Show AFFAIRS AT HOME ASHLAND Wis Aug 29The annual forest fires broke out in this vicinity yesterday terday and the mill ana yarns of me Benoit Lumber company located at Be nol a small station on the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Omaha twenty miles from here are swept away A special train was sent from here last night with a crew of men to make an effort to save i the village I CHICAGO Aug 29A special from Boston Mass says Secretary Bateman of the committee of notification at the St Louis Populist convention says he has received positive notification that if Maine goes Republican the name of Sewall will be taken from the Populistic j ticket and Watsons substituted j j SAN FRANCISCO Cal Aug 29Tho Democrats of the First congressional district dis-trict met at Napa this afternoon and nominated F A Cutler of Eureka Hum bolclt county for congressman HOUGHTON Mich Aug 29The local companies of the Fifth regiment state militia were notified last night by the governor to go to Ontonagon on call of tho sheriff there The lawless element was reported to be in control of the burned town Threads were made it was said against the lives of the foremen of the Diamond Match company Incendiary fires the governor was informed were destroying the remaining buildings An appeal was made for prompt action for the safety of the suffering residents of the stricken village and the governor issued the order accordingly WASHINGTON Aug Commodore Dewey telegraphed the secretary of the navy from Boston as follows Brook lyns speed corrected for tide 219117 The official figures thus show that the Brooklyn Brook-lyn came within a fractIon of winning a 400000 premium by reaching a 22knot speed As it is she secures 330COO by exceeding her contract 1 knots TAYLORS FALLS Minn Aug 29 The Republicans of the Fourth congressional congres-sional district today nominated Fred C Stevens of St Paul for congress WASHINGTON 29Geld withdrawals with-drawals today amounted to S67500 leaving leav-ing the reserve at close of business at 101903753 Orders for gold coin imports today were 2500000 CHICAGO Aug 29The George Taylor company one of the largest paper house in the west failed today The First National Na-tional bank taking possession OMAHA Neb Aug Lightning set fire to the main building of the Iowa State Institute for the Feebleminded at Glen wood early this morning destroying it entaling a loss upon the state of 5150000 The inmates were removed in safety other buildings were saved BOWLING GREEN O Aug 29 Lasf ares Dameron and Lovejay woodchoppers woodchop-pers went to the home of Nicholas Top pen last night and told his 13yearold daughter Gertrude that her father was dying in the woods and had sent for her i The men took the girl to a cabin kept her i all night and outraged her brutally ahe i was allowed to depart this morning vmh I a threat of death if she told She reached home almost dying A posse of citizens have started in search of the brutes They will probably be lynched if cap tured CHICAGO Aug 29 Clarence White Frank Carpenter and Walter Guerney three of the four men charged with being accomplices In the murder of T J Marshall proprietor of a west side department de-partment store who on June 7 was killed I while pursuing the men who had compelled com-pelled his cashier at the point of revolvers > to give up the money In her possession 1 were today acquitted after a long and exhaustive triaL < |