The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, August 09, 1889, Image 2
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A DELUGE IN CHICAGO.
The Most Terrific Storm That
Ever Occurred There.
Nearly a Score of Lives Lost and
Much Property Destroyed.
One of the fiercest storms of recent yean
bant otst Chicago, HI., at C o’clock in the
evening. The day had been sultry, with
scarcely any wind. When the sun went
down the sky became overcast with greenish
clouds, and darkness came on with incredible
speed. Shortly after 6 o'clock rain be
gan falling in torrents. Great streams
of water pourred into the basements, driving
hundreds of people into the streets and ruin
ing an immense amount of property stored
in the down town stores. The electrical
display was appalling. Scores of objects
were struck by lightning, and the roar of the
thunder was deafening. Seven alarms of
fire were rung within fifteen minutes.
The water poured into the Lasalle street
tunnel in such volume that passengers on the
cable cars were compelled to stand upon the
seats. In the southwestern portion of ^he
city it is estimated that 1000 persons were
driven from their homes. The W%consin
Central tracks were submerged, the water
being so deep on the tracks that it entered
the fire boxes of the locomotives.
The signal service officer said that a suc
cession cf thunder storms had swept over the
city. They came from the West, and each
was more severe than its predecessor. At 9
o’clock the water was falling in blinding
sheets, with an almost continual roar of thun
der. Some of the big down-town gUs mains
were flooded, and many merchants did busi
ness by the aid of candles and lamps.
On the west side buildings were de
molished, trees uprooted ana entire side
walks disappeared. Garfield Park was almost
bereft of foliage. There the wind devastated
a path of 400 feet in width.
Four new brick buildings at Rockwell and
Sixteenth streets were demolished, and two
men who had sought refuge in the doorways
were crushed to death in the wreck. Tw<#
large brick buildings on Twenty-first street
collapsed, fell on adjoining cottages and
killed seven people, besides injuring six
others.
Two families were almost obliterated in
this disaster. James Lusk’s cottage on Fif
teenth street was blown to pieces, but the
family miraculously escaped death. It
rained for three hours, and the climax came
at 8:45, when all elements united and the
very foundations of the city were shaken.
Water poured into every basement and
drove thousands of poor people into the
street. In the police stations prisoners were
compelled to cling to the bars to escape
drowning.
The flies in the Palmer and the Grand
Pacific were extinguished. Three feet of
water flooded the Clifton House basement.
At the Chicago Opera House much of the
“Blue Beard” scenery was ruined.
Panics were narrowly averted in the
theatres where the electric lights ceased to
burn. Whole blocks beyond Western avenue
were under water and the wooden sidewalks
floated like rafts. Both the cable railways
were completely paralyzed and in the Lasalle
street tunnel was a surging stream.
Hinmon street officers saved Mrs. Chepeks
and six children in a basement by plunging
into four feet of water. Officer Thomas Dor-
gan was dangerously injured by electrical
discharge and Maggie Austin was rescued
from a current on Lake street.
Scores of instances were reported next day
of casualties mainly by lightning, and a num
ber of the victims cannot recover. John
Hayes’s house on Oakley avenue was demol
ished and one son fatally hurt, three persons
being very seriously injured. Ernest Blocter
was killed on Sixty-sixth street.
Fires were innumerable, and $50,000 dam
ages resulted from that cause. Off at Ham
mond three great packing houses succumbed
to flames, caused by lightning.
The police report fourteen persons dead
and twenty-five injured, three of them
fatally. In the Chicago Tribune office the
stereotypers
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Wb have 7000 missionaries.
I Chicago has over 4000 saloons.
• There are less than 250,000 Indians.
The watermelon crop is abundant.
Turkey has joined the Triple Alliance.
I Seven States elect State officers this year.
Chicago wants the World’s Fair in 1892.
There is a glut of butter in New York
city.
Algeria is suffering from a plague of
locusts.
f3000a C year" nO r ° f North Dakota “ to get
The watermelon growers of the South
have a trust.
Chile has floated $1,500,000 of 4^ per
cent, bonds at par. ^
Newport, Ky., is very much excited be-
cause it has four Mayors.
,, There are twenty cases of sunstroke at
the North to one at the South.
Rice will be plenty and cheap, as an un
usually large crop is promised.
The fare on the new Congo Railroad in
Africa is thirty-eight cents a mile.
The number of telegraph stations in the
world was increased last year by 7200.
The premium on gold at Buenos Ayres
has advanced to seventy-five per cent.
The Government will take control of all
the telephone lines in France within a year.
Twenty-two persons are known to have
lost their lives In the West Virginia floods.
Excessive rains have damaged cotton
and wheat in Tennessee, Mississippi and
Texas.
There will be twenty-seven agricultural
fairs in Connecticut during the present
season.
Chile has let railroad contracts to the
amount of $32,476,000, all to be completed
withiu five years.
General Sheridan’s
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and. Middle Stateo.
J ames Mahoney and Robert Fisher were
run down ■■nd killed by a train at Provi
dence, R. L They were pushing an empty
car on aside track at the tune.
Albbrt F. Whitman, aged nine years,
and Harry E. Hamlin, aged ten years, were
drowned while bathing in the Merrimac
River at North Andover, Mass.
Commissaries at Johnstown, Penn., have
all been closed.
The postoffice at York Corners, N. H.,
was destroyed by lightning, causing a loss of
$5000.
Five murderers now in the New York
Tombs have been sentenced to be hanged on
August 23.
Reports of damage by severe thunder
storms come from all parts of New England.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Sec
retary Windom and Supervising Archi
tect of the Treasury Wind rim met in the
room of Postmaster Van Cott, of New York
city, to consider some needed improvements
in the Postoffice building and to get an ap
proximate idea of the cost. They will en
deavor to induce the city to buy the present
New York Postoffice building, in which case
the Government will build another Postoffice
uptown.
Julian Hawthorne, the author, and four
or five other writers and artists, accompanied
by the fifty workingmen selected by the
Scripp’s league of newspapers to visit the
Paris Exposition and points of interest to
workingmen in Europe, sailed from New
York for Havre.
