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j FLOODS IN NEW JERSEY. ! Many Cities and Villages Damaged by RagingWaters. Seven Dams Burst and Sweep Away Houses and Bridges. The flood gates were lifted during the late heavy rain in New Jersey, and, since the -TnVinefnwn riicncfor w*s frwh in the minds of all, it would be hard to gauge the amount of terror that existed in some parts of that State for a few hours. The streams were already running full, and a succession of deluging showers in the afternoon and tev.ening caused them to overflow. The rainfedl was especially heavy on the Orange Mountains, and the result was that cities like Newark, Plainfleld and Elizabeth on the low land which received the mountain's streams suffered from floods. Bridges, dams and houses were washed away, trains stalled, and other damage done. The greatest flood Plainfleld, N. J., has ever known followed this heavy downpour of rain, and wash-outs and broken dams were the result. At 4 o'dock Codington's dam, on Stony Brook, cave way, and the large body or water thus freed carried away Codington's icehouse and threatened the Green Valley Mills with destruction. The damage along the course of this stream was heavy, for many barns and other buildings were washed away. At 4:30 o'clock the great dam at Feltville gave way, and the rush of the water down the valley proved too much for the little Green Brook, so that the torrent divided and part of it made its way to Cedar Brook. This brook flows through the choicest resident portion of Plainfleld, and the elegant houses there were badly damaged. An area in the town covering three square miles was entirely submerged. At 5:40 Tier's dam in Green Brook gave way, precipitating a great body of water through the center of the town. This brook divides the two counties of Somerset and Union, and where it runs through the town is built entirely over. When the water, in a great torrent, rushed down the stream and found its way blocked by buildings it turned Into the street. Somerset street became a raging flood, and where the brook was bridged the street was washed out badly. Many small wooden buildings were washed away and demolished. Several houses situated along the brook were flooded and the inhabitants compelled to move in short order. Frenche's mill and carriage factory were threatened with destruction. All the cellars and first floors of the stores in Somerset street were flooded and the damage to property was great. Host of the houses were occupied when the water came rushing down, and the greatest alarm prevailed among the occupants, who felt sure that the fate of the people of Johnstown was about to overtake them. The creams of the women could be heard above the noise of the torrents, and scenes such as have never been witnessed in that part of the country before were enacted. So far as known, at least seven dams were carried away. The last one to go was that neav Cadmus's mill below Plainfleld. The mill was reported to be wrecked. Bloomfleld, N. J., especially its business centre, is a wreck from the great flood. The second river dam at Fritz Mill, near the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Depot, has given way and the land for two miles around was submerged. Stores and residences were flooded and thousands of dollars'worth of property destroyed. John P. Scherff, druggist, lost $3000 worth of drugs and other trticles; Robert M. Stiles, feed merchant, is also a heavy loser, while nearly all on the north side of Glenwood avenue have lost from $500 upward each. One or two lives were reported lost. The breaking of Fritz's Dam on Parrow Brook, near Orange, flooded and entirely destroyed Eppley's Park, which was recently laid out at a cost of $40,000. The damage in Essex County will amount to over $100,000. Reports from Morris County intimated that even greater damage lias been done there. The worst effects of the storm were felt in the Orange Mountains, however, and in the towns and villages lying at their eastern base. All the ponds and brooks on the mountains contained moro water than usual at this time of the year be cause of the unprecedented rains or 41m past few weeks. This downpour overflowed them and atone time early in the evening disasters were feared in Milburn, M"plewood1 Wjoining and South Orange, as the reservoir of the Orange "Water Works was unusually full, and it was feared it would burst. In this reservoir the waters of several mountain streams are dammed up for futuro use, as drink water in Orange, East Orange, West Orange and South Orange. lis is 300 feet above nigh water mark, and about two zxiil as and a half west of South Orange, the elevation of which is about 175 feet. <: In South Orange several buildings, includ, ing the postoflice, were carried away, and 350 barrels of flour were washed out ? of one storehouse. In Orange Valley the water was up to the second-story windows, and great damage has been dono to the stock in the numerous hat factories there. People were compelled to paddle around on planks and to swim in order to reach places of safety on high ground. Rutherford, N. J., was flooded badly and large portions of three of the prominent streets were washed out entirely. Several prominent stroets at Cailstadt, W.J. ,* were turned into mill-raoe3 and will be impassible until repaired, targe portions of the sidewalks were carried away. Passaic also came in lor her share of the cloudburst. At Hackensack many of the prominent thor?Tlghfares were entirely washed out and, made impassable. The Hackensack River had risen considerably and many of the cellars in the lower portion of the town were fi6oded. . to. ij. :ii? T>? V V Ulttgo Ul IWU^C W WU A (U A Itti WU badly. The finest streets in the town were totally ruined by the torrents. Cellars were flooded and great holes and ditches made in several private gardens. The storm, on the whole, was the heaviest that has visited those points for twelve years. Landslides and washouts occurred on nearly all tho main railroads in New Jersey and tie movement of trains was stopped. TWO MURDERERS HANGED, Dramatic Scenes On a Scaffold in the ( Louisville (Ky.) Jail. i'Charles Dilger and Harry Smart, murderers, were hanged at 6:04 o'clock in the morning in the jail yard at Louisville, Ky. i At the conclusion of the religious service Bmart and Dilger bade goodby to all the turnkeys. They then took positions on the trap.i Smart laughed as he stepped upon tho fatal door. Deputy Sheriff Hikes pinioned them with leather bands at 6 KM o'clock exactly, and both men shot down through the trap. 1 ; Smart turned round and probably died instantly, but Dilger slipped through the noose, the rope catching him over the chin at the lower teeth. i He was seemingly unhurt and was drawn i *rp by the rope until his shoulders came tnrough the trap, when the deputies took him < by the arms and pulled him upon the scaffold. Anew rope was brought into service, and when the noose was adjusted Dilger asked: , ^TThat's the matter?" When he was told, ] he said: "This shows I should not die" He lllmr-ftl V fVlQ nnAAn ?