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AN OIL TOWN IN ASHES. The Panic-Stricken People Flee to the Hills For Safety. Twenty Acres Burned Over, and 1,200 People Homeless. Clarendon, Penn., in the upper oil country, on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, has heon almost wined out bv fire. The flames broke out simultaneously in the Weaver Hotel and in Brown Brothers' planing milL Tho meagre water supply gave out, and the people became horrified as they realized their helplessness. Appeals for help were immediately sent to \V arren and the surrounding country. When the Warren fire department responded it was discovered that the hose was not brought along. While this oversight was being remedied the flames had encroached upon the pumping station and the water works were burned. A stream which ran near the station was sought, but it gave only a meagre supply. The air was so full of flames and heat that a number of oil tanks in the upper part of the town exploded. The fire then filled the streets and wound its serpentine course under the buildings in all directions. Men whose cheeks were blanched with terror ran hither and thither for their families and children. High above the roaring of the flames were to be heard the cries of those who were looking for loved ones. Fortunately they had all instinctively sought the hillside, and" but one person was burned. That was a man employed at Munn & Co.'s feed store. He was burned to death in the bam. The telegraph and telephone offices were burned in the early stages of the conflagra tion. This left the people without any means ?f communicating with the outside world. Several trains of oil cars coming east were stopped beyond the town. Twelve hundred people on the hillsides and in the vacant lots were in a most pitiable condition in the morning. They had neither money nor food and many of them but little clothing. The people of VTarren loaded a train on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad with provisions and sent it to Clarendon at an early hour. All day the outgoing trains from Clarendon were densely crowded with the sufferers, who were going to seek the hospitality of relatives and friends, man}* of thein having lost all they had in the world. The buildings destroyed were about 100 in number, and covered an area of twenty acres. The total pecuniary losses are placed at from $350,000 to $500,000. THE NATIONAL GAME. Ryan, of the Chicagoes,* has played every position Except behind the bat and on lirst base. Pitcher Ferguson of the Philadelphia, has struck out more men than any League pitcher. Johnston, Boston's centre fielder, has not made an error since May 26, and he has played in twenty-two consecutive games. Murray, of the Lynns, is richer bj' a suit of clothes for having been the first local player to make a home run on the Lynn grounds. Five double plays in a game is a rather remarkable exhibition. In the contest between Des Moines and St. Paul the former is credited with three and the latter two. "Ward, of the New Ycrks. has had the greatest record of consecutive hitting of any T^fltnia nlovor tn owrv trnmr? hptwpen MllV V . Vv ^ 17 and June 13, he made at least one clean hit. The Pittsburgs have played three errorless games thus far this season* which shows a fine fielding record, even if the club is not winning many games. Weak batting defeats them. Michael Kelly, the Boston Clubs $10,000 catcher, was escorted to the ball grounds in Chicago, upon his first appearance in that City this season, by a brass band and was overwhelmed with floral tributs. Burke, whom Detroit has signed, is a perfect Hercules, weighs about 200 pounds, and sends a ball through with terrific speed. He pitched for the Pioneers, of San Francisco, and in a recent game struck ont fourteen men. In* the Association batting list O'Neil and Latham lead for the St. Louis Browns, Larkin, for the Athletics; Phillips, for Brooklyn,Fennelly, for the Cincinnatis; browning, for Louisville; Orr, for the ilets; 1 ucker for the Baltimores; and Hotaling, for the Clevelands. Ix a recent game at Indianapolis the performances of Johnston, Boston's centre fielder,v and Bassett, second baseman for the Hoosiers, shone resplendent. Johnston's record has seldom, if ever, been excelled: Five times at bat, four runs, two singles, a three-bagger, a home run. two stolen bases, eight put outs, one assist, and no error. Bassett made a hit every time he wns at the bat, three singles and a double, stole two bases, scored twice, put out three men and ] assisted four times without an error. < tUE NATIONAL LWAGt'E KECOItfl. H'on. Lost. Won. Loft. Detroit 36 15 Boston... S3 -3 Pittsburgh.... 19 28 New \ ork.... ^ Philadelphia..24 28 Indianapolis...1-J M Chicago 28 20 "Washington... 17 'iJ 1 il r- A.-utniUAn a>ioui,iaiiu.<i Won. Lost. Won. St. Louis 43 15 I Baltimore 30 IS , Brooklyn. 28 26 | Cincinnati IJ3 28 , Louisville 30 29 Athletic 28 30 1 Metropolitan.. 15 38 j Cleveland 14 42 ( THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. 1 Won. Lost. Won. Lost 1 Newark 29 12 Syracuse 20 20 < Rochester 21 21 Binghamton..lG 22 Toronto 22 18 Hamilton 23 19 ' Buffalo 30 *18 Jersey City... 18 20 Scranton. 7 9 Utica 7 34 j SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Won. Ix)st. j New Orleans..30 14 Charleston...28 19 ( Nashville 24 12 Birmingham. 1 19 j Memphis 27 14 ] EASTERN LEAGUE. j Won. Lout. Won. Lost. New Haven. ..21 21 Hartford 27 19 ; Bridgeport.... 32 lti Waterbury... 23 23 Danbury 16 29 THE COLLEGE LEAGUE. I The Yale Club has won the college championship. Below will be found the standing 1 of the clubs at the end of the season. Won. Lost. Won. Lost. ' Yale 9 1 | Princeton 2 5 Harvard 4 7 1 Columbia 0 5 j MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, j Tambeulik, the noted tenor, has lost hia voice and is making guns in Madrid. Anna Dickinson is ill from overwork and i worry. She will not play Hamlet again next ' winter. i Edwin Booth talks of retiring after next season, He is rich again, and can afford to live at leisure. At a recent performance of Mapleson opera In London only ono woman in the parquet wore a bonnet. Francis Wilson, of the New York Casino, is the highest priced comedian in the world. He receives $4 <5 a week. Theodore Habelmann, the once tenor, will be stage manager for the German Opera in New York next season. Ada Monk, formerly a well-known actress tKo aF RnAfh nnil Rjirpfttfc. is helpless in the New York Hospital. It takes lit,270 bandsmen to make the music for the 44!t,i:j'.i German officors and soldiers who keep step to the martial strains of the fatherland. Ladv Archibald Campbell proposes