ft,000; the Gi'eat Eastern wholei-alo 0 and retail dry-goods house, $100,000; the : 'White House' wholesale ind retail, $80,000; Lowenburg Bros,,

by the system in use five or six goodsized streams of water could be concentrated upon any block: in case of fire. The fire depiu-tment was a volunteer one. As to insurance the best information her is that no large amounts were carried. Buildings that cost $30. 000 to $40,000 ar known to have had bui; $9,000 to $10,000 insurance. THE WORLD'S FAIR. Chocago Decides to Organise a Stock Company With a CapitaU of 5,000,000. Chicago, Aug. 4. The committee on a World's exposition hero in 1892 met Biday and it was determined to immediately open a general headquarters near the hotel center of the ;ity and to put to work s speedily as possible such a force of clerks and employes as may be required to conduct the correspondent, receive visitors from neighboring States, encourage their co-operation ia the movement, and perform the vast amount of labor incident to the location of the international show. A headquarters xmmittee was therefore appointed by the Mayor, consisting of C. PL Schwab, J. I. Pearce and E. F. Cragin. This preliminary over the financial problem was considered. James W. Scott gave valuable information concerning tho contributions i or the ct ntenmal exposition at Philadelphia and s t forth the advantages of an eexly announcement that Chicago has perfected its organization for th contest for the great exposition of 1892. He advised the formation of a stock tympany with ample capital, to be organixed under the laws of the State o Illinois. This proposition met with marked favor. Mr. C. JL Hutchinson had moved the appointment of a commitie of five to formulate a financial scheme for the committee, and to report bow much money will probably be necessary and the most feasible way of procuring it. These two suggestions were t arm on i zed by directing this comittee to apoly for articles cf incorporation of the "Worlcl's Exposi ion of 1802," the cap tal stock to be $5,000,000. The Mayor named as tho committee, Messrs. C. K Hutchinson, James W. Scott, Jesse Spalding, J. J. Fezurce and W. C. Seipp and Lyman J. Gage and Mr. J, B. Carson. This committee will promptly determine upon the first active steps to be laken to put the machinery in notion. Th s execn tive committee will mt et again cu Tuesday, by which time it is bettered public announcement of the plan to bo adopted can be made. Commodore Fiuthugh Iead. Washington Aug. 4. A telegram ha been received at the Navy Departmentannouncing the death at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoou it the hospital in tie Naval Home, Philadelphia, cf Commodore William Fitzhugh, of a completion of diseases. Commodore Irltzhugh was bom in Ohio, Oct 1, 13, and graduated from the naval academy in lt54. He served in tie Atlantic and Pacific sauadrons prior to the war, and was made a Liemetiant Co:nmodore in 1602. He commanded the Iroquois, of the North Atlantic blockading: squadron, was present at he capture of Fort Morgan in 18M, and as commaac.er of the Ouohati received ta surrender of the Confederate naval forces on Rd river. Since the war he has filled var ous- stations on sea and shore, being promoted to a Captaincy in 176, end to be Commodore in 1873. Oppomul to Annexation. Ottawa, Ca:i., Aug:. 4. Sir J. Ii. Som ers Vine of London, England, one of the secretaries oi: t ie imp rial institute, is here on business for the government. He recently arrived at Vancouver from Australia. Speaking cf the qnestioa of annexation of Canada to the Unite I States, he said he fourd that the goverament of British Columbia was so bitterly opposed to any such idia that the province would secede from tie dominion and maintain herself as a separate 00 ony before hearing of any such movement.