-l ^avt/v ftUOIMAi lllimtcu U UVU VUO W C*M UiD OC^UU ULLUO jby making two nops. The drop was again iforung, and at 6:09 he was strangled to j i STARTING ILLINOIS MINEBS ! Eighty Tons of Provisions and Supplies Sent From Chicago. 1 Mayor Cregior, Congressman Frank Lawler and other members of the Chicago Relief Committee left with eighty tons of provisions and supplies for the starving ( locked-out coal miners of Spring Val- ( ley, HI. There are about 2000 idle miners in the district, making, with their families, about 6000 persons in need. The arrival of the train thero during the afternoon was < greeted with great demonstrations of J joy. Everywhere there were evidences of extreme poverty. Men, woman and children wore scantily clad in the cheap- 1 est materials, and there was a groat dearth bt i footgear among them. Their pinched faces J told unmistakably of hunger. Tho miliars 1 have been locked out nearly three months and were on the verge of starvation. < t The OO^QOO East End, London^ inhabits nta i are all poor, and 111000 of'thejnare homela& ana cannot urovide for a mw aheed. 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Ex-United States Senator Stephen w Doksev has been arrested in New York citj at the instance of the Nevada Bank of Sai Francisco, Cal., because of his failure to paj a judgment of $4525.08. Five Paterson (N. J.) breweries, Kat: Brothers, Hinchliffe Brothers, Braun Broth ers, Sprattler & Mennett and James A Graham have been sold to an English syndi cate for $2,380,000. Assistant Engineer Charles Gr. Tal cott, of the United Stages ship Atlanta, committed suicide in New York harbor, in the bathroom of the ship by shooting himseli through the head. No cause for the suicidt is known. Charlemagne Tower, who went to th< Pennsylvania anthracite coal regions from New York years ago when a poor and un known lawyer, died a few days ago of pa ralysis at his simmer home, at Yvaterville, N." Y., aged eighty-one years. He was worth 820,000,000. The New York commission dry goods flnr of Lewis Brothers & Co. has failed, witl liabilities placed at $4,200,000. "Hie assets arc said to be sufficient to cover all indebtedness. Cornelius N. Bliss is the assignee. Mrs. "William Irwin, of Washington, Penn., and her three-year-old son were killed by a train at Elwood's crossing. The Richmond Paper Company of East Providence, R. I., has failed for $800,000. English syndicates are said to be trying to buy New York dry goods stores and Newark (N. J.) leather factories. The new Hamburg-American twin-screw steamer Columbia has arrived in New York harbor after sailing from the Needles, England, to Sandy Hook?3100 miles?in as days, twenty-one hours and thirty-seven minutes. That is the best time ever made by an ocean steamship over that course. General John Kilpatrick, one of th? most conspicuous figures in political circles in Pennsylvania, died at his home in Harbor Creek, Penn., at the age of sixty-eight. He stood almost eight feet high. 'j The United States gunboat Yorktown returned to New York from a cruise at sea, undertaken to test the ship's strength and stability and the effectiveness of her main battery. The results were highly satisfactory. A cyclone, followed almost immediately by a terrific rain storm, visited Worth Wilbraham, Massachusetts, doing considerable damage to property. The otrth was torn up, plowing a furrow fifteen feet wide for a long distance. It threw water fifty feet high. Public thoroughfares were badly damaged in many sections of western Massachusetts. Laurel, Del., and the surrounding country have been visited by a disastrous storm, which continued with uninterrupted fury for two days. Small wooden bridges across the streams and fences have been washed away, and fields and orchards ruined. John Ireland, a well-known New Yorker, who for years has kept a popular restaurant on Lispenard street, was robbed of $43,000 in securities while a patient in Chambers Street Hospital E. & A. E. Batcheller, of Boston, Mass., one of the largest boot and shoe firms in the country, have assigned. Their liabilities are $1,250,000. Edward Styjles, son of Dr. D. W. Styles, and Captain Philip H. Wagner, both of Buffalo, N. Y., were drowned while boating. McKean & Appleton, shoe manufacturers, of Salem, Mass., have failed, their estimated liabilities being between $65,000 and ?75,000. In Ulster County, N. Y., a tornado destroyed several houses, and three persons were badly hurt, one.of them fatally. Sonth and "West. The yield of spring wheat in Minnesota and Dakota is placed &i 60,000,000 bushels. Jess Oglejias', a young man, shot and killed his sweetheart, Miss Madge Smith at Xenia, Ind., and then killed himself. Joe Cook and SolDorsey, two colored men of Trenton, La., quarreled after a church meeting and killed each other. The Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated Rev. J. B. Helwig, of Springfield, for Governor. Thb> North Dakota Constitutional Convention decided to submit the prohibition question to popular vote, and the Constitutional Convention at Olympia, Washington, has approved the taxation of churches, private schools and charitable institutions. Two little sons of Fredi Droenke were killed while playing on the railroad tracks atElmhurst, 111. James Kelly, (colored), who assaulted Mrs. Peter Crow, wife of a section boss, was taken from jail and hanged to a bridge at Paris, Ky., by a mob. W. T. Davis, who for three years has been the Secretary of the Tennessee State Wheel, a farmers' association, mysteriously left Nashville after confessing in a letter to officers of the organization that he was short ?2000 in his accounts and intended to commit suicide. An English syndicate has purchased seventy-eight grain elevators in the Van Deusen system m the Northwest. SftTCH damage was caused by storms in the Northwest; excessive rains threatened to ruin the wheat in shock. Tom Bowling (colored) was hanged in the jail at Baton Rouge, La., for the murder of Philip Walsh (white). Charlss Sellars. who murdered Bunyan Adams in Richland Parish, La., was hanged at Raville, La.. and.Frank Blunt, a colored desperado, was hanged at Voldosto, Ga., for the murder of Willis Miller, also colored. Colonel E. A. Jones, Surgeon-General of Ohio and a prominent resident of Cincinnati, was found in a manhole, murdered. His colored servant has confessed to the murder. Csart.es 8. Crtsler, a prominent lawyer of Independence, Ma, is