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J 711 HUXDKEDS l'EISISII. Havoo Wrought by Fkunes in tho Minnesota Forests. Ortr Fonr Hundred rfwoai Now Report ed Dead SufTerlnK at Hinckley Other Towns Destroyed Kor-t Kirctt la 'Wiftconsin nd Mlt-lilcan. WIDESrKEAl) DISASTER. Chicago, Sept. 4. Reports trom tiie portions of Minnesota. Michigan and Wisconsin in which the forest fires are now raging1 show that the condition of affairs there is more thn terrible. The loss of property. at a low estimate, has alread3 reached Sti!, 000,000, not including- the stand ing timber that has- been de stroyed. Ilut even worse is the loss of life which, it is feared, will reach as high as 1,000. Nearly 400 eases of per sons having- perished have already been received, while tho reports as they continue to come in are increas ing the list The best information is that about twenty towns have already been destroyed, driving- thousands of families from their homes in tho face of the flames. Worst Sufferinc Is at Hinckley. The worst suffering is reported from j Hinckley, Minn., and vicinity. The estimate of the loss of life there and in the surrounding towns is being in creased by ever' report. It is said that strewn along on one street of Hinckley the bodies of twenty nine victims were found, while in another spot the charred and un recognizable remains of 10:5 persons were counted. A low estimate of jst 7 0 list L4W-rp , VICEROY LI HUNG CHAN. This famous Chinese statesman Is known as the " Bismarck of Asia." Reports were recently received from Peking to the effect that Li liun had been divested cf the " yellow coat" a Gar ment indicating the hip'aest rank by the emp-ror for remissness ia prosecuting the war against Japan. Tiie report has not been officially conllrmvd. and Is probably a mistake. Li Uuiik Cbaa la 7) years of ace. the fatalities in that town alone are now placed at M0 persons. Scores of others were discovered severely in jured, while the list of missing was in the hundreds. It is believed that at least 100 victims are on the farms and clearings throughout the burnt district. The loss of life in and about Hinck ley, Sandstone, Pokegama, Skunk Lake and Mission Creek will not be known for weeks, if ever. The sur Tivors have been taken to I'ine City, where ph3sieians cared for the injured, while relief trains from Duluth. Min neapolis and St. I'aul carried in tents, clothing, food and everything neces sary to cover the wants of the suffer ing survivors. Very few persons are left in Hinckley. Supplies for SnfTerert. The extent of the suffering can hard ly be described, but already the hand of charity is at work, and the cities of the three states are sending aid to the eufterers. I!ut railroads have been injured by the fires, and in inanj- cases traffic has been entirely suspended, thus preventing the starting out of relief expeditions. Therr beems no hope for a cessation of the progress of the flames save an end of the great drought. No such hope is held out, for while much-needed rain is promised for other points "dry and fair' is the prediction for tiie burning districts by the weather bureau. Lixt cif Towns Destroyed. The followmg towns are reported either wholly or partially destroyed: l'.a.'.haw. Durnett county. Wis.: IJarronctt, Harron county. Wis.; Llenolt, W.s.; Kwen. Mich: Kiileld. Pine county. Wis.; Granite Lake. Harron cputity. Wis.: Clrantsburg. Bur nett county. Wis.; Oliddcn, Ashland county. Wis.; Hinckley. I'ine county. Minn.: Misshjn Creek. Pine county. Minn.: Marengo. Ashland dunty. Wis.; Milaca. Pine county. Minn.; Huacadn. Grant county, Wis.:" Shell Lake. Washburn county. Wis.: South Kantfe. Douslas county. Wis.: Skinaw, Houghton county, Mich; Sandstone. Minn.: Trout Creek. Mien. Twin C ities Send Kelief. St. Paul, Sept. 5. A relief train was sent to Hinckley on Monday with force of men and supply of tents, those being most needed just now. Additional supplies were picked up at every station along the road. Philip Martin, of the land department of the Great Northern road, went in search of Thomas Fitzgerald, land examiner at Dellgrove, who, with adozen workmen, was in the midst of the fire, and has not been heard from. The chamber of com merce raised S3, 000 for relief at its : n .l i!. .il vot.nl i. -ii-i a f fi rnr. , , t i t r.m ing the securing of Information from United States consular agents as to forestry management in foreign conn- tri.