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a woman mm The Wyoming Cattle Queen and Her Partner Hanged. Pitiless Revenge of Cowboys On Cattle Thieves. James Averill and tho notorious cattle queen, Kate Harwell, have been lynched by cowboys. The bodies of the "rustler" and range queen dangled from the same limb of a big cottonvrood all during tho morning. The scene of the lawless deed is on the Sweet water itiver, in uaroon Lounty, near i Independence Rock, Wyoming, a landmark made historical during the rush overland to the California gold fields. Averill was Postmaster at | Sweetwater, Wyoming. Kato Maxwell was the haroine of a sensational story which ap- I peared in the newspapers throughout the country three months as?o, when she raided a gambling house, and recovered a large sum J of money won from her employes. Stockmen of the Sweetwater region have l?een the victims of cattle thieves for years. I The rustlers had become verv bold. Averill and his remarkable partner have bern very active in thieving. The woman could hold her own on the range, riding like a demon, shooting on the slightest pretext,and handling the lariat and branding iron with the skill of the most expert vacquero. Fifty freshlybranded yeariing steers were counted in the Avtrill and Maxwell herds on Saturday morning. A stock detectivo, whose suspicions were aroused, was driven from Cheyenne when he was noticed viewing the stolen property. This circumstance was reported to the ranchmcn, who determined to rid the country of the desperate pair. Averill and "the woman have several times been ordered to emigrate or cease appropriating cattle, but they disregarded all warnings. After her celebrated gambling house escapade, Mrs. Maxwell degenerated from a picturesque Western character into a reckless Erairio virago, and lost most of her following, ut continued partnership with the postmaster. Word was passed along the river, and fifteen to twenty men gathered at a designated place and galloped to the cabin of Averill and Cattle Kate without unnecessary noise. The rustlers were at home, and a peep through a window disclosed the thieves and a boy in their employ sitting beside a rude fire-placs smoking cigarettes. As a half dozen men rushed into the room a Winchester was poked through each window, and a command to throw up their hands was given with unmistakeable earnestness. The trio sprang for their weapons, but were quickly overpowered. Averill begged and whined, protesting his Innocence; Kate cursed. Her execration of in? lyncners was suiceuiuig uci i mu IU its way. She cursed everything and everybody, challenging the Deity to harm her if He possessed the power. An attempt was made to gag her, but her struggling was 90 violent that this was abandoned. She called for her own horse to ride to the tree selected for a scaffold, and vaulted astride the animal's back from the ground. Averill did not resist, and the boy, who had been told that he would not be harmed, followed. The ends of the same rope were fastened about the necks of the rustlers as they gat in their saddles. The boy made a pass with a knife at the man who was preparing Sate for hanging. He was knocked insensible by a blow with the butt of a revolver. The lad was a nephew of the bandit queen. When preparations for the hanging had been completed Averill and the woman were asked to speak. The man spoke only of his office, saying that he did not wish a certain man to be his successor. The influence of the party for another candidate was promised nim. Kate made quite an address. She wished the affair kept as quiet as possible, desiring that her mother be kept in ignorance of her disgraceful career and tragic death. It was useless to deny that their herd had been stolen from the ranchmen of that section, but if they did not wish to divide it among themselves, she would like to have it sold and the money given to a home for wayward girls. Kate bade her nephew good-by and commenced to deliver a blasphemous harangue. The horses were led from under the pair while Kate was still cursing. Both kicked in lively style for ten or fifteen minutes. A few bullets were fired into AverilTs body and the lynchers rode away. Kate had come up from the Indian Nation immediately after the opening of Oklahoma and brought with her several hundred head of cattle, wKich she "rounded up" on the way. _ She vfjLS gathering up all the mavericks in tne rang? preparatory to uiiviut mem w Cheyenne, Wyoming, aud veiling tnem when the cowboys organized to drive her south. In appearance she was a remarkably finelooking woman, tall, well-formed, with regular features. Her faco was tanned from exposure, and she sat a horse like a man Her dress was partly a man's and partly a woman's. She was a dqad shot with rifla. ??i^ . THIS YEAR'S ELECTIONS. Where They Will Take Place?The Officers to be Elected. The current year is notably an "off year" in general politics. Only eleven States elect State officers this year. Kentucky will hold a general election for State Treasurer on August 5. Elections in ten other States will take place on Novembers. On that day: Iowa will elect Governor and LieutenantGovernor. Maryland will elect Controller and Attorney-G eneral. Massachusetts will elect Governor and Stato officers. Mississippi will elect Governor and State officers. Nebraska will elect a Supreme Court Judge and two Regents. New Jersey will elect Governor and State officers. New York will elect State officers, except Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. Ohio will elect Governor and State officers. Pennsylvania will elect State Treasurer. Virginia will elect Governor and State officers. Political interest this year accordingly is Mintered in the elections of the newlv-ad_iitted States?North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington and Montana?which are now framing their constitutions and will elect full State governments and Legislatures which will choose eight now United States Senators. Each new State will also elect a Representative in Congress, except South Dakota, which will elect two. The terms of no United States Senators expire next year, so the election of members of the Legislature this year is of interest as bearing on national politics only in cases where members of the Legislature chosen this year hold office for two years. The Sen?to elected in New York State will vote *or a United States Senator in 1891 to succeed the Hon. William M. Evarts. * "NT on Tl A T./r T3TJP A ITS! AiH UILIU Jjn.?'