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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-04-26
The weaverville. CAL. reud.

weaverville, Cal. April 24.-The trial of
Constables Van Horn and John Grow for
the murder of Jack Littlefleid is In pro-
gress. and there is great excitement be-
tween the two factions. which have wased
. vendetta war for twenty years. Last
September ]. N. Vinton, cattle foreman
for Gen. White, was shot, and seven men
went to the mountains to arrest Little
field. employed by Sylvester Palmer,
Whites foe. Grow and Van Horn arrested
Littlef1eld and started with the prisoner
for Weavervflle. The evidence in the pres
emit trial has developed that 4 mob fred
on Littlefield from ambush in the noun
tains while en- route. and the constables
were told to go on, which they did to save
their own lives they said The next dav
Littlefeld's body was found hanging from
tree with three bullets in his body. Two
tnQuests were held. At the nrst the iury
found that Littlefield had been killed bv
unknown parties. The next jury implicated
the arresting constables, Grew and Van
Horn. The community Is divided into sym.
pathizers Of the opposing factions. The
end OF the trial. 1t is feared. will witness
another outbreak between the members
of the inimical parties.
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Charles Parlsor. George r. Brpe&s n
Home. +. ". Braun.
wf,1v~a Vim

Home. F. W. Braun.
Where VIII the Ak Strskee
No wonder the applicants for public once
n the bureau of the commissioners ara
comparatively few. There il no knowing
what the salaries committee Of the city
council Is going 10 do. and what is the rood
OF passing az examination for q position
that the committee may wipe out alto
geiher or 30 reduce the e-nolument that II
becomes unworthy of consideration The
committee has wandered through the city
nan omces more than once. every visit
carrying CONSERVATION TO the clerks. They
seem 10 believe that The CORPORATION conn.,
sci ought TO be able to get along without
further assistance than that of young
Scott. the clerk and stenographer. and one
OF the two lawyers connected with
the once are sure to 60 and the
question Of both going only rests on A
legal iechnicality. that is, the matter stood
in this way last evening. but the report IA
not yet signed. The committee may have
another meeting today. as il did lass Sun
day. and another on Monday II may be
said FOR the committee that they have
found their task exceedingly arduous ana
embarrassing.
clerk the force in the comptrolier's once.
and which one this viii be Is occaefonine
great CONSERVATION. Treasurer Meacha,n IS
TO lose one Of his clerks. in addition to two
or three cuts in salary. and In the board
OF public works 1t is proposed 10 do away
with the .imekeeper. Gen. Banks. and
make the secretary do his work. The COM
mittee claim that their report. IL adopted.
VIII save the city several thousand dollars
year, 50 there must be many more cuts
and removals than are hero limited a&.
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BREvITIEs.

The delinquent tax list has been print
ed and copies can be had at the BUSH
ness ONCE Of the Poet-Intellisencer.
Robert Mcdonald was locked UP BY Or
ncer Hun yesterday on the charge OF
N. p. lodging house. on First avenue
south Mcdonald admits the taking. but
insists that 1t was mistake.
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more satisfactory than the present sys-
TEN. and said the longer the change was
postponed the more difficult 1t would be
to make IL. Senator Sherman. as chair
man % the subcommittee. said II would
probably be TO late 10 give either meas
u-e consideration at the present session.
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Clothing for the Poor.

Demands for clothing are being con-
tinually made on the Bureau Of Associ-
a1ed Charities and no supplies are on hand
Donations. particularly OF childrens' and
boys clothing and outer garments for
women. would be great help to ti,e bu.
reau. All bundles should DO sent TO the
rooms of the bureau, on the nth door Of
the Safe Deposit building.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-04-26
Mr.. Jane Fosnauuh Dead.

Mrs. Jane Fosnaugh died Friday night
at Houghton of inflammatory rheumatism.
She was the wife Of L. H. Fosnaugh and
was woman known for her sterling good
qualities. She was prominent in the De-
gree OF Honor lodge at Houghton, in
which shortly before her death she was
made chief Of honor. Mrs. Fosnaugh was
Is years Of age and a native OF Iowa.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-04-26
Young Mem. Christian Association.

