Itwas more for this purpose than to makemoney that the*Argonaut was launched onthe journalistic sea. "'vv77* He went into \u25a0 the matter with energy,
and as in other ventures in which he hadembarked before it was a success from thestart. To his own surprise the circulationof the paper went beyond his anticipa-tions. The paper was an impress of hisstrong individuality. His style of writingwas terse and incisive, and whathe wrote commanded ... attention. For:anumber of years, too, he had writteneditorials for the Chronicle. Itw«5 thesuccess of the Argonaut that induced ,Mr.Pixley to inaugurate a novel feature in'thewayof a daily paper. Itwas to publish ajournal containing the news of the day ina condensed and epigrammatic form. Infact, he called the paper The Epigram.It was short-lived, though, and eventhe sparkling editorial squibs whichhe contributed to it could not force itintopopularity. The paper died before a monthhad expired. Mr.Pixley then devoted allhis energies toward ;improving his pet—the Argonaut—and for ,years his causticcomments and scintillating editorials madethat journal one \u25a0of the foremost weekliesof the Pacific Coast.
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7 When in 1879 General Grant. returnedfrom his tour of the \world7 and arrived inthis City Mr.Pixley '\u25a0 vaas
"'made chairman
of the committee of citizens appointed toreceive and tender the hospitalities ofItheCity to the distinguished soldier and ex-President. This he did in a way thatplaced General Grant entirely at .homefrom the moment that he set foot in Cal-ifornia.
Recently Mr..Pixley,began to feel theadvance of years, and the strain upon hisenergies was so strong *\u25a0\u25a0 that jhe,decided toretire from active work in journalism. Sohe sold his interest in the Argonaut, andsince then the • journal has ceased 7to be areflex of .the \u25a0 rugged -• opinions of;itsfounder.
During his years of activity Mr.Pixleyaccumulated a fortune, and the estatewhich he leaves is reckoned a valuable one.He owned the family homestead on Unionand Steiner streets, which occupies a squareblock. Besides 7 other ;'City property :heowned .a fine\ ranch jat MillValley,.inMarin County. " 7:
':..,.." .'7.'7'77".7.;7 7.The last two or three years of his lifeMr.
Pixley spent quietly with his family,eitherat the Union-street home or at ;'. the MillValley ranch. '&He was tin.-every way."ahome man, and loved to surround himselfwithallthat, art and 1;nature can produce.As ;•a !*•man he ;iwas. loved by ,; manywho ;;;had enjoyed his 'charity andbounty. *',*"His *-j:purse
-was •:. -always
open, and whatever be dispensed was-donein|a hearty, unostentatious manner. %iHishome was the abode of lavish hospitalityto friends and relatives. His family thereconsisted of his wife, two adopted childrenand the widow of his brother; }who wasburned sto 7*death on the Mann Countyranch during the raging of a forest fire. "-
GERMAN WAR FETES.Veterans of the Empire
Still CelebratingVictories.
ENRAGED AT ENGLAND.
Attack on a Recent Speech ofEmperor William Causes
Indignation.
PRINCE BISMARCK'S HEALTH.
Although He Has Grown Weaker,He Is Able to Take Frequent
Long Walks.
BERLIN,Germany, Aug. 11.— warcelebrations continue. The Third Bran-denburg Artillery Regiment celebratedyesterday the anniversary of its going intofield service. The veterans of the regi-ment took part in the celebration. Wreathswere placed on the graves of those mem-bers of the regiment who had been in thebattle, after which the regiment paraded.Later there were fetes at the Stadt ParkCasino, where a banquet was given in theevening. During the banquet Colonel Hu-mann announced that Emperor Williamhad appointed C. Stumpf a general, inmemory of the battle of Spicheren. Theannouncement was greeted with enthusi-astic cheers.
The Sixth Infantry Regiment celebratedat Cottbus. The veterans who had servedwith the regiment in the wars of 1864, 1866and 1870 arrived in the town on specialtrains, accompanied bybands and banners,and joined the regiment incelebrating itsvictories. They were received at the sta-tion by the entire corps of officers, whowelcomed them most heartily.'
At Rudesheim, the site of the Nieder-wald monument, where the celebrationshave been of daily occurrence, SecretarySander of the imperial Bank made a pa-triotic speech. The Eightieth HessianFusilier Regiment arrived at Rudesheim onthree special Rhine steamers. After land-ingthey formed inline and marched up tothe monument, upon which they depositeda wreath. The colonel of the regiment de-livered a patriotic speech, winding up bycalling forcheers for the Emperor and theempire, which were given with deafeningenthusiasm. The whole regiment thenjoined in singing "The Watch on theRhine."
The Seventy-third Hanoverian FusilierRegiment celebrated beforehand the battleof Colombey, the coming manouvers inwhich the regiment willtake part prevent-ing it from celebrating on the actual* anni-versary of the battle. Prince Albrecht.the honorary colonel, telegraphed that hewas proud of the brave regiment whichtwenty-five years ago received under himits baptism of fire.
