, book is only seventy—live cents a volume,
“accounted fer.
. a!
" «or the remaining, $300,000 In.
fiend will receive $110,000 whim
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THE SENTrNEL.
SOUTH NDRVVAIJC, AI‘GI‘ST ll.
'I'he glorious climate of California is
again happily illustrated. A stage coach
running through the Shrugs valley
tipppd over, and the seven outside pas-
sengers were shot down a precipice. . Une
‘ young lady, after fallingr fifty feet.
brought up in the top of a tree quit un-y
hurt. None. of the passengers were se-
riously damaged. In any other State
the loss of life would have been terri-
ble.
m
The somewhat harsh provision of
VEuglish law which gives almost. every,-
thiug to the eldest son is curiously illus.
trated by the cascof the Earl of Durham,
who is now in this country, and his
brother“ The two are twins, but one
was born two minutes earlier than the
' other. The one is called the eldest son.
and inherits a princely income. Iii:
twin~brothcr has an income about one-
tenth as large.
Mrs. Cleveland‘s marriage certificate
is thus. described by the Washington
Critic: “Mrs. Cleveland‘s marriage eer-
tificate is a very interesting document.
It rests on a bed of blue velvet, in an ab
ligutor portfolio about twelve inches
long and eight inches wide. In the
upper left hand corner of the ccrtiticate
in \ery pretty picture of the White
House. drawn by that eminent artist,
Mr. U. I.. Prudt‘n, thcl‘r.‘.\idcnt's assist
Int secretary. The certificatc‘was sent
around i r all who who we c at the we‘l-
ding so that they could sign it as wit~
muses." ' ’
Thomas .-\. lidisnn. not satisfied with
his remarkable achievements in th ctrical
orient-c now proposes to utilize the clcc- ,
lrical currents of the earth in order to do
away with the overhang wires that have
become such an expensive nuisaute. llc
intends to cvpcrinu-ct in Florida, where
the sandy soil is fret-r from rnincrd iulln-
euccs lll‘tll the Northern soil. After so
many \vourlcrhrl ir_vwrrtinns and discov~
cries as arc credited to Mr. Edison no
one \vouliTt‘ecl the least surprise if he
should telegraph through the blue at‘
mosphere without the aid of anything
more C(llllllllt‘iltl‘tl thaua penny whistle.
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Australinis again in the field with 11
World‘s fair, which Tshc has appointed for
next June at Adelaide. It might have
been supposed that with her doubledosc
of inttrnntional exhibitions less than
' seven years ago, whcn she held one at
Sidney in lh‘ilt and unuthcr at Mel—
bourne in 1380, shc \\ ould have had for
. the present a surfcit of them. lint these
Allows have conic to almost exclu—
sively trade all'airs, and Australia tinds
that business purpose-spill be served by
holding a fair in 1857., Dnubtlcss
American nraunfactuns will bc'wcll rep-7
lu- .
rented, as before, in the autipudal ba~ ‘
unr.
Sornnnmbulism and bicycling are not
kindred wcaktursscs. William Forbes,
of Morrisonvillc, Illinois, is’n whceltnan
of more than lo al celebrity. lie is a
somnambulist as well. A few nights
ago he arose from his sleep, put on his
Int and clothes, I):,‘SiI'0|l(‘ his bicycle and
struck out at a prize-winning rate
through the streets of the slumbering
village. lie was headed off by a police-
man, who was-not afraid of ghosts on
wheels. With ditiicult y be was rural-b
encd frtrnhis dream as the champion
‘hecltunu of the. world. Once awak-
flcued, he speedily abandoned the - turf
'nndc hurried home.
at Harmony,
near Oakland, lll., has been inhabited by
bees for anumber of years. The bees
took up their abode in the wall behind
the pulpit. The pastor of the church
has been anuoycl by them, and they
finallyth so bad that. they drove the
pastor, people, an'l all out of church and
had undisputed possession. One day re~
cently a crowd collected and ripped the
siding of! from the foundazion to the
roof, where tbéy thought the bees were
located. \ After getting the siding off the
men found that the bees had deposited
their honey in the wall between the stud-
ding, which were two inches widennd
Iix inches apart, that space being com~
pletcly filled with honey to a height of
lixteen feet. The honey was carried
nway in washtubs and pails, and divided
wag the neighbors.
m
«in. Pmraderptnf. Irma publishes
me authoritative figures as to the sales
of General Grant’s Memoirs, and as to
Hrs. Grant’s share of the profits thereon.
The lowest subscription price is $7.50,
11110 the cost of manufacturing the
and it costs as much more to distribute
each volume. Other figures of cost are
given, and the following is the sum-
ming up:
Received for 603,000 volumes. . . . . $2,250,000
”for manufacturing. .......... . $450,000
hid for distributing end sale.. . . 900.000
W of publication; . . . ........... .Sl,w,000
This leaves $900,000 for Mrs. Grant
find the publishing firm, divided as fol-
lows: . '
Iru’Grant at $2.10 rovalty per set. .630,000
I. L Webster at 90c. for pmfts, $50,000.
The foreign and future sales are esti-
..nted at another $100,000. "The cost of
million intoieveral tongues must. be
It will be safe only to
moat 'the gross returns at the same rate
no that given for the larger number,
majestimate will give: '
hr manufacturing-u-unw ------ 8150.000
The semiqnillennial celebration of the
_ battle of Sempach, which Switzerland re-
cently held, makes our Revolutionary
' fields, whose centenaries occurred a few
years ago, and even our earlier Provi-
dence and Albany settlements and incor-
porations seem modified by comparison.
rc‘main fresher in the world‘s memory
than many an engagement on a larger
scale in these days of breech-loading guns.
The deed attributed to Arnold Winkcl-
ricd, whose wide~armed swoop of Aus‘
compact phalanx of his country‘s enemies,
is still told of in the. declamation of
turylater.made known by Columbus.
charitable organization. The organiza-
tion will ineludenot only the. Christian
and Sanitary Commissions, the Red and
\Vhite Cross Societies, but also ' l benev-
olent societies in the United States. A
break out. If, for instance, the yellow
fever should again ravage the South,
be sent to the field of suffering. Onrairu
will be to minister to the sick and suf—
fering in every part of our country.“
The plan also embraces missionary work
in the far \Vcst, and one of the olr'cc‘ts
of the society will be to send religious
and secular reading matter to nll‘parts of
the country. '
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liarrv McCabe, child of Ilcnry and
Hattie llcl‘abc,~ resident New Yorkers,
was given, ten years ago, by his mother
to a'circus pi-rfnrrncr after . her husband
had deserted her. They wercafterward
f‘l‘lllillt‘d,§llill, searching for the little
fcllow, only four ycarsold, discovered
that he ' was being' trained in a circus
company in California and cruclly
treated. The machinery of the law was
fput in motion, and he was finally rcs-
cued from his unnaturalguardians and
returned here. Illut his parents having
nnce abandoned him, he was not sur~
rendered to them, but to the keeping of
the President of the Socicty for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to t‘hildrcn. The
late Edward D. C. liittrcdgc, a rich New
York lawyer, became interesti-d in'thc
tiny waif, who was very pretty and iii-
lclligcnt, and, having no children of his
awn. adopted him. His widow-has since
; removed from New York to Concord. N.
