Show awid mr B her tin n francisco Franci aeo 8 the I 1 he chronicle d devotes tes two pages in n letters and am d davits v aund among fie effects of the batai abner blake fo afonin aly deputy united S states t ate e Coll ol eulor lector at port pon ad I 1 ns e n d washington terri territory tory wh who died under mysterious dream stances es at chicago last may blay while on his way to washington the aril do CIO shows he that blake who had been removed efrom from the customs service hold held to the alie opinion that 1 II 11 r Bea cherson or of the lato henry W ward rd blechor who was collector at port townsend Town and who la Is now treasury agent there had defrauded tile the government and in one had withheld from an informer the money due him growing out of ft a large opium seizure the seizure in ili question consisted of fourteen barrels of opium piam which was found hidden in an alaskan bay having been p placed J ace d there by the captain of the ate amer 1 idaho I 1 the seized opium wits sold by the government for 32 of which the informer 0 M wits was to have received 16 0 00 in the papers of blake it la is shown that hat rouse house received no money but that a chinaman named all ah copy of victoria was substituted as the dummy informer anil and given although he signed as having received these and other serf ml ous oils charges were made by blake to tho th officials at washington but no ht being paid to them blake started stalled east with the documents in person ile he was induced to stop tit nt chicago where he died the am an davits include those of every person connected with the opium seizure including that of ali ah booy together with transcripts from the seizure book et at port townsend other affidavits among blakos blakes papers made b by people at port townsend and elsewhere charge beecher with co collecting I 1 from the government money for expenses and for the construction of boats for the uso use of the custom service in each instance stanca lo larger than actually paid out by beecher in a letter written by rouse from chica gohe expresses the belief that bat blake blak e there met bill minty formerly employed on oil the evangel of which beecher was captain and was by him induced to remain at chicago and that thai while there blake met foul play to prevent his bis provo proposed sed exposure result resulting og in his death chicago aa L blake whose supposed murder under sensational circumstances as mentioned in to nigh ta Ls associated press presa dignat dispatches bes from san ban francisco was waa found on the morning of may at theun the union depot in this city in an unconscious condition ue ile was removed to the police station and afterwards to the insane department of tho the county jail all the physician who examined him said he be was suffering from concussion of the brain or narcotic poisoning the man never neve r lully fully railed and finally died at th abo 0 county hospital where he was waa removed when tile the county physician had examined him papers on his bis person indicated ha be was on his big wit way Y na east as to prefer charges against collector coly I 1 beecher but little or no attention was paid to the matter at the if time me or north diec blei indianapolis E N north of peru indiana who was shot wednesday morning by james died this morning was taken from jall jail wednesday and hanged from a bridge over the river lawill ralus st louis 8 P W fauntleroy one of the attorneys of hugh M brooks brook alias maxwell now under ean sentence eo to be hanged handed augusi aug mt for k illing 0 arthur preller stated today to day he bo would make no further efforts to save Ms his client he has cone concluded I 1 eded not to attempt to carry the case to tho the united states supreme court the 18 resident abil the st louk invitation I 1 st louis 8 tho the mass mealing of citizens called to take public action in regard to inviting the president to visit st louis in the autumn assembled this afternoon and adopted the following follow ln the people of st louis assembled in public meeting respectfully and earnestly extend to the president dent of the united states and mrs cleveland an invitation to visit this city and become its guests kr a week weak october 2nd and 1887 in delair del oe so they beg leave to urge urfe on the president the desire to give him a welcome that will the respect they have hare for him ass as a public officer and sig as a mau man the mayor of st louis and a committee of 01 fifty to be selected byholm are appointed to proceed to wash 1 I atoll and deliver this invitation to the he president utica N Y 8 officers of throe three 0 A it 11 posts posta in utica say they are arb by the report that the po posts ate have decided tint to so go to the clinton centennial if president euP cleveland attends tonda at two posts have not acted on the invitation and the third lias bas decided not to attend for want of ot members who could conveniently go word haa boa been received here to from tile the president that in to the tha wishes of a large Dum number berof of c citizens of utoca he be and sirs cleve cleveland land will stop lo in fills city wednesday evening july 13 hafter his bis return train the clinton centennial celebration celebrating nod and will give a r re 0 caption to the citizens he fie w will 1 1 1 leave washington for now new york on monday aday after his hi stay in utica he will go tt w with I 1 tit mrs cleveland to r orest forest port to his big brother rev kev W al cleveland tuesday he will bo be at holland patent with his bis lister ruso rose elizabeth cleveland ile he will pt nd some fow few days at forest port new york 8 at AI the brooklyn city cily hall flail to lay dy the orand grand army of the republic memorial room roams 1 wore I ahe scene ofaf of an extends extended discussion of president a Clev elanda letter recalling his acceptance of the st louis invitation some com coin red rades e a said it was too bad that tiny any thi thine n g had bad been salt said to cleveland others thought the presidents donta letter wits not couched in friendly lernis and would not tend to meat mead A few thought tho the deportment commander ought to rebuke the comrades who bad slighted the larl j ident des dea general commander of the grand army department part ment of iowa was asked this evening what lie he thought or of the Is refusal to visit the f st 3 louis bouls encampment for reply the general paid faid he tho thought u it was tue the the wisest thine the president enold do ba that the grand army did not exult over the fact jae he denied the implication that threats of violence had been made and add ed tho the old soldiers do not mean to throw bricks in order to show thair contempt iio had letters from nil all parts of the united states anti anil believed ninety nine per cent of the lie old soldiers were opposed to baving having the he president review them at i lie ho encampment pance Irli ice ferdinand st 81 petersburg july 8 says that the election ol of prince ferdinand ot at saxe coburg to the bulgarian chrono exhausts rus sias patience austria wilt will not succeed adds adda the paper dussias Rus sias action may inconvenience austria Tir nove july 8 prince princa ferdin and f saxe coburg gotha replying to lie he 8 dispatch informing informs him of his election as prince of bu ng garla said lie he was proud of the honor conferred confer on oln him and grateful for it 1 I hope ile he added to prove myself worthy of tile the or of the bulgarian people I 1 era am ready to respond to the call and devote myself to the service of bulgaria as soon as the porte accepts the election and tile the powers recognize it tho the princes answer was received with satisfaction by the priece ferdinand maximilian charles leopold marle duke af saxo saxe coburg who wh 0 has just bat been elected to the baga bulgarian r ian 1 throne hrone was as born febuary ag 1861 being the fifth child and tho the third son of the I 1 lato late prince augustus duke of saxe coburg and princess clemetine Clemet lne daugh daughter ter of louis philepe Phill pe klas king of the french gola uleys cj expedition london july 8 the latest news from stanleys Stanley Stan leys ys african explorers is that on the journey journay from leopoldville to Lou Louko kolola loia he encountered and had to overcome over como serious obstacles one no of the gravest difficulties was to replenish his commissi ryThe threatened threat eneX scarcity of provi lona greatly excited a nieu and it became to ID pu punish nish the malcontents malcontent mal conten 9 with ciuch severity ev erity to 0 o reduce them to subject subjection ion stanley himself fell III fromi excessive heat the expedition left oft baltic may lathi and was expected to reach the congo at its confluence with the kronhelm Aron Aroa helm helpa bythe by the gib of june stanley leya to encamp at point and await tho the arrival of tib approaching from stanley falls with provisions and several I 1 hundred indred it more men |