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Twelve woodcutters killed by Indians in the Belize. Appropriation for life saving service increased $25,000, but increased lighthouse appropriation voted down by house in committee of whole. Receiver is asked for National bank of Guthrie, and a sensation is expected when the bottom facts are reached. New York Plattites make an ineffectual attempt to secure Blaine's consent to become the presidential candidate.
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The dispatches announce that H. S. Cunningham has been appointed receiver of the defunct National Bank of Guthrie, Ok. That must be our own Harper.
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TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. Sir William Gordon-Cumming is to run for parliament. Suspender won the royal hunt cup at the Ascot races. A church at Princeton, Mass., was burned by lightning. The report of the success of the Venezuelan rebels is denied. One person was killed in a freight wreck near Indianapolis. It is feared that strikers at the Osceola mine will resort to violence. The pope has cautioned Archbishop Vaughan against interfering in politics. W. R. Davidson was shot and killed at Norton, Va., by Rev. John Panel, a Baptist preacher. The National league of Great Britain appeals to Irishmen in America for aid and sympathy. Judge Harper S. Cunningham has been appointed receiver for the National Bank of Guthrie, O. T. The sovereigns of England, Russia, Germany and Roumania are to meet at Prince Ferdinand's wedding at Edinburgh. In the course of evidence in the Bank of France bribery case the statement was made that during the Baring trouble the Bank of France saved the Bank of England from ruin.
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BUSINESS BREVITIES. THE Chicago tariff cases were decided against the importers yesterday. ST. LOUIS planing mill employes will strike for a nine-hour day with ten hours' pay. RUMORED that John D. Rockefeller has secured control of the Missouri lead and zinc mines. THE big iron freight steamship El Norte was successfully launched at Newport News yesterday. GOLD for export on to-day's steamers at New York has been ordered to the amount of $2,500,000. JUDGE HARPER S. CUNNINGHAM has been appointed receiver for the National Bank of Guthrie, Okla. THE D. Wilson Manufacturing Company will move its plant from Howard, Centre county, to Chambersburg. THE Alliance Bank, Limited, of London, has amalgamated with Parr's Bank, which is among the largest banks in the provinces. The joint capital is $25,000,000. THE Currency Committee of the Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath yesterday adopted a clause affirming a gold standard, with the kroneast as the unit of value. IN the matter of the capitalization of the Niles Tool Works, of Hamilton, O., the appraisement puts the property, exclusive of the good will, at a little over $1,000,000. The incorporation of the new concern will be under Ohio law, and stock will be $2,000,000 equally divided between preferred and common. UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALLEN, of Boston, telegraphs the Government officials at Cincinnati that it is his intention to push the indictments against the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company's officials, notwithstanding the decision of Judges Jackson and Ricks. The decisions of Judges Jackson and Ricks Saturday were not upon the. unconstitutionality of the anti-trust law. AN important ruling has been rendered in the District Court of Colorado by Judge Rising. The question came up whether the writs of attachment in the case of the First National Bank against Jacob Bohm and Nicholas Steinberk could be sustained. The
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WHO SAYS that Oklahoma is not on the direct line of civilization? A receiver has been appointed for the National bank of Guthrie.
