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L /kiT. VERNON HAWK-EYE. MT. VERNON, l I IOW&. During the year 1897 disease e~t t~hort the lives of 32,534 Spanish sol- diers in Cuba, and malarial fever was slightly more fatal than yellow fever. i J The sultan of Turkey has decided not to allow indemnity for the killing of American missionaries in Armenia. What the sultan needs is a war for hu- manity, with Dewey trimmings. ii It is said that in Mexico the bride- groom always furnishes the trousseau of the bride. This is expensive some- what in Mexico, but it would be a triv- ial matter in the Philippines where beads and shells are cheap. i ][n one county in Vermont in one week 23 barns and 13 dwellings were strnck by lightning and more or less damaged. If that ~as a region full of wires a theory would be advanced, but it happens to be the reverse. The total toss of the American army and navy in the recent war is reported to be 23 officers and 236 men killed and 87 officers and 1,406 men wounded, an aggregate of 1,752. In tbe civil war the union army alone lost 4,142 officers and 62,916 men killed, and in addition 43,- 012 died from wounds. I Dr. Patrick Manson, whoever he is, aunonnces in an eastern paper that mosquitoes carry malarial fever. The physician~ have us jumping sideways ~o get out of the wayof microbes, boil- ing our water to anode certain death and now we will have to be on the lookout for mosquitoes. It has been found that the X-ray shines through a fox terries as if he were a Chinese paper lantern. The ex- periment was tried upon an animal of this species which had.swallowed a diamond ring, the trinket appearing in his midst as visible as a fly in amber or a gold fish in a glass globe. France employs over 5,000 women in her civil ~ervice, telephone and tele- graph offices. The municipality of "Paris alone gives work to 900 women while the Bank of France pays sal- aries ~o 400.more. Two hundred wom- en have permanent positions in the Credit Foncier, with earnings varying from $175tto $37~ a year, . / I i~ . have dtse tug A WEEK'S HISTORY Important Happenings of a Week Briefly Told. IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNXON All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the West and the South. THE LATEST FOREI6N DISPATCHES ~AR NEV*~ S. In Fernandina. Fla the hospital zhip Olivette. which had been lying near the quarantine statiou, sunk th#ough some mysterious agency. All on board were saved. In the transport Mexico Gem Shaf- ter and his staff arrived in New York from Cl~ba. With all well on board the transport St. Paul arrived at Manila. With 2,279 soldiers from Saotiago on board the steamship Covandanga ar- rived at San,tander, Spain. Orders were issued by Adjutant Gen- eral Corbin for the mustering GUy of 19 volunteer organization~ numbering over 20,0~0 officers and men. The government has returned the auxiliary cruisers. St. Paul an~t St. Louis to the International Navigation com- pany. Gen. Brooke issued an order assum- ing command of the troops in Puerto Rico. Many of the wealthiest natives in the Philippines called upon Consul Wildman in Hong-I(ong and urged that every possible effort be made for the annexation of the Philippine is- lands to the United States. The torpedoes placed at the en- trance to the harbor of Havana h,ave been raised without accident of any kind. The president spent five hours in Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, bare- headed, most of the time. visit.Sag the sick in the hospitals and inspecting the well in their cantonments. loughs. Up to the present time the war de- partmeht ban issued orders for mus- tering out nearIy I00,000 volunteers, and this will be done as soon as the reed have had their 30 and 60-da3~ fur- FROM gVA$HINGTON. The statement of the public debt l~sued on the l~t shows that the debt decreased $34,789,711 during the month of AugUst. The cash beMuse.in the covery treasury was $92%144,640. The. total e0se r~ ; i debt, lessthe.cashbalanee in the treas- the ar admirable forury, amountsto $1,012,870fl17. m~ckintoshes, bicFcle~ tires and like Tl~e annual report of the commis- purposes. signer ~f pensions will show that the number of pen sioners0n the roils June ~0, 1808, w~ts 993,714 and the amoun~ paid for pension~ during the fiscal 2~ear ended June 30, 1898, was'$14~.651,879. 