f a f -v
GIRLS' PCCKETS.
Pirt'KKTS gal ne an- to charac
leiizc tli; fashionable girl's os
llliiif ill tin? Heir f'.it'.ire. the
movement in t ! 1 .A t utilitarian direction
Laving already lieun. S-.;ue Idea of
the extent ami character o.' tin- reform
may lit- gathered lioni a occriptioti of
a gown seen during tin- j :i ft week.
It was tallor-iiia.ii' ami evidently
branil ih'w-a rirli. iu-ct brow n
broadcioth. ss 1 1 ! -ii . I ',t!i ld.-ick. It
was of tin: iMiivcii:; ,.! i) en; full r-kirt.
closc-titting. double liiv.iM. t! mat. ami
worn with tlif !a!n;:ci of white col
lars iiml h smart lii tii-. In iti 'lf,
however, tin- suit won! 1 not have at
tracted notice hid it not been for lis
eleven distinct pocket., visible to ev
ery passerby. Four ) m-Um- was the
generous allowance tneteii out to the
nklrt. There were two large leiigih-
KLIVKK foCKkTS TO ON K fOTLME.
wlae pockets, onu at each utile, near
the back. Near the front, ami Just be
low the bottom of the coat, were two
more, medium-sized one. The remain
ing seven pocket fell to the share
of the coat. Besides the onllnary hip
pocket, there were two breast pock
ets, a lengthwise pocket on the rlght
band Bide provided for the comfort
able stowing away of manuscripts, or
packages of similar bulk. On the
loft aide, near the vHlst, a tiny leugtb
wlte pocket offered a convenient place
of security for car ticket. The re
maining pocket was phicd on the
I viml left laiel and might serve to
hold either the handkerchief or some
mall affair without overmuch weight.
tleevo1ee Jacket.
A new kind of Jacket hns the novel
feature of being uli'veless. Chic
enough for even a French woman, It
will doubtless satisfy the most ardent
seeker after something radical In cos
tume. An exceedingly stylish specl
men of the new mode Is innde of k1"'
camels' hair, Rtnl trimmed with sable
tails and eonllngs of gri-eii satin. The
coat Is ho short that It does not even
reach to the walnt line. It lt;mgs loose
and full, both In the back anil front. In
the lmck It forma a watteau pin It. and
In the front It turns hick In revers mid
then falls In two box plaits. The
fevers are Ixiimd with a cording of t!ie
green satin, and so Is the high Medici
collar. l-'pnulcttes of the loosely plait
ed camels' luilr showing plainly their
i-ilk lining form the substitute for the
sleeves. Ni-nr the shoulders are caught
LATENT JACKET IS HI.KK VKI.KSS.
two or three sable tails, and a cluster
of them dangle from the high collar at
the buck. ;recu chllTon matching the
lining of the Jacket Is tied about the
neck, fastening In front In o careless
bow.
Yoiina Women Kill 'fhctneel vca.
Statistical table yield curious in for
mation to the careful student. For In
stance, they ahow that over one-third of
the women who kill themselves are not
yet 23 year of age. They show that
women take poison, where ni".i shopt
theumelve, nnd they show that 'ho
poor, sick and tho Infirm are not by any
kind of reckoning In the majority. A
physician who makes a study of caes
of caw of attempted suicide said this:
"Get a girl past 23 nnd sha'll go
through poverty, elcknoe and deser
tion and misery enough to kill ten men.
The more people suffer the more they
cling to life. I've seen It In hospitals.
It Is not the patients -villi Incurable
WW0
diseases or the hojieless crippled a!),
lM-g to die. but the young, Mroiig. vita -woman,
who hates pala and doesn't
want to suffer it, even t T ' he chance ot
getting well." Another physician t ll
of a girl who commit li-d suicide, audi
who left a note stating that her red sou j
was that she was t!ti-d of doii.,' thi
same things over and over c :' day j
The monotonv of life had b.voiiiu ua
Ixa'able to her.
I'ecent Invention of Women.
A bicycle ,-kirt.
Noi:n tlllable bottle.
An Improved dustpan.
Improved window sash.
An Improved medicine glass.
An adjustable quilting frame.
Fastener for bottles. Jugs, etc.
An improved duplex dress shield.
