Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — Page 2

GljcJJcmotrotic Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. T. W. McEWEN, - - PUBLISHER.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. A bill wa* favorably reported In the Senate, Feb. 19, providing that trespassers on Indian lands may be imprisoned for one year and fined SSOO. An adverse report was made on a bill authorizing the payment of customs duties in legal tender notes. The bill to provide for the issue of circulation to national banks was debated until the hour of adjournment. The House of Representatives sat through the entire night of the 18th. A quorum was obtained at 8:15 o'clock on the morning of the 19th, when a resolution was adopted to make the Mexican pension bill the special order for the 21st, when an adjournment to that date waa taken. A bill appropriating $60(1,003 per annum for arms and equipments for the militia passed the Senate Feb. 20. Mr. Plumb reported a bill to raise the Agricultural Bureau to a department, with a secretary. A resolution was passed directing the Secretary of the Interior to report the amount of lands patented to railroads in lowa. A bill passed to fix the time for holding Federal Courts in lowa. Some progress was made on the bill to provide circulation for national banks. The House of Representatives passed a resolution calling on the Postmaster General to transmit certain unpublished reports by special agents In the star-route investigations. A joint resolution was passed appropriating $150,000 to be expended for educating Indians. A bill was reported to forfeit the Oregon Central land grant, and a resolution requesting the President not to deliver Senor Carlos Aguero to the Spanish authorities until an investigation is made by the Attorney General. A large iwrtion of the session was devoted to debate on the West Point appropriation bill. A bill to provide for the punishment of persons falsely personating officers and employes of the United States passed the Senate Feb. 21. Bills were introduced to authorize the erection of a public building at Detroit, and to improve the navigation of the Mississippi River by strengthening the Sny levee. An adjournment to the 25 th was taken. The House passed the military academy and post-route bills. A message was received from the President announcing that the British Government had contributed the steamship Alert for the Grisly relief expedition. It was resolved that the Committee on Foreign Affairs prepare a formal recognition of the generosity of Great Britain in presenting the vessel. Messrs. Robinson and Finerty were the only members who antagonized the resolution. There was no session of the Senate on Feb. 23. In the House bills were favorably reported to transfer five counties in Illinois to the Northern Jndicial District and hold courts at Peoria; to prohibit the importation of foreigners on contracts to perform labor, and to amend the statutes as to prohibiting the delivery of registered letters and the payment of money orders. Some time was spent in committee of the whole on the pleuro-pneumonfa bill, in which certain Southern members raised the objection that the control of cattle would be taken from their owners and placed in the bands of Federal officers. Mr. Morrison reported the bonded whisky extension bill from the majority of the Ways and Means Committee.

EASTERN.

An explosion in the West Leisenring shaft In the Connellsville (Pa.) region caused the death by injury or suffocation of nineteen men. Twelve were rescued so badly wounded that they cannot live. Heartrending scenes were enacted in the miners’ homes after the recovery of the bodies. The steamship Frisia arrived at New York last week with the bodies of Lieut. De Long and comrades in steel-bound packages. Ten hearses conveyed them to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. At New York John Gassman beat Peter Golden and all previous amateur records in a thirty-five mile race, making the distance in 4 hours 22 minutes 42 seconds. Salmi Morse, of New York, who became notorious through his efforts to establish the “Passion play” in that city, fifing himself Into the Hudson River, whence his corpse was taken. It has been ascertained that Abbott, the absconding cashier of the Union Market National Bank, of Watertown, Mass., abstracted $66,000. The jewelry stores of Emanuel Marks, at Troy, N. Y., was robbed of diamonds, watches, and trinkets valued at over $50,030. Entrance was obtained by cutting through a twelve-inch wall from an adjoining building. The Coroner’s jury investigating the West Leisenring mine horror censured the company and the mine inspector for negligence. The relatives of the victims will now bring suits for damages.

WESTERN.