31 the total circulation of ates was $~0,508,524, $481,745 for the MOUNT VERNON HAWK-EYE. In the Mississippi river near Fort St. Philip the United States steamer John Meiggs of the snagboat service was blown up, and Capt. Starr, Sergt. Need- ham, Ralph Rogers, Pat Corless, H. Jackson and J, D. Malone were killed. Near Columbus, Ga lhree children of Mary Ring died from being bitten by a rattlesnake, and a fourth child fell into a spring during the excite- ment and was drowned. as he supposed, the footprints of s. The cave runs i~s fdr at least $0 :tee :rt from the water, but somewhat inland. It : t over with bright green lc attractive even to this day, The Da, ier, of ti Tk-m,ea ev- FOREIGN IX~'ELLIGENCE. In the Bertram shipyards in Toron- to, Ont fire ca used a loss of $450,000. Near Paris Lieut Col. Ilenry, one of the chief witnesses sgainst Captt Al- bert Dreyfus, killed himself. He had made confession that the document which he offered at the trlal had been forged to aid the army in the prosecu- tion of Dreyfus. Well posted officials in Europe pre- dict war between France and Germany as a result of expos~ares to be made in the Dreyfus ease andl war between Great, IIritain and Russia over compli- ca,tiGriS in the far east. In France M. Cavaignac, minister of war. has resiga~.ed because of a disagreement with his colleagues, who desire a revision of the Dreyfus ease. Two shocks of earthquake at San- tiago de~ Cuba shook every .h,o,useliu town with unusnal force. Under Sir Iterbert Kitchener the Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated the dervishes in a great battle at Omdur. man. on the Nile. the losses on the British side being 200. while thousands of the dervishes were killed or wound- ed. Fire destroyed the chintz factory ofGartalde & Co at Melannay, France, the loss being 2,000,000 francs, LATER NEVVS. Rear Admiral Sampson, Maj. Gen, James F, Wade Maj. Gen. Matthew C. 'Duncan and Lieut. Col. John W. Clous, members of the Cuban commission, left New York for Cuba on the Reso- lute. The thirty-second annual encamp- ment of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic began in Cineinnatl. The two-mile tandem bicycle record was broken in Detroit by Joseph an~ Porter. who went the distance in 4:01 3-5. President and Mrs. McKinley left New York for Washington. Gen. Wheeler. in eommand~ of Camp Wikoff. Montauk Point. L. I reports to the. secretary of war that the health of the troops is improving and that the visit of the president was very bene- ficial. At the election in Arkansas Dan W. Jones (dem.) was reelected governor with very little opposition. Frank and John Mane. 16 and 17 years old respectively, and George Grass, 14 years old, were drowned while bathing in Lake Erie at Buffalo. The police discovered a revolution- ary and anarchist plot in the suburbs of Barcelona. A trolley car was struckby a pa~ senger, train at Cohoes, N. Y. and' 18 persons were killed and ten fatally in- jured Labor day was generally observed throughout the country. MO.? ed', barns qll be con- war, will consist of Manila are said to themselvos in trenches, and fear of trouble is expressed. Ma~y editors were, gathering at Denver, Col to attend' the thirteenth annual convention of t,he National Editorial association. Queen Wilhelmlna, of Holland~ was formallly crowned at Amsterdam. Andrew J. Faulk, wbo was the third, In"the UniterS.States t'here were171, governor of Dakota territory, died at busi~ Ss;failu~in the seven "da,ys his home in Yankton, S. D. tz~de~/~t~e ~d~tust 179 theweek People from all over the United pr~|0us an~tTL/in the corresponding States are pouring into Honolulu. p ;t~i0d~of'lS97,' A letter sent by Maxtmo Gomez to "At/Wi~dham, Vt George W.~Dimtck the American commission in Havana en~ wife lost theirltves in a fire which, is addressed to Gem Butler. and in tt destroyed Mr. Dtmlek'a farm buildings, he places himself unconditionally at On the 2d 30 dea~asand 82 pro~ra,the American co.mmis.