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The Terrible Fire That Destroyed
the Steamer Egypt.
Awful Suffering and Death of the
640 Cattle on Board.
A cablegram from London, England, give?
the following particulars of the destruction
by Are at sea of tlu National lino steamer
Egypt: The steamer Manhattan, having on
board the survivors of the wrecked Egypt,
has arrived at Dover. The statement
of the survivors of the Egypt
gives the story of that vessel's terrible
accident in mid-ocean. The ship sailed from
Ne*- York cn July 9, and lay to in the Narrows
until the "next day awaiting the
arrival of G40 head of cattle. On Thursday
an alarm of fire was raised,
and it was discovered that flames wore
bursting forth from the starboard side
of the steamer. The first alarm was given
between 10 and 11 o'clock in the evening,
and every effort was immediately made
to Keep the fire down. Every man" of the
crew ind the cattle attendants was summoned
on deck, the steam pumps were forced,
and in addition to them steam was turned
into the hold by means of boilers with
auxiliary pipes attached.
Despite these more than ordinary efforts
the fire gained with marvelous rapidity,
and so furious were the flames that the
metal of the vessel became heated to such
an extent that the paint curled from
its foundation and * laid like strips
of paper on tho deck and blew off
upon the water. The engine rooms were so
hot that the men were driven for safety to
the open air, rehiring every few moments
only to find the water thrown up by the
' pumps rising rapidly and the flames unabated.
At 3 o'clock in the morning the water la
the engine room was knee deep, and the fire
had made such headway that all hands were
driven from below and were unable to re^^urn.
The deck, notwithstanding the con
?tant flood of water flowing over it, very
> shortly became almost unbearable, and the
men wore driven to the small boats, convinced
that farther attempts at saving the vessel
would be useless.
When the last small boat left, the Egypt
was a mass of flames, which rose high Into
the air, climbing about" the tall masts, leaping
from every port, and lighting the sea for
miles. As the Captain's gig left the side of
the ship the foremast plunged into the ocean.
The position of the crew and cattlemen
was still dangerous, for the boats had been
In the water but a short time when it was
found they leaked badly, and it required
constant exertion to bail them
out. Fortunately at about 6 o'clock
in the morning the German ship
Gustav Oscar, bound from Bremen to New
York, was sighted and took the men aboard,
transf erring them later iD the same day to
the tank steamer Manhattan, carrying a
cargo of powder and bound from New York
to Hull.
Captain 3umner of the Egyut was almost
blinded by the terrific smoke and the intolerable
heat, and for three days after being
rescued he was sightless.
There were 640 head of cattle on the Egypt,
and all were either burned to death or,
breaking loose ani plunging overboard,
were drowned.
About 337 of these were between decks, the
balance of the WO were on deck.
The crew partially succeeded in jettisoning
the cotton, but the flames rolled steadily upward,
increasing in volume and strength, until
the whole interior became a furnace unapproachable
by man, and which speedily
put an end to "the sufferings of the poor
brutes confined below.
But the horrors to which the cattle on
deck were subjected aroused the sympathy
of the men even in the midst of their own
peril.
Thosa cattle that were lightly tethered
broke loose, and, maddened by the
beat, they leaped into the sea, while those
nlore securely tied remained pulling and
^dragging at their halters until, envel^5ped
in the flames, they fell through the
charred deck into the holJ beneath. Nothing
could be done to relieve them, or
even to alleviate their terrible sufferings.
Their bellowings were heard above
every other sound, and even hours
later, when the Manhattan passed
over the course the wrecked steamer
had taken, a hundred or more cattle were
seen swimming in the sea, using every effort
*? tvtienwTT f/\ eown fHoir 1 i X7CK nn.'l
making toward any craft they espied oil the
swelling bosom of the ocean.
"When last seen the Egypt was drifting
ilowly toward the horizoD, a sheet of fire,
rhe roaring of the flames and the heartrending
bellowing of more than a half
thousand cattle died gradually away
In the distance, growing less distinct
svery moment, until nothing remained
in sight excepting the slight glimmer that to
the wrecked men seemed to be sinking
slowly into the sea.
According to an official statement the fire
occurred 11U0 miles from Laud's End.
A FAMILY BURNED.
Incendiaries Set Fire to the l?ev.
David Plumb's House at Coles, Ind.
Incendiaries set fire to the residence of tha
Rev. David Plumb, at Coles, Ind., a short
distance across the river from Louisville,
Cv.. at an early hour in the morning.
ilrs. Plumb and three children were burned
to death, and Mr. Plumb was so badly burned
ihat he soon died.
THE LABOB WORLD.
Cotton manufacturing is beginning on an
extensive scale in Japan.
. The average earnings per year of wage
levorkers in Massachusetts is 5419.
Detroit (Mich.) electic light company
PEsures tho lives of its employes for $5000
?ach.
The builders' strike at Hamburg, Germany,
has ended in tho surrender of the
men.
Is many localities in the Southern States
a ton of besseaier pis-iron can be produced
Xor ?8.50.
Organized Inbor in Nebraska has determined
to take independent political action
this fall.
The social democrats of Germany are
doing their best to organize the workin^nf
Rurlin.
The largo number of 2G3 Unites
railroad companies retain in their service
permanently disabled employes.
"Wages in the more important trades over
the continent of Europe have increased since
1320 from thirty-five to fifty per cent.
There is a large technical school in Tokio,
Japan, and the Government is doing its best
to instruct the people In all mechauical arts.
The largest trade union is that of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel
"Workers, which is now said to number 55,000
" members.
There is a bill before Congress called the |
Vacation bill, which allows postofllce clerks
.fifteen days'leave of absence with full pay
eaca year.
Over a thousand waiters in St. Louis Mo.,
have struck. They want ?30 a month, a contract
for a year and the employment of nono
but union men.
In London, England, wages in tha tailoring
trade are only about half of those in
Fans, where worneu are happy to earn rroaa
fifty cents to eighty cents a aay.
Statistics compiled by the factory inspector
of Baden, Germany, show that the
rate of mortality among the children of
cigarmakers is as high a3 forty-eight per
cent.
