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EDITORIAL SHEET. PART TWO. Pages 9 to 16. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900 SIXTEEN PAGES. PINK BOOTH AND CHERRY TREE AT LAKE FOREST JAPANESE LAWN FETE LETS SUPPLY CONTRACTS.

CHICAGO MEATS COME OUT AHEAD. PULLS 0 WNFRENCH FLAG SUXTAU OP OMAN LOYAL TO BRITISH INTERESTS. NO POLITICS IN MOVES OF ABMT. HZ 7 I i The fanctlon was given on the grounds of O. B.

Farwell in the northern suburb on Thursday. Presiding in the pink booth were Mrs. Vernon Booth, Mrs. Mark Cummings, Mrs. Charles Dempster, Miss Edna Ward, Miss Marion Hall, Miss Mary Jackson, and Miss Ethel Warner.

STATU BOARD MAKES AWARDS ON RECENTLY SUBMITTED BIDS. Arreenieatf Coves av Term of Two Tears and Inelnde Stationery, Distributing and Coal Considerable Amounts Involved Sprloarfleld, ChlcasTO. Otae gro, and St. Louis Represented Among; the Claimants (or Business. Springfield, TIL.

Sept. 7. Special. The State Board of Contracts, composed of Governor Tanner, Secretary of State Rose, State Auditor McCullough, the Attorney General, and State Treasurer Whlttemore. met today in the executive office and let most of the contracts for State supplies for the two years beginning Oct.

1, liJ0. The Edward F. Hartman Printing com pany of Springfield made the lowest bid on second class printing, which Includes most of the legislative work, bills, etc Mr. Hart-man appeared before the board and announced that a serious error had been made in his figuring and that he positively could not take the work under his bid, as It would mean a loss of from (12.0U0 to $15,000. The board finally decided to readvertise for bids for the first and second class printing.

Phillips Bros, and H. W. Rokker. two Springfield firms, had made a tie bid for the first-class work, which includes the printing of State department reports. Their bids were 15 cents a hundred for plain composition, 6 cents for presswork, and 8 cents a hundred pages for folding and stitching.

Election Registers at 2 1-2 Cents. Third class printing, including election registers, was let to Talbott Hamann of Springfield at 2V, cents per register. The same firm secured the fourth class printing, which Includes all Job work on estimated bid of $5,100. The Spfingfleld Coal association was the only bidder for the coal contract. The board decided that the bid of $1.65 for mine run coal was entirely too high, and new bids will be advertised for.

The bids of Thomas M. Brown and George Marsh for copying the laws and Journals of the Legislature also were rejected. Marsh's bid was one-sixth of a cent per 100 words. Brown's bid was 49-100 cent per 100 words. Both bids were so low that the board figured that the contracts would not be carried out.

Thomas M. Brown was awarded the contract for distributing the laws and Journal. His bid. was Just one cent lower than the bid of Frank O'Brien. Stationery Expert Employed.

The contract for first and second class stationery will not be let until tomorrow. In the meantime an expert will be employed to examine and consider the samples presented and make recommendation to the board as to the best bid. First-class stationery includes books and cover paper. The bidders are: Bardeen A Otsego. Bradner Smith Chicago.

Graham Paper company, St. Louis. Butler Paper company. Chicago. $14,426.

Second-class stationery includes official blanks, letter beads, etc. The bidders are: Graham Paper company, J. W. Butler Paper company. Whiting Paper company, Chicago, $5.20.55.

Lithographing was let to J. W. Franks Sons, Peoria, for plain envelopes, to Frank Simmons, Springfield. binding to H. W.

Rokker. Springfield. pencils, ink. erasers, rubber bands, Jacquin Peoria, $5229.29. RACINE, MAKES GOOD GAIN.

Credited with Increase of 38.49 Per Cent in Population Over 1890 Eastern Towns Grow. 10OO. r.145 47.KU JPO. 31.014 81.4a 75.il 5 82.013 Per wt. 87.C7 4i.3 61.U Raetne.

Portland, Me 8crntnn, Yonkers. N. York. la Washington, D. Sept.

