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FILIBUsTERING EXPEDITION.
The Most Important One for Months
Preparing to Start.

WASHINGTON, June 13.-The Treas
ury Department has received for ref
erence from the Secretary of State a
communication from the Spanish Min
lister to the effect that he has informa-
ton that an important filibustering ex-
pedition is being organized on the coast
of Florida, so that steps may be taken
by the Government to Illustrate it. No
particulars are given, so that the only
action taken by the department was
to communicate the informa ton to all
collectors and masters of patrol of the
fleet of the Florida Coast, with instruc-
tions to be on the alert to prevent the
departure of any suspected expedition
This was done by telegraph. It devel-
oped later that the department has
specific information of the shipment of
arms and ammunition for which prom
ises to be the most important filibuster-
ing expedition for several months
A carload of arms left Jacksonville
on Friday morning by the Florida East
Coast Railroad and passed near
Smyrna, south bound A second car
load of rifles and dynamite left jack
sonville on Saturday morning on the
regular freight train for the probable
purpose of being transferred to some
vessel on the coast, probably the yacht
Valus, which has been engaged to
transfer these munitions from the rail-
way to the vessel destined for Cuba. It
is probable that the vessel which will
receive these arms will not com. close
to shore.
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RAISED THE RECORD.
Edwards Makes Over $50 Miles in
Twenty-FOur Hours.

NEW YORK, June 13.-Edward S.
Edwards, the Welch rider, of the Cen
tury Wheelmen of New York City,
raised the American record for twenty
four hours road riding by making 34925
miles to-day. The best previous record,
314 miles, was made by Smith at Bal
timore several weeks ago.
Edwards rode over the track known as
the EliZabeth-Rahway course, a dis
tance of twenty-one miles, in Union
County. The roads are macadamized
but four miles are undergoing repairs,
making the riding in that portion bad.
Edwards started at 6 o'clock Saturday
night from Bauer's Hotel, near Eliza
beth. The race was held under the aus
pices of the Century Wheelmen of New
York and members of the club paced
their plucky rider with singles, tandems
and triplets.
Edwards rode the same wheel
throughout, a new sprocket wheel being
put in during the morning.
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LONDON MONEY MARKET.
American Railway and Timing Secu.
rites Fall.

LONDON, June 13.-The money mar
ket remains practically unchanged
Discounts stationary. The gold demand
from the continent continues, but the
approach of the jubilee festivities takes
away attention from the market. The
probability is that for the next fort
night very little will be done, but after
the Diamond Jubilee Day considerable
activity is expected, with a general ad-
vance of values.
American railway and mining securi-
ties of all sorts have received the most
attention during the week, the fall hav-
ing been pronounced. There are, how
ever, prospects of a rise in view of the
promising advices as to the crops and
the consequent increase in traffic.
There have been a good many deal
ings in options and most of the bond
is showing a buoyant tendency.
Northern Pacific preferred during the
latter part of the week showed a fa-
vorable reaction, and rose Il. New
York Central and Chesapeake and
Ohio rose y, Atchison preferred rs, Wa
bash preferred Il, Denver preferred,
Erie, Pennsylvania and Reading Is. A
prominent feature during the week was
the demand for Grand Trunk and the
Canadian Railway securities in gem
eral, with the exception Of the Cana
dian Pacific, which fell H.
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OLIVER ON THE WARPATH.
He Had Also Threatened the Life of
the Treasurer of the Home.

LEAVENWORTH (Kas.), June 49,
Since the explosion at the Soldiers
Home it has developed that the life
of Major Sherkley Treasurer of the
home, was threatened by Joseph w.
Oliver, the veteran now under arrest
for placng the dynamite bomb near the
Smith residence. divers pension has
been held back, and he made the threat
last Saturday in the presence of Delwyn
Parker, Sherkley's chief clerk
At a recent pay day the home off,
cials learned of the plot to hold up the
Paymaster in the woods north of the
Soldiers Home, while removing the
pension money, amounting to Sl1 ,OOO,
from LeavenWOrth to the home.
oliver told a comrade that he was
the originator of the plot, and that
only for the police protection accorded
the Paymaster it would have succeed
ed. Sherkley thought the man harm
less lunatic and no attempt was made
to arrest him. To-day Oliver was in
duced to talk for the first time since
the arrest. He related a long list of
supposed wrongs the Governor had done
him, and ended by declaring his inno-
cence.
The National Board Of Managers of
the Soldiers Home is expected here
Monday or Tuesday on its tour of in
spection, and to make arrangements to
transfer Governor Smith to the Pacific
Branch a Santa Monica, Cal. Governor
Smith stated to-day that nothing
would be done toward clearing up the
wreck of his residence until after the
board should view it and make ar
rangements for rebuilding the shattered
CT
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By the Senate for the Next Day
or Two.
The Hawaiian Treaty and Anti-Trus
Amendments Will Excite COnsid-
erable Debate-The Agricultural
and Tobacco Schedules Will Follow
The House Will Continue Its
Policy of Adjourning Over Three
Days at Time.