Colonel Emmons Clark, ex-Colonel of
the famous Seventh Regiment, New York
National Guard, has declined the appoint
ment as Consul to Havre, France, recently
made by President Harrison.
Ex-United States Senator Stephen W.
Dorsey has been arrested in New York city
at the instance of the Nevada Bank of San
Francisco, Cal., because of his failure to pay
a judgment of $4525.08.
Five Paterson <N. J.) breweries, Katz
Brothers, Hinchliffe Brothers, Braun Broth
ers, Sprattler & Mennett and James A.
Graham have been sold to an English syndi
cate for $2,380,000.
Assistant Engineer Charles G. Tal-
cott, of the United States ship Atlanta,com
mitted suicide in New York harbor, in the
bathroom of the ship by shooting himself
through the head. No cause for the suicide
is known.
Charlemagne Tower, who went to the
Pennsylvania anthracite coal regions from
New York years ago when a poor and un
known lawyer, died a few days ago of pa
ralysis at his summer home, at \Vaterville,
N. Y., aged eighty-one years. He was
worth $20,000,000.
The New York commission dry goods firm
of Lewis Brothers & Co. has failed, with
liabilities placed at $4,200,000. The assets are
said to be sufficient to cover all indebtedness.
Cornelius N. Bliss is the assignee.
authorities
burned ths
pelled the
archives.
Belgium has voted $2,000,000 for the nest
Congo Railway in Africa.
A fir* at La Chow, ChiM. barorf for
twenty-three hours. During that time 87,000
dwellings were destroyed and 1200 persons
perished in the flames, beside 400 who were
crushed to death in their effort* to escape.
Mr. Parnell testified again before the
Commission in London; he declined to give
any information concerning the Trust Fund
sent from America.
Five sailors were drowned at the Island ot
Flores while trying to escape from the rink-
ing May Frazer. The vessel was a total loss.
Mrs. Hattie Gibson Hewn, wife of Rev.
David Henn, formerly of Tennessee, is under
sentence of death m Corea for teaching
Christianity.
The American whaling schooners, James
A. Hamilton, Otter and Annie together with
sixty officers and men, have been lost in the
Arctic Ocean.
The Parnell Commission in London has ad
journed until October 24.
The revolt in Crete is spreading. Riainga
are threatened at Sphakia, Retimo, Mi-ata
of Greece, accompanied by lYe-
mier Tirard, of France, visited the Pans Ex
hibition ana ascended the Eiffel Tower.
Count Sparre, a Swiss of high family,
shot and killed his mistress, Elvira Madigan,
a circus performer, at Taasinee, Denmark,
and then put a bullet through his own brain.
The Austrian infantry has been increased
by the addition of 9000 men, raising that
branch of the service to a war footing.
Rt. Hon. TV. E. Gladstone and wife have
just celebrated in London the fiftieth anni
versary of their marriage.
The harvest has been very bad in Hungary
and South Russia owing to continual drought.
In Vienna this drought has been severely
felt through a decline of the water supply,
which has diminished to the extent of 400,-
000 hogsheads a day.
WASKTON NOTES.
South and West.
The burning of three elevators and their
contents at Hastings, Nebraska, caused
$50,000 damage.
E. E. Polster, lessee of the Terra Cotta
Lumber Company in Kansas, has skipped to
Canada with $20,000 of stolen funds.
Colonel Rodger J. Page, editor of the
Marion (N. C.) Times-Register, while walk
ing with a Texas Judge, fell dead, a bullet
penetrating and breaking his neck. The
shot was fired from the rear and at a dis
tance of but a few feet. The unknown as
sassin fired three shots more and fled.
The Hon. John T. Clarke, Judge of the
Georgia Court, stepped off the train at
Smithville, Ga., and was killed.
Tommy Williams, aged five, and his sister
Agnes, aged three, put a lighted match in
coal oil at Columbus, Ohio. The children
were so badly burned that they died in an
hour.
White Ghost, head chief of the Crow
Creeks, has signed the Sioux bill. He was
the bitterest opponent of the bill.
President Frank Brown, of the Denver,^
Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad,
' 'o of his assistant - 1
hay
HONEY BEE KEEPERS.
A Litigation Taken Up by the National
Association.
Among the decisions handed down on the
20th inst. at the adjourned General Term of
the Fourth Judicial Department, New York,
was one of extraordinary interest and im
portance to the keepers of honey boee through
out the country. The litigation is entirely
novel in its features, and arose under the
following circumstances:
John M. Olmstead and Robert S. Rich
have fine residences about fifty feet apart in
the village of Hobart, Delaware County, N.
Y. Olmstead is a banker, and Rich is one of
the largest bee keepers and honey producers
iu the country, he having over 150 swarms
in his apiaries. About twenty of these
swarms were kept in the rear of Rich’s
house, and wero therefore in close
proximity to Banker Olmstead’s dwel
ling. In July, 1887, Banker Olmstead
served a notice upon Rich, alleging that the
latter’s bees were a nuisance, and requiring
him to remove the twenty hives from the
place where they were kept to some other
point where they would cease to be an an
noyance. Rich paid no attention to the
warning, and thereupon Banker Olmstead
brought an action in the Supreme Court
against tho bee keeper, asking $1200 in
damages for the annoyances already suf
fered and for an injunction restraining tho
defendant from keeping his bees in offensive
proximity to the plaintiff’s dwelling.
The case came on for trial at the October
term of the Delaware County Circuit, at
Delhi, before Justice Douglass Boardman and
a jury. The National Bee Keepers’ Associa
tion, of which organization Mr. Rich is a
member, recognizing the far-reaching import
ance of the case to the interest it represents,
took up the defense of the alleged insect tres
passers. On behalf of Banker Olmstead it
was claimed that defendant's bees
were vicious and offensive insects,
which had caused his household great
pain and annoyance by attacking
and stinging any member who ventured out
of doors, and had also annoyed and injured
and pet stock. The def<
ma-
,, . —E fell inside of
its would make a lake on which
.,, D® floated the greatest navy in the
rid. It was impossible to estimate the
damage with any degree of ooenraev.
