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A WAR CLOUD.
Belief That n Great struggle is Soon to
Take Place

LONDON, July 29.-The opinion of the
army is practically the opinion of every
influential Russian, and when the officers
of the army talk war, and are impatient
of peace, even the Czar is obliged to lis
ten, if not yield. All the correspondents
agree that the demonstrations at Cron-
stadt We're of warlike character. No
sentiment was breathed that did not sig
Nifty an alliance of Russia and France for
war, and, while no reflections were ut
tered on England, in any Of the formal
speeches or addresses, the utmost hostil-
ity, mixed with contempt, was expressed,
more especially by the Russians, for Ger
many and the Kaiser. The general inn
preston given TO the correspondents was
of brilliant assemblage, who looked
upon each other and acted and talked as
allies in grand struggle soon to come.
The grandeur of the dinner given by
the Car TO the French officers may be
judged from the fact that $50 pieces of
gold plate figured on the imperial table.
Both Moscow and st. Petersburg were
drawn upon for means to make display
barbaric in its magnificence, and far ex-
.ceeding the Queens state dinner to the.
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TWENIY-NINE ROUNDS.
Needham Awarded the Purse in
His Fight With Mahan.
THE LATTER GIVES UP ON ACCOUNT
OF PAIN IN THE HEART.
An Engineer Killed In q Railroad
Tunnel In the Siskiyou Mountains
The Last Spike Driven on the
Electric Road Connecting San Fran
cisco and San Mateo Counties-The
Hot Wave at Auburn Broken.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29.-Dany Need
ham of st. Louis and Billy Mahan of San
Francisco met in fight to finish for a
$500 purse at the Occidental Club to-
Needham having defeated Mahan in
forty-three rounds at Seattle last fall.
Mahan weighed 1876 and Needham 1873
pounds.
The men lost no time in getting to work,
Mahan cutting the face, while Needham
waited to get in right-hand knock k-out.
The latter caught a corker on the nose in
the first, but stopped rush in the second
with right that nearly floored Mahan.
Mahan punished Needham with both
hands in the succeeding rounds, landing
on all portions of the st. Louis boys
anatomy, while the latter still waited with
his right. Mahan was warned several
times against punching too low, but
claimed that Needham knocked his hand
down.
Needham landed two hard rights in the
ninth, bringing blood to Mahan's nose.
The latter continued to lead, and the first
good exchange came in the eighteenth.
Mahan was then bleeding at the ear, and
was SAdS JtIdlCu dJ N G0uIdul COOlnoSS,
the nineteenth was hot round, and
it looked as if Mahan would fight himself
out.
In the twentieth Needham met him
with a left and right, swelling the left
eye, and bringing blood from the mouth.
Malan was apparently groggy when the
round closed, while Needham seemed as
fresh as at the beginning.
Needham refrained from pushing mat
tarS. Mahan Was aShnnp6 hT1t bic loft
hand jolts did less damage than Need
hams occasional counters, which seldom
failed to raise lump or draw blood.
Mahan several times dropped, appar-
emily to avoid punishment, and at the
close of the twenty-ninth he came to the
center of the ring and said he had q terrible
pain under the heart, and it was impossi-
bic for him to stand punishment longer,
and he would give up the fight.
lie was cheered by many of the specta-
tors on leaving the ring for the gameness
he had shown during the fight. His face
bore traces of considerable punishment,
while Needham, save for a swelling on
the left cheek and slight puffiness of
the rib flesh, was apparently unmarked.
FIGHT UP NORTH.
WALLA WALLA (Wash.), July o.
Early this morning Billy Pool of St. Paul
and Sack Bane, an unknown, fought
eleven rounds with gloves just across the
Oregon line. The first two rounds were
IN Bane's favor, but in the third round
he began to weaken. and in the sixth he
was almost knocked out by Pool. From
that time on the fight was all in POOLS
favor. AT the end of the eleventh round
the referee noticed Bane put something
into his belt, and upon examination it
was found that he had been using a piece
of iron in his right glove. The fight was
Immediately awarded to Pool. Bane's
face was badly disfgured.
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Christian Church Meeting.

SANTA CRUZ, July 29.-Each train to-
day has brought new arrivals for the
State meeting of the Christian Church at
Garfield Park. The following pro-
gramme of public services was carried
out to-day: At $50 A. M.-"The Best
Method of Evangelization and the Care of
the Weak Churches" paper by w. A.
Gardner of Woodland; review, by J. f.
Denton of Santa Cruz, and discussion by
G. B. Ware, r. n. Davis and r. L. Nc
Hatten.
At2P. M.-"The Atonement," paper
by j. w. Kelsey of Willows; review, by
w. II. Martin of Fresno; discussion, by
w. Webb, Z. r. Childers and L. +.
Rowlins. A sermon was preached in the
tabernacle this evening by G. B. Cone of
HOllister
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STOCKTON BRIEFS.
A Constable Captured Maddux, the
Negro, at Lodi.

