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-ft w THE DEADLY HEAT. HM Hoi" (lotting In IIH Dfnilly Work In Mnnj Loralltloi-Intalltle III ChleHRO nnd Dt.hrr CMm. Chicago, July 37. Yesterday's record of sunstrokes unil prostrations from tieat exceeds that of nny day for mnny ln&ra. tin to 10 o'clock Inst ovcnliiir I novonty-uvo cases of sunstroke fourteen Vf Ot which proved fatal, wcro reported to 4-K tlio police. At 10 o'clock the thcrmoin- Mi eter registered 87 nml nt 3 cclock the r mercury hnd climbed up to 1)4, where it U 4 wcmalncd until after sundown. So , tin- th$ moron wore the prostrations that it cot was with great dlfilculty that tho 'suf- Mi: fcrlng peoplo could lie taken td tho ho I- pltal. At 4 o'clock in tlio afternoon ilfty-six patients were nt tho county Mi hospital suffering from sunstroke. MM Tho list of dead included John Kcnhrf, W Thomas Lamoti, James 1). Donovan, Frank McGulrc, Mrs. Mary Hull)', Ida M Mulro, Stella Kraus, Mrs. Mary Arm M strong, August Tohul, William J. Allen, ! Herman Fritz, Henry Meyer, N. 0. Ullca J nnd quo unknown man. Hai.timoiu:, Md., July 37 Eleven P deaths attributable to tho heat and tj twenty-six eases of prostration have so 5 far been reported. Tho greater portion . fcj of tho atreet laborers suspended opera- i tions at noon, being tumble to euduru j k tho intenso rays of tho sun. Starling J v in. oi nt o ociock, tno iiiurmumcicr gently prompted the mercury up to 100 t nt 3 o'clock in tho afternoon. At that Jionr 130 waa registered in tho sun. Ht. Louis, July 37. Very little com- fort was secured here from the signal I Rorvton nomilo voutonhiv. Vnf. nmn n I promise of a cool wave In the distant! future. Clouds were numerous, but they dropped no. rain to speak of nnd f tho thermometer kept on climbing just I tlio Ka'tne. It reached 03. So far thirty Jl prostrations Jiavo been reported with If three fatalities. Tliu present hot si)oll , I' litis continued longer than nny other !i since July, 1887, when over 100 peoplo llcd in this city in threo days of sun-l stroke. Onoof tho results of the hot ' weather has been a partial milk famine. I M, J. Dillon, who was prostrated by neat .11 outlay, Is ilcail. In the tltcltlly- populated quarter bounded by Fourth , street Uroadway, High streot, Cass and Christie nvenueu tho sufferings of tho nnnr within thn ivmf ... .Im.j 1,..., I been terrible. Tlio low, flnt-roofod ' buildings with scarcely any means of vontilatlon proved to be veritable "hot ' boxes" and many of the occupants were ' stricken by heut Various other sec-1 tions of the city of smaller nature uro iiucotcu In tho same inanner. Milwaukki:, Wis., July 37. Ten per sons wore prostrated by heat yesterday aud four eases resulted fatally. Tho ! temncraturo at 11 a. nt. was 03 degrees. I but a lake breeze at noon caused a fall of 10 dbjrrees. I ARRESTING ANARCHISTS. Supposed Accomplices of llcrRlu.in Plneril la Jiill. l'lTTOnuiuiH, Pa., July 37. The police are working on tho theory that Alexan der llcrgman, tho anarchist who tried to kill Chairman Frlul;, of tlio Carneglo iron Co., last Satur day, was merely the ugent of anarchists all over tho east, and it is probable that Herr Most will bo nrrcsted sooner or later and that many of his dlscl- ,ples will bo taken I into custody. hix informations have been made be fore Alderman Me Masters by Secrc- Inrv Lm-nlni' nt ""' "" the Carneglo Co., I tignlnst Uergman for felonious assault and for entering a building to commit felonious assault. Tho hearings will tako plnco next Saturday. Tho penalty for each of tho assaults is seven years' imprisonment, and for entering tho i building four years. I 11. lluuer, another supposed accom- pllco of Bergman, was nrrcsted in Allegheny at noon. Ho was locked tip pending an investigation. I Nkw Yomt, July 37. Journeyman linker P. Mnllleh wiih arrested earlv ' ... ,. "jwj v- this morning at Long llrauch, charged P with being a party to the attempted fa murder of Mr. Frlck. Ho is supposed & to bo tho person who sent iiimixi- ., ; Uergman, the wnuld-bo assassin, while . ; no was in Allegheny uty. I NORTHWESTERN CKOPS. j Tho Minneapolis Trlliunn riihllalit it a i:hnustln lirport. I Mikkbai'omb, Jllnu., July 37. The ; TTrlbuuo publishes an exhaustive report ; of tho condition of the crops lit tho northwest. Five elevator lines of Min nesota and north and South Dakota arc included in tho report and nearly every railroad lino that enters Miuueap oils frdm tho northwest wheat llelds. Tho report in each case is brought down to date. Tho crops through out