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F. GUYDY, Publisher.
The Talihina News.
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J. A. HALE,
Attorney at Law.
6011th McAlester, Indian Territorj
W. F. BLYTHE,
Attorney-atLaw,
Fort Smith,
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|®-A11 work dine neatly and
firoraptly. Pension claims a speci-
alty. Kees reasonable.
$tt)' Mai'i'in^u license obtained
on short notice. tf.
RUBE TUTTLE
Freight,
Water,
Wood,
"AJvn-
All Kinds of Hauling
Mr Furnitur* moved with uara.
Friar forest fires were reported from
Minnesota on the 5th.
Latest reports say the king of Siam
Is still dangerously ill.
T)r. Cow ax, coroner of Pine county,
Winn., believes that the death list from
the forest fires in his county will reach
700.
It is reported that the Chinese gov-
ernment has arranged to purchase half
of the vessels comprising the Chilian
navy.
Tiiebe is a deficit of nearly 82,000,000
in the revenue of the dominion of
Canada for the fiscal year ended June
30 last.
The Detroit conference of the Meth-
odist church at Sault Nte. Marie, Mich.,
on the 8th, voted against the admis-
sion of women to the general confer-
ence.
A stbeet caii employe of New Or-
leans named George From is the fa-
ther of a tiny babe whose weight is
nine ounces. It is a boy and perfect in
form.
A reward of $100 has been offered
for the discovery of President Ken-
nedy of Amity college, at College City,
la., who mysteriously disappeared eariy
in August.
John Jacobs and John Green, of To-
ronto, Ont., were arrested in St. Clair,
Mich., on the 7th, just after landing
from a rowboat in which were two
trunks containing 600 pounds of opium,
which was seized.
Tiie bodies of twenty-three Chippe-
wa Indians, bucks, squaws and pa-
pooses, were found upon tho baked
sands between Pokcgaina, Minn., and
Opstead, a small settlement on the
eastern shores of Lake Mille Lacs.
To prevent the exportation of rice,
wheat and other food supplies the Chi-
nese have established a system of in-
spection of vessels coming down the
rivers from the interior. Whenever
such supplies are found they are seized.
A strong force of Japanese troops
have occupied an island in Society bay,
northwest of Port Arthur. The island
is a base of operations. The Chinese
were taken completely by surprise,
and, consequently, were able to offer
no resistance.
The attendance at the St. Louis ex-
position, on the night of the 5th, was
greater than on any opening night of
the eleven successful years of its ex-
istence, over 20,000 persons being pres-
ent. St. Louisiana are iustly proud of
their big show.
The little village of Bruoe, Wis., was
enveloped in flames on the afternoon
of the 4th, and destroyed completely.
The people only saved themselves by
running to Elder creek, covering them-
selves with wet blankets and allowing
the flames to sweep over them.
The associated banks of New York
city issued the following statement for
the week ended the 8th: Reserve, de-
crease, 83,880,550; loans, increase, $1,-
821,500; specie, decrease, $478,900; legal
tenders, decrease, $3,950,100; deposits,
decrease, $2,938,800; circulation, in-
crease, $82,300.
Three hundred special police were
sworn in at Pittsburgh, Pa., to go on
duty during the G. A. R. encampment
and keep the city rid of all suspicious
characters. There were also engaged
twenty-five expert detectives, some of
the number females, from various parts
of the United States.
The hearing in the application of
Judge Long, of the Michigan supreme
court, for a mandamus to compel the
commissioner of pensions and the sec-
retary of the interior to restore his
pension of $50 a month to the former
rating of $72 a month, was, on the 5th,
continued until October 20.
J. M. Adsit, one of the pioneers of
Chicago and the oldest banker in that
citj', died at his Dearborn-avenue resi-
dence, on the 4th, aged 85 years. He
was born in Spencertown, N. Y., and
established a private bank in Chicago
in 1850. He passed through all tho
great panics without much loss, and
retired rich in 1885.
