Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1889 — Page 1

AY PAGES! TO 8 PAET OBE. H PRICE FIVE CENTS. INDIANAPOLIS, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE S? 1889-TWELVE PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS'

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Our overstock of Men's all-Wool Cassiraere, Cheviot, Flannel and Corkscrew

We have put the knife into prices in all departments. The season has been backward and we must now sell, during the next four weeks, nearly double as much as usual. Cut prices will do the work for us. This week it is the Pants Department that suffers. This week only, take your choice of nearly 1,000 first-class pants at

They arejreally worth 4 and quantity of them quickly. MONDAY

To-morrow, Monday, evening, from 6 to 9 o'clock only, we shall offer 375 pairs of Boys' Grey and Blue Imperial Flannel KNEE PANTS. Real value ?5c, at

48c.

All sues from 4 to 14.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday only we shall offer Hats, all blocks and colors for 47c.

Indiana's Leading GREAT REDUCTION for THE SUMMER MONTHS A Handsome Rug Given with Every Bill Amounting to S30. Bedroom Salts. Book cases and Sideboards. In -walnut and antique oak; Fancy Mirrors, Hall Hacks, Children' Carriajrrli. Velvet and Tapestry Brussels, OU-cloth. Straw Matting. Rues. Lace Curtain a. Stoves. Qaeensware. Hanging Lamps. Trunks, Ire-chests and P.efngerators. I cave a lartrer stock than I wish to carry lor the summer. "You can buy at your own terms, on payments, or a discount for cash. JOHjST CLTJ2STE 79 WY WASHINGTON ST. Opposite Museum. Kankakee Line Big 4 Railway WE ARE ALL HIGIIT And hare ten all the time, notwithstanding the Hoods in th Kast. Our Chesapeake fe Ohio and Baltimore ds Ohio routes to .New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washington, Richmond and Old Ft. Comfort have bean all right, exeejt slight delays of trains, but for the pwat fire days Chesapeake A Ohio and Baltimore fc Ohio train- have been ric lit on time, and the mn. Indianapolis to Washington, made on Vie fast scludule time, of the great Yeslibuled trains. It hardly seems necesmry, but we will asaln remind the public that the Chesapeake fc Ohio mute, and aUo the lialtinure & Ohio route, in connection with the Big 4 are 6 hours quicker to Washington. 5 hours quicker to Baltimore than any other route, ami Just as quick to Philadelphia and Xew York. The equipment. VestiDuled train throughout, and elegant dining cars, on which all of tho delicacies of the sea son are served, table de bote, at hotel prices, and tho franrt and beautiful scenery en route Is fast making he Big 4 the popular route over which to Journey to the Atlantic seaboard. Some more special rates to Milwaukee. Wis., and return. 8th. 8th and lOthof June, omaha. Nebraska. June 12 and 13. For full particulars a to rates and routes to all points East, West. North or South, call at ticket headquarters, corner Washington and Meridian streets. TIME CARD. CTNClNXATt IIVlIO. Xepart.-D 3:55 a m 6:4 am 10:50 a m D3:10 p m 6.3:1 p la. Arrive.. 10.35 am Dl0:'Ju a m 11:15 a m, 4:55 p m. Iilo-.So pro cnfcrcfATi ditwio; suxtmt trad.. pepart. 3:55 am 3:15 pm. 500 pm Arrive 11:45 am KM Opm. 10:50 pm CHICAGO DIVISION. perart...7:10am Bl 3non 5:15pm D1L10 p m Arrive.. D3 30 am 10:35 am DiMSpm 6:10 pm Trains with prefix D, daily. J. II. MARTIN. T. P. A. 'BEE-LIM' ROUTE E.A.ST AND "WEST The only line landing pissencers tn the Grand Central Depot, New York city. Wagner sleeping cars between Indianapolis. New York and Boston. The Fast Lme to M. Louis aud the West. Magnificent reclinmg-cLalr cars and elegant sleeping cars are run nightly on tins line to St. Lotus. PaHengers can occupy sleepers as early as 8:30 p. m., and remain unLstuxbd until arrival of tram in St. Ixjuis at 7;3u a. in. TIME OF TRAINS: Depart for N. Y. and Boston 3:CO a m, iA) p m " Cievei'd and the Last .M a m, 00 p m 1 1. Way'eand Dayton HAS am, 3:40 pm 8t. Louis and Kan. Cy.MlrM a m. 11 lo p m M T. Haateand Mattoon "7:3 a m, & 30 p in Daily. Arrive frcm N. Y. and Boston. ..ll:3S am, lO Wpm Clevcl'dandtlietasS Jiiam, 5 15pm St. Iuisand K. Cy. 3:10 am. 3 10 p m T. ll'te and Mattoon ie-.oo a m. 25 p m Tor tickets, sleeping car accommodations, etc.. tall at No. 2 Bat llouae. No. IS Somh Illinois street, and Union Station. T. C. PJuCK, Pass. Agt. HOMO WN & MATTINGLY, Funeral Directors and Embalmers CYCLORAMA PLACE, Ko. 70 West Market Street. C7Prompt attentionto all calls, both day and liLt, Tels&aone 5GL f

Furniture,

tacts

and Stas

PANTS

$4.50. We make a big cut in order to run out a large EVENING- SALES.

