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DISASTER AT SIOUX CITY.
A Wav?? From the River Rnshes
Through the Town.
Many Drowned and 8000 People
Made Homeless.
At least eleven people drowned, thousands
left bomclftss and hundreds of thousands of
dollars' damage to property were the results
of a sadden and unexpected rise in the Floyd
River at Sioux City, Iowa.
A ?reat wave came down the river which
flows thro*?h the centre of the city. It was
alr?ady swollen bank full.
Kfion TTon hut: n short time
before the wave came to the inhabitants of
tae low lands. The first intimation most of
them had. however, was a volume of water
spreading over the banks to & depth of three
feet and throwing a mist of foam from it.
In a few miuutea the water had risen above
the first floor, and inside of ?n hour and a
half bad risen four teet. It then continued
to rise steadily, but not so rapidly.
Probably ten thousand inhabitants of the
city live in the low grounl which was overflowed
. So rapid was the rise of the tide
that great number.'! ware unable to escape,
and the work of rescue engaged the energy
of the people.
At twelve o'clock eleven persons were report?d
drowned. The only names obtained
were Nellie West, a child, and Mrs. Louise
Horner and her two chiidren.
The fire alarm was sounded to call oul
more workers. All the boats from the boat
bouses on the Sioux River were brought in
and were used to save life and property.
The Missouri River is very high, and whet
the flood in the Fioyd River struck it th?
water dammed up and rushed over the adja
cent low grounds. The stock yards and
packing houses were situated at the confluence
of the two rivers and they were quickly
innnriata<L Abont two thousand head of
live stock were drowned.
The whole railroad yards and switching
track district was under water, and there
has been immense damage to the roundhouses
and railroad property. The roundhouses
of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha were damaged to the extent of
440,000. That road, the Illinois Central and
bioux City and Northern enter the city by
tne Floyd Valley, and all were compelled to
stop. Not a train left Sioux City that day.
The water reached to Jennings street on
Fourth street at one o'clock. The Hotel
Fowl# and the Boston Investment Company's
building were surrounded with water. Tae
Union Depot was cut oft at nine o'clock.
It was estimated that eight thousand
people were driven from their homes. Al!
Business was suspended. The Chamber oi
Commerce organized for relief work. Before
noon the ladies had several soup and
lunch houses opened for the flood sufferers,
At Spencer, Iowa, a fearful wind and
rain storm from the northwest raged. Sucb
a fall of water in a similar length of tim?
has never been known there. The Siotu
River rose two feet. Three to four hundred
feet of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
track was washed out at a creek two milei
east of that city, the track being carried
entirely off. The entire country along the
river was under water.
The water in tbe Das Monies luver at uttumwa
reached the highest point since th?
great floods of 1851. The electric light plant
there shut down, and this left the city in
darkness that night. Trains were badly delayed.
The Little Sioux Valley is under water
and it was feared that the loss of life would
be heavy. Trains on all railroads were
hours late or ahandoned, and tbe Illinois
Central and Minneapolis and St. Louis lost
heavily by slides and the washing away of
bridges and embankments.
Conservative estimate? placed the area
under water in the section immediately surrounding
St. Louis, Mo., on both side3 of
tbe river at 400 square miles of fertile lands,
the depth heing from two to twenty fe?t.
Fully 1503 families in that area left their
homes with little prospect of an early return.
The main suffsring was in the Amarican
bottom and on Missouri Point.
As an instanoe*of tin suffering in the former
locality then* were nearly 596 people
gathered on the bluff.-!, for whom St. Clair
County, Illinois, was asked to supply food
and shelter.
Missouri Point, the land lying like a triangle
between the Missouri and Mis9issippi,
a triangle of land tweaty-seven miles on the
river side by twelve at the base, was covered
with water and every living soul driven to
higher land.
The washout of the approach to the Union
Pacific bridge, at Omaha, Neb., was serious.
Fully 300 feet of the approach gave way.
A funnel-shapei cloud passed over Cone,
Iowa. In passing over the bluff it razed a
number of houses and barns, and nnroafed a
number of others. A young man named Gay
was picked up, carried twenty yards and
seriously injured.
A cloudburst near the head of the Blue
River in Kaasas swept away the house of
William Sherman, drowning one child and
four horses. Loss of life was also reported
from the Watson neighborhood, about
twelve miles northwest of Manhattan.
THE MEMPHIS BRIDGE OPEN
It Is tbe Third Largest Bridge in tb<
World.
The United States gunboat Concord fired
the salute at the formal opening at Memphis,
Term., of the nevr bridge across tbi
Mississippi The crowd at the ceremoniet
probably numbered 35,000. The river crafl
were handsomely decorated.
Tbe exercises of the day opened with i
parade, the first division being composed 01
visiting and home military companies
Knights of Pythias, Knights of Innisfail anc
otner secret societies and friendly and benevo
lent associations, the members of the Ger
man Manifest, the fire department, display
of local industries, and tha attaches of thi
municipal departments and distinguished
"visitors bringing up the rear.
The procession morel through tbe principal
streets of tbe city and naltel at ths
bridge, and while Governors Buchanan, of
Tennessee, ancTEagle, of Arkansas, clasped
hands in tbe middle of the bridge,
President Lucas B. Clapp, of the
Tax Department of Memphis, placed
his bands upon their heads and de
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clared tue onion. or tne great ?v est sua mi
great East, waile cannon boomed from the
river, and the great multitude on short
made the air quiver with cheers for South
era energy ana enterprise. The oration was
delivered by Senator Daniel Voorhees, of Indiana.
Tbe length of the now bridge and its approaches
is thrae miles. The structure is a
cantilever with five spans, and oost over
33,000,000. The bridge is 8uppD39i to b:s
localed on the spot whero Ferdinand Da
Soto crossed the Mississippi in loll, and in
excavating for the shore pier on the Tennessee
side some Spanish halberds, suppoia I
to have been used by him, were fouad.
HUNDREDS DROWNED.
Frightful Steamship Accident lie.
ported on the Caspian Sea.
