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/ • / V THE GREAT CALAMITY. jLate Details of the Sitiiation of ^Affairs In the Flooded Region. question was: ‘'Where are the people? Here are about 10,000. Where are the rest?’ Searching For the Dead and Be lieving the Living. The situation of affairs in Johnstown a ■week after the terrible flood is summarized in the following dispatch from the stricken city: A summary of the situation shows that the work of clearing away the ruins is rapid ly progressing under the direction of an organized committee, and considerable pro gress has been made. Seven thousand men are at work with oOO teams. The debris is being burned, and while this wa.-. in progress yesterda3' tire was started from flying sparks, causing a loss of over $50,000 on property that had escaped the flood. Relief is being distributed under the aus pices of the regular relief committee and the Ked Cross Society. Much care has to be ex ercised in this, a* man}' undeserving people endeavor to secure the supplies no ?ded tor sufferers. One hundred carloads of food are ■arriving daily, but twice as much is needed, and especially clothing and shoes. How the Darn Croke. The Pittsburg Commercial prints the fol lowing account of the breaking of the dam. from the lips of John G. Parke. Jr., a civil en gineer who was engaged on the grounds of the South Fork Club: "On Thursday night the dam was in per fect condition, and the water was not within seven feet of the top. At that stage the lake is nearly three miles long. It rained very hard Thursday night I am told, for I slept too soundly myself to hear it, but w hen I got up Friday" morning I could see there was a flood, for" the water was over the drive in front of the club-house, and the level of the water in the lake had risen until it was only four feet below the top of the dam. I rode up to the head of lake and saw that the woods were boiling full of water, {south Fork and Muddy Run, which emptied iuto the lake were fetching down trees, logs, cut timber, and stuff from a saw-mill that was up in the woods in that direction. This was about 7:30 o’clock. When 1 returned. Colonel Un ger, the President of the club, hired twenty- two Italians and a number of farmers joined in to work on the dam. Altogether thirty men were at work. A plow was run along the top of the dam. and earth was thrown in the face of the dam to strengthen it. At the same time a channel was dug on the west end of the dam to make a sluice way there. There was about three feet of shale rock through which it was jsjs- sibie to cut, but then we struck bed rock that but a few rods distant. Mrs. Halford scampered with her fellow travelers to a hill about 100 feet away. Miss Halford re turned to the car for her mother's medicine ca.-e. This might have resulted in her death. When she again left the car the water was up to her waist. Miss Halford wasovercome by the flood be fore she reached the hill, and, had it not been for the gallantry of PostofEee Inspector Sprangler. must have succumbed. Sprangler lifted her in his arms, and at the risk of his own life carried her to a place of safety. "The words: ‘To the hills! To the hills!’ are ringing in my ears yet,’’ said pretty Miss Halford to a newspaper man. Mr. Halford, who suffered keenly from sus pense and anxiety, was elated as may be im agined. "I am the happiest man in Ain erica,” he said to a correspondent. Fears or an Epidemic in Johnstown. HIS MOUTH CLOSING UP. The Strange Affliction of a Wealthy Resident of Wisconsin. Richard Chandler, a prominent resident of the town of Irving, Wis., is on the verge of the grave as the result of an affliction that has puzzled the doctors and which stands unique iu the records of medical history. For several years Chandler's mouth has been gradually growing together until now the orifice is" only about the size of a small mar ble. All efforts to check the strange growth have been unavailing. Chandler is now nn- able to take sufficient nourishment to satisfy the demands of his system, jit is proposed to cut his mouth open and present its further closing by artificial means, and the patient says his affliction is a forwarning of his ap proaching dissolution and will not allow his SWEPT BY FLEE. A Washington dispatch savs that Surgeou- proac „ General Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital physician to operate upon him. Chandler ^J • v*. \> '■a % m VIEW OF FLOOD IX JOHN’ST OWN—TEE OPEN SPACE WAS IKON STREET. There are grave fears of infection and those in charge are doing all in their power to get the dead bodies under ground. The dead bodies of many animals are being found and they are buried at once. The stench is said to be almost unbearable. Estimates of the loss of life vary from ten to fourteen thousand. Subscriptions are still coming in generously from all sections of the country. The gorge caused by the embankment of floating debris against the Pennsylvania railway bridge, sixty acres in extent and ■forty ieet in height, is supposed to contain hundreds of bodies, and the work of three days has hardly cleared a space as big as a ball room floor. So little effect has the work of the past ■week made upon the wreck that one viewing it for the first time to-day would suppose that it was exactly as the flood left it, and with the force now at work on it a month will be consumed iu cb-aring away the debris. The ruins, filled with dead bodies,menace the people who have survived the hardships and exposure of the past week, and the fear of pestilence is spreading in the minds of the people. Indeed, the situation here is very gloomy from every point of view. Ten