To-morrow, Monday, evening, from C to 9 o'clock only, wo shall oiler one case of Men's Grey Clouded UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS. Real value 40c, at

A Garment, 54c a Suit.

Clothiers, Furnishers and Hatters.

GRAND H I FESTIVAL

OT THE WESTESX SHOOTING ASSOCIATION, AT THE SHOOTCXO PARE. IXDUN1TOLIS. FBOM June 19 to 23, Inclusive Five hundred sharpshooters from all parts of the country will attend. $10,000 In prizes will be compcted for. Other amusements will be on the grounds, such as Prize Bowling. Danciug and National Games! A fine band will be in attendance daily, and furnish Dancing and Concert Music. A Grand summer Night's Festival on Friday night. June 21. The beautlful grounds will be Illuminated. fiTAll prizes will be awarded on Sunday, June 23. Excursion trains will run from all parts of the State at reduced rates. ADMISSION 20c Friday and Sunday, lor gentlemen. TIME TABLE. Train will leave Union Station for Park Jnne 19, 20. 2i and 22 at II o'clock a. in., sharp, and 2 p. in.; re turning 7:15 p. m. Friday evening, for Summer Night Festival, June 21, trains will leave 6.45 p. m. and 7:45 p. m.; returning 9:30 and 11p.m. Sunday, J une 23. trains will leava for Park 9.M a. m. and 1, 2. 3. 4 aud 5 p. ra.; returning at 10 a. nu, and 1:30, 2.-30, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 7 and 8 o'clock p. m. Trains will stop at Washington street and North street Station. Tickets for sale at Union station and Big Four oflice, corner Washington and Meridian streets. Exfress wagons will leave for Park from the end of Cake street car line every one-half hour during each dav of the festival. Real Estate Bargains Block of brick dwellings, well arranged for tenement purposes, now renting for $1,200. Prico $12,000. . Brick block on Pennsylvania street, renting for $4,500, at $45,000. ' Woodlawn Lots Ten dollars cash, and livo dollars per month. JOHN S. SPANN & CO., 86 East Market Street TONE BUT THE PUREST Courteous TreatX ment to all Low prices consistent with good goods. IR O .A. C II . I baTe purchased the Drttb Prco Stork, 8. E. COB. ILLINOIS AND OHIO STBEET9, (Stewart Place). Come and see me. "DEACON. R OXC H . None but the Purest Courteous Treatment to allLow prices consistent with good goods. FOSTER& SON Merchant Tailors, 20 X. Illinois St., Bates Ilouse. Surgical Instruments & Appliances Trusses. Snpporters. Deformity Braces. Crutches, Atomuers, Optical 0h1s, Artiriclal Lyes, and everything in tiuriral Instruments and Appliances. Wil. 11. AUMsTKO.NU te CO.'S Surgical Instrument House, V2 South Illinois street SPRING DECORATIONS Bice Curtains. Bamboo Portieres, Satsuma Vases and Bose Jars. Also, tine line of After-Dinner CoHea and Tea Cups, Fire Screens of all descriptions. PANG YIM, Wjaxdotte Block, Mass. 7 Are