About 900 Cree Indians are in revolt in the Northwest Territory. They have captured the Government supply of provisions, and are munching defiantly. It is believed that the three bodies of colored people—Beverly Taylor, his wife, and granddaughter —of Avondale, Ohio, fouiftl in a medical college at Cincinnati, were murdered for the dissecting-table, and that their house had been fired with the intention of concealing the crime. The detectives of Chicago, after many days of investigation, arrested Nell McKaigue ’on suspicion of murdering Mr and Mrs. Willson, the aged couple who were so horribly butchered in tbelr home ac Winnetka, a suburb of Chicago. McKaigue is the proprietor of a meht shop. When the crime was discovered he told a story about Mr. Willson coming to his shop the evening of the murder and telling him (McKaigue) that he wanted an extra fine steak and chops for supper and breakfast, as he was expecting an all-night guest. Suspicion almost from the first has rested upon this butcher as the real'author of the foul deed. > John Heith, of Tombstone, Arizona, who was sentenced to imprisonment for life for complicity in a murder, was hanged to a telegraph pole by 100 citizens. All he asked Of his executioners was that they should not mutilate his body by shooting holes in it. At the comer of [Randolph street and Fifth avenue, Chicago, at 7i30 o’clock in the evening, a young mechanic, with *2lO in his pocket, entered a street car while the horses were being changed. Four thugs followed him inside, and two guarded the doors while their accomplices knocked the young man senseless, took his funds, and escaped. The Union Hall Block and five frame buildings at Jackson, Mich., were destroyed by lire. One corpse was taken from the ruins, and four persons were fatally injured. The loss is estimated at *176,000. A passenger train on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad crashed through a bridge over the Charlton BJver, killing a boy and wounding a score of passengers, three

being so seriously injured they were not expected to live. At Cincinnati Allen Ingalls and Ben Johnspn. negroes, confessed to murdering the %ylor family at Avondale and immediately delivering the corpses to the Ohio Medical College. Ingalls also stated that he was a i professional resurrectionist. At the funeral ! of the three murdered negroes lynching was i advocated by two preachers, the sentiment ! evoking great applause.

SOUTHERN.

Later accounts of the Southern cyclone materially Increase the list of casualties. The track of the tornado is marked by death and desolation from the Mississippi River to the eastern border of Nor.th Carolina. In some cases whole towns were demolished, the nutnber of killed and wounded is very large, and the destruction of property is immense. Postmaster General Gresham, reports a Washington dispatch, is likely to get the Circuit Judgshlp which is to be made vacant when the venerable Judge Drummond retires. It is said Mr. Gresham will leave the Cabinet with regret. A fight between a United States Deputy Marshal’s posse and moonshiners, In Mitcheli County, North Carolina, resulted in the killing of three of the latter. The monument to Gen. Lee the figure being sixteen feet high, standing upon a white marble column sixty-six feet high resting on a base of Georgia granite twelve feet high—was unveiled at New Orleans on Washington's birthday. W. B. Cash, of Cher aw, S. C., a son of the famous duelist, killed Marshal Richards and mortally wounded James Coward. Ben Thompson, the famous desperado of Austin, Tex., held a passenger train at the city limits with a revolver for some minutes, shot a hole through an organ being ground near his residence, and fired a salute of six shots after Gov. Ireland and party at the rock quarry. A negro boy 16 years old, arrested in Franklin, La., for criminal assault upon a white girl, was taken from jail and hanged by a mob.

WASHINGTON.

P. S. Palmer, of Vermont, has been nominated as Associate Jußtice of the Supreme Court of Dakota. Before an investigating committee at Washington, ex-Speakor Kelfer testified that he was corruptly approached by Gen. Boynton last March, and that he took no public action at the time because the offender had for many years been a friend. Ten millions of 3 per cent, bonds have been called In by the Treasury, the interest ceasing May 1. At the annual meeting of the Washington Monument Society at Washington, a committee was appointed to arrange a programme for the celebration of the monument, which is expected to take place in D© cember. The Senate Committee on Territories has decided to report favorably on the admission of the southern portion of Dakota as a State. While leaving the northern portion its Territorial rights, they have not yet decided what name it shall bear,but ore unalterably opposed to the title Ncrth Dakota. The suppressed papers in the starroute cases have been furnished to the Postoffice Committee of the House of Representatives. They show that Btephen B. Elkins, of New Mexico, shared the profits of the Kerens combination: that E. J. Ellis, a Congress, man from Louisiana, was paid dividends and received a fee for his influence with the Postoffice Department, and that Delegate Kidder, of Montana, sold himself to the Dorsey combinatlon. Senators Plumb and Maxey are Involved by documents connected with the Las Vegas and Las Cruces routes. A. M. Gibson, a special counsel of the Department of Justice, is charged with accepting $2,500 for services rendered the accused.