uro from ten to fifteen days late. I tho southern sections wheat shows tut average crop whllo ryo aud barloy uro above tlio average. Tho central ueetlon of tho wheat belt reports a crop equal to that of last year nnd at some -points eveu better. Tliu extremo north erly counties report about 75 per cent. of that of last year. Losses aro chlelly from Into seeding and stubble seeding. '10 seeding in souio townships was so lato that nothing but postponement of froatA to as lato a date as September I will permit tho harvesting of an aver age crop. Tho crop prospects for the northwest aro on the whole good. A fair crop Is a certainty and a yield gen erally above tho average may Ih ex pected. 'Hoy Drowned Willi llnntlng. Ohippkwa Famj, Wis., July 37. Houry Holder and Simon Schwartz wero boating yesterday near tho Cen tral railroad brldgo when Schwartz foil into ihb water and in endeavoring to rescue him Itchier lost his life. Holder waa'l7 and Schwartz 10 years oi i The Arkunta HvnillooU Ilrukmi. Litti.k Hock. Ark, July 37. The deadlock in tho .democratic eongres t'lotml convention, of tliu Sixth district vus broken thls'nVomlng, (Jen. ltobdrt Neil, of Independence, ri'eelvlug thu jinminaMoit on the 7.'0th ballot. ! lSx Jyfc ! x?wwn r 1 U TT 'III I M V I IT AN EXPLODING SEWER. rcnrful Kowrr Kxplotlon nt Nt. I.ouU nit the Itrmtlt of the (Icnrrntlon of font Un Thrcn Pn-nonn lOllnl, St. Louis, July 37. Holdback by tho high water in tho river and forced on by the flood of sowngo and water thrown upon tho recent W'ntors-l'lcrco oil lire, thogns generated by tho escaping stock, heated by tho Intenso summer sun, ex ploded about 3 o'clock yesterday after noon, wrecking fully one-half of tho groat Mill creek sower, tho largest of tho clty'a drainitgo system and causing n known loss of threo lives, hijurlng several others with possibly other fatal ities to bo revealed by tho search of tho wreckage. Tho first explosion occurred immedi ately under tho wholesale liquor houso of Carl K. Fuchs, 1014 South Fourth street, which stood directly over the sewer, nnd was followed nn instant later by an upheaval a hundred feet further enst across Tfllrd street, tho latter explosion completely wrecking the Iron Mountain railroad's southern yards, and extending nearly 1,000 feet to tho river. At Fuch's liquor houso tho gas lifted up tho basement and ilrst floors of tho buildings and escaping let the wreckage fall back to tho bottom of the slimy stream, leaving tho second nnd third floors badly shaken but still in position. Soon after tho explosion tho police, fire and umbiilauce departments wero summoned to tho secno and tho work of rescuu begun. The first body to bo taken from the wreckage of Fuch's Btore, lying on tho bottom of tho sewer, was that of Albert Mueller, barkeencr. who was stone dead and badly mangled by the explosion. Search for Fuch, who was known to bo in the store, was then pursued but so far no trace of his remains havo been found. It is, how ever, considered certain that the body is either in tho wrcckngo at this point or has floated down and lodged ugnlnst tho debris falling into tlio sewer at tho place of tho second upheaval. The wounded, so fnr as known, nro Mrs. John Thnpe, who was injured by Hying debris, and who has since died, her little son, who was with her, and Charles Hninpe, who wns standing in tho front part of tho wrecked building, and wns with the front blown fnr out into Fourth street, which at that point is very wide because of Its junction with Uroadway. Nono of tho injured suffered seriously. The foreo of the explosion is shown by tho fact that inunholo caps weighing 300 pounds each wero blown olT the en tire length of tho main sewer, which reaches west to Tenth street, nnd two blocks further on tributary sowers. At present 1,000 feet of sewer Is an open stream smelling to heaven with its tilth and gases. The yards of tho Iron Mountain road are so thoroughly torn up as to interrupt traffic In that vicin ity until tho sewer can bo rebuilt. And this, ns the structure Is largo enough to drive two four horso teams abreast lu It, is a work of no small magnitude. Tlio pecuniary loss cannot now bo esti mated. SAD DROWNING. A St. Joarph T.mly l,iir Hit I.tro la HwlUurliiml. Luckiink, Switzerland, July 37. A party of Americans, consisting of threo gentlemen nnd two ladies, rowing on Luke Lucerno about 10 o'clock last evening, allowed their boat to drift into tho swift current where tho river Keuss issues from tho western extremity of tho lake. Suddenly the craft was caught in