The Journal and Tribune from Knoxville, Tennessee • 1

NO 9417. KNOXVILLE, MONDAY: MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1896. FIVE CENTS THREE ITALIAN ANTS TO COME is raging in Omaha and Eastern- Nebraska This Is the climax of a week of terrible heat in which ttie thermometer has fluctuated near the hundred' mark- aiearly all the time. Though a number of prostrations have occurred, no fatalities have been re-poited. The mercury was close to 98 all day, but tonight has dropped below 90 as a result of the storm.

seven o'clock this morning the imr-I cury stood at 80, at 2 p. m. it had risen to 93, and at 7 this evening it was still at 88. Three prostrations were report-! ed today. The victims were Robert Fitzgerald, of 26 "Wales street, aged thirty-six years, who is dead; JTrank Biagna, of Broadway, who is- un-j conscious and will die, and William by heat and fell from his chair and died.

John Arnold, Andrew De-boe, Edward Dooley, John ECelleher aod Charles 1k-Callie are other Brooklyn citizer.s whose Sea the today are attributed to the hot weather. Ten cases of persons who were prostrated "by the. heat; have been reported. Some of them may cot the steamer Empress of China, He was asked If he would like to eat some of the American delicacies, such as tarrapin and canvass back duck, which were likely to be offed to him at American dinners. The fame of the tarrapin and the canvass back duck are believed to have penetrated China through the extravagant fondness of those dishes of a former Chinese envoy at Washington.

Li replied to the query with amused smile, saying: should be pleased to taste all such dainties, but I canont promise to do so as my teeth are no good, or thisrea-son I prefer to confine my diet to Chinese meat." Here Li Hung Chang called out something to the servant in the adjoining room. The latter entered and took from the sideboard a long silver pipe, the bowl of which resembled a spirit lamp. He blew through bowl, put a pinch of tobacco in It, llgnt-ed it with a taper and then held the stem to the Chinese potentate's lips. Li pulled thrice with apparent gratification, which served to exhaust the chareg, for the servant removed th pipe, blew out the ashes, refilled th bowl, relit it and offered the stem to his superior. This was repeated thre times before Li bad enough of tha fumes to satisfy his taste.

la LYNCHED IN LOUISIANA FOR MURDERS -THEY HAD COMMITTED, MOB BREAKS INTO JAUi AND SECURES THE CUL- FRITS. BODIES FOUND! XHT SHED! NEAR THE COURT HOUSE. One Assassinated a Planter Because; of His Testimony; in Court Tha' Other Two Murdered an. Old' Span iard Because He Was Rival in Business. it.

HAHENVTLLEV JLug I There was a triple lynching int this town just before twelve- o'clpcif last night and this morning the bodies off three Italian, murderers were found; swinging from the rafters of a shed near the court house. One of the; men -is Lorenzo Saladino, who so foully as- sassinated Jules at Free- town, last Tuesday night and tha other two were Decine Sorcoro and. Angelo Marcuso, who murdered an olet Spaniard on the Ashxon plantation? near Bouttee Station, some time ago Ever since the murder of GuyemaxdJ this parish has been in a fever heat of excitement over the affair, and the first night of the murder it waff' with great difficulty that Sheriff Ory; prevented the lynching of Saladino. He spirited him away in the woods and kept him there over night, and, the next day took him to the new in Hahenville. In the meanwhile the evidence grew against Saladino, and1; popular feeling correspondingly grew in intensity.

At half past eleven o'clock last night the mob which had concentrated on the outskirts of town began to move on the Jail. They captured, the old negro guard and by the vigor- ous use of axes, with which they were well supplied, soon demolished the jail and cell doors and took the prie. oners out and executed them. Lorenzo Saladino was charged with! the murder of Jules Gueymard, one of the prominent planters and mer chants of that section. The murder occurred on Tuesday at his store at Freetown, In St.

Charles parish, just a short distance from the river bank. Mr. Gueymard was on the gallery with several friends playing cards, while a waiting the arrival of a boat with some mends, wnen tne wnis-tle of the hoat blew, Mr. Gueymard arose to go to meet her, and as soon as he was a lew feet away from his party a shot was fired. It was from a shotgun leaded with all sorts missiles and the ioad struck him full in the throat, almost "his head from his body, killing him Instantly, besides wounding Mr.

