Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i ; MODS SPREADING S River Levees Crumble Before the Mad Rush of Waters. THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS. Freah Crevasse at Tanlca, Does Great Damage?Ruin to Fertile Areas ?Great Torrent Overrnnninj; One of the Fineat District* In tlie South? Many Towns In the Northwest Cut oat. Tunica, Mis?. (Special).?The last flickering flame of hope of the Southern flio i sufferers was quenched when the residents of this already panic-stricken town heard the *Via nrntor anil realized that UUgUbJ IVUl V4 IUW !( the Flower Lake levee had melted away. The water oame with orushing force, swaeplng everything before tt. Th s levee had beon the hope of a wide an<! fertile area, that has for several years beer exempt from floods because of its protection Its breaking sounds the knell of woe and des olatlon through the magnificent counties o' De Soto, Tallahatchie, Leflore, Holmes, Carroll. Warren and Yazoo. The back oountry is not prepared for the calamity, and the *l0S3 0f life and property Is an after chapter that will be frightful. The water is rushing through a break a mile wide, at a depth of twenty feet. Hunorautinat' )r> efclflNfiir mile Ulcus VI pciov/uo C?iui?uvt?k *u ... around that section, and relief boats have been telegraphed for to go there, d iverai lives have been lost. 80 rapidly did the crevasse widen that thf water rushing through it was sufficient tc reach the lake parallel to the Yazoo ani Mislsslppi Valley Railroad and Bu3hby Station, which is Ave miles east of the.break, in a remarkably short space of time, and within an hour bad raised the lake eight feet. AT THE WATER'S MERCY. Fight to Save the Levee at Helena I'rovei > Futile. Helena Ark. (8peclal).?The expeoted has happened. After weary days and nights of watchintc, worklag and waiting, after fight ing the flood from without, the winas ana rains from above and the backwater from behind, the levees here have gone to pieces. The Williamson levee, two miles below this city, gave way at a point one thousand feet north of Long Like levee, at seven o'clook Sunday morning. This i9 tho work which has been under the direct charge of "Ed" Pillow, the most superb water flghtei In all this country. Mr. Pillow was an eye witness, and s&yp the force of the current wept the superficial crown, which he had built at great expense, literally off the original levee. In a remarkably snort time the crevasse wa9 250 feet wide. At first It was confined to the depth of about three feet, which is the height of the superficial crown,but grad Kcv moln lavaii anrl ia Ufll IJ ll WHO awrtj 1UO iuhiu ?vfvw MM-. ? now running through to a depth of eighteen feet, the full depth of the original levee. The only loss of life reported is th9 six-yearold child of Luke and Missouri Bauer, colored. SUFFERING FROM THE FLOOD. Thousands of Refngees Waiting at Various Points for Relief. Mejephis, Tenn. (Special).?The condition of the poorer classes throughout the flooded area Is oriticai. Thousands of refugees are being huddled on levees and spot3 of land waiting for relief. Funds and provisions are fast becoming exhausted. In the little n Ifttia 1 *>fWY rftfll CflH? flTA bO* vjxij vi iiv^uuuivaivuv) amvv lng oared for by the citizens. Fifty towns stand in six feet of water, and the yellow gtream is creeping up slowly but surely. The relief steamer Ora Lee arrived at Marl anna, Art., having made an expedition up the St. Francis River. There were on board 160 refugees and 200 head of cattle. The steamer went vp the St. Francis Blver as far as Cutoff, and then worked her wav down stream, rescuing people from perilous positions. The suffering along the 8t. Frincts River Is appallincr. The relief boat had on board the body of Mrs. MoMain, of Ragglo City. The body was found at Ragglo, aud It was taken to Marianna for burial, there being no *4 ika rvlorta an tn &\ vfl if JCLUU ru mo iviuioi j/iauw vu nuivu ?v 0..? -interment. Levee at St. Paol Breaks. St. Paul, lllon. (Special).?The levee at James street broke, sending the water all over that part ot the oity with a rurti. The flood has encroached into the freight house of the railroad. Several of the manufacturing concerns of the West Side have be^n obliged to snut down because water put out their flres. The relief sooleties wore busy all day extending aid to the suffering. The -number of persons who have been forced to leave their homes Is about 1200 The water east of State street has become so deep tbat several bouses have floated frotn their foundations. k Kentucky's Condition. Mlddlesboro, Ky. (Special).?Most of the stores in Cumberland avenue are flooded. 8 xty-flve families have been washed out and three hundred people are bsingfed by the dry. Boats are plying on the principal streets. At PinevlUe the Cumberland River Is rising three feet per hour. West Pinevllle is under water. Clinch and Powell Rivers are flooding the entire country. James River Valley Submerged. Yanktox, South Dakota (Speolal).?James River is now on a rampage, covering thebot torn lands from bluff to bluft and threatening to wash away the Great Northern, North;. western and Milwaukee Railroad bridges ? srhich cross the stream. Over three miles otf rv track of each road has washed out so far, thus p'aclng Yankton without railroad faoill -ties. The river has spread general destruct tton throughout the James Valley. Farmers a rule have vacated their homes, and those i.. <111 remaining are now being moved by boats. , > Starring Spaniard* Rlbt. Bands of starving workpeople at