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PE1SYL7M A-FLOOD. LIVES SACRIFICED IN RUSHma WATERS. Railroads Greatly Crippled?Indus* , trial Institutions Forced to Shut Down ? Bridges Washed AwayDams Broken ? Houses Swept From Their Foundations. Though there has been great destruction of. property by the Pennsylvania floods, there has been bat little loss of life, and, according to the latest dispatches, the water; generally were receding, so that the worst . was considered to be over. For five days and nights wnstern and central Pennsylvania were storm swept. Cloud bursts occurred at different points, lives have have been lost, booms have been torn to pieces, and immense quantities of valuable timber scattered. Many county and railroad bridges have been carried away. Miles of railroad tract | nave oeen eituer oomeraiou vy esttsuaivc i landslides or washed away by the floods. In the five days the rainfall In Pittsburg was J S.23 inches. In the Allegheny Valley, at Warren, it was 6.91 inches. At Oil Citr, 5.01; at Johnstown, 4.31; in the Monongaheta j Valley, at Confluence, it was 2.81; at Fair- : mont, 1.56; at Look 4, on the Monongahela, St was 2.50; at Bowlesborg, on the Cheat Hirer, it was 5.45. In some sections the memorable floods of 1889 and 1891 were surpassed by several feet. This was the case in the Juniata Valley of southern and southwestern Pennsylvania and along the west fork of the Susquehanna Biverin-the northern central portion of the State. The Pittsburg and Western tracks in Allegheny were covered. TrafSc between Pittsburg and Altoona was suspended, tho Pennsylvania trains going around by the Baltitimote and Ohio. * * ?K^nf aon nnn ai lUa'UVtU luo iuoo nt? awui v*>v,uvvi During the flood lime in the slacking process catmd a Are, which burned the Oil Well Supply Company's warehouse. Fireman who were engaged in rescuing flood sufferers had to turn their attention to fighting the ilre. This they did standing waist deep 'u water. At Wnrren the flood was the greatest since j 1873. Business was practically suspended. Bow boats took the place of street cars in the lower part of the city. On the Island the water reaohed into the second stories of the houses. In the west end four feet of | water covered about eight squares. At Brookville the Allegheny Valley Railroad bridge was washed away, and passengers were transferred In busses bv a roundabout way. The' Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg tracks were washed o-it between i Du Bois and Punxsutawney, an 1 traffic was suspended. The Philadelphia and Erie F. nd east of Driftwood was flooded. A briuge on the Clearfield and Mahoning, near Curwensville, Was swept away, and traffic on that line was nspeu'ied. The lower portion of Freeport was wider water, and the loss ran into the thousands. The same situation prevailed at Newp >rf. In Allegheny William Welghtman, aged alnet-en, while trying to capture driftwood from the Allegheny lost his balance and fell In, aivl was swept away and drowned. Hlxam A. Glllen, a teamster, was drowned bile attempting to ford an overflowed place < en he rsebcok. in Sharp3burg. The ?rreat boom at Williamsport broke and 60,000,000 feet of logs were swept away. The Susquehanna Biver rose to i thirty-three feet, more than four feet higher tiuui at the flood in 1889. Four spans of the Market street bridge were washed away, and three of the four span3 of the Maynard street bridge have gone. Both were iron structures, and the loss was heavy. The entire city was under water from four to twenty feet. Many sawmills and houses in the lower part of the city were swept away. The loss reached more than a million dollars. At Johnstown the Conemau^h was over its bank?. The alarm was sounded bv the Are whistles and bells of the olty, and almost all of the people who live in the neighborhood of the Conemaugh left 'aeu houses and- took shelter on higher ground. The -water continued to rise rapidly, a ad by 3 . 'dock had reached the highest point since * the big flood of May SI, 1889. ~ In many places It was from six to eight feet over the oanks. The loss is variously estimated at from ?75,000 to $150,000. The Pennsylvania Eailrotd Company, whose tracks follow the *iver for twenty-five miles above Johnstown, M perhaps the neavlest loser, and its loss is placed at 950,000. On the north bank of the river, at the Pennsylvania freight depot, is a side traok built upon an aan ana cinaer oam: nrry iaer aoove the bed of the stream. This embankment tu washed oat and at 4 o'clock about 200 feet of the track fell Into the water, carrying Wltn it four common box cars loaded with merchandise and a palace horse car. In one of the box cars were fire tramps. Three sue eeled in escaping, but two were drowned. The greatest damage to houses was within a tone's throw of the Pennsylvania station. A tore,owned by Tony George, at the north end of the Lincoln bridge, was completely swept <Way; with all Its contents. A frame building In the rear of the Grand Central Hotel, o.waed by Emanuel Janes, was also swept away, as was the Startler residence on the opposite bank of the river, 'xhe body of a " Stood victim floated past the city at mod, but could not be recovered. Tb* Lincoln bridge was badly damaged by ue floating loss and cars. The bridge at Cambria was also wrecked. Many dwelltags In the Second and Thirteenth Wards and In the Woodvale district were 6wept way. The dams at Loretto and at Wild woo J Springs broke during tho storm. Hundreds of feet of the stone-retainlog wall along the Conemaugh has been swept away, entailing thousands of 4oliars' k>cs upon the city. At Wood vole, a mile below. Almost every house on the main thoroughfare, Maple avenue, was Inundated. f^Tbree bridges have been carried away on the Fine Grove division of the Beading Bailroad at Suedberg, Stony Creek and Dauphin, and traffic was completely checked. The reports from the coal regions, especially in the vicinity of Shenandoah, say thut many of the 4 eollerias have been flooded and it may take week to pump them out. Above the dam at the Philadelphia water works the Schuylkill Btver had room to spread over the grass lands and driveways f Falzmount Park, and the damage there was confined principally to washouts