? X?-U)XI ft IV KJI A. Portion of the Hocking Valley Laid Waste. One of the most disastrous storms evei known in the Hocking Valley, of Ohio, culminated in the breaking of Sharp's dam at 8ugar Grove, on the Hocking Can*l. The dam held in stor? a large body of water that supplied the lower levels of the canal. Th? heavy rains had filled the reservoir to the banks, when suddenly the dam gave way, and with a mighty roar the sea of water went cut through tho valley, taking with it every movable object. For twenty miles the soil was plowed up. Trees, fences, crops and hundreds of heads of live stock have been swept away. No lives were lont, because tho peoplo had taken warning and becauso tho houses are situated on the bluC that overlooks th9 valley. But the canal for miles is a wreck, and thousands of feet of railroad track were washed away. At Athens tho Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore and Hocking Valley railroad tracks wero carried awav. Roacls and bridges were ruined, and tho wholo valloy for miles looked like a dry watercourse Competent judges placed the loss in the hundreds cf thousands. IT appears that tne whole number of officials now protected by the Civil Scrvice rules is 27,597, of which number 8212 are in the departmental service, 2298 are in the customs service, 11,767 in the postal service and 5320 in the ra il way mail service. t' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle Statei. ! . mber of persons have died suddenly at., at a Valley, near Chambersburg, Penn., through drinking water from an impure well. News was brought to New York city by pilot boats that tended strongly to prove that Inventor Peter Campbell's airship America, which made an ascension and trial trip from Brooklyn has been lost far out at sea, together with its navigator. Professor Edward D. Hogan, of Jackson, Mich. The New Jersey Prohibitionists liava nominated George La Monte for Governor. Three children of Mrs. Michael Stein, aged nine, six and three years, were burned to death by au explosion of kerosene at Lewistown, Penn. Ap.xoi.d Francis and a boy named Kirnes were killed by the bursting ot' a separator at . the Kimberton Creamery, three miles from Phcenixville, Penn. A fire broke out in the livery and boarding stables of Moses Weil, in New York city, and 125 horses were burned or suffocated to death and over fifty trucks destroyed. The loss is estimated at $46,000. Dodge & Olcott's drug and essential oil manufactory, at Jersey City, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire. Loss about $250,000. At Frackville, Penn., a dwelling houso I occupied by an aged couple, Michael McGrath | and wife, was destroyed by fire. The charred I remains of the husband and wife were found in the ruins. i James Mahoney and Robert Fisher were run down and killed by a train at ProviJence, R. I. They were pushing an empty j jar on aside track at the tune. Albert P. Whitman*, aged nine years, I and Harry E. Hamlin, aged ten years, were drowned whilo bathing in the Merrimac River at North Andover, Mass. Commissaries at Johnstown,,Penn., have all been closed. The postoffice at York Corners, N. H., was destroyed by lightning, causing a loss of foOOO. South and We6t. At Butler, Ind,, fire almost entirely destroyed the extensive car shops of the Eel River Division of the Wabash road. Loss 5100,000. Over 100 men are thrown out of work. Jefferson King, Albert Doltar and Fred Beiflle, were killed and about a dozen injured bv a boiler explosion at a planing mill in Chicago. Arsenic was placed in the food of the four children of Joseph Hunter, a planter, living near Star City, Ark., and three of them have died. The criminal and his motive are unknown. Half of a four-story stone business block in Columbus, Ohio, owned by the heirs of the Breyfogle estate, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of over 5200,000. t The accounts of Auditor Graham, of Lebanon, Ohio, who was supposed to have skipped to Canada, were said to be $30,000 short. The United States gunboat Petrel, on her second official trial trip off Baltimore, failed to develop for four hours the 1100 horse power required by the contract. A new test will be made. Dr. McDow, the slayer of Captain Dawson, editor of the Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier, has been expelled from the South Carolina Medical Society, and the honorary members of the military company of which he is surgeon are moving to withdraw from it. Warrants were issued at Denver, Col., for the arrest of Secretary of State James Rice, Sueriff Weber and his partner in the furniture firm of Graham & Weber; M. H. Lawrence & Co., who supplied the Assembly nrifh stAtiocerv. and State Printers Collier & Cleveland. All are charged with conspiracy to defraud the State in the purchasing of supplies. The bodies of Mrs. John McGregor and two children were discovered in ton inches of water in a small creek near Youngstown, Ohio. The woman had first drowned her children and then herself. Her husband had left her in destitute circumstances and she was seen begging for food the day before. Map.tin Pipher and "William Bolle were suffocated in a fermenting tank at a Santa Rosa (Cal.) winery. Albert Bulow has been hanged at Little Falls, Minn., for the murder of Franklin Eich. This is the first execution to take place under the new law providing that criminals shall be executed in the strictest privacy and that no newspaper men shall be present. Thirteen persons witnessed the execution. Anita and Miriam Boggs, maiden sisters, living in Jackson County, Va., committed suicide by taking arsenic. They left a letter, signed jointly, saying that there was nothing in life for old maids, and they were tired of it. They were in good circumstances, Tom Simpson, Deputy Sheriff Morgan and J. B. Howton were killed near Birmingham, Ala., during a family feud. Thb Oklahoma Territorial Convention decided to partition the Territory ihto twelve counties. The names recommended for two of the counties were Harrison and Cleveland. Three of ths fivo colored men who murdered Pratoribn, at Red River Junction, Ark., a few months ago, were lynched at the scene of the murder. Richard Lyman, aged twenty-three, and Bertha Head, aged twenty, were drowned at Kenosha, Wis., while going bathing. Ex-Governor Nelson- Dewey, one