An evangelistic meeting for men only,
conducted by John H. Elliott. will be held
In the Seattle theater this afternoon The
doors will be open at $3.50 p. M. and the
address, Mems Hiding Places" will begin
at p. m. Mr.. B. F. Butts will have
charge Of the singing. assisted by a quar-
tetts and chorus of fifty voices. All
men are invited.
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Scientists Advocate tho Metric system.
Washington City. April IA delegation
Of scientific men headed by Prof. Menden-
hall. ex-superintendent Of the coast and
eeodetic survey. was given . hearing by
subcommittee Of the senate COMMITTEES
on finance today in advocacy of Senator
Cannon's bill for the adoption of The
metric system by this country. They
based their advocacy Of the change upon
the theory that the system would be far
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-04-26
A New Mill.

A new planning mill to cost 5000 will be
erected by A. s. Kerry on the tide fats
The building will be 200 by los feet and
two stories in height Application will
soon be made for a building permit
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-04-08
FIFTEEN VICTIMS.
Kentucky Cloudburst More Disas-
trous Than First Supposed.
Original Number of Reported Dead Now
Observation-Disclosures Torrents
Sweep Away Homes of
Farmers.

bonneville, Ky, April 4.-The cloud
burst on Little Sexton and Buffalo
creeks did more damage than at first
reported. Instead of four there were
certainly Is persons who lost their
lives, and possibly more. Sexton creek
rises near Burning Springs and is one of
the feeders of the south fork of the
Kentucky river. 1t flows in some places
through deep gorges in the rocks.
Through these gorges the strean,
rushes, when in flood tide, with the
speed of race horse, and, striking the
bottom lands below, spreads out with
wonderful rapidity.
Five Drowned.
People little thought that the little
brook would rise so rapidly or was
capable of gathering such volume of
water. The cloudburst occurred up
in the gorges. The water gathered in
a moment and the wild food poured
down in solid wall, carrying death
and destruction in it's path. On Sex
ton creek and it's tributaries five were
drowned. They are: Capt. j. S. j.
Bull, Mrs. Wade Marders and child,
two unknown. Capt. Bull was military
instructor at Jackson institute.
Ten More Victims.
Buffalo creek is even more crooked
and tortuous than Little Sexton, and in
its torrent after the burst ten people
are believed to have lost their lives. y
great many logs were hurled down
with the tide, and these speedily
knocked the cabins and outbuildings to
pieces. The dead on Buffalo creek are;
Mrs. George Gepson and three children,
Will Burns two children, Miss Mary
Garrett, two unknown and Mrs. John
Crane.
A Manchester dispatch says that
Goose creek has been higher than ever
before known, showing that the rain
was general throughout Owsley couu-
ty. Over 100 farmers lost their houses
and barns. Meat houses and all their
feed being destroyed, it will be inn
possible for them to raise any crops
this year. The valleys in this section
are usually fertile and produce fine
crops of corn and wheat. The people
Of this section have commenced to in
vestigate the extent of the ruins and
to make up fund for the suffering in
habitants. The farms which the peo-
pie deserted when they took to the
mountains are barren, no signs of i'm
provements being left.
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The National Banks.

Washington, April 1.-The enormous
resources of the national banks of the
United States are shown in the last alb
stract of their condition, completed
Tuesday, as on February %. and made
public by Comptroller Eckels. The
5000 national banks had on February
% $1,951, 344, 7S1 in loans and discounts;
$192, O36,933 in stocks and securities, a
lawful money reserve of $337, 1855, 922, of
which $156,0OO,OO0 was in gold. Capital
to the extent of $G53, 994,915: surplus
fund of $247,17s,1sS; undivided profits
of $s7,o41,5 26; unpaid dividends of ST.
233,315; individual deposits of $1.64s,-
O02, 1868. and bills payable of $40. 1O4, 667.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-04-08
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Virginia prohibitionists in convention
at Roanoke elected delegates to the ma
tional convention at Pittsburgh, Pa,
put up state electoral ticket and
adopted platform confined to the
liquor question.
Orestes Cleveland, of Jersey City, N.
j., died at the age of CT years. In 1863
he was a member of congress, and Sc
cured the passage of the act providing
for the centennial exhibition at Phila-
delphia.
Walter l.. Weaver. of Springfield, o.,
was nominated for congress on the 123d
ballot ut the Seventh district republican
convention.
The New Hampshire republican con-
vention at Concord selected delegates
to the national convention and adopted
resolutions favorable to either Reed or
Mckinley for president. The platform
declares for protection. foreign policy
characterized by sturdy Americanism
end the moral and material support OF
the Cuban patriots. and the enactment
Of currency laws that will provide cir
culating medium in gold. silver and
paper, which will always be inter-
changeable at its face value.
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FOREIGN.

