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ANOTHER FLOOD. . Johnstown, Aiken and Fonda, N. Y., Swept by a Deluge. Two Dams Burst With Fatal and Destructive Kesults. A dispatch from Troy, N. Y., says: Reports have reached here that three big dams were -washed away near Johnstown, N. Y., and that a crowd of people on a bridge was carried away and several people were drowned. All the wires were down at the time of writing, and it was impossible to communicate with Johnstown. A telephone from Johnstown said the town was in total darkness, and nine bridges were -washed away. The electric light plant has been washed away; also the three skin mills at Gloversville. One body had been recovered. The water was three feet deep in the town of Fonda. At midnight the rain was falling in tor rents and the noise of the rising waters could be heard through the dense blackness of the night. The flood was assuming a terrible aspect, and mills and sheds were bring swept away in the mad sweep of waters. Information received at Saratoga, N. Y, by telephone from Amsterdam stated that a big washout at Aiken, three miles from there, had torn up 4C0 feet of track and cut off %11 communication west of there. It was rumored that the washout was caused by the breaking of the dam at Johnstown, N. Y., and many casualties were advanced as possibilities. Whether the accident was caused by the breaking of the dam or a cloudburst was not known. Amsterdam reports an exceedingly heavy rain-storm in that section just before communication was cut off. Aiken is on the New York Central, and a crcek which furnishes water power to several mills runs through the place. The accident is one of the most serious character, involving extensive losses. A more serious character was given to the story by Indefinite rumors that tnero had been considerable loss of life. News from Schenectady, N. Y., savs a cloudburst washed away the Central llailroad tracks about five mile., vest of Amsterdam. The wreck cf the freight train, ^rtiuch blocked all four tracks in the morning, had just been cleared and ' delayed trains began to move when some of them were caught in the deluge. A second blockade occurred more coMmic tVinn the first. The Fonda, Johnstown & Glovcrsville Railroad loses seven or eight bridges. There was another bridge crossiL^ the creek, and on it, viewing the flood, were thirty or forty people. The torrent with increased power tore the bridge from its foundations, hurling them into the flood. It was impossible to ascertain the number saved, but it was believed that many perished. At Fonda the Central Hudson Railroad bridge was carried away almost bodily, taking with it the telegraph wire. Additional Particulars. By a strange coincidence, at a town of the same name, under almost the same circumstances, the wild scenes of the flood of the Conemaugh have been repeated. Another mud dam has given away; another resevoir has broken loose, and Miother flood has beeu sent down a valley. Even the stone arch bridge reappears and plays a fatal part in this-second Johnstown rtory. Nothing is lacking in the similitude, except the loss of life and property. The clouds came together near Johnstown, N. Y., at five o'clock in the afternoon. As they met they burst and an ocean of water fell from them. Added to the waters from tho dams it had -washed away, it sent a flood through the little volley of the Cayadutta. Seventy-five persons were washed away; eight persons were killed; an Immense amount of property was destroyed; all railroad traffic was suspended. The names of the victims follow: Albert L. Coakley, aged forty-eigbt, glovepaaker; Charles Freer, aged sixty, a well known resident; Willie Myers, aced sixteen, employed at glove-making; L. R. D. Simmons, aged forty-five, paint and hardware merchant. Stedwell L. Bert, aged fifteen, employed in Artisans' glove factory. Unknown man found in stream at Fonda. Unidentified woman and child. The two clouds were seen at 5 o'clock to circle around each other for a few min uies ana men sweep rogecner wnn a aeaiening crash of thunder. The place t ^here they met is a half barren knoll, three miles and a half northeast of Johnstown. Persons who were watching the phenomenon say it was like a dam burst in the sky or as though the bottom had fallen out of an aerial reservoir. The water came down not in drops or sheets, but fell in a mass like a solid body. At the knoll it drove trees into the eartn, flattened out a space clear of vegetation and left other evidences of a great pressure. Then people began to come out of their Jiouses aud to wonder at the storm and at the size of the little creek, whicli runs through the town, supplying water power to ia number of mill6 and "factories. They gathered on the bridges at Main, Market aud Perry streets, and watched the flood. The lumber floated down and carried away the Bridge street bridge, and then all this floated down and carried off the big twotracked iron railroad bridge below. The single-track bridge went next. Thero was tremendous excitement when the bridges went down. Then Levi Stephenson's lumber yard and planing mill was clqpred put. Sashes and blinds, boards and scantlings were swept away. v There was a big crowd on the Perry street bridge. This bridge is of stone, a single arch of stone, and is twenty feet long and fifteen feet wide. The people were all over the bridge, but most of them were crowded against the stone coping on the eastern side looking intently at the torrent. There were about forty persons on the bridge. Suddenly there was a cry, and it was seen that Simon Schrieber's big threestory skin mill on the southern side of the bridge was tottering. The mill did not fall, but its foundations were loosened. The same impulse that shook the mill smashed Stewart's leather mill near by, and a mass of timbers and trees went smashing against the Perry street bridge. The eastern side was jammed in, its coping taken off, and the water swept clear across the bridge. All this happened a little after 8 o'clock. Half the people on the bridge were thrown into the angry stream. There were awful erics .n the dark of "For God's sake help me.'' "I am drowning." "Save me." Happily, nearly all were saved. , The losses by the destruction of mill property, factories, bridges, dams and other ^structures in and around Johnstown is roughly estimated at half a million dollars, and it is believed that the property destroyed ill other sections within the flooded area will irVkC+. oa mn^li mnro ir> Kainrr WV0V SUU\.U ***V? W UVUUg A WUW? vu. I