i IL, and, as she is worth about $2,000,-
000, he will probably iuhlefit the bulk
of the prOperty in seven years, when he
shall have reached his majority. "is
early misfortune will prove his good for
tune after all.
r
There are now pretenders to both the
Swvdish and Danish thrones. line of
these, in East Gothland, assumes to be
Prince Gustaf (elder brother of the
reigning King\, who at the beginning of
the century fell from his horse during a
field manteuvre at Shane, and died of
his injuries. Most of the peasants be-
lieve that Gustaf is still alive; that he
was carried oil' to Norway, because hr‘
Was bt‘nt on marrying a girl of humble
birth; that. he escaped to Italy, and,
under the name of Garibaldi, liberated
that country. Recently there arrived at
Copenhagen, from Stettin, two men,
lather andrsonvagcd respectively sixty
and twenty~0nc, having a trunk full of
documents to prove that. they are the
direct descendants of the house of Old~
inhurg. They contend that; if they had
had these when Frederic \‘II. died they
could easily have established their right
to the crown. They have the original
name, Bech, of the house of (lluckburg,
and their assumptions are supported by
the highest German authorities. They
have an iW 2,500,000 marks
to help th ' use. Neither of the two
looks like; an adventurer. The elder
strikingly resembles the late Czar of Ilus~
sin, and the younger resembles Prince
\V’aldermr. It is not in the least likely
that they will gain anything. but their
claims are very plausible, and they are
obviously resolved to push them to the
furthest.
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A Retreat In Bali Times.
“Dull times are driving many people
to poultry keeping," says a farm and
garden journal. lV'e can readily under-
stand that poultry kee ring would have;
tendency to enliven th rigs when a rson
found time‘hanging dull on his ands.
There is an exhilaration in attending ton
lotlof setting hens that can scarcely be-
found in any other employment. Kothing
dull in that, eertpinly. Keeping poultry
out, of the vegetable garden is a lively
occupation, too. Duluess and ennui have
no Opportunity to get their work in when
a man fills that task thoroughly. But
for downright recreation nothing can
possibly equal the amount that a man
gets when he sits up nights with a shot-
un and guards his lien~roost from the
geprcdntions of the prowling chicken
thief. Finding times dull, get thee to a
hennery. and quickly too. Farewell.—
1'c.cas Sifu‘uga.
How an Editor Popped.
Editors have their peculiarities as well
as other people. They practice and in—
culcate b:evrty, which is a virtue. They
are absent-minded, which is n. failing.
It is not strange. then, that one should
send a note to his lady-love like the fol-
lowino: “Dearest—I have carefully an-
alyz the feeling I entertain for you,
and the result is substantially as follows:
I adore you! Will you be mine? An-
swer.” Then, after a memento! thought,
he added, in a dreamy, absent way:
“Write only on one side of the paper.
Write plainly and give ml name, not
Wufionandanle ....... .... ,
» Total cost ot'pubnamu........ 450,900
Auteur
necessarilyfor publication, but, u a gnar—
good IIiih.“'-—~Bott¢n Olivier.- .
In great houses of former diamond in
some eollcges‘there were movable”, stocks
‘obttct& Co. 090.000. ‘ ,1
for new» of the arr-anus 5
1
Yet, ancient as was that combat of spears
and bows, fought in 1386, it will always.
trian spears. to his breast, in order to
open a way for his comrades into the
schoolboys in a hemisphere not till a cen-r
The recent reunion of the Chaplains of
the United States Snriltary and Christian
Commission at Pittsburg, Penn., has re-
sulted in the formation of a national
committee was appointed whose duty it
will be to supervise generally the work
of the various societies. line of the dcle«
gntessnld: “Our working‘mcmbcrs will be l
ready atamoment’s notice t igo toany part
of the United States should a pestilence
hundreds of our soldiers would at once
THROUGH THE RAPIDS-
Tlie Perilous Trip of Two Coop-
ers at Niagara Falls.
Making the Prightful Passage? Safely
in a Queer Craft. ‘
George Hazlett and William Potts, adventi-
urons Buffalo coopers, have made a perilous
trip through the “'hirlpool Rapids in a queer,
torpedo-shaped Mrrel. They were an hour
only going from the foot of the cataract: to
the mouth of the river, a distance of eight
miles. E.
Potts and Hazlett formerly lived in Chip.
pawn, Gun, and after the people there had
admired the novel hurt, it. was taken in a
wagon to the tank of the river, withiun
few hundred feet of the Horseshoe Falls.
There it: was launchel, in the presence of.
Hazlett‘s seven brothers, Pott‘s wife,
and and a large number of s; et-tators,
soon alt-3r 4 o‘clock P. x. The craft was
built. of oak strives an inch and a half thick.
It. is ten feet. long, with a round prow cov-
vered with sheet iron. A keel runs the whole
len th. The stern is flat and about two feet
in iameter. A twelve-inch propeller wheel.
worked by hand inside the barrel. and a
small iron rudder, worked with wires, pro-
ject from the stern. The greatest. dinmw
ter of the craft is three feet, and the
length inside a\ ailuble for the occupants
is six fet t, the front. bein headed elf,
so that. if stove in by it re rocks the
occupants would be snfe. The turret cow
cred an openin just large enough for one
man to get. into t e craft nt; one time. In it
were two thick glam bull‘seyes, and an inch
and a quarter iron pipe, through which air
was taken, Ellie whole contrivance was
bound with twentv two-inch iron bands, and
the wheel was [into red by iron rods. Prepu~
rations for the trip were completed by car 0-
fullv lurllasting the boat; with bill! pounds of
mm. . and putting a large piecuof rec in it to
keep the air coin.