to E've her outdoor performance of "As You ke It," on the American Exhibition grounds in London, for a charitable object, at $5 a ticket. Captain Jack Crawkord, the fiery Texan scout, temperance lecturer and poet, has decided to go on the stage. He will bn ak out in the Fall with a piece called " On the Trail; or, Daniel Boone, the Avenger." A good orchestra could be gathered from the players discarded by the prominent orchestral conductors in New York and Boston. Neither Thomas nor Gericke wants men over forty years of age, and older ones have to find employment elsewhere. Charlotte Wolter, the great Viennese tragedienne, will begin her profe slonal tour of the United States on January -, 1888. Her twenty-fifth anniversary o:i th? stage was , recently celebrated with eclat, bbe is Countess O'SuLivan by marriage. FEDERAL FINANCES. The Treasury's Condition at the Dawn oi' a Xew Fiscal Year. The public debt statement for June shoves that the debt decreased during the month ?16,852,725. For the entire fiscal year, which ended June 30, the decrease is $109,707,046. The debt is now $1,688,229,591 principal and $12,542.35? interest, makinc the total indebt ness $1,700,771,948. Deduct cash in the Treasury and available cash items and the rietdebt stands #1.279,428,737. The following statement shows the assets and liabilities of the Treasury Iroin the latest returns received from the several assistant treasurer, mints and assay offices of the United States and national bank depositories: Assets. Gold coin $192,368,91 Bullion 85,732,190 278.101,100 Silver?Standard dollars $211,483,970 Bullion 3.982,472 215,40(5,442 United States notes $28,783,790 Trade dollars redeemed 0,934,962 National bank notes 197,040 Deposits in national bank deposit? ? ?? ooi ono - .... .... Fractional currency redeemed... 2,366 Interest, checks and coupons paid 5,361,031 National bank notes in process of redemption 2,165,539 Interest on District of Columbia bonds paid 2,195 Assets not available?minor coin in mint for recoinage 116,698 Fractional silver coin 26,977,493 Total $5S7,099,98l Liabilities. Gold certificates $121,486.817 Less amount on l#.nd 30,201.380 $91,225,437 Silver certificates?$145,543,150 Less amount on hand 3.425, l:>? ? 142,118.017 Certificates of deposit $9,080,000 Less amount on hand 310,000 8.770.000 Public Debt and Interest. Interest due and unpaid $1,753,666 Accrued interest 8,020,111 Matured debt 0,115,165 Interest on matured debt 190,753 Called bonds not matured and balancc of interest 10,710,500 Debt bearing; no interest 2,306 Interest on Pacific Railroad bonds due and unpaid 33,199 Accrued interest on Pacific Railroad bonds 1,938,705 j Reserve for redemption of United States notes, acts of 1875 and 1882 100,000,000 Fund held for redemption of notes of national banks, "failed," "in liquidation" and "reducing circulation''.. 97,909,054 Fund held for redemption of national gold bank notes S3,864 Five per cent fund for redemption of national bank notes 8,113,3^, Post Office Department account... 6,571,783 Disbursing officers' balances 21,905,529 Undistributed assets of failed national banks 788,181 Currency and minor coin redemption account 720 Fractional silver coin redemption account 1,40-5 Treasurer's transfer checks and a2 366.942 -i , Treasurer United States ajcent for paying interest on District of Columbia bonds 305,436 Total 1519,152,419 Balances. Net gold $180,875,(503 Net silver 73,34S,424 Net United States notes 20,013,7% Trade dollai-s redeemed G,934,9t52 National bank notes 197,04(i Deposits in national bank depositories 22,991,302 Total $310,301,202 Recapitulation. Assets |5S7,099,9S1 Liabilities 519,152,419 Balance ?(57,947,501 The following is a comparative statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for June and for the corresponding month of last year: Receipts. 18S7. If85. Customs $18,982,359 $17,184,123 Internal revenue 10,<'.75,942 10,400,395 Miscellaneous 3,412,<iS3 4.1 TO, 102 Totals $33,070,984 $32,510,630 Expenditures. Ordinarj' $9,012,158 $11,447,101 Pensions 2,177,299 7,40a,002 lut< rest 3,170,420 2,837,738 Totals..'. $14,030,8S8 $21,690,992 The total receipts for the fiscal vear ended June 30 were $571,380,894, made up as follows : Customs, $217,403,983; internal rev;nue, $119,130,447; miscellaneous, $34,840,404 PRAYINGFOR RAIN. \ Bnrnin<j Drought?Western Farmers Holding Prayer Meetings. A burning drought has prevailed foi iveeks in Illinois and Wisconsin, the scorching heat drying up the streams and parching ;he crops, causing much suffering to cattle md great pecuniary losPublic prayer Meetings were held in many places by the stricken fanners. A Cambridge (111.) dispatch gives details as follows: "For ten days the fences along the country ( rworle un/1 *4..?nrl wnllv r\f tVin villnrrp Jiflvp been plastered with big red bills calling for public prayers for rain. One of these meetings was held in the Congregational Church )n Tuesday last. Jt was nearly noon aefore the last farmer tie"! his i lorse in the shed back of the chutvh and joined the supplicants. Nearly all the business louses in the city were closed. The hot sun strained through the open windows and made the room uncomfortable. After a short adiress, in which the Rev. Dr. Eldridge spoke )f the object of the meeting, the hornyfianded and tanned men fell upon their knees kvhile the pastor offered up a most pitiful prayer. "Rain did not come, however, and* the itmosphere to-night is suffocating. Fires ire burning in the woods, and pastures for niles around are scorched. '1 he fanners iave lost many cattle in these (ires, rhe drinking water in many towns ias been polluted anil the drv beds in the creeks are covered with decaying fish. The effect of the drought in McLean county is rather strange. In former years, when rain fell copiously during April and May, rattlesnakes were seldom found. This year, however, the meadows and quarries are swarniincr with the rentiles. While cut ting grain the other day thre-j immense rattlesnakes became entwined in the wheels of a reai>er, and one was hurled into the lap of a farmer. The latter dispatched the reptile with a whetstone, and continued his work. Chinch bugs and all the pests of the garden are more numerous than ever bofore.'' A Chicago despatch says: '"The drought in the northern ami central tiers of counties of Illinois is not any more serious than it is in Wisconsin. The Badger State is literally burning up. Fruit and crops are nearly destroyed, ard in some towns water is so scarce that the authorities have forbidden the sprinkling of the streets. The great lumbering towns are as dry as a bone, and it would take a spark and a