~ion's disposal fro o rred ,n New city. A]l~)ver the country intense]seat and many prostratimns iu the past five Fernandez, the fa-day~ were reported. mm of Robin~n Crusoe.The occidental jibing of the sail of a He where, Itbb- pleasure yacht on Presque Is,le bay, himself safe from near Erie. Pa sin.opt overboard Mary, Della and Ells Pardine and Jessie Moore and they were drowned. In the National league the percent- ages of the baseball clubs for the week ended on the 4th were: Cincinnati, .639; Boston, .632; Baltimore, .6?2; Cleveland, .588; Chicago, .55~; New York, 5 8; Pittsburgh, 496; Phila- delphia, .495; Louisville, .425; Brook- lyn, .394; Washiaagton. .351; St Louis, .261. otution feel that they sharein.the dis- In New York city 50 dead and over tingtion, accorded to Dr. Anita McGee, 100 prostrations is the record of the whose appointment to the army reed- I heat on the 3d. teal staff, with rank of lientenanL ] Near Stamford, Conn Frank, ma~rks the first woman who has ev~i, ~ George and Mabel Ferguson, aged 24( hem such a position in the American ~ 19 and 14 years, respectively, of Brook- military. She was regularly sworn in lyn, N. Y were drowned by the up- as assistant surgeon, and by order of setting of a rowboat. the sec~. e~ ry ~war is entitIed to wear the untf0rm of a second lieutenant-- if she choOse: ;~ ~he war department gave her chargd:~f the selec{|0xi of women nurses, and she~aced ~0 Of them tn the field, ~ '~ V#I~ST AND SOUTH. At Topeka Kan the Kansas Loan an& Trust company failed, for $400,000. In convention in Milwaukee the s~- sial democracy of Wisconsin nominated a state ticket, headed by Howard, Tut- tie for goverrror. Fire destroyed 14 buildings at Rapic~ River, MiCh. Dynamite exploded prematurely while blasting rock at St]nosy]lie, Ind, killing John W. Williams, John GruBb. Buck Wampler and Edward Watts and fatally'injuring Ben Fyffe, Milton Hike and, Willie ~iford. For this year the southern, cotton crop is estimated at 11,199,094 bales, valued at $320.553,000. At the age of 91 year~Wilford Wood- ruff, of Salt Lake City, president, of the Mormon church, died in. San Fromcisco. The death of Col. T. C. Tupper, a re- tired officer who won distinguished~ honors in the civil and Indian wars, oc- curred at his home in Cleveland. O aged 60 years. Twin daughters of Mr. Prater, aged seven, and a baby girl were burned to death at Speegleville. Tex. In the pulpit at the High Street Methodist church ta Springfield, O~ key, James Stephenson. of Jamestown, 0 dropped dead from heart trouble at the beginning of his sermon. tn Baltimore Frank Waller went 494 rnileson a bicycle in 24 hours, making a new reeol~L arranged by the commissioners who meet in Paris, make but one'demand, and that is that the remains of Chris- topher Columbus be returned to SpaVin. The remains are now in the cathedral at i=Iavana. Columbus died in 1506 at Seville, and was buried there, although in his will he asked that he be buried on the island of San Domtngo. Thirty years later his son was aMe to carry out his father's wish and the discov- erer of American was laid to rest in the ealhedral of San l)omingo. r The war department hasdccided that, in the future" all of our armored crui~ ere and battleships, and possibly all.of our cruisers, will have to be fitted with '~re-proof" wood. This fire-proof wood is a new thing, but it has been demonstrated to be practical. The process of fire-proofing co~sists in e!im~ lnation of the volatile an&fermentable eonstituents of the wood, and the sub- stitution therefor of fire and heat re- sisting ingredients which are forced iia~ to the pores of the wood. Wood treated by ~h!s process, a secret one, is free from ~.!abllity of either wet or dry rot. The British empire embraces 10,000 islands. Orange production of the Pacifie coast this season has been the greatest A DECISIVE BAT LE. Anglo-Egyptian Army Captures Mahdist Stronghold. ~kiiiilhllates Dervish Army and Drives the Remnant Into the Desert --A Fatal Blow Dealt to Mahdism. "f.ondon, Se~t. 5.---The war office has received the following: "Omdurman. Opposite Khartoum. On- the-Nile, Nubia, Sept. 2. by Camel Post tc Nasrl.