thousand men have been gathered here {from all over the country. This has been made the Mecca of the tramp, the idler and the thief, and a nameless fear of the rioting land disorder which experience in other scenes fortells must result from this gathering is .taking possession of every mind. ; The whole city is surrounded by a guard (of militia and very strict regulations are en forced, while efforts are made to cut off as ■far as possible, the means of entrance to the ;city, and tickets are not sold to Johnstown ^except on a permit from the Relief Commit tee at Pittsburg. More troops stand under lorders at Pittsburg, ready^to it was impossible to get into without blast ing. When we got the channel opened, the water soon scoured down to the lied rock, and a stream twenty feet wide and three deep rushed out on that end of the dam. while the weir was letting in an enormous quantity on the other end. Notwithstaaiug these outlets, the water kept rising at the rate of about ten inches an hour. "By 11:30. I had made up my mind that it was impossible to save the dam. and getting j on my "horse I galloped down the road to ' South Fork to warn the j>eople of their danger. The telegraph tower is a mile from the town, and I sent two men there to have messages sent to Johnstown and other points below. I heard that the lady operator fainted when she had sent off the news and had to be carried off. The people at South Fork had ample time to get to the high grounds anti they were able to move their furniture too. Iu fact only one person was drowned at South Fork and he while attempting to fish something from the flood as it rolled by. It was just twelve o’clock when the telegraph messages were sent out, so that the people of Johnstown had over three hours' warning. "As I rode back to the dam I expected al most every moment to meet the lake coming down on me, but the dam was still intact, al though the water had reached the top. At about 1 o’clock I walked over the dam: at that time the water was three inches deep on it, and was gradually eating away the earth on the outer face. As the stream rolled down the outer face it kept wearing down the edge of the embankment, and I saw it was merely a question of time k I then went up to the club-house and got dinner, and when I returned I saw that a good deal more of the outer edge of the dam had crumbled away. Service, has received several telegrams from Johnstown. Penn., concerning the situation there. Oueof them is from Passed Assistant Surgeon Carrington, iu which he says that he had conferred with Dr. Lee. the Secretary of the State Board of Health of Pennsylvania, and had looked the situation over. He adds: ‘•There is danger of sickness unless active sanitary measures are taken. Corps are now being organized, dead animals are l>eing burned as rapidly as possible, and disinfect ants used freely." The work will require con siderable time.” Another is from Dr. Lee, dated Johnstown, and says: "The situation here is very seri ous. A large sanitary corps will be needed with Carington. to remain as long as his ser vices are needed. Make arrangements for at least a month.” Dr. Hamilton sent a telegram to Dr. Lee, saying that Dr. Carrington can remain as long as his services are necessary, and that disinfectants had been shipped. Dr. Lee acknowledg^l the receipt of this telegram, and said further that “temporary depopula tion is being urged.'’ The Loss of an Express Train. So many conflicting reports have been pub lished concerning the loss of passengers and datnage to the trains overtaken by the flood at Conemaugh that General Manager Pugh, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was asked to furnish the Associated Press with an official statement of the exact number of persons knowu or presumed to have been drowned from the two sections of the day express, and also a statement as to what became of the trains. Superintendent Pitcairn, at Pitts burg. who has had the matter under investi gation. was communicated with by telegraph, and these facts were elieited: As near as can be learned, nineteen lives were lost. Two cars, a passenger coach and a baggage car were washed away. The bag gage ear has been found. The missing coach may have been carried down to the debris at the" Johnstown bridge. Some hours after the flood struck the train three Pullman sleepers came in contact with a burning car of lime, and were destroyed. is worth $500,000, and he has only one heir, an idiot son. now in an asylum. NEWSY GLEANINGS. ssia. jnals. med. ;-clads. : scarce, klahoma. jng schools, s of wheat. by storm, jiska, is 1500. ;o be abundant, about $54,000,- ity-one in mini- Icyclones in six lia will be im- Germany next Fare in circulation fice all over the > in the Eiffel Tower In doing great damage ' week caics (inents resH^^P^^^PTwealcened condition, overwork, improper, irregular and scanty nouiishment and exposure are developing on every hand. : There is a small army of physicians here, gathered from everywhere, and the sick are being cared for in fairly good order. All roads leading to Johnstown are crowded .with cars and wagons bearing provisions and .clothing for the sufferers. Freight trartie 'within miles of the stricken city is paralyzed, (and the merchants of the surrounding towns have almost exhausted their stocks. "Orders Tor goods of every description have been sent 'into Pittsburg, hut unless they are for surviv ors of the flood they will not be shipped. The differenteommissionary departments are con stantly crowded with applicants for food and clothing. The subscriptions from all parts of the United States, and from the capitals of