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SAN SALVAD0R'S REVOLT.
The Rebel Army Said TO Have Fought
Six Successful Battles.

News has just been receiver confirming
the reports of the success Of the Salvadoriaa
forces beyond the frontier in Guatemalan
territory. The Salvador army has now
gained six battles and has captured quantl-
ties of arms and ammunition. Many have
been killed and wounded on both sides.
The Salvadorian forces are now pushing
their way into the interior of Guatemala and
ore meeting with success at every step. Great
enthusiasm prevails. The intention is to
overthrow the Government Of President
Barillas before coming to any agreement
with Guatemala.
San Salvador is determined to free herself
from the yoke of Guatemala and assure her
own liberty and independence
Advices from Guatemala are to the effect
that Ezeta's army attacked the Guatemalans
near the frontier in Guatemalan territory,
that the Salvadorians were defeated and
routed, and that they fed back to San Sal
vador territory, leaving on the field many
dead and wounded and three cannons which
the Guatemalans captured. The Guatema-
lans were under command Of General San-
chez.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

CONT Voy MoLTN will be ninety years
old October 26.
ME1ssoN1ER, the French painter, is seventy.
seven years old.
PIT. BARNUI has made 81, 0Oo,O0o In tne
circus business.
BISMARCK looks twenty years younger
than his pictures.
Mr.. GLADSTONE makes it rule never 70
travel on Sundays.
WILL CARLTON receives an average OF
$500 for his poems.
PAsTEuR, the great French scientist con-
templates visit to America.
PosrMAsTER-GENERAL WANAMAKER has
SIG Young men in his Bible class.
Ex-MAYoR ABRAM s. HEWITT, Of New
York city, is seriously i'll in Europe.
MAJoR,GEyERAL ScHoF1ELD, now com
manding the army, entered it IN 1858.
TAMAayo, the great tenor, is going to re-
tire from, the stage and buy an Italian eS-
tate.
TIE remains Of General Clinton B. FISK,
the rreat temperance leader, were Inferred
at Coldwater, Mich.
EXPLORER HENRY NJ. STANLEY's manu-
script is very legible, and scarcely an altera-
ton is made in a folio.
LYDIA BECKER, leader Of the woman's suR-
rags movement, died recently at GeneVa
Switzerland, from diphtherIa.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON, Of South Caro-
lima, has sacrificed the gray s1deWhlskers
that have been his facial characteristic LOT
SO many years.
WHENEVER Potter Palmer, OF chicago,
patronizes his own hotel and restaurant he
pavs his way like any other guest, but he
never tips waiter.
WHEN Governor Ross, OF Texas, retlres
from his executive office ne Will become tns
President of the Agricultural ana Mecnanlcsn
College of that State.
PROFESSOR c. B. RICHARDS, OF the Sher-
field Scientific School, Yale College, has poem
made by the French Government che'ai'er
of the Legion Of Honor.
It is announced on very good authority
that Senator Sherman, Of Ohio has declaeo
to retire to private life at the expiration oi
his present term in 1898.
THE Car Of Russia is said to devote large
part Of his leisure to collecting oiros egg
and postage stamps. Many OF the eggs ne
secured when young boy.
SECRETARY BLAINE is large owner OF OIL
territory in West Virginia and memoeI OF
company WHICH, WILL SOO3
and tanks Of a capacity Of SoO00o oarreis Oh
oil.
WILLIAM R. HEARST, son of the California
Senator and editor Of the San Francisco
Examiner, is young man of tventy-seVen;
He is tall and athletic and has traVe!ed
widely.
A. P. PETERSON, the Attorney-Genera! OF
the Hawaiian Islands, was born IN Fly
mouth, Mass. He received his early educa-
ton in Hawaii, but finished his studies In
New England.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has de-
clared that the next birthday Of Count Von
Moltke shall be kept as national holiday.
The famous strategist was born OCTOBER 20,
1900, at Perchim, MecAlenburg.
JUSTICE MILLER, Of the Supreme Court
Of the United States, has been on the bench
twenty-eight years. His commission was
signed by President Lincoln, and dates back
further than any other member OF the
Court.
CRAZY KING Orro, of Bavaria, refused all
food for three days. His physicians denied
him cigarettes, and he lost flesh rapidly: he
consented to eat IN condition that his cigar,
attes should be restored, and now every meal
must be paid for at the rate Of twenty cigar
cites.
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South and West.