a defaulter to the amount of $50,000. He has fled. The joint commission, between the two Dakotas at Bismarck, has reached an agreement, North Dakota, agreeing to pay South Dakota $42,500 to square accounts. Five railroad hands were reported to have lost their lives by an explosion of dynamite twelve miles west of Wabash, Ind. In Elk Township, Clayton County, Iowa, Wesley Elkins, but a little more than eleven vpars nf ftrrp mnrrfArAfi hi?: fntViflr m.r?r? of^rv. mother. The Cannon Fruit Commission and the Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company were burned out in Wichita, Kan. Loss, $170.D00. The five men accused of complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin?Cougnlin, Beggs, Woodruff, Kuenze and O'Sullivan?were arraigned in Judge Horton's court in Chicago. All pleaded not guilty. Thb steamboat Tolchester on her way from Baltimore, Md., to Deals Island, ran down a sail boat. There were five persons in the boat, three of whom, Mary Kalb, Mary Wiener and John Bitz, were drowned.' The signature of Whit* Cloud, the leading Chippewa Chief, has been appended to an; agreement by which 8,000.000 acres of his tribe's reservation will be thrown open to settlement. His signing ends the labors of the Commissioners. Field fires have burned twelve dwellings and killed numerous cattle and horses m Santa Barbara County, Cal. Loss, $50,000. Forest fires have just destroyed a vast amount of property along the Missouri River in Montana. An area of over four miles was laid waste near Chico, Cal. Several mining camps and a quantity of timber were burned at Lost Gulch and Gunnison, in Colorado. Mrs. Snodgrass and her two children svere drowned at Rockford, Ark., while fording the White River. Washington. The Secretary of the Navy has awarded the contract for furnishing 428 tons of steel Jor the new cruiser Mlune to the Linden Steel Company of Pittsburg for $34,753. The contract with the Union Iron works, jf San Francisco, Cal., for the construction }f a coast defence vessel has been signed by Secretary Tracy. The contract price is $700,XX). Secretary Windom has received a letter trom Mr. C. W. Arnold declining for private reasons the office of Collector of Internal Revenue for the district of Georgia, to which io was appointed a few days ago. President Harrison has approved the changes in the civil service regulations ipplied to the railway mail service recomnended by the Civil Service Commissioners, The count of the cash and securities in the United States Treasury, incident to the transfer of the office from Mr. Hyatt to Mr. Huston, bus been completed. The amount reported on band aggregated over #700,000,000 in gold, silver and paper, and was all ac" counted for. i The retirement of Major Alexander r Sbarpe, of Washington, on account of age reduces the niimber of paymasters of the United States army to thirty-two, leaving the quota three in excess of the number fixed by the act of 1884. The Civil Service Commission has decided to exempt from examination clerks on steamboats who also act in the capacity of " postal clerks. j The President designated General MacFeely | as Acting Secretary of War in Secretary 5 Proctor's absence. ; | Foreign. t The Parnell Commission in London hasad. journed until October 24. The revolt in Crete is spreading. Risings , are threatened at Sphakia, RetLmo, Milata 5 and Sidera. The Yellow River has again burst ita i banks in Shantung, China, inundating an imi mens? extent of country. There is twelve > feet of water throughout ten large Govermental districts. The loss of life and property is'incalculable. The Government authorities at Pekin are dismayed. i Sir John Henry Puleston, Member of English Parliament for Davenport, gave a ; dinner in the House of Commons to Robert T. Lincoln, the United States Minister, and Chauncey M. Depew, of New York. General Boulanger will be a candidate for the Councils-General in ninety-two cantons in France. A tornado in Hungary, Transylvania, and Bukovina swept over several thousand square miles of territory. Hundreds of persons were killed, the crops were destrored, and enormous damage was done to houses and churches. The districts of Grosswondem, Szegedin, and Mohacs were completely 1 ravaged. Thomas . T. World and his daughter Lillie were drowned at Toronto, Canada, by the swamping of their boat in a heavy sea. The official report of the crops in Galicia, Silisia, Bohemia and Moravia is unfavorable. In the Tyrol the crops are unusually good, while favorable reports are made of the remainder of the Alp and Karst country. Beet root is promising, but rape is in poor condition. Me. Sexton, member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of Dublin, IrelandL complains to , the State Department at Washington, that President Harrison's letter, thanking Dublin for the empathy expressed with the Johnstown su^erors, had been opened in transit and the official seal defaced. The United States revenue cruiser Rush recently seized the British schooner Black Diamond, while sealing in the Behring Sea. Dr. Tanner, member of the British Parliament for Cork, Ireland, was sentenced at Tipperary to one month's imprisonment for assaulting Police Inspector Stephens in May last. When judgment was pronounced he cried out in the dock: "I defy you. The magistracy are the real criminals." For this outbreak three months was added to his sentence. The Japanese town of Kumamoto on the island of Kiou Siou has been destroyed by an earthquake. A great number of people perished. Sixty more dervishes have been killed in a skirmish with the British forces in the Soudan. The Shah of Persia arrived in Paris from England. He was received by President Oarnot. San Luis, a village near Santiago, Cuba, has been visited by a disastrous fire. Sixty houses were destroyed and two children were burned to death. Later election returns from Paris show that General Boulanger was elected in twenty-three cantons. A Boulangist organ, ac* " ? A * *- 1 f _ is r\f\f\ AAA cuses tne government oi iaasuymg o,uw,uuu voting appers. > LATER NEWS. The bill to move the State capital of New Hampshire from Concord to Manchester was killed in the Legislature by a big majority. Ex-Untted States Senator E. H. Rollins, of New Hampshire, is dead, in his si-*y-fifth year. He had been twice Speaker ot the New Hampshire House of Representatives; was elected to Congress thrice, and in 1877 was chosen to the United States Senate. Fred Farr, aged twenty-fiv?, an engineer on the Carthage and Adirondack Railroad, killed his wife at Clayton, N. Y., and then committed suicide. John L. Sullivan, the prize fighter, was arrested in New York city by Inspector Byrnes at the request of Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, and was