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THE REPUBLICAN.

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GREENFIELD INDIANA

AN AWFUL EARTHQUAKE.

Fully Ten Thousand People Were Killed by It.

Vail Details of the Recent Great Disaster

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The steamer Empress, of India, arrived at Victoria, B. C., Aug. 1, from Japan,and brings additional details of the disastrous volcanic eruption on great Sang Island. Without any warning signal, without any sign whatever of'impending disturbance, the Gunong Aroo volcano blazed forth on June 7, and within twenty-four hours the whole of the prosperous surrounding country was devastated. The loss of life is something frightful, but no estimate 4^ can bo made. Some place it as high as t& ten thousand. The captain of the ship |§f which took assistance to the sufferers ||g says that ten thousand is not too high a figure as an estimate of the number of st|f the dead. A thousand bodies were picked up on the shore, and many were found i£S floating in the sea. The whole island is |p completely devastated, and although the violent eruption has ceased, volumes of smoke are arising, accompanied by steam and ashes. Inhabitants of Sang Island, ic living within the shadows of a dormant %. crater, had tilled the soil and prospered, their chief industry being the growing of ^nutmegs, cocoanuts and grapes, the product being regularly shipped abroad. The

Tillages and towns were well built, and had schools and churches. The awful devastation began about 8 o'clock on the morning of June 7. There jyjr was a terrible rumble, a column of ruddy flame shot up from the crater as high in jl^ the heayens as the eye could reach, and immediately afterward hot ashes were falling like snowflakes over the whole country. Dust was flying in all directions ii and from the time of the first explosion until 9 o'clock that evening fierce volumes of flame and smoke and showers of large stones belched forth, followed by rain, which fell in torrents, bringing down ^4 with it the cloudsof ashes that were flying through the air. This continued all night fc and the whole of next day. The earth* J/'! quake began June 9. Village after villi lage was engulfed, hundreds of people dropped into the great cracks in the earth.

The whole country is under a layer of mud, ashes and stones. All vegetation is either burned up by the awful htat of the volcanic fires or has been destroyed by jjo: dense showers of ashes and dust. The country around Gunong Aroo and the hills was still steaming and smoking on fy June 15, numerous volcanic jets throwing columns of mud and stones, which fell

IJ^over the district forming Into hot streams which in their downward course, carried fj] everything before them. The district on

the north side of the island is utterly destroyed, nutmegs and cocoa plantations being laid in ruins, and in many cases if completely buried under the ashes, mud *V ind ava from the grater.

Among others who saw the island after !•$ ^fhe outbreak was Capt. J.Gray, of the iteamsliip Norway, which had been sent j*- with a cargo of rice from Mendane to re|f lieve the sufferers. He says the whole island viewed from the westward, presented a most forlorn appearance. There was no |i sign of life any where. Volumes of smoko tould be seen issuing from the volcanot feiaccompanied by ashes and fire, which spread like a cloud over the island and jpvfell thickly everywhere. Small jets of |p Bteam, smoke and stones were pouring out &Vfrom the mountain sides, completely cov-

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barks, the Primera and the Fashion, were in Torona bay, but got to sea withoudamage. In a pretty harbor on the north east side of the island the Dutch ships, .Terbkle and Grippa, were loading nutmegs, They, too, sustained little injury, jfortunately, because there was no tidal Wave.

The report of the first explosion was heard atTernate, Gorntale and Mandale, which are respectively, 210, 240 and 216 miles distant. The lava streams were confined to the northern slopes of the mountain. In theTobeakan district not a single village remains, while thousands tf the inhabitants were killed in the overBow. The village of Lorena, on the south side of tho mountain, protected by a ridge ef hills, some of them 1,3J0 feet high, is covered with ashes. Many of the bouses were crushed by the accumulated weight or ashes, dust and stones. Cocoanut plants on both sides of the bay are destroyed, but in the town itself there was comparatively little loss of life. To the westward, after passing tho foot of the Tldge, the scene is one of complete desolation and devastation. The "suffering by those who escapcd with their lives has been most acute. "All the food on the Island was destroyed, and but for the prompt assistance of the neighboring Islands they would have starved," says one writer, "It is a mass of smouldering rains. The people who lived and pros* pored there have lost all they ever had, and now the only thing for them to do is to leave for another and more favored spot *r stay there and die."