Robert Espan- era, a iNew urieans engineer, t.ua arm. Search for the murderer made, but he was not found. The shot was fired from behind as tree at the edge of the road, and that assassin escaped through the thick growth. Suspicion pointed to the Sicilian, who bears a bad reputation. He hadt threatened Mr.

Gueymard's life because the latter testified against him in a suit brought because Saladina endeavored to defraud New Orleans creditors. A visit his' house revealed his 6hot gun, which he had not been fired lit three, months One barrel was found freshly discharged. While he was not told of that charge against him, he disclaimed thaf killing. Later on an old Italian woman, arrested at his place, confessed' that Saladino, when he returned hoaitf that night, said: "I got Saladino would have been lynched that night, but Srheriff Ory, hid the prisoner in the woods. The crime for which the other two Italians besides Saladino, wasMmngT; was the wanton and cowardly murder' of an old Spaniard on Ashton' plantation, near Boutte Station.

The incen- tive to the crime in this case was thatr the old Spaniard was their rival ini the business of gathering moss. They; had frequently threatened his life. NARROWLY 'AVERTED- Kentucky Mob Very Anxious ta Have a Lynching. CINCINNATI, Aug. 9.

The. Enquirer's special from Glasgow, saryesi The-lynachkig Ray was narrowly averted last night. twenty masked men eurroundedi tha-Gdmanton Jail at 2 a. determ5aiel to take Nick Ray out andi lyaach hinu Rary killed. Attorney Albert Scott in.

Glasgow July 4. He had beer indicted: for murder and was a waritic-g trials Tha mob had axes and" sledges for opening; doors and cells. When admittance was refused by John Scnlth, eon of the they opened fire on him. From concealment, he Tetuj-redi the fire TS town was soon aroused and the mob was dispersed by the. sheriff, -supported by, the citizens who, hearing the firwig, had- come to the jail heaviiy armed.

Another attack is anticipated. ABOUT COMPLETED. Looks Like Illinois Democrats as Populists Will Fuse. CHICAGO, Aug. 9.

After a confr-r-ence between, state committee of th-i democratic ecsd populist parties it. mow ailirmed that W. F. Brek, Ol-ney, candidates for auditor on the djm-. cratic state'ticket, will be witii.tr.i and -the.

place, given to some l.n.3:.-populist. This, it is said, i't a complete fusion of both prriU the presidential anc-ra'e r. is protesting against his is offered the eaCye to a promiaesit pci Altgeld. be re-tie-citl. IN SEPTEMBER LI HUNG CHANG WILL SAIL FOR NEW YORK.

DESIRES TO CROSS THE LARGE DOMAIN OF UNCLE SAM. INQUIRES ESPECIALLY AFTER SOME OF HIS AMERICAN FRIENDS. Inquires About Terrapin, Canvas Back Duck, and Special Trains. Interview With the Celestial Nobleman by a Representative of the Associated Press. (Copyright 1S96 by the Associated Press.) LONDON, Aug.

9. By special appointment, a representative of the Associated was this morning accorded an interview with Li Hung Chang, England's guest of honor this month. The hour set for the interview was 8:30 in the morning, indicating that the Chinese statesman is fiot given to late hours. Early as the hour was there were nevertheless several persons in waiting to see the f.mperor of China's envoy. The attendants were, however, instructed as to the prior appointment of the representative of the Associated Press and he was selected from a great number of applicants on all possible errands and showed into Li Hung Chang's private parlor, which is the ground floor in Lord Lonsdale's mansion in Carlton house terrace.

A group of servants stood before the door through which the newsman was conducted by Viscount Li, the statesman's son, and who acts a his interpreter. Li Hung Chang rose and bowed with formal courtesy as his visitc-is entered and then shook hands, after which he motioned to a seat opposite his own. He was habited In an un-iress costume consisting of a plum colored stuff skirt, a dark blue silk jacket and a black satin cap with a crimson silk button in the center of the crown to designate his status as a mandarin. In the front of the cap band was fixed a large pearl stud set with diamonds. A.

diamond ring also glittered on the little finger of his right hand. His shoe3 were of black satin trimmed with two lines of green silk and having thick felt solss. As the distinguished foreigner took his seat following his guest's action, his attitude strikingly resembles the numerous published portraits from photographs, so that he would have been readily recognized without information as to his identity. During the course of the interview Li most of the time looked his interlocutor straight in the face, his piercing brown eyes suggesting the penetrative power of the Roetgen rays. The complexion of his face is daik brown, relieved by a thin, straggling gray moustache and imperial.

