Show fi RE E 0 EMS LA t an opium dar him 6 life DE AD WORK he claims a host of victims 3 I 1 EITEN BY A DEVIL FISH southern negroes surrounded but resolved to fight I 1 tarl on mines sal calamities alami ties pit fears 6 1 R in denver by western arns wo tax STANDARD TILE of captain durants Du rants Cli armel life and the loney his daring has brought dim chicago doe ai an interesting 6 tory is hinted this morning of the operations of the opium smuggling gang one of whose leaders captain durant so narrowly from the customs officers at band beach mich a week ago A correspondent ya durant and his lieutenant charles are living in 0 at the beat hotel in sarnia a nd R r 0 lionized by the residents of that little canadian town the correspondent corres had a bonit talk with them yest erd they hi been smuggling gling opium or the last two e a r a A a d bave succeeded in success 1 landing hundreds of thousands u of acl lars worth of the costly drug on the other side without being detected but this last consignment they took over was discovered and seized by government detectives and it came near east ing durant his life four detectives aid him in the woods it night av him at great vai aar ana tried their beat to end h 1 if by standing ten feet away and firing twenty shots at him rapid slon but durant has a charmed life and made his escape without inbur everyone around sarnia knows M to be one of tile most darin g smugglers who ever exchanged shots with the custom house officers they know also that he Is one of ilia trusted agents of a rich syndicate that was or several years ago for the ex ot smuggle 1 1 P i 1 l n 1 je pui U mt from ki e t 0 r i a the a syndicate ilaa live millions be hind t and ia largely controlled by a man in victoria known as boas liar ris 11 lie is immensely rich and makes no effort to conceita conc eitl the fact that he is the biggest smuggler in the dominion lie always has a ia L r e ad bk account here and h t the cashier of one of the leading banks that ike and h Is alsoc assoc I 1 atea had made millions out of the opium As an illustration of tile big money to be made out of the business he said he brought down a consignment of opium from victoria to sarnia and employed two men to carry it across the river to port huron where it was shipped to california the m e n carried the drug which was packed in tin cans in their coat pockets and rode across the river on the regular passenger ferry boats although customs of ficere are con scantly stationed on ferries the men who transported the drug were not do backed and the entire consignment was carried over m less than a week three it I 1 t a dreadful death 14 J dee 21 while three workmen were slating the roof of st anns itoman catholic cli firth this morning the scaffold broke precipitating the men to the sidewalk 40 feet below about a ton of slate fell upon the pros men and bu r led them completely when extricated al m bojt lifeless condition and probably w 11 not recover death or a noted liberator boardm doe 21 hon S E sew ell died here yesterday ile became early interested in the anti alave cause and was associated with liam lloyd garrison in es tab lishing t he in 1831 lie was coun belfor the defence of sims anthony burns and other fugitive slaves ile ad the arguments and ahlsted trial of john brown el battles death manchester N if dee 21 ex con essman geo W alardin died ed 79 while a member of the gd congress he made a i lion to the kansas antiro aich gave him ma dional reputation Mord ored forstey rattle ark dec 21 abas a prosperous firmer and his wife were murdered yesterday sold a lot of cotton tile day before so it Is believed he was murdered money there Is no clue to the mar deters hi a W r office doe ai an alleged con ra cy has been discovered in the union office ranging from officials to messenger boys by which 11 py P tem of stealing has been going 0 a in 1 r directors drw YORK dee 21 W L bali of the stock exchange has mn chosen director of the northern pacific vice 0 abbott resigned goofy bame drw boric dee I among the anthe steamer australia rou gibraltar nov 29 which aktiv ed today to day was moses who comes to this country to prefer chang so against W aeed lewis united states consul at tangiers Tan giers and ilia two ben agull says consul lewis conspired to place him in prison at fez where lay for 50 days because lie refused to pay him for the protection of the united states government ern ment while engaged in piloting american merchants being a met chant himself through the country to make purchases ile gives the names of fellow is I 1 who he claims I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 veto A indeed out of burns r R ging from to by consul low a and his assistants assi t in his two years of servile low Is list collected front merchants for amarls can protection not less thin I 1 flurry to oil tv yom doe 