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THE VALEHTIHE DEMOCRAT VALENTINE , X. M. ISIOE. - - - PublMier. IN GRIP OJB1 CHOLERA PKSTI.M-XCK : SXVKKI'S OVKK ST. JMiTKISSHCiW. Conditions in Hospitals am ! Tene ments Such sis to lirccd Disease Pestilence Spreading at Kapid Hate Throughout St. Petersburg is in the grasp of the Asiatic cholera , which already has ex ceeded in severity and numbers the visitation of isyj. : The disease is in creasing daily at an alarming- rate , and unless the authorities show in the future a greater degree of ability to cope with the situation than they have in'the past there is every reason to fear that it will get out of hand. Tlie government's threat to apply the provisions of martial law lias driven the municipality ollicials to bend all their energies to clearing the city of the scourge. The aldermanic council Sunday voted ed $27)0,000 to enlarge the hospital space , to purchase and distribute dis infectants , the supply of which in St. 3'eter-burtf is well nigh exhausted , and to expedite the interment of bodies ies , which has been notoriously slow. The dead houses are overcrowded and many corpses lie unburied. A beginning was made when pub lic schools were transformed into hos pital wards. A number of the gram mar schools were closed and1,000 students sent to their homes. Tiie department of war has opened stores to supply immediate needs , and army Held kitchens have been dis patched to the poorer quarters to dis pense free food. The situation assumes a graver as pect from the appearance Saturday of a very virulent type of the disease , in two cases of which deatli followed ivithin lifteen minutes of ' the lirsl symptoms. DROUGHT IX XKW KXGLAX1X Lack of 1'ain Seriously Cripples Many Industries. Anxiety is filling the heart of the > Tew England farmer for a drought , which is pronounced to be one of the scA-erest in many years , lias spread itself over the New England states , causing- suffering to its people and cat tle throughout the section. On Aug. 16 the last general rainfall came to New England. In many places the wells are running dry. Water in the lakes has been receding at the rate of an inch a day. Numerous forest fires have started. Many mills have been crippled by the lack of water- supply and others haA'e been compell ed to shut down. Cattle have been suffering and the milk supply is be coming : limited. In Vermont mills have been seriously crippled or shut down , throwing : hundreds out of em ployment. Quarries about Montpelier Avere closed during1 the past Aveek. . For several days past the Avater has been the loAvest since 1SS1 in Lake Cham- rplain and steamers have discontinued touching ; at St. Albans Bay. DKMAXD F1IEE "XKAH 1JEEI/ Ccorgians to Fight Action of Legisla ture in Impo.-ing Tax. The Georgia prohibition law , so far as taxing "near beer" is concerned , is under fire. The extra session of the legislature which adjourned Saturday authorized a tax of $500 on manufac turers of this product. Two hundred dollars is the amount proposed on dis pensers of "near beer. " Shortly after midnight Saturday night Judge : Ellis , of the superior court , enjoined the comptroller of the state , the sheriff of Fulton county , which includes Atlanta , and his depu ties , from collecting- this tax. The in junction Avas granted on the petition of llf dealers in the "prohibition product. " The "near beer" dealers claim that the legislation Avas unconstitutional. The case will be carried to the highest courts. Killed in Auto \VrccIr. Mrs. Stephen 13 Lee , of Buffalo , N. T. , Avife of Assistant Secretary Lee , of the Erie county bank , was killed and yir. Lee Avas fatally injured in a colli sion between their automobile and a Lacakawanna freight train. Mr. Lee's .sltull was fractured. Fleet Sails Tomorrow. The American battleship Meet is to leave Albany , W. Australia , Friday in stead of Thursday , as originally planned. Sioux City Live Stock Market. Saturday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Beeves , J5.50@5.75. Top hogs , $6.90. Porto Ilicaji Assembly Balks. The extraorinary session of the Porto to Rican legislature , which Avas called principally to pass the $3.000,000 irri gation project , adjourned Saturday without having : passed the measure. Sold