At 4.30 Potts and Hazlett. stripped, and,
rutttiug on canvas mats and belts, jumped
nto the craft. and fastened themselves to the
bottom so securely that they could not be
thrown around inside by the «tier: of the
wave: A small leak was stopped n r. The
craft. was towed out into the river by
, Hamilton “adult, who , superintendul
Coop.» Grab rru‘s start. and two other
men. They stayml with the \ raft as long as
they safely could. and cast oil“ near the 1 anti-
leverbridge. The Captain of tho Maid of
the Mist had arranged to tow the adventur-
ers down. but. at the last moment decliiusl to
do so because he I! It. sure they wew going
to their death. l'otts laughed about it and
said that he \\ as not ren-ly todii- yet. ,
At 4:75 the tor Ictlu was carriot down the
surge of the first in-aker and buried stern
forerrnxst over the swell on touunlz‘the next
big wave. The surging currentr, coming to-
gether in the centrcot‘ tho gorge in a vortex.
turned tlrccrat over. When she rightel for
n nromcnt before being caught in
the next breaker, it was stew that.
the American fag which had bt‘rll fast.
erred to the stern had not been torn
twirlcd around. pili‘htxl first forward then
dowu\\'m‘d,arrd tinully the last wave tossed it
into the whirlptk I. It had been in the re ride
a few sc ‘nlliln‘ has than four rninutix l‘he
craft was carrisl so near the shore in the
outer swirl of the maelstrom that- Potts put
out his head and hand. They lrn'l escaped the
worst. of t he a Illl‘ll‘tli],l\n\l said at tcrwnnl that
they could have gone ashore. In two min—
utes they were close to the mcond series of
rapids, and just got the opcning closed as
they were caught by the warm and tossed
'alorrg. Several rocks “ere growth and the
craft got a worse shaking up than before.
they Were suckel under by in awe) near
Devil‘s Hole. and the passage Was longer and
hnnler, lasting sixteen minutes.
At 3 20 \ ornpnrutiwly sunsith wntcr‘ Wu
rear-heel, and n tloatdla of rowloats met the .
voyagers. Potts and llazlctt threw open the
manhole, climbed out on the craft, and set.
there while the boats towed them to the
landing at Queenstown, whi h was rerrhcd
at. 5:34, just. an hour after they had em-
barked. .
In the Monumental Hotel while themes:
were drawing, they said they Ilflrl experienced
n terrible shaking up, but. were unhurt. The
flying. The men have gone onrexhibition.
MR TILDEN’S WILL
Li-avln: an Estate of $3,003,000—
Two-t birds lor‘ l'ubllc Institutions.
The will or SarrurclJ. 'l‘ilvlcn was read to
his heirs at lircystoue. lie boprenthcd the
bulk of his property to public uses, but he
was not unrniudful of his relatives. The
value of his ‘estate is closely estimate! at
finlknlJ‘UU. and outside of G rcystuue and the
lirnnrcrcy Park (New York utyl propertv,
it is nearly. all in personal prop
erty. The amount liejueatbcd for
the establ’nhmeut of public buildings is fullv
NJKK'JM’. and the drsfnsitiun of this mun-y
is left abso uiely in the dis met ion of three
trustees. whom he names—John liigeluw, An-
drew II. llreen and George W. Snitlr. Mr.
Smith has been with Mr. Trldeu far twenty
years, and was his confidential Secretary
and the general manager of his estate.
' _ Mr. 'l‘rldin provides liberally for his n13»
tires. To Mrs. l‘elton, hs sister, he 'ives
the h also in which she resides, :h Vest.
Thirtyscighlh street, and the income of $100,~
01k). ‘ur ea h of tb 3 other rx-latives he set:
astdc a certain .suru to be hell in trust bv the
executors, the income t i be paid t . therr‘dur-
rug, their lives. they, however, to have power
to dispose of the principal at. death. All the
rust of his property, tireystone and the
tiramercy l‘urk residence included, is left
in trust» to the trustees, who are als ) one u-
tprs, tale applied to several public uscs'
'1hey have absolute power to do, or not; to
d0,ashe suggests in the will. All details
tire left entirely in their dis‘retion. except
in one poina~the outside limit is fixel in
each case. . ‘ .
The will provides for a free ublic library
and reading room in New fol-anon, and
another free library and reading room in
Yonkers. These are small thzngs compared
to the next suggestion of Mr. 'l‘ilden, which
p’rovrdes for a grand free library in New
ork, at. _n cost probably (I more than
three mllllous for establishment and endow-
ment. Nothing is swirl about the fine library
now in the Grnruercy Park house, the dispo-
srtron of that being a detail left. to
the discretion of the tnrsties No specific
dispos‘tion is made of any part of
the property exempt. in‘ the case of
Mrs. Pelton. The will . provides that if
the themes decide not to. esmblish the li-
bmtney may use the money foray other
{hey Ebb or feducutrmnnlh immon 1:an
I or. ’ 6 ma ' \ '
surplus 5.133.. this warrior. 3’ m an)
A large number of small bequests are made
to servants and friends.
MUSICAL AN D, DRAMATIC.
J on ernnsox begins his starring tour
of twenty weeks at Denver, August :‘0.
THE ballot of the Paris Opera comprises
143? women and coats $906,000 a year.
Ex-Urvrrrcn STATES SENATOR Bnec: (cel-
ored) will begin a lecturing tour in Oehber.
Miss Esau Yam-ms will be the lee ling
lady for the Edwin Booth company next. sea—
son.
Ros: Err-moi: has left the We my:
forever—and has determined to enter the lit
ernry arena.
JENNY ern has given up' her London
house, and is livinfihin contented retirement
at Malvern Hills, gland.
19:: mm HAUK has left Baden~Baden
to sing for the Empress of Germany, and will
return to America August: 14.
It is said that Gilbert and Sullivnn's new
opera. “The Khedivo,“js based on I sketch
«finned “Ages Ago“ by Hit-and Mn. German
Grams Suenxrr, the English actor-who
mused‘ a great sensation some yem_ego by
do with the Countess will come
‘ corntry a a mum Fortes-
no
cue”: company.
Rum“, the mag-i ' who has jouh
neyednll over Europe on rushed the
of. India at their own 'cks. ism
veg rue-sun of twenty-four weeks-in Amer
kt, marlin September. . y .
, com in
..opunnt ill-plea, “your. and ham
been my mismanagement-unique:
mum renovated,
away. The craft dashed on in the surf being ‘
craft was not damaged, and the flag was still "
“n I
NEWS SUMMARY
Easter-n .Id Middle States.
Saturn‘s labor riots have occurred at Cam-
bridge, Mum, growin out of n lockout in
Squire‘s great potk‘pnc ing establishment.
A narrator“ capsized in the harbor at. Port-
land. Me, and seven members of a family
went drowned, as follows: \Vellington Mas-
ters aged seventy 'ears: Jane Masters, his
Rare, sixty-nine years, and five chil-
ren.
Tn boiler explosion in the Lnnsfenl
(Penn) machine she was even worse than
at first reported. Five men were killed and
twenty seriously in'ured, seven of them with
probe ly fatal resn t.
Tm: New York City Trades Unions have re-
solved to take independent political action in
future elections.
A nnnuvrrvo y of seven persons were
struck by a train near Brownsville, Penn.
the other after-noon. One of the party was
instantly killed, grid the others were Ill se-
riously, if not. fatally. injured.