21 I t is currently ie ported that tile standard oil win will gisetto certificates for jama any I 1 on january 1 and wil I 1 advance the price the standard glida ls do dot the above dated at il adford la created a panic on the petroleum exchange this mor bink and the price quickly drop ped under it jos from to 88 14 this owed by react lod after 11 M dec 21 I 1 here was al most a panic in the market WO morning it opened at 02 and rose to 93 followed by a beneral selling three million barrels quickly sold down to then there was a reaction at noon when 89 bid I 1 Mo lement igaina L 1 drw bonic dec meeting of railroad presidents and bankers was held yesterday but ada loureed till today to day the bankers r nt the leading of this country abid europa plan was formed for discussion intended to protect railroad security it aldera here and 81 d contern plates notifying officials in all cases whose management Is is factory that Is responsible for such administration will be requested to resign tile action grows out of tile general rate war SIA 18 OMM DENVER dec 21 all men in the union yards about seventy in the men demand an increase of we of five cents per hour that they be given six additional men and that the local agento smith under w hose direction they are now work n b 0 r e me ved and b 5 n d e r A ard TI i I 1 PI a tir h old it A c 0 o fa e with the offic r of the road anti the pro babil aties are the matter will be amicably settled within the next 24 hours I 1 thorough bolog aej bec ai an im experiment was successfully the naval academy proving grounds today to day A steel pointed iron weighing pounds was from one of tile new steel breech loading rifled guns of tile new cruiser chicago which penetrated a steel tar get ten inches thick and cut through it P 1 M oak back the experiment Is as likely to have in important bearing on modern naval war jare the negroes aa dal bot desperate Dek tenn dee 21 the A mer beans special who has been at wahalak alesse tele grap it a from artesia miss tonight to night 1 I it a v e just received a note from ilia hills r e porting the negroes surrounded and allowing fight they outnumber ill e whites who will defer the attack un til aid colaes at similar telegrams have been sent 0 all adjoining towns representing the necessity for more men as roof to a will fill W idec 1 Dec 21 the body of 6 J hughes of the united states 1 Bur w ho bell overboard from barvier vIer jamr auget sou nd two weeks A recovered tao day thi t h scene of the abeld en t an immense octopus or devil fish was fastened to one leg and is thought P have been the cause of his death cut late an the lorti erm rati lit cil icaco dec ai by a cut in rate 13 iron st baul west the northern pa ciale Is now carrying second clan passengers from chicago to portland for 30 the regular rato is tile canada pacific claims a differential of ta and makes the rate 31 with first class rates proportionate the cut applies to intermediate points death of dilson bostax dee 21 allver ditson w hose biame Is a household word in this counte wherever music Js a ung or taught d it I 1 is afternoon at home in east brookline street ill city eged 77 years ilia death was not entirely unexpected as he has been III since 15 months ago when symptoms i the were noticed Cat bolis churtz property COLUMBUS 0 dee 21 th a su afternoon de c ded a cue growing butof the assignment of archbishop purcell of cincinnati the object of ilia suits was to force the sale of church property including the catholic catbe dM in Cincinnat ifor aho benefit of creditors the decision olt he court is against the creditors L fight far tunis dec 21 furty arms d arab had become tired of waiting for their ages ilia eked a farm near the farm was defended by thirteen italians the arabs were repulsed with a loss of one killed and seven wounded four of the italians were wounded another one cota to canda st PAUL dee 21 A special to tile pioneer irreas from hillock blinn says I 1 dr agent of ilia cited river elevator company at 9 tep ben sit p voa of bla am rs nd 1000 borrowed floars Floy bu n of stephen ile carta about an steamer St oamer naw ai the french steamship marseilles which silted from bordeaux noy 25 for new orleans direct with a cargo 0 I 1 met chandise chan diso and is several dayo fearno are e u terfa ined wanamaker for the camast doe M A special antho abw from indianapolis as 5 john knain kerwill be a emte of the biow net ile has not been formally noti llod of big appointment but knows a will be ton dereU to him atit stars 0 1 4 als dec 21 the national council of administration of ill grand army today to day decided to hold the encampment next year in milwaukee during tile last week I 1 august the opening day augun it I 1 w A brussels e r announces that president an tarl r S cleveland will visit europe soon after the lion of Clev elands term oi office 1 I 1 |