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7 The Pacific IBcc 358 YTednesday Angust 9 iSgp precedent in the mining history of the country Much English' capital is coming in and It Is more Judiciously invested than In former years as the English have learned by experience to rely only oa competent expert testimony as to the value of properties Secretary Chamberlain British Min ister for the Colonies has agreed te subsidize a railway in British Honduras to connect with the road through Yucatan where the Government is putting the Indian tribes to work on land allotted to their members In severalty A project for a standard gauge road-from the City of Mexico through to British Honduras is now under discussion in London Spring up to and Including the month of April Besides being very palatable as a food the Angora goat and kid are used for other purposes The skins of the goat are used for making floor mats and robes for babies while the skin of the kid Is used for trimming furs Dr Devoe of the Bureau of Animal Industry when asked In regard to goats being sold for mutton said: "They certainly are quite free from disease are fat and make excellent eating Of course the very common would have a tendency to be strong tnd have a bad odor There Is no law to prevent goats being sold and when we find them In the packing house they are inspected the same as other carcasses" The records at the yards show that some weeks as high as 8XI0 goat have been received a large number of sick and impoverished miners Horn Copper River Alaska To all impoverished miners in this district the Government is giving employment at $50 a month and board until enough has been earned to pay for a second-class passage home All of the scurvy sick are being sent out free Miners are leaving Cooks Inlet on every boat and few now remain In the interior HARD A party of eleven destitute miners were picked up at the mouth of the Porcupine River by the steamer Sault Ste Marie They had left Dawson a year ago in search of alleged gold mines which they never found CHRISTIAN Rev Eugenia Brooks of Victoria British Columbia Is charged with the murder of a child having given it the so-called Christian Science treatment He has fled to the United States but will be extradited BRITISH The Imperial Government and the Dominion authorities' have decided to Increase both the regular military and naval foices at Victoria the Pacific Coast depot of the British Army and Navy A SYNOD AFLOAT A novel excursion to Alaska left Seattle Friday on the steamer City of Seattle It consisted of about 300 persons including the Presbyterian Synod of Washington The annual session of the Synod will be held aboard the steamer during the voyage to Alaska Gospel services and literary and musical entertainments will he given and revival meetings held In the cities of Alaska determined that the beach shall not be disfigured by unsightly derricks HOTEL The Blue Lakes Hotel at Ukiah destroyed by fire last Fiiday The loss is approximated at $10000 Including $1900 In currency and checks The fire wajs due to a defective chimney FOUND DROWNED Graham Bridge the 18-year-old son of Captain A Bridge of Balls Ferry was drown last week in Bailey Creek Shasta County where he was camping drowned Tuesday In Bailey Creek near Shtngletown where he was camping with a friend Bridge was subject to epileptic fits and it Is thought that ho went to the stream for water and was seized with a fit and fell In CAPTIVE Forty seals were recently captured at Santa Barbara They are to be sent East to various places for parks and zoological gai-dens THE VINE The phylloxera a most destructive Insect pest of the vine has appeared In vineyards at l'e-coto There is no effective remedy save to destroy the old vines and replace them with stock that withstands the ntta ks of the post AUGUST Heavy showers of rain fell last Thursday at Sacramento Stockton San Francisco Santa Rosa and other points In Northern California In most places there was a display of lightning during the night with rolling thunder At Jamestown In the mountains the fall of rain amounted to over halt an Inch No great dam asv was caused by the rain at any poiht A COSTLY The Norwegian steamer Tliyra arrived In San Francisco Friday from Hongkong via Honolulu with a cargo valued at $irooouu SEWER BONDS The Issue of sewer bonds by thr town of Red Bluff In the amount of $83000 bearing House A suit to condemn land for the purpose has heen begun BAD MONEY Several counterfeiters engaged In the making of spurious silver dollars and smaller coins have been arrested at San Francisco BRYAN MAY It Is reported