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! / i A Lowell (Mm.) paper says that the i WBIW Tiff ID FT AUTI Uook for cotton mills in the North it A n iiibl'll ITi lIia.ljnrlU. outlook dark. While many in this and other Chris tian lands are doing what they can to re lieve the starving people of China, the government of that country is appar ently doing nothing. The words “patent applied for’* are invalid as a protection against infringe ments. Unless the patent has been actually granted, it is no good to the in ventor. This is a recent decision of a United States court. Latimer, the Michigan matricide re cently sentenced to life imprisonment, can hatter himse'.f that only five or six cases as monstrous as his have been known in criminal annals in the last fifty years. He is being mentioned even in Europe. The Johns seem to be international, observes the Prairie Farmer. There are John Chinaman, Jean (John) Crapeau, John Bull, and Brother Jon-athan. The four Johns represent more millions of humanity than auy other four nations on earth. Deadheads have little chance to get into the Palis Exhibition. The appli cant for a season ticket must furnish two photographs, and one is held by the Exhibition authorities, and they sign the other, and make the ticket-holder show it cverv time he enters. Lord Wolseley, Commander-in-Chief of the English army, has been lecturing to the "Woolwich cadets, and adjured them to avoid the conceit which he said was the beset:ing sin of the British offi cer.- He also advised them earnestly to continue their studies after they had re ceived their commissions. A rather curious course has been taken with his employes by the proprietor of a broom factory at Duluth, Minn. He in creased the wages of the married men and notified the single men that their services would not be required after the end of the month, unless they were mar ried by that time, when they would be retained at increased wages. “Whether ho has found that marriage is a success ful institution which he is anxious that others should enjoy, or is selfishly act ing upon the general principle that matrimony has a tendency to promote the broom trade,” comments the Chicago I Herald, “does not appear.” The gallant British tar, who has been ae theme of so much laudation in poem od prose, seems, remarks the San Fran- \co Chronicle, to have fallen on de aerate days—that is if credence is to jiven to what English shipmasters It is alleged that they favor Nor- in fact but their own fellow-country men. While the English sailor still possesses his old-time ability, if he cares to exercise it, nevertheless he is so given to drink that he is insubordinate and quarrelsome to a degree—characteristics which are lacking in sailors of other na tionalities. Talking base ball cost three bank of ficials of Forest City, Mo., §4500, the other day. They were caught, as it were, writes the base ball editor of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, o/T their base outside the bank railing by three daring bank robbers ■wearing slouched hats and masks, taken into the bank, where they were considerably put out by having to give up their bag. The robbers, however, put a short stop to their victims’ protestations, and, after committing their foul outrage, left on the fly for parts unknown. The bank thus lost all the cash there was in its coffers; and the moral is that it is a bad plan to let business interfere with base ball. That is, it is a bad plan for bank robbers. The bridging of the Rio Grande at point after point suggests to the New York Times how slight the geographical barrier is between our country and the republic to the south of us. Such a spanning cf the river has just been com- pleted at Laredo, while at El Paso, some hundreds of miles further up, a bridge is further supplemented by a horse railway between the two coun tries. There is a-certain suggestiveness, also, in the names of the towns which face each other at points along the boundary. Thus the two between which the latest bridge has been constructed are Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. The town opposite El Paso is El Paso del Norte. Closely joined to the American town of Nogales in Arizona is the Mex ican town of Los Nogales. It is true that often these opposite towns have been the scenes of contention between the citizens of the two coun'ries, but ceremonies like the bridge opening at Laredo should suggest that there are ties to bind the two republics in inter est and sympathy, as well as a natural and an artificial boundary to separate them. When Spaniards Have Suffered. There are elections in Spain, but uni versal suffrage is not dreamed of. The franchise is peculiar. A Spaniard, to vote, must be of age,domiciled 25 years, contributing 25 pesetas (§5) as a real es tate tax, and double that as an industrial tax. Politicians in power do not try to increase voters, but to diminish then number. Madrid, with 400.000 popula tion, has an actual register of 12,000. All parish priests, hnd their curates, members of academies, and ecclesiasti cal chapters can vote. Terrible Disaster to a Sunday- School Excursion Party. Blundering Trainmen Cause the Loss of Seventy-two Lives. The most horrible railroad accident that ever occurred in Ireland has happened on the road between Armagh and Warren Point, and resulted in the killing of nearly 100 women and children and the injury of twice that number. At 10 o’clock in the morning two excursion trains with 1200 Methodist Sunday-school children and teachers left Armagh for War ren Point, which is a watering place in County Down at the mouth of the Newry River. W hen a short distance from Armagh the trains ascended a steep grade to a bank ris ing fifty feet above the level, when the en gine of the second train became dis abled and was unable to draw the cars. The train came to a stand still, and was waiting for assistance when several of the rear cars became detached and immediately started back down the grade. Down they went at a terrific speed, gaining added momentum at every second, the brakes being utterly useless. The regular train from Armagh, which had followed the excursion, was just nearing the foot of the grade when the detached cars came flying toward it. Before the