Show BY iby TE TELEGRAPH 1 ern bui iut amr f union uon It Arll Arn s AMERICAN nav EW sl 31 hocken hocker cob coa ilour flour mills were burned today to day about men were employed and all escaped it la Is not known how or where the fire originated tru mans buildings adjoining were boon eoon a mass of flames rising feet above the roof the heat drove the tenants in the tenement houses across the street and then the names flames devoured the houses housea with all the goods in a brief period fifteen houses are in flames and tho fire still spreading the flour mill walls fell in killing hilling two firemen and it was then learned that four factory hands bands had perished and also a number of those re eiding Elding in the tenement houses across the street the loss lobs cannot bo under the spice and flour mills milis of sawyer beers Ss fisher fleher were also burn burned burneld eid tid there li ii l i no confirmation of the report that ox eix lives were lost one fireman was Eer ser seriously lousy hurt and two others were overcome iverc ajmo by the heat beat george V decker says the stock and machinery was worth the buildings and all were a total lose the insurance will cover all losses I 1 hillsboro texas 31 there was an incendiary fire yesterday morn ing vach wh ieh ich destroyed worth of property insured for about sow gow orleans 3 31 I 1 tho the buildings git gli 51 63 65 and 67 boulas li street treet were destroyed by fire thu they were occupied by J P co wholesale whole salo grocers where the fire originated and 8 He anshelm bro cigar factory whose stock was destroy destroyed ed the loss is estimated at insurance on stock the buildings belonged to le the poydras orphan asylum and are probably in insured NL NEW nv bongs 31 the london cable says the british government is informed that intrigues are progressing between the alexandria entourage of the ebe divers government and the sultan who is using especially and religious influence a to decide arabi to decharo that ho he will vill submit unconditionally to the huit Sult suran sunan anand and protect the suez canal canni canniff if the british forces are axe withdrawn with drawn leaving the work of of pacification for a turkish contingent thereby merely effecting a compliance with the decision of the conference this thing is patronize patronized dby by M delessep also the deficiency of provisions and ami water ls is is 13 urged by the british government against the tile landing of turks until after a forward movement of tha tho british which will anvill bo be preceded seceded by the occupation of abbu f kir hir ir damietta and port said admiral seymour and gen alii aill son are equally of the opinion that the tha position of arabi arab Is an eagy easy one to turn but not to attack in front without heavy losses there aro the strongest hopes of an understanding 9 between england and france to oppose ozean n exclusively turkish intervention if it M da de freycinet remains in office communications on the tho subject were frequent between ij lond lord ord lyons and the french minister of foreign affairs aI TAira BOSTON 81 31 A suit is now pencil pond ing in the Su supreme court of massachusetts chu in which leopold 11 II king ring of the belgians Is plaintiff plain tiff involving some there is a bill in equity brought by the king in hiff sovereign capacity against leon barnard a belgian subject henry lee chas fairchilds cass A NV hittler eret et a al of this city the three latter are well known bankers and proprietors of the onion union safe Depo lepo deposit bilt rift company it is alleged that barnard fled from belgium with funds belonging to he the ring king to the amount of that ho he leased a vault from the deposit Com compans company pans panf la in lymich he deposited a large amount sf of the stolen funds an ain injunction has I 1 een cen obtained to prevent bar nard from removing the contents contento bf tho the vault The tho funeral of geo ac K proctor a nW citizen whose death was waa reported from paralysis last thursday WAS stopped by the medical examiner who found a bullot around wound in la iho ibo back of the hr hwd head d which the physic physicians dads aaDs eay say could not have been self belr A pistol was found secreted under the stairs in the collar of his hh house with alth ith a chamber discharged A six sis days ro go aa as yo you u piea plea please e po de atrian match beg anthis morning maven eaven thou thousand people witnessed the start of the cont contestants estantE barit man hughes hart halt nore yore mae mac pu oid and d gallager of montreal who entered aa tig the unknown the men kept together iho ilia first mile nil all making it in gio glo campana campa nna had fallen one jap behind at the end of the second mile BT ST louis louls 31 on oa thursday last a negro named caldwell attempted to ravish mrs airs peck a white woman 60 years old at canton Misso missouri url but was prevented by the timely arrival of several men who appeared on the scene in response oneo to the cries of tho the aged lady the ne negro was arrested yesterday he alro llad a preliminary examination and in default of bf bill was remanded to jail be tween 12 and I 1 this morning a party of about men forcibly took caldwell from jail jall and hanged him to 10 the iron mountain railroad nall Bail