A Constable Captured Maddux, the
Negro, at Lodi.
STOCKTON, July 29.-Maddux, who es-
capped recently from the Sacramento jail,
whore he was held as supposed accom-
plice in the murder of Ball at Marysville,
was caught to-day by a Constable at
Lodi.
Antonio Pararagna, the Italian gar
dener who has had bullet in his brain
for ten years, was to-day sent to the in
sane asylum, where he has been sent
several times during the past ten years.
he attempted to commit suicide ten years
ago, when a young man. The bullet
from the pistol entered his skull on the
right, above and little back of the ear.
1t ranged upward and lodged in the brain
near the crown of the head. II produced
no effect other than pain, and the blood
soon ceased to flow from the hole in the
skull. A few days afterward he was
brought in from his fathers gardens near
this city and committed to the asylum.
This is the fifth time he has been arrested
for lunacy
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The Last Spike nAiven.

SAN FRANCISCO, July sa.-The cere
mony of driving the last spike which
connects the counties of San Mateo and
San Francisco by the new electric rail-
road, took place near the Southern Pacific
depot at Ocean View at 1l:50 this morn
ing. A large number of prominent citi
zens of this city were present, together
with many from San Mateo County. The
spike was driven in the rails which cross
the county line by Behrend Joost,
President of the San Francisco and San
Mateo Electric Railroad Company.
Henry P. Bowie officiated as Master of
Ceremonies, and made the opening re-
marks. Rev. e. b. Spaulding delivered
a prayer and William NJ. Bunker an adj
dress, after which Mr.. Joost drove the
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DAY OF MOURNING.
Burial of the Victims of the st. Mand
Disaster,

Burial OF the Victims of the st. Mande
Disaster.
PARIS, July 29.-Crowds of people, es-
timated at $4,000, gathered this afternoon
at st. Mande to witness the funerals of the
victims of the railroad disaster of Sun
day. The crowds were so great that it
required the Prefect of the Department
of the Seine and strong detachment of
troops to keep the route of the funeral
procession clear.
There were twenty-four hearses in line
from the town hall to the cemetery, and
thousands of mourners followed the
bodies to the grave. All the houses at
st. Mande were draped with Grape en-
blems, halfmasted flags and other signs
of general mourning. The air was filed
with the wailing and crying of friends
and relatives of the dead, many women
reaching such pitch of excitement that
they went into Mysteries, while others
tainted.
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Now Postmasters.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-A. Mann has
been appointed postmaster at Chinese
Camp, Tulare County, vice G. f. Wade.
removed: Peter Jones, at Durham, Butte
County, vice j. II. Skinner, removed; T..
P. Fuller, at San Antonio, San Bernar-
dino County, vice j. 3. Churchill, re-
signed.
John r. Murray has been commissioned
postmaster at Greenyille, and Jackson
Dennis at Sutter Creek
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MAYNARD EMPLOYEES.
Successful Candidates for Positions at
Mare Island.