high gain of wind only to repeat th? wild s;enes when the Peshtigo fires of 1871 drove thousands of people into the lakes to their necks. All the streets of these lumbering towns are built of corduroy and sawdust In a protracted drought like the present the beds of these roads become as fine and . as combustible as powder. If this State is not visited by rain within the next ten days the conflagration at Marshfield will be repeated many times. Above Sheboygan it is no uncommon sight these days to sea hnndreds of wild animals cooiinc themselves in ine wavers ui hi-j jiub. Mark Fish hack, of Menas'ua, declares that he saw at least a hundred deer standing in the water forty miles below Two Rivers. " Reports from Northwestern Iowa say that the drought has been broken by refreshing showers. For weeks previous to tha storm masses were said in the German Catholic Church of Carroll, and prayers were offered up in all the places of worship. "Wlien the first rain fell all the bells in the city were rung, and at night the stores were illuminated aud there were "displays of pyrotechnics.' i A GETTYSBURG REUNION. ' i Northern and Southern Soldiers Meet on the Battlefield. Philadelphia Veterans Welcoming Pickett's Survivors. The veterans of the fhiiarteipma urigaae andtlie survivors of the Confederate division under General Pickett have been holding a three days' reunion on the battlefield of Gettysburg. On the first day the Philadelphia^ reached Gettysburg at about 6, and Pickett's "boys" arived at 8:80 p. x. They were received by the Philadelphia Brigade and esoorted from the depot to a hotel, where a stand-up. lunch was given them, after which ' all made for the County Court House, where the first camp fire of the blue and gray upon the historic grounds of Gettysburg was held. John TV. Frazier, Secretary of the Committee of Arrange- j ments, called the meeting to order, and pre- I sented Comrade TV. S. Stockton as presiding officer. Mr. Stockton, after saying that he hoped this formal gathering of the blue | and gray would mark a new and gratifying era iu our country's history, j introduced Colonel Charles H. Banes, ! President of the Philadelphia Brig- | ade Association. Colonel Banes made an j address, to wnich Captain Reeve, of Rich- | mond, the commander of Pickett's Divi- j sion Association, responded on behalf of Pickett's veterans. Colonel McClure, of Philadelphia, spoke next on behalf : of Pennsylvania, and Colonel R. Aylett on behalf of Virginia. Speeches were also made by General TV. F. (Baldy) Smith, j General Joshua T. Owen. General Isaac P. j TVistar, Colonel John H. Taggart, and j others for the "Blue," and by Colonel ! T. Loehr, secretary of Pickett's Divis- I ion Association; Colonel J. F. Crocker, I Colonel Robert M. Stribling, Dr. J. A. Marshall, CoL Tinoleum Smith, Col Kirk Otey and others on behalf of the "Gray." i Letters of regret were received from the i President and his Cabinet, from Senator ! Sherman, Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, Gen. Louis | TVagner, Geo. W. Childs, George William : Curtis, Charles A. Dana and others. Mrs. j George E. Pickett and her son were present [ at the reunion, with many representatives from each of _Pickett's four brigades. The , Philadelphia Brigade was representee oy about five hundred survivors of the Sixty- j ninth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and I 106th Regiments. On the second day of the reunion many train loads of excursionists arrived at Gtettys- I burg. The visiting soldiers from both sides | spent the morning in wandering over the bat- j tie field and exchanging reminiscences. In the j" afternoon the procession, headed by Adjutant ; Whitecar, marched over the route taken twen- ! ty-four years ago, to the scene of Pickett's j famous charge. The baud played "Rally Round the Flag" as the Philadelphia boys j reached the " Bloody Angle," where they successfully resisted Pickett's advance. The I stone fence is still standing which j for/ned their bulwark. Colonel O'Brien, of the Sixty-ninth, then called the | assembled soldiers to order and read a list of the killed and wounded of that regiment. He introduced General J. T. Owen, j who delivered an eloquent oration. He com- ' plimented Pickett's men. and said their ) charge was one of the most desperate in the ' annals of warfare. He closed by leading three hearty cheers for Pickett's division. Colonel Reilly then presented the monument j which had been erected to the care and keep- j ing of the Battlefield Memorial Association. Colonel P. B. Bachelder received it in their name, and when he had J finished Colonel Reilly presented him with a gold watch in the name of the Sixty-ninth. Mrs. Pickett, escorted by General Baynes, i was sitting on the platform, and when she was seen the crowd loudly cheered her. j j Adjutant-General McDermott presented her with a floral cross, which shr? acknowledged by bowing her thanks. The Seventy-first then took the platform. General Banes ( was introduced as orator, and spoke j for some time. General BalJy Smith spoke i for a few minutes after him. It was General 1 j Wister's duty to tun; the monument over to I the assoc iation, and he was much affec ted at : the signs of so few men remaining of. the old ! brigade. His whole sp.*ecb was interrupted j by his emotions. Colonel John W. Yander- , 1 slicc, of Philadelphia, received the monu- J ment for the battlefield r.sso Nation. Prayer ; i was then offered at a famous clump ( of trees where t he Cowan Battery monument 1 is erected. Colfn.d Cowan presented the 1 monument to the memorial association, and 1 spoke cf the events of twenty-four years ago, j < when he had bom commanded to place his j battery there. The monument was received ; \ on behaif of the association by Captain S. C. . Wakner After brief speeches by General 5 Baldy Smith and General Hunt, the assembly j dtokc up aiiu ivmriieu 10 ujivh, xuuie ?cic ; many pleasant reunions on the field and at i night many were in reality ''tenting on the i old camp ground'' on the spo: where they ' slept on their arms twenty-four years ago. I The third day of the session?the glorious | Fourth?was bpguti by the veterans of both x armies with the booming of cannon on East Cemetery Hill and the roaring of lire-crack- 1 ers in the town. Pandemonium reigned for one hour and a half. No such noise has dis- j turbed the little village sine; the three memorable days of 18(m. In the morn- j ing the members of Pickett's Division ' {'oined in process:on with the Philadelphia c brigade. Each Pickett man linked arms j with a Philade'nhian, and the line proceeded 1 . to the Eagle Hotel, wlierw )h^ unrtv tr*"1' j ' carriages and started over tlie Dattieneict. xn } the first carriage were Mrs. Gen. Pickett 1 . and her son George, Mrs. Charles * Banes, wife of the commander of e the Philadelphia Brigade, and Colonel 0 Bachelder. One hundred carriages were in j the line, which wended its way through the dust of the Emmittsburg road to the Span- ? gler lane. Into this they turned, and pro- d ceeded past the farmhouse to the rising ground beyond. Hera all alighted, and then ^ the \\ ord went round that Mrs. Pickett was ! going to hold p. reception on the very ground over which her husband's command had j charged, and within a few yards of the woods i under whoso covers he, twenty-four years j before, had formed his division. The Pickett ] men were first formed in line, and one by one advanced and were introduced to the 1 wife of their old commander by Colonel J e Clopton, of Richmond, by name, giving their | regiment and rank. She had a word for I j all, and ull had a word lor ner. ine i Philadelphia. Brigade was next pre- I .. seated. Her son, George Pickett, stood at J < her side, and when she dropped^ a hand it j was at once grasped by him. THe peo- j pk then moved to the highest ground, and ? Colonel Baclielder formed the survivors of j f Kemper's, Garnett's, and Armistead's brigade | of Pickett's Division in the order they had i I been when the charge began, and asked the p commander of each regiment to step forward j and point out the position his command oc- q cupied; When this was done the party once ^ more resumed their ride. One of the . dramatic incidents of the day took p'aee at the bloody angle where 1,500 Yir- : ginians broke through the lines held by their hosts, and where the three monuments were dedicated on the 3d. The Federal veterans t were ordered to resume their places they so d valiantly held on the afternoon of July 3, LSI13. "Turn in, boys," ran over the field, and the Q next instant the long logged Virginians were tI springing over the wall and took their places t relatively in the same position they occupied on a similar occasion. Legs were not as supple as they were then, and the line w;is j. Rot so long by any manner of means. But there they stood, the " Yanks "on the north, or inside of the wall, and the "Johnnies" on the south, or outside, face to face. "Shake, 6 ooys, crieci general Lynch and yoi. Ay ictt, . The 1 toys extended their "firms and Virginia and . Fennsylvauia?the South and the North? shook nrins over the bloody angle where p twenty-four yeai*s ago they had shaken their r fists. During the evening and early on the I following day the survivors of the great r. Bght left for their homes. ; t A Miss Swaxx, of Gilmer County, Ga., ; c discovered a gold mine on her father's farm c recently. She was on the crest of a hillside t at the mouth of a spring and picked up several small nuggets which had been washed ! c out of the hill. Other deposits were found 1 that afternoon by Mr. Swann. . I c A fF.N'SION' COMMISSIONER BLACK will not j ? hereafter permit pension attorneys to receive j more than $10 for their services in securing I the settlement of Mexican war claims. I Heretofore the office has allowed the claim ; c agents to collect a fee of $25. i ^ Inspector General Baird and Colonel r Hasbrook, commandant of cadets at "West ! g Point, have been detailed to visit France in | r September for the purpose of witnessing the i g fall manoeuvres of the French army. | g NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. In the first six months of this year 212,655 immigrants arrived at New York?an increase of (J3,M4<S over the corresponding period during lSS<i. Trinv U'tt cnv u irni*L*nmn Kwinw riL-inr Chatham, N. J., killed his wife and then blew his own brains out. He had been drinking heavily. The Thirteenth New Jersey Regiment dedicated its monument at Gettysburg. The oration was delivered by Major-Genera] Slocum. Yale defeated Harvard five lengths in the annual eight-oared boat race between the two Universit es at New London, Conn. The distance was four miles, and Yale's time was 23 minutes 10}4 seconds. As explosion among the fireworks of a large store on Broadway, New York, was followed by a lire in which two or three men lost their lives; and pecuniary losses amounting to about $300,000 were inflicted, i Orders were sent from Rome on the 4th to Ar.-hhislirm nf Sow York to flicommuni i cate the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, and to publish the degree of excommunication in the jouri nals. Luke P. PoLAxa.ex-United States Senator, 1 died of apoplexy a few days ago at his residence in Waterville. Vt. He was born in Westford, Vt., in 1815, and had been Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court and a member of both Houses of Congress. A statue of General Burnside was unveiled at Providence, R. L, with appropriate ceremonies. John Sladr & Co., of New York, one of the oldest wholesale drygoods houses in the country, have failed for a large sum. Professor C. H. Grimley, an aeronaut, and a companion in a balloon ascension at Portland, Me., were carried out to sea by the wind and struck the water, but were rescued by a yacht. South and West. An aeronaut named Baldwin ascended 5,000 feet in a balloon at Quincy, 111., and then jumped out, holding an open parachute. The descent was made in three and a half minutes, and the daring aeronaut was unhurt. Later particulars of the recent riot at Oak Ridge, La., state that in all about twelve negroes were killed or hanged. One white man was killed and two were wounded. The affair grew out of an attemp t to convey to prison a negro accused of ?issaulting a white woman. Eenton Miller, Treasurer of Perry County, Ind., is a defaulter to the extent of $77,000, and has fled. His predecessor is serving a term in the penitentiary for a similar offense. Washington. During the last fiscal year there were issue! 