Show telegraphic HI C NEWS mich august 8 the village Is enveloped in a dense smoke from forest fires which are destroying the valuable timber timber around here the drouth d ro th has been so protracted that all k icings i of vegi tation are like tinder PITTSBURG august 8 william samson and james herron were saffo bated by escaping gas athis afternoon while repairing a regulator under charter street in alleghany allegheny Alleg hany city NEW borr augusts august 8 the commercial bulletins tire record for july shows the FIRE LOSS in the united states and canada to have been against in july 1886 and in july 1884 this is just double the average loss loiss in july for the last ten years the total loss for the first seven months of 1887 is against I 1 lor for the corresponding period in 1886 CHICAGO august 8 the inter oceans Oc cores special from winnipeg says southern manitoba was visited by a terrible hail storm this morning mo doin doing g great damage to crops some of th the e hailstones measured several inches la 12 circumference the injury to wheat has been ceryse very severe ere A number of farmers will not be able to reap the seed grain so complete was the destruction st of the storm TERRIBLE SHIPWRECK albuquerque N M U august 8 A nogales special to the democrat the sloop dara eighteen tons register owned and comm commanded aDded by abraham bogorae Bo goram left marleys Mer leys between 1 and 2 ocl on the morning of july loaded with twenty tons of tan bark consigned to Sel dener the vessel had on board the captain his wife her children chil dien niece and wenslado A valle superintendent of ef the baltimore copper mine at santa rosalia Eo salia and a crew of five men while between san pedro Ped roand and martinez in the gulf of california the vessel was struck by a heavy surf and capsized all on board perished except the captain and lour sailors who saved themselves by climbing on the bottom of the capsized vessel on the second day alter after the accident the i DEAD BODIES of the captains wife and children rose to the surface and were eaten by the sharks while the husband and father looked on the awful sight in horror on july the sailors became crazy and said they were going ashore and immediately plunged overboard they had no sooner struck the water than the sharks devoured them the captain une one sailor and a small boy remained on the bottom of the vessel for eight days sustaining life by catching turtles that would come near them and sucking blood they were rescued in the most pitiable condition by the fishing sloop Re Ref funo they were afterwards transferred to the salee balee and thompson the steamer Eer kerrigan rigan which was sent in search of the hara arrived at guaymas last and the cap tain of the sara Is mentally and physically WRECKED captain Ba karrar says there was another small sloop name unk unknown near his vessel in the same gale it is supposed that she went down with all on board mr valee was a man who stood high in the community beloved by everybody ard and his loss is to be sadly regretted his age was 84 34 ye years ars and he lea leaves yes a wife and tour four children albuquerque N M august augst 8 A flagstaff special to the democrat says A fire at needles at an early hour this morning destroyed the principal business portion of the town the fire originated in the general me merchandise stores of S P F smith on the south side of the track the building with its contents was rapidly burned the wind carrying the flames westward the saloon of hart baker was soon enveloped and the adjoining stores of Loni longayan Lon gaban aban murphy and halsey brothers caught fire in succession destroying ying the ENTIRE ROW of of frame buildings with their cob contents tentS of valuable merchandise the loss 1088 is esti aw abed at over it Is boim im pa at this hour to ascertain the M aidah Is I 1 CHICAGO AUR aug 8 william better known as fritz the youth suspected suspect pd of setting on fire the new york building was arrested this afternoon PARIS aug 8 grenoble tribunal has sentenced M editor of the petit dauphinais Dauphi mois nois to two months imprisonment and to pay a fine of francs for unfairly wounding M neveille Nevel lle in a duel KANSAS CITY aug 8 ane times special from alamosa alamona colo coio says deputy sheriff william carson son of 0 the noted scout kit carson was murdered several miles south of that place last thursday carson had bad captured a desperado named regeland We geland while he be was reading the warr warrant t the latter seized his bis hand and beat arson carson over the head with a revolver the murderer escaped LONDON aug 8 F A S perry in an eccentric individual who has been in an insane asylum fired two bullets into C CL C business manager of the day dav inflict inflicting lug probably fatal injuries the day had published with hu humorous comments a placard placard which perry had posted on his house ause CHICAGO aug 8 the four bood lers were uuie speared in buuri this morning for sentence action however was deterred deferred until thursday except in toe the tase case of commissioner gells geils he was as anxious to nave have the matter closed at afonce lonce sentence was pronounced and he quickly paid aid over aver his bis thousand dollars fine moments arguments on the motion for a new trial in the cases of