a By Wolves (Original 1856 trap per's little, dingy cabin stood on an isolated bluff overlook- the Smoky river, in western Kanthone early times buffalo, anteand the large: prairie wolf entoyed unchecked freedom, where the now of the farmer has made productive Wheat and corn fields. A The cabin was occupied by Trapper Wheeler and his son Ed, a robust, strapping youth of eighteen, who had left their home in Michigan to enjoy The sport of hunting and trapping in the new country, which was just then beginning to settle up. 1 Wheelen wad his boy had stopped a few days at one of the settlements in the eastern part of the territory, but political agitation of the times was too hot for them there. Both father and son cared far more, then, for hunting, Sahing and trapping than for polities, No they went clear beyond sight and hearing of the settlements and their Marce contentions. The Indians did not offer to molest and, here, buried from all elviliration, a they pursued their favorite sport to flieir hearts' content.
They never complained for the comforts they had given up, for the streams and prairies yielded them food in abundancer besides, they were laying up a Hue store of hides and furs, which Would: some day being them in a snug One Trapper Wheeler set off and early to secure a supply of from some traders who visitiaz a tribe of Indians about distant. his father had gone, Ed busied himself cleaning dis gun and revolver, then started out along the river and through the brush to examine the traps, which they had a wrest number. debided to visit the farthermost so If they had secured any fond would grow heavier by returned home. had rope abont a allo and half cabin When he was startled by wolf, about three bundred the prairie. and though there aun on the ground, the wolves upmarons bad a difficult matter get much to and as a natural rethey had become somewhat Wheeler knew this, but he felt no antil.
the howl was taken up behim, to his left and to his right. prairie seemed suddenly to rewooed with their hideous howling, and young trapper realized that they were following his trail He had not brought his gun with him, intending to be absent from the cabin only a short tine, but he earried his rarolver in his belt and would not suffar them to appronch too gear lils heels. do determined, howerer, not to fire upon the beasts unless they pursued too closely. He had only two in his revolver, and had neg ated to bring any ammunition along. A few hundred rods before him was a timbered stream, which flowed fate the river abont half a mile distent Toward this Ed Wheeler was his way when his attention became nitracted-to the wolves.
hi ad no notion of being. attacked them out on the open prairie, so he struck out on a kind of trot" for tho That was a signal for the yelping to intrease their pace. They came tearing along through the prairie grass, brown and dead, ant till tall and thick, in swift pursuit Tar the young trapper. 04. Wheeler began to renlize that it would be a band run for life against a pacic an had suddenly materialLand in his rear.
Judged that the gang was being almost constantly reinforced by new whose howls could be heard every minute in some new quarHe Into a swifter run. If he only reach a free on the creek, he old elimb it and defy his hungry captors. almost pained the stream, foot struck an unseen log half la the rank grass, and down he bendlong to the ground. he fairly aware what had to himself, the whole pack clown apon him, snapping and snarling in a most hideous manner. Young Wheeler's first thought was his doom was sealed then and there.
But lie was a courageous youth, one of his principles was "never to than the pen is able to relate he was on His feet and bad sent the foremost wolf back with one savage from his atont boot. Then, grasprevolver, he put a bullet through Che nest one created a little panic among the beasts, and Ed took advanof the recoil to dash away toward Che creak. The whole gran paused long enough to tear their dead comrade to pieces ok up the blood. One dead wolf only a morsel for fifteen or eightgaunt, hungry ones, and it was not antil Ed heard them howling after He had succeeded in reaching the of the stream bofore the pursuit resumed. Having tasted blood, he knew their forecity would be all the greater, and He knew, too, that he had not a second So spare if be would save himseff.
The creek bed was perfectly dry at place, no rain having fallen all Wast before him was a drift of dead is and brush, left there by she waters of last September The nearest tree that would alford any protection was a maple tree, was at one end of the drift. It by lightning, and the was splintered consider over, its lower branched drift gave him no time: to retrout, for they were Lu before he was aware, and ACCOMPLICE OF BERGMANN'S. Pittsbargh Police Arrest Casper Knold and Another on Suspicion. PITTSBURGH, July 20. -A telegram from New York Monday stated that Aarou Stamm, companion and countryman of Bergmann (an his name is now stated to be), came to Pittsburgh with him and is supposed to have been implicated with him in the plot to remove Chairman Frick.
Bergmann, when questioned by Warden McAleese regarding the matter, empbatically denied that he had any accomplice, and said that he came here alone, He denied that be was in any way connected with a nihilistie or anarchistic group, and repeated that he took it upon himself to remove Frick for the good of society. About 2 o'clock Monday afternoon Detective Shore arrested Casper Knold, a workman at the Taylor Dean wire mill on Market street, on a charge of being an accomplice of Bergmann's. It was known that Bergmann and Knold had been together previous to the attempted assassination and the police had been working hard to run him down. Monday afternoon they succeeded and he was at once taken to the Central station and locked up. The arrest proved an important one.