Hardly a house in the city «
of the storm.
George
Beiden, Te:
•xas,
ing the well of William Shaw.
colored, living near
eon lynched for poison-
eecaped the fury
Lewis.
a, has b
>f Willia:
Carbon & Johnson, big builders at Ishpe-
ming, Mich., have failed; liabilities, $60,000.
The entire Chinatown district of Sacra
mento, Cal., consisting of forty wooden
bnildings, mainly rookeries, has been des
troyed by fire.
The bodies of three unknown man two
white and one colored, were found at Pine,
Ind. All three of the men’s heads were
crushed, and it is supposed they were mur
dered while asleep and that the deed was
committed by tramps.
The yield of spring wheat in Minnesota
and Dakota is placed at 80,000,000 bushels.
i JmsOgleman, a young man, shot and
tailed his sweetheart, Miss Madge Smith at
Xenia, Ind., and then killed himself.
Joe Cook and Sol Dorsey, two colored men
of Trenton, La., quarreled after a church
meeting and killed each other.
The Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated
Rev. J. B. Helwig, of Springfield, for Gov
ernor.
_ the count
pt m nil! neighborhood as the actual
renders.
was given pro and con,
the trial lasting several days and ovtHHnp
among the bee keepers of Cen
tral New York. Able counsel fought the
case vigoronsJy on both sides. The outcome
of the trial was that the jury found that
the marauders came from the Rich hives,
and that his apiary was a nuisance as
charged, and awarded the plaintiff 6
cents damages and costs. Thereupon the court
issued a permanent injunction restraining
the defendant from further maintainingthe
nuisance to the annoyance of the plaintiff
The defendant appealed from this judgment
to the General Term, which now hands down
a decision affirming the verdict of the court
below, with costs. It is understood that the
National Bee Keepers' Association will con
tinue the fight by a further appeal to the
court of last resort.
The North Dakota Constitutional Conven
tion decided to submit tho prohibition ques
tion to popular vote, and the Constitutional
Convention at Olympia, Washington, has
approved the taxation of churches, private
schools and charitable institutions.
year will
com
— s private secretary
from 1875 to 1880, is in jail in Kansas City
for horse stealing.
Two hundred and JiFTT ministers have
applied for an army chaplainship which be
comes vacant soon.
The cotton crop of Texas thic
probably reach 2,000,000 bales and the
Crop will be enormous.
The Shah of Persia is said to have two or
tureo of bis wives accompanying him on his
■European tour in men’s attire.
Over $250,000 has been paid to benefici
aries in the Conomaugh Valley of Pennsylva
nia by life insurance companies.
^TT-AiGa.. now owes between $1,500,-
000 and $2,000,000 upon which it is paying
seven and eight per cent, interest.
gets a new industry worth
♦50,000 annually by the discovery of a fine
bed of terra cotta clay near the city.
The hay crop of New England this
▼ear will not only be enormous, but it will be
by far the largest that has ever been cut.
Within the past year over 5000 Russians
liable to military service have been forcibly
prevented from leaving that country for the
United States.
Oklahoma, with its suburbs, now
s 15,000 inhabitants, six banks, eight news-
pers, thirty-seven Inniber yards, and hun-
nreds of stores.
Comptroller Meyers, of New York city
bRS negotiated a loan of $12,000,000 for the
new parks for thirty years at two per cent.
% interest per annum.
S. S. Cartwright, a wealthy miser worth
t$250,000, died a few days ago at Topeka,
Xan. He was living in a garret and no one
was present at the time of his death. He
owned several large cattle ranches and had
valuable real estate. He had two daughters
jand a son in Albany, N. Y. His will makes
'mn equal division of his property among
(them.
Washington.
The United States Government has been
invited to participate in an international cat
tle show to be held at Buenos Ayres, under
Argentine patronage, in April, 1890.
The committee appointed by Postmaster-
General Wanamaker to investigate the con
dition of the New York PostotBce recom
mend 123 additional clerks and ten additional
carriers at an increased cost of $87,000.
The Attorney-General has appointed Henry
M. Foote of Pennsylvania and James H.
Nixon of New Jersey to be assistant attor
neys in the Department of Justice.
Teb United States war vessel Monocacy,
which has been lying in a disabled condition
at Yokohama, Japan, for a number of years,
will be put in active service again by the
Navy Department.
A committee composed of Dr. George Ew
ing and H. L. Bruce, of the Pension Appeal
Board, and Captain Frank L. Campbell, of
the Assistant Attorney-General’s office, has
been appointed by Secretary Noble to inves
tigate the Pension Bureau.
Secretary Noble has rendered a decision
granting $15,000 to J. Milton Turner, the
colored attorney of the Cherokee freedmen,
who obtained an appropriation of $75,000 for
them from Congress.
Father James Curley, of the Society of
Jesus, probably the oldest priest in the world
—certainly the oldest in America, and known
wherever the science of astronomy is known
—died a few days ago at the age of ninety-
four years in the infirmary of Georgetown
(District of Columbia) College, where ne had
lived for sixty-two years.
Commissioner Porter has selected B. R.
Carroll, the editor of the New York Inde
pendent, to have charge of the work of col
lecting religious statistics for the
census.
ling mills, employing an aggregate of
00,000 spindles.
eleventh
The Secretary of the Navy has awarded
the contract for furnishing 428 tons of steel
for the new cruiser Maine to the Linden Steel
Company of Pittsburg for $34,753.
Foreign.
In the British House of Commons Lord
George Hamilton announced that the con
struction of fifty-two warships had been be
gun. Twenty of these vessels were being
built in the Government dockyards and thir
ty-two in private yards.
The steamer Lorenzo D. Baker, of Boston,
Mass., was burned at sea and two firemen
were drowned. Loss $100,000.