that William Jennings Bryan is coming to California In September with his wife and that they will visit the State Fair and the Yosemite Valley DRIER BURNED large raisil drier on the ranch of Alex Gordon about three miles east of Fresno containing about 8000 raism trays was destroyed by fire last week The loss is about $1000 with no Insurance ELECTRIC An electrical at Chico for two hours Sunday night During the night a yearling colt fol-shoek Rain fell heavily for a few minutes the precipitation being 70 of an Inch TO FIGHT Joe Kennedy the California boxer has been matched to fight Peter Maher before the Lenox Athletic Club of New York wnere the men will meet on September 20th BAPTIST The receipts of the American Baptist Missionary Union since its organization have amounted to $13300801 the average amount per year being $480000 The largest amount for any single year was la 1898 being $782414 For every $20 spent for self-support home Churches give $1 to lorelgn missions COOL The past two weeks have been remarkable for the cool weather prevailing In California the temperature having ruled eight or ten degrees below the normal throughout the interior BIBLE STUDY The Twin Lakes Baptist Assembly of the study of the Bible and general literature was formed at Santa Cruz last Friday with the following officers: Ward Oakland President Rev Banks Sacramento Vice-President Rev it OF IE IBID New Primary Law Defeats San Francisco Bosses CHAPTER OP RAILROAD AND OTHER ACCIDENTS Filipino Army Routed in the Island of Luzon-Great Storm on Gulf Coast of Bicycle Records Broken Fast Pacing by Other Events of Interest Flection Under New Primary Law The first election In San Francisco under the new primary law took place yesterday resulting In the defeat of the political bosses and the success of the Central Republican and the Regular Democratic tickets This law applies the principle of the Australian ballot to primary elections The primaries of al parties are held at the same time and but one ballot is used that being official and the election being held under the provisions of the general election law There was a heavy vote cast and the law works well More good citizens went to the polls than ever before at a primary in San Francisco The Kelley and Crimmins nominees' on the Republican and the Buckley nominees on the Democratic side of the ticket defeated The result of the election Indicates that Mayor James Phelan will be renominated by the Democrats and that the Republicans will name a good man to run against him Train Off the Track The south-bound Los Angeles express left the rails at 11:80 Monday night one-half mile south of Dos Palos Fresno County It ran on the tics about 200 yards and brought up with the engine and tender and nine cars in the ditch Engineer Con Ford and Fireman Wood (brother of Engineer Will Wood who was killed in the Owl wreck at Ingomar about six months ago) were both horribly scalded by steam and died In a few hours Among those who sustained Injuries are Mrs Cora McCarty Los Angeles Mary Cowan Fresno: Bulen brake man Mosher San Diego Mrs 8 Nisewander Fresno Sline ftiml Cal A McKnew Wells-Faigo messenger Maltby and two Japanese None are considered seriously Injured The State School Census A review of the school census of the State has been prepared by State Superintendent Kirk as follows: Number of school districts reported by counties (Including Joint districts) 8810 4 per cent annual Interest has been Bennett Oakland Secretary and Treas-awarded td the Pacific Construction Company they paying a premium of $327 30 Before the Winter rains Red Bluff will be completely sewered MUSTERED The Second Oregon Reglinem was muster'd out Monday In San Francisco Lloyd will urer SAVED THE William McLean a boy living at Redding had a narrow escape from death Saturday in trying to save the life of a young chicken which hhd fallen into a thirty-foot well Young McLean slid down the well rope hund over Department He forwarded to the Department a large variety of seeds and plants which he thinks will prove adaptable to the southern portion of the United States including the arid Southwest where irrigation is necessary YELLOW Since Wednesday last one more death from yellow fever has occurred in the Soldiers' Home at Hampton Virginia and one new case The disease 'Is dying out At Vera Cruz Mexico the fever is abating There were seventeen deaths there during the last week In July DESTRUCTIVE Exceed ingly heavy rains caused a great flood at Preston Minnesota last week The damage is placed as high as $590000 GOLD Hanna Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Monetary