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* ' * ' t ' JOHNSTOWN RECOVERING. Improved Prospects for tho People of tho Flooded City. Business Resumed, and the Work of Restoration Progressing, Johnstown, Penn., is steadily recovering from the effects of the terrible flood. The estimate of the loss of life has been reduced to between 3009 and 4000. The amount of money subscribed throughout the country or tho flood sufferers is over $3,000,000. A ecent dispatch from Johnstown gives the ollowing details concerning the resumption of business and the work of restoration and relief: The first real work under tho supervision of the State commenced this morning at 0 o'clock. The whistle at the Cambria Iron and Steel Works was the signal for the men to commence, and about fifteen hundred started in with their picks and shovels. The early morning was warm and cloudy. As the morning advanced the weather grew warmer, aDd by 10 o'clock the sun was shining brightly and every one on the ground was hard at work. During the morning a crowd j of men iu some manner secured an entrance to the town and wanted to inaugurate a strike among the workmen. James Mc- . Knight, of Pittsburg, of the State contractors, went to General Hastings, who is in full < charge at Johnstown, and demanded protec- ] tion for the men. A detatchment of mili- j fcia from the Fourteenth Regiment were de tailed to the place and they drove away all the men who refused to work. This caused ( General Hastings to issue an order to the soldiers not to admit auy one to Johnstown , proper without an order. The business men of the town seemed to have awakened to their senses, and this ' morning a number of them were preparing to start over again in business. Two groccry stores wero started near the Pennsylvania i railroad freight station. Both "places wero < doing a land oflice business and this encour- t aged other merchants to start up, and tho probabilities are that inside of a week at lat- ] est 100 stores will be in operation. Already j two barber's shops and one jewelry store . have been opened. General Hastings said : " As yet I do not know how many men are at work, but I suppose there must be 1500 at the least calculation. We intend to put as many men to work ? as can be worked properly. I do not suppose 1 we want more than 5000, and it will be an easy matter to get that many men. I do not s want to employ any one but Pennsylvania c men, and would like to get as many Johns- ( town people at work as possible, fhey are the ones that need tho work. A false impres- r sion has broken out to the effect that the r boroughs here are under martial or mlitary law. This is a mistake. The State has i. charge of the work, and the only thing the military is doing is guarding the property. We will clear away all the debris on the f streets and level the town off. I do not know Waf n'a tpi'11 nlaon mif flifl aoIIapc r\f the houses, but if I had my own way I would ( do it. It is as little as the State can do to " clean out the places and give the people clean J foundation to build on. Beside, there is not ~ the least doubt that there are a number of * bodies in these cellars and they should be taken out.." c GeSteiai Hastings has now gotten every- ? tiiitig d'Ovfti to a system. Thero will be but b jjnj morguS and hospital and one headquarters. Everything has now been centralized, a and it is easy to get at the facts. a Captain Seers, of the United States Army, ^ one of the Corps of Engineers at "Willet's Point, and Captain Burbank, of the "West f Point Engineering Corps, have laid out the different boroughs in five districts, and com- ? petcnt men have been appointed to take charge of each district. Captain Seers, in an n interview, said: "I am only here to ail vise General Hastings and do what I can to help I him. I think that inside of two weeks the & three or four thousand men that will be at tl work will succecd in putting the town in very good condition, and I think inside of a month ei Johnstown will have almost recovered from $ this terrible shock." A The general opinion among well-posted c people here is that the loss of life will be be- t< Ween 3000 and 4000. It was generally given out that Johnstown and boroughs adjoining had a population of 35,000 people, but this is 7 a very high estimate, and conservative poo- r pie put the population between 25,000 and l1 28,000. Colonel Rogers, who' has charge of r the registration, states that from all he can u learn the population only amounted to about ^ 25,000, and this accounts for 10,000 people supposed to be lost. ? Tne reports sent out from hero to the ef- ii feet that 12,000 to 15,000 people were missing ti were based upon the supposition that there were 35.000 inhabitants in these borousrhs. V f' To-day was the second day since ttie nooa si that Johnstown was not deluged with rain, n The people are making heroic efforts to clean tl out their houses to fit them for habitation, n Neighbors have combined to help one another X to reset houses on their foundations and to d remove the accumulations of drift and rubbish which bar entrance to their doors. The D sewer pipes are all awry and the collars are ftdl Jy of water. There is need for engines to pump a out the water as early as possible. Syphen- a ing has been tried, but with no success, as . the cellars are much lower than the ground. D The Cambria Company started out a corps of surveyors this afternoon to locate lines of . demarcation for the rebuilding and repair of V their demolished plant. uiciSlio step toward putting Johnstown's business men on their feet again was made to-dav, when about two hundred merchants who nad survived the flood. ma*r? I ot them .without a dollar, met Adjutant h Genefal Hastings this afternoon, and were tl ^usSurcd that they would be re-established in business on long credit. Both Pittsburg aud a Philadelphia wholesalers have offered Johns- fc town merchants this business courtesy upon ? the suggestion of General Hastings. n The report of the Bureau of Transporta- s< tion, which died with the Citizens' Ilelief (| Committee, was presented to James B. Scott to-day. It shows that from June 4 to 11, in- 5 elusive, 1592 people were given free trans- ? porta tion out of Johnstown. Out of these ,872 were over the Pennsylvania and 720 over f the Baltimore and Ohio. One hundred and ? seventy-six were sent to Pittsburg by tli3 Baltimore and Ohio and 030 over the Peunsvlvania; 157 were sent to Philadelphia over ' the Baltimore and Ohio. The Bureau of In- a formation answered 287 telegrams and sixty- f. eight letters, mostly inquries from anxious j friends as to the safety of Johnstowners. Th3 mass at the stone bridge was fir?d this J afternoon and to-night is burning furiously. 