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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-03
REAL. Estate PRIvATr SALE.

MODERN DWELLINGS FOR 81
w SALE.-Wc have for sale several desi- ~
radio MODERN DWELLINGS In the western part
Of the city Ut from 5000 90 $1,000 each.
HENRY l. SHAPES 6 CO..
eo9-ft hob Main straot.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-03

VIHE BRADSTREET COMPANY.
L CHARLES +. CLARK, PgRsIDENr.
BRADSTREETS RICHMOND OFFICE
no. 100 EAST MAIN STREET,
Telephone N0tiI
y.H. Witty, superintendent.

The Richmond ONCE mas moro than kept pacs
with the rapid growth Of the city and develop.
mont Of Tho territory tributary IL Ii offers %
the mercantile community OF tbs section ali tns
advantages OF asystem me superiority OF when
IL recognized in every trade centre OF the civil
lied world. That It Is Ia special sense prepared
10 guard tho interested its local patrons Ia At
tested Dy the fact that Il has now a larger Sue5T
t,sasssriksrs tkGs any etasr DsSreaaiiEs agsrez
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-03
DEPARTURE OF srEanERs.

ALD DOMiNlON STEAM L.
~ SHIP COMPANY Urn
FOR NEW YORK.
steamer leave Richmond EVERY IT. ESDAT
aud FRIDAY at5 +. VI.
steamers leave Now York FOR Richmond
EVERY WEDNESDAY and sAIU kDAI az r.
NJ. arriving IN Richmond MONDAY AMI FRI
Day MoRNlNG%
Passenger accom- m0ia,ions unsurpassed
Cabin faro ~ New York rid James-riYer
route Including mea.s Gni borthl.....-..t %
kOunl-trip ticGots. limited ~ Llirty days
after date OF issue observation-disclosures. II 10
SfeeraRe. with subsistence. ......-........- ~
Storage, without subsistence. ............. w
Cabin faro ga Chesapeake and OHIO rail-
Cabin fare Uia Richmond and Petersburg
TcEets can he obtained as A. W. CARRIERS. lOlJ
Nam street: CHESAPEAKE and onto and hicn-
mOnd aud Petersburg depOtS aui AZ companys
OFFICES 1901 Main street., aud wharf, Rockets
kreiZnt forwarded and through bills Oi ladias
issued FOR points beyond New YORK.
Freight received daily until hOur OF sailing.
Passengers leaving Richmond Ga MONDAYS,
IT EsDAlS WEDNESDAYS. thu RsDAfo, and
SATURDAYS by the Chesapeake and ONO rail-
way (Uia Newport News az 81 A. u. aud 3 J. VI
and BIZ Richmond ana Petersburg railroad same
DAYS, a, ESQ A. 81. VIII mako connection a.
NORFOLK with steamer leaving those days.
GEORGE W. ALLEN & Co. Agents.
No 1907 Main street, AMI
augl CompAuV's wharf. kOck0ttA
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NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAIL
~ ROAD
SCHEDULE ~ EFFECT NAY II 1854
TWO DAILY TKAISsTO NORFOLE
1Woo DAILY TRAINS TO LYNChBURL

