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ft it- * MEDDfKDSMGffATEBS. Two Reservoirs Near Fishkill, N. Y., Burst With Terrible Effect. WAS A MINIATURE JOHNSTOWN. The Mountain Dams Gave Way and 12,000,000 Gallons of Water Descended Upon a Hamlet?Honses Swept Away and Smashed to Kindllnc "Wood? Vntniitii'B nmiapfl bv the Torrent. Matteawan,X. Y. (Special).?Surcharged >y the recent heavy rains , the twin-Melaingah reservoirs, situated in the first range of the Fishkill Mountains, a mile aaet of Fishkill, burst at 2 a. m. Wednesday. The torrent swept through a narrow ravine, following the course of Melzingah Creek, and burst with all its fnry over a little settlement about Timony's brick yards on the banks of the Hudson Elver, about a mile away and S00 feet below the level of the l>roken dams. Seven persons were drowned. The road bed of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad blocked , tfc? rfuhru until the nressure of the water became too great. ^?hen 1700 feet of the tracks were washed away, blockading trains. The reservoirs belonged to the rishktjl and Matteawan Water Company. They were old-fashioned and apparently | arelessly built. The damage is estimated at 8100.000. The dead are: Mrs. John Conroy, twentyBine years old, wife of the engineer of. Timony's brickyard; body recovered. Julia Conroy, five years old, daughter of the engineer. Joh'p Conroy, eighteen months old, son of the engineer, rhilomena De Lucca, six years old, daughter of Lorenzo De Lucca, laborer in Timony's brickyard; body recovered. Mrs. Annie ? . Jerry, cook in "P. H. Murphy's boarding bouse, thirty-five years old; body recovered. Willie Ferry, about ten years old, son of Mrs. Annie Ferry; body "recovered. John Zinka, laborer in the brickyard, married, wife and one cMld; body recovered. The disaster was 'almost a counterpart of the Johnstown flood, though, happily, on a much smaller scale. The dams that gave way wefe at the head of a long, narrow, rocky gorge. They were both built cheaply and improperly. The upper dam gave wav before a tremundous volume of water, which ren flooded the second dam and caused an alarming rise of water in the village, which stood at th<j foot of the valley. / As this receded the inhabitants were thrown off their guard,and when the second dam fell out and 12,000,000 gallons of water < came rushing down the defile many of them were caught as they fled toward highei ground. The children who lost their lines were drowned. The men and women who perished were first stunned by the rocks and timber borne along by the flood and swept to death. Just as the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at Johnstown dammed up the flood and added to the destruction, so did the high embankment of the New l'ork Central Railroad hold back the wall in the village, where it swirled around, an angry, sullen pool, until at one time it seemed as though the refugees who had sought safety on the high railroad siding in the nearby brickyard would be drowned while they prayed for neip. men ine raiiroau emuaiismeut Sive way and the flood passed out into the udson "River, leaving two acres where the houses had been a desolated space, covered with wreckage that entombed seven ' human beings. 80, too, does the disaster in its aftermath resemble the Johnstown flood. There is \ the same utter desolation of families that have lost their loved ones and all their worldly goods. There is the same public resentment toward the water company that inflamed the public mind against the South lork Fishing and Gunning Club. The dam aaused the loss of life, and the public naturally looks to the dam In trying to find some - one to blame. But the coincidence between the great Johnstown disaster and this smaller one at Timony's does not end here. Figuring in the calamity at Timony's were John Conroy, the engineer of the brickyard, and his family of a wife and three children. Conroy was one of the survivors at Johnstown. 80 was his wife. She was rescued from the Johnstown flood, while her relatives perished. Phon Ponrnv mnrrifid hp>r ftnrt thev moved I way from that place of horrid recollections. In this last flood Mrs. Conroy and two *f her children were drowned, and Joiin Conroy's arm was broken. Thgre were two reservoirs in the mountain, the lower one half a mile distant from > the other. The upper dam gave way, letting the volume of water into the lower reservoir. This also burst, and the water xnshed down through a ravine. The flood was pent up in the narrow confines and gathered resistless fcrce before it iurled itself upon the plain below, carxying death and destruction in its path. What houses there were In its path were picked up bodily from their foundations and either dashed to pieces or whirled along in the torrents like chips on an angry sea. It demolished the brick work9 utterly. Sot a vestige of the extensive building was left. It carried away a big bridge across the roadway and flung it in pieces into tho xiver. It tore away a hole in* the railroad +*?onbo 1AAt-o?.rlu wMo Tf htirlorl nno nf fhft workmen's big boarding houses bodily into the Hudson. The people had been awakened by the roar of the horrent rattling down the ravine, and realizing intuitively what it meant, rushed from their beds for safety. There was no time to lose in dressing or saving valuables, for the flood was coming' wfth more than a race horse's speed. Some of them got to the higher ground in afety. Many did not. One family, Perry by name, in their wild flight left their baby behind. Most of the killed were in the workmen's boarding houses. / The immediate cause of the disaster was the very heavy rainfall for the twentyfour hours preceding the breaking of the ttams. The alleged weak condition of the dams has Seen publicly proclaimed ieveral times, but the officials of the water company that owned them declared that they were quite strong. Civil Engineer John Robertcon, '.who lives near them and ww them while building, says they were very flimsy. What is left of them now looks pitiably weak. There will bo an of floial investigation. Trying to Stop Emigration South. The action of the Michigan Passenger Bailroad Association declining to give rates to the South to home seekers has caused much complaint. Emigation seems to be ' etting in that direction, and it is desirable that cheap transportation be secured. Diplomatic Appointments. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: State: William L. Merry, of California, to be Minister to Nicaragua Costa Rica and Salvador. Horace N. AlleD, of Ohio, to be Minister Resident and ConsulGeneral to Korea. Terry M. De Leon, oi Georgia, to be Consul-General at Guayaquil, Ecuador. Granville James, of New York, to be Consul-General at Prescot, Ontario. Charles Deal, of New York, to be Consul-General at St. John's, Quebec. Artificial Ice Is Made In Alaska. Artificial ice is made even in Juneau Alaska, during the summer. Cycling Notes. In Chicago there are estimated to bo 300,000 bicycles. Philadelphia is reaching out for records Recently 5000 cyclists made the run from that city to Atlantic City. If in riding you feel the slightest jar a.' your bicycle runs over ordinary obstacles there is not sufficient air in your tire. In no circumstance ignore the rule of tin road. If you are so unfortunate as to b? mixed up in an accident, it is satisfactory to know that you are not to blame. The most distinctive feature of this year's models in bicycles has been the introduction of sprocket wheels of larger sizw than were used in the past two or three years. ; \ THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington fteing. Tho Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed to report the Hawaiian annexation treaty. Secretary Shermnn accused Lord Salisbury of bad faith in the Bering Sea matter. The Postoffice Department hereafter will select and appoint the first set of letter carriers, without the advice of the postmasters, at offices which free delivery may be established. President McKiuley revoked the order of President Cleveland" dated February 6, i 1897. reducing the number of pension agencies from eighteen to nine. The Foreign Relations Committee of tho Senate has reported a resolution empowering the President to take such measures as I in his judgment may be necessary to secure I tr-nrn finnin r>f tho SCllOOnet Competitor and throe members of her crew. President McKinley made n large numbei of nominations, including those of Robert A. Sharkey to be Naval Officer and Thomas Fitchie to be Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New York. The Controller of the Currency has received a telegram announcing the failure of the Nebraska National Bank, of York, Neb. The bank's capital was 850,000' and according to its last report it had individual deposits of >"37,000, and owed $13,000 borrowed money. Senate and House Tariff bill conferrees got in a deadlock over the sugar schedule, with no agreement in sight, and no prospect of an early adjournment of Congress. The official bond of GeOrcre R. Bidwell as Collector of Customs at the Port of New York has been approved. The Senate passed the Deficiency Appropriation bill after adopting amendments reducing the price to be paid for nrmnr ninte for the three battleships now I uncompleted to $300 per ton and directing tho Secretary of the Navy to receive propositions for the establishment of 0 Government factory. President McKinley decided not to grant I the Senate's request for the correspondence between the United States and Great Britain relative to seals in Bering j Sea. The warship Bennington is to be sent to replace the Marlon at Honolulu, Hawaii. Secretary Long selected Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, as a naval magazine. President McKinley and other high officials attended the funeral of Isham G. Harris in the Senate Chamber, j ? Domestic. BEOOaO OF THE LE.\OUE CLUB?. Per P<i Clnb*. Won. ct. Cluh'. Won. T*o*f. ct. Boston....46 19 .709 Brooklvn.31 38 .463 | Oinoinn4ti43 20 .683 Pittsbursr.30 35 .462 Baltimore.42 21 ,6G7|Chicaf*o.. 29 39 .426 tfew York 38 25 .603 Louisville 26 38 .406 Cleveland 3fi 30 .545 W"shing'n25 39 .391 ' 1 M m ol T??I?1Q KQ 1Q7 | | tmittaui. .00 01 .1/101. xjuuis.au w .*w j At a sham battle of the Governor's Guard i at Fullen Park, Raleigh, N. C., George'N. 1 Banks, a member of the Guflrd who was taking part in the battle, was shot and < killed almost instantly. The bullet struck t him almost in the middle of the forehead t and ranged downward and lodged in the brain. It cannot be ascertained who is re- i sponsible. 1 Herman H. Levy and David Uhren, two I Broadway merchants, New York City, were * arrested on a charge of arson. s Stephen Pastime, of New York City, was | killed by lightning in Jersey City, N. J. [ In the convention of the National League of Republican Clubs in Detroit, Colonel ( Leonard J. Crawford, of Kentucky, was , elected President. Omaha will be the next place of meeting. z Edward S. Fowler, as referee in the suit { of the City of Brooklyn against John Y. c McKane, finds that McKane received and I failed to account for more thar 8400,000 of * the money of the town of Gravesend. t ?? -4 irUHAn?f{11a XT >vmie arming ior uu nunroims, ST., ft 250-barrel well was struck at a depth 1 of 350 feet. The tools were blown from the 8 well. The oil is pronounced to be seventy- E five per cent. pure. The new well is situated near the tracks of the New York and . Pennsylvania Eailroad. * In New England States the storm de- ? stroved much property, delayed railroad traffic, wrecked a fleet of yachts, and re- f suited in the deaths of five persons at va- ? rious points. Ogden Goelet, the New York millionaire, E is reported to have said that he would ^ rather see his daughter in her grave than q wedded to the Duke of lifiinchester. 