Two Japanese spies who were sur-
rendered to the Chinese authorities by
the United States consul at Shanghai,
under whose protection they had been,
were promptly tried and, on the 5th,
beheaded. In consequence of this sum-
mary action all of the Japanese remain-
ing in Shanghai, about 700, decided to
leave the city at once.
Mayor Hopkins of Chicago issued a
proclamation, on the 5th, asking the
people of that city to give liberally
and promptly out of their abundance
to the relief of the sufferers by the
Minnesota and Wisconsin forest fires
in the same measure that relief carae
to the Chicago fire victims from the
people of the civilized world.
Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian min-
ister of fisheries, received a message
from Victoria, 11. C., on the 7th, stating
that at a meeting of interested sealers
the question of accepting the $425,000
offered by the United States govern-
ment in final settlement of claims for
seizures was fully discussed, and it was
unanimously decided to accept the of-
fer.
Peter Rouke, who claimed to be 118
years old, was found dead in bed, on
the morning of the 7th, at the county
poorhonse in Valparaiso, Ind., of which
he had been an inmate twenty-eight
years. He came to America eighty-
five years ago from Ireland, where he
served during the war in 1708. He
lived in New York fifty years, and at
one time was very wealthy.
The American bark Alice arrived
At Cape Henry, Va., on the 9th, from
Havana, Cuba, with three cases of
yellow fever on board. The vessel
was towed over to Fisherman's island
pending an examination by the Marins
Hospital service
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The United States dispatch boat Dol-
phin, with Secretary of the Navy Her-
bert on board, sailed from Boston, on
the 0th, bound for New London, Conn.
'1 he Dolphin made a stop at Buzzard's
Kay, and Secretary Herbert visited
President Cleveland at Gray (tables.
Col. W. H. Harlow, chief of the
American commission to resurvey and
erect monuments on the boundary line
between the United States and Mex-
ico, arrived in San Francisco, on the
8th, having concluded the work, in
which he had been engaged two and a
half years.
It was reported, on the 5th, that a
levy of 250,000 troops had been made
upon the Chinese province of Shang
Tung, which had hitherto withheld the
men and war suppliesdcmanded by the
government.
Gov. Turney of Tennessee offered a
reward of $5,000, on the 5th, for the
apprehension of the parties engaged in
the lynching of six negroes near Mill-
ington, Shelby county, some nights be-
fore. The governor says that lynch-
ing in Tennessee must be stopped.
Ex-President Harrison and Mrs.
McKee arrived at Elkins, W. Va., on
the 5th, to visit ex-Secretary Klkins.
They were tendered an ovation at the
depot by delegates to the republican
congressional convention in session
there.
The town of Churchill, O., had a nar-
row escape from burning, on the 4th,
caused by boys setting fire to grass in
a pasture where they were playing.
Gen. George Stonkman, ex-governor
of California, died, on the 5th, at the
residence of his sister, Mrs. Benjamin
Williams, of Buffalo, N. Y.
The town of Fisher, Wis., was wiped
out of existence by forest fires on the
5th.
The fishing schooner Rigel,of Glouces-
ter, Mass., Capt. George W. Dixon, ar-
rived at North Sydney, C. B., on the 5th,
with the passengers and crew of the
ill-fated steamship Miranda, which left
New York July 7, carrying Dr. Cook's
Arctic expedition.
News from Honolulu to August 28,
per steamer Ilelgic, announced that
Minister Willis had presented an auto-
graph letter from President Cleveland
to President Dole, acknowledging the
Hawaiian republic, and congratulating
the people of the midpacific state.
The C. II. Over window glass works
at Munice, Ind., and the Muncie flint
glass works resumed work, on the flth,
with nearly 300 hands. All the Muncie
glass factories are preparing to start
this month.
The Orestes window glass factory at
Anderson, Ind., employing 200 hands,
was put in operation, on the 0th, for
the first time this season, under the
22X per cent, cut in labor made in the
settlement at Pittsburgh on the 3d. It
is thought that every plant in the gas
belt will be running full blast in u
short time.
