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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
Proposals.
= .,' EALED PROPOSALS OR ESTIMATES

~ with the title the work and the name OF the bid.
der Endorsed thereon will be received by the Department
az Pubic Forks Offices Arsenal Building, Sixty
fourth street and Fifth avenue Central Park, until
o'clock D. M OF Mo.tay June u 1897, for the following
No l. For the construction and Improvement OF a Dor
ton OF ST. Marys Park In the Twenyhird Ward Of the
city OF New York. -
the walks within and around city parks other than
,.entra Park in the city Of New York.
No g. For painting the ironwork and woodwork OF the
bridge across the Harlem River. known Macombs Dam
Bridge
brdc across The Harlem River. known Madison Ave
nue. Bridge. 1890 ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
II S. ENGINEER OFFICE, St. Augustine

~ F.a., May s. ls9I.-sealed proposals In tripIcats
for furnishing and delivering In place upon jetty at
Northwest Entrance TO Key West Harbor. Fla. $1,000
tons, less, random stone WI: oe received here
until O'Clock y. NJ. June l. 1897. and then publicly
opened Information furnished application. W. H. IL
BENYAURD. 1t. Col. Engrs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02

BREWWWRT @WWGE,
FIFTH AVE. AND EIGHTH ST.. N. T.
American and European plans
Large sumptuoJs apartments Tor transient and
manent guests Quiet and homeike hotel
ROOMS $i.O0 PER DAY AND UPWARD
snecls rates during the months. Convenient q
al steamship lines and railroads .,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02

"A uns received at their Uptown Once No "a? brosS
NAY III door tn OF Sis ST.. until O'Clock D. N az,
vsrsemens received at the following branch oses s,
regular Office rates until O'clock p m. N ri
Sh-ave and iAthst ii2 Columbus near West oos;
west between ,th and s,h AYES 10 East I'D s'
ave. near ,os ls ave- near seth,s,; $50 s sss
ave- ii.ts. IA Sd Axe 10 nleecker 81 a. "a;
ave. ess 80 ave: as 40. Vest tad
lis: 'ssse near e..n. :o' FAT ais s,s
IA ah-ave Al the Harlem on,ces; eoci sd-.y. r..s
iissh-st: lS East i2s.h-st near %,,ave, ~ "ess
10 Rrookisn onces: :o7 Fuiton-st; TO ruiton-s&1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
OFFICE OF BUILDING FOR LIBRARY OF

~ CONGRESS Washington. u. C. May - iS-ss, ,es
proposals for MANUFACTURING furnishns anu hairs
specially designed exhibition cases tailnys Mi,
etc. for the Building the Library or toikr,s
he received at this office until O'Clock T. NJ on Mona,
the Tih 81 June is9i. and opened ima Il,ris ars
afc Specifications general Instructions conditions ae
bank foihis proposal be obtained upon sppr..
lion 10 this Office BERNARD r. GREEN. superin-
tencent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
l. STIMATES for building foundations for

~ Recreation Building be erected on Pier foot OF
East Twenty fourth street. under Contrac, 59 will be
by the Department OF Docks Pier Bat
terry Place until O'Clock " June sth. 1897 For par
see Record
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
THE STATE OF TRADE.

Baltimore June Flour dull unchanged sal eic, GOV
hbis Wheat dun and sro, ard month s a' 90 ~
July 7Cd7Ohc; August e0AGGehc stock 1877 soo ousn
souifern neat A., fample. t0noic Corn lule' spo,
2S4d2sNc; month. 277sg2ssc: July ed o;ss
cG7sc: stock j12o93 bush sales 1900 5nsh harsIv
white corn 3oh633c do yellow. zoe asked n 1870
steady; No 2 white. 2sc; sales No mixed az nd.
70 western. soa36lhc: stock, i5c 10 bush Hay
.cady. choice timothy sS 5odsii Grain freights quiet
steam 10 Liverpool per Or, ID June CORK t t0t ana
per ar 2s nd June 2s Cd JULY Sugar hutter n,'
Eggs steady Unchanged Cheese weak; fancy New
OOH 0lc do 35 10 0ikc: 90 90 10. 0.c "h'sheS VI"
changed. ooo.
Boston June Flour dull sprins patents ,. I,.s, -;
So Is cicar and sraighis 81 3oGsi 30 Conmea aulet
cGmGsc per baG 81 icTS, A. per Dbl oats que o-
clipped 2ssI23c: No clipped 2.ise; No cppen 59,:
Corn firm steamer yellow 3filc No and steamer %
6@Ac Mlfeed quiet spring bran snip Az sri ~
sii s0Nsii 75 winter bran x3 J1dS4 md!IihGs saa 80
Nsl red dog nour st49si 30 Fresh beef steady
GGsc; hind quarters ssaIii.c fores tg5ltc ian.os
steady: mutton and ycarngs e1sc: veal agsc iu,lp'
quiet: Northern creamery 1Glsc; western !"'z"Ic.
tatIon fiMt2c: ladies'. l04lc Cheese quet' 'o''"e'"
DC: Western. snolsc' -,
Buffalo June i-sprng quiet buyers and sellers
od 7sltc; new Tisc Winter wheat Guet; No red ID
store 59i5c Corn market quiet and weak: Nc yeiop%'
2sLc No yellow, Csc No corn. TIC; No corn 80,
oats weak; No g white. 2ia,c: No white 25ks: 20
white PC No mixed :0c. Rye--No dcnaho; no VI
store Csc Canal feigirs steady wheat 2itc corp ic'
rye %. bailey i7.c t&G1&c 10 New-roik. laIn-
her 81 - to New-York. 81 % to Albany
Chicago June 1.-The leading futures ranged as fol-
-
Wheat. No 2: openn-g3 Highs. Low es e7Sc3l
September ........ G31s@64s nds ess C4q eass
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
NOTICE. for construction of recrea-