1 , "With it is destroyed all hope of recovering c the bodies that are certainly there entombed. ^ Adjutant-General Hastings said to-night: 1 "Provisions and clothing are coming in at a satisfactory rate and there is no immediate i prospect of a diminution. I have instructed 5 *11 the commissarv people to be generous 1 in dealing out supplies. "Where there is any t question they will give the applicant the 1 benefit of the doubt. To-day we have been ( feeding a good many of tho men, but every ccnt of it is being charged up against them. The soldiers are also taking \ supplies from tho commissary departments, but this is all charged to the State, and as soon as I get to Harrisburg I will ' make out a warrant for the amount in favor ' of the relief fund. This morning I tele- . graphed Mayor Fitler of Philadelphia for four steam fire engines. At 11 he replied that they were on the way with crews. I * deemed this necessary as a precautionary ' measure, on account of the great mass of ' debris we shall burn during the next few days." Governor Beaver announced that he had abandoned tho idea of using $1,000,000 out of the Pennsylvania State Treasury under j the proposed indemnity-bond scheme, for j the reason that such action might establish a ] bad precedent. He has decided instead to adopt the suggestion of William H. Kemble ?that the money be loaned to the Governor j by private corporations. The Governor J stated that he had been offered a million dol- ( lars by national banks of Philadelphia without security and without interest, the loaners to be reimbursed by the Legislature at its next session, and he has accepted this offer, j This money will be used to clear the streams 1 and place the highways in order and perform 1 other necessary State worlt. i Another band of buffalo which has not been generally known to have been in exist- . ence has been discovered in the ' 'Bad Lands , around the Bull Mountains, about halfway ' ^between the Yellowstone and Missouri Riv era. in Dawson Countv. Montana. "Within a year it is believed that the Eng- ^ dsh syndicates will control at least thirty- , five of the seventy-two breweries in New j xork and its immediate vicujity. i THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle State*. A double six story tenement house in New York city was gutted by fire, and an aged woman, Mrs. Kirschman, and her grandchild were roasted alive. Henry Johnson, a farmer, aged eightv, committed suicide at Silver Springs, N. Y, He became despondent, and gomg to his barn fixed a gun attached to a rope and blew out his brains. The appearance of the corpse was frightful. Burt Harvet, a fourteen-year-old boy, recovering from the measles, committed suicide by hanging himself with a halter at C4ilbertville, Mass. William Semple, the millionnaire dry goods merchant of Allegheny City. Pcnn., has just died at tho age of sixty-two. An electric storm swept over a large sec tion of the East, doing much damage. A number of buildings were struck by lightning, and several persons killed. Heavy charges of dynamite were used in breaking up tne immense mass of wreckage at the Johnstown railroad bridge. In consequence many windows were broken, ?.li i?rtnoT-L? Wawmi Annrl tlin efrnnrrpc+. r<i maining houses badly shaken. A protest was sent to Governor Beaver, and the heavy blasting was ordered to be discontinued. John Henry Miller, a well-known farmer of Holliston, Mass., committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree. Otii.viel Gager, the old Town Clerk of Norwich, Conn., is dead, aged ninety six. Justice Andrews, of the Supreme Court, ordered the release of Moroney and McDonald, held in New York city for alleged complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin: three Chicago witnesses failed to identify them. John Gibbs Gilbert, the famous American comedian, died of pneumonia, in Boston, it the age of seventy-nine. He was an actor [or sixty-one years. The Hon. William E. Chandler has been c-elected as United States Senator for New Hampshire. Ehil Ebert, of Waterbury, Conn., comnitted suicide in Central Park, New York :itv, leaving a most pathetic letter addressed :o his wife, who, he said, had forsaken him. Michael Andrews, Simon Novolk, John lutski and Joseph Taylor were fatally burned n a mine explosion at Plymouth, Penn. South and West. United States troops were sent to the cene of the reported outbreak among the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota. George and Charles Sherwood, aged repectively fourteen and seventeen years, sons if a railway conductor were drowned in the Calumet River near Chicago. Alexander Sullivan, charged with the Durder of Dr. P..H. Cronin, in Chicago, was eleased from prison on $20,000 bail. Alexander Henderson, colored, was tanged at Bainbridge, Ga.; Will DibelL eol>r-?rl of Thnmacvillo f}?