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GBBAT STB1KB OP MIHEHS. The United Mine Workers Obey the Order to Quit Work. REPORTS FROM STATES AFFECTED. Fully 100.000 Men Go Out on the Firnt , Day?III Ohio Alone It is Estimated That More Than 6.".,000 Jjult Work ?Spring Valley Men Eager For the Fray, Though 111 1'repared. Colfmbcs. Ohio (Special).?The great strike inaugurated under the direction of the officers of the United 3Iine Workers of America has begun. As far as known there has been no hostile demon strations. The miners have been cautioned by their leaders not to use any unlawful means to secure the success of this strike for higher wages. Reports from all parts of Ohio show that practically all the mines in the State are oiosed. Some of the miners in the Jackson and Shawnee districts are still working,and will remain in the mines for a few days to await the action of the Pittsburg district. Owing to the fact that many mines have "Veen working on very short time, some of the districts of Ohio present scenes but little different from those of the past few months. Generally speaking, the miners are in? poor shape to stand a prolonged strike, and if the suspension continues for any length of time their want will result in making the situation very serious. Many of the Ohio operators express a willingness to pay the scale demanded by the miners provided the Increase in made xn the Pittsburg district. All tie Ohio operators ask is that the nine cent umeroniiiu m lavur ui wruiu mo urniutained. Reports indicate that the strike order has been generally obeyed, except in VT?st Virginia, northwestern Kentuoky, and the Dan-wille (111.) district. Cleveland, Ohio (Special). ? Reports from the mines operated from this point Indicate that ninety per cent, of the 75,000 miners who are under direct orders from Cleveland have thrown down their tools, and that the larger part of the remaining ! ten per c?nt. have decided to quit work. Never before in the history of mining in Ohio have Cleveland operators confronted ?o great a strike as the present. Chicago, 111. (Special).?Despatches from i various points in Illinois and Indiana indlaate that the strike of coal minors is wideipread. A despatch from Bloomington, 111., jays that the miners of the McLean County Company decided to go out in obedience to the general circular calling for suspension , of work. There is no dissatisfaction, and ' the strike will be purely sympathetic. The miners receive fifty cents "per ton for dig- ! ?ing second vein coal and sixty cents for ! thLid vein. Representat ves ofjthe mines at Riverton, Barclay and Spaulding got together and | unanimously decided to join the general ! Itrike. At Dawson the miners also decided j to quit work, and the movement is expected j b spread through the Springfield district. J President Knight of the United Mine j Workers for Indiana, in an interview at Terra Haute said that the Columbus report to the effect that 375,000 men will be Involved in the strike is a gross exaggeration. He estimates that the total number of miners that will be idle will be between 110,000 and 125.000. His figures are as follows: In Pennsylvania, 22,000; in Ohio, 25,000; in Indiana, 8000; in West Virginia, 20,000, and in Illinois, 35,000. Spbing Vallet, 111. (Special).?Good order has characterized the conduct of the striking coal miners. The leaders will use all means at their command to induce the men to commit no violent acts. ,The men > number 4000, one-half of whom are nonEnglish speaking. Apprehension of trouble comes from what the foreign miners movr f-ho rtlAQft r\f tha mnnfrh ! There will be many families on the verge of starvation if aid'is not extended them. The county authorities will give no more than $4 a month to the families of the miners, and many of them will not get any aid. If the suspension extends beyond four weeks there will be destitution among twothirds of the miners in this section. At Ladd, a village near this city, the miners are already applying for county aid. The strike sentiment is so strong that It <s believed these men, masons, mechanics, blacksmiths and carpenters, will be forced to get in line. -There Is no section of the West -which croes into the flcrht to a man as have the mifiers of the Spring Valley district, ?nd none are so desperate. The miners of this city anticipated the general strike order three days before it j was issued from Columbus, and at a mass j meeting placed themselves on record to i dig no more slxty-three-cent-a-ton coal i after July 2. In every coal strike Spring Valley maintains its old strike reputation of being the iirst out and the last in. 1 Indianapolis , Ind. (Special).?The prediction of the officials of the United Mine Workers' organization that the strike ordered would be generally responded to In Indiana was realized by the abandonment of the mines In all the coal districts except the county of Clinton and one mine In Green County where colored men are emEloyed. At Brazil the block coal miners ad a large mass meeting, and unanimously endorsed the action of the meeting which decided to strike. So Intense was the feeling that a request by one miner that he be allowed to prop up his room, which was left without proper supports was refused. There seemed to be the heartiest accord among the miners in taking the step. The few who at first dej serted were persuaded easily to join the strike. As a rule the strikers are not well prepared for a protracted struggle, for few -of them have earned wages of which any thing could be saved, and the majority, notably those having families, are in debt. 'The mine owners believe that the strike will not bo attended by any lawlessness, t Pittsbcbo (Special).?Meetings of coal miners were held all over the Pittsburg district on July 4. Most of the men seemed to be in line for a strike. The miners in the Clearfield district have agreed not to strike. Senator Marie Hanna, of Ohio, is now paying the best wages in this district. He : gives his men sixty cents a ton for ali coal mined by them, while other operators pay only fifty-four cents a ton. The iron-clad contract, by the terms of which ten per cent, of the miners' wages is retained by the firm, and forfeited by the miners in case they strike, is id vogue at the Senator's mines. A Boant or Vermont. 