nn eddy, twirled round rapidly and driven lwneath tho spans nnd against one of the piers of the brldgo which crosses too nver anil at oneo tilled and sank. Tho three gentlemen and onu of tho ladles wero taken from tho water allvo but tho other lady had disappeared from sight The name of tho lady who was drowned was Miss Anna Sorge, a resi dent of St. Joseph, Ma, and was :)0 years of age. Her body has not yet been recovered. WKI.I. KNOWN IN HT. J08KIMI. St. Joski'ii. Mo., July 37. Miss Anna Sorgo, who wns drowned at Lucerne, Switzerland, last night, was head mil liner of tho Knglehart, W'inulg ,fc Dav idson Millinery Co. of tills city and wna well known. She was sent to Europe six weeks ago to visit the fashion cen ters nnd innke purchases for tho com pany and wih expected to return to America within tho next ton days. She mnua ncr uonic wttn iter parents who havo not yet been apprised of her death. , THE CHOLERA. SI. IVtnrMiurir .lnrmi.(-VolK: Triulo nt n Stiinilntlll. London, July 37, ThoChroniclo'aSt Petersburg correspondent says: It is feared that cholera will soon appear here If tho present warm weather con tinues Tho death rate along tho Volga Is greater than Is supposed. ThoSurutofl Listoclc reports 353 deaths in Sara toff on, July 14. Trade alonir thu Volim U nt. n standstill. In the principal towns there are thousands of disalTeeted.half starved worklngmen who are only prevented from rioting by strong military forces. The Chronicle's correspondent at VI. enna says: "Tho preventive inensure ordered enforced in western Itussla havo not yet been executed owing to tho prevailing panic, although cholera has appeared at Kkaterlnoslay and other places. All ports on tho sea oi Azolt are nlTected with cholera und it h expected that tho disease will soon ap pear in western Crimea." A I'lugnn of I'lli'i, DumiQUE, Jo., July 07, Ono of tht remarkable results of tho Intense hoi weather of tho past few days, with th general dampness of tho utmosphere, is the linincnso number of Mormon diet generated. This Is their season, bu never beforo havo they been so numer; ous or staid so long. They appoarei nearly a week ago aud are increasing rather than diminishing. Usually they stay only a day or two. They till u'r tho lumps of tho electric lights, when they piuohu and burn, and aro shovolet' u wuy by bushels. Several places close up last night because of their presence, FIFTY DEATHS. Ttwlbtfl Kflfect of the Hrat at Chicago ITirtf Dentil In One liny. CinoAoo, July 33. Tho slaughter by tho sun was still on in Chicago yester day, fifty deaths nnd twice an many prostrations by tho hent having oo- I luiini. iwmuiiK" iiiuru is in mo pro diction of n cold wavo a possibility of reuoi, it is certain tno nuiniioroi deaths will Ijo largely Increased during tho next few days. Tho hospitals aro tilled witli patients suffering from sunstroke, ninny of whom can not possibly recov er. Tho record Tuesday, which sur passed anything in tho number, of deaths and prostrations from heat that this city has over known, was eclipsed by tho awful work of tho sun yester day. Tho temperaturo was about 4 deg. lower than that of Tnpsdnvnernrdlri, to tho official record of the government office, which was 83 nt nooi on tho Auditorium tower, but down on this pavements, where what llltlo breeze there was camo hot nnd stilling, tho mercury wns in many places 105 to 113 in tho sun nnd from 03 to 04 In tho shade. Tho parks wero packed from early morning until lato at night by crowds of people who imagined that sticky green branches and brown shriveled grass were moro comfortable than the insldo of their own homes. Hut nil their efforts to Hnd a habllablo abiding place wero lu vain. There was no com fort to bo had anywhere nnd tho man who sought it was tlio man who found tho least of it Thcro wero not enough horses in tlio entire police department to carry off tho animals which fell during tlio dny In nnd about tho business center of tho city alone, nnd It was found necessary to call In outside help, for tho ambu lances, nnd patrol wagons hnd nil they could do In caring for tlio suffering peo ple, und hnd little or no time to devoto to horses. i ROBBING A BANK. Two Chilblain Tnniprrril IiiillvhlimW Hold irp tho Hank r Kl K.