SCHEDULE ~ EFFECT MAY II isS1
TWO DAILY TRAISsTO NORFOLE
TWo DAILY TRAINS TO LYNCHBURL
LEAVE RICHMOND
GOA. II. Daily. ia Richmond anf let'r. >
railroad. Arrive at IofersNsrf ID
A. NJ. arrive at Norfolk l.NI o. b..
$40 A. n. Daily IA hichmoni AMI f'i.'t
railroad. Arrive 81 Pnterspurf l
A.. 81. No. loayss lefcr,ulrf ''-I
A. 81. for farmyilie, LYu .l14ff. it .i-
uoke. bristol. huIKFnlIe, nAl as
points South and Ne5.
THROUGH CAR 10 FADFoRD.
7OOP. II. DAILY, ril Richmond ami Pnter5r4-g
railroad. Ariyo Potcnblfg $3.50 ,
NJ. leave Petersburg ti't. " 11.L
arriving Norfolk 'I.1 r. 81 lhrY1 n
car Rchm0n1 tO Norfolk
coop. N. Daily. ria Richmond ani petor'al-g
railroad. ArIge Ht lotorsbu|F I
A.. clnlcrGus with Tram 81.
Having fetersburs 80 .a D. ". -
FarmviIo, Iyurlnnrs. hnt1nke, fI-
cahOntAs. Bristol. t4n1Yil o. Cha b
nooga, aui a. .oials s"lih 81
Wes-
PULLMAN sLEEPlNG-CAR AccoN1oD@
1lOAS
No. i-Sleeplng-csc from peter.orr' fo tri.f
without change, leRung Htte.-u4ft '-. H
1.5j 2. NJ, aLd Luxembourg 90 dcm fai H.it.i'
No. S-Lyncnburs % Sow o-leaet aai E..-
POKE % Cnat sn9oga. without caa.se
IlcAet., bagfaE f-rlrrt., Is 3 HN .''.I
can bo obtained al Richmond aI 'Dfirf
railroad depot. A. W. DarDers lNN ls.nf.
and at tho Company 0rlco, Jli 1893 .t
IS. D. H.Ii.L
Ceuoral Pa. --nssf ~ Do
CHAsLgs @. EDDY. y.ce-prcs.isu-
General once. Roanoke. "a
DICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG
IL AND POTOMAC RAILROAD -a.'.'
commencing JUNE -, l,sJ-casleln .tiIi A
~ A. NJ. leaves Byri-s,rvet station 30 ,
rtoDs only a. Ashland. Juuciior. 80 .-
ford. aud Freder. ksDurg. ~....r
% Washington ami Sow ORR
ii.c1 A. VI. leaves Byri-streeI citation Gaily. "f-
c5pt sunday.
C.25 +. VI. Ieayes Byri->trgs. station daily
sleeper ~ sew ork
6sOA ". arrives al Byri ctfa-t station daily
Sleeper from Sew YORK
esp. Il. arrives at Byci-str.s, station il.if.
stop. 81 ireIor t>DafE h.I.ri
Junction. and Ashland Sleeper irra
Washington aud sen fors.
i0:s0 7. NJ. arrives - bYr1-Sucel sthlph daAy
cK-ep, sunday
ASHLAND rRAlNt
DAILY ExCsRr srsDAYa
6:as A. n. leaves EloA Arrives az ASHLAND a;
7.3J "a. ".
a00P. NJ accommodation leaves Byri-suo1g
station, arrives st Ash sni 81 ; =. u.
C:0l ?. NJ. leaves Elba arrives A. Asa.ani -
6sSP "
6.4J A. NJ arrives klbA Leaves Ashland a. %
An
SIS A N. accommodation arrives 90 BOD.
street station leaves Ashlali A. ,.f
AN.
$50 P. VI arrives a. Elba loagc, Ash'aai 81
Big N.
CA TAYLOR. General Ticket Aeec-
Z. 7. d. MYsRs, general superintendent
1918
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-03
THURSDAY, September ). 1889,
O'CLOCK NOON.

Al IL - NAbA II NVONs
But 3O0 LOTS, situated in tho business and
residence portion % the town. vii Do 'Uii, tho
company roseryiug alternate lots.
a largo rolliug-mli, 90 employ between 20
AMI aO) hands, y large stoFc-f)uudry. amt hotel
are now under contract, l"s.dc. q numtor az
smaller industries. In addition, negotiations
are pending To- a B,sic steci-ulanb coke-fur-
nu,e, and tanncry.
The location D. an admirable one, aplordidiy
wafcrcd. and n TIE heart 90 TIE great l.ou-prJ
ducing district a. fhe south. Nosrly 9Nfsn tons
Of uig iron ore now being annually turncd out
IN the immoiia'e vicinity.
TsrNs OF SAis. ono fourth cash, together with
cost ~ lcknow. dying and recording decd about
s22J; and Do balance 10 three equal payments
~ nix. twelve. Hrl eichto "A month, with in-
ferHt. tn purchAser giving decd Of trust Tor tho
deferred payments
For further information ailross
IRON GATE LAND AND
IMPROVEMENT COMPANY,
clifton Forge, Va
Plats showing tho location and pri-o Of lots
can hr sepn ut tue SLOWING pOiuts.
Iron Gate the Company s'lco.
Clifton f0ryo-Fue icCuriy House.
StaEnton-Onces " William J. Perry and II.
II. Fuitz.
Roanoke-Thc Commercial Bank
kichmond-PoIndcXter bencon. kcal Estate
Agents. Main street.
- ashn riou-John p. Agncw ( Co. 1881 Penn
syiyaniu HNeaue.
Harrisonburg vA-Onlce Of s;rayer & L'g-
get.
Ronccvorto W. Va.-Orl,o Of F. C.. Boat.
Hinton. W. Nn.-Onlrc OF l. r. Adams e Co.
Coyington, Na.-Clerk'g or.cr.
FRED. CoLRyRN.
au2s 30&Se33t Secretary.
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAIL-
~ WAY COMPANY