engineer had time to reverse his engine and run his train back the rapidly approaching cars, filled with screaming ami frightened children, dashed into it with a horrible crash. The engine was thrown on its side, a total wreck, and the runaway cars were also knocked off the track by the fom) of the col lision. Then was witnessed a dreadful spec tacle, for the unfortunate passengers were mixed up and crushed in the ruins of the wreck. Their cries as they were crushed to death beneath the heavy iron and timber of the cars were heartrending. Added to these were the pitiful cries and groans of the help less injured that rose from all sides. As soon as the people in the detached cars saw what had happened and begun to realize their danger, they tried to escape from their perilous position through the doors of the coaches, but found them locked. Even the forlorn hope of a leap for life from the flying train was denied them, and nothing was left but to await the swift and certain death to which they were rushing headlong. The shrieks of the children were horrible. The bodies of the victims were arranged in rows as soon as recovered. Many were mangled beyond recognition. There is scarcely a family in Armagh that has not some one dead. The embankment on which the accident occurred is seventy feet high. Many touching scenes were witnessed. The children bore their in juries with great patience. W reck- mg gangs are at work clearing avyay the debris. A private of the Irish Fusileers, before the collission, jumped on the foot plate of one of the cars and dropped four children to the ground. He then offered to assist others to escape, but his offer was refused. In many cases whole families were killed. Crowds of people are visiting the scene of the disaster and the air is rent with lamentations. A dozen corpses were found parboiled un derneath the wrecked engine where it had fallen. The number of injured is about one-third of the entire number of passengers. Many of these were certain to succumb to the effects of their injuries. A cardriver named Hughes, who visited the scene of the disaster, was so horrified at the sight that he died on the spot. His corpse was taken to Armagh in his own car. The train consisted of fifteen carriages. The bulk of the children were in the front por tion of the train. Only about one dozen children were killed. The majority of the victims were about twenty years of age. They were in the last car riage, which was completely smashed. Many of the occupants jumped from the windows and escaped slight injuries be fore the collision. . The passengers on the hind train n iv»iin-pd The alighted and asa^ied in the' wort of relief. The scenes on the den ifleation of victims by friends or relatives .vere painful in the extreme. All the bodies were taken from the wreck. The total killed is seventy-two, of which sixty-four were identified. The remaining sections of the excursion train were run back to the scene of the catas trophe, and the passengers of that and the regular train, who were badly shaken up but not injured, rendered immediately such as sistance as lay in their power. A man who was riding on the highway saw the collision, and, without stopping to see more dashed away at once to Armagh, and returned with a company of sol diers from the barracks there. These came provided with stretchers, and, being the first on the ground to render asssistance. did good work in extricating the living and the dead from the wreck. The disaster is primarily due to obsolete appliances, the brakes being the old-fashioned hand brakes and worn links. The engineer, fireman and guard of the de tached section of the rear excursion train, to gether with the. traffic manager's clerk, were arrested after the accident, for which they are held responsible, and were imprisoned without bail. THE ELEVENTH CENSUS. A Circular to Medical Men Concern ing- Vital Statistics. Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the Eleventh Census, has issued the following circular to the medical profession: “The various medical associations and the medical profession will be glad to learn that Dr. John S. Billings, Surgeon U. S. Army, has consented to take charge of the report on the mortality of vital statistics of the United States as returned by the eleventh census. “As the United States has no system of registation of vital statistics, such as'is relied upon by other civilized nations for the pur pose of ascertaining the actual movetrent of population, our census affords the only op portunity of obtaining near an approximate estimate of the birth and death rates of much the larger part of the country, which is en tirely unprovided with any satisfactory sys tem of State and municipal registration. “In view of this, the Census Office will issue to the medical profession throughout the country “Physician’s Registers” for the pur pose of obtaining more accurate returns of deaths than it is possible for the enumerators to make. It is earnestly hoped that physi cians in every part of the country will co operate with the Census Office in this import ant work. The record should be kept from June 1, 1SS9. to May 31, IS'JO. Nearly 26,000 of these registration books were filled up and returned to the office in 1880, and nearly all of them used for statistical purposes. It is hoped that double this number will be ob tained for the eleventh census. “Physicians not receiving registers can ob tain them by sending their names and ad dresses to the Census Office, and with the registers, an official envelope which requires no stamp will be provided for their return to "Washington. “If all medical and surgical practitioners throughout the country will lend their aid, the mortality and vital statistics of the elev enth census will be more comprehensive and complete than they have ever been. Every physician should take a personal pride in having this report as full and accurate as it is possible to make it. ••It is hereby promised that all information obtained through this source shall be held strictly' confidential.” OOR MINERAL WEALTH. The Chief Products of the United States During 1SSS. The annual report of Chief Day. of the Division of Mining Statistics for the year 1SSS, which will soon be issued, contains in teresting statistics in relation to the mineral products of the United States. The gold product was valued at #53,175,000, and the silver at $43,000,000. The values of other min erals dug out of the soil in the year were: Iron, $28,944,000; copper, $33,833,954; lead. $10,680,000; zinc. $1,60,000. The coal produc tion was 142.037,350 tons, valued at $204,221,- 990 at the mines. The total value of miner als of all kinds was $591,658,931. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Mrs. Edmund Thomas and Mrs. Dennis Carroll and her two-year-old daugh ter were drowned through the upsetting of a boat by the drunken husbands of the two ladies In the Monongahela at Pittsburg, Penn. The subscriptions for the Johnstown flood sufferers up to late date aggregated nearly $3,000,000. The New Jersey Supreme Court has de cided that the Jersey City Charter Act is constitutional. The effect of this decision will be to oust all the old officials and turn the city government over to the Democrats. The fast express on the Lehigh Valley Railroad was thrown from the track at Su gar Notch, Penn. The cars were telescoped, and two of them crushed in a frame house which stood near the track. Eleven passen gers were injured. Charles McDonald and John J. Mo- roney were arrested in New York city by Inspector Byrnes on orders from Chicago on charges of complicity in the Cronin murder. Both prisoners acknowledge they are Clan- na-Gael men. A very wealthy bachelor farmer, seventy years old, Elias Snowberger, hanged himself in his garret, near Waynesboro, Penn. At a meeting of the National Democratic Committee in New York Calvin S. Brice, of Ohio, was unanimously elected Chairman to succeed the late W. H. Bamum. Resolutions of respect for the mem''nr of Mr. Barnum and the late Captain F. AY . Dawson, another member of the Committee, recently murdered in Charleston, S. C., were passed. The Society of the Army of the Potomac held its twentieth annual reunion at Orange, N. J. . The borough of Johnstown and the sur rounding towns are now under military rule. General Hastings has taken charge, and sol diers were placed on guard duty. Colonel A. T. Douglass, chief engineer of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at the request of Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, went to Johnstown of the enl Three hundred aqi fifty-four thousand persons visited the Pahs Exposition on a re cent day. Of this number 36,000 made the ascent of the Eiffel Toyer. The Duke of Portland, the wealthiest nobleman in En^tetd, and Miss Dallas Yorke. daughter <Kt country squire, were married in Londo^bv the Bis' coin. the Bishop cf Lin- Cardlnals’ hats were presented to the Archbishops of Paris, Lyons and Bordeaux, at the request of the Pope, by President Carnot of France. The steamers City of New York and City* of Rome were detained at Liverpool by ina-' bility to secure cre^| owing to a strike. ealers in railway and' at Montreal, Canada, t. xuamunes, aoouc J. & H. Taylo engineering suppli have made an assif ^ $135,000. A LETTER da' eastern shore of ports the arrival party, including lost many men th: He had rejoined him again at Un; shore of the lake. A laborer na venge murdered a 1 Serris and two othe] France. le south- ranza, re- with his ley had Id famine. had left Irtheastern but of re- erris, Mrs. Toulouse, entire force em ployed by the to take charge in cleaning away the debris caused by flood. General Sherman delivered the diplomas to the graduating class at West Point Mili tary Academy. Camillo Bocgatti, an Italian confined in the Tombs, New York city, on a charge of murder, committed suicide by hanging. W. E. Phillips, chief letter carrier at Fall River, Mass., has been arrested for robbing the mails of jewelry. YV. E. Chandler was nominated on the first ballot for United States Senator by the Republican Legislators of New Hampshire. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West gave a perform ance in Paris which netted $2000 for the Johnstown relief fund. Ten thousand people were said to have lost their lives in a fire at Suchow, a Chinese city. All the cabmen of Paris went on a strike, causing great inconvenience to Exposition visitors. LATER NEWS. South and West. William Anderson, a railroad section- master, of Alcove, S. C., while suffering from delirium tremens killed his wife and two children by cutting the throats of each. Crops in Indiana have been badly dam aged by rain and freshets. The Coroner’s jury, in Chicago,after being out five hours, returned a verdict recom mending that Alexander Sullivan, P. O. Sullivan, Daniel Coughlin and Frank Wood ruff bo presented to the Grand Jury as the men who were engaged in the plot against the life of Dr. P. H. Cronin, and were either the principals or accessories to the murder or had guilty knowledge of the conspiracy to do away with Cronin. Examination of the damage to the Chesa peake and Ohio Canal In Virginia by the re cent flood shows that it can be repaired for $300,000. At Dalton, Ga.. State Senator S. E. Fields was shot and killed by his stepson, Dennis Taylor. Fields was trying to chastise Tay lor. William Atkinson, a wealthy and promi nent citizen of Ironwood, Mich., committed suicide by jumping into the shaft of the Ash land mine. His mangled body was found at the bottom of the 400-foot pit. Lawrence and Edward Stoeb and their two adopted sons were killed by a locomotive at the Fort Wayne Railroad crossing at Cleveland, Ohio. ;th Murray, a farmer of Vincennes, Ind., aged fifty-five, and father of six chil dren, became jealous of his wife and shot her in {the abdomen. He th4h cut her head off iver 'dlRUsWallowWl & UOsJS 01 prussic acid, from the effects of which he died in a few moments. FpRTY-ONB houses were burned in Grin- nell, Iowa, which was entirely destroyed seven years ago by a tornado. The loss is about $200,000, fully insured. Edward Palmer Turner shot and killed his cousin and brother-in-law, Robert Turner, near “The Plains,” Fauquier County, Va., and was in turn shot through the breast and hand and killed by Edward C. Turner, brother of Robert. Four young men riding in a buggy were killed by a train on the Pittsburg, Fort YVayne and Chicago Railroad, near Canton, Ohio. The Chippewa Indians at Mille Lac Lake, Minn., in an