None of.Emperor William's doings inEngland have attracted more interest herethan his speech oh the anniversary of thebattle of W6erth,the firstdecisive encounterthat took place between the German andFrench armies on August 6, 1870. Thespeech was regarded by Germans as ahappy thought well carried out, and con-sequently the irritation of the Germanpress on reading the adverse criticism ofthe London Daily News on the speech wasproportionate to the previous enthusiasm.
The Daily News described the speech asa spontaneous indiscretion that was notcalculated to allay the suspicions of Eng-land's and Germany's French neighbors.Emperors, the paper added, ought to bestrong enough to resist temptations tomake speeches. This,coming on top of anoffensive article published by the LondonStandard, filled the cup of German indig-nation to overflowing.
The idea that the fetes in celebration ofthe German victories are intended to re-open French wounds is repudiated. Themain object of the demonstration is tocelebrate the founding of the unity of theempire, and not to remind France that sheis a conquered nation. Germans hold that,without taking the feelings of any nationinto consideration, they have the right tocelebrate the events that placed Germanyin the forefront of the nations of the world,and itis held inmany quarters that Britishadverse criticism has its basis in jealousy.
Inconnection with the fetes, the LokalAnzeiger has compiled a list of membersof the Reichstag who served in the armyduring the Franco-Prussian War. Thelist shows that one-seventh of the membersthus served inthe campaign. Comparisonwith the number of French Senators andmembers of the Chamber of Deputies who'served in the French ranks and as officersshows that numerically the present Ger-man lawmakers who were in the war wereinsmaller proportion than the French, thelatter numbering about one-fifth of thewhole membership of the parliament.
The ceremonies that willattend the dedi-cation of the Emperor WilliamImemorialon August 18 are anticipated withinterest.Itwill be a brilliant function, though theinterest is somewhat lessened iby the in-ability of Prince Bismarck to be present.This ceremony will be followed about afortnight later by the consecration of theEmperor WilliamImemorial church nearthe Zoological Gardens on September 1.The Emperor, Empress and the imperialPrinces willattend the consecration. Onthe same day there willbe a parade oftheGerman-American veterans, who will bereviewed by the Emperor, and a 7 greatmilitary musical tattoo will be given infront of the Royal Castle on the evening ofthe Sedan day, September 1.
Dr. Arendt, one of the leaders of theGerman Bimetallic League, has issued anew pamphlet in which he violently at-tacks Herr Koch, director of the ReichsBank. The pamphlet is similar to the onepreviously issued by Dr. Arendt. Itac-cuses Herr Koch of ignorance, and impliesthat he isunfit for the post he holds. Inan interview withthe representative of TheUnited Press in regard to the matter, HerrKoch said that he ignored the attack, itbeing beneath his dignity to notice it. ;
The interview opened the way for HerrKoch to volunteer the information that itwas within his knowledge that -the hold-ing of an international currency conferenceat Germany's invitation was further offthan ever. He added that not. one im-portant German State bad declared infavorof bimetallism, while it was well knownthat some "of them were absolutely opposedto it. Herr Koch confessed that he wasastonished that such numbers of the work-ing population of the United States weresupporting the silver movement. Theymust know from' their recent experience,he declared, that the revival of trade onlydated from1the repeal of the Sherman law.A strange contrast to the position of Amer-ican workmen is afforded here by the atti-
tude of the German Socialists, who arestanch champions of the gold standard.
The arrival in Germany of the first ship-ment of American iron ore has causedmany alarmist articles to appear in thenewspapers. Some of the papers > urgereprisal by placing a duty on quebracho.Others oppose this proposal, declaring thatthe imposition of such a duty wouldprovedisastrous to.German tanning industries.It is characteristic of the feeling enter-tained in official circles toward the UnitedStates that the sugar bounty is continuedat the old rate despite the act passed bythe Reichstag empowering the Bundesrathto lower itafter August 1.
The statement recently published by theParis Journal dcs Debats to the effectthat General Chrysander, Prince Bis-marck's private secretary, had fallen Intodisgrace and had been discharged and thathe would retaliate by publishing revela-tions is scouted here as absurd. The factsseem to be that since Prince Bismarck hasgrown weaker it has become imperativethat there should be somebody at Freid-richsruhe who is capable ofreceiving visit-ors, whether they go there on business orpleasure.
Dr. Chrysander is somewhat diffidentand hardly suitable to fillthe post. Tbiscondition of affairs helped Count YonKantzau, Prince Bismarck's son-in-law, inhis decision to resign his post of GermanMinister to the Netherlands, although thenecessity of his wife's presence at Freid-richsruhe was doubtless the chief reasonfor his retiring from the diplomaticservice. Count Yon Rantzau has assumedthe position of Prince Bismarck's MajorDbmo, which, with the Prince's frugal andunpretentious style of living, is not morethan he is able to manage single-handed.Dr. Chrysander, finding that his post hadbecome a sinecure and being aware ofPrince Bismarck's turn for economy, re-signed his office. He will resume hismedical studies at Jena in November.The suggestions that he intended to writerevelations of any sort is a myth.