Marc Island.
WASHINGTON, July 29.-The Navy De-
partment has approved the report of the
Board of Examiners for master mechan-
les at the Mare Island Navy-yard, and
has filled all positions by the appoint
ments of the candidates mentioned. In
the case of n. c. Hilton, designated for
the position of master shipwright; ID.
| Harrington, for master ship filter; G. j.
| Phelps, for master shipsmith, and Nj. c..
| WincheQ, for master plumber, the board
| said they were the best qualified of the
applicants offered, but not having the
| special knowledge desirable for the posi-
/ tons, the department deferred action.
| The board designated the following in
dividuals as best qualified for the respect
i've places:
| Construction Department Master
| Shipwright, n. c. Hilton of Vallejo;
Master Joiner, Charles Daily of Vallejo,
Master Shipfitter, Daniel Harrington of
Oakland; Master Shipsmith, Charles J.
| Phelps of Vallejo; Master Plumber, NJ.
Z. Winchell of Vallejo; Master Boat
builder, Thomas Vice of Vallejo; Quar-
terman, calker in charge, j. w. Jaimison
OF San Franclscoi Quarterman, painter in
charge, Matthew Caravan Of Vallejo,
Quarterman, in charge of laborers, j. w.
Monroe of San Francisco.
Steam Fitting Department-Foreman
Machinist, r. b. Hussey Of Vallejo: Fore
man Patternmaker, Aug NJ. Street of
Vallejo; Foreman Molder, Henry Dim
mick of San Francisco; Foreman Boiler
| maker, George j. Campbell of Vallejo;
Foreman blacksmith, Luke Burko OF
San Francisco: Loading Man, copper
smith, Charles B. Rand of Vallejo.
Equipment Observation-Disclosures sail
maker, William j. Wood of Vallejo;
quarterman rigger in charge, John Shean
| of San Francisco.
| Yards and Docks Experimentation
man mason, w. II. Dennis of Vallejo;
| foreman laborer, William j. Sargent of
Vallejo; machinist in charge, George w.
Morton of Vallejo.
With reference to certain trades involv-
ing special training in the building of
hulis of modern steel warships, the boarl!
states that in its opinion none of the can
didates presenting themselves possessed
the special knowledge desirable. The
trades referred to arc as follows: Master
Shipwright, none of the candidates ap-
pearing before tho board were fully quail
ltied for the position owing TO their
ignorance of iron and steel building;
master ship filter, none ofthe candidates
appearing before the board evince that
knowledge Of machinery and machine
tools that is desirable for this position,
most of the candidates being plate-iron
worknen; master shipsmith, mono of the
candidates appearing before the board
work in steel ship construction that the
board deems desirable; master plumber,
none of the candidates appearing before
the board evince that knowledge of
plumbing and ventilation desirable il
modern naval construction
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Customs Decision. .

NEW YORK, July 29.-In the case of
Kahn Brothers, Boone & Co. against
the Collector of San Francisco for q
wrongful assessment OF duty on an i'm
portation of gray and black astrachans.
the United States Board of General Ap-
protestants. The duty was assessed S5
cents per pound and IS per cent. ad va
lorem, as wooden clothes, while the im-
porter claimed assessments under para
graph 363 as manufactures of worsted.
The decision is an important one and has
long been looked for.
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Eastern Ball Games.

PITTsBURG, July 29.-Good all-around
playing made the visitors easy winners
to-day. Score: Pittsburg 2, Cincinnati
8. Batteries-Baldwin and Mack; Null
lane and Harrington.
New York, July 29.-Both clubs
played well. Score: Brooklyn 3, Phila-
deiphia 4. Batteries-Lovett and Kins-
low; Gleason and Clements.
BosToN, July 29.-The Boston New
York game was postponed onIaccount Of
rain.
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A SALOON QUARREL.

1t Ends in One of the Participants Be-
ing Mortally Wounded.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29.-In saloon
quarrel this morning Tony Schrage and
Richard Kennel exchanged several shots.
The latter was shot through the leg and
Schrage was probably fatally wounded.
Schrage had just returned with Kennel
from an extended tour in Mendocino
County and they were presumed to be the
closest friends.
He states: II was with barkeeper,
whose name do not know, on California
street, when Kennel came up and delib-
arately knocked me down and beat me.
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Breach OF Promise Case.

LONDON, July 20. = The sensational
breach of promise case of Miss Valerie
Wiedmann against Captain Robert Hor-
ace Walpole, in which the plaintiff asked
100000 damages, and which has been in
and out of the courts more than two
years. resulted on June 18th in verdict
for 81 800 damages; but Captain Walpole
took the case to the Court of Appeals, and
to-day that court reversed the verdict of
the lower court, holding that there was
no corroboration of the statements that
defendant promised to marry her.
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Involuntary Manslauehter.

TRUCKEE, July 29.-At the close of the
preliminary examination of Malcolm
McDougald for the murder of Michael
Lanahan, Justice Liggett held the de-
fendant for involuntary manslaughter,
and fixed his bail at 5000. McDougald
was accused of killing Lanahan by beat
ing him over the head with pistol on
the 9th Of July, and the examination has
been prolonged over three weeks.
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Bank Robbery.

SAG HARBoR IL. T., July 29.-During
a circus procession here to-day the
Peconic Bank was robbed of $500. All
the clerks but one were on the street
watching the procession, and that one
had left his desk to watch the procession
the front window. The thief
entered by the back door, seized pack
age of money and ran out the same way
he entered, being soon lost in the crowd
The rObber has not been ca11turad
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No Change Probable.