Europe, on the seventh day after the flood, reached the munificent sum of $1,850,000. Funds continued to pour in for the relief of the mfferers, and besides the money con tributions large amounts of clothing and provisions were forwarded to Johnstown bv the sympathizing people of other cities. come, bure at The dam did not givtf ay. At a rough ople, but now p-ui e of that mass of water was increased by floods from two streams pouring into it, but the dam would have stood it could the level of the lake have been kept below the top of the dam. But the friction of the water pour ing over the dam gradually wore it away from the outer face until the top became so thin that it gave way. “The break took place at three o’clock. It was about ten feet wide at first and shallow, but now that the flood had made a gap, it grew wider with increasing rapidity, and the Brave Unselfishness of Two Children. Frank Fraunheiser, during the flood at Johnstown, tried to save his wife, little son and two daughters, by dragging them up to the roof of his house. His wife and eldest daughter were carried away, but he managed to cling to the two small children until the house was crushed. The children were buried beneath the ruins, and the father'worked foil hours to get them out. When he reached the children, the boy said: " Don't try to save me, papa. I'm fast here, Get Katie out.” The little girl's leg was broken, apd she cried out to her father that it was useless to try to save her, and begged him to rescue her brother. The father succeeded in drag ging both children from the ruins, and when he took the little girl in his arms, her face was white with the pain of her broken limb.' As she was carried into a house she looked up suddenly and said, with a smile: ‘‘Don’t look so sad," papa, I will cheer you up.” Wreckage Floating Down the Ohio. A large quantity of wreckage from Johns town has been pick up at Portsmouth, Ohio. At SciotovUle a pocketbook containing $5.26, a set of silver spoons marked “S. Y.,” a bank book of the First National Bank of Johns town containing a credit to Nathan Dyer, and two locks of hair wer ? found. Portions of wreckagn^om the Conemaugh tt ■jxey’Lo»w j/asseA of Police ordered a patfbl"oi sklilK to searci for dead bodies among the wreckage. Noble Clara Barton. Miss Clara Barton, President of the Red Cross Society, is now at Johnstown. The fol lowing cable" message, addressed to her, has been received from the Grand Duchess of Baden: “Carlsruhe, June C. ‘‘To Miss Clara Barton, Washington: "God bless your work iu floods disaster. "Grand Duchess.” Leprosy is increasing i Fran ce has three new A satinet trust has France has thirty-six ^Bengal tigers are L Iron has been discov There are ten Indir We export 95,000, Swindlers have. The popula The tobac The treasj 000. Our In ber. Kansas years. The hay mense. Barnum’s sho winter. Counterfeit g in Iowa. Cheese is low country. It costs a dollar n at Paris. Forest fires havi this year. There are.80,000,000 sheep in the Argen tine Republic.* There are twenty-eight saloons in Guth rie, Oklahoma. There are 25,000,000, acres of virgin pine forest in Texas. The crop prospects out in Dakota are something unprecedented. There are 156 applicants for a single con sulship iu South America. Nearly 400,000 Italians will land this year in the Argentine Republic. The Government Planting Office at Wash ington is said to be unsafe. Small-pox is raging among the Okanagou Indians on the Pacific coast. There are 2272 British soldiers of the height of six feet and upward. Libby prison building has disappeared en tirely from sight at Richmond, Ya. One of Buffalo Bill’s Indians has lieen gored to death in Paris by an infuriated bull. The Mormons of Uijb and Idaho are emi grating in large numbers to British North America. The longest railroad line in the world ex tends from Chicago to Tacoma, Washington Territory. On application of the London Times the Parnell libel suit has been pospoued until November. King, has The Entire Business Portion of Seat tle, Washington Territory, in Ashes. The business portion of Seattle, the largest city in Wa-hington Territory, is in ashes. Every bank, hotel, place of amusement, all the leading business houses, all the newspa per offices, railroad depots, mills, steamboat wharves, coal bunkers, freight warehouses and telegraph offices are burned down. The fire began at the corner of Front and Madison streets in the candy factory of Mr. Penteus, at 2:30 p. M„ by some turpentine catching fire, and before midnight had con sumed the whole business section of the city northward to Stetson and Post's Mill along Front and Second streets to the water front, involving a loss estimated from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. The city is literally wiped out. except the resident portion on the high ground. A stiff breeze was blowing from the north west when the fire began and it soon got the best of the fire department. The water sup ply gave out within two hours after the fire began and then the flames had a clean sweep. Giant powder was used to blow up buildings in the hope of staying the flames, but with no effect. The fire was not stopped by human efforts, but was driven south by the wind aud burned until nothing was left" within reach to feed upon. The greater portion of the insurance is placed with foreign companies. California companies lose about $300,000 aud Oregon companies $250,000. Not a single business house of importance is left standing. Seattle is the largest citv on Puget Sound, thirty-eight miles from Tacoma, and has a population of about 20.000. It is charm ingly situated on high terraces which rise