4 Vermonters claim their State to be freer from tuberculosis than any other in New England. Well-Known Railroad Man Killed. Henry E. Stone, who had been General Manager of the Chicago, Burlington and Qaincy Railroad and President of the Chicago Telephone Company, was killed at htesummer home at Nonquitt, Mass., by an explosion of fireworks. He was setting off the fireworks for the amusement of his children. Death In French Floods. The recent floods in the South of France are the worst that have occurred since 1875, It is believed that fifty perfous have been drowned in the Department of Auch alone, although the inhabitants wore warned of the impending disaster. Prominent People. Ex-Secretary John Or. Carlisle, In practicing law in New York, will devote himself to pleading cases in court instead of confining himself to office work. Lieutenant A. G. C. Quay, son of Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, has been promoted by President McKinley to a Captaincy over the heads of 607 First Lieutenants. Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, V%., has conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. on General William P. Craighili. Chief of Engineers, retired, United States Army. Congressman George S. White, of North Carolina, the only colored member oi the House of Representatives, is not a fullblooded Arrlcan. He is said to have both Irish and Indian blood in his ancestry. i A LAD FAI I <5 1500 FEET. ^ He Went Vp With it Balloon Clutching a Sandbas: ami Slet His Death. I An adventuresome six-year-old boy in Oakland. Cal., lost his life through his dosire to go up in a balloon. Ch.\rles Conlon, an amateur aeronaut, was advertised to as- | rend in a hot-air balloon at Blair's Park and descend by a parachute. He had only I a trapeze bar from which his parachute j was slung. On the side of the balloon were several sandbags suspended by cords. Young Bertram! Hill, a son of ChauDcey < Hill, a Los Angeles architect, saw the inflating of the balloon and other prepara- j tion. No one noticed the boy in the hurry and excitement of cutting loose the ropes; but the crowd was horrified, as soon as tho balloon rose clear of the earth, to see a lit- j ne ooy ciuicmng ono or tat' sanu Dags. tie j was fully thirtv-flve feet above the aeron- I aut, and" there was 110 way of reaching him. I Apparently he shouted to the child to hold tight, but it was plain the little fellow J ; was setting bewildered and dizzy. Groans of horror came from the men and scteams from the women and children as, when the balloon had reached a height of about 1500 feet, the child was seen to fall. Women fainted and men wept as the body cime whirling down. It struck nearly a mile from the park. It is believed the boy was dead before the body struck the ground. M'KINLEYS MOTHER HURT. [ The Outing of the Presidential Party at fljnfnn. Oliln. President and Mrs. McKinley, accompanied by Judge Day, assistant Secretary ' cf State, and their personal friend, Mrs. EUa Buckingham, returned to Washington after a pleasant visit of forty-eight hours, including the Fourth of July, with the President's mother at Canton, Ohio. There was no demonstration, owing to the request of the President, whose desire in going to Canton was to pass a quiet period with his mother and other relatives. The pleasure of the visit was marred slightly by an acoident which befell the venerablfe mother of the President. While walking across the front piazza Mrs. McKinley tripped on a piece of matting and fell forward, striking her face on a chair. The President sprang to assist her, and found that a considerable gash had been cut in her forehead. The wound was dressed and the patient is as comfortable as could be expected. She regards the accident more lightly than do any of her family, bearing her pain with the Soartan-like calmness of her nature. The accident was the only disagreeable feature of the trip, and it was not regarded as serious enough to interfere with the departure of the President and his wife. DEFICIT CUT DOWN. Importation!) In Anticipation of the New Tariff Duties Increase Receipts. The fiscal year of 1897, which closed June 30, left the United States Treasury in good condition tojiegin the new year. When Secretary Carlisle sent his annual report to Congress last December he estimated that the receipts for the year would be less than the expenditures by 664,500,000. The year closes with a deficit of little more than $20,000,000. On the books of the department on July 1 It is apparently 822,03*..526, but when the official figures for the year are made up the deficit will be little if any more than $20,000,000. This condition of affairs so much more favorable than Secretary Carlisle had expected has been brought about almost entirely by the importations of dutiable goods since early in March in anticipation of the imposition of higher duties in the pending Tariff bill. In the month of June the excess of receipts over expenditures was $10,236,595, a tremendous gain compared with the large deficiencies in previous months. The available cash balance which, on the last business day in May, was $231,993,501, was on Julyl, $237,452,199. The withdrawals of gold for shipment abroad have been more than balanced by a gain in demand notes. Tragic Ending of a Boat Race. At the rowing regatta on the Charles River, Boston, Mass., the most exciting race was the senior eight-oared contest, in which the Riverside crew won by six feet over the Millstreams of Chelsea. After the Millstreams had returned to the boathouse wharf, the coxwain, H. Sadler, of Chelsea, alighted, and just as he was entering the boathouse fell to the floor and expired al most instantly, hl9 death being due to | heart disease aggravated by the excitement and heat of the day. Sixty Soldiers Drowned. Torrential rains have fallen in Roumania, causing the rivers to rise and iu some cases to overflow their banks. Lake Bratisch became badly swollen, and fears were entertained that it would overflow. A temporary ombankment was built to guard against this, but the watere burst out and deluged a part of Galatz. Sixty soldiers and many women and children were carried away by the torrent and drowned. Great damage was done to property. Omlnoas Revolt In India. The uneasiness caused by the recent killing of officials and the rioting of the natives at Chitpur, India, continues, although outwardly everything is now quiet. Spies inform the police that further outbreaks are being organized. Isolated assaults, especially upon European ladies, continue. The native casualties during the recent riot are said to have been very large. A low estimate places thb number of killed at 600. Edhem Fasliii Resigns. Edh?m Pasha, Commander of the Turkish army in Thessaly, has resigned. He gives as the reason for his action that he cannot guarantee the discipline of the army under the proposed arrangements lor the conclu- | sion of peace with Greece. His resignation is believed to be merely formal. It is thought that it is tendered in accordance I with instructions he has received from the ; war party. The Fourth in Europe. The Fourth of July was celebrated by Americans in the important capitals of Europe. The distinguished Americans in Lon' * 1 1 3 ? ---i ? * * V? < > 17Ancinr*f An j (ion QOIQ l\ UitllllUVb rtL IUO uououigvvu Palace Hotel, whese Colonel Hay, Mr. Reid, Bishop Potter, and otheie spoke. Ambassador Porter presided at a banquet of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, and General Draper held a reception at Rome. Lsrgent CongTesBlonal District. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, represents^he iargost congressional district in the United Statw) in point of population. Coinage for a Month. The June monthly statement of the Director of the Mint dhows the coinase at the mints of the United States to havo been as follows: Gold, 82,110,547; silver, $1,856,754. minor coins, $175,051. Total, $4,132,352. In addition to the domestic coinage there were coined during June $306,140 for the Government of San Domingo. These pieces contain thirtv-flve per cent, of silver and sixty-five per "cent, of nickel and copper. Canadian Jubilee Stamp. The Canadian jubilee postage stamp la to be printed in New York. Minor Mention. Los Angeles, Cal., claims a population of 103,000. Heat waves are parching the grain fields in some part of Kansas. The estimate of Chicago's population by the publishers of the city directory, just printed, is 1,823,000, an increase of" 76,000 over last year. Henry W. Cramp says that while we have ' four large ocean liners that coulil be converted for naval use, it would bo impossible to arm them in time. JThe home of President James K. Polk. iQ ! Nashville, Tenn., was sold for distribution among the heirs, and brought only 815,000 i It is probable that the property will be again offered at public auction. LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC. Damage Done in New York, New lareat/ onrl PrtnnQfflrirt'. UIIU VWllllUV/llUUia BOMBARDED BY THUNDERBOLTS. Fierce and Fiery Storms, With High Winds, Heavy Rainfall, Disastrous Bolts From the Sky anil Enormous Hailstones?One of the Most Remarkable Electric Storms Ever Experienced. New York Citt (Special).?New York and vicinity wore visited by one of the most remarkable and widoly devastating electrio storms that was ever experienced. It was preceded by the peculiar effects which are usually the precursor of cyclones, and gave much uneasiness in those places which have had experience with the funnel-shaped I - 1 J -- 1 ?1? ? .1?1 AilA? Tf ciouu ana us iouowmg 01 uni,ru?iuu. x>. was accompanied by heavy rain and in places enormous hailstones fell. Lightning fell right and left. It knocked the top off the big flagpole beside Grant's tomb and shattered several other poles in different parts of the city. At about 3 o'clock p. m. the clouds which had been hanging over t&e city seemed to be gathering to a head, and sweltering New Yorkers looked expectantly up at them for a cooling rain. It came soon after 4 o'clock, accompanied by thunder and lightning and beginning with a terrific crash, which made people in the streets scatter for shelter in considerable alarm. The lightning struck in a number of places. The seven story malt house tower of EblinR/s brewery, at St. Ann's avenue and 156th street, was struck while Mr. Ebling, the proprietor of the brewery, and a party of friends were in a detached building. They were startled by the terrific crash, which was almost Immediately followed by another, and all jumped from their chairs. Mr. Ebling saw a dense cloud of smoke coming out of the malt house tower, and also from the windows or tne nitn ana sixtn floors, He turned in an alarm, and Engine Company No. 41 responded. A force of policemen from the Morrisania station also answered the summons. While the firemen were attaching the hose, and getting their engines in plaoe the cloud of smoke lifted, and they saw there was no Are. An investigation was made, but no trace of where the electric current entered could be found. Five panes of glass on the west side of the tower, near the top, had been shattered. A flfty-four-foot pole on the roof of the eight-story Curtis Building was split for one-half its length by a bolt of lightning. The superintendent of the Curtis Buildir.g was sitting in the window of his ofS'ie watching the storm when the pole was struck. He saw a shower of splinters and chips fall to the Stone street sidewalk, and saw the people looking toward the roof of his building. He said he also f*lt the shock. The superintendent hurri-i to the roof and found that the cooner baii ana a foot or two of iron rod holdin? ;ne ball above the tip of the pole had disappeared. Tenafly, N. J., suffered more from the storm than any other place near New York. The storm amounted almost to a cyclone In its first fury, and then it was followed by a downfall of hailstones of large size. Many of them were as largo as email hen's eggs. The storm appeared to meet directly over the village, and in a moment it became almost as dark as night. There was an outburst of lightning and thunder which was terrifying. People fled to their cellars for safety. Within a few moments things were in a frightful state. Roofs ^rere blown off, trees uprooted and wires of all kinds blown down. The wind lasted perhaps a minute and a half. The air was filled with flying objects. Sticks and limbs of trees were carried along In the air and dashed against houses. From one end of the village to the other, in a strip about two miles broad, there was hardly a pane of glass left whole on the north and west sides of buildings. Hail stones picked up half an hour later measured an inch and a half in diameter. Late at night the ice had not all melted. The hail was followed by a downpour of rain that flooded everything and caused much damage owing to the ruined condition of windows. The big window-shade factory owned by E. Richter was one of the places to suffer. Every pane of glass in the northwest front of the big building was driven in by the wind and hail. The windows on one side ol the Presbyterian Church were crushed in, and the church flooded with water. Lightning also struck the church. The wind up-rooted trees in all directions, and Washington avenue is completely blocked by the fallen trees. "The storm visited Long Island City, where the lightning was particularly active and struck in many places. When the storm centred over Long Island City the lightning struck the flagpole which surmounts the County Court House, and tho jail was also hit. The bolt splintered