Convention eays a bill has been agreed upon by the Caucus Committee of the House of Representatives designed to establish the gold standard GOLD The Secretary of the Treasury has given or-dets for the printing of gold certificates with a view to resuming Ihelr Issue If needed In movement of Fall crops as Indicated at present HEAVY The heaviest batteries yet placed on any naval vessel In the world will be carried by the Georgia New Jersey and Pennsylvania the new battleships authorized by the last Congress If the suggestions of Rear Adiniial O'Neil Chief of the Bureau of Ordnunce are adopted LOSS BY The buildings of the Portland Cement Company at Glenn Falls New Yoik which were constructed of timber were destroyed by fire Sunday entailing a loss of $250000 COLLISION OF Two cars collided on the Seavlew Road running between Twixford and Narragansett Bridgeport Rhode Island Sunday The motorman was killed Of the forty passengers but one was Injured Both cars were set on fire by the electric current and destroyed NOT A In a letter to Surgeon-General Sternberg dated January 20th the distinguished Brazilian physician Dr Delacord of Rio de Janeiro says: "The Berum of Dr Sanarelll has failed In Brazil The experiments made at San Paulo have not been favorable to the use of this serum It Is neither preventive nor curative of yellow TWO LIVES A disastrous wreck occurred on the Rio Grande Western road Thursday night Freight train No 1 ran Into a washout near Solitude The engine toppled over Instantly killing Engineer Frank McMahon and Freman James Wheelan COUNTERFEIT Chief Wilkie of the Secret Service says there la much counterfeiting going on In Cuba Porto Rico and Hawaii although nut so much as In the Philippines and that the Secret Service will have to be extended to those Islands The counterfeiting Is of Spanish and Chinese coins In general circulation In the Islands JOHN BROWN'S The remains of the seven followers of years ago have been ekhumed and are to be burled by the side of the old liberator In the little plat at North Elba New York FORESTRY WORK A year ago Cornell University secured 1JOOOO acres of wood land In the Adirondack Mountains near Axton for the exclusive use of her Forestry Department This land has been divided into a number of sections and several seed beds have been laid out In which have been planted over 1009000 small tree3 of different variety Davis Dalton a swimming teacher was drowned near New York on Monday while giving a swimming exhibition He was seized with an apoplectic fit and sank MAST Last week the yacht Columbia was dismasted during a strong wind but no permanent damage was caused to the rarer A President McKinley and family and Vice-President Hobart are enjoying a rest on the shores of Lake Champlain HOME President McKinley has bought for $14500 the home In which he lived at Canton prior to his election to the Presidency He will spend a part of each year there with his family TRACKS TURN Because the Sylvan Lake Street Car Company at Pontiac Michigan refused to pave between Its tracks in accordance the terms of Its franchise ami also attempted to obstruct by Injunction the paving of the streets by the city the Company's tracks on the main thoroughfare were torn up last Saturday morning before daylight by a gang of men employed the Aldermen and prominent citizens s-t-s THE PACIFIC COAST bequeathes his entire estate estimated at $2000900 to Mrs Susan Ganot Tevls widow of the testator PROBABLY Frank Landis a merchant of Lincoln Placer County was found dead at his place of business this morning He had been shot through the body and a pistol was lying near The circumstances Indicate murder A SPOUT1NO Near Long Beach a spouting well of water flows from a pipe fifty feet above the pond and the How is 290 Inches FLY- WHEEL While engaged in threshing hurley on the Espinosa ranch near L'astroville today James Berry the engineer was fatally Injured by the bursting of the fly wheel of the engine Portions of the wheel Hew over 200 feet destroying a pile of sacked grain and scattering It broadcast BURNED TO The 17-mnnths-old son of Charles Hlry was burned to death In his crib Monday In Santa Cruz The clothing on the crib was ignited by another child who was playing with matches ACCIDENTALLY Miss Amy Bennett 23 years old accidentally shot and killed herself with a pistol at Ensenada last week She was the daughter of Charles Bennett one of the largest ranchers In that part of Lower California KILLED A Dixon lootled Dearborn Longfellow of Deer Flat near Jamestown was fatally shot Saturday In the groin HANGED Dr McIntyre a- retired