_ and .Tohn Pielrptt olored, at Leesburg,' Ga.' All were executed or murders. Jodge McLaix, President of the Savannah Mo.) Savings Institution, which failed, was .rrested for receiving deposits, knowing that he bank was insolvent. The liabilities of he bank reach $S5,000. Only $80.50 was ound in the safe. The Virginia Prohibitionists will hold a onvention for the nomination of candidates or Governor and other officers at Lynchurg on July 17. General TV. T. "Withers, of Kentucky, Mexican and Confederate war veteran, and , noted breeder of trotters, is dead, in his ixty-fifth year. Woodruff, the man implicated in the Jronin murder case at Chicago, made a new nd revised confession implicating Alexander ullivan, Detective Cougulin ana two other len. Frank L. Woodruff, late Assistant 'ostmaster of Lawrence, Kan., has been rrested on a charge of embezzling $5000 from lie funds of that office. Two daughters of John Leavitt, aged eighten and eight, who lives in Seward County, ieb., were found dead with their throats cut rom ear to ear. No motive is known for the rime, and there is no clue to the perpetra>rs. A vert heavy storm passed over the southrest part of Berkeley County, W. Va. The ailstones lay in some places three or four iches deep. Crops and trees were ruined, ave stock were badly bruised and in some Sftrornl VinnCPS AJlfi bflTOS rere wrecked by the wind. Heavy forest fires were burning on the ist side of the Cascade Mountains, in Washlgton Territory. Large quantities of fir imber have been destroyed. John* Maple, a farmer living near ITabasn, Ind., attempted to ford a small ;ream, which was greatly swollen by hard ains. He was accompanied by his wife and iree children and a servant girl. In the liddle of the stream the wagon upset and trs. Maple and two of the children were rowned." A fearful storm visited the southeastern ortion of Indiana. It extended over a scope f country ten miles long and one mile wide, nd ended in a regular cloudburst. Fences ud bridges were washed away and barns orn down. Growing crops in the storm's ath were destroyed. Isaac Waati and William Kangas were istantly killed by a cave-in in the Cleveland ron Mine, at Ishpeming, Mich. Washington. T. Campbell-Copsland, of New York, as been appointed the statistical expert of lie Census Office. Commissioner of Pensions Tanner has ppointed his daughter, Miss Ada Tanner, to e his confidential secretary, in place of Mr. reorge B. Squires, of Brooklyn. Miss Taner recentlv graduated from the Packer Intitute, in "Brooklyn, and is the youngest aughterof the Commissioner. Fresident Harrison*, accompanied by Secretaries Blaine and Windom, went down he Potomac on Postmaster-General Wanaiiaker's yacht. The vessel lay at anchor in 'hesapeake Bay during Sunday, returning o Washington on Monday. Consular appointments by the President: Wakefield G. Frye, of Maine, Consul-General it Halifax: Joseph A. Leonard, of Minneota, Consul-General to Shanghai; Zacharv ?. Sweeney, of Indiana, Consul-General at Constantinople; Oliver H. Dockery, of North Carolina, Consul-General at Rio de Janiero; )liver H. Simonds, of Colorado, Consul-Genral at St. Petersburg; George W.Roosevelt, >f Pennsylvania, Consul at Brussels; Levi W. Jrown, of Ohio, Consul at Glasgow. The Attorney-General has accepted the esignations of George S. Peters, United States Attorney for the district of Utah; Peter S. Knight, United States Attorney for >>" SnntViorn district of Florida, and E. M. 3oykin, "United States Marshall for South Carolina. President Harrison has appointed Royal k. Johnson, of Arizona, to be ourveyor-Gen;ral of Arizona. L. B. AGNEWwas appointed Superintendent of the Dead Letter Office, and ex-Govirnor Lucius Fail-child, of Wisconsin, was j nade a member of the Cherokee Indian Commission. The Civil Service Commission has asked :he President to extend the operations of the Divil Service law so as to include appointments to clerkships in the Census Office. Foreign. The Emperor of Germany has been advised >y his physicians to make a trip to Norway 'or the benefit of his health before visiting ! Sngland. Fighting has occurred between French md Italian workmen in the Department of Eiaute-Marne, Franco. Troops were sent to juiet the disturbances. At a meeting in London, the Prince of kTales presiding, it was resolved to erect a nemorialto the late Father Damien, who demoted the last years of his life to the care of :he lepers of the Sandwich Islands. The nemorial will be erected at Molokai. The cab drivers' strike at Paris is over cuid cabs are running as usual. A fire in Montreal, Canada, burned over Ifteen acres of territory in the lumber dis:rict. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Martin Burke, a fugitive from Chicago. >vas held at Winnipeg, Manitoba, as one of ;he men who murdered Dr. Cronin. Chief of Police Hubbard, of Chicago, notified the authorities to hold Burke at all hazards. Burke uiswers perfectly the description of the man Delaney. He is undoubtedly the man (ranted. / >.' . . * ; , . . . ?" .* ^ Severs bail-storms prevailed In many parts of Germany, interfering greatly with railway traffic. While a procession was passing through a Silesian town five of thoparaders were struck by lightning and killed, and forty others injured. The residence of Richard Wilson at Mano tick, Canada, caught fire, and Mrs. Wilson and two young children were burned to death. A dixxeu was ;nven by Andrew Carnegie to the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone at the Hotel Metropole, in London. The dinner was entirely private?no speeches, no formality. It was given by Mr. Carnegie to enable Mr. Gladstone to meet Mr. Lincoln, the American Minister, and Mr. New, the Consul General. Maxy persons were buried under the falling roof of a market in the City of Mexico; eight dead and fourteen wounded were taken from the ruins. Letters received at Zanzibar state that Stanley, the explorer, is on his way to tli9 East coast of Africa with Emin Bey. Tke Montenegrin Government has demanded satisfaction from Turkey for raids on the Albanian frontier. The overflowing of the River Rhone has done much damage in France. About 1700 houses in NaDles, Italy, will be demolished in order to improve the city's sanitary condition. Mr. STRAUSS, tne retiring united estates Minister at Constantinople, had a farewell audience with the Sultan. He was afterward entertained at a banquet in the palace. POSTAL CLERKS KILLED. Four Lives Lost by a Railway Accitlcnt in Ohio. The New York and St. Louis mail train met with a disastrous accident at Cumberland Junction, three miles east of Steubenvillc, Ohio. Owing to imperfect connections with the Pennsylvania Kailroad. the " Pan-Handle section was nearly two hours late in leaving Pittsburg, and had orders to make up an hour of the lost time between Pittsburg and Columbus. Just east of Cumberland Junction is a steep down grade over a sharp reverse curve. On this the train, consisting of an engine, express and four mail cars, plunged at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The last car was whipj>ed from the track liko the end of a whip lash and ploughed along the embankment on its side for a distance of over one hundred feet. In leaving tho track it drew with it the two mail cars in front, and tho forward car struck a car loaded with steel rails, crushing in the side and throwing both cars, which were not uncoupled, down an embankment twenty-five feet high and landing them, bottom up, in the ditch. In these cars were the conductor and brakeman and twelve postal clerks. Two of the postal clerks were killed outright, and nine injured. They were John G. Payne, of Indianapolis, and James Rinehart, of Effingham, 111. Both had their skulls crushed. Lee Burris, of Columbus, the conductor, had his right hip crushed and his thigh split open from the nip to the knee. John MacFarland, a brakeman. had his left leg completely severed from his body and his right leg crushed to a jeliy. .Both men were fatally injured and died during the night. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The rice crop looks fine. Sugar making is nearly over. Georgia has fifty-five cotton mills. Siam is exceedingly rich in minerals. Complete anarchy prevails in Crete. The Illinois Legislature has adjourned. France is suffering from severe storms. Illinois has a new compulsory education law. The number of drug stores in St. Louis is 825. Cubans express a desire for a little home rule. Florida is not afraid of yellow fever this year. Kansas City was visited by a severe storm. The Massachusetts Legislature has adjourned. The United States Treasure surplus is $58,000,000. New Orleans badly needs a good system of drainage. A treaty between Mexico and Japan has been ratified. Cincinnati talks of securing natural gas by pipe lines. The harvest in Northern Texas is under full headway. Great Britain is spending $20,000,000 on new iron ships Tie prospects for the Egyptian cotton crop are favorable. Paola, Kan., has rented its city park to a carpet renovator. An early fall trade is expected by jobbers and manufacturers. Barley is beginning to be sown for winter pasture in the South. * Almost 40,000 men will be engaged in taking the coming census. Reports from the growing grain in the West continue favorable. The latest trust that ia form'ng in the West is the castor oil trust. It is proposed to lay a cable from Ostend, Belgium, to the United States. Military service has been made obligatory in all the normal schools of Chili. Chinese are said to be pouring into California over the Mexican border. The present season's Delaware peach crop is estimated at 5,000,000 baskets. A railway has been completed to the top of Mount Pilatus in Switzerland. There are an even 200 patients in the Yankt-on (Dakota) Insane Asylum. The total crop of Florida oranges for the season just ended was 2,200,000 boxes. The number of Russian visitors to the Paris Exhibition is said to be unprecedented. Over a million Italians have settled in the Argentine Republic in thirty-three years. Southern California has shipped thirty per cent, more oranges this year than last. The recent frost has destroyed over onefourth of the grape crop of New York State. Harvard graduates 225 young men in her academic department this year. Yale turns out 127. A factory for making attar of rose and other flower essence is just being established at Atlanta, Ga. The citizens of Seattle, Washington Territory, have resolved to widen their streets and erect fire-proof buildings. The acreage of spring wheat seems to have declined in Wisconsin and Minnesota owing to the ravages of the chinch bug. A bill has been presented in the Legisla~f/vi? fVto r?r?r?ViiV*ifiAn 4** Is 111 C UJL l/OUOLU, JUCA1W, IVi VIAV7 P* VlUI/tVlUU "' that State of bull and cock fights. Washington Territory's Constitutional Convention will be composed of forty-six Republicans and twenty-nine Democrats. Many farmers in Oregon are literally throwing away potatoes; much of the last crop remains in the hands of the producers. While in the act of receiving tho third degree in a Masonic lodge at Wichita. Kan., Dr. James L. Lawrence fell dead with heart disease. Twenty years ago the British army numbered 1S7,0(50. Now there are 211,000 men of all arms, including those serving in the colonies. The Australians have forbidden the slaughter of the kangaroo from January 1st to May 1st, of each year, on account of its value as an export article. There is a rumor that the Mexican Congress, in secret session, is considering the question of ceding lower California to ths United States. It is proposed to establish a penal colony on the Isla de Pinos, abolishing the penitentiaries in the different cities in Cuba; also a workhouse for vagrants. The leading gas company of Chicago is making arrangements for replacing its present supply of manufactured gas with natural gas from "the coal regions. ' There are said to be 15,000 typewriters employed in Chicago, ninety-nine per cent, ol whom are stenographers. Over seventy-five per cent, of them are women. The fresh fish trade on the Atlantic coast ii all broken up. A Providence {R. L) dealer, ?vno handled 4000 barrels last spring, says h? lost at least $000. The public taste runs tc meats. ....... , (j 'f7 ' "T7^ ANOTHER BROKEN DAM. A Kansas Tillage Flooded and Several Lives Lost. Bridges Swept and the GroTring Crops Greatly Damaged, Tho bursting of a damatUniontown, Kan., flooded the towns of Uniontown and Belltown, and several lives were lost. Uniontown is about fifteen miles west of Fort Scott, on the "Wichita and Western Railway. Two women and four children were drowned. Tho place has 600 inhabitants. It is in the midst of a thickly settled country. The storm struck the western part of Bourbon County late at night, coming from the west, where it had played great havoc. At An mist*. it. flosiimpri t.hfi fnrm nf a hiircf In Fort Scott it commenced raining about 7 o'clock in the morning. Old residents say it was the hardest rain in thirty years. The water commenced rising in Buck Rim at 8 a. m. Lamb & Mead's ice dam, on Sixth' street, burst about 10 a. at., causing the water in Buck Run to rise at the rate of about three feet an hour, carrying away several houses and the bridge across Sixth street. The part of Fort Scott known as Belltown was entirely under water. People were taken out witn boats. Several bridges were Trashed out, and trains were stopped