Much about Bergmann's previons movements were learned through Knold. An effort was made by the police authorities to keep the matter of the arrest quiet. It soon leaked out, howover, but the name of the prisoner was not known until Monday evening. In the meantime Paul Eekert, of Allegheny, was also arrested. Several more arrests are expected within the next twenty- four hours.
Eckert lives nt 5 Cherry alley, Allegheny, and sublets portion of his house to Knold and his wife, Knold, who is believed to be all anarchist, also informed the police that Bergmann came to him on July 14 with a letter of introduction from Herr Most. Bergmann had 10 friends, 80 Knold says he invited him to stay at his house. He remained there until last Thursday, when he left, and Knold met him the next day on the street. The two walked up Fifth avenue and Knold pointed out the Carnegie offices. He claims he then purchased a ticket to Chicago for Bergmann and went with him to the depot, not leaving him until he had passed through the gates on his way to the train.
He asserts that he has not seen him since. When asked for the letter sent by Most, Knold said he had destroyed it. Paul Eckert, the second suspect, was not held, as there was nothing against him further than that Knold rented from him. Eckert was taken to the jail and identified Bergmann as the man who had been visiting Knold for the last two weeks. He was then allowed to depart, but he will be called upon as a witness.
DEATH IN A TORRENT. House and Its Nine Occupants Carried Away by a Flood in West Virginia. WHEELING, W. July 26. The severe storm which passed over this portion of the country Sunday night was more disastrous in its results than was at first thought.
It is now known that there was considerable loss of life besides some destruction of property by lightning. At Long Run, in Marshall county, a few miles south of Wheeling, an entire family of nine persons is reported to have been swept from the face of the earth by a sudden Hood following a cloudburst. The family consisted of William Doty and wife, their three children, Doty's father and mother, Mrs. Doty's mother and a servant girl. The house was situated in a ravine and was swept away by the torrent, not one of the sleeping occupants being left to tell the tale.
The first known of the disaster was the finding the body of the servant girl Monday morning in the yard of a neighbor some distance below where the fated house stood. It is also reported that the bodies of Doty and the children have been found at the mouth of the creek which empties into the Ohio river. Another house was swept away by the same torrent, but all the pants are believed to have escaped. O'DONNELL OUT ON BAIL. He and the Other Defendants in the Homestend Case Released Under 000 Bonds.
PITTSBUROH, July Hugh O'Donnell and the other defendants to the charge of murder in connection with the Homestead riot have been released in bail of $10,000 ench. In announcing his decision Judge Magee said: "I have gone over the case carefully. The right to be admitted to bail la a constitutional Eight. and there must be evidence or strong presumption of murder in the Orst degree before a mAn can be refused bull, I have indicated before the responsibility of those engaged in this Hot, and I need say no more here. The first shots came from the shore.
There was a devilish malignity on the part of the mob. 'The evidence shows the defendant was not at active participant in the killing. It shows he was in sympathy with the orowd, and he, by his idly standing by, is responsible for the do not thinks there Is any doubt about the right of the prisoner to be bailed, and will fix. 11 at 810,000 The way 1t stands he is charged with murder in the second degree! District Attorney-Burleigh-Under your honor's ruling we are content to the other defendants being admitted in the same ball. The court then proceeded to accept bail and the defendants were released.
Watchman Bound by Safe-Blowers. ASHURY PARK, N. July works of the electric power company here were entered by burglars Sunday night, the watchman assaulted, bound and gagged and the safe blown open and robbed of its contents, some $3,000. Sheplar Gets Eighteen Years. SPRINGFIELD, July 96.
-In the United States district court Monday James Sheplar, who pleaded guilty to six charges of personating a United States officer, was sentenced by Judge Allen to eighteen vears in the penitentiary. Sheplar's offense was parheinous, in that his victims were women whom he arrested on forged warrants and took from their homes for immoral purposes. When arrested he made a lengthy plea for mercy, which was ineffectual, as his sentence was the extreme limit of the law. Killed by a 10-Year-Old Boy. July 96 At Benwood, W.
Sunday night Samuel Winesburg was shot and killed by John Roynton, aged 16 years. Boynton and his father are said to have insulted Win wife and thus brought on a quarrel which resulted in the shooting. Both of the Boyntous were arrested. Five Killed by a Falling Towers VIENNA, July noted relic of the middle ages, the famous robber tower at Zanim, in Moravia, has fallen. Five persons were keilled by the falling wills CIVIL LAW FIRST.
dev. Pattison Places Deputy Sheriff in Command at Made Subordinate to Them. HOMESTEAD, Pa, July the governor's suggestion a body of police officers in the persons of deputy sheriffs has been placed throughout the borough of Homestead to supplant the unlimited military control that had been gradually established. The soldiers are now to aid the civil authorities, and not to be their superiors. A street procession headed by the town council in honor of the chief magistrate of the borough is not to be dispersed.