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27c

100 dozen Men's Fur Crush A RAMPANT REBEL. Gen. Rosser Again Loses Control of His Mouth Before a Southern Audience. Staunton, Va,, Juno 8. Gen. Thomas L. Rosser delivered a characteristic and hitter 6peech before the Confederate Memorial Association to-day. He spoke of nations erecting monuments to their heroic dead. He said the difference between Northern and Southern monuments was that in the South they were erected over graves to virtue and patriotism, and iu the .North, in cities, by Pharisaical Yankees to enhance real estate over tho graves of bounty - jumpers and hirelings and empty graves; and they expected God Almighty and the angel Gabriel, to resurrect their lies. Southern soldiers fought for the rights of States, and the integrity of homes; for virtne and patriotism; the Northern man for self, plunder and pay. In 1S01 tho integrity of the Southern States was in danger. They withdrew from the corrosive influences to secure peace and prosperity. Tho Southern people are Saxon, the Northern people Celt," said General Kosser. "I chuckle over the results arising from socialism and anarchism in the North, from which we are free. It has been said wo are the same people, but that was a long timo ago. Now, evolution, or some process, has made us different creatures, and Boon capital and oppressed nianhood will llee to tho South, where honest men can protect them. Applause. Tho world will see that rebels are the only true patriots and supporters of constitutional liberty. I approve all tho Southern Confederacy did. It destroyed evil forces and re-established gool ones. Its monuments are to truth, patriotism and glorynot brazen images resulting from blemished hearts and conduct. The North has abandoned the race they emancipated except their votes. NoGreelys.Whittiers, Heechers, or John Browns write, or preach or die for them. They are abandoned by tho puritanical Yankee who wants to correct God's mistakes, aud place tho inferior over the superior. Long after the brazen images in Vashin eon and elsewhere have been thrown down, and the G. A. K. (so called). Sher-, man, horrker, Innalls and such like shall be with the rubbish of the French revolution, assigned to obscuritv, tho names of Lee and Jackson will be bright and glorious.' Run Over and Killed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Noblesville, Ind., Juno 8. The south-bound Panhandle train, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, when within about a half mile of this city, rounding a sharp curve and emerging out of a cut, struck and Instantly killed an unknown tramp fcissors-grinder. Deceased is about fifty-flve years of ae and weighs about 190 pounds. lie had been around tho citv for several days in company with Jack Kilev, an umbrella-man. two had bexu drinkinc, and were ordered by the marshal to leave the city. o blame attaches to anyone, for the deceased was sitting on the track in such a concealed position that the engineer could not discover him until too cloe to him to reverse his entrine. Biley, the traveling companion of the dead man, la now in JaiL Catholic Order of Foresters. CniCAOo, June S. After a sesMou lasting nearly all nlsrht, tte I Mea Court of the Catholic Order of Foresters nd! Journed this morning. The following 1 the comp lete list of officers: High chief ranker, J. P. Lauth: vice-high chief ransrer, John O'Neil; hlnh secretary, J. J. Dillon; bljrh medical examiner. Dr. N. . Niles: h!c:h treasurer. Mcholas V. Wollenbcrn; directors. P. J. Cahill. Henry Detmer, W. II. Burke. Peter Miller and Patrick Chambers. The next Region of the High Court will be held in Chicago oa the Cm Monday iu June, 161)0. AYKRsSarsaparilla requires smaller doses and is more effective than any other blood medicine.