The loss Johnstown herself will sustain by the flood will amount, perhaps, to SIOOJXJO. j MRS, JOHN TYLER DEAD, Sadden Demise of the First Bride ol the "White House. Mrs. Tyler, widow of President John Tyler, died suddenly in Richmond, Va., the other afternoon, at the Exchange Hotel. Mrs. Tyler went there from Williamsburg, dfcere she had been visiting her son, Lyon G. Tyler, President of "William and Mary Collego. She gave orders at the hotel to bo awakened at a certain hour In the morning, a? she wished to visit her other son, Hon, Gardiner G. Taylor, at Sherwood Forest, Charles City County, and when called she said that she was too unwell to leave. Instead of irnjproving sho grew worse, and at 11 o'clock .'next day was taken with a congestive chill, and diea at 5:15 in the evening. , Mrs. Tyler was about seventy years of age, and married President Tyler in tho White House at Washinecton. Sho was a Miss Garidiner of New York. Mrs. Tyler was a Roman ^Catholic in religion. She had a pension of ?5000 a year from tho United States Governfment. ! Mrs. Tyler leaves four children?Lyon G. [Tyler, President of William and Mary College, Virginia; Gardiner G. Tyler, who lives ;in Charles City County, Virginia; Dr. LackJan Tyler, of Washington city, and Mrs. .William Ellis, of Montgomery County, Va. j RATtATT J. Macku?, a widow of Johnstown, (Penn., who lost all her earthly possessions by (the flood, has just been awarded a back pen* jaion and back pay amounting to 15966. _ ? THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Oscar Pearsall, aged thirty-eight years, killed himself over the coffin of his mother, Hannah, who had just died, aged ninety years, at Williamsburg, N. Y. Johnstown, Penn., was again threatened with disaster by the Conemaugh River and mountain torrents. H cavy storms and floods created much damage and consternation, and many narrow escapes from drowning were reported. At the celebration of the Fourth of July in Woodstock, Conn., addresses were made by President Harrison, Congressman Reed, Senator Hiscock, Secretaries Noble and Tracy, General Hawley and others. The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor has issued an appeal to organized labor in aid of the 9000 striking miners in Illinois and Indiana. Frank Hoyt, paying-toller of the First National Bank, of Hoboken, N. J., has been arrested for embezzling $1S,000 of the bank's funds. He lost the money in Wall street. george jh. vv atp.ocs, ex-i-resiaent or tne i Now York, New Haven and Harcford Railroad Company, died suddenly at New Haven, Conn., of Bright's disease, in his sixty-first year. The Cornell (N. Y.) crew won the Childs Cup from the University of Pennsylvania eight at Philadelphia in the fastest time ever rowed?one mile and a half in six minutes and forty seconds. All the mines on the Monongah^a River in Pennsylvania are idle, the men refusing to accept a reduction of wages. Five thousand miners are affected. Edgar Gilmore, aged twenty, anii Andrew Larsen, aged eight, were both drowned while bathing in the creek at Williamsport, Penn. Thomas Ewing Sherman, a son of General W. T. Sherman, has been ordained in Philadelphia a priest of the Catholic Church. Th# ceremony was performed by Archbishop Ryau. A railway collision occurred seven miles east of Jamestown, N. Y. Charles Eisman of Meadville, engineer of a freight, and Louis Wentz of Salamanca, baggage master of a passenger train, were instantly killed. V. H. Derby, and Arthur Sexton tiad their legs broken. Four incendiary fires took place in Danbury, Conn. Dr. Waters, who committed suicide in New York city, left a long, circumstantial and scientific account of his sensations during the two days he tried to kill himself with morphine and cocaine. While Charles W. Carrath, a well-known druggist of Maiden, Mass., and F. H. Miller, a prominent Boston broker, were out shooting, Carrath's rifle was accidentally discharged, the ball entering Miller's neck, and killing him instantly. Three men, each of whom had slain a woman, were sentenced in the Court of General Sessions in New Y<5rk city to be executed on the gallows. Thav were John Lewis (colored), James Nolan ana Patrick Packenham. The sentence was fixed for Friday August 23. They will be hanged together. Richard Lewis, a plasterer, fatally shot Mrs. Elmira Mosehy and her sister, Emeline Mvers, in Pittsburg, and then committed suicide. The cause of the tragedy was unknown. The parties were all colored. Rhode Island's-Legislature met in extra o law /* ??omiyafa flio i dC^OKUli IAJ cuavi a la rw IU A t^uiavu vuo li^juwi traffic. Several license bills were Introduced. Elenon H. Williams, of Colbrook, N. EL, has left for parts unknown, leaving debts to neighbors and friends amounting to $80,000. Some of tho securities left behind were thought to have forged signatures. South and West. Ik Kemper County, La., Gaston Jones, colored, shot and killed his wife and then blew his own brains out. Two colored men, Richard Fleming and Richard Johnson, were hanged at Quitman, Miss., for murder. Georgia's new million dollar Capitol was formally presented by the Capitol Commission to the State. Captain F. P. Howell spoke for the Commission, and Governor Gordon received the Capitol on behalf of the State. Governor Ross, of Texas, also issued a proclamation against the fight between Sullivan and Kilrain taking place in his State. John N. Maginnis, a leading businessman of New Orleans, and son-in-law of the notorious William M. Tweed, was killed by lightning in his bath house at Ocean Springs, La. Sheriff G. E. Branson and one of his deputies, Ed. Funk, were killed at Korbyville, Mo., by Bill and Jim Miles, the two brothers now under indictment for the murder of the Bald Knobber chief at Forsyth. A convention was held at Chipley, Fla., to consider the proposition of annexing West Florida to the State of Alabama. There were about two thousand people present. David G. Colson, of Bell County, was nominated for State Treasurer by the Kentucky Republican Convention in place of John Barrett, who declined to run. Although but twenty-seven years old he is a member of the Legislature, and has been in public life seven years. John Fover. aged seventy, and his nineyear-old granddaughter, Carrie, were killed while driving across the railroad track at Akron, Ohio. Heil D. Miller, cashier of the Malta National Bank, of Malta, Ohio, has fled, and his accounts were reported $32,000 short. Lym^-n R. Williams, for nearly thirty years Superintendent of Schools in Steuben County, Indiana, committed suicide by