--The sirdar, Gem Sir Herbert Kltch- ener, with the khalifa's black standard. captured during the battle entered Omdur- man, the capital of MahdJam, at four o'clock this afternoon at the head of the Anglo-Egypti~tn column, after completely routing the Dervishes and dealing a death blow to mahdism. Roughly, our losses were 200, while thousands of the dervishes were killed or wounded. Karl Neufeld wa~ rescued unharmed. "Last night the Anglo-Egyptian arml eneamped at Assize, eight miles from Ore. durman. The Dervishe~ were three miler distant At dawn to-day our cavalry, pa- trolling toward Omdurman, discovered the enemy advancing to the attack In battle array, chanting war songs Their front consistedofinfantry and cavalry, stretched out for three or four miles. Countles~ban- ncrs fluttered over their masses, and the copper and brass drums resounded through the serried ranks of the savage warriors, wbo advanced unwaveringly, wlth all their old-tlme ardor. "Our Infantry formed up outside the camp. On the left were the First battalion Northumberland fusileers, the Second bat- talion Lancashire fusileer~ and the First battallo~ grenadier guards, with the Max- Im battery, manned by the Royal Irish fusileers. In our center were the First battalion Warwickshire regiment the First Batta Ion Cameron highlanders and the First battalion Lincolnshire regiment, with Maxims worked by a dstachment of the RoYal art!llery, under MaJ. William. On our right were the Soudanese brigades, commanded by Gen. Maxwell and Gen. :h~c- Donald. The Egyptian brigades held the reserves, and both flanks were supported by the Maxlm-Nordenfeldt batterieS "At 7:20 a. m. the enemy crowded the ridges above the camp and advanced steadily in enveloping formation. At 7:40 our artillery opened fire. which was an- swered by the Dervish riflemen. Thei~at- tack developed on our left, and in accord- ance with their traditional tactics they swept down the hillside with the design of rushing our flank But the withering fire maintained for 15 minutes by all our line frustrated the attempt, and the der- vishes balked and swept toward our cen- ter, Upon which they concentrated a fierce attack. A large force of horsemen, trying to face a continuous hail of bullets from the Cameron highlanders, the Lincolnshire regiment and the Soudanese, was literally swept away, leading to the withdrawal of the entire body, whose dead strewed the field. "Among the chief incidents of the battle was a brilliant charge by the Twenty-first lancers under Lieut. Col. Martin. Gal- loping down on a detached body of the enemy, they found the Dervish swords- men massed behind, and were forced to charge home against appalling odds. The lancers hacked through the mass, rallied and keOt the Dervish horde at bay. Lieut. Grenfell, nephew of Gen. Sir Francis Grenfell, was killed ; four other cfficers were wounded. 21 men were killed and 20 wounded. "Vthen the,Dervishes withdrew behind the ridge lrL front of their camp, the whole force marched tfl echelon of battalions to- ward Omdurman. As our troops sur- mounted the crest adjoining the Nile. the Soudanese on our right came into contact with the enemy, who had reformed under cover of a rocky eminence and had massed beneath the black standard of the khalifa, in order to make a supreme effort to re- trieve the fortunes of the day. A mass, 15,000 strong, bore down on the Sondanese. Gem Kltchener swung round the center and left of the Soudanese and seized the rocky eminence, and the Egyptians hithZ erto In reserve, JOined the firing line In ten minutes, and the Derwlshes could drive their "The flower army was caught in within a ZOtl~ Of:. ~h~e~ brigades, with the artillery. The devoted mahdlstS strove heroically to make headway, but every rush was stopped, while their main body was lit- erally mown down by a sustained deadly crOss fire. Defiantly the Dervishes planted their standacds and died beside them. Their ~ense ~nasses gradually melted to companies and the companies to driblets beneath the leaden hail. Finally they broke and fled. leaving the field white with Jlbbah-clad corpses, ltke a snow-drift dot- ted meadows. At 11:15 the sirdar ordered an advance, and, our whole Torce in line. drove the scattered.remnant of the foe into tho desert, our cavalry cutting off their retreat to Dmdurman. "The heroic bravory of the Dervlshes evoked universal admiration. ~Flme after time their dispersed and broken forces reformed and hurled themselves upon the Anglo-Egyptians, their