Atpresent Prince Bismarck's health iseood and he does walking whenever he isable. On August Ihe walked toAumuhle,where he personally congratulated thepianist, Mrs. Burnieister Peterson, on theanniversary of her birth. Mrs. Petersonis spending the summer at Aumuhle.
Gladenburg & Co. of Freidrichshacenhave finished a bronze wall memorial, acolossal frieze, for the cityof Indianapolis.Twenty tons of metal were used in thecasting.
The Pope has sent the most precise di-rections to the nuncio at Munich relativeto the Italian celebrations on September20, in honor of the entry of the Italianarmy into Rome. The Pope's object is toprocure copies of the speeches made andthe resolutions adopted by the recentCatholic Congress held at Munich, protest-ing against the fetes. The Vatican hascommunicated with the other nunciatureson the same subject.
Arthur Nikisch, who conducted theBoston symphony concert in 1889, has re-signed his position as director oi the BudaPesth Court Opera. The resignation wasdue to a disagreement concerning the man-agement ofthe opera.
The Rev. M. Brown of Spencer, Mass.,has married Fraulein yon Bayer. Thenewly: wedded couple will sail in a fewdays for New York.
Messrs. Murphy, Love and Huntington,who have just graduated from PrincetonUniversity, are in the city.
The Wagner festival at Munich openedon the 10th inst.. with the production of"Die Feen Rienzi." Crowded audiences,chiefly Americans and English, were pres-ent. Much enthusiasm was manifested.The curtain was raised ten times. .
Mr. Karel, American Consul-General atSt. Petersburg, has been given leave of ab-sence and has started for Washington.Vice-Consul Magnus received his exequa-tur Friday.
SHOT DOWN BY TRAMPS.Two Citizens of an Indiana
Town Receive FatalWounds.
Fired Upon From Ambush by a. Gang They. Were Attempting
to Drive Out.
MARION,Ind., Aug. There was adesperate battle between a gang of trampsand a posse of citizens in the suburbs ofthe city of Marion Friday night in whichtwo of the citizens received wounds thatwill prove fatal. They were Otto Mc-Feeley and Charles Webster.
For ten days or more the people in theimmediate vicinity of Marion have suf-fered from the depredations of tramps anda number have been arrested and placed injail, but arrests were discouraged becauseof the expense to the authorities and prac-tical immunity was thus guaranteed. Fri-day a camp was formed by the trampsand during the day as many as fifty con-gregated about the place and bade defianceto the people. During the day numerousrobberies were committed, and at nightthe people who had suffered from the dep-redations, feeling that their property wasnot safe while the tramps were in thevicinity, determined to drive them away.
Some twenty-five citizens appeared atthe camp and peremptorily ordered 1 thetramps to leave. The order was met withdefiant refusal and the citizens fired in theair. The tramps at once deserted the campand from places ofconcealment fired intothe crowd. Itwas not supposed that theywere armed, but the citizens returned theattack and a running fight which was keptup for an hour followed. The trampsdodged behind railroad cars and kept upthy light by firing whenever a citizen ex-posed himself and the fire was returned bythe citizens.~W-Bigt*MMl-E--i{-Bi-^^
McFeeley and Webster will both die.None of the tramps, as far as known, werehurt. Several arrests were made, but '. themen captured claim they did no shooting.
SPARS FOR THE VALKYRIE 111.New Rigging
'Carefully Guarded UponIts
Arrival at New York.NEW YORK, N. V., Aug. 11.-The
Anchor Line steamer Furnessia, whicharrived to-night from Glasgow, had onboard, lashed fast to her main deck for-ward, the spars for the champion Britishyacht Valkyrie111, which is now crossingthe Atlantic, bound for this port, to racethe Defender for the Americas cup. ''; Inall there are thirteen ;sticks done up se-curely in layer after layer of burlap.'
H. Maitland.Kersey v the personal rep-resentative of Lord Dunraven in this coun-try, to whom the spars are consigned, gaveorders
'that • no:one should be allowed to
see the ? sticks. They were --guarded' asthough of gold, not steel or wood. CannyScotchmen sat on the spars to-night. r.To-morrow the spars willprobably,,be7 sentdown to Erie basin or Bavridge, wherethey will be fitted to the Valkyrie whenshe completes her trip from Glasgow. ;TheFurnessia also brought two suits of racingsails for the Valkyrie. !H?flj
Deed of an Insane Man.HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Aug. 11.-John
Riffle, an elderly and esteemed .citizen,tried to shoot his wife to-night while labor-ing ;under ;mental derangement. .Whendisarmed and placed in a room to awaitthe arrival of officers he cut his throatwitha razor and cannot recover.
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SPOILED IN TRANSITDisastrous Results of
Fruit Shipments toLondon.
DUE TO POOR PACKING.
Many Lots From CaliforniaOrchards Thrown . Out
as Worthless.
COAST' FRUIT IN DEMAND.
Would Bring High Prices If LaidDown in Good Condition at
the Market.
LONDON, Eng., Aug. 11.— possibili-ties of California fruit in the London mar-ket this year, with the continental * fruitcrop wholly inadequate to meet the de-mand, seems to have been partiallyappre-ciated by American shippers who werefinally induced to send a.consignment amonth ago which brought very fancyprices, only to be followed up on succeed-ing weekly sales by a disheartening de-pression due to the disastrous results tobuyers here, the fruit spoiling .before itcame to be retailed.