of Wisconsin's early Governors, has just died at Cassville, Wis., aged seventy-five years. A package of forty registered letters, containing about $10,000, was stolen from the registry department of the Milwaukee (Wis.) postoffice. The steamer St. Nicholas, with 500 colored excursionists ran into the closed drawbridge over St. Augustine Creek, four miles south of Savannah, Ga., demolishing the forward part of the steamer, killing two women and injuring twenty-eight men and women, some of them fataliy. J. P. Sussmilch and wife, of Rockford, HL, committed suicide together by drowning. | They were both seventy years of age. and in good circumstances. The burning of three elevators and their contents at Hastings, Nebraska, caused ?50,000 damage. E. E. Polster, lessee of the Terra Cotta Lumber Company in Kansas, has skipped to Canada with $20,000 of stolen funds. Colonel Rodger J. Page, editor of the Marion (N. C.) Times-Register, while walking with a Texas Judge, fell dead, a bullet penetrating and breaking his neck. The shot was fired from the rear and at a distance of but a few feet. The unknown assassin fired three shots more and fled. The Hon. John T. Clarke, Judge of the Georgia Court, stepped off the train at Smitnville, Ga., and was killed. Tosorr Williams, aged five, and his sister [Agnes, aged three, put a lighted match in [coal oil at Columbus, Ohio. The children were so badly burned that they died In an hour. White Ghost, head chief of the Cron Creeks, has signed the Sioux bilL He wai the bitterest opponent of the bilL President Frank Brown, of the Denver, Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad, and two of his assistants, have lost their lives iu attempting to make a survey for that road through the canyons of the Colorado River. Washington. Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Minister to the United States, visited the State Department at "Washington and bade adieu to the officials for a season. Ho has sailed for .^England. He will return to Washington .n October, bringing his family with him. President Harrison has sent through the State Department a despatch to Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, congratulating him upon his escape from the assassin's bullet. Colonel Wright, the Commissioner of .Labor.has received notice of his appointment on the permanent commission having for its object tho carrying out of the purposes of 'the'International Congress for cheap habitations for the poor. Roswell G. Horr, es-Congressman from Michigan, has written a letter to President Harrison declining to accept the Consulship to Valparaiso, Chili, to which ho was recently appointed. The President, accompanied bv Mrs. Harrison and Private Secretary flalford, left Washington for Deer Park, Md., to spend a short vacation. The United States Government has been invited to participate in an international cattle Bhow to be held at Buenos Ayres, under Argentine patronage, in April, 1890. The committee appointed by PostmasterGeneral Wanamaker to investigate the con- | dition of the New York Postoffice recom- j mend 123 additional clerks and ten additional [ carriers at an increased cost of 187,000. The Attorney-General has appointed F< lry M. Foote of Pennsylvania and James H. Nixon of New Jersey to be assistant attorneys in the Department of Justice. The United States war vessel Monocacy, which has been lying in a disabled condition at Yokohama, Japan, for a number of years, j will be put in active service again by the Navy Department. A committee composed of Dr. George Ewing and H. L. Bruce, of the Pension Appeal Board, and Captain Frank L. Campbell, of the Assistant Attorney-General's office, has been appointed by Secretary Noble to Investigate the Pension Bureau. Secretary Noble has rendered a decision granting $15,000 to J. Milton Turner, the colored attorney of the Cherokee freedmen, who obtained an appropriation of $75,000 for them from Congress. Foreign. Two hundred houses were destroyed by fire at Constantinople, Turkey. A reign- of terror prevails in the little town of Leoben, in Styria, where the whole population is on strike. All the small tradesmen and even the civic fire brigade have made common cause with the striking miners, and all commerce and industry are suspended. U-ENERAI* DUUIjAIS(j.&?5 ut? idaucu a festo announcing that he will stand as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies ir eighty cantons in France at the coming elec tions. Four hundred houses and public buildings were destroyed by fire in the town of Paks, Hungary. Many children were reported to be missing. Hundreds of people were rendered homeless by the fire, ana the greatest distress prevails. # The freedom of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, was conferred upon Mr. Parnell. In reply to the address accompanying the presentation Mr. Parnell said that the Irish people would accept the tribute as another proof of the near triumph of their legitimate aspirations for freedom. The Vaudel paper mills, near Pontarlier, France, were burned. The loss is enormous. The jury in the case of Mr. William O'Brien against Lord Salisbury for damages for slander, has returned a verdict in favor of Lord Salisbury. Several cotton warehouses in Liverpool, England, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is $300,000. In the British House of Commons Lord George Hamilton announced that the construction of fifty-two warships had been begun. Twenty of these vessels were being built in the Government dockyards and tliirty-two in private yards. The steamer Lorenzo D. Baker, of Boston, Mass., was burned at sea and two firemen were drowned. Loss $100,000. A later report says that 1000 persons were rendered homeless by the fire in the town of Paks, Hungary. Six men were burned to death. The damage to property amounts to 1250,000. The island of Crete is again in a state of insurrection. Bands of insurgents have seized the towns of Vamos and Cidonia, exI pelled the authorities and burned the j archives. : Belgium has voted $2,000,000 for the new Congo Railway in Africa. i ?fnr. i a fike at j-iu ijluw , vuuiu, uuiueu wi | twenty-three hours. During that time 87,000 dwellings were destroyed and 1200 persons perished in the flames, beside 400 who were crushed to death in their efforts to escape. Mr. Parnell testified again before the Commission in London; he declined to give any information concerning the Trust Fund sent from America. Five sailors were drowned at tho Island of Flores while trying to escape from the sinking May Frazsr. The vessel was a total loss. Mrs. Hattie Gibson Henn, wife of Rev. David Henn, formerly of Tennessee, is under | sentence of death in Corea for teaching Christianity. XATEENEWS. ^r Five murderers now in the New York Tombs have been sentenced to be hanged on August 23. Reports of damage by severe thunder storms come from all parts of New England. Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Secretary Windom pnd Supervising Architect of the Treasury Windrim met in the room of Postmaster Van Cott, of New York city, to consider some needed improvements in the PostofSce building and to get an ap proximate idea of the cost. They will endeavor to induce the city to buy the present New York Postoffice building, in which case | the Government will build another Postoffice uptown. Julian Hawthorne, the author, and four ; or five other writers and artists, accompanied by the fifty workingmeh selected by the Scripp's league of newspapers to visit the ; Paris Exposition and points of interest to workingmen in Europe, sailed from New York for Havre. Colonel Emmons Clark, ex-Colonel of the famous Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard, has declined the appointment as Consul to Havre, France, recently made by President Harrison. Scott Todd and Charlie Hosier, two boys, wero drowned in White River at Anderson, Ind., and Stephen Bilby met a like fate while trying to recover their bodies. Nearly all the business part of Little Rock, 111., has been destroyed by fire. George Lewis, colored, living near Beiden, Texas, has been lynched for poisoning the well of William Shaw. Carbon & Johnson, big builders at Ishperning, Mich., have failed; liabilities, $60,000. The entire Chinatown district of Sacramento, Cal., consisting of forty wooden buildings, mainly rookeries, has been destroyed by fire. The bodies of three unknown men, two white and one colored, were found at Pine, Ind. All three of the men's heads wero crushed, and it is supposed they were murdered while asleep and that the deed was committed by tramps. Father James Curley, of the Society of Jesus, probably the oldest priest in the world ?certainly the oldest in America, and known wherever the science of astronomy is known ?died a few days ago at the age of ninetyfour years in the infirmary of Georgetown (District of Columbia) College, whero ho had lived for sixty-two years; COMAassiOJTER Portee has selected B. R. Carroll, the editor of the Now York Independent, to have charge of the work of collecting religious statistics for tha eleventh census. The King of Greece, accompanied by Premier Tirard, of France, visited the Paris Exhibition and ascended the Eiffel Tower. Count Sparre, a Swiss of high family, shot and killed his mistress, Elvira Madigan, a circus performer, at Ta-tsinge, Denmark, and then put a bullet through his own brain. The Austrian infantry has been increased by the addition of 9000 men, raising that branch of the service to a war footing. Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone and wife have just celebrated in London the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. The harvest has been very bad in Hungary and South Russia owing to continual drought. In Vienna this drought has been severely felt through a decline of the water supply, which has diminished to the extent of 400,000 hogsheads a day. The American whaling schooners, James A. Hamilton, Otter and Annie together with sixty officers and men, have been lost in the Arctic Ocean. FURIOUS ELEMENTS. Morristown, W. Va., Destroyed by a Cloudburst. Rain and Thunder Storms Over a Wide Area. A dispatch from Parkeraburg, W, Va., says: The greatest disaster which ever befel Little Kanawha came during the night in the shape of a terrible cloudburst which has completely flooded the country, destroying many lives, carrying off thousands of dollars in property, and ruining the crops for many mil as. The deluge fell about dusk and continued to fall in torrents, doing much damage in the city. The worst of the storm struck the lower side of the Kanawha, filling small tributae ries from bank to bank and ending in the worst flood within recollection of the oldest inhabitants. In three hours the Kanawha rose six foot, and ran out -with suc'a velocity that it carried everything before it. At this point thousands of logs and a * -n l A- ????+ r\y TTi.rfl CimV numcxir OI UUttia i?cuu I/! > i,* ..WW Little Kanawha Lumber Company lost 200C logs, West's mill ten rafts, Barringei several fleets, W. P. Padden five barges with ties, several of which were caught below; Keever & Co. lost four barges of coal) Miller three rafts and 2000 ties; Taylor one fleet of timber, Charles "Wells four barges. In one hour 5000 logs went out. Mrs. Isaac H. Tucker, Martin Lawless and an unknown man were drowned. Above the destruction was still greater. Big Tygart Valley is completely ruined. The big mill near its mouth went out and took the Tygart bridge with it. In the valley all the fences, crons, and much live stock was lost. At Chesterville, a small town about ten miles above, half the residences were carried off bodily and left in corn fields. In Clay district a fine church and three duellings were wrecked The steamer Oneida has been wrecked and sunk at Enterprise above. The steamer C. C. Martin was sunk at Burning Springs. The Little Tygart is also reported completely ruined. Heat'aerington's store, Captain Spencer's residence, C. P. Cooper's residence, and that of J. W. Smith are completely demolished. The worst story of all comes from Morristown, a small village near the head of Tucker Creek, where the cloudburst concentrated in all its fury, coming down in the village about midnight and totally destroying it, together witn many of its people. The first report gave the loss at eleven, but later news fixed the loss at a greater number. The houses of the citizens were said to have been picked up and hurled against each other in such short space of time that no chance to escape was given the people. Among those lost at Morristown were Jake Kiger, his brothers Joseph and Thomas, a man named Bailey, Orville West, wife end child. The body of a man believed to be another Morristown victim was found on Richardson Farm. At Pill Brush all bridges and culverts were washed