POLITICAL.

The National Greenback Committee have voted to hold the convention for the nomination for President and Vice President at Indianapolis, May 20. There was no meeting of the committee, the decision being reached by correspondence. The Indiana Greenback State Convention, in session at Indianapolis, named the following ticket to be voted for in the fall: For Governor, H. Z. Leonard; Lieutenant Governor, John B. Milroy; Secretary of State, F. F. Waring; Treasurer, Thompson Smith; Auditor, J. H. Robinson; Attorney General, John O. Green; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 8. S. Boyd. Congressman Payne, of Pennsylvania, declares openly that Blaine is the choice of the mass of the Republican voters in the Keystone State and in New York. The National Democratic Convention will meet in the city of Chicago on the Bth day of July, the National Committee, at its meeting In Washington on Washington’s birthday having decided the matter. A circular has been issued which invites the high lariffitesof the country to in mass convention at Chicago the 21st of May next. At a conference in New York of Independent Republicans from several States it was resolved that the character, record, and political associations of the future nominees for President and Vice President should be such as to justify confllence in their civil-service convictions, and that interference with the free choice of delegates to the National Convention by districts should not be tolerated. Before the Copiah Investigating Committee at New Orleans, J. H. Thompson testified that the Matthews family had been a bad lot for forty-five years; that they had harbored thieves; that Print Matthews, who was killed on election day, was a menace to the peace of the community, and that he was always Irritating the negroes and inciting them to bad acts against the whites. The Copiah people were peaceable. They had been patient under a bad government. Electioneering with guns was confined to no single party. W. W. Cook, ex-Bheriff of Copiah County, corroborated Thompson. Matthews had arrayod the negroes against the whites. There could be no quiet while party lines were drawn on a basis of race and color. The negroes were used by unscrupulous leaders. Several other witnesses testified to the same purport. Th© lowa Senate has passed a bill to

1 impose license on dogs, on the representation of farmers that sheep-raising had ma- ; terlolly declined throughout the State.

A WEEK’S FAILURES.

The annexed table shows the failures of the week where the liabilities were SIO,OOO and over: r _ w . „ Liabilities. L. D. Mowray & Son., cotton, Cbarles- „ C.. .„ $150,000 R Welch, barrel manufacturer. Angola, Ind ; 12,000 Clarence Shepard, hardware, Milwaukee. 125,000 G. P. Carry, banker, Augusta, Ga 200,000 John Irving, clothing, Decatur, 111 25,000 Mayo & Co., oil, Montreal 80,000 McGinnis Brothers & Tearing, grain. New York.... 200,000 Lyons Brothers, saddlery, Dallas, Texas. 15.000 Blume Brothers, clothing, Dowagiac.Mich 20,000 D. M. Keen, boots and shoes, Toledo, Ohio i5 f ooo J. Q. Savage, petroleum. New York 25,000 Whitney <fc Co., carriage manufacturers, Hudson, Mich. 20,000 George Mayer, Jewelry. Oshkosb, Wis... 10,000 John Palmer, dry goods, Wheeling, W. Va 20,000

FIRE RECORD.

Following is a list of the week’s fires where a loss of SIO,OOO and upward was entailed: „ Losses. Macon, Miss., general store $25,000 Niles, Mich., flouring mills 10,000 Cortland, N. Y., wagon shoos 75,000 Renlc, Mo., grist muL 15,000 Grand Rapids, Mich., wholesale grocery. 10,000 Belief on talne, Ohio, coal oil 16,000 Versailles, Ohio, furniture factory 10,000 Prescott, Art., Daily Miner office and several stores 40,000 Middle Grove, N. Y., straw-board mill .. 30,000 Philadelphia, flour warehouse 50,000 Beloit, Wis., hotel 60,000 Chicago,Jevne's grocery store and Glanz’s fur store 150,000 Madison, Wis.. Ball Brothers’printing press foundry 15,000 Clarence, Mo., ten Btores 20,000 Sparta, Wls., sfeven stores 15,000 Santee Agency, Dak., Episcopal Mission. 20,000 Ligonler, Ind., five stores 20,000 Bennington Center, Vt., Gov. Gardner's residence 25,000 Fergus Falls, Minn., book store 10,000 Cortland, N. Y., several business houses. 150,000 Holbrook, Mass., shoe factory 40,000 New Orleans, dwelling houses 25,000 Goodwater, Ala., 24 stores 100,000 Charlottetown,P.E.L,Government buildings 300,000 Palmyra, Wis., six stores 35,000 Erie, Pa., round-house v 16,000 Linden, Wis., dry goods store 10,000 Camden, Ark., four stores 25,000 Center Point, Ark., Tocsin office and other property. 20,000