held at Police Headquarters while awaiting the action of Governor Hill. A sawmill boiler exploded at Golden Gate, 111., instantly killing Frank Peters, a son of the proprietor, and fatally injuring Joe Wallace and William Fox. Tom Talbot, a white man, was lynched at Meridian, Miss., by about sixty men, for an uuurageuub uosuuiu ujkjuu <x iulu iccu-jccuold white girl. Misses Flanagan, McCabe and Farrell were drowned at Ishpeming, Mich., while trying to cross the Menominee River in a boat. Tee Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton express, due in Cincinnati at 11 P. M., was wrecked near Oxford, Ohio, and twelve persons were reported killed. Negotiations were completed at Omaha, Neb., for the sale of all the breweries to a European syndicate for $1,500,000. "William L. Ross, a note-teller of the Nevada Bank of San Francisco, Cal., robbed the institution of $95,000and fled to Victoria, British Columbia, where he was arretted. The Postoffice Department has received the resignation of Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee, whose administration of the office was recently severely criticised by the Civil Service Commission. Ex-Senator Albert Daggett, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has received the contract for supplying the Government with postal cards during the next four years. The contract involves between $700,000 and $800,000. Secretary Tracy has ordered a Government vessel to go to Arenas Key, Yucatan, to rescue three American sailors who were left there to care for the property of the company working the guano beds as their limited supply of provisions is by this time exhausted. Sir John 1Thompson, Canadian Minister of Justice, signed the warrant for the extradition of Burke, the alleged murderer of Dr. Cronin. Ho was taken to Chicago for trial. Two deserters from the Mexican army were captured by mounted soldiers fifty miles from Ensenado, Mexico. The prisoners were compelled to follow their captors on foot at a rapid pace to Ensenado, where on their arrival both fell dead from exhaustion. A machine gun exploded on board the French training frigate Couronne at Hyeres, France. Eight persons were killed and seventeen injured. Thirty persons were killed and eighty injured by the recent earthquake on the island of Kiu-Siu, Japan. I The German squadron, escorting the Emperor William to England, sailed from Wilhelmshaven. i The Italian war office has decided to tr] the mobilization of a hundred thousand me^ in the autumn. The grand maneuvers wil j be given up, and the whole country will b? : convulsed with this tremendous experiment, which will cost S3,000.000. A large part ol these troops will be taken from the militia, i so as to test the country's readiness for warIT is stated that both Germany and Austria have conveyed to ex-King Milan their i desire that he return to Servia and .assume su- < preme power again as a check to Russian in- j trigue. C ' I j A WORLD'S FAIR IN 1892. Four-hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America. . -. , Important Action Taken by the Citizens of New York City. Successful meetings of the Chamber of Commerce, the Mayor's committee and the Spanish-American Association took action In New York city to formulate plans for holding a World's Fair there in 1692 to celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. At 8:15 o'clock the gentlemen who had been Invited to confer with the Mayor began to assemble in the Governor's room, and by 3:S0 there was hardly standing room. Chairs to the number of 110 had been provided, but these were inadequate to accommodate all those present. It was a big gathering, and it was unanimously in favor of having the biggest fair the world has ever seen in 1893 in New York. All the banks wore represented by their Presidents and directors. Railroad Presidents were as abundant as at a meeting of the Trunk Line Association. Merob if f.lia full roll ULLCUlbO AiA/UUUW ^ row AMM - ^? of the Chamber of Commerce were present to answer to their names. There were workingmen representing as many trades and industries as a national convention of the Knights of Labor or the American Federation of Labor. There were representatives of all the industries, professions, businesses and trades of New York city. They were all there, the heads of firms, the men whose names are as well known in London and San Francisco as they are in New York. Billions of dollars of capital were present in the men who control the railroads, the steamboats, the real estate, the hotels, the manufactures and the trade of the city. The assemblage proved the unanimity and enthusiasm of all the citizens of New York about the World's Fair which is to be held in 1892. The Mayor, in opening the discussion on the subject of the proposed quadri-centennial in 1892, said: "I have invited you to this meeting in order that you, as representative citizens of this great metropolis, may consider the desirability of commemorating the discovery of this continent Dy holding an interactional exposition in this, the chief city of the WWern Hemisphere. This event which we intend to commemorate is the discovery of a new world. Its importance is not to be measured by a mere addition to the sum of geographical knowledge; its fruits are observable in the happiness and prosperity of a nation which has maintained free institutions while it has acquired boundless wealth, and in the general improvement which the success of one government has wrought in the condition of mankind throughout the world. "The city of New York is the capital of this new world, whose achievements are but a Tyromisa of a still more glorious future, and in this, the most powerful and populous of the cities of America, I think it eminently desirable that we celebrate the triumph of Columbus by a World's Fair, which will eclipse all former industrial expositions." Mayor Grant was then unanimously made Permanent Chairman and William M. Spear Secretary. Mr. Charles G-. Haven suggested tJiat the name of the committee bo the Committee for the International Exposition of 1893. The matter of the appointment of committees was immediately taken up. Controller Myers offered the following: Whereas, It is fitting that there should be a suitable recognition of the four-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of this continent, such anniversary occurlngin 1892; and Whereas, Public opinion indicates that an international exposition will most satisfy and meet the requirements of the occasion and afford a desirable opportunity for foreign countries to testify to good will in our national regard; and Whereas, In its location, through which it holds the key to commerce, through its many and varied industries, through its resources of