away. A family boat containing three or four persons went out during the night, and all were lost. The last seen of them was when a woman held up a child in her arms and beckoned for assistance as the boat disappeared in the flood. A freight train on the Ohio River Railroad broke through a trestle at Harris's Ferry, completely wrecking the train and fatally injuring William Neptune, an employe. The wreck was caused by a heavy wash-out. Lock 1, above the city on the Little Kana?l? *vott ftnfnro tViA flnrvl. ?vua, iiuo gucu ?? A dispatch from Bismarck, Dakota, says: A wild terrorizing scene was witnessed near the Standing Rock Agency late in the afternoon, when a terrific thunderstorm was at its height. The lightning was darting hither and thither, striking in numerous spots near by, and the Indians rushed en masse howling and whooping in abject fright and superstition to the shelter of their wigwams. At last, a blinding flash of lightning, accompanied by a deafening clap of thunder, came from the heavens and J actually shook the earth. The lightning struck a wigwam a few rods below the agency in which were huddled five terrified I Indians, instantly killing White Horse and Black Eagle and stunning another fatally. [ The other two were unconscious for many hour.; and were restored after hard labor by friends. A fierce rainstorm, accompanied by thunder and lightning swept over Cincinnati, Ohio, early in the morning. It flooded the Miami Canal, which broke its banks and worked great havoc in the vicinity of York street and Central avenue, causing a loss of about 550,000. Several families were driven from their homes while the blinding storm was raging. The firms sustaining the greatest loss are Metz & Co., ice-dealers, and Maescher, porkpacker. A cloudburst was reported at Lancaster, Ohio, which caused a big washout on the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway. At Logan, Ohio, a heavy rain caused much I ^ownrra +S\ WnTIQ Lightning struck a house in the little village of Georgesville, in Franklin County, and set it on fire and burned half the town. At Marysville, Oliio, great damage was done, FIGHTING- FAMINE, Z>akota and Canadian Northwest Settlers Living on Rats and Horses. Dry, hot winds in portions of the extreme north of Dakota, near the boundary line, have played havoc with the crops, and farmers are reduced to eating field rodents, gophers, etc., for subsistence. The crop in the Canadian Northwest will be nil. A party of emigrants at the boundary line from the Souns Country, said they had traveled three hundred miles through a well settled country on the Canadian side without seeing a fair crop, and say a great many settlers are leaving their land to drive their cattle to timbered country on this side. Some of the families looked famine stricken and had eaten nothing but potatoes and turnips for some months. They were afflicted with scurvy and were sacrificing themselves to save their cattle. At one place, northwest from Turtle Mountain; a family of English emigrants, who were travelling back to the mountains, had killed and were eating a young colt. Th9 suffering in that isolated region will be awful, and those who have means will leave in such numbers as to depopulate the Canadian Northwest. They are new settlers in that country anil have no resource but the wheat crop. SIS MEN LYNCHED, Horsethieves and Murderers Hung by Indignant Citizens. Several days ago Samuel Dedrick, of Albu querque, New Mesico, had a number of horsas stolen. A posse started in pursuit and when they met the thieves a battle took place. The leader of the band was killed. Three others were captured and taken to Kelly, Socorro County, and confined in a house. During tho night a gang of masked men surrounded tho place and took tho men from the guard, hanging them to a ti-co and riddling tho bodies with bullets. Tho men lynched were Mexicans, and des|)cratc. Bill Snow, a colored man of Hinton, W. Va., who had killed a constable the day before was taken from jail and lynchtxl. Joseph and Gabe Webster, who assisted in the murder of D. Pitts on tho Pantheon plantation, Miss., have brcn lywhed. Major Miller, of the Engineer Corps, ir charge of the improvement of tho Mississippi River between tho Ohio and Illinois Rivers, reports that the plan of general improvemeni contemplates a reduction of the river to ar approximate width of 2o00 feet below St. Louis, and estimates that. $1,000,000 can be profitably expended during the next fiscal year* thejn-anite ror xne new Congressional library Building, at Washington, will be cut at Concord, N. H. It is estimated that it will require 800 to 1000 men four years to complete the work. This is probably tho largest granite contract ever let by the Government. Treasurer W. R. Thompson, ofthe "Pennsylvania State Relief Commission, is distributing $500.000among the needy of the Con? .mt?-H Vallev flood sufferers. The Massachusetts census for 1889 showi that there are in the State 1413 professed authors, of whom 990 are male ana 423 femal? \ f Jr. i. / THE HOOD SIMMS. Distributing Money to the Need} in Conemaugh Yalley. The Amounts Eeceived Not Up to the Expectations of Many. Judge Cummin and William R. Thompson, of Pittsburg, arrived at Johnstown, Penn., a few mornings since, from Cresson, and at once went to their office, where they started to pay out the $500,000 to be distributed among the flood sufferers. More than two hundred persons were in waiting ready to receive their money, but the growling and grumbling that was done among the crowd when they received the amounts allotted to them were simply terrible. Judge Cummin asked Mr. Thompson to suppress the names of certain persons who had received money, because they were once well off and did not now want their names to go to the world as recipients of charity. Hia request was acceded to. Up to noon sixtythree persons had received $5735. The well-known C. S. Dick, one of Johnstown's most nrominent citizens, lost 85000 by the flood. Dick filed a claim for $3000. His warrant was filled oat for 880. Dick was angry, refusing to accept the amount. A neighbor of Dick's, whose loses were much greater, also received a warrant for eighty dollars. W. Horace Hose and John P. Linton joined hands with Mr. Dick, and refused to take the oath required. It was thought that others would join this movement, and from present appearances the most prominent people will not