uprising, killed a number of Swedish settlers. James Deavin and Charles Tennyson, burglars, were taken from the jail and lynched at Corydon, lud. Patrick A. Ward, sixty-two years old and the most prominent Irishman in Indian apolis, Ind., committed suicide. Rumor con nected him with the murder of Dr. Cronin in Chicago. Destructive forest fires raged in Wiscon sin and Minnesota. Over $1,000,000 of pine lumber was burned. An electric storm swept over a large see tion of the East, doing much damage. A number of buildings struck by lightning, and several persons killed. Heavy charges of dynamite were used in breaking up the immpnse mass of wreckage at the Johnstown railroad bridge. In con sequence many windows were broken, chimneys blown down and the strongest re maining houses badly shaken. A protest was sent to Governor Beaver, and the heavy blasting was ordered tt> be discontinued. The Virginia Prohibitionists will hold a convention for the nomination of candidates for Governor and otaer officers at Lynch burg on J illy 17. General W. T. YY ithers, of Kentucky, a Mexican and Confed erate war veteran, and a noted breeder o£ ti otters, is dead, in his sixty-fifth year. Woodruff, the m in implicated in the Cronin murder case an Chicago, made a new and revised confession implicating Alexander Sullivan, Detective Co ughlin and two other men. President Harrikon, accompanied by Secretaries Blaine nqld Windom, went down the Potomac on Postmaster-General Wana- maker’s yacht. The vessel lay at anchor in Chesapeake Bay during Sunday, returning to Washington on Monday. Consular appeuitrhentsby the President: Wakefield G. Frye, oi.Maine, Consul-General at Halifax; Joseph L. Leonard, of Minne sota, Consul-General Ito Shanghai; Zachary T. Sweeney, of IncUhna, Consul-General at Constantinople; Oliver H. Dockery, of North at Rio de Janiero; Carolina, Consul-' Oliver H. Simonds, eral at St. Peters! of Pennsylvania, Brown, of Ohio, Many perso: ing roof of a eight dead and from the ruins. Letters reeeij Stanley, the East coast of. The Monten lo, Consul-Gen- &eoi%Q W. Roosevelt, ! at Brussels; Levi W. al at Glasgow. t buried under the fall- |in the City of Mexico; •wounded were take Washington. The product of petroleum in the United States in 1888 was 27,346,018 barrels (of 42 gallons each), valued at about $24,598,559. It is estimated that the amount of coal displaced by natural gas in the United States in 1888 was 14,163,830 tons, valued at $22,- 662,128. The President has appointed Thomas J. Morgan, of Rhode Island, to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs, vice John H. Oberly, re signed. From the monthly Government crop re port, it appears that the general average con dition of cotton on June 1 was 101; winter wheat, 93: spring wheat, nearly 95; oats, 93; rye and barley, 95. Postmaster-General Waxamaker has announced himself as an advocate of the Sun day rest movement, and will from this time forth so conduct the affairs of the Postoffico Department that no work will be performed on the Sabbath day except such as is abso lutely necessary for the proper transaction of the public business. In accordance with the findings of the Court Martial, the Secretary of YY'ar has pre scribed the limits within which Captain Armes. who assaulted Governor Beaver, is to be confined for five years as within a radius of fifty miles of the District of Columbia. The President will leave YY'ashington the latter part of this month for Deer Park, Md., where a cottage has been prepared for his reception. Secretary of Agriculture Rusk is overwhelmed with invitations to address farmers' conventions and agricultural fairs during the summer throughout the country. The President appointed A. E. Baxter, cf New York, to be L nited States Marshal for the Northern District of New York. He is a well-known lawyer of Elmira. President Harrison has appointed Donald McLean to be General^ Appraiser of Merchandise for the Port of New York. The Secretary of the Navy has issued a general order that all metal-covered ships of the navy shall be painted white. Heretofore they have been painted black. The United States man-of-war Kearsarge has been ordered to Hayti. More fighting among the opposing factions of the natives was reported. Mrs. Harrison, wife of the President, ac companied bv her father, Dr. Scott, and her two grandchildren and their nurses left YY'ashingtou for a two weeks’ visit to Capa Mav, N. J. They were to occupy the cottage of "Postmaster-General ‘Wanamaker. which had been specially prepared for their use. manded sat on the Alban About 1700 hoi demolished in or sanitary condition^ The overflowii done much damal A DOUBLE New York city aged woman, grandchild were Henry Johnso: Foreign. The town of Zbaraz, in Austrian Galicia, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Many lives were lost. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Paris Exposition and ascended the Eiffel Tower. At Villa Nouvelle, near Toulouse, France, a rejected suitor murdered a farmer’s daugh ter, the father and mother, and a man ser vant. ' at Zanzibar state that r, is on his way to the |ith Emin Bey. avernment has^ de- im Turkey for raids er. i Nanles, Italy, will be to improve the city’s the River Rhone has P France. Lry tenement nouse in Pgutted by fire, and an Kirschman, and her l alive. mer, aged eighty, committed suicide at Silver Springs, N. Y, He became despondent, and going to his barn fixed a gun attached to a rope and blew out his brains. The appearance of the corpse was frightful. Burt Harvey, a fourteen-year-old boy, recovering from the measles, committed suicide by hanging himself with a baiter at Gilbertville, Mass. William Semple, the miUionnaire dry goods merchant of Allegheny City, Penn., has just died at the age of sixty-two. United States troops were sent to the scene of the reported outbreak among the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota. George and Charles Sherwood, aged re spectively fourteen and seventeen years, sons of a railway conductor were drowned in the Calumet River near Chicago. Alexander Sullivan, charged with the murder of Dr. P. H. Cronin, in Chicago, was released from prison on $20,000 bail. Alexander Henderson, colored, was hanged at Bainbridge, Ga.; Will Dibell, col