physician if middle age hanged himself Sunday In a barn on his ram near Windsor OUR NEW ISLAND EMPIRE The Situation In Luzon The Chicago Tribune's special correspondence from Manila under date of June 20th has an uncensored flavor It says: The next campaign can hardly begin sooner than November ulthough the country may dry up enough towards the middle of October to permit the American troops to take the field then The American aimy during the rainy season can hardly be expected to do anything more than hold what It has gained and prepare for the next campaign The ground to defend is not very great The insurrectionists are In possession of three-fourths ot the railroads and rolling stock They have twenty-seven of the road's locomotives while the Americans only have four The rest of the rolling stock Is also distributed between the two parties In a like ratio Reports continually come from Ral-inag that the town Is entliely surrounded by the enemy and Is about to be carried by assault But Colonel Page and the Third Infantry have so far driven the rebels with serious losx every time they assaulted the tow and he declares he can hold It for an indefinite period although his position there Is by no means an easy one Sup piles and mall can only be carried over to Balinag from the railroad under an escort of not less than 150 men who are Invariably attacked somewhere along the road both going and coming The Insurgents have their intrench-nients drawn well around San Fernando and Balirag and their outposts are in sight of the American outposts At San Fernando two determined attacks along the whole rebel line were made lust week The second engagement lasted three hours when the Insurgents were driven back with heavy losses Bullets fly continually over both places and stray bullets frequently find victims The country north of Balinag' that General Lawton's troops marched over to San Isidor had all to be evacuated owing to the lack of troops to gari 'sotw the captured towns and will have to retaken afresh when the next campaign opens The Insurgents are continually receiving fresh supplies and arms At Paranuque a week ago they astonished he Americans by bringing out somi modern field pieces that they had obtained somewhere Heuvy shipments of arms are said to be constantly arriving from Japan and Australia and It Is snhl even from our own country Cartridges picked up in the Insurgent trenches bear the trails mark of a big manufacturing firm in the United States The Insurgents have their factories whre they manufacture cuitrldpes and other munitions of war If they were kept on the run they would have no time to so equip themselves that they could return after every defeat better able to fight thun they were before A Battle in Luzon General Otis to-day cables from Manila to the War Department news of a butlM In tile following words: Mac- Arthur with 4000 men attacked the Insurgent army 0000 strong concentrated around San Francisco at 8:1" this morning At 10 a in he had driven it five miles in the direction of Angeles Casualties few Attack for 7th Instant raid did not permit movement lull way frmn Angeles notth badly washed by the unprecedented floods of the last six weeks beyond the aWlity of the Insurgents to repair OTIS Bits of Foreign News THE YAQUI INDIANS The first reports from Mexico concerning the outbreak of Yaqul Indians were of the most alarming character but have not been confirmed It is now said that the outbreak is confined to the neighborhood of Turin where It originated and that not more than 200 Indians have taken part In It A large force of Mexican troops is in the field and short work is likely to be made of the rebels A WHITE Two of the Samoan Commissioners have arrived at Honolulu where it is said they have given out that Samoa will be ruled by a white Governor to be appointed by the three Powers In control there THE PLAGUE The bubonic plague has made Its reappearance in Calcutta DROUGHT IN The condition in India continues serious Except In Rengal practically no rain has fallen In Western or Southern India for nearly forty days The Bombay Government is already considering means to cope with the famine which will be severe unless Tain soon comes STORM IN PARIS During a severe thunderstorm Saturday night the lightning conductor on the Eiffel Tower at Palis was struck ten times A thunderbolt set fire to the Jeanot factory the Ceinture Railway was flooded many buildings were Injured and scores of fine trees were destroyed The day had been very hot the temperature reaching 104 degrees Many sunstrokes were reported some of them fatal A dust