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The public debt was reduced $1,187,815 In July. There is said to be numerous anarchists in Pittsburg.

Manager Frick, of the Carnagie works, is recovering. Chauncey M. Depewjsailed on the 2Stli for a European vacation.

The wheat crop in Kansas will reach nearly 85,000,000 bushels. G. M. Gray of Canton, Ohio, committed suicide because it was so hot.

Patti will receive $200,000 for singing in forty concerts in America next year. Four men were killed by a boiler explosion at Gaylord, Mich:, on the 2Sth.

Moses S, Beach, at one time proprietor of the New York Sun, died in that city on the 28th.

The Nebraska wheat crop will average thirty bushels per acre, and other crops are promising.

Rain has fallen In Iowa, Nebraska and throughout the Northwest, and there is gr*at rejoicing.

There were fifty deaths in Chicago on the 27th and seventeen on the 28 th from sunstroke and heat.

Disastrous storms created great havoc in parts of Pennsylvania on the 28th Many lives were lost.

Thirty-seven miles of liorse-car street railway lines in St. Louis are being converted into electric lines.

Mrs. Ellen Murphy, a native of Ireland, has just died at Kansas City at the age of one hundred and six years.

German medical experts warn Americans to be extremely careful against any infection of cholera from Europe.

There were forty-two deaths from sunstroke Friday in New York, and ninety in Chicago since the heated term began.

A negro was killed by lightning at Pittsburg and a picture of the tree under which he stood was photographed on his breast.

The constitutionality of the recent Democratic apportionment law of Wisconsin is to be tested in the Supreme Court this month.

To evade work, Thomas Wall, a longterm convict at the Frankfort, Kv., penitentiary, chopped off three fingers of his right hand.

F. Mallick was arrested atLong Branch ^nd H. Bauer at Allegheny as accessories in the attempted assassination of H. Frick. Both are anarchists.

There is a great harvest in Dakota, but the farmers are in a panic, fearing they will not have sufficient help. Each county needs from 300 to 400 hands.

Richaid Tenbroek, the famous horseman, who was over eighty years of age, and who had been a confirmed invalid from gout for forty years, died at San Mateo, Cal', on the 2nd.

Forty conductors on the Metropolitan & Multanomah electric street car lines at Portland, Ore., were arrested Friday for "knocking down." The companies lost on an average $4,600 per month.

Advices from Bering sea are to the effect that the patrol squadron of United States revenue cutters and cruisers, besides chasing seal poachers is breaking up the lucrative industry of hunting sea otters.

The long contested and famous Myra Clark Gaines case, which has been in the courts for more than fifty years, has been settled by the payment by the city of New Orleans of $923,788 to the heirs of MrsGaines.

George K. Sistarc, one of tbe firm of Sistare Brothers, bankers, which failed dishonestly a year or so ago, committed suicide at the Manhattan Club, New York oil the 2Sth by shooting himself in the right temple. No cause is known.

Mr. Charles Page, of tho banking house of Page & Co., doing business in Fourth street, Philadelphia, was shot in Lis office by one of his customers, Wednesday, and killed. The customer, whose name is Kennedy, then shot himself dead.

Mrs. Robert Morrell, an aged woman living ten miles north of Hillsboro, 111., was stung. Thursday, on the back of the neck by a bee, and died from tho effects in thirty minutes. She had been in the best of health previous to the sting.

Selections from Iugersol were read at the funeral of Margaret Colter, aged fourtaen, in Springfield, at the request of tho father, who is not a believer in the Christian religion. Mr. Colter's mother, who is a believer, retired from the services.

The Inman steamship City of Paris, which sailed from Liverpool on the 20th inst. and Queenstown on the 21st. for New York, arrived early Wednesday morning, boating the record for the western trip across tho Atlantic. Tho time of her passage across the ocean was live days, iifteen hours and fifty-eight minutes.

Considerable comment has been caused through Oklahoma by legal opinions rendered by Judge John Dille and other prominent lawyers of the Territory, that Indians will bo entitled to vote at the com ing elections. They say that tho law provides that Indians taking land in severalty have the same franchise as any citizen, and if this opinion be good law, the candidates will have 3,000 Indians to buttonhole. If the Indians vote, it is liable to make quite a difference in the congressional racc.