on both sides of Fort Scott. The Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota track was under water for about nine miles out. The Memphis road was badly damaged for about 1000 feet ten miles north of Fort Scott. All the people in the bottom in east Fort Scott moved out. The upper valley of the Walnut was flooded from excessive rains. The river came up so suddenly that a family named Graham started from their home to the highland. The mother and babe were drowned, tbe father and one child escaping. Grain fields are flooded, and much damage must result. Allen County, Kansas, has suffered severely from floods in the Neosho River and its principal tributaries. The streams have been unusually hteh all spring, and heavy rains brought them out of their banks, flooding the bottoms for a mile or more on either side. Hundreds of acres of wheat, which was just ripening and promised a very large yield, are almost a total loss, while the submerged corn and other crops will be greatly damaged. The St. Louis, Wichita and Western Railroad bridge across Rock Creek, east of Iola, has been undermined, and is only held by the iron track from going down stream. Nearly a quarter of a mile of track has been washed from the bed, while the roadbed has been seriously damaged. Near the river west of Iola a large number of small bridges and culverts along the wagon roaas nare Deen wasnea out. THE TREATY SIGNED, Work of the Samoan Conference in Berlin Accomplished. The agreement negotiated by the Commissioners to the Samoan Conference for the settlement of affairs in Samoa has been signed by all the members of the Conference. America baring abandoned her principal objections to the agreement previously arrived at, the plenipotentiaries had only to make unessential modifications in the wording of the draft. The draft guarantees an autonomous administration of the islands under the joint control oi Gerinauy and America, England acting as arbitrator in the event of difference arising. The Samoans are to elect their own King and Vicaroy, and to be represented in a Sonate composed of the principal chiefs and Chambers elected by the people. Samoa is to havo the right of levying duties of every kind. The agreement also stipulates that the Germans shall receive a money indemnity for their losses. A special court will be appointed to deal with the land question. The Americans made their ndhesion conditional upon the ratification of the agreement by the United States Senate next December. The status quo will, therefore, obtain in Samoa until December. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Czar refuses to visit Berlin. Admiral Porter is seventy-six years old. Editor Murat Halstead is in Germany. Vf T,r. r<T T7TTT>T A X-TX J. 1 J _1 1UOO. VliUVAUAili; AO iCOI lillJg \AJ yJiOLj Lilo violin. Henry Clews, the Wall street broker, has written a novel. Jefferson Davis was eighty-one years old June 3, 1889. Cyrus W. Field began life as a clerk in a N&w England store. Brete Harte has taken up his permanent residence in London. Lord Zetland, the new Irish Viceroy, will serve only one year. It is rumored that President Diaz will visit the United States next fall. Clara. Barton, President of the Red Cross Association, was born in Maine. Sir Edwin Arnold, author of the "Light of Asia," is coming to this country. Vice-President Morton is becoming an extensive property owner in Washington. The first of living Americans in the estimation of European nations is Buffalo Bill. Kate Chase Sprague is writing a biography of her father, the late Chief Justice Chase. KlNGLAKE, the English historian who is now seventy-eight years old, is not in good health. Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New York }Yorld, once acted as stoker on a Mississippi steamboat. Edison, the electrical inventor, is said to have amassed a fortune of ?12,000,000 by his inventions. Jim Keene, the famous manipulator of wheat corners, once drove a milk wagon in a California town. His Royal Highness King Malietoa, of Samoa, has developed an inordinate desire for beer and pretzels. John Davis, the wholesale dry goods man, is the richest man in Missouri, his wealth being estimated at 822,000,000. Hon'- E. .T. Bay. of Louisiana, who died the other day, was the richest man in the South. He was worth $10,000,000. Edison' says it cost him thirty-five cents a mile to learn the game of poker on a train from New York to Chicago not long ago. Hipfolyte, the winner of the Havtian contest, is a most inveterate smoker. He is never without a strong, black cigar between his liD3. The Mayor of Griffin, Ga., is probably the "n "mngest city executive in the country. His I name is Stewart and he is but twenty-three years old. Postmaster General Wanamaker is the only smooth-faced man in the Cabinet and looks considerably younger than any other of the eight. General Greely, of the Signal Service, is afflicted with rheumatism in a mild form, and grimly refers to this addition to his outfit for predicting weather changes. Rev. Joseph McAden. who died recently in Brunswick County, Va., was the oldest Methodist minister in the South. He was ninety-five years old, and had been in the ministry seventy-five years. Edward J. Phelps, ex-Minister to England, has written to the faculty of the Yale Law School saying that he will be on hand at the opening of the college year to instruct the classes in equity and evidence. The grandmother of the Emperor of China is eighty-nine years old, blind, deaf and a cripple, and the other day her loving grandson presented her witn 500 singing birds, "200 silk dresses and 100 musical instru- j ments. Adjutant-General Hastings, of Pennsylvania, who is in command at Johnstown, is one of the handsomest men in the Keystone State. He is over six feet in height, symmetrically built, blonde in complexion, with a moustache and imperial. He is a soldier every inch. His home is in Bellefonte. The new Duchess of Portland will only rank eighteenth in the list of peeresses of her rank, as her husband's dukedom only dates from 1716. The American Duchess of Marlborough takes precedenca of her, but the American Vicountess Mandeville, when she becomes Duchess of Manchester, will be one step below, as she will be the nineteenth in precedence. > - , y- v .