A frightful accident is said to have occurred
on the Caspian Sea. A report has
been received at Astrakhan that the steamer
Alexander' Wolkow, carrying passengers
between Caspian ports, has foundered with
250 passengers on board. This, following
a recent accident, attended by almost r
eaual loss of life n few weeks ago, has caused |
much excitement iu Caspian ports, and
there is a general opinion that the Russian
authorities do not attend, with
due vigilauce to the inspection of
steamships in those waters. Mo.?t of
the steamers on the Caspian are poorly
built, and not calculat3d tor enduring ?ha
Budden and severe storms which occasionally
sweep ovar that inlani sea. It is bslieve
i that this latest disaster will lead to a
general overhauling of the steam and sailing
craft on the Caspian
Ross Whtans, the American millionaire
gporrsman, is t?ein? sued by the Trustees of
Sir James MacKenzie, from whom he rents
an immense deer forest in Inverness, Scotland,
for allowing his keepers to drive 900
red deer off the grounds in an unsportsmanlike
fashion. Winans contends he did it
because his estate is overstocked with dear.
The losses of sheep during the past y?ar
throughout the country generally were
tighter than daring any recent season,
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Eastern and
Royal E. Fox, paym&st^hj^^bhb?|
Process Company, was
masked robbers on his way 'hbhh
panv's office to the Split Rock ^USHDm
ries, and at the muzzles of fo^KSmMgn
was robbed of $3300. ^B|9BR5|
lloyd rater, the fourteen
?f Robert RaYer, of Gravefield, F^HHjUgg
and killed Charles Harrington,
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VICli, VT uu uou av/uu^uwv*
The 230th anniversary of the inclHM?
tion of the town of Willimantic, Cohu.,
was observed by a civic and military procession
and with addresses by leading citi
zens.
Text caterpillars are doing an incalculable
amount or damage throughout Eastern
Connecticut. They have never b9en known
to be so plentiful before.
During a squall a rowboat on the Delaware
River, Pniladelphia, Penu., conrainin|
live you tag men and boys, was capsize! and
three of the occuo^nts, L=>wis Tiernore, nineteen
years old; Charles Anderson, colored,
twenty-two years old, and George Roalt,
twenty-four years old, wero drowned.
The Brooklyn Handicap. worth $18,000 to
the winner, s5000 to the second horse, $2000 to
the third, was run at the Gravessnd (N. Y.)
Track in the presence of over 30,0t)0 people.
Judge Morrow was first, Pessara second and
Russell third. The distanc?, a mile and a
quarter, was made in 2.08%.
Secretary Blaine has appointed as
Junior Counsel for the United States before
the Bering Sea arbitrators RusseJl Dnane, or
Philadelphia. Mr. Duane was a member of
the class of 1891 in the law school of the University
of Pennsylvania, and attracted Mr.
Blaine's attention oy his masterly oration at
the commencement on "The Case of the Sayward."
Jcst after a train left Hyde Park. N. Y.,
a well-dressed man ros9 from his seat in the
parlor car and shouting "Tfny are after
me!" plunged the blade of a knive in his
throat, and drawing it rapidly right and
left cut his throat from ear to ear. He died
instantly. He was Albert L. Stanton, of
New Jersey.
The Deleware Democratic State Convention
held at Dover elected the following
delegates to the National Convention:
Thomas F. Bayard, Hiram R. Borie, Governor
Reynolds, Richard R. Kenuey, John
W. Causey and William L. Sinam. The resolutions
denounce the McKinley bill, oppose
the tr&) coinage of silver, and strongly
indorse Cleveland. The Chicago delegation
was not instructed, but all favor the nomination
of Cleveland for President.
South and West.
Etienne Deschamp3 was hanged at the
Parish Prison, ia New Orleans, La. Deschamps's
crime was the murder ot Juliet
Dietsch, aged thirteen, by giving her chloroform.
He then attempted suicide by the
same agency.
Great damage has been done by rains in
the Missouri Valley.
A remarkable wedding took Plac9 in
Covington, Ky. It W2S that of two old
ffpople of Mount Sterling. Ohio, who said
,_jy had eloped. The bridegroom was
David Heath, who gave his ag3 as ninetytwo
years, and the bride was Mary L. Setrick,
who registered as sixty-five years old.
The Bering Sea squadron, consisting of
the United States steamers Yorktown,
Mohican, Adams, Rush and Bear, left Port
Townsend, Washington, for the North.
At Frankfort, Ky., four meD were killed
in a street brawl. One of them was a prominent
J udge.
The tents and small buildings in the town
of Arapahoe were all demolished by the
wind storm which swept over Oklahoma.
Near the town of Frisco five houses were
totally destroyed, several parsons wero a
badly injurad. j
Tom Davis and Henry Dickerson, colore! I
and brothers-in-law, were hanged in the jail
yard at Nashville, Id., for the murder of a
peddler.
The Utah Territorial Democratic Convention,
at O'den, elected Juige H. P. Readerson,
formerly of Michigan, and John T.
Caine, presant Delegate to Congress, delesates
to the Chicago Convention. The platform
denounces the system of unimtructei
government forcel on Utah by the Nation,
demands home rule at once if not Statehood,
and the remonetizition of silver.
As appalling accident occurred at the
Anaconda Mine, Butte, Montana. Twelve
men were caught in a cave-in that took place
from the 500 level down to the 800. Nine
IKian IrillftH
were supjjusou. w ?...?
Tea People's party of Oklahoma held
their Territorial Convention at Guthrie and
elected twelve delegates to the National
Convention at Omaha. The Convention declared
unanimously for Jamas B. Weaver
for President and L. L. Polk for Vice-President
A Bio Four freight train and the cannonball
express collided near Clevas, Ohio, during
a terrific wind and raiu storm, wracking
both trains and killing and injuring many
persons. One estimate placed the number of
dead at five. A blunder of the station agent
caused the tragedy.
One of the Burlington and Quincy's
seventy-five ton locomotives blew up at
Deadwood, South Dakota, killing Engineer
Renchard, Fireman Wilson and a brakeman
named Nelson.