A later report says that 1000 persons were
rendered homeless by the fire in the town of
Paks, Hungary. Six men were burned to
The damage to property amounts to
$250,000.
The island of Crete is again in a state of
insurrection. of insurgents have
insurrection. Bands of insurgents h
seized the towns of Vamos and Cldonia,
THE LABOB WOSLD,
Wood-carvers are enjoying good times.
The strike of the Berlin bakers has col
lapsed.
The Federation of Labor has issued an eight
hour primer.
The strike fever appears to have spread all
over the central portion of Europe.
The custom of providing sick relief funds
is on the increase with trades unions.
A new gun factory is to be started in Flor
ence, Mass., to employ about 400 men.
Mayor Hart, of Florence, M«jwi has ap
propriated $1000 for sports on Labor Day.
There are 172,000 persous engaged in the
manufacture of cotton goods in tl lis country.
About two-thirds of the States now have
bureaus for the coUection of industrial sta
tistics.
Thomas Mattison, a London coachmaker,
has written a treatise on the coaching of ap
prentices.
James G. Blaine, Jr., sen of the Secretary
of State, is now a fireman on a Maine Cen
tral locomotive.
In Russia there are sixty-seven immense
spinnin—
115,000.
Strikes of one kind and another are epi
demic in England and Scotland on both a
large and a small scale.
A movement is on foot for the formation
of a national organization of the ale and
porter brewery employes.
Bricklayers in different parts of England
have lately received an advance in wages of
one to two cents per hour.
The bead roller in a Pittsburg iron rnill
makes fifty dollars per day, and his family
rides behind a spanking team.
A FOREIGN OOmp&nv representing eepitol
amounting to $10,000*000 is to establish an
iron and steel plant at San Francisco.
The New England Boot and Shoe Lasters’
Union, which was organized in December,
1879, now has a membership of 10,000.
Mr. R. Bellingham has just retired from
engine-driving on the Great Northern Rail
way (England), after forty years’ service.
The board of public works and city coun
cil of Cincinnati have adopted the eight-hour
day for city laborers, with no reduction of
pay.
Reports from builders in the large cities
and small towns show that house building
was never more active than it is so far in
18S9.
Mr. Powderlt, of the Knights of Labor,
considers eight hours a day too long to work,
and inclines to Ben Franklin's four-hour
limit.
New Haven (Coun.) plumbers now work
eight hours a day for three mouths of the
year, and nine hours a day for the remaining
nine months.
The New York State labor appropriation
for this year allows $15,000 for the Board of
Arbitration, $30,000 for factory inspection,
and $30,000 for the Bureau of Labor Statis
tics.
In New England the Saturday half-holiday
movement is growing rapidly. Almost all of
the large manufacturing concerns in Massa
chusetts and Maine have adopted its prac
tice.
In Sahl, Germany, and other places where
the ' manufacture of military arms is a
specialty, the men take work home, and their
wive* and children assist them at
Interesting
From Uk
’opies Telegraphed
National Capital.
A Large Nu ber of Claims Pend
ing in t Pension Office.
The 500 clerk employed in the recently
created pension
War Departmi
have been dex a
leave of absence
in vain, for
soldiers whose
the thousands
now the cl
Thirty tho:
action of the
that there are
pending in
nave not y<
Department,
there for thi
months to
awaiting
ever, is already
The doily
when the dr
the
end’s
agement—and,
running
being
missioner
of work, so:
detrimental
of the clerks,
make a good
complete
chances :
cases.
ad record division of the
are unhappy. They
their regular annnal
They have protested, bat
says that the old
have accumulated into
aited long enough and
wait for their leaves,
claims are awaiting the
.ent, and it is said
ed thousand more
Pension Office which
referred to the War
ave not been referred
m that it would take
of those already there
The new division, how-
wing good results,
ge of cases disposed of
divided up Detween
’s and Adjutant-Gen-
Under the new man-
s have not got to
r yet—800 cases are
daily to tho Com-
msions. This rush
clerks say, however, is
' >n claimant, for some
s in their efforts to
fail to give perfect or
thereby cutting off tho
ble settlements in some
A Case Uud«
The Sucre
an interesting
alien contracfl
Irvin & Belle
who have a 1
recently d
New York
James 1. Wi
keeper in tho 1
Hennessy, to
plained to the!
the result was r
at that port
Him to land
would be a I
labor IuWk „
Secretary of
the Collector
giving bond
turn in
came within
question was i
Treasury,
that', as He
country:
ing would be
The Secretary
instructed the (
pel Henna
| e Contract-Labor Law
Treasury has decided
ion arising under the
yr law. It seems that
| merchants, of England,
house in New York city,
the bookkeeper in their
, an American named
and sent over a book-
J office named Edward F.
I his place. Watson com-
llector at New York and
when Hennessy arrived
[Collector refused to allow
the ground that it
Nation of the contract-
appeal was taken to tho
isury, and he instructed
| allow Hennessy to land on
sum of $500 for his re-
it was decided that he
prohibitory class. The
red to the Solicitor of the
_ officer gave an opinion
’ had clearly come to this
m tract to labor, his laud-
Ipable violation of law.
Dincwcd in this opinion, and
[hector at New York to corn-
return to England.
Codfish H the Pacific Coast.
The Fish Co/umission has been advised of
reports of the discovery of a cod bank on the
Pacific, eight miles off Nestucca, Oregon,
sixty-five mues south of the Colum
bia River. Fhis point is abont twenty-
five miles Aiorth of the bank dis
covered sonufconths ago by the force on the
Fish Comraftsion steamer Albatross off
Yaquina Heal, and the officials here are puz
zled to know why the Nestucca bank was not
discovered by | tho Albatross at that time.
The whole coast was investigated, and
at a time when the fish should have been
plentiful if present at all. The same ad
vices state that the true cod has never be
fore been found iBtli of Puget Sound. To
this Acting Com^Hsioner Raymond says tho
true cod is recorcWl as far south of the Far-
tllone Islands, the fishing grounds off San
Francisco, but it haq not been found south
of Paget Sound in Sufficient quantities for
:o aimer cial
l’s Sentence Remitted
LATER HEW8.