road bridge near by after which they fired elveral ehlts shots into his body to make the work doubly bure cure CHICAGO 31 president jarrett and about delegates from the various iron and steel works throughout tho the country are here to attend the annual convention of the amalgamated association of iron workers beginning tomorrow to morrow and lasting nearby a week the session will be to secret there will bo an elect election loh lon ofa officers and beveral changes will be made in the constitution all the delegates seem more than ever determined to stick out cut for hein heir original demands and feel confident confluent of success they state that 23 milts mills have resumed work at their tern tera terms iii lil and only one with nonunion men 3 31 tho haar hrar harvest of wheat on the missouri slope be begins 11 1119 quite generally gener any auy uma this ma morning orning T the he enormous rains havo have been equally distributed and grain of all kinda la ij heavy this cannot be said of the red river biver valley where the ground is perfectly love level ss as thero there has been bean too much moisture and thousands of acres of wheat have been drowned out from J jamestown wes west t to the missouri river eiver tho the prairie rolling crops could scarcely look better bettor the bley barley is harvested and averages about 40 bushels oats ants average in this section 60 to 75 and wheat 25 to 35 some pieces much higher easu EAST TAWAS mich L 1 the rain extinguished most of the fires but those on east fast tawas tawna lake and north of wilber started again on sunday afternoon burning hurning with great violence they were confined however to tho the back pine timber and cedar but two f farmers airbets have been burned out sinco the last reports J smith en cu east ena tamas tawas road lost his house barn and crops and mr waight on hemlock broadi road ioa loft his house fences and crops LA L 1 A millersburg Millers Millera burg special bayst A waterspout water spout and ana sudden flood today to day swept away a great many bridges and some buildings drowning numbers of live stock on the bottom land A small stream called the rose rapidly and overflowed hundreds of acres carrying ond oft and destroying hay bay and other harvested crops the houses in various places were wholly or partly submerged families narrowly escaped by hurrying to highlands and it ia 13 neared feared that somo people have been lost the rain Is still falling cincinnati ithe teme time alar star special al depoy reports ts very he y rains last night in kentucky both bran branches clies of tho licking riven river at falmouth of tho licking riven river at falmouth are higher than ever known nind and rising great damages dam agea ages to crops and bridges are apprehended I 1 about delegates to the amalgamated association of iron workers convened this morning representing every section of the country and being in appearance a boht most intelligent eil ell elass class is of men FOREIGN 31 the the tha scotts guards strong yesterday embarked on the tho transport trans port pont orient for egypt A great greit crowd of people were outside the barrac barracks ka and the troops departed e rt amid tremendous en enthusiasm s 1 aam the crowd at tho the barracks was so dense that the leading files flies of the guards were ere lifted off their feel feet ALEXAND alexandria itrA I 1 the plundering of houses J just outside of the british lines at continues the culprits when caught are killed hilled by the patrols the expedition which left last night to repair the railways cut by tho the rebels on the alexandria side aide of hla hia mahalla halla junction were completely successful in their undertaking the consisted of british a appena appers ap pers pera sailors and marines and the egyptian railway workmen both lines of the road were repaired and a considerable number of railway i wagon were brought to tg aiom Alam alexandria dria dris the british portions of tho the expeditions returned early this morning without encountering tho the enemy the rebels are making every elfort to fortify port bald said the french men of war in ne ho egyptian waters have been ordered to station themselves at port said and cease cea as traversing trave the canal passenger trannie traffic was wab resumed saturday to no tickets were sold rold as the stock has been exhausted haubt haust eds but the conductors collected the fares from window to window the pase pagE edgers were chiefly explorers who wanted to see whether tho the houses houpes had geen looted the home government ordered admiral seymour to establish a censorship over the cable messages in consequence of the repeated dispatches of the tha british position the forts command the only sheltered anchorage near here available for our largest ironclads Iron therease The thero there reaTe rente are four fonn as yet 25 there and ten 13 ton guns guna ready for action aboukir lake 13 now 11 little atlo more than a dried added up marsh and infantry might even escapa across it to arabi arab pashas lines this would lead to a most interesting movement at for I 1 it P is thou thought g ht th the 0 en enemy 0 my won would d attack our position in order to cover his country mens retreat across uie hie lake lase it would bs be an odd coincidence if the redoubts doubts re