Up to last year miners worked twelve
hours a day in New South Wales and seven
-flours in tne North of England, yet coal at
1 the former cost twenty-five per cent, more
to raise to the pit's mouth.
There is an extraordinary rush of orders
at locomotive works, car works, and at ship
and boat vards. The mills supplying iron
and steel for ships and boats will be crowded
with work up to the end of the year.
Woken in London sew shirts for fourteen
cents to sixteen cents a dozen. finding their
'own cotton and paying thirty-six cents a
week rent for the machines. By hard work
* woman can make two dozen shirts a day.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern ami Middle States.
Trrr 2^, 000 striking cloak op?rators nn 1
?ontraeiors and the manufacturers in New
York city havj agree I upon a settlement, |
and the men bare gone back to work.
The village of Earlville in Madison County,
N". Y., was partially destroyed by fir?. Tiio
?ntire business portion, including the opera
louse, was burned.
Domimf. Jacobs, a patient at tin State
insane Asylum, at Providence, Ft. I., got at
i plate of black fly paper. Ha drank the
poisonous water and tnea ate the paper, dying
in thirty minutes.
Two men were killed by the explosion of
powder in the corning mill of Laflin & Rand,
Mountain View, N. J.
Heavy rains have been falling, and the
irought that threatened Connecticut crops
.s broken.
Frederick Douglass, United States
Minister to Hayt:, returned to New York on
a leave of absence.
Governor Abbett received the officers
ind guests of the Second New Jersey Brigade
1. n:-*. v T
in camp as oeu win, .1. ? .
Mrs. Dexnis Hayes, of Albany, N. Y.,
thirty-eight years old, the mother of seven
shiJdren, burled her youngest child, age J
eighteen months, into the Normanskiil Creelc,
and then threw herself into the water. Both
bodies were recovered.
At Wo!cottville, 5". Y., a lunatic named
Yago beat Poormaster Scbultz so severely
witn a shovel and an axe that Schultz died
in the evening.
The cruiser Philadelphia went formally
into commission at Mares' Island, Philadelphia,
and is now a vessel of war of the
United States. Charles H. Cramp, senior 1
memherofthe firm of William Cramp & !
Sons, made the presentation speech, and the
vessel was received in the name of the Government
by Captain Robert L. Bradford,
her commander.
^^ oatTflnfaan
VilAtvuba J?, xnajirou.i, oo? tuwwu,
was killed with a tablefork, ia Philadelphia,
Penn., by his fourteen-year-old brother
whom he was teasing.
The Squadron of Evolution, the finest fleet
of war vessels ever sent by the United States
Government to the ports of the principal nations,
returned home and anchored in the
harbor of New York. They were the Chicago,
Boston and Atlanta. The Yorktown
had returned alone some time ago. The last
run of the fleet was from Brazil.
The United States steamer Despatch arrived
at New London, Conn., with Secretary
Tracy on board, who is making a tour
of inspection along the coast.
J. E. Ttgerlo & Co., manufacturers oi
fertilizers in Philadelphia, Penn., havt
failed. An estimate places the assets al
?348,000 and liabilities at $317,000.
A max dressed as a workingman appearei
at the rear window of the postofflce in Law.
rence, Mass.. where an addition is building,
* *-t i.. L.u 1 ri
and asxea trie ciqts. tayre to cuiu uus ran ui
a tape line while he made some measurements.
The clerk complied with the request,
and a CDmpanion of the man entered
the money order office and stole ?125.
South and West.
The loss by the washout on the Coloradc
Central Railroad is estimated at ?250,000
The track washed out covers altogether 6
distance of twenty miles. The iron bridgt
at the forks of the creek looks like a bundle
of wire, it has been so taugled up.
The Colorado Midland Railroad has let a
contract to Michael H. Keefe, of Butte,
Montana, for the construction of a tunnel.
It will be 9350 feet long, the third longest ii
the United States, and will cost $1,000,000.
Minnesota Republicans, in convention at
St. Paul, renominated Governor Merriam;
the Republicans of Nebraska, in session at
LincolD, nominated JL D. Richards foi
Governor.
A fire iu Spokano Falls. Washington, de
stroydd property valued at $143,00J.
W. J. Bullard's boarding-hoase at Savannah,
Ga., a threr-story brick dwelling,
was blown up in a mysterious way. Three
persons were Killed and six injured.
Thomas Wilson, colored, was hanged w
Martinsville, Va., for the murder of Jin
Davis. He and Davis quarreled about i
woman.
At Ripon, Cal., the seven-year-old son ol
G. W. Masters, wnile playing with matche*.
set fire to some coal oil and the hous3 was
destroyed. George and Warren, Masters':
sons, and a baby girl perished in the flames
The South Carolina Farmers' Allianc.
Convention at Columbia declared in favor o.
the Sub-Treasury scheme.
At Magazine, Logan County, Ark., Caj>
tain William Ellington and his son, \V. E
Ellington, were killed by W. Mclnturf, a
well-known detective.
James M. Damson, a member of the California
State Assembly from Los Angeles, ha:
been arrested on several charges of forgery
State Senator Benjamin Silver, o:
Baltimore, the son-in-law of the defaulting
Treasurer Archer, died at his home in Belair.
Md., of peritonitis. Mr. Silver was thirty
one years of age.
The village of Bairdstown, Ohio, has beei
almost wiped out by incendiary fires.
St. Paul is indignant, while Minneapolis
is delighted, over the order for a recount ol
the two cities.
The Monitor Plow works at Minneapolis
Minn., were totally destroyed by fire. Loss
?100,0<X).
The crops of South Dakota were reportec
to be withered by excessive heat, and it wa.
feared the sufferings of last year would bi
repeated.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company has mortgaged the jntire systea
to the Central Trust of New Tors foi
$75,000,000.
A freight train on the Southern Pacific
was wrecked at Willsburg, Oregon. A wo
man and her two children were killed.
The business portion of Creighton, Neb.,
has been destroyed by fire.
City Clerk Albert Geohegan*, of Paris,
111., is missing, and his accounts are short
between ?5000 and ?10,001 This amount
was taken from the City Treasury and the
bank with which the city aocouut was kept.
He has been living extravagantly.
Fires along the line of the Santa Fe Railroad,
between Dodge and Great Bend, in
Kansas, have destroyed thousands of acres
| of grass and corn.