hanging! Mr. Williams?served two terms as County Treasurer. The bones, representing all that remains of what it is supposed were fourteen or fifteen persons lulled and burned to death in the late wreck on the Norfolk and "Western Railroad, near Thaxton's, Va., have been buried in two coffins in the City Cemetery of Roanoke, Va. i Lewis Charriere, who for years has been the agent of the American Express Company at Houghton, Mich., has loft for parts unknown. His defalcation is estimated at from $25,000 to 850,000. Henry Haoe, was robbed by highwaymen in Minneapolis, Minn., of $20,000. Kbonsberg, Minn., a little village of fifty people, was visited by a windstorm and every house in the village was more or less injured. Two children were killed. Mrs. Jessie Hunter was shot and killed by a saloon-keeper named Parks at Agnew's, four miles from San Francisco, Cal. Parks then shot himself in the breast and died from the wound. Two men were killed in Chicago by the falling of a trestle in the power house of the Milwaukee Avenue Cable Railway. General William A. Pile, noted in , Methodtst annals as "the fighting parson," died a few days ago at Monrovia, Cal., aged sixty years. He was a minister in St. Louis when the Civil War broke out, and enlisted and became Major-General in the volunteer service. Ho was subsequently a member of Congress from Missouri and Governor ofi New Mexico. Notwithstanding the proclamation of Governor Lowery, Sullivan and Kilrain engaged in a brutal prize-fight for the "championship" near Richburg, Miss., the former winning in seventy-five rounds. More than 3000 people paid ?10 and ?15 to see the law violated. Herbert A. Pearson, a millionaire mine owner from Bonanza City, Idaho, was drowned while bathing in the lake at Chicago. Fire in the business part of Carson, Iowa, do6troyedan entire block, with the exception of one building. Loss $05,000. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Monocacy was celebrated on the battlefield, three miles from Frederick, Md. Exsoldiers were present from Vermont, Ohio, Kansas, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. * ?? 'V Washington. The present indebtedness of the District of Columbia is ?20,142,050, a decrease of $1," 964,600 since July, 1888. Mrs. Harrison, her father, Dr. Scott, and the two grandchildren left Washington, for Deer Park, Md., via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, where they will spend the summer. J. B. Agnew, of Pennsylvania, has declined the office of Superintendent of the Dead Letter Office. Four new States were added to the Union on the Fourth of July?Washington, North Dakota. South Dakota and Montana?and in recognition of their coming four new stars were added to the flag of the nation. The , 9 .v; - r national ensign, therefore, now consists of forty-two stars and thirteen stripes. Warner P. Sutton, Consul-General at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has been appointed by Mr. Blaine Secretary of the Congress of the American Republics to be held in Washington. The Secretary of the Interior has accepted the resignation of the Hon. Joseph E. Johnston, Commissioner of Railroads, and ton days' leave of absence has been granted him. Secretary Window has abandoned the practice of holding public receptions, and will hereafter receive visitors by card only. Captain Mullen has been relieved of the command of the United States man-of-war Nipsjc by Admiral Kimberly because ho failed to take that vessel to Auckland, New Zealand; the captain feared that the vessel could not withstand the voyage. The train bearing President Harrison and his party arrived at Washington on schedule time. The trip from Now York was made without incident. On arriving in the city the President immediately drove to the jjActutivo jiiaujuju. First Assistant Postmaster-General Clarksox returned to "Washington after an absence of about ten days, the greater portion of which was spent m a yachting cruise in Chesapeake Bay. Secretary Rusk took an important step in the work of reorganization of the Department of Agriculture. He established a new division charged with the important duty of editing the reports and bulletins issued by the other divisions. The President has appointed Thomas V. Cooper to be Collector of Customs for the District of Philadelphia, and Thomas H. Cavenaugh, of Olympia, Washington, to be Surveyor-General of Washington Territory, vice J. Cabell Breckinridge, removed. President Harrison during the hot weather expects to spend about two days of each week at work in Washington and the remainder of the time in Deer Park, Md., with Mrs. Harrison. This will mako it unnecessary to take any extended vacation, at has been the custom of previous Presidents. There will be only weekly meetings ol President Harrison's Cabinet during the heated term instead of bi-weekly meetings as heretofore, and Wednesday has been selected as the day of meeting. Additional appointments by the President: Horace A. Taylor, of Wisconsin, Comndssioner of Railroads; Thomas C. Mendenball, of Indiana, Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey: Henry W. Diederich, of Indiana, Consul ol the United States at Leipsic. Foreign. The Massachusetts rifle team scored iti third and fourth victories in England by defeating the London Rifle Brigade at Rainham, and the Sussex Volunteers at Brighton. Bt the bursting of an ether retort Drs. Fricke and Boemerhave wore fatally injured in Dr. Koenig's laboratory at Munster, Ireland. Theodore Schmitt, the Dutch Consul at Hamburg, has failed, with liabilities amount mg to &j,uuu,uuu. Independence Day was celebrated in London, Paris and other European cities by Americans, and in many other foreign places by citizens and officials of the locality. President Carnot, of France, unveiled a replica of Bartholdi's statue of "Liberty" at lie des Cvgnes, Paris. Addresses were made by Minister Reid and M. Spuller. A German ship has been sent to convey King Malietoa, of Samoa, back to Apia. The English have removed the French flag from the house of Sultan Bountonkon at Grand Bassam, Upper Guinea, Afripa. France claims a protectorate over the Silltan's territory. The Government of Tripoli, North Africa, has issued a decree abolishing the slavo trade. The Massachusetts rifle team won its fifth successive victory in England, defeating the South London Club at Nunhead by fortythree points in tho total. The Bulgarian Govornment has con eluded a loan of $5,000,000 with a New York bank. The World's Sunday-school Convention i in London adjourned alter deciding to meet in America next year. Two hundred poople were made homeles by a fire in Wrederihagen, in the Duchy ol Mecklenburg, Germany. Hon. John Norquay, for nearly twenty years Premier of Manitoba, died suddenly at Winnipeg of heart disease, at the age of forty-eight. 