on tho drives. Below the dam the waters overBowed the wharves and backed up iuto tho streets and houses two squares from the banks. Above South street bridge a fl9et of ehooneis was moored at the wharves, and one of them was tom from Its moorings and awept down upon another schooner and within a few minutes six schooners and a canal boat were whirling down the river in tangled mass toward the bridge. All the Industrial establishments in thd southern section of Harrisburg, including the Iron and steel plants, shut down. The damage along the Lewlsburg und Tyrone EaKr^a*. that runs to Beileronte. Is very great. Several bridals have been carried away. There are extensive washouts, and it will >?e weeks before traffic) can be resumed. Hundreds of families were left homeless and de?titute. Two children, one a girl of one year, the other a boy of seven years of age, belonging to Jobn KrusekoskI, at Nantlcoke, were drowned at Wiikesbarre. They fell into a Teek that was swollen by the recent rains. They both went down and out of eight before assistance could b? rendered. ' Their bo'li-s were carried down the stream about 6f>a feet and were found an hour later. .. Ev.-rv colliery of the Beading Company except Bast an I Preston No. 3. uear Ashland, an i Baechwood, near Pottsville, were idle. The collieries ot the Lehich Valley Coal Company and all of the individual operators were aiso Ailed with water. The extent of Ihe dnmace to collieries and railways cannot be correctly estimated, but it will certainly go over $100,000. The Schuylkill Blver was never so higb. John Brown, aged seventeen, was drowned while trying to cross a creek at Forestville. Edward Evans, an old man, was reported drowned near Heckscherville. A big gypsy eamp near Tremont was washed oat and several members perished. Among these as a woman and her new-born babe. At Mahanoy City, in order to prevent tho blockading of the culverts and creeks, all ihe bridges were torn down and the obstructions removed 80 as to srive free passage to the flood. This precaution was also taken at Girardville. The Beading Bailroad either lost completely or bad badly damaged at ... I feast twenty bridges ia this one coanty, be! sides mach havoc with embankmenLs. I The abntment wall of the Lehigh Coal anc ! Navigation Company basin, opposite Eastoi ind right below the big railroad bridge, gav< tray, precipitating a torrent of water dlrectlj igainst the piers of me new Driase connect! Ing the Pennsylvania with the New Jersej Central and Lehigh Valley roads. The strain was tremendous, for the break was clean ind sudden, fully seventy-live feet o wall going down, releasing a body of watei twenty-five feet deep. The wall was an averse of ten feet in thickness, and it will oost it least 312.000 to repair the Carnage. The :anal banks are washed away In various places, and it will be several months before Navigation can be resumed. The break will jeriously affect business on the Morris Canal, as the Lehigh Canal was a feeder. The breast of the dam at Springton, on the Downlngton and Waynes burg Railroad, hroke about 10 o'clock a. m. The dam covered about fifty acres, and the vast body oi water swept everything before It down the valley. The damage to farm property is large. The bridge at Brandywlne, on the Chester Creek Railroad, was carried away. At Alexandria the citizens were forced to abandon their houses. Four new iron county bridges and one wooaon uriaife nave ueeu destroyed, entailing a loss of nearly $50,000 on the county. Elmer Wagner was drowned at Everett. Thousands of acres of growing crops have been destroyed and many farms covered with Band to the depth of four feet. The Bethlehem Iron Company plant was forced to shut down owln* to inundations. Not since the memorable flood of 1862 have the Lehigh, Jordan and Little Lehigh Rivers been so wild ana destructive. All industries along the banks were idle, and water has gotten into many of them, damaging thousands of dollars' worth of goods. The silk mill, furniture factories, flour mill, paint works, wire mill, cigar factory, planing mill and foundry were all flooded. The city was placed in darkness, the electric lights having been flooded. At Hokendaqua a new bridge, costing 840,000, has probably been Irreparably damaged. Every colliery In the Lehi<*h region was drowned out. and fully 10,000 men were made idle. THE LAB0B W0ELD, XT requires xorcy men 10 muse an ax. Labob Unions In China are 3000 years old. Labob Is more fully employed than a year ago. A blacksmith in Jerusalem can mate SI. 91 per week. Or the 25,000 bookbinders In this country only 5000 are organized. The Swiss watch Industry Is suffering from severe depression. A Beef-Boxebs' Union has been organized in Kansas City, Mo. The union clerks at Nashville, Teno., have organized a fife and drum corp3. Tee initiation fee of Laborers' Union Protective Society has been raised to $10. The number of textile workers In thfc country is estimated at about 800,000. A movement Is on foot to increase the wages of boys in glass factories ten pei cent. Chicago's Health Commissioner will organize forty medical students as sweat shop inspeotors. The fourth annual convention of the National Textile Union was held recently in Philadelphia. The 'Longshoremen's National Union is now about one year old, and it has thirtytwo local branches. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers held, recently, its annual National Convention at St. Paul, Minn. The labor organizations in Jersey Citj Heights, N. J., formed an association to establish a Labor Lyceum in that vicinity. Is consequence of the coal strikes in tbis country Scotch mine owners were asked to tender shipments of coal for the Unit ad States. President McBbide estimated that 175,090 out of the 194,003 bituminous coal miners in the United States joined the strike. Business men of New York City, who have in their employment 20,000 bojrs. have determined to Rivo tho preference t- >ys that de not smoke cigarettes. The oldest guild in England Is the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. It still enjoys the ancient right of inspecting any smith's shop within four miles of the boundary of London. The first contract given out for stone under the recent New York State law, which provides that all stone used in the Stato or municipal work shall be cut and dressed in and by citizens of the State, is for the court house n[ Bensselaer County. The price is $110,000. DEVELOP THE SOUTH. A Powerful Association Organized to Colonize Lands. The Manufacturers' Becord states that a (HOV\;U?l4VU UttO WWU VigMUNiUU WJ leading capitalists, bankers and railroad officers, Tinder vhe name of the Southern Immigration. Land and Title Company, the purpose of which Is to colonize and develop Southern lands, and In general to direct Immigration and investment to ttie South. The scope and plans of the company are on the broadest scale, and It will have In the United States and European countries the widest and most influential connections. The main offloe will bo in Baltimore, with agencies and branches in Important centers In this country and in Cauada and Qreat RWtoln nnrl nn tha r?r?nHnnnf The projectors of the company have been for some years Identified with Southern development, and are all men of noted ability and business sagacity. The President of the company is Hon. Chauncoy F. Black, o! Pennsylvania; First Vice-President, Mr. Julius S. Oarr, the millionaire tobacco manufacture, of Durham, N. C.; Second VicePresident, Mr. M. Erakine Miller, of Staunton, probably the largest individual coal hind orner in the Virginias; Third VicoPresident and General Manager, Mr. A. A. Arthur, one of the leaders In Southern development. Among the dtrectors are: Hon. John R. Proctor, President of the United States Civil Service Commission; Dr. C. W. Dabney, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture; John Skellon William*, banker, of Richmond, Va., C. B. Orcum. President of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company: Governoi W. A. MacCorkle, of West Virginia; W. A Turk, general passenger agent of the Richmond and Danville Railroad . W. H. Fuller general passenger agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad; Edwin Fitzgerald, traffl* manager of the East Tennessee, Virginia ant Georgia Railroad, and other leading business men identified with Southern growth. COMMONWEALERS GUILTY. Coxey, Browne and Jones Sentenced to Jati. Judge Killer, In the Police Court at Washington. sentenced Coxey. Browne and Christopher Columbus Jones to twenty days' imprisonment in jail for displaying a banner In the Capitol grounds on the occasion of the May day demonstrations. Cosey and Browne were also sentenced to $5 fine or ten days' imprisonment in default thereof for trespassing on the Capitol grass. FIGHTING IN SALVADOR More ThaD Tlirce Thousand Men Killed in Desperate Battles. There has been very flerco fighting in Salvador since May 15 between fia National troops and the rebels. A series of desperate battles havo been fought, with severe losses on both side?. More than three thousand troops have been killed and many wounded. The crisis has been reached In the struggle between the opposing forces and decisive battles are now being fought. At a council of the Spantsn Cabinet It wa< decided to pay $17,000 in gold, equal tc 823,000 In Spanish currency, as an indemnltj ei the Amnncan Methodist missionary whe as unlawfully expelled from the Caroline Elands when Spain annexed that territory, .? L\ *_* .. . j t * \ JOSEPH I i i Hie New York City Lawyer Who Is * the New York Constltutic r : : ^ tn I FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. miu? A lie ^cunici 107tn Day.?Mr." Morgan introduced a resolution directing Attorney-General OIney to tall what has been done to enforce the Anti1 Truit law.-:?The. Senate adopted the resolution for an investigation of the attempted bribery and Sugar Trust charges so broadened as to include speculations by Senators j in trust stocks. Republicans filibustered from 6 p. m. until 10.30 p. m. against a motion to take a recess. 108th Day.?Vice-President Stevenson appointed Messrs. Gray, Lindsay, Lodge, Davis ' and Allen a committee to investigate the alleged bribery and Sugar Trust scandals. All but a few paragraphs of schedules A and B of the Tariff bill were disposed of. The Senate will hereafter meet at 10 o'clock. 109th Dai.?The Senate passed the House bill, amending the aot of 1890 fixing regula' tions to prevent collisions at sea; the House bill to facilitate the entry of steamships at i I American ports; "Mr. Hoar's Anti-Lottery bill, amended so as not to apply to charita( ble drawings ;the bill to ratify theagreement . with the Yuma Indians In California for the cession of their surplus lands. The discussion of the Tariff bill was continued, the entire metal schedule being disposed of.' 1 110th Dat.?A lively and ratner personal i debate on the Iron ore clause of the Tariff bill occupied the whole day. 111th Day.?The Tariff bill was considered all day. Some progress was made i with the metal schedule, the duty on iron . ore being fixed at fortv cents a ton. 112th Dat.?The Tariff debate was continued, its principal feature being a speech [ by Mr. Gorman. Mr. Teller moved as a test vote that the Tariff bill be laid on the table. 'JL'lio senate rerusoa oy n vote ut ' yeas to 33 nays to adopt the motion. The House. 128th Day.?The Agricultural Appropriation bill was passed. 129th Day.?The first half hour was spent in passing a resolutionto give the Committee on Railways and Canals a clerk. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appro( priatlon bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole. Under an agreement reached by the leaders, after an hour's skirmishing, gen1 eral debete on the bill was closed at 5 ' o'clock. The most of the afternoon was occupied with a discussion of the matter of "docking" members for absent days, which took a wide range. At 5 o'clock the House , look a recess under the rules until 6 o'clock, the evening session being for the eonsideration of private pension and relief bills. 130th Day.?By an overwhelming vote it was decided that the law authorizing the docking of members' pay had been reEealed. Paul J. Sorg, of Ohio, was sworn i as a Representative. 131st Day.?The House directed the Naval | Committee to investigate the armor-plate charges. A resolution looking to popular election of Senators was reported favorably. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole; the item for salaries of the Civil Service Commission and its employes was stricken out. ' 132d Day.?The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole. THOUSANDS LOST. Devastation Wrought by the Earthquake in Veneznela. The earthquake-of April 23th, though violently shaking Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, did not cause any serious damage there. It has proved, however, to h^e been the severest since the groat shock of 1812. That Holy Thursday, wh?n the entire city was destroyed and 20,000 persons were killed, is ever fresh in the minds of the Caraqaenians, and great sympathy Is now felt for the sufferers in the State of Los Andes, near the borders of Colombia. The Governor reported to President CrespothatMerida. | the capital of the State, and the villages ol Egldos, Lagunlllas, San Juan and Chigaara had been totally destroyed, and that Tabay, Mn on rat n.. Timotes and Trujillo had also suf fered severely. The loss of life in Merida alone was sapposed to be at least 7000 or 8000, and in the entile Republic about 10.000 or 12,000. These figures are being gradually reduced, however, and now the story is that there were three distinct shocks, the first one being so light that many ol the people had time to escape into the streets. There was enough distress evident, however. to warrant the acting American Minister, R. M. Barleman, cabling to his [ State Department that assistance would be j appreciated. But the Venezuelans are not depending upon the charity of foreigners, for already President Crespo has suggested an appropriation, and within twelve hours > 200,000 bolivares were put at the disposal of a relief committee. ) m ' . EIGHT MEN KILLED, Two Trains Collide in the Middle oi a Tunnel. A disastrous wreck occurred at 10 o'clock a. m. on the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Railroad, at Standing Rock tunnel, near Princeton, Ky. Extra freight train No. 602 crashed into a pile driver train with a boarding car ati tacbed. The pile driver train was backing i with the boarding car in front, when the two trains met in the middle of the tunne). Conductor "Nick" Hill, of the pile driver tr*ia, and seven occupants of the boarding car wero killed. EEE EYES GOUGED OUT. An Anglo-Japanese School Teacher Preaches Against a Native Deity. Advices by the Empress of India stato that Miss Imhoff, a teacher in the Anglo-Japanese school at Yonowaza, Japan, went intc i the temple devoted to the god Useyug on i the day devoted by the natives to the wor[ ship of that god and preached against the worship of graven images, and snnering at i the native deity. At the conclusion of the i Bermon Miss Imhoff was chased, knocked down with stone3 and her eyes put out. i The woods in some places near Greensr boio, N. C., are fairly alive with the seven> teen-year locusts. They can be heard for a i long distance and when among them the , noise drowns out everrthinxr elaa. L OHOATE. Presiding Over the Deliberations of mal Convention at Albany. MWM* ? I 1 Ml BANI BUM THE LONG VIEW,TEXAS.FBST NATIONAL LOOTED. A Gang Invade the Institution and Begin to Shoot at Once?They Get a Lot of Money, Kill One Citizen, Injure Several Others, Lose One of Their Own Men, and Dash Away. At 3 p. m. a few days ago two rough-looking men walked into the First National Bank at Longview. Texas. One had a rifle con| cealed under his coat He handed this note I to President Ciemmens . Home, May 23. | First National Bank. Longriew: This will Introduce to you Charles Speck? Jemeyer. who wants some money and is fjoing to hare it. B. and F. It whs written In pencil legibly on the hack of a printed poster. The bank Presi[ dent tboucht It a subscription to pome charity, and started to ask for particulars, when | the stranger pointed his rifle at him aad told him to hold up his hands. The other man rusher! iato the I side wire door and grabbed the cash. I Tom Ciemmens, cashier, and the other bank officials also were ordered to hold up their bands. The robbers hurriedly emptied the | tills and went into the vault?, securinc S2000 and three 810 and nine $20 unsigned Loneview bank notes, which may lead to de tection. | While this was coins on two confederates were in the rear alley shooting at every on? who appeared. Thev were soon belnc fired on by Cltv Marshal Muckleroy and Deputy Marshal Will Stevens. The firing made the robbers in the bank nervous, and they hurried the bank officers out and told them to run. This was done to save their lives. Bullets flew thick and fast, and the bank men hastened around the corner with sevaral shots flying after them. George Buckingham, who was shooting at the robbers in the alley, was shot and killed. While he was lying on the ground the robbers shot at him several times. City Marshal MuokJeroy, who was shooting at another robber, received a ball in the abdomen. The ball glanced up from some silver dollars he hadln his pocket, but it was partly spent. J. W. McQueen, a saloon keeper, thinking the shots were for a flra alarm, ran out In the allev and was shot in the body and it was thought that he was i-u_ uiun.auy nuuuuou. Charles S. Leonard was walking through the Court House vard and was shot in the leg, necessitating amputation. T. C. Summers was shot in the left band. Deputy Will Stevens was not hurt, though he stood in short range and killed one of the robbers. The bank officials all escaped unhurt, except T. E. Clemmens, who In the scuffle with the robbers got hi3 hand where the hammer of a robber's pistol came down, and was badly hurt. The robbers who stood guard in the nllej would yell at every one who came in sight and shoot iastantly. The robbers so terrorized the community that they escaped and rode away. The body of the dead robber was soon identified as George Bennett. The dead robber was dressed like a cowboy, with high-heeled boots and spurs, and a belt lull of cartridges, and two doubleaction revolvers. His horse, which was ?aptured, had 300 rounds of ammunition strapped to the saddle. Another of the robbers, Jim Jones, the man who gave President Clemmens the note, was identified by several. He married a respectable vonng ~"m"" noon Tifvitvllle last fall, but later went