-iii), Ok. El Hi:No,Ok.,July33 At 10::!0 o'clock outlaws entered tho Hank of El Hono, overawed Mrs. S. W. Sawyer, wife of tlio president, and herself cashier, aud forced her to give up flO.fiOO. Whllo Mrs. Sawyer was alone lu tho banking house n stranger entered, stepped .up to tho cashier's window, mudo an inquiry ubout some town lots and then went to a desk and began writing. In u moment another stranger appeared ut tho cashier's desk and pre senting a revolver at Mrs. Sawyer's head, demanded that sho hand out all tho money in tlio bank. Mrs. Sawyer was so frightened at first that sho could not move, but the rob ber threatened to shoot if sho did not act qulcky, and In a dnzeil way sho en tered the vault and handed to him all tho packages of bills in tlio safe nnd what was in tho dally change drawer, aggregating about $10,noo, less than tlOO of it in silver. Tho mnn who wns writing nt tho desk turned quickly, seized tho money us Airs. Sawyer handed It through tho wicket und disappeared out the door, tho ono holding tho revolver following quickly. Mrs. Sawyer screamed several times and fell over in a swoon. The robbers mounted horses standing nt the edge of tho pavemont und rodo out Hock Island nvcnuo us fast us they could go. Mrs. Sawyer was tho only person in the bank, the president, Mr. Sawyer, being absent In Oklahoma City und nr- riving homo nbout thirty minutes after tho robbery. Tho attack was mado at un hour whon business waa quiet. WILL BOMBS BE USED? Homestead Striker Siihl to He Itoady For' tint -Mont Drsporntu Kxpedlents. Chicago, July 2S. A local paper prints tho following special from Home stead: "Since it has become evident that the Carneglo Steel Co., under tho protection of tho national guard, is ab solutely successful in operating its mills, members of the advisory committee hnvo been considering ways and means for preventing nny successful working of the plant. One of tho prominent mem bers of this committee said: "Wo will not under nny circumstances permit thoso mills to run if thcro isuny agency which may bu employed to prevent It. Wo havo ulready selected men who will go into thoso mills as fast as they can securo em ployment, who nro instructed und sworn to carry out our orders, in con summating tho policy which wo havo agreed upon. When wo aro suro there is no longer nny hopo for us our representatives in the mills will place explosives whero they will do tho most harm to tho ma chinery. Wo havo definitely doter mjned that these mills shall not be op crated by non-union men and the prin cipal way to prevent it Is either to con trol or wreck tho property. I might say n great deal moro, but under the circumstances I havo gone ns far as I dare." Conspirators l'tit to Death. Sofia, July 23. Tho four conspir ators, Mllnroff, PopofT, Gorgioir and Carngnlolr, recently tried by court martial on charges of being Impli cated in n plot against the lives of Princo Ferdlnnnd, of Hulgaria, and his prhno minister, Mr. TambulolT , wero put to death in this city utl) o'clock this morning. A number of other persons, who wero tried with tho four men, havo been sentenced' to terms of imprison ment A Moilorn Miracle. St. Pivrnitsiiuwi, July 28. A sensa tion has been caused among tho lower classes here by the miraculous discovery of an imago of tho Virgin in the founda tion of tho church that Id being built on the spot whero tho e.ar, Alexander II., was murdered. It is said Iho Virgin re vealed tho presenco of tho imago to an old tvonuwt In a dream. Tho imago was conveyed to tho pnlaro of the Orand Duchess Catherine Mlchnolovnu, whero tho court chaplain was tho first to venerate it Doubters assert that the story was concocted to quicken tho jcul of tho public in bchaUoftlni church building fund. CONGRESS. Epitome of the I'rooeedlnitt of Ilnth Ilntuen tlio Wrnlr. IW tho ficnitte on theZMrtobatn n continue on tho nntloptlon hill, Mr. Wlitto (Lo ) eon tlmilnit Mm remarks In opponitlon nnd gpcnfclng for over threo hour. Tho houso Wll providing for retaliation tiftalmt Canada In tho matter of tho Wetland canal wns taken up nnd unani mously pmnod....TlmdlcuMlon of tho senate mnenilmcnts to tho genernl deficiency bill oc cupied tho cntlro session of tho houno nnd nono of them wcro nicrecd to. Tlio Item of payments lo tlio Tactile railroads wns dlwnsscd forotcr nn hour, nnd that to pay to tho widows nnd legal heirs of dotc.