-s. with the obiect of preventing Juture forest fires. ied sixty feet long," hog uonse, lota, double corn crib with a tv of 4.500 bushels, good bear cilard also 600 youpjf apple : trees, ell and cistern, windmill, cellar, etc AH surrounded with 8 nd wire fence. One of th most ki.f.rm In iJass county. In- Thaaa t!nv to Balsam nubeha i 1 'rrci, rare Mixn eai cms, Minn., Sept. 5. The first relief train for the desolate re fC'.on froin, Minneapolis left Monday morning laden with a plenteous store of provisions. It was followed by another on which went a staff of local surgeons and nurses. Rev. William Wilkinson, of St. Andrew's Kpiscopal church, is in charge of the first train. A large local committee has been formed to take tho work in charge and the appeal for money, clothing and food is being liberally responded to. Maj-or Lustis is at the head of the movement, and his private secretary wires that I'ine t'ity is to be made the base of operations. TlIK IIKATII LIST. later I(pitrta of t utilities ICarllrr Kstl inult'a Were Inadequate. Vine Jimtion, Minn., Sept. 5. Lvory hour that crawls by adds to tho list of horrors in l'ino and Kana bec counties. The cyclone of llames that swept these two counties is dying out, and as relief and exploring- parties begin to go over the gound it scourged tho first estimates of tho destruc tion it did seem more and more inad equate. Tuesday night the relief committee, which has headquarters at I'ine t'ity, announced that at least 4.'0 persons have died hideous deaths; 1.C00 more are left absolutely destitute, hun gry, shelterless and half clothed. This is the death list as given out by tiie committee Tuesday evening: At Hitu-Uey ?tS Hetueeu Skunli L.aUo uuj Sauilstouo Junction 12 Suiulxtoiie Junction jj Sandstone "1 l'okrirauist - Surrounding i-amiis 50 417 Total.. Of these figures those given from Hinckley are an absolute record of bodies recovered. How many more lie hidden in the blackened waste, in the lakes, morasses and streams nobody knows. The figures in the following table are careful estimates. Besides these there are otiier deaths probably still to be enumerated. In saw mill pond at Hinckley 50 1-yinrf at Mora, ref-jees from PokPframa 10 Settlers alone south oram-u Sandstone river still missing 75 Buried in cellars in Hinckley Sa Dyiut; in hospital ut Minneapolis 5 Total ICo Woret Will Never He Known. More than 000 square miles of pine land have been burned over, a dozen towns have been absolutely swept off the earth, and railways and telegraph lines crippled and half de f.troyec". No man will ever know exact ly the number of poor wretches who have perished ur.der this visitation, no oue will ever be able to guess within millions what has been the property loss. NOT YKT SATED. Flames Renew Their Attack Upon Wis consin Forests. Ashi.and, Wis.. Sept. 0. Pprt Wing, a small town at the mouth of Flag river, 40 miles east across the bay from Duluth, according to reports re ceived, was totally wiped out by the fires Tuesday afternoon. It is a town of about 200 population, and is the headquarters of the Cranberry Lumber company. ires in All Directions. Fires are burning on all sides of Ash land. The same is true of Washburn, and, if reports brought in by trainmen are true, Ironwood. llurlej-, Odanah, Haj-field, Sanborn, Marengo, lienoit. Iron Iiiver and a dozen other impoi- tant centers of life and commerce are in a situation equally dangerous. A blanket of smoke envelops this entire region, and it is as dense as the pro verbial London fog. Incendiaries nt Work. To increase the terror caused by the forest fires the officials of many places have to contend with incendiaries. These fiends on several occasions, it is said, have tried to destroy Washburn and Ashland, and it is said they have started fires in other tewns. The po lice at Washburn arrested three sus pects Tuesday. Sunday they arrested three. None of them is known in this region, and it is said by some of the I , , . , ff0 . "arch.sts from th coal fields of Illinois and Pennsyl- vania. An insurance adjuster said he had learned from an official source It Catisules aresnpcrIoT f of iCoP11 ZM and Injections. IfTuU III la Of hours the S I by the Dr, SRi SSSSsSl selllt iiVl, 6 bottles f or , or , Allies Medical o. that the suspected incendiaries were j almost without exception Italians or Poles. Seven men are locked up Ui Ashland on suspicion, but the police, like those of Washburn, are reticent about saying anything as to the char acter of the men they have arrested Another Town Wiped Out. CiiirrEWA Falls, Wis.. Sept. 6. A late report from Bruce says the little village was completely enveloped by the forest fire that has been surround- I ing the place lor several uays. The peo- ; pie escaped by running to the creek, ' covering themselves with wet blankets and allowing the flames to sweep over them. Town