capital, through its unlimited facilities for the reception and entertainment of visitor^ through Its liberality in me promotion ux all that constitutes national success, through its acknowledged supremacy as the metropolis of the Western "world, New York is indisputably the proper site whereupon such an international exposition should be held; therefore, be it T Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that an international exposition shall be held in the city of New York in the year 1892 and that all present do pledge themselves to devote their best energies to the promotion of the success of such exposition; and Resolved, That a general committee of twenty be appointed by the Mayor, whose duty shall be to formulate detailed plans for organization of such an exposition and report at a public meeting to be called by the chairman when the committee shall be ready to report. Charles S. Smith offered the following substitute for the closing resolution: Resolved, That the chairman appoint the following committees, namely,one on finance, one on legislation, one on permanent organization ana one on site and buildings, each to consist of twenty-five members; and that the chairman be allowed such reasonable time as he deems proper to select and name such committees. Mr. Smith's motion for the appointment of the four committees was earned unanimously. The Mayor and Secretary Speai were made ex-ofncio members of the foui I committees, and the meeting adjourned subject to the call of the Chair. The New York Chamber of Commerce, at its meeting the same afternoon, appointed a j | committee of sixty membsrst o co-operate < with the National, State and city authorities . in regard to taking measures for the holding of a World's Fair in 1892. ( ? I THE WHIPPING- POST. i A Man Whipped in Maryland Under I the Law for Wife Beating. A special from Hagerstown, Md., says: I Tho first whipping administered in this county since the passage of the act of 1882for wife j beati occurred hero this afternoon. Thepris- I oner was David C. Herbert, a resident of tho j Carfoss district, this county. Herbert is a tall i J well-proportioned white mou, while his wife, ' who maae the complaint is a fragile, delicate- ! looking woman. At tho trial before Justice 1 Bitner it was proved that Herbert, while 1 intoxicated last Friday, beat aud choked his I <rife into unconsciousness. While she was 1 in that condition he grabbed a char, swear lug LllUb ilO l?ll?UUeU l/J ban UCI. JLlw >?oo piv vented from carrying bis threat: into execution by his son wresting the chair from him. Herbert has been guilty of the same offenco several times before, and the Justice determined to impose a salutary restraint upon his future conduct by sentencing him to re- , ceive fifteen lashes and au imprisonment of L five days in jail. The Sheriff was notified and at once, made ! preparations to carry the sentence into execution. A thick piece of leather two feet in 3 length, tapering to the end, and joined to a wooden handle, was selected for the lash. ,, The prisonor after being stripped to the waist, * was mado to stand handcuffed to the bare of a door in the jail. One of the > deputies counted the strokes while the Sheriff laid them on with ? force and in quick succession. During tho whipping the prisoner writhed repeatedly, and savaral moans escaped him. After the last stroke had fallen it was found that a portion of the prisoner's back was covered with ! welts, and his right side, which the end of the strap had lasboa, was badly discolored, and ? in several placss ridges had been raised. ] MANY MILLIONS SAYED, 1 Statement of the Bond Purchases 0 Made by the Government. ^ The United States bond purchases to data ^ cinder the circular of April 17, 1888, were 5152,215,200, and cost the Government $170,- 1 137,529. The $50,675,350 4s purchased cost 1 &72,811,52S, and the S95,539,850 iy~s cost$103,320.000. The following statement of United States bonds purchased from August 3, 1887, to and including July 27,1889, has been made at the Treasury Department: Amtpnr- 4 percent. 4#pi.-sent. Total 1 chased.. $01,741,100 $114,707,430 $170,538,650 3ost 79,153,213.03 124,211,939.60 203,841,252.03 ; 3ost at natality 108,718,486 130,475.783.31 2S9.2&1.222.31 1 Saving.. S9.6ft5.272.97 6,257,696,71 35,922,909,ec 1 a. v.-> , '"J i.: AN AMERICAN PRINCESS, Miss Gwendoline Caldwell la Engaged to Jprince Mnrat. The recent report of the engagement in Paris of Miss Gwendoline Caldwell, of New York city, to Prince Murat, a grandson of Marshal Murat, who was one of the officers of Napoleon I., has been confirmed by a cable dispatch from Miss Caldwell. Miss Caldwell is very well known in New York city, says the Sun, for her gifts to Boman Catholic enterprises. She contributed HISS GWENDOLINE CALDWELL. $800,000 toward the fund to build the proposed Catholic University of America, now Doing built in Washington. Her sister followed this gift up with a donation of $50,000 for her share of the Caldwell estate. The coming American Princess is petite in figure and not so noticeable in social gathering,-s as her sister, Miss Linda. She is fond of travel, and has spent a good deal of time in Europe. When in this country she lives during the summer at the Caldwell villa at Newport. She is at present in Paris with her sister and Miss Donnelly, a relative, who always accompanies them m their travels. Miss Caldwell's mother was a Kentucky belle of the Breckinridge family. Her father was the son of an English theatrical manager, who made a fortune in building gas houses in Chicago. St. Louis and Mobile. A BOYAL WEDDING-. Earl Fife Married to the Princu of Wales's Eldest Daughter. Earl Fife has been duly married to Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales. The ceremony took place in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace, London. This was the first marriage that ever took place in the chapel, which & small, and the number of guests was, therefore, limited. Notwithstanding the rain, the route to the palace was crowded with spectators. There was a vast concourse of people opposite the" palace. The Prince of Wales was enthusiastically cheeked. Upon reaching the chapel the Queen was escorted to the seat prepared for her, while the other royal personages took seats on either side of the altar. The Earl of Fife, accompanied by his groomsman, Mr. Horace Farqahar, took his position at the altar rails and awaited the coming of his bride. The Prince of Wales, with the bride and Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales, and members of the household, arrived at the palace just before noon. Thoy wore received by the Lord Steward and conducted to the Bow Library, where the bride was joined bv the bridesmaids, who were Princesses Victoria and Maud, of Wales, Princess Louise, of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Victoria,of Teck, Countess Feodoro Gleichen, Countess Victoria Gleichen and Countess Helena Glexchen. The clergymen officiating were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Dean of Windsor, aomestic chaplain to the Queen; the Rev. F. A. J. Hervey, domestic chaplain to the Prince of Wales, and the Eev. T. Teignmouth Shore. A choral service was sung by the choir of the Chapel Royal St. James. A feature of the service waB the singing of a special anthem, entitled "A Perfect Love," composed by Mr. Joseph Baraaby. After the benediction had been pronounced the Queen kissed the bride ana cordially greeted the groom. On arriving at Sheen House the newly wedded pair were enthusiastically welcomed. They passed between files of Venetian masts doccrated with floral festoons. The path was covered with carpet, upon which wild flowers were strewn by girls dressed in white. Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra Daglnar is the eldest daughter and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her Royal Highness was born at Marlborough House on February 20, 1867, and is a Lady of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India. The Earl of Fife (Alexander William George Duff) and Baron Skene, of Skene, in the United Kingdom, Viscount Macduff and Baron Brnco, of Kilbryde, County Cavmn, in Ireland, was born on jmo vera dot iu, iwm#. ne succeeded his father (James, the fifth Earl) on August 7, 1879, and was created an Earl of the United Kingdom in 1885. BOULANGER'S FALL. France's Whilom Idol Meets a Crushing Defeat at the Foils. Returns from the elections in France for Councils-General had been received from L195 cantons on the day after the election, rhe Republicans have been successful in 748, ;he Conservatives in 419 and the Boulangists in 12. There will have to be second ballots in 149 cantons. The defeat of Boulanger was more crushing and complete than even the most sanguine followers of the Government had anticipated. The most rabid adherents of the General admit that he has ceased to be a power in French politics. They are endeavoring to discover the muse for the revulsion of public feeling. It is agreed on all sides that had Boulanger stood his ground and submitted bo trial the result would have been Ear different. There is no doubt that the flight of Boulanger was looked upon by the masses as little snort of cowardice, especially so in the case of one whose whole political capital consisted of his supposed oravery and disregard for personal langer. PROMINENT PEOPLE. o a tmtv a t. Manwisg is eiehtv-one vears of geQueen Victoria's health is said to be failng. President Harrison, it is said, smokes a ozen cigars a day. Marshal MacMahon, of France, is now a his eighty-first year. Princess Victoria, of Teck, is said to be he belle of the British royal family. Frederick Douglass, the colored orator nd Minister to Hayti, is worth $800,000. John Ttler, son and private secretary of 'resident Tyler, still lives at Washington. Buffalo Bill's social success in Paris leases hiui rvore than his financial success. Ex-King Milan, of Servia, is expected hortly in Paris, where ho intends to reside. Bill Nte's income from his humorous writing and lecturing amounts to nearly $40,00 a year. Lucas Silva, who was a doctor in the in- j [ependcnce army of Bolivia, has reached his 20th year. The King of Greece will probably be the mly European sovereign to visit the Paris Exhibition. The youngest college professor occupying | ;he full chair of an important school in any i American institution of standing is believed :o be W. ILBocock, whoisnowinhistwenfcyifth year and ha3 just been elected to the hairs of both Greek and Latin in the University of Georgia. General Sherman and party recently ascended to the top of Pike's Poak in Colorado. While the carriage was being loaded a photographer attempted to take a picture of aim, but the General turned his back, with the remark that photographers were a nuisance. On the top of the peak the General i sat on a rock and ate a cheese sandwich, 1 while the others clustered around him ana ! related reminiscences. A DELUGE IN CHICAGO. The Most Terrific Storm that Ever Occurred There. Nearly a Score of Lives Lost and . Much Property Destroyed, One of the fiercest storms of recent years . burst over Chicago, 111., at 6 o'clock in the ; evening. The day had been sultry, with scarcely any wind. When the sun went ' down liie sky became overcast with greenish clouds, and darkness came on with incredible speed. Shortly after 0 o'clock rain be- j gan falling in torrents. Great streams of water pourred into the basements, driving ' hundreds of people into the streets and ruin- < lng an immenso amount of property stored in the down town stores. The electrical display was appalling. Scores of objects < were struck by lightning, and the roar of the thunder was deafening. Seven alarms of fire were rung within fifteen minutes. The water poured into the Lasalle street tunnel in such volume that passengers on the i cable cars were compelled to stand upon the i Beats. In the southwestern portion of the i city it is estimated that 1000 persons were \ driven from their homes. The Wisconsin Central tracks wore submerged, the water being so deep on the tracks that it entered the nxa boxes of the locomotives. The signal service officer said that a suo* i cession of thunder storms had swept over the M4rrr TVjatT noma frnm f.ViA "WVxrfc nnH Pflrh was mora severe than its predecessor. At 9 o'clock the water was falling in blinding sheets, with an almost continual roar of thunder. Some of the big down-town gas mains were flooded, and many merchants did business by the aid of candles and lamps. On the west side buildings were demolished, trees uprooted and entire sidewalks disappeared. Garfield Park was almost bereft of foliaeo. There the wind devastated a path of 400 feet in -width. Four new brick buildings at Rockwell and Sixteenth streets were demolished, and two men who had sought refuge in the doorways were crushed to death in the wreck. Two large brick buildings on Twenty-first street 'Xillansed, fell on adjoining cottages and ' killed seven people, besides injuring six others. Two families were almost obliterated in this disaster. James Lusk's cottage on Fifteenth street was blown to pieces, but the family miraculously escaped death. It rained for three hours, and the clImaT camo at 8:45, when all elements united and the very foundations of the city were shaken. Water poured into every basement and drove thousands of poor people into the street. In the police stations prisoners were compelled to ding to the bars to escape t