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. Job Punting A DEMOCRATIC! WEEKLY. fig i PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -o _ rify In \ l Lenin-one. MY, , EVERY DESCRIPTION $1.00 Por Year Stridtiyfil'n Advance. JOHN WikGOox® >- >. EDITOR, rates made. known on spghcnblon. f : ~ -DONEIN-* ~ |The Latest Style -AT THE- VERY LOWEST PRICES NO. 41. - NEWS OF THE WEEK, (Wednesday, Aug. 11. Beginning .mext October, Japan will have a gold currency, Four French offcers ascended mount :Blanc In: the. Alps of Savoy. - The death by drowning of the. Ama. on explorer Fiscrrrald is reported. 'Henry 8. Maroy, 'president of th¢ Fitchburg rallroad, died 'of apoplexy at 'his hoine In: Belmont, Mass. + A large force of British troops Is. be- ing sent from England, it is belloved, to 're-enforce the Nile expedition. The Cramps brought sult against the government for over $1,700,000 damages alleged to have been sustained ln build- Ing warships. \Herbert Willits, who was serving a term of life imprisonment in the Charlestown (Maes.) prison, was'badly ' wounded while trying to escape. Président McKinley and Vice Presi- dent Hobart visited the Catholic sum- mer school at Plattsburg, N. Y., and. made a'trip through the Au Sable chasm. Governor, Atkinson of West Virginia, | in remitting the fine and sentence of 8 OUR NEW YQRK LETTER husband who had shot and serlously' 'wounded a rival, expressed regrot that Great Cost otnunningnnerge ty-The Btdck. Company Bcoom- BL the latter was not killed. - cycle Brake Brown's Heart, . I= th Author at \Lyric.- nt Lové and ' Mature.\ \ NewYork, Aug. was a case-of love at-first sight with Senator Hana- brough _ of North Dakota. when he met {Miss Mary Berri Chapman. Th? whe & Paris, Aug. ' and 'Prince Henrwbt 0 duel withrswordnet dawell, who e dangerous |. ondi-his ' depth four months: ao: Yesterday. afternoon they. were, martled-quletly at the! home of her mother, 'Mrs.. E. 8, Chapman in the Burlington, 10 'West Thitticth street. A calender, graceful woman entered Mrs. Frances Hodgson, Burnett's draw- 'fng room- In. Washington: dne evening last spring,\ Ble was attractive, \spiri- |« | tulle,\ 'as the \French would say, aind intellectual rather- than pretty, with delicate features, get off by a mass of wavy blond hair, Everybody noticed to save him; bu that they.. were drowning iman. Absolutely Pure. Celebrated forits preat leavening strength and healthfulness, . Assures the food ngnlnsrni unidniibrormds oh Bgulxizmlinn eaommon cl up rands, BAKING POWDER NEW YORK, CO vseerlous ~wound® lip ''and the rightj iide of the abdo {Count of Turin was wounded In the [right hand.\ Prin { the residence ed on.. the plery Purl-nth nearly lost i ting to sa < taken. from the. ' haustedi 'conditio: guards named. Reé in the water and.3 Lnswell came as ; over to -a. local; unde nker who pre- pared It for shipment Laswell. checked h . bathhouse where Ing sult he layighingl a clerk; \T will leay dress, so. that In case T.am drow ou can send my valuables home, The Jest was tragedy In-less than an hour. The second drowning occurred about 3 o'clock yesterday. afternoon, and the body of the drowned.mian had not come ashore at a late, Kow The' surf yesterday 'was the heaviest of the season, owln@: to a gale which prevailed,. and be ng E and 30 per- sons wore rescued ny. of them woe - men, | TELEGRAPH T. LONDIKE, 'The Canadian: , Construct Washington, Aug. government has submitted formal pro- osals' to this government to establish communication with the Klondike re- glon in Alaska by the construction of o use that-of his.own country, 'but the |, & telegraph ling fromthe head of win- ter navigation onthe Lynn canal into «to ba of equal. length, elttier | be\ efqllberty Q5 maintain the center of the Klo dike district, The h unncu under-ut C 1 -|- the groun ne #aing and exon to be a1- > visement. - They: ‘hav \been approved [ by the British secretary of state for Thursday, Aug. 1%, . The torpedo boat Dupont on her offi- clal trial trip made an average speed of 28.58 knots an hour. Drunami, the fugitive king of Benin, surrendered himsolf to the British au« thorities on the west coast of Africa. 