ored, at Thomasville, Ga., and John Pickett, colored, at Leesburg, Ga. All were executed for murders. Judge McLain, President of the Savannah (Mo.) Savings Institution, which failed, was arrested for receiving deposits, knowing that the bank was insolvent. The liabilities of the bank roach $85,000. Only $80.50 was found in the safe. Commissioner §f Pensions Tanner has appointed his daughter, Miss Ada Tanner, to be his confidential secretary, in place of Mr. George B. Squires, of Brooklyn. Miss Tan ner recently graduated from the Packer In stitute, in Brooklyn, and is the youngest daughter of the Commissioner. T. Campbell-Copiland, of New York, has been appointed the statistical expert of the Census Office. The Emperor of Germany has been advised by his physicians to make a trip to Norway for the benefit of his health before visiting England. Fighting has occurred between French and Italian workmen in the Department of Haute-Marne, France. Troops were sent to auiet the disturbances SIX MEN KILLED. A Constable’s Posse Has a Desperate Figh£ in Texas. Six men were killed in a fight late at night in Givens Point, Texas. A colored constable named YY'ilson, backed by a posse, attempted to serve a warran)t for horse stealing on a white man. The atter was among friends and resisted the service, alleging that the whole thing wi is a job to bu - ken his character. The co lored officer grew abusive, and both sides drew weapons and began firing. They fought until hen - ammunition was ex hausted. and it w as then found that four white men and tw* colored men were mor tally wounded and about five men danger ously shot. Another band < f buffalo which has not been generally kne wn to have been in exist ence has been disci ivered in the “Bad Lands ’ around the Boll! lountains, about halfway between the Yello wstone and Missouri Riv era. in Dawson County. Montana. JOHNSTOWN RECOVERS. Improved Prospects for the People of the Flooded City. Easiness Resumed, and the Work of Restoration Progressing. Johnstown, Penn., is steadily recovering from the effects of the terrible flood. The estimate of the loss of life has been reduced to between 3000 and 4000. The amount of money subscribed throughout the country or the flood sufferers is over $3,000,000. A ecent dispatch from Johnstown gives the ollowing details concerning the resumption of business and the work of restoration and relief: The first real work under the supervision of the State commenced this morning at 6 o’clock. The whistle at the Cambria Iron and Steel YY'orks was the signal for the men to commence, and about fifteen hundred start ed in with their picks and shovels. The ear ly morning was warm and cloudy. As the morning advanced the weather grew warm er, and by 10 o’clock the sun was shining brightly and every one on the ground was hard at work. During the morning a crowd of men in some manner secured an entrance to the town and wanted to inaugurate a strike among the workmen. James Mc- Kuight, of Pittsburg, of the State contract ors, went to General Hastings, who is in full charge at Johnstown, and demanded protec tion for the men. A detatchnient of mili tia from the Fourteenth Regiment were de tailed to the place and they drove away all the men who refused to work. This caused General Hastings to issue an order to the sol diers not to admit any one to Johnstown proper without an order. The business men of the town seemed to have awakened to their senses, and this morning a number of them were preparing to start over again in business. Two grocery stores were started near the Pennsylvania railroad freight station. Both places were doing a land office business and this encour aged other merchants to start up, and the probabilities are that inside of a week at lat est 100 stores will be in operation. Already two barber’s shops and one jewelry store have been opened. General Hastings said : “As yet I do not know how many men are at work, but I sup pose there must be 1500 at the least calcula tion. W r e intend to put as many men to work as can be worked property. I do not suppose we want more than 5000, and it will be an easy matter to get that many men. I do not want to employ auy one but Pennsylvania men, and would like to get as many Johns town people at work as possible. Tltey are the ones that need the work. A false impres sion has broken out to the effect that the boroughs here are under martial or mlitary law. This is a mistake. The State has charge of the work, and the only thing the military is doing is guarding the property. We will clear away all the debris on the streets and level the town off. I do not know yet whether we will clean out the cellars of the houses, but if I had my own way I would do it. It is as little as the State can do to clean out the places and give the people clean foundation to build on. Beside, there is not the least doubt that there are a number of bodies in these cellars and they should be taken out.” General Hastings has now gotten every thing down to a system. There will be but one morgue aud hospital and one headquar ters. Everything lias now been centralized, and it is easy to get at the facts. Captain Seers, of the United States Army, one of the Corps of Engineers at Willet’s Point, aud Captain Burbank, of the West Point Engineering Corps, have laid out the different boroughs in five districts, and com petent men have been appointed to take charge of each district. £^fl|ain Seers, in an interview, said: “I ary'vise General Hastings and^,, wh at IcS^^elp J 1 '”*- a think thaUJ^gjdg 0 f two .