On the evening of the 5th, as the
steamer City of the Straits was starting
out from Cleveland, O., for a moonlight
excursion, she was run into and badly
injured by the schooner Emma Hutchin-
son. There were 1,000 passengers on
the City of the Straits at the time and
it was a miracle that no one was seri
ously hurt.
Col. Henry O. Kent was nominated
for governor by acclamation by the
democratic convention at Concord, N.
H., on the 6th.
A i Indianapolis, Ind., on the Cth,
Robert J. broke the world's pacing rec-
ord, traveling one mile in 2:02)^.
Police Captain John T. Stephen-
son, of New York city, was found
guilty of bribe-taking and dismissed
from the force. The verdict of guilt}'
was an unanimous one on the part of
the police commissioners.
The supreme grand lodge, Knights
of Pythias, adopted the report of th«
special committee of the uniform rank
the result of which is to practically di-
vorce the uniform rank from the su-
preme lodge.
N deference to the wishes of Presi-
dent Cleveland, Buchanan Schley, sur-
veyor of the port of Baltimore, has re-
signed as chairman of the democratic
committee of Washington county, Md.
The steamer Peru arrived at San
Francisco, on the0th, bringing Chinese
advices to August 8 and Japanese ad-
vices to August 23.
The Pullman strike was formally de-
clare" I off on t Ik- Ot h
Post office officials, on the 0th, cap-
tured A. L. Naples in Fort Scott, Kas.,
who has long been wanted for carrying
on an extensive green goods business
in Kansas and Missouri. Hcischarged
with sending circulars advertising
cheap money through the mails. On
his premises were found thousands of
dollars of confederate money and bogus
coining utensils.
The Chicago police, on the 6th, lo-
cated a remarkable "fence" and recov-
ered several thousand dollars' worth of
stolen property. The place was fitted
up with double floors, trap-doors and
secret closets, and the gtxwls found had
been stored at various times for a year
past. Six men and two women were
captured.
The body of Mrs. L. A. Franco was
found, on the 6th, in the river near Ho-
ganburg, St. Lawrence county, N. Y.
Murder is suspected. The authorities
are looking for Louis Paul, who had
been living with her.
On the 0th the much-uiooted Geiman
question was decided by the supreme
lodge Knights of Pythias by a decisive
vote against permitting the use of the
ritual in other than the English lan-
guage in the United States.
Hugh Porter, a visitor at Leadville,
Col., shot and instantly killed himself
at the home of his sister, Mrs. E. li.
Dickeman, on the evening of the 6th.
He left a sealed letter to lie forwarded
to his father. Porter was about 95
years of age and prominently con-
nected. His home was in Bridgeport,
Conn.
The Wisconsin democratic state con-
Anton von Kobab, an Austrian, of
noble birth, and formerly an officer in
the Austrian ariny, was, on the 6th,
adjudged insane in Chicago, and was
committed to the Jefferson asylum.
Anton von Korab is the son of Count
Von Korab, a member of the cabinet of
the emperor of Austria.
Mrs. Augusta Webster, the novelist
and poet, died at Kew, 7 miles from
London, on the 0th. She was the daugh-
ter of the late Vice-Admiral George
Da vies.
The laying of the corner stone of the
Iowa Soldiers' and Sailors' monument
took place at Des Moines on the 6th.
The parade was second only to the
great battle-flag day celebration.
DURING a running race at the Ohio
state fair at Columbus, on the 7th, one
of the horses. Col. Bliss, was crowded
against the fence and fell. His rider,
Ed Murray, was thrown fully fifty feet,
and, it is thought, fatally injured.
A Yokohama dispatch says that Mar-
shal Yamagata started for Corea, on
the Oth, to assume command of the Ja-
panese army in that country. It is said
that the Japanese forces in Corea will
soon number 100,000.
An anarchist named Solero threw a
bomb into the Cafe San Carlo in Turin,
on the Oth, causing a terrible explo-
sion, which wrecked the place. For-
tunately nobody was hurt. Solero was
arrested.