The sheriff of the county, or his representatives, are to be the ones to say when the danger point has been reached by assemblages of citizens, the men in uniform with guns in their hands being no longer to constitute themselves, at will, judge, jury and executioners. Except on call of the sheriff's representatives the militia in Homestead are to restrict their operations to looking after their own business. Gen. Snowpen admitted that he was aware the installation of the sheriff's representatives was Gov. Pattison's own tion.
The general declined to attempt to define the respective limits of authority of the militia and the deputy sheriffs and refused to discuss the reasons for the change in the situation. The friction in the borough between the military and the people was getting uncomfortable when the opportune arrival of the sheriffs cheeked permanently, it is to be hoped, the indications of ugly temperament on both sides. The advisory committee on the Homestead lockout has prepared a statement of its position, in which the committee signifies its recognition of law and other peaceful means, as the only elements that should have part in the settlement of the present trouble and pledges itself and the workingmen of Homestead to refrain from violence and lawlessness. HOMESTEAD, July acrivity is noticeable inside the big mill fence. Non-union workmen are coming by squads of froin ten totwenty by boat from Pittsburgh, and a few have gone- in unobserved through the town of Homestead.
The nuthber of excursionists and sightseers who come here every day and the presence of Gen. Snowden's guards makes this Something libra 950 union men are now inside the mill. DR. CHAPIN IS' DEAD. The Venerable Ex-President of Beloit College Expires at the Age of 15 Years.
BELOIT, July -Dr. Aaron Chapin, ex-president of Beloit college, died at 19:30 o'clock p. m. Friday at the age of 75 years. He was overcome with a fainting spell last Monday and remained unconscious till the hour of his death.
He was one of Wisconsin's most distinguished men and a pioneer in Christian educational work in Wisconsin. He was gradnated at Yale and came to Milwaukee in 1849 and took charge of a church, and in 1850 was installed president of Beloit college, which position he held continuously till 1886, when he resigned because of failing health. Four ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis. He has held many important years, positions as manager of missionary work at home and abroad. CAN NOW "RETALIATE.
-The Monse Bill Prosed by blue Senate powering the President to Impose Res strictions on Canadian Vessels Similar to Those Placed on American Crafts. WASHINGTON, July 23. -Camadian retaliation has received the stamp of congressional approval. Diplomatic nogotiations having failed to secure from the dominion government equal privileges for vessels of the United States passing through the Welland, Camilian vessels will find themselves discriminated against in their passage the St. Mary's canal.
In the counte Friday Senator Davis called up the hill introduced by him and reported from the foreign relations committee, which was passed. The bill now goes to the president and will be promptly signed by him, inasmuch as it follows the recomm sudations of his special message sent to congress month ago. A Farmer Killed. MIDLAND, July 28. -Otto Byer, German.
26 vears old, was killed by lightning Friday. Showers passed near here at 8 o'clock Friday morning, but no rain fell here. Mr. Byer was mowing hay in his barn, when a bolt of lightning entered the roof. The bolt.
struck him at the throat and parising down the right leg, killed him instantly. It slit his boot in three places, removing it from his foot. The hay was set on fire. The man who was pitching the hey was knocked down, but was not much hurt. A 10-year-old son of Byer was near him.
He was not affected in the least, but the shock was felt for some distance. The only marks on Byer were a red spot on the throat, a light burn on the shoulder and on the heel. Awful Destruction at Sangir. THE HAGUE, July 28. -Official telegrams received here from Batavia partially confirm the recent accounts of the awful destruction caused on Great Sangir island, belonging to Holland, by a volcanic eruption June 17.
These later advices are to the effect that the whole northwestern portion of the island was destroyed and that 9,000 of the inhabitants were killed. There were no Europeans among the victims. Awarded $500 for a Tooth. ATLANTA, July -During the prohibition fight some months ago a saloonkeeper named Miner took oceasiont to chastise Sam Small, and knocked ont one of his teeth. Mr.
Small sued for $5,000 damages. Miner made no defense, and the jury awarded Small $500 for the tooth. Illinols Steel Company Signs. July -The last signature to the amalgamated seale was from the Illinois Steel Company, Chicago. No meeting of the conference committee will be held until Wednesday next.
Baled Brothers Exonerated. CINCINNATE, 0., July 93. -The coroner's verdict in the Licking bridge disaster, by which twenty-Eve men were killed, exonerates the Baird Brothers, contractors. The jury finds that the accident was caused by, the spreading of the false work, and was unavoidable. For the World's Championship.