Malaga, Spain, rioted, destroyed property and seized large sums of money. The police made many arrests. The cause of the outbreak Is % . lack of work, and the condltlou of thlng9 In Andalusia becomes worse dally. The Gov .ernment Is reinforcing it3 troops there. Stopped. A Cuban filibustering expedition by the ,rr Bermuda wa3 prevented from sailing by the "v United States cralser V suvius, which Inter' cepted the steamer off Fernandlna, Fla. A tug was oaptured and turned over to the Oolleotor or the Port. 8100,000 Fire in Cincinnati. Fire, which started In the George F. Otte Company's carjjet store, on Fourth s*eet, Cincinnati, Ohio, caused a loss of 8400,000. The Otto Companv's entire stock, valued at 8300,000, and insured for 5150,000, was destroyed, and the building w.is ruined. Governor Thornton Iteslsna. Governor W. T. Thornton telegraphed to Washington his r 3ign:itlon as Governor of New Mexico. H-j has always declared he would resign as soon us the Button gauij conspirators w rehaa^oI. Jroininont People. North Carolinians are mourning the recent death of MHjor Sidney .M. Finger, whom they regard as having done mord for the cause of education in their State than anj other ol their public men for many years. President McKinley has decided to con tlnue horseback-riding as a form of exercise The President wl i soon buy a saddle hor-e out for the present he 1.3 using two horsei upplied from Fort Meyer by General Miles President McKinley has abolished the cus torn of having a corps of speolal Whiti House police a.ways guarding the Executive Mansion. He takes afternoon walks on thi streets like an ordinary citizen and Is deter mined to remain on friendly terms wltl / everyone. ;/ . < U. S. BATTLE SHIP l( ^ wa The Iowa, which i9 tho latest additi oial speed trial over a measured cour coast. The builders' contract called I ship averaged 16,50 knots for four houi 000 for her builders. Considerable int last of the ships to be built by private ? is oflered by the Government. The I ship in the United States Navy, and prol MESSAGE ON THE FLOP President Asks Congress to Ex /.id to the Sufferers. MONEY IMMEDIATELY AVAiLA President McKluley Describes In His C mnnlcatlon the Kxtent of the F1 and the Devastation, and Asks The Appropriation be Made to Aid In 'Work of Kelief~>A Quick Resp< Washington, D. C. (Special).?The I ilent on Wednesday sent a message to Senate and House of Representative reference to the relief for the flood suffi in the Mississippi Valley. As a result 8 000 has been appropriated ana is immedii rr,L._ 1~> U...1 1? mac avauame. mu rraiucm w Uw uv. said: "Information which has recently con me from the Governors of Afkai Mississippi and Louisiana, ana prominent citizens of these States Tennessee, warrants the conclusion widespread distress, involving destruction of a large amount property and los* of human life, has rest from the floods which have submerged seotion of the country. These are state reliable authority to be the most destrui floods that have over devastated the Ml sippi Yalley, the water being much hi than the highest stage it bad reached oe "Prom Marlon, Ark., north of Mern| to Greenville, Miss., a distance of more 250 miles by river, it is reported there now at least fifty towns and villages u water; and a territory extending from hundred miles north of Memphis to two 1 dred miles south, and from five to 1 miles wide, is submerged. In this se< alone there are from fifty thousand to ? thousand people whose property has destroyed and whose business has been pended. "The authorities who have communlc with the Executive recognize that their and most energetic duty i9 to provide a1 as Dossible the means of caring for their citizens: but nearly all of them agree ii opinion that after their resources have I exhausted, a sum aegre?ating at least $ 000, and possibly $200,000, will be reqc for immediate use. ' The Citizens' Relief Committee, of I phis, which has taken prompt action, already cared for from six thousand to si thousand refugees from the flooded dieti and they are still arriving in that oil large numbers daily. No action has yetl taken for the great majority of the ini tants living in the interior, whose condi has already been described. "It has therefore seemed to me that representatives of the people should promptly Informed of the nature and ex of the suffering and needs of these strlc people, and I have communicated t facts hi the hope and belief that the leg tive brarnch of the Government will proi ly reinforce the work of the local author in the States named. "William McKinli "Executive Mansion, April 7, 1897." CONGRESS IAK.S.S Auiiurv. Quick Legislative and Executive XV (or. tho Sufferers. Washington, D. C. (Special).?After President's message had been read in Senato Mr. Jones introduced a joint res tioa appropriating $150,000 for the relie the flood sufferers, and authorizing the of Government boats in the relief work, resolution was unanimously passed. [ Mr. Catchings in the House introduce I resolution appropriating $200,000 to the s; purpose. The House passed thi* resolu and sent it to the Senate, who reconsldi nnd postponed Mr. Jones's resolution, adopted that of the Hous*. The joint resolution was signed by President as soon as it was laid before t Secretary Alger speedily completed the rangements for distribution of Govemn relief for the flood sufferers. By the present plan six armv offl started immediately for Memphis, and. vldiDg the Mississippi into six sections. ascertain fflte needs ot the people, ado detail of officers will follow distributing tions in accordance with