WASHINGTON, June 13-The sugar
schedule of the tariff bill is expected
to continue to be the subject of con-
sideration in the Senate for the next
day or two.
The Hawaiian treaty and antitrust
amendments are still to be disposed of,
and both will excite considerable. de-
bate. With the sugar question, the
agricultural schedule, which has been
partly considered, will be taken up, and
will in time be followed by the tobacco
schedule, if in the meantime the Re-
publicans agree upon its provisions.
There will be no great amount of de-
bate on either cotton or spirits. There
was at one time talk of an attempt
to add compensatory duties on cotton
goods because Of the duty fixed on
raw cotton, but this is understood to
have been abandoned, if ever seriously
contemplated.
The Democrats do not find the pres
emit schedule Objectionable except in
minor details, and will allow it to go
through with but little discussion. The
Republican managers now hope that
the debate in the Senate will be con-
cluded within the next two weeks, not
withstanding less than one-third of the
bill has gone over. They have secured
an agreement with the Democrats that
the sessions shall begin at IL o'clock
each day instead of II after Wednes-
day.
The House will continue its policy
of adjourning from Monday over TO
Thursday, and from Thursday until the
following Monday. No business will
be done and the sessions Thursday will
I1a r,oaraly nar-fl1ncfOry
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that it is best that Great Britain should
be the only free trade country in the
world. During the last fifty years we
have learned by painful experience that
neither old nor new markets are open
ing to us by the influence of free trade
alone, and that if we want to provide
the increasing commerce necessary for
the support Of our increasing popula-
tion we must find those markets our
selves and not neglect the opportunity
of expanding and consolidating the col
onies.'
Premier Laurier, in the course Of his
response, said:
'The feeling dominating Canada is one
of pride in her local autonomy and leg
islative liberty, connected with imperial
unity. Whatever errors there may
have been in the past, the past is closed
forever and new era has dawned and
allegiance is accepted in Canada by ALL
The general sentiment is for closer
union. The time may come when the
pesent conditions of citizenship will be
felt to be inadequate A solution for
this will be found in the old British
principle of representation.
Most of to-day's comments upon
these speeches are in a tone of lively
satisfaction.
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FIVE NEGROES MURDERED.
One of Their Own Race Runs AmuCk
With Shotgun.

MERIDIAN (Miss), June 13.-News
reached here tonight of the murder of
five negroes in the extreme northwest
ern portion of Kemper County. A negro
named Sibley, while crazy drunk on
Bling Tiger whisky, secured gun and
started out to kill every person he met.
The first he came across happened to
be five negroes, three women and two
children, and the fiend shot them down
and left them dead where they fell. He
also shot at six other negroes, who mar
rowly escaped. AS soon as the bloody
work of Sibley was discovered, the
most intense excitement prevailed, and
a mob was organized to lynch the muir
derer. Sibley took to the woods, car
rying his shotgun with him, and at last
accounts the mob had surrounded him
and a bloody fight was imminent.
Word comes from De Kalb that the
Sheriff of Kemper County has gone to
the scene with large posse.
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GRAND PRIX DE PARIS.
1t Was Won by Doge, After Gallant
Struggle.