112,340 pension certificates. Of this number 55,194 were original cases; 8,455 were Mexican war claims under the act of January 29, 1887; 10,030 were "amputation" cases under the act of August G, 182,1050, and 37 were increase cases. The consolidation of internal revenue dis tricts, whereby twenty-two districts are merged into others, has been consummated. A deficit of $38,00!) has been discovered in t he accounts of the late Levi Bacon, financial clerk in the Interior Department. President Cleveland has appointed Assemblyman Leonard A. Giegerich (Tammany) to be Collector of Internal Revenue in the Second District of New York State. Foreiffn. The youthful Emp?ror of China is to be married. The festivities will cost 15,000,000. A short-time movement is spreading in every direction among English cotton spinners. Great Britain and Russia have made mutual concessions regarding the Afghan boundary questions, which it is expected will result in an early agreement between th^two nations. A meeting of Americans was held in London on the Fourth. To the toast proposed by United States Minister Phelps ("The Fourth?No country to an American like home"'), James G. Blaine responded. Extensive preparations have b<?en made [or the eviction of seventy tenants in County Wexford, Ireland. The tenants will resist to the best of their power. A man named Schimak, who has just been lr res ted in Moravia, has committed six muriers, three great robberies, and numerous thefts. He had in his possession a programme for the murder of eighty of the richest inaabitants of Moravia, lie had several accomplices, some of whom have been arrested. A part of St. Remi. Quebec, has been jurned. Thirty private dwellings and five )hces of business were destroyed. Loss, $100,000. LATER NEWS, Jan* Phon Lee, a Chinaman who gradintcd recently from Yale College with high ionors, was married the other day in New Haven to Miss Elizabeth Maude Jerome, a ;ood-loDking heiress to $100,000. Mori: than 100 persons on the west side of 'few York were made very sick by partaking >f ice cream that had been poisoned. The discovery of gold near Wheeling, W. i Ta., has created considerable excitement. The left leg of Howard Williamson, a Kon- I ucky farmer, has become gradually hardned until it seems to all appearance a piece ' f marble, from the hip down. Twenty-seven national bank? with an ngregate capital of $3,590,000 were organized uring June. A fire in the Citadel at. Quebcc destroyed lie barracks, stables, ammunition wagons, j to. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Mr. Bancroft, the aged historian, keeps ight type-writers busy. airs. Cleveland will t>e twency-tnree 'ears of age 011 the 21st of July. The Hon. John S. Wise, of Virginia, deivered the Fourth of July oration in Philalelphia. Jay Gould says that he is going to take hings easy this summer and let his sou Jeorge do the work. Oxe of Mr. Blaine's earliest invitations in x>ndon came from Mr. Gladstone, and was iromptly accepted. Bishop Kip is the new President of the Jeneral Theological Seminary of the Protesant Episcopal Church of America. Professor Billroth, of Vienna, probably he greatest living surgeon, pronounces Paseur s hydrophobia treatment a fiasco. W. L. Trexholm, United States Comproller of Currency, is a tail, lithe man, with lark eyes, gray hair and gray mustache. Miss Olivia Cobb, a granddaughter of j Jeneral Kowell Cobb, of Athens. Ga.,:is pro- 1 to anted in Washington social circles the elle of the South. C'EXator mivahts uas live riaugavers, iuur narried mid one single. Miss Mary Evarts ] 3 an accomplished musician and has a i plendid contralto voice. Miss Mosby, daughter of the once famous I ;uerilla chief, is writing a bit of war hisory. Her material is procured from a memler of the Mosby command. Captain Mackenzie, the champion chess 'layer of America, lias sailed for Europe to epreseut the New York Club in the German, English and Scottish international tournanents. Mas. Kate W. Howe, the lady member of he Grand Army, was the observed of all the observers at the Saratoga reunion. .She sat m her horse firmly and rode in line like a horough veteran. Fred. H. Nichols, a Connecticut veteran if the late civil war, enteral the Union ser'ice in 18(i2 at the age of fourteen years and me month. He carried a musket 1'roin the lay of his enlistment for three vears and ?I j 1 ,1 Iw.ffLic I WK part III IIKIUV IiaiU-iuUgUV O. B hi cos Swift, President of the wrecked fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, has had a previous unpleasant experience with lawbreakers. \.t the time the Cincinnati Court House was lurning and the streets were held by the ioters, Mr. Swift went up "to see what was ;oing on," and was severely wounded by a nusket-ball, from the effects of which he lin;ered for several weeks on the verge of the ;rave. i A TERRIBLE CALAMITY. ? Forty Houses and Two Hotels Sink Into a Swiss Lake. A r? n*r\ it* \A) h-l/ili "Rfarnr I JLL Ul/lGbllgO JL/10a0UQl 111 IT 111U11 iUUiUJ Lives Were Lost. J The beautiful town of Zug, nestled at the foot of the towering Zugerberg, on the shores , of Lake Zugersee, in Switzerland, was visited > by a terrible calamity the other night, result' ing in the loss of more than one hundred lives. Without warning and almost simultaneously several large quays recently built into the lake, and upon which had been erected the Hotel Zurich, a handsome four-story structure, and an inn and some forty dwellings, silently sank with great rapidity into the water. Not a vestige was left of the great structures except such furniture and framework as floated from the general wreck. The horror of the scen9.wus greatly heightened by the oppressive silence when the waters closed over all, The cries of the few victims who were awake were hashed in a moment, and those who witnessed the awful sight were too dazed by the strange phenomenon to utter a sound. The Hotel Zurich wus full of visitors and the inn was crowded also, and many entire. families were in the private houses. It was dark when the accident occurred and many undoubtedly were ingulfed while they slept. Among those known to have been lost is M. Collin, President of the Canton of Zug. People came flocking in from neighboring cities to learn the fate of relatives and friends, but all stood helpless on the shore wringing their hands. A few bodies came to the surface, but the majority were held down by being pinned in the week. Men from the s.'lk and cotton mills and from the tanneries offered their services, and active steps 1 were taken to recover the bodies. Fully half j the new quays have vanished, and it is not rirnh?hl<> flint th^r can pver hfl rf>hnilt.. na is no certainty that the foundations will be | secure enough. People moved precipitately j from the houses on the other quays ana sought ; homes farther back from tlio lake. Great . terror seized the inhabitants because of the mysterious accident. Some ascribe it to earthquake causes, while others believe it is but a Icind of a landslide on the mountain side which was caused by the action of the lake. One of the most striking incidents of the terrible disaster was the discovery at daylight of a cradle floating on the lake several hundred feet from the shore. Several boatmen put off to secure it, but what was their surprise on rowing alongside to find a babe sleeping peacefully. Whether the cradle was pushed from a window in one of the doomed houses or was