— Y hre f th 9usand men that willbel . inputting the town in v good condition, and 1 think inside of a moi Johnstown will have almost recovered fnj this terrible shock.” ■ The general opinion among well _ people here is that the loss of life will be 1 tween 3000 and 4000. f It was generally giv4 out that Johnstown ^nd boroughs adjoinir S, Is egistration, states that from all he can the population only amounted to about 9, and this accounts for 10,000 people had a population of 115,000 p«*ple, biffthl a very high estimate, and conservative _ pie put the population between 25,000 and 28,000. Colonel Rogers, who has charge of the registration, states that from all he can learn 25,000, supposed to be lost. ( The reports sent out from here to they ef fect that 12,000 to 15,000 people were missing were based upon the supposition that there were 35,000 inhabitants in these boroughs. To-day was the second day since the flood that Johnstown was not deluged with rain. The people are making heroic efforts to clean out their houses to fit them for habitation. Neighbors have combined to help one another to reset houses on their foundations aud to remove the accumulations of drift and rub bish which bar entrance to their doors. The sewer pipes are all awry and the cellars are full of water. There is need for engines to pump out the water as early as possible. Syphen- iug has been tried, but with no success, as the cellars are much lower than the ground. The Cambria Company started out a corps of surveyors this afternoon to locate lines of demarcation for the rebuilding and repair of their demolished plant. The first decisive step toward putting Johnstown’s business men on their feet again was made to-day, when about two hundred merchants who had survived the flood, many of them without a dollar, met Adjutaut General Hastings this afternoon, and were assured that they would be re-established in business on long credit. Both Pittsburg and Philadelphia lyholosalers have offered Johns town merchants this business courtesy upon the suggestion of General Hastings. The report of the Bureau of Transporta tion, winch died with the Citizens’ Relief Committee, was presented to James B. Scott to-day. It shows that from June 4 to 11, in clusive, 1592 people were given free trans portation out of Johnstown. Out of these 872 were over the Pennsylvania and 720 over the Baltimore and Ohio. One hundred and seventy-six were sent to Pittsburg by “’o Baltimore and Ohio and 636 over the Penn sylvania; 157 were sent to Philadelphia over the Baltimore and Ohio. The Bureau of In formation answered 287 telegrams and sixty- eight letters, mostly inquries from anxious friends as to the safety of Johnstowuers. The mass at the stone bridge was fired this afternoon aud to-night is burning furiously. YY'ith it is destroyed all hope of recovering the bodies that are certainty there entombed. Adjutant-General Hastings said to-night: “Provisions and clothing are coming in at a satisfactory rate and there is no immediate prospect of a diminution. I have instructed all the commissary people to be generous in dealing out supplies. YY'here there is any question they will give the applicant the benefit of the doubt. To-day we have been feeding a good many of the men, but every cent of it is being charged up against them. The soldiers are also taking supplies from the commissary depart ments, but this is all charged to the State, and as soon as I get to Harrisburg I will make out a warrant for the amount in favor of the relief fund. This morning I tele graphed Mayor Filler of Philadelphia for four steam fire engines. At 11 he replied that they were on the way with crews. I deemed this necessary as a precautionary measure, on account of the great mass of debris we shall burn during the next few days.” Governor Beaver announced that he had abandoned the idea of using $1,000,000 out of the Pennsylvania State Treasury under the proposed* indemnity-bond scheme, for the reason that such action might establish a bad precedent. He has decided instead to adopt the suggestion of YY'illiam H. Kemble —that the money be loaned to the Governor by private corporations. The Governor stated that he had been offered a million dol lars by national banks of Philadelphia with out security aud without interest, the loaners to bo reimburse*! by the Legislature at its next session, and he has accepted this offer. This money will be used to clear the streams and place the highways in order and perform other necessary State work. Eighty highway robbers were recenth executed outside the Suan YY*u gate at Pek ing. China. All had been concerned in rob beries of travelers to the south of Peking accomoanied with loss of life. All went, as usual, to their doom singing in a defiant man ner. Postage on letters that pass between Canada and the United States has been re duced. It used to be three cents per half ounce; now it is three cents ner ounce or fraction thereof. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The rice crop looks fine. Sugar making is nearly over. Georgia has fifty-five cotton mills. Siam is exceedingly rich in minerals. Complete anarchy prevails in Crete. The Illinois Legislature has adjourned. France is suffering from severe storms. Illinois has'a new compulsory education law. The number of drug stores in St. Louis is 325. Cubans express a desire for a little home rule. Florida is not afraid of yellow fever this year. Kansas City was visited by a severe storm. The Massachusetts Legislature has ad journed. The United States Treasury surplus is $58,000,000. New Orleans badly needs a good system of drainage. A treaty between Mexico and Japan has been ratified. Cincinnati talks of securing natvjal gas by pipe lines. The harvest in Northern Texas is under full headway. Great Britain is spending $20,000,000 on new iron ships The prospects for the Egyptian cotton crop are favorable. Paola, Kan., has rented its city park to a carpet renovator. An early fall trade is expected by jobbers and manufacturers. Barley is beginning to be sown for winter pasture in the South. Almost 40,000 men will be engaged in tak ing the coming census. Reports from the growing grain in the West continue favorable. The latest trust that is forming in the West is the castor oil trust. It is proposed to lay a cable from Ostend, Belgium, to the United States. Military service has been made obligatory in all the normal schools of Chili. Chinese are said to be pouring into Cali fornia over the Mexican border. The present season's Delaware peach crop is estimated at 5,000,000 baskets. A railway has been completed to the top of Mount Pilatus in Switzerland. There are an even 200 patients in the Yankton (Dakota) Insane Asylum. The total crop of Florida oranges for the season just ended was 2,200,000 boxes. The number of Russian visitors to the Paris Exhibition is said to be unprecedented. Over a million Italians have settled in the Argentine Republic in thirty-three years. Southern