. BENJAMIN F. Gunnns,n “walking delegate“
of the New Haven Typographic“ Union, hos
been fined 850 and costs for handin out cir-
cular attacki n local newspaper w ich had
been biyeot . '
South and West.
Tun South Carolina Democratic State
ticket, nominated at Columbia. is headed
by State Treasurer Richardson for (lover-
nor.
Tun National Encampment of the G. A. R.
in San Francisco was largely attended. Gem
eral Sherman was the hero of the occasion.
Taurus Mrmmcn‘r for Governor heads
the list of (nndidltes nominated by the
Kansans Demetri-ans at their State Convention
in Leavenworth. The latforrn warmly en-
dorses Cleveland‘s ndn nistratiun.
Jcmn Screens, a prominent member of
the Natchox (hilt) bar, while laboring under
mental aberration conunlttcd suicide.
C. C. Crrxxtxoaal for Governor heads the ’
list of candidates just. nominated in Arknnns
by the Democratic Executive Committee.
Tm: Tennessee State election for five Su-
preme (‘onrt Judges and minor officials has
resultél in a Democratic majority of nbout
33,000.
Two l'te Indians of a party raiding at!
their innervation , in Colorado have been
killel in a tight with cowbovs. The I‘m
ti ibe are greatly excited in consequence.
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GENERAL 'Farn‘crrrrm. of \l’isconsin. War l
ele tad t‘ommrr‘ndoninl‘hief cf the Grand
Army of the Republic at. the National En-
campment in San Francisar.
selected as the p‘nce of the next. National
Encampment.
Tm: flu-Hes have swept away the entire
business park. of Mancelonn, Mich. Twenty-
live buildings were burned.
St. Innis was ;
.—
Tru-J new town of [.3 “range, Oregon, has .
lost. nearly its entire business section by tire.
The: In liann Greerrbnckcm has“) held a
State convention at Indianapolis and put a
ticket in the tield. {1
'l‘rrruzr: lnurrlcr‘c-N were hanged on the 6th, '
as follows: John I“. Smith, at. (lull-din, .\lo.,
for the murdcr and robbery of “‘rlliaru l’.
Gleason, n farmer {\vlllllll“ Jump was are.
ruled two weeks ago for participating in the ,
saute chine}; lid. Randy (coloredl, at. Spar- '
for murdering: a white ;
woman, and Kl‘. floss n Clrcrokim. at. Fort :
Smith, Ark, fur the murder of a white man. ’
tanburg. H. t‘.,
“‘aalrlugton.
LEADING lie,ir:l-licau members of. the
Horse, just l-cloro the close of the session,
presented Mr. L‘arlisle with a haurlsmre
silver scrv ice. costing $500. in token of their
high appreciation of his _ndnrinistrntiou as
Speaker. ‘1
Till: nomination of Herbert F. Beecher,
son of Henry Ward Beecher, to an oflire in
the far West. was withdrawn during the clos-
ing days or ('uugrt‘is, as it was understood
, lu- woald to rx-je ~usl by the Senate.
Some writer poured through the air rile an .
Ill-‘lnla‘l ll. It Dawson, of Alabama, Corn-
rursdmrerof lid-rent on: Thomas C. Barb.
Amociate Justice cf the Supreme Court. of '
Altamira: E. Spencer Pratt, of Alabama,
l nitcd States Minister Resident and Con-
FURIDUS FOREST FIRES.
A Large Sectionof Northern Wis.
cousin Devastated.
Villages Destroyed, Farm Houses
Burned and Crops Ruined.
Northern Wisconsin has been devastated
by fort-st fires. A Milwaukee dispatch gim
the following particulars:
For an almost uninterrupted distance of
nearly IUU_ miles north of Stevens‘ Point,
along the lure of the “’isconsin CehtralJorest
fines .are raging and hundreds of men are
fighting the flames, seeking to save the towns
and Villages hemmed in by them. The com
plete destruction of the town of Spencer Ii
confirmed and the loss is pln ed at
stardom). Several hundred ple are
destitute and homeless. At Co by, a few
mike instant, fire is raging on two sides. A
dispatch so that it required the desperate
otter-ts of t e entire pulntion to save the
village. A gale was bilgwing all dav and 93,--
eral times the~ tires reached to within thirty
feet of the buildings and were kept in check.
The village of Prentice, in Marathon Coun—
tv, is surrounded by flames and it is feared
that it will be swept out of existence unless
the wind dies down. Near Chippewa Falls
the fires are confined to the prairies and no
buildings were destroyed. Several farms
were devastated of their crops. In the Me
nominee River region copious rains have
extinguished fires that have raged there.
Estinmtes of the pine burned in this region
place the amount. at upward of one hundred
million feet. Along the line of the Milwau—
kee and Northern railroad forest. tires on
raging batween Coleman and Stiles. This
territory was burner] over on e before, and
the present conflngration is confined mtha
underbrush. The most. serious fires, however,
exist in the heart. of Clark and Marathon
counties Advices meived at. the Wisconsin
Central oflkos are that. millions of feet of
standing pine bavebren burnel. Thousands
of cords of wood. iled ndju out to the rail—
way truck, many undrods of dollam' worth
of ties, deserted lumber camps. isrlntoed
dwellings and much other pro erty is burned.
Telegraph poles are burned o . miles of wire
are on the ground and communication be-
tween Milwaukee and points along tbs .\'ortb~
ern Division of the “’tsconsiu Central mind is
cut otf, exrvpt. by the milnrnd company‘s
private wires, which are 0 rerun d hv iii-can;
of ground connections. '1‘ ougb no fatalities
are reported as yet. it is thought that many
pie must have perished in the backwoods.
‘enplc wh r passed through the burning tar-
ritory by train 'say that the blazing fonssts
ixht up the heavens in every direction. The
air is laden w.tb smoke that. hangs over the
country like a black 1:11.
A large tireiu wmvds ius‘ west of Ilepcre
has deztniyed a sawnuill, farm houses and
burns The pat-b of the tire extends north
for miles, scorching bot.
Forest tires have rern burning all arounl
the city of Marquette. Thut lace is under
ncloud of smoke and the. la'e is covcn‘d
with smoke, ol-stru ting the view. I’endrll‘s
slaughter-«house. lu‘nt. ~d north of th- city.
w.“ burned duriu: the night. At; l’htx’qut‘
Isle the new city park barely esra-n-d
dovnstntion by a change in the wind.
The afternoon train on the Detroit,
Marquette and Iloton Railroad was stopped
b ' tire near Sand River. twenty miles mist
of Marquette. All the doors and windows
were clmed and u SUCL‘t‘Sful rush made
through the flames
The village of Hewettville was burned to
the ground, sud a heavy IN inflicted.
LATER .\ ii \l'o‘.