accidentally ! released from the wreckage will never be known. The little child was uninjured. The scene on shore among the matrons who had gathered there to p'oin in the general lementation was pathetic, each woman in turn , gazing wistfully into the little face in the ef- | : fort to identify it. The people of the whole j town were on the lake shore all day, and i work in the factories and homes was neglected. The town of Zug has a population of 4 277. | j There is a gymnasium and public library,and j the .inhabitants are engaged in fishing, cattle- | i raising, in tanning and in silk and cotton | j spinning. The lake on which it is situated is j j nine miles long and two to three miles broad. The Zugerberg towers from the east shore of I the lake to a height of 3,251 feet. I The Canton or State in which it is situated ! is Zug. It is the s.nallest State of the Swiss ; Confederation, anl is surrounded by the j cantons of Schurtz, Unterwalden, Lu i zerne, Aargau and Zurich. It has a popuinxion or i <o, ana an area | of ninety-two square miles. The town of Zug is fifty-two miles northeast of Berae, and the I ! lake is 1,W1 feet above the level of the sea. i j The town is about seventy-five miles south of the .southern boundary line of Germany. STARVING MILLIONS. Terrible Effects of Floods In China ?People Eating Grass. Mr. J. J. Fred Bandinel, United Statei , Vice-Consul at Newchwang, China, ! sends to the State Department, at | Washington, a harrowing account of a trip made by himself through the j flooded districts of China. He was distributI ing food and necessaries of life to the starving I people, and during the trip relieved 3(JG persons. He says he found the people generally I living on bran or chaff of a large grass grown , j for feeding cattle. Some were reduced to j | eating chopped grass, either moistened with hot water or baked in cakes, while others fed on the leaves and seeds of I weeds gathered in the fields. In some of the | villages half of the dwelling places had been | washed away and the inhabitants were hudj died together in the remaining ones. The 1 deaths from starvation had been very nuj merous. and the sights he saw in some of the ; villages were pitiable. TtTTT! T i TlATl TTTrtTlT TV mil liiLDU-tl WU-tUxU, ( ' 1 There are now 500,000 members in the Na- j ' tional Federation of Labor. ! The carpenters have local unions in 300 I j cities and towns in the United States and j ? Canada. j i More than 0,000 men struck during the j t mouth of June, nearly all of them for an ad- I vance of wages. I 1 The Lasters' Union of Worcester, Mass., | 1 has given up its struggle with the boot maim- , J facturers, and the trouble between them is I J finally ended. | J A Pittsburgh coal miner has patented a ! c coal mining machine which will undercut j . from four to six feet. It weighs less than | 200 pounds, and will mine fifty tons a day. A The manufacturers of newspaper and job c presses have now more work on hand than ! c for three years. Capacity has been inc reased j 25 per cent, in some of the New York and : 1 Chicago establishments. j c From the activity in increasing the capacity ' a of New England woolen mills, a heuvy de- g mand is expected. I T The Chicago convention of the building ? trades has adopted a constitution which d> r clares the organization shall be known as the ; ? National Trades Council of the United States 8 and shall be composed of delegates from such P building trades, federations or organizations as shall recognize it> jurisdiction. It is the object of this council to assist in the organi- j ? zation of the journeymen workers of the - ? building trades and the federation of such ? trade organizations into building trades eouncils and central bodies in each locality of the United States: to create a bonl of unity between between the wage working builders and to aid by council and support all legiti- j mate efforts made for the betlerment of the condition of members of building trades. LIGHTNING FEEAKS, * * F Two gypsy girls were killed by lightning \ near New Uerlinville, Va., while walking in * the woo.ia Several wild geese fell dead after a vivid flash of liglitnitiLC in a California town, but 1 c' there was not the slightest mark of violence ; upon them. j cl Lightning played along a telegraph wire j near Oregon, Penn., an.l made kindling wood j of the poles as it passed. A\'hcn through its j caper thirteen poles had been destroyed. Two locust trees that stood sixty feefc apart , a on the farm of Levi S. Heist at Oftpin, Penn.. were simultaneously struck by l*L'i.lning and split into kindling wood whiA; U'? sun was shining. Lightning struck a hickory tre:? near Tom Loylee's saloon at Dawson, Ga.. and cut I it into ribbons. Two young men in the saloon were thrown to the floor, another against the partition, so as to break his ribs, while a fourth was so slightly shocked as not Near Brownsville, Texas, lightning struck a house at the Chatones ranch, and of six people sltvSji around n table M. Port-ales and his wife were instantly killed, j.nd Eugeneo Rincones each lost sight of the right eye, while the other two, Rincones's two sous were not at all injured. A flash of lightning passed before Miss A. Slaton of Augusta, Ga., as she sat on the piazza of her residence. .She flew into her mother s arms in the house and motioned for water, and was then seized with a spasm and swooned. Two red blotc hes appeared on her left cheek near the eye. As the}' decreased ia size the girl gradually recovered consciousness, and is now entirely well. _ : K ' HE WILL NOT GO, President Cleveland Withdraws His Promise to Visit St. Lonis. President- Cleveland will not attend the Grand Army encampment,- as will be seen by the following letter from the President to Alayor francisExecutive Mansion, ) Washington, D. C., July 4,1SS7. | Hon. David It. Francis, Muyor and Chairman : My Dear Sir?When I received the extremely cordial and gratifying invitation from the citizens of St. ?