take the amounts that are offered them. If this movement should prove to be a concerted one it is expected that there will be some trouble over the money. The highest amount of money paid to any one pen son was $200, the lowest $50. More than two thirds of the applicants received $80 or less. "Women who are weak from sickness are waiting a chance to get a little money, be it ever so little that is given to them. Some are in Johnstown in torn dresses and some without shoes. Others are carrying crying children in their arms. At the office there are employed about forty clerks, who are busy making out applications for poor people who are glad to get anything. Only the poorest of the people are on hand, and the impression is that those who can possibly subsist without taking the oath required will refuse to swear. The first man paid w^s John Varner. He received $50, and walked away in such a manner as to leave those in charge in doubt as to whether he was satisfied or not. During the day 165 checks, aggregating $16,335, were issued. Treasurei1 Thompson cashed 149 of the checks, amounting to $14,695. A large number of new claims were under consideration, and it was not believed that the $500,000 of the Governor's fund would reach all the sufferers at the rate orders were issued. Another distribution will follow and all will be considered in the order of their coming. | The total registerod losses in the Conemaugh Valley are between $8,000,000 and $9, 000, (W0, not including that of the Cambria Iron and Pennsylvania Railroad companies, or such others as did not register. So far the people have received the $10 a head fund, which amounted to $160,000, and the first distribution of the general fund involves $500,000, so that the sufferers have been paid $660,000. In the average case this amounts to about 1 per cent, of the actual it no tVio nnmmiffcinn sars. Olllv iuao, tmu. u, ? j ? about 81,000,000 remains to bo paid, there will be 3 per cent, of their losses made good to the sufferers. Tbis state of affairs lias depressed many, and the result is that hundreds have left the town. Probably for the first time in its history, the Cambria Iron Company finds itself wanting men, several hundred positions being vacant. Hundreds have left bccause nothing but ruin meets the eye wherever they turn. Indeed, the work yet to be dono in clearing up the town is so great, and the force of workmen employed so small, that men of judgment predict it will not be completed until next summer. There seems, according to the opinion of most, but one means of recovery, and that is to invoke aid from the National Government. It is understood that a meeting for this purpose will be held shortly... _ HOADLEY'S TBIPLE MUEDEB He Kills His Wife and Her Father and Then Commits Suicide. Hiram Hoadley, Jr., murdered his wife, her father, at Byron, Ohio, and then killed himself. Ho had been married three years, but a year ago his wife left him and returned to her father. Recently she applied for a divorce. This act made Hoadley insanely revengeful. During the morning he secreted himself near the house where his wife was living, and as she came out to milk cows he shot her'three times. Mr. Newman, her father, ran out and was also shot three times. Hoadley then pursued the mother and younger sistar of his wife, but they escaped. He then returned to where the two dead bodies of his victims lay, and, lifting up his wife's body, fired two more shots into it and then shot himself dead. Hoadley had three revolvers on his person, and it is thought that he intended to till the entire Newman family. He was once a prominent politician of Williams County and a prosperous and respected citizen. PB0MIUENT PEOPLE. Verdi, the corupos9r, is seventy-four. Queen Victoria is an enthusiast in gardening. Governor Fop.aker is a graduate of Cornell. General W. T. Sherman is sixty-nine years old. One of the President's favored amusements is ten pins. Jules Grew, the French statesman, is sighty-one. Prince Bismarck's doctor has again taken away his pipe. Mrs. Garfield, widow of the President, will spend next winter in Washington. The Empress Augusta Victoria, of Germany, has embraced the Catholic faith. The Enrporor of Japan is allowed $2,500,X>0 a year for his household department. Albert Brisbane, in his eightieth year, has just finished an exploring tour in Africa. Professor Mather, of Amherst College, has been in the service of that institution for thirty years. The Duchess of Marlborough, aocompanied by her husband, is coming to America some time this fall. The best dressed and "best groomed" man in the British House of Commons is said to be Joseph Chamberlain. Sir Spencer St. John-, British Minister to Mexico, has returned to London after an absence of forty-one years. The Earl of Zetland, the new Viceroy of Ireland, enjoys an income, salary included, 3f about $375,000 per year. Sir Charles Russell, the great English cross-examiner, has a hard voice, coal-black whiskers and heavy eyebrows. Robert Hammerling, whose death is announced at Gratz, was fifty-seven years of age. Ho was Austria's greatest living poet. The English Government has granted to the widow of Professor R. A. Proctor a pension of $500 in consideration of his scientific services. Ci.acs Sprsckels has already made $30,000,000 growing cane and producing sugar I ar,A imiinrtinf snrl refillinc silf/HP in the United States. Hisaya Iwasaki, a student of the University of Pennsylvania, is a son of the richest man in Japan. He has gone home to be presented to the Mikado. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the novelist, is to be paid$7500 a year for editing the children's department of a syndicate of English and American papers. The fortune of John Jacob Astor, of New York, the richest man in the country, is now estimated at $100,000,000. He i3 about seventy years of age and a widower. George B. Roberts, who is at the head of the great Pennsylvania Railroad, is a small | man with a wonderful head for facts and figures. Hois of Scotch descent and about fifty years old, although ho looks somewhat younzer. THE FEDEBAL OFFICES. A Batch of Appointments by President .Harrison. The President the other day made the following appointments: William Rule, of Tennessee, to be Pension Agent at Knoxville. William A. Richards, of "Wyoming, to be Surveyor-General of Wyoming. Boetius H. Sullivan, of Dakota, to be Surveyor-General of Dakota. To be registers of land offices; Charles H. Cornell, of Nebraska, at Valentine, Neb.; Edward P. Champlin, of Wyoming, at Cheyenne; Martin J. Wright, of California, at Visalia, Cal.; John A. McBeth, of Colorado, at Denver, To be receivers of public moneys: Robert L. Freeman, of California, at Visalia; Leroy Grant, of Wyoming, at Cheyenne. To be Indian agents: T. J. Buford, of Oregon, at the Siletz Agency in Oregon; John P. McGlinn, of Washington Territory, at the Neah Bay Agency in Washington Territory: D. J. M. Wood at the Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe and Oakland Agencies in th< Indian Territory. II. M. Hurley, of Indiana, to be Third Auditor of the Treasury. J. H. Franklin, of Kansas, to bo Deputy Second Auditor of the Treasury. JohnFehrcnbatch, of Ohio, to be Supervising Inspector of steam vessels tbr the Seventh District (Cincinnati). Charles M. Levy, of California, to bo Appraiser of Merchandise in the District of California. To be Co'ir/.uors of Customs?Franklin B. Goss, of Mass., for the District of Barnstable, Mass.-William Gaston Henderson, of Mi'm fnr foo nf Panrl PtVar Micc N. bright Cuney, of Tex., for District of Galveston, Tox.; Henry D. B.-Clay, of Va., for the District of Newport News, Va. To be Collectors of Internal Revenue? James D. Brady, of Virginia, for the Second District of Virginia; P. B. McCaull, of Virginia, for tho Sixth District of Virginia; Joseph W. Burko, of Texas, for the third District of Texas. Jame3 J. Dickerson, of Texas, to be Marshal of the United States, for the Eastern District of Texas. Milton C. Elstnor, of Louisiana, to be Attorney of the United States for tho Western District of Louisiana. To be Consuls of the United States?Evans Blake, of Illinois, at Crefold; Henry C. Fisk, of Vermont, at St. Johns, Canada; Jasper P. Bradley, of West Virginia, at Southampton; Eugene 0. Fechet. of Michigan, at Piedras Negras, Mexico; Archibald J. Sampson, of Colorado, at Paso del Nortos, Mexico: Horace E. Pagh, of Indiana, at Newcastle, England. CAVE-IN OYER A MINE. Many Foundations Cracked?An Explosion Causes Loss of Life. A cave-in occurred in Hyde Park, Penn., over a vein of the Central mine. Over six acres of ground were affected, and the Fifth Ward public school building was badly damaged. Fully a dozen private, residences have cracked foundation walls and jammed doors as a result of the cave-in. Large fissures may be seen in the earth, and in the centre of the affected dis'trict the earth has settled fully ten feet. The damage cannot be estimated. Within the min9 six chambers were affected by the cave-in, and the miners and their laborers are unable to proceed with their work. During the afternoon, while a number of men were removing the rock and coal from the chambers closed by the cave-in of the morning, the lamp of one of the laborers ignited the mine gas, and a frightful^ explosion fol lowed. John W i Li jams ana itoDerc nooerus were killed, and four others were frightfully burned. THE LABOR WORLD. New York has a Russian labor paper. Architectural ability is in demand. There are 200,000 women In comakers in Ireland. A new shoo factory has been started al Omaha, Neb. There are bad times in England for unskilled laborers. New Yorkers are working up a national union of barbers. There are 100 ministers who belong to thi Knights of Labor. About 160,000 womirn are employed in making woven goods. Chicago locofnotive engineers averagi from $120 to $170 per month. The International Union of Bricklayeri and Masons comprises 176 unions. A large number of people in France are engaged in the manufacture of celluloid. The efforts at Cleveland to increase firemen's pay from $960 to $1000 per year failed. The Cigarmakers? International Union haa about sixty thousand members in New York city. 1 A Boston organization is attempting to tnrm "galf-imnrnvftmflnt. clubs" for WOrEnc men. There are 1,000,000 men- who would be glad to work," unemployed In the United States. Some Albany (N. Y.) stove molders have struck to have their castings counted in their own alleys. Padrones are at their old work of furnishing Italian laborers to corporations at so much a head. The reports of the high rates of wages paid on the Pacific coast frequently prove to be highly colored. There are four concerns in New York city In which the employes get a share of the profits every year. Charles Pratt, of Brooklyn, one of the Standard Oil Corppany magnates, is a machinist by trade. ' Seven thousand miners are idle in the Allegheny Mountains because they can earn only ninety cents per day. Hugo Zieman, the steward of the White House, is under a bond of $30,000 for good behavior. His salary is $1800 a year. Numerous unions are complaining that manufacturers are rapidly organizing all over the country while workingmen are lukewarm. The Window Glass Workers' Union at Pittsburg is the richest labor organization in the country, and holds a reserve fund of $300,000. The practice of forming benevolent and protective organizations and benefit funds is becoming almost universal among united trade societies. The boss masons and journeymen bricklayers, of New York city, at a recent conference fixed the scale of wages for the ensuing year at $4.60 a day. Twenty factories, having an aggregate capital of $1,500,000, have been opened in Florence, Ala., in the last seven months,, giving employment to over 2000 people. The watchmakers, of Prescott, England, who have long been famous, finding that fcheir trade is declining, have decided to build a | factory and work on the American plan. I The molders employed in a Reading I (Penn.) foundry, hare formed a "burn asso! ciation" to take care of those of their number who are injured by burns, scalds, or melted metals. Factory girls in a Massachusetts woolen mill kid off some time ago because the foreman persisted in keeping a picture of a white horse on his desk. Ten o( the girls had hair which was decidedly auburn in color. Including policemen, postofflce officials, marketmsn and women, care-takers, hospital nurses, and newspaper writers and printers, it is estimated that fully 100,000 of the inhabitants of London are night workers. Queen Victoria imports a new cargo of Indian servants every month or two, whereat i the rest of the English royal household are i much displeased, while the British lackeys at Osborne and Balmoral are in high dudgeon over slights thus