Abdomlnr-.l supporter and bandage
An Itiipp, . el self-heating sad iron.
A tei !r-sha;ied miner' lantern.
An inc-1-..i i-d device to ;.id the hear
lug.
A table implement for holding greet,
corn.
A protecting pocket or screen foi
ranges.
An Ingenious machine for hangina
v '.'W paper.
A device for supporting flexible gat
pipes or tulies.
A shoe upper made of one piece ol
material and Joined by one seam only
An Improved refrigerator wherein
the shelves revolve, giving ready liceesi
t,i t!ie contents.
(iirl drummer on the Const.
Almost anywhere east of the SIi
hlssippl Valley the girl drummer hai
come to lie regarded as a fact, but it
the vast legion west she Is as yet i
rarity. This Is especially true of ("all
fornla. and Miss (Jlenn Byrne, a bus
tllng girl from New York. Is glad thin
she Is a novelty there. She travels fol
n house that deals In women's ready
made gowns, ami since her arrival It
the (iohleu State she has Ix-eu doing t
tine busliii'ss. Miss Rynie Is a sllii
little girl, not particularly good-look
Ing. but with an attractive manner. Ot
course all drummers even tlx" men
are voluble talkers. According to al
ncmunta this young woman fully sus
tains the general reputation.
"How did you happen to go Into thli
buslnifis?" she was askeil.
"That Is easily answered. I took il
up because I saw that there was a fu
ture In It for mo. It Is one of the few
professions that ore not overcrowilit'
with women. I love the life I ulu lead
lug the very uncertainty of It keep
me constantly In a state of plensurabU
excitement. No, I don't call myself a
new woman nt all.i I fall to see why c
girl cannot be Just as feminine In inj
bi.-sluess as though she knitted tidies
for a living."
Revival of Knlttiri-.
One of the fads which are at presen!
hovering on the brink of general adop
tion Is 'hat of knitting. The iistlui('
of our grandmothers woh quite the rage
at NewMirt last season. The swell girl
went around with bags of yarn on their
arms, and knitted themselves and their
admirers golf, bicycle and tennis stick
ing, as well as traveling bags and urn
brella covers. At present stockings arc
what the fashionable girl devotes most
of her attention, to. The swell young
man has bicycle stockings knitted for
him by his 1.... admirers now. lie ru;
longer has to buy them. All he docs Is
to pick out the color yarn be wants, and
one of his girl friends converts It Intu
stockings.
Weddlnic Hint.
Only ma lib should wear white; wid
ows are to be dressed In gray or mauve,
and a bonnet, too, la considered best
form for a widow.
It has become very fashionable to
have odd days to Is? married on, sucli
us Monday or Saturday, an unheard-of
thing a few years ago, when Wednes
day or Thursday was tho day Invaria
bly chosen.
A very pretty fashion Is to have loose
bunches of the prevailing flower fast
ened to tho top of the pew's end In the
church; not every one, but nt careless
Intervals, and tho effect Is very strik
ing. The brlde-to-bo, or some near friend
If she can't get through with sn ninny,
writes a note of thanks for euch gift,
tho sooner tho better, and it Is usual to
Introduce the groom's name In some
way and write them In the plural num
ber. A very pretty Idea Is the one In vogue
for tho last few years of having the
marriage certificate Isjtind In white kid,
with a tiumlsT of vacant pages npismd
ed for each guest to sign his name. It
makoa a very Interesting thing to have
and to hand down.
r.I.KNX 1IVRNK.
G M VW out.
r:j)iimiium m th Antil Hrttk
Tti.t Follows
WtuitSBARHE. Pa., Oct. 3). By a
explo -0'i oj nas tecterday afureoo-i in
No. 3 ehaft of the I ebijtli and Wi.kes
barre Coal roiupiny eix men were killed
and two injured, t li - dea l are:
William K. Jones, tire bo;?.
John W. Josephs, assistant mine f ore
man. Thsmas Owens.
William I-acey, contractor.
James Herring.
Josepii W orth.
The injured :
Jaineg Davis, laborer, overcome by
Jo. in Davis, laborer, overcome by gas
and hru.ted on the body,
i Six other-" were brought to the Bur-fai-e
uninjured.