above the shore of Elliot Bay. The city has grown with great rapidity, its business blocks were large aud handsome, aud its private houses are constructed with every modern comfort and convenience. It has many schools and churches, several daily newspapers, a number of hotels and bank buildings, and many mills and factories. The streets were lighted by gas and electricity, aud the water service was constructed on a most extensive scale. The increase in the number of wharves aud docks has been incessant, showing the ad vancing prosperity of the town. The suburbs are very beautiful aud contain a number of luxurious country homes. The chief business of the community is in coal aud lumlier. the coal mines being especially valuable. There is also avail able an immense extent of rich farm ing land. The coal is shipped by rail and water to San Francisco. The harbor of Seattle is large and well sheltered, with a depth of water sufficient to float the largest steamers. The port does a great trade in salmon, and iu manufactories of wood, flour and iron. Spreckles, the, secured the cont tralian mails. There will 1 didates for Gov lican Conve The Unit det grrymg again the Aus- linent can- )hio Repub- gartment has Js with JUSTICE GRAY'S MARRIAGE. He Weds a Daughter of the Late Justice Matthews. Justice Gray of the United States Supreme Court and Miss Jeannette Matthews, daugh ter of the late Justice Stanley Matthews, were married a few evenings ago in Washington at the residence of the bride. The house was elaborately deco rated with flowers, aud the bridal couple, during the performance of the cere mony, stood in the front parlor, surrounded by st semicircle of palms. The Rev. Dr. Leonard of St. John's, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Hamlin of the Church of the Convenaut officiated, and read the service of the Episco pal Church. Those present were Mrs. Stanley Matthews, Paul ami Eva Matthews, Justice and Mrs. Miller, Mrs. aud the Misses Wood, Justice and the Misses Strong, Justice and Mrs. Field, Mr. and Miss Waite, and Miss Lucy Corkbill. The ushers were Wm. C. Endicott, Jr., and Blair Lee. After the marriage supper was served in the dining-room and late in the evening the bridal couple left for a country place in tha neighborhood of Boston, where they w : ll re main until July, when they go to Europi. Ik, Estimated Loss of Life aud Property. The loss of life by the floods in the towns of Mineral Point, Franklinborough, East Cone- niaugh, U oedvale, Keriuvilk-, Cambria. Minersvillo, Morrellvillo. Sheridan end C'oopersdale, which, with Johnstown, consti tute the string of communities in the direct path of the great flood, is about 2IIO0, and the Joss of property about Johns town proper will probably add about 7000 to the death list and about $18,000,000 to the iinaucial lo.-s. The Pennsylvania Railroad's loss will lie about 0<H making the total loss, as near as can mow be figured, over 8000 lives and more than $34,000,000 of property. The loss of life at Johnstown proper is but little more than a guess, and may go far higher. It was too large a place for anybody to know everybody, ami the survivors are so scattered that the registration of the living, which has reached 12,000 in the district, itiui- cates nothing. The loss in the smaller towns is obtained from leading men in each, who have in a measure got their heads again, and are able to think with some coolness. In de tail the loss falls as follows: — * ; • ' y X- '’Mafit T —-— d Press cross Johnstown, Penn.just a?Wi' the flood, in^T basket, suspended on a rope. The outcome of the Samoan Conference virtually was that Germany conceded every- thing aud America nothing. The Valkyrie, which is to contend for the America s Cup, appears to better advantage in light breezes and smooth water than in a fresh wind and sea. A cyclone has swept through Lamar County, Texas, doing great damage to crops, . lev elu-g fences, unrooting houses and barns, and injuring a number of people. Up to June this year the total number of hogs slaughtered in the West amounted to 1. .45,000, against 1,510,000 a year ago. This would make a string of hogs 1200 miles long. Of the 396,355 disabled men on the pension roll more than 100,000 receive from three to fourteen cents per day, and the remainder from fourteen to twenty-six and two-third cents a day. The growing wheat crop, the Agricultural Department informs the public, is likely to be the largest ever known in the United States.larger than that of 1884,which yielded 513,000,000 bushels, ani is the biggest on record. PROMT] jOPLE, •s The King of Italy is a total abstainer. WANAMAKER's first salary was $1.25 week. The Russian Czar is in constant fear of death. Queen Victorlv. has reigned fifty-two years. United States Minister Egan has sailed for Chili. The Hotchkiss gun-maker left a fortuue of $12,000,000 Walt Whitman, the poet, has attained the age of seventy. While Prince Bismarck was at college he fought twenty-eight duels. John Bright's first public speaking was for the cause of temperance. Rosa Bonheur still vigorously wields the brush at nearly seventy years. Minister Lincoln was given a special train from Liverpool to Loudon. Senator Allison is soon to be married to a charming young lady of Washington. Whitelaw Reid, our Minister to France, began life as a newspaper correspondent at five dollars a week. DRIFTWOOD ABOVE THE BRIDGE, SHOWING VIEWS OF THE CAMBRIA IRON CO. lake went roaring down the valley. That three miles of water was drained out "in forty- five minutes. The downfall of those millioiis of tons was simply irresistible. Stones from the dam and boul lers in the river