NEW YORK, July 29.-Kiernan's News
Agency says to-day: Nobody here knows
definite about the Hopkins
Searles stock. Huntington, who knows
as much rs anybody, asserts that Mrs.
Searles' death will cause no change in the
management or the policy of the South
ern Pacific. Much of the talk by the
papers in their financial articles is only
stuff and has no substantial basis.v
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Not a Political Missinn.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 29. Tho NoUo
VrenayG to-day publishes an interview
with Admiral Geryais, of the visiting
French squadron, in which he declares
that he has not been intrusted with a
political mission to Russia, but only to
convey the friendly sentiments of the
French Government and its people. The
ente between Russia and France, the
Admiral declares, is analogous to that
between members of the Dreibund, and
purely defensive.
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Deaths in the Alps.

VIENNA. July 29.-Albert Fessler, an
opera-singer, aud Anton Mohr, lace
merchant, who assembled the lofty Sol
steinhutre, in the Tyrolese Alps, refusing
the services of guides. perished of cold
and starvation, having lost their way
An Italian banker named Anton An
dres has been killed by falling over
precipice while ascending the Sagre Sau-
michele part of the Alps.
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Passenger Train Wrecked.

ST.. LOUIS, July "a Republic special
from Seavey, Ark, says: AT O'Clock to-
day passenger train on the Iron Noun
tain road was wrecked about mile south
of Judsonia. Wet weather made the
roadbed soft, causing the rails to spread.
The train left the track on culve. Sin
gular TO relate, nobody was killed, and
less than dozen injured. 1t is thought
the injuries OF none will prove serious.
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Preparatory school for Girls.

MAYFIELD. July GA preparatory
school for girls will be opened on the
grounds of the Leland Stanford Junior
University on the 10th day of September
under charge of two graduates of the
Harvard Annex, who have also taken
postgraduate studies in the University
of Michigan. The school will prepare
the girls for admission to the university.
Students will have the benefit of at
tendance on the lectures in the university,
and also have access to the university
library
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CHOKED TO DEATH.
Fatal Ending OF a Quarrel Between
Two Negroes.

GLENcovE o.. t., July 29.-Richard
Underhill, farmer of Glenhead, vii
lage three miles from here, recently en-
ployed two negroes, David Goncom and
Thomas Channel, to work on his farm.
They roomed together in the upper part
of an outhouse. During last night they
fought in their room, and Channel was
choked to death by Goncom.
Goncom, who is covered with wounds,
says because he refused to take drink
of whisky from flasd offered by Chan
mel the latter attacked him with a razor.
Finally Goncom succeeded in clinching
his assailant, and was compelled to choke
him to death.
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Heavy Rains in India.

LONDON, July %. = Dispatches from
Bombay state that there have been heavy
rains and serious floods in that presi-
dency, and the roads have been damaged
Sixty miles of railroad have been in
jured by washouts. The rivers in the
district of Poonah are swollen and thou
sands of acres of land submerged.
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Conspirotors Arrested

LONDON, July pa Geneva paper
says that the st. Petersburg police re-
Gently arrested twenty-six officers con-
nected with conspiracy to kill the Czar
and force the Czarowitz to establish con-
stitutional monarchy. The officers, all
but two of whom were nihilists, offered
desperate resistance to the police, and
seven nihilsts were killed and seven
moro acnana1
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His Services Rewarded.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-The Secretary
of the Treasury has directed the payment
of s., 600 to James Mcintosh of San Fran
cisco, as a reward for information which
resulted in the seizure at San Francisco
of opium valued at Sl5,602. This is the
maximum Of the informer's fee allowed
by law.
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Shortly after I was in the saloon,
when Kennel suddenly threw the door
open and drawing pistol shot me in the
side, saying, with an oath, Take that:
you have been talking about me- had
pistol, but did not have time to draw it,
and if Kennel is shot he shot himself"
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The Cahensly Incident.

ROME, July 29.-The letter of the Pope
to Cardinal Gibbons, in which he con-
dennis the suggestions of Herr Cahensly
and the st. Raphael Societies in regard to
appointing Roman Catholic Bishops in
the United States of the same nationali-
ties as the people to whose spiritual wants
they minister, has been published here.
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The Hot wave at An End.

AUBURN, July 29.-The hot wave that
has been with us for about twenty days
is broken. Yesterday the thermometer
ranged from ZOE to 900, or 10o lower than
it has been for three weeks. 1t is still
cooler this morning, the thermometer
being as low as 6Oo.
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Pritchard Challenges Mitchell.