~ tion building pier at East oath Street. contract
800 will be received by Department OF Docks
NJ June s. 1897. For particulars see Ciiy Record.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02

Foreign markets: santos-Conce market quiet; good
average santos $500: receipts days. 1000 bags;
stock 2i5.WU Hamtlrg-Cofec market UNCHANGED: sales
600 BAGS Coffee market opened quiet and I'M
changed - II m. =, franc lower. NJ p. IN. l4H}s
franc advance Closed quiet at ,I9E franc net advance
T0tai sales H. 600 bags
January - July 80
February .............i1I1 August ...,........iLW
March
April ....-............lN2 - October ........iI29
May iS..J November u Z -
limo ............ G.:l December IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
NJ OTICE-Estimates for dredging north Of

~ West Thrty-fourth Street the North River under
Contract No $50 III be received BY the Department, OF
Docks Pier a. Battery Place y. r. IL clock
NJ. Tuesday June Sth 1897. For particulars City
Record Copies for sale at No. city Hall.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
A FEMALE BANK ROBBER.
Betrayed by One of the Gang Who Is
Badly Wounded and Captured
by Posse.

WEIR CITY, KANs., Aug. 21-One OF
the Pineville, Mo-, bank robbers, woman,
was captured here to-day, together with
the supposed originator OF the plot. The
robbery occurred last Tuesday morning,
when the Mcdonald County Bank was
robbed OF 5000 by two men, while woman
dressed as man guarded the en- tra nee and
held the horses. They were followed by a
posse ana the woman's horse shot down
Just as they reached the tim ber. but they
got as far as Southwest City, Ind. T., be-
fore being overtaken. There Whit Ten
nyson, one of the rang, was badly
wounded, while the other two escaped.
He gave their names as Parker aud his
wife and said they would be found in
Weir City.
This afternoon Deputies Yeargin and
Smith OF Southwest City came in, accom-
panied by Ca hier W. J. Shields of the
Pinevlle Bank. Tennysou had given UP
papers duplicating Bill Hubbard of tins
city, brother OF the Parker woman, as
the one that planned the robbery, and he
was arrested on the streets. A large posse
quickly organized and proceeded to the
house of Sam Hubbard, his father, in the
hope of capturing the woman and her
husband. The house was surrounded
and searched and the woman arrested,
but her husband had disappeared. The
prisoners were at once started for Pine
vile. Mrs. Parker was divorced in April
from James Russell, and had been mar
ried to Parker but a few weeks,
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
FRED PIERCE'S SUICIDE.
Despondent Over Losing His Outfit,
the Young Man at Once
Shoots Him self

TACOMA, WASH, Aug. N.-Advices re-
ceived to-day from SkaguaY state that
Fred Pierce committed suicide on July
81 at Lake Lebarge. He was not more
than 20 years old. He had found the
passage from Skaguay particularly try
ing. On reaching Lake Lsbarge he had
the misfortune 10 lose his entire outfit
through the bres king to pieces of raft.
He was picked up by his mpanions, but
as soon as he learned that his outfit was
irrecoverably gone be snatched d revolver
from the belt of the nearest man and shot
himself through the head. The body was
buried on the spot, with a wooden slab
above the rude grave. Pierce is said to
have mother living in Utica, N. Y.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
BLUE BLo0Ds 1T A FyGAT.
Brutal Midnight affair Under the
Patronage of society SweAs at
kurruaonseff Pier.