bed were carried for miles. Trees went down like you might cut a mullein stalk with a swish of your cane. It was a terrible sight to see that avalanche of water go dow n that valley al ready choked with floods. Colonel Unger j was completely prostrated by it and was laid up at the club house sick f rc m his experieuces.” BRIDGES DESTROYED. Minera Point East Conemaugh and Franklin Wi 'dvale Johnstown Nernvitle Cambria ilmersville Morrellvillo Sheridan and Coopersdr.le Pennsylvania Kailroad.... Proptr'y, $100,000 120.000 300.000 750.000 35.000 10.000 75.090 10.060.000 Heavy Losses on AH Lines Running Through the Flooded Districts. A list of the principal railroad bridges de- ; stroyed or damaged by the recent floods has j been prepared by the Railroad Gazette. ; Among those named are the following: On the Pennsylvania road are the Granville bridge, on the Juniata four spans washed away. and the Mayer and Manayunk bridges, also on the Juniata, completely wrecked; Petersburg bridge, Shafer's Creek, completely wrecked; MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Composer Gounod will visit America next winter. "The Brigands” is a solid success at th« New York Casino. Coquelin and Hading, the French artists are playing in London. Robert Hilliard will be Helen Dauvray’i leading man next season. Tragedienne Julia Marlowe has closed her successful road season. Osmund Tearle is to do Hamlet and Rich, ard III. at the Standard Theatre, London. A concert is to be given in Paris in whicl only compositions by Amrrican authors will be rendered. It is said that the last season has been tl* most successful divcrc^season ever known in theatrical historv. €•32,890,000 who built . Total 9,( P. E. Chapin, of Washing the Gautier Steel Works, and up to January , was genera! sutH i iutendent of the Cam- i bria Iron Works at Johnstown, said: "The ! loss sustained in round numbers, I should ■ think, would reach *30.000.000. I doubt if ) twenty years will enable the V.-»l! cover from the sh.x'k.” W. S. Steele. So ivtary of the Westmor land and Cumbria Natural Gas Company, i now or the old dam. said: "Our company a one cannot replace its plant, which has been w ashed out, for less than $175,000.” Postmaster Bauman, of Johnstown, who knew every buihiisig in it. and is a stock holder in a large number of manufactories mid mercantile concerns in the Valiev, said: "I think that $20.0ov'.ooo will be found"a verv low estimate of Johnstown's financial loss, j am a tru.-tee for the largest estate in Johns town. and know what i am talking about ■when I make this estimate.’’ Out of a total population of 1030 at Wood- vale tY»7 are known t<> have been saved, mak ing the less of life about 50 per cent, of the submerged portion of the village. It is esti mated that the number of orphans in the ■Conemaugh Valley will be about 500. Thev are being removed to central points, where they can be found in case they are inquired for. Sit. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church lost 27 < of a membership of 150. Rector ■A. P. Hiller, wife and two children were drowned. Their new church building has ■disappeared. The absence of former residents and of a ■fixed and familiar population is most striking in Johnstown. There are thousands of strang ers and workmen from a distance there, but tor the three first days the one perpetual An Insecure Dam. Two expert engineers, A. M. Wellington and F. F. Burt, the latter associate editor of the Engineering yews, of New York, have _ made an examination of the dam at South isonortno' Forks which was tha cause of the disaster. I" i k ' H ■ Mr. Wellington states that the dam was iuev- No. O.'entirely destroyed. ery respect of very inferior construction aud The Philadelphia and Erie Road lost the ot a kind w holly unwarranted by good engin-! Montgomery bridge, on the Susquehanna wring practices of thirty years ago. Both j and the Leechburg and Hyndman bridges. , on tiie original aud reconstructed dams were the Bedford branch. Mount Dallas bridge of earth only, with no heart wall, but ' was undermined and is impa-sable. Bolivar only riprapped on the stopes. The ' bridge, on the Conemaugh, and Linden original dam. however, was made in bridge, on the Susquehanna, were swept ramm^i aud watered layers, which still show | away, while the Williamsport bridge lost distinctly in the wrecked dam. The new i three spans. end greatly added to its stability, but it , Of the twenty bridges south of Ralston was to all appearance simply dumped in , on the Northern Central five are washed like an ordinary railroad fill, or if rammed, away and all the rest are badly damaged shows no evidence of good effect from \ with one exception. North of" WiUiams- it. Much of the old part is standing | port four or five small bridges across iutact. while adjacent pares of the new work Lycoming Creek have been swept away, are wholly carried off. There was no cen tra! wall of puddle or masonry either in the It has been theinvaria- Buffalo Bill':- enormous businessjl The Indians hav< A COMMEMORAT on the house oceiql Stradivarius. the ct ailev to re- i ble practice of engineers for thirty or forty j years to u-e one or the other in building high j dams of earth. j It is doubtful if there is a single ot!i«r dam or reservoir iu any other part of the United States of over t'uty feet high which lacks this <• ntral wall. The reconstructed dam also bears the mark of great ignorance or careless ness in having been made nearlv two feet mw. r in the middle than at the ends. It should rather have crowned iu the middle, which would have concentrated the over flow if it should occur at the ends instead of in