While talking his face becomes animated with an occasional smile full of perception, accompanied by a gesture. His voice is low in pitch, but of sonorous' quality and he speaks with the strong Inflection so characteristic of the Chinese tongue. Li Hung Chang has- submitted to interviews a number 'Of times before his arrival vn England and h'-as seized that rather formidable institution of western civilization with a firm grasp to direct it rather tha-n to be controlled, by it. The method employed by the eetute oriental diplomat in his interviews with newspa-per men. is to ask not to answer questions.

The Associated Press repres-e-ntative found. himS'Slf besought for information as to the arrangement for the coming transit of Li through the United States, before opportunity was- given to put a cuerry. Li was very eager regarding the program for his tour of the United States? aind the American arrangements. He tasked, if Philadelphia was1 much out of the way of the railroad route 'from New York to Washington. At this point the Chinese dign.itary clapped his hands to call a servant in the Oriental fashion.

The servant, ctad in his native garb, entered, bowed low amd retired and then returned with tea ta covered cup of exquisitely frail and Celicate tea. While thie was pajtakea of by his caller, Li Hung Chang asked 4 about the special tjrahx on the Pennsylvania railroad, which is to be providad for him amd whether it would carry him direct to Vancouver without change. He was informed that probably it would. Li explained that Hon. John Russell Young had written to him eeking him to luncheon in.

Philadelphia, at which he promised that alt of Li Hung Chang's oldi frieinde should be present. Li first met Mr. Young when the latter -accompanied Gen. Grant: ca his tour around the and. afterwards when he beeame United minister to China under President Arthur.

Li asked if Mr. Young held such a position among Americans as to lead them to follow his- arrangements. Being assured as to this, he asked cordially after the health, of Mr. Young an.cS of James H. Wils-cn and Mr.

Wharton Barker, whom h'? had seen in China. The Associated Press representative said that the greatest regret was felt among Americans that Li Hung Chang would be unable to see enough of the United States to obtain a knowledge of the country equally Intimate with that obtained of the countries he has already" seen; Li Hung Chang In reply asf ertsd that he deeply regretted that It was imperative that he should sail from Vancouver on September ii for which dat passage had been engaged for him on La- In New York 50 Deaths Are Reported prom the North, South, East and West Comes the Dis-tressing News. SWEDE CRAZED BY" HEAT CAUSES MUCH IEOUBLE IN CHICAGO. warmest weather milwau-- xee has experienced in "twenty years. DIFFICULT TO REMOVE CARCASSES OF DEAD HORSES IN LOUISVILLE.

Thunderstorms and Showers Afford Relief in Some Place a The Weath- er Bureau Can Promise No Cooler Weather For Today. NEW YORK, Aug. 9. Fifty persons in the greater New York district looay as a result of the extreme hot Over one hundred Cases of prorations have been reported in ttie territory embracing New York City, and Staten Island. A tf these cases, the physicians be-J-f- e.

will prove fatal. rn New York City alone forty per- are known to have perished the extreme high temperature. The list of persons who sufferer! from sunstroke and who are now at tomes or at the hospitals in cirr.r;; cf the physician will reach vrnty. The sixth day of the death-dealing did not reach by one degree the maximum temperature of several cf the preceding: days, the highest touched by the official mercury Veing 91 degrees. Many thermometers, owever, not so fortunately located, ishrwed a range from 97 to 105 degrees.

At eleven o'clock tonight there was a. heavy, local storm and 'the temperature' dropped five degrees ir about as many minutes." The wind blew forty-six miles an hour during this storm. 1 he storm seemed to have little effect Upon the general conditions and soon after it ceased the mercury commenced to rise once more. The police ireporteoV the- following deaths today, in which the extreme hea-t is supposed to have been, the real or contributing cause: JOHN PAGE, twenty-eight year old. CHRISTIAN TOMWARDEN.

forty-three yeans. WM. LANG BE I forty years. ETHEL. MOORE, four months.

WM. GROSStseven months. WM. CONNELLY, twenty-five years. EDWARD CORCORAN, forty shears.

T. FINLEY, thirty-two years. MICHAIEL SHEBHAN, thirty-four years. LOUIS MeGRATH, sixty-four years. DANIEL HURLEY, thiity-six years.