The responsibility for this condition ofaffairs appears to lie entirely at the ship-pers' doors, and unless radical and promptreforms in packing and shipping areadopted Californians will find that thereputation of their products will be seri-ously injured, and that the magnificentprofits which otherwise they could relyupon willnot be realized for several years.
The effort to place the blame on theocean passage is utterly abortive. Thetemperature of the first shipment in thesteamer's coldroom was undoubtedly a fewdegrees too low, but subsequently ship-ments were damaged before they wereplaced on the steamer, demonstrated bylack of uniformity in ripeness when thefruit has been opened and sold, withintwenty-four hours after the ship's arrival.The trouble to be remedied lies betweenCaliforria and New York, inclusive, andnot inLondon, where the sales attract en-thusiastic crowds of big buyers, who arethoroughly appreciative of the fancy quali-ties secured by Pacific Slope growers.
The sale takes place under the great glassdomes in Floral Hall, in Covent Garden,incomparably the greatest market in theworld. Wholesale consumers here musthave the fruit reach them green, and thecondition of the lots must be attractiveand uniform. Small or medium fruit willnot sell.
'Only the largest and best selected
varieties are marketable, and the careexercised in packing must be vastly im-proved. Experts inEngland declare thatthe fruit formerly shipped from California,packed by Chinese, was comparativelyfaultless, but from appearances they mustconclude that Chinese labor has been super-seded by sometning not as good. Anotheranomaly appears inthe fact that while halfcases are ventilated by holes bored in thesides, whole cases are not so perforated. . -"
In the shipment that came by thesteamer New York,notwithstanding thatthe cases were handled as tenderly as eggson this side, nearly 'all" the fruit wasbruised, and juice ran in streams from thelot ofplums. Most of the pears were rot-ten at the core, though they presented afair external appearance. Eighty-fivecases of pears from D. H. Osborn :of NewYork were returned to the auctioneerto-day after the sale as worthless, and theyhad to be resold. Over a hundred cases ofplums were thrown out before the sale asutterly worthless.
The sale of August 1 was an unusuallyimportant one, because the followingMonday was bank holiday, when enor-mous amounts of fruit were sold to pleas-ure-seekers—the day being much like ourThanksgiving day' in its effect on thefruit market. Ithad no influence, how-ever, as none of the fruit was fine enoughto keep the necessary four days longer.
Oddly enough, cases marked ' withwomen's names bring the best prices, con-signments from Bessie Osborn and Mrs.Sharp of Courtland, Cal., always evokingspirited bidding; but cases from men sellentirely on their merits. •*-•• V 7'r
Large peaches are eagerly sought, and itcarefully wrapped and" crated in smallpackages willbring handsome returns.
ASSAILED _BI BANDITS.
Savage Attack of Outlaws Upon a Familyof Mexicans.
CITY OF MEXICO, Mexico, Aug. 11.—While the family of Gergerio Jiminez wassleeping. at midnight, August 6, in Chil-nolopa, near Texcoco, the house was at-tacked by eight bandits. Jiminez; wasaroused by the demonstration outside thehouse and took his pistol aud went to thedoor to see what was the matter. Mean-time all the family had awakened andaccompanied Jiminez. -.:': \u25a0-\u25a0'.' .
When the door- was opened the banditsrushed in upon Jiminez with.machetes,cutting him. severely, :but ':he heroicallystood by his post and began firingon hisassailants, who returned the fire. Jiminez'sister was shot through the arm and hisbrother cut down with machetes. :L;
Mounted police hearing ,the firingcameriding up, but the bandits took alarm andfled. The district government and|thegovernment of
'the State *of Mexia are de-
termined to put a stop to these outrages;and already many important arrests havebeen made. ;- ';* ; 7:.; '*
WILL BE A. CLOSE RACE.
Opinion of a London Paper on the Com-ing Yacht Contest.