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT AUGUST .. is2
LkAgE KiCd2JNp.
SO A NJ. Local, except sunday. Tor Whiia 20
phlr l.ror-Nar nlt.sclsL
S2O A n. Express ially for Old Point 1ni we
folk.
li:i0 A. N. Ma. daily for Cincinnati. rli Phi d
Palace sleeping-cars 80 " Into >niIt.i
COOP. n. Express daily Tor Oh fo.a. al
Norfolk.
s:I5R. VI. Accommodation. exceps saturday al
sunday. Tor H. +. s. g.. Junction.
400 Z. NJ. On >aIurisY only sccOm myiat ID
Charlottesville.
s:i5 r. n r. T. v yesubuie S1ociAl. daily.
With Dining-Car from Ohar.l itcss..
. Cincinnati and Louisville. i-..'
man >leeping-Caf nom kchnpaA
TRAiS6 ARRITE AT KICnNoNh
60. 4. N. Aui go e. N. daily from ,iacinaN..
90O A. NJ. On Mondays only irom tAafio''s'-
yiio
Hoo A. u. and 80 r. VI. daily from Norfolk.
80 T.. n. dslly excogi sGncay hom hAi-'
sulphur.
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liz ONLY ALl-RAlL LINZ TO NORFOLK.

Richmond ....'gi0 A. NJ. Norfolk. i.l- p. NJ
Richmond. ...'TOJP NJ horfoll 900. 100 81 b. ~.
Norfolk ......'4.sJ 4. NJ Nchmllt. .iilI A.. q.
Norfolk ....'5.u T. ". Richmond. ..a5 b. g..
Those trains also mako close connections t.r
Farmyille. Lynchburg. ani Southwestern poin't
ar all stations on tho Norfolk AMI Western ral-
road. h. VI. ~ULIY. ~upeun .sutelt
T.. T. y. MYERs. General sIperluicui
7. NJ. EHgRsON. General Passenger Agent
SOL HAAS. Traffic Manager. myH
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TUESDAY. sEPrENpER 3. 1879,
DY VIRTUE OLA CERTAIN DEED

BY Chewing & Rose,
Real Estate Agents. Auctlonoers, and Brokers,
No. north Tenth street.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-03
JAMES RIVER DIVISION
OK. = A. X ~

JAMES RIVER DIVISION
OK. = A. X ~
LEAYE RICHMOND
9I5 A. NJ. daily for Lynchbarg. Lexlns.on. AL
Clifton Forge.
eiSP. NJ. scottsvillo accommodation exceH
sunday.
1000 P. N. daiy a,'ommOiallon for LynchearS
aud Clifton Forge.
TEAMS AgRlyB RICHMOND.
eisP. NJ. and zao a. N. dang trom Clit'oa
foFgo.
Hf5A NJ from scotisyllls. eXcept Sauday.
n. w. FULLER
General Passenger Agent
1T HkSAaAs. General Manager. lea
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-03

WANTED, A FIRST-CLASS COOK
w 10 cook and wash for small family. Must
como well recommended. Apply al 2ii east
Main street. se33
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-03

WANTED, 4 GOOD MACHINIST
w who thoroughly understands steam 90 80
70 a healthy town IN Alabama. Apply TO K.Cn-
MOND CEDAR-WORKs Nimitcdl. Sc BIT
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-09-12
IMMORTALIZED IN SONG,
Fort McHenry Again to BE Bombarded
and the Flag VIII sun Wave.