'The body of the murdered premler of Spain, Senor Camovas del Castillo, reached Madrid and lay in state at his late home. & Jacob B. Coxey was nominated by ace clamation for governor by the Populist state convention of Ohio in session at Columbus. The emperor and ¢mpress of Ge ny seid goodby to the czar and czar ne Bnd left St. Petersburg In the yacht Hohenzollern. R The steamer Mexico, ledeo with gold seekers, tourists and supplies, was lost on the coast of Alaska. Tho paesongera and crew escaped in boats. President McKinley and Vice Presi- dent Hobart made an excursion to Lake Placld and drove to the grave of John-Brown at North Elba, N. Y. Fridny, Aug. 10, Ass: Charles Jackson, an American, committed sulclde In England. President McKinley took a trip 'to Vermont as the guest of Senator Red- field Proctor, [Special Correspondence.] Few persons have any iden of the enormous cost of running s big city like New York. The finance committeo of the board of aldermen reported to the board at its last meeting the amourit to be added to the city budget of 1897 for deficiencies and the board adopted a resolution fixing tho tax rate for the | year .at $2.10 con the $100 of assessed valuation. The amount added this year for do-, ficiencies is $002,000. 'The estimato is - rande up in. the finance department and tranamitted to the financial committee of the board of aldermen and by tho lat- ter reported to-the_fall=board, with a resolution fixing the tox rato for the year, The budgot for the year is $44,420,- 550. To this was added the sum of $902,000, the estimate for deficiencies, reaking the total amount to be raised by taxation this year $45,881,550; Tho total assessed value of property this year is $2,108,005,850. To raiso amount of the final budgetit will be thilomJuly 6 demanding This detter. could not be: nawered: u Aug. 11, \the day.of the ta ivailot‘ Prince Henry in France. 'The ,p ince repii to. the count's. demand |. ' m, maintaining the right of i: tm retraction, 'on the gonduct of which has shor w MRS. w SBROUGH. her, and had:t n-a ball- would prob- ably bave acknowledged Miss Chapman the belle; |_ But {it was a and all of Washington's Hterary world was there- men of letters, artists, «statesmen and diplomats, Miss Chapman, the young author of \Lyrics of Love and Nature,\ was the center of a brillant coterie. BSonator Hansbrough was one of them. Professor 'Trenténove, the sculptor, presented him to Miss Chapman later in the evening, . A few nights afterward Proposes to 'The: weapon- to be;the\ducling-sword each combatant junction: is not so sweeping as has been thong}; that only the five. men named in' 3,000 /men'in Elaborate preperntionu are., being made: for the -decoration- of the build- frigs' of the clty, and the will | [foreign affairs and were forwarded by the governor general of Canada through , the British embassy. to. the state de- [ partment and referred: to the interior department. There the papers are lock~ ed up pending consideration. The proposals, while résorving the {rights of elther country pending the ettlement of the atnational bound- ry line between the United States and | Canada south of Mount StEllas, urge the expediency .of eatablishing a. per- [ they met again. and soon Mr. Hans- brough was a frequent caller at Miss Chapman's home ati1617 Kingman place. Perhapa she saw the way things wore «going and did not wish to play the part Of the coquette. At any rate, a month after they became nequainted, she told him of her plang for the future. \I shall never marry,\ she said, \I am wedded to my work,.\ He explained that mar- {rlago need not Interfere with her liter- ary efforts, but did not persuade her of that Just then, Although he realized that he hada powerful rival in her ambi- tlon, hé set himself to the task of win- C. 8. Mullen and Danie! 8. Lamofit were chosen respectively president and vice president of the Northern Pacific. Preparations for the national regat- ta on the Schuylkill river at phia were completed. 