the flagpole and entered the building, causing much excitement. When the bolt struck the Court House the women in tho jail were already almost hysterical, and one woman prisoner fainted. All through Connecticut great damage was done by the storm, and in Torrington the cellars of the houses in all the principal streets were flooded and about $5000 wor:h of property destroyed. In Cheshire the storm assumed almost cyclonic fury. Trees were uprooted, fences leveled, roofs lifted from several barns and immense damage was done to crops from hailstones. In Waterbury the rain storm was one of the severest that has visited the city lor years. The storm was confined to a limited area. CORNELL AN EASY WINNER. Colombia Far Behind, and Pennsylvania Did Not Finish. Cornell won her third great aquatio victory within a week by defeating Columbia's oarsmen over the Toughkeepsie (N. Y.) four-mile course by a margin of at least nine lengths. And when Columbia had crossed the finish line fully half a minute behind the invinoible Ithacans the unfortunate Pennsylvania crew, which had started as bravely as any of them onty a little over twenty minutes before, was aboard its training launch, snatched from its swamping shell just in time to avoid an actual sinking. It was a pitiable ending to a season of arduous and faithful training, and there was not one of the thousands who saw the melancholy collapse who did not give his sympathy to the unlucky Pennsylvanians. The result was as follows: Cornell, first; time, 20.47 4-5; Columbia, seconi; time, 21.20 2-5; Pennsylvania did not flniiih. Named by the President. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: Bernard R. Green, of the District of Columbia, Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds. Francis B. Loomis, of Ohio, Minister to Venezuela. To be Consuls: Henry Berdewlch, of Minnesota, at Christiania, Norway; John C. Caldwell, of Kansas, at San Jose, Costa Rica; Philip C. Hanna, of Iowa, at Trinidad, West Indies; Louis Lange, Jr., of Illinois, at Bremen, Germany; Joseph J. Stevens, of Indiana, at Plymouth England. John R. Thomas, of Illinois, to be Judge of the United States Courts in the Indian Territory. Labor World. The establishment of a textile school Is being urged in South Carolina. The New York tailors' strike, which at one time involved 20,000 men, is over. A strike of iron moulders at Lynn, Mass.,. has been declared oil after a two months' struggle. Since May 1, 1896, Typographical Union No. 6, New "York City, has paid out $20,000 in relief purposes. Birmingham (Ala.) unionists will test the constitutionality of the law permitting the leasing of convicts. The International Association of Machinists is to establish a co-operative repair shop and a bicycle faet?ry. The British workingman has 278 working days in the year; the American, 306; Uw German, 312; the Russiai?., 267... A FLORIDA PANTHER FIGHT. Straggle of the .Jenkinses With a 'Wild Beast In a Baggy. "Ed" Jenkins was driving along wicn nis I family near Tarpon Springs, Fla., when he saw two baby catamounts by the roadside. Ho picked them up, but the mother catamount sprang on the buggy, seizing Mrs. Jenkins's dress. Jenkins struck the animal with a small club, and she secured a firm hold on his arm. He had his knife out by this time, and a furious flglit began, the horse dashiLCf madly along, the panther dragging back of the f eat. Mrs. Jenkins began- striking the beast over the head with the club. It let go its hold on Jenkins, and pulled his wife half I out of the vehicle. Jenkins fell out on top of the pauther. They fought in the road, t the animal drawing blood at every dig. j Fie ally Jenkins cut its throat. He was I badly clawed and bitten. AERONAUTS BADLY INJURED. Acohlent in an Ascension And I'aracliuto Jump in Eureka, Cal. I'rofessor George Wqston, the aeronaut, and his assistant, H. S. Colton, of Aberdeen, Wash., were fearfully crushed while the former was attempting an ascension and parachute jump at Eureka, Cal. T?l i-u. U.U 1-fl.l-J it.. ?i uen me oauoon was iduuicu ?uu iud restraining ropes oast off, it shot up sixty feet with Colton tangled in the ropes. He was dropped to the earth and sustained fractures and bruises from which he will die. Weston clunsr to the parachute, and a strong wind carried him with terrific force through the topii of some trees, and he, too, dropped to thB earth, crushed and mangled in a horrible manner. THREE LOST IN A WRECK. Cloudburst Causes a Washout on tlio Boston and Maine Railroad. A freight train on the White Mountain Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad to wrecked by a washout at a point four miles north of Woo&jville, N. H. Three men were killed and the engine and three car3 were badly wrecked. The killed were Tannnn n.n'nu. WKl'tafloM V ?. milVIV JUCUUVU, Ollji .UCCl, II UikOUOlVi, Alt H.: Bert Pebbles, fireman, Woodsville; 0. E.Lange, brakeman, Iierlin, N. H. The washout was caused by a cloudburst, wh ch passed over tbis section Tuesday. A great volume of water fell In a short time, and the small streams overflowed the lowlands. FOUR PEOPLI: DROWNED. A Sklfi Upset by a Steamboat on the Arkansas River. An accident occurred on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Ark., which resulted in the drowning of four people. The drowned are: Miss Josie Sanders, aged eighteen, of Little Rock; Miss Mary Arber, aged nineteen, of Little Rock; Jake Dante and Joe Dante, of Pine Bluff. Miss Sanders, Miss Arber and the Dante brothers were in a skiff on the river, where they had gone to view the fireworks. When the pyrotechnic display was over the pleas ure steamer U. K. Riggs ran into tho skiff and upset it. EXPLOSION KILLS NINE. Boiler on a Tennessee Farm Blows Up at a Harvesting. At Hartsville, Tenn., a boiler explosion occurred on the farm of W. A. Alien by which nine people were instantly killed and Ave badly injured. Mr. Allen and his men bad just finished threshing wheat and were preparing to leave the field when the explosion occurred. Some of the victims were mangled beyond recognition and pieces of the boiler were ' blown several hundred yards. Lindsey Allen's head was blown away and has .not been found. Big Strike In Great Britain. In consequence of the strike of engineers Ln London in support of their demands for eight hours of work only per day, the Federated Employers' Association posted notices throughout Great Britain locking out twenty-flve percent, of the members of the striking societies. It is understood that the societies will order the remaining sevantv-flve per cent, of their members to leave work immediately. Twenty-flve thousand men are