MISCELLANEOUS. The miseries of the flood sufferers along the Ohio Valley were augmented by a wind-storm of unusual violence, accompanied by a sudden fall of temperature. Hundred© of houses were blown from their foundations, and then floated off on the current. At Metropolis, 111., fifty buildings were wrecked. Evansville, Shawneetown, Paducah, Bird’s Point, and other towns also suffered severely. Relief boats have been busy all along the lower Ohio, rescuing imperiled lives from the inundated districts, and distributing provisions and clothing to the hungry and destitute.. The Secretary of War wants suffering people to remember that he cannot use the relief appropriation to repair dwellings destroyed by the^fiood. The annual report of9 J ftie Chicago Board of Trade shows the shipment of farm products for 1883 xo have been $365,763,000. On the question of the return of the Lasker resolutions. Congressman Reed, of Maine, insists that it is the Reichstag, and not Congress, that has been Insulted by Bl© marck; that the document was sent to the Reichstag, and If Bismarck does not deliver the message the Reichstag should move in the matter. A great discussion has been caused by the incident in the German journals. A very important subsidy bill has passed the Dominion House of Commons, giving the Canadian Pacific Railroad a bonus of nearly thirty millions of dollars. The Southern Pacific Railroad traffic manager states that the reports of washouts have been exaggerated, and that the road will be open for business in sixty hours. Irish citizens of the United States are 6aid to be interested in the secession movement in Manitoba, and secret organizations to further the project are numerous. Bradstreet reports 218 failures in the United States last week. About 83 per cent, were traders whose capital did not exceed $5,000. Thirty-three Canadian suspensions were recorded. These figures are all smaller than those of the preceding week. A call has been issued for a national convention of wood-growers, to be held in Chicago, May 7.

FOREIGN.

The Official Gazette of the Berlin Court publishes the order of Bismarck inStructlngVon Elsendecker to return the American House of Representatives its resolution expressing the friendly sorrow of America for the death of Herr Lasker while visiting this country. The German Chancellor’s grounds for thus Insulting America are, that the resolution of condolence contained an opinion regarding the object and effect of Herr Lasker’s “political activity” (career), which opinion was opposod to Bismarck’s convictions. Bismarck therefore refused to ask the permission of the Emperor to transmit to its proper destination the mis" sive of the House of Representatives, to the Reichstag, because, had the Prince so prayed) he would have been forced officially to advocate an opinion he did not believe to be correct. The action of Bismarok, says a Berlin dispatch, continues to excite much comment. The friends of the deceased statesman in the Reichstag propose to demand of Bismarck an explanation of his conduct. Great failures are reported from provincial cities of France. The liabilities sum up about $2,C03,000. A broker hanged himself. A bank Involved In the crash had 8,600,000 francs of deposits, mostly peasants’ earnings. Another Liverpool commission man has failed. His liabilities are $175,000. Queen Victoria has given her consent to the appointment of a royal commission on dwellings of the poor. The Prince of Wales addressed the House of Lords on the subject, saying he was gratified a commission had been appointed to look into the matter. A Cairo dispatch of Feb. 22 reports that Tokar had surrendered to the Egyptian rebels. A portion of the garrison at Khartoum had left the town. There were 82,000 British troops at Trinkitat and 1,200 at Suakim. Gen. Gordon telegraphed Admira 1 Hewett to call a conference of sheiks to arrange terms of peace, and to ask Osman Dlgma to meet him at Khartoum. A London dispatch says that Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign AU

fairs, has directed Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister at Bt. Petersburg, to ask of the Russian Government an explanation full and explicit of their annexation of the Merv Oasis. Minister Thornton is at the same tima to protest against this action as a breach of the assurances given to England by the Czar Alexander. The prohibition of the importation of American pork into Greece nas been abolished. The English press unites in condemning Bismarck’s letter on the resolution. ,