Last Slaves in Missouri. Killiam W. Payne , who is 1SSS , as constable , sold at auction the last .slaves put on the block in Missouri at the city hall at Kansas City , died Sun- 1day ; aged 72 years. KTLLED BY CAItELESS NURSE. Throe Patients in San Diego Hospital Die of Poison. Three deaths have already resulted from the caielessncss of Mary Arthur , a 19-year-old nurse at the county hos- ytal at San Diego , Cal. , a fourth death is expected and four others are seriously ill , though their illness is not xpectcd to be fatal. The d .ad : J. Young , Charier Kemp , j Henry C. SehueUc. A. Paisler is not expected to live and Capt. A. Paulson , II. Tisler , Oco. King and Mr. Penny are seriously ill. All were taken sick Thursday after noon , and evidence of poison was so tfreat that an investigation start ed , ending finally in a confession by Miss Arthur that she had neglected to throw out some water in which there was a quantity of atrophine and that her patients had got hold of it for their medicine. She realized her mistake as soon as they became ill. but did not confess her error until the investigation had brought the Jeaths almost home to her. Young Jied about midnight , K-emp early Fri- ; lay morning and Sehette later in the Miss Arthur is in a state of collapse , : > ut is kept under surveillance. Tlie inquest lias been postponed un- : il the result of Paisler's case is mown. THIEVES VISIT MAHIv TWAIX. /inmorist's / Unhidden Guests Tote Off Sonic Silver. Two burglars who broke into the esidcnce of Samuel L. Clemens ( Mark Twain ) in Redding , Conn. . Wednes day night were captured early Thurs day on a New Haven railroad train oetween Bethel and Redding after a Icsperate fight , in which Deputy Sber- ff Bank , of Redding , was shot in the 'eg. ' Tlie prisoners > re believed to be orofessional crooks who came there from New York for the express pur pose of entering the Clemens villa. Miss Lyon. Mr. Clemens' secretary , .as aroused about midnight by the sound of breaking glass. She found the dining room lighted and that the sideboard , Avith its silver , was missing from its customary place. Through an open window she saw two men rilling the sideboard , which had been carried out into the garden. Miss" Lyon sum moned Mr. Clemens and the butler and telephoned for tbe sheriff and neighbors. The burglais meanwhile had lied with the silver , but they were cap tit red on a train after a fierce fight in which the sheriff was wounded twice and one of the men shot himself in the head. Tbe silver was recovered CAUGHT AFTER LOXCJ CHASE. Murderer of Six Per < * nis in California Said to lie Prisoner in Texas. The further evidence that William /latfield , tU\e man who is being held in Sherman. Tex. , is James C\ Dun ham , Avlio murdered six persons in San Jose. Cal. , in 3S06. was received Friday by Sheriff Langford in a dis patch from U. S. Marshal McAfee , of erman , as follows : "Two inch scar left foot , beginning on big toe , angling back to second toe. Height 5 feet 11 ' / . inches , blue eyes , large depression between. Told cell mate he Avould die before he Avoiild go to California. Your man sure. " This description tallies closely to Dunham. District Attorney Free left Friday for Sacramento to secure requisition papers and immediately upon his return Sheriff Langford and a deputy will start for Sherman alter the prisoner. Bit OTHER 3IEA1IS TIIE XEWS. ; Countermands Orders CJivcn for PrciKiration for Flights. Wilbur Wright , brother of Orvillc Wright , now at Lemans. France , Avas A'ery much perturbed when he heard the news from Washington that his brother had' suffered an accident in Avhich Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge lost his life. He at once countermanded the orders given for the preparations for his fiight , in which he purposed to try for the Michelin and Aero club prizes. ACCUSATIONS CAUSE SUICIDE. British Anny OHiccr Throws Self Un der Train. Maj. Gen. Charles Edward Luard. retired , whose Avife was mysteriously murdered near London on Aug. 2-1 , committed suicide by throwing him self in front of 3 railroad train at Wateringbury. Eng. 3fe left a note saying lie had received letters accusing him of murdering his wife and could not stand the strain of the accusations longer. Build Schools. Not