7. Special. Racine, showed a healthy growth In lta population during the last ten years, according to the returns given out by ths census office today. Its population Is now 29,102. a gain of 8.0SS.

or 3S.49 per cent, over IK), when the population was 21.014. The population by wards Is as follows: Wards. Wards. 18W. 1 1 1.141 2 2 l.M 3 .3, I 3 3.1 -5 4 8.KX 4 6 1.7'.4 4.37H .1 9 4.r..i 7 4.2317 2.33 In the population was 21.014.

a gain of 4.9S3, or 31.0H per cent over 1SS0. when it was 16.031. There are no figures by which the growth of the city can be compared In the years previous to lWv. as the comparative tables are made only for the cities having a population of more than 25.000 during the last census. The census bureau announces that the population of Portland, is 50.145, as against 36.425 In 1S90.

This Is an increase of 13.720. or 37.C7 per cent. The population of Scranton, is given as 102.02'i. as against 75.215 In 1890. This is an Increase of 20.811.

or 35.C5 per cent. The population of Yonkers. N. is 47.931. as against 82.033 in 1S90.

This Is an Increase of 15.8i8. or 49.63 per cent. York. Pa, Is credited with a population of 83.054, as against 2U.793 In 169U. This is an Increase of 12.htil.

or 61.85 per cent Racine, Sept. 7. I Manufacturers and citizens in general are elated upon the census returns received here late this afternoon. The figures do not Include the suburbs of Ives, Lakeside, and Sylvan-dell, which, if Included in the count, would bring the figures close to 35.UUO, making it the second city In the State. The returns giving the population of other Wisconsin cities are anxiously awaited.

MUTINY NEARLY SUCCESSFUL Manila Papers Oive Details of Outbreak In Bilibid Prison In Which Four Are Killed. Washington. IX C. Sept. 7.

Manila newspapers Just received at the War department give details of a desperate mutiny among the native prisoners in Blllbld prison, which resulted in the death of four and the wounding of fifteen of them. The report states that the outbreak came without the slightest warning. The commandant and other officials of the prison were going about their duties on a hot summer afternoon. July 16, when a little, wizened Filipino, serving a life term, assumed a crouching attitude and began to creep up behind the native foreman, giving utterance to a low growl like a wild beast. The effect was electrical on the other convicts.

In an instant the muttering had grown to a wild roar, and every prisoner was making for the keepers with murder In his eye. The senior Captain of the native guard, when he commanded the little mob to disperse, was shushed across the back of the bead with a boio. Then the li.furiattj men started for the gateway of the prison to overpower the guard escape. The were met by Major Rogers, the commandant, and a small portion of the guard, who lire! a volley Into the ranks oX the fugutive. Three men fell, and this seemed to check the prisoners for an Instant, but their leador, a Filipino of the most desperate type, urged them on.

Though already wounded by the first fire, his spirit was unbroken, and four volleys were fired from the rifles before he fell. Then, like rats in a trap, the prisoners tried first one gateway and then another, and probably would have overpowered the small guard and made their escape had not American prisoners themselves come to the rescue and helped to capture the fugitives. A few more volleys from their reinforced pursuers, and the prisoners scurried to their Quarters In abject terror. Yates Veteran Club at Kankakee. Kankaks.

Bpt- T- Bpeclal. A Tales vstsran club hum ben orgaaisad In this city with tnmbrs. W. P. Kcno-a Is President aa A.

Iue-. Beerstary and Trtasurso. Compels His Subjects at Muscat to Re nounee the Privilege Recently Conferred Upon Them by the Paris Government and to Hoist the Union Jack Over Their Trading VmeU Df lnres)-the French Vice Consul His Worst Enemy. Special Cable to The Chicago Tribune by W. L.

Hubbard. VIENNA. Sept. 7. A correspondent of a St.

Petersburg weekly tells of a new triumph scored by the British In the Gulf of Oman. The Sultan of Cman, In company with the British Consul at Muskat. went on a British warship to the seaport of Sur and compelled number of merchants there to renounce their friendship to France. It seems that by placing themselves under the French protectorate the merchants had obtained a doubtful right to sail their trading vessels under the French flag. The Sultan compelled his subjects to restore the British flags and he didn't hesitate to style the French "Vice Consul as his worst enemy.

Change in British Envoys. Sir Horace Rumbord, who has been British Ambassador In Vienna for the last three years, has his farewell audience tomorrow with the Emperor, and retires from his post and from the diplomatic) service. His successor here. Sir F. Plunkett, arrives in October, and Is a Catholic, the first representative of that confession Great Britain has had here In many years.