LONDON, Eno., Aug. 11.— Chroni-cle will to-morrow print a leader on thecoming race for the America's cup inwhichitwill say: "The contest will.inevitablybe very. close, \u25a0 and weIare -certain that itwill be conducted ;onjboth S sides \u25a0_' withsportsmanship and a scrupulous considera-tion, equal tothe enthusiasm itprovokes.No English vessel has ever had such a goodchance of-.victory before, and, weIbelieve,as we •• sincerely hope, that Ithe cup,*;,thistime,' will come back. Ifitcomes back, itwillstay." ... '; ,
On the London Exchange.,LONDON, EKQ.,'7Aug." 11.—The rate of
discount during the ;week past \ for three-months' bills was % - per - cent arid for 30---day bills % per cent at. the outside. Thetransfer of the Japanese indemnity moneyslightly hardened rates. Heavy igold
*ar-
rivals continue. Silver,: has 7 been"
fairlysteady on 7 eastern'; buying. Business onthe *Stock \u25a0; Exchange *during the weekshowed the usual ;holiday dullness exceptinAfrican and' Australian mining shares/Consols have advanced %, 7 7;i v,.; /7,
American railway securities have beenneglected and depressed, and show. the fol-lowing changes: Illinois Central has risen
New York,Lake Erie and Western or-dinary ana Norfolk and. Western ordinary ;have declined 2; \u25a0; Louisville and Nashvilleand • Northern Pacific, 1%;Union Pacific
shares, 1; Wabash, St. Louis and Pacificdebentures, Denver and Rio Grande pre-ferred and ;New York Central, yA;Atchi-son;Topeka and Santa Fe "A's," IK;Wa-bash, St. Louis and Pacific preferred andAtchison, Topeka aod Santa Fe, %.PEACE INRIO GRANDE DO SUL.A.Proclamation Now [Being Forwarded
to Rio de Janeiro.NEW YORK,;N. V.,Aug.12:—The Her-
ald's special from Buenos Ayres says:"Rio Janeiro advices state .that peace
has been restored in Rio Grands do Sui.A military officer is now on his way fromRio Grande do Sui to Rio Janeiro. Hebears the proclamation containing thepeace terms, whichbeing agreed on,shall beoffered to Congress for approval as a finalsettlement of the difficulties in that state.:The Governor of Brazil, in
'furtherance
of the Trinidad episode, has asked theGovernment of Uruguay for acopy of thebillof health of the warship Barracouta,which arrived inport from theMonteverdeIslands last January. It is reported inBrazil that when the Barracouta reachedher anchorage the health officer receiveddocuments signed by the doctor on boardthe warship, who "had been named .ashealth officer of the island of Trinidad bythe captain of the Barracouta-: who lookedupon the island as British territory. Nonotice was taken by the authorities ofUruguay of the fact that Brazil claimsTrinidad Island as her own possession.
The action of Uruguay is regarded byBrazilas savorins of subterfuge.
Denounced the Socialists.PARIS, France, Aug. 11.—M. Poincar,
Minister ofPublic Instruction, in a speechat the dedication ofthe monument erectedtoRemiremont, in memory of the Frenchsoldiers who fellin the war of 1870, referredto the Socialists as ''Aparty of agitation,violence and disorder, with whom nopolitical understanding is possible."
Instructors for Chile's Army.BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 11.
—The
Deutsche Sonntags Post says that twenty-six Prussian lieutenants willsail for Chileabout August 24 to instruct the Chileanarmy. The Emperor will grant an audi-ence to the officers before their departure.
The Sultan Is Obdurate.LONDON, Eng., Aug. 11.—The' Times
willto-morrow print a dispatch from Sofiasaying it is stated that the Sultan ofTurkey is firmly resolved not to admit theprinciple of foreign control in Armenianaffairs." '/\u25a0: -',£3l;
Zimmerman in Paris.PARIS, France, Aug. 11.—A. A. Zim-
merman, the American bicyclist, who isunder contract to ride in races in Austra-lia, arrived here yesterday. He will takeno part in any race during his stay, andon Friday will sail from Naples for Aus-tralia.
To Welcome Ferdinand.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 11.—It is an-nounced here that Prince Ferdinand, whohas been ;sojourning at Carlsbad, willarrive to-morrow. The Government hasinvited the residents to show their loyaltyby giving their ruler a hearty reception.
Fate of a Would-Be Duelist.LONDON, Eng., Aug. 11.— A dispatch
from Cologne to the Central News says:Freiherr Stum-Halberg. a member of theGerman Reichstag, has been sentenced toa fortnight's imprisonment in a fortressforhaving issued a challenge to a duel.
William at Lowther Castle.LONDON, Eng., Aug, 11. — Emperor
William, who is being entertained by theEarl of Lonsdale, arrived at Lowther Cas-tle, the Earl's seat in Penrith, County ofCumberland, early this morning. HisMajesty spent the day quietly.
Czar Nicholas' Coronation, '.MOSCOW, Russia;-' Aug. 11.— Itis offi-
cially announced that the coronation ofCzar Nicholas IIwill:probably take, placeinApril.
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A GALE AT BALTIMOREGreat Damage Done by a
j Storm of ClyclonicProportions.
The New St. Elizabeth's CatholicChurch Among the Buildings
Demolished.
BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 11.—A wind-storm of cyclonic proportions, accom-panied by a heavy downpour of rain andhail, visited this city this afternoon.Houses were unroofed, trees uprooted,windows smashed, telegraph, telephoneand trolley wires broken, and other damagedone within a few minutes that willre-quire weeks to repair. The most seriousdamage was the demolition of St. Eliza-beth's Catholic Church, incourse of erec-tion on East Baltimore Istreet, oppositePatterson Park.