The People's Independent Party of Nebraska,
met iu State Convention at Lincoln.
The gathering comprised "over 1K)J delegates.
J. H. Powers.of Hitchcock County, nominated
for Governor.
"Washington.
The Board of Customs Appraisers held a
meeting at the Treasury Departuiant and organized
by unanimously electing Colonel
Tichenor President of the Board.
President Harrison' accompanied by
Postmaster-General Wanarnaker, Secretary
Proctor, Attorney-General Miller, of his
Cabinet, and General Schofleld, visited the
camp of the Pennsylvania National Guarc
at Mount Gretna whare he reviewed the
i U000 troops, including the United States
Army detachment. He returned to Washington
in the afternoon.
The Treasury Department has decided that
natives of Alaska have no right to kill pup
fur seals for food and clothing.
The Federal Election bill has been referred
to the Senate Committee on Privileges and
j Elections.
A fire in Washinorton completely guttel
the carriage manufactory of William Wal|
ter's Son. Loss, $o0,000.
The Secretary of the Interior ordered a
j recount of the population of the cities of St.
Paul and Minneapolis.
The Senate will meet hereafter daily at 11
! k. m. and adjourn about 0 r. m., a resolution
to that effect having been adopted without
opposition.
The President made the following nominations
: To be United States Consuls?John
S. Bradford, of Pennsylvania, at Antigua,
West Indies; and William G. Riley, of Virginia,
at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
Superintendent of Census Porter said
that he hoped to be able to announce officially
within three week3 the total population ol
the United States. The count is being made
at the rate of three and a quarter millions
every twenty-four hours.
Thb President sent a message to Congress,
urging legislation that would enable tha
Postomce Department to close the mails to
lottery companies.
The number of applications for pension
under the act of June 27 which, up io a recent
date, had been received at the Pension
Office approximated 260,000.
.
Foreign. i
The ArgontinJ War Minister has resigaol
and anotner crisis has arisen at Bj3nos
Ayres.
A mob attackc i a number of stores in tin
city of Santiago, the capital of Chili, and
sacked them. The military was called upjn
to quell the disturbance an.l the troops soon
restored order.
A HOHKiBi.fi case of cannibalism is reported
from Cairo, E.^ypt. A colored woman
employed as nurse in a Coptic family,
apparently s?ized with a sudden recurrence
or savage instincts, killed two children of bet
employer and devoured their bodies.
At Oletzko, Austria, lightning struck n
farm house and killed the owner, his wife and
a servant.
r ke.ncii crops nave oeen aevasrateu oy
the heavy rains. The loss in wheat Is estimated
at $100,000,000.
Thirty Arabs wore killed in the recent
fighting at Melilla, Morocco.
A band of Arnauts recently made a night
attack upon the Montenegrin village of Rogmore,
surprising the inhabitants, many of
whom were murdered. Tho Arnauts plundered
the village an 1 left. Afterward the
band was attacked by Turkish troops, and In
the fight which ensued sixty Arnauts were
killed and many others woundel.
War has been formally declared between
San Salvador and Guatemala.
A very severe hail storm visited Einbro.
Canada, literally stripping fields of grain oi
nil Tho Violl ws? qi-> f>r>nln?9 that it
could be scooped up in wagon loads.
The Earl of Jersey has been appcinted
Governor of New South Wales by the British
Gorernment.
At Rosebiyn, Manitoba, two farm or s
named Duncanson and Patterson, wete
overcome by gas in repairing an old well
and both were brought to the surface dead.
The operation performed by Professoi
Fuchs, or Vienna, Austria, on the Shah'i
first wife has proved unsuccsssful, and slu
is now totally blind.
An attempt was made to assassinate President
Barillas of Guatemala.
General Rivas, with 6000 Indians, hai
joined the Salvadorian army.
Two local trains conveying men to wort
on the Manchester (England) Canal came
into collision, and a number of wagons were
thrown over the canal bank. Four m2D
were killed and fifty injured.
The village of Brae, in Switzerland, has
been visited by a very disastrous Are. Many
buildings were destroyed and four women
were killed and many persons were injured.
The United States Consul at Palermo,
Sicily, warns Americans against visiting
there,owing to the resumption of brigandage
in that country.
Focr hundred Armenians were arrested at
Constantinople, Turkey, for complicity in
the recent demonstration against the Patriarch.
Cholera is epidemic in Mecca, Arabia.
There have been thirteen cases, seven of
which were fatal.
An explosion of fire damp occurred in the
Pelissier pit at St. Etienne, France. It is reported
that 130 men were killed and thirtyfive
injured.
REVOLT Df BUENOS AYBES,
The Insurgents in Complete Possession
of the Government.
A cablegram from Buenos Ayres, Argentine
Republic, says: The plot to over*
throw the Government, which hf been sua
pected for some weeks and the existence'
of which has been so many times denied, hug
uku uzu rieu ouu, ana jrresiuenc ur. ouarez
Celtnara i3 a fugitive.
The Tenth Regiment, headed by its officers,
revolted, and the outbreak soon became
general and included the troops in the
garrison. Tho city was garrisoned by 4000
troops ani 8000 armed policemen.
The soldiers at once marched into the
streets and began firing. All the shops were
closed, and the banks and the Bourse soon
shut their doors. The Government, with the
aid of a few loyal soldiers and the police,
tried to isolate the insurgents and desperate
fighting soon resulted.
Many were killed on both sides, but the insurgents
steadily advanced toward the Plaza
de la Victoria, where the President's palaco
and the Town Hall are situated.
A revolutionary government has been announce
1 with Senor Arem as President and
Senor Romero as Minister of Finance, to suoceed
Senor Garcia, who is held a prisoner by
the revolutionists.
President Celmara has declared the whole
Republic in a state of siege. The National
Guard has been called to arms.
Five more battalions of the marine arsenal
and part of the artillery have declared
in favor of the revolutionists. The postal
and telegraph offices are surrounded by
soldiers.
The revolutionists claim they have completely
triumphed. TheGovernorof Bueno3
Ayres is seriously wounded.
President Celmara embarked from the
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\ i uu ijucuu. kjx. a
foreign ship. The Governor of Cordova,
brother of toe President, also escaped.