the reports these officers, acting in harmony with local relief committees. Memphis wil headquarters for the purchase and distr ttonof supplies* The six districts into which the Misslss will be divided for purposes of investign and distribution are as follows: From 31 phi3 down to Helena down to Green\ ' from Greenville down to Vicksburg, f Vicksburg to Now Orleans, from Memph Cairo, from Cairo up. Rhode Island Goes Republican. The Republicans' State ticket was electf Rhode Island by something over 10,000 rality. They have both houses ot the L? lature by big majorities. There was ver tie interest in tie election. The succe the Republican ticket was. regarded as tain. General Elisha Dyer's plurality Daniel T. Church for Governor, was b that received by Governor Lippett George A. Littlefleld a year ago. The President's Vacation. President McKinley and party emb? on the Dolphin and sailed away from Yi ington for a few days' outing. Thej consisted of the President and Mrs. Mc ley, Mrs. Saxton, Dr. Batps, the naval geon, and Secretary and Mrs. Porter. Sujar Bounty Law. The beet sugar bounty law just enacti Michigan provides "that tho State shal to the farmer four cents a pound for a | beet sugar he raises, and one cent a p ' to the man who manufactures the sugai C.rcllns Notes. Paris has a bicycle club composed of resses. I I It is estimated that there are more r 1,500,000 cyclists in Great Britain. The Cyclists' Touring Club of Englan< . recently a bank balance of 531,000. Already the bicycle i9 showing its e , on the box office receipts of New York 3 theatres. The Rev. Charles H. Park hurst an< wife are the latest recruits to the knigl a the bicycle. The impression is growing that Colt: a University, New York City, will lead a * other colleges this year, when it comes t 1 Jttercollegiate bicycle racing. )WA, MONARCH OF THE SEAS. e on to the navy of the United States, hail h r o se of sixty-six nautical miles off the Massachust 'or a speed of sixteen knots an hour, bat the sr 3. The Iowa has easily earne i a bonus of S2( :erest attacnod to the trial trip, as the Iowa is ontractors for which a premium for excess of sp< owa is the largest and most formidable sea-go Dably in the world. |Tjn WHAT CONCRESS IS DOING. Tne arbitration treaty has been side-tracl in the Senate. The House adopted the Senate resolut fr\y />horfai-inrF a <?Aceo1 tn cnrrv1noA tolnr leuu - Gettysburg is to have a monument Abraham Lincoln. A bill has been int duced* in the Senate by Serator Cullom Illinois, appropriating $50,000 for the p m c pose' DLL A speech advocating the passage of 1 Torrey Bankruptcy bill was made in the S ate by Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky. , said the measure was a protection to honest man. ??dB Congressmen are reported as not taking it an all kindly to the Idea of relegating the ci . rency question to a commission of busin men for a plan of settlement to be present ?nse. at the next session. Representative Howe, of New York, has 'real- troduced a resolution in the House providl i the that the Constitution bo so amended tl 3 in Congress shall have exclusive power to rei late marriage and divorce. gnf Mr. Allen (Neb.) presented a resolution < JUW?~ claring that it is unconstitutional to imp< itely tarlfT raxes on articles of daily consumpti sage t0 Increase the fortunes of one class of c zens at the expense of the other. . A bill has bean introduced in the Hoi providing for the establishing of a depa asas, ment of commerce, labor and manufactur from Its head is to be a Cabinet offloer, and 1 and neces3ary clerical force is provided for. that ^or many yen" an effort has been made - no9tnone the inauguration of a Presid* 0f later than March 4, so that the season m ilted k" more propitious for the outdoor aervic tjja. Senator Hoar nas now Introduced a bill fo j nn constitutional amendment to change the d itlve to April 30. [ssis- A powerful effort will bo made to pass t pher Foraker Railroad Pooling bill durlnsr I fore, present session. Prominent railroad ofiflci jhis, say that the passage of the bill is the oj than thinprthat can save the railroad intere are from heavy losses since the recent decisi nder of the Supreme Court. It is believed tl one the bill will be carefully considered, and hun- starts out with considerable sympathy, forty Mr. Caffery, of Louisiana, secured imme Stion ate consideration for a ioint resolution mi rixty ing immediately available 8450,000 fort been improvement of the Mississippi Rlvor fri sus- the head of the passes to the mouth of t Ohio River. The resolution recites the pr ated ent serious condition of affairs in the flood flrst districts and states that the appropriation 3 far to be used to relieve the flood sufferers and own preserre the lives and property of cltiz l the and the Government improvements alo been the river. The appropriation is to be ( 150_- f V?a j&O Rflfl HfWI itlrAn tft 1 tired Missis9ipDi liiver by the last River and Hi bor Appropriation bill. The resolution v [em- adopted without division. has oven lets, NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT ty in tabi- Commodore Sicard to be Rear- Admiral a: tion Captain Kantz to be Commodore. The President sent to the* Senate the f< *be nominations: tent Commodore Montgomery Sicard to :ken Rear-Admiral bosQ Captain Albert Kautz to b9 Commodore. t3l?