Warships. "If 1 had my way I would build a couple of warships less , yet one would be enough , and I Avould take the $ , - 000,000 Avhich it would cost and Avith it construct 1.000 schools of agricul ture within the United States , " de clared James J. Hill at the dedication of Stephen hall , an agricultural insti tution at Crookson , Minn. Baby Found in Cornfield. Burned to a blister in the hot sun , but still alive , a new born baby Avas found in a corn field , near Gayville , S. D. , Friday. Fire in a Packing Plant. Fire threatened the destruction of Swift Co.'s packing plant in South St. Joseph Friday. The cold storage building was badly damaged. The loss is $60,000. Booth Company Bankrupt. The creditors of A. Booth & Co. , the fish linn recently placed in the hands of receivers , tiled a petition in bankruptcy in thu federal court at Chicago , Friday. ORGANISED HUNT I-'OR GIRLS. Renewed Activity by Chicago Viet ? Syndicate. Fifteen young girls have disappear ed in Chicago In the lust seenteen days. .So numerous have the missing girls become that Chief of Police Shippy lias detailed n. special squad of police and detectives to make a sys tematic search for them. It is the theory of the chief of police that many of the girls have been lured from their homes and sold into white slavery , Recent revelations in the po lice courts that young white slave girls have been sold for as high as $200 is the cause , it is believed , of the un wonted activity of the agents of the vice syndicate. Last winter police court records showed that girls were sold for as low as $50. Chief Shippy believe there is a regularly organized band v > f pro fessional kidnapers at work in Chica go and that these'kidnapers have the assistance of at least t\vo women. The notable instances of a missing girl since .Sept. 1 is that of mily Hoban , \vlio accompanied a strange man from her borne , leaving a note to the effect that she had received word that her sister uas very ill. Afterwards she wrote her mother she was being kept prisoner by a woman in a small room. Clews to the whereabouts of the little Hoban girl have been discovered by Detectives Speebt and Mnssett , of the Xorth Robey street station. These are expected to lead to the discovery of the girl arid the capture of her kidnapers. Two of the young women for whom the police are searching live in .South Chicago. The fact that a man was seen to accost one of them shortly before her disappearance was noticed led the police to believe that he may have been a kidnaper. These girls are Elizabeth Lally. 1 . " > years old. 234 Seventy-fourth Court , and Annie Doni- lon , 15 years old , 1005 ( Jicen Bay ave nue. Both have been missing since .Sept. 12. CARRIE CALLS OX TAFT. Reformer Visit the Home of tin : Cai didaie. Mrs. Carrie Nation , without her hatchet , dropped into Cincinnati Thursday and went direct to the Taft lesidence. Judge Taft admitted Mrs. Xation. "You know UK- ? " she demanded. The candidate admitted that from public prints he knew who Mrs. Xa tion was. "Well. 1 have come here to have a discussion with you on the liquor question , " was her next remark. "You will have to excuse me from entering upon any discussion with voti. " was Taft's reply. Whereupon Airs. Xation began one of her char acteristic speeches against the diink "vil , not overlooking condemnation of all those who did not go valiantly to the work of reform as she believed it hould be carried on. Taft was modestly backing away , and Mrs. Xation. seemingly somewhat awed by what she was doing , also l > ncled. and her interview was ended HEAVY FOG IX CHICAGO. \11 Transportation Companies Are Greatly Handicapped. A dense fog covering Chicago and its environs handicapped the transpor tation companies and was responsible for , fi number of accident . Through passenger trains slowed up and su burban service was delayed through inability to distinguish signals. An 'intcrurban car from Aurora crashed into an elevated train on the Oak Park incline , injuring several passengers. Three crossing accidents due to the fog were reported to the police. "While the Dulnth limited train on the Chicago and Northwestern was waiting for a signal to proceed into the city yards a suburban train crash ed into its rear end. Half a dozen per sons were