Nearly Destroyed. CAiu.iN-vir.i.E, 111., Sept. 0. The little village of Sliipinan, a few miles south of this city, was almost totally de stroyed by lire at 3 o'elock Tuesday morning. The store buildings and stock were but partially insured. The loss will aggregate SoO.OOO. Kaln Abates tho Hre's Fury. Isiiri'.MiNo, Mich., Sept. 5. Fear of further da nage from fire in this vicin ity has vanished, rain having fallen. Tlier is no fire within many miles of here. The damage to crops, timber i and other property in Marquette coun ty is small compared with the loss in lkiraga, Iron and Dickinson counties. The total loss in counties west of hero will aggregate an3'where from 30, 000,000 to 540,000.000. Relief for Survivors. IHi.ith, Minn., Sept. 7. There are over 1,000 destitute retugees from the Hinckley and Sandstone fires now in Duluth, and it is expected that there will be but a few more to come. Over 53,000 has been raised for their relief, and food, clothing and lum ber are being donated liberally. Cloquet, Two Harbors and other sur rounding towns are sending supplies. Some are returning to their burned homes, leaving wives and families in charge of the relief society or sending them to friends and rolatives. One of the sad features in the suffer ing on the scene of the catastrophe is the large numbers of cows, horses, sheep and hogs as well as fowls that miraculously escaped the fires and are now suffering and slowly dying from hunger. The humane societies at Duluth will at once take this part of relief work in charge. The Total Loes I'normous. Dci.l'TH, Minn., Sept. 7. The total loss caused to date by the forest fires in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota cannot yet be estimated with much ac curacy, but it is know that comput able losses almost tax credulity. In four counties in Michigan the loss on standing pine is known to be at least si0,000,000, and in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota the loss is even greater. Logs ready for the mill have been burned in so many places that they can not be estimated. Millions represent the losses on saw mill plants, and other' millions the sawed lumber awaiting shipment. Still other millions were lost in the houses and personal effects of the victims. The railroads have suf fered in the burning of bridges and damage to tracks, but their chief de privation is of the future. Vast stretches of country, denuded of their forests, will have nothing to ship and no inhabitants to pay freight and pas senger tariffs. Men driven out by fire will not return even if there was busi ness to entice them. In the end the railroads will be the chief sufferers. Fires rtreak Out Again. Xloauxee, Mich., Sept. 8. Forest fires have started on the north and east side of this city. The damage is confined to standing timber and farm crops. A strong breeze is blowing and the lire is sr reading rapidly.. Caring for the Refugees. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 8. Since the arrival of the first party of refugees from the awful Hinckley fire last Sat urday Duluth has cared for 1.S00 per sons. Hospitals have been established all over the city and every public build ing and hundreds of private residences are sheltering refugees. Nearly S15, 000 in actual cash has been paid into the relief fund here, and the subscrip tions, including lumber and all sup plies, will aggregate S'0,000. Many of the refugees are leaving the city, returning to their homes to begin the work of reconstruction. For a time they were dazed and prostrated, but are now recovering and wish to get to work for themselves and relieve the committee from the burden of tak ing care of them. TURF RECORD OUTDONE. Robert L Wins New Laurel -Alix Lowers Her Record. Indianapolis. Ind., Sept. 8. In the presence of 8.000 people at the Driving club race meeting Thursday Joe Patch en. the black son of Patchen Wilkes.and Kobert J., the fastest harness horses in the world, fought a desperate battle for a purse of S5,000. Joe Patchen proved himself the greatest of all pac ing stallions and forced the champion togo three miles in 'J:03?', 2:02 U 2:04?, making an average of 2:03, while the time of the black stallion was 2:04, 2:03"' and 2:05. Alix, the racing queen of trotters, trotted a mile to dethrone Nancy Hanks as queen of trotters. She failed to disturb her record, but trotted the best mile of her life by going the dis tance in 2:04?i. The other three races that were con cluded during the afternoon paled into insignificance in comparison with the star performance of harness racing history, which only is a more convinc ing proof of what a wonder Kobert J. is. Canadian Woods on Fire. Winnipko, Man., Sept. 7. Minnesota forest fires have spread to the Can adian side and are burning the entire cojntry along Kain river. Mrs. Gamalay and four children are report ed burned to death. Bad Failure ta Buffalo. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 7. The Stark Tool and Machine company has gone into the hands of a receiver. Its assets are reported to be 8105,000, acu liabih- j ties $0itS33- Cures." ? L5i?5T rnrfl for C Mij;nff, enre lor . K r r.-i- FEED WHEAT TO STOCK. Reports from 3,057 Dealers and Millers in Wheat Districts. Toledo, O., Sept. 8. During the last four days C. A. King & Co. have received replies from 8,037 reliable dealers and millers. They cover al most every important wheat coun ty in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri. These states raise two- t li inlsi of the winter wheat crop, or nearly one-half of the entire wheat crop of the United States. They show it is mostly a guess to say now what amount of wheat will be fed animals this year. In sections where there is a fair corn crop very little will be fed. Verj much depends upon j whether the present conditions of low- priced wheat aud higher-priced corn continue. About 15 per cent, of the wheat crop may be fed in tho seven States named. Kansas will fet-d tiie largest percentage, Michigan nearly as much. Missouri next, thea Oh o and Kentucky, while Indiana and Illinois have a smaller percentage. A WATERMELON TRAGEDY. Three Men Poisoned and the I'oiiioner Ia Murdered. Maonoi.ia, Ark., Sept. S. Near Dykesville, La., just across the Arkan sas state line, Clinton Thompson, u farmer, has a fine melon crop. Kaids by boys became so frequent tiie old man put poison in some of the finest melons aud awaited the results. Thursday morning his son Felix, tleorge Uridges, a neighbor's son, and a man named Jooob Muir were found dead in the patch. Tlio neighbor whoso son was among tho victims was tiie lirst to discover the de id bodies and called Thompson out to show him the corpses. When llridges learned that Thompson had oisoiied the melons ami caused the death of his son he drew his revolver and shot him dead. UNKNOWN FAMILY KILLED. I Man, Wife and Child Meet with an Accl Uent in North Carolina Mountains. MfKi'iiv, N. C, Sept. 8. On Monday last there arrived here a man, wife and child. The man, who was evidently a business man about 40 years of age, spoke of himself as being from Philadelphia. Wednes day the party secured a conveyance and started for the interior. On turning one of the sharp mountain declivities the horses became frightened and ran away. The lady aud child were thrown out and dashed against a tree, which kept their bodies from rolling down an abyss of -00 feet, but they were instantly killed. The man held to the lines, but was so bruised that he died shortly after. It is believed the man was interested in mica mining. RESENTED INTERFERENCE. Henry Watxou Fatally Wounds Two of Hi Wife's Itruther. Nacoaiochks. Tex.. Sept. 8. Henry Watson recently married a Miss Sum mers, but his treatment of his wife was so brutal that her fam ily remonstrated. He sent word to his father-in-law that he was going to kill him. Two sons remained at the house to protect the old gentle man, while Jesso and Joe Summers went to Watson's and began reasoning with him. but he drew his knife, dis emboweled .Jesse and began hacking him to pieces. Joe Summers put six bullets in Watson but not before he had been fatally stabbed in the region of the heart. Watson is dead aud there is no hope for the Summers boys. - A MURDERESS JAILED. Culled Neighbor to the Door and Shot Him at Close Range. Jackson, Mo., Sept. 8. Mrs. Ellsworth, 50 years old, has Mary been lotiged in jail here for the mur der of Henry Sti:f, a blacksmith at Oriole, and a neighbor of Mrs. Kllsworth. Had feeliug existed n account of certain charges against Stiif and counter-charges against a grown daughter of Mrs. Fllswortli. Mrs. Ellsworth, her son Pressley and the daughter drove to the home of Stiff. Stiff was called out, and. with out a word, Mrs. Ellsworth began iir I ing on him at close range. Stttf ran, j pursued by the woman, who emptied her revolver into the helpless man. '1 he son also discharged the contents of his musket into Stiff's back. Press ley Ellsworth has not been caught. A M E R I C AN F rTTi "T IN LONDON. Third ConxiKiiiiiciit of California Products Arriic in liood Condition. London, Sept. 8. The consignment of California fruit whi'.