emirs conspicuous- ly leading and spurning death. V~ven waen wounded and in death agomes they raised themselves to fire ~t last shot. Among the wounded is Col. Rhofles, the correspondent of the London Times and a brother of Cecil t~hodes." Herr Karl Neufctd, who ia referred to in th~ forego!ng dispatch from Cairo as rescue~ unharmed from the dervlshes, fel| into the hands of the mahdi's followers in the neighborhood of Dongola, in the late spring or early summer of 1887. He was the last Eu- ropean male eapu~e of importance re- in California's history, mainiug m the p,'wer of the dervishes. In South Africa there is a great de- London, Sept. 5.--The war office has mand for donkeys, as they are proof received the following dispatch from Gem Kitchener, dated Saturday even- against climate, plague and flies. f . , Church processions are prohibitedins: ' rhe remnant o the Khahfa s in Mexico. Even a priest cannot legal- force has surrendered, and I have now s very large number of prisoners on ly walk the streets in his churchly gar- my hands. Our cavalry and gunboats meats. Little importance is attached in are still pursuing the Khalifa and his Japan to the czar's peace note, as it is chiefs, who, with only about 140 fight- ing men, are apparently making for believed to have been dictated by Kordofan." financial distress. A compt~ny to establish a permanent exhibition of United States products in London and Paris h~s been organ- ized in Ne~" York. The leading merchants of Kingston, Jamaica, favor Andrew Carnegie's sug- gestion of trading the British West Indies for the Philippine islands. Gen. Cassius .M. Clay, who has begun suit for a divorce from his child wife. wall has bought her a farm and say~ he " provide for her as long as be lives. The Trades Union congress at Bris- tol, England, has presented souvenir cigar cases, cigarette cases, match boxes and flasks to the American dele- gates ~. It is estimated that during his pon- tificate Leo XI[I. has amassed $20,000,- 0 0, including presents of precious stones, gold and silver to the value of $10,000,000. Gen. A. M. F. Randolph, for many years supreme court reporter and well-known over Kansas. was found dead in bed at Topeka. The cause is thofight to be heart failure. The custom house receipts for the port of San Francisco for the month of August amounted to $567,273.49, the largest receipts for a single month iu the records of the department. Prominent members of the Roy/1 Arcanum in Brooklyn, N. Y have taken the initiative tn a movement to present Admiral Winfield Scott Sehley, who is a member of the order, with a $1.000 sword. President McKinley has appointed C. D. Woodward as one of the commis- sioners to represent thts government at the Paris exposition. Mr. Wood- ~ard is a professor at Columbia uni- versity and ~s well known in art and "literature. London, Sept. 5.'The war corre- sponden,t of the Daily Telegraph with the Anglo-Egyptian forces says: Khalifa Abdullah, with his harem, and Osman Digua, his principal gen- eral, managed to escape, but Abdul- lah's banner and thousands of pris- oners are in our hands. It is estimated that 15,000 of the enemy were slain. Our total casualties were about 500. Mr. Howard, the New York Herald cor- respondent, was slats by a shell in Omd urman.' .~' Died to Escape Armt. Saginaw, Mich Sept. 5.--Charles F. Rice, alias Edward Lause, was dying at the central police station ~hen a dep- uty United States marsiml arrivedthere to arrest him. Rice had been held on complaint of assault and batter3', made by his wife, but occording to local and post office detectives he had been de- frauding accident insurance companies by means of false injuries and had served time in an eastern prison for similar crimes. Rice left letters say- ins that he was an innocent victim of persecution who took morphine to end his troubles. Postponed. Washington, Sept. 5.--Gen. D. S. Stanley, president of the Society of the Army of .~he Cumberland, an- nounces that the executive committee of the organization has decided thai the cnnual meeting which" was to have taken place at Detroit the 21st inst will be postponed until Sept'ember, 1599, many of the active members being en- gaged in the war. Aeel den tal'~-~ Killed. Rock Island, I/1 Sept. 5.