Tm: strikis in the leather shops of Peg-
,
, body and Salem, Mass. have resulted in us-
.
i
r
l
l
. . l saults and riotous disturbances.
l‘uuursr:x :- nominations continued by the E
Senate in irslast hours are as follows: Na- '
Lmnrxrxo struck thfimnin stable of the
(Jumbo tNeb.) Fair Association. killing eigh‘
valuable trottem
A rim: at Eggloston, \\'is., destroyed a
large grain elmntoraud seventeen loaded
gul‘ Gguoru] (ll Persia; ()n‘pu “(Cay-r. 0t ‘ freight 1m. Four U‘.ll|p§ asleep in IC‘I‘
(‘u iii-silo, l'uitsl State's Consul General in l '
Ecuador. Consuls: Bethe-Id Greeuebnuur, of
California. at Apia: R. H. Joan, of New
Mexico, at Chihuahua: Richard M. Studden
of nnnnillo.
guslus M. Boyd, of Tux
l'ostruastem: Robert Nevel , Salem
\\'. ll. (‘bnpplm Little Falls, N. Y.
pher “'hitriey. Franklun ille, N. 3.: A. \\.
Copland, Ileu‘fiif, Mich: Orlando Hum-
phrov, Nvaek, N. Y The nomination
\l'illinnr I. llan molt. to be Collector of Cus-
toms furthe district of "own. Mich. wut
rejected. About forty rron‘riuatiuns were left.
ttnactel upon.
t-nxvrur. h” Jnus PORT!“ ha been : men captured the murderers and banged
placed on the retired list.
PROTUGRAI‘HS of Mrs Cleveland in twenty
different stylcs are our olferol for sale in
“'ashington.
Foreign.
Tm: British Parliament musembled on the
3th, exd’remier Gladstone taking n seat on
the Oppnsitiorr bench and shaking hood:
cheerily with friend or foe.
A rrrtr. in the Austrian village of Ulnrroff -
. destroyed 15.0 houses
A Tau'rau bu ntt ‘mp‘od to assassinate
the Grand \‘izicr of Turkey, shooting at- him
twin- aud their pursuing his carriage with a
draw-n sword. 'l‘tro would~be 1min was
arrested. ‘
True factions It war in Belfast~ Ireland. rc-
nowal their rioting on the 5th, and both side!
nttncked the police. who ntternpted to quell
the disturlnnce. The p slice res; ended to the
Itones thrown at them with revolver shots.
Many motels were severely wounded.
Coxontssuas S. J. Randall's speech on
the tariff oc:u'_ ‘ as thirty—three pages of the
Congressional l econ]. .
Tim record of the late senior: of Congress
fills 8,633 printed pages This exceeds by
about L500 pages the record of any preceding
session of Congress. " -
Smuron Warmer! MILLER says the tax
laid upon oleamargarine by Congm is suf-
fieientto prevent its being sold for butter.
Maren-Glynn“. Ronnar :XLLRNJQ Mexi-
can war veteran and Quartermasbcrflenernl
in the Federal army during the Civil “'nr
has just. died at Geneva, Swimrland.
er prominent young men of Sarniu,
Canada, started oneyueht. cruise on Lake
Huron a few weeks ago. The other day their
yacht. enpsizel in n squall, and all six were
drowned. ‘
EIGHT SJcialisfs of the extreme class were
unenrthei b r the Ham lurg police in a cellar
and arrest
Contracts between opposing factions
again took place in Belfost. Ireland, on the
7th, and. any persons were inju er in
fatally. letter I mob attacked the polio .
who replied with pistol shots. Eighteen more
prions and four policemen were wounded.
CHOLERA is raging in the citiesof Tokio
and Yokohama, Japan. ~
CUTTING, the Texan editor'whoso arr-es
and imprisonment by the» Mexicans has
created much excitement along the border,
has been 912an red to one year‘s irn rison-
nreut- and to pay a fine of $600. The exams
are hot. for war w.th Mexico in consequence.
A CLOUD-BURST.
A Solid .Wnll or Water Twenty-TWO
Feet. Blair—800 Sheep‘nrownod.
About dark, a few dlys since. u cloud-
bnrst. swept over Simmons‘s sheep coral, on
the American Forks of the Mussel Shoal, in
Montana. Eight. handld sheep were de-
Sh‘ored— The cloud seemed to explode at.
the bend or Dry Run Creek, and the water
came pouring down in nsolid wall twenty
two feet high, currying at! nearly the cum-e
herd, anl nlrnmt drowning therder. The
W of the animals are strewn dong the
river for .n dist race of sixteen miles below
thpgcene of. “I; drsaste‘ r. Vail In
a u per 'cllowstoae a was ,a 0
visitedjbg a terrific hailnllOrm. wélhih rooted
“9 an- yed em wing mg in a
strip of country xix milegsmwide. Ken Iter-
rill occurred ndoudwhnilburst. For lull an
hour the-hail was terrific. Therewere drifts
of bail fourteen uach‘ «deep in m J1me“
There was Ruler-m neoom 3 “ll;
slrhply one sheet of m coma down.
ru’compie m ‘ mammal
elections shawbt‘hintu: Republican and“!
Consorvntive conditions
min met-arm thou
puts,“ ' ’whiletlle ' ' ’
gr
were mace-tn];
wink-neutron;
‘ made!!!
i
ref/V
were burned to death and three others
severely injured.
AN El Peso (Texas) dispatch of the 9th
Moxioo, or. "trauma: «Polar: . stated that th excitement over the imprison—
Dcvlink, of Michigan. at \\'ind:0;.t0¥t!: a: men: of Cutting, the American «liter, was
‘ “N. frvjnteusitiml, and that the Mexican authorities
; ‘hristo: , would. beheai their prisoner in case a rescue
. .
was attempted. Secretaryllayard w” re-
érnrted to have made a final demand for Cut-
ting‘s release. ' _
Two men returning from a picnic at
Birdseye. 1nd,. were shot dead by Thomas
Hobbs mil his son. James A croWd of It!)
‘ them tea tree.
’I‘nl: President has commissioned James C.
Matthews (adored) of Albany, whose nom-
ination was rejectrd by the Senate, to be
Recorder of Deeds for the District of Co-
lumbin.
Dvmxo the rioting which occurred at Bel~
fast, Ireland. from Saturday evening to an
early hour Monday morning eleven persons
wenflrilled and 130 seriously wounded. The
‘majorityof the injured persons have shot
wounds. The rioting was resumed on Mon-
dny, and a. number of persons “The wounded
in an encounter with the soldiers The city.
owing to the wreck and ruin of houses, pre—
sents n deplorable appearance, similar to that
of Paris after the Commune. There were
5,500 extra military and police in Belfast.
and more were expected. Fifty richer-s were
sent to prison.
Ronux M. Sor‘mn, the New York Cour
niwioner' of Public “flu-ks, and Maurie: B.