11.. _ i uiiui'iiii WLit? uiuiiuci ui a^wiwiuiittu eigoi i lives were lost in a collision on the railway i near Roehrmoos, Germany. Eleven others were injured. The Egyptians under Colonel Wodehouse have again defeated the Dervishes, 900 of whom were killed and 700 deserted or were taken prisoners. The village of Ubbendorf, on the Weser River in Germany, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is enormous. Sir Salar Jung, K. C. S. I., formerly Dewan or Prime Minister of Hyderabad, India, is dead. Reports from Samoa announce that the natives have disbanded -and peace is assured. A treaty of peace has been concluded between Mataafa and Tamasese, the rival aspirants for the Kingship. Emperor William, of Germany, narrowly escaped being billed by a piece of falling glacier in Norway. FOUR thousand weavers at Jaegerndorf, Austria, have struck work. A treaty has been signed between Japan md Germany at Berlin. It is said to be on the same lines as the treaty between the [Jnited States and Japan. The Pope of Rome is in receipt of a petition signed by a number of bishops and others asking that Christopher Columbus be canonized on the anniversary of the discovery of America. The Shah of Persia, while in Antwerp on tiis way to London, bought $750,000 worth of liamonds to distribute on his tour. The French Chamber of Deputies has oassed an act increasing the army to 3,000,)C0 men. Prince Nicholas Dadiani, of Mingrelia, it one time a candidate for the Bulgarian throne, has just died in the Caucasus, aged about forty-two years. A passenger train collided with a freight triyn near Ciulnita, Roumania. Fifteen persons were killed and many injured. The accident was due to the mistake of a switchman. The river Indus, in India, has overflowed its banks, and tho adjacent country is under ben feet of water. Forty persons were irownca ai i^arimana. TRIED BY RED MEN. The First Trial on Record of an Indian by a Jury of His Countrymen. A dispatch from Red Lake Falls, Minn , gives particulars of the first trial on record of one Indian by a jury of red persons. On June 24 an Indian named Big Bird while out hunting shot and killed another Indian. Big Bird and his friends claimed it was an accident. The matter was reported to Major B. P. Schuler, the Government's agent in charge of the reservation. By an act of Congress passed in 1885 the jurisdiction of the United States Court was for the first time extended over all the Indian reservations in tho country. Major Schuler determined to have this matter legally investigated and empaneled a jury of six full-blooded Indians, entirely disconnected by ties of relationship or other interests with either the deceased Indian or the Indian who did the shooting. Big Bird and the friends of the dead man were allowed to send for witnesses, who were sworn and gave their testimony, after which tho jury retired under the instructions of the agent, who presided as judge. The jury deliberated from 9 o'clock in the ovening until 11 o'clock the next morning, when through their foreman they announced that they were unanimously ,of the opinion that "there was sufficient cause for suspicion that the shooting was not accidental," and requested that tho accused be held for trial by the United States Court, whereupon Big Bird was locked up to await the arrival of the Deputy United States Marshal. Major Schuler states that he never saw a jury of white men moro impressed with its , responsibility, or who gave closer attention to the testimony offered than did tho Indian jury in this case, and that ha was also struck by the evident desire to bring out the facts on the part of the witnesses, all of whorr were Indians. _____ h&pobts from all sections of Montana show that the wool clip will be tive largest and best ever produoed in tha TVriloty. t'V-i :-T ' ' LATER WEWi), John Kellt, convicted of tho murder of Eleanor O'Shca, near Geneva, N. Y., November 6, 1888, has been hanged at Canandaigua, N. Y. S. L. M. Barlow, tho distinguished New York corporation lawyer, dropped dead from heart failure at his home, "Elsinore," near Glen Cove, Long Island, N. Y. Robert Redberry, aged eighteen years, and Willie "Wise, aged seventeen years, were drowned while bathing at Alton, 111. The father of young Wise mot with a similar fate about a week ago. The election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention of Wyoming resulted in the choice of thirty-six Republicans, sixteen Democrats and three Independents. The Convention will meet September 2. The desire for State government is general. Gcstave, John and Emil Plettig, of Chicago, were drowned at Kilbourn, Wis., while trying to run the dam in a rowboat. Thomas- J. Morgan, the new Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has appointed his wife as his Private Secretary at a salary of 81000 per annum, and Dr. Dorchester, Superintendent of Indian Schools, has secured the appointment of his wife as-Special Indian , i n A/1 3 _. 1 \ Agent, at a compensation 01 so per uay auu expenses. The President made the following additional appointments: To be Consuls of the United States: Emmons Clark, of New York, at Havre, France; Archibald J. Sampson, of Colorado, at Acapulco; Roswell G-. Horr, of Michigan, at Valparaiso; James P. Hartigan, of the District of Columbia, for the port of Trieste and all other ports in the Austrian dominions. The Egyptians have occupied Blrnban, Egypt, in which vicinity the Dervishes are very aggressive. The Shaggiehs, who are friendly, killed thirty Dervishes in one engagement at Serra and eleven Dervish foragers were killed by the Egyptian pickets. QBEAT RIOT IN DULUTH. Several Strikers Killed and Sixteen Policcmen Wounded. A deadly combat occurred at Duluth, Minn., between the police and 1500 strikers who had been out of work for a week. A number of laborers employed by the gas and water companies were at work in a trench at Seventeenth avenue and Michigan street, under police protection, when the mob of 25,000 men charged upon them. The police made their wards lay down in the trench, and tho little band of thirty blueco&ts, led by Captain McLaughlin, charged on the rioters. They were halted by a shower of missiles, and several of tho policemen were knocked down only to rise again. Drawing their revolvers the police advanced