'Ten Eyck will not row. Thomas Edison is building at Weal Portal, N. J., great concentrating worki for the reduction of low grade fron ore by electricity. Owing to the refusal of M. Stolloff, the Bulgarian .premjer, to apologize for an insulting letter, diplomatic relations between Austria and Bulgaria have necessary to fix the tax rate ab $2.10;° The increaso in the nssessed valine property over 1896 is only $62,150,951; Thero figures nro staggerer When tha budget is made up for Greater New York next year, they will bo énough al- most to tike one's breath nway. > Return of the Stock Company, It is the opinion of Acton Davies, the well known critic, thnt there ought fo. be a lot of clever actors developed 'this winter, (Neatly every large city in the - vountry hns decided to bave at least on stook company of its owl, aild \the xe= rult is already shown by the fact that almost every actor in New York who is known .to possess the lenstA-cmtilit; lins been anapped up by ons. or another . the Canadian authorities, would be sun-b from the head of winter i ton on the Lynd canal, 'body of | watér running from near Juneau u nbeyond Dyen and Chilkat, ning: her, . 'This litéle talk on the borderlands of Tove wasdoubtless followed by others, and It/was not very long.afterward be» ore she changed her mind and thought been severed. The obeequies of the late Premier Catiovas dol 'Castlile will be held in Madrid today, 'The trial of the nesns- sin Goill will begin before a court mar eron. Miller; Uriah Belltig- | 112m and; Edward MoKay, are restrain- from marching. \trespassing. on the Public exo {of the present overland route, oromy'th as he. dld, Then she named the day, tial on Saturday, of theso now organizations. Managers: wore obliged to take refogs in the. old - stock system ngain on sccount: of) the {mountains by the White pass or: y other pass which seem ' gensible and. proceed northward to Fort yesterday, 'and at 5. o'clocke they wero marrled with as Iittle-ceremony' as pos- {will be held at Music hall In ithe\ Bdttivday, Auk, 14 Lord Kelvin and the Marquis Ito ar- dition . t e Prealdent 'W, P. De Armitt- by again his former employees for wages, three An: ¢riminal sults nturdn 'by. Samuel De Armitt, haul ctiminal. sult, charging ar- tteryi Sho. says In. her : er. husband -was not at Firm, and De Armitt took her by the ouldera and, threw her out o! the, | ouse; fhe 'may. he held <a hatchet Aboyé-hor head. and. threatened to. kill: Her two children, one & sick boy, thrown from the house; rotol, her husband, .also sues Ps Amitt for larceny, \He claims that tefevicting his wife and children and |. throwing 'his. household goods in. the 'road De Atmillt took away with him a will also' be. one: at the speakers evening, © Brig-dim- General! Wh president, Burlington; Vi.. \Br-vat Golo: nel Horatio c. King, recording secreln- ; HENRY OF ORLEANS. combat to\ be: resumed In- the-positions j :occupfed. and.only to terminate on the | decision of 'the: four seconds or the ad-] tors; <when one of. the: |f \ adversaries manifestly» In' a state of | Inferlorityi: the conduct of: the meeting | to. be intrusted. alternately to 'the two |: parties} Tota being drawn. at commendé- ment, ~ This' Intter. feature of: the mango‘ + fient was due' to the formal, objection by the seconda: of Prince Henty of Or leans to the direction 'of the encounter by a fifth party, At a later mecting |; : the upon, the render- ! Selkirk and tiicnce to Klondike. A KLONDIKE IN JERSEY. Two Men: Think They Hare: Yound Gold and Other Kinds of Ninos. Aug. 11-8, Cromwell : Roberts 'of this place and E. C? Plerce of Paterson are confident that they have: discovered a gold mine in New Jersey. Thel® find. i In the IXikeout mountains, near Butler, Roberts was: In Paterson: with speci- . meng of the ore taken out, and Ahey seemed to bear out his claims, 'Trages of allver, gold, carbon, antimony and lead are shown. 'The vein of ore:that : contains gold, , Roberts 'declares, . 3 feet wid d extends an ind: nite dis- tance Into the rock, . The copper vein is said to be y 1100. feet. wide; The other minerals are: sible. ’ An Unostontations Wedding, The apartments of Miss Chapman: mother at the Burlington. were trimmed with 'flowers.> 'The doorg, were hung with curtains of green, ropes of smilax | caught up with bunches of pink asters and white hydranges:~ The fireplace in . parlor was hidden. behind: palms 'and banked with flowers, and before It the bride and bridegroom stood, while . the Re rv Bradner of the Church 'of the Ascensionread: the simple marriage service' of the Episcopal church and pronounced them: mah and wite. - There wore no bridesmalds or ushers. There was nothing formal about the af- falf. Even the conventional bridal gown of white satin was ignored. Mrs. Hane- - brough wore acorn colored silk frock; It. It was trimmed with ruchings of mafee tulle. She./wore a white leghorn with a brocaded:stripe