to Mexico. He was well known at Longview, having worked at a mill four miles from there. It is thought Bennett has a brother In the gang; If so, only one man remains to be Identified. The robbejs rode rapidly out of town, disElaying their firearms and the money they ad got. An armed posse was soon in pursuit and when last heard of was fifteen minutes behind them. The bank offered 8500 for their arrest, dead or alive, and the citizens supplemented the amount by $200 more. Deputy John Howard was shot at about fifteen times, but not hurt. He emptied his pistol several times and wounded one robber in the face. No less than 200 shots were fired. The robbers started out of town, going by the home of George Bennett's wife and the mill where Jim Jones worked. COLUMBIA INSPECTED, The Cruiser Makes a Satisfactory Showing in Deep Water. The United States cruiser Columbia returned to League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Penn., after her deep sea inspection. She left her mooring at the Navy Yard accompanied by an official trial board. The inspection included testing boilers, screws, alx-inch guns and drilling of the crow. The tost with tho screws was satisfactory, the vessel doveloplng 18>? knots an hour under natural drnught, without any particular effort being mado to force her, this being considered an excellent result for a vessel lying so deep in the water. The other teats wore satisfactory with tho exception of a few trifling defects in the guns. BLOODTHIRSTY REBELS, Three Thousand Coreans Murder the Governor and Forty Officials. At Tslng-La-Tao three thousand Coreans. dissatisfied with tho Government, assailed the Government quarters, wrecked the buildings and murdered tho Governor and forty clerks belonging to various departments. The rioters then invaded the town of Seoul, whore they wore met by one thousand Chineso soldiers and chocked, after one hundrod of their number had been killed. Tho exact amount paid by the King of Corea for tho murder of Kim has been ascertained to bo 2000 yen. Sakdow, the Strong Man, has been matched to wrestle Colonel Boone's lion at San Francisco. The lion will bo muzzled and havo his olaws clipped. Tho match is the outcome ?f tho recent failure to bring off a match between the lion and a bear. On the day that the twenty-flve-cent rato of admission to the Mid-winter Fair, San Francisco, went into effect, though the weather was decidedly inclement. 20,459 people passed throush the turnatiU* A LAKE MICH1GM SALE. MANX SAHOBS DEOWNED IN VTETW OF THOUSANDS. Scores of Schooners Foundered ? Helpless Vessels Go to Destruction?Life Savers Did Many Heroic Deeds ? Chicago?1* Fire Department and Regular Soldiers Assist. Heavy loss of life and immense damage to shipping Is the result of the severe storm that swept Lake Michigan, the mercury dropping from eighty degrees at 10 o'clock in the morning to fifty at i o'clock in the afternoon. The western shore of the lake from Michigan City to Two Rivers was strewn with wreckage, and off the breakwater, on the Chicago and Evanston shores, many vessels were pounded to pieces and several capsized. Fifteen to twenty lives were known to be lost, and the number, it was thought on the morning after the storm, would undoubtedly reach thirty, ~ad probably two score or more. On two wrecks directly off the Government pier at Twelfth street and Thirty-first street, Chicago, men were clinging to hull or rigging all day, the elements defying the best endeavors of Government and volunteer life savers. At Fort Sheridan Colonel Crofton ordered out the entire Fifteenth Infantry to patrol the beach and watch the wreckage and help in every way to save human life that was endangered by the storm. Troops B and K of the Seventh flAvalrv. of TnrHan trar famn did yeoman service, and battled about in the fort's life saving apparatus. Eleven fishermen were caught on the Government pier, and before the party could be rescued one of the number, Thomas Bedloe, became so benumbed with cold that he was washed off the structure and drowned. After great labor, the tug Commodore towed the lifeboat out, and a line was thrown to the men. One by one they were dragged to safety. At 2 o'clock p. m. a two-masted schooner off Van Buren street collided with two other boats and was broken in.two by the collision. The schooner sank at once. At the same hour a three-masted schooner ran ashore off the foot ot Eighteenth street. The waves soon dashed it to pieces. A tug sent out to aid the crew rescued five men from a perilous position. At 3.45 o'clock the schooner Meadow was capsized off Van Buren street. It was manned by seven sailors. She went over at the south end of the pier. Three men were swept away, and the other four could be seen clinging to the bottom of the vessel. The tug Mollie Spence went out to rescue the four, but did not succeed in saving them. Four men were drowned from an unknown sailing vessel which foundered just south of the Government pier. After the vessel foundered the tour men were seen struggling in the water and soon disappeared from view. An unknown schooner four or Ave miles from the South pier was discovered shortly after 3 o'clock totally dismasted and laboring in the waves. Her upper portion was gone and it was feared she would go to pieces. With these wrecks following each other so rapidly, the life savers were entirely unable to cope with the work, and shortly before 4 o'clock a part of the Chicago Fire Department was called out to assist in the rescue of drowning crews. In the main their efforts were unavailing, and while they worked 20,000 persons watched tlieir manoeuvres from the shore, over which waves twenty feet high dashed in furious succession. At 2 o'clock the Illinois Central road was compelled to abandon its express service on the outer tracks, some of which were completely washed away. The gas launch Neva put out from South Chicago with two girls, John Williamson and another man. It was feared the entire party had been drowned. The life saving crew got to the Kerr bumboat. a mile from shore, inside the long Wv?Aoi-_nTrtfaii Tha rtmrnxi annftfAnflv battering the bumboat to pieces. The life saving crew returned at 2 o'clock. They succeed ed In taking off thirty men and one