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The scaffold on which John Brown suffered death has been found at Charlestown, Va. It had been converted Into the back porch of a house. Robert McFarland and James Harcherode were murdered by the Guilland family near Humboldt, Kan., the difficulty growing out of a land dispute. A dynamite explosion occurred in the cloak-room of the Victoria railway station in London, blowing off a large portion of the roof and destroying nearly all the glasswork. Seven men were severely injured. Following is the text of the McPherson National Bank measure, which passed the United States Senate by a vote of forty-three to twelve, and now goes to the House for action: Be it enacted, etc., That upon any deposit already or hereafter made of any United States bonds bearing interest in the manner required by law,, any national-banking association making it shall be entitled to receive from the Controller of the Currency circulating notes of different denominations, in blank, registered and countersigned as provided by law, not exceeding in the whole amount the par value of the bonds deposited, provided that at no time shall the total amount of such notes Issued to any such association exceed the amount at such time actually paid in of its capital stock, and that all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Sec. 2. That an association organized for the purpose of issuing notes payable in gold under the provisions of Bee. 5185, Revised Statutes of the United States, upon the deposit of any United States bonds bearing interest, with the Treasurer of the United States, shall be entitled to receive circulating notes to the amount and in the manner prescribed in the act for other National Banking associations. Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws of the United States .inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Recent deaths: Ex-Gov. Samuel Price, of West Virginia; J. A. Warneck, of Dixon, HI., who fought at Waterloo under Napoleon; Col. L. A. Hardee, of Jacksonville, Fla., proprietor of the largest orange grove and nursery In the world; Judge A. M. Chadwick, a leading citizen of Omaha, Neb.; Col. George Bowers, of Nashua, N. H., an officer in the last two wars; George A. Ingalls, a prominent lawyer and pioneer citizen of Chicago; Gen. W. T. Spicely, of New Albany Indiana., a veteran,, of the Mexicah War; Col. Henry S. Pratt, of De. troit, a veteran of three wars; Pierre Michel La Pice de Bergondy, of New Orleans, a soldier of the War of 1812, and an immensely wealthy cotton and sugar planter; Dr. Richard G. Radway, of New York, the well-known patent medicine manufacturer and advertiser; Prof. S. W. Williams, of Yale College, a famous Oriental scholar; Samuel Donaghy, once a prominent politician in Pennsylvania. After two weeks’ debate, the Senate, on Feb. 25, passed the McPherson banking bill by a vote of 43 to 12. The text of the bill is printed elsewhere. Mr. Ransom offered a joint resolution to appropriate SIOO,OOO to relieve suffering In the track of the recent cyclone in the Southern States. Mr. Voorhees handed in a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to report how much moyey has been paid into the Treasury for leases of lands In the Indian Territory for grazing purposes. Mr. Harrison introduced a bill to pension all disabled soldiers who served honorably for six months in the war of the rebellion, and to increase the pensions of their widows. A bill to authorize the construction of additional steel vessels for the navy was laid before the Senate by the presiding officer. In the li ouse of Representatives Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, entered a solemn denial of the charge that he received a fee from star-route contractors. Resolutions were adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to state the reason of delay In paying tobacco rebates, and asking the Judiciary Committee to report whether the taxation of railroads in Dakota does not conflict with the organic law. A joint resolution was introduced appropriating $30,000 for the distribution of seed along the inundated Ohio valley. Bills were introduced to prohibit aliens from owning land; to authorize coinage under the metric system; to aid the common schools; to provide civil government for Alaska; to appropriate $500,000 for sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi; to establish an interstate railway transportation bureau; and to simplify procedure in pension <slaims. Some debate ensued on the pleuro-pneumonia bill.

THE MARKET.

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SOUTHERN CYCLONES.

Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina Swept by Resistless Tornadoes. Kany Towns Almost Obliterated and Hundreds of People Killed and Wounded. Appalling Work of the Tunnels and Destruction of Property—Minor Accidents. The cyclone that recently swept through sections of Alabama, Georgia, and the Caro Unas was probably the most violent and destructive to life and property of any visitation of a similar character in the history of the country. It seems almost incredible that a tornado covering such a large area of territory should attain such destructive force as this one - It is roughly estimated that 1,000 square miles were swept by this terrible blast, that 5,000 houses were leveled to the ground, and that not less than 500 people were killed, and three times as many wounded. During the progress of the tempest the lightning was almost continuous, and the most vivid ever witnessed. The very heavens seemed to be on fire, and the thunder claps shook the houses as if rocked by un earthquake. Torrents of rain and hall followed, the hail-stones in some cases being as large as a man’s fist. The storm came up early in the afternoon—--Ito 1:30 o’clock, according to locality. The skies overhead gave warning of some unusual atmospheric disturbance, assuming a dull, leaden hue, with that peculiar tint which denotes an overcharge of the electric current. The next thing was the formation of the terrible funnel-shaped cloud, black as night. As It approached shafts darted from the top of the cloud toward the earth with almost ligtning rapidity. In many places the track of the monster was three miles In width, every inch of which was denuded of timber, and stripped as clean as though an immense mowing-machine had been rqn 'through it. From the copious reports of this phenomenal storm telegraphed from Atlanta, Ga., to the Chicago papers, we compile the following particulars: The cyclone formed in the Chattahoochie Valley, near the Mexican Gulf, and then passed north. It first struck the city of Columbus. The storm then dlvoided, one branch running up the Alabama side of the valley until it was deflected by the Hed in which Birmingham is located. Then it took an eastern course and passed through Leeds, Lodima, and Oxmoor into Georgia, where it passed through Cave Springs, Rome, and Barlow County Into Canton and out of the State along the foothills of the Blue Kidge. Fourteen persons perished at Lodima, six at Leeds, eight at Cave Springs, and ten along the line from Rome to Canton. Near Canton a terrible accident happened. The crowded country school was dismissed in order to allow the pupils to reach home. About thirty of them took refuge in a building which was overturned by the storm and ten of them mangled to death. The other branch of the storm went eastward from Columbus, through Talbott, Crawford, Bibb, Jasper, Hancock, Baldwin, and Columbia, finding exit through Edgefield, S. C. In Baldwin, the Hon. R. C. Humlin, candidate for State Treasurer, was killed by flying timbers. Seven other persons were also killed. An old couple over 80, named Mathews, tottered out of the crumbling building and escaped. A train on the Macon and Auguta Road was blown off the track, but ho one was hurt. As nearly as can be gathered, 200 lives were lost in Georgia alone, 5,000 buildings destroyed, and $1,000,000 worth of property demolished. In Columbia County, besides damages in the interior, the plantation of George Granade was ruined, the houses demolished, and timber carried oft. On the plantation of Dr. Reese a negro was killed, and Mrs. V. M. Wade, the wife of the overseer, seriously wounded. The cyclone passed through the suburbs of Cave Springs, Ga., killing five men and severely injuring others. Houses and everything in its path were