PARIS, June 13-The Grand Prix de
Paris the chief event of the French
racing and social year, was won to-day
by Doge, owned by NJ. Jarnaud. The
animal is a brown colt by Fricandeau,
of DogareSse. Second place was won
by Roxellane, chestnut filly, sired by
War Dance, out of Rose of York. She
is owned by NJ. Caileult. The third was
won by Parasol H., bay colt, by Ruil,
out of Pirate and owned by NJ. A.
Abeille
An immense crowd witnessed the
race The weather was superb, in
tensely hot but brilliant. Many Ameri-
cans were in the throng, among them J.
r. Keene, Jr., and Mr.. Elliott of New
York, j. Mairs, Prescott Lawrence, c.
H. Bouten and Ed Smith of Philadel-
phia, Alex. Griswold and Tracey Doves.
The betting was 6 to l on Roxellane,
5 to 2 against Palmest, 9 to against
Cauderan, ) to l against F'lacon, y to
l against Doge, 20 to 1 against Valpa-
raiso, % to l against Quilda, Parasol
and st. Loud and 80 TO / against Ortie
Blanche The environs of the grand
course formed a scene of rare beauty,
costumes of brilliant colOrs rising ter
race like on all sides. So dense was
the crowd that at times motion was al
most impossible in the vicinity of the
places where the mutuals were sold.
Some time was spent in getting a
good start. Finally they got off with
Flacon leading, st. Cloud next and the
other eight close together in a bunch.
These positions were kept until the rise
in the track was reached, when Roxel-
lane and Palmest forged forward, and
as they entered the stretch Roxellane
led, with Flacon close behind. Then
Doge, very cleverly handled by her
rider, left the bunch and closed up
with ROXellane, passed her and in a
smart finish won by half a length, with
Parasol a neck behind Roxellane, the
former beating Quilda by a head ST.
Cloud was last. The time was 3:31
The Grand Prix de Paris is for a
purse of 200, 900 francs, about $40 600.
10000 francs being given by the city
of Paris and $4,000 by the five great
railway companies, for colts and fillies
foaled in 1894, of every description and
country, added to sweepstake of 1 900
francs each, 600 francs for freight and
800 francs if declared by 10 p. m. on the
day preceding the race, or 100 francs
only if declared by 10 p. m. on May >,
francs and the third 10000 francs out
of the stakes; weights, colts 123
pounds, fillies 120. Distance, grand
course, about one mile and seven fur
longs.
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NOT IDENTIFIED.
1t is Not Known Who the Old Lady
Was Who Shot Herself.

NEW YORK, June 13.-No one called
at the Morgue to-day to identify the
body of the old lady who shot herself
on Saturday in the vestibule of Calvary
Church That makes it seem likely
that she did not live in New York or in
it's vicinity, for all the newspapers pub
lished long accounts of the suicide.
The suicide was probably 60 years of
age. She was pleasant-faced and her
figure indicated robust health. Her
hands were soft and white, not the
hands of a woman accustomed to me-
nial work.
The brooch, which she pawned to get
the money to buy the revolver with
which she shot herself seems to be the
most likely clew. On it were two hand
painted miniature portraits. One is of
a woman of perhaps 80, and the other
of a girl of perhaps 10. The costumes
and the hair dressing are of the styles
of thirty or forty years ago.
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DEVONSHIRE AND LAURIER.
Their Speeches at Liverpool BAN
quet Commented Upon.

LONDON, June 13.-All the morning
papers comment upon the speeches of
the Duke of Devonshire and Wilfred
Laurier, the Canadian Premier, at a
banquet given on Saturday evening in
Liverpool by the Chamber of Com
merce.
The Duke of Devonshire, speaking as
President of the British Empire League,
said:
while we continue to believe that
free trade is the best and wisest policy
for this country, we can all see that the
virtues and results which are expected
to follow free trade have not been real
lied, and the propriety of its universal
adoption has been falsified Yet the
Cobdenites still seek TO persuade us
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Wants His Claim Supported.

LONDON. June 13-The Times :"
correspondent at Constantinople says:
The Sultan has appealed to Emperor
Nicholas and Emperor William to sup
port his claim to annex Thessaly to the
Ottoman Empire. This proceeding
highly displeases the ambassadors of
the other Powers, who are expected to
mark their displeasure by refusing to
negotiate the other points in Turkey S
demand until the evacuation demand is
coftla6
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Press says: The irritation among the
Indians in consequence of the killing of
Almighty Voice and his companions by
the police is assuming an ugly shape.
Fifteen Indians have attacked the farm
of Mr.. Gordon between Saskatoon and
Duck Lake and killed all the cattle in
the corral.
A detachment of Northwest mounted
police left Regina this morning to pro-
ceed to the spot by train. They will
join a second detachment at Nut Lake.
1t is believed that the instigator of the
outrages is a family connection of AL
brother
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CYCLONE AT ELKINS.
1t Wrecks the New OPERA House and
Other Buildings.

WHEELING CIV. Va.), June 13. - A
severe cyclone struck the town of Ell
kins to-day and did considerable dam
age. Trees were uprooted, roofs blown
off, several houses lifted from their
foundations and the walls of new
buildings under construction were
wrecked The house occupied by Henry
Hay was blown from its foundation and
his wife and children We're seriously
injured.
The damage was principally in the
residence portion of the city Trees
and outbuildings on Senator Elkins'
place were severely damaged. The new
opera-h house under construction was
com nlet civ wrecked.
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BRYAN IN WASHINGTON.
He Dimes With Senator Jones and
Leaves for Norfolk.

