The Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1894-1???, 1896-08-22

The University of Illinois was struck
by lightning on Sunday.
The new battleship Oregon is coaIinq
in hurry and preparing for sea.
Mrs. d. E. Lesh, wife of Senator
Lesh, of North Yakima, died Sunday.
JOttlieb Horn, coal miner living
near Cumberland, Wash, was. killed by
a train on Saturday night.
Thomas Hill, the landscape painter Of
the Yosemite valley, died on Monday.
Hill had national reputation.
President Cleveland will receive Lii
Hung Chang at New York on his ar
rival in America on August 81.
The falling Of a cage in the St Law
renee mine near Butte, Mont, killed five
men and wounded one on Tuesday.
A destructive cyclone passed over
Perry county Alabama, on Sunday and
laid waste much country, killing fifteen
people.
The uncertainty of the election has
caused the Bessemer Steel Works of
Pueblo, Col, to shut down, and 800
men are idle.
TIE great F.uturity RAGS Of ttlsfe.- ess..A4
IslandN Jockey Club 16n Saturday was
won by Marcus Daly's Ogden. The two
year-old thus -takes off $44, ,29O.
Maceo and his men destroyed a mill
tary train last week with dynamite and
then burned the cars. Six soldiers were
killed and twenty-one wounded.
What was styled an electric cloud
burst and struck church at Bera, Ark.
demolishing the. building, killing three
preachers and wounding three mem
bers.
Ii Hung Chang, the great Chinese
representative, and Gladstone, the great
Engllshman, dined together on Satur-
day, and then had their pictures taken
together.
Prof. F. n. Crouch, famous musi-
clan and the composer of the we'll
known song, Kathleen Mavourneen, i"
died Monday at Portland, Me. He was
81 years old.
Oscar Neebe, the anarchist, who was
pardoned by Gov. Altgeld for his com
plicity in the Haymarket riots, has de-
serted his wife and run away with an
other mans WIFE
Victor Emanuel, Prince of Naples
eldest son and heir apparent of the king
OF Italy, is betrothed to Princess Helene
Of Montenegro, third daughter of the
reigning prince of Montenegro.
Weddeburn, Or, had a shooting af-
fray on Sunday in which H. W. Foun-
tain, sewing machine agent, shot and
killed Grant Baxter, a barber. The
trouble began over a half-breed
Herr Otto Lilienthal, ''the man who
lilies, was killed on August IL in Ber-
lin, While flying in one of his machines.
Lilienthal had been experimenting in
Hylng machines for number of years.
A lone highwayman held up George
b. McCauley, secretary of the Cariboo
company, and robbed him of gold bricks
worth $11000 Mr.. McCauley was go
ing from Camp Mckinney, B. c.. to Spo-
kane.
The Spanish government will soon
present an enormous bill for damages
against the United States. on account
OF the numerous expeditions said to
have gone from here to assist Cuba.
The demand has not been formally
made yet, but will be soon.
New Holland, Pa, was thoroughly
shaken up on Monday morning by the
explosion of twenty-five pounds of dy-
Mantle. Charles F. Cannon was blown
TO atoms and Frank Harmon and Geo.
Creighton were instantly KILLED. 9th
ers were wounded and many windows
broken.
The citizens of Asotin revenged an
outrage committed on one of their girls
by lynching the culprit Miss Mary
Richardson was assaulted by Frank
Biles, a half-breed Of the Nez Perce