Failures for the week ended the
7th were 215 In the United States,
against 313 last year, and 48 in Canada,
against 25 last year.
Mr. Howard Gould, who is in Lon-
don, has offered a cup valued at £800
to start the Bay club contests for first-
class yachts in 1895.
Mont Armstrong, who with his
brother Calvin, deputy treasurer of
Tipton county. Ind., a year ago lost
843,000 of public funds on the race
track, has been located at Santa
Mazctta, Mexico, through a lost letter
written home. He is penniless and
asked for aid.
A CLoudbubst at Bethlehem, Pa., on
the night of the 8th, did damage to
the extent of $60,000. The flooded dis-
trict is more than a mile square and
extends towards the Monocacy valley
and includes a portion of Bethlehem
proper. West Bethlehem and South
Bethlehem. Residences in many places
were flooded to their second stories.
I). J. IIt*rbridge arrived at Jackson-
ville, Fla., on the 8th, from St. Louis,
having made the entire trip on a bi-
cycle. He left St. Louis on August 25,
and estimates that he covered about
1,000 miles in making the trip.
The war in China is being conducted
so near to the tea-growing territory
that future importations are uncer-
tain. Wholesale prices of the cheaper
teas used in America are said to have
already advanced 100 per cent.
Prof. Herman u>in and Helm-
holt/. the celebrated physiologist and
physician of Berlin, died, on the 18th,
from the effects of a stroke of paralysis,
aged 73.
A late decision of the supreme court
of Oklahoma territory nullifies all di-
vorces—fully -too— granted by probate
judges in Oklahoma since March, 1893.
Ten mammoth ice houses near Ham-
ilton, O., belonging to the Cincinnati
Ice Co., were burned to the ground on
the 9th.
The associated banks of New York
city held $01,934,275 in excess of the re-
quirements of tho 25-per-cent. rule on
the 8th.
The jury in the case of Dela Green,
ex-cashier of the Muncie (Pa.) bank,
charged with falsifying the bank's
books, rendered a verdict of guilty
ou the 8th.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
S. F. Hadley, an aged miser of Wal-
nut Creek, Cal., who has the reputa-
tion of being wealthy, was brutally
tortured by a gang of desperadoes, o?.
the night of the 9th, to make him re-
veal the hiding place of his supposed
wealth. He either had no money in
the house or loved it to well to give it
up.
During a heavy rain and wind storm
at East Chicago, Ind., on the night of
the 9th. the ice house belonging to the
East Chicago Ice Co. was blown down.
Mrs. Bowles, who, with her husband
had just taken refuge in the building,
was instantly killed, while Mr. Bowles
was probably fatally injured.
On August 14 the schooner Favorite,
flying the British flag, was captured
by the United States cruiser Mohican
for violating the sealing laws and
turned over to H. M. S. Pheasant,
which sent her to Victoria. She had
aboard between 1,400 and 1,500 skins
when captured.
St. Paul, Minneapolis, Dulutli and
the smaller towns of Minnesota had,
up to the 10th, contributed about $50,-
000 in money and 820,000 in clothing,
food and lumber to tho forest fire suf-
ferers. New York and Chicago had
been the principal outside contribu-
tors.
The big wooden steamer Robert
Mills and the Union liner II. J. Jewett
collided in a thick fog, on the Oth, near
Waugoschance light in the Straits of
Mackinac. The Mills was seriously
injured and was run ashore.
The town of Dalton. 0., was almost
totally destroyed by fire early on the
morning of the 10th. The fire, which
originated in a stable, is supposed to
have lieen started by tramps. Esti-
mated loss, 8200,0(K).
The September report of the statis-
tician of the department of agriculture
makes cotton show a decline of 5.9
points from tho August condition,
which was 91.8, against 85.9 for this
month.
On the 9th Miss Mary Callahan, of
Walnut Grove. Pa., accidentally shot
Miss Flora Marsh, a schoolmate, in tho
head. The unfortunate young woman
died without regaining consciousness.