running through | : boarder kidnaped her. rived In New York on the steamer Cam» enormous demands how made by the pania. The president visited the Vermont state camp at Chestor and reviewed the troops. An muiung in the killing of 73 Insurgents, took place at a military prison in the Philippines. The difficulties in the way of reach- Ing the Klondike fields are discouraging the gold seekers on Sir Isaso Holden, M. P., Inventor of the luciter match. and of a carding ma- ching for wool, died In England, aged 9L Comimissloner Powderly - immigration officials. to. watch for the 0 Pacific comkt. Instructed railroads for | transporting theatrical companies from place to place. Amoag - the smallet fry railrond ace. have . reached such an exorbitant figure that after paying their railroad bills and the Tocal expenses in each town arly chance pf profit was out of the question. For some of the young notors who have been acenstomed to apport in one' role from ono and of the season to. the other the stock company work will prove rather n surprise party, Bat 4 will demonstrate protty thoroughly how ' arrival of anarchists in this country. , Aunla Garrison is inlssing from flu home of 'her fostér parents iff Rhine- beck, N, Y., and It is believed that a Monday, Aug. 16. many of them nro actors and how m mro imorely tho impersonators of one particular part. Good For the Playwrights. For the authors, too, in the opinion of Mr. Davies, this revival of 'the stock: found In nearly All the spécimens, pent are. to analyze the oréi - 'The dis- 'coverars are confident that the result will warrant working the minow. on & system is going to prove a great boom. With 20 or 80 companics constantly on. *> the lookout formew material, all the: American authors of any consequence, ° hat, net off \wi . plumes. Mrev Chapman, who: gave: her: ‘dluxht’r away, was dressed: In: gray and white grenadine over white satin. The body bf Pom Kwang Soh, former. Ty Korean to this country; was cremated in Washington. A 'Withita (Kan.) Sunday school au gallon keg of wine and a §16 revolver of Crotot's and has since refused to re- 'turn. then \{den't has selected 'na 'minist sis: Nathan A, Hitchcock of St. Louls, d Mr, Hitchéock: has accepted.. '~Nathan Allen: Hitchcotk uni-zip.- pauhflan’n-lhu » Ta the first assault Prince Henry; was The Strike In Eastern flung-Inuit. R Balaton, Pa., Aug. 11-Twenty-fve grandsor-of Colonel Ethan All captured Fort Tleonderoga® \In the name\ ndred miners, of / the Lehigh ant Vglikesbme folleries in. the . Honey Brook district are now on strike.. This / Of, astern: Pennsylyanis. Apart from the wage question, th 'men. demand the 'dlicharge or transfe perintendent JTonés, and 'the feeling\ sgainet him ll #0 strong (that he moyse atmed escorts nd 'his: house is guarded 'long conference between the apex-Mon and executive board of 'the miners: of 'Cherokee and Crawford-countles action vorable to the men: remaining at work .] He Ras since been. acilvely engaged in In 1835, where he remained until when the family moved to Tennessoe, | New Haven, young. Bt. In 1851 and gaged in busi- ness up to 160, when he went to China to. mccept employment In. the firm: b! Oliphant & Co: 'Mr, Hitchcock nnulned in China for 1% years, returning. to St. Touls in 174 : business in: nut—city as president of several large manufacturing and Tall« way corporations, which positions he hax resigned to amp: this \imminent Turin was hit In the- back of the: right band, but {he weapon dId not penétrata beyond, Ihe “Mull-Hem“ cellular tise his nihiflmm with: new werpon.- - In - the Afth assault the combatants: again got into close quarters and were immediately: stopped, Prince Henty, In rge Reale. \Rich deposits of micawere recently found at Federal hill near But« mg comm formed to work them. norn n ___ ; Tyler. For Governor of fir-hit. anoke, Va., Aug. | Hoge Tyler. 1 or by the:-Démocratie convention, herd, The proceadings of the convention were -mostly' of & routine charaéter. Im the moral E: W. Saunders, permanent chairman' of 'the convention, made a long: speech, as did also ex-Congress- | man James W. Marshall, B. B. Munford and Granite Albany. Aug i.