-ised memtwrs of tho present houso Hi ooo, ns Inserted by thn senate, wns amended no that they shall re eclvo tho balanco of tho nnlary for Iho wholo confront. Tho French spoliation claims wcro d-batcd for nn hour, unit pending further dlscuiilon the houso took n recess until Bo'cloo: for tho constdora lion of pcinlou bills. lur.senatoon the SIM cot Into n debate In volving the question of speclilc contracts piy nblo In mild which continued until tho nnll- lltlllnti 1.111 irnivili.i1 I, ni in... ..... ,. .i- of tho iintl-optlsn Mil occupied tho remainder oiinon'Miion ... uu proceeuin;s in thohotiKO were uninteresting tho Trench spoliation bill was debited mid Its dlsausslou occupied tho at tention of tho houio. IN tho scnato on tho SSth Mr. Allison, chair man of tho appropriations commttlco. made a smteinont ns to tho conference report on tlio r,!!i .r:"T.?? Hln! . ... jtvi it. n.vi;iii ui, liiu uMu-opwon uuu r. vest introduced a resold tlon nnVrlmr a rcclnrocltv reduction nn rei-hitn nrtlclv to foreign countries that mav enter Into n s-itlsf.ietory agreement on tho sllrcrquestlon. tho rVrrmm ,hoC,con,nZUrto mvcVS tho pcnslonoRlco recommending tho thodlsmls- pi oi t ommissionor itnum. T hi debalo was cm on or tno conference report on tho do flcloncy bill. A now conference was ordered nnd iho house cot into n deadlock on a resolu tion bv Mr Uolinin to glvn certain Instructions to conferees. An adjournment was finally hail TilKitemto passed most of tho dav on tho Sdth.scusslii'j tho tariff. Mr. Aldnoh. whoso committee has been Investigating tho effect of tho McKlnloy bill, made a lengthy speech In favor of protection and Mr. Vest spoke In rcplv. Tho conference report on tho deficiency bill wns agreed to. The senate then ndjournod.... Tho houso pined bills Hutting apart lands In Oklahoma for school purposes, forbidding rail roads to clnrgc moro than threo cents n mllo on passengor faro In Indian tcrrltorr nnd Okla homa, and pcnntttlnrr tho peoplo of tho tcrrl torr of Utah to exhibit at iho world's fulr. Tlio conferenco report upon tho deficiency bill was ncrced to. Tho appropriation for tho French ?pollntlon cLiIms. amounting to !7.17,7.iV was omitted. Tho appropriations In tho bill amounted to W.JKM 310, boliu; t:l. l less than ns p.iiiied b7 tho senate, and tl.03I.CRf7 moro th'iu ns jusscd by the house. Tho conferenco report on tho sundry clill bill was offered by Mr. Hnlnian and rich itrd until adjournment. I tho senate o.n tlio 27th Messrs lllnckburn (Ky.) nnd IIIcock (.V. V ) engaged In nn inter esting dialogue over a brldgo bill In tho stato of ow York which the Kentucky senator favored and iho Nw York senator opposed. Threo speeches wero mado on tho nnll-opllon bill, tho leading ones belrg by St uator Coko In opposi tion nnd Senator Mitchell In favor of It Tho r.cratoblll to create a national hlghnay com mission mid tlio senile bill to f icllltuto tho on forcnient of tun Immigration nnd enntr.mt labor laws were passed.... Tho houso had along j sundry civil bill. Tho proposition to reduco tho v.orld's fair appropriation from t.UX).0JJtoM was voted down, nnd tho houso vote! to rccedo from Its amendment, but a motion by Mr. llol uian to reconsider brought on filibustering which continued until adjournment. Tun senato mot on tho SHth with barely a Quorum present nnd declined to tako any decid ed action either on tho anti-option bill or tho houo resolution to adjourn Saturday. Tho motion to lay tho nntl-optlonblllnsldo until Do ccmbcr was lost hy tlio unexpectedly larfo voto ot 13 to:3 An nlmou equally frigid reception was given to tho adjournment resolution. Con sldenblo miscellaneous legislation by unani mous consent was accomplished, including tho pass irq of un eight hour law, to apply lo nil contracts on Rovornraent works. Then tho quorum disappeared nnd for tho Ilrst tlmo dur ing tho session an adjournment ws forced for want of u quorum The proceedings In iho houso wcro intensely stupid und nilbusterlng motions on tho world's fair appropriation pre vailed all day. This continued until adjourn ment OLD FATHER MUDDY. Ilo Outliers n few Tnrms Into lilt Voru rliiiu rnuiii-h. Cor.Ncir. Hluits, In., July 23. So far this summer the Missouri river hns been high, but is now falling rapidly, and tho speed of tho water is thereby in creased. Tho course of tho current was formerly on tho west sido of tho river, ' miles south of Wheeling. An entire fam but it appears to havo changed this Hy of nlno persons is reported to havo spring to tho Iowa side, and within tho bcen swept from tho face of tho earth last few days tho river seems to bo by a flood following a cloudburst Tho changing its channel. Already nbout family consisted of William Doty and 200 acres of farming land have been wife, their threo children, Doty's father washed nway into the bin muddv and mother. Mrs. Dotv's mother nnd stream. About four miles south of Council HlutTs one farmer who had a nice trnct ot hind all planted has now only ubout live acres left, his farm hav ing