WASHINGTON, June 13.-Hon. W. J.
Bryan paid a hurried visit to Wash
ington to-day, arriving here from New
York this morning and leaving for Nor
folk this evening. There were many
callers at the hotel where Mr.. Bryan
stopped. He attended services at the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, and later in the day dined
with Senator Jones, the Chairman of
the National Democratic Committee.
Hon Arthur Sewall, the late Demo-
catic Presidential candidate, also
.dined with Senator Jones.
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A DASTARDLY ACT.
Attempt to Wreck a Coney Island Ex-
CursiOn Train.

NEW YORK, June 13.-A train of
eleven cars on the Sea Beach railroad,
crowded with passengers from Coney
Island, crashed into an obstruction on
the tracks tonight at Fifth avenue and
Sixty-fifth street, near the Fifth avenue
tunnel. The train was running slowly
at the time and fortunately no serious
damage was done.
1t was found that several heavy steel
rails had been placed across the tracks
and strongly braced with several other
rails and it appeared to the detectives
who were at once put on the case and to
the train people to be a deliberate at
tempt to wreck the train.
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DIsSIDENT CONSERVATIVES
They Advocate an Investigation OF
the State of Affairs in Cuba.

MADRID, June 13-At a meeting of
dissident Conservatives yesterday
Senior Sylvia, the leader of the party,
declared that the CanovaS Ministry had
signed the death warrant of parliament
taiy government.
He earnestly advocated an investiga-
ton into the real state of afra1rs IN
Cuba, creation of a colonial army, ana
the development Of the material inter-
ests of the island, as we'll as reform IN
its admsn's trStion. In conclusion he ex-
pressed the opinion that it was now ao-
solutely necessary for Spain to aoan-
don her policy of internal isolation.
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Yale rIen Rest.

GALES FERRY, June 13.-No finer
day could be imagined than the present
one has been to prepare the Yale oars
men for their final weeks work on the
Thames. Not moment was irksome to
the men, as there was no reporting at
the boathouse and no work whatever
was done. The new shells were made
ready for work tomorrow There were
few visitors at the quarters.
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Two Tons Apiece.

MONTREAL, June 13-Earl Ranfur-
ley, Governor-G General of New Zealand;
Lady Ranfurley their daughters, Lady
Constance and Lady Ethel Knox, and
the Governors aide, Captain Alexan-
der, arrived in Montreal from Europe
to-day.
Lord Ranfurley's party numbered
about thirty, and they are carrying
over sixty tons of baggage. They in
tend to cross the continent by the Ca
madam Pacific Railway, stopping off for
some sport in the Rocky Mountains.
The party will sail direct from Vancou-
yer to Sydney, then to Wellington.
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Training Oarsmen Take Rest.

POUGHKEEPSIE IN. V, June 13-
This has been day of rest for the
training oarsmen of Harvard, Columbia
and the University of Pennsylvania
The weather was delightful, except for
a shower of brief duration in the af-
ternoon, and the water was smooth
The crews, however, in accordance with
custom, refrained from going out on
the river to practice.
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Scott Ready for Execution.

SING SING N.Y.), June 13.-Howard
A. Scott, the colored wife murderer
who is to be electrocuted in the prison
here tomorrow, shows no signs Of
breaking down. Scott told Warden
Sage this morning that he slept soundly
last night and was feeling first rate
The Warden gives the condemned man
whatever he wants to eat. Everything
is in readiness for the execution
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POSTAL CONGRESS.
1t Winds Up Its Tour by Returning to
Washington.

WASHINGTON, June 13.-The nine
days tour of the Universal Postal Con-
gress was ended last night at $50
o'clock. when the special train of nine
Pullmans arrived at the Pennsylvania
depot There were ovations all along
the route. and receptions were given by
State and city executives where the
party stopped. There were 140 people
in the party, most of them of high rank
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I Ietter-Carriers Elect Delegates.

CHICAGO, June 13.-The Chicago
branch of the National Association or
Letter Carriers met to-day and elected
it's fifty-seven delegates to the National
Convention. which is to meet in San
Francisco September 9th. Chicago will
not have candidate for the National
Presidency
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Panic in a SchOoIhouse.