the centre. Miss Halford's Narrow Escape. Mrs. and Miss Halford, wife and daughter of President Harrison’s Private Secretary, have reached ashington. Both were occu pants of the day express on the Pennsylvania road, which w as supposed to have been lost with all on board. Their train was stopped at Conemaugh station from 11 a. m. until 3 P. M. on the fatal Friday. Then the conductor heard the roar of the coming waters aud rushed through the train and shouted: "To the hills; to the hills for your life!” Mrs. Halford and her "daughter sprang to the platform with many other passengers. By that time the great volume of water 0 was | All the railroad bridges above Blairs- ; ville were carried away. Martinsburg : high bridge over the Potomac River ! is partly gone, and the remainder is insecure. J At Williamsport Aid. ) a new iron bridge over t’ue Pot'mao River was destroyed. Sinnema- honing bridge ami Keating bridge, both cross ing Sinnemahoning Crock, are gone. Several others have been lost, but their names are uot given. On the Philadelphia and Reading road.Sun- bury bridge. <>a the Williamsport branch, h -t three spans, and the Milton and Muncy bridges, on the Susquehanna, were cei.:- pletiy destroyed. The Erie road lost several bridges near Hornellsvilie and Andover, N. Y.. and the bridge at Elmira. A large bridge on the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western road was swept away at Waverly, N. Y. The Fall Brook Coal Company lost two bridges. On the West Virginia Central and Pitts burg two bridges were swept away, and the total loss of that road is estimated at $250,000. The Long Bridge across the Potomac, at Washington, D. C\. was overflowed and the draw span with one fixed span adjoining it floated down stream. Ships of war and ironclad instructions are : to be sent to the Behring .Sea to maintain the rights of the United States in that quarto-. kWest is doing at Paris Exposition. ?e French, tas been placed remona, Italv. by fed violin maker. Colonel Maple^on is organizing a new Italian <»pera company iu London in which 1 Marie Titieus will debut as a prima donna. Gilbert, it is reported, is alreadv well ad- ranceti upon another libretto, for which Sii Arthur Sullivau will shortly start the music James C. Duff is to revive all of the sue- co—ful Gilbert and Sullivan operas durina the summer season of his company in Phila delphia. Robert Buchanan has just arranged Scott's poem. "Marmion,” for stage repre sentation, preserving the measure of the original. The success of Von Suppe's “Clover” at Palmer's. New York city,is the greatest ever known in the history of the McCaull Opera Company. An exhibition of moukevs was recently opened at Alexandra Palace "in London. At least a thousand monkeys from various t arts of the world were show n. At the roc nt Artists' Ball at the Paris Opera House, Mme. Bernhardt was the con- iluctor of the orchestra and the younger M. Coqueiin first violin player. Charles Lauri. Sr., the famous clown and pantomimist, die'i in London recentlv. He was the lather of the Lauri family, w ho have often appeared in this country. Aiter forty weeks of the most phenomen ally profitable run ever known to the local stage "The Old Homestead” ended its season at the Academy of Music, in New York citv. A common expectation in the theatrical profession iu England is that a knighthood for Mr. Irving should be the reward of the performance before the Queen at Sandring ham. ° Mr. Abbey has guaranteed the tenor Tomagno #100.000 to sing fifty nights during the four months of Mme. Patti's American season. Tomagno is not to sing on the same nights as Patti. An unfinished libretto, "The Saracen Woman.” by Wagner, has just been discov ered, the widow of Herr Greith, of Munich cathedral, having presented it to Frau Secretary Noble has accepted the resig nation of Indian Commissioner Oberlv to take effect on July 1. General eaver, of Iowa, once the leading Green backer of the West, has onened a law office in Oklahoma. It is sad to learn that the Sandwich King. Kalakau, is so bad off that he can’t borrow $10,000 for a trip to Europe. King Tamasee, of Samoa, enjoys the mu nificent royal salary of #20 a week. But then he has no tailor s bills to pay. The Pope recently fainted it, his chair dur ing a meeting of the Consistory, and his health is said to be seriously affected. Amelie Rives-C’hanler,the author of the ‘'.Quick or the Dead.” and Louise Michel, the Nihilist, have struck up a friendship in Paris. Secretary Windom is said to work harder than any other man in Washington. He is at his desk day and night and indulges in no known recreation. Gladstone at the age of eighty is said to be good for a tramp of twenty miles. And why not? At the same age’ Aaron Burr could outwalk any youngster in New York. The monument in honor of Inventor John j Ericsson, for which the sum of $12,000 was j appropriated by the New York State Legis- ! lature, is to be set up in Central Park, New York. Marshall Field, the Chicago millionaire drygoods merchant, employs a man at a reg ular salary to see that his charities are worthily bestowed. H<- spends $25,000 a year in charity. Hadji Hassein Khouli Khan, Persian Minister, says that the reason the Shah <,i Persia does not extend his present trip to this country is that there is no one here uf equal rank to receive him. Hon. A\ ilt.iam C. Endicott. ox-Secretarv of ar. and Mr. Sigourney Butler, ex- Controller of the Curr.-ncy. have formed a partnership for the practice of law and will open an office in Boston. Amasa Sprague, elder brother of ex- Governor William Sprague, who has ac cepted an el c-tion to the office of Sh-riff of Kent County. R. I.