* Lieutenant R. G. Davenport to be Lieut< ant-Commander. Jtles Lieutenant E. B. Barry to be Lieutenai Commander. IT. Tn ittnrnflva rtf tha United States Thomas H. Barnes, for the Western Distr cors ?' - ^ will ther ?mmm i ra\ of COX5KWJOSE MOSTOOMEBY SICABD*. l-'be (Nominated to be a Rear-Admiral.) Lbu- * of Arkansas; PlinyL.Soper, fortho Nocthe ippi District of the Indian Territory. iion Montgomery Slcard, whose promotion [em- the qrade ot ^tear-Admiral fills the vacan 'itle, made by the retirement of Rear-Admi rom Francis JL. Ramsay, has been on duty J KTa???*. V? IS'tO coiumauuotll IUU xm'Uujiijtu X1C1VJ au since November, I8i>L Admiral Sicard, w was born in September, 1836, in New Yoi was appointed on>acting midshipman in 18 In the first year of the Civil War he was . duty on various Teasels in the blockadl 3d in squadrons,, and in 1862 was promoted phi- Lieutenant-Commander. After the war sgis- sp?nt two years at the Naval Academy, a y lit- after two years more of service on the P< sacola was-made commander. Inl802-'93 2^,.. was on- sea service, and in January, 1394. v over p'aced In charge of the Portsmouth N? elow Yard. Is: Jalv of that year he was m? over Commodore, and in November assumed 1 present duties*. Rivera Not to be Executed. Secretary Sherman said that he- had ass rked ance8 tjjat General Rivera, the Cuban 113 surgeot leader, would not be executed; 1 >arty would be treated as a prisoner of war. G :Kin- oral Rivera was captured after being woui sur- ed in a recent battle, and it was thought a time that he would-be executed by 1 Spanish authorities for his part in the ballion. 3d in Remarkable Decline In Value. I pay Experts estimate that the value of railv II the properties has declined ?38,000,000 since ound anti-pooling decision of the United Sti * Supreme Court. Saw Industrial IIIst:>ry Made, act- John P. Cuddy, a farmer, of Baltim County, Maryland, died lately in his eigt thaQ eighth year. Mr. Cuddy made the first t on Peter Cooper's locomotive over ihad B. A O. on August 28th, 183). He was n present when Professor Morse sent the I fTects telegraphic message over the B. A 0. wl City betweeu Baltimore and Washington. ^ jj|g Corner In Cornflowers. tits of The demand for blue cornflowers in markets of Berlin, Germany, for the decc tion of persons and houses on the centen f h fe3'lva' ?'d Kaiser Wilhelm's birthday 1 0 ttie so enormous that it was next to inipoasJ to obtain a sufficient suddIv. RATIFIED BY 7ENEZDELA P amkam^AH WilU r^rrvo-f 13 f' + o' r* I UK IrUllveilllUli TV I hi uicm uiuaiii Unanimously Sanctioned. A TRIUMPH FOR ARBITRATION. it Sft The Venezuelan Congress Enthmlastlc. 3. ally Approves the Treaty Negotiated it Through the Good Offices of the United States to Settle by Arbitration tho LoneStanding TVar-Threatenlnc Dispute, TTAnariiala /P.tr PoKla^ Thft Pnn? vaoauao^ i v uvauwiu ^4/j * <?w wu gfss of Venezuela has unanimously and enthusiastically ratified the Guiana boundary arbitration treaty with Great Britain which m was negotiated by the United States. jt,9 The measure was first read to the House eat of Representatives last Friday, when Senor *??" Aranguren spoke eloquently in its favor. 4ed Tha second reading was without incident, ing It came up on third reading Monday, and after a speech by Senor Briceno the House voted for the treaty unanimously, amid great cheering and onthuslastio demonstrations of gratitude to "Uncle Sam." The cej treaty was unanimously ratified by the * Senate also. Prosident Cresoo's signature to the document closed the Venezuelan inon daent. lia. fn OC\/IC\A/ DC TUP FAMOUS INir.inPNT.. ( ol Provisions of the Treaty and the A I'll r bitratlon Commissioners. Wabhisotox, D. C. (8peclal).?Tho treaty the between Great Britain and Venezuela which, on- according to the foregoing special cable He despatch has been ratified by tho the Venezuelan Congress was virtually the result of the action of this Govern: at ment, and was, in fact, preceded by n. ar- note or protocol which embodied the terms ess of the treaty, the note being signed by Mr. :ed Olney, then Secretary of State,and Si.: Julian Pauncefote, the British Ambassador, on Nojn. vember 12,1896. The Anftlo-Venezuelan treaty, aftor long ljaj deliberation by the British Premier find the ,u. Washington State Department, was Iramed, 11 i he PRESIDENT CBE8P0, OF VEXEZUE3A. 3 m he and was signed in Washington on February es- 2 last by the British Ambassador aad the ed Venezuelan Minister, Senor Andrade. is The treaty, having been ratified by the to Venezuelan Congress, only awaits tho sanc>ns tlon of the British Parliament to become ng operative. Its reception in Venezuela was at ie- first the reverse of hopeful, many antago:be nists of the Orespo administration uttering ar- f ulminatlons against its provisions, which, it ras was said, were conceived more for the benefit of the United States and Great Britain than for the country moat deeply Interested, One of the most striking attacks upon the treaty in Venezuela was made by Senor Michelena, before the breaking off of diploma matio relations between the two countries Venezuelan Minister to the Court of St. James. Senor Michelena directly impunged >1- the motives of the United States in aiding In the framing of the treaty. . The most important terms of the general Anglo Venezuelan arbitration treaty for the settlement of the Guiana boundary dispute aro the provisions relating to the appointin ment of the tribunal and the clause giving the limit of occupation which must decide it- claims. The arbitration tribunal is to be composed i? of five members, of whom four have been apict pointed. According to the articles of the convention its sessions are to be held in "l Paris, in which city it must meet within sixty days after briefs have been presented by the I nnrties to th? issue. The