California has shipped thirty per cent, more oranges this year than last. The recent frost has destroyed over one- fourth of the grape crop of New York State. Harvard graduates 225 young men in her academic department this year. Yale turns out 127. A factory for making attar of rose and other flower essence is just being established at Atlanta, Ga. The citizens of Seattle, YVashington Terri tory, have resolved to widen their streets and erect fire-proof buildings. The acreage of spring wheat seems to have declined in Yvisconsin aud Minnesota owing to the ravages of the chinch bug. A bill has been presented in the Legisla ture of Jalisco, Mexico, for the prohibition in that State of bull and cock fights. Washington Territory’s Constitutional Convention will be composed of forty-six Re publicans and twenty-nine Democrats. Many farmers in Oregon are literally throwing away potatoes; much of the last crop remains in the hands of the producers. While in the act of receiving the third de- S -ee in a Masonic lodge at Yvichita, Kan., r. James L. Lawrence fell dead with heart disease. Twenty years ago the British army num bered 187,000. Now there afe 211,000 men of including those serving in the colonies. THE Australians 1 —^ ft)rhiHy«n HinBlanch. 1st to Ma Will AND LIGHTNING. Destructive Storm Sweeps the Atlantic Seaboard. qj u ter of the kangaroo from January 1st to May 1st, of each year, on account of its value fts aj» export article. \ . There is a rumor that the Mexican Con gress, in secret session, is considering the uestion of ceding lower California to the “nited States. It is proposed to establish a penal colony on the Isla de Pinos, abolishing the peniten tiaries in the different cities in Cuba; also a workhouse for vagrants. The leading gas company of Chicago is making arrangements for replacing its pres ent supply of manufactured gas with natural gas from the coal regions. There are said to be 15,000 typewriters employed in Chicago, ninety-nine per cent, of whom are stenographer. Over seventy-five per cent, of them are w omen. The fresh fish trade on the Atlantic coast is all broken up. A Providence (R. I.) dealer, who handled 4000 barrels last spring, says he lost at least $600. The public taste runs to meats. ■a. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Lives Lost, Churches Burned abd Bridges Demolished. The Atlantic seaboard was visited by a suc cession of thunderstorms, one of which, that fell upon New York and Brooklyn about 5:30 o’clock with greater severity than the rest, carried death and destruction in its wake. New York’s experience was typical of that of the entire Atlantic seaboard. Thunder storms occurred at intervals throughout New England and the Middle States, with hours of humid heat between, making the day as thoroughly uncomfortable as if the thermometer had been away up in the nineties. Shortly after 5 o’clock, just as the toilers began to turn homeward, black thunder heads rolled up like a scroll over the sky from the southwest. The storm came with an in cessant fusillade of celestial fireworks, and lasted about half an hour. The heavy wind, which struck Brooklyn about 5:30 o’clock in the afternoon, blew down a four-story frame building at Ever green and Cooper avenue in Bushwick, kill ing a man and a boy, and fatally injur ing three other men and a younger brother of the boy who was killed. All of them had sought refuge from the storm on the ground floor of the house, and, when the structure suddenly collapsed, they had no op portunity to escape. They wore carried into the cellar and buried under a mass of boards and plaster. For over an hour scores of peo ple worked liked beavers to get them out, bat could not work fast enough to rescue the last two alive. St. James’s Catholic Church, in Jay street, near Chapel, Brooklyn, which was the cathe dral of the diocese until a month ago, was struck by lightning during the height of the storm, and inside of a few hours was de stroyed by the flames, causing a loss of #00,- 000. Lightoing played havoc at Elizabeth, N. * J., during the storm, demolishing trees in various parts of the city, striking buildings, and knocking out the electric light system. The big ball surmounting the Jeffer son Engine Company’s flagstaff was knocked off, and just missed a woman in its fall. A ball of fire entered YY’nght Curtis’s house in Jefferson street and stunned the members of his family. The rain fell in a perfect deluge. That night no electric lights were burning in the principal business thoroughfares. Callender's insulated wire works in Harri son, N. J., were struck by lightning and partly destroyed by fire. Loss, $10,000. About the same time lightning struck tha spire of St. AJoysius Church, Newark, N. J., and did considerable damage, besides ruining the massive organ. A barn in Springfield avenue was set on fire and totally destroyed. Herman Matis, age forty-five, was killed by a swoke of lightning while at work in Sol omon’s leaih°r factory, in Newark, N. J. Five other workmen received painful shocks, but will recover. During the violent thunder storm, Mrs. Anne Quirk, aged sixty, of Elmwood, Mass., fled in alarm from her house to a neighbor’s, where she. seated herself directly under a large pincushion which hung on th® wall. In a few moments a flash of lightning struck the cushion and passed into tht body of Mrs. Quirk, killing her instantly. Toe de ceased was a widow and leaves a daughter. Reports from St. Albans, Vt., show a larg® amount of damage done by the storm. Six bridges were carried away. Lambert’s saw mill was completely ruined. The town it self losses nearly $2000 on roads and bridges, and the losses to individual farmer^ in the destruction of crops will run into the thou sands. Smaller outbuildings and stock war® swept away in Sheklon,-Vt., and at other places in the county bridges were swept away, so that the loss will be very high. A destructive washout occur r.