affected. Starving Themselves to Death. According to a dispatch from St. Petersburg, two women have been found in the forest of Zarevosanosch Urski, in the Iaransk District, Rome, one dead and the other dying of starvation. They were members of a sect regarding suicide by starvation as the highest form of religious devotion. Other members of the sect had previously disappeared and the police have instituted a thorough investigation. I West Point Hero Burled. Sergeant Anthony J. Brechbell, stationed at the West Point fN. Y.) Military Acadomy, one of the victims of a drowning accident at Long Pond, who lost his life in trying to save several others, was buriod with military honors in the Post Cemetery. Owing to the young man's popularity with the officers and men, the funeral was an imposing event. All the various detachment* turned out in full dress. i Died of Starvation. The bodies of August Staneker, aged four years, and Mary Sholtas, aged three years, who disappeared from their homes at Hazel Brook, Penn., on April 21, were found on July 6 on the mountain. When the children disappeared a reward was offered for information concerning them. In is supposed they wandered into the woods, and, losing their way, died from staivation. Extolled the United States. The London Dally Mail correspondent at Cape Town, South A.'lrica, says that Mr. W. P. Schreiner, in a 9p3eoh at the American banquet in celebration of Independence Day, extolled the Un ited States as the "one spot on God's earth where freedom finds its highest realization." This has given great offence in sortie quarters because it seems to imply a slur upon Great Britain. Cherry Picker Hanged. Van Nest Talmage, sixteen years of age, a son of David Talmage, of Leonia, N. J., fell from a tree tn which he was picking cherries. His fall was interrupted by his clothing catching on a branch. He caught in 9uch a manner that he hung head downward. He was suspended at least half an hour, and was d.ead before the accident was discovered. Brooklyn's Compliment to Britain. A delicate compliment wa9 paid by the United States warship Brooklyn to England during the naval illuminations atSpitheadThe searchlight of the Brooklyn was turned first upon the Stars and Stripes, then upon the English ensign also, and finally withdrawn from the American flag and allowed to illuminate a British flag only for the remainder of the evening. France's Awful Floods. The damage by the floorli? in the south of France is estimated at 640,000,000 and the loss of life at 300. Between 80,000 and (15,000 Idle. As the result of the failuro of the joint wage conference of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and Manufacturers to agree upon the scale at the Youngstown (Ohio) conference, all the union mills at Pittsburg closed down, making between 75,000 and 85,000 men idle. Tin's inMmled the skilled workmen and those depending on tharn. A riague of Locust* In North India. A dispatch from Bombay says that a plague of locusts in North India threatens to aggravate the sufferings from famine greatly. THE TARIFF BILL PASSES. fen Majority in the Senate For the Revised Dingley Measure, FINAL VOTE WAS 38 TO 2b, Party Lines Broken?One Democrat, Mr. McEnery, of Louisiana, and Two Populists Recorded in the Affirmative ?Seven Silver Senators Declined to Vote?In the Hands of the Conferees. Washinotox, D. C. (Special).?The long and exciting struggle in the Senate over the Tariff bill came to a close at a quarter before 5 o'clock p. m., Wednesday, when the bill was passed by a majority often. During the whole day, despite the instense heat, the galleries had been filled, and when the time for the vote drew near,members of the House of Representatives flocked into the Senate chamber, Ailing the sofas, and stood ranged along the walls back oi the seats of Senators. Speaker Reed and Chairman Dingley were prominent among those remained until the vote was taken. There was no sort of demonstration at the announcement of the result. The scene in the Senate during the closing hours of the debate was a remarkable nnn. Tha most strikino? fnatiirfl of tho bate was the speeches of the Silver Republicans, who, under the lead of Senator Teller, took advantage of the occasion to emphasize more strongly than ever their complete separation from the Republican organization. While professing that they were still protectionists, they declared that the tariff was no longer a political issue of the first importance. While they and the Populists generally refrained from voting on the bill, they called attention to the fact that their votes could have been obtained had they been needed to enable the Republicans to pass a strictly party measure. It was their contention that no tariff revision could bring prosperity, and they were determined that the Republicans should pass just such a bill as they wanted, so that the country could have an object lesson. Senator Teller warned the Republicans that they could notexouseany faults in the bill on the ground that they were forced to make concessions, as he and his . colleagues had stood ready to support them In passing any bill they might frame. This is the vote on the passage of the bill In detail: Yeas?Republicans?Messrs. Allison, Burrows, Baker, Carter, Clark, Cullom, Davis, Deboe, Elkina, Fairbanks, Foraker, Gallinger, Hale, Hanna, Hawley, Lodge, McBrlde, McMillan, Mason, Morrill, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Piatt (Conn.), Piatt (N. Y.), Pritohnrrt Prnntnr Oiiat SbwpII Snoon?p War. ren, Wellington, Wetmore ana Wilson?35. Silverltes?Messrs. Jones (Nev.) and Man-, i tie?2. Democrat?Mr. McEnery. Nays?Democrats?Messra. Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caffery, Chilton, Clay, Cockrell, Faulkner, Gray, Harris (Kan.), Jones (Ark.), Kenney, Lindsay, Mallory, Martin, Mills, Mitchell, Morgan, Pasco, Pettus, Rawlins, Boaoh, Turner, Turple, Vest, Walthall, and White?27. I 8ilverite?Mr. Cannon. Messrs. Allen and Butler, Populists; Pettigrew, Stewart, and Teller, Silverltes; Kyle, independent, and Heitfeld, Democrat, refused to vote. 1 Pairs were announced between Senators Chandler and McLaurin; Frye and Gorman; i Gear and Smith; Wolcott and George; i Hansborough and Daniel; Hoar and Harris, ' of Tennessee, and Thurston and Tillman. As there was some difficulty about a pair ] for Mr. Murphy, of New York, Mr. Aldrich ] withdrew his vote and announced a pair j with him. Mr. Allison then made the for- j mal motion, which was agreed to, that the Senate insist on its amendments and ask , for a conference with the House. Senators Allison, Aldrich, Piatt (of Connection^, J Buriuws, Republicans; Jones (of Nevada), Silverite, and Vest, Jones (of Arkansas), and White. Democrats, were appointed j conferees on the part of the Senate. An analysis of the final vote shows that the affirmative was cast by thirty-five Re- ( publicans, two Silver Republicans?Jones, ' of Nevada, and Mantle?and one Democrat. J McEnery. The negative vote was cast by twenty-five Democrats, two Populists?Harris, of Kan- < sas, and Turner?and one Silver Republioan, I Gannon. 