The followers of Jack Coolcy, the leader of a gang of outlaws in Pennsylvania,wire avenging his recent death in a frightful manner. Wednesday evening they proceeded to tho house of Wesley Sister, who had participated in Cooloy's capture and death, bound and gagged him and repeatedly outraged his daughter. The duughtv was but a Child, and probably will not recover. A sheriff's posse is in pursuit of the outlaws and if captured there will be more deaths to avenge. 1 Near Winchester, Ky,, Sunday, six boys Were drowned in the Kentucky river by tthe overturning of a skiff. Their names( are: Kelley Farney, aged iifteen Claude

Farnoy, aged thirteen Walter Farney, aged eleven Charles Farney, aged nine, all sonsof JamesH. Farnoy Algin Brock, aged sixteeu, and Winter Brock, aged twelve, sons of Rev. Henry Brock. The boys were bathing in tho river, climbing in and out of tho boat, and were thrown into a panic, by the boat overturning with

a preliminary hearing in the county jat office at Pittsburg, Friday, before Alderman McMasters, and was put under bond! aggregating $24,000. O'Donnell is in New York, his friends say, preparing "a disagreeable snrprise" for the Carnegie company. What that "surprise" is to be is not known. It is very probable, too, that it never will be known. It is announced that ninety workmen who struck on the 28th of June have returned to work. It is believed violence will be resumed as soon as the troops are removed. There is nothing encouraging so far "as the strikers are concerned. -j-

On the 1st, near Hickory Flat, Terin., James Martin and Miss Mary Lessenberry eloped and were married. The enraged father of the bride and two brothers, armed with shot guns, went to the groom of an hour, and at the point of the gun made him swear to relinquish all claim to the girl, they agreeing to pay him one thousand feet of oak lumber, a cow and $10. The trio bore off the girl in triumph, secured the marriage license and returned it to the county clerk.

Shortly before sunset Saturday evening in the eastern part of Cincinnati, Frank Swisher, a bor sixteen years old, killed his brother, Willie Swisher, thirteen years old He was Immediately arrested for murder. Frank was at home, sitting in a second story window with a Flobert rifle in his hand. Willie entered the front yard and Frank shouted: "Willie, hold up your hands." "Willie obeyed. Just then the rifle was discharged ami Willie fell dead, shot in tho head. Frank says the rifle went off while lying on his lap. Nobody believes the shooting was intentional but the opinion prevails that Frank took a*-- •••H-.*-aim.

Five thousand ^people at Inver Grove just south of St. Paul, Minn., were the horrified spectators of a terrible fall to death of Prof. Hobe, the aeronaut. When the balloon reached the usual altitude, Hobe could be seen tugging at the valve cord, which would not work. Before he could manipulate it the balloon was at least 3,000 feet above the earth. In the regular way he cut loose the parachute and shot rapidly earthward, but to the horror of the crowd the parachute did not expand, and the unfortunate' aeronaut fell like a shot toward the ground. So great was the force of the fall that he was driven into the soft ground to a depth of twelve feet and instantly killed.

FOREIGN.

Four conspirators who attempted the life of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria wer® executed on the 27th. Others who participated in the conspiracy were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.

Sixteen anarchists, charged with a conspiracy to steal explosives, were found guilty at Liege, Tuesday. The leader was sentenced to twenty-five years' penal servitude two others to twenty years each four to fifteen years each, and two to ten years each.

The entire non-union crew of tho bark Richard III was kidnaped by union sailors at Nanaimo, B. C., Sunday, and malff prisoners for several hours. Two of the union sailors were arrested, tried, found guilty and sentenced to fourteen months' imprisonment.

Max Limon, until lately a rich banker of Kiev, Russia, recently exiled by tho Czar's edict against Hebrews, is working in the stock room of Kahn Brothers, clothing house, Chicago, for a weekly salary of $7. At one time Limon's fortune amounted to $500,000 roubles, almost half a million dollars, yet for five weeks ho wandered about the streets of Chicago in search of work, and had it not been for a pittance occasionally bestowed by tho charitably inclined, he would have starved to death.