3 The failure of Decker, Howell & Co., the o nrtOl-Wnown brokers, was announced on e the Stock Exchange, New York City. The firm held the respect and confidence of the "Street," but was known to be in straits for some time. The suspension was the ?econd the house has made, and it will Q probably not resume business. John B. Meixell, the cashier of the South 0 Bethlehem (Penn.) National Bank, who on r Slay 25 absconded, taking with him 810,000 f in cash, was arrested in Hot Springs, Ark. c E. P. Wilbur resigned the Presidency of ' che Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and AJfred Walter was elected his successor. Two other directors were also elected by tne J. Plerpont Morgan interests. The National Convention of the Republi- ? jan League was opened successfully In De- v trolt, Mich. * Public school teachers specially employed j 1? ? v?"i* * nnAAUfiAn f/v*? Tmni?r?r{nfr ' py mtj now xuriv iissuuinbtvu the Condition of the Poor opened ten of the c city's grammar schools for poor children, and the attendance was large?175,000. Miss Pauline Richter, a woman of considerable ability as a linguist and teacher, s committed suicide in Central Park, New i fork City. c Governor Black dismissed the charges I against Police Commissioner Parker, of [ New York City, and revoked Mayor Strong's action in removing him from office. The Democrats carried Annapolis, Md., by a small majority, electing Mayor, Councillor and four out of six Aldermen. The I city gave McKinley over two hundred ma- \ jority last fall. \ Tbe Christian Endeavor Convention, 3 which closed at San Francisco, Cal., was c declared on all hands a complete success. Liabilities of tho Worcester (Mass.) Cycle Manufacturing Company foot up :;699,000, with nominal assets of $505,000. Frank c Sullivan Smith was appointed receiver for ( the property of the firm. 5 John Haley, a railway employe, was t shot and killed at Youngstown, Ohio, in a t passenger train just starting for Cleveland. A stranger entered the coach at the rear door, shot Haley in the back and then leaped from the train. Haley, who lived at Niles, leaves a family. The police have no t clew to the murderer or the motive I Mrs. Ann Behan, of Providence, R. I., ( and her daughter Annie, were adjudged I insane. Since a recent visit to Europe, in which they spent 840,000 trying to get into high life, the delusion has become fixed in their minds that they are members of the ; English nobility. George Van N'ess Lothrop, formerly United States Minister to Russia, died in Detroit, Mich. William h. uates snoi and tuutm aio ?uo at Rochester, N. Y., because sho had refused to live with him. The murderer was arrested. Mrs. Arthur B. Fayne, of Brookline, Mass., died in the dentist's chair of Dr. F. H. Hemenway, in the Hotel Pelham, Boston. Th* Medical Examiner exonerated the dentist, saying that Mrs. Fayne should have told him she had heart disease. Six masked men killed 150 head of sheep with rifleshots on the ranch of Mrs. Kate Welch, near Canyon City, Oregon. The residents of the place threaten vengeance. There was a big mass-meeting of the dis, contented in Chicago. Thomas H. Morritt was shot dead in Lexington, Ky., by Jacob F. Harris, while with the latter's wife. Foreign. The United States ships San Franciscc - J i ?? nil.ftilfor frr,m ana iwueig" uu>? ounm i?w Tangier', Morocco, where the troubles with that country have been adjusted. In the Henley (England) regatta, Dr. McDowell, of Chicago, easily beat the Hon E. A. Guinness, and the Winnipeg crew outrowed the crew from Utrecht University. More than fifty of the leading business men of Havana, Cuba, were arrested on the order of General Wovler L COMIOS OF THE CROPS. July Report of the Government's Statistician, THE OUTLOOK ENCOURAGING. CVheat Average Nearly Up to *jrhat of the Last Ten Years?Corn 9.5 Points Lower Than Last Year?Oats Show a Large Yield?Tobacco In Fine Shape?Reports From Abroad Tell of Poor fields. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The July returns to the Statistician or tne juepartnent of Agriculture indicate the following iverage conditions; Corn, 82.9; winter wheat, 81.2; spring vheat, 91.2; combined spring and winter ffheat, 84.9; oat9, 87.5; winter rye, 95, spring rye, 90; barley, 88.5; tobacco, 78.5; Irish po;atoes, 87.8. The report on the acreage of corn, which s preliminary, shows a decrease of 1.2 per :ent. as compared with that of last year, This represents a decrease of about 1,000,K)0 acres. Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and one or two less impor;ant corn-producing States, show an insreased acreage, but this is more than offiet by the shrinkage in Iowa, Indiana. Ohio, Kentuoky, Tennessee and other Hates. The average oondition of corn is >nly 82.9, or 9.5 points lower than in July >f last year. The principal State averages are as folrurs Ohfn 76: Miehicran. 80: Indiana, 83; [llinois, 82; Iowa, 75; Missouri, 92; Kansas, M); Nebraska, 82; Texas, 101; Tennessee, 90: Kentucky, 87. The oondition of winter wheat, 81.2, is 1.7 points higher than last month, and 5.6 points higher than in July of last year; :hat of spring wheat, 91.2, is 1.6 points ligher than last month, but 2.1 points ower than in July of last year. The iverage condition of spring and winter tvheat combined, 84.9, fa 1.9 point higher :han that of the corresponding period last pear. The percentage of the wheat crop of 1896 reported as on hand on July 1, 1897, Is 5.46. The average condition of the oat crop, 37.5, compares very unfavorably with that Df July, 1896, but it is only a small fraction jt 1 per cent, less than the average July :ondition for the last ten years. The average condition of rye, 95, is 11.2 points higher than in July of last year, but :hat of spring rye, 90, is 8.6 points lower ;han It was at that time. The condition of barley is Improving, laving advanced 1.1 point during the nonth, and is now slightly better than at ;his time last year. The tobacco acreage shows a falling off )f 20 per cent, as compared with last year, ind the condition, 78.5, is less by 18 points ;han that of July last.' There Is a decrease in the acreage of Irish jotatoes of 8.4 as compared witb that of ast vear. The shrinkage is general, Ne)raska being the only State with any conliderable acreage devoted to this crop that ihows an inorease. In point of condition ilso the orop at this time compares unavorably with that of last year, the figures j >eing 87.8 and 99 respectively. The wool reports indicates 5.8 pounds as be average weight per fleece, as compared vlth 5.1. last year and 5.6 in 1895. The European agent of the department eports that the weather during June was generally favorable to growing crops, exiept In Russia and parts of Germany and Italy, but the wheat crop will be below the iverage In Great Britain, France and