TORONTO, July 98. Gaudanr and Homer have challenged Hanlan and O'Connor to a double scull race, 8 miles with a turn, on any fair course, for from 8500 10 81,000 and the chatplonship of the world, the race to ba rowed any time after August MARVELOUS FRESH AIR. City -A MagnifFarmers Harvest- -Will You Reap? Helping cent (Special Correspondence realize that there Do country folks thousands of little people born and and are in the narrow streets growing up Chicago who among meadow or a clear the hovels of never saw a green stream of water between of grassy banks? Do they know that there are with legions here to whom tree hangthem dimpling in ing a stack of fragrant hay cherries ripening and the sun or be as cut and raked would fresh pyramids of a sight as the old strange such children, and Egypt? There are narrowed and their little lives are being of stunted by seeing only that part earth which has been refashioned God's for worse by the greedy is hand of man. where it A eity chap can see grain elevators, or handled down among the into of pigs as they are crowded droves for slaughter at the packing pen he can see a foul burlesque houses, or if he livesnear the on a running stream river. But garbage-freighted Chicago freedom and fun he how much more would have if he could walk barefoot the rows of tasseling corn stalks among that whisked his face with their long, blades; or if he could turn a green woolly dog upon a drove of rooting, bunthat had managed to get in gry pigs through a broken bar to the potato patch; or indeed if he could dabble h's feet in the rock-bottomed stream which flows through the deep woods- back ofthe old farmhouse.
All of these scenes to be an old story to the grow freckled country boy, who sees without any unusual delight each day the glistening dew in the pasture at dawn, and the sun setting at night in marvelous halo back of the outs field on the west. But to the city child, who wouldn't know a guinea hen from a duck or a wisn of timothy hay from a cucumber vine, all this rioting excess of green things and blossoms would be an unheard-of marvel like an Aladdin's tale. Not a few organized charities in this country have within the last few years undertaken to give the poor, pale children of great cities an opportunity to see for awhile in summer time what these far-away country fields are like. They have been organized on the belief that 3 few gallons of milk and cream, with a proportional amount of homely, wholesome farmhouse fare, applied to the average growing boy from a tenement house, and accompanied by a two weeks' treatment of sunshine, hayrides, fishing and long nights of sleep, would make more man out of him than several years of growth in the city. In the west the pioneer of these charities, and developed along lines peculiar to itself, is the Chicago Daily News Fresh Air Fund.
It is one of the most far reaching as well as one of the simplest forms of charity, and it has become everywhere known as "The Country Week." It reaches into the homes of hundreds of the poorer classes of the city, and sends from these homes for a fortnight at some farmhouse in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan or Wiseonsin several thousand boys and girls each year, bringing them back to the city better able to endure the pressure of poverty, and with broader, purer aims than before. There is then connected with this. charity some suggestive system wherein may be found a solution to the social question of what to do with the poor in great cities. In the minds of some of these little visitors to the country is 90 I 1 love of the comfort and gladness. that prevail in country homes.
Some of them may make farmers; all of them will make better citizens as a result of their vacation. A little German girl was sent out some years ago by the fund to a kind country family in Indiana, and won all their sympathies. She saw the corn waving in the wind and sat down and. eried so that her good friend was seri ously distressed until she got from her the stammered: "It is so pretty and mamma never saw it," her mother having died a week or two before, just as Louise had been promised the trip. to the farm.
The purpose of the Country Week is seen to be three fold: First, to give new health and strength by country air and change of scene to overworked, run down mothers, delicate city children and tiny babies. That's the physical benefit, Next, to teach city children what "the conntry" means; to open their minds and widen their horizon. That's intellectual benefit. the Last, to touch the hearts of city folks and country folks alike with kindly sympathy, and so to bring about a closer unity of the nation and of all mankind, a deeper sense of the goodness of God and the sweetness of Christian love. That's the moral and spiritual benefit.
may Anyone become having a home in the country a Week worker by First. observing -Make the following suggestions: a personal canvass among your neighbors on farms or in village homes that are just as good as farms for the purpose- -and persuade as many as you can to inviteTwo little children; or A mother and infant; or A couple of to each home for' a two-weeks' working girls visit. News Second. -Send to the Chicago Daily the names and dresses of those who post office adinvite these Country- -specifying purtieuJarly what class and number of are to go to ench home. guests the date When the State, also, sent guests ate to.
be and to what railroad station. Pinkertou Brothers Homestead Declare Their The Did Not the Conshoot at Forced to- Before gressional Committee. WASHINGTON, July 98. The Pinkerton brothers were given an opportunity of and defend the working to explain their system by the special committes of the house which has been engaged investigation of the labor troubles of in an at Homestead, and of the operations system. Messrs.
the Pinkerton Hayes, Devlin and Wright, of the knights of labor, were to watch the proceedings. Mr. Devlin said they had prepared questions they the committee to ask the Pink desired Robert Pinkerton took the ertons. stand and laid before the committee a statement that had been prepared. synopsis is as follows: The statement urges that the Pinkerton men as "an armed did not go into force." The arms and ammunitions were and were ordered not to be given shipped the from men Chicago unless they were deputized by the of tact, the boxes were not sheriff.
