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Show rESTKUCTIVK FOREST FIKKS. Railway Track llcing Deittroyed hy the Karagei of the Fiend. St. Ignace, Mich., July 11. One of the most destructive forest tires which ever swept the Northern peninsular is raging between Marquette and this city,' aloug the line of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railroad. For 100 miles nothing can be seen but a mass of lurid flames and dense smoke. Large crowds of men are stationed along the railway tracks fighting the lire, but the " flames are gaining headway. It is feared the track will be destroyed between Newberry New-berry and Seny Bridges, across Small Creeks. There are now several bridges burning, and trains are compelled to stop and extinguish the flames. Telegraph Tele-graph poles have been burned and the wires are rendered useless. Some of the small villages along the railroad track are in danger of being wiped out. The inhabitants have been fighting the lire for the past few days, and are now almost exhausted and have applied to the railroad officials for aid. It is feared seven loggers along the banks of Tahquamanon and Fox rivers have lost their lives. Sault St. Marie, July 11. Reports Re-ports received here late to-night state that heavy showers have decked to a great extent the forest fires which have been raging the past few days in this section. X Shipwrecked Crew's Hardships. PHirrsBUKO, Maine, July 11. Cap tain Joseph Perry, of the bark Hustler, ias just arrival ho re from, a long sea voyage. The Hustler was launched in Bath last November, and sailed for cattle, with a cargo of iron pipe. While going around the Horn bad weather was encountered, and the vessel ves-sel was wrecked on a sunken rock in Na sail Bay, forty miles west of Deceit Island. The crew left in boats, and rowed to an island ninety miles distant, on which there was a missionary station. sta-tion. The stayed there twenty-five days, and then went to Southampton, England, and from there returned home. The Unknown Man Identified. Waterloo, Iowa, July 11. The body of the unknown man who committed suicide here yesterday has been identified identi-fied as that of Alonzo Dibble, a wealthy farmer living near Cannon Falls, Minn. The identification was made by a neighbor of his who came here to take charge of the remains. Dibble was insane in-sane over the loss of his wife and had been missing from his home since June 20. Sentenced for Shooting: Her Husbund. Vveisbaden', July 11. Mrs. O'Neill, who shot and dangerously wounded her husband in May last, was to-day sentenced to four months imprison ment. The couple had not lived together to-gether for four years past and hearing one day that her husband had installed another woman in his home, she called him out and shot him. Cowboys Arrested. Caldwell, Kas., July 11. Capt. Hill, U. S. A., with Company A of infantry, in-fantry, established his headquarters at Pond Creek, 1. T., and is carrying out to the letter the orders to expel all occupants of the Cherokee strips. Today To-day numerous cowboys were arrested and sent to Guthrie. Jeff Davis Bequeathed to Richmond. New Yokk, July 11. The World to-morrow will say: "Mrs. Jefferson Davis has addressed a letter to the veterans and people of the Southern states saying, after much anxious thought she has finally decided to give to Richmond, Va., the care of her husband's hus-band's immortal body." A Snd Aflair. Louisville, Ky., July 11. While crossing a railroad bridge near Somerset, Somer-set, Larkin Jones and wife were surprised sur-prised by a passenger train, The man jumped 150 feet down into the creek and was fatally injured. Ais wife was killed by the train. Killed by a Fulling Elevator. Cincinnati, July 11. A special from Columbus. Ind.. savs James Bron- son was instantly killed and three fatally injured to-night b the falling of an elevator in which they were riding. A Chicago House Falls Down.. Chicago, July 11. By the falling of the wall of the building being erected on Adams and Dearborn streets this evening, three workmen were fatally injured and a number of others painfully pain-fully hurt, Choked His Victim to Death. Omaha, July 11, A negro, supposed to be named Frank Price, choked to death Mrs. Fanny Tate, also colored, after criminally assaulting her, The murderer has not yet been captured. Chopped to Death by Stepdaughters. Little Rock, July 11. Near Duncan, Dun-can, I. T., an Indian named Nueinto, was chopped t death with an ax by his stepdaughters yesterday. Destroyed by Ligntninc. Vienna, July 11. During the storm to-day eighteen, farmhouses at New Lengbacb were destroyed by lightning. were six to seven thousand regulars in line, and about 16,000 volunteers, all under the command of the Duke of Cambridge, commander-in-chief of the British army. At 4 o'clock the emperor and party arrived, and the artillery thundered out a salute while the German imperial standard was run up on the flagstaff at the reviewing stand, instead of the British standard. The Emperor, accompanied ac-companied by the Prince of Wales and staff, iu brilliant uniforms, was followed fol-lowed by an escort of life guards. As the Emperor and. party drew rein and . saluted, they were received by the Di ke of Cambridge and staff, w'hile a royal salute was tired by the artillery. The Emperor was dressed in the uniform uni-form of a field marshal. After the salute, they inspected the troops, the Emperor Beeming favorably impressed. After the inspection, the troops passed the reviewing st""nd, the march lasting an hour and a half. The commanding