injured , one seriously , on the suburban train , while those on the limited escaped with a shaking up. Slain by Hiirgulnr. Edward Quick , a penitentiary guard , was murdered in his home at Michigan City , Tnd. . early Thursday by a burg lar. Mrs. Quick wa.s awakened by a noise and. seeing a man at a dresser , nudged her husband. The burglar commanded Quick to lie still. Quick nevertheless raised himself on his el- how. Instantly the intruder fired , the bullet stirking Quick in the head. The slayer escaped. Against the Railroads. The United States circuit court of appeals , in reversing the decision of the lower court at Richmond , Va. , holds that the interstate commerce law casts upon a railroad company the plain duty of furnishing a fair and equal-distribution of car facilities , and this duty cannot be evaded by the carrier claiming it is not the owner of a. portion of the cars carried over it lines. Circus Ruler Fatally Hurt. Capt. Demetri , a Russian Cossack , with Campbell Bros. ' circus , was fa tally injured at Musactine , la. , by be ing struck by a tent pole while riding. Powder Magazine Explodes. A powder magazine at McAlester , Okla , was struck by lightning Wed nesday evening , the force of the explo sion killing one miner and seriously injured eight others. On Trial for Perjury. The trial for perjury of Samuel Whitlow , recently acquitted of the murder of Miss May Sapp. who died Sept. 2 i last , is in progress at lola , Ivan. PRESBYTERY AT i-Mi-ubOX. Larucu nchui'-o fit the Regular Full .M < I'liiiu ol' Presbyterian- . The Niobn.ra pre-'byteiy met Tuesday - i day evening at Emeison v.ith a large attendance. A Presbyterian brother hood was organized , with Rev. 1 . T. Hammond , ol .Lynch , as president , and Joseph 1 ! . Cheriy. Ph. D. , was received upon his letter from the Omaha pre - bytery and a call from the Presbyte rian church of Ponca uas presented to and accepted by him anil arrangements i ments were made for his installation later. A request was presented by Rev. T. C. Osborne , of Wayne , to be sent to j the congressman of that district ark- [ ing him to do what he can to prevent | j Hon. Joseph (1. Cannon from being se lected as presiding officer of the house of representatives. A. D. Hallov.ay presented the matter of the county Young Men's Christian association , which has just been un dertaken in the counties of Dix-m. "Wayne and Cedar as a district. The j presbytery was much interested in thN | new movement in the northeast portion ! of Nebraska and gave voice to its en- j couragement. j Francis Patton Churchill. whose father is the Presbyterian minister i\ Peiultras taken under the ear * * < . the presbytery as a candidate for th ministry. Mr. Churchill wilt take his j college course at Beilevue. PECULIAR COURT MIXUP. District .Indue Mandanuised to Eu- [ J'orcc His O\\n Injunction. Some time last spring Janu-s Q. Keefe , of Sioux City , procured an in junction to be issued out of the district | trict court of Thurston county restraining - \ straining Silas Lieb from entering upon - j | on forty acres of land which Keefe i i owned near Pt-nder. At the hearing of j a motion to dissolve the injunction an I order was entered dissolving the in- j junction , and when Keefe offered a i bond to keep the injunction in forc > j till final trial Judge Graves announced - ! nounced from the bench that L'cb j might feel at liberty to disobey the in junction and that he would not be punished for contempt. Thereupon Keefe's attorneys made an original ap plication to the supreme court of Xe- braska for a \\rit of mandamus to compel the district judge to enforce j his own order of injunction while it stood. Xotice has been received that a peremptory writ of mandamus had been sued by the supreme court of Nebraska. TWO FItEIGHT TRAINS COLLi 3)5- : . ! i ' Several Trainmen Injured , but None , Seriously. j An extra freight train on the Missouri - | souri Pacific going south ran into ihe j rear of local freight No. KM ; at Weeping - j ing "Water. The caboose and a car of ! merchandise were wrecked and tin- freight engine front caved in. James Olsen , fireman , jumped , receiving a contusion o.f the right knee and cheek. Engineer E. A. Rolfe in jumping sprained the muscles of his left arm. ! L. R. Lyon , a brakeman , received a ! sprained back. He was thrown ! against the stove. Conductor Albert } Bysel has a sprained back and h > s , - right arm was thrown against the j stove. All were sent to the Kansas j City hospital. The homes of all are i at Atchison. i Ponder Prisoner Escapes. Last Sunday Marshal Clark brought j a man back from Omaha charged with ; stealing $80 from a farmer near town j for whom he had been working. The ' county attorney was out of town at j the time. When the city marshal j Avent to the city jail to produce his j prisoner he had escaped through the j opening from one cell into the other. ! and the latter cell being open his de parture was easy. Fell from Hay Stack. A. J. Dyche. a prominent farmer is lying in a critical condition at bis- home near Clarks , partially paralyzed as the result of a fall from the stack while putting up hay. Mr. Dyche stood too near the edge of the stack as the load came up and either the teeih of the stacker or some of the hay pushed him backwards. He fell on his head and shoulders. Crops Good in Roouc County. J The corn crop of Boonc county , one i of the heaviest ever raised , is now ; practically out of the way of frost. ; This is the verdict of a majority of the i farmers. With an exceptionally good ' crop of wheat and alfalfa and prices never better , the I'.oone county farm er Is not losing any sleep as to where ( his living is coming from the coming i year. j Double Tragedy at Tlelvcy. j James Greenwall , well-to-do a - - young j business man of the village of Helvey. : shot and instantly killed Hilda Simon- , son , daughter of a farmer. The young woman was employed in the village. Greenwall , after killing the girl , shot himself , dying soon after. The two had been regarded as sweethearts , but recently the girl refused to have any thing further do with him. Injured While Thrc.-hin - . Don Cloud , while Avorking on the farm of Carl Gale , three miles south ! of Beatrice , fell from a threshing ma chine , breaking his left arm in two places and a bone in his right hand. In his descent he barely escaped fall ing into the machinery , which was running at full speed. Carpenter Has Fatal Fall. W. W. Sherer , aged OS years , met j sudden death while at work on the ! construction of a new residence in i j Grand Island. He either was overcome - . : come by weakness or made a misstep j , and fell between the joists to the lloor ] below , fracturing the skull and the spine. Injured in Runaway. While threshing at the Wisherd ranch , six miles northeast of Leigh. William Wisherd sustained a broken arm and leg in a runawn1 * 4 c CREIGHTON GIRLS KILLS SELF. .Student of Browncil Hall and About to Return to School. Miss Vivian Cheney , for three years a student at Rrownt/11 Hall. Omaha , and the daughter of H. A. Cheney , president of the Security bank of ' < ' -r. ' hton , toiiunitt't ! suicide by swal- letting caibolic acid. She belong teen onof the oldest and msl prominent | families in Knox county and was a favorite - ; vorite at IJrownell Hall because of her j i light-hearted disposition. She % \as 17 , y VTi. ohl. | The cause of luo net li iippOoCd to j j be disappointment because she could not come to Omaha a we ok before Hrownell Hall opened , though it is al so believed she took the drug to frighten her parents into letting her come , expecting take an antidote which would prevent death. She had her trunk packed , ready for the trip , her parents being under the impression school opened this week. When they learned it would not open for another week they insisted she \\ait. She was very much disappoint ed. About llo : : ; she went into a room adjoining that" her mother wa < in and swa'.loucd the contents of a small bottle tle of ai-id. She rushed out to her mi > t"ner and told her what she had done , telling Mrs. Cheney to give her egys and milk to counteract the ef fects. This \\as done , and a physician war called , but in a few minutes she way dead. Ab'.ist three years ago Miss1 Cheney lan away from home , but was found and brought back before she had gen < > far. . Five years ago her u-raruiiatj'er. George IS. Cheney , fell do\\n an elevator shaft in the Drexel hotel in Omaha and was killed. CATHOLIC SCHOOL I-'OR ALLIANCE St. AUCV' Academy Opens for AVork in Western City. St. Agnes' academy , the .only Catho lic institution of its kind west of Giand inland , was opened at Alliance' MiMidt-y to a fuil attendance. The buih'inij is a four-story brick and stone structure and was erected during tiniast year at a cost of $3n.