A letter from Celebes gives details of the recent eruption of the volcano Gunona, on Great Sanger island. The eruption commenced at 6 p. m. on a day early in June and was unheralded by the slightest siesmic warning. Immense volumes of flame and smoke and masses of stons suddenly burst from the volcano. The stones fell all over the, island, killing hundreds of natives, who were busy in the fields getting in the rice crop. Those who reached the supposed shelter of their homes found no refuge, many having been crushed beneath the weight of the falling stones and roofs having collapsed under the weight of ashes, burying the inmates, in many instances whole families. Streams of lava flowed with frightful rapidity down the slopes of the mountains, on which were situated numerous farms and villages. Houses and fugitives alike were overwhelmed by these rivers of molten rock. It is estimated that over 14,000 have perished on the slones of the mountains and many hundreds more in the low lands, but the total loss of life is unknown.

SITUATION AT HOMESTEAD.

The company is said to have 800 men at work on the 28th, A rumor is afloat that if the strikers loose the light they will blow up the works.

Tuesday evening tho Pittsburg police camc in posession of facts leading them to believe that bombs are now being made in that city. A merchant on Smithfield street reports to tho police that, within the past few days he has sold unusually largequantitiesofsma.il glass tubes and other materials used in the construction of the usual anarchist bomb. The merchant's customers have been mostly foreigners of repulsivo appearance, and he says Russian Jews, having the appearance of Anarchists. Inspector Kelly is keeping a lookout for all the Anarchists on the sou tii side. There are several groups of them, and while he has not obtained evidence to arrest any of them, they aro being watched day and night, and orders hav6 been issned to arrest any who attempt to leave tbe city. Knold when questioned by Inspector McKolver, admitted receiving letters from Herr Most'. He said that Most's instructions were very pointed, and that ho had issued strict orders to destroy all letters written by him. This is the reason the police have been unable to' get much evidence against any of the men. They have not a scratch of the pen from each other. Many of them had circulars and anarchist 1 literature, but nothing to criminate any one else. Knold i* very anxious to regain bis libtfptflj mtfcibefa fcheiman the police

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Popcorn is a Bedford suburb. Elwood will celebrate Labor Day. JacUson county nutmeg crop is great. Columbus houses are being numbered. Dog poisoners are busy at Michigan City. Taliy-ho parties area Muncio diversion. Ice-house parties is a South Bend creation.

Evansville colored coachmen have a club. Three Chinamen have settled in Valparaiso.

West Muncie has "signed" anew fruitjar factory. Huntington is to have a bi-chloride of gold institute.

A rattle snake 6 feet, 5 inches, was killed at Winchester. Greensburg is on the ragged edge of a "boom," it thinks.

Middletown has been lioiding fairs for twenty-two years. Shelby county farmers are storing their wheat to wait for better prices.

The traction engine is getting in its deadly work on Hoosisr highways. The Sixty-ninth Indiana Regiment will hold its reunion at Muncie, August 25.

Rain has fallen in Kansas, assuring a corn crop that has never been equalled. Fifteen thrashing machine accidents have occurred near Tipton within the past few days.

The Greencastle Council refused to enact an ordinance requiring the removal of screens in saloons.

Balloonist Neveling dropped from his parachute into the top of a high tree at Hartford City and received severe bruises.

John Kipper is a Jennings county farmer who feels pretty well, thanks. He raised 700 bushels of wheat this year on thirty acres of »and.

If old Tecumseh had taken his trail with him Lafayette would not have been in it on the soldiers' home question, remarks the envious Muncie Herald.

O. A. Johnson, of Franklin, has been presented with a quilt, made by his mother, Mrs. N. A. Johnson, of Indianapolis, who is 83 years old, which is composed of 7,680 pieces.

Tho bleaching buildings of the Strawboard mills of Kokomo, burned on the 27tli. Loss $8,000 insured. A tcinporay shut-down results, throwing out 800 men for a few days or weeks.

Private Drieman, of the Vincennes Infantry Company, swung his feat from the baggage-car door en route home from the Frankfort encampment. A cattle guard came along and broke his leg at the knee.

Warsaw entertained in a hospitable manner the Grand Army committee which is examining sites for a soldiers' home. Ono hundred and forty acres of land on the jhoro of Pine Lake are offered by the Warsaw people.

Jesse Wilson nearly killed James Reed Wilson, his father, at East Connersville, Saturday night. The elder Wilson came home drunk and abusive, and Jesse proceeded to pound him with a billet of stove wood. The injuries are thought to be fatal.