*>uis, tendered by a number of her representative men, to visit that city during the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, I had been contemplating for some time the acceptance of the invitation from that organization to the same effect, and had considered the pleasure which it would afford ine if it should be possible to meet, not only members of the Grand Army, but the people of St Louis and other cities in the West, which the occasion would give me an opportunity to visit. The exactions of my public duties I felt to be so uncertain, however, that when first confronted by the delegation of which you were the head, I expected to do no more at that time than to promise the consideration of the double invitation tendered me, and express the pleasure it would erive me to acceDt the same thereafter, if possible. But the cordiality and sincerity of your presentation, reinforced by the heartiness of the people who surrounded you, so impressed me that I could not resist the feeling which promoted me to assure you on the spot that I would be with you and the Grand Army of the Republic at the time designated if nothing happened in the meantime to absolutely prevent my leaving Washington. Immediately upon the public announcement of tliis conclusion, expressions emanating from certain important members of the Grand Army of the Republic, and increasing in volume and virulence, constrained me to review my acceptance of these invitations. The expressions referred to go to the extent of declaring that I would be an unwelcome guest at the time and place of the . national encampment. This statement is based, as well as I can judge, upon certain official acts of mine involving important public interests, done under the restraints and obligations of my oath of office, which do not appear to accord with the wishes of some members of the Grand Army of the Republic. I refuse to believe that this organization. founded upon patriotic ideas, composed very largely of men entitled to lasting honor and consideration, and whose crowning glory it should be that they are American citizens as well as veteran soldiers, deems it a part of its mission to compass any object or purpose by attempting to intimidate the Executive or coerce those charged with making and executing the laws. And yet the expressions to which I have referred indicate such a prevalence of unfriendly feeling and such a menace to an occasion which should be harmonious,-peaceful and cordial, that they cannot be ignored. I beg you to understand that I am not conOi"?irmc r\r onv ortf r\f minn nfkinVi oVtnnl/? mo l*n ouivuo VI ?IIJ ivyt Wi. Itiiuv r* uiv,u ouwuiu uiaivc me fear to meet the Grand Army of the Republic or any other assemblage of my fellowcitizens. The account of my official stewardship is always ready for presentation to my countrymen.. I should not be frank if I failed to confess, while disclaiming all resentment, that I have been hurt by the unworthy and wanton atiac!c> upon me growing out of thj mutter, and the reckless manner in which my actions and motives have been misrepresented, both publicly and privately, for which, however, the Grand Army of the Republic, as a body, is by no means responsible. The threat of personal violence and harm in case I undertake the trip in question, which scores of misguided, unbalanced men undei the stimulation of excited feeling have made, are not even considered. Rather thar abandon my visit to the Wesl and disappoint your citizens I might, if I alone were concerned, submit tc the insult, to which it is quite openly asserted I would be hopelessly subjecte 1 if present at theencanipine.it: bat I should bear with me bhe people's highest office, the dignity of which I must protect, and 1 believe that neither tne Grand Army of the Republic as an organization nor anything like a majority of its members iyo:ild ever encourage any scandalous attack upon it. If, however, among the membership of this body there are some, as certainly seems to be the case, determined to denounce me and my official acts at the national encampment I believe they should be permitted to do so unrestrained by my presence as a gu*.*st of their organiza;ion or as a guest.of the hospitable city in ivhich their meeting is held. A number of Grand Army posts have signified their intentional am informed, to remain a.way from the encampment in case I visit b io city at that time. "Without considering the merit of such an excuse, I feel that I ought not to be the cause of such non-attendance. The time and place of the ?ncampmant were fixed long before my invitations were received. Those desirous to participate in its proceedings should be first regarded, and nothing should be permitted to interfere with their intentions. Another consideration of more importance ;hau all others remains to be noticed. The 'act was referred to by you when you verbaly presented the invitation of the citizens of St. Louis that the coming encampment of the jrand Army of the Republic would je the first held in a Southern State. I supp0i"i this fact was mentioned is a pleasing incident of the fraternal feeling ast gaining ground throughout the entire and and hailed by every patriotic citizen as an earnest that the Union has really and in fact ! Deen saved in sentiment ani spirit, with all j benefits it vouchsafes to a united oeop'3. | I cannot rid myself of the belief that the i east discord on this propitious occasion might etard the progress of the sentiment of comnon brotherhood which the Grand Army of | he Republic has so good an opportunity to ucrease and foster. I certainly ought not to ye the cause of such discord in any event n upun any prt'ic^b. 10 swiiu ia> iuo iuau >ou and the citizens of St. L ouis are entitled o this unreserved statement of the conditions vhich have constrained me to forego my :ontemplated visit and to withdraw my aceptance of your invitation. My presence in your city at the time you lave indicate:! can be of but little moment ompared with the importance of a cordial nd narmonious entertainment of your other quests. I assure you that I abandon my plan rithout the least personal feeling or regret, onstrained thereto by a sense of duty, actuted by a desire to save any embarrassment o the people of St. Louis or their expected ;uests, and with a heart full of grateful apireciation of the sincere and unaffected kindiess of your citizens. Hoping the encampment may b9 an ocasion of much usefulness, and that its proeedings may illustrate the highest patriotism f American citizenship, I am, yours very incerely, Gp.ovkp. Cleveland. "BOODLE" MEN! ?&te of the New York Bribe-Takers and Bribe-Givers. The following list, says the New York Vorld, shows the present status of every erson connected with the granting of the ranchiso to the Broadway road. It will be ctnud of interest at this juncture of affairs: ROLL OF HONOR. Hugh J. Grant?Voted against the franhise. John C. O'Connor?Voted against the franhise. VOTED FOU THE BILL. Henry W. Jaehne?In Sing Sing. Arthur J. McQuade?In Sing Sing. Thomas Cleary? Once tried; jury diagreed: now on bail. John O'Neil?In Sing Sing. Ludolph A. Fullgratf?Informer. Michael Duffy?Informer. ( Charles R. AVaite?Informer. ( Claries Dempsey?In Canada. Henry L. Sayles?In Canada. Koliert De Lacy?In Canada. Thomas Rothman?In Germany. Francis McCabe?Insane. Louis Wendel?Indicted; on baiL Thomas Sheils?Indicted; on bail. James Pearson?Indicted; on baiL : Charles H. Reilly?Indicted; on baiL . "W. P. Kirk?Indicted; on bail. Patrick Farley?Indicted; on baiL Frederick Finck?Indicted; on bail W TT Afilior?Tndicted: on bail. Patrick Kenny?Dead. j Michael F. McLoughlin?Dead. HANDLERS OF THE BOODLS. William Moloney?In Canada. ] John Keenan?In Canada. THE BRIBE-GIVERS, < Jacob Sharp?Convicted. j Jaines W. Foshay?Dead. Thomas B. Kerr?Indicted; on bail. : James A Richmond?Indicted: on bail. i ' ' < *?