- inj" . and through the Herculean efforts - forts uf Father W. L. .McXamara. who supervised fie whole work , the school doors are thrown open practically free lr : m debt. The academy is under the manage ment of the teaching order of the Sis ters of St. Fiancis. who come highly recommended for their teaching abili ties. The ne\v high school , which was be gun . -bout the same time as the acad emy. wIi be ready for occupancy about Sept. 2 > . These two schools \\ill relieve the congested condition that has existed in the public schools of Alliance for the last eight years. With the completion of the new Hui-ilngton depot. which will be thrown open tthe public the latter part of ihs' month , and which is the finest building of it kind outside of Omaha , co-ting $ ( ; . " . .000. will have end ed public work in this city for the last jeur. amounting in round numbers to .1 liUIe L--lter than ? if..OOO : ; , all of which has orabled Alliance to make a.tv.ipe-'d and permanent strides as the in. tropolis > : f we.-.t"rn Nebraska. A51.MKKS TO FIGHT FOK LANDS. < > rjai'/ii' to Content Claims of the I'riion Pacific . Charles Woosur. of Silver Creek , has gone to Dimc-iti to attend a Union Paeiiic right ofity meeting , the third of the kind held at or near tiiat place. The IUM meeting is to be held at Sil ver Cieek on Saturday. Sept. 19. to which the farmers along the Union Pacific and othi-is interested are in vited. Mr. Wooster refuses to state the puipore of these meetings , further than to say that a big fat hen is on. It is believed on very good authority thai the farmers meditate bringing some sort of action against the Union Pacific iMiiraad. This is over the con tention oi the right of way wherein the Union Pacific claims 400 feet right of way and which people owning land contiguous to the railroad track throughout the length of the state of Nebraska deny. If the company is suceenful it \\ill take thousands of acres of land tohich the farmers now claim title. GKXGA FAK.MKR KXDS LIFE. i ) < .rtMic te ! liv.siiic.Troubles Said to HeCau e. Oaf ! H'Misen. i farmer of Genoa , by attaching a wire to the trigger of a shotgun and fastening the wire to a buggy in liis barn , manufactured a mi'cniiie by which he killed himself when he pulle'l the gun toward him. He had had business and domestic ilillieuitic'-- . but they were of so slight consequence that uhen he called to his wife t- come and see him in the barn , she thought nothing of the mat ter. The report of the gun followed. His family is left in destitute circum stances. OmUr.ctor Disappears. St < ven J. Kelso. a Beatrice contrac tor and builder , disappeared , leaving behind him unpaid bills aggregating § r > . ( iOO. He had thirty-live men in his employ , nearly all of whom he owed t\\o weeks' salary. For the last week he ha'- been acting strangely and it is believed his mind is unbalanced. Xehavtk ; : Fair a Success. The lourth annual fair of the Xe- hawka Social Fair association was he-Id Friday and Saturday , with a rec ord breair.g attendance of 5,000 pee ple. Brtice Mr.n Killed by Cars. Word was received at Beatrice Mon day stating that Horace Mitchell , a former IJeatrice resident , was killed in a railroad accident at Atchison , Kan. SherH ! " Finally Lwntis Man. Sheriff Trut'e and Chief of Police Moore < f iit-ntriee. h.iv gone to Win- lield. Kan. , to tike charge of Thomas Hopkins , a half-breed Indian , wanted on a charge ci criminally assaulting Florence r.Iecum. a 16-year-old girl at Beatrice laat November. X\v W.itcr\vcr > - for \Vcston. W : -k en watrv-vorks ryvt m for Westoii crrn'.encrl ilopday. This plant when c.