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FLED WITH THE ASSETS.
Creditors of a Chicago Dealer in
Farming Implements
Defrauded.
He Sells the Notes Held by His Com
pany and Departs for
New Fields.

CHICAGO, ILL, June 14.-The credit
ors of W. M. Mcmillan, who has for two
years past been at the head of the Su-
perior Pump and Windmill Company in
this city, are very anxious to learn his
whereabouts. 1t is asserted that he has
left the city, after disposing of every
available asset of the company and taking
all the cash which he had on deposit in
two banks.
So far as can be learned Mcmillan was
the company" himself, as no one else
can be found who had anything to do
with it. ALI the claims against the com
pany have not yet been registered, but it
is estimated that the liabilities will reach
$45,000, with not a dollar of assets in
sight.
Mcmillan has in the last two years made
many sales to impement-dealers through
out the West, taking with the contracts
promissory notes from the purchase
money. A large proportion of these notes
he has discounted with weIl-known capi-
talist of this city. During the last five
weeks it is asserted Mcmillan has offered
a liberal discount on discounts and paper
nearly matured in order to obtain ready
cash. In this manner, and with collec-
tions made by him recently, it is estimated
that he gathered together $15, 900, which he
took with him.
The creditors in this city found nothing
at the factory but mass of empty crates.
Up TO the time of McMillan's disappear
ance it had been believed that the stock at
the factory, including side line of BIZ
cycles, which has also vanished, was worth
at least S25. .000
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SPYING ON FRENCH FORTS.
Italian officer arrested at Moo In the
GtEise of Tourist.

italian officer Arrested at NSoe In The
GtEise of Tourist.
NEW YORK, N. Y, June 1.-THE Her
AIDS correspondent in Nice, France, cables
as follows:
1 have been able to gather the following
definite information with regard to the ar
rest here of captain on the Italian gen.
eral staff on a charge Of espionage, about
which telegraphed yesterday:
The officers of company of Chasseurs
Alpines, cantoned at ST. Etienne-Sur-
TInee, while accommodating in the neigh
borhood of Mont Mounier, an i'm portant
strategic point on the Alpine frontier, had
their attention attracted by the demeanor
of a tourist, who appeared to be more
deeply interested than he had any right
to be in the works of defense which pro-
tect this part of the frontier.
The tourist was arrested ana it was
learned he was no other than Captain
Agostino Ravelh of the Italian general
staff. especially attached to the bureau in
the War Department that is charged with
the study of the organization of the
French army.
In a clever manner Captain Ravelli de-
Tended himself, denying that he was q
spy and declaring that he had come to the
frontier simply as tourist.
He has been detained in custody at the
gendarmerie station, where every courtesy
IS being shown him. A searching investi-
cation has been opened.
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The Rebel General Attempts a
Maneuver and Falls Into
His Own Trap.
CUBAN LOSS FIVE HUNDRED
Only a Handful of the Spanish Killed
and Wounded, According to
Official Report.

HAVANA, CUBA, June 4.-Thomas
Dawley, the correspondent of Harper's s
Weekly, who was arrested some time ago
on the charge of being in communication
| with the rebels, has been released from
Moro Castle, where he had been confined
ever since he was taken into custody.
Incomplete details have been received OF
| battle at Navasajo. Unofficial reports
state that Gomez was in command of the
rebels, who numbered 5000 men. He made
a maneuver with the intention of leading
the Spanish commander to believe that he
intended to surround the troops, who were
| encamped on the plains of SARATOGA. The
maneuver failed of the desired effect, which
was to compel the Spanish forces to re-
treat. The rebels attacked the troops with
machetes, but the latter repulsed the
charges.
The battle is said to have lasted forty
two hours. General Goderi, with strong
Spanish force, arrived on the scene and
with his assistance the troops succeeded
in forcing the rebels to retire.
The rebel loss is said to have been 500,
while the troops lost only four killed and
two officers wounded and forty-three
soldiers wounded. Later details may
place the engagement in an entirely differ
ent aspect. The battle is said to have been
similar to that which took place at Quasi
mas in the last war.
Last night dynamite explosions occurred
under two bridges on the road leading to
Cerro and Jesus del Monte, suburbs of
Havana. The explosion caused a panic
among the people in the neighborhood.
The damage done to the bridges was
slight,
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Their Arrival the Signal for the
Beginning of a Weeks
Festivities.
sEAMEN TO MARCH ON LAND.
Eight Hundred Tars Will Join the
Jolly Army of the Naiad
Queen.