NARRAGANSErT PIER, r. l., Aug.
N.-There was a notable absence from the
bathrooms last night of the society swells.
The gentlemen were wandering about il
the dark lanes, squeezing tightly bits of
card board for which they had given up
$40 each, and which were to admit them to
a prize-tght. Frank Brennan of Brook
lvn and Joe Barr of Providence were en-
gagged. purse OF $500 was hung up and
arrang ements made to have the mill at
the Tally-Ho Clubhouse. The police
stopped it. but the bloods got tip to
show up near Beach street for an all-night
iaunt
At mid might the police were conp pletely
thrown off the track, and at clock the
ticket holders met IN a grove two miles
from the casino. There they found
regularly pitcned ring, which at o'clock
the men entered. Stanton Abbott. the
English lightweight champion, was ref
cree. The fight was to be twenty-five
rounds.
Brennan began Immediately on the ag-
gressive and folio we'd Barr all over the
ring. Eoth men fought cautiously until
the fourteenth round, and were quite
fresh when the gong rang. In the four
teen tn Brennan, m making feint, induc d
Barr to shit his guard and duck. In
stantIy like a pile-drlver, Brennan shot
out his left and caught Barr on the pit of
the stomach.
The blow was terrific one. Barr reeled
about ana became groggy. Brennan
.ouared himseif for an upper cut and
bang it went in. The blow caught Barr
squarely under the jaw and he went down
like an OK in the sha M bles. He rolled over
on the turf, quivered once or twice and
then lay as lin D as a rag and unconscious
as a marble statue.
It was brutal performance and the
bluebloods were greatly tickled. Barr did
not recover consciousness for ten minutes.
This morning the scions of several wealthy
men slept late. "Sassiety" is satisfied
with it's noble entertainment. but some OF
the noted miIlionaires in the country may
vet be arrested for it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
Santa Rosa's Contingent.

SANTA ROSA. CAL, Aug. 2l.-Word
has been received here from the Santa
Rosa contingent to Alaska, Virgil M oore,
Arthur Buell., J. ]. Poat, Mart Tarwater
and Clarence Temple, VINO are en- route to
the interior. except Poat, who has decided
to return home from Dyea.
Mrs. Poa, received a letter Saturday
from her husband, dated Juneau, August
II. Mr.. Poat says in substance that all
the boats from Victoria to Juneau were
loaded with passengers and freight. He
arrived at Juneau August II. He says:
There are lots of people at Dyea, and it
will be impossible for half of them to get
over the pass this winter, and many are
turning back. Some of those who have
attemp pied the pass have lest Their lives
and horses. The Cnilcoot Pass is safe
enough, but there are not enough Indians
on hand TO pack the outfits over the pass.
The Indians frequently contract to carry
an outfit for so much, and as soon as some
one offers them more they break their
contract and leave the poor fellows in the
Iureh."
The letter states that regular outfits can
be bought cheap at Juneau and Dyea.
The freight rate from Dyea to the noun
tains is 80 cents a pound. He says
there is fog or rain nearly all the time,
and be intends to return to California un-
til spring
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
IN CANADIAN TERRITORY.
Senator Mills Would Change the
Boundary Of Alaska to Suit
the British,