Allparts of the city suffered. The stormcame from the northwest. Itcontinued atintervals for three hours, most of thedamage being done shortly after the stormappeared. No fatalities have been re-ported/although, it willibe remarkable ifthe falling trees, demolished outhouses orflying housetops did not cause injurieswhich have not yet been heard of. :-.Thelosses so;far reported will amount to up-ward of $30,000. Just . before the rainbegan the mercury at the weatherobserver's office made a record-breakingdrop of nine |degrees inone minute. Thehighest temperature \ duringr the day wasreached just before the storm broke, "when96 degrees was recorded. -iT-V.':-
DELUGED 'BY A DOWNPOUR.Floods and High Winds
'Damage Build-
ings and Crops. ,DANSVILLE,N. V., Aug. IL—One. of
the worst wind and rain storms of the sea-son passed over this place to-night. Therain tell in torrents for over two hours andthe streams were flooded to a ,great depthwith streams of water from the head ofthe valley. The gale was so terrific thatmany barns were \u25a0 unroofed and number-less: trees uprooted. The storm was ac-companied by 'vivid. Jightning > whichstruck inseveral places in the outskirts ofthe town. Fields of grain were flattenedto the ground, corn being tangled up andblown down. MudCreek, running throughthe farms of the:east side, overflowed itsbanks ;and washed out large patches ofcorn, potatoes and beans. \u25a0"/.:';'•
A cloudburst on the Lackawanna causeda bad landslide and :the ;road along ;thehillside 'was washed out and cut badly inmany; places. The 1storm is
'remarkable
for the large volume of water that fellinthe short space of time, nearly four inchesbeing registered. '*^BSSl^^^^
Brained His Wife.;'.: ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Aug. 11.—JohnBlum, a butcher employed -at the stock-
/returned from work last night andfound a strange ;man /at * his home talkingto his wife. Blum demanded an explana-tion from his wife, when she seized: an axand
- assaulted^, him. ,::He;'; wrenched / theweapon from her and beat out her brains.The stranger escaped. Blum was arrestea.
Mrs. Cleveland Takes a Drive.BUZZARDS BAY, Mass., Aug. 11.—
As the 'weather was exceedingly warmhere to-day the President was satisfied tospend the day as 7 usual 7. on 'the ;verandawith his family. Mrs. Cleveland took her jfirst carriage drive to-day since _her recentindisposition Her •mother accompaniedher. '** :\u25a0".-..\u25a0\u25a0-\u25a0";- \u25a0-- '\u25a0'-"
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FLED INTO THE WILDSNegro Settlers inMexico
Driven Out by anEpidemic.
LOST IN A WILDERNESS
Wrong Direction Taken in anAttempt to Return to
This Country.
DEATHS FROM STARVATION.
A Party of Rescuers Attacked WithKnives by the Famished
Colonists. :v
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 11.— A specialfrom the City of Mexico to a morning
paper says: *- '..-„].
By request of the American legation ofthis capital Juan Lameno, president ofthe TlahuililoAgricultural and Coloniza-tion Company, has made the first com-plete statement of an officialnature re-garding the troubles of his company withthe large shipments of negroes made intoMexico from the United States. Thedeclaration has been dispatched to theDepartment of State at Washington and isas follows:
The.initial shipment of negro labor ar-rived inTlahuililo about one year ago andwas composed of about sixty colonistswith their families. They proved them-selves to be thorough and expert cotton-'planters and all-around agriculturisthands. Injustice to them itmust be saidthat they have proved themselves thor-oughly competent in their work, and arethe only ones that remain on the plantationsince the exodus began a few weeks since.
The first batch of colonists werebroughtin through the instrumentality of Mr.Ellis, a colored man holding a concessionfrom the Mexican Government for the in-troduction of 2000 negroes from the UnitedStates, and itwas under the provisions ofthis grant that the blacks were taken toTlahuililo. The result was that instead ofacquiring skilled cotton-planters, as wasthe case with respect to the' first consign-ment, bootblacks and other undesirableelements were shipped by the wholesale tothe plantation, which, as natural to sup-pose, was not very prosperous for them.
Coupled with this fact, the source of realtrouble made its appearance in the form ofa disease that caused an enlargement ofthe knee among the negroes, the maladyinvariably resulting fatally. Instigated asifby one mind, fiftysettlers signified theirintentions toreturn to their southern homesin the United States, and nothing woulddeter them. The district where they werecolonized was at a considerable distancefrom the railroad, there being no interme-diate villages. Instead of striking out forthe north they headed for the west, whichis entirely devoid of vegetation and everysemblance of civilization. The result wasthat before Mr.Fargas, our administrator,could proceed to their rescue, amply sup-plied withprovisions and water,'four hadperished from starvation.*- This band offleeing negroes was overhauled by Mr.Fargas and fivemounted Mozos, who wereheavily armed. ', ;
After days of incessant traveling thenegroes, thinKing that Mr. Fargas hadovertaken them for the purpose of com-pelling them to return to the plantation,assailed the party of rescuers withknives.The attack was finally brought to a finishthrough the Mozos lassoing a number ofthe colonists, a proceeding that seeminglyhad the effect of filling them with awe.The negroes were thereupon brought backto the plantation,: instructed as to thepoints of the compass and allowed to de-part, wellprovided withrations and water.