SANTA CRUZ, CAL, June 14.-Sants
Cruz and her carnival guests are on the
tiptoe of expectancy, awaiting the arrival
of the two warships of the Pacific Coast
squadron, the Philadelphia and Monad-
mock. They will enter the harbor at noon
tomorrow and will be viewed from the
beach and wharf by thousands of citizens
and visitors, who are looking to their COM
ing as the preliminary opening of the
Water Carnival. The fact that the seamen
of the two vessels will appear in the parade
on Wednesday is an important one to the
sightseers, hundreds of whom are expected
from inland towns especially for this
event. Two hundred marines will march
i'll the parade and their appearance will
add much to the fame of the Santa Cruz
carnival.
The vessels, too, will be an attraction to
the visitors, as well as to the people of
Santa Cruz. There is no prettier spot in
the waters of the Pacific for the harboring
of vessels than the bay of Monterey at
this point, and the vantage ground of the
sightseers includes great stretch of beach
and cliffs from the mouth of the San
Lorenzo to Lighthouse Point. The ships
Will duCnOI OlI Ildl1AOdQ WIdI4 anu uOlu
comfnandlng position in the harbor.
Mayor Clark, chairman of the carnival
reception committee, with select COM
mittee composed of Lieutenant Governor
Jeter, Lieutenant a. A. Morey of the
naval reserve, Director General Bowman
and James Mcneil, president of the cleo
trlc works that furnished the electrical
display for the carnival, will 60 aboard
the Philadelphia to informally wait upon
Admiral Beardslee and learn his wishes as
to the details of arrangements for the
formal reception to the commanding
officers of the vessels and the marines.
They will also acquaint him as to the ar
rangements for the formal reception and
banquet to be rendered to the officers, but
which Will not occur until the close of the
carnival. There will be preliminary re-
ception on Tuesday evening ashore to be
participated in by representa- tives of the
carnival association of this city and the
naval reserves.
The naval reserve, carnival committee
and citizens will receive the marines at
the wharf at 80 o'clock Wednesday after
noon and participate with them in the
parade.
The vessels will remain in the bay until
after the celebration of the raising of the
flag at Monterey on July for the purpose
of giving the Santa Cruz naval reserve in
stIuctions aboard ship.
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Fishermen Send an Urgent Call
for Protection Against Mob
Violence.
DEsPoILED OF THEIR CATCH
Raiding Bands Continue to Board
Boats and Throw Salmon
Into the River.

ASTORIA, Or, June 14.-Reports o1
fresh outrages by striking fishermen near
Clifton were received by mail to-day, and
show that grave cause for alarm exists.
Sheriff J. W. Hare of Clatsop County was
urged to dispatch more patrol-boats and
an additional force of deputies to the
scene of the riots.
These advices state that several fisher
men started out in their boats this morn
ing. Among them was Vincezo Marde-
sich, who laid out at daylight, drifting by
Woody Island. Early in the forenoon
several boats came sailing toward him,
and before he realized what their occu-
pants wanted he was ordered TO drop sail.
The raiding party which numbered a
score of men, took charge of his boat and
towed it into Woody Island Slough. Some
of them jumped into the boat and threw
Mardesich's fish overheard, forcing him to
assist in this outrage upon himself. He
says he had about $50 salmon, or about
two tons, taken from his nets. Later in
the day the nets were drawn ashore and
the fish entangled in their meshes thrown
away. The net was returned to Marde-
sich, but the mob took his revolver and
1dAtSo W 6ifO ~ UoOhs ASy
his life, and one leveled revolver at him.
Another man threw up his hands and said,
Don't shoot" and his life was spared,
after dispute between the intended MUIR
derer and the man who thwarted him.
The owner of another boat had caught
eighty fish, and as the current was strong
started home through some of the sloughs
in Woody Island. He was captured and
beaten; his new Winchester rifle was taken
from him and all of his fish thrown over
board.
Upon receipt OF this news Sheriff Hare
Immediately had number of deputies
sworn in and dispatched them to the scene
in steam launch, which will be used as
an additional patrol boat until the expira-
ton of the canning season. The deputies
are we'll known as expert marksmen and
are expected to lend material assistance
in putting a stop to the lawless acts on the
river.
Everything is quiet in this city, but the
authorities are prepared for emergencies.
All of the canneries are closely guarded
day and night.
1t is rumored to-day that break in the
ranks of the fishermen is likely to occur.
many of the men being willing to accept
the cannerymen's offer of Al cents a
pound. They are excited over the reports
of big catches by gill-netters up the river,
where $3.50 per day is not unusual for the
earnings of single boat.
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January 20, for Iquique, before reported
abandoned at sea.
ARMENiAKS PROSECUTED.
Over Six Hundred Arrested in CONSTANT
nopie and Deported to
AnnfoUn