drowning. The fins in the Palmer and the Grand Pacific were extinguished. Three feet of water flooded the Clifton House basement, j At the Chicago Opera House much of the ; "Blue Beard" scenery was ruined. Panics were narrowly averted in the theatres where the electric lights ceased to burn. Whole blocks beyond Western avenue were under water and the wooden sidewalks floated like rafts. Both the cable railways were completely paralyzed and in theLasalle street tunnel was a surging stream. Hinman street officers saved Mrs. Chepeks and six children in a basement by plunging into four feet of water. Officer Thomas Dorgan was dangerously injured by electrical discharge and Maggie Austin was rescued from a current on Lake street. Scores of instances were reported next day of casualties mainly by lightning, and a num ber of the victims cannot recover. John Hayes's house on Oakley avenue was demolished and one son fatally hurt, three persons being very seriously injured. Ernest Blocter was Trilled on Sixty-sixth street. Fires were innumerable, and #?0,000 damages resulted from that cause. , Off at Hammond three great packing houses succumbed to flames, caused by lightning. The police report fourteen persons dead and twenty-five injured, three of them fatally. In the Chicago Tribwie office the stereotypers worked in water to thoir waiste. So much sewage was returned from the river by the back current that the Health Commissioner advised the boiling of water before drinking. The pecuniary loss was estimated at $1,009,000. The records of the local signal service station show nothing approaching the deluge. Prom 6:80 to 9:80 4 12-100 inches of rain fell. Without going into figures it may be stated that the volume of water which fell inside ol the city limits would make a lake on which could be floated the greatest navy in the world. It was impossible to estimate the damage with any degree of accuracy. Hardly a house in the city escaped the fury of the storm. THE QTTEBNAL REVENUE. A Total of $130,890,482 Collected During the liast Fiscal Year. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mason has made the following preliminary report of the operations of the internal revenue service for the fiscal year ended June 30 last: . The total collections for the fiscal year just ended were $180,895,433, against $124,326,475 the previous year, an increase of $6,568,057. The cost of collection for the fiscal year just ended will aggregate about $4,185,<)00, exclusive of the amount expended for the printing of internal revenue stamps, whicn is paid from the appropriation, made to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The total receipts from the different objects of taxation during the last fiscal year were as follows: Prom spirits, $74,313,300, an increase of $5,007,039 * over the previous fiscal year; from tobacco, $31,866,880, an ir crease of $1,204,429; from fermented liquors, $23,723,835, an increase of $899,617; from oleomargarine, 3894,248, an increase of $30,108; from banks and bankers, $6214, an increase of $2011, and from miscellaneous, $91,069, a decrease of $74,248. Tho-following table shows the aggregate collections of internal revenue by States dur* lng the last fiscal year: Alabama.... $92,762 Missouri....$7,730,603 Arkansas.... 120,719 Montana.... 162,640 California.. 2,097,013 Nebraska... 2,248,624 Colorado.... 294,116 N.Hampsh'e 469,851 Connecticut. 785,714 Now Jersey. 4,319,618 Florida 424,083 Now Mexico 59,063 Georgia 430,119 Now York..15,048,675 Illinois 31,007,419 N.Carolina. 2,467,150 Indiana.... 5,788,236 Ohio 11,566,726 Iowa 392,576 Oregon 226,524 Kansas.183,432 P'nsylvania. 8,520,793 Kentucky.. 16,910,814 S.Carolina. 81,722 Louisiana.. 632,009 Tennessee... 1,066,335 Maryland.,. 3,986,928 Texas 228,117 Massachut's 2,424,536 Virginia.... 3,303,62f> Michigan.... 1,962,397 W. Virginia 782,663 Minnesota.. 1.877.796 Wisconsin.. 3.096,495 IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Merchandise Passing Through Our tjusiom nouics uaai< J. uvm JL ?u. The value of imports of merchandise during the last fiscal year amounted to $745,127,470 and of exports to $742,401,799, an excess of imports over exports of $2,725,677. Of our exports the value of domestic merchandise was $730,282,606 and the value of foreign merchandise $12,119,193. The total value of imports and exporls of merchandise was $1,487,529,275, as against $1,419,911,621 during the fiscal year 18JS8, ea increase of $67,617,654. The value of imports of merchandise amounted to $745,127,476, as against $723,957,114 during the fiscal year 1888, an Increase of $21,170,362. The exports of merchandise amounted to $742,401,799, as against $695,954,507 during the fiscal year 1883, an increase of $46,447,292. The value of exports of merchandise during the last fiscal year wa3 larger than during 1 any other year since 1883, and was only exceeded by the exports of 1881, 1882 and 18S3. 1 The value of imports of merchandise during the last fiscal year was the largest in the history o? our commerce, being larger than in i the year 1SS2, when it amounted to $724,639,- i 574. _ i The mackerel season of the Atlantic coast has been very unsatisfactory thus far. The 1 fish have not "schooled" near the New Eng- 1 J and shore as yet, and very few of them have 1 "been taken. The consequence is that Ireland is shipping a great many mackerel to this 1 counter, the fish being unusually plentiful i on that coast. The sardine pack is also very < light and altogether the fishing season Is not < prosperous, . i r :. ....... , I ' - V. ??? r ? HONEY BEE KEEPEBS. j A Litigation Taken Up by the National Association. Among the *iriifain down re*, cently at the adjourned General Term of fcheFonrth Judicial Department, New York;' was One of eztraordisaFy interest and im? portance to thekeepers of boneybees throughout the country. The litigation is entirely novel in its features, and arose under the following firyrrm etjinrvx. John M. Olmstead and Robert 8. Bich have fine residence* about fifty feet apart in the village of Hobart, Delaware County, N. Y. Olmstead is a banker, and Bicb is one oC the largest bee keepers and honey producers In the country, he haying over 150 gwanna . in his apiaries. About twenty of time swarms were kept in the recur of Rich'a -. bouse, and were therefore in clofa 1 proximity to . Booker Olmstead's dwel-j Sing. In July,. 