time In which thev shall decide the question is limited to six months. The arbitrators already chosen are Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, for Venezuela, and Right Honorable Baron HerBChel nna Sir Richard Henn Collins for Great Britain. The rltal point of the treaty, the rule to govern the disposition of the territory in dispute, is tho fifty-year clause. According to this provision adverse holding for halt a century will entitle tho occupant to undisturbed .possession, the ordinary rules of evidence to be applied in establishing title, General Schofleld a Father. At St. Augustine, Fl.a., Mrs. Schofleld presented Lieutenant-Gonerai Joan H. Schofleld, United States Army (retired), with a fine healthy girl baby. General Schofleld was retired eighteen months ago ontjaccount of the ago limit. He is now sixty-six years J old. Mrs- Schofleld, who is now thirty-two years of age. was formerly Miss Geor?la Kllbourne, of Keokuk. Iowa. The Schoflelds have been married six years rn Money Order Increase. The money order business-of the New York t0 Postofflce'amounted to Sll'S, 030,000 in 1896. ,cy ral This was an increase of $5,000,000 over 1805. jja Superintendent Eliicott says that this inr(j creaso is-continuing. To-day the money or]rj0 ders amount to more than rheyand the postal p1j orders combined did in 1894, and the foreign money order business, fromGermany especi0q ally, is becoming very much greater, ng t0 The-'Presldent's Decoration Day. ^0 President McKinley and all the members Ja_ of the cabinet have accepted invitations to he participate in the dedication of the battle ras monument at West Point, N. Y? on Decoraivy tion Duy. The monument was built Dy wle privatesubscrlption, and is intended to comtit?? memocate the deeds of officers and soldiers of the regular establishment who lost their lives in the Civil War. ar. ' Ohio find Michigan Elections. in- In the Ohio and Michigan municipal e!eci>ut tioms the Democrats made gains. The elecen* tio-n in Cincinnati was for Mayor and other ad- city officers and members of the Board of tor Legislation. Tafel (Dem.) was elected by a Che plurality of 7320, altnongh the cltv give 5lcre" Klnluy a plurality of almost 20,000 lust November. Canton, Ohio, went Democratic, Mayor Rice, a candidate for re-election, carrying it by over 400. In Detroit, Mich., ray A. C. Maybury (Dem.) was elected Mayor by the about a thousand majority over Captain t Abeirt E. Stewart (R^p.). Maybury's election is looked upon as a decided defeat for Governor I'ingree. New Jersey'* I'eucli Crop. ore Indicationj in the vicinity of Bounc: Brook, ity- N. J., point to a Inrgs peach crop; infact,it rip ^s believed the crop in Now Jersey will be the the lirgest ever known. The trees are all in ilso bloom, and unless a heavy killing frost takes Irst place, will be loaded with fruit. Inquiry ires throughout the peach belt in Huntordon, Warren, Susses and the upper part of Somerset counties shows that the farriers are confident of big crops of peaches. fVja ~ ' i The New Tariff in Force. >ra(iry Sejrelary Gage issued a circular of instructs tionji to cu3toms officers carrying into effect Ible the provisions of the pending Tariff act from April 1. * AMBASSADORS NAMED. Andrew D. 'White to Germany and General Draper to Italy> Washington, D. C. (Special).?The President on Thursday sent to the Senate the following nominations: Andrew D. White, of New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary anil Plenipoten tiury of the United States to uermany. William F. Draper, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Italy. Benjamin Butterworth, of Ohio, to be Commissioner of Patents. William B. Howell, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Oliver L. Spaulding, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, i ANDBEW D. WHITE. (Our New Ambassador to Germany.) Andrew Dickson White is the distinguished educator. He was the first President of Cornell University, (f post he held for many years. He was bora at Homer, N. Y., in November, 1832, and Is a graduate of Yale University. He was President of the Republican State Convention of New York in October, 1861. and was United 8tates Minister in Germany from 1879 till 1881, and later to Russia. Mr. White was also one of the United States Commissioners to Santo Domingo, and aided in preparing he report of that Commission. His. most recent pubHc work has been as a member of the Venezuelan Arbitration Commission appointed by President Cleveland. William Franklin Draper was born in Lowell, Middlesex County, Mass., and was educated In the public schools. After working a few years in a cotton mill hA enlisted as a private in the war and was continuously promotad, for various services, to the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General, which he held in the Army of the Potomac. Returning from the front he joined with his father in business, and has since occupied a prominent position as n manufacturer, being the President or Director of a >?reat number of railroad and manufacturing companies. He was a delegate to the Republican Convention which nominated President Hayes, and Presidential ElectclV-at-Large on the Republican ticket in 1888. He is a member of many prominent clubs and of the Loyal Legion. Benjamin Butterworth was first appointed to the Commissionership of Patents in 1883. Previous to that he had served as the United States District-Attorney in Cincinnati and as member of the State Senate of Ohio in 1873-74. He was elected to Congress in 1878 and 1880, and was the author of the Compulsory