at aboukir would reawaken to the roar of english cannon on the tho exact annever an niver sary eary of lord nelsons nei Nel soa sob aoa victory 81 years ago one hundred bedouins Bedou ins looted looth d houses bouses at last night the english dragomanos dragomans drag omans house wag completely emp emptied ted osman pasha bitka ritha will reorganize a body of and albanian troops ho he is eager to head the attack against arabi arab the bombardment of tho the aboukir forts will for various reasons not cot take place the tha dutch ambassador again sent the secretary of the legation bonek to ask tho the sultan to issue a proclamation denouncing arabi pasha as a rebel the tha secretary at the same time timo save gave the sultan a conciliatory tion stating that england did not nott aim et asahe the protectorate over E agypt be he also asked for particulars concerning the composition of the turkish exposition to egypt the tho thes They ultan gave no satisfactory answer but stated however hau has he is irritated at En eng glands action aud nod has sent cent a verbal ata mee through the secretary that he would do nothing for en england giand gland but would only yield to the wishes of europe the various governments asked their representatives for aa an explanation in regard to the absence of oron russian delegate from tho the thursdays da V s sitting of the conference but thia the representatives profess that they are unable to explain the caupe they state that arrangements would have been reached thursday between the pore porse and the conference but to for the absence of oron the tho adjournment of the tho meeting at such sueh h a momert moment is regarded aa as se ise riousse ly endangering tho the success of the conference lord Du ria tia de Mo villes and count corti had bad rec ree received eved ewed important instructions from their respective spec tive governments which they were unable to communicate to the public turkeys turkey a sin gin sincerity carity in deciding on intervention in egypt is proved by the telegraphic tel tei orders to the governor monastic kossodo ros Kos soro beu seu arl tarl to prepare available forces for leaving the week contracts were entered into for the tho supply of uniforms the bank of egypt the tha ottoman bank and the credit have reopened d do lesseps has told arab arabi pasha that if ho he leaves the huez suez canal alone neither france nor italy will touch him the austrian consul arrived here from port fort sald bald he states that da do lesseps addressed a crowd ol 01 of arabis supporters and spoke in terms hostile to england and france saying they were strangers on tha egyptian eoll soll the result was that the germans who had landed to protea protest t their consulate returned on board their vessel and the tho english and french admirals abandoned their intention of landing lest a disturbance anee ance should follow de delesseps lesseps leb Les sepa speech dufferin Du flerin states the porte by its inactivity compelled england to as sume the tha responsibility of restoring order in egypt but englan england d ac opta opts turkish operation cooperation co provided the porte forte manifest unambiguous intentions tent ions the commander of the german gunboat bemo at port fort sald said haa baa been instructed on no account to land troops but if necessary baryt to take takee german subjects aboard his vessels detachments were landed lauded at Is mailla mailia from english and brench french men of war the german consul general will rill depart on leave of absence tomor to mor inor row there only remain the french italian and english diplomatic agento at alexandria the f ari tation which t the he khedive ive lve naturally felt at the revelations made him respecting eagleb clandestine proclamation has compelled the primo prime minister and his treacherous colleagues to abandon their course of double deal ing and ca east cast A their lot with tho khedive today to day they took a decisive step by issuing a proclamation which though long winded and amb ambiguous ig bous yet denounces denoun ces cea arabi arab I 1 laa ira pasha ha aa as a r rebel e be in accord ance anco with admiral Seymo seymour urve urle let teri to the khedive this thia id 18 no doubt a step in the right direction but it t would have been far more satisfactory is had the khedive dismissed sed these creatures crea turea of arabi arab altogether and surrounded himself with a body of loyal men arabi arab pasha is still parleying parl eying with the khedive the latter has haa intimated that no tirma ti rma will le acceptable except unconditional surrender the prince of wales w was Cs desirous of accompanying llie tile expeditionary force to egypt lut but iut in deference to the wishes vf he cusen abandoned the project the oriet sailed galled with ith sealed or dera ders which may be altered at gibraltar the duke sf of connaught con oon naught remained with the scots boots guards on the orient until iho lwe vessel left tile the docks MONTREAL 31 the french dry goods clerke threaten a riot riots the employers not coming to 0 o their views in the tho early closing movement one merchant was assaulted lait last night and n deputation represented to the mayor that they fear an organized attack on the store windows in the morning the mayor will issue a |