--William Geisler, aged 19, was shot and killed by the aceidental discharge of a rifle II the hands of his l~-year-old brother. REVISION CERTAIN. French Cabinet Almost Sna'e to Re- open Dreyfus Case--Minister of "tVar Cuvaignac Resigns, Paris, Sept. 5.--M. Cavaignac, minis- ter for war, has resigned. The resigna- tion is due to a disagreement with his c~leagues, who desire a revision of the Dreyfus ease. The following is the Yet- ter sent to M. Brisson, premier and president of the council. "I have the honor to send you and beg you to transmit to tbe president of the republic my resignation as minister of war. There exists a disagreement between us Which, being prolonged, would paralyze the government at a time when it most needs full unity of decision. "I remain convinced of the guilt of Drey- fus and as determined as heretofore to combat a revision of the case. I do not Intend to shirk the responsibilities of the present situation, but I cannot assume them without being in accord with the ~h/ef of the government to which I have t*,e honor to belong.' The public feeling is running, if pos- sible, even higher. Day by day the tide in favor of revision is setting strong. The resignation of M. Cavaignae seems to make revision assured. A certain feeling of impatience that no decisive step has yet been taken is noticeable. Such a complete upheaval of the Drey- fus case has been mad~ by M. Henry's confession that this was probably in- evitable. M. Cavaignac's arrest of Henry came like a thunderbolt, but when the public had recovered from the first shock it naturally expected the government to go forward on the only honorab/e path--namely, revision of the DreyfUs case. Owing to the r~signation of M. God- efroy Cavai~nae, of the ministry of war, President /,'care returned to Paris Sunday morning and conferred with M. Del Casse. minister for foreign affairs; M. Bourgeois, minister.of pub- MICHIGAN TOWN SUFFERS. ~lre Destroys Property at Owoaso with on Estimated Value of $200,000. Owosso, Mich Sept. 5.--Owosso Sat- urday night suffe:ed a $200.000 fire. At 9:30 fire was discovered in the rear end of Woodward's furniture factory, and in a short time the whole institution was in flames, q he ~ire was beyond control before the firemen got to work. and after destr)y~ng the warehouse, ldlns and lumber yard of the furniture factory ~umped across the street to the Owos~o Brewing company. The lhree large buildings of this institu- tion were soon ~nveloped in flames. The fire next spread to the implement store of Crow & t=aynes, William Jop- ling's livery barn, Jacob Barrie's meat market and seve~s! small buildings near at hand At midnight, despite the strong wind 0}owing, the firemen got the flames under- control and stopped their spread. The loss ou Woodward's furniture factory will be fully $150,000 with $60.000 insurance. The Owosso Brewing company's loss i~ about $30,000, ~ith $11,000 insurance. Twenty-five thousand dollars, it is be- heved, will cover the loss among the smaller institutt ns. MANY VICTIMS OF HEAT. Avrful Record Is Reported from New York City and PhlladeIphia for Saturday nnd Sunday. :New York Sept. 5. Fifty dead and ever 100 prostrations in one day is the record of the heat in New Y~rk city Saturday. The sun beat relentlessly cn the sweltering city all day long. Night followed almost like day, and ~he deaths ~rom the heat reported at Dee, U cide of Col. Henry, to his death, confessed that khe letters on graded ~nd expatriated were memufaetured army." Other actors In thl~ deql3|cable drama are expected to aestroy themselves before the much-wronged DreYfus cem ba brought back to France for a retrial lic education, and den. Zurlinden. The eabinet will meet to-day expressly to deal with a request from Mine. Drey= fun for a revision of the proceedings of the court-martial that condemned her husband. As the cabinet is now practically unanimously in favor of revision-- partly because the ministers are aware that there is no other method of satis- fying public feeling---the outcome of the meeting is almost a foregone con- clusion. It is not thought that M. C~vaignac's retiremtmt will involve the resignation of other ministers. The fact that Gem Zurlinden has been in