Army Retirement Act. In 1883 President Arthur appointed him a Commissioner to examine a uart of the Northern PackfcT Railroad, and he was engaged by the Government as Conns '1 to prosecute 8outb^'arolina election cases in the same year. J FARMERS FORM A COMBINE. ____________ )f X Banded to Control the Sa1? of Produce at Common Centres. P. F. Brown, of Joh'jtown, Penn., left a package of papers and letters la his room at the Jefferson House. Toledo, Ohio, and went j to Columbus recently, and it was the means of making public the largest scheme the farmers of this?country have ever undertaken. It is known as the Agriculturists' National Protective Association, and is incorporated under the Jaws of New Jersey. The members are all oath bound, and the farmers are takiug to it right and left. This year is being given up to organization, and agents are now at work in nearly every oounty in the leading States. It has been conducted with irreat secrecy. j Id 1899 it i3 proposed that -people shall im| port their farm products, and county and corporation warehouses will be erected and ! placed in charge of county boards, who will ! have absolute control. . From these wareI houses goods will be shipped a3 may be i deemed necessary. The farmer will raise all wheat in one lol cality, oats in another, and so on. The National Board of Finance is now at work on a complicateri scale for the division of profits, and everything will go through the hand of the sovereign body, much on the order of communistic organizations. The ultimate design is the absolute oontrol and marketing of all farm products, farm animals, and machinery. i LIVES LOST IN A FLOOD. George Tate Tried to SaVe His Little Daughter And Both Were Drowned. George W. Tate, of Brentwood, Mo., a veteran of the Mexican War, in endeavoring to take his six-year-old child Nellie to a place of safety, lost his life. The heavy rains of the night, together with the back waler from the Des Peres, had put his family of seven UU lis Kuhii-l> I Shortly after midnight Tate nnd his children had to seek refuge on the second floor. Tate realized tbat at the rate of rising the water would soon drive them tothe roof. He resolved to make an effort to get to the nearest high land, and chose his youngest daughter as the first to be saved. , The others, crouched in a dry corner, saw the c Id mnn raise the window and leap out. carrying little Nellie. The current was so strong that It carried Tate off his feet, und both father and daughter were soon drowned and their bodies swept away. Fire in Cambridge Spring*, Penn. Cambridge Springs, a health resort about ! fifteen miles from MeadvijUe, Penn.. was almost destroyed by fire.) Charles Hayes lost his life, and property worth $200,000 was destroyed. j Destructive St.orvn of Hall. There was a destruetivejnallstormat Mount Vernon, Ho. Hailstones weighing ten and twelve ounces fell. Noft a house escaped injury. The churches, mills, eto., sustained heavy losses. Stock of all kinds suffered. Fruit ana ornamental trees were badly damaged. , } A Place Offered tu'.Colonel Grant. President JIcKlnley anil Secretary Alger tendered the post of Assistant Secretary ol War to Colouel Frederick D. Grant, son of General U. S. Grant. He Is flow a New York j City Police Commissioner. * ^ Killed His Tormentor. Rheinhardt Schmidt, a half-wiffeJ blackj smith, shot and instantly killed John Graham at Phoenicia, N. Y. Schmidt was the j butt of idlers. Graham went to hia shop and picked a quarrel with him, and received ! n bullet in his mouth, tailing dead in tfce ! shop door. Schmit was arrested. Greece's Ultimatum. King George warned Europe that war or | Turkey wlli be declared Immediately if Greek | ports are blockaded. A British warship seized three Greek vessels carrying provisions to I Crete. Greece is said to have offered to buj Crete. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Washington Items. An attack by Mr. 8impson, of Kansas, led 8peaker Reed to state his reasons for not appointing commtttees at the present session. Representatives of American shipping interests assembled In Washington to discuss needed legislation. A committee will frnme a bill with the hope of improving the situation as regards shipbuilding and shipowning. Protests against the Dingley till have been fifed in the State Department by the diplomatic representatives of Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. In the Senate there was a sharp controversy between Me^sr?. Morgan and Hale over the former's Cuban resolution. Alfred E. Buck, of Georgia, has been appointed Minister to Japan, and Jame3 Boyle, of Ohio, the President's former Private Secretary, becomes Consul at Liverpool. The United 8tates Supreme Court set down the Joint Traffic Association case for hearing on the second Monday in October. Rear-Admiral Ramsay was placed on the retired its: 01 tne wavy. The United 8tates Supreme Court has denied a motion by Russell 8age to dismiss a suit brought against him as assignee of the Hastings and Dakota Railroad Company. The United Stales charge Mr. Sage with collusion in the suit. President CisDeros, of the Cuban Republic, sent an open letter to President McKinley asking for encouragement ot the Cuban struggle for liberty. Domnac. Daniel G. Qriflln, the candidate of the Gold D?mocrats for Governor last fall, died at Watertowo. N. Y. Contracts were let at Birmingham, Ala., for the extension of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The New York State Senate passed a bill providing for a reduction ot Ave cents a year in the price of fras in New York City till the SI point is reached. A fine saddle horse was bought at Lexington in Kentucky for President McKinley. Mrs. Julia Ne!son wils asnhvriated bv coal gas in a hovel in Chicago. She wad worth $100,000. W. II. Gage and his wife were found dead in bed in their home at Chicago. A note found in the room addressed to the Coroner shows that the couple intended suicide. The husband was a machinist. George Stephens, division freight agent of the Philadelphia. Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad dropped dead in his office on the second floor of the Pennsylvania Railroad Building, Philadelphia. The cause of his death is said to have been heart failure. There is a scarcity of onions in the San Francisco (Cal.) market. Dealers say that all the California crop was shipped as soon as gathered to the Eastern and Southeastern States, and that a corner has been effected in the Washington and Oregon crops, The bo ly of Andrew Jeffries Garvey, notorious as an informer during the trial of "Boss" Tweed and his associates, will be brought from Southampton, where he died Monday, to New York City, for burial beside his first wife, who died iu 1886. The Porto Rlcan Revolutionary Committee in New York has received private information from the island that the people have taken up arms against the Spanish Government. Superintendent Jasper's idea of establishing lunch rooms in the public schools of New York City w^s Indorsed by the Board of Education. The purpose of tbe plan is to provide wholesome rood ior tne cnimren. The Illinois Steel Company shut down its works in Chicago, throwing 4000 men out of work. The rail-straigbteners had arranged to strike, but the company forestalled them. Julio Sanguilv and F. Lechusa, Cuban Generals, were arrested at JackjsouWiie.Fla., accused pi At.liPJT ft"*" an armed expedition agajuSfSpaln. Cubans were vexed at the awests. Collector Kilbreth, of New York, issued the , necessary orders to Custom House clerks for the retention of samples so that a tariff tax may be imposed on present imports, in case the retroactive clause in the tariff bllf becomes law. Mrs. John Lang hanged herself in Derby, Conn., after striking her baby a fatal blow. Z. T. Lewis, who disappeared from Urbana, Ohio, two years ago after having been charged with forgeries amounting to $357,000, was arrested in Ypsllanti. Mich. W. O. Leland, president of the First National Bank of 8pringville, N. Y., was arretted and released under bail in the sum of $10,000 by United States Commissioner Fitzgerald. Mr. Leland was indicted at the Utica term of the United States Court for wrecking the Spriagville Bank. Albert P. Foster, aged twenty-foor, committed suicide at Saratoga, N. Y., by taking carbolic acid. Marital troubles were the -II J TH f.-J Ut~ uiiexeu cuuar. busier itiaotsu uio uvvucx goodby and then rushed into an adjoining room and swallowed the fatal dose. A coroner's jury found that Aimee Smith, of Hickensack, N. J., who died suddenly in ' the Hotel Victor, in New York City, came to ' her death by carbolic acid poisoning, and j Coroner Dobbs held Nelson M. Weeks, of Haekensack, who took her to the hotel. The wooden span of the north end approach to the Ohio Connecting Railroad Bridge at Wood's Run. Penn., collapsed while a freight train was crosfeing, and the eDgine and thirteen cai3 were precipitated to McClure avenue, fifty feet below. Fireman William Haesrerty was killed instantly and Engineer William Oraham fatally injured. The Bureau of Elections has completed the scheme of redisricting New York'City ordpred by last years election law. The services of 4000 election inspectors and clerics can be dispensed with and more than $75,000 wlll'be saved ajmually. Dr. BlnuveK has reported to the Henlth Board that the flrat week of the medical inspection in public schools of N^w York City resulted in the exclusion of 569 cases of disease. A stubborn fire which broke out in the Gilmore Opera House at Springfield, Mass., Kunau mi uiuuik nuu u.iusou a iu? vt uotween -580,000 and $100,000. The Globe Savings Bank at Chicago has failed. Later the Chicago Title and Trust Company wa9 appointed receiver. The capital stock of the Hank is 6200,000. Most of the bank stock is held by Eastern capitalists. The United States battleship Iowa made more than seventeen knots an hour in a preliminary run over the official trial ecurse. E. Stern, said to have been a wealthy retired merchant, committed suicide by jumping from the ferryboat Bowery Bay, at New York City. Ill health ami despondency therefrom were, it is believed, the causes. Jesse Hart accompanied Miss Nora Eggleston to church at Carrollton, Miss. On their return home the young woman picked upa pistol that nad beoa left in the parlor. Hart told her to put it down and she playfully refused. A scuffle endued, when t he pistol was discharged and Miss Eggleetonfell dead with a bullet through her brain. A train of twenty-six flat cars, loaded with big guns. wa3 sent bv the Bethlehem (P nn.) Iron Company to the Sandy Hook (N. J.) proving grounds. The train carried nine ten-inch and fifteen eight-inch guns, which are part of an order for 100 for coast defence. Foreign Note*. The Sultan has written a letter to the Czar thanking him for the maintenance of the integrity of Turkey. A big victory is reported for the Spanish forces over the insurgents in the Philippine Islands. The colony of Gaaaland, South Africa, is j j in open revolt against Portugal. President Kruger, of the South African j Republic, has ordered his grandson. Lieutenant Eloff, to be tried for using