BUFFALO On. W, June 13.-A panic
occurred in a Polish schoolhouse on
Broadway tonight A church enter
tainment was being held and 1,500 peo
pie, principally women and children,
were present. A hanging lamp fell and
a cry of fire was raised. Men, women
and children rushed, crowded and
stumbled over each other in their eff
forts to reach the exit. No one was
fatally injured, but a large number of
women and children were bruised. The
fire was soon eXtinguiShed.
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TWO MEN DROWNED.
A Suuall Struck Their Boat on the
Hudson.

NEW YORK, June 13.-Two men
were drowned from a catboat in the
Hudson off Fort Lee this afternoon. The
party on the yacht We're Miss Emma
Guillmette, her brother, H. E. GULL
mette. a clerk in the office of Moore &
Schley. and W. Morton Smith, employed
on the Mail and Express" Their boat
was upset by squall.
The launch Tornado was some dis
tance away and before she reached the
boat the two men had disappeared. Miss
Guillmette was still floating and was
dragged on board the launch, where she
revived.
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Three Men Killed on a Bridge.

JOHNSTOWN Pa), June 13-Two
men were killed outright and one fatal
ly injured on Pennsylvania Railroad
bridge east Of here a few miles just be-
fore midnight last night. One of the
victims was knocked into the Cone
maugh River, and his body has not
been found. Identification has not been
made. The rumor is that all three were
Johnstown men, but railroad men be-
lieve they were tramps.
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Demonstration in Brussels.

BRUSSELS, June ia great DEM
onstration was held here to-day, organ
lied by the general army officers, IN
favor of a reorganization of the army
and abolition of the system of military
substitutes.
A large deputation, headed by Gen
eral Brialmont, went to the palace,
where King Leopold received them, and
in the course of a patriotic speech de-
clared himself a convert to their pro-
DOSalS
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Raining i'm India.

LONDON. June 14-A dispatch to
the Times from Simla, India, says
that the monsoon has started with full
force on the west coast. Rain, varying
in fall from three inches at Bombay
proper to seven inches at Calicut dis
trict of Madras, has been continuous
for the last twenty-four hours. The
winds are normal and there is every
prospect of a favorable advance of the
rain nOrthWard
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Broke His Neck.

NEW YORK, June 13-Albert Ben
son and Thomas Olsen got into a
friendly wrestling match at Brooklyn
this afternoon. Olsen lifted Benson off
his feet and threw him backward. He
did not rise, however, and Olsen walked
over and tried to raise him. Benson's
neck was broken.
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Cyclone on the Windward Group.

KINGSTON (Jamaica), June ia
cyclone struck st. Vincent Island of the
Windward Group to-day, seriously
damaging some of the puolic buildings,
injuring a number of persons at
Georgetown, capsiZing a sloop and
drowning three of the crew.
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Bituminous Coal Mine Burned.

TERRE HAUTE Qnd.), June 13.-The
bituminous coal mine of the Torrey
Company of Chicago, near Clinton, was
burned this afternoon. Fifteen men
were in the mine at the time, but all
escape. The mine is completely de-
stroyed. Loss is estimated at $4,000.
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in their country. The train was in
charge of D. N. Bell, Tourist Agent of
the Pennsylvania Railroad
The work of the congress is practi-
cally wound up, all that now remains
being to sign the general treaty on
Wednesday. Most of the delegates
have booked passage on the ocean lin
ers for next week
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RevoIutionists Capture Steamers.

MONTEVIDEO, June 13.-It is re-
ported that the revolutionists have cap
tured two river steamers conveying re-
Inducements to the Government troops.
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A Schooner Wrecked.

LYNN (Mass.). June 13.-The fishing
schooner JEANNE d. Phillips, fifty-five
tons, was wrecked early this morning
on Harding's Ledge. The crew of six
teen men took a boat and rowed to
SWampScott
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One Thousand Men Thrown Out.

READING (Pa), June 13--The man.
agement of the Reading Iron Works
last night decided to close its tube mill
indefinitely By this over 1000 men
will be thrown out of work.
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To Farm Out the State Railways.

BUENOS AYRES, June 13-In a spe-
cial message to the Argentine Congress,
Senator Uruburu proposes to farm out
the working of the State railways
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Colorado Pioneer Dead.

DENVER, June 13-Joseph NJ. Mar
SHALL one of the best known pioneers of
Colorado, died to-day. He established
the first foundry in the State, and was
for many years a prominent coal mine
OPERATOR
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Spanish Steamer Aground.

LONDON, June 13.-The Spanish
steamer Guide, from Corunna for Ha-
vana, has been placed aground at Villa
Garcia with seven feet of water in her
forehold. She reports having been in
collision at sea with an unknown YES