Death of Austrian Sculptor. Theodore Fried, acknowledged as one of the ablest, if not the ablest, sculptor Austria has produced, died on Wednesday at Ketrchau, near Vienna. The Royal Museum and many a theater In Vienna and numerous public buildings throughout the empire and In Germany contain facades adorned with statues and reliefs by him. He dlel in penury, leaving a widow and two sons. SCANDAL ON PARIS BOURSE.

Big Sugar Dealers Refuse to. Cover Their Short Sales and Many Lawsuits Will Follow. rSpedal Cable to The Chicago Tribute by Grace Corneau. PARIS. Sept.

7. There are hints of a big scandal on the Paris Bourse, apropos of the famous cerner in sugar, which has been so dishonestly managed that it may precipitate a crisis In the sugar market. Several prominent dealers refuse to cover their short sales and their refusal promises to make trouble. Cornering the market Is forbidden by French law. Maltre Laborl, the Dreyfus lawyer, will defend one of the firms which refused to settle Its account.

Exposition Crowds Increase. The attendance at the exposition has this week taken a bound upward. Today It pouched 822,000. Angry Over Senegal Epidemic Public feeling is running so high over the revelations in regard to the yellow fever epidemic In the French west African colony of Senegal that the government Is blamed for keeping the French officials and troops in the colony. A rumor tonight declares that In order to satisfy public sentiment M.

Chaudle, the Governor General of Senegal, will be displaced. Fete at Vlncennes. President Loubet cam to Paris today to attend the hippique fete at Vlncennes. After the fete he returned at once to his country Mat. The Minister Commerce today gave a magnificent luncheon in honor of M.

de Wltte, the Russian Minister of Finance. Another Cab Strike. A new and more extensive cab strike threatened tonight. The Metropolitan railroad la ruining the business of the cabbies and they claim they are in deep distress. ROBS TOURISTS AT MUNICH.

Courier Employed by an American Travelers' Bureau Abandons His Party at Oberammergau. Special Cable to The Chloago Tribune by D. B. Macgowan. BERLIN, Sept.

7. It Is reported that a courier of the American Travelers' bureau, lately established at Munich, has embesxled the funds of a large party from Paris at Llndau and fled, leaving $4,000 In unpaid bills at Oberammergau. Queen May Visit Empress. Court gossips are speculating upon the proposed two weeks visit of Queen Victoria at the home of the Empress Frederick. It is stated that Prince Henry went to England to Inform the Queen regarding the Empress' health and that upon the nature of the report he made depends whether the visit takes place.

DISASTER IN AUSTRIAN ARMY. Big Gun Explodes, Killing Pour Soldiers Outright and Fatally Wounding Eighteen Others. VIENNA Sept. 7. During the Austrian military maneuvers today on the borders of Galicla and Bohemia a big gun exploded, killing four men outright and fatally wounding eighteen others.

CONSTITUTION RULES IN HAWAII Court Decides That American Laws Govern the Islands Since American Flag Floats Over Them. Victoria. B. C. Sept.

7. The steamship Warrlmoo brings the following news: The Hawaiian Court, in the case of George Edwards, convicted of an unnatural offense after the American flag was raised in Hawaii, has decided that the constitution follows the flag. Edwards was convicted on a verdict of ten to two. and the court grants an appeal, as a unanimous verdict is necessary under the constitution. Over a dozen white settlers of Queensland have been murdered, several with great cruelty, by the Queensland blacks.

Trackers with "bloodhounds are pursuing the murderers. Lord Earmeston. late Governor, or Tasmania, and Lady Earmeston were passengers on the Warrlmoo. Lord Earmeston Bays the plan of federation has now been adopted and will take effect Oct. 1.

REJECT NORMAL SCHOOL PLANS State Architect's Specifications Call for a Greater Expenditure than S75.000, Which Caused the Rejection. Springfield. 111.. Sept. 7.

'Special. -The Western Normal Trustees, with Governor Tanner present, met today and rejected the plans furnished by State Architect Robert Bruce Watson of Chicago for the new normal school building to be erected at Macomb Only STo.ooo has been appropriated for the new building, and the structure planned by the State Architect would have cost much more. Thl wa the cause of New German Process of Shipping Beef Proves to Be a Failure. CARGO SPOILS IN TRANSIT Products Shipped from Argentina Sell for One-Half the American Price. SOSSIP OF A DAY IN LONDON.

rgyeetsl CaW to The Chicago Triton by Arthur X. Clarke. LONDON. Sept. 8, 8 a m.

