The People's friend., 1894-09-07

wholesale, looting their shops and
houses selling their women and chill
dren by auction and deh4lng their
synagogues. The Kabyles were also
besieging Morocco.
A WILD cut of ten loaded coal cars
ran into an express train near COlum-
bus, o. The engine of the passenger
train plowed under the coal cars and
went off the bridge into the river,
pulling the baggage car with it. The
sleeper and day coaches remained on
the track One span of the bridge was
carried down The fireman was crushed
to death. Several others were more or
less injured.
THE man Bour6e, who assaulted Mrs.
Bone near Watertown, 5. d., was
caught and as the officers were taking
him to jail he was taken from them by
mob and hanged to an electric light
pole.
FIRE originating in Hook Bros but
ter tub factory at Union City, Ind, on
the 4th, spread to business blocks and
dwellings, until the loss reached nearly
5000, 900.
AT the Assumption coal shaft, miles
south of Moweaqua, Ill. in lowering
cage the wire cable broke and the cage
fell to the bottom. The engineer lost
control of his engine and the up cage
went through the roof of the shaft
house. The cable drums were wrecked.
Twelve men were below in the pit. Az
90 air shaft existed they were in very
perilOus position.
A CAMPING party from San Francisco
were camping near Point Arean, Cal,
when they were awakened by the
barking of a dog and heard a large
redwood tree cracking. The men ran.
but the women stopped to dress and
the tree fell over, killing two and
breaking the legs of two others.
REPORTS from Wisconsin about the
| forest fires said that the destruction OF
/ Baronette was complete. One lone
| building was left of a city of 700 in
habitants One man was burned. The
total loss is $3.50, 900. Shell Lake has
| ffty-two dwellings burned, with loss
of S75, 900 Three hundred and sixty
people are homeless and many are
without dollar of insurance.
ADvICEs from Juneau, Alaska, give
details of a fierce battle among the
Chilcat Indians. A few days previous
to the fight two Canadian slOOps az
rived at Chilcat laden with liquor.
Large quantities were soon disposed OF
in exchange for furs, etc. Then began
a scene of fierce orgy. Immense fires
were started and several hundred In
dians assembled to drink liquor and
dance Settlers swing a few miles dis
tant heard yelling and surmising the
origin of the trouble dared not venture
to the neighborhood until late in the
afternoon of the next day. They be-
held a sickening sight. Dead and
wounded Indians were lying all around
the village.
w. w. MOORE died at Madison, Miss,
from eating boiled custard served at a
wedding near Fannin, Rankin county.
Three children have died in Rankin
county and a brother of Moore was re-
ported i'll, with little prospect of re-
coverv. All who partOok of the Gus
tard were taken violently i'll.
REPORT on the I'd from Eau Claire,
Wis, said that the region round that
place was all ablaze with forest fires.
Bridges and much lumber had been
burned and the condition of things
was very serious.
FOREST fires were reported on the 30
to be doing much destruction in Penn.
sylvania.
SIX towns in Minnesota were totally
destroyed by forest fires on the I'd and
500 persons were known to have lost
their lives The loss of property will
be in the millions.
THE Chicago gas trust has begun 8
systematic cutting of rates. which was
expected to extend throughout the
whole city. The Mutual company had
cut its price from 81 to r. cents for
Illuminating. and from S1.15 to 81 for
fuel gas Other reductions were eX.
Dccted to follow.
THE governor of IndO-China reports
that on the night of the 27th Chinese
marauders murdered NJ. Chalet, French
collector of customs in Tonkin, and
killed his wife and children. Troops
pursued the outlaws. but failed to cap
ture them The French government
has demanded indemnity from the gov
ernment at Pekin.
FOREST fires rage in the Puget sound
country and much valuable timber has
been destroyed. Lumber men think
the damage in Washington will aggre
gate several hundred thousand dollars
The SUBMITS of Stampede mountain
and other foot hills of the Cascade:
along the Northern Pacific were ablaze
The railroad had men at work with
two mountain engines and hose to pro
tect snow sheds and other property be
side that of the Stampede tunnel. Fire
was also raging near the mining tOwI
of Wilkeson.
A RECENT order of the Belgium gov
ernment subjects all American cattle
to fortv-five days quarantine.
THE Leona river, swollen to a raging
torrent by the recent heavy rains
rushed without a moments warning
on the town of Uvalde, Tex, wreckin2
many houses and drowning many peO
pie Forty miles of the Southern Pa
cifc railway track were reported
washed away and fears were enter
, tanned that 100 families living on ;
ditch south of town had been lost
: The loss of property was said to be il
the neigh borhood of 81 100000.
On the Canton river, near Hon9
Kong, a flower boat caught fire and th'
flames spread until hundreds of thos'
crafts were destroyed and at least LOO
Chinese perished.
CLEARING house returns for the prin
cipal cities of the United States for th'
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