1887, Banker Olmstoack served a notice upon Rich, alleging that the' tatter's bees were a nuisance and requiring; him to remove the twenty mves from the place where they were kept to some other point where they would cease to be an annoyance. Rich paid, no attention to the warning, and thereupon Banker Ohnstead . brought an action in the Supreme Court against the bee keeper, asking $1200 in damages for the annoyances already suffered and for an injunction restraining the defendant from keeping his bees in offensive* proximity to the plaintiffs dwelling. The case came on for trial at the October. term of the Dataware County Circuit, at Delhi, before Jnstiee Douglass Bo&rdman and a jury. The National Bee Keepers' Asuocia/ tion, of which organization Mr. Rich ia a member,recognising the far-reaching, impart- ". anceof the case to the Interest it ropreseota" ?' took up the defense of the alleged insect tree? passers. On behalf of Banker Olmsteid it was claimed that defendant's bee* were vicious and offensive insectL which had caused his household great pain and annoyance by attacking and stinging any member who ventured out) of doors, and had also annoyed and injured his horses and pet stock. The defense pleaded a general denial of the alleged trespasses, and also claimed that even if the trespasses had been committed as charged, itwaa impossible for the other side to identify the . defendant's bees out of the countless swarms Kept m uie ntugnuuruuiju tut u? actual marauders. Much testimony was given pro and coo, the trial lasting several days exerting ereat interest among the bee keepers of Gengal New York. Ale couraTfought? case vigorously on both sides. The outcome of the trial was that the jury found, that the marauders came from the Rich hives^' and that his apiary was a nuisance adcharged, and awarded the plaintiff 9 cents damages and costs. Thereupon the court issued a permanent injunction restraining. ~ the defendant from further matotimBE nuisance to the annoyance of the plalritiffj The defendant appealed from thfa judgment to the General Term, which now hands down)' a decision affirming the verdict of the court below, with costs. Itis understood that the National Bee Keepers' Association will continue the fight by a further appeal to the court of last resort : ; WEST TIBGINIA FLOODS. i I v. . < y . Details of the Disastrous Freshet on the little Kanawha. Farther details of disastrous flood fit Wirt County, W.Va., have beenreceived. Thomas Hughes, his wife and two children .'wars drowned. r Thomas Blade, who lived close to the Hughes family, and who was drowned with his wife, had wit recently been married. A circus was showing on Tucker Creek when the cloudburst struck that section. , The flood struck the show jusfr after the performance began and tore the-canvas and paraphernalia to atoms, utterly wrecking and ruining the whole ooncera, carrying off ) horses, wagons and tents. Miga d'AIma, who . performed on the trapeze, was drowned. Borne employes also lost their lives. Saulsbury, on the Big Tigart River, is virtually wiped out of existence. Telephone reports show that, there was a t terrible rain and flood in the upper waters Of the uttie Jtuuawno. uungun mu devastated, and crops, fences end houses w?e washed ww*y during the nirht. Several lives were reported lost The river at Grantevflle -was reported tobefltteen feet high. Bear Bon,' Kitchia : County, suffered terribly. Tho loss is r*> ported as not less than-1660. OOP. THE LABOB VQBLD. Wood-oabvxbs are enjoying good tiroes. 1 | The strike of the Berlin bakers has colli lapsed. The Federation of Labor hastened anfighf H hour primer. SB Thz strike fever appears to have spreads# H over the central portion of Enjrope. B The custom of provid ing sick relief fund^ I Is on the increase with trades unions. M A mw gun factory isto be started In Fta*} | enca, Mass., to employ about 400 men. ~ Mayor Habt, of Florence, Maw, has ajn B propria ted $1000 for sports on Labor-Bay. These are 172,000 persons engaged in tho I manufacture of cotton goods in this conn try j H About two-thirds of the States now haw I bureaus for the collection of industrial stait I tistics. M Thohjls Mattisoh, a iionaon coacnmzuterj M has written a treatise on the coaching oTap? prentices. 9 James G. Blaine, Jr., son of the Secretary fl of State, is now a fireman on a Maine Cew I tral locomotive. I In Russia then are sixty-seven fl spinning mills, employing an aggregate ol B 115,000,000 spindles. K Strikes of one kind and another arc ep? B demic in England and Scotland on both a ~H large and a small scale. A movement is on foot for the formation H of a national organization of the alo and I porter brewery employes. BRTfTTTT, Ayr.na in ^iffarant parte nf 'Rngfoti^ H have lately received an advance in wages ol fl one to two cents per honr. ag The head roller fix a Pittsburg iron mil] H makes fifty dollars per day, and his family II rides behind a spanking team.' II A roreign company representing capital. II amounting to $10,000,000 is to establish an II iron and steel plant at San Francisco. lfl The New flnpinnh Boot and Shoe Lasterrf Union, which was organized in December, H 1879, now has a membership of 10,000. 9| Mr. R. Bellctgham has just retired from H engine-driving on the Great Northern Kail way (England), after forty years' service. The board of public works and city conn* fl til of Cincinnati nave adopted the eight-houii H day for city laborers, with no reduction ol! fl pay. Reports from builders in the large cities . H and small towns show that housebuilding fl was never more active than it is so far in K Mr. Powderly, of the Ejiights of Labor,' I considers eight hours a day too long to work; and inclines to Bon Franklin's four-hour New Haves (Conn.) plumbers now worW I eight hours a day for three months of the year, and nine hours a day for the remaining nine months. ' H The New York State labor appropriation H for this year allows $15,000 for the Board ofj Arbitration, $30,000 for facto it inspection,; and ?30,000 for the Bureau of Labor Statis- H In New England the Saturday half-holiday H movement is growing rapidly. Almost all ofi H the largo manufacturing concerns in Massa-; H chasetts and ilaine have adopted its praci H In Sahl, Germany, and other places where! H the manufacture of military arms is a H specialty, the men take work home, and their MR wives and children assist them sixteen or* H eighteen hours a day. | H The American Federation of Labor is H pledged to strive to secure the adoption by H all the States of laws prohibiting the employ oient of children under fourteen years of aga H in factories, mines or workshops. B In Stoverstown, a village in Yorkshire,! H England, there is a society of women barb?rsj H numbering six members, and in Seavilleu H about five miles from the village, a kindred' society of five buxom women barbers. The Italian laborers are largely given to H the quaffing of sarsaparilla and ether light H non-intoxicating beverages in tho hot season; B if the year. Comparatively few of them in-< H| lulge in beer or other ulcoholic liqucn; while* H it work. _ v . _J