Any fears aroused In the minds of Chicago meat ex- porters by the promised revolution In the business through the Invention of a German process are now set at rest. A cargo cf meat from Argentina, prepared by the new process, received In Liverpool a few day ago. and loudly proclaimed by the consignees, turned out almost a total failure. Over one-fourth of the entire lot has been condemned by the Liverpool corporation meat Inspector as unfit for food, while the remainder of the beef offered on the market realized only six cents and mutton four cents a pound, or Just half the prices obtainable for Chicago chilled meats. The principal feature of the mucH exploited new process Is sterilized air, and It Is not new to Chicago packers, they having experimented with It eome years ago, without success.

Mosquitoes and Malaria. An Interesting and important paper on ttie relation between malaria and moo qui toes was read before the British association at Bradford yesterday by Major Ronald Rosa, who has spent many years In tropical countries. Major Ross observed that mosquitoes could eat vegetable food, but that the female never laid eggs without previously having had a meal of blood. If the eggs were not fertilized or matured the blood was evacuated and not absorbed. The theory that malarial fever was caused chiefly by native children, and that the Infection wa derived from them, was advanced.

Night being the favorite dining hour for the femaJe mosquito, and as the female alone bites. If a European entered the neighborhood of a native village and slept near their huts the female mosquito, living on native blood, by a bite could inoculate the European with malarial fever. An effective means of remedying the evil, the Major said, was to carry out a proper system of surface drainage among the native villages, and, so eliminate fever from their blood. "War of t2ie London Critic. Clement Scott this morning enter the arena of warring authors by taking Sidney Grundy severely to task for saying there are no critics nowadays.

Bcott claims that Grundy admits that he (Grundy) was a dead failure as a dramatic critic, and adds; There are no critics snarls, at Grundy. I dare say he is right, but there are thousands of Journalists who can be trusted to give a readable opinion of Grundy's play and its anti-climax. If they can describe a fire In the streets, why not water in the playhouse?" Cain Replies to CorellL Kan Caine's reply to Marie CorellTs diatribe In today's Lady's Magazine is mild and truly Christianlike. Tou know I cannot reply to Miss Corelli. I have never had a literary quarrel In my life and I do not think I can begin one now, at least en such a provocation.

There is nothing In the lady's letter which needs an answer from me. I must leave her mistress of the field." The Daily Express claims that It is authorised to state that Hall Caine's new book, "The Eternal City," does not deal with the Church of Rome, and that Corelli has not anticipated Hall Calne. Reiifrion Before Business. It Is not often that religion Is allewed to Interfere with business, but such proves to be the case with one large English firm. George Cadbury, the millionaire chocolate maker, replying to a question of an Interviewer yesterday, said: We have not contributed to any war relief fund or furnished estimates for cocoa fer the War office because, as members of the Society of Friends, we do not countenance war at all.

With regard to the Christmas box from the Queen, we certainly took the order, but the circumstances were peculiar. In that our instructions emanated from the Queen, whose will and convenience we, as loyal subjects, felt ourselves bound to respect." Choate on His Vacation. United States Ambassador thoate left London yesterday for'St. Moritr, expecting to be absent from his post several weeks. Henry White, secretary of the embassy, will act as Charge Affaires during the Ambassador's absence.

Literary Men In Politics. Scotland seems to like novelists as members of Parliament. J. M. Baxrie and Anthony Hope Hawkins have both been asked to fight for eeats, and now the Unionists of Central Edlnburg have Invited Dr.

Conan Doyle to represent them. The winner of this year's diamond sculls, Hemmerde, has been recommended by the Oxford Liberal association as the Liberal candidate for that City. NEW ELECTION IN AUSTRIA. Imperial Decree Dissolves the Lower House of the Reichsrath 2iew One to Be Chosen at Once. VIENNA, Sept.

7. An imperial decree. Issued today, dissolves the Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath and directs a new election immediately. AMERICA TO GET THE CONTRACT Gold Companies of the Rand to Place Order for $750,000 Worth of Heavy Trucks. CAPE TOWN.

Sept. 7. American energy promises to be rewarded by securing orders for SOO large coal trucks. Involving 150.000, about to be placed by gold mining companies on the Rand, In which quick delivery is vitally Important. Tenders were received from British and American manufacturers, but the latter quoted lower prices, and promised more speedy delivery.