William Camp, whose parents are
.id to reside in London, England, was
murdered, on the 9th, on the corner of
Market and Madison streets, Chicago,
by unknown highway robbers.
Mr. Rollins, a well-known resident
of Ravenswood, HI., and his wife w
GAVE THE PLOT AWAY
Ami the Kerrvllle Lynchers Will Soon b«
In LIml> The Attempt to Trap the Sher-
iff l y Getting IIIh Hon to fake Part In the
Affair Lead* to Kxposure.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 10.—The
whole plot of the Kerrville lynching is
now laid bare. Before many hours
elapse it is thought everyone who had
anything to do with the affair, or the
majority of them, will be behind the
bars.
Bob McCarver, son of Sheriff Mc-
Carver, gave the snap away. He was
invited to participate in the massacre
by II. N. Smith, one of the men now
languishing in the county jail under
indictment for murder in the first de-
gree.
When the invitation to assist in the
assassination was tendered to McCar-
vcr it was represented that Sheriff Mc-
Carver knew all about it, and that
Judge Cooper of the criminal court
was not in the dark. Of course these
representations were untrue, and were
made by Smith for the purpose, if pos-
sible, of mixing Sheriff McCarvcr up in
the affair through his son, so his hands
would be tied if an investigation should
be instituted by the authorities. The
scheme was a bold one, but it failed.
McCarver's examination resulted in
the arrest of Jailor Cox for perjury and
the fixing of a $10,000 bond on Mc-
Carver's head to insure his remaining
in the city. McCarver did not give
this bond yesterday and as a conse-
quence he spent the day behind the
big gate of the Shelby county bastile,
nominally a deputy, but really a pris-
oner.
Sheriff McCarver had been told of the
plot by his son several days before the
grand jury had got hold of the boy's
story, and because he did not tell what
he knew to the inquisitors he is receiv-
ing some censure at the hands of the
members. He and Judge Cooper had a
long conversation Saturday night and
it is said that the judge read the riot
act to the high sheriff.
Rumors have been floating around
for several days to the effect that the
prisoners charged with participation
in the lynching were being treated
with more leniency than will be al-
lowed by the order of the judge. The
grand jury must have looked into these
rumors for they recommended Gen.
Kellar Anderson for the position of
iailor so highly that Sheriff McCarver
had no option but to tender it to An-
derson.
It is conceeded that the grand jury
is now in possession of the most dam-
aging evidence against the parties now
in jail charged with the killing and it
is confidently expected that an indict-
ment will be returned in the next day
or so, and that bench warrants will be
issued against the parties suspected.
AN OPERATOR BLUNDERED.
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41 ... , found dead in bed on the morninjr of
reut.on on the Oth,renouOnated George the loth. They had been oaphy.tfted
W. Peck tor Koveraur. by from , ^
The Hoonao Tunnel Blocked by a Serious
Wreck.
Springfield, Mass., Sept. 9.—A dis-
patch from North Adams says that the
Hoosac tunnel is blocked by a wreck.
A relief train was sent out from North
Adams at 1:30 this morning with three
doctors. It is reported that three men
are killed.
Later.
It is reported at North Adams that
the relief train has not been able to en-
ter the tunnel.
The railroad officials have telephoned
to the hospital to prepare for patients
and arranged with the livery stables to
have teams at the depot to take the in-
jured.
One train is not allowed to enter the
tunnel until another has left. It is
said that a telegraph operator blun-
dered.
One of the Worst Wrecks that Ever Oc-
curred In the Vicinity.
North Adams, Mass., Sept. 18.—The
railroad wreck a short distance from
the central shaft in tho Hoosac tun-
nel Saturday night was one of the
worst which ever took place in this
vicinity. By it two men lost their
lives and two others were seriously in-
jured. A freight train had to stop in
the tunnel to repair a break on the en-
gine. By some blunder a second
freight train was permitted to follow
into the tunnel before the first was out
of the way and crashed into the stand-
ing train.