CLEABISGAWAYTIIE DEBKIS

Slow and Methodical Manner in Which the Work Is Done at the Bridge. Ko Apparent Effort to Recover Bodies, but Rather to Tear the Confused Mass of Stuff Into Bits and Let It Float Away. Only 20,110 Persons Outof About 33,000 Accounted for by the Registery Plan. 3Iany People, However, Left the District Before Registration Began, Making It ImEsible to Know the Actual Loss of Life. A Plague of Soio Kind Certain to Result Despite Sanitary Precautions. How Conemaugh Valley Looked on the Morning of the Eighth Day After tbe DisasterGo v. Beaver to Be in Johnstown To-Day. A DREARY ROUTINE. Little Headway Made In Removing the Pile of Debris at the Bridge. Johnstown, Pa., June 8. Affairs at the tremendous stone bridge wreckage pile seem to have resolved themselves into a state of almost hopelessness. It is amazing the routine into which everything has fallen in this particular place. Every morning at 7 o'clock a score of liliputs come mechanically from huts and tents, or the bare hillside, and wearily and weakly go to work clearing away the mass, aud at the rate thoj are now proceeding it will actually bo months before tho debris is cleared away and tho last body found. Fortunately the wind is blowing away from us, or we would have olfactory evidence that what is not found is far worse than what has been exposed. Then it may be good business and good policy to have these few workers fool around the edge of the wreckage for live or ten minutes, adjusting a dynamite blast, then hastily scramble away and consume as much more time before a tremendous roar announces the ugly work is done, but the onlookers doubt it. Sometimes, when an extra large shot is used, the water, bits of wood and iron, and other shapes moro fearfully suggestive, ily directly upward in a solid column at least three hundred feet high, only to fall back again into the samo spot, t bo tugged and pulled at, or coaxed to float down an unwilling current that is falling so rapidly now that even this poor mode of egress will soon be shut entirely off. The fact of the matter is simply this: They aro not attempting to recover bodies at tho bridge, but as one blast tears yards of stuff into Hinders, it is shoved indifferently into the water, be it human vt brute, stone, wood or iron, to float dot u Vbward Pittsburg, or to sink to the bottom, may be a few yards from where it was pushed off from the main pile. Up in the center of the town debris is piled even higher than at the stsne bridge, but the work is going on fairly well. The men seem to be working more together, and enter into the spirit of the thing. Besides this, horses and wagons can get at the wrecks, and it really looks as if this part of the ruins has been exaggerated, and some of tho foremen there say that at the present rato of work going on through tbe town all the bodies that ever will be recovered will bo found within the next ten days. As to the condition these bodies are in, that has become almost a matter of indifference, ex cept as to the effect upon the health of the living. Facilities are so limited that but little sanitary precautions can be taken, and tho doctors say. a pest of some kind must result The wreckage can be. and is being, rapidly cleared away, and with the splendid discipline, under trying circum stances, now in force, the only thing that can stop it is a pestilence of some sort. It is said that many cases of fever, diphtheria and pneumonia are being concealed from the people here for fear a panic may seize the workers, and if that should happen now, probablj no tirm or peoplo would attempt to touch the work here, perhaps for months. Disinfectants of all kinds are being freely used by the car load, and in addition to this, a score of blazing piles in every direction shows that the purifying clement of lire is being apf l I .11.. ill.. 1L. piieo, as rapiuiy as possiuio ior me Baieiy of the living. Everything here has now become a mere matter of routine, and simply a case of time. Everything is routineand everything comes in its" regular order. The getting up in the morning, tho going to work, tho eating (when eatables can bo purchased, begged or stolen), and last and greatest, even the hndMil ..1 . ing ot a body, or parts tnereoi. norrid in all its fearful details and incidents, even this is now routine, and is only a cause of comment among the new-comers, while to those inured to the sight It means another burial: that is all. A tour through this district after dark is none of tho Dleasantest. Evert' few feet stands a guard, and with lixed bayonets allows no ono to pass without proper credentials. Tho uneven surface of the ground renders walking not only unpleasant, but actually daneerous. The fumes arising from tho decomposing bodies are more noticeable at Bight, and the air is foul with bad odors. The doctors urge all who have no night work to periorm to remain indoors, as it is considered extremely hazardous to be exposed to tho night air. The scene at night, while full of sadness, is also full of beauty. 1 ho surrounding niiis are aottea witn a thousand camp-tires, and thousands of white tents look like monuments to tho death THE EIGHTH DAY. What an Early-Morning Look at the Scene of Desolation Disclosed to the Watchers. Johnstown, Pa., June 8. It is the morning of the eighth day since the demon of destruction swept down the valley of the Conemaugh, but the desolation that marks its angry flight is still visible in all its in tensity and horror. The days that have been spent by weary toilers, whose efforts were steeled by grief, have done little to re pair the devastation wrought In one short hour by the potent fury of the element. i - - - To the watchers on the monntain-side all seems chaos and confusion. The thousand fires that spot the valley show that the torch is being U9ed to complete the work of annihilation where repair is impossible. and as tho smoke curls upward it reminds one of the peace offerings of ancient Babylon. The day at Johnstown opened with a heavy rain and an early morning thunder storm. The hillside streams were filled to the banks, and everything was dripping. The air was chilly and damp, and daylight