>d at Holyoka, Mass., during the storm which swept out about 100 feet of the solid stone wall on the east side of the lower level canal, de molished about twenty-five or thirty feet of the west wing of thp water power company’s Cabot street mifi, and wrecked a bridge ow ued by the Connecticut River Rail- roxl ybfcft ipairond tfao a As nep.rty as could be estimated, the lose is frq»$aj<;oo to sino.ooo. j There are in London sixty-five theatres. ; Dubuque, Iowa, is building a $40,000 opera i house. '< Lydia Thompson's manager lost $15,000 :last season. Contralto Emma Juoh says she is Just twenty-seven. Possart, the German actor, will play in New York city next fall. Philadelphia will have eighteen theatres n full blast next October. Mrs. Dallas-Glynn, a once celebrated English Shakespearean actress, is dead. Harrigan, the Irish author-actor,is to dis band his company and leave New York. Colonel John A. McCaull has engaged Geraldine Ulmar as his prima donna fbr next season. Buffalo Bill is a more .pronounced suc cess in Paris than ever Boulanger was before he ran away. Madame Adelina Patti is not drawing the crowded houses at Buenos Ayres that greeted her on the occasion of her first visit. Gus Wilt jams, the German dialect come- dian,has been engaged for Herrmann's Trans atlantic Vaudeville Company next season. The first company of genuine “negro” minstrel is said to have been organized in Macon, Ga., during the closing years of the war. Edwin Booth says that if he had been per mitted to follow his own bent he would have been a circus performer instead of an actor. Our gifted countrywoman. Miss Marie Van Zandt, was invited to sing before Queen Victoria at the state concert given in Buck ingham Palace. In Paris the Italian opera season is next to tabooed by fashion and the house is half empty every night—another nail in the coffin of Italian opera. Omaha boasts of a young lady, not yet twenty, who has composed an opera, written the libretto and led tne orchestra at the first production of her work. Mrs. Langtry smokes continually on a lounge; Mrs. Brown-Potter smokes between the courses of a dinner, and her dressing- rooms are redolent of tobacco. In the whole history of opera in England, Carl Rosa appears as' almost the only mana ger who always paid a hundred cents in a dollar, and who died worth a handsome for tune. Booth and Barrett have cleared some thing near $100,000 by their month's engage ment at the San Francisco (Cal.) Theatre, and will enjoy their vacation together, cruising idly during the hot months along the coast between Bar Harbor and Newport. Another musical prodigy, Miss Hanna Maria Hansen, a Norwegian girL aged four teen, is announced to appear in London as a pianist. Miss Hansen played before the King and Queen of Sweden, at the age of four and u half. Her mastery and power of technique are said to be remarkable. The Czar’s mood toward Germany is again hostile; the Shah of Persia was told b; Czar that if he conceded anything lanri 100.000 Russian troops would fortbwit invade Persia. THE TREATY SIGNED. Work of the Samoan Conference in Berlin Accomplished. The agreement negotiated by the Commis sioners to the Samoan Conference for th® settlement of affairs in Samoa has been signed by all the members of the Confer ence. America having abandoned her principal objections to the agreement previously ar rived at, the plenipotentiaries had only to make unessential modifications in the word ing of the draft. The draft guarantees an au tonomous administration of the islands under the joint control of Germany and America, England acting as arbitrator in the event of difference arising. The Samoans are to elect their own King and Viceroy, and to be represented in a Senate com posed of the principal chiefs and Chambers, elected by the people. Samoa is to have the right of levying duties of every kind. Tbo agreement also stipulates that the Germans shall receive a money indemnity for their, losses. A special court will be appointed t®. deal with the land question. The Americans made their adhesion condi tional upon the ratification of the agreement by the United States Senate next December. The status quo will, therefore, obtain ia Samoa until December. CANADIA^CBPISEBS. Ordered to Seize American Vessels Violating the Fishery Laws. An Ottawa dispatch says the Dominion Government, not encouraged by the pros pects of early adjustment of the fishery ques tion, have instructed commanders of Government cruisers not to overlook any infraction of the fishery regula tions, but to seize auy vessels found guilty of violating the law when the evidence will warrant such a step. The instructions issued to commanders are far more stringent than those issued last year, when there appeared to be a possibility of an early settle ment of the difficulty. Last season there was not a single seizure made, but this year the same leniency is not to be shown, and as the mackerel have just struck in along the coast of Pel in immense schools, closely fol lowed by a large fieet of American fishermen, it is not improbable that a number of seizures will be reported soon. So far only one seizure has been made, that of the American fishing schooner Mattie YVinship, subse quently liberated after giving bonds to the amount of $3<XX). HANGING MEN BY CONTE ACT A Company Organized to Execute Condemned Criminals. A license of incorporation has issued at Springfield, 111., to the American Executing Company, at Chicago, to execute persons who are sentenced to death; capital stock, $25 000. Incorporators: Stephen Lawson, M. E. Clear and Jacob A. E. Iffert. The incorporators are small dealers in coal at Chicago. They claim to be acting in good faith. None of the trio has had any experience in the proposed business. Their idea is to em ploy competent executioners and open com- munication with all the Sherifls in the L.' nited States, guaranteeing that there will be no bungle such as characterized the Bald Knoo- bers’ execution. Shrouds, coffins, etc., will be furnished, and also any style of apparatus —hempen, electrical, or what not. A ROOF OF ROOK FALLS. Four Miners Killed and Two Fatally Hurt by a Sudden Cave In. A terrible accident occurred at the (Jay- lord mine at Plymouth, Penn., the other morning. A number of miners were at work in a large breast, when, without warning, the rocky roof fell in upon them. Four men were instantly killed, viz., Reese Lloyd, Pat Curley, William Williams and Matthew jDavigs Two Poles had their legs cut off. and were probably fatally injured. Insufficient prop- pin r to sustain the roof w«a tha cause of to® accident.