Ausria-Hungary. A consular report from Winnipeg, Manioba, indicates good crops of wheat, oat3 md barley on an increased acreage in that irovlnce. ? "Original Package*" Win. In the United States Circuit Court at Jharleston, S. C.. Judge Simonton rendered terpefual the injunction recently granted ronibiting State dispensary constables J rom interfering with the original package tores. It is decided that all sales of liquor aade in such establishments must be conlucted under the restrictions of time, ;uantlty and persons made in the dispenary law of South Carolina. This puts the iriginal package man on practically the ame footing as State dispensaries. Hanged by a Mob. Rraotnq Rrnivn. a colored man, attacked ,nd dearly killed Miss Annie Foervlner, learYllla Ridge, Mo., on July 2. He wa9 aptured and conveyed to Union, Mo., to ireTent his being lynched. Brown was orcibly taken from" jail at 2.30 o'clock a. a., however, and hanged to a tree by a mob if mounted men from Villa Ridge. Hall Eight Inches Deep. A severe storm visited the vicinity of lassillon, Ohio. Hailstones as large as ralnuts fell, and in some places the ground ras covered to a depth of eight inches. Jorn and vegetables were almost ruined. Lfter the storm farmers took buckets full if hail to town for exhibition. , Fighting in Uruguay. A dispatch from Montevideo, Uruguay, ays that severe fighting between the Revoutioniets and Government troops has ocurred at Acegua, in the province of Cerro jargo. According to the Government re>ort, the rebels were obliged to retreat. Fires Eighty Shots a Minute~ TV ~ll?_l ?-V.Q uapi 0.1U \-/Ul, U1 IUU DCi Vi tuw .talian Army, has invented a rifle from rhich eighty shots a minute may be flred vithout removing the weapon from the boulder. Tests of the new arm are being nade by the Government. Brave Lighthouse Gtrl. Agnes Jud3on,the pretty young daughter >f the lighthouse-keeper at Stratford Point> )ff Bridgeport, Conn., on Long Island tound, swam out half a mile and rescued wo men who had been upset in their row)oat and were drowning. Counseling thq Saltan. The rulers of the six groat Powers in Europe have separately counselled the Sultan :o make peace with Greece without further lelay, accepting the terms dictated by the ?owers. Victory for the B. & O. Receivers. The Receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company won a victory over J. Pierpont Morgan in the Federal Court in Baltimore, Md. New Hampshire 31111 Burns. Fire destroyed completely a large saw and grist mill connected with the immense plant of the Berlin Mills Company in Berlin, N. H., resulting in a loss of fully $100,000. The property is insured for 8100,000, and the mills will be rebuilt. Five hundred men were thrown out of employment by he Qro. Minor Mention. The University of Virginia proposes to erect a memorial to Poe. Weyler notifies Spain that he wants 20, 000 additional troops immediately. Spain has borrowed $40,000,000 for war by pledging tho customs revenues or tho Phillipiues. A movement is on foot to hold a great pan-American electrical exposition at Niagara Falls in 1899. Egypt's population, according to tho census just taken, is 9,700,000, an increaso of 2,900,000 since 1832, or about 42 per cent, in fifteen years. Antwerp, Belgium, is going to have a great celebration on tho three hundredth anniversary of Sir Anthony Van Dyck's birth, March 22, 1899. The anti-English feeling in India is much mere serious than it was at first supposed to be. A petition from the natives lias dome to light which, if true, shows that they have abundant cause for qpiftplaiAt. A CASTILIAN GOVERNOR, Miguel A. Otero, Who 1* Now Chief Executive of New Mexico. Miguel A. Otero has been Installed as Governor of tho Territory of New Mexlcot Governor Otero is of pure CastUian blood, the first of his race who has filled th( gubernatorial chair of New Moxico. He ig thoroughly American in every way. His eiucation'was obtained at the St. Louis MIGUEL OTEEO, (The young Castllian Governor of New Mexico.) University and the college of Notre Dams. Governor Otero Is thirty-eight; years old, and the youngest of New Mexico's governors. He Is married, and he and his wife and one child will occupy the oldest official building on the Western hemisphere. It 1s a palace?300x150 feet?and was a.aa^a/1 Q1A ortA \\yr TTJnrr nf Qnnln CXCVJLOU ULXJ JWLO ogw Krj vuv v* a9 the palace of .the viceroy of the Spanish Empire. BROUCHT DEATH TO SCORES. Appalling Number of Fatalities Accompany i:he Hot Wave In tho West. A week 0! terrific heat in the Central Wost ended in a tornado, which swept over Kentucky and Southern Illinois. Tho country had not had time to recover from tho terrific hot spell of the week before, and in consequence the suffering in all sections has been very great. The number of deaths that can be direotly attributed to the hoat is very large and those prostrated are beyond computation. In very many 3a3es manufacturing plants have been 2losed on account of the weather. Kentucky suffered from the most Intense heat wave experienced in its history. Throughout Indiana the heat has been almost as great as In Kentucky. Here is a list of deaths and prostrations in various cities: Chicago?Sixteen dead, fifty prostrated. Louisville, Ky.?Ten dead, twenty prostrated, Indianapolis? Two dead, twenty prostrated. Oshkosh, Wis.?Two dead, lour prostrated, yumcy, 111.?Two dead, Ave prostrated. Toledo, Ohio?One dead, ten prostrated. Milwaukee?Four dead, twenty prostrated. Racine, Wis.?Two dead, Ave prostrated. Dubuque, Iowa?Two dead, nine prostrated. Elkhart, Ind.?One dead, five prostrated. Bloomington, 111.?Three dead, fifteen prostrated. Olney, 111.?One dead, two prostrated. Elwood, Ind.?One dead, three prostrated. Burlington, Iowa?Two dead, eleven prostrated. Cedar Rapids, Iowa?Two dead, nine prostrated. Appleton, Wis.?Three dead, eight prostrated. Fifteen other cities?Thirteen dead, seventy-four prostrated. BOSTON GIRL IS MISSINC. Grace Stevenson Left Her Home on Beacon Street, on April 26. Grace Stevenson disappeared from her home on Beacon street, Brookllne, a suburb of Boston, Mass., on April 26, and since that date her parents have received no information concerning her. 8he Is the daughter