conference with M. Faurei's taken to mean that he will succeed M. Cav- aignae at the war office. According to Le Soir. M. Faure. who received M. Cavaignac Sunday, strong- ly urged him to withdraw his-resigna- tion. The paper also asserts that at the council to-day the president will endeavor to prevent a decision in favor of revision. Inher letter to M. Sarrien. the min- ister of justice, Mme. Dreyfus says she addresses him again, since he alone has the right to demand revision on the ground of a "new fact." She argues that Lieut. Col. Henry's admission of forgery deprives his depositions and acts of all weight, and concludes her appeal by calling upon M. Sarrien to "l|sten to the voice of public opinion and put an end to the punishment of a loyal and innocent man.' Twins Burned to Death. St. Louis, Sept. 5.---A special to the Republic from Waco, Tex says: In the villagc of Speegleville, eight miles from here, the three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Prater, twins, aged seven, and 'a baby aged t~hree years, were burned to death Sunday in a ~mokehouse. l~'ewport, Ind Sept. 5.---Two miners at Geneva, William Scott and Aaron ~Telson, became involved in a' quarrel over the searching of some houses for stolen clothes recently, which led Nel- son to kill Scott Saturday evening. He used a revolver and ~hot him several times. Ne/son fled and eseaped arres{. ~pringfleld, O, Sept. 5.--Roy. James St ephenson, of Jamestown. O dropped dead from heart lroub]e in the pulpit here Sunday morning at the High Street Methodist church at the begin- ~:g of his sermon. MemDh/s ~uarant/~es~ Memphis, Tenn Sept. 5.--3~he Mere- phis board of health has established a rigid quarantine against ~the entire country. No one will be allowed to enter the city from any direction. 'Ihis action was taken on account of the prevalence of yellow [ever in Mis- sisslppL German Navy Suffers Loss. erlin, Sept =.--The recent north- west storm which swept across the Baltic sank a O~rman torpedo hoat end severely dau~aged tbe whole Ger- man torpedo floti':a. Five of the boats barely reached n,trbor. int~,vals in the ,ari0us city hosl~itals, i~olioe headquar re, s and the coroner's office. The higl~c~t point reached by the thermo~nete to:day Was at two o'clock, when~the merchry registered ! 92 degrees. The humidity averaged 85 per cent. Up to midnight ~, been ~-eported to,poller h ead 43 deaths and.44 prostrati )n~ heat. The a~erage temte~t the day in degrees wa** 8a,ttm e6 for the corresponding d~ year. The maximum tern 88, but the heat was heightene humidity, which was 80per day long. Philadelphia, Sept. 5.--There'were nine deaths from the heat Su.fiday in l this city and about 25 prostrations. Sunday, for the first time since the present hot spcll, did the thermom- eter show any signs of falling. For the past three days it has hovered be. tween 98 and 9~, but the maximum reached Sunday was 91 degrees. The wind reached a Velocity of about 22 miles and aided much in alleviating the suffering from the heat. PEACE COMMISSIONERS. Spanish Mlnisters Deflnltely Select Three of the Men Who Will Cou- fer with Amerlea~s. Madrid, Sept. 5.--It is currently re~ ported that the Spanish ministers at Friday's cabinet meeting definitely se- lected the three following peaee com- missioners: Gen. Rafael Cerero y Saenz, general of engineers. Senor Eugenio Montero RiGs. Sorter Villauruti.ar under secretary of state for foreign affairs, bids for Coalin~ Station- San Francisco, Sept. 5.--Contracts for the erection of a coaling station at Pago-Pa~ have been invited by Com- mander Z. L. Tanner, who has the work in charge. The commander will tlot state the amount to be expended, but he says the work will be of a substan- tial charaeter and at least a year will be required for its completkm. Killed by Lightning. Lawrence, Kat Sept. 5.--John Jen- r:ings and Ellet Eates, each aged about 12 years, were struck by lightning and kikled near here. During a storm they sought shelter unSer a tree. WiIl Redeem Bonds. Washington, SOln 5.--The secreta'ty cf the treasury has issued a call offer- ing to redeem th~ balance of the bonds amountihg to $t4.004,560 issued to the Pacific railroads. 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