The tunnel was completely block-
aded by the wreck, and it was impossi-
ble to get trains through all day yes-
terday.
THREATENED TOWNS.
St. Cloud, Minn., Sept. 10.—During
yesterday afternoon a report was
received at ithe Great Northern
dispatcher's office, that the towns
of Mora and Groundhouse, nineteen
miles this side of Hinckley, were both
on fire, and doomed to destruction.
The operator at Mora informed the of-
fice here that he would leave his post
and lock the office. Citizens had gath-
ered around the depot and were pre-
pared to flee from the threatened dan-
ger.
At about 8 o'clock last evening an-
other dispatch stated that by the
change of the heavy wind which had
been fanning the flames all day, the
fire had taken another direction and
Mora might possibly escape.
At Soule station a large sawmill and
lumber yards were wiped out. The
people at Mora had ample warning of
the approaching fires and if the fire
did enter the town they have found
safety in Snake river.
A GRAVE CHARGE.
Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering
l-'ariner McGraw.
Bradford, Pa., Sept. 9.—James W.
Brown, of Olean, N. Y., was arrested
to-day on telegraphic advices from In-
spector of Police J. P. Cleary, of
Rochester, N. Y. Brown is suspected
of being implicated in the murder of
John McGraw, a farmer who was killed
at Chili, N. Y., near Rochester, last
Sunday. Brown has been working
here for a week in the Buffalo, Roches-
ter Pittsburgh yards. He will be
taken to Rochester for examination.
THE MAINE ELECTION
Result n In a Sweeping Victory for the Re-
publican Party, with Gorernor, Congress-
men and State LegUlature.
Portland, Me., Sept. 10.--The elec-
tion to-day resulted in an overwhelm-
ing republican victory. The republic-
ans polled the full strength of their
party and probably gained votes
among the democrats. The democratic
vote shows a remarkable falling off as
compared with two years ago, in many
towns the vote being only one-third
as large.
Gov. Cleaves was re-electcd by a
plurality which, at a late hour to-
night, apparently exceeds 87,000 and
may reach 38,000. The four congress-
men are returned by increased majori-
ties.
In the first district Reed's vote far
exceeds any given before, the indica-
tions pointing to a plurality of 8,200.
In Biddeford, formerly a democratic
stronghold, his plurality approaches
500. In this city, his home, he has
1,090.
The legislature which will elect a
United States senator will lie almost
solidly republican.
STATE OFFICERS ARRESTEC
For Issuing Special Warrant* In Sl*nllitnd«
of United States Currency.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 10.—Warrants
were to-day sworn out for the arrest of
the following state officers of Missis-
sippi: J. M. Stone, governor; W. W.
Stone, auditor; J. J. Evans, state treas-
urer.
William J. Burns, special agent of
the secret service bureau, who has
been here for the last two months
working on the special warrant case,
made the affidavits before the United
States commissioner, L. II. Mosley,
charging them with violating section
5130 of the revised statutes of the
United States in issuing $200,0)0 of
Mississippi special warrants charged
to be in the similitude of United States
currency.
NOT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.
Defendants Charged with Obstructing
United States Malls at WUlmar Dis-
charged.
Minneapolis. Minn., Sept. 11.—
George Caruthers, charged with ob-
structing the United States mails at
Willmar last April during the Great
Northern strike, came before Judge
Nelson in tho United States district
court yesterday morning. After tho
trial the jury was withdrawn and tho
case dismissed. The court held that
the evidence in the indictment was not
sufficient to inform the defendant in
what particular way the mails were re-
tarded. The argument quashing the
indictment against the remainder of
the cases, fifteen in number, for ob-
structing the mails, was allowed by
the court, and the defendants dis-
missed.
The cases of the strikers charged
with conspiring against the passage
of the United States mails were con-
tinued until the next term of court.
FANNED INTO FLAME.
Forest Fire* In Wisconsin Again Burning
Freely—Great Excitement.