British financial houses fear that the English manufacturers will allow foreigners to rap the commercial benefits of the war. Military Plans in China Held of Little Importance in Winning: Votes. HER0ISH AT A DISCOUNT. Administration Will Be Judged on Bight or Wrong of lta Policy Toward Far East. STEWART TO TAKE BTUSIP.

lssnrsToir Bnxiu cetcam TEiBTrsa, 1 Washington, D. C-, Sept. T. Those who have studied the political rltu-atlon, participated In the campaign, ar.J met a great many Withdrawal of voters claim the with- Aray from China tha trfKor" from China, or th-ir Not an Issue. retention, will have no political effect whatever.

It Is said the people will judg the administration as to whether it pur- sued the light course in China or the wrong one. and if the presence of the troops re-quired in the Orient the people mill be perfectly satisfied to have them remain there, but if their presence is not necessary an4 they are withdrawn the people will tx equally as well ratisfled. and the administration will not make any votes by recalling its forces. The hysteria over the gallant and herolt deeds of the American soldiers under which the country has labored for some time hat entirely disappeared, in the Judgment of those who have been upon the stump, and the people are now In position to Judge In cold-blooded manner the causes for the presence of American troops In the Philippines as well as in China, and are paying HttU or no attention to the heroism exhibited by the American soldiers. In fact, it is said the gallant boys in blue and khaki are not attracting as much attention as they deserve, as the people bars been surfeited m-lth the news of the gallantry displayed by the soldiers of the different nations In the numerous wars whlva have been fought recently.

Therefore, it is said by those who are in a position to know. President McKinley is not giving a thought to gaining political advantage by retaining or withdrawing the troops from China, as the political exigencies la this country might dictate. Senator Stewart of Nevada, wno has abandoned Bryan, will leave in a few days for home, where he will make a fight In that Senator Stewart silver stronghold for Qoef, to Yleht the Republican ticket. Z. He win talk straight Bryan Ticket, to hie constituents.

and Is going to do ail he ran to carry te State. I am going to tell the people out there." he said, that I don't take any stock in Agulnaldo and that I do not believe that the campaign being run In hts behalf will be successful- I do not belleveln buying tt Philippines and later giving them away. "That policy of Mr. Bryan a new one. He proposes a protectorate for the Philippine.

That mean to extend the Monroe doctrine to the Philippines. According to Mr. Bryan's policy, we might as well buj India and give It to the Hindoos; purchase Egypt and turn It over to. the Egyptians. We have been In the market for the pur.

chase of land for 100 years, but we hava never sold any nor given a foot away. Army ofneers are greatly Interested tn ths result of the next meetlrg of the Board of Ordnance and Fortt-Miles to Win flcatlon of the Army. In Disappearing rhe board will hold its vtr next session on Oct. 1 Gun Controversy. an(j wm then take up again the subject of disappearing gun carriages.

The board recently asked artillery officers who are in charge of coast defenses for their views on disappearing carriages. These reports have been received, some of them being voluminous, but most of them being simple replies to the several questions asked In the circular Issued by the board. i General Miles last winter created a controversy among the ordnance and artillery experts by his statement that the disappearing gun carriage was unsulted to the needs of the coast defenses and that the system was antiquated, having been abandoned Jn Europe. This was taken up by General Buffington. the army Chief of Orinar.ce.

who the part Inventor of the carriage used In the coast fortifications. The quarrel which ensued led to the reference of the questions to artillery experts. The Ord-nance department sent one or two officers to Europe to look over the situation there, and General Miles dispatched Captain Lewis, the recorder of the board, on the same errand, that the information acquired might not be one-sided. The vital question of changing the type ot gun carriage for the coast defenses be settled probably at the coming session of the board, although the difference of opinion which prevailed all along may not be ad-Justed at one meeting. The report eo far received Indicate that the opinion of artillery officers who to do with the coast forte and the emplacements is in favor of General Miles' attitude.

Naval Constructor R. P. Ilcbson has been refused permission to return to this country from the Asiatic station by way of Siberia Hobson Told and Europe. sug- TT r. T.

gested this trip for Canao Take himself with a view Long Waj JJoine. to inspecting and re- porting upon the fortifications of Russia and the various dockyards of Europe. The naval authorities hr evidently do not deem the t-jur worth while, and instructed Hobson to return home by the most direct route. He will go at onre to the naval hospital av Brooklyn for treatment, and afterwards will be assigned to pome cf the yards In charge of the construction department. Hobson's return has been awaited with considerable Interest by naval officers, who expcted he would ask for some unusual duty.