CONSTANTINOPLE, TURKEY, June a.
The representative of the United Press is
informed on reliable authority that 800
Armenians have been arrested in this city
since June 8. A majority of the prisoners
are from Rodisto.
The member of the Armenian Revolu-
uonary Committee, who on Monday last
assassinated an Armenian spy in this city
and who was shot and killed by the patrol
Whlle trying to escape, was a native of
hodlsto. Prisoners to the number of 200
we're shipped to Anatolia yesterday. The
government is using the occasion of the
assassination to expel possible agitators.
:, An American lady from Marash states
that after she had succeeded IN making ar
rangements for securing homes and pro-
vlolng for the education of forty-ive Or
phans, whose parents had been massacred,
the turkish authorities refused to allow
the children to leave, saying that they
would look after them. She adds that she
mad the greatest difficulty in bringing her
own three children from Marash, the Off
Gals saying that they were Turkish sub
lects, as they were born in Turkey. Both
the lady and her husband are Americans.
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FIESTA De SAN RAFAEL.
Ladies of st. RaphaeIs Church
Preparing for a Summer
Carnival.
Flower Show and Entertainment
Under the Auspices of the
Fair Sex.

SAN RAFAEL, CAL, June 14.-The
people of San Rafael are discussing the
great event of the summer, the fiesta or
floral festival opening in Hall Rafael on
June %. There will be no street pageants
nor harmless battles with roses for bullets.
but the public is anticipating glorious
time.
The ladies of st. RaphaePs Church are
doing everything to make the affair sue
cess. Deft and willing hands will trans
form Hall Rafael into bower of beauty;
refined taste will see that the eye be de-
lighted, the ear charmed and the heart
gladdened. A queen aud her ladies in
waiting will receive the loyal subjects.
Royalty will sing and play and serve the
people with its own hands, not for one
single night, but for whole week. The
following will have charge:
Refreshments Mrs. NJ. Dufficy, the
Misses Emma. Josephine and Veronica
Dutficy, Mrs. James Manney Mrs. James
Bradley, Mrs. Tim Mullin. Mrs. W. Whit
more, Mrs. John Dustin, Miss Ellen Muir
rry, Miss Maggie Conway, Mrs. Fritz Goerl,
Gipsy tent-Miss Fannie Turner, Miss
Nellie Balm.
Juvenile booth, great big fish pond,
candy, peanuts-Miss Julia Herzog, Mrs.
Captain Elliott, Mrs. C. Coulter, Miss
Treanton, Miss NJ Kelly, Miss Valencia
Soda fountain-Mrs. w. Miller, Mrs. Gus
Pacheco. Mrs. Philip Lay, Miss May Clarke.
Ice-cream-Miss Lottie Lucas, Miss Ka-
tie Lucas, Mrs. D. Candyan, assisted by a
number of lady friends. They will also
dispense strawberries, pound, plum and
plain cakes. There will be German teas,
Russian teas, Irish teas.
The art gallery will be presided over by
Mrs. Martha Featherstone, Miss G. Scan
Ian, Mrs. William Toner, Mrs. l..
Donahue.
Bouquets, roses and choice Havanas will
have the special attention of Mrs. John
Cochrane, Mrs. Ed Conway, Mrs. J. w.
Cochrane.
Fancy table-Mrs. Frank Marion, Mrs.
DR.. Wickman, Mrs. George Herman, Mrs.
James Hunter, Miss May Schneider, Mrs.
2. B. Mahon, Miss Olevia Sartori, Miss
Patterson.
Fancy booth Mrs. T. J. Crowley,
Mrs. James Tunstead. Mrs. B. McCourt,
Mrs. George McMullen, Mrs. Joseph
Lakln, Mrs. DonnelIy, Mrs. William
Jewell.
Fancy booth 2-Miss Mary Eden, Miss
Carrie Scott, Mrs. Maria Murray, Miss
Annie Day, Miss May Peters, Miss Belle
Holieran, Miss Maggie Whitmore.
Linen and notion booth-Miss Josephine
Scanlan, Mr.. j. 0'Connor.
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DE1AWA8E,S SINGLE TAxEas.
Celebrate the First AptnfrersGry of thu
OpeninQ of Their. Cannpaf0n.