the seven bood lers sentenced to the penitentiary were postponed until october loth the seven men had altered their purpose not to resign office otherwise they would have been granted no delay some have already stepped out aud and others other swill will quit without fur further therado ado so the threatened deadlock and of taxes is a averted pending the arguments for a new trial the seven boodler bood lers though saved for the time being fro from si the penitentiary remain immured in the county jai jail 1 VIENNA august 8 the Tag blatt says that general We derfeld who recently arrived at bastein from eng lard lar d informed emperor william that the tumor in crown prince frederick williams throat was appearing again and that another operation would probably be necessary LONDON august 8 john bright has signed the american Ameri caa peace memorial in all members lot of the house of commons have signed it and them have consented to join oin the deputation which will take the memo memorial rial to america COLUMBIA S BC C august 9 B s of two hundred and seventy one town ship correspondents to the state department part ment of agriculture covering every cuty show that on august cotton which is two or three weeks earlier than last year has a full bottom crop and if the season continues propitious the largest crop ever produced in the state will be made the corn crop is reported as generally the best ever grown the yield will be the largest eh all record record reports of a large rice crop still continue favorable and it it has not been injured by floods since the date of brevort will be the largest for a number of years HALIFAX august 9 admiral luce united states nay navy will leave halifax for bar harbor malue maine next thursday on the war ship the ossi pee and galena will probably sail in company with the bamond Eich mond GALVESTON aug 9 alex walker the colored prohibitionist speaker who was set upon and badly neaten beaten and mangled being thrown against a wire fence soon after he bad made a speech near webberville Web berville last week died on sunday from the effects of his injuries his friends claim that be was beaten by anti prohibitionists but it is not known who his assailants were marblehead mass aug 8 the race for the new york yacht club from newport tor for prizes amounting to 1000 ended here this morning mo ruing toe the volunteer won mayflower second three ho ursand a halt bait behind capt craven of the X mayflower ay flower says he lost track of the volunteer and was becalmed cal all night the bedouin beat the priscilla by a very harrow margin taking the first prize of that class wisconsin august 9 forest fires have broken out again in this vicinity and are causing much damage to logging camp sleds and other camp outfits the loss is heavy near the same place is a jam of thousands of logs the fire is within a mile of the jam and blowing toward it august hazley a farmer seven miles from here has lost cords of wood fire broke out yesterday erday on wedges creek west of here and is spreading fast this is in the neighborhood of he witts ville which was destroyed by fire just a year ago yesterday considerable sid erable apprehension is felt feit here and the city has been thoroughly I 1 by the water works everything is very dry and if theres th ereis no bain xain ain within the next twenty four hours greater damage than last year may be expected news has been received that the large stave mill of hein meyer on wedges creek together with thousands of dollars worth of staves is in great danger and a crew of men has started from the city to fight the flames A fierce fire is raging in Wood marth portage and a force ot men la is hard at work fIrlit fla ahting ing the tire fire A amount m an W was swept away and other er wip in lunacy for the department of chart charl aties and correction today to day reported that they had examined mooney the alleged dynamiter who set fire to the queen and found him insane I 1 marblehead Mass Angust August 9 the volunteer cross crossed edithe the finish fluis hline line at at am winner of the offered b by J pierrepont morgan for first class s PI oops in the mile race of the new york yacht club squadron from marthas vineyard to marblehead when the volunteer crossed the line with scarcely wind enough to give her headway her rivals were hull bull down on the southern horizon tull full six miles astern as the wind had been feht light since yesterday afternoon afern oon when the yachts had been beating around cape cod and when dead calm prevailed for hours at a time ainther alone the south shore during daring the night this hist result shows the splendid work of the new sloop in light wind while her windward sailing yesterday in which she out pointed every competitor proves her to without be a rival under such conditions CHICAGO august 9 telegrams received this morning from central points ants throughout the entire miles or of the drought stricken northwestern country show the the tearful sun scorching ol of all vegetation continues unmitigated mitigated UH and not a drop of rain has fallen except os 08 of an inch at des moines local observation in various districts gives but little hope of a break within the coming 24 hours A trifle cooler weather and scattered light showers are expected in some places but the conditions