storm preceded the thunderstorm at Versailles RAILROAD The Canadian Atlantic Express bound from Montreal to Ottawa Jumped the track at St Polyoarpe about 11:30 to-day Seven passengers are reported killed and ten Injured FIRED Off Folkeston England this morning the British torpedo boatLeda found a French fishing boat the Etollle de Mer fishing within the three-mile limit The fishermen attempted to escape and did not stop when a blank shot was fired The l-eda then fired a shot which disabled the Etoille de Mer and killed her helmsman The vessel was then towed Into the port MORE At the opening of Parliament In England to-day Secretary Chamberlain said several more regiments were about to be sent to South Africa "for the defense of Natal" In reply to questions he said the situation In the Transvaal was not to be tolerated and that the grievances of the are a source of danger to the whole of South Africa ADMIRAL The Olympia arrived at Naples a few days ago where she will remain a month Ad-mlial Dewey has been received with much honor He refuses to discuss nffairs in the Philippines A The Island of Guadalupe in the West Indies was visited by a hurricane on Monday which did much damage Many boats were sunk but no lives were lost as far as known MANY LIVES In a collision of passenger trains last Saturday evening at Juvisy a suburb of Paris seventeen persons were killed and seventy-three Injured GENERALS ACQUITTED Tho Spanish Court-martial before which Generals Total and Pareja have been on trial charged with surrendering Santiago to the American forces without having exhausted all means of defense has acquitted both officers on the ground that they acted upon the orders of tlielr superiors and only surrendered when It was Impossible to do otherwise REVOLUTION IN IIAYTI-l'he revolutionary Dominican troops have crossed the Haytien frontier and have taken possession of Dajabon The garrison at that place retired to Fort Helar a strategic position ci mmunding the town The foreign population an the Hataylan Consul left the place MEXICAN RAILROAD General Charles Miller ot Pennsylvania has arrived In San Francisco from Mexico where he went some time ago representing a syndicate of Eastern railroad men They have determined to build 252 miles of track from Culiean Tobin through the provinces of Durango anj Sinaloa NEW A new remedy for tuhureulosls developed In France consists In the dally Injection into the bronchial tubes ot essence of eucalyptus thyme and cinnamon held In a solution of olive oil Good resullS are claimed COKE GOES Cuke has advanced ten shillings per ton In Great Britain adding $3 per ton to the co-t of iron Labor and ores have advanced slightly MINING The bank trouble In Montrenl are attributed to the mining speculation which has appeared In Canada with Its greatest development In Montreal and Toronto It had It origin In the development of the Klondike gold eld FIVE MEN DROWNED-A boat which was being used to convey sailor to a warship at Budapest last week was capsized and five of the men wero drowned TERRIBLE Concepcion the southernmost city ot Chill which was recently Inundated by the overflow of the river Illoblo whereby hundreds of families were made homeless was last week visited by a terrible earthquake Many buildings were damaged many families were forced to camp In the streets and business was paralyzed LEAGUE BASEBALL The following table show the standing of the State League clubs to date: Number of white children between a prominent business man of Bakers-5 and 7 years of Boys 172828 field lately killed a monster California girls 109730 total 342373 lion on Greenhorn Mountain The Number of negro children of school stock Boys 1080 girls 1088 total) the PIPER ESTATE The estate 2174 I of William A Piper the cx-Congress- Number of Indian children of school who died In his mum at the Boys 1322 girls 1320 total palace Hotel Saturday while reading 2848 I a newspaper Is valued at $3000000 Number of Mongolian children of jt goes to a mumber of relatives school age Boys 1332 girls 998 I A A slight earthquake total 2330 shock was felt In San Francisco at Total number of children of school 940 o'clock Saturday night No damage '330123 I age was done Number of pupils who attend public I FATALLY While repairing school during school year 201191 a gun which wus suppose! to be un- Two Frightful Accidents At Mount Desert Ferry In Maine twenty poisons lost their lives last Sunday by the collapse of a ferry slip The passengers from an excursion train on the Maine Central were crowding upon the slip to board the steamer for Bar Harbor when the slip gave way