At Childersburg, Ala.,three colored murderers
named Berry Rowden, Jim Rowden,
and Will Cantor, were hanged and shot on
the bridge of the Georgia Central Railroad
over the Coosa River. The bodies were cut
down and fell into the river.
The United States warship Concord arrived
at Cairo, 111. She wa3 met below
the city by several boats and tugs and
escorted to the landing. A salute was fired
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11*01X1 toe snore ana was resp^uaoa w iuw
the ship. A recaption was tendered to the
crow in the evening.
More levees on the Mississippi River have
broken, causing much inundation of farming
land. Water in the flooded districts
continued to rise and much damage was
reported m Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas.
Ira Mullens, a mountain bandit, while
driving across Pound Gap, W. Va., from
court in Letcher County, Ky., wa3 tired
upon l'rom ambush. He was accompanied
by his wife, brother-in-law, child, and the
driver ot bis wagon, all of whom, with himself,
were killed. There was no clew to the
murderers.
Tan key Valley, in Greer County. Texas,
was swept by a cyclone from one end to the
other and not a building has been left standing.
Five persons were killed instantly, ten
were fatallj injured, and many more were
badly hurt. Hardly a person in the valley
escaped.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Autrey, of Adel,
Ga., were thrown from a carriage and killed
Ring Brothers' circus train was wrecked
near Atchison, Kan., and four showmen were
killed and five badly injured.
A mob of 200 men at Clarksville, Ga.,
broke into the jail, too* thererrom ttiree
colored men, charged with the murder of a
night policeman at Toccoa, and hanged them
all on the limb of a large oak tree.
Thb Arizona Territorial democratic Convention
at KTucson elected delegates to
Chicago. The convention recommended
Marius A. Smith as, delegate to Congress,
and endorsed Grover Cleveland.
Washington.
Jcjstice Harla.w, of the United State3
Supreme Court, and John T. Morgan,
United States Senator from Alabama, have
been selected by the President as arbitrators
on tha part of the United States in the
Berin? Sea controversy. E. J. Phelps,
late United States Minister to England, has
been selected as chief counsel on behalf of
the United States before the Arbitration
Commission.
T hb Secretary of the Treasury and the
Director of tbe Mint bava approved the
proposition of the managers of the World's
Fair for the special issm of $20,000,CKJO fiftycent
pieces for use at tlie Exposition and
benring designs appropriate to the occasion.
The President made the following nomin- |
atious: Frederick A. Bancroft,ot iNew xorx.
Consul at Brunswick, Gernnny; Thoinas
F. Wilson, United States Attorney for
Arizona.
The United States Treasury Department
has reported to Congress that more than
$7,000,000 is needed to meat the pension payments
for the months of May and June.
The Pension Bureau has issued a statsment
that for ten months, from July 1,1891,
to Aoril 30, 1893. there were issued 255,448
pension certificates. The total at first pay ment
was (35,470,632; average first payment
$138.86. Number of oeusioners on the rolls |
March 31, 1892, 827,267. 1
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nenta on aocount of the
he Drment year. The
>7,350,000.
id Mrs. Harrison, Mrs.
Parker and Mrs. Parker
a the light-house tender
few dors' vacation at
^ f-tress Monroe. airs, nurruju win ra
Rain at Tidewwater, Va., until flhe reprovers
her strength, which has been graatly
impaired by her long illness.
Barok Fava, the Dean of the Diplomatic
Corps paid his respects to Secretary Blaine.
He naa jnst arrived from Italy, to renew
relations broken off by the New Orleans
lynching.
Thx United States Supreme Court handed
down a number of important decisions and
adjourned to October.
For the first time In the history of the
United States the services for the dead
prescribed by the rituul of the Roman Catholic
Church were performed in the Senate
Chamber. It was the funeral service over
the late Senator John S. Barbour, of Virginia,
which was conducted by tha Right
Rev. Bishop Keane, rector of the Catholic
University.
The Congress of the National Art Associtlon,
in session in Washington, passed a resolution
favoring the admission of works of art
free of duty.
Justice Harlan and Senator Morgan
have formally notified the President of their
willingness to serve as arbitrators on behalf
of the United States in the Bering Sea
matter.
The body of Senator Barbour, accompanied
by the Congressional Committees, bis
immediate relatives and a few personal
friends, all in charge of Sergeant-at-Arms
Valentine, was taken from his house at
Washington and conveyed to Poplar Hill,
Md., where it was buried beside tnat of his
wife.
The National Baptist Educational Convention
at Washington elected these officers:
President, Professor G-. W. Hayes, of Virginia;
Vice-President, the Rev. Isaac Tolliver,
of Texas; Second Vice-President, the
Rev. P. T. Mailoy.
Foreign.
The house of a mine overseer at Lem,
France, was wracked by dynamite; Premier
Loubet spoke at the funeral of M. Very,
the Anarchists' victim.
A. G. Porter, the American Minister to
Italy, has returned to Rome. He expressed
? LI-LI J k.
Qimaeu. US ui|(uijr uibumsu wan wouupuio uctween
Italy and the United States, growing
out of the New Orleans affair, had been ad*
justed in a manner satisfactory to both
Nations.
The American steamer Connemaugh,
loaded with flour, grain and provisions, sent
from Philadelphia for the benefit of the
starving Russian peasants, arrived in Riga
Roadstead. The municipal authorities and
the chief residents of Riga proceeded in
steamers to the Roadstead, where most
hearty greetings were extended to those on
board tne Connemaugh.
At Cork, Ireland, a large meeting of the
anti-Farnellites was addressed by William
O'Brien and Dr. Tanner. When the antiParnellite
procession, led by a band, came
down the street a mob made a rush, hurrahing
for Parnell and yelling: "Down with the
turncoats! Three groans for O'Brien and
Tanner I Punish the traitors!" A terrific
onslaughter was made on O'Brien. The
militarr were called out
The Russian police, acting on a warning
from the police of Paris, discovered a number
of leaded mines under tin Gatchina
Palace, the mines extending for a distance
of 300 feet around the palace.
A terrific hurricane passed over central
New Zealand, and the damage done was
enormous.
NEWFOUNDLANn decided to remove the
discriminating duties on Canadian products
and to grant Canada bait privileges.