Ashland, Wis., Sept. 10.—Strong
winds have fanned up the forest fires
in this vicinity and they are burning
fiercely in nearly every direction.
They crossed what is known as the
Cemetery road south of Ashland to-
day and the Ashland Driving Park as-
sociation, whose building are located
two miles out from Ashland, are in dan-
ger of burning. The fire is also quite
close to Mount Hope cemetery and also
the Catholic cemetery, with the strong
wind constantly bringing it nearer.
Washburn has been envelopedin a cloud
of smoke all day.
The following dispatch was received
from Saxon to-night: "Forest fires are
raging about here. Water is being
hauled by running teams. Citizens
moving out of their homes with all
possible speed. If the wind continues
for a few hours the town is lost."
Saxon is a small town on the North-
western road, and several large char-
coal kilns are operated there by the
Ashland Iron and Steel Co., which
give it the main support.
SWEPT BY FIRE.
The Town of Dalton. O., Nearly Wiped Out
of Existence.
Maksillon, O., Sept. 11.—The town
of Dalton, located 9 miles north of
here, was almost totally destroyed by
fire early this morning. The fire orig-
inated in a stable, and while the direct
cause of its origin is unknown, it is pre-
sumed that it was prompted by tramps
making quarters for the night. The
entire loss is estimated at 8200,000, the
heaviest losers being the Uoyal Insur-
ance <"o. The post office was included
in buildings burned.
Canton, Massillon and Orrvillc fire
departments were hastily summoned
and respoded, but their presence was of
no avail, as sufficient water could not
be procured to do any good. The citi-
zens are frantic with grief over the loss
of their business blocks and residences
and homeless women and children are
seen on every corner crying bitterly.
All the telegraph wires were burned
down, and the only communication
with the outside world is by train.
Tiie buildings destroyed at Dalton
number thirty-three. The total loss
figures up 8200,000 and the insurance is
only 820,000. Every business house in
the village is destroyed.
Item* From the Minnesota Fire District.
Duluth, Minn., Sept. 11.—'Walbridge,
a small place 20 miles west of here on
the Northern Pacific, is the only placo
that reported trouble with forest fires
this morning. The flames attacked a
large pile of ties near the track, but at
last accounts section men were remov-
ing the ties. The fire at Kimberly, 70
miles west on the Northern Pacific,
kinked the tracks so badly that it stop-
ped traffic all Sunday afternoon and
well along into the evening. Ilar.iuin,
40 miles south of here on the S^,. Paul
and Duluth, is still threatened. Other
roads are having no trouble
THE BOYS IN BLUE.
Gathering of the Loyal Hosts at Tlttshnrgh
—Annual Session of Naval Veterans-Re-
port of Rear.Admiral Commanding Os-
borne Many Reasons for Congratulation
—The Smoky City Surrenders to theGrand
Army.
PiTTsnuBGH, Pa.. Sept. 10.—The
Smoky City is to-night in possesson of
the boys that wore the blue. The cap-
itulation of its citizens is complete.
The im&riiug column of Grand Army
veterans, sweeping like a torrent from
the north and the south, the east and
the west, is the monarch of all it may
survey. Acres of bunting, myriads of
flags, all the contrivances and wonders
of electricity, blazing from arches,
towers and business blocks; latch-
strings on the outside, committees
galore to hail the coming and speed
the parting gin-sts; each and every
feature bears testimony to the fact
that the pledges upon which a year
ago at Indianapolis the national en-
campment of '94 was awarded to the
second city of the Keystone state, have
been fully redeemed.
The campaign for national officers
and for the location of the next en-
campment was inaugurated in earnest
this evening, and to-night there is as
much dickering and buttonholeing
around the principal hotels as might
be demanded by a national political
convention.
Yesterday the committee from Louis-
ville had things its own way, but to-
day the committee from the Commer-
cial club of St. Paul opened up com-
modious quarters in the Monongahela
house and proceeded to get in its work.