all disappeared since Sunday. An uother farmer named Wright is losing his land by big slices sliding into tho riYcr every day. FEEDING THE SUFFERERS. A Itrllel HoHt Departs l'or thn I.ouUtunu Hooded Districts. Nkw Oiu.nA.NH, July 2S. Tho relief bout Danube, with n second lot of ra tions for peoplo in tlio overflowed sec tion on tho Hed and Hlnck rivers and Hayou des Olnlzes, left hero yesterday. Tho number of sufferers nro 10,000, of which 1,200 nro in Ouachita nbovo Cata houla, about 0,000 lu Catahoula, 0,000 in Concordia, 2,000 in Hayou des Glaizes.and the remainder in Franklin, on thoHcmiu? river nnd in Polnto Coupee, West Felici una und Assumption. It will bo necessary to feed theso peo plo threo weeks longer, after which timo they will bo out of water nnd most of them hnvo a crop of soma klud planted. Tho only nHslstanco tho suf ferers havo received beyond tho relief granted by tho Louisiana, legislature was a voluntary contribution from tho St Louis Merchants' Hxchaiigc. l'owdorly Summoned. Washington, July 20. Tho house judiciary eommlttco has decided to take further testimony in tho investigation Into the Homestead troubles nnd thu Pinkerton system, Mr. Powderly, grnnd master workman of the Knights of La bor, has been telegraphed to appear be fore tho committee. Pui torlrs Clout, on Aoooutit of llrut. fliiAxn lUrins, Mich., July 28. Ow ing to tho intenso heat Widdieomo's furniture und mantel factories shut down Tuesday, the workmen finding it impossible to work. Soveral other factories did likewise, and outdoor work Is practically at u standstill, though no eases of biinstroko have yoi been reported. uuu icuuro ,., iu . ctvuio , lams' raw was brought .out whon .mem- , . ., , ..... , .u -i. .- hers ot tlio llnnilull club at Flfjsluirglt, Vn,, iinuniineed they would Who stops to havo Lieut-Col. Streatoc expelled BAY CITY BLAZE. Dlsnstrotu Conflngrutlott In the Mlchlra Lumber City Thirty lllocka llurnod Ovir-Serornl Victims to the Flnmos. Hay Citv, Mich., July 36. Tho great est conflagration which ever visited this olty broke out ot 3 o'clock yester day nflernoon in tho lumber manufac turing establishment of Miller A Turn er, situated on the west side of Water streot at tho foot of Twenty-ninth streot. A brisk wind was blowing tit tho time, which fanned the Humes into a roaring conilngration und swept neross Water streot into tho settled dis trict. Tho east sido of Water street, whore tho flrd crossed, was built up with stores, hotels nnd restaurants. Nearly nil tho buildings wero con structed of wood and burned llko tin der. The wind increased as tho flames progreised, and in an hour tho firo had ! col,s,lllll'(1 J,1Uur & Turner's cntlro plnnt, comprising a saw mill, aalt blocks, dry kilns and a lunre quantity of lumber. Tho llnmes had also traveled threo blocks eastward, cutting u swath two utoeits wiile. At this point the path of ' tho conilngration broadened and block- after block was Bwent over with aston ishing rapldlti. Thousands of men, women and children rushed about nil engaged in removing furniture nnd I ",er hrt,0,d ','" n"'nncuig llnmes. Lvery vehicle adapt- on to Hie nurnoso was on thn c-rmitul. At 5 o'clock about thirty blocks had been burned over, whllo twenty moro wero supplying fresh fuel to thu devour ing element. When the chief of the fire department first realized the extent of tho danger" ho telegraphed to Saginaw, Flint und Detroit for assistance. Saginaw and Flint responded, each city sondlnir nn engine und quantity of hose. Nearly ' all of West Hay City's equipage camo ' to tho sceuo of tho disaster nnd lent such assistance ns lay in tho power of the ' firemen, but with hundreds of streams ' playing on the lire, tho ilaiucs pursued their course, licking up house after house until ut 8 o'clock upwards of !J00 dwellings had been destroyed nnd tho conflagration was still sweeping toward the eastern limita of tho city. Whllo tho majority of tho buildings burned belonged to tho working peoplo many nno residences nnvo Ucon consumed. Two churches, four hotels and about forty stores of all varieties aro included among structures which havo contrib uted fuel to to tho flames. At 0 p. m. many rumors wero afloat concerning peoplo who had perished. So far as it is positively known, only one death has occurred, that of a worn nn whoso iiaino it was impossible to learn last night. She lay sick in ono of the houses which was destroyed. He foro nsiistanco could reach "her, tho dwelling was n seething mass of flro nnd tho poor crcaturo hud to bo left to her