The revolutionists liberated General
Manuel J. Campos, who was awaiting trial,
and who has now placed himself at the head
of the revolutionary party.
A policeman in mere wantonness split an
Englishman's head open with his sabre, and
a bystander shot the policeman down.
In the afternoon the revolutioniry Government
issued its first decree. This ordered
the mobilization of the National Guard and
appointed Nicolas Menales Chief of Police.
At five o'clock in the afternoon two attacks
were made by the Government troops
oa citizen battalions.
The troops were repulsed both times. Policemen
and artillerymen are lying dead in
heaps.
The Cbief of Police, Capde Vila, is
wounded. The Minister of War is reported
killed. Sharp fighting continues around the
artillery barracks.
The losses on both sides were heavy. Many
buildings were destroyed. The navy remains
neutral. Senor Pellegrini, the Vice
President, has assumed the Presidencv.
Buenos Ayres Bombarded.
A second cablegram from the seat of hostilities
in the Argentine Republic gave the
following particulars: The revolutionarymovement
continued to spread, and the fighting
between the Government troops and the
rebels was soon resumed and a desperate
struggle followed.
The Government forces wore defeated and
1000 of them were killed or wounds 1. The
insurgent army boaibarde 1 the Government
House and the barracks in Buenos Ayres.
The offiners of the navy, after long hesitation
ami seeing that the success of tha revolution
seemed assured, joined the insurI
gents. The guns of the ships were at once
trained on the loyalist strongholds and after
some parleying a bombardment began.
This action so alarmed the Government
that a truce was at once declared and an
armistice of twenty-four hours arrangedRIOT
IN CONSTANTINOPLE,
The Greek Patriarch Maltreated, and
Soldiers and Kioters Killed.
A larcracrowi of Armenians eathered iu
the Armenian cathedral in Constantinople,
Turkey, for the purpose of remonstrating
with the Patriarch of the church for his
weak action toward the Porte regarding the
outrages perpetrated by Turks in Armenia,
and to demand his resignation. One of the
crowd mounted a chair in the cathedral and
demanded that the Patriarch explain the
events that had occurred at Erzeroum and
the position of affairs in Armenia.
Tho Patriarch protested against the action
of the mob and declared that the sacred edifice
was not a place for such a demonstration.
This answer to their demand exasperated the
mob and they rushed upon the Patriarch,
dragged him from the pulpit and otherwise
maltreated hi in.
Military assistance v/as asked for to quell
the disturbance. A body of Turkish troops
was sent to restore order, but when they entered
the cathedral and tried to clear the
building they met with desperate resistance.
The mob was armed with revolvers and
spiked staves, and a bloody conflict ensued
between them and the troops.
Four of the soldiers and three of the rioters
were killed and others were injured before
the mob were driven from the building.
Martial law has been proclaimed in the
Kroom quarter, which is patroled by
cavalry.
There is a good reason for believing that
the present disturbance among the Armen- '
of Constantinople has been fomented by
Russian agents and Is part of a general plan j
In order to bring on a war.
A GIFT OF $4,000,000.
Tlie World's Contribution to
the Johnstown Sufferers.
How the Greatest Charity Ever
Known Has Been Distributed.
The most magnificent charity fund ever
contributed in the world's history was tho
Johnstown (Penn.) relief fund of over
$4,000,000, an account of the distribution of
which is now published for tho first time in
full.
The report of Secretary Kramer, of tho
Flood Relief Commission, appointed to distribute
tho fluids, is very interesting. Mr.
Kramer gives a brief sketch of the destruction
wrought by the flood aud the incidents
leading up to the organization of the commission.
He states that there was distributed
by the commission iu the eastern part of
Pennsylvania, outsid9 of Cambria county,
?241,408.58 in cash and $50(36.63 in supplies.
In these eastern districts seventy-eight percnnq
were drowned, a correct list of tuflm
being furnished by the commission.
The total cash contributions to the euf
ferers, so far as the commission ha3 been
able to obtain information, amounts to
$4,116,801.48. Mention is made of tho work
at Johnstown under General Hastings, of
the commissary and clothing departments,
shelter, aid societies, the care of the sick
and injured, burial of tho dead, general
relief and the drowuetl. Regarding the
drowned Mr. Kramer says the most careful
investigation, continued to the present
time, shows the number to have been 2143.
Ninety-nine families, numbering from two
to ten members each, wero entirely washed
away. Of flood widows there are 134, and
198 widowers. The orphans and half-orphans
reach tho number of 5(J5. There wero found
and identified 1115, found and not identified
636, missing 391.
Various plans were proposed to the commission
regarding the distribution of tho
fund, all based on information more or les3
accurate, 'and all providing for giving a
specific sum to each of certain persons, by
classes, regardless of loss and based only on
their necessities, and a percentage on tho
property loss of others, arranged also by
classes.
This general system of classification was
adopted and kept in view all through the
worli, but it was found that there were so
many cases in each class that required exceptional
consideration that it finally became
to a large extent an adjustment in each
case, based upon many and important con
siderations. Tho opinions of the members I
of the commission, and of those active in the |
work, were modified by experience, and
while the general principles were maintained,
the details were changed several times, but
as each change was to the advantage of the
more helpless part of the community, criticism
of delay occasioned was disarmed on
the 8th of July.
The sum of $10 per capita was paid each
person who had suffered loss by the flood.
A board of inquiry, consisting of Johnstown
citizens, classified the sufferers into six
classes, the first three being based on their
necessities only and the last three on their
losses. On the first distribution, ?41C,4?2
were paid out. As in the distribution of
the $10 per capita, so it was found that
many persons by the payment made under
the first distribution had received as large a
proportion of the fund as was required by
their circumstances, and to such no further
payment was made. At a meeting of the
commission held on September 13, an appropriation
of $1,600,000 was made for distribution
in the Conemaugh Valley, a fixed proportion
being designated for the several dasscj.
This is known as the final distribution. The
number of statements on file amounted to
1 ?1 A10.VI n COAT.