was long in coming to this valley of desolation and death. At an early hour the

valley, where so many have gone to rest. presented a most distnal scene. It looked, indeed, like the valley of the dead. Nothing was moviue. and all remained within the measrre shelter offered them till the day nad fairly begun. As the day advauced tho tented hills began to show signs of life, smoke arose from manv a camp-lire, and on every surrounding could be seen the guards, moving among the tented villages. At5:S0 a. M. the whistle from the Cambria iron works sounded the signal forearly preparation for the serious work of the day, and so the thousrnds of workers in behalf of the sullerers were seen moving on the hillsides and in the valleys. The weather was most unpleasant for any one to be out doors, but it apparently had no eject on the people here, lor as soon as the early breakfast was over the thousands of workmen could be seen going to their work, and soon tho whole valley, that in the early morning hours was asleep, was a teeming throng of life and activity. While the ram is far from pleasant to the busy workers and the many helpers, it is certainly providential that the cool weather is continuing in order to prevent the much dreaded decomposition of the hundreds of human bodies yet unrecognized and the thousands of animals that perished in the to some extent with the fumes arisine from the decaying bodies, was not near so much so as it would have been had the morning been hot and sultry. What is needed is a stronir. cool breezo to sweep down through this valley to purify the air and carry away the poisonous gases. I3y 7 o'clock the whole valley was full of people, and the scene was a most animated one. ine various sectious of the flooded territory were full of men busy in searching for the dead, removing and burning the debris. At 8 oVdock this moraine five bodies had been taken from the mass at the 6tone bridge. A largo force of men have been working all day on this part of tho wreck, but bo great is the quantity of wreckage to be gone over and removed, that while much work is done, very 6low progress is made. The continual falling of the river renders the removal of the debris every day more arduous, and where a few days ago the timbers, when loosened, would float away, they now havo to be moved by hand, this of necessity making the work very slow. A most welcome arrival this morning was Dr. II. Uullen. of disinfectant fame. lie broucht with him fifty barrels more of his disinfectant, Tho Doctor will take charge of disinfecting tho dangerous sections of the flooded district, and notably at the stone bridge. Dr. Lo, of tho State Board of Health, sayB this disinfectant is the most enectivo of anything of the kind lie ever saw, and it is also highly recommended by all tho undertakers anddoctors here. Twenty-live barrels havo already been used with most favorable results. Its great virtue consists in the fact that it is perfectly harmless. Dr. Bullcn was a former resident of Johnstown, and lost thirty relatives in the flood, among the.m three brothers-in-law, three uncles and two aunts. From Bolivar to Johnstown, the side tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad are filled with cars loaded with lumber, furniture, and goods and wares of all descriptions for the sufferers. The Cambria Iron Company's works pre sent a busy scene. At least 000 men aro at work, and most rapid progress is being made in clearing away the wreck. It is said that tho works will start up in about three weeks. One thing is noticeable, and that is while the men under Booth & Flynn are doing most excellent work, the laborers working at the Cambria ironworks and on the Pennsylvania railroad Rem to be making more rapid progress. This is, no doubt, lor the reason that thoso men aro more used to this kind of work. THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. What the Registration Shows The Number of llodies Recovered and Buried. Johnstown, Pa., Jnne 8. The number of persons who have so far registered is 20,110. The registration is having its good eflcct. and it is believed that within five days all persons living in Johnstown and vicinity will have been accounted for. The popu lation of Johnstown and the neighborhood affected by the flood is abont 3.000. The registration of 20,110 leaves almost 15,000 to be accounted for. It is not claimed that those who have not registered are dead, for many had left this section before tho system of registration began. Already from 12,000 to 18.000 passes have been issued to persons wishing to leave Johnstown and vicinity. In some cases passes were issued to the same persons twice those who were compelled to return for some reason but it is safe to say 8,000 peoplo have left this section. The bodies are now being recovered some what slowly. Up to tho present writing. 1,000 bodies have been buried at Morrellville, Graudview cemetery, Kernville and Cambria City. Since the disaster they havo washed, embalmed and buried 170 at Morrellville, 230 at Kernville and COO at Cambria City. Superintendent Bradinger, of the Kernville morgue, complains that the relief corps at his station have no gloves to handle the corpses, and lor this reason only the faces of the bodies are being washed. Fifteen bodies were received at tho Fourth-ward morgue, of which seven were uniudentilied. The names of those identified are as follows: James Murray, Philadelphia; Win. Marshal, Johnstown: Mrs. J.J. Llewellyn, Johnstown; James Dillon, Somerset; Marion Root, Johnstown; Miss Annie McKmsley aud Jessie Hipp, Johnstown. At the Pennsylvania railroad morgue sir bodies were received and two identified as E. M. Thomas and Howard J. Roberts, cashier First National Bank. Johnstown, At the Presbyterian Church morgue, ten bodies were received, and one identified as Sheriff John Ryant of Johnstown. Tho citizens of Kernville have been making complaints that they were not permitted to cross Stony creek into Johnstown. A citizen from there went to General Hastings's headquarters and made a formal and vigorous complaint. He said that owing to the unusually rigid orders, tho guards had refused many citizens whose houses and families had been carried across tho creek into Johnstown permission to pass over, lie further said that he believed the reason so many dead had been unidentified was that the only persons who could identify them were in Kernville, and were not permitted to cross the river, and that if permission was given many of tho dead could be recognized. General Hastings at once gave the necessary orders to permit all such persons to pass the lines, ana this, it is believed, will result in a speedy identification of the dead. To-night forty-seven bodies were discovered in a hole on the site of the Hurlbut House. They are supposed to be bodies of guesta. Much tardiness has been shown in removing the bodies buried in the Merchants' Hotel, but this evening workmen found several bodies there which friends from outside cities wero waiting to discover. It is known that several well-known traveling men were stopping there at the time, and the fact of the register being mined, there was no possibility of an identification of the unfortunates, only perhaps the familiar ones at the hotel. Diligent search was inaugurated this afternoon, and with the following results; A. S. Eldridge, traveling man: Mary , a servant, dark hair and eres, aeed nineteen: young man. stout, light hair. They were all conveyed to the Fourth-ward morgue for identification aud claim. There are between thirty-five and forty bodies lying under the rear portion of the hotel, and to-morrow this place will have a general renovation. The body of Miss E. M. Bryan, who. with Miss Paulson, was drowned while on the day express, has, it is believed, been located. Several other bodies were recovered at the same time, and as the two young ladies wero together, it is believed that shens among the number. A reward of $5,000 has. it is said, been offered for Miss Paulson's body. now the Secret Societies Fared. JonxsTOWN, Pa., June 8. The members of secret societies in the Conemaugh valley fared unusually welL The Junior O. U. A.