Mbs. William Irwin, of Washixgton,
Penn., and her three-year-old son were killed
by a train at Eh wood’s crossing.
The Richmond Paper Company of East
Providence, R. L, has failed for $”00,000.
English syndicates are said to be trying
to buy New York dry goods stores and New
ark (N. J.) leather factories.
The new Hamburg-American twin-screw
stcamor Columbia has arrived in New York
harbor after sailing from the Needles, Eng
land, to Sandy Hook—8100 miles—in six
days, twenty-one hours and thirty-seven
minutes. That is the best time ever made
by an ocean steamship over that course.
Two little sons of Fred. Droenke were
yiiioH while playing on the railroad tracks
at Elmhurst, 111.
James Kelly, (colored), who assaulted Mrs.
Peter Crow, wife of a section boss, was taken
from jail and hanged to a bridge at Pans,
Ky., by a mob.
W. T. Davis, who for three years has been
the Secretary of the Tennessee State Wheel,
a farmers’ association, mysteriously left
Nashville after confessing in a letter to offi
cers of the organization that he was short
$2000 in his accounts and intended to commit
suicide.
An English syndicate has purchased sev
enty-eight grain elevators in the Van Deu-
sen system in the Northwest.
Much damage was caused by storms in tho
Northwest; excessive rains threatened to
ruin the wheat in shock.
Tom Bowling (colored) was hanged in
the jail at Baton Rouge, La., for the murder
of Philip Walsh (white). Charles Sellars,
who murdered Bunyan Adams in Richland
Parish, La., was hanged at Raville, La.
and Frank Blunt, a colored desperado, was
hanged at Valdosta, Ga.. for the murder of
Willis Miller, also colored.
The contract with tho Union Ironworks,
of San Francisco, Cal., for tho construction
of a coast defence vessel has been signed by
Secretary Tracy. Tho contract price is $700,'
000.
Secretary Windom has received a letter
from Mr. C. W. Arnold declining for private
reasons the office of Collector of Internal
Revenue for the district of Georgia, to which
he was appointed a few days ago.
The Yellow River has; again burst its
Konfrg in Shantung, China, inundating an im
mense extent of country. There is twelve
feet of water throughout ten large Gover-
mental districts. The loss of life and prop
erty is incalculable. The Government au
thorities at Pekin are dismayed.
Sir John Henry Puleston, Member of
•p.njTiigh Parliament for Davenport, gave a
dinner in tho House of Commons to Robert
T. Lincoln, the United States Minister, and
Chauncey M. Depew, of New York.
General Boulanger will be a candidate
for the Councils-General in ninety-two can
tons in France.
General John Kilpatrick, one of the
most conspicuous figures in political circles in
Pennsylvania, died at his home in Harbor
Creek, Penn., at tho age of sixty-eight. He
stood almost eight feet high.
Colonel E. A. Jones, Surgeon-General of
Ohio and a prominent resident of Cincinnati,
ytns found in a manhole, murdered. His col
ored servant has confessed to the murder.
Charles S. Cbysler, a prominent law
yer of Independence, Mo., is a defaulter to
the amount of $50,000. He has fled.
A WORLD’S FAIR 1H 1892.
Four-hundredth Anniversary of
the Discovery of America.
Important Action Taken by the
Citizens of New York City.
at New York
not discovered for sever-
Successful meetings of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Mayor’s committee and the
Spanish-American Association took action
in New York city to formulate plans for
holding a World’s Fair there in 1892 to cele
brate the four-hundredth anniversary of the
discovery of America. ...
At 3:15 o’clock the gentlemen who had been
invited to confer with the Mayor began to as
semble in the Governor’s room, and by 3:30
there was hardly standing room. Chairs to
the number of 110 had been provided, but
these were inadequate to accommodate all
those present. .....
It was sl big gathering, and it was unani
mously in favor of having the biggest fair
the world has ever seen in 1892 in New \ ork.
All the banks were represented bv their
Presidents and directors. Railroad Presi
dents wero as abundant as at a meeting
of the Trunk Line Association. Mer
chants abounded as if the full roll
of the Chamber of Commerce were
present to answer to their names. There
were workingmen representing as many
trades and industries as a national conven
tion of the Knights of Labor or the American
Federation of Labor. There were represen
tatives of all the industries, profession^
businesses and trades of New York city.
They were all there, the heads of firms, the
menwhoss names are as well known in
London and San Francisco as thev
are in New York. Billions of dol
lars of capital were present in the men who
control the railroads, the steamboats, the
real estate, the hotels, the manufactures and
the trade of the city. The assemblage proved
the unanimity and enthusiasm of all the citi
zens of New York about the Worlds Fair
which is to be held in 1892.
The Mayor, in opening the discussion on
the subject of the proposed quadri-centen-
hial in iS92, said:
“I have invited you to this meetmg m or
der that you. as representative citizens of
this great metropolis, may consider the de
sirability of commemorating the dis
covery of this continent by holding
an international exposition in this,
the chief city of the Western Hemisphere.
This event which we intend to commemorate
is the discovery of a new world. Its
importance is not to be measured by
a mere addition to the sum of geographical
knowledge; its fruits are observable m
the happiness and prosperity of a nation
which has maintained free institutions
while It has acquired boundless wealth, and
in the general improvement which the success
of one government has wrought in the condi
tion of mankind throughout the world.
“The city of New York is the capital of
this now world, whose achievements are but
a promise of a still more glorious future, and
in this, the most powerful and populous of
the cities of America, I think it eminently
desirable that we celebrate the triumph of
Columbus by a World’s Fair, which will
eclipse all former industrial expositions.
Mayor Grant was then unanimously made
Permanent Chairman and William M. Spear
S< Mr. ta G^arles G. Haven suggested that the
name of the committee be the Committee tor
the International Exposition of 1892. The
matter of the appointment of committees was
immediately taken up. Controller Myers
offered the following: , ,.