Flynn, the contractor who was practically
running that- olllce. have been indictel by
:he Grand Jury for conspiracy. They both
gave bail.
Tn run: young daughters of Henry “’ymnn,
In For Rocknway (Long Island) fisherman,
Were drowned while bathing. ,
Rev. slur J ones. the Southern revivalist,
has been preaching to great crowds at. Lan—
caster, Oh‘o.
Ex~G0vnxon J on}: W. vaxxsox of Ken.
tricky died the other day in Covingtou, aged
seventy-three years. He was President of
the Democratic Nation‘s] Convention whirl:
nominated General Hancock for the Pmi.
leney. ,
Tut: boiler of a threshing machine on a
farm near Jefferson, Wis, exploded. the
other day with horrifying effect. Engineer
Anthony Klein and his son, Joseph Lester
and his ten~year~old boy, and Joseph Haas
were instantly killed. Another of Lester‘s
sons, aged eight years, and a man named
Fisher were fatally s aided. »
Tux President has apto‘nted Daniel Ma-
gone, of Oglensburgh, X Y., Golle hr of
the Port of New York, in place of E, L.
Holden, resigned. It i; undezstooi Mr.
Holden‘s resignation was requested because
he did notcmy out the President‘s C.vil
Service reform views. .
Pntsronx‘rrar. Pest-mastsrs have been ap-
pointed ns follows: Elias B. anley, at
Stoningbon, Conn; George F. Thorpe, a:
\Vestport, Conn: Frnnris A. Willard, at
Boonville, N. Y.; Denne‘ 1 HeGor-y, at “'est
Chester, N. Y.; Harlow E. Bondy, at 0n-
oontn, N. Y.; Jeflerson B. Brown, at. Key
West. Flt
THEEmperom of Germany and Austria
have had 1 meeting at. Gushe'm.
Human law has been proclaim j in Bel
fest; and Inndonderry, hem
Tin Iron reserve!!- eonuacted for by Fifi
River, Mm for in high mr will
be seventy-three feet in mm, thirty-
Ievon feet big with capacity of am 1,0“,—
00 :1 gallons, it is thought the lugs! om
bu' I. .
DAN!“ STOVEE or Galvan. 111., has on
nndispahdmcordot ran-unmanned
intbepnstfour Bonsai-attic-
to showforit. Hohobokilkdmlhlnp
amino-n wamufiwuw*
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate Sedans.
1621) DAY.——'l'he on for the erection of a
ublic building at Yonkem, N. Y. {site and
uilding not to exceed. in rest SIOKMZOJY. W“
paused . .The House bill to remove the
litirnl disabilities of J. R. Egglcston of
i§i§ip i was taken up and paged. . . .01]
motion 0 Hr. Hoar, the Senate took in i the
vetoed pension bill of Margaret D. :1“-
chnnd, widow of Commodore Marchnnd, the
question being on its 13.5838, notwithstand-
ing the President's veto. A vote resulted in
19 years and 15 trays—no quorum. A mo: ion
to postpone the bill was carrie l. Mr‘fiewell
then call“ up the House bill granting t3
the same lady the regular pension, and it
was passedw'l‘ne bill granting an in-
crease of permions ts) sol IIL‘I‘S who lost
a leg or an arm in the service was
received from the House with a verbal
amendment, which was reudil concurred in,
and the bill in sent to the . ident, from
whom it ha been recalled....The Senate
took up the bill extendingthe “immediate
delivery" system. and it was passed. ...Tbe
conference report on the Treasury surplus
resolution was .
LAST Dav.—— r. Harris offered a resolu-
tion of thanks to Senator Sherman. ‘ ‘for the
ability, courtesy, and impurtinlrty" with
which be had presided over the Senate during
the present session. The‘question was put.
and the Chair- (Mr. Huntley} declare.) the
resolution unanimously ndoptel: but.
Mr. Riddlcberger (VILl demanded the
presence of a quorum, declaring that.
the remlution ought: not t) pass. and
without a uor'um could not pas. In this
difficulty it ere not being n quorum presentr
the Senate moknrecoas untrll P. n... .Af—
fer the mm Mr. Hewley, referring t.) Mr.
Barb's bill to prohibit me.ribers of Congress
acting as ccunsel for subsidized railroad.
companies, said he had been seeking an oppor-
tunity to have it. called up und octed on. but.
other busim stood in the way. Mr. Beck
1110va that. the second Hondny in December
next. be 13er for the bill‘s consider-mien.
Carried. . . .Mr. Edrnunds, from the commit-
tee npgainted to wait. on the Pmident to in-
form nu that the two Houses were ready
to ndjouru unles he had some further
THE Brim Bran" ‘
Deplomble Fatal Faction Fights
in the Irish City.
Mobs Fired vaon by Paine, and
Many .eople Killed.
A series of faction fights incited by relig-
ious bate. together with onslaugbts by the
police upon the angry mobs, have cause! the
streets of Belfast, In land, tonlrrroa liter-11y
run red with blood. and have resulted
in the death of many maple and injuries to
nlacge number of others Accounts duller
as to the number of dead and wounded. but
there sees: a! least twenty of the former and
pml nlaly‘il“ of the latter. A Belfast all»
patch says:
Fiw thousand troops and 2,500 constables
occupy the distorted distrrct~._ The presence
of the ,pulim: “and; to increase inswad of sup-
press the disorders l'rotqstants do love that
Catholics cm the rig-gloss rs by yucck~
ing I‘rotcs m Imus s, while Cantrell-s are
cruelly certain that. Protestants Were the
I If one thing there is no doubt:
never did two mobs of diifereut. religions
display a more l-lmlthirsly desire to kill or
maim on: b nthcr. In the lighting on bun-
day and Honday.whenever powder mu wort
wmnen on l‘uLh sides. with flatworms and
other implements, ground ‘arge .gmins of
Wasting powder into 11 hi a norm!» 8 for
small am a, while lu>ys of tender .uge
incited lend int ~ toilets and slugs. \\ bite
the richer:- “ere firing youths and women
st >ol behiu l tin-m 'bnsrry lvfidlll: spare guns
l in onler to prevent a waste of titire. The fu-
silnde laced until nine 0'th 1: yesterday
morning, when amnion tion gave out. and .
her-it. tru a: ensued, bath salts rerirovrug the
dead and wounded in their homes. Bonn
sides are doing their utmost to hide their
limes. On Monday the touts received
mrnmunieatiou tau "rake, reported that
they were informed by the President
Houses on the tzrnrinntiou of their labors. . . .
Mr. Plumb reportel that. the Conference
Committee on the Fortifications Appmprin~
4 l'. 11., the hour fixed for final nd‘onrnment,
the Chair (Mr. Sherman) thank the Sena~
tons for their uniform courtesy. etc" And
then declared the «noon closed sure die.