—an office worth #9<) j or bl'JU a year—was once the owner of $10,000,090. Mrs. Cleveland's mother, Mrs. Perrine. has returned to Buffalo. She and her hus band went as far West as Nebraska on their wedding trip. Mr. Perrine has resumed his duties as Secretary of the Buffalo Ceme tery Association. DEATH BY ELECTRICITY. The Method to lie Used in Punishing Murderers in New York. Electrical Engineer Harold P. Brown, of New York, is superintending the electrical apparatus to be used in the execution of the convicted murderer, who will be the first man to die under the new law in New York providing that hereafter in the State the death penalty shall lie administered by elec tricity instead of by hanging. z A. 7? the death cap. A Westinghouse dynamo with an alternat ing current will be used. The victim will be seated on a raised platform in a reclining chair to the back of which he will be fastened by straps around his body. A rubber cap that will cover all of his "head but the face will then be slipped on the condemned man. In the centre of this cap at the base of the brain, is a metal cone, perforated, to which the electric wire will be fastened. While at tendants are fixing on this cap and attaching the wire, ol hers will remove the prisoner's shoes and socks replacing them with sandals, 'ii the fatal moment. the soles of which are of metal. Then the condemned man’s feet v. ill be fastened to a metal foot-rest to inch other wires will be ■attached. While these arrangements are be- 'ing made the electrician will, by the aid of an ingenious contrivance concealed in the chair, learn the maximum resistance of the prisoner and so be able to tell just how many volts strong the current must be to destroy liim. Previous to being led into the death chamber the prisoner will be allowed what- tever opportunity he desires for religious con solation and farewell. When placed in the chair only the officers and physicians allowed by law will be present. The dynamo and apparatus will be concealed in an adjoining room. There will be a loojffiole through the A that the engineer can view^^PEZ greSS'bf the proceedings and be ablea^lne proper moment to turn oq, the death-dealing current should there, through nervousness or Other cause, bs any mistake in signaling. At the last moment a black cloth will be laid over the condemned man’s face, and an in- fetant later will follow the signal for the current to be turned on. It is estimated that these arrangements will occupy at least five minutes’ time—long enough for the prisoner to experience the agonies of a hun dred deaths. When the current is turned on death is expected to follow instantaneously. CAYE DWELLERS. Explorer Schwatka Among the Wild Tribes ol’ Mexico. Lieutenant Schwatka arrived at Doming, New Mexico. In Southern Chihuahua his party found cliff ar,d cave dwellers, wild as any of the Mexican tribes that Cortez encoun tered. The abodes they live in are exactly like the old abandoned cliff dwellings of Arizona and New Mexico. Upon the approach of. white men the people climb to their caves or cliffs by the aid of notched sticks if the cliffs are too steep. They can, however, ascend vertical stone faces if there are the slightest crevices for their fingers aud toes. The cliff dwellers are sun worshippers. They expose their new-born children to the full rays of the sun, and show in many other ways their devotion to the great luminary. Thev are usually tall, lean and well formed. Their skin is of a black-red color, more like the African’s than the Indian’s. Lieutenant Schwatka says that nothing has heretofore been known about these peo ple except by the half-Indians of the Mexi can mountains. He estimates the cave and cliff dwellers to number from 300J to 12,000. They are armed only with bows, arrows and stone hatchets. The fastest day's run on record on a tran 1 -- itlantie voyage—515 miles—was made by th • City of Paris on a recent trip over. The Two Poets. "I would not weight,” one poet said, "The wing of Fancy soaring high Up the blue dome of boundless sky; Or part the downy plumage spread t Above her breast, even by a strand Cf silken service, wrapping there. To send across the summer 1 md. Sue'', messages through the golden air As humbler pinions deign to bear. ‘‘My realm is Beauty's large domain: My service. Art. for Art s pure sake, That does not ask. and will not take. The low rewards of u-e or gain— That owns no duty in a song— No Epic call that shall avail To urge the right, or chide the wrong, Or hearten hoj>e when hope would fail— 1 sing as sings the nightingale.” "If through my verse,” another sang, "A throb is felt, whose human l>eat Reveals a purp- se, strong and sweet, To anodyne some deadly pang. Or help some halting soul to reach Firm foothold on the path that leads Starward, through what my verse may teach. Or heal the hurt that inwar 1 ble. di, Or spur some life to loftier deeds— “I leave content the rarer height Of Art to such ethereal souls As Beauty's finer air infolds In atmospheres too keen of light For earth-born vision.