BALTIMORE, Md, Sept 7.-Secretary
Tracy has ordered the Yantic, Pensacola
and Ossipee TO Baltimore to participate in
the sham naval battle and sham lombard
ment of Fort McHenry September Is,
which closes the festivities in COM
memoration of the seventy-fifth an
niversary of the battle OF North
Point The fort garrison and State militia
will defend the fort Many prominent
naval officers will participate in the naval
engagement, and Secretary Tracy will
probably witness the fight and review the
naval procession. Nearly 1000 troops, in
Guiding regulars and State militia of Penn
sylvania, Delaware Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia, will take part in the sham
battle at Pimlico September IL.
The historic and industrial parade will be
from six to eight miles in length. An army
of 800 sons, grandsons and great-grandsons
of the defenders of Baltimore will march
in the historical division The flag of the
famous Twenty-seventh regiment and the
musket carried by Roger B. Tanev will be
borne in the line. Since Eben Appleton, the
grandson of Colonel Armistead, who com
manded Fort McHenry during the bonn
bardment, refused to loan the old flag to
be carried IN the historical division, twenty
ladies have reproduced the old flag that
Key immOrtalized in the song Star Span
gled Banner"
In the industrial section of the parade
over 5000 employees of the Baltimore &
ohio and the Pennsylvania railroads will
march, and on twenty floats will be repre-
sensations of the progress made since the
time Peter Cooper ran the first locomotive
on the Baltimore & Ohio More than 800
floats representing the industries of Balti-
more viii be in the line.
President Harrison and other prominent
Government and State officials will review
the first days procession, after which the
President will give a reception at the city
hall
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woRsTED BY ITS TREASURER.
An Eastern Company Made Insolvent by
a Observation-Disclosures Over 5000. 600.

An Eastern Company Made Insolvent by
Observation-Disclosures Over s5OO,OOO
BosToN, Sept THE Douglas Axe Com
pany is expected to go into insolvency,
owing to defalcations by its treasurer, Dem
nison d. Dana Dana is supposed to be in
Canada The liabilities of the company. it
is said by gentleman familiar with the
case, will exceed s500,000, but it is hoped
will not exceed Il 600, 600. The deficit in
Dana's accounts extend over several years,
though the accounts were audited regular
ly. Dana received salary of $4,000 to
$4,000 year and lived in good style, and is
not known to have bad habits He is a
deacon in the Congregational church at
Brookline and a teacher in a Sunday
school. lie has a wife and five children.
He raised $1,000 before leaving.
IL is learned that the case has been placed
in the hands of the police and that o-day
criminal prosecution will be begun against
Dana ON the charge of embezzlement 1t is
thought there are sufficient grounds ON
which to secure his extradition should he
go to Canada, and it is generally supposed
that he has gone there
Mr.. Storey upon being interviewed, &C.
knowledged that a petition in insolvency
would be filed to-day. He said: "Mr Dana
seems to have absconded with a large sum
of money. The liabilities of the company
are chiefly to banks The company was
capitalized at s400, 900"
Experts were put to work on the books
Friday. and have already discovered that
deficit has apparently been going on sys-
tematically for number of years Mr..
Perkins said his suspicious were aroused
some time ago by the reluctance shown by
Mr.. Dana to supply him with some informa-
hn Of
pany, but the accounts were ali audited
by the auditors appointed by the stock
holders only last month, and they declared
they were all right Mr. Dana's salary
varied from 5000 to $1,000 year. He has
an elegant residence in Brookline. man
who is well acquainted with him says he
had no bad habits and that there was no
entangling alliances. He was seen in New
York City Wednesday afternoon.
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NOTES OF INTEREST.

WHHE the East has been drcnChCd and
soaked aud flooded, the dry spell Of 1850
win 20 down in the history of the far West.
IT cost s23.37O to repair a recent break in
one of the Atlantic cables or the Green
bank A ships anchor had been afoul of it.
TIE destruction Of .Iohnstonn by flood
and Of the cities OF Seattle and Spokane
Falls bv fire. makes huge sweeping away
Of property in n comparatively short time.
Tho loss is between S40.Go1ooO ana $50,
OOO000.
PrRBAPs the heaviest telegram bill in the
world is that OF the Chinese Envoy at wash
ington, Chan You Woon, who res IIarly pays
one thousand dollars week for his dis
patches to China, the representative Of the
Celestial empire using a cipher which costs
four dollars a word.
A CARRIAGE road to the top OF Pixies Peak
has been completed II begins at Cascade
canyon and extends sixteen miles, until it
reaches the very summit Of the mountain,
14,l47 feet above the level Of the sea. There
is one point Grand View where at an alti-
tude of 10. So feet one NAV see the smoke
Of a locomotive crossing Marshall Pass,
ninety miles away.
THE latest thing in hotel bills Of fare IS
an edible menu card. You select tie dishes
Won want, aud then while waiting for them
Won au1use yourself by leisurely eating up
the bill Of fare, 1t acting as an appetizer
1t is the scheme Of a London confectioner-
He makes thin sheet Of sseetened dough,
aud after II has been baked he prints the
menu upon it IN ink made Of chocolate.
People who think they are fully acquair I
ed with the customs Of city life have sOG.e-
thing to learn when they get over IN Jersey.
In New York and in almost all other cities
smokers ride on the front platforms Of
street-cars. In Jersey City smokers must
ride on the rear end Of the street-cars. Poor
New Workers who get on the front end OF
the cars TO smoke are stcrniy told TO 90 70
the rear.
THERE are great many deaths occurring
in the Couemaugh valley which can not be
accounted for on ely other ground than
that they are largely the result Of the Sc
we're N entail ami physical suffering the peo-
Die have endured Like the great blizzard,
the Jamestown hOod-victims were not all
numbered with the dead at the time Of the
disaster, and they may continue TO drop
away for months to come.
TIE only house ever built by George
Washington at the capital city Of the Nation
is still standing IN Washington City. 1t
was originally athree-story brick, but when
the street on which il stands was graded
two more stories were added, making il a
five-story building. which Is now used for a
hotel. Some Of the rooms arc pretty much
IN the same condition as they were when &C
cupied BY Washington in 1872. A few olo
pieces Of furniture are said TO be still sscret-
ed about the house.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-09-12
WEST AND SouIH.