steadily, when one of tho ringleaders of tho rioters ilred his revolver. This was followed by a volley from the strikers and then the polico opened fire. Shotguns, "Winchesters, revolvers, all added to the list of dead and wounded. The mob fell back from the open street and took up a sheltered position behind buildings and Irnnf, nn t.hoir fiisilladfi. Governor Merriam had placed the militia attho call of Mayor Sutphin, and the danger | signal was agreed upon. Suddenly the deep j toued whistle of Elevator E sounded the fire ! alarm (the agreed signal), and thirty minutes i later Company K dashed on the doublequick down the streets. Just before tho soldiers arrived the Fire Department was on hand and coupled several lines of hose on the hydrants ready to turn tho water on the mob. The military and polico clcarcd the streets and the first battle was over. One man, George Costin, was killed, but the death of two other wounded persons was expected; tho number of wounded was estimated at twenty-five. Plate-glass wmdow are perforated, signs chipped, and plastering riddled. Two hatsful o? empty thirty-eight-calibre shells were picked up in front of ono building Where ono gang of strikers stood, and a low estimate places the number of shots fired at 4000. The first shot was heard at 4:20 p. m. and the last at 5:20. Tho police force suffered more severoly than was at first supposed, and at least sixteen policemen were hit by bullets. KILLED AT THE CROSSING. A Horrible Accident by Which Pour Lives "Were Lost. A terriblo railroad accident occurred at tho crossing near tho Little Silvor, N. J. station .ill.. "XT TT 1 J T ? J <Ji mo new xors ana juoug jjihuuu luuuuau lato in the afternoon, by which four persons were killed. The casualty was caused by a carriage being struck by a train of the Central Railroad of Now Jersey. . The carriage contained the aged mother of Joseph A. "Ward, a collar and shirt manufacturer of New York city: Mr. Keating, her son-in-law, a hat manufacturer of New York city; Elsie Keating, his little daughter, and Kate, tli?> little girl's Irish nurse, The three adults were instantly killed and the child lived less than two hours. The parly were out riding on a pleasure trip. They readied tho crossiug just as a north bound Central Railroad train was drawing out of tho station. After it passed Mr. Keating drovo upon the track directly in front of the express train of the same line winch leaves New York at 3:30 o'clock. Thi3 train runs through from Jersey City to Long Branch, stopping only at Red Bank. The train was running at th? rate of forty miles an hour when it struck the carriage. The engine hit the vehicle squarely, with terriffic force, and hurled its occupants into the air. Mrs. Ward was rolled over and over by tho pilot whoel of the engine for a distance of about eighty feet, the Irish nurse girl was carried about one hundred and ten feet and Mr. Keating about one hundred and forty feet. The child Elsie was hurled about thirty feet. The horso was torn to pieces and the carriage was smashed into kindling wood. Mrs. Ward, Mr. Keating and the nurse girl were torn to pieces ana parts of their bodies lav scattered along the side of the track. Blood and shreds of flesh covered tho tracks and the cowcatcher of the locomotive. The child Elsie was still alive, but she was terribly cut and her breast was crushed in. Mrs. "Ward was about seventy years old. Mr. Keating was forty-seven years old and had a wife and several children. The last name of Kato, the Irish nurse girl, could not be ascertained. She was about: twenty-five years of age. FOURTEEN BLOCKS BURNED. A Prosperous Town of Washington Almost Entirely Destroyed. The prosporous ana ttiritsy town or linensburg, situated in the centre of "Washington, which but recently had a population of 6000 inhabitants, is now but a smouldering mound of ruins and ashes. It was almost entirely destroyed by a fire which started in J. S. Anthony's grocery. Being fanned by a brisk west wind tho flames spread with wonderful rapidity and continued 011 their mad course until the entire business portion with tho exception of tho First National Bank and the Lynch Block had been swept away. When this had been accomplished tho flro spread among the residences in the southeastern part of the city. The water supply was inadequate, and there being nothing but a hand engine with which to fight tho flames fourteen blocks were destroyed before they could be checked. The loss cannot fall short of $2,000,000. Among the principal buildings destroyed aro the Stono Bank, Snipes & Co., the Ashler Hotel, tho Oriental Hotel, the Masonic Temple, tho Odd Fellows' Hall, tho Gcddes block, the Fish block, the Postoflice, tho Localizer printing office, the Dexter stable and others. There were only four stores left. Not a restaurant, hotel or boarding bouse remained, and there were about one hundred and fifty people destitute. . EAifGE quantities of gold coin from South America are passing through Antwerp for Russia and Austria, the same as in the Franco-German war. _ '.I ? , :ry. THE JOHNSTOWN CALAMITY ?. Jury Says the Fishing Club is Re* sponsible for the Disaster. Coroner Evans, of Cambria City, Penn., has found the members of the South Fork Fishing Club responsible for the loss of lifo and destruction of property occasioned by the bursting of the dam at Conemaugh Lake. At the conclusion of the testimony the jury deliberated for about a half hour, and then found a verdict against the millionaire members of tho club. The following is the verdict: We, the undersigned, tho jury empannelled to investigate the cause of the death of Ellen Hile on May 31, after hearing the testimony, find that Ellen Hile came to her death by drowning; that tho droiming was caused by the breaking of the South Fork dam. We further find, from the testimony and what we saw on the ground, that there was not sufficient wasts weir, nor was the dam constructed sufficiently strong nor of the proper material to wilhstay the overflow; and hence we find that the owners of said dam were culpable in not making it as secure as it should have been, especially in view of tho fact that a population of many thousands were in the valley below; and we hold that the ovrncrs are responsible for the fearful loss of lifo and property resulting from the breaking of the dam. John Coho, Abraham Ferner, H. B. Blair, John H. Devine, John A. Messinger, W. Cohick. NEAELY WIPED OUT. A Million-and-a-Quarter-Dollar Firo at BakerslleT,d, Cal. During a recent afternoon firo broke ont at Bakersfield, Cal., in