F?xsia has refused Russia's offer of a loan
for paying the indemnity to the tobacco corporation,
and will raise the money in England.
Dispatches from Venezuela confirm the
capture of Bolivar by the insurgents.
The death is announced in London of
General George Klapka, a contemporary of
Louis Kossuth. Hi was born at Temeswar,
Hungary, April 7, 1820. He had a famous
military career.
LATER TOWg.
An extensive forest fire did much damage
on the plains southeast of Windsor Locks,
Conn.
Professor Jacob Gould Shusman has
been elected President of Cornell University,
Ithaca, N. Y. Professor Shurman has been
at the bead of the Sage School of Philosophy
at Cornell University durinz the past six
years.
By the capsizing of a boat on the Dowdle
Place, near Morrilton, Ark., Hamp Wilson,
colored, four women and five children were
drowned.
Jim Taylor, a colored man, who assaulted
a little girl near Ch9stertown, Md., was
lynched by an armed mob early next morn
ing.
There has been a battle between United
States Deputy Marshals and horse thieve3 in
the Sac and Fox country in Oklahoma, in
which two of the thieves and one of thi
deputies were killed.
John M. Lackst, Private Sucrotary of
General Rosecrans, Register of the Treasury,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart while laboring under
temporary aberration of mind.
John A. Anderson, United States Consul-General
at Cairo, Egypt, is dead.
French forces in Tonquin, China, recently
attacked and captured a pirate stronghold.
The pirates made a desperate resiatance-and
their loss was very heavy, it being
known that 125 of them were killed. The
French loss was also heavy, fifty-three soldiers
and five officers being killed in the attack.
PBOMINENT PEOPLE.
The Pope has the largest private fortune
of say man in Rome.
Emin Pacha, the African explorer, has
become blind, it is stated.
Moody and Sankry have been urgently
requested to visit Australia.
M. Ressmann, the newly appointed Italian
Minister to Paris, is a German by birth.
The writings of Gladstone fill twenty-two
pages of the printed catalogue of the British
Mu?eum.
Justice Lamar, of the United States Supreme
Court, is well enough onctiraore to go
out driving.
General Longstrret has become quite
infirm with years, and is now vory deaf, 30
that conversation with him has to bo through
an ear trumpet
The colored ex-Senator, Blanche K. Bruce,
received the name "Blanche" after Mitw
Blanche Mackrae, of Virginiu, who was his
UJUI/UU1 9 1X113Li COO.
Mrs. Jenkins and Mr*. Coulton, tho two
women alternates to tho Minneapolis Convention
from Wyoming, are said to be forcible
speakers and energetic workers at th;
polls.
A. C. Guntkr, the novelist and play
wright, is said to have received j40,00.J ui
royalties frum tho dramatic versions ot 'Mr,
Barnes of New York," and ''Mr. Potter oi!
Texas."
ISknor Romkeo, tho Mexican Minister,
has acquired tho reputation of being tha
most astute of tho diplomatists in WashingI
hnr* Wr\ Vino Kaan l-tT\ wn tr* nnc<i MTfc*?i>ll
hours at his desk.
Sib James Allport, who died a few
weeks ago, was the oldest railroad man in
England in point of service. He began as a
lamp-room porter and was at the head ot
the great Midland Railroad Company when
ho died.
Oreteks have been issued to track immigrants
to their destination to see whether
they settle down to work or become ad[
4itiona to the criminal and pauper element.
A HOME FOB PRINTERS.
Dedication of a Handsome Building
at Colorado Springs.
Tha ffliilda-Drwrel Home for Printers was
dedicated at Colora lo SpriDgs, Col., in the
presence of a vast concourse of people. The
dedication ceremonies were preceded by a
street parade, in which many trades unions
look part. Governor Routt and Mayor
jjprague delivered addresses of welcome.
THE PRINTERS' H0K3.
3Ir. George W. Childs responded briefly, exEresaing
bis warm friendship for the printers,
enator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, also
delivered an address.
The home is located one mile from the city
on a small elevation which overlooks the
surrounding country, including the Garden
of the Gods, Pike's Peak, Manitoa ind
Cheyenne Canon. It is constructed of ?Wte
lava stone, with red sandstone trimmings.
The style iB Renaissance, and the construction
cost $60,000. The home is four stories
in height and 144 feet front, with a depth of
J forty feet. It has three towers with halcon
ibs exrouuiug muug uuuu uu^ ?uu **???j
stcfry.
The fond for the construction ot' the building
was started in 1883, when Mr. George
W. Childs and A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia,
presented the International Typo- 1
graphical Union their joint check for
910,000. To increase this fund it was agreed
that on May 12, the anniversary of the birth
of Mr. Childs, every Union printer east of
the Mississippi River should contribute the J
price of 1000 em3, and on September 13, of
the year following, the birthday of Mr.
Drexel, all Union men west of the river
should donate a like sum. By this means
the money was secured to construct this
magniScent home, the location of whioh was
decided upon during the National Convention
held in Denver in 1869.
THE LAB0B W0BLD.
There are 40,000 laborers in Detroit
Mioh.
Telebe are nearly 3000 stitches in a pair of
hand-sewn boot?.
Irr Ohio laws have been enacted prohibit*
ing shaving on Sunday.
Farm laborers in Italy get but twenty
, cents a day on an average.
The Brotherhood of Kail way Trainmen
has a membership of about 23.000.
Thk convention of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers met this year in
Atlanta, Ga.
Iif Philadelphia the cabinet makers have
succeeded in reducing their daily working
hours to nine.
Is the rice fields of northern Italy women
wade to their knees twelve hours at a stretch
lor ten cents.
Over one million children are at present
employed in the iuUls and factories of the
United States. .
Over awo granite cutters working a number
of New England quarries were locked out
for demanding that their yearly agreement
should be signed by their bosses at the regular
time.
At the dictation of the men put in power
by the Unionists in Australasia all immigration
into the colony is prohibited, so that the
thousands of people now unemployed there
may have an opportunity to find work.