Whereas, It is fitting that there should be
a suitable recognition of the four-hundredth
anniversary of the discovery of this conti
nent, such anniversary occunng m 1892; and
Whereas, Public opinion indicates that an
international exposition will most satisfy and
meet the requirements of the occasion and
afford a dearable opportunity for foreign
countries to testify to good will m our nataon-
^ Whereas, In its location, through which it
holds tho key to commerce, through its many
and varia^fidus'-ries, through ita resources
^— ^ facilities tor.
THE RATIONAL
Chicago won the penant six times.*
Ewing leads the New York batten.
Babyian has been reinstated by Chicago..
Captain Anson is once more batting welLj'
The Bostons have fallen off greatly in bat]
ting.
Ryan, of Chicago, leads the League hiroq
getting.
Wagenhurst, the collegian, has been ral
leased by St. Pam.
Shannon has succeeded Wolf as Captaiq
of tiie Louisville team.
Rogers, of the Houston (Texas) team, hai
caught in sixty consecutive games.
Change of speed is now more effective
t.hun all the curves in the category.
Williamson, of Chicago, is the champion!
long-distance thrower of the League.
Big Ed. Williamson, who is on the injured
list, made $800 off his benefit in Chicago.
New Haven, Conn., is pronounced the
best ball city in the Atlantic Association.
Boston won thirty-one of the first thirty*
■even games played on their own ground.
Denny, of Indianapolis, has made more
home runs than the whole Cleveland team.
The St. I-ouis Club has traded Pitches!
Hudson for Ramsey, of the Louisville Club.
Daly, the young Jersey City (N. J.) pitchy
er, recently released to Boston, is only tw<
of age.
en-
last
tn/tn-of-
April and
»1 days. He ^as charged with absence from
duty and station and pleaded guilty, and the
oonrt sentenced him to six months’ suspension
from rack and dnty on furlough pay, and to
retain his presen',; number on tho list of
assistant paymasters, with the recommenda
tion that the Secretary of the Navy remit
the sentence, becanse the court believes
bnuth not met tally responsible for his ac
tions. In accc "dance with this recommenda
tion the Secret try hrs remitted the sentence.
ValuJof Damaged Notes.
Treasurer Huston has issued new regula
tions regarding the redemption of cur-
rency, os follows: If three-fifths of a note
is pres anted the face value will be given; if
less than three-fifths and more
two fifths is presented half the face value will
be given. The face value will also be given
on less than three-fifths of a note on affidavits
rtating that the missing portions were de-
■troyod and explaining the cause and the
manner of the loss.
Making the Postal Guide Interesting.
TOie Postal Giiide has heretofore been of
little use to the public, because it contains
mrtter interesting only to postoffice offi
cials The Posfirn * ster-General will make an”
Effort to popuUrize it, beginning with the
August issue of the monthly supplement, by
SSSSJap o' *u P.&.S
Chinese Tourists.
of the Treasury has in
structed the Collector of Customs at New i —
.J", . ®iiow the twelve Chinese coolies churches,
detained there under the Chinese Exclusion
, to . P” M3 ® < **t , y the Southern Pacific Rail-
roaa to San Francisco as tourists. This ac-
m * e c<”|dan ce with ths opinion ren
dered by the Attorney-General.
WEST VIRaiNIA FLOODS.
Details of tho Disastrous Freshet on
the Little Kanawha.
Further details of disastrous flood in Wirt
County, W.Ya., have been received. Thomas
Hughes, his wife and two children were
drowned.
Thomas Blach, who lived close to the
Hughes family, and who was drowned with
his wife, had but recently been married.
A circus was showing on Tucker Creek
when the cloudburst struck that section.
The flood struck the show just after the per
formance began and tore the canvas and
■ms, utterly wrecking
concern, carrying off
dlents.
who performed on the-
Borne employes jtiso
paraphernalia
and ruining the
horses, wagons
Miss d’Alina,
trapeze, was
lost their lives.
Saulsbury, on
virtually wiped o|
Telephone
terrible rain and
the Little Kana
devastated,
houses were
the nigh
lost. Thi
to be fifteen feet
fver, is
Count;
DO:
Big T _
i existence,
ihow that there was a
th«j upper waters of
'ChQhoun County was
r crops, fences and
washed away during
;bt. SevAral lives were reported
e nver at Grantsville was reported
„h. Bear Run, Ritchie
suffered Terribly. The loss is ro-
luntr, suffered terribly. The
rted as not Je*s \hu . $650,000.
CAVE-IN 'OVER A MINE.
I
Many Foundations Cracked—An Ex
plosion Causes Loss of Life.
A cave-in occurred in Hyde Park, Penn.,
over a vein ofathe Central mine. Over
six acres ground were affected
and the Fifth
ing was badly
private residences'
•x* [ eighteen hours a day.
public school build'
aged. Fully a dozen
private residences' have cracked foundation
walls and jammed doors as a result of the
cave-in. Large fL sures may be seen in the
earth, and in the c :ntre of the affected dis
trict the earth has iettled felly ten feet. The
damage cannot b< estimated. Within the
mine six c ham be -3 were affected by the
cave-in, and the mi tiers and their laborers are
unable to proceed i^ith tneir work.
while a number of
crock and coal from the
the cave-in of the morn
of the laborers ignited
frightful explosion fol-
and Robert Roberta
others were frightful!}
agreeing toT pay South
to square accounts.
hands were reported to have
lost thei^ves by an explosion of dynamite
twelve miles west of Wabash, Ind.
In Elk Township, Clayton County, Iowa,
Wesley Elkins, but a litth more than eleven
years of age, murdered his father and step
mother.
President Harrison has approved the
changes in the civil service regulations
applied to the railway mail service recom
mended by the Civil Service Commissioners.*
The count of the cash and securities in the
United States Treasury, incident to the
transfer of tho office from Mr. Hyatt to Mr.
Huston, has been completed. The amount
reported on hand aggregated over $700,000,-
000 in gold, silver and paper, and was all ac
counted for.