When the ex plot ion occurred Wi'.'.iam
Lscey, a contractor, was at work in a
roi k tunnel alo it a mile from the loot
of the shaft nh thirteen men. Imme
diately after the explo-ion a rescuing
gang was organized by Fire Hosb William
K. Jones and Vssistant Foreman John
W. Josephs. The men proceeded down
the ehdft, Jones and Jo-iephs being far
in advance. When about one mile froaa
the foot of the i-hatt they slum bled ove
the bjdies o( Contractor l.acey, Owens,
Herring and Worth. At this point Jones
and Josephs were overcome by black
damp and fell dead in their tracks. The
other rescuers were forced to beat a
hasty retreat, bringing the bodies of
Jones and Josephs with them. '
) A few hours later the air current was
partly restored and the men were able
to push their way into the tunnel, and
at 8:30 last night signalled that they,
bad reiovered the bodies of the four
rock miu'-rs. The rescuers with the;
bodies were brought to the surface,
shortly afterwards. J
: There were teveral theories as to the
cauHe of the explosion. The mine is
known to be a gas-ous one and extra
precautions have always been taken to
guard against explosions. All the menj
at work in the tunnel carried safety
lamps, so it is not believed that the gas
was exploded from a naked lam . The
moet plausible theory is that the ?a8
was ignited by a blast.
' The roof of the fan houee was blown
off and the building otherwise damaged.;
The shock from the explosioa was heard
fully a mile away. The mine is on Are
and will cause the company much trou
ble and expense before the flames can
be subdued. In paHt years this colliery
has been the scene of several bad ex
plosions, 'lhe most destructive oc
curred on Sunday, March 9, 1WK), by1
which ei;ht miners were burned to
death in a most horrible manner, and
two years ago som of the members
of the New Y rk coal exchange
h id an irrow escape. A party of
ten weie on the carriage and leen
lowered a thort distance into the shaft
when an rx plosion took place near the
foot. The carriage was quickly hoisted
ou'. of ihe shaft jiiH', in timi to save the
lives of the New Yorkers.
I a-a JliryctUtM.
Xashviu.k, Tenti., Oct. 30. John 8..
J' hnson, vi ho Wednesday wiped from
t le record the quarter an.! half miles
paced records, was paced in the half
mile to the tape by the sextuplet and'
the "quad," the former drooping out at
the tape and the second "quad" urging
on the "sex" at the side of the big ma
chine, j
Johnson flew across the tape in :47,
four-fifths of a second below the record'
of Riser, made at Ooronado. An error
in placing the finishing tape of 100 feet?
was discovered later, and Johnson's
ti -lie should have liecn :4) 2 5. lie will
go again.
In the quarter the "quad" carried the
"sex" to the tape with Johnson trailing,
crossing the tape in tho wonderful time
of :20 2-5. Johnson will doubtless ride
inside both of these times when he has
wind assistance
The "quad" team, captained by Fred
Waller of London, with Meyers of
Minneapolis, I'.railis of Chicago and
Seavcr of l'ortland, borke the half mile
un paced in :4I) 4-5, breaking the half
mile "quad" record in :o2 by the (irace
"quad" of England.
iUi.TiMoi:n, Md., Oct. 3'). W. L. "ck
hardtofthia city rode a mile slraight
away un paced in one minute and thirty
seven seconds, netting a new record for
the distance for bicycle tiders. The
trial was made on the York road near
Tow son.
tlht to Iietttli In the Win In.
Spokane, Wash., Oct. 30. Matthew
Roderick, a civil engineer of Seattle,
Wash., was killed Monday by Foreman
Keene of the Caribo Mining company,
near Camp Mcllnty, British Columbia.
Secretary McAuley of the Cariboo
company was held up August 18, and re
lieved of a gold brick valued at $11,000.
Roderick was suspected of the crime
md followed ?o Seattle by detectives,
but they were unable to secure any cvi
deace against him. A few days ago he
returned to the mine, where he was
closely shadowed. j
Monday he left for the woods and was
supposed to lie searching for the buried
bullion when detected by Keene. A
fight followed, which tesulted in the
death of Roderick. Keene it being held
by the British Columbia authorities
Roderick was w idely known in the min
ing districts. He leaves a widow and
two children in Seattle.
W II Farnl.li lliindi.