DENNIS SULLIVAN. BRIDGET KELLETY; fifty-one years. MARTIN DOOLEIY, thirty-five years. ARTHUR KUEN ON, JOHN MONAHAN, thirty-five years. MARY McCANN, fifty-six years.

MARY SLBVIN, fifty-five years. John Bohen, thirty-seven years. WM. BICKLEY. JOHN e-ixty-four years.

MICHAEL BUCKLEY, twenty-five years. DAVID ATWATER, forty-eight years. WALTER MERRIT, thirty-rane Charles Memoire, aged seventy-five. Mrs. Mary Skruyey, aged sixty.

James arr, fifty-three. Thomas, thirty. Mrs. Mary Foley, forty-five. Adam Welch, John Gleason.5 nineteen months.

Mrs. Mary Smith, thirty. Louis Garth. i L. Sommers.

Two unknown men. OVER IN BROOKLYN. Several Fatalities Were Repoted to the Police. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.

A number of fatal oases of sunstroke have been reported from Brooklyn. Niles Fallon, aged thirty-five, died this morning, thej result -of -prostration drue to intense heat. Daniel Skelly, was found dead in his room on. Hudson street. His death is said to hav been due to heat exhaustion.

Martin J. Ruth, aged) wo, died art his home before an' ambulance, called to iemove him to a hospital, could reach him. Hftnry J. Clintoo, aged fifty-two was meeting of the Holy Name, -rocls-ty, today, wheta ha wn9 overcome STORM AT DETROIT. Yachtsmen Have a Breezy Time on the River.

DETROIT, Aug. heavy wind and tftander storm which swept over the, city this evening, resulted in the drowning of at least three men in the Detroit river, and several yachtsmen had extremely narrow escapes after capsizing of their craft. Two others were drowned during the afternoon from otljer causes. Neil R. Powers was rescued "after swimming nearly a mile from a capsized boat.

Jeff Judd and a stranger, who were with Powers, were drowned. The capsizing of the yacht Corsair cause3 the drowning of Frank Hughes; Uie others of the crew were rescued. Wm. J. Thiermar was drowned from the yacht Alberta this afternoon.

The harbor master and other searchers for Thiemar's body were later capsized and saved only after a long struggle John Helke, was drowned while swimming near Peche Island. WASHINGTON. Total of Six Deaths During the Hot Term. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.

Three deaths from heat occurred tiere today, making the death list six since the present hot spell began. Aside from the fatalities there were many prostrations. The maximum temperature for the day was 98. JUMPED THE TRACK THREE KILLED LAST NIGHT IN A TROLLY CAR ACCIDENT. Gear Wheel Broke and Brakes Were Rendered Useless.

COLUMBIA, Aug. 9. Three persons were instantly killed and fifteen inured, some probably fatally by the derailing of a trolley car on the Columbia-and? Donegal Electric roai tonight, just outside the borough limits of Columbia. The d-ead ADAM FOEHLINGER, motorman. HENRY SMITH.

An unkacwo. person. At leest one and probably two of the injured may djebefore morning. The place, where the accident occurred is at the base of a steep incline alongside of which runs a high embankment. The car was loaded with passengers arid as it reached the edge of the incline there were mo indications of impending danger.

Once on the incline, however, the car began to slip, owing to wet tracks. The motormam applied the brakes and that moment the gear wheel broke rendering the brakes ueelese. The car dashed along at a terrific rate, while withi-r the terror stricken passengers sat a.nd stood pet-rifled with feirr. The car upon reaching the bottom ipok. a sharp turn.

ain3 was thrown Tin against the embankment. Word was quickly sent to Columbia acd a relief car was sent to the EfCcT.e. At pseee-nt the names' of the injured are linkmowa BASE FALSEHOOD. Bryan Receives No Remuneration From Mine Owners. DENVER.

'Aug. 9. The Rocky Mountain News recently sent to the leading mining and smelting men of the country a letter asking as to the truth of the statement that "the Bonanza- silver owners" have maitnts'ned extensive bureaus- with a corps of speakers and writers and that Wm. J. Bryanhas been in.

receipt of salary from them for some years. Replies have beer received from seventeen prominent miming men, including J. J. Hagerman, Ebem Smith, Simon. Guggenheim, S.