* While they soar. Let me keep warm within my breast The heart-throb—and I ask no more!” Men praised the Poet; for the rest, God loved the lowlier singer best. —Margaret J. Preston. HUMOROUS. Worth lots of rocks—A baby. A swallow may not make a summer, but a frog makes a spring. The long and the short of it—The measurements bath ways. A theatrical company is charitable when it plays to a poor bouse. There arc different ways of showing wrath; the tea-kettle sings sweetest when it is hottest. Miggs: ‘‘I hear a policeman was killed yesterday in the discharge of his duty.” Bliggs: “He probably didn’t know it was loaded.” Returned traveler: “Mr. Richmau could draw his check for a million when I left. How much money has he by this time?” Citizen: “Eh? Wha— he died. ” “He hasn’t Did he fail?” any.” “No; A 11 liman Almanac. Brown county, 111., has a prodigy in the shape of a ten-ycar-old boy with a talent for days and dates. Roy Oden- weller, son of S. P. OJcnwellcr of In dustry township, is the infant wonder. Give him any date in any month of thi» year, last year or next year, and he can at once tell you the day of the week upon which it falls or has fallen. For example, ask him on what day of week will October 17, 1889, fall, Iu- will nromptlyanswer diich is corrifet. And so l^st year or the year to come, ^fow ha at the solution he does riot V — %vnow. tha and rsday,” en of undoubtr^ tested his arnv Numerous gen acity have repeated^ power. The little fellow ~ is a youngster, but does uot exhibit ver- strango bright any un usual precocity beyond this peculiar gift. He says that beyond the three years—the current, the last and the next—he cannot give correct answers. Next year he will lose all power over 1888 (with which he is now conversant), and his mind will grasp that of 1891, of which he now knows nothing. He has no rule or method, nor does he know how he arrives at the true answer, but it is certain that be is correct answering. — Chicago Tribune. when THE MARKETS. 23 Beeves.. NEW YORK. common to prime., President Harrison devotes about an hour a day to newspapers. He reads the ed itorial comments < ut out for him by Private Secretary Halford, spends a few moments on the telegraphic news and always looks over the baseball scores. Benjamin Shively. Representative in Congress from the South Bend (Ind.) District, has had an interesting career. Some years ago. when.very young, he was editor of a small newspaper in South Bend. Bv a politi cal compromise he was elected to ‘Congress for a short term. While in Washington i.e lived economically, saved a large part of his salary, and when his term expired went to Ann Arbor University, Michigan, to com plete his education. He studied law and hung out his shingle in South Beud. Acain. by a party compromise, he was elected to Con gress. He married a daughter of ex-Soficitor- General Jc-nks recently. Calves, Sheep Lambs Hogs—Live Dressed Flour—City Mill Extra Patents Wheat—No. 2 Red Rye—State Barley—Two-rowed State... Corn—Ungraded Mixed Oats—No. 1 V nite Mixed Western Hay—No. 1 Straw—Long Rye Lard—City Steam Butter—Elgin Creamery... Dairy, fair to good. West. Ini. Creamery Factory ! Cuesse—State Factory Skims—Light Western | Eggs—State and Penn BUFFALO. j Steers—Western i Sheep—Medium to Good.... j Lambs—Fair to Good ■ Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks ! Flour—Family i Wheat—No. 2 Northern ; Com—No. 3, Yeliow ! Oats—No. 2, White Barley—No. 1 Canada I BOSTON. Flour—Spring Wheat Pat's.. Corn—Steamer Yellow 46 (h 47:^ . Oats—No. 2 White 32 w 41 Rye—State 65 («. 70 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef—Dressed weight 4 (a Sheep—Live weight Z z <ur 4'-' Lambs., 43<a 6>| liogs—Northern — (<£ 58^ PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Penn, family i Wheat—No. 2, Red. June... Corn—No. 2. Mixed. June.. Oats—Ungraded White Potatoes—Early Rose , Butter—Creamery Extra... ' Cheese—Part skims 3 75 (0, 4 S7’-i 25 00 <rt45 00 2 50 fty 5 50 5 </J ( (/ 5 70 6 10 (a 8 00 4 70 (<t 5 70 0}4(a 8 4 SO (e 4 50 4 75 eg 0 00 8234 49 51 So (0 87 3'.C ',01 41}4 — "eg 3 s 26 K 30 S2'* .U<> 00 70 eg 75 — e» 6 .50c 18 eg 1SV£ 14' W;' li e/ 15 s'- MX 8' iu 11 a ; 2 ft 9 — ill 9 14 ^toi 15 3 00 ft 4 30 4 00 (a 4 25 4 00 Ol 5 00 4 75 ft 4 85 5 00 ft 5 25 i i 78 — ft 37^ 31 ft 31* ft 74 5 SO ft 6 35 How tlic President Spends His Day. The President divides his time so as to have ample opportunity for rest, rc- creition and work. He generally rises about 7 o’clock iu the morning and breakfasts with his family at 8.31) o’clock. He usually leaves the building by the south door and indulges in'a stroll of half an hour about the grounds south of the mansion. lie then returns to his office and by 9.3) o’clock is en gaged in looking over papers aud ar ranging Ids work for the day. At 11 o’clock .Senators and Representatives be gin to arrive and they are received with the utmost courtesy, patience aud con sideration. At 1 o’clock the President, except ou cabinet days, descends to the east room, where he always finds hundreds of per sons, men and women, who are stran gers in the city, waiting to pay their respects. After dispersing this crowd with many pleasant remarks, he takes his luncheon and then returns to his of- ffee, where he begins the real work of the day, undisturbed by caller*, except by special appointments, as these threo hours are devoted to audiences granted *0 cabinet ministers to submit the busi- ness of taeir ucp irtmonts and receivo directions. At 3 o’clock he usually takes a long walk in the northwestern section of the city, or a drive with Mrs. Harrison and the ladies of his family. At 7.30 o'clock the President joins Mrs. Harrison and the ladies at dinner in the family dining-room. Frequently he invites some iriend or official whom he desires to meet in the less respected and more leisurely surroundings of miorn^il hospitality. Ei.er iu tho evening tne President passes his timo with his family, or receives visitors who are entitled to call socially.—Pittsburg Clouuurcial Gazette. 4 00 ft. • 4 25 87 ft 89 41 ft 41 — ft 33 30 ft 40 i~y,cc IS 6 ft 8 A Great Iiulncement. Cora. ‘‘What induced you to Mr. Merritt I went to the party night with George?'’ Little Jlxzar. ' Johnny. “A quarter.’