OTTAWA, ONTARIO. Aug. Ex-senator
Mills, ex- Minister OF the Interior, says If
the Alaskan boundary were properly
drawn, Canadians would have plenty of
access to ths Klondike by way OF the Pa
ofic Ocean and the Yukon. Dyea, he as
serts, is in Canadian territory. He advo-
Gates strongly a route through Lynn
Canal, which, he argues, lies almost
wholly within Canadian territory From
the headwaters of the inlet to the head
waters OF some of the tributaries of the
Yukon" he says, "a short railway over a
stretch of fifty or sixty miles. established
either through Chilkoot or White pass,
would be the only railroad required. and
the construction of such route would re-
quire the expenditure of a very moderate
amount of money, and would give persons
desiring to go that distance an easy and
paratively cheap highway"
His contention is based upon the as
sumption tnat the boundary does not
properly follow all the shore windings.
He says it was clearly the intention of the
Russian treaty to adhere to the coast line
wherever there was such thing, no mat
ter whether it crossed tho inlets or not.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
BOUNDARY OF ALASKA.
General DuffIeid Says There Can
Be No Mistake About the Stu
alton of the klondike.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Aug. 21-In
speaking of the boundary line between
Alaska and the British Possessions to day
General Duffisld of the Coast and Geodetic
Survey said:
II do not believe that when the matter
of the boundary line between the two
countries is definitely settled there Will be
any appreciable change from what is
down on the map at present. There GER
tainly will not be as far as the Klondik
region, which is beyond al manner of dis
pute in the British Northwest Territory.
Dawson City is 100 miles or more east
of the one hundred ana forty-seventh
meridian, which is the boundary line.
Mount ST. Elias is near the intersection of
the ten marine league line with the one
hundred and forty-first meridian. To be
exact, the summit is 40 degrees and 55
minutes on the Canadian side, which in
that latitude represents two and a half
miles. But on the southern side it is
only twenty-eight and a half miles from
the coast, which brings it inside of the
ten-ieague line or thirty mile limit, and
a mile and half on American soil.
"At Forty-mile Creek our survey agrees
with that of the Canadian survey under
General Ogilvie within fourteen-hun-
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
NAY SETTLE The S7EK=.
important Conference of Operators and
Miners to Be Held at Pitts
burq To-Day.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 2l.-A confer
ence between the Pi,tsburg coal operators
and the officials of the United Nine
workers Association has been set Tor
Monday. President Ratchford. National
Secretary Pea-ce and Dolan, the Pit sburg
district president, will represent the
miners, and Rend and others the opera
tors.
Whether the conference will result in
an arrangement 10 end the strike is a
matter Of oniecture. The miners repre-
sentatives will be confronted by the ope-
rators' demand that the strikers return to
work at the old rate of wages-54 cents a
ton. The operators will be met by the
strikers demand for SO cents. Neither
side will admit that it can consent to COM
promise on the price. If this spirit should
hold until Monday no settlement is pos
sible at all.
From hints given by coal operators it
appears that their body might consent to
wage rates OF more than 81 cents but m a.
terlaily less than 50 cents. On the con-
trary. the miners representatives. talk as
If 69-cent raie was the only one they can
discuss with propriety. Some of the op.
The coal operators press committee
issued state emeut tonight, in which
they said:
Facts produced within the last fe W davs
disclose that the coal producers o: Pitts
burg district are confronted with the com-
bined opposition of the miners organiza-
non and co ilition of producers OF Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois.
That there is well-considered plan on
nj n
snpplant The Pittsbnrg operators in the
Northwest markets for coal required 1or
the coming winter is evi enced Ey the in
huences which have been set in motion to
Erolong the strike and to make it impos-
sible TO get Plftsburg coal to upper lake
ports bel the close OF navis sation.
"Ihe PIttsburg operators have this year
paid The highest wages per ton for min
ing, except in isolated sections, where
from the difficulty of mining the diggers
have been unable to make as large earn
ings.
THE operators have been met with con-
dItions which bear as heavily on them as
on the miners, and which they have been
equally as helpless as the miners to avert
or mitigate.
The operators of Pittsburg district
have given evidences of the sincerity of
their motives and the truthfulness OF their
representations by agreeing to submit
their side OF the controversy TO disinter-
ested men for arbitration, feeling assured
OF the strength of their position. Finally
and reluctantly, it seems, conference has
been accorded, to take place Monday, and
they hope for satisfactory settlement" :"
1t is understood that Ratchford has not
lost hope OF securing sympathetic
strike and that the meeting 10 be held at
st. Louis, while ostensibly directed
against court iniunctjons, is really in
tended to secure the advocacy OF general
strike.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
SECRET ASSASSINATlONS,
BY Order of Weyler Many Cubans
Are Daily Being Murdered,
While Others Starva

while others StarVS,
HAVANA, CUBA (via Key West, Fla.),
Aug. 2L-Conservative newspapers in Ha.
vana, which back Weyler, are severely
criticizlng the Bishop, because they say
he constantly annoys the captain.general
with petitions for clemency, and tries to
interfere in military operations in a way
that is favorable only to the insurgents.
The real cause of these attacks is the
strong protest of the Bishop in the case of
the town of La Esperanza. where the in.
hapitants are doomed to starve, as pre-
viously eported. The CAP tain general is
very angry over the publication of the
news and attributes it 10 the Bishop.
Assassinations are daily occurring here
by order of the captain. general, particu-
larly of Cubans who surrendered 10 the
Spanish and live IN the capital. They are
believed to be the instigators of recent
raids on Havana. The place where most
of these murders are committed is in
the outskirts OF Ward El Carro.
About 500 pacificos have entered Havana
from Campo Florido in an awful state of
misery. Many died yesterday from star
yation. Others are very feeble from the
same cause.
Three thousand still remain in Campo
Florido in the same condition, but Wey-
ler does not allow them 10 leave the place.
The Cuban leader, Vicente Jorge, at
tackled the town of Corral Nuerero, Man.
tanzas province, and secured ID rch BOOTY.
According to La Lucha's dispatches
from Madrid to-day General Azcarraga in-
tends 10 send new re-en:orcements to
Cuba, Porto Rico and The Philippines.
Twenty thousand will be sent 10 Cuba,
10000 to Porto Rico anu the same number
to the Philippines.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
GOING TO kLONDIKE.
Vessels That viii Take Fortune
Hunters to the Land of Ice
and Gold.