of James Stevenson, the millionaire real estate operator and owner. She Is twenty-five years of age and roij yiOV.J. The disappearance is the most remarkable ever oocurring in the city. On Monday evening, April 26, she left her mother, brothers and sisters at her home, and was seen to board a Reservoir car bound into the <Jity. She said she was only going out for a few minutes. No trace of her has been found since. Pralrl* Fire in a City. A spectacle unique for a city was i.'urnisheA at Cleveland, Ohio, when a strip of land a quarter of a mile In breadth took lire and tne flames hurried on to the lake. It looked exactly like a prairie Are. A tangled mass of underbrush extending along the Gordon estate, from St. Clair street to the lake, took Are and jeopardized the existence of an eijtire block of twenty houses. The Are department had to flght the flames as prairie fires are fought, by digging i:renohee and banking up the dirt as a protecting wall. Thousands went out to see the peoullar sight. Aged Couple's Strange Death. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Le Cluse, both nearly seventy years old, were found dead in their home in Bayport, Long Island. Their little granddaughter found the bodies side Dy side in Kitcnen. wnetaer it wub murder, suicide or from natural causes has not been ascertained. There were two cuts on the man's face and perhaps he was stricken by heart disease while shaving and the shock killed his wife. Workmen Blown to Atoms. While a gang o! workmen were excavating on the line of a street railway in Lexington, Ky., one of them struck what appeared to bo a piece of pipe, but which proved to be a sixty-four-pound dynamite i cartridge. A fearful explosion followed, 1 and five of the six colored men in the gang were blown to atoms. The other was so badly injured that he cannot recover. Big Pennsylvania Tree Cut Down. The largest tree in Pennsylvania was cut down a few days ago. It was on the farm of John Pownall, near Christiana, and close to the ruins of the famous riot house. The tree is supposed to have been 300 years old, and measured between elcrht and nine feet across the stump. About three-fourths of an acre of ground were covered by its limbs. There wore twenty-seven cords of wood secured from It. Three Killed by Lightning. During a severe storm the residence of S. E. North, four miles east of Larimore, North Dakota, was struck by lightning, and North, his wife and three-year-old ohili wsre killed. The only member of the famiiy that escaped was a flfteen-monthold child. Europe Demands Turkey's Consent. Acting upon instructions received from their respective Governments, the Ambassadors of the Powers ures jnted a collective note to the Turkish d-overnment demanding a cessation of the obstruction of the peace negotiations. Prominent People. Henri Meilhac, the French dramatic author and Academician, died in Paris. Judge Thomas M. Cooley, the great constitutional lawyer, is a hopeless invalid. The Duke of Northumberland, England's oldest duke, is in Ills eighty-seventh year. Thomas Hardy has dropped sex problems and returned to the methods of his earlier stories, A brother of Rider Haggard has been choSen by the British government as its Ministor to Venezuela. Charles A. Dana, the venerable editor ol the New York Sun, is seriously ill with catarrh &X the atomaoh. _ ? - ' .1 ' . . t V !' . r ' ' V NICHOLAS C. CREEDE A SUICIDE. Colorado Mine Owner Kills HlmBelf TVltb iuorpnine. News has been received of the suicide of Nicholas C. Croode, the famous Indian Bcout and millionaire mine owner, from whom the town of Creede, Col., took its name. Crecde. according to the report, killed himself with morphine at his home In Los Angeles, Cal. The reason for the act is said to be trouble with his wife. They separated last winter without legal process, Mrs. Creede accepting $20,000 and | leaving her husband's home. She returned a few weeks ago, it is said, and Insisted upon a reconciliation. This is declared to have worried Creede so much that he determined to commit suicide. He was found dying by his servants in his garden, having taken a large quantity of morphine. Creede was born in Indiana in 1843, and was taken by his parents to Iowa when he was a child. He went into the Government service as an attache of the Quartermaster's Department when he was twenty years old, and soon afterward became a Government 3COUt. He was a daring scout and had many stirring adventures in the Indian wars, being promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant in the regular army. He turned prospector when there was no more fighting to do and worked for eight years In the Black Hills hunting for gold before he made a strike. Then he found the Bonanza mfne, which yieiaea ricn returns in a snori time. is was in silver, however, that Creede made hia fortune. While prospecting in Colorado he struck the Holy Moses mine, which, with other silver mines, rapidly made him a many times a millionaire. DIED ON A GLACIER. Three Mail Carriers Frozen to Death in Alaska. A letter just received from Alaska brings particulars of the death of three men, Blackstone, Betticher and Mollique, who were frozen to death while endeavoring to carry mail from Sun Rise City across the glacier to Prince William Sound. The letter came from Charles Willoughby, who found Blaokstone dead on the beach, lying in blankets and frozen to death. The unfortunate fellow had eaten part of his faithful dog before succumbing. The bodies of Betticher and Mollique were found some distance away on top of the glacier where both had perished. It has been demonstrated that horses cannot endure the rigors of the climate and a large number of mules will be brought in next season for use in pack trains. BRITISH FICHT IN CRETE. Sixteen Men and a Number of Bashl Bazoaks Killed. Official dispatches have been received >nnouncing that a serious conflict has taken place at Candla between a force of British troops and a party of Bashl Bazouk, arising from the British Intervening In a skirmish between the Bashl Baaouks and Christians. Sixteen of the British force and a number of the Bashl Bazouks were killed. The Admirals of the foreign fleets have sent five warships