As a matter until strikers had opened fire and it opened the became a matter of life and death. The employment all over the country by banks and private people of watchmen is referred to, and then the subscribers the statement affirm that their counto Bel assure them that they have violated federal or state; that they had the no law, and send men to. Home right to employ stead to act as watchmen; that if they were attacked, they had the right to kill It absolutely necessary for self-detense; that they bad the right to bear arms the premises of the Carnegie company la on order to protect life and property, whether or not they were deputized by the 11 of Allegheny county, that they had the right to ship arms frem Chicago to the Carnegie yards at Homestead for the purpose of arming their men, 1f they were deputized by the sheriff; THEIR STORY. 400 pistols and an equal number of clubs, and they were deposited in Chicago. In all its branches the firm never had at one time more than 800 persons in their employ.
The men employed were advised exactly what they were to do and understood that they were at perfect liberty to refuse any employment to which they objected. The barges were not constructed for the purposes of protection and were not lined with iron or steel and could not resist small arms. The men would never have been allowed to start on the expedition if it had been known that they were to be attacked before landing. The barges were employed because it was believed that the men would be enabled to land without a breach of the peace, and the landing was made at night for the reason that the sheriff's force had been resisted in the daytime, and it was expected that the strikers would be in bed. The sole desire was to avoid by.
all means breach of the Otherwise the men would peace. not have been permitted to gO unless authorized by the governor or deputized by the sheriff. The only was to put the men upon pripurpose vate property and then protect it from attack. The men would not have fired except as a matter of self-defense. It was understood that the Carnegie company had applied to the proper legal authorities and that the men were going to Homestead with the approval of the sheriff.
He thought that if the detectives had fired to kill many more lives would have been lost an the works could have been taken at that time, but without great loss of life. Mr. Pinkerton stated that he was a sworn peace officer- deputy sheriff -and he made it a rule always to swear in his men except in the case of railroad service. Mr. Oates asked witsess what he had to say of the statement that fifty good soldiers could have scattered the Homestead mob and that cowardice WAS shown by the Pinkertons.
Witness re- that in view of the attack on the barges their men had the right to bear arms and to defend themselves, and that all their acts in firing in self-defense from the barges after the attacle on them were legally justifiable under the laws of the United States and the state of Pennsylvania. In answer to the questions which had been prepared by the representatives of the Knights of Labor Robert Pinkerton replied as follows: The Pinkerton agency owned about 250 rifles, about plied that he had talked with his men. They said that they could have taken possession of the works almost at any time before 10 o'clock; that seventy-five men could have taken possession of the works, but they would have had to kill a number of people, men, women and children, and they concluded aot to do anything of the kind. The first firing, his men told him, was over the strikers' heads. His men were armed with Winchesters.
At the start not over twenty of them were given arms and afterward arms were given to about forty in all. At one point in the testimony of Robert Pinkerton he arraigned the methods of the Knights of Labor with such vehemence and graphic detail as to create a sensation in the committee room. He had been asked by Mr. Boatner if it was true, as the Knights of Labor and amalgamated ironworkers asserted, that organized labor always sought peaceable means for settling strikes. Mr.
Pinkerton smiled disdainfully at the suggestion, and then bending forward and looking directly at Messrs. Hayes and Devlin, he said: have seen Knights of Labor kick men's faces until they were jelly. I have seen Knights of Labor throw men off the tops of moving freight cars. I have seen them knock men from cars with stones and rocks. I have known Knights of Labor to place obstructions on railroad tracks for the trains.
I have known strikers purposo of derailing mite under freight cars. I have to place dynaexplosives inside molds B0 known that them to put molten metal was when poured in it would explode. charge these men with doing these things and defy them here now to deny it." Deaths from Sunstroke. Sr. JOSEPH, Mo, July 23.
-The weather has been hotter here than for several rears. Many cases of sunstroke have been reported and two laborers named John McNamara and John Loscher have died from the effects of the heat. FORT WAYNE, July was the Friday hottest of the season, and cases are reported of many their work. Noah Pyle workmen leaving across Hamilton's fields while walking died was sunstruck and before help could reach him. RAYMOND, July -Patrick Abfound a dead residing near here, bott, farmer Was is supposed in the road near his home.
It he was overcome by the heat. It Left Her Bald. ander July Alexla, Feidler, of Keokuk ning. miraenlously The house escaped death from lighttownship, ning was struck, the lightpassing down the ing her and burning chimney, strikher, head. every hair from The hair in two.