--V -v'. 'r ; v /" vv.rLATER NEWS. An ocean steamer which sailed from New York a few days since carried over 300 delegates to the World's Sunday-school Convention in London. They represented every 6eotion and every Protestant denomination in this country. Georgie Dwter, the fifteen-month-old grandson of Septimus Turner, a farmer living near Bristol, Penn., was drowned in a wash boiler filled with buttermilk. State Attorney Bisbee, of Barre, Vt., was thrown from his carriage at Williamstown Gulf and fatally injured. Princeton College, of New Jersey, has conferred the honorary degree LL.D. on President Harrison. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, accompanied by tho members of the Relief Committee, visited Johnstown. On reaching general headquarters the party mounted horses and made a tour of inspection which lasted over three hours. The Governor ex pressed gratification at the progress made. The remains of John Sevier, first Governor ; of Tennessee, which have lain for seventyfour years in North Alabama,were reinterred in Knoxville with imposing ceremonies. A twenty-thousand-dollar monument will be erected over his grave. Senator Manderson, of Nebraska, has just received $4000 back pension money for an increase of pension on account of a gun shot wound received in the war. The postoffice at Waycross, Ga., was broken into and robbed of $11,000 and a number of registered mail packages. P. O'Sullivan, Detective Coughlin, Frank Woodruff and Martin Burke, who was rej cently arrested in Manitoba, have been indicted by the special Grand Jury of Cook County, 111., for the murder of Dr. P. H. I Cronin, in Chicago. I Hardy Hamilton has been hanged at | .Rome, Ga., for the murder of Joe Lee, a Chinaman. The Secretary of State has received a telegram from Mr. Straus, the United States Minister at Constantinople, saying the Sultan of Turkey donated $1000 for the relief of the Johnstown flood sufferers. The President has appointed John R. Lewis Postmaster at Atlanta, Ga., vice John W. Renfoe, resigned. Willi Ail J. Vickery, of Indiana; Charles H. Clarke, of New York, and Llewellyn Jordan, of Mississippi, have been appointed by President Harrison Postoffice Inspectors on mail depredations. Torrential rains, accompanied by thunder, have swept over Hesse, South West pbalia, .Nassau ana rnunngia. xne storm | extended east to Saxony and south to Bavaria. Serious damage was done to corn, hay and fruit crops. Several persons and a large number of cattle perished. A revolutionary manifesto from Servia has been circulated in Bosnia and Herzegovina announcing that Austria intends to annex those territories. The populace was greatly excited. a railroad wreck, Two Men Killed and One Hundred Injured in a Smash-up. A railroad wreck, resulting in the death of two men aud the injury of 100 others, occurred about 7 o'clock in the morning near Pratt mines at Birmingham, Ala. The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company runs a traiu every morning to carry the miners from Pratt mines to the different shafts. The train carrying about 200 men, was running backward at the rate of ten miles an hour when it struck two cows lying on the track. Six of the cars were thrown uown an embankment and piled on each other. Henry McCauley and Walter Beoslcy, carpenters, were instantly killed. On one of the cars were about thirty convicts chained together, and strange to say they were about tile only persons who escaped injury. The worst injuries were broken logs aud arms. six men"killed. A Constable's Posse Has a Desperate T?t r*Y%t in Tpnrno Six men were killed in a fight late at night in Givens Point, Texas. A colored constable named Wilson, backed by a posse, attempted to serve a warrant for horse stealing on a white man. The latter was among friends and resisted the service, alleging that the whole thing was a job to blacken his character. The colored officer grew abusive, and both sides drew weapons and began firing. They fought until their ammunition was exhausted, and it was then found that four white men and two colored men were mortally wounded and about five men dangerously shot. ! MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, ' There are in London sixty-five theatres. Dubuque, Iowa,is building a $40,000 opera house. Lydia Thompson's manager lost 515,000 last season. Contralto Emma Juch says she is just twenty-seven. Possart, the German actor, will play in New York city next fall. Philadelphia -will have eighteen theatres n full blast next October. Mrs. Dallas-Glynn, a once celebrated English Shakespearean actress, is dead. Harrigan, the Irish author-actor,is to disband his company and leave New York. Colonel John A. McCaull has engaged Geraldine Ulmar as his prima donna for next season. Buffalo Bill is a nrore pronounced success in Paris than ever Boulauger was before he ran away. Madame Adelina Patti is not drawing the crowded houses at Buenos ,'iyres that greeted heron the occasion of her first visit. Gus Williams, the German dialect comedian, has been engaged for Herrmann's Transatlantic Vaudeville Company next season. The first company of genuine "negro" minstrel is said to have been organized in Macon, Ga., during the closing years of the | war. Edwin Booth says that if he had been permitted to follow his own bent he would hive been a circus performer instead of an actor. Our gifted countrywoman, Miss Marie Van Zandt, was invited to sing before Queen Victoria at the state concert given in Buckingham Palace. In Paris the Italian opera season is next to tabooed by fashion and the house is half empty every night?another nail in the coffin of Italian opera. Omaha boasts of a young lady, not yet twenty, who has composed an opera, written i the libretto and led the orchestra at the first production of her work. Mrs. Laxctry smokes continually on a lounge; Mrs. Brown-Potter smokes between the courses of a dinner, and her dressingrooms are redolent of tobacco. In the whole history of opera in England, Carl Rosa appears as almost the only manager who always paid a hundred cents in a dollar, and who died worth a handsome for- 1 tune. Booth and Barrett have cleared something near $100,000 by their month's engagement at the San Franeisco (Cal.) Theatre, aud will enjoy their vacation together, cruising idly during the hot months along the coast between Bar Harbor and Newport. Another musical prodigy, Miss Hanna Maria Hansen, a Norwegian girl, aged fourteen, is announced to appear in London as a pianist. Miss Hansen played before the King and Queen of Sweden, at the age of four and a half. Her mastery and power of technique I ; are .said to be remarkable. 