-nnpIr--c ! will be ore or the llnf n in the : ; , . . . . . towns of the * tMSTi ( 5 P'Ti SiM fi4 * * : ; K UiU 11 fcsi Ki Through Flames Sweep and Leave Rv- Their V/akc. PAIL 01 ? SMOKE IN CHICAGO- Homeless Settlers and Wild Aai Driven from Baling Porest to Laka Shore. Blown more thai : f.OO miles byertle > . - : . . to and kept < - > e steadv air currents * , tuios- favorable : earth by pfculiarly pheric conditions , the smoke froui Northern forest fires blew over MI1- Satr.rday and Avaukce and Chicago Sunday. In .Milwaukee Saturday its- l ° ' : he > density had inn-eased rot - > [ outlines of buildings four blo - ; . < dis tant could lie made out. This is the first ttme in many \ears. that Chicago has seen and felt t ie ef fects ot" the forest fires that ra the far north every SUWHIMT. lircs about llfbimig. Minn. , : Michigan copper country are m. > r- * e- vere than usual , and the country with in a RidiiiH of I'OO miles of the - ' > ' districts : s covered with a pall > ! ' srnoke. The enormous cloud -t.-Iftcci southward on a gentle wind. Peculiar atmospheric condM. . per milted the light smoke to dcs ! ! . til it covered The whole city , 'a'wipgr the rays of the sun to filler ur.v : as * through a light fog. The smoke was- thick enough to a fiord the spec'- ! > > of the sun hanging like a copper red disc- In the heavens. Lake trallic was badly harnp'rd ' y the smoke , and the government f- whistles were put to work. llest-r * t-n. ICescucil I > yVnval The dramatic story of the r ' - - . ' . 3 : the north shore settlers and Uu * citi zens of Grand Marais by the Iiuluth * naval reserves on hoard the steamer Gopher , is told by a correspond"t was aboard the vessel. The most heart rending scenes were witnessed -ilS along the north shore of tsulake. . Homeless settlers , with everythiir th y possessed licked up by the flnue : < . tlcr . to the lake shore for refuse , wth : lit tle fee l and no clothing but \vluit thej * carried on their hacks. The Ci.-phn- coasted along the shore , piokiirui > the refugees. The shore was aliv * A .ili wild animals of all kinds , driven out of the woods by the fires. Three im , had been forced to take rcfug" in tho- waters of the lake and were pi. ke-1 up by the Gopher. One woman nitb sicl.iby ! in a pack on her back and a : her arms lied throe miles frn : 1 < - homestead to the lake and was pi < ke < up by th" boat. With Grand Marais. a town of people , on the Lake Superior shore , partly destroyed , and P.-a\or P.ay. SO miles away , also attacked br the llames. and a do/en smaller towns- in great peril , it was apparent Satur day that , unless rain came soon , the- distri'-t Avas entire forest fire-swept doomed to total destruction. Among the larger places in pMwere ' ! - Colerain , Tiovey. NaslnvaukV.irI.Ie Tlibbing. Buhl , Big Bay , Chicag ) Ba\ % Coflon. Aurora. Mountain Iron , en- shall , Fort William. Out. . ITymers. nut. , . I'ort Arthur. Out. Cascade and XT I.II. The Great Northern. Northern P.u itic" at.'d all State railroads had fire trains- out fighting to save property along the- I'inrsand protect 'bridges ' and stations. It was a battle inwhich all abli oil5e < 5 men throughout the threatened terri tory took a hand , and hundred- * were neor exhaustion as a result of th&- week's struggle. Scene " \VH.M The soen'e along the shore Sl tIr < l. J. right Avas an awe-inspiring sight aseorj' from the water. For a distance of More- than 100 miles the llames appeared to be almost continuous. The roar ng of' the lire could be heard for mile ? Grille t--fcs were suddenly envelope ; ! in tl KI the lire rushing up balsams - . ; : ' a swisb like a giant rocket. Ti ! r Mt" ] ) C-at beils of northern Minne.so'a rv a' ' ! ablaze. In rcsionse to Governor .T > : m on'9 > appeal ? 1.1,000 has been raised by the' Duiiith relief committre for { , ' : , - home less refugees. The supply of f = > . i .tr.T clothes now seems to ne ample. Ilelii f measures are being taken in all the cities throughout the State to help the fire sufferers. Along the north shore of Lake -Superior the situation is critical. . The Fire Monster' * AVork. Here's a summary of the fire morf- ster's work : Duration of fires , two weeks. Cause of fires believed to he ineon- tharj . States and provinces visited -by flrr * Minnesota , Wisconsin , Michigan : tmJ Ontario. Towns and mining settlements de stroyed , about ten. Towns in imminent danger twenty Total fire loss ( estimated ) , from .910 , * 000.000 to $15,000,000. People homeless , about 00,000 NE S OF MUTOK , KTOTE \ In a jail at Calcutta. India. * irraia , of impn onocl revolutionists kill.-J oaof their comrades who , : l turned thorn and revealed their plot to a bluion ! :