Her neck pins were cut ribly chest were and burned and her terfragments. clothing torn to were broken Furniture and windows and the walls of ing badly shaken. In buildhowever, the 3 few hours, signs of life prostrate woman showed and now has recovery. a chanco of DRUMMED OUT OF TOWN. Punishment Meted Out to a Soldier Inge Guard at.
Homestead Who Cheered Berkman. as he sarambled up the blighted maple the lader of the gang snapped af his leg, inflicting no slight wound. But soon Ed had drawn himself up beyond their reach, and could deride their disappointed howls and the frantie efforts they made to get to him. Had it been a chilly day the young trapper would have experienced greater discomfort than he did. But the sun shone brightly, and it he had brought piece of dried meat with him to appease his hunger he assured himself he could have langhed at his unplessant situation.
All day the wolves surrounded him, uttering their dismal eries, as If bedlam had been let loose. When the sun disappeared the evening sir grew chilly. Ed began to feel numb, and ceased to mock at the gang at the foot of the tree. This being treed by almost a score of hungry prairie wolves, out of all reach of human aid, and with only one ball left in his revolver, was a far more seriOUR business than Ed had at- frat thought. It was uncertain when his father would return from the traders' camp, perhaps not before morning.
Should a blizzard come sweeping over the prairie, Ed knew he would be frozen stiff as a poker. Fumbling about in his pockets he discovered a few matches, which put a new idea into his head. Wolves were shy of fire. If he could only succeed in getting the heaps of dry brush and sticks of the drift below him to ignite, he might frighten his tormentors away. He resolved put his scheme into execution.
Removing his heavy hunting jacket he applied one of the burning matches to it. The jacket was made of buckskip and took fire easily. It was soon burning brightly, and so lecting a place in the drift suitable to quiet ignition, Ed let the blazing cont drop It was not slow in communicating its flames to the dry twigs among which it had fallen. The young trapper, watched the fire spread with great delight. At first the wolves hnd fallen back from the foot of the maple only a few steps, but as the fire crept steadily toward them, burning more vigorously every moment, they beat a swift retreat and stood howling from a safe Ed was congratulating himself on the success of his plan when he discovered that he was surrounded by fire.
The drift was heaped up all around the trunk of the blasted tree, and this was all ablaze before he knew it. He dared not jump from the tree for fear of landing in the midst of the fire. His situation became more dangerous every minute. The wolves seemed to be deriding him now. The smoke almost suffoes ted him.
while the heat from the flames was fast becoming unendurable. A new danger suddenly presented itself. The dend branches of the tree which lopped down to the drift were HE PUT A BULLET THROUGH THE NEXT ONE. taking fire. Very soon the tree in which he bad thought himself so safe would be wrapped in flames.
What would he do? He tried to shift his position, to think of some means of escape. He felt numb and stupefied. He could neither think nor move. He felt as if he was flouting away on sea of flames when a new sound aroused him. It was several ringing reports from gun, which sent the wolves scampering off in wild alarm across the prairie.
The next moment he recognized through the smoke his father's form 08 he hurried toward him. Catching up a strong pole from the drift, Trapper Wheeler pushed the loose burning brush from one side of the tree. A moment Inter Ed, half unconscious and nearly strangled with smoke, was rescued from his perilous position. AD. H.
GiBsoN. The Mexican People. Mexicans are a very-peculiar people," Mr. Richard Cupples, an American who has spent many years in the "land of God and liberty," recently snid. firm adherents to the doctrine of personal vengeance they are neither so cowardly nor so treacherous as they have been painted.
The lowcast Mexicans are a mixture of Spanlard, Indian and negro and possess constitutional aversion to hard work. Treat a Mexican right and he will sacrifice his life for you if need be. While they often have murderous fights arong themselves they can seldom be prevailed apon to betray each other to the police. A Mexican in my employ was recently terribly slashed by a fellow countryman, but he protested with his dying breath that he received his inJuries by falling off the railrond bridge. Much has been said of the beauty of senoritas, but very few Mexican women are even passably good looking.
Some of those possessing much Spanish blood have regular features and handsome eyes, but they are old women at Louis Globe-De mocrat. The Presumption Strong. Johnny--Who is it that's in the parlor? Willie (with his ear at the keyhole) think it's the college professor. Mamma's voice has got its Boston stop pulled wide open. -Chicago Tribune.
-Grammar In St. Louis. have you been at, Daisy?" Daly ain't been nothin', Mother- often have told you to sound your Pain's been doing nothing' is what you should have Broold yu, Eagle. -Mrs. Ward ngouse yonng Blank of being sentimental, yet imagine he's fully abreast of the tim en Miss Ward- That he is, mammit.