In personnel it was decidedly influen-
tial. Judge John P. Rea, ex-comman-
der of the Grand Army, and ex-Gov.
McGill were on the outside to bid all
welcome, while within Judge H. G.
Hicks, Capt. H. A. Castle, ex-chair-
man of the republican state commit-
tee; Col. I. H. Davidson, Charles
W. Horr, Gen. J. II. Baker, Dr.
R. McGinnis, Albert Scheffer and
several other prominent citizens were
on duty to make things comfortable
for the visitors and incidentally to en-
roll them under the banner of the
Twin Cities. Punch that filled two big
bowls to the rim was concocted and
likewise ladled out by Mrs. J. G.
llae who, with several others of
the fairer sex of the northwest added
smiles and soft speech to the more ro-
bust arguments of the masculine mem-
bers. As a result not a few converts
were made at the expense of the lead-
ing city of the Blue Grass state, and
the Louisville committee is not as cer-
tain that it has everything its own
way as it was last night.
An effort was made by the Kansas
delegation during the afternoon to
start a boom for Topeka in the belief
that the rivalry between Louisville
and St. Paul might become so bitter
that another city would be found
available. It received no support,
however, outside of the Kansans them-
selves, and the indications are, that
the encampment of '95 will be voted to
Louisville by an overwhelming ma-
jority.
With the arrival this morning of the
Illinois delegation the contest between
the adherents of Col. Thomas G. Law-
ler, of that state, and J. N. Walker, of
Indiana, the rival candidates for com-
mander* in-chief, was commenced in
earnest. Headquarters for each aspir-
ant were opened at the leading hotels
and arguments of a serious kind were
employed in the effort to secure votes.
Most of the western and northwestern
delegates are counted in the Lawler
column, while the eastern and south-
ern strength, together with a majority
of the past commanders and other non-
representative voters, are favorable to
the Hoosier candidate.
Four thousand delegates and mem-
bers of visiting posts were present to-
night at the inaugural presentation at
the exposition building of the histori-
cal musical spectacle "War and Peace,"
dedicated to the encampment by Col.
F. N. Innes, of the Thirteenth Regi-
ment (New York) band. In the per-
formance the band, with a chorus of
400 voices, a battery of artillery and
the famous Ransom post of St. Louis
took part.
At a meeting this afternoon of the
Medal of Honor legion Senior Vice-
Commander Urr, with Comrades J. H.
Lyman, of New York; Matthews, of
Pittsburgh; Insch, of Newark, O.;
Hills, of St. Louis, and Thomas, of
Philadelphia, were appointed to wait
upon Congressmen Daniel E. Sickles
and Amos J. Cummings and urge them
to secure the adoption of such meas-
ures as may prevent the destruction of
the insignias worn by the legion from
all other tnedals awarded by congress.
The National Association of Army
and Navy Chaplains to-day elected
Rev. T. V. Haggerty, chaplain of tho
Ninety-third Illinois, as president, and
Chaplain C. C. MeCabe, the famous
Methodist church mission fund raiser
of the One hundred and twenty-second
Ohio, as secretary.
BLOWN DOWN.
General Havoc by a Wlnriitorm at Sag-
inaw, Mich.
Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 11.—The Bris-
tol Street bridge, over which an elec-
tric street car line runs, was blown
down during last night's windstorm,
just as a loaded ear was approaching
the bridge. No one was on the struc-
ture at the time. Chimneys, roofs and
other portions of a number of mill
plants were blown down, and other
casualties are reported, but there werr
no injuries to pcii uus.
Vessels Ashore.
Milwaukee, Sept. 11.—The schooner
Hattie Wells went ashore opposite
White Fish bay, and the steam barge
Baltic went ashore off South Point,
both places near Milwaukee harbor,
early yesterday morning, in a fog. Both
are coal-laden and in no immediatf
danger.
A Coopers' Strike.
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 11.—The coopers
•t Swift's packing house struck yester-
day morning because the managers re-
fused to discharge two nonunion men.
AU the other coonera may fro out
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