- ">* #3 * v ? ?????> i ' . VEBY' OLD PEOPLE:. J Pnii.ip Lyon was the oldest Odd Fellow in? New Jersey when he died recently at the age* of 101. The grandmother of W. H?Penland, of Leicester, Perm., enjoys remarkably good health, and yet she has passed her 101st birthday. Mrs Lavinia Fii.lmork, the wife of Methodist minister, at Buffalo, will celebrate the centennial of her birth on the 13th of" August next. The only beverage used by Dr. Upson, of ' I?nnda, N. Y., is the mineral spring water of ' that place. He is now ninety-six years of i age, and goes fishing daily. Uncle Dick Bennett, of Bentonvflle,Mo., has given up horse-racing, joined the church, and been baptized after a right royal life of' pleasure, which endured 109 years. Mrs. Avaba Douglas, of Omaha, has awonderful memory for a person of her years.-. Lines committed to memory ninety yeargago are as fresh to her as ever. She is just"? 100 years of age. Mrs. Sallie James, of Leicester, N. C.,. has had but twenty-five birthdays.yet she has s ?en a contury of life. She was born oa ' February 29, 1788. She employs her time carding and spinning, and is as active as woman of forty. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Saw Francisco a population of* 810,000. / % Two million postal cards are printed daily at pr?wuu Student waiters will continue to flourish* at many of the White Mountain Hotels. It is said that the Government still owns39,000,000 acres of unsurveyel land in Nevada. A lynx, recently killed by George Molsteiy, in Waukesha County, 111., measured six feefrinlength. . _ Potato growers in California are elated . over the success of the plan of sh'pping potatoes to Chicago. A company of the titled Frenchmen are~ breeding Arabian horses on the Lame Johnny Creek in Dakota. General BouLANQER.the French ex-Minister of War, has been appointed to a command* about 250 miles from Paris. Mrs. CleveIad says that she and the President intend to visit Chicago, Milwaukee, aral other Western cities in the autumn. George D. Hill, treasurer of King County Washington Territory, has been indicted at $ Seattle. His accounts are $61,472.39 abort. Matthias Splitlog, a Wyandotte Indian worth $1,000,00J, was last week swindled out of $140,000 in a real estate transaction at Wyandotte, Kansas. > In 18S5 one of the brightest and1 largest meteors ever seen in this oonjh try passed over the zenith of Central '< " New Ycrk, about 9 o'clock on the evening of July 17. This meteor waa* seen in Northern Pennsylvania, New Jersey. "Western New England, all ol y , - w New York State, and a large portion* of Canada. Its brilliance was auch a^. to light at one and the same inntant tb? entire area of these regions with an illumination almost equal to daylight, v There was no report as to where this meteor reached the surface of the-, earth. On the evening of the 20th oi~ August, in the same year, another meteor passed over New York, and, although not as brilliant as tlie one* seen in Jnly, it was a very remarkable-* one. In 1886 a brilliant meteor way seen to descend in Independence % Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. About a month later Pro-, fessor Emerick declared that he had . found the meteoric stone about twomiles north of Clayville. This stonq the Professor estimated would weigh^ ! nearly two hundred tons. Con- -j? siderable doubt was thrown upon the investigations of this Pennsylvan-a meteor, but it led to some in- "J I teresting developments. It was-stated at that time that there were only eigh- 1; teen authentic cases in which aerolites , bad fallen in the United States in sixty years. The date of the fall of 26f\;Sj others has been reasonably well deter- | mined, and there are seventy-four instances in which the date of the fall ^ is not given authoritatively. In addition to these, eiglity-sk masses, be*lieved to be aerolites, have been foundin different parts of the country, thought the date of their fall could not be as-' certained. In all there have been re* I > ported 430 aerolites in this country,the most brilliant being that which fell near Guernsey, Ohio, on the 1st of May, 18l!0. The course of this meteoi was traced and the stone was secured and analyzed. Dannie Sullivan, ofBoston, jumped on a low shed to get a ball the othez evening and stumbled over two electric wires, thus completing a circuit, and sending a tremendous current of electricity through his little body. "When found he was dead; his clothing was burning, and the tiesh in contact with the wires was burned to a crisp. THE MARKETS. new york. 27 t* Beef, good to prime 6}? 7}? Calves, com'n to prune 9 Sheep 7 @ 8 Lamos 10 (?j 11 Hogs?Live 5j$'(g) 5% Dressed 8}?@ S}$ Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 3 65 @ 4 00 West, good to choice 3 70 @ 4 90 Wheat-No. 2, Red 87 Rye?State 60 @ 02 Barley?State 60 @ 75 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 45 @ 46^ Oats?White State ? @ 39 Mixed Western 34 @ 36 Hay?Med. to prime 75 @ 65 Straw?No. 1, Rye 55 @ 60 Lard?City Steam 6 50 @ 7 15 Butter?State Creamery 19 @ 20 Dairy 16 @ 19 West Im. Creamer}* 14 @ 16 Factory 10 @ 13V? Cheese?State Factory 89W Skims 5>^@ 6J? Western Eggs?State and Penn...... ? @ 16 BUFFALO. " Steers?Western 3 75 @4 25 Sheep?Good to Choice 3 75 @ 4 30 r 1... 1 Tt n i in lAiiiiua?n OTWOI *t ? # O w Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 45 @ 5 55 Flcur 4 75 @ 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 S3 S3# Corn?No. 2, Mixed 42 @ 423^ Oats?No. 2, Mixed 81 @ 31}$ Bailey?State 64 ($ 65 BOSTON. Beef?Good to choice 7%@ 16 Hogs?Live 5J^O 6 Northern Dressed.... 7% Pork?Ex. Primo, per bbl...12 00 @12 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 00 @ 5 15 Corn?High Mixed 50 @ 50^ Dats?Extra White 4l>?@ 42 Rye-State 60 @ 65 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef?Dressed weight 6^'@ 7 Sheep? Live weight 4 (3) \% Lamb3..i 7 Hogs?Northern 6}? PHILADELPHIA Flonr?Penn.extra familv... 3 !>0 (ft 4 00 Wheat?No. 2, Red 84,V@ S4V Corn?b'tate Yellow ?' @ 50 DatsMixei 36 @ 36}^ Rye fctate ? @ 53 Butter?Creamery Extra... 18 ($ 19 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 9 9itf