A. Josephi, Dennis Sheedy.tn5 Byrora E. Shear, all of whom deny the exietemce of any bureau or organization of silver mine owners for the purpose alleged by Mr. Thurston, and denounce as a falsehood the statement that Mr. Brya' has ever received a eclary "or any remuneration whatever from them for advocating the silver cause.

DETERMINED FARMERS. Hiding Place of Burglars Surround-ed by a Posse. CINCINNATI, Aug. 9. The Enquirer's special from Wooster says: Over two- hundred farmers have surrounded Fox Lake and are guarding it tonight to prevent the escape of desperate burglars.

The post-office at Mt. Eaton was burglarized of $150 last night. The postmaster fired on the burglars, who returned the fire and aroused the community. Sheriff Garver iraised a posse and the farmers everywhere joined in the pursuit. There' hai-e-been burglaries in the communities recently and the people1 think they, have the guilty surrounded.

REDUCTION REJECTED. Tin Mills May Be Operated by Non-. Union Men. CINCINNATI, Aug. 9.

At the conference at Eiwood. between Garland, of the Amalgamated Association and the committee of the A-mericaci' TiA Plate-Company, the reduction of fifteen, per cent, was rejected. The.scale has not ben. signed and. the company say they cannot operate under it will strat with oo-n-iin ion men.

It is expected, at the offices of the American Tin. Plate Company here that the milis be operated with aiew tnea. iwrtiiui se week) cr two seven, who is unconscious, but may recover. Fitzgerald and Bragna were employed in a blast furnace when stricken. During tie dress parade at the national guard encampment thi3-after-noon fifty militiamen were prostrated by the heat.

AH the men will recover. CINCINNATI. Heat Causes Two People to Drop Dead on the Streets. I I CINCINNATI, Aug. 9.

The heat the past week has caused many but there have baen only five fatalities directly from sunstroke. The temperature has been in the nineties for a week. The weather bureau reported the maximum tmperature 94.1 at 3 p. 91 ab 6 p. and 85 at 10 p.

m. John Sussdorf, aged forty-five, laborer, dropped at 6 p. m. tonight and was dead ten minutes afterward. IIArrj- Ilelman, aged thirty years, a moulder, was sittirg in his yard when a neighbor called and slapped him on the back, Helman dropped dead.

The said he died of sunstroke. Mary Oscar, aged nineteen, a domestic, dropped on the street, and is at hospital in a hopeless condition. There was an unusual number of prostrations today. SAN ANTONIO. Fatal Result of a Sunstroke of Saturday.

SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 9. John Kuefner, inspector of sewer works, died today from the effects of the heat. Kuefnsr fell down while on duty in tne open sun yesteraay afternoon, tne thermometer registering 86 in the A n. MEMPHIS.

But One Prostration Reported From That City. MEMPHIS, Aug. 9. The warm wave continues here. There was one fatal prostration from the intense heat today.

John T. Bishop, manager of a heading establishment, succumbed at noon and died two hours later. BOSTON. The Hub Treated to a Real Scorcher Yesterday. BOSTON, Aug.

9. After a week in which the east wind played a prominent part in keeping down the heat, Boston was treated to a scorching day. The day was the most uncomfortable this summer. The thermometer, which at dawn was 70, rose rapidly until 3 o'clock, when it touched 92 and for two hours remained above 90. The heat this evening is still oppressive and la severely felt in the crowded tenement districts in.

the north and west ends of the city. But few prostrations were reported by the police. I NEWARK. Three Deaths and Half a Dozen Serious Prostrations. NEWARK, N.

Aug. 9. The hot weather today was responsible for the deaths of three persons in this city, Chas. Zahn, Joseph Ostreiter and "Joe," 'a German lal-er employed in Hauck's brewery. Half a dozen oases of serious prostration from the heat wefe also reported.

Mrs. Mary Habel, aged forty-five, died in Jersey Citjr of heat prostration. Ten additional cases of ev.n-sroke, some of which may prove fatal, were reported to the police. MILWAUKEE. Rain Comes to the relief of the Great Beer City.

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 9. Ninety was the highest point Reached by the mercury today, a 'heavy rain lowering the temperature several degrees and causing a break in the five days of hottest weather Milwaukee has experienced since 1872. No prostrations or deaths were reported today. During the week the death rate in the city has more than doubled, owing, physicians say, to the extreme heat.