The retirement of Major Alexander
Sharpe, of Washington, on account of age
reduces the number of paymasters of the
United States army to thirty-two, leaving
the quota three in excess of the number fixed
by the act of 1884.
A tornado in Hungary, Transylvania, and
Bukovina swept over several thousand square
miles of territory. Hundreds of persons were
' killed, the crops were destrored, and enor
mous damage was done to houses and
The districts of Grosswondein,
Szegedin, and Mohacs were completely
ravaged.
Thomas T. Would and his daughter
Lillie were drowned at Toronto, Canada, by
the swamping of their boat in a heavy sea;
The official report of the crops in Galicia,
Silisia, Bohemia and Moravia is unfavorable.
In the Tyrol the crops are unusually good,
while favorable reports are made of the re
mainder of the Alp and Karst country. Beet
root is promising, but rape is in poor condi
tion.
HOADLEY’S TRIPLE MURDER
He Kills His Wife and Her Fathex
and Then Commits Suicide.
Hiram Hoadley, Jr., murdered his wife;
her father, at Byron, Ohio, and then killed
himself. He had been married three years, but
a year ago his wife left him and returned
to her father. Recently she applied for a
Hoadley insani
all
through its acknowledged suprefnacy as the
metropolis of the Western world. New York
is indisputably the proper site whereupon
such an international exposition should be
held; therefore, belt
Resolved, That it is the sense of this meet
ing that an international exposition shall be
held in the city of New York in the year 1892:
end that all present do pledge themselves to
devote their oest energies to the promotion of
the success of such exposition; and
Resolved, That a general committee of
twenty be appointed by the Mayor, whose
duty shall be to formulate detailed plans for
organization of such an exposition and re
port at a public meeting to be railed by the
chairman when the committee shall be ready
to report.
Charles S. Smith offered the following sub
stitute for the closing resolution:
Resolved, That the chairman appoint the
following committees, namely, one on finance,
one on legislation, one on permanent organi-
zatiou and one on site and buildings, each to
consist of twenty-five members; and that the
chairman be allowed such reasonable time as
he deems proper to select and name such
committees.
Mr. Smith’s motion for the appointment
of the four committees was earned unani
mously. The Mayor and Secretary Spear
were made ex-officio members of the four
committees, and the meeting adjourned sub
ject to the call of the Chair.
The New York Chamber of Commerce, at
its meeting the same afternoon, appointed a
committee of sixty memberst o co-operate
with the National, State and city authorities
in regard to taking measures for the holding
of a World’s Fair in 1892.
ty years
Bennett, of Boston, Ewing, of New Yorki
and Farrell, of Chicago, seem to be a trio of
tireless catchers. ^ j
At twenty-five cents Detroit is making far
more money t.haji it made in either of the two
past League seasons.
It is a notorious fact, alleges a baseball pa*
per, that Pfeiffer, of Chicago, has had to
cover both Anson’s and his own territory for
years.
One of the most unfortunate players in tho
business is Rickley, of Toronto, Canada.
Hardly a game but what he is more or less
injured.
Gore, of the New Yorks, has so far been
playing great ball. He has had the laugh op
the ex-colts who used to jeeringly call him
“papa.”
The Pittsburg Club has purchased pitcher
Sowders's release from Boston, and he haa
signed with the club. White and Rowe were
laid off.
The only players now in the League who
were members of the organization when it
was formed are: Hines, Anson, O’Rourke
and White.
Rochester, N. Y., is to lose its Interna*
tional League club, which is $2200 behind*
The club and franchise are to be sold to the
highest bidder.
Philadelphia won three straight games
on their own grounds from New Yota. Of
late the “Phillies” have been playing tho
strongest games of any club in the League. ^
At the end of the season Syracuse, N. Y^
is to lose the services of Jack Chapman, who
is to manage and have entire charge of th«
Louisville Club next season at a salary ol
>2500.
Murphy, of the Syracuse (N. Y.) team, hat
he portrait of his best girl tattooed upon hp
right arm. When the opposing team are nlti
Hng him he seeks inspiration by study mg th«
oicture.
The new Chicago ball ground will be 650
eet long and 632 feet wide and has been pur-
■hased for $105,000. The field will be ^closed
jy a brick wall and will be the prettiest in
he country.
The following cities have baen represented
n the NationalLeaguein the past: Kanm*
Jity, St. Louis, Milwaukee Cincinnati,
Louisville, Syracuse, Troy, Woreester, Provi*
lence, Hartford and Buffalo.
Boston has played less men, fifteen, than
my other team. Chicago has used sixteen,
ndianapolis and Cleveland seventeen each, ^
.iew York eighteen, Philadelphia nineteen,
Pittsburg twenty-one and Washington twan*
ty-three. .
A Boston paper is authority for the state-
nent that “Hardie Richardson’s wife is a
constant attendant at the ball games.
josts Hardie $1 for every strike out andevety
srror, while Mrs. Richardson is taxed $1 for
svery base hit. Hardie has decidedly the
beat of it thup tar.”
whil<>
lathe sixth:
Frank Morris, who was at 1
A. quarrel and a fignt followed.
Bates fatally stabbing Morris w:
tnife. Bates was arrested and moms soon
ifterward died. Bates is but riTby-n rears
>ld.
divorce. This act made
eyi
icly re-
: person
kill the
Daring the
men were remo
chambers
the
mine
vengeful. During the morning he secreted
himself near the house where his wife wai
living, and as she came out to millr cow* v e
shot her throe times. Mr. Newman, He.
father, ran out and was also shot three
times.
Hoadley then pursued the mother and
younger sister of his wife, but they escaped.
He then returned to where the two dead
bodies of his victims lay, and, lifting up his
wife's bflfly. fired two more shots into it and
then shot himself dead.
Hoadley had three revolvers on his
and it is thought that he intended to
entire Newman family. He was once a
prominent politician of Williams County
and a prosperous and respected citizen.