Houst- Sessions.
the Fortification Appropriation bill wen
norm oncurrel in, anal a new | onn'erence or-
fcr.-nce report on tlresurplus joint rwalution.
end altar dcbali- it “as Insist-4m to r‘.’:, . . .,
Mr.
round on the Mexican government for the
relens= of l-Zditor Cutting. The :‘esilutinus
were debated witiroul n 110“.
LIV-1‘ Il.\\'.»—A hostage was received from
linrbor Appropriation bills ...Mr. Randall
tPl‘llll.‘ received unanimous umsent to
prmt in the [record it speech upon
the Tamil bill introd iced by him. . . .Mr. Men
risorr illlA ozfctel n resolution granting the
troubles in the ll czz mirrnixsion to sit
dut ing the re was. Adopted . . . . Mr.
linker (N. Y. . rising to a personal
explanatlou.srrid that the l r. arable and rose
lutruu nirai;nmg th~- I'emocrntis party. ire
troduced by him on Monday last. had been
churn terirl bv the gentleman
Pennsylvania ellr. Randalb as inde our
and disrixspez-tful. Th3 gentleman from
Texas «Mr. Reagan» had also charm:
incited it in language wach
was tirade. butafteruord unanimous consent
was given to have the resolution printed in
reptir . .
r. u. t 9 speaker, without any prehminarv
die
ID QUILTL-Y AWAY.
Tilden‘s Funeral —Buriml at Ii 2:
Birthplace. Lebanon. 3‘. Y.
The burial of Mr. Trlden was conduct-l
.‘l
in
New Lebanon. N. Y., his birthplace uni the
spot to Whit h his remains were taken for in»
torment. Despite. a heavy ruin a lnrgn num-
ber of prominent people awemble-l :tt- Grey—
stnuc on the Hulson to pay a last tribute of
respect to the eminent deceased. Among
thus: present were President Cle\ cloud.
with Secretaries “‘hitney. Manning,
er-Governor ('omoll. .‘(n \r (Grace. of New
York: Hon. Abram S. ewitt. delegaxi ans
from the New York Bar'anJ the various N. w
York Democratic organizations, and runny
other: The Presidential rty arrivel from
Washington on n spot-in train. The rail-
benrers were Samuel J. Randall. John llige—
low. Andrew H. Gris-2n, Daniel Manning,
Smith M. “’eed. Charles A. Dana, Dr, lieu.
I. Miller. “'irliam Allen Butler. Darrel Mac
gone, J. B.,'h‘evor. lir. Charles E. Simmons,
and Aaron J. Vande: 1-].
After the hate ha- been v'ewed by the
visitors and the moral publi-, Rev. Dr.
\Villiurri J. Tll|“el‘ conducted the ru
ligious exercises, which were short and
simple. Mm Peltrn, sister of the
deceased. and the last one r-f
her brother‘s family. was deeply afl'ev. ted. At
the conclusion of the ceremonies the ll—
bearers stood beside the collin'nnd locker for
the last. time on the fa “e of their friend. They
then went to their earrings: and a; the
thron was pacing out Hr. Cleveland st rod
ugh: typo-y and greeted those who came t.)
3 un. _
_The beam. followed by a long line of car-
mges, then ed to the depot at You-
kers. A sporial train of three Pullman rats
and one funeral car was at the depot The
coffin was placed on a. black draped cats 'alque
in the funeml car, the family. pall~bi nrers
and other close friends tille l the other cars,
and at 11 sléjt started for New Lebanon.
New Lebanon the home of the Tildeu
family, was mched b the funeral train at.
l P. it. Many of the cases in the little vil-
lage were draped in black. A large throng
was at the smfion when the train at iced.
The hearse conve ‘cd the body to the Presby—
terian Chur. where thee.) n mopened,
and the _ ic again viewed the tannins.
After barn open forty minutes the coffin
was again ‘ ut and the remains were taken
to the village cemetery, to which the 'I'ildeu
family and the pail bearers had already gone
At; the grave Rev. Mr. Burrill nude n short
prayer, the coffin was lowered and the cere-
mony was over.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Inserts are becoming n nuisance in Col-
0M0.
An electric motor ha been devised for
unsung - . ‘.
Tuner-c «idea he
Pork 3.0m _ new l‘n Yellowstone
Vuucm Ins been f... and with
androsecoloredInfluencev blue
A Gm: wire of mi existed
eenuy in the New outwit? re-
Tnl nggregute "conical of the ‘
bunksof new York cityonJulyl “33%:
358,207.09, being In law of 81!,210,31¥.0.l
linen January 1.
:fififiifidfiifiwfi
mhmvfiddgum Wt? have been
some“; nnmfirm
fully exposed to are fir. :3
oar.nr.nun—11A.NA. .;3 Kojue Indhn
me mix; : to be-
benied anal .i recently fordlowinz
toomnnyofhispnfienhtodie. '
AszmL mm called“
a I.v_o WV Rah. . 0‘
smooth,“ villa
marhnmdmm
I‘m in I. mix: W’
whbnmlnromhufldfiluh$f
,
that. he had no further communication to I
make, And that be congratulated the two’-
tion bill had failed. A few in mites before ‘
15-1721 DA Y.-—TIM‘ Senate amendments Ir ,
tiered. . . . 3dr. Morrison tlll.» called untbe mu. '
Belmont. Chairman of the Fahd}!!! ;
Affairs Committee. call-ed up the "room? ions j
rciuest'ug the l‘rcsident t) renew the do 2
the President announcing his approval of L
the Deficiency: Sundrv (‘ivil and luver nn-l ,
(\tlulllllh c appointed to investigate the lab."
from ’
the ,
facts hardly war-ranted: and it was due, no: ':
only I. I the House. but to himself, that. the ;
resolution should be ernbo lied in the K'l‘ord. -
Iution le printed in the Error-d. Objection 1
the ffc't "I‘d. . . . A Senate bill was tassel r: ~
the gift. oftho Grant relics. . . .At t ‘
remnrks. declared the House adjourned sine .
n simple unuucr, 102.11 a: Gr ysmu: and at i
and Endive", Governor Hill. Senator Evnrrs. .
a welcome donation of t .un‘y~fi\‘e rifles
and much (unnulllillun from B‘dlyrrn \‘ar‘ett
symtmmirers. while Hallynahmch National-
ists went the Catholics a supply of ammuni—
tion and rnanv revolvers of the type called
"SWN‘W‘leri‘ The pleutirms of _weapous
i will «institute the grm‘e-‘t danger in the fu-
fure. 'I here i~ n gvneral demand for a house-
i to house ~cn ‘rb for arm;
A Visitor who has been studi ing the cause
of the riot.» writes: "it is useleas mincmg
1 matters. The police hnvc tired nihlslain peo—
ple from mmc if not from \ru-hcuveuess.