NEW YORK, July 29.-The Police Ga
zette has special cable from London
saying that Ted Pritchard has challenged
Charley Mitchell to fight for $4,000 and
the championship of England Pritchard
says he is not going to the United States,
but is willing to fight either Fitzsimmons
or Hall for $1,000 side and allow ex-
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ESSEN prussia July 29-Fourteen
persons, employees of the water works
here, We're drowned to-day while crossing
the river, by the capsizing Of boat.
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An Armory Badly Damaged by Fire.
Crackers GoIne un.

CHICAGO, July 29.-A dispatch from
Omaha says: 1t has been announced
here that the New York Biscuit Com
pany has sold and leased it's factories at
Omaha, Denver, Cedar Rapids and Des
Moines to the National Cracker Com
pany, which is composed of stockholders
of the American Biscuit Company. The
local managers have also been ordered to
advance prices to the standard. It is fur
ther stated that in future the American
Company will control the trade west of
Chicago, and the New York Company
east of there, thus avoiding competition.
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sam Jones Rotten-Eggod.

HoUsToN (Texasl, July 29.-While
preaching TO largo audience here to-
night, and when in the middle of his dis
course, some people on the outside turned
out the lights and rotten-egged Rev. Sam
Jones and his audience, most of whom
We're ladies. There is great indignation
telt, and trouble may ensue.
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Sugar From Cubs.

HAVANA, July 29.-The amount of
sugar exported from the island from De-
cember /, 1890, to June 80, 1891, to the
United States, is 3.252,000 bags, q, 4S9
hogsheads and 465, 13l tons.
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Naval Academy Appointments.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-The following
have been appointed to the Naval
Academy: W. II. Stanley of California,
j. r. Monaghan Of Washington and d.
W. Todd of California.
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CHILE's NEW PRESIDENT.
The Insurgents Deny His Right to be
Seated.

Seated.
PARIS, July 29.-The Chilean Congress
sional party has issued statement to the
effect that the election of Viscona as
President of Chile is null and void for
several reasons: Because as President
of the Cabinet he organized coup de
etdt in January last, thus violating the
constitution, because the election was not
carried out in conformation with the law
relating to elections; because only part of
the country voted, and because the cleo
ton occurred during q suspension of the
tribunals charged with the settlement of
electoral disputes.
EMPHATICALLY DENIED.
WASHINGTON, July 29.-The Chilean
Congressional ENJOYS deny emphatically
the truth OF the reports from Santiago
to the effect that thousands of soldiers of
the Congressional army at IquiQue have
refused to leave there when ordered to
Atacama, because they had received no
pay.
The Government of Balmaceda, they
assert, has made no progress since the
commencement of the revolution. and
each month since it began has expert
enced loss. These losses, the ENJOYS
say, have been as follows: In January,
the navy; in February, the province of
Tarapaca; in March, the province of
Antafogasta; in April, the province of
Tacna; in May, the province of Atacama;
in June, Lobos Guano Islands, and dur
ing the present month, the Valley OF
HuaSco.
MONEY SCARCE.
Los ANGELES, July 29.-An officer of
the Charleston gives it as his opinion that
if Balmaceda succeeds in getting his three
ships from France the war will be prac-
tically ended. The prospect of their ap-
pearance on the Chilean Coast is regarded
with horror by the insurgent party. The
officer also stated that Balmaceda held all
producing part of the country. The
Congressional party have the northern
part, where the nitrate fields lay, which
are unyielding and profitless at present.
Balmaceda has money, is feeding his
troops and paying them, and can prolong
the war. The Congressionalists have no
money and little food and are having a
very hard time.
The officer stated that there was no
own currency. The currency of the
country is paper and it has deprecated to
25 cents on the dollar from thegold stand
ard. Pill-boX lids are medium of circu-
lation in IGuique. A round lid is good
for 25 cents, and an oval lid goes for 80
cents. A mercantile firm issuing these
stamps it's name upon them and is sup
posed to redeem them in gold coin some
time in the future. and meanwhile honor
them with their face value in goods.
SEAT OF GOVERNMENT REMOVED.
CooUIMBo, July 29.-The Junta's seat
of government has been removed from
Iquique to Copiapo. A garrison has
been left at Iquique with an intendente
to collect nitrate duties
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INC C1oudburst aft Austin.

AUSTIN (Nev.), July 29.-The in
clement weather has passed. All availa-
bic help is at work clearing the streets of
debris. 1t is estimated the loss will be
S6 n0O
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LONDON, July %. = Dispatches from
Mecca state the death rate from cholera is
l40 per day at that place and thirty daily
at Dieddah
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James Gordcn Bennett Indicted

NEW YORK, July 29.-James Gordon
Bennett has been indicted for publishing
an account of the Sing Sing electric exc
cution