WJ"?y. LIB Si l rect'jvcu ci-iw uacii, uiu-vj .-.'w
each; class 3, $300 each; class 4, nil average
of 30 per cent., and class 5, about ten per
cent, of their respective losses. To class 6 no
payment was made, because it was not
necessary. The Johnstown board of inquiry
subsequently revised this work, reducing the
amounts to some extent, but not materially.
The amount received by ths widows was
$1S3,2S1, and the sum of $109,500 has been set
aside lor their children. For the care of
children made orphans by the flood $119,G16.SS
has been set aside
The amount of loss in the Conemaugh
Valley, as sworn to by claimants, reached
the sum of $9,074,105, added to this the loss
on corporate, church and borough property
of $2,107,500 runs the total up to $11,671,605.
A lengthy statement is then made of the
amount received by each individual, making
a total of $2,378,285. Mr. Kramer says that
the labor involved in deciding the claims
and awarding amounts was very great, and
was attended with many difficulties. Tne
sworn statements of a number of cases werefound
to be utterly unreliable because of theexaggerated
values given in them, and with
all the care taken mistakes have doubtless
been made because of an improper presentation
of circumstances.
The receipts of the committee were as
follows: From Governor Beaver, $1,236,140.45;
from the Philadelphia Relief Committee,
$600,000; from the Pittsburg
Rplinf fommit.tpp ?500.000; from the New
York Relief Committee,?516, iy?.8o?a total of
$2,912,346.30. Tho expenditures in the |
Conemaugh Valley were $2,592,036.68; in the
State outfide of the Conemaugh Valley,
$246,475.26; general and office expenses,
$5,i2S.S9, or a total of $2,845,140. S3. Tho
commission has $67,205.47 cash in its hands.
Attached to the report is an appendix showing
that contributions came from forty-six
States and Territories and fourteen foreign
countries.
A MINING TOWN BURNED,
Fifteen Hundred Persons Made
Homeless by a Fire in Idaho.
The town of Wallace, Idaho, has been
burned, and only two buildings were saved,
and those were the railroad stations. The
loss will probably be $200,000. The fire
started in a saloon. The high wind carrisd
the flames to the adjoining buildings, all of
which were frame. The water facilities
were good, but the firemen could not chock
the progress of tho flames.
The following leading business houses have
been burned; Holly, Mason, Marks & Co.,
the PostofHce Building, the Heller House,
White & Bender, general storo of MeElroy
? ? - ' xr , ru ni P r.
cc voacier, mc^uu o. mvoio, ioiopuvuu ?
change, Joseph Carlson, J. C. McCurJy,
Carter House, Club Theatre, with a score of
saloons, restaurants, offices, etc.
A private despatch said that 1500 people
were homeless. Wallace is the leading
mining town of Coeur d'Aleuo district aud
will undoubtedly be rebuilt.
EXCURSIONISTS PERISH.
Eight Persons Drowned anil a Score
Injured Near Baltimore, Md.
The steamer Virginia collided with the
steamer Louise between Steelton and Fort
Carroll, near Baltimore, >Id., and at least
sight of the Louise's passengers were killed
while a number of others were seriously injured.
The Virginia is blamed by the passenger*
on the Louise. The latter is an excursion boat
and was on her way up from Tolchester with
about fifteen hundrei people. Just after
passing Fort Carroll she met the Virginia on
tier way from the city to Norfolk.
The Virginia was espected to
t-hft but instead the bi?
vessel carue along head on and struck
the excursion boat near the wheelhouse,
tearing out the entire side leaving a
hole eight feet deep, through which the
water poured as the Virginia pulled out. It
was reported that a number fell overboard.
The greater number were hurt by the flying
splinters.
THREE MEN KILLED.
A. Complication ot Fatal Accidents
Follows a Collision.
An express train on the West Pennsylvania
Railroad struck a two-horse team and driver
at a crossing near Herr'3 station, Pena. The
driver and horses were killed instantly.
A gang of laborers who were constructing
a sewer at the roadside became so frightened
at the accident that they let go their bold on
a large cast iron pipe.
The pipe fell into the ditch upon two men,
killing one and fatally injuring the other.
fifty-hbstjSSIHH
In the Senate.
lfrlrrt Day.?Tlio Indian Appropriati^W
bill was passed... .Mr. Sherman introduced
n hill to incorporate the Red Cross Society,
with Clara Barton, George Kennau, J. 8.
Hubbell, M. D., and others as its incorporators.
.. .Mr. Morgan introduced a bill to fix
the limit of value and to provide for the free
coinage of silver.
IGoTH Day.?Mr. Sherman offered a resolution
instructing the Committee on Printing
to report whether any abuses exist in
printing matter iu the Congressional Record
that ought not to printed tnerein... .Shortly
after 1 o'clock the Senate took up the Tariff
bill, and Mr. Vance addressef the Senate.
He was followed by Messrs. Plumb, Aldrich,
McPherson. Morgan, Sherman aud George.
IGGth Day.?The Senate resumed consideration
of the Tariff bill and was addressed
by Mr. Morgan and Mr. Colquitt,
who spoke against the bill... .The House bill
was passed, allowing Mrs. General Crook
$2000 a year; Senate bills were also
passed giving a like pansion to Mrs.
Fremont and to Mrs. McClellan....
An amendment to ttie dui "to reauce tae
amount of bonds to be required of national
banks and to restore to the channels of trade
the excessive accumulations of lawful money
in the Treasury'1 was proposed by Mr. Plumb
... .The House amendments to the "Original
Package" bill were non-concurred in by the
Senate, and a conference was ordered.
Messrs. Wilson, of Iowa; Mr. Edmunds and
Mr. George were appointed conferees.
167th Day.?Messrs. Vest and Turpie
spoke on th3 Tariff bill; Mr. McPherson's
resolution to recommit the measure to the
Finance Committee was defeated. The reading
of the bill by paragraphs for amendments
was then begun?the first schedule
being that as to chemicals, oils and paints....
The Revenue Marine Transfer bill was discussed.
168th Day.?Messrs. Hiscock, Jones, of
Arkansas; Gorman, McPherson, Voorhees
and others spoke on the Tariff bill; three
amendments were defeated....Mr. Ingalls
introduced a bill to establish an executive
department of communication for the purpose
of transmitting telegraphic and telephonic
communications for the people at
cost.