woman and loaded them on the tug Crawford. The bumboat became a total wreck. Minor accidents, some of them probably fatal, were reported by the score during all day and night, and reports from Milwaukee, Racine, and all along the west shore, showed that the storm was as terrible in its effects there as it was at Chicago. Up to 8 o'clock p. m. six wrecks had been reported between Twenty-sixth and Thirtyfifth streets alone, and the life saving crew there had at that time brought eight bodies ashore. Toward dusk six men were seen floating on an upturned hull, and soon the latter sank. The schooner M. J. Cummings dragged her anchors and foundered 1000 feet from shore off Milwaukee, Wis. The life saving crew want to the rescue. A line was got aboard but it broke, and the lifeboat drifted off, capsized and floated southward. Frank Goorpes, surfman No. C, managed to get aboard the schooner and lashed the craw of six men and a woman to the rigging. Watched by 6000 people gathered on the piers and along the shores, the tug Knight Templar, towing a scow bearing another crew of life savers, started out to rescue the imperiled people. Back of the scow was towed an empty surfboat, which, with the scow, was permitted to drop down toward the wreck. When the surfboat was within fifty feet of the wreck one of the meu in the Cummings s mizzrjn rigging threw up hia bunds and fell backward into the boilina waters. A short time before another had perished similarly. Finally the surfboat dropped close to the sunken vessel. Two figures slowly descend ed trie 3tlTOUas OI too mizzemuaai a uu uiuui^ to lines bat a few feet above the waves. Five minutes passed as attempt after attempt was made by the life savers to awing the lifeboat near the waiting men. A cry went up from the crowd on shore as one figure was seen to l*?ap from the rigging and land in the boat. Two minutes later a man sprang far out, and rs the boat ascended a wave, it was seen that there were two figures in the boat. Then a cheer that droftroed the roaring of the breakers went up from the throats on shore. Slowly the long line that held tho surfbo it was paid out, and the two rescued men were permitted to drift toward the shore? ono moment lost to sight in the foaming breakers, and again alive and sure of rescue as the boat rose on the top of some mighty billow. Along the beach at the foot of Jones Island a crowd ran to meet the rescued men. and they were dragged t0 a P'ace ?* safetj-. The dead were: Captain John McCullough. Marine City; Mate Timothy Eosour, Buffalo, N. Y.; Thomas Tuscott, sailor, Marine City; unknown sailor, Marine City, sailor named "Jim," Marine City; cook (woman), unknown. Buffalo, N. Y. Hall, Wind and Snow Storms. A blizzard prevailed at Gaylord, Mich. Snow covered the ground. A heavier snow storm than any during the winter prevailed at Markesan, Wis. The thermometer registered thirty degrees. A terrific gale blew from the north. The worst snow storm of the season rased at Kiel, Wis., from the north. Snow fell to a depth ot Ave inches. A terrible hail storm broke ovar Decatur, III., and in fifteen minutes did thousands of dollars' damage. The hot houses of N. Bommersback and A. Balmer were damaged to th? extent of 6500 each. Hail stones were picked up which measured eleven inches in circumference. Several persons who did not get under cover quick enough carry cuts on their heads as a result. A heavy storm passed several miles north of Naperville, 111. Hailstones ruined corn nnd other crops. The wind storm blew down tho front of the Duna Business Block in Bloomtngton, III., and damaged several oth^r buildings. For half an henr Alliance. Ohio, was enveloped in nearly total darkness during the worst storm which ever struck that part of the State. Tho velocity of the wind was over sixty miles an hour. Hundreds of shade trees and chimneys were swept before the storm. Lightning destroyed the Central Union Telephone Exchange and burned out every telephone in tho city. A severe hail and wind storm did great injury at Canal, Fulton and Navarre, in Ohio. Houses were unroofed and moved from their foundations, and tho hail stood two inches deep on the streets. One hailstone, picked up at. tho Massillon Asylum, measured Ave incites in circumference. Traffic on the Wheeling and Lake Erie was blocked by a washout, caused by a waterspout in Jefferson County, between Steubenvlllo and Warrenton. Great damage was reported from the sec \ tion southwest ut Indianapolis. Ind. In Patriot, Switzerland County, Ind-, hailstones as big as snowballs silvered trees and pounded the wheat into the earth. Six inches of Ice fell In places. A heavy wind storm passed over Anderson. Ind., doing considerable damage. Later Furtlculars. The list of dead, as the result of the storm on the lakes, counts up twenty-six, it being known that none of the crew of the schooner William Shupe, ashore near Port Huron, Mich., were drowned. They were taken off in safety just before the vessel went to pieces, and the list is increased notwithstanding this rescue by the death of six men who are now known to have been drowned at Chicago. Four of the drowned men lived at 126 Ambrose street, and were out of employment. .They went out on the lake fishing in a small boat, and the storm arose soon after they bad left the shore. One thing remarkable about the storm was the light loss sustain^ by insurance companies. Prom the underwriter's standpoint the gale will not cost more than $25,000 insurance. As far as could be learned there was no insurance on any of the boats wrecked at Chicago, while the insurance of the Cummiugs, at Milwaukee, Wis., will not exceed $5000. It is thought the companies w*re caught for a loss of from $5000 to $8000 on the lumber cargoes of the lost schooners-. LATEB NEWS, The Presbyterian Assembly at Saratoga, N. Y., adopted a report recommending that the General Assembly assume direct control Of all theological seminaries in the Church. The loss at Williams port and Lycoming County. Pennsylvania, by the floods Is estimated at 33,000,000. The Southwest Pass Lighthouse, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, Louisiana, has been destroyed by fire. It was a first order fixed light The structure was 123 feet in height, and was built early in the seventies at a cost of S150.000. Congbessiiax W. C. Oates was nominated for Governor of Alabama by the State Convention at Montgomery, defeating Johnson, the anti-Cleveland candidate. 