precipitating a great number into the water Many were rescued hut a seme sank before aid could reach them The Coroner's Jury censured the Company for faulty construction of the slip On the same day at Bridgepoit Connecticut twenty-nine persons Were killed and many injured by the derailing of a trolly car which fell from a trestle a distance of forty feet into the mud and water belmv Tho car reached the trestle at a high speed and the rails were not properly guarded against such an accident Harness and Saddle FASTEST Arlington In the second heat of the free-for-all pace at Youngstown Ohio last Thursday made a mile In 2:0714 being the fastest mile ever raced on a half-mile track FAST At Columbus Ohio last week Searchlight formerly a California horse paced the three fastest heats of the season 4 and 2:04 and clipped a half Becond off his record At Cleveland last Friday In the 2:10 trot purse $2000 Tommy Britton won In straight heats Time 2:0814 2:0814 A JOCKEY'S Jockey George Odom has signed a contract to ride for Whitney for 1900 1901 and 1902 The boy will receive $10000 a year and In addition $25 for every winning mount and $10 for every losing mount FAST HE three heats In the 2:04 pace at the Fort Erie grand circuit meeting yesterday were the fastest ever paced or trotted In Canada The time was 2:0514 2:0414 2:0314 Eastern Culling KILLED BY A At the wagon road crossing of the Chicago and Northwestern two miles east of Dako-tah City Iowa three young men and their team were Instantly killed last Friday COLUMBIA In the yacht race to-day the Columbia defeated the Defender over a course of forty-three miles leading the former cup-defender by 22 minutes and IS seconds AN INSANE Charles Yager aged 40 years of Brandt a Pennsylvania village while temporarily Insane murdered his three small children last wook by cutting their throats and then committed suicide by the same means He was a widower and since his wife's death has devoted himself to the three children CUBAN The President has directed that the census of Cuba be taken as soon as possible The last Spanish census of Cuba was taken In 188 7 The population wns said to be 1(1311187 of whom nearly (15 per cent were white It Is now much less CRUISER Orders have been received at the Navy Yard from Washington to rush repairs and alterations on the rniiser Buffalo She will be fitted up for duty between New York and Manila and must be ready to gu Into commission by November 1st RACE A race riot occurred at the Poe cotton mills In South Carolina lust Sunday In which one white man and five negroes were wounded STRUCK BY Lightning struck the big brick powerhouse and car-house of the South Range Avenue Elertric Road on South Orange Avenue at Newark last week The building cought fire and was destroyed with eighty-five cars The railroad officials claim a loss of $300000 THE FLOOR During a dance at Wellsvllle Ohio lust week the floor gave way and the audience of 200 wns predpitated into the cellar a distance of twelve feet Many persons were Injured some hail bones broken but no one was fatallv hurt FARMHOUSE ROBBED Four masked burglars forced thc4r way Into the lonely farmhouse of Dr Jos Parkinson In West Virginia one night last week and after blindfolding and gagging the Inmates who were all women they secured Government bonds valued at $10500 $73 In money and a lot of silverwure and Jewelry There Is no clue to their Identity BLEW OFF HIS Wold fartner near Beskin Lake Wisconsin placed a quantity of dynamite in a hole in the ground laid his head over It and touched It off exclaiming: I go and the Lord go with me" His head and un arm were completely torn away HEAVY One Inch of rain fell within twenty minutes at Denver Thursday evening Ruin had been falling steadily for several hours NAPHTHA A train of twenty-four cars was wrecked in Tunnel No 4 on the Clnrlnnnti and Southern Railway to-day by the explosion of a tank cur loaded with nuphtha The wreckage caught fire and the entire train will probably be a total loss HEAVY I OSS business poition of Cnillslo Ky was destroyed by file to-day entailing a loss of $4(10 (too Rogers' tobacco warehouse containing 300 (KM) pounds ot tobuccy worth $10000 was the chief losv GAS An explosion of gus In the Rrook Colliery of the Scranton Coal Company to-day seriously burned lle men The explosion was caused by a miner's lntnp The force was so great that one miner was Mown 150 feet HOT The Weather Bureau at Cincinnati reports a temperature ef 91 Mi degrees for Thursday afternoon the highest for twelve years Seven persons were prostrated by heat Like hot weather bus prevailed throughout