com-manding officers of several corps were personally complimented by the Emperor Em-peror on the appearance of their troops. After all the troops marched past, they again reformed, presented arms, and another royal salute was fired, and the review ended. The Emperor then started for the Crystal Palace, where he is to witness inu parade oi tue oiunieer nre ae-partnient, ae-partnient, followed in the evening by a grand display of fire works. Split in the Alliance Party. Fort Worth, July 11. The principle princi-ple feature of the State Alliance convention con-vention this morning was the speech of U. S. Hall, president, of Missouri. He charges that McCune has sold out for a money consideration to protectionists, protec-tionists, and iu furtherance of that bargain bar-gain the third party move was inaugurated inau-gurated in the south to divert the Democratic Dem-ocratic vote. He said hat it was no disgrace for such a dishonest man as McCune to get into the Alliance, but it would become a disgrace if lie was not turned out. President Hall was loudly applauded. It is believed the outcome of the convention will be a split of the State Alliance, one faction representing the third party, and the other the Democratic wing. St. Louis, July 11. A special from Topeka, Kan., says: Alliance leaders in Kansas are greatly chagrined at the action of certain leaders of the Southern South-ern Alliance, in calling the Ft. Worth convention to resolve against the sub-treasury sub-treasury idea, claiming it is a scheme of the southern Democrats to break up the alliance, and that prominent Democratic Dem-ocratic Congressmen are at the bottom of th scheme. They fear this is the beginning of a movement tJ disrupt the Kansas organization. There were thousands of Republicans who affiliated affili-ated with the People's party last fall who will follow the course of the southerners, south-erners, and go back to the old party. Fort W'obth. Tay. .Inlr II Tlii , afternoon, resolutions were adopted , denopneirg the sub-'reiasury and land loan schemes and governmental ownership owner-ship of railroads, as a violation of the first principles of good government, as parental in their character, as centralizing cen-tralizing In their tendencies, and if enacted into law would create such a hoard of office-holders as would fasten the clutches of the party in power upon the people. The resolutions demand that those men who are not farmers be removed from the National and State offices of order. They appeal to all honest members of the alliance throughout the United States to unite 5 in putting down this common enemy, j Nli-olay Fires Back at Colonel McClur. ! Washington, July 11. Mr. Nicola. ; is out with a reply to the latest communication com-munication from Col. McClure. He says he will not allow McClure to retreat re-treat in a cloud of vituperation and reiterates his previous assertion as to McClure's mis-statements, and goes over the ground again to prove his position. He quotes a dispatch from B. C. Cook, who was chairman of the Illinois delegation at the Baltimore convention, and who says Nicolay's statement that Lincoln was in favor of Hamlin is correct. Cook further says he went to see Lincoln personally after the receipt of the note which Nicolay quoicu iu ma pievious statement. After the interview with him, Cook was positive that Hannibal Hamlin was Lincoln's favorite, and says the fact is further proven by the action of the entire Illinois delegation, which was a unit for Hamlin. Nicolay goes on to say that if McClure received Lincoln's instruction to vote for Johnson, he betrayed be-trayed them when he went back to Baltimore, and as a member of the Pennsylvania delegation, cast a vote for Hannibal Hamlin. Claus Spreckles in Germany. Berlin, July 11. Mr. Claus Snreck-els, Snreck-els, of San Francisco, and Mr. William Seligman, the prominent banker, are sojourning at Marien Baid, and Mrs. Pi rrepont Morgan is at Munich. He Gobbled More Than His Share. Omaha, July 11.-Richards & Co., building contractors, have filed their application for the appointment of a receiver. re-ceiver. The company's affairs are in bad shape. The amount Involved is believed to be about $50,000. The petition alleges that the partnership I was equal between Messrs. Richards and Leveille, but that the latter has misappropriated the funds, taking more than his share to pay his personal debts. " He Wants Protection. Lonoox, July 11. The Rome cor- j respondent of the London edition of the j New York Htrald, telegraphs his pa- Ter that. it. is rumored t.lm l(M:it n. thoritiea of Catonia, a city of "icily. I have violated the U. S." Consulate! there, and that the Consul has asked the officials at Washington for a perm, t j to close his office andplacethe archives under the protection ot the German flag. i Investigating Indian Abuses. Chicago, July 11. General Miles has sent Captain Huggins, one of his aides, to the Indian agencies along the Upper Missouri river, with the object, it is said, of inquiring into the abuses alleged to exist in the treatment by Indian agents of their charges. Flayed Alive. Ancomo, Texas, July 11. A dissolute disso-lute man who made indecent proposals to the wife of a respectable citizen of this town yesterday, was caught to-day, stripped to the skin, and a blacksnake whip applied so vigorously that the man will die. Because of the sympathy accorded a negro, the slayer of J, S, Love, on Monday, by t.wo colored brethren, all tho negroes have been warned by the white citizens to leave the town in ten days, under a severe penalty. |