The Bessemer indicator., 1893-10-14
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| pion, beat Frank {. Ives in the 10000 point
game at New York by about 900 points.
| The American yacht Vigilant won the srst
race with the Nalkyre at New York on the
| 9TH by six minutes. The wind was light
Harry Tyler has broken the bicyle record
| Tor standing start He made mile In
5ta.
| General Campos with bomb was executed
| at Barcelona on the 9th by being shot in the
| back
Three thousand miners in Wales collIeres
have struck work because forty men en-
ployed In the collieries were not members of
the union.
John Jacob Astors yacht ran Into loaded
ferry boat in the North river few days ago
and caused terrible panic, but no one was
injured.
An intern ational meeting of the Evangel-
ical Alliance opened at Chicago on the 9Th.
Il is attended by orthodox Christians from
many countries.
he first yacht race between the Nalkyrie
and Nigiiant at New York on the 5th was a
failure, as there was not wind enough to get
them over the course.
One of the passengers on the Hamburg
American steamship Russia has died OF
cholera at quarantine, 10 New York Bay
There are no other cases.
The Cunardcr Lucania has beaten the rec
ord OF the City of Paris by running from
Queenstown to New York ia five days, thlr-
teen hours and twenty-nine minutes
The Yankee boat, Vlgilant, won the second
race with Nalkyrie on the 9th. She appar-
entity outsalled her competitor on all points
and beat her distance OF three miles
The Hamburg American steamer Russia is
detained at quarantine by the New York
health officers, there are several suspicious
cases OF sickness, thought 10 be cholera
John Redmond says that the Parnellltes
Will no longer support Mr.. Gladstone In Par
lament. lie is not satisfied with the home
rule bill or the prospect for another one.
party of sixty-seven unemployed me-
chanics from Arizona captured a freight
train and ran 1t into Texas on their way east.
About thirty OF them were arrested In San
Antonio.
President Diaz, of Mexico. has offered
series OF big rewards to the total amount of
500, 900, for the opening and development of
good gold fields. The value Of silver pro-
duced In the land Is greater than gold, and
gold is the metal now wanted
great improvement ia freight business is
reported by all the large roads The demand
from the West for cars ,s increasing owing
10 larger movement OF general merchan-
disc, and the shipments of coal To the West,
which, for some time, were very light, are
increasing.
Acting upon the advice OF diplomatic corps
the BRAZILIAN government has ordered the re-
moyal OF all batteries recently erected In Rio
all the objections of the foreign admirals in
regard to the Intervention in the insurg-
ent 1eet resumed the hombardment of the
city.
New Orleans has raised relief fund of
about $4,000 In all, and steamers, luggers
ski1s and trains have been sent in every
direction TO extend relief The only new de-
velopment is the intelligence from Bayou
Sandress, leading from Grand Isle district,
that there are SEQ deaths along that section
m his baf,x piara
and Bayou Cook.
Governor Caleb w West of Utah in his
annual report, stated that the total present
population Of the territory is estimated at
2S3s sos, an increase of 25,9Oo. Because OF
the recent financial stringency and decline OF
silver values the population OF the mining
districts has materially decreased during the
past six months, while there has been n steady
growth in other parts Of the territory.
A shocking scandal has been caused by the
coroner's investigation OF the San Francisco
Founding Asylum, where thirty-,hree babies
have died within the past six weeks. The
place has been closed. The coroner ascer-
tanned that the thlrty-three waifs died of lack
of nutrition and maltrestmcnt. The Daugh-
ters of the Good shepherd publicly branded
the asylum as u slaughter house for babies.
Throughout WRrwickshirc and Worcester
shire, England, the effects OF the coal famine
become more acute daily. Factories arc clos |
Ing constantly because they have not suhi-
thousands Of men are being thrown out of [
work in this wny, The supplies OF the gas /
companies can last only few days longer |
Even the farmers are suffering, and many of
them have been compelled 10 stop threshing.
A Panama special to a New York paper
says; sacna advlces report that Chill Ia send
Ing 400 cavalry horses, : krupp guns and
10, 900 Manulicher guns to Bolivia. This is
Hken to indicate an alliance hostile to Peru,
The two countries, Chill and Bolivia. belicv-
N ~ har IN har EArn
iot lend a helping hand to Peru. Nothing Is
known Of the attitude Ecuador would assume
should the report prove true
A train on the Transcaucasian railroad on
which was being carried large sum to pay
he soldiers at the garrison at Batouin, was
ittacked Tuesday night by brigands. who
in securing the money. There
we're several gendarmes In charge of the
treasure, and when the robbers boarded the
rain and made known their crrand a desper-
ate battle cnsued. The robbers were success
ful, although four OF their number were
killed.
The Vanderbilts have entered Into con-
tract for one of the greatest real estate pur-
chases ever made on Manhattan Island. The
property to be purchased covers four city
blocks between One Hundred aud Flfty-6fLh j
and One Hundred and Fifty-ninth streets and |
Includes what Is known rs the Manhattan
Field and the new polo grounds 1t Is said
that the contract price Is $1,000 600 and that /
100000 has been deposited to bind the bar
gain. 1t is understood that the purchase was
made for railroad purposes
Now that the Canadian river has again re-
cedcd into Its banks, the full extent of the
damage done in Oklahoma by the recent un-
precedenicd rise I, being learned. Scores of
buildings ere swept away, fences orchards,
etc, all washed away, aud other damage
done that Will cause the loss to run up into
many thousands Of dollars. A large number
OF farmers have lost everything they pos
sessed, aud much suffering viii cnsue. Only
two lives arc known to be lost, but It Is feared
others have perished, as the food came una
wares upon scores Jf Strip settlers cucamped
along the river.
bound freight train on the Pennsylvania, Fort
Wayne " Cincinnati road. while running at
high rate of speed, one nile west OF North
Lawrence, Ohio, was blowu into fragments by
the explosion OF a car containing 1872 kegs of
gunpowder The train crew escaped unhurt
but the engineer f. P. Calvin and the fire.
man, Thomas McCann, were burned severely
Brakeman Rockhili was badly burned. The
track torn up for 100 yards. a hole twenty
feet deep was made in the ground, telegraph
poles were lcveled, thirty cars were wrecked,
and the cab was stripped from the engine.
Two tramps were hurt one fatally.
Further dispatches from the scene Of de-
structlon on the south cosst OF Louisiana
state the storm was, beyond any doubi, the
worst that has been experienced in the South,
but II has never anywhere been equallcd Ia
It's destruction Of prOpert5 and sacrifice of
human life by any storm confined to as lin
tied an area Of country. On Chenierc Island
II reached climax OF horror. They have al
ready buried in the rude graves the island
$50 persons, and there are yet more to be In
Ierrcd. In the rear Of the Island hundreds Of
little mounds marked the resting places of
those who were killed 10 the terrible storm
There were many burial parties. Men, wo-
men and children Joined In the search for the
dead. With poles and hooks and ropes they
drew the corpses from the water or dragged