In the telegraph service of the United
States, it is estimated that 45,003 men and
women are at present employed. The length
of wire in use is over 900,000 miles, and the
capital invested is stated to be at least $100,
000,000.
Captain Mitchell, of Chicago, known
familiar)y as "Old Mitch," is said to be the
oldest sleeping-car porter in service on the
road. He is sixty-eight vears old and has
been employed by the Pullman Company for
seventeen vears.
President Clark, of the Union Pacific
Rsriiroad, began life as a bralrecian on a
gravel train. He is particularly popular
with all the labor organizations, and no
trouble has ever arisen from these sources
since ho became manager.
Last year 6334 people, most of whom were
railway employes, were killed in this coun
try in railroad accidents, and 29,025 were
wounded. The number of killed in England
were 1075 and 4721 wounded; in France 379
were killed and 709 wounded, and in Prussia
the number of killed was 402, while 1397
ware wounded.
SLICED TO DEATH.
Terrible Execution of a Chinese
Rebel Chief.
A dispatch from Shanghai, China, describes
the execution of one of the chiefs of
the recent rebellion in Mongolia. The man
was Drougnt in cnains to ? temain, ana, attar
being examined for several hours by the
Viceroy, LI Eung-Chang, was executed by
the "slow process" of slicing to death?ling
chi (literally cutting into ten thousand
pie^e). The wretch was fastened to a
wooden cross, and the executioner proceeded
to cut slices from him here and there, beginning
with the end of his nose, then cutting
off pieces of the arms, and breast, and
legs, bat carefully avoiding a vital part.
It is usual, in the case or this punishment,
for tbe friends of the condemned to bribethe
executioner to give the victim a fatal stab at
an early stage in tbe proceedings, but it happened
that the rebel had no money and no
triends in that vicinity, and besides the exe
cutioner was carefully watched bj the
officials. 80 the torture went slowly on for
fully an honr and a half, until the wretched
victim presented a moat hideous spectacle,
being denuded of the greater part of the
outer flesh and yet still alive.
At last the officer in charge ordered the
executioner to strike off the criminal's head.
The latter was ovidently conscious, for he
heard the order, and bent his head to re1
ceive the blow. Throughout the whole horrible
scene the victim never uttered a
1 groan or an appeal for mercy, although his
compressed lips showed that it was not without
effect that he maintained his apparent
stolidity. Several foreigners who were
present at the scene say that it was the most
1 cruel execution ever witnessed.
FOUfi WOMEN SLAIN. |
An Unknown Assassin's Bloody Wort
ar Dennison, Texas.
Between eleven p. m. and half-pist thre*
1 A. sc. an assassin at Dennison, Texas, sho
and killed four women, two of them leaden
of local society and two fa9t women.
The first victim was Mrs. Haynas, th?
i wife of Dr. Henry F. Haynes, prominent ir
business and social lire. Mrs. Hayne?, a
young and attractive woman, was assassin
ated while alone in her home or else taker
forcibly from it and put to death by her captor
outside and near the house. The re3i
s dence of Dr. Haynes is just outside the city
limits, on Woodland Boulevard, two and a
half miles southwest of the City Hall.
Five hours later, in the very heart of the
city. Hiss Teen Hawley was also shot and
killed in her room in her mother's cottage
home.
Dr. Haynes was absont at an Elk Lodge
mnnn hie ixrifa tuoc mnrHonuil Tl\a mnrHaror
' took her gold watch and chain, diamond
riu ' and earrings.
The assassin ibsn direct9.1 his steps to the
house of Mine. Rivers and fired from the
front porch through a widow; killing Maude
Kramer. After this ho crossed to the next
i streit, where he mortally wounded Rose
Stewart, who was about to retire to her
room at Mme. Williams's. This shot was
fired from the sidewalk, the ball entering
beneath the girl's right arm.
Hundreds of armed men went searching
for the assassin, aiding the Sheriff ana
county officers. Bloodhounds were brought
into service, but without success. <
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THE liKAMiS LuuLUUl.
Greatest Labor War in the His*
tory of the Stone Industry.
Work Stopped on Many Structures
in All the Large Cities.
The war between labor and capital in the
granite industries, which for months had
been oonflned to skirmishing, began in real
earnest a few days ago, and the conflict extended
through nearly every State in the
Union.
Dispatches received from all the points
involved stated that the New England
Granite Manufacturers' Association, comprising
the owners and operators of fifty two
quarries in Maine. NewHampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut,
carried out its threat to lock out
all the paving-block cutters and quarrymen
employed by its members because of the
strikes inaugurated by the pavers' unions in
New York and other cities.
By this move the greatest labor war in the
history of the stone industry was fully de
clared.
In .New York City the strike, which had
been ordered (or the purpose of bringing to
an end the lockout of 30,000 men from the
New England quarries, was begun at daybreak,
and before nightfall at least 50,000
men were idle in consequence. In that city
and Brooklyn about 600<0 men have stopped*
work.
As a result of the lockout in the quarries
"sympathy" strikes were ordered ail over
the United States, wherever a piece of stone
turned out by the New England Association
was used. The direct effects of the strike
were felt as far West as the Missouri River.
The number of locked-out men was in the
neighborhood of 15,000 men.
In New York and its vicinity alone the
strikers numbered about 30,000, including
paverf, granite cutters, longshoremen,
marble workers and rammermen. As the
Central Labor Union indorsed the action of
the pavers and their associate unions, every
other labor organization which had to do
with building was, of course, affected.
Beside the men directly employed in paving
anrl ^ninir st/tnA wnrir on hnildlnm the
strike included many branches of the
building trades, such as derrickmea, engineers,
truck drivers, brickmasons,
hodcarriers, plumbers, gasflttara, carpenters,
plasterers and ironworkers.
The effect on tbe building industry
was seriously felt in New York City,
Philadelphia, Washington. Albany, Chicago.
Milwaukee, St. Paul and Kansas City. The
New England Association supplies large
quantities of stone to all these cities.