New York, Oct. 30 Work was ro
ceived at Ellis island yesterday morn
ing that bonds would be icquired in the
rases of the detained Armenians. Mr.
Hague Dozggian, an Armenian mer
chant of Boston, has agreed to give bond
to the extent of $05,000 and will be rep
resented by Mrs. Fessenden of the W.
C. T. U. Dr. Louis Klopsr of the Chris
tian Herald and the Salvation army,
through Booth-Tucker, also agreed to
'urnlih some of th bonds.
Am Intiinu Ia-a of lb t !a Wr J
Dkmvkk, Oct. Vt -Cha-dM Lot-Lite of 1
th " city, who joind the Cuban army j
last spring and was taken prisoner by I
the pan arde, and after three weeks !
imnriiuininint ii, MurA i-flutla u-qb rb. i
i i .i . .. - . t n
lei- ed through the u Jercetsion of Con- I
ul jeneral I-ee, has just arrived here, i
' The sen'iment among the. Cubans
said he "le that Cuba will be free w ith
in 1 mr or five months. It is eetiniaud
by ell informed ollicers of the Cuban
are if that the Spaniard? have lost
:i",cX) men eiuce the war opened. The
atrocities practiced by the Spaniards,
w ho are exasperated beyond endurance
by the persistence of the Cuban", would
hardly be credited. I have seen women
am' girls outraged, and I saw an Ameri
can citiien, Dan Erb, formerly a fire
man on the Denver A Rio Grande rail
road at Ieadvilie, shot doTii in
blood by a Spanish ollicer. Erb
taken prisoner at the same time as
cold
was
my-
self. We were held as prisoners on the
side of the tailroa i track awaiting the
train t carry us to Havana. A Spanitli
ollicer entered into conversation with
Erb, w h j exclaimed defiantly that he
was an American' citizen aud exjieeted
to be treated like a m.in. The officer
drew a six-shooter and killed Erb on the
spot
" iVhile I was confined in the castle I
witnesstd many staitling scenes Every
morning the prisoners are obliged to go
to the sea shore and bathe. They are
sent out in gangs of twenty men under
heavy guard. I no'iced that some men
were eaten by sharks. Hundreds, and
perhaps thousands, of prisoners have
been disposed of through the agency of
sharks.
"The doors of the inclosures surround
ing the caBtle are left open, as if to in
vite ecape, but no man who has made
the attempt has been heard of again.
Those w ho attempt to leave are shot
down like rats.
"In the castle I was fed on tortillas
knd w&U-r. Ihe tortillas have evidently
been doctored, for they are unlike any
thing I ever tasted. The water was salt
and (nought on dysentery. In a room
eight by ten feet in size, twelve prison
ers were obliged to sleep in tiers, the
up)ier tier reaching to the ceiling. Of
rourse there was no ventilation and
every body in the room was sick. Ac
cording to the Is-Ht estimate I could get,
there are over 3,000 men confined in the
caBtle under the conditions I have
named."
Jupftn ffinti Natjt.
Ban Francisco, Oct. 29. Commodore
K. Marita, of the imperial Japanese
army, was a passenger on the Bteimer
Coptic, which has arrived from the
Orient, He is an attache of the legation
at Washington, under special commis
sion to visit the navy yardB and ship
building yards of the United States ai d
England, and prepare reports on the
construction of battleships for the guid-
ance of the government in building the
much talked of "new navy."
Commodore Marita is a veteran naval
officer, who has seen much service. He
commanded a vessel during the recei t
Chinese-JapaneBe war, and took an a
tive part in the famous battle of We -Hai-Wei.
During the time lie has been
m the service, he has devote! a great
deal of timi to the study of naval archi
tecture, and is considered an authority
on the subject of his own country.
The mission on which Commodore
Marita cornea tothij country is one of
great importance, for his report will pro
bably greatly influence Japanse govern
ment in letting contracts for a number
oi powerful battleships, fast cruisers and
swift torpedo boata.
"I am here," he Baid, "as the agent
of the Japanean government to inspect
your ship-yards, study naval architec
ture and gain all the information pos
sible in securing the warships it will
need for its own defense. After inspect
ing the American yards, I shall go to
England with the same object in view.
More than that I cannot jay now."
Commodore Marita travels as an at
tache of the Japanese legation, in order
that he may be in closer touch with the
government. He calculates that the
work he has undertaken will requiie
many months of dilligent effort, and he
proposes to commence investigations in
this city.