Prince Bismarck celebrated his S1st
birthday at his home in FREDERICKSBURG,
Germany.
President Diaz in his address at the
opening of the Mexican congress strong
ly favored the Monroe doctrine of the
United States and said it should be re-
affirmed by all American republics.
The main steam pipe of the engine
.on the monitor Husscar burst at VAL
paraiso, Chilli, killing eight of the crew
and injuring nine others. -~
At mass-meeting it was decided to
hold an international exposition in
1897 in Montreal. Canada.
Advices from Cuba say that in Ha-
vana death sentences were recently
passed on 20 captured insurgents, who
ould be shot. II was also said that
Gen. Weyler had no hopes of ending
the war in less than two years.
Col. A. T. Natf, United States dep
uay marshal, and his entire party of ex-
plorers, in all eight men, were drowned
il the Rainy river in Canada by break
ing through the ice.
The American schooner George w.
Whitford, of New York, was seized by
the Spanish gunboat Cordova six miles
off Manzanillo, Cuba.
Advices from Cuba state that II politi-
cal prisoners were shot in Fortress Ca
banas in Havana and 26 more were soon
to be executed.
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SPRING APPROACHES.
With 1t Improvement in Business Has
Begun.

Begun.
New York, April Ar. G. Dun &
Co.. in their weekly review of trade say:
''The improvement expected with spring
weather begins, though in some branches
Of business scarcely visible. AS consum-
efs make spring purchases they must
lessen stock and compel less buying. The
stocks taken in advance of consumers de-
mands last summer have been distributed
far more slowly than was expected, but
months of waiting have helped to lessen
the load which 1t is hoped spring buying
will clear away. Apprehensions Of for
eign or financial difficulties have hindered.
but are now scarcely felt. Gold exports
are rumored, but at this season are so far
natural that they have no such power to
cause alarm as they had in winter. The
gigantic steel combination is expected to
have great influence in sustaining mar
kets and stimulating confidence. ana
though such operations often miss the sue
cess they seek. they rarely fail to kindle
speculative buying for time.
'Woolen manufacture does not gain in
orders. and large part of the machinery
is stopped. Prices Of wool have fallen ~
per cent Cotton mills still pile up goods
in advance of orders. as reductions in
prices have failed as yet to stimulate buy
ing. Speculation in products has been
tame. Wheat has slightly advanced, and
II later reports of injury from extensive
frosts and storms prove correct, will adj
vance more, though western receipts con-
tinue nearly 80 per cent. larger than last
year. Corn exports are large and receipts
also heavy, but pork has declined Is cents
per barrel. Speculation in stocks has not
been active, though railroads average
nearly one dollar per share higher than
last week. The regular quarterly state
ment of failures shows 4,031 with liabili-
ties of $57, 425, 1876, against 1892 last year,
with liabilities Of S47,S 1859"
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TEN ARE DEAD.
Horrible Result of the Burning Of q
Brooklyn Tenement.

Horrible Result of the Burning Of q
Brooklyn Tenement
Brooklyn, N. Y, April 2.-The four
story brick tenement house at No. 36
Union street, was burned at 3: 80 o'clock
Wednesday morning and ten persons
lost their lives. There were II persons
in the house at the time of the fire, seven
of whom escaped. The following arc
the names of the dead:
Nicolo Traglia, so years Of age.
Lima Traglia, A years of age.
Dominic Traglia, four years old.
- Traglia, II days old.
Camelia Caino, 25 years old.
Augustin Buone, A years old.
Maria Buone, IS years old.
Fanny Buone, five years old.
Johanna Buone, Is months old.
Lima Calabria, is years old.
The frcmen drowned the fire out in
a short time and without damage to the
buildings. The bodies were
removed by an undertaken at ten
o'clock. They were badly burned. but
not beyond recognition. The loss is
about $4,000 to the building and it's con-
tents. The fire marshal will make an
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-04-08
LATER.

