The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-04-28

was compelled To appeal To tie Yaman
| FOR protection. The magistrate grant
| ed an escort of soldiers, and, under
their protection, he got safely to Loin.
| The matter has been brought TO the
attention of the British Consul nj
| Annoy.
The famine in the north of Shansi
is worse than first imposed, and great
| poverty prevails. Numbels of girls
and young women have been sold by
their parents.
Grover May he Hard From.
WASHINGTON, April Il. - Baron
Fava, late Dean of the Diplomatic
Corps and Minister at Washington
from Italy, has set Washington TO
talking. AS he was leaving the White
House yesterday Mrs. Cleveland's car
riage drove up, and the Baron was in
time to assist her to alieht. She gave
him her hand in the manner custom.
ary, but instead of giving the fingers
q gentle squeeze and promptly releas-
ing them, Baron Fava raised her hand
about q foot, bent his head gracefully
and imprinted n feryent kiss on the
| lady'S hand. She was very much sur
| prised, and her usually pale face was
!
sauntered Off with airy grace, evil
IDENTIFY regarding the affair as trifiing
as the kissing of a pretty chamber
maid. The story was told to-day by a
| Congressman who saw the incident,
and it has become public property.
Mr.. Cleveland is expected to give the
Diplomatic Corps hint that when
| his wife is in question the customary
| form of salutatiCn had better be OBJ
| served.
by Wind and Flames.
MEMPHIS, April 12.-Robinsonville,
| Miss, q small town on the YaZoo and
Mississippi Valley Railroad, twenty
nine miles south of Memphis, with a
| population of about 400, was wiped off
| the earth by cyclone this afternoon.
About O'clock dark cloud appeared
in the southwest, and with a roar and
a mighty crash struck the business
| portion of the town. Not SINGLE
building escaped the storms fury.
DETROIT (Mich.) }, April 12.-The fol-
lowing dispatch was received from
Ypsilanti. The city is in ruins. A
cyclone struck here to night, sweep
ing everything in its path. Thousands
of dollars of damage was done. The
storm took q strip through the busi-
ness portion of the town, moving
houses from their foundations and raz-
ing others.
LINCOLN (Neb.), April 12.-Aside
from the partial wrecking of the vii.
lage of Page, in the northern part of
| the State, there was no great damage
as the result of the storm Yesterday
and last night. Geneva, Fillmore
aonntu ;oI t;nn
| of one or two buildings, but no one
was injured. 1t mas been much colder
| to day, with less volume of wind.
His CHASTITY Dream Was True.
NEW YORK, April l2. - William
Featherstone, head waiter in we'll
known hotel, dreamed this morning
| that he saw his father standing at the
foot of his bed. The right hand of the
| apparation clutched bloody razor.
pointed to q deep cash across the
throat. Featherstone started with
horror from his bed and slept no more
that night. The dream troubled him
all morning, and at noon he went to
his fathers shop, 81 Sixth avenue.
He found the shop closed and lock-
ed. With policeman's aid the door
was forced. In the rear room they
found Elder FeatherstOne on the floor
dead. His throat was gashed in sew
eral places and his head rested in q
pool of blood. The position of the
body conformed to the vision. The
right hand clutched razor, while the
fingers of the left, resting ON the
breast, painted at the severed throat.
1t is supposed that the old man COM
mitted suicide Saturday afternoon.
Dempsey's Sweeping Challenge.
PORTLAND, April 12.-Jack Demp-
sey has telegraphed the management
of the Coney Island Club, in response
to Il telegram, that he is willing to
meet the winner of the William.
Smith fight, which takes place before
that club April 18th. The club Off
cials offer purse of $1,000 for the
| fight, the men to weigh 142 pounds.
| When seen this morning Dempsey
said: 81 am going East to fight and
will meet anybody what wants to
fight at 140 to l45 pounds. There are
great deal of talking about meeting
me aud 1 propose to see how many Of
them are willing to fight"
Adonfs in the Pulpit.
NEW YORK, April IA scnsa-
tioral story is now going the rounds
of the English press to the effect that
Charley Mitchell, the prize fighter,
intenus abandoning the ring and en-
tering the pulpit. Columns have
been devoted to this apparently i'm
portant piece of news, and some of the
writers on the other side even map
ped out lecture route for the British
champion. According to these stories
Mitchell is to travel about Great
Britain, in company with several
well-known evangelists, speaking an
hour each evening on ''The Dark Side
of London"
The Native Sons.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 12.-Pacific
Parlor No. 10 of the Native Sons of
the Golden West are protesting
against celebrating Admission Day in
Chicago alone. They claim that as it
will be impossible for a majority of
the members of any parlor to be pres
ent it would be much better to have
the celebration here, or else to make
it double affair and celebrate in both
cities.
Bubear's Offer.
New YORK, April 12.-The follow
ing cable was received here to-day:
"George Bubear, the champion of
England, offers to take Wallace Ross
place and row Edward Hanlan for the
championship challenge cup and the