l i‘he people llfli?!‘ that the latter was the
cause. The people regard the police as
murderers not mote 'tnrs Th Lb issue must
‘ le IIIKWI. l undruis of people have
friends (lead or dying It is. worse than
useless to an)" tin-y wantoaly attack the po-
li- e. The latter-‘11:.“ r'c DIVS‘n‘: the twople‘s
deadly death dialing t‘lZI‘llllt‘x The friends
and neighbors of the killed n‘wl wounded all
tw'nrd the police as f. is. Their bare pie-‘—
. u e is a terror to be repuls- d. and excludes
Ill“ ill?‘& of wantonnes“. his is now t've
; r. at. supreme difficulty. I have sen mm
in rr ape-rt rblc houses throwing stones at a.
i-al -h of tux-my p ugrcemen es (Med by ilk)
nurse wrkln-r s,“
A desperate riot took place this morning in
Spring: old. in with h a few yer~ous were
wound. d. This afternoon two men were
>l.ul by rlimr-dcrly p3ISUIlS in dill‘er‘ent part.
. t the city. line of the men was shot while
:11 a L‘atheli ‘ cr-tnetwy attending the funeral
(«f a Victim of the recent riots The other
was liral u; on in Urmreiinr Rand. Both of
:i;e injured men will die.
Ins “nor Bull. of the Rgayal Iri~h Con-
' sinbu ry. is dying. In .u-‘st are beln: held
. on the Indies of those filed and the funerals
0: some of the vi ‘Illll‘ $04k place. today.
Clergvruen 0: oil ermls are \‘l‘lilng the
, worst districts and are tryrngto persuade.
. the people to Pl‘ihfif'VG the was. Noll?! has
i been served on th - wholesale spit-ts nudbeer
dealers that a penalty of 5.10 Will be rufln ted
[or selling drink for mvnsumption near their
premises. . ‘
.‘ ores of the riotrrs wens arrears] and
soutenml a. various terms of impnmnnient.
in order that. it might appear whether
it justified the language used. H
therefore asked that the pesos l
A GHA‘S’I‘E—CRIME.
Horrible Story Told by a Colorado
_ , ‘ "Man—'Enter.“
l The trial of Alfrel Packer for murder and
. cannibalism. which has just been concluded
l at. liuuuison, (‘01., and w‘ui lr resulted in
l P ‘ker‘s lying sentenced to forty years in
' the twnitcntinry.wns one of the most remark-
able cases known. The last day Pockrr him.
self was pin-re I on the stand and testified as
follows:
“My-name i~ Alfred Pa ~ker. I have been
in th.. mountains runny y» nrs I was in
l‘tzih in 1575'; and I Worked in th» mines
then.- until I became lea-lei. r‘l‘his is a Iv. no
of lead colic pexuliar to the men employed in
vicinity of the surelters in 11.1]: and .\eva~
d1» Then I cameto Sadr. Luke, and the": I
Worked awhile in nsmeltcr. l was still at-
mood, and in the full of [5:3 I. joined sporty
at Brugharu Canon for a prospecting trip to
the San Juan country,in Lola-ado Territory.
“'e reached Dry Creek. near Chief Darcy‘s
camp, in January, 15”.. Here the pony
se minted. 1m .1 him. Gem-go Noon, Frank
Miller, James Humphrey‘s and Shannon.“ il-
snn Bell an! myself started from Uuray 3
camp for the San Juan. It was col-.1, the
snow was deep and travel dirticult. V5 8
gave up our boots and tied blankets about.
our feet. “Fe had to do it to kap them from
freezing: Old man Sivan rave out first. He
was old and in thin flesh. or brand gaveout:
on the ninth day. “'03 had eaten only one
meal a day during the last few days bet-arse
it was. storming and blowing so that we
could not see a few feet before us We were
keeping up toward the summit of the hills,
aiming for Los Pines Agency. Bell first
gave up his moccasins, and we made one
meal of flame, boiling them. 1 next gave up
urine and then tbs others. Bell had a hatchet.
Noon had n gun, but I currieJ the gun about;
half the time. I think we must have been
out in the mountains several weeksnfter run-
dcspemte and Bell seemed to be gemng
era 63'. His eyes protruded from his head.
While the others ' ed and talked be
renamed silent. The men cried for unit.
They did not ask for food; it was only salt,
salt. “'0 had been eating willow and rose
buds for several days, having found some
in the valley near the Ink where
Lake City now stands. “To had run out. of
man-hes and carried fire with us in a coffee
pot. One day we aw a game trail upon the
mountains, and it. war‘agreed that 1 should
goon them,” I was the strongest. I
took the Winchester rifle and searchei. In
ger. Intheevening when I returned I had
found mined: of rest bushes and had
ngood dinnerfmmmenymmm
I fail: stronger. As I approached
the tire I mw Bell bending over the
fire, cooking some meat 1 spoke to him,
and immediately he rose and star-tad for me
with n hatchet. I ran back dorm the bluff.
but. I fell. and while down [shot him through
the side as be approached me. He ‘ell and
the butcher dropped by me. I snatched it up
and threw it- n’. blur and struck him in the
head. I went up lathe camp again and
found that the ml: of them were dead
and that the meat: that. Bell was cool:-
ing was flesh from Humphrey 312:, I stayed
in amp the rest. of that night. I. then made
my camp of! a short distance and stayed
there for Why liftean" days. During this
time I was era“: with-hunger (ml cut. the
flesh from Bells a and boils! it in a tin cup
nn-l ate it. It n-a le use very sick. Hy stern-
neh was empty and «m and I m ital very
violently thatn' t. Afterthis I frequently.
are the meet a. several times I tr ed to get
out of the (mum. f mid climb up‘zho.
mountain, but. failingmseeuy hope I would
mlumngu'utotbocam and .5119 cut the
flesh from the Ruth? of I dead men and at
it. I mnbout forty miles from L0; Pines
Agenrv and I did not know the exact direc-
tion. This was along in Aural."
The xvieuess the-n mated at 3 length
but he wandered from day t.) t a" m-e: too
‘mountnim. Mung n , ly of human flesh
(long, and Shani. in, the days of April,
he found ha ny to 5&3“ in.
Far fivcfiours Pa her 0 'cupied the sand,
and prove-u the most madam wines that
was over placed time the sum: in this
country. 11' old attorneys may be believed.
In 18% Pocket was convictedof his com-
redes’ murder. cud canton-4‘1 to «leach. but
opined the gallows through lest] be firm li-
tres, out over “stem has been awaiting a
’3me no“ maternity mgtm,
u re; us we . never at
M mm
my .
lav-Item mmdhdvm
atrial-skid,“ My ”d
. h ,
was” mwuyhnggh
ning out of food. The men were getting ‘
the morning I. left the men crazy With huu— »
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