New Honor nnd I'unlHh merit at Onre.
Peking, Oct. 29. Li Hung Chang has
been appointed minister of foreign
affairs.
Simultaneously with his appointment
as minister of foreign affrirs,an imperial
edict orders Li Hung Chang to be pun
ished for presuming to enter the pre
cincts of the ruined summer palace while
visiting dowager empress.
Death In a Gale.
Colomiiia, Ceylon, Oct 29. A num
ber of passengers and the crew of the
British steamer Taiff, which plies be
tween the island of Mauritius and Bom
hay wore lauded here. They report that
the steamer foundered during a heavy
gale on September 24, and that twenty
seven natives were drowned.
Uolfl Co mm From Cuba.
Niiw York, Oct 20. The Bank of
British North America has deposited
$350,000 in gold coin at the sub-treasury.
There has I leen deposited at the assay
oltice 1370,000 in gold from Europe and
$200,000 from Cuba.
Injured t a Kulljr, -
Bhkkden, W, Va., Oct. 29. During
a political rally Tuesday night a riot oc
curred in which several persona were
Injured. Among the number were two
women. A number of men had been
drinking, and began a quarrel and It was
believed atone time that many would
be killed. The seriously injured r
Mrs. Lydla Maynard, Sarah Browning,
Ira Goodall. Tom Sandall. The meet
ing at which the riot took place was be
I mi add rested by various county candi
dates of both parties. .
UtMUEl) JV It V mM,
Work UK,Girlft'aubtlu a UurulDj, Balld
ing But are Mved.
Bucoklyk, X. Y., Oct. 27. A dieas
trous fire in Ronalds &. Co.'i eix-etory
buil ling, on the corner of ttate street
, " . , , . . ,
and Rarnum Place, in which there were
j a number of narrow escas from loss
I of He, took piai yesterday afternoon.
' The firm are wholesale dealers in
j plumbere' sup;ly and other tenants are
i Fay Haiman & Chadi- k, manufac
j turers of corsets ; Lockitt A Findley and
Seiiiuion U o'hers, skirt manufacture rB.
The latter firme employ about seveiity
five girls, and the fact that al' git out
Atfely is almost miraculous, lie they
were in the upper stories The tire ori
ginated on the fourth floor from an un
knot n cause and spread rapidly both
upward and downward, and in a few
minutes the whole structure was a mass
of flames, and thousands of people col
lected in the streets neir by. The Fay,
Harman & Chad wick employes, about a
hun-Ired in number, nearly all girls,
were in the part ot the b iild.ng first at
tacked by the flames an I there was a
great j.im on the stairs and tire escapes,
but so far as could be learned last lliiiht
all have been accounted for. Many of
them fainted and had to be carriei
down stairs by the firemen and male
employes.
The girls in Semmori Brothers' skirt
factory were panic stricken w hen the
dense smoke began penetrating their
rooms and many screamed and rushed
helplessly about. The employers, as
sisted by the ma e help, partially quieted
the girls and piloted them to the stair
way and all reached the street in safety
and most of them with their wrapB and
hats.
Tiie fire burned for five hours and
completely wrecked the building. The
loss is estimated at $300,000.
Nearly Mrrie Ilin MtT.
Siw Yohk, Oct. 'J8. A wedding an
nounced for Sunday last at Dr. Hough
ton's "Little Church Around the Corn
er," did not take place, because almost
at the last moment the discovery waB
made that the couple to be married were
brother and fister.
Fiftem years ago a man named Bryan
and liia wife died in Chicago, leaving
two girls, Edna and Maud. Their only
son, Joseph, had run away from home a
year previously. Th little girls were
bright and pretty, and Mrs. Alice Town
send, the wife of a variety show mana
ger, adopted them In course of time
they went on the stage as the Harvey
listers. A year ago Edna married a Mr.
Melrose of Baltimore and retired to pri
vate life. Maud went to London where
lhe found employment at the Alhambra.
There she met Peggy Prime and her
husband, Joe Allen.
Maud and Joe Allen loved each other
st first Bight. Miss Prime objected and
finally obtained a divorce. Allen ana
, his new love catue t0 United States,
intending to marry. On Friday Allen
told stories of his early life and his
wentty was ujscpverei
N-wpnper Man Ends HU L fe.