272 to 232. The corner stone of a monument to be erected in honor of the unknown Confederate dead of North Carolina was laid in Raleigh. Walter Grimes was the principal speaker of the day. There was an immense frnm all t*?qrfQ of the VI pOAOVUd UVIM |?M?? State. Fibe has destroyed the business portion of Jasper, Fla. In a shooting affray ia Haaford, Cal. ( James McCaffrey was killed and James Ryan mortally wounded. Eight men were engaged in the fight, which resulted from McCaffrey's attempt to prevent Eyan's son voting at a primary election. Tax corner stone of the first PythfaD Home in the world was laid in Springfleld. Ohio, with impressive ceremonies. H. W. Lewis, Grand Chancellor of Ohio, presided. William Bbooks, a colored man, employed by W. A. Taylor, farmer, in Forest City, Ark., was shot and killed by unknown persons. Brooks had proposed for the hand of his employer's daughter in marriage and had been driven off the farm. A colored man, who assaulted a fourteen-year-old girl in Arlington, Ga., and subsequently shot her father, was taken from the jail ar that place by an armed band of citizens, who hanged him from a tree In the public square. Tee President nominated A. W. Bradbury to be District-Attorney for Maine. The Queen of England bas tnigntea Isaac Pitman, the inventor o 1 the Pitman system of phonetic shorthand. Pbesident Peixoto's course in suspending relations with Portugal was sustained by the Brazilian House of Deputies. The French aiinistry was defeated in the Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 275 to 225, whereupon they informed President Carnot that they would resign. It was looked upon as a victory for the Socialists. The dead body of the tourteen-year-old son of Lucius Plumb, of Rcadsboro, Vt, was found recently hanging thirty feet from the ground in a tree. He had been missing eight days, and ponds had been dragged and woods searched meanwhile. The boy had climbed into the tree and rested on a limb, tied a rope to the limb above his head, arranged a noose and put his head into it. and then slid off. The Massachusetts Prohibitionists sraro Convention met in Middlebury, JIas3., and nominated State officers. The Pennsylvania Republicans met In State Convention at Harrisburg and nomi! nnted tno following ticket: For Governor, > Daniel B. Hastings, of Center County; for Lieutenant Governor, Walter Lyon, of Allegheny County; for Secretary of Internal Affairs, James W. Latta, of Philadelphia; for Auditor General, Amos H. llylln, of Lancaster for Representative at Large, George F. Huff, of Westmoreland; for Representative at Large, Galusha A. Grow, of Susquehanna. Fbaxk Matebhozzo, a cook, shot and probably fatally wounded Joseph Lynch and Cornelius Bresinhan In llountaindale, K. 1". He was jealou3. ' Senator Gobmax delivered a 6et speech, I in which he defended the action on the Tariff bill of himself and the Democratic majority. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Charles H. J. Taylor, the colored man from Kansas, to be Recorder of Deeds in the District of Columbia. Heavt snows fell In Northern Spain. The crops have been damaged badly, roads have been blocked and the telegraph and railway services have been impeded. Peesident Peixoto has announced to the Brazilian Congress that the difficulty between Brazil and Portugal has been amicably settled. A Losdus test of Herr Dowc's cuirass has convinced the Commander-in-Chief of Britain's army that it is bullet proof. A beion of terror exists in Sen-la and wholesale arrests are being mad'*. DESTRUCTIVE STORM. In a Cyclone in Ohio There Were Five Fatalities. A cyclone passed over a small section oI country about a quarter of a mile from Kunkle, Ohio, killing five persons and fatally wounding three others. The killed were: William Barrett, right leg broken, arm torn off: Mrs. Daniel Barrett, legs torn from the body; Martha Daso. fourteen years of ape. head crushed, died two hours later; Mvrta Daso, ten years.of age, injured internally, died at 10 o'clock'p. m.; George Oslnger, body beaten into a shapeless mass. TUo fatally hurt were: Charles Cole, hurt internally; ilrs. Charles Cole, head crushed; Jennie Green, injured internally. Kunkle is near the Indiana line in Williams County, The section traversal by the cyclone was a strip about half a mile in width and sis miles in length, an I within theso limits the ground was literally stripped bare. Houses were torn from their foundations, and the timbers scattered everywhere. Trees were uprooted and fences blown completely away. Only the cellars showed where the houses had formerly stood. Federatjob of Women's Clubs, at Philadelphia, demanded by resolution oaa standard of morality for men and women. v-' ' :? :-^\V THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Db. 8ajtcxlG. Mutchjiobi, of Philadelphia, was chosen Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, at Saratoga, N. Y. Maky valuable port records and over $150,000 worth of property were destroyed In a Boston fire. The gunboat Castlne was cut in two at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Navy Yard and will be lengthened fourte^i feet to make her seaworthy. The Order of Tonti assijmed at Philadelphia to Francis Shuak Brown and the Land Title & Trust Company of Philadelphia. The assets of the order are Dlaoed at about $1, 250,000. Is Brooklyn, N. Y., Supreme Court Justice Gaynor decided that compulsory vaccination is illegal. Da. Meyee, accused of poisoning Ludwig Erantto obtain insurance money, was found guilty of murder in the second degree at New York City. This entails a sentence of imprisonment for life. John Cabboll killed George Drooms with a fist blow at Great Barrington, Mass. Fibe in a dry-goods and millinery quarter of Philadelphia, Penn., caused a loss of $525,000. At East Cambridge, Mass., James Wilson, aged forty-fire years, with a razor, cut tne throat of his wife Ellen, agod thirty-eight years, death resulting almost instantly. Wilson then cut his own throat and Inflicted a probably fatal wound. The