Among: some of tbe principal structures
in New York on which the men were ordered
to quit work were the new B.'ack building,
tbe Mutual Life Building and Grant Monument;
in Brooklyn, the Memorial Arch and
all sorts of monument and tombstone work:
the Capitol, at Albany; Betz Brewery ana
Richmond Terminal building, at Philadelphia;
National Library at Washington
ana some of the World's Fair buildings at
Chicago.
The origin of this gigantic labor struggle
dates back to about the first of the year. According
to the paving cutters it has been
their custom and that of the contractors to
sign a scale of wages for each ensuing year
about May 1. This year, however, the contractors
insisted that the scale be signed January
1. The paving cutters refused, saving
that by so doing they would be at a disadvantage,
in that they could not make as
good terms as usual.
Tk?? nraitMnf/mi wrtrilri not vinlrf in t,h?
pavers of New York City took the matter
up and declared a strike unless the demands
oc their fellow-workmen, the paving-cutters,
were granted. The contractors retaliated
by locking out all their employed, and the
unions in turn ordered a general strike.
The strike was directed principally from
New York City and from Concord, N. H.,
where the Executive Council of the Granite
Cutters' National Union was in session. Secretary
Grant, of the Paving Block Cutters'
National Union, had his headquarters before
the lockout at Westerly. R. I., but
thev were moved to New York City in order
to give a better opportunity of directing all
the operation*.
Advices from Brooklyn, Washington,
Albany, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia
assured the strikers of large financial assistance.
Newark (N. J.) contractors declare
that if it bad not been for tae strike a Newark
firm would have been awarded a contract
for erecting the new postofflce there.
The granite trade in New England was
paralyzed and work will probably be at a
standstill for a long time. A conservative
estimate placed the number of locked out
quarrymen at about 30,000. They lived
mainly in Boston, Quincy, Monson, and Milford,
Mass.; Coucord, N. H.; Waterville,
Clark's Mills, and Portland, Me., and West*
erly. R. I.
All work has ceased in^ Concord, N. H.,
except at the New England Granite Company's
shops, where the association allowed
420 men to continue on some Government
work. In Barre, East Barre, Williamstown,
Montpelier, Northfleld and Hardwick, Vt.,
the lockout began in the yards of all concerns
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except me American wauite t-umpouj.
GARZA'S BEVOLPTIQN.
Ten of His Followers Killed on Mexican
Soil.
A dispatch from San Antonio, Texas,says:
The Garza revolution has broken out afresh.
The outlook is more sarious than during the
disturbance along the lower Rio Grande a
few months ago.
This is indicated by a telegram received
by Dr. Plutar Ornelias, Mexican Consul
at San Antonio. It is from ^General
Lorenzo Garcia, commander of the troops
in the field in the northern zone of Mexico,
with headquarters at Mier, in the State of
Tamaulipas, and reads:
"Lieutenant Indalecio-Sado, commanding
a detachment of cavalry, met and had an
engagement with a party of Garzi's revolutionists
at a place called La
Mecca, in this State. After a hardfought
battle the Government troops
won a victory over the invaders, killing ten
of the latter. Among those killed were
Julian Flores and Abelardo Dominguez,
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one soldier and three horses were killed.
The troops are in close pursuit of the remnants
of the band."
This band crossed t he Rio Qrande River to
Mexican territory at Ramif Ramineo crosssing.
Julian Plores, one of the revolutionists
killed, was a First Lieutenant in Qarza's
so-called army, and was under indictment in
the Federal Court at San Antonio on several
charges of violating the United States neutrality
laws.
He has been next to Garza in leading this
revolutionary movement, and in fact it has
been generally believed that he really did
the most of the planning. He had been a
political refugee from Mexico for several
years and was a brave man. He owned a
ranch of several thousand acres in Star
County, where he made his home before the
outbreak.
Since then he has lived in tin saddle, and
was successful in evading the numerous
United States scouting parties. It is estimated
that ho was surrounded by about 175
desperate men.
CENSUS BULLETIN.
The Population ol New YorJc, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The Census Office issuad a bulletin giving
the population of New York, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania in 1S9), by sax and nativity.
The total population of New York
is given as5,997,of which 2,976,893 were
males and 3,029,'JoJ females, 4,4.'iO,S3D3 native
and 1,571,030 foreign born.
New Jersey had a population of 1.444.903,
of which 720,819 were males an 1 721,114 females.
1,115,983 native and 328,975 foreign
born.
Pennsylvania's nopulation of 5.25S.014 was
made up of 2,6<W,331 males and 2,591,683 females,
of which 4,412,294 were native and
845,720 foreign born.
The number of males in the three States
has increased in the last decade 1,162,144, or
22.34 per cent. It is shown by accompanying
tables that the females in New York and
New Jersey in 1890 slightly predominated,
while in Pennsylvania the males wer*
slightly in excess.
BABON FAVA BETUBN8.
Italy and the United States Once Mort
in Fnll Rirmony.
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BABOW FAVA.
Baron Saverio Fava, Minister Plenipotentiary
from the Italian Government to the
United States, has, after a year's absence,
re burned to resume his Ministerial duties at
Washington. The Minister reached New
York on the steamer La Gascogne.
Baron Fava's departure from this country
about a year ago was due to the strained
relations between the United States and
Italy, which followed the Ivnchiog of eleven
Italians by a mob in New Orleans on March
15, 1892. The difference* having been
amicably adjusted, Baron t^ava is sent back
as proof of the kindly relations which the
Italian Government wishes maintained ba?
tween itself and the United States.
The welcome to Baron Fava by his Italian-American
friends was on an extensive
scale. The steamer Laura M. Starin was
chartered, and about 500 Italians went
down the bay to meet him. It was the
intention of the reception committee to
take the Baron off the ocean steamer to the
Laura M. Starin, but there was a heavy sea
and the captain of the pleasure boat refused
to go alongside the big ship. Consequently
the Minister remained on La Gasco/ne
until she reached her pier. It was
here that the Italian Minister
was formally welcomed by Coroner
Messemer, the Honorary President of the
United Italian Societies. The Baron waa
not taken to a hotel from the pier. He was
escorted aboard the Laura M. Starin, which
steamed op and down the North River until
it was time for him to go to the Pennsylvania
station and take the 3 o'clock train for
Washington.