The loss by the washout on the Colorado
Central Railroad is estimated at $3.50 900
The track washed out covers altogether 6
distance Of twenty miles. The iron bridgt
at the forks of the creek looks like bundle
Of wire, it has been so tangled up.
The Colorado Midland Railroad has let q
contract to Michael b. Keefe, Of Butte,
Montana, for the construction of tunnel.
1t will be 9350fee long, the third longest IL
the United States, and will cost 81, ,OOO,G0o.
MINNESOTA Republicans, in convention at
st. Paul, renominated Governor Merriam;
the Republicans Of Nebraska, in session at
Lincoln, nominated l.. D. Richards FOL
Governor.
A FIRE in Spokane Falls, Washington, de-
stroyed property valued at Sl4S, O00.
W. j. BILLIARDS clearinghouse at Sa'
yannah, Ga, a three-story brick dwelling,
was blown up in mysterious way. Three
persons were killed and six injured.
THOMAS WILSON, colored. was hanged a.
Martinsville, Va, for the murder Of jim
Davis. He and Davis Quarreled about {,
woman.
AT Ripon, Cal, the seven-year-old son OF
G. W. Masters, while playing with matche.
set fire to some coal oil and the house was
destroyed. George and Warren, Masters
sons, and baby girl perished in the flames
The South Carolina Farmers Allianc
Convention at Columbia declared in favor O.
the Sub-TreaSury scheme.
AT Magazine, Logan County, Ark, Cap
tain William Ellington and his son, w. Z
Ellington, were killed by w. Mclnturf, q
well-known detective.
JAMES NJ. DAMsoN, a member Of the Cali
fornia State Assembly from Los Angeles, ha
been arrested on several charges OF forgery
STATE SENATOR BENJAMIN SILVER, o.
Baltimore, the son-in-law Of the defaultint
Treasurer Archer, died at his home in Belair
Nd, Of peritonitis. Mr. Silver was thirty
one years Of age.
The village of Bairdstown, Ohio, has beer
almost wiped out by incendiary fires.
ST. PAUL is indignant, while Minneapolis
is delighted, over the order for recount oi
the two cities.
The Monitor Plow works at Minneapolis
Mimi. were totally destroyed by fire. Loss
100000.
THE crops of South Dakota We're reported
to be withered by excessive heat, and it wa
feared the sufferings of last year would bt
repeated.
THE Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company has mortgaged the entire system
to the Central Trust of New York fol
s75,0O0,0O0
A FREIGHT train on the Southern Pacific
was wrecked at Willsburg, Oregon. A wo
man and her two children were killed.
The business portion of Creighton, Neb,
has been destroyed by fire.
CITY CLERK ALBERT GEoHEGAN, Of Paris,
ILL.,. is missing, and his accounts are short
between 5000 and $4,000. This amount
was taken from the City Treasury and the
bank with which the city account was kept.
He has been living extravagantly.
FIRES along the line of the Santa Fe Rail
road, between Dodge and Great Bend, in
Kansas, have destroyed thousands OF acres
of grass and corn.
THE Peoples Independent Party OF Ne
hraskn met in State Convention at Lincoln
The gathering comprised over 800 delegates.
J. H. Powers, of Hitchcock County, was NOM
mated for Governor.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

TIE $1,000 striking Cloak operators a. l
contractors and the manufacturers in New
York city have agreel upon settlement,
anl the men have gone back to work.
THE village of Eariville in Madison County,
y. Y, was partially destroyed by fire. Inc
entire business portion including the opera
louSe. was burned.
DONNIE JACOBS. patient at the state
Insane Asylum, at Providence, R. l.. got ut
plate of black 1ly paper. He drank the
poisonous water and then ate the paper, dy-
ing III thirty minutes.
Two men were killed by the explosion of
powder in the corning mill of Latin & Rand,
Mountain View, \. j.
HEAVY rains have been falling, and the
Drought that threatened Connecticut crops
S broken.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, United States
Minister to Hayt;, returned to New York on
leave of absence.
GOVERNOR ALBEIT received the officers
and guests of the Second New Jersey Brigade
in camp at Sea Girt, NJ.
MRS. DENNIS HAYES, of Albany, N. Y,
thirty-eight years old, the mother OF seven
children, hurled her youngest child, aged
eighteen months, into the Normanskill Creek,
and then threw herself into the water. Both
bodies were recovered.
AT Wo.cottville, y. Y, O lunatic named
Yago beat Poormaster Schultz so severely
with a shovel and an axe that Schultz died
in the evening.
The cruiser Philadelphia went formally
into commission at Mares Island, Philadel-
phia, and is now q vessel Of war Of the
United States Charles n. Cramp, senior
member of the firm Of William Cramp &
Sons, made the presentation speech, and the
vessel was received in the name of the Gov
ernment by Captain Robert l.. Bradford,
her commander.
CHARLES F. THOMPSON aged seventeen,
was killed with tablefork, in Philadelphia,
Penn, by his fourteen-year-old brother
whom he was teasing.
The Squadron Of Evolution, the finest feet
of war vessels ever sent by the United States
Government to the ports Of the principal ma,
tions, returned home and anchored in the
harbor of New York. They were the Chi
cago, Boston and Atlanta. The Yorktown
had returned alone some time ago. The last
run of the feet was from Brazil.
The United States steamer Despatch ar
rived at New London, Conn, with Secre
tary Tracy on board, who is making tour
of inspection along the coast.
J.E. TYGERLo g. Co., manufacturers OF
fertilizers in Philadelphia, Penn, have
failed. An estimate places the assets al
s34S, 600 and liabilities at $4,000.
A MAN dressed as workingman appeared
at the rear window of the postofflce in Law.
renee, Mass, where an addition is building,
and asked the clerk there to hold one end Of
q tape line while he made some measure
ments. The clerk complied with the re.
quest, and companion Of the man entered
the money order Office and stole Sl25.
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REVOLT IN BUENOS AYRES.
The Insurgents in Complete Posses
sion ofthe Governments.