the kitchen of N. E. Kelsey's house, in the same block as the Southern Hotel. In spite of all efforts it spread to the adjoining building also, of woed, and then to the Southern Hotel. * From there it spread rapidly, with the result that every business houso in town is burnod, beside about forty dwelling houses, involving a loss of $1,250,000. The insurance is $300,000. The fire department could not begin to cope with the fire, it came so quickly, burned so fiercely and spread jjo rapidjy. Thirteen blocks were wiped out. IS'o hotel, restaurant or busineiis house is left. As soon as the fire subsided measures were token to feed the homeless. The fire came on so suddenly that thero was no time to save stocks of merchandise. One hundred extra policemen have been detailed to guard the little that was saved. Bakerslleld is in the northern part of what is locally termed. Southern California and has a population of 5000. STOLE A RIDE TO DEATK. Tramps Killed on a Freight Train in Pennsylvania. A fatal accident occurred early in the morning on the Pennsylvania Road, seventeen miles from Pittsburgh. The freight train going east broke an axle, piling thirteen cars in a mass of wreckage. Ono car was loaded with whisky, which ignited, and the flames spread rapidly. Fire engines were sent to the scene, but efforts to put out the flames were unavailing. The engine is a total wreck, and lies by the side of the track. Tha train crow all escaped, but about fifteen or more tramps were pinned in the wreck. Eight men were known to have been locked in a car which was burnod to ashes. A tramp wno escaped saiu tnore were swwaiyfivo people at least on i&o train. Of theso but ten or twelve escaped. One of the injured, James Gallagher, died while being taken to the "West Pennsylvania Hospital. He is from Philadelphia. One man, unknown, was taken from the w^eck dead. A colorod man, name unknown, died on the way to the hospital. The fourth victim was a boy, unknown. HE FACED THE TEAM, The Dramatic Suicide of an Insane Man in New Jersoy. Emil Br onion, a Frenchman who had been in this country but eight months, committed suicide in Newark, N. J., while temporarily insane. As one of the fast trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad, bound for Long Branch, approached the Chestnut street crossing Bronlon crept under the guard gates and sprang upon the track, and folding his arms across liis breast faced tho rapidly approaching engine. He was thrown a long distance to one side by the engine and his sSull badly crushed. He died within fcw minutes. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Senator Sherman is in Europe. 1 Parnell is troubled with insomnia. The Shah of Persia wears a plug hat. Twn lafa Cimrtn PoworAn Ufa na i I . X?1?| wuiiuu VIUIIV* VM *"w w w I jprinter. ! General Boulanger's pension has beer stopped. j Florence Nightingale is sixty-nine and Ian invalid. i The King "of Spain has just entered bit (fourth year. I Rev. Dr. John Hall, of New York city, (is worth SI,000,000. | William "Walter Phelps' famoui (bangs cover a scar. i Stanley is reported to be suffering greal iprivations in Africa. j "Walt. Whitman has written a poem on 'the Johnstown sufferers. I Minister Lincoln has been banqueted by :the most eminent lawyers of England. ! The Empress of Austria in living in ex? feeme solitude at the Chateau de Linz. Prince Bismarck's salary as Chancellor ;of the German Empire is only about $13,000 a year. Whittier, it is said, falls asleep in hi? chair when visitors begin to praise his poetry. Jay Gould has the morning papers read to him every morning, and pays the reader $25 a week. Thomas Ewino Sherman, a son of General Sherman, has just been admitted into the priesthood. The widow of General Grant has thus far received about $300,000 from the publication of his "Memoirs." President Harrison wants to spend the feummer in the mountains, but Mrs. Harrison prefers the seashore. . The wedding presents received by the new Duchess of Portland were no less than five thousand in number. M. Taine, the Frenchman, who is an authority on the English literature, cannot speak a word of our language. Martin Irons, the labor leader, who used to run the railroad strikes of the Southwest, is now operating a small fruit stand in St. juuu13. The wiD of Allen Thorndike Rice was filed for probate; it gives a coutroling interest in the North American Review to Lloyd S. Bryce. The only casual indications that Mr. Gladstone has entered his eightieth year are an Increasing deafness and a slight huskiness in bis voice. Simon Cameron once remarked to a friendi "Yes," he said, "my son Don had many advantages, but I had one that overbalanced them all?poverty." Sir Conrad Reeves, the Chief Justice of fearbadoes, is of slave descent on his mother 's Side, and is the first mulatto who has received the honor of Knighthood. Ex-President Cleveland has bean spend!ng a few days with his wife at Marion, lass., and has found time to enjoy a fishing trip on the Long Island coast. Senator Don Cameron will not bo a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate next year, and with the end of his present term ho will retire from politics. General Sheridan's estate included much non-productive property, which has been a drain upon his widow'9 reduced revenues. The Government pension of $2500 a year is about the largest single item of infcome. George Lewis, the celebrated English briminal lawyer, has charge of two libel suits brought by Mrs. Mackay, wife of the "Bonanza" King, against two London papers for {?25,000 each for saying that her mother was a washerwoman. 1 )- V . J { " \ ~k CHAIN Of TRASHES. Telegraphic Details of Crime ijf and Calamity. Loss of Life and Property by Floods in Texas, A heavy rain fell in Texas and great damage has resulted. Reports from the West show heavy rains for 200 miles. The Brazos and Trinity Rivers were booming. At Benbrook, twelve miles west, the bridge of the Texas and Pacific and 500 fe9t of the track were washed away. The St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas for two miles out was submerged. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Fort Worth and Denver abandoned their tracks north. The Texas and Pacific abandoned trains both east and west. At Fort Worth the bottom lands to the north for two miles and to the east for a mile and a half were submerged. The Trinity rose four and a half feet in an hour, and the dwellers on the low lands barely escaped. City Marshal Farmer, Sheriff Ricnardson, and their entire force for the time became a rescuing corps, and manned the boats which brought the people to the city, where they were quartered tn large warehouses. There were 200 men, women and children thus cared for. H. Plume and sister are said to have been washed away, and Mrs. H. S. Bentley and ratricK, ner son, wno uvea on tne irmity, i are missing and said to be drowned. Their house was carried away. The river there is two miles wide, and all the cabins and tents are gone. The St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas operator received a message that the west fork of th? Trinity was coming down with an eight foot rise. Six more inches of water, and the water works would have to be abandoned. Wheat, oats, fruit and cotton are badly damaged. The loss can hardly be computed, but conservative estimates placed it as high as $2,000,000. There was some fear for the little villages along the Trinity, above Fort Worth. 1 Nearly 200 Miners Killed. An explosion of fire damp occurred in a :oal pit at St. Etienne, Prance. Three hundred miners were entombed. A number of bodies have been taken out of the pit. Two pits were affected by the explosion. One of these was inundated, the other was on fire. Sixteen bodies have been recovered. Ten of the miners who were taken out alive were so badly injured that they died. Sixty horses were burned to death. The news of the disaster spread quickly, and the mouths of the pits were soon surrounded by crowds of relatives and friends of the imprisoned miners. Many heartrending scenes were witnessed as the bodies were brought to the surface. There was no hope of rescuing any of the men, all of whom have perished. President Camot has ordered that measures be at once taken for the relief of the families of the dead. Fourteen miners were rescued with great difficulty. They were nearly dead. The number of the dead is now estimated e.t 185. Money for the relief of the sufferers was arriving from all points. Matricide and Suicide. A young man murdered his mother and then sent a bullet into his own head in Jersey City, N. J. The first wound he inflicted on himself was not mortal. Eight hours elapsed before the police rapped for admission at the door of the house where the bloodthirsty deeds were done. As they entered the young man fired a second shot and killed himself. The murderer is Herman Probst and the victim his widowed mother, Elizabeth, with whom he lived. Mrs. Probst was about fifty years old and had been a widow sixteen years. Her sight was injured several years ago and she was almost totally blind. She was a woman of a kind and sweet disposition,and her neighbors cheerfully assisted m the care of the three tidy rooms which served as a home for the mother and the boy whom she so deeply loved. She was constantly describing his devotion to her. He was twenty-six years old, and was considered an exemplary young roan. He was sober and industrious, a faithful member of the Methodist Church, and spent his leisure at home making his mother comfortable. Dervishes Beaten Off. * An engagement has taken place at Arquin, Egypt, between a force of Egyptian troops, under command of Colonel Woaehouse, and a body of dervishes. The dervishes were defeated and fled. Their loss was 500 killed or wounded. Seventy Egyptians were killed or wounded. Two English officers were also wounded. Colonel Wodehouse pursued ths dervishes. The dervishes attempted to effect a lodgement on the river bank. Colonel Wodehouse immediately advanced and attacked tnem with a field force. The dervishes made a stubborn resistance, but were finally forced to retire, fighting as they went. They were driven northward seven miles, but every foot of the ground was hotly contested. Two guns belonging the enemy were captured by the Egyptians. Colonel "W -"lehouse's troops continued the pursuit of *ne dervishes and eaptured 500 men. Drowned at a Sunday-School Picnic. A sad accident happened at the picnic o? the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Allegheny City, Penn., at Forest Grove, on the Pittsburg and "Western Railroad, by wilich five young persons were drowned. Their names are Nellie Burton, age eighteen years; May Royal, age sixteen years; Ida Cassidy, ago twenty-two; oira nnn Rprt i A'OULUO iUV-V>UUl U,QW vi^uuvwuj mm ? ? JVeeman, age twenty. The five named, with Edward Shaffer, took an old barge and started for a ride on Connaauonessing Creek. The stream was very turbufent and the barge capdzed, throwing the occupants into the water. Young Shaffer succeeded in reaching the shore, but the others went down before assistance couldigach them. Two Hundred Injured in Oklahoma. A great celebration was held at Guthrie, Oklahoma, and thousands of poople assemhled to witness the feats of horsemanship and see the races. Several largo excursion trains came in with visitors eager to enjoy the j holiday and note the growth of Oklahoma. I A grand stand, hastily constructed, fell to the f round in the midst 'of the festivities. Two undred persons were injured, over 100 of whom are seriously hurt, although only one child was instantly killed. The grand Oklahoma celebration and jubilee will long be remembered with sorrow. The bruised and wounded embrace persons from other States as well as from Indian Territory. Havoc by Rain and Lightning. A fearful rainstorm struck Dubuque, Iowa, during the afternoon, accompanied by a high wind. Two boys named Corbet and Bennett, while herding cows on the outskirts of the city, sought refuge in a barn and were killed by lightning. Considerable damage was done to shrubbery and trees by the high wind, and corn and other small grain suffered from the heavy rainfall, which for a time amounted almost to a waterspout. Two Men Killed in Massachusetts. At Chelmsford, Mass., Walker Symonds, Jr., aged twenty-four years, son of the pro'V# +Vn> T}nViV>ino TTill HniKO WAS in. pilCbUi Ul VUO AbVUk/iUd MWUMW. - - ?? stantly killed by the premature explosion of a cannon. Another man named Sanford was terribly mutilated, and died while being taken to the hospital. ANNIHILATED EIS FAMILY. A Religions Maniac Murders Three Persons and Himself. R. D. Johnson, a well-to-do respectable citizen about fifty years of age, living about four miles northeast of Palouso City, "Washington, killed his wife and his son, about fourteen years old, and fatally shot his sevenyear-old daughter. Ho then killed himself, leaving a note stating that he did not want to live in this sinful world and could not leave it without bis family. He added that he first gave them strychnine, but could not