To a reporter the Barou said: "The New
Orleans trouble will not have any effect in
prejudicing Itlay against the United 8tates
In the Bering Sea arbitration. Let bygones
be bygonos. The King and Queen of
Italy take a great deal of interest in the coming
VVorld's Pair and send a private commissioner
to this country. In regard to any
special mission outside my regular diplomatic
work, the only thing is to cement
more firmly the frendship of our two countries."
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
Wth Day.?The SeDate agreed to appropriate
$50,(XX) toward the expenses of the
baval review at the Columbian Exposition
The Naval Appropriation bill was considered
Mr. Call introduced a raaolutioa
i Miring for the appointment of a joint committee
to inquire into the condition at Cuba
and the islands known as the Greater Antilles.
Bahamas and th9 Lesser Antilles or
Windward Islands Mr. Daw6s intro- ;
duced a joint resolution directing the President
to proclaim a general holiday commenoratin?
the 400th anniversary of the
discovery of America on October 12, 1892.
95th Dat.?The consideration of the
Naval bill was resumed and several minor
amendments were proposed by Mr. Hale and
agreed to The River and Harbor bill
was reported. The gross increase made by
the Senate Committee is $1,951,143 ?
Mr. Gorman spoke in favor of adequate appropriations
for public works Sir. Quay
introduced a bill appropriating $1,000,000
for the purchase of a site and the erection
of a mint in Philadelphia.
96th Dat.?Funeral services over the
body of Senator Barbour, of Virginia, were
held in the Senate Chamber, Bishop Keane,
of the Catholic University, officiating.
97th Day.?The Naval Appropriation bill
was again considered. Mr. McPnerson's
amendment being rejected, thirty to eighteen
Mr. Hale introduced a bill for the relief
of the sufferers by the wreck of the United
States steamship Despatch on Assateague
Shoales, Va., in 1891 Mr. Chandler introduced
a bill to authorize the registration of
steamships and vessels of the United State!
wnich are to be built by the Americar
Steamship Company, of which Austit
Corbin is to be the head. The company wil]
have a capital of at least 110,000,000. Ita
vessels wih plv between New York City oi
some port on Long Island and Great Britain
98th Dat.?The Naval Appropriation bill
with all the Senate amendments intactbattleship,
double-turreted monitor, foui
light-draft cruisers and six torpedo boatspassed
by a vote of thirty-three to eighteen
In the Honae.
IO&th Dat.?Mr. Oates introduced a reso
lution asking for an investigation of the
Pinkerton Detective Agency The Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill was further considered.
109th Dat.?Speaker Crisp laid before thfl
House a letter from the Acting Secretary of
the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of
deficiency in the appropriation for pension!
for the current fiscal year of $7,674,333, and
recommending that the deficiency be sup
plied by reappropriating that sum from thi
unexpended balance of $8,834,079 remaining
to the credit of pensions for the fiscil year of
1891 The day was spent in consideration
of the Sibley claim.
110th Day.?Mr. Stone introduce.! a re3o
lution providing for the appointment of a
special committee of five to investigate ttw
affairs of the Freedman's Bank and tht
Freedman's Saving and Trust Company ?
The remainder of the session was devoted to
the private calendar.
11 1th Dat.?Consideration of the Sundry
Civil bill was resumed The House then
adjourned to the Senate Chamber to parcici
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of the lata Senator John 3. Barbour, of Virginia.
113th Day.?Consideration of the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill was continued ?
Mr. Bryan introduced a bill placing rouih
lumber on the free list and reducing dutiet
on manufactures of wood.
113th Day.?Consideration of the Sundrj
Civil Appropriation bill was continue i, Mr
Holrnan yielding to an increase in thi
amouDt set aside for the surveys of publii
lands Mr. Ueary introduced the Htscocl
bill to admit the Pacific Mail steamshi)
China to American registry. ,
DEATH BY ELECTRICITY.
Successful Execution of Tlce at the
Anbnrn (M. Y.) Prison.
Joseph Lt. Tice, the Rochester wife murderer,
was executed by electricity at 6:39
o'clock a few mornings ago in Auburn (N.
Y.) Prison.
The execution is considered a great success.
There was nothing revolting about it.
The witnesses saw no burning of flash, no
exhalation of air from the lungs, no struggling
of the victim. The murderer met his
fate calmly. He was apparently unmoved
while being strapped in the chair, and be
had nothing to say at the last.
The electric current was turned into the
body four times, each contact being brief.
The physician in charge believe! that better
results would bo obtained in this way than
with two long contacts. The complete time
of contact was fifty seconds.
At the request of Dr. Daniels, Drs. Baker
and Irvine examined the body. They said
there was no pulsation whataver. Tice was
dead. The other pnysi'vsus also examined
the body a little late:. All agreed that Tice
had passed into eternity the instant the first
contact was made. A close examination of
the body showed no marks or burns upon it.
FLOODED BK A WA'IWUUT.1
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Terrible Loss of Life in a Hungarian
Goal Mine.
Scores of Miners Drowned Like
Bats in a Fit.
Dispatches from Fuenfkirchen, in Hungary,
say that a waterspout bunt orar the
mine* near the city, a few daya ago, and
flooded them, and that between eighty and
100 miners, if not mart, hare been drowned. The
flood came shortly after noon. The
atmosphere had been heavy and the temper'
ature high all the morning: An hour before
the waterspout burst the wind, which had :
been from the south, shifted to the east and
droreuporer the mountains near Peetvar
rad a huge mass of clouds, at first yellowish
gray but quickly deepening to dead black.
The clouds were whirled along the crest of
the mountains by the wind, which roae to a
eale. until over the mountains skirting the
coal fields on the north they had mnmnrf.
the form of an enormous cone, with it* apar
almost resting on the mountain top.
The men at the month of the pits ooaeaii'
work, aad two ganza of men from the ptt
nearest the mountain became alarmed aad refused
to descend. They started for their,
homes to wait for the storm to blow over.
Suddenly the wind shifted to the north,
the darkneas increased and the cone wir,
swept directly over the collieries. It bars*
a moment later and the water came dowais j
a deluge, sweeping the men from their fMfc '
wrecking the shanties and pouring in floods
down the shafts.