a cablegram from Buenos Ayrea Ar.
gentine Republic, says: The plot to over.
throw the Government, which has been sus
pected for some weeks and the existence
Of which has been so many times denied, has
been carried out and President DR.. Juarez
Celmara Is fugitive.
The Tenth Regiment, headed by It's off,
GERS, revolted, and the outbreak soon be-
came general and included the troops In the
garrison. Tho city was garrisoned by 1000
troops and 5000 armed policemen.
The soldiers at once marched into the
streets and began firing. All the shops were
closed, and the banks and the Bourse soon
shut theirdoors The Government with the
aid of few loyal soldiers and the police,
tried to isolate the insurgents and desperate
fighting soon resulted.
Many were killed on both sides, but the In
surgents steadily advanced toward the Plaza
de la Victoria, where the Presidents palace
and the Town Hall are situated.
A revolutionary government has been an.
nouncei with Senior Arem as President and
Senor Romero as Minister of Finance, to suc-
ceed Senior Garcia, who is held a prisoner by
the revolutionists.
President Celmara has declared the whole
Republic in state Of siege. The National
Guard has been called to arms.
Five more battalions of the marine arse
nal and part Of the artillery have declared
In favor Of the revolutionists The postal
and telegraph Offices are surrounded by
soldiers
The revolutionists claim they have COM
pletely triumphed. The Governor of Buenos
Ayres is seriously wounded.
President Celmara embarked from the
Catahnas mole, taking refuge on board Of
foreign ship. The Governor Of Cordova,
brother Of the President, also escaped.
The revolutionists liberated General
Manuel J.. Campos, who was awaiting trial,
and who has now placed himself at the head
of the revolutionary party.
A policeman in mere wantonness split an
Englishman's head open with his sabre, and
q bystander shot the policeman down
In the afternoon the Revolutionary Gov
eminent issued its first decres. This ordered
the mobilization Of the National Guard and
appointed Nicolas Menales Chief Of Police
At five o'clock in the afternoon two at
tacss were made by the Government troops
on citizen battalions.
The troops were repulsed both times. Po-
Icenen and artillerymea are lying dead in
heaps.
The Chief of Police, Capde Villa, is
wounded. The Minister Of War is reported
killed. Sharp fighting continues around tho
artillery barracks.
The losses on both sides were heavy. Many
buildings were destroyed. The navy re-
msins neutral. Senior Pellegrini, tho Vice
President has assumed the Presidency.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.
INA has but one railroad.

CHINA has but one railroad.
CH1cAGo's population is !, ,101 ,253.
GREAT BR1TAIN's crops will be short
THERE are 100 deer forests in Scotland
CAPITALISTS in Maine are boring for coal
YELLOW FEVER is raging in Havana,
Cuba.
The crop OF cherries turned out to be very
light.
TERRIFIC heat is reported on the Pacific
coast.
BELGIUM now contains COOS, 79s inhah
itants.
THE Kansas wheat crop this year heads
the list.
In and around Charlotte, N. G., there ara
thirty-two cotton mills.
THE area in corn in the United States this
year is about 81, $40 0C0 acres.
THERE arc fully 10, 900 dealers in New YORK
city engaged in handling fruit
THE fattest woman in Paris, France,
dead. She weighed 40 pounds.
BELGIUM is recruiting hundreds OF Sou
dauese natives for the Congo State.
TIE present cost Of sustaining the Fed
eral Government is 81, ,oOO, 900 day.
THE Government of Russia Is about %
form special Ministry OF AsEiculsEe.-I
esA,
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Buenos Ayres Bombarded.