-li arrived liL-re from Southampton :i Wednesday. vi:t the American l;:.e steamship New York, reae'i'-'I t ovent tiarden market in a far bee. or condition than the lirst or second shipment. The fruit was sold Friday at. auction. The peaches did poorly and the plums went fairly well, although the market was glutted. Any quantity of California Iiartletts will sell well, as the French Iiartletts are exhausted and the English are wormy. The total amount realized by the sale of Califor nia fruit was over 810,000. One Killed, Klffht Injured. Thuf.k IliVKits. Qjc., Sept. 8. (lag non's sawmill, on the St. Maurice river, was blown to pieces by the ex plosion of the boiler. Samuel Heauger. the fireman, was hurled 100 feet and killed. Eight persons were badly scalded and otherwise injured. THE LABOR WORLD. New Zealand has few tramps. Chicago has many barbers. There is a wild animal trust. Iowa runs a free labor bureau. Detroit has sixty union teamsters. Detroit is to have a daily labor paper. London printing- trades will amalga mate. Detboit painters talk of organizing a state union. 6urjday closimJ. . T V, T - j Jl WILL CHAS. GKli Attorney at Law nr ttioUTI1. ,J - ;.r A ce-rtatn Hrnnehitls. Cronp, iJJ ThroV.t. Fe-wDt take iBAKXEia i-ued onlj by Jtr Ta rlrnrfflsts. . .nGi Second AGAINST DEBS. Railway Employes Give Evidence Which Helps the Prosecution. CniCAGO, Sept. 8. At the opening of the Debs trial Judge Woods announced that at the close of the afternoon ses sion he would adjourn court until Tuesday next. L. F. Keiger, of Mil waukee, was then sworn. Ho told the court that he was not a member of the American Railway union. He was a member of tho Switch-tenders' union. On July 4 an American Railway union man ia Milwaukee showed the witness a tele gram received from Debs which said that the American Railway union was winning and sure of victory, and counseled firmness. The man with the telegram wanted witness to join the American Railway union and the strike. Witness did not do either Only twelve members of the local Switch-tenders' union went on stride. They were members of the Ameri can Railway union, and they went back to work two days after they went oa. strike. Fireman Charles E. Mills was then called. lie said that he left his engine lx-cause he was intimidated. The judge ordered this ruled out and told the witness to repeat the conversa tion held with the men who in duced him to leave the engine. He said that the men who approached him were switchmen. They told him that they had all left that nd they wanted him to leave. One said: "Take your clothes and come with us, Charley, or you're no friend of mine." Another said: "If you go you'll never get back out of Chicago alive," and another: "You won't get beyond the second street crossing here in Milwau kee before you'll bo sorry for going." He went with these men and joined tho American Railway union at once. A rigid cross-examination by Mr. Er- I win failed to shake Mills testimony. ! Richard Fitzgerald, superinter.'ient of the transit department of the Union ' Stock Yards and Transit company, was the next witness. Mr. Gregory ob jected on the ground that the business of the Union Stock Yards was neither the handling of the United States mails nor interstate commerce. "I think interstate commerce is handled there," said the court. "I think the street cars are engaged in interstate commerce. I have no doubt that hundreds of people board the street cars every day on their way to points in other states. In the stock yards cattle are received and shipped from and to points in different s):ttes, and this becomes interstate commerce." The witness went on to tell how the business of his company was interfered with by the strike. The regular meu i were on strike and new men could not ; be induced to work for fear of rnob ; violence. Regarding the carloads of , dead animals, testified about by Con ! tractor Hrennook, Mr. Fitzgerald said : it was not the duty of his company to ! haul them. So far as he recollected ; the tracks were clear when Rrennock I requested him to move the cars. ; Mr. Trimmer told of the tie-up of the I Panhandle road and the paralysis of J business, and ttien the cars of dead j animals came up again. Mr. Erwin ohiecteu with resounding emphasis j against dragging those dead animals i in. j On the cross-examination Mr. Trim- mer said that when Mr. Hrennock ' i brought to him Debs' order to the j i yardmen he told him that "Debs ; is not running the Pauhandle : j road." Witness did not present j j Deb' request to any of the j j strikers. The cars were not hauled ; because the company could not get ; I men, Mr. Trimmer said, but Mr. j i Erwin asked the witness the ! names of the railway oiiicials present i when Drennock presented Debs' not l and among them