Large buildings were swept from their
foundations, the roofs were crushed in aad.
furniture and tools were carried through0
shattered doors and windows by the wiad
and water. ' /;
Several men standing in the pit entrance*
disappeared in the first rush of the flood,aad
were supposed to have been carried down tha
shaft witn the water and wreckage.
In the mines the full force of men were at
work. The total number was said to approximate
300 or 400. They had absolutely
no warning. /
The lower galleries in several mines were
said to hare bean completely flooded, al*'
though the water did not rise to the upper.
galleries;
Inoae pit there were fifteen deadf ia
another seven; in another nine. That*
olume of water broke with a rushing
MnAwf ala'pmo/1 fha wXaIa rtlfc* AM
within thirty minutes thousands of men ttdl
women were harrying oat to the scan* at
destruction.
Volunteers were called for at all the pits, '
and men from the night shifts war* Hot
down the shaf ts, which had been left reasonably
safe, to rescue their comradas.
The first descent was made in the min*
where about fifteen men were at work <m>
the lowest level. The men in the upper gat'-;:
lories were found uninjured and were carriqi
to the top.
Nobody in the lowest gallery was alive to-,
tell the story. The mine was flooded at that
level, and several bodies were found floatiaff;
i in the water and were sent up.
nips!
JOHN S. BABBOUB.: '
Virginia's Junior Senator Dies SudUdenly
in Washington.
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Senator Barbour, of Virginia, died tad*'
denly at his residence in Washington a fair
mornings ago at 6:30 o'clock. He awakened**
shortly before and aroused Captain Sh4p<
herd, of Warreztoo, Va., who was his
euast, saying that he was ill, and asked,
him to send for a physician. Returningto
his own room. Senator Barbour lav .
down and died within ten minutes. Ttta
physician prononncad the cause of deattt
heart failure. There was do premonition of'
death. In 1880, while in Europe, Senator!
Barbour experienced a similar attack, bat
it soon passed away. List week, at thairaces,
he complained of a similar feeling,
but it was not severe enough to
disturb him any nor causa him to.
abandon anv of nis duties. He was in the '
Senate the day before as usual, in the;
morning attended a meeting of tho Committee
on the Affairs of tne District of
Columbia. Senator Barbour left no im-/
mediate family. His wife's sister, M1m\
Dangerfield, presided over his household,an4<
a brother resides in Culpeoar, Va.
John S. Barbour was the junior Senator )
from Virginia in point of servica, though'!
the senior in years. He was born in Colpeper
County, Virginia, on December 2Sfc '.
1830. He graduate! from tha school of tha
University of Virginia in 1843, and began,
the practice of law in his native county. >
Born of a family of politician^ young!
Barbour became prominent in the politics of I
Culpepar County, and at the age of twentjH
seven was sent to the Legislature. . j
He was re-elected to serve in three succea- H
sive sessions of that body. Mr. Barbour^H
I then abandoned official life to engage ac-^l
tively in business, and did not resume his^B
political career until his election to tha^H
I Forty-seventh Congress. During the
terim of nearly thirty years he wai^B
engaged in several lar^e enterprisaa.^H
In 1852 he was elected President^?
of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad and^f
served in that caoacity until that road waa^H
merged in the Virginia Midland Railroad^H
when he was made President of that roa<H|
until 1S33, when he resigned. Eepresenta^H
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eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, and
chosen by the Virginia Legislature, uiH
Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the^B
expiration of the term of United!?
States Senator Harrison H. Puddl?> H
berger, Readjustee He took his seat oaH
March 4, 1889, and his terra of service would H
have expired March S, 1895. Senator Bar^H
bour was of large figure, mora than six fee^H
tall, with an inclination to stoop. Lo*cS|
curly, iron-gray locks and a heavy limmta'n^^B
of the same color set off his ruddy face an^H
made the man a noticaable figure in anv aJM|
semblage. The dead Senator resided/mI
Alexandria. He was a childless widowerJ^H
LYNOHED IS THE CIT^. 9
Hangc<l to a Telegraph Pole /in thoH
Centre ot Little Rock./
Henry James, mulatto, twenty-two years flj
old, employed about the house of Charloa fl|
Johnston, at Little Rock, Ark., assaulted the H
five-year-old daughter of the latter during H
the temporary absence of the family.
was arrested and placed in the county jaiL^B
At 9 o'clock at night a crowd of 1000 mea^H
surrounded the jail.
The mob broke open the gates, secured
the prisoner, and started with him to tbe^H
residence of Mr. Johnston, where he wiuf^H
identified. 92
The mob then marched to Fifth and UtaH
streets, in the very heart of the city, op-SI
posite the Masonic Temple. James at first^l
denied his guilt, but finally admitted it A^H
">m war thrown across the arm of a larg?H
telegraph pole, and James was soon swinging^?
in mid-air. He was no sooner drawmnj^H
than the mob opened fire on hicn and hi^H
body was riddled with bullets. M|
STATE CAPITOL BOESED. I
New Mexico's $1,000,000 Stractuxe^H
Totally Destroyed.
At 8 o'clock, a few evenings ago, smoke^H
was seen issuing from the roof <}JL an attic^H
near the base of tha south dome of
Mexico's Capitol building in Santa Fa.
uens at once drew up the tire bose to tbflM
spot, but only to find that the water fromH|
the water works bad been shut off from th^H
building and grounds, and it at once beoime^H
evident that the structure was doomed. The^B
vaults are uninjured. Owing to quarrels it^H
the late Legislature uo money was appropri-^H
ated to pay for insurance, and the policiei^H
were allowed to expire. Ths building wa^H
alued at $l,00(i,0'K^ and is a total losi. H
The electuc-fight trust, that de^B
manrtnH StSfi Sft nar am lamn fnr il^H
lum-inating the World's Fair grounds^B
admits that it made a mistake. Wha^H
it meant to demand was $20. Ther^H
Is a general suspicion that all It coult^R
get wad about the size of the flgur^f
that the trust was after. gH