-Anna Keenan of Glens Falls has filed x claim against : the state for 12800, of which 11,000 -is Only a few invlutIenlwere unt out In or near New York who could be de- pended upon to be present. They In- cluded Senator and Mrs. John P. Jones of Nevada, Senator Thomas C. Platt, Lemuel E; Quigg, Dr. Harris, United (States commissioner of emigration, and | Mis. Harmis, Mri and Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder, Edmund Clarence Bteds man, Dr. L. H. Freich of Washington, Clinton W. Sweet, James S. Seymour hand Robert P. Porter; _ Mrs. Hansbrough is only nbout 35 quite a reputation: for herself In. litera- ture. Her volume of \Lyrics of Love favorable notice e has contributed to ulna the current num- i bright little story | 'years old, but she has already made | home, Frederick Vedder of Utica, N. T., and Miss Rose May of New York elzrd from Long Branch and were married, Six of the-crew of the steamer Ville : do Malag® were drowned when the ves- sel was wrecked on the shore of Alder» ney Island. . Dispatches from Wheeling say tht striking miriers In thst state are make Ing progress toward the ¢losing down ot the mines, Eamuel C. Reld, a well known lawyer and son of Captain Samuel C Reld | herg: of the naval battle: of Fayal, died | in Washington, Mss Minnie Gibb, daughter of Mil- Honaire Howard Gibb of Brooklyn, It reported to be engaged to be married perintendent is arranging to conduct the by~tetephone-from-hi tughtto be able to get a chance. Inj this: cliy the only now (stock company', will be the Aurray Hill, Rankin and Nanco O'Neill at ifs Ahead. In Brooklyn there will be a stock com- pany at the Park, with Actrictia Crom tian as leading woman. with McKee With all these compinies constantly changing.their bills it will be odd if at least one or two valuable plays ard not. discovered in the course of the season. The Bleycle Broks His Heart. Here's another subject for m secmon. for the bicycle baters, whose number as! diinppily diminishing whiz startling - ri Another cld time zost- Brocklyd house, and one of the best known in 16 noite mntuees was ar # counter blow,, being hit In the right . 10 Count Henry den Moy, son of Mars {day, passed out Of existence fecenfly ~> for lands: sppropriated \by .the. state clued \A. Fashionable Hefo\* , She is 'concesslons to the intners. was drawn up, cand each operator in the district will be aiked: to. sign: It.\ Unless the operatort Sign: the men declare they will quit Yrork, [However, the Impression prevails Ahat the amnion wil readily agree: ram. Md ae 15cm | - Belfatre, O., Aug. iT --Another mast Md? Here | m ded the mesting and outvoted the ers In It. naminggzedded H Bronum‘rsitybtnm 'whose' chm ' Ngmnlorbfikflnr that, If has: Providents, Aug. 11.-The class Brown is cireulating Ft natures & letter to the corporation, may (ing: ts parts \It is meoxmcucnmf ' the Joss of Dr. Andris would deprive \¥; ' a184 petition you to decline to accept : dedntmu' Q= lower regtom of theabdomen. 'The does. siden examined the wound and-declated. that Prince Heny was Tendered by it clearly Inferior to his antagonist.: (Major Leontief 'and M Mourichen proposed that the combatbe / stowed.“ This was done by common memmmemwnrmmd a raising himself WWI“; | accompanied by mmfinmm Tor Ttaty, | *mintk public works department for canal pur« peus. $500 for damage to land aad $100 for erecting a Tence ma 'the Genaral Markets, \western strong and' held WWW petenis, XNuw Torm, Aag. 14-FLO UR-State and | \winter dwmmmmmbmu : tlever with her pencil as well as her pen, and somé excellent sketches, signed f hymn\ appeared. from Aime to time: in: The: : boulder-able martian In. Washington some years ago, when be was attached Fes. mmhflmmfim fassarsin of f for}; quis de of Paris, Tuesday, Aug. 17 __ > Charles Compton, the stor, is dead: In London. ~ shen the placect: Captain W,A. Brown' In the Ocezn boulevard, near Parkville, was sold at auction, and the bleyole is Ma'lftiends by the Cobden: club tn: . 'The: Gerlache Antarctic efpeditio®. walled from Antwerp. on 'Blackwells Island, New lift—gm“ éécaped: from: the pen- Tak c ty and Brocklys, yas the habitof driving down the bouleyard hum”? winger-sin Atwmpmcnsmamtha thourd “remnants. ferry steamer at en, Amman-nan “awake ts. firmnuflc.meretm Storing did much cause around New - Tishtabig strick buflimgs i= Ot New Jersey and Con- 'as #ene to death by the court martisf whfitr’xahmw saw An oiicer Sour menwerk wounted (three i Hes | meeticat Michael alias Gol, the Bentr Canoves 'was Bethanghfitfiemd thewbeelmid ort Tecrose ® his 1