169th Day.?The Senate decided to meet
hereafter at 10 a. m., instead of 11. and
the daily sessions are to last until 6 p. m., or
later.. .Mr. Morrill spoke on the Tariff bill
....Mr. Sherman reported an amendment
to the Deficiency bill, appropriating $30,000,
in addition to the $100,000 already available,
for the purpose of carrying out the treaties
between the United States and Mexico providing
for the relocation of thd boundary
line between the two countries.
In tbc House.
174th Day.?The journal having been road
and approved the House proceeded to vote
upon the committee amendments to thj
.bankruptcy t?iu. rne commutes amendments
having been disposed of, an amendment
was adopted enforcing the laws of the
States giving wages for labor a preference.
The bill was then passed.
175th Day.?Tne Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill was considered in Committee of
the Whole. Pending further debate the
committee rose, and the House, at 5 o'clock,
took a recess until 8 o'clock, the evening session
being for the consideration of private
pension bills, a large number of which were
passed.
176th Day.?Mr. McKinley, from the Committee
on Rules, reported a resolution directing
the Speaker to appoint a committee
of five members to investigate the charges
brought against Pension Commissioner Raum
by Representative Cooper, of Indiana.
Adopted... .The House went into Committee
of the Whole on the Senate amendments to
the Sundry Civil bill. Those regarding the
irrigation of the arid lands were attacked,
but no vote was reached... .Non-concurrencs
was recommended in several Senate amend
ments, and the committee rose with the bill
still pending. The House then adjourned.
177th Day.?In Committee of the Whole
the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was discussed.
The recommendations of the Com -nit+sYA
A t?Anrio ftArvc WflPft O rrTCWvl tA AT
UU Ui/i tuvivua VI V wwx.
cept the Senate irrigation amendment, which
passed over until the other matters were disposed
of. Without disposing of all the
amendments the committee rose.
178th Dat.?la Committee of the Whole
the Sundry Civil bill was further considered;
Mr. Struble, of Iowa, made an attack upon
the Speaker, and was rebuked by Mr. Cannon
... .Mr. Cannon reported a joint resolution,
providing temporarily (until August
14) for such of the expenditures of the Government
as have not been provided for by
the appropriation bills which have already
become laws. The resolution was passed.
179th Day.?The conference report on the
District of Columbia Appropriation bill was
agreed to... .The Senate amendments to the
Sundry Civil bill were further discussed....
The Speaker laid before the House fifteen requests
for leave of absence. The requests
were passed over for the present....The
Speaker announced the appointment of the
following members on the committee to investigate
the charges against Pension Commissioner
Raum: Messrs. Morrill, Sawyer,
Smyser, Goodnight and Martin, of Indiana.
SENECA FALLS BURNED.
The Business Portion of the City a
Heap of Ashes and Debris.
A serious Are broke out in Seneca Falls,
*T ,r *-Ua mA?ninfl> of oVvrvnf A
lit UUriUg tuo mvii inu^, uw uwvuw m
o'clock,in the northern part of the town. It
speedily passed beyond the control of the local
fire companies, and help was telegraphed for
from Waterloo, Oreneva and other adjacent
Elaces. The Postoffice, the Hoag House,
>pera House, telegraph and telephone offices
and thirty stores were destroyed, the loss being
estimated at $1,000,000.
The fire started in the Pew building, a regular
fire trap, against the erection of which
violent protests were made a few years ago,
and in a short time the entire building was
blazing. It could be approached only on
one side, as the firemen could no5
endure the fierce heat. The flames
spread quickly to the Phoenix block, in
which were the electric light plant,
pest office, express office, and Western union
office, all of which were consumed. Within
four hours fifteen stores were ruined. The
flames crossed the street from the Pew building
to the Opara House. That, with all of
FcQl streot on that side east to Sheldon block,
was destroyed.
On State street the fire extended to and
destroyed Kellogg's livery stable, but all his
stock was saverl. Twenty-five of the build' "?
Tv.iro of hrink and from two to three
'"b" ?
stories in height, and only 0110 of them for
business purposes was vacant. Three of the
best equipped printing offices in the State,
the Courier, Reveille and Journal, lib buried
in the ruins.
The mail was wholly removed from the
Postoffice, but the safe could not be reached.
The books, money, stamps, etc., it was hoped,
were safely wut down in the waters of the
race-way beneath. Grand Army Hall, in the
third story of the Daniels block, is among
the things that were. A part of the records
of Cross Post, including its charter, and the
irreparable loss of many relics and mementoes,
will bo a sourca of regret to veterans.
John Duff, of tho paid fire department,
bad a leg broken by a flying pipo and hose.
All the saloons are closed during the day by
order cf President Rumsey.
SAN" SALVADOE'S EEYOLT,
The Rebel Army Saidro Have Fought
Six Successful Battles.
News has just been receive! confirming
the reports of tho success of the Salvadoriaa
forces beyond the frontier in Guatemalan
territory. The Salvador army has now
gained six battles and has captured quantities
of arms and ammunition. Many hava
been killed and wounded on both sides.
The Salvadorian forces are now pushing
their way into the interior of Guatemala and
wrifk eiiOi?Qaa of nrorr Stan. (irPftt
UrO IlJCCUlUfc nibuaucvws-i-w?vV ?
enthusiasm prevails. The intention is to
overthrow the Government of President
Barillas before coming to auy agreement
with Guatemala.
San Salvador is determined to free herself
from the yoke of Guatemala and assure her
own liberty and independence.
Advices from Guatemala are to the effect
that Ezeta's army attacked the Guatemalans
near the frontier in Guatemalan territory,
that the Salvadorians were defeated nnd
routed, and that they fled back to San Salvador
territory, leaving on the field many
dead and wounded and three cannons, which
the Guatemalans captured. The Guatemalans
were under command of General Sanchez.
Eiglit Person^^HHBHjH
dreds of House^HH|^^H
The flourishing city of Lawrence^^M|
has been visited by one of the most destnH
tive tornadoes known to the New England
Slates. Eight persons were killed and sixtj
seriously injured. Seventy buildings were
wrecked and destroyed and six hundred people
made homeless.