STARVING ILLINOIS MINERS
Eighty Tons of Provisions and Sup
plies Sent From Chicago.
Mayor Cregier, Congressman Frank Law
ler and other members of the Chicago Relief
Committee left with eighty tons of pro
visions and supplies for the starving
locked-ont coal miners of Spring Val
ley, 111. There are about 2000 idle miners in
the district, making, with their families,
abont 6000 persons in need. The arrival of
the train there daring the afternoon was
greeted with great demonstrations of
joy. Everywhere there were evi
dences of extreme poverty. Men. women
and children were scantily clad in the cheap
est materials, and there was a great dearth of
footgear among them. Their pinched faces
told unmistakably of hunger. The miners
have been locked oat nearly three months
and wwson ths verge of starvation.
A ROYAL WEDDING.
Earl Fife Married to the Prince
of Wales's Eldest Daughter.
Earl Fife has been duly married to Prin
cess Louise, the eldest daughter of the Prince
of Wales. The ceremony took place in the
private chapel of Buckingham Palace, Lon
don. This was tho first marriage that ever
took place in the chapel, which is small, and
the number of guests was, therefore, limited.
Notwithstanding the rain, the route to the
palace was crowded with spectators. There
was a vast concourse of people opposite the
palace. Tho Prince of Wales was enthu
siastically cheered.
Upon reaching the chapel the Queen was
escorted to the seat prepared for her, while
the other royal personages took seats on
either side of tho altar. The Earl of Fife, ac
companied by his groomsman, Mr. Horace
Farquhar, took his position at the altar rails
and awaited the coming of his bride.
The Prince of Wales, with tho bride and
Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales, and
members of "
ace
the
Library, where the bride was joined by the
bridesmaids, who were Princesses Victoria
and Maud, of Wales, Princess Louise, of
Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Victoria, of Teck,
Countess Feodore Gleichen, Countess Victo
ria Glcichen and Countess Helena Gleichen.
Tho clergymen officiating were the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London,
the Dean of Windsor, domestic chaplain to the
Queen; the Rev. F. A. J. Ilervey. domestic
lapl* ' ** '
. Tei
The Cherokee Indians are the “boas” ball
players of this continent. Fifty or sixty
fears ago, when they lived in northern Geor
gia, they used to meet once a year on a large
plateau among the mountains and have a
K ind ball game festival. The Indiana r*mm
m a hundred miles around. A hamlet
iear by retains the name of “ball ground” to
Ibis day.
Paul Hines, of Indianapolis, the only ball
player who completed a triple play alone,
nade his first appearance as a professional
inder the management of Nick Yonng at
Washington in 1872. The phenomenal play
made by him was in a close game in Prcvi-
lence in 1878 against the Boston chib, with
nen on second wd third, and he made a mirao-
iloos running catch, close to second base.
Both men had started for home, and Hin*a
Kith ball in hand, touched third and second.
LEAGUE RECORD.
Boston
Wen.
Lott. Feroentof
25 .653
New York.
... 43
28
.006
Philadelphia
32
.573
Cleveland
33
.500
Chicago
39
.494
Pittsburg
43
.419
Indianapolis
48
.80$
Washington
46
.321
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.
St. Louis
iron.
Lort. Per ten face.
27
.075
Brooklyn
28
.640
Baltimore
33
.577
Cincinnati
36
.550
Athletic
33
.554
Kansas City...
• ••••••• 31
40
.403
Columbus
52
.3(56
Louisville
03
.233
The 908,000 East End, London, inhabitants
are all poor, and 111,000 of them arc home
less, and cannot provide for a meal ahead
THE MARKETS.—
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Milch Cows, com. to good.. .30 00 (g.45 00
Calves, common to prime... 2 60 ~
Sheep 4 00
Lambs 5 50
Hogs—Live 4 60
Flour—City Mili Extra. .
Patents
Wheat—No. 2 Red
Rye—State
Barley—Two-rowed State...
Corn—Ungraded Mixed
Oats—No. 1 White
chaplain to the Prince of Wales,and the Rev.
T. Teignmouth Shore. A choral service was
sung by the choir of the Chapel Royal St.
James. A feature oC the service was tho
singing of a special anthem, entitled “A Per
fect Love,” composed by Mr. Joseph Barn-
aby.
After the benediction had been pronounced
the Queen kissed the bride and cordially
greeted the groom.
On arriving at Sheen House the newly
wedded pair were enthusiastically welcomed.
They passed between files of Venetian masts
decorated with floral festoons. Tho path was
covered with carpet, upon which wild flow
ers were strewn by girls dressed in white.
Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra Dag-
mar is the eldest daughter and third child
of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her
Royal Highness was born at Marlborough
House on February 20, 1867, and is a Lady
of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
The Earl of Fife (Alexander William
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on August 7, 1879, and was created an
of the United Kingdom in 1885.
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Earl
Hay—No. 1
Straw—Long Rye
Lard—City Steam
Batter—Elgin Creamery....
Dairy, fair to good.
West. Im. Creamery
Factory -
Cheese—State factory
Skims—Light 7^4 !
Western 7 @
Eggs—State and Penn 14J<@ li
BUFFALO.
Steers—Western 3 25 @ 3 9<
Sheep—Medium to Good 4 26 (a, 4 fA
Lambs—Fair to Good 4 50 @ 6 .V
Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 4 65 @ 5 Of
Flour—Family 5 00 <» 5 2J
Wheat—No. 2 Northern — (ti Hi
Com—No. 8, Yellow — (m 41
Oats—No. 2,White — (g Si
Barley—No. 1 Canada — @ 7(
BOSTON.
Flour—Spring Wheat Pat’s.. 0 10 @ 6 GC
Corn—Steamer Yellow 40 «*■ 41
Oats—No. 2 White 80 @ 4C
Rye—State 05 @ ?C
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
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Beef—Dressed weight.
Sheep—Live weight
Lambs .777.
Hogs—Northern
PHILADELPHIA.
Floor—Penn, family 4
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Corn—No. 2, Mixed, Jt
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