He was talking to me last evening about love in dat. -Kate Field's Washing ton. TO HONOR COLUMBUS. President Harrison Jasons Proclamation Regarding the Ohserrance of Oct. 21.
WASHINGTON, July 29. -The following proclamation was issued Thursday afternoon by the president of the United States of America: "A Proclaination. -Whereas, By a joint resolution approved June 29, 1800, it was resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America congress assembled: That the present of the United States be authorized and directed to issue a proclamation recommending to the people the observance in all their localities of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, on the 21st day of October, 1802, by public demonstration and by suitable exercises in their schools and other places of "Now, therefore, Benjamin Harrison, presIdent of the United States of America, in pursusace of the aforesaid resolution, co hereby appoint Friday, October 21, 1802, the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, as. a general boliday for the people of the United States. On that day let the people, SO far as possible, cease all toil and devote themselves to such exercises as may best express honor to the discoverer and their appreelation of the achievements of the four completed centuries of American life.
stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our one the most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the day's demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship. "In the churches and in the other places of. assembly of the people let there be expressions of gratitude to the Divine Providence for the devout faith of the discoverer and for the divine care and guidance which has directed our history and so abundantly blessed our people.
HARRISON." HARRITY IS CHOSEN. Made Chairman of the National Demo. cratio Committee- P. Sheerin Is Sec- rotary. NEW YORK, July -The democratic national committee met at 12:30 p.
m. Thursday and immediately proceeded to business. The committee was called to order by Chairman Brice, who briefly announced the object of CHAIRMAN HATRITT. the meeting, and matters were then carried through in such prompt manner as to show that the whole business had been settled before the gathering. W.
F. Harrity, of Pennsylvania, was elected as the new chairman of the committee, and 8. Sheerin, of Indiana, was reelected secretary. Robert B. Roosevelt, of New York, was elected treasurer of the committee to succeed Charles J.
Canda. ANDREW D. WHITE GETS IT. Nominated for Minister to Russiaden to Go to Spain. WASHINGTON, July 23.
The president sent to the senate the following nominations: Andrew D. White, of New York, to be envoy extraordinary and minister. plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia. A. Loudon Snowden, of Pennsylvania (now envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Greece, Roumunia and Servia), to be envoy extraordinary and minister plento Spain.
Truxtam Beale, of California (now minister resident and consul general of the United States to Persia), to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Roumania and Servia. The following to be consuls of the United States: John A. Barnes, of Illinois, at Chemnitz; Darly R. -Bruck, of South Dakota, at Messina; Cyrus W. Field, of New York, at Beunswick: Carl Bailey Hurst, of the District of Columbia, at Catania.
Charles August Vortriede, of Ohio, at Horgen. SUFFOCATED. Three Workmen in a Chicago Tannery Perish by Gas Fumes While Trying to Rescue a Companion, CHICAGO, July Three men went to the rescue of Albert Saliga, who had been overcome by gas while in a vat in tannery. Five minutes later two of them were dead, while the third was in his death throes, Szliga, for whom they had given their lives, was the only one of the four who had entered the tank and survived. The accident happened in the tannery of Louis Huck Son, at the corner of Elston avenue and Bradley street, shortly after o'elock Thursday afternoon.
The three men who sacrificed their lives for Saliga were: Carl Steinert, John Rybarezky and Frank Spekowski. The last two were married. Engineers Sent to St. Jolts HALIFAX, N. July 29.
-Gen. Sir John Ross has received a cable dispatch from the imperial authorities ordering him to send a company of royal engineers to St. Johns, N. F. They are required there to blow down walls which are either dangerous or difficult by ordinary means.
The number of families burned out is 1,874, making 9,000 Homeless people. Lives Lost In a Wreck. DESERONTO, July 99. -A terrible collision occurred Thursday morning on the Kingston, Napanee Western railway between Marlbank and Erinsville between a light engine and the regular morning mail train. The trains were going at a high speed and met at a curve on the road.
The concussion was terrible, and the engines and the cars of the mail train were smashed into pieces. Farmers and others quickly gathered at the spot and the dead and wounded were hastily dragged from the wreek. Three were killed outright and several will die. World's Record Broken. DETROIT.
July. fourth day of the Blue Ribbon meeting opened with a larger crowd present than on uny day except the opening day. The weather was favorable for fast time and all the conditions were encouraging for Nancy Hanks to succeed in her effort to lower her record, but when she made the attempt she did not sueceed in going faster than The freefor-alt trot was the fastest free-fot -all ever trotted in the world. It tras won Jack, his time for the three heats belag 9:1094. 9110.14.
Bonnie Wilmore, second; Alvin, third. CA July 25. -The sation in camp Sunday Private: was the dr ming out of town of Ians company. Tenth regiment, shouted Saturday afternoon when report of the attempted assassination Mr. Frick reached the brigade for three cheers for the sassin.