Scarlet fever has become epidemic at Richmond. Four new cases were report ed on the 28th. and there is estimated to be seventy-live cases in the city. For several weeks past new cases have been reported each day. There have been but few fatalities.

Lizzie Chizzum is a sixteen-year-old gir^ living at Noblesville. She has been the victim of a curious hallucination, fancying herself the wife of President Harrison, and having Mrs. Cleveland for her attendant. Sh'i has beey declared insane, some of the symptoms having become violent

Suit has been tiled in an Indianapolis court for a receiver for the Order of the Iron Hall. The petition recites that the Order will not be able to meet its liabilities, is paying too high salaries, etc. The officers of the Order declare that they will be able to defeat the suit and that it is solvent.

Jack Robinson was killed at Evansville Wednesday night bv William Kurtz. Both were intoxicated. The trouble between them originated in an intimacy between Robinson and Kurtz's wife. Formerly they had been friends. The dead man was cut in most barbarous fashion by his murderer. l)r. John Williams, aged eighty-six years, the oldest, wealthiest and most prominent physician in Clay county, received a sunstroke. Tuesday, at his home iii Bowling Green. His life was saved by prompt medical attention, but it was found that he was stricken blind from the effects of the sunstroke.

The extensive barns of Hon. Thomas Wilhoit. a well known cattle breeder livinp near New Castle, burned on the 30th. Many line animals were burned, together with a iine lot of farm machinery, feed, etc. Among those burned were the very finest short horns in the world, which were being prepared for exhibition at the World's Fair next year. -The loss is placed at $25,000.

The committee of the Indiana Department G. A. R. charged with selecting a site for tiie proposed Indiana soldiers' home last week visited Muncie, Warsaw and Lafayette, and finally selected the site at Lafayette. Tho place selected is what is known as Tecumseh's Trail, about three miles from Lafayette and adjoining Batt'e Ground.

Miss Anna Rigsley was assaulted by a gang of seven tramps in the suburbs of Evansville, Wednesday, Three of them had succeeded in their designs, while the others held her. Her screams alarmed the tramps, although they had choked her, and brought assistance. Tho entire gang, after desperately resisting the police, were arrested and jailed. Miss Rigsey is in a precarious conditfon.

Ed Craig' of Linden, is a genius!^ He was married tho other day, and desired his change in life to be well advertisedAccordingly, he visited, he says, about thirty of the good ladies of his neighborhood, and told them of the approaching event under a pledge of socrecy. MrCraig states that never in the history of that section was a marriage half so well advertised. It really created quite a furore.—Crawsfordsville Journal.

A HartsyllletpinUterfcho preached the

few days afterward. The husband ftrove1 to the home of the minister on receipt of this letter and found that there was no or.e there. In a day or two afterward anotner was received, asking that tho money be sent by return mail. Another trip to llartsville was made and the minister's bil' of $5 was paid.

Magnificent specimens of carp are being taken from the Wabash river at LagroThe United States Fish Commissioner live years ago stocked a few ponds and the river near Wabash with small carp, and these have grown untii tho Wabash is said to be alive with them, weighing from two to twelve pounds.EMany of the ponds were washed out by the overflow of the stream, which accounts for the presence of so many carp. The fish are caught in large numbers, but are said to bo too fat and rank' for table use.

It is probable the Ohio Falls car-works of Jeffersonville, cne of the most exten-', sive of the kind in the country, is about to change hands. Maitland, Phelps & Co., New York bankers, have an option on the plant. Tli3 offer was made to President T. Smiser in New York. The capital stock of the company is $000,000. If the sale be made the presenr officers will be retained, and the capital stock increased to $1,250,000.

About 2 p.'in., Monday, a large barn be longing to William Purkiser, six miles south of Russiaville, was destroyed by fire. The eleven year old son of Mr. Purkiser was playing in the barn in the afternoon. The child was feeble minded, and as a fire shovel was found in the ruins it is supposed that he had taken fire to the barn and set fire to it. The body of the boy was found in the wheat bin, with his hands, feet and head burned off.

At Fort Wayne, Lemuel Miller, aged seven years, mot death in a peculiar manner Saturday. The boy, in company with other boys, was playing about a steam road-roller, which was standing on East Wayne street. A number of heavy pieces of pig iron used to givo weight to the roller were lying on top of tho machine. Miller's brother removed a support from the tongue of the roller which threw tho boy to tho ground and a bar of iron weighing fifty pounds fell on him, crushing to the pavement and mashing his head almost to a pulp.