are such that if the possible little moisture and coolness are at all delayed the effect will be totally lost in the seemingly genera rise in the temperature from end to end of the drought region GRAND RAPIDS mich august 9 forest fires are raging in the north part of kent co at sand lake fire got into the pine slashing and sometimes came near devouring the village farm houses and villages were BARELY SAVED woods Wood sand and fields in every direction about cedar springs are on fire and aad retty pretty much every everybody bod is J s engaged in righting the flames trafin trying g to save firm farm property several residences were yesterday surrounded by fire and with great effort were saved if rain does not dot come there will bp be heavy losses crops are suffering terribly fire broke out in the pines near grandville yesterday p in there is danger of the village burning up op fires are also burning in the marshes near the city and the smoke is thick all about mich 9 wind this am a m has saved the town which seemed doomed by the ap fires DUBLIN august 9 alice barry defied the police who went to execute a writ of eviction adaist her at knock ladt antrim today to day she barricaded barricades barrica ded her house and with the assistance of friends defended it for a long time I 1 against the large force of officers who tried to take it by storm and who were many times repulsed by volleys of stones and streams of boiling water thrown upon them the police policed finally nally camtu captured red the ho house use by a charl charge e with fixed bayonets but not until until many were hurt and one was badly pitch forked five of the defenders of alice bar barrys IS house were placed under arrest ST louis aug 9 S jerry who murdered saml kohn for which he was to be hanged friday was found fouad dead in his cell this morning it seems page lith after ter cutting an artery of his arm W with a pen knife wrapped his arm in a towel allowing the end to rest in a bucket that the dripping of blood not attract attention killed kohn two years ago kohn koha was a salesman for a rival tanner and secured trade the case after passing through the courts was api appealed apnea baled led to Jus justice itice harlan and again last las saturday to justice miller of of the U S supreme court for a writ of error it was denied in each case and escageda escaped the gallows by suicide CITY OF MEXICO aico xico via galveston august 9 is enacting the role of a mexican wiggins having predicted a terrible earthquake for this pity city tomorrow to morrow considerable alarm is among tile the class who accept the predictions as being founded on superior knowledge according to the city will be partly destroyed tomorrow to morrow with an enormous loss of life he has or pretends to have an instrument which chic h by means of magnetized water enables him to predict earthquakes with accuracy months before their occurrence and claims to have predicted tile the earth qu ike in the early part of the summer SAN FRANCISCO aug 8 9 walter murray gibson late premier of the hawaiian government is still in the city but says he be will return in a short time to honolulu despite the opposition of the revolutionary or constitutional tut ional party to him some criticism having been passed upon his statement that the united states govern ment mant would not like the course that affairs had bad taken in honolulu he be was asked by the associated press representative senta tive what the attitude of the united states government or its designs were toward the hawaiian Is lands GIBSON SAID in reply that the united sta statsia a T eminent had bad bella compelled it at att been steadily endeavoring to im improve I 1 rove their positions in hawaii great britain was in possession of the fil fiji islands and germany German Thad had her eye upon the samoan group samoa has I 1 said the aged ex premier two contending in sovereigns Mile toa undoubtedly t the oe right rightful fal sovereign and recognized as such by the united states and ta la masses the pretender who is supported by german influence and with guns supplied by german merchants and is thereby able to maintain an armed opposition the contention of these TWO chieftains has interfered with the business of the country to such an extent that the united states great britain and germany have so far interfered as to send commissioners to investigate and their report has resulted in a conle conference rence at washington to decide upon what course coarse is best to pursue and germany desired to take the harbor harbo r leaving the united states and great britain each to take the island mr gibson said he believed it to be the policy of the united states to preserve the autonomy of polynesia wherever it is possible to promote self government on the islands the R hawaiian liia government go had stepped in in to afford samoa a settled government samoa has bias proposed an act of confederation with hawaii he believed the united states looked upon this move with favor but THE revolution at honolulu had bad interrupted this diplomatic scheme samoa as a consequence might might fall under german control whether er the united states would seek to prevent it he could not say he held to the view that the united states would 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