Col. Streeter, from his qUa ters, heard the shout. He hurried the camp and ordered the be paraded in double-quick time. Whee his command was drawn up he reefter to the soldiers the remarks he heard. He called for the one who made it to step two paces to the from Iams did so, trembling and babel ing his head.
He was sent the guardhouse, and in the presences the colonel, his staff and surgeons, hung up by the thumbs for thirty mis rites. When released young lams limp and apparently unconscious. surgeons remained with him for hour, when he was taken to his, quar ters. On Sunday one side of his head wat shaved and one side of his beard mustache cut off. His uniform taken from him and a civilian's dros given him.
He was then given charge of twenty men and a drum cons and marched out of town mile and a half to the tune of The Rogues March," the guards being given striet orders in his presence shoot him if he turned to the right the left. He was also disfranchised and will hereafter be man wit a country." The punishment, though severe, is in accord with laws passel in 1887 and is generally commended. Iams in a traveling salesman and live in Waynesburg. A TOWN DESTROYED. Iron River, Wis, Aim impletely Wiped Out by Fire- of Be llef.
ST. PAUL, our of Iron River, 40 milling ur We perlor, on the Northup ru cific was wiped off the fo fire late Sunday after business district and the Northern Pacific a Shore Atlantic burned, together dence district. tin timated at $200, The two LEA in a store buiiding of the Northern Pacific dep big sawmills, balf a mile from escaped. As soon as it became that the town was doomed all wera directed to saving personal ef feets. The 1,500 inhabitants are in the smoking streets without shelter or foul.
A train of freight cars was sent out ly the Northern Pacifie company in whies people may store their effects. The tow was practically without fire protection The Superior fire department was summoned, but before they got out of town were recalled by a message stat ing that it would be too late for service. Many Superior people an heavy losers. KILLED BY AN OUTLAW. United States Officer Riddled wit Buckshot from a Gun in the Hands of a Man He Was Trying to Arrest.
NASHVILLE, July 95. -United States Storekeeper and Gauger J. Ballenger was shot and instantly killed Friday night, 6 miles east of Cookeville, in Putnam county, while trying to arrest Jeff Sloan for robbing the mails. The murder was a most brutal one. Ballinger had traced Sloan to a log cabin, the windows and doors of which had been barricaded.
As the officer, with two men, approached the cabin Sloan fired both barrels of a shotgun, nearly filled with buckshot. The lower part of Ballinger's body and his bowels were fairly riddled. Death relieved his sufferings in 3 few minutes. The two com panions of Ballinger rushed at once to the aid of the dying man and Sloan slipped out of the cabin and fled VICTIMS. OF OLD SOL Many Deaths Reported from Various Cities AS Result of the Extreme Heat.
CHICAGO, July -The intense beat of Sunday brought with it many sun strokes and a number of fatalities. It was a suffocating warmth 8.00 for many hours no cooling breeze came to relieve the parched city. Three men dropped dead from sunstroke. Ten other persom are reported to have been prostrated and some of them will die. The thermometer at 9 p.
m. stood at 91. New York reports 92 degrees as its maximum height; Cincinnati, 89; St. Louis, 102; Detroit, Ottumwa, 106. One death is reported at Ottumwa.
one at Whitewater, one Jeffersonville, one at St. Louis, and two at St. Paul, Minn. Numerous prostrations are reported from points all over the country. Two Unknown Persons Drowned.
DETROIT, July 95. -By the capsizing of a rowboat in the Canadiaa channel off Belie Isle Saturday after noon two unknown persons were drowned and third had a narrow escape from death, The bont contained two men and a woman. One of the men, who was saved, said the victims were casual aequaintances whose names were m- known to him. They were riding in the river and were trying to get a pass ing steamer to tow their boat when it capsized. Awful Result of an Explosion of Gas in 4 Pennsylvania Mine.
been recovered. Caught in Chicago. POTTSVILLE, July 35. York Farm colliery, situated 2 miles from this city, was the scene of a terrible explosion about noon Saturday. As a result fifteen miners are dead, and one is so badly wounded that he cannot recover.
The explosion, is believed, was caused by a strong feeder being broken into, and penetrated a safety lamp and ignited its force, the gas. The explosion was terrific and completely closed with the gangway several cars which were on the track. All but two of the bodies have CHICAGO, July 25. -Morris Berg, German carpenter living at 3628 Hal sted street, is at the Central station charged with complicity in the murder of Mary. Anderson, at Perth Amboy, N.
The crime was a Danish domestic, committed June 8. Berg was arrested at his residence An hour later he was confronted on Saturday evening at the station by Johnny who Bersel, 14 years old, the scene of the recognized him as having been before the deed was committed. Bersel murder a few minutes was brought from New Jersey for the purpose of identifying Berg. REP minois Polite the repub should of the a qued the.