1 ' ' ' : ( ABTHUB'S MONUMENT. A Memorial Erected by His Friends Unveiled at Albany. The handsome granits and bronze monument erected ;it the grave of the late President Chester A. Arthur, in Rural Cemetery, at Albany, N. Y., by some of his personal admirers, has been officially unveiled, without ceremony, by the donors, who inspected it. CHESTER A. ARTHUR'S MONUMENT. The monument over General Arthur's grave was designed by Mr. E. Keyser, of Albany, and the work <?st $10,000. A broad flight of five granite steps leads from the path to the turf which covers the burial plot, while around the enclosure are granite pillars, between which are suspended heavy chains of bronze. In the centre of the plot is the monument, a sarcophagus of dark granite, perfectly plain ana highly polished. The sarcophagus stands on two piers of lightercolored granite, also highly polished. The piers rest on a broad base of granite, and the base is supported by a smoothly dressed granite plinth ten feet long and six feet broad. At the foot of the sarcophagus stands a figure representing the Angel of Sorrow. The figure is of bronze, and is of heroic size. It stands with folded wings leaning against the sarcophagus, one wing being thrown outward by the pressure in the most animated and picturesque maimer. The left arm of the figure is extended along the sarcophagus laying on the tomb a palm of bronze. There is no inscription on the sarcophagus, but on the base is* the word "Arthur" in letters raised in high relief, and also a tablet of bronze sunk into the base with the inscription: CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR, : Twenty-first President of the United : ; States. : : Born, Oct, 5, 1830. ' I ; Died, Nov. 18.1886. : There are also buried in the plot General Arthur's father and mother, his wife and a son. A fund for the erection in New York of a statue to General Arthur has been raised, and the money has all been paid in. As yet no design has been adopted, but one soon will be, and the work will then be begun. The statue will doubtless be placed in one of the principal public squares or parks I !?. XT/%t*t VAwl* Aifrr Wfhflw 44" id wno/ }tt V>n I 1U X1CVT XUJL& WUJ. IT UOU 1U Ii3 IV uo unveiled, the exercises that were to have been held at the unveiling of the Albany monument. or others similar, will be carried out. WET BY A BIG MAJORITY. Prohibition Defeated in Pennsylvania ?The Poll T.ax Retained. Returns from sixty-four of the sixty-seven counti^ in Pennsylvania give 164,470 majority against the proposed amendment prohibiting the sale of liquor. Forty-two counties (not including Allegheny) gave 4525 majority for abolishing the poll tax, but the rural districts voted heavily against this amendment and it is lost. Returns received at the Pittsburg Times office include every county in the State, and are as follows: Against the Prohibition Amendment 189,710 For .. 54,517 Majority against 135,19? As the later returns come in it is apparent that the Prohibition defeat is more complete and overwhelming than was ever dreamed of. Exact figures from fifty counties in the State and close estimates on the other seventeen give a majority against the prohibitory amendment of 200,057. These figures were not likely to be materially changed. Returns received show that the suffrage amendment (proposing the abolition of the fif tv-cent do 11 tax Qualification) is defeated bv a decided majority, notwithstanding the fact 1 that Philadelphia gave 9*2,525 majority for its adoption. The latest estimate from "all but twelve counties was 146,996 against the poll tax abolition. CANADIAN CRUISERS, Ordered to S<~:ze American Vessels Violating the Fishery Laws. An Ottawa dispatch says the Dominion Government, not encouraged by the pros pects of early adjustment of the fishery ques tion, have instructed commanders of Government cruisers not to overlook any infraction of the fishery regulations, but to seize any vessels found guilty of violating the law whon the evidence will warrant such a step. The instructions issued to commanders are far more stringent than those issued last year, when there appeared to be a possibility of an early settlement of the difficulty. Last season there was not a single seizure made, but this year the same leniency is not to be shown, and as the mackerel have just struck in along the coast of Pel iu immense schools, closely followed by a largo fl^et of American fishermen, :a;- flwjf o nnmKai* nf CflfvnfAC LL K> UUb XUlp WUUV/1'5 uiuvituuiuvv* v?. wv^w. v, will be reported soon. So far only one seizure has been made, that of the American fishing schooner Mattie Winship, subsequently liberated after giving bonds to the amount of $3000. THE DROWNING- RECORD. Seven Lives Lost in One Day in Vari. ous Localities. While swimming in the Vermilion River, a short distance below Danville, 111., Robert Courtney, aged fifteen, and another lad, were drowned. Otto Meyers, aged twenty-three years, was drowned at Shelton, Conn., while bathing in the Housatonic. A man named Arns and an unknown boy were drowned whilo swimming at St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Charles Cleaves and Erdine Cole, a young woman of 16, were drowned at Springfield, Me., while bathing. Mrs. Cleaves leaves four children and a husband in the West. EATEN BY WOLVES, The Terrible Fate of Two Little Boys in Kansas. Two children of Edward Bachus, a farmer of Rosier, Mo., a small village fifty miles south of Kansas City on the Kansas line, went to a creek about a mile from home to fish. Upon their failing to return at night, searching parties were organized, and the next evening their bones were found near a ledge of rocks that had long been Known as Wolfs Den. A band of timber wolves have used this section for years, and it is thought that the children wer9 killed and eaten by the animals. The boys were aged ten and twelve years. BURNED TO DEATH. How a Mother and Child Lost Their Lives?Two Men Perish. Elizabeth Tyler, aged twenty-five, wife of John "VV. Tyler, a printer at the South Baltimore Car Works, at Curtis Bay, Md., poured coal oil on her fire while preparing breakfast tho other morning. The oil-can exploded, setting firo to the clothing of Mrs. Tyler and her eight months' old boy. Benjamin Harrison Tyler, burning them both so severely that thoy died within a few hours. A fire destroyed Bolton's mill, near Newaygo, Mich. Adjoining it was a large boarding-house where the employes lodged. Alonzo Delacey and Ole McLenny perished in the flames, and another man, in jumping from a window, received probably fatal injuries. It is thought that the fire was incendiary. V .