to Candla to suppress any further Mohammedan movement. On account of excesses by Bashl Bazouks 800 British marines were landed at Candla to replace the Italian garrison stationed there. , FREED BY A WOMAN'S TONGUE. Her Silence Kept an Innocent Man In Prison Twelve Years. William W. Kennedy, convicted of murdering David Baker at John A. Logan's meeting at Oreensburg, Ind., in 1884 and s;ntenoedto life imprisonment, has been pardoned. M.s. Newton Campbell, of Indianapolis, the only living witness of the shooting of Eiaker, recently satisfied Governor Mount cf Kennedy's innocence. She had kept silent to avoid publicity by advice of both ter first and present husband. A REAL TRAGEDY ON THE STAGE. iin Amateur Actor Accidentally Shoots His Supposed Rival Dead. In a play presented by colored amateurs in Pittsburg, a suburb of Atlanta, Ga.? John Singleton acted a part in which he was supposed to be shot dead by his rival, impersonated by Gary Brown. The scene j was oarried out faithfully and aroused loud fipplause, which was turned into lamentation when it was discovered that.Singleton was really dead. The pistol Brown used, which was supposed to be loaded with blank cartridges, carried a real bullet. Great Crops in the Far Southwest. The rainfall in Western Texas, New Mex- I Leo and Arizona this season is greater than ' Tver known. There has been an abundance j of grass and water, and range cattle and i sheep are in fine condition. Lambs are be- j : ing snipped in train ioaa lots 01 aoume- i deck cars to the feeding grounds of Colo- | rado and Nebraska, to be sold in the Eastern markets next year. The irrigated I crops are good and the yield of peaches, pears and grapes is larger than ever. Women in Overalls, With No Skirts. The Police Department of Kansas Cityf Kan., set women prisoners at breaking j 9tone, the same as the male prisoners. The Police Commissioners adopted this rule on the recommendation of Chif?f Quarles, who argued that women prisoners kept in idleness were not sufficiently punished. The vl women wear coarse overalls, and have no skirts to impede their work. This is the flrst effort of the kind ever made in Kansas. Censnre for Rhodes. The British Parliamentary South African Committee, which has been conducting an inquiry into the Transvaal raid, has adopted a report severely censuring Cecil Rhodes, F. J. Newton, Colonial Secretary of Beohuanaland, and Sir Graham John Bower, Imperial Secretary to the British High Commissioner in South Africa, and exonerating the Colonial Office. Two Young Women Drowned. A sailboat carrying Ave young persons i was capsized in the middle of Eagle Lake, Indiana. Two of the occupants of the boat I were drowned. The others were rescued 1 after a severe struggle. The dead are | Georgia Coulter, daughter of Professor 1 Coulter, of the University of Chicago, and j Bertha Yarnell, daughter of Edward F. | Yarnell, of Fort Wayne, Ind. Small Bills In Demand. The Treasury Departmental Washington : received a demand from St. Louis, Mo., for j 1 small notes of 31, $2 and 25, to move the j i crops, the first demand made this reason. j Turks Still Cruel. A report has been received in Paris giv- j ing details of the cruelties which are still j perpetrated, though clandestinely, by Turks { and Kurds upon the Christians in Armenia. ; The Turks are said to boast of having | sworn to exterminate the Christians. Remarkable Brooklyn Society. Public announcement was rnado of the | organization of a society in Brooklyn to se- j cure the enactment of laws prohibiting the ; marriage of diseased or deformed persons and the killing by the State of all incur- j able lunatics, idiots or deformed children. Kioter Punished. Joseph Cbaso, a colored man, one of the j leaders in the recent war at Key West, Fla.. I between the whites and blacks, was ar- j ralgnod in the Criminal Court on the charge i 01 noting, J.UO jury luuuu vluuiu | and Iio was sentenced to two years' im- j prisonment. The whites now have the upper hand in Key West for the first time in twel\ty years. The colored people appear to {>e cowed. Brotfiers ttiuea uy Lignimng. While on their way from church Samuel and Oscar Mahanes, were struck by lightning and instantly killed near Ivy Creei Church, in Aiben^arle County. Virginia. ; ,V" T-.,- . . vvT--- - v I. *r.; .. 'J \ - . W" V ' ? ;> -v DEATH ENDED THE MESSAGE. A Corporal Killed at Peeksklll fN. Y.? Camp While Writing a Lore Letter. For the first time in the history of the New York Militia State Camp at Peeksklll the flag Is flying at half mast for the deatb of a man in the ?wnp. Corporal James J. McDonnell of Comoany A, Twenty-second Regiment, New York City, was killed by a stroke of lightning, and this unprecedented murk of mourning is in bis honor. He was sitting in the tent of the Y. M. C. A., which faces the parade ground, shortly after 2 o'clock, p. m. There had been a slight shower a few minutes before, the sky had cleared, and although there were clouds about Dunderberg which indicated that another shower might be expected, the sun was then shining brightly over the encampment. Corporal McDonnell was seated at a table which is stretched across the floor of the tent, writing a letter. Near him were about fifteen other men, some seated at the table writing and others scattered about the forward part of the tent. McDonnell was the second man from the right side of the tent. The sides were up, and the nearest object to him outside the tent was an apple tree about six feet from his chair. As the sun broke fully over the encampment and the last traces of tbp previous shower disappeared, a loud clap of thunder was heard. A tree about a hundred yards from the tent was struck. The lightning traveled toward the tent, striking three trees before it settled on the apple tree near which Corporal McDonnell sat. Then it tore up the few feet of ground between the tree and the floor of the tent, struck a board in the floor, tearing and splintering it in a half dozen places as it traveled across the twenty feet of the tent's floor. There it struck a colored man seated in a chair with such force that he was thrown several feet. Every man at tbe table felt the shock to some extent, and it is believed that Corporal