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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.
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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.
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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.
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| 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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?"
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"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