SEATTLE, WASH. Aug. 21.-Go- NOR
row morning the steamer Queen, which
has been placed on the run 10 Dyea and
Skaguay in place OF the wrecked Mexico,
will leave for the north. She Will carry
a full list of 300 passengers, all except
perhaps a dozen being KlondIkeIs. In
addition the Queen will take 100 head OF
horses and nearly 1000 tons of freight
Part CT the Queens cargo north will con-
sist of Ium ber and shingles consigned TO a
man at Skaguay who intends starting
hotel and restaurant. Among the passen-
gers will be John King, an cid British
Columbia miner, Major ]. A. Strong, a
well known newspaper man formerly of
Seattle but latterly from Tacoma and Spn-
kane, who will head an exped ition to the
Klondike via the Stickeen River route.
Mr.. King returned from the Klondike
three weeks ago, coming down the Yukon,
Lewis and HootaiBqua rivers TO Lake
Teslin, where he took the trail of about
100 miles to Telegraph Creek, the head of
navigation of the Stickeen River. Here
he took fat bottom river boat and was
landed at Wrangel, where he boarded a
steamer for Seattle. He pronounces the
route the most feasible and easy OF access
OF any yet tried
Jacob S. Graeber. Joe Graebsr and Ben
L. Faust are also three of the Queens
passengers who came from Shamok;n,
Pa, 10 invade the upper Yukon. Mr..
Graeber represents several bankers and
other large Pennsylvania capitalists, and
goes prepared to take advantage of such
opportunities as may present whereby
the investment of money may bring big
returns.
A number OF gold.seekers left Seattle for
Victoria yesterday to take the steamer
DInube for Dyea. The Danube sailed
with large list of passengers and as
many horses as the ship has accommoda-
tions for They are of a heavier class than
those heretofore sent north. The hand
some price commanded by few heavy
animals and the reports which have been
received concerning the usefulness of
large horses have tended to make buyers
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
Bank CASH. r. MURDERED.
Shot four Times While Resisting a
Gang of 6o6bsrs-Swears to the
Identity of Three of Them.

SHEPHERD, MICH, Aug. 21.-Cashier
Elmer E. Struble of the Farmers Bank
sros. at 4 o'clock this morning to go to
Mount Pleasant. He went to the bank
vault to get some paper, and three hours
later his body vas found in front of the
open vault, having been pierced by two
bullets near the heart. one in the back
and one in the arm. He died at IL o'clock
without regaining consciousness.
There was evidence of fierce struggle,
the cashiers clothing being torn and dis
arranged and all the furniture in the Office
smashed. The theory is that the robbers
knew of his intention to go to the bank,
and in attem pting 10 rob the cashier he
resisted and vas shot. Suicide was first
suspected owing to the failure of the Peo-
ple's Bank yesterday. How much the
robbers got the owners refuse to say.
Investigation made by the authorities
shows that Struble was in the vault when
he was approached from behind and the
rob bers demanded money. Struble was
first shot in the wrist and then In the side
while he was trying 10 shut the vault
door, The robbers again opened fire and
shot him in the back.
The prosecuting attorney says that
Struble yesterday afternoon held con-
Ryan. owner OF the bank. who demanded
that he send all tue money and books to
Mount Pleasant, but the cashier refused
to do so.
1t is supposed that this conversation
was heard by some PARTIES having money
in the bank who were expecting ii to fail.
and they concluded TO secure then mselyes
by robbery and hid the selves in the
building for this purpose. The bank is in
no danger of failing, as Struble tod a
most intimate friend last night that it
could stand run if necessary.
1t now appears that the officers had
hidden the truth in regard TO Struble' s
condition before his death.
Just before the last moment he rallied
and made a sworn statement that he
recognized three of the robbers, and he
gave their names 10 the Prosecuting
Attorney and the Sheriff, but these
officials refuse to divulge the names. In
this statement Struble swore that he
forced the shooting. as he refused to give
up the money. and in the fight which
followed, he recognized his assailants,
who killed him to save themselves from
being known.
Strnple was light-hearted easy-going
man, without debts or cares, and the
officers who have the names of the men
expect hourly to make arrests.