Five burglars blew open the safe OF
the Whittinsville (Mass.) bank the 4th,
securing only 500. They were seen
soon after leaving town and all of them
had on dress suits.
The Farmers bank at Decatur, ILL.,,
closed its doors tine 4th.
Senator Quay's committee room in
the capitol at Washington was burglar
lied the night of the Sd. No papers
were taken.
A cash offer of So, 600 has been made
by leading banking house of New
York, representing foreign syndicate,
for the privilege of running canal boats
on the Erie canal by electric traction.
The grand jury at Chicago the 4th
indicted Thomas j. McNichols, county
commissioners, for bribiug a member of
a jury in murder trial.
Secretary Carlisle, the 4th, made pub
lie letter to Charles R. Long, declin-
ing to become an active candidate for
the presidency.
Arthur Bradley and Richard Ingram,
two factory hands of Haverhill, Mass,
engaged in a prize fight the night of
the 4th, and as result Ingram died
the next day.
John w. Curtis, an inmate of the
asylum for the criminal insane at
Mattewan, N. Y, has died from the
effects of injuries received in fight
with another convict named Keane.
The municipal electi on at Davenport,
To-, resulted in the choice of D@h-
ocratic mayor, clerk, treasurer, asses
sor, and four out of six alderman, with
an average plurality of 1000. This
shows Democratic gain of 600.
Fire broke out in Kohl & Middleton's
Clark street dime museum the after
noon of the 5th. For while wild con-
fusion reigned among the freaks and
the audience. All however escaped
without injury. The damage to the
museum was small.
Under the Raines liquor law the
saloons of New York state closed the
9Th.
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HORRORS OF THE oARRoTE.
Five Cubans Slowly Strangled to Death
by q Bungling Executioner.

Five Cubans Slowly Strangled to Death
by a Bungling Executioner.
Havana, April Never in modern
times has there been a more sickening
spectacle than that which Tuesday at
tended the public execution of five
Cubans.
The men had been condemned to
death by the garrote as "murderels,
violators and incendiaries.' Troops
were drawn up in hollow square, and
IN the middle was placed the chair and
post. Ruiz, the public executioner.
had deputized an assistant to conduct
the affair. The condemned men. hay
ing received the Offices of the church.
were brought into the square to meet
their fate. One of them had confessed
his guilt and affirmed the innocence Of
all the others, who also protested they
were guiltless.
The first man to die took his seat in
the chair calmly; the iron collar was
liked about his neck and the cap drawn
over his face. Then the executioner
undertook to apply the screw, but was
SO excited that his hand slipped repeat
edly, with the result that the victim
died by slow strangulation, emitting
the while th2 most distressing cries.
The second execution was accomplished
with even more distressing awkward
ness, the executioner being almost on
the verge of collapse as he performed
his horrible function. The protests of
the officers and priests forced Ruiz to
undertake the third execution, but he
did little better than his assistant had
done. The fourth victim of the bung-
ling garroters was likewise tortured,
and then Ruiz literally fled from his
post, leaving his assistants to put to
death the fifth of the unfortunate Gu
bans, who escaped none of the agoniz-
ing experiences that had attended the
execution of his fellows.
The whole affair has left upon those
who witnessed it, and upon those to
whom it has been described, a feeling of
the utmost horror.
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Refuses to Vacate.

Washington, April 2.-The interior
department. authorities, upon receipt
of a telegram from Secretary of State
Bruce, of Arizona, that Gov. Hughes re-
fused to vacate his Office, on Wednesday
sent kilograms to both gentlemen. That
to Mr.. Hughes again notifies him OF his
removal, and informs him that the presi-
dent directs that his Office be at once
turned over to Secretary Bruce. The
dispatch to Mr.. Bruce directs him to
take possession of the office as acting
governor.
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DOMESTIC.