Atlantic Avenue Railway Company, comprising forty miles of track in Brooklyn, N. Y., was almost completely "lied up" because the motor men refused to wear Norfolk Jackets and yachting caps as uniforms. A gas explosion in the William Penn mines at Ashland, Penn.. killed David Fisher and so injured John 8tone and Michael Reynolds that they have since died. Fisher foolishly exposed the flame of his lamp. The strike on the Atlantic avenue trolley road in Brooklyn, N. Y., was ended, an agreement having been reached between the officials and employes. Matob Gilbot, of New York City, appointed Charles H. Murray, a lawyer and one of the local Republican leaders. Police Commissioner, to succeed Charles F. MacLean. South and West. flnvnsMw** Oates's nomination fof Governor of Alabama is assured, 03 more than enough delegates who favor him have been chosen in the County Conventions. ^ The Cleveland (Ohio) conference between miners and operators to settle the bituminous coal strike came to naught. Ovee 150 Industrials raided ranches and fruit farms in Vaca Valley, California, for the purposeof driving out the Chinese and and Japanese. They took a number of prisoners and drove them ahead, maltreating them. The Industrials were finally arrested and with the Chinese and Japanese placed in custody in Vacavllle. J. H. Blaytos 3hot and killed his young wife at Richmond, Va. He then shot and cut himself. The Georgia Populist State Convention at Atlanta nominated J. EL Hlnes, of Atlanta, for Governor. Hlnes is a well-known attorney who was at one time a Judge of the Superior Court in Georgia. Htwd* S/-m?r f?r?lnrArl nrrostflrt for thfl murder of his six-year-old stepdaughter, was lynched by a mob of 100 colored men at Jefferson, Texas. Duitrxo a storm In Hawkins County, Tennessee, crops were badly damaged. A number of persons were injured, and one. a colored man named John Kelly, was Jdlled. Many dwellings on a Cincinnati (Ohio) hillside have been twisted out of shape and are threatened with demolition by a slowmoving landslide. The Traders' Bank, of Tacoma, Wash., which failed last summer and reopened a few months later, has suspended again and a receiver has been appointed. Two aldermen, three police officers and four judges and olerks of election were indicted in Chicago, III., for alleged violation of election laws. , ; Nothing like the weather of a few days ago has been experienced in Texas for twenty years. There was a heavy frost, and crops are badly damaged. The heaviest snowstorm in years prevailed in Eastern Kentucky. At Corbln the snow was eiRht inches deep. All sorts of crops were ruined or badly injured as a result. William Puedce. at Rlnehart, Mo., shot and killed A. W. Bundle, then set fire to Run .lie's house, and shot and killed himself. Bundle received five bullets in his head. He I was about flfty-eight years of age. His mur- I derer was a single man, about thlrty-flve I Tears old. . I Washington. i The District of Columbia Supreme Court denied the appeal of Coxey, Browne and Jones, the Commonwealers. It is said that 700 employes hare been discharged from the Government Printing Office, by Mr. Benedict, the new Public Printer. The War Department ordered troops to be held in readiness to suppress the striking coal miners in Indian Territory. Az eighteen-lnch Harveytzed steel plate for the battleship Indiana was practically demolished by two shots fired at it from a twelv?.*-inch gun on the proving grounds at Indian Head, Washington. The Senate committee appointed to investigate bribery charges decided to hold secret sessions, the Chairman giving out the purport of the testimony at the end of each day's session. Sexatob Etle testified that he was ottered 675,000 to vote against the Tariff bilL Naval officials express the belief that the Harvey process would still prove successful for heavy armor. Paul J. Sobg, successor to the late O. W. Houk, of the Third Ohio District, was sworn in in the House of Representatives. Foreign. A white microbe has attacked the roots of the wheat crops in La Vendee, Brittany, and an.l ia rtnintr mnnh damaee. jxlijwm, JL tuau>.1 u? ? ? & ___ A riot In Leon, Nicaragua. resulted in the killing of four soldiers, three policemen and six leaders of the mob. Nicaraguans fear H their country will be seized by the United States If the murdering of Americans is not stopped. ex-Psehieb whitewat.of Newfoundland, H was mobbed by Protestants in Bay de Yerds, R in retaliation for the recent attacks of Cath- H ollcs upon Morrison and Morine. H Venezuela appeals to the charitable world for aid in her distress resulting from the earthquake. jfl Edmcnd Yates, author and journalist, Hj was stricken wita apoplexy at the Garrick Theatre, London. He was removed to the B| Savoy Hotel, whore he died. H Exile Henry, the French Anarchist con- H demned to deatn for exploding a bomb in H the cato o" the Hotel Terminus, was be- H headed ct Paris. H Chbis Wistojt, Budtrwl? HoldmanandP. H N. Leff, American mining enpineers, who H left Hermoslllo, Mexico, to prospect ten days at;o, have been found murdered near Nacory. It Is supposed they were killed by H9 marauding Yaqul Indians. Five Anarchists, convicted of the outrage Ml in the Earcelona (Spain) Lyceum Theatre, By have been shot in that city. On A jiotios has been made in the Brazilian Spnate to bestow medals upon Presidents Peixoto and Cleveland, an la majority 01 the Deputies oppose a renewal of relations with Portugal. * ?9 Heavt snowstorms prevailed in the midland counties of England, and tha weather was intensely cold. g| Jap ax has withdrawn the prohibition H| acainst Hawaiians living wherever they please in Japan, an I in return demands that the Japanese bo allowed to vote in Hawaii. H| Kixa Alexander, of S?rvia. issued a decree abolishing thn constitution of 1869 and reviving that of 1SS-S. Qceex Victoria formally opened the new Manchester (England) ship canal. fljj Ja2ies G. McMaxes, of Centre Barrington. Mo., is afflicted with a strange maladv which the doctors are unable to cure. At precisely i o'clock every day he begins to laugh and does not cease for an Instant until 6.30 H| o'clock. Then he Is completely exhausted. He has tried to restrain himselJt by tying up H his jaws, but without avail. Hj