demolished, and the damage was great. The, town of Bradleys, S. C., was nearly blown away. The wife of Dr. Ligon was badly injured. At Ninety-six, S. C., a house was wrecked and a child killed. The residence of W. H. Slattworth, Edgefield County, South Carolina, was blown down, and, the ruins taking fire, a little daughter perished. The dwelling house of J. C. Hanklnson and the store of J. S. Boyd, at Jackson, S. C., were blown down and three negroes killed. The town of Millen was nearly destroyed. At -D. D. Dlckerts’ plantation, Newberry County, 100 acres of original forest were swept away. At Matthews the Lutheran Church was blown down and William H. Eller’s residence was carried off and he and his child seriously injured. All the plantations were badly damaged. Several large fires were observed in the track of the storm. Chappell’s Station was swept away, not a house being left. The wife and child pf George T. Reed were badly hurt. Mrs. Rosalie Simpkins had an arm broken, and a colored man had his skull crushed. John S. Curry’s residence was destroyed, and he, his wife, and child hurt. Mrs. David M. Dlckerts had her skull fractured. C. M. Shufford, Postmaster Bozeman, W. Reed, and one or two others were in the second story of Reed’s store. Shufford was killed, Bozeman had an arm and a leg br.okenen, and Reed an arm and a rib broken. Eight loaded cars, standing on the track, were carried forty yards and torn to pieces. A man, woman, and child are reported killed at Anderson. In the lower part of Clarendon County, South Carolina, James Cubbage and Ben Baggett’s child were killed. In Darlington County the dwelling of R. W. Boyd was destroyed, himself seriously injured, and two begroes killed. The dwelling of Mr. White, near Darlington Court House, was blown down and himself and wife killed, while Mrs. C. Edwards was seriously injured in the fall of het house. Six persons are known to have been killed in the county, and fifteen wounded. A serious loss of life and property is reported in the vicinity of Williamsburg County. The loss of property everywhere is very great. Twenty-five houses—all in the Philadelphia settlement—in North Carolina were leveled by the cyclone. The bodies of three white men and eleven colored have been recovered. Search is being made for others believed to have been killed. At Pioneer Mills, Carrabus County, six houses were blown down and a colored woman killed. At Woodward’s a negro and his wife were killed. At Winnsboro three negroes and an aged white lady, Mrs. Sterling, were killed. Mrs. Sterling’! son and daughter were blown from the house Into a tree. At Polkton the wife of F. M. Gray was killed by the falling of their house. At Conoord two brick houses were partly demolished. At Rockingham the cy clone struck on the outskirts, destroying fifteen houses, killing twenty-three people and wounding many more. Several colored people were also killed on the Pedee River. At Manley and Keyser the cyclone destroyed everything. Near Lillington, Harnett County, six persons were killed. In the Cahawba valley in Alabama eight persons were killed and thirteen injured, three of whom cannot live. These casualties occurred In one community near the new town of Leeds. In this country are only two establishments at which cannoii can be made. One is at South Boston, Mass., and the other at West Point, N. Y. The Boston works, which have lain idle for six years, are said to be fit to compete with foreign foundries. Miss Eva Mackey, daughter of the bonanza king, is at the head of a society of young ladles who go about doing what good they can among the worthy and deservlrg poor of Paris. It is a society that has abundant financial capital. King Humbert will serve nothing but Italian wine hereafter at state banquets.