His two reqaests made of the Washington authorities r-rntly have been denied. One was for the privilere of commanding a dftachmer.t of marines in China. Rear Admiral Remey disapproved the application, and said if Hr.bson was aMe to go Into the hi was al-5f to attend to the construction work at Hor.nrkong and Mar.I'.a. where Sf-rvr--s would be in constant rierrsar.d. Hobson's trouble with his yes has relieved, and it Is expected he will rioilor-g be detained at the Brooklyn hospital.

His intimate friends here say Hobson la dissatisfied with the way in which he ha been treated by the Navy department, and he is likely to take further exception to the latest refusal to grant his request. Tha department raw r.o occasion for Inspecting the Russian fortifications, however, and the dock yards have been periodically examined by officers who want to take summer trips to Europe. Secretary Root left this morning for a trt weeks' vacaticn. He was accompanied fey Mrs. Reot.

and they will spend a fortnight at their summer home at Southampton. The Secretary has been on duty all summer and Is somewhat run down by the enormous amount of work that be has been called upon to perform In connection wtin the troubles Is China and la the Philippines. 4 -w. -X GALE ON FLORIDA COAST. HURRICANE FROM THE TROPICS CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE, Miami Cnt Off front Telesrraphle Com.

snnnlentlon with the Oatslde World Since Wednesday Klsjht Lumber Vessels Driven Ashore and Loss of Life Is Feared Pier at West Palm Beach Moved Several Hundred Feet by the Storm. Miami. Sept. T. The tropical hurricane which has done considerable damage on the Islands of Jamaica and Cuba struck the Florida coast on Wednesday.

All telegraph lines out of Miami were destroyed, and it was not until this evening that communication with the outside world was resumed. The wind at one time reached a velocity of nearly 100 miles an hour. It Is feared that the crews of at least two vessels were swept overboard about thirty miles south of here. The barkentlne Culboon, Captain Richter, of St- Johns. N.

laden with 830,000 feet of fine lumber Is ashore five miles south of Casyfoot Light, about thirty-five miles south of Miami. The ship is waterlogged. The Culboon was driven by the force of the waves over one of the reefs forming the Inner passage and Is lying in twelve feet of water. Nothing has been heard of the crew. The Culboon encountered the hurricane on Wednesday morning.

Hurled Upon the Bocks. At 10:20, after losing Its rudder and nearly all its canvas, the vessel was hurled upon the rocks. The vessel and cargo may be saved. The Culboon sailed from Pascagoula, Aug. 23 and waa bound for Rosarlo, Argentine Republic.

Three miles south of the Culboon Is a deserted lumber-laden bark which stranded during the night of the Bth. The crew. It la feared, waa swept overboard during the atorm. The vessel has a windmill, and is consequently thought to be Norwegian. Damage at West Palm Beach.

"West Palm Beach, Sept. 7. Considerable damage has been done in this section by the tropical hurricane which struck here Wednesday. The gale continues. The bulkhead of the Immense Palm Beach pier was ewept from Its foundation and washed several hundred feet to the north.

A force of men was engaged In repairing some slight damage to the pier and had a stationary engine out on the end of It when the storm struck this point. The men all escaped to the shore. The current is running high and It will be several days before repairs can be attempted. A number of small boats which were anchored In the inland lakes were torn from their moorings and sunk. Several docks and sea walls were badly Injured.

Storm Beaches New Orleans. New Orleans. Sept. 7. The storm which has been exrected for seveial days materialized today, and all the southern coast of Louisiana has been swept.

The sea water has been backed up to the Mississippi River levees on the east bar.k. Dr. R. II. Burford and Superintendent Richard Quinn, government Ulcers at Fort St.

Philip, went down the river In catboat on Thursday evening, and this evening late the boat was found floating bottom up. They were unquestionably drowned. No material damage was done in this city or along the gulf west of the Mississippi. Destructive Storm In Jamaica. KINGSTOX.

Jamaica. Sept. 7. A terrific storm swept over this Island last night. The rivers are all flooded en 1 pr-at damage has been done to the banana plantations.