were two practical ; engineers. To a Mr. Truman, foreman ! of engines, Mr. Trimmer said that Mr. j Brennock would give S100 to any en;'i ; neer who would take out the dend-ani-! mal ears aud Mr. Truman replied that ho wouldn't do it for Slot'. ' William I. Henry, of Kankakee, a switchman in the employ of the Iili ' iiois, Indiana it Iowa railroad, was tilt i next witness, and one of the most im- portant olfered by the government. ! because he had personally received a I telegram ordering him to call out the : men. Replying to Mr. Walker, the wit ! ii ess produced several telegrams he I received at Kankakee signed E. j V. Debs. At that time witness was i a member of the American Railway j tin ion. I James F. Murphy, the engineer ou I the Michigan Central train which w:s ! wrecked at Kensington on July . told i his story. After he had been driven from his cab he said he was escorted to a house in Pullman by six men, tiie lead er of whom was armed with a revolver. Hero he was confined for some tim behind locked doors. At last he per suaded the leader to let him go. and while the mob was engaged el-ewhvre he succeeded in getting his tr:iin out of Kensington. Amid a fushhide ut objections from Mr. Erwin Mr. Walker brought by questions tiie information which the witness had subsequently ob tained with regard to his captors. He said the leaderof the six men was named Kennedy and the house to which he had been taken was 142 Fulton street, Pullman, second flat. He hail gone in company with some officers of the road and identified the premises. Witness said he was notified to testify at the trial by the master mechanic of the road. lropjMMl Head. Peoiua, 111., Kept. 8. Henry 1. Ayres, treasurer of the dime savings bank. -aud who has been associated with the banking business in this city for nearly twenty years, an Thursday dropped deael at White Hear lake, while returning from a three weeks business trip to Dakota and the north west. Two Men KiliJ."J. Staunton, 111.. Sept. 8. Train No. 42, he Toledo fast mail on the Wabash roatl, was wrecked near the cit3' limits at 8:20 Friday evening and tv: men were killed. i floarof CeTodl Meckel' NEW LIFE. Bradstreet's Reports Activity In the Com mercial World. New Y'or.ir, Sept. 8. ISradstreets Bays of the commercial situation: "Special telegrams from more important dis tributing points make it plain thjt in mercan tile lines trade is fairly active, fully meeting earlier and more favorable anticipations in a majority of Instances and exceeding them ia come. An increased number of interior buy ers at larger cities within the week has served to stimulate the feeling of hopefulness and. aside from the cotton mill titriUo in New Eng land and distress in tho northwest, due to forest tires, the week h;is cot brouni.t unfavor able features. "A striking feature at tho west comes from Chicago, where the volume of business in oil mercua'.ilo lines has increased, especially In dry poods, the total for the w: t l: be:n the heaviest for the season, notwithstand ing conservative p-irchasing in that li:u by northwestern merchants. Tiiis is dupli cated lit St. Louis, where there has also been a larger volume of sales. 1 oth by iu bcrsaad manufacturers, tlw tol d for Av.(.ust beii:' e-iual to jhat in Omuh'i ri-ports that Nebraska siill ne.Is a good deal of ruin iiuil that truCe it'a jobbers is f.iir o::ly. Mil waukee has experienced a decided improve ment in demand for j;ooas and money , while ir-t-l'aul reports t::at loss of life uu Idestruetiwn of villages and property by the t-re have checked purchases in that mar'.ies. Minneapolis uuuounccs that the recent j.-oel v.ih.u.e ef busi ness there is hcldinK its own. There is a reason able trade at L"uisTiiie and t'iucinnati. the former reporting many vl.-ltlt.g buyers, in creased sales. and manufacturers of woolens anticipating deliveries, while the latter reports that tho distribution of dry floods alone shor,-s a f:.in this week. Improvement in some lines a:;d a mod erate volume of business in others are char acteristic at Kansas ( Uy, but at ( ieve'. in.l there is a better demand for poods in almost ail lines. San I ra.