The following Is a correct list of th?
killed:
Michael Higgins, Mrs. Mary Lyons, Ma mil
O'Connell. Mrs. Jeremiah O Connell, Helen
Cutler, Mrs. John Collins, Collins, child;
Julia Beatty.
The devastation ha3 been complete. For
a distance of a mile there is a well-defined
pathway about 500 feet wide, in which nothing
remains of a prosperous section of that
manufacturing city but wrecked building3
and streets piled high with debris.
lne storm struck tbe city shortly befori
ten o'clock in the morning. The wind at
the time was east and the rain falling hearily.
Heavy black clouds shot from behind
the western hills high into the sky for a
moment, and then the thick mass parted.
Down shot.black streaks, and in a moment
the crash came. Buildings were crushed like
the shells of eggs, whole houses wen
lifted from the cellars and terror seized th?
dwellers.
The storm struck first on Broadway, aboui
five hundred rods from the Boston and
Maine Railroad station at South Lawrence,
and continuing its path of destruction near
ly parallel with the Merrimack River deal
to North Andover. Its path was only aboul
five hundred feet wide.
At the Essex Company's dam it seemed tc
divide. There the centre of the storm wen)
through Salem street to Blanchard, tearing
down or uprooting all in its pathway. Aftei
overturning a number of freight cars standing
near the Salem street bridge and killing
a switchman named Higgins, who was
standing near by, it smashed in the window:
of St. Patrick's Catholic church and blew
down all the telegraph and telephone wire*
in the locality. The wind then passed through
the centre of Springfield street, upon which
thero were nearly one hundred houses and
tenement blocks.
With but three exceptions every house on
both sides of that street between Blanchard
and South Union streets was either totally or
partly wrecked. The house of Thomas
Evans, the Daly family and of James Lyons
in the valley wera ground into kindling
wood.
The very first victim of the catastrophe
was Mrs. Jama3 Jjyons, who flea into her
house at the first signal of the coming
storm. Her house fell to piece3 the moment
the wind struck it, and she was crushed and
mangled under the falling ruins.
From under one root five persons were
taken. None of them were aead, but all
were severely injured and mangled terribly.
One of these, a nine-year-old boy, had his
arm broken in five places, and in his terror
and agony shouted pathetically for his
mother. While she, almost as badly injured,
was on her knees in the street thanking God
with uplifted hands that her little family was
no worse off.
The greatest force of the storm was manifest
in the mile it traversed through South
Lawrence. Fortunately, there were no
large or brick buildings in that district, the
great mills and factories being on the north
side of the river. The section was occupied
largely by the mill operatives and was covered
with cosey cottages. The39 had nearly
all been built during the last dozen yean
and would average about $2000 to $3000 in
value. These were all destroyed.
TT7U-4 4-ama/)A
IY Uttb bCVLLltfU pcuuuoi OWUVI DU(7 lA/t UOUU
was the fact that some of the oldest and most
rotten houses stood It well, while new blooks
of brick and wood fell in masses of ruins.
About one house in five failed to stand the
6hock, and now lie in a heap of rubbish.
Those which still stand have all lost shutters,
chimneys or windows. Some of the wrecked
houses were set on fire, but rain prevented
any serious spread of the flames.
South Lawrence, the scene of the tornado's
havoc, is the appellation attached to that
portion of Lawrence lying on the south side
of the Merrimac River. It contains within
tbe corporate limits 3012 acres.
The storm also passed over Haverhill,
Ma3s., bursting sewers and flooding streets
and basements. The watar put out the fires
in Saunders's boiler house, stopping the work
in the shoe factory.
At Lowell, Mass., the rainfall was so great
that the sewers overflowed into the streets.
PBOMIJENT PEOPLE. .
Count Von Molteb will bo ninety yeari
old October 28.
Meissonier, the French painter, is seventy*
seven years old.
P. T. Barnum has made 211,000,000 In tin
circus business.
Bismarck looks twenty years youngex
than his pictures.
Mr. Gladstone makes it a rule never to
travel on Sundays.
Will Carlton receives an average ol
$300 for his poems.
Paste tra, the great French scientist, cootemplates
a visit to America.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker hai
510 young men in his Bible class.
Ex-Mator Abraji S. Hewitt, of New
York city, is seriously ill in Europe.
Major-General Schofield, now commanding
tbe army, entered it In 1853.
Taiiag.vo, the great tenor, is going to retire
from the stage and buy an Italian estate.
The remains of General Clinton B. Fisk,
the great temperance leader, were interred
at Coldwater, Mich.
I Explorer Hexrt M. Stanley's manu!
e/M-irvj-. ic vpi-r leerible. and scarcely an altera
I tioiTis made in a folio.
| Lydia Beckeh,leader of the woman's sufifrag
j movement, died recently at Genera,
Switzerland, from diphtheria.
Senator Wade Hampton*, of South Carolina,
has sacrificed the gray side whiskers
that have been his facial characteristic for
so many years.
Whexever Potter Palmer, of Chicago,
patronizes his own hotel and restaurant ha
pays his way like auy other guest, but he
never tips a waiter.
When* Governor Ross, of Texas retires
from his executive office he will become the
President of the Agricultural aud Mechanical
College of that State.
Professor C. B. Richards, of the Sheffield
Scientific School, Yale College, has boon
made by the French Government a chevalier
of the Legion of Honor.
It is announced on very good authority
that Senator Sherman, of Ohio, has decided
to retire to private life at the expiration ot
his present term in 1893.
The Czar of Russia is said to devote a large
part of his leisure to collecting birds' eggs
and postage stamps. Many or the eggs he
secured when a young boy.
appretahy Elaine is a large owner of oil
territory in West Virginia and a member ol
a company which will soon erect a pipe lina
and tanks of a capacity of 300,000 barrels ol
OIL
William R. Hearst, son of the California
Senator and editor of the San Francisco
Examiner, is a young man of twenty-seven.
He is tall and athletic and ha3 traveled
widely.
A. P. Peterson*, the Attorney-General of
the Hawaiian Islands, was born in Plymouth,
Mass. He received his early education
in Hawaii, but finished his studies in
New England.
Emperor William, or uermany, ens uoclared
that tho next birthday of Count Von
Moltke shall be kept as a national holiday.