Celebrate the First AnnfrersGry of the
Opening of Their Campaign.
WILMINGTON, DEL, June IA The
Single Tax party of Delaware to-day cele-
brated the first anniversary of the opening
Of the campaign in this State by meeting
in the park in this city, the principal
speakers being John Crosby, a lawyer of
Kansas City, DR.. S. r. Law of California
and a. E. Stephenson of Philadelphia.
The single tax men have headquarters at
Wilmington, Dover, Darlington, Smyrna,
Laurel and Lewes. They report having
held fifty meetings throughout the State
them in this city. They have sixty speak
ers, and claim that two-thirds of the sixty
are volunteers. The expenses during the
year were $4,000. They claim a club
membership in this city OF 1900, which, as
one of the speakers says, lis enough to say
VINO shall not be elected to the next Leg
islature."
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ABSOLUTE S1LrEE v1oroRr.

North Carolina Democrats Make Edsu
HorIs for Their Convention.
RALEIGH, n. c., June 14-NearIy all
the Democratic county conventions have
been held in North Carolina and show the
absolute triumph of free silver
1t appears that there will be no gold
delegates, save from one county, at the
State Convention. Walter Clark, now
Associate Justice of the State Supreme
Court, is to be indorsed for Vice. President
of the United States.
Some of the county conventions have
pledged their delegates to vote for no man
who is not an avowed advocate of free and
unlimited silver coinage.
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KAISER AND YICEROY.

The German Emperor Gives an Amdt-
ence 70 LII Hung Chang.
BERLIN, GERMANY, June 14.-Emperor
William to-day gave an audience to Ii
Hung Chang, the Chinese statesman who
represented the Chinese Emperor at the
coronation of the Gar ana who is now re-
turning to China. In his address to the
Emperor, Ii Hung Chang said that China s
relations with Germany were more friendly
than with any other power.
Ii Hung Chang will make an inspection
OF dockyards and the leading industries of
Germany.
Field Marshal Count Yamagata, the
representative of the Mikado at the Cars
coronation, arrived here to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
Traacdu at Dead,rood.

REDDING, CAL, June 13.-The little
mining town of Deadwood, just over the
line in Trinity County, was the scene of a
tragedy yesterday. j. ]. Peterson, tele-
graph operator and manager of Baker &
Paulsen's merchandise store, committed
suicide duriug Friday night. Not appear
ing at the store early yesterday morning,
as was his usual CUSTOM friends broke in
to his room and found Peterson lying on
his bed in an unconscious condition. A
few minutes later he was dead. He had
taken poison. Dependency was the cause
of the act He was a young man well
known and highly respected in Trinity
County,
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ROWBoAr DIsAsFER.
Three Persons DrOtoned ia the DelatUare
During a Storm.

Three Persons DrOtcned ia the DeIGtUGre
During Storm.
GLOUCESTER CITY, N. J., June A.
Early this morning, during a severe
storm, rowboat containing five persons
capsized in the Delaware river off here
and three of the occupants were drowned.
The dead are: Mrs. Hannah Richter,
Mrs. Kate McCue and John Brewer. Be-
sides the three drowned, the boat con-
tanned John McCue and William Richter,
husbands of the two women. Mrs. Rich
ter sang in a concert hall here and her
husband rowed her nightly across the
river to their home in Philadelphia. In
some way the boat containing the party
overturned this morning and in the swift
currentA and heavy sea that was on,
Brewer and the women could not hold on
to the boat and were swept to their deaths.
Richter and MccCue after desperate strug-
gle were carried ashore on the upturned
boat Richer and his wife were only mar
ried last Tuesday.
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Kuren, freight auditor of the Union Pa
cifc Railroad, died at his home in this
civ this afternoon after brief illness of
pneumonia Mr.. Van Kuren has been
resident of Omaha for twenty-five years.
Most of the time he has been connected
with the Union Pacific and has held his
present position ten years.
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Woodland Memorial ssrvie.,.

WOODLAND, CAL, June 14.--Memorial
services were held to-day by the Odd Eel
lows and Rebekahs in the NJ. f. Church
South. Rev. ]. R. Compton, pastor of the
church, delivered an eloquent address and
paid glowing tribute to these orders and
the good work they have ACCOMPLISHED
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Eore.ters VIZ Celebrate.