Then followed a series of inconveniencesand drawbacks that created discord amongthe remainder of the colonists, many ofwhom followed the footsteDS of the firstband, resulting in the almost completeabandonment 'of Tlahuililo. The experi-ment has cost the company $500,000, andunless the cotton they planted, covering anarea of 65,000 acres, can be successfullypicked, the concern willlose a large sum.The negroes will all be shipped back totheir:homes in theUnited States at the ex-pense of the company.
TAKEN AFTER A FIGHT.Murderer Sam Lewis Mortally Wounds
One of His Pursuers,JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 11.—The
Times-Union special from West PalmBeach, Fla., says:
Sam Lewis, who murdered ex-Tax Col-lector High Smith and his nephew, JohnDavis, at Lemon City, about three weeksago, has been captured; but he inflictedprobably fatal, wounds on one of his pur-suers.
After the murders Lewis escaped to Nas-sau, but the English authorities had beennotified by cable and an attempt was madeto arrest the murderer. He stole a boatand came back to Florida, landing at Bis-caine Bay, near the scene of his * crimes.Lewis was located Saturday, morning at 2o'clock by Rev. Mr. McGregor and Wil-liam Russe and ordered to surrender. *Heshowed fight and was shot down, his legbeing broken; :Thinking Lewis dead, Mc-Gregor approached and turned him over.Lewis immediately drew a 'pistol and shotMcGregor, probably fatally wounding him.The outlaw dragged himself away, but aidcame and he was trailed, by his bloodandcaptured. He was brought here andlodged in jail. Lewis came to \u25a0•;\u25a0 Floridafrom Texas, where he "'\u25a0, is said . to ?havekilled three men. He is a native of Ver-mont.
NINETY PER CENT REJECTED.Great Care. Taken in Enlisting Men for
the Navy, 7: *WASHINGTON, D.7C.. Aug. 11.—The
Navy Department is finding considerabledifficulty in enlisting men to)fill/existingvacancies and toman the Znew ships thatwillsoon be "ready to go into commission.Itis authoritatively .;stated 7at the depart-ment that neither the second class
-battle
ship Texas nor the armored cruiser Mainewillbe enabled to proceed in the •;drill.. offNewport. Aside from delay in pro-curing crews for the "two ships there'; areother embarrassments which willrender itimpossible for even the Texas, which is inthe more " advanced condition, ? to7be incommission for several weeks: •..\u25a0\u25a0-'\u25a0>
Never before in its long and honorablehistory has the Navy, Department \u25a0 been sojealous of the intelligence and ;the !physi-cal condition of the men whom itis takinginto its service as at v present. v' It is saidthat 90 per cent of the applicants are re-jected for one reason or another.
No Cholera at Hamburg.WASHINGTON,7D.7 C., Aug.11.—Vice/
Consul Burke '- at Hamburg advises theDepartment of State that the report printedin August 6to the effect that there
had been one fatal case ofcholera at Ham-burg is entirely untrue.
BUTTER WORTH'S PROTEST.Argument > for Bond Investment Com-
panics Before Wilson.WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 11.—
question whether ornot the business con-ducted by the bond investment companiesthroughout the United States is a violationof the anti-lottery, law. will be decidedprobably to-morrow. Ex-CongressmanBenjamin Butterworth last week con-cluded
'his argument before Postmaster-
General Wilson in favor of these compa-nies, and Judge Thomas, Assistant Attor-ney-General for the Postoffice Department,willpresent the Government's side to-mor-row upon Mr.Wilson's return from LongBranch. The Postmaster-General will thenrender his decision.
Mr.Butterworth, in his protest againstthe denial of the privilege of the mails tothese companies, argued against the powerof one man tostop the business of many,which he said was sufficient to produce arevolution. Itis stated authoritatively atthe department that the adverse decisionof the Assistant Attorney-General will besustained by the Postmaster-General.
PROMISES . OF THE PORTE.Will Investigate and Report Upon the
Tarsus Matter.WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 11.-Act-
ing Secretary of State Adee received thefollowing telegram from Minister Terrellat Constantinople to-day in response totelegraphic instructions sent to the Min-ister a few days ago from the Departmentof State :
The Turkish Government promises on the7th to investigate and report upon the Tarsusmatter.- Ihave instructed Consul Gibson atBeyroot to make apersonal investigation, butfear that cholera quarantine may prevent.
The State Department has had no ad-vices to-day from |Minister Denby in re-gard to the situation in China. "^
PREACHED OK LYNCHING.Sensational Sermon of the
Pastor of a JacksonvilleChurch.
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Claims Negroes Are Killed Merelyto Satisfy a Passion for Human
Blood.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Aug. 11.-Rev.J. MiltonWaldron preached a sensationalsermon here 'to-night on lynchings. Heused as his text the words of Job iv:BandProverbs xiv:34,!which are as follows:•'They that plow iniquityand sow wicked-ness reap the same. Righteousness ex-alteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to anypeople." He said: 7 <
- . . /The lynchingofcolored people began at the
close of the late CivilWar. The former masterwas unwilling to allow the ex-slave the samepoliticalrights. Inorder to keep the negroesfrom getting into power, and to get those outof power who had been put there by negrovoters, the whites,during reconstruction days,many of them, organized Ku-Klux clans,lynchings and other terrorisms. These things,the ground for political fraud, class legisla-tion,etc., were kept up until the control ofthe Southern States came back into the handsof the former slave-owners.