the East SEEDS AND PLANTS Walter I Swingle a special agent of the Agricultural Department has icturard from an eighteen tour of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea made iu the Interest of the hand As he was near the bottom the rope broke and he was precipitated Into eight feet of water He paddled "dog and kept afloat until his shouts for help attracted the attention of a relative who lowered a rope and rescued the boy The nervy lad had the satisfaction of bringing up with him the chicken alive and well DISEASED Six of the forty head of cattle which arrived from Petaluma last week and were condemned by the San Francisco Board of Health were slaughtered Thursday In Butchertown in the presence of Health Officer Lawlor All were found to be In an advanced stage of disease from tuberculosis MANY BOOKS-Thete are 78000 volumes In the library at the State University EASTERN INTELLIGENCE Bicycle Records Broken Major Taylor the negro cyclist ro5e a mile paced by a steam motor at the Garfield Park track In Chicago last week in the phenomenal time of 1:2214 thereby breaking the record by five and three-fifths seconds The world's bicycle record for 1000 A Hansen at Minneapolis on a boulevard which was perhaps no better than the English turnpike Thursday covering the distance in i)2 hours and 44 minutes The time made by Edge was 105 hours minutes At Woodside Park track Philadelphia Burns Pierce of Boston broke the bicycle records for two three four and five miles He rode five tnilew paced by a motor The time of the first mile was 1:84 three seconds lower than thu record He went the second mile In 309 previous record Third mile 4:40 previous record 5:00 Fourth mile 0:23 previous record 0:40 Fifth mile 8:02 2-5 previous record 8:15 Great and General Prosperity Brndstreet's (Nov York) weekly report says: All conditions Indicate the maintenance of general trade and Industry in an unprecedented midsummer volume Especially indicative of this are the continued very heavy bank clear The Eastern Strikes Tile street-rar strike ut Cleveland bus fulled the ears of he Big Consolidated now running regularly with nonunion crews The business men have organized against the boycott which for a time wns effective but has since weakened Yesterday the troops were withdrawn At an enily hour this morning a ear was Mown up by nitroglycerine but no one was hurt It is believed that the rioting has erased The compositors and stcreotypers of the New York Sun have struck owing to a belief that non-Union men were to be hired to take their places In Pennsylvania several thousand coni miners have struck some for an ineiense In wages and others because of differences with their employers At Port Huron Michigan the striking machinists of the Grand Trunk locomotive shops have returned to work pending an Investigation of their demunds The tailors of Npw York have won their strike practically nil of Hie con-ti actors having signed agreements to allow operators SIS hunters $15 and finishers $10 a week Ten hours Is to constitute a work Terrific Storm on the Florida Coast The Gulf coast of Florida was visited by a great storm of wind and rain lhst week Willi caused heavy losses The town of Onrabelle was almost destroyed Fourteen large' Vessels wete wrecked on the beach and all the houses wee unroofed except two Hundreds of people were left destitute The towns of McIntyre and I-anark inn also suffered severely A passen-ger tiffin was actually Mown from th truck a distance of loo yards and many passengeis were Injured There were many wrecks along the coast A number of lives were lost by drowning Goat Meat Sold aa Mutton Thousands of goals are bought slaughtered and placed on the markets of Clilcugo and sold as mutton by some packers at the stock yurds This traffic la curried on most extensively during the Whiter and early number who atend private school 22-937 number who attend no school 05977 Native-born children In the State 400755 forelgn-bom children In the Stnte 8013 or a grand total of 408-770 The number of children under the age of 5 years Is: White 110307 negro 039 Indian 915 and Mongolian 094 or a total of 118015 Sutter County Is the only county In the State which has no foreign-born school children California Jtems DERRICKS TORN DOWN A company of men under the leadership of Mrs Charles Fernald last week demolished oil derricks erected by prospectors on tbe beach ot Miramar Sunta Barbara Comity Property owners me Sonoma Comity He wus well knuwn lngs returns largely increased railroad thioughout the county was prosperous i earnings tetlectlng a traffic in grain end apparently