M. are very strong heTe. having a membership of 1,200. Out of this number only nine lives were lost. Most of them lost their homes, but all have employment, and expect to be on their feet again in a short time. The committee from Pittsburg and Allegheny established headquarters in the upper end of town, and relieved tho wants of all who applied. The councils responded not only very liberally, but very promptly. The Independent Order of Heptasophs had a membership of eighty-live, aud lost but two, tho Drs. Beam. None of their members are in want, and the committee sent to distribute provisions and clothing have returned home. They had more than enough. The Independent Order of Odd-fellowa had a membership of 506 here, and out of that number lo3t seventy-nine. Tho distressed members are being well cared for. It is not known how many members of the Masonic order are lost, although a prominent Mason says they are few, and the survivors aro being royally provided

for by the relief committee of that frater nity. The Prevalence of Disease. Johnstown, Juno 8. Sorrowful as it may seem, disease has infected the district, notwithstanding the denials of the sanitary and health officials. Dr. Hess, of tho Red Cross Society, to-night stated that tho contagious diseases were more prevalent than the authorities are willing to admit. In our temporary hospital at Glbtowll.,, said he, we have numerous cases of sickness. resulting from the frightful flood. There are now under our care about forty cases of sickness. The diseases from which the patients are suflering is as follows: from diphtheria. 10; nervous prostration, 25; pneumonia. 2; one a broken limb, and another ono driven insane by the loss of his family." Sisters of the Red Cros are also taking care of eight cases of ulcerated tonsilitis, which they 6ay are not dangerous now, though a change for the worse may occur. Miss Jerome, the famous nurse who so heroically worked at Jacksonville during tho recent yellow fever epidemic, is here, and said she was ready and waiting for any outbreak of disease. The members of tho State Board of Health deny that there is an epidemic or any prospect for one. There are eight cases of ulcerated tonsilitis in the hospital of the Red Cross Society, and it is reported that there are forty-fi vo cases of diphtheria on the bill. To prevent an epidemic. Surgeongeneral Hamilton, of the United States government, was here to-day to meet tho State Board of Health for the purpose of considering tho propriety of the government assuming charpe of the sanitary work here. The matter will be decided when the report is presented to the President. VARIOUS HAPPENINGS. Undertakers Quit Work A Ruling: n Regard to Whisky Beer Destroyed. Johnstown, Pa., June 8. The Pittsburg undertakers striko against Dictator Devore has not yet been settled, but Devore received word to-day that Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Willison, P. Lowry. W. Temmelrock, Dennis Boyle and P. Hersherger would be up to-night and go to work m his department. Every man in the Pittsburg delegation, about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, suddenly discovered that he was wanted at home, and loft. It was on business, they said, but Mr. Devore declares that it was nothing more than the breaking out of an old sore. Just because soma men could not run things to suit themselves they quit. Dcvoro explained the trouble to-day. He said: "James Flannery was disgruntled because I was given charge of the work by the State Board of Health, aud ho showed it on every occasion. Yesterday he asked to see my credentials, and I showed them to him. An hour afterward the men quit, and 1 am told that when they left there were five bodies at the church morgue which needed attention. Perhaps I make myself obnoxious by making them behave themselves and prevented liquor drinking. I forcibly ejected from the ouilding ono young man, who, though he may have been an ernbalmer, was a blackguard. I claim that there was a better system in efiect there than at any morgue in the town. We can get along without the kickers." The old fuuerai directors, were, it is apparent, in tho quarrel. The most serious loss to the Cambria ironworks was the destroyed papers, letters, order-books, etc. Vice-president Powell Stackhouse, of the Cambria Iron Company, is the busiest man around the works. He has a large force of men at work, and carloads of dobris are being hauled away as rapidly as they can be filled. Xono of tho big stock of pig-iron that tho firm had on hand was lost. Mr. Stackhouse, in conversation with a reporter this afternoon, said: "I don't know that I can tell you to what extent we have been affected, and 1 cannot make any estimate of loss. Tho entire works, employing fully 6,000 men, will be operated in full beforo the Fourth of July. Everything will be going all right. Wo will not lose any of onr contracts, and if other firms are expecting to receive somo of them they will soon discover that they are mistaken." "How many of your men were lost by the flood!" "Oh, I can't tell," Mr. Stackhouse replied, sadlv: "probably 2,000 are missing." -Will not that interfere with or operation of the works?" "Not at all. We have almost all of the places filled already, and can secure ail tho men we want." Mr. Stackhouse declined to talk on the prospects for tho future in tho iron and steel business, but said he was very well satisfied with the outlook. A young lady of Woodvalo, who lost all her effects in tho flood, had two dresses ordered of a dress-maker in Kernville, in a portion of tho town where tho houses wero not wrecked. As the only dress 6he had was the ono she wore when she escaped, and as this w as muddy and damp, she naturally was anxious to get tho two at the dress-maker's. To reach there sho had to twice cross the river by boat and follow a long and ruggod path along tho mountainside, a distance of nearly tive miles. Sho made tho journey, however, in her Mother Hubbard dress, which the wind blew about in a most shameful manner. When she reached Kernville, and located tho dressmaker she found the house inaccessible by reason of the large number of wrecked houses about it. A workman, however, entered the building and found tho two dresses. They were both ruined by tho water and mud, aud with tears streaming down her face the poor girl turned wearily, homeward. Jndge-advocate Rogers, of General Beemer's staff, this morning decided an important question which arose by tho discovery of forty barrels of whisky in a building on Main street. Adjutant-general Hastings wa disposed to confiscate it as a safeguard, .wording to a section of the military code. v hic!i prohibits the sale of liquor within vbt, lu.iits of a military camp. Judge-ad voc ;.ie Rt gers ruled that it was private property, at d a licensed dealer hadarigntto sell liquor. Besides it was not a military camp, out tv posse comitatus, tho militiamtn unly doing police duty. Last evening employes of Lutz fc Son unearthed ten barrels of beer from the cellar of h building on Main street. A body of a man was found close beside the barrels. The driver was bringing his capture away, when Maj. Samuel Hastings arrested him. Adjutant-general Hastings knocked in the head of a barrel, and the soldiers let the beer run into the street under orders, and it was all destroyed. "You will be paid for tbe beer," said General Hastings to the owner. There seems to be some misunderstanding about the alleged syndicate to purchase real estate here. It has been said that a syndicate of sharp and unscrupulous real estate men from a distance were scheming to take advantage of the impoverished condition of property-owners here, and buy their property for much below its value, and hold it for a rise and handsome profit. It turns out t'uatthe so-called fiyndicato consists