fate. It was reported ulso that two children were burned to death, but tho story lacks continuation. Hy midnight tlio flro was under con trol, but at this hour, 1:30 n. in., it is still burning. Owing to tho lateness of the hour and tho great confusion nnd excitement consequent upon tho flro It is impossible to stato correctly tho amount of tho damage. It is, however, estimated uny where from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. FATAL CLOUDBURST. An ICntlre Family Swept Asrny Hy n Cloud burst In West Virginia Other Damnce. Wiir.Kf.i.vo, W. Vn., July 20. Tho se vere storm which pussedover this coun try Sunday night was moro disastrous in its results than was at ilrst dreamed of. It is known that thcro was con siderable loss of Hfo besides some de struction of property by Hchtnlng on Long Hun In Murshall county, a few a servant girl. Tho houso wns situ ated in a ravlno aud was swept nway by the torrent Not onoof theslcoping occu pants wcro left to tell tho tale. Thoflrst known of the disaster wan tho finding of tho servnnt girl lying in tho yard of a neighbor some distanco below whero tho fated houso stood. It is ulso re ported that tho body of Doty and that of ono of tho children had been found at tho mouth of the creek which empties into tho Ohio river. Another houso wan swept away by the samo torrent, but nil tho occupants nro believed to havo escaped. At Proc tor, on tho Ohio river, a long trestle was washed out and a freight train wan wrecked. Twenty-eight ears wcro piled up nnd tlio engineer, Will Heasly, of Parkersburg, was injured so that his .eg hud to bo amputated. A Peculiar Strike. St. Louis, July 20. Tho employes of tho St Louis Smelting nnd Kenning , La, wnoso piiirn, is uicaicii in uueiten ham, u suburb of this city, struck yes- teroay. iney nuniDor somo ou. uno cause of tho strike is a peculiar one. Heretofore the company has by ngrco- ment taken care of the employes mado 111 by tho noxious gases, etc., resulting from tho work carried on, but recently a notlco was pasted requiring the men to pay a certain sum weekly, which was to iusuro them In certain proportions of ench loan's yearly wage against accident or disablement, the insurance fund to Iks controlled by tho company. After considerable consultation a striko wns decided upon. Tho plant Ls now closely guarded by pollco. A SorlrtlUt OrKUU HqJolrA. Nkw Yoiik, July 20. Tlio Yollca Zolt nng, tho organ ot the socialists says in its. editorial columns to-ilay: "itio nt wuii. u.u...u ... ,,.u.h.. ..m.uu.u,- ..nt ntniln t .. 1 ll e V. ..re). 1 r. Mntl.w I wuy in nn iiuiuuuiuiu bui-ui, iumvii,. um bloody punishment of ono of tho most brutal American dcspollera of labor cnu only cause honest satisfaction in tho hearts of all worklngmen struggling for our great cause. If this man Frlclc filinnlfl lvtnn In 1,1a ohi'pha nn n. rrtnaiw ..-.. j-. --. ....,-..--.,.. - - qoncu of n aoHO o( Ws oml lwMoua Blmlnlstord to him. wo should not slied a ton-. Ills crimes iitralnsl ortrau- Ued lalwr hnvo brought lilra tho pua- iahmtii Unit helms merltt ." ' TRAGEDY IN PHILADELPHIA A llnnlcnr Murdered In Ills Ofileo Ily Customer, Who Then Kills Himself-. tiiiMns In Hpoonlntlu tho Cause. Pntf.AnnT.PiUA, July 28. Stock gatn Ullng brought ubout a tragedy yester day us n result of which Charles II. Pago, a well known broker, lies dead at his homeuassasslnnted by u customer, Honald Kennedy, who has closed his own account with the samo weapon that ouded the broker's cureer. No ono wit nessed tho murder nnd suicide. Tho only ono who could havo thrown any light upon tho encounter left tho ofllco whero it occurred ns tho murderer en tered, und half a minute later all was over. The scene of tho double crlmo was in tho ofllces of E. D. Page & Ilrothcr. bankers and brokers at IS- South Fourth street, onoof tho busiest portions of tho city. Tho senior member of tho firm, Mr. K. I). Page, was absent nnd in addi tion to the junior members of the firm) thcro was a clerk, Ed Hnllowell. Tho latter was leaving tho offices by a rear door at 11:15 a. m., and observed a man coming in by the front entrance. Tho clerk recognized the newcomer ns a former customer, Honald Kennedy, nnd con tinued on his way. Ho had gone but a few paces when ho heard two shots fired in succession. With others ho rushed in just lu time to see Hroker Page gasp lils last breath He had been shot in tho back while attempting to escape nnd had reached tho rear doorway, whero he fell and died almost Instantly. Into tho front of tho ofllco tho crowd surged only to And tho