Miles of the railroad track have been washed away. The torrential rain, which were a feature cf the storm, continue. The iosars will amount to thousands of pounds. COURT DISMISSESROEPKECASE Man Who Eloped from Chicago with Miss Paul Sonntag Promises Separation and la Not Prosecuted. Ban Francisco.

Sept. 7. Special. The case of Frank Roepke. who eloped from Chicago with the wife of Paul Sonntag.

was called In Judge Conlan's court today. General Salomon appeared for Roepke and said his client had made all the reparation In his power by turning over to Mrs. Sonntag all the furniture In the home on Capp street that they occupied and promising to return with his Infant boy to his wife in Chicago. He asked that the case be dismissed. Assistant District Attorney Weiler said there was apparently no desire to prosecute the case and he had no objection to a dismissal, and It was graatsd, -T ifrst'r'-V lirr iUftfirriim WEDS ON HIS DEATHBED.

QEN. E. W. SERKELL SUBPBISES FRIENDS BY A MABBIAQE. Miss Marlon C.

Roorbaeh Called to the Aged Man's Side for the Ceremony When He Is Told the End Is Near-Groom 'oted as an Engineer, Belnar One of the Builders of the In I on Pa-olflc Famous Swamp Ana-el, ITaed In the Civil War, Ills Handiwork. New Tork, Sept. 7. Special. General Edward Wellman Serrell, a constructing and civil engineer of world-wide fame and a man of great wealth, was married last evening on what physicians told him might be his deathbed to Miss Marion C.

Roorbaeh, daughter of the late Orvllle A. Roorbaeh, a publisher In this city. Two grandsons of General Serrell, his Plster, one or two other relatives, and a lifelong friend gathered about the bed to witness the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. Samuel Tyler, assistant pastor of St. George's Episcopal Church.

Ir. the General's arartments at the Hotel Clarendon, Fourth avenue and Eighteenth street-General Serrell Is 75 years old. His bride is about 50. She was hastily summoned from her beautiful home, the Roorbaeh mansion near New Brighton, Staten Island. Relatives Surprised at Marriage.

Announcement of the wedding, which was made by General Serrell.himself. came as a complete surprise. His relatives were dum-founded. as nothing was known of the attachment existing between General Serrell and Miss Roorbaeh. She was a triend of his first wife, who died four years ago.

Tonight General Serrell suffered a relapse, and his physician said his condition was critical. Mrs. Serrell took charge of the patient as soon as the wedding ceremony was performed, and has since been In attendance at his bedside night and day. Neither the bride nor the bridegroom will permit the presence of nurses. General Serrell was stricken with gastritis ten days ago.

Alarming symptoms soon developed. Arrangements immediately were begun for the wedding. General Serrell was placed aa comfortably as possible in the sick bed and the marriage waa performed. Wins Fame in Engineering Work. General Serrell Is one of the foremost engineers In the world.

He was constructing engineer for the Panama railroad, chief contractor In the famous Hoosac tunnel, a prime mover In the Credit Moblller. which built the Union Paclrtc railroad, and from which he resigned at the outbreak of the civil war. He was appointed by President Lincoln chief organizer of the Volunteer Engineer Corps- He was made a Brigadier General, and later breveted Major General. He constructed the famous cannon known as the swamp angel." which was formidable In the siege of Charleston. YALE AIDS NEEDY STUDENTS.

University Plans a Special Department to Care for the Poverty-Stricken Seekers After Knowledge. New Haven, Sept. 7. Special. The Yale University corporation has decided to further develop the opportunities of poor young men to get a university education.

With that end In view they have established a department In the university which will have full charge of the means of self-aid offered to students of l'a'e. Ir. Cornelius L. KItchel. who has for ten years been professor of the English and Greek departments of the university, has been appointed director of the new department.

Tomorrow he wf.l open an office in Phelps Hall, where the business of the department win be transacted. The office will serve as an employment bureau for students desiring work. Dr. Kitchel will also Investigate all application of students for the remission tuition, scholarships, and fellowships. HOPKINS FAMILY IN BARE FLAT.

Wife and Daughters of Theater Owner Sleep on Bare Floors, Furniture Being Seized. The wife and two daughters of Colonel J. D. Hopkins, owner of the Hopkins Theater, slept on the bare floors of Flat 3. 3535 Indiana avenue, last night.