Fatal cases of sunstroke in the city and vicinity number eight to date. SAINT LOUIS. Nineteen Deaths During the Week. lOO in the Shade. ST.

LOUIS, Aug. 9. Not before in the history of St." Louis has its inhabitants suffered so much from the heat as during the week Just The highest point reached by the thermometer was 100 in the shade, and on no day wag the maximum below 95. On the street the heat was more intense and the record- higher. City Physician Sutter declared tonight that the record of heat prostrations and deaths at the hospital for Vie past week is unprecedented in Its history.

He reports 110 cases, all serious, were cared for and that nineteen of these died, while more are still in a critical condition. This is not the compiete record for the city, for at least that many more cases were taken to the dispensaries, where many ied and others were sent from there to various hospitals or their homes for treatment. Today the highest point readied by the thermometer was 99 in the shade. Twenty of the beat were brought to the city hospital between 5 p. m.

and midnight, and but two of these died. Their names are unknown. Others will die. OMAHA. Terrible 'Storm the -Climax of the Weei of Heat Aug.

9.A terrible storm CHICAGO. Police Have Trouble With, a Swede Crazed by Heat. CHICAGO, Aug. 9. Again today, the sun scorched this city, and the record of deaths and prostrations will approach those of yesterday.

The cases of sunstroke up to ten o'clock cumbered fifteen, while several others were not expected to live. The prostrations of not a very serious character were over thirty. Many peop-Te were mentally affected, and on one of the bridges the police had a hard struggle with a Swede of giant strength, who attempted to throw people Into the river. The heat had made him crazy. The temperature indicated many peculiarities during the day.

The lowest point marked was 76 degrees at eleven o'clock, and the mercury remained almost stationary at that figure until two o'clock. At 3 o'clock it jumped tc.SS and at 5 o'clock it was 93, the highest point reached. While the hghest point today was 5 degrees leas than that of yesterday, the people suffered Just as much and the fatalities show that the heat was equally dangerous to life. Buckstedt, Charles, bartender. Carmony, Dennis.

Enit, John. Hogan, Patrick Joyce, Mrs. Mary. Maher, John. Marion, John.

Relln, Charles. Parr, George. Scherrer, Stephen. Sledsky, Vincent, tailor. Valoshleth, John, laborer.

KANSAS CITY. But Pew Prostrations Considering the Extreme High KANSAS Aug. 9. Since Monday last sweltering hot weather has prevailed in Kansee City and vicinity. The maximum temperature today, as reported by the United States weather bureau, was 97, when is the lowest maximum temperature reported since Monday last, when 97 was reached.

On Friday the record was 102, but the extreme heat was, reached on Saturday at 3 when the weather bureau reported 103. Notwithstanding the weathsr has been unusually hot and the spell of long duration, there have been comparatively few prostrations and but two deaths, which are directly attributed to the heat. On Friday night Ettiliare Moro, chief at the Kansas City club, drank copiously of ire water while in an overheated condition and died a few minutes later. James Carney, a laborer, was prostrated on the street on Thursday and died on the following day from the effects ef the sunstroke. The death rate during the week has been heavy, the extreme heat having aggravated the afflictions of the seriously ailing, but two cases mentioned are the only cases 'directly attributed to the heat.

A high vind has prevailed roost of the time during the week, affecting considerable relief. LOUISVILLE. One Death Reported Many Dead Horses in the Streets. LOUISVILLE. Aug.

9. The maximum temperature today was 97 degrees, yesterday it was 98 and the average for the past fourteen days has been over 95. There was but one daath today, but Hie mortality among horses was never so great In this city, the dead animal contractors having great difficulty in removing tha carcasses promptly. LITTLE ROCK. Hottest Period Since Local Weather Bureau Was Established LITTLE ROCK, Aug.

99 The Jong continued drought in this immediate vicinity was broken by a light rain this afternoon. The temperature which for the past? tsn days has ranged above the 100 mark, fell to 74 and the indications are that ttiere will be more rain before morning. During the past 'week the weather has been the hottest ever known here since the establishment of the local weather the temperature In the Little Rock district averaging the highest in Vie" United States. Twelve of fifteen fatalities of prostration have occurred. PITTSBURG.

Death of City Employe ThunderT storm Has a Cooling Effect. PITTSBURG, Aug. 9. Thomas Edwards, a city employe, died at the South Side hospital at one o'clock ttiis morning in terrible atruny as a result of sunstroke. Edwards death makes two fatalities during the week.