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oi several wcauuj ihiucuw----,,--individually buying, property. They aramong the most worthy citizens here, ana -their object is to encourage the i earx encd people, and show them inai incj have faith in the future of this section. They are paving full and fair prices for tha property or loaning money w with a view oi enanun? mo owners to get on their first fect. mere n& been no disposition on tho part of Any one hero to take advantage of the condition. 02 the people who have suffered from the ca lamity. Among tho most interesting relics of the flood is a small cold locket found in th ruins of tho Hurlbut Houso yesterday. The locket contains a small coil of darl brown hair, and has engraved on tho m side tho following remarkable lines: Lock of ueorge asaingtou'a hair, cni ia Philadelphia while on his way to YorkWW, 1 I OX. Mr. Benford, one or the proprietors oi ma house, states that thelocket was the proper ty of his sister, who was lost in the flood, and was presented to her by an old lady in, PhilnHlnhia whose mother hud herself Cut the hair from the head of tho "Father of His Country," and that there is no aouoi that tho statement is reliable. Charles L. Dick, tho ghouls' nemesis, bid ood-bye to this ill-fated town last night, e will hereafter reside in Mount Pleasant. This morning a destitute notion-dealer decided to sell relics, and in a short time ho had disposed of 17 worth of goods, peoplo paying the regular price for everything. Among tho bodies recovered in Kernvillo yesterday, was that of a young woman, richly attired, wearing diamond rings and a gold watch mamed "J. J. L. to E. J. L.' The remains were taken to the chapel oa the hilL Tho long expected United States engineers arrived in town to-night, and commenced the construction of two pontoon bridges across Stony creek. The men wero evidently out of practice at bridge building, or their education in the important art was 'just commencing, and thcr construction was consequently slow. In the little manufacturing town of Woodvale not a truce can be seen of the streets, houses, or even any portion of tho foundations; all is now a stretch of sandIn the borough of Franklin, across the river from Woodvale. but built on the sido of the mountain where tho Conemaugh now flows, was formerly two street, oa which wero thirty-five houses. All are 6 wept away. The Pennsylvania railroad has tendered the uso of its wrecking machinery with which to tear apart the masses of material that is piled up in various bections of tho town. Contractor Flynn has put 150 ruen, to work setting up stationary engines, end they will bo ready for use on Monday,, The present plan of blowing up the wreck by the use of dynamite is too slow, and the work of a week on ono end of the town is scarcely noticeable. A trap was laid to-day for an undertaker who was robbing the bodies iu tho Fourth ward morgue. A female was brought in, and before it was dressed for buriala dia4 xnond ring was placed upon one of her fin-', gers, and the pseudo-undertaker was as; signed to the charge of the body. Ho was1 detected in the act of stealing the jewelry and was promptly arrested by the chief of Iolice, who immediately took him to bensbnrg. The officials refused to give the namo of the man. A Letter from 3Xrs. Wallace. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CiuwronDSviLLE, Ind., June 8. Mrs. JL 8. Lane has received a letter from her sister, Mrs. Lew Wallace. Tho letter was written partly on Pun day and was Unlshed on Monday, and waa taken by a man across the country and mailed at Pittsburg. The letter was written at Altoona, where Mrs. Wallace has been slnoeher escape from the llood. The train that Mrs. Wal' lace was on was tho last one to pass Johnstown, and the train that followed was the ill-fated passenger. Her train ran throuph water for ndles and miles, but this was the only way to ' escape destruction, bhe will leave Altoona oathe nrst train going in either direction. The Rank Is Solent. . . , Washington, June 8. Mr. Lacey, Comptroller of the Currency, to-day received a letter from Mr. H. Baumrr, one of the directors of the First National Bank, of Johnstown, Pa., saving that the bank Is entirely