THE DEADLY COAL-PIT.

An Explosion of Gas in a Pennsylvania Shaft Kills Nineteen Hen. The Awful Scenes of a Sudden Death Which Were Revealed Below* {Telegram from Union town, Pa] The.little mining village of West Leisenring. four miles north of here, was this morning the scene of the most terrific explosion ever known in the coke region. The Connellsvill© Coal and Iron Company, of which Judge Leisenring of Mauch Chunk, is President* have 200 coke ovens here which have been in operation about a year. The works give employment to about one hundred men, and quite a little town has sprung up named after the President of the company. The coal for the ovens is obtained by means of a shaft* which reaches the coal at a distance of 400 feet from the surface. This morning a. part oU the force who had worked all night left the mines a little after 3 o’clock, and seventy others took their places, making the usual morning shift. About 6.80 o’clock, while the men were digging, suddenly, without warning, there occurred an explosion that oonvulsed the mine in every apartment and threw the men into* the utmost consternation. The scene of the explosion was in one of the apartments, fully 800 feet distant from the bottom of the shaft, and therefore about 1,200 feet from the surface opening, yet the report was heard on the outside for a considerable distance, and caused such a Jar that the top of*a derrick 100 feet high was knocked off. Two mules were standing at the bottom of the shaft, 800 feet from the explosion, and the rush of air blew one of them through &. wooden cage, shattering it to pieces. The other mule died of suffocation. The awful scene that ensued among th© terror-stricken miners cannot be described. All of their lamps were blown - out, and theywere left in darkness and confusion. Tbey had nut time to recover from the shock before they found themselves unable to breathe. The explosion of the fire-damp—a term which the miners apply to the light carbonated hydrogen or coal-gas that issues from the crevices in the most of the mines—left the min© filled with after damp, which oontains no oxygen and renders it impossible for life to be sustained for any time. This after-damp was densest in the upper part of the mine, and th© men hovered near the bottom, but even there they did not long find relief. Of all the men who were in the heading where the explosion occurred, Dick Balsley alone escaped to tell the awful story. When, the explosion came, and all the lights were blown out, Balsley was just changing his, clothes. He at once wound part of his clochestightly around his face and mouth to keep th© foul air from choking him, and gave the rest of his garments to a companion with instructions to take the same precautions. H© then started for the main entrance, biddinghls companion follow. They ran overthe bodies of men, and over shattered, wagons. They could see nothing, butcould hear the groans of dying men. Presently Balsley's companion protested) that they were not going in th© right direction, and turned back. He perished. Balsley pushed on until finally he saw a light, and was taken put. His escape is regarded by experienced miners as one of th© most marvelous on record. He says that som© men kept their heads under water as long as> they could, and were forced to change from water to and at last they gave upthe unequal struggle. When the news of the explosion flashed around, the families of the men gathered about the shaft, ana were crazy with suspense. Balsley's story gave them little ground for hope that any oould be got out alive. So dangerous was the after-damp that it was fully two hours before any volunteers could enter the mine. Many were on hand ready to make the search, but were unable to do so until the hope of rescuing the unfortunates alive had quite fled. It was about 8 o’clock when the first body was brought out. It whs that of Michael Ripko, a Hungarian*, whose wife and two little children were waiting and weeping at the shaft. The face boreno marks of violence, and the man bad evidently died of suffocation. The work of rescuing the men went on rapidly by willing volunteers, and at noon nineteen bodies had been carried out. The company’s books wer© then examined, the roll called, and, it was announced that all the men had been accounted for. Work proceeded in quiet and order amid the sobs and subdued weeping of the stricken famines. The bodies were taken to th© homes near by and laid out. Coroner Batton* of this place, with many citizens, went from here, and the inquest began at 3:80 o’clock. No testimony was taken exoept that which) identified the dead, nineteen in number. Most of the dead bore no visible marks of violence, but had died of suffocation. Their faces were generally very black, smoke and dust having been blown Into the skin. The last man taken out alive was Henry Wilson, who had managed to subsist on the air in th© very bottom of the mine till rescued. He was almost gone. Many of those who were in other parts of the mine suffered severely. Dick Balsley reports that the men acted" much like horses in a burning stable. They were bewildered, and, not knowing which way to go, refused to move in any direction. Some of them were so burned that the flesh dropped off them in places when removed. The scene at the afflicted homes to-night is heartrending beyond description. In Hackney’s house Re two corpse, himself and May. In the house of the Hungarian, Ripko, is perhaps the saddest sight of all. This family seem advanced far beyond their averag© countrymen in civilization, and their home was cheerful and attractive. The dead husband and father lies upon a bed; bis weeping wife sits at his head kissing and caressing him, while two little - children stand by and call him in vain. After identifying the bodies Coroner Batton adjourned the inquest until Saturdaymorning. The company will bear all the expense of the funerals, which will take place-to-morrow and next day. The accumulation of so much gas in this mine as to cause such an explosion is a matter of much surprise. No accident ever before 'occurred here, and it - was regarded as a very safe mine. Th© fire boss, with a lamp, made the usual examination last night, and pronounced everything all right, Men had left other mines that were regarded as unsafe and come her© to work because there was no danger felt.

JUDGE GRESHAM

To Be Drummond’s Successor. [Washington Telegram.] There is a stronger probability that Postmaster General Gresham will leave the Cabinet than there has been at any time. He will doubtless become the successor of Judge Drummond. Within a day or two the Indiana delegation has signed a paper formally presenting the name of the Postmaster General to the President for this position. They did not do this until they ascertained that Gresham would not only be willing but would be glad to accept the place. One of the Indiana Congressmen, who has been aotive in preparing this petition, has said that there was no longer a question that Judge Gresham would accept it. “He will be glad to get it,” he said. This, unquestionably, settles the case as to the candidacy of Gresham, and it would seem to settle the result, for the supporters of the other candidates in Illinois, and Wisconsin have admitted that if Gresham was a candidate it would not be wise to make a contest.

ALL SORTS.

Emma Burrows, of Albany, N. Y., shot her mother because she would not let her go to a dance. The Mayor of Houston, Tex., has served that city four years and has never accepted a dollar of bis salary, though be sees that every other official is promptly paid. A salesman in Covent Garden Market, London, recently advertised for a few pounds of ripe strawberries, stating that he had a special order, and could get £6 per pound. Kano, Ga., has a man twenty-two years old weighing but fifty-six pounds.