A remarkable struggle between a fish and a man took place on the falls at Jeffersonville Friday. Thomas Wright, coming from Louisville to Jeffersonville, saw a one-hundred-pound catfish drifting on top of tho water. He struck it with an oar and stunned it, and, grabbing it by the gills, attempted to hurl it into his boat. The fish revived and dragged him out, upsetting the skiff. Tho life-saving crew, thinking that Wright was drowning, appeared on the scene just as Wright was reappearing on the surface still clinging to his fish. He managed to hold to tho skiff, and, with the assistance of tho crew, got the fish into the boat. All of the men had their hands full in capturing the monster. Wright was nearly drowned and utterly callapsed when the captur was effected, having been unable to exo tricate his hand from the gills.

The State Federation of Labor which was in session at Logansport adopted a resolution censuring Congress for its failure to pass an anti-Pinkerton bill. A res olution that members of the organization arm themselves at once created a good deal of amusement, and was voted down almost unanimously, but later a resolution calling on labor men not to join tho militia was adopted. The resolutions adopted were numerous, but unimportant. South Bend was selected for the next convention. Officers were elected as follows: President, T. M. Gruelle, of Indianapolis Secretary. J. P. Hannegan, of Lafayette, Organizer!—O. P. Smith, of Logansport D. F. Kennedy, of Indianapolis, and Miss Belle E. Pearson, of New Albany. District vice-presidents—First. M. A. Levy, of Evansville second, to be appointed third, John Lutz, of New Albany: fourth, to be appointed fifth, to bo appointed: sixth, Wrilliam P. Fewrey, of Muncie seventh, John Greig, Indianapolis eighth Nelson Rose, of Terre Haute ninth, A. F. Raymond, of Frankfort tenth, William S. Rosier, of Logansport eleventh, S. W. Young, of Huntington twelfth, A. Laemmerman, of Fort Wayne thirteenth, Albert Harlan, of South Bend. The officers of tbe Pennsylvania militia were criticised for tying up a priyate by the thumbs, and their dismissal was demanded. Governor Pattison will be furnished with a copy of the resolution. A resolution denouncing the Indiana gerrymander was tabled. A printer from Indianapolis caused much excitement by offering a resolution requesting all laboring men to quietly organize and defeud themselves against capatalists.

Benjamin Marlatt, a farmer living near Attica, was bunkoed out of $4,500 Saturday by two three-card-monte sharks. One of the strangers introduced himself as the nephew of an Attica banker, and was looking for a farm. While showing him around Marlatt and the nephew met with the accomplice, who introduced his game. The nephew, speaking confidentially to Mr. Marlatt, "tried" the game and "won" $500. The "nephew" and) Marlatt then agreed to try it, Marlatt to put in $4,500 and the "nephew" $500. They won, aq|^ the money was counted out to them. Then, as though the thought had just occurred to him, suddenly the card man suggested to Marlatt that ho had not put up any money, and of course it would not bo the squaro thing for him to take that big piio of money on a bluff. Marlatt protested that while ho had no money with him he could get it, and so the $5,000 was placed in a tin box and given in chargo of Marlatt's companion, and the two latter drove to Attica, where Marlatt left his •note in the Farmers' and Merchant's Bank and took back with him $4,500. The card man counted it with a solemn face, and put tho money in the box with his $5,000 and passed what purported to be the same box to Marlatt. The two strangers bado their friend good-bye and departed. Marlatt returned home, and after supper took the bo* to Attica to deposit it. Finding the blink closed ho went to Mr. Gieen'si residence, and that gentleman at once told Jhim ho had been buncoed. Marlatt refused to believe it, however, until he nned it open and found it contained only 4 picture of maa thfgylng thr— card-lmonte. Marlttt^^^^l^^jituld!

SOME STRIKERS WEAKEN

And Return to Work in the Homestead Mills.

Sixty of Them Reported to Have Done So, But the Men Deny It—The NonUnion Men's Story.