Manuel Mendoza, Spaniard, swim
died the Belmont bank in New YorI;
out Of $4,000 by means of forged
check.
Mrs. Olga Deuss killed herself and
three children in San Francisco, the
eldest being eight years old, by gas
ssphyxiation. She was jealous of her
husband.
The Cutter Silk Manufacturing COM
pany of West Bethlehem, Pa, made an
assignment with liabilities of 100000
The Omaha city council passed the
curfew ordinance over the mayor s veto
and the law went into effect.
Dayton, O., celebrated the Tooth an
niversary of the foundation of the city.
All traffic at Duluth, Mlnn., and SUI
perior, Wis, was blocl<aded by a snow
storm, and in st. Paul street car lines
were tied up.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of William A. Little, of
Georgia, to be assistant attorney-gen-
eral, vice John Hall, resigned.
The public debt statement issued OIL
the 1st showed that the debt increased
1924, $50 during the month of March.
The cash balance in the treasury
was $S74,969,947. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $942, 342,253.
A train on the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad was held up three miles
east of Lebanon, Mo-, by three masked
men and the express safe blown open
and robbed of S1.277.
Over eight inches of snow fell
throughout the greater part of Col
orado.
Easter and Allie Anderson and their
three children, together with two
horses, were drowned by freshet in
Powell's river IN Lee county, Va.
From smelter returns for the first
quarter it was predicted that the gold
production of Colorado for 1896 would
reach $3O.OOO,OOO.
The two boilers of the Planters oil
mill at Greenville, Miss, exploded,
wrecking the mill property and killing
five men.
The president has signed the act re-
pealing the statute prohibiting the ap-
pointment to the army and navy of per-
sons who held confederate commissions.
The west-bouEd express train on the
Baltimore d Ohio railroad fell into the
hands of gang of train robbers just
east of Garrett, Ind, but they were
driven away without securing much
booty.
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REPUBLICAN, COLLEGE LEAGUE.
Declare for Sound Money Protection and
Cuban Belligerency.

declare Tor SOUND money protection and
Cuban Belligerency.
Chicago, Apri. 4.-The delegates to
| the fifth annual convention of the
American Republican College league
began and concluded the business that
brought them to Chicago in two ses-
sions Friday. The next convention will
DE held in Minneapolis. James Martin
Perkins, Of Harvard law school (senior
| class of '96), was after warm contest
selected as president of the league for
the coming year.
The resolutions contain no indorse-
ment of any particular candidate for
the presidential nomination. They re-
affirm the doctrine of protection to
American industries and the principles
of commercial reciprocity as enunci-
ated by James G. Blaine, indorse the
Monroe doctrine and express sympath;
with the Cuban revolutionists, coupled
with the opinion that they are entitled
to the granting of belligerent rights.
The financial plank declares for an
honest and sound national currency,
whose character shall in no way i'm
pair the national credit at home or
abroad.
A banquet at the Auditorium hotel
in the evening was well attended. Adj
dresses were made by several gentle
men, the most prominent being Sen
ator Thurston, of Nebraska. Every
reference to Mckinley created such un-
bounded enthusiasm as to indicate cas-
lily the feeling of those present with
reference to the contest for the presi-
Dental nomination.
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II. G. Van Voorhis was renominated for
congress by the republicans of the Fiji
tenth Ohio district.
Burt Van Horn, former member of
congress, died at his home in Lockport,
Ny.
Washington republicans will meet
at Everett May IA and select delegates
to the st. Louis convention.
Daniel Baush celebrated the 107th
anniversary of his birth at his home in
Jeifersonville, Ind.
AT the Rhode Island state election the
republicans reelected Gov. Lippitt by
over 10000 plurality. The democrats
will have three members in the legisla-
ture. a loss of five over last year.
Later returns from the Rhode Island
election show that Gov. Lippitt (rep.)
received plurality of 11,27S, an in
crease of ACT over his plurality of year
ago.
Peter f. Conkling died at Middle,
town, N. Y, aged 1Oc years.
Augustus Hoppin, one of the most IA
nous caricaturists and illustrators of
the country, died i'll Flushing, l.. L.
At the fifth annual convention in Chi
cago of the American Republican Col
lege league James M. Perkins, of Har-
Yard university, was elected president
and resolutions were adopted declar
ing for protection, reciprocity and
sound currency.
A telegram signed by the entire New
Hampshire delegation to the republican
national convention says that they will
unitedly favor the nomination of Mr..
Reed.
Rev. Thomas G. Addison, D. D., for
the past 80 years rector of Trinity
Protestant Episcopal church in Wash
ington. died suddenly.
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Preferred Immediate Dcath.

Lincoln, Neb, April 4.-Richard Ring
er, a merchant of Friend. committed
suicide Friday when he was informed
by doctors that he was afflicted with
Eydrophobia. He seized razor and
almost severed his head before anyone
could interfere. He was bitten by a
dog several months ago, and few days
ago symptoms of what was at first
diagnosed as grip developed.