1 These Senators withheld their vote?Al- I len, Butler, Heitfeld, Kyle, Stewart, Popu- j lists, and Teller and Pettlgrew, Silver Re- , publicans. The measure now goes to conference, ] where the disagreements between the two houses will be adjusted. This work will devolve upon eight members of the 8enate . ' Finance Committee and eight members of the House Committee on Ways and Means. I THE NORTHWEST DELUCED. i Floods and Tornadoes Do Enormous ! Damage. I Reports of damage and loss of life by a ' storm that was general come from parts of ( North Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and Wis- ] consin. It had its origin in the Lake Superior region. 1 The total loss of life is hard to estimate, j however, as conflicting stories keep coming in. So far as known fully twenty-five j Kvna Hava Koan Inaf* The damage to property cannot be estimated, but it will undoubtedly be consider- | ably over 31,000,000. Reports received from towns along the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad stated that all streams were rising. The tornado swept through Aiken J County, Minnesota, cutting a swath through the woods, leveling the trees and every- 1 thing else in its path. It struck the town of GlenwooJ, and several people were killed there. The list of dead at that place so far ! as known Is as follows: Tolifl Lavan, Anna Morrow, eight years old; Mrs. Samuel Morrow, Samuel Morrow, Oswald Morrow, | Robert McGowan and an unknown man. i William Norris and wife were also reported killed. A one-year-old baby had a leg and , arm broken. Two men, William Sargent and Charles Wilson, are known to have been killed in a wreck on the Great Northern near St. Cloud. Four others are thought to be buried under the cars. The train ran into a washout and was ditched, twenty cars and engine being piled up. Forty million logs have broken away in St. Croix lake, and the water rose twenty feet, flooding the entire country. People fled to higher ground. The crops are ruined. Straight River at Faribault rose fifteen feet in ten hours, and is near the danger line. Two wrecks are reported on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road and four people were killed. To Death Through an Open Draw. There were nine passengers on an Inter, urban trolley car running between Saginaw and Bay City, Mich., when it went through the open draw of the bridge and plunged into the river, thirty feet below. Six of them were killed and the others were badly injured. The dead^ are: Mrs. David Campbell, of Metamora, Mich.; Campbell, sevenyear-old child of Mrs. Campbell; Campbell, flve-year-old child of Mrs. Campbell; Campbell, two-year-old child of Mrs Campbell; John Hawkins, T. P. Klumph traveling salesman, of.Geneva, Ohio; Mrs William McClelland. Cycling Notes. Germany threatens to exclude American bicycles. Forty-four scorchers were fined 65 each in the Recorder's court in Detroit one morning recently. Any bicycle rider arrested in New Jersey need not pay his fine. There is a flaw in the State law. It Is estimated that, about twenty thousand cycles are produced every week in Great Britain alone. Experts who know what it costs to build a high-grade bioycle are now free to express themselves. They agree that tho actual cost of a so-called $100 wheel is $30.3L ?, _x ? v-v?-r THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Iteing. Tho Comptroller of the Currency received Information of the failure of the First Nn tional Bank of Nason, Texas. Bank Ex arainer Johnson was placed in charge. Th< bank had a capital of 850,000. and at th< date of its last report its liabilities amounted to about $30,000. The San Francisco and the Baleigh havt been ordered to Tangier for protection o! American citizens from annoyance in Mo rocco. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported a resolution empowering thf President to "employ such means or exercise such power as may bo necessary" to force Spain to settle the claims of two naturalized Americans for arrest in Cuba. The formal protest of Japan against the annexation of Hawaii to the United States was made public. Secretary Sherman's reply to the protest of Japan against annexation of Hawaii was made public. Consul-General Lee was ordered to return from Cuba to Washington to consult with Minister Woodford. The reciprocity amendment to the Senate Tariff bill proposed by the Finance Committee was approved,"and so was the sec tion relating to retaliatory duties. President and Mrs. McKinley left foi Canton, Ohio, to observe the Fourth ol July. President McKinley nominated Asa W. Tenney, of Brooklyn, to be United States District Judge. Domestic. 8ECO&D OP THE LEAGUE OLTTB9. Per Per Clnbs.. Won. I/wt. ct Clnh?. Won. T/on*. ct. Boston....45 14 .7G3 Brooklyn.28 32 .467 Oinolnnati33 13 .679 Phlladel..29 34 .46P Baltimore.38 20 .655 Louisville 24 34 .414 New York35 23 .603 Wshlng'n23 35 .397 Cleveland 31 29 .517 Chicago. .24 37 .393 Pittsburg.29 30 .492 St Louls.ll 49 .182 Three hundred residents of Wapplnger's Falls, N. Y., were poisoned by eating ham that had absorbed poison from a copper boiler. Misses Pauline Widlar and Blanche Hudson, daughters of families who move In fashionable circles, were drowned while bathing at Maple Glen, a summer resort on < L.ake Erie, just east of Cleveland, onio. About 200 National Democrats met In 8tate Convention In Des Moines, Iowa, to nominate a State ticket. A letter was read from ex-President Grover Cleveland. Nathaniel Frenoh, as Temporary Chairman, made the principal address. The coal-miners' strike Increased, -and United States deputy marshals were sent to the mines in Jefferson County, Ohio., giving rise to fears of a riot. In New York City, John Gartha told the police that Martin Thorn confessed to him that he murdered William Guldensuppe, butchered the body and was helped by Mrs. Nack in disposing of It. The United States torpedo boat Dupont was speeded in the bay off Newport, B. I., under her three boilers, for the first time, and her work was something marvellous, rhe stokeholes were closed, and, with a steam pressure of 225 pounds, she made 420 revolutions, driving her through the water at ft annArl nf Srt ftS brnn+a flhotioH tauontr. B ve men on board working on various parts, which added greatly to her weight. Two men died from exoitement produced by viewing fires. Dr. L. H. Holbrook, of Revere, Mass., was one victim, and Melvin Woodward, of Lacona, N. Y., the other. The National Educational Association met at Milwaukee, Wis. Nellie Burns, six years old, was killed by \ trolley car of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company. The motorman became insane. The Tax Commissioners of Now York City Bled their report with the Board of Aldermen, showing figures calling for a 2.05 tax rate this year, a reduction of nine pointa from 1896. Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, poet and boycotted postmistress at Auburndale, Mass., has resigned her office. Two young women and two young men were drowned in Lake Superior by the capsizing of a rowboat. The party left Itasca, Wis., for Minnesota Point, in an overloaded boat. Seven were in the party. The irowned are: Christie McDonald, agedsevanteen; May McDonald, aged twenty-four; Daniel McDonald, aged nineteen, and John McCreary, aged twenty-five. It is now learned that Theodore Krause, ot Brooklyn, who attacked his wife with a knife and killed himself, knew himself to be a victim of homioidal mania, and had begged the police to lock him up. Letters from W. J. Bryan and Grovei Cleveland wore read at the Tammany Democracy's celebration of Independence Day. Heat and humidity made the Fourth of July very oppressive in all parts of the country. The National holiday was generally celebrated with fireworks, flag raisings and presentations and sports. Extreme heat prevailed in many part3 of the oountry, and a number of prostrations md deaths occurred. Twenty-two cases of prostration were reported in Cincinnati, Ohio, and eight deaths. The streets were almost deserted, only those going out whose business was imperative. Snowshoe races were run In Ouray, Col., as a part of the celebration of Independence Day. Women were allowed an equal 3hare in the government of the new town of Lincoln, N. J. just organized. At the caucus a man was elected Mayor, but two of the four members of the Common Council chosen are women. One, Miss Egel, is the daughter of Jonathan Egel, a farmer. She is twenty-one years old. Her associate in the Council is thirty, pears old and the wife of George Hazard, an employe in a grain mill. An examination following the explosion on the monitor Puritan, now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has revealed the fact that some of the boiler, metal Is rotten. The monitor had been ordered to sea for target practice. The boilers are over twenty-five years old. The National Executive Board of the United Mine Workers of America ordered a general strike. The officers said 875,000 men were involved in the movement. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has sustained the decision of Justice Beaoh, refusing to enjoin the Commissioner of Publlo Works, New York City, from giving permission to the Eighth Avenue Ballroad Company or its lessee to change the motive power of the road. Jeremiah 0'8ullivan, sentenced to eighteen months in the Salem (Mass.) jail_ for libeling a member or the .Lawrence common Council, was released by a pardon from Governor Wolcott. Leading lawyers advocated lynching in the Georgia Bar Association meeting. In New York City Charles Ferdinand Herve shot and severely wounded Mrs. Rose Drolet and then killed himself. They had quarreled, and she refused to return to his protection. Foreign. The Cunarder Cephalonia was towed into Queenstown, Ireland, in a disabled condition. Lord Salisbury received the United States Monetary Commissioners in London. Dantan, the French painter, wa9 killed by a balky horse and his wife had both leg? broken at Honfleur, France, Russia has sent a circular note to the ^ ? Mirt* af Ana Kn f o L*on f a hv ruwrrs, noaiug tu<?b uv tumu ?V VA- I pedite peace between Turkey and Greece ; Testimony tending to show the complicity of the London Times in the Transvaal j raid was brought out at tno session of the Parliamentary South African Committee. Turkey has sent a note to its representatives abroad declining to consider anj frontier lino in Thessaly north of tht River Peneios. The Sultan has decided tc test the alleged concert of Europe to the utmost. His Ministers favor a resumption of hostilities if pence is not concluded I TtHf h i n n urnttlr The Colonial Institute entertained the Colonial Premiers at a banquet at the Hotel , Cecil, London. The Queen reviewed 1000 Colonial troops at Windsor. Fears of an uprising in India are enter- ' tained in London. The Mussulman rlotera i in Calcutta are to celebrate their successes ! In every part of the peninsula. No one In ! authority was present during an attack on j the native police who dared to order the j troops to flrg 09 the aaoh THE SABBATH SCHOOLHB INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS^HH FOR JULY 25. ' ? Lesson Text: "Panl Preaching in Athens," 1 Acts xvli., 23-34?Golden Text: John lr., 24? Commentary on the Lesson of the Day by the Rev. 1). M. Stearns. 22. "Then Paul stood In tho midst of Mars hill and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious." The R. V. margin says, "Religious." It was something like much of tho religion of to-day, which is described in Isa. xxix., 13; Ezsk. xxxiii., 31; Math, xv., 7-9, a religiousness without any real- ? -Jt-v wit-hrm* anv fnriTirpnpisq of sins?all outward formality. The people'3 time was spent in talking of the news of the d^y (verse 21); as Paul waited for Silas and Timothy to come to him from Berea (verses 14 to 16) he mado good use of his time for his Master, both in the synagogue and in the marketplace, and every day preaohed Jesus and the resurrection. 23. "Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship Him declare I unto you." He said this with reference to the altar to the unknown God, for it would seem that in their worship of many gods or idols they had an altar for one whom possibly they might not have heard of as yet, but if there was such an one, they would like his favor also. Here Is the one business of the churoh, to make known to those who never heard of Him the one only living and true God who alone Is worthy to be worshiped'. 24. "God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He Is Lord of \ 'j heaven and e^rth, dwelleth not in temples , , made with hands." Prophets and apostles dwelt much upon the great truth of crea- \ tlon, and emphasized that Ho whom they preached was the Creator of all things. See Isa. xllv., 24; Jer. x., 12; xzzii., 17; Acts iv., 24. People may know of Him by His works. But no one can truly know Him except through Jesus Christ, who was God manifest in tne flesh (Math, xl., 27; John 1., 18; I Tim. ill., 16). Life eternal Is to know Him (John xvli., 8). 