Homestead, Pa., special on the 3d says Homestead striking steel-workers are bordering on a panic. They have assured themselves of the correctness of Superintendent Potter's statement that a number of strikers—skiiled men—returned to work Tuesday. "This evidence of weakness of men who loudly proclaimed their loyalty to the Amalgamated Association worries the members of that organization, and Tuesday the streets were filled with strikers discussing the situation with muchanimation. Provost Marshal Mechling, fearing the break in the ranks of the strikers would lead to trouble, doubled the guard around the mill and in the streets adjacent thereto. That the backbone of the strike has been broken has been acknowledged by every oue save the members of the advisory committee and the more radical unionists. Superintendent Potter said to a reporter: "Altogether, sixty of our former employes have returned to work, and Ave have been informed that many more will make application for their old places. Twenty-seven of our old men came in today. Twenty-four of them found their places still open,but the others, I am sorry to say, were disappointed. But while they can not step into the positions they gave up a month ago, these men will be given work. I feel very sorry for a majority of the strikers, who were led into the present trouble by those in whom they had such implicit confidence, but when we announced that none of our new men would be discharged to make room for these strikers who refused to return to work within the time specified, we meant exactly what we said. We got in oyer one hundred cots, and nearly as many men arrived from distant points.

To-morrow morning we expect fully one hundred men from tho East. This will give us in the neighborhood of fourteen hundred men. many of whom are skilled mechanics. We will, after tomorrow, relax our efforts to secure men.so as to give our former employes who were led into the trouble innocently an opportunity to get back. We prefer them to green hands. There is no longer any doubt about it—the Amalgamated Association has lost its fight, and from this time on the Carnegie Company will operate its plant with non-union men.

Manager Potter's report on the 3rd of his acquisitions of men is a |very rosy one for the firm's side. He said: "We received this morning 190 men from Balti. more and Philadelphia, and thirty-two from Cincinnati. Of the former a number are guaranteed steel-workers from Sparifflws Toint and Coats & Co.'s mil'---They are prepared to operate machinery. and we have in addition seven of our old men who applied for their positions, and were accommodated,"

As Mr. Potter was speaking two men were shown in. They were old employes and worked at the cupola as tenders. They applied for their old positions, and, after assuring the management that they took no part in the riot, were turned over to a foreman, who took them into the mill. "This morning we refused several applications,'' said Superintendent Potter. "The men had proyen too turbulent before, aud we took this opportunity of dispensing with their service forever."

Reports have been circulated that out of sympathy for tho locked out men the trainmen would refuse to haul freight of any kind into tbe yards. The rumore were proven untruo by the arrival of several car loads of lumber, which were switched into the yard. A committee at Munhall remonstrated and endeavored to dissuade the engineer He replied that whilo the trainmen were in sympathy with the men, they could not jeopardize their positions and also render the railway company liable to damages under the common carrier act. This was a disappointment to the men, but they accepted the situation and did not attempt to interfere with the trainmen. Sheridan t"oop ana partof the battery wereordered homeThree regiments still remain.

The anarchists Bauer and Knold made application for release on bail and Judge Ewir.g fixed the bail at $5,000 each. Albrecht expects to secure bondsmen and. have the two men out.

It is rumored that ^information will be made against II. C. Frick on a charge of conspiracy, and that he will be arrested. The information* will be made by the Amalgamated Association.

Joseph Driver, Charles Reynolds, John Williams and George Kincaid, four of the men brought to take[the places of the Homestead locked-out men, left the mill Monday and went to Pittsburg, where vbey called on Attorney Brennan and complained of the treatment they received while in the mill. They say they were brought here under false representations by the men who engaged them. They say there are at least one ^hundred and fifty men in the mill who want to como out.but are prevented from doing so by the officials, who will n9t allow t^em outside ol the fence.^ 1 "*u

Coinage was executed at United States mints during July as follows: Gold, 85,000 pieces, of the value of $1,440,000 silver, 1,042,000 pieces, of the value of $559,000 minor pieces of the value of $19,000,

United States District Attorney Colman Monday began proceedings against exSecretary of the Navy Whitney and Daniel Lamont, private secretary to President Cleveland, to compel them to vacate certain Government lands which they are alleged to have seized and used at Appleton, Wis. Mr, Whitney it president and Mr. LamOnt secretary and manager ol Manufacturers' Investment Association, which is engaged in the manufacture ol wood pulp ou Fox river.

Joeepk WokmI was electrocuted Tuesday