Oudkn, Utah, O t. 28 -At 9:30 yes
terday morning 1. L. Welsh of Salt Lake
was foiiiid dead in room i09 in the Keed
hotel, this city, from an overdose of
laudanum. Welsh was a prominent
politician and newspaper man and for
two years, 182-94, w as deputy sheriff of
Salt Lake county, under Sheriff Mc
Queen. For the past two years he lias
been engaged in newspaper work for
8a!t Lake papers, notably the Herald,
but was at the time of his death work-
ling for Colonel Dunn, on the Utahian.
He had been drinking heavily for the
past ten days, but had been drinking
nothing during all of yesterday. Mon
day night Sheriff Wright was with
Welsh until lie retired. He left a note
i laying: bend tor Dennis smith (a
liloonmau) or Sheriff Wright. jSo
cause is assigned for the act except de
Bpondency. He leaves a wife and fam
ily. A llloody Hull l'lht.
Nooalks, Ariz., Oct. 28. A bull fight
with fatal results occurred at Kogales,
Sonora, Mexico, Sunday and for a Bhort
time caused a panic in the audience.
One bull, becoming more enraged than
usual at these tame fights, ranted about
the arena, goring everything within its
reach. A horce was disembowled and a
picador, Jose Angulo, in an attempt to
place a thorn in the side of the wild ani
mal, was caught on orio of ks long horns,
which pierced him like a sword, He
was to-ed and fell to the ground, bleed
ing and mangled, where the beast held
him between his horns and pawed him.
He was frightfully injured and died a
few minutes later.
Intense excitement reigned in the
audience and at one time it was on the
verge of a panic, but was quieted by the
killing of the bull.
Ilrlptlie 1-ariiii.ri,
Seattlk, Wash., Oct. 28. An infor
mation paper has compiled a report
showing that the farmers of eastern
Washington have since the recent rise in
wheat Bold 15,000,000 bushels atan aver
age price of '10 cents, the crop netting
about $.i,f)00,000 more than last year.
This Biason the farmers were enabled
to borrow nionev on warehouse receipts,
which enabled them to hold their wheat
until the rite.
"ml llHKuml to Kill.
Nkw York, Oct. 28. Four masked
robbers Sunday morning stole $5,001
from Mr. and Mrs. Antlons Monagan
In the mining village of Rappahannock.
The beads of Mr. and Mrs. Monagan
were crudied with sandbigs. Last night
they were in a critical condition and it
was not expected they would live until
morning. The robbers are still at large,
bat some parties of men are scouring
the mountains at each side of th vil
lage in icaich of them.
Ueavy Loa bjr Klra.
CiiiCAUo, Oct. 27. In less than on
hour fire destroyed ,1,200,000 worth ot
property on the north branch of th
Chicago river, in a dilapidated lotality
known as joore I -land. The Pacific
grain elevators A and B, owned by the
Chic tgo and Pacific Elevator company
were completely destroyed and several
fiame dwellings surrounding were svept
away in the avalanche of flame. There
were m ire than a million bushels of
wheat stored in the two great elevators.
The loi-s on that is estima edat $ SCI, 000,
on c )-n $'4,s00 and a small loss on oats.
On the building and machinery the loss
iiJ placed at nearly $300,000. Insurance
fill y covers the losses
uierintendent Perry said the fire
started in elevator B, in the south part
and he iielieveg it wa-i caused by sparks
fr.iin a i asking tug boat in the river. No
e o. love of the company knows anything
mo e d An te al out the ori.i i of the de-.-ructioi..