iusulting language abcut Queen Victoria. Notice was served by the Powers on j ! Greece and Turkey that incase of war tho j I aggressors would be held responsible. Emperor Francis Joseph decline 1 to ac- I I cept the resignation of the members of the I i Austrian Cabinet. Iu tho Transvaal raid inquiry in London, j Sir John Willouehby refused to give his I teasons for believing that he had imperial I authority for the raid. Boneflcial ratns have occurred in India, and prices are falling. In opening the Italian Parliament, King , Humbert praised the concert of Europe and \ called for the strengthening of the navy. ) \ i Mn GENERAL RUCER RETIRED. ETe Xa to B? Sncce?ded by MaJor-General^^H Wesley Merrltt, Major-General Thomas H. Buger, of the United States Army, has been retired from Bomtnaad of the Department of the East at Governor's Island, New York, and Is to b? succeeded by Major-General Wesley Merrlttj 1 General Rnger recently completed fortythree years of active service, and havlnfl reached the age of sixty-fonr, the law ra?. qulree his detachment from active service, j 1CAJOR-GEXEBAL THOMAS H. BUGEB (B6tlredX ^ tttoo Ka*k It* T.I ma T.MnflU VXni lOI t%l Xkli^Ol j niu uvku iu m4um?| m> < ?q t ston County, N. Y., ia 1833. He entered West Point In 1850. He served daring the Civil War in the Northern Virginia and Mary/ land campaigns, and was with General 8her?' man in the march through Georgia. At th? battle of Gettysburg he was a division com* mander. He was aotive in suppressing tba draft riots in New York City in 1868. From: 1871 to 1876 no was Superintendent of thd West4?oint Military Academy. He was pro*1 moted to be a brigadier in 1866. L General Merritt is a native of New York; ' v He was appointed to the army from IUinoia July, 1855. He served In Utah until thef Civil War broke out, was made a Brevet Major J General for meritorious conduct at Gettysburg, and was mustered out at the close of the war. He was appointed Lieutenant^ Colonel of the Ninth United States Cavalry) on July 29, 1866, and was distinguished a9 an Indian fighter in the far West. He was' i made Major-General on April 25. 1895. He . Is now stationed at Fort Sheridan, near \ Chicago. l lAvmau AiBuirr oceirkie AUS I MIMIM ^HDinLI nbjiuma Count Badenyi to Be Intrurted With tlu Formation of a New Cabinet. The Vienna NeneFrelePresse says that the Austrian Cabinet has resigned, owing tp Its failure to negotiate with the Progressist gronp with the oDjeot of forming a coalition' majority. 4 _ "j ; COURT BADZKYL It Is expected that Count Badenyi, .the present President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of the Interior, will be Intrusted with the task of reconstructing the Cabinet. FOUR WERE HANGED. i The Murderers of Ex-Shcrlff Frank Chaves Die on the Same Scaffold. Francisco Gonialea y Borrego, Anton Gonzales y Borrego, Sauriano Aland and Patricio Valencia, condemned to death for the murder of ex-Sheriff Frank Chavez, who was killed from ambush on the night of May 29, 1892, were hanged together on one scaffold at Santa Fe, New Mexico. The four oaen were reprieved twice. President Cleve * A-J .1 rnra* tlmft an/1 I ana grunmu mom uuij iujd >?_? ??? President McKinley extended this period ten days. The crime for which they were executed was a peculiarly atrocious one. The men were members of the "Button Gang," formed to combat Chavez, who was a Democratic leader. He was nssa-sinatod on May 29, 1892, at night. Next night Juan DomInguoz boasted that he knew who killed Chavez, and was himself killed. The gang, was finally run down. Hlupolyte Vigil, the Chief of Police, was shot while resisting arrest CONVICT KILLED BY LIGHTNING. He Wma One of Eleven Fastened by a Chain to a Tree That Was Struck. A. flash of lightning at Waynesboro, Ga., killed Frank Dent, the eleventh man in a row of convicts strung on a chain with ten com" panions. The convicts were working iu a field late in the evening, when a severe storm came up. The guard quickly strung the gang upon a long chain ana hustled them toward a tree. Dent was at one end of the chain, ami the other end was made fast about the tree. A bright flash came, and In an instant the tree was in splinters. Tho current leaped from the tree along the chain. The flash blinded the gang, and when they recovered Dent was deaa. Two others were badly burned. Two Brothers Hanged in Louisiana. The Blana brothers wore hanged at Lafay* ette. La., in the presence of 3000 spectators. Alexis and Ernest Blano murdered Simon Bagnaud, a merchant, at Scott, La., about a year ago. The boys were both under twenty years of age. Russia Ready (or War. Owing to the keen anxiety felt at St. Petersburg as to what may occur in the near future at Constantinople, or in the viclnltyi the Czar has ordered the concentration of 200,OCO troops in the four governments of South Russia. The Russian volunteer fleet Is now available to transport troops when'" aver required. The Public Uebt. The debt siatement issued by the Treasury Department, at Washington, shows a net decrease In the public debt, less cash in the Treasury, during March, of ?8,633,253. Total cash in the Treasury, ?875,'239.759. j' The Labor World. I Bartenders have a National uuion. Paris employs 65,000 dressma kers. L Australian servants are organizing. I Kentucky has women paperhangers. The Utah Legislature killed the eight-hour bill. Stenography employs 193,000 American women. A union label probably will be placed ou bicycles. Ironmolders wl'l not hold a National convention this year. Newry (Ireland) mill oparativea won at itrlke against flae& .... '