-.cisvo r;-rts activity ia all lines of buslues. with satp-owuera in control of the ocean freight market und wheat run up two shilling lor orders to Cork. tJ-All southern cities rtpurt f ivoiubie fea tures, Biiminjhaui. Al., with increased sales and unimproved collections, the fewest. Gal veston announces the tct week s sales of tho year, nud August. that heavy cot ton receipts have stimul&U-d tr."'e i: (rencral business. Sales of hardware &l hatlancoa in July and August ajfre putcd more than in the preceding two months or the like two months last year. In :Le rtirion tributary to Nashville it is pointe.l out that th'j tendency of prices generally is upward, but that northern dealers prevent advisee, by of feriuif trooJj at wh it are callei -panic prices." linn's weekly review of trtid e says: I '-The bu'.ine ' vtlook is much !i e an April , day. v.lth .lcr.:-tc clouds and su.ishi.ie. Iu some branches strong improvement still ! continues, while in others trade is cimijish i in. Strides les-ea for the tin e the working force perhaps as much as it Is otherwise la cre se l, but the strike of gar-rtntniakt rs fcpread so rupidly that an early en 1 is consid ereJ certain. wL.le the strikes in cotton mills have advanced prices y.o much th; t a settle ment is thought ! t ilistan1. Tiie cocrnment crop report is thotK'-t to foreshadow a t-'reat loss in corn, while other observers believe re ports r.utei iaily elairiferuled and cst.intes of theield ranire nil the way from I Zkx J d.O to 1 "Jiv.O '.0 0. This uncertainty affects biisiiicss pri.stcct., to some extent and i:n aU i vauce ef one-aalf a cent the lust week has fol lowed receipts not hif those of the same week last vtar. Wheat receipts have been : 6 "7.1.-7 tusfcols. : rain -t 4 rj0.33; last year, aud jet the pr.ee iJviitiCiJ one-half a cent, al though Atlantic exp rti were only 1 l.V!.i?4 bushels, nirainst -J.lll.t'H last yerr. Pork aJ- Vdiicoil -3 cents per barrel und lard cents per l"i pounds, as smaller c-.timates of the i corn supply' were oiterlaincd. ; -taiiiirt-s in August as-'uretrated linbi'ities of fclO.lS.Mi". of which 3.1'.'.XJ were on manu fucttttimr and jj.l-Ts.KS in trading concerns. ! L-uri:: the week the failures were -15 in the i Unite d States, against K-.'l last year, and 47 ia j (Janaua, tgui.'ist :j last jear." I FISHERMEN PERISH. IliKliL I!o3t Wrecked 0:1 H19 Xorrpci IsLim! and Seventeen Deaths. I London'. Sent. 7. A dispatch from Helsingfor, capital of Finland, tells the story of etrcaelful sufferings experi- j enced a few el ays ago by mn em ployed in tiie Jlaltic lislieries. The lishing- lLet was all at sea when a terrific gale arose, forcing the beats to run for shelter. Some of them reached harbors of refuge and there rode out the storm. Light of them, however, lost their bearings and ran on the Noerpes islands, where the tremendous seas soon pounded them to pieces. The islands are' principally I desolate rocks. As the seas swept over the wrecked i.fiiiKg boats be tore the latter broke up they carried away fifteen fishermen, whose bodies were never afterward seen. Those left on the boats knew their vessels were doomed a:id made what few preparations were possible to get ashore. There seemed to be only ejr.e chance in a hundred of their reaching a place of saTety, b-.it this chance they teok and landed on one of the islands, almost completely ex hausted, l-'or three days the storm ragvd with unabated fury. and the men, who were v. il!io:it food, were exposed to its fnil feroo. At the end of throe days a passing vessel was sighted and in response to the fisher men's signals ran in u:ider the lee of the island and sent bouts to take rtr the shipwrecked men. In the mean time two of the lishermon had suc cumbed, and their beiies wore left on the island. The rescued were in a pitiable- condition. Several of them were? unconscious when found, and it is feared some of them wil die. OPIUM SMUGGLERS CAUGHT Ui-lectives Capture "1 wo Men I'oun-.lK of the Vrus Sr. Ci.--.ir. Mich., Sept. Jacobs and John (Ireen and 600 8. John said to be members of gang of smug- lers with headquarters at Windsor, were arrested at, 2:ol) a. m. The prisoners e-ri;sseel the river in a row boat with two trunks and abeut OiK) pounds of opium atid were; arrested by detectives who had been laying in wait for them. Tiie opium was ob tained in Toronto. The capture is be lieved ti be an important one, as the prisoners are thought to be experi enced hands in the importing business with many big consignments of poppy iuice to their credit in the past. Illit Attendance lit Stanford STASlowd'.MVUMTV, t ab. Sept. 8. The fourth year of the Leland Stan ford. Jr. university opened Friday. Light hundred and twenty-five stu dents have already registered, exclu sive of about lit) post graduates, an increase of K0 over tho number of stu dents last year. The total registration for this year will exceed 1.200. lt:il- iot the Cuu. Pjui.apki.I'iha, Sept. 8. Loroy Smith, the 14-months-old son of Dank er Win'.ield Scott Smith, found a re yolver and while playing with it shot himsel I dead. 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