bear the sight of their agonies, so he killed them with a revolver. The bodies were not discovered until next morning. The crime was supposed to be due to temporary insanity over religion. , I ? _ ^ Hour Rockets are Made. i Rockets are made for three panoses: for signaling; for decorations or celebrations, or as projectiles in war. Pot signals, the charge consists of twelve para of niter, two of sulphur, and three o? charcoal. The ornamental, or decora* tive, rocket is the one we see used on fhsj Fourth of July, and the composition o? which it is made comprises 122 parts of mealed or finely pulverized powder, eighty of niter, forty of sulphur and forty of cast iron fillings. The main part of the rocket is a case, ; made by rolling stout paper, covered "on one side with paste, around a wooden form, at the same time applying oonsid- ' erable pressure. The end is then "choked,n. or brought tightly together, with twine/. The paper case thus made is next; i placed in a copper mold, so that a conical copper spindle will pass up through the choke, and the composition is then poured in and packed by blows of a mallet on a copper drift or packing tool made to , fit over the spindle. The top of the cas? is now closed with a layer of moist % plaster-of-paris one inch thick, perfoi : rated with a small hole for the passage of the flame to the upper part, or "pot.* The pot is formed of another paper cylinder slipped over and pasted to the top ' of the case and surmounted by a paper cone filled with tow. The "decorations^ are vvltinor\ in fVia t\/\f anil era oMfroron through the air when the flame, having passed through the aperture of the plaster,, reaches a small charge of mealed powderj placed in the pot. The stick is a piece of pine wood, tapering, and about nine times the length of the rocket. It is to guide the rocket in its flight. The decorations in the pot may be ''stars," "serpents," "marrons." "gold rain," and so on. "Marrons" are small paper shell* filled with grained powder and pinned,' with quick match. "Serpents" are small cases about inch in diameter in which is a composition of three parts niter, three sulphur, sixteen meal powder, i charcoal. This composition is driven in . the case, the top of which is closed by plaster-of-paris, having a small aperture through which passes a piece of quick-: match.?St. Nicholas. ' > Population, Area and Estimated Wealth, of the Original Thirteen States. New Hampshire, in 1776, nearly 140,000 inhabitants; 1880, 346,991 inhabit tants; estimated wealth, $338,000,000$?" area, 9305 square miles. Massachusetts, in 1776, nearly 300,000 inhabitants; 1885, 1,941,465 inhabit. tants; estimated wealth, $2,795,000,000; . area, 8315 square miles. Rhode Island, in 1776, 65,000 inhabit tants; 1885, 304,284 inhabitants; estimated wealth, $420,000,000; area, 1250' . square miles. Connecticut, in 1776, nearly 190,000 inhabitants; 1880, 622,700 inhabitants? estimated wealth, $852,000,000; area, 4990 square miles. . . } /< New York, in 1776, nearly 325,000 inhabitants; 1880, 5,082,871 inhabit tanbi; estimated, wealth, $7,619,000,000; area, 49,170 square miles. New Jersey, in 1776, nearly 180,000 inhabitants; 1885, $1,278,033 inhabitant; estimated wealth, $1,433,000,000; ?a?r)-4 K 11' if area, voxa square muea. n Pennsylvania, in 1776, nearly 400,000; I inhabitants; 16S0, 4,282,891 inhabi tanti; estimated wealth, $5,893,000,000; I area, 45,316 square miles. I Delaware, in 1776, nearly 50,000 in-* habitants; 1880, 146,608 inhabitants^ I estimated wealth, $138,000,000; area, 2050 square miles. - - I Maryland, in 1776, nearly 250,000 in habitants; 1880, 934,943 inhabitants; I estimated wealth, $869,000,000; area, 12,210 square miles. Virginia, in 1776, nearly 600,000 in? I habitants; 1880 2,131,022 inhabitant* I (including West Virginia); estimated I wealth, $1,000,000,000; area, 67,28Qf squire miles. Jnj North Carolina, in 1776, nearly 850^ I 000 inhabitants; 1880,1,399,750 inhabit - I tana; estimated wealth, $446,000,000; Hj area, 52,250 square miles. . B South Carolina, 1776, nearly 200,000i inhabitants; 1880, 995,577 inhabitants; H estimated wealth, $296,000,000; area> 30,570 square miles. H Georgia, in 1776, nearly 75,000 in- I habitants: 1880, 1,542,180 inhabitants; fl estiir^ted wealth, $554,000,000; area^ 59,4to square miles. I A Bird as a Witness. H liTiere was a witness in a court 14 H Savannah, Ga,, whose testimony was sq I rnnr.lusive that it was not Questioned. A fl gentleman owned a beautiful mocking H bird, of which he was very fond. The H bird was stolen. Every effort was made H to find it; it could not be found. At H lost the gentleman heard that a Northern H visitor, who had been in the city all I winter, was returning North with a re- D markable mocking bird.. He hurried off Hj to the sailing vessel, and there found a H gentleman with a mocking bird which he I recognized at once as his lost bird. The I new owner would not accept the claim, H but finally it was arranged that the H gentleman claiming the bird should make B a complaint before a magistrate and prove B that the bird was his. When in the H presence of the magistrate the gentleman I claiming the bird said that he would B whistle an air, and if the bird took it up and followed him that should be con- H vincing evidence. All agreed to thia H test. The gentleman began to whistle H "St. Patrick's Day;" the bird listened a H moment, took up the air and finished it.- H The magistrate thought tbat settled the H question of ownership, and the bird was H given up. It is said that the Northerner H offered ?1000 for the bird, but it was re fused. .. ; H , m Tiro Diminutive Elephants. 9 Two diminutive elephants arrived H safely the other day in the British section H of the Paris Universal Exhibition, where H they stand opposite each other, apparent- H ly guarding the entrance to one of the H central courts. No household canary H could possibly be tamer than these hand- H some pachyderms, -which are about nve h feet high, and carry gorgeous howdahs, H richly decorated as -well as their othei: H trappings, with colorcd enamel and gold. I Even their tusks, the points of which H have been sawn oil, are profusely gilt. 9 A Poetical Cobbler's Sign. S A cobbler on South Twelfth stress, H Philadelphia, has a card on his window H reading as follows: B Here lives a man H That don't refuse B| To make and mend 9a Your boots and shoes. H His leather is good, B His work is quiet Els profits are small H But he gives no tick, M And when he dies H He fears no ooals^ As he has saved H So many souls. B