A second cablegram from the seat Of hos
tilities In the Argentine Republic gave the
movement continued to spread and the fight
ing between the Government troops and the
rebels was soon resumed and desperate
struggle followed.
The Government forces were defeated and
1000 OF them were killed or woundsl. The
insurgent army bombardei the Government
House and the barracks in Buenos Ayres
The officers OF the navy, after long hesita-
tion and seeing that the success of thu re.
volution seemed assured, joined the insur-
gents. The guns Of the ships were at once
trained on the loyalist strongholds and after
This action so alarmed the Government
that truce was at once declared and an
armistce of twenty-four hours arranged
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Washington.

THE Board of Customs Appraisers held
meeting at the Treasury Department ana or
ganized by unanimously electing Colonel
Ticheuor President of the Boarl
PRESIDENT HARRISON accompanied By
Postmaster-GeneralW Wanamaker, Secretary
Proctor Attorney-General Miller, of his
Cabinet, and General Schofield, visited the
camp of the Pennsylvania National Guarc
at Mount Gretna where he reviewed the
5000 troops. including the United States
Army detachment. He returned to Wash
ington in the afternoon.
THE Treasury Department has decided that
natives Of Alaska have no right to kill pup
fur seals for food and clothing.
The Federal Election bill has been referred
to the Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections.
A FIRE in Washington completely guttei
the carriage mandatory OF William Wal.
ter's Son. Loss, $4,000.
The Secretary of the Interior ordered
recount of the population of the cities Of ST.
Paul and Minneapolis.
The Senate will meet hereafter dnily at IL
A. NJ and adjourn about T. h., resolution
to that effect having been adopted without
opposition.
The President made the following nomi'
nations: TO be United States Consuls-John
s. Bradford, Of Pennsylvania, at Antigua,
West Indies; and William G. Riley, Of Vir-
ginia, at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
SUPERINTENDENT OF CENSUS PORTER said
that he hoped to be able to announce officially
within three weeks the total population OF
the United States. The count is being made
at the rate of three and qsarter millions
every twenty-four hours.
The President sent message to Congress,
urging legislation that would enable the
Postofacs Department to close the mails to
lottery companies.
The number of applications for pension
under the act Of June 81 which, up to re-
cent date, had been received at the Pension
Office appro1imated 100000
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EXCURSIONISTS PERISH.
Eight Persons Drowned and a Score
Injured Near Baltimore, Md.

The steamer Virginia collided with the
steamer Louise between Steeiton and Fort
Carroll, near Baltimore, Md, and at least
eight Of the Lou:se's passengers were killed
while a number of others were seriously in
jured.
The Virginia is biamel by the passengers
on the Louise. The latter is an excursion boat
and was on her way Up from Colchester with
about fifteen hundred people. Just after
passing Fort Carroll she met the Virginia Oh
her way from the city to Norfolk.
The Virginia was expected to
pass the Louise, but instead the big
vessel came along head on and struck
the excursion boat near the wheel
house, tearing out the entire side leaving
hole eight feet deep. through which the
water poured as the Virginia pulled out. 1t
was reported that a number fell overheard.
The greater number were hurt by the flying
splinters.
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A MINING TOWN BURNED,
Fifteen Hundred Persons Made
Homeless by Fire in Idaho.

Fifteen Hundred Persons Made
Homeless by a Fire in Idaho.
The town of Wallace, Idaho, has been
burned, and only two buildings were saved,
and those were the railroad stations. The
loss will probably be saoo,ooo The fire
started in saloon. The high wind carried
the flames to the adjoining buildings, all OF
which were frame. The water facilities
were good, but the fremen could not check
the progress of tho flames.
The following leading business houses have
been burned; Holly, Mason, Marks d Co.,
the Postoff1ce Building, the Heller House,
White g. Bender, general store Of McElroy
g. Vedder. McNab & Rivers, Telephone Ex-
Change, Joseph Carlson, j. e: McCurdy,
Carter House, Club Theatre, with score OF
saloons, restaurants, offices, etc. avn,
A private despatch said that l5OJ people
were homeless. Wallace is the leading
mining town Of Coeur d'Alene district aud
will undoubtedly be rebuilt.
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A FAMILY BURNED.