McDonnell was instantly killed. He waa naMi-nnnsnlniia Aftflr thfl sound of the thunder was heard. Even the men seated farthest from, the table felt stunned and dazed by the shock, and the first of these to recover himself was Secretary Sheffield, who Is in charge of the Y. M. C. A. tent. He rushed out on to the parade ground and called for help. Some boys playing ball ran for the ambulance, and before it arrived several physicians were in the tent. The men who had recovered began to work over their comrades, and by time tfte ambulance arrived there wore only two or three who had not recovered. But nine in all were sent to the hospital, although only three needed the services of the hospital's ambulance. All of the men were discharged from the hospital. The dead man wps engaged to be married on Sunday next and he had just finished a letter to his betrothed, who lives in New York, when the bolt struck him. He had signed his name, had added, "Yours till death," and wa9 adding the words, "State Camp." He had written the first word and the first three letters of the second. It was after finishing the letter "m" that his peD Btopped. NEW YORK'S COLLECTOR. George B. Bldwell,. the New Appointee) Takes the Oath. George E. Bldwell took the oath of office as Collector of the Port of New York and GEORGE B. BIDWELL. then went to Washington to file a bond of $200,000. COAL TRUST WINS. Justice Chester Says the Lexow Laws Arc Unconstitutional. Justice Alden Chester vacated at Albany, N. Y., the orders granted by himself last June compelling the Presidents of the coalcarrying roads to appear before a referee and testifv as to an illegal combination to restrict the production and increase ii;: price of coal. Justioe Chester deoldes that Beveral provisions of the Lexow anti-trust laws are unconstitutional. He holds that the clause directing Judges of the Supreme Court to aid the AttorneyGeneral in extracting testimony from witnesses to be used in prosecuting the trusts exceeds legislative-authority In that it en larges the jurisdiction of the Judges ana confounds'Wo distinot departments of the Government?the executive and judicial. The promise of immunity to witnesses Justice Chester pronounces worthless in Fact and unconstitutional, as it supplants the elemental principal of law that a witness cannot be compelled to testify against himself. An appeal will be taken at once by the Attorney-General from the decision by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. PHILADELPHIA MINT F^PORT. Aggregate Value of Last Year's Coinage Was 850,000,000. The annual report of Superintendent Kretz, of the Philadelphia Mint, shows the coinage in round numbers for the year of 67,500,000 pieces, of the aggregate value of asn nnn nnn nt fhia S4.0 000 000 was in cold pieces, $8,500,000 in silver and the balance in nickels and cents. There were more individual depositors at the mint during the year than at any time since the California gold fever, when there was but one mint in the United States. Tha alio-, ' 'e losses attending the operation in the refining department for the year would be about $87,000, but the actual loss was cfcily $10,000 on the gold. The allowable loss on the silver would be 824,390, but instead of a loss an apparent gain oi S2383 was made. In the coiner'9 department the allowable loss and waste on the gold would be $2190; the actual waste was only $119. On the silver the legal allowance would be $15,840, but the actual loss was $2019. A BOY'S REMARKABLE PLUCK. Walked Two Miles and Drove Two More With a Bullet in His Head. "Jack" Greer, fifteen years old, who has been camping at Glenmore.Lake, Now lorK, with some friends, was accidentally shot in the left temple. He walked two miles to procure a conveyance, and drove two miles more to Florida, where a physician removed the bullet, after probing three inches into the head. The boy refused an anesthetic for the operation, and when it was over started back to camp. BROTHERS LOVED THE WIDOW. She Wedded One and the Other Killed Her and Himself. For some time William Black has been the tenant of Mrs. Mary Wolf, a wealthy widow living near Morristown, Tenn. Black had a wife and children, but paid attention to the widow. Two months ago Mrs. Wolf married John Black, a younger brother of William, and the latter threatened to kill the pair. At last he entered his brother's house while John was at the barn and asked Mrs, Black: "Are you doing what you promised mo not lu uur UOlUiC OUU I.VUAM uuwnvt | he shot hor dead. He reloaded, went to the I jjarp a fral^ through hla head. wgu IN THE QUIETHO^^H PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM TH^Bi WORLD'S CREATEST AUTHORS. June and Jtlly-Climb Up m> God-A Song of Praise-Trust God for Each Day? They That Sow Must Reap?Pattern After Christ?What You Do, Do Now. id'** June, with sunshine in her eyes, Passed her band across the skies, Then, with archly smiling lips, Blew upon her flngef-tips. Soon the air grew wondrous sweet, Overhead, and under feet, Under feet, and overhead, * Trooped the roses, white and red; Trooped the roses?crimson, white, Pink and yellow, pale and bright? Till they perfumed earth and air, Eoses, roses, everywhere. Wearied then, she shook her head, > And the petals, white and red, All the petals?crimson, white, Pink and yellow, pale and fright. Fluttered slowly, softly down v To the border of her gown. Half dismayed to see them fall, Quick she turned to leave them all, Looking back to say good-by, She met the warm glance of July. . ?Anna J. Orannis, in Congregationalism '?' * Climb Up to God. Byron makes the illustrious Bonnivard ^ir? ts\r\+ Krvl/^a In ilia trnlln kia ^imnnnn uib ivv?uvivw ill kuc naito ui uto vauuqwu. by which he climbs to the lofty window of ' *. his cell to get a look at the impressive ! mountains of his native Switzerland- For \ weary years he had been confined In the V' prison of Chillon below the level of the V waters of Lake Geneva. He could hear the ) waters ripple day and night. They formed, as it were, a second prison wall. One day a bird sang at the prison window the sweetest song he had ever heard. It resurrected i his heart of stone. It created a yearning for a look over the land which was free to ; the bird. So the prisoner dug footholds In the plaster of the wall and climbed to the ' window above. He looked out and he saw the mountains unchanged. He saw the snow of a thousand years and learned patience. That look put new life into him and gave him a vision that lasted him to the end. From that sight he obtained rest, strength, solace. I mean to climb up to God that I may get God's vision of life and be forever consoled by the sight of something grand and inviting beyond this life, in which I am now as in a prison. I mean to catch a glimpse of the towering peaks of iiuuiuruimy. i am. uuuuik iuuiuuiua u? my faith in the promises of God, and I have no time for ease, and I want no ease. The joy of such work is far better than ease. 1 want not rich living, I want only a rich ife. ?David Gregg, D. D., in ''The Heaven Life." ' " . 