SAN JOSE, CAL, June 14.-The Ancient
Order of Foresters and the Companions
of the Forest of this county will celebrate
the Battle of Bunker Hill next Wednes-
day with picnic at Agricultural Park. A
large delegation of Foresters from San
Francisco, Oakland and Alameda will be
present. The festivities will include all
kinds ofraoes, athletic sports and dancing.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
Santa barbara suit Dismt,sed

SANTA BARBARA, CAL, June IA
The charges of embezzlement preferred by
the Southern Pacific Milling Company
against its late local manager, R. M. Wat
son, have been dismissed at the instance
OF the prosecution, the only reason alleged
pelng that the defendant is not in a condi-
ton, physically or mentally, to stand the
strain OF trial. Mr.. Watson is said to be
subject to form of cerebral apoplexy.
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Held for Burglary.

SAN JOSE, CAL, June 14.-Apolonio
Sanchez, the Mexican who looted num-
Der of residences in this city during car
niyal week, has been held to answer be-
fore the Superior Court for entering the
residence of Mrs. j. Bartruff on South
Seventh street. In default of $4,000 bail
the Sheriff
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up into an oak tree this morning 10 shoe t
birds with a slingshot. When about
twenty feet above the ground the BOY lost
his balance and fell, striking fat on his
stomach. He was injured internally and
died few hours later.
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Arream Wins the Grand Prts.

PARIS, FRANCE, June 14.-The great
event in the French turf world, the race
for the Grand Prix de Paris, took place to-
day and was won by half length by M.
Edmond Blanc's bay colt Arreau, NJ.
Abeiile's bay colt Champaubert being sec
ond, half length in front of M. II. de la
Mares bay colt Monteul. The weather
was brilliant and large crowd was pres
ent on the course at Long Champs includ-
ing all the fashionable world.
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Notable Death at Lis6oa.

LISBON, PORTUGAL, June 14.-Thomas
Antoin Fereiro Ribeiro, a well-known
Portuguese statesman and litterateur, died
to-day. He was born. at Paroda de Coma
in 1851. He was well khown in Portugal
as a poet and prose writer.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
They WfU Establish a Joint ProtectorGte
Over KoreG.


LONDON, Enc, June 14.-It is stated
that the negotiations between Russia and
Japan are on the verge of conclusion, and
the agreement arrived at is tantamount to
joint protectorate over Korea. HELD
Marshal Yamagata, who went to Russia
as the representative of the Mikado, has
exchanged contracting notes with Russia
agreeing that Russia and Japan shall act
for the maintenance of order in Korea and
that each shall keep e small force of 500
troups in Seoul, the capital. This force is
not to be increased except by mutual con-
sent, unless in the case of the landing of
men from men-of-war of the contracting
powers in case of necessity.
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Ship,creoked Mariners Picked Tn.

LONDON, ENGLAND, June 14.-The Brit
ish bark Lathom, Captain Campbell, from
Swansea, February TO- for San Francisco
has put into Valparaiso for water. She
has on board the crew of the British bark
Go wanbank, Captain Puxley, from Barry,
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ADMIRAL KIRKLAND's Loss.
Notified of the Death of His Son-in-Lat
Cn1fniil OnncEenbMSh.

]'oSVte@ OF the DedfR OF ITS cOu-tH-AOW
Captain QudckenbWsh.
VALLEJO, CAL, June IA. - Admiral
Kirkland, commandant of the navy-yard,
received the sad intelligence yesterday of
the sudden death of his son-in-law, Cap
tain Stephen w. Quackenbush, United
States Marine Corps, while undergoing a
surgical operation at the New York Navy
yard.
The death of Captain Quackenbush is
greatly to be regretted. He had spent
many years in the naval service and was
highly esteemed by the officers and men
with whom he was associated.
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Santa Crus Wins.

SANTA CRUZ, CAL, June 14.-santa
Cruz beat Santa Clara by a score of 6 to 2
at baseball to-day.
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Fatal FaH at Porterville.

PORTERVILLE, CAL, June 14-Marion
White. youth IA years of age, climbed
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Death Of a Union Pacific official.
OMAHA, NEBR., June IA. S. Van
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2 smart Broadway, New
l ! York, druggist has
this sign hanging outside
his store, it marks the
new era of drug selling.
Is 1t any wonder that he
has to enlarge his quar-
tiers, that his clerks are
busy, and that his store is
one OF the most popular
along the leading thor
oughfare7
You can afford to trade
with a druggist that has
such a motto as that.