The famous strategist was born October 28,
1800, at Perchirn, Mecklenburg.
Jl"stice~Miller,~ of the "Supreme Court
of the United States, has been on the bench
twenty-eight years. His commission was
signed by President Lincoln, and dates back
further than any other member of the
Court.
Crazy Kixa Otto, of Bavaria, refused all
food for three days. His physicians denied
him cigarettes, and he lost flesh rapidly. He
consented to eat on condition that hi3 cigarattes
should be restored, and now every meal
must be paid for at tha rate qI twenty cigarettes
years.
sixth Regiment
He served in both hou^^^H^^^HflDSMHN^^B^B
and was a Mason and an
The Tennessee republican^^^^HH^^^BH^D
met in Nashville. Lewis T. Baxter
inated for Governor by acclamation.
He.vrt Dudlet, colored, was hanged at ^VD3|
Scran ton. Miss, for murder. He ascended ^^BRH
the scaffold without exhibiting any signs of
fear. There was a large crowd present.
The business part of Travera, Cal, has
been practically wiped out by fire. The loss
v/as fully $100,003. All of the large stores,
including the hotel and livery stable, together
with nineteen horses, were burned.
Br a runaway accident at Lima, Ohio,
Archie Smith, aged nineteen years, and
Robert Grant, a young boy, were Instantly
killed and Mellville Greenwall seriously injured.
The President nominated Louis Desmarais,
of Louisiana, to be coiner of th9 mint of the
United States at New Orleans, and Thadcteua
S. Sharretta, of Maryland, to be General Ap^
praiser of Merchandise; the nominations '
were confirmed by the Senate. \
The President left Washington during the
aft<?rnoon for Cape May Point, N. J., where
he was to spend a week with his family.
The Postofflce authorities of Paris," Franca,
discovered that over $23,000 had been stolen
from a registered mail bag which had been
cut in transit.
The cholera epidemic is diminishing in
Valencia, Spain. From ten to fifteen case*
are reported daily, of which about one-half
prove fatal.
The Salzath River in Austria has overflowed
its banks and Inundated the surrounding
country. Many persons along the
line of the river have been drowned and
their houses destroyed.
The Russian Government has decided to
enforce the edicts oI 1S82 against the
Hebrews.
Qtjiet was restored in Buenos Ayree,
Argentine Repablic; the revolutionary
leaders have agreed to the terms of the Government
and a general amnesty has been
c-.-a.ii ted.
CHILDBEN SLAUGHTERED.
Three Little Girls Crashed to Death
by a Locomotive.
A terrible accident happened near Paterson,
N. J., to a party of children returning
from a blackberrying trip. There were
Mamie, age twelve, Nellie, age ten, and
Willie, a^e four, and Jennie Warren, aga
three, ana Jennie Drewster, age twelve.
The children started to cross the River.
side Bridge, and had got about half way over
when they saw a train coming from tha
east. To get out of the way of this they
crossed over on the other track, and did not
notice that another train was approaching
on that track. . -asgK
When the two trains bore down upon them
the little children screamed. The engineer
of the train from the west on the Erie Road
did not notice them until it was too late to
stop the train.
When the train had passed, the mangled
bodies of Jennie Drewster and Mamie and
Nellie Warren were found. They wera ali
dead.
Jennie Warren, the youngest, escaped
with a scalp wound. Willie Warren fell
through the bridge into the water, a distance
of thirty feet, and waded ashore.
The Riverside Bridge is used exclusively
for the passage of trains. The children attempted
to cross it as ? shortcut to their
homes.
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THE BIOTS AT EEZEHOAM.
i Fifty Dead Victims of the Butchery?
One Hundred Missing.
The following details of the recent riots at
( Erzeroam, Montenegro, have been received.
The soldiery were ordered to disperse
1 Armenians who were holding a meet
ing in a churchyard. The soldiers
. began a massacre of the Armenians;
and the Turkish populace joined in the attack.
The shops ana houses of the Armenians
were pillaged. The Hack lasted four
hours. The British Consulate at which
' on the same night' a fete was being
given for the benefit of poor Armenians, was
stoned and its gates and windows were broken.
The Consul and the members of his
family took refuge in the caliars of the
building and the fete was abandoned.
The American Mission served as a refuge
for fifty fugitives. Numbers of Americans,
relying on the promises of Turks to escort
them to places of safety, were murdered in
the streets. Fifcy bodies have been found,
mostly of persons who were bayonetted S50
persons were wounded and 100 are missing.
A FAMILY Di'STBOYED.
Frightful Accident at a Railway
Crossing in West Virginia.
A frightful railroad accident occurred at
Grafton, XV. Ya.., resulting in the death of
i five people, members of one family. Just
a r.ouC tne time me west Douna accommoaation
train was due Wm. Golden,his wife and
threa children started to cross the main line
1 of the Baltimore and Ohio road near the
Railroad Hotel, but seeing a yard engine
coming up the road they stopped to let it
pass.
Mr. Golden was holding his two-year-old
' bov in his arms and his wife a three-monthsold
baby. When watching the engine the
passenger train struck the family, instantly
[ killing the husband, wife and two children
; and fatally injuring the boy who was in his
father's arms, tbe little fellow dying in an
hour.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.
i
' Chin*a has but one railroad.
! Chicago's population is 1,101,233.
Great Britain's crops will be short.
There ara 109 deer forests in Scotland.
Capitatjsts in Maine are boring for coal
Yellow feveb is raging in Havana,
Cuba.
The crop of cherries turned out to be very
light.
Terrific heat is reported on the Pacific
coast.
Belgium now contains mw
itants.
The Kansas wheat crop this year headi
the list.
Is and around Charlotte, N. C., there ar?
thirty-two cotton mills.
The area in corn in the United States this
year is about 33,570,000 acres.
There aro fully 10,000 dealers in New York
city engaged in handling fruit.
The fattest woman in Paris, France, is
dead. She weighed 470 pounds.
Belgium is recruiting hundreds of Soudanese
natives for the Congo State.
The preseut cost of sustaining the Federal
Government is $1,000,000 a day.
The Government -of Russia is about 6ft
form a special Ministry of ^gicalfrgq,