imposed. In tobacco factories in New York, Brook" lyn and the neighborhood, there are children only four years of age?sometimes hr?lf a dozen in a single room. Others are eight [ years of age and range from that up to fifteen years. Girls and boys of twelve to fourteen years can earn from four to five dollars a week. New York State has a law which prohibits the employment of children under the age of thirteen in any of the 50,000 manufacturing establishments in the State, and I which makes sixty hours the limit of a weeks work in such factories for all women under the age of twenty-one, and boys under j eighteen. a CURIOUS FACTS. Russia has fixed doctors' charges. The art of letter-writing is now in it decline. Women carry forty or fifty miles o hair about on their heads. The average of human life in Home under Caesar, was eighteen years. Noi it is forty. , A colored man at Albany, Ga., hai served no less than twenty-one terms ii jail for fighting. A Pennsylvania baker committed sui cide because his bread was bad thro times in succcssion. "William Lincoln, who lives near Graf ton, W. Va., has a cat that plays wit] rats but is death to snakes. On a dead pull, being put in harnesi one of Baraum's elephants lately drew load weighing over four tons. Hereafter dogs in England will no have their ears cut. If they do they w3 not be admitted to any dog show. The Constitution of South Dakota con tains 22,000 words. The Constitutioi of the United States contains 6000. It is estimated that the progeny a a single pair of English sparrows for tei yearswill be 275,616,983,698 birds. An advertisement in a London pape offers "to pay a fair price for second band tooth-brushes and cast-off oft teeth." The Oriental gifts sent by the Sultai of Morocco to Kaiser William the Second turn out to have been manufactured,ii Germany. ,. A quarry of paring stone in -which th slabs are streaked with red, white am blue, has been discovered near Meg hoppen, Wyoming County, Penn. The farmers and shepherds of theEng lish moors declare that more grousept killed annually in England by the tele graph wires than by all the sportsmen/ A horse lying down on a railroad trac) is a more dangerous obstruction than hid a dozen cows, while the engineer isn't bit worried over a dozen hogs or a scoi of sheep. Jose de la Rosa, an old painter ait Sa Diego, Cal., is 100 years old. He wa sent by General Santa Anna to Monterc^ to start a paper in 1833. He still has wonderful memory and the control of a] his faculties. Cambric, the term applied to the finet and thinnest of linen fabrics, takes it name from Cambria, a town in Franc where such goods were first made. Cam brie is a pure linen. There are, of count imitation cambrics made of fine muslii such as Scotch cambrics. ' ' An inscription dated the year 670 pfte the founding of Rome has been discover* ; at Capua. It contains decrees of th ; elders of villages in the neighborhood . and will be of value in studying the pro , vincial government under Rome of tha j ancient seat of Greek colonists. The manager of a dime circus recent! showing in Camden. JN. J., gave actum sion tickets for cats, which he fed to th few scrawny beasts he carries. Small boj went on huntn for cats, and many pd disappeared, till the Society for the Pn vention of Cruelty to Animals putasto i to the game. When Charles Darwin, the naturaliai after a five years' absence on his voyag in the Beagle, walked into the lane lead ing to his garden, his huge' EngHa mastiff spied him at a long distance,-anti barking loudly, ran up to him. Mi Darwin,' in after years, often .said thi this was as sweet a welcome home as b had ever received, A Novel Wedding. A very unique marriage was celebrate in 'Squjre Hanser's office the other' aftei noon, tne squire oiuciiuuig. mc uuu was Miss Jessie Troeger, who obtaine some celebrity two years ago by leadia a strike of waitresses in Rockwell's ra tauranf. She is twenty years old. Th groom was Charles K. Adams, betfc known in the dime-museum world asti Armless Wonder. He was bom withoi I these useful members of the body, am in lieu of a better and more profitabl means of livelihood, hired himself out t dime museums. Adams is now abo* thirty years of age, and, barring the lac of amis, is a fine specimen of physic* beauty. " . The absence of arms is little felt by tl Wonder, however,for he has bccome vei expert with his toes and mouth. He ca thread a needle or write a neat lett< with the former, while with the latter 1 paints dainty little pictures, decorato chinaware, etc., holding the brush bi tween his teeth. When the couple entered the 'Squire office yesterday and said they wanted 1 be united in wedlock that official wi perplexed for awhile. "How can you join hands?" he aske bluntly, pointing to Adams. "Oh, that is easy enough," said tl pretty bride, who stood fully three hea< shorter than the groom. And si reached up and grasped the stump of h undeveloped left arm with her rigl hand. "See," she said, as she stood smilinj ly on her tip-toes. "But the ring. How can he put tl mniTi'oM -rinnr r>n vmir fincrer?" """'" or O rf w "In this way," said Adams, and the a tonished officials in the 'Squire's cou were thunderstruck to see the circlet i gold between the armless man's teet Bending his head he deftly slipped over the girl's finger. Satisfied that the couple understot their business, the 'Squire went ahei and performed the ceremony. t After being made man and wif Adams sat down, and, slipping the sh off his right foot, disclosing a stockii with the front of the foot cut off, reached into his vest pocket with his t and brought out a roll of bills. Self J ing a $5 note, he tendered it as a fe and, putting on his shoe, went away, iJ little wife sticking close to him.?Ct'J cinnati Enquirer. I Two Chickens From One Eg?. I A curious feature of ornithology is rl ported from Eckingtou, Yorkshire, E^gl where a hen has hatchcd two chickel from one egg, both chickens being in I perfect state, except that they are |oin? together on one side of the membranes"! the wing. Beyond this they walk abol and feed in the usual manner. I A Natural Bed of Shoe Blacking.! A natural bed of a mbstance resembliJ shoe blacking has been discovered fl Rush Valley, Utah. Analysis shows thl it contains 16 per cent, carbon, 34 pi cent, aluminium, and 60 per cent, clal "When properly applied to leather it prl duces a ftnt polish that ia not easily dfl strayed, 1