murderer, Ken nedy, dead upon his face in front of tho ticker, a bullet wound in his head and his revolver lying beneath. Nothing could bo done but inform tho coroner, who look charge of tho place and en deavored to ascertain the cause of tho ussussln's net Tho broker' wife nnd child wero ab sent nt Cape May and other of tho fami ly were also out of reach. lIallovcll,tho clerk who has been eight years with the firm, was the only person who knew anything of the transactions of the two dead men. Ho says that it is two years since Kennedy first camo to the ofllco and began dealing on 10 and 1.1 per cent, margins, chiefly in Atchison. For several months his transactions wero profitable and ho made from 111,000 to fUO.OOO. Then tho tables turned and Kennedy lost us much as ho had mado In u short time. Hallo well declares that the Arm only bought and sold as directed by Kennedy, who deposited Pennsylvania railroad stock ns collateral. Wheu thcspccnlator lost, tills was sold to cover the margin. Tho dead broker ulways kept Kennedy's nc coutits according to the clerk nnd gen erully had some difllcultyin making IiIh customer understand them oven when they wore in his favor. Hnllowell declares that Kennedy camo out about even on his ventures. For a year past ho has dropped into tho ofllco occasionally, sometimes without speaking to anyone nnd generally cx nmlning tho ticker. Ho was regarded us n crank of the harmless variety and had never mado any threats. A SFXUAL" PERVERT. Allen Mltchfdl Coolly Knlntrs tho IJrutnl Murtlor uT I'retlik IVurd. Mbmphih, Tenn., July 23. Tho ninth J dtiy's proceedings In the Allco Mitchell insanity inquiry found tlio defense's case closed. 1 Miss Mitchell, tho defendant, was placed upon the stand nnd there was a great craning of necks by the audience to obtain a view of her. Sho suffered no embarrassment, but answered nil questions coolly and rationally. Sho said sho had known Freda ever since sho could remember. Tho defendant told of her following Freda nnd of tho latter winking ut her with her right eyo which signified "I lovo you." Sho told this coolly enough, but when sho caniu o following Freda down tho hill saying "sho wanted to see her onco moro" she burst into teurs. Then followed a most remarkable scene, unparalleled In court nnnals'per haps. This young girl, without dis playing tho slightest remorso or! even nervousness of manner, told down to the most trivial detail the story of how and why sho murdered Frc'da Ward. She said: "I took the razor out while going down tho hill toward tho boat When I reached Freda I cut her with tho razor. As I cut her throat she tried to suy some thing. I intended to cut Freda's throat and then mine, but her sister, Jo, mado mo mad by striking mo with nniim brelln, so, after slashing at Jo, I fol lowed Freda and cut her again. All'lJ wanted to do was to cut her so as to' 1:111. I loved her better than anyone In the world." She expressed n deslro to die, now that Freda was no more. THE LAST OF THEM. ' A Hrltnn nml n American Disappear In -Volciinlo Eruption us n Itosult H Folly, City qf Mr.xico. July 2a. A sneclal to tho Anglo-American says that Henry AllamSf of Nuw IItullpshir-e, oml D b' Walton, nn EnglUh.nan. wero scorched to llcath in nttompt to reacll tho crater of a yomn n Th0 two mon hft1 a8 to ta luck Kn j, , Incn nnd Americans, caeh claimlntr BWneriority for his countrvinen, and it wnH rt.n,i ti,t t, ,..i, i i.i ' in lirst planting tho llni of his country at tno edge or tlio crater, should bo held to havo mado good his claims. The next day they started and when they reached tho top an explosion wus. heard nnd that was tho last of them. Two fuses r l.obhjmv. SpKixoriKU), O., July 28 Two.eosaa oflook jaw, which will in all prohablb, llv rt-ftnlt In tlm limllOi. .ii t . i. i ln,l.u ... .. ., . . . . ' tivbiui-t, urn iiiiruciing tno attention of puysieuuis uero. tine case Is that of John ISrock, a jiroinlnont stookman ot South Solono. Ho was slightly Injured in tho leg nbrtut 11 weolc ugo, ami ut tho tlmo thought, nothing of tho accident Saturday owning his jaws became sot umi it wasimposslblotooponlils mouth. Is mifftjrlm, , u ntiln and will die. Tondavs t , wnXn rw. J 1 nnd Carpu flruno li-nv ., i. .1.1.:' ...l,t..' ,7 his brother. Tho wound winaRcvem one, umi lockjaw litis set In. H ? i 4 from thu club. n f-'A . &- - MtiisMMitVviwMa -. -i r Vrth. m .&ii tytm&ih9fif" -. ,- $$ & 4' . .. .wjc.'mw. r.fVktefciW ..si. .httiSm rwugHMugwuaMrajWuiHMHaaHH s :ij. ' j-T. r t-.iftft" ' r'i'"-."31,rivii'sx.-, nis'Tjrr'vm:i