healthy and no known and merehandise generally far In ex-eiuiae existed for hla rash aet cess of a year ago reports of activity A Hughey Hughes a In numerous lines of manufacturing infamous pedestrian has arrived at dustry notably In all branches of Iron Santa Rosa from Now Jersey having and steel and kindred lines woolen made his eleventh transcontinental goods boots and shoes and cotton trump He says he has no desire to goods and advices from leading mar-1-100 kels of a satisfactory opening of the MORE The Gov- regular Fall demand with heavy shlp-eniniont will soon construct additional meats of goods on orders fortifications for San Francisco near the ocean bench south of the Cliff Philippine News STEAMER The merchant steamei Satuinus coasting under the American flug went ashore at San Fernando on the 2d Instunt The cargo Cornwallls-West the son of tho was sacked by Filipinos who also got famous beauty Lady Cornwallis-West IS GOING to MARRY -Lady Randolph Churchill the beautiful and talented widow of Lotd Randolph Is ronn to wed Lieutenant Six Rose Plants and a Floral Magazine for a Year You will receive freo by mail SIX ROSE FLANTS (assorted colors) and one subscription to TO GF0W perhaps tbe best florlcultural monthly magazine published by sending to THE PACIFIC BEE a yeaily subscription thereto accompanied by the regular subscription price of $100 Tbe magazine and rose plants may he sent If desired to one address and The Pacific Bee to soother The prico of the magazine is 50c per year the rose plants would cost at any florists 10c each or 00c and The Pacific Bee Is $i00 per year so that the subscriber secures lor $100 a collection worth $210 Use the following blank WHITE PASS Tbe White Passand Yukon Rullwny will be formally turned over to Its owners Close Brothers Co August 20th by Its builders the Pacific Construction Company Limited of London The forty miles stretch between Skagway and Lake Bennett wus constructed at ft cost of $20(10000 Tills is exclusive of equipment and rolling stock It Is stuted that the work of extending the line to Fort Selklik will la begun ut once and continue until Winter NO Letters and postal cards can be sent to the Yukon territory but there Is no way In which parcels or third or fourth class matter can be forwarded by the 15 malls A RICH The Northern Pacific liner Victoria arrived at Victoria last week from the Orient breaking all record? for rich cargoes Her cargo Included 1092 bales of silk milled nt $400000 There was also 890 tons of teo and general merchandise aboard FIRE AT The United States military post at Dyea was burned on Friday last Mllitury stores to the value of $5000 were destroyed About $20000 of stores were saved by prompt work of the soldiers CATTLE FOR Miller a Californian Is In Kansas City buying a train load of livestock to be shipped by way of Seattle to Dawson City there to be slaughtered for the Klondike trade MINERS One hundred and thirty miners at the Van Aiuind Texiiga Island are oti a strike The management recently reduced their pay from $3 50 to $3 for eight work FREE Free delivery IMistnl service has been ordeied established November 1st at Prescott Arl und Reno Nev MULES FOR Six hundred mules for use In the Philippines arrived at Tacoma yesterday over the Northern Pnclllo from Eastern points They will be shipped to Manila about August 15th CUPPER Saturday the steamer Dora arrived at Juneau with $100000 In Bpecle They afterwards burned the vessel NATIVES KILLED-Tho Captain of the British steamer Glooscnp which arrived at Philadelphia last week from Hollo with a cargo of sugar report that all the natives on Bnllabne Island one of the Philippine had been killed by the Spanish ADVISORY It 1 reported that Aguinaldo's Advisory Council has established headquarter In Manila its member pretending friendliness to the Americans A NTS ECOG ITION A gu I n-aldo ha appealed to the Powers for recognition of "Filipino Independence" SHELLED A The gunboat Napidan last week shelled Paete on the luke near Santa Cruz The town was full of people who had been encouraged to return after General Lawton's expedition having been assured that they would not be molested If they peaceably attended to their business FOREIGN COUNTRIES Prosperity In Mexico The new Mexican 5 per cent converted debt bonds are quoted above par ut Amsterdam A large amount of foreign capital I being Invested In Mexican lands and mine and activity In taking up claim for gold anil copper propet tie 1 noticeable The number is w'tnout eeeeeeeeeeeeesp 1300s James McClatcliy Co publishers 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