UN the Sd a convention to frame a consti-
tuition for New Mexico met at Santa Fe.
IL the election on the Sd in the Third
Louisiana Congressional district Andrew
Price Dem defeated Henry c. Minor
Rep for Congressman.
Z T. JEFFERT resigned on the Sd as gem
eral manager Of the Illinois Central rail-
road owing to difference with acting
President Hartman
GEORGE DILHoF, a young man, died at
Cincinnati on the 4th while under the in
fiuence of chlOi OfOrm admins cred by
physicians for the purpose OF making a
surgical operation
President JAMES Folks widow cele-
brated her eighty-sixth birthday on the
4th at her home in Nashville. Tenn.
AT East Point. Ga. Warren Powers. a
negro. was lynched on the 4th He had as
saulted young white girl and was taken
from the Jail BY a masked force.
Tue Republicans Of W shington Terri
tory met in convention at WalIa va la on
tire sth and nominated +. p. Ferry tor Gov
ernor
THF seventeenth season of the Chicago
exposition opened on the 4th
The Iowa Union Labor party met at Des
Moines on the 18th and nominated the fol-
lowing ticket. For Governor, : B Down
ing. OF Davis County; Lieutenant Governor,
Ezra Brownell, OF Madison County; Super
intendent OF Schools. Mrs Harriet Bellau-
gee. of Polk County; Railroad Commission
err L II Griffith, OF Cas- County.
IL = ba3 game on the 4th at Darlington.
= C.. the umpire William I. Marshall, of
wadesboro. was killed by Leon Dargan. the
seventeen-vear- old son of Congressman
Dargan. in a dispute over a decision
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY, of Kansas. on the
4th pardoned Mrs Henrietta Cook, OF os-
borne County. who had been confined inthe
penitentiary for thirteen years for the muir
der Of her husband She was found to have
been innocent
OS the 9Th the largest bar of gold ever
cast in the world was turned out at the
Helena M t. assay Office. Il weighed
1--WE hundred pounds and was worth
$1,000
IL different parts Of Kansas City. No,
three buildings were destroyed by incen-
diary fires ON the 9Th.
OS the 18th a. C. Staley. president of the
Staley Wooden Mills Company at South
Bend. Ind. was fatally poisoned by NOR
phine given him by a druggist for quinine.
JOIN MCCLELLAN was dying at Jeffer-
sOnvilIe. Ind. on the 5th from the effects
OF a mosquito bite His right side was
paraiyzed and he was in frequent con-
WILSON'S
TIE Republicans OF Washington Terri
I tory on the 5th nominated John L Wilson
for Congress
DEMOCRATS Of South Dakota in conven-
ton on the 5th st Huron adopted plat
form favoring free trade and opposing pro-
hibition. and nominated State ticket
headed by p F. Mcclure, Of Pierre, for
Governor. L o. Jeffries and 5 NJ Booth
were nominated for Congressman
MISS CARRIE Ernest and William Bon
nett Of Baltimore. were killed by an ex-
prsss train near Perrymans, Nd. on the
5th
FLAMES on the 9Th in the lumber yard of
Laird. Norton 4 Co. at Winona, MINI.
caused a loss Of sSl4, COO
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-09-12
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AT COyoacan, Mex, excavations were be-
ing made on the Sd for the purpose of re-
covering gold and Jewels supposed to be
hidden by MOntezuma at the time of the
Spanish conquest The value of the
treasure was estimated at from 10000, OJ(
to sSo. OOO. 600.
ON the Sd boiler explosion in a mill at
Munster, Eng, killed the owner, his wife,
his mother and the foreman, besides two
employees
The German expedition for the relief of
Emin Bey had ON the 4th been abandoned.
AT the session on the 4th of the Trades
Union congress at Dundee, Scotland, the
census report on the eight hour law showed
50, SO for and 90, SS3 against the question.
MEXICO has placed a heavy duty on ial-
ported cattle and other animals which
were formerly admitted free of duty.
NEAR Suakim, Egypt. fierce encounter
took place on the 4th between detachment
of friendly tribes and body of dervishes,
in which the former were routed with ter
rible slaughter
Is the western part of France earth.
quake shocks were felt on the 9Th The
shocks were most severe at Anglers ano
Nantes but no damage was reported
On the 18th sIXty-two Scotch miners were
imprisoned by an explosion at Midlothian
colliery. Four bodies had been taken out
and it was believed that none of those re-
naming underground were alive.
DISPATCHES of the 9Th say that of the
sixty-four miners who were recently en-.
tOmbed by an explosion in a cOlliery neal
Edinburgh sixty-three persisted.
AN explosion of dynamite occurred in {
cartridge factory at Antwerp, Belgium, or
the 9TH, by which three hundred persons
were killed and nearly one thousand In
iured The victims were mostly factory
girls The loss to property was placed al
several million francs
IL the Place river district of Manitoba s
fire on the 9th burned the berries and drove
away the game, thus cutting off the fooo
supply OF the Indians
TIE Pope had on the 9Th definitely
abandoned the idea of departing from
Rome.
LATEST estimates on the It'll of the mum
Der of killed in the recent explosion al
Antwerp. Belgium, place it at 2o0 The sc
riously injured numbered 30 and the
slightly injured 500
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BELGiUM'S HORROR.
further Details of the Terrible Explosion
and Fire at Antworp