Within the same psriod there irer fcur prostrations. The thunderstorm this evening was a happy relief from bs hot a nay as this summer- has produced. For the second time the thermometer registered 93 degrees, the first time being last Thursday afternoon. Had it not been Sunday when most, men were idle, many heat prostrations must have resulted. No.

case sunstroke was reported during. the afternoon. From seven to eight o'clock there was a fall of 18 degrees in the tem- I perature. At the same time the ta- ivnuctcr rose rapiaiy, the atmosphere became pure and bracing and the spirits of humanity Tose. CLEVELAND.

Fifty Prostrations of Soldiers at Encampment Dress Parade. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 9. Ttie heat has been intense -here today. At GUARDED BY SOLDIERS NEGROES SUFFERING HARDSHIPS IN GAUTEMALA.

Flattering Inducements Offered But Cruel Treatment Received. MONROE, Aug. 9. Letters received in this city tell harrowing tales of suffering experienced by a colony of Louisiana negroes in Gautamela who were induced to go there last May to work on railroads. The letters say that four of their numbers have been killed and that those still alive are in a condition worse ttian slavery and they are anxious to return to their" Louisiana homes.

Last May a number of young negro men in this vicinity and at Jacksonville contracted with agents to go to Central America to work on railroads. Flattering inducements were held out to them. They were promised high wages, easy work and splendid treatment. The letters some of them have written home indicate that they were badly deceived. Henry Wind, of Jacksonville, received a letter from his brother yesterday dated at Panzore, July 27, containing tCia information that James Shaw, Willie Bradley, a boy named Sam, and another whose name the writer did not know, had been killed near Panzore while attempting to scape.

The negroes employed on the Railroad are guarded by soldiers of ths Gaute-melan government, are treated brutally, it is alleged, and receive scant rations and very small pay. Many attempts have been made and some have succeeded in getting out of the country and are on their way back to Louisiana. Wind states that he expects to start home some time in September, but that he is wihout funds expects to face many privations and fiardships on his long journey. Parson Ellis has received a letter from his son, Ennis, in which he says he expects to be home some time in October when quarantine is raised. He also tells tales of great suffering.

En-nis Ellis and Steve Lewis were kidnapped away from their homes in Jacksonville last spring and sent to Central America. Two agents were arrested in Monroa in June charged with kidnapping the boys and are now out on bail aivaiting trial. BUYING IN EARNEST. Foreign Merchants Believe Cotton Crop Greatly Damaged. MANCHESTER, Aug.

9. Manchester merchants have been strong but inactive buyers, not believing the advance in cotton to be serious, and willingly buying round lots at last week's best prices. In some cases spot p-aT-ce'is were obtainable at a compromise. Such cases were, however, exceptional. Yarns are nominally 3-8d dearer, but business is almost nothing.

Board of trade returns tesued today ehaw for July an Increase of 5 1-2 per cent, in cloth and 8 per cent, in yarns. RAILWAY STOCKS. Chicago Failure Causes Some to Decline Several Points. LONDON, Aug. 9.

The Chicago failure of Moore Bros, and the trouble in eastern Ehrope combined to make the last week on the tock exchange one of the most de: in a long perlodi "Vith the exc.tion of colonial and corporation stocks not likely to affected by political disturbances, almost every description of stocks were lower. Mines were depressed. Foreign securities were flat on apprehension of a new 'policy by Russia towards Turkey. Spaniards were exceptionally weak owing to the difficulties connected with the finding of money for the Cuban campaign. Canadian were flat in sympathy with America's.

The wholesale tailing of American securities, both bonds and shares, caused the week's declines to range from to I point. Chicago, Milwaukee and St, Paul 7 7-8; Louisville and Nashville Illinois Central 5 1-2; Denver and Rio Grande pfd 4 3-4; Lake Shore Lake Erie mortgage and Reading firsts Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, New York Central, Northern Pacifid and Wabash 2. BALTIMORE. Thirty Prostrations in the Past Twenty Four Hours. BALTIMORE, Aug.

9. The beat here today was Well nigh unbearable. The maximum temperature was reached between four and five 97 degrees bsing registered. Within, the past twenty-four Itcurs tlrere have been reported ten fatalities and over thirty prostrations..