25. "He giveth to all life and' breath and all things." Giving is His great characteristic, and His crowning act was to give His ownly begotten Son, or In other words, to give Himself as a sacrifice for our sins. Having given Himself, He has given all >things, for all things are in Him. The ungodly are dependent upon him for the very breath with which they blaspheme His name, and the words of Daniel to Belshazzar are applicable to them?"The God in whose band thy breath 13 and whose are all thy ways has thou not glorified." (Dan. v., 23). 26. "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth." Not only has he determined the bounds of their habitation, bat He has done it with reference to His people Israel (Deut. xxxll., 8), for it i.s His pleasure to make Israel the centre and bless all nations through them. As all on earth are His creatures and He loved the w"rld and gave Himself for the world, surely it is the great business of those who know this to make it known to thoso who know it not. What else are we here for but to honor Him and make Him known? 27. "That they should seek the Lord." Look at Isa. It., 6,7; Zepb. ii., 3; Jer. xxix., 13, and Matt, yi., S3 on seeking the Lord, and observe everywhere that His great desire is to have people turn to Him. By sin we Dave turned our DacKS upon aim, ana misjudge Him, and misunderstand Him, and think and say hard tilings of Him. The Scriptures enlighten us about Him and lead us to repent or change our mind about Him, and when we know Him many are glad to receive Him (John 1., 11, 12). 23. "For in Hftn we live and move and have our being." If there is one thing that is not known, it is the goodness and love of God. Those who bear the name of Christ are not showing forth His goodnoss as they might day by day, but are too apt to com- *, plain because of His chastenings and thus lead others to think that He is not good. God Is good, God is love, and if these truths were more manifest in His people more would want to know Him, for the goodness of God leads to repentance (Rom. 11., 4). 29. "We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone, V j graven by art and man's device." For it <innnAf hot -tttVi of mn m a Ira mfl^A na . . N.'.i The work of men's hands cannot be man's creator, and yet what millions seem to think so as they bow down to idols of wood fl and stone. 8ee the folly of this fully set ^ forth in Isa., xliv., 9-19, and in verse 20 soo the reason of such folly, "A deceived heart hath turned him aside." 30. "And the times of this ignorance God winked at (B.Y. overlooked), but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent." God never makes light of sin and never passes it by as if it were nothing, but He is long suffering, slow to anger, not willing that any should perish (II Pet. iii., 9, 10). How it must grieve Him to be misunderstood as He is, to be thought unkind and cruel when He is wholly and only lovel Is it any wonder that He commands all to repent, but is it not a great wonder that He offers full and free forgiveness to all who turn to Him? (Hos- xiv., 4; Rom. iii., 24.) / 81. "Because He hath appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained." The assurance of this is found in a risen Christ at God's right hand. In reference to this day we must remember that a day sometimes means a thousand yuars (Ps. xo., 4; II Pet. ill., 8), and from other scriptures we gather that the period of judgment will. ? cover at least 1000 years; the saints and the living nations being judged at the beginninsr. and the wicked dead at the end of the thousand years. 32. "And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead some mocked, and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter." The greatest and the crowning eventinthe work of our Lord Jesus Christ, His resurrection from the dead, is that which seems to be the greatest stumbling block. I Cor. xv. sets forth very fully the benefits of His resurrection and what the results would have been if Ho had not risen. 33, 34. "So Paul departed fr?m them. Howbeit certain men clave unto Him and believed." Thus he went from place to Dlace as a faithful witness, never expecting to save all in any place, bat seeking by all means to save some (I Cor. ix., 22). He understood that it was his commission to bear the name of Christ wherever the 8plrlt of Christ should lead him and be perfectly J sure that God's word would always accom- I plish His pleasure and prosper in that A whereto He sends it (Isa. lv., 11). It is a happy thing for us wnen we aro willing to ^ let Our blessed Lord manago His own affairs and accomplish what Ho pleases rather than what we please. When wo aro willing to fall in with Him in His clearly revealed plans and purposes and just dwell with Him for His work, seeking only in all things to be approved of Him?t-eaoaa * Helper. DRUCS BEFORE DUTY f BnMlan Soldiers Adopt Sfranc? Mean* to Escape Military Set-rice. Advices from St. Petersburg give the details of a novel method of escaping oompnlsory military service. It has long been known that the Russian peasant conscripts tiave practiced self-mutilation in order to avade serving tfle Czar as soldiers, but in a trial that has just ended it was shown that several military officers entered into a scheme whereby they secured the release of recruits after they had entered the ranks in return for the payment of money. These officers arranged with young doctors in the service to administer drugs to the men who had paid the sums demandad for their release, with the result that the men would soon display symptoms of seri ous Heart trouDie. iney wouiu muu to the chief doctor, who. after examination, would give certificates which would cad the military careers of the young soldiers. Th# latter would return to their homos, whert they would recover their health with remarkable celerity. Tho authorities learned of the scheme from papers left by one of tho oonspirators, who committed suicide. The accused officers were found guilty and condemned to two years' service with the disciplinary battalions, which is tantamount to a death ;entence. Charged With Larceny of a House. B. It. De Young, a real estate agent, has caused the arrest in Chicago of Hans Anderson on the charge of stealing a twostory cottage off a lot at No. 44 Hirsch street. Anderson asserts he bought the cottage from a man named Alexander, who claims to own it. Anderson moved it a mile. /' : * * I