.'o more dangerous spot for a big fire
to stait could be found in the city. Close
t" the burce 1 structures are the Armour
elev 'or . th hi 'ce-u in The world; th
inline Be malting house of Hale & Curtis,
i ii-1 ile extensive docks an I sheds of
i .e-Ciescent Coal company. Burning
iin - s from the cataract of flaming
. in an 1 falling roof, and wa.li ignited
' o i oi the molt house every few
m n i:e , and a d zm leads of hose were
ne-d 'd to sive the building from de-
it r 1 1 1 t i n
Whfi't the CrH of the twenty-five cn-
i i e companies arrived on trie scene a
iH'er attack was at once made on the
boiler roo n, where the fire waa reported
to have started, but in a fe minutes
he fireman were forced by blinding
steam and fierce heat to beat a hasty re
treat, leaving behind them part of tho
nose equipment. Five firemen of an
other company, who were fighting the
b aze from the ro if of the elevators'
5. bees, a one side brick building, had
1 1. arrow e;cpe from leath. The roof
they were on fell in by the building
aiching fire underneath them and they
C 11 with it before a woru of warning
c mid b.; given Fortunately the firemen
iz"d the hose and by the walls project
ing a little above the collapsed roof they
hung over the firey furnace until rescued,
bf .heir comrades. ,
M, t'h illemel-Liieour Dead. t
Paris, Oct. 23, M. Chailemel-Lacon.,
mini-te of oreign affairs in the cabinet
D i - Fe ry, died yesterday. He ha
been ill for some time. Early in the
rear he wa-i coinpjlle l to resign the
presiden ;y of the senate because his
hea'th nn 1 strength proved unequal to
the political sirain. M. Challemel-Li-jour-was
bim at Avarnoiie?on May 10,
1826. lie was senl a a professor to the'
Lyceas oi P.u and Limoes, but was ar
rested after coup Te'at of the third N'a
polean, against whom he took up armSj,
wa9 imprisoned and banished, going
ur.-t to Belgiurnand then to Switzerland,'
wrier he Decline professor o'f FrencJ
i;teratursv h 18V b5 returned to'
Fr.ince contributed articles on liter
atur t art 't.ul philosophy to the lead--in
' iod als aid reviews", and fiiallv es-
t iTilieh d tiie Revue Politique
Jn WO be was appointed perfect of
the Rhone, but resigned after failing to
cope very successfully with disturbances
at Ly ins. He then entered the cham
ber as a radical and soon distinguished
himself by iiis eloquence. In 187H he
was elected senttor, and afterwards was
aent to Switzerland ss ambassador. In
1889 he succeeded M. Loon Say as a5
bassador at the court i f St. James. He
remained there two years, and then re
signed to become minister of foreign
affairs in the ministry of Jules Ferry.
Ju neither of these positions was he very
success'ul, his nervous disposition and
h ie brusque manner disqualifying him
for diplomatic intercourse. His experi
enc., however, and his familiarity with
f ire en affairs, of which he became
. resident after tho death of Jules Ferry.
In that capacity he displayed great firm
nets in resisting all attempted encroach
mc jts of the lower house. He is the
author of a number of well-know n phil
osophical works, and was elected a mem
ber of the French academy in March,
1893, as the successor of Renan.
Tronpect of Better Price,
London, Oct. 27. In an interview
with a represenative of the United Asso
ciated Presses, Robert Pim, a member
of one of the leading houses doing busi
ness aa brokers in Baltic wheat on the
grain exchange, said :
"The fall of half a crown in Califor
nia wheat iu Liverpool has discouraged
the market, and we do not know exact
ly where we stand. Until we receive
some of the arrivals of wheat which are
now due from California, thuB fixing
actual values, the markets must be un
certain. The trade has come to the con
elusion that there ie going to be a differ
ent ievel from what they are accustomed
to, and better pricqs. At present we
can take every bushel of California
wheat we can possibly get, and I expect
an immediate rise of another shilling."
Think llliu a Suicide.
Yonkeiis, N. Y.,0ct. 27. There is ab
solutely no doubt that the' Yonkers po
lice incline to the belief that Hamlin
Andrua committeed euicide. The fact
that the right hand was broken off and
there is a fragment of pine board about
two feet Iohb with a portion of the bone
and sinewB of tho arm wedged In it i,n
the possession of Police Captain Mad
gin, indicate that Mr. Andrua bad the
bomb in his hand when it exploded.
Kntalljr Injured.
West Libkrty, 0., Oct. 27. Mormon
elders have been holding meetings in
Elliott county, and Elit Isom and his
family joined the church. Friday night
three young men named Sparki de
cared that they would brake up the
Mormon meeting. They went to the home
of Bill Isom, and on being refuted they
fired through the doors and windows.
Elit Isom was shot twice in the breast,
and Mrt. Isom was ahot in the abdomen.
The injuries to both are considered fatal.