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES. There are 1,427 children of school age in Oklahoma City; only 107 of these are colored. Judge Green has appointed H. S. Cunningham receiver of the National Bank of Guthrie. Rodger James, a notorious horsethief of the Comanche country, has been landed in the jail at Anadarko. The Oklahoma City Gazette is authority for the statement that the Daltons have no designs on the territorial treasury. There is an old woman in Oklahoma City who claims to be 100 years of age and who has not worn glasses for the last twenty. four years. There are two sets of school boards at Oklahoma City, and each has employed a full complement of teachers for the city schools. Deputy United States Marshal Leon DeBost has the pistol with which Adams shot Captain Couch at Oklahoma City: also the one worn by Ed Short when be was killed in the southwest. Both are fine weapons. The Republican convention to nominate a delegate to congress will be held in Guthrie, July 14. The most prominent candidates are, D. A. Harvey, present incumbent, Dennis Flyon of Gutbrie, and Major Weigel of El Reno. Rev. S. C. Meyers, pastor of the Presby. terian church at Stillwater, presched the baccalaureate sermon of the first commencement exercises of the Oklahoma Agricultural college last Sunday. The ex ercises occupied all this week. Oklahoma City Gazette: Deputy Sheriff Watts of county B is in the city today and will leave tonight for Texas with two prisoners whom be arrested in the Seminole country for the murder of a man by the name of Vaughn, In Meridian, Tex. The names of the men are John Dixou and
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THE WEST. LIGHTNING struck one of the big iron tanks of the Buckeye Pipe Line Co., situnted on the Smaltz tankage farm, about three miles southwest of Findlay, O. The tank, which contained 350,000 barreis of oil, made a great fire. The loss will reach $50,000. THE Western Traffic association has decided that reduced rates to the mining congress at Helena, July 12, can be made. JUDGE JACKSON, of the United States circuit court at Cincinnati, dismissed the whisky trust cases, declaring that the trust was in existence before the law under which it was being prosecuted was passed, therefore, said law was clearly expost facto, and of course unconstitutional. THE Wells-Fargo detectives located the Red Rock express robbers in the Antelope hills of Kansas, but could not capture them. THE last victim of the steamer Golden Rule fire at Cincinnati was found at the foot of Vine street in that city. It was the body of Miss Maloney. THE cashier of the Judson Machine and Power Co. at San Francisco was robbed of $17,000 by two men in broad day in the suburbs of the city and in the presence of a crowded train load of passengers. Gov. PRINCE, of New Mexico, in re sponse to a general demand from the people of that territory, appointed a delegation of two representative men from each of the sixteen counties in the territory, to go to Washington and urge upon the senate the necessity and the justice of passing the enabling act admitting New Mexico to statchood. THE Union Pacific passeuger train from Boulder, Col., consisting of one coach, a baggage car and an engine jumped the track and rolled down a ten foot embankment a mile east of Sunset. There were but ten passengers aboard, as a large number had left the train at the different stations en route. Seven of those were slightly bruised, but none fatally. THE reports from Guthrie, Ok., in regard to a race war having been imminent were exaggerated. Everything is quiet. A CYCLONE struck Chicago the other day, which killed two persons and did damage to property. AN explosion occurred in the shell rooms at the Mare Island navy yard, near San Francisco, which resulted in the death of sixteen men, while several others are fatally or seriously injured. ORONO POINT, Lake Minnetonka, was visited the other day by a small cyclone, which formed on the surface of the lake and swept across the peninsula with irresistible force. The residence of George A. Brackett was wrecked. and all the fine trees surrounding the house, most of them of fifty years' growth, were uprooted and now lie in a tangled mass in the cellar of the wrecked cottage. Hardly a tree is left standing along the route taken by the wind| A PETITION has been received at Chicago from a number of Unitarian churches requesting that the exposition buildings be kept open on Sunday. The signers of the petition which represents the north Massachusetts conference and other Christian churches situated in Massachusetts and New Hampshire request that the fair be open on Sunday but that it be "a silent exhibit" with no machinery running. THE village of Galva, III., was almost entirely destroyed by a cyclone. One person was killed and ten'seriously injured. AN earthquake shock lasting nearly thirty seconds was felt at Santa Ana, Cal., the other day. The vibrations were from east to west. EIGHT persons were killed and a number injured by the storm in Chicago recently. HARPER S. CUNNINGHAM has been appointed receiver for the national bank of Guthrie, Ok. The bank went into liquidation some time ago. It had a paid up capital of $100,000. THE party of students from the Northwestern university, Chicago, thought to have been lost, returned safely. THE wigwam at Chicago in which the national democratic convention was to be held having been injured by a storm. the citizens' executive committee of Minneapolis offered the use of the hall in which the republican convention was held. THE SOUTH. THREE negro men and a woman were killed by lightning on a plantation ten miles from Canton, Miss.