Yesterday morning a constable, S. A. De Ball, representing the agent of the flat, called and Informed Mrs. Hopkins that he had come to serve a writ of replevin on her household goods to secure the firm for rent due to the amount of 103. In the afternoon he took away everything In sight, even the food In the irebox.

Miss Emma Hopkins, the eld'-st daughter. 23 years of age, says a large part of the furniture was hers, but that as she had bought It on installments and the payments had not been fully made the property really belonged to the department store. The divorce suit of Colon al Hopkins against Mrs. Hopkins la to be called la court ledajt MORE OF ABRDZZI'S TRIP. FTJIXEB DETAILS OP THE ITALIAN" POLAR EXPEDITION.

Royal Explorer Lose Two Plover Joints svs the Reevlt of the Extreme Cold If ot with the Party That Succeeds In Rettchlna- the Point Farthest North Three Men Loat on the lee Drift and Never After-trarda Heard Of. CHRTSTIANIA. Sept. 7. Further details regarding- the arctic expedition of the Duke d'AbrunI, on board the Stella Polare, whose safe return was reported yesterday from Tromsoe, Norway, show that the expedition lASt year through Xightlngale Sound and the British canal reached as far north as 82.4; but, finding no wintering harbor, it returned to TeplItB Bay, down Prince Rudolph's Land, where the Stella Polare was frozen In about Sept.

1. Loses Two Finger Joints. The Duke of Abruenl's fingers were frostbitten on a trial sledge trip at Christmas and two Joints were amputated, obliging him to remain for several months In his tent. The cold Increased to C2 centigrade. On March 11 the advance was renewed, and ten men started north.

After ten days' marching three started to return to the ship, which, however, they never reached. Their fate Is unknown. A second party of three men passed the eighty-third parallel after a march of twenty days, and then returned to the ship. Highest Point North. A third party, led by Captain Cagnl, with two Alpine guides and an Italian sailor, reached latitude 86.83, and was then obliged to return through lack of food.

It started with Blx sledges and forty-five dogs, and returned with two sledges and seven dogs, having subsisted for seventeen days exclusively on dog flesh. On Aug. 8 the Stella Polare started homeward. It traversed the British Canal In a single day, and then drifted about for a fortnight In a severe struggle with drift ice before reaching the open sea. SEES END OF THE BOER WAR.

London Daily News Says Declslre News Is at Hand Parliament to Dissolve This Month. LONDON, Sept. 8." We learn," says the Dally News. that the government expects decisive news from south Africa within a fortnight, and that Parliament will be dissolved during the last week of September." Progress of Transvaal War. LONDON.

Sept. 7. Lord Roberts reports from Belfast. Transvaal, under date, of Wednesday, Sept. 0, as follows: Ian Hamilton traversed Dulstroom yeeterday with slight opposition.

Buller engaged the enemy's left this morning. Hamilton Is endeavoring to turn the enemy's right. Boers with two guns and one pompom this morning attacked 123 Canadian mounted infantry guarding the railway between Pan and Wondersfonteln. Mahon proceeded to their assistance, but the little garrison had beaten oft the enemy before he arrived. It was a creditable performance.

The wounded were Major Handers and Lieutenant Moodie, slightly, and two men. Six men are missing." Baden-Powell at Cape Town. CAPE TOWN, Sept. 7. General Baden-Powell arrived here this morning.

In spite of the early hour of his arrival a great public celebration was given In his honor. The crowd carried him on their shoulders from the railway station to the government house, a distance of half a mile. Forbids a German Play. BERLIN. Sept- Berlin censorship ha forbidden the production of Die Strensen Her-ren i5trn Masters), a comedy by Blumenthal and Kadelburg.

which was to have been performed at the Berliner Theater, on account of Its sarcastlo references to the so-called Lex More Rain Fails In India. SIMLA. Bept. 7. The weather ta now protniatna; for the crops.

Excellent rain has fallen In all the famine tracts and th winter eowlr.rm ars practically assured. The number now receiving relief Is something; under 4.0U0.O00, an encouraging reduction. Lower Tori on CoaL BERLIN, Sept. 7. The semi-official Relchsan-aeiger announces that the Ministry of Ptate decided yesterday In view of the deficiencies of the ooaJ supply to facilitate Importation by Introducing- vsrytrbars a raw material tariff to cooUaue at least twe rears..