ANTWERP, Sept 9-The fire which started
In the cartridge factory on Friday has at
last been extinguIshed Several more
corpses have been found and the number of
dead VIII certainly reach 200 King Leopold
and the Cabinet Ministers yesterday
visited the hospitals where the suf-
ferers by the fire are being cared for. The
arrest OF NJ Corvillan, the proprietor of
the cartridge factory, has been ordered
Many persons passed the night in the open
air, dreading to remain in their homes ow-
ing TO the explosions of petroleum which
occurred at intervals until Sunday morn
ing. The village of Austruwell, in the
suburbs, inhabited by artisans, was COM
pletely destroyed for hundreds of yards
and in its vicinity not a building escaped
damage. All parts of this city show more
or less damage, and portions have the ap-
pearance OF having been bombarded
At the moment of the explosion
many of the workmen jumped into
the Scheldt in their fright and
were drowned. number of sailors
and customs officers were killed on
board ships by the flying bullets, and ships
were riddled by the missiles. It is
estimated that 1000 tons of cartridges ex-
ploded. The noise was heard thirty miles
away. The smoke which filled the air was
kASdtcI III NO4u4uo IMAM IUdb Oh a great
battle. Human heads and other parts of
bodies were found half a mile away
from the scene of the disaster. One
hundred and thirty whole corpses lie in the
morgues, and charred heaps OF human re-
mains represent an unknown number OF
dead The first officer of the Red Star
Line steamer Zealand was terribly wound
ed on board his ship The populace
watched the flames all night The
noise of the exploding barrels OF oil and
the falling of ruins exactly resembled the
sounds of battle Those who have been
deprived of their homes by the fire are en-
camped upon the river banks The water
works, which cost $4,000, are three-part
destroyed
While the flames were at their height
last night the city authorities received in
formation that gangs of thieves and high
waymen, taking advantage of the concen-
tration of police in the vicinity of the great
blaze, were overrunning the more distant
portions of the city. number of peo
pie were garroted on the streets.
the robbers also entering many houses and
demanding money and valuables from the
inmates who were generally women.
Large sums were secured in some in
stances When these facts were reported
mounted police were dispatched to the
infested places, and in a short time had ar
rested nearly fifty OF the marauders, re
covering great deal of plumber.
The spectacle was awfully superb and
there is nothing in recent history that can
be compared to it save the scene which Paris
presented during the last days of the COM
mune and the great fire in Chicago.