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Bank Receiver Appointed at Guthrie. , GUTHRIE, Ok., June 15.-Harper S. Cunningham has been appointed receiver for the National bank of Guthrie. The bank went into liquidation some time ago. It had a paid up capital of $100,000.
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MISCELLANEOUS. HARPER S. CUNNINGHAM has been appointed receiver for the national bank of Guthrie, Ok. The bank went into liquidation some time ago. It had a paid up capital of $100,000. AN earthquake shock lasting nearly thirty seconds was felt at Santa Ana, Cal., the other day. The vibrations were from east to west. A FIRE which is thought to have originated from spontaneous combustion in cotton on the Old Bay line at the foot of Union dock, Baltimore, destroyed wines, whisky and general merchandise valued at nearly one million dollars. THE party of students from the Northwestern university, Chicago, thought to have been lost, returned safely. HOP SING, a Chinese merchant of Galveston, Tex., was baptized and received into the Presbyterian church the other day. He had been until recently presiding over a Chinese Sunday school. A large assemblage witnessed the ceremonies, which were conducted with great impressiveness. A FRIGHTFUL wreck occurred at the trestle spanning Lonesome Hollow, near Middleborough, Ky. Freight engine No. 10, with sixteen loaded box cars, went through, one on top of the other. The distance from the top of the trestle to the ground below is 250 feet. The engineer, Frank Sargent, Fireman Henry Slater and Conductor Duckworth were killed outright. The north bound passenger train with 100 passengers was only saved by being onehalf hour late. A. HESPELER, a young man who claims to be a son of the German consul-general to Canada, was arrested at San Elizario, El Paso county, Tex., for swindling. He had a number of checks cashed at El Paso and they were dishonored. THE Missouri, Kansas & Texas will make Velasco, Tex., its southern terminus and shipping point. WHILE forty-five men were at work on the bridge in course of construction over the Licking river between Covington and Newport, Ky., the structure fell. Only two or three escaped unhurt. The contractors with twenty-five workmen lost their lives. THE Grant monument at Chicago was struck by lightning. Three persons were n killed and two injured. a THREE Italians were lynched in Washington, at the camp of Smith Bros., on S the line of the Monte Cristo railroad, f for murdering a railroad foreman. S THE southern central portion of Minn nesota suffered from a tornado. JackS son, Martin, Faribault, Freeborn and Blue Earth counties appear to have been the scene. Between forty and fifty o people are known to have perished. S AN attempt was made to lynch n Thomas M. Holland, represented as a r colored land shark, at Kingfisher, Ok. t by colored men from Tennessee, but the f attempt was foiled. e THE National Association of Freight Agents concluded its work at Louis ville, Ky., and elected officers as fol to lows: James Treveling, president, St e Louis; Fred Hudson, Louisville, vice president; D. W. Howard, secretary a Executive committee: J. R. Sample e Evansville; T. J. Kern, Cincinnati: E H. Wray, St. Joseph; F. J. Hill, Detroit y J. B. Lounsberry, Toledo; C. N. New S ton, Fort Wayne, treasurer. The associa tion will meet next year at Milwaukee
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IN THE COURTS. New Suits Filed in the District Conrt-F. M. Harper's Serious Crime. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER, GOODRICH. F. M. Harper, residing near Kildare, was arrested at Perry yesterday by Officer Kelley, and brought to the city. He is charged with defrauding Della Foster of $400 and a claim, also with perjury and forgery. The evidence against Harper is strong and he is liable to go over the road for several stretches. The culprit was arraigned before Commissioner Goodrich yesterdav, but being unable to give bond, was remanded to the federal jail. The Frymeir counterfeiting case was partially heard by Commissioner Goodrich late last night but was not concluded. POLICE COURT. Two