* " 'V- * '.', -<^ :*.7j5jOm THE NATIONAL GAME.' ' i i ~? ~? * ? 4 Most of the League players are temperate^ Bates won the Maine College champko-j hip- I ' Brouthejis, of Boston,ieads the League id batting. J Gore, of New York, is playing the best baQ.. >f his life. Shut-tight base ball uniforms are falling Into disuse. Floods and rain have cost the Pittsburg ieam $10,000. Chicago is scouring the West for avaiUbj ble infield talent. \ The rainy and cold weather has hurtroanyj dubs financially. Sdtce Shreve joined the Detrcsts that cliih lias been playing great ball. 1 New York was the first to lose two succe?? dve games to Washington. , Cleveland is about the most aggressive! "baby" the League ever had. {; The new rules have been very hard on th4 . pitchers in the minor leagues. Clarksox, of tho Bostons, won fifteen the first iieventeen games played. Fogebtt will likely be made the perma* Dent Captain of tbe JPnuadelphia team. Dcnlap, of Pittsburg, owns more dia-l monds than any player in the profession. j Three Keefes are no w pitching for as many Blubs, and all are doing themselves proud. { Pittsburg has eight pitchers on its salaryj Ot* list and the management is looking for more.; Uwnuff Babnum wears a life preserver under lii3 clothes to protect his fractured ribs. . v . ,,i. Will White, the old Cincinnati pitcher, the only professional player who wears spec-; tacles. PiTCHik Radboukne, of Boston, U troubled with a severe attack of "Charlie horse." Pitcher Beam, of the Pittsburg team,/ lost a brother and sister by the Johnstowi iisaster. ! Johnston, the Boston's center fielder, /' very clever at estimating where the batsman! Is going to knock the ball. The Boston team as now made up need* little looking after, as the'men are mostly of the quiet, temperate kind. 1 Anson likes better to visit Boston than any! jther League city, as he is even more appreH iiated there than in Chicago. This has been a bad season on pitchersJ Just seventeen twirlers have found that theyj were mistaken in their ability* Jebby Denny, of Indianapolis, says: "We can beat any team in the League for six inn-J lugs. I can't tell what is the matter." Kansas City ought to have a pennant be-' t 1 cnn rru- ai IOJT0 IO&&. IliO UILCO Siuuiuiuiucio uavos^cuv nearly $25,000 for players since last fall. ; Ex-Goverxob John D. Long, of Massa-i ehusetts, is a good amateur baseball player,; h excelling both at the bat and in the field. ' Among the minor surprises of the seasonf ire the Texas League tail-enders, Austin ana Waco, who are playing astonishing ball. A syndicate of Americans and Parisiansj proposes to engage two baseball teams toj play in Paris in the Wild West Show grounds.] Cleveland is playing in as good cham-j pionship form as any other aspirant for the) League pennant. Its first trip record is sim-i ply wonderful. A colored league, to comprise the Cuban] Giants, of Trenton; Gorhams, of New York,) and clubs located in Boston and New Haven,! Is b^ing formed. The largest score and tho biggest batting} record of the season was made in a Wilkte4 barre-Hartford game. There were fortyn nine runs and fifty base hits. The Eastern (Penn.) Club lost $7000 last year, but was then and is now backed by? some wealthy sporting men, who say theyl/ will stay in to the end of the season. Ball players, as a rule, never diet. They* eat anything that domes along, making at point to eat a cold lunch at noon and a hearty} dinner after the game for an evening meaL{ Bostojtese say Brouthers's reputation as a( fielder did him gross injustice. To the Bos* ton mind big Dan can cover first base equal to the best form ijver shown by John MomlL; It is a singular fact that success and thq maroon color never traveled in the sam? * baseballs teams. Maroon has hoodooed every baseball team that included it in its mak?\ op. Manager Harry Wright picked out Boston's first professional team in 1871, managed them for nine years in succession,, winning the championship in '72, '7S. '74, '7 '77 and'78. Baseball has taken root in Australia. Not only has it taken root, but the roots are already spreading in all directions. There are a great many clubs, and each week at least one is added to the list. Thousands of dollars are wasted by club* in excessive salaries, vain efforts to strengthen pnd sensational deals, but when it comgs to considering the umpire question economy suddenly rules supreme. The greatest trouble with young pitchers is their great fear of getting hit. They seem." to think that the entire responsibility of the game rests upon their shoulders and that the men behind them are merely so manj statues. Arthur Irwin, who for years has cap tained the Philadelphia team, and to whos? services the club owes much of its success in past years, has been released to the Washing, tons for $3000. He is to receive $3200 salarj as Captain of the team. Morrill will act as j ? koca manager anu ww uu?a mo> uo?v. LEAGUE RECORD. Won. Lost. Percental Boston ?') 10 .750 Cleveland 29 16 .644 Philadelphia 25 17 .595 New York 22 17 .564 Chicago 19 25 .432 Pittsburg 17 25 .405 Indianapolis 13 28 .317 Washington 11 28 .282 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. IToti. Lost, rcrcentauc. St. Louis 35 16 .6SC Athletic 32 1G .667 Brooklyn 30 19 .612 Baltimore 27 22 .551 Cincinnati 24 25 .490 Kansas City 21 26 .447 Columbus 18 28 .391 Louisville 8 43 .157 THE MARKETS. 25 NEW YORE. 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