solvent, and that while they may have to extend some paper of their townspeople, he believes every dollar is good. rROVTDINQ FOR RELIEF. Governor Reaver Starts for Johnstown to Inquire Into the eeds of tbe People. Philadelphia, Jnne & A conference was held at tho office of Mayor Fitler, this afternoon, which was participated in by Governor Beaver, Keuben Miller, representing tho Mayor of Pi tturg. and Congressman McCormick, ofgf vVilliamsport, representing tho MaHr of that city. No agreement was reached us to plans for tho disbursement of tho funds now in tbe hands o the several relief committees. Mr. Miller 6tated that the funds at the disposal of the Pittsburg committee were likely to bo exhausted within a short time, and that they could cot continue the work they wero now doing beyond what their funds would ullow. It was therefore settled that Governor Beaver should go to Johnstown at once to look over the situation, consult with the Pittsburg committee now at that place, and also with the other committees on tho ground in charge of the work, and thus form an idea as to the condition of things at the scene of the disaster. Governor Beaver left hero at 6 o'clock, accompanied by Mr. Miller, in a special tram tendered forhisuse by Vice-president King, of the Baltimore & Ohio road. He will reach there to-morrow, and will spend Sunday in looking over the ground and consulting with those in authority, and leave there the same night, reaching this city early Monday, when he will hold another conference with Mayor Fitler. Victoria Thanked fur Her Sympathy. Wasiiinotox, June 8. Sir Julian Pauncefote, tho British minister, called on the President this morning in company with Secretary Elaine, and delivered a message from Queen Victoria expressing her deep rymrathy for the sufferer by the recent flood la Pennsylvania. The President said in reply: "Mr. Minister This message of sympathy from her Majesty, the Queen, will be accepted by our people as another expression of fcer o n Kenorous character, as well of the friendliness and good will of her people. The di iters which have fallen upon several communities iu the f tat of Pennsylvania, while extreme and full of the most trapc and horrifylnjf Incident, have, fortune tly. been limited iu territorial extent. The generosity of our own citizens will Jiromptly lessen to thee stricken people every ofs that is not wholly irretrievable, and these the sympathy of the Queen of the l.nplUh peo?le will help to assuage. Will you. Mr. MlnUter, e pleased to convey to tiia Oueen the sincere thanks of the American people!1 - Novel and Useful Donations from Columbus. PinsncKO, June 8. Of the cities which have generously and speedily contributed to the aid of the stricken people of Johnstown probably none will receive moro blessings nor remain longer la memory than the people of Columbus. The relief committee of that city have arranged novel paekace containing various articles which since the flood have b-en absolutely unattainable. These consUt of wooden pails the size ot tobacco package s, in them is packed a half-dozen each of plat1, cups, saucers, knives, forks, tablespoons, one dozen teaspoons, one vegetable duh a pound each of tea and coffee, and a teapoy The pall is covered with a wooden lid. and a large sized conen-pot is tied to each pail, bouae Goo of these paused thro nab on Thursday, and ilOO more this morning. This is only one of tho many instances of thoughtfuiuess of the people or Columbus. Liberal IrUhmen. Pcblix, June 8.-Lord Mayor Sexton has cabled to America 1,000 or the relief of tho Johnstown sufferers. A meeting of the.Miiniclpal Council was fctll to-day to arranre for raiting funds for tbe Johntowu siitterers. A letter was received from Areabishop Walsh Inclosing a subscription of p ioA On motion of Mr. T 1) fiaUlvan a message wS 8ttoPiident Rarrlon expiring tte fvmpathyof the Irish people for tbeatuFcted community, and Praying that alTtb conUlltioa ' that wai iWble might be gtvtn them. A committee was formed to -V tlwn . , i.-n.i'unti.a. No More Clothing: Needed. Pitt? cntc, June 8. The Pltfiburs reli ml t tee has telegraphed, Govrrrr Beavrr it the committee will send no r.tz: coney O J. town until it la learned wt - c citlcn W )l"