2 x A Song of PralM. 0 th?u who art our Father, we pour out our hearts in a psalm of gratitude unto thee. We thank thee for the great saints and heroes whose names are household words, and also for the unnumbered and unnamed who with common talents have done great service for mankind, whose holy life thou hast blessed for all the world. We praise thee for the prayers, the tolls, the tears, the blood, the manly and womanly endeavor whereby the wilderness has been made to r blossom as the r<jse, and the great victories ^ of mankind have been achieved for us. We remember our own lives before thee, the lines of our lot cast in this pleasant land, . and we ask that we may faithfully do every ' duty which the age demands of us. Inheriting so much from times past, quickened by the inspiration of great men, and still more feeling thee a presence ever near to oui heart, we pray thee that there may be such religiousness of soul within us that we shal) make every day a Lord's day, aid all our ; / work a great sacrament of com'munion with thy spirit. So may thy kingdom come and f thy will be done on earth as it Is In heaven. Amen. :M Trust God for Each' Day. Today is ours. Tomorrow Is not ours. rl We need, and we can have, strength and support for our duties of tod ty. These are promised to every child of God who askf " and trusts. There is no promise for th? JM needs and responsibilities of tomorrow. To that day we may never come. That daj 28 may never come to us. If we do our dutjf . today that is all that God requires of us. L we neglect today's duties our life is so feu a failure, and we must answer to- God foi this neglect. Faithfulness In our day is q high attainment. Being anxious for to* morrow displeases God and unfits us foi x His service. Only by fidelity in today'? duties can we make wise preparation foi tomorrow. When the children of Israel in the wilderness attempted to lay up of to- * day's manna for tomorrow's food, their plafj was a failure. When they were willing tc trust God for each day by itself, God's dailj provision for them was ample. Thus with all of us. There is daily strength for daily needs; such strength is sufficient for us, each and all.?8. S. Times. " They Tliat Sow Must Reap. Our deeds have an inescapable reflex Influence; what we do helps to make us what jve are. All our activities both manifesl character and shape character; deeds ar# never trivial. You think, perhaps, that you may do many things now which you will nof do by-and-by, and that these will have no permanent result in your future condition. It is a dangerous mistake. Many a younfl * ' man indulges himself in "sowing wild oats," and forgets that every sowing ha* its harvest. They that sow the wind reap tbe whirlwind. The sin3 of youth are the seeds of many a grievous harvest reaped in old age with remorse and unavailing tears. ?Philip S. Moxom, D. D., in "The Aim of Life." _______ Pattern After Christ. A young woman with some ambitions as ? painter submitted specimens of her skill to a successful artist. "Don't copy copies," said he. "You have copied this landscape from a picture that was itself an imperfect copy, with the result that all its errors are reproduced and magnified. Go out into nature and paint directly from your own landscape. Or, if you mus't copy, copj frnm a mastorDiece. Anything else is noi worth while.'" Yes: and, young Christian, do not pattern your life after the life o) some one else, who at best is only an imitation of the perfect One. Imitate for yourself the only life that is worth imitating Look unto Jesus.?Golden Rule. What You Do, Do Now. Let us put out of our minds forever th? thought that thirty years from now we are going to do something. You will not unless you do it now. There is more time wasted, more sin committed, waiting for a mere propitious opportunity than from any othei one cause. "Behold, now"?not thirty minutes from now, not ten seconds ahead, but now; the ''now" of Scripture has not the duration of a thousandth part of a second. "Now ip the accepted time," not only to believe on Tegus Christ, but to serve Him."?H. C. ilabie. D. D. If this great world of joy and pain Revolve in one sure track; If freedom, set, will rise again, And virtue, flown, come back; Woe to the purblind crew who fill The heart with each day's care; Nor gain, from past or future, skill To bear and to forbear! ?William Wordsworth. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards, they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sle?p we grow and wax strong, we grow and wax weak, and at last some "'I J I- ohnrr j 110 wlint ipo hiivfl h/l'rtmfl.? Canon Westcott. B Beef For Alaska. Thirty steers have been shipped from. nj Chelhalis County, Washington, to Circle 98 City, Alaska, where it is expected they will arrive somo time in August. The cost of J" V getting them there will be about 3110,000, W but a profit is expected, as the steers weigh on the average 1800 pounds each, and the jk] meat will sell at half a dollar a pound. The'^^M steers are old ones, as young ones couldn't H stand the journey. They will go by steameV 9 to Juneau, and there be driven to their des- H tination, where they will have a month's grazing oeroru uciuk Enterprising Boys. H Bovs of Flint, Mich., got $400 from thfl SB Couiity Treasurer during Juno in bounties M on sparrow heads. .. . . _ H -J