Incendiaries Set Fire to the Rev.
David Psumb's House at Coles, Ind.
Incendiaries set fire to the residence of the
Rev. David Plumb, at Coles, Ind. short
distance across the river from Louisville,
Ky.. at an early hour in the morning.
Mrs. Plumb and three children were burned
TO death, and Mr. Plumb was so badly burned
that he soon died.
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FIFTY-FIRST con
In tho Senate.

1G471 DAY.-The Indian Appropriately.
bill was passed. .. Mr.. Sherman introduced
n bill to incorporate the Red Cross Society,
with Clara Barton, George Kennan, j. s..
Hubbell, NJ. D., and others as its incorpora.
tors. Mr.. Morgan introduced bill to fix
the limit of value and to provide for the free
coinage of silver.
165TH DAY.-Mr. Sherman offered reso
luton instructing the Committee on Print.
ing to report whether any abuses exist in
printing matter in the Congressional Record
that ought not to printed therein. :. Shortly
after o'clock the Senate took up the Tariff
bill, and Mr.. Vance addressed the Senate.
He was followed by Messrs. Plumb, Aldrich,
Mcpherson Morgan, Sherman and George.
1GGTH DAY.-The Senate resumed con-
sideration Of the Tariff bill and was adj
dressed by Mr.. Morgan and Mr.. Colquitt,
who spoke against the bill. -. The House bill
was passed, allowing Mrs. General Crook
$4,000 a year; Senate bills were also
Fremont and to Mrs. Mcclellan. It.
An amendment to the bill "to reduce the
amount Of bonds to be required Of national
banks and to restore to the channels Of trade
the excessive accumulations of lawful money
in the Treasury was proposed by Mr.. Plumb
.... The House amendments to the "Original
Package bill were non-concurred in by the
Senate, and a conference was ordered.
Messrs. Wilson, of Iowa; Mr.. Edmunds and
Mr.. George were appointed conferees.
10TH DAY.-Messrs. Vest and Turpie
spoke on ths Tariff bill; Mr.. McPhersons
resolution to recommit the measure to the
Finance Committee was defeated. The read
ing of the bill by paragraphs for amend
ments was then begun-the first schedule
being that as to chemicals, oils and paints.
The Revenue Marine Transfer bill was dis
cussed.
1ssTs DAY.-Messrs. Hiscock, Jones, Of
Arkansas; German, Mcpherson, VOORHEES,
and others spoke on the Tariff bill; three
amendments were defeated. Mr.. ingalls,
introduced bill to establish an executive
department Of communication for the pur-
pose of transmitting telegraphic and tele.
phonic communications for the people a,
cost.
l69TH DAY.-Tne Senate decided to meet
hereafter at 10 A. NJ, instead Of IL. and
the daily sessions are to last until P. n, OF
later. Mr.. Morrill, spoke on the Tariff bill
-. Mr.. Sherman reported an amendment
to the Deficiency bill. appropriating so, 900
in addition to the S100, 900 already available
for the purpose Of carrying out the treatie;
between the United States and Mexico pro
viding for the relocation Of the boundary
line between the two countries.
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THE RIOTS AT ERzER0AM,
Fifty Dead Victims Of the Butchery-
One Hundred Missing.


The following details Of the recent riots at
Erzeroam, Montenegro, have been received.
The soldiery were ordered to disperse
Armenians who were holding a meet
ing in q churchyard. The soldiers
haSan a massacre of the Armenians,
ana the Turkish populace Joined in the at
tack. The shops and houses Of the Armenians
were pillaged. The sack lasted four
hours. The British Consulate at which
on the same night fete was being
given for the benefit of poor Armenians, was
Stoned and its gates and windows were bro
ken. The Consul and the members OF his
family took refuge in the callars OF the
building and the fete was abandoned.
The American Mission served as refuge
for fifty fugitives. Numbers Of Americans,
relying on the promises Of TURKS to escort
the streets. FifGy bodies have been found,
mostly Of persons who were bayonetted; S5o
persons were wounded and 100 are missing.
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A FAMILY DESTROYED.
Frightful Accident ut q Railway
Crossing in West Virginia.

Crossing in West Virginia.
A frightful railroad accident occurred at
Grafton, W. Va. resulting in the death OF
five people, members Of one family, Just
about the time the west bound accommoda-
tion train was due VIM. Golden, his wife and
OF the Baltimore and Ohio road near the
Railroad Hotel, but seeing yard engine
coming up the road they stopped to let it
pass
Mr.. Golden was holding his two-year-old
boy in his arms aud his wife three-months.
old baby. When watching the engine the
passenger train struck the family, Instantly
killing the husband, wife and two children
and fatally injuring the boy who was in his
fathers arms, the little fellow dying in an
hour