But the habit of disregarding law and thepassion forhuman blood had by this time be-come fixed •with many of the lower classes,so that later, whenever the colored man didanything that opposed this class of whites, orwhenever they wanted to cover-up their ownvile deeds, they visited their displeasure and
Eracticed tneir trickery upon him by takingis life. \u25a0 *.• *'\u25a0 :' \u25a0 -Inreconstruction days the killingof negroes
was condoned because itwas said to be neces-sary to get the Government into the hands ofthe Southern whites. When it was no longerfor that purpose some other resource had to Deresorted to to shield those who bad become setin their ways and must shed hiiman blood.Now and then a colored man was found whohad been brute enough to imitate his whiteneighbor. Ifhis victtm was a white womanthe crime was thought to justify the white lntaking the law into his ownhands and lynch-ingand even burning the negro.
From lynching forcrime and supposed crimethe habit has grown until now colored men,women and even children are lynched in theSouth. This tends to make the negro revenge-fuland the spirit of lawlessness, murder andrevenge has spread among Doth white andblack inthe South .until it has become alarm-ing. Something mnst be done and. done atonce or our fair Southern land is .foreverdoomed. _- \u25a0- \u25a0•\u25a0*.'\u25a0• n. *.*;•--.""\u25a0-
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ALL DONE INPLAY.Corbett DidNot Mean to
Offend His FutureAntagonist.
ONLY PULLED HIS NOSE.*- -
Indignant Because the Aus-
tralian Resented theInsult.
SPAT IN FITZSIMMONS' FACE;,
The Champion Brags Long and Loud
Over This Disgusting Achieve-ment. •
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 11.—the sports th..* the general sabolition ofprize-fighting and horse-racing have leftinPhiladelphia collected at Green's Hotel to-day and eagerly sought for details of thelittle "scrap" last night between Corbettand Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons leftPhil-adelphia early this morning for New York,but the big boy spent the day here and leftfor Scranton, Pa., this afternoon.
When Corbett was seen to-day and askedfor his version of last night's row, his ac-count of the affair would make itseem thathe intended merely to be playful,and thatFitzsimmons resented this playfulnesswhen ittook the form of being called a curand having his nose pulled. The accountof the affair can best be given inCorbett'sown words:
"The whole trouble started about twoweeks ago in New York, when Irefused toride a bike race withFitz for the benefit ofthe 7 ice fund," began the champion.'•When I,am going to fight with a man1want to be aggressive." Iwant tobe on theouts with him, see. Ihad publicly statedthat Iintended to pull Fitzsimmons' nosethe next time Imet him, butIwant to saythat Idid not know he was inGreen's ho-tel when Iwent in there last night. Thefirst 1knew that ,he was there was when Iturned around and saw him standing atthe register. Then Isaid to him: 'Youbig .monkey, what do you want at thatregister? You know you can't write.'Then Isaid: .'You've been talking aboutme again, haven't you?' He paid: 'No, Ihaven't. But what ifIhad?' Then Isaidto him: 'Yon said Isneaked out of ridinga bicycle race withyou in New York, andnow you are going around saying I'mgo-ing to try to sneak out ofa fight.'
"Allthis timeIwas only in sort of funand just 'stringing' him, but Fitz began toget mad. Then Ireached out and pulledhis nose for a kind of a joke. Then hemade a motion as if to lead for me. Ididnot think he would, but itis always best tobe on the safe side, so Iclosed on him andwe clinched. Then my friends grabbed meand my brother Joe grabbed Fitz. Fitz gotjaffy when he found Joe could hold him,but the kid was tickled to death when hefound he could hold the big fellow, andtold him he thought he could lien himhimself, and punched him in the mouth.Icould not get* at him, so Ileaned overand spat in his face and said to him,'You're a cur the world
-over,|and I
wouldn't have that scared look on yourface for a thousand dollars.' He wiped offthe spit, saying as he did so, 'That's anicething for a man to do. You're a gentle-man, you are.'"-
Here Corbett said to the reporter, "Nowthat was a ;nice thing for him to say,wasn't it? Ifhe'd have been a man hewould have punched me. You would havepunched any man that spit in your face,wouldn't you?" Then, be continued,"Fitzbroke away and picked Up a bottleand threw itat Joe, but itmissed him andhitBrady. Joe picked up a decanter, butthey would not let him throw it, and thenwe were separated. Fitz went out and Istayed around the hotel. .Iwant it dis-tinctly understood that Iwas not drunklast night." \u25a0-.'\u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0
RAN AWAY FROM HOME.Chicago Police Learn the Identity of a
Young Adventuress. >CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 11.—The young
woman who has been in the Harrison-street ;station annex for several days - andgave her name as • Pearl Summerville ofSeattle, Wash., is not Pearl jSummerville,but Emma Stevenson; whose parents livein South Chicago.
When the young woman was brought tothe station she said she had just arrivedfrom Seattle and had been robbed of • $50ana a diamond ring. This, the policehave learr