bums were run in by the police yesterday. Officer Rust is spending his nights at the Santa Fe depot, showing tramps the road to Governor Lewelling's commonwealth. Police court was dry yesterday. Not even a plain case. JUDGE CASSIDY'S COURT. Williams, the alleged barn burner, was released on bail by Justice Cassidy yesterday. His trial was postponed until, the 29th inst. JUDGE MORGAN'S COURT. Civil business of [ittle importance occupied Judge Morgan's time yesterday. No warrants were issued. DISTRICT COURT, L. E. PITTS CLERK. In the district court yesterday a case labeled Metropolitan Bank of Kansas City vs. H. S. Cunningham, receiver of the National Bank of Guthrie, was filed. It is a suit on contract and account, and involves the sum of $5,000. It seems that the Metropolitan bank bought the salary account of Louis DeSteiguer, the cashier of the defunct local bank, but the receiver refused to pay the same. Hence the suit. S. L. Overstreet appears as attorney for the plaintiff. It looks as though the name of DeSteiguer will never disappear from the district court dockets. Other suits were filed as follows: W. W. Adams vs. E. E Tallman, appeal from probate court, Bierer & Cotterall attorneys for plaintiff. David H. Mitchell vs. J W. Blair, appeal from probate court, Gardner & Risley attorneys for plaintiff.
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Farmer James T. Watkins of Brown county, Kan., shot and killed his wife and committed suicide. The trial of David Miller for the murder of ex-Mayor Albert B. Dumond of Arcola, Ill., has begun at Tuscola. J. C. McGinn committed suicide at the National hotel in Washington, shooting himself. McGinn was a newspaper man. The jury in the case of ex-Secretary of State Joachim of Michigan, charged with falsifying public records, was unable to agree and was discharged. The indictments against Banker T. M. Thornton of Shelbyville, Ind., were quashed by the court. The charge was embezzlement. Charles Patterson was arrested at Thorntown, Ind., charged with starting the fire that destroyed Mobbitt's livery stable and other property worth $1,000. Harry Pensan, a notorious character of Ramsey, Ill., fatally stabbed Robert Chandler while Chandler was trying to eject him from his place of business. Burton B. Wake, son of an English baronet, was sentenced at Windsor, Ont., to twenty-three months' imprisonment for highway robbery. Louis Knorr of St. Louis shot and killed himself in Boston. He left a note saying that his life had been full of disappointment. G. W. Hoffman has been arrested charged with swindling people about Logansport, Ind., by forging the name of Rink & Co. to contracts for patent rights. Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania has signed warrants for the hanging of James Newton Hill of Allegheny, and James B. Carpenter, Juanita, Thursday, June 14. Louis Desteigner, president of the National bank of Guthrie, Ok., which was wrecked over a year ago, has been arrested for violation of the United States banking laws. Deputy marshals in Oklahoma engage in a fight with the Dalton gang. Bill Dalton, the leader, two other bandits, two deputy sheriffs and a woman and her child are killed. In the Indianapolis bank wrecking cases testimony showing $195,000 had been transferred to Elijah Coffin in London previous to the failure of the Cabinet company was given. Emma Denton, aged twenty-three years, of Clunette, Ind., committed suicide with strychnine because her lover had circulated scandalous stories about her. At Nashville, Mich., the bank of Barry & Downing was robbed of $2,000 belonging to the proprietors, $400 in stamps kept there by the postmaster and probably other smaller amounts in private boxes. Louis Plante, wanted in Toronto for robbery, was held for extradition, despite his confession of arson made for the purpose of being detained at Denver for trial, and the papers have been forwarded to Washington. At Saginaw, Mich., Hon. A. B. Wood, ex-state senator and a prominent citizen, was found dead in his barn at noon, having committed suicide by hanging. Despondency caused by financial reverses is assigned as the cause.